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Country schools unite for culture By ruBy HarfiEld

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Chertsey and Fairton schools have joined forces to learn Kapa Haka for six weeks this term.

All students from both schools spent yesterday morning at the Fairton Hall learning movements and songs from tutors from Canterbury’s Kapahikitia Trust.

Fairton School principal Rebekah Clement said it was great for the students to be able to become more culturally aware and learn some new skills.

“It’s also nice to be able to have

a way of greeting people formally to the school.” Having both Fairton and Chertsey schools working together helps them further develop a bond as two rural schools in the same area.

“It’s good to join with Chertsey School.”

The session started off with a mini powhiri by Fairton School before the children got into learning different moves.

The students will spend six Fridays – the first three at the Fairton Hall and the remainder at Chertsey – learning from Kapahikitia Trust tutors.

Left - Chertsey and Fairton school students Chloe Davidson, 7, Olivia McFarlane, 6, Emma McClelland, 6, Vienna Smith, 5, and Amber Peace, 5, learning Kapa Haka.

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■ EARLY MORNING FIRE

Big black mess to clean up

By Erin TaskEr

Erin.t@thEguardian.co.nz

Todds of Ashburton staff were in clean-up mode after a small early morning fire left behind a big black mess yesterday.

A fan – used to circulate air in the upstairs mezzanine area of the store – caught fire shortly before 4am yesterday morning, burning the bench it was sitting on, blackening the ceiling above, and filling the store with smoke.

Owner Tony Todd wondered what he was going to be greeted with when he was woken by a phone call from the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade, and on arrival was grateful to find it could have been much worse.

He said the fan had three settings, and was set on two on Thursday because setting ‘one’ was not working. The fan was

switched off around 3pm, and no one thought anything of it.

“We sort of thought how did it start? Because we don’t have many things around here that catch fire, but you do hear of these things, like computers catching fire even if they’re switched off,” Mr Todd said.

A smoke alarm directly above the fan also triggered the store’s burglar alarms and security staff were quickly on the scene, discovered the fire, and called 111.

Mr Todd was grateful; he knows another 10 or 15 minutes, it could have been a very different story.

The shop was closed yesterday morning as staff cleaned down surfaces and the shop was aired out, but it was business as usual from lunch time.

“There’s a few clothes which

will need to be dry-cleaned, but to be fair there’s not a lot of smoke lingering any more,” he said.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Alan Burgess said the fire was only small so it was dealt with quickly, but firefighters spent some time at the scene trying to clear the smoke from the building.

He too said it was fortunate the fire was discovered when it was.

“If it hadn’t been monitored or had smoke alarms in it, it would have been a very different story.”

Right - Where it all began – a fan on a desk which caught fire upstairs at Todds of Ashburton early yesterday morning.

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■ ASHBURTON DOG DEATHS

Poisonings suspected

By Erin TaskEr

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One beloved family dog is dead, and another is seriously ill, after suspected poisonings their owners believe can’t be coincidence.

Emily Dodge’s seven-year-old border collie Dolcie died a fortnight ago, and Nicole Aberhart’s four-year-old border collie Misty remains in a 24-hour emergency vet clinic in Christchurch, where she arrived in a critical condition late on Wednesday.

The source of Dolcie’s apparent fatal poisoning is not clear, but Misty’s has been put down to slug bait pellets found on the lawn – and Nicole has no idea how they got there.

All they know is that they want their story out there, so that people know it’s happened, and know what to look for if they suspect their own dog has been poisoned.

“It would not rest easy with me if it happened to someone else, because it’s not a nice way for a dog to go,” Emily said.

Emily returned home to find Dolcie lying in their Allenton driveway on April 22. How had she gotten out? What was she doing there? It struck Emily as odd, but Dolcie seemed okay so she just put her in the back yard and continued with her day.

But a couple of hours later she went outside to hang some washing out and found Dolcie shaking, panting and frothing at the mouth.

She called her mum, who said it sounded like poisoning, and she should get her to the vet.

The vet initially suspected it was epilepsy because it was common in border collies Dolcie’s age. But when she was given drugs and nothing changed, they too suspected it was poison.

“We were really wracking our brains. We left her at the vet and came home and checked the whole property and there was nothing unusual at all,” Emily said.

Initial thoughts were it was slug bait, but now it’s suspected it was lead poisoning.

Dolcie the seven-year-old border collie died of suspected poisoning two weeks ago.

Dolcie remained at the vet, but overnight she vomited and inhaled it, and got pneumonia.

The vet suggested she be taken to a 24-hour emergency clinic in Christchurch.

“Between Burnham and Rolleston mum looked behind to check on her and said we needed to pull over and check on her, and unfortunately she had passed away,” Emily said.

John Keeley from the SPCA came to look at their property, and he too found nothing.

“He came to the conclusion straight away that it was suspicious because he said there had been cats poisoned in the area too.”

Emily decided to go public with what happened to her dog, mak-

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ing a post on Facebook which has since been shared by around 150 people. She did so, so people were aware it had happened, and aware of the symptoms of poisoning.

It was because of that post, and the fact she and Emily are friends, that Nicole knew straight away that the same thing had happened to her dog, Misty, on Wednesday.

She’d been home all morning, but it wasn’t until her dad returned at lunchtime and asked her what was wrong with Misty, that she knew anything was wrong. Misty was outside shaking and panting, so Nicole took her straight to the vet, where Misty started having seizures on the table.

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Like Emily, Nicole went home and checked her property – this time in Netherby – but she too found nothing unusual.

The vet told her green faeces was a symptom of poisoning though, so she looked closer, and found little green pellets on her lawn.

A further search found a cardboard box under a tree – a slug bait box. Nicole doesn’t know how they came to be there, as she too, is careful not to keep poisons on her property.

Unlike Dolcie, Misty made it to the 24-hour emergency clinic in Christchurch in time.

She remains there today, but her long-term outlook remains unclear.

Nicole and Emily don’t know

how, or why, their dogs came to be poisoned. “It’s not like we’ve got any enemies; we keep to ourselves,” Nicole said.

“We can’t think of anyone who would want to target us,” Emily said.

They say their dogs were both gentle with lovely natures.

“The way I’m looking at it is that even if something wasn’t purposely done to Dolcie, something was definitely done to Misty – that was intentional. I have no evidence, she does.”

It’s been an emotional, and costly, couple of weeks. Nicole’s already got almost $4000 in vet bills.

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■ ASHBURTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

In brief Coppers on two wheels

Students dress up for charity

Police hit the streets of Ashburton on two wheels yesterday; something the town can expect to see more of. Police on motorcycles were in town conducting general road policing work, and Ashburton Police senior sergeant Scott Banfield said it was simply about having more patrols, and extra police presence in town.

The motorcycles are part of a Christchurch based team Mr Banfield has asked to come down when they can. “Over the past six to eight months they’ve been here probably three times, and I can guarantee they will be here another three or four times in the next six to eight months,” Mr Banfield said.

Ashburton Intermediate School was full of red and yellow yesterday for a mufti day to raise money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

Renée Otene Penniall, 12, Paige Parker, 11, Katelin Adcock, 12, Jessyca Donn, 11, and Nikita Bent, 11, are pictured looking dazzling in their colours.

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■ ASHBURTON POLICE

Crime spree put down to recent arrivals

By Erin TaskEr

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A number of young offenders recently moved into the Ashburton District are believed to be behind a recent spike in dishonesty crime.

Ashburton Police senior sergeant Scott Banfield said the young offenders were being caught, but because of their ages they were released back to their families, and unfortunately not all were learning their lesson.

“We are starting to see a little spike in youth offending. We have had some young people come into the district in recent weeks and they have very quick-

ly presented themselves as high profile offenders,” Mr Banfield said.

“All of a sudden there’s been a police pursuit and some burglaries where the police have been involved, and some other little burglaries in recent days, with some young offenders who have been apprehended and they’re now going through the process.”

That process meant that unless youths were classed as high risk, they were released back to their families though, and that could be frustrating for police, Mr Banfield said.

“Some of these young people do adhere by the conditions of their release, but others don’t

and they continue their offending spree and that’s when police, and the community, get frustrated.”

But that was the process, and it had to be followed.

Mr Banfield said police were now working with Child, Youth and Family, other organisations, and the young people’s families and “trying to put some structure back into these young people’s lives”.

One Tinwald business had been broken into three or four times in the past couple of months and on each occasion, youths had been apprehended, he said.

Often the items targeted in

the burglaries were food and alcohol. “When you see food, it’s usually chips and lollies and things, which indicate it’s young people,” Mr Banfield said.

The latest burglary at the Tinwald business occurred on Wednesday night, but police said there had been an increase in dishonesty crime in general – including burglaries and thefts – across the town.

Among the other crimes which young people have been apprehended for in town recently, were a burglary at Robbie’s Bar and Bistro where a vehicle was taken, and later spotted by police – who pursued – before it crashed into Ashburton’s KFC.

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A car fire at a Stanley Road property late on Thursday night is being put down to an electrical fault. Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Alan Burgess said the driver managed to start the car, and move it away from trees it was parked under, after the fire broke out. The car suffered significant damage. Mr Burgess said the fire started under the bonnet so the cause was believed to have been electrical.

The fire occurred shortly after 1am yesterday.

Name released Police have released the name of the woman who died when she was hit by a train in Tinwald on Wednesday. She was 44-year-old Marcia Cain from Ashburton. She was hit by a southbound freight train on the railway line, near Jane Street, at about 9.15am. Police are continuing to investigate the incident and her death has been referred to the coroner.

Finn studio tagged Neil Finn has asked for the public’s help to identify two men who tagged the outside of his Auckland studio. In a tweet yesterday he posted two pictures of the alleged culprits. One man can be seen holding a marker and scribbling on what seems like a door. Another man wearing a yellow jacket is also visible. hey were both involved in vandalising the premises, said Charlotte Ryan of Roundhead Studios.

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Gearing up for an influx of tourists

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Along with the rest of New Zealand, the Ashburton District needs to batten down the hatches for the growing wave of tourists from China, a tourism industry expert says.

Kathleen Rosser, a Kiwi now living in Beijing, was in Methven this week talking with Methven Travel’s David Dynes about meeting the needs of the growing numbers of Chinese travellers. And while some of those would be on fast-moving, pre-booked package tours, an increasing number would be independent travellers, Ms Rosser said.

“The Chinese are coming whether we like it or not and we need to get ready. They’re after the things that you have in your district, the wide open spaces, animals, skiing. Give them those and they’re over the moon.”

Ms Rosser said that most Chinese tourists wanted the quintessential Kiwi experience.

“They’re looking for something different to what they have at home. At home they live in concrete parks, they don’t have the things we all take for granted.

They don’t have the countryside or farms and they don’t have open spaces.”

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Hainan Pacific supplier development manager Kathleen Rosser talks about the growing Chinese tourism market with (from left) Nigel Birt and David Dynes from Methven Travel and Bruce Moffat from Experience Mid Canterbury.

PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 05016-TM-0027 tactile experiences where they could pat animals, touch snow and take plenty of photos, she said.

The Chinese who travelled had money to spend and many would make two or three trips to New Zealand. Each time they came

they would want something different and new experiences, Ms Rosser said. “And they find places like your scenic inland route really eye-opening.”

New experiences included learning to ski. “They’re always keen to give things a go. They’ll

be the first in there, they’ll laugh but they’ll give it a go – and they’ll take photos, lots of photos. And they want to understand where their steak comes from or to eat the fish they’ve caught.”

While they might not come with the right clothing to walk on

farms, with women often wearing high heels, for them putting on a raincoat, a hat and gumboots was exciting, it was like dressing in a national costume, she said.

“The love to do this and even something as simple as having a cup of tea sitting on a hay bale or riding on a trailer behind a tractor is exciting.

“They want to touch, to see, to smell, to get out there.”

Because the Chinese had very limited holiday time each year, their experiences needed to be tightly packaged, Ms Rosser said.

“Everything in China is very fast paced and they want their holiday experiences to be in short snaps – that’s all they have time for.”

An example of the size of the Chinese market was the Amway deal won by Queenstown that would see 10,000 Chinese tourists visiting the lakes area during 2018.

“That’s the level China works on.”

New Zealand had to gear up for a new wave of tourists who wanted a minimum of three-star plus accommodation, but at a spend of $1 billion currently per year and growing, gearing up was not an option, Ms Rosser said.

She is home in New Zealand for the annual travel industry showcase event, Trenz which will be held in Rotorua from May 10–13.

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■ MID CANTERBURY SCHOOLS

Calling BOT candidates

By SuSan SandyS

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Mid Canterbury school managers are hoping there will be plenty of keen people in their communities willing to stand in coming board of trustee elections.

The common election date, which will be chosen by most schools around the country, is June 3, and as such, the majority of schools will be calling for nominations by the end of this week.

New Zealand School Trustees’ Association elections project manager Janet Kelly said nomi-

nations would close by noon on May 20.

“That’s just a couple of weeks, so they need to get onto it if they are thinking of standing,” Mrs Kelly said regarding potential board of trustee nominees.

Schools needed informed people with a balance of skills and experiences, and it was important that a board reflected its community.

“A well-run school board has the power to lift student achievement, which will then benefit the whole community,” she said.

In a New Zealand-wide sur-

vey, 78 per cent of responding schools said they were confident they would fill all their board positions.

Mount Hutt College/Lauriston School board of trustees chairperson James McKenzie said five parent representatives were on the board. Only himself and one other member were planning on standing again, meaning there were only two guaranteed nominees at this stage.

He was hopeful nominations would come forward from the community, and encouraged people to stand. Those with ex-

perience in accounting, strategic planning or communications could be particularly helpful.

Ashburton College staggers its board of trustee elections, holding one every 18 months, filling three of its six parent representative positions each time.

Returning officer Sheena Tyrrell said of the three members who had completed their threeyear term this time round, she was aware of only one who had indicated they would not be standing for re-election.

Nomination forms were due to be posted out yesterday.

■ BOROUGH SCHOOL

Fighting it out for Top Team honours Ashburton Borough School students took part in the school’s inaugural Top Team event on Thursday.

Students from each house competed in a variety of different water-based team games and activities to earn house points.

Danielle Spies is pictured cheering on her team.

Safety paramount for duck shooting Mid Cantabrians are being urged to think about firearms safety with the beginning of duck hunting season this weekend.

Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) and the Council of Licensed Firearms Owners are encouraging the thousands who will take to their ponds for duck shooting to remember to handle their firearms safely.

RWNZ president Wendy McGowan said it is also a good opportunity to get the children outdoors and teach them about safe firearm handling and behaviour around shotguns.

“This is an excellent environment to teach our children multiple safe practices around firearms, including wearing warm clothing and protective gear such as earmuffs.

“Shotguns fire at a decibel rating of 170dB which causes instant hearing loss to all those standing close by. Earmuffs or earplugs may eliminate permanent damage.

“What we teach our children now, will set them up for a lifetime of enjoyment in this sport, if they can keep themselves and others safe.”

There are more birds this year as well as an extension to the season and increased bag limits in some areas so safety is especially important, she said.

“Bring everyone home safely with a full bag of ducks.”

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■ ASHBURTON FARMERS’ MARKET

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Planning for next season

By Sue NewmaN

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With nine years of satisfied customers behind it, Ashburton’s Farmers’ Market has wrapped up for the year, but planning is already under way for a bigger and better market next year, says secretary Judith Crozier.

Over the nine years it has been in business, the market has developed a solid base of regular stallholders and clients, but like any market, its success is totally dependent on having a good number of stalls that set up every week, Mrs Crozier said.

“We rely on people to bring their products and the more stalls we have, the more regular stalls, the more people come.”

When the market reopens at the end of September, Mrs Crozier is hoping to have a range of new suppliers who are keen to become part of the regulars’ network.

“We have so many loyal customers and they need to be able to rely on having a wide range of products to buy,” she said.

Over the years the rules around who can and cannot set up in business in the West Street car park on Saturdays has changed.

Where once the event was largely for local producers, now

Electric shock A 17-year-old boy has been taken to hospital following a reported electric shock near an upmarket Auckland food court last night. St John said the teen was taken to Auckland Hospital in a moderate condition following the 5.30pm incident.

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Woman missing Nelson Police are searching for Wakefield woman and have concerns for her welfare. Rachel Stokes’ car was found crashed on SH6 near Kawatiri Junction this morning. A search and rescue operation was launched about 9am today and several ground search teams have scoured the immediate area. A helicopter and a search dog have also been deployed.

The search has failed to find any trace of Rachel Stokes and police are appealing for members of the public who may have seen her, or offered her a ride to come forward.

She is European, aged 46 years.

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Sea snake surprise Grower Norm McDowell shares a special moment with customer Lois Burridge during an Ashburton Farmers’ Market.

PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 160116-TM-0044 anyone who has food or plants to sell, regardless of where they live, can book a site and set up business, Mrs Crozier said.

“We don’t turn anyone away; we’re open to all-comers.”

The market also encouraged organisations who were fundraising to consider setting up a stall and there was also the community stall that could be used by groups or individuals wanting

a casual site, perhaps to sell-off an over supply of produce from their own gardens, she said.

Her goal is for the 10th market to have the largest number of stallholders yet.

■ SPORT NZ RURAL TRAVEL FUND

Eighteen sports groups receive travel grants Eighteen sports groups from around the Ashburton District have been given a helping hand to meet their travel costs, thanks to the Sport NZ Rural Travel Fund.

This fund is administered locally by the Ashburton District Council and this year $12,700 worth of grants were handed out.

Two applications were declined.

The fund is designed to help subsidise rural travel for junior

teams aged between 5-19 years.

It helps school and club teams participate in local sporting competitions.

To qualify a school club team must be participating in regular local sport competition out of school time, excluding inter school and intra school competitions played during school time.

A sports club team must be participating in organised, regu-

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lar sport competition through club membership outside of school time.

Grants were made to: Allenton Rugby Club, $300; Ashburton Celtic Rugby Club, $1000; Ashburton College (15 rowers x 5 regattas), $600; Ashburton College (2 x boys cricket teams), $750; Ashburton College (5 x basketball teams), $1100; Ashburton College (girls 1st XI cricket team), $500; Ashburton College (girls

1st XV rugby team), $650; Ashburton College (netball players under 20km), $300; Hampsted Rugby Club, $1000; Longbeach Sports Club, $1000; Methven Cricket Club, $500; Methven Hockey Club, $1000; Methven Rugby Club, $1000; Mt Hutt College (2x basketball teams), $600; Mt Hutt College (Rippa Rugby Team) $300; Rakaia Netball Club, $400; Southern Netball Club, $1200; Tinwald Pony Club, $500.

The sight of a yellow-bellied sea snake gave a tourist walking along the beach at Tokomaru Bay, Gisborne, quite a fright this week. Department of Conservation ranger Jamie Quirk said the sighting was a rare occurrence. “It is not normal but not impossible.

The water temperatures are still really warm and every 15 to 20 years we get sea snakes washing up on our shores. “They are usually at Te Araroa and the East Cape.

We have not seen them much closer than that,” Mr Quirk said.

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Skies ‘alive’ in Ashburton The skies above Ashburton came alive last weekend when Skydiving Kiwis hosted an event called Kiwi Boogie.

Around 100 people from around New Zealand and Australia registered for the event and 91

fun jumpers did a massive 741 jumps over the four days.

More than 100 loads went up into the sky in three planes, including a Porter lent to Skydiving Kiwis by Skydive Franz.

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Farmers has issued an apology for a Mother’s Day email that may have caused offence to its customers. The mass email went out to customers yesterday with the subject line “Your mother sent us her wish list”. About two hours later the department store chain sent another email with an apology for causing “hurt or offence”. “Farmers would like to apologise for sending an email this morning with a subject line which may have caused hurt or offence.

It was certainly not our intention,” said the email. Farmers head of marketing Dean Cook told the Herald the email subject line was an ill-conceived idea.

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Ashburton Borough School students commemorated fallen soldiers during a special Anzac service on Wednesday.

White crosses and red poppies were made into the shape of a cross and the Last Post was played.

Principal Sam Winterbourn said the school always tried to commemorate Anzac Day with their own service as close to April 25 as possible but had to do it late this year because of the school holidays.

Ashburton RSA president Maurice Baker and Reverend David Brown from St Andrew’s Church were also present.

Big drug haul A police drug bust in Auckland has netted a big haul of methamphetamine and almost half a million dollars in cash. Auckland police said Operation Disruption, which concluded this week, had targeted organised crime and related offending. Eleven people were arrested, one of whom was found with close to $400,000 in cash. Operation Disruption also netted tens of thousands of dollars of methamphetamine and what police described as a “significant amount” of other illegal drugs. A stash of firearms and ammunition was also seized, as well as a large haul of electronic goods. - NZME

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Arts groups given funding boost Ten community groups have been given a share of a $13,894 funding pool by the Ashburton District Council.

Funds were allocated from the council’s creative communities fund, with the greatest share of money, $2000 each going to The Big Little Theatre Company, Ashburton’s Variety Theatre and Ashburton Art Gallery.

Other grant recipients were Ashburton Writers’ Group, $250; Arts Canterbury Incorporated, $839; Ashburton Arts Performing Theatre Trust, $1000; Ashburton Creative Fibre Group, $1300; Ashburton Society of Performing Arts, $1000; MSA Male Choir, $1500; Multi-Cultural Bite, $1900.

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By Imran alI Speculation about the All Blacks being deliberately poisoned before the 1995 World Cup final in South Africa should be put to rest, Kamo Kid Ian Jones said.

The former All Black lock, who played in the final at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, said the country and conspiracy theorists should instead focus on the fact the men in black have won the Webb Ellis Cup twice since 1995.

He made the comments after

former top South African police commander involved with All Blacks security at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, Rory Steyn, said the ABs were deliberately poisoned before the final against the Springboks.

The chief bodyguard to President Nelson Mandela believes betting syndicates were behind the poisoning. The All Blacks lost the Johannesburg final 15-12.

