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Rakaia Anglican minister Al Drye is a man with a broken heart.

He has had to make a decision to remain true to himself and to God, but it is a decision which has taken him out of the parish he loves.

Drye has tendered his resignation from the minister’s role, following a resolution by the church’s synod earlier this year to allow the blessing of same-sex relationships.

It is a decision which has divided parishioners nationwide, creating disillusionment among many who believe such blessings contradict the Bible.

Drye said it had certainly been a divisive issue within his parish, with those such as himself who can not support the decision, just quietly walking away.

“We don’t want to fight, it

doesn’t do anybody any good, and it certainly doesn’t do the name of Jesus any good,” he said.

Drye had been a member of the original synod considering the decision, and was among ministers resigning from this following the passing of the resolution.

The father of seven, who lives in the Rakaia area with his children and wife Naomi, will remain in the area.

It is a community he holds dear, one in which he has built up the Anglican parish, seeing its congregation double from when he began there threeand-a-half years ago. It is a community which he serves in other ways as well, including as a firefighter with the Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade and as a parent of children at Rakaia School.

His tenure at the Rakaia Anglican parish will cease on October 31 and upon leaving he plans to continue ministry in the area. The exact form this will take and what building he will use is yet to be decided.

But one thing is certain and that is that he will continue to deliver the teachings of God, according to the scriptures.

“I want to continue to reach out to Rakaia, its community, with the same message we think is of great value, for years to come.”

Rakaia Anglican Minister Al Drye has resigned from the church over same-sex relationships, but will continue ministry in the area.

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CBD upgrade huge undertaking

By Sue NewmaN

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The upgrade of Ashburton’s CBD will be a larger and far more complex project than the construction of the district’s new library and council administration headquarters, a staff member said.

Roading engineer Brian Fauth, who has been charged with leading the upgrade project, said the work will need to take place over several levels and that each of those levels was significant in its own right.

The project had many elements – water, sewerage, fibre, electricity as well as roading work and the many elements of landscaping, he said.

“We’re having to try and determine what those needs will be over the next 10 to 15 years and therefore what we’ll need in the CBD as a result. Going forward we have a concept of what we want to do in terms of road layout but now we need other experts to come on board.”

The council will shortly advertise for a designer to lead the project and co-ordinate all the activities and actions needed, Fauth said.

He likened the project to building a house and tying together all the elements needed from servic-

es to interior design and colour scheme.

“Decisions will have to be made on the things you want and where you want them and you’ll need to follow a particular theme. All this needs to be done so we can get on and start building.”

There was a four to five year time-frame on the upgrade project and this would be tied in to rebuild projects in the town centre, he said.

“We have to make certain the rebuild going on doesn’t damage or have an effect on all the

new work; we have to co-ordinate this.”

Options that are under consideration for the upgrade of Ashburton’s town centre include: gateway treatments at the four access areas, 30km/h speed limits, wider, more pedestrian friendly foot-

paths and one-way traffic with angle parking along one side each of Tancred and Burnett streets.

The current one hour free parking scheme monitored by smart parking domes on East Street will replace all metered parking spaces.

■ ROAD SAFETY

Testing drivers for drugs long overdue

By Sue NewmaN

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If action is not taken on drugged driver testing, New Zealand’s road toll will only go one way, and that’s up, AA member John Skevington said.

The Government is likely to vote down a private member’s bill on drugged driver testing and in doing so it will be doing the public a huge disservice, the past chair of the Canterbury-West Coast AA area said.

The bill had its first reading on

Wednesday night and the option of introducing random roadside saliva testing for drugs appears likely to be given the thumbs down by politicians.

While the government might say it was working on producing its own drugged driver measures, action had been promised for several years.

“What that means is high level discussions that’ll take five years.

This is just another way of stalling,” Skevington said.

Drug testing is already widely

used in a number of countries and since AA had started pushing for action in 2011, tests had become easier to administer and far less cumbersome, he said.

“We’re lagging way behind the rest of the world on drugged driver testing; this is becoming more and more prevalent on its own or in combination with alcohol.”

There was no logical justification to turn down the private member’s bill or to fail to take action on a testing regime, Skevington said.

While an under resourced police force might have made testing difficult in the past, the promise of a significant increase in police numbers meant the opportunity was there now to introduce drugged driver testing, he said.

Transport minister Phil Twyford’s statement that drug impairment on the country’s roads was a serious threat to life and limb of New Zealanders was heartening, but that needed to be followed through with action, Skevington said.

If the government was serious about the issue, it needed to spell out its own solutions today, he said.

In 2016 the Ministry of Transport recommended introducing a targeted saliva-based testing regime that would cost around $9 million annual and deliver an estimated $8 in savings from reduced crashes for every $1 spent.

Currently only a few hundred drug tests are done each year on drivers compared to millions of tests for alcohol.

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Poison drop protest Saturday Mid Canterbury residents concerned about a nearby aerial 1080 drop are among those joining peaceful protests across the country this Saturday.

Advocate groups across New Zealand are preparing to silently rally at Department of Conservation offices, local council buildings and 1080-producing factories, to share their issues with the pest-control poison.

In Ashburton, where residents have recently found issue with a planned 1080 aerial drop on 13,700 hectares of public conservation land in the upper tributaries of the Rakaia catchment, a group are planning to convoy to protests in both Rolleston and Christchurch.

Armed with signs and hazard suits, they plan to converge outside the Rolleston Pest Control Research Site, and then make their way to central Christchurch in the afternoon.

When contacted, organisers declined to comment further on their concerns, due to concerns

about the disparities between their factual evidence or that of DOC’s government funded “factual” evidence .

The Department of Conservation (DOC) announced late last month that they would be undertaking a pest control operation in the upper Wilberforce and Mathias valleys to reduce possum numbers and protect rare and significant native trees.

The plans have sparked concern from hunters, fishers, farmers and others who utilise the area that the poison will find its way into the Wilberforce and Mathias rivers, both of which feed the Rakaia River.

Protests around the country are designed to coincide with the completion of a Hikoi of a Poisoned Nation – two people walking the length of the North and South Island to protest 1080, which they say has no place in New Zealand.

There are more than 26 publicly advertised events planned around the country.

Kiwis caught in Japanese earthquake A New Zealander caught up in a powerful 6.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan said thoughts of Christchurch were charging through his mind.

The earthquake struck just hours after the Asian nation was battered by Typhoon Jebi.

Mark Bryan, managing director of VetSouth, was woken up by alarms at his hotel two minutes before the quake.

“Thoughts of Christchurch were charging through my head

and I know Japan’s had its share of earthquake activity so I was pretty keen to get outside into the middle of the street,” Bryan said.

Another New Zealander, Matthew Ebrey, who is in Sapporo, said there was a massive queue to get into a supermarket that has opened.

The earthquake’s epicentre was just 25km from the city of Chitose, where Hokkaido’s main airport is based.

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The number of students being stood down for bad behaviour has surged around the country, but Mid Canterbury’s schools are bucking the trend.

New figures from the Ministry of Education (MOE) have shown an increase in the number of stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsions at primary and secondary schools across New Zealand in 2017, prompting concerns that schools are at “breaking point,” when it comes to violence.

However, Mid Canterbury schools remain well below the national average across all four categories.

In 2017 Ashburton District recorded 3.1 suspensions per 1000 students, compared to a national average of 4.2. There were 18.5 stand-downs per 1000 students compared with a national average of 23.5. There was one exclusion

per 1000 students compared with a national average of 1.6 and zero expulsions per 1000, compared with a national average of 1.4.

Mid Canterbury Principals Association chairman Tim Kuipers said the three main reasons for stand-downs or suspensions were gross misconduct, continual disobedience and risk of serious harm to others.

Expulsions and exclusions are only actioned when other disciplinary action is unable to change behaviour, he said, or when an offence was serious enough that there is a “high chance of harm to others”.

Most stand-downs, suspensions and exclusions occur at ages 13-15 and male students are three times more likely to receive them than female students.

Kuipers said he did not know why Mid Canterbury had some of the lowest rates in the country.

Across New Zealand, standdowns increased by around 8

per cent last year – and physical assaults on other students and teachers accounted for 80 per cent of the increase.

Principals’ Federation president Whetu Cormick was among those to express concern with the figures, given that stand-downs and suspensions in the primary schools are often a last resort.

He said principals were being forced to stand down or exclude students because they were not getting the funds they needed to employ extra teacher aides, psychologists and other specialists.

And despite Mid Canterbury’s lower rates, Kuipers said he did feel the issue of violence was quite problematic.

“The issue of government support is always high on a principal’s agenda, especially when there are disruptive children,” he said.

“As principals we need to focus on working co-operatively with all agencies involved in a child’s life.”

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■ ASHBURTON BOROUGH SCHOOL

Student imagination runs riot at the art gallery

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The Ashburton Art Gallery is hosting its first school-age artists since moving to the new site in 2015.

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Around 480 Ashburton Borough School students can now claim to have exhibited their artwork in a gallery.

An array of “expression” themed pieces by Year 0-8 students has arrived at the Ashburton Art Gallery for a four-day, one-of-a-kind show.

Walls previously graced by some of the top artists in New Zealand are now hosting the works of some talented up-andcoming creators.

Public programmes co-ordinator Simone Barnsdale said the exhibition is the result of the gallery and school working together.

Students visited the gallery to source inspiration and have now contributed pieces in a range of mediums – from sculpture to painting, collage, mobiles and more.

Students have been working on the expression topic throughout this year and teacher Donna Topham had put in a “very special request” to the gallery, Barnsdale said.

“It’s an opportunity for the children to express themselves through art,” Topham said.

“Borough has always had a

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close relationship with the gallery, taking part in their free education service.

'There are the amazing staff

there who take classes … and it’s always exciting for students to see their work in a gallery.”

She said some students had

looked at expression through colour, and others had looked at the concept through form.

It was a great opportunity to be

able to celebrate students who had strengths in the arts, Topham said.

At its old site the gallery held regular school shows, but it was the first time the new building had played host to a school exhibit. Student and their families enjoyed an opening event on Tuesday night and the works will be on show until Sunday.

■ CHRISTMAS 2018

District to celebrate Christmas twice

By Sue NewmaN

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Christmas celebrations will come twice in Ashburton this year, in two events funded by ratepayers to the tune of $27,000.

After an absence of a year, the district’s well supported Christmas in the Park community event is back on the pre-Christmas agenda, but it will now join last year’s new festivity, Light up the Night run by the Ashburton District Council.

That event saw central Ashburton for the first time in years, take on a festive feel as a huge Christmas tree was installed in Baring Square east with its lights turned on during a family celebration.

The event attracted a very large turnout.

Yesterday at their finance and business support meeting councillors agreed that $22,000 should be set aside to fund the event again this year, but some councillors were unsure whether

there was room for two Christmas events in town.

“How can we do this to the advantage of both?” Diane Rawlinson said.

“Ours was a really good event last year; Christmas in the Park run by the churches was amazing. I think we should spend our money on Christmas in the Park,” said Mark Malcolm.

The council grants the community event $5000 each year, but the organisers refunded this

money last year when they decided it would not go ahead.

Neil Brown believed there was room for both events.

Staff were asked to brighten up the town last year and were given a budget to do so. What they did was come up with an event that had huge public support, he said.

“They did a top job of doing what we asked. The event was very successful and they want to do it again. I applaud staff for this.”

The council’s event came about because the community event was on hold, and rather than have two Christmas events, perhaps there was room for the council to do something at new year instead, Selwyn Price said.

Christmas in the Park is scheduled for December 8. A date has yet to be set for the council event and this year would determine whether or not Ashburton had the festive appetite for two festive events, Russell Ellis said.

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Characters were lured out of the pages and onto the courts during a fun Wednesday morning at Methven Primary School.

The annual book parade saw students combatting a chilly morning in style with capes, gowns and onesies, depicting much-loved characters from Where’s Wally to Batman, from wizards, princesses and even a blue crayon.

School literacy leader Rosie Robinson said the event was timed to precede International Literacy Day this Saturday.

Prizes were given out to the top costumes in each year group.

The school have also been celebrating Literacy Week with visits from Mount Hutt College principal John Shreurs and a local police officer, who both took time to read out loud to each class.

The theme of this year’s International Literacy Day is “’literacy and skills development”.

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Chch armed robbery A man armed with a knife sent customers and staff fleeing from a Thai restaurant when he burst in demanding cash. Detective Sergeant Craig Johnson of Canterbury police said they were now keen to hear from anyone who saw a man running from the Erawan Thai Restaurant about 6.45pm on Wednesday. People can contact Canterbury Police on 03 363 7400, or call Crimestoppers anonymously via 0800 555 111.

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Right (from left) – Charlie Judd, Cordell Keepa, Charlie King and Charlie Leitis co-ordinated their costumes for a book parade at Methven Primary School on Wednesday.

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Street signs around Ashburton are moving off power poles and onto their own designated metal posts. The change is being made ahead of the completion of EA Networks undergrounding project that will eventually see all power lines in Ashburton off poles and placed in underground channels.

Aluminium, rather than wooden, poles are being used as these are more robust and are less likely to be damaged or knocked down.

BY KATIE TODD

Ashburton’s housing market appears to be running on empty, with little growth in house prices over the past year.

House prices have shown little or no growth over the past few months and now sit at an average of $349,934.

Ashburton and Christchurch are the low spots on Quotable Value’s house price index released this week, with strong price growth in many parts of the South Island.

While prices are still modest, all areas of Du nedin

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and Invercargill have shown a significant increase in average sale price over the past year, with Invercargill up 13.3 per cent.

Queenstown Lakes, where the average price is now $1.161 million, is still showing growth, up 5.7 per cent for the year. Queenstown joins ten parts of Auckland where the average house price is now well over $1 million.

Ten areas in the North Island and eight in the South have average prices of less than $300,000.

The average house sale price in Buller is just $188,000.

The public is failing to use a complaints tool that could see a faster and better response by Ashburton District Council contractors, urban contracts engineer Hernando Marilla said.

Along with other local authorities, the council utilises the Snap, Send, Solve app that allows the public to notify it if people spot damage to roads, footpaths or evidence of vandalism.

And yet, of the 470 reports of roading issues in urban Ashburton this year, few have been made using the app, Marilla said.

The app works by identifying the location the photo is taken using the phone’s GPS data.

It then sends an email to the council from the user’s email address, including the incident type, notes, address of incident, photo and the user’s contact details.

The report is then allocated to the relevant council department.

The council encouraged the community to use the app, Marilla said, because it gave a specific location that could then be passed on to contractors.

Kiwi motorists deserve an explanation as to why petrol prices have hit another record high, the Automobile Association says.

Motorists were set for another price hike at the end of the month when the Government’s 3.5 cents per litre petrol excise duty rise would come into effect. Motorists would want a “please explain” from fuel companies, AA petrol spokesman Mark Stockdale said. The AA was picking prices to rise even further because the Government had announced the petrol tax hike of 3.5 cents, “and with tax we know it will go up by 4 cents by the end of September”.

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Trees lead to cannabis When 12 native trees disappeared from a Lower Hutt stream bed police went looking for them.

Police, with help from the public, traced the trees to a property in Wainuiomata. But not only did they find 10 of the allegedly stolen trees, they also discovered a large quantity of cannabis. Police have arrested and charged a 49-yearold man in relation to the theft, along with cultivating cannabis and possessing it for supply.

