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Many Ashburton schools are opting to bypass government attendance services and follow up unjustified school absences with faster and more personal methods.

Despite Ministry of Education support in the form of an Ashburton attendance advisor, a number of principals say they would rather deal with problematic students themselves.

Allenton School principal Graham Smith said the government system is slow and “clunky”.

“I’ve given up on them,” he said.

The system might work well in cities,

but it’s quite clunky in Mid Canterbury.”

The attendance service is run by the Ministry of Education, who contract providers around the country. Safer Ashburton are in charge of delivering the service in the Mid Canterbury district, and employ an attendance advisor to work with students who are persistently not attending.

However, the choice to work with the attendance service is optional, and Smith says too much paperwork and time is required.

“We have to fill in forms and send in letters and proof that we’ve tried to manage the absence.”

“It should be as simple as just sending

in the student’s [Ministry of Education] number and leaving them to access the information and get in touch.”

However, the Ministry of Education said that in order to look at all the factors contributing to a student’s unjustifiable absence, and prevent them “coming back through the system time and time again,” sufficient engagement is required from both the attendance service and other agencies like the schools.

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■ WAIMAKARIRI RIVER

Police confirm death a homicide A man’s body found in the Waimakariri River bed in Canterbury on Monday night has now been confirmed as a homicide.

A homicide investigation was under way yesterday after the man’s body was found just before 10pm near Harrs Road, North Canterbury.

Detective Inspector Greg Murton said that the evidence is clear that it was a homicide.

However, he wouldn’t comment on the nature of the injuries or if a weapon was involved.

Next of kin were advised yesterday, he said, while a post-mortem will be held today.

The area is under police guard and a forensic examination would take place over the next few days, Murton said.

The cordon at Harrs Road is in an isolated area surrounded by green fields and lifestyle blocks, located just off South Eyre Road, Swannanoa.

The man’s body lies a couple of hundred metres away on the banks of the Waimakariri River.

A stopbank is blocking any view of the scene.

Another cordon remains in place on Diversion Road, creating a near 2km stretch along the river that’s inaccessible to the public.

Residents on the road said they were only made aware of the discovery when they saw it in the news or were contacted by reporters.

From P1 Katrina Casey, Head of Sector Enablement and Support at the Ministry of Education, said it was also difficult to put a time frame on unjustified absence cases.

“It is a contractual requirement for attendance service providers to close 65 per cent of unjustified absence cases within 22 school days … but [in some] circumstances unjustified absence cases will be left open for longer so the provider can work to implement the right support.”

Smith had resorted to visiting families of students himself, which he said was not ideal, but largely effective.

Since a new attendance advisor was appointed at the beginning of this school term, he said he was not even aware who to contact.

Netherby principal Phil Wheeler said he thought the attendance system worked fine for large quantities of students, but preferred to adopt a more “personal approach” at his smaller, 133-student school.

“We use a social worker, phone calls and letters,” he said.

He had worked with the attendance advisor to resolve an issue with one student last year and said the experience had been quite positive, but thought that the attendance service was more suitable for “big data” on the whole.

Smith said his vision for a better government attendance service would involve more local funding, more “trust” in the information provided by schools, and stronger communication with parents about the importance of regular attendance.

A homicide investigation is under way after a man’s body was found in the Waimakariri River bed.

This time they had been watching the election debate and had not heard anything, she said.

“You just feel very sad for all the people who are touched by such a tragedy ... It’s just horrid to hear of these tragedies.”

She said the area was usually pretty safe although she would not walk along the river on her own because criminals were known to grow cannabis there.

One resident recalled the murder of Marie Davis in April 2008.

The 15-year-old’s body was found in a similar part of the Waimakariri River 11 days after she went missing.

The resident said police searched the riverbank and the area around their house then. In that instance she and her husband had heard a car racing up the road late at night.

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Aiming for best ski resort three-peat

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Mt Hutt Skifield is in the hunt to be named New Zealand’s Best Ski Resort for the third time running.

The popular tourist destination was named as a nominee for the annual award, which they have won for the previous two years, and voting is open for the public to cast their opinion on which ski resort they feel is the best in the land.

The Mt Hutt crew have put a lot of pride into the fact they have claimed the title over the past two years and Ski Area General Manager of operations, James Urquhart said the fact it was voted on by the customers, made it all that more important.

“It’s not something that’s voted on by someone who has barely been up here,” he said.

“It’s the people who come up here and use the facilities and get to experience the mountain that make the decision which makes it pretty awesome.

“And it’s a great thing for our staff, because they obviously make the experience for these people and it’s a little kudos for them and all the hard work that they do on a daily basis.”

Mt Hutt is up against some stiff opposition this year with nominations also received for; Cadrona, Coronet Peak, Mt Ruapehu, Ohau, Porters, Round Hill and the Remarkables.

“There are some quality skifields in the mix, so if we were lucky enough to win it for a third time in a row it would be another huge honour for us, for sure.”

Urquhart said the title wasn’t something they set out to achieve each year, but more welcomed if a nomination came their way.

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Mt Hutt has been nominated for the title of New Zealand’s best ski resort and will be looking to win it for the third year in a row.

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Concertmaster’s workshop ‘a real coup for area’

By Katie todd

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Young Ashburton musicians have scored a major opportunity to boost their string skills later this month with help from the concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Donald Armstrong is taking time from his busy musical schedule to travel to Ashburton on September 25 and 26.

He will take a workshop for 34 violin, viola and cello students from schools around the district on Monday, before they put on a public performance at the Sinclair Centre in the evening. On Tuesday he will also be holding individual lessons for senior students.

The workshop has been organised by string tutor Paula Green, who describes Armstrong’s visit as “a real coup for the area”.

“I have described to my students that having Donald Armstrong working with them is like Steve Hansen coming here to coach their school rugby team.”

Armstrong recently conducted

the orchestra at the Aroha String Quartet Chamber Music Festival in Wellington. Green was chatting with him after the performance when he offered to come to Ashburton and hold a workshop for her students.

“I wasn’t going to turn a chance like that down,” she said, “We are extremely fortunate to have received this opportunity.”

As well as being the current NZSO concertmaster, Armstrong has worked as musical director of the NZSO, and has appeared as both a soloist and a conductor for the NZSO and the NZ Chamber Orchestra.

He has also completed a Masters degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston, played as second violin of the Tivoli Sinfoniorkester in Denmark and co-concertmaster of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice in France.

Green hopes the workshop and concert will inspire students to keep up their practice, and allow parents to see what their children are achieving.

In brief Group wins quake claim A group of quake-hit Christchurch red-zoners have finally won their battle with the Government over payouts. The group took the Government all the way to the Supreme Court to challenge its offer of 50 per cent of their property’s rateable value. After the court found in the group’s favour, in 2015 the Government raised its offer to 100 per cent of the RV, but of the land value only, not the building’s value. Lawyers for the group filed appeals. The Government has now agreed to pay each of the 16 litigants 80 per cent of the pre-earthquake rateable value of uninsured property and a one-off payment “to account for the Court’s decision and extra uncertainties and costs”.

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When skilled string musician Donald Armstrong visits Ashburton this month to put on a workshop for students, it will be “like Steve Hansen coming to coach their school rugby team”.

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LED street lights suggested

By Katie todd

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The streets of Ashburton may soon have a new night-time look – lit by cool LED light rather than the current, yellow-tinged bulbs.

The Service Delivery Committee are putting forward a recommendation to Ashburton District Council that the current highpressure sodium street lights are swapped for a new, energy efficient LED alternative.

If they agree to undertake the

project within a year, NZTA are offering to subsidise 85 per cent of the installation costs.

Ashburton District Council roading manager Brian Fauth said the new lights would require less power and less maintenance.

“They’ll last two to three times longer than the current ones.”

He said the decision would be made at the next council meeting in October whether to go LED or stick with the current street lights.

NZTA is currently offering the

subsidy to any council that converts to LED street lights. Selwyn District Council took up the offer last week and will gradually go LED over the next few years.

If Ashburton District Council take up the opportunity, they will save about $1.24 million, bringing the total cost of the conversion down to around $218,730.

It is estimated 2551 street lights across the Ashburton District would need to be replaced.

LED street lights are thought to

emit less light pollution and less carbon emissions, as well as distributing more even light to make streets safer.

However, groups overseas have linked the blue light emitted by LED street lights to sleep disruption and more glare for drivers.

Fauth said if the project goes ahead, the council would work with NZTA to adopt the most suitable type of LED streetlight for Ashburton’s size and requirements.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister and “first Queen of Twitter” Helen Clark has sassed The National Party, forcing them to take down their own political post. National took a swipe at Labour over their lack of “projects” while promoting their own vision.

National posted an image of the Waterview tunnel with the caption: “Labour wants to stop the projects and live on the vision. #LetsNot. One Twitter user responded to National’s post, writing “Didn’t Helen Clark propose the Waterview tunnel?” Clark swiftly swung into action and left National blushing.

“Yes – the decision to build the Waterview tunnel rather than wreck the suburb with a motorway was made by my government.”

National’s tweet appears to have been removed.

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Meth in suitcase A first-time visitor to New Zealand could swap a hotel room for a jail cell after Customs officers found 2.3kg of methamphetamine hidden in a false bottom suitcase.

The 44-year-old foreign national arrived on a flight from Thailand on Saturday, and was arrested after x-rays led to the discovery of a white crystalline substance.

Customs Investigations manager Bruce Berry said the arrest was testament to the work carried out by Customs. Berry said methamphetamine is a “main choice” for drug syndicates because New Zealand demands a high price.

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■ ELECTION 2017

Abortion pledge sparks controversy Labour leader Jacinda Ardern’s commitment to decriminalise abortion has already sparked controversy.

In the Newshub leaders’ debate on Monday night she said she would remove abortion from the Crimes Act if she was prime minister.

“It shouldn’t be in the Crimes Act,” she said during the debate.

“People need to be able to make their own decision.”

Yesterday on the AM Show she said it would be a conscience vote, where MPs could vote based on their views rather than along party lines.

She expected some of those within her own caucus would also oppose the bill, but thought “there will be a majority of Parliament that think, actually in 2017, women shouldn’t face being criminals for accessing their own rights”.

“That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have regulation that sits around it but we just don’t think it should be in the Crimes Act.” Prime Minister Bill English, who is a devout Catholic, said he believed the country’s abortion laws were working fine and the law should not be changed.

Jacinda Ardern’s stance on abortion does not sit lightly with some.

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This meant many women and doctors had to lie to get the procedure performed.

The Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand welcomed Ardern’s announcement.

National president Terry Bellamak said New Zealanders had waited 40 years to hear a leader on the threshold of the Prime Minister’s office acknowledge our abortion bureaucracy is not fit for purpose.

“Our laws breach people’s human rights by forcing them to lie to get the health care they need,” she said.

“Ardern is right. Those who oppose abortion are free not to choose it.

“Those who need abortion should be able to access it freely, without having to get the approval of two certifying consultants.”

But Family First NZ spokeswoman Marina Young opposed the announcement and said the existing safeguards protected both women and children.

“Any changes would potentially pave the way for late term abortions, aborting children on

the basis of their gender, aborting those with disabilities eg.

Down syndrome, and possibly even partial-birth abortions,” she said.

“If Labour is really concerned about women, they should be calling for a law which protects informed consent, that requires honest information about abortion and abortion-related risks, and that provides women with independent pregnancy counselling so that women can make truly informed decisions from a place of certainty and knowledge.”

She said women who were getting abortions under the current guidelines were not committing an illegal act and were not considered criminals so there was no need for change.

This is not the first time a law reform on the issue has been proposed.

In 2010 Labour MP Steve Chadwick proposed a new law making abortion legal on request for women up to 24 weeks into their pregnancy but the Labour party stayed silent on the issue and the proposal did not proceed.

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Sentence quashed – meth crash mum could walk free

Emergency services at the scene of a head-on crash on Monday at Rotoiti.

■ ROTOITI CRASH

13-year-old driver was fleeing police The driver of a car involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle on State Highway 30 on Monday afternoon was a 13-yearold in a stolen car.

Two 16-year-olds were also in the car, which had been stolen from Tokoroa a couple of days earlier and was later seen in Kawerau.

Kawerau Senior Sergeant Al Fenwick said a member of the Kawerau community called police after becoming concerned about how the car was being driven.

“We learned at that time the car had been reported stolen,” Mr Fenwick said.

“Our officer caught up with the car on State Highway 30 shortly before Rotoiti and activated his lights.”

He said the driver of the car did not stop and attempted to overtake a logging truck on a blind corner.

“The pursuit was stopped but in the ensuing seconds, the driver collided head-on with another car.”

The driver of the second car, an Eastern Bay farmer, and his elderly mother, suffered moderate injuries and were taken by St John Ambulance to Rotorua Hospital.

The three teens in the stolen car received minor injuries.

“The people in the second car were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mr Fenwick said.

He thanked the Kawerau community for alerting police to the stolen car.

“We need help from the public to get people like this off the road.

They put all other road users in danger.”

Senior Sergeant Dennis Murphy of the Rotorua police said all three teenagers were from Rotorua.

The 16-year-olds were released into the care of family members while the 13-year-old was kept in custody to appear in the Rotorua Youth Court yesterday. - NZME

A young mother who had meth in her system when she crashed her car, killing her 2-year-old daughter, could walk free from jail.

Valencia Marie Skipper, 21, was sentenced to two and a half years in jail earlier this year, after being convicted of causing the death of her daughter Saphire Te Aroha Skipper-Hira.

But her lawyer Madeleine Laracy argued in the Court of Appeal last week that the charge was more serious than the situation warranted, which had resulted in a sentence that was too harsh.

In a just released decision from the Court of Appeal, the court has quashed Skipper’s sentence, although the conviction itself stands.

The judges said the case needed to go back to the District Court “as soon as possible”.

“We direct that a home detention appendix be prepared.

“The appellant should be brought before the District Court as soon as possible to decide bail in the interim.”

Skipper was a forbidden driv-

er when she lost control of a car she was driving on the Hawke’s Bay Expressway on January 13, 2016.

Saphire was unrestrained in a child seat at the rear of the car.

She was flung from the vehicle after it veered across the centre line into oncoming traffic and collided with the dirt bank of a ditch.

Witnesses described the vehicle suddenly “ricocheting” across the road with no explanation as to why this occurred.

Saphire received significant injuries and died at the scene.

Skipper’s 11-year-old sister was in the front passenger seat and received minor injuries.

Blood analysis results confirmed Skipper’s blood contained the class A controlled drug, methamphetamine. However, the concentration was unspecified in the summary of facts.

The crash occurred on State Highway 50A between Omahu Rd and Flaxmere Ave just before 5pm. The weather conditions were fine and traffic was moderate.

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Broadcaster’s car used in ram raid Newstalk ZB newsreader Niva Retimanu got a shock yesterday when she woke up to find her car had been stolen and used in a spectacular ram raid.

