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There will be no Muddy Good Run in Rakaia this year with the event shifted to Rangiora.

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BY ERIN TASKER

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There will be no Muddy Good Run in Rakaia this year after organisers decided to move the event to Rangiora.

Organiser John Moore said it was sad, given the event which saw people race across a muddy obstacle course originally started its life in Rakaia, but it had been time for a change.

The Muddy Good Run was first

held at the Rakaia Domain five years ago. A Christchurch event was then added, which had proven hugely popular, with around 1800 people taking part in the latest Christchurch instalment last month.

At its peak the Rakaia event attracted almost 900 people, but last year’s entries were slightly down, at around 700.

Moore said he’d always wanted to expand the event into other

centres around the South Island. After his company, CJM’s Events, had run one of their other events – the Bridge to Bridge – on the Waimakariri River someone asked him if they’d consider running a Muddy Good Run in the Waimakariri District, and the decision was made to move the Rakaia event to Rangiora, for now.

“We are not saying it’s not coming back (to Rakaia),” Moore said.

With five months to go before the event’s debut in Rangiora on September 30, entries were already going well with more than 200 people signed up, Moore said. ”At this stage it’s skyrocketing, so if people want to get entries in they need to be in quick.”

The Muddy Good Run had proven a popular event for all ages over the past five years. Of the 1800 people who took part in

last month’s Christchurch event, more than 1000 were children.

Ten days before that event was held, a new category was added, for children aged 4-6 to give it a go with their parents.

“It was absolutely priceless, it was just awesome. The wee dots and their parents doing it and crawling under cars and through mud pits, there was laughter and tears and everything,” Moore said.

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Fewer locals tying the knot

By Katie todd

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Marriage rates have dropped sharply around the country – and Ashburton’s no exception, says a popular local celebrant.

A new report from Statistics New Zealand reveals that marriage is less common than it was 25 years ago, and couples are also waiting until later in life to wed.

In 1992, the marriage rate was 18.3 couples per 1000 people eligible to marry (or form a civil union from 2005), but this fell to 10.9 couples in 2017.

The report found that the median age of marriage had risen from late 20s to early 30s.

In Ashburton, it definitely seemed as if people are putting other milestones ahead of marrying, said local celebrant Carol Gunn.

“At the weddings I’ve been to recently, it’s unusual to have a young couple,” she said.

“People are meeting, buying a house, having kids and only then some of them are thinking ‘let’s get married’.”

While decades ago marriage always came first for couples, it was more acceptable to do things in a different order these days, she said – with even the Prime Minister having a baby before marrying.

And with later in life weddings, she felt people were also spending less money.

“People have already got a mortgage and children, and they don’t want to spend thousands on a wedding.”

More often she was seeing

Bag limit jackpot - Hayden Roberts (left) and Simon Demaine, with son Jasper, exceeded their duck shooting expectations at Rakaia over opening weekend.

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Meanwhile, another local celebrant, Larraine McQuarters had also started offering “pop-up” wedding packages for sums as small as $3000.

She hoped that the concept would appeal to couples who wanted to wed with all of the emotion and none of the debt.

The Statistics New Zealand report also showed that fewer couples are getting divorced, and marriages which ended in divorce are lasting longer.

In 2017, there were 8001 divorces and the divorce rate (number of divorces per 1000 existing marriages) was 8.4. In 1992, 9114 couples were granted a divorce, and the divorce rate was 11.9.

Marriage and divorce rates are also decreasing in the United Kingdom and Australia.

■ DUCK SHOOTING

Huge success, tallies for shooters during opening weekend

By SuSan SandyS

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Mid Canterbury duck hunters hit their bag limits at opening weekend with an abundance of birds and good shooting conditions.

Hayden Roberts and friend Simon Demaine were shooting on an irrigation pond at a Rakaia farm on Saturday, and between them nabbed about 130 ducks.

This comprised the bag limit of 50 mallards each, and about 30 paradise ducks. Roberts returned with two friends on the Sunday and shot about 33 ducks between them.

“It certainly exceeded our expectations,” Roberts said.

He was now busy processing the ducks, and much of the product would be sent to a butcher to be made into sausages and salami. He and his wife and three children were

big fans of duck meat, and he would also be giving some away to friends.

He said he and two friends shot the same pond last year, but only got about 86 ducks for the whole weekend.

He said bird numbers were high this year, and there were many hunters out over the opening weekend.

“We could hear a lot of shots around us as well, which tends to keep the birds flying around,” Roberts said.

Central South Island Fish and Game officer Rhys Adams said population monitoring leading up to opening weekend showed an increase in birds compared to last year, when numbers were lower than normal.

And the weather conditions had been reasonable over the weekend,

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One group he came across shooting on the Rangitata River had done well, with three members each nabbing 30 mallards each over the two days.

Rangers focused on public land south of the Rangitata, and only one hunter was apprehended, for possession of lead shot within 20 metres of open water.

Adams said generally each year rangers will find about half a dozen offenders, so it was pleasing to have such a high compliance rate this year.

It was also pleasing to see hunters supporting rangers’ work and gun safety.

“We had a really good reception, all the hunters were really happy to see us and thanked us for coming to check on them,” Adams said.

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■ ASHBURTON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

Reminiscing about school years

By SuSan SandyS

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School memories from long ago are recalled regularly by a group of old friends who meet up each month.

They hark back to the days when boys were taught masculine occupations such as agriculture and trades, and girls learned about domestic tasks and office work.

The group members attended the Ashburton Technical High School, starting in 1945 when they were about 13.

One of the highlights they like to recall is the day World War Two ended.

Doreen Stalker remembers being in the commercial class, which was for those learning shorthand and typing, taught by Miss Parkin.

“It came over the loud speaker that the war had finished, and everybody yelled and clapped, and Miss Parkin said ‘Girls, girls, behave yourselves please’,” Stalker said.

The news had particularly come as a relief to those who had older brothers, cousins and other family members fighting overseas.

It also marked the end of the female pupils’ in-school war effort, of knitting items such as scarves and balaclavas for soldiers.

As well as recalling the rewarding task of knitting, group members remember the more unusual task they had one day of making bloomers.

The directive had come from their teacher in dressmaking class. She had been an older lady with proper tastes, and had sourced black Italian cloth for the assignment, which was the first of the year.

But despite the teacher’s best intentions, many of the bloomers did not end up being the girls’ favourite wardrobe item.

“Mine were so big that my mum used them for a lining for my brother’s trousers,” said one of the group members.

Assignment tasks were to improve, and Langdon remembers

Ashburton Technical High School domestic and commercial pupils from 1945 meet up regularly in Ashburton. They include (from left) Velma Langdon, Rosa Bennett, Doreen Stalker, Betty Wilson, Nicky Dunn, Molly Amos and Wilma Wolfreys.

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making a nice dress that she was able to wear on outings. While she had revelled in dressmaking class, learning many skills which she has used throughout her life, she had not really enjoyed cooking class, where students had to wear small caps, and a headband with their name on it.

However, her highlights of being at the school included having apples provided each morning tea, as well as a bottle of pasteurised milk.

Assemblies were at 9am each day, in the school hall, which still stands today as the Balmoral Hall.

The teachers and principal, Mr Crawford, would sit on the stage, and a student played the piano and a hymn was sung.

It was one of the few times that girls and boys were in the same room, the rest of the time it was a divided school, with boys undertaking their classes in one area and girls in another.

Girls attending the school were

separated into those studying domestic, which was for cooking and sewing, and commercial. For boys, they got to choose between agriculture or trades.

Boys and girls would also join together about twice each year for a school social.

In keeping with the times, the dress code at the school was strict. Panama hats had to always be worn going to and from school, and they were put on a peg in the corridor for the day.

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Stalker recalled that one day she and her friends took their hats off, as they hated wearing them.

“And the head prefect came around the corner, we had to put them back on quick smart,” she said.

Langdon said the group had been meeting for about 18 years, during which time she had only missed two of the gatherings.

“And I treasure it, and I’m sure everyone else does, I think it’s something very special,” she said.

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Gale force winds forecast

By SuSan SandyS

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Sweep up those autumn leaves, secure outdoor furniture, and be careful on the roads – severe gales are on the way.

The MetService yesterday issued a Severe Weather Warning for areas including Canterbury south of the Rakaia River.

Northwest winds with gusts reaching up to 120 kilometres per hour are expected from 2pm today to 6am tomorrow.

“Strong wind gusts could damage trees, powerlines and unsecured structures. Driving may be hazardous, especially for highsided vehicles and motorcycles,” the MetService warned.

The Ashburton District Council has advised it may close its Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks today and tomorrow, and temporarily halt its kerbside collection service.

Waste recovery manager Craig Goodwin said it was not safe to operate in high winds.

“Please check prior to driving to the parks or putting your wheelie bins out that the service is operating,” he said.

The wind warning comes after a soggy April, where Mid Canterbury received almost three times its average rainfall for the month.

There was about 153 millimetres falling during the month, compared to the long-term average of 52 millimetres.

NIWA has released its April summary, which shows much of

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Entries are pouring in for the Mid Canterbury Mountain Bike Club’s six hour race this weekend – but organisers have noticed something odd.

Barely any of the bikers entering this year are female.

The race, organised for Wheels Week, will see teams, solo riders and schools completing laps of a ten kilometre circuit on Sunday.

Surgery a sucess Wife of popular radio DJ Simon Barnett, Jodi, has undergone surgery after being admitted to hospital recently. Barnett and his family have been flooded with messages of support after Jodi was diagnosed with two lesions on the brain after appearing to have a fit or stroke. Barnett is taking extended leave from his hosting role on More FM Breakfast to care for Jodi. Yesterday Barnett’s colleague, Breakfast team member Samantha Baxter, told listeners that Jodi underwent surgery on Friday morning. It had been a “complete success”, and while there were still further tests, so far everything had gone really well.

Wickliffe recalled One of New Zealand’s most high-profile criminals is heading back to jail. Dean Hugh Te Kahu William Wickliffe has spent more than half his life behind bars and has been recalled to prison to continue serving his life sentence for a 1972 manslaughter. The board considered an application for Wickliffe to be recalled to prison to continue serving his life sentence for manslaughter committed in 1972. The board followed an earlier interim recall with a written decision yesterday that he is an “undue” risk to the community.

- NZME Calm before the storm – Lottie Hurst, 2, and little brother Hugo, 1, play in autumn leaves as warm temperatures grace Ashburton yesterday.

PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 0701518-SS-016 the South Island received above normal or well above normal rainfall levels, with the highest rainfall anomalies occurring

over eastern parts of Canterbury and Otago.

Ashburton received a nearrecord extreme one-day rainfall

on April 28, when 61 millimetres fell, the equal fourth-highest amount since records began in 1927.

Wanted: More female mountain bikers

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In brief

But race organiser Tabitha Armour said just three of the 75 teams entered this year are female, along with just three of 25 solo riders.

“We’d definitely like to see more females,” she said.

“We see them on the tracks and riding together – so I know they’re out there.”

The race is for everyone, she said: mum, dad and the kids, from the serious to the not-soserious. For the past two years,

it has proven an immensely popular wheels week highlight, with all tickets sold out before entries close.

“Everyone always has a great time,” Armour said.

“I think some people are put off by the idea of competing alongside so many people but after the first lap, everyone just spreads out. It’s a laid back environment, and it’s pretty fun.”

Entries for this year’s race, sponsored by McDonald’s, close

on Wednesday night. Just 15 individual spots and 25 team spots remain, so Armour is encouraging any interested females to get in quick.

The Mountain Bike Club is also hoping more year 7 and 8 riders will take up the challenge and compete this year.

Updates and more event information can be found on the Mid Canterbury Mountain Bike Club’s Facebook page and website.

Woman attacked A man has appeared in Porirua District Court after allegedly hitting a woman in the head with a screwdriver. Nicholas Joseph Brown has been charged with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Police were called to the incident on Sunday in Paraparaumu. The woman received moderate injuries that aren’t life threatening. Brown has been remanded in custody until a bail hearing next week.

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Marcroft drops bill New Zealand First has abandoned a bill that might have stopped swimming, ballet and art teachers calling themselves “teachers”.

List MP Jenny Marcroft said she agreed to withdraw her Education (Protecting Teacher Title) Amendment Bill “after a positive discussion between NZ First and the office of the Minister of Education”.

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■ MAMMA MIA! – MEET THE CAST

No shortage of talent in bumper cast

BY KATIE TODD

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Ashburton is all set to catch Mamma Mia! fever next week, with Variety Theatre bringing the smash-hit musical to the Ashburton Trust Event Centre Stage.

The musical, directed by Roger Farr, will mark 10 years of the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, and there’s certainly no shortage of talent in the bumper cast list.

Today we introduce the lead actresses taking on the roles of Donna and Sophie.

Bringing the bubbly character of Sophie to life is Christchurch’s talented Miriam Abigail von Voorthuizen.

Having first performed as a ballet dancer, and over the years belonging to choirs and bands, Miriam brings a varied experience to the stage.

She has enjoyed performing in various plays and musicals with Christchurch companies such as TopDog, MUSOC and Canterbury Repertory Theatre, but said she is excited to be given the opportunity to take on the role of Sophie and share the stage with such a talented cast.

Meanwhile, Donna will be played by Heather McFarlane – an Ashburton-raised singer and dancer who trained in ballet, highland, American-jazz, hiphop and Latin-American but said she was a “bit of a late starter to musical theatre, first performing at age 28 with Showbiz Christchurch”.

Heather has now performed in eight productions for Showbiz including in the ensemble for Mamma Mia! in 2016.

She also had the absolute dark pleasure of playing Morticia in the Addams Family Musical last year – which is up with Bombalurina in Cats as one of Heather’s favourite roles to perform.

Heather has been wanting to play Donna in Mamma Mia since the Variety Theatre talked about it two years ago, and said she might have been telling Aaron Boyce he should audition for Sam for almost as long.

“Poor Sam, Donna has been hassling him for a long time!”

Right – Heather McFarlane as Donna (left) and Miriam Abigail von Voorthuizen as Sophie.

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■ AKAROA

Restaurant receives positive reaction to child ban An Akaroa restaurant that banned children from eating on its premises is standing by its decision after widespread media attention.

The Herald on Sunday ran a story about The Little Bistro restaurant, in Akaroa, not permitting children under 10 to dine at the local cafe.

Owner Richard Uttley said the move to go child-free came after several complaints from diners and an incident where a child ran into an employee, injuring her.

“A child ran into a waitress with a tray of glasses and she cut her arm pretty severely,” he said.

Yesterday Uttley told the Herald the majority of responses the bistro received about the restriction had been very positive.

“Our child-free policy has been in place for three years, so for us it’s nothing new.

“We have no intentions of changing our stance on children in the restaurant.”

Following up on that, Uttley said the bistro had also now introduced Phones-Free Friday, which is gathering great momentum.

“If you hand over your phones at reception when you arrive we’ll give you 15 per cent off dinner and provide you with a list of questions and topics to talk about.”

Uttley says he was prompted to introduce the policy after noticing a lack of conversation in the restaurant even though it was full.

“I thought the restaurant was empty it was that quiet, but when I popped my head in, every single table was on their phones.”

The child restriction came to light after a woman, who doesn’t wish to be named, took her 8-year-old granddaughter to the

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Our child-free policy has been in place for three years, so for us it’s nothing new

restaurant recently, only to be turned away

by Uttley.

She said her main gripe was that the policy wasn’t well advertised and if she’d known, she would not have taken the child.

Uttley insisted it was online and said it was also written in chalk outside the restaurant.

The woman said that while the restaurant is entitled to its own policies, it is unfair to stereotype all children.

