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Neeson backs Clooney stance Irish actor Liam Neeson has backed George Clooney’s stance on cosmetic surgery and urged the men of Hollywood to grow old “gracefully”. Last month, Clooney came out as an opponent of procedures which aim to roll back the years and declared they often look wrong on men. “For me, it isn’t an issue or an option. I don’t think it would make much sense ... I’ve seen it happen and ... particularly on men, I don’t think it really works well. I actually think it makes you look older,” he says. Clooney, 54, has now attracted the backing of another Hollywood veteran, Taken star Neeson, 62, who also thinks guys in Tinseltown should not go under the knife. He tells Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, “Ageing should be done gracefully. I agree with George that the best way to grow older is not to get any work done to your face.”

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Newton-John asks kids to plant trees Hollywood star Olivia Newton-John wants two million Australian children to experience the joy of planting a tree. The federal government yesterday announced funding for the first 100,000 trees to be planted by Sydney schoolchildren for the One Tree Per Child campaign. Co-founder Newton-John wants every child at school to plant a tree and has told ABC radio she hopes two million will be in the ground by 2020.

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She doesn’t know it yet, but a three-week-old girl named Ava has claimed the title of New Zealand’s six millionth registered baby. Born at Auckland City Hospital last month, Ava’s parents Kelly and Oliver received a phone call from the Internal Affairs Department this week informing them their bundle of joy was the six millionth birth to be registered in the country. “It was a big surprise,” said Kelly, who did not want the family’s last name used. “She is our second child so it’s nice to have something a bit more glossy about a second child.”

Kelly said her eldest daughter, Mia, was nearly two and “wakes up early each morning to give her kisses”.

A first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit – complete with a handwritten note from the author in Elvish – has sold at auction for £137,000 ($NZ291,441.50). The book, which went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London yesterday (NZ time), was originally given by Tolkien to one of his students from Leeds University, Kitty Kilbride. It includes the inscription in Elvish – the language created by Tolkien and used by some of his characters in the world of Middle Earth where he set his fantasy tales. Tolkien kept in touch with Kilbride until her death in 1966 and her copy of Lord of the Rings and a signed postcard from the novelist have already been auctioned off.

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BBC wants to keep co-hosts The BBC is reportedly looking to keep Jeremy Clarkson’s former Top Gear co-hosts on the show despite his departure. James May and Richard Hammond have been offered deals in the region of £1 million ($NZ2.16 million) a year to stay with the hit motoring show, according to The Times.

Such a deal would make the pair among the corporation’s highest earners. It comes amid speculation the BBC will not directly replace Clarkson, but instead have a guest host on each show. The corporation used a similar tactic when another of its best known faces – Have I Got News For You host Angus Deayton – was fired after reports emerged of drug use and encounters with prostitutes.

A BBC spokeswoman and representatives of the two men declined to comment, but bookmakers have slashed the odds on the pair returning. All three men’s contracts ran out earlier this year and the BBC refused to renew Clarkson’s.

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■ EVIRONMENT CANTERBURY

Only 60% of log burners compliant

By Sue NewmaN

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Ashburton’s solid fuel burner owners are swapping their old fires for new, clean burning models, but there is still a long way to go before every fire is a compliant fire, Environment Canterbury says.

When a review of ECan’s air plan was prepared in June last year, it showed that of the known 2550 log burners in use in Ashburton homes, 1490 (60 per cent) had been replaced or were under 15 years old. The remainder, 1060, were listed as non complying.

ECan data shows those noncomplying burners are responsible for 48 per cent of Ashburton’s winter air pollution.

The Ashburton District Council issues building consents for log burner installations and while separate data is not kept

for new installations and replacements, building services manager Michael Wong said the majority of consents were to replace an old burner.

Since 2009, 2324 domestic fireplace consents have been issued by the council and to date this year consents total 257. Consent numbers peaked in 2012, 475.

Only solid fuel burners in Ashburton and Tinwald are affected by the air plan and the council figures include installations in rural and rural village properties.

Log burners can be installed in new homes, but from 2019 they will have to be rated for ultra low emissions, Mr Wong said.

Now, as well as having to ensure their log burner is compliant, people in the Ashburton airshed also have to ensure their chimney does not issue visible smoke for any longer than 15 minutes at a stretch.

Earlier this week ECan made it clear that a $750 fine would be imposed on repeat offenders.

ECan commissioner David Bedford said smoking chimneys had been added to the mix of solutions to air pollution because, unless the right material was burned in the right way, log burners, old and new, would smoke.

“It’s clear more needs to be done to meet national health-based standards so there are new rules that require woodburner users to burn smoke free. If you use a woodburner in an urban area, it’s likely you will need to change the way you burn,” he said.

ECan will be providing home owners with information on smoke-free fires and staff will be looking for smoky chimneys and identifying homes using noncompliant log burners.

Ashburton has logged one high pollution night this year, May 29.

Visit by bogus council Mum discharged over death official rattles local shopkeepers ■ WANGANUI HIGH COURT

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It was an incident that left her scared and intimidated.

An Ashburton business owner is still shaken after a man posed as an Ashburton District Council staff member to access her store.

The woman, who did not want to be named, said a man claiming to be a council electrician came to her Burnett Street store late on Thursday afternoon.

After the woman stopped him from trying to get behind the store’s counter he allegedly told her he was there to check the store’s power points.

The man was wearing a plain high-vis vest but no other type of uniform.

Feeling that something was not quite right, the woman and her husband asked him for some form of ID. He left, claiming it was in his car, and never returned.

A call to the council confirmed that he was not an employee and no visit by the council had been scheduled.

The owner of the business said she was left feeling scared following the incident as she

believed the man was trying to get her alone in the back of the store.

The incident has led to warnings from both the council and police to check for identification before allowing someone into a home or business.

Council building services manager Michael Wong said council staff always carried identification on them and visits were usually prearranged with business owners.

Fluoro vests worn by council employees had the council logo on the front and back.

Mr Wong said a quick call to council customer services could ensure any person claiming to be a council employee was legitimate.

Canterbury District Police Prevention Manager Inspector Richard Bruce said property and business owners should contact the company a visitor represents if they have any doubt about the identity or reason for their visit.

“Legitimate visitors will have proper identification with them and will not have any problem with an inquiry being made with their employer,” he said.

A Wanganui health professional who pleaded guilty to manslaughter after her child was left in a hot car has been discharged without conviction.

Before Justice Simon France in the High Court at Wanganui yesterday, the woman began crying at the first mention of the boy’s name.

The court heard the boy died of heatstroke and dehydration.

He was discovered only after his creche texted and then phoned to inquire where he was. The defendant sobbed as the summary of facts was read out in court.

About 20 people attended

in the public gallery, many sharing tearful hugs during a morning adjournment.

The 16-month-old boy, whose name has been suppressed, died outside her workplace on January 16. Police have not publicly confirmed the circumstances of his death, but charged the 35-year-old mother with his manslaughter.

The charging document stated she “omitted without lawful excuse to perform her legal duty to provide that child with necessaries, thereby bringing the death of the child in circumstances where her omission was a major departure from the standard of care expected of a reasonable per-

son to whom that legal duty applied”.

She pleaded guilty to the charge last month and was referred to Restorative Justice.

Her lawyer, Debbie Goodlet, applied for a discharge without a conviction.

Justice France began proceedings yesterday by ordering permanent name suppression for the toddler, the defendant and her place of work.

After the sentencing, Crown Prosecutor Lance Rowe said the court had to balance the premium that the law placed on the vulnerability of children versus the “exceptional circumstances” in this case.

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Battery blast ‘a freak one-off incident’ A battery explosion on board an Auckland bus, that left a driver with facial injuries, was a freak one-off incident, Auckland Transport says.

But following yesterday’s incident the transport agency plans to replace console batteries from 1150 of its buses.

The explosion happened after a malfunction within a console, which is used to store ticket and route information, led to the internal AA-lithium battery to overheat, explode and cause the plastic casing to

fly off. The bus’ rear-view mirror was damaged and the bus windscreen was also cracked.

Passengers were on board at the time, but the driver offloaded them safely, drove the bus back to the depot, before going to hospital to be treated.

At a press conference, AT chief executive David Warburton said the bus driver was in good spirits and would be back at work next week.

He unveiled the small AAstyle battery to the gathered media at the conference and

demonstrated where they slotted into the ticket console.

Mr Warburton said incidents involving faulty batteries of this type were very rare world wide.

“We do not believe this is a systemic issue but rather a freak accident. Thales have never had any experience of an incident like this and they advise the possibility of a similar event is extremely low, and reduced even further with the latest fail-safe battery.”

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■ COLLEGE ROAD CRASH DAY

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Confronted by crash realities

By Daisy HuDson

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Ashburton College students were confronted with the reality of a serious car crash yesterday in a bid to prevent further fatalities on New Zealand roads.

Yesterday marked Road Crash Day, which aims to educate people about the horrific consequences of car crashes.

College students, the Ashburton District Council, St John staff and fire crews joined forces to stage a mock crash on Middle Road.

A hush fell over the assembled students as the harrowing scene played out in front of them.

The scene was made to look as realistic as possible with the teenage actors screaming, crying, and covered in fake blood as they acted out the immediate aftermath of a vehicle collision.

Year 12 students then headed to the Ashburton Trust Event Centre to hear from families who have experienced first-hand the grief of losing a loved one in a car crash.

Brent and Christine Laurenson held a highly emotional and confronting presentation called The Ripple Effect, which covered the emotional toll on their family and friends following the death of their son in a

The fifth seal in two weeks has come to shore in South Auckland - this time in Manurewa. Earlier yesterday afternoon a seal was spotted in Wattle Downs, Papakura. That seal has since been returned to its natural habitat by the Department of Conservation.

Marine ranger Yuin Khai Foong said he was en route to deal with the fifth visitor. Just last week one adult seal frequented the suburb, on Monday and Tuesday, before it was apprehended at a Papakura car wash, followed by a baby seal later in the week at Ray Small Park.

And on Wednesday this week another large seal pup was seen wandering near the local Pak’nSave before it too was returned by Mr Foong to the Awhitu Peninsula.

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Ashburton College students and fire crews act out the aftermath of a mock crash for Road Safety Day yesterday.

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car crash in 2009.

Mr Laurenson described his son’s death as “the worst possible feeling you could ever feel”.

He encouraged the students to make good choices around driving, as the death of a young person in a crash was effectively a life sentence for their families.

Students also heard from

Lisa Collins, whose son was hit by a car when he got off a school bus and died 25 days later from his injuries.

Getting the message out to teenagers is a major focus for the district council, as statistics show youth are overrepresented in car crashes in the district.

Project officer Rachael Boyd said between 2010 and 2015

there were 120 crashes in the Ashburton District involving 16 to 24-year-olds.

Those crashes resulted in 15 deaths, 26 serious injuries, and 137 minor injuries.

“We hope that the event will be enough to make the students stop and think twice and, ultimately, to become more responsible drivers and passengers for life,” she said.

A Black Power gang associate fell and broke his leg as he tried to escape police in a drugs bust in Rotorua. The man was trying to evade arrest when he fell from a deck, Rotorua police Area Commander Inspector Bruce Horne said. Five Black Power gang associates were arrested in the methamphetamine sting on Thursday morning at three different addresses in the western suburbs. A 23-year-old man is facing eight charges of selling methamphetamine, a 24-year-old man is charged with possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of supply, two other men aged 25 and 21 are facing charges of possession of cannabis for supply. A 15-year-old boy has been charged with selling methamphetamine and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

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Jerry Collins, wife killed in crash in France Former All Black Jerry Collins has died with his wife in a car accident yesterday.

French paper Midi Libre reports the crash happened a little after 4.30am French time in the department of Herault along the highway near Béziers on the way to the city of Montpellier.

Their baby daughter has been taken to Montpellier hospital in a critical condition.

French police are yet to confirm the details surrounding the accident, but it seems as if Mr Collins, who had been playing for a French club in Narbonne, was stopped on the highway as a result of a technical problem with his car. He’d lost control of his car and was on the right side of the road, but on an angle across it.

A bus, which was travelling from Portugal with 20 passengers on board, hit the car with full force, throwing the car a dozen metres against the central security barrier.

Two of the passengers received moderate injuries.

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Mr Collins and his wife were killed instantly.

When the emergency services first arrived, the two drivers of the bus had already taken

the baby girl out of the remains of her parents’ vehicle.

They handed her over to the firefighters who took her to hospital immediately.

The passengers on the bus are being given counseling.

The drivers of the bus are reported to be in shock as a result of the drama and have been taken to hospital in Béziers to be checked over.

Officials at Collin’s club, Narbonne, said they would not be issuing a statement immediately. An official at the club said they were waiting for more information from police before issuing a statement. The official said everybody at the club was in a state of shock.

Collins, age 34, was born in Apia, Samoa. He played 48 tests for the All Blacks. He had three tests as captain.

Collins made his All Blacks debut in 2001, the same year he first played for the Wellington Hurricanes. Prior to that, he had been playing for Wellington in the NPC since 1999.

Collins retired from international rugby in 2008, and went on to play in Europe and Japan.

Most recently he had signed with French club Narbonne, in January.

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People are being urged to hand their old or wonky cellphones in to help raise funds for a children’s hospital. Auckland Council said throughout June and July Starship mobile phone collection boxes will be at the council’s main service centres “for people who want to help kids and the planet” by recycling old phones. Money raised will go to the Starship National Air Ambulance Service. Once collected, the phones would be passed to a specialist recycling company, Swapkit, who graded the phones and wiped the data.

Sim and memory cards were also removed and destroyed. Phones still useful were sold to offshore businesses that refurbished and sold second-hand cellphones.

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Bad driving A driver has beached their car after attempting to drive down a pedestrian stairway in Auckland yesterday. The male driver got confused which way to go while driving down Rosedale Rd in Albany late yesterday morning.

He didn’t get far before the small maroon sedan became bellied out on the stairs. Staci O’Brien posted photos of the traffic trouble on social media. “How not to enter a carpark... Auckland drivers get better by the day!” she said.

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■ EUTHANASIA DEBATE

Parliament ‘failed nation’

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lead to a full select committee inquiry.

Mr Laws believes the issue needs to be put to a vote, saying the “imperative has only become more pronounced, not less”.

“I don’t believe that either the courts or parliament are moral, they’re no more moral than anyone else,” he said.

“If you’re going to have a public morality in the country, of which voluntary euthanasia is obviously a part, then all of the public must have a say on what it is.”

He said if he was in parliament now, he would reintroduce the bill.

“The reality is that parliament’s failed the nation on this issue,” he said.

“It’s failed the nation in the sense that it’s run away from the issue, and that is the worst thing that anybody can do.”

He acknowledged the “tremendous bravery and honesty” that Ms Seales displayed during her court case. “Her death will become a touchstone for proper change,” he said.

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The man who introduced New Zealand’s first right-to-die legislation says parliament has failed the nation.

Former MP Michael Laws says the country is ready to vote on whether or not euthanasia should be legalised and believes the issue should be put to a referendum.

Mr Laws, who now lives in Timaru, had his “Death with Dignity” bill defeated in parliament in 1995.

The bill, which was jointly drafted with terminaly ill MP Cam Campion, was the first major effort to legalise euthanasia in New Zealand.

His comments followed yesterday’s decision by the High Court to deny terminally ill lawyer Lecretia Seales the right to an assisted death.

Ms Seales had been seeking a landmark High Court ruling that would allow her doctor to help her die without criminal prosecution.

She died of natural causes early yesterday morning, just hours after learning of the de-

Michael Laws believes Parliament has failed the nation by not legalising euthanasia.

Politicians have been reluctant to address the issue of legalising euthanasia, although Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway announced he will table a petition to Parliament later this month in the hope it will

cision to reject her bid.

Justice David Collins released his judgment yesterday afternoon, saying only changes to legislation in parliament could give Ms Seales what she wanted.

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Waterfront plunged into darkness Much of Auckland’s waterfront was plunged into darkness for an hour last night after a loud bang was reported from a switching box off the Viaduct Harbour.

Electricity distribution company Vector reported supplies were cut to 1866 premises and traffic lights, which sent police rushing to key intersections to go on points duty.

Auckland Transport said traffic signals were knocked out from Fanshawe Street and all the way along Customs and Quay streets to Parnell, although the main motorway entry to the central city at Victoria Park was unaffected.

The police said they were unaware of any other major problems caused by the blackout, but had sent officers out to help to control the traffic.

But by 7.50pm, about an hour after the outage, Vector reported that electricity had been restored to all but 19 customers.

Auckland Transport said minutes later that all traffic signals were back in action.

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Seminar to provide tools to deal with ‘tricky teens’

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Parents of Mid Canterbury’s “tricky teens” will soon get a chance to vent their frustration and learn how to relate better to their kids.

A free seminar will be held on Monday night, and is set to change how parents and their teenagers relate to one another.

It is being hosted by the YMCA Ashburton which has teamed up with Karyn Chalk of Changing Ways.

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YMCA co-ordinator Poppy Cooper-Vear said the tricky teens seminar is designed for people who want a happier home life.

It will help parents understand what to say when their teens behave in a “challenging way”, learn how to respond and feel confident that they can make it through a difficult time.

Mrs Cooper-Vear said she sees a number of teens – not all of them tricky - at the YMCA.

“We see a large cross section of young people that come through our service,” Mrs Cooper-Vear said.

“Many are vibrant, energetic, involved in community activities, already engaged with learning and some that need a little more support.”

She said while the term “tricky teen” was hard to define, struggling to relate, communicate or respond to a teenager acting out could be tricky, and often interpreted as “intruding”.

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Mrs Cooper-Vear said she wants parents and caregivers to be able to grow their relationships, so their teens feel comfortable going to them for help.

The free event is targeted at parents/caregivers/guardians that would like to learn new skills around communicating with tricky teens.

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Nearly a hundred new faces will be seen on the Mt Hutt Ski Area this ski season, after the mountain’s newest recruits were inducted yesterday.

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All set for jam-packed ski season

By Caitlin Porter

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Over a thousand applied, but only 90 were selected to be a part of this year’s Mt Hutt Ski Area team.

The new recruits began their settling in process yesterday – ready for a jam-packed ski season.

They converged on Methven yesterday and completed their

induction to the skiing world.

Mt Hutt’s general operations manager James Urquhart said yesterday was broken up into different parts, first the newbies met at the Methven i-Site where they grabbed their welcome packs and were spoken to by various members of management.

They then moved on to grab their ID cards and uniforms.

This year there was a record number of applicants for positions on the mountain, and the return rate was also extremely high, Mr Urquhart said.

“We had a really high return rate, about 60 to 65 per cent,” he said.

In total 5000 people applied for jobs across NZSki’s three ski areas - Mt Hutt, The Remarkables and Coronet Peak.

“That’s really good for these guys, to know they got through that system,” Mr Urquhart said.

The ski area is scheduled to open on Friday next week, the snow that fell this week adding to a good base.

Large piles of artificial snow after hours of snow making last week will also be spread out and add to that.

Earlier this week ski area manager James McKenzie said Friday was chosen as the official open day for a variety of reasons, including helping to ease new staff and systems into operation before the weekend rush.

He said the ski area was looking better than at this time last year, when a lack of snow led to a delayed opening.

Trevor’s thirty-fifth season spent on the ski slopes

By Caitlin Porter

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Spending a season working on a mountain would be something many people would love to check off their bucket list – Trevor Brunton has ticked that box 35 times.

Trevor began his skifield career back in 1980 as a lift operator.

“I always wanted to be a little boy when I grew up and the ski [area] has allowed me to do that,” he said.

Trevor came from a dairy farm in the North Island and had his sights set on becoming an engineer. He got part-way through his degree before he decided he wanted to spend a ski season working on a mountain.