Mr Steyn said there was a huge degree of paranoia within the All Blacks camp, which escalated af-

ter the semifinal win over England in Cape Town.

The team travelled back to Johannesburg and it was decided among management that they would eat separately to the rest of their hotel’s guests in the week leading up to the final. Mr Steyn is in New Zealand for TedxAuckland, to talk about his time as Mandela’s chief bodyguard.

But Jones said he has no evidence to back up claims made by Mr Steyn.

“I don’t think there was any

doubt the guys were sick, but who did it, I don’t know and I don’t want to speculate,” he said.

“It was so long ago that I honestly haven’t given it much thought.

There is speculation but, like I said, I don’t know and I don’t have any evidence.”

Mr Steyn said he didn’t think anyone involved with South African rugby played a part in the poisoning, but that money and betting syndicates were behind it.

Team doctor Mike Bowen reportedly suspected foul play. – NZME

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Mid-South Island Women’s Refuge and Family Safety Services manager Dawn Rangi-Smith (left) and Outreach case worker Gail Rowland are seeing an increase in referrals from Mid Canterbury.

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We all have a right to be Family is everything.

It’s about love, friendship, and security. But it’s not like that for everyone. About half of all homicides in New Zealand are committed by someone identified as family. Erin Tasker reports.

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eaving an abusive partner isn’t easy.

In many cases it’s the end of a long-term commitment and a case of dreams being shattered.

No-one should have to put up with abuse, but the question for many women in that position could well be, where do they go?

How do they escape?

When a woman makes the decision to leave, Mid-South Island Women’s Refuge and Family Safety Services is there to help. And demand for their service is growing.

In the past 12 months they’ve experienced an increase in the number of referrals they’ve received from the Mid Canterbury area. Many of those calls were coming from the most unexpected places – middle income earners, and women from the under-pressure farming industry.

Service manager Dawn RangiSmith said family violence was never easy to spot and was often in the last homes you’d ever expect.

On average the Mid-South Island service gets three calls a week

from women in need of accommodation and Mrs Rangi-Smith and her team help all of them, despite limited space in the refuge’s Timaru safe house and limited funding. If they can’t fit them in the house, they’ll put them up in a motel, so long as they meet certain criteria.

The Timaru safe house – which caters for women from as far south as Oamaru and as far north as Ashburton – has just six rooms and Mrs Rangi-Smith said the main criteria was women must be in immediate danger.

“All cases are bad, but they’re all taken on their own merits. If a woman is living in a car with a couple of children, we can’t do nothing,” she said.

“A woman presented to us a while ago and she was on the fringes of a gang and she was sleeping in her car, and that’s really dangerous.”

The biggest issue was often what to do with women after that initial help was given.

Mrs Rangi-Smith said for many of the women who come to them,

finding somewhere else to go isn’t easy. “We’ve got women in the house at the moment and they just can’t afford to get out and rent something on the open market,” Mrs Rangi-Smith said.

She said there’s a four-week wait to even get an interview for a Housing New Zealand property at the moment.

Some women might only have $335 coming in each week and recent figures from Trade Me suggested the average price of a rental property on the open market in Ashburton was $340.

“It’s quite sad when a woman calls you up and says that after she’s paid for everything, her and her kids have got only $40 left.

Can you live off $40?”

The average length of stay in the Timaru safe house prior to the Canterbury earthquakes was 30 days, but now it’s up to two or three months.

Getting another house isn’t an option. If they had more funding, they would employ more case workers – that’s where the need is at the moment.

During the winter months it costs around $1200 a month just to keep the existing house warm.

“It’s not as easy as saying let’s just get another house,” Mrs Rangi-Smith said.

“You do want to help everyone, particularly when there’s children involved, because if you can make a change in that family you are looking at the next generation. It’s important to start way back in the cradle.”

Not all women need accommodation, but all need help.

For Mrs Rangi-Smith and the service’s Outreach case worker, Gail Rowland, the key is education.

In Mid Canterbury they run a six-week, 10-session programme, which covers everything from domestic violence in general, the tactics of domestic violence, where people learn the abusive behaviour, the effects of the behaviour, and the legal side of domestic violence.

They’re run by Mrs Rowland, who said the average woman went back to her abuser five to seven

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“But more women are leaving that first time.

“People say it’s a weak woman who stays, but it’s actually a really strong one.”

To stay, and put up with what they do takes a lot of courage, as does making the decision to leave.

In Mid Canterbury lately Mrs Rowland has been impressed by the attitudes of the women she’s seen. She’s seen a 100 per cent turn-out rate to the programme, and women are fully engaging in the process.

When a woman takes that first step in Mid Canterbury, it’s Mrs Rowland who is there to walk them through it.

Some of the women she sees are self-referrals, while others are referred by the police.

In the 2014-15 year, police made 33,209 referrals to Women’s Refuge nationally.

Mrs Rowland said the organisation had a good relationship with the local police, and community groups involved in preventing family violence, and her job was

empowering the women referred to her. “And letting them know that they are making the change for their children; their children don’t have a choice, but they do,” Mrs Rowland said.

She knows a woman isn’t always going to leave the first time. For many women, it’s the end of a long marriage – a marriage which hasn’t been all about abuse.

“A lot of women when they first present say I actually don’t know why I’m here,” Mrs Rowland said.

“It’s not all about broken ribs and black eyes. Some of the scars aren’t on the outside, so they themselves wonder why they are there.”

There’s more to abuse than the physical side. There’s sexual abuse, and mental and psychological abuse. Some forms may not show on the outside, but they can be just as damaging.

“There’s different levels of family violence. A lot of people don’t know why they aren’t happy, they just know something’s wrong.

“The number of women who say I don’t actually know if I need

your service, because I’m not being hit, is amazing.”

Abusive relationships weren’t abusive all the time. Mrs RangiSmith said 60 per cent of the time a relationship might be so-so, and the rest “bloody horrible”.

“Women go through grief over the loss of a relationship and the loss of the good times, but not the bad times.”

Some women say their man only does it when he’s drunk and he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

But there’s no excuse. That man sobers up eventually and knows what he’s done.

“Alcohol is not the cause, but it’s a trigger.”

Some women do go back and Mrs Rowland understands that.

“If you decide to go back to him and you are too embarrassed to call me again, then I haven’t supported you well enough.”

Family violence isn’t easy to spot. Couples might have a nice home and a nice car, but what people might not see is the usage of that car being monitored closely, so a husband knows exactly

New Zealand Police recorded a family violence investigation on average every five-and-a-half minutes in 2014.

In the four years from 2009-2012, an average of 13 women, 10 men and nine children were killed each year as a result of family violence in New Zealand.

Disabled women are about twice as likely to be victims of violence or abuse, compared to other women.

One in three women experience physical and/ or sexual violence from a partner in their lifetime.

Family violence is estimated to cost the country between $4.1 and $7 billion each year.

16,507 women and children stayed at Women’s Refuge houses around the country, attended training programmes or received help in the 2014/15 reporting year.

42 per cent of women, and 50 per cent of children, accessing Women’s Refuge services in 2014/15 were Maori.

1059 women and children living in isolated rural areas needed the help of Women’s Refuge in the 2014/15 reporting year.

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where the wife has been.

Some women have no idea about their own family’s financial situation, because it’s all taken care of by the man.

No matter what the situation, or what sort of abuse it was, it was never easy to leave. For many women, they loved the person, they just didn’t love the behaviour.

“You can’t just stop love like that, and we appreciate that.”

Leaving an abusive partner can mean leaving behind a home, family and friends. The end of a relationship can divide people socially, and that can be hard.

Campaigns run over recent years, like the ‘Are you OK’ – ads for which will soon hit the television again – are working. More people are coming forward and seeking help, but Women’s Refuge know there’s still women out there living in abusive, and dangerous, situations.

“Sometimes it just takes someone to ask if you are ok, but a lot of people don’t know how to cope when they see it,” Mrs RangiSmith said.

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amily violence is not a private matter, it’s a crime, police say.

People in violent relationships often can not help themselves, they need the help of others, and they’re calling on people to help save a life.

Nearly half of all homicides in New Zealand are related to family violence, and the law defines domestic violence as being physical, sexual or psychological.

Nobody has the right to assault another person.

Nobody is allowed to have sexual contact with another person without permission.

Nobody has the right to use intimidation, threats or mind games to gain power over another person.

If you are a victim of family violence or in a relationship that makes you fearful about your own or anyone else’s safety, seek help as soon as possible. You have the right to be safe.

If you are a friend or acquaintance of a victim, you can help by listening and being supportive, ensuring the person and any children are safe and finding out what help is available in the community.

If you know a violent person, you can help by telling them it is not OK and assisting them to find help.

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Methven sinks Celtic, this time Methven A 27 Celtic A 24 Methven A are now the only unbeaten team in Mid Canterbury Netball’s premier competition, after a 27-24 win over Celtic A. The match between Celtic A and Methven A was expected to be the match of the round, and it didn’t disappoint.

Competition for the ball was tight throughout the court and the defence of both sides was a standout, as neither team wanted to give an inch.

That was illustrated in a tight first quarter where it took more than two minutes before Methven managed to slot the first goal of the game.

Celtic found it tough at times to get the ball to their shooters – with Methven goal keep Sally Williams producing two stunning intercepts to ensure her side had the bulk of the early possession – but eventually the girls in green started to find their groove and led 6-4 at the end of the first quarter.

Methven came out firing in the second quarter, though, dominating possession and putting up far more shots than their opposition, to win the quarter 8-4 and lead 12-9 at half time.

By three-quarter time they’d extended that lead to 20-15, but Celtic were never going to go down without a fight.

Celtic got back within three with less than two minutes left on the clock, then turned the ball over and scored to make the margin just two with just over a minute remaining. The centre pass was Celtic’s and they got it to the circle, but the crucial shot which would have narrowed the gap to just one, missed, and Methven calmly took the ball back through court and closed the game out with a goal of their own to win by three.

Methven coach Greta Currie said it was a good, free-flowing game, from both sides, and while it was good to get the win and remain unbeaten so far this season, her side still had plenty to work on.

It was a similar story in the Celtic camp, with Celtic A coach Ange Leadley saying while a win would have been good, her side was still building and their best was yet to come.

Leadley said her side loved playing Methven A, and they knew heading into it that it would be a tough but enjoyable game.

“It was the game we expected.

You expect a tough game from Methven and that’s what they gave us,” she said.

Ashburton College 32 United A 25 College A were determined to get their first win on the board for the season, and a strong start and finish saw them do just that, beating United A 32-25.

The strong across-the-court performance early on was translated into goals despite the best efforts of a United defence led by the evergreen Claire Tappin, and College A led 8-4 at quarter time.

Ashburton College A wing attack Shannon Stockdale sends the ball in to her shooters during her side’s win over United A on Thursday night – College A’s first win of the season.

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The experience of United was always going to shine through though, and they started clawing their way back in the second quarter, and turned possession into goals to square things up at 10-all, before College A got on a small roll again.

United won the second quarter 7-5 to reduce the gap to 13-11 at half time, but College A were not rattled.

College’s shooting end – particularly goal attack Georgina Kelly – produced a fine four quarter performance, but it was an almost flawless third quarter shooting effort which ensured College maintained a narrow three goal lead – 22-19 – heading into the final quarter.

Three goals was nothing though, and United came out committed on defence and determined on attack in the final stanza, and

although they did manage to get within two at one point, College A put their foot down in the dying minutes and extended their lead to seven – their biggest lead of the match – to win 32-25.

College A coach Ange Mitchell said her side started well, but let United A back in to the match.

“It was great to get our first win on the board and I thought when it really mattered in that last quarter, we held our composure and lifted in defence,” she said.

Not surprisingly, United A coach Anne Gilbert was disappointed with the final quarter.

“In the last quarter we let it blow out a bit,” she said.

Life isn’t going to get any easier for United either, with unbeaten Methven their final opposition of round one next week, while College A will look to keep the momentum going when they take on

Hampstead A. Mitchell said College A started the season as a new team, and they didn’t really know each other, but with a few games of premier under their belts – and a schools’ tournament – they were starting to find their way.

Hampstead 28 Rakaia 16 Hampstead kept the pressure on division frontrunners Methven and Celtic by posting their third win of the season over a defiant Rakaia.

Heading in to the clash Hampstead had lost just once, to Methven 31-26 in week one, while Rakaia were winless.

Hampstead coach Cindy Meadows was pleased to churn out the win, but insisted her team’s performance must improve before

they take on Celtic next week.

“I think if there’s an easy way and a hard way, my girls chose the hard way,” she said.

“We failed to work effectively as a team at times.”

Meadows said Elizabeth Bell was her side’s player of the match and credited Rakaia for their fine efforts.

“Lizzie Bell was our standout player at goal keep and wing defence, she worked tirelessly and ran really strong lines, delivering good ball to our attackers,” she said. “Rakaia played a really good game, they were relentless and definitely wanted to cause an upset, and almost did.”

Senior B results: Ashburton College Y10A 11 v Southern Livestock Exchange 39, Celtic B 14 v Ashburton College Senior B 24, Allenton A 21 v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U18 30.

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Thursday evening’s Mid-South Canterbury men’s division one hockey fixtures produced losses for both Wakanui teams.

In Ashburton, Wakanui Blue were thumped 6-1 by league leaders Cambridge.

Cambridge have set the pace this term, with three wins and a draw from their four outings, and Sam Moore’s side had no answers.

A mounting injury list didn’t help Blue’s cause as Callum Stocker, Paul Everest and Scott Marshall were all unavailable.

Cambridge led 3-0 at half time and netted three more times in the second period while George Youngman scored a consolation goal for Wakanui.

“Cambridge were too good, we had chances but they outlasted us and were the far more clinical team,” said Moore.

Meanwhile, Wakanui Black fell to a 2-0 loss to Oamaru’s Tainui in Timaru in a replay of last year’s final.

In an evenly matched contest, the two sides headed to the sheds in a nil-all deadlock at half time.

But with 20 minutes left to play, Tainui found the net twice through skipper Jared Ovens and Josh Dalziel.

Wakanui Black captain Mitch Moore said he was pleased with

Skin for sale An American runner has successfully auctioned off ad space on his shoulder for which he will get a tattoo on the eve of the Rio Olympics. Nick Symmonds auctioned ‘9 square inches of skin on an Olympian’ on eBay, with the winning bid reaching $US21,800.

According to USA Today the winning bid was made by T-Mobile CEO John Legere. The 32-year-old is a middle distance runner who took silver in the 800m at the 2013 world championships. Symmonds pulled the same stunt in 2012, selling ad space for $11,000 but the tattoo had to be covered up to IOC regulations. Symmonds argued that the tape added more attention to the winning bidder which was company Hanson Dodge Creative.

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his team’s performance, but a brief lapse in concentration proved costly.

“We were on them for 80 per cent of the game but we just couldn’t score,” he said.

“We played well, we defended

well, but there was five minutes where we lost concentration and let in two soft ones.”

The defeats leave both Wakanui teams at the foot for the men’s first division points table while Cambridge are at the top of

the points ladder.

The women will take to the Ashburton turf today as Hampstead face Craighead 1st XI at 1.30pm before Hampstead/Collegians take on Cambridge at 3pm.

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Ferns coach keeps eye on young talent The emergence of several unheralded youngsters during the early rounds of the ANZ Championship has raised questions over the timing of Silver Ferns squad selections.

Fifteen players were contracted for the 2016 season at the end of last year, with captain Casey Kopua later withdrawing due to pregnancy.

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up to 18 players a year, but with a number of newcomers unexpectedly starting and thriving this season, many have wondered whether coach Janine Southby should have left a few more spots open.

The likes of 18-year-old Pulse shooter Maia Wilson, who shot an impressive 41 from 42 in last week’s narrow loss to the Tactix, Mystics defender Holly Fowler,

and the Steel’s Jane Watson and Te Paea Selby-Rickit have all been touted as Silver Ferns prospects.

But Southby does not believe her December selections were premature and has warned caution is prudent when promoting young talent.

“We’ve still got the opportunity of bringing [the youngsters] in in August if we feel their play warrants that. But being realistic

too, there is an element of people aren’t aware of them. It’s about consistency when you look at selection and you keep an eye on them and note how consistently they are performing,” she said.

“We’re interested and we’re going to keep a really close eye on them and we’ve got some good programmes underneath the Ferns where there will be opportunities to grow.”

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Registration will take place from 8am to 9.30am before the race runs from 10am to 4pm. Spot prizes and a barbecue will be on offer at the Allenton Rugby Club Clubrooms after the ride.

Kamau dreams big Bruce Kamau says its with a heavy heart that he leaves Adelaide United for A-League rivals Melbourne City. The 21-year-old Kenyan-born winger confirmed a move yesterday, just five days after opening the scoring for United in their grand final. The adopted home-town hero was a firm fanfavourite in Adelaide, and said leaving United’s supporters behind was tough.

- AAP

Gland slam resolve World number one Novak Djokovic has his sights set on a calendar year Grand Slam. The Australian Open champion has cruised into the Madrid Masters quarters with a straight sets demolition of Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut.

This month’s French Open is the one slam to so far elude him, but Djokovic thinks he can win all four.

He says he would lie if he said he can’t because he believes in himself and always has.

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■ GOLF

Meltdown history, Spieth moves on Jordan Spieth understands his meltdown at the end of the Masters will follow him. And three weeks later, Spieth’s not quite ready to say he’s over letting a fiveshot lead in the final round morph into that awkward ceremony in the Butler Cabin that ended with him slipping the green jacket on Danny Willett following an ugly and very public collapse.

Still, let’s not get carried away.

“I’m not taking it very hard,” Spieth said this week, while attending a FedEx event in suburban Pittsburgh ahead of a practice round at Oakmont, where he will try to defend his US Open title next month.

“I’ve got ladies at the grocery stores putting their hand on me and going, ‘Really praying for you; how are you doing?’ I’m like, ‘My dog didn’t die. I’ll be OK. I’ll survive.’ It happens.”

It just hadn’t really happened to Spieth during the 22-year-old’s sprint to the top of the world rankings, a dash that included a pair of major championships and a reputation as one of the game’s steadiest players as the holes dwindled and the stakes rose.

In the span of 30 minutes during the final round at Augusta, it

Jordan Spieth has moved on.

disappeared. A bogey at 10. Another at 11. That seemingly endless sequence on 12 where he hit the ball into Rae’s Creek not once but twice on his way to a quadruple bogey 7 that cost him control of the tournament.

“It was just bad timing on the wrong hole,” Spieth said. “And you know, it is what it is, and I’ll move on. If you’re in contention at a major, hopefully 50-plus times in

your career, something like that is bound to happen. Just don’t let it happen again.”

Spieth endured the uncomfortable post-round ceremony with Willett, whose brilliant closing 5-under-par 67 will be forever tied with the way Spieth let it slip away. Spieth admitted “this one will hurt” in the aftermath and he’s spent the last few weeks trying to decompress and get ready

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for the daunting test that awaits at Oakmont in June.

So Spieth did what most early 20-somethings with time to burn and money to spend did: he went on a well-appointed Spring Break.

Spieth joined Rickie Fowler, Smylie Kaufman and Justin Thomas for a getaway at a tropical resort that Fowler chronicled via Snapchat, a vacation that included a little golf and a lot of unwinding.

“We were having fun, we were relaxed,” Spieth said. “We were able to play golf and golf was kind of secondary to the relaxation part of the trip.”

It will be back to work when Spieth takes a long look at Oakmont, which is prepping to host its ninth US Open and first since 2007, before heading to Florida for next week’s Players Championship. Spieth plans to treat his preparation for the rugged test in the Western Pennsylvania hills much the same way he got ready for Chambers Bay last summer, when he edged Dustin Johnson and Louis Oosthuizen by a stroke.

Spieth will try to get a feel for Oakmont this week then arrive early in June for a far different kind of test than the one found at the three other majors.

Angel Cabrera captured the Open in its last visit to Oakmont with a four-round total of 5 over par. Compare that to the 18 under par Spieth posted while winning at Augusta in 2015 or even the 5-under he put up at Chambers Bay. It will take nerves to survive and regardless of what that stretch at the Masters looked like, Spieth isn’t worried about his confidence being rattled.

- AP

■ LEAGUE

Burgess warns Rabbitohs of backlash from Eels NRL superstar Sam Burgess says it’s impossible not to feel for Parramatta players but he’s more concerned about South Sydney’s plight.

The Rabbitohs will be the first team to face Parramatta after the Eels were hit with a breach notice for alleged salary-cap breaches and Burgess has warned teammates to brace for some backlash at Pirtek Stadium next Friday night.

“They’ve been extremely committed this year and in great form, so I don’t see that changing,” Burgess told AAP yesterday.

“I don’t think it really changes too much.

They’re going to turn up and play well regardless of what’s going on.”

Burgess says it’s hard to imagine the prospect of playing the rest of the season, or even a game or two, without being able to earn competition points, the very real scenario the Eels are facing if the club doesn’t squeeze under the cap.

“I feel for the players, obviously. This competition is tough as it is,” he said after promoting his new Burgess Burger at Ribs & Burgers at Westfield Eastgardens.

“I’m certainly sympathetic to all of the players and whatever they’re going to face.

“But, on the other side of things, we’ve got our own faults to put right so I’m not really going to waste too much time thinking about what’s going on elsewhere.”

Souths have fallen to 12th on the ladder after three straight defeats and Burgess knows it’s imperative they turn things around quickly before the season slips away from the 2014 premiers.

“We’re nine games in. Certainly we know our win-loss ratio has to even itself back up,” he said.

“We’ll put our best foot forward next

Sam Burgess week and, for us, it’s about going week to week now.

“We’ve got to focus on our performances weekly. Otherwise we’ll get lost and before we know it our season’s gone.”

He also jumped to the defence of Souths captain Greg Inglis, whose future at fullback has been questioned during the Rabbitohs’ slump.

“Greg’s come in for a bit of criticism but I see it as a little unfair,” the forward enforcer said.

