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Ashburton Museum senior curator Maryann Cowan (right) and Ian Wards, exhibition manager of The Great War Exhibition in Wellington, in front of a Mark I tank that is part of the exhibition.

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There’s a special connection between The Great War Exhibition in Wellington and the Ashburton Museum.

Ashburton Museum senior curator Maryann Cowan has been in Wellington recently and was hosted by Ian Wards, manager of The Great War Exhibition at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park.

While she was there Maryann noticed an Ashburton name on an honour roll.

Private Robert J. Glassey, from Ashburton, who died on August 9, 1915. He was in his twenties.

“We hold three original telegrams sent the following March to his sister notifying her of his death,” Cowan said. “We’ve commemorated his death and I know

the family.” The museum has a flagpole donated by Ashburton philanthropist Frederick Ferriman, who donated flags and flagpoles to families of fallen soldiers from Ashburton.

“We have one of those flagpoles outside the museum and we fly the flag every time there’s an anniversary of a death of a local soldier.”

More than 500 men from the Ashburton district did not return from World War One, a significant number considering the district’s population was only about 12,000 at that stage.

Cowan was in Wellington to talk about exhibition development and planning.

“Ian discussed general museum best practice with me. He has recently revised the National Services resource, Exhibi-

tion Display Techniques, and gave me an update on that,” she said.

“The Great War Exhibition is on a different scale from our museum in Ashburton. Our whole exhibition space would fit in one corner of the Gallipoli gallery.”

Cowan enjoyed her time at The Great War Exhibition, saying; “The exhibition has brought the First World War to life by telling the story through coloured photos that you otherwise only see in black and white.”

Ashburton Museum director Tanya Robinson said the research trip was a great opportunity for Cowan to connect with museum colleagues in Wellington.

“I am also sure our locals will enjoy seeing the results of her research.”

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■ SHAVE FOR A CURE

Locks lost to cause

By Katie todd

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Two courageous Ashburton College students swapped their long locks for bare heads in the name of charity yesterday.

Bobbie Rushton and Tayla Wright went under the razor at lunchtime to show their support for Shave for a Cure and help Kiwis living with leukaemia and blood cancer.

The whole school dressed in mufti in support of the cause, and around 300 students crowded into the gymnasium to watch the lock-lopping event.

The girls said they were grateful for the support of the school, and that cancer was a cause close to both of their hearts.

“Seeing the victims of cancer, you feel so sorry but you don’t always know what to do,” Rushton said.

“We realised if we could do

something to make a difference, then we should,” Wright said.

Wright lost her mother to breast cancer and said that had inspired her decision to shave.

“I wanted to do something that would make her proud.”

Though the girls were still tallying their donations, they thought they would end up with around $2500.

The chop was kindly carried out by stylists Gemma and Nicole from Minx.

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Rushton said yesterday.

“I just feel a bit colder than normal.”

She joked that her next class wouldn’t be a worry because her teacher was also bald.

The girls are still accepting donations, and their fundraising page can be found by searching “Bobbie and Tayla” on shaveforacure.co.nz.

Bobbie Rushton and Tayla Wright of Ashburton College went under the razor for a good cause yesterday.

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Mathers backs Metiria Turei

By SuSan SandyS

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As calls for her resignation reverberate throughout the country, Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei has found some support in Mid Canterbury.

Her fellow MP Mojo Mathers, candidate for Rangitata, backs her fully.

“As disability spokesperson I am acutely aware of how punitive our welfare system has become,” Mathers said yesterday.

She was commenting after longserving fellow list MPs Kennedy Graham and David Clendon were

suspended after declaring Turei should resign following her admission she committed benefit fraud.

Mathers said she backed both Turei and co-leader James Shaw, and wanted to see the country have a conversation about what the welfare system was doing to the country’s poorest and most vulnerable members of society.

“And what a genuinely compassionate welfare system looks like,” Mathers said.

“Metiria has tried for years to get this conversation going, all she had left was her story. In my view, it took courage for her to be hon-

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National’s Rangitata candidate Andrew Falloon said events of the past week showed just how dysfunctional a Labour-Green government would be.

“Whether or not she resigns is a matter for Ms Turei and her conscience,” Falloon said.

“The fundamental point is that together the Greens and Labour are advocating allowing beneficiaries to sit on state support for years without ever having to find a job. I don’t think that’s fair to hardworking New Zealanders,” he said.

Labour candidate for Selwyn, Tony Condon, said Labour remained committed to the Memorandum of Understanding it had with the Greens.

“We believe it is a good agreement and is of mutual benefit to both parties in providing a credible and progressive alternative government,” Condon said.

“Every party has certainly had its moments over the past month including ourselves. And it is up to that party on how they address the issue,” he said.

Rangitata Labour candidate Jo Luxton did not wish to comment

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The Opportunities Party (TOP) Rangitata candidate Olly Wilson had some empathy.

“As a father who was a solo parent for many years I know firsthand how difficult this is, and I have empathy for families who are struggling with targeted welfare,” Wilson said.

At the same time however he believed Turei’s choices did not portray integrity and character befitting a political leader.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

Seriousness of charges sinks in An Ashburton man charged with assault with intent to rob was saved from 18 months jail when he agreed to seek legal advice at the last moment.

Daniel Francis Baumber, 24, had admitted hitting a man at Caroline Bay last December and demanding money but defended himself until Monday when he appeared in the Ashburton District Court.

He then realised it was a serious charge and he could be going to jail because he did not want to do community work or be electronically monitored on a community-based sentence.

Lawyer Paul Bradford said it appeared Baumber had not been advised by anyone as the case progressed that he should seek legal advice.

Bradford will apply for legal aid on behalf of the machine worker, who said he would engage a lawyer himself if the application was declined.

“Today was the first time he realised it was a significant offence,” Bradford said.

The police summary of facts said Baumber was drinking at Caroline Bay and began walking behind the complainant, yelling and asking “What have you got”, “how much you got” and “What have you got in your wallet”.

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He grabbed the complainant and punched him in the left side of the face with a closed fist. A man then appeared and took Baumber away in a car.

Judge Alistair Garland said Baumber needed to manage his work so he could do community work and be on community detention or the court had few options but jail.

He remanded Baumber to September 18 for a second attempt at sentencing, saying the young man had only one previous minor driving conviction.

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branch Daffodil Day Quiz Night and Auction on August 31.

At the Mid Canterbury Cancer Society this week personnel have been getting ready, taking deliveries of hundreds of fabric daffodils, and the popular trademark Daffodil Day teddy bears.

Counter boxes of fabric flowers will soon be going out to businesses, and support group members are busy organising the daffodil delivery day.

Member Derek Prebble said he was in the process of getting together about half a dozen vintage cars and their owners from the Ashburton Vintage Car Club, who would be delivering the blooms in style.

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“It’s nice to have these old cars out delivering them, they get a real kick out of it too,” he said.

They would set off from Mona Square, and businesses having daffodils delivered would be able to make donations.

The society usually raises about $20,000 each year, in addition to the quiz night, which last year alone raised more than $17,500.

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■ BACK TO BASICS

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Celebrating savvy living

By Colin WillisCroft

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An expo being held in Tinwald this weekend is celebrating “natural, savvy living”.

Back to Basics is an information expo, co-ordinator Julia Crosson said, where people can find out more about subjects such as preserving, seed saving, natural remedies and DIY household products.

“We wanted to create a space where everyday people can reach out to the community and share skills about how to be

more resourceful.

“It’s about building resilience early and getting control back of what we put into our bodies and what we spend money on,” Crosson said.

“We don’t want the basic things to become dying arts.”

The event will include about 50 stalls, a sausage sizzle, coffee and soup, along with speakers.

Back to Basics is being held this Saturday, August 12, at the New Life Church premises in Melcombe Street, from 11am to 3pm.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

Lifeline for disqualified driver A man sentenced to 75 hours community work on his fourth charge of driving while disqualified should have gone out and bought a Lotto ticket, a judge in the Ashburton District Court said on Monday.

Tony Green, a dairy farm worker, was also shown mercy by not being even further banned from driving.

But he didn’t do the community work and drove again while disqualified, landing him in the Ashburton court again where Judge Alistair Garland was not impressed.

The judge said Green, 23, was at risk of going to prison. He allowed Green’s lawyer Marilyn Gilchrist and corrections staff time to work out details for a sentence of community detention and more community work so Green could keep his job.

Green had prioritised work ahead of the community work and said he could not find a way to get into town to do his hours on a Friday or Saturday.

But Judge Garland said that had left the court with only two options – jail or community detention and community work.

Green agreed to attend community work every second weekend and was given another 150 hours on top of his previous sen-

tence. He was also sentenced to community detention for four months, with a 7pm to 3.30am curfew that should still allow him to work on the dairy farm.

He was also disqualified from driving for another 12 months.

Judge Garland warned Green that if he didn’t do the community work or faced another similar charge he would most likely end up in jail.

He said a charge of driving while disqualified (third or subsequent) was a serious charge that carried a maximum of two years jail.

“This is now your fifth conviction of the same kind in three years. Previously you had fines and community work but that has not changed your attitude or your behaviour.”

Darrell John Beck, 48, of Ashburton, was arrested for drink driving while ordering a pizza on July 23.

Police said a member of the public called in after his car was seen on East Street about 7.25pm.

Approaching State Highway 1, the vehicle failed to take a moderate right-hand bend, hit a kerb, bounced onto a grassy area then back onto the highway before entering Dobson Street and parking in the carpark of a pizza restaurant. A police breath-test revealed

he was driving with 641mcg.

Beck’s lawyer Paul Bradford said his client, who had no previous appearances, was embarrassed by the incident. He had been at home, hungry, when he made an unfathomable decision to drive to get food.

It was lucky no-one had been hurt, though his car was undriveable afterwards, he said.

Judge Garland fined Beck $625, plus $130 costs and disqualified him from driving for six months.

Wayne Douglas Witehira was remanded to August 28 for sentencing on a charge of assault.

The court was told Witehira had been out drinking in the early hours of January 28 and came across the complainant, who he was told owed money to a relative.

He punched him once on the side of the head before he was confronted by a passerby and left.

A restorative justice conference will take place before sentencing.

A 45-year-old man who admitted three charges of assaulting teens in his care had to learn new ways to discipline, Judge Garland said.

The man, who was granted name suppression, had admitted slapping his 13-year-old daughter and niece around the back of their

heads after they had gone out late one night without permission.

It was at a time when Ashburton was concerned about escalating youth offending and he was worried about their welfare, the man’s lawyer Paul Bradford said.

“He was trying to do the right thing.”

The man had found the pair in town and brought them home, only for his daughter to try and leave again. The man had grabbed her and returned her to the house.

Judge Garland said the man’s intentions were laudable.

“You used techniques that a few years back would have been acceptable in society. The laws have changed and you have to also change.

“When parents first have to grapple with the idea of dealing with teenagers it often comes to mind that nobody ever warned you about teenagers when you first thought about having children.

“When you have got them, you have to learn different techniques and ways of managing at times very robust and difficult behaviour. It can be challenging.”

The man was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon in 12 months.

He was ordered to pay $130 court costs.

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Ashburton rocks at sell-out show It was time to rock out when the closest thing to Freddie Mercury came to town this week.

Gary Mullen and the Works brought One Night of Queen to the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

It was a Monday night, but that did not stop Queen fans in their hundreds flocking to the concert, and the show was completely sold out.

Mullen and his band were high energy right from the start, and at first looked a little out of place with about 500 people placidly seated watching them.

But Mullen has more than the voice of Freddie Mercury, he also has the showmanship, and by the end of the show he had everyone on their feet.

He was funny as well, and at one point said “I don’t know whether to sing for you or call the bingo numbers”, referring to much of the audience initially being a little slow to get into the groove.

There were plenty of 50-plus fans in the audience, but younger people were equally represented, right down to teenagers.

New Zealand soprano Elaine Wogan made a guest appearance, singing the song Barcelona in duet with Mullen, upping the ante on the big music feel of the night.

There were high energy instrumental solos from band members as well.

The event centre proved the perfect venue, with space at the front acting as a “mosh pit” for the 20 or so who just had to get up and dance.

Mullen was not going to have it if everyone was not going to stand up and clap in time to the music and really get into it, so that’s what everyone did.

It was no surprise he received an encore, and by the time everyone left, they felt exhilarated and inspired by the great music of Queen.

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■ CANADIAN WILDFIRES

Thankful for firefighters’ efforts

By SuSan SandyS

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Ashburton mum Keri Jones is grateful to New Zealand firefighters who have rushed to her home country of Canada to battle severe wildfires.

From Williams Lake British Columbia, Jones said her family had been dramatically affected by the blazes.

Her parents owned a fencing company and had had to quickly evacuate an area they were working in, leaving behind their tractor and post rammer.

Air quality over the lake was terrible and the worst it had ever been in surrounding towns.

Friends of hers had had to evacuate their home, but were thankfully allowed back in after a fortnight.

“You have to acquire a permit stating you are fighting fires to access certain areas,” she said.

Her brother was among hundreds of volunteers, and he was hauling water tankers and driving machinery to create fire breaks.

“Some have lost houses and many have lost stock and farm structures,” she said.

The wildfires were in the thick of a long hot summer, and winds had made them larger.

She was grateful to the 80 “brave” Kiwi firefighters who had gone to help.

The Kiwi contingent include six from the Mid South Canterbury region, including two from Mid Canterbury – Nathan Currie and Kevin Donaldson.

Wildfires are out of control in Canada and New Zealand firefighters have been called on to help.

