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Ashburton’s first baby It may have taken six days but the first baby to be born in Ashburton this year has finally arrived

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Patchy or non-existent cellphone coverage in rural Mid Canterbury is stymying rural businesses and creating risks for people using back country areas for recreational activities, says Ashburton mayor Angus McKay. He’s keeping his fingers crossed that an increase in the cellphone network promised by Spark late last year will see the entire district connected, but said how far that coverage will go is unknown.

“They told the (Canterbury) mayoral forum a month ago that the whole of Canterbury would be done in 12 months. We have to wait and see what that means.”

Over the past two weeks a lack of cellphone coverage has been a major issue in two emergency situations in Canterbury and on the West Coast.

A woman was swept away in a West Coast river and her tramping companions had to drive for 15 minutes to raise the alarm via a landline. A vehicle crash in Arthur’s Pass also had rescuers forced to drive to find a landline phone.

And the same could happen in the Ashburton District because there were large parts of the district where cellphone coverage was non-existent, Mr McKay said.

“We now have a commitment from Spark to fix this. They said they’d get Canterbury covered, those were the words they used and that commitment wasn’t made lightly. We have no option but to wait and see.”

While trampers should head into the hills with a locator beacon in case of emergencies, the lack of cellphone coverage impacted on farmers and people who were using remote areas for fishing or simply on a day walk, he said.

Good cellphone coverage and ultra fast broadband would also provide economic benefits for small villages such as Mt Somers and Mayfield.

They would become viable lifestyle options for people who wanted to work remotely.

Spark will spend $14 million extending the 4G cellular network to its 70 cellsites in rural Canterbury communities over the next 12 months instead of the three years originally planned. When it announced the deal it stopped short of promising it would provide mobile phone coverage to all of Canterbury but said it would work with communities and local councils to understand where the greatest need was in rural areas.

Currently 97 per cent of the population has access to its 3G mobile network but this does not include areas with a challenging landscape and/or low population density.

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Agent Tony DiNozzo leaving NCIS NCIS star Michael Weatherly is leaving the long-running drama.

Weatherly, who plays handsome Special Agent Tony DiNozzo, has been with NCIS since it debuted in 2003. In postings on Twitter yesterday, Weatherly thanked the show’s fans worldwide and said NCIS was a “fantastic ride.” He called DiNozzo a wonderful character, one who was fun to play. In a statement, CBS said Weatherly will leave NCIS at the end of this season. The network said it looked forward to working with Weatherly as part of its ongoing development deal with him. Mark Harmon stars in the top-rated drama about Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents in Washington. The show is part of a popular franchise for CBS, with other NCIS series set in Los Angeles and New Orleans.

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Charlize Theron bares all in photoshoot A sultry Charlize Theron looks a far cry from her Mad Max: Fury Road persona in a nude photo shoot celebrating her performance in the George Miller film. The Oscar hopeful has made W Magazine’s list of best film performances that also includes actors Samuel L Jackson and Amy Schumer. Sitting on an unmade bed, Theron stares into the camera lens for the black-and-white shot. “My character Imperator Furiosa, in Mad Max: Fury Road, is missing an arm, but in the film we never explain how that happened – she just is,” she told W. Cate Blanchett also features in the list.

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Teenage father, musician, top tennis player, student.

It would seem Noa Woolloff already had enough responsibilities. But this year, the 17-year-old also plans to take on a role as a young leader, after being made head boy at his high school. The Aotea College pupil says he hopes to inspire other students by continuing to be a positive role model despite his unplanned fatherhood: “I’ve wanted the role of head boy since Year 9,” Noa said. “I just thought, having a baby shouldn’t stop me. If anything, it gives me more motivation and drive.” Noa, from Paraparaumu, found out his former girlfriend was pregnant with a baby girl at the end of 2014. Worried about what his parents would think, and not wanting to cause stress for his mum – who was also pregnant at the time – he chose to keep the baby a secret until after she was born. It was an awful few months, he said, and he would have struggled even more without the help of his friends and the school counsellor.

Noa still wasn’t sure about telling his parents, however. In the meantime, his mum had her own baby, a boy. “I was at the hospital visiting mum, and then two days later I was sneaking out to see my daughter born on a Sunday night, and then going to school the next morning on no sleep,” he said. “I just didn’t want to cause trouble.”

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‘Vegan’ pie ruffles a few feathers Z Energy’s new vegan pie offering has feathers ruffled over one decidedly nonvegan ingredient. A customer revealed yesterday that the gourmet Mexican pie – with a spicy tomato, sweetcorn and onion filling – contained E920, a pastry conditioner made from ground-up poultry feathers – meaning the prize-winning baked good is definitely not suitable for vegans. The claim was made on the petrol station’s Facebook page, with Z Energy confirming the ingredient in a follow-up comment. “We’ve just checked with our pie makers and the E920 that has been used to date has been chemically derived from poultry feathers,” the post read. “This was an honest mistake which our bakers have fixed. “While only the tiniest trace of this product was used in our pies – 0.0023 per cent – we understand the principle here and no future vegan pies, including the ones being baked today, will contain this product.

“To demonstrate how seriously we take this, a production run of these pies using this ingredient are now being donated to charity rather than sold at Z sites. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.”

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A young girl adamant the holidays shouldn’t be over just yet penned an amusing letter to her parents hoping to convince them that school won’t be starting for another week.

The letter, written by “Cara G.” and posted on social media site Reddit by her mother, was reportedly “from the school” and had been “found in the letter box”.

Written in two colours, black for the information and blue for Cara’s signature, the letter was also stamped with a pink princess stamp and included a green arrow highlighting where to sign. “My daughter got the mail today (it’s Sunday), apparently they have another week off school,” Cara’s mum wrote on Reddit after receiving the “official” letter which read: “The school compnay is taking a brake so the kids will get one more week of school off and we will need your child to sign their name here [sic].”

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■ GIRL GUIDES

Girl guides set off for CBee16 jamboree Girl Guides from all over the Ashburton District set off yesterday for the CBee16 jamboree.

Held this year at the Canterbury Agricultural Park, the jamboree is held every four years with girl guides from throughout the country attending including eight Methven girl guides.

Te Matapuna guide Gemma Burns said she was excited to head away and was most looking forward to kayaking.

Mum, Karen, said she was a bit nervous about her daughter’s departure but it was a very independent thing for her to do.

Around 1400 guides, leaders and helpers are expected to attend the jamboree including some from overseas.

While many of the activities are under wraps there will be opportunities for designing and building, swimming and team competitions.

The jamboree runs until January 12.

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First baby of the year has arrived

Right – Gemma Burns, 9, Verity Burgess, 11, and Maia Love, 11, are packed and ready for the CBee16 jamboree.

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■ EA NETWORKS CENTRE

Holiday hours up for review

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as part of regular annual plan discussions with the Ashburton District Council this year.

“If I can see we have missed something then I’m happy to look at it, but at the end of the day it will be a council decision,” Mr Prescott said.

He said the centre had carried over its public holiday hours, 10am to 5pm, from its days of operation as the Ashburton Community Pool, which closed last year prior to moving to the new centre.

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EA Networks Centre management plan to review the facility’s holiday hours following complaints.

Manager Steve Prescott said he was not aware of any complaints received directly by the facility, however, he was aware of some on social media.

While he believed the centre got its hours right over the Christmas and New Year holiday period, the issue would be raised

He said the only difference now was that the centre also had a gym. Mr Prescott said the 10am to 5pm holiday opening hours were similar to those followed by Dunedin’s community pool, and the hours which were suitable in any one location depended on the makeup of the surrounding community.

He believed 10am to 5pm was suitable for Ashburton over the Christmas and New Year break, and in line with the population of the town at that time.

The cost of operating had to be weighed against the revenue it would attract, and on public holidays there was a need to pay staff time-and-a-half and a day in lieu. About $1000 turnover could result from long opening hours on a quiet day, while it could cost $3000 to $4000 to operate.

“Is that a good way to spend ratepayers money?” Mr Prescott said.

“You have to weigh up all the issues and not just look at one thing in isolation.”

Shane and Mandy Butler’s New Year got off to a rather exciting start, with the arrival of baby Jessica.

Jessica Grace Butler was the first baby of the New Year born in Ashburton, arriving at 1.57am on Tuesday, January 5.

Mrs Butler said their daughter, who weighed in at 7lb 13 ounces was due to arrive on the 5th so was pretty much right on time.

However, neither parent expected their daughter would be the first for 2016 to be born in Ashburton.

Sisters Charlotte, 5, and Annabelle, 2 ½, were very pleased with the new addition to the family.

Yesterday marked the release of last year’s most popular baby names, with Charlotte and Olivia topping the list for girls, and Oliver and Jack the picks for the boys.

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■ ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Reading scheme popular with the kids Junior members of the Ashburton Library have every reason to keep on reading during the school holidays; the more books they read the more prizes they will win.

As part of a scheme to ensure children don’t give up on reading when school ends for the year, the library runs a “reading penny” scheme that sees a voucher given along with every book that is issued.

Collect 20 vouchers and exchange these for a prize, district librarian Jill Watson said.

“It’s not big stuff but the kids enjoy ferreting around in the basket for prizes, it gives them an incentive to keep reading and we always get a pretty big uptake,” she said.

The reading penny programme runs until January 21.

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In brief Teeth knocked out

Right – Samuel Clark, 10, is well on the way to earning his first prize in the Ashburton Library’s summer Explore new Worlds reading challenge.

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■ QUAD BIKE ACCIDENTS

More information needed

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ACC data shows quad bike accidents are on the rise in Ashburton, but Federated Farmers health and safety spokeswoman Katie Milne said more information around the accidents was needed.

In 2015 there were 47 quad bike related claims in the Ashburton District at a cost of $132,712, up from 34 the year before.

However, ACC spokeswoman Suzanne Muth said because the

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year has only just ended, not all claims will have been lodged or processed so the figure could increase. The most common injuries incurred from quad bikes were soft tissue injuries, e.g. strains, sprains or contusions, fractures and dislocations and lacerations, punctures or stings.

Nationally, there were 2229 claims last year at a cost of $4,153,428. This was down from 2411 the year before.

Ms Milne said in order to better understand why these accidents

were happening more information needed to be obtained.

It can be difficult to go on raw data, such as that supplied by ACC, because there is not a lot of detail, she said.

“It is interesting but it is really not that useful and that is a shame and that is something we are trying to work on with ACC and Worksafe.”

Ms Milne said the aim was to make better sense of the data so more information could be provided to farmers.

“That is where we will start to get really good bang for the buck and work out whether we need to educate people differently who are coming onto farms and learning to use bikes.”

It was a difficult process as everyone from the injured party through to doctors needed to be specific about details.

One way of obtaining necessary information was to perhaps do a blitz survey one year where every incident was followed up, she said.

A woman who says she had her teeth knocked out for speaking Te Reo outside an Auckland karaoke bar has been charged with assault alongside her alleged attacker.

