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By Sue Newman

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In the past year the Ashburton District’s economy grew 2 per cent well short of the heady days of 2013 and 2014 when 7.4 per cent and 5.7 per cent respectively were achieved.

At the end of 2018 the district’s GDP sat at $1952 million, with agriculture, forestry and fishing contributing 27.1 per cent or $173 million to the total.

Data provided by Informetrics and

available in detail on the Ashburton District Council’s website, showed dairy farming was the largest employer for the district, creating 1970 jobs, 10.3 per cent of the district’s total job number, 19,064.

Meat processing was the second biggest employment sector with 1228 jobs, down marginally on 2017. Construction services ranked highest for job creation, with 80 new jobs created last year followed by motor body and trailer manufacturing, 69 new jobs.

In terms of growth industries, electricity, gas, water and waste services ranked number one, followed by manufacturing and administration and support services.

Dairy cow numbers continued to grow through to the end of last year, up 5.4 per cent on 2017 to sit at 357,381.

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Thursday, September 5, 2019

MSA’s Simon signals he’s signing off

By Sue Newman

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Two weeks ago Simon McDonnell had a comfortable, well ordered office; today he sits in chaos, in less than four months he’ll have the option of spending weekdays in the comfort of his lounge.

After 27 years at the head of the 4000-member Ashburton Club and MSA, Simon has booked a date with retirement. It will be a case of new year and a new life with an open appointment book.

With his 65th birthday looming, retirement just felt right. Bowing out when his pension kicked in was a promise he’d made himself years ago.

“I’m running out of puff. January, February are a quiet time for the manager here and that’s an ideal time for a new person to come in.”

Simon came to the MSA from the well-ordered world of accountancy firm Brophy Knight. He wanted more variety in his working life.

“I didn’t really know what was involved, but I’d always thought it would be a good job,” he said.

The club today is a vastly different place to the one Simon took over.

Most of it has been rebuilt, its bottle store has relocated and opened its doors to the public, the TAB has come and gone and gaming machines have become big business.

“There were five machines then and now we have 18 and they’re a major part of our operation. The other major change is we now have women members and without doing the calculations I reckon they’d be 25 per cent today.”

The loss of the TAB was something that still annoys Simon and it still annoys members for whom placing a bet was as much about a social event as it was a chance to win money.

Rebuilding most of the MSA premises while the business continued around it was the ultimate

Ashburton Club and MSA manager Simon McDonnell, taking a long road into retirement, planning to spend Christmas as a retiree.

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“We had people coming in back doors and side doors and staff working in coats behind the bar because it was so cold. And we had alarms going off all the time.”

The original rebuild was for the full premises including a roof-top carpark. That was abandoned on the grounds of cost and the project pared back to leave the Burnett Street restaurant untouched.

Stage two is about to start, with a new restaurant and office suite at the Burnett Street end. That’s meant plenty of packing, dismantling and storing of decades of furniture and files.

“This one’s been a big one to plan and while I won’t see it through, it gives the new person a chance to put their own ideas into it.”

Simon leaves with no regrets.

“It’s been a good job that’s come with plenty of challenges, but the

weight of compliance and regulations today mean it is not as much fun as it was 25 years ago.”

He no longer does long stints behind the bar, neither does he work weekends, but he still enjoys getting out on the floor, talking to members and doing a Friday afternoon shift as barman.

Bar patrons’ habits have also changed with the years.

“In the old days the regulars had their own tables. If a young whipper-snapper sat there, they were pretty quickly told to move on and, when I was 21, on a Tuesday night a lot of people were in a bar. Now on a Tuesday it’s virtually empty and you rely on weekend trade.”

And he takes satisfaction from seeing the equity of the building increase over his 27 years, around 500 per cent and that’s without land values, he said.

“It’s a very successful club. The

regulars become a part of your life and you know what’s going on in their lives. It’s important to be approachable and I’ve always had an open-door policy.”

There are no firm retirement plans, that book is wide open.

He hopes he won’t get under wife Daphne’s feet too much, but said he has plenty on his to-do list – including spending a bit more time chasing his racehorses.

There’s plenty to miss, but plenty to look forward to as well.

“I guess I’ll miss the challenges, the big projects, but I won’t miss the hassles. And I’m looking forward to seeing the new restaurant, people will definitely be surprised with the end result,” he said.

Come Christmas, Simon will still be an MSA regular, but on the right side of the bar and bottle store checkout and when the rebuilt restaurant opens in October next year, as a paying customer.

From P1 Herd numbers were static at 410, while the total number of hectares in dairy production rose to 101,771, up 2.3 per cent.

The district’s unemployment continued to run well below the national average, 1.9 per cent compared to 4.6 per cent.

At the end of 2018 the district’s population sat at 34,500, up 1.2 per cent.

This was below the national growth rate of 1.9 per cent. Of the 400 extra people, 300 were gained through migration.

Compared to the national average, the district’s population is similar in the 0-19 age bracket, but drops significantly below for 20 to 30-year-olds. They make up just 12.1 per cent of the number, but 15.1 per cent of New Zealand’s.

When it comes to over-65s, the pendulum swings the other way, with superannuitants making up 17.5 per cent of the district’s population, but only 15.3 per cent of nationally.

The district’s mean income grew 4.9 per cent in 2018 compared to national growth of 3.7 per cent.

At the end of the year it sat at $54,201.

As a place to buy a home we are more affordable than many parts of the country, with the national housing affordability ranking at 10.5 and Ashburton’s at 6.5.

House value growth, however, was low compared to the national average, at 0 per cent compared to 5 per cent.

The district’s average rent was $316 last year, well below the national average, $368.

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By Linda Clarke

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Ashburton wooden spinning wheel and loom maker Ashfords has brought the craft world to its patch this week.

The company’s products are treasured by craftspeople across the globe and they are hosting a week-long retreat for their dealers, who have come from Russia, Sweden, India, US, Australia and New Zealand.

Ashfords director Elizabeth Ashford said the 17 dealers were based at the Hotel Ashburton and were studying fibre, dyeing and spinning and weaving on looms.

They would also learn felting and tour the Ashfords factory on Friday morning.

The group visited Jim Stewart at his Rakaia farm, which supplies Ashfords black and coloured wool for its products.

Stewart runs about 300 coloured sheep, which have been a passion for him since the early 1970s.

He said the visitors were interested in the story of wool.

“They are not farmers, they are just selling the product overseas so I showed them some different breeds, shore a couple of sheep and skirted the wool.”

Stewart has merinos, corriedales and romneys in his flock and said the visitors were able to get up close to the sheep and some lambs. They were interested

By Sue Newman

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Rakaia coloured sheep breeder Jim Stewart gave Ashfords dealers an insight into the process of how fleece is sourced from his farm.

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Fellow coloured sheep breeder Leo Ponsonby was in charge of the shearing and Stewart skirted the wool, explaining the process to the dealers as he worked.

Fleeces from his farm Rosebank

have been regular winners on the national and local coloured sheep stage over the decades.

Ashford said the dealer retreat was about providing exclusive product and marketing training to help the dealers confidently demonstrate, teach and sell Ash-

ford products.

The Ashfords factory is on State Highway 1, where it makes a range of spinning wheels and looms.

Its craft shop is based in adjacent historic Mill House, which they bought in 1970 and restored.

Burglary and road safety a big prevention focus

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

Mid/South Canterbury’s cop in charge of crime prevention is well aware that police cannot arrest their way out of high rates of burglary and car accidents, and is hoping that continuing preventative work will help to cut those rates.

Senior sergeant Dylan Murray is the officer in charge of the rural South Canterbury area, and also holds the title of Mid/South Canterbury area prevention manager.

“With the prevention role there is a number of things I deal with

in terms of criminal offending and victimisations and deploying staff to try and reduce those numbers,” he said.

“It is also about making sure that staff effectively carry out their duties and that we make that difference.

“There are staff members that I have a line of control over what they do and I have a line of influence over all staff in the Mid/ South Canterbury area making sure that prevention is in the forefront of what they do.”

Murray said the two main areas of focus in 2019 has been reduc-

ing the road toll and reducing the amount of crimes such as burglary.

“We have had a bad year on the roads, our goal is for the road toll to be reduced by 5 per cent every year, which happened last year but this year has not been so good,” he said.

“It is a continuous goal that we look at every year and while this year is not going so well, it is a long game.

“There was a terrible fatal [crash] in Ashburton this year where three people died and one in the Mackenzie Country where

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three people died as well.”

Murray said they were attempting to make people more resilient against burglaries and to help prevent them occurring.

“You can get a maximum of 10 years in prison for burglary, and homes are meant to be our safe place and it is something that can be quite traumatic and can cause quite a big financial and sentimental loss,” he said.

Engaging the community is the way to go when it comes to preventing crimes, Murray said.

“We can’t arrest our way out of these problems,” he said.

As the Ashburton District counts its number of new citizens and residents in rapidly increasing numbers, the district’s real estate industry is reaping an unexpected bonus.

First National franchise owner Mark Williams said that over recent months he had been fielding inquiries from a growing number of buyers who were new to the Ashburton market.

Many of these were immigrants who had come to the district for work and who were now committed to staying, he said.

The home buying surge was being led by Filipino families, Williams said, most of whom had come to the district to work on dairy farms. With either residency or citizenship now secured, they were opting to make a permanent life in the district. For some that meant buying a house in Ashburton with one or more family members electing to travel to work on a farm.

The numbers were not huge, but there was a definite trend emerging over the past 12 months, he said.

“Some of these families have now been here quite a long time and they’re now committing to settling and building a future here and that’s great for the town and for the district.”

With Ashburton having a significant labour shortage, it was good to see the numbers of families who were looking at the district as a permanent home, rather than looking to move on, Williams said.

“It’s an all-round win.”

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Thursday, September 5, 2019

Locals’ ski day boosts coffers The Kidzmethven skate park project, which last week reached a notable milestone with the first turf turned, has received a notable cash injection courtesy of local skifield, Mt Hutt.

With the build well under way, in the previously vacant lot behind the Methven Mall on the corner of Bank and McMillan streets, Mt Hutt has come to the party and chipped in with a $3000 donation.

The money was raised when Mt Hutt hosted a Mid Canterbury Locals’ Day on Saturday, June 15.

Locals could come up and ski or ride with a day lift pass for just $20 (normally $119 for adults and $59 for children).

Additional rentals were just $20 (normally $50 for adults and $40 for kids).

All proceeds went straight back into the community by contributing to the KidzMethven skate park project.

And the giving is far from over too.

In order to raise even more money for KidzMethven and to help support the local community, Mt Hutt will run a second Locals’ Day on Saturday, October 5.

This is a day for locals located between the Rangitata and Rakaia rivers and they only need to bring a utility bill, or similar, as proof of address to receive the

discounted lift pass and rentals.

The October date also coincides with two other big dates on the calendar, Snowpalooza and the Dog Derby.

Kidzmethven’s Liz McMillan and Mt Hutt’s Richie Owen in front of the skate park site in Methven.

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M. bovis sees school calf scheme canned sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

For many years calf raising schemes were big dollar earners for rural schools, but mycoplasma bovis has changed the fundraising landscape for many of those schools.

For rural Carew Peel Forest School, that has meant a school donation scheme will come into play next year and while the funds this is likely to generate will fall well short of the calf raising scheme, it will still go a long way towards providing extra resources for the school, principal Sharon Ketter said.

The school is one of only a few in the Ashburton District that has not asked for a parent donation,

Peter Ellis dies The man at the centre of the Christchurch creche sex case, Peter Ellis, has died while fighting to declare his innocence. Ellis was released from prison in 2000, after serving seven years for abusing seven children at the Christchurch Civic Childcare Centre in 1991. The verdicts have always been contentious and in July, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case once more. The approved ground of appeal was whether a miscarriage of justice occurred. His lawyer Rob Harrison said in a statement Ellis, who had bladder cancer, slipped away peacefully yesterday surrounded by his loving family and dear friends Stephen and Pam Fergusson.

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but to continue the current level of education for students, bringing in a donation scheme had been necessary, she said.

“We’ve been lucky, we haven’t had to ask for a school donation from families because the calf money was our biggest fundraiser, it was huge. Compared to that donations will only be a drop in the bucket.”

While schools received funding from the Ministry of Education there was always the need for fundraising by a school community to provide the extras that were now an important part of a well rounded, complete education, Ketter said.

“This money helps us buy the extra resources for classrooms,

students and teachers. It’s about providing our students with a wide and varied curriculum.”

Money that came through school donations would fall well short of the thousands of dollars raised annually in the past through the calf raising scheme, and that would mean other avenues of fundraising would still need to be explored, she said.

“It’s about being a bit more creative and we’re having to ask families to pay for more now, but it is always a donation because education in New Zealand is free.”

While reading, writing and maths were at the heart of the school’s curriculum, it was important in a rapidly changing world, skills such as resilience,

adaptability and a desire to learn, were also part of that curriculum, Ketter said.

Because Carew Peel Forest is a decile 10 school, it receives a lower level of funding than schools with lower decile ratings. And while that rating was based on the perception the school was based in a wealthy dairying area, the reality was the majority of students were children of dairy farm staff rather than farm owners, she said.

Carew Peel Forest shares a school board with Geraldine High School and from the start of the 2020 school year will set the same donation level – $100 for one child and $145 for a family of two or more children.

A Nelson doctor, Samuel Wilson, sentenced to home detention after covertly filming his female colleagues has won his bid to stay in the profession. However, he fought successfully to keep his medical registration and instead of cancellation, he was suspended for one year from the date of the hearing, held May 2019. For the first three years upon resuming practice, Wilson must also meet the requirements of the Professional Standards Team of the MCNZ including its requirements for proof of compliance, as well as advise future employers of the tribunal’s decision and its orders. He must also maintain mental health treatment for that three-year period.

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Trade Me spring surge Kiwis have wasted no time with the arrival of spring — already taking to Trade Me to search for barbecues, jandals and outdoor furniture. Spring officially arrived last weekend and the search results show people are already planning for the warmer weather.

“Searches for barbecues jumped 19 per cent on the week prior, with close to 20,000 searches on the first day of spring alone,” Trade Me spokeswoman Millie Silvester said. Hits for jandals also rose 78 per cent compared to the week before, outdoor furniture was in hot demand with searches spiking 35 per cent and there were 4000 searches for shorts on Sunday alone, while searches for boats also jumped 12 per cent. – NZME

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Postage stamps celebrate Te Araroa trail Six iconic Te Araroa trail locations have been immortalised on postage stamps, with the release of a New Zealand Post stamp series celebrating some of the stunning locations found along New Zealand’s national walking trail.

The stamps feature photos from parts of the 3000km trail that stretches from Cape Reinga to Bluff. In Mid Canterbury, it passes from the Rakaia River to the Rangitata through the Hakatere Conservation Park.

The North Island locations shown on the new stamps are Ninety Mile Beach in Northland, Karamu Walkway in Waikato, and Tongariro Alpine Crossing on the Central Plateau. The South Island stamps depict Nelson Lakes in Tasman, Stag Saddle in Tekapo and Lake Hawea in Otago.

Te Araroa Trust chief executive Mark Weatherall said it was humbling to see the trail appear on stamps issued by New Zealand’s national postal service.

“They say you’ve made it if you’re on a postage stamp, so this is a great honour for Te Araroa Trail,” he said.

“We were thrilled to be approached about this new series and we’ve enjoyed working with NZ Post to suggest featured locations and provide information about different trail sections.”

New Zealand Post Head of Stamps and Coins Antony Harris said it was a privilege to work with Te Araroa Trust to bring the annual scenic stamp issue Te Araroa Trail to life.

“Through NZ Post’s scenic stamp issue, Te Araroa Trail, we showcase New Zealand’s longest trail that stretches the length of Aotearoa, from Cape Reinga to Bluff. The stamps feature some of the beautiful landscapes encountered on this spectacular 3000km long journey.”

The Te Araroa Trail stamp series was designed by NZ Post’s Hannah Fortune using photos generously contributed by Te Araroa walkers Amos Chapple, David Lemaire, Jay Conlon, Dylan Moron, Annika Ananias and Helen Olmas.

The stamps are available in $1.30, $2.60, $3.30 and $4.00 denominations.

Their release comes in the lead-up to the start of the 2018-2019 walking season, which begins on October 1.

In the 2018-2019 season more than 1100 people walked the length of Te Araroa trail.

Tens of thousands more walked individual sections after work, during the weekends, and in their holidays.

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Tekapo residents lobby for urgent action on speed sam.m@timaruapp.nz

“Don’t wait for a tragedy to convince you the present speed limit is too fast”.

That’s the spine-tingling message put to New Zealand Transport Agency officials at a public meeting to discuss widespread concerns around the 80km/h speed limit in the Lake Tekapo area.

More than 50 residents, community leaders and business owners turned out in force last week, urging NZTA officials to reduce the speed limit and make major changes to State Highway 8 in the Mackenzie Basin.

After years of campaigning for change, Mackenzie District mayor Graham Smith said this was the third time consultation had happened, and he wanted to see the speed limit sorted out this year.