■ ASHBURTON FIRES

Fires deemed suspicious

By Katie todd

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Two separate fires in Ashburton this week have aroused suspicions and become the subject of police investigation.

Fire and Emergency volunteers raced to extinguish a fire at Hampstead Kindergarten on Monday evening at around 9.50pm, after an outdoor area caught alight.

Chief officer Alan Burgess said the area was enclosed with canvas surrounds, and the fire only incurred damage to one end before it was put out.

Police met with a fire officer to examine the scene yesterday.

The other fire occurred yesterday at around 2.20pm, in a garage on a Saunders Road property in Allenton.

Burgess said it appeared that stored materials had caught alight, creating substantial amounts of smoke.

Police were also called to the scene and said the fire appeared suspicious.

It was in fact the second time the brigade had visited the property in 24 hours, but the other fire was the result of electrical issues with a dryer in the house, and was not being treated as suspicious.

Burgess said the two fires at the Saunders Road property were unrelated.

Man arrested for allegedly supplying guns to gunman Police have arrested a man for allegedly supplying weapons to Whangarei gunman Quinn Patterson.

Detective Superintendent Dave Lynch said police have arrested a 61-year-old man and he faces a number of charges including allegedly supplying Patterson with firearms.

He appeared in the Whangarei District Court yesterday afternoon charged with three counts of unlawful possession of a MSSA, three counts of supplying an MSSA to an unlicensed person, and three counts of supplying firearms to an unlicensed person.

He will next appear in the Whangarei District Court on August 28.

Investigators had previously remained tight-lipped about how the 55-year-old killer acquired the arsenal of weapons which he used in the July 26 shootings.

Rental property manager Wendy Campbell and her daughter Natanya were shot dead during what was described as a routine inspection. A third person, contractor Jeff Pipe, was also shot and wounded.

However, it was revealed Patterson had bought firearms on TradeMe and was selling accessories for military weapons right up to the day of his death.

His badly burned remains were recovered from the charred wreck of his rented home just north of Whangarei, after it went up in flames following a firefight with police.

Police also confirmed Patterson possessed a number of firearms but did not hold a firearms licence.

Neighbours had alleged the reclusive man may have been importing his weapons from overseas, and his cache of firearms included grenades, shotguns, rifles and handguns.

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Jeanne Denham has been found guilty of misconduct for embarking on a campaign against her former husband.

Lawyer tried to destroy former husband’s career A lawyer who embarked on an “orchestrated campaign” to destroy her former husband’s professional career, cause him distress and gain advantage in a property dispute could be struck off after being found guilty of misconduct.

Jeanne Denham breached professional standards and “tarnished the reputation of the profession” through an abuse of court process, a just-released Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal decision has found.

The decision sets out the lengths she went to damage her former spouse, then Kristin School principal Peter Clague. It reveals private emails and texts detailing a secret media strategy against him labelled akin to “waging a personal vendetta”.

The decision is now under appeal, with Denham’s lawyer Warren Pyke warning that the events were highly personal and emotional, involving “flawed human beings” going through an intimate relationship breakup.

Denham took a private prosecution against Clague after police declined to lay charges over an alleged assault at the couple’s Greenhithe home in 2010.

The case was eventually thrown out by a judge as an abuse of process designed to inflict maximum damage on Clague and Kristin School, and to help Denham gain the upper hand in a property claim against Clague.

She was ordered to pay nearly $146,000 in costs, which remains outstanding after Denham declared herself bankrupt.

The Herald can now reveal that Denham was later referred to the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal on a charge of misconduct. The matter went to a hearing earlier this year.

Evidence included a trove of emails and text messages between Denham and PR merchant Carrick Graham, who helped organise damaging, paid posts about Clague and Kristin School on the Whale Oil attack blog.

In an email exchange in November 2012, Graham wrote that the campaign had already generated media coverage, forcing the school board to issue two letters to parents.

“It would be safe to say that Clague has had the blow-torch applied to him in terms

of a much wider audience being aware of his actions. In terms of reputational hits he is damaged goods.”

In another exchange after a Whale Oil post alleging Kristin board members had known about the allegations and done nothing, Denham wrote that “Cameron’s blog is starting to generate interest in the Kristin community. It’ll spread like wildfire now!”

Graham responded: “Excellent. We’ll talk more tomorrow about what else we can run on there!”

Following a later blog post that referenced the anti-domestic violence slogan, “It’s Not OK”, Denham texted Graham: “Great stuff Carrick - that should give them all a busy weekend!

“Made me laugh out loud.”

Later that day Denham disclosed Clague’s salary details to Graham in a text message, knowing this would later appear on the Whale Oil site, the decision states.

“I think Peter will lose a lot of support when people find that out,” she wrote. “The Kristin parents will be furious.”

After a Herald on Sunday article titled “Break up turns nasty as police called in”, Denham texted Graham: “On the upside, though, it seems he must now be stood down.”

Denham initiated her private prosecution in March 2014 after police decided to issue Clague with only a warning.

The media campaign was then revived.

The tribunal ruled that Denham deliberately undermined her former husband’s chance to seek name suppression by leaking details about her legal action to media.

Throwing out Denham’s case, Judge David McNaughton ruled: “I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that this private prosecution has been brought for an ulterior motive by the complainant, that is primarily to destroy [Clague’s] career and reputation and collaterally to damage Kristin School and at the same time to obtain an advantage in pressing the relationship claim.

“Furthermore ... she knowingly and actively sought to subvert the operation of suppression orders with the assistance of Mr Graham and Cameron Slater and that in itself constitutes a serious abuse of process.”

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NZ drivers lack in courtesy Colin Williscroft SENIOR REPORTER

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he Automobile Association recently announced its 2017 election calls – 10 areas it wants to see the Government take action in to make our roads safer and motoring itself a more pleasant experience.

Given that we’re only a month out from an election it makes sense – putting aspects of the transport system front and centre and calling on political parties to commit to either funding or enforcement solutions.

It’s a laudable list, including things like seatbelt use, more use of alcohol interlocks to keep drink drivers off the road, lifting the standard of regional roads and creating more safe passing opportunities, among other things.

However, like seatbelts, there is one other thing that does not seem to click on roads in this country – what constitutes common courtesy on the road. Or should that be uncommon?

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who would not describe themselves as a good driver, however, as a nation we have become known for our bad driving habits.

When working in Wellington a few years ago I was speaking to someone who had arrived in the country with her husband about 12 months’ earlier.

While they had heard some negative comments about drivers’ attitudes here before they arrived, they could not believe what they saw on their daily commute once they got here.

I can still remember her asking me why we had to treat our roads as a competition, why drivers seemed to think that sneaky, selfish manoeuvres were perfectly acceptable if it meant they saved a few seconds of driving time, or heaven forbid, if the situation arose where you needed to merge like a zip, you actually let someone else in front of you.

From what I’ve seen recently, none of those things have become any better, particularly, but not exclusively, in our cities.

There was some media coverage yesterday of a low-speed stand-off on a Wellington motorway ramp where neither a car nor a van would back down and let the other in front.

The only winners in the end were the panelbeaters.

So while I wish the AA all the best for its wishlist, better behavior behind the wheel would also go a long way to making New Zealand roads safer and a more pleasant place to be.

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Naomi Some street parties/ get together’s! Nothin like getting the community together!

Debbie Keeping our i sites open, so we am find out what to do and see Sam Paintball tournament Tyler Music Festivals Graham Hydro slide Christine Outdoor music events Trisha Mardigras

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Open your mind and challenge your prejudices Sophie-Claire Violette NEWCOMERS’ NETWORK

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come from a minority group in Mauritius. I am a creole, a descendant of slaves mixed with the blood of colonisers and I am still struggling with a serious case of identity crisis.

I believe that this has contributed to my fascination with identity and how it is understood, how it can be misinterpreted by others and how people express who they are in different ways.

I am also very interested in small communities, those who rise to the challenge of asserting who they are and sharing this with others.

Everyone has some level of fear of being misunderstood or judged; of having to compete with biased ideas about who others think they are but at the same time, we thrive when we step on the other side of that fear and open ourselves up to others.

As an anthropologist I have been trained to recognise and acknowledge prejudice and bias, especially my own. Before I go any further, I want to ask you …

What comes to your mind when you think about Africa?

Last weekend, I travelled to Wellington to attend the second edition of the Africa Fashion Festival New Zealand. This event lent itself to the goal of shifting public perception of what African fashion is, while at the same time celebrating the unique aesthetic of African fashion designers.

The two shows I attended showcased collections from emerging and established African fashion designers who are leading their own luxury brands; connecting them with local and regional media, consumers, buyers and influencers.

The festival in itself was about creating a platform for the designers to engage with these new audiences and for us to discover the rich and complex landscapes of fashion made of Africa.

Over that one weekend, I joined others in a celebration of contemporary African identities, learned about the very diverse and extremely talented African diaspora in New Zealand and witnessed the creation of a space for African fashion in

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New Zealand. I also had my own preconceived ideas about African fashion put into question and was encouraged to reframe my own perspectives.

Founded by Ghanaian-born and raised and Wellington-based fashion advocate and social entrepreneur, Pinaman Owusu; the Africa Fashion Festival New Zealand is a fusion of fashion, culture and sustainability.

The fashion shows were hosted at Parliament House, where we were welcomed by Wellington City MP Grant Robertson.

Mr Robertson highlighted the importance of this event which set the tone for a more open and democratic relationship between Wellington’s community and its governance. We were hosted to a pre-show function in the Banquet Rooms of Parliament House.

Standing there and taking it all in, I felt incredibly privileged to be able to spend some time in this beautiful building and share this experience with some very inspiring and stylish individuals from both New Zealand and beyond.

I chatted with an Iranian

woman now based in New Zealand and learned about her journey here to join the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs as their current executive director. I immediately clicked with Zimbabwean-born and New Zealand-raised designer Chido Dimairo; a recent fashion graduate from Massey University whose inspiration for her collection and brand is steeped in her heritage and childhood growing up between Zimbabwe and New Zealand.

I was inspired by the dedication of Yvette Edwards a multitasking florist, stylist, lifestyle writer and spontaneous backstage technician, who uprooted her family on an adventure to New Zealand from the UK in search of a more intuitive worklife balance for them.

When the show started, a totally different creative landscape opened up in front of my eyes. There were no big dresses, voluminous head wraps, bright patterns and wax prints. Instead, we were offered a different narrative; one of luxury fashion made by fashion designers who happen

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to be African.

The clean lines, the subtle hints to certain aspects of the cultural experience of each designer, the craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetic seamlessly blended African tradition with European techniques.

The fashion and creativity showcased celebrated another African narrative which destroyed the myth that we are accustomed to in “European” countries … A myth perhaps we feel more comfortable with.

The Africa Fashion Festival produced a unique perspective on the potential found in harnessing the creative energy of New Zealand’s incredibly multifaceted nation.

I felt proud to self-identify as a Mauritian, descendant of African slaves, an African and a migrant.

I also reflected on the potential of this young country which in spite, if not perhaps because of its youth, offers me the opportunity to see these movements already established elsewhere be launched.

I have been invited to give a guest lecture at the University of Canterbury in August on my work with migrants and newcomers since I moved to Ashburton.

This has been a dream of mine since I enrolled in first year anthropology, a week after arriving in New Zealand just after the February earthquakes … and this opportunity has arrived.

Over the course of the Africa Fashion Festival, just as over my journey here in New Zealand, I was able to learn so much not just about others, but also about myself.

As newcomers, we all have unique stories to tell and many perspectives to share, whether in front of a lecture theatre, on the runway of one of New Zealand’s coolest events or at the grassroots level, in our everyday lives.

It is part of our journey to share these stories and perspectives with those we meet along the way. As humans, we are so much more complex and multi-faceted; just like African fashion it seems.

Sophie-Claire Violette is coordinator of the Mid Canterbury Newcomers Network The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof

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■ NORTH KOREA

‘Entire US within range’ North Korea spurned harsh new UN sanctions yesterday and threatened to defend itself with nuclear weapons if necessary, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson repeated an offer to bargain with the outcast nation under the right circumstances.

There was no sign at a major Asian security conference here that the sanctions hailed by President Trump as a foreign policy achievement would succeed where past efforts have failed in trying to persuade the country to give up its nuclear weapons.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told diplomats that his country will never negotiate away what he called a rational “strategic option” against the threat of attack from the United States.

“We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets” up for negotiation, Ri said in prepared remarks, adding that the entire United States is within range of its missiles.

He dismissed the UN Security Council sanctions as illegal, appearing to rule out talks that the Trump administration, in a diplomatic partnership with China and Russia, is offering North Korea as a way out of its economic and diplomatic pariah status.

“The best signal that North Korea could send that they’re prepared to talk would be to stop these missile launches,” Tillerson told reporters at the Association of Southeast Asian

North Korean missiles can now hit US targets.

Nations (ASEAN) gathering.

The security conference in the Philippine capital was dominated by the rising threat posed by North Korea’s rapid advances in nuclear and ballistic missile technology.

Those capabilities are already a threat to neighbours

and US allies South Korea and Japan.

In two tests last month, North Korea demonstrated that it could hit major population centres in the United States, and the country is now working to perfect the technology to allow those missiles

to carry nuclear warheads.

The new economic sanctions were approved amid the discussions. The penalties are the toughest to date against a country that has been under international sanctions for more than a decade, and they carry the symbolic weight of approval by Pyongyang’s closest ally, China.

They also approximate a trade embargo by targeting some of North Korea’s biggest exports, including coal.

The sanctions can work only if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un concludes that he has too much to lose by hanging on to his weapons.

