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Big shake no shock

BY SUE NEWMAN

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A magnitude 6 earthquake might have hit Canterbury yesterday morning, but the shaky start to the day didn’t rattle the nerves of people in the Ashburton District.

The quake, centred near Arthurs Pass, was just over 5 kilometres deep and was ranked as severe on the Geonet website. It is reported to have been felt around New Zealand, but closer to home it barely raised a flicker of alarm.

The quake became top national news early yesterday, but around the Ashburton District the community divided neatly into those who had felt a small tremor and those who had

not, with many wondering what the rest of the country was getting excited about.

Many said what was ranked as a severe quake had been more like one of the mild after shocks that followed the September 2010 and February 2011 quakes.

Initially the quake was reported as centred 35 kilometres north of Methven, at Lake Coleridge. Its intensity was rated at 6.4 and it was listed as occurring at a depth of 10 kilometres.

The statistics changed during the day as Geonet seismologists collated data from recording devices located around New Zealand.

Initial readings were taken from seismometers across the country, seismologist John Ristau said, but when staff focused on South Island recorders closer to the epicentre a much more accurate picture of the quake was revealed resulting in a dramatic change in data. continued P3

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It’s been 10 years since they split, yet Jennifer Aniston is still fielding questions about her ex-husband Brad Pitt. The actress is surprisingly OK about it, though. “I don’t find it painful,” she said in a recent interview on CBS News in the US. I think it’s a narrative that follows you because it’s an interesting headline.

It’s more of a media-driven topic.”

When asked if she had moved on Aniston replied: “Well everybody has.” She also revealed that she is on pretty good terms with Pitt, but they’re not exactly close any more.

“We’ve exchanged good wishes and all that sort of stuff to each other, but not a constant thing,” she said.

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Cameron Diaz, Benji Madden ‘to wed’ Cameron Diaz was to wed her rocker fiance Benji Madden last night (NZ time), according to unconfirmed reports.

Sources tell Us Magazine that the couple hosted an intimate rehearsal dinner in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday and then planned to exchange vows just weeks after secretly becoming engaged. Neither Diaz nor Madden have confirmed the engagement news, let alone any wedding plans. The stars began dating last year and news of their engagement started swirling in early December.

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The hit fantasy film The Hobbit has fallen victim to technical problems on the West Coast which have closed Westport’s main movie theatre until further notice.

The NBS Theatre’s Bill Moffitt Cinema has cancelled all screenings. The LPSU power supply on its projector failed on December 28 and its QUBE server, which houses all the content for screening in the cinema, packed up on January 2, said manager Debbie Crackett. Experts had told her the power supply fault was very uncommon and had not happened in Australasia before.

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Dalai Lama ‘to appear’ at Glastonbury Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama appears to be an unlikely booking for the bill of this year’s Glastonbury Festival. The 79-year-old’s website has announced he will be attending the event in Somerset, although the entry was later removed from his online schedule.

The line-up for the event is not expected to be confirmed until around April with organisers usually keen to keep the full list of names under wraps. The message to website visitors, listing his engagement for June 28, said: “His Holiness will give a talk at the Glastonbury Festival in the morning.” A message about him appearing at Kempton Park racetrack the following day to give a talk about Buddhism in the 21st Century remains on the site. The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in Dharamsala, northern India, after fleeing Tibet in 1959 due to upheaval in his homeland. In 2012 he shared a stage with Russell Brand as the comedian compered a question and answer session in Manchester.

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Cooper uses subway Hollywood actor Bradley Cooper is shunning luxury limousines during his stint on stage in New York and taking the subway to work instead. The Hangover star is currently appearing in The Elephant Man on Broadway and he has been spotted taking a train to the Booth Theatre in Manhattan. When asked about his decision to use public transport, Cooper told America’s Nightline TV show that it feels normal to him. “It doesn’t feel crazy. I always take the subway here (in New York).

I guess given the fact that I’m someone who gets photographed, it’s a crazy notion. But there’s millions of people who do it every day,” Cooper said. However, he did admit it was sometimes tricky to remain anonymous amongst his fellow commuters. “I have a lot of manoeuvres, holding on to the railings and you can sense somebody (trying to take pictures). It’s a constant thing to try and blend in.”

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■ EARTHQUAKE REACTIONS

shake What’s all the fuss about? Big no shock

By Daisy HuDson anD sue newman

Yesterday morning’s magnitude 6 quake left many people, including Lake Coleridge resident Toni Barlow, wondering what all the fuss was about.

She described the quake as “very minor”, and said she was surprised that it was being reported nationally.

“It seems ridiculous to us, because seriously, not a single thing fell over, and everyone in the village is saying the same thing. There was a jolt that woke us up and there was a bit of sound before the jolt, and the house sort of rolled for maximum two seconds, so it really was very minor,” she said.

Miss Barlow said the aftershocks from the Christchurch

earthquakes felt worse than yesterday’s tremor. “So while we were close in proximity, I think we felt it less strongly than some of the reports I’ve seen other people saying.”

However, Lake Coleridge Village Homestay owner Peter Low said while it was not to the same scale as previous earthquakes, it still shook his whole house.

“This one was more of a shake, it was more of a rumble, it just went on a lot longer,” he said.

“It was a good one.”

Staff at the Coleridge Power Station kicked into gear after the quake to ensure there was no damage.

TrustPower community relation co-ordinator Suzi Luff said staff undertook an earthquake inspection, which included

checks for physical or layered damage, and to see if any extra work needed to be completed.

Ms Luff said she had not received any reports of damage at the power station.

In Methven people were talking about the shake but just as many were saying they had either slept through the biggest quake at 6.48am; for most the greatest concern was that the quake might be followed by a significant aftershock.

“It brings back the memories of what happened in Christchurch and we’re hoping that this is it,” one woman said.

“It’s a bit close to home for comfort,” another said.

At Café 131, staff said people were talking over coffee about the shake and were saying it wasn’t like the shakes they’d be-

come accustomed to – this one had no noise.

On the street, one person described the earthquake as ‘more like an aftershock” Martin Nordqvist was sitting at his kitchen table reading the paper when the quake struck.

“It was a good shake. I had a funny feeling and the next thing there was a rocking and rolling. We haven’t taken down our Christmas tree and the decorations were moving.”

Methven police Senior Constable Aaron Tapp said he had received no reports of any damage in the area.

“I felt it, it woke me up, but I haven’t heard of anything major,” he said.

Ashburton police had also received no reports of earthquake related damage yesterday.

Quake a good test for museum’s seismometer By sue newman

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A seismometer recently installed at Ashburton’s new museum had its first test in yesterday’s magnitude 6 earthquake.

The machine clearly showed the severe quake and the myriad of aftershocks.

Ashburton is the only museum in the country to house one of the TCI seismometers that are being rolled out nationwide as part of a seismometer in schools project.

Museum manager Michael Hanrahan said the seismometer will be sited in the public area where its recordings can be openly viewed.

Scoring one for the museum was something of a coup, he said, with just four others, all in schools, in the South Island. Museum volunteer, retired teacher Glen Vallender master-minded the project and has been trained in the seismometer’s operation, Mr Hanrahan said.

“I’ve always wanted one of these for the museum and we’re lucky, cost wise all it’s cost is the price of a shelf to put it on, it’s been sponsored by six organisations.”

It is possible for anyone with a password to be able to access data recorded by the machine and it has a QR code that can be scanned.

Ashburton Museum manager Michael Hanrahan with the historical centre’s seismometer showing the readings taken during yesterday’s magnitude 6 earthquake and the following aftershocks.

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from P1 He believes that in spite of the severity of the quake, its physical nature and its isolated location were key factors in making it seem a relatively low-key event.

“With the Christchurch earthquakes there were other factors that ramped up the intensity, this one didn’t have those factors it was a strikeslip quake where one side of the fault moves past the other,” he said.

The strike-slip quake is one of the most common shallow quakes, and was followed by a string of aftershocks, some more than magnitude 5.

A large aftershock could still occur, Mr Ristau said.

While the quake was close to the Southern Alps, it did not occur on the Alpine Fault.

“We haven’t had any reports of damage come in but we have had a lot of fault reports, he said.

By late afternoon the earthquake had been followed by more than 20 aftershocks, ranging in intensity from magnitude 3.3 to 4.2.

All were centred between 25 and 35 kilometres from the quake’s original epicentre.

There were no reports of damage to properties around the Ashburton District.

In the wake of the quake, train services were suspended between Christchurch and Greymouth and Christchurch and Oamaru while KiwiRail staff checked tracks.

State Highway 77 near Methven and State Highways 73 and 6 through to the West Coast were also checked for damage.

None was found.

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■ MID CANTERBURY EDUCATION

Beware the summer slump

By Daisy HuDson

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Children across Mid Canterbury may be enjoying their summer break, but parents are being warned not to let education fall by the wayside during the holidays.

According to a local principal, pupils who do not continue reading and learning in the school holidays are at risk of falling behind when school resumes.

A 2012 New Zealand research project headed

by Stuart McNaughton on the issue, dubbed the “summer learning effect”, found that it was a “major barrier to ongoing achievement”, and the gains made during the school year disappeared.

For Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president Chris Murphy, the issue was a familiar one.

“It’s known as the summer slump,” he said.

“Generally we factor that in, that kids will need a hand, most kids will have slipped back over summer.”

For Mr Murphy, parent engagement and effort was a major factor

in encouraging children to continue with their learning outside of school.

“It’s about finding opportunities, and not thinking ‘oh, I have to go and get a level 17 reading book and sit and read with my child every night’,” he said.

“It’s trying to build it into the things you’re doing anyway.”

Mr Murphy said it would be “great to hit the ground running” and pick up from when school finished at the end of last year.

The drop in children reading over summer had not gone unnoticed at the Ashburton Public Library.

Children’s librarian Adrienne Moodie said the number of children visiting the library during the holidays had decreased overall, which she attributed to a rise in the use of Ebooks.

However, the library was making an effort to encourage children to read more over the summer, with its Read and Grow programme offering prizes for children who borrowed 20 books from the library over the summer break.

Correction The Safe Kids in Daily Supervision (SKIDS) holiday programme is run

by SKIDS and held at Hampstead School. It is not run by Hampstead School, as reported in the Guardian yesterday.

Climbers rescued Two climbers have been plucked from the Bryant Glacier in Otago after becoming disoriented in low cloud. A 23-year-old Australian national and Department of Conservation employee and a 32-year-old Chilean man were airlifted from the glacier, near Kinloch, by strop about 3pm on Monday, five hours after activating an emergency beacon.

Senior Constable Julian Cahill, of Queenstown police, said the pair entered the area on Saturday with the intention of climbing Mt Bonpland the next day before returning to their vehicle at the Glacier Burn car park. However, they became “disorientated in the cloud on the ascent”.

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Fire suspicious A “suspicious and dangerous” fire was raging at a car wrecking yard in Invercargill last evening.

Members of the public were asked to stay away from the scene of the blaze in Otepuni Ave in the city, as it is giving off toxic smoke and fumes, and a number of LPG cylinders could also be in the yard, police said. Both police and the Fire Service were at the scene, with several fire trucks attempting to douse the flames. The fire was “suspicious and dangerous”, police said. Several cordons had been put in place across streets in the area.

- NZME Five-year-old Kaydian Longtime gets stuck into her summer reading at the Ashburton Public Library yesterday.

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■ QUAKE AFTERMATH

Council underground infrastructure intact Ashburton’s underground infrastructure has been given the all-clear following yesterday’s magnitude 6 earthquake.

Ashburton District Council staff have taken a long, hard look at the district’s water networks, including pipes and pumps and have not found any damage and staff are following up with a thorough investigation with contractors to identify if there were any minor leaks.

The earthquake caused no damage to any of the council’s buildings.

While the district may have

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escaped the quake unscathed, council acting emergency manager Rick Catchpowle said it was a timely reminder for people to be prepared for emergencies.

“Leaving it until an emergency strikes may be too late so it is important to be prepared at all times,” he said.

People should have an emergency plan and kit with supplies that would last at least three days in the event of a disaster, Mr Catchpowle said.

The council recommends that emergency kit include: ■ Torch and radio with spare

batteries ■ Any special needs such as hearing aids and spare batteries, glasses or mobility aids ■ Emergency water and easyto-carry food rations such as energy bars and dried foods in case there are delays in reaching a welfare centre or a place where you might find support. If you have any special dietary requirements, ensure you have extra supplies ■ First aid kit and essential medicines ■ Essential items for infants

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or young children such as formula and food, nappies and a favourite toy Change of clothes (wind/ waterproof clothing and strong outdoor shoes) Toiletries – towel, soap, toothbrush, sanitary items, toilet paper Blankets or sleeping bags Face and dust masks

Further information on disaster preparedness can be found on the Ashburton District Council’s website on its Civil Defence and Emergency Management page.