“We’re probably not doing it in the middle so we’re not giving him the opportunity in that respect.

“That said, it’s a knock-on effect. We’ve got to sharpen up in a few areas and we’re aware of that now.”

- AAP

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■ FOOTBALL

Leicester’s winning blueprint Team ethic

Claudio Ranieri is still struggling to comprehend how he managed to transform Leicester from 5000-1 outsiders to Premier League champions.

“You have to leave a little more (time) and taste slowly, slowly like a good wine. Savour it,” Ranieri said. “Maybe now is too early to think what we have done. Maybe in one or two years it could be better to understand.”

But for a half hour this week, the genial manager did set out in detail the blueprint behind this improbable path to glory.

Highlighting the team ethic, there is little self-aggrandisement from the 64-year-old Italian who has broken up the established order of English football.

This is the methodology.

The importance of a unified club was highlighted last year when Chelsea blamed “palpable discord with the players” when Jose Mourinho was fired.

Ranieri lauds the “humility” in the Leicester dressing room that saw hard-working, previously unheralded players lead the title charge.

“They help each other in the bad moments — they play with the heart and soul, they play as 11,” Ranieri said.

Defining game

Ridiculed appointment The first obstacle at Leicester was winning over the doubters after his surprise hiring in July.

“Claudio Ranieri? Really?” tweeted former Leicester striker Gary Lineker.

Leicester had only just survived a scrape with relegation and yet gambled by replacing the fired Nigel Pearson with a manager who was humiliatingly dismissed from his previous job with Greece after losing to the Faeroe Islands.

“What can you do when you train three days before a match?”

Ranieri recalled of his ill-fated, short spell as a national team coach. “I have to get into the brain of the players slowly to understand, to bring them the same philosophy and go together.”

At Leicester he would have time to achieve just that in his second stint in the Premier League. Ranieri lost his job at Chelsea after failing to deliver the Premier League title 12 years earlier, but just avoiding relegation was the Leicester objective.

On a pre-season trip to Austria, Ranieri gained the first lengthy insight into a team that won six out of its last eight games under Pearson to stay in the Premier League.

“I said to them ... ‘It is difficult to understand 25 people. It is

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Leicester City manger Claudio Ranieri leaves San Carlo Pizzeria after a celebratory lunch after Leicester clinched the most improbable title of the Premier League era.

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important you understand only me. If we link very well we can do something good’,” Ranieri recalled.

Still, there were concerns about Ranieri’s plans, including fears there would be two training sessions a day.

“Don’t worry, I want to continue with your style and I will add my knowledge,” Ranieri recalled telling the squad. “Then I will change slowly with my ideas.”

Tweaking tactics Ranieri decided in pre-season that a 4-4-2 formation best suited the team better than Pearson’s 3-4-1-2.

“Because a lot of teams play with 4-3-3 if you play three at the back you end up with three against one and I don’t like that so much,” Ranieri said.

While having the poor pos-

session statistics, the speed of Leicester on the break has unsettled opponents.

“I watched (winger Riyad) Mahrez during last season and every time he made a difference he was on the right side and he cut inside,” Ranieri said. “Then I knew very well (Marc) Albrighton could make a lot of crosses on the right but I had to choose between him and Albrighton. Then I changed and I put Albrighton on the left and Riyad Mahrez on the right so they can come inside.”

Speed on the counterattack was another asset, he said.

“So I told them we are like the RAF (Royal Air Force). We are so fast and they believed in this ... when we were losing 2-0, (drawing) 2-2 ... man that generates a lot of enthusiasm and confidence (to win) and everything started to go better and better and better.”

In public, Ranieri only spoke about the possibility of winning the title in the final weeks. Initially the target was 40 points and, once survival was easily guaranteed, Ranieri would rebuff title talk by just prioritising European qualification.

Now Ranieri discloses that after the leaders won 3-1 at Manchester City in February the team realised collecting the title was feasible, even as critics expected them to collapse.

“My players believed in something. Maybe we can win, maybe we can fight until the end,” he said. “Because I never, never spoke about this (publicly) I said, ‘OK, clean everything, next match. Start again’.”

Touchline composure Ranieri tried to remain calm to avoid unsettling his team on the field.

“I know if I get crazy I transmit the nerves,” Ranieri said. “Inside me there are two persons. One is a very aggressive, I want to win ...

I am never satisfied.

“Another says ‘Claudio, how many managers are there in the world? Too many.’ Not everyone can be Sir Alex Ferguson, (Fabio) Capello, (Carlo) Ancelotti — you are doing a very good career.”

This is the first time Ranieri has won a top-flight title.

“I came from non-league, from amateur football, and when I arrived at Cagliari, in the third division, and we got to Serie A, that was my first fairytale,” Ranieri said.

- AP

Making it rain J.R. Smith made seven 3-pointers and the Cleveland Cavaliers drained an NBA-record 25 3s in a 123-98 runaway win over the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday night in Game 2 of their secondround series. The Cavs made 18 3-pointers in the first half and added seven more after halftime to embarrass the Hawks, who have lost 10 straight postseason games to Cleveland. Cleveland’s 25 3s are the most in any game — regular or postseason. LeBron James made four 3s and scored 27 points for the defending Eastern Conference champions, who put on a display of outside marksmanship unlike any in league history. The Cavs hardly missed.

- AP

3x3 teams named Basketball New Zealand has named both its men’s and women’s U18 3X3 teams to attend the FIBA 3X3 World Championships in Kazakhstan in June, with the men setting out to defend the title they won in Hungary last year. The men’s team is Tai Wynyard (Waitakere West Auckland/University of Kentucky), Sam Waardenburg (North Harbour), Hamish McDonald (Waikato) and Isaac Letoa (North Harbour) while the women’s team is Kendell Heremaia (Waikato), Zara Jillings (North Harbour), Charlisse Leger-Walker (Waikato), and Alyssa Hirawani (Waikato).

Wynyard is the sole survivor in the men’s team from the quartet that set the basketball world on its backside with a win at the FIBA World Championship in Hungary last year and has returned from the States to train.

- NZME

Simmons skips Australian teen basketball prodigy Ben Simmons will skip the 2016 NBA draft combine. In a move which was widely expected, Simmons declined an invitation to the annual event, which allows draftees to showcase their skills to potential scouts through a range of drills and various athletic tests.

Top prospects often skip the combine, fearing they could do their draft chances more harm than good, preferring instead to take part in individual workouts with teams who possess the top few picks.

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■ RUGBY

Ashcoll looking for first win

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Ashburton College’s 1st XV will lock horns with Timaru Boys’ High School in week two of their Crusaders Secondary Schools’ UC Championship campaign today.

College kicked off their season with a 38-14 loss to last year’s beaten finalists Shirley Boys at the Ashburton Showgrounds last Saturday.

A dismal first half display left Dave McCrea’s side trailing 31-0 at half time.

College rallied in the second stanza, to outscore Shirley 14-7, but the 31-point deficit after the opening 40 minutes was too tall of an order.

In contrast, Timaru Boys got their season off to the best possible start with a 92-7 trouncing of Lincoln High School a week ago.

McCrea said his side have trained well this week, but there will be a reshuffle in the back three.

Ricus Van Zeyl will make his first start on the left wing and Tana White will don the 14 jersey on the right while Kerry ClaydonWade moves from wing to fullback.

There will also be a change at centre with Lima Savaiinaea starting in place of last week’s try scorer Ali Prescott, who will take a place on the bench.

England rugby coach Eddie Jones has tapped into his Australian connections by bringing former Wallaby Glen Ella onto his staff for the team’s three-test tour of Australia in June. Ella has been hired on a temporary basis and will work as a skills coach, responsible for developing England’s attacking play. Ella played club rugby with Jones at Sydney-based Randwick, and was assistant coach for Australia under Jones at the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He played four games for Australia from 1982-85.

Jones said Ella “brings with him a wealth of experience, but also has one of the best attacking minds in the business.” Jones hired former Australia flanker George Smith as a breakdown consultant during the Six Nations, which England won.

Cooper dropped

Lima Savaiinaea (with the ball in hand) will start at centre against Timaru Boys’ High School tomorrow.

PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 300416-AK-025 Meanwhile, Louis McDonald will be a big loss for college.

The first-five broke his collarbone in last week’s clash with Shirley, and will be unavailable for the foreseeable future.

McCrea said it is imperative to get off to a positive start today.

“After last Saturday we’ve been focusing on getting up at the

start of the game and getting our mental attitude right for the start, rather than playing catch up,” he said.

McCrea said McDonald will be missed, but has confidence that college can register their first win after narrowly losing to Timaru in preseason.

“He’s (Louis McDonald) a great

defender and he likes to take it to the line, so he will be missed,” he said.

“We’re really focusing on the win, I think a win will give us the confidence to try things.”

Game info: Timaru Boys’ High School v Ashburton College, Alpine Energy Stadium, 12 noon.

Waratahs wary of lowly Cheetahs Wary coach Daryl Gibson has warned his NSW Waratahs to underestimate the lowly Cheetahs at their peril in tonight’s Super Rugby clash at Allianz Stadium.

The Waratahs have regained control of their finals fate with back-to-back wins in Perth and Cape Town and resume their mid-season push desperate to snap a three-match losing streak on home turf.

With just two wins in 2016 -

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and both coming against battling newcomers the Sunwolves - the Cheetahs have been among the competition’s easybeats.

But that only makes the South Africans more of a concern, according to Gibson, who hasn’t forgotten the despair of falling to the Cheetahs in Sydney three years ago.

“I still remember that day walking off and it wasn’t a nice feeling,” Gibson said. “That’s been

in my memory and is something that we want to erase.

“They’re a dangerous prospect.

They love to run with the ball and attack and when a team has nothing to lose, they’re probably more dangerous.”

Skipper Michael Hooper needs no reminding that the Cheetahs also ambushed the Waratahs in Sydney in 2012 and says there can be no room for any complacency.

“The Cheetahs can put you under threat from all over the field, which just means that you have to be onto the small things on your game throughout,” Hooper said. “Otherwise they can really run riot.”

With the Melbourne Rebels having a bye this weekend, the Tahs have a great shot at assuming the Australian conference lead - and they still have a game in hand over all but two teams. - AP

France-based flyhalf Quade Cooper won’t play for Australia’s sevens team at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after being dropped by coach Andy Friend. Cooper, who has played 58 tests in rugby union since 2008, was left out of the final two IRB World Series 7s tournaments in Paris and London this month — the last auditions for the August 5-21 games.

Friend said in a Rugby Australia statement that “we just haven’t had the opportunity to work with him (Cooper) as much as we would have liked over the past five months.” Although Cooper played in two 7s matches in Las Vegas and Vancouver, his Olympic chances were hampered by a delay in an expected release from his French club Toulon and a lack of playing time.

- AP

Steroids in meat The NFL has warned players that some meat produced in China and Mexico may be contaminated with clenbuterol, a banned steroid.

In a memo sent out, the NFL warned players that consuming large quantities of meat while visiting those countries may result in a positive test for clenbuterol.

The memo asked the players to “please take caution if you decide to consume meat, and understand that you do so at your own risk.”

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■ RUGBY Southern 21 Rakaia 13

By James Ford

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Southern have blown the race for a top four placing in section two of the combined competition wide open after dealing Rakaia their second loss of the campaign on Thursday night.

Rakaia were second on the ladder, level on 23 points with Waihora, heading in to the Mid Canterbury derby, but the 21-13 loss will now give the chasing pack the opportunity to close the gap or even surpass Sean Carter’s side.

The eight-point deficit also denied Rakaia a bonus point on a frustrating evening in Hinds.

In a clash that would be won in the forwards, Southern had read the script early, with set plays the difference between the two sides on the night.

Southern’s season has been one of near misses, but Michael Ellis’ team answered their critics with a well-drilled display, and did the section’s other top four-elect clubs a favour in the process.

Following the win, Ellis described the result as a “reward” for his players’ efforts throughout a season that had seen them lose four of their six matches before Thursday evening.

“It was good, the boys had a great attitude and were rewarded for it, so last night was their reward against a bloody good Rakaia, and it’s great for our confidence.”

“We have a quality forward pack, most have played at representative level, we played very basic rugby at times, but you may as well play to your strengths.”

Any talk of a top four position

Southern upset Rakaia

of their own would be premature as Southern still need to win their next two matches and rely on other results to go their way.

In contrast, Rakaia’s destiny is still in their own hands and a bonus-point win over Ohoka in

their next outing would put them in good stead for what could be a top-of-the-table clash with Ashley in a fortnight’s time.

Assistant coach Wayne Foxcroft said picking up five points next week will be imperative to his

side’s progression.

“It was frustrating, their forward pack played well, particularly at lineouts,” he said.

“It’s going to be wide open now, we just need to get five points next week.”

Imposing Rakaia centre Seta Koroitamana battles his way through against Southern during his side’s 21-13 loss at Hinds on Thursday.

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Chiefs, Highlanders meet in key match

By Kris shannon Tonight’s battle between the Chiefs and the Highlanders in Hamilton represents several things.

It’s an encounter featuring the last two Kiwi teams to take the Super Rugby title, a virtual All Black trial with mouth-watering personal duels between incumbents and hopefuls all over the pitch.

It’s a clash of styles – the competition’s top attack hosting one of the best defences – and will see one side seeking to solidify top spot while the other looks to remain in the playoff places.

But there’s one more scenario that, while distinctly possible, will take time to confirm: we may be watching the defending champions taking on the team who, come August, eventually claim their crown.

The Chiefs and Highlanders are both in Super Rugby’s top six in terms of competition points accrued, but only one side have consistently displayed title-winning form.

The teams have also experienced differing campaigns across their first nine games, exemplified by an opening round in which the

Chiefs won in Christchurch and the Highlanders lost in Auckland.

Dave Rennie’s side have, aside from an early blip against the Lions, blown away a number of sides with their high-powered backline before demonstrating championship grit to grind out wins and strengthen their spot on top of the table.

Jamie Joseph’s men, though, have been a little less consistent, relying on a solid scrum and their tough-tackling pack to overcome a few unexpected stumbles and remain in the congested race in the New Zealand conference.

It’s easy to see why tonight’s hosts are the bookies’ favourites to clinch the maiden 18team competition, and if the Chiefs earn an eighth straight victory in Hamilton, the gap back to the Highlanders will widen to 14 points with five games to play.

Of course, in an expanded competition in which eight teams qualify for the playoffs – and with a month-long

international break approaching – form during the first two-thirds of the season counts for only so much. But that early form is certainly indicative.

The Chiefs lead the way in points per game (36.6) and total tries

(45), while the Highlanders lag behind in ninth in both categories.

The defending champs may have the edge on the other side of the ball, ranking third in points allowed (18.4) and second in total tries allowed (16), but their own success suggests the attacking statistics are more

Aaron Cruden (left) and Sam Kane have a point to prove.

relevant.

Last year’s final between the Hurricanes and Highlanders represented the second- and thirdmost potent attacks and, while the beaten finalists’ defence was stingy, the eventual victors ranked outside the top five in points conceded.

All signs, then, suggest that tonight’s meeting in Hamilton may, among many other things, double as a passing of the torch.

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85725 Diamantine (2) 57 ........................... C Grylls 42113 Chop Suey dmb (6) 56.5 ...................L Innes 36x03 Lion Red tm (1) 56 .............L Magorrian (a1) 5x682 Bachelor Zeel td (5) 55 ...........B Hutton (a1) 10231 Meeska Mooska d (4) 55 .........A Jones (a1) 55x41 Our King Sway m (7) 55 ..........S McKay (a1) 12381 Texas Yellow Rose d (9) 54 .............R Myers 63152 Diesel dm (8) 54 114L Romantic Maid 54 ........................ Scratched 6 2.22pm HAMILTON VETS EQUINE STAKES 2YO $50,000, 2YO SW, 1100m 1 36x1 Lord Ascot (7) 56.5 ...........................L Innes 2 1 Memories Only (6) 56.5 .....................M Hills 3 1 Ugo Foscolo (5) 56.5..................M Coleman 4 55x2 Barcelo (1) 56.5 ........................S McKay (a) 5 Georgethefifth (2) 56.5 ................T Thornton 6 141 McPhoebe (8) 54.5 .........................R Myers 7 1 Volpe Veloce 54.5......................... Scratched 8 25 Spindle (3) 54.5..............................V Colgan 9 Japhite (4) 54.5 ...............................A Collett 7 2.58pm GAVELHOUSE.COM 1200 R65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 9x254 Wawrinka (1) 60 .................L Magorrian (a1) 2 x1432 Fire Jet d (2) 59.5............... D Prastiyou (a2) 3 4296x Real Winners m (8) 59 ...............R Elliot (a3) 4 2140x Honkietonk Tiger (7) 58.5...........V Gatu (a2) 5 10x Mongolian Empire (3) 58............M Coleman 6 41 Divorcee d (11) 57...................B Hutton (a1)

7 42x1 Grey Sapphire d (10) 57 ...................L Innes 8 x731x Out Of Friendship d (6) 57 .............. C Grylls 9 08x24 Sally’s Mustang td (5) 57................V Colgan 10 63787 Stacey Ann (9) 55.5 ....................T Thornton 11 5400x Link Road td (4) 55.5 ......................A Collett 8 3.33pm HAMILTON TAXIS 1600 R65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 00150 Lucky Sweep td (9) 60 ....................A Collett 2 70x62 Roc de Bank (10) 60 ..........................M Hills 3 135 Scoota Brown (1) 60 .......................J Riddell 4 1 Von Tunzelman (13) 60 .....................L Innes 5 434x1 Bowie (8) 59.5 ............................M Coleman 6 32222 Annabelinda t (7) 59................S McKay (a1) 7 1396x El Disparo (5) 59 ............................V Colgan 8 08239 Irresistabelle t (12) 58.5 9 83732 Celtic Boy h (11) 58.5........ U Holmquist (a2) 10 14007 Just Call Me Riley t (4) 58.5L Magorrian (a1) 11 4x871 Likewise d (6) 57.5 ..............A Schwerin (a3) 12 18628 Vitesse td (3) 57 .............................. C Grylls 13 42760 Emmuska (2) 55.5 9 4.12pm DUNSTAN FEEDS 1600 R65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 58x12 The Orange Pony (3) 60 .................J Riddell 2 50396 Brakbar t (7) 59 ..................L Magorrian (a1) 3 23314 Hardcase b (1) 59 ..........................V Colgan 4 701 Heeznot d (2) 59 ........................ Z Moki (a3) 5 31 Richie McHorse d (10) 59 ............... C Grylls 6 13796 Bamurru d (12) 58.5 ................B Hutton (a1)

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3x551 Classic Warrior (6) 58.5 ..................R Myers 50937 Deo Volente (11) 58.5 ........................M Hills 2930x In A Minute td (8) 58 .......................A Collett 7L234 Angelica Rox (5) 57.5..................T Thornton 1x080 Farnham 57.5 ............................... Scratched 5x519 Two Gee’s (9) 57.5 ..................S McKay (a1) 5180P Zastella d (4) 56 ................................L Innes 10 4.44pm NZI 1600 R75 $22,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 60x04 Banbury Lad dm (19) 60 .................A Collett 2 24749 So It Goes tm (6) 59.5.....................J Riddell 3 18211 Nelson Park d (11) 59 ................M Coleman 4 18L01 Irish Gem d (7) 58.5 ...........L Magorrian (a1) 5 04175 Bazz m (14) 58.5 6 5x521 Naughty Knuckles d (13) 58.5 .... A Schwerin (a3) 7 10x26 Ryker d (3) 58.5 ..............................R Myers 8 5724x Tonbridge dm (17) 58.5 ...........S McKay (a1) 9 15x02 Slice Of Cake tdb (16) 58 10 00x22 Stradivarius m (12) 58 .................T Thornton 11 7x101 Mighty Me (5) 57.5 ..................B Hutton (a1) 12 172x3 Downton Abbey db (4) 57 ..............V Colgan 13 366x1 Sororia dm (9) 57 ............................ C Grylls 14 x1076 Cancellara dm (2) 57 ...............A Jones (a1) 15 18031 Francome d (15) 57.........................D Turner 16 1416. Provocative b (18) 55.5 .....................L Innes 17 087x6 Victoria Heights dm (10) 55 18 070x9 Twilight Offer t (1) 55 19 50937 Deo Volente (8) 54.5 -

9 P5x0 Wall Street Wolf (21) fr ......................J Dunn 10 Bettor Be Gold (22) fr ....................M Purdon 11 32 James Dean (23) fr L O’ .......................Reilly 12 94 Franco Hampton (24) fr ........... C D Thornley 13 22D King Solomon (25) fr ............M Anderson (J) 7 5.25pm LINDAUER ADDINGTON’S LADIES NIGHT MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ & others with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 07022 Christian Lady (1) fr ................ P McClelland 2 42506 Gabby’s Star (2) fr .........................R Holmes 3 1131 Ears Burning (3) fr.......................N McGrath 4 82511 Beyond Belief (4) fr .......................B Orange 5 46033 Aveross Rustler (5) fr ...................T Williams 6 41014 Music (6) fr ........................................J Dunn 7 01x03 Karanga Red Fantasy (7) fr................ R May 8 907P1 Earthbound (8) fr..................... C D Thornley 9 00174 Four Starzzz Shiraz (9) fr .................R Close 10 36688 Donegal Jimmy Dave (21) fr G O’ ........Reilly 11 21132 Alpha Rock (22) fr ............................ D Dunn 8 5.51pm HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY FROM LINDAUER MOBILE TROT $9000, 3yo+ f&m c1 to c2 mob. trot, mobile, 1950m 1 77P55 Cuddly Jess (1) fr ...........................M House 2 878x0 Hey Yo (2) fr...................................B Orange 3 35430 BK Dawn (3) fr ............................. P Wakelin 4 90089 Tehoro Ruby (4) fr .........................R Holmes 5 0x1P9 Ko Wrected (5) fr .......................... S Lethaby 6 15123 Alderbeck (6) fr .................. B Williamson (J) 7 57201 Missandei (7) fr ...........................C DeFilippi

