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Death investigated

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

A person has died in rural Mid Canterbury after being crushed by a piece of farm machinery over the weekend.

Yesterday afternoon WorkSafe advised of the incident which happened in the Montalto area on Saturday, stating that the incident had occurred in South Can-

terbury, inland from Timaru.

Emergency services were called to the area around 8pm on Saturday after reports of a man being crushed by machinery were received.

A police spokesperson said they were called to what appeared to be a workplace incident.

As a result of the accident, WorkSafe had been advised and

the spokesperson added that they were not in a position to release any further information at this stage.

In a statement yesterday, WorkSafe confirmed they are investigating the death.

“We are investigating, and can make no further comment,” they said.

“Our investigations can take up

to a year to complete.”

St John spokesman Gerard Campbell confirmed that an ambulance attended, but that nobody was transported from the scene.

The Mayfield Voluntary Rural Fire Force were also called to the incident, with the Fire and Emergency New Zealand incident reporting website confirming they

were called to a medical call at 7.55pm.

WorkSafe were also investigating the death of another man that occurred earlier this year at the site of the old KiwiBank on East Street in Ashburton.

A man was flown to Christchurch Hospital in a critical condition following the accident, and later died in hospital.

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Crowds back at the Brown

Chance to brush up district knowlege

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

They might have only had access to about half a pub, but that did nothing to stop Methven’s iconic Brown Pub opening its doors for Friday drinks last week, only three days after a serious fire threatened the building.

Owner Deb Den Baars said they got the final all-clear to open the bar section of the building at 4pm on Friday afternoon, and within five minutes they had their first customer through the door.

“It has been amazing, everyone has been running around like crazy (to get it back open),” she said.

“We have had locals, family and friends all come out to support us.”

Security camera footage that was only able to be accessed on Friday showed that it only took three and a half minutes from the fire siren sounding to the first firefighter stepping in to the building.

“We were watching it with one of the (insurance) inspectors and she was absolutely blown away,” she said.

“It is a big kudos to them as without them we wouldn’t be able to have this conversation.”

Den Baars said the next step for The Brown Pub was to get a scope on the amount of work required to re-open the accommodation section of the pub.

The north-west roof section of the building sustained fire damage following a chimney fire that

To ensure candidates in this year’s local body elections have a good understanding of what makes the Ashburton District tick, its chief executive Hamish Riach has prepared a package of information about key council issues and activities.

The pre-election report has been prepared independently of the mayor and councillors and focuses on how the council is performing financially. It includes its current financial position and signals key spending issues and major project the council expects to deliver over the next three years.

While the report contains information that is important for district council candidates, it will also assist voters to make informed decisions, Riach said.

Nominations for the October 12 elections open on Friday, July 19 and close at noon on August 16.

Voting documents wil be delivered from September 20 and must be returned by noon on Saturday, October 12.

This election will be the first where the number of district councillors is reduced from 12 to nine.

This will see elections for five urban ward, two western and two eastern ward seats.

At stake will also be the Ashburton District mayoralty, Ashburton Trust, Methven Community Board, Environment Canterbury and the Canterbury District Health Board.

The pre-election report can be downloaded from the Ashburton District Council’s website www.ashburtondc. govt.nz

Duty manager Neil Owen (left) pours the first beer for Bruce, from Winton, at the iconic Brown Pub on Friday night after a serious fire in the building last Tuesday.

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Sections of the roof have also sustained water damage as a result of the efforts to extinguish the blaze, as well as damage to the ceiling that was done to allow fire-

fighters access to the roofspace.

“Without the water damage there would have been a lot more fire damage so we can’t really complain,” owner Trev Den Baars said last week.

The fire was responded to by

fire crews from Methven, Ashburton, Rakaia and Christchurch, and blocked Main Street in Methven for much of the day.

“I’d always wanted to close off the main street through Methven, and now I have,” he said.

Faith inspires a new wave of creativity

By Susan Sandys

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Turning to Christianity later in life is fuelling a wave of creativity for Ashburton artist Carmen Lye. The 46-year-old painter has just opened a sole exhibition at the Mt Hutt Memorial Hall Methven.

Lye studied art and design and became a graphic designer after leaving Ashburton College.

She became renowned locally as a prolific painter, with her

colourful expressionistic and abstract works popular for their bright and contrasting colour palettes, combining the use of collage.

But when her children were young and she was busy with her graphic design business, she took a break from painting for about 15 years.

Today, mum to 18-year-old Jake and 14-year-old Riley, Lye has only recently got back into painting, and one of her main

motivating factors has been her new faith. Lye said while she had always read the Bible and been interested in Christianity, she had never made the leap into becoming a practising Christian until meeting her husband Michael Lye about eight years ago.

“It’s a subject I have painted since art school, but only now am I painting from the viewpoint of a Christian,” she said.

Lye was aiming to speak to the spirit, “allowing possibilities and

wonderment” to enter the minds of those viewing the works.