Tramper ‘swept away’ A tramper who went missing in a remote and rugged part of the South Island is likely to have been swept away by strong currents before drowning in a gorge, searchers say. Police yesterday named the missing tramper as 41-year-old Wellington man Scott Oliver, also known as Brock. He was last seen in Mt Aspiring National Park at 6.30pm on Sunday, when he separated from the rest of his party to attempt a shortcut through a gorge into the upper reaches of the Wilkin River.

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Dead man shot A man who was found dead at a Manawatu house on Sunday was shot, police confirmed yesterday as they released his name. James Whatuira, 49, from Pahiatua, was discovered at the property on Ormond St around 3pm on January 4. He did not live at that address, police said. The investigation was upgraded on Monday from a suspicious death to a homicide.

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■ ASHBURTON CRASH VICTIM

Hoover lived for music, bikes

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The death of an Ashburton man in a motorcycle crash last weekend is a huge loss for the entire Ashburton community, his grieving wife said yesterday.

Clifford Anthony Sparrow, known as Tony or Hoover, died when his motorcycle left the road on State Highway 73, near Porters Pass, on Saturday.

Mr Sparrow’s wife of three years, Kiley Sparrow, said her motorcycle enthusiast husband and his friends had organised the trip just hours before they set out.

“I knew that he was going to go, because that was just Tony, he loved doing it,” she said.

However, an eerie omen preceded the tragedy, and Mrs Sparrow said she knew something was not right when the couple left home before the trip.

“As we left, my veil usually hangs on a nail on the wall, when we came in here to get our leathers before we left, my veil fell, and has stayed there ever since.”

The couple had been together for nine years, and met at a party Mrs Sparrow had organised after a band set to play at the event pulled out.

“So I did some ringing around Ashburton and said we need a really easy going, mid-

The death of Tony Sparrow is a huge loss for the Ashburton community, his wife Kiley says.

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dle of the road rock band, who would be able to do it, and they said Hoover.”

According to his wife, music was a big part of Mr Sparrow’s life, and he had played in bands for more than 20 years.

The couple had only recently moved into their new home.

“It’s unfortunate, I had everything I could’ve asked for – I had a lovely man who treated me like a princess, we had a

lovely home, we were financially secure, we had it all,” Mrs Sparrow said.

“I’d say ‘look, we’ve done it babe’, and he’d just sit there with a smile on his face.”

Mr Sparrow worked as an assistant manager at Mico Plumbing in Ashburton, a job his wife said he “lived for”.

For Mrs Sparrow, the death of her “quick-witted” husband was a huge loss.

“He had an awesome sense of humour and would never ever say a bad thing about anyone.”

“Honestly, he was just loved by so many people.”

Mr Sparrow was one of nine people to die on South Island roads over the holiday period, with 17 fatalities recorded in total.

A service to celebrate his life will be held at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on Friday.

Death not believed to be related to quake The death of a man found in a deep hole on the West Coast yesterday is not believed to be related to yesterday’s earthquake in the region, police say.

The man’s body was dis-

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covered by workers checking power lines following the magnitude 6.0 quake about 2.15pm near the Kumara-Inchbonnie Rd, southeast of Greymouth.

It appeared the man had fallen 18m into the hole in a remote rural area, which po-

lice said was not created by the quake, but was a natural formation in the landscape.

An investigation into the circumstances of his death was under way, police said.

A search and rescue abseil team was on its way to the

scene to recover the man’s body.

The recovery operation was expected to take some time, and no more information would be released until his body was removed for examination, a police spokeswoman said. - NZME

The chips are down in Otago – and, in some cases, out.

A lack of potatoes due to poor weather in spring has resulted in a shortage of potato chips on some supermarket shelves.

Visits by the Otago Daily Times showed displays of New Zealand’s favourite salty treats were depleted in some Dunedin supermarkets.

However, raw potatoes were still found to be in supply.

A Countdown spokeswoman said the supermarket giant was “working directly with our potato suppliers to help make sure we have potatoes and potato chips available for our customers”.

Foodstuffs New Zealand said stock of all chip brands was available, but suppliers were “managing supply due to challenging growing and harvesting conditions”.

New Zealand’s two largest chip producers – Eta Snack Foods and Bluebird Foods – were unavailable for comment when contacted this week.

But Blair Harris, production manager for Timaru-based chip producer Heartland Potato Chips, said the company had struggled to keep up with demand as a result of other producers struggling to source potatoes.

“Really for us, we physically can’t make enough potato chips to supply,” he said.

The company produced its own potatoes and had not been affected by the shortage impacting other producers.

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■ DISTRICT-WIDE WATER RESTRICTIONS

Keep close eye on water use

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The mercury might have dipped yesterday but that hasn’t lessened the need for people across the Ashburton District to keep a close eye on their water consumption, council staff say.

On Monday the council imposed level two restrictions on all of its water supplies, putting residents on to an alternate day hosing regime between the hours of 6pm and midnight only.

The restrictions helped even out demand and allowed residents to keep on using water for essential and non-essential purposes, council service delivery manager Neil McCann said.

“They apply to any use of water from a hose connected to a council water supply, including garden irrigation schemes.”

Mt Somers village is on level five restrictions which limits water use to drinking, cooking and bathing only.

It moved to this level on Friday after a heavy draw down on

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the supply saw the gravity fed tanks virtually empty.

People with private wells are exempt from the council’s hosing restrictions.

The council has 150 properties on its register where residents have requested a Private Well sign.

There are, however, other properties with wells that are not on the council register.

To help conserve water over the summer when using their hoses, the council is encouraging residents to: ■ Fill a paddling pool for children rather than squirting

a hose (squirting can waste up to 1000 litres per hour).

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Every time you flush the toilet you use 13 to 20 litres of water, so make sure you only flush when you need to.

Do not switch on the dishwasher or washing machine until you have a full load ready to go.

Rinse and peel vegetables in a bowl or sink instead of running them under the tap – you could save up to 10 litres every minute.

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■ EDUCATION YEARENDER

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Change, growth to continue

By Daisy HuDson

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Change, growth and controversy – all words that could apply to a tumultuous year for education in Mid Canterbury.

Booming rolls have caused headaches for schools as they tried to cope with logistical issues, leading to a series of meetings between principals and Ministry of Education officials.

The spike in student numbers will see a bevy of changes in 2015, with increased staff-

ing appointments and multiple building projects on the cards.

Mid Canterbury Principals Association president Chris Murphy praised the collaborative approach local educators took to the issue, which he believed had led to a lot of “unease and uncertainty”.

“We’ve all got different situations and we’re all doing the best thing possible for our own school, but to take time to step back and look at the district as a whole, and education in the district as a whole, there was a

level of selflessness I suppose,” he said.

On top of the roll growth challenges, some principals faced major funding changes in November after the Ministry of Education released the first changes to school decile ratings in seven years.

Rakaia School principal Mark Ellis was left fuming after his school jumped from a decile four to a six, resulting in a loss of thousands of dollars of funding.

Mr Ellis labelled the change,

which was the biggest in the district, a “joke”.

The changes are set to continue in the new year, with the roll out of the government’s flagship education policy, Investing in Educational Success (IES).

The programme, which Mr Murphy believed would be “massive” for the district, will see a cluster of schools in the district working collaboratively on a range of issues.

“It’s going to be a huge thing,” Mr Murphy said.

■ YOUNG ACHIEVERS

Good, strong work ethics already on show

By Caitlin Porter

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High achieving young people can be found all over the district and former Netherby School pupils Mahina Edwards, 11, and Gemma Taylor, 11, are no exception.

Mahina loves her sport, she plays netball and her favourite positions are goal shoot and goal attack.

She is also talented at athletics, and represented Netherby School at the counties in high jump – although she admits her favourite event is long jump.

Sport was not the only aspect at school Mahina was involved in – she was also a Kapa Haka leader and practised every Friday night during the school year, she was a part of the school choir and was also chief librarian. She said she was busy during the year but enjoyed it.

Achieving well in school was another thing that Mahina said was important to her. She said she does well in reading and maths but said her favourite subject was writing.

Last year she sat two International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) tests, one for reading and another for maths.

She did so well, she was awarded merit and got the highest score in the school for the reading test.

Another achievement that Mahina is proud of is her Diploma in Deejayology which she received when she went on Hokonui radio.

When asked what her fa-

House set on fire A Bay of Plenty house was saved from being engulfed in flames by “pure luck” after it was broken in to, police said. Police said a person, or number of people, unlawfully entered the house on Kauri St in Edgecumbe on Sunday night or Monday morning. Once inside the house, they caused damage to a number of different areas and a fire was deliberately started in one of the bedrooms. Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Darren Thomas said: “This is a particularly concerning situation, as many houses are completely destroyed when fires are lit in this way. It is only by pure luck that the entire house was not engulfed in flames.”

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Deaths referred An investigation into the deaths of an elderly couple whose bodies were found in their Dunedin home has been completed. Detective Senior Sergeant Kallum Croudis said post-mortem examinations were done yesterday. The results will form part of a coronial hearing.

The couple in their 80s, who had been married for 62 years, were found in their Brockville home on Sunday. The family had asked for privacy.

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Pines Beach fire A plantation fire that blazed through Pines Beach in north Canterbury on Monday is being treated as suspicious. Police are now asking anyone who may have noticed any suspicious activity in the area to come forward.

The blaze began in a plantation forest area 300m north of the car park at Pines Beach, 4km east of Kaiapoi, just before 2pm on Monday. A helicopter equipped with a monsoon bucket and 21 fire engines battled the fire, which at its peak saw the evacuation of 40 nearby homes.

- NZME Former Netherby School pupil Mahina Edwards, 11, does well in sport and academics and said she enjoys both.

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vourite part about school was she said she enjoyed seeing her friends and also loved netball.

“Netball runs in my family,” she said.

She pins herself as outgoing too.

“Anything that includes doing something in front of people, I love,” she said.

She entered a poetry competition at school, and said she also really enjoys giving speeches.

When she grows up her ambition is to be a doctor.

“I had aplastic anaemia and want to help people the way

they helped me,” she said.

Aplastic anaemia is a rare condition where the number of red and white cells, as well as platelets are depleted.

Gemma has also been very busy, last year she was a part of the Youth Council and was a part of the choir, the Kapa Haka group, was a librarian and on the Student Council.

Outside of school she was a part of the Cactus Youth Group, which is run by Safer Ashburton and was a Patrol Leader in Scouts.

She played a variety of sports too, from miniball to

rippa rugby to soccer and tennis, and netball too.

Like Mahina she also represented Netherby School at the athletics counties. On top of this, she went to swimming and cross country counties too.

Gemma does well in school, and achieved the highest stanine level (stanine nine) in reading and maths in the school.

And although she isn’t looking too far ahead and doesn’t quite know what she wants to be when she grows up, she does know she wants to work hard at Ashburton Intermediate School this year.

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Motorbike, car collide A Whangarei man died on Monday when his motorbike and a car collided. Karlton Hughes, 50, died at the scene of the crash on Murrays Rd, west of Whangarei.

Police said the crash happened about 2.45pm when two motorcyclists were travelling towards Mangakahia Rd. Hughes’ bike and an oncoming car collided and he died at the scene. - NZME

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■ HAKATERE HUTS

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Owners of huts in the second row of the Hakatere settlement have spent their first Christmas with an unimpeded view of the Pacific Ocean.

This time last year their view was not of the sea, it was of the six, much loved homes of their neighbours that were slowly slipping into the sea as the coast beneath them was eroded. In November those six baches were demolished and the face of Hakatere changed forever.

And that meant when the hut holders’ association held its annual meeting on Sunday, it was a bitter-sweet occasion, chairman Ross Lithgow said.

It might be a new year with a new beginning, but a fair bit of history disappeared over the past year, he said.

“But people have moved on, they’ve accepted what has happened. The land is starting to grass over and in a year’s time you’ll never know what’s happened,” he said.

An order to demolish was placed on the six baches in May last year by the Ashburton District Council because ero-

sion of the cliffs on which they were built made them unsafe. For the six bach owners, two of whom were permanent residents, that meant finding alternative accommodation.

Several years ago the hut holders’ association, aware that the front row baches were on borrowed time, made land available at the rear of the settlement where those owners could rebuild. Two are considering that option, four have chosen not to, Mr Lithgow said.

“They’ve been given a rates holiday until the end of March and then they have to decide, we’ll have to know their intentions.”

If the displaced hut owners take up the option of building, they will have no chance to gain a view of the sea as hut holders’ association rules state all buildings must be single storey only. If they choose not to build, the rear sections will remain vacant.

