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Vaccines roll out

By Susan Sandys

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Mid Canterbury GPs are urging residents to be immunised against the flu this winter as the 2019 vaccine is rolled out across the country.

At the Tinwald Medical Centre this week, Peter Sheate said there was a simple reason for him being one of the first to be vaccinated this year.

“I don’t want the flu,” the 80-year-old said.

GP spokesperson for the district, Eti Avnit, echoed Health Minister David Clark’s advice to get immunised.

She herself was immunised against the flu at her practice this week.

She said the death rate from flu last year in New Zealand remained relatively low compared to outbreaks overseas and this was thanks to people getting immunised.

Clark said around 400 New Zealanders die each year from the disease and many more needed hospital treatment.

The influenza immunisation programme began a little later this year, on April 1, to ensure that the vaccine continued to provide protection through to the peak of the flu season, usually in late winter.

The vaccine will protect against four strains, including updated strains of influenza A(H3N2) and influenza B. Clark said he was one of more than a million who would take up the vaccine this year.

The campaign was particularly focusing on people aged 65 and older.

“Even fit and healthy people can get seriously ill from the flu, and for older people, a serious case can have a long-lasting impact on their quality of life and independence.”

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Peter Sheate of Ashburton does not want to get the flu this coming winter, so was vaccinated this week, by practice nurse Stephanie Winchester at the Tinwald Medical Centre.

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Mental health reports ordered NZME Mental health reports have been ordered to explore whether the man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks is mentally fit to enter pleas.

The 28-year-old Australian national appeared via audio-visual link from custody in the High Court at Christchurch yesterday morning.

Around 50 family members of the mosque attack victims filed into the courtroom to watch the proceedings.

There were also more than two dozen reporters from New Zea-

land and around the world, along with eight police officers and several security staff.

The alleged gunman appeared on the audio-visual link booth from prison unshaved, in a grey sweatshirt, with his hands handcuffed in front of him.

He was attentive throughout proceedings, at times leaning forward to better hear what was being said.

He looked around the screen with various camera angles that showed the lawyers, judge, and some of the media.

The families and survivors in the public gallery were not visible

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to him.

When Justice Mander asked if he could hear what was being said, he nodded.

The accused, whose address has been listed on charging documents as Andersons Bay in Dunedin.

At the conclusion of the hearing, he gave a small nod before the registrar ended the video link transmission.

None of the family members said anything from the public gallery.

Afterwards, they were given a briefing to ensure they understood the legal process and lan-

guage used in court.

Justice Mander also reminded journalists present that given legal proceedings are now under way, media need to be aware of the sub judice rule in any reports.

Police on Thursday confirmed that the alleged shooter now faces 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges.

Police have said other charges are still under consideration.

Crown prosecutor Barnaby Hawes confirmed the Crown has filed the charges.

The defence team asked for a mental health expert to assess the accused under section 38 of the

Mental Health Act to determine whether the defendant is mentally fit or impaired and whether he is mentally able to enter pleas to the charges.

Justice Cameron Mander ordered two health assessors’ reports, which defence lawyer Shane Tait said could take two to three months to complete.

The judge stressed that the move was “normal procedure” and an “entirely ordinary and regular step” to be taken at this stage of the judicial process.

The accused was remanded in custody to reappear in court on June 14.

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Ashburton stars tear up the Showbiz stage

By Susan Sandys

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Two Ashburton performers are taking audiences on a wild ride as they tear up the stage in Showbiz Christchurch’s production We Will Rock You. In the lead female role is musical theatre star Jane Leonard.

The Nasda graduate is relishing playing the feisty and funny Scaramouche.

At the young age of 26, Leonard has managed to do what remains a dream for most – make acting her fulltime job.

She performs in productions throughout New Zealand, while also teaching drama at Impact Dance and Stage School in Christchurch.

She said playing Elphaba in Wicked last year was one of the highlights of her career and in this latest professional role she was enjoying an audience connection.

“What was surprising and awesome about this role is the relationship between the characters and audience,” she said.

The former Ashburton College and Burnside High student said there were some similarities between herself and Scaramouche, as she was quite opinionated herself and related very much to the spirit of fighting for freedom of expression. This is something the characters find themselves doing in the totalitarian world which is the backdrop to We Will Rock You. “I kind of really resonate with the underdog myself, so this kind of hits home in lots of ways,” Leonard said.

Also performing in We Will Rock You, is Jack Bubb.

Fresh out of Ashburton College, the 18-year-old is in his first year of jazz school at Ara Institute in Christchurch, where his main

Jack Bubb is strutting his stuff as Katy Perry in We Will Rock You.

Jane Leonard is playing the feisty lead character of Scaramouche.

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course focus is piano.

Having landed a role in the ensemble as one of the Bohemians, Bubb plays Katy Perry.

“When you are on stage you just have to be larger than life, big expressions, almost unnatural body movements, because they are not contained in any way, shape

or form, you have to overreact to everything,” Bubb said.

Katy Perry is one of the characters as the Bohemians create what they think are authentic renditions of pop stars from times gone by. As they have just fragments of information to base their re-creations on, they do not

quite get it right when it comes to finer details such as gender.

Bubb is not only performing during his on-stage segments, but is performing off-stage as well, one of a team providing backing vocals.

It’s a demanding role vocally and he finds himself warming up

his singing chops throughout the day.

After this year, Bubb has another two years at jazz school and ultimately he would like to be a session musician on a cruise ship.

We Will Rock You opened at the Isaac Theatre Royal on March 29, and it runs to April 13.

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Trail to celebrate 10th birthday by

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It’s taken 10 years of hard work, but finally Ashburton has a riverside trail that stretches over 70 kilometres from the coast along both sides of the Hakatere River to a point well west of Ashburton.

Creating that trail has involved a huge amount of co-operation between community groups, service clubs, sporting groups, Environment Canterbury and the Ashburton District Council.

It’s a trail that has its origins in the 1975 New Zealand Walkways Act, with what was then planned to be a track for walkers, first proposed by the Ashburton Lions Club that year.

Over the following three years letters were written, discussions were had and reports commissioned but it took until June 1980 before the construction of the walkway was signed off.

Work on establishing the walkway was carried out by using people on the Project Employment Project (PEP), a scheme for the unemployed from 1980 to 1984 with the walkway officially opening to the public in April 1984.

From day one, Ashburton District Council open spaces manager David Askin has been a part of the project. Over those 10 years he has been involved as the track has grown from a walkway that ran from the Ashburton River Bridge to Hakatere Huts to a trail that welcomed walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

As its use increased, the trail continued to develop with signif-

Ashburton now has a river trail that stretches over 70 kilometres from the coast along both sides of the Hakatere River to a point well west of Ashburton.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN icant input from user groups and service clubs.

Like any community facility, the river trail needs regular maintenance, and various groups put

their hands up to take care of individual sections – the mountain bike club, Ashburton Lions, Adult Riding, Ashburton Run, Walk, Hakatere residents and Five Star

The river trail has been used for a number of years by both young and old members of the community.

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Beef, Environment Canterbury, Ashburton Rotary and the Ashburton District Council.

The 4WD Club will take care of a new area being developed for members and the Ashburton Motorcyle group takes care of their own designated area.

The Hakatere River Trail committee is made up of members of all user groups and meets regularly.

Over the years a number of community open days have been held to encourage people onto the trails and another is planned for next summer. The days are designed for people to walk to the end of the track at the Hakatere Huts, with return transport provided.

Most of the work on the southern side of the river has been carried out by Ashburton Rota-

ry members. Initially this track linked the Ashburton River bridge with Lake Hood, but it has now been extended as far west as Timaru Track pushing the trail out to 70km.

This section of track links with another that runs around Lake Hood and walkers and riders now have the option of returning to the state highway either by the river track or a new roadside track developed by the council.

That won’t be the end of the trail’s development, however, with Askin looking at ways to create a link on the northern section with the EA Networks Centre.

This would take users from the mountain bike skills park through a stormwater swale and around land that will eventually become the centre’s playing fields to rejoin the track proper.

There is a ton of potential in the riverside area for future developments, Ashburton District Council service delivery group manager Neil McCann said.

With the addition of the dog park near the Resource Recovery Park, the riverside area now had a wide range of users, he said.

“It’s about trying to get everyone together to best use the land down there and making it a complete recreation area.”

The trail had come a long way in 10 years, McCann said. and he credits Askin with a large slice of that success.

Providing off-trail areas for the four-wheel-drive vehicles and motor bikes that were now banned from the track has been one of the keys of its continued success and in ensuring the track stayed in good condition, he said.

A large part of the development of the trail west of the river bridge had been carried out by mountain bike club members and that was a great addition to the overall track, McCann said.

The trail covered land owned by Environment Canterbury and by the council and there had always been a good working relationship when it came to developments, he said.

“It’s been 10 years of really good community co-operation and goodwill and there’s still heaps of potential out there.”

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Gumboots fly at celebrity throw

By Susan Sandys

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Gumboots were flying, not to mention crashing, at a celebrity gumboot throw at EA Networks Centre yesterday.

Wet weather forced the event inside, meaning competitors were under more pressure than ever.

The corridor to EA Networks Centre Gym provided a relatively closed-in area, only a few metres wide and several metres high.

Consequently, some gumboots went sailing – into the ceiling, into the wall, and over a partition between the corridor and front foyer.

CEO of the Ashburton District Council Hamish Riach impressed most of all in breaking the boundaries, although, thankfully for ratepayers, not the fittings.

One brush with the ceiling and a boot ending up in the foyer aside, his technique proved the best and he was the winner on the day, recording a huge distance of 20 metres.

Ashburton College principal Ross Preece was not left behind when it came to providing a spectacle for onlookers, impressing with a double overarm swing.

He claimed second place, while mayor Donna Favel was third, radio personality Phill Hooper fourth and visiting Kiwi cook Ally-

son Gofton fifth.

Hooper thought he could have done better than his 15-metre effort.

“I came down here expecting to win, so I’m very disappointed.

Obviously I’m a natural athlete,” he said.

Compere Ken, aka Lynda Topp, had plenty of gumboot throwing experience under his belt, and said Riach’s technique of folding down the top of the boot to make it more rigid helped him take out top place.

Gofton was in town as part of a nationwide promotional tour for her new book The Baker’s Companion.

EA Networks Centre Gym manager Anna Johnson said it was fantastic to see good support for the celebrity gumboot throw, and Gumboot Friday. People participating throughout the day yesterday contributed to a gold coin donation.

Nationwide, all proceeds go to mental health charity I Am Hope, funding therapists and counsellors for children.

“It’s never that comfortable wearing gumboots and that’s exactly what it feels like for youth that are struggling,” Johnson said.

“And we are struggling to give them the resources they need.”

Radio personality Phill Hooper, Lynda Topp as Ken and Kiwi cook Allyson Gofton support Gumboot Friday yesterday.

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Giving it some welly. Ashburton District Council CEO Hamish Riach gives his all in the gumboot throw.

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■■ COLOUR RUN

All set to get some colour on

By Matt Markham

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All is in readiness, with only the final touches to be made, ahead of the third instalment of the CanInspire Colour Run at Lake Hood tomorrow.

But for the late starters, it’s not too late to join the other 500-odd entrants with today one of the final opportunities to get an entry in to the hugely popular event.

Online entries closed at lunchtime yesterday and event spokesperson Liz Wells said that although slightly down on last year’s starters, there was still hope that the number would rise.

“We’re hopeful of getting a few more through – there are opportunities for anyone who still wants to take part,” she said.

The CanInspire team will be in the new rooms which are attached to the Tinwald War Memorial Hall from 10am-12 noon today and there was potential to enter at the registration area tomorrow prior to the event too.

“We’d advise trying to get to there today as the morning of the event can be rather hectic,” Well said.

Tomorrow will be the third time the event has been held locally and all funds raised are going directly back into the Mid Canterbury community through the CanInspire Charitable Trust.

A community focused event, the key goal of the run is for family fun for all ages and fitness levels.

Wells said that they had increased the number of colour stations on the course for this year with two additional colours added. They sit alongside other popular features such as the rainbow road near the finish line in which contestants are showered in all variations of colour.

While the event relied heavily on community buy-in through the way of entries, it also counted on a huge amount of support and this year that support has gone to the next level.

“We have been simply amazed at the support we have received from around the community, it’s been remarkable.

“Especially from our platinum sponsor, Canterbury Long Run Roofing Ashburton who have been so generous in their support of us and the event.”

Organisers had been keeping on eye on the weather forecast for Sunday morning for most of this week but were pleased to see that after looking a little gloomy at one point it was back to looking like a perfect morning for a jog or stroll around Lake Hood.

The event begins at 10am tomorrow morning.

Hundreds will line up tomorrow for the third instalment of the CanInspire Colour Run at Lake Hood.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN Right – The CanInspire team (from left): Liz Wells, Clare Harden, Kylie Curwood, Sarah Clifford, Sonya Dunlea, Daphne Hinton, Heather Orr, Tamara van Wesemael.

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Snow stalls skifield work

By Susan Sandys

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Canterbury and West Coast Air Rescue Trust CEO Christine Prince is thrilled to receive a massive $32,000 from Methven Lions Club members and Mt Hutt Ski Area staff.

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Air Rescue $32,000 richer Mt Hutt Ski Area and Methven Lions Club representatives handed over $32,000 to the Canterbury and West Coast Air Rescue Trust this week.

Trust CEO Christine Prince gratefully accepted the donation.

The first $18,000 was raised at the annual Discover Mt Hutt day in March, where skifield staff and Lions members volunteered their time to open the mountain outside of the ski season.

The day itself raised an unprecedented $40,000, and the team happily pledged half the proceeds to the familiar red rescue chopper. Averaging three missions a day the helicopter covers the largest single geographical area in New Zealand and is a familiar sight in the Canterbury region.

Ski area manager James McKenzie said the trust needed to raise $4 million every year.

“So we are delighted to be able

to contribute to this vital community service,” McKenzie said.

“For the past couple of years NZSki has supported the trust and we have a system set up whereby anyone purchasing a Mt Hutt pass can opt to add-on a donation to the charity.

“The extra $14,000 shown on the cheque today is the sum of funds collected over the last 12 months, and we will continue to collect donations throughout our

upcoming winter season. The sheer amount generously gifted by our guests just highlights how far and wide the Air Rescue Trust is valued.”

Lions president Bruce Holmes said the club had been able to share out the remaining funds from the open day to other causes within the local community, including St John and Search and Rescue.

“It’s just what we do,” he said.

Mt Hutt Ski Area staff are hoping 20 centimetres of snow will not hold up summer construction.

Workers on the mountain left early yesterday as snow continued to fall and build up on the access road.

Manager James McKenzie said hopefully all the snow would have melted by Monday, so personnel could get back to installing snow-making equipment and pipelines, as well as constructing new trails and a ski tunnel.

Ideally it would be mid-May before there were any more significant snowfalls, as that would be just in time for ski season opening on June 7.

The snowfall this week follows a strong nor’wester on the mountain March 25 to 26, when wind speeds reached 200 kilometres per hour at the summit.

A well-stropped small temporary building used for construction work, at the top of the quad chairlift, proved no match.

“We are finding bits of that around the mountain at the moment,” McKenzie said.

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Brian’s drive to succeed When a national speedway title goes on the line at Ashburton Speedway tomorrow, Ashburton driver Brian Maxwell will be one of those lining up for a shot at it. He spoke to the Guardian’s Erin Tasker this week about what it would mean to him to win that title.

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rian Maxwell tries to make the most of every day because he knows he’s lucky to be here.

So when the Ashburton 50-yearold hops behind the wheel tomorrow afternoon at Ashburton Speedway, he’ll have his eyes firmly fixed on a goal. That goal is to win the CTRA New Zealand Limited Saloons title and, if he does it, he’ll be over the moon, because right now he really doesn’t know what the future holds for him.

Maxwell’s health isn’t the best. A kidney that he received more than 17 years ago in a transplant that both changed and saved his life, is failing.

So, Maxwell is planning to make the most of what life holds, including out on the speedway track.

Today, he’ll be one of the drivers on the starting grid eyeing up the CTRA (Circle Track Racing Association) New Zealand Limited Saloon Title at Ashburton Speedway.

“I’ve said to people this is my last-ditch effort,” Maxwell said.

“I’m running out of energy. I’ll be absolutely drained at the end of the day.”

But, he’s determined to give it his best shot.

Maxwell knows he’s lucky. He’d been on dialysis for four years due to the hereditary kidney disease that has affected so many members of his family and knows he was on borrowed time when he finally got a call to say there was a new kidney waiting for him.

At the time the average lifespan of a transplanted kidney was around seven years, so the kidney he received from a deceased person all those years ago has served him well.

He’s always known it wouldn’t last forever, though.

“They’ve told me a year, but I know personally in myself that it’s within six months or a year,” Maxwell said.

He’s been there before and knows what’s in front of him, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

He’s hopeful it won’t go that far this time. He’s already put a call out to his Facebook friends to see if anyone out there might be willing to donate him a kidney when the time comes. Some have said yes, but whether they’ll be a match remains to be seen.

“If I can get a transplant before it really craps out, it saves me like two operations in the process,” Maxwell said.

The kidney Maxwell received all those years ago wasn’t actually meant for him, but the person it was intended for was sick and unable to receive it. So one afternoon, Maxwell got the call that changed his life and its timing couldn’t have been better.

“I was six months out of a hole,” Maxwell said.

He knows the lady who received the donor’s other kidney and hers was also still going strong all these years later. Maxwell said he knows how lucky he is, so has been determined over the years to take care of

his kidney and it has paid off.

But that hasn’t stopped him from living his life at the same time.

After years as a jet sprint driver and winning a South Island title in control of a boat, Maxwell turned his attention to speedway cars five or six years ago.

An engine builder by trade, Maxwell built an engine for a guy about seven years ago, who had a spare car at home. Maxwell brought it off him, rebuilt the engine, and never looked back.

Now, he races a 1967 Camaro. It has a 353 cubic inch special Chevy

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Above – Brian Maxwell has only been behind the wheel of speedway cars for about six years and tomorrow he hopes to win his first national title.

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Left – Ashburton’s Brian Maxwell is a contender to take out the CTRA New Zealand Limited Saloon Title at Ashburton Speedway this weekend.

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in it and for the past year it has served Maxwell well.

He’s hoping it will continue to do that this weekend and make tomorrow a day to remember behind the wheel by taking out that national title.

“If I’m finishing on that note, it

would be a nice note to finish on,” Maxwell said.

He knows it will be tough. In the field are some big names who have been longtime rivals and friends.

“I’m going do to my damndest for it to be me, but there are two people that I see as my biggest

rivals, and that’s Willie Woodhouse and Phil Burgess,” Maxwell said.

Long-time friend Craig Laby is another to watch, he said.

But Maxwell plans to give them a run for their money. He’s got a new sponsor on board in Roscos Auto Dismantlers, who have given him

a new rear set of tyres and two gear sets to ensure his ride is the best it can possibly be this weekend.

The title race will start with three heats, with the winner of those taking home the Jo Giles Memorial Trophy as well as pole position for the 20-lap feature.

Tomorrow’s full afternoon of racing at Ashburton Speedway will also see modifieds return to the track to race for the first time in some years.

The action is set to get under way at the Seafield Road track at 12.30pm.

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Lauv to tour NZ

Wreckage piled at the crash scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, Ethiopia. A published report says pilots couldn’t regain control.

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US pop singer-songwriter Lauv has announced a one-off New Zealand show in Auckland this November. Lauv, known for the single I’m So Tired with Troye Sivan, will perform at Shed 10, Queens Wharf on Wednesday, November 20.

The show is part of the Australian leg of the singer’s “~how i’m feeling~” world tour. Supporting Lauv will be 18-year-old US singer Carlie Hanson. Lauv recently performed at the 2019 iHeart Radio Music Awards, where he was nominated for Best New Pop Artist.

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Nose dive ‘unstoppable’ A doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet suffered from faulty readings by a key sensor, and pilots followed Boeing’s recommended procedures when the plane started to nose dive but could not avoid crashing, according to a preliminary report released yesterday by the Ethiopian government.

The findings draw the strongest link yet between the March 10 crash in Ethiopia and an October crash off the coast of Indonesia, which both involved Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners. All 346 people on the two planes were killed.

Both planes had an automated system that pushed the nose down when sensor readings detected the danger of an aerodynamic stall, and it now appears that sensors malfunctioned on both planes.

Boeing acknowledged that the sensor malfunctioned and

CEO Dennis Muilenburg said yesterday a new software update would prevent future incidents.

“It’s our responsibility to eliminate this risk,” Muilenburg said in a video statement.

“We own it, and we know how to do it.”

Yesterday’s preliminary report, based on flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Ethiopian Airlines jetliner, showed that the faulty sensor touched off a series of events that caused the pilots to lose control of the plane.

The report from Ethiopia’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said the sensor problems began about a minute after the plane was cleared for takeoff.

It said air speed and altitude values on the left side of the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max conflicted with data from the

right sensor, causing flight control problems. Eventually the pilots couldn’t keep the plane from plummeting to the ground, killing all 157 people on board.

The problems are similar to those reported on the Indonesian Lion Air flight that crashed last October. Investigators found that software on that plane took readings from the sensor and pointed the nose down.

Yesterday’s revelations raise questions about repeated assertions by Boeing and US regulators that pilots could regain control in some emergencies by following steps that include turning off an anti-stall system designed specifically for the Max, known by its acronym, MCAS. The Max has been grounded worldwide pending a software fix that Boeing is rolling out,

which still needs to be approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration and other regulators.

In a statement, Boeing said that to make sure unintended activation of the MCAS system doesn’t happen again, it is developing software and “associated comprehensive pilot training” for the Max. The software update, Boeing said, adds layers of protection and will stop erroneous data from activating the system.

Ethiopian investigators did not specifically mention the MCAS, but recommended that Boeing review “the aircraft flight-control system related to the flight controllability.”

They also recommended that aviation officials verify that issues have been adequately addressed before allowing the planes to fly again.