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Music booming at Methven college

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Mount Hutt College students are fanatical about music, so much so that the school has been running out of instruments.

“We have kids bursting at the seams trying to get into lessons,” said head of music Matthew Wood.

He is grateful to those who have come to the rescue, including two local families who have donated pianos.

A piano donated by Matthew and Annette Talbot and another donated by Nigel and Myriam Birt means the school now boasts six pianos in all and five practice rooms with pianos in them.

“This will provide enormous opportunity for the ever-growing numbers of students at our school learning musical instruments.”

Piano lessons have not only increased in demand, but also lessons for many other instruments, including clarinet, flute, saxophone, trumpet and tuba.

Others helping out have been the Ashburton Silver Band and Ashburton Intermediate School.

Students without their own instruments hire them from the college for the extracurricular classes, which are delivered by either itinerant or private tutors.

Wood is new to Mount Hutt College this year and has been pleased to see growing numbers of students taking up the lessons, resulting in a growing number of music groups at the school.

These include two choirs, a concert band, a jazz group, chamber music groups and rock bands.

Mount Hutt College pupil Annie Smith, 14, plays one of the college’s newly donated pianos, for fellow students (from left) Grace Leahy, 13, Olly Maw, 14, George Winfield-Clemens, 13, Teatukura Taimataora, 14, Georgia Blundell, 13, Andrew Ermio, 14, and Hannah Earl, 14.

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Slips, outages after quake Rescuers were rushing to unearth survivors and restore power yesterday after a powerful earthquake jolted Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, buckling roads, knocking homes off their foundations and causing entire hillsides to collapse.

Residents in Sapporo were shaken from their beds when the magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck southern Hokkaido at 3.08am. Video cameras showed cities going dark as the quake disabled power systems, leaving nearly 3 million households on the island without electricity.

The island’s only nuclear power plant, which was offline, switched to a backup generator to keep its spent fuel cool and nuclear regulators said there was no sign of abnormal radiation – a concern after a massive quake and tsunami in March 2011 that hit northeast Japan destroyed both external and backup power to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, causing meltdowns.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the quake’s epicentre was 40 kilometres deep.

But it still wreaked havoc across much of the relatively sparsely inhabited island.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference that seven people had been confirmed dead. The national broadcaster NHK put

Moore sues Cohen Of all the absurd antics on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime series Who is America? the most uncomfortable moment may have involved Roy Moore. Moore certainly wasn’t too happy about the July 29 episode that implied that he is a paedophile. Now, he is suing Cohen, CBS and Showtime for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and fraud.

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Residents watch a road damaged by an earthquake in Sapporo, Hokkaido, northern Japan. the number of people dead or “lacking vital signs” at eight – police only confirm deaths when victims are fully identified.

Rescuers were using small backhoes and shovels to sift through the tons of soil, rocks and timber in hopes of finding survivors in the town of Atsuma, where steep mountainsides collapsed, crushing homes and farm buildings and

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Disaster officials in Hokkaido said about 30 people were unaccounted for.

Airports and many roads on the island were closed and trains were idled by the power outages. NHK showed workers rushing to clean up shattered glass and reinstall ceiling panels that had tumbled down in the region’s biggest airport at

Chitose. Japan is used to dealing with disasters, but the last few months have brought a string of calamities. The quake came on the heels of a typhoon that lifted heavy trucks off their wheels and triggered heavy flooding in western Japan, leaving the main airport near Osaka and Kobe closed after a tanker rammed a bridge connecting the facility to the mainland.

- AP

■ NORTH KOREA

Repeat call for end-of-war declaration North Korea has reiterated its calls for the United States to agree to a declaration to formally end the Korean War, which it says President Donald Trump promised during his June summit with Kim Jong Un.

The column in the Rodong Sinmun newspaper yesterday also said the Trump administration must discard its “stubborn” stance that the North must denuclearise first before the United States agrees to a peace treaty.

The article says North Korea has shown “goodwill and generosity” through actions such as returning US war remains and dismantling a nuclear testing ground but that the United States has been failing to respond with correspond-

ing measures to improve relations.

The article came a day after a South Korean presidential delegation visited Pyongyang and set up an inter-Korean summit on September 18-20.

- AP

Staples at Rhythm & Vines Rhythm & Vines have released their first line-up announcement for the New Year’s festival with Californian rapper Vince Staples as the headline act. Performing on New Year’s Eve, Staples will help festival goers party away the three days at Gisborne’s Waiohika Estate. Joining him is Wilkinson Live, Tchami x Malaa and Flight Facilities. Electronica fans are in luck with Duke Dumont, Habstrakt, Sigma, SASASAS, Space Ibiza, Biceo Live and Javi Bora set to perform. Other international acts include Bob Moses, Whethan, Bontan, Set Mo, Foals DJ Set, Mija, Kink Live, Sonny Fodera and Peggy Gou.

■ INDIA

Court decriminalises homosexual acts In a historic verdict, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence in the country.

The ruling overturns a 2013 judgement that upheld a colonial-era law, known as section 377, under which gay sex is categorised as an “unnatural offence”.

It is one of the world’s oldest laws criminalising gay sex, and India has been reluctant to overturn it.

Campaigners outside the court cheered and some broke into tears as the ruling was handed down.

“Criminalising carnal inter-

course is irrational, arbitrary and manifestly unconstitutional,” Chief Justice Dipak Misra said while reading out his judgement.

India’s gay and transgender communities have fought long and hard to strike down section 377, which carried a 10-year jail term for those who engaged in what it termed “unnatural sex”.

Equal rights activists had argued that the very existence of such a law was proof of discrimination based on sexual orientation.

They frequently said that the law has been used to harass LGBT people.

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New look for VNZMAs Recorded Music New Zealand has announced a new direction for the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards, with a new programme, new award and new-look trophy. It’s about further celebrating “Aotearoa’s musicians and the wairua of the awards themselves,” said Recorded Music in a press release.

The awards this year will be hosted by singer Stan Walker and TV personality Kanoa Lloyd. “I’m so excited to be returning to host the awards again this year and really looking forward to hosting with my friend Kanoa,” said Walker.

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Happiness in Hinds 55 Rhodes Street, Hinds This two-bedroom cottage has had a makeover. With insulation in the ceiling and underfloor and a new heat pump, you will be cosy through winter.

The carpet, drapes and lino has been renewed throughout and the bathroom is new.

Fresh paint inside and out makes it fresh and inviting.

A separate sleepout/hobby room is also part of what is on offer.

Close to the primary school with a superb rural outlook – what a great start onto the property ladder.

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With names like kiss orange flame, sunshine and kiss rose, these guys are bold, bright and best of all blooming easy to grow.

Sometimes called the African daisy, gazanias have the same shape as the English (common) daisy. But their flowers are much larger (up to 10cm across) and come in vibrant colours like orange, red and pink.

They can grow to 30cm high and are best used for mass planting in garden beds, as ornamental ground cover and to edge lawns. They also look great in pots, tubs and window boxes.

The best thing about gazanias is they survive with almost no care. They’re very tolerant of poor, dry and sandy soil. Making them ideal for a house at the beach or areas that you don’t get around to watering much.

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Gazanias are super easy to plant. Simply dig a small hole and space each seedling 20cm apart. If you’re thinking of mass planting gazania (20 to 30 seedlings in an area), why not grab one of our bulk seedling bundles that come with 25 seedlings in them?

Although they are drought resistant you will get bigger and more flowers if you do water them. I always try to pinch off fading flowers with my fingers to encourage more to bloom.

In late winter or early spring, give your gazania plants a prune by cutting the foliage back to 5 to 10cm above the ground. You can do this with pruning shears (another reason why they are super easy to look after) and it will revive the plant and bring on new growth.

And now for a fun flower fact. Gazania flowers close up at night. Why? To reduce their risk of freezing. And if it’s cloudy the next day they won’t open fully.

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Chertsey 65 Maldon Street

Allenton 15 Primrose Place

A little bit of country

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An excellent first home or retirement paradise, this cute cottage has been an awesome project for its current owners but they are ready for their next step. Fully insulated with a compliant log burner you will be cosy in winter.

Asking Price $250,000 View by appointment Debbie Boon 027 448 4006 debbie.boon@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

"Primrose"

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Spec home of four bedrooms and an office, master has an ensuite and walk in robe. The living is open plan to dining and kitchen. Situated in a quiet cul-desac for your peaceful lifestyle. The owner will put in patio's or decking of your choice.

Asking Price $590,000 View Sat 10-10.30am or by appointment Mick Hydes 027 437 9696 mick.hydes@bayleys.co.nz

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Allenton Lot 1 138 Belt Road

Allenton 106 Creek Road

Great front townhouse

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Brand new townhouse build to modern standards with all the conveniences you would expect of a welldesigned home. Year round comfort is assured with double glazing, full insulation and permanent material construction.

Asking Price $439,000 View by appointment Mark Williams 027 442 2281 mark.williams@bayleys.co.nz Brad Wallis 022 350 2269

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Offers in the vicinity of $285,000

For Sale $285,000 View Sat 10.45-11.15am or by appointment Debbie Boon 027 448 4006 debbie.boon@bayleys.co.nz

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WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

Allenton 22 Cross Street 3

This three bedroom property is a must view. Loads of work has been done throughout making it a very stylish proposition indeed. An updated kitchen and bathroom, new log burner and heat pump.

Asking Price $379,000 View Sat 10-10.30am or by appointment Debbie Boon 027 448 4006 debbie.boon@bayleys.co.nz

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WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

Have a look behind the fence

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Renovated home in a great Allenton location.

What's not to like here? Fully renovated three bedroom home, open plan living and kitchen area with a separate laundry. The home is heated by an eco friendly log burner with an HRV system.

For Sale offers invited over $365,000 View Sat 10.45-11.15am or by appointment Mark Williams 027 442 2281 mark.williams@bayleys.co.nz Brad Wallis 022 350 2269

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Netherby 18 Mitchell Place

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WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

Ashburton 102 Cameron Street

Big is good

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A fantastic opportunity to purchase this spacious family home. With four bedrooms plus optional extra games room there is room for everyone.

Spacious family living with a compliant log burner to heat throughout.

For Sale offers invited over $419,000 View Sat 11.30am-12pm or by appointment Debbie Boon 027 448 4006 debbie.boon@bayleys.co.nz

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What a find

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Just go for it!

Whether this is your first home or an investment, take a look at this solid starter. Super tidy, clean and fresh, this is much more than a two bedroom home.

Allenton 34 Saunders Road

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A home with it all

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This is your opportunity to own a central Ashburton home, large in size and even bigger on features!

Close to everything, this home is moments from schools, shopping and the Domain. Four bedrooms and four living zones spread across two storeys.

Asking Price $568,000 View Sat 11.30am-12pm or by appointment Mark Williams 027 442 2281 mark.williams@bayleys.co.nz Brad Wallis 022 350 2269

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WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

Ashburton 283 Wills Street

Ashburton 2/356 Havelock Street

Easy living

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Don't miss this opportunity to purchase this immaculate townhouse so close to Ashburton CBD and amenities - an excellent buying opportunity. As neat as a pin inside and out. It's so easy to see how effortless your lifestyle would be.

Asking Price $455,000 View Sat 12.15-12.45pm or by appointment Debbie Boon 027 448 4006 debbie.boon@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

Convenience and value

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Boasting a desirable floor plan, sunny open plan living and spacious kitchen with storage galore you will find this immaculate townhouse meets modern living requirements. Two bedrooms plus a large spacious bathroom.

Asking Price $358,500 View Sat 1-1.30pm or by appointment Debbie Boon 027 448 4006 debbie.boon@bayleys.co.nz

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Ashburton 141A Kermode Street

Hampstead 47 Trevors Road

Neat, tidy and ready

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The two rear townhouses have sold - here is your chance to grab the coveted street-front spot! With views across Pioneer Park from your favourite lounge room chair, there is no doubt this tidy townhouse is in a premium position.

For Sale offers invited over $399,000 View Sat 10-10.30am or by appointment Mark Williams 027 442 2281 mark.williams@bayleys.co.nz Brad Wallis 022 350 2269

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WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

Tinwald 52 Carters Terrace

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More than the dream

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Often sought after but seldom found these days and larger than the old 1/4 acre lot at 1,563m2. Enjoys all day sun and would be ideal for young families or anyone else requiring a large section. On offer is a property so many buyers are looking for.

Asking Price $340,000 View Sat 10.45-11.15am or by appointment Mick Hydes 027 437 9696 mick.hydes@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

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Tinwald 12 Whiteoak Grove

Family friendly

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Perfectly positioned allowing natural light to pour through the dining and living areas, here you have a very warm and attractive space to enjoy that also flows to the large patio area which catches the sun.

Price by Negotiation View by appointment Debbie Boon 027 448 4006 debbie.boon@bayleys.co.nz

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Make your mark

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Westside Tinwald, easy access to town, quiet location. This subdivision is gaining momentum now with some quality homes established and more on the way. A fantastic opportunity to secure a generous 261m2 home on a midsize 747m2 section.

Asking Price $585,000 View by appointment Mick Hydes 027 437 9696 mick.hydes@bayleys.co.nz

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Elgin 67 Smithfield Road 4

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Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 4pm, Tue 25 Sep 2018 201 West St, Ashburton View Sun 1-1.45pm or by appointment Mike Preston 027 430 7041 mike.preston@bayleys.co.nz Austen Russell 027 441 7055 austen.russell@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Well-appointed lifestyle property • Sunny four bedroom, permanent material family home set on 1.34ha in an established garden setting • Open plan kitchen/dining and family room opening out to large paved terraces providing plenty of scope for outdoor entertaining • Fully insulated with efficient heat pump • Complemented by a three bay shed and fenced into three paddocks with sound stock proof fences

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1pm - 3pm Catholic Womens League Holy Name Pastoral Centre, Cnr Winter Street and Burnett Street.

Euchre evening, new players welcome (every Monday, excludes public holidays).

7.30pm

Mt Hutt Memorial Hall 160 Main Street, Methven.

NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and Hall of Memories.

10am

Every Saturday The Ashburton Toy Library 106 Victoria Street, in the Triangle.

Open for toy exchange.

9.30am - 12.30pm

Every Wednesday Art Addict Art Addicts (AA) is the Ashburton Art Gallery’s weekly art space for kids.

Wrap up your Wednesday school day and head to the AAG to get creative and explore themes in art.

A great space for children to learn and interact from each other. Children of all ages welcome. Adult supervision is require for young children.

Donations appreciated.

3 - 4.30pm

Ashburton Aviation Museum Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future.

10am - 3pm

Every Sunday to Friday

Mid Canterbury Line Dancers.

Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

Learn to line dance (7pm), beginners/ intermediate(8pm-9pm).

Instructor Annette phone

Ashburton Aviation Museum Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future.

September 8

Love Tennis 70 Oak Grove, Ashburton Come out and play with us at Tennis Mid-Canterbury’s Love Tennis regional open day.

Tennis clubs from Oxford to Ashburton are opening their doors in a fun, free event for people of all ages who would like to try out - or get back into - tennis. BBQ, Games, Prizes, Giveaways, Equipment supplied. Bring yourself or bring your family and find out all there is to love about tennis! Admission: Free. You could even win tickets to the ASB Classic in Auckland in January, including flights and accommodation.