“I think everyone is searching for the answer to that question – what if there is more out there?” she said.

The exhibition features a range of subject matter including nature and the beginning of a life on earth, tectonic forces pushing up mountains, angel’s wings and Jesus on the cross.

Many are inscribed with quotes from the Bible.

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Rachel ready for blistering heat

By Linda Clarke

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Rachel Roadley knows exactly what she’s in for when she lines up for a 250km march across the Gobi desert later this month: Blisters and a fair amount of discomfort.

Rachel is planning to run and walk the distance, which is broken into six stages and five nights; her husband Greg will be ahead of her, aiming for one of the fastest times.

The Dorie dairy farmers will also be joined by Rachel’s brother, Grant.

Rachel says the family expedition was inspired by Greg, who has a passion for extreme sports.

Last year he competed in a 250km footrace across the Atacama Desert in Chile, earlier in 2018 he took part in the Godzone adventure race in wet Fiordland and in 2017 he trekked 560km across the brutal Arctic Circle.

He also did a six-marathons-in-six-days event in the Saraha Desert in 2016 and three previous Coast to Coasts.

Rachel has been at the finish line for these events and knows the huge effort required in training; she decided in November it was time for her to join Greg, though she has different goals and plans to take time during the race to appreciate more of the countryside.

Brother Grant was inspired over their family Christmas feast and joined the Gobi crew.

Rachel and Greg have trained separately and together during the past six months.

Her other frequent companion has been a 5kg bag of rice that she totes in a backpack during 15km and 20km loops around their Dorie farm block.

There’s running, then there’s running with weight.

Gobi March competitors, of which there are about 200, are required to be self-sufficient in terms of food and equipment. Only a tent at night and water is supplied.

Rachel is already excited by what she will see on her journey and the people she will meet. The course takes in beautiful landscapes, rough terrain and unique Mongolian culture off the beaten track.

She will be moving over grassland, fields, soft sand dunes, rocks, river beds and gravel tracks. There will be climbs and descents and checkpoints every 10km throughout the march to ensure no-one falls off the radar in such an inhospitable environment.

The sun will be relentless by day, when temperatures are expected to be above 40 degrees Celsius; at night, it will be close to zero.

Rachel is expecting her feet to take a hammering, with blisters inevitable. The

Dorie farmer Rachel Roadley is lining up alongside her adventure racer husband Greg for the Gobi Desert March later this month.

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couple have been toughening up the skin on their feet at home by going barefoot a lot and ensuring there are no callouses, cracks or rough skin that could become a problem in the sandy desert.

She has been a runner in her past and completed a marathon and half-marathon.

While she started from a solid fitness base, she has had to build up her long runs.

Greg, who thrives on the planning and calculations about the weight of equipment and calorie-rich food, has loaned his expertise where he can.

“He has opened up a spreadsheet for me,” she said. Rachel estimates she will need 490g of food yielding 2500 calories a day; she might drink up to eight litres of water on the longest day.

Blisters will be almost inevitable and competitors have to take their own first aid treatment. Her body will also have to cope with the rigours of running five backto-back marathons and running with the

Mid Canterbury farmers Rachel and Greg Roadley will be lining up together for a 250km desert adventure.

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The trio leave New Zealand on July 23 and will travel to Mongolia via Seoul. Rachel is planning four days of relaxation in the city on the return leg as part of her recovery plan.

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Local youth organisation C.A.C.T.U.S will benefit directly from a Meet the Mediums night this month.

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Helping hand for local kids

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

The chance to meet four mediums will also be a chance to give back to a local community group that is supporting children.

Four mediums will be hosting a Meet the Mediums evening at Arcadia on July 20, with all pro-

ceeds going to local youth organisation C.A.C.T.U.S. Rex Dagger, John Rowe, Sharon Hamer and Rosemary Johnstone will be hosting a two-hour session, with the main focus being to raise money for C.A.C.T.U.S. “We, as a group, have agreed to give our time for free, to help

this group of special people who are giving their free time to help under privileged children,” they said.

C.A.C.T.U.S is a physical training and self-discipline course for young people aged 10-14.

It is run over an eight-week period, and is a physically and men-

tally challenging course designed to motivate youth towards individual and team achievement.

The Meet the Mediums event will be held at Arcadia on Trancred Street on July 20 between 7pm and 9pm.

Door sales only of $10 with all proceeds going to C.A.C.T.U.S.

A Government report on the nation’s drinking water quality in 2017-18 has been released, showing that the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders who access their water through a network supplier receive water that is safe.

A heightened emphasis on risk following the 2016 Havelock North incident has seen a tightening of secure bore water requirements around the country which has resulted in supplies losing their protozoal status.

Protozoal achievement fell by 8.3 per cent to 74.8 per cent, however this outcome has been linked to the number of larger supplies – including Ashburton and other Canterbury supplies, that lost their secure bore water status during the reporting period, Ashburton District Council service delivery group manager Neil McCann said.