“This is a tourist town. In the summer time we can have over 2000 people in the town in the day time ... we don’t have pedestrian crossings, it is a state highway right through the middle of the town,” Smith said.

“With trucks and cars hurtling through town there is going to be a serious accident.”

Drivers entering Lake Tekapo are greeted by a crystal blue lake and frosted, towering mountains – a picture-perfect sight for which, locals say, tourists slam on their brakes.

But, Lake Tekapo community board member Steve Howes said this in turn often caused frustration from following drivers wanting to pass and they end up taking risks – often uncalculated and in a hurry.

“Whilst the speed limit currently allows them to travel at 80km/h, there’s a large number of pedestrian’s crossing the

roads there,” Howes said.

“There’s a number of intersections where you need to move to the lake side of the village to the south side of the village and there is no safe passage really or place to cross.”

Residents voiced their concerns, including the Lake Tekapo volunteer fire brigade chief officer and local business owner Craig Willis, who took the opportunity to make his feelings known.

Willis said he quite often drove along the main street at 50km/h, well under the present limit, and boldly invited the NZTA to issue him a ticket if they felt he deserved one.

“I don’t care that I am slowing down the traffic. In the last 12 years, there has been 26 motor vehicle accidents in the 80 and 60km/h areas around Tekapo.

(Now) I’m not saying that these are injury based accidents, but

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The six stamps celebrating the Te Araroa Trail. They range in denominations from $1.30 up to $4.

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some definitely have been and a reduction of speed would definitely help with this,” Willis said.

Joining Willis in his views, a Tekapo mother said she was worried for her children and others who used the road to walk to school “Along with the speed reduction, residents want turning bays and pedestrian crossings for school children,” she said.

Following a resounding and unanimous feeling from residents to reduce current speed limits in the area, NZTA senior traffic and safety engineer David Scarlet said the next step was to bring out a consultation document listing potential speed limit changes and other traffic improvements.

Scarlet was unable to say when this would likely be done, but if the residents have anything to do with it – you can be sure it will happen soon.

A hui of community vehicle trust volunteers met last week at Environment Canterbury to hear that they had jointly donated over 17,300 hours of time.

Community Vehicle Trusts fulfil an important role within the small rural towns of the region, providing transport solutions in areas outside of our urban public transport network.

Over the last year, nearly 35,000 passengers have been transported around Canterbury by Community Vehicle Trusts, and collectively been driven more than 623,000 kilometres.

The networking hui provided these volunteers with the opportunity to meet each other and share ideas.

Environment Canterbury supports vehicle trusts with funding grants.

Community transport advisor Isabelle Bromham said that she is pleased with the volunteer-driven success of the vehicle trusts.

“There’s so much good work being done to provide a transport solution to rural areas,” Broham said.

“Having a dignified and affordable means of transport is so crucial in allowing people to remain in their own homes and to maintain their community links, so we are pleased to offer our continued support to community vehicle trusts.”

During the event, community vehicle trust volunteers heard from the Canterbury District Health Board about the benefits that vehicle trusts provide for their community.

Raegan Kitto, Clinical Manager of Social Work for Older Persons Health and one of the Service Managers at CDHB’s Christchurch Campus, described the volunteers as ‘incredible’ during her presentation about the value that the service offers to people needing to reach their outpatient appointments.

The event also helped the vehicle trust members with advice on recruiting volunteers, safe driving on rural roads and volunteering in the 21st century, before individual presentations from some of the vehicle trusts.

There are currently 15 vehicle trusts operating across Canterbury. They are best suited to smaller rural towns with an aging population, that do not have bus or taxi services.

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Five killed in ‘tragic’ bus accident NZME Five people have died after a tourist bus rolled in bad weather yesterday on State Highway 5 at Ngatira, near Rotorua.

Two others were seriously injured when the bus rolled and came to rest on its side.

Inspector Brent Crowe told reporters yesterday that 27 people were on the bus, and five on board had lost their lives as a result of the crash.

Two other people were seriously injured, and a further four received moderate injuries. The remainder were injured to a lesser extent or were able to walk away from the scene.

Crowe said the medium-sized tour bus contained Chinese nationals.

“As you can understand this is a very traumatic event for all concerned, it has very far-reaching consequences and as a result our ethnic liaison team, including some Chinese speaking officers and Victim Support, are wrapped around the victims to provide

Left – Emergency services at the scene of a fatal bus crash on State Highway 5 at Ngatira.

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them with the best possible care,” he said.

Police are also working with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and

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Measles outbreak could turn deadly NZME Medical professionals at the forefront of the measles outbreak have said there will be fatalities if the disease continues to spread.

Nine new cases have been recorded in Auckland since Tuesday and seven more added to the national total.

As of 2pm yesterday, there have been 821 cases of measles in Auckland, and 991 confirmed cases notified across New Zealand.

Eight adults and seven children are currently in hospital with the disease. One adult and one child are in critical conditions.

Starship clinical director Dr Michael Shepherd said some of the specific challenges they were facing were keeping other children safe, including immuno-compromised or at-risk children.

“I think that is something we can all get involved in as a community. I would really like to encourage people to think of others in this as well – and that is another reason for getting vaccinated.

“Because we are working really hard to stop people dying from measles.”

Shepherd said it was difficult to see children having to stay home from school, and wear masks etc due to measles in the community.

He said the risk for immuno-compromised people was

much higher. “Measles is dangerous to everyone, and I think that we are going to continue to see serious illness and potentially death during this outbreak.”

Shepherd said they’d treated a number of children who had been critically unwell, and they continue to have one case involving a person who is in a critical condition.

“We are obviously trying our hardest to make sure they do well,” he said.

He said the outbreak had added to the winter pressure doctors face anyway.

“It is another thing that adds pressure to the health system and of course it is very tough to see children, adults, others getting infection and illness that we can prevent. That is of course worrying.

“The message is we can all do something to help this; know your immunisation status, know whether you have been vaccinated, and if you are not sure then go and get it sorted out.”

Meanwhile, Auckland Regional Public Health Service medical officer of health Dr William Rainger confirmed a student who attended the St Peter’s College ball on Saturday did have measles.

It was earlier reported that the affected student was from another school and attended the ball as the partner of a college student before their symptoms began to appear.

Trade and the Chinese Consulate to notify the next of kin.

The Serious Crash Unit and the Commercial Vehicle Safety team

attended the scene seeking clues as to why this tragic event occurred.

Crowe said the road would

remain closed until late last evening.

He sent his condolences to all those affected, and said the incident was an absolute tragedy.

Most of those on board the bus are understood to be from China’s Sichuan province.

The wounded were treated for injuries at the scene and others flown to hospitals around the North Island.

Crowe said the bus was travelling south towards Rotorua and failed to take a moderate bend. As a result it went to the wrong side of the road, corrected and subsequently flipped.

The driver is believed not to be seriously injured, and the bus was the only vehicle involved in the incident.

Crowe said the road is reasonably hilly, has a number of curves, and the weather was unfavourable with high winds, rain and fog at the time of the incident.

WoFs in jeopardy for some vehicle owners NZME More than 17,000 cars are at risk of being taken off the road if owners have not replaced their faulty Takata Alpha airbags under a compulsory recall.

The New Zealand Transport Agency announced from early next year, vehicles that have the faulty Takata Alpha airbags will automatically fail warrant of fitness (WoF) inspections.

Kane Patena, NZ Transport Agency regulatory general manager, said the new measure is about protecting the safety of New Zealand drivers and passengers.

“Under the provisions of the compulsory recall for Takata Alpha airbags announced last year, all affected vehicles are legally required to be remedied by December 31, 2019.

“This is potentially a significant safety issue and as the vehicle safety regulator we now need to

look at new approaches to ensuring the remaining vehicles have their airbags replaced.

“Age is a contributing factor to the risk posed by Alpha airbags so we can’t afford to allow these vehicles to stay on the road indefinitely.”

Despite widespread promotion and advertising, and multiple attempts at direct contact with owners, there are still 17,800 vehicles yet to have their airbags replaced.

Vehicles fitted with Takata Alpha airbags have been subject to a compulsory safety recall in New Zealand since April 2018.

The initial number of vehicles under compulsory recall was 82,000, of which 78.5 per cent have been completed.

“Stopping vehicles from getting WoFs is not a step we take lightly and we want to ensure vehicle owners have advance warning,” Patena said.

“If you know your vehicle has Takata Alpha airbags, contact the manufacturer now – the biggest incentive is peace of mind about safety, but you can also avoid future inconvenience at WoF time around repair timings and not being able to use the vehicle.”

Patena urged owners of BMW, Honda, Lexus, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota vehicles who haven’t checked for the compulsory recall to enter their registration plate details at the Rightcar website.

The Motor Trade Association welcomed the Government’s move to prevent cars fitted with the faulty airbags getting a WoF. “It is not safe for people to drive around in cars with airbags that will not work properly,” MTA chief executive Craig Pomare said.

“In some instances, it may take a day or two – perhaps longer, to source and replace the airbags.

Get on to it now and avoid the delay and inconvenience.”

Former Oamaru doctor struck off NZME A former Oamaru doctor who indecently assaulted an intellectually disabled patient has been struck off the medical practitioner register and ordered to pay $3240.

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has censured Stephen James Dawson and cancelled his registration as a medical practitioner.

The tribunal imposed two conditions Dawson must meet if he ever wishes to again apply for registration as a medical practitioner.

One of which was that he would undertake at his own cost a sex-

ual misconduct assessment test arranged in conjunction with the Medical Council of New Zealand.

The tribunal also imposed two conditions which would apply for a period of three years if he did return to practise.

The decision comes after Dawson was sentenced to nine months’ home detention – which he completed in May 2019.

He had pleaded guilty to representative charges of indecent assault and doing an indecent act with a person with significant impairment.

The tribunal decision said Dawson accepted the convictions were likely to “bring discredit” to

the medical profession and “reflected adversely on his fitness to practise medicine”.

His offending was outlined in the court proceedings last year.

On several occasions between March 10, 2008, and July 14, 2016, the victim saw Dawson as a patient without her mother present.

The court heard the victim did not want to touch Dawson or have him touch her, but felt she had to because he was her doctor.

On August 18, 2016, Dawson emailed the victim’s mother, asking if she would let him “bed’’ the victim.

The matter was then reported to police.

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Dorian moves closer to US AP Bahamians rescued victims of Hurricane Dorian with jet skis and a bulldozer as the US Coast Guard, Britain’s Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups tried to get food and medicine to survivors and take the most desperate people to safety.

Airports were flooded and roads impassable after the most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas in recorded history parked over Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, pounding them with winds up to 295km/h and torrential rain before finally moving into open waters on a course toward Florida.

People on the US coast made final preparations for a storm with winds at a still-dangerous 175km/h, making it a Category 2 storm.

At least seven deaths were reported in the Bahamas, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown.

The storm’s punishing winds and muddy brown floodwaters destroyed or severely damaged thousands of homes, crippled hospitals and trapped people in attics.

“It’s total devastation. It’s decimated. Apocalyptic,” said Lia Head-Rigby, who helps run a local hurricane relief group and flew over the Bahamas’ hard-hit Abaco Islands.

She said her representative on Abaco told her there were “a lot more dead,” though she had no numbers as bodies

‘Freak show’ Boyle

Volunteers walk through a flooded road as they work to rescue families in the Bahamas, PHOTO AP

were still being gathered.

The Bahamas’ prime minister also expected more deaths and predicted that rebuilding would require “a massive, coordinated effort”.

Five Coast Guard helicopters ran near-hourly flights to the stricken Abaco, flying more than 20 injured people to the capital’s main hospital. British sailors were also rushing in aid. A few private aid groups also tried to reach the battered islands in the northern Bahamas.

With their heads bowed against heavy wind and rain, rescuers began evacuating people from the storm’s aftermath across Grand Bahama island, using jet skis, boats and even a huge bulldozer that cradled children and adults in its digger as it churned through deep waters and carried them to safety.

One rescuer gently scooped up an elderly man in his arms and walked toward a pickup truck waiting to evacuate him and others to higher ground.

Over two million people along the coast in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina were warned to evacuate. While the threat of a direct hit on Florida had all but evaporated, Dorian was expected to pass dangerously close to Georgia and South Carolina – and perhaps strike North Carolina.

Even if landfall does not occur, the system is likely to cause storm surge and severe flooding, the US National Hurricane Centre said.

Pope making strategic visit to Mozambique AP Pope Francis is opening a three-nation pilgrimage to southern Africa with a strategic visit to Mozambique, just weeks after the country’s ruling party and armed opposition signed a new peace deal and weeks before national elections.

Thirty years after St John Paul II begged Mozambicans to end their civil war, Francis is expected to endorse the new August 1 accord and urge its full implementation when he meets with government authorities tomorrow, his first full day in the region. When he arrives he has no public events scheduled after a brief airport welcome ceremony.

The timing of the visit is not coincidental, coming just weeks after the signing of the accord between the ruling Frelimo party and the armed Frenamo opposition and before national elections on October 15.

The vote is considered crucial because a new constitutional amendment has decentralised power so that provincial governors will now be elected directly, rather than

Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle admitted she felt like a “freak show” before missing The Champions. The singer, 58, reflected on how her television experience was “suffocating” and “difficult to come to terms with” when she appeared on the third series of Britain’s Got Talent as a contestant. Susan recalled how everyone was “laughing” at her because of her “crazy hair” and her “bad choice in clothes” after she stepped out on stage. She said: “It felt quite suffocating, almost as though I was an act in a freak show, and that hurt. It was incredibly difficult to come to terms with for a time, but the positives have far outweighed the negatives.”

Pope Francis waves as he boards an aircraft on his way to Mozambique.

PHOTO AP appointed by the central government.

Mozambique’s 15-year civil war, which ended with a 1992 peace deal, killed an estimated 1 million people and devastated the former Portuguese colony. The permanent cease-fire signed August 1 was the culmination of years of negotiations to end fighting that has flared sporadically in the 27 years since.

In central Mozambique, Gorongosa National Park warden Pedro Muagura said there

are hopes the pope’s visit will strengthen the deal.

“In general, people are very, very optimistic that the pope will be a good influence for peace and good elections,” said Muagura. “In 1992, our peace agreement was signed after the pope’s visit,” he said, referring to John Paul’s historic 1988 trip.

“Now there are the same expectations that this pope will bring a positive influence, reconciliation between all Mozambicans. Those are the

hopes of so many people here.”

Francis will also reach out to Mozambicans affected by back-to-back cyclones that ripped into the country earlier this year, leaving more than 650 people dead and destroying vast swaths of crops on the eve of harvest.

The unprecedented storms laid bare the impact of climate change on countries like Mozambique, which with its 2400-kilometre coastline is one of the world’s most vulnerable to the rising sea levels, warming waters and unpredictable storms blamed on global warming.

Francis has made environmental concerns a pillar of his papacy, linking global warming to the persistent exploitation of the world’s poor by the wealthy.

He is likely to raise those concerns in Mozambique, as well as on the second leg of his trip in Madagascar, where deforestation is threatening ecosystems and wildlife that are unique to the Indian Ocean island nation.

Francis also makes a daylong stop in Mauritius before returning to Rome September 10.

Grande sues Forever 21 Ariana Grande is suing fashion chain Forever 21 for £8.3 million ($NZ15m) over an alleged “lookalike” it used in an advertising campaign. The singer alleges the brand hired a model with an “uncanny” resemblance to her after she refused to endorse the company.

Forever 21 then stole Grande’s “name, likeness and other intellectual property” to promote the brand for free, the pop star claims. The 21-page lawsuit says Grande was approached by Forever 21 in November last year, but an endorsement deal never happened. The Grammy Award-winning singer refused to accept the agreement because the firm would not pay “the fair market value”.

Juggling babies on Coro Coronation Street’s Gemma Winter is pregnant with quadruplets – and it could be a problem for the casting team. This Morning soap expert Sharon Marshal revealed a behind-the-scenes secret which means Gemma’s babies could be a nightmare on set. During her soap segment, Sharon explained that quadruplets would actually mean there would be eight babies on set. “Good luck with casting,” said Sharon. “Eight babies around at all times.” She continued: “You’ve got to have doubles. You can’t have a baby filming. You’ve got to have double of everything. So that’s eight babies.”

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Admissions of failure a rare thing S

ometimes all you want in life is for people to take ownership of their mistakes and to stand up and be held to account for their misgivings.

The unfortunate side of the story is that, sadly that’s not always what happens – blame is pushed to other corners or swept under the rug completely in the hope that it will magically go away.

I can think of a couple of incidents and situations on our own doorstep in recent times where there’s been the opportunity for organisations or individuals to stand up and throw their hands in the air and take the blame but it hasn’t happened – which has been disappointing for all involved in those mistakes.

So, when Housing Minister

Megan Woods announced the much-awaited KiwiBuild reset yesterday, imagine the shock and horror at the admissions of failure which almost overtook the announcement in terms of importance.

Woods and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used the term “overly ambitious” in their description of the initial target of constructing 100,000 KiwiBuild homes in 10 years.

I’d use the term “downright impossible”.