He joked that he never finished the degree – the mountain stole his heart.

Trevor spent his summers with his two kids kicking around in Methven, “ski bums” he said.

After working as a lift operator he moved into custodial work, and then was a groomer driver before heading into snow making. Then he changed it up

The veteran, Trevor Brunton, will share his knowledge with one of the newest faces on the skifield this season, Sophie Ogden.

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once again, moving into rentals – now he works with the lifts as well as the retail side of things.

It’s a job Trevor loves, and his passion is something his children inherited.

They both learned to ski on Mt Hutt and his oldest is now in London, but his younger daugh-

ter will study to become a ski instructor as soon as she finishes school at the end of the year.

While 35 seasons might seem like a lot, Trevor said he has no plans to say goodbye to the mountain just get.

“I still enjoy the job, and I enjoy the people,” he said.

Trevor is the longest serving person who has worked at the ski area – one other employee, Robyn Ryan, started the year before him but has taken a season or two off throughout the years.

While Trevor works hard, he plays hard too. A proficient ski-

er and snowboarder, his passion for the mountains has taken him all over the world.

He has done stints in America and has spent the last three New Zealand summers working in France.

He doesn’t mind missing out on the warmer months though.

“Two springs is worth one summer,” he declared.

At the other end of the spectrum – Sophie Ogden is about to take on her first ever ski season.

Originally from Yorkshire, England, she has moved around a lot in the past few years. First America, then Europe, Korea, Thailand, Australia and now New Zealand.

The 28-year-old immersed herself and became a local everywhere she went, picking up work along the way.

“I’ve been an English teacher, a yoga instructor, a jillaroo and even worked on a dairy farm in Ashburton,” she said. Now Sophie has taken up an administration role at Mt Hutt.

She said she will see what happens when the ski season finishes up.

“I’ll just take it as it goes.”

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■ ASHBURTON RECORDINGS

May month of weather extremes

By Sue NewmaN

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The Ashburton District broke several weather records in May, including its lowest recorded rainfall since 1909.

Just 7mm of rain fell during the month, 11 per cent of normal, with Niwa’s climate centre logging even less rain in some parts of eastern Mid Canterbury.

Timaru held the country’s record low, at just 2mm, only 5 per cent of normal.

The upside of the big dry for the district came in high sunshine hours, 183, 140 per cent of the normal May reading and the second highest since records began in 1930.

Mid Canterbury may have been dry and it may have been sunny, but temperatures did not rise to record levels as they did in many parts of New Zealand, rather they moved in the opposite direction with the fourth lowest May reading since 1928 recorded on May 29, minus 6.5 degrees in Ashburton.

Across New Zealand the month of May was logged as one that delivered a mixed weather bag.

At Winchmore the mercury plunged even lower, to minus 6.7 degrees.

The weather gods continued to hammer the Ashburton Dis-

trict during the month of extremes with the fourth highest wind gust since 1970 recorded on May 6, 98 kilometres per hour.

The district, however, was spared the snow and ice that hammered many parts of the South Island.

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The highest temperature for the month was recorded at Waiau, 27 degrees and the lowest at Hanmer Forest, minus 9 degrees.

North Egmont recorded the highest single day’s rainfall for the month, 190mm and Cape Turnagain the highest wind gust, 178 kilometres per hour.

Auckland was the warmest main centre and Christchurch the coolest and driest. Wellington was the wettest, Tauranga the sunniest and Dunedin the cloudiest.

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In brief Man killed in crash A driver who died after his car crashed down a 10m bank in Taranaki yesterday has been named by police. Jeremy David McCracken, a 22-year-old Inglewood local, died in the crash early yesterday morning. Police were alerted at 3.06am and Mr McCracken was found dead at the scene on King Road, Inglewood. No other people were in the car. The Serious Crash Unit from New Plymouth is still investigating. Police say they will be working with Mr McCracken’s family and colleagues to provide support.

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Big cannabis haul Six thousand cannabis plants will never fulfil the destiny their growers dreamed of after police seized the plants.

Officers recovered more than 6000 cannabis plants as part of Operation Jasmin, an annual crime and ganja recovery, Central District Police said. More than 4100 dope plants were recovered from the aerial phase in Central District with the remaining 2474 plants coming from search warrants, police said.

“An estimated $20 million dollars has been saved in social harm costs from the Central operation,” police said in a statement. - NZME Geoffrey Smollett and Karen Ludmore will have to stay away from all junk food until the end of the month – in order to keep their Junk Free June promise.

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■ ANTI-JUNK MONTH

Couple to ‘eat clean’ for a month

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If there is ever a time to banish junk food, it appears to be during the month of June.

People across New Zealand, and many right here in Mid Canterbury, are jumping on the bandwagon and taking on the Junk Free June challenge.

Junk Free June is a not-forprofit organisation founded by the Cancer Society of New Zealand, and those taking on the challenge can sign up to raise money, all profits going straight to the Cancer Society.

Mid Canterbury Cancer So-

ciety health promoter Mandy Casey said she thinks the idea is an excellent one. “Anything that makes people stand up and sort of think ‘shivers what am I eating?’ and then maybe make some changes is great.”

Mrs Casey said not only is it a great way to raise awareness and raise money for the Cancer Society, it’s also another way to look at tackling the country’s growing obesity epidemic.

“We are getting to be quite an obese country… one out of nine children are obese and a further two are overweight,” she said.

In total around 35,000 children

in New Zealand are classed as morbidly obese, but the sad thing is over half of their parents don’t perceive their child as being overweight, Mrs Casey said.

“Schools are really good at encouraging children to eat healthily and they do always give that message out but sometimes it’s the parents.”

While giving up junk food might sound tough, Mid Cantabrian Karen Ludmore said it’s easier than it looks.

“It’s actually not too bad, I am so busy at the moment anyway I am not thinking about it a

whole lot,” she said.

Karen and her partner Geoffrey Smollett are teaming up and doing Junk Free June together.

“It was spur of the moment [decision], otherwise I would have eaten a lot of chocolate in that week before,” Karen said. “[But] he (Geoffrey) is actually a cancer survivor which is why we are doing it, he’s always wanted to give back.”

While everyone’s version of “junk” differs, Karen and Geoffrey are going all out.

“No fizzy, no V, no chocolate, ice cream, lollies, or alcohol.”

■ ROTORUA

Rare bird has wildlife officials all a-flutter An injured bittern taken to Rotorua’s Wingspan could provide information about the shy and endangered species.

Wingspan director Debbie Stewart said she was compelled to help the swamp bird, even though it is not a bird of prey, when Rotorua man Joe Fleet brought the bittern to Wingspan last Friday.

There are less than 100 bitterns alive nationally.

“The man was fishing near Atiamuri when he came across

the bird. The fact that he was able to spot it and capture the bird meant that it was quite unwell.

“It’s not normal for us to accept sick and injured birds that are not birds of prey, but given the conservation interest we had to make a special case.”

Ms Stewart said there was nothing visibly wrong with the endangered bird which is now being sent to Massey University in Palmerston North for an x-ray and blood tests.

“There was no blood, there were no scratches and it was holding its wings normally and had not lost breast muscle, which shows it had not lost its condition.

“It might have been stunned by a car or ingested something.

Massey University Phd student Emma Williams plans to study the movements of the bird, which she believes to be a female, once it is released back to where it was found through a transmitter.

“The bittern is rarer than the brown kiwi and kokako, but we know so much more about those other species than we do the bittern.

“The bittern is very shy and doesn’t like people. Ninety per cent of its natural habitat has gone.

“It will be the first female bittern to have a transmitter attached to it.”

The bird is expected to be released over the next two weeks.

- NZME

Mr Big dies The troubled bodybuilder known as Mr Big has died. Justin Rys spoke out about steroid abuse in recent years after he was jailed for importing drugs. Rys held the titles of Junior Mr Australasia, Mr Gold Coast and Mr Oceania. In 2006, he was sentenced to jail for 10 years for importing and distributing the drug Fantasy. He initially took Fantasy to further his career, not as a recreational drug, the New Zealand Herald reported at the time. He had dilated cardiomyopathy, which caused his heart to fail about once every six weeks. “You’re such a big teddy bear and will be missed by so many,” a mourner wrote on Rys’ Facebook page yesterday. Rys was in his late thirties.

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Maori TV reporter quits Maori Television’s star broadcaster Mihingarangi Forbes quit on Thursday after complaining of management interference in the award-winning Native Affairs current affairs show. Forbes’ resignation came after more than a year of tensions between the channel’s news teams and chief executive and editor-in-chief Paora Maxwell, appointed in April 2014.

A statement by news and current affairs boss Maramena Roderick said Forbes made a “significant contribution to the kaupapa of Maori Television”.

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School loses battle An Auckland high school has lost a court battle to keep a child with Asperger’s out of the classroom.

Green Bay High School went to the Court of Appeal to try and overturn a judicial review that last year said the special needs boy, who was expelled after scuffling with a teacher over a skateboard, should be allowed to return to class. The landmark hearing was said to have implications for schools across New Zealand.

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■ TRUSTPOWER COMMUNITY AWARDS

Twenty-eight groups vying for awards

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Last year the team from Maniao-Roto scouts were on the winners’ podium; this year it could be any of 28 Mid Canterbury community groups who are vying for a $1500 prize in this year’s Trustpower Ashburton Community awards.

The awards each year attract strong entries from community groups. Winners are chosen across heritage and environment, health and wellbeing, arts and culture, sports and leisure and education and child/ youth development categories, and are then assessed against one another for the supreme award.

The top prize comes with $1500, a trophy and an all expenses paid trip to the Trustpower National Community Awards in Dunedin in March.

Mania-o-Roto took out last

year’s prize for the groups fundraising efforts towards a new scout den and centre.

While the group did not win the national award, Ashburton has won in the past with the team from Trev’s Barbecue. This group, started by Jane and Trevor Hurley in the days following the February 2011 earthquakes, worked in Christchurch for many months delivering free barbecue food, clothing and groceries to earthquake victims in Christchurch’s eastern suburbs.

Groups vying for this year’s awards include: Ashburton Budget Advisory Service, Ashburton Toy Library, Base Youth Centre, Fruit Fund, Girl Guiding Mid Canterbury, Mid Canterbury Children’s Day, Rakaia Playcentre, Road Crash Day, St Vincent de Paul Young Vinnies, Ashburton Cadet Unit, Mid Canterbury

SPCA, After Ball volunteer drivers, Age Concern Ashburton Falls Prevention, Ashburton Menzshed, Busy Bees Playgroup, Cancer Society Ashburton, Combined Rural Fire Force Units of the Ashburton District, Presbyterian Support Curtain Bank, Friends of the Ashburton Hospital and Tuarangi, Park Street Day Centre, SEEDS Family Wellbeing Programme, Sport Canterbury, St John Ashburton Area Committee, Victim Support Mid Canterbury, Volunteering Mid and South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury Mountainbike Club, Ashburton Motorcycle Park, Pendarves Young Farmers’ Club.

Several other groups entered but did not get their applications completed in time.

Right - Mania-o-Roto scout leader Lori Rusbatch collected last year’s Supreme community award.

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Tempers flare at SPCA debate By eriN KavaNagh-hall Emotions ran high at a public meeting on Thursday to debate the fate of the embattled Wairarapa SPCA centre.

More than 100 people packed into the Frank Cody Lounge in Masterton for the meeting, organised by former manager Val Ball, to discuss options to reopen the centre.

The centre closed on May 15, citing a funding crisis.

Meeting chairman Ric Odom, chief executive of the Royal New Zealand SPCA battled to keep order as tempers flared, amid accusations of financial mismanagement, lack of transparency and bullying tactics.

Mr Odom began the meeting by giving a brief history of the centre’s troubles, stating “expenditure had always exceeded income”, and this had become particularly evident in the past year with “generous bequests” having ceased.

He said the centre had no money to cover the $20,000 a month required to cover the centre’s overheads, vet bills, animal feed and welfare inspectorate.

He urged the crowd not to focus on “finger-pointing”, but to come with workable, financially sound solutions.

“At this point, there is no white knight coming riding over the crest of the hill, with a bag of gold,” he said.

“It’s now up to you.”

The mood darkened shortly afterwards, with one woman demanding to know what it had cost to “pay out” former manager Lloyd Warren, and how much was spent on legal fees.

Others confronted the issue of the SPCA’s lack of openness regarding its financial trouble – with a former volun-

teer saying it was the “least proactive” with public fundraising of all charities she’d been part of.

SPCA op shop manager Fleur Harlick said the community had been reluctant to donate, as they “didn’t know where the money was going”.

The meeting resolved to create a working group to manage the centre’s finances, publicity and fundraising efforts.

Former vet John McLaren said such a group would need people with “very particular skill sets”.

“It’s not enough to care about animals – we need people who have business acumen and are prepared to make the tough calls.”

The working group would be “no more than 10 people”, with candidates screened by the national office.

A large number from the meeting put their names forward.

Wairarapa SPCA’s website was to be shut down, said website manager AJ Hunter. But a man, wishing only to be known as Ian, pledged money to keep it running for the rest of the year.

Mr Hunter said he had tried recently to do some press releases, but had been warned against it by interim centre manager Ben Lakomy “on orders from the [Wairarapa SPCA] committee”.

Other ideas raised were setting up an “ERO-like organisation” to vet the centre’s performance, and the possibility of setting up a Wairarapa-run animal rescue charity, independent of the SPCA. At the end of the meeting, Mr Odom provided assurance the national office would continue to fund an animal welfare inspectorate service on an emergency basis.

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Methven can now claim Methven farmer Graham Marr has attended the launch of the Methven Tartan in Scotland. Susan Sandys reports.

M

ethven farmer Graham Marr said it was a privilege to attend the launch of the new Methven Tartan in Scotland at the weekend.

However, as much as he likes the red multi-coloured checked wool fabric, he does not plan on wearing a kilt made from it.

Mr Marr has been visiting his home-town’s namesake in Scotland as part of a trip to the country with family and as such was able to attend the launch of the tartan on May 31.

Operators of the Methven Castle, which has stood near the Scottish town for over 1000 years and today operates as a tourist attraction and hotel, launched the Methven Tartan at the castle in the company of about 70 invited guests.

Mr Marr attended after Methven Community Board chairperson Liz McMillan and Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay could not make the launch.

Talking after the launch from Scotland this week, Mr Marr said it had been “quite a low-key” affair. It had lasted a couple of hours, on Sunday evening, and was attended by people mainly from the Scottish town of Methven.

“It’s a very nice tartan actually, I have to say,” Mr Marr said.

Items such as ties, jackets, trousers and kilts would be available and he had wanted to buy one or two ties, but found out the sale items had yet to be made.

“I thought the Mayor of Ashburton District would look good in one of those ties, but I can’t get one for him either,” Mr Marr said.

However, he would be ordering the items online once he got back to New Zealand.

As beautiful as the new tartan was, Mr Marr was not intending to wear a kilt made from it.

It was far too cold in Scotland at the moment, and in Methven, New Zealand, the weather conditions would also be limiting.

“Too much nor’west wind,”

Left and top right – Scottish Methven Castle owner David Murdoch proudly reveals the new Methven Tartan.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SCOTTISH THE COURIER

he said. “It would likely to be a problem.”

Castle owner David Murdoch said it had been fantastic to host Mr Marr as a representative of, to his knowledge, the only other

town of Methven in the world.

He gave a speech at the launch which included the story behind the launch of the tartan.

Two years ago he married Alex Cairncross and before that

the couple had been at a charity dinner in which there was an auction lot to design and register your own tartan.

“We submitted a bid, not thinking we would be successful, but on Monday morning we got the call and since then it has taken two-and-a-half years to get to this point,” Mr Murdoch said.

At first the Scottish Registrar of Tartans was reluctant to register a tartan where the name was both a surname and the name of a village, but last year the Methven and District Community Council gave its support and the registrar subsequently agreed.

“We decided that the new tartan should be a combination of the Murdoch family tartan that were part of the Macpherson clan, and Cairncross family tartan that were part of the

Above – Graham Marr will be adding a new tartan to his wardrobe after attending the launch of the Methven Tartan in Scotland.

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Stewart clan. The design is a merger of these two tartans in recognition of our marriage,” Mr Murdoch said.

“Initially, we were going to call the new tartan Methven Castle, but after a little research we discovered there was no Methven Tartan and we thought there might be an opportunity for some wider publicity for the village.”

Mid Canterbury’s Methven was named by a pioneer farmer, Robert Patton, after the Scottish village which was his hometown.

Those attending the launch included descendants of a family who owned the Methven Castle from 1664 to 1922.

In his speech, Mr Murdoch acknowledged Methvenites in New Zealand.

“In fact, this morning, I received good wishes for the launch from Liz McMillan,

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Right – A myriad of ways to wear tartan.

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chair[woman] of Methven Community Board New Zealand,” he said.

He explained how he came to own the castle. Thirty-one years ago his parents had bought it as a complete ruin, and “sunk their heart and soul” into its restoration.

“My father tells people, when he started in 1984 he used to be six foot six inches high and the work undertaken has worn him down.

“I do my best to follow that work ethic but I’ve got a bit to go until I reach five feet high,” Mr Murdoch said.

“Ten years ago I became the owner of Methven Castle and my father delights in telling people he now lives in the coal shed.

However, all joking apart it is really marvellous that dad is able to live adjacent and still enjoy the fruits of his labours.”

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Teachers of maths targeted

By Kirsty JoHnston

Concerns have been raised over the teaching of math in New Zealand, but educators beg to differ.

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Maths criticism ‘blown out of proportion’

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An Ashburton principal says parents need to step up their game following criticism of maths teaching in New Zealand.

Allenton School principal Graham Smith says it’s business as usual when it comes to teaching maths and recent criticism has been blown out of proportion.

“We still teach basic facts, nothing’s changed, it’s just a different process we’re using, that’s all.”

A recent report by independ-

ent think-tank The New Zealand Initiative claimed that too few primary teachers have adequate levels of maths to teach the subject and pupils are not being taught the basics.

However, Mr Smith believes parents are not doing their bit outside of the classroom to teach their children maths skills.

“It’s a shared responsibility here and that’s probably the biggest issue other than this political banter about it that’s going on,” he said.

He said simple things such as getting kids to measure in-

gredients when cooking could make all the difference.

Mount Hutt College principal John Schreurs said students now had a better ability to work things out in their heads than they did 10 years ago.

However, he believed the problem was that teachers only had a certain amount of time to teach maths, so some areas were likely to fall behind while others improved.

“We’re finding students that come have gaps, and they may not have done the geometry, or they may not have done some statistics,” he said.

In a speech to the New Zealand Initiative in Wellington on Thursday, Minister of Education Hekia Parata said the Government needing to do a better job of giving children a solid grounding in mathematics.

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Home detention sentence on fraud charges

By CatHerine Gaffaney The former accountant for two New Zealand fashion companies has been sentenced to 12 months home detention for siphoning off more than $370,000 of the companies’ funds.

The woman, who has permanent name suppression, procured $377,164 by repeatedly falsifying details in the companies’ accounting systems during her five year employment.

In Auckland District Court yesterday, the woman was sen-

tenced to 12 months home detention subject to approval of her address.

The court heard how the woman was in charge of the banking and asset control, and had the single signing authority for the two companies.

The offending began less than two months into her employment and ended three days before she resigned.

The companies’ names are permanently suppressed.

Her defence lawyer, Paul Cox, said she had shown significant remorse for the offending.

“She immediately admitted her guilt when the offending was uncovered and began paying the reparation straight away,” he said.

The woman sold her family home to help pay the reparation, he said.

