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Warning: Big chill set to hang about Motorists are being warned about the dangers of black ice as Mid Canterbury continues to shiver this week.

The minimum air temperature at Methven yesterday morning was -6.2°C and MetService meteorologist Peter Little said that translated to a ground frost of about 10°C. At the Ashburton airport, the low was -2.5°C yesterday morning, with a 4.5°C frost.

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Ashburton people were expected to awake to another 4°C frost today, with even icier conditions tomorrow.

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Chorus cleans up in Australia

BY COLIN ENGELBRECHT COLIN.E@THEGUARDINA.CO.NZ

A New Zealand group has cleaned up the medals in the Australian National Performing Arts Competition.

Ashburton College’s Phoenix Chorus travelled to the Gold Coast over the weekend and picked up a haul of gold, silver and bronze.

The 25 strong chorus competed in the Secondary Large Teams Down Tempo section, picking up a bronze medal.

Lucy Clough, Libby ClarkHigson, Gabrielle Stringer and Annelise Diamond won the gold medal for the Secondary Small Teams Down Tempo section.

In the Secondary Glee! Soloists section, Samantha McArthur, Lucy Clough and Libby ClarkHigson scored gold, silver and bronze respectively.

There were more than 2500 competitors participating and the event was held in the Gold Coast Exhibition and Conference Centre; the Phoenix Chorus was the only New Zealand school

competing. Choral manager Carolyn Clough said they were proud of the group, not only for their success, but for their politeness and professionalism, which was highlighted by event director Roxanne Thew.

The group left on Thursday morning and competed on Saturday, before returning home at 3am on Monday morning after their midnight flight was delayed.

Musical director Jo Castelow said she was so elated with the fantastic results.

She said the choir had been practising throughout the year but they only found out they would be competing about five weeks ago.

She said the students were a credit to the college with their gracious behaviour.

“It’s so great for the kids to have that moment, it’s such an amazing thing to win a competition,” she said.

The Phoenix Chorus will be performing in the Voices Festival in Christchurch later this month.

Australian national title winners in the Secondary Small Teams Down Tempo section – (from left) Libby Clark-Higson, Gabrielle Stringer, Jo Castelow (musical director), Annelise Diamond and Lucy Clough.

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Big chill set to hang about

BY SUE NEWMAN

From P1 “The forecast is looking good for skiers this week, with clear skies and not much wind expected on most slopes. Cold temperatures will provide great snow-making conditions.”

Graham’s Weather Station in Ashburton recorded a 10.5°C frost on August 1, not far from the all-time record of 10.7 in July 2012.

The New Zealand Land Transport Agency is warning that parts of State Highway 77 around the Rakaia Gorge and skifield turnoff could be treacherous and drivers should carry chains.

Journey manager Lee Wright says motorists need to take care. Shaded areas may be icy until midday and later in some places.

Transport agency and council road crews are gritting roads and highways from before dawn each day, in particular shaded spots and bridges.

As well as snow, the month of August has brought welcome rain. Around 57mm has fallen since August 1, 21.4mm last Thursday.

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For the first time in Ashburton, candidates in this year’s local body elections are using their beliefs or campaign platforms as a statement of affiliation on their nomination form.

While party politics and interest factions have been a feature of city local body nominations for several years, candidates for the Ashburton District Council have generally left the ‘affiliation’ section on their nomination form blank.

A candidate can use this to state whether they are using a party or group affiliation to support their nomination.

If the candidate has no affiliation, they can leave the space blank or use the term independent to make it clear to voters that they are standing with no ties to any group,

LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS 2016 organisation, cause or specific belief.

If a candidate has a specific party affiliation, then they must have that party’s authorisation to do this, said Ashburton returning officer Phillipa Clark.

Candidates cannot use a party affiliation or other designation that is offensive in nature or likely to confuse or mislead electors will be accepted.

With four days until nominations close there is a shortage of candidates for most issues in the Ashburton District.

Five more nominations have been lodged: Diane Mary Rawlinson, nominated by Malcolm Greg-

ory Wootton and Pamela Joan Tait; Donna Maree Favel, nominated by James Austin Lysaght and Jacqueline Anne Heffernan; Richard Barrie Sampson, nominated by Wayne John Watson and Graeme Frederick Moore and Ashish Shah, nominated by Gordon Lewis Mockford and Enid Knox Hampton will be standing for the urban ward of the Ashburton District Council.

Roger John Paterson has been nominated by Alister David Argyle and Trevor James Croy for the Ashburton Trust.

Nominations received to date: Mayor (1 required): Angus McKay. Ashburton District Council

Ashburton ward (7 required): Edward Gates, Selwyn Price (Independent), Marie Hibbert (Independent), Richard Sampson, Donna Favel, Diane Rawlinson, Ashish Shah (working for community, putting people first).

Western ward (2 required): Tammy Dickson, Liz McMillan.

Eastern ward (3 required): Mark Malcolm, (Robert) Stuart Wilson.

Ashburton Trust (six required): Chris Robertson, Fay Watson, Roger Paterson.

Methven Community Board (5 required): Tammy Dickson (committed to community), Sonia McAlpine.

Nominations close at noon on Friday. Election papers will be posted from September 16 and voting closes at noon on October 8.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

Integrity of Criminal Disclosure Act ‘an issue’ A district court judge has reserved her decision over whether to award costs to a young man charged with careless use of a motor vehicle causing the death of Ashburton pensioner Frank Tully in 2013.

Bungled police evidence resulted in Judge Joanna Maze dismissing the charges against Nicholas James Lawson following a district court hearing in September 2014.

Mr Lawson, who was 23 at the time, collided with Mr Tully as he crossed a Tinwald pedestrian crossing on his mobility scooter in June 2013.

Yesterday, defence counsel Bryan Green referred to his 12-month battle to obtain disclosure, missing police photos taken at the scene and indecipherable electronic evidence described as “chicken scratchings”.

The fact police were not obligated to disclose some aspects of evidence in electronic format during the hearing was also raised.

Mr Green said if disclosure had been forthcoming in the first place expert and defence costs would have been significantly reduced.

“Mr Lawson should not have been charged in the first place,” he said.

He produced photographs supplied by the Guardian following the court case as further evidence Mr Lawson would not have been able to stop in time to avoid colliding with Mr Tully, who witnesses said sped onto the crossing in the path of the van Mr Lawson was driving.

Mr Green said measurement discrepancies in evidence presented by the prosecution’s expert witness senior constable Jason Brown, from the serious crash unit, should

have been disclosed in the peer review process conducted as per police procedure. However police did not provide the information.

“Concerns were not addressed until after the hearing and were only disclosed under the Official Information Act,” he said.

Mr Lawson was not charged until six months after the alleged offence and therefore the expert witness he engaged was unable to examine the scene. Markings made on the road had long gone.

By the time the case went to hearing, police were well aware Constable Brown’s evidence was fundamentally flawed, he said.

“If a proper review had been done, charges may not have been laid or at least time spent in cross examination would have been reduced during the trial,” Mr Green said.

For the Crown, Andrew McRae argued that criticism of Constable Brown’s handling of evidence and police disclosure was an isolated incident and not indicative of an attempt to deliberately mislead the court.

He said there was no case for the court to award indemnity costs in excess of $45,000.

Judge Maze discounted the Crown’s argument that Constable Brown was “relatively inexperienced” pointing to the 700 crashes, including fatalities, he had attended over four and a half years as a serious crash investigator.

She reserved her decision and ordered a full list of disclosure to be forwarded to Mr Green within 24 hours.

“The integrity of the Criminal Disclosure Act regime is an issue here,” she said.

The Ashburton community continues to open its heart and its wallet to people in need and when Radio Hokonui host Phill Hooper ran an on-line auction, cleaning out his gift cupboard in exchange for goods, he was inundated by items that will now line the shelves at the district’s foodbanks.

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■ ASHBURTON FOODBANKS

Urgent need for warm bedding

By Sue NewmaN

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A few days of bitingly cold winter temperatures have been taking their toll on bedding stocks at both Ashburton St Vincent de Paul and the Salvation Army’s home stores.

Bedding stocks at St Vincent de Paul were down to zero, spokesperson Paul Thomas said.

“We’ve got nothing to spare, just a couple of thin duvets.

Warm bedding and blankets would be fantastic; whatever comes in, in this line goes out the door very quickly at the moment,” he said.

St Vinnies normally has emergency bedding kits on hand, but the late arrival of winter meant even those had been handed out to families in need, Mr Thomas said.

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tomed to the southern chill, a cold snap such as Ashburton was now going through created some significant problems for some families, he said.

“Over the past week or so we’ve had two quite big families in, with six or seven children looking for help and that makes a difference to stocks.”

The charity also delivers firewood to people in need, but only in amounts that will tide them over for a couple of days, Mr Thomas said.

Its food stocks had been boosted after a campaign run in the Guardian last week, he said, with a particularly good response to a call for dry foods and toiletries.

The blanket shortage is being felt across town at the Salvation Army too, with donations barely touching the shelves before they were picked up by families in

need, foodbank manager Judith Lilley said.

Like St Vinnies, the Salvation Army stocks had received a significant boost when the call went out for help last week.

And some of that help came on air, with Radio Hokonui host Phill Hooper running a cleanout-the-store cupboard auction.

“Subway gave us a $55 platter voucher and we ran a ‘how many cans of spaghetti’ will you give auction. We got 47 cans,” he said.

He also dug into the station’s gift cupboard and auctioned off a range of items, netting a large quantity of food that will find its way to the town’s foodbanks.

The auction was also supported by the Baptist Church’s second time round op shop, with supporters bringing in several bags of toiletries.

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■ ASHBURTON ART GALLERY

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Three artists join forces for exhibition By emma moody

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The latest installation at the Ashburton Art Gallery promises a temptation to touch parts of the exhibit, but the artists would prefer you keep a little distance.

Drain the Swamp. Chop the Wood, put up the Flagpole is a joint exhibition, with three artists contributing to the project.

Iain Cheesman, Jacquelyn Greenbank and Wayne Youle have spent the past six weeks making the various works that will be on show for the next two months.

One component of the installation is Ms Greenbank’s collection of different coloured sheepskins, which Mr Cheesman said is likely to entice wandering child hands.

“We would love for it to have that aspect but there are some very fragile pieces in the collection and I know if one person touches the skins, all the kids will just charge at them,” he said.

One of the fragile works is a floor to ceiling sculpture made from old wooden bowls that Mr Cheesman has found in secondhand shops.

Another theme in the installation drew inspiration from the flag referendum.

“My last name is Greenbank so the flag has a green bank with eyes, because I love Wes Craven and horror movies, so like The Hills Have Eyes, the bank has eyes,” Ms Greenbank said.

Another feature in the exhibit is the hut made from wood Mr Cheesman had saved from every house he had lived in.

Mr Youle started his artistic career as a graphic designer and incorporates his graphic learning into his paintings, and Mr Cheesman said he has an instinctive eye for the placement of pieces in the show.

Drain the Swamp. Chop the Wood, put up the Flagpole opens on August 11 at the Ashburton Art Gallery and the artists will be at the opening explaining their works in-depth.

Glowing red hot Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade attended a call-out at 4.25pm yesterday in Netherby after someone called 111 concerned about their fireplace. The log burner was reported to have been glowing red hot. Hard wood with a high burning temperature was suspected to have caused the glow. Fire risk management officer Murray Cairns said people should make sure their chimney is properly cleaned at the start of the winter season and if they are concerned about their burner they should call 111.

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Iain Cheesman explains the details of his floor to ceiling wooden bowl sculpture, one of the pieces in the joint exhibition Drain the Swamp. Chop the Wood, put up the Flagpole which will be in the Ashburton Art Gallery from August 11.

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■ BUNG THE BORE

Legal challenge cancelled

By Sue NewmaN

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Ashburton’s Bung the Bore community action group is counting its success in terms of the number of conversations that are now taking place around New Zealand about water.

When the Ashburton District Council canned a deal with a company that wanted to buy land in its business estate to bottle water, the group’s founder Jen Branje said that was a significant win, but the bigger issue was the future of the water consent on that site.

Bung the Bore wanted the

council to have the consent cancelled, but councillors decided to let the status quo remain. That prompted the action group to mount a fundraising campaign to fund a legal challenge through the High Court.

That challenge has now been cancelled, Ms Branje said, on the back of an admission by Environment Canterbury that the region’s groundwater was in a bad state.

By continuing to highlight concerns over the degradation of the region’s aquifers, the group had eventually forced ECan to front up and talk about water, she said.

Now that had happened, the legal challenge was no longer necessary and the Give a little appeal had been taken down.

“Any council that would now be prepared to give away 40 billion litres of ground water has to be questioned. I hope the incoming council will keep this in the back of their minds.”

What the action group had also achieved was to highlight a deal that had been six years in the making by the council – behind closed doors, Ms Branje said.

“No one knew anything about this and people have to be able to trust their councillors. Imagine if

this deal had gone through and people hadn’t known about it; the community would have been very upset.”

Bung the Bore had been accused of running on emotion and stirring up the community, but its actions had been vindicated when ECan started releasing information about the state of the region’s groundwater, Ms Branje said.

“This is not done and dusted yet, it’s not just about Lot 9.

Someone has to keep an eye on the water situation, but why should it have to be a community group?”

Christchurch police are appealing to the public to find three men who attacked two brothers early on Sunday morning. The men, believed to be in their early twenties, attacked the pair on St Asaph St, between Colombo and Durham Sts around 1am Sunday.

Both of the victims were seriously hurt in the assault, and one remains in hospital with a serious head injury, after being king hit by one of the alleged offenders.

The second man was treated in hospital for facial fractures, but has since been discharged.

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Christchurch crash A woman taken to hospital after a car crash in central Christchurch yesterday has no memory of the smash. The woman’s small green Ford collided with a black Mitsubishi Mirage at the BarbadoesHereford Sts intersection at 11.37am.

The woman driver was taken to hospital by St John with moderate injuries. Her boyfriend said she was on her way home from work when the crash happened. She told him she “doesn’t remember anything”.

Both cars were badly damaged.