I think the Government probably knew it had bit off more than it could chew with the lofty prediction, most of New Zealand at the time knew that it was a little too much as well and everyone else who didn’t have an opinion probably would have reached the same conclusion if they’d looked a little closer.

But while the obvious has finally been reached in terms of the first proposal of 100,000 homes, the most pleasing aspect probably wasn’t so much that they’d finally got to that point but more the point that they were willing to admit their faults.

“When policies aren’t working, we are honest about that and fix them,” Woods said.

If only that was true all of the time.

Aside from the frank admissions which provided a good breath of fresh air, the new look KiwiBuild model shows a bit of promise.

There’s been no hiding from the fact that getting onto the property market in this country has been a steep mountain to climb and unfortunately for many, a case of mission impossible.

New Zealand is in desperate need of new ways to get people into that situation where they can own their own home and the progressive home ownership model that this new look KiwiBuild announcement seems like a positive step forward.

The reset includes new initiatives, all pointed towards help-

ing first-home buyers to get assistance from the government, most important the reduction of the required deposit for a government-based mortgage from 10 per cent to five per cent.

But the big win is the new ability to pool together respective First Home Grants and Kiwisaver funds to purchase homes – a major stumbling block for many under the previous situation.

The process of buying a first home should be both a major commitment but also an exciting step in someone’s life and, while still a major undertaking just to reach that point, at least, through some frank admissions of failure, we’ve taken a couple of steps in the right direction to helping people achieve the goal.

In 1997, breaking the royal reticence over the death of Princess Diana, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II delivered a televised address in which she called her former daughter-in-law “a remarkable person.” Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.

In 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he was phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program protecting young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally, but said he was giving Congress six months to come up with an alternative.

Hurricane Irma strengthened

to a Category 5 storm as it approached the northeast Caribbean on a path toward the United States.

Ten years ago: Top finance officials from rich and developing countries agreed during a meeting in London to curb hefty bankers’ bonuses and maintain stimulus measures to boost the global economy.

Five years ago: The US and 10 of its key allies, meeting in Wales, agreed that the Islamic State group was a significant threat to NATO countries and that they would take on the militants by squeezing their financial resources and going after them

with military might.

One year ago: Britain charged two men it identified as Russian military intelligence officers with the nerve-agent poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal.

Today’s birthdays: Comedianactor Bob Newhart is 90.

Actress-singer Carol Lawrence is 87. Actress Lucille Soong is 84. Actor William Devane is 80. Actor George Lazenby is 80. Actress Raquel Welch is 79.

Movie director Werner Herzog is 77. Singer Al Stewart is 74.

Actor-director Dennis Dugan is 73. Singer Loudon Wainwright III is 73. Soul/rock musician Mel Collins is 72. “Cathy” cartoonist

Cathy Guisewite is 69. Actor Michael Keaton is 68. Country musician Jamie Oldaker is 68.

Actress Debbie Turner-Larson is 63. Actress Kristian Alfonso is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer Terry Ellis is 56. Rock musician Brad Wilk is 51. TV personality Dweezil Zappa is 50. Actress Rose McGowan is 46. Actress Carice Van Houten is 43. Rock musician Kyle O’Quin is 34. Actor Andrew Ducote is 33. . Actor Skandar Keynes is 28.

Thought for today: “If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.” – Jack Kerouac, American novelist (1922-1969).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, September 5, the 248th day of 2019. There are 117 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On September 5, 1975, President Gerald R Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California.

On this date: In 1774, the first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.

In 1864, voters in Louisiana approved a new state constitution abolishing slavery.

In 1882, the nation’s first Labour Day was celebrated with a parade in New York.

In 1939, four days after war had broken out in Europe, President Franklin D Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring U.S. neutrality in the conflict.

In 1960, at the Rome Olympics, American boxer Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) defeated Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland to win the lightheavyweight gold medal; Wilma Rudolph of the United States won the second of her three gold medals with the 200-metre sprint.

In 1961, President John F Kennedy signed legislation making aircraft hijackings a federal crime.

In 1972, the Palestinian group Black September attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games; 11 Israelis, five guerrillas and a police officer were killed in the resulting siege.

In 1984, the space shuttle Discovery ended its inaugural flight as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

In 1986, four hijackers who had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan, opened fire when the lights inside the plane failed; a total of 20 people were killed before Pakistani commandos stormed the jetliner.

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A cancer plan to save lives I

t was incredible driving down the main street of Ashburton on Friday last week.

Seeing the streets lined with yellow balloons, collectors basking in the sun, decked out in their yellow gear.

Mid Canterbury really does get behind Daffodil Day and support the fantastic work that the Mid Canterbury Cancer Society does locally.

Being told you, or someone you love, has cancer is one of the scariest experiences anyone can face.

But that’s what happens to 66 New Zealanders, loved by 66 families and communities, every single day.

Cancer touches just about every one of us at some stage in our lives. Our fathers, mothers, children, friends, workmates.

Labour is committed to better cancer care.

New Zealanders deserve world-class support from prevention and early diagnosis to treatment and palliative care.

That’s why this week we announced the Cancer Action Plan – so everyone battling cancer in

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New Zealand can get the best possible care, no matter where they live.

It shouldn’t matter if you live here in Mid Canterbury, or in Auckland or Invercargill, we all deserve the absolute best care in order to give us the best chance of survival.

We’re making sure people can access the medicines they need, faster.

We’ve boosted Pharmac’s funding and it is speeding up its decision making process. This funding boost is immediate.

We’re establishing a Cancer Control Agency – to provide leadership on cancer care.

We’re investing more in prevention and early detection, because identifying cancer at an early stage saves lives.

And we’re making sure people in our regions can access radiation treatment, by funding 12 new Linear Accelerator machines, including the first ones in Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki and Northland.

Together, these changes will mean better cancer care for you and your family, ensuring you can get the care you need, when and where you need it.

They’re part of the wider work we’re doing to rebuild our health system, fix our rundown hospitals and make it easier for people to access care, through initiatives like cheaper GP visits and bowel cancer screening.

Modernising our approach to cancer care and improving survival rates is a long-term challenge, but we’re making good progress.

Jacinda Ardern is leading our team, delivering the change New Zealanders are calling for.

After nine years of neglect too many social issues were ignored and we are now paying the price.

Getting things back on track

is going to take time, but we’re making a good start.

Cancer is our greatest killer, with about 10,000 deaths each year. That won’t be solved overnight.

But this plan will deliver earlier detection, and better treatment. It will save lives.

It is all part of our plan to make sure every New Zealander can have access to a worldclass health system.

If you, or a loved one, have been affected by cancer, we’d like your feedback on our action plan.

Please take the opportunity to tell us your thoughts here: https://consult.health.govt. nz/cancer-services/cancer-action-plan/ Jo Luxton is a Labour list MP. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

Measles outbreak needs firm handling T

he measles outbreak has reached epidemic proportions. Children are going down like nine-pins in the path of this serious, potentially fatal, disease.

At the time of writing, 991 cases have been notified in Aotearoa, New Zealand, 821 of them in the Auckland region.

Read, please what that wellknown expert-of-our-time, “Dr. Fred” Google, has to say on the matter; “A person who has been given one dose of MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine has a 95 per cent chance of being immune to the virus. More than 99 per cent who receive two MMR doses – given at least four weeks apart, and the first dose given after age twelve months – develop immunity to measles.”

Those are the incontrovertible facts of the matter and yet ... literally, down the road, in Auckland, a two-woman agency calling itself Authentic Resistance, is doing its evil best to cast doubt on the efficacy of the MMR vaccine.

Thus, as the result of spurious and seriously misleading advice some gullible parents are showing reluctance to expose their children to the life-saving properties of inoculation.

In response to this outrageous

example of deliberate misinformation, the best-known GP in the Nation, Dr Lance O’Sullivan, is calling for compulsory vaccination of the many children in the land who have not been so treated either because their parents have failed to bring them to the nearest medical centre or have fallen for the perverted doctrine of Anti Vaxxers NZ. However, PM Jacinda has said “no” to that eminently sound – if marginally draconian – suggestion on the grounds that “education and explanation” would be a better way to go.

Behind that anodyne and ineffectual reply lies the fear – one has to suspect – that such firm action might be seen as the dreaded Nanny State rearing its controversial head and, with an election only 12 months away, it could be a vote-loser for the creaky coalition.

I doubt that.

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It is more than a pity that politics should have any part in this issue.

Surely, with the lives of so many of the very young at stake, such considerations are of no importance whatever.

If there is a cure out there – and there is – it should be taken advantage of now, before it is too late for some of our very vulnerable, tiny tots.

Meanwhile, those two garrulous gurus of TV1, Messrs Garner and Richardson – in another life, a dashing Kiwi left-handed opening batsman – have been combining to bring to bear their combined intimidating interrogation skills on that old warrior Helen Clark, on whose iron exterior, the barbs of Garner and Richardson are but pins in the night.

Helen is clearly in favour of legalising cannabis – “no ifs or buts”, as Boris Johnson said, albeit about an entirely different matter; Brexit – on the grounds it is, “wasting too much police time”.

Clark’s recently established Think Tank, The Helen Clark Foundation, seems to be preaching a policy of freedom and emancipation – Helen must have mellowed quite substantially since her remorseless rule of 20

years ago – not that dissimilar from that promulgated by the ACT Party for many years now.

I imagine that would include euthanasia of some form, though that is an unproven guess on my part.

All the while, far across the seas, the Brexit imbroglio continues to strangle the life out of the British body politic, with tousle-head, PM Boris experiencing the same sinking feeling of parliamentary defeat as that experienced repeatedly by his much put-upon predecessor, the unnaturally patient Theresa May. Now, it’s Boris’ turn to face the reality of members of his own party crossing the floor to vote with opposition parties thus leaving him exposed and downcast.

I fear he may have to get used to these unappealing emotions.

A solution to Brexit has proven to be beyond the wit of man and, of course, woman.

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Sunflowers lead alternative crops

By Heather Chalmers Crops of sunflowers and durum wheat are likely to become a more common sight in Mid Canterbury as part of a project to expand arable cropping options.

The Foundation for Arable Research is involved in two projects funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries looking at new or alternative crops to provide more diversity and resilience to arable and mixed arable rotations.

FAR general manager business and operations Ivan Lawrie said that some of the crops it was looking at for its Food Products of the Future project were not new.

“But recent market trends around eating local and artisan cooking open doors for them to make a comeback.

“Such is the case for amber durum wheat (Triticum durum) or pasta wheat, mostly used for coarser grind semolina, a basic ingredient for high quality dried pasta and couscous.”

A one-hectare block was sown in Masterton in mid-October 2018 using the New Zealand cultivar Farina. The harvested crop was of excellent quality. It was processed through a stone mill in Canterbury, producing a whole durum wheat flour sample which was of appealing colour and characteristics for artisan baking and potentially for fresh pasta, Lawrie said.

“It is early stages and FAR will be working with bakers and the

Turley Farms at Chertsey has trialled sunflowers for the past two years, including 43 hectares last year.

PHOTO SUPPLIED food industry to do some product testing, while simultaneously working on the agronomy of the crop to ensure yield and quality can make it competitive.”

FAR would have some durum plots along with some other specialty grains at Arable Research in Action (ARIA), its annual field day at the Chertsey demonstration site, being held on December 4.

Specially-bred varieties of sunflowers whose seeds produce high oleic oil, a high-grade cooking oil sought by commercial food manufacturers, are also being trialled in Canterbury with the expectation of developing a new arable crop and food product for the region.

Turley Farms at Chertsey has trialled sunflowers for the past

two years, including 43 hectares last year.

The colourful crop was known to be a traffic stopper and a popular backdrop for photos.

High oleic sunflower oil is at the high-value end of the cooking oil market, rather than competing with the big volume commodity oils palm and soybean. It is also a more healthy option than stand-

Right – Foundation for Arable Research general manager business and operations Ivan Lawrie.

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Canterbury production is being driven by Rolleston-based processor Pure Oil NZ, which already produces cold pressed rape seed oil and has identified a demand for high oleic sunflower oil.

Imported sunflower hybrid cultivars Baltic and Idyllic have been trialled in Canterbury for the past two years to gauge crop yields and oil potential, with planting areas expected to almost double again for the coming season.

From an initial 65ha crop in the first year, 150ha was harvested in April this year, with 250 to 300ha expected to be harvested next year, said Pure Oil managing director Nick Murney.

Sunflowers could be grown in Mid Canterbury as they do not clash with high-value brassica seed crops. This is in contrast to Pure Oil’s oil seed rape production, which was predominantly grown in South Canterbury and Southland to avoid unwanted cross pollination with other yellow-flowering brassica seed crops on the Canterbury Plains.

Challenges in growing the crop were limited access to imported hybrids and a limited range of suitable herbicides. There was also a lack of specialised equipment (planters and headers), as well as a huge potential for bird damage.

Sunflowers were also grown for commercial bird seed, but these use different cultivars.

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New factory paves way for hemp A new hemp processing facility in Christchurch is set to open the way for ground-breaking research and development into products made from Mid Canterbury-grown hemp and linseed flax fibres – with a huge range of potential applications from yarn to construction materials.

There will be around 1000ha of hemp in the ground in Mid Canterbury this season, with 50 licensed growers. The crop is planted pre-Christmas and has a 90-day growing period.

Hemp NZ is about to commence installing state-of-the-art hemp fibre processing equipment – the first of its kind in New Zealand – in a 3000m2 space at the NZ Yarn factory in Burnside.

Under a partnership established last year, Hemp NZ, which grows and processes hemp nationwide, has acquired a 15 per cent interest in NZ Yarn, which produces wool yarn for the carpet industry.

This will transform the NZ Yarn building from a wool yarn plant into a fully-fledged, modern fibre factory with leading-edge equipment purpose-built and engineered specifically for hemp processing, alongside its existing wool yarn spinning equipment.

The new hemp processing facility, called a decorticator, is being imported from the UK in two separate shipments. It will separate hemp stalks into fibre (which can be woven) and hurd (a woody core material which has fire retardant and insulating properties).

Once the machinery is commissioned at the end of this year, NZ Yarn and Hemp NZ will begin what is thought to be the first-ever commercial processing of hemp stalks into fibre in New Zealand, using crop from the 2019 harvest.

Following the 2020 harvest, good quantities of hemp crop are expected to be available for processing through the facility.

A joint research and development team made up of Hemp NZ, NZ Yarn and Ashburton-based global agribusiness group Carrfields – 50 per cent owner of NZ Yarn’s parent company Carrfields

Hemp growing in Canterbury.

Primary Wool (CP Wool) – is now exploring possible consumer and industrial applications for hemp fibre.

The research team will use fibre from the new machinery to trial various innovations, says Colin McKenzie, Group CEO of NZ Yarn and CP Wool.

“There are many, many potential uses for hemp and flax fibre in woven products and it has tremendously exciting potential across a variety of sectors. Among the possible uses we are exploring are wool and hemp blends for use in soft flooring, and we know from conversations with our customers that there is already strong interest in this type of product.”

Blending hemp with merino fibre to produce yarn for use in clothing is also on the research and development check sheet, with a leading European fabric weaving company having ex-

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pressed strong interest in this blend.

Non-woven products are also on the cards for development and testing; including a natural hemp-based material that could replace single-use plastic food packaging, as well as a hempbased replacement for the permeable synthetic geotextile fabric which is used to stabilise soil in infrastructure works.

“Further down the track we’re also looking at how hemp fibre could be used to produce a natural replacement for carbon composites, which could be moulded and used for building materials as well as in many other industrial applications,” McKenzie said.

Using hemp in such a wide variety of sectors is relatively uncharted territory globally, which means significant investment in tests and trials will be required, he said.

“We know hemp is an extremely versatile, environmentally-friendly natural product that definitely has a place in a wide variety of consumer and industrial sectors, given the environmental damage being caused by synthetic fibres and plastics.”

Dave Jordan, chief executive of Hemp New Zealand, says the installation of the new processing facility is a major step forward for the fledgling hemp industry in New Zealand.

“We’re expecting to be able to produce a very high quality fibre using efficient processing techniques. This will help place New Zealand at the forefront of hemp and natural fibre innovation globally,” he said.

“There is some commercial hemp production being developed in Europe but we’ve now caught up to where they are in terms of technology, infrastruc-

ture and innovation.”

Hemp fibre has a long history of human use dating back thousands of years and is now undergoing a strong resurgence amid increasing global awareness of the environmental damage caused by synthetic fibres and plastics, Jordan said.

“The resurgence in popularity of hemp is based on its excellent environmental credentials.

It is pest-resistant, easy to grow organically and produces a very good yield of fibre per hectare compared with many other crops.

“Hemp fibre also doesn’t require chemical processing or bleaching, it blends very well with other fibres and it has excellent strength and durability. Overall, hemp can provide a very good return for both farmers and processors, as well as a high quality, natural end product for the consumer.”

Sheep winter grazing research project begins

By Yvonne O’Hara NZME

“Hitting the play button’’ will begin shortly for a research project that will look at developing best practice methods for wintering sheep on crop.