Judge Grant Fraser accepted the woman was remorseful but said it didn’t excuse the seriousness of the offending.

“You were in a position of trust and authority,” he said.

“The victims of your offending have described having total trust in you.

“They were shocked and

devastated to learn of the offending. “I accept that you have shown significant remorse but there must be consequences for your offending.”

Mr Fraser said the offending was pre-mediated. “It was a significant breach of trust over a significant period of time,” he said.

A probation report found the woman had suffered from a depressive illness for years.

The woman, who was emotional as she left the dock, was supported by her son and daughter in court.

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Falling maths grades will be addressed by “lifting” primary teachers’ knowledge through more on-the-job training, the Government says in the wake of a damning report about teacher competency.

Education Minister Hekia Parata yesterday acknowledged there was a problem with Kiwi children’s maths marks and said it would be addressed, partly by raising the quality of teaching.

The primary teachers’ union, the New Zealand Educational Institute, says the moves will only work if the new training is better than what is currently available, and said changes to professional development was long overdue.

A right-wing think-tank caused an uproar over children’s maths yesterday when it released a report saying many teachers struggled with maths and were failing pupils.

The New Zealand Initiative report said a $70 million government policy called The Numeracy Project had over-complicated maths teaching, confusing children with multiple methods of learning multiplication and addition. It advocated a return to more rote learning.

Dozens of parents emailed the Herald in support of memorising times tables and using column addition following the story, saying they were shocked at how slowly their children were learning.

Ms Parata said maths had been a long-term challenge in New Zealand, and the current debate was about the way basics were learned, with schools needing to find a balance between learning basic facts and creative strategies.

She said it would be addressed “by raising the quality of teaching and ensure that resources are shared”.

The Ministry of Education’s deputy secretary for student achievement, Dr Graham Stoop, said there were multiple contributing factors to a decline in mathematics achievement, and attributing this to a single factor didn’t take into account other influences on student achievement.

“It is possible that the way the [Numeracy Project] was applied may have varied between schools and some may have de-emphasised basic maths facts more than intended. However, the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum clearly includes them.”

NZEI head Louise Green said it had been saying for a long time that better training was needed – both on the job and in initial teacher education.

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Driveway dispute boils over

By Scott yeoman Police have visited the Waiheke Island property of Marc Ellis yesterday to take photos of rubble dumped on his driveway by a neighbour.

It was revealed yesterday the former All Black was involved in a dispute with neighbour Briar Ross over a driveway he’d built last year.

Ms Ross had a friend with a digger rip up the driveway on Saturday.

Sergeant Peter Knight said yesterday police had visited the property again to take more photos. He had been to the property on Wednesday after police were contacted by Ellis.

He said: “No more action has been taken at this moment… early next week maybe.”

Yesterday morning Ellis said he was “amused” by how the situation had progressed.

Ms Ross said she had not been contacted or visited by police yesterday but had received “a

Marc Ellis

lot” of positive feedback about her actions.

“I’ve had lots of positive things - texts from people, got a free coffee in my coffee shop for persevering in the fight for democracy.”

The disagreement started last year when Ellis began earthworks for a driveway to his new holiday home, located on the

prestigious gated community of Matiatia Estate.

Ms Ross, a jazz singer who has owned a 2ha property on the estate for 11 years, believes Ellis put the driveway in illegally and says it made the shared access look “horrible”, so she took it upon herself to remove it.

“I got a digger friend of mine to pick it up and I’ve put it back on Ellis’ property.”

Last year, Ross tried to stop the driveway being built by sending a legal letter to Ellis saying he did not have consent from 80 per cent of the five neighbours who jointly own the private lane.

Yesterday, Ellis said that while he did not legally need the neighbours’ consent, he had it anyway.

“If she wants to see that evidence she can do so through the appropriate legal channels.

I have building consent; I have resource consent; I have the neighbours’ consent and she has tried the Disputes Tribunal, to

no avail. So she is now resorting to illegal activity which has earned the attention of the police and I understand they are following due process.”

He said it was a lawful driveway “until she brought a digger in” on Saturday.

Ellis had a message for his neighbour: “If your bed is on the edge of a cliff don’t keep climbing out the wrong side.”

The construction work started last year with contractors removing a fence and building a boulder retaining wall for the new driveway.

Last weekend, after digging up the retaining wall and driveway, Ross started to rebuild the old fence.

“We were in the process of reinstating the fence when the police arrived,” she said.

Sergeant Peter Knight of the Waiheke station said he went to the property on Wednesday after police were contacted by Ellis.

“There was some dirt and

rock dumped on his driveway preventing the contractors from entering and she [Ross] has been asked to remove that.”

No charges had been laid against Ross, but Mr Knight said “that’s to be sorted depending [on] what she does”.

He said he could not comment further on the incident as “it is a civil matter between Briar and Marc”.

Yesterday, the driveway rubble was still on Ellis’ property and Ross said she had no plans to remove it.

She said her property, which she is currently renting out, was for sale and that was one of the reasons she was “upset”.

“Because what he’s planning to do there I believe devalues it ... It just looks horrible and it just makes it look like Spaghetti Junction.”

An Auckland Council spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that resource consent had been granted for Ellis’ property in October 2013.

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■ WELLINGTON HIGH COURT

Judge tells prisoner to have another crack at case A prisoner who says he’s being unlawfully detained has been told to have another crack at the case.

Brendon Forrest, appearing for himself at the High Court in Wellington yesterday, applied for habeas corpus and said he was being unlawfully detained.

Justice Robert Dobson suggested Forrest, currently in a prison health facility, could re-apply when he was back in regular prison.

Forrest appeared through an audiovisual link. He said he was expecting an amicus curiae (friend of the court) to turn up, but they didn’t.

It was earlier reported Forrest had been identifying as a transgender woman recently but yesterday he appeared with a beard and did not object when addressed as “Mr Forrest”.

The hearing mostly comprised procedural discussions around the Parole Act. Justice Dobson said he hoped to release his judgement in writing later yesterday. He said he agreed with Crown

lawyer Peter Gunn this was not the right occasion to pursue the habeas corpus application.

“You’ve pursued numerous applications but I’m persuaded by Mr Gunn that the correct course is not to try to jump the fence on this occasion and I am assured that your rights are preserved in that you can pursue a section 92 process afresh.”

Last year, the High Court in Wellington rejected Forrest’s claim he should not be forced to wear orange overalls when meeting visitors to prison.

In another case, Forrest revealed some inmates were told to urinate on prison van floors.

In August last year Forrest took the Department of Corrections to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, saying transgender inmates were being denied expensive hormone treatment.

Forrest was in jail for arson, threatening to kill and perjury, but is expected to be released this year.

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Entrepreneur Alan Bond dies Alan Bond, the Australian entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who funded his country’s historic 1983 America’s Cup win, has died at age 77.

The Australian reports that his family announced his death at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth yesterday.

“Dad passed away this morning about an hour ago. His body finally gave out

after heroic efforts of everyone involved here at the Intensive Care Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital,” his family said in a statement.

Outside the hospital, Mr Bond’s son John said he never regained consciousness after his surgery three days ago to replace a heart valve and repair two others.

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Lucretia’s battles Judge: It’s up to Parliament to decide

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ecretia Seales was unsuccessful in seeking a landmark High Court ruling to allow her doctor to help her die without criminal prosecution.

Justice David Collins released his judgment at 3pm which rejected her bid and said only Parliament can give her what she wanted.

“The complex legal, philosophical, moral and clinical issues raised by Ms Seales’ proceedings can only be addressed by Parliament passing legislation to amend the effect of the Crimes Act. “Although Ms Seales has not obtained the outcomes she sought, she has selflessly provided a forum to clarify important aspects of New Zealand law.

“I appreciate Parliament has shown little desire to engage in these issues. The three private members’ bills that have attempted to address the broad issues raised by Ms Seales’ proceeding gained little legislative traction.

“However, the fact that Parliament has not been willing to address the issues raised by Ms Seales’ proceedings does not provide me with a licence to depart from the constitutional role of judges in New Zealand.”

Ms Seales died of natural causes at 12.35am yesterday morning, just hours after her family and lawyers received the ruling.

The health of the 42-year-old Wellington lawyer with terminal brain cancer had deteriorated rapidly in the days since her court case last week where she was seeking a declaration that a

doctor would not risk prosecution if they were to help her die.

Ms Seales’s husband Matt Vickers said he would miss Lecretia terribly. “On Tuesday night I relayed Justice Collin’s decision to Lecretia. I explained she would not be able to seek assistance to die, and nature would need to run its course, and that her mother and I would do everything we could to make her comfortable and pain free.

“Lecretia listened to me as I explained the decision. Even though she couldn’t speak, she was able to share her feelings through her expression. There was no mistaking her response.

“She was hurt and disappointed. She fixed me with a stare with her good eye as if to say, ‘isn’t this my body? My life?’ Her breath slowed and she turned her head away. Her reaction utterly broke my heart.”

Bill of Rights Her legal team, led by Dr Andrew Butler, also argued that denying lawful access to physician-assisted death amounted to a breach of Ms Seales’ rights and fundamental freedoms under the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

Opposing the bid on behalf of the Crown was Solicitor-General Mike Heron, QC, who told the court the issue was controversial, unethical and not permissible within the law.

“The current law applies to all.

Its purpose is to protect the sanctity of life and the vulnerable.”

Although too sick or tired to

always watch her case unfold in the High Court at Wellington last week, Ms Seales was front and centre of the debate.

Ms Seales became increasingly paralysed over the past week and was moved into a hospital bed in her home on the weekend. Since then, her husband Matt Vickers and mother Shirley Seales have been caring for Ms Seales supported by Mary Potter Hospice and the Capital & Coast DHB district nursing team.

Her death has been met with many tributes, including the Prime Minister John Key, for whom she worked as a legal adviser.

Regardless of the result of the ruling, Ms Seales previously told the Herald she would be proud if her court case prompted wider legislative change. “I’m reasonably confident that I won’t be able to see it through to the end. But if I can get it started, that would make me happy.”

A private member’s bill by then Labour MP Maryan Street sat in the ballot box for 18 months before being withdrawn late in 2013 after a lack of support from her colleagues.

The End of Life Choice Bill would have allowed certain New Zealand residents aged 18 or over, such as those with a terminal disease or physical or mental condition that makes life unbearable, to have assistance to die.

The Voluntary Euthanasia Society of New Zealand branded the

ruling “pretty conservative and narrow”.

“It’s completely obvious to most people that the aid in dying sought by Lecretia Seales was not murder or [assisted] suicide,” Dr Jack Havill, president of the society said, criticising the judge for ruling her request was not in line with New Zealand’s laws.

“I think he could have been a bit braver.”

However, Dr Havill said the society agreed with Justice Collins that the issue should be put before Parliament.

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Family’s statement in full

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We are naturally very disappointed with Justice Collins’ judgment. He found in our favour in relation to the evidence before him, but his interpretation of the purpose of the law meant he could not find aid in dying was available to Lecretia or inconsistent with the Bill of Rights.

Justice Collins found that while palliative care had made great advances, it was not able relieve all suffering, including for pain and psychological and emotional suffering. He emphasised the importance of individual autonomy and dignity.

He found that Lecretia was not vulnerable and that her wish to have access to assisted dying “was a rational and intellectually rigorous response to her circumstances”. He said it was important to ensure doctors did not make a

decision based on their assumptions about people’s vulnerability as this would devalue respect for individual autonomy.

He found that without assisted dying Lecretia was put at risk of premature death, for fear that she would be incapable of doing so when her condition deteriorated, which engaged her right to life.

He accepted evidence that, under the status quo, others who are terminally ill have taken their lives prematurely while they are still able to.

Yet despite these findings, and acknowledgement of the potential suffering and risk of early death for those with a terminal illness, Justice Collins felt unable to grant the declarations Lecretia sought.

A core reason was that, in his view, the provisions under the

Crimes Act required protection of not only the vulnerable, but even for people like Lecretia, who are not vulnerable, and whose wish for assisted dying was a rational response to their terminal illness and potential suffering.

He did so, based on his understanding of the New Zealand case law and notwithstanding that that approach to the law is not shared in jurisdictions including the UK, Canada and South Africa.

For us, as a family, it is terribly disappointing that the judge was prepared to go as far as he did but not take this last step.

The judgment has starkly highlighted that the status quo is not ideal; that people are at risk of intolerable suffering and are at risk of ending their lives earlier than they would otherwise.

Justice Collins was clear that it is for Parliament to address these issues.

So as a family, we would address ourselves to the politicians.

The public reaction to Lecretia’s case has been huge. It is clear beyond doubt that people want to debate this issue regardless of their personal position. The debate needs to happen. The time is now.

Let us give Lecretia her legacy.”

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Sir Geoffrey pays tribute

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ormer Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer paid tribute to Lecretia Seales yesterday morning.

“Lecretia has got to be one of the finest human beings I have ever met,” Sir Geoffrey said in a statement.

“When her sickness struck she bore it with a fortitude and steadfastness that was amazing.

Her idea to turn her experience into a law reform project was typical of her,” he added. “I salute her.”

Sir Geoffrey said he was very fond of Lecretia and her husband Matt Vickers.

“Lecretia became not only my professional colleague but also my friend. I recall Matt and Lecretia visited us in Nelson and said they were going to get married. What a wonderful couple.

A little much wine was drunk that night. Lecretia is an incredibly private person. She never sought the spotlight. And she is extraordinarily taciturn. But deep down there is a person of great compassion, empathy and judgment.”

People who woke up to the news of Ms Seales’ death have also paid tribute to her on Facebook.

“Lecretia made a huge impact in law reform in New Zealand and was a quiet huge achiever,” Andrew Galloway wrote. “It is tragic that she has passed and my sympathy and condolences to the family. She will continue to make a difference with the legacy she has left.”

“Outside her brilliant

career, Lecretia provided an important voice on bodily autonomy, willingly surrendering her privacy to prompt a public debate that will most definitely continue. Thank you, and rest well, Lecretia,” Jane Turner posted online.

“You fought a good fight and touched so many lives. Hoping for a good outcome this afternoon on your behalf,” Hellen Kaye McGregor wrote.

“What a brave, inspiring woman,” Linda Bennett wrote.

During the case at the High Court, and in discussions preceding it, it became clear even some members of groups opposed to euthanasia respected Ms Seales.

Although the case was con-

troversial and raised potentially divisive social policy issues, there was little or no rancour even in the legal wrangles leading up to the trial.

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MPs to tackle right-to-die issue

BY NICHOLAS JONES The bravery of Lecretia Seales has given MPs the confidence to address the right-to-die issue in Parliament, Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway says.

He will table a petition to Parliament later this month in the hope it will lead to a full inquiry by the select committee that considers it.

“A number of people have been working on this for a while, but there is no doubt that Lecretia’s bravery has created the public conversation that has given MPs the confidence they need to address this issue,” Mr Lees-Galloway said.

“What is absolutely clear is that it is time for Parliament to consider this, it has been a live debate in the public for some time now,

and there is a demand that Parliament address it.

“But I also think that we are getting an increasingly stronger view from the public that they are in favour of some change. And it would be best for Parliament to work together to determine what that change should look like.”

Ms Seales, a 42-year-old Wellington lawyer, died yesterday morning hours after the judgement in her landmark case was released to her family and lawyers.

Although many people have spoken of Ms Seales setting a precedent, her lawyers were at pains to point out the case was specifically about her, not an attempt to legalise euthanasia.

MPs have previously attempted to address the issue.

A private member’s bill by then

Labour MP Maryan Street sat in the ballot box for 18 months before being withdrawn late in 2013 after a lack of support from Ms Street’s colleagues.

The End of Life Choice Bill would have allowed certain New Zealand residents aged 18 or over to have assistance to die, such as those with a terminal disease or physical or mental condition that makes life unbearable.

Mr Lees-Galloway took over the bill when Ms Street lost her list seat in the last election, but was told to drop it last December by leader Andrew Little.

When a petition by the End of Life Choice Society closes on June 20, Mr Lees-Galloway will table it at the first opportunity in Parliament, and the petition will go to a select committee.

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Mainland Football Men’s Div 4: MCU Eastern win by default Men’s Div 5 Methven v PpanuiRedwood at Redwood Park 2.30pm Men’s Masters Div 2: MCU Masters v Hurnui Rangers at Amberly 2.30pm Men’s 18th Div 2: MCU v Christ’s College at Ashburton Domain 10:45am Men’s 18th Div 3 Methven v Cashmere Tech at Hilsborough Domain 10.45am Men’s 16th Div 1: MCU v Cashmere Tech at Centennial Park 12.30pm

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■ ROWING

Nerves gone, bring on Italy

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After taming her trans-Tasman rivals, Mayfield rower Emma Dyke can’t wait to take on the world’s best.

Dyke and the New Zealand’s women’s eight got vital international racing experience at home over the Rowing New Zealand Winter Series regatta ahead of the international season, which includes two world cups and the world championships.

Rowing Australia sent their elite women’s eight, men’s eight and women’s lightweight quad to New Zealand for a training camp at Lake Karapiro and both the New Zealand eights took three crucial wins over the three day regatta.

After a long and arduous training block, Dyke found racing with some real opposition was just the ticket to get her in the right mindset for the international season.

“We have spent quite a bit of time in the boat but it was great to finally have someone to measure up against.”

The former junior national representative makes her first foray into the elite level, something that has slowly sunk in, and she has also had to make the adjustment from a smaller boat to the crowded eight.

“I was in the two seat when I started so looking at different blades instead of sitting in a stroke seats and no blades.

“It has had its up and downs but we are experiencing a lot more ups lately.”

The European championships were being raced at the same time the Tasman rivals were going head-to-head and the time comparisons were similar – settling the nerves.

“I was really nervous before but after racing Australia it has given us a real confidence boost also I’m just excited to race now.”

Next week they fly out Varese, Italy, for the second World Cup regatta from June 19-21.

Following a further two weeks of training they head to Lucerne, Switzerland, for the third World Cup regatta.

They then have a six-week training block before the World Championships in Aiguebelette, France.

“They have changed the programme so we are racing with the reserves in the boat as the elite pair race 40 minutes before the eight so it’s impossible for them to do both.

“We have trained a lot with the reserves and beat Australia with the reserves in the boat so it shouldn’t affect us that much.”

They will be at full strength for the third world cup and at the world championships - a major stepping stone towards attending the Rio Olympics.

The entire New Zealand Rowing Team depart New Zealand on June 12.

Mayfield rower Emma Dyke is off to Italy for the World Cup regatta.

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Junior All Whites make Fifa U20 history by

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Wellington Regional Stadium has added another chapter to its footballing history as the New Zealand Under-20s beat Myanmar 5-1 in the capital last night.

The venue, which famously played host to the All Whites’ 1-0 victory over Bahrain in the second leg of their World Cup playoff in 2009, which sent them to the tournament a year later, has provided the stomping ground for New Zealand’s first win at a Fifa Under-20 World Cup. No New Zealand team had won a game at this event in 11 previous attempts and last night’s win could provide the Junior All Whites with a spot in the round of 16, although they are still waiting on other results.

Four third-placed teams push on to the knockout stages, as well as the top two teams from

every pool, and New Zealand are third in Group A with four points.

Ukraine top the pool with seven points following their 3-0 win over the US in Albany last night.

In search of a victory, New Zealand coach Darren Bazeley (above) made five changes from the side that lost 4-0 to the US during the week.

Midfielder Matthew Ridenton was one of the surprise omis-

sions, while he also brought in goalkeeper Nikola Tzanev in place of Oilver Sail.

Alex Rufer, who is generally more at home in the midfield and wasn’t picked to play the US, was again commissioned up front, which is the same role he performed in New Zealand’s opening match with Ukraine.