Kim’s calculation has been the opposite – that his weapons and the means to deliver them buy him irreplaceable leverage over the United States, his principal adversary.

At the same time, Washington has issued blunt warnings that the United States will use military force if necessary, and North Korea has answered in kind.

Another direct warning was aimed at the United States in a government statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

“There is no bigger mistake than the United States believing that its land is safe across the ocean,” it said.

North Korea “will make the US pay dearly for all the heinous crimes it commits against the state and people of this country,” it said.

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Heatwave Lucifer claims more victims The heatwave nicknamed ‘Lucifer’ continues to cause problems across south Europe, despite a slight drop in temperatures expected in many of the areas worst affected.

Parts of Greece and Mac-

edonia have declared a state of emergency due to fear that multiple wildfires that have remained out of control throughout the weekend will continue to spread.

In Italy, three people died in

freak accidents during violent storms which have followed the heatwave in the northern parts of the country.

Sicilian police investigated 15 people near Ragusa who they suspected of conspiring

to set fires to make sure they received the £9 paid if they went out to the emergencies.

Today, Seville can expect to see the mercury hit 40°C, Rome, Italy, 39°C, and Sicily some 42°C-44°C. - PA

J-Lo gets the blame Jennifer Lawrence has found herself in the middle of Chris Pratt’s shock split from wife Anna Faris after eight years of marriage. As the couple confirmed their separation on Facebook yesterday, fans flocked to social media to bizarrely blame the actress, 26 – who starred in Passengers with Chris, 38, in 2016 – for the split.

Taking to Twitter, one wrote: “I can’t believe Chris Pratt and Anna Faris are splitting up this is all Jennifer Lawrence’s fault.” Despite there being no suggestion Jennifer had any involvement in the split, another wrote: “Jennifer Lawrence broke up Chris Pratt’s marriage lol.”

Usher has herpes issues Usher is being sued by two women and a man for allegedly failing to warn them he had an STD. It was recently revealed the OMG hitmaker had paid a woman $1.1 million in 2012 to settle a lawsuit after she claimed to have contracted herpes from him. Now, attorney Lisa Bloom has revealed she is filing a lawsuit on behalf of a trio of alleged victims. The third, Quantasia Sharpton, has come forward to recount details of her night of passion.

Quantasia said: “I went to a concert of his a few years ago, to celebrate my 19th birthday. I was selected to go backstage.

I got a call from Usher asking me what hotel I was staying in. About an hour later, he arrived. We spoke for a while, and then we engaged in sexual contact.

I never heard from him again. When I first heard reports that he had herpes, I couldn’t believe it.”

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■ PGG WRIGHTSON

Full year profit gains 5.7pc

PGG Wrightson chief executive Mark Dewdney.

12 months ended June 30, from $43.8m a year earlier, it said in a statement. Sales fell to $1.13 billion from $1.18b.

The company warned investors in June that earnings would be at the low end of guidance thanks to wet autumn conditions that hampered the harvest in New Zealand and weighed on the performance of Wrightson’s seed and grain business. Yesterday chairman Alan Lai

said the company had been bracing for the impact of lower commodity prices but hadn’t banked on unfavourable weather.

“We thought this year was going to be more challenging than FY2016 as we expected lower commodity prices to lead to reduced farmer spending,” Lai said. “What we could not foresee was the impact of the very wet conditions in New Zealand over the final quar-

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30, 2016, it paid suppliers and employees $16m.

The trust has announced the closure of the 108-bed facility saying that since it opened in 1950, its objective had been to deliver care “second-to-none” in an environment where clients and their families have been the key focus.

“Sadly that time is now coming to an end and the trust will be exiting residential care service provision,” it said on its website, thanking staff who had worked there.

The trust’s accounts show that it lost $1,176,526 in the latest period. Revenue fell from $14,267,471 in the September 30, 2015 year

to $11,521,333 last year. Expenses rose from $18.1m in 2015 to $18.7m last year. That resulted in a deficit climbing from $3.1m in 2015 to $6.1m last year.

One industry expert yesterday described the accounts as “dire” and revealing an extremely sorry situation. Such losses could not be sustained, he said.

However, he also noticed how the trust owned 48 per cent of Smith & Caughey Holdings, valued in the latest accounts as being worth $40,473,613, up from $36,989,766 in 2015.

The home employs nearly 200 staff and houses 128 residents.

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‘Most bacony burger’ launched Wendy’s is launching its “most bacony burger ever” with bacon, baconnaise, bacon jam and bacon ketchup.

The fastfood chain has partnered with Magills butchery in Te Awamutu for its bacon and Wild Country and Big Smoke BBQ for its bacon sauces.

Wendy’s chief executive Danielle Lendich said the company offered a new version of the traditional Baconator every year, but had decided to go all out for this year’s version – the Ultimator.

“In New Zealand we’ve taken the Baconator and tried to branch out every year, so this year we’ve done our most bacony burger yet,” she said.

“Bacon burgers always sell pretty well and we think the ba-

con addicts out there will love this. We have a couple of tonnes of sauces in anticipation of the high demand we see for the Ultimator.”

The burger, available from Thursday for $12.90, fits Kiwis’ growing appetite for bacon products, according to Wild Country’s Angelique van Camp.

“There is a bacon phenomenon

and it has definitely touched our culture here in New Zealand,” van Camp said.

Wild Country makes bacon jam, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and aioli, and is working on adding to its range.

Production of Big Smoke’s bacon jam has increased 100 per cent ahead of the burger’s launch and director Mike Jeffries said the deal was huge for his business.

“It’s a career highlight for me,” Jeffries said.

“We’ve had to try and up production to prepare for this but it’s definitely a game changer for me.

“It is a really big deal so really looking forward to it.”

The burger will be on sale for nine weeks although this may be extended depending on sales.

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Resthome to close, 100 homeless A resthome that houses more than 100 residents in Remuera is to close after running into financial difficulties.

The Caughey Preston home lost $1.1 million last year, up from more than $600,000 the previous year, according to the accounts.

The Caughey Preston place is home to more than 100 residents who now need to find new places.

Accounts filed with the Charities Services by the Marianne Caughey Smith-Preston Memorial Rest Homes Trust Board showed how the red ink was flowing.

Although the trust received fees of $13m in the year to September

ter.” Still, he was upbeat about the current 2018 year, saying market conditions “are improving”, with higher pretax earnings, although net profit “should reduce to a more normalised level as we will not have gains from the divestment of properties”.

Full-year operating ebitda fell to $64.5m from $70.2m, slightly better than its June forecast for ebitda to be in the bottom half of its earlier guidance for earnings of between $62m and $68m.

Operating ebitda for seed and grain, its biggest business, fell to $37m from about $42m as sales slid 5.4 per cent to $428.7m. Agency ebitda fell to about $18m from $18.2m as sales dropped to $197m from $228m.

The company will pay a fully imputed dividend of 2 cents a share on October 4, bringing total payments for the year to 3.75 cents, unchanged from 2016.

Its shares rose 1.7 per cent to 61 cents and have gained 21 per cent this year. Wrightson is 50.2 per cent owned by Agria Corp.

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irrigation projects were “at full speed,” there was “slightly less focus” on environmental issues and dairy farmers were enjoying higher milk prices, he said.

Wrightson was confident water would be back in profit in the current year but “probably not back to the levels of 2013-14 for a few years”.

He noted that the Ruantaniwha project, for example, looked “increasingly unlikely”.

So far this year, the government’s irrigation project funding agency Crown Irrigation Investments has provided $7.4m of funding for irrigation schemes, the largest being up to $3.4m in the Hurunui Water Project, which aims to irrigate up to 21,000 hectares on the south side of the Hurunui River in North Canterbury and has a total estimated cost of $200m.

Wrightson yesterday posted a 5.7 per cent gain in full-year profit, meeting its guidance, as the rural services company benefited from lower interest costs, offsetting stalled growth in revenue.

Profit rose to $46.3m in the

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PGG Wrightson says it will probably take “a few years” for its water business to return to the levels of profitability enjoyed in 2013-14 after recording a loss in the 2017 year in the face of lower demand and increased environmental concerns.

The Christchurch-based company declined to detail the size of the loss from its irrigation activities. The business has been restructured, with an impairment against inventory.

In the 2017 accounts, Wrightson’s rural services division was split into two segments – agency and retail and water. Retail and water earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell to $18.3 million from $20m in the full year, while sales gained to $562m from $550m.

Chief executive Mark Dewdney said on a conference call the company’s irrigation pipeline “has more forward activity than this time last year but it was back on levels of activity in the pipeline three or four years ago”.

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Go yellow in the kitchen Y

ou have to love lemons.

They’re the fruit that keeps on giving, equally at home in savoury and sweet dishes, happily married with a range of alcoholic drinks, at home in a cocktail glass and soothing as an addition to drinks hot or cold.

There are plenty of lemons around at the moment, grab a bag and get cooking.

Yoghurt and lemon cake 2T finely-grated lemon rind 1C oil 2 eggs 1 3/4 C sugar 1/2 t salt 1C yoghurt 3T lemon juice 2C self-raising flour 2C icing sugar 1T butter, melted 1T hot water 2T lemon juice ■ Preheat oven to 180°C. ■ Grease and line the base of a 22cm ring pan ■ Place lemon rind, oil, eggs and sugar into the bowl of a food processor and mix until thick.

■ Add salt, yoghurt and lemon juice and beat again.

■ Sift in flour and gently mix.

■ Pour mixture into cake pan and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

■ Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out on to a cake rack to cool completely.

■ Dust with icing sugar when cold.

■ Serve with yoghurt and grated lemon zest.

the vegetables.

■ Scatter over the olives and capers.

■ Cook for a final 15 mins, turning the lamb halfway until it is just pink.

■ Serve straight from the dish.

1C caster sugar 1/2 C lemon juice 1T grated lemon rind 2T custard powder 1/2 t baking powder 3 eggs ■ Preheat oven to 180°C. ■ Line a 20 x 30cm sponge roll tin.

■ In a food processor mix the butter, flour and icing sugar until it forms a soft dough around the blade.

■ Press into the base of the sponge roll tin.

■ Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until lightly golden.

■ Mix caster sugar, lemon juice and rind, custard powder, baking powder and eggs in the food processor until well combined.

■ Carefully pour over the warm pastry base and bake a further 25 minutes until set.

Thai beef and lemon

Lemon mustard sauce 5T mayonnaise 4T sour cream 1T dijon mustard 1T fresh lemon juice

Lemon chicken satay 2T smooth peanut butter 1/2 C soy sauce 1/2 C lemon or lime juice 1T brown sugar 2T curry powder 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1t hot chilli sauce 6 skinless, boneless chicken breast fillets, diced

■ Whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, dijon mustard and lemon juice.

■ Adjust amount of mustard to taste.

■ Cover and chill in the refrigerator until serving.

■ Combine peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice, sugar, curry powder, garlic and chilli sauce.

■ Place the chicken in the marinade and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

Overnight is best.

■ Preheat barbecue or grill pan to high heat.

■ Thread the chicken on to presoaked bamboo skewers.

■ Cook for 5 minutes each side.

Lemon and rosemary lamb bake 1 lemon, zested and juiced 1 lemon, sliced 2T olive oil 1 large garlic clove, crushed 6 rosemary sprigs, leaves picked from 4 and chopped 8 lamb cutlets, trimmed of excess fat

500g new potatoes, thinly sliced 2 red peppers, deseeded and thickly sliced 4 small vine tomatoes, halved 50g black olives 3T capers, drained and rinsed ■ Whisk the lemon zest and juice with 1T olive oil, the garlic, chopped rosemary leaves and seasoning.

■ Add the lamb cutlets, toss to coat, then set aside to marinate for 30 mins.

■ Heat oven to 220°C. ■ Toss the potatoes with 1/2 T olive oil and some seasoning.

■ Tip into a large, shallow roasting dish and put in the oven for 15 mins.

■ Remove the dish and shake to loosen the potatoes.

■ Top with the peppers, lemon slices, rosemary sprigs and tomatoes.

■ Drizzle with the remaining oil and some seasoning.

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■ Remove from pan.

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■ Lamb: Bring lamb out of the fridge an hour before cooking. Cut through the tendon that connects the meat to the bone at the bottom of the shank – this will allow the meat to bunch up nicely. Brush the shanks with oil and season.

■ Heat a little oil in a large frying pan over a high heat. Sear the shanks, two at a time, to brown all over. Set aside in a large casserole dish with a lid.

■ Reduce the heat to medium, add a little more oil to the pan along with the onion and cook, stirring for 5 minutes to soften. Add the garlic, ginger, spices and pepper and cook for another 2 minutes. Continue stirring so the spices don’t stick and burn. Turn up the heat, add the stock and tomato paste, bring to a rapid simmer and scrape up any bits of caramelised meat stuck to the bottom. Add the tomatoes, yoghurt, carrot, lemon zest and stir. Pour over the shanks, cover and cook in the oven for 3 1/2 to 4 hours. Add the apricots with 1 hour to go.

■ Remove from the oven and gently remove the shanks from the sauce (careful as they will be very delicate) and set aside covered in foil. If the sauce needs thickening, transfer to a saucepan, add 1/4 cup water mixed with 2 teaspoons cornflour and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes until thickened.

■ Couscous: Cook according to packet directions. Just before serving, stir through half the almonds and herbs.

■ To serve: Spoon some couscous on serving plates, top with a shank, ladle on sauce and sprinkle with remaining almonds and herbs – add a dash of extra yoghurt if you like.