New Zealand Landcare Trust was given about $383,000 from the Sustainable Farming Fund for its three-year “understanding the impacts of sheep winter grazing’’ research project, which was launched on July 1 this year.

The project will “quantify nutrient, sediment and faecal losses from sheep winter crop grazing’’.

The trust’s Invermay-based Otago regional co-ordinator Craig Simpson, said the project had several other co-funding partners

including AgResearch, the Otago Regional Council, Environment Southland and Horizons Regional Council.

“Even the greater Wellington regional council is looking to get involved and we will see how that pans out,’’ Simpson said.

“Next year will be the first winter and there are three winters in the trials.’’

The project is similar to the Pastoral 21 programme that was run for the dairy industry several years ago, which developed good crop-grazing management practices.

“We are primarily focused on the environmental impacts and will be looking at run-off and contaminant loss from forage crop

paddocks. We are assuming there will be less of an impact with lighter animals and less damage.’’

A steering group is to be established within the next few weeks and then they intended to choose farm sites for the programme and then by the end of October, would be looking for farmers who might be interested in being involved in the study and who use winter crops for sheep in winter.

Participating farmers would be prepared to have people on their property and to talk to media as the project required significant extension work “to get the message out there”.

He said there were a few things that needed to be in place and fine-tuned before we hit play.

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KiwiBuild targets revisited NZME The Government has dropped its target to construct 100,000 KiwiBuild homes in 10 years, admitting the goal was “overly ambitious” and meant houses were being built in places with little demand.

Instead, the Government plans to build as many homes as it can, as fast as it’s able to – measuring its success on a housing dashboard.

It has also launched a new “progressive home ownership” initiative, where $400 million of reallocated KiwiBuild funding could support up to 4000 households into home ownership, through a rent-to-buy or shared equity scheme.

Housing Minister Megan Woods yesterday released the much-anticipated KiwiBuild reset, after seven months of developing the policy.

Both she and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have admitted the policy failed to fire and has fallen well short of its targets.

“We will be dropping the target of 100,000 houses over 10 years. It

was overly ambitious and led to contracts being signed in places where there was little first-home buyer demand,” Woods said.

Yesterday’s reset includes a number of new housing initiatives which will make it easier for firsthome buyers to get government assistance.

This includes reducing the required deposit for a government-based mortgage from 10 per cent, to 5 per cent.

Also, the new rules mean that from October 1 this year, family and friends will be able to pool their respective $10,000 First Home Grant and KiwiSaver to buy their first home.

Under the current rules, if a family with a combined income of $130,000 – three working full time and one part-time – is looking to buy a $700,000 home, they would only be able to get two First Home grants of $20,000.

But, under the new scheme, they would get a $40,000 grant and withdraw $70,000 from their KiwiSaver.

The new “progressive homeownership” programme has been has allocated $400 million from

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The progressive ownership scheme could support between 2500 and 4000 households getting into home ownership, the Government said.

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its overall $2 billion KiwiBuild budget.

A rent-to-own scheme is when a would-be homeowner is given discounted rent to enable them to save to buy the home.

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The Government is also making changes when it comes to Government underwriting, which aims to incentivise underwriters to be more vigorous when it comes to selling homes.

“This means developers will be incentivised to sell to KiwiBuild first home buyers instead of triggering the underwrite, which may be at a lower level,” Woods said.

Other KiwiBuild changes: Buyers of studio and one-bedroom homes can commit to living there for one year; previous rules mean they had to stay for three years A maximum of 10 per cent of KiwiBuild homes are able to be over the price cap if they are four or more bedrooms; previously there was a blanket price cap on all homes People who have previously owned a home no longer have an asset limit when looking to buy a KiwiBuild home; previously they were not allowed to have assets worth more than 20 per cent of the First Home Grant price cap.

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Fonterra Dairy Co-operative has frozen salaries for about a quarter of its workforce earning more than $100,000 a year.

“Some tough calls are still needed to put us on the right path,” chief executive Miles Hurrell said.

A remuneration review will still occur for salaried employees earning under that level and there’s no impact on waged employees who are part of a collective agreement, he said.

Fonterra is currently undergoing a full strategic review after reporting its first loss last year.

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Spierings earned around $40 million in salary and bonuses during his seven years at the helm, which ended in July last year.

Fonterra also said it wouldn’t be paying bonuses for the annual short-term incentive scheme or sales incentive plan for the 2019 year. In the 2018 financial year, about 6000 employees were eligible for short-term incentives.

Fonterra said some business units, both in New Zealand and overseas, use sales incentive plans for market-facing sales and support teams.

Units in the Fonterra Shareholder Fund were recently down 1.2 per cent at $3.26.

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port a full-year loss next week of $590-675 million after writing down assets in Brazil, China, New Zealand and Australia.

The dairy exporter’s annual report shows it employed 22,558 people worldwide at the end of July 2018.

A total of 5994 employees earned more than $100,000 at Fonterra in the 2018 year, including 230 who no longer work for the co-operative.

Of the total, 14 – including former CEO Theo Spierings – earned more than $1 million in New Zealand and another nine did overseas. One person, who no longer works at Fonterra, also pulled in a million dollar salary.

ufacturing data stoked fears of a recession in the world’s biggest economy.

The NZX50’s relatively high average dividend yield remains a strong drawcard for investors struggling to find reliable income in fixed interest assets.

At the same time, a kiwi dollar trading near a four-year low is boosting the outlook for exporters.

“There’s no shortage of negative sentiment but the NZX50 is up, bucking the trend,” said Mark Lister, head of private wealth research at Craigs Investment Partners.

Software companies Pushpay

and Vista led the market higher, both bouncing back from recent sell-offs. Vista rose 6.8 per cent to $4.06 on a volume of 2 million shares, well up on its 90-day average of 439,000. Pushpay advanced 5.5 per cent to $3.26 with 728,000 shares changing hands, more than its 674,000 average.

Lister said both companies have been under pressure, with Vista punished over its downgraded growth outlook and Pushpay under-performing the past month.

The Kiwi dollar dropped below 63 US cents earlier this week, benefiting both companies which generate revenue in US dollars.

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Club news 14 Ashburton Guardian Ashburton Golf Club We had a big crowd on a beautiful day last Saturday, playing for the Don Houghton Trophy and supporting Matt in one of his pro shop days. We had a lovely speech by Noel and raised a glass to Don, and we had loads of great clubhouse banter, just like it should be. Top team was Pete Mac, Ivan Blain, Mike Holmes and Murray Moorhead. Well done boys.

We now move to club champs, with lots of first round games, I’ve only picked out a few, to run the rule over.

In Junior A the game of the round is Dave Hewitt against Kevin Smith, two club stalwarts and top match players, this could well have been the final. Alan White will need his ear muffs when he takes on Perry. Alan should have too much craft for him, but which Perry will turn up. In the intermediates, top seed and firm favourite Arkright has a tough first up against Ryan Stoddart, who again is rocks and diamonds, let’s see what he brings. This grade is jammed packed with young talent, and two games that jump out are Sam Clarke against Jordy Bird and Sean Strange taking on Matt Tait. They all smash the ball a mile, and know each other’s games inside out. I will stick out my neck and say Sam and Sean will just sneak through.

The seniors has thrown up some wonderful games, with all but one of the games being too close to call. I will pick 3 to look at. First a battle of Pennants team mates Hoppy and Davo will be a cracker, if old chippy can repeat his last effort against the hopster, we may well notice Brendon walking with an awkward gait and the head of a pitching wedge protruding from the bottom of his shorts. Peter Walker takes on Greig Sparrow, two wily gamers going at each other, Peter has the better power game but Spud is a whiz around the greens.

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Thursday, September 5, 2019 Lefty May will take on Terry K, another very even match. All in all some cracker games, good luck to everyone taking part.

On Sunday the Ashburton club travel over to the dark side of the bridge for the Annual Foodstuffs Trophy battle against Tinwald. This is always great fun, with the wonderful gang over there.

We are looking for a strong showing from the Brandon players, after being seriously under staffed last year on our own course, so please can every available girl and boy head over the bridge on Sunday 12 noon meet for a 12:30 start.

Let’s put on a strong show and bring the trophy back. See you there. Good golfing.

Ashburton Hearing Association Spring Lunch Following a delicious meal president Aine Whiting proudly introduced our mystery guest speaker.

Her brother Roger McKay. During his school days in Ashburton Roger became interested in the Army.

Roger enrolled and went to Waiouru where he actually finished his secondary schooling and then undertook an electrician’s apprenticeship, he went on to specialise in electronics and Information Technology (IT).

Postings in New Zealand and overseas followed.

After leaving the Army Roger’s career has focused on IT and he now has a role within Air New Zealand with responsibility for technical support at several airports nationally and overseas.

Because of his gift for delivering a talk in both humorous and down to earth fashion the technical issues Roger spoke about didn’t go over our heads, in fact his descriptions were very easily understood.

To explain the huge advances in technology Roger compared the first De-

fence Force computer which took up a space similar to our lunch venue and needed 200 technicians with the far more powerful personally managed miniature devices available today.

Minimisation and incredible storage capacity have been at the forefront of computer development which Roger says will continue both rapidly and amazingly.

Roger provided some fascinating answers in response to questions.

Because it had all the right ingredients – friends enjoying good company, a tasty meal and a very interesting guest speaker our gathering was enjoyed by all.

The next Hearing Association social event will be a bus trip on Thursday October 10.

Hinds Women’s Institute The Hinds Women’s Institute met for their August meeting in the Davison Room at Hinds. A good attendance was welcomed by President Rosa who then led the Ode and Aspirations.

Business was dealt with efficiently, Birthday greetings were sung to three members and Get Well wishes were extended to two others.

A discussion followed which included ideas for the Ashburton A&P Show Bay and tray entries and a reminder of the coming MC Federation meeting in September.

Our guest speaker, Brian Glassey, was welcomed by Rosa. Brian, aka gardener, “chook man” to quote his words, TV star and Mitre 10 Man, entertained us with his knowledge of poultry – even producing a very lively white Silke hen for us to admire.

Brian has a rural property which allows him to use his gardening skills and foster his love for poultry rearing and showing.

He is known to follow the National Poultry Shows with much success and enjoys the friendship of other like-mind-

ed enthusiasts. Between caring for his chooks, growing his flowers and enjoying his brief film experience, life is very busy on his property. Then there is his working life in town!

Brian was thanked for sharing his poultry passion and then joined the members for a welcome cup of tea and tasty treats which were served by the hostesses.

Ashburton U3A The second speaker in Ashburton U3A’s Space series was Dr Ian Griffin. Director of the Otago Museum.

His subject; Aurora chasing in NZ was extremely well received and particularly informative. An enthusiastic aurora chaser, Ian interspersed his talk with great self-shot photography of this little known phenomenon.

He began with some examples of Maori mythological interpretations of the aurora and then explained exactly what causes this wonderful display of heavenly light.

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Still alive! Tall Blacks shine with World Cup win

By Niall Anderson NZME

There’s still work to be done, but the Tall Blacks are alive – and definitely dangerous – at the Basketball World Cup. A 93-83 victory over Montenegro has kept New Zealand in with a chance of advancing to the second round for the fifth consecutive World Cup, but they require one more win – against a more fearsome foe.

The impressive win puts the Tall Blacks at 1-1 in Group F, with a +2 points differential after their opening 102-94 loss to Brazil, and their toughest test still to come, against Greece tonight.

Brazil’s 79-78 upset victory over Greece has made the Tall Blacks’ equation simple though – beat Greece, and they move into the second round. Lose, and they don’t.

Yes, it remains a tough challenge, but it’s at least still in the realm of possibility after grinding down a Montenegrin side who lost their cool, their lead, and eventually the game.

For a while, it looked as if the Tall Blacks had run into a repeat of their third quarter issues against Brazil. A nine-point halftime lead was cut to just one with a quarter to go, as the speed

The Tall Blacks’ win over Montenegro sets up a must-win match against Greece tonight. and fluency which had gifted the Tall Blacks their lead was bogged down amongst foul trouble and subsequently ill-advised lineups.

The first half had seen an offensive clinic, with Corey Webster leading the way with multiple triples, and Shea Ili providing his usual spark. The defence was less stellar against a side who scored just 16 first-half points against Greece, but with a judi-

cious use of a press, and some sloppy discipline from Montenegro, they built a 53-44 lead at the break.

Perhaps their hot start was slightly unsustainable, as shots started to miss and the speed which had troubled their opponents started to flag.

With Ili benched with four fouls and Rob Loe with three, their replacements had less success, and Montenegro’s sole NBA

The Aurora Australis or Southern Lights, happens when the sun releases a massive burst of solar winds and magnetic fields into space.

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The auroras display in various colours depending on the amount of gases involved and may show green, red, blue and purple.

It is even possible to ‘hear’ as well as see them if you have the right receiving equipment.

Clear nights and a low visible horizon are distinct advantages for viewing and Ian’s favourite spot is Hoopers Inlet on the Otago Peninsula.

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star, Nikola Vucevic, started to shine.

After scoring just 13 points in the third quarter, the Tall Blacks saw their lead vanish early in the fourth, but coach Paul Henare had settled on the players that would win his side the game.

Henare made just three substitutes in the final period, with Webster, Loe and Tom Abercrombie playing the entire fourth quarter, and Webster’s hot shooting regaining the lead they had fought so hard for.

Webster had another superb offensive showing, finishing with 25 points, six rebounds and seven assists, and after copping an accidental elbow to the face, Isaac Fotu came back to torment the Montenegrin frontcourt, finishing with 20 points and seven rebounds.

Montenegro lost their temper as technical fouls started to mount – their coach had already been ejected from the game for his backchat – and with Vucevic bizarrely benched, the Tall Blacks shot their way to an unassailable lead.

It will be tougher against Giannis Antetokounmpo and his Greek side. For now, though, the Tall Blacks can reflect on a mission accomplished.

RESULTS ■■ Golf Mayfield Ladies Golf September 3 Janet Moore Trophy Best Nett; Grade 0-29 Christine Ross 71, Jan Clucas 72, Helen Rapsey 72. Grade 30+ Sanae Hydes 70, Juliet McLeod 71, Ruth Keeley 74. Overall Winner Sanae Hydes. E Quaife Memorial Painting, Putting: Winner Christine Ross 26, Judy Webb 29, Betty Wilson 30. Marilyn Cross 2nd Shot 2 & 11. Nearest the Pin 0-29 Judy Webb, 30+Sue Graham.

Two’s Judy Webb No 11. Sims Bakery No 5 Nearest the Pin Not Struck. Mr Manns Bakery & Café No 14 Nearest the Pin, Helen Rapsey.

Tinwald Golf Club September 3 Ladies Division Lappings Kirsty McAuliffe 42, Joan Undy 40 9 Hole Competition Lappings Maureen Colville 24, Jan Fitzgerald 24 Nearest the Pin: Murray Young Property Broker (2nd Shot) #2 Jacqui Beardsley, Sims Bakery #6 Joan Undy, Mac & Maggie #12 Barb Harris, Outdoor Adventure (2nd Shot) #16 Joan Undy.

DRAWS ■■ Golf Tinwald Golf Club September 10 Ladies Division Championships All others clubhouse draw Starters: J Bruhns, S Young Cards: M Bennett, J Undy

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Andreescu confirmed for ASB Classic NZME Canadian star Bianca Andreescu has confirmed she’ll be returning to the ASB Classic next January after impressing in her maiden appearance earlier this year.

The 19-year-old has been the form player of 2019 having a staggering 89 per cent win record, the best of any player on the WTA Tour, capturing three titles including the biggest event of the year, the Desert Slam in Indian Wells, and her home tournament, the Rogers Cup in Toronto.

Andreescu has not lost a match against a Top 10 player, beating six of the world’s best on her rise through the rankings including Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, Angelique Kerber, Kiki Bertens, Karolina Pliskova and Serena Williams.

She plays in the US Open quarter-finals today against Elise Mertens aiming for her first ever semi-final appearance at a grand slam.

Ranked 152 in the world when she arrived in Auckland last December, the Canadian was forced to make her way into the ASB Classic through qualifying.

The heavy-hitting teenager has now reached a career high of world number nine on the live rankings and is forecast to go higher by year’s end.

Her achievements are even more awe-inspiring considering she missed the entire grass court season with a shoulder injury and has only played nine tournaments this year.

2019 started with a giant-killing run at the 2019 ASB Classic where she took out top seed Wozniacki, sixth seed Venus Williams as well as third seed SuWei Hseih to reach her maiden WTA Tour singles final.

She was eventually overcome by defending champion Julia Goerges in a three-set match that will be remembered by all those that were glued to their seats.

The teenager can’t wait to return.

“It all started in Auckland for me. I had high expectations starting the season but to beat Caroline (Wozniacki) and Venus (Williams) in my first week was unbelievable.

“It has just been such an amazing year. I feel really comfortable with my game at the moment and for me, that really did start in Auckland.

“I can’t wait to get back. It is such a nice way to start the season and who knows, maybe I can go one better,” said Andreescu.

ASB Classic Tournament Director Karl Budge is thrilled to secure one of the most sought-after signatures in the sport.