“No child of mine has ever eaten off a kids’ menu and had a nugget, because I can’t stand that. I want children to learn about good food. My manners are impeccable, as are my children’s and my grandchildren’s.”

Uttley said as an employer he is responsible for minimising health and safety risks to employees, and the size of the restaurant was also a factor.

He said their original intention was to set the age at 12.

“But after consulting several parents who dine at the bistro, schoolteachers and looking into the stages of psychosocial behaviour, we felt that the age was too high and reduced it to 10,” Uttley said. - NZME

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ountdown’s announcement yesterday that they were beginning the process to see them get rid of plastic bags in the future struck right at the very core of this binge supermarket shopper.

It would appear my days of strolling down the supermarket aisle, mindlessly humming the opening lyrics to Katy Perry’s hit song Firework, “Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind,” are coming to an end.

In a world where the joy is being taken out of most things in life by those who say that tying your shoes is bad for those poor little laces, the art of filling a plastic bag full of groceries – to the very point before it becomes

so stretched that it breaks, is a wonderful little challenge for oneself.

It’s because of this challenge that I can, without fear, confirm to you that you can comfortably fit five 1.5 litre bottles of drink into one plastic bag to place it right on breaking point.

Attempt it for proof if you must, but I do recommend that you park as close to the door as possible to enhance your

chances of making it out safely.

But those days of fun; you can try it with tins of spaghetti, microwavable dinners, pizzas (yes, I don’t eat very well), seem to be drawing near to an end.

Despite the fact they were bringing to an end something that has been a part of the average grocery shop for many years, Countdown seemed to take great joy in bringing forward the news that 10 stores will cease the use of those pesky little rustling bits of plastic which are impossible to separate unless you’ve wet your fingers.

They were so excited that they went absolutely crazy and suggested that people now start taking wheelbarrows to the supermarket and using them to

cart their purchases from the checkout to their vehicle.

I seem to have missed the part where they said they were getting rid of their trolleys as well.

In all seriousness, there’s a very good, plausible reason for Countdown to make this change.

Our environment and marine life, without a doubt, in the world suffer because of plastic pollution and any wee step we can take to reduce that damage is a step taken in the right direction for sure.

So, it’s a big ups for the environment, but how about the average household – which relies so heavily on the use of the haul of plastic bags from their weekly grocery shop to then act as the

disposal tool for the subsequent household rubbish?

The advice should be quite simple, get in and get as many as you can now – before it’s too late.

With 10 supermarkets announced yesterday as those to suffer a plastic bagless fate, there’s 172 more that before the end of the year will also head down the same path.

That means that by this time next year, your usual trip to the supermarket to do the grocery shop will be even more entertaining than it is already.

Not only will you have to remember to take your own mode of transport for your purchases, but you’ll also be able to take joy out of watching others try and do the same.

equal rights for blacks and whites.

Ten years ago: During the 2008 race for the White House, Senator Barack Obama got a front-runner’s welcome back at the US Capitol, where he was surrounded on the House floor by well-wishers calling him “Mr. President” and reaching out to pat him on the back or shake his hand.

Five years ago: A jury in Phoenix convicted Jodi Arias of firstdegree murder in the 2008 death of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander (Arias was

later sentenced to life in prison).

Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who had played Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on The Young and the Restless, died in Los Angeles at age 84.

One year ago: A suspect was arrested in a string of serial killings that terrified a Phoenix neighbourhood, a huge break in a case that involved nine deaths and a dozen separate shootings; Aaron Juan Saucedo, 23, faces 26 felony counts of homicide, aggravated assault and drive-byshooting.

Today’s birthdays: Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is 92.

Singer Toni Tennille is 78. Actor James Mitchum is 77. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 76.

Jazz musician Keith Jarrett is 73. Actor Mark Blankfield is 70.

Singer Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 67. Rock musician Chris Frantz (Talking Heads) is 67. Rockabilly singer Billy Burnette is 65. Rock musician Alex Van Halen is 65. Actor David Keith is 64. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is 57. Actress Melissa Gilbert is 54. Rock musician Dave Rowntree (Blur)

is 54. Country musician Del Gray is 50. Rock singer Darren Hayes is 46. Singer Enrique Iglesias is 43. Blues singer-musician Joe Bonamassa is 41. Actor Matt Davis is 40. Singer Ana Maria Lombo (Eden’s Crush) is 40.

Actor Elyes Gabel is 35. Actress Julia Whelan is 34.

Thought for today: “The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.” — Eric Sevareid, American news commentator (1912-1992).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, May 8, the 128th day of 2018. There are 237 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On May 8, 1978, David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom to murder, attempted murder and assault in connection with the “Son of Sam” shootings that claimed six lives and terrified New Yorkers.

(Berkowitz was sentenced to six consecutive life prison terms.)

On this date: In 1429, the Siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War ended as English troops withdrew after being defeated

by French forces under Joan of Arc. In 1660, the British Parliament moved to restore the monarchy by declaring that Charles II had been the country’s lawful king since the execution of his father, Charles I, in 1649.

In 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was executed on the guillotine during France’s Reign of Terror.

In 1884, the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, was born in Lamar, Missouri.

In 1921, Sweden’s Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty.

In 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany’s forces had surrendered, and that “the flags of freedom fly all over Europe.”

In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by antiAmerican protesters in Lima, Peru.

In 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.

In 1984, the Soviet Union announced it would boycott the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

In 1996, South Africa took another step from apartheid to democracy by adopting a constitution that guaranteed

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Email us! editor@theguardian. co.nz Facebook us! facebook.com/ ashguardian Federated Farmers is backing a research project now under way to better understand hill country development practices.

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ederated Farmers is backing a research project now under way to better understand hill country development practices.

The end goal is to create a decision tool to aid farmers as they weigh up the benefits, costs and environmental risks of development of their hill country blocks.

Farmers from Canterbury and Manawatu have already shared their experiences on this topic during anonymous interviews conducted by research company UMR. The next stage of the project, commissioned by Environment Canterbury and supported

by Beef & Lamb New Zealand and Federated Farmers (South Canterbury), involves detailed telephone surveys of 150 farmers in the two provinces.

Some sheep and beef farmers are improving productivity by planting older hill country pastures with higher producing pasture species. This commonly involves one or more years in winter feed, and creates an increased risk of sediment losses during this period.

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The interviews found that some farmers have already changed their land development practices after previous experience with soil loss, and many are now using direct drilling to establish the pasture or crop and reduce the risk of soil loss. They are also being careful about paddock selection, and exclude erosion-prone land from the development.

The just-released Our Land 2018 report on soil quality said we are losing around 192 million tonnes of soil each year to erosion, 44 per cent of it from pasture land.

There can be greater soil loss and damage from winter grazing dairy cows, particular from kale crops on steep hillsides. Heli-

spraying to sow hill pastures seems to be on the rise, more so in Manawatu than Canterbury, and the interviews showed farmers are acutely aware of the importance of getting the timing right, especially where higher risk winter feed crops are involved.

Everyone laughed when the ‘spray and pray’ term was coined because it was catchy. But that humour has come back to bite us because it seems that the frivolous title has drawn some people to the practice where it’s not suitable.

There’s no doubt that best practice management on hill country developments can result in higher lamb growth rates, and healthier and heavier stock. It’s a question of getting the balance right, and knowing when land is too hard.

Sheep and beef have now enjoyed a second good year in a row. There will be farmers who start looking at how they can boost output, and there may be gains from further developing hill country – if it’s done well.

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This project is about getting verifiable data on the potential of hill country, and what lessons can be learned and shared.

Equally, there can be a very good case for leaving some hill country blocks undeveloped, especially if they’re a marginal proposition anyway. Biodiversity is boosted, and there is value in that being a component of a Farm Environment Plan.

I think there’s a social licence component to this whole topic.

We need to be telling good stories that stand scrutiny. All the work being done by farmers in the environment and biodiversity space tends to pass under the radar, not fully recognised or leveraged.

We need a mature conversation on the potential of hill country, and the finding from this study will give us a great starting point.

Mark Adams is the Federated Farmers representative on the hill country development study project group and South Canterbury Federated Farmers president.

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Meeting ‘doomed to fail’ A date and location has been set for the Kim-Trump meeting, but a well-known expert reckons he knows the “single biggest reason” it will end in disaster.

The historic proposed meeting between the United States and North Korea is all set to go ahead.

US President Donald Trump told reporters over the weekend that a date and location had been set for his upcoming meeting with Kim Jong-un, but he declined to divulge the details.

But one well-known expert has warned the meeting is doomed to fail, saying Trump is playing right into the dictator’s hands.

Speaking at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Pusan National University political science professor Robert Kelly – also known as BBC Dad – said the summit was an “unnecessary risk” that would “probably be a bust”.

“The ideological and strategic divisions between the two sides are so wide that it’s almost impossible to bridge them in nine weeks,” he said.

“It’s just not doable.”

He said it was “obvious” Trump was going to “wing it”, rather than research beforehand, adding that a good outcome for the West was very unlikely.

So, why bother with the meeting at all then?

Prof Kelly suggested it was a quick decision fuelled by Trump’s ego – a decision that could ultimately prove fatal for relations.

“The President says, ‘This is a unique moment, I’m meeting with North Korea, which no other American president has ever done’, but that’s actually not unique.

“The North Koreans have wanted to meet with a US president going all the way back to the 1970s.

“Why? Because North Korea’s a tin pot dictatorship, and meeting the leader of the free world is automatically legitimacy-granting.

Stormy goes on SNL Stormy Daniels has made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live to demand a “resignation” from President Donald Trump, portrayed by Alec Baldwin. The new episode’s cold open featured a bevy of guest appearances, including Ben Stiller as Michael Cohen, Martin Short as Dr Harold Bornstein, and Jimmy Fallon and Scarlet Johanssen as Jared and Ivanka, according to the Daily Mail. But the star turn was from Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Cliffords, the porn star who is suing the real Trump over a hush agreement she claims relates to a 2006 sexual liaison.

President Trump and Kim Jong-un have arranged a meeting, although the date is unknown.

“It symbolises that you’re a real country and not a backward, feudal, Orwellian fiefdom, which North Korea is.”

Prof Kelly said a meeting with North Korea will help them, but that the West will gain nothing from it.

“We don’t want to legitimise North Korea … and if we’re going to, we at least ought to get something from it.

“Donald Trump gave that away for nothing. That’s why I’m so concerned.

“We’ve got a President who agreed to do this, who doesn’t understand the issues, who agreed to it 45 minutes after it was proposed to him – what happens when they meet oneon-one?”

Filmmaker Anna Broinowski interjected and said: “They get peace. Good! They’ve been trying for 65 years.

“Maybe Trump’s the great disrupter in all this?

“Just because America doesn’t like North Korea’s ideology, doesn’t mean it doesn’t

have a legitimate claim to being a country.”

Prof Kelly said later he supported a dialogue between the US and North Korea, but did not backtrack on his concerns.

“I just don’t believe this President is the right person to do that,” he said.

“I’m concerned about this President and his seeming insistence that he run this himself.

“The latest rumour is he wants to speak to Kim Jong-un alone – just the two of them and their translators.

“Who knows what he’s going to say? Seriously.”

He also warned that a final peace deal that “institutionalises and accepts (North Korea’s) existence … will continue the gulag state that it is”.

“A peace treaty will be brought on the backs of the suffering and pain of the North Korean people, and that is the single biggest reason we shouldn’t do it.”

Last week, South Korean

President Moon Jae-in made headlines after saying President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.

When asked who should win the prestigious award, Prof Kelly simply said “None of them”, to applause from the audience.

“The North Koreans are not negotiating from a position of weakness, they’re negotiating from a position of strength,” he said.

“They now have the ability to strike the US with an intercontinental ballistic missile.

“If there is one state that we know doesn’t listen to international pressure, it’s North Korea.

“It’s highly unlikely North Korea are choosing to engage us now because of what we on the outside have done.

“They’re doing this because they have this weapon, and now they’re shopping around.

“They’re not interested in peace. They’re interested in concessions.”

- PA

Travolta becomes Gotti John Travolta is seen as the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti in a new trailer for the biopic of the late mafia don, titled Gotti, on the heels of the movie’s Cannes Film Festival premiere later this month.

“New York is the greatest city in the world – my city,” Travolta is heard in a voiceover as Gotti to kick off the preview commences, showing landmarks of the Big Apple. “I was a kid in these streets, and I made it to the top.” The preview shows the Oscar-nominated actor, 64, amid a series of executions, incarcerations and mafia pow-wows amid his ascent up the ladder of organised crime.

■ AUSTRALIA

Final moments of croc attack revealed It was dark and a crocodile had Leeann Mitchell’s childhood friend in its jaws.

After trying to punch and fight the animal with every ounce of her strength, all Mitchell could do was scream for help.

The Cairns woman has recalled the horror of the attack that killed Cindy Waldron in May 2016.

“The only help I could get was by screaming Cindy’s name,” Mitchell told Seven Network’s Sunday Night.

Mitchell spoke for the first time about the terrifying night at Thornton Beach, 130km north of Cairns, where she and Waldron had been celebrating.

Ms Mitchell had just finished breast cancer treatment and the mood had been high.

The pair were standing in shallow water, arm-in-arm, when the crocodile struck.

“It was really dark, Cindy’s back was to the water and mine was to the beach and we were laughing,” Mitchell said.

“And then Cindy cried out to

me and she said it has got me – I thought it was just that fright you get when seaweed brushes you.

“I put my arms out and she took my arms and I said I’ve got you babe, it is ok I’ve got you, and she was holding me and I was holding her.”

Mitchell grabbed her friend’s arms but said she and Waldron were both pulled with astonishing speed and force by the 4.3m animal.

“We travelled a big distance and I could not feel anything

under my feet,” she said. “I put my hand out and I felt the top of its head, then I started trying to punch and trying to hit and trying to fight. I was screaming and then all of a sudden we were taken again with the same force.

“I was trying to get the other arm up to grab her and I couldn’t.

“Then she was gone,” Mitchell said.

The crocodile that was thought to have killed Waldron was euthanised by wildlife officers in June 2016.

Sam out of comfort zone Samantha Hayes was brought to tears on Dancing with the Stars on Sunday. The Newshub presenter got emotional discussing how uncomfortable she was performing the sexy samba. Her dance partner Aaron described the dance as: “The hips, the action, shaking what your mama gave ya”, while Sam described it as “me sticking my butt out a lot – which is not something that I’m used to doing. It’s right at the very edge of my comfort zone and every now and again, I just feel completely silly and embarrassed ... you’re standing there looking at yourself in the mirror thinking; we’ve gotta do this in front of the whole country”, she said.

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‘Made in NZ’ row ‘just tip of iceberg’

Ben Kepes, owner of Cactus Outdoor, a Christchurch-based outdoor clothing company, says the World scandal is part of a “much bigger issue”. abroad and that AS Colour does not use child labour.

Companies with garments fully made in New Zealand are, unsurprisingly, concerned about trust issues.

Ben Kepes, owner of Cactus Outdoor, a Christchurch-based outdoor clothing company, says the World scandal is part of a “much bigger issue”.

“I think the whole ‘Made in New Zealand’ thing is actually a bit of a secondary issue to the lack of

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$482m profit, intervention welcomed Westpac’s New Zealand boss says it is confident in its systems and processes and will co-operate fully with regulators who have demanded answers from New Zealand banks in the wake of controversial revelations from Australia’s banking inquiry.

Last Monday New Zealand’s banking regulators the Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank told New Zealand’s banks they need to prove they are clean and have until May 18 to provide written evidence.

In a statement released as the bank announced a half year cash profit of $482m chief executive

David McLean said it was “absolutely committed to operating in a way that builds confidence and trust with our customers.”

McLean said it welcomed the review and would “cooperate fully in order to show the differences between the New Zealand and Australian banking environments.”