“The Ashburton District Council has projects programmed to address this issue and these works are now under way,” he said.

“Overall, the annual report on drinking water quality shows positive results for the country, and a concerted effort from suppliers – including ourselves, to continue meeting standards that are more tightly scrutinised for everyone’s safety.”

Girls’ Brigade still going strong in Ashburton District

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

They might not have quite the same profile as other groups, and some may be surprised they are still operating, but the Ashburton section of the Girls’ Brigade are still going strong, and need more leaders.

Captain Rachel Fox-Reynolds

said the Ashburton group has been bucking nationwide and worldwide trends and has continued to grow in recent times.

“In Ashburton we are growing quite nicely,” she said.

“We do similar kind of things to groups like the Scouts and Guides, the only difference is we are a Christian organisation.

“We do outdoor activities, crafts and things like that,” she said.

With numbers continuing to grow, the group needs more leaders to help out with running the group.

“We are ultimately there to build relationships with the girls and talk about things, sometimes

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about their beliefs, but the leaders don’t need to be Christians,” she said.

“You just have to be passionate about (working with) the girls.”

Fox-Reynolds said that some of the parents of the newer members were surprised that Girls’ Brigade was still operating.

“A few have joined recently and

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we have got a few comments that they didn’t even know it was still going,” she said.

“We haven’t done a lot of promotion.”

Anyone interested in finding out more about the Ashburton Girls Brigade can get in contact with the Ashburton Baptist Church.

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MCB seeks new members

By Susan Sandys

probably more a frustration, you are dealing with council,” Smith said.

The ideal would be that Methven residents had more autonomy in what happened in the town, but the Ashburton District Council did not always agree with what they thought was best.

“You still have to talk them buggers into it down in Ashburton,” he said.

Vice chairman Hamish Gilpin said he had “90 per cent” made up his mind that he would not be standing again.

He had already done four terms, totalling 12 years, and was busy in his personal life with work, family and other community commitments.

Gilpin said there was a lot of interest in the community from potential new candidates.

“I have talked to several people who are quite keen,” he said.

“There’s a good mix of people on there now, but I think it would be good to get different ideas, Methven has grown a lot in the past 12 years.”

Member Sonia McAlpine, in her second term, said she had still not made up her mind whether to stand again.

She was finding herself busy with work and looking after a grandchild, and was not sure if she could commit to another term.

Sarah Lock is in her second term on the board, and said she also had not yet decided.

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Methven Community Board members are not committing to another term in local body politics, and are calling for others to put their names forward.

Nominations open in 10 days, on July 19, and will close at midday on August 16.

Chairman Dan McLaughlin said he had not yet made up his mind whether to stand again, and he had a couple of “personal things” he needed to sort out before deciding.

“Some of us are getting a bit older and it would be good for us to get some younger ones in there,” he added.

McLaughlin is in his third term of being a board member, and in his first term as chairman. He said belonging to the board was rewarding in the bigger picture, but could be frustrating in the short term as the wheels of local body politics moved slowly.

Fellow member Ron Smith echoed McLaughlin’s sentiments. He has been on the board for one term.

Current members were in their 40s and upwards and he wanted to see some younger people consider joining.

Meetings were held every six weeks, and the board worked away on various projects around the town.

“It’s not so much a commitment,

Current Methven Community Board members are hoping to attract some new members, but more importantly younger new members.

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Jealous stalker to appeal murder conviction

Hot ashes spark fire The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade were called to a small hedge fire on Sunday evening.

Fire chief Alan Burgess said a section of a pine hedge a couple of metres long had caught fire after ashes had been disposed of in the area. “It is just a good reminder for people to be careful when disposing hot ashes,” he said.

NZME An “obsessed and infatuated” man spending his life behind bars for the brutal and frenzied murder of his former partner will appeal his conviction after a jury took just 40 minutes to find him guilty.

Rohit Deepak Singh’s sins were laid bare before a jury last year, which quickly reached a unanimous verdict and found him to be Arishma Singh’s (Chand) killer during the early hours of November 12, 2017.

They had heard at the nearly month-long High Court trial that Singh lay in wait for the 24-year-old mum to return to her Manurewa home before slaughtering her with a large kitchen knife.

The now 43-year-old Singh was then sentenced in February to life imprisonment with a minimum period of imprisonment of 19 years by Justice Grant Powell.

“It was both brutal and callous,” the judge said.

“An evil act, the consequences of which can never be undone.”

However, later this month, Singh and his evil act will return to court as he challenges both his conviction and sentence in the Court of Appeal.

Crown prosecutor Yelena Yelavich had sought a minimum of 18 to 19 years in prison for Singh, who stalked his ex for a year and broke into her home wearing gloves and wielding weapons.

The motive for the murder was his obsession and infatuation with his old girlfriend, the court heard at the trial.