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Kiwi lands in Hollywood In-demand Kiwi actor Stefania LaVie Owen stars alongside Snoop Dogg and Matthew McConaughey in the new stoner-comedy The Beach Bum, but can hardly believe she’s landed in Hollywood.

The Miami-born 21-year-old fashionista was raised in Pauatahanui, just outside of Wellington, and has been described by Vogue as a “young starlet on the rise”.

The down-to-earth youngster is in high demand and will also appear in Messiah, a biblical suspense thriller produced by Netflix, later this year. “Coming from New Zealand, I never had the idea that I would be an actor or that it would be a job,” Owen said in a recent interview.

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Ethiopia denies Assange expulsion claims A senior Ecuadorian official said no decision has been made to expel Julian Assange from the country’s London embassy despite tweets from Wikileaks that sources had told it he could be kicked out within “hours to days.”

A small group of protesters and supporters of Wikileaks’ founder gathered yesterday outside the embassy in London where Assange has been holed up since August 2012. He has feared extradition to the US since WikiLeaks published thousands of classified military and diplomatic cables.

Earlier, Wikileaks tweet-

ed: “BREAKING: A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told @WikiLeaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within “hours to days” using the #INAPapers offshore scandal as a pretext – and that it already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest.”

Another tweet said it had received a secondary confirmation from another high-level source.

Ecuador’s foreign ministry released a statement saying it “doesn’t comment on rumours, theories or conjectures that don’t have any documented backing.”

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Chase secrets revealed

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

A contestant on The Chase has revealed how the wildly popular quiz show is run behind the scenes. Dorinda Balchin took part in the show and spoke to a UK publication about her win – divulging some secrets about producers who sift through the contestants’ audition. And if you think some players fare surprisingly well in the final chase – that’s because every contestant has already done it in a practice round. Balchin revealed the staggering amount of people who apply to be on the show every year, which requires an intense auditioning process.

“They said they’d got over 60,000 applicants this year.” she said.

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Detention extended A Japanese court yesterday approved the detention of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn through April 14 after his fourth arrest over financial misconduct allegations. Ghosn was taken into custody on Thursday and is being held at the Tokyo Detention Centre. The detention request was approved by the Tokyo District Court, the court said in a statement. Prosecutors can ask for another 10-day extension.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has finally spoken after the Christchurch massacre, but has refused to end livestreaming on the platform. ing” the idea of livestreaming restrictions for users who violated the social network’s community standards.

Yesterday, as Australia’s Parliament passed a tough new law that could see social media com-

panies fined up to 10 per cent of their revenue and their executives jailed for up to three years if they fail to take “swift” action on “abhorrent” content, Attorney-General Christian Porter said.

“There are platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook who do not seem to take their responsibility to not show the most abhorrently violent material seriously.”

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Family devastated by hoax

Forest fire under control

Eight years after an Illinois boy disappeared, his family began to think that their nightmare might be over at last.

A young man found wandering the streets of a Kentucky town claimed he had just escaped from two men in the Cincinnati area who held him captive for seven years. And he told police his name was Timmothy Pitzen.

It didn’t seem possible that someone so far away could make up such a story. So for a day and a half, relatives waited and hoped for a breakthrough.

Then came devastating word from the FBI: DNA tests showed that the person was not Timmothy, a boy from Aurora who vanished at age 6 in 2011, around the time of his mother’s suicide.

“It’s like reliving that day all over again, and Timmothy’s father is devastated once again, as are we,” said the boy’s aunt Kara Jacobs, her voice choked with emotion.

Authorities said the person claiming to be 14-year-old Timmothy was actually a 23-year-old ex-convict who was recently released from an Ohio prison after serving time for burglary and vandalism.

Neither Jacobs nor the boy’s grandmother Alana Anderson tried to hide their disappointment as they struggled for composure during a brief news

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‘A really terrible event’ Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally given his first interview on the Christchurch shootings.

Zuckerberg told ABC News that the mosque massacres, which saw 50 people slain as the gunman livestreamed to Facebook, “a really terrible event”.

But the Facebook founder had mixed feelings about a delay, just as “live” TV is on a slight delay, when the idea was suggested by interviewer George Stephanopoulos if it would help.

“You know, it might, in this case,” Zuckerberg replied.

“But it would also fundamentally break what livestreaming is for people. Most people are livestreaming, you know, a birthday party or hanging out with friends when they can’t be together. And it’s one of the things that’s magical about livestreaming is that it’s bi-directional, right? So you’re not just broadcasting. You’re communicating. And people are commenting back. So if you had a delay that would break that.”

Earlier this week, Privacy Commissioner John Edwards criticised Facebook for not introducting any new safeguards that would prevent a repeat of the March 15 livestream.

In a March 30 open letter, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the social network was “explor-

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Timmothy Pitzen conference outside Anderson’s home in Antioch, about 60 miles north of Aurora.

Anderson said her prayer has always been that when Timmothy was old enough, “he would find us if we couldn’t find him”. She held out hope that if he’s “in a place where he has communication with the media or a computer, that he’ll remember us enough to look for us, and I think he will. He’s a very smart guy”.

The rest of Aurora seemed to share in the family’s disappointment.

“I know the community won’t give up that he is out there,” said Nick Baughman, former principal at the school where Amy FryPitzen took her 6-year-old son out of his kindergarten class on May 11, 2011, saying something

about a family emergency.

Timmothy waved to his classmates, saying “See you tomorrow,” teacher Cheryl Broach recalled.

The two climbed into FryPitzen’s SUV and went on an adventure that included a visit to the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago, a suburban Chicago resort and another resort in the Wisconsin Dells, a region that calls itself the Waterpark Capital of the World.

The next day, the boy and his mother were seen leaving the Kalahari Resorts in the Dells.

That was the last time the two were seen together.

When Fry-Pitzen checked into a motel in Rockford, Illinois on May 13, she was alone, according to police.

The next afternoon, her body turned up but with no sign of her son. A note she left said the boy was being cared for by someone who loved him in a place where he would never be found.

In the first days of the search, police said they found a significant amount of blood in the SUV’s back seat, and tests confirmed it was the boy’s. That news initially terrified Anderson, but the boy’s father explained that his son had a history of nosebleeds and had suffered a serious one just days before he disappeared.

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Firefighters by yesterday morning had extinguished large parts of a forest fire burning in the mountainous South Korean region that hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics.

It has destroyed 120 homes, forced thousands to flee, and killed one person, with another dying because of a falling object in the high winds fanning the flames.

The fire likely started from a transformer spark near a resort in the town of Goseong and then spread to the nearby mountains, according to Choi Jin-ho, a fire captain at Gangwon Fire Headquarters. Gangwon province is about 210 kilometres northeast of Seoul.

Videos posted to social media in South Korea showed tall flames rising from large areas of forest, the air filled with embers and debris as cars drove by the raging fire. News photos showed a burnt-out bus, fire engulfing a hill, and residents evacuating apartment complexes and filing into gyms.

Choi said nearly 2400 people in Goseong and almost 1250 in the city of Sokcho were evacuated.

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Japan’s space agency said its Hayabusa2 spacecraft released an explosive onto an asteroid to make a crater on its surface and collect underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar system.Yesterday’s crater mission is the riskiest for Hayabusa2, as it had to immediately get away so it won’t get hit by flying shards from the blast. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said that Hayabusa2 dropped a “small carry-on impactor” made of copper onto the asteroid Friday morning, and that the spacecraft safely evacuated and remained intact. JAXA is analyzing further details. JAXA plans to send Hayabusa2 back to the site later, when the dust and debris settle, for observations from above and to collect samples from underground that have not been exposed to the sun or space rays.

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Blast site shut down Authorities are shutting down an eastern China industrial park after 78 people were killed last month by a chemical explosion, the city government said yesterday. Local departments have met to discuss how to eliminate chemical plants with low safety standards and severe pollution issues, Yancheng city said in an online statement, noting that the site of last month’s deadly blast — Xiangshui Chemical Industrial Park — will be completely shut down.

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Guam okays marijuana The governor of Guam has signed into law recreational use of marijuana on the US island territory. Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero signed the bill Thursday — a week after the Legislature narrowly passed the legislation that allows people ages 21 and older to possess up to 28 grams, the Pacific Daily News reported.

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Suspects killed Brazilian police say they killed 11 people who were part of a gang of at least 25 people that raided two banks and tried to blow up their automatic teller machines on the outskirts of the country’s biggest city. No police officers were killed or wounded in the incident, and three suspects were arrested. A statement from Sao Paulo state police said the gang was about to set explosives to the ATM machines when officers arrived.

The statement said the agents seized seven assault weapons, four pistols, explosives and bulletproof vests.

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here’s a certain feeling in the air at the moment and although no one might be quite yet ready to admit it – it certainly feels like winter is on its way.

The wind chill factor out and about the district yesterday, coupled with the precipitation falling from the sky gave the entry into the weekend a rather bleak outlook.

The good news though, is that it’s supposed to improve over today and tomorrow, but don’t go rushing to get the jandals and the stubbies back out just yet – it’s not going to be that warm.

Winter, for all its coldness and grim weather, is an exciting time for this district though.

The prospect of snow falling on top of the mountain that towers over us brings a certain kind of excitement as thousands start to gear up and think about getting up onto the slopes for another ski season on top of Mt Hutt.

Snow fell on the mountain late in the week and then picked up some rather bone-tingling winds too which would have sent

shivers through even the most staunch of folk.

Mt Hutt is one of our greatest assets and its contribution to the Ashburton District should never be underestimated.

The people it brings into our district and the money that they then in turn spend is a huge part of what makes us successful and the prospect of another good season of visitors is just what the doctor ordered leading into the season.

Winter also means winter sport and we wrote last week about the return of the club rugby season last weekend and I’m pleased to say that a quick head count around the Methven Domain saw my estimate

of 200 spectators well and truly surpassed.

But it’s also football, netball, indoor bowls and all variances of sports that help fill the colder months.

So, while we might at times bemoan the impending nature of the latter stages of autumn and then winter, we should also take the time to appreciate it in some ways too.

However, like everything in life, there are things that come with the change in season that need to be taken into account when tackling everyday life.

There’s a story further up in today’s Guardian about locals getting the flu jab for the season and there’s other simple tasks

like cleaning out the chimney before you light it for the first time, making sure your car is prepared against the cooler mornings and even something as simple as getting the heat pump filter cleaned out before it really kicks into life.

No one should have to be reminded about the dangers of winter when it comes to driving, our roads are busier, they can hold ice and water, so people need to drive with caution.

So, be prepared this year as winter approaches and on that note, don’t forget to put the clocks back an hour tonight.

You don’t want to be that person who shows up to work an hour early on Monday morning.

In 1968, 41 people were killed by two consecutive natural gas explosions at a sporting goods store in downtown Richmond, Indiana.

In 1971, Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky, 88, died in New York City.

In 1998, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9000 points for the first time, ending the day at 9033.23. Country singer Tammy Wynette died at her Nashville home at age 55.

Ten years ago: An earthquake in central Italy killed some 300 people in the country’s deadliest quake in nearly three decades.

President Barack Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern

Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, during a visit to Ankara; delivering a speech to the Turkish Parliament, Obama declared the US “is not and never will be at war with Islam”.

Five years ago: Legendary Hollywood actor Mickey Rooney, 93, died in North Hollywood.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged warning to Asia Pacific nations, announcing in Tokyo that the US would send two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan to counter the North Korean threat.

One year ago: Thousands of Palestinians protested along Gaza’s sealed border with Israel;

Israeli troops opened fire from across the border, and Gaza health officials said at least nine Palestinians were killed. A South Korean court sentenced former President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison on charges including bribery and extortion stemming from a corruption scandal that removed her from office a year earlier.

Today’s birthdays: Nobel Prizewinning scientist James D. Watson is 91. Actor Billy Dee Williams is 82. Actor Roy Thinnes is 81.

Movie director Barry Levinson is 77. Actor John Ratzenberger is 72. Actress Patrika Darbo is 71. Actress Marilu Henner is 67.

Actor Michael Rooker is 64.

Rock musician Warren Haynes is 59. Rock singer-musician Frank Black is 54. Actress Ari Meyers is 50. Actor Paul Rudd is 50. Rock musician Markku Lappalainen is 46. Actor Zach Braff is 44.

Actor Joel Garland is 44. Actress Candace Cameron Bure is 43.

Actor Teddy Sears is 42. Jazz and rhythm-and-blues musician Robert Glasper is 41. Actress Eliza Coupe is 38. Folk singer-musician Kenneth Pattengale (Milk Carton Kids) is 37. Actor Bret Harrison is 37. Actor Charlie McDermott is 29.

Thought for today: “History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.” — Sir Stephen Spender, British poet and critic (1909-1995).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, April 6, the 96th day of 2019. There are 269 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On April 6, 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organised by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York.

On this date: In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee as Confederate forces launched a surprise attack against Union troops, who beat back the Confederates the next day.

In 1864, A British patrol was ambushed by Pai Mārire warriors near Ōakura. The heads of the seven men killed were taken around the North Island by Pai Mārire disciples to encourage enlistment in the movement.

In 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece.

In 1909, American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole.

In 1917, the United States entered World War One as the House joined the Senate in approving a declaration of war against Germany that was then signed by President Woodrow Wilson.

In 1919, The all-Māori Pioneer Battalion was one of only three New Zealand Expeditionary Force formations – and the only battalion – to return from the First World War as a complete unit.

In 1945, during World War Two, the Japanese warship Yamato and nine other vessels sailed on a suicide mission to attack the US fleet off Okinawa; the fleet was intercepted the next day.

In 1954, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, responding to CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s broadside against him on See It Now, said in remarks filmed for the programme that Murrow had, in the past, “engaged in propaganda for Communist causes”.

In 1965, the United States launched Intelsat I, also known as the Early Bird communications satellite, into geosynchronous orbit.

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o there may have been times when I have hassled our esteemed elected members of parliament and perhaps portrayed them as bumbling bureaucrats.

I may have on occasion taken out the fun stick and poked them with it, or concocted a verbal waterfall of rainbow randomness and showered them with it.

Therefore, it may come as a slight raise of the left eyebrow that I must say I am grateful I’m not an apartment dweller from Epsom (reference to David Seymour’s comments on social housing and mental health).

For the mocha loving urbanites of Manukau Road have undoubtedly the King of Klutz, the Smiling Son of Silliness, the Apostle of the Act Party, David ‘See Me No More In Parliament’.

That’s why I must give a huge shout out to Jo Luxton, Andrew Falloon and Amy Adams. Not long after the tragic events of Christchurch, I emailed the afore mentioned MPs along with the Prime Minister’s office.

I emailed them as a private citizen and expressed my sentiment that they do whatever they can in their spheres of influence to ensure our gun laws are reviewed and written in a way that eliminates, isolates or reduces the likelihood of the March 15 events happening again.

Now here is where you need to kick the cat off the couch and put down your crochet. It was after 10pm when I sent out the emails, and both Jo and Andrew replied personally that night!

Seriously, at a time when most

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All of our local politicians (from left) Andrew Falloon, Jo Luxton and Amy Adams were quick to respond in the wake of the mosques massacres. of you were still glowing in the aftermath of Australians being silly on Married at First Sight (yes Matt and Hoops, we know you watch it), our public servants were putting their constituents first.

Within days Amy and the Prime Minister’s office had replied. Now I hadn’t actually asked for a reply, but they all did.

This is why I am so pleased we don’t have the peacock strutting type behaviour of David Seymour. For once I feel sorry for the affluent, affable residents of Epsom.

MP Seymour crowed long and loud that he would slow down the gun law review, quoting democracy as the reason for doing so. He majestically held centre stage on Tuesday, while the media hounds circled and snapped at the sound bites he tossed.

All the while the other 119 elected members got on with the job and voted to shift the bill through its first reading and into select committee stage.

While making himself look ridiculous is not new to David, he also missed the point of being an elected representative, something Jo and Andrew with

fewer years in the job have easily grasped.

There are times when we want the ones we elected to simply make the right decision and not muck around. We elected them to represent us, but that does not always equate to incessant consultation with us.

If they have any nous they will know the thoughts of their electorate.

Obviously 119 MPs did, and one simply wanted to be on TV. This was one of those occasions when it was obvious as to what politicians needed to do.

Democracy does not mean every step taken is first discussed back and forward between Wellington and the voting public.

Yes, there are systems to making these decisions, but there is also discretion and the ability to move within that process. People expect our politicians to make good decisions and not waste time in parliament when it is obvious what needs to be done.

I truly believe that the actions of David Seymour were simply to grab some media attention.

He and his party exist within the margin of error used by statisticians, as they only polled at 0.5

per cent in the last election.

This is why I am so pleased we have the astute thinking local politicians we do.

Current statistics show that the rate at which Act Party support is declining since 2008 mirrors the rise of our prison numbers, so that by the next election more people will be in prison than support this man and his conservative populist policies.

Which ironically should please David, because they campaigned on a zero-tolerance policing policy as well as speeding up the court process.

So it’s all right to crack down hard on crims and get them to jail as quickly as possible, but not all right to push through laws designed to have the events of March 15 never repeated.

Time to loosen the Gucci belt David and sniff the underwear – I’m sure there is a whiff of hypocrisy coming from there.

On Thursday, April 4, around midday, I was driving from Tinwald to Ashburton.

As usual for the highway through Tinwald very few drivers enable side road traffic the opportunity to enter the main road.

Near Carters Terrace a car travelling under the viaduct travelled through the stop sign without slowing down.

The vehicle then continued over the bridge and into town. I drive SH1 daily and regularly observe traffic coming out of Racecourse Road and onto SH1 without stopping.

If I see this happening on a daily basis how is it that authorities are unaware of it happening?

Many of the offenders are driving vehicles with company names

on them.

Young drivers get challenged about their driving on occasions, the people I see are so-called responsible people.

Stop signs should become a focus for law enforcement attention.

You want to reduce accidents and save lives? Take action on these problem areas now.

John Lawler

Peter Livingstone is the principal of Tinwald School. The views expressed in this column are his and do not represent the views of his school, the Ashburton Guardian or the Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association.

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An Otago farmer’s misplaced trust in a stock and station agent has ended with a judge saying the days of doing business on a handshake are over.

Justice Gerald Nation of the High Court in Christchurch found largely in favour of Jasper Ross Clark against stock and station firm Rural Livestock. He awarded Clark more than $270,000 plus interest and costs – but far less than the nearly $640,000 the Milton farmer had sought.

“At least historically, it was often a source of pride amongst New Zealand farmers and stock agents that all that was needed to secure their dealings was a handshake,” Justice Nation says in his judgment. “The experience of the parties to these proceedings may well suggest that should now be consigned to history.”

Farmers should also know “what stock they farm and keep tallies”, he added.

The judgment weaves a complicated tale of Clark’s dealings with stock agent John Williams with whom he had a long-standing relationship but who clearly

wasn’t that great with paperwork.

His dealings are under scrutiny by the Serious Fraud Office.

The total amount awarded relates to a number of different transactions, including Clark’s $210,277.50 purchase of 176 pregnant heifers which Clark never managed to clap eyes on, another series of deals or attempted deals involving 253 heifer calves, and 112 “empty” dairy heifers of which Clark received just 71 or 72.

Justice Nation noted that Clark “put a significant degree of trust” in Williams and that even though he acknowledged having problems with Williams providing him with the paperwork for transactions, he “considered Mr Williams was a good agent in terms of setting up deals”.

Clark bought the 176 pregnant heifers relating to most of the compensation to be put out to pasture on another farmer’s land until after they calved. The second farmer would keep the calves as payment, but the cows were to be returned to Clark.

Williams had leased the cows to two different farmers, one of whom appears not to exist, and when it came time to return the

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cows to Clark, they were nowhere to be found.

Justice Nation notes that an unusual feature of the case was that Williams, “whose conduct is under challenge, gave evidence for the plaintiffs”.

Although the judge accepted some of Williams’ evidence, there were some matters “on which

problematic.

“Under cross-examination, Mr Williams said he had arranged the lease of 90 heifers to Mr Bouma and the remainder to a farmer in Canterbury,” the judgment says.

“He said that he was under constraints through obligations of confidentiality in relation to his involvement in the investigation of the SFO but that he was able to say the stock leased to a Mr Greers or Giers in Canterbury had ultimately ‘gone north’,” it says.

Apparently, some of the cows ended up being sold, but Clark was kept in the dark about this and never received payment. A Rural Livestock general manager suggested it was possible the proceeds were credited “to one of Mr Williams’ own fictitious accounts, although not paid out to him”.

Rural had frozen all Williams’ accounts.

That general manager acknowledged the firm’s “systems and management inadvertently allowed Mr Williams’ irregularities to occur unnoticed and then failed to detect them for some time”.

A company forced to rehire a woman they sacked for vomiting and allegedly sexually propositioning Sydney Opera House staff is appealing an order to reinstate her position.

The woman, a project administrator for an electrical company contracted to install lighting to part of the Opera House, got so drunk at farewell drinks she vomited at the bar.

She was also accused of sexually propositioning an Opera House employee and insulting staff at the night out in July last year.

She had to be helped to a taxi as her night came to an end and said she’d “never being so drunk in my life”.

The company, Ryan Wilks, sacked the manager for breaching their internal “code of conduct” after quizzing the manager on what happened in meetings about alleged “misconduct”.

The woman denied the initial allegations that she sexually propositioned an Opera House employee and verbally abused other staff at the farewell drinks.

She also contested the amount of wine that she threw up, claiming it was only a “small amount of regurgitated wine”.

The woman described the case against her by Ryan Wilks as untruthful and said her claims for reinstatement were to “have her name cleared, in what she described as heinous allegations”.

She launched a complaint to the Fair Work Commission against Ryan Wilks and provided “exten-

sive written submissions” and a slew of other materials to support the case for her reinstatement, according to Fair Work documents.

She claimed she’d been kept in the dark about the extent of the allegations and had been unable to defend herself fully, saying there was no real reason for her to have been sacked.

The woman claimed she had been treated differently and unfairly compared to other staff, who she asserted had both been more drunk than her and been “sexually provocative” at other staff drinks.