“We are confident in our systems and processes and are committed to continuous improvement to ensure we operate at best practice.”

Westpac New Zealand’s result was up 4 per cent in the six months to March 31 compared to

the same prior period.

The Australian-owned bank reported a 14 per cent lift in core earnings to $698m for the six months to March 31 while its net operating income rose 6 per cent to $1.16 billion.

McLean said the result reflected a strong underlying economy and targeted growth in key sectors.

“This is a good result across a range of business areas, despite a slowing housing market, a competitive deposit environment, and impairments moving back to more normal levels.

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just the start, but they’re of huge importance to test what’s been in planning over the past months.

“Moving away from 350 million plastic bags takes a fair bit of work behind the scenes and by our team in our stores; these first stores will test our thinking, our training and our processes to ultimately help ensure a smooth transition for all of our customers and team when we make the change across the country.”

Countdown isn’t the only supermarket chain set to phase out plastic bags in New Zealand.

Last year, Foodstuffs also announced that it would move away from plastic bags at checkouts.

Foodstuffs also plans to discontinue plastic bags by the end of the year.

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Plastic bags phase-out to begin Countdown’s plan to phase out plastic carrier bags takes effect this month, when 10 stores leading the charge from May 21.

The initial batch of stores will provide customer feedback, which will inform the rollout across all Countdown’s 182 supermarkets before the end of the year.

Countdown’s general manager corporate affairs Kiri Hannifin, said getting rid of 350 million plastic bags a year was the right thing to do.

“We’ve all seen the pictures of our environment and marine life suffering because of plastic pollution, and the impact on our ecosystems is unacceptable,” Hannifin said.

“These 10 supermarkets are

company are all part of life in “the post-truth era”. “Many years ago, Icebreaker, a New Zealand based (although now owned in the US) apparel company famously moved its manufacturing from here to low-cost economies. The CEO of Icebreaker, Jeremy Moon, and I went head-to-head on national radio arguing about the move,” Kepes recalls.

“While I accepted that it was a move his business needed to make in order to scale massively, I had issues with what I saw was a somewhat duplicitous branding strategy which saw them massively leverage the New Zealand brand. I saw the potential for customers to be confused. But at least Icebreaker products clearly state where they’re made.”

World’s garments were found to state where they were made, however that information was not in the main label but in a tag elsewhere in the item, on the inside seam, near the hem and not easy to find.

Kepes says L’Estrange Corbet, with her years of being outspoken against companies using sweatshops in low-cost economies, has misled and disrespected her own customers.

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floor of a factory because I want to be rich.”

The revelations from the Spinoff now confirm that some T-shirts, sourced from AS Colour, were made in Bangladesh, while sweatpants and sweatshirts, also from AS Colour, were made in China.

L’Estrange Corbet defended her decision to source materials from AS Colour, telling the Spinoff only a small percentage of the garments sold at World are produced

authenticity and honesty this exposes,” Kepes said. According to Kepes, L’estrange Corbet’s comments that the T-shirts could not be made in New Zealand aren’t entirely accurate.

“Cactus makes T-shirts here so that’s a lie that it can’t be done in New Zealand,” he said.

Kepes adds this is “just the tip of the iceberg” and World is not the only brand out there leveraging the “Made in NZ” tag without actually putting in the hard work.

“This has been going on for about 16 years,” he said, referencing the time when brands like Icebreaker and Macpac began moving manufacturing to low-cost economies but kept hinting at the “New Zealandness” of its product in their tags.

“Just be honest about it,” he says.

Cactus Outdoor has been working to promote its 25 years of exclusively manufacturing garments in New Zealand, using social media to show exactly where and who is making the clothes.

Kepes says the subtleties in how different companies “deceive” customers by hinting at being from New Zealand without actually manufacturing in the

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Clothing sold by a Kiwi fashion brand as “New Zealand made” is actually being manufactured elsewhere, according to a report published yesterday.

The Spinoff, via staff writer Madeleine Chapman, said the World brand, owned by Denise L’Estrange Corbet, has been selling T-shirts, sweatshirts and sweatpants manufactured in China and Bangladesh.

L’Estrange-Corbet was made a dame for services to fashion at the end of last year, and has long been a critic of overseas manufacturing.

Following her appointment as a dame, L’Estrange Corbet told the Herald World has remained committed to keeping its operations firmly in New Zealand.

“If it was about money we would have gone offshore many years ago, and, believe me, that carrot has been dangled so many times,” she told the Herald at the time.

“Francis and I have always said, ‘Then what? We’d have money but we wouldn’t feel good about what we’ve done’. I wouldn’t want to think that some poor child is making my clothes, some poor woman or man is sleeping on the

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Waterway plans ‘grandstanding’ Government plans to cap dairy herds is ill thought-out political grandstanding, National Party leader Simon Bridges says.

Bridges made the comment following Environment Minister David Parker’s appearance on TVNZ’s Q&A on Sunday, where he said that he would push ahead with new rules to protect waterways from the harmful effects of dairy farming.

Parker said that there would not be a cap on cow numbers per se, rather there would be limits to the amount of nutrients that could be lost to waterways.

That could mean some areas may have fewer cows than they do currently, he said.

Bridges said the announcement was another example of an unchecked assault by the government on regional New Zealand.

“We all agree water and environmental improvements need to be made but they need to be achieved through implementing a considered plan that all parties can work through over time.

“The National government set very specific national limits on nitrates, phosphorous, E.coli, algae and ammonia through the National Policy Statement we put in place in 2014 and 2017.

“This put limits on diary conversions in sensitive catchments and is progressively being rolled out by regional councils.

“In 2017 we agreed with farmers a plan for 56,000km of fencing along waterways over 12 years to come into effect in December 2017 - which this new government has not progressed.

“Solving water quality issues is a team effort – for urban and rural

communities and is not something to be imposed solely on farmers – who’ve actually played a massive part in investing and working up solutions to help improve the way they operate.

“There seems to be a lack of any sort of comprehension that when the farmers sneeze, we all catch a cold. Whether we’re in rural or urban areas, we’re all in this together,” Bridges said.

■ MEDIAWORKS

Streaming deal for Young Farmer of the Year final A new deal will see MediaWorks broadcast New Zealand’s longest running agricultural contest the FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

Under the agreement, an edited version of the 50th grand final of the contest will be broadcast on ThreeNow. ThreeNow is MediaWorks’ free video on-demand streaming service available on smart TVs and mobile devices.

MediaWorks’ head of rural, Nick Fisher, said the broadcaster is proud to be partnering with NZ Young Farmers to produce the programme.

“Many New Zealanders grew up watching the Young Farmer of the Year grand final on television,” he said.

“It’s fitting that on the 50th anniversary of the contest, Kiwis will be able to view the milestone on more devices than ever.”

The deal will see a total of three commercial episodes on the contest filmed for ThreeNow. They will be produced by Perriam Media, a production company owned by RadioLIVE’s Rural Exchange host Sarah Perriam.

Left – Young Farmer of the Year finalists (from left) with Perriam Media’s Sarah Perriam: Logan Wallace, Josh Cozens, Cameron Black, Daniel Bradbury, Patrick Crawshaw, Will Taylor and Andrew Wiffen.

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“Being asked to front television coverage for the 50th FMG Young Farmer of the Year grand final is a huge honour,” Perriam said.

“I consider it to be the pinnacle of rural broadcasting in New Zea-

land.

“I’m from the country and love attending regional finals. My aim is to showcase the inspirational talent which will be on display in Invercargill,” she said.

The main hour-long programme will air a week after grand final in July.

The event will see seven finalists, including Cameron Black from the Hinds Young Farmers

Club, go head-to-head, for the honour of being crowned the 50th FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

NZ Young Farmers’ events and marketing manager, Carolyn Bennett, said the contest will highlight excellence.

“Our partnership with MediaWorks will enable more New Zealanders to get a taste of the skills needed to produce food and run an agri-business,” she said.

“It’s fantastic to have a major media partner on board at such an important time in the contest’s history.”

The programmes will include interviews with past winners and showcase key parts of the grand final such as the fast-paced agriknowledge quiz.

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■ TAX

Proposed taxes violate KISS principle: Feds all over that.”

New Zealand enjoys a A land tax would be relatively neutral, non“punitive and inequitadistortionary tax system, ble” on farmers, given with low compliance the size of their propercosts by internationties. If it was introduced, al standards and any highly geared enterprischanges to the system es could become equity should retain these hallnegative, with potential marks, Federated Farmflow-on effects to banks ers says. and financiers, Hoggard The federation’s subsaid. mission to the Tax Work“What’s more, deing Group, which was veloping businesses, guided by 1400 responsor those with fluctuaes to a survey of its memtions in income typical bers, also argues money of many farms, may not raised by any new taxes have sufficient cash flow should be offset by rein any one year to pay a ductions in other taxes. land tax. Gross revenue Survey respondents can vary hugely for farmstrongly rejected some of Federated Farmers economers due to the vagaries of the tax options that have ics and commerce spokesinternational markets, been mooted: 81 per man Andrew Hoggard is exchange and interest cent opposed a capital wary of a capital gains tax. rates, and the weather.” gains tax (CGT) excludAs for environmental ing the family home; 91 per cent rejected a land tax and 82 per cent taxes, Federated Farmers believes there opposed any form of environmental taxa- are more appropriate levers, such as regulation and industry-led initiatives, to spur tion.

Feds economics and commerce spokes- gains.

“Those other levers are more efficient man Andrew Hoggard said it seems many proponents of a CGT hope it will crack and more easily targeted.

“Taxpayers might decide it is cheaper to down on property speculators.

“But that could be substantially achieved simply pay a new tax, particularly if they by an extension of the ‘bright-line test’ on have limited ability to change/respond, sales to five years, making the need for a and thus you don’t get the environmental gains we’re all looking for,” Hoggard says.

CGT largely redundant.

The federation’s survey showed 66 per “The federation didn’t oppose the twoyear ‘bright-line’ when it was introduced, cent of farmers believed the current comand our tax survey last month showed 47 pany tax rate of 28 per cent is about right.

There was limited appetite for a 26 per per cent supported this measure, with five years the most favoured period,” Hoggard cent rate for small to medium enterprise (SMEs) companies because savings would said.

A CGT would also have complications in be relatively insignificant.

As not all SMEs are companies, it would terms of portfolio investment (PIE) rules, Livestock Herd Scheme gains and losses, significantly complicate the imputation farmhouse use changes and indexing the regime and widening the gap between an asset cost base so the inflation component SME company tax and the top marginal individual’s tax rate would likely cause is not taxed.

“There’s a lot to be said for the KISS (keep even more inappropriate tax planning and it simple…) principle and a CGT tramples avoidance.

■ ALLIANCE

Hogget pilot promising A pilot programme marketing hogget as a premium project is showing promise, the company behind it says.

Alliance farmer shareholders asked the co-operative to explore the development of a market for hogget because of the large price differential between lamb and mutton.

The pilot was carried out in the UK, with a particular focus on the ethnic foods market, from November 2017 to February this year.

Alliance sales manager John Rabbitt said the UK has one of Europe’s largest markets for ethnic foods, so is accustomed to using both New Zealand lamb and mutton.

“The product has been very well received, with recently-conducted testing on Alliance hogget rating the taste and succulence.”

Rabbitt said the key to the success of marketing hogget as a premium product was selecting the right animals with good meat and fat colour, despite being no longer conventionally considered to be lamb.

The company is now undertaking a full evaluation of the pilot before making a decision on the next steps.

Some pilot product has also been sent to Asia and Alliance is awaiting market feedback.

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Source: Midlands Grain 333 350 300 312 370 280 312 380 290

Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 110.53 17.5 kg YX SI 124.01 19.0 kg YX SI 134.11 21.0 kg YX SI 147.59 Local trade (c/kg) SI 710 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 107.31 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 498 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 358 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 463 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 540 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 545 AP Stag 60kg SI 660 AP Stag 80kg SI 880

International market prices … u LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index Apr - 18 2018 127.00 127.00 129.00

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Another NI farm has M. bovis and MPI bill may reach $1b The Minister for Agriculture has stated the cost to eradicate mycoplasma bovis may have reached $1 billion.

Attached to this announcement is the consideration that farmers may be asked to contribute 40 per cent of this. Depending upon which figure is used for the num-

ber of farms that may end up paying, this gives a different figure, but anywhere from $12,500 to $30,000 (upper figure quoted by RNZ).

Response from farmers and farmers’ bodies has varied from resignation, that if this is the cost of getting rid of the disease

then so be it, to, if this is what they believe is the cost then probably the horse has bolted and we are better to use the money to come to grips with how to live with it.

What has not been asked yet is “how do we end up with a bill of a billion dollars?”

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monitoring, $212 per hour, as per our last account, and split the account in half for testing items and half for labour then even at $212 per hour it keeps 1200 people in work for a full year.

Before any discussion on whether to be pro or anti eradication, at this cost, farmers should be asking for full disclosure of where and how these figures were obtained. Writing out blank cheques may be useful to MPI but without guarantees and a money-back refund nobody else stands to benefit. Many farmers would rather use their contribution to help make their operation safer, spending money which they can control.

Local Canterbury farmer and past Federated Farmers representative, Willy Leferink, opposes the idea of spending $1b for eradication when there is no guarantee of success and believes the money is better used elsewhere in preventing future incursions of unwanted diseases.

Given the slow timeframes MPI have been operating under to date and their continuing low government resourcing, it will take considerable time to get a meaningful response programme in place.

Meanwhile, last week a second farm has been confirmed with M. bovis in the North Island with MPI predicting more to follow.

Sheep Prices at saleyards and on the schedule have made small but meaningful gains.

This indicates that processors still have some cash in their pockets to try and gain a share of the dwindling supply of lambs. Store lambs are getting up to $145 in the yards while prime lambs are up to $170 per head.

Cull ewes are also still getting high prices with good ewes achieving $170.

Cattle Prime cattle schedules have held this week again but cows in particular are slipping down.

Given the livestock needing to find space as a result of the mycoplasma bovis cull and the decline in the US market, this is not surprising.

The falling Kiwi dollar against the US dollar will be helping slow the decline and with Westpac predicting a 68c Kiwi later this year prices may not go much lower, maybe.

Wool The upwards trend experienced in the past few sales continued last week at the Napier sale with small upward movements for most wool categories.

Lambs’ wool was the exception, but holding as the last of the season’s lamb clip comes through.

Deer Busy as usual with prices still at the record levels of previous weeks.

This is the 10th week the $11 per kg mark has been standing. Deer farmers will be starting to get used to it.

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With the discovery of another positive reactor farm to mycoplasma bovis, this time a dry stock property at Pahiatua near Palmerston North, farmers will still need to be wary of the spread of the disease.

With only one more GDT event to be held this season and the US dollar working in exporters favour, Fonterra dairy farmers should be able to lock in the $6.55 price.

With next season approaching, pundits are starting to predict what next season’s prices may bring, with some predicting $7 or better.

But the lift is on the back of a falling Kiwi versus US dollar rather than any inherent lift in demand.

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Light crime, heavy punishment

BY CONNOR LYSAGHT

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he severity of any crime can range from petty to disastrous.

You would think that the punishment would befit the severity of the crime, yet punishments do not always reflect the fact.

This is especially true of crimes committed during periods where systems of law were inherently unforgiving.

Following the instatement of the English Laws Act 1858, New Zealand was officially accountable to the laws of the motherland.

The criminal justice system of yesteryear reflects older attitudes and processes for what was deemed a crime and how people were punished.

The Ashburton Guardian regularly reported on the proceedings of the resident magistrate’s court and the borough council as far back as 1879.

This gives us a window through which to analyse how misconduct was dealt with in Ashburton, as well as the nature of these crimes.