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Dead couple named An elderly couple killed in a crash north of Christchurch on Friday have been named. Helen Marion Ashley, 85, and her 87-year-old husband Nelson Richard Ashley died in a two-vehicle crash on Flaxton Rd, near Rangiora, about 11.20am on Friday. Police said no further information was available while the serious crash unit investigates what they described as a “tragic incident”.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Property portfolio outsourced

By Sue NewmaN

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Glasgow leases are as much a part of Ashburton as the railway line that carves the town in half, but those leases are entering a new era in their life.

The Ashburton District Council, owner of the leases, until recently administered and managed the commercial and residential leases in-house, but a

dire shortage of property managers has meant the council has had to go looking for its management services elsewhere.

Council business group services manager Paul Brake said it is now quite common for councils to contract out some of their services rather than employ specialist staff themselves.

“You have to weigh up the cost of staff against contracted servic-

es, we invited tenders and we now have APL Ltd in Blenheim doing the work,” he said. This company has also undertaken the council’s Geoff Geering drive subdivision project.

“We have hundreds of leases, including Glasgow leases from $100 a year for a little bit of dirt to commercial land.”

The council is now working through its lease portfolio on a

case by case basis, looking at its value, the return it received on that investment and what it anticipated the future of that land would be, Mr Brake said.

Residential Glasgow leases offered a good deal for lessees when they were first set up as they provided an affordable way for people to buy or build homes.

“That was before the property prices started to rocket. Now

when they come up for renewal after seven years and property values have gone up significantly, they can get quite a shock.”

Owners of a property on Glasgow lease land had the first right to freehold this land. Its value is set through a current valuation.

This happened quite often and that meant the number of residential leases was now quite low, Mr Brake said.

Black ice warning

By ColiN eNgelBreCht colin.e@theguardina.co.nz

Borough students check out the decorating skills of their peers.

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Borough School raises funds for sick children Ashburton Borough School is teaming up with Bayleys to help raise funds for sick children through the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Four cardboard flat-pack playhouses were delivered to the school recently and students were asked to construct then

couraged to use their imagination.

The result was four houses painted in the school house colours – red, blue, green and yellow – with plenty of glitter and decorations.

The winning house and the total funds raised will be an-

decorate them in their own fashion.

The playhouses are now on display and students, parents and caregivers are being asked to vote for their favourite with a gold coin donation.

Bayleys salesperson Eliza Waszczak said the kids were en-

nounced at school assembly on Friday.

Make-A-Wish has granted around 2000 wishes for sick children since 1986 and relies entirely on donations from individuals, community groups and organisations to deliver its wishes.

Police are urging rural people to be cautious of black ice on country roads.

Inspector Al Stewart, Canterbury road policing manager, said roads that were shaded by trees or hedges can still have ice on them, despite the sun shining on other parts.

“Just be aware that in those areas, especially on those rural roads with shading, that there may well be ice on the road, even though it’s lunchtime and the sun is out,” he said.

There are some thing drivers can do if they find themselves on a patch of ice on the road.

“The immediate reaction is to hit your brakes, which isn’t going to help you much because you’ve got no traction with your tyres.

What you want to do is steer yourself out of the problem.”

He said it comes back to speed and the slower people were going the better chances they had to steer themselves out.

Rural Transport general manager Jim Crouchley said they are sending their drivers on training courses to deal with dangerous conditions like black ice.

He said they were diligent about the weather and chose safe routes to try to avoid roads that are prone to having black ice on them.

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■ WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB

Mahjong skills put to the test

By Colin EngElBrECht Colin.E@thEguardian.Co.nz

The annual mahjong tournament was on the agenda last week for members of the Waireka Croquet Club.

The once a year event brings together women from any skill level to compete in a day-long tournament with prizes given to those with the highest scores for the morning and afternoon, and a prize for the overall winner.

This year’s croquet manager Dulcie Pierre, club member for two years, said there were 36 women taking part in the tournament.

“It’s a tournament for women who play mahjong and thoroughly enjoy it,” she said.

She said an entrance fee has to be paid to play and the funds go towards the upkeep of the club greens, which are expensive to maintain.

Players are given a full day’s entertainment, including morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

This year’s food and prizes were provided by the three sponsors of the tournament.

The club plays mahjong during the winter months when it’s too cold to play croquet outside.

Patroness Ngaire Kermode said mahjong started at the club around 20 years ago when members wanted a way to stay together over the winter months.

She said during the week there are two groups, a Thursday group for beginner mahjong players and a Monday group for the more advanced players.

Ngaire Kermode and Cecilia Whiting during a game of mahjong on Friday.

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Winning $1 million wasn’t that life changing for one Hamilton couple who celebrated by going to work.

The man, who did not want to be named, only realised he had won in Wednesday’s Lotto draw when he received an email from MyLotto on Thursday morning saying he had scored a major prize. The couple is just one of the Waikato’s two newest Lotto millionaires as another winning ticket drawn on Saturday night is yet to be claimed. But the Hamilton couple who won lost week said it took a while for it to sink in that they had actually won. Although still in shock, the couple kept getting ready for work.

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■ UNITED STATES

Trump’s own medicine

BY MAX EHRENFREUND Insinuations, accusations and speculations have been a staple of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Now Hillary Clinton is using the Republican nominee’s own methods against him.

In a new online advertisement, her campaign makes a few factual statements about Trump’s Russian sympathies, stretches the truth in a couple of ways and then invites readers to draw their own conclusions.

It is exactly the technique that Trump has used repeatedly throughout the campaign to feed conspiracy theories, said Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who studies conspiracy theories.

The advertisement, which is titled “What Is Donald Trump’s Connection to Vladimir Putin?” and appeared online at the weekend, insinuates that Trump has some kind of business or political alliance with Russia’s president, Uscinski said.

“We don’t know what’s going on here, and Donald won’t tell us,” the spot concludes.

“We’ll let you guess.”

To be sure, a victory for Trump would augur a radical shift in US foreign policy towards Russia. The United States would be much friendlier toward Putin and much more accommodating of his international agenda.

Trump has surrounded himself with people who are sympathetic to Putin.

Paul Manafort, the chairman of Trump’s campaign, also advised former Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was aligned with Putin.

Carter Page, one of Trump’s advisers on foreign affairs, has openly praised Putin and criticised Western sanctions on Russian officials.

Trump himself has praised Putin, as well, and has also

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Donald Trump on the campaign trail. called for the United States to retreat from its responsibilities in Nato – which would probably increase Putin’s influence in the region.

At this point, however, there is no evidence that anyone in the Trump campaign has a direct connection with the Kremlin, as Clinton’s spot insinuated.

The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

There’s also no evidence that Trump himself has business relationships with people in Russia that would cause a conflict of interest if he were elected.

Trump has been seeking business in Russia for a long time, without any visible successes.

“The fact that Trump, after so many attempts and with such warm intentions towards the country, was not able to build anything in Russia – when Ritz Carlton and Kemp-

inski and Radisson and Hilton and any number of Western hotel chains were able to – speaks to his abysmal lack of connections to influential Russians,” Julia Ioffe wrote in Foreign Policy.

“If Trump truly was in bed with Putin, there would be a Trump Tower in Moscow by now, if not several.”

Trump’s positions on foreign policy and his evident fondness for Putin are consistent with his other positions.

He believes in putting US interests first, even ahead of those of close foreign allies.

He has expressed admiration for authoritarian leaders around the world, not only in Moscow.

Uscinski compared the rhetoric in the advertisement to Trump’s strategy of stating a few facts and asking leading questions without clearly stating any accusations that could be refuted.

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on,” the New York businessman is fond of saying.

Uscinski said the advertisement was politically savvy.

Trump’s supporters are more likely than other Republicans to endorse conspiracy theories, polling has found, so an advertisement that appeals to that worldview might prove successful.

There is an anxiety that many Americans have about some kind of foreign agent becoming president, and Clinton’s new advertisement addresses that anxiety directly.

In that respect, the spot challenges a crucial aspect of Trump’s appeal to voters.

“The strategy behind the ad, I think, is absolutely beautiful for her,” Uscinski said.

“She’s essentially undermining Trump’s entire message, which is ‘America first,’ and by making him look like a pawn of some other country, all of a sudden his message is obliterated.”

- Reuters

Mariah Carey has come under fire for describing her time on American Idol as “abusive”. While promoting her upcoming docuseries Mariah’s World at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour last week, the former Idol judge said it was “an abusive experience” and that being asked about it had driven her “to drink”. But one of the contestants who worked with her on the show is shocked by her claim. Idol alum Lazaro Arbos told Billboard: “I’m honestly shocked she said that. I think Nigel [Lythgoe - the producer] really admired her talent and always treated her like the queen and the legend that she is.”

‘Baby’ not in the remake ABC is remaking classic dance flick Dirty Dancing, but its original star Jennifer Grey is having none of it. The actress who played Frances “Baby” Houseman in the 1987 film was offered a role in the network’s upcoming TV movie but said it “didn’t feel appropriate” for her to take part. Grey said: “I was flattered because I always want to be asked because it’s nice to want to be included. But for me, [it] would be sacrosanct for me to do it because it didn’t feel appropriate to me.

If you’re going to do your own thing, do your own thing.” She would not say which part she was offered but did say “it wasn’t Baby”.

■ ENGLAND

Horror scene as man decapitated A man has died after reportedly leaning out of a train window and being hit by another train.

The Gatwick Express passenger was pronounced dead at the scene after the incident at Wandsworth Common station.

A spokeswoman for London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 5.34pm to reports of an incident at Wandsworth Common railway station.

“We sent an ambulance crew, a single responder and a

car and an incident response officer to the scene alongside an air ambulance.

“We treated a person at the scene for a head injury but sadly they were pronounced dead by the doctor from the air ambulance.”

A spokesman for Gatwick Express, which is run by Southern Rail, said it first received reports about the incident at 5.45pm.

He said: “We have received reports of an incident on board a Gatwick Express train which was en route to Victoria from

Gatwick this afternoon.

“The emergency services are in attendance at Wandsworth Common station.

“We have no further information at this stage.”

A spokesman for British Transport Police said the incident was not being treated as suspicious, and that a file is being prepared for the coroner.

Southern Rail tweeted that services between Victoria and Balham were being delayed, saying: “Emergency services dealing with an incident be-

tween Balham & Wandsworth Common.”

Residents said they were shocked to see the air ambulance land on the common earlier in the afternoon.

One said: “We were coming back across the common when we saw the helicopter land.

“There were lots of police and ambulances there, it was disconcerting.”

Another said: “I heard a man was hit by a train and heard the air ambulance land on the common. It’s such a horrible thing to have happened.”

- Reuters

Fans ignore the critics Suicide Squad has opened as the No. 1 film at the New Zealand box office, becoming the second highest earning film of the year. Kiwis flocked to cinemas, despite a mauling by critics, earning the film more than $2.2 million. The new superhero film, starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, collected an estimated $180 million in the US and Canada, to set a new box office record for an August opening. The film is an important release for Time Warner Inc.’s film division, which is trying to develop an expanded universe of DC Comics heroes for the big screen, like Disney’s successful efforts with Marvel.

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OUR VIEW

We can’t all take a warm bed for granted Sue Newman

CHIEF REPORTER

W

e accept that as a nation we’re obsessed with the weather; rain, snow, sun, we’ve always got something to say about it and its impact on our lives.

And that has everything to do with our island nation status where nowhere is far from the effects of the sea or mountain ranges on the weather.

We know our weather – as much as anyone can and we understand its vagaries. And we know to expect four seasons in one day.

But to new arrivals, particularly people from a warmer climate, adapting to life in New Zealand, particularly the South Island, takes a bit of getting used to, particularly our winters.

The need to keep warm is something we understand – home insulation, dry firewood, heat pumps, plenty of warm bedding and warm clothing.

Imagine if you’d arrived from a tropical climate, however, you’d struggle to understand those needs – and quite often to afford to meet them.

And that’s where our amazing charities have a valuable role to play. Both St Vinnies and the Sallies are the dispensers of endless goods and goodwill. They accept any and all-comers. If you need help with some of life’s most basics, they’re there, but even those agencies sometimes run out of steam.

As a community we’re great supporters of the two charities, but in spite of our best efforts, sometimes the need exceeds our ability to give.

That’s how it is in Ashburton right now. We’ve done our bit to help restock the foodbank shelves; the urgent need is now for bedding, the warmer and the more of it, the better.

For those of us who snuggle up in bed with an electric blanket, flannelette sheets, a feather duvet and a heat pump-warmed home, it’s difficult to image that’s not everyone’s lot.

Think about living in an uninsulated home with inadequate heating and then climbing into a bed that had, at best, thin cotton sheets and a thin summer duvet.

Most of us have a surplus of stuff in our cupboards, often that stuff includes spare bedding and woollen blankets put aside “just in case”. Perhaps this year “just in case” has arrived, but not in our home, in someone else’s.

YOUR VIEW Aquifer recharge In response to the Ashburton Guardian’s Letter to the Editor written by Donna Favel (August 3), Ms Favel is incorrect in a number of the statements she has publically made regarding the Hinds/Hekeao MAR pilot trial.

I will address them in order of their occurrence below; 1) “The recharge into a potentially contaminated pit is not guaranteed to work.” – There are two points in this statement to respond to: a. The first is the inference that the site is a “potentially contaminated pit”.

The final location of the Hinds MAR pilot testing site was carefully chosen based on a wide range of factors that included the testing and analysis of water quality for groundwater below the site.

There is no evidence that this is a contamination site from any

CRUMB

of this site selection screening work, nor in the water quality results collected. Indeed, the site is also not listed in Canterbury Regional Council’s Listed Land Use Register. b. The second is the statement “guaranteed to work”. Aquifer recharge happens both naturally and artificially every minute of every day and is the reason aquifers and spring-fed waterways exist at all.

Recharge from rainfall, rivers, leaky races and canals, and irrigation activities all act to continually recharge groundwater.

Managed aquifer recharge is the purposeful recharge of specifically clean water into an aquifer to both complement and mimic these existing processes.