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One killed in crash One person has died after a serious crash between a car and a truck in Selwyn, Canterbury.

Police were called at 1.40pm to the collision on Main South Road, between Tennyson St and Rolleston Drive. The serious crash unit attended. It comes after a motorist died in a serious two-car crash on Grand Drive in Orewa, north Auckland, yesterday morning.

- NZME Convicted murderer Rohit Singh (right) is appealing his conviction and sentence for murdering Arishma Singh (left) later this month.

Singh’s relationship with the child educator had ended in August 2016 but he “refused to accept she didn’t want to be with him”, Crown lawyer Claire Robertson said.

Shortly after her death, the Herald revealed Arishma had just returned home from a friend’s birthday party when she was killed.

Less than 16 minutes later Singh was gone and Arishma’s parents arrived at the house.

They found their daughter stabbed in the back, shoulder and arm, bashed across the back of her head with a weapon, and had her face slashed.

A wound to her groin had also cut a vital artery.

The murder weapon was

never found. Singh’s obsessive behaviour included threatening Facebook messages, an inundation of daily calls and text messages and a tattoo of Arishma’s face on his chest.

Arishma was also followed by her would-be-killer and photographed, while on the night of the murder he was watching Arishma’s home from a car.

Cellphone polling data placed him near the house at the time.

He had also earlier told a friend of his plans to kill.

After the murder, Singh fled to the North Shore and later created a bogus alibi about being the victim of a robbery.

Scratch marks on his face, however, which he attribut-

ed to his fake mugging, were a match to the DNA found under Arishma’s fingernails.

At Singh’s sentencing, Arishma’s parents, Rakesh and Aradhana Singh, called their daughter’s killer “a despicable person”.

“The night I held my lifeless daughter in a pool of blood turned my world upside down – my heart broke into a million pieces,” Rakesh wrote in his victim impact statement.

A statement from Arishma’s mum to the killer read: “I hate you for your cowardly act. You shattered Arishma’s dreams and hopes ... I hope you truly never have a day of peace ... After today we shall never think of you again.”

Smoke inhalation Two people have been rushed to Middlemore Hospital in a critical condition after suffering smoke inhalation from burning charcoal indoors. The fire service was originally called to a house fire at Avis Avenue in Papatoetoe at 11.09am yesterday, Fire and Emergency NZ shift manager Daniel Nicholson said. “When we got there it wasn’t a house fire but two people had suffered smoke inhalation from charcoal,” he said.

He could not comment on whether it was suspicious as that was a matter for the police.

Charcoal should never be used indoors, even if ventilation is available, because when it burns it produces significant amounts of carbon monoxide. A St John spokeswoman said two people were taken to Middlemore Hospital in a critical condition.

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New retail centre set to open

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A new retail centre in Rolleston is fully leased and tenants are gearing up for opening.

Jeff Vesey of Retail Commercial Limited said the new commercial block on Tennyson Sreet in Rolleston “isn’t too far away from completion and a few of the tenants have signs up”.

The tenants include Black & White Coffee, Red Bowl restaurant, Little India Restaurant, Liquorland, New Order fashion, and a convenience store.

They are expected to be open by the end of the month.

“Stage 1 has been fully leased and about to open with stage 2 now being leased with some very good tenant interest with building

under way in the very near future,” Vesey said.

Vesey said the population of Rolleston had rapidy increased however “retail offerings have lagged behind”.

“Markham Trust the developers of the Tennyson Street shops saw a very good opportunity to be part of Rolleston’s growth and fulfil a need for good quality well designed re-

tail offerings to complement the existing Rolleston shops and be part of the developing town centre.

“Situated across from the soon to be library/community centre and facing north-west, Tennyson Street shops are well positioned to take advantage of Rolleston’s growth.”

The centre is also adjacent to Rolleston Square retail which

Vesey said was making central Rolleston the “place of choice” for shopping for the wider Rolleston population.

In an interesting comment, Vesey said that along with the existing supermarkets and big box stores, naming Repco as the latest to open, that “shortly three more big box retailers will announce they [are] opening in Rolleston”.

Nine years on and no justice for grieving family NZME It may have nine years yesterday since the death of their son Scott, but parents Bryan and Joanne Guy prefer to remember the good times spent with him – rather than wonder if whoever was responsible for his murder will ever be brought to justice.

It was in the early hours of July 8, 2010 that Scott Guy, 31, was shot and killed in the driveway of

his home near Feilding when he stopped to open a gate.

Bryan Guy said yesterday that the death of his son was always with him.

“We think about him every day, but you try to not dwell on it and just get on with life,” he said.

“You look forward but I don’t think you ever move on really.”

In April 2011, Scott’s brother-inlaw Ewen Macdonald was charged with the murder.

It was alleged he was motivated by a fear of losing his place on the family farm after years of tension and feuding.

Macdonald was found not guilty of murder in 2012, but was jailed for five years for a string of other offences, including vandalising the farmhouse where Scott Guy lived with his wife Kylee, killing 19 calves and burning down a 110-year-old whare.