In stark contrast to today’s practices lies the case of Kavanagh MacCarthy, the sentence of which was passed on Thursday, October 16, 1879.

He was pulled up on a charge of vagrancy – essentially homelessness – and was sentenced to three months in prison.

MacCarthy was elderly and unable to work due to poor eyesight and partial deafness.

He was found to not be a vagrant, but still incarcerated.

We can assume the reason that MacCarthy was not sent to an alternative, such as the Ashburton Home, was his inability to work.

Residents of Ashburton Home worked and crafted goods during their stay.

Resident magistrate Frank Guinness was subsequently told that MacCarthy’s case was “the worst case that ever came before His Worship”.

This case displays how the concepts of elderly care and welfare had not fully developed at this time, so the elderly and destitute were at risk of great harm or poverty.

Strides were made towards emancipating the elderly later that century, with acts such as the Old-Age Pensions Act 1898 being passed under the Liberal government.

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1 – Lyttelton Gaol, where Ashburton people would have been incarcerated.

2 – Resident Magistrate Francis (Frank) Hart Viceimus Guinness, who was well-known for his concern for the unemployed and the interests of working people.

3 – A truncheon from Ashburton police.

4 – The old immigration barracks, which was also the Ashburton Home - the home that Kavanagh was unfit to reside at.

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The chicken thief During the mid-to-late 19th century, it was important for many households to keep their own livestock in order to feed families. While this is true, it is not hard to see how the outcome of this next case could be deemed a bit excessive.

James Moore stood before Frank Guinness RM, to answer for charges of larceny on the very

same day as MacCarthy – a seemingly interesting day for Guinness.

Moore pleaded guilty to stealing at least two dozen hens, which he stole from a Mr Hefford and a Mrs Perham. He then sold a number of them to a Mr Branson for two shillings a pair – evidence of Moore knowing guilt, according to Guinness.

For two counts of theft, Moore was dealt a hefty sentence of 12

months’ imprisonment. The question can be raised as to whether or not Moore deserved such a sentence for stealing chickens?

On one hand he deprived citizens of their livelihood and possibly their wellbeing, but on the other hand he had to serve an entire year’s sentence.

According to modern New Zealand law, this sentence could still have been given if Moore committed his crimes in 2018. If the combined value of the hens that Moore stole exceeded $500 in today’s money, he could have been given a sentence up to one year in length, according to the Crimes Amendment Act 2003. However, if Moore had stolen less than $500

worth of hens, he would serve a sentence not exceeding three months in length.

It was not until 1886 that New Zealand would gain its own national police force, which replaced constabulary forces that had been established prior. New, improved and amended Acts of Parliament have been introduced over the past century that reduce the chances of wrongful convictions or disproportionate sentence times. Reform after reform is a reminder of how much things have changed for the better.

It has been roughly 139 years since the MacCarthy and Moore cases, and it is a wonder to see how far we’ve come.

Honouring the Fallen The Ashburton Museum, with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Ashburton Plains, has erected in front of the museum one of the original Ferriman flagpoles, and on the centennial of the death of each Ashburton soldier will fly a replica flag. This week the Ashburton Museum honours: May 11: Lewis Gordon McFARLANE

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■ Cycling

Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Paddy Helmore. Hunters Wine No 6 Michael Kemp. Ski Time No 13: Paul Plimmer. Green Parrot No 17: John Robinson. Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Michael Kemp.

Next Week: May 12 - 3rd round Middleton & Semi-finals Duff.

RSA Trophy.

Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers

Tinwald Golf Club

May 5 Winter Cup & Trophies Series. 22 Starters. 16km.

1st Matthew Clough CT.30.40. HT. 6.00m. RT. 24m 40s. 4f/t.

2nd Michael Gallagher CT.30.40. HT. 6.00m. RT. 24m 40s. 3rd Paul Macfie CT. 30.41. HT. 4.15m. RT. 26m 26s. 4th Ross Templeton CT.30.42. HT. 6.00m. RT. 24m 42s. 5th Tony Ward CT.30.52.

HT. 7.00m. RT. 23m 50s. F/T. 6th Michael Templeton CT.30.51.

HT. 7.00m. RT. 23m 51s. 2f/t. 7th Bad Hudson CT. 30.51. HT. 7.00m. RT. 23m 51s. 3f/t. 8th Janette Hooper CT. 31.03. HT. Go. RT. 31m 03s. 9th Brian Ellis CT.31.03. HT. Go. RT. 31m 03s. 10th Liz Wylie CT. 31.04. HT. Go. RT. 31m 04s. 11th Emma Hudson CT. 31.04. HT. Go. RT. 31m 04s. 12th. Shona Proctor CT.31.12. HT. 4.15m. RT. 26m 57s. 13th Pam Harcourt CT. 31.13. HT.4.15m. RT. 26m 58s. 14th Ronnie Campbell CT.31.13. HT. 4.15m. RT. 26m 58s. 15th. Andy Skinner CT.31.14. HT. 3.00m. RT. 28m 14s. 16th Doug Coley CT.31.15. HT. 3.00m. RT. 28m 15s. 17th Brent Hudson CT.31.28. HT. Go. RT. 31m28s. 18th Ross Proctor CT.32.12. HT. 3.00m. RT. 29m 12s. 19th Dave Shurrock CT. 31.12. HT. 3.00m. RT. 29m 12s. 20th Debbie Skinner CT. 31.12. HT. Go. RT. 31m 12s. 21st Nigel Chatterton CT. 34.06. HT. 3.00m. RT. 31m 06s. 22nd Kerry Clough CT. 34.06. HT. 3.00m. RT. 31m 06s.

May 5, Stroke Leading scores in the stroke round; -18: Steve Kircher 70 c/b Ray Wards 70, Wayne Mellish 71 b/l.19 plus: Kerry Whiting 67, Lyndon Moore 69. Women: Maxine Whiting 75, Leen Bell 77 b/l. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Alan Anderson.

Gluyas Ford # 6; Christine Kinita. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Clarry Whiting. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Dave King. G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Jeff Hewitt. Two’s; Andrew Barrie, Jeff Hewitt, (2), Doug Osborn, Alan Anderson, Snow Pierce, Lindsay Jackson, Murray Beach. Net eagle; # 11 not struck.

Winning pairs to advance to the semi-finals of the Findlay Cup were Rod Harris and Leo Johnston, Brent and Wayne Smith, Clarrie Whiting and Robin Simms, Dave Allan and Murray Beach. Plate semi-finalists are Des Green and Neil Connelly, Gordy Kenton and Dave King, Pete Summerfield and Mark Banks, Andrew Barrie and Jeff Hewitt.

RESULTS

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club May 5 In the first round of the Watson Cup the winning pairs were: Bill Hetrick & Jeff Williamson, Phil Kerr & Jamie Stone, Terry Molloy & Robert Pawsey, Royce Jamieson & Brian Fauth, Ryan & Dylan Stoddart, Ken Clucas & Paul May, Tufuga Sa & Chris Lovelock, Tony Bennett & Gavin Johnston.

In the stableford Competition the Radius Care Player of the day was Graham Behrnes with 42pts. Other winning scores were: Neil MacDonald, Bruce Day and Robbie Bell all 40pts; Kevin McStey and Brian Wilson 39pts; Josh Ackerley, Chris Robertson and John Dudley 38pts; Mel Trewavas 37pts.

Twos: Grant Hastie, Paddy Bradford, Jordan Bird, Brent MacGregor, Ian Rive and Gavin Douglas.

Nearest The Pins: South Island Seeds: Tony Bennett; Rothbury Insurance Chris Ralston; Allenton Meat Centre: Robbie Bell; Braided Rivers: Jordan Bird; Charming Thai Longest Putt: Guildford Lane; The Stables Family Restaurant Lucky Draw: John Dudley.

Birdie Jackpot: #7, Nett Eagles: #16 Nine Hole Results Laurence Hanrahan, Gordon Clinton and Judy Shepherd all 20pts. A two for Judy Shepherd as well.

Mayfield Golf Club May 2 Mid-Week Stableford Competition George Lesley 43 stableford points, John Low 40, Steve King 40, Harley Davies 39, Gordon Duthie 38, Andrew Lake, 37, David Morrow 36. Nearest the Pin: John Low. Two’s John Low. Ruapuna Rose Bowl, Wayne Vessey beat Mark Greenslade.

Methven Golf Club May 2 Ladies Division 1st Sarah Maw: Winners: Sandra Marr 98-29-69 Stablefords 40, Robyn Maw 98-23-75 Stablefords 34 Nearest Pins: #6 Arabica Nola Hydes, #17 Methven Travel Angela Mowbray, #4 Methven Pharmacy Robyn Maw, #13 Cinema Paradiso Heather Santy 2’s & Nett Eagles: Lynn Worsfold, Angela Mowbray, Gail Limbrick, Robyn Maw May 4 9 Hole Golf Kevin Thompson 52-15-32, 15 Stablefords, Alister Goodwin 56-17-39, 16 Stablefords, Adrienne Goodwin 69-29-40, 16 Stablefords PGG Wrightson – Best Player: Kevin Thompson May 5 Men’s Division Third Round Duff and Second round Middleton trophys, 2nd round club champs qualifying.

Senior: Alister Maxwell 77-8-69. Intermediate: Paddy Helmore 78-13-65. Junior A: Barry Begg 87-21-66. Junior B: Les Linton 100-31-69.

Other Good Scores: 70 Simon Wareing. 71 Michael Kemp, Rod Carson, Bernard Walsh, Chris Pannett, Gavin Santy, Jim Lattimore. 72 Frank Sandys, James Anderson, Geoff Kelk, Mike Gray. 73 Ben Rutter.

Two’s: Simon Wareing, Frank Sandys, Ben Rutter, Ian Lucas, Alister Maxwell, Paddy Helmore, Jim Lattimore, Paul Plimmer.

Dubliner Best Nett: Paddy Helmore 65. Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Barry Begg 66. Methven Travel Best Gross: Alister Maxwell 77.

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■ Shooting Marlborough Autumn Championships Kaituna Blenheim range, April 28 Day one A grade, 13 entries at 300, 600 and 900 yards.

Karl Valpy, Malvern, 50.9, 50.8, 49.5, 149.22 1st, Helen Freiman, Wellington, 49.6, 50.7, 50.5, 149.18 2nd, Malcolm Dodson, Blenheim, 50.2, 49.7, 50.3, 149.12 3rd. Other Canterbury members, Murray Steele 47.3, 50.3, 50.6, 147.12, 6th, Allan White 49.6, 49.6, 48.6, 146.18, 7th, Richard Rowlands 49.1, 49.3, 48.4, 146.8, 9th, Chris Kershaw 50.5, 48.4, 47.4, 10th.

B grade, 9 entries.

David Dick, Blenheim, 49.5, 49.5, 49.4, 147.14, 1st, R May, Wellington, 48.3, 48.4, 49.4, 145.11, 2nd, Chris Burgess, Blenheim, 46.3, 50.2, 49.5, 145.10, 3rd, and Canterbury, Megan Snowden 47.2, 47.5, 48.3, 142.10, 5th, John Fleming 47.3, 47.1, 46.2, 140.6, 7th.

C grade, 6 entries.

Hans Jansen van Vuuren, Blenheim, 49.5, 48.6, 49.5, 146.16, 1st, J Morriss, Wellington, 44.2, 49.3, 49.5, 142.10, 2nd, and from Canterbury Sam Kershaw, 49.3, 45.3, 46.2, 140.8, 3rd, Brian Hawksby 41.2, 44.1, 42.2, 127.5, 5th, Daniel Alexander 38.2, 44.0, 45.2, 127.4, 6th.

FTR class, 7 entries.

Murray Cook, Ashburton, 59.6, 58.2, 59.6, 176.14, 1st, Mark Alexander, Malvern, 56.1, 56.1, 58.4, 170.6, 2nd, D May, Wellington, 53.1, 52.2, 53.1, 158.4, 3rd, and Brian Graystone, Ashburton, 50.2, 57.1, 54.1, 151.4, 5th, Peter Carter, Malvern, 48.6, 47.0, 50.2, 145.8, 6th.

April 29 Day two The Tui Black Inter Association coached teams match at 600 and 900 yards.

Won by Kaituna Blenheim, 775.66 points from Canterbury 770.62, 2nd and Wellington 765.60, 3rd.

Canterbury team scores, coached by Richard Rowlands, Karl Valpy 49.4, 50.4, 99.8, Chris Kershaw 48.4, 49.6, 97.10, John Fleming 48.2, 46.1, 94.3, Daniel Alexander 43.2, 43.1, 86.3, Megan Snowden 49.5, 50.8, 99.13, Sam Kershaw 47.5, 49.4, 96.9, Murray Steele 50.4, 49.2, 99.6, Allan White 50.5, 50.5, 100.10, total 770.62.

■ Rugby Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Division 1 Section A Southbridge 40 Ashley 5, West Melton 26 Ashburton Celtic 38, Ohoka 22 Lincoln Rugby Club 10, BDI Seniors 16 Glenmark Cheviot 23, Hampstead Devon Tavern Seniors 19 Saracens 45 Section B: Methven Wareings 54 Hurunui 25, Railway Tavern Rakaia 37 Oxford RFC 35, Darfield 39 Kaiapoi 37, Prebbleton 52 Hornby 0, Springston 27 Rolleston 16

■ Squash Celtic Squash Club Results from last week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s winter league competition: Brendon Adam beat Ed Harrison 3-0, Julie Smith beat Phil Andrew 3-0, Hamish Trott lost to Riley Wilson 0-3, Sam Kuipers lost to Rebecca McCloy 0-3.

Chris O’Reilly lost to Nick Marshall 0-3, Harry Stanway lost to Adam Clement 0-3, Nathan Forbes beat Pete Blacklow 3-1, Gary Casey beat Rebecca Abernethy 3-1, Reece Wallington lost to Tim Kuipers 1-3, Jan Lee beat Kyla Clement 3-2.

Ben Kruger lost to Nick Marshall 0-3, James McCloy lost to Mick Hooper 2-3, Jimmy Hunn beat Jock O’Connor 3-1, Ron Carlson beat Steve Devereux 3-1, Phil Andrew lost to Shane Muckle 0-3, Riley Wilson lost to Blair Horrell 0-3, Charlotte Smith lost to Chrissie Stratford 0-3.

Kiwi driver Scott McLaughlin scored a record-breaking victory at Perth’s Barbagallo Raceway on Sunday.

■ MOTOR RACING

McLaughlin in record form Ford superstar Scott McLaughlin has produced arguably the greatest drive of his Supercars career to snatch a wild second race of the Perth Supersprint.

The championship leader created history on Sunday by coming from 19th on the grid to secure a famous victory – his fourth straight in the series.

McLaughlin smashed the record for the lowest grid start (12th) to win at the Western Australian circuit, which was previously shared by Peter Brock (1978) and Larry Perkins (1997).

After converting his poles in the previous three races into comfortable wins, the V-Power ace was forced to it the hard way at Barbagallo Raceway.

McLaughlin admitted he “stuffed up” his qualifying efforts, but believed he could still come from the clouds to pinch his 21st career victory.

He benefited from a chaotic opening to the second race of the round where he escaped the carnage that

saw Nissan’s Michael Caruso forced to the garage.

McLaughlin had made up seven spots after only two laps.

By the time the safety car was called out on lap four in an incident that saw Wilson Security Racing’s James Golding spinning towards the sand, McLaughlin had shot up to sixth.

The 24-year-old worked his way through the field after brief leader Will Davison, who was driving in his 400th career race, failed to pit for the safety car.

McLaughlin’s fifth win of the season sees him go further ahead in the championship standings after the fifth round of the season.

Erebus Motorsport’s David Reynolds redeemed himself from a poor race on Saturday, where he finished 17th, to drive his Commodore to second.