It was Wellington’s Noah Billingsley who got New Zealand’s first goal of the tournament when he scored from close range in the 40th minute as the 17-year-old connected with a nice cross from Deklan Wynne.

The goal cancelled out the opener from Myanmar, which had come via an impressive finish from Aung Thu. With the scores locked at 1-1 at halftime, the game was set up nicely for one team to stamp their mark on it.

Myanmar, making their first appearance at an Under-20

World Cup, were rated as large outsiders coming in to the contest but they were dangerous on the counterattack.

Billingsley, the youngest member of the New Zealand squad, had a foot in their second goal as part of a quick move in the box, which saw Monty Patterson score shortly after the break.

Playing from in front suited the Junior All Whites who displayed a greater level of confidence with the scoreboard in their favour.

If 2-1 looked good, then 3-1 must have felt great as supersub Joel Stevens scored within a minute of coming on the field.

Sam Brotherton added to the rout when he delivered a bullet header from a corner at the same end where Rory Fallon scored that famous goal for New Zealand against Bahrain in 2009.

Clayton Lewis also got on the board in the final minutes.

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■ SHOOTING

Pistol queen eyes up games spot Self-taught sharp shooter Kay Perrett will represent New Zealand later this year.

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Self-taught pistol shooter Kay Perrett will don the silver fern in November.

Perrett is the lone South Island shooter in the New Zealand Air Pistol Shooting team bound for the Oceania Championships in Sydney.

From the accumulation of shots across the qualifying events, Perrett hit the mark and jumped at the chance to represent New Zealand.

Not a bad effort for someone who only picked up a pistol for the first time five years ago.

“I had never picked up a pistol in my life but I had fired shot-

guns going out rabbit shooting and that sort of thing,” Perrett said.

“Then my husband suggested having a go at pistol shooting.”

The first time they handed her a pistol she scoffed at the size of it.

“I was used to shooting something bigger but it was so precise it just took over and I love it.

“It’s so easy to do.”

From picking up her first pistol she has quickly risen in the sport, coaching herself to the top - almost.

“I’m the South Island champion and have been for a few years but at the nationals I always get knocked out right at the end.”

Whangarei’s Lucy Phillips is the one responsible for making Perrett the bridesmaid at the nationals each year – and they will compete alongside each other in November.

Perrett will contest the 10m air pistol and the 25m, .22 calibre sports pistol.

It’s a busy time for New Zealand pistol shooters searching for personal glory but also working towards a greater team goal.

“We are all trying to get a quota place for New Zealand for the Rio Olympics.”

The Oceania championships serve as a final chance to earn the quota place however even if the pistol shooters achieve their

goal, the New Zealand Olympic committee can give the place to any shooting discipline.

“From what I’ve been told they would be hard pressed to take it off us if we earn it.”

Perrett isn’t eyeing up a shock call-up for Rio but has her sights set on the next Commonwealth Games in Sydney.

To aid her in that journey, and help her coach a growing number of Ashburton College students, she is hoping to bring the Ashburton Pistol Club into the modern era and get the club some electronic targets.

“We have nothing like it down here in the South Island but it’s what you use when you go to the big competitions.”

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Another local shooter will fly the South Island flag next week.

Coby Snowden is in the New Zealand ladies fullbore team set to take on Australia in Brisbane next week.

Snowden is the only South Island shooter in the six-strong New Zealand team that will take on the Australian women but also contest the Australian Queen’s Shoot which is on at the same time.

Her husband John Snowden is also gearing up for a big shoot, set to contest the Fullbore World Championships in Cleveland in July.

Hurricanes confirm status as hot favourites A dark day for the franchise ended on a bright note when the Hurricanes clinched top spot for the first time in Super Rugby history, thrashing the Highlanders 56-20.

With the loss of Jerry Collins coming a couple of hours before kickoff, the Hurricanes donned black armbands and observed a minute’s silence before playing inspired rugby to build an insurmountable lead atop the table.

It would have required an improbable series of results to rob the Hurricanes of the No1 ranking in the final week, and that denouement became even less likely as soon as the passes started sticking at McLean Park.

The Hurricanes proceeded to

show just why they will be regarded as favourites to claim their maiden Super Rugby crown, scoring eight tries to book a week off and seal a home semi-final.

On last night’s form, they will be tough to top no matter who comes calling to Westpac Stadium. But if it’s the Highlanders – a distinct possibility as the southern side are assured of a playoff place – the Hurricanes will encounter a tougher test than what they faced in Napier.

Shorn of their All Black trio, the Highlanders’ defence was woeful all evening. While the Hurricanes, now the competition’s top scorers, have run several sides ragged this season,

they have rarely received such a helping hand from the opposition.

The Highlanders appeared to treat tackling as optional, with the absence of Ben Smith, Malakai Fekitoa and Aaron Smith seemingly depriving their teammates of leadership and organisation when without the ball.

But it still took a quality attack to take advantage of that weakness and, for the Hurricanes, that quality was never in doubt. The home side ran up their highest score of the season, sealing the bonus point in the first half, while several members of their star-studded backline added a few more sparkling

raids to their considerable collections.

The backs took turns at oneupping one another, with Nehe Milner-Skudder kicking off the carnage with a step and an offload that illustrated why the Manawatu flyer has attracted calls for higher honours. James Marshall’s bust for the second try was even better – if you were squinting and failed to see several Highlanders drop off straightforward tackles – and both men finished with more than 100 metres running.

Beauden Barrett ran with encouraging freedom in his return from injury, while TJ Perenara and Ma’a Nonu both bagged doubles. All told, the attack-

ing display was eye-watering and could have been even more crushing had the odd miracle pass come off, especially during an electric opening half with ball in hand.

Chris Boyd would have ben disappointed with the way the Highlanders easily wrestled away the initiative midway through the first half, when a Ryan Tongia-inspired double strike briefly made it a fair fight.

And the lineout, after a horror show in last week’s loss against the Crusaders, again lacked composure.

But even those nits are picked, if will be hard to deny the Hurricanes their status as front-runners for the title.

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Leading from the front, Methven prop James McLeod, with ball in hand, was part of a dominant forward display in their quarter-final win over Southbridge last week.

Engine room on full a

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

It is a cliché that rings true so often in finals rugby and should be evident in the semi-finals of the Combined Country Cup today.

The game is won upfront.

It should be the case again today and that will be a big motivation for Methven.

Their forward pack stepped up to stop Southbridge in the quarter-finals and today’s assignment is a big and fast Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell in the semi-final.

Methven coach Dale Palmer expects nothing less than a big battle upfront.

Right up the front of the engine room, Palmer has what he described as a rare luxury at the club having so many front rowers available.

The return of former Mid Canterbury representative James McLeod added to a stable of front rowers already stocked with Mid Canterbury representatives Simon Fleetwood and Matt Groom as well as the experienced Aofia Fagalima.

Groom and McLeod were teammates at Christchurch while Fleetwood had played over 100 games for Oxford before moving to Methven - and could potentially come up against his old side in the final, with Oxford taking on Waihora in the other semi-final.

Methven’s pack also boasts former Tasman Mako flanker Gary Redmond and New Zealand Heartland lock Andrew Smith and as an eight they were able to dictate the terms on their home turf last week to see off

Southbridge.

They will be called upon for more of the same today.

While they are lucky to have plenty of bodies for what looms as a rugged encounter in the tight - they are bare in the backs.

They had to shuffle around last week to the point where Davey Maw slotted in at secondfive - outside his brother Dan, and that could be the option again today.

Richard Catherwood has answered the call to return to action – on the bench after he

pulled his groin against Rolleston back in round two - and although not 100 per cent he is the best of an injured bunch of back reserves.

They still have the explosive combination of fullback Brenton Connell and centre Fa’aitu Tuamoheloa as Methven look to reach their third final.

Methven has made it to the final twice, only to lose to Glenmark in 2010 and Lincoln in 2011 while Waihora lost at home to Lincoln last year.

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Messam facing busy schedule, but loving it

By Kris shannon Liam Messam can offer a succinct summary to explain his ironman-like abilities – he simply loves playing footy.

And that passion might become even more evident in the next 14 months, with a potential schedule that would see him ply his trade in four different countries.

Messam will return from injury to lead the Chiefs in their must-win match against the Reds in Brisbane tomorrow, having missed more Super Rugby games this season than the previous six campaigns combined.

Only his absence in last week’s loss to the Highlanders was due to his health, with two previous weeks off courtesy of the All Blacks’ rest requirements. And while any inactivity is frustrating for a man who has played the most minutes in the competition for the past four years, Messam knows he has a busy calendar ahead.

After leading the Chiefs in their quest for a third title – a quest that will suffer a serious setback with defeat tomorrow – Messam will turn his attentions to an international campaign culminating in England. And following the World Cup, the loose forward has been linked to a short-term contract in

Japan and a tilt at Sevens gold in Brazil.

Messam was non-committal to those 2016 excursions when quizzed before flying out for Brisbane but acknowledged the balancing act he faced for the rest of this year.

“I just love playing footy and love playing for this team,” he said. “But sometimes, since it’s a big year, you’ve got to step away and look at the bigger picture.”

That meant resting an old injury that flared up and watching on helplessly as the Chiefs last week lost their third match in four games. It was a break that allowed Messam’s energy levels to replenish and also allowed the chance to arrange his shortterm future, with suggestions he has signed an off-season contract with Toshiba to play in Japan following the World Cup. As for the Olympics, Messam has told the Chiefs of his interest in playing Sevens, but the 31-yearold said there were still hurdles to clear before he could confirm a return to the format that provided his break.

“It’s still got a place in my heart _ I have a lot to thank [Gordon Tietjens] and [Eric Rush] for, they brought me up as a 16-year-old. There’s still a place in my heart for Sevens so we’ve just got to see what happens next year.”

Carter’s still the master of tactics in No 10 jersey

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alert that brought North Canterbury into the fold, only three teams have come out on top - Lincoln (2007, 2011, 2014), Glenmark (2008-10) and Southbridge (2012-13).

No matter which two teams make the final, the trophy will head to a new club for the first time.

Elsewhere, Southern hosts Celtic in a fifth-eighth place semi-final, Rakaia are at home to Darfield in the trophy section, and Hampstead heads to West Melton in the plate.

Daniel Carter will run out at Eden Park tonight with 15 men looking to take chunks out of him, which is nothing new.

What is slightly unusual is that there is a growing band of once mesmerised critics also determined to have a piece of the man who is universally recognised as the greatest No 10 to play the game.

It’s a curious state of affairs - that Carter is trying to write the last great chapter of a great career, while half the nation has already penned his obituary and is increasingly frustrated the great man hasn’t given up the ghost and anointed Beauden Barrett as his successor.

Equally curious is the continual benchmarking of Carter against his 23-year-old-self who destroyed an abject British Lions side in 2005. It’s not realistic to believe he could replicate that performance ad infinitum.

The second test against the Lions 10 years ago has become a career red herring - it tells nothing of Carter’s real value and alludes to him having been the sort of player he never was.

Across New Zealand, from First XV to Super Rugby, the biggest failing of first-fives is their strategic understanding and game management.

Coaches at all levels lament they can’t find a No 10 who knows the art of calculated, deliberate and highly skilled dissection.

Carter stands alone as New Zealand’s tactical director extraodinaire: the chess grandmaster who is two steps ahead and has the luxury of knowing an opposition defence is broken long before they do.

Last week in Nelson, he showed he’s lost none of his ability to read the game and execute an effective gameplan. And that’s the qualities the All Blacks are after.

They don’t need their No 10 to rip holes: they need him to be making them for others. Julian Savea, Ben Smith, Ma’a Nonu and Sonny Bill Wil-

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In brief Two-year drug ban A Canterbury under-19 rugby representative have been banned from the game for two years for possessing a performance enhancing drug. The ban by New Zealand Rugby’s judicial committee was handed down to Finn Hart-Strawbridge after he admitted to the online order of a peptide, which stimulates the production of human growth hormone. The case was brought

by Drug Free Sport New Zealand.

A 5mg vial of the peptide addressed to the Lincoln University player was seized by customs in October last year.

The substance is prohibited in and out of competition under World Rugby and New Zealand Rugby Anti-Doping Regulations.

Hart-Strawbridge said he had ordered the peptide online as a “joke” after reading a series of articles in the New Zealand Herald last year about a reporter who experimented with the drug.

Record NRL fine Canberra coach Ricky Stuart is reportedly facing the largest fine for referee criticism in the history of the NRL after he walked out of the media conference following last week’s match against Brisbane. Fairfax reports that the Raiders have been issued a $20,000 breach notice after the NRL found the club failed to meet five guidelines outlined in their media protocol after the 24-12 loss to the Broncos. Unhappy with decisions which went against his team, Stuart answered just one question before he and skipper Jarrod Croker left. “No it wasn’t one of those games ... (NRL head of football) Toddy Greenberg, he was at the game tonight and I just really hope he saw what I saw,” Stuart said.

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Hair testing for drugs

liams are the explosive weapons - but they need someone to light the fuse, to put the All Blacks in the right places on the field.

Again, this is what Carter - as he showed against the Hurricanes - does better than Barrett, Slade, Cruden and everyone else in the world.

But it’s Carter’s lot these days to feel the impatience of those who are seduced by youth and their conviction that young legs will always beat an old head. Everyone, it seems, is a sucker for a first-five with an obviously good running game.

Make a few eye-catching linebreaks and it can paper over all sorts of technical and tactical deficiencies.

Not that Carter cares about or particularly notices any of the public forums. Commentary on his form is white noise to him and doesn’t provide any motivation. “I don’t really pay much attention to be honest,” he says.

It’s his intention to step up again tonight - to turn that screw a little tighter both in terms of his individual and the collective performance. The Crusaders need five points to keep their slim playoff hopes alive and for that to happen, they need Carter to orchestrate the performance. - NZME

AFL players have agreed to subject themselves to hair testing for illicit drugs until season’s end to help discover the extent of drug use. A working group of players including Chris Judd and Jimmy Bartel, club representatives, medical experts and AFL officials met on Thursday to agree to the change, which was communicated to clubs on Friday. Hair testing, which is more accurate than urine testing, has previously only been sanctioned by the league outside of season.

Just as with previous off-season positive tests, any players found to have used illicit drugs will not record a “strike” under the league’s illicit drugs policy (IDP).

Shooters honoured Prolific Jamaican shooters Jhaniele Fowler-Reid and Romelda Aiken have swept the MVP honours in the trans-Tasman netball competition. There were two awards for the first time in the eight-season history of the competition, reflecting the new format which has the 10 teams split into separate Australian and New Zealand conferences.

The Australian Conference award went to Queensland Firebirds stalwart Aiken. The New Zealand conference winner was her compatriot and Steel shooter Fowler-Reid.

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■ INDOOR BOWLS

In brief

Bowlers bid for national title Indoor bowls national glory goes on the line over the next week and Ashburton bowlers are there in their droves.

The annual championships, which are this year being held in Timaru, see the best bowlers from all over New Zealand converge to compete for four national titles.

Ashburton has only ever won two national championships with Michael Lawson and Sandra Keith combining with Richard Griffiths in 2006 to win the triples in Blenheim and Suzann Burnand won the singles when playing under the Ashburton name in 2009.

Off the back of a return trip for the Welch Trophy, a number of Ashburton players will fancy their chances of performing well over the next week and due to those results and the performances of others in other national events, players wearing the black and white will be a lot more respected.

The championships kick off today with singles qualifying this morning, with 12 lining up in the open event and three tackling the masters event.

Heading the charge in the open singles from Ashburton will be current South Island representatives; Lawson, Grant Wilson and Matt Bassett.

Both have sections which should see them qualify although Bassett will have to square off with former champion Grant l’Ami. Ashley Diamond, who won the singles last year, is back to defend his title fresh off the back of winning two international medals in the Mat Blacks victory over Australia in the Hensilite Trophy last month.

The masters events will be held for the first time this year with Ashburton being represented by Winston Lee, Neill Chapman and James Stewart.

After singles qualifying today, those who are good enough to win their way through to post section will return tomorrow to compete in the knock out stage of the competition.

The same follows throughout the week with the pairs on Monday and Tuesday, the triples on Wednesday and Thursday and the fours on Friday and Saturday to wrap the week up.

Strong Ashburton pairings for the pairs include Lawson and South Otago’s Stephen Preddy, Wilson and his sister Fiona who is based in Tauranga, Bassett and Ken McKenzie and Matt Markham and Alec Crawford.

For the last four years, New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson has been shielded from the world of professional football.

But that’s all about to change.

Wilkinson will lead the line for the Football Ferns when they open their World Cup campaign against the Netherlands tomorrow and said the tournament will be both a career highlight and hopefully, the start of a three-week long job interview.

Wilkinson is months away from finishing her four-year degree at University of Tennessee where the university rules

Kiwi golfer Danny Lee has fired a three-over 75 during the opening round of the Memorial Tournament on the PGA Tour in Ohio today (fri) to sit well off the pace in a share of 102nd. The 24-year-old made three birdies and six bogeys during his round and he has a lot of work to do if he wants to continue his solid run of form and make another cut.

Lee is the best-performed Kiwi on tour this season and is in 51st on the FedEx Cup standings. Fellow Kiwis Tim Wilkinson and Steven Alker aren’t in the field this week.

American Bo Van Pelt and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama share the lead at eight-under at the Memorial after they carded rounds of 64 to start the event.

- NZME

Argentina gone?

Argentina arrived in New Zealand as the favourites to win the Fifa Under-20 World Cup but look likely to be knocked out in the group stages. Their dour 0-all draw with Austria in Wellington yesterday consigned them to their fate following a 2-2 draw with Panama last Saturday and a 3-2 loss to Ghana earlier in the week.

The result will be hugely disappointing for a passionate football nation who have great history at this event, having claimed the trophy six times.

They had their opportunities against Austria, who seemed more than content to sit back and defend, but they were unable to find a way past Austrian goalkeeper Tino Casali.

- NZME

Paris glory awaits

Ashburton’s Michael Lawson will be in action at the National Indoor Bowls Championships in Timaru over the next week.

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In the triples Lawson, Preddy and Crawford combine to make up a strong trio while Russell Ellis and his sons, Cameron and David will also give their opposition plenty to think about.

On Wednesday afternoon the focus will shift from national championships to Is-

land supremacy when the Masters Zones and North and South Island Academy sides square off in a best of three format competition.

Nine Ashburton bowlers will compete in the event which is often seen as a pathway towards higher honours in the future.

Improving Football Ferns a cup chance

By Steven Holloway

Lee starts slow

stipulate that no contact can be made between students and professional clubs.

That means she’s not sure where her footballing future lies, but knows a big tournament could open a lot of doors.

“I’d love to play pro in America,” said Wilkinson. “The thing with being in college is that you can’t talk to anyone until you’re finished, because it’s an NCAA violation if you’re even talking about any professional contract.

I have to graduate first then see what’s out there.”

“I’ve heard rumours about offers and things like that but you just have to ignore them be-

cause it could compromise my scholarship, but once I’m done it’s something I can consider.”

Wilkinson is a big, fast, powerful striker who will be used to physically dominate opposition defences at the World Cup. She is a shoe-in to make it in the pro ranks with her size and strength a valuable commodity in the female game. After making her Ferns debut five years ago aged 17, she is now a leader in the group and believes something pretty special is happening with the current squad.

And despite New Zealand having the lowest world ranking in their group, which also

includes hosts Canada and China, Wilkinson thinks the Ferns will progress deep into the tournament.

“I firmly believe we are capable of winning the World Cup. We’ve been improving out of sight and this is the longest we have ever spent together before a tournament and has allowed us to put the finishing touches on our preparation and has made us a tournament ready team. I think it’s on the cards.”