“Bianca has been a revelation this year. She has risen well over 100 spots to now be in the top ten and has a record of 41 and 4 for the season (41 match wins to just four losses). That really is quite staggering. She has been the best player on tour this year and along with Serena, is an unreal start to our 2020 fields.”

Off the back of their dominant displays at the US Open, Andreescu and Serena Williams will vie for the top seed position for January’s showpiece with Andreescu currently in eighth and Williams 10th on the Year End Race.

“We know there is still a lot more to come on both our men’s and women’s fields. This is a great start and more announcements will be made over the coming weeks” continued Budge.

Miniball competition under way Liam Keller from the Dorie Rockets looks to keep control of the ball during his side’s game against the Longbeach Lightning Bolts on the opening night of Year 4 miniball at the EA Networks Centre on Tuesday afternoon. Miniball has begun for all age groups at both the EA Networks Centre and the Oxford Street stadium this week, with Year 3s playing on Mondays, Year 4s on Tuesdays, and Years 5 and 6 on Fridays.

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‘They’ve done nothing in 25 years’: Call to axe Warriors NZME The Warriors’ position in the NRL should come into question according to an Australian critic who claims the club have “done nothing in 25 years”.

The NRL reportedly plans on adding another Brisbane-based side with the likes of the Gold Coast Titans, Cronulla Sharks and Manly Sea Eagles’ all under speculation as teams which could make way for a second side.

However, speaking on Fox Sport’s Back Page Brisbane Courier Mail chief sports writer Robert Craddock pointed the allegation at the Warriors and said their

Federer knocked out of US Open by Grigor Dimitrov NZME Not even the most experienced of tennis experts saw this coming.

Struggling with injury, Swiss maestro Roger Federer has been knocked out of the US Open by world No.78 Grigor Dimitrov.

Dubbed by some as “Baby Fed” the Bulgarian has not enjoyed much success on the court in 2019 but has stunned Federer to claim a spot in the semi-finals of the US Open.

Dimitrov fought from two sets to one down to claim a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 4-6, 2-6 win over the third seed.

The win locks in a clash with Russian world No.5 Daniil Medvedev who ousted Stan Wawrinka in four sets.

“It would be an understatement to say this would be the biggest win of his career if he can pull this off given where he was mentally coming into this tournament,” John McEnroe said of Dimitrov during the match.

There was an extended break between the fourth and fifth set as Federer took a medical timeout and left the court.

“When is the last time we saw Federer walk off the court like this?” McEnroe said as the world awaited the decider to get under way.

Australian Open 2017 was the response.

Even Federer’s manager and wife looked confused by the extended absence.

Federer has never retired from a match in his incredible career and it seems he wasn’t prepared to break that.

conceded that few players would give themselves a pass mark for 2019.

“It’s an easy line to use but I just don’t reckon we were good enough,” said Kearney. “It’s a simple line but there are obviously layers to it. We had enough games where we had the winning and losing of the game in the balance and we weren’t good enough, whether it was game management or execution. “[Overall] we need to commit to being better. If you ask the players to give themselves a pass mark, over the course of the whole year, I don’t know if there would be many that would be able to say ‘I’ve got a tick’.”

spot in the competition should also be in the firing line.

“They’ve done nothing in 25 years,” he said.

The Warriors currently sit 14th of 16 on the NRL ladder and will finish their 2019 season no higher than 12th after another disappointing year, with their final match of the season against the Raiders in Canberra on Saturday.

Earlier yesterday, Warriors head coach Stephen Kearney admitted his team simply “weren’t good enough” this year, with some shortcomings in key areas.

Kearney also said the Auckland team needed to make adjustments to many areas of their game ahead of next season, and

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■■TOURNAMENT WEEK

Rain fails to dampen AshColl’s parade

By Jaime Pitt McKay

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Pouring rain did nothing to dampen the Ashburton College senior girls’ netball side’s hot streak at the South Island Secondary Schools’ Netball tournament, they are now guaranteed a spot in the semi-finals and the national tournament after extending their unbeaten run yesterday.

Playing in their second section of pool games they faced off against Nelson College for Girls yesterday morning.

They took out the victory 3330, after having trailed by up to six goals at times during the game.

In their second game of the day they took on Rangiora High School and cruised to victory, downing the North Cantabrians 37-23.

In the B-Grade of the tournament, Mount Hutt College have finished third in section w, losing 37-28 to Westland High School and 30-17 to Bayfield High School.

They picked up their first win of the tournament against Tokomairiro High School 28-19.

The Ashburton College Girls’ First XI Hockey team are guaranteed to finish between fifth and eighth after losing to table-topping Dunstan High School yesterday morning in the Jenny McDonald Cup in Cromwell.

The winner of the game was guaranteed a spot in the semi-finals, and Dunstan took an early lead in the first quarter through Bridget Airey.

Ashburton College hit back in

Ashburton College’s Tom Rosevear looks to drive through the defenders in his side’s 2-1 victory over St Kevin’s College at the Coaches Cup in Ashburton yesterday.

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the third quarter through Jessie Pitney to tie the scores up, but conceded off a penalty corner in the 52nd minute, securing Dunstan a 2-1 victory.

They will play the home team, Cromwell College, today.

After four games the Ashburton College boys’ hockey team were still looking for their first win at the Johnson Cup in Invercargill.

They played Otago Boys’ High School in their first game yesterday and fell behind conceding two goals in the first quarter.

A couple of positional changes

were made, with Cole Beeman moving to centre back and Zac White up to half, to try and get more go forward.

Better marking in the first part of the quarter kept OBHS out until a deflection into the goal midway through the quarter, the rest of the quarter was back and forth until OBHS scored with the last play of the quarter off a penalty corner to make it 2-0.

In the second quarter OBHS had a few more chances but could not convert, and Ashburton also managed to get a penalty

corner and could not convert.

Ashburton came out strongly in the third quarter with some good runs forward by Reece Watson and Todd White, and some nice touches by Connor Allan on the left wing resulted in a pretty even quarter with no clear-cut chances.

In the final quarter Ashburton pushed forward but was unable to find the back of the net.

Some good defence by Ryan Geeson helped keep OBHS scoreless and contributed to their strongest half of hockey in

the tournament The Ashburton College side has two draws and two losses with a late game to be played last night against bottom of the table Waimea College who had lost all three games.

The umpires were kept busy in the other Ashburton boys’ hockey side’s clash against St Kevin’s College at the Coaches Cup handing out three cards in AshColl’s 2-1 victory.

St Kevin’s took an early lead in the first quarter before Ashburton College hit back with a goal of their own to Devon Flannery in the 13th minute.

A green card was shown at the end of the first quarter to St Kevin’s Harry Murphy.

Ben Harris put Ashburton College in front in the 18th minute, and Sam Orr was shown a green card in the 25th minute.

In the 36th minute St Kevin’s Kaleb Cant was yellow carded, and the scores remained the same through to the final whistle.

The result leaves Ashburton College second in pool b, set to play-off in the fifth to eighth bracket.

At the Gary Sowden Tournament in Timaru the Ashburton College girls’ First XI have continued to struggle, going down to Roncalli College 2-0 yesterday morning.

They will play-off for 13th through to 16th.

The Ashburton College Senior Boys Basketball side started off the Schick Premiership AA SS Zone 4 Tournament with a heavy loss to Shirley Boys High School, going down 81-44.

■■COMMENT

Eligibility threatens to make mockery of Rugby World Cup

By Gregor Paul NZME

A Kiwi, two South Africans, a Samoan and an Englishman walk into a bar . . . two drinks later and they end up playing rugby for Ireland.

If only it were a bad joke rather than a semi-accurate representation of the truth, but it will only be the former when rugby’s governing body is prepared to have a grown-up discussion about eligibility.

They will say they have already had it because next year the three-year residency rule will be extended to five.

That will mean that the legions of South Africans who turn up in European club rugby these days – men such as Jean Kleyn who qualified as Irish one month ago and is now heading to the World Cup – will have to wait five years before they can play test football for the country in which they are based.

And with the residency law fixed, there will be those who say everything is fixed as it has been the weak spot – the area in which the unscrupulous have had the

most mileage in plugging gaps in their squad by pinching players developed by others.

When Agustin Pichot came into the job as World Rugby deputy chairman, he made eligibility, but more specifically the residency law, one of his priorities to fix, because he felt many national unions were using it to exploit an increasingly transient labour force being pulled around the world by club contracts.

As proof, this year the Six Nations featured 22 players who had qualified for their respective nations on the three-year residency rule.

That number has been as high as 38 in previous seasons and it’s been creeping up in the Rugby Championship, too, as both New Zealand and Australia regularly have a handful of residency-qualified players such as Waisake Naholo, Sevu Reece, Ofa Tuungafasi, Vaea Fifita and Shannon Frizell.

To some, the heavy presence of residency-qualified players in international squads is a reflection of a hyper mobile world where non-rugby factors such as education, employment and familial

pull take people all over the globe.

But for others, certainly Pichot, the volumes are reflective of a distorted mindset within some national unions who have come to believe that test players can be bought off the peg from other countries.

And this is why eligibility is such a vexed and emotive issue because both views are valid and for every migrant that washes up in a test jersey as a result of wider socio-economic factors, there is usually another who has been deliberately targeted once they have surfaced on the professional scene.

But up until now rugby hasn’t wanted to differentiate. It has not been possible in law to make a distinction between those drawn to a new country by factors such as education, employment or familial pull as compared with those who move on the basis of being offered a professional club contract that comes with the virtual promise that a test jersey awaits three years down the track.

Not all residency qualifications are the same and there must surely be acceptance that the Tu-

ungafasi family migrating from Tonga to Mangere in 2005 in the hope of building a better life for their 11 children is not the same as Ireland identifying the potential of 22-year-old Chiefs midfielder Bundee Aki and giving him a clear indication that if he joined Connacht, he’d be a great chance to make the national team once he was eligible.

David Pocock is Zimbabwean-born but his family fled to Australia for their own safety when he was in his teens.

He plays for the Wallabies under the residency rule, in the same way that South African-born Josh Strauss played for Scotland at the last World Cup, picked in the squad even though he wouldn’t become eligible until after the tournament started.

The Scots worked out that if he stayed for three years once they snapped him up after the Lions were kicked out of Super Rugby in 2013, Strauss would be eligible the day after the 2015 World Cup started.

Strauss and Aki are known as ‘Project Players’, signed on contracts which make no specific

promises nor do they provide financial incentives to switch allegiance, but there is a nudgenudge, wink sort of agreement where it’s made clear that if they come over, play club rugby and go okay, they will be in the frame to play test rugby for their adopted country.

It’s unlikely these sorts of contracts will still be offered from next year because the incubation period will be too long, but just as unlikely is that those nations determined to recruit test players from offshore will be deterred from doing so.

And this is the nub of the issue around eligibility: it’s not necessarily the laws which are the problem, but the attitudes of certain nations who care not how they populate their national teams.

The Project Player loophole may have been closed off, but it’s inevitable that those nations desperate to bolster their squads will find new and innovative ways to circumnavigate the rules and eligibility will continue to be a subject that demands more attention.

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■■CRICKET

Bizarre finish to Twenty20 clash

By Niall Anderson NZME

Nearly two months on from that fateful game – so fateful that you know exactly what I’m talking about – the Black Caps have been involved in another truly bizarre finish to a cricket match.

This time, thanks to an incredibly rare incident, they came out on the right side of the result.

A horror collision on the boundary rope between Sri Lankan fielders Shehan Jayasuriya and Kusal Mendis turned a wicket into a six, and saw the Black Caps home with two balls to spare to claim a baffling four-wicket win in the second of three Twenty20 clashes.

How exactly did a wicket turn into a six, you ask? Well, with four balls remaining, and seven runs required, Mitchell Santner smacked Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasaranga to the wide longon boundary. Racing around from long-on, Jayasuriya claimed a superb running catch, only to collide with Mendis, who was sprinting across from mid-wicket. The pair painfully clashed knees – sending Jayasuriya into the boundary rope, still clutching the ball.

As both lay prone on the ground, the umpires – just as baffled as everyone else – initially signalled four, before correctly reversing their decision to make it a six, as Jayasuriya hadn’t released the ball before sprawling into the rope.

Umpire confusion, a seemingly vital catch turning into a six, and unprecedented scenes at the end of a Black Caps match? If this was all feeling a bit familiar, well, the result was at least different, albeit on an incredibly smaller scale.

With Jayasuriya having limped off, and Mendis still getting treatment on the boundary, Santner hit the next ball for four, the Black Caps wrapped up a win, and

New Zealand’s Colin de Grandhomme attempts to stop a ball during the second Twenty20 international cricket match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand in Pallekele, Sri Lanka yesterday.

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everyone stood around unsure of what to do.

It was a freakish finish to a freakishly familiar match (No, not that one - this time I’m talking about the first Twenty20.)

The Black Caps lost the toss, being sent out into the field to bowl first. Tim Southee was excellent with the ball, leading the way in restricting the hosts to a chaseable total. Despite a poor start with the bat, Colin de Grandhomme partnered with a Central Districts batsman for a decisive partnership, before Santner was around at the end as the winning runs were hit in the final over.

The strikingly similar manner of victory saw the Black Caps seal

an unassailable 2-0 lead in their three-match Twenty20 series, unintentionally stumbling upon a winning formula as they overcame a few sloppy moments to claim an ultimately well-earned victory.

Once again, the experienced pair of Southee and de Grandhomme were the stars of the show.

Southee backed up his 2-20 in the opener with 2-18 as New Zealand restricted Sri Lanka to a below-par 161-9. A surge in the middle overs had seen Sri Lanka well poised at 108-2, but the Black Caps bowlers used their variations well, using well-disguised slower balls and regular changes of pace, with Seth Rance and Scott Kuggeleijn com-

bining for five wickets.

Not required with the ball, de Grandhomme instead shone with the bat, following up his 28-ball 44 from the opener with an excellent 59 from 46 balls to lead the chase.

Despite his prodigious power which makes him a perfect player for the shortest format, de Grandhomme arguably hadn’t delivered on his potential at the international Twenty20 level. Part of that was usage – it never made sense for him to be batting at six – but before this series, he had only batted for more than 25 balls on one occasion.

Now, he’s done that in backto-back games, and he showed tremendous situational skills yes-

terday, building an innings and keeping the required run rate in check. He was partnered by Tom Bruce – in for Ross Taylor who was left out as a precautionary measure due to a hip injury – and the pair had plenty to do when joining forces at 38-3.

Colin Munro had holed out, and Tim Seifert and the promoted Kuggeleijn had both been trapped lbw in the same over by Akila Dananjaya. To make matters worse, Martin Guptill was watching on injured, after hurting his right abdominal muscle when fielding in the first innings.

With just two healthy recognised batsmen left in the sheds, 124 runs required and 16.2 overs still to be bowled, it required some cool heads, and de Grandhomme and Bruce provided that, putting on 109 – the highest stand for New Zealand against Sri Lanka.

They had their struggles, going five overs without a boundary, and wicketkeeper Kusal Perera was kept busy by an array of inside edges when mistiming slower balls. However, they kept things ticking over, and when de Grandhomme was given a life – Dasun Shanaka producing a comical slip straight out of a banana-peel cartoon skit when running in for an easy catch – the ante was upped.

De Grandhomme eventually holed out after reaching his highest Twenty20 score, and if there wasn’t enough drama, Bruce then hurt his knee, leaving the Black Caps with potentially only 10 healthy players for the next game.

He was run out with seven needed off five balls, and when Daryl Mitchell departed immediately after, the stage was set for Santner.

He promptly delivered – with a little help from one of cricket’s strangest incidents.

■■POLE VAULTING

Dark times: McCartney opens up about her injuries

By Joel Kulasingham NZME

Eliza McCartney, the Olympic bronze medallist known for her beaming smile, has opened up about going through “dark times” during her prolonged struggles with a hamstring injury.

The Kiwi pole vault sensation on Tuesday announced her withdrawal from the world athletics championship in Doha, as she takes a short break at home with one eye on next year’s Olympics in Tokyo.

McCartney admitted her lingering hamstring issues – which started in August last year – have taken a toll on her both physically and mentally, ultimately leading to her decision not to compete at the world champs.

“It can be really tough,” McCartney told Radio Sport. “You know as an athlete it’s your world being able to use your body to compete and physically be strong and so when that starts failing on you,

Eliza McCartney has opened up about her recent struggles. you get all sorts of things.

“I’ve certainly had times where you can’t help but think like ‘maybe my body is not cut out for this, maybe I can’t do this’. You know all sorts of things.

“And it has been really tough and challenging but of course I really do think that I’ll probably look back and be really grate-

ful because you learn so much through those periods and you learn a lot about yourself.”

The 22-year-old said her “mental wellbeing” was an important factor in her decision to make the tough call not to compete.

“Mental wellbeing in this sort of situation is really important too,” she said. “And that’s certainly one

of the reasons why we came up with this decision. You’ve got to look after yourself.

“As an athlete you can be really stubborn sometimes and you just want to persevere no matter what and you push through everything.

And I think that’s a really normal response for a lot of athletes to do.