Retimanu was pottering around making breakfast in her pyjamas when a policewoman knocked on the door of her Mt Eden home at 9am.

“The police constable said where’s your car?

“I said it’s just out ... oh my god it’s been stolen ... I was just shocked I couldn’t believe it.

“Working in a newsroom, this is what we live and breathe, and we’re not immune to it.”

It was only then Retimanu found out her Nissan Tiida had been used to bust its way into the Liquorland shop on the corner of Dominion Rd and Prospect Tce for a brazen robbery.

A photo of the raid, captured by a passing Uber driver at 1.30am, shows massive destruction with shattered glass panes lying on the footpath and the store’s front doors and windows caved in.

The security grille proved little match for the vehicle, which its driver abandoned in the shop.

Retimanu said this was not the first time she’d had a car broken into.

“But this is the first time it’s been used in a crime. And that is a concern for me.

“Living in Auckland I’m aware that vehicles get stolen all the time. That’s just a fact of life. I think it is different though when it happens to you.

“My first thought was at least I’m alive, I’m safe and I’m OK. It wasn’t my life in danger. That was my first thought, I’m fine, it’s only a car and it can be replaced.”

Police had towed the small Nissan Tiida to their warehouse for forensic testing.

Meanwhile, Retimanu had to Uber to work.

A police spokeswoman said the raid happened about 1.25am. It was not known how much liquor was stolen.

A scene guard had been in place overnight and detectives were investigating the robbery yesterday.

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■ DON’T DRINK AND SELL CARS

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A man who had too much to drink and sold his car to get more alcohol woke the next day to find it gone and reported it stolen to police.

The man went to the Rotorua police station at the weekend to tell police his car was gone and someone must have stolen it while he was out.

The reality was, the man sold the vehicle for $800 to allow him to keep drinking, but given his intoxicated state, he couldn’t remember when he woke in the morning, Senior Sergeant Dennis Murphy of the Rotorua police said.

“Thankfully the man who bought the car checked the registration the next day

on the CarJam website as he was worried it might be stolen.” By then, the police had already received the report it had apparently been stolen and an alert came up on the Carjam website.

“The man came into the station with the car to let us know what had happened. We were able to get in touch with the original owner and told them to sort it out between them.”

Mr Murphy said police often told members of the public it was dangerous to drink and drive, but now they had another warning too.

“The lesson here is don’t drink and sell cars.”

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OUR VIEW

Elections – just another roadshow?

Matt Markham

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lections are a little like roadshows in that they sweep on in to your town and then sweep back out again, like dust on the wind.

They’re entertaining, until the point where they become repetitive and then they become boring.

Once you’ve seen one, you’ve usually seen a thousand.

Yet the 2017 version of the great dance is quite intriguing still – even this close to the day when we hit the polls.

Monday night’s debate on TV3 probably created more headaches than it gave answers.

It was a good, fiery debate but it lacked that “show me the money” moment we have become so desperate to see every time we see two leaders square off against each other. Thanks, John Key. They tossed and they turned around each other, Patrick Gower the unwitting pawn in their game of chess.

But who won?

Online commentators would tell you that Ardern was a clear victor. But are we seeing a case of Labour supporters and those from around the country who actually just don’t care, making their voices heard?

The polls would certainly suggest so.

More qualified voices seemed to lean the victory in the direction of English with some of his questions of Ardern around water taxes and immigration really hammering the nail into the coffin.

But one can’t help but feel he missed a beat with Ardern’s stand on having abortion removed from the Crimes Act. That could have been the big moment for the Prime Minister, but he let it fall to the wayside.

Ardern was a lot less nervous than she was at the previous debate and she rebutted many of English’s claims with the distinction of someone far more experienced than herself.

But without the defining moment, we are still left with uncertainty.

The polls are showing it’s going to be a close race and we might not really know what’s going to happen after September 23 until a lot closer to the day than we probably thought.

And who knows, Bill might still have that ace up the sleeve to pull things back into his perspective, or, Jacinda may be able to push things to match point with one more telling blow.

That’s the beauty of a travelling roadshow.

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Question of the Day: When you’re deciding on who to vote for in the election, what’s the most important factor in your decision?

Sabine What is best for the country.

Who’s got vision to lead us into the future that’s ever so rapidly changing.

Melissa How they can benefit me and my family. Followed by how are they going to change my area I live in.

Catherine How it benefits my family at the time with what they are campaigning for Matt How each party’s policies will impact on parts of my life.

Neville If National or Labour would win Nothing really going to change for me Pam Honesty fed up with election promises Ken Keeping the greens out Leanne Financial and economic stability.

Chris My family and my home Noah The aesthetic of the leader. Don’t give a sh*t about policy as long as the person being elected looks pretty

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What a politician means

By AllAn Duff

W

hen a politician says he represents the poor, he is not telling the truth.

He means his role is to extract as much money from government as he possibly can to keep the poor’s vote.

This type of politician has taken the easy route, by creating the image of a heroic Robin Hood figure. Far easier to create a public profile with thunderous speeches against government, not forgetting rich exploiters of the poor, than it is to face the other way: towards the people he claims to so care about.

If he truly cared he’d start with the poor first. Not in getting them subsidised state housing, higher welfare benefits, a swathe more entitlements.

But in persuading a change of outlook, their diet reassessed since it is killing them, teaching restraint in all areas, from food to social interactions.

If government are to be engaged, then ask for teachers of household budgeting. Harangue the wealthy Maori tribal trusts for money to pay qualified people to teach financial literacy.

Ah, but not our her o, he’s not having his daily morning ride into main street on his big black horse spoiled. Government – and rich fat cats – you are heartless racists. There. Done.

Another thousand vote ticks.

Trouble with generational free fish: Never learn to catch your own. (I don’t sound like someone considering changing my vote to Labour, do I?! Not a done deal yet.)

Heroes and rebels are in every country. The ones who live in the hills and fight guerrilla and terrorist-type warfare, make strident speeches in the poor settlements, hand out a few goodies and take thrice as much back by extorting businesses who of course employ the poor – but a lot less when they have to pay protection money.

Our hero politician only uses the poor as the vehicle for his own elevation, to build an edifice celebrating none but himself.

He wants to go down in history as the defender of the poor.

Not the enabler. He sees his image as a taiaha-wielding warrior, or a heart-on-her-sleeve, caring eco-warrioress.

In the meantime the poor get broker as they get more obese, let alone miserable.

This law of recipients’ growing contempt for the benefactor is never considered by our hero or heroine. The fact that the more the poor receive the more they demand is ignored. Effect? Our hero pushes the poor’s heads deeper into the dirt.

He’s actually a charlatan in using taxpayers’ money to further his personal political ends.

Now enough of Hamish and Rachel Hood and on to a perplexing newcomer to the political game, Gareth Morgan.

I’m not going to start without acknowledging Morgan’s astounding act of generosity in donating $52 million to his charity.

My socialist enemies said: It’s tax-motivated; he can more than afford it, look how much he made from his son’s sale of Trade Me. What’s his real motive? Who cares, just ignore him.

It wouldn’t surprise if he’s turned down a knighthood. In stark contrast to a certain undeserving, self-serving fellow in jail for whom honour conferment from a mere New Zealand Governor-General was not enough, took himself to Buckingham Palace for British royalty to lay the sword on him. And karma’s and hubris’ double-sword struck back.

Gareth Morgan’s Top political party has a couple of good ideas, not least a capital gains tax. A tax that exposes the greedy, selfinterested home-owning citizens of our so-called fair land, for not giving a stuff about anyone but themselves.

Prices cannot just keep going up. There has to be a CGT on every house sale of, say, 5 per cent (it will inevitably go up) and standard tax rates on any house sold within five years of purchase of 20 per cent.

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Your columnist is no taxcures-all advocate. The less the better. I am decidedly anti-socialist. But on property – especially Auckland – we’ve become Paris and London with considerably less to offer back by way of culture, economic infrastructure, brain power and sheer volume and diversity of choice and citizenry.

Now sounding like pushing my own political agenda.

One more crack: Auckland property owners have got obscenely greedy; no price is quite good enough.

Push for another 20 to 100 grand. No, 200 – make it 300 grand. Didn’t the couple round the corner get that for their house? Ours is much better.

Morgan is an interesting character. Bob Jones reckons he has a pathological need for attention.

That may be, but I think his heart is in the right place – except on water belonging to Maori. That’s a column in itself.

– NZME Alan Duff is a New Zealand Herald columnist.

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■ MYANMAR

‘State-run genocide’ A satellite map has unearthed the charred remains of entire communities as terrified residents claim they are the targets of a new-world genocide.

“Some people were beheaded, and many were cut.

“We were in the house hiding when [armed residents from a neighbouring village] were beheading people. When we saw that, we just ran out the back of the house,” said Sultan Ahmed, a 27-year-old man from the former Chut Pyin village in Myanmar.

Sultan is among a group of 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims that are often described as “the world’s most persecuted minority”.

Rohingya people have lived for centuries in the western state of Rakhine, in Myanmar, but for decades have been persecuted by the Myanmar government. They are not considered among the country’s 135 official ethnic groups.

The country has even denied them citizenship since 1982 and the state is one of the poorest in the country.

On August 27, it is alleged Myanmar state security forces and local armed-residents committed mass killings of Rohingya Muslim men, women and children.

The military unleashed what it called “clearance operations”.

Myanmar’s army chief justified the slaughter as “unfinished business”.

“The killing spree lasted for approximately five hours from 2pm to 7pm,” reported Fortify Rights.

More than 2600 villages were burned down throughout the state. It is becoming one of the “deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades”, according to Reuters.

The violence – and ensuing exodus – saw survivors bringing with them harrowing tales of rape and murder at the hands of the military and Buddhist mobs.

Kardashian a ho, says Sharon Sharon Osbourne thinks Kim Kardashian West is a ‘ho’. The 64-year-old TV star has slammed Kim and other women who flash their flesh in the name of feminism, insisting the reality star’s justification for posting semi-naked selfies on social media is nonsense. Sharon explained: “Kim says she’s doing everything in the name of feminism, but that’s not feminism! Those girls live off their bodies, half of LA has been through them and everything they do is about sex, not female progress. And listen: God bless them. But that’s not feminism, that’s being a ho. And there’s nothing wrong with being a ho, but always remember what you are.”

A Rohingya Muslim child places a kiss on his mother’s cheek as they rest after having crossed over from Myanmar to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf area to escape the carnage.

PHOTO AP “Some are gaunt and spent, already starving and carrying listless and dehydrated babies, with many miles to go,” read the New York Times on the new crisis facing the modern world.

It’s a result not helped by the silence of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of failing to support the Muslim minority that has long complained of persecution.

“The military came with 200 people to the village and started fires ... All the houses in my village are already destroyed.

“If we go back there and the army sees us, they will shoot,” Jalal Ahmed, 60, who arrived in Bangladesh last week with a group of about 3000 after walking for almost a week, told Reuters.

“My brother was killed - [My-

anmar Army soldiers] burned him with the group. We found (my other family members) in the fields,” Abdul Rahman, a 41-year-old survivor of the attacks on Chut Pyin village, told Fortify Rights.

In the Chut Pyin village, where some of the worst violence is believed to have occurred, Abdul said his brother was among a group of Rohingya men marched into a house by soldiers who then set it alight, burning to death all inside.

“They had marks on their bodies from bullets and some had cuts. My two nephews, their heads were off. One was six years old and the other was nine years old.

“My sister-in-law was shot with a gun.”

Reuters could not independently verify these accounts as

access for independent journalists to northern Rakhine has been restricted since security forces locked down the area in October.

As the violence rages, images posted on social media are providing a devastating snapshot.

One photograph claiming to have been taken in a Rohingya village shows a number of children lying dead in the mud.

Another shows a woman cradling the headless body of her young daughter.

“There are no more villages left, none at all,” Rashed Ahmed, a 46-year-old farmer from the Maungdaw Township in Myanmar, told the New York Times. He had already been walking for four days.

“There are no more people left, either,” he said. “It is all gone.”

- AP

Anderson shares her song When a relatively unknown Auckland band wrote a song about actress Gillian Anderson, the last thing they expected was that she’d ever hear it – let alone share it on Twitter. But shortly after Wax Chattels’ song Gillian premiered in August, singer/bassist Amanda Cheng tweeted the X Files actress on a whim, linking her to the song’s premiere and a short interview with the band on undertheradar. The next day, Cheng got the surprise of her life: Anderson had shared the song with her 586,000 followers.

■ RUSSIA

Tragedy as teen electrocuted in shower A teenage girl was electrocuted by a faulty holiday shower just hours before her boyfriend was expected to propose to her.

Viktoria Stronskaya (right) was on holiday with 23-year-old boyfriend Pavel Kniazkov in a southwest Russian village when she was tragically electrocuted.

The 18-year-old was returning from a romantic swim in the sea when she entered the bathroom for a shower, but she never returned.

Her boyfriend went to check on her where he found her lifeless on the floor in the shower.

It is believed a boiler malfunction caused a series of electric shocks to shoot out, hitting Stronskaya and causing her to die.

Kniazkov’s sister told media her brother was also electrocuted.

“He knocked, she did not reply and he believed she just did not hear it because of the water.

“Fifteen minutes later he entered the bathroom and saw her lying on the floor still grasping the shower nozzle in her hand.

“When he tried to take her out of the cubicle, he also was electrocuted.”

- AP

Taylor’s raunchy speech Taylor Swift, we didn’t know you had it in you. Newly-leaked audio has revealed the pop star – who recently declared her past good-girl image “dead” – delivered a very raunchy speech while on bridesmaid duties over the weekend. Swift took the microphone at her best friend Abigail Anderson’s wedding, and rather than stick to the gushing niceties bridesmaids usually reserve for the bride instead shared an X-rated story about the newly-married couple. In the short clip, she could be heard saying: “She’s running after him, there’s falling, there’s stumbling ... They make it to the bathroom and I can hear sounds that I can never unhear ... and then there’s silence.”

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■ AUCKLAND PROPERTY MARKET

How to solve housing crisis

Compiled by

NEW ZEALAND SHARE MARKET

Source: NZX and Standard & Poors

S&P/NZX 50 Index Gross constituents Company CODE

tion to enjoy standards of living in retirement similar to those in preretirement.

More than 2.7 million people are in KiwiSaver with savings of more than $30 billion.

“ANZ believes KiwiSaver should be compulsory,” Mulholland said.

“While more than 2.7 million people have joined KiwiSaver since its launch in 2007, there are 375,000 working age New Zealanders who are not members.”

Many of those who have joined KiwiSaver are not contributing to the scheme regularly.

Despite high membership, more than 1.1 million KiwiSaver members put in either nothing or less than $1043 dollars last year.

ANZ’s research found 60 per cent of those surveyed would like to see membership of the scheme made compulsory, although 33 per cent opposed the idea.

- NZME

New vehicle sales head for record New Zealand new vehicle sales rose 3 per cent in August, helping the industry notch up more than 100,000 registrations so far this year, the fastest ever pace and keeping it on track to hit a new record this year.