The controversy over games being played on artificial surfaces will remains but Wilkinson said the Ferns had just decided to get on with it.

- NZME

Only illness can seemingly stop Serena Williams from becoming the oldest French Open champion in almost half a century after the ageless warrior pulled off yet another Houdini act in Paris.

Williams overcame sapping flu symptoms and apparent heat distress to battle back from a set and a service break down and secure a spot in tonight’s title match against Lucie Safarova with a dramatic semi-final triumph over Swiss underdog Timea Bacsinszky. Looking lethargic throughout, Williams appeared close to quitting the match on several occasions before roaring to life to reel off the last 10 games in a 4-6 6-3 6-0 victory on a scorching day in Paris.

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Chiellini out of final Juventus has ruled key defender Giorgio Chiellini out of the Champions League final against Barcelona after suffering a muscle tear in training. Chiellini had to leave training on Wednesday and scans yesterday confirmed the bad news for the Italian champions. “The scan revealed a first grade tear of the soleus muscle in his left leg, meaning the defender will miss the final with Barcelona,” said Juventus. It was to be Chiellini’s first Champions League final and his place will now be taken by Andrea Barzagli.

Chiellini’s absence has robbed fans of watching him come up against Barcelona striker Luis Suarez, who was sent off and banned for four months after biting the Italian on the shoulder during a World Cup fixture. - AP

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■ BASKETBALL

Warriors hold off Cavs in overtime Golden State held off a big performance by LeBron James to beat Cleveland 108-100 in overtime yesterday to take the opening game of the NBA Finals.

In the finals for the first time in 40 years, the Warriors rallied from an early 14-point deficit, absorbed a finals-best 44 points from James and shut down Cleveland in the extra session.

James shot 18 of 38 from the field and had eight rebounds and six assists in 46 minutes. But the four-time MVP missed a long jumper at the end of regulation, and Cleveland missed its first eight shots of overtime.

Adding to the Cavs’ frustration, point guard Kyrie Irving limped to the locker room after aggravating his troublesome left leg in overtime. He did not return.

There were 13 lead changes and 11 ties in a game tightly contested across the board. There

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was little edge in shooting (Warriors 44.3 percent, Cavaliers 41.5 percent), rebounding (Warriors 48, Cavaliers 45) or assists (Warriors 24, Cavaliers 19).

In the end, it came down to the NBA’s top teams and biggest stars making plays — or not.

James and newly crowned MVP Stephen Curry (26 points and eight assists) carried their clubs through the fourth quarter, trading scores and assists in a back-and-forth duel.

Both also had a chance to win the game in the closing seconds of regulation.

With the scores tied, Curry beat Irving off the dribble and moved in for the layup. Instead, Irving blocked the shot from behind, J.R. Smith came up with the rebound and the Cavs called a timeout with 24.1 seconds left.

James dribbled down the clock and missed his jump shot from just inside the left arc. Iman

Shumpert just got off a desperation shot which nearly rimmed in at the buzzer, and the game went to overtime.

Curry drew two fouls at the start of overtime and made all four free throws, and Harrison Barnes hit a corner 3 just in front of the Cavs bench to give Golden State a 105-98 lead with 2:02 to play.

Irving limped to the bench trying to shake off his troublesome left leg after the play.

The Warriors went ahead 10898 on free throws with 1:16 to play, effectively ending the contest. James’ uncontested layup with 8.9 seconds left accounted for Cleveland’s only points in overtime.

Right - Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) could not stop the Warriors edging ahead in overtime.

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Nelson harness Tomorrow at Richmond Raceway

Nelson Harness Racing Club’s meeting at Richmond Park on June 7. 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.

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M3 Auckland Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Manukau Stadium on June 7. NZ Meeting number: 3. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12.

Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12.

1 1.51pm (NZT) PLASTERBOARD LTD SPRINT C2, 318m 1 14372 Tennessee Smile 18.97.....................C Hore 2 x3554 Multicam Lad 18.75....................D Schofield 3 88266 French Curves 18.73 M & ................ J Smith 4 63743 Chocdee Alice nwtd ..................J McInerney 5 41756 Zipping Will 18.88.......................D Schofield 6 58452 Kissen Run 18.43 M & ..................... J Smith 7 18625 Homebush Limbo nwtd .............J McInerney 8 75335 All In All 18.45 U & ............................Cottam 9 16541 Somebody Tifi 18.43 R & N O’ ...........Regan 10 58868 Winsome George 18.62 .............D Schofield 2 2.09pm GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT C0, 318m 1 78437 Ampelmannchen nwtd ..................... S Clark 2 F7576 Botany Flame nwtd .........................P Green 3 26252 Peaknuckle nwtd .......................... H Mullane 4 83342 Chateau Neuf nwtd .........................P Green 5 6374 Jack Rob nwtd..................................T Agent 6 Cracking Star nwtd ....................J McInerney 7 45 Multi Chaser nwtd ........................... T Green 8 43676 Botany Hot Shot nwtd .....................P Green 9 F4644 Dobbie nwtd ..................................... S Clark 10 x677x Goodtime Gayle nwtd................. W Toomath 3 2.26pm DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN

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10 68644 Sarah Palin (3) 10 ...................... R Close (J) 11 7P210 Star Commando (4) 10 ....................J Curtin 12 10400 Successful Woman (5) 10 ........ T Woodward 13 60801 Thanksforplaying (U1) 10 ................... R May 14 11000 Elsu Attack (U2) 10 .................A Shutkowski 15 98446 Harrysul (1) 30 ........................ S Golding (J) 6 12.58pm WESTPORT TROTTING CLUB MOBILE PACE $8500, 3yo+ c2 mob. pace, mobile, 2400m 1 11844 Smithy (1) fr............................. C D Thornley 2 121P Living Legend (2) fr ................... R Houghton 3 x2112 The Royal Garden (3) fr ....................J Dunn 4 359x3 Naughty Maravu (4) fr ..................... G Smith 5 870x1 Zin Zan (5) fr G O’ ................................Reilly 6 46765 Thats Bettor (6) fr ..........................R Holmes 7 70773 Stans Day (U1) fr .................... S Golding (J) 7 1.30pm SEACROSS MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2400m 1 578x7 The Yaldy’s Ideal (1) fr G O’..................Reilly 2 61323 Franco Salisbury (2) fr........................ R May 3 1 Mister XJ (3) fr ..............................B Orange 4 34514 Glitzy Gal (4) fr ................................. D Dunn 5 466x5 Finding Nemo (5) fr ......................... G Smith 6 00x06 Mr Meddle (6) fr ................................J Dunn 7 78354 Aveross Brachole (7) fr 8 506x2 Fleeting Grin (8) fr ...................... R Close (J) 9 86698 Tough Enough (9) fr .........................J Curtin 10 66567 Miss Badlands (21) fr ............... T Woodward 11 73755 Albuquerque (22) fr ..................... G Pearson 12 80003 Donegal Cam’s Card (U1) fr...... R Houghton 8 2.00pm DIAMOND RACING STABLES MOBILE PACE $7000, 2yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2400m 1 32908 Flagpole (1) fr...................................P Davis 2 7x487 Red River Lochee (2) fr ............. M Edmonds 3 0 Blazing VC (3) fr ............................R Jenkins

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upkeep of that hardware.

Online accounting means small business owners stay linked to their information and their accountants. Most new online programmes are scalable and allow you to integrate a range add-ons.

Companies, like Xero, are constantly evolving products to suit a wide range of small to medium size businesses for a variety of sectors. They have developed a specific farm package that enables all financial data to be linked and be immediately available to farmers and their advisors The rural sector already utilise a wide range of online tools that contain information that helps them run their business,

such as fertiliser inputs and grass growth to key weather data. Introducing an accounting component is a natural extension of the tools and information that already exists.

There is some skepticism about storing financial information off site in a cloud.

The reality for many businesses is that the data handling and security measures offered by cloud service providers may be better than those that can be provided ‘in-house’ and often at less cost.

Access to your information is restricted to your account login and using the cloud also means you’re covered if your computer is stolen or damaged.

It is important not to move too fast, do your due diligence, read the fine print and get your trusted advisor to help evaluate the different options available to your business.

Matt Hannah is a director of KPMG Private Enterprise

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up and coming property managers who have been in the industry for less than two years.

Three people were shortlisted for the award from around the country, with Ms Darrell eventually coming out on top.

“It was a really big confidence booster,” she said.

the near future.

“We believe they will have to look at Auckland,” says First Retail Group managing director Chris Wilkinson.

“The fact is while they’ll be able to achieve some economies of scale, in terms of leveraging their [other brands for] logistics and warehousing and back office, having a store with the kind of population of the Wellington region is not really sustainable as one outpost,” he says.

Despite the possible competition and the grim news around Kirks, Auckland’s landmark department store Smith & Caughey’s has reaffirmed the company’s commitment to Auckland, saying the arrival of the Australian store was not unusual. “It is no real surprise, as we have been expecting it for some years,” says executive director Andrew Caughey.

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Don’t be so sure Australian retail giant David Jones won’t be coming to Auckland, despite the company’s efforts to downplay such suggestions, says one senior retail analyst.

David Jones department store is planning to launch in Wellington next year with new brands and a complete building revamp for the old home of Kirkcaldie & Stains.

The retailer announced on Thursday that it was buying out the struggling Wellington institution Kirkcaldie & Stains for $431,000 with an option to purchase its fixed assets for $500,000 following a sevenyear period of losses for the Wellington company.

David Jones chief executive Ian Nairn says the company is not planning on expanding beyond Wellington within the next few years but retail analysts say it is likely Auckland will see a David Jones store in

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he cloud is a platform that enables you to access software and data online from anywhere, at anytime from your computer or other device. The hard drive on your computer is no longer the repository for all your business information.

There are a number of issues with traditional accounting software that are solved by an online solution. Using a cloud-based accounting package provides greater flexibility when it comes to accessing key data, information is automatically backed up and software is always up-to-date.

You get an accurate oversight of your current financial position at any point in time so you don’t have to wait until the end of the month or run a report.

It makes it easier for small businesses to meet their compliance requirements and ultimately run their business.

You are not required to make large capital outlays on computing hardware, or pay for the

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An Ashburton property manager has come up trumps and taken out a national industry award.

Belinda Darrell, a property management consultant with B&N Properties, won the Leading Property Managers of New Zealand Rising Star Award last month. The award recognises

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he people and Parliament must now decide whether New Zealand is ready to accept a person’s right to die.

It is too divisive and complex for a simple law change.

It needs to be considered and debated by everyone.

There have been calls for a parliamentary select committee inquiry into voluntary euthanasia and further calls to revive the End of Life Choice Bill, the private member’s bill which was dropped just after the last election.

There have also been calls for a collective cooling of heels after Lecretia Seales’ unsuccessful bid to get a High Court ruling allowing her doctor to help her die, and for Parliament to leave the law as it is.

But the heart-rending debate has been stirred and Parliament cannot simply stand dumb after a decade of false starts and a new case that has caused many New Zealanders to wonder whether the law is right.

Ms Seales died of natural causes early yesterday, a couple of days after she learned the court rejected her bid for a declaration that a doctor would not risk prosecution if they were to help her die.

Justice David Collins said the issues the case raised could only be addressed by Parliament. Ms Seales wanted a declaration for herself but provided a forum to clarify important aspects of New Zealand law.

The debate has refocused many on the divergent views evident when Michael Laws drafted the first voluntary euthanasia bill in the mid-1990s.

It is an unresolved conflict on which Parliament has been reluctant to take a lead.

Parliament – a bipartisan Parliament – ought to have heard enough to renew its halting examination of voluntary euthanasia with a select committee inquiry backed by expert advice and public consultation.

Public submissions could be capped off with a referendum, giving MPs the steer they’ve been reluctant to seek – and maybe enough to educate their conscience.

We are going through a very similar process as we consider the future of our national flag.

Surely, this debate warrants the same consideration.

YOUR VIEW Abortion calls Right to Life is opposed to the new 0800 telephone “service” that Dr Snook, an abortionist, has established to enable women considering an abortion to have the killing of their child authorised over the phone without the need for a doctor to interview the woman.

How can a doctor claim to diagnose serious mental ill health in a woman he has never met, whom he does not know, whose medical history he does not have, whom he cannot examine and whom he may never see again.

How can a doctor with a conscience sign a certificate authorising the killing of an innocent and defenceless child on the ba-

sis of a brief telephone conversation?

Who will protect women and their precious unborn from this cruel charade?

This “service” is unprofessional, unethical, shameful and a trivialisation of a serious legal process.

This deplorable development is demeaning to women and is an insult to the dignity of women.

If today we may authorise the killing of the unborn over the phone, will we tomorrow (with euthanasia) be able to arrange with a doctor for the killing of the disabled, the elderly and the seriously ill over the phone for convenience?

Ken Orr Right to Life spokesman

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“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

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hat is it about the human spirit and heart that we always wish to believe in something greater than ourselves?

Perhaps it is, as the Bible tells us, that “God has placed eternity in the hearts of men,” (Eccl 3:11). This means that within every person is a deep need to worship and a need to know that our lives have meaning and count for something of eternal significance.

This week, 98 years ago, on 6 June, 1917, New Zealand Division, part II Anzac Corps was sent to Flanders, Belgium, to join the Allied forces, where a major operation was launched to capture the town of Passchendaele. The offensive began and raged on between German and Allied troops in the most vile conditions – a battle of barbed wire, muddy trenches, rifle fire and the stench of rotting bodies.

In February, 1918, the surviving Anzacs were replaced by Canadians, but the war continued.

From a New Zealand population of just over a million people, a

total of 100,000 troops were sent overseas.

Nearly 60 per cent became casualties of war with 18,000 dying of injuries and illness.

This meant one in every four Kiwi men aged between 20 and 45 were either wounded or killed in the Great War. Nightmares and injuries plagued many all their remaining lives.

Not even 20 years later, it started all over again with World War Two! Consequently Anzac Day remains emotionally charged for many. “We will remember them!” We don’t want our dead to have fallen in vain.

On the gravestones of countless Anzacs buried in the cemetery in Jerusalem, are written the words, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

The idea of laying down implies a choice, but as in many countries worldwide, many New Zealand soldiers were without choice – they were conscripts.

Furthermore, conscript or volunteer, once on enemy soil, nearly all concepts of choice fall away.

So there they are today, buried alongside their comrades in arms, some named, many unnamed, having died for, or with

each other, probably all hoping at the time that the cause was worth the sacrifice.

The immortal words, from John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man than this ....” were first spoken by Jesus, before he was taken to be crucified. But he had made it very clear to his followers, that he was making a choice.

(John 10:18) To be in God’s will, he would choose to lay down his life in order that all of humanity could be reconciled with God. However, the final choice of reconciliation with God lies with each of us.

As we consider the cost of war around the world, let us also consider the price of peace.

God gave his only beloved son as a sacrifice to achieve reconciliation with mankind.

When we choose to take up His offer, we find that making peace with God, brings us love, joy, peace and purpose in ways far greater than any human heart can imagine.

If these qualities are lacking from your life today, then why not search further for the One who was prepared to lay down His life, in love, even for the enemy – even for those who He knew would reject his sacrifice?

Getting to know God’s love and acceptance and our own eternal value is a journey of infinite worth and reward.

Sharon Bailey is with the Ashburton New Life Church

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When the ‘walnuts’ fall, it’s time to ski O nce upon a time, long ago and far away, there was a beautiful avenue, fringed with walnut trees.

It was named Walnut Avenue The trees grew big, until the men with their axes came along and cut them down.

Anyway the name stayed, even when the trees were replaced.

But it seemed to me as a kid, that it was pretty stupid to call a street after a walnut when it was planted with trees of a totally different species.

Not a walnut tree in sight as far as I’m aware.

I quite often wonder about this as I am travelling down what must be one of our most beautiful streets and have little else to do with my time.

Last week the replacement trees (I must check what variety they are) presented a ribbon of gold, stretching towards the horizon, with Mount Hutt top centre.

It was a magnificent sight, but sadly the recent weather has resulted in the leaves be-

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coming wet and forming soggy piles on the grass beneath.

Great mulch, but most of the people I know, whose gardens are thus afflicted, want the untidy leaves gone immediately, and are out with their brooms and leaf vacuums as soon as the last raindrop falls.

I often wonder if they had ever played in leaves as children, making choo-choo sounds as they ran through.

So even if the leaves are gone there’s still one element of the view which remains – Mt Hutt.

Mt Hutt is still the district’s crowning glory.

As a kid I could see it from my bedroom window. It was of so little interest to me that I probably didn’t even know its

name, although I could point to Mt Somers and Pudding Hill.

The only wintery things we looked forward to were occasional forays to Staveley to bruise ourselves and break bones on the ice rink.

Later Erewhon skifield was opened, giving us another activity in which to break bones. I don’t ever recall blood though.

There was no ski gear then, it was thick scratchy woollen trousers, woollen long johns with two pairs each of handknitted woollen socks and mittens.

We went up to the field in old army trucks, shivering madly with thick jerseys under our thin nylon parkas.

Our hired boots were work boots, attached to the skis with a sort of wire contraption, and there were rope tows, hence the gloves.

Then after that the great news broke. Doug Hood was going to build a road to the top of Mt Hutt.

Dad and some of his col-

leagues drove brand new cars (no trendy SUVs in those days, just the occasional beaten-up ex-service Land Rover) to the summit for an advertising shoot.

Once they were published in the Guardian the excitement broke out.

That was, apart from Coronet Peak, the beginning of the ski industry as we know it today.

Next week the 2015 season kicks off. Unfamiliar accents will be heard in Methven and elsewhere, the tourist businesses will crank up I believe more than 40 centimetres is lying up there already.

But I won’t be going. On my last trip I came down Mt Hutt on my face. Black eyes and broken glasses later, I decided to give it away.

I’ll be sitting alongside the log-burner with a book, a cat and a dog who will both be trying to sideline the book and, climb on my knee.

Bliss.

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In brief PM asked to resign Romania’s president has urged Prime Minister Victor Ponta to resign over corruption allegations including tax evasion and money laundering. President Klaus Iohannis said it was “an impossible situation for Romania” after meeting Ponta yesterday. The premier had met earlier with the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office and then told reporters he was suspected of making false statements, money laundering and being an accomplice to tax evasion. Ponta declined to say whether he would resign.

Prosecutors have asked Parliament to prosecute Ponta. The allegations relate to his work as a lawyer from 2007 to 2008 when he was also a lawmaker for the Social Democratic Party. Romania has intensified its anti-corruption drive in recent months.

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Cranes lift the capsized tourist ship Eastern Star in Jianli county in southern China’s Hubei province yesterday.

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Ship righted to speed search The Eastern Star’s top-deck cabins with smashed blue roofs jutted out of gray water yesterday after Chinese disaster teams righted the capsized river cruiser to ease the search for more than 340 people still missing. So far, 97 bodies have been found.

Crews worked on draining water from the ship, which was still mostly submerged in the Yangtze River, as the focus shifted from finding survivors to retrieving bodies trapped in the vessel after it capsized suddenly during a storm Monday night on the trip from Nanjing to Chongqing.

Chinese authorities have at-

tributed the accident to sudden high winds just before 9.30pm, but also have placed the surviving captain and first engineer under police custody. Passengers’ relatives have raised questions about whether the boat should have continued on after the storm started and despite a weather warning earlier in the evening.

In a sign of potential unrest among the hundreds of relatives who have descended on the small Hubei province county of Jianli, one distraught family member burst into a gathering of journalists to complain about their treatment and demand an investigation

into possible human error.

“All the emphasis is on a natural disaster ... but we think that this is unjust,” said Xia Yunchen, a 70-year-old university lecturer. “Apart from natural disaster were there other causes? Is this not rational to ask?”