The idea behind a pilot project is then to specifically test our ability to implement a “managed” approach given the specific and unique physical conditions of this area, and work toward developing the most ef-

by David Fletcher

fective MAR tool in order to help solve the significant challenges facing groundwater in the Hinds catchment area.

2) “Technically, however, the recharge results are unknown.” – The MAR pilot project has been operating for only two months, but in that time has recharged more than 650,000 cubic metres or 6.5 billion litres of clean, alpine sourced (Rangitata River) water.

Scheduled public updates to the Ashburton Zone Committee will provide a summary of all of these monitoring and analysis activities, with the first scheduled for spring 2016.

A group of technical experts in hydrogeology, hydrology and water quality are also providing additional project support and review.

Members include representatives from the Canterbury Health Board, Canterbury Regional Council, Forest and Bird, New Zealand research organisa-

tions, and an international MAR expert acting as an “independent” reviewer for the project.

3) “Additionally the stock water race runs through at least five farms before reaching the recharge pit” – An ADC consent for stock water is used to allow the diversion of unutilised river water from the Rangitata River into the Rangitata Diversion Race, then piped to the MAR site via Valetta Irrigation infrastructure.

The ADC stockwater race that runs adjacent to the site, is not the source of the MAR project’s water supply, which is carefully monitored for quality and quantity as it enters the site and moves into the aquifer below.

As chairman and representative for this community project, I would be happy to meet with Ms Favel and outline the Hinds/ Hekeao MAR pilot trial concept with her again.

Peter Lowe, chairperson, Hinds/Hekeao MAR pilot trial

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Did you watch the opening ceremony of Rio 2016?

No 56%

Yes 44%

Today’s online poll question Q: Should Pak’n Save owner Foodstuffs build one in Ashburton?

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Calving - it’s the promise of a new beginning and of warmer temperatures not too far away.

It’s calving time again I

t’s that time of year again when dairy farmers start to resemble extras from a medieval action film, covered in mud and blood with a “thousand yard stare”.

Yes calving time. For me, despite the long hours, dirt, and stress, it is actually one of the more enjoyable times of the year.

In fact it was going home during varsity holidays in spring to help out with calving which kind of made up my mind on what I wanted to do for a career.

I enjoyed the challenges and seeing the next generation of the herd come into being; more so than learning about advanced macro-economics.

Twenty years on from that decision I’m still enjoying the challenges. Whilst over the years we had some pretty rubbish springs – that at times made me wonder – the good days far outweigh the bad.

For a number of dairy farmers

Andrew Hoggard FROM THE FARM

this spring is possibly one that will make them wonder if there isn’t a better way to spend their day.

The rainfall and snow in many areas has turned paddocks into quagmires. Add in a low payout and it’s certainly soul destroying stuff.

It was great this week to receive two bits of good news.

Firstly Fonterra lifted its forecast earnings and the other being a very strong Global Dairy Trade (GDT) result.

With the GDT result we have to remember that it is just one auction and we went through this last year with three or four very strong results and then the

bottom fell out of it again.

It is also important to remember that the $4.25 payout is based on the fact that there is an expectation that the price will continue lifting. So if anything, this result points to more certainty around that milk price, rather than anything higher for the season.

Even though Fonterra’s earnings improvement was just a few cents, it showed me that in spite of the challenging global market, the co-op is adding more value to our milk and getting better efficiencies.

I can only hope that we see more improvement in both the earnings and the milk price.

I had a lot of media asking me this week whether had we “turned the corner”.

Frankly it’s hard to make that statement based on one result.

The fact is farmers around the world are now feeling the pain.

Supply is dropping off to a degree in places. Demand is still a

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challenge and Russian relationships probably haven’t improved with the ban imposed on a large number of their athletes at the Olympics.

There is unlikely to be a quick fix on the dairy ban into Russia.

With the Olympics one can hope that we get a decent showing this year.

I have enjoyed the Anchor adverts with our athletes.

It’s unlikely to be allowed to happen, but wouldn’t it be cool to see some of those athletes celebrate by consuming a one litre of Anchor milk after winning gold.

In fact it might encourage the Russians to reopen the borders to the best performance enhancing solution out there ...

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Andrew Hoggard is Federated Farmers Dairy Industry Group chairperson

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In brief

■ FOODSTUFFS

Seven new supermarkets Supermarket operator Foodstuffs is pumping $200 million into opening seven new stores and refurbishing 11 others.

Three Pak’nSave stores are being built in Tauriko (Tauranga), Tamatea (Napier) and Queenstown, while New World outlets are under construction in Papakura, Te Kuiti and Christchurch’s Ferry Rd. A Four Square store is also set to open in West Melton, Christchurch.

The company said a stocktake of developments underway showed $120 million was being invested into opening the new stores.

A further $80 million would be spent on refurbishing outlets including New Worlds in Auckland’s CBD and Orewa and the Pak’nSave in Clendon, South Auckland.

Up to 400 new jobs will be created, the supermarket operator said.

Foodstuffs investment comes after rival supermarket operator Progressive Enterprises, which

owns the Countdown chain, announced last month that six supermarkets would be closed.

Countdown Rangiora Central, which will close on October 2, was the only store scheduled for closure that was named.

At that time Countdown spokesman James Walker said the company would open three

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5/8 8/8

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+39.88

+0.55%

p S&P/NZX 20 index

5,276.25 +27.18 +0.52%

p S&P/NZX All Gross

7,920.09

+39.61

+0.5%

p Rises 72 q Falls 31

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5,537.8

+40.4

+0.73%

At close of trading on Aug 8, 2016

p Dow Jones Indust.

18,543.5 +191.5 +1.04% At close of trading on Aug 5, 2016

p FTSE 100 index

6,793.5

+53.31

+0.79%

At close of trading on Aug 5, 2016

p Nikkei 225 index

16,650.6 +396.1 +2.44% At close of trading on Aug 8, 2016

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London – $US/ounce

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20.22

+0.06

+0.30%

p Copper London – $US/tonne

4,792.50

+5.5

+0.11%

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new stores and two replacement stores in the 2017 financial year.

Foodstuffs’ general manager for property development, Lindsay Rowles, said many growth opportunities existed for retail development in New Zealand.

“Consumers are becoming more discerning about where

they shop,” said Rowles.

“Some want more modern facilities and a wider range of products, while others are focused on cost savings and environmental sustainability.

“We are well aware of all those factors, and are investing in order to cater for these needs well into the future.”

- NZME

Australia Canada China Euro Fiji Great Britain Japan Samoa South Africa Thailand United States

TT buy

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0.9193 0.9204 4.4232 0.6286 1.3861 0.5347 71.15 1.6417 9.5617 24.18 0.7007

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Last of the finance company trials begin A property developer’s plan to buy a finance company and transfer assets to it was “from the beginning a conspiracy to commit criminal offences”, the High Court heard yesterday.

Paul Bublitz and his co-accused, the court heard, allegedly stole or permitted the theft of capital from two now-failed finance companies – Viaduct Capital and Mutual Finance.

These companies went into receivership in 2010, owing investors a total of $17 million.

Bublitz – with co-defendants Bruce McKay, Richard Blackwood and Lance Morrison – on are trial in Auckland and have pleaded not guilty to the charges they face.

Bublitz, McKay and Blackwood have denied charges of theft by a person in a special relationship, making false statements in a prospectus and making false statements to a trustee.

Morrison, Bublitz’s long-time accountant, has denied charges of theft by a person in a special relationship and making false statements in a prospectus.

McKay and Blackwood served as directors of Viaduct Capital while Morrison and Bublitz were on Mutual’s board.

Crown prosecutor David Johnstone alleged during the trial’s opening that Bublitz bought and used the two finance companies to support his property investments.

The other defendants in the case allegedly helped him, the

New Zealand tourism chiefs are hoping a new dragon will breathe more life into selling our country to the world. The remake of Pete’s Dragon was filmed in New Zealand and has its Los Angeles premiere overnight. Described as a modern day retelling of the ‘’cheesy yet lovable’’ 1977 Disney classic, the film tells the story of a boy named Pete living alone in the woods who befriends a dragon that he names Elliot before being found by adults.

The movie was filmed in Rotorua’s redwood forest, around Wellington, Queenstown and in Tapanui.

- NZME

Billionaire in spotlight

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Prime Minister John Key says he has been assured by China that a halt to imports of kiwifruit is the result of a “technical issue” rather than any alleged reprisals. Kiwifruit marketer Zespri said last week that it had temporarily deferred exports to China after authorities found a fungus on the fruit and issued a “warning notification”. The oneweek halt to exports comes after talk that Beijing could be preparing reprisals against Kiwi primary industry exporters in response to a possible investigation by local officials into alleged Chinese steel dumping.

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Crown lawyer told Justice Mark Woolford The men deliberately misled investors and potential investors of Viaduct and Mutual by failing to disclose a series of related party transactions entered into for their benefit rather than the benefit of the finance company, Johnstone alleged.

Bublitz, a property developer, built up a portfolio of assets during the early-to-mid 2000s, which were held by a group of companies and trusts, called Hunter Capital.

By 2007 when the global financial crisis hit, Bublitz - “asset rich but cash poor” – found himself with an illiquid asset portfolio, Johnstone said.

The following year, Bublitz allegedly began working with Nick Wevers, who died suddenly only days after these were laid in 2014.

Wevers and Bublitz allegedly discussed creating a distressed asset fund, Johnstone said, which potentially involved the purchase a finance company that they would jointly own.

It was essential that the finance company in question was part of the Government’s Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme, which could bail out investors if a company failed.

“Inherent in their plan was concealment of related-party transactions,” Johnstone said.

The judge-alone trial, before Justice Woolford, continues and is expected to take up to 12 weeks.

- NZME

The Serious Fraud Office has narrowed the scope of its inquiry into the collapse of retail chain BHS, ratcheting up the pressure on Sir Philip Green as he faces fresh scrutiny over the pension schemes across his Arcadia empire. The Telegraph can disclose that investigators are focusing initial inquiries on whether there is sufficient evidence that Sir Philip or Dominic Chappell, who bought the chain from him, broke the law through “fraud by misrepresentation”.

- Reuters

Battling the superbugs A sparkling and sprawling 48,000-square-foot two-story structure, decorated with artwork of animals etched onto interior glass walls, recently opened its doors 23 miles outside Indianapolis with one sole purpose: to keep the globe’s 70 billion farm animals healthy. It’s all part of a broader effort by the drug industry to join forces with the medical establishment to reduce use of antibiotics, as resistant superbugs become more prevalent in hospitals, nursing homes and other public spaces.

- Reuters

Borrowers ‘shut out’ A mortgage business has called for clarification on new Reserve Bank lending restrictions, saying a loophole means people are struggling to get bridging finance.

But another financier says there are no issues and no clarification was needed. Sarah Johnston, chief executive of Mortgage Express which is the financial advisory arm of Harcourts New Zealand, said the issue was in applying loan to value ratios restrictions were causing issues. Borrowers are being shut out of the intensely competitive property market, she said. The Reserve Bank is refusing to comment.

- NZME

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MARKET REPORT Dairy August starts with a blast of snow and heavy frosts, reminding farmers that winter conditions are not finished yet.

Calving has commenced in the region and with good forecasting most farmers were well prepared with feed, shelter and supplementary feed to compensate for the cold.

Rain totals in the province were variable and nowhere near enough to reverse the dire predictions for Canterbury’s groundwater supplies.

Many springs and streams have dried up and authorities are suggesting little surface water irrigation will be allowed this year.

Groundwater wells could be unreliable unless it is a very wet spring and summer.

Fonterra have made changes to the milk price manual that will add 4-5c/kg ms to the milk price, but analysts predict that farmers may have to wait until 2018 until profits return to their sector.

The latest milk auction returned prices that were a high for 2016 with a 6.6 per cent rise and whole milk powders lifted nearly 10 per cent. Pleasingly there was no negative reaction to the currency.

Lamb Another lift in lamb schedules this week, as the ramifications of Brexit are still being assessed by the market. The chilled Christmas UK trade negotiations face an uncertain climate.

Lamb production has hit historical lows for this time of year and stocks carried by

processors are similarly short, helping to drive demand. The Chinese and Middle East markets are lifting even at this quiet time of year. With North America also strong, these other countries could fill the gaps from the UK. Two good results from farm services firms with both Ravensdown and PGG Wrightson reporting much improved profits. The fertiliser firm’s big rebate will be a welcome help to farmers’ cashflow requirements.

Wool This week’s small South Island wool sale saw values remaining stable for crossbred fibre, but mid micron and merino wools received good lifts in price.

Vendors still believe there was more upside to the market and passed 26 per cent of the sale, and brokers are hopeful the indecision post Brexit, has passed.

Beef More small lifts for beef schedules this week, as seasonal lows and light stocks keep demand strong.

The long awaited entry of Brazil into the US market could dampen NZ’s influence in that country, but at this stage big shortfalls from Australia should minimise the impact.

Prices for store stock are still running hot and appear to be ahead of export demand and bring warnings from Rabobank that these prices appear unsustainable.

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Farm gate price watch …

for the latest prices, visit www.interest.co.nz/rural current price range Saleyard prices … u LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 86 - 89 Prime 113 - 116 u HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 194 - 301 u STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 292 - 312 last week

4 wks ago

Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 81.38 78.03 17.5 kg YX SI 91.82 88.03 19.0 kg YX SI 99.77 95.65 21.0 kg YX SI 109.70 105.15 Local trade (c/kg) SI 560 560 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 50.02 48.94 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 513 508 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 373 370 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 462 465 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 560 540 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 391 376 AP Stag 60kg SI 475 457 AP Stag 80kg SI 598 578 Auction prices … u SI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) 900 817 Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 545 532 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 513 504 Lambs

52 week high low

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Source: WSI 1,061 817 696 524 619 498 769 517

Source: Midlands Grain 390 390 320 355 355 275 340 340 250

4,010 2,310 2,635 4,430

Source: PF Olsen 117.20 93.00 4,826 3,312 4,290 4,937

3,690 2,291 2,614 3,654

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98.55

Fonterra milk price Fonterra dividend Fonterra share price

264

1 year ago

International market prices … u LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index July-16 112.88 117.20 114.70 3,853 2,568 2,915 3,957

41 83

3 mths ago

Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 320 320 340 Wheat, feed 275 275 280 Barley, feed 260 260 260

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92 125

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Mid Canty escapes worst of snow

By Michelle NelsoN

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Temperatures plummeted but the forecast heavy snow dump skirted much of Mid Canterbury over the weekend.