She also complained that she wasn’t told about who had complained about her drunkenness on the night. In the claim, she made an assertion that the real reason that she was being sacked was that she was a “whistleblower”. These claims were denied by the company.

The manager further claimed that Ryan Wilks’ investigative processes, that led to her being sacked, were inadequate.

Fair Work Commissioner Ian Cambridge ordered that Ryan Wilks rehire the woman and called her sacking harsh, unjust and unreasonable.

But the company said they’re appealing the decision.

“The company relies on its code of conduct as to expected standards of behaviour for its employees,” Ryan Wilks told the ABC via a statement.

“As the appeal is yet to be determined, the company is not able to make any further comment at this stage”.

In the original submissions

Ryan Wilks claimed reinstating the woman was not an option. They claimed the woman’s conduct on the night had caused “serious damage to the relationship” between both parties.

While the woman was attending a function out of hours, her employer also argued that it reflected poorly on her workplace. This is because, according to Ryan Wilks, it happened with colleagues and people associated with work, close by her workplace.

The leaving do took place at the Opera Bar and then moved on to the Portside Bar downstairs.

Cambridge, the commissioner, said employees need to take care, as they could increasingly be judged by management while at work functions outside of work hours.

“The employer was understandably concerned that the misconduct of the applicant at the farewell drinks function might have some impact upon the renewal of its contract with its major client, the Sydney Opera House.

“Consequently, in this instance, there would seem to be sound basis for the employer to have implemented some form of disciplinary action in respect to the misconduct of the applicant associated with her drunkenness,” he said.

He said getting drunk, without aggression or being abusive, a single time at a work event does not add up to misconduct that can lead to dismissal.

It was also noted in the case that the woman had an unblemished record before the drunken incident.

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MC United ready for step up

By Erin Tasker

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Mid Canterbury United will today embark on its first season in the Mainland Football division one competition in the strongest position they’ve ever been in.

That’s according to the side’s coach and goalkeeper Marty Fitzgerald, and he should know.

He’s been around the traps for a while now and is excited by the depth of this year’s squad, with a number of new young faces set to combine with the more experienced players to make what they hope will be a formidable team.

Mid Canterbury United are stepping up to division one this year, after an unbeaten season in division two last year resulted in promotion to the next step up – and it will be a step up, Fitzgerald is sure of that.

So he said it’s important the players don’t get ahead of themselves. For him, it’s all about taking it one game at a time.

“We’ll take the attitude that last season is last season.

“A couple of guys keep rabbiting on about how we were undefeated and want to carry on that run, but my thinking is it’s a new season and a new looking team, and our focus has got to be game by game,” Fitzgerald said.

Mid Canterbury United begin their 2019 season at home today at 2.30pm against Halswell United, a club they played pre-season and drew 1-all, and Fitzgerald described the feeling in the camp as “nervously confident”.

“My squad, on paper, I think we are going to be a force to be reckoned with and when we are on song we are going to rip teams apart,” Fitzgerald said.

The side has welcomed Jamie Smitheram in the centre mids this year, Matt Boote in centre defence, Tom Dudley at right wing and Nick Campbell in the number 10 striking role.

The young new additions mean Mid Canterbury United will be running a squad of 18 this season instead of 16, and there will

Stanly Pokipoki has moved to the left wing for Mid Canterbury United’s division one football team this season.

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be competition for starting spots every week.

“Some of the older guys are going to have to earn their spots with the young guys eyeing up a starting role,” Fitzgerald said.

Many of the side’s returning players will take to the field in different positions than last year, including Stanly Pokipoki who has moved from defence to left wing and Sam Hall who will play at left back instead of right back.

The side will be co-captained

by Ed Kettle and Luke Martin, who is set to again be a force to be reckoned with up front.

Fitzgerald said he’s asked his

side to play a passing style of football this year, which is set to be faster and more accurate than the style they played last year.

So far it’s looking good and Mid Canterbury United are hopeful it will work well in a division that they know is going to be a step up from what they’re used to.

Mid Canterbury United aren’t the only local team stepping it up a notch this season.

Up the road in Methven, the Methven FC Seniors also finished on top and earned themselves promotion last season.

They’re making the step up from Mainland Football’s divi-

sion four competition, to division three, and today they are also at home for game one.

They’ll play Universities AFC Sisters at the Methven Domain at 2.30pm.

The feeling in the Methven camp is good, too, with the team having taken out their own pre-season tournament late last month – the inaugural Methven SuperValue Cup. Both Mid Canterbury United and Methven United have another team in the Mainland Football senior men’s competitions this season, with both having teams in division six.

Methven FC’s division six team is away to Banks Peninsula in Akaroa today, while Mid Canterbury United’s division six team is also on the road.

They are playing the FC Twenty 11 Memes at Avonhead Park in Christchurch.

Mid Canterbury United also has a team in the senior women’s division one competition played on Sundays – the Mid Canterbury United Phat Ducks – and they’re also away for round one tomorrow.

They’ll play the Western AFC Princesses at Elmwood Park in Christchurch.

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Netball gets under way Premier netball teams from around Canterbury will make their way to Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre tomorrow for the first day of the 2019 inter-centre netball competition. Six Mid Canterbury teams will be among those taking part. Today, Guardian sports reporter Erin Tasker takes a look at who those teams are and what the inter-centre competition has in store for them.

Celtic Celtic finished the 2018 season with two teams in Mid Canterbury Netball’s top grade – premier one – for the first time.

They’re heading into the inter-centre competition with just the one squad though, with Celtic A and Celtic B coming together for the pre-season tournament, and for them it’s all about challenging themselves.

Celtic A coach Angela Leadley will lead the team through the inter-centre competition and she said it’s a chance to blow out the cobwebs and tidy up any bad habits, but also an opportunity to play unknown teams.

“It’s a great opportunity to play different teams and styles, and challenge yourself,” Leadley said.

Celtic’s sides have lost some key players from their 2018 line-ups, but Leadley said they’ve also welcomed some new blood and they are working together well as a group.

Celtic will play Kia Toa and Old Boys A tomorrow, and Marist Albion and Hampstead A next Sunday.

Celtic’s squad for day one of the inter-centre tournament is Anna Holland, Julia McLeod, Shannon Stockdale, Sala Bueta, Gemma Boon, Barine Ross, Elliotte Strange, Catherine Kuyf, Livvie Kennedy, Rebecca Cornish and Natalie Allen.

Methven A Last year’s beaten finalists in Mid Canterbury Netball’s premier grade Methven A would dearly love to go one better this season.

And according to coach Maree Firth, they’ve got the team that could do it.

They’ve lost a couple of key players, but have also picked up a few new players.

“Second’s not where we want to be, so we are looking forward to a really strong season,” Firth said.

Firth said the feeling in the camp is good heading into the inter-centre competition.

“We don’t know a lot about the other teams that we will be playing, so the first round will give us a good idea.”

Methven has drawn Selwyn’s Broadfield A in their first game tomorrow, and Timaru’s Craighead A tomorrow afternoon, and on day two next Sunday they’ll play Timaru’s Old Boys A and Rolleston.

“The focus really for this weekend is just getting combinations going,” Firth said.

“This year I think we have strength throughout the court, so it’s just getting those combinations together.”

The main players missing this season, from the squad that took Methven to the final in 2018, are shooter Lana Ngametua, defender Sally Carr and mid-courter Sophie Lilley.

Methven’s squad is Leanne Clemens, Hayley Duthie, Hannah McDougall, Amelia McKnight, Anita Watson, Sarah Stoddart, Lizzy Bell, Anna Poole, Kelsey Hart and Kate Brady.

United A and Southern A will play in the premier two section of the inter-centre competition.

Hampstead A

Only three players who were part of Hampstead A’s 2018 campaign have returned for another shot in 2019.

But coach Janene McDowell is more than happy with her lot – she’s got a good mix of players with strengths across the court, and she said the inter-centre competition will provide their first real tests.

“We’re just taking this as what it is – it’s pre-season so we won’t be looking at the scoreline or anything silly like that, and we will be distributing the work load around everyone,” McDowell said.

After being unable to field a B team last year, Hampstead has both an A and a B team set to take to the court this season, and McDowell said that’s great for the club.

A couple of the players from the B team are likely to make appearances during the inter-centre competition.

This year’s Hampstead A squad is Renae Taylor, Emma Rosevear, Nicole Hands, Sophie Currie, Georgia Burrowes, Maddy Walker, Meg Ashworth, Anna Proudman and Olivia Proudman.

Ashburton College A In 2018, Ashburton College were a young and relatively inexperienced side.

This year, it’s a different story.

College A coach Kaye Kennedy said her side has lost just three players from their 2018 squad – two have finished school and one has dropped back to the Bs – and they have been replaced by Faith Scott, Jasmin Strawbridge and Taylah Burrowes.

“We are looking at being able to consolidate this year with some exciting new players in there to add to the crew,” Kennedy said.

“I’ve been really impressed with the work that they have done in the off season, they look really fit and strong.

“Most of the girls have been involved with the Mid Canterbury player development programme, so that’s really great, they have had a bit of a head-start with that.”

College A will play Hampstead A and Timaru’s Harlequins A in the inter-centre competition tomorrow, and Craighead A and Rangiora High School A next weekend.

Playing the two school sides will give College A a gauge of where they’re at heading into a season where they have to qualify for the Canterbury secondary schools’ SuperNet competition, having finished sixth in the top grade last year.

That was a bottom three finish and the bottom three teams from the top grade and the top three teams from the reserve grade will play off on May 5, 8 and 11 for the right to play in that top grade in 2019.

Celtic A and Methven A were the top two Mid Canterbury teams last season - who will be the teams to beat by the end of this season?

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Ashburton College A’s squad is Samantha Holden, Grace Adams, Emma Stagg, Danielle McArthur, Hayley Tallentire, Poppy Kilworth, Mia Pearson, Jasmin Strawbridge, Taylah Burrowes and Faith Scott.

United A It’s not hard to guess what United A’s goal for this season is.

They were relegated from Mid Canterbury’s premier one competition to premier two last season, which is where they’ll start this season. So their aim is to get back to premier one.

They’ll play in the premier two section of the inter-centre competition, too, starting against Tech B tomorrow followed by fellow Ashburton side Celtic – an extra game to make up for the bye that United has – and next weekend they’ll play Tech B and Marist Albion.

Coach Claire Tappin said her 2019 squad featured a mix of experience with youthful energy, with five players returning from last year and three newcomers joining.

United A’s squad is: Olivia McLennan, Stacey Grant, Anna Edzes, Libby Ross, Alice Hamill, Charlotte Samson, Natalie Shaw and Sophie Shaw.

Southern A Southern A will also play in the premier two division of the inter-centre competition this weekend, and head in with a squad featuring a few different faces from 2018.

The Alice Keir-coached side will take on Rolleston in their first game tomorrow, followed by UC A, and on day two next Sunday they’ll play Villa Maria.

Like United A, Southern A was also a premier one side when the Mid Canterbury Netball season got under way last season and they’re determined to get back to the top.

Southern A were automatically relegated at the end of round one, with Mt Somers – a team that will not feature in the inter-centre competition – the team taking their place in premier one.

Southern A’s squad for 2019 is Anna Tonks, Meg Witterick, Marnie Edwards, Brooke Coad, Rachel Curd, Erica Phillips, Kate Tiffen and Amber Millward.

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Hampstead well overdue

By Erin Tasker

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Hampstead’s narrow one point loss to Darfield in round one of rugby’s Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup competition last weekend was as good as a win in their books.

It showed them that after years of finishing at the bottom end of the table, this season it could be very different.

So when round two of the combined competition kicks off at grounds around Canterbury this afternoon, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a team hungrier for the win than Hampstead.

Today they take on Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell (BDI) at Dunsandel and they’ll board the bus for the short trip up SH1 feeling confident.

It’s a feeling that’s been in short supply at Hampstead in the past.

They’ve won the odd combined competition game in recent seasons, but not enough to make them anywhere near contenders, and this year marks 10 years since they last won a game in the Mid Canterbury Rugby Watters Cup competition.

But they’ve been working hard to change things both on and off the field, and the Shaun Bovey and Craig Dwyer-coached side is now a team to watch.

The question now though, is can Hampstead remember how to finish off a game?

They came so close on Saturday, and were even closer against Rakaia and Methven in the Watters Cup last season, but were denied in both by tries in the final minute.

Bovey said today’s game against BDI will be physical, and while his players took a lot of heart from the fact that they led Darfield for long periods in round one, they won’t be getting ahead of themselves.

“Just because we competed against Darfield, it doesn’t mean the job is done, but it is a building block,” Bovey said.

“We don’t want to get carried away, that’s when you lose games that you had in the book to win.”

Seta Koroitamana was a powerhouse for Rakaia last week and will be a key for his side at home again today against Rolleston.

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Just what BDI will offer today is unknown – they’re a team that can change a lot from year to year – but they put up a right fight against Southern last week.

Southern won that match – the only win by a Mid Canterbury team in the first round.

Southern coach Andrew Carr isn’t getting too excited about that either because he knows it’s just the first step, but he did say he was pleasantly surprised by what his team produced on the field in game one.

He’s hoping they’ll do more of the same today when they head

to Ashley for their next pool A clash, where they will be reading nothing into Ashley’s round one 65-0 loss at the hands of defending champions Waihora.

Also taking on a team that failed to post a score in round one, is Ashburton Celtic.

They’re away to an Ohoka side which was last week beaten 41-0

by Springston, but Celtic also know they’ve got a lot of work to do too, after going down 51-24 to Prebbleton in round one.

It may be early season, but Celtic is already struggling with depth due to both injuries and player

departures from last season.

The match between Celtic and Ohoka is one of the weekly crossover match between Celtic’s pool C, and pool B – a pool which features Mid Canterbury’s other two teams.

One of those – Methven – also has a big trip north to make today.

They’re away to Glenmark-Cheviot today, a week after just falling short of a come-from-behind victory over Southbridge.

That leaves fellow pool B team Rakaia as the only local side to have home ground advantage today.

Rakaia finished runners-up to Waihora in 2018, but showed they still have some work to do in their first round loss to Glenmark-Cheviot, and they’ll be hoping for an improved performance when they take on Rolleston at the Rakaia Domain. Kick off is 2.45pm.

Meanwhile, Ashburton’s first senior women’s team – playing out of the Celtic club – will make their official competition debut today.

The Celtic women are away to Lincoln University in round one of the 2019 Metro Open Grade women’s competition.

Dagg blows the whistle on unfulfilled career Israel Dagg played 89 of his 112 Super Rugby games for the Crusaders.

Former All Blacks fullback Israel Dagg has called time on an ongoing battle with injury and announced his retirement from all rugby.

One of the most eye-catching players of his generation, Dagg spent the latter part of his career fighting a knee problem that hasn’t allowed him to play for the Crusaders, let alone add to his 66 test caps.

While disappointed to step away, Dagg was grateful his All Blacks career fell during a period of enormous success, from 2010-17.

Blessed with electric pace and elusive running, Dagg burst onto the international stage with a series of spectacular tries.

His form was so compelling, he replaced centurion Mils Muliaina as the starting fullback midway through the victorious 2011 World Cup campaign in New Zealand.

When injuries slowed him, Dagg adapted his game, honing his aerial skills to an elite level and developing one of the game’s longest punts.

New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew said Dagg’s running will be the abiding memory for most fans.

“He leaves us as one of the greats of our game and the second most capped All Blacks fullback of all time,” Tew said.

“He was an excitement machine on the rugby field and fans knew that when he got the ball in his hands that anything could happen.”

Crusaders coach Scott Robertson said Dagg’s contribution had continued off the field in recent seasons, helping mentor some of the exciting backline talent that had kept the Super Rugby champions ahead of their rivals. - NZME

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Litmus test for Brumbies Brumbies coach Dan McKellar is relaxed about throwing a green second-row pairing into Super Rugby’s version of the deep end.

History, form and the emotion factor will all weigh heavily against the men from Canberra when they try to end a 10-year winless drought against the Crusaders tonight.

It’s nearly twice as long since they’ve beaten the nine-time champions in Christchurch.

Yet McKellar has taken a selection punt by omitting test tight forwards Scott Sio, Folau Fainga’a and Rory Arnold under the Wallabies rest protocol.

He has also demoted experienced lock Sam Carter to the bench following their 3614 loss to the Queensland Reds two weeks ago.

Into the middle of the scrum comes the Brumbies’ version of the odd couple.

Well-travelled Scotsman Murray Douglas is joined by 21-year-old north Queenslander Darcy Swain, who last week signed a three-season contract extension.

Both will make their maiden Brumbies start and are determined to provide grunt against an All Blacks-laden Crusaders pack which is rarely bettered.

The hosts flexed their muscles last week in an emphatic 32-8 derby win over the Hurricanes and plenty is expected from them in their first match in Christchurch since the March 15 mosque terror attacks.

McKellar had no qualms testing the met-

tle of Douglas and Swain in such an environment and expects they will respond to the tense introspection the Brumbies have undergone since their meek loss to the Reds.

“It’s a great opportunity for players.

It’s a special occasion, the Crusaders in Christchurch and there’s no bigger task in Super Rugby,” he said.

“You can’t pick and choose your moments. It’s professional rugby and you have to turn up every week.

“If you’re going to lack physical intent, then you’re going to get beaten.”

McKellar’s bench has an even leaner look, with hooker Connal McInerney and flanker Jahrome Brown poised for rare minutes.

Prop Vunipola Fifita is in line for a Super Rugby debut.

Swain said the little-used forwards all regard the game as the perfect proving ground.

“The Crusaders are the gold standard in Super Rugby,” he said. “I think they’re the No. 1 club side in the world.”

Crusaders assistant coach Brad Mooar expects a gritty encounter, which would typify their recent history against the Brumbies.

“We’ve never really put a complete performance against them over the last couple of years,” he said.

“We’ve managed to scrape wins but they’ve hung really tough and made it difficult for us so huge respect for what they Will Jordan is just one of the new breed of Crubring.”

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All Blacks coach Steve Hansen is set to become Japanese club Toyota Verblitz’s director of rugby, according to reports from Australia. The Daily Telegraph has reported that Hansen will join All Blacks captain Kieran Read at the Japanese team following the World Cup. The side is currently being guided

by South African World Cup winner Jake White.

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Holden finally firing In the first hit-out since centre of gravity changes were enforced on the Supercars field, Holden’s Commodore has dominated practice in Tasmania. Red Bull Holden Racing Team star Jamie Whincup set a new practice lap record of 50.5084 seconds at Symmons Plains to finish ahead of team-mate Shane van Gisbergen. Centre of gravity changes were made on the Commodore and the Ford Mustang following testing after the Melbourne Grand Prix event. The Mustang has dominated the season so far, winning all six races. Holden however locked out the top five spaces in Tasmania, with David Reynolds, Mark Winterbottom and James Courtney coming behind the Red Bull pair. Chaz Mostert was the fastest Mustang in sixth with defending champion and standings leader Scott McLaughlin seventhquickest.

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They were there at the start. After the Canterbury Crusaders first played at Lancaster Park in 1996, and were thrashed 48-19 by the Auckland Blues, I was one of many local commentators who suggested the most exciting time for the Christchurch crowd was when the horsemen dressed as knights thundered around the ground before the kick-off.

I’ll miss the Crusaders’ name if it’s changed. There are a horde of thrilling onfield memories, from the stunning upset of the 1998 title win over the Blues, to the sheer joy the current side brings to their sport.

Along with, I would imagine, most New Zealanders, I’m not a student of medieval history, and in ‘96 any vague ideas I had about the Crusades were based on the Monty Python movie. That sounds flippant now, but back then it was my innocent, albeit hugely ill informed, truth.

But as a country we’re not innocent anymore.

The horror from the country’s darkest day is at the centre of the sad change, felt nowhere more keenly than in Christchurch.

On the periphery is the name of a rugby team, a team that in Christchurch has unified and uplifted. From the days of Wayne Smith, Robbie Deans, and Todd Blackadder, the Crusaders have been a byword for decency and inclusiveness.

Having spent 50 years as a paid observer of rugby teams, no group has set better standards than the Crusaders, or had a more generous attitude to people outside the team.

But now we know that the Crusaders’ name itself derives from groups as brutal and vicious as any other in medieval times, themselves a dark, cruel era in history. We can’t undo that knowledge now.

While I can understand the stance of

those who feel something that happened 1000 years ago shouldn’t have any influence on our thinking now, I’d respectively suggest that tens of millions of people all over the world still follow the teachings of a man who was crucified more than 2000 years ago. I don’t hear people suggesting that Christians are idiots to follow beliefs so old.

A name change in a city like Christchurch, where so many have an emotional connection to the Crusaders, is already stirring powerful emotions. An online petition opposing any name change has quickly gathered almost 20,000 supporters.

In 1998 when the name of Lancaster Park was changed to Jade Stadium, after a sponsorship deal with a local computer company, there were, in those largely pre-internet days, a barrage of outraged letters to local editors. The Crusaders stir more visceral feelings.

What’s important now, as the discussion swirls, is that some things are not only made clear, but are drilled home.

There’s been no government request for a name change, and, more importantly, Colin Mansbridge, CEO Crusaders CEO, says the Muslim community has played no part in discussions, much less requested a change.

For the “PC gone mad” group it’s vital they know this is a determination not being driven from Muslim agitation, but by rugby officials who are, as Mansbridge has said, “committed to doing the right thing”.

Sensitivity and rugby management have rarely been automatically associated, but Mansbridge and New Zealand Rugby’s CEO Steve Tew were fair and thoughtful when they suggested the imagery of knights on horseback was no longer tenable.

In all honesty, if the whole branding of the team, from the pre-match entertainment, the faux fortress at the home ground, the crest on the jersey, the song Conquest Of Paradise and the sword sunk in the ground, are all dropped, as it appears they will be, it’s hard to grasp how the name can’t go the same way as the symbolism.

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■■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Defending champs await Barbarians

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

The Ashburton Barbarians face a trip to Burnham to play the defending champions in an earlier than expected start to the Canterbury Rugby League division one competition today.