Shona Maiden spoke to the Herald and appeared on television news after the incident, which she said occurred when she spoke Te Reo outside the 123 Casino Karaoke Bar in Howick after New Year’s Eve celebrations. In a statement released yesterday, police said a man and woman have both been charged with assault following their investigations, which involved reviewing CCTV footage from outside the venue.

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Guilty plea A woman who stole almost $800,000 from a top school and spent it on a high rolling, horsey lifestyle can now be named.

Tessa Fiona Grant, 40 – the former commercial manager at Waikato Diocesan School for Girls – pleaded guilty to seven fraud-related charges in Hamilton District Court yesterday. Court documents showed she used fake invoices from a school building project to reap $795,000 in the nine months to August last year – using the cash to help buy an equestrian centre in Horotiu, as well as a horse and jewellery.

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■ YOUNG ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR

‘The best job in the world’ The Rotary Club of Ashburton’s Young Achiever of the Year Award recognised some of the district’s biggest talents in years gone by, but where are they now, and what are they doing? The Guardian’s Erin Tasker decided to track some of them down. Today we catch up with 2003 winner Delia Cato (Moss).

Young girl run over A group of about eight people heaved a car off a young girl who was run over in a carpark by a learner driver yesterday.

The car’s teenage driver, aged about 16, was having a lesson with her mother at a New World carpark in Whangamata when she accidentally accelerated instead of braking, driving over the footpath and into a garden, and trapping the girl in the process. Peninsula Panel & Paint’s James Hope said about eight people – including himself, his brother Fergus, another staff member and the local courier rushed to the scene to lift the car off the girl.

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Near drowning A 16-year-old boy was pulled from the water at Tairua, in the Coromandel yesterday. St John sent two ambulances and a first response unit to the beach at about 11.43am, a spokeswoman said. Paramedics treated the boy at the scene, stabilising him on the beach, she said. The teen was transported to Thames Hospital in a moderate, condition, she said.

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Suspicious fire A fire at Cambridge Middle School has been extinguished but firefighters are treating the blaze as suspicious. Fire services received multiple calls just after eight yesterday morning and arrived to classrooms well ablaze.

Shift Manager Steve Smith says thankfully no one was in the building and the fire was extinguished quickly by two local crews. He says fire safety officers are working to determine the cause of the fire.

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elia Cato reckons she’s had something many people dream about – the best job in the world.

For three years, Delia (nee Moss) worked for the Metropolitan Police in London – Scotland Yard – as a forensic scientist, working alongside the police by using her scientific knowledge to solve crime.

It’s something she never dreamt she’d end up doing when she set out to do a science degree at Canterbury University, but it was an incredibly interesting and rewarding job she counts herself lucky to have had.

“I had worked in forensic science in New Zealand (for ESR) since returning from travel after getting my degree. I did my Masters part-time while working at ESR, then left to work for a United Kingdom based forensic provider called Forensic Alliance.

“While there, I saw the job at the metropolitan police advertised, applied, and got the job.”

It was 2003, and the role was as a DNA development manager.

“It was a real application of forensic science – helping the police use science to solve crime.

“I was across DNA policy and strategy and in as such, involved in things like training programmes to improve success rates as well as upgrading facilities to be better able to handle samples.

“I was also involved in co-ordinating responses to major issues – like the DNA work involved in the Boxing Day tsunami and internal training, for the Greek Olympics.”

While working there, Delia gave birth to her eldest daughter – Mia, now 10.

They’d always intended to return to New Zealand, and despite

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Delia Cato and daughters. having what she described as the “best job ever”, the pull of New Zealand proved too strong, so they came home.

Mia was very quickly joined by a couple of sisters, with twins Fleur and Ruby – now nine – born when she was just shy of 18 months old.

Delia, Jon and their girls now live in Mt Albert, Auckland, and Delia is now information services manager for Foodstuffs North Island, and husband Jon is the operations manager for an IT company called Wine-searcher. com – pretty much the Google for wines.

Delia met Jon through her brother Zane. The two were friends when they went to Lincoln University.

“Brothers have to be useful for something,” Delia joked.

Delia – who was head girl at Ashburton College – didn’t have a firm goal when she left school, when it came to what she wanted to do with her life.

“I wanted to do a science degree, largely because I was good at science more than having a career in mind.”

She’d always been big on change, and couldn’t see herself doing the same thing day in,

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day out. “The research component of science appealed, as it is constantly changing and always challenging.

“I ended up in forensic science because that was the ad in the paper – yes, it was that long ago – I answered.

“It was just before forensic science became sexy, so I was lucky to get in when I did and with just an undergrad degree. Apparently I was the wildcard.”

Forensic science appealed because it was real.

“So much of science is working in a lab and hard to see wider benefit. Forensic work – especially working directly with the police – is not like that at all.”

It was always interesting to see her day job making the news, and while some may see the title forensic scientist and think of television shows like CSI, Delia said it wasn’t quite like that.

“It is actually quite segmented – different people have different siloed roles.

“A DNA scientist would seldom go to a scene. The TV shows are generally reasonably accurate factually but they tend to have one person doing the lot – arresting, analysing and presenting in court.”

Working for Scotland Yard and helping to solve crime was an amazing, ever-changing and rewarding role, and very different to what she’s doing now. But she loves her new job too.

“Returning to New Zealand meant there was less opportunity in the forensic field – less room to develop further.

“When I went back to work after having the twins I made the call to switch to IT and lead a function looking at collaboration, information and processes.

“It certainly doesn’t generate as much interest when you talk about it at parties, but I really enjoy it. Very fast paced, and loads of opportunity.”

It was when working for Scotland Yard that Delia was named Ashburton’s Young Achiever of the Year for 2003.

“I interviewed for the award from a skifield in France. I remember telling everyone in the cabin I was in to be quiet while I diligently answered the questions.

“I was very proud to win – made me feel very grateful for the opportunities that had presented themselves to me – and that I had put on my big girl pants and gone for the job.”

Mindless vandals have targeted New Zealand’s only rural special needs school, breaking windows and spraypainting the word “retard” on classrooms. The senseless attack at Goldfields School in Paeroa, northern Waikato, was discovered by a pupil’s mother on Monday. The green paint was daubed on classrooms, windows and the carpark. “It just leaves you feeling sick,” said Gary Quarless, principal of the school, which provides special needs education for about 60 pupils. “That’s just malicious and makes you wonder what is going through their heads.” Cars, fences, and half-built houses in the area have also been tagged with the same paint. Local police are now investigating.

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ChCh woman missing Police are still searching for a Christchurch woman who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Sharon Helen Cross, 57, was last seen in Auckland city at 1.30am on December 30 and was reported missing the next day. Despite a number of reported sightings, she had still not been located, said Auckland City Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty.

“She is still missing and we are anxious to hear from her or anybody that knows where she is.

Anyone sighting Sharon should immediately contact police on 111.”

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Above: Students (from left) Brooke Miller, 13, Hannah O’Reilly, 12, and Ethan Green, 12, during Ashburton Intermediate School’s performance of Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits.

Below: There was fun for all ages at the annual Tinwald Festival.

Above right: Unveiling of the plaque for Mt Somers 150th jubilee by Paddy Gifkins.

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Below right: The Ashburton County Lions held their Garden Ramble.

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Above left: Rakaia was brightened up by the annual Rakaia Lions fireworks night.

Above right: Allenton School student Nikita Turner, 11, who is blind - was shown her way around Ashburton Intermediate School by Sue Hooley.

Right: Six-yearold Maddie Taylor made the front page with her beloved bantam Spangle.

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Above: Ashburton school children took to the stage for the Hakatere Cultural Festival.

Right: Ashburton College technology teacher Chris Thompson was counting down the days before retiring at the end of the year.

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■ KOREA

In brief Death sentence upheld Bangladesh’s top court upheld a death sentence yesterday given to the leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party for atrocities and multiple killings he committed during the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. It is expected to aggravate the divide between moderate and extremist groups, but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has consolidated her position by executing the war criminals. Motiur Rahman Nizami, the Jamaat-e-Islami party head, was convicted last year by a special tribunal dealing with war crimes on 16 charges, including genocide, murder, torture, rape and destruction of property. - AP

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People watch a TV news programme showing North Korea’s announcement, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea said it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test. The letters read “Successful hydrogen bomb test”.

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N Korea tests H-bomb North Korea said yesterday it had conducted a powerful hydrogen bomb test, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would be a huge jump in Pyongyang’s quest to improve its stilllimited nuclear arsenal.

A television anchor said in a typically propaganda-heavy statement that the North had tested a “miniaturised” hydrogen bomb, elevating the country’s “nuclear might to the next level” and providing it with a weapon to defend against the United States and its other enemies.

The statement said the test was a “perfect success.” South

Korea’s Defence Ministry said, without elaborating, that it was bolstering its security posture in response.

There has long been skepticism by Washington and nuclear experts on past North Korean claims about H-bombs, which are much more powerful, and much more difficult to make, than atomic bombs.

But a confirmed test would be seen as extremely worrying and lead to a strong push for new, tougher sanctions on North Korea at the United Nations. It would also further worsen already abysmal relations between

Pyongyang and its neighbours.

North Korean nuclear tests are worrying because each new blast is seen as pushing North Korea’s scientists and engineers closer to their goal of building a bomb small enough to place on a missile that can reach the US mainland.

A successful H-bomb test would be a big step for the North.

In a hydrogen bomb, radiation from a nuclear fission explosion sets off a fusion reaction responsible for a powerful blast and radioactivity.

Crowds dressed in thick winter coats gathered outside a large

video screen near a Pyongyang train station to cheer and take video and photos on their mobile phones as the state TV anchor, dressed in a pink traditional Korean hanbok, delivered the statement.

North Korea is thought to have a handful of rudimentary nuclear bombs and has spent decades trying to perfect a multi-stage, long-range missile to eventually carry smaller versions of those bombs. After several failures, it put its first satellite into space with a long-range rocket launched in December 2012.

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■ UNITED STATES

Obama unveils plan to cut gun violence President Barack Obama, with tears streaking his cheeks, launched a final-year push yesterday to tighten sales of firearms in the US, using his presidential powers in the absence of tougher gun restrictions that Congress has refused to pass.

The president struck a combative tone as he came out with plans for expanded background checks and other modest measures that have drawn criticism from gun rights groups, which Obama accused of making Congress their hostage.

Palpable, too, was Obama’s extreme frustration at having made such little progress on gun control since the killing of 20 elementary school children in

Connecticut shocked the nation more than three years ago.

“First-graders,” Obama said woefully, resting his chin on his hand and wiping away tears as he recalled the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. “Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.”

Obama’s 10-point plan to keep guns from those who shouldn’t have them marked a concession by the president: He’ll leave office without securing the new gun control laws he’s repeatedly and desperately implored Congress to pass.

Although Obama, acting alone, can take action around the margins, only Congress can

enact more sweeping changes that gun control advocates say are the only way to truly stem the frequency of mass shootings.