Some 13,063 new vehicles were registered in August, ahead of the 12,677 registered in the same month last year, according to the Motor Industry Association.

Passenger car and SUV registrations slipped 3.2 per cent to 8,607 while commercial vehicle registrations jumped 18 per cent to 4456, which the association

said reflected changing consumer preferences.

Motor vehicle registrations in the first eight months of this year are 11 per cent ahead of the same period last year at 103,923, which is double the growth rate expected by the industry.

That suggests vehicle sales may be headed for a fourth straight annual record this year as the economy is buoyed by low interest rates and record migration.

“Growth in the new vehicle market is above expectations for 2017,” said MIA chief executive David Crawford.

“We have strong net immigration, competitive new vehicle prices, low cost of finance and the NZ dollar is relatively strong. We expect to see these conditions remaining for a while.”

Crawford noted that new vehicle sales hadn’t been dented by the looming general election this month.

Japanese car maker Toyota remained the market leader in August, with a 19 per cent market share, followed by Ford on 10 per cent and Holden at 8 per cent, the MIA said.

- NZME

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KiwiSaver may not be reaching the people who most need help with saving for their retirement, claims a report by provider ANZ bank.

ANZ, the country’s largest KiwiSaver provider, has undertaken in-depth research on KiwiSaver and released a raft of recommendations as part of an assessment of the scheme which turned 10 years old on July 1.

The research found that while 80 per cent of those surveyed who earn more than $100,000 were members of the scheme, that was just 53 per cent for those who earned less than $50,000.

Craig Mulholland, ANZ managing director of wealth, said: “The research does raise questions about whether KiwiSaver is reaching the people who most need it.”

KiwiSaver was initially set up to encourage a long-term savings habit and asset accumulation by individuals who are not in a posi-

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The Auckland Mayoral Housing Taskforce report’s key recommendations are: ■ Developing at scale, which includes building through market dips; ■ Unlocking the availability of land with appropriate zoning and infrastructure; ■ Enabling efficiency and innovation in consenting and risk management.

Freeman was not a member of that taskforce but expressed confidence in last month’s summit.

“It was a different approach.

dition to the need for increased social housing in Auckland, those in the middle of the spectrum struggling to pay rent or purchase a home, also need accessible options,” Freeman said.

“We’re not going to get anywhere by using the same thinking that’s got us here. Innovation and a cultural shift towards its role in creating communities is an essential part of the solution,” she said.

Replicating good design on a larger scale, assisted financing options, addressing the costs of construction and speeding up the consent process were all identified as issues during the summit.

“We need to establish a new not-for-profit organisation that would be run in a disciplined and businesslike manner. While central and local government would be key stakeholders, the organisation would be neutral, driven by solutions rather than politics,” Freeman said.

Such an organisation would be governed by a group of influential people, she said.

- NZME

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Property Trust, recommends establishing an independent notfor-profit organisation to tackle the issues.

The summit was a start, not an end, she said yesterday.

“This summit shows there’s lots of people in the industry saying ‘this isn’t good enough’ and leadership isn’t being shown by Government or Auckland Council. Phil Goff released a report but what’s happening with it? He chose not to support my idea, he didn’t even meet us to discuss it,” Freeman said.

There were lots of initiatives discussed. There were people going away saying they were going to set up advocacy groups. It’s another step forward,” she said yesterday.

The summit was the first independent, not-for-profit gathering examining the crisis. Organising committee members came from Massey University, Russell McVeagh, Knight Frank and the NZ Housing Foundation.

The report, titled Connecting Minds, Collective Action, said developers, lawyers, planners, architects, construction company and material supplier representatives, community housing providers and government officials attended the summit.

One summit vision was to have all Aucklanders well housed by 2030 and to ensure the right for all residents of the city to live in an affordable home in their community. It recommended a housing accord where all political parties pulled together and agreed on core principles.

“We’re acutely aware that in ad-

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A target of 14,000 new Auckland houses built a year, banning foreign buyers from buying existing places and tackling the construction sector duopoly are ideas put forward to solve the city’s housing crisis.

Auckland Housing Summit organising committee chairwoman Leonie Freeman, said 130 people came up with solutions when the committee met last month. It has now issued its report.

In a recommendation that follows Australia’s foreign investment regime, the report mooted “investigating changes to foreign ownership rules so foreign investors can only buy new homes”.

In a section on housing delivery barriers, it cited “monopoly/ duopoly on supply chain of materials”, along with skilled labour, difficulties retaining skilled tradespeople, insufficient building scale and lack of private/public partnerships.

Freeman, former general manager of Housing New Zealand Corporation and a director of the $1.6 billion NZX-listed Goodman

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p Gold

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17.85

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+2.00%

p Copper London – $US/tonne

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A versatile addition to your meals Y

ou don’t have to be a vegetarian to enjoy kidney beans.

The dark red, meaty beans are a wonderful addition to a host of dishes.

They’re happily at home alongside meat in curries and stews and marry beautifully with vegetable stews.

And if you’re cutting back on meat, kidney beans are a great substitute. With a can or two in the cupboard you have the makings of a meal.

Kidney bean burgers 1 carrot, peeled and sliced 400g red kidney beans, drained 1/2 green capsicum, chopped 1/2 onion, peeled and chopped 450g jar salsa 1C dried breadcrumbs 3T wholemeal flour Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 pinch chilli powder 1T olive oil ■ Cook carrots until soft, drain.

■ Mash beans and carrot in a large bowl.

■ Mix in green pepper, onion, salsa, breadcrumbs and wholemeal flour ■ Season with salt, black pepper and chilli powder ■ Add more flour to create a firmer mixture, or more salsa if the mixture is too stiff.

■ Form mixture into eight patties.

■ Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat, and add olive oil ■ Fry the patties for about 8 minutes on each side, or until browned and firm.

2C boiling water 3t cumin seeds 1t coriander seeds 1/4 C olive oil 2 onions, coarsely chopped 4 cloves garlic, chopped 1T oregano leaves 3 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes or tomato pulp 1t sugar 1t salt Ground black pepper 1/4 C chopped coriander leaves ■ Toast cumin and coriander seeds in a dry pan over medium-high heat, shaking occasionally, until fragrant and starting to pop (about 1 minute).

■ Crush in a mortar and pestle with smoked paprika.

■ Heat oil in a large pan and cook onions and garlic over a low heat until softened ■ Add crushed seeds, oregano, fresh chilli, tomatoes, sugar, salt and pepper and bring to a boil.

■ Add beans and bring to a boil and simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally to prevent catching, until thick ■ To serve, adjust seasonings to taste then spoon into a deep serving dish and top with coriander/cilantro.

■ In a large saucepan, heat oil on medium ■ Sauté onion and capsicum for 2 to 3 minutes, until softened.

■ Add oregano and spices.

■ Sauté a further one minute.

■ Mix in rice and cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring.

■ Stir in tomatoes ■ Fill empty can with water and add liquid to rice ■ Season to taste. Bring to boil ■ Reduce heat to low and add kidney beans ■ Simmer, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until rice is tender ■ Fluff rice with a fork.

■ Top with coriander.

■ Serve with corn chips, sour cream and lime wedges.

■ Sliced chorizo can be added to this dish.

Magical meatloaf 500g lean beef mince 1C dry breadcrumbs 2 eggs 400g can kidney beans, drained and rinsed Pinch ground pepper 1t dried mixed herbs 1T Worcestershire sauce 2 small carrots, grated 1 stick celery, diced 1/2 medium onion, diced 2T steak sauce

■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Worcestershire sauce, celery, carrot, onion and mixed herbs Grease a loaf tin and press the mince mixture into the tin Mix together the steak sauce and 1/4 C water Pour this sauce mixture over the meat in the loaf tin Bake meatloaf for approximately 1 hour or until piping hot in the middle Baste the top of the meatloaf every 15 minutes

■ Heat oven to 180°C ■ Mix together the mince, breadcrumbs, eggs, kidney beans, pepper,

Rice and beans 1/4 C olive oil 1 red onion, finely sliced 1 green capsicum, seeded, thinly sliced 1t dried oregano 1t ground cumin 1t smoked paprika 1t ground coriander 1 1/2 C long-grain rice 400g can diced tomato 400g can kidney beans Chopped coriander, to serve Corn chips, to serve Sour cream, to serve

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Eels creating history

BY JAIME PITT-MACKAY JAIME.P@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Two rugby league teams now call Mid Canterbury home, so it is only fitting that two players from Mid Canterbury have been representing the Aoraki Eels this year, the first representative team from the region to play a game of competitive league in 110 years.

Johno Simon and Devaun Thompson, who play their club league for the Ashburton Barbarians, have been running out in the green and black of the Eels for the past three weeks.

“I went with them up to Blenheim and down to Invercargill and I was exhausted, so I don’t know what they must feel like,” Aoraki Rugby League deputy chairman Steve Mckeown said.

“It was quite physically draining.”

Mckeown said it was the first year a team from the region had competed in their own kit as a fully identifiable team.

“We played last year in a game against Canterbury as the Aoraki Select 13, but this is the first time in 110 years.”

Mckeown said it had been built up as a community ‘thing’ that is achieving a lot of firsts, and receiving heaps of support.

“There has been some pushback from the older generations but generally it has been fantastic,” he said.

“The beauty of what we are doing is that it is out of the union season.

Unwanted a year ago, Benji Marshall now looms as Brisbane’s saviour after skipper Darius Boyd ruled himself out of Friday night’s NRL qualifying final against Sydney Roosters.

In a remarkable turnaround, 32-year-old Kiwis great Marshall is expected to start as Broncos halfback in the finals blockbuster barely 12 months after contemplating retirement.

Wayne Bennett is tipped to turn to the rejuvenated Marshall to step up at No.7 after Boyd sparked a backline reshuffle when he succumbed to a hamstring injury.

Brisbane had held onto hope that Boyd would be given until the last minute to overcome the injury suffered in their last-round win over North Queensland.

However, Boyd abruptly ended speculation on Monday.

“I’m not playing.

“Hammies, you can’t rush them,” Boyd told Fox Sports.

Incumbent halfback Kodi Nikorima is expected to replace Boyd at fullback with veteran Marshall slotting into the halves with pivot Anthony Milford.

Penrith face calls to relieve embattled star Matt Moylan of the NRL club’s captaincy when he returns from leave to address personal issues. Cronulla captain Paul Gallen believes Moylan might have been made leader too young and lacked support as he struggled with the burden. “You need help around you, I didn’t see too much of that at Penrith with Matt Moylan,” Gallen said. “I could tell at press conferences he didn’t look real comfortable in front of the cameras on his own.”

- AAP

More pain for Warriors

The Aoraki Eels need a victory over the West Coast side to have a chance at the title.

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“We all have ties to union clubs and it has never been about taking on union, it has just been about enjoying both codes.”

“Now with there being two teams in Mid Canterbury hopefully the (Chertsey) Oilers might be able to unearth some new talent.”

Johno Simon, originally from Auckland, has been playing for the Ashburton Barbarians for six years, and has been playing for the Eels as well.

“It has been pretty full on but

with work slowing down at the moment I have been getting Friday, Saturday and Sunday off which makes it a bit easier I guess,” he said.

Simon said he started playing league in Auckland, but was forced to switch to union when he moved around New Zealand, before being able to start playing league again in Ashburton.

“It is more interesting I reckon,” he said.

“I have had a few people coming up to me at work and asking

about it and stuff which is pretty cool.

“If I can keep playing and hopefully get a few more Barbarians into the Eels, that would be great.”

The Eels were top of the South Island Rugby League Premiership heading into last Saturday, but a loss to Otago has put the side’s title hopes in doubt, with the side now needing the winless Tasman to beat Otago, while the Eels will need to win big against the West Coast.

Broncos turn to Benji for NRL finals

BY LAINE CLARK

Moylan lacked help

“It’s what we did in the Cowboys game (last round) in the second half and it worked really well,” Boyd said of Marshall in the halves.

“He’s played plenty of finals football before.

“He knows how to get the job done.”

Marshall may now be Brisbane’s main man but about a year ago the former Wests Tigers captain wasn’t so popular.

The ex-New Zealand skipper contemplated walking away from the game last year after being left without a club following 14 seasons in the top grade.

A phone call to Bennett for advice turned into a bargain basement one-year Broncos deal.

He cherished the lifeline, playing 10 games to date this

year but having an even bigger impact as halves mentor for Milford, Nikorima and Ben Hunt.

Ma r s h a l l’s new-found form earned him a fairytale return to his former club Wests Ti-

gers, recently signing a 2018 deal with the joint venture.

Marshall returned to the Broncos 17 last round after five weeks in Queensland Cup, coming off the bench in their win over the Cowboys.

Pint-sized playmaker Kodi Nikorima can expect an aerial bombardment if he replaces Boyd at fullback in Friday night’s NRL qualifying final against Sydney Roosters.

But Roosters great Anthony Minichiello is unsure whether Nikorima will play the full 80 minutes at No.1, predicting wily Broncos coach Wayne Bennett to throw a “late spanner in the works”.

Boyd has ruled himself out of the blockbuster in Sydney after succumbing to a hamstring injury sustained in their last round win over North Queensland.

Asked if Nikorima should be expecting an aerial raid at fullback, Minichiello told Fox Sports’ NRL Tonight: “Hopefully.”

- AAP

The 2017 season was bad enough for the Warriors – but get ready for just as much pain next year. That’s the growing chorus from league luminaries, with Kiwi great Tawera Nikau saying “it could take 12 to 18 months to start seeing some semblance (of improvement)”. The Warriors will open the 2018 season on a nine game losing streak, with optimism at an all-time low. Nikau’s comments come a day after his old Storm team-mate Brett Kimmorley accused the Warriors of not training hard enough.

- AAP

Lockyer lauds Smith Darren Lockyer surrenders his NRL games record to Cameron Smith in four days’ time but the Brisbane legend says he couldn’t be more proud of his former Queensland and Australian team-mate. In fact, Lockyer will be at AAMI Park on Saturday, when Melbourne play Parramatta in the qualifying final.

It’s also when Smith edges past Lockyer’s 355 games to sit on his own at 356. “You break a record, you deserve the accolades that come with it,” Lockyer said. - AAP

Cowboys set to upset A rare run of stability could be North Queensland’s best ally as they aim to score the biggest upset of the opening weekend of the NRL finals against Cronulla.

The Cowboys are poised to play with the same 17 for three weeks in a row for the first time this season, after they had an unchanged line-up for just the third time this year in round 26. Captain Gavin Cooper said the stability couldn’t have come at a better time as the battered and bruised Cowboys insist their adversities won’t be an excuse for an early departure in the finals. - AAP

Backhanded sympathy Manly’s Jake Trbojevic expects Penrith’s squad to have taken a hit as they prepare for Saturday’s elimination final after Matt Moylan was granted indefinite leave. Trbojevic says the loss and uncertainty around any club’s captain will hurt the squad. “It would be tough if we lost Chez (Daly Cherry-Evans).