So that’s why I’m really grateful to have such a great team.”

McCartney made her long-awaited comeback to athletic competition at the recent Diamond League event in Paris, but failed to get past the first mark of 4.25m. (Her outdoor personal best is 4.94m.)

She says she will focus on getting consistent training under her belt and target the indoor world championships in March next year, with the ultimate goal of competing once again at the Olympics.

“I started getting this neural hamstring issue in August last year. So it’s been an entire year

now, which means I’ve had an entire year of quite inconsistent – and most of the time quite severely modified – training.

“And I think what it came down to really is that had a bigger impact on me than what I thought it would. So it was a little bit of a shock when I started competing again that I didn’t realise how much of an impact all of this modified training might have been having on me.”

But McCartney is confident she’ll be back and ready for the season leading up to Tokyo – and clear the 4.70m height she needs to qualify.

“I haven’t been able to jump the qualifying height, which makes it a little bit tougher because I will have to obviously do that as soon as I start competition next year.

“But at the same time that’s a height that I’m really confident at. So I just need to start competing and being myself again and it shouldn’t be too hard.”

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Daffodil Raceday raises record funds for Cancer Society NZ Racing Desk

Te Akau Shark winning the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m).

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Set to make Aussie debut NZ Racing Desk Exciting New Zealand galloper Te Akau Shark will kick-off his spring campaign in Australia on Saturday where he will contest the Gr.2 Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick in front of some of his local owners, including Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Captain Paul Gallen.

The five-year-old son of Rip Van Winkle pleased connections with his runner-up performance in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa last month and trainer Jamie Richards said he has settled in well to his new surroundings in Sydney.

“He has travelled over in good order and he’s worked up well. We are here to do our best.

“He has got very good form in New Zealand, but he obviously needs to step up to the mark to take that next step when he comes up against the big boys over here in Sydney.

“He’s doing well in himself, is bright and happy and his coat has come on since he has been here. We are happy leading into the run, but have a lot of re-

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spect for the opposition as well.”

Te Akau Shark will be ridden by James McDonald on Saturday and the ex-pat Kiwi jockey was impressed with how he worked on Tuesday morning.

“He’s a pretty casual character. He floated around the course proper really,” McDonald said.

“He was very adaptable to his leads and got this way around really well. I couldn’t fault him at this stage and hopefully he lives up to his expectations.

“He’s a pretty professional sort of horse. He swapped and changed legs very easily and was very balanced around the bends so I can’t see it being an issue.”

Meanwhile, stablemate Probabeel will have her first run this season in the Gr.2 Furious Stakes (1200m) and Richards is wary coming up against in-form filly Libertini.

“James rode her on Tuesday morning as well on the course proper he was happy enough with how she worked,” Richards said.

“She is not the flashiest of track work-

ers. It’s going to be hard to beat the good filly Libertini, but when we get to 1400m and a mile in her next couple of starts she will be very competitive.

“She’s a little bit backward coming out of our winter with her coat, but she is really starting to lose it around her muzzle and eyes now.

“She has been here a couple of weeks and we are glad we have got her over here nice and early to get a bit of sun on her back. She’s going the right way.”

Probabeel has drawn gate one in a small but select field of seven, while Te Akau Shark has drawn barrier 10 in a field of 14, with nine of the runners from the Chris Waller stable.

Richards is also looking forward to Avantage joining the pair later on in the spring, but was slightly disappointed with her runner-up performance at Ruakaka on Saturday.

“Avantage is at home and we are planning to bring her over,” he said. “Unfortunately she got beaten first-up over the weekend, but she just didn’t have everything in her favour.”

Tarzino Trophy TAB Daffodil Raceday raised $40,000 for Hawke’s Bay cancer patients and their families, surpassing the previous fundraising record of $36,000 set last year.

“We are in shock. Good shock! $40,000 will have a massive impact in helping to provide services for Hawke’s Bay patients and their whanau,” Hawke’s Bay Cancer Society Acting Centre Manager Chris Franklyn said.

“We can’t speak highly enough of the commitment and passion of the team at Hawke’s Bay Racing and the TAB, who again, have exceeded all expectations.

“Our volunteers were very grateful to be treated to a wonderful high tea, the highlight of which was hearing from sporting legends Ian Smith, Grant Nisbett and Stephen Donald.“ Almost 3000 people, including many families and children, turned out on what was a perfect spring day at Hastings Racecourse. Hawke’s Bay Racing chief executive Andrew Castles said he was overawed by the generosity of both the local and racing communities.

“The racecourse on Saturday played incredibly well for the horses and jockeys, and it looked amazing with over 5000 daffodils spread across the complex,” Castles said.

“I am extremely proud of everyone involved in this special day and see it as a privilege for Hawke’s Bay Racing to be able to support our local Cancer Society with a significant cash donation.”

Principal sponsor Westbury Stud raised $5500 by raffling a trip to the 2020 Golden Slipper, and trainer Tony Pike generously donated $1000 per winner on the day, taking his total to $3000.

“We had a record gate collection of $6100 and a record price of $4400 paid for our charity lunch with Stephen Donald,” Castles said.

“Other supporters from the racing community included the Melody Belle Syndicate, Bruce & Maureen Harvey, Gerald Shand, Al Basti Equiworld and Te Akau Racing who came to the party with a donation of the amount required to get us to the $40,000 threshold.”

The day was proudly supported by TAB NZ who donated $12,000 to the cause.

“We’re delighted to throw our weight behind this initiative. Cancer touches everybody at some point, everywhere across New Zealand.

Daffodil Raceday is an important way for the TAB to connect with our community and support the vital work of the Cancer Society,”TAB General Manager Customer Gary Woodham said.

The Daffodil Racedays initiative has now raised more than $260,000 for the Cancer Society nationwide.

Taranaki gallops Today at New Plymouth

Taranaki Racing Club Venue: New Plymouth Meeting Date: 05 September 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 1.07pm (NZT) TARANAKI & WANGANUI OWNERS ASSN MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 2000m 1 62532 Rio Star (8) 58.5........................... R Hannam 2 92735 Handsome Blue (6) 58.5............ D Hirini (a1) 3 x4547 Mr Jimmy Pocket (5) 58.5...... H Andrew (a1) 4 65 Wordz (10) 58.5.................................R Elliot 5 48003 Eight Mile (4) 56.5 6 06683 In Dreamland (7) 56.5.......... C O’Beirne (a2) 7 49404 Princess Jenni (1) 56.5...........C Burdan (a3) 8 644x Southern Skies b (2) 56.5.A Goindasamy (a3) 9 79665 Dashing Ruby (9) 56.5........S Weatherley (a) 10 9x087 Just Rosie h (3) 56.5........................D Turner 2 1.42pm TARANAKI STEELFORMERS MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1100m 1 Neverstoplaughing (2) 58.5............L Allpress 2 x307x Cristal Bubble (1) 56.5.............E McCall (a3) 3 Dee Keepa h (3) 56.5.......................R Myers 4 Just Like Rosie (6) 56.5.............. Z Moki (a2) 5 6698x Uniquebotique (7) 56.5...........C Burdan (a3) 6 69x8 He’s A Gold Digger (5) 56...S Weatherley (a)

7 Motley Crue (4) 56......... A Goindasamy (a3) 3 2.17pm RETURN 2 EARTH MAIDEN 3YO $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 Boston Strong Boy (3) 57.5............L Allpress 2 Gone West (2) 57.5.............S Weatherley (a) 3 Ifndoubtgetout (4) 57.5........... H Andrew (a1) 4 6x9 Mr Remarkable h (1) 57.5...... H Schofer (a3) 5 Total Sass h (5) 55.5................... Z Moki (a2) 6 Yes I’m Royal h (6) 55.5...................R Myers 4 2.52pm STELLA ARTOIS MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 683 Into The Deep (4) 58.5... A Goindasamy (a3) 2 57640 Master Black Jack (2) 58.5..... H Schofer (a3) 3 99x9 Spiderman (3) 58.5..........................D Turner 4 54 Zena Belle (1) 56.5................ H Andrew (a1) 5 07 Beaudacea (5) 56.5..................... R Hannam 6 9 Eureka Rising (8) 56.5........S Weatherley (a) 7 9 Zion Hill (7) 56.5................... C O’Beirne (a2) 8 272 Bubble Gum h (6) 54........................R Myers 5 3.27pm OCEAN EMPEROR @ WEOWNA STUD $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1800m 1 x4871 Zedcrest m (4) 59........... A Goindasamy (a3) 2 63176 Da Jin Shan m (2) 58.5.......S Weatherley (a) 3 1280x Hattie Bee (3) 57.5...................... Z Moki (a2)

4 90905 Zeefa Zed mh (6) 57......................L Allpress 5 4x14x Jazamour th (1) 56.5........................R Myers 6 x9103 Mizzena m (5) 56.5............................R Elliot 7 62867 Good Vibes m (8) 56...............J Fawcett (a1) 8 9114P Napoleon m (7) 55 6 4.07pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE 1400 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1400m 1 x7x42 Nothinglefttolose (1) 59....................R Myers 2 1675x Bella Blue tm (5) 58.5.... A Goindasamy (a3) 3 4819x Cead Mile Failte b (6) 58.5... C O’Beirne (a2) 4 2776x Kit Kat (9) 58.5.................................D Turner 5 5x000 Boundary dm (2) 58................C Burdan (a3) 6 01590 Whoshe’s Girl m (8) 57.5...... M Kareem (a4) 7 66x57 Sky Hi Rahtwo tdm (4) 56.5........ Z Moki (a2) 8 33078 Goodnight Irene m (7) 56........J Fawcett (a1) 9 08356 Destiny One tdm (3) 55.5..........B Ansell (a4) 7 4.42pm GRAHAM COCHRANE BAYLEYS REAL ESTATE MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 7534 Making Waves (6) 58.5.. A Goindasamy (a3) 2 40x Run Like Boo (4) 58.5....................L Allpress 3 57 Harry Harrison (3) 58.5........ C O’Beirne (a2) 4 7 The Rahtwo Bro (7) 58.5........ H Andrew (a1) 5 x2822 She’s Got The Look (1) 56.5............R Myers

6 783 Mamarella (5) 56.5.............................R Elliot 7 8x529 Meila Rei bh (9) 56.5........................D Turner 8 09097 Go Victoria (8) 56.5..................E McCall (a3) 9 96x0x Miss Gidget (2) 56.5..................B Ansell (a4) Blinkers on : Meila Rei (R7) Blinkers off : Boundary (R6), The Rahtwo Bro (R7) Winkers on : Beaudacea (R4), The Rahtwo Bro (R7) Winkers off : Cristal Bubble (R2), Zion Hill (R4)

c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances

LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Wordz, Rio Star, Southern Skies, Handsome Blue, Mr Jimmy Pocket Race 2: Motley Crue, He’s A Gold Digger, Dee Keepa, Neverstoplaughing, Just Like Rosie Race 3: Boston Strong Boy, Yes I’m Royal, Ifndoubtgetout, Gone West, Total Sass Race 4: Bubble Gum, Into The Deep, Zena Belle, Spiderman, Beaudacea Race 5: Zeefa Zed, Da Jin Shan, Mizzena, Zedcrest, Jazamour Race 6: Nothinglefttolose, Cead Mile Failte, Bella Blue, Kit Kat, Whoshe’s Girl Race 7: She’s Got The Look, Mamarella, Making Waves, Meila Rei, Run Like Boo

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Thursday, September 5, 2019

Ashburton Guardian 19

Waikato BOP harness Today at Cambridge Raceway

Waikato Bay Of Plenty Harness Inc Venue: Cambridge Meeting Date: 05 September 2019 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 5.18pm (NZT) FAULTY TOWERS AT THE RACES-OCT 3RD MOBILE PACE $7000, r40-r53 +claimer., mobile, 1700m 1 6066x High Point (1) fr...........................M Northcott 2 18699 Romanite (2) fr...................................S Wigg 3 27478 Mr Incredible (3) fr...........................G Cronin 4 50759 Destined For Heaven (4) fr.................W Rich 5 78640 Vanhalem (5) fr..............................C Sharpe 6 28655 Pegasus Kommander (6) fr..........M McIntyre 7 32542 Highview Justice (7) fr.......... J Kriechbaumer 8 65614 Runcle (8) fr....................................F Phelan 9 3667x Banner Of Art (21) fr....................J Brownlee 2 5.43pm OKTOBERFEST AT THE RACES - OCTOBER 18TH TROT $8000, non-winners, stand, 2200m 1 34226 Just Ricky (1) fr...............................S Phelan 2 0x39 Duchess Of Cambridge (2) fr........ D Butcher 3 67x48 Te Kouka Dawn (3) fr.........................L Hollis 4 3 Demolition Man (4) fr................... K Marshall 5 Presidential Jewel (5) fr................... M White 6 75D75 Sunny Petite (6) fr........................J Stormont 7 4x323 Splitting Image (7) fr.............. D Ferguson (J) 8 Call Me Stu (U1) fr........................... R Argue 9 9x562 Te Kouka Sun Rise (U2) fr...........M Nicholas 10 x0639 Highland Queen (U3) fr..................T Mitchell 3 6.08pm AMBER GARDEN CENTRE MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners f&m., mobile, 1700m 1 40x59 Arya Famous (1) fr.......................A Poutama 2 58687 Heather Rae (2) fr......................... B Mangos

M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 05 September 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 4.13pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C3, 295m 1 25554 Broken Penniless 17.40..................G Cleeve 2 55578 Dizzy Banjo 17.12...............................C Weir 3 24833 Mitcham Quinn 17.15................. A Bradshaw 4 27756 Goldstar Spotty 17.31 S &...............B Evans 5 31211 Fidgety Feet 17.45...............................A Lee 6 13611 Dream Runner 17.34 J M................. McCook 7 35211 Memphis Jewel 17.40...................C Roberts 8 76314 Smash Rebel 17.46......................... M Grant 9 27617 Belfast Demo 17.42 H &......................Taylor 10 78657 Homebush Finn 17.21................J McInerney 2 4.33pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCIE FLIPP DASH C3, 295m 1 55162 Jax Jewel 17.42............................D Roberts 2 58562 High Dreamer 17.24......................... M Grant 3 53427 Feral Kaiaka 17.58...........................M Butler 4 85253 Mitcham Reado 17.24................J McInerney 5 53331 Ring Clown 17.19............................. M Grant 6 12345 Jinja Sneak 17.36.............................A Joyce 7 22156 Culvie Lass 17.33 H &.........................Taylor 8 62321 Justin Ryan 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 9 27617 Belfast Demo 17.42 H &......................Taylor 10 77378 Ma Chere 17.31......................... A Bradshaw 3 4.53pm FLAIR SPRINT C3, 295m 1 56444 Little Krakatoa 17.24.................. A Bradshaw 2 78512 Mitcham Trudy 17.31..................J McInerney 3 21133 Major Storm 17.39........................C Roberts 4 54375 Come A Guster 17.30...................... M Grant 5 61388 Call Me Joe 17.31..................... A Botherway

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 05 September 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.06pm (NZT) GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SPRINT C0, 375m 1 31 Thrilling Nina nwtd........................... K Walsh 2 Carbon Tiger nwtd W &....................T Steele 3 4x435 Irinka Jacob nwtd..............................S Lozell 4 35235 Pukekohe Smurf nwtd........................H Scott 5 22527 Sovereign Pride nwtd.........................S Ross 6 2523 Little Teegs nwtd........................ A Lawrence 7 8882 Mr Felix nwtd.....................................M Black 8 4x354 Meandering nwtd.........................A Turnwald 9 64 Shaynee nwtd.................................C Henley 10 56586 Smash Burton nwtd R &......................L Udy 2 12.23pm VETORA CAMBRIDGE SPRINT C1, 375m 1 35762 Waiterimu Ripper 21.28 R &................L Udy 2 28574 Flying Dewy 21.87 R &........................L Udy 3 67858 Snoopy’s Hero 21.44........................... D Ray 4 2313 Sir Yens 21.77................................... S Clark 5 38544 Mad Jack nwtd................................. T Green 6 84254 Talkabout Sophie nwtd......................M Black 7 66887 Sly Cath nwtd.....................................J Black 8 2532F Fancy 21.71.................................. H Mullane 3 12.41pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C2, 375m 1 11121 Thrilling Bruce 21.18........................ K Walsh 2 77518 Wairoa Angel 21.41..................... M Prangley 3 11351 Enjoy The Perks 21.06....................P Henley 4 21787 Sefton Stan nwtd................................E Potts 5 37882 Sheyna 21.17....................................S Lozell