“It won’t happen overnight,” Obama said. “It won’t happen during this Congress. It won’t happen during my presidency.”

But, he added optimistically, “a lot of things don’t happen overnight”.

The National Rifle Association, the largest gun rights lobbying group, panned Obama’s plan and said it was “ripe for abuse,” although the group didn’t specify what steps, if any, it will take to oppose or try to block it.

The centerpiece of Obama’s plan is an attempt to narrow

the loophole that exempts gun sales from background checks if the seller isn’t a federal registered dealer. With new federal “guidance,” the administration is clarifying that even those who sell just a few weapons at gun shows, flea markets or online can be deemed dealers and required to conduct checks on prospective buyers.

Millions of guns are sold annually in informal settings outside of gun shops. But the Obama administration acknowledged it couldn’t quantify how many gun sales would be newly subjected to background checks, nor how many currently unregistered gun sellers would have to obtain a licence.

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Twitter appears ready to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages in a bid to make its service more appealing to a wider audience accustomed to the greater freedom offered

by Facebook and other forums.

CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey telegraphed Twitter’s intentions in a tweet posted yesterday after the technology news site Re/Code reported the company is exploring increasing its limits on text from 140 characters to as many as 10,000.

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Fire at hotel Pakistani police say a fire broke out after midnight at the famous Pearl Continental Hotel in the garrison city of Rawalpindi but no one was hurt. Local police official Naeem Rabbabi says firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze. He says it was unclear what caused the fire and authorities are still investigating. Pakistani Geo TV footage showed firefighters using water hoses to extinguish the flames and army trying to rescue people through the windows as smoke billowed out. The hotel staff refused to share any details when contacted but confirmed that the fire had been extinguished.

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Sentence reduced A convicted mobster credited with providing the FBI with information about hidden explosives in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing plot has had his sentence reduced by a decade. US District Judge Edward Korman reduced the 40year racketeering sentence being served by Gregory Scarpa Jr. as he blasted prosecutors and the FBI for their handling of the reduction request. The 10-year reduction means Scarpa could be eligible for release in 2025, though the judge said he could die before that because of cancer and generally poor health.

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Two breeds recognised A hairless terrier and an ancient North African hound are ready to run with the pack of dog breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club. The organisation announced yesterday that the American hairless terrier and the sloughi have joined 187 other recognised breeds. The newcomers can now compete in most AKC shows and competitions, though not at the prominent Westminster Kennel Club show until next year.

Many American hairless terriers are, as advertised, bare-skinned, though others have short coats but carry the hairless gene.

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A business failure doesn’t happen overnight Sue Newman

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hen a business goes bust the owners might take a huge hit, but the impact is much wider and the victims much greater in number.

A couple of months ago the Mid South Canterbury franchise of GJ Gardner hit the wall, the owners disappeared and dozens of small businesses were left with huge bills unpaid.

The mess left behind is still being sorted out but inevitably the small guy will be out of pocket.

Now electronics retailer Dick Smith is in trouble. The New Zealand arm of the Australasian company may well be sold and trading could continue, but there are no guarantees.

And neither are there guarantees for the thousands of customers who have been left holding gift vouchers, unspent credits on returned goods or who have paid deposits on items yet to be delivered.

This time it’s the even smaller guys who’re hurting, the mums, dads and kids who’ve been left out of pocket. The word is the vouchers etc they’re holding are unlikely to be honoured.

For staff, a long period of uncertainty begins and you have to feel for them. The stores are apparently continuing to trade while their future is sorted out, but there are no guarantees for employees either.

Who can blame them if they up stakes and find other jobs. When your livelihood is in jeopardy, you don’t wait for the axe to fall, you try to stay ahead of the game if you can.

While they’ll be feeling pretty insecure right now at least they’ll understand what’s going on, but how can a nine-year-old understand that the $50 gift voucher he received for Christmas isn’t worth $50 any more, that its value is zero.

Even the best managed business can fail, circumstances outside its owners’ control can take it from profitable to profitless, but that doesn’t happen overnight, the warning signs are always there that trouble could be around the corner.

And that makes it nothing short of negligence when a company continues trading, buying goods, selling gift vouchers, handing out credits when in the background its foundations are crumbling.

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way from the machinations enveloping the Christchurch Cathedral, its uncertain future and the forces that surround it, life, somewhat surprisingly, goes on.

The pre-Christmas storm has abated and, for the time being anyway, the respective sides have made strategic withdrawals. If only they would disband there in the meantime and then re-connect with the rest of us; a forlorn hope, I fear, as deeply entrenched in their respective opinions as they are.

Elsewhere in the city there are signs of optimism and revival.

The Margaret Mahy playground, for example, despite its astonishing cost, is a definite boost to the life of the so-called “little people”, as well as their exhausted parents, while we “older folks” can once again gaze in awe and veneration at “art” in the raw now that at least most of the Christchurch gallery has re-opened.

The pipeline, we understand, is almost bursting with further delights, to be rolled out before us as 2016 rolls by.

We are jumping! The trams are running smoothly with locals as

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well as tourists agog with expectation.

The famous Canterbury Museum is providing us with drawings of some of Leonardo da Vinci’s “iconic”, state-of-the-art inventions, accompanied by working models of many of them. Our tastes, aspirations and dreams are thus being catered for.

Practically, too, progress is bringing us fewer cones and more completed roads, enabling us to get to and fro in hours rather than days. The Causeway to Sumner, is now up, running and much admired, especially by the citizens who live at the end of it, they having felt seriously isolated for the last five years. In a word (or two) we are “getting there”. Hopes are high. It isn’t all squabble and squeak.

There are though, it must be said, areas and individual homes

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where frustration and prolonged distress still reign for which, it seems, the ubiquitous but forever dilatory, “Southern Response”, must take most of the blame.

Heartbreaking stories of people’s experiences at the hands of that bureaucratic, glacial organisation are “legion”. Many still wait; many have had to face repair of the repair as the original repair proved totally inadequate.

Some success stories, no doubt, but the long-term memory will be of inexcusable procrastination and interminable delay.

Despite some synthetic exaggeration and the relentlessly upbeat enthusiasm of Mayor Dalziel, it could be said we Christchurchians are, after all the setbacks, crushing disappointments and the downright is forgivable, are now “cautiously optimistic” about the future.

Elsewhere, while the GovernorGeneral tells us he is going to bang the drum for science during his last year in office, something our local science world will appreciate, we still have to wonder just how reliable is the science of the ubiquitous, Climate Change (CC) by references to which we are constantly bombarded. CC is

variously described as “the biggest hoax of this and the century recently completed” or “the single, most urgent issue facing the planet today”.

Undoubtedly, the CC “Movement” is now a huge “industry” employing many thousands of highly-paid researchers, publicity people and functionaries of one sort or another. It’s a job provider on a grand scale. The question for us “ordinary people” is, what exactly do these richly rewarded operatives actually do for their dollars? I have often wondered as, I’m sure, have you.

I can only foresee a remorseless growth of that industry during 2016, and probably well beyond with everyone, unsurprisingly, wanting a slice of the pie. We should have our cutlery ready.

It’s upsetting to think of those cuddly polar bears (PBs) facing a melting habitat; nobody wants that but I suggest in another 10 years, their icy surroundings may well have reformed with even greater strength and the PBs, old and young, will once again be as happy as Larry. (Originally, I believe Larry WAS a PB but the records are a bit vague on that point).

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Wellington attracts highest salaries Wellington had the highest average advertised salaries in New Zealand last year despite a drop in the rate, research shows.

Data supplied by job search company Seek, found the average advertised salary in Wellington fell 0.2 per cent to $80,348 in 2015.

But the capital still managed to outstrip the salaries of Aucklanders where the average advertised rate was $75,856.

Auckland was the second highest paid region ahead of Taranaki where the average advertised salary fell 4 per cent to $72,475.

Andrew Whiteford, managing director at Wellington-based economic research firm Infometrics, said Wellington was at the top because many of its workers needed to be highly skilled either working directly for the Government or in supplying services to it.

Wellington also had a strong IT and telecommunications sector which attracted higher salaries.

“Unlike Auckland, Wellington

doesn’t have much of a manufacturing sector which has lower wages.

“The average salary [for Wellington] reflects a more highly skilled workforce.

“Auckland is more typical of the whole of New Zealand,” he said.

Despite the slight drop in average advertised salaries for Wellington Whiteford said the city was doing fine.

“The Government has a big impact and when they cut back it affects a lot of people.

“But that has worked through the system and the Government is growing again and spending.”

Whiteford said Wellington’s high average advertised salary made it attractive to live in, especially when combined with the negative impact of the higher cost of housing in Auckland.

The region with the lowest advertised salaries was Marlborough although it saw a jump of 7.6 per cent in its average to $63,601 – the biggest percentage jump across the country.

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1.56b in home loans in one week The value of home loan approvals hit a record this month, suggesting Kiwi borrowers could be failing to heed the Reserve Bank’s warnings around rising levels of household debt.

Lending worth $1.56 billion was approved in the seven days to December 11, the most in one week since the central bank’s records began in 2003.

Meanwhile, the number of loans approved, at 7181, didn’t top the highs seen in previous years, which points to borrowers taking out larger loans.

For example, close to 11,000 loans were approved in the week to April 3, 2009, but they were valued at only $1.3 billion.

The average value of loans approved in the week to December 11 was $216,682.

Massey University banking expert David Tripe said just because approvals had been granted didn’t mean all of the lending had taken place.

“But it does suggest there is likely to be a bit of an upsurge in lending coming through,” Tripe said.

“It does look like there might be something interesting when we see the [actual lending] figures for January and February ... that’ll be the real test of the numbers.”

In its November Financial Stability Report, the Reserve Bank noted that household debt levels remained “elevated” and the combination of low mortgage rates, high household debt and a rising housing market posed a major risk to the financial system.

It said housing debt increased

at an annualised rate of 8 per cent in the three months to September.

New mortgage commitments were increasing sharply, running at about 36 per cent of outstanding mortgage debt.

“Notably, a significant proportion of mortgage lending is being undertaken at elevated debt-toincome ratios,” the report said.

“Although low mortgage rates are currently relieving pressure on these indebted households, some borrowers could quickly come under pressure if their labour incomes decline or mortgage rates increase.”

New Zealand’s total mortgage debt topped $200 billion for the first time at the start of this year, up from just over $100 billion in 2005.

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Is it the end of ultra low fixed rates?

Kiwi mortgage holders may see an increase in longer fixed-term rates over the coming weeks after the US Federal Reserve increased its cash rate from zero to 0.25 per cent yesterday.

The US rate affects the cost of borrowing for New Zealand banks on the international markets.

Westpac currency strategist Imre Speizer said the 10 year swap rate had not moved at all after the announcement in the US yesterday, which had been wellsignaled to the market.

But since New Zealand’s Reserve Bank cut the official cash rate to 2.5 per cent last Thursday

the two year swap rate had risen from 2.7 per cent to 2.84 per cent.

