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By Susan Sandys

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As New Zealand reaches extraordinarily low case numbers of Covid-19, it remains business as usual at the Ashburton Community Based Assessment Centre.

As of yesterday, the CBAC based at Ashburton Hospital has conducted 475 assessments and tests since being opened for coronavirus testing in March, and testing continues on a daily basis.

Clinical lead Sarah Clarke said referrals for testing from GPs were not dropping off, and she was not expecting that to happen any time soon.

“It’s not surprising, because the case definition is so broad.

Anyone who has a cold gets an assessment and test now, that’s because we have to make certain we are not missing any pockets of Covid-19,” Dr Clarke said.

“I do wonder whether we might start to get a little bit busier, because things like the common cold are likely to circulate a little bit more as we move down the levels of lockdown,” she said.

She said the busiest days at the centre since it opened had often followed advice from the Prime Minister at the government’s dai-

ly press briefings, saying people should get a test if they had any symptoms.

“We welcome it because New Zealanders are doing the right thing,” Dr Clarke said.

As well as the CBAC, run by the Canterbury Primary Response Group, there had been one-day walk-in testing stations set up.

Two had been held at the Hampstead Rugby and All Sports Club, one at Rakaia and another at the Hakatere Marae.

These pop-up clinics were designed to be accessible for those who were not accessing their GP or Healthline for a referral, but people still had to have symptoms among those consistent with Covid-19 to get a test.

The walk-in clinics had not been particularly busy, something which was a good indication that Mid Cantabrians had been following lockdown rules and were staying relatively well, Dr Clarke said.

More were planned in future, with dates and times yet to be confirmed.

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Hairdressers face a juggling act

By Sue Newman

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When the green light is given for hairdressers to return to work, they’re one business that will be log-jammed with work from day one.

And while that will mean the cashflow tap will be turned on immediately, it does come with its own issues, says salon owner Anna Wilson.

The headache for all salon owners will be playing catch-up on what is likely to be about eight weeks of lost appointments, she said.

“It’s very, very tricky, how do we book in our whole client list, because everyone will be wanting appointments.”

Wilson has two salons and plans to keep her staff working in two groups with no interaction between the two. Solving the client appointment dilemma, however, is not simple, she said.

Her plan is to adopt the health model and run a triage system for clients. She’ll be phoning each client to assess the urgency of their need and she’s hoping there will be some who are happy to wait a week or two.

“It’ll be pretty hard for some people though, those who were due to come in the first week of lockdown,” she said.

Hairdressers are also likely to be faced with new challenges with clients who’ve opted for home colour jobs or who have either trimmed their hair themselves or had friends do the job, Wilson said.

“We’ve really thought about this but we

won’t have the time in the first couple of weeks to do big fix-up jobs. It’s going to be interesting because supermarket sales are so high on hair colour so it might be a test of our skills.”

Opening for longer hours could be one option, Wilson said, but she’s concerned that could be too tough on her team.

“If they’ve been off for seven or eight weeks, going from zero to very long hours on their feet isn’t fair and it won’t be easy, but we’ll do the best we can.”

Methven hairdresser Mary Cressey says she’ll be working extra hours to clear what she knows will be a flood of urgent requests for appointments.

Bookings already made for post Level 3 appointments will remain, but for other clients, it will be a case of first-in firstserved, she said.

She has a Level 2 booking calendar ready and when the all-clear to reopen is given, will match clients’ preferred day and time with this.

Like Wilson, she knows there will be a range of do-it-yourself hair cuts and colours that will need a tidy-up, but those clients will have to line up with the rest, Cressey said.

“I’ve got a friend who dyed her hair bright pink, but she’ll have to wait until the storm calms a bit before I can sort that out.”

She hasn’t been tempted to cut her own hair, but has cut her partner’s – twice.

“I did that because I have to look at him,” she said.

She anticipates the long stretch without colouring their hair might prompt a few people to opt to either go grey gracefully or to go for a more natural colour rather than risking another round of looking at regrowth.

Cressey has put out the call for clients to contact her through Facebook and has a notice in her salon window.

“Get in touch and we can work through an appointment. I’m putting it out there that it’s first-in first-served. I know people want to feel good but I’m hoping my clients will be understanding and will realise there might be a wait for an appointment”, she said.

Man arrested on weapons, drugs charges Members of the police armed offenders squad were in Ashburton yesterday as police carried out a search warrant to arrest a man on a number of firearms and drugs charges.

Ashburton sub-area supervisor Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins said the 43-year old man was taken into custody on Tuesday.

Jenkins said the armed offenders

squad had been brought in to help locate the man who was arrested without incident and has been charged with unlawful possession of firearms and possession of Class A drugs.

The man had come to the attention of police following a routine vehicle stop where a number of items of interest were located.

One man was also arrested at

the beginning of the month after he was found to be in breach of his bail conditions and was charged with breaching Alert Level 3 rules.

A subsequent search warrant also resulted in the 27-year-old male being charged with possession of cannabis and utensils for the consumption of cannabis, and was also charged with two further breaches of the Level 3 restrictions.

Jenkins said residents across the district have generally been abiding by rules around Alert Level 3, though they have responded to a handful of incidents relating to breaches, mainly involving mass gatherings.

With many people now back on the roads, Jenkins said police will be focusing on road policing as well due to a noticeable increase in

speed motorists were travelling at during Alert Level 4.

“There has been an increase of pedestrians and bicyclists since the advent of the lockdown,” he said.

“Now we have progressed to Level 3, I am concerned with the combination of increased speed, additional road users back in the flow of traffic and recreational activity on or near the roadsides.”

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New Zealand Agricultural Show canned NZME The New Zealand Agricultural Show will not go ahead in 2020, the first time the event has been cancelled since World War Two. The Canterbury A&P Show Association announced the decision yesterday, thanking its members for being “guardians of the show for 157 years”.

There was financial uncertainty to the event due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the association said in a press release.

“If we continued to prepare for the show and find out the month before we are unable to run, then the association would be bankrupted.

“It is with this in mind that the event management team, general committee and the board had to finalise a decision, sacrificing this year’s show to shore up its future.”

The association said its first objective as a charity was to protect its financial position “at all costs” to ensure the show could continue “to bring generations together well into the future”.

So far the association had reduced event management fees by over 75 per cent and “scaled back the operation to ensure we avoid bankruptcy”, but it had not been enough.