“Those rules are there to protect everyone and I guess the second row hut owners have become the beneficiaries of an unfortunate situation,” Mr Lithgow said.

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Mid Canterbury GPs were kept busy over the Christmas and New Year period, tending to ailments ranging from rashes to stomach bugs, and even a few stitch-ups.

Allenton Medical Centre provided duty doctor services on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and were kept busy.

Practice manager Nicky Webb said 14 patients were seen on Christmas Day and 51 on Boxing Day – 31 in the morning and 20 in the afternoon.

“It’s a high number, obviously Christmas was cruisy but it was made up for on Boxing Day.” In between Christmas and New Year, Moore Street Medical Centre took over the duty doctor service.

Receptionist Sharon Robin said Saturday, December 27 was a very busy day for the practice.

There were no patients with any complaints that were out of the ordinary she said, just general bugs and sickness.

Tinwald Medical Centre then operated over the New Year. The acting office manager said the centre was very busy on Friday, January 2, so much so, that a

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“It was absolutely frantic, morning and night,” she said.

The centre was open from 10am until 3pm and then again from 6pm until 9pm.

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The Sealy Street Medical Centre receptionist said Sunday, January 4 was also an exceptionally busy day.

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All the patients seen in the morning session on the Sunday lived within Mid Canterbury she said, there were no people from out of town.

Methven and Rakaia medical centres also operated a Christmas and New Year duty roster.

Dr Gayle O’Duffy of Methven said Christmas Day and Boxing Day were quiet, which is rather typical, but the period from January 1 to January 4 was busy.

In Rakaia, the weekend following Christmas was “pretty busy”, receptionist Karen Langdon said.

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t was an early-morning earthquake that rattled nerves but which ultimately left many Mid Cantabrians wondering what all the fuss was about.

It was also a rude reminder for people to be emergency-prepared just two-and-a-half weeks from the anniversary of the deadly Christchurch earthquake.

The earthquake rolled through the district at 6.48am yesterday, as many townies made their breakfast and many farmers hosed-down their milking sheds.

Items rattled on shop shelves, lights and clothes hangers became pendulums and spooked animals jumped, mooed, whinnied and barked.

Programmes were interrupted with breaking news of an earthquake near Arthur’s Pass. Soon, GeoNet reported the 6.4 quake was near Lake Coleridge.

Reports focused on Methven and across the district, people wondered whether they were alone in feeling a tremor that felt less intense than the magnitude 6.3 Christchurch earthquake.

They were not. Mid-morning – long after surprised Lake Coleridge and Methven residents told media about a big but not frightening shake – GeoNet said the quake was magnitude 6 and near Arthur’s Pass.

Cantabrians know enough about earthquakes to know it takes time to accurately pinpoint and measure them. They also know, from sometimes horrifying and bitter experience, what it is like when a big one hits.

Many people compared yesterday to the devastating 2011 earthquake and, for many, this made yesterday’s quake relatively inconsequential. But it should not be written-off as unimportant.

Instead, it should prompt us all to make sure we are ready for whatever nature throws at us; to check – or even create – our emergency survival kits and make sure they are ready and useable, and to revise their plans for if a big one hits.

Emergency preparedness is a hot topic when Canterbury pauses to remember the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. Preparing now means we can mark this month’s anniversary knowing we have tried to prepare for the unimaginable.

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he main purpose of year-end reviews, of course, is to hold the ads apart. But they can also serve as a kind of annual check-up on the political health – and also on the economic, demographic and even physical health – of the planet and its teeming human population.

So imagine that we are a panel of high-priced medicos reviewing the health status of our most important client, the human race.

The first thing to note is that the client is still piling on weight at an alarming rate – up from two billion units to seven billion in the past seventy-five years – but continues to thrive, for the most part. And most of the ailments that it worries about are mere hypochondria.

Take, for example, the widespread concern (at least in the media and among what Bob Fisk calls the “think-tank mountebanks”) that the emergence of the so-called Islamic State in the no-man’s land between Iraq and Syria will lead to catastrophe. There will allegedly be a surge in terrorist attacks around the world, a Sunni-Shia religious war spanning the entire Middle East, or even a global religious war between Muslims and everybody else.

The Sunni fanatics and the Shia fanatics are far too busy trying to kill each other to have time to spare for attacking non-Muslims. (Besides, most Muslims don’t want to attack anybody; they just want to be left in peace.) Quite a lot of the slaughter in Iraq and Syria is driven by religion, but we are still a long way from a religious conflict that directly involves the really important states of the Middle East:

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Even the anticipated surge in terrorist attacks outside the region is not likely to come to pass. The only strategic purpose for such attacks by any organised group of Islamist extremists is to gain support and recruits within their own region. If they can lure Western powers into killing lots of Muslims in their region, then their cause will prosper locally.

As it turns out, Islamic State has not even needed to carry out terrorist attacks in the West to achieve this goal. Videos of Western hostages being beheaded have been enough to get the bombing going again, and Western governments are no more troubled by the sheer pointlessness of the bombing than they were in the past.

Both sides are playing for the home audience and really don’t care much about the impact of their actions on the alleged enemy.

The whole “Islamic State” panic is a tempest in a fairly small teacup. The casualties are small, and the entire region matters little economically or strategically except to its own inhabitants. Even in the unlikely event that a Sunni-Shia religious war should engulf the whole of the Middle East, it would have no more effect

on the rest of the planet than the European wars of religion four centuries ago had on the Middle East. That is to say, hardly any.

The other great shock of 2014 was a war in Europe.

The Ukrainian revolution of last February was a messy and complicated business, but it need not have ended in Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and in a Russian-backed separatist war in Ukraine’s two eastern-most provinces.

We owe that mainly to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s world-view as a former agent of the KGB, the Soviet secret police, which (as the old saying had it) thwarted 10 anti-Soviet plots for every one that actually existed.

There was no Western plot, but Putin is driven by the belief that there was. He has taken Russia into a confrontation with the West that it cannot win, and the country’s economy is already crumbling under the twin strains of coping with Western sanctions and the collapse of the oil price. He is finding it almost impossible to back away without losing face, but he has nothing to gain by continuing the conflict either. Risk of a new Cold War: minimal.

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Climate change is the spectre at every feast, the unstoppable rot that undermines every positive development. The failure at Copenhagen in 2009 bleeds indistinguishably into the fudge at Durban in 2011 and on into the feeble compromise in Lima in 2014, which sets us up for the bigger disappointment of Paris in 2015. And even if by some miracle we get a useful agreement in Paris next year, nothing will actually be done until 2020.

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■ AUSTRALIA

Sex claim ‘not a fantasy’

By Jenny CoCkerell A mother-of-three who moved from the NSW Central Coast back to Florida in the US appeared to be living the dream.

But despite the happy veneer, Virginia Roberts claims she was used as an underage sex slave by a number of powerful men, including Britain’s Prince Andrew.

Her allegations, which are laid out in a US lawsuit, have sent shockwaves around the world and could prove devastating for the royal family if found to be true.

American-born Ms Roberts is understood to have lived in the Central Coast suburb of Glenning Valley with her Australian husband for 11 years.

The couple, who settled in NSW after meeting in Thailand, moved to Florida with their three young children at the end of 2013 where they have been spending idyllic days swimming in the sea and visiting theme parks.

Back in NSW, friends of the 31-year-old say they had no idea about her past life, but have no reason not to believe her.

“The fact that she never boasted or talked about it to any of us to my knowledge lends credibility to what she went through in my estima-

tion,” Kate Kirton told Daily Mail Australia.

“There is no way she could be regarded as a fantasist or anything like that. She was the kind of person who told things as they were.”

Ms Roberts is now said to be writing a tell-all book detailing how she was allegedly trafficked by billionaire and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to a number of rich and powerful men.

She says she had sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, claims that are vehemently denied by the royal family and which have led it to break with its usual protocol to issue a series of stronglyworded statements of denial.

Her accusations are part of a lawsuit over how US federal prosecutors handled the case of Mr Epstein - a former close friend of the prince - who was jailed for 18 months in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution.

Ms Roberts claims Mr Epstein kept her as a sex slave between 1999 and 2002, when she was aged between 15 and 17, after he recruited her as a masseuse.

In the newly-filed court documents, she says she was paid $US15,000 to have sex with the prince in London, New York

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and on Mr Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

She originally waived her right to anonymity in an interview she gave to Britain’s Mail on Sunday in 2011.

At the time, the paper reported that Ms Roberts was 17 or older when she met the prince and there was no suggestion of any sexual relations between the pair.

The new claims have led to the royal family issuing a number of statements in support of the prince.

A Buckingham Palace spokes-

man said over the weekend: “It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts.

“The allegations made are false and without any foundation.”

Andrew, 54, flew back to the UK from a skiing holiday in the ritzy Swiss resort of Verbier after the reports emerged.

His friendship with Mr Epstein has already caused controversy with the prince stepping down from his role as the UK’s business ambassador after he was accused of a lack of judgment about his links with the American billionaire following his trial.

Despite the strong denials, Ms Roberts continues to stand by her claims and says she won’t be “bullied back into silence”.

“These types of aggressive attacks on me are exactly the reason why sexual abuse victims typically remain silent and the reason why I did for a long time,” she said in a statement released through her lawyers.

Sarah Ferguson, who had been in Verbier with her former husband and their younger daughter Eugenie, described him as the “the greatest man - AAP there is”.

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Heavy flooding hits Washington state A landslide has left nearly 200 people stranded in their homes in Washington as heavy rain soaked parts of the northwestern US state.

A video posted on local news

websites showed a rain-swollen hillside in the Pacific coastal town of Hoquiam collapsing onto houses below.

The slide damaged several houses and blocked the only

road out of a hillside neighbourhood, trapping nearly 200 residents, police said on Monday, according to media reports.

The National Weather Service reported widespread mi-

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and police commissioner Bill Bratton have criticised dozens of officers for turning their backs on the mayor at the funeral of a murdered policeman.

De Blasio said the action by “some individual officers” disrespected the families of Detectives Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, who were shot dead on December 20.

“I cannot understand why anyone would do such a thing in a context like that,” he told a news conference a day after Liu’s funeral.

“They were disrespectful to the people of this city who in fact honour the work of the NYPD,” he added.

Tens of thousands of police officers attended funerals a week apart for Liu and Ramos, who were killed by a black gunman claiming to be avenging the deaths of African-Americans during recent confrontations with police.

At Ramos’s funeral last week, hundreds of officers turned away from the mayor and a small number defied instructions from Bratton by repeating the action at Liu’s funeral on Sunday.

Some officers accuse de Blasio of inciting the shooting over remarks about police relations with black Americans, and many were enraged that he counsels his son to be careful around police.

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Ebola child saved Three patients have been successfully treated and discharged from an Australian-funded ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said an 11-year-old girl was the first to be discharged and has been released into the care of her family.

Ms Bishop said the girl’s father had paid tribute to the Australian and New Zealand health professionals who treated his daughter.

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Funeral for Cairns kids A public funeral for eight children who were killed in far north Queensland will be held on Saturday at the Cairns Convention Centre. Relatives of the four girls and four boys, aged between two and 14 years, have invited members of the community to the service at 10am on January 10. The mother of seven of the children and aunt to the eighth, Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday, 37, has been charged with eight counts of murder.

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Train crash injures 69 At least 69 people were injured when two commuter trains collided in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state. The accident happened on Monday night when one of the trains, which had stopped at a station, was rammed from behind by another, authorities say. The accident happened in Mesquita, outside Rio de Janeiro.

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Alleged abuser in NZ Tasmanian detectives are preparing a case for prosecutors after interviewing a former teacher accused of sexually abusing boys in the 1960s.

Ronald Thomas was named during a public hearing in Hobart of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Former students of the city’s exclusive Hutchins boys’ school gave evidence that the 1960s music teacher had abused them. The hearing was told Mr Thomas was dead. However, now aged 77, Mr Thomas is living in a rural part of New Zealand’s North Island. - AAP

Cycle to keep young Not everyone can emulate Bradley Wiggins, but serious cycling may help to keep you young, scientists say. A study of fit amateur cyclists aged 55 to 79 found that many were physically and biologically much younger than most people of the same age. The 81 male and 41 female participants underwent extensive tests of their heart, lung, neuromuscular, metabolic, and hormonal functions. Their reflexes, muscle and bone strength, and oxygen uptake were also measured, as well as mental ability and general health and well-being. - PA

Land spaceship here SpaceX aims to launch a new era in modern rocket science by landing a key part of its Falcon 9 rocket on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. The California-based company headed by billionaire internet entrepreneur Elon Musk has given itself just a 50-50 chance of success in the bid to guide the powerful first stage of the rocket to a floating platform about 322km off the coast of northern Florida after launching from Cape Canaveral.