Snow flurries dusted the district and deposited four or five centimetres of powder in Ashburton, however, it caused few problems for farmers.

Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury provincial president Michael Salvesen said the hills behind his foothills farm on Upper Downs Road received a fair dollop.

While lambing and calving was under way down country, Mr Salvesen said lambing was still a month to six weeks away in his neck of the woods and beef cattle wouldn’t start calving until later this month.

On the back of a mild winter the majority of Mid Canterbury farmers still have good feed reserves on hand and there were no problems with getting into paddocks.

MetService has forecast severe overnight frosts and daytime temperatures are unlikely to break into double digits over the next few days as the ridge over the South Island strengthens and persists through to tomorrow.

Sheep near Mt Somers were unperturbed by Friday’s weather.

Inset – Michael Salvesen.

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Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences professor Grant Edwards will offer his insights into dairy systems and their impact on the economy and environment at a free public lecture at Lincoln University this week.

“Milk production from New Zealand dairy farms has doubled since 1990,” professor Edwards

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“However, a combination of scale and intensity means that current dairy farming has a relatively large adverse environmental footprint.

“The dairy industry and society agree that this footprint must be reduced.

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The financial sting from honeybee loss NZ Young Farmers staff (from left) Janelle Cargill, Terry Copeland and Gina Leslie pack up clothing destined for Nepal.

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■ EARTHQUAKE RELIEF

Young Farmers donate clothing to Nepalese A ute load of clothing is on its way to Nepal courtesy of New Zealand Young Farmers.

The clothing, worth $1500, was donated by NZ Young Farmers and ANZ and included shirts, jackets, shorts and bags to help those who lost their possessions in last year’s earthquake.

NZ Young Farmers CEO Terry Copeland said community involvement and support was an important part of Young Farmers’ mandate both nationally and internationally.

“We know the people of Nepal have been through horrific circumstances in the 2015 earthquake,” Mr Copeland said.

“Many of them who didn’t have much in the way of possessions lost everything.

“Sending them some excess clothing merchandise we had on hand was the least we could do to help.”

Mr Copeland said the Nepalese held a special place in many New Zealanders’ hearts with our strong Everest connections and it was no different in NZ Young Farmers.

“In 2018 we have a group of Young Farmers from the Northern region walking to Everest Base Camp as a fundraiser to help Nepal,” he said.

“They also hope to lend their practical skills to help communities while they are over there.”

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake decimated villages and killed more than 8000 people and injured over 21,000 with recovery efforts ongoing.

New Zealand agriculture stands to lose $295-$728 million annually if the local honeybee population continues to decline, according to a new study into the economic consequences of a decline in pollination rates.

One of the co-authors of the study, Lincoln University Professor Stephen Wratten of the BioProtection Research Centre, says it is well known that a global decline in the populations of insect pollinators poses a major threat to food and nutritional security.

“We’ve lost most of our wild bees in New Zealand to varroa mite and cultivated bees are becoming resistant to varroa pesticides. Functioning beehives are becoming increasingly expensive for farmers to rent. We know the decline in bee populations is going to have a major impact on our economy, but we wanted to measure the impact.”

Previous methods of estimating the economic value of pollination have focused on desktop calculations around the value of crops and the dependency of those crops on pollinators.

Professor Wratten says the experimental manipulation of pollination rates is a more direct estimation of the economic value of pollination, or ecosystem services (ES).

A study was conducted in commercial fields producing pak choi for seed production.

Some of the plants were covered with thin white mesh bags for varying time periods, preventing honeybees and fly species, which are key pollinators for the crop, from accessing the plants.

Changes in seed yield, seeds per pod and proportion of unfertilised pods as a result of changing pollination rates were identified.

The economic impact of varying pollination rates was then extrapolated to the main 18 pollination-dependent crops in New Zealand.

The economic impacts of loss of pollinators include higher prices for consumers as crop yields are reduced and food production costs increase.

“It’s critical to understand marginal changes in ES and their economic consequences in order to identify appropriate policy responses and avert further losses,” says Professor Wratten.

“Modifying existing agricultural systems to enhance ES requires a range of mechanisms, such as payments for ES. Current policies at a national and global level continue to largely ignore the value of ES contributions such as biological control and pollination.”

Professor Wratten said farmers worldwide need help to put appropriate diversity back into their lands.

“There is a lot of scientific knowledge accumulating but this has to be turned into ‘recipes’ for end users like farmers to understand and implement.

“The big challenge is to have a recipe that works. Give farmers the right seeds to plant. Make sure the bees get what they need.

It’s not about planting pretty flowers, it’s the science that counts.

“The best way to deliver this is through what we might call ‘farmer teachers’ – farmers who understand and use the recipe, who will get out into the paddock and be listened to by other farmers.”

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Photographs in the archive

BY KATHLEEN STRINGER

W

hile the word archive is commonly thought of as referring to a building where old books and documents are kept, they can (and often do) include other items as well.

Photographs especially are useful tools in documenting the past.

Photographs often come into the Ashburton Museum Archive with records of clubs and family groups, or they may come as separate collections. We have had a few interesting collections brought in recently.

One was a photograph collection of Sister Seaton of the Ashburton Hospital. Regular readers may recall a series of images of children in hospital which we featured a few months ago. In response to that article more images have come into the collection. These include more children’s snaps, but also images of the hospital, as well as sports teams and other activities the nurses took part in.

Another collection is that pertaining to the Fairfield Cricket Club. The club, now closed, was formed in 1899 and was part of the social activities associated with the Fairton meatworks. The first recorded match I can locate was on November 18 – when they played Tinwald.

The Fairfield Cricket Club collection consists of a number of photographs, records of players’ achievements and other archives.

One clipping in the collection relates how, in 1937, the team walked off the pitch after they disagreed with an umpire’s ruling.

Among the photographs’ subjects is Pearce Willis, who apparently played cricket even though he had only one arm.

I was also amused that one early team had a dog as a mascot, while in later years the mascot was a small boy (was this an improvement I wonder?).

While this collection is not as large as other sports archives we hold, it is significant, as due to arson attacks much of their history has been lost – this is all that there is to tell the story of a long-running work and community based activity that is now no longer active.

We can learn so much from photographs, postcards and other visual images. They say a picture can paint a thousand words. Having a photograph can often convey information easier and clearer than lots of words, which can be misinterpreted.

Naturally people like seeing things – imagine reading this newspaper without pictures that can tell or add to the story.

We have many researchers looking for images of their house, family members, or events. We can’t help them all, but maybe you can? While we are always grateful to receive photos into our collection, we are just as happy to borrow photographs and scan them. We are most interested in locations and people.

Far left – Pearce Willis, the one-armed cricketer from Fairton Cricket Club.

Left – Three cricket players in smart uniforms.

Above – A 1952 trained staff basketball team wearing pleated smocks.

Left – The 1914 -15 team with Leo the mascot dog.

Above – Menorlue house when owned by the hospital.

Left – The 1953 Ashburton Hospital float with nurses dressed in period costume, showing the years since 1903.

If the image is named, dated and with a few details that’s great, however even local photos with no information can be of use.

We may take that photo of an unknown group outside a house and use it to tell a story about clothing, cars or even methods of house construction.

Your snaps need not be of wellknown “well-heeled” people but average members of the community.

Posed family shots are a tremendous find for family historians, but social historians are also keen to see informal, candid shots of people playing cricket,

having a picnic or working in the fields. A positive benefit for people who loan or donate images is that if disaster should occur, such as happened to the Fairton Cricket Club, we can supply a copy of the scanned photos.

We may even be able to help identify the image, due to our

knowledge of the history of the town, or from similar photos we may already hold.

The museum archive is full of interesting glimpses of Ashburton’s past, we invite you to come and view them, or contribute some of your own collections and history.

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In brief

■ CRICKET

Black Caps in run fest New Zealand batsmen had their eye on the ball in Bulawayo and were blithely unaware of knocking off three run-making milestones in the second Test against Zimbabwe.

During the second day, as the Kiwis charged to 582-4 declared, captain Kane Williamson (113) became the 13th and, at 26, the youngest player to score a century against all Test-playing nations.

The news was downplayed by Williamson.

“No, I had no idea.

“I think Ross might have mentioned something when I got a hundred today,” he said after the day’s play.

Had he seen the list of other players to achieve it? Tendulkar, Lara?

“No.” Pause.

“Yes it’s nice to have scored some runs and perhaps contributed to hopefully some good team performances, but those boys are the big boys, eh?”

Meanwhile, Ross Taylor’s 124 not out took him to 5529 Test runs, overtaking the late Martin Crowe’s 5444.

He now sits third behind Stephen Fleming (7172) and Brendon McCullum (6453) for most

RESULTS ■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club August 1 B and C Ladder N/S 1st Gaye Branthwaite & Ann Gilbert, 2nd Pauline Scott & Helen Briggs, 3rd Bruce Leighton & George Brown E/W 1st Pat Wise & Joyce Johnson, 2nd Gordon McCormick & David Sewell, 3rd Colleen Gillies & Shirley Young August 2 Hazlemere Trophy N/S 1st Rewa Kyle & Peter Downward, 2nd Linda Baker & Mike Holmes, 3rd Betty Hawthorne & Melva Stowell. E/W 1st Audrey Rooney & Pauline Fergus, 2nd Martin de Jong & Rosemary McLaughlin, 3rd John Fechney & Trish Small August 3 Brabant Trophy N/S 1st Pauline Fergus & Rewa Kyle, 2nd Trish Downward & Rosemary McLaughlin, 3rd Alan Sim & Bev Macaulay. E/W 1st Sue Rosevear & John Fechney, 2nd Peter Downward & David Sewell, 3rd Maree Moore & Val Palmer August 4 Eileen Willoughby Trophy N/S 1st Rosemary McLaughlin & Peter Downward, 2nd Mary Buckland & Trish Downward, 3rd Bev Macaulay & Trevor Coulter. E/W 1st Mike Holdaway & Mike Holmes, 2nd Bill Kolkman & Val Ferrier, 3rd Trish Small & Maurice Small

■ Cycling Tinwald Supervalue Supermarket, Wakanui Training Ride 16km. 13 riders.

First home Bailey O’Donnell 34.57. HT. 11m. RT. 23m 57s. F/T. 2nd Abe O’Donnell 35.03. HT. 11m. RT. 24m 03s. 2f/t. 3rd. Michael Gallagher 35.05. HT. 11m. RT. 24m 05s. 3f/t. 4th Myles O’Donnell 35.11. HT. 11m. RT. 24m 11s. 4f/t. 5th Rob Hooper 35.11. HT. 11m. RT. 24m 11s. 6th Ethan Titheridge 35.12. HT. 7m. RT. 28m 12s. 7th Roger Wilson 35.27. HT. 7m. RT. 28m 27s. 8th

Tendulkar meets Bach Cricket is upping the ante to become the latest mainstream sport to join the Olympic movement after Sachin Tendulkar met with IOC president Thomas Bach in Rio. Tendulkar was spotted on the opening day of the Rugby Sevens, sitting in the grandstands with Bach to watch one of the Games’ newest sports. “Wonderful spending time with Mr Thomas Bach, IOC president at #Rio2016 @Olympics,” Tendulkar tweeted.

Cricket would also be looking to follow a similar path to rugby if it was to be introduced to the Games in 2024.

- AAP

Big round for Furyk

Black Caps skipper Kane Williamson was in record-breaking form against Zimbabwe.

Test runs by a New Zealander.

“I knew I was close but I don’t really look at the scoreboard when I am batting,” Taylor said.

“I heard a few applause so I though I’d better just look up to see where I was at.”

Taylor said it was nice to beat “Hogan”, the nickname for his batting mentor Crowe.

“When I first met him in a mentor capacity he said that he wanted me to at least beat his record, so it was nice to knock off one of those goals he set for me.”

The mammoth innings also featured three 150-run partnerships for the first time in New Zealand’s history.

Martin Guptill (87) and Tom

Latham (136) put on 169 for the first wicket, Latham and Williamson made 160 for the second and Taylor and BJ Watling (83) put on 193 for the fifth.

Williamson was more happy – and perhaps even effusive – about that record.

“It’s a great plus for us, moving forward as a team.”

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Richard Kirwan 35.29. HT. 11m. RT. 24m 29s. 9th. Caitlin Titheridge 35.30. HT. 7m.

RT. 28m 30s. 10th Kristine Marriott 35.31.

HT. 11m. RT. 24m 31s. 11th. Donald Sutton 35.31. HT. 7m. RT. 28m 31s. 12th Maddie Lowry 35.32. HT. Go. RT. 35m 32s. 13th Doug Lowry 35.32. HT. 7m. RT. 28m 32s.

(USA) 69 67 71 65, Paul Casey (ENG) 68 67 66 71, Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 68 71 67 66, Carlos Ortiz (MEX) 66 71 69 66 273: Kim Si-Woo (KOR) 69 70 67 67, Keegan Bradley (USA) 67 72 67 67, Henrik Norlander (SWE) 71 68 70 64, Blayne Barber (USA) 71 64 70 68, Charley Hoffman (USA) 69 68 69 67, Bubba Watson (USA) 67 70 68 68, Tony Finau (USA) 69 68 69 67, Scott Brown (USA) 68 70 67 68, Jon Rahm (ESP) 65 70 69 69 274: Cameron Smith (AUS) 69 67 67 71, Aaron Baddeley (AUS) 73 65 67 69, Jason Kokrak (USA) 70 66 73 65, Webb Simpson (USA) 70 67 69 68

M Sheard, C Tubb, H Rennie, J Ross G Chapman, D Hawkins, M Gilbert, J Gilbert C Talbot, R Mackenzie, K Taylor, W Cullen

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club August 6 No play due to snow

Rakaia Golf Club August 3 Ladies Division Competition of the day - LGU - 4th Putting Round Jill Burrowes 98 – 27 – 71, Teresa Booker 96 – 24 – 72, Jill Burrowes 28 Putts 9 holers: Stroke and Putting Marg Lloyd 55 - 14 - 41 Railway Tavern 2nd shot no 3: - Sue Martin, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd shot no 6: -Freda Bierema, V Bell Nearest Pin no 8: -Freda Bierema, Chertsey Spraying 2nd shot no 15: - Jill Burrowes, S. Quinn 2nd shot no 17: - Teresa Booker Jenette Watts Trophy Jill Burrowes

Travellers Championship Final round scores from PGA TOUR event, the Travellers Championship yesterday (par-70).