“Unfortunately, this does not insulate us from the significant loss we have already experienced due to the fact we will not have a revenue from a 2020 show to cover the work done between December 2019 and May 2020.”

The association was asking for financial support to re-launch in 2021 from “those who have a connection to the show”.

“We are today launching a Show Saviour campaign to our sponsors, trade exhibitors and the public.”

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Lockdown delays exhibition

By Susan Sandys

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Emerging artist Ben Lysaght was on the cusp of a career milestone, his first solo exhibition, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.

It shut the Ashburton Art Gallery and threw out the April 27 opening date for Once a Wilderness to a yet-to-be-determined date.

The 23-year-old, who grew up in Ashburton and is now based in Wellington, said while this had obviously been a disappointing development, he had not been too fazed.

“I knew Shirin (Khosraviani, curator) and team at the gallery would look after me,” Lysaght said.

And at least lockdown had given him the unexpected blessing of some extra time to touch up a few of the paintings and add a couple of extra works.

There will be about 15 works, oils on stretch canvas, ranging from large to smaller works.

One thing that Lysaght has had the benefit of during lockdown, is a trusty old tea trolley he bought off Trademe. On the eve of New Zealand moving to Alert Level 4, he had been able to wheel the rickety trolley, heavily laden with paint and brushes, out of his normal workspace at a communal studio in a Wellington art gallery. He remembers his friends helping him as they rumbled down the road.

They also had to shift out those few paintings he decided he would touch up, and these now have pride of place in his Wellington living room.

And he had commandeered a nice little corner to set up his easel, where he has been working during the day to make the most of

Ben Lysaght prepares for Once a Wilderness. natural light.

He said doing the Ashburton exhibition will be a dream come true after he had grown up being inspired by the gallery and its programmes. Lysaght attended Massey University in Wellington once leaving Ashburton College, achieving a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours.

He said it was “incredibly amazing” to have been asked to do the exhibition in the first

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place, considering he was at an emerging stage of his career.

Paintings in Once a Wilderness burst with colour as Lysaght explores dilutions of wild areas, such as greenhouses, winter gardens and pockets of bush.

He delves into their histories and contexts as Eurocentric institutions, “focusing on the limits and possibilities they hold to examine the wider world”.

Working on the Covid-19 frontline From P1 As well as being the new CBAC’s clinical lead, Clarke is a GP based at Three Rivers and a hospital specialist at Kaitaia Hospital.

She said it had been heartening to see the huge testing response to Covid-19 nationwide coming from the primary health sector.

“The ambulance at the bot-

tom of the cliff is empty because the fence at the top of the cliff is working,” she said.

Meanwhile, this week Ashburton health workers will be part of a national sentinel testing effort, altogether involving around 1500 Cantabrians.

Canterbury District Health Board chief executive officer David Meates said the board would be asking asymptomatic staff to

put their names forward to volunteer to be swabbed along with some frontline police and some staff from a range of aged residential care facilities.

“The purpose of this testing is to check whether there is any Covid-19 in the community, as there has been very little change in our case numbers over the past week,” Meates said.

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Nightingale said CDHB staff based in Ashburton, including Ashburton Hospital staff, would be involved, as would some resthome staff in the district.

Mid Canterbury has had just three cases of Covid-19 confirmed in the district, and all have recovered. New Zealand had its second day in a row yesterday of zero new cases recorded.

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Destocking library shelves

By Sue Newman

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If the shelves in the Ashburton Library look a little lighter when it reopens later this month, that’s because several thousand books have been removed, boxed up and will be looking for new owners.

With the Covid-19 Alert Level now at 3, library manager Jill Watson and her team have been back in business, albeit behind closed doors. And that customer contactless time has been perfect for ticking things off her todo list, she said.

“We’ve been wanting to weed out the collection ahead of our move to the new library and that’s much easier to do when there are no people around.”

Staff are going through each library shelf, removing books that are in poor condition, rarely borrowed or in some cases where there are multiple copies.

Currently the library has 77,690 books shelved.

Most of those making their way into the discard pile are from the non-fiction shelves.

Since the weed-out started, staff have removed an average of 1000 books a day, and that could see upwards of 6000 volumes in the discard pile. Those books won’t be dumped, however, as

In brief Eftpos issues Overuse and over-zealous cleaning of an eftpos machine have seen the closed signs go up at Rakaia’s Resource Recovery Park. Too much wiping between users destroyed the machine and that meant the park had to be closed because it was operating on the basis of card only, no cash. A payWave machine is likely to be installed by midweek to allow the park to reopen.

Yellow = recycling With kerbside wheelie bin collections back to their normal cycle, the rule of recyclables only in yellow bins is back in force.

During the first week of normal collection several loads of recycling were contaminated and had to be off-loaded at the Resource Recovery Park tip-face because rubbish had become mixed in with recyclable material.

Ashburton Library manager Jill Watson weeding out books due for retirement from the library’s 77,000 plus collection.

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“What really touches me and what we have to be mindful of is that while these books may not be borrowed very often, they could be someone’s favourite book.”

The sale would provide an opportunity for people to browse through the discards to find any they might like to add to their

home library, she said.

“By doing this now we’ll be ahead of the game when it’s time to move.”

The Covid-19 lockdown that has seen the library closed since March 23 has prompted a surge in online borrowing, with issues in April at 1122, double the number issued in April 2019.

“It’s great that people are able

to borrow online, but for us, we’re missing our people,” Watson said.

While no fines on overdue books will apply until June 30, book bins are in place for returns.

Staff clear these daily, wearing gloves and masks and all returns sit for three days before they are shelved to ensure they are Covid-19 free.

Snow falls on Mt Hutt Mt Hutt received 15 centimetres of snow, measured at the base of the ski area, overnight Monday.

It was part of a southerly change which also brought light rainfall to the district. It comes on the back of mild April temperatures and dry conditions. In its climate summary for the month, NIWA said yesterday the nationwide average temperature was 13.5° Celsius, which was 0.2° above the 1981 to 2010 April average.

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Busy start to week for firefighters

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

EA Networks Centre frontage.

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Ready for reopening

By Sue Newman

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When the Covid-19 Level 2 signal is given, Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre will be ready to open its doors for business.

But that business might come with a few changes and a raft of new procedures and protocols, says Ashburton District Council service delivery manager Neil McCann.

Staff are currently drafting documents covering how the centre

will operate under Level 2 and will amend these as required when final details are released by the government on Friday, he said.