St Paul’s Church Fair 65 Oxford Street Cakes and produce, plants, sausage sizzle, coffee & cake, garage sale/White Elephant, lucky number raffles, hand crafted greeting cards, children’s stall, face painting, bouncy castle & children’s entertainment 9am - 11am Turfbar BLUE DO! 35 Racecourse Road, Allentonn Fundraising for Prostate Cancer. Blue September!

There will be balloon popping, raffles, sport prizes and more.

Come and show your support and wear blue. We are aiming to raise $1000.00 for the month!

7pm - 11pm

1pm - 4pm

September 12

Te Reo Māori Community House, 44 Cass St During Māori Language Week TimeBank coordinator and Te

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7pm - 9pm Ashburton Scottish Country Dance Club.

Buffalo Hall, Cox Street.

Fitness Fun and Friendship.

7.30pm

Every Second Friday of the month In Colour, art and craft club In Colour is the Ashburton Art Gallery’s monthly programme for unleashing your creativity. Bring along your art and craft projects to share with others over morning tea once a month.

These are social sessions which encourage you to connect with others through creativity. Be inspired to learn a new creative pastime.

Sessions are free and all are welcome to attend. The gallery will supply basic colouring-in sheets and materials, along with tea and coffee. Those attending are encouraged to bring along their own materials and projects.

10.30am - 12 noon Reo Māori teacher Kate White will be happy to help you with basic Māori skills. Do you need help with pronunciation or introducing yourself? Or perhaps you just want to kōrero and practise what you know. Nau mai haere mai! For the complete beginner as well as those who know a bit but feel rusty. Cost for TimeBank Members: 1 Time Credit.

Cost for non- Members: $10.

Register on Eventbrite or by text 022 399 7301.

5.30pm -6.30pm

September 14

Guided Tour of the Universe Here’s a great chance to learn more about stars, planets and the wider universe. In this TimeBank Learning Exchange event, Alistair Perkins will give a presentation then help you use the telescopes at the observatory in Ashburton.

www.ateventcentre.co.nz Celtic Illusion

Adam McGrath and The Roaring Days

Due to a sell out 8pm show Celtic Illusion will put on another show at 5pm. Come and watch this explosive, creative Irish Dance and Grand Illusion force that is growing to be one of the biggest dance shows in the world.

Adult $79.90/Senior $74.90/Child $59.90/Family $269.90 (2 adults 2 kids from box office only) Group $74.90pp (10 or more)

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Adam is a folk singer stationed where ever he lands. Described by Radio NZ and the NZ Herald as a “National Treasure” he takes to his solo adventures with passion, love and humour.

Open Hat Night

Shrek Jnr – The Musical

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Cat in the Hat

Mid Canterbury’s Children’s Theatre.

Mid Canterbury Children’s Theatre are proud to bring you Shrek Jnr, with all your favourites characters including Donkey, Fiona, Lord Farquaad and many more. Come and enjoy this live stage show.

Tickets $20.00*

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5, 6, 7

Suitable for children 3-9 years Two board kids, one rainy day and one crazy cat wearing a redstriped hat. He will teach us how to make our own fun with nothing but a little imagination.

Adult/Child $27.50*- Family $25*pp (max 4 people) - Group of 10 or more $19.99* (1 free adult)

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Affordable Theatre made easy. Pay what you believe the show was worth following the show

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If it’s wet or cloudy the presentation part will still go ahead. Cost for TimeBank members: 2 Time Credits.

Cost for non-members: $20.

Numbers limited to 10 people, so register quick on Eventbrite or by text 022 399 7301.

7.30pm - 9.30pm

September 15

Celtic Illusion Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

Celtic Illusion is an explosive, creative Irish Dance and Grand Illusion force which is quickly growing to be one of the biggest dance shows in the world.

8pm Willowby Standing ¼ mile Sprint Long Beach Road, Tinwald The Kermit Challenge Cup is up for grabs - if you competed in the Motorkhana and Night Autocross as part of Wheels Week. Willowby Standing ¼ Mile Sprint. Sign posted from Farmers Corner Main Highway (South). Your vehicle must be up to warrantable standards Helmet, Overalls and Fire extinguisher. Documentation starting from 10.30am. Start 11am - Cost $60.00. Members of the public are able to compete if your car meets the required standards. Any questions please ring Shayne Adams on 027 2837735 11am - 7pm

September 16

Edible Garden Tour Spring is sprung, and it’s time to look at the garden now it’s waking up from winter. Julia and Kim are both keen and knowledgeable gardeners, and they are opening their gardens to us, showing what they do at this time of year. Join us for a fun and educational tour. One garden is in Netherby, one in Tinwald, the starting address will be given to those who register. Cost for TimeBank Members: 1.5 Time Credits.

Cost for non- Members: $15.

2pm - 3.30pm

September 17

Workshops for Migrants on Volunteering Racecourse Road, Allenton, Ashburton Workshops are aimed to attract and support new migrants into volunteering as well as providing opportunities to connect with community volunteer groups. Registration is essential and close mid day Thursday 13th September.

For more information and to register contact: Dellwyn Moylan Ph: 03 3081237 or volmidcant@gmail. com or http://tiny irk.com/ AshburtonMigrantWorkshops 1.30pm - 3.30pm or 7pm - 9pm

September 18

Suffrage 125 Celebrations Ashburton Museum Suffrage 125 Exhibition Opening. Public welcome.

Please register interest with Museum phone 307 7890 (numbers limited)

September 19

Suffrage Walk From Checker Board to Domain for Kate Shephard rose planting. Assemble on Checker Board 11.30am.

Recommend purple and white to be worn by all attendees. suffrage125@women.govt.nz

5.30pm

September 22

Adam McGrath & the Roaring Days – Arts On Tour NZ Ashburton Trust Event Centre, Open Hat Night Adam McGrath is a folk singer stationed where ever he lands.

On this tour he’ll be joined by a small but mighty rhythm section who promise to help drive McGrath’s songs and get the hearts beating against the chest.

7.30pm

September 23

Fight For Nikki - Variety Concert Ashburton College Auditorium A brave invisible diseases sufferer who needs our help to get to Cyprus for medical treatment. Eight fabulous acts.... Tainui Kuru, Liam Kennedy-Clarke, Charlotte and Brianna Sloper, Phoenix Chorus, Hamish Sloper, Samantha McArthur, ToPeace and Life Dance Academy. Please join us and our amazing acts, to keep you and the whole family entertained for a couple of hours. All in Nikki’s honour.

There will be live acts, spot prizes, raffles and more. Come help this beautiful lady’s life start again!

Tickets avalaible at The Ashburton Trust Event Centre Adults $25 - Children (under 12) $12 - Under 3 free but must sit on an adults knee 6.30pm

September 24

Boulevard Day East Street East Street 2018 marks nearly 40 years Mid Canterbury has been hosting this fun day, with over 100 stall holders from: local retailers, and small unique businesses operating in the Mid Canterbury area to others coming from all around New Zealand, you will be spoilt for choice. Entertainment for all ages with bouncy toys for the children and great music while you wander along our East Street. No entry fee, just come and soak up the Mid Canterbury experience and make a day of it with your friends and family and enjoy the beautiful country setting of our wonderful town!

9am - 3.30pm

September 26

Bite Nite 2.0 Baring Square, Ashburton Bite Nite 2.0 is going to slaaaaay! Get ready for some tasty treats, sweet sounds, and a whole lot of fun! We’ll unwrap some surprises shortly, but for now, tell your mates and save the date!

5.30pm - 8pm

September 29 & 30 The Extravaganza Fair Ashburton Domain, Walnut Avenue.

Welcome to Season 4 of New Zealand’s largest and newest travelling event!

The Extravaganza Fair! The Extravaganza Fair is a family affair, it is a free entry, fun day out with something for everyone.

9am

Ashton Family Circus & Dylan Daisy’s Magic Show Ashburton Domain, Walnut Ave. A gorgeous combination of

illusion, dance and humour with an unexpected twist. Miss Dylan Daisy’s Magic Show is sure to delight!!! Performing every weekend at The Extravaganza Fair. Performances throughout the day these family shows will charm and delight the young and old. From acrobats, dancing, performing ‘tigers’ and magic!

9am The Karl Austin Experience Ashburton Domain, Walnut Ave Karl Austin is a comedic musician with a passionate talent. The multiinstrumentalist plays and utilizes several different instruments during performances including Piano, Guitar, Fife, Trombone, Trumpet, and Tin Whistle.

9am

October 5, 6 & 7

Shrek Jnr - The Musical Ashburton Trust Event Centre Mid Canterbury Children’s Theatre are proud to bring you Shrek Jnr, with all your favourites characters including Donkey, Fiona, Lord Farquaad and many more. Come and enjoy this live stage show.

Tickets $20.

Fri & Sat, 7pm - Sun, 2pm

October 7

Art and craft sale 53 Short Street, Ashburton Ashburton society of arts.

Table top sale of arts and crafts. In the car park at Short street studio come and buy something unique for yourself or someone you love. Stalls available $10 a table inside if raining. 0210516019 txt or call..

10am - 3pm

October 10

Dr Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat Ashburton Trust Event Centre Two bored kids. One rainy day.

And one crazy cat wearing a red-striped hat.

10am - 12.30pm

October 13

Jackson Holmes Salmon Run Rakaia Domain The choice is yours... 1/2 Marathon, Duathlon x2, Multisport, Run x2 and MTB event. The multisport and long duathlon will start at 9.30am with the other events staggered so the majority of competitors are finishing round the same time.

9.30am - 13.30pm Spring InDulgence 371 Racecourse Road, Allenton, Ashburton Enjoy a four-course meal created by Chantelle Quinn and the talented team at Twentyfour Catering Co. Wines from CharRees Vineyard, and entertainment from some of our most talented! Proceeds will go to the Maia Health Foundation.

Having the enhanced rooftop helipad on Christchurch Hospital is going to benefit so many Mid Canterbury people and families; it’s a cause worth supporting. Formal Attire, Complimentary Drink on arrival / Cash bar to follow (eftpos available) / Auction, Transportation at the end of the evening provided. $150 Per Person 6am - 8am

If you would like to see your upcoming event listed here, please contact Emma - email emma.j@theguardian.co.nz

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he Ducati Panigale V4 S has scooped the Bike of the Year award in this year’s coveted Auto Trader Best Bike Awards.

Now in its fifth year, the awards are bigger than ever, with Ducati beating off more contenders than previous years.

The Ducati Panigale V4 S was the undeniable favourite with judges unanimously voting for the Ducati.

The V4 also secured the title of Best Sports Bike.

Ducati was also nominated for best retro with the Scrambler 1100 and best middleweight with the Monster 821.

Auto Trader Guest Judge, Andrew Shim - best known as ‘Milky’ in the film and TV series – This is England – commented: “The Ducati V4S is by far the superior bike this year.

“I own a Ducati V4S (along with lots of their competitor’s bikes) and I can say first hand that Ducati haven’t just moved the goal posts with the V4 S, they’ve changed the game!”

Tim Maccabee, Managing Director of Ducati UK commented on the award: ‘ We are delighted to receive this distinguished award from Auto Trader, the Panigale V4

is a phenomenal bike and we are proud to see it get the recognition it deserves.”

Racer and all-round bike enthusiast, Andrew joined Phil West and Rob Morphet on this year’s panel, establishing a unique panel that borrows diverse talent from across the biking industry.

With 13 categories and 16 manufacturers, Auto Trader’s Best Bike Awards reveal the best machines on two wheels including, sportsbikes, cruisers, tourers, sports-tourers, retro, adventure, naked, middleweight and some of the smaller capacity categories.

Auto Trader’s Best Bike Awards aim to help every biker find their ideal motorcycle.

The judging panel rode thousands of miles to test over 36 models and compile the year’s list of the most impressive bikes on the market.

Reliability, running costs, appearance, practicality, performance and technical advancements were all considered by judges as they put together this well-informed list of winners.

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rom time to time stories bring back memories.

A story published back in June was illustrated with a picture of a magnificent 1929 Nash, which had been restored by then local gentleman Hans van Lith.

Several readers, including Anna Reith, made contact with us to say they remember Hans van Lith.

Anna and her late husband Alan Reith had business dealings with Hans van Lith and enjoyed getting to know him and his wife Ria. In his memoirs Alan referred to Hans as a brilliant engineer who could always solve difficult issues and often accurately calculate measurements in his head.

Likewise, Ian Mackenzie says Hans was a great designer, who developed an irrigation computer program which was way ahead of its time.

After retiring, the van Liths moved to Tauranga, and just as he had done while living here Hans got involved in various community activities.

The 1929 Nash was sold to a German buyer and Hans continued to indulge his passion for restoring cars, especially MGs. By taking up painting Hans found a new outlet for his creativity which saw him become a recognised artist and recipient of several prestigious art awards.

Hans’ use of various mediums was an indication of his talent and his wide range of subjects included his beloved MGs. He produced at least two memorable murals on Tauranga buildings.

Sadly Hans passed away in November 2011, after a very full and interesting life which included experiencing the German occupation of his native Holland.

Ria says Hans’ arrival in Christchurch in 1954 was a happy accident.

Hans van Lith intended to go to Canada in the 1950s, but somehow ended up in Ashburton.

Because he liked ice skating, Hans had intended to go to Canada, but somehow ended up here.

Anna Reith has kindly shared Han’s obituary, published in the Bay of Plenty Times, which interestingly features a photograph taken here in Ashburton by a Guardian photographer many years ago, and which we have reproduced.

The obituary mentioned Hans will be remembered by many people.

Which of course is so right, both up

there and down here.

And this of course proves it’s good when stories bring back memories and really great when people like Anna Reith share them with us.

When preparing these words there was a wonderful opportunity to speak with Annette Wakefield – one of Hans and Ria van Lith’s daughters – who lives in Tauranga.

Annette was quite intrigued when we made contact because just recently her

Hans van Lith was besotted with the legendary MG marque, and was at this MG rally just days before his death in 2011.

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sister Miriam, who lives in Australia, also heard memories of their dad in an unexpected place.

Miriam was a member of a group – which included local farmers Ian and Diana Mackenzie – who took a horse trek in Vanuatu.

They were delighted to make the connection and recall Hans, who had designed irrigation schemes for the Mackenzies.

It’s a small world!

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American as pumpkin pie S

ometimes a name keeps coming up, you may not have heard or thought of it for a while and then out of the blue it seems to pop up repeatedly.

This occurred recently when the name of the car which is as American as pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day kept coming to the fore.

Cadillac.

Elvis liked Cadillacs, so did other celebrities, and there were at least one hundred pink Cadillacs in the late Aretha Franklin’s funeral procession in Detroit.

This brought to mind a thought.

Where did the perhaps somewhat unusual name originate?

Was it like many other famous marques including Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge derived from the name of the person who started the now famous brand?

The answer is no.

The company wasn’t started by a Mr Cadillac, rather it was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company and named after a person with that name.

After a dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company along with several of his key business partners in March 1902.

Ford’s financial backers William

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Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland to appraise the plant and equipment in preparation for liquidating the company’s assets.