He’s been such a big part of us this year and he has played some good footy and been a great leader ...

So it would be very hard for them,” Trbojevic said.

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Contract talks on hold Veteran prop Adam Blair says he’s put “lingering” contract talks on hold as he prepares to lead Brisbane into the NRL finals. His future at Red Hill is up in the air, with the Warriors, St George Illawarra and Newcastle linked to the New Zealand prop.

- AAP

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■ FOOTBALL

World Cup spot closer for England

Rafael Nadal, of Spain, serves to Alexandr Dolgopolov, of Ukraine, during the fourth round of the US Open tennis tournament in New York yesterday.

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■ TENNIS

Stars on collision course

By Darren Walton A teenage tyro and Juan Martin del Potro’s sledgehammer forehand stand between a blockbuster US Open semi-final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

The two tennis giants marched into the last eight with straightset victories to edge tantalisingly close to a long-awaited first-time showdown under New York’s bright lights.

Nadal crushed Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-2 6-4 6-1 in one hour and 41 minutes before Federer swept past Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-2 7-5 in an equally clinical fourth-round display to surge into a mind-boggling 51st grand slam quarter-final.

Nadal will square off with 19-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev, who tamed ninth- seeded Belgian David Goffin 7-5 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 to become the youngest man to reach the Open quarter-finals

since Andy Roddick in 2001.

Federer faces the biggest test yet after Del Potro – the only man to ever topple the great Swiss in a US Open final – sent fans into a frenzy on the Grandstand with a dramatic five-set triumph over sixth seed Dominic Thiem.

Del Potro overcame illness, two match points and a two-set deficit for the first time at a major to wear Thiem down 1-6 2-6 6-1 7-6 (7-1) 6-4 after three hours and 35 minutes.

The ailing 2009 champion seemed close to retirement early on as Thiem took command but somehow conjured the finest comeback of his career, from 5-2 down in the fourth set.

“What can I say after a battle like this.

“I was sick the last two days and I just tried to improve game after game,” Del Potro said.

“I fought like this because of you guys, so thank you very

much,” he said in reference to the raucous Argentine fans in attendance.

Even Federer said he heard the almighty roar from Arthur Ashe Stadium when Del Potro sealed his extraordinary win.

Del Potro famously ended Federer’s five-year reign in 2009, also ultimately denying Federer a non-calendar-year grand slam, before a chronic wrist injury almost ended his career.

Once again, in inflicting Thiem with his first loss from two sets up at a slam, Del Potro proved that it’s not just his deadly forehand but arguably the biggest heart in tennis that threatens to bring Federer unstuck once again.

“It’s great to see him back on the tour. He’s had a rough ride for a lot of years with his wrist.

“It’s wonderful for our sport really,” Federer said.

“To play him here again after our epic final in 2009 is great

for both of us. I think we’re both looking forward to it. At least I am.”

Winding the clock back a decade, 36-year-old Federer and 31year-old Nadal have won the year’s first three grand slam crowns and are heavy favourites to complete the sweep in New York.

Incredibly, though, their compelling 37-match rivalry has never reached Flushing Meadows.

Both living legends are again looking in ominous touch.

Top-ranked Nadal is into the last eight for the first time since 2013, when the Spaniard went on to defeat Novak Djokovic in the final to claim his second Open title.

Rublev is relishing the chance to play one of his idols in tennis’s biggest arena.

“He’s the real champion. I’m just going to enjoy it,” the Russian said. “It’s the quarter-finals and I have nothing to lose.” - AAP

Venus Williams into US Open quarter-finals Venus Williams struggles to explain her extraordinary longevity as she closes in on an eighth grand slam crown at 37.

Williams thrilled fans at Arthur Ashe Stadium with a dazzling comeback to advance to her 39th major quarter-final with a 6-3 3-6

6-1 fourth-round US Open win over Carla Suarez Navarro.

Sixteen years after winning her second title in New York, Williams was unstoppable in the third set as she booked a date with inspired Czech Petra Kvitova.

Kvitova eliminated favourite

Garbine Muguruza 7-6 (7-3) 6-3, but Williams says she’s only focused on herself.

“No one ever gives you a slam.

You’ve got to take it. So I know that and so I’m going to try and take it,” the American said.

In a stunning renaissance, Wil-

liams has already reached the Australian Open and Wimbledon title matches in 2017 and admits she’s even surprising herself.

“I don’t know. If I could do it, I’d put it in a box and maybe I’d sell it,” the veteran said of the secret to her longevity.

- AP

England had to come from behind to beat Slovakia 2-1 at Wembley yesterday, while Germany thrashed Norway 6-0 in a onesided World Cup 2018 qualifier, with both teams closing in on a place in Russia.

Slovakia took just three minutes to strike when Stanislav Lobotka hammered the ball past Joe Hart.

Gareth Southgate’s side equalised in the 38th minute when Marcus Rashford’s corner was slammed into the top corner from close range by Eric Dier.

Rashford scored the winner in the 59th minute when he fired home from outside the area to settle Wembley nerves and put England on 20 points, five ahead of second placed Slovakia.

“Marcus Rashford’s night? It wasn’t so good to begin with but it got better,” Dier told the BBC. “A fantastic show of character after making a mistake to score and then score the winner which got us closer to the World Cup where hopefully he will shine.”

Rashford said, of his winning strike: “It was an important goal, we started slowly as a team and me on a personal level too.”

Elsewhere in Group F, Scotland made light work of Malta to keep their hopes of reaching the playoffs alive.

Christophe Berra and Leigh Griffiths were on target, while Slovenia beat Lithuania 4-0 to join the Scots on 14 points.

Germany destroyed Norway by six goals to maintain their 100 per cent record in qualification.

Mesut Ozil sent the hosts ahead after 10 minutes, converting Jonas Hector’s cut- back, with Julian Draxler soon adding a second from Ozil’s ball.

In the 21st minute Germany struck again through Timo Werner after Thomas Muller played him in, with the forward heading home his second before half-time after another Muller assist.

Half-time substitute Leon Goretzka headed home Draxler’s cross to make it five in the 50th minute, with Mario Gomez netting the sixth.

The victory put Joachim Low’s side on the cusp of qualification with 24 points with two matches to play.

Northern Ireland’s 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic lifted them to 19 points.

West Bromwich Albion duo Jonny Evans and Chris Brunt struck first-half goals to guarantee the Northern Irish at least a play-off spot, while Azerbaijan hammered San Marino 5-1.

In Group E, leaders Poland moved to 19 points with a comfortable 3-0 win over Kazakhstan thanks to goals from Arkadiusz Milik, Kamil Glik and a Robert Lewandowski penalty.

Stevan Jovetic’s 75th minute strike earned Montenegro a 1-0 win over Romania.

The win kept them level with Denmark on 16 points.

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■ RUGBY

Success ‘a lousy teacher’

By GreGor pauL No one required a degree in anthropology to read All Blacks coach Steve Hansen’s mood on Monday.

It was obvious that he’d spent the morning delivering a few home truths to a young and inexperienced side whom he suspects spent the first half hour of their previous test believing their own hype.

His body language, tone, demeanour and mood conspired to suggest that the usual Monday morning post-match debrief had contained more stick than carrot.

While he was proud of the way the All Blacks saved the second Bledisloe test so late in the piece, he wasn’t so impressed by the hole his side had dug for themselves in the first half hour.

If they hadn’t been so loose, so inaccurate and so casual in the first half hour in Dunedin, they wouldn’t have needed the miracle escape.

Everyone else can bask in the glory of that magnificent test: celebrate the way the All Blacks found so much composure and clinical edge in the last three minutes to win an epic encounter 35-29, but Hansen and his management team can’t.

Their focus falls on the micro more than it does macro and poking around in the detail hasn’t made for a happy All Blacks coaching team.

They simply can’t ignore the fact that the All Blacks found themselves 17-0 down in as many minutes.

And they certainly can’t pretend that the All Blacks weren’t the architects of those first three Wallabies tries.

Australia played well, they showed courage, resilience, flair and defensive tenacity bordering on heroics to get within three minutes of an unexpected

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen is making sure there is no complacency in the camp ahead of their clash with Argentina. victory, but they were given a massive leg up in those first 20 minutes.

Damian McKenzie threw an intercept pass to Israel Folau for the first try; Kieran Read slipped off a straightforward tackle on Michael Hooper for the second and Aaron Smith stood back to let Will Genia run from the base of a disintegrating scrum rather than bury the Wallaby halfback

miles behind the gainline.

Three big mistakes led to 17 points for the Wallabies which could have been 21 had Bernard Foley not been unusually wild off the tee.

The conclusion that Hansen reached is that some of the individuals involved didn’t prepare as well for that test as they needed to.

Since he graduated to the top

job in 2012, Hansen has become renowned for his conviction that preparation is everything.

He famously coined the phrase “bone deep” as a measure of how deep preparation had to be, and it would be apparent without him having said so much directly, that he doesn’t feel enough of the team did that ahead of the Dunedin test.

He doesn’t want to risk the same mistake being made this week so it’s a good guess he let that fact be known to the players.

The nature of the late escape in Dunedin could convince a few younger sorts that they don’t need to ask questions or appropriately review their overall performance.

It could encourage a false sense of security and lull some players into thinking they ticked all the right boxes ahead of the second Bledisloe.

Hansen presumably provided a not so gentle reality check about what life at this level looks like and requires.

“It’s a big opportunity for us this week to really get our preparation right individually and grow ourselves to become better players, become better in our mini units and better as a team,” said Hansen.

“We probably haven’t nailed that so far this year so this is a great opportunity for us to play an opposition who are physically up for it.

“If we get Sunday to Friday right we will always give ourselves a good opportunity to play well.

“We know success is a lousy teacher so we have got to start learning better about our Sunday to Friday routines and habits so we can get better and stronger and keep advancing our performances and not getting complacent and not getting comfortable.”

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Force to play in rebel rugby competition Billionaire backer Andrew Forrest has vowed to launch a rebel rugby competition after the Western Force lost their Supreme Court appeal to stay in Super Rugby.

The Force’s future in Super Rugby appears over after NSW Supreme Court Justice David Hammerschlag yesterday dismissed an appeal by RugbyWA against an arbitrator’s decision which backed the ARU’s move to axe the Force.

Forrest said he had already briefed lawyers to seek leave to appeal to the NSW Court of Appeal and the High Court of Australia.

But the chances of winning that appeal are slim, with Forrest now turning the bulk of his attention towards launching a rebel competition taking in the IndoPacific region.

Forrest hasn’t revealed de-

tails yet, but said the competition would probably feature six teams, with the Force to be one of them.

“We’re not giving up, even remotely,” Forrest said yesterday.

“Out of great disappointment there comes great opportunity.”

Force great Matt Hodgson broke down in tears when he fronted the media yesterday.

He vowed to help Forrest launch the new competition.

But Force players may now leave the franchise in their droves in order to join a rival Super Rugby franchise.

Force coach Dave Wessels is also unsure whether he will remain. Wessels, who would be in high demand elsewhere, says he will talk with his family first before making a decision.

RugbyWA said it expected the ARU would now confirm ter-

Andrew Forrest mination of the Western Force’s participation in the Super Rugby competition.

“The ARU had formed the view in February this year that the Western Force were the only team that could legally be removed from the competition,” RugbyWA said.

“For the ARU to suggest there was an objective and transparent process, evaluating the merits of

both the Western Force and Melbourne Rebels, was misleading and disrespectful to both RugbyWA and the Victorian Rugby Union.

“This has caused significant damage to both the game and the Super Rugby competition and reflects poorly on the ARU’s own values of honesty and integrity.”

The ARU initially moved to axe the Force last month after winning an arbitration case against RugbyWA. RugbyWA argued that the ARU had no power to axe the Force because the governing body signed an “alliance” deal guaranteeing the franchise’s future until the end of the broadcast deal in 2020.

But the ARU successfully argued that the deal no longer stood because the TV rights have since been renegotiated to accommodate a reduced competition.- AAP

Entertainment to savour in Mitre 10 Cup

By Liam Napier Look no further than the provinces to understand why New Zealand rugby remains head of the pack.

What other third tier competition – effectively what the Mitre 10 Cup has become – sees finishers the quality of Nehe MilnerSkudder and Julian Savea oppose each other?

How good was it to see the likes of Tawera Kerr-Barlow have such immediate influence for his union?

And yet even without these headline acts, the level of consistent skill almost across the board has been captivating already this season.

Sure, some of the defending isn’t always of Super Rugby standard but when you witness frequent attacking breakouts and tries, there are no complaints from this end.

Take Waikato’s first against Tasman, sparked by Zac Guildford and Sevu Reece and finished after an audacious flick ball to prop Loni Uhila on the wing. Wow. Are you not entertained?

It is this brand of rugby, and the quest to use the ball at pace, as much as the talent on display that should be savoured. Just as the All Blacks use big men passing to big men in the midfield so, too, do our provinces.

How good is it to witness revivals of teams such as Northland, who with two wins have doubled their tally from last year, and North Harbour. They were both whipping boys for so long. Now, they demand respect.

What a difference a coach can make.

So often we credit players for success and bag coaches when results don’t come.

But it is no coincidence the early efforts of Chris Gibbes with Wellington and Derren Witcombe’s return to Northland have coincided with form transformations.

Of course, not everyone is loving life.

Auckland’s start is nothing short of embarrassing.

And they have no excuses.

Conceding the most points ever against Harbour confirmed the once powerhouse union is on a serious slide after finishing fifth last year.

Elsewhere we have seen upsets and countless changes of leads.

This year’s competition appears so even that a strong argument could be made to do away with the Premiership/Championship system.

Pick a definitive winner between Counties Manukau and Harbour, or Northland and Waikato, this week and you are a better tipster than I. Canterbury remains clear title favourites but Otago proved with the magic of the Ranfurly Shield, anything is possible.

Provincial rugby is in good health – possibly more so than ever since Super Rugby robbed it of regular All Blacks.

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In brief Purvis new skipper Storm Purvis has been handed the captaincy as New Zealand seek a fifth straight Fast5 world netball title. The Mystics defender will lead a 10-strong Fast5 Ferns squad for the tournament in Melbourne on October 28-29.

The line-up includes shooter Ameliaranne Ekenasio, who is making a return after the birth of her first child. Fast5 Ferns squad: Jamie Hume, Ameliaranne Ekenasio, Monica Falkner, Maia Wilson, Erikana Pederson, Whitney Souness, Kayla Cullen, Storm Purvis (captain), Zoe Walker, Temalisi Fakahokatau.

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McGregor apologises

Ashburton College’s Kambell Stills looks to get the ball down the court in his side’s 72-70 loss to St Andrew’s College.

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■ BASKETBALL

Super comeback falls short

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

The Ashburton College Junior Boys’ basketball side came within moments of completing a dream comeback in their second crossover match of the Junior Zone Four Premiership against St Andrew’s College, losing 70-72.