They’re set to take on the Burnham Chevaliers at Coronation Park this afternoon and although they only found out on Monday that their season would be starting this weekend, they’re ready.

In fact, Barbarians coach Steve Gamble said in all of his years involved with the club, he’s never seen them as ready for a season as they are at the moment.

“It’s possibly the fittest that I have seen them for the start of a season anyway,” Gamble said.

“Some of the boys are probably three times fitter now than they were at the end of last season.”

Much of that goes down to the hard work of the side’s trainer, Len Wilson, and it’s actually given Gamble a good headache this season.

“He’s got more fit forwards capable of playing for long stretches, than he can handle.

But that’s a good problem to have.

The side has had two good pre-season hit-outs and had been thinking they still had a week or two before their season started.

At the start of the week they still hadn’t seen a draw for the season

and while an email on Monday advised them they’d be playing the Chevaliers in round one today, they’re yet to see a draw any further ahead than that.

Gamble said starting the competition today is good for the Barbarians.

With no more pre-season fixtures planned, they’d have just been spending their remaining Saturdays training anyway, so they are looking forward to getting into it.

They know Burnham will be tough – they always are – but Gamble is happy with where his side is at and knows that if they can survive the initial Chevaliers onslaught, they could start the 2019 season with an upset victory.

“If we can weather the storm in the early stages of the game we should be able to open up our backs and have a look in there,” Gamble said.

But it’s in the forwards where Gamble really sees the Barbarians’ strength being this season.

They’re big, they’re fit, and they’re keen.

“I think the key for us is going to be our forward fitness and the fact that this year we have stripped things back and gone back to basic rugby league and are working on our one per centers every time we go out there,” Gamble said.

They’ve lost a couple of key players from the 2018 Barbari-

The Ashburton Barbarians will be hoping to again leave Burnham Chevaliers players in their wake in their opening game of the season tomorrow.

PHOTO PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN ans side which, having been a favourite to take the competition out at one point, failed to even make the final.

But they’ve got a few new play-

ers in the mix this season and unfinished business to tend to, and Gamble and his crew can’t wait to get out onto the park.

The Ashburton Barbarians will

Cronk plays down injury concerns Sydney Roosters veteran Cooper Cronk has played down injury concerns, insisting he came from the field as a precaution during his side’s 36-4 thumping of Brisbane.

After spending the last fortnight on the sidelines because of a hamstring complaint, Cronk copped a series of stiff hits before being substituted midway through the second half at the SCG on Thursday night.

Broncos forward Tevita Pangai Junior will come under the scrutiny of the match review committee after whacking the champion playmaker after he had passed the ball.

The tackle was put on report and described as a “dog shot” by Immortal Andrew Johns.

Cronk came from the field after seemingly copping friendly fire from Poasa Faamausili while tackling Corey Oates.

However, Cronk insisted with his side up 22-0 at the time – it was job done and he came off for the final 28 minutes to give himself a rest.

“No injury. I’ve been out with a tight hamstring for the last two weeks,” Cronk said.

“The idea leading into the game was to get some real good quality minutes in.

“Our first half was pretty good, we played real high-quality footy.

“In terms of getting our bench some minutes, it was just precau-

tionary to come off.”

Cronk stayed on the ground for several moments after being hit from behind by Pangai Junior but said he had come to expect that sort of treatment.

“It’s part of the job description, it’s part of your role as a ball player, you’ve got to go into the line and create some space for your outside players,” Cronk said.

“The officials will take care of all that stuff.

“As long as I keep on getting up and standing, I’ll keep doing my job.

“I’d prefer not to (get hit from behind) but sometimes that’s a part of football.

“Sometimes they do it so halves don’t go into the line and create space.

“I’ll keep doing it for my team as long as guys can take advantage of it.”

Johns has long been vocal about the need to offer greater protection for playmakers and Cronk said there was no place in the game for cheap shots.

“If it’s late, high, aggressive contact, wipe it out of the game completely,” Cronk said.

“I’m not talking about that incident, I’m talking generically.

“There was a question mark, it could have been 10 in the bin but I trust the officials.”

- AAP Cooper Cronk’s exit from the field on Thursday was precautionary.

play the Burnham Chevaliers in round one of the Canterbury Rugby League division one competition at Coronation Park today. Kick off is at 1pm.

In brief Salmon in for Eels Dylan Brown’s absence at fiveeighth won’t derail Parramatta’s on-song attack against Cronulla, with coach Brad Arthur insisting Jaeman Salmon can seamlessly transition into the role. Salmon will play his first game in the No.6 jersey this year against the Sharks tonight, after Brown was ruled out indefinitely with a back injury. His absence will come as a massive blow to the Eels, who have had the NRL’s third-most potent attack with Brown playing direct and firing alongside in-form halfback Mitchell Moses.

- AAP

Tedesco ‘world’s best’ After being proclaimed the best player in the world by Roosters coach Trent Robinson, James Tedesco has credited his rise to the influence of the “football whisperer” Joe Wehbe. The NSW and Australian fullback continued his stellar start to the NRL season in the Roosters’ 36-4 demolition of Brisbane at the SCG on Thursday. Going into round four, the Tricolours No.1 was on the second line of betting – only behind Cameron Munster – for the Dally M medal. And after running for 195 metres, busting six tackles, making one linebreak, crossing for a try and turning in a rock-solid defensive performance, his odds will only shorten. Robinson said since defecting from the Wests Tigers 18 months ago, Tedesco had developed from a talented individual player into a senior statesman of the game.

- AAP

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In brief Tough ask for Brighton Already regarded one of the Premier League’s best goalkeepers, Socceroo Mat Ryan is now aiming to become just the sixth Australian to play in the FA Cup final. Ryan’s Brighton side have the unenviable task of stopping a red-hot Manchester City tomorrow morning as they look to book a place in the decider of the world’s oldest national football competition for the first time in 36 years. Despite back-to-back league defeats to Southampton and Chelsea, Ryan insists the mood remains buoyant and the city buzzing with excitement. - NZME

Bucks grab top spot Giannis Antetokounmpo outdueled fellow MVP candidate Joel Embiid, finishing with 45 points and 13 rebounds and leading Milwaukee to a 128-122 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers yesterday as the Bucks clinched the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. Khris Middleton added 22 points for the Bucks, who locked up home-court advantage with three regularseason games remaining.

- AAP

GWS not complacent

Trying to figure out his next move during a game of bowls at the Rakaia Bowling Club last weekend was Charlie Tomlin, while wife Jill Tomlin watched on. The pair were taking part in an annual bowls match involving members of the Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade, which was fun, but rather competitive at the same time with a trophy on the line for the bowlers who came out on top.

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Daily Events SATURDAY 7.30am (sharp) RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Rise and Shine Saturday. Runners and Walkers, all welcome. Meet at Frontrunner, 28 Moore Street. Visit our facebook page for more details.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS’ MARKET. Lots of produce, products, hot and cold

SUNDAY 8am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Rayde falls, new members welcome.

Phone Jenny 308 6862. Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square West.

8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

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

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rev Henry

MONDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 11am DAYTIME NETBALL. $5 a game, first game free. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace. (not school holidays).

10am

The ins and outs surely favour them but GWS aren’t convinced Richmond will be theirs for the taking at home today. The Giants welcome back classy midfielder Josh Kelly from injury and ruckman Shane Mumford from retirement and suspension, and will hand exDocker Tommy Sheridan his club debut.

- AAP

April 6, 7 & 8, 2019 drinks and much more. See you there!

West Street Car Park.

9am - 12.30pm CRAFT MARKET. Children’s clothing, jewellery, Rawleighs, toys and more. West Street car park.

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

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

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and Parts Shed Open, 86 Maronan Road Tinwald.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10.45am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf croquet club days, new members

welcome. Allenton Sports Club.

Cavendish Street.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association club days, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.30pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Afternoon Meet. Will be hosted from 8 Westcott Place. Visit our facebook page for details.

Mbambo. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST CHURCH. Morning worship with Rev Heather Kennedy. Paterson’s Chapel, corner East and Cox Street. (note - new venue).

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, fifth Sunday in Lent.

Service led by Rev Eric Mattock, all welcome. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

10am ST PAULS/ST JAMES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, all welcome. Led

by Rev Jeff Cotton. 65 Oxford Street,

Hampstead.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion Thomson Street, Tinwald.

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

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

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH.

Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

11am - 4pm THE PLAINS RAILWAY COMPLEX. Steam train rides, Ashburton Fire Museum open, miniature train rides and more! Facebook: The Plains Railway.

11am - 4pm RAILWAY AND PRESERVATION

SOCIETY PLAINS MUSEUM. Combined Craft Days. A welcome to all craft people, Bring your lunch, friends, and your craft. $2. Maronan Road, Tinwald.

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

5pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Taizé Service. Park Street.

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, Tinwald School hall.

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

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For more information ring Age Concern 308 6817.

Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10am - 4pm

HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

12pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Weekly lunch, available at Baptist Church, foyer entrance off Cass Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from

the past to the future. Seafield Road.

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

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIORNET. Apple I phone and I pad users only.

Bring your queries, email address and

password. $2. Reading Room, MSA Havelock Street.

1.30pm LITTER FREE ASHBURTON. Volunteers needed to help pick up litter. meet East Street Chess Board, opposite Burnett Street.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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■■RICCARTON

Andertons on a mission The Brian and Shane Anderton-trained Gallant Boy will head into the Listed Christchurch Casino Easter Cup (1600m) in a freshened state and his connections believe he is ready to make it back-to-back stakes victories today.

The eight-year-old son of Gallant Guru was victorious laststart in the Gr.3 White Robe Lodge Weight For Age (1600m) at Wingatui in February and his trainers are eyeing a tilt at the Gr.3 Coca-Cola Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m) at Riccarton next week if everything goes to plan today.

“It was a great run (last start),” Brian Anderton said.

“He got everything in his favour and it was a good ride. The horse pulled out all the stops to win.

“He’s won ten races now, so he is a real honest type of horse.

“He’s well, he has freshened up nicely and we intend to run him again at Christchurch the following week in the mile and a quarter (Gr.3 Coca-Cola Canterbury Gold Cup, 2000m).

Gallant Boy may be rising nine,

M7

but Anderton said his gelding is improving with time and is in the form of his life.

“The funny thing about him, when you get a horse who is an eight-year-old people start thinking they are getting buggered, but he’s probably the best we have ever had him,” he said.

“He’s matured now and thickened up and has improved with age.”

Gallant Boy hasn’t raced since early February, but Anderton is happy with his charge, who will jump from barrier two under jockey Terry Moseley with 58.5kg on his back in the open handicap.

Big test for Kiwi duo Leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller will line-up two New Zealand-bred fillies in the Gr.3 PJ Bell Stakes (1200m) at Randwick today and believes both runners will be competitive in the race. It will be My Xpression’s first race day appearance in Australia and Waller is expecting a good showing from the daughter of Showcasing, despite her draw. “Corey Brown was very happy with her trial, unfortunately she has drawn barrier 20 which detracts from her chances, but we will endeavour to find some cover and get her to finish off strongly and hopefully she will still be a winning chance.”

- NZME

Vale Trevor McKee Former thoroughbred trainer Trevor McKee (ONZM) has passed away at the age of 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes for the muchloved member of the New Zealand racing fraternity. McKee shot to prominence as the co-trainer of champion mare Sunline, whom he prepared in partnership with his son Stephen and their mare made the pair a household name. Sunline was retired from racing in 2002 after winning 32 of her 48 starts and $11.3 million in prizemoney, including two Gr.1 Cox Plates (2040m).

- NZME

Invercargill harness Today at Ascot Park Raceway

Invercargill Harness Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 06 April 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 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 12.07pm LEVEL ONE RESTAURANT MOBILE PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ mr40 to mr43., 2200m 1 23794 Rebel With A Grin (1) fr............ N Williamson 2 57566 Thisexcusebetterbeit (2) fr.........E Barron (J) 3 0x038 Real Change (3) fr.....................M Hurrell (J) 4 6x085 G T Reactor (4) fr.............................B Morris 5 32039 Thisladyrocks (5) fr...................B Williamson 6 93793 Bettors Atom (6) fr................... J Morrison (J) 7 00902 Swift Robyn (7) fr........................C Ferguson 8 90076 Rakabeamer (8) fr.......................... B Barclay 9 08040 Snowy Dana (21) fr..............................C Lee 10 66684 Be Inspired (22) fr.......................... A Armour 2 12.42pm SOUTHLAND EXPRESS PACE $10,000, non-winners 2yo+, stand, 2700m 1 382 Top Play (1) fr...................................J W Cox 2 Art’s Dash (2) fr....................... J Morrison (J) 3 7 Kiwi Jewel (3) fr..........................M Anderson 4 60832 Rakagem (4) fr...........................E Barron (J) 5 88743 Delight N Gold (5) fr......................... E Swain 6 55537 Lifeofbrian (6) fr..........................M Hurrell (J) 7 409x6 Ideal Ron (7) fr...................................A Beck 8 95054 Opal (8) fr.....................................B McLellan 9 97059 Tact Denzel (9) fr...................... M Williamson 10 92507 Luvtahavtime (10) fr.......................B Orange 11 Pembrook Playboy (11) fr......... N Williamson 3 1.17pm HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY LESLEY MARSHALL MOBILE PACE $10,000, non-winners 2yo+ mr46 to mr50, mobile, 2200m

M2

Gallant Boy and Jacob Lowry in winning form.

“He’s had a jump-out and has done enough work, we are just happy with him,” he said.

“He’s been a consistent horse all the way through. He didn’t go so well in the Timaru Cup. But we rode him too handy, he seems better when ridden back a bit.”

The Andertons will be hoping to record further black-type success at Riccarton when Larippa lines up in the Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m).

The three-year-old daughter of Rip Van Winkle is on a path towards next week’s Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Warstep Stakes, but Anderton said she will have to acquit herself well to warrant a start in that race.

“She’s going to be tested, but our ambition has always been the Warstep Stakes over a mile and a quarter. We have just got to have a run and see how we shape up,” he said.

“She’s got to measure up. She’s won her maiden, but as you go up it gets harder. If she runs on well in that field we would be going on to have a go at the Warstep Stakes.”

- NZME

In brief

1 Cab Calloway (1) fr.....................C Ferguson 2 Montefalco (2) fr.........................M Anderson 3 00 Hazer (3) fr..................................... B Barclay 4 24332 The Great Buzz (4) fr.................E Barron (J) 5 28450 Aurelia Cotta (5) fr..........................B Orange 6 6646 Rakabeach (6) fr.......................B Williamson 7 3 Tulsa Jaccka (7) fr.................... N Williamson 8 6795 Melton Mafia (8) fr................................G Lee 9 Tony The Pony (21) fr.................M Hurrell (J) 10 48583 Flaming Jim (U1) fr.................. M Williamson 4 1.52pm ALDEBARAN PARK GOLD CHIP FINAL HANDICAP TROT $12,000, 3yo+, non-winners & upr55 spechcp, stand, 2200m 1 47659 The Power Broker (1) fr........ K McNaught (J) 2 922 Big Iron (2) fr................................ T Stratford 3 66444 Robo Trouble (3) fr......................... B Barclay 4 7x338 Gazza Galleon (4) fr................. M Williamson 5 80806 South Park (U1) fr........................... P Hunter 6 20449 Matai Jetstar (1) 30M........................ A Milne 7 7x140 Christmas Babe (2) 30M...........B Williamson 8 45602 Abby May (3) 30M.......................C Ferguson 9 36053 Our Foxy Lady (4) 30M.............P Williamson 10 0P095 Veneto (5) 30M................................ E Swain 11 08958 Cuddly Trouble (6) 30M..................B Orange 12 70P96 Whatwillbeewillbee (U1) 30M... N Williamson 5 2.27 BEACH ROAD HOLIDAY PARK MOBILE PACE $8000, r40-r46,r47 w/c., mobile, 2200m 1 92233 Miss Fandango (1) fr......................B Orange 2 50060 Honour Scroll (2) fr............................ A Milne 3 06008 Lady’s Lass (3) fr....................... T Robertson 4 00222 Black Ops (4) fr..........................E Barron (J) 5 7x444 Iwanadancewitsumbody (5) fr.. M Williamson

6 23109 Bound To Be Bettor (6) fr........ S Walkinshaw 7 28592 Bold Ruler (7) fr............................... P Hunter 8 08887 Tad Lincoln (8) fr...................... N Williamson 9 10883 Kagee VC (21) fr.........................C Ferguson 10 59466 Coolhand Easton (22) fr............B Williamson 11 30510 Magnate Mara (23) fr...........................G Lee 12 69575 Nightmarch (24) fr............................R Swain 13 0x096 Ideal Breeze (25) fr............................A Beck 14 68050 Theodora Hope (26) fr.....................J W Cox 6 3.02pm SOUTHLAND HARNESS AWARDS SUPER FINAL MBL PACE $20,000, 3yo+ f&m., mobile, 2200m 1 17684 Calico Hill (1) fr..........................E Barron (J) 2 2P661 Miss V C fr..................................... Scratched 3 41646 Stay Aboard (2) fr......................B Williamson 4 79780 Vintage Rose (3) fr................... M Williamson 5 18400 Shuzi (4) fr.................................M Anderson 6 10213 Major Sass (5) fr............................B Orange 7 14253 Rockabilly Blues (6) fr.............. N Williamson 8 4283 Southern Rain (7) fr.............................G Lee 9 12x93 The Empress (21) fr....................... B Barclay 10 41944 Divinia Bellezza (22) fr.....................J W Cox 11 31326 Bunter’s Dream (23) fr..................... P Hunter 7 3.37pm THANKS BRENT BALLANTYNE MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r53-r60., mobile, 2200m 1 08505 Annie Fitz (1) fr.................... K McNaught (J) 2 3135 Pressed For Time (2) fr..................B Orange 3 47374 Groomsman (3) fr..................... M Williamson 4 13 Anne Bonney (4) fr...........................J W Cox 5 486x0 Unloaded (5) fr................................ P Hunter 6 91347 Nota Bene Denario (6) fr.......... N Williamson 7 04214 Double Rainbow (7) fr.................... K Barclay 8 51379 Bridesdale Robyn (8) fr...............C Ferguson

9 18607 Cast A Shadow (21) fr............. S Walkinshaw 10 01291 Franco June (22) fr.....................M Hurrell (J) 11 30401 Paduka (23) fr............................E Barron (J) 12 22124 Mighty Flying Art (24) fr................. B Barclay 13 43032 Benio Ben (25) fr.......................B Williamson 14 19218 Ardent Lustre (26) fr................ J Morrison (J) 8 4.13pm CRUICKSHANK PRYDE HANDICAP PACE $12,000, r56-r90 spechcp, stand, 2700m 1 81556 Bettor Enforce (1) fr...........................A Beck 2 86231 Triple VC (2) fr................................ B Barclay 3 58465 Mr Handleman (3) fr................. N Williamson 4 67889 Tiziano (4) fr............................. M Williamson 5 84181 Raffy Roo (1) 15M..........................B Orange 6 17234 Vintage Cheddar (2) 15M...........E Barron (J) 7 22015 Sagwitch (1) 25M.......................M Hurrell (J) 8 2234x Franco Santino (2) 25M.......... J Morrison (J) 9 23121 Santanna’s Rocket (3) 25M.......B Williamson 9 4.53pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY MURRAY FAUL MOBILE PACE $8500, 3yo+ r47-r52,r53 w/c., mobile, 2200m 1 36272 Allaboutdreams (1) fr............... N Williamson 2 231x2 The Bull Pen (2) fr.......................... B Barclay 3 2389x Elva Jaccka (3) fr.............................J W Cox 4 88P03 RnR Windermere (4) fr...............E Barron (J) 5 79647 The White Rabbit (5) fr....................K Larsen 6 9x Romagna (6) fr............................C Ferguson 7 43135 Tartan Trilogy (7) fr.................. S Walkinshaw 8 90548 Jabali (8) fr.....................................B Orange 9 752P1 Tartan Robyn (21) fr................. M Williamson 10 34343 Miss Waikiwi (22) fr....................M Hurrell (J) 11 02492 Dallas Grimes (23) fr.................B Williamson 12 61385 Franco Huntington (24) fr........ J Morrison (J) 13 52231 The Doorman fr............................. Scratched

14 44800 Tairlaw Toll (U1) fr...........................B Shirley 10 5.25pm DIAMONDS DAY 27TH APRIL HANDICAP TROT $10,000, r56-r90 spechcp, stand, 2200m 1 51240 Moniburns (1) fr..............................B Orange 2 13561 Nottingham K Two (2) fr.............E Barron (J) 3 64097 Spotlight The Valley (3) fr........ J Morrison (J) 4 5070x The Badger fr................................ Scratched 5 16782 Lynette The Vet (4) fr............................G Lee 6 68232 Crusher Collins (U1) fr............. N Williamson 7 x3740 Kiwi Crusher (U2) fr.........................J W Cox 8 79020 Sam Galleon (1) 15M............... M Williamson 9 11560 Dipendra (2) 15M..........................R Stevens 10 81867 King Cassidy (U1) 15M.................. B Barclay 11 53309 De Vito (U2) 15M.......................M Hurrell (J) 12 91817 War Admiral (1) 35M.................... T Stratford Pacifiers on : Cuddly Trouble (R4) Pacifiers off : Robo Trouble (R4), Lady’s Lass (R5)