Instead, Leland persuaded the pair to continue manufacturing automobiles, and a new company called the Cadillac Automobile Company was established.

Pretty good decision!

The company was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who had founded Detroit in 1701.

Ironically Cadillac, which had its origins in a Henry Ford company, is now owned by General Motors.

Interestingly this research threw up another Cadillac fact and let’s face it there are plenty of those.

Purely by coincidence this investigation into the origins of the name occurred almost 116 years to the day since the Cadillac Company was established.

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he all-new Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio was named SUV of the Year 2018 by German car magazine Auto Zeitung.

The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio outperformed the most powerful SUV models of 11 other brands by virtue of its driving dynamics and handling properties.

The Quadrifoglio is the performance flagship of the Stelvio range and is powered by a 510 horsepower 2.9 V6 bi-turbo engine that can accelerate to 100km/h in just 3.8 seconds and reach a top speed of 283km/h.

The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio will complete the three-strong lineup, bringing world-class performance, state-of-the-art technologies, seductive

Italian flair and an exhilarating driving experience to the premium mid-size SUV segment.

The Stelvio Quadrifoglio also recently claimed the title of world’s fastest production SUV, setting a new benchmark lap time at Germany’s legendary Nürburgring: another achievement in the racing tradition of the Quadrifoglio and in over a century of Alfa Romeo history.

Brought to life by Alfa Romeo craftsmen at Cassino in Italy, the Stelvio has been on sale in Australia since March 20 and is testament to the brand’s perfect balance of engineering and emotion – creating a premium mid-size SUV for driving enthusiasts that stands out in one of the largest and fastest growing segments locally.

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he Concours of Elegance is celebrating another weekend of motoring royalty, welcoming well over 10,000 motoring enthusiasts and around 1000 incredible cars into the spectacular gardens of Hampton Court Palace. Best in Show was awarded to the Mercedes-Benz S-Type Barker ‘Boat Tail’, as voted for by the owners of the Main Concours cars.

More than sixty of the world’s rarest cars were parked in the spectacular Fountain Gardens of Hampton Court Palace vying for the honour of Best in Show, and the incredible Pullman Trophy.

The quality of the cars this year was so impressive that to even be invited to attend was a triumph. Among them was the Porsche 917K driven by Steve McQueen during filming for Le Mans and the last four-cylinder Ferrari built; the 500 TRC. The Best in Show-winning MercedesBenz S-Type Barker ‘Boat Tail’ is based on

Mercedes S-Type Boat Tail the 1927 Mercedes S-Type; one of the most powerful road-going automobiles in the world in period, developed as the perfect road-going, race capable car.

Originally owned by racing enthusiast and British Racing Drivers’ Club co-founder Earl Howe, this ‘Boat Tail’ car was fitted with a revolutionary body which incorporated a lightweight aerodynamic shell with unique aircraft-inspired aluminium side pods crafted by English coachbuilders Barker.

Over the years, the majority of Earl Howe’s unique specifications were all but lost, until a recent sympathetic restoration brought it back to its former glory.

For the first time at the Concours of Elegance, awards were also given out for different classes and eras.

Once more judged by the owners of the Main Concours cars, the winners included a fresh factory-restored Lamborghini Miura P400 S in the post-1970s class and a Maserati 300S driven to victory by Sir

Stirling Moss in the 1940s/’50s class.

The Royal Automobile Club also presented Katie Forrest with the Spirit of Motoring Award for her passion and flair in taking part in the Concours in her 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost ‘Taj Mahal’, affectionately nicknamed ‘Nellie’.

Outside of the main Concours of Elegance cars, nearly 1000 other models parked at Hampton Court Palace for the weekend, including a collection of Future Classics which crowned by the car that eventually won this class; the one-off Rolls-Royce Sweptail.

Also taking part in the feature were the one-of-seven Aston Martin V12 Vantage V600 and McLaren Senna #001.

Meanwhile, the Harry’s Garage display brought together the world’s fastest supersaloons, including the Ferrari-engined Lancia Thema 8.32, Jaguar XE SV PROJECT 8 and Aston Martin Rapide AMR. Also on display were some of the finest

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ew Mazda CX-3 defies its dimensions, packing even more style, value and power into the small SUV’s latest update.

Releasing in Australia at the end of August, New Mazda CX-3 has seen design, equipment and engine upgrades to enhance its timeless appeal and the elements that make it one of the most popular small SUVs in the segment.

On the exterior, a new front grille adopts bold horizontal lines to achieve a more assertive stance, while rear combination lamps on sTouring and Akari models have been refined to give a more premium and precise look.

On Maxx Sport and above, gloss black adorns the fog lamp bezels and side pillars, sharpening the detail of the areas around the window and highlighting the flowing, floating roofline.

Inside, New Mazda CX-3 has been given a substantial makeover with a revised centre console design accommodating the

examples from the UK’s most prestigious car clubs, as part of the RAC Club Trophy.

A panel of expert judges, including HRH Prince Michael of Kent, deemed an Alvis Speed 25 Drophead Coupe to be the best on display.

Nearly 80 historic Jaguars were on display, competing for the Jaguar Trophy.

A panel of judges overwhelmingly decided the car they would most want to take home, was an impeccable and highly original X120. The very early steel car has only covered 53,000 miles since new.

More than 60 Bentleys arrived in the gardens, ranging from the pre-war grand prix cars to some of Bentley’s very latest Continental models. A judging team of Bentley experts carefully assessed each and every model before deciding that the pre-1965 Bentley Trophy be awarded to a stunning S2 Saloon.

The post-1965 Trophy went to a 2000 Continental T. newly added Electric Parking Brake (EPB), now standard on all grades.

The change from a manual park brake to an electric one has meant the Command Controller has been relocated, moving forward for easier reach. A folding padded lid has also been fitted to the console box, doubling as a comfortable central armrest for driver and front seat passenger.

Urethane foam with a high-damping quality has been adopted for the front seat cushions to give greater ride comfort, and seat upholstery has been changed to full leather on the high grade models.

Combined with a host of SKYACTIV technology upgrades, including redesigned stepped egg profile combustion chamber, ultra-high piezo injectors, a new coolant control system and Natural Sound Smoother, the new engine boosts power to 85kW from 77kW at 4000rpm, while torque remains a high 270Nm delivered between 1600 and 2600rpm.

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Flying Kawasaki

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ames Hillier, riding for the JG Speedfit Kawasaki team, achieved two podium finishes at this years Isle of Man TT – a third place in the RST Superbike TT and another third in race two of the Supersport TT, despite challenging points throughout practice and race week.

The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is one of the most infamous road races on the calendar – a 37.73 mile circuit with 265 corners and speeds of up to 190mph.

The fastest riders will lap the course in under 17 minutes with average speeds of around 134mph.

It’s a dangerous event which requires the highest quality protection.

James Hillier is no stranger to the TT. Beginning his career at the mountain course in 2008, he has achieved 11 podiums and a first place finish in the 2013 lightweight TT. He knows the risks too, after a huge moment at one of the most dangerous corners on the circuit, Ballagarey, had him sideways at 150mph.

He chooses AGV and Dainese for this very reason: for the very best in protective headwear and clothing.

This year James wore an updated version of his custom AGV Pista GP R helmet, sporting an all new design and this years updated features.

“It was a last minute change, and whilst the general design remains the same, Starline – infamous for their distinct and strong designs – implemented the JH feature on the top which was something different and really stands out.

“I knew it was going to be good. “I really love the helmet – the paint scheme and colours work really well with the bike and sponsors we have.

“I’m pleased with it.”

“It’s quite a privilege for me to represent a brand like AGV and wear their iconic logo – they choose me to represent them and I do that to the best of my ability.

“Their products are proven with a great track record used by the best riders in the world.

“There is certainly no doubt in my mind whether to use them or not.

“For me, what helps is the consistency – I’ve never had any problems with them and they are worn by some of the best racers in the world.

“AGV are one of the best manufacturers making helmets today.”

The Pista GP R from AGV is the ultimate helmet for the track.

A shell made from 100 per cent carbon

is shaped to reduce interference with the racing suit and paired with the wind tunnel tested “biplano” spoiler, it has excellent aerodynamic performance and stability at high speed.

An included hydration system and MotoGP derived metal air vents add to the helmets quality touches, whilst interior stitching avoids sensitive areas for supreme comfort.

James completes his choice of race

wear with the riders D-Air race suit from Dainese.

The D-Air provides riders with Dainese’s most advanced protection yet, with suits that integrate inflatable zones controlled by computers that monitor a bikers orientation.

These zones inflate in the event of a fall to soften impacts to the body and reduce injury, but remain deflated during riding to maintain comfort and manoeuvrability.

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he brand with the Scorpion badge is introducing the new Abarth 595 range, which embodies the evolution of their most iconic model.

Two new colours have been introduced to the range, Adrenaline Green on the 595 Competizione and Trofeo, with Asphalt Grey available on the Turismo.

The new Record Monza Active exhaust is introduced as a standard feature on the 595 Competizione and Trofeo, featuring an active valve controlled by a Sport button.

When pressed, the Sport button opens the exhaust valve and the engine rumble becomes deeper and bolder.

The driver can choose a more composed engine sound or a tougher, sportier – and more traditionally Abarth – roar.

Available in a choice of hatchback or convertible, the new 595 range features four versions – 595, 595 Trofeo, 595 Turismo and 595 Competizione.

All Abarth 595 models come with a Euro 6D-Temp compliant 1.4 T-Jet engine with power levels ranging from 145hp to 180hp to satisfy all customer needs.

With attention to detail and advanced engineering, the 595 is a model capable of expressing the two personalities of the brand – performance and style.

Distinctive yet affordable, the 595 is Abarth’s entry-level model and offers all the standard equipment needed to deliver the thrilling driving pleasures typical of the brand with the Scorpion badge.

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OUR VIEW

Fairly giving both sides of a story S

ometimes even the best of intentions isn’t quite enough.

We’ve had a quite a lot of correspondence and conversation over the past few weeks around the proposed 1080 drop in the upper tributaries of the Rakaia catchment which is supposed to begin this weekend with a predrop in the area.

The issue of 1080 is a very contentious one in this country at the moment and peaceful protests over the course of the weekend will gain plenty of attention.

It’s been a tricky one for the

media to deal with due to the vague complexities of it all so the need to be able to tell both sides of the story is quite important to ensure the most important information is reaching the public.

In such cases where there are such strong feelings and emotions, it’s usually easy to tell both

sides of the story.

We can get as much information as we need from those who are in control of drops, that’s the easy part.

Getting the right information from those sitting on the other side of the fence, who are protesting and trying to get their side heard, isn’t as easy.

With knowledge of the peaceful protests around the country tomorrow, we set out to get comment from those at the forefront of those protests and the reception received could best be described as extremely frustrating.

What should have been a simple interview about the who, what, when, where and why, all of a sudden became a question of morals where reporters had their stance on the subject picked at before there was any inkling of questions being answered.

There’s a job that needs to be done and it needs to be done in a fair and unbiased manner. Something our editorial team strives to achieve every time they put pen to paper during an interview.

Unfortunately for the group organising this weekend’s protest at the domain, the behaviour and reaction to a request for

comment from a few of those in charge has meant the coverage that was initially hoped to have been given is nothing like what was intended.

But what we have been able to do, to the best of our abilities considering the circumstances, is give this significant event as much coverage as has been possible and over the course of a few stories at least, try to give both sides of the story.

This weekend’s event will take place no matter what and it’s now up to you, the public to decide whether you wish to be a part of the process, or not.

and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, meeting at Camp David, said the world had to act against Saddam Hussein, arguing that the Iraqi leader had defied the United Nations and reneged on promises to destroy weapons of mass destruction.

In 2007, Osama bin Laden appeared in a video for the first time in three years, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they wanted the war in Iraq to end.

Ten years ago: Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship. Mystery author Gregory Mcdonald died in Pulaski, Tenn., at age

71. Astroland, New York City’s world famous amusement park at Coney Island, closed after 46 years. Britney Spears won three MTV Video Music Awards, including video of the year for Piece of Me. Five years ago: Tony Abbott’s conservative Liberal-led party won a crushing victory in Australia against the centre-left Labor Party.

One year ago: One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Mexico struck off the country’s southern coast, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing at least 90 people.

Donald Trump Jr told a Senate panel that he did not collude

with Russia to hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Today’s birthdays: Jazz musician Sonny Rollins is 88.

Singer Gloria Gaynor is 75.

Singer Alfa Anderson is 72.

Actress Susan Blakely is 70. Rock musician Dennis Thompson is 70. Actress Julie Kavner is 68.

Rock singer Chrissie Hynde is 67.

Rock musician Benmont Tench is 65. Actor Corbin Bernsen is 64. Actor Michael Emerson is 64. Pianist Michael Feinstein is 62. Singer/songwriter Diane Warren is 62. Singer Margot Chapman is 61. Actress J. SmithCameron is 61. Actor W. Earl Brown is 55. Actor Toby Jones is 52. Actress-comedian Leslie

Jones is 51. Model-actress Angie Everhart is 49. Actress Diane Farr is 49. Country singer Butter is 48. Actress Monique Gabriela Curnen is 48. Actor Tom Everett Scott is 48. Rock musician Chad Sexton is 48. Actress Shannon Elizabeth is 45. Actor Oliver Hudson is 42. Actor Devon Sawa is 40. Actor JD Pardo is 39. Actor Benjamin Hollingsworth is 34.

Actress Alyssa Diaz is 33. Singermusician Wes Willis is 32. Actress Evan Rachel Wood is 31.

Thought for today: “Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.” — Walter Bagehot, English editor and economist (1826-1877).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Friday, September 7, the 250th day of 2018.

There are 115 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On September 7, 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War Two with the first air attack on London.

On this date: In 1901, the Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.

In 1927, American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an “image dissector” at his San Francisco laboratory.

In 1936, rock-and-roll legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.

In 1972, the International Olympic Committee banned Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett of the US from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of the StarSpangled Banner after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-metre run.

In 1977, the Panama Canal treaties, calling for the US to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos. Convicted Watergate conspirator G Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than four years.

In 1979, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) made its cable TV debut.

In 1987, the syndicated TV talk show Geraldo, hosted by Geraldo Rivera, began an 11-season run.

In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.

In 2001, Venus Williams and Serena Williams reached the finals of the US Open, defeating Jennifer Capriati and Martina Hingis respectively, becoming the first sisters to play for a Grand Slam championship in more than 100 years.

In 2002, President George W. Bush

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Finally! At last!

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fter years of waiting, hoping and emailing, we finally have Hokonui Mid Canterbury on iHeartRadio.

So now people with reception issues, like parts of Methven and most of Rakaia, will be able to listen to local radio online.

Former Ashburtonians will be able to catch up on local news.

Studio guests like the McDonald’s Young DJs will be able to share their radio experience with friends and family out of town and overseas.

Just about every week the young DJs are in the studio I get asked if we record the show or is it available online? Now I can answer yes.

The switch was flicked on Wednesday arvo and we were all go on Thursday morning.

It was the first time on air in a long time that I was feeling quite nervous. Bit weird as I had only really told a few family members that we were all go online.

I had my uncle, in Lexington, Virginia, reporting that it was beaming in loud and clear.