Xia, whose older brother Xia Qinchen, from the eastern coastal city of Qingdao, was a passenger, demanded that relatives be allowed to view their loved ones’ bodies before they are cremated.

In past disasters, authorities have instead cremated bodies and delivered ashes to the victims’ families, in keeping

with the tight management of the aftermath of disasters and fears of spiraling unrest.

“Why do you view the common people as your enemies?”

Xia cried out. “There’s no human feeling, can’t we change this habit?”

Cranes righted the boat yesterday after some 50 divers attach chains to it overnight, Transportation Ministry spokesman Xu Chengguang said, adding that disaster teams would now focus on draining off water, and finding and identifying bodies. Divers also found more bodies overnight, bringing the death toll to 97, Xu said.

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■ PAKISTAN

Eight out of 10 Malala suspects ‘secretly acquitted’ Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai were actually set free, it has emerged.

In April, officials in Pakistan said that 10 Taliban fighters had been found guilty and received 25-year sentences.

But sources have now confirmed to the BBC that only two of the men who stood trial were convicted.

The secrecy surrounding the

trial, which was held behind closed doors, raised suspicions over its validity.

Muneer Ahmed, a spokesman for the Pakistani High Commission in London, said yesterday that the eight men were acquitted because of a lack of evidence.

Saleem Marwat, the district police chief in Swat, Pakistan separately confirmed that only two men had been convicted.

Mr Ahmed claimed that the

original court judgement made it clear only two men had been convicted and blamed the confusion on misreporting.

But Sayed Naeem, a public prosecutor in Swat, said after the trial: “Each militant got 25 years in jail. It is life in prison for the 10 militants who were tried by an anti-terrorist court.”

The acquittals emerged after reporters from the Londonbased Daily Mirror attempted

to locate the 10 convicted men in prisons in Pakistan.

The trial was held at a military facility, a Pakistani security source said, and was shrouded in secrecy. Anti-terrorism trials in Pakistan are not open to the public.

Pakistani authorities did not make the judgement available at any stage, nor did they correct the reports over the past two months that 10 men had been convicted.

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Europe’s top human rights court has allowed doctors to stop treatment of a French man left comatose after a car accident seven years ago, a case that has drawn nationwide attention amid debate about end-of-life practices.

The European Court of Human Rights yesterday confirmed a decision by a French court last year that Vincent Lambert had been clear he did not want to be kept in a vegetative state.

Lambert’s family members disagree on whether to keep him alive artificially. His wife wants doctors to stop life support for him but his parents disagree. “There’s no relief, no joy to express. We’d just like his will to be done”, Lambert’s wife, Rachel, told journalists following the ruling of the Strasbourg-based court. - AP

Quake injures climbers A magnitude-5.9 earthquake that struck near Southeast Asia’s highest peak yesterday injured 11 climbers and left about 130 people stranded, officials said. The quake struck northwest of Ranau district in Sabah state on Borneo at a depth of 54 kilometres, Malaysia’s meteorological department said.

Sabah Parks director Jamili Nais said two climbers who were injured on the 4095-metre peak have been brought down. Nine more people are believed to be injured among the 137 stranded on the mountain, he said. Their climbing route is apparently blocked or made dangerous by rocks and boulders loosened by the quake and small aftershocks, he said. Some of the stranded climbers are foreign, but it wasn’t clear how many.

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Bomb kills 31 A bomb exploded in the main market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Yola killing 31 people, Nigeria’s disaster response agency said yersterday, in an attack blamed on the extremist Boko Haram group. Another 38 victims, some with serious injuries, are being treated in the hospitals in this city already swollen with refugees from the conflict, Sa’ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency said. “I can see blood splattered everywhere, including my car,” bread seller Ayuba Dan Mallam said shortly after the blast.

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Accusations of links to hacking ‘irresponsible’ China said yesterday that any allegations that it was involved in breaking into US government computers are irresponsible.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular news briefing that Beijing hopes the US would be “less suspicious and stop making any unverified allegations, but show more trust and participate more in co-operation.”

US officials say China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the US government person-

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Baby video compaint Facebook says it won’t take down a video showing a baby being swung by its arms that a British charity says amounts to child abuse.

But the social media giant says it will place a warning on the video and remove it from any posts supporting or encouraging such behavior.

The video shows what proponents call “baby yoga”. They post videos of babies being swung about by the arms and legs that have prompted periodic outcries.

The latest video shows a wailing baby being swung upside down over a bucket of water.

Britain’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children wants the government to intervene. Its chief executive, Peter Wanless, said that it’s time for “the light to be shone on the responsibilities of social media companies.”

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nel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers.

Beijing routinely dismisses any allegation of its official involvement in cyberattacks on foreign targets, while invariably noting that China is itself the target of hacking attacks and calling for greater international co-operation in combating hacking.

“We know that hacker attacks are conducted anonymously, across nations, and that it is hard to track the source,” Hong

said. “It’s irresponsible and unscientific to make conjectural, trumped-up allegations without deep investigation.”

China’s military is believed to have made cyber warfare capabilities a priority more than a decade ago.

One of the few public announcements of the capabilities came in a May 25, 2011, news conference by Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng, in which he spoke of developing China’s “online” army.

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Afghan Taliban say talks took place in Norway Taliban representatives have been meeting this week with female Afghan lawmakers and peace negotiators in the Norwegian capital Oslo, a Taliban spokesman and the Afghan president’s office said yesterday.

In an email statement, the Taliban’s Zabihullah Mujahid said the discussions were informal and could not be categorised as “peace talks.”

An Afghan official told The Associated Press that talks took place on June 3 and 4 as part of a long-term Afghan peace initiative by the Norwegian government.

Norway’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Andersen said the meetings were to conclude yesterday.

At least five female parliamentarians, including prominent women’s rights advocates Fawzia Koofi and Shukria Barakzai, had taken part, attending as “independent representatives” from parliament, the Afghan official said.

“They are not part of any (Afghan) government initiative, and were invited to an unofficial meeting, not as official delegates,” he said, speaking on condition of

anonymity as he was not authorised to speak publicly on the matter.

Female members of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, a government body charged with negotiating an end to the war with the Taliban, had also attended in an unofficial capacity, the official said.

The office of President Ashraf Ghani issued a statement saying all Afghan citizens had the right to “work for peace where and whenever they want.”

“We appreciate these are non-government talks, they are not representing the government of Afghanistan,” the statement said.

The Norwegian Foreign Ministry confirmed the discussions had taken place between “Afghans of different political backgrounds ... expressing their personal views.”

The meeting is the third face-to-face contact between Taliban and Afghan officials in recent months.

Ghani has prioritised bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table and ending their insurgency.

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Judge overturns gay marriage ban Guam has become the first US territory to recognise gay marriage after a federal judge struck down the prohibition.

US District Court Chief Judge Frances M. TydingcoGatewood issued the decision after a hearing yesterday morning local time. It goes into effect at 8am Tuesday, when gay couples can begin applying for marriage licences, the Pacific Daily News reported.

Attorneys representing the government of Guam said in a May 18 court document that “should a court strike current Guam law, they would respect and follow such a decision.”

Loretta M. Pangelinan and Kathleen M. Aguero filed the lawsuit in April after the 28-year-old women were denied a marriage licence.

They based their lawsuit on a 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals decision last year in favour of same-sex marriage.

The US District Court of

Loretta M. Pangelinan, 28 (right) holds the application for a marriage licence that she and her fiancee, Kathleen M. Aguero, 28, will turn in at the Office of Vital Statistics in the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services.

Guam falls under the 9th Circuit.

Attorneys for the Guam plaintiffs had argued the terri-

tory must fall in line with the 9th Circuit decision and accept marriage licence applications unless the US Supreme Court

rules otherwise. The Supreme Court is expected to rule this month whether gay marriage is a constitutional right. Currently, gay couples can marry in 36 states, the District of Columbia and now, Guam.

Lawyers for Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo and the Office of Vital Statistics registrar said making a decision when a ruling from the high court is imminent is impractical.

Guam Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson appointed an attorney to represent Calvo because they didn’t agree on the lawsuit; she was in favour of issuing licenses.

Calvo has said the island’s same-sex marriage law is “being challenged by federal judges that were nominated by a US president and confirmed by a US Senate, none of whom were elected through a process that included the people of Guam.”

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Rugs on Sale 150cm x 243cm

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Call TJ to tend to all your rural electrical needs . . ElectraServe, for everything electrical 24/7 Breakdown Service Dairy Effluent Irrigation Generators

Industrial Commercial Residential

the ElectraServe guarantee

Blair Watson, General Manager personally guarantees ElectraServe’s tradesmen’s workmanship. If you are not 100% satisfied with the quality of the work, ElectraServe will put it right . . . every time, or your money back.

a 166 moore street ashburton p 03 308 9008 e service@electraserve.co.nz w www.electraserve.co.nz

Weekend Services

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East org.nz for more information.

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice. from 10am - 1pm Sunday, and from 6pm - 8pm MENTAL HEALTH Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team. both evenings.

DUTY DOCTORS SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual This service is for emergency medical care HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 ASHBURTON HOSPITAL only. Please remember your Community WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

Services Card.

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Tinwald Medical Practice, Main South 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 Road, will be the duty practice for Saturday WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer. until 8am Sunday. They will hold surgery from Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

2pm - outside of these hours leave a message.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit No appointment necessary. Surgery phone ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

308 6565.

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, Sealy Street Medical Practice, Sealy Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

-unrestricted visiting.

Street, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 ASHBURTON REST HOMES

MEDICAL SERVICES

from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

Saturday, and Sunday doctor and emergency details - please telephone the Methven Medical Centre, ph 302 8105.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

PHARMACIES

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

ART GALLERY 327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

EMERGENCY DENTIST Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY for the name of the rostered weekend dentist Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm Sundays and Public Holidays.

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provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring ELPLINE ERVICES medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 have a general practitioners note of referral.

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EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS MID CANTERBURY SPCA 20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021 1356

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 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

INFORMATION CENTRES

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

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VETERINARIANS

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Nathan Roberts. Small: Nina Field.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Olivia Sutton. Small: Refer

Vet Ent.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Renate Haveman.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890. Open NIMAL ERVICES weekdays 10am - 4pm, weekends 1pm - 4pm. DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL hours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

Research facilities weekday afternoons.

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service.

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SITUATIONS VACANT Maize | Silage | Baleage | Hay | Grass | Straw

AutoSparks is an Auto Electrical / Mechanical / Hydraulic Workshop with 15 staff. We have been part of Battery Town for many years and are also the Topcon Dealer for New Zealand. We have the latest Scan Tools that cover most cars and trucks including Autologic that specalise in BMW, VW, Audi and Landrover. Currently we are building a new mechanical workshop, which will be completed in the next few weeks, and we will be part of the Auto Supershoppe.

We are searching for enthusiastic team players to join our staff:

WOF/Lube Person: - This position would be suited to a mechanic that currently has a WOF certificate that would like to take on a lighter role - Complete all relevant paper work for WOF and be able to keep area clean and tidy - Carry out light repairs to enable the vehicle to pass a WOF

Receptionist: - This position involves answering the phone, making job cards and completing job cards - Picking up and dropping off customers vehicles - General office duties - Must have a current drivers licence - Full time position and must be able to work school holidays

Experienced Auto Electrician: - We require a qualified and experience auto electrician - This position involves working in the field ( late model Isuzu supplied) - Be able to work confidently on their own unsupervised and have a good work ethic All candidates must have/be able to: - Work under pressure and prioritise work load - Work unsupervised as well as part of a team - Professional presentation - High standards and a high level of attention to detail - Bright and friendly personality

Large Canterbury, Agricultural Contractor: www.quigleycontracting.co.nz

We require staff for the up and coming season starting September 2015 and finishing mid April 2016.

Truck Driver

Must have clean full car licence.

Hororata

Wallace Corporation Limited (WCL) is a family business operating in the Waikato since the 1930’s providing a range of services to the food industry. Our main site is at Waitoa and includes a large scale rendering plant and tannery along with compost manufacturing and dairy farms. Wallace Corporation has satellite operations in Feilding and Northland and a rendering plant in Canterbury.

A full time, permanent position for a Driver with a Class 4 (minimum) license, has become available starting June 22, 2015.

This position will be based at our Hororata Rending Plant.

The successful applicant will need to work six days per week, when required, undertake a pre-employment medical and drug test and licence review. Full training will be given.

Please email your CV in the strictest confidence to: jeff.liddle@wallace.co.nz If you require more information on the role please phone Jeff (07) 887 0332 or 027 240 9173.

Please reply to: AutoSparks Ltd 187 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton 7700 Ph: 03 307 2696

Milk nutrition for a modern world

kevin@autosparks.co.nz Or phone Kevin Pooke 0274 55 22 54

Applications close July 31, 2015.

Please forward a CV with two referees and a copy of driver’s licence to office@quigleycontracting.co.nz

Positions available for the 2015/2016 Harvest Season Work starting October 2015 through to April 2016 Applicants must have at least two years’ experience operating and servicing agricultural machinery Please apply to office@maybrothers.co.nz with you CV and two references.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

Applications close June 10, 2015.

Guardian Situations Vacant

Saturday

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

Sunday

8.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Centennial Park, Timaru. All welcome, phone Jenny 308-6862. Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square West.

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

9.00am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street.

9.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB.

18 hrs pw

Recent experience of successful office management a requirement Apply with covering letter, CV and names of two referees to: Rebekah Clement Principal 14 Fairfield Road RD 2, Ashburton Applications close June 12, 2015

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline

Start your career as a Canning and Blending Operator Please visit our website to find out more!

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9.30am - 12.30pm Main Street, Methven.

ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. 10.00am - 12.00pm Open Thursday and Saturday mornings VINTAGE CAR CLUB. www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Museum and parts shed open. 86 Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square Maronan Road. Tinwald.

East.

10.00am - 1.00pm 10.00am ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. Milk GROUP. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture New rooms open for research. Ground nutrition Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. floor Heritage Centre, all welcome, West

Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10.30am - 3.30pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Stitch and chat all day, all welcome. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

Start your career as a Canning and for a Annual Show and bird sale. Tinwald Hall, weather permitting. Lovetts Road, off ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Operator modern Graham Street.

Maronan Road.BlendingHoly Communion every Sunday. 151-153

1.00pm - 4.00pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Annual show, bird sales with outside entries welcome. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

6.00pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

Christchurch Savage Club. Concert, Music, Drama. Savage Club Hall, Cox Street.

9.30am 10.00am Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1.30pm world ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. 10.30am ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Please our website to find out more!

48 Allens Road.

New Zealand Alpine andvisit Agriculture VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Club and family day, everyone welcome.

Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

M.S.A. Grounds, 115 Racecourse Road.

9.30am Worship God and study his word. 131 Main Street, Methven.

Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

5.00pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Melvern News 10.00am 10.30am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Service and worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge. ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Evensong, Park Street.

Baring Square East.

Holy Communion, Park Street.

Worshipping God and transforming lives. 7.00pm 9.30am 10.00am 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 1.00pm - 3.00pm Worship God and study his word. 131 Morning worship and holy communion Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall). led by Rev. John Titlow, all welcome. 65 Havelock and Park Street.

A great selection of many aircraft from 7.00pm Oxford Street.

10.00am the past to the future. Ashburton airport, ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 10.00am Seafield Road.

HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Church Service with Rev David Brown in ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. 1.15pm Mass, Sealy Street. the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Radio controlled aeroplane flying, ASHBURTON SAVAGE CLUB. Street.

10.00am

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ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. New rooms open for research.

Ground 6.00am 1.00pm - 3.00pm floor Heritage Centre, East St. All Association croquet. Allenton Sports Real Women circuit training in hall. 48 ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. revisions: welcome.

Club, Cavendish Street.

Allens Road, Allenton.

ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Real women circuit training in hall, 48 1 2 3 4 5 1.15pm 6.00pm 7.30pm A great selection of many aircraft from Allens Road, Allenton. $0 $0 $25 $50 $75 the past to the future.

Seafield Road.

WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. 10.00am 1.00pm 4.00pm Mahjong counting.

Waireka Croquet Circuit training, 1st time free.

St Andrews Euchre .

Holy Name Parish Hall, Winter job: C52183 PLEASE NOTE: METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. Clubrooms, Philip Street.

Church Hall, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

Street.

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ASHBURTON COLLEGE ‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Maintenance Supervisor

Part-Time Sales

Ashburton Five Star Beef is owned by ANZCO Foods and is located 15 minutes from Ashburton.

It is the only large scale commercial cattle feedlot in New Zealand, producing high quality grain finished beef, with a standing capacity of up to 20,000 head.

Lingerie/Shoes/Accessories Todd’s have a part time position in our Lingerie/Shoes/Accessories department.

This full time position includes rostered weekend work and reports directly to the Feedlot Manager. It is a pivotal role within the feedlot operations team who are responsible for the induction, feeding and management of cattle.

Full training will be given to this specialist position.

Normal hours will be Thursday, Friday, Saturday, but this part time position will also cover other staff for holidays etc.

Key Responsibilities: • Vehicle and plant servicing schedules and preventative maintenance • Infrastructure repairs and maintenance • Working within a team of seven people providing support and direction • Vehicle, plant and machinery operation.

For your appointment, please call Janelle on 308 5089 or free phone 0508 313 312

Skills & Experience:

Cleaning Team Staff Relief/Casual Positions

Our cleaning team works Monday to Friday from 3:20pm to 5:35pm during school term time and undertakes a two day cleaning schedule during term holidays. The team operates throughout the campus, completing various tasks to ensure our facilities are maintained to a high standard.

We are currently looking for Cleaners to fill Relief/Casual Positions Successful applicants will display the following attributes: • Self-motivation with the ability to self-manage when required • Attention to detail • Ability to work productively in a team or by self • Be honest and reliable All successful applicants must undertake and pass a Police Check.

Please forward a current CV and covering letter to: Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator on phone (03) 308 4193, ext 812 or 027 247 8003; Email: sheena.tyrrell@ashcoll.school.nz, Ashburton College, P O Box 204, Ashburton.

By: 4:00pm, Monday 15 June.

• Experience in a relevant maintenance based role involving light engineering, plant maintenance and machinery operation • An effective team member with proven relationship management and interpersonal skills • Welding experience. A welding qualification would be an advantage but is not essential.

Glazing Position

Cranfield Glass Ashburton has a new position for a trainee glazier.

314 East Street, Ashburton

This is a key role within our business and will provide regular challenges and progression opportunities. We are committed to supporting and developing our people and we offer competitive remuneration rates.

The applicant will receive full training in both the building and auto side of the business.

This position would suit a school leaver or somebody with a good attention to fine detail, who would like to learn the glazing trade.

Please apply in writing to:

For further information on this role please contact Iain Inglis, Feedlot Manager on 03 308 1599.

Cranfield Glass PO Box 583 Ashburton 7740

Applications close 23 June 2015.

Apply online now at

Rendering Process Operator

careers.anzcofoods.com

Or email your CV to: kerry@cranfield.co.nz

Applications close Friday, June 12

Wallace Corporation Limited (WCL) is a family business operating in the Waikato since the 1930’s providing a range of services to the food industry.

Our main site is at Waitoa and includes a large scale rendering plant and tannery along with compost manufacturing and dairy farms. Wallace Corporation has satellite operations in Feilding and Northland and a rendering plant in Canterbury.

BUILDING STAFF WANTED Ashburton Based Bradford Building is the leader in the building industry in Mid Canterbury. We have a significant increase in workload and require further site staff including:

• • • •

Leading Hands Tradesmen Hammer Hands/Labourers Apprentices

A full time position for a process operator at our Hororata Rendering site has become available.