In 2013 police spent nine days

sifting through effluent ponds at the Guy family farm in hopes of finding clues to the murder, but nothing of interest was found.

A police spokesperson said no officers are currently working on the case.

“The Scott Guy investigation is currently an unresolved, open and inactive homicide. “While no specific staff are currently dedicated to the investigation, if any reliable, new information is presented, ap-

propriate resources will be directed to thoroughly assess, evaluate, and if necessary, resume the investigation.”

Bryan Guy isn’t disappointed by the lack of police activity on the case, and indicates the unresolved nature of Scott’s death is not something the family often think about.

“We always hope that the truth will come out but it’s no good being stuck in the past, that’s for sure.”

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Far right falters in election AP Golden Dawn, the far-right, anti-immigrant party that had shocked Greek politics by evolving from a marginal, violent neo-Nazi group into Greece’s third-largest party during the country’s economic crisis, was knocked out of Parliament in Sunday’s national election.

With nearly 95 per cent of precincts reporting, Golden Dawn had 2.95 per cent of the votes, just under the 3 per cent threshold needed to be represented in Parliament.

The government’s official pollster declared that the party had no chance to enter Parliament, and party leader Nikos Mihaloliakos admitted as much when he declared in a fiery concession speech that “Golden Dawn is not finished”.

Golden Dawn had 18 lawmakers in the outgoing 300-member Parliament, having won 6.99 per cent of the votes in the last national election, in September 2015.

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A woman with a child casts her ballot at a polling station in Athens, at the weekend.

PHOTO AP to our enemies and so-called friends: Golden Dawn is not finished; get over it. The fight for nationalism continues.

We return where we became strong: on the streets and squares, in a tough struggle against Bolshevism and the coming savage capitalism,” Mihaloliakos told a crowd of supporters.

He attacked both the outgoing prime minister, leftist Alexis Tsipras, and his incoming successor, conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Mihaloliakos ended his speech with his customary “Hail victory!” – a direct reference to the Nazis’ “Sieg heil” salutation.

Golden Dawn’s weakening become apparent in May’s Eu-

ropean election, when it got only 4.87 per cent and slipped into fifth place among Greece’s parties. A new party on the far right, Greek Solution, less extreme and apparently less menacing, may have siphoned away rightist support. It is projected to have 10 seats in the new parliament.

Still, many doubt Golden Dawn will shrink back to its previous marginal status. In the European elections, the party’s share of the vote among 17- to 24-year-olds was about 13 per cent.

Some recent statements by prominent party leader Ilias Kasidiaris, until recently also a lawmaker and a candidate for mayor of Athens in May, indicate that Golden Dawn may seek to rebrand itself as a less extreme organisation, aligned with European euroskeptic or alt-right forces.

He has expressed admiration for Italy’s anti-immigrant deputy premier, Mateo Salvini, and spoken favourably of the largely euroskeptic Eastern European Visegrad countries.

Tarantino to quit?

Quentin Tarantino claimed he has ‘come to the end of the road’ with directing, as he spoke about his future plans in an interview with GQ Australia on Wednesday. The director, 56, has always said he intends to quit the business after making 10 films, and his latest, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, is his ninth film. Admitting that he’s considering becoming a writer, he told the publication: “I think when it comes to theatrical movies, I’ve come to the end of the road. I see myself writing books and starting to write theatre, so I’ll still be creative. I just think I’ve given all I have to give to movies.”

Son of South Korean defector also defects AP The son of the highest-profile South Korean ever to defect to North Korea has arrived in the North to permanently resettle, the country’s state media said.

If confirmed, it would be an unusual case of a South Korean defecting to the impoverished, authoritarian North.

The state-run Uriminzokkiri website reported that Choe Inguk arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday to dedicate his life to Korean unification at the guidance of leader Kim Jong Un. The website published photos and footage showing Choe reading his arrival statement at Pyongyang’s international airport.

Choe is the son of former South Korean Foreign Minister Choe Dok-shin, who defected to the North in 1986 with

his wife after political disputes with then-South Korean President Park Chung-hee. He died in 1989.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry said Choe was in North Korea without special permission from the Seoul government to visit the North.

The two Koreas, split along the world’s most heavily fortified border for about 70 years, bar their citizens from visiting each other’s territory and exchanging phone calls, letters or emails without special permissions.

Since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, more than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea to avoid political repression and economic poverty, but it’s highly unusual for South Koreans to go to North

Korea to resettle.

Before his death, the senior Choe held high-level posts in North Korea such as vice chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, an agency dealing with relations with South Korea, and head of the Chondoist Chongu Party, a political group affiliated with a Korean native religion called Chondo.

His wife, Ryu Mi Yong, had also taken up a slew of high-profile jobs, including being a member of the presidium of the North’s rubber-stamp parliament and chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party.