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In brief Title goes on the line The AshHutt Combined Girls’ 1st XV will be looking to defend their South Canterbury secondary schools girls’ rugby title when they take on Timaru Girls’ High School today. The final for the season where the AshHutt girls have gone undefeated, they will have one last hurdle at the Alpine Energy Stadium in Timaru, with the game kicking off at 4.30pm.

Connolly sues QRU Former Wallabies and Queensland Reds coach John Connolly is suing the Queensland Rugby Union after being sacked as a coaching consultant. Connolly was in July 2015 sacked six weeks into a $3000 a week job that was expected to last until the end of the 2016 Super Rugby Season, Brisbane District Court heard yesterday. The legal action of more than $159,000 centres on the termination conditions of the consultancy role, for which there was a verbal agreement and three contracts – none of which were signed by both parties, the court heard.

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Damian McKenzie on the burst for the All Blacks against Italy.

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McKenzie seen as a 10 The All Blacks like the look of brilliant utility back Damian McKenzie as a first receiver, selector Grant Fox has revealed.

Mercurial Chiefs back McKenzie will replace sabbatical-bound Ben Smith in the Rugby Championship squad after the first two tests, covering fullback and first five-eighths.

Fox, an All Black great who wrote the book on precise game management, gave McKenzie a qualified tick as a No. 10 option.

Fox told the Radio Sport Breakfast: “He needs some rugby and we want him to play in the No. 10 jumper.

“He’ll get that with Waikato – he’ll go back to Waikato certainly for round one, and perhaps even for round two.

“We haven’t gone down really deep as to how we will use Damian, but if you think about the role Beauden Barrett used to play from the bench in that 10/15 slot – that’s the skill set Damian has got.

“But remember that (High-

landers first five-eighths) Lima Sopoaga has had a pretty good year so far ... hasn’t had much opportunities so he will get an opportunity with us as well.”

When host Kent Johns asked if the All Blacks wanted McKenzie to have more game time at No. 10 for the Chiefs, rather than playing as a fullback, Fox said: “That would have been handy.

“But the Chiefs have got to make decisions which are best for them.

“Damian is very talented, can play both positions, but we think he could be very dangerous as a first set of hands in that first receiver role, taking the defence on.

“He’s elusive, he’s quick, he’s brave.

“He’s got a lot to learn about navigating the game, managing the game, but you’ll only get that with time in the saddle.

“Hopefully during the Mitre 10 Cup he’ll get a bit of that then it will be up to us to grow that in our environment.”

On the exclusion of the widely admired Crusaders flanker Matt Todd, Fox said: “We can’t fit everyone in. Others will have a different view, and they are entitled to that.

“Given the attrition in that position ... he’ll be a contributor before the end of the year, we’re certain about that.”

“Knowing Toddy ... he’ll step up and play magnificently.”

He said Ardie Savea was a different type of athlete to Todd and Sam Cane, which gave the All Blacks balance and options.

“Toddy is more exclusively a seven, Sam can move to six, Ardie can play seven and eight and could easily play on the blindside,” he said.

“We only want two sevens.”

Fox said axed wing Julian Savea had lost out to two other power wings, Rieko Ioane and Waisake Naholo.

“We had a long chat about the makeup of the back six, we’ve got some real talent available,” Fox said.

“Julian was a big part of the discussion and he’s been a big contributor for many years now.

“These calls are very tough, but in terms of trying to balance out our skill sets in the back six, we’ve gone the way we’ve gone.

“That gives us some options ...bearing in mind that no one is perfect, no one has it all.

“It was a hell of a tough discussion.”

Reflecting on the drawn Lions series, Fox said: “Our skill set didn’t stand up under pressure... it’s normally a very good part of our game.

“We have to address perhaps doing more skill work than we’ve been doing.

“Maybe for the first time we felt the loss of those 800 test caps (after the retirement of Richie McCaw and co.) ... we were put under real pressure, so there are some leadership learnings, which is all mental as well.

“Hopefully we will take the learnings and be stronger.”

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Jones ejects Solomona and Tuilagi from camp Rookie New Zealand winger Denny Solomona has blotted his first season with England by being sent home from an England training camp for disciplinary reasons.

Solomona and high-profile centre Manu Tuilagi were shown the door by coach Eddie Jones

for what the Rugby Football Union (RFU) called “team culture issues”.

In a statement the RFU said the two players had been excluded from the camp in Teddington and would make no further comment. Players at the camp are preparing for the November tests

against Argentina, Australia and Samoa.

Auckland-born and raised Solomona has two England caps, scoring a try on his debut against Argentina. The 23-year-old enjoyed a brilliant debut season for English club Sale after crossing codes.

Samoan-born Leicester centre

Tuilagi has 26 international caps but has not played for England this year due to a knee injury.

Tuilagi’s ill-discipline has caused him trouble previously, notably when he was left out of England’s World Cup squad after being fined for assaulting two female police officers.

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The All Blacks did not want police involved after a bugging device was found in their Sydney hotel, a court has heard. Paul Walters, former general manager for the InterContinental Hotel in Double Bay, told the Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday that the team manager was worried about publicity surrounding the discovery of the listening device. The New Zealand rugby team’s security guard Adrian Gard has pleaded not guilty to making up claims about finding the bug secreted in a chair in the team’s meeting room in August last year.

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New Kiwi-Wallaby The physicality of Reds forward Adam Korczyk has won him a fan in Wallabies’ coach Michael Cheika and a potential shot at world champions New Zealand later this month. Kiwi-born Korczyk was one of seven uncapped players Cheika named in his 34-man squad for the opening Cup and Rugby Championship game against the All Blacks in Sydney on August 19. Skipper and openside flanker Michael Hooper appears the only certain back row starter for the game, with Korczyk a contender for the other two spots, or a place on the bench.

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Genia not locked in Wallabies fans can only hope halfback Will Genia is as good at keeping the All Blacks guessing as he is the rugby community about where he’ll play his Super Rugby next season. Genia signed a contract with the Australian Rugby Union last November and was recently released by French club Stade Francais. A star of Queensland’s 2011 Super title-winning team, Genia – who has played 116 games with the Reds – was immediately linked with a return to the club.

However, there was suggestions they would struggle to squeeze him onto their roster with Nick Frisby, James Tuttle and Moses Sorovi already on their books.

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Trophy comes home The Crusaders have been welcomed home by a jubilant horde of fans at Christchurch Airport, following their drought-breaking Super Rugby success.

The team won their first Super Rugby title since 2008 – and their eighth overall – with a 25-17 victory over the Lions on Sunday morning, and brought the trophy back home on Monday night.

Arriving at 10.30pm from Sydney, the Crusaders received a passionate welcome from their fans who have waited nine years for the local side to get back on top.

Hundreds of supporters clothed in red and black waved flags, sang and cheered as the team appeared.

Grinning players took their time moving through the airport, signing jerseys and taking selfies with their fans and the Super Rugby Trophy.

The players have had some time to celebrate in Johannesburg, with coach Scott Robertson basking in the success – breakdancing after the game before signifying a long night ahead by saying “My next priority is just to make the plane”.

With Robertson safely back in New Zealand, the Crusaders will be able to soak in the success on home soil briefly, before the players disperse to join the All Blacks or their provincial Mitre 10 Cup team.

A parade was held in Christchurch central yesterday to welcome the team and trophy home.

For 10 of the Crusaders, the day will be especially special, after being named in the All Blacks squad for the Rugby Champi-

onship on Monday. Forwards Codie Taylor, Wyatt Crockett, Joe Moody, Luke Romano, Sam Whitelock, Owen Franks, Scott Barrett and Kieran Read will all

pull on the black jersey, as will backs Ryan Crotty and Israel Dagg.

While those players will be chasing more silverware, several

of the other Crusaders will join Canterbury for their provincial season, with Canterbury having won eight of the last nine provincial championships.

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Close eye on Franks Owen Franks’ Achilles injury will be carefully monitored by the All Blacks as they seek to extend his career past next year’s World Cup. Franks, 29 and a veteran of 94 tests, didn’t play in the second half of the Crusaders’ Super Rugby victory over the Lions at Ellis Park or in the second 40 minutes the week prior in the semi-final over the Chiefs due to the problem which also affected him during the British & Irish Lions series.

Neither he nor any of his Crusaders team-mates will be considered for Friday’s “game of three halves” for the All Blacks against Counties and Taranaki at Pukekohe.

“We’ll wait until we get him back,” said coach Steve Hansen regarding the seriousness of Franks’ injury.

“The Achilles problem, we managed it through the Lions series, along with the Crusaders boys – they’ve been managing it as well.

“We’ll see how we go – we might have to have a short-term plan and then a long-term plan after the Bledisloe Cup.” Franks, the cornerstone of the All Blacks and Crusaders packs, is out by himself in terms of his ability as New Zealand’s top No.3 now that Charlie Faumuina has left for France.

“If it doesn’t look like it’s going to come right obviously we’ll have to give him a break,” added Hansen of Franks.

“If it is coming right we can continue to use him.

“If we want him to play in the World Cup we have to be pretty thoughtful there.”

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Has Julian Savea become a lost cause?

By GreGor Paul Sporting fairytales are always compelling so of course there is an appetite for Julian Savea to have a second coming.

Dropped from the All Blacks on his 27th birthday, wouldn’t it be magical if he can rediscover himself in the Mitre 10 Cup, storm to form and win back his All Blacks’ place later in the year and break the all-time tryscoring record?

That would be the stuff of legend and the All Blacks coaches will be willing that outcome as much, if not more than anyone else.

But finger-crossing and intense hope don’t increase the likelihood of it actually happening.

Savea has had a good run, been a prolific scorer and big contributor, but maybe this isn’t a kick up the pants moment but instead the beginning of the end.

Premature to be thinking like that maybe, given the recent example of Israel Dagg who was dropped in 2015 when he couldn’t get his game going.

Plenty of nay-sayers had written Dagg off in 2015, closed his case file as an All Black and were adamant he’d never again play test football.

He returned to action in 2016 with seem-

ingly more pace, more awareness and less inhibition to earn an All Blacks recall and re-establish himself as a regular in the back three. His career revival was a salient lesson to not be hasty in making definitive judgement.

But Savea is not Dagg – different athlete, different skill-set, different player. They are an apples to oranges comparison.

Dagg is a kick and catch player. Speed and agility are a part of his offering, but not the fundamental component and as a result he can become a better player with age.

It’s repetition that builds confidence and accuracy under the high ball and it’s experience that builds game awareness of knowing where to kick, how to chase and where the space is to exploit.

Kick and catch players such as Dagg have longevity as proven by the likes of Ben Smith and Cory Jane who respectively reached 30 in the best form of their careers.

Savea, on the other hand, is a power wing.

His game is built, almost exclusively, on his pace, footwork, strength and ability to beat players one-on-one.

He’s a finisher, a hit man at the end of the line who has to be able to convert half chances and increasingly not even that much.

In 2015 and 2016 when Savea was strug-

Julian Savea: All Blacks career over? gling for form, there was an immediate and rational explanation – he wasn’t fit enough.

The All Blacks coaches worked on the theory that if they got Savea back into the right physical shape, his game would return. They were right.

Savea didn’t play consistently well once he was better conditioned, but he had sporadic performances that were as good as any he had ever produced.

He still had it. But now a different reality may be at work.

Savea has stayed on top of his condition-

ing. There are no immediate, major gains for him to make on that front.

What he’s been showing is maybe all that he has and perhaps there are two things working against him.

The first is that power wings have a notoriously shorter career window. If there is a pattern, it is that explosive wings tend to emerge at a younger age and lose their edge younger, too.

The likes of Joe Rokocoko and Sitiveni Sivivatu were stars at 21 but not genuine test players by the time they were 27.

They lost a fraction of pace, a little of their agility and acceleration and their tryscoring dried up. The reduction was minimal but what makes it appear more severe is that younger, faster players come into the game and convert more of those half chances.

Is this what has happened to Savea?

Has he lost one per cent of his physical offering at a time when Rieko Ioane and Waisake Naholo are in their prime?

Has Savea hit that invisible barrier power wings so often do and is he now destined to find that no matter how hard he works, nature will be working harder against him?

The next few months will provide the answer and the magic of sport its infinite capacity to spring a surprise.

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New Zealand’s latest world champion Tom Walsh won gold but also lost a bet following his winning effort in the shot put at the World Athletics Championships in London. The 25-year-old became the first New Zealand male to win a medal at the World Championships.

Despite winning gold, Walsh confirmed that he lost a bet with coach Dale Stevenson after failing to beat his personal best in the final. Walsh revealed if he beat his best ever effort, Stevenson would have to get a tattoo. But he fell short meaning Walsh will need to get some ink, possibly of a butterfly or love heart since it’s of his coach’s choice.

RESULTS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club August 5 and 8 Women’s Section Rnd 3 Sunmeade Trophy – Silver – gross Pauline Bell – 80. Rnd 3 H.E. Cook Trophy – Bronze. Shirley Elliott – 68, Erin Porter – 69, Sharon Carlson – 69, Judy McKeown - 70 Nearest the Pins: No 4 Gabites: Not struck, No 8 House of Travel: Lynn Small, No 12 Lynn’s Small Salon: Wendy Parr, No 14 Todds of Ashburton: Wendy Parr, No 4 Somerset Grocer 2nd shot: Judy McKeown, No 18 2nd Shot to Green: Allison Hunt. Twos: Wendy Parr – No. 12, Hilary Lovett – No. 12 August 3 9 Hole Results: 4th Round Marion Marshall Trophy – Stroke. Women: Allie Glossop – 35, Men: Peter Woods - 32

Marlese Schoonderbeek in action on the floor at the Dynamic Gymnastic Club’s Ribbon Day Competition on Sunday.