“That’s quite a big move for a swap market,” he said.

Speizer said the rate had moved up because the Reserve Bank had signaled further cash rate cuts were unlikely.

“People who were betting on lower rates saw no reason to continue doing that.”

The last time the two year swap rate was at 2.84 per cent was in August, he said.

If the higher rate was sustained it could feed through into bank mortgage rates.

Speizer said mortgage rates

typically moved in the same direction as the swap rate.

Massey University banking expert David Tripe said fixed rates of one year or more were those most affected by the US debt market.

While some New Zealand banks had a “bit of slack” in their mortgage rate pricing he said the ultra-low rate currently being offered by SBS bank at 3.99 per cent “might not be around much longer”.

He said mortgage holders with large amounts of debt coming off a fixed rate should look to re-fix sooner rather than later.

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Dairy product prices unexpectedly slipped in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, as buyers saw no urgency to secure supply.

The GDT price index fell 1.6 per cent from the previous auction three weeks ago, though the average winning price was unchanged from the previous auction at $US2458. Some 25,671 tonnes of product was sold, up from 24,888 tonnes three weeks ago.

The AgriHQ 2015-16 Farmgate Milk Price fell 7 cents to $4.60 per kilogram milksolids. This is in line with Fonterra’s current 2015-16 milk price forecast.

“The weak GDT results are disappointing given the significant gains anticipated by the market,” AgriHQ analyst Nick Handley said in a note.

“However, global demand for dairy commodities continues to be weak relative to global milk supply.”

Whole milk powder dropped 4.4 per cent to $US2210 a tonne, while anhydrous milk fat declined 2.7 per cent to $US3644 a tonne, and skim milk pow-

der slipped 0.8 per cent to $US1890 a tonne.

The NZX Dairy Futures market had anticipated a lift in prices for both whole milk powder and skim milk powder from the December 15 auction, according to Mr Handley.

Lactose climbed 11.4 per cent to $US594 a tonne, butter gained 6.7 per cent to $US3314 a tonne, while rennet casein rose 3.9 per cent to $US4736 a tonne.

Cheddar added 3.5 per cent to $US2964 a tonne, and butter milk powder rose 1 percent to $US1586 a tonne.

“Buyers have been less concerned about securing supply for later in the season than previously,” Mr Handley noted.

The New Zealand dollar last traded at 66.88 US cents at about 11am in New York, compared with 67.52 US cents at 5pm in Wellington the previous day.

There were 127 winning bidders out of 166 participating bidders at the 12-round auction. The number of qualified bidders rose to 616, up from 613 at the last auction.

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Prices remained firm on previous sales.

Prime ewe prices also sold on par with recent sales. No store lambs were offered.

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Award winners to hold field days Lincoln University Foundation’s 2015 South Island Farmer of the Year joint winners will hold public field days.

Richard and Annabelle Subtil will showcase Omarama Station (59 Omarama-Lindis Pass Road) on Friday, February 26, commencing at 9.30am.

On Friday, April 8, John Young and Lyn Godsiff’s business, Clearwater Mussels, will be open to the public.

Numbers for this field day will be limited to the carrying capacity of the tour boats being used, as most of the field day will be at sea.

NZ honey exports double in November New Zealand honey exports doubled in November as the country benefited from demand for high-value manuka honey.

The value of honey exports jumped to $27.4 million in November from $13.6 million the same month a year earlier, according to the latest Statistics New Zea-

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Getting prepared for el nino’s onslaught T he strong el nino conditions we’re currently experiencing look set to continue until at least autumn.

There are some practical measures that livestock owners should be taking now in preparation for the weather and conditions ahead.

A lot of quality industry advice and information has been coordinated onto the Ministry for Primary Industries website www. mpi.govt.nz, under the heading El Nino is Here.

Information ranges from water management and feed budgeting to financial planning and animal welfare.

With such a large part of the South Island under pressure from drought conditions, supplementary feed is an increasing issue.

In response, StockX is putting together a register of farmers that need stock shifted and those who can help out with grazing and supplement feed.

It’s worth checking out the website www.stockx.co.nz.

El nino conditions aren’t just tough on land, people, livestock and the economy.

They also make wildfire difficult to contain and highly unpredictable.

High winds, dry vegetation, low relative humidity and drought conditions are one of nature’s cruelest recipes.

There are a few simple steps you can take to help reduce risks to your property, stock and yourselves from wildfire.

Firstly, if you’re operating farm machinery or equipment, reduce the risk of sparks escaping through regular checks and maintenance or by rescheduling

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Discuss an escape plan with friends and family, right down to the route you will take and where you will meet in the event of a fire.

Fully assess your section or block of land. If you have trees, vegetation or other combustible material near your house, move it, clear it or cut it back. The Rural Fire Service needs space to defend your homes in case a fire does occur.

It’s also important to look after your own health and wellbeing.

Regardless of where you live, help, advice, support and information is always available.

The websites www.FarmStrong.co.nz and www.depression.org.nz have a whole section devoted to farmers and include a range of online services and selfhelp tools available.

If you are worried about your own wellbeing, or that of a family member, friend, worker or colleague, please seek help from your GP, Rural Support Trust or one of the numbers below.

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■ SUBARU IMPREZA S

One sensible small hatch S

ubaru suggests that the meaning of the AWD acronym for their constant all-wheel-drive system, which transfers the power to the wheels with the most grip when others lose traction is appropriately, “All Weather Drive”.

Which, given the driving conditions earlier this week, the safety aspects of this Impreza S, and indeed all the Subaru range with the exception of the BRZ Coupe, would have undoubtedly been not just very reassuring, but decidedly appreciated.

As it certainly was, even during during my time with the five-door Impreza S hatch on a dry-weather, return trip to Wanaka and also whilst driving on some marginal roads beyond.

This $29,990 S is now the only Impreza model sold in New Zealand, for the VX and WRX are considered by Subaru to be separate models.

Power, of course, arrives from a four cylinder Boxer motor, in this case the 2-litre version which produces a very adequate 110kW and 196Nm of torque.

This connects to the AWD system via a six-step CVT that Subaru calls Lineartronic.

And linear it is, for it was, as has been previously experienced in the new Outback models, reacting and feeling more like a very good auto rather than a CVT, particularly so with its responses when the paddles were used over the Lindis.

Subaru says the Impreza is capable of 6.8L/100km overall, a figure which the trip computer indicated we were just a little over.

There’s a stop-start system to help out with the round town economy.

Naturally, being a Subaru, the handling, particularly through the winding stuff was precise and predictable with the drive-by-wire steering providing good feedback and the combination of the stand out AWD system and the 16inch 205/55R Yokohama tyres delivering plenty of grip.

Meanwhile the ride is on the firmer side, but was always comfortable on the roads driven.

Speaking of firm, that’s how the navigator described the front passenger seat on reaching Wanaka.

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But from the driver’s point of view this, with more seat adjustment, was fine, as was the comment of the sole back seat passenger, who as well mentioned the decent leg and foot space.

In that respect, although the Impreza is Subaru’s smallest vehicle, its internal dimensions are similar to a 1990s Legacy.

The cabin is nicely presented, easy to

use and well equipped for the $29,990 cost.

Standard gear includes an infotainment system with 7-inch screen, reversing camera, dual zone climate air, plenty of USB connections (including two for rear seat passenges)and tinted rear glass.

Plus there’s a very good 340 litres of luggage space. Lowering the 60-40 split rear seat backs increases this to 771 litres.

Costs: $29,990 plus ORCs. Engine: 4cyl, 2.0 litre petrol, 110kW/196Nm. Transmission: 6-step CVT auto – all-wheel-drive.

Quoted Economy: 6.8L/100km.

Safety: 5-star ANCAP rating.

Warranty: 3-year/unlimited km.

FINALE Complete with its constant all-weather-drive, this well-appointed and equipped Impreza was an easy and safe drive. It’s a sensible small hatch for NZ driving conditions and a comprehensive package for its price!

New Boxster, Cayman T

he 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman – these will be the new names of the two-door mid-engine sports cars from Porsche when the updated models are introduced next year.

The 718 designation is a reference to the ground-breaking Porsche sports car of 1957 which enjoyed mighty success in famous car races.

The 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman will be closer than before, sharing not only design cues but similar technical specifications with both to be powered by the same powerful turbocharged four-cylinder boxer engine.

Porsche will use the introduction of the new mid-engined sports cars in 2016 as an opportunity to align their posi-

tioning with the 911 models – so in this case the Roadster will be positioned and priced about the Coupe.

The 718 model series is a continuation of the proven four-cylinder concept and the history of distinguished Porsche sports cars.

The latest example is the 919 Hybrid LMP1 race car, which also has a highlyefficient, turbocharged four-cylinder engine with just two litres displacement.

Not only did Porsche finish first and second in the 24 hours of Le Mans in 2015 with a four-cylinder engine but it also won the manufacturer’s and driver’s championship titles in the World Endurance Championship (WEC).

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■ BENTLEY CLEANS UP

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Awards aplenty for historic British marque Road safety ‘improving’ F N our different models, spanning the full range of Bentley’s family, received plaudits across three continents in 2015.

The most celebrated model for Bentley in 2015 was the Flying Spur, which in total claimed six prizes.

In the UK, for example, readers of the Daily Telegraph voted it the Best Luxury Car. Judges praised the Flying Spur for being “as enjoyable to drive as it is to be chauffeured in”.

The world’s fastest road-going luxury sedan was also well received in Russia this year, with awards including Auto Goda’s

Car of the Year and Klaxon magazine’s Golden Klaxon, both emphasising the Flying Spur’s unparalleled luxury and refinement.

Bentley’s pinnacle flagship Mulsanne Speed, meanwhile, was crowned Best of the Best – Luxury Sedan by Robb Report. The world’s fastest, ultra-luxury driving experience was praised for its “superior performance and limitless customisation possibilities”.

The success continued with Bentley’s iconic Grand Touring Continental range.

The Continental GT Speed Convertible, for example, received a pair of high-profile accolades including Best of the Best – Convertible from Robb Report and Digital Trends’ Luxury Car of the Year.

The race-bred Continental GT3-R, meanwhile, was named Car of the Year by Car magazine in China.

Away from the road, the Bentley Suite at The St Regis Istanbul was named Best Suite at Golden Key Awards.

Designer defends creation I

f you were a car designer, how would money – which was how the Marina came the D-series truck, the Transit and the you feel if the shape that defined your about,” he explains.