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■ MARKET GATHERS STEAM

Pateke less than thought

Record Auckland house prices or choice lower,” Barfoot & Thompson managing director Peter Thompson said.

“Even though December was the shortest selling month of the year we sold 1050 properties, our fourth busiest month of the year.”

The agency had less than two months’ stock on its books at the end of December, indicating that in the first quarter of this year, buyer choice will remain “severely limited”, Thompson said.

In the 2014 year, more houses had sold in higher price ranges

while activity fell in the lower priced segments of the market, following the Reserve Bank introduction of loan-to-value ratio limits from October 2013, limiting high debt mortgage borrowing.

The Reserve Bank hiked interest rates at four consecutive meetings last year, pushing the benchmark interest rate up 1 percentage point to 3.5 per cent.

Over the year, 29.5 per cent of all homes sold for less than $500,000, down from 38.6 per cent of all sales in 2013.

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A spokesman for Nathan Guy, the Minister for Primary Industries, said as far as he was aware the ministry hadn’t been approached by farmers in dry regions of Canterbury, while the ministry said it continued to monitor the dry conditions.

Niwa, the crown’s climate research institute, advises the ministry on weather conditions.

“Under these current conditions, if widespread meaningful rainfall doesn’t occur then drought may be imminent where there is severe or extremely drier than normal soils for this time of the year,” Niwa forecaster Chris Brandolino said.

“There is going to be some minor rain and when you’re as dry as we are in southern Canterbury and eastern Canterbury it’s helpful, but if you’re running a huge deficit it helps but you need

a lot more to make a substantial dent.”

Canterbury dry-land farmers are selling off excess stock while irrigators are facing restrictions on water under the agreement between farmers and Environment Canterbury.

South Canterbury lowland rivers were completely shut off from irrigation, Fed Farmers’ Hurst said, with only an environmental flow to keep fish alive.

“Irrigators should be more insulated but this year they were caught out because there has been no snow up in the hills to give them any bank of water and they had to start irrigating a month earlier than they normally would have,” Hurst said.

If lowland rivers “keep dropping the way they are, and they’re dropping pretty rapidly now, fish and game will be out there saving salmon and trout as fast as they can go.”

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Canterbury is on the verge of a 20th century-style drought with the southern region the driest it has been in a decade, forcing farmers to sell surplus stock and leading to restrictions on irrigation as the area waits for rain.

Soil moisture in eastern and southern Canterbury is between severely and extremely drier than normal, while the outlook for rain remains light, according to data from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa).

The region, which suffered crippling droughts through the 1970s to 1990s, is the driest it has been in a decade, Ivon Hurst, Federated Farmers’ South Canterbury president, told BusinessDesk.

“We are in what you would call a drought - not an emergency, official drought where the government has to come in and give assistance, but there is no moisture in the ground, we have a consistently dry weather pattern,” Hurst said.

“If we do get rain at this stage then we’re saved and we’ll have a good season, but I very much doubt that - the weather pattern is too stable.

“It’s got the same feel as the big droughts we had in the last century.”

The New Zealand government declares droughts on the advice from the Ministry for Primary

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Auckland’s average house sale price rose to a new record in December as sales volumes for the month surged to a 12-year high amid tight supply, according to the city’s largest real estate agency.

House sales climbed 28.5 per cent to 1050 in December from the year earlier month, their highest level for the typically shorter December trading month since 2002, according to Auckland real estate agency Barfoot & Thompson.

The housing market in New Zealand’s largest city has been gathering steam following a soft patch around last year’s September general election.

December’s average price increased 8.4 per cent to a record $758,891 from the year earlier month while the number of properties on Barfoot & Thompson’s books at the end of the month declined 16 per cent to a decade low of 2500, the agency said.

“It was our busiest December in the last 10 years with demand never being higher,

New Zealand Oil & Gas, the exploration company, says the Pateke4H well in the Tui oilfield off the Taranaki coast will boost the field’s reserves by less than initially thought. The Wellington-based company and partners AWE and Pan Pacific Petroleum expect the well to lift Tui’s recoverable reserves by 2.4 million barrels gross, of which a net 660,000 barrels are attributable to NZOG, it said in a statement. Of that, 1.9 million barrels come from Pateke-4H itself and an additional 500,000 barrels from other Tui areas as a result of extending the field’s life. The initial evaluation of the resource estimated 2.5 million barrels, of which NZOG’s share would have been 687,500 barrels. Global oil prices have plunged in recent months, exacerbated by OPEC resisting calls to reduce their supply.

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Greek lamb sausage rolls Filling 500g Quality Mark lamb mince 1 large onion, finely chopped 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 marinated roasted red capsicum, chopped 2C chopped spinach 1 1/2 T dried oregano 2t ground cumin 1t paprika Zest and juice of 1 lemon 1/2 C uncooked couscous 1T tomato paste 1/2 C feta, crumbled 1 egg, lightly beaten Pinch of chilli flakes (optional) To assemble 300g pre-rolled pastry sheets (3x sheets) 1 egg beaten with 1T milk 2T sesame or poppy seeds ■ Preheat the oven to 170°C fan bake (190°C conventional) and line a tray with baking paper.

■ ■ Filling: Heat a little oil in a frying pan over a medium heat, add the onion and cook for 5 minutes until soft. Add the garlic, capsicum, spinach, oregano, cumin, paprika, lemon zest and juice, and cook for another few minutes, or until most of the moisture has evaporated.

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■ Cut the rolls into thirds or quarters with a sharp knife and place seamside down on the baking tray, a few centimetres apart. Repeat with remaining pastry and mince.

■ Brush the rolls all over with the egg wash, and prick the tops a few times with a fork to let the steam escape during cooking. Sprinkle with seeds. Bake in the lower half of the oven for 40 minutes until the pastry is dark golden brown and puffy.

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There’s more to salad than lettuce

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ummer means salads, but there’s a lot more to a bowl of salad than the traditional lettuce-based mix.

Living on lettuce might be fine, but if you want to boost your daily intake of vegetables, there’s nothing easier in the summer than turning those vegetables into a salad – with or without meat.

Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1/2 C olive oil 125g feta cheese, diced Toasted pita bread, for serving ■ Place salad ingredients in bowl.

■ In a small bowl or measuring cup, whisk together the lemon juice, garlic, 1t salt and 1t pepper.

■ Slowly whisk in the olive oil to make an emulsion.

■ Pour the dressing over the salad, tossing gently to coat all the vegetables.

■ Add the feta, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and toss gently.

■ Serve the salad with the toasted pita bread.

Surimi pasta salad 1C cherry tomatoes, halved 1/2 C kalamata olives 1 handful rocket leaves Zest and juice of 1 large lemon Salt Black pepper, freshly ground to taste 3 spring onions, thinly sliced 1/2 C roasted almonds, chopped 200g penne pasta 250g surimi mix ■ Boil the pasta until al dente in plenty of well-salted boiling water.

■ Drain and toss with 4T of lemonflavoured olive oil. Cool ■ Combine with surimi and toss well. Season.

Lentil, beetroot and feta salad

■ Combine all ingredients except salad greens.

■ Arrange alternate layers of salad greens and bean mixture on a platter.

■ Scatter with fresh basil or parsley. Serve with crusty bread.

Thai vege salad

Bean and ham salad 250g green beans, trimmed 425g can four-bean mix, well drained 100g feta, diced 1C cooked diced ham or cooked chicken 1/2 C cherry tomatoes, halved 1/2 red onion, finely sliced 3C salad leaves 1T fresh basil or parsley leaves 1/2 C vinaigrette

2 carrots, peeled and sliced into fine ribbons using a vegetable peeler 1 can chickpeas, 390g, drained 1 red onion, peeled and diced 1/2 telegraph cucumber, cut into long julienne slices 3/4 C fresh coriander red pepper Dressing 2t sesame oil 2T mint sauce 3T fish sauce 2T lime juice 1 red chilli, finely chopped with seeds

■ Place all the salad ingredients into a large bowl and mix well.

■ Drizzle the dressing over the ingredients.

Cous cous, pumpkin and cashew nut salad 1C cous cous 1/2 C corn kernels 1 red capsicum, finely chopped 600g pumpkin, chopped into small chunks 1 red onion, sliced 6T orange juice 2T lime juice 1T balsamic vinegar 2T olive oil 2T cashew nuts, toasted

■ Roast pumpkin and onion slices for about 30 minutes, until soft and tender.

■ Combine juices, vinegar and oil to make the dressing.

■ Combine all other ingredients in a large bowl, add the dressing and toss well to combine.

■ Eat warm or chilled.

Middle Eastern salad 4 spring onions, white and green parts, thinly sliced 450g ripe tomatoes, seeded, cored and diced 1 cucumber, halved lengthwise, seeded and diced 390g can chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1/3 C chopped fresh parsley 1/3 C chopped fresh mint leaves 1/3 C torn fresh basil leaves 1/4 C freshly squeezed lemon juice 2 large cloves garlic, minced

2C organic brown lentils 1 onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 4T extra virgin olive oil 2T root ginger, chopped 2t cumin seeds 2t turmeric 2t mild curry powder 3/4 C red wine vinegar 4 spring onions, sliced 1C celery, diced 450g roasted baby beetroot, chopped 250g feta, diced 1/2 C fresh coriander, chopped ■ Cook the lentils in boiling water until tender, allow 30 to 40 minutes.

■ Drain and place in a large bowl to cool.

■ Saute the onion and garlic in olive oil for three minutes.

■ Add the ginger, spices and curry powder. Stir in the vinegar and boil.

■ Pour the hot vinegar mixture over the cooled lentils. Mix well.

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■ Blanch green beans by plunging into boiling water for 2-3 minutes ■ Drain and cool quickly by rinsing in cold water.

■ Preheat oven to 200°C. ■ Cover cous cous with an equal quantity of boiling water or stock in a bowl.

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In brief Kernaghan ‘unavailable’ Mike Kernaghan, New Zealand’s bowler of the moment, confirmed yesterday he was unavailable for national selection because Bowls New Zealand will not select the player he regards as the country’s best skip, Gary Lawson. “They have told me categorically they will not select him and that fills me with considerable angst,” Kernaghan said yesterday as he partnered Lawson to post-section play in the national fours championship at Browns Bay on Auckland’s North Shore.

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Nishikori confident Kei Nishikori has every reason to be full of confidence as he begins his Australian Open preparations in the familiar surrounds of Brisbane.

The 25-year-old finished 2014 at a career high world ranking of fifth after reaching the US Open final and winning four titles in the past 12 months. Nishikori’s exploits in New York, including a semi-final upset of Novak Djokovic, made him the first man from an Asian country to reach a grand slam final. Nishikori holds a 12-5 career record at the Australian Open, suggesting a repeat of his US Open heroics isn’t out of the question later this month.

“I have more confidence than before, especially (given) I won two tournaments after US Open”.- AAP

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■ TENNIS

Seeds crash at Classic A third seed has fallen at the ASB Classic, continuing the run of upsets at the Auckland tournament.

Former world No2 Svetlana Kuznetsova has been beaten by Czech qualifier Lucie Hradecka 3-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-4 in a match lasting almost two and a half hours.

Hradecka was good value for the win, overcoming a bright start by Kuznetsova to record the second win by a qualifier yesterday.

The 153-ranked Czech will face popular Auckland visitor Julia Goerges in the second round.

Meanwhile, 2009 ASB Classic finalist Elena Vesnina has also progressed to the next round, beating France’s Kristina Mladenovic 7-6 6-2.

Earlier, Polish qualifier Urzula Radwanska has continued the upsets at the ASB Classic,

Urzula Radwanska knocked Francesca Schiavone out yesterday.

beating former Grand Slam champion Francesca Schiavone in straight sets yesterday.

Sure, Schiavone is not the same player who took the 2010

French Open but the Italian was still ranked almost 100 places higher than her opponent.

However she was outplayed

for most of the match and lost 6-4 7-5 to Radwanska, who was playing her fourth match in four days.

Radwanska’s lowly ranking (179) is a bit deceiving; the 24-year-old has been ranked as high as 29 in the world but has been dogged by injury in recent years.

Radwanksa sprinted to a 5-0 lead in the first set and despite a Schiavone mini-comeback was good enough to close it out.

The 34-year-old Schiavone improved in the second set but was still plagued by errors and Radwanksa took the match on her second match point.

In other first round matches yesterday popular German Julia Goerges prevailed over another qualifier Anna Tatishvili 6-1 6-4 while young American Coco Vandeweghe beat Italian Roberta Vinci in three tough sets 5-7 6-2 6-3.