Fellow Holden driver Craig Lowndes incredibly shot up 22 spots after starting at the back of the grid to end up on the podium in an inspired performance.

Clean sweep for Paddon Hayden Paddon made the most of every kilometre of the International Rally of Whangarei as he prepares for his return to international competition at Rally Portugal in two weeks.

With stand-in co-driver Malcolm Peden alongside, Paddon won all 18 special stages of the two-day gravel rally in his New Zealand-built Hyun-

dai i20 AP4+ car. His winning margin of 7min 26.3sec highlighted the Kiwi rally star’s dominance of one of his favourite domestic rallies.

“It was a good weekend; everything went really well,” Paddon said.

“Everything felt really good, natural, in the car, so it’s the perfect confidence booster.”

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■ EQUESTRIAN

Triumph at Badminton Kiwi rider Jonelle Price notched the biggest win of her career yesterday when she rode Classic Moet to victory at the Badminton Horse Trials.

“Dreams do come true,” said the beaming 37-year-old, who is the first woman to hoist the Badminton Trophy since Lucinda Fredericks in 2007.

Price and Classic Moet came into the showjumping at the top of the leaderboard but tied on 28 penalty points after bolting up the ranks from 22nd thanks to a superb cross country round on Sunday.

Right on her tail yesterday was Oliver Townend (GBR), who was chasing not only Badminton victory, but also Rolex Grand Slam honours.

However, he had to settle for second and fifth aboard his two mounts.

“I certainly had lady luck on my side today,” said Price, “but sometimes you need a little luck.”

She wasn’t joking – 14-year-old Classic Moet nudged nearly every fence in the round and certainly had a life when a rail bounced back into the cups.

Two-time Olympian Price, who had her first child last year, admitted she had begun to wonder if she was ever going to lay claim to a 4*.

“I am so pleased. Sometimes these horses go through their career without a big win.”

And she was just as happy for the mare’s co-owner Trisha Rickards.

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club May 12 The second round for the Watson Cup 4BBB and first round of the Newton Trophy match play competitions will be held with a Par round for those not in the match play. There will be an earlier start (11.45am).

Starting times: Morning 8am; Afternoon report to the Pro Shop at 11.15am for an 11.45am start Nine Hole golfers report at 12.300pm for a 1.00 start.

The draw for the match play is: No 1 Tee 11.45 P Kerr & J Stone vs J Williamson & W Hetrick 11.53 D & R Stoddart vs K Clucas & P May 12.02 T Molloy & R Pawsey vs R Jamieson & B Fauth 12.09 T Sa & C Lovelock vs T Bennett & G Johnston.

No 10 Tee 11.45 S Clarke & J Bird vs P Greer & B Clarke 11.53 B MacGregor & H Niles vs A Hopwood & I Rive 12.02 B Jury & J Fechney vs T O’Reilly & J McArthur 12.09 P Bradford & G Jansen vs C Alexander & N Sutton.

■ Rugby Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Division 1 Section A Saracens v Southbridge 2:45 Sthbk Ashburton Celtic v Waihora: Div 1 2:45 Celtic Ashley v Ohoka 2:45 West Melton v BDI Seniors West Melton Hampstead Devon Tavern Seniors v Glenmark Cheviot: 2:45 Hampstead Lincoln Rugby Club Bye

Dragons back on top St George Illawarra have gone top on their own after thrashing last year’s champions the Melbourne Storm in Sydney on Sunday. The Dragons won 34-14 and have still lost only one game this season, against the Warriors. By contrast, the Storm were dubbed near perfect in the previous outing, coincidentally also against the Warriors but were brought down to earth with a thump. Their performance was loaded with uncharacteristic errors.

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Shock call a winner Warriors coach Stephen Kearney justified his shock decision to start Simon Mannering off the bench in Saturday’s 26-4 NRL win over Wests Tigers as a plan to ease his workload along with that of fellow veteran forward Adam Blair.

Mannering was initially named to start, but was relegated to the bench with rookie Isaiah Papali’i promoted to the starting side.

The move raised eyebrows due to Mannering’s revered status as the club’s most decorated player, but Kearney explained he was trying to balance the minutes given to his two senior campaigners. - NZME

Lawton set to step up New Zealand rider Jonelle Price on her way to victory at Badminton.

“She is a huge supporter of ours and has a few top class horses with us.”

Price and Classic Moet were third at Burghley in 2016 and the best of the Kiwis at the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games in France with their fourth placing.

Sir Mark Todd and Kiltubrid Rhapsody were sixth yesterday, with Tim Price and Ringwood Sky

Boy 12th and Todd aboard Leonidas II 14th.

Caroline Powell was 29th and 31st with On the Brash and Up Up and Away, with Dan Jocelyn aboard Dassett Cool Touch 37th and Virginia Thompson and Star Nouveau 40th.

Defending champion Andrew Nicholson and Nereo withdrew before the final phase.

Just five of the 53 combinations in the showjumping were clear and inside time.

Todd and Kiltubrid had an unlucky rail to finish on 37.4 penalty points.

Tim Price and Sky Boy took two rails to finish on 46.2; and Todd aboard Leonidas II had three plus a time fault to finish on 49.3.

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Section B Southern Stu Tarbotton Contracting v Darfield 2:45 Hinds Hornby v Hurunui Denton Springston v Oxford 2:45 Springston Kaiapoi v Prebbleton Kaiapoi Railway Tavern Rakaia v Methven Wareings 14:45 Rakaia: Rak 1 Rolleston Bye Senior B Date Team 1 Team 2 Time Venue Officials Status Public Notes Section A Rakaia Rugby Club: Senior B V Methven: Senior B 13:00 Rakaia: 1 G Casey [Referee] Southern: Wholesale Seeds V Collegiate RFC: Senior B 13:00 Hinds: 1 D McKibbon [Referee] Ashburton Celtic RFC: Senior B V Mt Somers Rugby Football Club: Seniors B 1:00 Celtic: 2 H Grant [Referee] Hampstead: Senior B V Allenton Rugby Football Club: Grieve Construction Allenton 3:30 Hamp: 2 P Arnold [Referee] Colts Section A Celtic Colts b Waihora: Colts 1:00 Celtic: 1 Darfield: Darfield Colts b Lincoln Rugby Club: Colts 1:00 Darf: 1 Ashley: Colts b Rakaia Rugby Club: Rakaia/Methven Colts 1:00 LOB: Lob 5 Springston Colts b Oxford RFC: Oxford Colts 1:30 Spring: 2 Prebbleton: Bye UC Championship 12pm: Ashburton College v Waimea College Combined, Ashburton College.

Under 18 Section A SCRFU: Aoraki City v Darfield: Waihora 13:00 AES: 1. Southern: NZ Livestock Brokers v SCRFU: Aoraki Country 13:15 Hinds: 2. Dunsandel/Irwell: Under 18 Plains United v Prebbleton: UNDER 18 13:30 Wmelt: 2. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Hanham Concrete U18 v Methven: Methven/Hampstead 14:30 Celtic: 2. Rolleston: Under 18 v Bye. Under 16 12/05/2018 West Melton Rugby Foot-

ball Club: West Melton 16 v Southbridge: Southbridge Under 16 12:00 Wmelt: 2.

Waihora: Waihora U16 v Tinwald RFC: RD Petroleum Tinwald 12:00 Spring: 2. Lincoln Rugby Club: Under 16 v Hampstead: Mid Canterbury Mechanical 13:00 Linc: 1. Ohoka: Waimak Stags v Prebbleton: Prebbleton/Rolleston Combined 13:00 Kai: Kai 1.

Amberley: Northern Raiders v Bye. Under 14.5 Section A Prebbleton: UNDER 14.5 v Rolleston: Black 12:00 Prebb: 1. Waihora: Waihora U14.5 v Rolleston: Rolleston/ Lincoln Combined 12:30 TT: 2. West Melton Rugby Football Club: West Melton 14 v Hampstead: Lemacon 12:30 Wmelt: 3. Leeston: Lstn- Sthbrdg-DI U14.5 v Collegiate RFC: Collegiate U14-5 13:00 Lstn: 1. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Fowler Homes v Methven: Methven/Tinwald 14:30 Celtic: 3.

Under 13 Section A Ashburton Celtic RFC: Lysaght Glass v Methven: Methven 01:15 Celtic: 3.

Southern: /Allenton/Tinwald Comb v Collegiate RFC: Collegiate/Hampstead Combined 12:00 Hinds: 2.

Under 11.5 Section A Ashburton Celtic RFC: Lysaght Glass White v Methven: White 11:45 Celtic: 2. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Ashburton Online Green v Hampstead: Hampstead 12:00 Celtic: 3. Southern: Howden Ag v Collegiate RFC: Ross Leadley Building 12:15 Hinds: 5. Rakaia Rugby Club: Rakaia v Methven: Black 13:15 Rakaia: 2.

Under 10 Section A Ashburton Celtic RFC: Blacklows White v Tinwald RFC: u10 11:45 Celtic: 4. Southern: Progressive Livestock Andrew Robins v Collegiate RFC: Collegiate U10 12:30 Hinds: 3. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Blacklows Celtic Green v Methven: Methven 13:45 Celtic: 4. Allenton Rugby Football Club: Carrfields v Bye. Under 9 Section A Southern: Harcourts Ash Real Estate v Collegiate RFC: Collegiate U9 11:30 Hinds: 3. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Blacklows Celtic v Methven: Black 12:45

Celtic: 4. Southern: Quigly Contracting v Hampstead: Hampstead 13:00 Hinds: 4.

Rakaia Rugby Club: Rakaia v Methven: White 13:30 Rakaia: 4.

Under 8 Section A Southern: Four Seasons Treecare v Collegiate RFC: Collegiate 12:00 Hinds: 4. Ashburton Celtic RFC: McCrea Painters & Decorators G v Mt Somers Rugby Football Club: Mt Somers 12:00 Celtic: 1A. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Summerfield Builders W v Methven: White 12:00 Celtic: 1B. Rakaia Rugby Club: Rakaia v Methven: Red 12:30 Rakaia: 4. Allenton Rugby Football Club: Under 8 v Methven: Black 13:00 Alltn: 2. Tinwald RFC: u8 v Bye. Under 7 Rippa Section A Ashburton Celtic RFC: Finishing Company G v Tinwald RFC: Under7 11:15 Celtic: 1A. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Summerfield Builders W v Methven: White 11:15 Celtic: 1B. Southern: Riverlea Ag B v Collegiate RFC: Collegiate 11:30 Hinds: 1A. Southern: Coleman Ag W v Allenton Rugby Football Club: Under 7 12:15 Hinds: 1B. Southern: Hayden Mackenzie Contracting R v Hampstead: Hampstead 12:15 Hinds: 1 A. Rakaia Rugby Club: Rakaia v Methven: Black 13:15 Rakaia: 3A. Under 6 Rippa Section A Ashburton Celtic RFC: Summerfield Builders Red v Allenton Rugby Football Club: Maroon 11:00 Celtic: 4.

Ashburton Celtic RFC: Anderson Joinery W v Methven: Red 11:15 Celtic: 3B. Ashburton Celtic RFC: Anderson Joinery G v Mt Somers Rugby Football Club: Mt Somers 11:15 Celtic: 3A. Southern: Busch Joinery W v Collegiate RFC: Cranfield Glass Red 11:30 Hinds: 1B. Southern: James Doyle Contracting B v Collegiate RFC: Property Brokers Black 11:30 Hinds: 5A. Southern: Agspread R v Collegiate RFC: McIntosh Group Gold 11:30 Hinds: 5B. Allenton Rugby Football Club: Gold v Methven: White 13:00 Alltn: 3. Rakaia Rugby Club: Rakaia v Methven: Black 13:15 Rakaia: 3B. Tinwald RFC: Under6 v Bye.

Two-try Warriors debutant Karl Lawton declared himself ready to step up once more if hooker Issac Luke is ruled out of next Saturday’s NRL clash against the Sydney Roosters. Lawton came off the bench to make his first club appearance at dummy-half after Luke dislocated his shoulder in the 55th minute of the 26-4 win over Wests Tigers. The 22-yearold wasted no time in impressing when he dashed through to score in the 67th minute and then sneaking over from close range three minutes later. “It was a bit surreal,” said Lawton.

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George wants big crowd Cameron George, CEO at the Warriors, wants to get 20,000 spectators along to Saturday’s massive game against the Roosters. The Warriors drew 16,727 fans to the Wests Tigers match. Their round 10 game is against one of the NRL’s real glamour clubs and George hopes the Warriors’ red hot form will help bring out a huge crowd for the game. “The football side are doing their things and our game day experience has improved considerably over this year. “But we’ve got to try to fill the stadium as best we can, we’re hoping for over 20,000 to come to this game, because it really does help the team.”

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Raiders ‘can improve’ Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart declared Josh Papalii not only beat his Gold Coast counterpart Jai Arrow hands down, but that he’s also State of Origin ready. Papalii was part of a dominant Raiders pack that helped set up their 32-18 victory over the Titans at Canberra Stadium on Saturday. The scary thing is, the Green Machine still hasn’t fully kicked into gear. Their attack exploded into life and their defence remained solid, but there were still a few errors to be ironed out, said Stuart.

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Around 70 people of all ages took part in the weekend’s Ashburton Duathlon race.

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■ DUATHLON

Sitak downed in final

Duathlon future assured

New Zealand doubles player Artem Sitak has come up short in yesterday’s final at the ATP tournament in Portugal. Sitak and his Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof have lost 6-4 6-2 to the British pairing of Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie.

“We started the match on fire we were up 3-1, 40-0 serving but they hit some unbelievable returns to break back,” Sitak said. “Just about every game went to deuce and they won a lot more deuce points than we did and that was the difference in the match.” - NZME

By Erin TaskEr

Erin.t@thEguardian.co.nz

The opening Ashburton Duathlon race of 2018 attracted a smaller field than usual on Sunday and organisers are hoping for better when race two rolls around next month.

Around 70 people lined up at the starting line at the Ashburton Showgrounds, which was the smallest field in the event’s history, organiser John Moore said.

But, there was no question as to the future of the event, which was first raced by Moore’s CJM’s Events in 2006.

“While our numbers weren’t big, hopefully the second race will be,” Moore said.

“We don’t want to lose it because it was the first event we ever did, and we’ve actually done more than 90 events now.”

He put the drop down to a clash with the popular Hanmer Half Marathon, and he was confident that numbers would pick up again for their second race on June 10, with some of the sport’s big names potentially using it as part of their build-up to the world championships on the Gold Coast.

And that was what made events like the Ashburton Duathlon so special – you could have top New Zealand athletes racing alongside novices and kids, Moore said.

The two-race Ashburton Duathlon used to be a four-race Ashburton Duathlon Series, but a couple of years ago they decided to drop it from the four races to the two, and moved it from its original home at the Ashburton Racecourse to the Ashburton Showgrounds.

Long and short course options were contested, with the short

course consisting of a 2.5km run, 10km bike and 1.25km run, and the long course being the 5km run, a 20km bike and a 2.5km run.

The run legs were now at the showgrounds, while the bike leg took competitors out Seafield Road to the Ashburton Airport and back.

People could race as individuals or as teams, and Moore said the event was popular with families.

Anyone wanting to enter the second race can enter on the Ashburton Duathlon website.

■ SURFING

Hareb takes historic victory at wave pool Paige Hareb has ended a 10-year World Surf League title drought in historic fashion, lifting the World Team to the first ever Founders’ Cup crown.

The Kiwi surfer’s first event win at Margaret River in Western Australia in 2008 launched her career, so it was fitting her second would

come in her comeback season on the Championship Tour.

“It’s been a long time between drinks,” Hareb said after the win.