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Competition huge success

By Jaime Pitt-macKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

After only being up and running for two years, the Dynamic Gymnastics Club has held its first competition.

152 children aged from four and a half to 16 years-old competed, coming from clubs in West Melton, Christchurch, Kaikoura and Hokitika.

Head coach Nicci Glanville said the event ran smoothly, so

much so it ran ahead of schedule.

“With the club operating for only two years it was a huge thing to undertake,” she said.

The competitors competed in four different sessions, with the beam, rings, floor and vault being some of the disciplines that the youngsters took part in.

Glanville said they had received plenty of positive feedback from the event, with mem-

bers of the other clubs saying they had never been to such nice events, and how they could not wait to return next year.

“I teach trampolining as well and that would be another event that would be great to have down here,” she said.

Glanville said that without the support of the coaches, parents and judges who travelled down, the event would not have happened.

“Volunteers are what make things work and we run it for the children and are pleased with how it went,” she said.

“They had fun and left with their ribbons and medals and smiles on their faces and that is how we know we did a good job.”

The club currently has over 250 members, including a satellite club based in Methven that operates every Friday.

Mayfield Golf Club August 3 Mixed Foursome Winners: 1st Lal Mulligan & Ian Beach 65.5, 2nd Andrew Lake and Lynley McKenzie 66.5, 3rd Rae and Harley Davies 68, 4th Marilyn and Steve Cross 68.5 on c/b Sue Graham and Gordon Duthie 68.5 McLaine Trophy: Marilyn and Steve Cross 68½

by Judy and Brian Fielder 69. Twos: Lal Mulligan Nearest Pins: No 2 2nd Shot Ladies: Sue Graham, No 11 Ladies: Lal Mulligan; No 2 Men: Harley Davies; No 11 Men: Steve Cross; No 5 Ladies: Christine Ross; No 14 Ladies: Judy Fielder; No 5 Men: Jack Allan; No 14 Men: Steve Cross. 2nd Shot 9&18: Marion Wedderell. Straightest Drive Ladies: Rae Davies; Men: Andrew Lake August 5 3rd Round Club Champs & Stableford Winners: Senior: T. Kingsbury beat W. Blair; Intermediate: M Keir beat J. Allan, S. Cross beat G. Duthie; Junior A: W. Vessey beat B. Allan, I. Beach beat J. McNeilly; Junior B: C. Bryant beat A. Rushton. Stableford: K. Read 39, P. Gardner 36, H. Davies 35. Nearest Pins: No 2 Aon Insurance: Wayne Blair, No 11 Jon McAuliffe Bayleys: Wayne Blair; No 5 Marilyn Cross Property Brokers: Don Ingold. No 14: ANZ Bank: Steve Cross; 9&18 ATS: Terry Kingsbury Twos: J. McNeilly, P. McLauchlan, K. Read, P. Gardner, C. Rapsey. Nett Eagle 16: Not Struck Kallara Texels Player of Day: K Read 81-12-69

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Season looks bleak

By Jaime Pitt-macKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

The Mid Canterbury Combined Schools’ 1st XV are staring down the barrel of one-win season after losing 51-19 to St Thomas of Canterbury College in Methven on Saturday.

All 19 of the combined team’s points came courtesy of secondfive Josh Ree, shifting one midfield position across from his usual home at first-five.

He ran in one try which he converted, and kicked four penalties on the road to his 19-point haul.

It was never going to be enough

to compete with the try-scoring rampage of St Thomas, who ran in nine tries.

The space between the goalposts eluded them however, with only three of the tries being converted, and no penalties being scored during the match, potentially saving the combined side from a more damaging scoreline.

They will play their last scheduled game this weekend away to Waimea combined, who currently sit eighth on the competition ladder, while the combined side sit above fellow one-win sides Roncalli Combined and Burnside High School.

Joe Todhunter looks to fend off a tackle from a St Thomas College player at the Methven Domain on Saturday.

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Gonzo camp confident Waiuku trainer Sean Cameron couldn’t be happier with Go Go Gonzo ahead of the Hospitality New Zealand Canterbury 128th Grand National Hurdles over 4200m at Riccarton today.

The Golan eight-year-old gelding has thrived since transitioning to jumps racing, with his eight and a half length win in the Sydenham Hurdles on Saturday the highlight of his seven-start career.

Cameron was over the moon with the victory and said Go Go Gonzo had pulled up well after the run.

“It was above my expectations really, it was a bit scary the way he won.

“He’s good as gold after the run, he’s been out to the beach the last couple of days just to have a walk in the water to loosen up.

“If he’s not fit now he’ll never be fit.”

Last season’s leading jumps jockey Aaron Kuru will take the ride aboard Go Go Gonzo with Saturday’s winning rider Ham-

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Go Go Gonzo is well acquainted with the Riccarton track. ish McNeill already committed to Ready Eddie.

“Hamish made an agreement to ride him and The Oysterman all the way through (the season) so he has stuck by his word,” Cameron said. “The way Ham-

ish rode him on Saturday, he had done everything perfect and the horse went good for him so it’s hard changing a winning combination, but Aaron is a top man.”

Cameron is happy with his runner’s progress, but admits a

question remains whether he will handle the step-up in distance to 4200m.

“He was just a grinder on the flat,” Cameron said.

“He won over 2150m at Riverton one day by nearly five lengths, so I always thought he could stay, but the 4200m is going to be a telling factor.”

Meanwhile, Cameron is unsure whether his other runner Bullitt will handle the heavy ground at Riccarton, but has taken confidence with former apprentice jockey Emma Power taking the ride in the Nautical Boat Insurance Grand National Amateur Championship.

“I’m not quite sure whether he is a heavy tracker,” he said. “He’s had two starts on slow tracks for wins, but I thought I’d have a go in the amateur riders’ race.

“Emma Power is not long out of being an apprentice so I thought with a more experienced jockey on him she may be able to get the better of the other amateurs.”

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No rush for Binks Trainers David and Emma-Lee Browne are happy to bide their time with their Group One sprinting hope Ja Ja Binks. The Cambridge trainers gave her a run at last week’s Te Teko trials and she may now have another break. “She doesn’t like wet tracks and her legs were going everywhere,” Emma-Lee Browne said. “She might even go for a short break to the paddock.”

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Success no surprise Cambridge horsewoman Linda Laing hasn’t been surprised by the progress of Folk Tales in Australia.

She gave the New Zealand-bred Stravinsky gelding his early education and he was a trial winner for her before transferring to Richard Laming’s Cranbourne stable. From the family of Railway winner Alynda, Folk Tales was successful on Monday’s Darwin Cup undercard.

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Lowry hot on Ablaze Leading South Island apprentice Jacob Lowry has tipped Ablaze as his best ride at Riccarton today.

He will partner the Raise The Flag gelding for his employers Brian and Shane Anderton in the Classic Villa Rating 85. “I’d like to think he’ll go pretty close.”

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Canterbury gallops Today at Riccarton Raceway

STEEPLECHASE $20,000, 0-1 WIN STP, 3200m 1 P361L Brok Bak m (7) 68.5......... C Price (3) 2 83134 Irish Dude (4) 68.5 ........................ E Farr (a) 3 L4221 Ours tdm (9) 68.5 ..............W Gordon 4 315F3 Seeking Redemption 68.5............ Scratched 5 32522 Mendoza mb (3) 67 ...........................R Cully 6 52613 Adequacy m (1) 67............................ A Kuru 7 65436 Paddy Owen m (8) 67 ....................S Phelan 8 3P07F Lonely Boy (5) 67 ..................H McNeill (1.5) 9 23434 Yipson (6) 67.................................. S Fannin 10 x7047 Kingiesstar t (10) 67 11 x0735 Kangaroo (2) 67 ......................... S Karnicnik 4 1.10 NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE $32,500, Rating 85 Benchmark Fillies & Mares, 1500m 1 01341 Clara Jane tm (8) 59 ................... C Johnson 2 84254 Laaffaire (7) 57.5 ..........................K Williams 2 12.00pm CLASSIC VILLA RATING 85 $30,000, Rat- 3 02138 Flying Sardine t (4) 57............ K Cowan (a3) 4 34516 Elfee tmh (6) 56.5...........................S Wynne ing 85 Benchmark, 2000m 5 84113 Third Time Lucky dm (3) 56.5 .........R Myers 1 23258 The Gordonian dm (7) 59......K Mudhoo (a1) 6 x5995 Doubtless Princess tdm (5) 54 ......L Allpress 2 65661 Our Gazza tm (6) 58.5 7 56713 Onefortheditch tm (2) 54Sarah MacNab (a3) 3 41315 Ablaze tdm (5) 56.5 .................... J Lowry (a) 8 8x413 Em Kay Pops m (1) 54 ............P Shaikh (a2) 4 26798 Kings Pal tdm (2) 54.5...................L Allpress 5 x31x1 Wazuzu tm (1) 54 ............................R Myers 5 1.45 NAUTICAL BOAT INSURANCE GRAND NATION6 x7210 Al Munroe m (4) 54 .............. T Johnson (a2) AL AMATEUR C $22,500, R65 Benchmark*, 1800m 7 x1223 Precious Percy mb (3) 54................ J Morris 1 03945 Skeen (4) 71.5 ........................ S Wenn (am) 3 12.35pm RACECOURSE HOTEL & MOTOR LODGE 2 18917 Bullitt m (5) 71 .........................E Power (am)

Canterbury Racing - Canterbury JC Venue: Riccarton Park Meeting Date: 09 Aug 2017 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 11.25am TREVINOS RESTAURANT & BAR MAIDEN HURDLE $15,000, MAIDEN HURDLE, 3100m 1 71320 Game Percy (7) 68 ......................... S Fannin 2 42632 Newstead m (2) 68............................R Cully 3 06545 Bitethebullet (9) 68 ...................... C Price (3) 4 05634 Speedy Jax (5) 68 .................H McNeill (1.5) 5 004P6 High In Demand (8) 68...................... A Kuru 6 57600 J’Walke m (6) 68 ..........................W Gordon 7 60x27 Jackfrost m (4) 68 .................S Higgins (1.5) 8 x7281 Mandalay m (3) 66 9 x4323 Carrington Park b (1) 66 ............ S Karnicnik

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Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 09 Aug 2017 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 12.09pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL CO C0, 305m 1 7x Bigtime Swift nwtd..................G Fredrickson 2 64356 Kylie’s Stiletto nwtd ......................C J Morris 3 75433 Carefree Highway nwtd ................K Williams 4 54344 Mikachu nwtd ..............................A Turnwald 5 7873 Zoya Bale nwtd ............................M Roberts 6 Ponder Rosa nwtd......................B Goldsack 7 68574 Stole Me Keys nwtd ................. K Gommans 8 78822 Lace nwtd......................................M Gowan 9 58566 Pickering nwtd ....................................J Hunt 10 74888 Warrior Tony nwtd U & ......................Cottam 2 12.26pm WANGANUI CHRONICLE C0 C0, 305m 1 23263 Miss Muffet nwtd .........................J McArthur 2 Ace Star nwtd.............................B Goldsack 3 7 Bigtime Buster nwtd ...........................L Cole 4 77374 Last Man Alive nwtd ........................M Olden 5 43766 Poppet nwtd .................................C J Morris 6 65573 Cawbourne Jeff nwtd .........................J Hunt 7 23722 Just Like Ma nwtd J & .........................D Bell 8 87626 Paris Global nwtd ...................J T McInerney 9 87285 Jet Pack nwtd U & .............................Cottam 10 46788 Cawbourne Broady nwtd.................L Doody 3 12.44pm METEOR WANGANUI C0 FINAL C0f, 520m 1 2225 Bigtime Eve nwtd ...............................L Cole 2 11 Bigtime Levi 30.19..............................L Cole 3 24686 Idol Patches nwtd ..............................M Flipp 4 56265 Howlin’ Ace nwtd .............................S Codlin 5 22648 Waterloo Blue nwtd ............................W Kite 6 36567 Cawbourne Gibbo nwtd J & ................D Bell 7 83352 Bigtime Liam nwtd..............................L Cole