Since the move to Alert Level 3, staff and contractors had been working in the centre on a range of maintenance projects that included replacing stadium lights, cleaning gym carpets and equipment and replacing tiles in the pool area.

“That’s work that would have required a staged shutdown of the cen-

tre over the next few months so we’ve at least been able to take advantage of this downtime,” McCann said.

Everything was geared towards being ready to open the doors as soon as the go-ahead at Level 2 was given, he said.

The reopening of the centre would not, however, be back to business as usual, as there would be limits on the numbers able to gather in each area and there would be new protocols around wiping down equipment.

Firefighters have been kept on their toes, starting the week with a vehicle fire, a vegetation fire and an alarm activation in a 24-hour period.

The first call-out was to a farm vehicle on fire in the Pendarves area on Monday morning at around 8.15am.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer Alan Burgess said it appeared that a container of petrol in the back tray of the all-terrain vehicle had either fallen over or been knocked over by a dog, spilling petrol and causing the fire.

“It was completely destroyed, once it caught it went up pretty quick and there was nothing the guy could do,” he said.

Later that day, shortly after midday, the Chertsey Voluntary Rural Fire Force were called to a vegetation fire in the Dorie area.

Chief Fire Officer Paul Stewart said around 50 straw bales that were positioned next to a smouldering rubbish pit caught fire after embers jumped out of the pit.

On Tuesday morning the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade were called to an alarm activation at Bunnings.

The business has had a number of alarm activations since the country went into lockdown, and Burgess said if any location begins to have frequent issues, they work through this with the building owners to determine the problem.

“If it becomes a bit of a regular thing we will get in contact and work through with them as to why it might be happening, whether it is an issue with the system or something like that,” he said.

“Most places are pretty good with getting things sorted, it can be as simple as dust getting kicked up and triggering the alarm or if they get big sweepers in kicking up dust or it could be an issue with the system.”

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■■ TALES FROM THE BACK SEAT

The automatic choke

Guardian motoring correspondent, Bernard Egan is well known around these parts. Over the next few weeks, he’s agreed to share with us some of his tales from yesteryear. Some will be his own telling while others will come directly, or indirectly from others. The whole truth of some, can be left for public opinion. Readers are invited to share tales with Bernard by emailing geegeeber@gmail.com

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any readers thought Grahame Kelly’s Standard 8 possum story fascinating.

It was!

So we asked Grahame if he had another story to share with us, he has and here it is.

Back in the early 70s there were a lot of HQ Holdens, Ford Falcons and PB and PC Vauxhalls in ownership around Ashburton.

All very good cars in their day.

I was keen on purchasing a new Holden, however with the prospect of building a house, I decided on a cheaper second-hand 1967 Vauxhall PC Cresta.

On one particular occasion, on a cool winter’s night, I was participating in a fundraising evening with one of my mates.

At the conclusion of the evening we exited the hall and were rather startled to hear a similar PC Cresta to mine revving so hard I expected to see the valves pop out through the bonnet.

I rushed forward and told the driver to turn the ignition key off.

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The driver, poor chap, was just as startled as we were and was slow to react.

I think the guy was more used to tractors and horse-drawn ploughs than driving a modern (at the time) car.

Anyway, I asked the driver to ‘pop’ the bonnet and I would see if I could resolve the revving problem with his car. Having owned the same model myself, I was familiar with most things under the bonnet.

Now in 1967 automatic chokes were just becoming common on the newly produced vehicles.

Some of the earlier automatic chokes were not that efficient.

They either stayed on too long or not long enough.

Many were such a problem that they were modified and dispensed with and a manual choke added, as I had done with

Grahame Kelly’s 1967 Vauxhall PC Cresta. my own car.

This guy’s car still had an automatic choke.

When I removed the air cleaner and looked down the throat of the carburettor with a torch the old guy fortunately had in his car, I saw what looked like a large nail jammed down the throttle body of the carby.

I asked the driver what it was there for.

He responded that he was having trouble with the automatic choke staying on too long so he put the nail between the butterfly (choke) valve and the throttle body wall to stop the valve closing off altogether.

Unfortunately, when he started the car that fine evening, the nail dropped to the bottom of the throttle body and jammed the accelerator butterfly valve

wide open, hence the higher, torturous revving of the engine.

All was good in the end with the retrieval of the nail, and after a wee chat about the lack of wisdom in putting a nail in the carby, the old gent, who was very grateful for the help, went on his merry way – back to his horse-drawn plough, I imagine.

Another story about the Cresta: that car got crashed into three times on three different corners of the vehicle and I didn’t witness either of them.

Once on Sparrows corner, a young chap came roaring off East Street into Moore Street and slid on the wet road and crashed into my parked Cresta.

The staff at Sparrows held on to him until I got back to the car.

Another time at a function, a chap with a bit too much on board ran into the front of the car, but left some of his paintwork on the Cresta, so I was able to sort him out.

I can’t recall, for the moment, when the other occasion was, but I think there must have been something about the car that seemed to attract boy racers / stock car drivers.

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Chance to create a dream home If your home has been found wanting during the Covid-19 lockdown, its shortfalls could become part space, and a new initiative aims to harness these insights to design the ultimate home.

The House NZ Built, has been created by Stonewood Homes, and its aim is to take the ideas of Kiwis to build the perfect family home, says Ashburton franchise co-owner Amy Hollamby.

“With four weeks spent solidly within the same four walls, we have become acquainted with our homes like never before. Inevitably everyone has decided on things they love and hate about their homes, what they would love to change, she said.

She’s keen to see people around the Ashburton District have input into creating the perfect Kiwi home by taking part in a quick nationwide survey.

“This is a great concept. We’ve all been locked in, and it’s probably the most time any of us have spent in our homes and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give us some information that we’ll use to design the ultimate home,” Hollamby said.

Following the research, awardwinning designer Peter Mannion from Synergy Designs will collate the findings to create the home plan.

Tips to help people focus on their design ideas are: ■■ Family large or small? Do you have children or extended family you need to account for regarding space and access?

■■ Are play areas vital? The size of the family will influence the amount of rooms you need and communal living spaces.

Peaceful or playful?

■■ Do you want a tranquil private existence within your home or are you looking for daily fun

and energy and a constant sense of community? This thinking will shape the level of open space in a home.

■■ Active or cosy? Do you like to exercise regularly and be outdoors or are you more the type of person who likes to spend your free time cozied up with a book? This will influence a home’s connection to the outdoors and space needed for gym equipment etc.