Escort, Capri and Cortina. career had become shorthand for “Ford was a very strict company,” Mann “It wasn’t built to rule the world, it was everything that was wrong with the British recalls of his time at Dunton, Essex. “Evejust meant as a simple car that used odds motor industry in the seventies? rything was done for a purpose and to a and ends from around the corporation – That has been the fate of Harris Mann, budget. The objective with the Escort, for which is just what Chrysler was doing and the creator of the Austin Allegro, a car that instance, was to do a car that was better it got them out of a hole at the time.” has become so emblematic of Britain’s than a Viva, but cheaper to make: the profit The Allegro, by contrast, was intended darkest car-making hour that a company is was the bottom line.” to be a major contender, and Mann’s first now hiring them out to do “ironic” tours of Mann was headhunted by British Leyrecognisably Allegro-like designs – dating the Cotswolds for £95 a day. land in 1968, as the Maxi was about to be from 1970 – show a sleek, compact twoLaunched in 1973 – with its now-famous launched: “Looking at what they were makdoor saloon every bit as handsome and Quartic (or square) steermodern as the much-praised ing wheel – the Allegro is the Alfasud, still two years away. model his name is most readIn fact, had the Leyland ily linked to. engineers not been constrained However, the quietly spoby the requirements of bulky ken Londoner will remind engines and outsize heaters (in you that he also styled the the name of parts sharing), the British Leyland Princess (of Allegro would certainly have Terry and June fame) and been a better-looking car.

Triumph TR7, and that he Revisiting the Allegro’s press had a successful post-Leyland cuttings, it is a surprise to find freelance career, including at that, poor gearchange aside, it BMW. was not that badly received in Mann, now in his 70s and 1973. Tales of rear windows that retired in Worcestershire, also popped out if you jacked up the claims to be totally at ease car in the wrong place – and even with the part he played in the wheels falling off – did not becreation of this icon of sevencome general currency until later.

Austin Allegro: Hot contender for worst car ever made. ties kitsch; after all, he only Mann considers his most sucdesigned the body. cessful design to be the wedgy After serving his apprenticeship in the ing, it seemed a godsend of an opportunity Princess of 1978. late-fifties with the commercial body-makbecause there was so much to sort out.”

“It retained the good points of the Lander Duple and a short period working for the As well as the front end of the Mini Clubcrab [the 1964 Austin 1800, which it refamous Raymond Loewy design consulman, Mann did the Marina, another reviled placed] and was a good product, although tancy in New York, Mann joined Ford of product of the era. it destroyed driveshafts because there was Great Britain. a greater load on them.

“It was identified that all the [British “But they never addressed the problem Leyland] front-wheel-drive cars were los“I stayed for four years and was involved because they didn’t have the money.” - DT ing money and the Escort wasn’t losing in bits and pieces, like door handles, on

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ew Zealand’s top 20 speed traps have been revealed.

Two fixed speed cameras on the Wellington roading network - one in Porirua and the other on Ngauranga Gorge - both generated fines in excess of $1 million in the first nine months of last year.

More than 15,000 tickets were generated from the Porirua camera, totalling $1.13m in fines. The Ngauranga Gorge camera nabbed 14,200 speedsters, with total fines of $1.07m.

Twelve of the top 20 speed cameras are in the Auckland region.

A camera on Great South Road doled out more than 10,000 tickets and another on the Northwestern Motorway, between the Patiki footbridge and the Waterview Interchange, snapped 8450 motorists.

Police issued more than 390,000 speed camera tickets, totalling $25 million in fines, until September 13 - a drop of 98,760 tickets from the same period last year.

National road policing manager Superintendent Steve Greally said the drop in speed camera tickets was “very encouraging”, as it showed road safety was improving.

But speed was just one of the potential killers on the nation’s roads, he said.

“It’s not only speed that contributes to the road toll, it’s a variety of things like drugs, alcohol and cellphones,” he said.

The drop in issued tickets also led to a $5.9m drop in revenue.

Greally said the success of the cameras wasn’t judged on fines generated, but on making the roads safer.

“A reduction in infringements is a great thing. It’s never, ever, about the money,” he said.

“We’re the ones who have to inform families that loved ones are dead.

“I’ve never met a cop who enjoys that.”

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November 2015

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Above: Lauriston’s Caleb Early is dismissed by Allenton’s Jack Dudley.

Right: The Ashburton College first XI cricket side, including opening batsman Michael Burton, was preparing for a busy season.

Below: Basketballers Charlie Galbraith, Ella Pearson, Samantha Hood, Ella Arnold, William Joyce, Madison Trusler-

Clark and Thomas Patterson were heading to the Great Murray River Jamboree in Albury, New South Wales.

Below right: Johnny Lysaght in action during Ashburton College’s quad’s under 16 boys’ race.

Bottom left: Bryn Looij was knocked out of the Gala Cup by quarter-finalist Aidan Mitchell 6-0, 6-1 in the round of 16.

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More than 1200 competitors completed the Longbeach Coastal Challenge.

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Oamaru harness Today at Oamaru racecourse ~ BEGINS DECEMBER 26 ~

Oamaru Harness Racing Club meeting at Oamaru Racecourse today. NZ Meeting number: 5. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10.

1 3.25pm (NZT) NORTH OTAGO MOTOR GROUP MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ f&m c0, 2000m 1 08272 RR Sand Dollar (1) fr .......................P Court 2 000 Smooth N Easy fr ......................... Scratched 3 Nimbo Stratus VC (2) fr .................... D Dunn 4 9x87x Culler Coded (3) fr .................. M Williamson 5 49 Hayley Nicole (4) fr......................N McGrath 6 63508 Kashana (5) fr .................................... R May 7 4 Mac Toddy (6) fr ............................ K Cox (J) 8 23254 Lunar Rose (7) fr .................................B Butt 2 4.00pm PORT FM TROT $6000, 3yo+ c0, stand, 2600m 1 6422x Mantorp (1) fr L O’................................Reilly 2 00070 Brylins Choice (2) fr ...................C Markham 3 865 King Of The Roses (3) fr ..............J Versteeg 4 64447 South Coaster (4) fr ................ S Golding (J) 5 0x080 Don’t Look Back (5) fr ............. M Williamson 6 24708 Wandering Star (6) fr.............. J Morrison (J) 7 88766 Tijuana Taxi (7) fr ........................ C Harrison 8 58658 Xavier John (8) fr ............................ I Lee (J) 9 4 Alderbeck (9) fr .................. B Williamson (J) 10 93488 Jana’s Wishes (10) fr G O’ ...................Reilly 11 P0 One Yankee Angus (U1) fr................S Ottley

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809 Best Of The Bunch (U2) fr.............C Buchan

3 4.35pm PGG WRIGHTSON STANDARDBRED MO-

BILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0, 2600m 1 7x822 Midnight Flyer (1) fr ..........................P Davis 2 8 Pinehurst (2) fr .............................. K Cox (J) 3 68070 Rostriever Victory (3) fr ........ C Ferguson (J) 4 36656 Green Fingers (4) fr ................ S Golding (J) 5 870 Come And Go (5) fr............ B Williamson (J) 6 78404 Beaudiene Gambler (6) fr ............ M Neilson 7 668xP Hangover (7) fr ........................ C D Thornley 8 50098 Woolleys Bay (8) fr ........................R Holmes 9 82x37 Gerald (9) fr...................................... D Dunn 10 00 Sails (21) fr......................................... R May 11 278x0 Baby Fern (22) fr ..................... M Williamson 12 25 Real Dash (23) fr........................ T Quate (J) 13 07009 More Alimony (24) fr ..................... K Butt (J) 4 5.10pm ONE SMART COFFEE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0 pace, stand, 2000m 1 03952 Sioux West (1) fr ..................... C D Thornley 2 Curly Wave (2) fr L O’...........................Reilly 3 000 Smooth N Easy fr ......................... Scratched 4 x9469 Lauragrace (3) fr .......................... M Neilson 5 Likely Jereme (4) fr ............................. J Hay 6 Ask Yourself (5) fr ............... B Williamson (J) 7 x9922 Lyin Eyes (6) fr .................................P Davis 8 29434 Anna Ivy (7) fr .................................. D Dunn 9 9 Cullen’s Bardon (8) fr ................... S McNally

10 0 Farm Fire (9) fr ..............................R Holmes 11 2x Artful Fern (10) fr .................... M Williamson 12 6 Rocki Warrior (11) fr .........................S Ottley 13 64433 Culley Backy (12) fr ............................ R May 14 6 Lilac Reign (13) fr........................J Young (J) 15 3x7 Nadia Bay (14) fr .........................T McMillan 16 9060x Shez Wicked (15) fr .............. C Ferguson (J) 5 5.45pm FAT SALLY’S PUB & RESTAURANT PACE $7000, 3yo+ c1 pace, stand, 2600m 1 709x9 Fastroundtown (1) fr ........................ J Ovens 2 5x909 Parramatta (2) fr ............................... D Dunn 3 7755P Stoney Eyre (3) fr .......................... K Cox (J) 4 816 Game Changer (4) fr ........................P Davis 5 1034 Regency Franco (5) fr .................. S McNally 6 35583 Franco Sanchez (6) fr .................T McMillan 7 70850 The Edge Of Reason (7) fr...............S Ottley 8 33051 Expressive Victor (8) fr ....................... R May 9 86370 Top Brass fr .................................. Scratched 10 8779P Canndew (9) fr ........................ S Golding (J) 6 6.15pm SPRINGBANK HANDICAP TROT $8000, 4yo+ c2 to oc discrhcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 43338 Sarah Palin (1) fr ..................... S Golding (J) 2 35163 The Zigmeister (2) fr ........................P Davis 3 9x005 Mr Majestic (U1) fr .................A Malcolmson 4 10825 Wanna Play (1) 10 ........................... D Dunn 5 64412 Heard The Whisper (1) 20 .. B Williamson (J) 6 59D04 Feather Boyz (1) 30 ................ M Williamson

7 43733 Live The Dream (2) 30 ....................... R May 9 7.46pm CHANGEOVER MOBILE PACE $7000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 6.45pm PGG WRIGHTSON HANDICAP PACE 1 539x3 Scotlynn Justis (1) fr ...................J Young (J) $9000, 4yo+ c3 to oc discrhcp pace, stand, 2600m day (Monday-Saturday) will (2) fr .............................P Davis 2 88435 we Sonnetsson 1 45214 Riga DoonEvery (1) fr .................................

R May 3 35x21 Conversion (3) fr ..................M Anderson (J) 2 50009 Gyrate fr .......................................

Scratched post to Facebook our daily giveaway.

4 80093 Bettor Backim (4) fr ............ B Williamson (J) 3 1026x Cullen Keefe (2) fr ........................ S McNally 5 62213 Bettor In The Dark (5) fr ..................... R May 4 53510 The Persuader (3) fr ........... B Williamson (J) Like(4)our page, share and 6 65268 Crimson Glory (6) fr ....................T McMillan 5 07601 Highland Reign fr ...................J Young (J)the post 7 4000P Eja Patron fr ................................. Scratched 6 99320 Igottastar frcomment ...................................

Scratched to be in to win.

8 00009 Dag And Washington (7) fr ...... S Golding (J) 7 10020 My Baby’s Laughing (5) fr ............... I Lee (J) 9 0x310 Livadia fr....................................... Scratched 8 90765 Jerry Garcia (1) 10 L O’........................Reilly Winners drawn daily apply.