266: Russell Knox (SCO) 67 67 64 68 267: Jerry Kelly (USA) 64 70 69 64 268: Patrick Rodgers (USA) 68 66 66 68, Justin Thomas (USA) 68 69 69 62 269: Jim Furyk (USA) 73 66 72 58, Tyrone Van Aswegen (RSA) 67 66 65 71, Robert Garrigus (USA) 67 67 68 67, Daniel Berger (USA) 66 67 62 74 270: Brooks Koepka (USA) 67 70 64 69, Marc Leishman (AUS) 65 68 71 66 271: Russell Henley (USA) 68 65 65 73, Daniel Summerhays (USA) 68 69 65 69, Patrick Reed (USA) 70 67 68 66, Spencer Levin (USA) 69 67 68 67, Alex Cejka (GER) 68 69 69 65, Shawn Stefani (USA) 71 68 67 65 272: Brendan Steele (USA) 70 69 69 64, Ryan Moore (USA) 70 66 66 70, Andres Gonzales (USA) 70 68 65 69, Tyrrell Hatton (ENG) 71 65 70 66, Matt Kuchar

■ Petanque Ashburton MSA Petanque Club Men’s Singles: winner: Richard Browne, runner up: Peter Marriott, third: Mark Richardson Women’s Singles: winner: Karen Stephen, runner up: Karen Bensdorp, third: Marion Harrison.

■ Tennis Atlanta Championships Results from Atlanta Championships yesterday (prefix denotes seeding).

Men, Final: 2-Nick Kyrgios (AUS) beat 1-John Isner (USA) 7-6(3) 7-6(4).

DRAWS Bowls Indoor Bowls August 18 Rep Team The following players have been selected to play Geraldine/Temuka at Temuka 7.30pm start: G Wilson, R Bennett, N Atkinson, C Cleghorn M Lawson, G Smith, J Newell, J Cleghorn M Nordqvist, M Sunbeam, B Bensdorp, A Sunbeam J Cuthbertson, K Smith, R Atkinson, J Nordqvist M Markham, M Bassett, R Webb, B Allnut

■ Golf Ashburton County Ladies Vets August 12 At Rakaia, 9.30 for 10.00a.m. start.

Please bring own lunch and something for the raffle table.

Cancellation notice will be on the radio

Ashburton Golf Club August 13 The Taylor Made Eagles stableford competition will be played off the RED Tees.

Starting Times: Morning 8.00am (back to normal time). Afternoon report to the Pro Shop at 11.30 for a 12.00 start.

■ Hockey Mid Canterbury Hockey Played at NBS Ashburton Hockey Turf August 12 1st Grade Women 6.50pm 2nd place v 3rd place 8.00 pm 4th place v 5th place Bye: 1st place teams to be notified August 13 Senior Men & Women – Semi Finals Senior Women in Ashburton 1.30pm Hampstead (1) v Cambridge (3) Umpires TBA) Senior Women in Timaru 1.00pm Hampstead/Collgns (4) v T G H S (3) (Umpires TBA) Senior Men in Timaru 2.50pm Wakanui Blue (4) v Tainui (3) August 14 1st Grade Men 5.00pm Wakanui v Collegians (TBA) 6.15pm Finals: Tinwald v Allenton (TBA) August 14 Representative Girls Mini Tournament 9.15am Mid Canterbury B v Canterbury Development; 10.15am Mid Canterbury A v Canterbury B; 11.15am Mid Canterbury U15 v Canterbury A; 12.30pm South Canterbury B v Canterbury B; 1.30pm South Canterbury A v Canterbury A; 2.30pm South Canterbury B v Mid Canterbury B; 3.30pm South Canterbury A v Mid Canterbury A.

Jim Furyk broke golf’s magic number when he shot a record 12-under-par 58 at the Travelers Championship, the lowest round ever on the PGA Tour. Furyk, who previously was one of six players to card 59 on tour, also became the first player to break 60 twice on an internationally recognised tour. He is the second player to card 58 on an internationally recognised tour, joining Japanese Ryo Ishikawa, who shot 12-under 58 in the final round of the Crowns tournament on the Japan Tour in 2010.

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Rio fans missing out The weeks and months leading up to the Rio Olympics saw a storm over Russian doping and concerns over the spread of the Zika virus.

But with the action now under way, the start of the Games has seen some venues dominated by swathes of empty seats as fans struggled to navigate huge queues around the Olympic Park. The rugby sevens, tennis and boxing saw athletes compete with the stands half empty on Saturday and while some venues did see an increase in fan numbers throughout the day, the situation must be cause for concern for Rio chiefs.

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Hosszu under scrutiny She has cast herself as the “Iron Lady,” so she should be able to absorb blows from all sides. The way the Olympic swim meet is developing, after just the first day, Katinka Hosszu of Hungary will have to take that steely approach, because the following elements of her existence are being examined, and closely: her relationships, her training methods, her performances, her words. “I’m already thinking how I can get faster,” Hosszu said. “I definitely want to, want to get faster, and I think I can. So that’s just something that definitely excites me.”

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More gold for Phelps Michael Phelps has to clear out more space in his medal case. Time to make room for gold No. 19. With yet another dazzling performance, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history added to his staggering haul in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, giving the United States a lead it never relinquished.

France was leading when Phelps dove into the water on the second leg, and even though the 100 free isn’t one of his specialties — he’s never swam it at the Olympics — he blazed down and back in a stunning 47.12 seconds, sealing victory for the USA. - NZME

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In brief College finish strong Ashburton College 1st XV rounded off their UC Championship campaign with a 26-24 victory over Roncalli on Saturday. The win sees College finish in 13th place on a ladder of 15 teams after recording two wins and 12 defeats.

College led 11-10 at half-time before hooker Elama Touli touched down for two quick-fire tries after the break. College were ahead 26-10 with 15 minutes to play but Roncalli threatened to steal the win with two converted tries of their own as the deficit was reduced to two points. To College’s credit, they held on in dismal conditions to end their season with a win.

Canes answer Kearns

Mid Canterbury A wing defence Aleesha Haslemore-Smith plays a cross-court pass against Selwyn A at the EA Networks Centre Stadium on Sunday.

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■ NETBALL

Defence pleases Cappy

Top junior talent on court

By James Ford

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The EA Networks Centre Stadium played host to the Mid Canterbury Junior Netball Tournament on Sunday and there was plenty of talent on display.

Despite being played indoors, the dismal weather did affect the tournament.

Two Marlborough and three South Canterbury teams were forced to pull out due to the snow, leaving 13 sides to compete in A and B grades.

The A grade was won by Christchurch Primary Sports, who downed Mid Canterbury (40-14), North Canterbury (1710) and Nelson (31-16).

Meanwhile, the Mid Canterbury A side had a less than memorable day with a 34-19 loss to Selwyn following their defeat to Christchurch Primary Sports.

To Mid Canterbury’s credit, they didn’t let their heads drop and bounced back with a convincing 43-16 victory over

■ FUTSAL

All-Stars on show

The New Zealand Futsal Whites will play a game in Ashburton later this month against a South American All-Stars team.

The game, at the EA Networks Centre on August 28, is part of a national futsal roadshow.

Organiser Greg Feutz said the event in Ashburton was organised by New Zealand Football and Mainland Football to promote and grow futsal in the regions.

The roadshow brought many opportunities to be involved in the game, from refereeing and coaching courses, to skill workshops.

Futsal has been played in Ashburton for the past year, with good support across all grades

New Super Rugby champions the Hurricanes have mocked Phil Kearns over his comments that they were fat, but the former Wallabies skipper couldn’t care less. Canes players took to social media to post memes and pictures of their ripped abdominal muscles after defeating South Africa’s Lions 20-3 to claim their maiden premiership, and clearly were motivated by Kearns’ remarks after the first game of the season.

In round one, the Canes were hammered 52-10 by the Brumbies, and in his post-match analysis, Kearns said “the Hurricanes look fat, slow and unfit”.

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with interest from juniors peaking in terms one and four.

Feutz said two local Argentine players would be part of the South American All-Stars team.

A full-sized futsal court would be marked out at the EA Networks Centre stadium for the feature match at 1pm on August 28.

The court will be used when the local senior team plays home and away matches in the Mainland premier league futsal competition coming up.

The Futsal Whites will spend the morning taking skills sessions with junior and youth players.

The feature game is free for anyone interested in watching.

Christchurch Independent Schools.

The B grade was played in a round robin format by Christchurch Primary Sports B, Geraldine Ferns, Hurunui, North Canterbury B and Mid Canterbury B teams.

Christchurch Primary Sports B went through the competition unbeaten.

After thumping Geraldine 730, they saw off Mid Canterbury B 45-8 and North Canterbury B 29-16.

Mid Canterbury B lost their opening match 32-25 to North Canterbury B but did get the better of Geraldine 35-8 before suffering losses to Christchurch Primary Sports B and Hurunui 35-23.

Mid Canterbury Netball’s Aimee Rickard said all teams played to a high standard.

“The day was good.

“Everyone seemed happy on the day – great netball to watch, with some talented wee players coming through.”

■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Doggies bite back

By James macsmith Canterbury prop Aidan Tolman has hit out at critics who say the Bulldogs don’t deserve their spot in the NRL’s top four.

The Bulldogs quietly slipped into the top four with four rounds remaining on the back of their unconvincing win over Newcastle and North Queensland’s loss to Wests Tigers on Sunday.

After a sluggish start to the season, characterised by their inability to string wins together, the Dogs have won six of their last seven games.

But they were thumped 36-0

by North Queensland three weeks ago and mid-season losses to Cronulla and Canberra also

have many questioning their ability to beat the top sides.

NRL great Darren Lockyer, for one, has said he doesn’t believe the Dogs can win the competition due to a lack of ruthlessness.

“That is fine by us. We don’t really care what everybody writes about us,” Tolman said yesterday. “The media has their own agendas, for us we are going about our footy.

“We are not playing our best footy yet but we find ourselves in the top four and that is where we want to stay.”

The Dogs face Manly on Thursday, then Brisbane, North Queensland and South Sydney.

- AAP

Warriors coach Andrew McFadden was unhappy with his side’s loose finish but lauded their committed defence to clinch Sunday’s 24-14 NRL win over the Gold Coast. The Warriors impressed with a dominant forward display and desperate tackling throughout the five tries to three win at Cbus Stadium, but some undisciplined play in the final 10 minutes left the door ajar for the Titans to steal victory. “We were a little untidy with the football at times even though we did create lots of opportunities,” said McFadden.

- NZME

Hurrell right at home Warriors veteran Manu Vatuvei says it’s a bit odd seeing hardrunning centre Konrad Hurrell in another NRL jumper. The 25-yearold Hurrell left the Warriors in May after making only three 2016 NRL appearances and breaching team protocol on a post-match night out in Auckland. He subsequently signed for Gold Coast and is rediscovering his best form in Queensland, bagging a try against his former side on Sunday. “It was really funny seeing Konny on the other side wearing the other jersey,” Vatuvei said. “But he played really well and we wanted to kind of stop him.”

- NZME

Tigers on finals course Coach Jason Taylor’s unerring leadership through Wests Tigers’ Robbie Farah dramas has the NRL club on course for an unlikely final appearance, according to superstar fullback James Tedesco.

Taylor created the mother of all rugby league storms three weeks ago when he dumped club legend Robbie Farah to reserve grade.

Since then the Tigers have won three straight, including Sunday’s impressive 26-14 win over premiers North Queensland.

- AAP

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■ SEVENS

In brief

Sevens Sisters win a thriller

By Andrew Alderson Kiwi rugby fans might need a manicurist to heal their gnawed fingernails, but the Sevens Sisters have marched another step towards proving their worth. $4.9 million of taxpayer money has been invested in them via High Performance Sport New Zealand over the Rio Olympic cycle. Now, with a semi-final against Britain scheduled this morning, they are on the cusp of delivering.

Two more wins and New Zealand Rugby’s marketing department will need to grab their buckets to catch the sponsor offers raining in.

The Go4Gold programme, which recruited Kayla McAlister and Portia Woodman from netball and Tyla Nathan-Wong from touch, is set to pay dividends.

“We grabbed netball, touch and league players over the years because we wanted high level athletes to give Rio a crack,” coach Sean Horan said early in his tenure.

This writer has found the team superb ambassadors; courteous, obliging and exemplary of conduct.

The Chiefs could take note.

Even during a training and

Portia Woodman scores the only points of the match. conditioning camp in Fiji in June they were the epitome of focus as they exited Nadi airport armed with tackle bags.

Yesterday’s 5-0 win over the United States revealed the anxiety and desperation on the biggest stage of their careers.

Dropped balls, forced passes and Nathan-Wong’s yellow card for tackling her opponent with-

PHOTO AP

out the ball crept in. Her twominute exit saw a rejigged ‘Six Sisters’ stretched to capacity.

The 22-year-old was delighted with how her side responded.

“I put my team under a lot of pressure, but I’m so proud of what they did.

“There were six on the field, [USA] were five metres out from our tryline and the girls dug deep.

Kiwis just miss out New Zealand’s tennis Olympians Michael Venus and Marcus Daniell have gone so close to an upset in the first round of doubles in Rio before bowing out to the seventh seeds Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil of Canada 6-4 3-6 6-7 (6) in two hours and three minutes.