The role is wide and varied giving the successful applicant the chance to learn skills in Rendering including:

• Raw material receival • Cooking and sterilisation process • Milling and finished products • Process to HACCP principles

Applicants will need to have their own transport and NZ car license, and will be required to obtain, a fork lift license and undertake first aid and chemical handling training. Training will be provided to the successful applicant if required.

We would also be interested in discussing with experienced people in the building industry, short term arrangements for staff over the winter period. We offer very competitive rates.

Bradfords have a diverse range of projects from residential to large commercial buildings and can offer a comprehensive experience in the building industry.

The successful applicant will be required to follow processing instructions, have excellent time management skills and the ability to record process data accurately. The role requires the ability to work unsupervised, be able to work as part of a team and will include both day and night shifts.

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Applicants please phone The Manager - 307 9049

Data Entry/Administration Position

Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

Motoring

Must have full drivers licence and be able to work long hours.

Please email a cover letter and CV to: gordon.henderson@wallace.co.nz

www.bradfords.co.nz

Situations Vacant

We require a hardworking and enthusiastic labourer to join our busy mainline team. Experience with underground pipe work and plumbing preferred but not essential.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo a pre employment medical and drug test.

If you are interested and have the required skill level email to buildingprojects@bradfords.co.nz or call at our office at 70 Bremners Road Ashburton to pick up an application form.

Real Estate

Mainline Labourer Wanted

151 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton www.petermay.co.nz

Guardian Motoring

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We are looking for an enthusiastic and conscientious person for our busy office.

To be successful in this role you must be customer focused and have proficient computer skills with a high level of accuracy.

As well as data entry this role will encompass other duties within our administration and operations area requiring the ability to work as part of our team.

Applicants should apply in own handwriting by 12 June 2015 to: Administration Manager PO Box 104 ASHBURTON 7740

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REAL ESTATE

Church Services

Administration/Reception We have a vacancy for a friendly, efficient office person to join our team. The hours of work will be 8.30am to 3.30pm Thursday and Friday (not including School holidays) with flexibility to work extra days when required.

Applicants should have experience in all aspects of general administration and reception duties, proficient in the use of general computing systems, accurate accounting skills, effective time management and organisational skills essential.

HASTINGS MCLEOD LTD Hastings McLeod Ltd Licensed REAA 2008

A FINE EXAMPLE OF QUALITY

DEADLINE SALE

Prestigious 4 bedroom executive home set in 1552sqm private grounds. This superior property is of enduring design that will definitely appeal to lovers of quality. Extensive refurbishing has taken place, and lifts this property into "House and Garden" category.

Please forward your CV and covering letter to the address below.

VIEW By Appointment DEADLINE SALE closes Thursday 25th June, 2015 at 2.00pm, (unless sold prior)

Applications close June 13, 2015.

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Large quantities of • Ryegrass • Barley • Wheat Straw 7x4x3 High Density Bales

Film Location Needed

New Zealand Film Commission Short Film production are seeking a rural location in Mid Canterbury area. Looking for a small to medium sized farm (preferably dairy) with an older style house – Old weatherboard or similar. Required for two – three days shooting in August (dates TBC). Ideally within one hour travel time from Rakaia township.

Please contact Julian Vares on 027 664 3272 or julian@julianvares.co.nz for expressions of interest.

TRADES, SERVICES

Mandarins 1kg Red Braeburn 2kg Mango Cauliflower

RURAL TRADING POST

FIREWOOD - Pine $55 a metre, macro $70 a metre. All wood dry. Phone 027 507 3880.

Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF AGM The Annual General Meeting of the Jennian Homes Ashburton Swim Team will be held on Sunday, June 21, 2015 at the Masonic Centre, Havelock St, Ashburton, commencing at 2:00pm.

MOTORING BATTERIES. STARTERS. ALTERNATORS - Starter motor and alternator repair specialist. Free no obligation quotes. Full battery range at super low prices, car, truck, tractor, deep cycle. Eftpos available. Farmlands supplier.

Robbie Bell Autoelectrical, 25 Golf Links Road. Pone 308 7700 or 027 221 3930.

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BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

DUCKS $20 each. Bantams $5 each. Phone 302 8775.

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St Andrew’s Havelock St. 10am & 7pm

For your local news, community events and places to visit.

Thomson St. 11am

St Paul’s Oxford St. 9.30am

Evangelical Presbyterian Church Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All Welcome

Minister: Rev David Bayne Ph 307 7355

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10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays@10.00am Including Children’s Church Everyone is welcome.

See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron Sts Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Birthday Greetings Brought to you by Kitchen Kapers.

Kambel Frost Happy 8th Birthday Kam! Lots of love Mum, Dad and Daemyn. xxx Kambel Frost Happy 8th Birthday Kambel! Have a great day tomorrow. Lots of love Nanny and Poppy Gibson, Nana and Grandad Frost. xxxx 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.

Minion cake tin set available for hire.

$20 for 7 days

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Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting

10.30am Worship

Ph 03 307 to subs 7900 cribe !

211 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton (03) 307 6130 www.calderstewart.co.nz

All welcome

Fear binds you but the truth will set you free

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

St James

MISS Eva, friendly service, busty, attractive, in/out calls.

Phone 021 044 0698.

HOUSE to rent on lifestyle block. Short term. May suit person building a house $450 AKAROA - CHARMING, per week including power and spacious holiday home, 3 firewood. Ph 0274 308 854. bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod TWO bedroom townhouse. cons, short walk to village. Warm, sunny, heat pump, redecorated, Phone Brian 307-8000 or recently throughout single garage.

308-6180.

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

Phone 308-3602

308-1095 ADULT ENTERTAINMENT CAMBODIAN lady. Beautiful, LIVESTOCK, PETS

Fresh Fruit & Vege

We’ve built a reputation of being solid Phone Clancy and reliable, 027 226 8226. just like the Guardian buildings we Classifieds construct.

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FIREWOOD - Old man pine $200, Blue gum $250, Macrocarpa $250, all 3.6m³.

Phone Shane James, Firewood 303 7063.

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GOOD Quality grazing available with experienced Graziers Mid Canterbury Region. Contact Phone No. 027 227 6075.

$2.99 bag $2.99 bag .99c ea $2.49 ea

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns P LANTS , P RODUCE COMPUTER PROBLEMS? KALE - 10 hectares for sale, Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills CONVENTIONAL pea straw, For Prompt Reliable Service between Winchmore and Street. Phone 308-6737. free $6 per bale weed Contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Methven. Phone Alan, 03 302 delivered.

Phone 027 390 Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, 4779 or 027 441 4085.

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Ashburton. Ph 308 8989.

TRAILER tailgate SH1 30yrs Local experience, REAL ESTATE Frasers Road. Phone 0274 Same day service if possible, HIRE *~ SUPERGOLD discount FLOAT hire - single, double 344 041.

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Saturday, June 6, 2015 TV ONE

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 0 9:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 30 11:55 Real Pasifik 3 12:25 The Food Truck 3 0 12:55 Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook – Through The Seasons 3 0 1:25 Highway Cops PGR 3 0 1:55 The Fixer PGR 3 0 3pm Code–1 PGR 3 0 3:30 Border Security – International PGR 3 0 4pm Topp Country 3 0 4:30 Taste Of A Traveller 0 5pm The Fishing Show 0 6pm One News 0

TV TWO

©TVNZ 2015

6am Guess How Much I Love You 3 0 6:10 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:15 Transformers Rescue Bots 0 6:40 Doc McStuffins 3 0 7:05 The Jungle Bunch – To The Rescue!

0 7:25 Ben 10 – Omniverse 3 0 7:50 Teen Titans Go! 3 0 8:15 Randy Cunningham – 9th Grade Ninja 3 0 8:45 Beware The Batman 3 0 9:10 Regular Show 3 0 9:35 Lab Rats 10am Fresh PGR 3 10:30 Step By Step 3 0 11am Full House 3 0 11:30 Duck Dynasty PGR 3 0 Noon The Hero PGR 0 1pm Switched At Birth PGR 0 2:05 Pretty Little Liars PGR 3 0 3:05 Malibu Country 3 0 3:35 The Neighbors PGR 3 0 4:05 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 3 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 5:55 Oh Sit! PGR 3 0

7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 David Attenborough’s Rise Of Animals – Triumph Of The Vertebrates (Part 1) David Attenborough goes on a 500-million-year journey to unravel the rise of the vertebrates that dominate the world. 0 8:35 Coronation Street PGR 0 9:35 Puberty Blues AO 0 10:35 Death Of A Family Man AO 0

7pm M Operation Stormbreaker PGR 2006 Action Adventure. Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy. 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Operation Stormbreaker PGR Continued. 0 8:50 M Ocean’s Eleven AO Crime. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts. 0

12:30 Count Arthur Strong PGR 30 1:05 A Night At The Classic AO 3 0 1:30 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:25 Neighbourhood 3 0 3:55 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

11:10 Empire AO 3 0 1:45 M Colombiana AO 2011 Action. Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan. 0 3:45 Jeremy Kyle AO 3 4:30 Anger Management PGR 3 0 4:55 Secret Mountain Fort Awesome PGR 3 0 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

CHOICE TV 6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 You Live In What?

8am Love Nature – Monkey Thieves 8:30 Love Nature – World’s Wildest City 9:30 Donna Hay – Fast, Fresh, Simple 10am The Delicious Miss Dahl 10:30 Decks, Docks And Gazebos 11am House Crashers 11:30 American Restoration Noon Britain’s Best Back Gardens 1pm Heligan – Secrets Of The Lost Garden 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Garage Gold 3:30 House Crashers 4pm Holiday Home Sweet Home 5pm Twiggy’s Frock Exchange 6pm The Picker Sisters 6:30 The Water Brothers 7pm The Dog Hotel 7:30 Natural World – Inside The Perfect Predator 8:30 Speed With Guy Martin 9:30 Baz’s Extreme Worlds PGR 10pm Odd Folks Home PGR 10:30 Garage Gold 11pm Hunter AO

SUNDAY

Midnight Twiggy’s Frock Exchange 1am The Picker Sisters 1:30 The Water Brothers 2am The Dog Hotel 2:30 Speed With Guy Martin 3:30 Baz’s Extreme Worlds PGR 4am Odd Folks Home PGR 4:30 House Crashers 5am Holiday Home Sweet Home

TV THREE

FOUR

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Outdoors With Geoff 3 A solo outdoorsman takes on the challenge of a race against the clock, and visits the active volcano on White Island.

7am Gone Fishin’ 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 N Both Worlds 0 11am Survivor – Philippines 3 Noon Project Runway – All Stars PGR 3 12:55 Epic 3 1:55 Face Off PGR 3 2:55 Dancing With The Stars New Zealand PGR 3 4:30 Dancing With The Stars New Zealand PGR 3 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm 3 News 7pm Storage Hunters PGR 7:30 Highway Thru Hell PGR A semi-trailer crashes on a rural highway. 0 8:30 Motive AO A murder case directly affects the homicide team, leading Sgt Cross to blur the lines between his professional and personal lives. 0 9:25 SVU AO 0 10:25 Hannibal AO 3 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 8:25 Sidekick 3 8:50 Rocket Power 3 9:15 Power Rangers – Megaforce 3 9:40 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Tree Fu Tom 3 3:25 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Big Time Rush 3 5:30 Mr Young 6pm ICarly 3 6:30 M Once Upon A Forest 1993 Animated. When a badger nearly dies from toxic fumes, her animal friends set out to find a cure.

Voices of Michael Crawford, Ben Vereen, Ellen Blain. 0

11:20 Last Resort AO 3 Chaplin and Kendal negotiate with the US government; Shepard takes command of the Colorado after a critical system fails. 0 12:20 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 3 5:30 Charles Stanley 3

11:05 Just Shoot Me! PGR Jack’s choice of an outsider to reenergise the magazine has the staff upset. 0 11:30 Infomercials

8pm M The Gods Must Be Crazy PGR 3 1980 Comedy.

A soft-drink bottle dropped from an aeroplane causes trouble in a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen, who believe it to be a utensil of the gods. Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau. 0 10:15 90210 PGR 3

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Home Shopping 11:25 Rugby League – NRL Fulltime (Highlights) Round 13.

Noon Football – Fifa U20 World Cup (Highlights) 12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 2:30 Shearing Gang PGR 3 3pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

USA PGR 3 3:30 Jamie’s American Road Trip 3 4:30 Fishing And Adventure 5pm Addicted To Fishing 5:30 Prime News 6pm Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Cookery Course 3 6:30 Jamie At Home

7pm Storage Wars – Canada 7:30 MasterChef Junior USA The top six junior home cooks in America face a daunting MasterChef challenge, the restaurant takeover.

8:30 Top Gear USA PGR 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Blues v Crusaders at Eden Park, Auckland.

11:30 Sleepy Hollow PGR 3 When Ichabod goes missing, and Katrina appears to Abbie in a vision, warning her the Headless Horseman will return by nightfall, Abbie seeks help from Henry Parrish.

12:30 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 32 8am Tribe 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Hoiho 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm The Big Hit 3 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield 3 Otara Scorpions

THE BOX 6am The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

8:30 New Girl MS 8:55 Modern Family PGL 9:20 The Amazing Race Marathon PG 12:45 Wild West Alaska M 1:35 Ice Road Truckers PG 2:25 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 2:50 Graceland MVLC 3:40 SVU MVS 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

7:30 New Girl MS 8pm Modern Family PGL 8:30 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 9pm Counting Cars PG 9:30 Wild West Alaska M 10:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 11:30 Psych MC

SUNDAY

12:25 Raw MC 3:10 Psych MC 4am New Girl MS 4:25 Modern Family PGL 4:50 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 5:15 CSI – New York MV

6am Isle Of Man TT – Preview Show 7am Golf – Lesson Tee 8am The Golf Fix 9am Football – Fifa U20 World Cup (Highlights) Myanmar v New Zealand.

9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Hurricanes v Highlanders.

11:30 Sport 365 Noon World Rugby 12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Hurricanes v Highlanders. 1pm Tennis – French Open (Highlights) Day 13.

2pm Golf Central 2:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Australian Conference Elimination – Swifts v Fever. 3pm L Netball – ANZ Championship New Zealand Conference Elimination – Magic v Steel. 5pm #SkySpeed With Greg Murphy and Stephen McIvor.

5:25 L Rugby – Super Rugby Rebels v Bulls.

7:30 L Rugby – Super Rugby Blues v Crusaders.

From Eden Park, Auckland.

9:35 L Rugby – Super Rugby Reds v Chiefs. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

11:40 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 12:10 Small Blacks TV 12:25 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 12:55 L Rugby – Super Rugby Cheetahs v Waratahs.

3am L Rugby – Super Rugby 5:05 World Rugby 5:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights)

SKY SPORT 2 v East Coast Bays.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Irikura 3 6:30 Death Threat PGR 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 M The Nutty Professor PGR 3 1996 Comedy. Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett.

9:15 M The Orator AO 3 2011 Drama. Fa’afiaula Sanote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia.

11:15 Te Kaea 3 2 11:45 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Kings PG Iwo Jima Sword; Cathouse Chairs.

6:30 MythBusters PG Toilet Bomb. 7:30 MythBusters PG Battle of the Sexes. 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Big Giant Swords PG 10:30 Live Fire M Marines. 11:30 You Have Been Warned M Urban Legends.

12:30 Treehouse Masters PG 1:30 Naked And Afraid M 2:30 Dual Survival M Winter Vortex 2. 3:30 Bear Grylls – Breaking Point M 4:30 Auction Hunters PG Whip It Good. 5pm Auction Hunters 5:30 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG 6:30 Ice Cold Gold PG Midnight Run. 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 9:30 Surviving Exodus M 10:30 Auction Hunters Beantown Bidders. 11pm Shaanxi – China’s Great Gateway PG Call of the Silk Road.

SUNDAY

Midnight MythBusters PG 1am Tabloid M 2am Man v Wild M 3am Man v Wild M 4am Man v Wild M 5am MythBusters PG

Pretty Little Liars 2:05pm on TV2

MOVIES PREMIERE 8:05 3 Days To Kill MVL 2014 Action.

Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld.

10am Twixt MVC 2011 Horror.

Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning.

11:25 Jack Ryan – Shadow Recruit MV 2014 Action. Chris Pine.

1:10 Twixt MVC 2011 Horror.

Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning.

2:35 3 Days To Kill MVL 2014 Action.

Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld.

4:30 Citizen Gangster MVL 2011 Crime. Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly.

6:15 Fury 16VL 2014 Action War. Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf.

8:30 Fugly! 16VC 2014 Drama.

John Leguizamo, Radha Mitchell.

10:10 Transformers – Age Of Extinction MVL 2014 Action.

Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz.

SUNDAY

12:55 Banshee Chapter MVLC 2013 Horror. Katia Winter, Ted Levine.

2:20 Would Be Kings – Part 1 16VLS (Mini-series) Currie Graham.

3:50 Citizen Gangster MVL 2011 Crime. Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly.

5:35 Transformers – Age Of Extinction MVL 2014 Action.

Once Upon a Forest 6:30pm on FOUR

MOVIES GREATS 6am Bulletproof Monk MVL 2003 Action. Chow Yun-Fat. 7:45 A Few Good Men PGL 1992 Drama. Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise.

10am The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy PGV 2005 Sci-fi Comedy.

Martin Freeman, Bill Bailey.

11:45 About Adam MLS 2000 Romantic Comedy. Kate Hudson.

1:25 RocknRolla 16VL 2008 Action.

Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson.

3:20 Get Over It MS 2001 Comedy Romance. Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster.

4:50 Finding Neverland PGC 2004 Drama. Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet.

6:30 The X-Files MV 1998 Sci-fi.

David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson.

8:30 Training Day 18VL 2001 Action Thriller. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke.

10:35 Shaun Of The Dead MVLC 2004 Horror Comedy. Simon Pegg.

6am Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Widnes Vikings v Hull FC. From Select Security Stadium in Widnes.

6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Warrington Wolves v Catalans Dragons.

9:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 13, Friday.

10am Sport 365 10:30 Sky Sports UK News 11am Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Warrington Wolves v Catalans Dragons.

11:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 13, Friday.

Noon Sky Sports UK News 12:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Knights U20 v Raiders U20. From Hunter Stadium, NSW. 2:30 L Rugby League – NSW Cup Newcastle v Mounties. From Hunter Stadium, Newcastle.

4:30 L Rugby League – NRL Knights v Raiders.

7pm L Rugby League – NRL Rabbitohs v Warriors.

9:25 The After Match Awen Guttenbeil and guests discuss the big issues in rugby league.

10pm The Formula 1 Show Indepth interviews with drivers, a wrap of the week’s action and more.

11pm Motorsport – Tales From The Vault

SUNDAY

Midnight Football – Fifa U20 World Cup (Replay) Serbia v Mexico.

SUNDAY 2am World Rugby 12:10 Get Over It MS 2001 Comedy 2:23 L Rugby – U20 Romance. 1:35 The X-Files MV 1998 Championship Ireland v Scotland.

Sci-fi. 3:35 Training Day 18VL 2001 4:23 L Rugby – U20 Action Thriller. 5:35 Shaun Of The Championship New Zealand v Dead MVLC 2004 Horror Comedy.

Argentina.