18 80063 Goldchi h (5) 54............. A Goindasamy (a3) 7 3.45pm TEAM WEALLEANS 1400 $40,000, OPN HCP, 1400m 1 21707 Sultan Of Swing td (8) 60..... T Yanagida (a2) 2 0360x Highlad tdm (5) 59......................M Cameron 3 7425x Meeska Mooska d (4) 58.5.........M Coleman 4 50624 Ronchi m (12) 57.5.......................... C Grylls 5 10530 He’s Cavalier dm (6) 57.............. R Scott (a3) 6 87x6x Mongolianconqueror db (11) 56.5.. M McNab 7 81086 Stratocaster d (7) 56.5....................V Colgan 8 9628x Woodsman tdm (9) 56.5.......T Newman (a3) 9 23826 The Mitigator (2) 55.5...................... S McKay 10 0780x Etah James (10) 55......................... J Bayliss 11 32375 Yearn d (1) 55.................................. S Spratt 12 00x67 Go Nicholas d (3) 55...................R Elliot (a1) 8 4.25pm FIBER FRESH NZ THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS STAKES $200,000, WFA F&M, 1600m 1 41481 Volpe Veloce dm (3) 57..................M McNab 2 3553x Our Abbadean (8) 57....................... C Grylls 3 2169x She’s Poppy dm (10) 57.................. S McKay 4 11317 Supera td (1) 57..........................M Coleman 5 30x82 Luvaluva d (7) 57...............................L Innes 6 77677 Nicoletta d (9) 57............................. J Bayliss 7 01141 Le Castile t (4) 57............................V Colgan 8 27111 Concert Hall d (11) 57.................M Cameron 9 22411 Sandrine dm (5) 57......................C Lammas 10 00x06 Hasahalo db (6) 57.......................... S Spratt 11 08266 The Real Beel (2) 54.5.....................S Collett 9 5.05pm TE AROHA VETERINARY SERVICES 1400 $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1400m 1 1759x Soroc tdm (1) 61.............................. S Spratt

2 3240x Switch In Time dm (9) 60............M Cameron 3 3264x Pacquiao dm (17) 59...................M Coleman 4 63221 Raposa Rapida d (11) 58.5.. T Yanagida (a2) 5 22023 Stacey Ann d (12) 58...................T Thornton 6 0858x The Kipling Girl dh (5) 58.................S Collett 7 00x23 Santa Catarina mb (7) 57.5.............. C Grylls 8 16855 Giant Gem td (6) 57.5........................L Innes 9 4810x Pythagoras tm (13) 57.5................. S McKay 10 56081 The Chaser td (8) 57.5...................M McNab 11 4061x Hesalljazz 57................................. Scratched 12 81100 Roc Wheeler (15) 57................... L Satherley 13 22641 Honesty d (10) 56.5....................R Elliot (a1) 14 1541x Dream On (16) 56...........................V Colgan 15 26251 Spindle d (14) 55.5.......................C Lammas 16 50754 Aileen Grace (2) 55........ A Goindasamy (a3) 17 14520 Excelsior Island d (4) 54................. J Bayliss 18 33207 Toitoi t (3) 54 Blinkers on : Sultan Of Swing (R7) Blinkers off : Heat Seeker, William Scott (R3), Nicoletta (R8) Winkers on : Arrivo (R3) Winkers off : Toitoi (R6), Go Nicholas (R7), Toitoi (R9) SELECTIONS:

LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

SELECTIONS:

Race 1: Rebel With A Grin, G T Reactor, Be Inspired Race 2: Art’s Dash, Pembrook Playboy, Rakagem, Lifeofbrian Race 3: Montefalco, The Great Buzz, Flaming Jim, Aurelia Cotta Race 4: Big Iron, Gazza Galleon, Whatwillbeewillbee Race 5: Black Ops, Iwanadancewitsumbody, Bound To Be Bettor Race 6: Rockabilly Blues, The Empress, Major Sass Race 7: Mighty Flying Art, Benio Ben, Bridesdale Robyn Race 8: Franco Santino, Sagwitch, Santanna’s Rocket Race 9: The Bull Pen, Allaboutdreams, Elva Jaccka Race 10: De Vito, Crusher Collins, War Admiral, Sam Galleon

Te Aroha gallops Today at Te Aroha

Racing Te Aroha Venue: Te Aroha Meeting Date: 06 April, 2019 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.17pm (NZT) TE AROHA LIQUOR 2200 $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 2200m 1 44115 Fabulous Flight t (2) 59.5...............M McNab 2 23673 Savapak (6) 58................................. C Grylls 3 x8871 Princess El Jay d (7) 57.5................ S Spratt 4 23816 Voler Pour Moi b (3) 57.5..... T Yanagida (a2) 5 97211 Misstumut (1) 55.5.......................... A Calder 6 10024 Alternative Fact m (8) 54.............M Cameron 7 9x025 Desert Storm (5) 54.........................S Collett 8 1x682 Wilijonmcbride t (4) 54................R Elliot (a1) 2 12.52pm J. SWAP CONTRACTORS TE AROHA CUP 2200 $40,000, OPN HCP, 2200m 1 67660 Saint Emilion td (2) 60.................M Cameron 2 90205 Rock On d (1) 54.5.......................... S McKay 3 21443 Roger That m (3) 53.....................T Thornton 4 39784 Seventeen Seventy t (6) 53.............. S Spratt 5 7595x Seconds Out mh (5) 53............... L Satherley 6 8x806 Gabriel (4) 53.......................................C Dell 3 1.27pm TOWES INSURANCE BROKERS MAIDEN 1200 $20,000, MDN, 1200m 1 F3 Anhedonia (18) 58.5.......................V Colgan 2 x480x Heat Seeker (10) 58.5.... A Goindasamy (a3) 3 65370 Our Craftsman h (14) 58.5.............. A Calder 4 x8322 Up ‘n’ Gone (7) 58...................J Fawcett (a1) 5 2 Ginger King (15) 58......................C Lammas 6 65534 Uncle Ern 58................................. Scratched 7 Rocco Valenti (8) 58........................ S McKay 8 Secret Excelsior (2) 58................M Cameron

9 Wind Spirit (11) 58............... T Yanagida (a2) 10 44205 Arrivo (6) 56.5.................................. S Spratt 11 362x Polly Grey (17) 56.5....................M Coleman 12 00x09 Kate Louise h (13) 56.5............... L Satherley 13 230x Wondering (3) 56.........................T Thornton 14 29x Sheez Leica (1) 56........................... C Grylls 15 74x Servilia 56..................................... Scratched 16 Angel Divine h (16) 56.................... J Bayliss 17 Oh Zone (12) 56.5............................S Collett 18 02 Bruzo (5) 58 19 64 Honovi (20) 58 20 64x Simply Sacred b (9) 56 21 464x William Scott b (4) 58 22 33656 Flying Flame (19) 58 Emergencies: Oh Zone, Bruzo, Honovi, Simply Sacred, William Scott, Flying Flame 4 2.00pm PYRAMID TRUCKING 1400 $25,000, 3YO SW+P, 1400m 1 11223 Dawn Patrol db (4) 58.5.................M McNab 2 11501 Espresso Martini d (6) 57.5.. T Yanagida (a2) 3 41 Anything But d (1) 57.5................... J Bayliss 4 36x1 Riding The Wave d (7) 57.5................L Innes 5 221 Speedy Meady (8) 57.5................T Thornton 6 00x23 Santa Catarina mb (11) 56.5 7 16088 Peaceful d (2) 56.5......................M Cameron 8 68 Flyingflynn h (3) 56..........................S Collett 9 0515 Bothered th (10) 55.5...................... A Calder 10 42x19 Ensemble t (12) 55.5...................R Elliot (a1) 11 231 Kainui Rose d (9) 55.5.................C Lammas 12 320x3 Socialights (5) 54............................. S Spratt 5 2.35pm FIRST CREDIT UNION 1200 $30,000, Rat-

ing 82 Benchmark, 1200m 1 90584 Casaquinman d (8) 59.5....................L Innes 2 1211x Remington d (9) 59.5....................... C Grylls 3 6606x Greencast (4) 58.5............... T Yanagida (a2) 4 36522 Pop Star Princess (2) 56............. L Satherley 5 630x5 Power O’Hata d (7) 55.5.............M Cameron 6 23D1x Ticket To Ride mh (10) 55.5....J Fawcett (a1) 7 41134 Veine D’Or d (1) 55.....................M Coleman 8 3485x Aligns With Me m (5) 54.5............... J Bayliss 9 x1134 Marzemino td (6) 54........................ A Calder 10 17x10 One Bakerstreet db (3) 54............... S Spratt 11 1956x Silver Cloud 54.............................. Scratched 6 3.10pm TE AROHA PLUMBING & DRAINAGE LTD 1600 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 25145 Firoden t (10) 59..........................T Thornton 2 6x44x Luen Yat Miracle d (14) 59 3 25046 Scaglioni (3) 59.................... T Yanagida (a2) 4 38742 Incantesimo db (4) 58.5...M Hashizume (a4) 5 90x91 Hasabro d (2) 58.5.............................L Innes 6 14520 Excelsior Island 57.5..................... Scratched 7 x7312 Zenvo t (11) 57.5............................. J Bayliss 8 56x13 Dam Reliable (9) 57 9 761 Intrigue td (8) 57 10 1 She’s Fearless (7) 57..................M Cameron 11 43300 I See Red dh (15) 57.............T Newman (a3) 12 x8751 Morris Lass (6) 57................................C Dell 13 25x92 La Achiever (16) 56.5..................R Elliot (a1) 14 76894 Pursued dh (1) 56.5......................... C Grylls 15 80892 Patsys Lass (13) 56.........................S Collett 16 33207 Toitoi t (12) 55.5............................... S Spratt 17 2666x Georgethefifth 55.5....................... Scratched

Race 1: Misstumut, Fabulous Flight, Savapak, Alternative Fact Race 2: Rock On, Roger That, Seventeen Seventy, Seconds Out Race 3: Ginger King, Polly Grey, Secret Excelsior, Wondering Race 4: Dawn Patrol, Anything But, Riding The Wave, Kainui Rose Race 5: Marzemino, Remington, Power O’Hata, Pop Star Princess Race 6: Incantesimo, She’s Fearless, Intrigue, Hasabro Race 7: Ronchi, Mongolianconqueror, Sultan Of Swing, Yearn Race 8: Volpe Veloce, Concert Hall, Luvaluva, Hasahalo Race 9: Raposa Rapida, Stacey Ann, Giant Gem, The Kipling Girl

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Rangiora harness Tomorrow at Rangiora Racecourse

Rangiora Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Rangiora (All weather) Meeting Date: 07 April 2019 NZ Meeting number: 8 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 11.30am (NZT) BISHOPDALE/BUSH INN TAB’S AMATEUR DRVERS MBL PCE $7000, 4yo+ r40-r55, up-r69., mobile, 2600m 1 55403 Franco Sherborne (1) fr.................. A Hutton 2 00529 Shardan Suzie (2) fr.................. T Woodward 3 2P401 I’m Sick Of Excuses (3) fr............M Stratford 4 48106 Trompeur (4) fr............................... B Wilmott 5 65680 Tom Rule (5) fr............................ M Maynard 6 60869 Hes Fast And Furious (6) fr..................G Bull 7 13865 Royal Jester (7) fr........................D Stapleton 8 89070 Flamboyant (8) fr................................P Cook 9 87779 Highland Reign (9) fr....................... C Negus 10 68900 Jonty James (21) fr..................... J Anderson 11 08600 Mister Mighty (22) fr.................. S Manawatu 12 83497 Canardly Remember fr.................. Scratched 13 37900 Russian Express (23) fr.....................A Edge 2 11.55am RHRC WISHING PETE AND MARGO ALL THE BEST TROT $7000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2600m 1 375x Majestic Mannequin (1) fr.................R Close 2 45090 Motu Moondancer (2) fr........K Tomlinson (J) 3 009 Toldyah Frankie (3) fr.....................R Holmes 4 74697 Hang On Suzie (4) fr 5 04650 Fekitoa (5) fr.......................................J Dunn 6 06774 Sunrise Spur (6) fr.........................J Versteeg 7 00 Blink N Bones (7) fr.............................B Ford 8 67567 Pastrana (8) fr...............................K Hadfield 9 x0600 Windsor (9) fr............................. M Edmonds 10 08077 Fast Wet N Windee (10) fr............. P Wakelin 11 P2566 Awesome Impee (11) fr........................B Butt 12 46052 Milly An Eyre (12) fr..........................J Curtin 13 00373 Folly’s Trouble (13) fr..................... G O’Reilly 14 Steel Dust (U1) fr.........................T McMillan 15 Lane’s Ace (U2) fr.............................S Ottley 16 40002 Champagne Prince (U3) fr............ S McNally 17 52205 Superfast Lad (U4) fr.......................... R May 18 50027 Aorangi (U5) fr.............................. K Townley 19 9924P One Over Da Son (U6) fr...............B Orange Emergencies: Motu Moondancer, Toldyah Frankie, Hang On Suzie, Windsor 3 12.20 ASHLEY MOBILE PACE $7000, up to mr48., mobile, 2000m 1 98P5x Gottagettabeer (1) fr............... J Morrison (J)

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2 39005 Diamond Shadow (2) fr......................J Dunn 3 04659 Katie Daly (3) fr............................ B Hope (J) 4 30x00 Comfortably Numb (4) fr............M Anderson 5 0P000 Sheelasinleague (5) fr...........K Tomlinson (J) 6 x6080 Conquistador (6) fr....................... J Alford (J) 7 30008 Jafa Kitten (7) fr...........................C Markham 8 54906 Fusitua fr....................................... Scratched 9 03890 I Can Remember (8) fr................ K Cameron 10 900x0 Gotta Party Doll (21) fr...................B Weaver 11 8009 Nicole (22) fr............................... D Keast (J) 12 99 Pocket Rocknroll (23) fr..................B Orange 13 0380 Precocious Megan (24) fr.............. G O’Reilly 14 x0840 Night Lights (25) fr........................... G Smith 15 88000 Lilac Change (U1) fr..........................S Ottley 16 87767 Dream On Jaffa (U2) fr...................R Holmes Emergencies: Sheelasinleague, Fusitua 4 12.47pm HARAS DES TROTTEURS NZ SIRES STAKES MOBILE TROT $10,000, 2yo., mobile, 2000m 1 0 Bev K’s One (1) fr......................... B Hope (J) 2 8 One Guz Hall fr............................. Scratched 3 Gaytana (2) fr.............................A Tomlinson 4 4 Zigzagzoo (3) fr.................................J Curtin 5 0 Dreamsinthe Mist (4) fr............ C D Thornley 6 291 One Majic Kenny (5) fr.......................J Dunn 7 2 Ultimate Stride (6) fr..................B Williamson 8 9 Bemus Point (7) fr.............................S Ottley 9 7 Quik Shot (21) fr...............................J W Cox 10 8P Musculature Metro (22) fr..............T Williams 11 6 Tailored Elegance (23) fr................M Purdon 12 03 Rain Mist And Muscle (24) fr............ G Smith 13 452 Kahress (25) fr...............................R Holmes 14 433 Midnight Dash (26) fr.......................... R May Emergency: Gaytana 5 1.22 WOODEND PACE $7000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2600m 1 0x358 Sherry Baby (1) fr...............................J Dunn 2 65572 Glenthorne (2) fr...........................T Williams 3 02240 Been To Jenny’s (3) fr................. K Cameron 4 D6232 Kiwi Bloke (4) fr........... J Morrison (J) 5 Peraki Lincoln (5) fr...................N Purdon (J) 6 04659 Katie Daly fr.................................. Scratched 7 93 Makasar Boy (6) fr........................ G O’Reilly 8 4x045 The Optimist (7) fr.............................S Ottley 9 0300 Last One Grin fr............................ Scratched 10 53049 The Diva (8) fr..................................... R May 11 03890 I Can Remember fr....................... Scratched 12 54906 Fusitua (9) fr...................................... G Ward 13 667 JR Fulham (10) fr...........................R Holmes

14 Spanna (11) fr............................... S McNally 15 Millwood Bonnie (12) fr..............M Anderson 16 0P000 Sheelasinleague (13) fr.........K Tomlinson (J) 17 95x74 Nui May Tau (U1) fr....................... A Lethaby 18 2x00 It’s A Shawthing (U2) fr..................B Orange 19 30P02 Chain Reaction (U3) fr.................T McMillan 6 1.57pm KYLE HARPUR SPECIAL OLYMPICS MEDAL WINNER TROT $7500, 3yo+ r40-r49, stand, 2000m 1 x0P24 Sugarinspice (1) fr.......................... K Butt (J) 2 0x000 Fireman (2) fr.................................L O’Reilly 3 86980 Bright Glow (3) fr...........................I Cameron 4 96735 Tehoro Dazzle (4) fr.......................R Holmes 5 00317 Monaro Maro (5) fr..........................M Bryers 6 90005 Tequila Sunset (6) fr.................... K Cameron 7 60388 Rusty I Am (7) fr............................ P Wakelin 8 60753 Heavenly Love (8) fr..........................J Curtin 9 05066 Natives Lasting Love (9) fr................R Close 10 7x000 Wot Up (10) fr........................ G Thornley (J) 11 08906 Spurred By Success (11) fr................J Dunn 12 43500 Don’t Look Back fr......................... Scratched 13 x0000 Elvis P (12) fr................................M Perriton 14 89301 Cabella Noir (13) fr............................S Ottley 15 47834 Foreigner (14) fr.................................G Hunt 16 32942 Stellar Success (15) fr............. J Morrison (J) 17 07006 Dolly Jones (U1) fr........................... G Smith 18 04700 Red Harbour (U2) fr................. C D Thornley 19 00000 Rarangi Opal (U3) fr.......................B Weaver Emergencies: Sugarinspice, Monaro Maro, Don’t Look Back, Cabella Noir 7 2.32pm OXFORD MOBILE PACE $7000, non-winners 2yo+ mr48 to mr50., mobile, 2000m 1 54906 Fusitua fr....................................... Scratched 2 Viewfield Dream (1) fr............ O Thornley (J) 3 Koenigsegg (2) fr...........................T Williams 4 Peraki Reactor (3) fr..........................S Ottley 5 757 Valiant Charger (4) fr..................M Hurrell (J) 6 El Dorado (5) fr..............................B Orange 7 8320 Reflectionsofmylife (6) fr.................T Chmiel 8 08 I Miss Mum (7) fr....................B Laughton (J) 9 238x0 Jessie Kelly (8) fr.......................... B Hope (J) 10 Woodlea AC (21) fr.......................... G Smith 11 Ringo’s A Star (22) fr.................N Purdon (J) 12 0 Mrs Washington (23) fr........................ R May 13 0P000 Sheelasinleague (24) fr.........K Tomlinson (J) 14 Cloud Nine (25) fr.......................M Anderson 15 53055 Dixie Reign (26) fr....................... K Cameron 16 6 Dan Fernando (27) fr.........................J Dunn 8 3.08 AIRPARK RANGIORA CLASSIC DAY 14 APRIL

HCP TROT, 3yo+ r48-r70 spechcp, stand, 2600m 1 00317 Monaro Maro (1) fr.............................J Dunn 2 98048 Don’t Rock The Boat (2) fr..... O Thornley (J) 3 89301 Cabella Noir (3) fr..............................S Ottley 4 x0P24 Sugarinspice (4) fr..........................R Holmes 5 40871 Mr Fahrenheit (5) fr..............................B Butt 6 96900 One Night Out (6) fr.......................B Weaver 7 43500 Don’t Look Back fr......................... Scratched 8 23043 Jerry Garcia (U1) fr........................L O’Reilly 9 13800 I’ldoitmyway (1) 15M.........................R Close 10 015P2 Zeddie Marit (2) 15M......................B Orange 11 70516 Aveross Don (3) 15M........................J Young 12 61636 Missie Castleton (U1) 15M.................. R May 13 14328 Lovey Dovey Moment (1) 25M.... D Keast (J) 9 3.44pm LEVELHEAD INSULATION PASSING LANE MOBILE PACE $7500, r40-r45., mobile, 2000m 1 60970 Jungle Gem (1) fr....................... B Borcoskie 2 86336 Mordecai (2) fr.......................K Tomlinson (J) 3 32485 Chelsea Ella (3) fr..........................B Orange 4 90x60 Ireby Meg (4) fr..........................M Hurrell (J) 5 82804 Doc Seelster (5) fr...................... R Houghton 6 02048 Myboylolliepop (6) fr............................ R May 7 08600 Mister Mighty (7) fr 8 74906 Rozzano (8) fr............................A Tomlinson 9 079x0 Fatherdantherodeoman (9) fr........ G O’Reilly 10 88000 Donegal Carnbouy (21) fr................K Gill (J) 11 00506 Madame Frost (22) fr.....................R Holmes 12 20599 Locked Out Of Heaven (23) fr............. C Butt 13 30005 Extra Guinness (24) fr....................B Weaver 14 08775 Sonic Reign (25) fr...................... K Cameron 15 x6943 Scotlynn Harry (26) fr.............B Laughton (J) 16 74956 Contractual Issues (27) fr........K Newman (J) Emergencies: Mister Mighty, Donegal Carnbouy 10 4.20 LOBURN JUNIOR DRIVERS MOBILE PACE $7500, 4yo+ r40-r55. jun.d, mobile, 2000m 1 52710 Santanna Lad (1) fr...................... J Alford (J) 2 30768 Kardesler (2) fr..........................N Purdon (J) 3 95034 Swap Over (3) fr..........................M Lewis (J) 4 88000 Donegal Carnbouy (4) fr..................K Gill (J) 5 50579 Sweet Loress (5) fr......................... K Butt (J) 6 09097 Ruby Tues Bay (6) fr..............K Tomlinson (J) 7 13810 Classie Margaret (7) fr............ J Morrison (J) 8 33489 The Governor (8) fr.................K Newman (J) 9 424x0 Immortal Change (9) fr............... L McKay (J) 10 06070 Adam Patron (21) fr...................... B Hope (J) 11 x6943 Scotlynn Harry (22) fr.............B Laughton (J) 12 89007 Officialdon (23) fr..................... S O’Reilly (J) 13 03410 Fortune Tiller (24) fr.................... D Keast (J)