Nestor has a current ATP doubles ranking of nine and has 90 career titles including eight Grand Slam titles while Pospisil is 17 in the world and has six titles including the 2014 Wimbledon title. - NZME

“We call it the honey-badger attitude, we stuck to it, [defended] well, were patient and ended up getting away with the win.”

If the Herald’s offices and blog of the event were any gauge, the women’s side captures the public imagination.

Journalists swarmed around televisions and the blog numbers grew exponentially.

Woodman, such a renowned finisher with a sniff of space, scored the match’s only try.

She broke the 0-0 deadlock on half-time with a 40m burst.

Chants of “Give it to Portia” echoed across the newsroom for the rest of the match, bringing to mind memories of Jonah Lomu during the 1995 Rugby World Cup. This Games will probably be the easiest for the New Zealand women to earn a medal.

Once Olympic heavyweights like the United States get into a rhythm it will become a harder task in future.

Given the likely money on offer to recruit coaching expertise, NZR will struggle to contain their intellectual property.

That makes it more important the Seven Sisters seize the day today.

- NZME

Williamses knocked out Serena and Venus Williams lost an Olympic doubles match for the first time, stunned in the opening round of the Rio de Janeiro Games by the Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova 6-3, 6-4.

The Williams sisters entered the match with a 15-0 career record in the Olympics, winning the gold medal in women’s doubles every time they entered the event, in 2000, 2008 and 2012.

- NZME

Equestrians shaky New Zealand’s chances of an eventing medal at the Rio Olympics have taken a hit after the team slipped to a share of sixth after the second day of dressage. After the first of the three phases in the event the Kiwis have 137.50 penalty points after Clarke Johnstone and Jonelle Price completed their tests.

They sit 11.10 points adrift of third placed Australia.

- NZME

Olympic Games Friday, August 5 to Sunday, August 21 Rank

Company

NOC

Gold

1

China

3

2

Australia

3

3

Italy

2

4

Korea

5 6

Alps Continuous Spouting

7 8 9

Gluyas Motor Group

Silver

Total

3

8

2

5

3

2

7

2

2

1

5

United States

1

5

2

8

Russia

1

2

2

5

Japan

1

6

7

New Zealand Great Britain

10

Germany

11

France

2

Bronze

1

1

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In brief

■ VICTORIA TROTTER’S DERBY

Wilma opens can of worms Nobody could begrudge Kiwi raider Wilmas Mate her Victoria Trotters’ Derby win on Sunday, but it opened a festering sore in Victorian harness racing.

The Paul Nairn-trained star sustained a long, powerhouse run to win the Group 1 classic at Maryborough, but had to survive an even longer protest hearing from the connections of runner-up High Gait.

The protest lodged by High Gait’s driver Chris Alford focused on Wilmas Mate spending much of the run down the home straight in the sprint lane.

In the end stewards dismissed the protest, but it sent social media into a spin because such protests have been upheld in the past.

There is clearly a grey area which needs urgent clarification over the rules around leaders going into the sprint lane in the home straight.

As it stands now, punters have no idea what to expect.

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Driver David Butt Even HRV chief steward Nick Murray conceded Wilmas Mate’s driver David Butt had not “explicity complied” with his obli-

gations to prevent the filly from shifting further into the sprint as she started to tire in the run home.

But he pointed to the fact the final 2.5m margin was flattering to High Gait because the winner had trotted roughly in the closing stages.

Controversy aside, Wilmas Mate’s win was enormous.

She settled back from a second row draw before Butt unleashed her with a blazing charge around the field and found the lead with a lap to go, mainly because the leaders Sundons Courage and Cruisin Around locked wheels.

Alford chased on High Gait, stalked Wilmas Mate into the home straight, but was unable to run her down.

Wilmas Mate broke the Maryborough track record, taking 0.4sec off the mark set by Speeding Spur last year.

It was yet another training triumph for the Kiwi trotting

master Paul Nairn, which owner Richard Cornelius was quick to acknowledge after the race was over.

“Obviously Paul (Nairn) again showed the master that he is.

“He had the horse in excellent condition to do what she has done today and David Butt again proved that he is a great driver,” he said.

Butt looked and sounded relieved after the victory.

“She was getting pretty tired late, but after the big run he’d put in that was understandable.

“She really had to earn it and did a fantastic job,” he said.

Just for good measure, Butt and Nairn combined to win a support race on the day as well with last year’s Breeders Crown 2YO champ Conon Bridge.

The colt, who ran fourth in the Redwood Classic at the same meeting last year, toyed with his older rivals to win by 21m in a slick 2min0.1sec mile rate for 2190m.

- HRNZ

Gifted but headstrong youngster Illawong Byron gave the locals something to cheer about when he led throughout to win the Group 1 Redwood Classic. Mark Purdon’s raider Custodian was sent out a commanding $1.80 favourite to give NZ its third Redwood win in the past four years, but as brave as he was, he couldn’t quite run down Illawong Byron. Illawong Byron, who very nearly tackled the Harness Jewels, added to his fantastic season which boasts 10 starts for six wins, three seconds and almost $100,000 in earnings.

- HRNZ

Kiwi jumpers to fore I’ll’ava’alf overcame an interrupted build-up to lead home a New Zealand trifecta in the Crisp Steeplechase. The former Karen Fursdontrained jumper beat Shelley Houston’s Lucky Tonight and Zed Em, who has transferred from Kevin Myers’ stable to Patrick Payne, in Sunday’s feature at Sandown. “He got dumped at Casterton. He ran through a running rail, flipped over a wing and he got a few lacerations to his leg and I thought that might be enough for him,” I’ll’ava’alf’s trainer Patrick Ryan said. “He’s hardly been ridden since.” - NZME

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington 4 x7868 Kinloch Power 30.35 S & ................B Evans 2 38538 Gordon’s My Mate 17.64 .......... A Botherway Raceway Meeting Date: 09 Aug 2016 NZ Meeting num- 5 52566 Big Catch nwtd M & ..........................Jopson 3 67563 Cosmoholic 17.71 ........................A Waretini ber: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 6 8x755 Mega Volt nwtd......................... A Botherway 4 66513 Bell Ring 17.81 L & ............................ Wales 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 7 22445 Opawa Gumisie 30.50 L & ................. Wales 5 72478 Gorilla On Drums 17.29 ...................A Joyce 10, 11 and 12 6 14173 Troublesome Brit 17.40 ................C Roberts 8 23565 Lagoon Belle 30.31 ......................C Roberts 7 88558 Wrinkles 17.15 .......................J T McInerney 9 57672 Crystal Flame 30.59 ........................ M Grant 1 12.09pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C0, 295m 8 23262 Pep’s Terra 17.83 C & ........................ Fagan 1 42445 Black Tryax nwtd ....................... G T Bennett 10 48456 Goldstar Boomer 30.80 S & ............B Evans 2 58466 Jinga Snag nwtd ..............................A Joyce 4 1.09pm GARDEN CITY CHEM-DRY SPRINT C1, 295m 9 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 1 86723 Another Cruise nwtd ..............J T McInerney 10 878x7 Paddy The Baker 17.30..........J T McInerney 3 77735 Uno Jason nwtd L & ........................... Wales 2 42124 Gordy Junior 17.63 ......................C Roberts 7 2.10pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STAKES C1, 520m 4 26644 Cairo nwtd ....................................... M Grant 1 78328 Oak Spur 30.86 .................................P Scott 3 33685 Cupcake 17.64 ....................................A Lee 5 3241 Kalonga 17.69 S & ..........................B Evans 6 77675 Promises Maid nwtd..................... K Cassidy 2 73534 Hell’s A Coming 31.06.............. A Botherway 4 86256 Tayla’s Friend 17.61 ..................... K Cassidy 7 26437 Todd Blue Blood nwtd ............J T McInerney 3 45553 Goldstar Coco 30.74 S & ................B Evans 5 56637 Max Brainstrain 17.39 M &.................. Smith 8 57735 Mulberry Thunder nwtd ................ K Cassidy 4 54877 Opawa Grunter 30.38 L & .................. Wales 6 87663 Sea Spray Elsa 17.71 .................B Freeman 9 888x Boyish Charms nwtd ..............J T McInerney 5 166 Cawbourne Eru 30.79 ..................C Roberts 7 44664 Lucas Scott 17.43 ........................ L Waretini 6 22524 Lagoon Twist 30.33 .........................J Tanner 8 21366 Feral Coaster 17.60 .....................M A Butler 2 12.29 WAIHEMO LODGE HOTEL DASH C1, 295m 7 12443 Slick Action 30.67 J & .....................D Fahey 9 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 1 28815 Bronson Jewel 17.51....................C Roberts 8 14613 Spring Sam 30.74 ..................J T McInerney 2 74426 Lexie Rae 17.53 M &.........................Jopson 10 18668 Jimmy Nail 17.88 ........................ J McMillan 3 54583 Goldstar Scooter nwtd S &..............B Evans 5 1.29pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS DASH C1, 295m Emergencies: 9 57672 Crystal Flame 30.59 ........................ M Grant 1 21116 Hannah Rhiannon 17.33 ...............R Adcock 4 66754 Giancana 17.85............................S Hindson 2 32477 Archies Dijon 17.51 M & ...................Jopson 10 26477 Opawa Jemaine 30.03 J & ..............D Fahey 5 x7723 Lagoon May nwtd M & ........................ Smith 3 54758 Whip Uppa Storm 17.27............ G T Bennett 8 2.26pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 295m 6 73345 Royal Descent 17.89 .................R Blackburn 1 75685 Ohoka Hope 17.38 ....................... L Waretini 4 14866 Holly Blue Blood 17.47...........J T McInerney 7 14113 Opawa Blinky 17.49 L & ..................... Wales 2 74377 Sweet Abby Lee 17.43 ..............R Blackburn 5 43776 Struggle Is Real 17.61 H & .................Taylor 8 11236 Botany Calypso 17.54 ............J T McInerney 3 185 Runnin’ Cloggs 17.61 ........................J Dunn 6 86344 Hayley James 17.53..................... L Waretini 9 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 4 62522 Cawbourne Eden 17.35 ...............C Roberts 7 12861 Dora Dufran 17.36 ............................J Dunn 10 78788 Foxy Babe 17.87 ..............................A Joyce 3 12.49 HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARY MCENTEE STAKES 8 12146 Helena Allen nwtd ........................C Roberts 5 62x88 Major Bloodnok 17.69 ...................R Adcock 6 74643 Katie Ate It 17.94 ...................... M Robinson 9 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner C1, 520m 7 22212 Homebush Shane 17.69 ........J T McInerney 1 13323 Odin Slayer 30.97 .....................A Bradshaw 10 878x7 Paddy The Baker 17.30..........J T McInerney 2 41387 Opawa Penny 30.77 L & .................... Wales 6 1.49 AMBER CLEANING SERVICES SPRINT C1, 295m 8 73644 Go Tommo 17.10 S & ......................B Evans 9 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 1 36667 Spare Action nwtd S & ....................B Evans 3 13145 Albie Punter 30.34 J & ....................D Fahey

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Custodian beaten

72275 Another Vespa nwtd ...............J T McInerney 44151 Opawa Crystal nwtd L & .................... Wales 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 1 31744 Ohoka Faith 17.44........................ L Waretini 28877 Ana Dior nwtd ..............................C Roberts 2 45462 Coleridge Jim 17.60 M &..................... Smith 3 147x7 Glad Rags 17.61 .................................A Lee 12 3.46pm PROTEXIN SPRINT C1, 295m 1 62388 Willy Be Best 17.70 .....................B Freeman 4 47545 Go McIndoe 17.60 ....................R Blackburn 2 888x4 Summer Love 17.53 .........................A Joyce 5 15x Little Comet nwtd ...............................C Weir 3 64437 Another Spin 17.33 ................J T McInerney 6 44621 Cawbourne Dotty 17.40 ...............C Roberts 4 3151 Kata 17.43..........................................C Weir 7 66854 Mamalulu 17.45 C & .......................... Fagan 5 27332 God Particle 17.40 ..............................A Lee 8 13423 Deman Blue Blood 17.53 .......J T McInerney 6 6x568 Know Salute 17.29 .........................G Cleeve 9 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 7 56234 Peyton Sawyer 17.56 ................... L Waretini 10 18668 Jimmy Nail 17.88 ........................ J McMillan 10 3.06pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH 8 24447 Eug The Scrooge 17.69 M & .............Jopson Emergencies: STAKES C1, 520m 9 77x57 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 1 37468 Cawbourne Miami 30.18 ..............C Roberts 2 65142 Replica Yella 30.59 .......................... M Grant 10 28877 Ana Dior nwtd ..............................C Roberts 3 44242 Know Cheers 30.36 .......................G Cleeve SELECTIONS 4 56274 Mobilize 30.95 .................................J Tanner Race 1: Black Tryax, Todd Blue Blood, Cairo, Uno Jason 5 15386 Opawa Judy 30.84 L & ....................... Wales Race 2: Botany Calypso, Lexie Rae, Lagoon May, Royal Descent 6 1744x Captain Tuttle nwtd J & ...................D Fahey Race 3: Albie Punter, Odin Slayer, Opawa Penny, Lagoon Belle 7 31446 Tricky Action nwtd S & ....................B Evans Race 4: Gordy Junior, Feral Coaster, Sea Spray Elsa 8 37887 Opawa Faith 30.32 L &....................... Wales Race 5: Helena Allen, Hayley James, Struggle Is Real 9 45375 Lagoon Allira 30.53 ......................C Roberts Race 6: Pep’s Terra, Spare Action, Gorilla On Drums, Bell Ring 10 48456 Goldstar Boomer 30.80 S & ............B Evans Race 7: Slick Action, Spring Sam, Lagoon Twist, Goldstar Coco Race 8: Cawbourne Eden, Homebush Shane, Sweet Abby Lee 11 3.27pm GLENBYRE TAVERN DASH C1, 295m Race 9: Little Comet, Deman Blue Blood, Coleridge Jim 1 76111 Coldrum 17.49 .......................... M Robinson Race 10: Captain Tuttle, Know Cheers, Replica Yella, Opawa Judy 2 18873 Too Much Sugar 17.58 ..............A Bradshaw Race 11: Know Struggle, Too Much Sugar, Idol Georgie 3 5x222 Know Struggle 17.34......................G Cleeve Race 12: Kata, Know Salute, Peyton Sawyer, Willy Be Best 4 18477 Jinno Gino 17.65 ......................... J McMillan 5 57754 Idol Georgie 17.64 ............................ J Rush LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 6 77847 Hat Trick Chaos nwtd .......................A Joyce - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track 10 78788 Foxy Babe 17.87 ..............................A Joyce