When she died at the age of 95 in 2016, a public funeral was organised and her body was buried along with her hus-

band’s at Pyongyang’s Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery.

According to South Korea’s Unification Ministry, Choe Inguk was allowed to make 12 authorised trips to North Korea since 2001 for events like visiting his parents’ cemetery and attending a death anniversary for his mother.

It wasn’t immediately known how he went to North Korea, but South Korean media speculated he flew from Beijing with a North Korean government-issued visa.

Before his latest trip to North Korea, Choe was a member of a Chondo church in South Korea and was engaged in inter-Korean engagement movements, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported, citing an unidentified church official.

Smoking on Netflix radar Netflix bosses have promised to cut back on smoking scenes in their films and series after an anti-tobacco group named the streaming service one of the worst offenders of nicotine use onscreen. Truth Initiative researchers have released a new study that lists shows like Stranger Things, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Orange Is the New Black, feature more tobacco use than most shows.

Netflix officials have responded by stating they recognise that smoking is “harmful” and “when portrayed positively on screen can adversely influence young people”.

China detains Australian resident Bus crash kills 29 in India AP

A detained Chinese-Australian writer’s wife has been refused permission to leave China six months after her husband was taken into custody, their lawyer said on Monday.

Yang Hengjun, a 53-year-old visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and a former Chinese diplomat, has been detained since January 19, when he arrived with his wife, Xiaoliang Yuan, and his 14-year-old stepdaughter.

Yuan, an Australian resident, had been prevented from flying to Australia from Beijing airport on Thursday, Australian lawyer Rob Stary said.

“There’s an exit ban on her leaving. She was escorted to a hotel and

interrogated for a couple of hours but is not formally in detention,” Stary said.

China in January said Yang had been detained for allegedly “endangering China’s national security”.

Yuan and her daughter have been living with relatives in China since he was detained.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne yesterday released a statement on Yang’s case, but did not comment on his wife’s plight.

Stary said Australia should be doing more to get Yuan and her child out of China, despite them being Chinese and not Australian citizens.

Australia had abrogated its responsibility to an Australian resident by failing to persuade China to let Yuan leave after six months, Stary said.

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A speeding bus smashed through the boundary wall of an expressway bridge and plunged into a drain in northern India early Monday, killing at least 29 people on board, an official said.

Most passengers were sleeping when the accident occurred on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh state, said government spokesman Awanish Awasthi.

The bus was on its way to New Delhi from Lucknow, the state capital.

Awasthi said 18 injured passengers have been

hospitalised with six of them in serious condition.

The cause of the crash is being investigated, he said.

“The bus was speeding and the driver probably dozed off,” District Magistrate N G Ravi Kumar told reporters.

He didn’t know whether the driver was among the dead.

India has the world’s deadliest roads, with about 150,000 killed and 470,000 injured annually.

Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and aging vehicles.

Axe for Home and Away?

Home and Away began broadcasting back in 1988 but after 31 years on screen, is the Australian soap getting axed?

TV Blackbox reports that the show’s future might be in jeopardy due to falling viewership numbers in the show’s current 7pm slot on Australia’s Channel 7. According to the website, people are switching off Channel 7 in their droves between the news at 6pm and the beginning of Home and Away an hour later. On Monday night, 7News had an audience of 1.115 million in the 6.30pm timeslot, by 7pm that audience had shrunk to 661k, one example given by TV Blackbox stated.

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Sidelines conduct has to improve A

six-month ban handed down at a Mid Canterbury Rugby judicial hearing last week should serve as a stark reminder to everyone who stands on the sidelines of sporting fields around the district that there is no place for abuse.

The particular incident has been dealt with and doesn’t need to be brought back into the public spotlight, however more information can be found in Saturday’s edition of the Guardian, but let’s take an overall approach to this and wonder, out loud, whether we can all do a little bit better when it comes to how we behave when standing on the sideline at a sporting fixture.

I can put my hand on my heart

and state without fear of being wrong that I could go to any game of rugby, netball, football or pretty much any sport being played in Mid Canterbury over the course of the weekend and if I listened in to every conversation had and every comment made that there would be numerous occasions where derogatory, or in some cases, violent

remarks are pointed towards an official in charge of the fixture.

And where does it come from?

Passion and raw emotion.

Subconsciously we are all guilty of it from time to time, we get too worked up in what’s unfolding in front of us and when things aren’t going the way we want it to the easy way to let off a bit of steam is to direct comments towards a referee or official.

It’s coming from a genuine place of frustration, but the bottom line is that we shouldn’t be saying anything at all.

All of those who stand out in the middle and officiate sporting matches in this district are there as volunteers, largely because

their passion for the chosen sport is as strong as those standing on the sideline and they choose to give back by way of their time.

Yes, from time to time the wrong decision might be made and without the luxury of being able to go to the video ref to clarify whether it was actually a try or a goal or anything similar sometimes those decisions are going to have an impact on a match – but you can rest assured that everyone out there controlling a sporting match is doing the absolute best they can with the situation they have in front of them.