■■ Entertainers or restaurateurs?

Do you like to cook and have people over or do you prefer to eat out with friends? This will impact kitchen and living space choices and the size and budget allocated to each.

■■ Low or high maintenance?

Do you love gardening and want to be able to spend time tending to it, or is mowing the last thing on your ‘to-do’ list?

Warm or cool colours?

Final cannabis bill released

By Heather Mackenzie

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The complete and final version of the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill to be voted on at this year’s general election was released on May 1 by Justice Minister Andrew Little.

This final release follows the draft version of the bill being put in the public domain in December last year.

The draft bill and now the final version, released last week, are a part of the government’s commitment in providing the voting public with ample opportunity to make an informed choice come voting day.

The Government is committed to providing impartial, unbiased information on the referendum and its process, Little said.

The press release put out by Little listed the following updates and inclusions to the original bill, how the cannabis market would work, how regulation of consumption premises would work, approvals process

for cannabis products and which products would be prohibited, licensing requirements, how the bill proposes to reduce young people’s exposure to cannabis and infringement and penalties.

The government referendum website www.referendums.govt. nz has also been tweaked and now has key point plain English explainers for the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill and also the End of Life Choice Act 2019, also to be voted for at this year’s general election.

To cover those who do not have access to the internet, explanatory material on both referendums will also be included in the electoral role update and EasyVote card mailouts due to be sent out prior to this year’s election.

“It is important that the public feel they can meaningfully participate in the referendum. To do so, the public need to be able to access factual and impartial information,” Little said.

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together with the Ministry of Health are both keeping a close eye on the Covid-19 pandemic and how it might affect the September 19 election.

Contingency plans involve setting up mobile voting teams in the community, alternative ways to vote for people who can’t get to a polling station, ways to undertake recruitment and training of staff, how to deal with the supply of goods needed for the election.

The election date could be changed in a worst case scenario but can only be done by one of three ways. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern could choose to change it, but to no later than November 21, parliament could vote to extend the term of parliament, a 75 per cent majority would be needed or thirdly the Chief Electoral Officer has some emergency powers to adjourn voting, but only for a total of 10 days. www.vote.nz has more general election information

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Always start with your dream list and what you would really love in a home, as often a plan can be worked around to meet a budget and wish-list. It also helps a person drill down on what matters most for their home.

People who contribute to the research will gain exclusive ac-

cess to the design, Hollamby said.

“We want to reward people who share their thoughts with us and what better way than to give them access to the House NZ Built plan first. After all, they will have helped design it,” she said Research will be open from May 4 until May 22, 2020 with the home reveal and 3D virtual render launched before the end of June. www.thehousenzbuilt. co.nz

■■BLACKMOORE MURDER

Third person charged NZME A former debt collector has been arrested by police investigating the Angela Blackmoore murder cold case and believe he arranged her killing.

A 47-year-old from Wanaka is the third person to be charged over one of New Zealand’s longest cold murder cases.

He has been charged with murder and will appear at Queenstown District Court today.

Stuff reports it’s David Peter Hawken, a former debt collector known to Blackmoore who is alleged to have arranged her brutal death.

Detective Sergeant Todd Hamilton said in a statement yesterday: “We continue to support Angela’s family and loved ones through this process. As this remains before the courts, we are not in a position to make any further comment.”

Blackmoore, a 21-year-old mum who was 10 weeks’ pregnant, was stabbed 39 times in

her house on Vancouver Crescent in the Christchurch suburb of Wainoni on the blustery, warm Thursday evening of August 17, 1995.

Her 2-year-old son Dillon was sleeping in his bedroom at the time of her death.

Her partner, Laurie Anderson discovered her body when he returned home after work at 11.20pm that night.

But last October there was a major police breakthrough, with the arrest of a 45-year-old man and 47-year-old woman.

At the High Court in Christchurch in February, Jeremy Powell, 45, pleaded guilty to beating Blackmoore to death.

The summary of facts says Powell turned up to the victim’s house in Christchurch with a bat, and a large knife hidden in his trench coat.

Powell then admitted beating her over the head with the bat until she was dead.

Powell claims he was to be paid $10,000 for killing her.

He is yet to be sentenced.

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OUR VIEW

Matt Markham

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The impact of the ripple effect . . .

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e might be feeling buoyant at the prospect of another reduction in Alert Level next week, but as time progresses the ripple effect of Covid-19 is only going to become more and more evident.

We got a hint yesterday with the cancellation of the New Zealand Agricultural Show, with this year being the first time since World War Two that it won’t be on the calendar for one of New Zealand’s biggest social weeks.

That’s a hefty blow, but one which we might see a lot more of in the coming weeks and months as the financial and economic impacts of what we have been through as a country become more and more evident.

And while big events are the easy ones to target, it’s also the little mainstays of society that we could well miss out on too.

Events that families have been going to for generations won’t be there because of the far-reaching impacts of the pandemic and that’s really sad.

Locally, we should expect some form of change too.

One has to wonder that if the Christchurch Show has fallen on its sword for the year, what it must mean for the Ashburton A&P Show, with the same financial implications likely to play a role in their decision making too.

No-one wants to see these events cancelled, but the harsh reality is that the risks just far outweigh anything else and in order to ensure that while not there this year, they can return bigger and better in 2021 some tough calls need to be made.

After more than four weeks of a country at all but a complete standstill, plenty will be wondering what might sit ahead in wait and only really become evident as things start to work again.

Chances are the cancelling of the Christchurch Show is just the tip of the iceberg.

We can hope it’s not.

But it seems incredibly likely.

Thought of the Day: While it might seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

YOUR VIEW Procurement policy Can I comment on the recent debate over the Ashburton District Council Procurement Policy.

That debate was to give weighting of 5 per cent-10 per cent to a local business/supplier.

Personally, I would be happy with that weighting to be set at 5 per cent.

There was also debate on what is “local”.

I believe local is any business within the boundaries of the Rakaia and Rangitata Rivers, hills to the sea.

Businesses that contribute significant funding to ADC via rates and employ local people.

ADC have launched a campaign to support local business, which is a commendable initiative.

But if Council is going to “talk the talk” then it has to “walk the walk” Councillors had three options to consider with the Procurement Policy.

1 Do nothing.

2 Do some. Shop local where possible.

3 Do most. Council give preference to local business/suppliers within a margin of 5 per cent-10 per cent of best price offered.