14 92030 Rock N Joy (25) fr.................. O Thornley (J) 15 95060 Change Is Good (26) fr........B Woodsford (J) 16 34221 Ohoka Achilles (27) fr................M Hurrell (J) 11 4.53 DAWE CONTRACTING LTD MBL PACE $7500, 3yo+ r46-r52., mobile, 2000m 1 44163 Garry’s Legacy (1) fr..........................J Dunn 2 32330 Donegal Mary Francis (2) fr......N Purdon (J) 3 224P1 Ohoka Matty (3) fr........................ J Alford (J) 4 16580 That Alexander Guy (4) fr............C DeFilippi 5 39220 With The Band (5) fr.......................L O’Reilly 6 00898 Pay Me Visa (6) fr...........................B Orange 7 7570x Possente Cavallo (7) fr......................R Close 8 60961 Fun In The Dark (8) fr................M Hurrell (J) 9 x1780 Rocknroll King (9) fr.........................J W Cox 10 81620 Rockahula Joe (21) fr........................S Ottley 11 62804 Mamma Knows Best fr.................. Scratched 12 16957 Baker Creek (22) fr.................... C McDowell 13 14504 Melt Down (U1) fr..........................M Heenan 12 5.23pm PINK RIBBON DAY 26 MAY MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r53-r60,r61-r63 w/c., mobile, 2000m 1 010P Baltimore Jack (1) fr......................... G Smith 2 1328 Good On Ya Kiwi (2) fr....................R Holmes 3 710 Saginaw (3) fr..............................R Cameron 4 800x0 Ohoka Johnny (4) fr...................M Hurrell (J) 5 78748 Anytime (5) fr.....................................J Dunn 6 609x0 Bringitonhome (6) fr..........................R Close 7 31218 Georgias Baron (7) fr.....................B Orange 8 44097 Go Davey (8) fr.................................... R May 9 73417 The Tin Soldier (9) fr................ M Williamson 10 06604 Stompem (21) fr.........................M Anderson 11 105x5 Dodgethebullet (22) fr................... G O’Reilly 12 00055 Clive (23) fr....................................... G Ross 13 83500 Just Dance (24) fr.....................N Purdon (J) 14 18x00 Waytogo Bruno (U1) fr..........K Tomlinson (J) SELECTIONS:

7 La Casa (12) 58..........................R Elliot (a1) 8 6x Alaskan Gold h (1) 58..................C Lammas 9 30827 Miss Anonymous (11) 56.5............. J Bayliss 10 26305 Supertramp (16) 56.5........... T Yanagida (a2) 11 5 Shanqueen (17) 56.5..................M Coleman 12 x85x7 Red Senna (3) 56.5.......................... S Spratt 13 544x2 Chapeau (15) 56..............................S Collett 14 36 Trip To Freedom b (9) 56.............M Cameron 15 Lord Polonius 58........................... Scratched 16 Blade h (14) 58 17 Ludus (19) 56 18 0x Yatima (10) 56.5 19 609x Trump That (13) 58.5 20 44205 Arrivo 56.5..................................... Scratched 7 3.27pm TUAKAU COSSIE RACING SECTION 1600 $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 1 1x4x9 Azaboy tdmh (11) 63.5..........T Newman (a3) 2 0756x Grand Rio dm (3) 61............ T Yanagida (a2) 3 3090x Richard Of Yorke m (9) 59.5............. A Jones 4 45901 Light Shadow d (12) 59............. D Danis (a2) 5 21441 Inscription d (10) 58.5.... A Goindasamy (a3) 6 52731 Mercy Hill tdh (6) 58........................ A Calder 7 132x6 Poker Face td (5) 58........................V Colgan 8 33150 Masu (2) 57..................................... J Bayliss 9 x5251 Miss Scandinavia d (4) 56.5...........M McNab 10 9x021 Chill d (1) 55.5..................................S Collett 11 31381 En Soie d (7) 55.5........................C Lammas 12 5217x Flourishing d (14) 55.5................R Elliot (a1) 13 27547 Iffindoubt h (13) 55.5................. K McCulloch 14 51x88 Thee Old Cougar dm (15) 55........... C Grylls 15 6x44x Luen Yat Miracle d (8) 55 8 4.02 HAUNUI FARM MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, 1600m 1 x9542 Alberation (15) 58.5.....................T Thornton 2 80063 Goldchi (12) 58.5 -

3 90744 Magnify h (9) 58.5..............................L Innes 4 x7565 Heremon h (3) 58.5......................C Lammas 5 8859 Vedo Rosso (5) 58.5........................ S Spratt 6 3 Fast And Single (10) 58............ K McCulloch 7 Eagle Fifty (8) 58............................M McNab 8 20342 Babiche (6) 56.5.............................. A Calder 9 48720 Spirited (16) 56.5 10 73333 Western Girl b (4) 56........................ C Grylls 11 4272 Crescent (11) 56.........................R Elliot (a1) 12 08303 Iridessa (2) 56................................. J Bayliss 13 36 Torque Straight (7) 56......................S Collett 14 6 Niche (14) 56..............................M Coleman 15 8760 Power Tycoon (1) 58 16 87x97 Our Star 56.5................................ Scratched 17 02970 Dawon (13) 56.5 9 4.37pm SPLICE CONSTRUCTION MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 732 Mighty Aslan (10) 58.5..................... S Spratt 2 x5286 Inigo Montoya (12) 58.5....... T Yanagida (a2) 3 40574 Midnight Duke h (14) 58.5............T Thornton 4 4x06 Mav (6) 58.5.....................................S Collett 5 02226 Trumpet b (13) 58...........................M McNab 6 0x42 Visconti (8) 58.............................M Cameron 7 63x03 Poacher h (4) 58............................. A Calder 8 4 Not Usual Heaven (7) 58.................. C Grylls 9 559 Foodie King (1) 58.............................L Innes 10 85383 Soda (2) 56.5...............................C Lammas 11 38x47 Just Treasure (16) 56.5.. A Goindasamy (a3) 12 x0x06 Michiko h (9) 56.5............................R Smyth 13 23234 Scomadi (11) 56.............................. J Bayliss 14 0x7 High Priority h (3) 56................... L Satherley 15 8760 Power Tycoon (5) 58 16 87x97 Our Star 56.5................................ Scratched 17 02970 Dawon (15) 56.5 -

10 28188 Blitz ‘Em Rene 18.35 U &...................Cottam 10 3.36pm $15,000 GUARANTEED PICK6 SPRINT C4, 318m 1 33535 Retired Mouse 18.65........................ T Green 2 51527 Audrette 18.45.................................S Codlin 3 8x216 Out Of Paper 18.81..................... G Pomeroy 4 5F1F7 Irinka Stono 18.74 R &.................N O’Regan 5 56136 Podium Phobia 18.89.................... H Mullane 6 41361 Bigtime Dean 18.63 A &...................Williams 7 16772 Wong Way 18.27 U &.........................Cottam 8 2713F Bombshell Blonde 18.62............... H Mullane 9 7274x Zipping Gabby 18.38...................P Ferguson 10 55775 One Cool Chap 18.47 W &...............T Steele 11 3.52pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN STAKES C4/5, 527m 1 12332 Pinny Mack 30.14............................. S Clark 2 24661 Tianyu 30.62................................... G Farrell 3 27851 Amy Amy 30.47............................... G Farrell 4 13213 Ti Amo 30.73......................................B Craik 5 67332 Ramblin’ On 30.46 W &....................T Steele 6 61244 Cameo Syd 30.45..............................B Craik 7 36131 Pat Tama 30.60................................. S Clark 8 66318 Jetsun Singer 30.73........................G Wilson 9 16435 Jetsun Swan 30.83.........................G Wilson 10 14547 Heart Shaped Box 30.50....................B Craik 12 4.12pm WEYMOUTH COSSIE CLUB 40TH BIRTHDAY SPRINT C2, 318m 1 22186 Jetsun Jamie 18.72.........................G Wilson 2 36763 Mega Munchies 18.61 U &.................Cottam 3 1537x Oloroso nwtd U &...............................Cottam 4 52572 Blocker 18.57 R &........................N O’Regan 5 34217 Tribal Conquest 18.80 R &...................L Udy 6 73583 Scott The Looks 18.76 U &................Cottam 7 24513 Bigtime Monty 18.67..................... H Mullane 8 31411 Quara’s Yoshi nwtd........................ H Mullane 9 41144 Always Dreaming 18.58.................. G Farrell

10 F74x6 Spare Some Time 18.66............... H Mullane 13 4.28 GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 36662 On Demand 18.54.............................M Black 2 221 Ashen 18.75.......................................B Bond 3 13244 Platinum Tears 18.87........................ S Clark 4 83665 Nasa 18.78.........................................B Craik 5 75328 Sly Cath nwtd A &............................Williams 6 27215 Karaoke Prince 18.77 R &...........N O’Regan 7 75357 Opawa Kong nwtd........................... G Farrell 8 23375 Tilly’s Silly 18.95 R &............................L Udy 9 68854 Yella Ella 18.79 R &.............................L Udy 10 76654 Aussie Dame 18.92..........................P Green 14 4.46pm LAST ONE STANDING 20 APRIL SPRINT C1, 318m 1 32431 Waiterimu Ripper 18.80 R &................L Udy 2 1F8F8 Brick With Eyes 18.45 R &...........N O’Regan 3 17888 Zipping Memphis nwtd R &..........N O’Regan 4 56344 Banjo Hope 18.94 A &.....................Williams 5 74722 Gotcha Millie 18.65....................... H Mullane 6 36537 Twelve Gauge 19.10.........................M Black 7 8x8x1 Sweet Clover 18.82.....................K T Herbert 8 43475 Guru’s Choice 18.80 A &.................Williams 9 83877 Bright Concept 18.79 R &....................L Udy 10 38668 Jinja Stinger nwtd W &.....................T Steele 15 5.07pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 776F8 Hallo Star 18.23 R &............................L Udy 2 5888x Bigtime Tyson nwtd R &...............N O’Regan 3 55886 Doug Deep 18.65 R &..........................L Udy 4 2478x Parra Eels 18.97 R &...................N O’Regan 5 3887x Bigtime Wayno nwtd...................... H Mullane 6 38757 Botany Laraine 19.06.......................P Green 7 73787 Clausen Jewel nwtd R &..............N O’Regan 8 88578 Rockin’ Robyn nwtd......................... S O’Neill 9 75863 Billy Bullet 18.68................................H Scott 10 68854 Yella Ella 18.79 R &.............................L Udy

Race 1: Franco Sherborne, Shardan Suzie, Royal Jester Race 2: Awesome Impee, One Over Da Son, Aorangi Race 3: Katie Daly, Diamond Shadow, Night Lights, Nicole Race 4: Ultimate Stride, Tailored Elegance, Kahress Race 5: Kiwi Bloke, Glenthorne, The Diva, Makasar Boy Race 6: Monaro Maro, Tehoro Dazzle, Stellar Success, Foreigner Race 7: Koenigsegg, Valiant Charger, Ringo’s A Star Race 8: Lovey Dovey Moment, Jerry Garcia, Missie Castleton Race 9: Mordecai, Scotlynn Harry, Myboylolliepop, Rozzano Race 10: The Governor, Ohoka Achilles, Santanna Lad Race 11: Donegal Mary Francis, Melt Down, Rockahula Joe Race 12: Georgias Baron, The Tin Soldier, Good On Ya Kiwi

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Counties Racing Club Venue: Pukekohe Park Meeting Date: 07 April 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.05pm (NZT) REMEMBERING RAY & NOREEN LEE 800 $10,000, 2YO SW+P, 800m 1 King Midas (9) 57................. T Yanagida (a2) 2 Super Pursuit h (1) 57..................... A Calder 3 03x Cointreau (2) 55...........................C Lammas 4 4 Regera b (4) 55................................S Collett 5 Blitzabeel (8) 55............................... C Grylls 6 Ramazzotti (5) 55........................M Cameron 7 Sonority (3) 55...................................L Innes 8 Tropic Thunder (6) 55....................... S Spratt 9 8 Well Chosen (7) 57.....................M Coleman 10 Arcadian (10) 55 11 07 Madam Pompom h (11) 55............M McNab Emergencies: Well Chosen, Arcadian, Madam Pompom 2 12.35pm MOUNT SHOP 2100 $10,000, 3YO SW+P, 2100m 1 54541 Sir Aglovale dh (11) 57.5....................L Innes 2 15010 Dare To Compare td (7) 56.5.T Yanagida (a2) 3 64224 Golden Age b (6) 56......................... C Grylls 4 32004 Charred (8) 56................................. A Calder 5 9L353 Etch (10) 56.................................T Thornton 6 25005 Bayeux (2) 56................................... S Spratt 7 63748 Mont Ventoux h (3) 56..................... S McKay 8 58776 Poppa’s Shock (4) 56.................. L Satherley 9 761 Intrigue (1) 55.5...........................R Elliot (a1) 10 22987 Nerve Not Verve (12) 54................. J Bayliss 11 00833 Hattie Bee (9) 54..............................S Collett 12 37466 Let Me Tell Ya (5) 54....................M Cameron 3 1.05pm SSANGYONG MAIDEN 1200 $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m

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Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 07 April 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 12.56pm (NZT) WELCOME TO THE MANUKAU SPORTSBOWL SPRINT C0, 318m 1 86325 Riccitelli nwtd.................................A Cleaver 2 Valve Bouncing nwtd..................... H Mullane 3 Kelly’s Girl nwtd........................... G Pomeroy 4 45578 Coober Pedy nwtd R &.................N O’Regan 5 Gain Capital nwtd...............................B Craik 6 2432 Irinka Jacob nwtd...............................E Potts 7 221 Clap Back nwtd..................................B Craik 8 3 Thrilling Uma nwtd........................... K Walsh 9 Artic Miss nwtd............................ G Pomeroy 10 Glow Up nwtd.....................................B Craik 2 1.14 SPEEDMAPS @FORMPRO RATINGS SPRINT C3, 318m 1 75744 Zou Star nwtd................................ H Mullane 2 34235 Vee Marina 18.76 U &........................Cottam 3 42613 Botany Wayne nwtd.........................P Green 4 63344 Cawbourne Cool 18.68...............K T Herbert 5 84251 Your Valentine 18.57..........................B Craik 6 12463 Mobility Scooter 18.81......................M Black 7 28xF4 Asserting Power nwtd..................... S O’Neill 8 88572 Kapai Lana 18.57 R &..........................L Udy 9 53665 Nangar Panther 18.53.....................C Henley 10 86888 Was Just Saying 18.59 R &.................L Udy 3 1.31pm MT WELLINGTON TAB STAKES C3, 527m 1 17356 Gao Gao 30.81............................... G Farrell 2 31157 Token Jasper 30.72........................... S Clark 3 43525 It’s A Danger nwtd...........................C Henley 4 23143 Born Quick 30.87 W &.....................T Steele 5 73781 Opawa Big 31.14............................ G Farrell 6 42685 Jinja Might 30.42 U &.........................Cottam

1 02 Bruzo (9) 57.5.................................V Colgan 2 33656 Flying Flame (13) 57.5... A Goindasamy (a3) 3 64 Honovi h (8) 57.5...........................M McNab 4 464x William Scott b (16) 57.5 5 Apache Lad h (5) 57.5.....................R Smyth 6 45242 Enduring Love 55.5....................... Scratched 7 72442 Shipshape (1) 55.5...................... L Satherley 8 58x3x Spoil Sport h (4) 55.5...................... J Bayliss 9 39x Donna Imelda (2) 55.5................M Coleman 10 64x Simply Sacred b (14) 55.5.................L Innes 11 7055x Choux A Star h (3) 55.5...............T Thornton 12 0649 Qwerty (6) 55.5................................ S Spratt 13 Rocinthemyst (7) 55.5...................... C Grylls 14 076x Dr Velocious (11) 57.5 15 Lord Polonius 57.5........................ Scratched 16 Holsty (12) 57.5 17 Lookseasy h (10) 55.5 18 Hot Shot Babe (15) 55.5 4 1.40pm RACINGTHOUGHTS DOT BLOG 1200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 48x28 Wekaforce (1) 59............ A Goindasamy (a3) 2 12x Von Trapp bh (11) 59....................... A Calder 3 127x Forseeable (17) 59.......................... J Bayliss 4 53312 Way Above td (6) 58....................M Cameron 5 2139x Van Diamond (3) 58......................... S Spratt 6 1 Silent Truth dh (10) 57....................M McNab 7 5x1 Choctoc d (7) 56.5.............................L Innes 8 14x26 Eridani (12) 56.5 9 2561 It’s Doable (5) 56.5..........................V Colgan 10 x718x Marija d (2) 56.5............................... C Grylls 11 77x17 Bella Pronto d (8) 56...................R Elliot (a1) 12 018x Gwendoline Rose 56..................... Scratched 13 x5053 Crystallize (16) 57................ T Yanagida (a2) 14 x06x3 Rough Conduct (13) 57.5 -

15 7463x Supagili (14) 57 16 x00xL Tuscan Whistler (9) 56.5 17 00x00 Jud Strunk (15) 55 18 221 Speedy Meady d (4) 58.5 5 2.15pm MAUREEN PARKINSON 1200 $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1200m 1 1908x Amun Ra m (1) 62...................J Fawcett (a1) 2 3782x Solmization dm (11) 60.5.A Goindasamy (a3) 3 85220 Hammer King dh (4) 59.5.............C Lammas 4 7515x Pacific Coast tdb (3) 59.5................. C Grylls 5 2581x Ritani dm (6) 59................... T Yanagida (a2) 6 3401x Fancy More d (8) 57.5..................... A Calder 7 4170x Campari (9) 57...................................L Innes 8 64415 Pitch And Switch td (2) 57...............V Colgan 9 0528x L’Escalier Rose tdmh (5) 56.5.....M Coleman 10 410x4 Fullinbloom d (7) 56.......................M McNab 11 2x181 Maison Roxanne d (12) 55.5.......M Cameron 12 2118x Lilly Thunder dmh (13) 55.5.............R Smyth 13 6360x Playboy Prince tdm (14) 57.5 14 2106x O’Guy 57....................................... Scratched 15 x592x Air Centre 54................................. Scratched 16 17x10 One Bakerstreet tdb (10) 57.5 17 x2318 High Distinction d (15) 58.5 18 1956x Silver Cloud 55.5........................... Scratched Emergencies: Playboy Prince, O’Guy, Air Centre, One Bakerstreet, High Distinction, Silver Cloud 6 2.50pm PAPAKURA CLUB OPEN DAY 14TH APRIL MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 x6203 Highland Dancer (6) 58.5............G Cooksley 2 5x54x Hvar h (2) 58.5................................ A Calder 3 00x69 Shackeltons Edge (7) 58.5............... R Jones 4 6482x Operator (4) 58............................... S McKay 5 84 Scherzo h (8) 58................................L Innes 6 5 Johnnie Redmond (5) 58................. C Grylls

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium 7 56472 Victini 30.77....................................C Henley 8 53187 Secret Lily 30.79..............................S Codlin 9 41758 Idol Ajay 30.90 W &..........................T Steele 4 1.50pm DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT C3, 318m 1 44517 Bruce Banner 18.66...................... H Mullane 2 75817 Stay Rich 18.55 M &......................... J Smith 3 27347 Jetsun Bear 18.65...........................G Wilson 4 76518 Barwon Bandit 18.68.......................S E Hunt 5 24413 Nexus 18.60.................................... G Farrell 6 33542 Waerenga Star 18.63 U &..................Cottam 7 61438 C’est L’Amour 18.67...........................B Craik 8 33726 Amazing Contact 18.58....................S Codlin 9 56255 Beat The Butcher 18.36 R &................L Udy 10 36487 Kuridrani 18.71...............................A Cleaver 5 2.06 NEW ZEALAND DERBY HEATS 11TH APRIL STAKES C2, 527m 1 32162 San Tan Samson 30.68.................... T Green 2 56531 Talkabout Sophie 30.95....................M Black 3 1x111 Isn’t She Sassy 31.22.....................P Henley 4 24173 Opawa Pink 30.81 W &....................T Steele 5 57242 Sefton Stan nwtd................................E Potts 6 47787 Opawa Jimbo 30.47 W &.................T Steele 7 52262 Sings Like Elvis nwtd........................ S Clark 8 36636 Jinja Twist 30.62 W &.......................T Steele 9 66636 Deception Diva 30.81 W &...............T Steele 10 52674 Jetsun Doll 30.88............................G Wilson 6 2.24pm GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE DISTANCE C0d, 603m 1 13453 Crackling Gal nwtd U &......................Cottam 2 38758 Hey Khali nwtd U &............................Cottam 3 54525 Monsoon Malabar nwtd U &...............Cottam 4 45654 Jinja Liv nwtd U &..............................Cottam 5 Box Vacant 6 3548x Ima Lucky Zarr nwtd U &...................Cottam 7 57872 Peekay Shout nwtd U &.....................Cottam

8 25484 Little Moo nwtd U &............................Cottam 7 2.41pm PUMP & ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD SERIES HEAT 1 C1q, 527m 1 36741 Millie Prince nwtd........................P Ferguson 2 36246 Secret Babe 30.94.......................J T Pruden 3 8F644 Salvarotti 30.70..................................B Craik 4 77453 Jack No Lag 30.89.......................... Y Castro 5 217 Bold Diesel nwtd.............................. T Green 6 13554 Thrilling Arnold 31.07.......................S Codlin 7 36663 Just Maddie nwtd..............................M Black 8 23446 Kai Nan nwtd................................... G Farrell 9 45648 Opawa Velocette 30.86 W &............T Steele 10 74568 Secret Rory 30.98........................... G Farrell 8 2.59pm PUMP & ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD SERIES HEAT 2 C1q, 527m 1 54576 Home Bound nwtd R &........................L Udy 2 84228 It’s A Stroll 30.72.............................P Henley 3 74541 Elouera Mist nwtd.......................P Ferguson 4 23555 Our Rick nwtd....................................E Potts 5 44426 Bear Claws 30.81 W &.....................T Steele 6 33823 Sir Kinloch 31.03............................... S Clark 7 15575 Billy Bright nwtd..........................P Ferguson 8 81825 Shozip Boomer nwtd........................T Patton 9 74568 Secret Rory 30.98........................... G Farrell 10 45648 Opawa Velocette 30.86 W &............T Steele 9 3.18pm QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C5, 318m 1 16631 Clover Victoria 18.65........................S Codlin 2 16322 Kiwi Boy 18.18 U &............................Cottam 3 52583 Alex Attack 18.38 U &........................Cottam 4 11511 Just One Smile 18.25.........................B Craik 5 34616 Manila Bala 18.86 R &.................N O’Regan 6 14643 Disclaimer 18.60..............................P Green 7 12321 Jinja Mongo 18.34 W &....................T Steele 8 12758 On Da Quest 18.59 R &.......................L Udy 9 17164 Junk Mail 18.43 W &........................T Steele

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• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

To deal with Dirty Tiles and Grout CALL GROUTPRO WE HELP YOU KEEP ON TOP OF YOUR SHOWER AND TILE MAINTENANCE

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Tile shower makeovers Professional tile and grout cleaning Re-colouring existing grout Sealing and repairing/replacing tiles/grout Replacing mouldy and tired silicon

WE TRANSFORM TILES/GROUT IN BATHROOMS, KITCHENS, SHOWERS, BALCONIES, CONSERVATORIES AND ANY TILED AREA

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

0508 422 532

Contact GroutPro Brett Muir or Mark Butler for a quote and an upfront honest discussion.

www.groutpro.co.nz

To advertise here contact Cushla on 021 959 783 or 03 307 7955

NOW EXCLUSIVE MID CANTERBURY SUPPLIERS OF

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES 19 JB Cullen Drive, Ashburton • 03 307 8353 info@mainlandcoachwork.co.nz • www.mainlandcoachwork.co.nz

Cushla Harborne

Lifestyle

CONNECTIONS

NEW SEASON’S LADIES FASHION ARRIVING DAILY We service and repair all makes and models of sewing machines and overlockers RRP: $2,599

East Street, Ashburton Phone 308 5771 www.sparrows.co.nz

Open 7 Days | P 03 307 6277 | Main South Road, Tinwald | www.anniesquilts.co.nz

Open Mon - Thu 9am - 5.30pm Fri 9am - 6pm Sat 10am - 2pm, Sun 11am - 2pm

Can you spot the difference?