9 2.45pm CHEVIOT TRUST HOTEL SPRINT C1, 295m

7 8 9 10

Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway

Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park 3 12.41 GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C1, 390m Raceway Meeting Date: 09 Aug 2016 NZ Meeting num- 1 55224 Devilskin 22.62 .......................J T McInerney ber: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 2 86878 Thoracic nwtd.........................J T McInerney 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 3 64662 Regalyn 23.02 ...................................B Eade 10, 11 and 12 4 87655 No Tinkerbell nwtd .........................J Guthrie 1 12.00 WELCOME TO THE NEW SEASON C2/3, 390m 5 14 Epic Woppa nwtd ..........................R Adcock 6 56448 Thrilling Shrimp 22.93 ................. B I Conner 1 46211 Wunzee 22.72 ........................J T McInerney 7 1361 Lauren The Leech 22.69 ...................J Dunn 2 16543 Another Fan 22.74 .................J T McInerney 8 22137 Idol Star 23.02 L & ............................. Wales 3 53738 Thunder Storm 22.83 .............J T McInerney 4 33212 Human Instinct nwtd ..............J T McInerney 4 1.01pm ASCOT PARK CONSORTIUM C0, 457m 5 42748 Southern Mist 22.70 ....................R Hamilton 1 42T48 Epic Dream nwtd...........................R Adcock 6 65652 Chicago Black 22.72 ..............J T McInerney 2 48377 Kim’s My Name nwtd ......................J Goode 7 34358 Alex Rumble nwtd ..................J T McInerney 3 863 Sergio Destroyer nwtd............J T McInerney 8 64576 Aiden Baxter nwtd ..................J T McInerney 4 7745 Luciastar nwtd ........................J T McInerney 9 87578 Opawa Crusade 22.38 L &................. Wales 5 57458 Homebush Sloan nwtd ...........J T McInerney 10 16878 No Bro nwtd ................................ B I Conner 6 7 Sergio Star nwtd ....................J T McInerney 2 12.21 WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ 7 33532 Light Thaw nwtd .................................J Allen 8 4 Southern Honey nwtd .................R Hamilton C0, 390m 1 5763 Dan Blue Blood nwtd .............J T McInerney Emergencies: 9 36567 Mya Time nwtd ..................................B Eade 2 5x1 Epic Knoxy nwtd............................R Adcock 3 54585 Call Me Soon nwtd ..........................J Goode 10 78673 Waimak Sheff nwtd ................J T McInerney 4 85586 Rookie Racer nwtd...................... B I Conner 5 1.21pm ADDED ENERGY DASH C2, 390m 5 4 Miss Blue Sky nwtd .....................R Hamilton 1 11842 Scary Canary 22.76 ..........................B Eade 6 86275 Homebush Scribe nwtd ..........J T McInerney 2 48565 Om Nom Nom 22.70 ..............J T McInerney 7 5x344 Celtic Warrior nwtd M & ....................Jopson 3 76571 Harden Faster 22.93 M & ..................Jopson 8 28342 Idol Eve nwtd L & ............................... Wales 4 11533 His Nibs 22.79....................................J Allen Emergencies: 5 73382 Opawa Opal 22.84 L & ....................... Wales 9 36567 Mya Time nwtd ..................................B Eade 6 37635 Opawa Idol 22.56 L &......................... Wales 10 887 Eskimo Chill nwtd...............................J Allen 7 44315 Lots Of Beersies 22.90 ............... B I Conner

5 71674 Puma Pants 22.14..................J T McInerney 8 63281 What I Like 23.20 ...................J T McInerney 6 71222 Mr. Marine 22.91 ...........................R Adcock 9 16878 No Bro nwtd ................................ B I Conner 7 51751 Homebush Errol 22.70 ...........J T McInerney 10 88788 Wally Baxter 22.87 .................J T McInerney 6 1.41 SGRC $26 FIVE WIRE MUZZLE STKS C1, 457m 8 52188 Chokehold 22.52 M & .......................Jopson 9 77756 Air Express 22.77...................J T McInerney 1 48423 Homebush Skip nwtd .............J T McInerney 2 43555 Rib Curler nwtd ..................................J Allen 9 2.36pm SGRC $50 LEATHER LEADS C1, 390m 1 15676 Definite 22.77 .................................. R Breen 3 17321 Opawa Alex 26.51 L & ....................... Wales 2 45558 Freckle Flyer nwtd ..............................J Allen 4 11577 Storming Mack 26.76 .................. B I Conner 3 58832 Glory Hog 23.00 .....................J T McInerney 5 65712 Albie McLeod 26.21 ..........................B Eade 4 35878 Chill Out Rach nwtd M & ...................Jopson 6 8715 Goodbye Porkpie nwtd ...................B Healey 5 38141 Charlie Runkel nwtd ..........................J Dunn 7 62748 Rhinegolde nwtd ................................J Allen 6 82225 Opawa Express 22.90 ................. B I Conner 8 88x24 Top Caliber nwtd ......................... B I Conner 7 68322 Fear Marina 23.11..................J T McInerney 7 2.00pm ORETI BEACH RUN C1, 457m 8 24146 Opawa Top nwtd L & .......................... Wales 1 13342 Know Hassle nwtd .........................G Cleeve 2 41835 Kelly’s My Name nwtd .....................J Goode 10 2.56 SGRC TIPPING COMPETITION C2/3, 457m 1 33436 Country Crossing 26.36 ....................J Dunn 3 13 Unverified nwtd ......................J T McInerney 2 35775 Zipping Sonny nwtd ...............J T McInerney 4 11245 Harlequin Parade nwtd......................J Dunn 3 83647 In The Boot nwtd M &........................Jopson 5 46424 Cronos nwtd ......................................B Eade 4 53285 Another Liz nwtd ....................J T McInerney 6 3244F Deborah Bay nwtd..........................J Guthrie 5 22724 Know Lapse nwtd...........................G Cleeve 7 32822 Know Respect nwtd .......................G Cleeve 6 24775 Another Message nwtd ..........J T McInerney 8 33314 Shift The Blame nwtd .............J T McInerney 7 63166 Know Neglect nwtd ........................G Cleeve Emergencies: 8 76412 Pukeko Bolt nwtd ...........................B Healey 9 64662 Regalyn nwtd ....................................B Eade 10 43555 Rib Curler nwtd ..................................J Allen 11 3.20 SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C4/5, 8 2.19pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C4, 390m 390m 1 54332 Abrasador 22.27 ...............................B Eade 1 18116 Homebush Kelso nwtd ...........J T McInerney 2 12172 Botany Alan 22.42..................J T McInerney 2 23243 Storming Norm 22.63.................. B I Conner 3 11613 Homebush Riley 22.81 ...........J T McInerney 3 51477 Homebush Rocky 22.70 .........J T McInerney 4 11177 Birchbrook nwtd ............................R Adcock 4 21218 Southern Affair 22.71 ..................R Hamilton

5 6 7 8 9

26323 No Leaf Clover 22.28 M & .................Jopson 83363 Opawa Lean Meat 22.55 L & ............. Wales 71872 Another Belle 22.47 ...............J T McInerney 31412 Wheelchair Norm 22.17 .........J T McInerney 77756 Air Express 22.77...................J T McInerney 12 3.36 RACING AGAIN 30TH AUGUST C1/2, 457m 1 33728 Nina Baxter 26.68 ..................J T McInerney 2 33111 Sarcasm 26.50 ...............................G Cleeve 3 11213 Patty’s Pick 25.82 ..........................R Adcock 4 56313 Zipping Piper nwtd ...................... B I Conner 5 63668 Homebush Hansome 26.86 ...J T McInerney 6 41685 Homebush Howard 26.02 ......J T McInerney 7 16274 Obeyance nwtd ..................................J Allen 8 55666 Star Apache nwtd........................ B I Conner SELECTIONS

Race 1: Aiden Baxter, Another Fan, Chicago Black, Alex Rumble Race 2: Epic Knoxy, Idol Eve, Celtic Warrior, Homebush Scribe Race 3: Lauren The Leech, Devilskin, Idol Star, Regalyn Race 4: Epic Dream, Kim’s My Name, Sergio Destroyer, Light Thaw Race 5: Scary Canary, What I Like, Opawa Idol, Om Nom Nom Race 6: Albie McLeod, Top Caliber, Storming Mack, Homebush Skip Race 7: Know Respect, Harlequin Parade, Shift The Blame Race 8: Botany Alan, Puma Pants, Mr. Marine, Chokehold Race 9: Charlie Runkel, Definite, Fear Marina, Glory Hog Race 10: Pukeko Bolt, Another Liz, Know Neglect, Know Lapse Race 11: Wheelchair Norm, Storming Norm, No Leaf Clover Race 12: Patty’s Pick, Sarcasm, HNina Baxter, Zipping Piper 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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Classifieds

■ RUGBY

PLANTS, PRODUCE

McKenzie tops Super Rugby stats Beauden Barrett and TJ Perenara have earned the majority of the plaudits in driving the Hurricanes to their maiden Super Rugby championship, but the statistics show that little Chiefs back Damian McKenzie was one of the busiest and most dangerous backs in the competition.

The 21-year-old, who plays fullback for his franchise, reckons he weighs “80kg dripping wet”, but his size is no impediment to his performances, and while his side were knocked out in the semi-final by the Hurricanes, McKenzie is looming as a crucial element to the franchise for the next few years.

Included in the All Blacks squad for the June tests against Wales, McKenzie didn’t play a game, and he has been left out of the Rugby Championship squad, but appears certain to wear the black jersey in the near future – possibly on the November tour.

The keys to his success in only his second season at this level are his willingness to get involved and his slipperiness when he gets the ball.

As the statistics show, McKenzie ran further with the ball,

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and more often, than any other player.

He also made the most breaks and beat the most defenders.

Rounding off his outstanding year is the fact he made the second highest number of offloads, behind Highlander Malakai Fekitoa.

Credit must also be given to Lions loose forward Jaco Kriel, who finished third on the list of most defenders beaten, an extraordinary achievement for a forward.

The beaten finalists made breaks almost at will as they stormed into the final, but unfortunately for them they were hard to come by in Wellington on Saturday.

Three New Zealanders were among the competition’s best tacklers, with the outstanding Ardie Savea taking the honours, giving the Hurricanes flanker something extra to celebrate.

Blues midfielder Piers Francis surprisingly comes out on top as among the best goalkickers for New Zealand teams.

The “booming boot” award goes to the Sunwolves’ Riaan Viljoen, who was successful with a massive kick from 55.4m.

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Heritage Centre, West Street.

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): When a person doesn’t make your preferred choice, you keep your response drama-free. This could be a test. How you behave will crystallise someone’s opinion of you.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’re emotionally independent. You know how to make yourself happy, and when you feel life isn’t naturally going in that direction, you shake things up, take back the reins and steer back toward your happy place.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Something led you to wonder, and now your mind is busy creating a version of the story that connects the dots you know, but you don’t know everything, and this is not the whole story – or even an accurate one.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Like a well-prepared celebrity on a talk show, you’ve rehearsed your “talking points” and you’ve been warned not to go off script... you know, where all the juicy stuff is. Will you make an exception for that charming so-and-so?

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Everyone pays dues and proves usefulness. Don’t let anyone treat you badly, though. Social and professional standing won’t be automatically given; it has to be claimed.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): It’s a subtle thing, but you stand taller and become more connected to your environment. You have the overriding feeling that you belong exactly where you are.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): That difference between your job and work will become obvious today, as a thought process involves you deeply: What you love about what you do may have little to do with the job.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Crying can be the start of healing, a physical stress reliever. But it can be other things, too – manipulation, the entry to an emotional pain loop, habit... Interpretation is key.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Someone you love may need you to put your charm and expertise to the task of taking the intense, embarrassing or pressurising focus off of his or her latest mistake.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Stress causes people to become a self-conscious witness to their own interactions. Your job will be to make someone comfortable so this person can shine.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Usually, you love more or less unconditionally. However, right now, if you were to think of yourself and your attention as a kind of prize, it would benefit all. Make them earn it – if only so they’ll appreciate what they have in you.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’re as interested in the questions posed to you as you are in your answers to them, which will come from such a deep place inside you that they may actually surprise you.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

CHISNALL, Margaret – On August 5, 2016.

Peacefully at Ashburton Hospital. In her 88th year.

Dearly loved wife of the late Steven. Much loved mother and mother in law of Kevin, and Allan and Jill (Timaru).

Much loved nan of Anna and Corie, Kate, Matthew, Connor, and Erin and great nan of Juno and Nora. A service for Margaret will be held in Our Chapel Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton TODAY Tuesday, commencing at 1.30pm, followed by interment at the Hinds Cemetery.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

CHISNALL, Margaret (nee Clarke) – Passed away in Ashburton Hospital on Friday, August 5, 2016. Loved sister and sister-in-law of Joe and Noeline Clarke (Temuka), Dureen and Stan Scheib (Auckland) deceased, Mina Taylor (Auckland) and Arthur (deceased), Eunice (deceased) and Gordon Wood (New Plymouth), Robert and Cathie Clarke (Ashburton), John and Noeline Clarke (Tinwald).

Loved aunty to her many nieces and nephews.

“Sadly missed.”

CUMBERLAND, Brett – On August 7, 2016 at Ashburton. Aged 49 years.