10 200x0 Franco Hammond (21) fr ......... C D Thornley 9 x9003 Jack Hammer (2) 10................

S Golding (J) T&Cs 11 70585 Rummage (22) fr ..........................M Heenan 10 66669 Spirit Of Chronos (U1) 10 ................S Ottley 11 08600 Delightful Dash (1) 30 ...................... D Dunn 10 8.17pm MORRISONS SADDLERY MOBILE PACE 12 49700 Belkmyster (1) 55 .................... M Williamson $5000, 6yo+ c1 to c3 +claimer, mobile, 2600m 1 99052 Alexy (1) fr ........................................ D Dunn 8 7.16pm AMITY LODGE MOTEL TROT $7000, 4yo+ 2 25409 Be Me (2) fr ..................................... J Ovens c1 trot jun.d, stand, 2600m 3 15004 Beacon Hill (3) fr ..................... C D Thornley 1 05238 Roydon’s Jewel (1) fr..................... K Cox (J) 4 58491 Thats Bettor (4) fr ..........................R Holmes 2 18387 Hey Yo (2) fr.......................... C Ferguson (J) 5 x0846 Bute Courage (5) fr G O’ ......................Reilly 3 79545 Little Mo (3) fr .......................S Tomlinson (J) 6 09983 Bobby T (6) fr .......................... S Golding (J) 4 52602 Explosive Star (4) fr................ J Morrison (J) 7 27110 Bank Raider (7) fr L O’ .........................Reilly 5 90x41 Johnny Alexander (5) fr ................. K Butt (J) 8 63942 Maybe Flyin (8) fr ........................J Young (J) 6 1 Royal Kenny (6) fr .............. B Williamson (J) 9 x5776 Prime Legal (9) fr ................. C Ferguson (J) 7 9359D Kylie Castleton (7) fr.............M Anderson (J) 10 37303 Billy Jack (21) fr............................ M Neilson 8 0x202 Missie Castleton (8) fr .................J Young (J) 11 07046 Drover’s Eyre (22) fr ........................... R May 9 00102 Bear’s Rest (9) fr ..................... S Golding (J) 12 30700 Motu Speedy Star (23) fr........ J Morrison (J) 10 09046 Diana Harbour (10) fr ............ J Campbell (J)

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Summer is here and it’s a time for family outings and fun, so join us in a daily giveaway celebrating the 12 days of Christmas.

DAY ONE

3 passes for Mcleans Island Paintball

M3 DAY THREE

Christchurch dogs

DAY TWO

1 family pass (2 adults 2 children) to Mini Golf

Today at Addington raceway

DAY FOUR

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Add2 x1411 Bella Grace 17.33 C & ....................... Fagan 7 11558 Harkonen Bale 17.08 ...................C Roberts 8 2.15pm FAST ARCHER AT STUD DASH C4, 295m ington today. NZ Meeting number: 3. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 3 341F4 Believe 17.27 ................................... B Dann 8 24162 Puma Pants 17.02..................J T McInerney 1 37531 Homebush Ariel 17.30 ...........J T McInerney and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12. Trebles: 1, 2 4 47788 Thunder Storm 17.42 .............J T McInerney 9 17136 Cawbourne Jelly 17.11 ......................C Weir 2 33284 Rodriguez 17.10..................................A Lee and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12.

5 21326 Know Salute 17.29 .........................G Cleeve 10 16733 Zebidiah 17.02 ..........................A Bradshaw 3 27162 New Thang 17.32 ......................A Bradshaw 6 24268 Sweet Marylou 17.36 ................R Blackburn 4 61776 Wunzee 17.39 ........................J T McInerney 1 12.12pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C3, 295m 6 1.40pm (NZT) AMBER CLEANING SERVICES 7 12617 Botany Zenvo 17.33 ...............J T McInerney 5 63664 Impersonator 17.27 ...................A Bradshaw 1 3F768 Tina 17.41 H & ....................................Taylor STAKES C3, 520m 8 14355 Goldstar Bomber 17.35 S & ............B Evans 6 16862 Human Instinct 17.33 .............J T McInerney 2 32556 Cabarita 17.41 ................................ M Grant 1 43525 Know Decision 29.88 .....................G Cleeve 9 73888 Costing Money 17.42 ...................... M Grant 7 78F38 Gorilla On Drums 17.29 ...................A Joyce 3 87265 Harden Faster 17.38 ..........................C Weir 2 x8566 Elephant Gunn nwtd .....................R Adcock 10 67552 Homebush Slinky 17.42 .........J T McInerney 8 23227 Token Ace 17.28 ............................... J Rush 4 51477 Wrinkles 17.15 .......................J T McInerney 3 F6425 Ugo Flash 30.18 J & .......................D Fahey 9 66853 Rick’s Treasure 17.25 C & .................. Fagan 4 1.05pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS STAKES C3, 5 34861 Homebush Paige 17.33..........J T McInerney 4 53231 Willis 30.26....................................R Adcock 2 family passes (2 adults 3 children) to Orana Park family of........................ four passM Grant 10 17478 Bo’s1Business 17.27 520m 6 14335 Will Excite 17.28 .......................... L Waretini 5 16233 Opawa Shackley 30.03 J & .............D Fahey 1 12112 Kava Blu nwtd J & ...........................D Fahey 7 85653 Opawa Colin 17.19 L & ...................... Wales 6 41441 Lagoon Belle 30.31 ......................C Roberts 9 2.33pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH 2 71615 Birchbrook 30.43 ...........................R Adcock 8 71132 Miss Fanning 17.36 .......................... B Dann 7 84313 Homebush Chopper 30.06 .....J T McInerney STAKES C4/5, 520m 3 28565 Cawbourne Kenny 30.67..............C Roberts 9 73888 Costing Money 17.42 ...................... M Grant 8 21183 Jinja Billy 30.56 ............................ L Waretini 1 42314 Chippa Lata 29.92.....................R Blackburn 4 14761 Goldstar Po 30.57 S & ....................B Evans 10 83737 Know Neglect nwtd ........................G Cleeve 9 54827 Izzey Bale 30.14...........................C Roberts 2 28175 Boston Billy 30.40 H & ........................Taylor 5 15714 Opawa Rocky 30.50 L & .................... Wales 10 11848 In The Boot 30.16 S & .....................B Evans 3 26186 Cawbourne War 30.22 .................C Roberts 2 12.30pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC SPRINT C4, 295m 6 11157 Miss Valley Inn 30.10 ...................C Roberts 4 11617 Dyna Vikkers 29.94 ......................C Roberts 7 1.57pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH 1 16855 Chokehold 17.27 M & .......................Jopson 7 12232 Idol Leanne 30.22 J & .....................D Fahey 5 27461 Jessie Surfs 30.35 .......................C Roberts C3, 295m 2 45616 No Leaf Clover 17.09 .........................C Weir 8 55752 Know Cheers 30.36 .......................G Cleeve 6 63878 Roadworks 30.91 ............................ M Grant 1 63513 Maudie’s Babe 17.18 C & .................. Fagan 3 74348 Grand Apache 17.09 S & ................B Evans 9 54827 Izzey Bale 30.14...........................C Roberts 7 13336 Can’t Catch Tim 30.09 ..................R Adcock 2 24877 Cawbourne Peejay 17.28 ...................C Weir 4 47268 Get Ready Freddy 17.18 ...........A Bradshaw 10 33666 Jinja Jaffa 30.32 ........................R Blackburn 8 23333 Trust Issues 30.04 J &.....................D Fahey 3 6587x Wine Time nwtd .....................J T McInerney 5 68627 Know Magic 17.14 .........................G Cleeve 9 45845 Mystic Action 30.35 J &...................D Fahey 5 1.22pm CLARKSON SIGN STUDIO SPRINT C5, 4 46834 Opawa Idol 17.35 L &......................... Wales 6 81211 Homebush Zippy 17.37 ..........J T McInerney 10 56287 Know Mention 30.06 ......................G Cleeve 295m 5 11364 Homebush Errol 17.32 ...........J T McInerney 7 14733 Tell The Boys 17.27 ................J T McInerney 1 7x136 Gold Vipa 17.37 S &........................B Evans 6 71348 Know Fault 17.24 ...........................G Cleeve 8 34771 Black Crow 17.57 ......................A Bradshaw 10 2.50pm OPAWA BOWL & JACK SPRINT C5, 295m 2 16441 Opawa Rocket 17.13 L & ................... Wales 7 51613 Car Bootle 17.42 ....................... M Robinson 9 74684 Homebush Rocky 17.17 .........J T McInerney 1 22554 Dizzy State 17.20 ...............................C Weir 3 48315 Paperbond 17.08 J & ......................D Fahey 8 51812 Culvie Godfather 17.20 H & ................Taylor 10 17478 Bo’s Business 17.27........................ M Grant 2 71388 Aiden Baxter 17.07 ................J T McInerney 4 11142 Gump’s The Name 17.31 ....................A Lee 9 73888 Costing Money 17.42 ...................... M Grant 3 51664 Terra Mondo 17.30 C & ...................... Fagan 3 12.47pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK DASH C3, 295m 1 family day5 pass (2 adults and 3 children) to 10 24642 About Town 17.27 ...............................A Lee 42313 Keramus 17.09 ...............................G Cleeve 4 12852and Little Regus 17.01 .....................A Bradshaw 1 64124 Butterbean 17.20 M & .....................P Binnie $25 Food Beverage voucher (R20 Willowbank Wildlife Reserve 6 66277 Cawbourne Dozer 17.27 ....................C Weir

DAY SIX

DAY FIVE

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DAY SEVEN

We are into the bowls again with an excellent beginning to Tuesday night pairs.

Fourteen teams were present and the results were: 1st: Pete Whinham and Bruce Harper 3 wins 36pts. 2nd: Alex Crawford and Rowan Tonks 3 wins 34pts. 3rd: Jim Lattimore and Bruce Redmond 3 wins and 28pts. 4th: Wendy Watson and Rose Johnston 2 wins 1 draw 28pts, this being assisted by Bruce W’s wonky driving!

Great fellowship had by all.

A huge congratulations to Matt Bassett

for his outstanding win of the Lowery Cup for men’s singles Canterbury. Well done Matt.

Our players are performing well in the nationals and our best wishes for their remaining games.

It was with great sadness we said farewell to JC, John Cartwright.

John a hard 2x was Laser Tagworking passesmember of our club taking on several task and was our greenkeeper for quite some years and will be remembered for many aspects that his duties involved.

The club extends their condolences to

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the Cartwright family in the sad loss of John.

Ashburton Golf Club Well we have arrived at the final week of qualifying for the Property Brokers Shootout.