With option 3 Council state “this is likely to result in either an increase in rates or a decrease in levels of service.

But no analysis has been carried out to determine the approximate value.

So, option 3 is dismissed on an assumption that costs may increase!!

Increase by how much?

And levels of service will decrease.

Really?

What hasn’t been factored in is the multiplying effect keeping it local would achieve.

For example, employing a local builder would also mean local electricians, plumbers, painters etc would also be employed.

We need to ensure Council’s Procurement Policy is tailored to favour businesses that pay rates to us.

Whether Council is calling for tenders for building, vehicles, furnishings, stationary, all printing, professional services etc, priority must be to support local business.

Other districts are.

Contracting an “out of town” business brings little benefit to our District.

And of course, that business

doesn’t even pay rates in our district.

At this time, it’s even more vital we all think local and support local business, before casting our eyes further afield.

I implore our Council to review this policy and weight it to support local enterprise to a higher level Tony Todd

Shop local A thought on the persuasion for locals to support their local businesses and shop in town.

It is something I have always been very keen to do because although there may be a product, say in Christchurch a little cheaper, you have to factor in the cost of travel, the hassle of parking and the difficulties of buying out of town if the product fails.

By and large most of the businesses in town give wonderful service, however there are one or two who could up their game with their attitude to customer service and honouring their consumer obligations to consumers.

For example: Do not ignore a customer; be honest with a cus-

tomer – us older shoppers are too polite to tell the salesperson but are well aware when we are being misled in most cases.

We’ve been around a long time you see and will certainly walk away if we find we’re not being treated with the respect we deserve even if that means paying a higher price – and that is business lost!

Any business should, in my opinion, see it as a privilege when a shopper walks into their shop – it is not the other way round.

They are coming to your shop because they want something – a product and an honest straight up deal.

If the salesperson or owner of the business gets it wrong it could be a regular customer lost – for good!

So, Ashburton people, I still say local is the best place to shop and encourage everyone to help with the survival of the businesses in Ashburton now and into the future.

In that way there will be benefits in terms of employment and money staying within the community, and that has to be a good outcome for all of us.

Ned (name withheld)

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A team with nothing to lose I

f you look back, just before C****, pre-season expectations of the New Zealand Warriors, for the first time in many years, had finally reached a point of reticence, possibly even resignation.

There was no star signing levitating hopes of a competitive showing.

No fresh perspective from a new coach who was going to turn the club’s fortunes around.

Or in the case of last season, no false omens of a football team on the right track after a rare playoff appearance the previous year.

The Warriors finished the NRL regular season in 13th place in 2019 and with little to report in terms of off-season recruits, there was little to muster for Warriors fans ahead of 2020.

Not to mention, the loss of Bunty Afoa earlier this year after the key forward did his ACL.

The Penrose-based club also lost front row forward Jackson Frei and outside back Taane Milne to the same dreaded injury, and adding to the misery the pair were unable to get a spot under the knife prior to lockdown.

The NRL managed to fit in two rounds prior to the season being adjourned, with the Warriors in 15th position after losses to the Raiders and an opening round shutout at Newcastle.

Then Covid happened.

As sporting organisations the world over adopted fairly conservative channels, the NRL has been a three-ringed circus.

A dazed Warriors club have been caught in the middle, seemingly a key cog in the competition’s ambitious May 28 restart.

Despite a torrent of developments which have threatened to derail the game’s plans, the Warriors somehow find themselves

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this week in New South Wales’ country music capital Tamworth preparing for a season restart.

The game’s administrators place a high value on this team from a broadcast perspective, probably even more so in this climate.

After numerous self-quarantining periods and the emotional toll of having to farewell family indefinitely at the weekend, the unique circumstances the club has been laboured with has earned them admiration and support from the rugby league community across the ditch.

Contrast this to the players who have breached lockdown restrictions, some of them offering up laughable excuses and in return receiving nothing more than a slap on the hand.

The comparison is quite striking.

What this all means is what was stacked up against the Warriors earlier this season is only exacerbated.

Make no mistake, this ain’t no even playing field and this team is going to be up against it on foreign pastures. While the Australian clubs have the luxury of being surrounded by family, the self-proclaimed family-centric Warriors will have no-one else to turn to but each other.

If the chat about a trans-Tasman bubble does eventually materialise down the track, this could bring welcome relief.

On paper, the Warriors do not

have the cattle, or a forward pack capable of bending the defensive line across 80 minutes.

However I would like to think that being unburdened by lofty expectations, a squad undoubtedly disadvantaged and set for a tough few months both on and off the paddock could galvanise them.

Or maybe coach Stephen Kearney could opt to loosen the dour structures the team has often been criticised for in the past, for a return to the more ad-lib second-phase football which marked Warriors teams of the past.

You would hardly begrudge such a move this year.

Captain Roger Tuivasa-Scheck has consistently gone above and beyond from the back in a losing cause.

Time will tell if a bit of adversity will breed some character to go along with him.

■■YACHTING

American Magic ready to challenge The first challenger out to take the America’s Cup away from Team New Zealand is bound for Auckland.

Sail-World is reporting that the New York Yacht Club entry, American Magic, has packed their boat on a ship and expects to arrive in Auckland in early June, despite the current restrictions due to Covid-19.

With the cancellation of last month’s World Series regatta in Cagliari and June’s regatta in Portsmouth, American Magic helmsman Dean Barker recently told NZME he was desperate to set up base in Auckland as soon as possible, but knows it could be some time before he can return home.

Construction on their base on Auckland’s Wynyard Point has not yet started, Sail-World reports.

However, American Magic skipper Terry Hutchinson wrote in sailing magazine Seahorse yesterday that they were shipping their AC75 Defiant to New Zealand, despite not knowing whether nonNew Zealand members of their team would be allowed to enter the country.

“By the time this is on your kitchen counter we will have executed on a pivotal decision for our programme.

“All our gear will have been loaded and will be on its way to New Zealand.

“It is a nervous time as we have no guarantee at this very moment when non-New Zealand citizens will be allowed into the country.

“We do know our future is in Auckland and we can only ‘hope’, a great value but not necessarily a great strategy, that by the time Defiant and the gear land in early June the New Zealand Gov-

American Magic is on its way to New Zealand. ernment has set up a smart, safe process to allow us to execute our planning.”

All members of the American Magic team would likely face a 14day quarantine upon arrival while non-New Zealand residents will need special dispensation to en-

ter the country, much like the New Zealand Warriors players and staff needed before arriving in Australia on Sunday.