3 12363 Guy Fox mb (3) 70.5 ...............C Myers (am) 4 53728 Electronic Motion tdm (5) 55.5 Firdhaus (a3) 4 70001 Macklemore dm (7) 70.5 ......L Wheeler (am) 5 x0401 Whatwedo dm (2) 54.......................R Myers 5 14999 Stormy Habit m (6) 70.5 ...........L Calitz (am) 6 91884 Vice Marshall tdm (7) 54 ..............T Moseley 6 33361 Point Proven m (10) 70 .......... N Brown (am) 7 3486x Barabas h (1) 54 .....................P Shaikh (a2) 7 x5436 Alfie Dee (1) 69.5 .................G Duncan (am) 8 3.29 HOSPITALITY NEW ZEALAND CANTERBURY 8 P6419 Payment Pending m (2) 69.5..... D Frye (am) 128TH GRAND NATIONAL $75,000, OPEN HURDLE, 4200m 9 x7281 Mandalay m (11) 68 .....Scotty MacNab (am) 1 B1386 Delacroix tm (6) 65.5 ....................W Gordon 10 3x708 Ascomanni m (9) 68 .......... M Northcott (am) 2 46200 Ready Eddie tm (7) 65 ..................H McNeill 11 98640 Zanotti (12) 66.5................ M Cameron (am) 3 31161 Go Go Gonzo tm (3) 65 .................... A Kuru 12 x8700 Scusa m (8) 66.5...............B Rogerson (am) 4 3L224 Revenge m (1) 65 ......................... G Bourke 6 2.20pm CHELTENHAM & DUBAI WITH T. LEE AND 5 71274 The Energizer m (2) 65 ............D Bothamley A.R.A MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 2000m 6 25142 Heistheone (8) 65 .............................R Cully 1 66442 Mighty Mak (7) 58.5 ....................K Kwo (a3) 7 5356L Yardstick (4) 65 ..............................S Phelan 2 048x2 Sir Ritchie (5) 58.5 ........Sarah MacNab (a3) 8 12642 Kiddo mb (5) 65 ............................. S Fannin 3 0x700 Zah Captain (2) 58.5 ....................T Moseley 9 4.04pm HOTELIERS CHALLENGE CUP MAIDEN 4 92366 Quaintrelle (4) 56.5 ..................... C Johnson $10,000, MAIDEN, 1600m 5 80083 Hell Bound (1) 56.5 ........................S Wynne 1 33322 Grey Ghost b (8) 58.5 .....................A Collett 6 50x66 Justrush (6) 56.5 ...........................L Allpress 2 60584 Friday Knight (1) 58.5....................L Allpress 7 85764 Black Eyed Susan (3) 56.5....K Mudhoo (a1) 3 Coconut (5) 58.5 .............................R Myers 8 45755 Name Of The Stars (9) 56.5 ........L Callaway 4 Keyboard Warrior (9) 58.5 ...........L Callaway 9 x0505 Hou La La (8) 56.5 .......................... J Morris 5 7 Our Royal (6) 58.5..........................R Bishop 7 2.54pm MCMILLAN EQUINE RATING 85 $30,000, 6 770x3 Coolin Roo (3) 56.5 ...............K Mudhoo (a1) Rating 85 Benchmark, 1200m 7 5x007 Loopy (4) 56.5 ....................... A Morgan (a2) 1 31120 Caramac tdm (4) 60 ......Sarah MacNab (a3) 8 98 Miss Special (7) 56.5 ...................... J Morris 2 14403 Five Kings td (3) 58.5 ....................L Allpress 9 700x Moeraki Mist (10) 56.5 ........... K Cowan (a3) 3 63297 Shaara d (6) 57.5 ...........................R Bishop 10 x6x66 Westerly (2) 56.5..........................T Moseley

10 4.38pm LINDAUER MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Dont Get Court (6) 58.5 ..............K Kwo (a3) 078. Mavrick (3) 58.5 .............................R Bishop 500x Mira h (9) 58.5.......................... K Gundowry 7223x Buffalo Rose (11) 56.5 ........... K Cowan (a3) 65352 Frazzle b (12) 56.5 .........................S Wynne 0x3 La Roccetta (2) 56.5 ................... C Johnson 0 Rubymoon (8) 56.5 .......................L Allpress Citrus (4) 56.5 ...............Sarah MacNab (a3) 64780 Eden Rose (7) 56.5 .................... J Lowry (a) 90. Elegido (5) 56.5...............................A Collett 4776x Saronic Miss h (1) 56.5 ......... A Morgan (a2) 6 Blusteel (10) 56 ...............................R Myers

Blinkers on: Bitethebullet (R1) Blinkers off: Our Royal (R9) Winkers on: Paddy Owen (R3), Rubymoon (R10) Winkers off: Elegido (R10)

SELECTIONS

Race 1: Game Percy, Speedy Jax, J’Walke, Mandalay Race 2: Wazuzu, Ablaze, Our Gazza, The Gordonian, Kings Pal Race 3: Irish Dude, Ours, Mendoza, Adequacy, Paddy Owen Race 4: Third Time Lucky, Elfee, Flying Sardine, Onefortheditch Race 5: Guy Fox, Stormy Habit, Alfie Dee, Point Proven Race 6: Mighty Mak, Sir Ritchie, Quaintrelle, Justrush Race 7: Caramac, Whatwedo, Electronic Motion, Barabas Race 8: Kiddo, Go Go Gonzo, Delacroix, Ready Eddie Race 9: Grey Ghost, Coolin Roo, Coconut, Friday Knight Race 10: La Roccetta, Frazzle, Blusteel, Buffalo Rose, Elegido

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway 8 38633 Mischief Viking nwtd........................... N Udy 9 75487 Sapphire Club nwtd.....................A Turnwald 10 68864 Loco Amigo nwtd S &................C Blackburn 4 1.01 ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS WANGANUI C0, 305m 1 44342 Ziggy Attack nwtd...............................L Hunt 2 8 Bigtime Trev nwtd ...............................L Cole 3 8834 Star Secret nwtd ..........................K Williams 4 8F845 Carrick nwtd I C & ..........................J Lenden 5 Subway Kay nwtd.......................B Goldsack 6 84568 Yoko Rama nwtd .............................L Doody 7 88x Seeking A Dollar nwtd.................A Turnwald 8 Cash Person nwtd ....................... P C Morris Emergencies: 9 68864 Loco Amigo nwtd S &................C Blackburn 10 45877 African Violet nwtd .................J T McInerney 5 1.19pm J P PRINT PETONE C1 FINAL C1f, 305m 1 47821 Uno Nathan 17.77 .............................M Flipp 2 41581 Guru’s Choice 17.95 ....................K Williams 3 17571 Bigtime Runnings 17.57 J &................D Bell 4 13231 Celtic Rover 17.93.........................M Gowan 5 36351 Homebush Freda 17.89 .........J T McInerney 6 88271 Miss Universe 17.58.......................... I Howe 7 53131 Bigtime Rapid 17.69...............G Fredrickson 8 54211 Wetchester 17.77 ................................ L Bell 9 47732 Cawbourne Dora 17.76 J &.................D Bell 10 81482 Five Starlass 17.97 ..................D W Denbee 6 1.36pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C1 C1, 520m 1 24425 Golden Pixel 30.52 ..................... G Hodgson 2 36537 Mahala Bay nwtd............................... I Howe 3 54566 Homebush Myra nwtd ............J T McInerney 4 63723 Gentleman Tim nwtd ...................A Turnwald 5 55677 Scodelario 30.93 .............................L Doody 6 25434 Steel The Gold 30.53 .................. P C Morris 7 81528 Sedgebrook Angel nwtd ......................F Kite 8 22464 Bigtime Jack nwtd ........................M Goodier

9 88756 Opawa Bucks nwtd ..........................R Waite 10 75778 Rosco Action 31.00 ......................M Goodier 7 1.54pm AON CPF C2 C2, 305m 1 32134 Mark Be Good 17.84 ................... P C Morris 2 41176 El Hefe 17.68 ................................M Gowan 3 12717 Vee Marina 17.71 ........................A Turnwald 4 52156 Another Jamie 17.84 .........................M Flipp 5 32868 Homebush Rocky 17.61 .........J T McInerney 6 48164 Guru Secret 17.76........................K Williams 7 25633 Bigtime Amelia 17.88 .........................L Cole 8 62873 Shelly McBell 17.63 ...............J T McInerney 9 57553 Brilliant Jayla 17.53 ..................... P C Morris 10 15385 Fair Cruzin 17.55....................J T McInerney 8 2.11pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C2 C2, 305m 1 83511 Shakti 17.89 ......................................M Flipp 2 487F1 Feel The Force 17.54 ............... S Gommans 3 61114 Bigtime Danger 17.85 ........................L Cole 4 45331 Another Relm 17.97 ..........................M Flipp 5 16463 Bella Jade 17.93 ......................... P C Morris 6 52476 Holly Blue Blood 17.64...........J T McInerney 7 41128 Butterball 17.75 .............................M Gowan 8 66221 Homebush Bailey 17.84 .........J T McInerney 9 46716 Minder 17.83 ..........................J T McInerney 10 38285 Meat Damon 17.68 K &.....................Phillips 9 2.27pm FIRST SECURITY C1 C1, 520m 1 25532 Goldstar Holly 30.58 .........................M Flipp 2 78778 Cawbourne Eski 30.09 J &..................D Bell 3 37624 Wong Full Arrest 30.75 ................C J Morris 4 62435 Fast Rigby 30.12 ............................ T Pilcher 5 76656 Lissadell Marcus nwtd................... D Donlon 6 15143 Thrilling Stan 30.40 ...........................D Edlin 7 1312 Bigtime Mia 30.61 ..............................L Cole 8 44343 Take Action 30.84.........................M Goodier 9 47775 Dyna Bevlin nwtd .........................M Roberts

10 86886 Banshee Reel 30.84 ........................R Waite

10 2.46pm WANGANUI TOYOTA C1 C1, 305m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

42478 You’re The Best nwtd ......................... N Udy 51667 Rosie 17.86 .................................J McArthur 78534 Lip It Up 18.04........................J T McInerney 71776 Another Vespa 17.85.........................M Flipp 67687 Gully Yappa 18.09 G & .................... J Clarke 62647 Bigtime Break 17.60...........................L Cole 47732 Cawbourne Dora 17.76 J &.................D Bell 42153 Eamon 17.71................................P Blanche 67274 Sweet Lovin’ nwtd ..................G Fredrickson 25474 Adrenalin Kick 18.19 ..............J T McInerney 11 3.03pm LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C1 C1, 520m 1 2111 No Time Toulouse nwtd ......................L Cole 2 13334 Forkner Bale nwtd ........................M Roberts 3 64777 She’s Mustard 30.61 ........................R Waite 4 43647 Wood He 30.82 ...........................A Turnwald 5 33765 Run Zola nwtd J &...............................D Bell 6 48573 Bonus Lotto nwtd ............................L Doody 7 61828 Cawbourne Westy 30.54 .......... K Gommans 8 65727 Opawa Shiloh 30.41 ........................B Marsh Emergencies: 9 86866 Opawa Judy nwtd..............................M Flipp 10 75778 Rosco Action 31.00 ......................M Goodier 12 3.20 HAPPY 77TH BIRTHDAY BRIAN HUNT C1, 305m 1 47243 Homebush Lucifer 17.53 ........J T McInerney 2 45355 Bigtime Champ 17.93 ........................L Cole 3 71568 Niamh’s Way 17.91 ......................P Blanche 4 33357 Sozin’s Galaxy 18.18 .............J T McInerney 5 1 Avedon Film 18.05 ............................M Flipp 6 57232 Cawbourne Mack nwtd J & .................D Bell 7 81482 Five Starlass 17.97 ..................D W Denbee 8 67848 Travis Bickle nwtd G & .................... J Clarke 9 37463 Uno Again 17.74 ................................ N Udy 10 558x5 Banshee Boy 17.86 ....................B Goldsack

13 3.38 BOOK YOUR FUNCTION@HATRICK C1, 305m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

57677 Trick Me Vara 18.34 G & ................. J Clarke 1F417 Homebush Minnie 17.81 ........J T McInerney 13676 Bigtime George 17.71 ........................L Cole 22125 Nippa Joy 18.14 .....................J T McInerney 71265 Cala D’Or nwtd..................................M Flipp 73541 Al’s Apprentice 17.91 .........................W Kite 53388 Cawbourne Merl 17.64 J & .................D Bell 12642 Set The Limit 17.72 .........................S Maher 25455 Botany Dianne nwtd ...............J T McInerney 42657 Smash Fire nwtd ................................ N Udy 14 3.55pm MAX REFRIDGERATION C1 C1, 305m 1 46426 Kiwi Baxter 17.74 ...................J T McInerney 2 76715 Billie Tee 18.23 S & ...................C Blackburn 3 11 Harry Brown 17.78 .............................L Cole 4 85x87 Electric Dandy 17.70 ......................... B Hunt 5 76444 Totes 17.80 ............................J T McInerney 6 24247 Second Time 17.65 G & .................. J Clarke 7 24712 PikoPiko Connor 18.28 ................... C Brider 8 14575 If It Fitz 17.74 ....................................M Flipp 9 878x4 Cawbourne Jazzy nwtd J &.................D Bell 10 86276 Idol Billie nwtd .......................... S Gommans 15 4.13pm LASER PLUMBING WANGANUI C1, 305m 1 66752 Opawa Smoke 17.59.........................M Flipp 2 41F65 King Cormack 18.10 ....................C J Morris 3 33444 Baduzzi 18.20 ........................J T McInerney 4 57435 Stainless Knocka 17.92 .................. C Brider 5 84553 Cawbourne Danial 17.71 ......... K Gommans 6 54423 Bigtime Boy 17.79 ........................M Goodier 7 16 Luke Skywalker 18.64 ........................L Hunt 8 85886 Lucky Sunday nwtd ................J T McInerney 9 78345 Watch Your Back 18.07 ......................W Kite 10 77266 Gully Crusher 17.77 G & ................. J Clarke 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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In brief Transfer record broken Brighton have broken their club transfer record for the second time in as many months to sign Davy Propper from PSV Eindhoven. The Holland midfielder, 25, has signed a four-year contract after joining the Premier League new boys for an undisclosed fee. His arrival usurps the STG8.5 million the Seagulls forked out for Socceroos goalkeeper Mathew Ryan. Propper also joins the likes of Markus Suttne, Pascal Gross, Mathias Normann and Izzy Brown as new signings at the south coast side this summer.

- PA

Starting A League role Luke Wilkshire wants a starting role for Sydney FC after turning down more lucrative offers in Russia to play his first A-League campaign. Wilkshire, 35, has returned home to Sydney and signed with the defending champions after more than 18 years in Europe. He spent most of his time with Russian top-flight outfit Dynamo Moscow, but he also played in the Dutch Eredivisie with FC Twente and Feyenoord. - AAP

Deulofeu the star

The Mid Canterbury Women’s side look to clear a corner in their 3-1 victory against Waimak Black on Sunday.