8 53314 Donegal Bettorgretch (8) fr .............. D Dunn 9 56801 Lisa Marie P (9) fr ........................M Perriton 9 6.17pm ADDINGTON’S LADIES NIGHT 27/5 MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ c1, c2 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 44101 Saramon (1) fr ............................ D Keast (J) 2 69516 Onedin’s Delight (2) fr ...................... D Dunn 3 10 Letspendanitetogetha (3) fr ...............J Dunn 4 18x84 Articulight (4) fr .................................. R May 5 69x28 Highview Freddy (5) fr M Purvis (J, ..........Cl) 6 15x29 Illegal Immigrant (6) fr ...................B Orange 7 44566 Highland Reign (7) fr K Butt (J, ................Cl) 8 0195x G I Joe (8) fr .................................T Williams 9 2411 Anychance (9) fr............................M Purdon 10 6.44pm ENJOY LINDAUER AT SPECTATORS HANDICAP TROT $9000, 3yo+ c1 to c2 spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 68207 We’ll Meet Again (1) fr...................... J Smith 2 23966 Alvira Hest (2) fr ............................B Orange 3 80802 Kerryn Kylie (3) fr ......................A Tomlinson 4 87855 Bacardi N Coke (4) fr .............. C D Thornley 5 21012 Lavros Texas (5) fr........................ A Lethaby 6 11000 Oona (6) fr...................................C DeFilippi 7 02170 Wandering Star (7) fr G O’ ...................Reilly 8 42146 Ella Lavra (8) fr.................................S Ottley 9 4300x Petite Royal (9) fr ..........................R Holmes 10 06113 Destiny Jones (U1) 10 ......................J Dunn 11 03241 Ruby’s Jewel (U2) 10 ......... B Williamson (J) 12 0x104 Monkey’s Way (U3) 10 .....................R Close

5 216x Interstellar b (11) 57 ......................L Allpress 6 560x3 Beautiful Man h (5) 57................. R Hannam 7 674x9 Hocus Pocus t (7) 56.5.............. D Hirini (a3) 8 x108x Mendip m (9) 56.5 ...........................R Myers 9 83679 Dan Cugat (1) 56.5 ............... H Andrew (a4) 10 x100x Accolades dm (6) 55.5 ..................D Bradley 11 80x00 Caught Behind (10) 55.5 ...R Goldsbury (a2) 12 6409x Dahls Delight m (3) 54 ...............V Gatu (a2) 8 3.23pm FLAIR AMATEUR RIDERS SERIES MAIDEN 2060 $7000, MDN, 2060m 1 7326x Crash Bandicoot h (8) 68.5 2 0x463 Shamrock King h (9) 68.5 .......C Myers (am) 3 0x783 Stage Diving (13) 68.5 ............ J Myers (am) 4 67664 No Deal (12) 68.5 5 683x6 That’s How It Goes (11) 68.5 ... T Miles (am) 6 78x46 Attila (7) 68.5..................... M Northcott (am) 7 05 Street Fighter h (10) 68.5 ..... Sarah MacNab (am) 8 40806 Dal Dunvegan h (1) 68.5 ......Scotty MacNab (am) 9 King Oberon h (6) 68.5 .......E Glasgow (am) 10 9x998 Mr Enthusiastic (5) 68.5 .......L Wheeler (am) 11 7. Red Moss h (3) 68.5 12 254x0 The Oysterman (2) 68.5 ......... J Lupton (am) 13 0x449 Volacapri (14) 66.5 ...............A Wallace (am) 14 07000 Mystery Gift (4) 66.5 ............. S Rennie (am)

9 3.57pm OMAHANUI SPECIAL CARE UNIT RATING 75 2060 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2060m 1 92x08 Share The Blame tm (4) 60 ... N Teeluck (a3) 2 23116 Wait A Sec t (5) 59.5 .....................L Allpress 3 960x6 Zartan tm (2) 59 .........................L Hemi (a1) 4 101x7 Stanley (9) 56..................................D Turner 5 94026 Irish Whisper (7) 55.5 ....................D Bradley 6 170x6 Zedbee m (3) 55 ................... H Andrew (a4) 7 01560 Tequila Sunrise (6) 54.5 ..................R Myers 8 54185 Perran Beach (8) 54 ......................M Tanaka 9 20806 Red Sunset (1) 54 ....................... R Hannam 10 4.31pm WESTMERE BULK SPREADING LTD RATING 65 1600 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 90x02 All In Luck d (6) 60 ................ H Andrew (a4) 2 2235x Justa Charlie dm (3) 60..................H Tinsley 3 1 Standing In Line (8) 60............... Z Moki (a3) 4 37523 Tavis Star dm (13) 59 .................L Hemi (a1) 5 136x6 Chonney d (1) 58.5 ..................... R Hannam 6 30020 Carnaby t (12) 58.5 ................... D Hirini (a3) 7 2245x Golden Penny m (9) 58.5 8 3x200 Spanish Gold (11) 58.5 .................M Tanaka 9 41385 Delilah Deltoro d (7) 58 ...................D Turner 10 x7043 Aladdin (10) 58................................R Myers 11 49x26 Eternal Angel d (5) 57.5 ................L Allpress 12 78577 Kingofplatinum (2) 56 ................... D Mo (a2) 13 88646 Gilt h (4) 55.5 -

Tomorrow at Addington raceway

NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting at Addington Raceway tomorrow. NZ Meeting number: 8. 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 2.51pm (NZT) BISHOPDALE/BUSH INN TABS&TAVERN HAREWOOD MBL PCE $7500, 4yo+ c0 to c2, others with cond. +claimer mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 90656 Aveross Brachole (1) fr ....................B White 2 86065 As Kiwi As (2) fr ............................ B Wilmott 3 35724 Franco Caliph (3) fr ...................... R Sissons 4 36102 Red River Lochee (4) fr ............J McDermott 5 40000 Major Patron (5) fr ............................ G Cook 6 80077 Special Delight (6) fr ........................S Blake 7 21237 Waihemo Art (7) fr.............................A Edge 8 50x41 Tufflittlerooster (8) fr ....................... M Hallett 9 22269 Nui Toc Tien (9) fr ...........................S Murtha 10 05364 Here We Go Again (21) fr ................A White 11 7958P Billy Jack (22) fr.......................... M Maynard 12 87983 Cimarron (23) fr................................. W Low 13 32051 Nerida Franco (24) fr .................... P Wallace 14 46400 King Cyril (U1) fr .................................G Bull 2 3.15pm LINDAUER SUPPORTS LADIES NIGHT MOBILE TROT $7500, 2yo+ c0 mob. trot, 1950m 1 0x230 Kaimanawa (1) fr G O’..........................Reilly 2 70 Agatha Tyron (2) fr P O’........................Reilly 3 790x0 Moy (3) fr ....................................I Schwamm 4 Idle Monkey (4) fr ..........................B Orange 5 5 Justamollyarcher (5) fr ..................R Jenkins

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11 83x08 In For Fun tdm (8) 65 ..................... S Fannin 12 069Px Istimagic m (10) 65 ........................ C Perrett 3 12.37pm SVS VETERINARY SUPPLIES 1200 R85 $25,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1200m 1 38325 Airlie House td (8) 60 ........ U Holmquist (a2) 2 127x4 Amarula d (6) 59.5 ..................S McKay (a1) 3 32397 Biggin Hill d (1) 59.5........................A Collett 4 321x1 Snowdrop d (3) 59 .....................R Elliot (a3) 5 5x355 First Class td (4) 59.........................R Myers 6 5x40x Ruready td (7) 57.5 ....................V Gatu (a2) 7 208x1 Longchamp dm (2) 57 .....................J Riddell 8 0x068 Prince Mambo td (5) 55.5 ............... C Grylls 4 1.12pm KEN & ROGER BROWNE MEMORIAL OPEN STEEPLECHASE $20,000, RST OPN STP SWP, 4000m 1 7897x Tobouggie Nights m (8) 68 ......... S Karnicnik 2 11x76 Brer m (5) 68 ...............................D Miller (a) 3 478Fx No Quota tdm (9) 66.5 ...................... A Kuru 4 516Px Old Redfeather tdm (4) 66.5 ..........S Phelan 5 243x0 Goosebumps dm (6) 66.5 ........ E Farr (a1.5) 6 75x99 Mister Deejay m (3) 66.5 ................ S Fannin 7 PPx90 Marvon Downs (2) 66.5............H McNeill (3) 8 6548x Sinista td (10) 66.5 .....M Gibbs-Manssen (3) 9 2Px0x Athenry (7) 65 .............................. M Mitchell 10 x7440 Straight Furrow tm (1) 65 .............R Cole (3) 5 1.47pm LODGE REAL ESTATE 2100 R85 $25,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 2100m 1 526x9 Pump Up The Volume tdm (3) 61.5 -

6 0063 Lightworkofit (6) fr ........................D Burrows 7 77276 Sugar Cane (7) fr ................ D D McCormick 8 798 Sunrise Spur (8) fr........................J Versteeg 9 700x3 The Fox (9) fr ................................. D Nyhan 10 900x4 Family Night (21) fr..................... K Cameron 11 03x05 Heavenly Love (22) fr ................ M Edmonds 12 0309 Magnafique (23) fr.......................C DeFilippi 13 7453 Muscles Galore (24) fr ......................J Dunn 14 53 Di’z Luck (U1) fr .............................. G Smith 15 00064 Rusty I Am (U2) fr ........................ P Wakelin 16 80 One Yankee Ginga (U3) fr .............R Holmes Emergencies: Moy, Sunrise Spur 3 3.40pm ADDINGTON’S LADIES NIGHT 27/5 HANDICAP PACE $7500, 4yo+ c0, c1 with cond. spechcp pace, stand, 2000m 1 07779 Got A Beauty (1) fr ..................... K Cameron 2 49460 God Of War (2) fr...........................B Orange 3 69933 Dios Del Fuego (3) fr........................S Ottley 4 00265 Anika Lindenny (U1) fr ....................... R May 5 8x000 Natural Courage (1) 15 ...............C DeFilippi 6 78x67 Going Going Gone (2) 15...............T Chmiel 7 48450 Wozniacki (3) 15 .............................J W Cox 8 06x00 Best Defence (4) 15 L O’......................Reilly 9 706x0 Gupta’s Cullen (5) 15 ................ C McDowell 10 0x885 Ohoka Benson (6) 15 ................. C Smith (J) 11 50447 Jewelz (7) 15 ........................... C D Thornley 4 4.08pm ENJOY LINDAUER AT SPECTATORS MOBILE PACE $7500, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2600m

1 56735 Spooky (1) fr ............................. R Anderson 2 78x8P The Golden Cross (2) fr G O’ ...............Reilly 3 80 Southbrook (3) fr ............................T Chmiel 4 42392 Allison Stokke (4) fr ......................... G Smith 5 0445x Royal Jester (5) fr...................... L McKay (J) 6 22344 She’sa Tricky Bridge (6) fr ................J Curtin 7 Order Online (7) fr .........................B Orange 8 98346 Lucky Three (8) fr ...........................H Hunter 9 Franco Saxon (9) fr ................. C D Thornley 5 4.35pm HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY FROM LINDAUER HANDICAP TROT $9500, c3 & faster discrhcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 48657 Galleons Royale (1) fr .................C DeFilippi 2 10312 Le Lievre’s Gift (U1) fr ......................J Curtin 3 11x11 Great Things Happen (1) 10 ........... G Smith 4 76653 Arran Chief (2) 10 ............................ D Dunn 5 11538 Amaretto Sun (1) 20..................A Tomlinson 6 06987 Experiment (U1) 20 ........................M House 7 11139 Harriet Of Mot (1) 30 .........................J Dunn 6 4.59pm ADDINGTON’S LADIES NIGHT 27/5 MOBILE PACE $7500, 2yo c&g c0 mob. pace, 1950m 1 Riccardo fr.................................... Scratched 2 5263 Bettor To Be Tricky (1) fr ..............G R Payne 3 08 Mustang GT (2) fr.............................J Curtin 4 50 The Kaik (3) fr .................................. D Dunn 5 Regal Major (4) fr ..........................B Orange 6 8 My Wee Man (5) fr ...........................R Close 7 6420 Jimmie (6) fr ....................................R Payne 8 Motu Meteor (7) fr ........................T Williams

Wanganui gallops Tomorrow at Wanganui raceway

Wanganui Jockey Club’s meeting at Wanganui tomorrow. NZ Meeting number: 4. 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 11.35am (NZT) PALAMOUNTAINS MAIDEN STEEPLE 3780 $10,000, MDN STP, 3780m 1 0055x Fair Script (3) 68 ........................ S Karnicnik 2 B0L2x Mahanadi mh (11) 68..L Kennedy (3) 3 3978x And Thatz Scotty h (8) 68 .............. C Perrett 4 P5PPx Cracka Crown tmh (1) 68 ................M Gillies 5 PP9x0 Hard Shot (7) 68 ................ E Goodinson (3) 6 9xPPx Reveal (2) 68............................H McNeill (3) 7 84686 Scaramouche h (9) 68 8 08P7x Scimitar Lad (10) 68....................D Miller (a) 9 Fx77x Sontana h (6) 68 10 39x76 The Big Opal h (5) 68 11 1279x Bunkered m (4) 66 ....................... M Mitchell 2 12.05pm JOLT COFFEE HOUSE OPEN STEEPLE 3780 $20,000, RST OPN STP, 3780m 1 Px800 Mr Mor tmh (4) 71 ........................... C Studd 2 96F4x The Fox m (1) 65.5................H Bognuda (3) 3 P454x Stainley m (5) 65 .....................N Quinn (2.5) 4 430x6 Get Flash mh (3) 65 ........................M Gillies 5 7112x Wise Men Say tmh (2) 65............... S Fannin 3 12.40pm LOWE SCHOLLUM & JONES MAIDEN

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Southland Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Ascot Park Raceway tomorrow. NZ Meeting number: 9. 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 11.00am (NZT) WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS. CO.NZ C0, 390m 1 5 Uno Jason nwtd L & ........................... Wales 2 36 Harlequin Parade nwtd......................J Dunn 3 67 Neisy’s Babe nwtd..................J T McInerney 4 68 Spring Sam nwtd....................J T McInerney 5 5665x Light Thaw nwtd .................................J Allen 6 57286 Homebush Bailey nwtd ..........J T McInerney 7 34525 King Simba nwtd ..........................M Roberts 8 32426 Speedy Blueblood nwtd .........J T McInerney 9 68841 Mary Blue Blood nwtd ............J T McInerney 10 4877 Botany Vikki nwtd ...................J T McInerney 2 11.30am ADDED ENERGY DASH C0, 390m 1 4586 Deman Blue Blood nwtd ........J T McInerney 2 86x35 James McBell nwtd ................J T McInerney 3 63434 Rhinegolde nwtd ................................J Allen 4 5262 Idol Star nwtd L &............................... Wales 5 Botany Calypso nwtd .............J T McInerney 6 74733 Rookie Racer nwtd...................... B I Conner

HURDLE 3000 $10,000, MDN HDL, 3000m 1 75139 Mendoza t (3) 68 ........................ S Karnicnik 2 6035x Sneddon (6) 68 .......................N Quinn (2.5) 3 32465 Cheese Maker bh (5) 68 ................ S Fannin 4 4400x Mailly h (4) 68 ........................L Kennedy (3) 5 1678x Ngario tmh (1) 68 6 63x70 Poppas Delight h (7) 68 7 58x60 Sail Away h (8) 68 8 8x0x0 Viceroy mh (2) 68 ............................ C Studd 4 1.10pm KEN DUNCAN RACING OPEN HURDLE 3000 $20,000, RST OPN HDL, 3000m 1 24x45 Sea King dmh (1) 72 ...................... S Fannin 2 1x060 Gagarin tdmh (6) 69 ........................M Gillies 3 56x07 Thatz David mh (2) 66.5 ................ C Perrett 4 0455x Venerate (5) 65.5 ........................D Miller (a) 5 30x84 Ready Eddie m (7) 65 .................. M Mitchell 6 19x70 Just Ishi td (4) 65 ............................G Walsh 7 16x00 Puddle Alley (3) 65..................... S Karnicnik 5 1.40pm G BRISTOL & SONS MAIDEN 1360 $7000, MDN, 1360m 1 52 Hutch (4) 58.5 ................................H Tinsley 2 28. Highwayman h (9) 58.5 .............. Z Moki (a3) 3 40x Albireo (5) 58.5 .............................D Bradley 4 Duplicity (2) 58.5 ...........................M Tanaka 5 50 Sea Star h (1) 58.5...................M Singh (a3) 6 Any Champers Left 58.5 .............. Scratched

7 7x60x Battle Creek h (10) 58.5 .............L Hemi (a1) 8 Dalriada h (3) 58.5 ...................... R Hannam 9 545x7 Honey Queen (7) 56.5 .............. D Hirini (a3) 10 5730x Mountain Princess h (6) 56.5 ........L Allpress 11 57 Amorata (8) 56.5 .............................R Myers 12 Queens Jubilee (11) 56.5 6 2.10pm FAULDINGS SOUND MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 32 Ground Control (6) 58.5 ................L Allpress 2 3x Wentworth (4) 58.5 ............... N Teeluck (a3) 3 Parallel Universe (3) 58.5 ...............H Tinsley 4 Deep Blue h (1) 58.5 .......................R Myers 5 3887x Spannerworks (7) 58.5.............. D Hirini (a3) 6 3422 Mystigan (10) 56.5 ................ H Andrew (a4) 7 5232x Princess Belle b (9) 56.5 8 324x7 Chateau Maroux (11) 56.5 ..............D Turner 9 59406 Macha 56.5 .................................. Scratched 10 x90x5 Vickezzcristal (5) 56.5 ................. R Hannam 11 550x Zimmabelle (8) 56.5 ...................L Hemi (a1) 12 Sassy Bride (2) 56.5 .....................M Tanaka 7 2.45pm ALLAN BARNES DECORATING RATING 65 1200 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 2785x Hundyamonth dh (8) 60 .................H Tinsley 2 0560x Fetching td (12) 59 ..........................J Riddell 3 4077x Mr Darcee’s Gold dm (2) 58.5 ....L Hemi (a1) 4 x1832 Danmulan d (4) 57.5 .................... D Mo (a2)

Southland dogs Tomorrow at Ascot Park Raceway 7 77x74 Mya Time nwtd ..................................B Eade 8 57272 Homebush Flame nwtd ..........J T McInerney 9 68841 Mary Blue Blood nwtd ............J T McInerney 10 4877 Botany Vikki nwtd ...................J T McInerney 3 12pm CONGRATULATIONS FORBIDDEN FRUIT C1, 457m 1 67635 Cawbourne Dallas nwtd ...............C Roberts 2 82654 Homebush Buck 26.99 ...........J T McInerney 3 78315 Opawa Bucks nwtd L & ...................... Wales 4 32114 Lagoon Allira nwtd .......................C Roberts 5 66741 Botany Alan nwtd ...................J T McInerney 6 21141 Homebush Fitzroy nwtd .........J T McInerney 7 46263 Freckle Flyer nwtd ..............................J Allen 8 41345 Opawa Harry 26.37 L & ..................... Wales 9 68884 Another Cruise nwtd ..............J T McInerney 4 12.35pm GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C1, 390m 1 45685 Thrilling Shrimp nwtd .................. B I Conner 2 54633 Cawbourne Kin 23.35 ..................C Roberts 3 84858 Shez Keen nwtd ................................S Keen 4 65657 Johnnybruce nwtd ..................J T McInerney 5 861 Idol Billie nwtd L &.............................. Wales 6 43646 Regalyn 23.02 ...................................B Eade 7 78248 Scary Canary 23.41 ..........................B Eade 8 63122 Another Relm nwtd ................J T McInerney

9 43888 Tepirita Hendrix nwtd .............J T McInerney 10 68884 Another Cruise nwtd ..............J T McInerney 5 1.05pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C1, 390m 1 35785 Albie McLeod 22.82 ..........................B Eade 2 53748 Baduzzi nwtd..........................J T McInerney 3 18582 Opawa Libby nwtd L & ....................... Wales 4 72875 Another Zircon nwtd ...............J T McInerney 5 78873 Thrilling Spell 23.00 .................... B I Conner 6 66674 Devilskin 23.37 .......................J T McInerney 7 53137 Rib Curler 22.97 .................................J Allen 8 21752 Cronos nwtd ......................................B Eade 9 43888 Tepirita Hendrix nwtd .............J T McInerney 10 68884 Another Cruise nwtd ..............J T McInerney 6 1.35pm SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C1, 390m 1 46368 Glory Hog 23.00 .....................J T McInerney 2 17462 Theseus nwtd....................................B Eade 3 76833 Another Spin nwtd..................J T McInerney 4 85846 His Nibs nwtd .....................................J Allen 5 67634 Another Jamie 22.73 ..............J T McInerney 6 84885 Business Boss nwtd ..........................S Keen 7 56215 Southern Mist nwtd .....................R Hamilton 8 12856 Lots Of Beersies 22.90 ............... B I Conner

9 43888 Tepirita Hendrix nwtd .............J T McInerney 10 68884 Another Cruise nwtd ..............J T McInerney 7 2.05pm HAPPY MOTHERS DAY SPRINT C2, 390m 1 26333 Air Express 22.77...................J T McInerney 2 65432 Homebush Riley 22.81 ...........J T McInerney 3 41711 Cawbourne Craig nwtd ................C Roberts 4 23267 Southern Affair 23.26 ..................R Hamilton 5 17856 Jinja Loch 22.74 .........................H Wanhalla 6 63115 Zircon nwtd ............................J T McInerney 7 64621 Thunder Storm nwtd ..............J T McInerney 8 13771 Another Vespa 22.63..............J T McInerney 9 76746 Homebush Errol 22.70 ...........J T McInerney 8 2.34pm SGRC $26 FIVE WIRE MUZZLE STAKES C4/5, 390m 1 51333 Homebush Rocky 22.70 .........J T McInerney 2 66781 Abrasador 22.27 ...............................B Eade 3 12573 Harkonen Bale 22.53 ...................C Roberts 4 32186 Aiden Baxter nwtd ..................J T McInerney 5 32218 Paua Shot nwtd J &.........................D Fahey 6 41521 Puma Pants 22.48..................J T McInerney 7 71137 Magic Mike 23.01 .........................C Roberts 8 15313 Ace Bale 23.21.............................C Roberts 9 58327 Opawa Opal 22.84 L & ....................... Wales

10 76616 Opawa Crusade 22.38 L &................. Wales

9 3.10pm COLIN & ORMA GRAY MEMORIAL INVERCARGILL CUP C5f, 457m 1 53327 Ebert Bale nwtd ...........................C Roberts 2 11412 Dirk The Jerk 25.98 ...........................J Dunn 3 51434 Kihael Kaluna nwtd J & ...................D Fahey 4 766x6 Opawa Diesel 26.18 L & .................... Wales 5 75726 Country Crossing 26.36 ....................J Dunn 6 43153 Southern Lights 26.10 .................R Hamilton 7 35118 Storming Norm nwtd ................... B I Conner 8 18452 Dyna Quirk nwtd ..........................C Roberts 9 17856 Jinja Loch 26.51 .........................H Wanhalla 10 3.44pm JUSTRACING.COM.AU C2/3, 390m 1 44534 Alex Rumble nwtd ..................J T McInerney 2 65725 Wunzee nwtd .........................J T McInerney 3 1318x Vinny Vindaloo 23.09 ........................J Dunn 4 77758 Homebush Gru 22.55.............J T McInerney 5 21177 Subterfuge 22.81 ...............................J Allen 6 77682 Wears The Gold nwtd...................C Roberts 7 52726 Opawa Lean Meat 22.55 L & ............. Wales 8 33518 Another Belle 22.47 ...............J T McInerney 9 76746 Homebush Errol 22.70 ...........J T McInerney

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Sky shares sink as subscribers evacuate

BY TINA MORRISON

Sky TV retained its forecast for 2016 earnings, which it said in February would see net profit at the lower end of its previously advised range of $153 million to $158 million, down from $172 million last year. However, it said the loss of subscribers would “adversely impact” its 2017 earnings compared to current analyst consensus estimates.