According to Sail-World, fellow challengers INEOS Team UK said they were intending to arrive in Auckland in September, and Ital-

ian Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli in late October.

The cancellation of the first two World Series regattas means that the racing syndicates won’t have an accurate gauge on how they are tracking until they hit the waters of the Hauraki Gulf,

with the final World Series regatta set for Auckland from December 17-20.

The Prada Cup Challenger series is scheduled from January 15-February 22, with the 36th America’s Cup from March 6-15 next year.

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Committed to Super Rugby Super Rugby has moved to quell speculation about the demise of the competition saying it’s committed to a 14-team competition beyond next year.

Sanzaar chief executive Andy Marinos says speculation regarding the future of Super Rugby and the Four Nations has been misleading.

Marinos said the impact of the pandemic is likely to mean a domestic focus in each territory when the competition resumes, but long term Sanzaar has already sold a 14-team Super Rugby competition as well as a four team Rugby Championship to broadcasters.

The New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and South Africa rugby unions have also all committed to the joint venture through until 2030, he said.

“I can definitely confirm that none of the suggested models or structures that have been commented on recently, such as stand-alone trans-Tasman formats, have been agreed by any of the Sanzaar unions individually or collectively.

“All such reports are merely speculative and have no basis to them,” he said in a statement.

“This is not to say that we are not having realistic discussions on what may have to eventuate should Covid-19 restrictions continue beyond 2020.

“We are presently looking in detail at various competition formats but any agreed format will include teams from all four stakeholder national unions.

Due to uncertainty over what various government restrictions, if any, may look like next year including international travel, no date has been set yet as to when a decision will be made on 2021 and beyond,” he said.

“A major consideration is that we also have an obligation to discuss any contingencies with our broadcaster partners in the first instance after which we will make public comment.”

Upon resuming, Super Rugby would likely have “a strong domestic focus in each territory” initially, Sanzaar said, given travel and border restrictions.

Jack Goodhue in Super Rugby action for the Crusaders against the Highlanders last year.

Richie’s secret pre-test obsession revealed

Richie McCaw: Calling for more ice cream?

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Dan Carter has revealed fellow All Black great Richie McCaw’s pre-match ritual during his remarkable 148-test career.

Carter and Scotland journalist Lee McKenzie interviewed McCaw in a live chat on Facebook and Instagram this week in a new series which kicked off last week by talking to Springboks great Bryan Habana.

In the latest episode the long-time friends and team-mates talked about how McCaw made his mark as a young captain of the All Blacks, him being in awe of England’s Martin Johnson and a certain pre-match tradition.

“I’ve never seen a man eat so much ice cream before. I’m struggling to think of a test match you played where you didn’t have ice cream the night before a game,” Carter said about McCaw. “You’re spot on,” McCaw admitted.

“The best man at my wedding, when he got up, the first thing he said was ‘we’re going to start the speech with Richie’s first love’.

“And everyone thought ‘where’s he going here?’ … and then he said ‘ice cream’.

“I love my ice cream. I always found on a Friday night you’d earned it for the week. It got me ready to go.”

So which flavour was the obvious follow-up question.

“I quite enjoy mint-choc chip. But with an apple crumble the night before a game a bit of vanilla used to be pretty perfect,” McCaw added.

Carter said the All Blacks flanker and captain could get quite pent up if there was no ice cream available the night before a test.

“I did find it quite amusing when you’d absolutely tear off at the dietician or the hotel staff because there wasn’t ice cream,” Carter joked. “It would completely ruin your preparation and as every professional athlete knows – preparation is the key.

“And that was a big part of Richie’s preparation and you did not want to mess with that.”

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1979 125 1736 105.5 134 581 700 618 2218 2765 361 368 657 290 141 220 113 445 168 82 94.5 3604 451 446 416 90 126 73 681 150 223.5 453 1205 1195 701 478 194 29 248 440.5 152 583 685 135 660 348 119 233.5 1690 311

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Last sale

1994 125 1736 106 135 586 708 620 2218 2780 361 369 658 290.5 143 226 113 447 170 83 95 3650 451 447 418 90 127 74 688 150 223.5 455 1220 1200 705 480 197 29 248 440.5 152 588 695 135 665 351 119 234 1710 312

At close of trading on Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Daily Volume move ’000s

–3 –2 +26 – – +1 +4 +1 +18 –35 +5 –1 –2 +7.5 –4 – –1 – – +8 –0.5 +19 +1 +8 –6 – +1 +1 +13 –3 +1.5 +25 +15 –12 –1 – +2 –0.5 +3 –1.5 +1 +6 +12 +4 +11 – +1 +0.5 +22 +9

442.5 3.9m 91.89 351.1 149.2 2.1m 306.1 1.4m 117.0 614.7 867.0 328.7 224.5 925.5 112.4 1.1m 325.9 759.8 465.5 7.7m 1.6m 101.7 148.2 1.2m 241.7 286.9 459.5 1.0m 131.2 604.8 141.3 1.3m 83.81 180.0 5.62 231.8 57.73 541.5 624.7 1.8m 391.5 2.2m 68.53 463.4 52.95 148.5 119.4 133.9 47.06 1.3m

p Rises 77

q Falls 47

Top 10 NZX gainers Company

daily % rise

Asset Plus +10.81% Kathmandu Hldgs +10.67% AMP +6.43% Pushpay Holdings +5.81% Aust Resources +3.54% Tourism Holdings +3.05% Z Energy +2.97% Michael Hill Intl +2.94% Smartpay Holdings +2.67% Genesis Energy +2.65%

Top 10 NZX decliners Company

QEX Logistics TIL Logistics Gr Europe Equities Cannasouth Gentrak Gr AWF Madison Gr PaySauce Precinct Properties T&G Global Serko

daily % fall

–5.88% –4.48% –4.48% –4.00% –2.72% –2.63% –2.08% –1.96% –1.85% –1.72%

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

p Gold

London – $US/ounce

1,702.50 +16.25 +0.96%

Silver London – $US/ounce q

14.75

–0.1

–0.64%

Copper London – $US/tonne q

5,058.0

–3.0

–0.06%

NZ DoLLAR

Source: BNZ

Country

As at 4pm May 5, 2020

TT buy

TT sell

Australia 0.9586 0.9222 Canada 0.8693 0.8364 China 4.3801 4.1824 Euro 0.5666 0.5452 Fiji 1.4063 1.328 Great Britain 0.4961 0.4774 Japan 65.91 63.42 Samoa 1.7508 1.5851 South Africa 11.4363 10.9741 Thailand 20.01 19.24 United States 0.6183 0.595