Worried about wearing hearing aids? Come in for your free hearing check and to talk to us about the latest hearing technology.

To advertise here contact Neil on 021 272 2399 or 03 307 7907

p Sound p Style p Connectivity p Discretion Special Offer!

Buy one hearing aid and get the second aid

1/2 Price

Call us to find out more Ashburton 03 307 8949 326 East St

*Offer on the purchase of selected hearing aids, valid to 31 May 2019 T&Cs apply.

Neil Cushen

To advertise here contact Neil on 021 272 2399 or 03 307 7907

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SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

You will already come from a customer service focused role where you have learnt the value of providing five star service to clients.

You will support our team with whatever they may need. You will be our first point of contact for our customers, meeting and greeting them while following through with their requirements. You will have additional responsibilities that will include stock takes, handling our clinic queries via email and telephone.

This is a part-time temporary between 15-20 hours per week. role we require someone who flexible with the hours they work with our busy periods.

role of For this can be to fit in

Enjoy keeping fit and keen to be part of the team at the EA Networks Centre?

Applications close Sunday, 7 April 2019.

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers

Pharmacy Technician/ Trainee Technician

The position is for 32 to 35 hours a week permanent position with potential for more hours over the winter season.

You will be given the opportunity to grow your skills in both the dispensary and shop.

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Prayer held at 12:30, people are welcome

Families welcome

Support will be given to the right candidate.

To email your CV or for further information contact us at: methven.pharmacyltd@gmail.com or 03 302 8105

Dairy Farm Assistant Herd Manager We require an assistant herd manager on our 700 cow dairy farm, 5kms from Methven.

3 - 4 years experience needed in the last 5 years.

Competency with all farm machinery, good stockperson and people skills is a must.

Enthusiasm for the dairy industry along with punctuality, a clean full drivers licence, drug free, a valid work visa and a good understanding of the English language plus being in NZ to attend interviews is an advantage.

Single shared accommodation is available on farm.

Please apply in writing to: sjsuyker@xtra.co.nz or post to Greenmount Farming Company 100 Dip Road, R D 6 Ashburton 7776 Stating experience and two employer references.

You will play an essential role in the ongoing growth and success of Talley’s, responsible for a team of agronomists and operational staff. A challenge is what they seek, and nothing is impossible as there is always a solution to be found. The role is varied, challenging but rewarding for the right person.

To find out more about these vacancies and what the Ashburton District Council has to offer you - go to our website.

101 Main Street, Methven, Ph/Fax 302 9103

We pride ourselves on excellent customer and patient care.

We are seeking an individual who thrives on everyday being different from the one previous.

As a Lifeguard you will ensure our customers are safe in the pools and ensure the aquatic area is maintained to a high standard. If you are 16 or older, able to swim 200m under six minutes, hold or are willing to obtain a first aid certificate, and hold or are willing to obtain a Pool Lifeguard Practising Certificate we would like to hear from you.

Info@dairyvets.co.nz

An exciting opportunity exists for a passionate hardworking individual who is a Pharmacy Technician or wanting to train as a Pharmacy Technician (trainee technician) to become part of our enthusiastic and knowledgeable team at Methven Pharmacy.

We are looking to employ an Agriculture/Field Manager based out of our Ashburton processing plant. The Ashburton factory is responsible for the processing of potatoes, peas and sweetcorn.

We’re looking for a full-time Lifeguard to join our team, with 32 to 40 hours per week available.

If this sounds like the job for you, email your CV through to:

METHVEN PHARMACY

Talleys is a successful and well known brand, operating several plants throughout the South Island, as well as having many diversified interests in seafood, frozen vegetables, meat and dairy products.

Women should cover their hair and shoulders (head cover provided if needed)

What you need to be able to bring to the role: • effective leadership where you are able to empower your team to meet the business needs at all times • organised, logistically oriented and having a background in the agriculture industry • able to meet business financial objectives, reporting time frames and be comfortable with planning and implementing harvest schedules • ensuring current Company / Grower relations are maintained, while also seeking new ones on behalf of Talley’s • co-ordinating, checking and advising Growers on agronomy requirements throughout the land preparation, planting, growing and harvesting cycle • the ability to complete all administration requirements within set time frames • ensuring communication to the Senior Lead team, Managers, Staff, Growers and Production is flowing, so effective operational needs continue • ability to meet business and environmental regulatory needs by maintaining, monitoring and adhering to all certificates and consents.

Having a can-do attitude, an appreciation that health and safety is part of our day-to-day lives, and the ability to connect and negotiate contracts with local farmers, suppliers and industry representatives, as well as connecting internally with both our on-site Talley’s Ashburton team and the broader vegetable business will be key to your success.

If this role sounds like something you are interested in, email a copy of your CV with a cover letter to ashburton.hr@talleys.co.nz Only applicants with residency or citizenship will be considered for this role.

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We'll have light snacks and drinks Street parking only

139 Archibald Street, Tinwald

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We need an awesome receptionist who loves engaging with our customers and being the front face of our organisation.

Full-time Lifeguard

Rachel Proof read by:_______________________________ With: _______________________________ Date:_______________________________

We are looking for a well presented, smiley person who enjoys, multitasking, and knows what great customer service is!

Agriculture / Field Manager

New Zealand’s trusted, world class, frozen vegetable processor

We are a busy Vet clinic in Ashburton currently seeking a Receptionist/Office Assistant to join our friendly team to help out over our busy period.

Closing date

Receptionist/Office Assistant

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Beckley Coachlines Programme ◊ ANZAC DAY VARIETY CONCERT April 25, 2.00pm, Christchurch Town Hall Features – Woolston Brass NZ Army Band, Christchurch City Choir, and more. ◊ SOLO MIO May 28. Change venue to The Christchurch Town Hall.

For bookings phone 308 7646

GRAZING

EDUCATION

GARDENING

COMPUTER PROBLEMS??

For professional computer servicing and laser engraving, see Kelvin at KJB Systems, 4 Ascot Place. Phone 308 8989. Locally owned and serving Ashburton for 30 years. Same day service if possible.

Supergold discount card welcomed.

SHOWER domes make the difference, get rid of steam forever. Supplied and fitted from $435. Phone Mitch on 0274 370 532.

BUYER of unwanted animals.

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

RURAL TRADING POST HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

REAL ESTATE WANTED to purchase, bach at Hakatere. Please contact, Ashburton Guardian, PO Box 1069, Ashburton 7740 or 161 Burnett Street, Ashburton 7700.

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

SCOOTERS - new and secondhand three and four wheel-electric scooters and wheel-chairs.

Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today. Phone 308 3602.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ASIAN ladies, size 10, Sasa and Kiki, sexy body, 34DD, busty.

Chinese prostate massage, in/out calls. Phone 021 046 4314.

Mid & South Canterbury

FREE COURSES

From 15 April.

Community House

GARAGE SALES

TODAY Saturday, April 6, from 9am - 2pm on Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

Gas cooker, cane furniture, MOTORING tools, household items WHEEL alignments at and much more. Sign out. great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns FOR SALE Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills FIREWOOD, green blue Street. Phone 308 6737. gum. $180 for 3.6m3. Dry blue gum $360 for 3.6m3.

Phone 027 611 3334.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

POSTS, concrete and wooden, been used, large number. Diesel tank on stand, 2000 litres. Concrete culvert pipes for sale. Hinds area. Phone 0277 199 089.

Literacy

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

Pick-up and delivery options.

You can even hire a trailer!

FULL range of kitchen, glassware, China, linen, indoor and outdoor furniture, BBQ, coffee table, lead-light cabinet. Sign out on Oak Grove, not before 8am please.

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GRAZING wanted for store lambs, top money for top feed.

Phone Mitch 027 313 1320.

(44 Cass Street, Ashburton) Literacy South Canterbury Inc. (trading as Literacy Mid & South Canterbury)

TRADES, SERVICES

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Intro to Computing Office Computing Weds 10am - midday

Weds 1pm - 3pm

Introduction to MS Windows, Word, Email, Excel, Internet, and Powerpoint.

Microsoft Word, Excel, and Office 365.

10.30am Worship Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All welcome Rev. David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Advertisement Rates 5x1

50mm x 30.75mm

$25

6x1

60mm x 30.75mm

$30

All prices GST exclusive

Smartphones

Thurs 9:30am - 11am, or 3pm - 4:30pm Bring your own tablet or smartphone and learn how to use it.

Supported Learning Thurs 12:30pm - 2:30pm Literacy and/or numeracy help while you work on topics of your choice, e.g.

CV, road code theory.

To advertise in Church Services contact Emma

Guardian ASHBURTON

03 307 7936

Birthday Greetings Maddix Kilgour Happy 4th Birthday Maddix.

Love Pop, Nana, Morgan and Oden. xxx

Small class size (max. 5) Contact us to book.

office@lmsc.org.nz | www.lmsc.org.nz | (027) 721-2002

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

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Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultations will be by appointment only. To make a booking please phone 0800 700 155.

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

Healthline is a free health advice service. It operates

Ashburton Rest Homes

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

24 hours a day, seven days a week. The toll-free number Emergency Dentist to call is 0800 611 116. Healthline is staffed by registered If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, nurses who are trained to assess health problems and offer please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered advice over the phone. The service is free and confidential. weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

DUTY DOCTORS For all urgent medical calls phone 0800 700 155 at any ELPLINE ERVICES time. IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please Alcoholics Anonymous bring your Community Services Card. All non New Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information.

Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, Ask for the Crisis Team. will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday.

Consultations will be by appointment only. To make a booking Safe Care - 24hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph 03 364 8791 please phone 0800 700 155.

Three Rivers Health, Allens Road, Ashburton, will be the Victims Support Group 24hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846). duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. Please phone Direct dials to a volunteer.

0800 700 155 for an appointment.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm, Methven & Rakaia Area outside of these hours leave a message.

For weekend and emergency services please phone Alcohol Drug Help Line 302 8105 for details on how to access the after-hours Call us free on (0800 787 797). service each weekend.

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

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Pharmacies

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 5pm - 7pm both evenings.

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Lifeline Toll-free: 0800 353 353.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

COMMUNITY SERVICES Art Gallery

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm, Wednesday: 10am – 7pm

Ashburton Museum

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm

Ashburton Public Library

Bus Departures

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES Dog, Stock & Noise Control

Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24hr service.

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm.

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

Animal Welfare Centre

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter

All enquiries - phone 308 4432 or 027 3329286.

20 River Terrace - phone 03 308 4020. WEEKEND HOURS: Contact - President 021 1356 969.

Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm. Public holidays 10am - 5pm.

Veterinarians

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron Street, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein.

Full emergency service all weekend.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East Street and Seafield Road, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, Information Centre Methven - Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am until West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Juan Gray.

3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com

Mail Closing Times

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

Vet Ent and Vet Life operate a joint after-hours SMALL animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Fishing And Adventure 3 7:30 Infomercials 3 0 9am Whanau Living 3 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 10am Tipping Point 11am Hell’s Kitchen Australia PGR 3 0 Noon Victoria PGR 3 0 1:05 Location, Location, Location 3 0 2:05 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 3pm Flipping Profit! 0 4pm 10k Holiday Home 3 0 4:30 Extreme Cake Makers 3 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6am Blaze And The Monster Machines 3 0 6:25 Custard’s World 3 0 6:35 Ducktales 3 0 6:55 Ben 10 Reboot 3 0 7:05 Be Cool Scooby Doo! 7:30 SpongeBob SquarePants 0 7:55 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 3 0 8:20 Lego Ninjago – Masters Of Spinjitzu 0 8:45 Beyblade Burst Evolution 3 0 9:10 Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man v The Sinister 6 3 0 9:35 Dragon Ball Super PGR 3 0 10am Fresh 10:30 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 3 0 11:25 Suburgatory PGR 3 0 11:55 Alone Together PGR 0 12:20 Love Connection 0 1:10 Instant Hotel 3 0 2:20 Living Biblically 0 3:15 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 4:10 Penguins Make You Laugh Out Loud 3 0 5:05 The Crystal Maze 3 0 6:05 The Middle 3 0 6:35 The Big Bang Theory 3 0

7pm Country Calendar 3 Paradise Found. 0 7:30 Coast New Zealand 3 Stewart Island. 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Coast New Zealand 3 Continued. 0 8:30 Dinner Date 0 9:30 M Invictus AO 2009 Drama. True story of two men who unite to heal the wounds of a nation. 0

7pm M The Amazing SpiderMan 2 PGR 2014 Action.

When Spider-Man’s enemies unite, Peter Parker finds his greatest battle is about to begin.

9:35 M Rush Hour 3 AO 2007 Action. 0

Midnight Rizzoli And Isles AO 3 0 12:55 Coronation Street CatchUp PGR 3 0 2:10 Infomercials 3

11:20 M Elysium AO 2013 Action Sci-fi. 1:20 M Battle Of The Year PGR 2013 Musical Drama.

2:15 First Dates Australia AO 3 3:10 Scandal AO 3 4:40 Young And Hungry PGR 3 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 Infomercials 3

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BRAVO 10am Beverly Hills Pawn 3 10:28 The Dish PGR 3 10:30 Dance Moms 3 11:30 Dance Moms 3 12:28 The Dish PGR 3 12:30 Top Chef Masters PGR 3 1:30 Four Weddings UK 3 2:28 The Dish PGR 3 2:30 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 3:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6:30 I’m Having Their Baby 3 7:30 Botched PGR 3 8:30 Vanderpump Rules AO The group goes to Marina del Rey for Scheana’s housewarming; Lala tackles Billie Lee; Ariana reacts to Tom’s gossiping about her past romances with women; Lisa reveals the fully finished TomTom to Sandoval and Schwartz.

9:30 Unanchored AO 10:33 The Dish PGR 3 10:35 Summer House AO 11:30 Four Weddings UK 3

11:05 M The Purge AO 3 2013 Thriller. In the future, a wealthy family is held hostage for harbouring the target of a murderous syndicate during The Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legalised. Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey. 0 12:50 Infomercials 5am Brian Houston 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:30 Nightwatch AO 3 EMTs see a tough side of New Orleans, from drug addicts desperate to kick their habits, to assault victims, to a teenager who drove his car into a tree. 0 12:30 Closedown

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12:20 Infomercials 3 5am Flipping Out 3

6:50 All The Money In The World 16VLSC 2017 Crime. Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer.

9am Black Panther MV 2018 Action. Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o. 11:10 The Bachelors MLC 2017 Comedy.

American Idol JK Simmons, Julie Delpy.

7pm on Choice 12:50 Infidelity In Suburbia MC 2017 Thriller. Sarah Butler, SKY 5 Marcus Rosner.

6am Montana Wild M 2:15 Father Figures MLSC 6:55 The Simpsons Super 2017 Comedy. Owen Wilson, Saturday PG 9:55 Pawn Stars Ed Helms. 4:05 Hereditary – UK PG 10:20 MacGyver 16C 2018 Horror. Alex Wolff, M 11:15 Supernatural Toni Collette.

MVS 12:05 Grimm MV 6:10 Gringo 16VLSC 2018 1pm Supergirl MVS 1:55 Jack Action. David Oyelowo, And The Beanstalk M (Part Charlize Theron.

1) 3:35 DC’s Legends Of 8pm The Circle ML 2017 Tomorrow MVS 4:30 The Drama. After a programmer Simpsons Super Saturday PG gets her dream job at a 7:30 MacGyver M Angus renowned technical company, ‘Mac’ MacGyver works for a she discovers an agenda that clandestine organisation within will affect all of humanity. the US government, relying on Emma Watson, Tom Hanks. his unconventional problem9:50 Gun Shy MVLC 2017 solving skills to save lives.

Action. Antonio Banderas, 8:30 Ice Road Truckers PG Olga Kurylenko.

9:30 Appalachian Outlaws M 11:20 Heartbeats PG 2017 10:30 Montana Wild M Musical. Krystal Ellsworth, 11:30 The Simpsons PG Amitash Pradhan.

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Midnight The Simpsons PG 12:30 The Simpsons PG 1am The Simpsons PG 1:30 The Simpsons PG 2am MacGyver M 2am Montana Wild M 2:55 The Simpsons PG 3:25 Supergirl MVS 4:20 Jack And The Beanstalk M

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Gru finds himself balancing fatherhood with his secretagent role in the Anti-Villain League. Voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand. 0 8:50 M Jaws 2 PGR 3 1978 Thriller. Fear returns to the resort town of Amity when a giant fin is spotted circling the surrounding waters. 0

Sunday

1:10 People Interview – Emily Blunt 1:40 Hereditary 16C 2018 Horror. Alex Wolff, Toni Collette. 2:45 Father Figures MLSC 2017 Comedy.

Owen Wilson, Ed Helms.

4:35 Gun Shy MVLC 2017 Action. Antonio Banderas, Olga Kurylenko.

6am Scandimania 7am Secret Cities 8am Baggage Battles 8:30 Love Nature – Into The Wild With Gordon Bucanan 9:30 Mysteries At The Museum 10:30 Jamie’s Comfort Food 11:30 Gardeners’ World 12:30 Help! My House Is Falling Down 1:30 Restoration Home 2:30 American Pickers 3:30 Baby Animals 4pm James Martin’s French Adventure 5pm Brother v Brother Jonathan and Drew Scott compete to see who can sell a recently bought home for the highest increase on both price and value.

6pm Mysteries At The Museum

7pm M The Dark Crystal PGR 7pm American Idol 1982 Animated. On another American Idol searches the planet, a crystal uniting all life United States for the next is broken, plunging the world American pop star. into an age of chaos.

10pm Somebody’s Gotta Do It PGR 8:50 M Tokyo Story AO 1953 Mike goes to Las Vegas to Drama. meet Dale Hurt, the Technical Director of one of the most complicated, dangerous, and popular shows in town, Le Reve.

7pm WhichCar 0 7:30 Scorpion PGR 0 8:30 3rd Rock From The Sun PGR 0 9pm Married With Children PGR 3 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby 0

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6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 7am Waiata Mai 3 7:10 Pukoro 2 7:40 Pipi Ma 3 7:50 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Smooth 3 8:30 Pukana 3 2 10am Basketball – Fiba World Cup Qualifiers 3 11:30 Both Worlds 3 12:30 Matau PGR 3 1pm Touch Rugby – Junior National Championships 2pm Basketball – College Nationals 3 3pm The Pits TV 4pm Waiata 3 4:30 Moving Out 3 5pm Fresh 5:30 Moteatea 3 6pm Waka Huia 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

11:20 Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with a more inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:50 Closedown

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6:20 Daddy Day Care 2003 Comedy. Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Anjelica Huston.

7:50 Looper 16VL 2012 Scifi. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis. 9:45 Gone MVL 2012 Drama Mystery.

Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley. 11:20 Blades Of Glory MS 2007 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler.

12:50 Daddy Day Care 2003 Comedy. Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Anjelica Huston.

2:25 Enemy Of The State MVL 1998 Action Thriller.

Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King.

4:35 Austin Powers In Goldmember MVLS 2002 Comedy. 6:10 The Debt AO16VL 2011 Thriller.

8pm Silver Linings Playbook MVLS 2012 Comedy Romance.

A man recently released from a mental hospital is determined to get his life back on track and reunite with his wife, but when he meets a girl with problems of her own, things become complicated.

10:05 Identity Thief MVLS 2013 Comedy. 11:55 Once Fallen 16VL 2010 Crime.

6:05 L Rugby – Super Rugby Lions v Sharks.

From Johannesburg.

8:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Texas Open – First Round.

9am L Golf – PGA Tour Texas Open – Second Round.

From TPC San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.

Noon Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Lions v Sharks.

2:05 Rugby – Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Sale Sharks v Harlequins.

4:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Highlanders v Hurricanes.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

5pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Crusaders v Brumbies.

From Christchurch Stadium, Christchurch.

7:15 L Rugby – Super Rugby Blues v Waratahs.

From Eden Park, Auckland.

10:20 Cricket – IPL (HLS) Delhi Capitals v Sunrisers Hyderabad.

From Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi.

10:50 Cricket – IPL (HLS) Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders.