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With LeBron James and Kyrie Irving sidelined and guard Dion Waiters headed out in a threeteam trade, the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers suffered a tough NBA loss to the lowly Philadelphia 76ers. Tony Wroten’s layup with 9.9 seconds to play gave the 76ers a 95-92 win yesterday - their first home victory of the season. But it was the Cavaliers who were in the spotlight thanks to the trade that sent Waiters to the Oklahoma City Thunder in a deal that also involved the slumping New York Knicks. The Cavaliers acquired guards Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith from the Knicks. The Memphis Grizzlies handed the New York Knicks a 12th straight defeat, 105-83, in Memphis.

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Dunk named as keeper

Tennis youngsters up against New Zealand’s best Eight Mid Canterbury juniors are involved in national age group tennis championships in the coming fortnight.

Tessa McCann, James Watt, Sophie, Millie and Flynn Ness are the first in action at the National 14s Championship at the Scarbro Tennis Centre in Auckland tomorrow.

RESULTS ■ Bowls Ashburton Bowling Club January 3, Sat Roll Overs 1st Wally Porter, Ollie Collins and Bruce Ching 3 wins 8 ends 13 points. 2nd Lex Johns, Ted Connell and Jan Rooke 2 wins 10 ends 17 points. Corner to Corner: 1st Lex Johns 2nd Wally Porter 3rd Wally Porter.

■ Golf Aorangi South Canterbury Golf January 4 Mixed Pennants at Mayfield Mayfield 4 Ashburton 4, Fairlie 6 Timaru 2, Pleasant Point 6 Temuka 2, St Andrews bye

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In brief Kane Williamson’s 242 not out against Sri Lanka is his first test double century. He is the 14th New Zealander to achieve the feat. It is his ninth test ton. Only Martin Crowe (17 centuries), John Wright and Ross Taylor (12 each), Nathan Astle and Brendon McCullum (11 each) have scored more.

Williamson has the highest test average, 45.96, of any New Zealand batsman with a minimum of 20 innings. At 208, Williamson became the fastest New Zealand batsman to 3000 test runs (71 innings) eclipsing Martin Crowe (73 innings) and Ross Taylor (75). Williamson’s partnership with BJ Watling of 365 unbroken is the world record for the sixth wicket, eclipsing the 352 of Watling and Brendon McCullum against India last year on the same ground. Watling’s 142 not out is his fourth test century, and his highest. Only McCullum, with five, has scored more test centuries for New Zealand as a specialist wicketkeeper.

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Bill Allnut hits towards a hoop as the Waireka Croquet Club got back on the lawn for the second half of the summer yesterday.

It’s set to be a big few months for one of the club’s youngest members, Methven teenager Edmund Fordyce.

He is busy contesting the New Zealand National Golf Croquet Tournament in Christchurch this week.

The youngster teamed up with 24-year-old Duncan Dixon to win the doubles plate after the pair narrowly missed the semifinals.

In the singles he finished fifth out of 10 in his pool and is set to play in the plate from today.

Fordyce has a wild card entry to represent New Zealand at the World Under 21 Golf Croquet Championships in Christchurch in February – along with Waireka club mate Andrew Hawthorne, who was given one of New Zealand’s Membership nominations before he defends his Arthur Ross Association Croquet Title in March in Wellington.

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With the ASB Classic, and then the Heineken Open, happening just 10km away at the ASB Tennis Arena, the country’s top 14-year-olds chase their own glory in singles and doubles.

At the National 12s Championship at Wilding Park in Christchurch last year the 11th seeded McCann, went down in the second round after a first

round bye, while the Ness sisters - Sophie and Millie - both made first round exits.

The seedings for the singles are due out today. The Ness sisters will play together in the girls’ doubles while Watt and Flynn Ness will pair up in the boys’ doubles.

The Dargue brothers, Edwin and Harry, will contest the National under 12s Championship

also in Auckland from January 16.

Edwin will also have the honour of featuring for Canterbury in the team’s event for three days prior so should carry some form into the nationals.

McCann will then join Larissa Allan at the National 16 championships in Christchurch starting on January 17 at Wilding Park.

Points: Pleasant Point 20 St.Andrews 15 Temuka 15 Timaru 11 Fairlie 10.5 Ashburton 9 Mayfield 5

January 2 New Year Tournament – Stableford Senior – 0-16: Gordon Rennie 43 c/b, Paul Hefford 43, James Kirkwood 42, Chris Hart 41 c/b, Ray Kirdy 41 c/b, Neil Rayner 41, P Tuakeu 40, Pete Trembath 40 b/l.

Junior – 17 Plus: Andy Rattray 44, Steve Kircher 43 c/b, Bruce Collins 43, John Harris 41, Kevin Bishop 40, Craig Davies 40, Kieron Gray 39. Women: Maxine Whiting 46, Lynn Bird 43, Sally Jones 41 c/b, Diana Wellman 41, Jo Peacock 40.

Non-Handicap – Net; John Cameron 61, Poko 66. Two’s: Darryn Lewis, Nigel Heney, Paul Hefford, Gordon Rennie.

January 3, Stableford – LJP Trophy Leading scores in the 2nd round of the LJP stableford round played on Saturday. Senior: Steve Kennedy 42, Rod Harris 41. Intermediate: Wayne Mellish 39, Bob MacGregor 38, Snow Pierce 38. Junior: Kerry Whiting 44, Graham Hortin 42, Malcolm Fechney 41, Tony McAndrew 41. Women: Jo Peacock 41, Elizabeth Collins 39 c/b

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liqourland # 2; John Smitheram. Gluyas Ford # 6; Kerry Whiting. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Brent Kirdy. Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16; Bill Mason.

Two’s: John Smitheram (2), Kevin Bishop, Brent Kirdy, Bill Mason, Snow Pierce, Kerry Whiting. Net eagles # 8. Andrew Barrie.

Ashburton Golf Club January 3 Fourth Summer Stableford Round Peter Pratt 46pts; Perry Hunt 43pts; Bruce Ferriman, Bev Chinn, Bruce Leighton 42pts; Tim Newton, John Dudley, Graeme Bellamy, Graham Taylor, Don Houghton 41pts; PK Ngutu, Noel Sutton, Brian Hawksby 40pts.

With 1 round to go the current cut-off for the Hydraulink Shootout is 77/78. Nearest Pins: Robbies: Wendy Parr, Braided Rivers: Tim Newton, Rothburys Insurance: Shane Beavan, Netherby Meats: Troi Kingsford, Charming Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) Gordon Crawford. Twos: Gordon Crawford, Shane Beavan, Grant Smith, Graham Taylor and Tim Newton.

Nett Eagles: # 13; Birdy Jackpot: # 5.

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■ Shooting Ashburton District Rifle Club January 4 Club day at 700 yards.

John Snowden 49.4, 49.4, 98.8, Richard Rowlands 47.3, 48.3, 95.6, John Miller 47.5, 45.2, 92.7, Coby Snowden 46.1, 44.1, 90.2, John Fleming 41.2, 48.3, 89.5, Charlie Ledbrook 38.1, 48.1, 86.2, Murray Cook 43.1, 39, 82.1, Brian Hawksby 36.2, 39, 75.2.

F class: Joey Meldrum 53, 53, 106, John Reizinger 57, 48, 105, Daniel A 49, 42, 91, Brian Graystone 35, 47, 82, Harvey Westland 51.

Stand-in Australia Twenty20 keeper Ben Dunk will be handed the gloves for the Hobart Hurricanes’ Big Bash match against the low-standing Melbourne Renegades. It’s just one in a raft of changes planned for both sides ahead of tonight’s clash at Bellerive Oval when the visitors will try to bounce back after finding just one win from four rounds in the tournament.

Meanwhile British signing Tim Bresnan replaces flamboyant West Indies recruit Darren Sammy who has returned home to join his national squad.

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Australians in charge A poignant century from David Warner put Australia in complete control of the fourth Test against India, with the hosts 2-348 at stumps on day one. Warner and Chris Rogers shared their most productive opening stand, hammering home the hosts’ advantage after Steve Smith won the toss at the SCG yesterday.

Australia slipped from 0-200 to 2-204 in the space of seven minutes during the second session, Warner out for 101 and Rogers falling five runs short of his first Test ton this summer. But Shane Watson (61no) and Steve Smith (82no) continued the run spree albeit at a slower pace - against an impotent Indian attack.

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In brief Grylls lodges appeal Craig Grylls has appealed against his suspension incurred at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day. He was charged with careless riding in the Gr.2 Royal Stakes after the incident that resulted in Ezra and De Kensington Oval coming to grief and was outed until January 31 and fined $1000. Grylls pleaded guilty, but has appealed against the length of the suspension.

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Smith breaks his duck Barry Smith celebrated the first winner of his training career when Tipperary quit maiden ranks at Ruakaka yesterday. “It’s been a long time coming, but it’s been worth the wait,” he said. Smith prepares Tipperary, a daughter of Choisir, at Karaka for prominent owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay.

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Endeavour going further David and Emma Howarth’s talented mare Endeavour is set to take a step-up in trip after a strong performance to break maiden ranks in early December. After a dominant two-length win over the mile at Trentham, the father-daughter training partnership opted to freshen the four-year-old daughter of Faltaat, who is now primed for the 2100m special conditions race on Saturday at Awapuni. - NZME

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Scapolo has major class edge The form book strongly suggests Scapolo will return to his winning ways at Reefton today.

The Wanganui five-year-old has an excellent record in the South Island and on class alone he should prove more than a handful for his rivals in the Birchfield Coalmines Reefton Cup. Scapolo has won 10 of his 27 starts with four of them posted at Riccarton, including a career-best performance in the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile, and he has proved equally adept

on tighter southern circuits.

He has been successful at both Greymouth and Marlborough and with the benefit of apprentice Charlotte O’Beirne’s three kilo claim he is exceptionally well-placed at Reefton with 56kg.

His task represents a huge step down in class after a solid fifth two runs back in the Listed Levin Stakes and last time out, while unplaced, he was less than two lengths behind Pure Champion in the Gr.3 Manawatu Challenge Stakes.

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Trainer Kevin Myers’ team is in outstanding touch after six wins at Greymouth last Sunday followed up by a further success at Otaki on Monday and Scap-

olo’s stablemate Duffers Creek gives him a potent hand in the Reefton Cup. The Gold Centre gelding has an excellent strike rate with six wins from his 14 appearances and he wasn’t extended when posting the latest of them on Sunday.

Veteran galloper El Chico continues to defy his age and last time out he would have finished closer in the Listed Timaru Cup with clear room. He was held up twice in the last 400 metres.

- NZME

Filly right in contention for Sydney trip A trip to Australia is on the radar for the Ruakaka juvenile winner Untamed Diamond.

The Snitzel filly followed up a good debut showing for second behind the subsequent Gr.3 Eclipse Stakes winner Marky

Mark at Ellerslie last month with a bold front-running victory yesterday.

“I bought her out of the Inglis Classic Sale in February for $A30,000,” Collett said. ”She’s out of a stakes winning

mare from a pretty good family.

“She’s eligible for a $A250,000 race in Sydney in February, the one Vinnie Eagle went over for last year and there were only a couple of winners in it.

“I’ll get home and see how

she does and then we’ll weigh up whether to chase the money or black type here.”

Untamed Diamond made use of an inside gate at Ruakaka to lead all the way for Sam Collett.