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Cryptic crossword

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

ACROSS 1. Simply proves what horse float does at Horse of the Year (2,4,2,4) 8. Sort of mining poets can write about (8) 9. No end of a trademark for breakfast food (4) 11. About fifty in alms, maybe — it’s not much (5) 12. A very little company I’d form and keep silent about (7) 13. Fish from river dance needs no nitrogen (4) 15. Start to wake up in prison (4) 19. Compunction felt by some, err though they may (7) 20. A Highland dancer’s shout for illicit whisky (5) 22. Source of sugar that will administer cane, one is told (4) 23. Guest Ron takes out is a supplier of caviar (8) 24. Showing plenty of initiative in green strip development (12) DOWN 2. The thanks one gets in a letter from Greece (5) 3. Mystical, the way it will almost happen to a lieutenant (6) 4. Oil-plant will open as if by magic (6) 5. Hot car I got for a bean (7) 6. He supplies the drinks in March: ten, we ordered (4,8) 7. Think skilled enough for quite a lot (12) 10. A poem that starts off describing Elysium (3) 14. A remark from Conservative taking moment to unravel (7) 16. Attempt a score at Twickenham (3) 17. A rouser of game, at getting in the drink (6) 18. Amulets that do some damage in the Civil Service (6) 21. It may be Indian canoe of a sort (5)

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): If you don’t ask, the answer is almost always no. But there are those rare moments when providence seems to be reading your mind, the want of your heart. It is granted before it is verbalised. O glory day!

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Grit is the quality most associated with success in the current atmosphere. It takes a good deal of the stuff to persevere when things get weird, and twice as much to soldier into the unknown.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Power can be acquired in more than one way. For instance, you can gain leverage, shed dependencies or more likely a combination of both. Much depends on the opposition. How much might do you need?

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): The life you love comes to you as you design it. You don’t have to do everything today, as there will be plenty of times when life meets you in the middle, though initiation will fall to you.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’re not the same person with your family as you are with friends. You even slightly change yourself with each friend – a sign of developed social skills and an adaptive mind. Even so, you’ll aim for more uniformity.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Your ideals are so lofty that maybe there is no realistic hope of catching up to your ambitions. In many ways, you are better because of this – not happier, or more comfortable, but better.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You’re not doing what you do to make money. You’re doing it to shift lives, including your own, toward the sunshine. Of all the things exchanged today, money will be the least significant.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): No one gets through life being good at one thing and one thing only.

This is why you’re making it a point to gain skills, try new things and figure out what more you have to contribute.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It’s like you have a feelings factory inside you, and today’s production will depend on which machinery you start up. You’ll get whatever you yourself trigger. Go for the joy levers.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Your heart speaks through attractions, interests, generosity and deep feeling. Fear speaks through judgment, criticism, punishment and anxious feelings.

Stay in your heart’s lane.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): In every relationship, time together has a unique quality to it. Time apart also has a unique quality to it. How you think of the other person in those gaps is an essential part of the relationship.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’ve recovered before. Each time, the route back is different. It goes one step at a time. The direction doesn’t matter today. Any step will do. Movement counts.

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RENNIE, Allan James Royal NZ Navy NZ9100 – Died peacefully at Taieri Court Rest Home, Dunedin, on May 3, 2020, aged 96 years. Dearly loved and loving husband for 70 years of Dorothy, most loved and treasured father and father-inlaw of Lynne and Duncan Knowles (Hinds). Due to Covid-19 a private funeral service will be held. A memorial gathering will be held at a later date.

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 3:05 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 316.7 Nth Ashburton at 4:00 pm, yesterday

7.89

Sth Ashburton at 4:00 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

164.9

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Wind at 1000m: NW 55 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to gale 70 km/h in the morning.

Cloudy about the divide, fine with areas of morning cloud further east. Winds becoming light.

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FZL: Around 2400m

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 10.3 11.9 Max to 4pm 6.0 Minimum 5.8 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 6.6 16hr to 4pm May to date 6.6 Avg May to date 10 2020 to date 138.6 230 Avg year to date Wind km/h S 24 At 4pm Strongest gust SW 52 Time of gust 3:05pm

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Thursday

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6am Ben 10 – Ultimate Alien 3 0 6:50 Endangered Species 3 0 7:15 Trulli Tales 3 0 7:30 Atomic Puppet 3 0 7:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 0 8:05 The Thundermans 3 0 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Game Shakers 3 0 9:30 Portrait Artist Of The Year 3 0 10:30 The Chase Australia 3 0 11:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 3 0 Noon Inside Windsor Castle PGR 3 0 1pm American Pickers 2pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm A Place In The Sun – Winter Sun 3 5pm Frasier 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Pawn Stars 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7:30 Traffic Cops PG North Yorkshire is considered a soft touch by criminals using its back roads to go in and out under cover of darkness, and the Road Crime Team must stop them. 0 8:30 Weather Gone Viral PG 0 9:30 Extreme Love Stories M 0 10:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PG 11:30 Love Island UK 16LS Things are not going well for Luke T; Mike and Pricilla are getting on like a house on fire.

12:30 F Love Island UK Aftersun 16LS Studio show with interviews with dumped islanders, and gossip.

1:30 Closedown

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6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 Te Mana Kuratahi 7:10 Tamariki Haka 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 Pipi Ma 7:30 ZooMoo 7:40 Te Nutube 7:50 Darwin + Newts 3 8am Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:30 My Country Song 3 9am Pete And Pio 3 9:30 Opaki 3 10am F The First Voice 3 10:30 Marae 3 2 11am Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 Noon Funny Whare – Gamesnight PG 3 12:30 It’s In The Bag 1pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 1:30 Ako 3 2 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Nga Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua 3 3:30 Playlist 4pm Swagger 5pm Waiata Mai 5:10 Te Mana Kuratahi 3 5:40 Tamariki Haka 5:50 E Kori 3 5:55 Pipi Ma 6pm ZooMoo 6:10 Te Nutube 6:20 Darwin + Newts 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Orang-utan Jungle School 7am Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 7:30 Choccywoccydoodah 8am Big Cat Country 9am Best Cake Wins 9:30 Hugh’s Wild West 10:30 Mysteries At The Museum 11:30 American Pickers 12:30 George Clarke’s Old House New Home 1:30 Finest Interiors 2:30 Restoration Man 3:30 Equator From The Air 4:30 Gino’s Italian Escape 5pm Flour Power Jessica McGovern shows how easy it is to bake a simple, delicious treat for any event, from a bake sale to an elegant dinner party.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 Gem Hunt

7pm R&R With Eru And K’Lee 7:30 Kai Safari 3 8pm Ahikaroa M Friends and flatmates Smooch, Geo, and Hemi create a place for themselves as rangatahi in a new world chasing their dream.