Wednesday, 3pm, afternoon and he’s soaking up the sun on a 34°C day and listening to me doing weather reports on a -2°C Thursday morning.

Hopefully we get a stack of people tuning in to it and the powers that be up north ask

themselves why they didn’t get the job done earlier.

Wednesday turned out to be a pretty good day.

On top of the iHeartRadio news was a really good date day with Manda.

Each Wednesday Maddison goes to Nana Sandra’s for the afternoon, until after dinner time, and we usually go out for lunch and often check out a movie.

We often do some shopping in town. It’s amazing how a wander around the big red shed

to kill some time, can result in $70 to pay at the checkout!

I normally hear, “How cute would Maddy look in this?”

This week’s date day was particularly expensive. But I can see the investment saving us money in the long run (insert Tui billboard here).

I have finally talked Mrs Hoops into joining me mountain biking, mainly because her brothers go too bloody fast for me now.

There is no point wasting

munity’s time to honour them.

There are several camps in the South Island, which were abandoned and are now saved and restored or in the process of being restored and protected as part of our history.

They are Arrowtown Chinese Camp, Shantytown Greymouth and the Lawrence Chinese Camp, of which I am the chairperson.

To save this camp, a charitable trust needs to be set up, with trustees who have a positive vision and the motivation to manage the camp so the wider community can benefit from.

There are many entities and trusts that provide funding, for projects like Allens Road. A conservation report is required, along with a concept plan and feasibility study.

This is the preparation work, which lays the foundations for a better outcome.

The new tourism buzz word is cultural and heritage tourism.

This type of tourism is growing rapidly, as travellers follow trails,

apps and guides of where to visit.

There is a Chinese heritage trail in the development stage, which will guide tourists around our cultural hot spots.

Think of the boost to the local economy, employment and the hospitality industry, if Allens Road was a cultural and heritage attraction.

Maybe councillor Brown could be the chair of an Allens Road Chinese Camp Charitable Trust and use his time and expertise to protect and restore the site.

Adrienne Shaw Lawrence Chinese Camp

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time online when buying a bike I reckon, buying secondhand on trademe is a risking business, and the two local bike shops will match or better most deals you come across on the net.

Plus they give you great face to face advice.

This time it was Paul at Skinner’s in Netherby who did us a deal too good to refuse.

Well, we had to christen the bike of course, so off we went to Lake Hood. A good choice I reckon as the river track on the other side would be a bit muddy I’m thinking.

Before long we’ll be too busy mountain biking all afternoon to worry about shopping.

Once we have bike pants, gloves, bike locks, a bike rack, bungee cords to hold the bikes on the bike rack, drink bottle holders, drink bottles …

One thing we don’t need is a rear red light as Mr Skinner kindly threw in a set of flashing dangling balls.

I was too scared to ask why.

Until next week, hoo roo Phill Hooper iHeartRadio announcer Phill Hooper is the breakfast host of Ashburton’s Hokonui radio station. The views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect the opinion of his employer or the Ashburton Guardian.

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YOUR VIEW Chinese Village I am writing in response to the letter from J and D Bruce, August 4.

I am disgusted to read such a letter, which shows no sensitivity to the Chinese people and the past.

I understand that Allens Road land was given to the Ashburton Council by the descendants’ family.

Yes, the buildings are in poor repair, however the integrity of the buildings can be restored and preserved.

The camp is a cultural and heritage site, this could be formalised by Heritage NZ, which provide more status.

There is a rich history about the former occupants, which could be lost forever, unless a charitable trust steps up to save the site from narrow minded people.

The camp, and its occupants, have contributed to the economy and community of Ashburton, over the years, now it is the com-

Daffodil Day Once again, the Cancer Society was overwhelmed by the support received from across the community for our annual Daffodil Day appeal.

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The funds raised from Daffodil Day will be used to support people affected by cancer and their families.

In the last year the Cancer Society’s Canterbury West Coast Division provided supportive care assistance for 1192 new referrals, provided more than $50,000 in welfare grants to people struggling with a cancer diagnosis.

Our 0800CANCER information service responded to 1635 telephone calls for assistance and almost 7000 publications, worth $24,000, were distributed free of charge.

Seven hundred and fifty eight people receiving cancer treatment stayed in our accommodation facilities, from throughout the South Island, which equated to 12,500 bed nights for the year.

Cancer Society volunteers transported patients to over 4000 oncology related appointments, in addition the Cancer Society’s Daffodil Shuttle undertook 15,000 patient transfers between

Christchurch Hospital and Daffodil House and Lodge.

Health promotion focused on helping to create momentum towards a Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025, 60 cafes are now totally Smokefree in the division.

Educating schools on the importance of sun safety also continues.

The Cancer Society contributed more than $288,000 to fund cancer research.

We particularly acknowledge the valuable contribution of the ANZ Bank as principal sponsor of Daffodil Day. We couldn’t have done it without the hundreds of people who collected on the day and helped in the lead-up to Daffodil Day. We can’t thank you enough for supporting the Cancer Society and raising awareness for the one-in-three people affected by cancer in New Zealand each year.

Thanks to your help there is hope.

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Checkouts’ days numbered?

If even self-serve checkouts are just too laborious for you, Woolworths in Australia may have the answer. It’s trialling some snazzy new tech that does away with the checkout altogether.

At its supermarket in the ritzy Sydney harbourside suburb of Double Bay, the retail giant is letting customers trial a new “scan and go” system.

If a success, it could spell the end for the checkout – self-service or otherwise – as customers put items straight into their bags.

It’s also a sign of the steadily diminishing role coins and notes are playing in the retail sector.

Woolies said the new way to pay could potentially “transform the shopping experience”.

From yesterday, several thousand shoppers already signed up to its loyalty programme were able to downland a special app to their phones.

The trial, which is only taking place at the one store, will mean customers can choose their products, scan the barcode through their phone and then directly drop the items into their bags. So, it’s bad news for baskets too.

Special weighing scales for fruit

and veg will display a barcode which can also be scanned and will then feed the correct price into the app.

When the shop is all done, customers will do one final scan at a terminal near the exit. The app will tot up the total and automatically subtract the amount from a linked card. There will be no need to go through a checkout at all.

The app has been developed

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customers simply wave their phone, which is connected to their payment card, in front of the register. But they still have to put their products through the till.

In July, a Woolies executive told news.com.au they were steadily shrinking the number of cash accepting checkouts in busy stores as customers’ embraced digital and card payments.

Woolworths’ Metro division managing director Steve Greentree said customers were moving away from physical money.

“In all of our city locations, people are just ambivalent to cash now. They just don’t use it so here (at the Woolworths Metro store on Sydney’s Pitt St) we have three registers that take cash and that’s it; every other self-service is card only, so it’s tap and go or Apple Pay,” he said.

Cashless tills were safer, he said, because they weren’t targeted by thieves. With fewer moving parts, they were also less prone to breaking down and without having to store cash and coins, they took up less room. That meant more checkouts per store.

“They’re just much more efficient.”

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by the company’s in-house technological innovation division, dubbed WooliesX. Woolworths head of payments Paul Monnington said customers were pushing the company to make shopping more convenient.

“We believe smartphone technology and mobile payments have the potential to transform the shopping experience for our customers in the future.

“This trial is not only about testing new technology, it’s also about seeing how our customers and teams respond to a completely new style of shopping.”

Monnington was at pains to point out you could still pay the normal way at Double Bay. When the trial finishes up, he said the firm will “assess future options” such as a wider rollout.

Without a staff member checking purchases, one question will be how Woolies can prevent shifty customers walking out with goods they haven’t paid for.

The chain certainly isn’t the first in the world to try out scan and go technology. Amazon has opened a handful of so-called Amazon Go stores which use much the same technology that Woolworths is employing.

While China’s Alibaba already has a network of supermarkets called Hema where customers can scan their shopping and have it delivered within 30 minutes to their homes.

But Woolies reckons it’s the first in Australia to give the technology a whirl.

Already, Woolworths accepts payment by Apple Pay, whereby

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t was a rollercoaster for markets this week as heightened worries over international trade conflicts curbed investor appetite.

South Africa entered a recession for the first time in nine years, sparking fears over emerging markets. This sent investors flocking toward the safe haven US dollar, causing the New Zealand dollar to fall to its lowest since February 2016.

South Africa’s economic growth slowed unexpectedly in the second quarter, pushing the country into a recession for the first time since 2009. Gross domestic product fell by 0.7 per cent in the second quarter, missing expectations of a 0.6 per cent gain. The contraction was partly driven by a poor performance in the South African agricultural sector, which declined by 11 per cent after a major drought affected parts of the Western Cape earlier this year.

Back home, the Global Dairy Trade index dropped 0.7 per cent at its latest auction, marking a sixth decline out of the last seven auctions. The index is now at its lowest point since October 2016.

New Zealand key product group, whole milk powder fell 2.2 per cent, while skim milk powder gained 2.2 per cent. The most dramatic moves at the auction saw cheddar gain 4.2 per cent, rennet casein rise 3.7 per cent, while butter declined by 2.8 per cent.

After reaching record highs last week, Fisher & Paykel Heathcare dragged on the index this week after it said it will contest patent infringement allegations made against it by ResMed in the US. ResMed is seeking an order that could prevent FPH selling its Eson and Simplu range of

Jeremy Flood ON THE MARKETS

face masks (used to treat obstructive sleep apnea) into the US. The company downgraded NPAT guidance to $205m to $210m, after previous guidance of $215m, due to the legal costs expected to be incurred.

Across the ditch, the Australian economy expanded by 0.9 per cent for the quarter ending June, and up 3.4 per cent for the year.

The growth exceeded economists’ expectations for quarterly growth of 0.7 per cent and an annual improvement of 2.8 per cent. The annual growth rate marked the sharpest since September 2012, when the mining boom reached its peak.

Meanwhile, banking stocks had another turbulent week after fresh investigations into Australian financial institutions, have put investors on edge.

Australia’s superannuation regulator is opening fresh investigations into the sector, following revelations of widespread wrongdoings in the banking royal commission inquiry.

Additionally, Australia’s Westpac agreed to pay a $A35m fine after admitting to wrongly assessing people’s ability to repay mortgages.

The United States had a shortened week following a public holiday on Monday. However a sharp sell-off in tech pushed the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 lower on Wednesday after Twitter

CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testified in front of Congress, addressing online election meddling and how to stop abuse on social platforms.

Investors also braced for another round of trade negotiations between the US and Canada, following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments that the country would not bow to certain requests from the US. Emerging market shares also fell broadly as investors fretted over the dire state of the Argentine and Turkish economies.

Emerging markets have also been under pressure lately as the US Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy, which have partly boosted the dollar, and as the Trump administration takes a more protectionist approach to trade.

In company news, Nike dropped 3.2 per cent amid backlash over a campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback.

Amazon briefly hit $US1 trillion market cap on Tuesday, before falling off and leaving Apple as the only public listed company above the benchmark.

Amazon recently launched into the grocery industry with the purchase of Whole Food Markets as well as posting strong growth in its Amazon Web services.

Amazon’s share price has gained more than 70 per cent in 2018 and has more than doubled in the last 12 months.

Jeremy Flood works for Craigs Investment Partners.

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Millman’s US Open run over

Mid Canterbury Tennis coach Andre van Rooyen gives some tips to Bella Dawson during a coaching visit to Ashburton Borough School this week, ahead of the Mid Canterbury Tennis open day on Sunday.

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■ TENNIS

Chance to give tennis a go

By Erin TaskEr

Erin.t@thEguardian.co.nz

Love tennis? Then the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre will be the place to be this Sunday.

Mid Canterbury Tennis is hosting a free Love Tennis open day which will see the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre and the Dorie Tennis Club open their doors to showcase the sport to anyone who wants to give the sport a go.

And they’re not alone, with clubs around Canterbury doing the same thing on the same day, at the same time.

Mid Canterbury tennis coach Andre van Rooyen said it was the first year Canterbury Tennis had held the Love Tennis open days

and he was expecting a big turnout in Ashburton.

The number of young kids taking up tennis had grown in recent years. Two years ago an open day attracted around 30 people, but last year’s event attracted double that.

Van Rooyen put that down partly to the fact he had been doing schools coaching at a couple of big local schools in the days leading up to it, and this year had turned out to be the same, with his schools coaching programme having taken him to Borough and Hampstead schools this week.

Van Rooyen said the aim of the open day was to show that tennis was for anyone, of any age,

and it was open to both kids and adults.

“For me, I’m excited because that’s the message that I’m trying to get out at the schools too, that tennis is for everyone,” van Rooyen said.

The day would include fun games like tennis skittles, serving and longest rally competitions, and they’d have an inflatable tennis wall for kids to hit against.

A ball machine would be running and they were also planning a king of the court competition and a couple of short exhibition games between some of the district’s top open grade and youth players, van Rooyen said.

While the kids took part in the

fun and games, there would still be courts free to provide a free play zone for the older kids and adults.

“So everyone is welcome, it’s not just kids,” van Rooyen said.

People could bring a racket if they had one, but equipment would be supplied, at the open day which would run from 1pm until 4pm.

“Whether they come for half an hour or two hours, they can still enjoy the experience,” van Rooyen said.

There would be a barbecue running and giveaways and prizes.

For more information head online to www.midcanterburytennis.co.nz.

Nishikori seals historic US Open double Kei Nishikori looked around Arthur Ashe Stadium and noticed the crowd.

With Nishikori playing immediately after Naomi Osaka’s comfortable victory on Wednesday, the US Open became must-see viewing for Japanese tennis fans.

“It’s good to have, you know, home support outside of Japan,” he said. “Yeah, it’s great news we’re both in the semis.”

Historic news, actually.

Both players won – Nishikori narrowly – to give Japan a men’s and women’s semi-finalist at the same grand slam tournament for the first time.

Nishikori rallied to beat Marin Cilic 2-6 6-4 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 6-4 in a match that lasted four hours and eight minutes.

His next opponent on Friday is two-time champion Novak Djokovic, who dismissed unseeded Australian John Millman 6-3 6-4

6-4 to secure a place in the last four for the 11th-straight time at Flushing Meadows.

Djokovic said he was “very tested” in the nearly three-hour contest against the man who defeated Roger Federer in the previous round.

“It’s midnight now; credit to John for putting up a great battle. He’s truly a great fighter,” the Serbian sixth seed said.

After missing last year’s tour-

nament with a wrist injury, Nishikori has bounced back to the form that took him to world No.4 in March 2015.

Four years ago Cilic overpowered Nishikori in the US Open final but it’s the Japanese star that now has the chance to claim that elusive first grand slam.

“Especially after coming from injury,” he said.

“I think I’m enjoying this challenge.”

- AP

John Millman’s US Open odyssey is over following a sapping quarter-final loss to Serbian superstar Novak Djokovic yesterday.

Djokovic downed Millman 6-3 6-4 6-4 in a drama-charged war of attrition to end the unseeded Australian’s gallant run and reach his 11th semi-final in New York.

With Millman making headlines in Australia for his stirring fourth-round triumph over Roger Federer, even Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch were on hand to see what all the fuss was about.

The media moguls weren’t disappointed, passionately cheering Millman on from their front-row seats as the Aussie battler dragged Djokovic out of his comfort zone with some incredible retrieving on another steamy night at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Just like Federer two nights earlier against Millman, Djokovic looked in distress as Millman toiled valiantly to turn the match into a physical endurance test.