PHOTO ROBYN HOOD 0608170-RH-059

■ FOOTBALL

Women’s side marches on

By Jaime Pitt-macKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury’s footballing sides delivered yet another mixed bag of results last weekend, with a few surprise losses thrown in to the mix.

In the senior grades, the Mid Canterbury seniors nailed in a sixth-place finish for the regular season after playing out an exciting 4-4 draw against the Western Roar at Walter Park.

The Methven FC Seniors were also able to wrap up their regular season campaign in division four with a win after beating Selwyn UFC 1-0.

The result sees Methven finishing third on the ladder, only one point behind CashTech.

The Mid Canterbury Masters were not able to pick up a win as they fell to a 2-1 loss to CashTech Avengers.

The side has two more games

in the regular season, and currently sits in third place, six points behind the league leaders FC Twenty 11.

In the youth grades, Mid Canterbury’s 19th grade side had their first loss of the season when they lost to CashTech 2-1 in a close match at Warren Park.

Mid Canterbury’s 17th grade side have fallen to their second 3-2 loss in a row, this time losing to FC Twenty 11 Blue.

Battling away in division one, Mid Canterbury’s 15th grade side have picked up points for the second time after drawing 3-3 with Waimak Black in Rangiora.

The result sees Mid Canterbury sitting in fifth place, only behind Waimak by one goal difference.

The Mid Canterbury Women’s side continued their domination of division two when they beat Waimak Black 3-1 at the Ashburton Domain.

Mourinho ready to start chase for Bale Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has issued a challenge to his former club, saying he’d be happy to pursue Real Madrid striker Gareth Bale (right) if it no longer considered him a key player.

Mourinho made the remarks on the eve of their match for the Super Cup in the Macedonian capital Skopje.

The annual event is between the winners of the Champions League and Europa League.

Whether Bale starts overnight at Philip II Arena would be a clear sign of the club’s intentions, Mourhino said.

“If he plays tomorrow, that’s confirmation that he’s in the club’s plans,” he said.

“But if he is not in those plans I’d wait on the other side, and I’d fight

with other coaches who would also try to get him.”

Former United player Cristiano Ronaldo was in Madrid’s squad, following a break to prepare for a court inquiry into his taxes.

United midfielder Juan Mata conceded there was a quality gap between the teams.

“We are talking about the actual Champions League winners ... they are the ones that everyone wants to beat.

“They’ve got a great team. They won the league in Spain as well,” Mata said.

“The (quality gap) is not very big. But we are talking about the best teams in the world: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich.

But I also consider Manchester United to be there.”

- AP

If this was Gerard Deulofeu’s audition to be Neymar’s replacement at Barcelona, the former Everton winger did everything he could to convince the club he is perfect for the part in their 5-0 win over Chapecoense, on an emotional night at the Camp Nou. The Spain winger knows the club is talking to Borussia Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele, but he starred up front alongside an inspired Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.

- PA

Fans get money back Yeovil Town’s players and staff have agreed to refund the 258 fans who travelled to their 8-2 opening day defeat at Luton Town. The Glovers took an early lead but found themselves 5-1 down at the break before eventually falling to a joint-record league defeat. Skipper James Bailey told the club website: “We know we let ourselves and the fans down. As a group, we want to apologise and give fans their money back.”

- PA

EPL starting again The 25th edition of the greatest sports league in the world gets under way next Saturday (NZ time). Forget the NBA, NFL or Major League Baseball – no domestic competition provokes more interest worldwide than the English Premier League. It might not be the best quality football but nothing matches the EPL for drama, storylines, action and tribal rivalry. That, and the history embedded in British football which has made most of the competing clubs household names across the globe.

- PA

Ryan gets it wrong Socceroos goalkeeper Mat Ryan has warmed up for his maiden EPL campaign with a howler against Atletico Madrid. Ryan’s Brighton and Hove Albion hosted the La Liga side in a glamour friendly ahead of the season. Atletico won 3-2 after Ryan fumbled a straight-forward strike from Nicolas Gaitan slip through his fingers. The gloveman looked appalled, screaming towards the sky in frustration. - PA

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■ ATHLETICS

Stage fright helped Walsh

By Andrew Alderson A trend of male shot putting stage fright helped Tom Walsh join the pantheon of New Zealand track and field greats.

The 25-year-old became the first Kiwi male to win an outdoor world championships gold on Monday, matching the world indoor title he secured last year.

Only once in the last decade has the leading throw in the world been the winning throw at the year’s pinnacle event; on average it has been 37.9cm less.

American Ryan Crouser won the Rio Olympic title with a 22.52m heave, the best of 2016.

However, at the London world championships, Walsh’s 22.03m effort was 62cm short of Crouser’s top throw this year.

The pressure of performing at big events might be one reason for the deficit.

Walsh suggested another last week: The American habit of peaking too early in a season due to their selection criteria.

“To get to the world champs or Olympic Games, they have to get [in the] top three at their trials [where Crouser produced his 22.65m throw at Sacramento].

“It doesn’t matter if they’ve already reached the qualifying standard or thrown the furthest

in the world, if you get fourth, you’re not coming.

“So they have to peak for that and then this [world championships] is six weeks later.”

What cannot be underestimated is Walsh’s capacity to stay composed at the world’s top meets.

He first came to prominence on March 7, 2014 in Poland as the first New Zealand male to earn a medal at a world indoor championships.

Walsh won the world indoor championship in March 2016; earned a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics; won a Diamond League meet in September 2015; won the 2016 Diamond League

season crown; and extended his New Zealand record to 22.21m last September.

Walsh came within 11cm of a medal at the 2015 world outdoor championships, throwing 21.58m to finish fourth before rectifying that gap in his CV this week.

Walsh’s best throw in London was the third-equal longest winning throw in the event’s history, behind Werner Gunthor’s 1987 record of 22.23m and Reese Hoffa’s 22.04m in 2007.

Walsh’s coach Dale Stevenson told Radio Sport that male shot putters struggling at major championships was a recurring theme.

- NZME

Daily Events Wednesday 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road.

8.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Hinds Lagoon, all welcome, phone Jenny 308 6862.

Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square West.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady as you go exercise group. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. “Second time around” good clean clothing for sale.

Ashburton Baptist Church, cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

9.45am MID CANTERBURY LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Monthly meeting, Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

Thursday 9.30am ASHBURTON AGE CONCERN. Ladies low impact exercise classes held weekly.

Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady as you go exercise group. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Join fun exercise with friendly group during term time. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Daytime session, new players most welcome. E A Network Stadium, River Terrace.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Thursday and Saturday. Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. Good clean Second Time Around clothing for sale.

Ashburton Baptist Church, cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

Tom Walsh

August 9 & 10, 2017 10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park Street.

10am - 7pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD EXHIBITION. “The Joy of Stitching” runs daily from 5 August - 3 September , Late night Wednesday. Ashburton Art Gallery, West Street.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

1pm - 3pm ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Drop in and pre loved clothing shop. Cnr Thomson and Jane Streets, Tinwald.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research. Heritage Centre, West Street.

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Euchre - come and join us. Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

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

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

7.30pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Retirement Seminar - looking at the challenges of retirement. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit kidz for 0 - 5 years old and caregivers. 48 Allens Road.

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD EXHIBITION. “The Joy of Stitching” runs daily from 5 August - 3 September, late night Wednesday. Ashburton Art Gallery, West Street.

10.15am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for Arthritis. M.S.A, Social hall, Havelock Street.

10.45am M.S.A.TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

11am AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. Salvation Army Rooms, Cass Street.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. St Peters Church, Harrison Street, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

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

1pm - 4pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mah Jong Social at the Waireka Croquet Club rooms, Philip Street.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Stitch and chat, Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Social afternoon, you are welcome to have a go. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

7pm ASHBURTON R.S.A. DARTS SECTION. Club night for all new and returning players, Doris Linton Lounge, Cox Street.

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MHV Water Ltd Scheme Operator MHV Water Limited is one of the leading irrigation supply companies in NZ, servicing approximately 50,000 hectares via open race and pressurised pipe systems in the Mayfield, Hinds, Valetta and Ruapuna areas.

Our vision is to deliver water that is both environmentally and financially sustainable and continue to embrace our innovative heritage. We are looking to grow our team to continue to deliver for our shareholders.

We have a position available within our Operations team for a Scheme Operator. The operator will be responsible for the efficient and equitable delivery of water to our farmer shareholders, maintaining accurate records, compliance, implementing new technology and general maintenance of scheme assets.

Reporting to the Operations Manager the applicant should have: • Mature, confident communication skills • Proficient computer and numeracy skills • Self motivation and be a team player • A good standard of fitness and presentation • A commitment to Health and Safety.

Skilled Excavator Operator for 14ton Wheeled Excavator Full time, Permanent Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Ltd is a locally owned and operated company based in Ashburton. Due to a Staff Member relocating an opportunity has come up for the need to employ an operator for a 14ton Wheeled Excavator.

A Variety of work shall include but not be limited to: • • • • • •

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The ideal candidate will be a practical person with an understanding of irrigation and agriculture. Technical experience to enable operation of the Scheme’s modern technology is preferred but training will be provided.

A competitive salary package is available for the successful candidate and accommodation within the scheme area may be available.

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Class 5 Truck Driver Full Time Required Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Limited require a Full Time Class 5 Truck Driver to operate Truck / Truck and Trailer Units / Bottom Dumpers / Tipulators / Transporters.

This role will also require you to operate a variety of machinery which will include but not be limited to Loaders / Rollers / Dump Trucks etc.

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If this is you, please send your CV and cover letter to: Desme Daniels General Manager PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740 Or email desme@theguardian.co.nz

Applications close Monday, August 14.

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

Phone 027 220 9997.

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We are looking for someone with at least one years’ experience·- who is hard-working, organised, creative, and passionate about food and customer service. You will be able to work in a high-pressure environment, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be a team player and work unsupervised. This is a full-time position working to a flexible roster including days, evenings, weekends and public holidays.

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CONTAINERS for sale or hire, ex shipping: general and ◊ CIRQUE du SOLE insulated. Sidelifter available for delivery. Wilson Bulk 10 September 10 at 1pm. Horncastle Arena, Transport, Phone 308-7772.

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LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, BUSTY and attractive, antifreeze, car polish, V & L straight, clean, lots of fun. cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust Call Sophia, R25. No texting bust, rain clear, engine please. Phone 021 044 0698. cleaner and more. Call local distributor: Veehof phone 302 NEW Angela, Taiwanese, 27 years, size 6, busty, good 2911. services. One week only.

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ACCOMMODATION, Rye grass straw $75/bale.

Square balage $90/bale.

RENTAL Round balage $80/bale.

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BARLEY and wheat straw for $320 per week. Call Will on sale. 3x3 bales. Located at 021 991 458.

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Should you sacrifice your needs for those of another? Of course! But how often? That’s the crux of it. Sacrifice should feel like a choice, not a character trait.

Examine the balance in relationships.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): As social as you can be, your solitude is at times so sweet that no one can compete. When you need to be alone, you really need it and enjoy it thoroughly.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The ones worth impressing aren’t excited by high-dollar items that anyone with money can obtain. Taste, style and emotional satisfaction have more to do with choice and the reasoning behind it.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Lifestyle changes come about in interesting ways for you. Your next great change will start with a pang of dissatisfaction then a judgement that spreads over your being as a realisation.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Truly, when you make a decision about how malleable your mood will be, you’ll have the power to stick to it. So it will be entirely up to you: Your smile could change the day, or the day could change your smile.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): The attitudes of people and the feeling of situations will matter even more than usual. In fact, in most things you encounter today, the tone will trump the content. Reactions will be knee-jerk and gut-level.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): In the current milieu, you are surrounded by artfully scribed declarations and advice. The decor, the coffee mug, the shirt, the bracelet – they all seem to be barking orders.

You don’t need to be told how to do you.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You may contradict yourself, and that’s just part of being a complex human with broad interests and a mind that can travel through time and span a universe of ideas, many of which are bound to clash.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You’ll consider going out of your way to make a favourable impression or please someone. Examine your motives. If it’s approval you seek, you don’t need it. If it’s for fun or experimentation, you can’t lose.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The observations others make of you may clash with your self-concept now. It may feel greedy to take a compliment and rude to deflect it. Avoid both modes by focusing on the graciousness of others.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Your restrictions, real or imagined, are legitimate. The latter is harder to break free from than the former. That’s what makes today’s small victory so important.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Deprivation is a severe and impractical approach. Many things are better regulated than restricted. This guiding principle will help you navigate the tricky issues of the day.

ACROSS 1. She prophesied by getting in half the silver (5) 4. In Sicily, is even less healthy-coloured to army doctor (7) 8. Longing for time past makes it as a long change (9) 9. Something to drink from? Go for one in the street! (3) 10. The thing is, you may read it in the newspaper (7) 12. A portent is given back to heartless marksman (4) 14. Suitable conveyance to the Isle of Lewis? (3-4) 17. Part of the film will look staggering (4) 18. Form of whist, a French version, at Pentecost (7) 20. A particle left on abandoning tearful head (3) 21. Spy at once changes to shift the beat (9) 23. Note everything worker finishes is attentive to ladies (7) 24. No real people could be sold around fifty (5) DOWN 1. Rest of day of rest follows it (6,7) 2. French and, with Elizabeth about, surrounds one with hostility (6) 3. Iron perhaps given for a time: you put into it to get out (4-4) 4. A drink one might hang one’s hat on (3) 5. Where salmon get up every fourth year? (4) 6. You’ll find me up in the wet weather, so I stay behind (6) 7. Terrible groan – Millers were playing in the street (5-8) 11. After end of binge, shatter bowl (having raised it?) (5) 13. Isle, provided it’s ancient – of which there are many (8) 15. The heart of the matter where nut is concerned (6) 16. Like to put to sea to attack one (6) 19. Like to get first-class come-uppance in the Orient (4) 22. As opposed to gross fish-catcher (3)

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

REESBY, Rosalie Ann – Passed away on August 3, 2017 at St Allisa’s Rest Home (formerley of Kowhai Rest Home) in her 84th year.