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Reefton gallops Today at Reefton Raceway

Reefton JC Venue: Reefton Meeting Date: 07 Jan 2015 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.30pm (NZT) WILD BUCK NZ ALE MAIDEN $7500, MAIDEN, 2000m 1 82335 Tycoon Class (6) 58.5 ...............R Black (a1) 2 25634 Fair Spoken (2) 58.5 ................... C Johnson 3 7x567 Otautahi Boy 58.5 ........................ Scratched 4 485x0 Shorty McNorty (1) 58.5................... J Bates 5 6576 Bush Lawyer (8) 58.5 ..................L Callaway 6 P8968 Hawkeye Chief (7) 58.5 7 7x4 Pattacake (3) 58.5 8 0x Perfectly Red (4) 58.5 ......... C O’Beirne (a3) 9 03 Zentangle (9) 57..............................D Walsh 10 06566 Cupcake (5) 56.5 ............................ J Morris 11 9 Paketa 56.5 .................................. Scratched 2 1.05pm TASMAN AGRICULTURE/GREG DALY REAL ESTATE R75 $10,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2000m 1 40103 Right Royal Rose m (10) 59 ............ J Morris 2 40131 Southern Power 61 ...................... Scratched 3 4x972 Capo (3) 57.5 .................................R Bishop 4 75240 View (7) 57.5 ...................................D Walsh 5 51252 Sealed By A Dance mb (6) 55.5 6 60025 Sir Amron m (1) 54....................R Black (a1) 7 P50x5 Storm Home d (4) 54 ................J Oliver (a3) 8 10x00 Curtain Call m (2) 54................. S Muniandy 9 0x895 Otto The Great (8) 54 ....................... J Bates 10 x7746 Point Proven (5) 54 ......................T Moseley 11 07080 Miss Citron (9) 54........................ C Johnson 3 1.40pm VERNON & VAZEY TRUCK PARTS MAIDEN $7500, MDN 2YO&UP, 1020m 1 431 He Knows (3) 59.5 -

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2 2x7x0 I Just Rocked Up (10) 57.5 ............R Bishop 3 3631 Steal The Thunder (12) 59.5 4 8x Here’s To It b (2) 57.5 ....................... J Bates 5 0x My Silver Lining (1) 57.5 ............. C Johnson 6 The Man (6) 57.5 .........................T Moseley 7 22460 Ash (8) 57 ....................................... J Morris 8 000x7 Dame Wynnie (11) 57 .................L Callaway 9 Gilt (9) 55.5 .....................................D Walsh 10 Stacey (7) 55.5 11 8x Sweet Charlotte (5) 55.5 ...........R Black (a1) 12 652 Ilikai (4) 54.5 .............................J Oliver (a3) 13 4 Sunflower 55 ................................ Scratched Emergency: Sunflower 4 2.15pm REEFTON CRANE & CONSTRUCTION R65 $8500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1020m 1 25844 Delirium (3) 59 ................................D Walsh 2 72854 Peter Parker m (5) 59 ................J Oliver (a3) 3 210x0 Sir Luis (1) 58.5............................... J Morris 4 1085x Manuia (8) 57.5 ......................... S Muniandy 5 390x6 Do Uno Whoiam (7) 57.5 .........D Bothamley 6 66x8x Ask Me (2) 56.5..............................B Pitman 7 03004 Milk It m (4) 56.5 ......................... C Johnson 8 81002 Still Waters b (6) 56 5 2.50pm FAHEY CONTRACTING MAIDEN $7500, MAIDEN, 1400m 1 80x51 Vanquished 60.5 .......................... Scratched 2 5x90 Dann Doonayr (9) 58.5...................R Bishop 3 9x6 Hassell Court 58.5 ....................... Scratched 4 60895 Goldysox (6) 58.5 ........................L Callaway 5 x9874 Via Dolorosa (12) 58.5 .............D Bothamley 6 61 Boysway (5) 59................................D Walsh 7 5 Our Spice (11) 57......................R Black (a1)

8 42544 Born Happy (7) 56.5..................J Oliver (a3) 9 60x76 Carolina Island (3) 56.5.........R Cuneen (a3) 10 Allez Allie (8) 56.5 ....................... C Johnson 11 8x4 Beautiful Buffalo (1) 55 12 I Am Not (2) 55.............................T Moseley 13 4 Sunflower (4) 55 14 7x4 Pattacake (10) 58.5 Emergencies: Sunflower, Pattacake 6 3.25pm BIRCHFIELD COALMINES REEFTON CUP $25,000, OPEN HCP, 1400m 1 34057 Scapolo dm (5) 59............... C O’Beirne (a3) 2 97288 El Chico d (7) 58.5 ...................... C Johnson 3 66454 Pinsgold td (3) 56.5 ........................R Bishop 4 124x1 Duffers Creek tdm (6) 55................. D Walsh 5 97623 Ishimine d (8) 54 .......................J Oliver (a3) 6 74646 Absolut Excelencia td (1) 54 ........T Moseley 7 22666 Halo Buster d (2) 54 ..............R Cuneen (a3) 8 355x2 Black Berry Punch 54 .................. Scratched 9 0x909 Ya Dreamin Jonesy t (4) 54 ............. J Morris 7 4.00pm BILL O’MALLEY MEMORIAL R65 $8500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 30573 Individual 59 ................................. Scratched 2 92907 Killa Question dm (6) 58 3 7x049 Dhaulagiri (4) 56.5 .........................R Bishop 4 39213 Cinderella (8) 56 5 52021 Rapt d (11) 56 ............................. C Johnson 6 34662 Google Me d (9) 56 .....................L Callaway 7 53052 Life’s In A Spin (3) 56 ...................T Moseley 8 700x9 Snowdon (2) 55.5...................... S Muniandy 9 x3328 Lightning Lucy b (13) 55 ...........R Black (a1) 10 45481 Caramac m (10) 56.5 ......................D Walsh 11 06033 Fille Du Roi d (1) 54.5 ...................... J Bates

17 0308x Moneyforjam d (12) 54 18 6507x Greyray (14) 55 Emergencies: Zhanim, Maeve Davone, Peter Parker, Still Waters, Moneyforjam, Greyray 8 4.35pm CONGRATULATIONS CWJ & PITTY R75 $10,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 184x4 Handsome Dax tdm (7) 59.5 2 x2043 Overtheriver db (8) 58.5 ...... C O’Beirne (a3) 3 34540 Davone Code m (6) 56.5 4 49x59 Barberry Roze dm (3) 55 ............ C Johnson 5 x5022 Dunoon (5) 54 ........................C Barnes (a1) 6 106x1 Springwater m (1) 54 ............R Cuneen (a3) 7 6507x Greyray (2) 54 ...........................J Oliver (a3) 8 0308x Moneyforjam d (4) 54 ................R Black (a1) Blinkers on : Sweet Charlotte (R3), Greyray (R7), Greyray (R8) Winkers on : Here’s To It, My Silver Lining (R3) Winkers off : Miss Citron (R2) LEGEND: Runner Form: b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going

t - Won at track X - Spell of three months

David Walsh has hit a purple patch of form and will be trying Race 1: Zentangle, SELECTIONS Pattacake, Tycoon Class, Fair Spoken to extend that at Reefton today. Race 2: View, Capo, Sealed By A Dance, Right Royal Rose 12 13 14 15 16

60x08 Wilma Rudolf dm (5) 54 x00x8 Zhanim (15) 54 4289x Maeve Davone m (7) 54 ........R Cuneen (a3) 72854 Peter Parker 57.5 ......................... Scratched 81002 Still Waters 54.5 ........................... Scratched

Race 3: Here’s To It, Steal The Thunder, Ilikai, He Knows Race 4: Do Uno Whoiam, Still Waters, Delirium, Ask Me Race 5: Sunflower, Born Happy, Carolina Island, Boysway Race 6: Scapolo, El Chico, Pinsgold, Absolut Excelencia Race 7: Life’s In A Spin, Caramac, Fille Du Roi, Cinderella Race 8: Overtheriver, Handsome Dax, Dunoon, Davone Code

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Race- 1 26364 Meg’s Me Mum nwtd .......................S Maher way Meeting Date: 07 Jan 2015 NZ Meeting number: 9 2 3 Alamein Jude nwtd K & .....................Phillips Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 3 42251 What That Does nwtd...................... T Green 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 4 26427 Working Poppy nwtd ............... T McCracken 11 and 12 5 72385 Wairere Mike nwtd ..........................P Knight Nitro Mary nwtd G &..........................S Ross 1 12.01pm ABSOLUTELY ELCETRICAL C0 C0, 305m 6 7 Mighty Ba Ba nwtd G & .....................S Ross 1 27235 Pixie Dust nwtd ...................................L Udy 8 24578 Little Prophet nwtd ...........................R Waite 2 75364 Infernal Majesty nwtd ....................A Speight 9 35666 Scott The Best nwtd K & ................ J Maisey 3 24566 So Unbelievable nwtd .....................M Olden 4 77637 Cuts Deep nwtd ...........................P Blanche 10 76378 Homebush Magic nwtd K & ............ J Maisey 5 52734 Cherie Cherie nwtd ...................J McInerney 4 12.56pm J P PRINT (PETONE) C1 C1, 305m 1 41826 Homebush Dodger 18.25 ..........J McInerney 6 4 Davey Boy Scott nwtd K & ............. J Maisey 2 17252 Mighty Magic nwtd ...........................L Ahern 7 74567 Hide The Socks nwtd ................J McInerney 3 46634 Goodtime Helen 17.92 G & ............. J Clarke 8 3 To The Bank nwtd ........................ P Denbee 4 46432 Toxic Revenge 17.94 U & ..................Cottam 9 87565 Goodtime Mike nwtd ............... T McCracken 5 74251 Found My Berries 18.10...................T Agent 10 46738 Kilimanjaro nwtd G & ...................... J Clarke 2 12.20pm HARRISON HIRE MASTER C0 C0, 305m 6 45734 Some Genes 17.87 ...................J McInerney 7 41524 Homebush Pippi 18.02 .................. R Maisey 1 88232 Buzzy As nwtd ...................................J Hunt 8 32334 Serve Ya Purpose 17.87..................... N Udy 2 Innu nwtd S &............................C Blackburn 9 1678 Nicksta nwtd..............................J McInerney 3 46744 Homebush Celia nwtd K & ............. J Maisey 4 23468 Homebush Dobby nwtd .............J McInerney 10 65755 Procrastination 18.08 U & .....................Bliek 5 Maxwell Sprite nwtd ..................... P Denbee 5 1.14pm LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C1 C1, 305m 1 51572 Black Magic Rock 17.88 G & .............Denby 6 83643 Sniff of Brandy nwtd .........................R Waite 2 65824 Blaze’s Corporal 18.02 G &...............S Ross 7 46526 Princely Count nwtd ..................J McInerney 3 77663 Vinnie Baxter 18.25...................J McInerney 8 T3576 Goodtime Alannah nwtd ......P Knight 4 74515 Fortis Memories 17.89 ........................L Udy 9 7 Princess Novak nwtd..................... D Donlon 5 66752 Uno Green 17.72 ............................S Maher 10 8 Dazzling Di nwtd G & ........................S Ross 6 77383 Thrilling Indy 17.90................... S Gommans 3 12.38pm WWW.RACINGTIPS.CO.NZ C0 C0, 520m

7 26462 Homebush Fine nwtd ................J McInerney 8 84621 Skeleton Witch 17.73 ....................A Speight 9 58635 Homebush Titan 17.84 U & ...............Cottam 10 56556 Five Kay Leg 18.08 ............................ N Udy 6 1.32pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C1 C1, 520m 1 74321 Opawa Jackie 30.54........................... N Udy 2 22325 Homebush Bounce nwtd ...........J McInerney 3 35868 Deposit Ted nwtd............................. T Green 4 16637 Wall Age 31.08 ................................L Doody 5 44488 Mighty Baxter 30.65 ..................J McInerney 6 46655 Thrilling Ava 30.22 ..........................B Marsh 7 43818 Working Midnight nwtd............ T McCracken 8 63264 Opawa Hally nwtd .............................. N Udy 9 84777 Te Maari Style 30.41 G & ..................S Ross 10 78787 Opawa Jen 30.36 ............................S Maher 7 1.49pm WANGANUI CHRONICLE C1 C1, 305m 1 23826 Sunday Driver nwtd ..........................P Taylor 2 22157 Homebush Flyte nwtd ...............J McInerney 3 54864 Working Working 17.54 ................. D Donlon 4 58237 Do More 18.26 .................................... L Bell 5 52236 Cyclone Lusi nwtd U & ......................Cottam 6 82346 Miss Razz nwtd ................................M Black 7 85447 Otto Baxter 17.76 ......................J McInerney 8 1471 Allegro Touch 17.61 .........................L Ahern 9 x168x Silver Tokaam nwtd ................. T McCracken 10 73484 Another Rule nwtd ....................J McInerney 8 2.07pm CROMBIE LOCKWOOD LTD C1 C1, 520m 1 33373 Opawa Cuddles 31.00.....................S Maher

2 28526 Opawa Lachlan nwtd.......................... N Udy 3 55878 Taikorea Lass nwtd ...................... T Downey 4 65673 Boston Mona nwtd ...........................T Agent 5 33188 Navajo Blue 31.47 ................... T McCracken 6 21848 Worboys nwtd G & ............................S Ross 7 52457 Atoonga Air nwtd............................. T Green 8 86316 Homebush Ginger nwtd ............J McInerney 9 x5587 Buster Boy 30.54.........................J McArthur 10 27875 Paddy Baxter 30.26...................J McInerney 9 2.24pm WANGANUI SECURITY C1 C1, 305m 1 76884 Another Fantasy 17.80 ..............J McInerney 2 65312 Fear Marina nwtd ......................J McInerney 3 36624 Miss Sara 17.86 ............................ R Maisey 4 45636 Manu Rama 17.70 ..........................L Doody 5 82657 Where’s Rican 17.94 ...........................F Kite 6 65424 Dipsy Lala nwtd U &..........................Cottam 7 57115 Homebush Olive nwtd ...............J McInerney 8 11834 Serena Rose 17.70 ..........................L Ahern 9 84448 Aconagua nwtd G & ........................ J Clarke 10 87726 She Said Maybe 17.99 .....................T Agent 10 2.42pm THE DOGZONE C1 C1, 520m 1 22416 Bronx’s Warrior nwtd ........................L Ahern 2 65425 Opawa Dosh nwtd .............................. N Udy 3 74172 Sheza Hum Dinga 30.88 ............ G Holswich 4 35543 Homebush Spook nwtd .............J McInerney 5 35356 Indefinite Order nwtd............... T McCracken 6 84242 Botany Sel 30.50.......................J McInerney 7 12448 Alamein Blonde 30.89 K & ................Phillips