The company didn’t detail the estimates. Analysts expect the company’s net profit to fall to $155 million in 2016, and decline further to $146 million in 2017,

according to the mean forecast in a Reuters survey.

The pay-TV operator is losing its dominant hold on premium content with the introduction of online streaming video services such as Netflix and Spark New Zealand’s Lightbox offering. Still, it retains rugby rights, which are seen as a linchpin in securing domestic viewers. The company attributed the forecast loss in subscribers for this year in part to the roll-off of subscriber contracts following the Rugby World Cup in 2015.

It didn’t expect the rate of sub-

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to manage the exploding growth of aviation in the region and how to avoid the bureaucratic tangle that’s evolved in Europe, which along with North America is showing more static growth patterns.

“Our region is facing a period of unprecedented growth; the projected increase in traffic and airspace congestion will have a profound impact on safety, efficiency, environmental sustainability and the wider economy,” said Sims.

Conrad Clifford, the Asia-Pacific director for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said growth from China, which would soon outstrip the US as the primary source of air travellers, was likely to see the emergence of Sydney and Auckland as hubs competing with west coast US airports, such as Los Angeles, for Asian traffic bound for Latin American destinations.

Budget airlines, which were a primary source of traffic growth out of Asia, were likely to fly more point-to-point routes, not necessarily using hub airports, although their preference would always be hubs.

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Airways Corp, the governmentowned entity in charge of traffic control, is seeking an increase in its capital expenditure of up to 30 per cent as part of a negotiation that is expected to increase fees to airlines by 1.2 per cent a year over the next three years.

Airways chief executive Ed Sims told BusinessDesk this week that negotiations were advancing on a regular review of its fee structure for airlines flying to, from and within New Zealand and that the current $15 million annual capital expenditure budget, required for investing in new technology to run airports and airspace efficiently, was projected to rise “up to 20-to-30 per cent”.

Yesterday, Airways’ service and pricing manager Scott Scrimgeour clarified that the impact of the proposed changes per airline would be an average increase of around 1.2 per cent per year over the next three years, subject to finalising the process after customer feedback.

The capital budget is only a portion of the total costs charged by Airways, with its fees also recov-

ering operational costs.

“We’re leveraging some cost savings initiatives and strong volume growth in the industry,” said Scrimgeour of the proposed increase.

The increased technology spend is required because of exponential growth in aviation volumes in the Asia-Pacific region, with annual growth in New Zealand aviation traffic recently starting to match the 6-to-8 per cent annual growth rates being experienced in much of the Asia-Pacific region, Sims said.

Direct services to Dubai, Qatar, and the Philippines have all been announced in recent weeks, along with greater competition on routes to the west coast of the US, all through Auckland. New air services agreements with major potential sources of tourist arrivals, such as India, have also been signed.

Sims was speaking from the Civil Air Navigations Services Organisation’s Asia-Pacific conference in Queenstown, where regional industry leaders have gathered for two days of discussions on how best

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ing a pretty difficult time,” he said.

“They say that the bleed is not likely to continue which is probably right, you will always have the diehard subscribers that will continue, but trying to regain numbers, that is going to be a very difficult proposition. Where growth is going to come from, it’s difficult to see and that’s another reason investors are particularly worried,” Williamson said.

Sky TV said it expects to provide an update on capital management and growth initiatives by June 30, after appointing investment bank Citigroup to provide advice.

The company has previously said it was looking at capital management as it ends a period of investment, which it expects will deliver strong free cash flow in the future and, at the same time, it’s considering several investment opportunities.

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Sky Network Television shares sank 13 per cent, making it the biggest decliner on the NZX benchmark index yesterday, after the pay-TV operator said subscriber numbers are expected to fall further this financial year, causing earnings next year to miss analyst estimates.

The Auckland-based company forecast it would have 830,000 subscribers at the end of its financial year on June 30. Subscriber numbers dropped 1.5 per cent last year to 851,561. It expects to lose 45,000 core residential payTV subscribers this year and gain about 25,000 subscribers for its online services such as Neon and FanPass.

Its shares fell 69 cents to $4.80, after earlier touching a three-week low of $4.75. They have dropped 25 per cent in the past 12 months.

scriber loss this year to continue next year given customer departures are reducing due to the diminishing impact of the Rugby World, and because it expects a subscriber lift from upcoming major sport events including the Rio Summer Olympics in August 2016 and the Lions Tour in June 2017.

“It’s been on the cards for quite some time that increased competition was going to have an effect on Sky TV and I think those numbers are now quite evident that has been the case and the company has lost a fair chunk of subscribers,” said Grant Williamson, director at Hamilton Hindin Greene.

“Investors are pretty concerned about it and they have obviously knocked that share price down pretty significantly.

“The announcement has proved that the company is hav-

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Tourism money there for the taking Sue Newman

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hile the Ashburton District may never be a tourist mecca, if we do it right, we’re well positioned to take advantage of what promises to be a hugely-lucrative Chinese market.

Queenstown has already been gifted 10,000 extra visitors during 2018 and while we could never hope to capture that large a slice of the market, our wins could come in the growing number of free-travelling Chinese who want to sample grass-roots Kiwi life.

They want to enjoy what we take for granted and what they do not have – open spaces and rural life.

The experts are telling us we need to take what we have, package it and market it and if we do it right, then the tourists will come.

Understanding the needs of the Chinese tourists means we almost have to turn our own travel expectations on its head.

While we might like to wander, stay, spend time and absorb the culture of a country, the timestrapped Chinese tourist does not have this luxury. For them it’s essential to pack as much as they can into a short space of time.

Their very limited allocation of holidays means they’re like travellers on speed.

That very shortage of time, however, means that if we get it right, we should be able to show them rural New Zealand in a day.

We have the farms, we have the open spaces and, best of all, we’re just one hour from Christchurch Airport.

All that’s needed is for an entrepreneur to pull together a package that will give those tourists time on a farm where they can be with animals, watch farming activities, meet farming folk and perhaps share a cup of tea with them before moving on.

If it’s winter, then we could capture them overnight for a spell on Mt Hutt Skifield.

However we do it, there’s no doubt we’re sitting on a gold mine, but the Chinese will go where the best packages are.

If they want grass-roots New Zealand experiences, then we have exactly what they want, but we can’t sit back and just hope it happens.

If we’re not prepared as a district to invest in creating the experience packages they want, then car after van after bus they’ll drive on by and take their money elsewhere.

YOUR VIEW Farmers’ market The Ashburton District Farmers’ Market stallholders wish to advise their customers and the people of Mid Canterbury that they are taking a break over winter and plan to be back end of September 2016.

Our ninth market season went well for us, some new stallholders joined us and this added to the variety and atmosphere of the market.

We do apologise to any customers who did not realise the market was closing on April 23 instead of April 30th.

We have appreciated having buskers present at most markets.

We thank our loyal customers who have supported us, wet or fine, and will be pleased to welcome you all back to the market when we recommence.

Should anyone be interested in joining as a stallholder – this is an excellent time to start thinking and planning, site availabil-

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ity not a problem, new ideas and more variety would be welcome and much appreciated.

Ashburton District Farmers’ Market secretary Judith Crozier

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New council building I am shocked that the council is even considering the Eastgate development site as a possible site for new [council] buildings.

Why are they going to lumber ratepayers with high leasing costs when the council owns so much spare land?

The new EA Networks Centre had 300,000 visitors last year so what is wrong with new council buildings being on either side of Smallbone Drive?

This is council land and I am sure the council does not have 10 per cent of the visitors to the sports centre.

I am still waiting on a reply to my letter regarding the former museum and art gallery building in Baring Square.

Doug Forsyth

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Have you been to any Wheels Week events?

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Today’s online poll question Q: Will you be going duck shooting this weekend?

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ur house has been gripped by pluviophiles thanks to the big dry and the arrival of a large box via New Zealand Post last week.

What are pluviophiles I hear you ask …

Well, look at any farmer in Mid Canterbury when even a speck of grey appears in the cloud horizon – they are obsessed with rainy weather and the Farmer ain’t no different.

Sick of shifting the irrigator in May, when he’s supposed to be embarking on his typical winter hibernation of beer and chips in front of The Bachelor, he has been trawling Trade Me for an answer to the rain dearth.

How the arrival of a package from Trade Me of a weather station techno gizmo the size of a television could bring rain escaped me, but the Farmer assured me this was another one of his superb purchases.

Queue endless trips from farm to house to check the barometric pressure, the humidity, the outdoor temperature, the indoor temperature … you name it, he would report on it every five minutes.

But it got worse when the eldest daughter groaned loudly on checking her phone, to find Dad had downloaded an app that automatically recorded all of our weather statistics.

“Why would I want that?” she shook her head in disbelief as the Farmer, like a kid in a toyshop, tried to enthuse her with all the statistics that were now at her fingertips.

“So when you’re coming home from school in Ashburton, you’ll be able to look up our farm at Pendarves and know if it’s going to be cold when you get off the bus,” he said.

“But Dad,” she said, “we only live 10 minutes away.”

She glared at him disgustedly, as only a tween can do. “And you’re taking up storage on my phone.”

Soon I was to find the base station thingamajig had found its way to our kitchen windowsill as apparently that had the best WiFi connection in the house with

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Facebook us! facebook.com/ ashguardian my ornaments that had once taken pride of place in the same spot, tossed aside as cords and a screen took pride of place.

“Look at this love,” he announced proudly from the kitchen, the other night. “Twenty-two degrees at 11pm at night.”

“I don’t care,” I shouted back at him from my bed at the end of the hallway. “Just come to bed.”

But of course when he did make it to bed he kept jumping up every 10 minutes, exclaiming in a loud voice that the temperature was still 22°C. “It’s madness,”

he grinned as he got back under the covers. “Yeah, and if you don’t be quiet and go to sleep it won’t be the only madness around here,” I grumbled.

The next morning I spotted the bill for the weather station and nearly went into cardiac arrest as I waited the Farmer’s arrival for smoko and yet another meteorology update.

“What was the problem with the old rain gauge we’ve had all our married life – you know, the one that’s nailed to the fencepost.

It might be old fashioned but it

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still worked!” I demanded, flapping the bill in front of his face.

“But I bought it for you love,” he grinned. “For Mother’s Day. And anyway if it brings more rain I’ll be able to shout you to a new frock.”

“But how is that going to bring rain?” I said.

I shook my head dumbfounded by the turn in conversation.

“Simple love. We haven’t had any rain in the old gauge for ages so I thought it must have been broken. Now we’ll be set, you’ll see.”

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Air strikes on camp kill 28 Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war have killed 28 people near the Turkish border, a monitoring group says, and fighting has raged in parts of northern Syria despite a temporary deal to cease hostilities in the city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included women and children and the death toll from yesterday’s air strikes, which hit a camp for internally displaced people near the town of Sarmada, was likely to rise.

Sarmada lies about 30km west of the city of Aleppo, where a cessation of hostilities brokered by Russia and the US had brought a measure of relief yesterday.

But fighting continued nearby and President Bashar alAssad said he still sought total victory over rebels in Syria.

Syrian state media said the army would abide by a “regime of calm” in the city that came into effect at 1am on Wednesday for 48 hours.

The army blamed Islamist insurgents for violating the agreement overnight by what it called indiscriminate shelling of some government-held residential areas of divided Aleppo.

Heavy fighting was reported in the southern Aleppo countryside near the town of Khan Touman, where al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch Nusra Front is dug in close to a stronghold of Iranian-backed militias, a rebel

Swift tops money chart Superstar Taylor Swift has topped Billboard’s list of the highest paid musicians of 2015.

The Shake It Off star has earned $US73.5 million ($NZ106.84 million) from album sales, streaming and publishing revenue and her 1989 world tour – almost double the fortune amassed by country star Kenny Chesney, who is a distant second with $US39.8 million. The Rolling Stones come in a close third with $US39.6 million. Billy Joel and One Direction close out the top five, and the Grateful Dead, Luke Bryan, U2, Adele, and Maroon 5 make the top 10.

Women and children were killed when air strikes hit a camp for internally displaced people near the town of Sarmada, Syria. source said.

Government forces carried out air attacks on the area and rebels were attacking government positions around the town, pro-Syrian government television channel AlMayadeen and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Elsewhere in Syria, fighting persisted. Islamic State militants captured the Shaer gas field in the east of the country, the first gain for the jihadists in the Palmyra desert area since they lost the ancient city

in March, according to rebel sources and a monitor..

Amaq, an IS-affiliated news agency, said Islamic State militants killed at least 30 Syrian troops stationed at Shaer and seized heavy weapons, tanks and missiles.

Russian war jets were also reported to have struck militant hideouts in the town of Sukhna in the same Palmyra desert area.

Assad said he would accept nothing less than an outright victory in the five-year-old conflict against rebels across Syria,

state media reported.

In a telegram to Russian President Vladimir Putin thanking Moscow for its military support, Assad said the army was set on “attaining final victory” and “crushing the aggression”.

Twenty rockets fell on government-held parts of Aleppo yesterday, state media said.

But a resident of the rebelheld eastern part of the city said that although warplanes flew overnight, there were none of the intense raids seen during the past 10 days of air strikes.

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■ UNITED STATES

Speaker refuses to endorse Trump House Speaker Paul Ryan is refusing to support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president, insisting that the businessman must do more to unify the GOP. The surprise declaration from Ryan amounted to a stunning rebuke of Trump from the Republican Party’s highest-ranking officeholder.

“I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there right now,” the Wisconsin Republican said. “And I hope to.

And I want to, but I think what is required is that we unify this party.”

In a statement, Trump responded that he himself isn’t ready to support Ryan’s agenda, either.

“Perhaps in the future we can work together and come to an agreement about what is best for the American people,” Trump said. “They have been treated so badly for so long that it is about time for politicians to put them first!”

Even in an election cycle that’s exposed extreme and very public divisions within the GOP, Ryan’s decision to withhold his support from Trump was remarkable, as the

House Speaker Paul Ryan is refusing to support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president. PHOTO AP GOP’s top elected leader, second in line to the presidency, turned his back on his own party’s presumptive nominee.

Ryan had maintained his silence since Trump effectively clinched the nomination with a commanding win in Indiana that forced his two remaining rivals from the race.

Other Republican leaders, including Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, offered their grudging support for Trump, and Ryan had seemed likely to eventually do the same.

Instead he baulked, in com-

ments that could also reflect concern for his own political future and potential run for president in 2020.

“We will need a standardbearer that can unify all Republicans, all conservatives, all wings of our party, and then go to the country with an appealing agenda,” Ryan said.

“And we have work to do on this front, and I think our nominee has to lead in that effort.”

Ryan’s announcement sent shockwaves through the Republican establishment. Republican National Commit-

tee Chairman Reince Priebus, who is close with the speaker, got no advance warning before Ryan’s comments were made public.

Later, Priebus said he had spoken to both men and expected them to work out their differences.

The highly unusual salvos between the likely White House nominee and the House speaker came at a moment when all involved would normally be turning from the intraparty warfare of the primaries to unifying the party for November’s elections.

Instead, the Republican Party remains asunder, with prospects for coming together uncertain.

Ryan made clear he won’t be supporting Hillary Clinton and wants to come around to backing Trump. And he acknowledged the import of Trump’s victories over a field of some of the GOP’s most experienced politicians, saying the mogul had “tapped into something in this country that was very powerful. And people are sending a message to Washington that we need to learn from and listen to.” - AP

Chilis return with new album Los Angeles-based funk-rock titans Red Hot Chili Peppers have returned with their first new single in five years. Dark Necessities, a funky slow-burner based around a piano riff, is the first taste from the band’s new album The Getaway due out on June 17. It’s their first single since 2011’s I’m With You album, and Consequence of Sound reported it’s produced by Danger Mouse - the first album not produced by Rick Rubin since 1989’s Mothers Milk. The Chilis have already announce a tour in support of the album.

Lisbon ‘here we come’ Axl Rose and ACDC’s Angus Young and Cliff Williams have delivered a message to fans ahead of the band’s first show with the Guns N Roses singer. “Lisbon here we come,” Young says alongside the two band members. “We’re really excited to be here in Portugal, we’re here to give you a great rock show,” he added in the 25-second clip posted on Facebook. Rose added: “Absolutely, we’re very excited to be there.”

The Lisbon show will kickstart the Aussie band’s European tour, which will wrap up on June 12 in Denmark. It will be the first time that Rose will perform with the band since replacing long-time ACDC vocalist Brian Johnson, who was forced to quit touring due the risk of “total hearing loss”, Rolling Stone reported.

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In brief Grim Sleeper guilty A former Los Angeles trash collector was convicted of 10 counts of murder in the Grim Sleeper serial killings that targeted poor, young black women over two decades. Lonnie Franklin Jr. showed no emotion as the verdicts were read and family members who had wondered if they would ever see justice quietly wept and dabbed their eyes with tissues in the gallery.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty during the second phase of trial on May 12.

- AP

Turkey PM steps down Turkey’s prime minister announced yesterday that he will stand down, giving the country’s increasingly authoritarian president free reign to appoint someone less likely to challenge him – a development that could have implications for Turkey’s internal conflicts and external relations. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was already Turkey’s dominant figure, but Davutoglu’s resignation effectively deprives the country of a moderating influence.

- AP

Smugglers shot A wildfire moves towards the town of Anzac from Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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Wildfire engulfs neighbourhoods A catastrophic wildfire in western Canada has spread to an area more than three times the size of Sydney, engulfing whole neighbourhoods and cutting off evacuees in camps and shelters.

All 88,000 residents have been forced to flee Fort McMurray in Alberta as over a thousand firefighters battle to control a total of 49 wildfires.

Many fear there will be nothing left of their homes after the flames are extinguished.

“Homes have been destroyed.

Neighbourhoods have gone up in flames,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Parliament yesterday.

The Fort McMurray fire, which burned for a third day yesterday in Canada’s oil sands heartland, grew from about 10,000 hectares to 85,000 hectares in just 24 hours.

The fire is driving one of the largest evacuations in North

America in recent memory, said Bill Stewart, co-director of the University of California’s Centre for Fire Research and Outreach at the University of California, Berkeley.

With few exceptions in the United States, an entire town hasn’t been threatened on this scale for more than 100 years, he said.

Trudeau said images of people fleeing the fire around the municipality of Fort McMurray while fire raged around their cars was “nothing short of terrifying.”

Fire chief Darby Allen said there had been no deaths reported since the fire broke out, fanned by high winds blowing in hot, dry conditions.

Canadian officials have evacuated 8000 people from work camps north of devastated Fort McMurray by air, and hope to move thousands more via a

highway convoy today if it’s safe.

The Alberta government, which declared a state of emergency, said more than 1100 firefighters, 145 helicopters, 138 pieces of heavy equipment and 22 air tankers were fighting 49 wildfires, with seven considered out of control.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers went door-to-door to make sure everyone in the affected communities got out and brought cans of petrol to help stranded drivers along clogged highways reach the nearest petrol stations.

Most stations are limiting customers to a maximum of 50 litres of fuel, and there are reports of four-hour waits. There are also reports that food is becoming scarce.

Thousands of evacuees have sought shelter in camps for oil sands workers north of the city and some oil sands operations

have been shut down to accommodate the evacuees.

Thousands more have taken shelter in communities such as Lac La Biche and Edmonton, about 450 kilometres south of Fort McMurray.

The fire remains wrapped around the western and southern edges of the city and no rain clouds are expected around Fort McMurray until later, with 40 per cent chance of showers, according to online forecasts by Environment Canada.