But the 13-times major winner’s class ultimately told, gaining a decisive break in each set to advance to a last-four meeting on Friday with rejuvenated 2014 runner-up Kei Nishikori.

Despite the straight-sets scoreline, Djokovic admitted he needed to dig deep to keep Millman at bay and eventually prevail after two hours and 49 minutes.

“I was struggling, he was struggling, we were all sweating,” Djokovic said.

“I was just trying to hang in there and try to find a way to win the match.

“But definitely it was not easy conditions to play in.”

“Full credit for John for putting up a great battle. He’s truly a great fighter.”

Millman indeed took the fight to the reigning Wimbledon champion in a showdown featuring the last two players to topple Federer this season.

Just as he did against Federer, Millman dropped the opening service game of the match to fall behind 3-0.

And as against Federer, that was enough to lose the first set after Djokovic benefited from a lucky net chord and then fought off a break point in the final game to serve the set out.

The two combatants received a standing ovation after one spectacular rally in the opening game of the second set, with even Sir Rupert rising from his seat.

The lung-busting rallies were appearing to take their toll on Djokovic.

Upon missing a gimme volley – after Millman retrieved a lob with some incredibly scrambling – and then pushing a return wide, Djokovic staggered back into position before tipping water over his head at the changeover.

After saving 11 of 12 break points, Millman wasn’t able to fend off a 13th as Djokovic delivered a hammer blow to snatch the second set and leave Millman facing tennis’s version of mission impossible.

- AAP

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In brief Primed for final Rookie South Sydney coach Anthony Seibold says he’s primed for his first NRL final after learning from the best in Melbourne’s master Craig Bellamy.

The Rabbitohs’ coach spent over a decade at various clubs around the world learning the coaching trade, but it’s the lessons he gained from three seasons under Bellamy that resonate the most ahead of tonight’s clash with the Storm at AAMI Park.

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Suncorp return ‘weird’ While no stranger to the venue, St George Illawarra’s Ben Hunt admits it will be very weird returning to Suncorp Stadium for Sunday’s NRL elimination final against Brisbane.

Yet the maligned halfback insisted he was unfazed by the prospect of playing at The Cauldron. All eyes will be on Hunt when the under fire No.7 runs out onto his former home ground for the first time since signing a $6 million Dragons deal. It remains to be seen how Hunt is received by the Broncos faithful when he runs out in the ‘red V’ for the knockout clash.

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Bulldogs hit with fine

Ashburton College’s Fotu Hala goes on the charge during his side’s win over Cashmere at the EA Networks Centre yesterday.

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■ TOURNAMENT WEEK

Boys kick off with a win

By Erin TaskEr

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Ashburton College’s senior boys’ basketball team started the Schick Southern Cup basketball tournament with a win at Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre yesterday morning.

The home side took on Cashmere High School in the opening game of the tournament, which formed part of the national secondary schools’ tournament week, and won 76-62 with Sam Pearce top scoring with 18 and Quinn Ritchie adding 16.

The side recovered well after a slow start where they trailed 11-2 early on and 23-17 at quarter time, going on to completely dominate in the second quarter, restricting Cashmere to a single basket and leading 39-25 at halftime.

Cashmere started the third quarter strong, but there was no panic from the Ashburton College boys and their zone press

caused problems for Cashmere as the lead extended to 67–42.

Cashmere finished strongly, but the margin was too much.

Ashburton College coach Brian Kerr said his side was caught off guard with Cashmere applying a full court man to man press early on and didn’t adapt well, but a timeout helped settled nerves.

“They were fast and pretty clinical as a whole. The zone press again worked really well for the most and it was a good first up display,” Kerr said.

Ashburton College headed into the tournament – for nonqualifiers for nationals – as firm favourites to take the title out and last night they were due to take on Logan Park in their second game.

Today they were set to play Kavanagh at 10.15am in their next game, and Hagley tonight in the 7pm game.

The school’s senior girls’ team was in Invercargill at the zone

four premiership and they finished day one with a 76-60 win over Avonside Girls, and a 76-71 loss to James Hargest.

Also in Invercargill, at the Linwood Tournament, Ashburton College’s boys’ football first XI took on Tairei yesterday afternoon in their final match of the tournament and went down 4-1, to finish 10th out of 21 teams.

Earlier in the day they picked up a 3-1 win against Dunedin’s Logan Park High School, with Nick Eden continuing his stellar tournament scoring all three of his side’s goals.

In Dunedin at the final day of the South Island Secondary Schools’ Netball Championships, Ashburton College started with a loss to Dunstan High School yesterday morning 4336, putting them into a play-off for 15th spot yesterday afternoon against Cashmere High School. They won that 34-21.

In the tournament’s C grade, Mount Hutt College played off

for third spot against Amuri yesterday afternoon, after losing their semi-final to Waimate High School 31-20.

In Timaru at the Audrey Timlin hockey tournament, Ashburton College’s girls’ first XI finally recorded a win on Wednesday night, beating James Hargest 3-2.

Goals to Tayla Love, Kate Donald and Kate O’Reilly gave Ashburton College a 3-2 lead at halftime, and they managed to keep a rough second half scoreless to secure the win which put them in fifth place in their pool.

That put them into a round robin with the bottom three teams, and last night they were due to take on Otago Girls’ High School, before playing James Hargest again today.

Back in Ashburton, at the Chris Arthur hockey tournament for girls’ second XIs, finals action was set to hit the Ashburton hockey turf today. The final was set down for 12.30pm.

Canterbury have been slugged with a record $250,000 fine for their Mad Monday saga after NRL CEO Todd Greenberg sought to draw a line in the sand over player misbehaviour. The Bulldogs were issued with a breach notice yesterday after images of players stripping naked and passing out on the street were published by media outlets on Tuesday. The club has five days to respond and could have their fine reduced. It’s the biggest fine the NRL has ever handed down for behavioural issues.

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Graham cops flak James Graham accepts criticism of St George Illawarra’s forward pack is warranted but insists the team’s poor form leading into the NRL finals will mean nothing against Brisbane. The Dragons received a boost before Sunday’s elimination final with star forward Jack de Belin off the crutches and out of a moon boot on Thursday. The NSW State of Origin lock didn’t train with the team as he races the clock to recover from an ankle injury but injured winger Jason Nightingale and five- eighth Gareth Widdop both did. Centre Euan Aitken also also ran through a series of shuttles as he attempts to overcome a hamstring injury. - AAP

Matildas in prime time The W-League has received a huge broadcasting boost, with weekly Thursday night matches to showcase Matildas stars through the summer. A Sydney derby on October 25 to kick off the season, a stand-alone AAMI Park Melbourne derby and 15 A-League doubleheaders were the highlights of the 2018/19 W-League draw release on yesterday. Melbourne City will start favourites to win their fourth consecutive title, in a grand final to be played on February 16 or 17.

But it’s the broadcast element that league chiefs hope will be the real game-changer for the national women’s football league.

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Pumas make changes for All Blacks Test

By Daniel Gilhooly

Richie Mo’unga has been given the nod ahead of Beauden Barrett to start against the Pumas on Saturday.

■ RUGBY

Mo’unga gets the nod Richie Mo’unga gives off a vibe that invokes a particular sense of confidence he’s going to deliver on his immense promise when he makes his first test start this weekend.

There’s a maturity to Mo’unga that sets him apart from his peers. He’s only recently turned 24, played just 15 minutes of test football and yet it’s so much easier to imagine him giving a commanding performance against Argentina in Nelson than it is to see him falling apart under the pressure of it all.

This young man seems to be blessed with not only a wider, finely honed set of physical skills, but also a different mental make-up to the other hopefuls who have been given their shot at stardom in the All Blacks’ No. 10 jersey.

Such has been the abundance of riches at first-five in recent times that many have probably forgotten how much drama used to be involved whenever the All Blacks had to test their depth at pivot.

If Dan Carter was ever injured back in the day, there was a dark mood about those who followed rugby and the fortunes of the national team.

Forgotten too, no doubt, is the difficulty even good players had

in initially finding their feet in such a demanding role. Aaron Cruden went on to become a 50test All Black and a world class operator, but his first start in Sydney 2010 was a bit of a horror show.

He’d had a few games off the bench that year, but his first time in the actual No. 10 jersey saw the wheels come flying off.

Colin Slade, another who went on to establish himself as a good All Black, made his debut at No. 10 off the bench that same night.

He was a little more composed than Cruden but when his turn to start came the following year, he was a similar bag of nerves and obvious flaws.

Even Beauden Barrett didn’t really convince in his first start at No. 10. That came in Napier 2014, against the Pumas, and while he’d been a super sub many times since 2012, he definitely wobbled a bit when he finally got into that coveted jersey.

He wobbled a few more times to be honest and as unbelievable as it is to think, it was to such an extent that he wasn’t actually the preferred successor to Carter when the great man retired from test football in 2015.

The only player in recent history who slipped into the No. 10 jersey and made it look effort-

less from day one is, of course, Carter.

And Mo’unga seems, mentally at least, to be a similar kind of beast. Last year his Crusaders coach Leon MacDonald made that very comparison ahead of the game against the Lions.

MacDonald, who had played a bit with Carter, saw Mo’unga in much the same mould – never flustered, never hurried and never one to dwell on his mistakes.

He also felt that commonality in mindset enabled Mo’unga to be a similarly astute decisionmaker and game manager.

And that’s so much of the battle for first-fives – it is not necessarily about being able to run, pass and kick – it is about knowing when to do it.

It’s that insight into the game which makes the best No. 10s stand out. Mo’unga is quick and agile, but he looks quicker than he is because he reacts to the opportunity before anyone else.

He has so much influence on Super Rugby games because he gets compounding value on his good decisions.

This was the key to Carter’s quick transition to test rugby – he had the temperament to trust his instincts and believe in his game management.

ALL BLACKS All Blacks v Pumas, Saturday, 7.35pm, Trafalgar Park, Nelson 15. Ben Smith 14. Nehe Milner-Skudder 13. Jack Goodhue 12. Ngani Laumape 11. Waisake Naholo 10. Richie Mo’unga 9. TJ Perenara 8. Kieran Read 7. Ardie Savea 6. Shannon Frizell 5. Scott Barrett 4. Brodie Retallick 3. Owen Franks 2. Codie Taylor 1. Karl Tu’inukuafe Reserves: Nathan Harris, Tim Perry, Ofa Tuungafasi, Sam Whitelock, Luke Whitelock, Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi , Damian McKenzie, Anton Lienert-Brown Starting a test at No. 10 is a big step up from steering the Crusaders through two successful championships, but he’s that same unhurried, calm character as Carter and that’s why Mo’unga is likely to make the same successful transition to the test arena.

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Argentina coach Mario Ledesma has been forced into a front row makeover for their Test against the All Blacks in Nelson.

There are four starting changes and a positional switch to the Pumas team who stunned South Africa 32-19 in Mendoza two weeks ago, when they notched just a fourth win in 35 Rugby Championship Tests.

Ledesma was forced to omit prop Juan Figallo, who impressed in both Tests against the Springboks but injured his knee when returning to club duty for Saracens in the English Premiership last week.

The 26-Test veteran will be sidelined for the remainder of the year with cruciate ligament damage.

Santiago Garcia Botta is introduced, pushing Jaguares teammate Nahuel Tetax Chaparro to the tighthead side.

All three front row reserves have been changed, including the recall of Leicester veteran Gaston Cortes, whose most recent Test was six years ago.

There is a return at halfback for 82-Test veteran Martin Landajo in place of Gonzalo Bertranou.

He links with experienced French-based five-eighth Nicolas Sanchez, who shone in Mendoza with a try and 17 points.

In straight bench swaps, inside centre Jeronimo de la Fuente replaces Bautista Ezcurra and flanker Tomas Lezana usurps Pablo Matero.

ARGENTINA: Emiliano Boffelli, Bautista Delguy, Matias Moroni, Jeronimo de la Fuente, Ramiro Moyano, Nicolas Sanchez, Martin Landajo, Javier Ortega Desio, Marcos Kremer, Tomas Lezana, Tomas Lavanini, Guido Petti, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, Agustin Creevy (capt), Santiago Garcia Botta. Res: Julian Montoya, Juan Pablo Zeiss, Gaston Cortez, Matias Alemanno, Pablo Matera, Tomas Cubelli, Bautista Ezcurra, Juan Cruz Mallia.

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■ RUGBY

Folau in; Foley dumped

By Vince rugari Israel Folau has been cleared to return for the Wallabies in Saturday night’s Rugby Championship clash with South Africa but Bernard Foley has been dropped to the bench in a major selection shock.

Folau missed the second Bledisloe Cup Test with an ankle injury but has been named to make his return at fullback, bumping Dane Haylett-Petty back out to the wing.

It’s a major boost to Australia’s hopes of victory but other parts of the backline have undergone significant alterations.

Coach Michael Cheika has benched chief playmaker Foley, handing Kurtley Beale the fiveeighth role and promoting Matt Toomua to inside centre.

Foley has started in his past 51 test appearances – all but five of them in the No.10 jersey.

Beale, meanwhile, hasn’t started in that position since 2014.

It means a new-look Wallabies outfit will take the field at Suncorp Stadium as they look to restore some pride against the Springboks following back-toback Bledisloe batterings.

Cheika has kept his forward pack largely intact but has

Bernard Foley has been dropped to the bench in a major selection shock. swapped second-rower Izack Rodda out for Rory Arnold.

That indicates David Pocock has been given the green light to play despite concerns over his neck.

There are, however, sweeping changes amongst the reserves.

Taniela Tupou has recovered from a hamstring issue and will come in for Sekope Kepu, while

the demotion of Rodda and Jack Maddocks to the bench means no room for Rob Simmons or Tom Banks in the team.

Nick Phipps (ribs) is also out, with Joe Powell the replacement halfback, and Ned Hanigan is in for flanker Pete Samu.

WALLABIES: Israel Folau, Dane Haylett-Petty, Reece Hodge, Matt Toomua, Marika

Koroibete, Kurtley Beale, Will Genia, David Pocock, Michael Hooper (captain), Lukhan Tui, Adam Coleman, Rory Arnold, Allan Alaalatoa, Tatafu Polota-Nau, Scott Sio. Reserves: Folau Faingaa, Tom Robertson, Taniela Tupou, Izack Rodda, Ned Hanigan, Joe Powell, Bernard Foley, Jack Maddocks.

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Springboks make six changes to lineup

By Murray Wenzel With next year’s World Cup firmly in mind, South African coach Rassie Erasmus has drastically shuffled his resources for Saturday’s Rugby Championship clash with the Wallabies in Brisbane.

The newly-installed director of rugby has made six changes to the side that lost 32-19 to Argentina last month, but stressed many had been planned regardless of that setback.

The Springboks will field a

new-look front row at Suncorp Stadium, with Bongi Mbonambi earning a start ahead of star hooker Malcolm Marx.

Erasmus has also reshuffled his loose trio and named experienced duo Damian de Allende and Jesse Kriel in a new midfield combination.

Captain Siya Kolisi returns to the No.6 jersey after playing on the opposite side of the scrum against the Pumas in Durban and Mendoza.