AshColl led by one point at the end of the first quarter, but saw STAC start to run out a lead in the first part of the second quarter.

The home side were able to peg them back halfway through, but they still trailed 26-33 at halftime.

In the third quarter, the wheels fell off for AshColl, with regular shooting fouls gifting STAC visits

RESULTS

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McGregor then manages to shake off his downbeat mood in order to share a whiskey with his training crew and support staff.

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to the line, while the points just did not seem to fall for AshColl.

The fourth quarter started brighter for the home side, but STAC’s clinical finishing kept the lead comfortable, while it had been out at 17 points at times.

With around six minutes left on the clock, AshColl were able to pick up a vital stop in the STAC end of the court, and made it pay, using that momentum to force a 10-second violation.

STAC seemed to panic at the rampaging bull that was AshColl, with their lead being hacked and slashed away at until it was only two points.

Eventually time ran out for

AshColl, who could have made it a three-point game from the line after a technical foul was called on the exasperated STAC coach.

AshColl were unable to convert, and a late two-pointer was not enough.

In their final match of the competition, the AshColl boys faced off against Christchurch Boys’ High School for 11th or 12th. The first two quarters would have given AshColl supporters a sense of deja vu, with AshColl falling behind early, with Boys able to extend to a lead well in to the teens.

AshColl did not make the same mistake twice of leaving the comeback late however, surging

back in the third quarter to take a three point lead at the buzzer. Despite a late scare in the final minutes of the quarter, AshColl were able to see out the victory 62-57.

The Mount Hutt College Junior Boys side picked up a win in their second crossover match, downing Riccarton High School 83-76.

This set them up to take on Christ’s College in the playoff for 17th and 18th. The side from Christchurch proved too strong however, winning 83-56, confirming 18th place for the Hutt.

A story on the finals and the Ashburton College Junior Girls’ side will be in Thursday’s Guardian.

of Ashburton: Pam Feutz, No 4 Somerset Grocer 2nd shot: Jan McArthur, No 18 2nd Shot to Green: Kathryn Green Twos: Kath Read – No. 4

Tubb 93.1, Joe McAdam 99.7.

Pliskova (CZE) bt Jennifer Brady (USA) 6-1 6-0.

Men’s Doubles Rd 3 11-Feliciano Lopez/ Marc Lopez (ESP) bt Jeremy Chardy/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) 6-4 7-6(5). Julien Benneteau/Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Karen Khachanov/Andrey Rublev (RUS) 4-6 7-6(3) 6-2. 4-Jamie Murray (GBR)/Bruno Soares (BRA) bt Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) 6-3 6-4. 5-Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (USA) bt 9-Oliver Marach (AUT)/Mate Pavic (CRO) 4-6 6-3 6-4. 1-Henri Kontinen (FIN)/John Peers (AUS) bt Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 6-3 6-4. Robin Haase/Matwe Middelkoop (NED) bt Steve Darcis (BEL)/Dudi Sela (ISR) 7-6(2) 6-3.

Women’s Doubles Rd 3 5-Timea Babos (HUN)/Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) bt 12-Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE)/Monica Niculescu (ROU) 6-2 6-7(1) 7-6(5). 14-Andreja Klepac (SLO)/Maria Jose Martinez (ESP) bt 1-Ekaterina Makarova/Elena Vesnina (RUS) 6-3 6-4. 7-Lucie Hradecka/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) bt 11-Kiki Bertens (NED)/ Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-1 6-3.

Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals 3-Chan HaoChing (TPE)/Michael Venus (NZL) bt 7-Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) 4-6 6-3 10-8.

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Ashburton County Veterans Golf Association

Ashburton District Rifle Club

Hidden Partners Stableford Competition.

Rakaia Golf Club 1st with a combined score of 72 Stableford Points were: Ray Bennett and Tony Shepard, 2nd = with 70 were: Murray Beach and Dave Tilson and Peter Kiddey and Trevor Watson, 4th = with 69 were Mike McGuire and Rod Holling and Graeme McEvoy and John McArthur

September 3 At 600 yards.

TR, John Miller 48.4, 49.4, 97.8, John Fleming 48.3, 48.3, 96.6, Brian Hawksby 40.0, 45.1, 85.1, John Snowden 50.7, Megan Snowden 44.2. FO, Mike Chui 56.3, 55.3, 111.6, and FTR, Mark Alexander 56.2, 58.5, 114.7, Murray Cook 57.3, 55.3, 112. 3, Brian Graystone 48.1, 52.1, 100.2.

Ashburton Golf Club

Smallbore

September 5 Women’s Section Club Championship Qualifying Finals day – Sunday September 17 Draw – to be published separately Non championship round – putting Daphne Hinton – 32 on countback from Jeanette Montgomery Nearest the Pins: No 4 Gabites: Pauline Bell, No 8 House of Travel: Sue Hastie, No 12 Lynn’s small Salon: Not struck, No 14 Todds

September 4

Mt Somers Rifle Club Lachlan Rooney 74.1, 78.0, Archie Rooney 91.1, 83.0, Jess Heaven 90.1, 89.3, Naomi Douglas 85.0, 83.1, Jack Keane 68.0, 77.1, Pete Keane 70.0, Julian Evans 89.1, Brent Frame 98.4, 94.2, Josh Jones 80.1, Jeremy Jones 88.1, Sid Stewart 100.4, David Millichamp 95.4, 96.2, Brent Frame 98.4, Andy Oram 96.4, Mark Smith 88.1, Wayne

Mayfield Rifle Club For Durness Trophy, grading handicap trophy.

Won by Phillippa Fleming 99.7 plus 1.8, 101.5, Fernando Torres 95.3, 5.7, 100.10, 2nd, Ben Nordqvist 92.3, 8.0, 100.3, 3rd.

Other scores, Robert Spencer Jnr 89.0, 83.0, Nicholas McDowell 79.0, 64.0, Daniel Gould 85.0, 92.1, Andrew Donaldson 92.2, Carl Nordqvist 95.2, John Fleming 97.4, Martin Fleming 96.5.

■ Tennis US Open Collated results from US Open yesterday (prefix denotes seeding).

Men Rd 4 3-Roger Federer (SUI) bt 33-Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-4 6-2 7-5.

24-Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) bt 6-Dominic Thiem (AUT) 1-6 2-6 6-1 7-6(1) 6-4. Andrey Rublev (RUS) bt 9-David Goffin (BEL) 7-5 7-6(5) 6-3. 1-Rafael Nadal (ESP) bt Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) 6-2 6-4 6-1.

Women Rd 4 15-Madison Keys (USA) bt 4-Elina Svitolina (UKR) 7-6(2) 1-6 6-4. QKaia Kanepi (EST) bt Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 6-4 6-4. 20-CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE) 6-4 7-6(2). 1-Karolina

Australian trio Jason Day, Adam Scott and Marc Leishman are among the automatic qualifiers for the International Team to contest the Presidents Cup. Japan’s world No.3 Hideki Matsuyama and Day, ranked No.9, are the team’s only top 10 players. The team also includes South African trio Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Branden Grace, Venezuelan Jhonattan Vegas, Si Woo Kim of South Korea and Canadian Adam Hadwin.

- AAP

Lee’s season still alive Danny Lee has at least one more golf tournament to play on the PGA Tour. It was thought the New Zealand number one’s season was over after he missed the cut at the second playoff event, the Dell Technologies Championship in Boston, and fell outside the top 70 on the overall tour standings.

But he’s risen to 69th, with other players losing ground, to advance to the penultimate playoff event in Illinois in two weeks. American golfer Justin Thomas added another big title to a season filled with big moments by outlasting Jordan Spieth and Marc Leishman on the back nine to win the tournament.

- NZME

Caddy fit to play Cats Jack Graham or Oleg Markov are likely to make way for Josh Caddy, who has declared he is fit for Richmond’s AFL qualifying final.

Caddy is a certain recall for Friday night’s huge MCG blockbuster against his old club Geelong.

He has been out of action since a hamstring injury in round 21, also against the Cats at Simonds Stadium. “I’m right to go – it’s our day off today and we’ll have our main session tomorrow but physically I’m fine,” Caddy said yesterday. “So we just have to hear the news off the coach but I’m right to go.”

- AAP

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In brief

■ COUNTIES

Surf’s up for Sydney winner A change of environment is having the desired effect on the wellrelated Bullrush.

The Waikato Stud-bred and raced half-brother by O’Reilly to the Gr.2 Cal Isuzu Stakes winner Sports Illustrated has returned home from Sydney to continue his career with Moira and Kieran Murdoch.

Bullrush was unbeaten in his first five starts from the Rosehill stable of John, Michael and Wayne Hawkes.

The six-year-old placed once in five subsequent outings and hasn’t raced since he finished fifth in the Listed Abell Stakes at Moonee Valley.

“He’s been here since May and we’re very pleased with him, he’s a magnificent-looking horse,” Moira Murdoch said.

“It’s something different for him here at the beach, it’s helping his mental attitude.

“He’s well and we’ve been waiting for the weather to dry up.

“We’re hoping to give him a trial at Cambridge on Thursday.”

The stable is also keen on the prospects at Pukekohe today of Air Centre in the NRM 1200.

The four-year-old hasn’t raced since her smart debut victory at Avondale in July.

M2

Top filly building up Melody Belle is back in work with trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards ahead of another Group One campaign. Last season’s Manawatu Sires’ Produce and Karaka Million winner enjoyed a good break after her successful Queensland campaign. Plans are to have her resuming early December, then into the Railway at Ellerslie before tackling the Karaka 3YO Classic at the end of January.

- NZME

Well-bred colt to trial The well-related Raposa Rapida will trial on his home track tomorrow ahead of a return to the races. The brother to the Group winner Volpe Veloce made one appearance as a two-year-old last season for a fourth placing at Te Awamutu.

“He’s coming up well, he’s a lovely horse,” Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh said. “We’ll have a look around for a suitable race after he’s trialled.”

- NZME

Mare looking good

Bullrush was unbeaten in his first five starts, and has been enjoying time at the beach.

“That wasn’t a surprise, she’s a very speedy horse,” Murdoch said.

Meanwhile, highly-regarded trial winner Vin De Dance will debut in the Ssanyong 1200.

“He’s a big-striding horse who needs a decent track, but we need to kick him off,” said Andrew Forsman, who trains the son of Roc de Cambes with Murray Baker.

“We’re looking forward to getting him to the races.”

Nominated for the Caulfield Guineas, Vin De Dance will be ridden today by Matt Cameron.

- NZME

Group performer Promise To Reign is making steady progress toward a new campaign. “She’s not far from trialling, I’m very happy with her and the way she is looking,” co-trainer Moira Murdoch said yesterday. While Promise To Reign has won only once from 16 starts, the mare has Group placings in the Sir Tristram Fillies’ Classic, the Sunline Vase and the Trentham Stakes to her credit.

- NZME

Counties gallops

Today at Pukekohe Park Raceway

Counties RC Venue: Pukekohe Park Meeting Date: 06 Sep 2017 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6 1 1.07 SSANGYONG 1200 MAIDEN $10,000, 1200m 1 05220 Royal Ruler (4) 58.5 ........................A Collett 2 3260x Captain Orange (8) 58.5 .................J Riddell 3 4 Mount Midoriyama (7) 58.5 .............S Collett 4 Pushka (9) 58.5......................... R Scott (a4) 5 Renminbi (2) 58.5 ........................... A Jones 6 04 Ruby Choux Rose (11) 56.5 .....T Wenn (a3) 7 x0306 Lowrider b (10) 56.5 ............................C Dell 8 9. Pinball (5) 56.5 ...........................D Prastiyou 9 Vin De Dance (6) 56 ..................M Cameron 10 Te Akau Shark (12) 56 ..................M McNab 11 Dark Sequoia (1) 54 .........S Weatherley (a1) 12 Not Usual Heart 54 ...................... Scratched 13 Konabar 58.5................................ Scratched 14 8. Gabriel (3) 58.5 Emergencies: Konabar, Gabriel 2 1.42 NRM 1200 R65 $10,000, Benchmark*, 1200m

M3

1 49771 The Bumper dm (11) 59 ........H Marzuki (a3) 2 5657x Two Thirty dm (4) 59 .......................J Riddell 3 7050x Aston Park (1) 58 ...................... M D Plessis 4 8390x Secret Stash m (9) 58 ................M Coleman 5 1. Air Centre dm (2) 57 ..................D Prastiyou 6 76007 Embraceable You dm (7) 57 ......S McKay (a) 7 96224 Its A Kinda Magic dmb (3) 57.......... A Jones 8 107x6 Just Sugar 57 ............................... Scratched 9 140x0 Dragon Robe (5) 56.5 .......................L Innes 10 90x02 Lupelani d (8) 55.5 ..........................A Collett 11 x9896 Call Me Bob m (10) 55.5 ........J Fawcett (a3) 12 5090x Gottagetmywoohoo d (6) 55.5....M Cameron 13 x5190 Armaguard 57.5 ........................... Scratched Emergency: Armaguard 3 2.17 NZ SPINAL TRUST RACEDAY 24 SEPT RATING 75 $11,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 15123 Grand Rio dmb (3) 59 ................A Sims (a3) 2 12182 Az Given dm (8) 58 ......................... T Harris 3 1116 Manhattan Flame tdmb (1) 58H Marzuki (a3) 4 72026 Keep On Coming (6) 54.5 S Weatherley (a1)

5 0263x Buy Me A Rock td (5) 54 6 12893 Dainty Rose t (2) 54 ....................T Thornton 7 45571 Ventura tdm (7) 54 ..........................A Collett 8 18702 Good Vibes dm (4) 54 ...............S McKay (a) 4 2.54 MOUNT SHOP 1400 MAIDEN $10,000, 1400m 1 9x403 Plazabeel (16) 58.5 ...................S McKay (a) 2 007x5 Sun Genes (10) 58.5.....................O Bosson 3 8. Gabriel (4) 58.5 .........................T Wenn (a3) 4 Konabar (8) 58.5 ...................H Marzuki (a3) 5 0x0 Porthouse Rock (2) 58.5 .............T Thornton 6 36223 Moet Molly (7) 56.5 ....................R Elliot (a1) 7 x4275 All Of The Lights (11) 56.5 .......J Nason (a2) 8 90x93 Single Moment (6) 56.5.............. L Satherley 9 30x0x Sneek In Th’Castle 56.5 ............... Scratched 10 Abacus 56 .................................... Scratched 11 Blanco Bay (1) 56............................S Collett 12 Lothbrok (13) 56.............................. S Spratt 13 Mission Hill (3) 56 ......................M Cameron 14 Ekstra Force (14) 54 ........S Weatherley (a1) 15 00. Cobbler Jim (12) 58.5 .................. D Hain