We haven’t had as many attempt this season, with the weather and how the dates have fallen, but nevertheless, the scores have been great and by my reckoning we have 11 certainties, who have managed to snaffle 78 points or more and these alone throw up a won-

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77172 Shadow Apache 17.11 J &..............D Fahey 15117 Jamaican Archie 17.46 M & ..............Jopson 28236 Must Desire 17.17 ..........................G Cleeve 12624 Firemans Galaxy 16.96 ..................G Cleeve 17136 Cawbourne Jelly 17.11 ......................C Weir 85715 Smash Rumour 17.19 ..................... M Grant 11 3.08pm NZ RACING SERIES ADVANCED FINAL NZRSf, 520m 1 31712 Solstice 30.48 .................................. B Dann 2 43151 Homebush Kelso 30.31 ..........J T McInerney 3 15734 Know Clown 30.75 .........................G Cleeve 4 11213 Robbie 30.20.................................R Adcock 5 32212 Botany Kevin 30.49 ................J T McInerney 6 51664 Know Answer 30.23 .......................G Cleeve 7 21621 Southern Lights 30.51 .................R Hamilton 8 17653 Opawa Rosie 29.96.......................... B Dann 9 16535 Opawa Stretch 30.32 L & ................... Wales 10 23155 Opawa Val 30.50 J & .......................D Fahey 12 3.29pm LIVAMOL SPRINT C4, 295m 1 13255 Only Got Time 17.12 .................R Blackburn 2 37818 Homebush Rufus 17.46 .........J T McInerney 3 37627 Collecting Money 17.27 .................. M Grant 4 24473 Air Express 17.30...................J T McInerney 5 63142 Norman Jewel 17.16 ....................C Roberts 6 12472 Gossip Queen 17.18 .................A Bradshaw 7 2748x Lektra Concord nwtd ......................G Cleeve 8 13485 Backchat Harry 17.05 ...............A Bradshaw 9 66853 Rick’s Treasure 17.25 C & .................. Fagan venue) 10 15678 Another Fan 17.38 .................J T McInerney

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derful field. after club opening day results, which At present we have Greig, Bruce, Jason, should be about 5pm on January 16.

Brendon, Brent, George, Neil, Paddy Then the final will be on the following (LOL), Jeff, Joe, and Nicky, then we have Sunday January 24 tee off at 10am. This a gaggle of others just behind and quite tournament has quickly become one of a few more with one good score just the favourite games and most closely waiting to explode into the final, rememfollowed. ber the top 19 get into the final with a Even if you can’t qualify come on down chance to win a years full sub,sailing thanks passes to and play this Saturday, come and walk 4x 30 minutes of Blokart our great friends Property Brokers. round and support the finalists, or just After the finalists have been sorted, we come and join in the auction, I do after hope to get out a form guide as soon as all need someone to buy me. I’m looking possible, then we will have an auction to at you Lefty! purchase the finalists in the clubhouse Good Golfing.

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In brief Magic words Basketball legend Magic Johnson has given Australian teenager Ben Simmons a huge endorsement as the best allround player to emerge since LeBron James. Melbourne-born Simmons has NBA clubs circling in his rookie year for Louisiana State University, averaging 20.5 points and a league-high 13.1 rebounds. Simmons has often been compared to Johnson, a five-time NBA champion and three-time NBA MVP, because of his rare combination of size, ball skills and passing ability. And Johnson’s high praise will only strengthen his favouritism to be the No.1 NBA Draft pick in June - when he could easily end up with Johnson’s former team, the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Camp a big hit Luke Slee honed his bowling skills in fine weather at the Methven Domain yesterday.

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“Enjoyment is the main thing, enjoy the cricket and enjoy the sun.

“We’ll have a question and answer session at the end of the day and hopefully they can each tell me something they’ve learned,” he said.

Medhurst said there are still places available for next week’s programme for 12 to 14-yearolds. He can be contacted on 021 060 5060.

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The weather held up its end of the bargain yesterday for the opening session of the Methven Cricket Summer School at the Methven Domain.

This week will see budding cricketers between 8 and 11 years old improve their skills under the tutelage of English coach Sam Medhurst.

Medhurst, who arrived from

the UK in October, studied at the University of Chichester, where he graduated with a degree in sport development.

The 21-year-old said the opening day had gone well, and he was pleased with the turnout.

“They get a lot of contact time with me and the other coach, there’s a range of abilities, from a girl who’s just started playing cricket, to someone who’s Mid Canterbury level,” he said.

“We had a good warm up, everyone seems to be enjoying it, and we’ve got the weather for it so you can’t go wrong, it’s been nice.”

Medhurst insisted enjoyment is the focus of the programme, which will end on Saturday with the youngsters playing a curtain raiser before the Methven senior team locks horns with Lauriston in round eight of the Pritchard Shield.

Winning start for Mid Canty at Mandeville

By James Ford

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Mid Canterbury got off to a fine start on the opening day of the Year 6 cricket tournament at Mandeville on Tuesday, taking maximum points with a win over Canterbury Country Invitational.

Teams earn five points for a

win and also receive extra points for batting throughout the full 40 overs, as well as a point per 20 runs scored.

Mid Canterbury won the toss and elected to bowl on a green wicket, which proved a good decision.

Canterbury Country could only muster 87 and was all out in

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Matt Dunbar was Canterbury Country’s most prolific with the bat, posting 34, while Mid Canterbury’s Lachie Jemmett and George Wareing were in exceptional form with the ball.

Jemmett took 3 for 6 from his four overs and Wareing 3 for 16 off four.

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Following their strong performance in the field, Mid Canterbury posted an impressive 198/7 off their 40 overs in reply.

Devon Flannery notched an unbeaten 50 and Jemmett second top-scored with 41.

Mid Canterbury was to play Christchurch Metro in their next outing.

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Women: Sue Newman 41 c/b Leen Bell 41, Val Cartney 39, Wendy Stevenson 38 c/b Maree Moore 38.

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Hayne delayed Jarryd Hayne’s flight home to Australia was delayedyesterday, placing in doubt his mooted appearance for the Australian Legends football exhibition match against Liverpool Legends tonight.

The Hayne Plane was grounded for more than six hours in the US, with the San Francisco 49ers’ NFL player due now to arrive in Sydney mid-afternoon. While Hayne’s future in the NFL remains uncertain following the sacking of 49ers head coach Jim Tomsula on Monday, it’s believed the former NRL superstar’s immediate hope was to have taken on his beloved English Premier League team at ANZ Stadium. Hayne is a diehard soccer fan, following the Reds since he was a kid and regularly tweeting about his performances playing FIFA games on PlayStation.

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Injured Sigmund out Wellington defender Ben Sigmund will miss Sunday’s A-League clash with Brisbane after re-injuring his hamstring at training. Sigmund’s absence is a telling blow for the Phoenix, who are also without another defensive mainstay in Manny Muscat. He copped a twoweek ban for a forearm strike last week on Central Coast forward Roy O’Donovan. Wellington are missing eight frontline players for their round-14 match against the Roar, the joint competition leaders.

Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick will be juggling players to cover for injured strikers Jeffrey Sarpong, Roy Krishna and Alex Rufer, as well as defenders Louis Fenton and Sigmund.

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Test abandoned It was only the rain that troubled the scorer at the SCG for most of the third Test between Australia and the West Indies, as more than 100mm fell over the course of the match. Play was abandoned on the fourth day yesterday as rain washed out a second straight day.

It is the first time consecutive Test days have been washed out in Australia since the SCG suffered the same fate in the 1989-90 season. SCG curator Tom Parker emptied out his rain gauge yesterday morning after it had collected more than 100mm of rain since the Test began on Sunday.

Australia bowled 75 overs on the first day, but only 11.2 overs on day two as the storm settled in. - AAP

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Time for T20 prospects to show up There’s a fresh look to the New Zealand squad for their two T20 internationals against Sri Lanka, starting at Bay Oval today.

And the first match also marks the start of the countdown to the world tournament in India in March.

Coach Mike Hesson hinted yesterday there are other players who are likely to get an opportunity in the three T20s against Pakistan later this month.

Hesson believes he and fellow selector Gavin Larsen have trimmed their squad options for India down to 17 or 18, and while form is always relevant, there’s the complication that Indian conditions will bear little relation to the

surfaces in New Zealand in the coming weeks.

So those players in the squad this week should grab their chance.

Corey Anderson’s return after a lengthy layoff to recover from a back injury is welcome, even if his bowling is another couple of weeks away.

Add in another left-hander, Auckland’s belligerent hitter Colin Munro, and the middle/late innings organisational talents of Grant Elliott, returning from a wrist injury and it’s an exciting blend.

“It’s nice to bring fresh faces, who are feeling confident about their game and have performed

well for us in the past,” Hesson said yesterday.

“They’ll add real striking power to our batting lineup. It’s certainly an imposing lineup now.”

Seamer Matt Henry is in rare one-day form – 13 wickets in three ODI innings in the last 10 days – and gets an opportunity to add to his three T20 performances.

He replaces Tim Southee who is out of the five T20s and has his left foot in a moon boot to help get over bone bruising.

“He needs to take pressure off his foot and we’re hopeful it won’t be a long term thing,” Hesson said.

New Zealand played only four T20s in 2015, with wins against Zimbabwe and South Africa, and

losses to England and the South Africans. They are starting a rare run of shortest form games as preparation for India.

Sri Lanka won the last tournament two years ago, but since then they have lost batting giants Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara to retirement, freaky fast-medium bowler Lasith Malinga to injury, tricky finger spinner Ajantha Mendis to form and opener Kusal Perera to a drug ban.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal leads Sri Lanka, but his form when skipper hasn’t been flash, just 88 runs at 11.

They do have serious hitting power, though, well suited to the format.

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Swimmers put in hard yards at camp

By Caitlin Porter

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The Jennian Homes Ashburton Swim Team has kicked off 2016 with a jam-packed swim camp.

Twenty-one of the district’s best swimmers are currently sweating it out at The Lodge in Methven, undergoing rigorous training to ensure they are ready for the upcoming competitive swim season.

The annual camp is designed to prepare the swimmers, aged between 12 and 17 years, for a big few months in the pool with regional and national events on the cards, culminating with the National Age Group Championships in Wellington in May. Coach Shane Jones said the swimmers were following an intense training programme to ensure they were fighting fit and ready to go.

A 7am wakeup call is followed by a quick 20-minute run before breakfast is consumed, he said.

Then the swimmers jump in the pool for a two-hour session which sees them cover around 6km then lunch, a dry land gym session and another two hours in the pool before tea and some well needed rest.

Jones said this year’s group

included a range of new and old faces and it was a good chance for the kids to break out of their squad and swim with other age groups.

“It’s cool for the 12-year-olds to be swimming with the 13, 14, 15year-olds,” he said.

The camp runs until Saturday January 9.

Above - Josh Giles puts in some serious pool time at the annual swim camp in Methven.

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More seeds tumble at ASB Classic There were tears, tantrums and a moment of true controversy at the ASB Classic yesterday.

British world No 122 Naomi Broady claimed her opponent, Jelena Ostapenko should have been disqualified after the Latvian threw her racquet and it bounced off the ground and hit a ballboy in the second set tiebreak of their second round match.