Trudeau has announced the government would match all individual donations to Red Cross relief efforts for Fort McMurray.

“The outpouring of good will and compassion from Canadians right across the country has not only been inspirational, it has been entirely characteristic of who we are and the fundamental human values we share as Canadians,” he said.

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Survivors found 6 days after building collapse Rescuers found four survivors yesterday in the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed six days ago amid heavy rains in the Kenyan capital, raising hopes that more people might still be alive in a disaster that has left dozens dead and missing.

The first to be rescued was a pregnant woman, although her husband said that amid the joy of finding her alive, doctors also reported that their baby had not survived. In addition, one

of those found alive later died en route to the hospital, officials said.

Soldiers, firefighters and volunteers have been working around the clock since the April 29 collapse of the seven-storey building in a desperate search effort, and their spirits were lifted when a nearly 6-month-old girl – dehydrated but relatively unscathed – was found in a wash basin.

Then yesterday, they found 24-year-old Elizabeth Night

Odhiambo, who was eight months’ pregnant, said her husband, Stephen Onyango.

A crowd broke into applause as Odhiambo – under a blanket and with her face covered with an oxygen mask – was carried to an ambulance in a scene broadcast live on Kenyan TV. Odhiambo was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital, where she underwent an emergency cesarean section, but doctors told Onyango the baby had not survived.

“A doctor pulled me aside and

told me, ‘Your wife is here in the (operating) theatre, and when she was in the collapsed building, the baby died in her stomach and we have removed it,’” Onyango told The Associated Press.

“He showed me the baby, and I told him it was okay.”

Despite that news, Onyango said he was joyful his wife was still alive.

“I cannot say the happiness I have,” the truck driver said. “I have never had such happiness like this in my life.”

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A French official says four people were injured trying to flee from Belgian police who had opened fire near the port of Dunkirk.

Dunkirk public prosecutor Eric Fouard says police suspected the four occupants were involved in smuggling migrants, and began shooting after their car tried to push police off the road. The chase ended when the fleeing car crashed into a minor pile-up further down the highway. The four occupants were taken to a hospital. Dunkirk deputy prefect Eric Etienne says two of them suffered gunshot wounds.

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Fisherman weeks adrift A Colombian fisherman has been reunited with his wife and family after spending two months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, an ordeal that he says left his three shipmates dead. A merchant ship rescued the man more than 2000 miles southeast of Hawaii, and he was brought to Honolulu in good condition. The four sailors left Colombia more than two months ago, the US Coast Guard said.

Their skiff’s engine failed, leaving them adrift in a lightly travelled expanse of the ocean. The survivor ate fish and seagulls to stay alive, the Coast Guard said.

- AP

Shooters questioned Two teenagers were shot near the route of the Kentucky Derby Festival’s Pegasus Parade yesterday, and two 15-year-old boys were being questioned, Louisville police said. Both victims were taken to a hospital with injuries that didn’t appear to be life-threatening, Police Chief Steve Conrad said.

- AP

Launderer targeted Authorities have arrested a prominent Panama businessman and dismantled an empire of banking, real estate and retail businesses that the US says were part of a top worldwide moneylaundering organisation for drug traffickers. The co-ordinated operation was announced as the US Treasury Department froze US assets owned by 68 companies in Panama and in Colombia.

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Mid Canterbury Newcomers Network Coordinator Mid Canterbury Newcomers Network Inc. is a community initiative working to assist new comers and migrants to settle, participate and integrate into community life. Due to our current Coordinator moving onto a full time role we are now looking to re-fill this 20 hour per week position.

We are seeking applicants who have the following attributes; • Ability to develop project plans and give effect to those plans • Ability to build an excellent public profile • Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels across many cultures • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • An interest, passion and commitment to supporting newcomers and migrants • Able to work one on one with newcomers needing assistance and support • Ability to use Microsoft and Facebook, or the ability to learn • Excellent organisational and time management skills • An ability to work in a flexible manner • An understanding of the challenges newcomers can face Your role would be to grow, promote and coordinate Newcomers Network across the Ashburton District developing new partnerships and opportunities to support this work. This role is multi-faceted and will involve administrative duties through to a field work component supporting newcomers directly.

This position is for 20 hours per week.

Safer Ashburton will be responsible for day to day management of the Coordinator on behalf of Mid Canterbury Newcomers Network Inc. For an application pack please contact Mary Bailey at: 44 Cass Street, Ashburton, Ph: 03 308 1395 mary@saferashburton.org.nz www.saferashburton.org.nz Applications close Friday, May 20 at 4:00pm

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Hours of work will be approximately 10 hours per weeks which includes mornings, afternoons and also school holidays. Extra hours available including Saturday’s 10am – 1pm when required.

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Rural Reporter The Ashburton Guardian is based in New Zealand’s primary production heartland, and our independently owned daily newspaper is looking for a new team member.

The person we’re seeking will have a strong affinity with, and knowledge of the rural sector. We are looking for a journalist with a solid media background, who is excited by the opportunity to write for our two monthly publications as well as for our weekly rural pages.

Our monthly publications are distributed across Canterbury and North Otago.

The rural reporter’s position offers the successful candidate an opportunity to write for a wide audience across the entire spectrum of the rural sector because of the district’s diverse agricultural economy.

We are open to employment options that could include working as an independent contractor or as a Guardian employee, full or part time.

The Ashburton District offers an opportunity to enjoy the best the outdoors has to offer but is within an easy hours drive of Christchurch City. We have Mt Hutt Skifield on our doorstep and offer a wide range of aquatic sports on Lake Hood.

If you have a solid portfolio of work, a full driver’s licence and the right to work in New Zealand, don’t hesitate, please apply by email, with CV attached, to :

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We wish to appoint an office all-rounder based at reception for up to 25 hours per week with the ability to assist with many and varied aspects of an Accountancy firm. In return we offer a competitive pay rate and position in our hard-working team who enjoy our work in a pleasant environment.

Day-to-day responsibilities • Bank reconciliations • Payables and receivables - account management, regular follow-ups and communication with both suppliers and customers • Assist with compilation of management reports • Payroll duties • Preparation of data and paperwork, general office administration

Part Time 20 hours per week Ashburton Area Based in Community House If you: • Are looking for satisfying work.

• Have excellent communication skills.

• Enjoy working with disabled people, their families and whanau.

• Are confident advocating for and supporting people to live the life of their choice.

• Want to be a part of a well-established, valuesbased community organisation.

• Have relevant work/life experience and/or human service qualifications.

The Ashburton Guardian has an opportunity for a reporter to join its news team.

The person we are seeking could be a recent journalism course graduate or a reporter with newsroom experience. This position will present the successful candidate with an opportunity to work alongside a team of experienced journalists, in a busy newsroom where local news is number one.

Personal attributes and behaviours • Self motivated, initiative and ability to work unsupervised • Great time management skills, excellent accuracy and attention to detail • Strong customer service orientation • Flexible working style and willingness to multi-task Required skills • Experience working with Excel formulas and data input & transfer • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Accountancy or bookkeeping experience • Ability to maintain and update a website

We at CCS Disability Action would like you to contact us.

Desired experience • Exposure to roles involving supporting senior accounting staff is preferred • Technical & practical skills - ability to use technology; be receptive and willing to learn and embrace technology as required of the position and job duties • Proficiency in relevant accounting (MYOB, Xero) and general computer software • Previous experience in communications and secretarial/ administrative role

An application form and job description are available and should be completed and returned along with a full CV to: Rebecca Yorke CCS Disability Action Canterbury West Coast PO Box 1506 CHRISTCHURCH 8140 Email: rebecca.yorke@ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz Phone: (03) 365 5661 ext 3822

Email your CV in strict confidence to:

Applications close at 5pm Friday May 20, 2016

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CCS Disability Action is committed to the Treaty of Waitangi and our Equal Employment Opportunities policy.

Utilities Service Person Ashburton Contracting Ltd is looking for a Utilities Service Person. If you are a methodical problem solver with a can do attitude then this could be the position for you. This role is focused around maintenance repair work to the water reticulation.

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An opportunity has arisen for an Agronomist to join our company. The successful applicant will service a well-established client base in the North and Central Canterbury regions.

Competencies required include: • A sound understanding of pastoral and crop agronomy • Sales and customer service experience • The ability to maintain existing, and form new client relationships • Excellent planning and organisational skills • A minimum of two years experience in a similar role If you have what it takes to be successful in this role and the desire to develop and grow your career with Luisetti Seeds, we look forward to hearing from you.

An attractive salary and company vehicle will be offered to the successful applicant.

All applications should detail recent relevant experience and qualifications.

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The Ashburton Guardian is an independently owned, six days a week newspaper based in New Zealand’s primary production heartland. The Ashburton district offers an opportunity to enjoy the best the outdoors has to offer but is within an easy one hour drive of Christchurch city. We have Mt Hutt Skifield on our doorstep and offer a wide range of aquatic sports on Lake Hood.

If you have a journalism qualification, a solid portfolio of work, a full driver’s licence and the right to work in New Zealand, don’t hesitate, please apply by email, with CV attached, to :

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Applications close at 5pm on May 13.

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Please send application with a current CV or details to: Ashburton Contracting Ltd PO Box 264, Ashburton 7740 Attn: Aaron Gairns Email: aarongairns@ashcon.co.nz

Technical Services Assistant/General Hand EA Networks is seeking a Technical Services Assistant/General Technical Services Assistant/General Hand Hand to join our Technical Team.

position will involve being out in the field and in the workshop EA Networks is This seeking a Technical Services Assistant/General Hand to join our Technical T

including working in substations across the district. Candidates must have experience as well as; Classes 1, 2, 3, 4 drivers This position will involve being out in the field and in the workshop including working in subs licences and F endorsement, mechanically minded, above across the district.

Candidates must haveskills, experience as well Classes 1, 2, 3, 4 drivers average problem solving forklift and hiabas; experience.

and F endorsement, mechanically minded, above average problem solving skills, forklift a experience. If this sounds like you then we want to hear from you today. For more information about this role and to download an application form and job description visit www.eanetworks.co.nz/careers.

If this sounds like you then we want to hear from you today. For more information about t Alternatively, youform can send your cover letter and CV to: and to download an application and job description visit www.eanetworks.co.nz/care EA Networks C/-send Recruitment Alternatively, you can your cover letter and CV to: Private Bag 802 EA Networks Ashburton, 7772 C/- Recruitment Or email to: recruitment@eanetworks.co.nz

Private Bag 802 Applications Ashburton, 7772 for this position close Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

Or email to: recruitment@eanetworks.co.nz

Guardian Real Estate

Applications for this position close Tuesday 17th May 2016.

307 7900

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Saturday, May 7, 2016 RURAL TRADING POST

Birthday Greetings

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RURAL TRADING POST

Harvested Fodder Beet for Sale

Freddie Tweddle Happy 4th birthday Freddie. Hope you have lots of fun!!

Love Mum and Dad.

Excellent quality feed for all stock types Priced from $50 per ton delivered Delivered in truck and trailer loads only For a sharp price phone Andy Cunningham 021 360 052 Ken Caird 027 268 4299

Freddie Tweddle Happy 4th Birthday Freddie. Hope you have a great day. Love Nana and Aunty Kate.

TRADES, SERVICES

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Melissa Mattson Happy 8th Birthday Melissa. Enjoy your special day today. Love from Grandad and Granma. xxx

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Building –

WANTED WANTED Arable land to lease Arable land wanted to lease Any size and location considered Phone Chris on 027 680 3818.

WANTED TO BUY - Gold and silver (licenced dealer).

Old gold, silver, jewellery and coins. Best prices paid. Also stamps, postcards and antique items. Arrange and confidential visit today. Phone 027 254 5444.

TRADES, SERVICES

it’s what we know and it’s what we do best. That’s why clients have chosen us, again and again.

211 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton (03) 307 6130 www.calderstewart.co.nz

COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

For prompt reliable service contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Phone 308 8989.

30 years local service. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD Discount card welcomed.

WANTED

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

We have grazing available for dairy cows, yearling heifers and beef cattle. We have proven graziers on top class farms and good facilities. For more information please phone John 027 227 6075 or Murray 027 206 6760.

Call the Guardian for all your Real Estate classified New Zealand ashburton requirements.

24/7 Appraisals 307 7900

Bulls of all ages suitable for bull beef, please phone John 027 227 6075 or Murray 027 206 6760.

Guardian Situations Vacant

308 6173

307 7900

First day of school

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Congratula chool tions from Rum on your graduation a Whakaw hanui – The E Happy sch xtension Room. ool days fr om all you friends r Childs Pla and teachers at y Preschoo l, Tinwald .

• Plant and Sundries: Prattley Yard Gates, Cyclone Gates, Steel Gates, Prattley Mothering On Pens, Heiniger Electric Handpiece, Drench Guns, Wool Packs, Single Dog Motel, Animal Health Equip, Flexinet, Wooden Gates, Fencing Gear, Knapsack Sprayer, Karcher Water Blaster, Ryobi Weed Eater, GMC Hedge Trimmer, GMC Edger, Morrison Edger, Husqvarna Lawnmower, Ryobi Leaf Blower, Rover Lawnmower, Prizelawn Fert Spreader, Results Circular Saw, Ryobi Disc Grinder, G Force Electric Drill, Marconi Moisture Meter, Black & Decker Drill Set, Garden Sprayer, Ozito Hedge Trimmer, Steel Barrow, Elecrtic Grinder, Chrome Tech Spanner Set, Jumpstart Kitset Battery Charger, Socket Sets, Wheel Barrow, Quantity of Garden Tools and Workshop Equipment, Waratahs, E/Fence Sundries, Aluminium Ladder, 2 sets Taylor Lawn Bowls, Door Frames, Alum Window Frame, Avanti Mountain Bike, Raleigh Mountain Bike, Quantity New Timber, Cardiofit Exercycle, Quantity of Pavers & Tiles, plus Numerous Sundries.

• Conditions of Sale: Sale will be conducted Purchase Price plus GST. Intending purchasers will be required to register prior to commencement of sale. Terms are Strictly Cash unless prior arrangements are made With PGG Wrightson Livestock.

Quality Preschool

Age: 5 y ears School: Ha

Saturday, 14th May, 2016 Commencing at 10.00am

• Sale Location: Sale will be sign-posted from corner State Highway One, Ashburton Motor Lodge onto Racecourse Road approximately 3 kms.

old Age: 5 years ald School School: Tinw

Sophia Par ker

On account Of Mrs Clare Chapman 321 Racecourse Road, Ashburton

• Household Furniture: TV Cabinet, Storage Cabinet, Large Computer Desk Cupboard, Table & 8 Chairs, Box Case, Coat Stand, Glass Top Coffee Table and Side Table.

n o t s y a B a i Soph graduation ions on your Congratulat a Whakawhanui – from Rum on Room.

The Extensi from all your ys da ol Happy scho d teachers at friends an inwald.

Preschool, T ld Chi s Play

Clearing Sale Of Plant and Sundries

TLC for your VIP

Monday - Friday 7.30am - 5.30pm Ph 308 2959, 25 Main South Rd, Tinwald www.childsplaypreschool.ac.nz

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• Enquiries to: Clare Chapman, phone 021 139 6558 or Richard Ashworth, phone 027 229 9377 PGG Wrightson Auctioneers Ashburton

Looking for a builder with a little more experience?  Housing  Commercial  Farm Contact Des anytime for an obligation free quote.

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REAL ESTATE

PUBLIC NOTICES

OPEN HOME 18 Charlesworth Drive, Allenton Lochlea Estate • Architecturally designed • Three bedrooms plus ensuite • Open plan living

• New build • Quality fittings • Top Allenton location

RURAL TRADING POST

Itinerary For Ashburton A & P Winter Feed Competition

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Monday, May 9 Leave Ashburton Showgrounds

7.30am

D&T White A Martins Phil Lovett H Boulton K Jackson W Harris P&L Rollinson, I&SThorton AD & CA Busch A& DR Bennett

51 Terrace Rd Sheppards Rd 343 Dawsons Rd 30 Waipuna Rd 166 Emmerson Rd 368 Crows Rd 234 Frisbys Rd 1737 Boundry Rd 1272 Beach Rd

8.15am 8.40am 9.05am 9.30am 9.50am 10.30am 11.10am 11.30am 12.30 LUNCH

M Paton HF& DL Butterick P Butterick A Doak L Grant S Bonifant G Roadley RH & SC Duncan D&W Copland

29 Wakanui School Rd 101 Buttericks Rd 124 Christy Rd 491 Christys Rd 831 Stanley Rd Christys Rd 494 Pendarves Rakaia Rd 424 Rules Rd

1.25pm 1.45pm 2.15pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.10pm 3.30pm 3.50pm 4.50pm

OPEN WEEKENDS: Nursery at Lilyfields Mt Somers. Open this weekend and next weekend Saturday, April 30 Sunday, May 1 - Saturday, May 7 - Sunday, May 8. 50 Hoods Road, Mt Somers Village, 10am - 4.30pm. Lily bulbs, tulips, trees and designer gumboots. EFTPOS available. Gift vouchers.

David and Wendy Millichamp, 303 9743, www.lilyfields.co.nz

MOTORING

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Tuesday, May 10 Showgrounds meet

8:00am

TW & BM Lovett A Copland R Stewarts B Davey D Butterick Anne Letham

Open Homes: This Saturday and Sunday between 1pm and 2pm Contact: 027 272 7837 or 03 302 6887

AMSOIL SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, antifreeze, car polish, V & L cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust bust, rain clear, engine cleaner and more. Call local distributor. Veehof phone 302 2911.

State Highway 1 113 McKays Road 1408 Somerton Road 1643 Line Road 1183 Mitcham Road

G Murphy C Curd H Woolsey & B Reesby L & P Rooney D Butterick Allenton Farming Andrew Mcllroy Return Ashburton Showgrounds

812 Dromore Methven road 148 Winchmore School Road 120 Shearers Road Ashburton Staveley Road 309 Methven Highway

Price reduction

8.30am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 12.00 LUNCH 1.00pm 1.15pm 2.10pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm

Notice of AGM Allenton Bowling Club Cavendish Street, Ashburton Sunday, May 15 at 3.00pm

LIVESTOCK, PETS

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

LET OR LEASE

OFFICE available for rent.

Parking, 24 hour access, nightly security. Minutes from CBD. Ph 021 554 570.

Buyer enquiry from $595,000 - $610,000

STORAGE units available.

Various sizes. Rainbow Storage. Ph 307 0401.

Guardian Situations Vacant

Guardian Classifieds

307 7900

307 7900

Daily Events Saturday 9.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Community Garden, Thomson Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY HIRE. Open for toy hire. Methodist Church Baring Square.

Sunday 8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Service and worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge.

Baring Square East.

9.30am

Monday 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE.

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

Main Street, Methven.

10am - 11.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Pre-loved clothing sale, bargains and cuppa. St Andrew’s Church Hall, Cnr

Thomson and Jane Street.

10am - 1pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10am - 5pm MIND BODY SOUL EXPO. Readings, healings, crystals, demonstrations. $3 entry. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

1pm MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. Registration at 1pm, race start 1.30pm sharp. Fords Road, Tinwald.

6pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship - Mother’s Day, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service with communion led by Rev Henry Mbambo. 48 Allens Road 10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Thomson Street,

Tinwald.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Service for Mother’s Day/home and family Sunday and Ascension Sunday services. Havelock Street.

10am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

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

10.30am

VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

11am - 4pm THE PLAINS RAILWAY. Museum village open, steam train rides.

Maronan Road, Tinwald.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton

airport, Seafield Road.

4pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Messy Church in the hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Service for Mother’s Day/home and family Sunday and Ascension Sunday services. Havelock Street.

New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

12noon - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Free lunch every Monday. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets, entry off Cass Street.

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting. Waireka Clubrooms, Philip Street.

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

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in the hall.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC PARISH CENTRE. Euchre, all welcome. (not public holidays). Cnr Burnett and Winter Street.

Classifieds www.guardianonline.co.nz PLANTS, PRODUCE

GRAZING

Tele cucumber Feijoas 500gm Kumara 1kg Pears 1kg

$1.99 ea $1.99 bag $2.99 bag $1.99 bag

Specials available from 3/05 - 10/05

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

Mind Body Soul Expo

For further information: Brad Turner • 021 027 20303

$3 entry

Surplus winter feed and no mouths to eat it?

Give us a call Dave Marsh 0274 920 875 Phil Cushnie 0274 399 555

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON FOR SALE

WINTER grazing Overdale kale / grass and silage and COLOUR changing egg good yards. Phone 027 284 timer. The durable timer that makes boiled eggs easy and 0377. fun. Leave it in the pot whilst WINTER grazing wanted for cooking, where it changes 130 ewes and 45 hoggets. colour to indicate when the egg is done to your Phone 302 3053. preference. $15.99. Kitchen Kapers in The Arcade.

GARAGE SALES

GARAGE sale - From 8am Saturday. Middle Road. Sign FIREWOOD - dry old man at gateway. pine $200, semi-dry pine $160, semi-dry blue gum FOR SALE $200, dry poplar $150, green 3.

BATHROOM vanity unit, old man pine $120. All 3.6m .

Shane James white with blue top, 1m wide, Phone .8m high; new tap, soap Firewood 303 7063. dispenser, two white side cabinets .3x.3x2.1m; overhead light panel - 1.6m FIREWOOD for sale. $170 wide, good condition, per cord (3.6 m³). Seasoned reasonable offers. Phone 308 dry pine, delivered. Phone or 8001. text Sue 0211 624 102.

FOR SALE MOBILITY scooter, Discovery model 7 years old. Very good condition $800 ono. Phone 308 5494.

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

SAVANANA - bubbly, friendly and delightful woman, will suit mature gentlemen. Good massage. Sorry, no texting.

Phone 021 044 0698.