Though the competition had no impact on CT standings, the five five-strong teams were competing hard at the WSL Surf Ranch in California to bring the

title home for their country.

Hareb’s World Team, including captain Jordy Smith, Michel Bourez, Kanoa Igarashi and Bianca Buitendag, proved too strong for Team Brazil and Team USA in the final yesterday, while Team Australia and Team Europe were eliminated in qualifying.

“Our whole team just didn’t really expect to win,” Hareb admitted. “We were all saying afterwards that we didn’t even expect to be in the final.”

It came down to the final heat, and in the end, it was a 9.27 ride from Smith that proved to be the difference.

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Top start for Tactix The Mainland Tactix narrowly defeated the Northern Stars after an overtime showdown saw the Christchurch-based team pip the Northern squad by one goal and claim a 61-60 victory. With an impressive shooting display from Brooke Leaver (10/10) and Australian import Kate Beveridge (21/25), the Tactix didn’t allow the Northern team much room to breathe before pushing past the Stars to claim their first opening game win since 2010.

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Pulse clean up Magic Katrina Grant’s Central Pulse romped past the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic in the second game of round one. Both teams showed patches of rustiness but it was the Wellington-based squad who settled the quickest to claim victory 45-33.

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In brief Chelsea charging back As Manchester City finally collected the Premier League trophy yesterday, Chelsea closed in on salvaging Champions League qualification from a lacklustre title defence and further weakened Liverpool’s grip on a top-four finish.

A resurgent Chelsea sealed a fifth successive victory when Olivier Giroud headed in the only goal against Liverpool. It’s an impressive turnaround for Chelsea, which has cut the gap to fourth-place Spurs from 10 to two points. - AP

Gunners fire up Arsenal and Burnley met yesterday in Arsene Wenger’s final home match in charge of the London club. It was a fitting send-off from the Emirates Stadium for Wenger, with Arsenal demolishing Burnley 5-0. Wenger is leaving Arsenal after 22 years, having failed to win the Premier League since 2004. Man City couldn’t produce a performance befitting title celebrations after being held 0-0

by Huddersfield.

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Ridenton off to Aussie

Mid Canterbury United maintained their unbeaten record with a win over Parklands in Ashburton on Saturday.

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■ FOOTBALL

MC United march on Mid Canterbury United remain the team to beat in Mainland Football’s division two competition, thanks to a 3-1 win over Parklands in Ashburton on Saturday.

Mid Canterbury United pulled away in the second half after the two sides had gone to the break locked at 1-all.

They maintain their unbeaten

record so far this season.

That record could come under threat this weekend though, when they travel to Christchurch to take on a Western side which has only dropped one game so far this season.

Over in the women’s division one competition second placed Mid Canterbury United followed up their 1-all draw with Halswell

United last weekend with 9-1 over Nomads at the Ashburton Domain on Sunday morning.

Maggie Tarry was named player of the day after scoring a hattrick.

Fran Clark and Amy Pearson added two goals each, and Caitlin Titheridge and Holly McTigue scored one each.

This weekend the Mid Canter-

bury United women are away to FC Twenty 11.

Meanwhile in the 17th grade division one competition Mid Canterbury United’s 17th grade team travelled to Christchurch and went down 3-2 to FC Twenty 11 Under-17s.

This weekend they host the Waimakariri United 17th grade team at the Ashburton Domain.

The Wellington Phoenix look likely to lose one of their best young players. Midfielder Matt Ridenton, who was one of their standouts during their recent A-League campaign, is almost certain to move across the Tasman. Ridenton is likely to end up at the Newcastle Jets – under former Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick – although there has been interest from other Australian clubs. He has talked openly about his desire to stay in Wellington, where he has progressed through the grades, but in the end the ongoing uncertainty at the capital franchise may be the key factor.

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Top 10 for Ko With the event protracted to just two rounds after poor weather forced the opening two rounds to be abandoned, former world No. 1 Ko shot a final round four-under par 67 yesterday to finish at sixunder overall. Ko was five shots behind the winner, with South Korea’s Sung Hyun Park securing a one-shot victory on 11-under.

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■ TOP PACER SOLD

Lazarus off to the States

By Michael Guerin New Zealand’s greatest racehorse Lazarus has been sold to a North American syndicate in a record deal and will not race here again.

The $3.8 million earner will leave for the US on May 24 where he will be aimed at a possible four-race mini career in an attempt to secure a major win there to help his dual hemisphere stallion credentials.

While the exact price is confidential, HRNZ estimates it must be close to $4 million when the other public offer for the fiveyear-old stallion is taken into account.

Lazarus has been purchased

by US thoroughbred breeding giant Taylor Made Stallions, a Kentucky-based operation run by the Taylor brothers, who started their racing lives in harness racing but have concentrated on thoroughbred breeding and yearling preparation for the last three decades.

It is believed they have re-

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Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 08 May 2018 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 1.50pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR DASH C1, 295m 1 77822 Rion King 17.45 .............................. M Grant 2 63863 Goldstar Tu Puc 17.50................J M Jopson 3 6F77x Sozin’s Treasure nwtd ...............J McInerney 4 54355 Cold Affair 17.84 .......................... L Waretini 5 28488 Bursar 17.40 ................................ K Cassidy 6 27636 Goldstar Scooter 17.52 S & ............ B Evans 7 21647 Chippy Jordy 17.37 .........................J Tanner 8 14243 Lord Protector 17.41 ........................ B Dann 9 28675 Epic Boom 17.47........................J M Jopson 10 27848 Just James 17.43 .......................H Anderton 2 2.06pm STEVE ANNGOW DRAPES & BLINDS PH 0272719588 SPRIN C1, 295m 1 86865 Homebush Clint nwtd ................J McInerney 2 13715 Hi Ho Tonto 17.66 ...............................A Lee 3 84554 Melan nwtd S & ............................... B Evans 4 38786 Ohoka Magic 17.45 ...................... L Waretini 5 86667 Goldstar Power 17.65 S &............... B Evans 6 66844 Culvie Yogi 17.38 H &..........................Taylor 7 46365 Know Bias 17.75 ............................G Cleeve 8 66717 Knocka Rush 17.95......................... M Grant 9 28675 Epic Boom 17.47........................J M Jopson 10 8x676 Smash Prince 17.66....................D Kingston 3 2.27 CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN STKS C1, 520m 1 15444 Cossie Cooper 30.70 .........................C Weir 2 51183 Sly Rose 30.96................................ R Wales 3 65421 Jealous Affair 31.04 ..................... L Waretini 4 46636 Black Eye Bill 31.05 .................. M Dempsey 5 46458 Know Leave 30.90 .........................G Cleeve 6 47657 Extra Salsa nwtd S & ...................... B Evans 7 63767 Twizel Storm 31.17.......................... M Grant 8 77736 My Bro Michael nwtd................. M Robinson 9 35688 Opawa Shay 31.13.......................... R Wales

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Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 08 May 2018 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.01pm (NZT) WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS. CO.NZ C0, 390m 1 383 Homebush Satara nwtd.............J McInerney 2 528 Cosmic Marty nwtd ...................J McInerney 3 5 Pretty Keen nwtd ...............................S Keen 4 733 Nippa Martino nwtd ...................J McInerney 5 5243 Homebush Maycee nwtd...........J McInerney 6 4435 Zefside nwtd..............................J McInerney 7 78 Homebush Izzy nwtd .................J McInerney 8 42 Chasing Great nwtd ..........................S Keen 9 8 Black Bobby nwtd........................ B I Conner 10 8821 Mick The Mower nwtd ...............J McInerney 2 12.18pm ADDED ENERGY DASH C1, 390m 1 6x637 Southern Affair 22.71 ..................R Hamilton 2 12 Tee An’ Cee 22.96 ....................... B I Conner 3 53785 Mounga nwtd ............................J McInerney 4 43187 Glass Harpoon nwtd ......................J Guthrie 5 76554 Homebush Patriot 22.86 ...........J McInerney 6 53338 Cosmic Ruben nwtd ..................J McInerney 7 65775 Sergio Star 23.33 ......................J McInerney 8 22254 Homebush Hundy 23.22 ...........J McInerney 9 74866 Magic Tracey nwtd.....................J McInerney 10 78787 Sacred Opera nwtd ........................J Guthrie 3 12.35pm SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C1, 390m 1 54437 Chief Doug 23.29 ......................J McInerney 2 34864 Homebush Skip 22.76 ...............J McInerney

cently reignited their interest in standardbred breeding by purchasing at least part of champion US trotter What The Hill but the Lazarus deal, put together by South Auckland agent John Curtin, breaks new ground.

While North America’s best horses shuttling here to stand at stud in their off-season is common, trying to turn an Australasian standardbred into a dual hemisphere stallion is extremely rare.

Christian Cullen stood one season at stud in the US but without having raced there was never going to be hugely commercial.

Lazarus will be given his chance with two races at the famous Red Mile track in October targeted as well as the Breeders Crown at Pocono, a series his new connections would need to pay a supplementary payment to make him eligible for.

But he will head to the US without his champion trainer Mark Purdon, with two of North

America’s leading trainers apparently in the frame to take over his training.

If, and it is a big if, Lazarus could win a serious race in the US and pace a super fast mile he has the attributes to become that

Trainer strikes early Raymond Connors’ jumping season is away to the perfect start. He produced last winter’s Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) winner Wise Men Say and Max to successfully open their campaigns at Wanganui on Sunday and completed a winning treble when Go To Man claimed the Rating 65 mile.

“It’s great to get a few winners and Max will start in the Waikato Steeples next,” Connors said. Max has been ridden in all three of his wins over the big fences by Isaac Lupton, who was also aboard Wise Men Say in Sunday’s maiden hurdle (3000m).

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rare dual hemisphere stallion.

In his 45 start career he has proven to be one of the greatest stayers bred in this part of the world, with some remarkable wins in two New Zealand Cups, an Inter Dominion, Hunter and Victoria Cups.

But just as importantly from a stallion appeal point of view he was a sensational two and threeyear-old, suggesting his stock will have the natural speed to run early.

And he is bred on Australasia’s golden cross, being by breed-defining stallion Bettors Delight out of a Christian Cullen mare.

The one down side to that is he obviously can’t serve Bettors Delight mares, who could be the dominant broodmare bunch in Australasia over the next decade.

His departure will sadden many local harness racing fans as it means Lazarus will not get the chance to attempt a third New Zealand Cup win at Addington in November.

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Top lot Sydney-bound Jason Abrahams of Champion Thoroughbreds went to $120,000 to secure the top lot in the yearling session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s May Sale. The daughter of Snitzel and the stakes-winning Stravinsky mare Tip The Wink was sold out of Curraghmore’s draft as lot 64 and will now head to John O’Shea’s Randwick stable. “She is quite an athletic filly, not overly big, but Snitzel himself is not overly big,” Abrahams said. “There is plenty of attitude to her.” - NZME

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway

4 35327 Replica Casino 17.80 .....................B Pringle 5 54557 Sparkling Terra 17.12 ......................R Casey 6 74746 Goldstar Bindi 17.89 S &................. B Evans 1 43323 Goldstar Bryton nwtd S &................ B Evans 7 51586 Homebush Ivana 17.64 .............J McInerney 2 22223 Distinctive Miss 17.60 ......................A Joyce 8 34674 Elodea 17.57 .............................R Blackburn 3 88x65 Wong Box 17.48.........................J M Jopson 9 57x76 Unfounded 17.43........................J M Jopson 4 83458 Belfast Delanie 17.59 H & ...................Taylor 5 8x527 Opawa Millie nwtd ........................D Roberts 10 28488 Bursar 17.40 ................................ K Cassidy 6 78877 Botany Whisper 17.77 ...............J McInerney 8 3.57 BENSON’S HAIR & BEAUTY HEAT 4 C1q, 295m 1 83664 Aroha 17.42 ...................................B Pringle 7 75143 Holly Grace 17.92 ........................... M Grant 2 x6388 Opawa Spirit nwtd ........................... R Wales 8 62517 Paringi Pam 17.45 M & ....................... Smith 3 51225 Smash Gator 17.51 ......................... M Grant 9 66775 Ohoka Tess nwtd.......................... L Waretini 4 528F8 Lavarno 17.72 S & .......................... B Evans 10 48587 Mulberry Minx 17.50 .....................R Adcock 5 87316 Goldstar Renee nwtd S & ............... B Evans 5 3.08pm AMBER CLEANING SERVICES C1, 520m 6 14577 Epic Rose 17.64.........................J M Jopson 1 76656 Matariki 30.92 ..................................A Joyce 7 x2251 Fiery Jemma 17.83 .......................... B Dann 2 21486 Running Freer nwtd............................C Weir 8 65671 Say Cheese 17.63...............................A Lee 3 61144 Oh So Nitro 29.98 J & .....................D Fahey 9 66775 Ohoka Tess nwtd.......................... L Waretini 4 63588 Goldstar Liberty 30.75 S &.............. B Evans 5 4712 Know Flare 30.35 ...........................G Cleeve 10 48587 Mulberry Minx 17.50 .....................R Adcock 6 6x485 Opawa Pam nwtd ............................ R Wales 9 4.16 BENSON’S HAIR & BEAUTY HEAT 5 C1q, 295m 1 23877 My Ginger Kiss 17.80 S & ............... B Evans 7 52646 Smash Calling 30.78 ....................... M Grant 2 65522 Venetia 17.53 ............................... K Cassidy 8 48753 Little Krakatoa 30.80 ................. A Bradshaw 3 37743 Sea Spray Elsa 17.47 .................B Freeman 9 35688 Opawa Shay 31.13.......................... R Wales 4 7x754 Cornali 17.68..............................J M Jopson 10 87888 Opawa Richie nwtd ......................... R Wales 6 3.24 BENSON’S HAIR & BEAUTY HEAT 2 C1q, 295m 5 5684x Fab Action nwtd .........................D Stapleton 6 88575 Tikao Jackie 17.63 M & ....................... Smith 1 x3765 Leanne’s Way 17.81 ...................J M Jopson 7 26445 Idol Georgie 17.31 ............................ J Rush 2 8838x Tui Style 17.54 M & ............................. Smith 8 31643 Homebush Tasha 17.93 ............J McInerney 3 44836 Red Margin 17.43 ........................... M Grant 9 66775 Ohoka Tess nwtd.......................... L Waretini 4 25538 It’s That Fresh nwtd S & .................. B Evans 5 53548 Mamma Rose nwtd .........................R Casey 10 14888 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S & ............... B Evans 6 6523x Opawa Janet nwtd .......................... R Wales 10 4.36 BENSON’S HAIR & BEAUTY HEAT 6 C1q, 295m 1 36265 Dime Diva 17.55..............................J Tanner 7 45422 Goldstar Jay Jay 17.62 S & ............. B Evans 2 88628 Scissor Clip nwtd ........................B Freeman 8 747x2 Cheese Please nwtd ...........................A Lee 3 56532 Poetik 17.59 S & ............................. B Evans 9 57x76 Unfounded 17.43........................J M Jopson 4 87873 Homebush Ellie 17.39 ...............J McInerney 10 28488 Bursar 17.40 ................................ K Cassidy 7 3.41 BENSON’S HAIR & BEAUTY HEAT 3 C1q, 295m 5 24348 Idol Star 17.50................................. R Wales 6 65745 Verbena 17.52 .............................. K Cassidy 1 26x88 Summer Salt 17.57 .........................J Tanner 7 65552 Tilt 17.39 ...................................... L Waretini 2 23321 Jingili Jill 17.55 M & ............................ Smith 8 42888 Batty Who 17.73 M & .......................... Smith 3 x6556 Opawa Bucks Eye 17.26 ............H Anderton 10 87787 Pirate’s Curse nwtd J & ...................D Fahey