Pieter-Steph du Toit will start

in the No.7 jersey and Warren Whiteley completes the starting trio at No 8.

Elton Jantjies also swaps places with Handre Pollard to start at five-eighth while electric back Cheslin Kolbe is a chance of debuting off the bench after joining the squad from France.

“Even if we won that game (in Mendoza) we would’ve made a lot of changes,” Erasmus said on Thursday.

“There’s very few of these guys, including Malcolm, that

got a surprise they weren’t in the team.”

SPRINGBOKS: Willie le Roux, Makazole Mapimpi, Jesse Kriel, Damian de Allende, Aphiwe Dyantyi, Elton Jantjies, Faf de Klerk, Warren Whiteley, Pieter- Steph du Toit, Siya Kolisi (capt), Franco Mostert, Eben Etzebeth, Frans Malherbe, Bongi Mbonambi, Steven Kitshoff. Res: Malcolm Marx, Tendai Mtawarira, Wilco Louw, RG Snyman, Francois Louw, Embrose Papier, Handre Pollard, Cheslin Kolbe.

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RTS has yet to fully test his ankle Warriors captain Roger TuivasaSheck is yet to run on his injured ankle and will need to prove his fitness today before being cleared to play in Saturday’s sudden death NRL finals clash against Penrith.

The Kiwi international fullback walked freely through the departure gates at Auckland airport yesterday ahead of the Warriors flight to Sydney and showed no signs of the limp that he carried after suffering the injury in last week’s win over Canberra.

Assistant coach Andrew McFadden is confident the club’s Player of the Year will be right for their biggest game of the season but said a decision on Tuivasa-

Sheck’s availability would be made after today’s captains run at ANZ Stadium.

Retiring back-rower Simon Mannering completed light duties at training on Wednesday and is expected to be fit for his 301st appearance despite carrying a sternum injury.

“We’re hopeful. Roger hasn’t run yet but that’s just to give him the best chance physically,” said McFadden.

“He’s obviously played the majority of our games this year so he should be right and Simon had a good run yesterday so we’re hopeful.

“He’ll definitely have to have a run and that’s when we’ll get a real indication but he looks

pretty good.” However, with Tuivasa-Sheck yet to test how his ankle holds up, McFadden admitted there was a chance he could miss the Warriors first finals appearance in seven years.

The Stephen Kearney coached side are prepared for the worst however, with centre Peta Hiku ready to switch to the No. 1 role and bench utility Gerard Beale providing cover for the right edge.

“There is a chance [he might not play]. Obviously he’s got to be fit but we’re very hopeful,” he said.

“He’s worked around the clock and he’s very professional and the medical staff seem to think he’ll be fine.

“We’ve got Gerard Beale on the bench at the moment and Peta Hiku can just slot straight into that position if need be.

“We’ve got a bit of depth to us so if worst comes to worst we’ll be fine.”

The side was given a warm send-off by a number of the club’s front office staff who surprised the players as they made their way through the departure lounge.

“It’s a nice touch,” said McFadden. “No one knew that this was happening so it’s great the whole club has come out. It is very exciting. We’re all looking forward to getting to Sydney and having a red hot crack.

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The day All Black Frizell was told to ‘fight for your life’ Shannon Frizell’s Tongan mentor has recalled the moment four years ago when he told the rising All Black to “fight for your life”, that he had a chance to no longer be “poor”.

Prophetically, Frizell’s 2014 date with destiny came in Nelson where the gifted Highlanders loose forward will make his second test start against Argentina on Saturday night.

Father Filipe Seluini Akau’ola was in charge of a Marist Pacific Invitational team which was about to play the Tasman Mako under-19s.

Father Akau’ola seized the moment by calling his star player aside.

“While the boys started walking to go and change I saw the development team already warming up,” he told the Radio Sport Breakfast from Tonga, where Frizell was raised by his adopted family.

“I called Shannon back (and) I said to him ‘you know why we came’.

“He said ‘we came to play rugby’. I said ‘I brought you (on tour) because of tonight’s game ... look at these guys there, they have a life, the reason why we are here is because we are poor.

“I said ‘don’t play for me, play for yourself, remember it’s for your life’.

“Tonight if you want something for your life, tonight you fight for your life’. I said ‘can you do it?’ He said ‘yes I will’.”

School principal Akau’ola said Frizell was a small player, a first five-eighth, when he first met the youngster at Apifo’ou College in Nuku’alofa.

“I knew from his attitude, that’s what struck me, he wanted to give his all to what he does,” Akau’ola said.

“When Tasman took him, I told him there is no stopping him...the only way to stop is to get with the All Blacks.

“He said yes, but that’s the attitude of Shannon which I admired from school. He continued with that. I can’t say thank you enough to him for having that.”

Frizell’s New Zealand career began via a 2015 development contract with Tasman, and he signed with the Highlanders last year.

The 24-year-old’s blazing performance against the Blues at Eden Park in April, when he scored three tries and flamboyantly set up another, confirmed the dreams were becoming reality.

“That is what we intended for him but I didn’t know how far he would go ... it was more just to help him,” Akau’ola said.

“I said when Tasman took him ‘there is no stopping you going as far as you want’.”

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Friday, September 7, 2018 TRADES, SERVICES

LET OR LEASE Shed for lease at rear of working factory

Birthday Greetings Bella Verona Robertson

Happy Happy Birthday Our Miss Bella Verona. Enjoy your day- can’t believe you’re 11 already!! Big love & hugs xoxoxox, Nannie Vivvi, Snow Pop, Tennyson, Mo, Kinnear & Hayley xoxox.

• 240sqm • Gantry Crane • Access to forklift available • Large roller door and single person door access

Bella Robertson Have a really Happy 11th Birthday!

Lots of love Dad. xxoo

For more info call Nigel 027 22 22 940

HEALTH & BEAUTY SHELLY, Health massage.

9am to 9pm. Chinese girl, Ashburton. Phone 022 684 1692.

Tohu Harris

Warriors hope to defy NRL odds

By Scott Bailey Defying NRL expectations is what the Warriors have been doing for the best part of 15 years.

Be that for good, or bad.

Just ask the fans of the New Zealand club, who watched as arguably the best spine in the game won just seven matches last year to miss the finals for a sixth straight season.

External expectations for this year were then laid bare when former Kangaroos centre Ryan Girdler remarked in commentary during last year’s grand final that Melbourne star Tohu Harris would be playing in his last decider after he had signed to head across the Tasman.

The sledge infuriated Warriors fans, who watched their team defy the critics to sit in the NRL’s top four for the best part of the opening 15 rounds before finishing eighth to set up Saturday’s elimination final against Penrith “I vaguely remember that, “ Harris said, when reminded of Girdler’s comment this week.

“We probably have (proved critics wrong) but we’ve not really taken much notice of outside noise. That’s not our focus on why we perform.

“We just try and keep our thoughts and focus in what we need to do throughout

the week to play well.”

Few teams do the opening fortnight of the finals from the bottom of the eight as well as the Warriors.

Since their run to the grand final in 2002 from first place, the Warriors have won six of nine matches in the opening two weeks of a finals series.

All six of those victories have come as the lower-placed team, while the one time they’ve been the higher ranked outfit it ended in defeat.

So they find themselves in a familiar predicament against fifth-placed Penrith on Saturday – heading into a finals series they’ll have to contest entirely on the road.

But unlike the past – where the Warriors won just 19 of 68 games in Australia between 2012 and 2017 – they’re now confident away from home after recording their first winning record outside Auckland since 2010.

“I don’t think there should be any fear anyway,” Harris said.

“This time of the year isn’t something to fear, it’s something to be excited about and be excited to be a part of.

“When you look forward to things and you do it in a positive way I think you’re giving yourself a better chance to perform because that’s what this part of the year is about.”

- AAP

TRADES, SERVICES

Bella Robertson Happy Birthday to our Beautiful Bella.

Can’t believe you are already 11!!!

Big loves & hugs Mum & Damien. Xoxoxoxo

GARAGE SALES

DENTURES. Dr Peter Rumping, retired dentist, continues to provide full dentures. Repairs to existing dentures also available.

Phone 027 220 9997.

ST PAUL’S, Oxford Street, Ashburton. Garage sale / White Elephant stall at the Spring fair, Saturday, September 8, 9am - 11am.

Something for everyone.

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING - Vehicles-homesoffices. Phone Craig Rogers 307 6347 - 027 258 0884 or 0800 TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ. Check us out on FACEBOOK.

FOR SALE

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

DEADLINES - Ashburton FOR SALE Guardian RUN-ON MEADOW hay, good quality, classifieds close at 4.30pm, shed stored. $6 per bale.

DISPLAY classifieds close Phone 027 555 1123. at 2pm. Every week day, and on the day prior to insertion. Phone 03 307 7965.

EXCELLENT fundraising opportunity - free to hire.

Community fundraising BBQ situated at Mitre 10 Mega.

Visit our customer service counter today to book and for details. – Phone 308-5119.

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

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

STELLA - Asian lady, very sexy body, 34DD, busty, size 8, three days only. In/out calls. Phone 021 046 4314.

Advertise a Classified for only $10

MEETINGS, EVENTS

ASHBURTON Society of Arts Early Spring Show, Short Street Studio.

Opening Sunday, August 19, 10am 3pm.

Guest exhibitor, Florence Egasse plus 12 local members. A great selection of work for sale until September 16.

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

Enquiries phone 308 4533.

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.

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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.

Tick box for your classification

Daily Events FRIDAY

6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

6am BOOTCAMP. Catering for all levels of fitness. Walnut

SATURDAY

7.30am RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Rise and Shine Saturday runners meet at Frontrunner, 7.30am sharp. 28 Moore Street.

9am - 11pm ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Come to the fair. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm THE ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. Open for toy exchange, 106 Victoria Street in the Triangle.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main

September 7 & 8, 2018 Avenue Pavilion. Contact Georgia 0276888686 or Aleisha 0278489309 (not public holidays).

9.30am- 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH OP SHOP. Op Shop open, clothing donations welcome. Ashburton Baptist Church.

Cass Street.

10am 50+.

An interesting speaker. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

Street, Methven.

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10.30am ASHBURTON EMBROIDERS GUILD. Stitch and chat. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

12.45pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Opening day, new players welcome.

Members a plate please. Sales table.

Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

1pm MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 1pm registration, 1.30pm sharp start.

Fords Road, Tinwald.

1.30pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Afternoon Meet - Runners and Walkers.

Ashburton Domain Oval Pavilion (entrance off Philip Street). Visit our facebook page for more details.

7.30pm ASHBURTON MUSICAL CLUB. Concert “Spring Tunes” visitors welcome, $5 at the door. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

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

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): What is it called when an emoji shows up one way on one device and another way on a different device? Maybe there’s no name for it, but it’s an echo of what happens with real emotions today.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Games are no fun if they are too easy. Think of today’s challenge as a game, and suddenly the parts that might have once annoyed you now seem like simple problems to solve on your way to winning.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Everyone wears a mask with varying degrees of difference from the real face underneath. Today, you’ll be very good at guessing just how far off the mask is from the raw emotion it covers.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Of all the thoughts, the one that will be the most damaging follows along the lines of “if only I had...” You did what you did and you’re better for it. Believe that, and get back in the swing of things.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Your ambitions may be surprising to more experienced types who may tell you not to bother with certain goals. But they don’t know what you know – that your way hasn’t been tried and just might work.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’ll be drawn to passionately driven people and you like that you can tell in no uncertain terms what they want. The most successful people are the ones who help others get successful.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): People who change their minds will keep you on your toes. You’ll be driven to find out why. To understand what makes the emotional, social and intellectual tides turn is to have great power.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): There’s no such thing as true perceptions, all perception is subjective.

You’ll be well aware of the fantasy element at play in your expectations of others today, though you may not be able to control it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Will this problem still bother you tomorrow? What about next week? Next year? If the answer is “no,” then there’s really not a good reason to let it bother you now.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The work itself may not be difficult, but weirdly it’s the easiness that makes it hard. Staying focused is made difficult by tedium. Tedium is its own kind of burden. What if you made it harder?

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Work isn’t hard. You do what’s asked of you and anticipate what else might be asked. It’s something you learned long ago. Kindly show others this work ethic.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Just as water reflects what’s above and around it, you’ll reflect your influences in a distorted way. They will be all the more lovely for your generous interpretation.

ACROSS 1. It will hang around in the air near Brighton to the right (5) 4. Woman’s accessory, Margaret Thatcher’s weapon (7) 8. Where school gets pupils to seize people, a different rate applies (9,4) 10. Name letters used for a magic formula (5) 11. Guts may be twisted, suffering from wind (4) 12. Young dog with a tail like a butterfly-to-be (4) 16. Demand payment to be absolutely accurate (5) 17. Prisoners who try prisoners bound to reach a decision?

(8,5) 19. It supports climber still perhaps to be re-entered (7) 20. Take the oath as we turn to first respondent (5)

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4Double-crosser 5 5. Costs 6. Respond 7. Stammer 12.

6 Insipid 9 1 13. Shy away 14. Negated 15. Sever 17. Shyly 19. Ease

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ACROSS 7. Done by reflex (13) 8. Vision (8) 9. Not as great (4) 10. Captures (6) 12. Parentless child (6) 14. Possesses (3) 15. Fruit (6) 17. Choose not to participate (3,3) 19. Was aware of (4) 21. Goes on with (8) 23. Comprehension (13)

DOWN 1. Tendency to float (8) 2. Killjoy (colloq) (6) 3. Tart, spicy quality (4) 4. Musical genius (8) 5. Horse’s top speed (6) 6. Something positive (4) 11. Embarrassed (8) 13. Plentiful (8) 16. Ship’s cable (6) 18. Fashionable (6) 20. Not any (4) 22. Egg shaped (4)

Previous solution: euro, ore, our, out, outer, outré, ret, roe, rot, rote, roué, rout, route, rue, rut, toe, tor, tore, tour, true, ute.

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DOWN 1. Could teach to hold two court cards in riding coat (7,6) 2. Tax on Virginia tobacco initially (3) 3. A reworking of material has her upset (6) 4. Took notice of Ambassador, and changed deed (6) 5. The dead variety, of course, has lost its sting (6) 6. Bread, cube of which may be cooked out-of-doors (9) 7. Child of a child with a piano the guard put out (13) 9. Cheekiness? No: silence? Possibly (9) 13. How can it be Autumn that will happen to one? (6) 14. Is very well known of a sum that’s made of it (6) 15. Has in store something punishing from the past (6) 18. Habit starts, unless smoking ends (3)

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Family Notices 38 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

CANT, Geoffrey Ronald – Unexpectedly but peacefully at home on September 5, 2018, aged 72 years. Dearly loved husband, soulmate and friend of Shirley. Loved father of Anthony and Elena, and Malcolm and Kirrily. Dearly loved Granddad of Mayette, Sarah and Paul, Charlotte, Gabrielle, and Nathaniel, and great-grandad of Zak, and Ashton.

Will be sadly missed.

Geoff will be at home, 139a Harland Street, Tinwald TODAY Friday, September 7, 2018 and TOMORROW Saturday, September 8, 2018 for those that wish to pay their respects. No funeral service will be held.

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WALLINGTON, Ruth Beryl (Ruthie) – On September 6, 2018 passed away peacefully at Ashburton. Aged 89 years.