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

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6am Rural Delivery 3 6:25 Road To The Young Farmer Final 3 6:50 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 0 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Survival Tales From The Wild 3 0 12:55 Judy Bailey’s Australia 3 0 1:55 F Location, Location, Location 3 0 3pm Dynamo – Magician Impossible PGR 3 0 4pm This Town 3 0 5pm Nature’s Weirdest Events 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm F Nigel Latta Blows Stuff Up Nigel takes on Galileo, and tests the law of gravity by jumping out of a plane with an orange, to see which will hit the ground first. 0 8:30 N Indian Summers AO Drama set during the decline of the British Empire in 1930s India. 0 10pm Our Girl AO 0

6am Fishtronaut 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:45 Crash And Bernstein 3 0 7:10 SpongeBob SquarePants 30 7:35 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 0 8am What Now 10am ANT Farm 0 10:25 The Bachelor 3 Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 2:30 Suburgatory PGR 3 0 3pm Hot In Cleveland 3 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 30 6pm Thunderbirds Are Go 0 6:30 M The Smurfs 2011 Family. Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris. 0

11:10 Golf – PGA Tour (Highlights) Round Tree – Memorial Tournament.

From the Muirfield Village Golf Course in Dublin, Ohio.

12:10 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme. 0 1:10 Attitude 3 0 1:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:35 Infomercials

12:50 Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD AO 3 0 1:45 N Marshal Law, Texas PGR 2:30 Infomercials 3:05 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 3:55 Anger Management PGR 3 0 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 The Carrie Diaries PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am The Water Brothers University graduates, Alex and Tyler Mifflin, explore important water stories and the delicate state of our planet.

6:30 The Dog Hotel Doggy devotees Matt and Leon open a new Hollywood-style pooch paradise in the British seaside town of Brighton.

7am Natural World – Inside The Perfect Predator 8am Garage Gold 8:30 Speed With Guy Martin 9:30 Holiday Home Sweet Home 10:30 Twiggy’s Frock Exchange 11:30 The Picker Sisters Noon Baz’s Extreme Worlds PGR 12:30 Odd Folks Home PGR 1pm Natural World – Inside The Perfect Predator 2pm Yard Crashers 2:30 Merlin 3:30 Better Homes And Gardens 5pm Bill’s Kitchen – Notting Hill 5:30 Backroad Bounty 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 We Love Penguins A warmhearted documentary about the love people have for penguins.

8:30 The Time Of Our Lives AO A drama following the lives of a typical extended Australian family.

9:30 Vexed AO A detective series about the complications of modernday life.

10:30 Backroad Bounty 11:30 Heaven’s Kitchen At Large

MONDAY

12:30 The Time Of Our Lives AO 1:30 Vexed AO 2:30 Yard Crashers 3am Merlin 4am Better Homes And Gardens 5:30 Bill’s Kitchen – Notting Hill

TV THREE

6am Life TV 3 6:30 Brian Houston 3 7am Charles Stanley 3 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 3 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 9am Three60 9:30 Re-Think 10am The Nation 0 11am The Bold And The Beautiful Omnibus PGR 3 1pm Save With Jamie (Starting Today) 3 2pm Motorsport – Rally New Zealand Championship Round Three – All Forest Rally.

3pm Motorsport – MotoGP (Highlights) Round Six – Italy.

4pm CRC Motorsport – IndyCar (Highlights) Detroit – Races One and Two. 5pm Richard Hammond’s Miracles Of Nature (Starting Today) 3 0 6pm 3 News 6:30 3D 0 8:30 M Elysium AO 2013 7pm Dancing With The Stars Action Sci-fi. In the year 2154, New Zealand PGR when the very wealthy live 8:30 Westside AO Ted confronts on a space station called his great white whale; Rita Elysium, while the rest of the fights boredom; a war population lives on a ruined with the Dallies turns up Earth, one man’s mission is unexpected opportunities. 0 for equality. Matt Damon, 9:30 Rush AO 0 Jodie Foster. 0 10:30 M One Day AO 3 2011 10:40 M Straw Dogs AO 2011 Drama. Anne Hathaway, Jim Thriller. James Marsden, Kate Sturgess. 0 Bosworth. 0 12:40 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Tree Fu Tom 3 7:25 Rugrats 3 7:50 The Winx Club 3 8:15 Max Steel 3 8:35 Rocket Power 3 9am Lalaloopsy 3 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm ICarly 3 6:30 M Dr Dolittle – Tail To The Chief 3 2008 Family. Kyla Pratt.

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

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

Noon Football – Fifa U20 World Cup (Highlights) From the day eight group matches.

12:30 River Cottage Australia PGR 3 1:30 Jamie’s Great Italian Escape PGR 2pm Jamie’s Great Italian Escape 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 Stephen Fry – Gadget Man

7pm Storage Wars – Texas 8:20 Family Guy PGR Brian and 7:30 F Antiques Roadshow Quagmire become finalists 8:30 CSI – Cyber PGR The cyber on the reality show The crime team investigates Bachelorette. 0 when nine planes that left 8:50 South Park AO 3 from the same airport all face 9:20 Burn Notice AO Sam and a fatal Wi-Fi attack while in Jesse go to the Dominican flight.

Republic to help Michael with 9:30 Elementary PGR a high-risk trade.

10:15 Welcome To The Family 3 10:30 Psych PGR 10:40 Entertainment Tonight Weekend 11:35 Infomercials

11:25 Tony Robinson Down Under PGR 3 From the search to identify the Great Southern Land, and through the colonial era, Tony Robinson discovers the key events and major influences that define Australia today.

12:30 Home Shopping

MAORI TV

6am Small Blacks TV 6:15 Random Rugby TV 6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Blues v Crusaders.

8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Reds v Chiefs.

10:30 Fishing And Adventure 11am Sport 365 11:30 #SkySpeed With Greg Murphy and Stephen McIvor.

Noon L Motorsport – IndyCar Series Firestone 600.

3pm Sky Sport 365 3:30 Sky Sport News UK 4pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Blues v Crusaders. 4:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) New Zealand Conference Elimination – Magic v Steel. 5pm Tennis – French Open (Highlights) Day 14.

6pm Fishing And Adventure 6:30 Golf Central 7:30 Tennis – French Open (Highlights) Day 14. From Roland Garros, France.

8:30 Rugby Nation Highlights and analysis of the latest rugby action.

9:30 Athletics – IAAF Diamond League (Highlights) From Rome.

10:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Sharks v Roosters.

From Remondis Stadium, NSW. 11:05 L Cycling – Criterium Du Dauphine Stage One. A 132km race with several climbs near Albertville, France.

1am Fox Sports News 1:28 L Cricket – T20 Blast Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire. From New Road, Worcester. 5am Rugby Nation

SKY SPORT 2

6:23 L Rugby – U20 Championship England v Wales.

From Stadio San Michele, Calvisano, Italy.

8:30 Rugby League – NRL Saturday Highlights.

9am The F1 Show In depth interviews with drivers and a wrap of the week’s action.

10am Small Blacks TV 10:18 Football – Fifa U20 World One Day Cup (Replay) Colombia v Portugal.

10:30pm on TV3 From Otago Stadium, Dunedin.

12:18 Football – Fifa U20 World Cup (Highlights) Day Eight.

THE BOX DISCOVERY MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS 12:48 L Football – Fifa 7:10 Biography – Queen 6:05 The Amazing Race Marathon PG 6am Auction Kings PG 8:15 Biography – Joaquin Women’s World Cup Football Latifah PG 2007 Documentary.

6:30 MythBusters PG Revenge of Phoenix PG 2009 Documentary.

9:25 The Simpsons Marathon PG Ferns v Netherlands. From 8am Finding Neverland PGC 2004 the Myth. 7:30 MythBusters PG 9:05 Banshee Chapter MVLC 2013 A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton.

Drama. Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet.

Cannonball Chemistry. 8:30 Nasa’s Horror. Katia Winter, Ted Levine.

11:55 Raw MC 3pm Rugby League – NRL 9:40 The X-Files MV 1998 Sci-fi.

Unexplained Files PG 9:30 You 10:30 Fury 16VL 2014 Action 2:40 WWE Main Event MC (Highlights) Rabbitohs v Warriors.

David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson.

Have Been Warned M Urban War. Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf.

3:45 SmackDown! MC 3:30 The Footy Show 11:40 Shaun Of The Dead MVLC Legends. 10:30 Somali Pirate 12:45 Fugly! 16VC 2014 Drama.

5pm Rugby League – NRL 5:25 Ice Road Truckers PG 2004 Horror Comedy. Simon Pegg.

Takedown PG The Real Story.

John Leguizamo, Radha Mitchell.

(Highlights) Rabbitohs v Warriors.

6:15 Counting Cars PG 1:15 13 Going On 30 PGS 2004 11:30 Ice Cold Gold PG Midnight 2:20 Transformers – Age Of From nib Stadium, Perth.

6:40 Wild West Alaska M Run. 12:30 Great Southern Extinction MVL 2014 Action.

Comedy. Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo. 5:30 L Rugby League – NRL 7:30 The Musketeers MVLS The Land PG 1:30 Live Fire M Marines.

Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz.

2:50 Analyze This MVL 1999 Sharks v Roosters.

Musketeers investigate Emilie of 2:30 Railroad Alaska PG The 5pm Below The Beltway MC 2010 Comedy. Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal. 8pm Rugby League – NRL Duras, a woman claiming that visions Big Freeze. 3:30 Bering Sea Comedy. Tate Donavon, Noah Wyle. 4:35 Analyze That MVLS 2002 (Highlights) Round 13, Saturday. from God are instructing her to lead Gold PG 4:30 Moonshiners M 6:35 Ender’s Game MV 2013 Sci-fi. Comedy. Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal. 8:30 Rugby League – Super 5:30 Gunslingers M The Tombstone Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford.

6:10 The Island MVL 2005 her thousands of followers into war League (Highlights) Warrington Vendetta. 6:30 How The Universe 8:30 The Expendables 3 MVL Sci-fi Thriller. Ewan McGregor, with Spain.

Wolves v Catalans Dragons.

Works M 7:30 Death Row – The 2014 Action. Sylvester Stallone, Scarlett Johansson.

8:35 Criminal Intent MV 9pm L Motorcycling – Final 24 Hours PG 8:30 Nasa’s Jason Statham.

8:30 Evan Almighty PGL 2007 Superbike World Championship 9:35 Criminal Intent MV Unexplained Files PG 9:30 Dual 10:40 Oldboy 18V 2013 Drama.

Comedy. Steve Carell, Portugal – Round Seven. Including 10:30 Rogue 16VLS Survival M 10:30 Treehouse Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen.

Morgan Freeman. coverage of Race One, Supersport, 11:30 The Musketeers MVLS Masters PG 11:30 Codes And 10:10 Body Of Lies 16VL 2008 Race Two, Supersport 1000 and the MONDAY MONDAY Conspiracies M Action. Leonardo DiCaprio, European Junior Cup. 12:25 Freezer 16VL 2013 Thriller.

12:30 SmackDown! MC 1:45 Would Be Kings – Part 2 16VLS Russell Crowe.

MONDAY MONDAY 2:10 Rogue 16VLS 3:15 Biography – Joaquin 12:30 You Have Been Warned M MONDAY 3am Football – Fifa U20 World 3am Criminal Intent MV Phoenix PG 2009 Documentary.

1:30 A Crime To Remember M 12:15 The Island MVL 2005 Sci-fi Cup (Replay) Hungary v Nigeria.

3:50 Criminal Intent MV 4:05 Oldboy 18V 2013 Drama.

2:30 Auction Kings PG Thriller. 2:35 Evan Almighty PGL 5am L Hockey – FIH Men’s 4:40 Counting Cars PG 5:50 Ender’s Game MV 2013 Sci-fi. 2007 Comedy. 4:10 Body Of 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am World League Semi-final New Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford.

Man v Wild M 5am Dirty Jobs PG Lies 16VL 2008 Action.

Zealand v Netherlands.

5:05 The Musketeers MVLS 10am Korero Mai 3 2 1pm The Rugby Show Sacred Heart College v Kelston Boys’ High School.

2:30 Code 3 3:30 Rugby – World Cup 2011 3 Wales v France.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 6:30 Paepae Chris and Tupoutahi Winitana debate the latest issues with te reo speakers from around the country.

7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Rabbitohs.

9:30 M The World’s Fastest Indian AO 2006 Drama. Story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle, on which he set the land-speed world record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Anthony Hopkins.

Nigel Latta Blows Stuff Up 11:50 Te Kaea 3 2 8pm on TV One 12:20 Closedown

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Family Notices 42 Ashburton Guardian BIRTHS

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COPLAND – Duncan and Jo Copland are proud to announce the arrival of Gus James Watt Copland, on June 2 at 4.08pm. Healthy wee boy. 6lb 5oz. Thank you to everyone at Christchurch Women’s Hospital, Ashburton and Hannah Maternity Bowden.

WISEMAN – Rebecca (nee Driscoll) and Stuart are pleased to announce the arrival of Shae Anna Wiseman, a little sister for Tyrel, Kacey and Billie, on May 28 at Ashburton Maternity. Special thanks to Hannah Bowden.

DEATHS ALLOTT, Marjorie Grace – On June 4, 2015 at Tuarangi Home, Ashburton. Aged 90 years. Dearly loved wife of the late Cecil. Much loved mother and mother in law of Desmond, Lynette and the late Rod Lovett, Geoffrey and Sherryl. Much loved grandma of Timothy, Rachael, and Phillip; Vincent, Carly, Lorna, Bonnie, and Luke. And proud great grandma of her 10 great grandchildren. Messages to Allott family, P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A big thank you to the staff at Tuarangi for their wonderful care of mum. A service to celebrate Marjorie’s life will be held at our Chapel Cnr. East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on TUESDAY, June 9, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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BEATTY, Gwendolyn Helen (Helen) – On June 1, 2015 at Ashburton Hospital. Aged 81 years. A friend of many.

Messages to P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to celebrate Helen’s life will be held at Our Chapel, Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on WEDNESDAY, June 10, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

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WHITE, Harold Grant (Grant) – On June 3, 2015 at Ashburton. Aged 55. Dearly loved husband of Pip. Much loved and loving father of Alastair, and Christopher and their partners Jenna, and Rosie. Messages to White family, P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to the Ashburton Branch of the Cancer Society would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A service of celebration for Grant will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton, on MONDAY, June 8, commencing at 2.00pm followed by private cremation at Ashburton.

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WHITE, Harold Grant (Grant) – On June 3, 2015 at Ashburton. Loved youngest son of the late Charles and Margaret White.

Loved brother and brother in law of Jeff and Robyn White (Ashburton). Loved son in law of Alison and the late Ron Ayling and brother in law of Mike and Vicki Cottrell (Taihape) and Nicholas Ayling (USA). A much loved uncle of all his nieces and nephews.

WHITE, Harold Grant On June 3, 2015, at Ashburton. Much loved brother and brother in law of Jeff and Robyn White and special uncle of Anna, Jonathan and Thomas and their partners, Cole and Fenella.

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BOYLE, David Kerr – Lola, Janice, David, Moira and families, would like to thank everyone who gave their support by attending the service, sending cards, flowers, baking and the many visits in the loss of a loved husband, father, grandfather and great granddad. It has meant so much to us all.

Special thanks to Rev Brown for his service and words, Ross Tait for playing Dave’s favourite tunes, Dave would have been very proud of your playing ability. To Derek Cullimore, Jim Lloyd, and Barry Shaw for their lovely words at the service, to Paterson’s Funeral Services staff, a warm thank you for your help, and also to the Allenton Pharmacy staff.

Sincere thanks to St John Ambulance staff and Ward 1, Ashburton Hospital.

He, whom we have loved and lost, is not where he was before, he is now wherever we are.

PETRIE, Morvyn William Field – Annette, Telford, Gillian, Heather, Karen and families wish to express their heartfelt gratitude for the many messages of condolences and to all those who sent cards and flowers or attended Morvyn’s funeral service. We really appreciated your support at this sad time. Our thanks to the Management and Staff of the St Albans Retirement Village for their wonderful care. We will all miss a very special dad, grandpop and greatgrandpop. Please accept this as a personal thank you to all.

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Wind at 1000m: Light W developing.

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High cloud increasing. Gusty northwesterlies developing, gale possible inland.

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TUESDAY: Cloud increasing, late ASHBU BURT BU RTO ON Ra NELL, Leonora Alexandra – ka ia 8 rain. Gusty northwest.

On June 3, 2015 at her home, aged 91 years. Adored wife deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz MAX 18 OVERNIGHT MIN 7 and best friend of the late Bill Ash to ensure publication. bur to Nell. Dearly loved mother and Geraldine n Midnight Tonight mother in law of Graham and During office hours notices may also be sent to: Sally, Bruce and Lynette, Ra n gitata Alison and Peter Fougere, classifieds@theguardian.co.nz and Fiona Walker-Nell.

Any queries Treasured granny to Lucy please contact and Hamish, George and TIMARU 0800 Lorie, Victoria, Charles; 9 ASHBURTON James and Kate, Olivia and (0800-274-287).

Christian, Charlotte and Vince; Sam and Susanne, Robert and Lisa, Tom and FUNERAL Sacha, Jack and Adele; Peter, and wee Alexandra. FURNISHERS MASTER Great granny to Fred and Waimate Olive, Juliet; Henry, Ben and MONUMENTAL MASON Wind km/h Saturday, 6 June 2015 NZ Situation Sam, William; Hazel, Ella and less than 30 A weakening front moves north over the country E.B. CARTER LTD Kate. Special granny to fine mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers For all your memorial Judith, Jane and John tomorrow, then strong northwesterlies develop on fine showers clearing showers requirements Mason. Country mum to 30 to 59 Monday ahead of a trough on Tuesday. The trough New headstones and designs Robbie Buckley. Leonora was moves over the country on Wednesday.

Renovations, a wonderful, vibrant and fog isolated snow sleet thunder rain snow hail 60 plus Additional inscriptions, strong woman who will be thunder flurries Cleaning and Concrete work deeply missed. Messages C/Carried out by qualified the Nell family to PO Box overnight tradesmen.

35046 Christchurch 8640. A Canterbury Plains NZ Today Canterbury High Country max low celebration of her life will be 620 East Street Ashburton Auckland showers 15 9 TODAY TODAY FZL: Rising to 2000m held at St Andrew's Ph/Fax 308 5369 Fine apart from cloudy periods near the Presbyterian Church, or 0274 357 974 Hamilton showers 14 5 Fine with morning frosts. Light winds.

Havelock St, Ashburton at ebcarter@xtra.co.nz divide.

NZMMMA Member 1pm WEDNESDAY, June 10.

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13. Fault in a person that tried me grievously (7) 14. The regular pattern of a comedian’s act (7) 15. The classes that were turned out without injury (10) 19. Bean adaptable to a rich variety (7) 20. Sound measure may have belied Conservative entry (7) 22. Hanging on which it’s under consideration (5) 24. A lady’s semi-heroic (3) 25. Drug used up in medication (4)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Venus returns to a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart, where she’ll spend most of the next 3 months.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) Take an imaginative trip down memory lane, while enjoying what has the potential to be a special weekend for home and family matters.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) As Venus leaves your income sector she leaves you with some strong desires, expectations and a sense of entitlement.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) While there may be some financial tension in the air this weekend it’s pushing the right buttons at the right time.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) While your personal and relationship needs might go head to head over the weekend, it’s a chance to find balance between the two.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) While you’ll need to keep your professional hat on over the weekend there is also a need to spend time following your daydreams down memory lane.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) The message from both the money and professional gods is to wait, holding onto the expectations forged over recent weeks.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Time spent to shore up home matters, especially as you get a feel for the professional shift taking place, will benefit you in the long run.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) Venus’ return to an adventurous part of your chart comes just in time for the weekend, leaving you with no excuses to hide behind.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) The money gods will be fighting for your attention this weekend and there may be financial tension, but it’s the beneficial push you need.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) As you move into the most important relationship months of the year there’s a clear message this can’t be at the expense of your own needs.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) Key to personal and professional success is maintaining the right balance between work and play and the right work/life balance in general.

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