4 2.49 BENSON’S HAIR & BEAUTY HEAT 1 C1q, 295m

9 57x76 Unfounded 17.43........................J M Jopson 10 14888 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S & ............... B Evans 11 4.55pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH STAKES C1, 520m 1 86864 Loose Donald nwtd ................... M Dempsey 2 88672 Opawa Sophie 30.52....................... R Wales 3 51635 Stompin’ Ground nwtd S & .............. B Evans 4 23427 Go Belle 30.96 J & ..........................D Fahey 5 22573 Allen Mack nwtd ...........................C Roberts 6 34744 Homebush Fued nwtd ...............J McInerney 7 27374 Smash Rebel 30.58 ........................ M Grant 8 85565 Bluey Fields 31.07 H & .......................Taylor 9 86x77 Know Courtesy 30.89.....................G Cleeve 10 87888 Opawa Richie nwtd ......................... R Wales 12 5.14pm KOLORFUL KANVAS STAKES C1, 520m 1 32311 Eyrewell Ebony 30.75 .................... H Cairns 2 67752 Opawa Al 30.75............................... R Wales 3 x2124 Fantastic Daisy 30.93.........................C Weir 4 52425 Know Equal 31.03 ..........................G Cleeve 5 57F57 Spring Sam 30.74 .....................J McInerney 6 58663 Zara Zoe 30.85 ............................... R Wales 7 74453 Forza nwtd ................................ M Robinson 8 74766 Goldstar Jagger 30.80 S & .............. B Evans 9 86x77 Know Courtesy 30.89.....................G Cleeve 10 87787 Pirate’s Curse nwtd J & ...................D Fahey 13 5.36pm THER TURF BAR SPRINT C1, 295m 1 86542 Jinno Gino 17.51 ......................... J McMillan 2 33385 Smash Ocean 17.58 ....................... M Grant 3 64373 Goldstar Sawyer 17.60 S & ............. B Evans 4 76556 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37 .......................A Joyce 5 32233 Gordy Junior 17.51 ....................J M Jopson 6 54854 Mitcham Moody 17.37...............J McInerney 7 21776 Dunk It 17.62.................................... B Dann 8 356x4 Blazin Action 17.86 ....................D Stapleton 9 28675 Epic Boom 17.47........................J M Jopson 10 27848 Just James 17.43 .......................H Anderton 14 5.51 ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT C1, 295m 1 87528 Inky Lord 17.53 ............................S Hindson

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57x76 Unfounded 17.43........................J M Jopson 27254 Feral Kaiaka 17.72 .......................M A Butler 75346 Goldstar Po nwtd S & ...................... B Evans 56573 Auros Advantage 17.67 S & ............ B Evans 33576 Opawa Lawsey nwtd ....................... R Wales 53543 Koroibete 17.92 H & ............................Taylor 48686 Half Silver Fern 17.98 ...............J McInerney 28675 Epic Boom 17.47........................J M Jopson 8x676 Smash Prince 17.66....................D Kingston 15 6.08pm LIVAMOL DASH C1, 295m 1 65637 Call Me Joe 17.57 .................... A Botherway 2 37665 Go All Lin nwtd .......................... A Bradshaw 3 55356 Dapper Danny 17.56 ................... J McMillan 4 18752 Culvie Jay Dee 17.51 H & ...................Taylor 5 84477 Coleridge Jim 17.60 M &..................... Smith 6 74853 Little Snicko 17.54 .....................J McInerney 7 48645 Goldstar Spotty nwtd S & ................ B Evans 8 57587 Mr Black Magic nwtd S & ................ B Evans 9 28675 Epic Boom 17.47........................J M Jopson 10 8x676 Smash Prince 17.66....................D Kingston SELECTIONS

Race 1: Rion King, Lord Protector, Chippy Jordy, Goldstar Scooter Race 2: Melan, Hi Ho Tonto, Ohoka Magic, Knocka Rush Race 3: Cossie Cooper, Sly Rose, My Bro Michael, Black Eye Bill Race 4: Distinctive Miss, Wong Box, Paringi Pam, Holly Grace Race 5: Oh So Nitro, Little Krakatoa, Running Freer, Smash Calling Race 6: It’s That Fresh, Cheese Please, Opawa Janet, Red Margin Race 7: Replica Casino, Elodea, Sparkling Terra, Summer Salt Race 8: Aroha, Say Cheese, Fiery Jemma, Mulberry Minx Race 9: Venetia, Sea Spray Elsa, My Ginger Kiss, Fab Action Race 10: Dime Diva, Poetik, Tilt, Homebush Ellie, Scissor Clip Race 11: Stompin’ Ground, Allen Mack, Opawa Sophie, Smash Rebel Race 12: Eyrewell Ebony, Opawa Al, Spring Sam, Know Equal Race 13: Jinno Gino, Mitcham Moody, Smash Ocean, Dunk It Race 14: Inky Lord, Opawa Lawsey, Koroibete, Feral Kaiaka Race 15: Go All Lin, Call Me Joe, Little Snicko, Goldstar Spotty LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway

3 36835 Zip Zap Zoe nwtd ......................J McInerney 6 1.26pm CONGRATULATIONS KAZY C2, 457m 10 78787 Sacred Opera nwtd ........................J Guthrie 4 72335 Cosmic Ryder nwtd ...................J McInerney 1 85823 Sea Fever 26.00 .......................... B I Conner 9 2.17pm GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C1, 457m 5 84844 Koputai nwtd ..................................J Guthrie 2 45223 Coco Bango nwtd......................J McInerney 1 214 Elland Road nwtd ......................J McInerney 6 73647 Homebush Kazzy 23.66 ............J McInerney 3 26531 Hard Questions 26.04 ....................G Cleeve 2 74844 Know Dollars nwtd .........................G Cleeve 7 61 Chasing Fame nwtd ..........................S Keen 4 21243 Shoe Fly 26.95 ...........................J M Jopson 3 43544 Know Conclusion 26.34 .................G Cleeve 8 53178 Tartan Watch 23.51 ........................J Guthrie 5 12622 Dyna Vernon 27.03 ......................C Roberts 4 75281 Sly Bet nwtd ...............................J M Jopson 9 17883 Homebush Sloan 22.50 ............J McInerney 6 54338 Southern Honey 26.33 ................R Hamilton 5 83442 Zipping Ripley nwtd ..................... B I Conner 10 78787 Sacred Opera nwtd ........................J Guthrie 7 61482 Homebush Ragna 26.50 ...........J McInerney 6 48225 Avalanch City 26.15 ..................J McInerney 4 12.52 CONGRATULATIONS TONI TWISTED SISTA 8 41F78 Darlek Ian 26.22........................J McInerney 7 55645 Rockstar Kobe 26.54....................C Roberts 9 66657 Shift The Blame 25.94...............J McInerney C2/3, 457m 8 38548 Dave’s Pick nwtd .......................J McInerney 1 67167 Sozin’s Emperor nwtd ...............J McInerney 7 1.43 COLIN AND ORMA GRAY MEMORIAL INVER- 9 87x78 Pianissimo 26.26......................... B I Conner 2 76457 Zipping Jen nwtd ......................... B I Conner CARGILL CUP C5f, 457m 10 888x7 Zipping Piper 26.56 ..................... B I Conner 3 45574 Dave’s Dot nwtd ........................J McInerney 1 35225 Charlie Runkel 25.89 ........................B Eade 10 2.37 ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C2, 390m 4 72311 Storming Mack 26.13 .................. B I Conner 2 75722 Think Tank nwtd ........................J McInerney 1 45514 Broken Penniless 22.94 .................G Cleeve 5 2144x Umbridge Bale nwtd.....................C Roberts 3 17771 Must Be Rusty 26.13.................J McInerney 2 16338 Homebush Scorpio 23.38 .........J McInerney 6 21744 Cosmic Stu nwtd .......................J McInerney 4 x4131 Rover Bale 25.64 .........................C Roberts 3 64431 Oskitz nwtd ..................................C Roberts 7 27382 Homebush Boden 26.94 ...........J McInerney 5 43423 Sarcasm 26.17 ...............................G Cleeve 4 71688 Jealous Much 23.12 ..................J McInerney 8 2125x Vicarious nwtd..............................C Roberts 6 54883 Botany Alan 25.88.....................J McInerney 5 47518 Homebush Hazel nwtd ..............J McInerney 9 66657 Shift The Blame 25.94...............J McInerney 7 13141 Zipping Clyde 25.87 .................... B I Conner 6 53322 Detective Dash nwtd .................J McInerney 5 1.09pm TONI@BODYAUDIT.CO.NZ PH 021657001 8 13226 Southern Lights 25.84.................R Hamilton 7 72686 Valyrian Steel 22.82 ..................J McInerney 9 85823 Sea Fever 26.00 .......................... B I Conner C5, 390m 8 66156 Pip Baxter nwtd .........................J McInerney 1 11124 Wheelchair Norm 22.08 ............J McInerney 8 2.00pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C1, 457m 9 68864 Gotcha Penny nwtd ...................J McInerney 2 71655 Homebush Austin 22.87 ............J McInerney 1 612 Know Shame 26.66........................G Cleeve 10 78472 Homebush Scribe 22.48 ...........J McInerney 3 32436 Homebush Rufus nwtd ..............J McInerney 2 21743 Malaga Molly 26.97 ...................J McInerney 11 2.56pm WWW.BODYAUDIT.CO.NZ C3, 390m 4 23765 Sozin’s Blue 22.70 ....................J McInerney 3 15875 Luciastar 26.03 .........................J McInerney 1 6x117 Homebush Cherico 22.76 .........J McInerney 5 14654 Botany Cold nwtd ......................J McInerney 4 112 Zipping Mia 26.57 ....................... B I Conner 2 33614 Senorita Julie nwtd....................J McInerney 6 75238 Debbie Baxter 22.57 .................J McInerney 5 66848 Forbury Flyer 27.15 ...................J McInerney 3 21567 Barellen Panther nwtd ..................C Roberts 7 38126 Abrasador 22.17 ...............................B Eade 6 32671 Gotcha Rocky nwtd ...................J McInerney 4 18732 Chop Shop nwtd .......................J McInerney 8 34816 Cosmic Jase 22.90 ...................J McInerney 7 28822 Cerrone Bale nwtd .......................C Roberts 5 34268 Homebush Miles 22.44 .............J McInerney 9 63187 Star Bucking 22.85....................J McInerney 8 65777 Awesome Annie nwtd.................. B I Conner 6 21612 Another Message 22.81 .............J M Jopson 10 57858 Cosmic Richie 22.60 .................J McInerney 9 888x7 Zipping Piper 26.56 ..................... B I Conner 7 37221 Mitcham Faye 23.02 ..................J McInerney

8 43483 Zugzwang 22.88 .........................R Hamilton Emergencies: 9 55464 Magic Mike 22.40 .........................C Roberts 10 35587 Homebush Banker 22.67 ..........J McInerney 12 3.15pm RACING AGAIN 22 MAY C3/4, 390m 1 x7834 Epic Dream nwtd........................J M Jopson 2 76876 Hey Jude 22.84 .........................J McInerney 3 8F774 Queen Kong 22.69 ....................J McInerney 4 56713 Super Bad 22.52 ..........................D Roberts 5 71486 Unverified nwtd .........................J McInerney 6 188xF Dyna Eroll nwtd ............................C Roberts 7 64572 Cawbourne Britty 22.42 ...............C Roberts 8 15747 Flaming Sambuca 22.65 ...........J McInerney Emergencies: 9 55464 Magic Mike 22.40 .........................C Roberts 10 35587 Homebush Banker 22.67 ..........J McInerney SELECTIONS

Race 1: Chasing Great, Zefside, Homebush Izzy, Mick The Mower Race 2: Tee An’ Cee, Homebush Hundy, Homebush Patriot Race 3: Chasing Fame, Chief Doug, Homebush Skip, Homebush Kazzy Race 4: Umbridge Bale, Vicarious, Sozin’s Emperor, Shift The Blame Race 5: Wheelchair Norm, Sozin’s Blue, Debbie Baxter, Cosmic Jase Race 6: Hard Questions, Dyna Vernon, Shoe Fly, Coco Bango Race 7: Rover Bale, Sarcasm, Charlie Runkel, Must Be Rusty Race 8: Zipping Mia, Know Shame, Malaga Molly, Gotcha Rocky Race 9: Know Conclusion, Elland Road, Avalanch City, Sly Bet Race 10: Oskitz, Broken Penniless, Homebush Scorpio, Valyrian Steel Race 11: Homebush Cherico, Another Message, Zugzwang Race 12: Dyna Eroll, Epic Dream, Queen Kong, Hey Jude LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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we have been able to secure.” ing to the Silver Ferns’ results.

Mackinnon, chair of the review They will also be asked to identipanel, said the process would be fy any other relevant areas that may thorough and fair. have contributed to the perfor“Netball is an incredibly impor- mance of the Silver Ferns including tant part of the fabric of New Zea- high performance pathways, comland sport and the sport should be petition structures and alignment applauded for having the courage with the zones and franchises. to open themselves up to the scruThe review process will include tiny of an independent review,” he Ferns coaches, management and said. athletes, NNZ management and The trio will analyse all material board members, ANZ Premiership Guardian Classifieds aspects of the Silver Ferns’ perfor- franchise coaches, New Zealand mance at the 2018 Commonwealth Netball Players’ Associat to netball Games including the performance, as determined by the panel.- NZME preparation and planning; team strategy and tactics, resources committed to the campaign, leadership capability, selection policies and 10am - 3pm processes, team culture and TUESDAY AGE CONCERN, 206 CLUB. stakeholder alignment.

8.30am - 1pm Fun filled days for over 60years, for more The review will cover the ASHBURTON MENZSHED. information ring 308-6817. Cameron period from January 1, 2016, Come and join “fellow sheddies” for Street. until now. The panel will be some fun and fellowship, make/fix asked to identify and evaluate 10.30am something on our new workshop. 8 the strengths and weaknesses AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. William Street. of the campaign and any othMETHVEN- Gentle exercises for muscle 9.30am er material factors contributstrength and balance in a friendly ASHBURTON COMBINED supportive environment. All Saints FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Church, 1 Chapman Street, Methven.

Meeting with guest speaker, visitors welcome. Senior Centre, Cameron Street. 12pm – 3pm JUSTICE OF PEACE SIGNING CENTRE. 9.30am Open every Tuesday for documentation ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. signing with a JP on hand.

Your opportunity to tell Mid Canterbury Walking group meets outside church. 48 Community House, 44 Cass Street.

Allens Road. of your next event or meeting 1pm 10am ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE CLUB. Daily Events is a FREE DAILY LISTING of MID CANTERBURY EVENTS to be held in the M.S.A. TAI CHI. immediate future by non-commercial organisations. To arrange for events to be published Social games, new members welcome.

Exercises and Tai Chi for arthritis.

M.S.A. in Daily Events, clip this form, fill in the applicable details and hand in to our LEVEL 3 office 115 Racecourse Road.

Social Hall, Havelock Street. (excludes on Burnett Street or post to: Ashburton Guardian, P.O. Box 77, Ashburton 7740, to reach 1pm school and public holidays). us no later than 12 noon, 3 (three) working days prior to the first publication.

R.S.A. INDOOR BOWLS. 10am Weekly social indoor bowls. Linton NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. CONDITIONS: lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

1. Telephoned information NOT accepted.

Coffee morning for new people to the 1pm 2. Forms MUST be signed by an authorised representative of the organisation concerned. area. Nosh Cafe, Ashford Village, West 3. A separate form MUST be submitted for each future event and may be lodged with AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. Street. the Guardian as far in advance as desired. For example: A club which meets monthly RAKAIA - Gentle exercises for muscle 10am may submit, say, 12 separate forms simultaneously – one pertaining to each meeting strength and balance in a friendly MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. scheduled over the following 12 months. supportive environment. Presbyterian NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art 4. The organisation acknowledges that no responsibility for errors or omissions will be Church, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

Gallery and hall of memories.