3 204x2 Tempo Rose (3) fr..........................B Butcher 4 74 Major Rage (4) fr.................... L Whittaker (J) 5 Bettor’s Tomado (5) fr.....................N Chilcott 6 75447 Hey Good Lookin (6) fr.......... D Ferguson (J) 7 9 Royal (7) fr................................. J Abernethy 8 08977 Torea Lane (8) fr......................... T Cameron 4 6.34pm TIRAU EARTHMOVERS TROT $8000, r40-r52, stand, 2200m 1 57607 Creamee (1) fr............................. A Drake (J) 2 48788 Caroline Wozniacki (2) fr............ J Abernethy 3 44052 Pretorius (3) fr..................................D Moore 4 00736 Prince George (4) fr.....................A Poutama 5 47781 Danke (5) fr..................................... G Martin 6 8915 Peannie (6) fr.............................. T Cameron 7 38309 Sir Henry Castleton (7) fr........ A Harrison (J) 8 0x626 Harry H (8) fr..................................N Chilcott 9 2x084 Majestic Stride (U1) fr.......F Schumacher (J) 10 29944 Little Bro (U2) fr................................ M White 11 x2718 Keystone Cavalier (U3) fr.....................T Hall 5 6.59pm STRAW WAREHOUSE MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 Ohoka Bandit (1) fr...................... T Cameron 2 4x823 New Frontier (2) fr........................J Stormont 3 Jimmy Fox (3) fr.............................T Mitchell 4 60 Godziller (4) fr.............................. K Marshall 5 55 Ace Strike (5) fr............................. D Butcher 6 523 Super Actor (6) fr..............F Schumacher (J) 7 Brookies Jaffa (7) fr......................A Poutama 8 48439 Black Coffee fr............................... Scratched 9 47652 Sabreur (21) fr........................... M McKendry 10 85035 Comedy Act (22) fr................. L Whittaker (J) 11 43223 Double Or Nothing (23) fr...............Z Butcher

12 77 Captain Max (24) fr........................B Butcher 13 68584 Mac Paua (U1) fr........................ J Abernethy 6 7.24pm NOTTINGHAM CASTLE MOBILE PACE $8000, r55., mobile, 2700m 1 67367 Turkish Trousers (1) fr................K Bublitz (J) 2 57558 Simon (2) fr....................................T Mitchell 3 61068 Midnight Murray (3) fr.............. A Harrison (J) 4 67599 Red Magic (4) fr............................ D Butcher 5 1x695 The Batmobile fr............................ Scratched 6 53333 Hit The Sky (5) fr................... D Ferguson (J) 7 7x409 Bettor Sensation (6) fr.......F Schumacher (J) 8 76782 Ally Mae (7) fr......................... L Whittaker (J) 9 7157x Callie’s Delight (21) fr.................. C Smith (J) 10 26x01 Hello It’s Me (22) fr..........................S Phelan 7 7.49pm BRECKON FARMS 2019 TE AWAMUTU CUP HANDICAP PACE $12,000, r50+ discrhcp, stand, 2700m 1 53268 M T Pockets (U1) fr....................... B Mangos 2 23937 The Lone Ranger (1) 10M............. D Butcher 3 24026 Spirit Of Anzac (2) 10M.......... L Whittaker (J) 4 73593 Mohs Em Down (3) 10M......... A Harrison (J) 5 0x719 Mister Slick (U1) 10M...................J Stormont 6 55536 Shillelagh (1) 20M.......................P Ferguson 7 1136x Bettorstartdreaming (2) 20M...........J I Dickie 8 22331 Go Kiwi (3) 20M.............................T Mitchell 9 24116 Ball Of Art (4) 20M.................... N Delany (J) 10 43306 Ivana Flybye (5) 20M.....................B Butcher 11 15347 Baquero (U1) 20M..........................S Phelan 12 77881 Baileys Knight (U1) 30M................Z Butcher 13 24213 Juice Brogden (1) 40M...................N Chilcott 8 8.15pm GAVELHOUSE.COM MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r40-r50., mobile, 2200m

1 4x575 Got A Beauty (1) fr.......................J Stormont 2 37735 Carrera Sky (2) fr................... L Whittaker (J) 3 56944 Spirit Of Love (3) fr.....................S Abernethy 4 36222 Allonblack (4) fr..............................N Chilcott 5 83621 Jingles Bromac (5) fr..................... D Butcher 6 00074 Lady Santanna (6) fr.....................R Fensom 7 5462x Bugalugs (7) fr............................P Ferguson 8 08886 Better Than Most (8) fr.............. N Delany (J) 9 56699 Beaudiene Emerald (21) fr...... A Harrison (J) 10 x2406 Live Reactor (22) fr...................... K Marshall 11 489x3 American Me (23) fr................... J Abernethy 12 88894 Jackhammer Joe (24) fr...............A Poutama 9 8.40pm JOHN VILLIGER MEMORIAL MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r52-r55,r56-r60 w/c., mobile, 2200m 1 24574 Young Conqueror (1) fr A Harrison (J,.......Cl) 2 17635 Drum Withers (2) fr......................A Poutama 3 09788 Karmic Way (3) fr........................P Ferguson 4 77313 Texas Tiger (4) fr........................... D Butcher 5 39656 Mhai Uptown Girl (5) fr..................... M White 6 58888 Count Landeck (6) fr F Schumacher (J,....Cl) 7 33510 Charlotte Royal (7) fr L Whittaker (J,.........Cl) 8 859x4 Matai Minky (8) fr...........................B Butcher 10 9.08pm DUNSTAN HORSE FEEDS HANDICAP TROT $8500, r53-r80 discrhcp, stand, 2200m 1 02466 Charlemagne (1) fr.................... M McKendry 2 18434 Takenoprisoners (2) fr..................A Poutama 3 05248 Luck Of The Moment (3) fr..........P Ferguson 4 34192 Aoraki (4) fr.......................F Schumacher (J) 5 83403 Fira (5) fr................................. A Harrison (J) 6 Px900 Heard The Whisper (1) 10M...............M Teaz 7 00315 As Free As Air (U1) 10M.................. M White 8 01P53 Grey Stoke (U2) 10M.....................Z Butcher

9 130x9 Gershwin (U1) 35M...................... K Marshall Pacifiers on : Highland Queen (R2) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

5 28346 Homebush Hotshot nwtd............J McInerney 6 22211 Go Vegas 30.25 J &.........................D Fahey 7 11354 My Giovanni 30.99...........................R Wales 8 42211 Opawa Toddy 30.44 J &...................D Fahey 9 43873 Born Ellie 30.92...............................R Wales 10 52775 Baldrick nwtd..............................J McInerney 10 7.33pm KOLORFUL KANVAS CHRISTCHURCH CLASSIC HEAT 2 R/Aq, 520m 1 12326 Go Diego 30.46 J &..........................D Fahey 2 21483 Goldstar Yankee 30.54 S &..............B Evans 3 42122 Goldstar Willa nwtd S &...................B Evans 4 21134 Opawa Vinny 30.20 J &....................D Fahey 5 18784 Punch On Rex nwtd...................J McInerney 6 51173 Our Anna 30.58................................R Wales 7 46131 Opawa Nat 30.28 J &.......................D Fahey 8 3113 Double Scoop nwtd.........................J M Lane 9 43873 Born Ellie 30.92...............................R Wales 10 4668x Pearls Are Us nwtd.........................G Cleeve 11 7.59pm THE TURF BAR SPRINT C5, 295m 1 41213 Memoir 17.39 H &................................Taylor 2 53223 Nelso Allen 16.89..........................C Roberts 3 12457 Goldstar Dodge 17.26 S &...............B Evans 4 53683 Busy Rocca 17.29............................ M Grant 5 16186 Platinum Paisley 17.08.......................J Dunn 6 11523 Opawa Lacy 17.04 J &.....................D Fahey 7 24166 Treville 17.27..............................R Blackburn 8 71F58 Princely Gold 17.15....................J McInerney 9 26348 Smash Wild 17.07............................ M Grant 10 36178 Lisa’s Boy 17.24...............................R Casey 12 8.24pm RE-ENERGISE DASH C4, 295m 1 88287 Forehand Raid 17.19.........................J Dunn 2 36732 Special As 17.30 J M....................... McCook 3 11347 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 4 22113 Call Me Flo 17.16...................... A Botherway 5 23515 Billy Frost 17.44............................... M Grant

6 18261 Culvie Ness 17.31 H &.........................Taylor 7 55324 Disobedience 17.19 S &..................B Evans 8 52453 Goldstar Major 17.26 S &.................B Evans 9 64166 Debbie Baxter 17.11..................J McInerney 10 43358 Bahama Queen 17.08........................J Dunn LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

8 33175 See Eye Be 21.04......................... H Mullane 9 88F64 Ti Amo 21.38......................................B Craik 10 14485 Damaging Lomar nwtd.......................B Craik 10 2.42pm GREYHOUNDS NORTH DISTANCE C2d, 650m 1 36447 Billy’s Bake nwtd..............................P Green 2 51245 Go Angel 38.17............................... G Farrell 3 61125 Kamada Park nwtd.......................A Turnwald 4 55633 Amy Amy 38.12............................... G Farrell 5 Box Vacant 6 56344 Jinja Shake nwtd................................E Potts 7 12222 Opawa June nwtd........................A Turnwald 8 53126 Hot Platter nwtd...........................A Turnwald 11 3.01pm YVETTE BODIAM PHOTOGRAPHY SPRINT C4, 375m 1 38872 Powerful Lomar 21.29........................B Craik 2 87734 Typical 21.25......................................S Ross 3 64528 Kiwi Gal 21.27 U &.............................Cottam 4 15534 Shallay Pallay nwtd U &.....................Cottam 5 51184 Bigtime Hunter 21.34.................... H Mullane 6 55735 Opawa Viking nwtd..........................S Codlin 7 34132 Native Scout 21.34...........................P Green 8 32461 Over Indulgence 21.66....................P Henley 9 12246 Raging Demon 20.99 R &....................L Udy 10 23378 Mobility Scooter 21.20......................M Black 12 3.17pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 54735 Frosty Blaze 26.16........................... T Green 2 34261 Keysile 25.56...............................P Ferguson 3 85873 Billy Bright 26.10.........................P Ferguson 4 11311 Grunt nwtd W &................................T Steele 5 18365 Trojan’s Magic nwtd.....................P Ferguson 6 62544 Taking Aim 25.76............................P Henley

7 12444 Robson 25.51..............................P Ferguson 8 74214 Barossa nwtd............................. A Lawrence 9 24655 Odnoc Ankie 25.85.....................P Ferguson 10 61125 Kamada Park nwtd.......................A Turnwald LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Thrilling Nina, Little Teegs, Carbon Tiger, Sovereign Pride, Meandering Race 2: Sir Yens, Waiterimu Ripper, Talkabout Sophie, Fancy, Flying Dewy Race 3: Thrilling Bruce, Enjoy The Perks, Paddy’s Passion, Sheyna, El Narco Race 4: Emgrand Park, Odnoc Ankie, Hey Khali, Vibe, Little Apple Race 5: Jinja Liv, Sir Kinloch, Platinum Tears, Salvarotti, Secret Babe Race 6: Idol Ajay, Unconscionable, Grouch Pawset, Looby’s Story, Thrilling Arnold Race 7: Elouera Mist, Stay Rich, Gain Capital, Botany Esmay, Bigtime Brucie Race 8: Massimo Osti, Tuff’s My Mum, Smoochie, Grey Way, Shozip Boomer Race 9: Buddy Boom, Suspicious Minds, Artic Miss, Classy Impact, Athenais Race 10: Opawa June, Go Angel, Hot Platter, Billy’s Bake, Kamada Park Race 11: Powerful Lomar, Kiwi Gal, Native Scout, Over Indulgence, Typical Race 12: Robson, Keysile, Trojan’s Magic, Taking Aim, Frosty Blaze

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Romanite, High Point, Highview Justice, Runcle, Banner Of Art Race 2: Demolition Man, Splitting Image, Sunny Petite, Presidential Jewel, Call Me Stu Race 3: Tempo Rose, Major Rage, Bettor’s Tomado, Heather Rae, Royal Race 4: Pretorius, Harry H, Prince George, Peannie, Majestic Stride Race 5: Double Or Nothing, Jimmy Fox, Ohoka Bandit, New Frontier, Sabreur Race 6: Hit The Sky, Simon, Callie’s Delight, Hello It’s Me, Turkish Trousers Race 7: Bettorstartdreaming, Baileys Knight, Go Kiwi, Juice Brogden, Baquero Race 8: American Me, Allonblack, Jingles Bromac, Carrera Sky, Bugalugs Race 9: Young Conqueror, Texas Tiger, Matai Minky, Charlotte Royal, Drum Withers Race 10: Aoraki, Grey Stoke, As Free As Air, Gershwin, Takenoprisoners

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 6 74872 Hilton Hangover 17.15...................... B Dann 7 86134 Hear This 17.30................................ M Grant 8 63553 Know Hassle 17.29.........................G Cleeve 9 27617 Belfast Demo 17.42 H &......................Taylor 10 36648 Goldstar Liberty 17.32 J M............... McCook 4 5.09pm ANGLER’S ARMS TAVERN SPRINT C4, 295m 1 44621 Smash Attack 17.22......................... M Grant 2 16812 Fickle Mistress 17.36 H &....................Taylor 3 55146 Goldstar Diesel 17.37 S &................B Evans 4 45118 Replica Casino 17.80......................B Pringle 5 41667 Ketchikan Kim 17.25..........................J Dunn 6 61577 Mohican Run 17.13.................... A Bradshaw 7 32347 Dyna Lenny 17.17.........................C Roberts 8 71254 Bookie Monster 17.19........................J Dunn 9 64166 Debbie Baxter 17.11..................J McInerney 10 56636 Ezra Blueblood 17.33.................J McInerney 5 5.29pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C5, 295m 1 34617 Smash Grenade 17.38..................... M Grant 2 67176 Chanyaka 17.23................................ B Dann 3 52115 Goldstar Trooper 17.01 S &..............B Evans 4 43438 Jinja Ellie 17.25.................................A Joyce 5 31453 Colbert 17.25.............................R Blackburn 6 53562 Wildebeest 17.20....................... A Bradshaw 7 2618x Black Rounder 17.22.........................J Dunn 8 11236 Ohoka Clare 17.17........................ L Waretini 9 26348 Smash Wild 17.07............................ M Grant 10 36178 Lisa’s Boy 17.24...............................R Casey 6 5.53pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH C5, 295m 1 12214 Sheza Rippa 16.91 J &....................D Fahey 2 27175 Martha Magic 17.33 H &......................Taylor 3 73164 Dahteste 17.24.....................................A Lee 4 74311 Pita Ramos 17.16..............................J Dunn 5 65162 Fleur Dior 17.27.........................R Blackburn

6 72378 Fired Up Jed 17.23........................... B Dann 7 11311 Platinum Marshal 17.00................C Roberts 8 52361 Bender Truth 17.11.....................A Bradshaw 9 26348 Smash Wild 17.07............................ M Grant 10 36178 Lisa’s Boy 17.24...............................R Casey 7 6.18pm CRATE & BARREL HOTEL STAKES C3, 520m 1 13215 Opawa Silver 30.55..........................R Wales 2 3138x Spring Mechanic 29.96 J &..............D Fahey 3 33236 Von Strass 29.94 J &.......................D Fahey 4 x6315 Opawa Rooster 29.99......................R Wales 5 24111 Sausage 30.16 J &...........................D Fahey 6 52543 Dyna Elliot 30.80...........................C Roberts 7 41435 Goldstar Sydney 30.14 S &..............B Evans 8 3115x Opawa Racer 30.23.........................R Wales 9 65656 Kia Tere 30.48 S &...........................B Evans 10 11665 Max Dancer 30.13 J &.....................D Fahey 8 6.43pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C4/5, 520m 1 54121 Dyna Varsity 30.17........................C Roberts 2 13164 Start The Show 30.02....................R Adcock 3 31433 Thrilling Watch 30.60....................D Roberts 4 8x728 Dyna Elwyn 29.67.........................C Roberts 5 12322 Know Refusal 30.35........................G Cleeve 6 27334 Go Glow 30.07 J &...........................D Fahey 7 38145 Egomaniacal 30.08.......................D Roberts 8 17112 Famous Lee 30.51 S &....................B Evans 9 24512 Sailor Allen 30.07..........................C Roberts 10 73281 Sefton Joy 30.38..............................R Wales 9 7.09pm KOLORFUL KANVAS CHRISTCHURCH CLASSIC HEAT 1 R/Aq, 520m 1 32741 Punters Bolt 30.67...........................R Wales 2 38624 Kiwi Gunn nwtd..............................R Adcock 3 37215 Goldstar Wynter nwtd S &................B Evans 4 11152 Opawa Deal 30.26 J &.....................D Fahey

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Dizzy Banjo, Mitcham Quinn, Fidgety Feet, Dream Runner, Memphis Jewel Race 2: High Dreamer, Justin Ryan, Mitcham Reado, Jax Jewel, Ring Clown Race 3: Little Krakatoa, Mitcham Trudy, Major Storm, Hilton Hangover, Know Hassle Race 4: Ketchikan Kim, Mohican Run, Smash Attack, Fickle Mistress, Bookie Monster Race 5: Goldstar Trooper, Chanyaka, Wildebeest, Colbert, Smash Grenade Race 6: Sheza Rippa, Platinum Marshal, Bender Truth, Pita Ramos, Martha Magic Race 7: Spring Mechanic, Von Strass, Sausage, Goldstar Sydney, Opawa Silver Race 8: Start The Show, Dyna Varsity, Dyna Elwyn, Go Glow, Know Refusal Race 9: Go Vegas, Opawa Deal, Opawa Toddy, Punters Bolt, My Giovanni Race 10: Opawa Nat, Go Diego, Opawa Vinny, Goldstar Yankee, Our Anna Race 11: Nelso Allen, Opawa Lacy, Platinum Paisley, Memoir, Busy Rocca Race 12: Forehand Raid, Special As, Call Me Flo, Culvie Ness, Goldstar Major