11:20 L Cricket – IPL Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab. From MA Sunday Chidambaram Stadium, 1:25 The Debt 16VL 2011 Thriller. 2:15 Enemy Of The Chennai.

State MVL 1998 Action Thriller. 2:20 L Cricket – IPL Sunrisers Hyderabad v Mumbai 4:25 Austin Powers In Indians. From Rajiv Gandhi Goldmember MVLS 2002 Comedy.

Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad.

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

11pm Brother v Brother Midnight Baby Animals 12:30 Baggage Battles 1am Collectaholics 2am Secret Cities 2am James Martin’s French Adventure 3am Somebody’s Gotta Do It PGR 4am Mysteries At The Museum 5am Baby Animals – In Our World

SKY SPORT 2 6am The Professor’s Farewell Tour 6:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v Titans.

7am L Rugby League – Super League Castleford Tigers v Wigan Warriors.

From The Mend-A-Hose Jungle in Castleford, England.

10:30 The Kiwi League Show 11am L Rugby League – Jersey Flegg Cup Warriors v Panthers.

1pm L Rugby League – NSW Cup Warriors v Panthers.

3pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v Titans.

3:30 The Professor’s Farewell Tour 4pm The Kiwi League Show 4:30 L Rugby League – NRL Sea Eagles v Rabbitohs.

7pm L Rugby League – NRL Cowboys v Raiders.

9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Eels v Sharks.

Sunday

Midnight Rugby League – Super League (RPL) Castleford Tigers v Wigan Warriors.

1:59 Serie A Highlights Show 2am InCycle 2:30 Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Ana Inspiration Championship – Second Round.

3am SkySpeed 3:25 L Rugby – Pro14 Cheetahs v Ospreys.

5:40 L Rugby – Pro14 Scarlets v Edinburgh.

6Apr19

DISCOVERY 6:35 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Paradise on the Bay. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:10 Killer Instinct With Chris Hansen M Wrong Place, Deadly Time. 10am Evil Lives Here M The Grim Reaper.

10:50 Web Of Lies M Partners in Crime. 11:40 Homestead Rescue PG High and Dry. 12:30 Expedition Unknown PG True Cross of Christ.

1:20 Misfit Garage PG Orange You Glad. 2:10 Shifting Gears With Aaron Kaufman PG The Olympus Rally.

3pm Outback Opal Hunters PG 3:50 Mighty Ships PG 4:45 Mighty Ships PG 5:40 Mighty Ships PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG Fire and Ice. 8pm Gold Rush – The Dirt PG 8:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Hidden Party Zone.

9:25 Alaskan Bush People M 10:15 The Very Edge Of China PG 11:05 Expedition Unknown PG True Cross of Christ.

11:55 What On Earth? PG

Sunday

12:45 Strange Evidence PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:30 Deadliest Catch M 2:30 Deadliest Catch M 3:30 Deadliest Catch M 4:20 Deadliest Catch M 5:15 Deadliest Catch M

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6am Extreme Road Rescue 3 0 6:50 Tiny House Nation 3 7:40 Tagata Pasifika 3 8:05 Praise Be 8:40 Death Threat 0 9:10 20/20 3 0 10am Marae PGR 2 0 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Attitude PGR 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Sunday 3 0 12:55 Coast v Country 0 2pm F Our Big Blue Backyard 3 0 2:55 Location, Location, Location 3 3:55 Chasing Monsters 3 4:55 The Celebrity Chase Celebrities Ken Bruce, Paul Ince, Laila Morse, and David Haye must work together to try and win thousands of pounds for charity by outwitting The Chaser. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Sunday 0 8:30 F Victoria PGR 0 9:35 Mrs Wilson Alison’s search for answers sends her on a difficult journey, where she arrives at the door of a reluctant collaborator in her late husband’s lies. 0 10:50 Deception AO 0

6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Puppy Dog Pals 3 0 7am Alvinnn!!!

And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:10 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 7:15 Kitty Is Not A Cat 0 7:35 KC Undercover 3 0 8am What Now? 10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 12:05 The Bachelorette 0 1:55 This Is Us PGR 0 2:50 Home And Away Omnibus 3 0 5:10 Castaways The remaining Castaways begin to obsess over the existence of other survivors, and whether they are facing similar struggles; Matt decides to search for others across a channel. 0 6:05 The Middle 3 0 6:35 The Big Bang Theory 3 0 7pm M View From The Top PGR 2003 Romantic Comedy. When a country girl sees a glamorous TV commercial about being a flight attendant, she becomes intent on joining an airline. 0 8:35 M Snatched AO 2017 Comedy.

10:25 Ambulance Australia 3 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Life TV 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 The Hui 0 10am NewsHub Nation 3 0 10:50 Tasty Conversations 11:10 Big Angry Fish 3 0 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend 1pm Motorsport – Carpool 1:30 Motorsport – Bridge To Bridge Ski Race 2pm Motorsport – US Formula Drift 3pm Motorsport – MotoGP 4pm Motorsport – Pro Dirt Super Saloons 5pm XVenture Family Challenge 0 5:30 Fish Of The Day Clarke Gayford boards a catamaran in Fiji, chasing coral trout through the Yasawa Islands, and jet boats up a river to a remote village where he dives with huge bull sharks. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm Married At First Sight Australia PGR Jules and Cam prepare for their final vows while Dan has doubts about his relationship with Jess. Plus, could there be a proposal on the horizon? 0 8:30 M Baywatch AO 2017 Comedy. 0 10:45 The Rookie AO 3 0

11:40 F National Treasure AO 3 Paul and his family arrive in court to face his accusers and await the verdict. 0 12:35 Attitude 3 0 1am Coronation Street Catch-Up PGR 3 0 3:05 Infomercials 3

11:25 M The Gallows AO 2015 Horror. 12:45 Love Island Australia 3 0 1:35 First Dates UK 3 2:30 Blackish 3 2:50 Infomercials 3 3:25 Quantico AO 3 0 4:10 Infomercials 4:45 Melissa And Joey PGR 3 5:30 Infomercials 3

11:40 The Rookie AO 3 When Bradford’s wife is found shot but alive, he vows to find the man responsible; Nolan must protect his home and the truth after a homeinvasion. 0 12:35 Infomercials

MOVIES PREMIERE

Mrs Wilson

9:35pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 6am Flipping Out 3 6:45 Flipping Out 3 7:35 Flipping Out 3 8:25 Flipping Out 3 9:10 Four Weddings UK 3 9:58 The Dish PGR 3 10am Four Weddings UK 3 10:50 I’m Having Their Baby 3 11:40 Backyard Envy 3 12:28 The Dish PGR 3 12:30 Dance Moms 3 1:30 Catfish 3 2:30 Catfish 3 3:28 The Dish PGR 3 3:30 Four Weddings UK 3 4:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 5:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6:30 Backyard Envy 7:30 Million Dollar Listings Los Angeles PGR 8:30 Emma Willis – Delivering Babies AO 9:30 Nightwatch Nation 10:33 The Dish PGR 3 10:35 Newlyweds – The First Year AO 11:30 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

6:05 Heartbeats PG 2017 Musical. Krystal Ellsworth, Amitash Pradhan.

7:55 Gringo 16VLSC 2018 Action. David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron. 9:45 The Circle ML 2017 Drama.

Emma Watson, Tom Hanks.

View from the Top 11:35 Hereditary 16C 7pm on TVNZ 2 2018 Horror. Alex Wolff, Toni Collette. 1:40 Gun SKY 5 Shy MVLC 2017 Action.

6am Last Man Standing Antonio Banderas, PG 6:25 Jack And The Olga Kurylenko. 3:10 Collide Beanstalk M (Part 1) MVL 2016 Action.

7:15 Supergirl MVS 9:50 DC’s Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones.

4:50 Tully MLS 2018 Legends Of Tomorrow Comedy. Charlize Theron, MVS 10:45 Survivor Mackenzie Davis.

– San Juan Del Sur PG 6:25 Unsane 16VLC 11:40 Ice Road Truckers 2018 Thriller. Claire Foy, PG 12:35 Appalachian Joshua Leonard. 8pm Tag Outlaws M 1:30 Raw PG MLSC 2018 Comedy. Each year, 4:15 SmackDown PG five childhood friends compete 6pm Main Event MV in a no-holds-barred game 7pm Last Man Standing PG 7:30 Survivor – San Juan Del of tag, where they will stop at nothing to take each other Sur PG down. Based on a true story.

8:30 Scorpion ML Ed Helms, Jeremy Renner.

9:30 Scorpion ML 9:45 The First Purge 16VLSC 10:30 Supernatural MVS 2018 Thriller. Y’lan Noel, 11:25 Survivor – San Juan Lex Scott Davis.

Del Sur PG 11:20 The Work Wife 16VC Monday 12:15 Million 2018 Thriller. Kevin Sizemore, Dollar Car Hunters Cerina Vincent. Monday PG 1:05 Last Man 12:45 Collide MVL 2016 Standing PG 1:30 Main Action. Nicholas Hoult, Event MV 2:20 Million Felicity Jones. 2:25 Tully MLS Dollar Car Hunters PG 2018 Comedy. Charlize Theron, 3:10 Supernatural MVS Mackenzie Davis.

4am Last Man Standing 4am Unsane 16VLC 2018 PG 4:25 Scorpion ML Thriller. 5:35 Tag MLSC 2018 Comedy.

5:10 Scorpion ML

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CHOICE

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

Noon Agatha Raisin PGR 3 0 1pm University Challenge 3 0 1:30 Superior Donuts PGR 3 0 2pm The Great Indoors PGR 3 0 2:25 Paddington Station 3 0 3:25 The Great British BakeOff 3 0 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great British Bake-Off – An Extra Slice Jo is joined by Bake-Off judge Prue Leith, Rob Delaney, and Phil Wang to see what they make of the remaining 11 bakers and their cakeweek creations. 0

6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 7am Waiata Mai 3 7:10 Pukoro 2 7:40 Pipi Ma 3 7:50 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Smooth 3 8:30 Fitness In The Whare 3 9am Swagger 9:30 Grid 3 10am Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 10:30 Traditional Kai 3 11am Piri’s Tiki Tour 3 11:30 R&R Noon Ride Or Die 3 12:30 Waka Warriors 3 1pm Touch Rugby – Nationals 2pm M The Dark Crystal PGR 1982 Animated. Voices of Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz. 3:30 Waka Ama Sprints 4:30 Gate To The Globe 3 5pm Tagata Pasifika 5:30 Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Dream Gardens 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am The Best Place To Be 8am Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb 9am Baby Animals 9:30 Strip The City 10:30 The Secret Helpers 11:30 Brother v Brother 12:30 American Idol 3:30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 4:30 Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Home Cooking 5:30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat 6pm Tiny House Nation Adam and Gabrielle want a tiny house in which they can raise their growing family, and the challenge for John and Zack will be creating a space that works before the newest member of the family arrives.

7pm Storage Wars PGR 0 7:30 Modern Dinosaurs 0 8:30 Pilgrimage – Road To Santiago PGR 0 9:45 60 Minutes PGR 10:45 Fear The Walking Dead AO While a troubled survivor finds allies in an unexpected place, the life Madison has fought to build is threatened.

7pm Whaikorero 3 7:30 Artefact 8:30 M Notes On A Scandal PGR 2006 Drama. A veteran teacher befriends a younger art teacher who is having an affair with a student, but her intentions go well beyond platonic friendship.

10:10 Te Ao – Maori News 3 10:40 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 11:10 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 Nga Whetu o Te Kohu.

11:40 Closedown

7pm American Idol 9pm Adele – Live In London 10:30 M King Of California AO 2007 Comedy Drama.

Recently released from a mental institution, and reunited with his daughter, a man decides there is Spanish gold buried in their lowerclass neighbourhood, and sets out to find it.

11:40 Football – English Premier League 3 Highlights of the week’s English Premier League games.

12:40 Closedown

MOVIES GREATS 6am Once Fallen 16VL 2010 Crime. Brian Presley, Ed Harris. 7:30 Silver Linings Playbook MVLS 2012 Comedy Romance. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence.

9:30 Identity Thief MVLS 2013 Comedy. Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy.

11:20 The Debt AO16VL 2011 Thriller. Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson.

1:10 Once Fallen 16VL 2010 Crime. Brian Presley, Ed Harris.

2:40 And So It Goes MS 2014 Romance. Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas.

4:15 After Earth MV 2013 Scifi. Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

5:55 Bridesmaids 16LSC 2011 Comedy. Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, John Hamm.

8pm Django Unchained 16VL 2012 Western. A slave turned bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a plantation owner. Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio.

10:45 The Waterboy ML 1998 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk.

Monday 12:15 8MM 18VLS 1999 Thriller.

Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix.

2:15 Bridesmaids 16LSC 2011 Comedy. Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, John Hamm.

4:20 And So It Goes MS 2014 Romance. Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas.

5:55 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC

SKY SPORT 1 6:30 Football – A-League (RPL) Jets v Wanderers.

8:30 Football – A-League (RPL) Sydney FC v Melbourne Victory FC. 10:30 Sky Sports News 11am Rugby – Pro14 (RPL) Munster v Cardiff Blues.

1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Crusaders v Brumbies.

1:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Blues v Waratahs.

2pm L Netball – Beko League Northern Marvels v Central Manawatu.

4pm L Netball – ANZ Premiership Mystics v Tactix.

From Trusts Arena, Auckland.

6pm Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Blues v Waratahs.

From Eden Park, Auckland.

6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Highlanders v Hurricanes.

7pm L Aussie Rules – AFL Fremantle v St Kilda.

From Optus Stadium, Perth.

10pm AFL Bounce 11pm Netball – ANZ Premiership (RPL) Mystics v Tactix.

Monday

12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) 12:55 L Rugby – Pro14 Southern Kings v Dragons. 3am Rugby Nation 4am Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Bulls v Jaguares.

4:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Texas Open – Third Round.

5am L Golf – PGA Tour Texas Open – Final Round.

From San Antonio, Texas.

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12:30 Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Home Cooking 1am Collectaholics 2am Primal Survivor AO 3am Adele – Live In London 4:30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat 5am Baby Animals – In Our World

SKY SPORT 2 8am Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Blues v Waratahs.

10:05 Cricket – IPL (HLS) Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab. 10:35 Cricket – IPL Sunrisers Hyderabad v Mumbai Indians. 11:05 Rugby – Super Rugby Highlanders v Hurricanes. 11:30 Rugby – World Sevens Hong Kong – Day Two. 1pm Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Cowboys v Raiders. 3pm L Rugby League – Queensland Cup East Tigers v Capras.

From Langlands Park, Brisbane.

5pm Rugby League – NRL Saturday.

5:30 L Rugby League – NRL Storm v Bulldogs.

From Melbourne Rectangular Stadium.

8pm L Rugby League – NRL Knights v Dragons.

From Newcastle International Sports Centre. 10pm Sunday Night With Matty Johns 11pm Controversy Corner 11:30 Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Titans. Monday Midnight Rugby League – Super League (RPL) Catalans v St Helens. 2:10 Rugby League – NRL Sunday.

2:50 L Football – FA Cup Semi-final – Watford v Wolverhampton.

From Wembley.

5am Football – A-League Adelaide United v Phoenix.

5:30 L Motorsport – Nascar Food City 500.

From Bristol Motor Speedway.

7Apr19

DISCOVERY 6:05 How Do They Do It? PG 6:35 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Green with Envy. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9:10 What On Earth?

PG 10am Gold Rush PG Fire and Ice. 11:15 Gold Rush – The Dirt PG 11:40 Outback Opal Hunters PG 12:30 Homestead Rescue PG High and Dry. 1:20 Alaskan Bush People PG 2:10 Railroad Australia PG 3pm Railroad Australia PG 3:50 Railroad Australia PG 4:45 Railroad Australia PG 5:40 Railroad Australia PG 6:35 Railroad Australia PG 7:30 Blowing Up History PG Wrath of Attila the Hun. 8:30 Mighty Ships PG 9:25 Expedition Unknown PG True Cross of Christ.

10:15 What On Earth? PG 11:05 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11:55 Alaskan Bush People M

Monday

12:45 Homestead Rescue PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Naked And Afraid M 3:15 Naked And Afraid M 4:05 Naked And Afraid M 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Naked And Afraid M

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BREACH, Winifred Mary – On April 3, 2019 at Ashburton. Very much loved wife and best friend of Don. Treasured mother and mother-in-law of Leona and Kerry, Ross and Charlotte, Mark and Helen, Grant and Anita and adored Grandmother, Great Grandmother and friend.

Messages to the Breach family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to the Ashburton Cancer Society would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A service celebrating Win’s life will be held at Our Lady of the Snows, Main Street, Methven on MONDAY, April 8, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by private family interment.

STALKER, John Mervyn – 28.06.1929 – 05.04.2019 Passed away peacefully in the loving care of Rosebank staff, Ashburton. Very much loved and devoted husband of Doreen for 66 years.

Treasured father and fatherin-law of Mark and Dallas, and Nadine, Peter and Mary and loved Grandad of Campbell, and Kelsey; Jessica, Emily, Benjamin, and Thomas. Great Grandad of Linkin, and Izaiah. Messages to the Stalker family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. No Flowers by request please. A service to celebrate John’s life will be held at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Park Street, Ashburton on TUESDAY, April 9, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by private cremation.

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MANNING, Derrick Alan Reginald – Passed away peacefully with family by his side on Wednesday, March 27, 2019.

Aged 84 years. Loved husband of Julie, and a dearly loved father, father-inlaw and Grandad of Kylie and Jamie, Anne-Maree, Shaun, and Harry Reith (Geraldine), Erin and Mark, Jacob, and Laura Gleeson (England). We are very grateful and appreciative for the wonderful care of Derrick at Talbot Park, Timaru. Messages to 24 Walnut Drive, Geraldine 7930. At Derrick’s request a private family farewell has been held.

WHINHAM, Tony – On April 3, 2019.

Dearly loved brother, brotherin-law, Uncle and great Uncle of Peter and Velmai, Kim (deceased), Craig and Chrissy, Alyssa and Zoe. Will be sadly missed.

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TUESDAY

Mainly fine, but low cloud morning and evening. Northeasterlies.

World Weather fine cloudy showers fine showers showers rain thunder fine thunder thunder thunder fine fine drizzle

FZL: 1600m, rising to 2200m

Fine, apart from cloud morning and night.

Winds mainly light.

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Wind at 2000m: SE 35 km/h south of Methven. In the north, SE 60 km/h.

Fine, apart from cloud and the chance of a shower north of Ashburton. Northeasterlies.

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 10.8 11.7 Max to 4pm 6.5 Minimum 5.2 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 30.6 16hr to 4pm April to date 40.2 Avg Apr to date 9 2019 to date 168.6 177 Avg year to date Wind km/h S 24 At 4pm Strongest gust S 48 Time of gust 3:57pm

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Balanced is not the same thing as equal. Strange things can balance out and often do. You can’t argue with what works, nor is there any point in arguing with what doesn’t.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’re always making efforts to accommodate. Usually, life is better if you can swing it. But right now, it’s just easier when everyone eats the same food and likes the same kind of entertainment.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You realise what’s at stake for you, but in order to reach an agreement, you also have to know what’s at stake for the other person. You’ll reach agreement in at least three instances before the day is done.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Because you take business personally and treat people so well, you’ll reap the benefits of a fulfilling atmosphere where you spend a good deal of your time.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): It’s fun to think about the future so long as you can avoid getting so caught up in planning and dreaming that you miss what’s happening right now. What you have is extremely precious!

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): There’s comfort in knowing what you can expect. When you tell people what they are about to experience and then deliver on that, the reaction will be extremely favourable.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Take the high road. You don’t have to take it out of benevolence. You can take it out of utility, just because it’s the way most likely to solve the problem, and take the benevolence points as a bonus.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): The time to set a goal for a conversation is before you have it. It may help to write down your goals and questions because it’s a lot harder to recall this reasonable part of the brain when face to face.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): There are so many wonderful things about your current position, most of them so common to you that you can’t really see them. It’s why the perspective of strangers is so valuable to you now.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You’ll be evangelising for a cause that will make the world better.

Ignore the nonbelievers. You’ll gain real numbers and momentum with those who are on the fence, just waiting to be convinced.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): All the kindergarten rules apply, and those much older will avoid all sorts of mayhem from applying the basics like “eyes on your own page” and “hands to yourself.”

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Remember when you made that commitment when you really don’t know much about it? Now you know. Future commitments are harder to make from this wizened position.

ACROSS 1. Being so burnt is a shock to be borne (5) 4. Cue calf that could be under sail in the Mediterranean (7) 8. Pampering one too much with gold: unit never changes (13) 10. Find an answer to love’s entanglement (5) 11. Have to have been born a woman, a daughter (4) 12. Is well up the scale – of being drunk? (4) 16. Hyde had a windproof garment such as this (5) 17. Benevolent chap in RH plot one sorted out (13) 19. It goes on irritating the right joints (7) 20. Board with switches in a different plane (5) DOWN 1. GP, able to print something as absorbing as this (8,5) 2. Custom one may turn to one’s advantage (3) 3. T-shirt designed to show it being satisfied with a drink (6) 4. It is something to bow and scrape, but it’s a swindle (6) 5. Soothed by three fifty due to be handed out (6) 6. Willingness to believe it ruled out in the City (9) 7. It’s about star study (ps: Charity also comes into it) (13) 9. Accuracy in price is no substitute for it (9) 13. Lie untidily, with paws flung left and right (6) 14. Deserter is being held by American soldiers for nothing (6) 15. Leave one another as he turns up, the tyrant (6) 18. One’s debit card number may have its point (3)

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ACROSS 7. Fight back (7-6) 8. Killer (8) 9. Branch (4) 10. Noiseless (6) 12. Help (6) 14. Frigid (3) 15. Further down (6) 17. Steady and unchanging (6) 19. Expectorate (4) 21. Holiness (8) 23. Living quarters (13)

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Previous solution: eon, nope, nor, one, oner, open, ore, pen, peon, per, pone, pore, porn, pro, prone, rep, repo, roe, rone, rope

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