Special cherished son of Ruth and Ken. Dearly loved brother of Wayne, Paula, Maree, and the late Russell. Treasured uncle of all his nieces and nephews. Messages to Cumberland family P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to celebrate Brett’s life will be held at our Chapel cnr and East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on THURSDAY, August 11 commencing at 2.00pm.

Followed by private cremation the Ashburton at Crematorium.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

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FLETT, Jenny – “One year has gone Jen. The years we had were so good.

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McDONALD, Elizabeth Anne (Anne) – 9-08-2014.

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“Miss you Mum.” Raylene, Sandra and families.

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Nicholas Brendon, Chandra West, Vincent Ventresca.

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8:30 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Erika invites the women to see her alter ego perform in San Diego; Lisa Rinna seeks to find out who said what to Yolanda.

9:30 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills 10:30 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 11pm Keeping Up With The Kardashians 11:30 Snapped PGR 12:30 Infomercials 3

7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30

The Crowd Goes Wild Piha Rescue PGR 0 Crayfishers PGR 0 N Jericho PGR In the 1870s, a Yorkshire shanty town becomes home to Annie and her children after her schoolmaster husband’s death leaves her widowed and penniless. 0 9:50 Game Of Thrones AO 0

11pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

11:30 Rio Olympics (HLS) 12:30 Rio Olympics – Rowing 3am Rio Olympics – Men’s Hockey Black Sticks v Spain.

4:30 Rio Olympics – Equestrian 5am Rio Olympics – Rugby Sevens

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6am CSI – New York MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Pawn Stars PG 7:40 Last Man Standing PG 8:05 Biker Battleground Phoenix PGL 8:55 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 9:45 CSI MV 10:35 NCIS PGV 11:20 Helicopter Heroes – Down Under PG 11:50 Border Security M 12:15 Ice Road Truckers PG 1:05 The Force MC 1:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 2:20 CSI – New York MV 3:10 Biker Battleground Phoenix PGL 4pm Pawn Stars PG 4:30 Last Man Standing PG 5pm SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 6pm The Simpsons PG 6:30 The Force MC 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 NCIS PGV 8:30 Scorpion MV 9:30 Elementary MV 10:30 CSI MV 11:30 NCIS PGV

6:50 Jupiter Ascending MV 2014 Action. Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum.

8:55 Biography – Matt Damon PG 2011 Documentary.

9:50 Innocence MVSC 2014 Adventure Horror.

Sophie Lane Curtis, Kelly Reilly, Graham Phillips.

11:25 Let’s Be Cops MLSC 2014 Comedy. Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans jr.

1:10 Poltergeist MC 2015 Horror. Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt.

2:45 Jupiter Ascending MV 2014 Action. Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum. 4:50 A Most Violent Year MVLC 2015 Action Crime.

Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo.

6:55 Maggie MV 2014 Thriller. Abigail Breslin, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

8:30 The Final Girls MVLS 2015 Comedy. Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman.

10:05 A Walk Among The Tombstones 16VLS 2013 Thriller. Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens.

11:55 Hangman 18VLSC 2015 Horror.

Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield.

6am The Day After Tomorrow M 2004 Action.

Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal.

8am Salt MVL 2010 Action. Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

9:40 Revolutionary Road 16VLS 2008 Drama.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. 11:35 The Young Victoria PGV 2009 Drama. Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend. 1:20 The Day After Tomorrow M 2004 Action. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal.

3:20 Something To Talk About ML 1995 Comedy Drama. Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall.

5:05 Freddy v Jason 16VLS 2003 Horror. Robert Eglund, Ken Kirzinger.

6:40 The Time Traveller’s Wife MV 2009 Drama.

Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams.

8:30 2012 MC 2009 Action.

John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet.

11:05 Scary Movie 16VLSC 2000 Comedy Horror.

Carmen Electra, Jon Abrahams.

12:30 Biker Battleground Phoenix PGL 1:20 Last Man Standing PG 1:45 CSI – New York MV 2:35 CSI MV 3:25 The Simpsons PG 3:55 Scorpion MV 4:45 Elementary MV 5:35 The Force MC

1:20 A Most Violent Year MVLC 2015 Action Crime.

Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo. 3:25 Maggie MV 2014 Thriller.

5am Hangman 18VLSC 2015 Horror.

Jericho

8:30pm on Prime

THE BOX

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY

MAORI

6am Good Morning Rio The latest updates from the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. 0 6:05 Rio Olympics – Rugby Sevens Semi-finals from Deodoro Stadium.

7am Rio Olympics – Equestrian 8am Rio Olympics – Men’s Hockey Black Sticks v Germany.

9:30 Rio Olympics (HLS) 9:35 Rio Olympics – Rugby Sevens 11:30 Rio Olympics – Gymnastics 1:30 Rio Olympics (HLS) 2pm Rio Olympics – Swimming 3pm 60 Minutes PGR 3 4pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 4:30 Rio Olympics (HLS) 5:30 Prime News 6pm Rio Olympics – New Zealand Contestants 0

WEDNESDAY

12:35 Scary Movie 2 16LS 2001 Comedy Horror.

Tori Spelling, Marlon Wayans.

1:55 Scary Movie 3 MVL 2003 Comedy. Anna Faris, Pamela Anderson, Charlie Sheen. 3:20 The Time Traveller’s Wife MV 2009 Drama. Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams. 5:05 2012 MC 2009 Action. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet.

CHOICE

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Pukana 2 7:30 The Zoo 3 8am Miharo 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 2:30 Ako 3 2 3pm Iwi Anthems 3:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 4pm Whanau Living PGR 4:30 Project Whenua 3 5pm Te Mana Kuratahi The National Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka Competition, hosted by Horowhenua Rohe, celebrates its 15th anniversary.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukoro 2 6:20 The Amazing Adventures Of Moko Toa 2 6:30 Pukana 2 7pm Polyfest Kapa Haka (HLS) 7:30 Café Niugini PGR Jennifer explores the hillside yam houses of Sibonai village, bush-food remedies of Normanby Island, and the seafood of Alotau town.

8pm Native Affairs 8:30 M Fahrenheit 9/11 AO 2004 Documentary.

10:40 Aotearoa PGR 11:10 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:40 Kawe Korero – Reporters News reporters dissect and discuss the day’s news and events.

12:10 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 The Hunters Club 7am Surfing – World Surf League (HLS) Billabong Pro Tahiti. 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9am Aussie Rules – AFL (RPL) Geelong Cats v Essendon.

Noon Cricket – Caribbean Premier League (HLS) Final – Guyuna Amazon Warriors v TBC. 1pm Cricket – International (HLS) Pakistan v England – Third Test Day Five. 1:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Panthers v Roosters. 2pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Round 22 Sunday. 2:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Titans v Warriors.

3pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Round 22 Saturday.

3:30 Surfing – World Surf League (HLS) J Bay Open.

4:25 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Hurricanes v Lions – Final.

4:55 Rugby – First XV (RPL) Mt Albert Grammar v St Kentigern College.

6:25 UFC Now 7:20 L Cricket – International Zimbabwe v Blackcaps – Second Test, Day Four.

Coverage of the morning session.

9:35 The Crowd Goes Wild 10:05 L Cricket – International Zimbabwe v Blackcaps – Second Test, Day Four.

WEDNESDAY

3am Super League Fulltime 3:30 UFC Fight Night (RPL) Rodriguez v Caceres.

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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6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Travel Man – 48 Hours In 7am Luxury Uncovered 7:30 Roar Of The Wild 8am Wildlife SOS 8:30 The Jonathan Ross Show 9:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Melbourne 10am Donna Hay – Fast, Fresh, Simple 10:30 Junk Gypsies 11am Buy It, Fix It, Sell It 11:30 Baggage Battles Noon Travel Man – 48 Hours In 12:30 Luxury Uncovered 1pm Sacred Wonders Of Britain 2pm The Making Of Spain 3pm The Jonathan Ross Show 4pm Wildest Antarctica Series looking at Antarctica and its wild creatures.

5pm The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure 6pm Location, Location, Location 7pm Auction Hunters 7:30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea 8:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 9:30 Money For Nothing Sarah Moore saves three things from being thrown out, transforms them into bespoke and valuable pieces, and returns the profit to their owners.

10:30 Auction Hunters 11pm The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure Midnight Dig Wars 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am The Jonathan Ross Show 2am Wildest Antarctica 3am Location, Location, Location 4am Fantasy Homes By The Sea 5am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers

SKY SPORT 2 9am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Panthers v Roosters.

9:30 Monday Night With Matty Johns 10:30 Golf – PGA European Tour (HLS) Paul Lawrie Match Play Event.

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Fox Sports News 12:30 Motorsport – Global Rallycross Washington DC. 2pm The Hunters Club 2:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Final – Hurricanes v Lions.

3pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) Travelers Championship Event.

4:30 Golf – PGA European Tour Paul Lawrie Match Play Event.

5:30 Sky Sport Select 6pm TBC 6:30 AFL Weekly Highlights (HLS) 7:30 Fox Sports News 8pm Super League Fulltime 8:30 NRL 360 9:30 Back Page 10:30 Inside Supercars 11:30 NRL Fulltime

WEDNESDAY

Midnight Super League Fulltime 12:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Titans v Warriors. 1am The Crowd Goes Wild 1:30 Fox Sports News 2am Back Page 3am Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series (HLS) Cheez-It 355 At The Glen.

4am Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) Travelers Championship Event.

5am The Hunters Club 5:25 L Cricket – NatWest Blast Twenty20 Cup Quarterfinal Two - Northamptonshire v Middlesex.

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DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 8:30 MythBusters PG 9:25 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG Did we Nuke Jupiter?

10:20 What On Earth? PG Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan. 11:15 Deadline – Crime With Tamron Hall M The Death Chat Room.

12:10 Nightmare Next Door M Trouble in Coal Country.

1:05 Forbidden – Dying For Love M 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:25 How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG 3:20 Auction Hunters 3:50 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 4:45 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG Curse of the Red Planet.

5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Alaskan Bush People Special M 7:30 Naked And Afraid PopUp Edition M Philippines.

8:30 Naked And Afraid Bares All M Never Give Up. 9:30 Dual Survival M 10:30 How It’s Made PG 11pm How It’s Made PG 11:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M

WEDNESDAY

12:30 The Perfect Murder M 1:25 A Crime To Remember M 2:20 Auction Hunters 2:45 Auction Hunters 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:10 Treehouse Masters PG 5:05 Dirty Jobs PG

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Sport

Medal win bitter-sweet Natalie Rooney overcame a devastating family loss to become New Zealand’s first medallist at Rio. The trap shooter from Timaru claimed the silver medal after a shoot-off with Australian Catherine Skinner, securing NZ’s best result for an Olympic shooter. She did it with her father Gary in the stands, but without one of her biggest supporters. Her mother Adrienne died in 2013 after a long battle with breast cancer. Rooney’s uncle Peter Grant said her mother would have been “pretty proud” of her.

Hayne avoids trouble

Braden Currie in action in the Philippines on Sunday.

PHOTO BURN SPORTS

Warming up for worlds In a gutsy fight-back, Braden Currie hauled in four places on the run stage to finish close to the podium in the Ironman 70.3 Asia Pacific Championships in the Philippines on Sunday.

Crossing the line in fourth place (3.58.42), Methven’s Currie was only a minute and a half off third spot at the end of the 1.9km swim, 90km road ride and 21.1km run – in what was only his fourth 70.3 Ironman event.

The 30-year-old was racing many of the discipline’s top athletes, who were contesting the Cebu-based event as a hit-out before the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Mooloolaba, Australia, next month.

It had been 12 weeks since Currie’s last event and it was eight months ago that he last raced a 70.3 mile course (113.0 km).

But his eagerness to return to action certainly showed in the beach swim, keeping up with the front pack and exiting

in a time of 24.10secs.

Australian Sam Betten was first out of the water, followed

by Canadian double Olympian Brent McMahon and Australian Jake Montgomery.

McMahon then pushed hard on the bike and took a few athletes along with him.

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It always takes one race to get me back in the right head space

Meanwhile, Currie was determined to execute his pre-race plan by pushing the rest of the lead group of five up to McMahon.

Australian Tim Reed, who won this event last year, said Currie’s surges early on helped the chasing pack to rein McMahon in – but felt it may have cost

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the Wanaka-based athlete later on.

The rest of the bike-leg proved testing as Currie lost traction on the lead group after doing too much work early on.

He then rode the rest of the 60km in no man’s land on his own, and transitioned from the

bike 5.45secs behind the lead group in eighth place.

Running the second fastest split of the day (1.21.24), Currie reeled in four places.

Currie considered the race to be a good hit-out to determine where he wants to be when he contests the 70.3 world championships next month.

“I think it’s a good start to where I want to go in a month’s time,” he said.

“It’s good to be out there and to race in the heat and to race your competitors, so I have a fair idea of what I am up against going into worlds. Also to have that reassurance that I am still in the competition.”

Currie flies from the Philippines to Malaysia today, where it will be a schedule of recovery and easy training for the week ahead before he races in the half-ironman distance Challenge Iskandarbar Puteri on Saturday.

“I’m looking forward to racing again off the back of today (Sunday),” he said.

“It always takes one race to get me back in the right head space and I have always felt like I improve from racing.”

Currie will head back to New Zealand for a two-week training block before tapering for the World 70.3 Championships on September 4.

Jarryd Hayne has welcomed the NRL’s decision not to sanction him after he made contact with referee Gavin Reynolds in Gold Coast’s round 22 loss to the Warriors on Sunday.

In his first game back in the NRL after almost two years away, Hayne became embroiled in the governing body’s crackdown on players making contact with match officials when he appeared to walk into referee Gavin Reynolds. However Hayne’s name was not on the match review committee’s charge list yesterday.

Gold for Valerie Valerie Adams already has a gold medal before she throws in Rio this Saturday. In a bid to encourage the world shot put champion and double Olympic gold medallist, New Zealand Post has made a special delivery to Adams and sent her the very first gold coin produced for the 2016 Games. Limited edition gold and silver coins and a series of stamps are being released by New Zealand Post to celebrate the Games. The coin is one of only 250 to be produced, and was the first to be minted. The retail price for each gold coin is $1899.

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