160 Main accepted by the Guardian Company.

1pm - 3pm Street, Methven.

ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. BLOCK LETTERS PLEASE ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Day of event. ....................................................................................................................

WEDNESDAY Holy Communion, Park Street.

6am Date of event ....................................................................................................................

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Starting time ....................................................................................................................

Sweaty Bettys circuit training in hall, 48 Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Allens Road, Allenton.

Name of organisation......................................................................................................

Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main 8.30am Street, Methven. ...........................................................................................................................................

ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. 10am - 3pm Mellish Stream in the back country, all Nature of event (Use maximum of 6 words) AGE CONCERN 206 CLUB. welcome, phone Jenny 08-6862. Meet Monday Tuesday and Wednesday ...........................................................................................................................................

Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square each week, 60 years and older. More West. ........................................................................................................................................... information ring Age Concern 308-6817.

8.30am - 1pm Cameron Street.

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ASHBURTON MENZSHED. 10.30am Come and join “fellow sheddies” for ...........................................................................................................................................

AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. some fun and fellowship, make/fix CENTRAL TOWN - Gentle exercises for something on our new workshop. 8 muscle strength and balance in a friendly William Street. (not public holidays).

Not for publication supportive environment. Buffalo Lodge 9.30am I hereby authorise publication of the above information on behalf of the organisation rooms, Cox Street, Ashburton.

ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. concerned.

10.45am Steady As You Go Exercise group. Meet M.S.A. TAI CHI. Name ................................................................................................................................. at 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

Seated exercises suitable for people (Block letters) 9.30am with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. Address ............................................................................................................................. hall, Havelock Street. (excluding school ALLENTON - Gentle exercises for holidays).

Contact phs .............................................(day) ...................................................(evenings) muscle strength and balance in a friendly 1.30pm supportive environment. St David’s Signature ...................................................................................................................................

WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Church, Allenton.

Weekly Euchre with cash prizes and 9.45am afternoon tea. Waireka Croquet Club, MID CANTERBURY LADIES The Domain, Philip Street.

FRIENDSHIP CLUB. 1.30pm General monthly meeting. Doris Linton AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

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Netball New Zealand has announced a three-person panel, led

by Auckland lawyer and experienced sports director Don Mackinnon, will review the disastrous Silver Ferns’ campaign at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Two independent members, Team New Zealand chief operating officer, round the world and America’s Cup yachtsmen Kevin Shoebridge, along with former Silver Fern, Pasifika community leader and general manager of Duffy Books in Homes Linda Vagana, have been appointed by the NNZ board to join Mackinnon in examining the performance of the team.

“We were extremely disappointed with the results at the Commonwealth Games and need to understand what influenced the team’s performance,” NNZ board chair Allison Ferguson said.

“We believe a thorough independent review is needed if we’re to get it right for the future of the Silver Ferns and we are thrilled with the quality of the panel that

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May 8 and 9, 2018 A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future, Seafield Road .

5.30pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Youth group, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

6pm INTEGRATIVE YOGA. Weekly yoga classes. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

6pm - 7.30pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Sprint Session, visit Run and Walk Ashburton facebook page for more details. Meet Walnut Avenue Pavilion, Ashburton Domain.

7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. All ages and abilities welcome, racquets available. E A Network Centre Stadium, 20 River Terrace.

7.30pm ASHBURTON TABLE TENNIS. Table Tennis, weekly meeting for all levels, come “Have A Go!” Ashburton M.S.A. Havelock Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON KIDNEY SOCIETY INC. Annual General Meeting with speaker Max Reid, CEO Kidney Health NZ, all interested welcome. St John rooms, Tancred Street. supportive environment. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street, Ashburton.

6pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. 5km town circuit. All walking abilities and fitness levels catered for. Leaves from Philip Street beside the croquet lawn at 6pm sharp.

7pm BOOTCAMP. Catering for all levels of fitness. Hinds Domain. Contact Georgia 0276888686 or Aleisha 0278489309.

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

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

7.30pm ALLENTON INDOOR BOWLING CLUB. Club night at the McNally Street Stadium.

7.30pm ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC. Practical learning - Panning, Action and Motion. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Every person you encounter over the course of this day is someone who needs to be there. It’s all on track and as it should be. Maybe it’s not how you would have planned it, but it’s time to trust what is.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’ll be first on the scene, first to hear the whisper of a new idea, first to join in with the giggle of novelty. Being first comes with a choice that really affects the future – to share or not to share?

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You like making people laugh.

If they are smiling and having a good time around you today, you’ll feel you’ve done your job. Anyone who thinks this doesn’t count as work is dead wrong.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You can see so clearly where a project needs to land, so work backward.

Begin where you are and visualise to the best of your ability to do it to the extent you can.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Your affirmation of the day: All is well and everything is working toward the highest and best. Repeat often, especially when things are not going according to your plan. Leos are lucky for you now.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): The truth has consequences that will be weighed against the consequences of lies. In other words, people will tell as much truth as they think they can tell without getting into trouble.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Observe the difference between smart and wise. Knowledge is not wisdom.

The recitation of wisdom is not wisdom.

Wisdom is a concentrated extract from a body of experience accumulated over time.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): One of the hardest things you’ll do is something that no one is asking of you: to socialise. It’s an implicit expectation. Light interaction will be expected, even when you’re not in the mood.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It’s good for the whole group when the strongest are supported, encouraged and rewarded. However, the strong must never be prized above the weak, who have just as much to teach us, if not more.

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A service for Moira will be held at St James Presbyterian Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald on THURSDAY, May 10, commencing at 1.30pm.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

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12:35 Love On Ice 2016 12:20 The Force MC Romantic Comedy.

1:20 Pawn Stars PG 2am It Had To Be You 16LS 1:50 NCIS – New Orleans MVS 2015 Romantic Comedy.

2:40 Supergirl MVS 3:30 SVU 3:20 Incarnate 16VLC 2016 MV 4:20 Border Security Horror. 4:45 The Directors – M 4:45 NCIS PGV 5:35 The Rob Marshall PG 5:15 Ghost In The Shell MV 2017 Action.

Simpsons PG

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6am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 6:25 Ben 10 – Ultimate Alien 0 6:50 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 3 0 7:15 League Of Super Evil 3 0 7:40 Duck Dodgers 3 8:05 Max Steel 3 8:30 Henry Danger 3 8:55 The Moe Show 0 9:20 Jeopardy 3 9:50 The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Flog It! 12:40 Ed PGR 0 1:35 Married With Children PGR 2:05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 5pm Frasier 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm American Restoration 0 6:30 Pawn Stars 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Great British Bake Off It’s the semi-final and the last four contestants are three patisserie challenges away from the biggest day in their baking lives. 0 8:35 The Seventies PGR 9:35 Mayday PGR 10:30 Superior Donuts PGR 0

6am The Living Room 6:30 Zoomoo 6:40 Dora 7am Junk Gypsies 7:30 Love Matatoa 2 7:10 Te Mana Nature – Kilauea: Playing With Kuratahi 7:40 Pukana 3 Fire 8:30 Brother v Brother 2 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Te 9:30 River Cottage Bites Kaea 3 2 8:30 KaweKorero 3 10am Luke Nguyen’s Food 9am Swagger 9:30 Kai Time Trail 10:30 American Pickers On The Road 3 10:30 My Party 11:30 World’s Busiest Cities Song 3 11am Waka Huia 3 12:30 Off The Beaten Track With Noon Game Of Bros PGR 3 Kate Humble 1:30 Heritage 12:30 Billy T James AO 3 Rescue 2:30 Flying Across Britain 1pm Moko Aotearoa 3 With Arthur Williams 3:30 Love 1:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 Nature – Ice-Age Giants 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari 4:30 Jamie’s Great Britain Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 Jamie Oliver visits Leicester to 3pm Zoomoo 3 3:10 Dora explore the impact the British Empire Matatoa 2 3:40 Te Mana and the love of spice have had on Kuratahi 4:10 Pukana 3 Britain’s food culture, and learns the 4:20 Huritua 3 origins of two famous British foods.

4:30 Fresh 5:30 Animal Park 5pm Tagata Pasifika 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Matapihi 6:30 Cash Cowboys 6:30 Te Kaea 3 2 7pm KaweKorero 7:30 Inside Ikea (Part 1) 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 8:30 Buying And Selling With 8pm Matau PGR The Property Brothers The Matau Bros are at Great 9:30 Money For Nothing Barrier Island looking for a Sarah Moore saves three whai/stingray. items from being thrown 8:30 Piri’s Tiki Tour PGR out, transforms them into 9pm Toa Hunter Gatherer PGR bespoke and valuable pieces, 9:30 Real Husbands Of and returns the profit to their Hollywood owners.

10pm Whawhai – Fight Night 10:30 Animal Park 10:30 SmackDown PGR 3

11pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

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

12:30 Closedown

11:30 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 Midnight Closedown

MOVIES GREATS 6:50 Warrior MVL 2011 Action. Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte. 9:10 Burn After Reading 16VLS 2008 Crime Comedy. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt.

10:45 The Last Castle MVL 2001 Drama. Robert Redford, James Gandolfini. 12:55 Dark Shadows MVL 2012 Comedy Horror. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer. 2:45 Man On Fire 16VC 2004 Crime.

Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning.

5:10 Boogeyman MC 2005 Horror. Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless.

6:40 Contraband 16VLC 2012 Crime. Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster.

8:30 Avatar MV 2009 Sci-fi Action. When a former marine is thrown into hostilities on an alien planet as an Avatar, he finds himself between two worlds, and must fight for his survival and that of the indigenous people.

Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver.

11:15 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel PGLS 2011 Comedy Drama. Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton.

WEDNESDAY

1:15 The Good Shepherd MVLS 2006 Drama.

Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie.

4am People Interview – Melissa McCarthy 2016 4:25 Boogeyman MC 2005 Horror. 5:55 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel PGLS 2011 Comedy Drama.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Rugby – First XV Revision 6:30 Rugby – First XV (RPL) Nelson v St Andrews.

8am Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Hurricanes v Lions.

8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Sharks v Highlanders.

9am Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Stormers v Bulls.

9:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Well Fargo Championship.

10:30 Golf – European Tour (HLS) GolfSixes. 11am L Golf – Players Champs 1pm Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Volunteers of America Texas Shootout – Round Four.

1:30 Motorcycling – British Superbike Championship (HLS) Round Three – Oulton Park. 2:30 Motorcycling – MotoGP (HLS) Gran Premio Red Bull de Espana. 3pm Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Hurricanes v Lions. 5pm Rugby – First XV (RPL) Nelson v St Andrews.

6:30 The World Rugby Show 7pm Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Waratahs v Blues.

7:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Hurricanes v Lions.

8pm Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Sharks v Highlanders.

8:30 The Breakdown 9:30 The Back Page 10:30 Cricket – IPL (HLS) Sunrisers v Royal Challengers.

11pm Golf On Par 11:30 The Breakdown

11:30 Jamie’s Great Britain Jamie Oliver visits Leicester to explore the impact the British Empire and the love of spice have had on Britain’s food culture, and learns the origins of two famous British foods.

12:30 Junk Gypsies 1am Cash Cowboys 2am Love Nature – Ice Age Giants 3am Heritage Rescue 4am Inside Ikea 5am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers

SKY SPORT 2 6am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Friday. 6:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v Tigers. 7am NRL 360 8am Big League Wrap 9am Rugby League – Super League (RPL) Leeds Rhinos v Warrington Wolves.

11am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Raiders v Titans.

1pm Fight Night 3pm UFC Now 4pm UFC Top 10 5pm Cricket – IPL (HLS) Sunrisers v Royal Challengers.

5:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Saturday.

6pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sunday.

6:30 Motorsport – Supercars Championship (HLS) Perth Supersprint – Race 10.

7pm Motorsport – Supercars Championship (HLS) Perth Supersprint – Race 11.

From Barbagallo Raceway.

7:30 Cricket – IPL (HLS) Sunrisers v Royal Challengers.

8pm Super League Fulltime 8:30 NRL 360 9:30 The Fan 10pm Queenslanders Only 10:30 NRL Try Time 11:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v Tigers.

WEDNESDAY

Midnight The Crowd Goes Wild 12:30 Super League Fulltime 1am NRL 360 2am The Fan WEDNESDAY 2:30 Queenslanders 12:30 Rugby Nation 1:30 Football – UEFA Europa Only 3am NRL Try Time 4am Rugby League – League (RPL) Semi-final One. 3:30 Football – UEFA Europa Queensland Cup (RPL) Norths Devils v Mackay Cutters.

League (RPL) Semi-final Two.

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

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Deadliest Catch M Respect Earned. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Ferrari Fix Part 1 – Dead Head Bus. 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Spring Forward.

10am Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Parked in the Keys. 10:50 Diesel Brothers – Power Hour PG Sema. 11:40 Swamp Murders M Shoeprints in the Mud. 12:30 Blood Relatives M You’ll Be the Death of Me. 1:20 Evil Lives Here M 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 Deadliest Catch M Man Down. 4:45 What On Earth? PG 5:40 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Ferrari Fix Part 2 – 1917 Reo. 6:35 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Parked in the Keys.

7:30 BattleBots PG Last Chance to Advance – Round of 16, Part 2. 8:30 What On Earth? PG 9:25 Street Science PG 9:50 Street Science PG Tension Demolition.

10:15 Naked And Afraid M 11:05 Naked And Afraid M 11:55 Evil Lives Here M

WEDNESDAY

12:45 Blood Relatives M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 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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Sport

Hampstead’s Rebecca Clarke looks for support down the turf during her side’s big win over Hampstead/Collegians in Ashburton on Saturday.

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Hampstead finish with a flourish

BY ERIN TASKER

ERIN.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Four late goals gave Hampstead a big win over fellow Mid Canterbury side Hampstead/Collegians in the Mid/South Canterbury senior women’s hockey competition on Saturday.

Hampstead held a 4-2 lead with around 15 minutes remaining at the Ashburton hockey turf before making a late run, slotting another four goals before the final whistle to go away with an 8-2 win.

It was a convincing performance across the turf by the traditionally strong Hampstead side, with Sam Dalziel a stand-out up front and Georgia Clarke putting in a play-

er of the day performance, as Hampstead heads into a big few days with two matches in four days to finish the competition’s first round.

For Hampstead/Collegians, Saturday’s match was a tough end to what was otherwise an improved performance, coach Karen McIntyre said.

“I’m not sure what they did, they just switched off,” McIntyre said.

There were positives to take from the game, and they did score two good goals through Kate Donald and Tayla Love, but with Cambridge lying in wait this weekend they couldn’t afford any lapses, McIntyre said.

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McIntyre said if her young side kept improving as they had been, the results would come.

“They are a very capable young team.

“They just need to put it together on the field for the whole game,” McIntyre said.

Both Mid Canterbury women’s sides will have home games this weekend, with Hampstead/Collegians up against Cambridge and Hampstead taking on Craighead.

Hampstead will then tackle Cambridge next Wednesday night in Timaru in a rescheduled final match of the competition’s first round.

If both Hampstead and Cambridge won

this weekend, that mid-week clash would effectively become a first-round final, with the winner claiming the Mary Smith Trophy.

In the senior men’s competition, Mid Canterbury’s sole side Wakanui had the weekend off.

With the opening weekend of duck shooting taking players out, they opted to move their third round match.

It was played in the school holidays, in Oamaru against Tainui, and it was one of two wins from three games the side has had to start their season.

This weekend Wakanui will host Cambridge in Ashburton.

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