16 0x670 Mr Big (15) 58.5 17 708x Vendima (5) 56.5 ....................... M D Plessis 18 8x00 Maskobi Pearl (9) 56.5 ...........J Fawcett (a3) Em: Cobbler Jim, Mr Big, Vendima, Maskobi Pearl 5 3.29 HAUNUI FARM 1600 RATING 65 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 6x821 Blackmagicwoman dm (3) 59 ..E McCall (a4) 2 27165 Attire m (10) 59 .................................L Innes 3 x0818 Basil Brush tm (4) 59 ................ R Scott (a4) 4 03187 Wagner dm (8) 58.5 .........S Weatherley (a1) 5 x5190 Armaguard tm (2) 58 .............H Marzuki (a3) 6 80x05 Chachi Arcola td (7) 58 ...................A Collett 7 x8704 Lotus Laud m (9) 57 ...............J Fawcett (a3) 8 467x6 Model Aye (1) 57 ........................M Coleman 9 9x984 Repo Bay (5) 56.5 ..................... M D Plessis 10 x0889 Doucette m (6) 56 ........................... S Spratt 6 4.04 LONE STAR 1600 MAIDEN $10,000, 1600m 1 7x22 Diehard (10) 58.5 .......................M Cameron 2 6x380 El Fortuna 58.5 ............................ Scratched 3 90x44 Grandiscoccymelums (6) 58.5B Morgenrood

4 6x654 Masters Choice (8) 58.5..................S Collett 5 80340 Our Jocko (5) 58.5 ...........S Weatherley (a1) 6 9 Canzac (12) 58.5 ............................A Collett 7 63282 Belle Volant (2) 56.5 ........................ S Spratt 8 23226 Avant b (9) 56.5......................... M D Plessis 9 40953 Florence Ivy (7) 56.5 .............H Marzuki (a3) 10 5x3 Raison D’etre (11) 56.5 .....................L Innes 11 7x854 Cielito Lindo (4) 56.5 ...................T Thornton 12 900x8 Denial (1) 56.5 .......................... R Scott (a4) 13 0x867 Liz’s Gift (3) 56.5 ............................. A Jones Blinkers on: Vendima, Maskobi Pearl (R4), Our Jocko, Florence Ivy, Denial (R6) Blinkers off: Embraceable You (R2), Buy Me A Rock (R3), Cobbler Jim (R4), Lotus Laud (R5) SELECTIONS

10 2.42pm WANGANUI TOYOTA C1 C1, 305m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Race 1: Mount Midoriyama, Captain Orange, Renminbi Race 2: Air Centre, Lupelani, Its A Kinda Magic, Two Thirty Race 3: Grand Rio, Manhattan Flame, Buy Me A Rock, Ventura Race 4: Moet Molly, Lothbrok, Mission Hill, Plazabeel Race 5: Attire, Blackmagicwoman, Model Aye, Wagner Race 6: Avant, Raison D’etre, Grandiscoccymelums, Belle Volant

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Race- 9 56658 Pickering nwtd ....................................J Hunt way Meeting Date: 06 Sep 2017 NZ Meeting number: 3 10 78855 Cawbourne Broady nwtd.................L Doody Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 4 12.58pm ADEPOT ACCOUNTANTS C0 C0, 305m 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 1 22263 Just Like Ma nwtd J & .........................D Bell and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 2 6 Unprofound nwtd .........................A Turnwald 1 12.05pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C0 C0, 305m 3 Crackling nwtd.......................... S Gommans 1 Final Story nwtd ................................M Flipp 4 Bigtime Redo nwtd .............................L Cole 2 37 Eye Kno nwtd .................................... I Howe 5 58235 Carrick nwtd I C & ..........................J Lenden 3 x4332 Bigtime Swift nwtd G & ... Sandra Fredrickso 6 35486 Ms Rubble Double nwtd ...................R Waite 4 8 Ungrateful nwtd ...........................A Turnwald 7 3835 Subway Kay nwtd.......................B Goldsack 5 32282 Carefree Highway nwtd ................K Williams 8 34476 Miss Muffet nwtd .........................J McArthur 6 647 Ahuroa Magic nwtd ........................R Murray 9 73877 Cawbourne Jeff nwtd .........................J Hunt 7 Bark Rosanowski nwtd.......................L Cole 10 75868 Homebush Bow nwtd .............J T McInerney 8 57452 Stole Me Keys nwtd ................. K Gommans 5 1.16pm J P PRINT PETONE C1 C1, 520m 9 73877 Cawbourne Jeff nwtd .........................J Hunt 1 56468 Cawbourne Angus 30.45 J & ..............D Bell 10 88 Cawbourne Johno nwtd J & ................D Bell 2 52752 Golden Pixel 30.52 ..................... G Hodgson 2 12.23pm WANGANUI CHRONICLE C0 C0, 520m 3 74453 Opawa Shiloh 30.41 ........................B Marsh 1 644 Fancy Fifita nwtd ......................... P C Morris 4 64274 Classy Delta nwtd ........................C J Morris 2 78 Cool Wolf nwtd .............................. D Donlon 5 56778 Scodelario 30.93 .............................L Doody 3 575 Pinky Winky nwtd ........................A Turnwald 6 46667 Meteor Vege 30.41 ...................E Duganzich 4 7553 Bigtime Madison nwtd ........................L Cole 7 26467 Opawa Crusade 30.47 ......................M Flipp 5 26485 Waterloo Blue nwtd ............................W Kite 8 12235 Bigtime Jonty nwtd .............................L Cole 6 44432 Mischief Viking nwtd........................... N Udy 9 28486 Sedgebrook Angel nwtd ......................F Kite 7 568 Bigtime Riley nwtd .............................L Cole 10 66668 Opawa Bucks nwtd ..........................R Waite 8 35 Trendy Val nwtd G &........ Sandra Fredrickso 6 1.33pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C0 C0, 305m 3 12.41pm METEOR OPD WANGANUI C0 C0, 305m 1 42685 Crackle nwtd ..................................... B Hunt 1 43856 Last Man Alive nwtd ........................M Olden 2 Dermott Brown nwtd ..........................L Cole 2 246 White Comet nwtd......................... D Donlon 3 85424 Paris Global nwtd ...................J T McInerney 3 788 Ahuroa Flyer nwtd ..........................R Murray 4 54875 Sapphire Club nwtd.....................A Turnwald 4 x3383 Hello It’s Me nwtd ..................... S Gommans 5 46754 Kinetic Shadow nwtd........................... L Bell 5 88x Seeking A Dollar nwtd.................A Turnwald 6 35683 Kylie’s Stiletto nwtd ......................C J Morris 6 Extrapolate nwtd ................................L Cole 7 47624 Star Secret nwtd ..........................K Williams 7 65676 Cawbourne Gibbo nwtd J & ................D Bell 8 Cawbourne Chops nwtd J & ...............D Bell 8 77638 African Violet nwtd .................J T McInerney 9 57684 Piko Piko Dawn nwtd ...................... C Brider

10 76888 Homebush Gracie nwtd............ K Gommans

7 1.51pm AON CPF C1 C1, 520m

1 44674 Secret Agenda 30.81 ..................B Hodgson 2 52725 Pacific Sunrise 30.56 ........................M Flipp 3 34577 Thrilling Stan 30.40 ...........................D Edlin 4 84655 Tammy’s Fire 30.54 ...........................M Flipp 5 53553 Take Action 30.84.........................M Goodier 6 65837 Patty Boy nwtd ................................... N Udy 7 7x447 Making Time 30.21..............................S Kite 8 43565 Fast Rigby 30.12 ............................ T Pilcher 9 28486 Sedgebrook Angel nwtd ......................F Kite 10 88687 Banshee Reel 30.84 ........................R Waite 8 2.07pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION C1, 305m 1 26428 Set The Limit 17.72 .........................S Maher 2 57238 Sozin’s Galaxy 18.18 .............J T McInerney 3 78887 Ben Nevis Knight 17.97............E Duganzich 4 54747 Adrenalin Kick 18.19 ..............J T McInerney 5 34475 Jamaica Mistaica 18.05 K & ..............Phillips 6 18688 Another Spin 17.62 ...........................M Flipp 7 35154 Tiger Uppercut 18.21 .......................... L Bell 8 137 Bacon My Heart 18.14 .......................L Cole 9 52568 Mitsuta nwtd ......................................D Edlin 10 58824 On Da Quest 17.72 ........................ L Pearce 9 2.25pm FIRST SECURITY C1 C1, 520m 1 52873 Making It Up nwtd ........................C J Morris 2 67653 Charlie Bo Bo 30.34 ....................B Hodgson 3 56413 Cawbourne Bettsy 30.99 J & ..............D Bell 4 57247 Trendy Mind 30.26 G & ... Sandra Fredrickso 5 12775 Opawa Shay 30.27............................M Flipp 6 58453 World Freakshow 30.47 ..................M Olden 7 x3153 Bigtime Ottey 30.83 ...........................L Cole 8 37845 Bonus Lotto nwtd ............................L Doody 9 28486 Sedgebrook Angel nwtd ......................F Kite 10 66668 Opawa Bucks nwtd ..........................R Waite

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

24731 Bigtime Trev 17.79..............................L Cole 14563 Shakti 17.89 ......................................M Flipp 43442 Homebush Lucifer 17.53 ........J T McInerney 67158 Billie Tee 18.23 S & ...................C Blackburn 76843 Kinetic Assasin 17.81 K & .................Phillips 32622 Cawbourne Dora 17.76 J &.................D Bell 76878 Bev’s New Point 17.80 .............E Duganzich 15336 Eamon 17.71................................P Blanche 77872 Fear The Beard nwtd.........................M Flipp 62767 Idol Billie nwtd .......................... S Gommans 11 3.02pm LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C1 C1, 520m 1 84377 Whata Shemozzel nwtd .................R Murray 2 42532 Wong Full Arrest 30.75 ................C J Morris 3 16556 Dyna Bevlin 30.84 ........................M Roberts 4 1278x Me Jane nwtd.....................................L Cole 5 56748 Ivanhov 30.39 K & .............................Phillips 6 68287 Opawa Gail 30.64 .............................M Flipp 7 25626 Cawbourne Skeeta nwtd J &...............D Bell 8 77787 She’s Mustard 30.61 ........................R Waite 9 28486 Sedgebrook Angel nwtd ......................F Kite 10 84788 Forever And Ever 30.88 ........... K Gommans 12 3.19 BOOK YOUR FUNCTION@HATRICK C1, 305m 1 4326x Sunset Marjen 17.81 .........................M Flipp 2 75275 Opawa Smoke 17.59.........................M Flipp 3 58431 Bigtime Racer 17.78 G & Sandra Fredrickso 4 51344 Bigtime Mark 17.60 ............................L Cole 5 25478 Orangey Yellow 17.80...............E Duganzich 6 86582 Lucky Sunday nwtd ................J T McInerney 7 31421 Clover Victoria 17.71 ...................A Turnwald 8 82857 Meat Damon 17.68 K &.....................Phillips 9 16875 Luke Skywalker 18.64 ........................L Hunt 10 28668 Cawbourne Murf nwtd J &...................D Bell 13 3.38pm HATRICK DASH C1 C1, 305m

22676 Wellington Wind 18.02 K & ...............Phillips 42673 Kiwi Baxter 17.74 ...................J T McInerney 16674 Rosie 17.86 .................................J McArthur 75625 Idol Leanne 17.71 .............................M Flipp 86882 Agent Anna nwtd..............................S Stone 12 Little Scamp 17.91 ...................D W Denbee 43651 Apricity nwtd................................A Turnwald 75236 If It Fitz 17.74 ....................................M Flipp 27762 Rocky’s To Much 18.15 ................K Williams 54575 Nippa Eel nwtd .......................J T McInerney 14 3.55 MAX REFRIGERATION WANGANUI C1, 305m 1 25331 PikoPiko Connor 17.92 ................... C Brider 2 42316 Nippa Joy 17.93 .....................J T McInerney 3 27271 Lace 18.29 ....................................M Gowan 4 34653 Mark Be Good 17.84 ................... P C Morris 5 13622 Guru’s Choice 17.95 ....................K Williams 6 11352 Mikachu 18.07.............................A Turnwald 7 22452 Rapper Tilly 17.76 ...............................S Kite 8 17762 Another Vespa 17.85.........................M Flipp 9 8848x Danlee Night Out nwtd .......................L Cole 10 54566 Homebush Myra nwtd ............J T McInerney 15 4.13pm LASER PLUMBING WANGANUI C1, 305m 1 57435 Stainless Knocka 17.92 .................. C Brider 2 8577x Loo Loo Blue nwtd ............................ I Howe 3 74x15 Bigtime Narelle 17.78.........................L Cole 4 86828 Scott To Go 18.23 ..............................L Hunt 5 71378 Hungry Machine nwtd .....................L Doody 6 12657 Cala D’Or nwtd..................................M Flipp 7 27755 Sioux Baxter 17.90.................J T McInerney 8 86257 To Much Andre 18.04 ...................K Williams 9 46348 Uno Again 17.74 ................................ N Udy 10 46564 Baduzzi 18.20 ........................J T McInerney LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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■ MOTOR RACING

Last round for the Highlands

Players from Mount Hutt College and Rangiora High School battle for possession, with Rangiora taking bragging rights with a 6-1 victory.

PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 050917-JP-033

■ HOCKEY

Points elusive on the turf

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

The Mount Hutt College mixed hockey side is still in the hunt for their first points of the South Island Mixed Hockey Tournament.

Playing the 8pm game under the floodlights on Monday evening, the side took on St Peter’s College Gore, losing 2-1.

In a game where they expected to struggle, the Hutt team got off to the perfect start, taking the lead.

The experience of St Peter’s shone through in the end though, but they were made to work for their two goals, which could prove to be a big help to the Hutt’s goal difference come

the end of the round robin.

Things were not so positive in the side’s third game when they faced off against Rangiora High School, suffering a second-half blowout, losing 6-1 after trailing 2-1 at half-time.

Smart finishing off two penalty corners combined with two speedy counter-attacks were the

undoing of the Mount Hutt side on the day.

Mount Aspiring College appear to be one of the teams to beat, winning their first two matches 8-1 and 6-1 respectively, while Wakatipu High School also boast an impressive record of 9-0 and 8-0 victories for their first two games.

■ HARRIERS

Harriers hit the road in annual championships The Ashburton Harrier Club held their annual road championships on Saturday at the Northpark Industrial Estate.

The races were run around a 2km course with competitors running a different number of laps depending on their grade.

Distances range from 2 km to 8 km.

Everyone starts together for ‘first across the line’ placings, and the race doubles as a closed

handicap event where placings are based on each competitor’s predicted time.

Although conditions were fine, battling into a strong southerly wind for half the course meant times were slower than normal.

Results were: Runners: Junior girls 1st over the line and 1st on handicap Angel Spooner.

Junior boys 1st, and 1st on handicap Jack McKenzie.

Senior women 1st, and 1st on handicap Claire Marshall.

Veteran women 1st Alison Black, 2nd Tam Grant, 3rd Alison Conway.

Handicap 1st Tam Grant, 2nd Alison Conway, 3rd Alison Black.