8 56511 Zalia 30.84 .......................................T Agent 9 68674 Uno Charm 30.51.................... T McCracken 10 56587 Rocky Baxter 30.19...................J McInerney 11 2.59pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C1 C1, 305m 1 76865 Another Hunter 17.89................J McInerney 2 152F6 Dogged Denis 18.18 ....................... C Brider 3 64725 Prancing Bee 18.40 .........................M Black 4 31233 Scott No Mates 18.09 ........................ N Udy 5 23225 Fortis Lion 17.81 U & ........................Cottam 6 63437 Joey’s Secret nwtd ..........................J Tanner 7 6x477 Goldstar Jeanie nwtd ................J McInerney 8 88128 Poppa Conquest 18.14 U & ..................Bliek 9 7688x Working Pizzaz 18.63 ....................... B Hunt 10 57744 Daisy’s Boi 17.84 ........................... P Lowen 12 3.17pm BOOK YOUR FUNCTION@HATRICK C2 305m 1 32432 Cawbourne Beau 17.68 ..................J Tanner 2 12544 Working Jewel 17.83 ........................T Agent 3 35436 Sam’s Flyin Norm 18.32 ..................J Tanner 4 82852 Azure Dreams 17.75 G & ................ J Clarke 5 25732 Waldo Baxter 17.77...................J McInerney 6 22421 Runs For Gas 17.97 ................. S Gommans 7 42464 Tongariro 17.69 G & ........................ J Clarke 8 63242 Cosmic Choice 17.71 ................J McInerney 9 45417 Cosmic Rascal 17.90 .............. T McCracken 10 64436 Homebush Paige nwtd ..............J 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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10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

1.15pm “GOLF CROQUET” WAIREKA. Doubles, drawn partners. Waireka, Philip Street.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and Golf Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of may aircraft from past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 7.00pm TINWALD OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL. Open daily in the Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road.

1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Welcomes regular and new players. M.S.A. Sports Grounds, Racecourse Road.

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7 JANUARY 2015

WATER CONSERVATION CHANGES

In summer, exceptional demand for water can sometimes limit the ability of our schemes to consistently deliver water to all properties at the required pressure. Water conservation measures are used to even out demand and enable residents to continue to enjoy reasonable use of water for essential and nonessential purposes.

Ashburton District Council advises those residents connected to Council water schemes that time restricted water measures are now in place until further notice. You can now only use your hose between 6.00pm and midnight on alternate days.

Mount Somers is on emergency water management and water usage is only permitted for essential use. Hosing is not permitted at any time on the Dromore, Methven Springfield & Montalto water schemes. For more information about water conservation measures visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz.

KEEPING THINGS HUMMING

COMMUNIT Y POOL

Up & Coming

Council provides a 24-hour call centre service 307 7700.

If you’re looking for some family fun this summer, why not head down to your community pool?

Meetings

Ashburton Community Pool - varying times between 6.00am and 8.30pm

Methven Community Board Monday 26 January 2015, 1.30pm

You can also request service through our website. Click the green “Request It” tab on our front page.

Urgent requests for service are given a priority response.

Non-essential requests are normally responded to on the next working day. We are working to keep our district humming.

Tinwald Pool - 12.00pm to 7.00pm

ANNUAL ROAD PROGRAMME

PUBLIC NOTICE

Whether you’re out for a day trip, or on a cross-country holiday, Ashburton District Council urges all residents to put safety first when setting out on their summer travels.

Remember to Flush Your Taps

You might notice some road works when you’re out on the road this holiday season. This is because summer is the time of year when conditions are right for upgrading roads.

We have the fourth largest road network in the country and Council is committed to ensuring all roads are maintained to the right standard. $6 million has been approved this year for resurfacing and rehabilitation projects on the districts roading network.

HAVE YOUR SAY Ashburton District Council’s draft Development & Financial Contributions Policy is now available for community consultation.

The policy details the approach Council will take to ensure developers pay a fair share of the costs associated with providing additional infrastructure capacity specifically to cater for future new development.

Council wants to hear what you think of the proposed policy.

The policy and accompanying information can be found on Council’s website, the Ashburton Library, or the Council Office.

Submissions close at 5.00pm on Friday 16 January 2015.

Current Fire Season Status

For more information on opening times visit www.ashburtoncommunitypool.co.nz

A Restricted Fire Season is in place across the Ashburton District. For all fires in the open air a permit is now required. This is in force until further notice.

Some plumbing fittings have potential for minute traces of metals to accumulate in water that has been in the fitting for several hours.

Career Opportunities

Although the health risk is small, the Ministry of Health recommends you run a mugful of water through your drinking water tap each morning before use to remove any metals that may have dissolved from plumbing fittings.

Current Road Works

We recommend this simple precaution for all households, including those on public and private water supplies.

This notice is issued by Ashburton District Council on behalf of the Director - General of Health, Ministry of Health.

BUILDING CONSENTS ONLINE Getting a building consent is now an easier process for Ashburton District builders and homeowners.

Building consent applications can be made online through the Council website. For more information visit ashburtondc.govt.nz

LIBR ARY HOURS The Ashburton Public Library’s normal hours have now resumed.

• Lifeguards

Learn more about road works underway or due to commence in the Ashburton District on Council’s website.

For more information, visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

WEBSITE Find out what’s happening at your local council on the Ashburton District Council website.

It’s easy to use and has all the information you need about the services that the Council offers you.

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14. Pressing for information in the out-door (7) 15. One doesn’t have to be a draughtsman to draw it (6) 16. Less fat novice driver right to leave the centre (6) 18. Malt for one brewing gaffer’s first to stir like this (5) 20. Gets mean when under the influence (5) 23. Sign nothing, lest it be halved in front (3)

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DOWN 1. Unable to be undone (12) 2. Ship’s master (7) 3. Lamp dweller (5) 4. Shaft of light (7) 5. Pastoral (5) 8. Brisk, efficient (8-4) 9. Moulder (9) 14. Discussed the pros and cons (7) 15. Fled (3,4) 18. Timepiece (5) 19. Creator (5)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) As the Moon returns for its first visit to a fun, playful and romantically charged part of your chart for the year it comes with nostalgia.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) Whether it’s catching up with family or having those conversations you’ve been meaning to have, today is tailor made for clearing the air.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) You’ve only had Saturn in your relationship sector for 2 weeks but already there is likely to be a chance today for a communication breakthrough.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) Considering what a huge year this is destined to be for income, work and career matters a bit of financial tension will keep you motivated.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) While today’s lunar vibes may trigger some personal or relationship tension these are the wakeup calls needed to ensure you’re not asleep at the wheel.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) Nothing is so busy or urgent that it won’t benefit from taking time out to smell the coffee or a moment to simply hear yourself think.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) You can afford to let things settle and process the insights or actual events Monday’s Full Moon in your career sector may have triggered.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) With your 2014 and 2015 professional years a flow on, with all the same players on the field, you have hindsight and experience to draw on.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) With 2015 disguised as an ordinary year but set to become your biggest professional year in a decade, embrace a sense of adventure.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) Choose to turn financial tension into motivation, trusting that you have luck, time, a smart head for money and the money gods on your side.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Any strong emotional responses will amplify what is already a battle to find the right balance between your own and your relationship needs.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) You’ve moved into a game changing career year so the professional gods send a very clear message that slow and steady wins the race.

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For all your memorial SPARROW, Anthony requirements Clifford (Hoover) – New headstones and designs Patersons 1964 - 2015 Renovations, Aged 50 years. Tragically Funeral Services Additional inscriptions, taken from us as a result of Cleaning and Concrete work and Ashburton an accident on January 3, Carried out by qualified 2015. Dearly loved soul mate Crematorium Ltd tradesmen. and best friend of Kiley.

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NZMMMA Member “A real friend is someone who walks in; When the rest of the ENGAGEMENTS world walks out.”

Messages to 9 Goldrich Grove, Ashburton 7700.

Tony will be at his home and would love you to rock round MID CANTERBURY FUNERAL SERVICES anytime, unannounced.

REITH - BRUCE – “Please do so”.

Galbraith’s provide choice! Kathryn and Hamish Reith A service to celebrate Galbraith’s We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors andare proud to announce the Hoovers life will be held at the celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, engagement of their eldest provide choice!

Ashburton Event Centre, and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering. daughter, Abbey May Reith to We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs to Wills Street, Ashburton on Daniel James Bruce, son of reflect their individualityCall - ask us howus we can be of assistance to you and on FRIDAY, January 9 your family.

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SNOOK, Barry William – Please note all late death On January 5, 2015 at notices or notices sent outAshburton. Aged 74 years. side ordinary office hours Loved husband and best must be emailed to: mate of Valerie. Father of deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz Craig and Rowena and Pop to ensure publication. to Jordan, Claire, and Tyson.

During office hours notices “Missed like hell.” may also be sent to: Messages to 7 Oxford Street, Ashburton 7700. Donations to classifieds@theguardian.co.nz St John Ambulance would be Any queries appreciated and may be left please contact at the service. A service to 0800 celebrate Barry’s life will be ASHBURTON held at our Chapel Cnr East (0800-274-287). and Cox Streets, Ashburton on THURSDAY, January 8, commencing at 1.30pm.

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6am Going, Going, Gone 3 Battleworn shields from the highlands of Papua New Guinea, painted with the comic- book super hero The Phantom reveal a case of cargo cult. 0 6:30 Mucking In 3 0 7am Cowboy Builders 3 8am Dickinson’s Real Deal 9am Infomercials 9:30 F MasterChef New Zealand PGR 3 0 11:30 Infomercials Noon Whanau Living 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Coronation Street 3 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 30 2pm House Husbands PGR 3 0 3pm Four Rooms 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Little Monstar 0 6:35 Transformers Rescue Bots 0 6:55 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:25 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 0 7:50 Slugterra 3 0 8:15 Pair Of Kings 3 0 8:35 Jessie 3 0 9am Infomercials 11am Prankstars 11:30 The Family Tools PGR Noon Happy Endings 3 0 12:30 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here PGR 1:30 The New Adventures Of Old Christine PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 2pm My Kitchen Rules UK 3pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 3:29 Angry Birds Toons 3 3:35 I’m In The Band 3 0 4:05 Win Lose Or Draw 0 4:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 6pm Friends 3 0

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CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Beat My Build 7:30 No Kitchen Required 8:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 9:30 Better Homes And Gardens 11am House Crashers 11:30 Traders And Collectors Noon Double Your House For Half The Money 1pm My Dream Home 2pm Beat My Build 3pm No Kitchen Required 4pm Sophie Grigson In Thailand 4:30 The Cook And The Chef 5pm Candice Tells All 5:30 Carter Can 6pm Million Dollar Contractor 6:30 Yard Crashers 7pm Toy Hunter 7:30 Xtreme Endurance – Race To The Pole Richard Parks, a former rugby player, undertakes the most arduous physical challenges known to man, culminating in his quest to become the fastest unassisted person to ski to the South Pole.

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11:15 The Inbetweeners AO 0 12:20 Kitchen Nightmares AO 3 0 1:20 Infomercials 2:20 Grey’s Anatomy AO 3 0 3:10 Switched At Birth PGR 3 0 4am Shake It Up 3 4:25 Dog With A Blog 3 0 4:45 Rodney 3 0 5:05 Anger Management PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

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SKY SPORT 1

7am The Dr Oz Show 3 Randy Jackson talks to Dr Oz about his lifelong weight problems, and the health diagnosis that changed everything.

7:50 The Queen Latifah Show 3 Queen Latifah interviews Julianne Hough and comedian Russell Peters.

8:40 Infomercials 10:40 Rachael Ray Cat Deeley shares her must-have beauty tool.

11:35 The Michael J Fox Show PGR 3 Noon M The Baby Sellers PGR 2013 Drama. Jennifer Finnigan, Kirstie Alley.