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and ACCOMMODATION, wheel chairs. Call Fred RENTAL Reddecliffe at Electric FOUR bedroom plus Mobility Ashburton today. sleepout, heat-pump, easy Phone 308-3602 gardens, some pets and outside smokers okay, West ADULT side close to shops, kindys and schools.

Lockable ENTERTAINMENT garage $440 per week.

ASIAN, beautiful face, Phone 021 230 3274. brunette, curvy, lingerie, very good massage. Phone 022 321 0270.

FIRST time to town. Sweet, slim, size 6, busty DD, good massage. Phone 021 027 66141, Natacha.

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline

Have you lost your way in Life?

Join us this Sunday to discover HOPE for 2016.

Including Children’s church

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual from 10am - 1pm Sunday and Anzac Day and Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 from 6pm - 8pm all three evenings.

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Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm DUTY DOCTORS VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP POST DELIVERY CENTRES For all urgent medical calls phone 0800 HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm ASHBURTON HOSPITAL 700 155 at any time. IN EVENT OF AN 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Children must be accompanied by an adult.

This service is for emergency medical care 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm only. Please bring your Community Services WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Card. All non New Zealanders should bring Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE INFORMATION CENTRES MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm. their passport with them, New Zealanders Call us free on (0800 787 797).

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days. should bring some form of ID. Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

Sealy Street Medical Practice, Sealy Street, LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am until -unrestricted visiting.

OMMUNITY ERVICES Holidays 10am until 3pm.

1pm and from 2pm until 5pm both days. Phone ASHBURTON REST HOMES ART GALLERY Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com for appointment from 9.30am 308 1212.

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS 327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

RESOURCE RECOVERY PARKS METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm The Ashburton resource recovery park will be Saturday and Sunday doctor and emergency unrestricted visiting.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY closed on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 details, please telephone the Methven Medical EMERGENCY DENTIST Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. to complete the construction works. Actual dates Centre, ph 302 8105.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm If you do not have or cannot contact your are yet to be confirmed.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 BUS DEPARTURES ASHBURTON MUSEUM provide an accident and emergency service. for the name of the rostered weekend dentist Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890.

Except in cases of emergency, persons requiring in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

Weekends 1pm - 4pm. Research facilities medical attention must consult their own or the Sundays and Public Holidays.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. weekday afternoons. duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm. requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must ELPLINE ERVICES EA NETWORKS CENTRE have a general practitioners note of referral.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS POOLS Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.

WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm. org.nz for more information.

700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

Rev. David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Fear not for all these things must come to pass but “It’s in the Bag” the end is not yet.

Creche available.

206 Cameron Street Refreshments to follow Pastors Jim & Ida Heath 6pm House of Prayer Ph 308 7511

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

All welcome

Sundays @10.00am Everyone is welcome Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

10am Family Service

10.30am Worship Every Sunday 63 Princes Street

See you at cnr Cass & Cameron St’s

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HIRE

FLOAT hire - single, double and tandem. Reasonable AKAROA - CHARMING, rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & spacious holiday home, 3 Feed. Phone 308-3422 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all anytime. electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

027 227 3661

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Church Services

JANUARY

Readings, Healings, Massage, Raffle Crystals and Free Demonstrations

Available in Pendarves area

Numbers to suit

LIVESTOCK, PETS

GRAZING available: Winter grazing, Hinds Mid Canterbury kale, fodder beet silage. Phone 027 563 4537 or 027 719 9089.

Winter Cow Grazing Oats, Grass and Kale

PETER WALSH & ASSOCIATES LTD www.peterwalsh.co.nz

308-1095

GRAZING wanted for store lambs. Please call Steve 027 321 6060.

Saturday May 7 10am to 5pm

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

- Ewe and Lamb Grazing required - Greater Methven / Rakaia area - Numbers can be tailored to suit

GRAZING

MEETINGS, EVENTS

GRAZING

GRAZING WANTED

Broccoli .99c ea

Tinwald Hall, Grahams Road

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ANIMAL SERVICES DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24h/sce.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact - President 021 1356 969.

VETERINARIANS VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Laurie Gray. Small: Nina Field.

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

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

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

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: John Achten. Small: Ref Vet Ent. ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint afterhours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar Liquid Gold. 0 7am Rural Delivery 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 The Game Chef 0 10am Come Dine With Me PGR Noon Saturday Kitchen 1pm Instant Gardener 0 2pm Kiwi Living 3 0 3pm Border Security 3 0 3:30 Along For The Ride 0 4pm Highway Cops 3 0 4:30 Taste Of A Traveller 0 5pm N River Monsters With Jeremy Wade A report from Cambodia that something fishy has bitten through a man’s testicles has Jeremy Wade visiting the Mekong River. 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Country Calendar Spring in his Step. A 76-year-old former possum trapper still runs his remote sheep-andbeef farm with help from his grandchildren. 0 7:30 Britain’s Got Talent 0 8pm Lotto 3 The Lotto draw.

8:05 Britain’s Got Talent Continued. 0 8:50 Coronation Street PGR 0 9:50 Inside Tatler PGR 0

6am Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:05 Little Monstar 3 0 6:10 Kune’s Kitchen 0 6:30 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 6:55 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:20 Randy Cunningham – 9th Grade Ninja 3 0 7:45 Pokemon XY 3 0 8:10 Hulk And The Agents Of Smash 0 8:35 The Barefoot Bandits 0 9:05 Clarence 3 0 9:30 Mighty Med PGR 10am Fresh 10:30 N Family Matters 11am Full House 0 11:30 According To Jim 0 Noon The Fosters PGR 1pm Wipeout 0 2pm The Flash 0 3pm Melissa And Joey 0 3:30 The Neighbours 0 4pm Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 0 5:25 Bear Grylls – Survival School 0 6pm Betty White’s Off Their Rockers 0 6:30 The Middle 0 7pm M Oz The Great And Powerful PGR 2013 Family Fantasy. A small-time magician is swept away to an enchanted land and into a power struggle between three witches. James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams.

0 9:30 M The Legend Of Hercules AO 2014 Action Fantasy. Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Outdoors With Geoff 3 7am Gone Fishin’ 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation An in-depth weekly local current affairs show.

10:30 Baggage PGR 3 11am Survivor – Blood v Water 30 Noon The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 3 1pm Caught On Camera PGR 3 0 2pm The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 3pm The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 4pm Shark Tank 0 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 The Goldbergs 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

11:05 The Astronaut Wives Club PGR 0 Midnight M Cemetery Junction AO 2010 Comedy.

Ricky Gervais, Ralph Fiennes.

0 1:50 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:45 Infomercials 4:15 L Football – English Premier League

11:25 M The Family AO 2013 Crime. Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer. 1:30 My Kitchen Rules PGR 3 0 4:55 Regular Show 3 0 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

11:35 Blue Bloods AO 0 12:30 Stacey Dooley Investigates… Cocaine Capital Of The World AO 3 1:35 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

CHOICE TV 6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 Auction Kings 8am Natural World – Monkey Thieves 8:30 Wildlife SOS 9am Shark Man 9:30 Luke Nguyen’s France 10am French Food Safari 10:30 Location, Location, Location 11:30 Great British Garden Revival 12:30 Restoration Man 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Being Erica PGR 4pm Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 5pm Hugh’s Three Good Things 5:30 Jamie At Home 6pm Getaway 6:30 The Hedgehog Hotel 7:30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives Marc Allum investigates the story of the Carpathia, the ship that went to the rescue of survivors from the Titanic, and brings together two of the captain’s relatives.

8pm Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets PGR Featuring the world’s most luxurious hotels and scandalous stories.

9pm American Restoration 9:40 Backroad Bounty 10:40 Getaway 11pm New Zealand Hunter Adventures

SUNDAY

Midnight Hugh’s Three Good Things 12:30 Jamie At Home 1am Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 2am Being Erica PGR 3am Antiques Roadshow Detectives 3:30 American Restoration 4am Backroad Bounty 5am The Hedgehog Hotel

7pm M Robots PGR 3 2005 Animated Adventure. Voices of Ewan McGregor, Mel Brooks, Drew Carey. 0 8:50 M Man On Fire AO 3 2004 Crime. Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning.

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SKY SPORT 1

6am Home Shopping 6am Sesame Street 3 11:30 NRL Fulltime 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 Noon The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Sticky TV 8:20 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 2:30 Netball – ANZ Championship 3 8:45 Beyblade – Shogun Steel 3 3:30 Animal Heroes 3 (Part 9:10 Power Rangers – Megaforce 1) Two veterinary officers are in charge of transporting 50 dogs and 3 200 soldiers from the UK to Camp 9:35 Infomercials Bastion.

2pm Sesame Street 3 4:30 Fishing And Adventure 2:55 Pingu 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing Nicky 3pm Barney And Friends 3 and her team board a 30-metre 3:30 Infomercials catamaran to travel to the 4:30 Pukana 2 Wanganella Banks.

5pm Drake And Josh 3 The science fair becomes interesting 5:30 Prime News 6pm Tigers About The House 3 when Mindy Crenshaw returns to Belleview High and challenges Josh’s The cubs develop a new repertoire of tiger behaviours, and begin project. to outgrow Giles’s home as they 5:30 Mr Young 3 become more adventurous and 6pm Victorious 3 boisterous.

6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 7pm Million Dollar Listing PGR 7pm Storage Wars 8pm The Biggest Loser (Starting 7:30 Father Brown PGR When the Today) 3 Fifteen contestants, mayor drops dead during his including American Idol speech at the Kembleford winner Ruben Studdard, village fete, Father Brown begin their weight-loss investigates; Mrs McCarthy’s journeys. past comes back to haunt 9pm The Biggest Loser 3 her.

9:55 F Hounds AO 3 8:30 Weekend Murders – 10:25 Funny Roots PGR 3 0 Grantchester PGR 0 10:50 Baggage AO 3 9:35 Rugby – Super Rugby

6am Rugby League – International (Replay) Kangaroos v Kiwis. 8am The Golf Fix 9am School Of Golf With Martin Hall. 10am Golf – European Tour (Highlights) Trophee Hassan II, Round Two. 10:30 Rugby League – International (Highlights) Kangaroos v Kiwis. 11am Sky Sport News NZ 11:30 Cycling – Giro D’Italia (Highlights) Noon Golf – European Tour (Highlights) 12:30 Motorcycling – Road Racing Series 1:30 Rugby League – International (Highlights) 2pm Grassroots Rugby 3pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 3:30 World Rugby 4pm Cricket – IPL (Highlights) 4:30 #SkySpeed 5pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Sunwolves v Force.

7:15 L Rugby – Super Rugby Chiefs v Highlanders.

9:40 L Rugby – Super Rugby Waratahs v Cheetahs. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

11:15 Infomercials 5am Infomercials

Midnight Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Chiefs v Highlanders.

12:30 World Rugby 12:55 L Rugby – Super Rugby Sharks v Hurricanes. From Growthpoint Kings Park, Durban. 3:05 L Rugby – Super Rugby Kings v Blues.

5:10 UFC Now

11:35 60 Minutes PGR 3 Current affairs from New Zealand and around the world.

12:35 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 2 7am SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 7:30 Tribe 8am Matika 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Playlist 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Cam’s Kai 3 10:30 Paki Vault 3 11am Kawe Korero – Reporters 1:30 The Big Hit 2pm Te Po Mekemeke 2:30 Friday Night Lights PGR 3:30 Te Po Mekemeke

THE BOX

SKY SPORT 2 4pm Whawhai 4:30 Get Your Fish On 3 5pm Moko Aotearoa 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 3 6:30 M Asterix And The Vikings PGR 2006 Animated Comedy.

8pm Waiata 3 8:30 M Three Colours – Blue AO 1993 Mystery. Juliette Binoche.

10:15 Te Kaea 3 2 Inside Tatler 10:45 Whare Taonga AO 9:50pm on TV One 11:15 Closedown

DISCOVERY

6am Parking Wars PGL 6:25 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

US PG 6:50 Pawn Stars PG 7:15 Lizard Lick Towing PG 7:40 CSI MV 8:30 Survivor – South Pacific PG 9:20 Survivor – South Pacific PG 10:10 Survivor – South Pacific PG 11am Survivor – South Pacific PG 11:50 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

2:20 Parking Wars PGL 3:10 Law And Order – UK MV 4:05 Psych MC 4:55 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 8pm Pawn Stars PG 8:30 Lizard Lick Towing PG 9pm Call Of The Wildman PG 9:30 Combat Dealers PG 10:30 RBT MC 10:55 Border Security PG 11:20 Raw MV

6am Magic Of Science PG 6:30 Mythbusters PG Water Slide Wipeout. 7:30 Mythbusters PG Fireball Stun Gun. 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:25 Killing Fields M 10:20 Dual Survival M 11:15 Treehouse Masters PG 12:10 Gold Rush PG 1:05 Naked And Afraid XL M 2pm Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman PG 2:55 Close Encounters PG 3:25 Close Encounters PG 3:50 Railroad Alaska PG 4:45 Alaskan Bush People M 5:40 You Have Been Warned PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 9:30 Railroad Alaska PG 10:30 Auction Hunters PG 11pm Man Made Marvels PG

1:45 Combat Dealers PG 2:40 Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 3:05 Pawn Stars PG 3:30 Lizard Lick Towing PG 3:55 Call Of The Wildman PG 4:20 Psych MC 5:10 Parking Wars PGL

Midnight Naked And Afraid XL M 12:55 Evil Lives Here M 1:50 Edge Of Alaska M 2:45 Auction Hunters PG 3:15 Survive That! M 4:10 River Monsters PG 5:05 Mythbusters PG

SUNDAY

SUNDAY

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:40 Poltergeist MC 2015 Horror.

Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt.

9:15 The Captive 16VLC 2014 Thriller. Ryan Reynolds, Mireille Enos.

11:05 Dope 16VLSC 2015 Comedy.

Shameik Moore, ZoÎ Kravitz.

12:50 Fury 16VL 2014 Action War. Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf. 3:05 Tom, Dick And Harriet M 2013 Comedy.

Steven Weber, Michelle Harrison.

4:35 The Judge ML 2014 Drama.

Robert Downey jr, Robert Duvall.

6:55 Tammy ML 2014 Comedy.

Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon.

8:30 Guardians Of The Galaxy MV 2014 Action. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana.

10:35 The Equaliser 18VLS 2014 Action. Denzel Washington.

SUNDAY

12:45 National Lampoon Presents – Surf Party 16LSC 2013 Comedy. Khan Chittenden, Matthew Lillard. 2:10 Close Up – Denzel Washington PG 2:40 Tammy ML 2014 Comedy.

Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon.

4:15 The Equaliser 18VLS 2014 Action.

Oz the Great and Powerful 7pm on TV2

MOVIES GREATS 6:50 Defiance MVL 2008 Drama.

Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell. 9:05 Jarhead 16VLS 2005 Drama. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard. 11:05 Blades Of Glory MS 2007 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler.

12:35 21 Grams 16VLSC 2003 Drama. Sean Penn, Naomi Watts.

2:40 Defiance MVL 2008 Drama.

Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell. 4:55 Midnight In Paris PGS 2011 Romantic Comedy.

6:30 Underworld 16VC 2003 Action Thriller. Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen.

8:30 Evan Almighty PGL 2007 Comedy. Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham.

10:10 Heavenly Creatures PGV 1994 Drama. 11:50 As Good As It Gets ML 1997 Comedy.

SUNDAY

2:05 Midnight In Paris PGS 2011 Romantic Comedy.

3:40 Underworld 16VC 2003 Action Thriller. 5:40 Heavenly Creatures PGV 1994 Drama.

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

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6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Small Blacks TV 6:45 L Rugby League – Challenge Cup Batley Bulldogs v Catalans Dragons.

9am Rugby League – International (Highlights) Kangaroos v Kiwis.

9:30 Cycling – Giro D’Italia (Highlights) Stage One – Apeldoorn.

10am Cricket – IPL (Replay) Sunrisers Hyderabad v Gujarat Lions.

1:30 Cycling – Giro D’Italia (Highlights) Stage One – Apeldoorn.

2pm Rugby League – Women’s International (Highlights) Jillaroos v Kiwi Ferns.

2:30 Rugby League – Challenge Cup (Replay) Batley Bulldogs v Catalans Dragons.

4:30 Rugby League – International (Highlights) Kangaroos v Kiwis.

5pm L Rugby League – International Junior Kangaroos v Junior Kiwis.

7pm L Rugby League – Pacific Island Test PNG v Fiji.

9:30 L Rugby League – Pacific Island Test Samoa v Tonga. From Pirtek Stadium, Parramatta, NSW. 11:30 Fox Sports News

SUNDAY

Midnight Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Firebirds v Mystics.

12:30 L Cycling – Giro D’Italia Stage Two. 3:30 Football – Champions League Weekly 4am Rugby League – Pacific Island Tests (Highlights) 4:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) Firebirds v Mystics.

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6:30 The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 7am Sunday 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae PGR 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 Fair Go 11:55 Frozen Planet 0 12:55 Spca Rescue PGR 0 1:25 Coasters PGR 0 1:55 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 2:55 Slow Train Through Africa With Griff Rhys Jones 3 0 3:55 Biggest And Baddest 0 4:55 Dolphins – Spy In The Pod (Part 2) Spy cameras infiltrate a pod of dolphins, giving insights into the lives of one of the world’s most popular animals. 0 6pm One News 0

6am Sooty 3 0 6:20 Little Monstar 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:50 Henry Hugglemonster 3 0 7:15 The Tom And Jerry Show 3 0 7:35 Get Ace 3 0 8am What Now Voices Co perform; Dominique visits some flappy friends at Butterfly Creek; Chris interviews the Trash Test Dummies.

10am Jessie Future Jessie appears from an elevator time machine to warn present Jessie to run for her life. 0 10:25 The Voice 0 Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 0 2:30 The Family Tools PGR 3pm Trophy Wife PGR 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 0 6pm F The Cul De Sac 0 6:30 The Middle PGR 0

7pm Sunday 0 7:45 Mastermind Commercial manager Tony, public servant Jackie, Michael the landscape gardener, and quality-assurance manager David compete in a quick-fire knowledge quiz. 0 8:30 Blindspot AO 0 9:30 The Family AO 0 10:25 The Missing AO 0

7pm My Kitchen Rules PGR 0 8:15 The Simpsons PGR 0 8:45 M Gravity AO 2013 Drama. A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after their shuttle is destroyed, leaving them adrift in orbit. Sandra Bullock, George Clooney. 0 10:40 M Scream 4 AO 2011 Horror. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette. 0

11:40 Q+A 3 Local political-affairs programme. 0 12:50 Attitude 3 0 1:20 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:20 Infomercials

12:50 Arrow AO 3 0 1:40 Embarrassing Bodies Down Under AO 3 0 2:30 NY ER PGR 3 2:50 Infomercials 3:25 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Switched At Birth PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Natural World – Monkey Thieves 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 8am Getaway 8:30 Backroad Bounty 9:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 10am Jamie At Home 10:30 Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets PGR 11:30 The Hedgehog Hotel 12:30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives 1pm American Restoration 1:30 Being Erica PGR 2:30 Sophie In The Orient 3pm The Kindness Diaries 3:30 Explore 4:30 My France With Manu – Rhone Valley 5:30 Backroad Bounty 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 American Pickers Leaving Iowa in winter, Mike and Frank travel south to New Orleans, where they meet a quirky antique dealer with a sprawling collection.

8:30 M Is Anybody There? AO 2008 Comedy Drama. Michael Caine, Bill Milner, Anne-Marie Duff.

10:30 Injustice AO 11:30 The Kindness Diaries

MONDAY

Midnight Explore 1am My France With Manu – Rhone Valley 2am Sophie In The Orient 2:30 M Is Anybody There?

AO 2008 Comedy Drama.

Michael Caine, Bill Milner, AnneMarie Duff.

4:30 Natural World – Monkey Thieves 5am Backroad Bounty

TV THREE

FOUR

PRIME

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Strawberry Shortcake 3 7:25 Wonder Pets 3 7:50 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 8am Bob The Builder 3 8:10 Fireman Sam 3 0 8:20 The Winx Club 3 8:45 Julius Jr 3 9:10 Thomas And Friends 9:20 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 9:30 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 6pm Victorious 3 6:30 M Once Upon A Forest 3 1993 Animated. When a badger nearly dies from toxic fumes, her animal friends set out to find a cure.

Voices of Michael Crawford, Ben Vereen, Ellen Blain. 0 7:50 M Moonrise Kingdom PGR 3 2012 Comedy Drama.

After two young lovers run away from their New England town, a local search party to sets out to find them. Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand.

9:45 Entertainment Tonight Weekend The biggest entertainment stories of the last week.

10:40 Infomercials

11:05 M Hot Tub Time Machine AO 3 2010 Comedy. 0 12:55 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

5am Infomercials

7pm The Laughing Samoans 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Broncos v Sharks.

8:30 M Inside Man AO 2006 Crime. The perfect bank robbery becomes a game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind, a detective and a power broker with a hidden agenda. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster.

10:45 Te Kaea 3 2 11:15 Koroua 3 11:45 Closedown

6am L Sailing – America’s Cup World Series New York – Day One. 7:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars (Highlights) Race Eight.

8am Cricket – IPL (Replay) Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils.

From Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur.

11:30 Rugby – First XV (Replay) Kings College v Kelston Boys High.

Dolphins – Spy in the Pod Avatar 1:30 Sunday Footy Show 4:55pm on TV One 7pm on TV3 A review and preview of all the weekend NRL league games.

3pm Rugby League – Pacific MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Island Tests (Highlights) 6:25 Guardians Of The Galaxy MV 7:20 Evan Almighty PGL 2007 2014 Action. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana. Comedy. 8:55 As Good As It Gets 3:30 Sailing – America’s Cup World Series (Replay) New York – 8:25 Close Up – Denzel ML 1997 Comedy. 11:10 Heavenly Day One. Washington PG 8:55 The Judge Creatures PGV 1994 Drama.