Daughter of the late Fred and Mildred and loved sister of Malcolm. Friend of Margaret, Tony, Brenda and Rachel, Alison and the staff of Kowhai Rest Home. Messages c/- the Reesby family to PO Box 35046, Christchurch 8640. In lieu of flowers donations to Kowhai Rest Home would be appreciated and may be made at the service. A celebration of Rosalie’s life will be held at Dignity with Sincerity’s Funeral Centre, 78 Brisbane Street, Waltham TODAY WEDNESDAY, August 9 at 1.00pm thereafter interment at the Ashburton Cemetery on Thursday, August 10 at 1.00pm.

McCLOY, Lawrence Patrick (Laurie) – On August 4, 2017.

Peacefully at home. Aged 90 years. Dearly loved husband of the late Bernadette. Loved and admired father and father in law of Bede and Decima, Annemarie, Gerard and Annmarie, Donna and Peter Doake, Loretta and Blue Horton, Therese and Neil Campbell, Ron and Chrissy, and Matt and Nik. Much loved grandad of Desmond; Rachael and Zuch, Kate and Simon, and Michael; Conrad, Regan and Logan; Jess and Kris, Alice and Kerry; Liam, and Bryce; Storme, and Chantee; Ben, Lottie, and Zander. Loved great grandad of Lachlan, and Hamish; and Ruby. Loved friend of Colleen.

Dignity with Sincerity Rest In Peace Funeral Services Special thanks to the F.S.C.N.Z Methven Medical Centre and the District Nursing Team for their care of Laurie.

Please note all late death Messages to the McCloy notices or notices sent family PO Box 472, outside ordinary office hours Ashburton 7740. A requiem must be emailed to: mass for Laurie will be deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz celebrated at Our Lady of the to ensure publication.

Snows, Catholic Church, To place a notice during Methven on THURSDAY, August 10 commencing at office hours please contact us on 03 307 7900 1.00pm.

Followed by for more information interment at the Methven Cemetery. Recitation of the Any queries Rosary will be held at the please contact Church on Wednesday 0800 evening at 7.00pm.

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9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud 3 0 Noon Dr Phil AO 12:55 The Block NZ PGR 3 0 1:55 Minute To Win It 3 2:55 Entertainment Tonight 3:20 Sticky TV 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm Susie Nordqvist presents comprehensive coverage of global and local news.

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6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Money For Nothing 7:30 Love Nature – Extreme Animal Babies 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes 10:30 Salvage Hunters 11:30 Poh’s Kitchen Noon Location, Location, Location 1pm Building The Dream 2pm Money For Nothing 3pm Poh’s Kitchen 3:30 Love Nature – Wild Britain With Ray Mears 4:30 The Paleo Way With Pete Evans 5pm Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Melbourne 5:30 The French Collection 6:30 Auction Hunters

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9:30 Cold Water Cowboys PGR 10:30 Auction Hunters

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11pm American Restoration 11:30 The Paleo Way With Pete Evans Midnight Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Melbourne 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am 10 Years Younger UK 2am Fantasy Homes By The Sea 3am Young Vets 4am Cold Water Cowboys 5am Speed With Guy Martin

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THE BOX 6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 Jeopardy PG 6:50 Covert Affairs MV 7:40 Heroes MV 8:30 The Simpsons PG 8:55 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:45 Covert Affairs MV 10:40 CSI MV 11:35 Jeopardy PG Noon Smackdown Live MV 2:10 CSI – Miami MV 3:05 Heroes MV 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5pm Jeopardy PG 5:30 Covert Affairs MV 6:30 Piha Rescue PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG Harry Blackstone’s vanishing birdcage appears in the shop.

7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 NCIS MV 9:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 10:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 11:25 CSI – Miami MV

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12:15 Smackdown MV 1:50 Criminal Minds 16VS 2:40 Pawn Stars PG 3:05 Supernatural 16V 3:55 NCIS MV 4:45 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 5:35 Piha Rescue PG

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6:45 Deepwater Horizon ML 2016 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell. 8:35 The Quiet Ones 16VS 2014 Horror.

Jared Harris, Sam Claflin.

10:15 Money Monster MVLS 2016 Thriller. George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell.

11:55 Bad Neighbours 2 – Sorority Rising 16VLSC 2016 Comedy. Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron.

1:25 Deepwater Horizon ML 2016 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell.

3:15 The Quiet Ones 16VS 2014 Horror. Jared Harris, Sam Claflin. 4:55 The Vatican Tapes MV 2015 Horror.

6:25 Truth ML 2015 Drama Biography. Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford.

8:30 London Has Fallen 16VL 2016 Action Crime. In London for the Prime Minister’s funeral, a man discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman.

10:15 The Witch 16VC 2016 Horror Mystery. Anya TaylorJoy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie.

11:45 Lucky Number 16VLSC 2015 Comedy. Tom Pelphrey, Natalie Hall.

THURSDAY 1:05 The Vatican Tapes MV 2015 Horror. 2:35 Truth ML 2015 Drama Biography.

Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford.

4:40 London Has Fallen 16VL 2016 Action Crime.

Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman.

6:45 Final Destination 16LC 2000 Horror. Devon Sawa, Ali Larter.

8:25 Patch Adams M 1998 Drama. Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter.

10:20 Jurassic Park PGV 1993 Adventure. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum.

12:25 Chocolat MVS 2000 Comedy Drama. Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche.

2:25 Final Destination 16LC 2000 Horror. Devon Sawa, Ali Larter.

4:05 The Lost World – Jurassic Park PGV 1997 Sci-fi Adventure.

Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite.

6:10 Black Hawk Down 16V 2001 Action. Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett.

8:30 Be Cool MVL 2005 Comedy. Disenchanted with the movie industry, a man tries the music industry, meeting and romancing the widow of a music executive on the way.

John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn.

10:30 Hostel 18VSL 2005 Horror. Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson.

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12:05 Bad Santa 16VLS 2003 Comedy. Billy Bob Thornton.

1:35 The Lost World – Jurassic Park PGV 1997 Sci-fi Adventure.

Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite.

3:40 Black Hawk Down 16V 2001 Action. Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett.

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Back Page 7:30 The Breakdown 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9am The Golf Fix 10am School Of Golf With Martin Hall.

11am L Golf – PGA Championship 1pm Golf – PGA Championship (HLS) 2pm Golf – Challenge Series 2:30 Cricket – International (HLS) England v South Africa, Fourth Test, Day Four.

3pm Back Page 4pm Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Final – Lions v Crusaders.

4:30 BMX – World Championships (HLS) Rock Hil. 5:30 Athletics – IAAF World Championships (HLS) Day Five.

6:30 Back Page 7:30 Rugby – 1st XV Revision 8pm The Breakdown 8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Final – Lions v Crusaders.

9pm Fox Sports News 9:30 #SkySpeed 10pm Motorcycling – Moto GP (HLS) Monster Energy Grand Prix Ceske Republiky.

10:30 Super Rugby Kick And Chase 11:30 #SkySpeed

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Midnight Motorsport – Nascar Cup Series (HLS) 1am Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Final – Lions v Crusaders.

1:35 L Rugby – Women’s World Cup Black Ferns v Wales. 4:05 L Rugby – Women’s World Cup Canada v Hong Kong.

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SKY SPORT 2 6am NRL 360 7am On The Couch With Sterlo 8am NRL Fulltime 8:30 Super League Fulltime 9am Motorcycling – Road Racing Series Barry Sheene Festival. 10am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Titans v Broncos.

Noon Super League Fulltime 12:30 NRL Fulltime 1pm NRL 360 2pm On The Couch With Sterlo 3pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Knights v Warriors.

3:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Friday.

4pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Saturday.

4:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sunday.

5pm Pro Kabaddi League (HLS) 6pm Aussie Rules – AFL (HLS) Weekly Highlights – Round 20.

6:30 Super League Fulltime 7pm NRL Fulltime From the NRL Premiership.

7:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Knights v Warriors.

From McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle.

8pm The After Match 8:30 NRL 360 9:30 League Life 10pm Queenslanders Only 10:30 Fight Night

THURSDAY

12:50 L Rugby – Women’s World Cup England v Spain. 3:20 L Rugby – Women’s World Cup US v Italy. 5:50 L Rugby – Women’s World Cup Ireland v Australia.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 MythBusters PG Bullet Fired v Bullet Dropped. 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 10am Dr Karl’s Outrageous Acts Of Science PG 10:50 Shark Tank 11:40 Web Of Lies M Be Careful Who U Wish 4.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M The Nightmare After Christmas. 1:20 Murder Among Friends M Best Friends For-Never. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 Auction Hunters 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Yukon Men M The Road.

5:40 MythBusters PG 101 Uses for Duct Tape. 6:35 Deadliest Catch PG 40-Foot Monsters.

7:30 Deadliest Catch M The Russian Line. 8:30 Yukon Men M Bloodlines.

9:25 Alaskan Bush People M Faith and Family.

10:15 Edge Of Alaska PG Deadwood Forest.

11:05 Murder Among Friends M Best Friends For-Never. 11:55 Murder Comes To Town M The Nightmare After Christmas.

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Win or bust for Scott With his season hanging in the balance, Adam Scott has vowed to leave nothing in the tank at this week’s US PGA Championship. The Australian world No.17 has given himself a green light to attack host course Quail Hollow in the hopes of a birdie blitz at the year’s final major.

After a lean season, Scott sits 61st on the US PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup points race and will forgo the first two playoffs events in late August and September to be with wife Marie as the couple welcome their second child due on August 19.

Geoffrey Ellis set the pace in the South Island Half Marathon for men aged between 60 and 69, running the full distance in 107 minutes and 56 seconds.

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Over 800 people from all corners of the globe descended on Lake Hood on Sunday for the first ever South Island Half Marathon.

Organiser John Moore said it was a great event, and to get 816 people taking part for a first time event was amazing.

“There was a bit of a shower

of rain but apart from that the weather was good and there was a lot of smiles around the place,” he said.

“People really seemed to enjoy themselves and came from all over the country which means they were staying in Ashburton, which is great for local businesses.”

Competitors were able to take part in a 3km Kids Dash, a 7km

walk or run, or the full 21km half-marathon, walking or running.

Moore said some extremely quick times were posted on the day, with sub one hour and fifteen minute times being recorded.

Ben Twyman finished first with a time of 74.57, David Atkinson finished second with a time of 76.12, while an 81.15

saw Jeremy Trevathan finish third.

Despite a few unexpected challenges being thrown up on the day, Moore said he was pleased with how his team handled them.

He said it is exciting looking towards the future.

“Looking forwards it is great, it just showcases what there is on offer here,” he said.

Kiwi drivers leading the Supercars charge ITM will continue as naming rights partner of the ITM Auckland SuperSprint for the next three years despite the city having no extension to continue as host beyond this year.

Supercars and ATEED [Auckland Council’s events arm] continue to have dialogue around a contract extension – it is expected a new deal will now come later this month before the calendar is due to be released.

The 2017 ITM Auckland SuperSprint Supercars, to be held at the spiritual home of motorsport in this country at Pukekohe Park Raceway on November 3-5, was launched in Auckland yesterday.

It will mark the 17th time Supercars has competed in New Zealand, and will be buoyed by dominant performances of defending Kiwi champion Shane van Gisbergen, Fabian Coul-

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thard and current leader Scott McLaughlin in this year’s championship.

Coulthard was in Auckland yesterday to launch the 2017 ITM Auckland SuperSprint to news that ITM was on board ahead of his favourite Supercars event.

“All the drivers enjoy coming to New Zealand for sure, but for us three Kiwi drivers, coming home and racing at Pukekohe is

very special,” said Coulthard.

“Auckland is my home so to race in front of friends and family is fantastic. And the noise from the fans is incredible. It is a feeling like no other.

“Right now with Shane and my Shell-V Power team-mate Scott, the Kiwi boys have had a great start to the year. I know, with the fantastic support from local fans, we can put on a really great show.”

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Young Silver Fern Maia Wilson heads a trio of signings secured by the Northern Stars for next year’s national netball premiership. Mid-courter Fa’amu Ioane and defender Holly Fowler join Wilson at the Aucklandbased club, which finished fifth in the competition’s inaugural season. Silver Ferns midcourter Grace Rasmussen has already signed for the Stars as the club rebuilds with a new coach in Kiri Wills, who has replaced inaugural coach Julie Hoornweg.

Maccarone cleared to play Italian striker Massimo Maccarone will play for Brisbane against Melbourne Victory in today’s FFA Cup clash, after receiving a last-minute visa clearance. The marquee man scored twice in his Roar debut against Peninsula Power in a club trial on Saturday, but needed visa approval to play in the sanctioned contest against arch-rivals Victory. Coach John Aloisi confirmed his availability, but said experienced goalkeeper Michael Theo would miss the Perry Park encounter as he battles a cold.

Bale targeted

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