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 6 83767 Statman Dave nwtd W &..................T Steele 7 47463 Paddy’s Passion 21.49..................... T Green 8 32136 El Narco 21.57.................................P Green 4 12.58pm GREYHOUNDS NORTH MAIDEN DISTANCE C0d, 650m 1 17416 Emgrand Park nwtd......................A Turnwald 2 76576 Haze Adams nwtd........................A Turnwald 3 54F17 Vibe nwtd.....................................A Turnwald 4 21527 Hey Khali nwtd U &............................Cottam 5 Box Vacant 6 24655 Odnoc Ankie nwtd.......................P Ferguson 7 67464 Little Apple nwtd W &.......................T Steele 8 85858 Bigtime Ollie nwtd....................... M Prangley 5 1.16pm MAYHOUNDS RACING RETIREMENT PROJECT SPRINT C1, 375m 1 17656 Jinja Liv 21.44 U &.............................Cottam 2 26448 Salvarotti nwtd...................................B Craik 3 37748 Secret Babe nwtd.........................J T Pruden 4 65547 Platinum Tears 21.49.......................R Roper 5 52785 Sir Kinloch nwtd................................ S Clark 6 75886 Talkabout Ziggy nwtd.......................... D Ray 7 67456 Just Maddie 21.72.............................M Black 8 87888 Tilly’s Silly 21.55 R &............................L Udy 9 53655 Grouch Pawset 21.57.......................P Green 10 38544 Mad Jack nwtd................................. T Green 6 1.33pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN CODLIN C1, 375m 1 13485 Yella Ella 21.54 R &.............................L Udy 2 F5662 Idol Ajay nwtd W &...........................T Steele 3 58722 Unconscionable 21.45 R &..................L Udy 4 53655 Grouch Pawset 21.57.......................P Green 5 36243 Looby’s Story 21.74................... A Lawrence 6 54544 Billy Bullet 21.47................................H Scott

7 44336 Thrilling Arnold 21.48.......................S Codlin 8 F8382 Talkabout Izzy 21.33........................... D Ray 7 1.51pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR SPRINT C2, 375m 1 42778 Opawa Pink nwtd W &.....................T Steele 2 65771 On Demand 21.97.............................M Black 3 85124 Elouera Mist 21.33.......................J T Pruden 4 758x8 Bigtime Brucie nwtd...................... H Mullane 5 68373 Stay Rich 21.52 M &......................... J Smith 6 18556 Cry Lonely 21.40...............................S Lozell 7 53214 Botany Esmay 21.58........................P Green 8 72134 Gain Capital 21.54.............................B Craik 8 2.08pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANNE LOZELL C1/2, 457m 1 21111 Massimo Osti 25.89....................P Ferguson 2 71855 Smoochie 25.85......................... A Lawrence 3 31321 Stefano 25.83............................. A Lawrence 4 F2721 Shozip Boomer 26.25......................T Patton 5 68284 Afridi nwtd W &................................T Steele 6 52126 Tuff’s My Mum 25.93..........................S Ross 7 24125 Grey Way nwtd............................ G Pomeroy 8 78565 Bigtime Jacob 26.04..................... H Mullane 9 87562 Dignity Dented nwtd......................... T Green 10 48837 Jinja Twist nwtd W &.........................T Steele 9 2.26pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C4/5, 375m 1 22664 Suspicious Minds 20.89.....................B Craik 2 53174 Classy Impact 21.13........................ T Green 3 34735 Jinja Bailey nwtd U &.........................Cottam 4 72256 Athenais 21.19...................................S Ross 5 11216 Buddy Boom 20.86 U &.....................Cottam 6 x27x8 Bigtime Blue nwtd......................... H Mullane 7 61433 Artic Miss 21.16.......................... G Pomeroy

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Cryptic crossword

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Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Each friendship is unique, yet, developing good relationships is a skill. Each healthy relationship proves the soundness of the skill and the steps can be repeated as many times as is needed or wanted.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You have friends, but the best support is the one you carry inside. It’s worth tending to, even in the best of times.

Spiritual practice keeps this abiding source strong for when you might need it.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You will fight for what and whom you love. Part of this is in warding off competitors. The other part is in taking arms against the greater enemy of love – monotony.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You have enough. Hesitate and think before you add new things to your world, especially gifts. Ownership comes with responsibility. Some gifts are more beneficial to the giver than they are to the receiver.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You may not have control over who is in the world with you, but you can at least control who you voluntarily spend time with on the day to day. Make plans to hang out with the ones you like the best.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): If you’re feeling reserved, don’t worry. For one thing, it puts an attractive glow of mystery around you. And furthermore, people really should have to earn you trust before you let them too far in.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Games are favoured. Of course, you can make anything into a game because you’re clever and sporty that way. Why should all the competition happen on a subconscious level? It’s more fun to bring it into the open.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): For reasons too complex to worry about, some people carry a bit of chaos wherever they go. Instead of letting this surprise you every time, you accept this as a given and create ingenious workarounds.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): There are things that a professional can provide that friends and family, well-meaning as they may be, will only mess up. It’s better to take a cash risk than a relationship risk.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): It’s life’s events we learn from, not the years themselves. The more events you pack into the weeks to come, the more opportunities for growth you’ll have.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You’re worried about the consequences if you splurge on yourself.

Maybe your enjoyment won’t be worth the expense, or perhaps others will judge. What you call a splurge is actually a basic need.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Most people don’t listen well, and if you punish them for this, they’ll only be self-conscious about it, and communication will be further shut down.

Expect to pleasantly repeat yourself and eventually the message will get in.

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Low cloud and patchy rain, becoming widespread from afternoon and possibly heavy. Southwesterlies, strengthening about the coast in the evening.

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Periods of rain, possibly heavy, easing to a few showers. Snow to 900m for a time.

Wind at 1000m: SW 50 km/h, easing to 30 km/h overnight. Wind at 2000m: SW gale 70 km/h, easing to 50 km/h overnight.

SATURDAY

Partly cloudy with isolated showers. SW.

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Rain with a strong S change, easing to a few showers from the south. Snow to 300m.

Cloudy periods. Showers becoming isolated.

S, strong at first.

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Orleans MVS 3:10 Hot Set M 4pm The Simpsons PG 8pm Robin Hood MV 2018 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel Action. War-hardened crusader Of Fortune PG 5:30 Lizard Robin of Loxley and his Lick Towing PG 6pm Ice Road Moorish commander mount Truckers PG 7pm Border Security – Canada’s Frontline an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

M 7:30 NCIS – New Orleans Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx.

MVS 8:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10pm Mad To Be Normal 9:30 NCIS – Los Angeles MV 10:30 SVU MV 11:20 Ice Road 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

Truckers PG David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss.

11:45 Gringo 16VLSC 2018 Friday 12:05 Hot Set M Action. David Oyelowo, 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy! PG 1:45 Border Charlize Theron.

Security – Canada’s Frontline Friday 1:35 Truth Or M 2:10 NCIS – Los Angeles Dare 16VLC 2018 Horror.

MV 2:55 Hawaii Five-0 MV Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey.

3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Lizard 3:15 Robin Hood MV 2018 Lick Towing PG 4:50 NCIS – Action. 5:10 Mad To Be New Orleans MVS 5:35 The Normal 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

Simpsons PG

MAORI

6am Codename – Kids Next Door 3 0 6:30 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 3 0 7am Sky Sport News 8am Ben 10 – Omniverse 0 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Million Dollar Minute 3 9:30 Hot Bench 10am The Doctors PGR 3 11am Antiques Roadshow 3 Noon Sky Sport News 12:30 Ed PGR 3 1:30 Just Shoot Me PGR 3 0 2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Judge Judy PGR 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm The Chase Australia 0 5pm Everybody Loves Raymond 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) 6:30 Winter Games (HLS) 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Outback Opal Hunters PGR 0 8:30 Bull PGR Bull’s romantic rival, Diana, risks her career when she secretly has Bull go to Texas to help a couple fighting her former client for custody of their grandchildren. 0 9:30 Madam Secretary PGR 0 10:30 First XV Rugby Revision 11pm Kick-Off Israel Dagg, Mils Muliaina, Cory Jane, and Joe Wheeler present rugby-related entertainment, including surprises, dad jokes, and some questionable chat.

11:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 12:30 Closedown

MOVIES GREATS 6:45 Slumdog Millionaire MVL 2008 Drama. Dev Patel.

8:45 RIPD MV 2013 Action.

Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges.

10:25 Pride MLSC 2014 Comedy. Bill Nighy, Dominic West.

12:25 Tower Heist MLS 2011 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy.

2:10 Slumdog Millionaire MVL 2008 Drama. Dev Patel.

4:10 Grudge Match MVL 2013 Comedy. Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone.

6pm Planet Of The Apes MV 2001 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter.

8pm Walk Of Shame MLS 2014 Comedy. When a fling leaves her stranded in downtown Los Angeles, a young reporter has just eight hours to get to the biggest job interview of her career. Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden.

9:40 Dallas Buyers Club 16VLSC 2013 Biography Drama.

Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto.

11:35 Spider-Man 3 MV 2007 Action. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst.

Friday

1:50 Killer Joe 18VLS 2011 Crime.

Matthew McConaughey.

3:30 Grudge Match MVL 2013 Comedy. Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone.

5:20 Planet Of The Apes MV 2001 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter.

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6:30 Takoha 3 6:40 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 7:10 Kia Mau 3 7:20 E Kori 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Huhu 3 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Pukana 3 2 8:50 Paia 3 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 Traditional Kai 3 10am Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 11am Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 Noon School Of Training 12:30 Hamu And Tofiga PGR 3 1pm Ride Or Die 3 1:30 Finding Aroha PGR 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 3:40 Kia Mau 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Huhu 3 4:20 Huritua 3 4:30 Patapatai 5pm Te Pou Herenga O Kia Aroha 5:30 Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Made From America 6:30 Nigella Bites 7am How To Cook Like Heston 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am South Pacific 9am Junk Gypsies 9:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes 11:30 Monty Halls’s Dive Mysteries 12:30 The Great Interior Design Challenge 1:30 Cold Water Cowboys 2:30 Walking The Himalayas 3:30 Superswarm 4:30 Hairy Bikers’ Mediterranean Adventure The bikers visit Minorca and Majorca to discover evidence of British influence, great fresh fish and local produce, and to ride one of the most extraordinary roads in the world.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Easy Eats 3 8pm Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9pm Rere Te Whiu AO 9:30 The Ring Inz AO 3 10pm The Hui – Kaupeka Wha 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

7:30 Jade Fever 8:30 Discovering… Meat Loaf PGR 9:30 Haunting Australia AO Genteel in appearance and atmosphere by day, Adelaide’s historic Arcade transforms at night to host a variety of spiritual activity, and the team explores every nook and cranny.

10:30 American Pickers

11pm Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 Te Rangiura o Wairarapa – Ngati Kahungungu.

11:30 Off The Grid With Pio 3 Midnight L Basketball – Fiba World Cup New Zealand v Greece.

2am Closedown

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Brent Owens – Extreme, Authentic, And Unwrapped 1am Hairy Bikers’ Mediterranean Adventure 2am Uncommon Grounds PGR 3am Superswarm 4am Haunting Australia AO 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 1 6am Wind Back 8am Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) 8:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) North Harbour v Bay of Plenty. 10:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Taranaki v Tasman.

12:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Northland v Hawke’s Bay. 2:30 Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) 3pm Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Canterbury v Wellington.

3:30 Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Waikato v Auckland.

4pm On The Grill With Marshy Russell Coutts.

4:30 The Breakdown 5:30 Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) 6pm Mainfreight Rugby 7pm First XV Rugby Revision 7:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Manawatu v Northland.

From Central Energy Trust Arena, Palmerston North.

9:15 Kick-Off 10pm Mainfreight Rugby 11pm First XV Rugby Revision 11:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Manawatu v Northland.

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DISCOVERY

6:35 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Caddy Rust Bucket/Bel-Air Beauty 2/2.

7:30 Car Crash TV 7:55 Car Crash TV 8:20 Deadliest Catch PG Tough Inheritance.

9:10 Aussie Lobster Men PG 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11:40 Evil Lives Here M My Brother’s Secrets.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M Roses are Red, Murder is Too. 1:20 Murder Calls M Death Mask. 2:10 Car Crash TV 2:35 Car Crash TV 3pm Homestead Rescue PG The Bears and the Bees.

3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Flugtag Flyer: Wicked Wayfarer.

5:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 8:30 Gold Rush – White Water PG Landslide.

9:25 Aussie Lobster Men PG 10:15 Deadliest Catch PG Tough Inheritance.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M Friday 11:55 How It’s Made PG 12:35 L Cricket – The Friday Friday 12:20 How Do Ashes England v Australia – 1:30 Kick-Off 2am Rugby They Do It? PG 12:45 Car Fourth Test, Day Two. – Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Crash TV 1:10 Car Crash Afternoon session the Old 2:30 Mainfreight Rugby TV 1:35 Gold Rush PG 3:30 First XV Rugby Revision Trafford Cricket Ground, 2:25 Bering Sea Gold PG Manchester.

4am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup 3:15 Homestead Rescue PG 5:28 L Cricket – T20 (HLS) Manawatu v Northland.

4:05 Insane Pools – Off The Blast Quarter-final Two – Notts 4:30 Kick-Off 5am Rugby Deep End PG 4:55 Naked Outlaws v Middlesex.

– Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) And Afraid M 5:45 Gold From Trent Bridge, 5:30 On The Grill With Marshy Russell Coutts.

Rush PG Nottingham.

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

9am Cricket – Women’s Super League (HLS) Grand Final.

9:30 Cricket – The Ashes (HLS) England v Australia – Fourth Test, Day One. 10:30 L Cricket – CPL Trinidad v St Kitts.

From Queen’s Park Oval.

2:30 Cricket – The Ashes (HLS) England v Australia – Fourth Test, Day One. 3:30 Cricket – Sri Lanka v Blackcaps (HLS) Second T20.

4:30 Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) 5pm Cricket – The Ashes (RPL) England v Australia – Fourth Test, Day One. Coverage of the last two hours from the Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester.

7pm Cricket – CPL (HLS) Trinidad v St Kitts.

8pm Cricket – The Ashes (HLS) England v Australia – Fourth Test, Day One. 9pm L Cricket – The Ashes England v Australia – Fourth Test, Day Two. Morning session from the Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester.

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Rakaia’s Harvey Blyth has been named in the Heartland team to compete at the Jock Hobbs Memorial Under-19 Tournament next week.

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Blyth in Heartland team Mid Canterbury will have one representative pulling on the Heartland strip at the Jock Hobbs Memorial Under-19 Tournament in Taupo next week.

Harvey Blyth, who played his club rugby for Rakaia this season, has been named in the Heartland team loaded with players from North Otago through to Thames Valley.

Horowhenua Kapiti’s Aleni Feagaiga returns as head coach of the Heartland team and has selected 25 representatives.

Three players are returning from

the 2018 Jock Hobbs campaign, with Austin Brear (Thames Valley), Jason Myers (Wanganui) and Te Huia Kutia (Thames Valley) all bringing their experience to this year’s squad.

Feagaiga said experience will be invaluable as the team will only have a short time together before taking the field.

“Most of the teams have been training and playing together for a few weeks now, we will arrive in Taupo, have a few trainings and then have to hit the field,” he said.

“Having players who have ex-

perience at this tournament and know what to expect will be good for the whole group.”

Experience also comes in the form of Kutia, Logan Hebenton-Prenderville (Wairarapa Bush), Shae Gray (Horowhenua Kapiti) and Cruise Dunster (King Country) who are currently involved in the Mitre 10 Heartland Championship.

“These players are all really proud of their Heartland roots and I know they will be looking forward to representing their clubs and communities. Beyond that,

they know this is a real opportunity to perform on a national stage,” Feagaiga said.

Mid Canterbury were represented at the tournament by Joel Leo in 2018, and by Tom Hanham-Carter in 2017.

The tournament takes place on September 8, 11 and 14 and is part of a week-long event that includes development programmes for the players, parents, coaches and referees which is run on the nongame days.

There are position specific workshops with Super Rugby coaches,

Rugby World Cup eligibility a threat to the game

as well as sessions focusing on player education and life skills.

A total 400 players from 16 teams will compete – one team from each of the Mitre 10 Cup Provincial Unions, one Auckland development team and one Heartland Unions combined team.

Bay of Plenty and Waikato go into the tournament as defending champions of the Graham Mourie Cup and Michael Jones Trophy respectively, and a selection of matches from the final day of the tournament will be screened live on Sky Sports.

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