The ball boy was called to the umpires’ chair, and he confirmed the racquet had hit him on the shoulder. Broady was in tears as she first remonstrated with the

umpire, then tournament supervisor Tony Cho. Ostapenko was just as incredulous, claiming that the incident was an accident. The WTA rules state that players can be defaulted for unsporting actions on court.

There was obvious animosity between the players for the rest of the match, and continued at the end of the game, which was won by Broady 4-6 7-6 (4) 7-5.

After a cursory handshake, the duo continued to snipe at each other and had to be separated by

the umpire before the Latvian left the court.

After playing the match of her life to upset Venus Williams yesterday, Russian youngster Daria Kasatkina is out of the tournament, beaten 5-7 6-2 5-7 by Japan’s Nao Hibino. She led late in the third set before falling to a Hibino comeback.

The carnage for the top players continues, as fouth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova was beaten 6-2 6-3 by Austrian qualifier Tamira Paszek. Kuznetzova looked good on Monday in her opening round

match but was never in the contest yesterday, played off the court by Paszek, who is in irresistible form at the moment.

It was a remarkable effort by world No172 Paszek, who was playing her fifth match in five days and was on court for nearly three hours yesterday.

However, world No 30 Sloane Stephens - much to the relief of tournament organisers no doubt - has stopped the rot for the big names, coming back from a set down against German Carina Witthoeft to win 3-6 6-1 6-3. - NZH

Then again, Martin Guptill is in rare touch right now. His wellpaced hundred on Tuesday suggested a carrying on of his limited-overs form of last year, when he scored more runs, 1489, than any other batsman.

“His form is exceptional,” Hesson said. “To be able to keep scoring runs when you’ve got that form is another skill rather than going too hard, too soon. He’s making the most of his form.”

There’s also the small matter of a world No 1 ranking for Sri Lanka to defend. New Zealand, by contrast, are ranked a lowly eighth, their poorest position of the three ranking ladders. Much to play for, then.

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Awesome Lynn set to step up Former New Zealand star Dan Vettori firmly believes Chris Lynn’s one-day international omission won’t cost him a spot at this year’s world Twenty20 tournament.

Lynn has been in sensational form for the Brisbane Heat during this summer’s Big Bash League competition, belting a tournament-high 287 runs from five innings including 19 sixes.

Despite that form, the Heat skipper wasn’t picked in Australia’s squad for the first three of five one-day internationals against India this month.

Vettori says that omission probably has more to do with the shoulder injury which ruled Lynn out of the domestic one-day cup earlier this summer than anything else.

The Heat coach is confident Lynn - who played two T20 internationals for Australia in January 2014 - will be right in the mix when the squad for the T20 World Cup in India is picked.

“The way he’s playing he’s going to knock on the door and hopefully it’s the Australian T20 team that’s the first way in for him,” Vettori said. “You’ve got a guy who is exceptionally talented and he’s starting to really think about his game. It’s an awesome package at the moment.”

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Runs: 287 (most in tournament) Sixes: 19 (most in tournament) Average: 71.75 (3rd in tournament) High score: 101 (4th highest in tournament) Strike rate: 175 (highest for players with 3 or more innings) 50s: 3 (equal highest)

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): People make mistakes; they suffer and often try to change. You don’t have to watch out for the ones who make mistakes. You have to watch out for the ones who don’t try to change.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): It’s lucky when you’re able to shop around and/or try the beta version, but you’ll never know until you get your hands on the real thing. This is your day for diving into it.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Did your heart just go flutter, or was that just a pleasant passing interest you experienced? It’s too soon to tell, really, but your attractions are certainly worth investigating.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Here you go again, putting yourself in challenging environments that make you feel small. If this isn’t brilliant and brave, nothing is. You’ll rise and surprise yourself.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You love to be adored, but you do not like to feel like you belong to anyone. They may ask for information, explanation or detail, but you don’t owe it to them. Maintain your autonomy.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): There are plenty of influential people who never lived: Sherlock Holmes, Cinderella, James Bond. And then there’s that character in your mind, a kind of alter ego who does the things you would love to do.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Some people are earnest, plain and simple. You love that quality and it’s becoming rarer these days. You’ll relate to such a person, and the honesty will refresh your spirit.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You want to be bold, but it’s hard when you’re not sure of the scale you’re dealing with. Talk to your mentor. And if you don’t have one, isn’t it about time you get one?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You focus well — in fact, you could start to obsess in a way you’re not sure is healthy. Some good may come of it. Let a Capricorn or Gemini distract you so you can get perspective.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The attraction secret you embody is so obvious, why doesn’t everyone know it? When you make someone feel smart, beautiful or interesting that person will keep coming back to you for more sunshine.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Love is: wanting the other person to have fun, joy and happiness even if you’re not part of it. You may still be debating whether you want to be this selfless, and that’s fine, too.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You have every right to go where you want to and vanish into thin air when you don’t want to be there anymore. Just remember your freedoms, and you’ll feel better about everything.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian ANNIVERSARIES Diamond Wedding

CREAN, Kevin and Doreen (nee MARFELL) Married January 7, 1956, in Seddon.

Congratulations and love from your family.

DEATHS BURNS, Isabella Jean (Isabel) (nee Sutherland) – On January 2, 2016, aged 90 Passed away years. at Oamaru peacefully Hospital suddenly, after a short illness. Loved wife of the late Ian. Loving mother and mother-in-law of Ray and Linda and Robbie and Jo. Grandmother to her four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Loving and caring sister of Noeline and brother Jack. Sister of the late Shirley, George, Sandy and Douglas. A private cremation has been held, as she wished. A celebration of her life will take place at a later date for family and friends.

The family would like to acknowledge the staff at Rendell on Reed for the support given to Isabel over recent years.

Whitestone Funeral Services FDANZ

GRIFFITHS, William David (Bill) – Peacefully at Wesley Village on January 3, 2016, aged 81 years. Dearly loved husband of Margaret. Loved father of Cheryl, Mark and Leighton.

Loved father-in-law of Tanya and Lynda. Loved brother of Maureen, Ian and Cliff. Loved grandfather of Josiah, Talor, Bijou, Lamar, Azure, Harry and Reuben.

“Remembered with love.”

A service for Bill will be held at Grange Manor, 400 Dominion Road, Mt Eden on FRIDAY, January 8 at 10.30am. All communications to the Griffiths Family C/Davis Funerals, P O Box 56013, Dominion Road, Auckland 1446.

Davis Funerals Auckland - 09 638 9026

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PINNELL, Murray Allan – On January 5, 2016.

Suddenly at home, aged 70 years.

“Taken Too Soon.”

Cherished husband of Valerie for 46 years. Loved father, father in law and pop of Matthew, and Sonya Pinnell, Rowan, and Liam Moss.

Brother of Ronald, and Colin and the late Elsie, and Jean.

Loved son of the late Ron and Maggie Pinnell and a very much loved uncle. ”Will be sadly missed.”

Message to the Pinnell family c/- P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to the Ashburton Cancer Society would be much appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Murray’s life will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on FRIDAY, January 8, commencing at 11.30am.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

VROLYK, Margretha Agatha – On December 31, 2015.

Peacefully at Methven House.

Dearly loved wife of the late Cornelis (Kees), and loved Aunt of all her nieces and nephews in Holland and New Zealand. A private service for Margretha has been held.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

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High cloud thickening. Rain about the divide in the evening, and a few falls further east.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to gale 65 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to severe gale 95 km/h.

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McLEARY, Devon Torbet Please note all late death (Dev) – notices or notices sent On January 4, 2016. outside ordinary office hours Suddenly at Ashburton. Aged must be emailed to: 18 years. Treasured, loved deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz and adored eldest son of to ensure publication.

Torbet and Carmen. Much loved brother and best mate During office hours notices may also be sent to: of Kaitlyn, and Shanan.

Dearly loved grandson of Gay classifieds@theguardian.co.nz and Eric, and the late Evelyn Any queries and Alister. Loved by all his please contact aunties and uncles and 0800 cousins and a great friend to ASHBURTON many. Messages to 95 (0800-274-287).

Walnut Avenue, Ashburton. A service to celebrate Dev’s life will be held in the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, Wills Street, Ashburton on MONDAY, January 11, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Canterbury owned, locally operated Crematorium.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

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2pm The Cricket Show 2:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – First T20.

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11:10 Entertainment Tonight Weekend The biggest entertainment stories of the last week.

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Kieran Hunt took 1 for 33 from his five overs for Mid Canterbury at the Ashburton Oval yesterday.

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Milestone match for Print

BY JAMES FORD

JAMES.F@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The Mid Canterbury senior cricket side began 2016 with a 49-run loss to the New South Wales Emu Colts at the Ashburton Oval yesterday.

The Emus are an invitational under-21 side from northern New South Wales that tour the Tasman and Canterbury regions every second year.

Mid Canterbury won the toss and elected to field in fine conditions as Michael Dawson and Dean Mills opened the batting for the tourists.

Local cricket stalwart Richard

Print, who was making his 50th appearance for Mid Canterbury, made it a double celebration by removing Dawson (14) for his 100th representative wicket, before sending Mills (8) back to the pavilion to move on to 101.

Damon Rootes (10) was then dismissed by Harry Jones for his first of an eventual four-wicket haul, but Trent Dierick boosted the visitors’ innings with 34 from as many deliveries. Kieran Hunt then dismissed Ryan Yates (5) and Jones took his third wicket with Campbell Baker out for 4.

As the Australians’ middle men

faltered, Cael Smith answered the call with an impressive knock to post 51 off 50 balls.

A wagging tail then bolstered the Emus’ total as Ben Woodard (13), Tom Burley (14) and Will Chesterfield (12) all recorded double figures to see the visitors all out for 192 in the 40th over.

Jones was in fine form with the ball, taking 4 for 29 from his 10 overs while skipper Bevan Ravenscroft took 2 for 14, but the day will be remembered by the Mid Canterbury faithful for Print’s (2 for 39 off 8) 100th wicket in his 50th appearance.

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Mid Canterbury’s reply got off to a poor start as James Southby walked for 4 and Callum Gallagher was caught for nought.

William Southby set about steadying the ship but was removed for 21 before Hunt (5) and Print (1) went cheaply for Smith’s third and fourth wickets respectively.

Des Kruger offered the most resistance with 34 while Hayden Sinclair (10), Harry Jones (19), Ryan Cockburn (13 not out) and Bevan Ravenscroft (14) also contributed well, but couldn’t recover the innings from the poor start,

leaving Mid Canterbury all out for 143 in the 38th over.

Ravenscroft said he was pleased with his side’s performance with the ball and in the field but called for an improved batting display on Sunday when Mid Canterbury take on the Canterbury Senior Performance Squad before returning to Hawke Cup duty against Southland on January 16.

“Sunday will be a pretty good test for us ahead of Southland, it’s good to blow out the cobwebs but it’s a bit disappointing that we fell short today, but our main focus is on Southland,” he said.

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