2pm The Biggest Loser Australia 3:10 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR 4:10 Entertainment Tonight 4:35 Big Brother Australia 6pm 3 News 7pm The Block – Glasshouse PGR 0 8:15 M In Her Shoes PGR 3 2005 Drama.

Two motherless sisters with a history of conflict reconcile with the help of a grandmother they never knew they had.

Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine. 0 10:45 3 News

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Fanboy And Chum Chum 3 7:25 The Legend Of Korra 3 7:50 Fairly Odd Parents 8:15 Chuggington Badge Quest 3 8:25 Humf 3 8:35 Peppa Pig 3 8:45 Bob The Builder 3 8:55 Thomas And Friends 3 9:05 Ella The Elephant 3 9:30 Barney And Friends 3 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 3:10 Humf 3 3:20 Lalaloopsy 3 3:40 Scaredy Squirrel 4:10 Dragons – Defenders Of Berk 3 4:35 Punk’d PGR 5:05 It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3 5:30 The Nanny 3 0 6pm Futurama 0 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 0 7pm The Simpsons PGR 0 7:30 The Simpsons PGR 3 0 8pm F Community PGR Jeff ponders the future after he receives enough credits to graduate; the group revisits the darkest timeline.

8:30 M I Still Know What You Did Last Summer AO 3 1998 Horror.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze jr. 0 10:30 Chaos PGR 3

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

7am Deal Or No Deal 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 3 A panel of experts discuss difficult medical questions in an open forum.

12:50 The Test AO 3 1:40 Antiques Roadshow 3 2:50 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 3:20 The Late Show With David Letterman 4:20 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day Two. From the ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland.

5:30 Prime News 6pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 3 A celebrity chat show.

11:15 NCIS – Los Angeles AO 3 (Part 2) Sam’s secrets are threatened to be revealed during the continued investigation into the death of a CIA agent who once worked with him. 0 12:15 Infomercials

11:20 Entertainment Tonight 11:45 Infomercials

11:40 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 12:35 Cricket – International (Highlights) 1:10 Home Shopping 2:40 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:10 Home Shopping

7pm QI PGR 7:35 MythBusters PGR Greenscreen Special.

8:40 M Black Hawk Down AO 3 2001 Action.

A United States covert military operation in Somalia goes badly wrong. Based on true events.

Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett.

MAORI TV

6am Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Second Test, Day Four. 6:30 The Cricket Show 7am Cricket – T20 Big Bash (Highlights) Adelaide Strikers v Perth Scorchers. 7:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) 8am Cricket – International (Highlights) 8:30 Surfing – ASP Women’s World Championship (Highlights) 9am The Fishing Show 9:30 Football – A-League (Highlights) 10am Cricket – International (Highlights) 10:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Second Test, Day Five. 1:05 The Cricket Show 1:35 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Second Test, Day Five. 6:30 Surfsports – Ocean Thunder Surfboat Series (Highlights) 7:30 Ironman – Asia-Pacific Championships (Highlights) 8:30 Cricket – Capturing The Cup The 1996 World Cup in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Spread across three countries this tournament brought in the quarter-final format giving the underdogs a sniff at the title.

9:30 Cricket – World Cup Tales 10pm UFC Unleashed 11pm Cricket – International (Highlights) 11:30 Tennis – Second Serve Midnight Ocean Thunder Surfboat Series 1am Fox Sports News 1:30 Sky Sport – What’s On 2am Basketball – NBL Championship (Highlights) 2:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash (Highlights) 3am Cricket – International (Highlights) 4am Basketball – NBL Championship (Replay)

SKY SPORT 2

6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Miharo 3 2 7:30 Pukana 3 2 8am Toi Whakaari 3 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 2 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Ako 3 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Pukoro 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2

THE BOX

6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 2 6:30 Ako 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 #Hakanation PGR 3 8pm Kuia (Part 2) 8:30 Taniwha Rau (Part 2) 9:30 Whare Taonga AO 3 10pm Whaikorero PGR 3 10:30 Nga Toki O Ngati Tuwharetoa 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY

6am Law And Order MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Hardcore Pawn PG 7:40 Modern Family PGL 8:05 Ax Men ML 8:55 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:45 SVU MV 10:35 NCIS MV 11:25 Elementary MV 12:15 Played 16VLSC 1:05 Criminal Minds 16VS 1:55 Law And Order MV 2:45 Ax Men ML 3:35 Raw MC 6:35 The Simpsons PG 7pm Hardcore Pawn PG 7:30 NCIS MV When an NCIS polygraph specialist’s night job takes a dangerous turn, Gibbs, Fornell and the team have to uncover the truth.

8:30 NCIS MV 9:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 10:30 SVU MV 11:30 NCIS MV

6am Auction Kings PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG The Last Lap. 7:30 Ice Lake Rebels M 8:30 MythBusters PG Underwater Car. 9:30 Auction Hunters PG Carolyn Goes Topless. 10am Auction Hunters PG It’s Raining Ton. 10:30 The Unexplained Files M The Yeti.

11:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M Burning Passions. 12:30 Redrum M Scout’s Honour. 1pm Redrum M A Deadly Beat. 1:30 The Perfect Murder M 2:30 Ice Lake Rebels M 3:30 World’s Busiest PG 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 MythBusters PG Speed Cameras.

6:30 Auction Hunters PG 7pm Auction Hunters PG 7:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 8:30 Yukon Men M Stan’s Gamble. 9:30 Edge Of Alaska M Winter’s Grip. 10:30 Siberian Cut M Age-Old Enemies.

11:30 Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives M

12:30 Ax Men ML 1:20 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 1:45 Law And Order MV 2:35 SVU MV 3:25 NCIS MV 4:15 Criminal Minds 16VS 5:05 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 5:35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG

Midnight Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives M 12:30 Deadline Crime With Tamron Hall M 1:30 Nightmare Next Door M 2:30 Auction Kings PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Man v Wild PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

Compulsive Shoppers 9:50pm on TV One

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:35 Lone Survivor 16VLC 2013 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch. 8:35 The Mystery Cruise M 2013 Crime. Gail O’Grady, Michelle Harrison. 10:05 The Family 16VLS 2013 Crime.

Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer.

11:55 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone MVS 2013 Comedy.

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi. 1:35 Lone Survivor 16VLC 2013 Action.

Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch. 3:40 Movie 43 16VLS 2013 Comedy.

Hugh Jackman, Emma Stone.

5:15 Fright Night 2 16VLSC 2013 Horror. Will Payne, Jaime Murray.

6:55 RIPD MV 2013 Action.

Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges. 8:30 Out Of The Furnace 16VLC 2013 Thriller. Christian Bale, Casey Affleck.

10:30 Odd Thomas MVL 2014 Horror. Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe.

THURSDAY

12:05 One In The Gun 16 2010 Thriller. Steven Man, Katherine Randolph. 1:35 Fright Night 2 16VLSC 2013 Horror. 3:15 RIPD MV 2013 Action. 4:50 Comic Books Unbound PG 2008 Documentary. 5:50 Out Of The Furnace 16VLC 2013 Thriller.

Black Hawk Down 8:40pm on Prime

MOVIES GREATS 6am The Making Of Lone Survivor – Will Of The Warrior MC 6:20 The Whole Nine Yards MVLS 2000 Crime Comedy. Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry. 8am Chocolat MVS 2000 Comedy Drama. Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche. 10am Groundhog Day PG 1993 Comedy. Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliot.

11:40 No Country For Old Men 16V 2007 Crime. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem. 1:40 The Green Mile 16V 1999 Thriller. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise. 4:45 Serendipity PGS 2001 Romantic Comedy.

John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale.

6:20 Body Of Lies 16VL 2008 Action.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe.

8:30 You, Me And Dupree MLS 2006 Comedy. Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon.

10:20 Hustle And Flow 16VLS 2005 Drama. Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Anthony Anderson.

THURSDAY

12:15 School For Scoundrels MLS 2006 Comedy. Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder. 1:55 Serendipity PGS 2001 Romantic Comedy.

John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale.

3:25 The Green Mile 16V 1999 Thriller. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise.

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6am Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day Two. From the ASB Tennis Arena in Auckland.

7am Golf – Feherty 8am Golf – Playing Lessons 9am Golf – Big Break: NFL 10am Surfing – ASP Women’s World Championship (Highlights) Maui Women’s Pro. From Maui, Hawaii.

11am Motorsport – Dakar Rally Series (Highlights) Stage Three.

From San Juan, Argentina.

11:30 The Cricket Show Noon Cricket – International (Highlights) Australia v India – Fourth Test, Day One. 12:28 L Cricket – International Australia v India – Fourth Test, Day Two. 2:35 Cricket – T20 Big Bash (Highlights) Adelaide Strikers v Perth Scorchers.

3:05 L Cricket – International Australia v India – Fourth Test, Day Two. 8pm Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Second Test, Day Five. From the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

8:30 Motorsport – Dakar Rally Series (Highlights) Stage Three.

From San Juan, Argentina.

9:05 L Cricket – T20 Big Bash Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades. From Blundstone Arena, Hobart.

THURSDAY

12:30 The Cricket Show 1am Bowls – New Zealand Open (Highlights) Men’s Singles.

2:30 Motorsport – Dakar Rally Series (Highlights) Stage Three.

3am UFC Unleashed 4am Fight Night Billy Dib v Eduardo Reis.

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PRIMARY SQUAD Archie Redfern, Ben Innes, Bradley Phillips, Brydan Smith, Elliot Wareing, Liam Begg, Liam Reilly, Logan Curry, Marshall Bell, Robert Macdonald, Sam Rae, Thomas Schmack, Tom Middelton.

Thomas Schmack, 13, in the nets as the Mid Canterbury primary cricket team prepares for next week’s South Island Primary Schools’ Tournament in Blenheim.

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Primary cricketers ready to fire

BY JONATHAN LEASK

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Mid Canterbury are hoping for clear skies for the South Island Primary Schools’ Tournament in Blenheim next week.

Archie Redfern will play in his third primary tournament and captain a balanced team capable of making the most of a friend-

ly draw if the weather allows.

They meet the hosts Marlborough on opening day – a team they have already convincingly beaten this summer.

Dunedin Metro pose a big challenge on day two before matches against Nelson, Buller and Otago Country.

Redfern is the only returning

player from last year when rain washed out two days’ play.

The team has produced some solid results to date and with a final training session tomorrow before a warm-up game against South Canterbury at the Ashburton Domain Oval on Friday they should be ready to fire on Monday, with a strong start to

the week the key to success.

Mid Canterbury will fancy their chances of a top finish avoiding the two Christchurch Metro sides and Canterbury Country, however, Nelson and Otago Country shared the Sir Jack Newman trophy in a rain affected tournament last year in Gore.

Mid Canterbury has won the trophy twice in the previous 51 tournaments having won most recently in Rangiora in 2009.

It first won the trophy at the third tournament, held in Christchurch, when the association was known as Ashburton County.

Records tumble as Black Caps take control

BY DAVID LEGGAT A world record-setting day for New Zealand has given them the springboard to press for victory on the final day of the second test against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve today.

The sixth wicket partnership between Kane Williamson and BJ Watling of 365 eclipsed the old mark of 352, set by Watling and New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum on the same ground last February.

New Zealand declared at 524 for five, with Williamson on 242 - his first test double century and Watling on 142.

It was Williamson’s ninth test century and only Martin Crowe

Kane Williamson: Knocked up his first double century yesterday.

(17), John Wright and Ross Taylor (12), Brendon McCullum and Nathan Astle (11) have scored more for New Zealand.

He passed 3000 test runs at

208, becoming the fastest New Zealand batsman to the mark - in 71 innings two fewer than Crowe, who is rated the country’s finest test batsman.

His average is also up to 45.96, the best by any New Zealander with a minimum of 20 test innings.

Williamson did have some luck yesterday. He was dropped twice yesterday and at 104 wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene put him down off spin bowler Rangana Herath.

At 233, Jayawardene badly missed a stumping off the luckless Herath when Williamson was stranded down the pitch.

Watling, by contrast was chanceless in completing his fourth test century and only McCullum with five, has more for New Zealand among specialist wicketkeepers.

Sri Lanka needed to win this

test to level the series, after losing the first by eight wickets in Christchurch.

Williamson, who batted 10h 23min and faced 438 balls, and Watling - eight hours and 333 balls faced - all but put that idea to bed yesterday.

Unless Sri Lanka pull off what would be the highest successful fourth innings run chase in the Basin Reserve’s history, New Zealand will have completed six successive test series either won or drawn.

At stumps, needing 390 to win, Sri Lanka were 45 for one, having lost opener Dimuth Karunaratne to a poor shot, caught at mid off from offspinner Mark Craig’s - NZH second ball.