Last week’s judicial hearing got me thinking about my own behaviour at times on the sidelines.

I’m a pretty passionate person when it comes to sport and will put my hand up and say that I’ve said things in the heat of the moment that I regret.

But I’m going to try to be a lot better in that respect from now on.

Actually, it doesn’t take too much to stop and think about it all.

We can all be a little bit better in that respect – and ultimately then we probably become much better people.

With knockout stages of local winter sports fast approaching, emotions will be at their maximum, but let’s try and be a little more respectful and enjoy sport for what it is.

Ten years ago: The Group of Eight industrialised nations opened their summit in L’Aquila, Italy, to Group of Five developing countries Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, as well as Egypt. The Dutch government turned over dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad’s ambassador.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama began a two-day visit to Texas, where he met with state officials, including Gov. Rick Perry, to discuss the influx of unaccompanied children at the

US-Mexico border.

One year ago: Starbucks announced that it would eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, citing the environmental threat to oceans. Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to new sexual assault charges involving a third woman.

Today’s birthdays: Actor-singer Ed Ames is 92. Actor James Hampton is 83. Actor Brian Dennehy is 81. Actor Richard Roundtree is 77. Singer Dee Dee Kenniebrew is 74. Author Dean

Koontz is 74. Actor Chris Cooper is 68. Country singer David Ball is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer Debbie Sledge is 65. Actor Jimmy Smits is 64. Actress Lisa Banes is 64. Actor Tom Hanks is 63. Singer Marc Almond is 62. Actress Kelly McGillis is 62. Rock singer Jim Kerr is 60.

Actress-rock singer Courtney Love is 55. Rock musician Frank Bello is 54. Actor David O’Hara is 54. Actress Pamela Adlon is 53. Rock musician Xavier Muriel is 51. Actor Scott Grimes is 48.

Actor Enrique Murciano is 46.

Rock singer-musician Isaac Brock is 44. Musician/producer Jack White is 44. Rock musician Dan Estrin is 43. Actor-director Fred Savage is 43. Actress Linda Park is 41. Actress Megan Parlen is 39.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Kiely Williams is 33. Actor Mitchel Musso is 28. Actress Georgie Henley is 24.

Thought for today: “If writers were good business men, they’d have too much sense to be writers.” — Irvin S. Cobb, American humourist (1876-1944).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, July 9, the 190th day of 2019. There are 175 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: In 1755, British General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded as his troops suffered a massive defeat during the French and Indian War (he died four days later).

On this date: In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.

In 1816, Argentina declared independence from Spain.

In 1918, 101 people were killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tennessee. The Distinguished Service Cross was established by an Act of Congress.

In 1947, the engagement of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.

In 1962, pop artist Andy Warhol’s exhibit of 32 paintings of Campbell’s soup cans opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

In 1974, former US Chief Justice Earl Warren died in Washington at age 83.

In 1982, Pan Am Flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, killing all 145 people aboard and eight people on the ground.

In 1986, Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde’s private member’s bill, which removed criminal sanctions against consensual male homosexual practices, was passed by 49 votes to 44.

In 1995, Jerry Garcia performed for the final time as frontman of the Grateful Dead during a concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field (Garcia died a month later).

In 2001, a divided court in Chile ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental condition, a ruling that effectively brought the 85-yearold former dictator’s legal troubles to an end.

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ere’s my message to those who work the land: Please keep sharing the great work you do on the farm and in your communities.

We know you do the work and it’s so good, everyone else should see it too.

I know a lot of you feel you are the whipping boys of late, with the Government’s proposed changes being debated all the time.

You can’t escape it – if you want to read the newspapers or news sites, or have a discussion at a sporting event, everyone is an expert, especially those who have never spent a day on a farm, or at least not since their childhood.

These people who ‘know it all’ have never taken the time to investigate the huge changes, investment and innovation already well under way in the agriculture sector.

All the Federated Farmers members I talk to are quick to point this out to me, and proudly so.

One to keep focused on is that we lead the world in meat and milk production efficiency by most measures, including some of the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of product.

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We lead the world in meat and milk production efficiency by most measures, including some of the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of product. gaged in community catchment groups, too, working with their communities to achieve great outcomes on water quality and biodiversity protection.

The only ones missing from all this work and engagement are the antagonists who like giving us the verbal, but their words don’t match their work effort.

Their political attacks on us are aimed at driving a wedge between farmers and their city friends.

We must remember this is a political attack by a minority. It’s not the wider community, as we all know there are many issues we

all must take hold of.

While many of you won’t believe it, there are more good news farming stories in the mainstream and rural media than bad.

It’s just that we are tuned to look for the bad ones.

It’s a bit like hitting each other when you see a ‘rare’ yellow car – who knew there were so many!

So keep focused on the good news stories and you’ll be heartened by what they are and how many exist.