Veteran men 1st Andrew Black, 2nd Ian Broadbelt, 3rd John van Polanen.

Handicap 1st Andrew Black, 2nd Ian Broadbelt, 3rd Kenny Johnston.

Veteran men over 65 1st, and 1st on handicap Merv Gilbert.

Walkers Women 1st Judith Crozier, 2nd Lynda Bayne, 3rd Barbara Taylor.

Men 1st Dave Strong, 2nd Noel Batty, 3rd Bill Hood.

Handicap 1st Bill Hood, 2nd Judith Crozier, 3rd Dave Strong.

The next event on the club’s calendar is the annual Takahe to Akaroa road relay on September 16.

■ CRICKET

Australian cricket team’s bus hit by rock Security has been beefed up on the Australian cricket team’s tour of Bangladesh after an object, believed to be a rock, was thrown at the team bus and broke a window.

The bus was travelling in an

armed convoy between the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium and the team hotel in Chittagong on Monday evening when the incident happened.

No players or officials were harmed.

Cricket Australia have denied reports the object thrown was a brick, saying it was believed instead to be a small rock or stone.

It’s believed the object may have been thrown by a child as the team bus passed by.

The incident sent a scare through the Australian camp given the heavy security that has enveloped the tour. The Australian squad have been afforded a level of security usually granted to visiting heads of state. - AAP

Since 2013, Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell has hosted the cars and stars of the Australian GT Championship at the Highlands 101.

It has become one of the highlights of the New Zealand motorsport calendar and Highlands’ marquee event celebrates its fifth birthday this year with a new-look format, the aptly named Highlands 501 from November 11-12.

The event at Highlands has earned a reputation as New Zealand’s best endurance event and the formula has been replicated successfully at Hampton Downs International Motorsport Park, Highlands sister track in the North Island.

From 2018, Hampton Downs will have exclusive rights to the Australian GTs in New Zealand with Highlands making the decision to host a new event to celebrate Kiwi cars and drivers.

So, this year’s Highlands 501 is your last chance to see the Australian GTs in the South Island.

“It’s been a hell of a journey over the last five years,” says Tony Quinn, the owner of Highlands Motorsport Park.

“I couldn’t count the number of times people told us you can’t bring a world class motorsport event to the South Island. I think we’ve proven that it can be done and I’d like to think we’ve changed the landscape of motorsport in New Zealand along the way.”

“We brought back the Le Mans start when people told us it was a crazy idea.

“We made motorsport accessible again by inviting spectators to do a grid walk and get up close and personal to the cars and drivers just before the start of the race, and we opened up the pits to everyone, not just corporate guests.

“It’s fair to say we’ve had some real highlights over the last five years.”

The first Highlands 101 was screened in over 80 countries and some of the biggest names in Australasian motorsport have raced in the event including Craig Lowndes, Shane van Gisbergen, Fabian Coulthard, Garth Tander, Craig Baird, Jack Perkins, Greg Murphy, ‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett and John Bowe.

They’ve delivered some memorable moments with nail-biting finishes, fires in the pits, cars flying off the track and into the forest or running out of fuel on the last lap.

“Supercars recently announced that having two rounds in New Zealand wasn’t out of the question so who knows, we might celebrate an Australian headline act again at some stage in the future.”

The grid will feature some of the finest GT production cars in the world including Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Aston Martins, BMWs, and McLarens. With over $22 million worth of cars on the circuit, it promises to be the motor racing event of the year.

- NZME

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

PUBLIC NOTICES

Seed Cleaning We have a full time, permanent position available within our seed processing store.

Permanent Position Full Time Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Limited is a well-established Contractor in the Ashburton Area with over 27 years in the Civil and Farm Contracting Industry specialising in sub divisions, various earthworks, site works projects, driveways, roading and drainage.

Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Ltd, has a position available for a person to join our Civil Construction Team.

You will need to have extensive experience within the civil construction environment with no less than two years minimum final formation experience on tractor blade or grader, be able to read plans, have a good eye for levels and good understanding of all metal types and how they work. Be able to work with and within a team environment and have a high standard of pride in what they produce.

This role is a hands on role where you will be required to carry out a physical role working within a team environment.

Applications for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

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Competitive Wages / Salary to suit skill level Exciting and Varied Work

If you have the relevant experience as noted above and are interested in pursuing this exciting role, please contact.

Scott Pond on 027 344 0021 or email office@tarbotton.co.nz

The position consists of: - Operating a seed machine - Bagging up of seed - Forklift duties - Unloading of trucks & general duties The position would suit a person that has the following: - Honest and loyal - Excellent work ethic - Attention to detail Experience not required as full training given.

If you are interested please call

027 632 5136

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Daily Events Wednesday 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady as you go exercise group. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. “Second time around” good clean clothing for sale. Ashburton Baptist Church, cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

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

Thursday 9.30am ASHBURTON AGE CONCERN. Ladies low impact exercise classes held weekly. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady as you go exercise group. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Join fun exercise with friendly group during term time. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Daytime session, new players most welcome. E A Network Stadium, River Terrace.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Thursday and Saturday. Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. Good clean Second Time Around clothing

Doaky’s Plumbing Ltd

for sale. Ashburton Baptist Church, cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit kidz for 0 - 5 years old and caregivers.

48 Allens Road.

10.15am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for Arthritis. M.S.A, Social hall, Havelock Street.

10.45am M.S.A.TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

11am AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. Salvation Army Rooms, Cass Street.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON.

Tender documents can be downloaded from: https://www.tenderlink.com/ashburtondc/ All enquiries including site inspection to be directed to: Paul Sanderson Farm Manager Phone: 027 345 6190 Tenders close 4pm Tuesday 19 September. ashburtondc.govt.nz

TRADES, SERVICES 150 Smithfield Rd, Ashburton doakys@xtra.co.nz 03 308 1248

Lindsay 027 555 5575

Sept 6 & 7, 2017 10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

11am MID CANTERBURY LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Movie - Seven Rivers walking. Regent Cinema, Wills Street.

11.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid-week service, communion and lunch.

48 Allens Road.

1pm - 3pm ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Drop in and pre loved clothing shop. Cnr Thomson and Jane Streets, Tinwald.

The Ashburton District Council is seeking tenders for the removal (sale) of standing grass at Ocean Farm, from approximately 280 hectares of pasture irrigated with treated wastewater.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research. Heritage Centre, West Street.

1.15pm WAIREKA GOLF CROQUET DOUBLES. 1.15pm (draw) Golf Croquet Doubles, The domain, Philip Street.

7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance (7pm), beginner/ intermediate (8pm - 9pm). Instructor Annette phone 307-7138 a/h. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Dancing, Music, Fitness and Fun, Buffalo Hall, Cox Street.

Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. St Peters Church, Harrison Street, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

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

1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Social afternoon, you are welcome to have a go. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

5pm - 6pm ALLENTON TENNIS CLUB. Registration evening with fun tennis session. Harrison Street Courts behind the squash courts, Harrison Street.

7pm ASHBURTON R.S.A. DARTS SECTION. Club night for all new and returning players, Doris Linton Lounge, Cox Street.

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • 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 PEA STRAW MAYFIELD SCHOOL

HEALTH & BEAUTY CLAIRVOYANT MEDIUM LEE

Fundraiser September 15, 1.30pm - 5pm Bring a trailer and fill for $20 Loader on site.

14 Lismore Mayfield Road.

Broken bales ready for garden Contact 027 666 8016

MOTORING WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life TRADES, SERVICES of your tyres with an DENTURES. Dr Peter alignment from Neumanns Rumping, retired dentist, Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills continues to provide full Street. Phone 308-6737. dentures. Repairs to existing dentures also available.

LIVESTOCK, PETS Phone 027 220 9997.

BUYER of unwanted SUN CONTROL WINDOW animals. Cattle, bobby calves, TINTING. Quality window horse and all farm animals. films for privacy, UV (fading), We also sell pet food. Call heat, safety and security. For Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 cars, homes and offices. 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

Phone Craig Rogers 307 6347 or 0800 TINTER. Member of Master Tinters LET OR LEASE NZ. Check us out on WAREHOUSES for lease FACEBOOK. Riverside Industrial Park, 545m² with 2 x inbuilt offices PERSONAL and 200m². Contact Paul 021 LOOKING for a Male. Virgo 140 9787 or contact Murray with big blue eyes, sharing 027 567 8921. and caring. Cuddly with wonderful sense of humour.

Non-smoker, non-drinker. GRAZING Would suit Pisces, Cancer, GRAZING wanted for store Taurus or Capricorn man who lambs. Phone Steve 027 321 is generous, kind and 6060. understanding, into classic cars etc. Relationship to the GRAZING wanted for store right man. All replies lambs. Phone Mitch 027 313 confidential, phone 307 7347. 1320.

In your area September 16 and 17 Limited bookings For an appointment 027 712 6575 GARAGE SALES

GARAGE sale, Kerr Street, Saturday, September 9 at 9am to 2pm. Going overseas.

Furniture, toys, books, DVD player, clothes including new Ashburton College jersey and new men’s suit.

FOR SALE

ASHBURTON Society of Arts. Early spring show on now at Short Street Studio.

Guest Quilliam Collister.

Open Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday 10am - 3pm when sign out.

Enquiries phone 308 4533.

AWARD winning Stylish Walking Sticks.

Contemporary designs, fashionable and folding for adjustable height. Lightweight and comfortable.

Treat yourself today and step out in style. The China Shop in The Ashburton Arcade.

CONTAINERS for sale or hire, ex shipping: general and insulated. Sidelifter available for delivery. Wilson Bulk Transport, Phone 308-7772.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

NEW, 26 year old, Singapore lady, size 10, 34C busty.

Good service. Phone 021 831 682.

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AUTO TRIM, CANVAS & SHADE Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

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Puzzles and horoscopes www.guardianonline.co.nz Cryptic crossword

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Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

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Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There is at least one fiveletter word.

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You’ll find you don’t have time to do all that’s proposed, implied or expected.

But if you refrain from anything resembling a complaint or a worry, your energy will double up and you’ll be most productive.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): What seems precious and limited is not, it turns out, so rare and scarce after all. So if, in the frenzy of production, you lose a bit of it, don’t worry. There will be plenty more very soon. Keep producing.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Your inner drive to teach, help and mentor others is stronger than usual today. In fact, if you don’t have people around you who need guidance, you’ll attract some.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Getting things done leads to confidence. Confidence leads to decisiveness.

Decisiveness leads to action. Action leads to momentum. Momentum leads to success. So start getting things done.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Interrupt the pattern and take control.

They don’t know what you’re going to do next.

(You do!) They don’t know what the whole thing is leading to. (You do!) They’re a little offbalance. (They hold on to you.) Lead the way.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Meeting new people will be the highlight of your day. In a way, people are all the same. You find this reassuring. In more ways, people are different, and those subtle differences are a source of wonderment today.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): No one is holding back with you today. It’s like there’s a collective belief that you’re strong, calm and capable – that you can handle the good, the bad, the truth.

They’re right.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): People can count on you to behave in a particular way in most situations. Today you’ll manage to accomplish something very difficult. You’ll be simultaneously appropriate and surprising.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Respect is shown through good manners, courtesy and adherence to expectations of behaviour. Any breech will pack more punch than usual today, but things go smoothly if you follow the rules.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): When you recognise the lingering shadow of loneliness over a person or over an area of your own life, let it be an invitation instead of a condition. Reach out in compassion. Make a connection.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): It starts with curiosity.

You really do want to understand your surroundings much better. As you follow your instincts and impulses you capture the imagination (and support) of others along the way.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Your attitude is a response to your worldview. What you’re learning is changing how you see the world. So your beliefs and, by extension, your attitude will change, too.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS CHEESMAN, Jean Pearl – On August 31, 2017, after a short illness at Rosebank Retirement Home, Christchurch, aged 80 years.

Loving wife and best friend of Reg (deceased), treasured mother and mother-in-law of Jacqui, Kevin, Sharon and Kelvyn, Scott and Chris, Blair and Cezarne. Adored and respected Nana of Shane and Angela, Daryl and Mel, Hayden and Tania; Mark and Vanessa, Pamela, Paul and Alice; Travis and Sarah; and Jenna – Maree, awesome great-Nana of Destiny and Dominic; Charlie and Makaia; Chelssea, Chrissy and Liam; Chloe; and Noah.

In our hearts forever.

Thank you to her friends for supporting Jean over the years. Jean’s family would especially like to thank the staff at Rosebank for their loving and supportive care of Jean and her family during her final months. Messages may be addressed to the family of the late Jean Cheesman, c/- PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545. A private family service has been held.

CHEESMAN, Jean Pearl – On August 31, 2017. Born March 5, 1937, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Loved daughter of Frederick and Elsie Jenner, adored and loving sister of Yvonne and Malcolm Licence and Jim Jenner, and a beloved aunt and great-aunt.

In our hearts forever.

CHEESMAN, Jean Pearl – On August 31, 2017. Loved sister-in-law of Joan and Allen Westerby (both deceased), Dorothy and Michael (deceased) Webster, Shirley and Geof Sherwood, and a much loved aunt of all her nieces and nephews.

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TOMORROW Cloudy, with a few spots of morning rain.

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MUIR, David Morgan – Aged 21, tragically taken too soon. Precious son of Janine Galbraith’s provide choice!

We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors and Muir and Roger Johnston, Galbraith’s celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, and Vernon Muir and Evelyn and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering. provide choice!

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TRUDGEON, Sandra Joyce – On August 31, 2017 at Ashburton Hospital. Dearly loved sister-in-law of Denis and Julie Trudgeon and much loved and adored aunty of Matt and Tim. Now at peace.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 14.9 16.0 Max to 4pm 4.0 Minimum 0.7 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.2 16hr to 4pm September to date 8.2 Avg Sep to date 9 2017 to date 740.4 470 Avg year to date Wind km/h NE 20 At 4pm Strongest gust NE 43 Time of gust 9:08am

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Television Wednesday, September 6, 2017

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6am Breakfast The Breakfast team presents news, interviews, weather, and information.

9am Dickinson’s Real Deal Antiques expert David Dickinson proves that one man’s trash really is another man’s treasure.

10am Tipping Point 11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Red Rock PGR 2pm Location, Location, Location 30 3pm Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Come Dine With Me The show is in and around Leeds, where four strangers cook in a bid to win a prize.

4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Homemade In Port England, sports-mad Matt and Ritchie Megaw have a flat that needs inspiration both inside and out. 0 8pm Rachel Hunter’s Tour Of Beauty PGR 0 8:30 Offspring AO 0 9:30 20/20 0 10:30 1 News Tonight 0 11pm Winter Games (HLS) From Queenstown and Wanaka.