Dearly loved wife of Bernard.

Much loved Mum of Michael and Mary and Elaine and Bob. Loved “Big Nannie” of Marcus, Reece, Kris, Robert, Zoe and loved great grandmother of Lauren, Emily, Abagail, Ben, Sam, Charlotte, and Catelyn.

Messages to the Wallington family, c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to celebrate Ruthie’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on MONDAY, September 10, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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Wind at 2000m: Light winds.

Fine apart from areas of morning cloud.

Northeast breezes.

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10:28 The Dish PGR 10:30 Snapped 11:30 Babies Behind Bars PGR 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

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6:30 Kune’s Kitchen 0 6:40 Takaro Tribe 6:50 Peppa Pig 0 7am My Little Pony 3 0 7:25 Matt Hatter Chronicles 3 0 7:50 Thunderbirds Are Go! 3 0 8:15 The Lion Guard 3 0 8:35 Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Less Than Perfect PGR 3 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle PGR 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 2pm The New Adventures Of Old Christine 0 2:30 Home And Away 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Chuggington – Little Trainees 0 3:35 N Kirby Buckets 0 4pm Fanimals 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 The Simpsons PGR 0 8pm Little Big Shots 0 9pm Car Crash TV 0 9:30 Naked Attraction AO 0 10:25 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 10:55 2 Broke Girls PGR 0

11:25 Brooklyn Nine-Nine PGR 0 11:50 Happy Endings PGR 0 12:10 Less Than Perfect PGR 3 0 12:35 Infomercials 12:55 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:20 Infomercials 2:25 Dead Of Summer AO 3 3:10 Two And A Half Men AO 3 0 3:30 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 4:20 Judge Rinder PGR 5:10 Neighbours 3 0 5:35 Blossom 3

NCIS – New Orleans 7:30pm on Prime

SKY 5 6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 The Simpsons PG 6:50 Survivor – Blood v Water PG 8:30 Supergirl MVS 9:20 Border Security M 9:45 NCIS MV 10:40 CSI – Miami MV 11:35 Jeopardy!

PG Noon Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:30 NCIS MV 1:20 Hawaii Five-0 MV 2:10 NCIS MV 3pm Survivor – Blood v Water PG 4:45 The Simpsons PG 5:15 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:40 Border Security M 6:05 Supergirl MVS 7pm Hardcore Pawn PG 7:30 NCIS MV 8:30 Salvation MV 9:30 The Magicians 16VLSC 10:30 CSI – Miami MV 11:25 Supergirl MVS

SATURDAY

12:20 Survivor – Blood v Water PG 2am The Magicians 16VLSC 2:50 Salvation MV 3:35 CSI – Miami MV 4:20 Border Security M 4:45 NCIS MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

THREE

PRIME

MAORI

6am The AM Show 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:30 Entertainment Tonight 3 Noon Dr Phil AO 3 1pm M Seduced AO 2016 Thriller. A woman is conned by a man who uses online dating ads to rob women. Elisabeth Rohm, Jon Prescott. 0 3pm Celebrity Name Game PGR 3 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm Susie Nordqvist presents comprehensive coverage of global and local news.

4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm Family Feud Australia 5:30 Modern Family 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am Codename – Kids Next Door 3 6:25 Duck Dodgers 3 6:50 Kid v Kat 3 7:15 The Fairly Odd Parents 3 7:40 Danger Mouse 3 8:05 Sanjay And Craig 3 8:30 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky And Dawn 3 8:55 Tiki Tour 3 0 9:20 Jeopardy 3 9:50 The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 3 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Escape To The Country 3 12:40 Chicago Justice PGR 3 0 1:35 Mad About You PGR 3 2:05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 5pm Frasier 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm American Restoration 3 0 6:30 Pawn Stars 3 7pm The Project 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 8pm The Graham Norton Show 7:30 NCIS – New Orleans PGR 3 PGR 3 0 The team investigates 9pm 7 Days AO the crash of an armoured 9:45 Fail Army AO 0 transport bus carrying naval 10:15 NewsHub Late brig detainees; Pride turns 10:45 The Spinoff TV AO to Gibbs for help when an The Spinoff TV team dissects important case file is full of the week that was, covering redactions. 0 current affairs, pop culture, 8:30 Unforgotten AO 0 and media. Presented by Alex 10:30 The Late Show With Casey and Leonie Hayden.

Stephen Colbert PGR 11:15 Hawaii Five-0 AO 3 When a dangerous mafia boss from Grover’s old undercover days finds him down and seeks revenge, Grover must take his family on the run. 0 12:15 Infomercials

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

Midnight Closedown

6am The Home Show 7am Tiny House Hunting 7:30 Love Nature – Extreme Animal Babies 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Lose Weight For Good 10am Nadiya’s Food Adventure 10:30 Auctioneers And Dealers 11:30 Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey 12:30 From Russia To Iran 1:30 Chinese New Year – The Biggest Celebration On Earth 2:30 The Truth About Getting Fit 3:30 Love Nature – 10 Puppies And Us 4:30 Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course 5:30 American Restoration 6pm Shed And Buried 6:30 American Pickers

7pm Kawekorero 7:30 Experience PGR 8:30 M Young Adult AO 2011 Comedy Drama. A former prom queen turned youngadult novelist returns home to win back her high-school sweetheart.

Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt.

10:20 Te Kaea 3 2 10:50 This Week PGR

7:30 Down East Dickering With winter approaching, the dickerers see opportunities to make money on coldweather equipment; Clint must restore and sell an old Bombardier.

8:30 The Home Show 9:30 Flying Across Britain With Arthur Williams 10:30 American Restoration

11:20 Kawekorero 3 Inside news from at home and around the world.

11:50 Closedown

11pm Shed And Buried 11:30 Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course 12:30 Auction Kings 1am American Pickers 2am Love Nature – 10 Puppies And Us 3am Chinese New Year – The Biggest Celebration On Earth 4am The Home Show 5am Flying Across Britain With Arthur Williams

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS 6:35 What Women Want PGL 2000 Romantic Comedy.

Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt.

8:40 American Pie 2 16LS 2001 Comedy. Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth.

10:25 Unbreakable MV 2000 Thriller. Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson.

12:10 Whipped 16LS 2000 Comedy. Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt. 1:30 Scary Movie 16VLS 2000 Comedy Horror. Carmen Electra, Shannon Elizabeth, Marlon Wayans. 3pm What Women Want PGL 2000 Romantic Comedy.

Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt.

5:05 Gone Baby Gone 16VL 2007 Crime. Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris.

6:55 American Pie 3 – The Wedding 16LS 2003 Comedy.

Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan.

8:30 The Bourne Ultimatum MV 2007 Action. Jason Bourne comes out of hiding once again and uncovers some mysteries about his past, which puts him in the path of a superkiller. Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles.

10:30 Gran Torino 16VL 2009 Crime. Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang.

6am L Golf – PGA Tour BMW Championship – Round One. 10am Golf – European Tour (HLS) Omega European Masters – Round One. 10:30 Golf – Countdown To The Ryder Cup 11am Surfing – WSL (HLS) Women’s US Open.

Noon Fox Sports News 12:30 Sports News 1pm Cycling – La Vuelta (HLS) Vuelta a España – Stage 12.

1:30 Golf – Countdown To The Ryder Cup 2pm Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Round One – BMW Championship.

2:30 Golf Central 3:30 The Breakdown 4:30 The World Rugby Show 5pm Team Talk 5:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Otago v Northland.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

7:40 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Auckland v Tasman.

From Eden Park, Auckland.

9:45 Mainfreight Rugby Club matches from around New Zealand.

11pm The World Rugby Show 11:30 The Breakdown

12:25 Zookeeper PGL 2011 Comedy. Kevin James, Rosario Dawson. 2:10 Gone Baby Gone 16VL 2007 Crime.

4:05 Directors – Luc Besson PG 2016 Documentary.

4:35 The Bourne Ultimatum MV 2007 Action.

12:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Otago v Northland.

2:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Auckland v Tasman.

4:30 Mainfreight Rugby 5:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) BMW Championship – Round One.

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

CHOICE

6:30 Takaro Tribe 3 6:40 Nga Papara Kapi 3 7:10 Kia Mau 3 7:20 Potae Pai 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Pukana 2 7:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 Kawekorero 3 9am Whanau Living 9:30 Cam’s Kai 3 10am Angelo’s Outdoor Kitchen 3 10:30 Paki Vault 3 11am Aotearoa 3 Noon Toa – Toa O Aotearoa PGR 3 12:30 Find Me A Maori Bride PGR 3 1pm Haka Life PGR 3 1:30 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takaro Tribe 3 3:10 Nga Papara Kapi 3 3:40 Kia Mau 3 3:50 Potae Pai 3 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Pukana 3 2 4:20 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 4:30 Grid 3 5pm Tangaroa With Pio 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 6:30 Te Kaea 3 2

7:05 Lila And Eve 16VL 2015 Crime. Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis.

8:40 Good After Bad MLSC 2017 Drama. Maddie Hasson, Billy Burke.

10:20 Eloise 16VLC 2016 Horror. Chace Crawford, Eliza Dushku.

11:50 Wonder PGL 2017 Drama. Jacob Tremblay.

1:45 Lila And Eve 16VL 2015 Crime. Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis.

3:20 Good After Bad MLSC 2017 Drama. Maddie Hasson, Billy Burke.

5pm Dora’s Peace 16VL 2016 Thriller. Khabonina Qubeka, Danny Keogh.

6:25 La La Land ML 2016 Musical Comedy.

Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling.

8:30 T2 Trainspotting 16VLSC 2017 Crime. Twenty years have passed since Mark Renton betrayed his friends. On his return, he finds that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller.

10:30 The Birth Of A Nation 16VLC 2016 Drama. Nate Parker, Armie Hammer.

12:30 Holiday Joy PG 2017 Comedy. Bailee Madison, French Stewart. 2am La La Land ML 2016 Musical Comedy. Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling. 4:05 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 4:35 The Birth Of A Nation 16VLC 2016 Drama. Nate Parker, Armie Hammer.

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

SKY SPORT 2 6am The Kiwi League Show 6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Super 8s – Wigan Warriors v Wakefield Trinity. 9am League Life 9:30 The Late Show With Matty Johns 10:30 Sports News 11am The Kiwi League Show 11:30 L Rugby League – National Secondary School Development Final. 12:45 L Rugby League – National Secondary School Premier Final. 2pm #SkySpeed 2:30 Rugby League – Super League (RPL) Super 8s – Wigan Warriors v Wakefield Trinity.

4:30 Canoe Sprint World Championship (HLS) 5pm #SkySpeed 5:30 Cycling – La Vuelta (HLS) Stage 12. 6pm Cricket – CPL (HLS) Knight Riders v Amazon Warriors. 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Kiwi League Show 8pm The Late Show With Matty Johns 9pm L Rugby League – NRL Qualifying Final – Storm v Rabbitohs.

SATURDAY 12:15 The Professor’s Farewell Tour 1am Cricket – CPL (HLS) Knight Riders v Amazon Warriors. 2am L Cycling – La Vuelta Stage 13 – Candás Carreño to Valle de Sabero La Camperona. 4am Cricket – CPL (HLS) Knight Riders v Amazon Warriors. 5am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Qualifying Final – Storm v Rabbitohs.

5:30 The Kiwi League Show 7Sep18

DISCOVERY 6:35 Gold Rush PG Game Over. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG 9:10 Homestead Rescue PG Nevada Thirst.

10am Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10:50 Bering Sea Gold PG 11:40 Evil Lives Here M My Secret Nightmare.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M My Dearest Diary.

1:20 The Coroner – I Speak For The Dead M Traumatic Ending. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG Abandonment. 4:45 Cooper’s Treasure PG 5:40 Fast ‘n’ Loud M Demolition Theatre. 6:35 Garage Rehab – Revisited PG Return to Westside Hotrods.

7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 8:30 Weather Gone Viral M Run for Your Life. 9:25 Megatrains PG Australia – The Sugar Cane Train. 10:15 What On Earth? PG 11:05 Naked And Afraid M 11:55 The Coroner – I Speak For The Dead M SATURDAY 12:45 Murder Comes To Town M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Homestead Rescue PG 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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Heartland call-up

On Saturday Joel Leo was part of the Mid Canterbury A rugby side, but next week he’s in Taupo as part of the Heartland Under-19 side.

PHOTO TUPEA ELIA MATA’U

BY ERIN TASKER

ERIN.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

A young front-rower who plied his trade for the Celtic senior rugby side this year will next week run onto the field in Taupo as part of the Heartland Under-19 side.

When the Heartland team for the Jock Hobbs Memorial National Under-19 Tournament was named late last week, Ioelu (Joel) Leo’s name was there. And no one was more surprised than the 19-year-old himself.

He finished work at ANZCO and checked his phone to find a missed call. He rang the number back and discovered it was the Heartland under-19 team coach.

“I was like ‘for real?’. And he said ‘yeah, I’m ringing you with the good news’,” Leo said.

The Jock Hobbs tournament was a key calendar event for New Zealand’s emerging young rugby

talent and it would kick off at Owen Delany Park in Taupo on Sunday, and would feature a combined team selected from Heartland Championship provinces, coached by Horowhenua Kapiti’s Aleni Feagaiga.

It was the biggest opportunity of Leo’s career so far and he planned to make the most of it.

Like many young rugby players, his dream was to one to become a professional rugby player and he was working hard to go as far as he could, and keen to learn.

Leo came to New Zealand from Samoa with his parents and sister around six years ago and his family have been a tremendous support. Leo said his grandmother rang him from Samoa every Saturday morning with words of encouragement.

He attended Ashburton College and aside from a year playing for

the school’s first XV, he had played for Celtic since he arrived.

He’d represented Mid Canterbury through the age groups and this year was part of the Mid Canterbury A development side and, although he was nominated to play for New Zealand Marist this year, he didn’t make the cut.

He was disappointed to have missed out on that but was over the moon to have made the Heartland Under-19 team.

A hooker who is also capable of playing either propping position, Leo heads to Taupo not knowing how much of a role he’ll get to play in the tournament, but with games being televised he was determined to play to the best of his ability.

“I’ve just got to do my best and hopefully it will come through,” Leo said.

The side’s coach Feagaiga said

having a Heartland team encouraged young players to stay involved in the game beyond college and aspire to be part of the tournament, while giving them real opportunities to develop their game.

There were four players who were currently playing in the Heartland Championship included in the squad.

“It’s great that these guys can remain playing for their Heartland Union, but also be involved in a national set-up where they can stick their hand up for the New Zealand U20s team,” Feagaiga said.

While most teams had been together for a few weeks, the Heartland team would only get a couple of training runs before the tournament kicked off. Leo headed north yesterday to meet up with his team-mates.

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The tournament would run until September 15 and was part of a week-long event that saw the teams assemble on Saturday, and included development programmes for the players, parents, coaches and referees which were run on the non-game days.

There were also position specific workshops with Super Rugby coaches, as well as sessions focusing on player education and life skills.

The tournament would involve 16 teams and around 400 players, with one team from each of the Mitre 10 Cup provincial unions competing along with an Auckland development team and the combined Heartland team.

Auckland A and Counties Manukau headed into the tournament as defending champions of the Graham Mourie Cup and Michael Jones Trophy respectively.

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