5pm Rugby – Super Rugby ML 2014 Drama. Robert Downey jr, (Highlights) Kings v Blues. From 12:50 Mission – Impossible MV Robert Duvall. 11:15 Tammy ML Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port 1996 Action.

An American agent, 2014 Comedy. Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth. under false suspicion of disloyalty, Susan Sarandon. 12:50 Guardians 5:30 Timber Hunters Club must discover and expose the Of The Galaxy MV 2014 Action.

6pm L Rugby League – Origin real spy without the help of his Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana. 2:50 Life City v Country .

Of Crime 16VLSC 2013 Crime. organisation. 2:40 Mission – 8pm The After Match Tim Robbins, Jennifer Aniston.

Impossible II MV 2000 Action 9pm Rugby League – 4:30 Danny Collins MLC 2014 International (Highlights) Adventure. 4:45 Mission – Comedy. Al Pacino, Annette Bening.

Kangaroos v Kiwis.

Impossible III MV 2006 Action 6:15 Unbroken MV 2014 Drama.

Adventure. 6:50 Run, Fat Boy, Run 9:30 Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson.

Cup Series (Highlights) Gobowling.

ML 2007 Comedy. 8:30 The Lord 8:30 Trainwreck 16LSC 2015 com 400.

Of The Rings – The Fellowship Comedy. Amy Schumer, 10:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Of The Ring PGV 2001 Fantasy.

Bill Hader. 10:40 The Exorcism (Highlights) Race Nine.

Of Molly Hartley 16VLSC 2015 11:30 Disclosure 16LS 1994 Drama. 11pm Fox Sports News Horror. Sarah Lind, Devon Sawa.

11:30 Cycling – Giro D’Italia MONDAY (Highlights) Stage Two. MONDAY 1:40 The Silence Of The Lambs 12:15 Premature 16VLS 2013 MONDAY – The Inside Story MC 2010 Comedy. John Karna, Katie Findlay.

Midnight InCycle Documentary. 3:10 Mission 1:50 Life Of Crime 16VLSC 2013 12:30 L Cycling – Giro D’Italia Crime. 3:30 Trainwreck 16LSC 2015 – Impossible MV 1996 Action.

Stage Three.

5am Mission – Impossible II MV Comedy. 5:35 Unbroken MV 2014 3:30 Football – Chelsea TV 2000 Action Adventure.

Drama.

Sunderland v Chelsea.

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world.

Noon Mythbusters 3 1:05 Shearing Gang PGR 3 First shear of the season is Parawa Station, and Pete has made a call to test some of the new shearers in town.

1:35 MasterChef Junior USA 3 The two best junior home cooks in America compete for the first prize of $100,000 and the MasterChef Junior US title.

2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Bondi Rescue 3 4pm Animal Airport 3 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Life Force 7pm Storage Wars 7:30 Antiques Roadshow 0 8:30 Forensics NZ AO 0 9:30 Elementary PGR Captain Gregson’s colleague from Narcotics asks Holmes to orchestrate the perfect theft inside the heavily armed compound of a drug-dealing biker gang. 0 10:30 Ross Kemp – Extreme Worlds AO 3 11:30 Top Gear USA PGR 3 Adam, Rut, and Tanner drive three of the best-selling electric cars to Michigan to determine which is best, and showcase some surprising features.

MAORI TV 10am Game Of Bros PGR 10:30 Media Take 11am Native Affairs 3 11:30 Marae Kai Masters 3 12:30 Play PGR 1:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 3 2:30 Poitukohu – Ng A Kura Tuarua 3:30 Rugby – French Top 14 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Tangata Taumata Rau PGR

THE BOX 6am Survivor – South Pacific PG 6:50 Survivor – South Pacific PG 7:40 Survivor – South Pacific PG 8:30 Survivor – South Pacific PG 9:20 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG 11:50 RBT MC 12:15 Raw MV 3pm Main Event MV 3:55 Smackdown MV 5:35 RBT MC 6pm Border Security PG 6:25 Call Of The Wildman PG 6:50 Combat Dealers PG 7:40 Covert Affairs MV When a fellow spy is taken hostage, Annie travels to Amsterdam to eliminate Khalid once and for all.

8:30 CSI – New York MV 9:25 CSI – New York MV 10:20 Crossing Lines MV 11:20 Covert Affairs MV

MONDAY

12:10 Smackdown MV 1:50 Main Event MV 2:40 Crossing Lines MV 3:30 CSI – New York MV 4:20 CSI – New York MV 5:10 Covert Affairs MV

SKY SPORT 1

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am Re-Think 9:25 The Hui 0 9:55 The Nation 0 10:50 Inside Story PGR 0 11:15 Arranged Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend 1pm Motorsport – Extreme 4x4 Challenge Part One. 1:30 Motorsport – V8 Utes Pukekohe – Round Three. 2:30 Motorsport – D1NZ Round Four – Part One. 3pm Motorsport – Rally New Zealand Whangarei – Round Two. 4pm Motorsport – New Zealand Touring Cars Pukekohe – Round Seven. 5pm Ice Road Truckers 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Avatar PGR 3 2009 Sci-fi Action. When a former Marine is thrown into hostilities on an alien planet as an Avatar, he finds himself between two worlds, and must fight for his survival and that of the indigenous people. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver. 0 10:05 Westside AO 3 0

6am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) 8am Rugby League – International (Highlights) 8:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 9am Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 10am Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 10:30 Golf – European Tour (Highlights) 11am Cricket – IPL (Highlights) 11:30 Cricket – IPL (Highlights) Noon Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 12:30 Golf – European Tour (Highlights) 1pm Sky Sport News NZ 1:30 Sky Sports UK News 2pm L Netball – ANZ Championship Swifts v Pulse. 4pm L Netball – ANZ Championship 6pm Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 6:30 Golf Central 7:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Swifts v Pulse. From Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney.

8pm Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Thunderbirds v Steel.

8:30 Rugby Nation 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Sharks v Hurricanes.

10pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Kings v Blues.

Midnight Rugby League – International (Highlights) Kangaroos v Kiwis. 12:30 Rugby League – Origin (Replay) City v Country . 2:30 The After Match 3:30 Fox Sports News 4am L UFC Fight Night Overeem v Arlovski.

SKY SPORT 2

DISCOVERY 6am Game Of Pawns M 6:30 Mythbusters PG Storm Chasing Myths. 7:30 Mythbusters PG Driven to Destruction. 8:30 Gold Rush PG 9:25 Treehouse Masters PG 10:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 11:15 You Have Been Warned PG 12:10 Mythbusters PG 1:05 Extreme Drug Smuggling M 2pm Gold Rush PG 2:55 Gold Rush PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Gold Rush PG 5:40 Railroad Alaska PG 6:35 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 7:30 Somali Pirate Takedown PG 8:30 Close Encounters PG 9pm Close Encounters PG 9:30 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman PG 10:30 Treehouse Masters PG 11:30 Mythbusters PG

MONDAY

12:30 You Have Been Warned PG 1:25 River Monsters PG 2:20 Auction Hunters PG 2:45 Game Of Pawns M 3:15 River Monsters PG 4:10 Survive That! M 5:05 Mythbusters PG

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MAX 21 OVERNIGHT MIN 12 Aged 67. Loved husband of Ash bur to Dianne. Father, father in law, MID CANTERBURY Geraldine n FUNERAL SERVICES Midnight Tonight grandfather and best mate of Tania, Gary (Cabbage), Ra n Galbraith’s provide choice!

Jack, and Josh Sheridan gitata We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors and Galbraith’s (Methven); and Belinda, celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering.

Steve, Latham, and Cooper provide choice!

We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs to Simpson (Brisbane).

TIMARU reflect their individuality - ask us how we can be of assistance to you and Call us on Messages to 175 Smithfield your family.

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308 and visit 3980 our new premises at Special thanks to Julia Ensoror call in 246 or callHavelock in andStreet visit and the team of District Nurses and the Ashburton our new premises at branch of the Cancer Society.

Eion McKinnon Rob Cope-Williams No flowers by request, 246 Havelock donations to the Ashburton Waimate Street Cancer Society would be Wind km/h Saturday, 7 May 2016 NZ Situation appreciated and may be leftOfficial Opening 18 Feb - 9am til 4pm less than 30 A front moves onto the south of the South Island at the service. A service to IN MEMORIAM fine mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers celebrate Neil’s life will be overnight tomorrow and becomes slow moving. On fine showers clearing showers held at the Sinclair Centre, 30 to 59 Tuesday, a strong northerly flow spreads over the Park Street, Ashburton country ahead of a trough over the Tasman Sea. The on MONDAY, May 9, fog isolated snow sleet thunder rain snow hail 60 plus trough moves east across most of the country on commencing at 2.30pm, thunder flurries followed by private cremation Wednesday. at the Ashburton McEVEDY, Wayne – overnight Crematorium.

Canterbury Plains NZ Today Canterbury High Country max low 4.9.73 - 7.5.10 Paterson’s Funeral Services “I think of you Auckland showers 22 12 TODAY TODAY FZL: 3000m FDANZ Ashburton every single day.

Mostly cloudy about the divide, but sunny Ph 307 7433 I see reminders of you Mostly sunny. Light winds.

Hamilton fine 21 10 every single day. elsewhere. Wind at 1000m: S 30 km/h dying CHISNALL, Brett Alexander – And every single day, TOMORROW out. Wind at 2000m: S 35 km/h dying out.

Napier fine 22 10 18.05.1967 - 01.05.2016, at I smile and thank you, Christchurch Public Hospital.

Mostly sunny. Northerly breezes.

TOMORROW FZL: Above 3000m for having been Palmerston North fine 20 11 Much loved youngest son of a part of my life.

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Chris and Des and brother of MONDAY Love you. Miss you.

Wellington fine 18 12 Wind ind at 2000m: NW W 35 km/h Ross. Messages to P O Box Thank you.”

1, Hinds 7747. At Brett’s Remembered always with High cloud increasing, and a few spots of Nelson fine 20 10 MONDAY request a private family love, Sharon. xxx rain developing. A brief early southerly Rain spreading N about the divide, some service has been held.

Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka & Surrounding Districts since 1905

GRANT – Charley Grace Grant born April 14, 2016 at Ashburton.

6lb 7oz. A daughter for Andy and Tam and sister for Zara.

A big thank you to Sandra, Biddy and staff at Ashburton Maternity.

ENGAGEMENTS

THOMAS - BAWDEN – and Shirley Murray (Ashburton), Georgina, David and Megan (Whangarei) are delighted to announce the engagement of Laura Thomas and James Bawden.

Love and best wishes to the happy couple. Everybody is delighted, especially the grandparents.

DEATHS BURGESS, Constance Ellen (Connie) – Passed away peacefully at Ernest Rutherford Retirement Village on April 30 in her 93rd year. Loved mother of the late Maxwell Raymond Burgess, Aynslee and Mike McMillan, Rose and Lex Jocelyn. Loved nana of Sonya and Todd, Craig and Louise, Millie and Adam, Tig and Lauren. Loved great nana of Archie. In accordance with Connie’s wish’s a private cremation has been held.

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McASLAN, Beatrice Ada – On May 5, 2016 at Terrace View Retirement Village, Ashburton. Aged 96 years.

Loved wife of the late Vernon.

Step grandmother of the late Dave, and Mavis, the late Gerald, and Louisa and Richard and Lois and a loved stepmother. Messages to McAslan Family c/- P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. At Beatrice’s request a private cremation has been held.

TUESDAY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BOYD, Henry Thomas Mason – Sara, Stretch and Olivia wish to thank everyone for their help, kindness and support when Henry had his car accident. We are extremely grateful for all of the messages, cards, flowers, food, visits and continuing support. A special thanks to mum and dad (Bruce and Liz), Tania, Paula and their Paterson’s Funeral Services families. Olivia’s partner Rae and friends. Our friends and FDANZ Ashburton family. Words can’t express Ph 307 7433 CAIN, Marcia Jean – the thanks to Henry’s mates On May 4, 2016 at and friends, you are a Ashburton. Dearly loved Please note all late death fantastic group of people. A daughter of the late Leslie notices or notices sent John and Mary Cain. outside ordinary office hours huge thank you to our staff at Aorangi Motors and our Treasured and much loved must be emailed to: sister of Tyrone and loved by deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz customers. The crew at BR Jones Contracting. The all her extended family. to ensure publication. amazing support we received Messages to C/- P O Box During office hours notices from our Funeral Director, 472, Ashburton 7740. A may also be sent to: Katrina Mensen and service of farewell for Marcia classifieds@theguardian.co.nz Paterson’s Funeral Services. will be held at the Church of Thank you to Mark Hayward the Holy Name, Sealy Street, Any queries Ashburton on MONDAY, May please contact for helping to ensure Henry had a great farewell. Thank 9, commencing at 1.30pm.

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PAGE, Barry Arthur – Margaret and family would like to express their sincere thanks for the love and support they received following the sad loss of Barry. Special thanks to the staff at Rosebank and Dr Ryan. Please accept this as a personal note of thanks from us all.

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TUESDAY

High cloud and a few spots of rain.

Northerlies becoming strong and gusty and may rise to gale in exposed places.

Rain with heavy falls near the divide, scattered rain spreading elsewhere.

Gale or severe gale NW developing.

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A few spots of rain clearing and becoming fine. Strong gusty northerlies, possibly gale in exposed places, easing a little.

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Bad fishing

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ACROSS 1. Sounds like see forty changes in forethought as preparation for surgery (13) 9. Pompous bimbos act in a strange way (9) 10. Italian dough is beyond a conclusion (5) 11. Wind on such doublings as are returned (5) 12. Driving back, rigs never adapt to it (9) 13. Page in book one could apprehend losing hydrogen (8) 15. Sort of acid used in aspic, richly revealed (6) 18. Sorrowful old tour-leader tries to change (6) 20. One living in community house, half-German (8) 23. Agree mine should supply a collection of animals (9) 24. Rears around something like a saw (5) 25. Bread the mine gives thanks for (5) 26. It may have paid her to be associated with Eros (9) 27. One may popularly be in two minds about it (13)

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14. Well-known signature giving Hugo a part to play (9) 16. How great can a South American port be? (9) 17. One new, posh sort of bodega (4-4) 19. How could one ingest lights?

(7) 21. Sort of knot Igor and a Phrygian king made (7) 22. Substitute rates put out with an unknown quantity (6) 23. One may get ample sugar from it (5) 24. Range about to make the cattle loose (5)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across 1. Protagonist 8. Affluent 9. Gale 10. Testy 13. Emit 16. Pram 17. Disc 18. Loft 20. Padre 24. Airy 25. Black out 26. Spendthrift Down 2. Riff 3. Truce 4. Genet 5. Ingle 6. Caterpillar 7. Gesticulate 11. Scoop 12. Yield 14. Main 15. Calf 19. Thyme 21. Allot 22. Racer 23. Hoof QUICK Across 1. Bouncer 5. Bests 8. Moment of truth 9. Sin 10. Treasures 12. Odious 13. Grasps 15. Penetrate 16. One 18. Substantiated 20. Dread 21. Sugared Down 1. Bumps 2. Unmentionable 3. Construct 4. Rioted 5. Bit 6. Square shooter 7. Schisms 11. Shrieking 12. Opposed 14. Taunts 17. Ended 19. Tad

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You’re not randomly choosing moods. You’re working on a problem all of the time - even when you’re not aware of it. Be kind to yourself and allow feelings to inform you.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’ll come to a crossroads. Honestly, these two choices are not all that different from one another and may in fact lead to the same place. So don’t agonise; just choose.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Music is powerful. Share songs you love with people. And when the people you love aren’t demonstrating that in the way you’d prefer, the songs you love will bring joy and healing.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Humans are the only known animals who publish their words and broadcast ideas. To express yourself publicly is to exercise part of your humanity. You have a lot to say.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The project you’re tackling alone could die from neglect if you don’t run with it soon. Share your ideas, wants and needs with others: They’ll help you stay on track if you ask them.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): People who feel good about who they are generally don’t need a lot of validation from the outside world. Comfortable in your skin, you suspect that you’re doing great – but a compliment still makes your day.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You’ll be in the company of smart, aware people who enjoy the mystery of trying to get to know you and maybe even impress you a little. Bring your A-game.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): It takes courage to demonstrate affection. Whether or not you can return a person’s amorous feelings you’ll appreciate the risk this person took in sharing that with you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You’re not going anywhere until you want to. You can’t be pushed, persuaded or cajoled. You’ll be especially resistant to anyone trying to influence you who hasn’t taken the time to get to know you first.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Don’t try to keep the peace at your own expense. Martyrdom isn’t necessary either. Pause and step back. What do you want from this? That question will keep you from being a doormat or enabler in the situation.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Instead of demanding or even requesting life greet you in your preferred manner, accept what comes. To welcome the full spectrum of life is to live in wholeness.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Where there is sunshine there are shadows. If you run away in fear, they’ll always follow you. Stay and play with the shadow aspects of life and you’ll be quickly reminded of their illusive qualities.

OPEN HOMES

SATURDAY 7TH MAY 34 Tucker Street, Ashburton

9:30 - 10:00am

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30 Grey Street, Ashburton

9:30 - 10:00am

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27 Grey Street, Ashburton

9:45 - 10:15am

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9 Hillier Place, Ashburton CANCELLED

10:00 - 10:30am

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10 Houston Place, Ashburton

10:00 - 10:30am

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19 Coniston Drive, Ashburton

10:00 - 10:30am

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19 Russell Avenue, Ashburton

10:15 - 10:45am

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3 Thomson Street, Tinwald CANCELLED

10:15 - 10:45am

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12 Jane Street, Tinwald

10:15 - 10:45am

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12 Hanrahan Street, Ashburton CANCELLED

10:30 - 11:00am

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26 Suffolk Street, Ashburton

10:45 - 11:15am

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33 Churchill Avenue, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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58 Braebrook Drive, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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127 Cameron Street, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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71 Beach Road, Ashburton

11:15 - 11:45am

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5 Manse Place, Ashburton

11:30 - 12:00pm

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33 Johnstone Street, Tinwald

11:30 - 12:00pm

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37 Hanraham Street, Ashburton

11:45 - 12:15pm

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26 Mitchell Place, Ashburton

11:45 - 12:15pm

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15 Millichamp Street, Ashburton

12:00 - 12:30pm

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22 Buchanan Place, Ashburton

12:30 - 1:00pm

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14 Wakanui Road, Ashburton

1:00 - 1:30pm

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27 Grey Street, Ashburton

1:00 - 1:30pm

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27 Miller Avenue, Ashburton

1:00 - 1:30pm

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30 Catherwood Avenue, Ashburton

1:30 - 2:00pm

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25 Brucefield Avenue, Ashburton

1:45 - 2:15pm

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6 Millibrook Place, Tinwald

2:30 - 3:00pm

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11:00 - 11:30am

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110 Rolleston Street, Rakaia

12:30 - 1:00pm

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11A Main Street, Methven

2:00 - 2:30pm

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SUNDAY 8TH MAY 108 Smithfield Road, Ashburton

Ray White knows how to get you the best price for your property!

34 Tucker Street, Ashburton

- The ideal package for any age group - 3 ample bedrooms with built in wardrobes - separate bathroom, toilet & sizable laundry - freshly painted throughout - partial double glazing, heat pump & log fire For Sale $389,000 Open Home Saturday 9:30 - 10:00am rwashburton.co.nz/ AHB21175

25 Brucefield Avenue, Ashburton

Freshly Painted on the outside including the roof, this bungalow is available to move into NOW. - Open plan living - 3 Bedrooms - Enclosed porch area making more space For Sale Offers over $215,000 Open Home Saturday 1:45 - 2:15pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21194

33 Johnstone Street, Tinwald

- 3 bedrooms - Permanent material cladding - Separate lounge with compliant log burner - Near new kitchen with new dish washer For Sale Offers over $298,000 Open Home Saturday 11:30 - 12:00pm

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71 Beach Road, Ashburton

Transformed for Performance * 3 Double Bedrooms * New Kitchen with Open Plan Living * Renovated and Painted Throughout * Single Internal access Garage Close to Shops, Schools & Town This lovely home has been completely overhauled to be nearly as presentable now as it was when it was built.

It has been painted inside and out and a new kitchen installed with open plan layout to the living and dining areas.

The bathroom has also been renovated and new carpet has been laid throughout most of the house.

There are three good sized double bedrooms, all with good wardrobe space and decorated admirably.

33 Churchill Avenue, Ashburton

5 Bedrooms, simply gorgeous renovations Bath, shower, separate WC, separate laundry Underfloor heating (4 zones) plus Heat pump Lounge/Dining with Cathedral Ceilings opening to patio Double attached garage- internal access For Sale $387,000 Open Home Saturday 11:00 - 11:30am

rwashburton.co.nz/ AHB21195

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21188

12 Hanrahan Street, Ashburton

115A Creek Road, Ashburton

- Seperate Kitchen, Dining & Lounge Areas - 3 Double Bedrooms - Conservatory / Office - Double Garage with Auto Door

For Sale $340,000 rwashburton.co.nz/ AHB21144

- Private, sunny living, backing onto the park - Open plan with separate lounge and sunny deck - 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms - Double garage, hot mix drive

For Sale $265,000 Open Home Saturday 11:15 - 11:45am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21152 Armand van-der-Eik 021 597 527 armand.vandereik@raywhite.com Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

15 Millichamp Street, Ashburton

- Aluminium Windows - Insulated ceiling and underfloor - Open plan kitchen and living area - 2 Bedrooms PLUS Hobby room or office - Extra large double garage + ample off street parking For Sale $297,000 Open Home Saturday 12:00 - 12:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21192

15 Torbay Avenue, Lake Hood

Tender or sold prior

How does boating, fishing, jet ski-ing or relaxing just 30 metres from your doorstep sound? Lake access at the edge of your beautiful landscaped section with your own private jetty PLUS large BBQ Entertaining area which is sheltered and private yet overlooks the water.

For Sale POA

rwashburton.co.nz

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21176