8:30 Marae DIY 9:30 Haka At Home 10:30 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 3

7:30 The Curse Of Oak Island PGC Following a childhood dream, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina set out to find treasure on Oak Island, off the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada.

8:30 Running Wild With Bear Grylls 9:30 Alone PGC 10:30 Gem Hunt

11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:30 Closedown

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Gino’s Italian Escape 1am Flour Power 1:30 Best Cake Wins 2am Ozzy And Jack’s World Detour PGC 3am Equator From The Air 4am Alone PGC 5am Mysteries At The Museum

MOVIES ExtRA 6:17 Destination Wedding MLS 2018 Comedy.

Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder.

7:42 Wildlife MLSC 2018 Drama. Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan. 9:28 Spitfire PGL 2018 Documentary.

11:07 After MS 2019 Drama. Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin.

12:52 Camp Cold Brook MVLC 2018 Horror.

Chad Michael Murray, Danielle Harris. 2:22 Serious Laundry 16LC 2017 Comedy. Jason Zednick, Michele Richardson.

3:52 Josie 16VLS 2018 Drama. Dylan McDermott, Sophie Turner. 5:20 The Devil’s Daughter 18VLC 2014 Horror. Paulie Rojas, Nancy Wolfe. 6:40 Steve McQueen – The Man And Le Mans MLC 2015 Documentary.

8:30 Between Worlds 16VLSC 2018 Thriller. Haunted by memories of his deceased family, a truck driver meets a spiritually gifted woman who enlists him to find the soul of her comatose daughter.

Nicolas Cage, Franka Potente.

10:04 The Keeper MVL 2019 Drama. David Kross, Freya Mavor.

11:59 1 ML 2013 Documentary.

Michael Fassbender, Lewis Hamilton, Niki Lauda.

Thursday 1:49 Dry Blood 16VLC 2017 Horror.

3:14 Josie 16VLS 2018 Drama.

4:42 The Devil’s Daughter 18VLC 2014 Horror.

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UKtV 6:35 Insert Name Here M 7:05 The Graham Norton Show M 7:50 The Bill MVC 8:40 Inspector George Gently M 10:10 Grantchester MC 11:15 Doc Martin PG 12:05 Midsomer Murders MVC 1:50 The Bill MVC 2:40 Lewis MVC 4:20 The Graham Norton Show ML 5:15 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 6:20 Qi MLS 6:55 Insert Name Here M 7:30 Qi M With Jimmy Carr, Sean Lock, Rory McGrath, and Alan Davies.

8pm Would I Lie To You? PG Comedy panel show where contestants must bluff about their secrets. Joining the teams are Danny Dyer, Jon Richardson, Joe Lycett, and Moira Stuart.

8:35 The Coroner PG To explain the death of a recluse, Jane must first solve the disappearance of a playboy.

9:30 Holby City MC 10:35 Keeping Up Appearances PG 11:10 Midsomer Murders MVC Thursday 12:55 Qi MLS 1:25 Qi M 1:55 Would I Lie To You? PG 2:30 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 3:30 The Coroner PG 4:15 Holby City MC 5:15 Keeping Up Appearances PG 5:45 Grantchester M 6May20

DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Souping Up a Super Ford GT 2/2. 7:30 What On Earth? PG Fountain of Youth Found? 8:20 The Hunt PG In Search of Australia’s Big Cats.

9:10 Expedition Unknown PG Searching for America’s Lost Flight. 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Expedition Unknown PG Lost Spanish Fortune, Found! 11:40 Aussie Salvage Squad PG You Scratch My Back and I’ll Scratch Yours. 12:30 Web Of Lies M Partners in Crime.

1:20 Blood Relatives M A Killing in Rotation. 2:10 Top Gear 3pm Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG Racing a 1967 Dodge Dart 1/2. 5:40 Aussie Salvage Squad PG The Tide is King. 6:35 Alaskan Bush People PG Noah’s Animal Ark. 7:30 Alaskan Bush People PG Beyond the Bush.

8:30 Alaskan Bush People PG Where There’s Water There’s a Way. 9:25 Abalone Wars MC 10:15 Moonshiners MLC 11:05 What On Earth? PG 11:55 How It’s Made PG Thursday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Naked And Afraid M 1:35 Gold Rush PG 2:25 Moonshiners M 3:15 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 4:05 Expedition Unknown PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Gold Rush PG

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Sport

16 Ashburton Guardian

Barker heading our way

Super Rugby lives on

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P11 Ashburton runners could be taking part in the upcoming length-of-the-country run.

IN FOR THE LONG RUN

By Adam Burns

adam.b@theguardian.co.nz

Competitors will have the chance to run the length of the country for a new challenge despite lockdown restraints still in place.

Mid Canterbury organisers of “virtual” sporting challenges continue to front foot events in an attempt to keep competition alive and to help fill a void of sporting activity.

Run NZ Run comprises of a handful of

challenges where entrants could run or walk the length of the North Island (1062km), the South Island (920km) or the country (1982km) which could all be done “virtually”.

A 5km Mother’s Day challenge is also set to take place on Sunday which entrants could either run or walk.

Participants could also donate to the Heart Foundation of NZ and CMJ Events said that they had raised more than $1500

in the space of five days.

“With still being in Level 3 through to the 11th of May we are unsure of when we will get back to Level 1 and be able to have large events,” a CMJ Events spokesperson said.

“We wanted to introduce some new long term events with goals for all of New Zealand and couple these with some specific events and be able to do them anytime, anywhere.”

The Ashburton events company has

launched several virtual events during the Covid-19 period.

A week-long international virtual run challenger series also took place last month where Kiwis competed against fellow runners from Australia, South Africa and the UK. South Africa won the challenge with an average distance of 13.2km, followed by the UK (10.1km), New Zealand (9.1km) and Australia (1.4km).

You can register at: www.runnzrun.co.nz

The Warriors are a team with nothing to lose

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