11:35 Cold Feet AO 3 Adam begins to have feelings for Tina; Jenny persuades Pete to attend a mindfulness class. Can David sink any lower? 0 12:35 Nashville PGR 3 0 1:20 Te Karere 3 2 1:45 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

Hawaii Five-0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Peppa Pig 0 7am My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic 3 0 7:25 Blazing Team 3 7:50 Star v The Forces Of Evil 3 0 8:15 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 0 8:35 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Hoarding – Buried Alive 3 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle 1pm Love Island AO 3 0 2pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Leon 0 3:35 The Adam And Eve Show 0 4:05 Best Friends Whenever 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Australian Survivor The castaways experience further wind and rain without fire and shelter before a lengthy immunity challenge.

0 8:30 The Big Bang Theory PGR 3 0 9pm 2 Broke Girls AO 0 9:30 Love Island AO 0 10:30 2 Broke Girls AO 3 0 11pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 11:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine PGR 3 0 Midnight Benched PGR 3 0 12:20 iZombie 3 0 1:05 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:30 Infomercials 2:35 Switched At Birth 3 0 3:20 Red Band Society PGR 3 4:05 F Full House PGR 3 0 4:30 F Regular Show 3 0 4:40 The Adam And Eve Show 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

Fishy Business

9:30pm on Three

8:30pm on Choice

BRAVO

THE BOX

10am Top Chef 3 10:55 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:20 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:50 I Killed My BFF PGR 3 12:45 The Real Housewives Of Orange County PGR 1:40 Below Deck: Mediterranean AO 3 2:35 The Real Housewives Of New York City AO 3 3:35 Hoarders 3 4:30 Dance Moms 3 5:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 6:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 7pm Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 7:30 Hoarders 3 8:30 The Real Housewives Of Orange County 9:30 N Little Women LA AO These women may be little, but they like to live life large.

Terra and Tonya enrol them in a sexy dance class so they can harness their inner goddess.

10:25 Snapped – Killer Couples AO 3 11:25 Hoarders 3 12:15 Infomercials

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6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 Jeopardy! PG 6:50 Robot Wars PGV 7:40 Heroes MV 8:30 The Simpsons PG 8:55 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:45 Outsiders 16VLSC 10:40 Kingdom 16VLSC Do Not Disturb.

11:35 Jeopardy! PG Noon Smackdown Live MV 2:10 CSI – Miami MV 3:05 Heroes MV 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5pm Jeopardy! PG 5:30 Robot Wars PGV 6:30 Counting Cars PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! MVL 9:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 10:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 11:25 CSI – Miami MV

THURSDAY

12:15 Smackdown MV 1:50 Criminal Minds 16VS 2:40 Pawn Stars PG 3:05 Supernatural 16V 3:55 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! MVL 4:45 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 5:35 Counting Cars PG

THREE

PRIME

6am The AM Show Duncan Garner, Amanda Gillies, and Mark Richardson present news, interviews, and humour to start the day.

9am The Café Mike Puru and Mel Homer present a lifestyle and entertainment show.

10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud 3 0 Noon Dr Phil PGR 12:55 The Block NZ PGR 3 0 1:55 Minute To Win It 3 2:55 Celebrity Name Game PGR 3:20 Sticky TV 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm Susie Nordqvist presents comprehensive coverage of global and local news.

4:25 Entertainment Tonight 4:55 Family Feud Australia 5:25 Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm The Project 7:30 The Block NZ PGR 0 8:30 NCIS – LA AO 0 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 AO Five-0 must deal with a Japanese Second World War spy mystery after a boy is shot in a forgotten bunker. 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:55 Chicago Med AO 3 0 11:50 The Project News and entertainment show hosted by Jesse Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd, and Josh Thomson.

12:20 Infomercials

CHOICE 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Money For Nothing 7:30 Love Nature – America Over The Edge 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan 10:30 Salvage Hunters 11:30 Live Here, Buy This Noon Location, Location, Location 1pm Building The Dream 2pm Money For Nothing 3pm Live Here, Buy This 3:30 Love Nature – Wild Britain With Ray Mears 4pm Love Nature – Walking With The Great Apes 4:30 The Paleo Way With Pete Evans 5pm Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Melbourne 5:30 The French Collection 6:30 Auction Hunters

6:30 Takoha 6:40 Nga Papara Kapi 7am Penguins Of Madagascar 3 7:30 Pukana (HLS) 2 7:50 Cube 8am Morena 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Ako 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 Nga Papara Kapi 3 3:30 Penguins Of Madagascar 3 4pm Pukana 3 2 4:20 Cube 3 4:30 F Tangaroa With Pio 3 5pm Marae PGR (HLS) 2 5:30 Hakanation 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Kaea 2 7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30 9pm 9:30

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Border Security – America’s Frontline PGR 0 8pm Best Of Piha Rescue PGR 0 8:30 Diana – The Day The World Cried PGR 0 9:30 Back Benches PGR 10:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR

Kawe Korero – Reporters Whanau Bake-Off On The Ladder Finding Aroha PGR N Sisters Voices Of Our Future – VOOF 10pm Hakanation 3 10:30 Te Kaea 3 2

7pm American Restoration 7:30 Guy Martin – Last Flight Of The Vulcan Bomber 8:30 Fishy Business The target is yellowtail kingfish, arguably one of the toughest fish that swims.

9:30 Cold Water Cowboys PGR 10:30 Auction Hunters

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

Midnight Closedown

11pm Kawe Korero – Reporters News reporters dissect and discuss the day’s news and events.

11:30 Closedown

11pm American Restoration 11:30 The Paleo Way With Pete Evans Midnight Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Melbourne 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am The French Collection 2am Love Nature – Wild Britain With Ray Mears 2:30 Love Nature – Walking With The Great Apes 3am My Dream Home 4am Cold Water Cowboys 5am Fishy Business 0

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS 6:10 The Green Hornet MVL 2011 Action. Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz.

8:05 Grace Of Monaco PGVLS 2013 Drama Biography.

Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth.

9:45 My Best Friend’s Wedding ML 1997 Romantic Comedy. Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz.

11:30 The Social Network ML 2010 Drama. Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield.

1:30 Twister PGV 1996 Drama.

Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz.

3:20 The Green Hornet MVL 2011 Action. Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz.

5:15 Blue Jasmine ML 2013 Drama. Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin.

6:50 Leap Year PGV 2009 Romantic Comedy.

Amy Adams, Matthew Goode.

8:30 Memento R16 2001 Thriller. A man suffering from short-term memory loss uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife’s killer.

Joe Pantoliano, Guy Pearce.

10:25 Orphan 16VLSC 2009 Thriller. Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman.

THURSDAY

MAORI

6am The Legend Of Korra 6:25 Henry Danger 3 6:50 Monsters v Aliens 3 7:15 Grojband 7:40 Hank Zipzer, The World’s Greatest Underachiever 3 8:05 Johnny Test 3 8:30 The Loud House 8:55 Raising Children 9:25 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 12:55 Escape To The Country 3 1:55 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Escape To The Country 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 5pm Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Prime News 6pm Storage Wars 3 6:30 Pawn Stars

7:25 Regression 16VLSC 2014 Thriller. Ethan Hawke, David Thewlis, Emma Watson.

9:10 Ouija – Origin Of Evil MVC 2016 Horror.

Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson.

10:50 Barbershop – The Next Cut MLS 2016 Comedy.

Ice Cube, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson.

12:40 Divergent – Allegiant Part 1 MV 2016 Adventure.

Shailene Woodley, Theo James.

2:40 Regression 16VLSC 2014 Thriller. Ethan Hawke, David Thewlis, Emma Watson.

4:25 Woodlawn PGC 2015 Drama. Caleb Castille, Jon Voight. 6:25 Ben-Hur M 2016 Action Drama.

Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman. 8:30 IT MVLS 2016 Thriller. In a world of hyper connectivity, a wealthy man finds his life being hacked by his IT consultant, endangering all he has worked for. Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville.

10:15 X-Men – Apocalypse MVLC 2016 Action Adventure. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence.

12:40 A Killer Walks Amongst Us 16VC 2016 Thriller. Eva LaRue, Ashley Scott. 2:10 Woodlawn PGC 2015 Drama. Caleb Castille, Jon Voight. 4:10 IT MVLS 2016 Thriller. Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville.

5:50 X-Men – Apocalypse MVLC 2016 Action Adventure.

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THURSDAY

12:25 Fair Game ML 2010 Drama. Naomi Watts, Sean Penn. 2:10 Memento R16 2001 Thriller.

Joe Pantoliano, Guy Pearce.

4am Directors – Ridley Scott PG 4:30 Blue Jasmine ML 2013 Drama. Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin.

SKY SPORT 1

6am Football – International (RPL) Solomon Islands v All Whites. 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 Football – International (HLS) Solomon Islands v All Whites. 9am Golf – Champions Tour (HLS) Shaw Charity Classic. 10am Golf – Web.com Tour (HLS) Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship.

11am Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) Dell Technologies Event.

Noon Golf – Challenge Series (HLS) 12:30 Golf – LPGA Tour Cambia Portland Classic – Round Four.

1pm Football – International (RPL) Solomon Islands v All Whites.

3pm Golf – PGA Tour Event (HLS) 4pm The Golf Fix 5pm Netball – International (RPL) Silver Ferns v Australia.

6:30 Back Page 7:30 Cycling – La Vuelta (HLS) Stage 16.

8pm The Crowd Goes Wild 8:30 NRL 360 9:30 League Life 10pm Queenslanders Only 10:30 Test Rugby Kick And Chase 11:30 #SkySpeed

Midnight Golf – Champions Tour (HLS) Shaw Charity Classic.

1am Golf – Web.com Tour (HLS) Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship.

2am L Cycling – La Vuelta Stage 17.

4am Fight Night

12:15 L Cycling – Tour Of Britain Stage Four.

2:35 The World Rugby Show 3am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Taranaki v Counties Manukau. 5am Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) Dell Technologies Event.

THURSDAY

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

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SKY SPORT 2

6am Back Page 7am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup 7:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup 8am The Breakdown 8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9am Back Page 10am Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Semi-final One – Birmingham v Glamorgan.

10:30 Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Semi-final Two – Hampshire v Nottinghamshire.

11am Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Final.

11:30 L Cricket – Caribbean Premier League Playoff One – Knight Riders v Patriots.

3:30 UFC Now 4:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) North Harbour v Auckland.

From QBE Stadium.

6:30 The Breakdown 7pm Rugby – First XV Revision Updates and the latest highlights from New Zealand’s premier secondary school rugby competitions.

7:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Wellington v Hawke’s Bay. From Westpac Stadium.

9:30 #SkySpeed 10pm Football – International (RPL) Solomon Islands v All Whites.

THURSDAY

6Sep17

DISCOVERY 6:10 Auction Hunters PG Trading Places. 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 MythBusters PG WaterSlide Wipeout. 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Baby Kilcher Arrives. 10am Dr Karl’s Outrageous Acts Of Science PG 10:50 Shark Tank 11:40 A Crime To Remember M 12:30 The Perfect Murder M Homicide Hotel. 1:20 The Vanishing Women M Dumping Ground. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 Auction Hunters PG Flying Ton, Creeping Allen. 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Yukon Men M Running On Empty. 5:40 MythBusters PG Fireball Stun Gun. 6:35 Deadliest Catch M Arctic Mega Storm. 7:30 Deadliest Catch PG Special – A Hillstrand 4th of July. 8:30 Yukon Men M Art of the Eel. 9:25 Alaskan Bush People M 10:15 The Last Alaskans M A Taste of Freedom.

11:05 What On Earth? PG 11:55 The Vanishing Women M

THURSDAY

12:50 The Perfect Murder M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am Auction Hunters 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How Do They Do It? PG 5:20 Auction Hunters PG 5:45 Edge Of Alaska PG

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Sport Storm happy favourites Melbourne halfback Cooper Cronk says his NRL side isn’t shirking the tag of title favourites. The Storm host Parramatta in a qualifying final on Saturday afternoon and the minor premiers are best backed to also collect the main trophy. Cronk says the assessment is fair after their form through the season but his teammates are aware that anything can happen in finals.

Ready for punishment

Stunin Love and Blair Orange clear away from their rivals, including Franco Hatton at yesterday’s Chertsey trials.

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On breeding alone, Stunin Love should be a good horse.

The Paul Court-trained maiden pacer has two of the better pacers to have graced the racetracks of New Zealand in the past 10 years on either side of his bloodlines and he looks to have inherited some of the family genes.

The pacer is a half-brother to three-time New Zealand Trotting Cup winner, Terror To Love and his sire is the former Sires’ Stakes and Victoria Cup winner, Stunin Cullen.

So, there’s a little bit of pressure on the young pacer’s shoulders.

But judging on his performance in his win at yesterday’s trials at the Ashburton race-

course, he’s well on his way.

“He’s pretty smart, I quite like him,” Paul Court said.

“Every time I have asked him to step up, he’s done it and done it well.”

After settling midfield for most of the 2400 metre heat, the strapping pacer moved up outside the leader on the home turn and unwound stylishly to win with plenty in hand.

Forty-three horses went around at the trials meeting, including New Zealand Trotting Cup aspirant Buster Brady, who lined up late in the day.

Next Sunday marks the arrival of the new harness racing season in Canterbury when the Methven Trotting Club get things under way on their grass track surface at their popular spring meeting.

All Whites’ focus shifts to South America Bring on South America.

The All Whites have confirmed their spot in the World Cup Inter-continental playoffs in November, after a 2-2 draw with the Solomons Islands yesterday in Honiara.

The result of the tie was all but sealed after the All Whites 6-1 victory last Friday in Albany, but the New Zealand side killed any

residual doubt with two goals in the first 21 minutes yesterday.

The home side came back with two goals from the spot – one a definite penalty, the other extremely questionable – but the All Whites still progressed 8-3 on aggregate.

They had to survive a frenetic final 15 minutes, after Solomons Islands’ captain Henry Fa’arado

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equalised from the spot, but they negotiated it well.

In the 14th minute Myer Bevan scored his first goal for his country, in just his second international match, showing his poacher’s instinct to be first to a rebound inside the six yard box.

Seven minutes later the All Whites’ lead doubled, after a speculative Kosta Barbarouses

shot looped off Nelson Sale’s head into the Solomons Islands net.

The result means the All Whites will face the fifth placed South American side in a two legged playoff in November for a golden ticket to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

The first match will be in Wellington on November 10 or 11.

Fabio Fognini is ready to accept whatever punishment comes his way for his verbal abuse of an umpire at the US Open. The Italian was initially fined $US24,000 after using extremely derogatory language towards Swedish official Louise Engzell during his first-round singles loss. The Grand Slam Board announced it was investigating whether Fognini had committed a major offence under the Grand Slam Code of Conduct. He could face further sanctions, including a fine of up to $US250,000 and/or a ban from future grand slam events.

Kaino back on deck Jerome Kaino’s pathway back to an All Blacks jersey will begin with Auckland in the NPC this week. Veteran flanker Kaino will sit out a third successive test when the world champions face Argentina in New Plymouth on Saturday. Instead he will play earlier that afternoon for Auckland against Taranaki at Eden Park. The 34-year-old has been granted time away from the national team to address personal issues following revelations about his private life in an Australian newspaper last month.

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