When I read the newspapers or look at social media, I see our members proudly showing off their hard work, such as a

QEII National Trust covenant or fencing off and planting their waterways.

Leadership is about looking at the issues, finding solutions and doing the work.

That’s what Feds does well.

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Come on council, demonstrate some common sense.

The intention to relocate the water feature is nonsense.

Careful consideration was given at the time for the best site and nothing has changed. It has given much pleasure to our community, along with visitors – the location is spot on.

Council staff believe it could be relocated for approximately $4050,000. They are just dreaming.

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ers. More importantly, it would be a backward step.

I am pleased designer, Iain Trousdell has spoken up about it.

Thank you, Iain.

Consultation has changed, as I recall Iain presented his thoughts, options and then asked councillors for their ideas and input into developing an appropriate sculpture that would display the geographic physical make-up of our Ashburton District.

The three rivers coming down the Southern Alps, the foothills, onto the plains and the sea. I re-

call the end product received total support from council. It was quite exciting.

The concept was to capture the importance of water to our district and the geographical and social environment to our economy.

At the time the council, along with the railway was closing the railway crossings on Burnett Street and Tancred Street which received considerable criticism, but was necessary for future traffic management in this area.

It was also timely to develop the chessboard at the Burnett Street

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crossing. This site has served as an important venue for many functions and meetings over the years.

Its location is strategic and I sincerely hope the council do not dig it up and cart it away.

Finally, the water feature badly needs some maintenance. It is looking a bit scruffy.

The flax is too dominant and overgrown, the cutty grass is also and agapanthus, which in some districts is classified a noxious plant.

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Wrapping up national fieldays Mid Canterbury people who attended the national fieldays this year were among 128,747 visitors and 1067 exhibitors at the country’s biggest annual agricultural show.

The official fieldays app was downloaded 42,394 times and visitors came from more than 30 countries. Exhibitors came from 11 different countries.

New Zealand National Fieldays Society CEO Peter Nation said the society was very serious about staging a platform that educated and supported those within the industry while attracting opportunities for trade with international visitors.

Around 25,000 people came through the Fieldays health and wellbeing hub where some important conversations were had around all aspects of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social health and wellbeing.

People were encouraged to get moles checked, have sugar levels tested, general health inspected and to reach out and touch base with friends, family and neigh-

An aerial view of the fieldays’ event site shows its size. bours who may be isolated in rural communities and could do with a chat.

Northland boy Lewis Nichols

won the title of Fieldays Rural Catch, impressing judges and sponsors with his skills in several of the challenges. While he

Cropping farmers urged to vote Mid Canterbury cropping farmers are being urged to cast their vote to renew a compulsory insurance scheme that pays out farmers whose wheat crops are ruined by disasters like hail and fire.

The scheme is operated by United Wheatgrowers and chairman Brian Leadley said growers voted in a referendum every six years on its renewal.

The Mid Canterbury farmer said the scheme covered about 1000 wheat growers around the country but one-third of them lived in the Ashburton district.

The disaster relief insurance

currently provided wheatgrowers $225 per tonne cover, through an insurance agent, at a levy rate of $3.75 per tonne. Farmers pay no excess on claims.

Leadley said farmers had until 12 noon on Thursday, July 11, to vote and should have received voting papers. Those who had lost their papers or not received them should ring 0800 666 028.

He said the levy provided important cover for growers to remain financially able to farm if their wheat crops were destroyed by a disaster like a hail storm, fire or frost.

“It is a good cover for wheatgrowers. It is to provide support for growers and for them to remain viable in the event of a disaster. We are encouraging everyone to get out and vote by Thursday.”

He said voter turnout was variable, but Mid Canterbury included some of the larger commercial growers and he hoped they would exercise their right to vote.

The scheme did not provide full cover, but covered the costs of production with a unique range of perils and conditions offered, he said.

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Some 54 innovations were introduced into the market or developed further as part of the Fieldays Innovation Awards which saw some creative ideas focused on strengthening the future of our primary industry. Winners included a platform that finds a solution to finding seasonal workers, a packing and delivery system for intramammary treatments and sealants, a fence post made from 100 per cent recycled plastics and a water flow indicator.

Eight of the country’s best chefs including Peter Gordon, Claire Turnbull, Ray McVinnie and Brett McGregor shared their vast knowledge and experience with visitors to the Fieldays Kitchen Theatre inspiring meal ideas and inciting a passion for using the local produce our primary industry creates.

Other Fieldays staples, including fencing, tractor pulls, agricultural heritage, excavators, and timber sports competitions, provided plenty of entertainment.

Average maize season The maize grain harvest is almost complete in Mid Canterbury as growers rely on Mother Nature for some natural drying towards the end of the season.

Mid Canterbury farmer Randal Hanrahan said it had been an average season in terms of yield for the crop on his farm, with the grain sold on and the residue used to feed his beef cattle.

“We still have a reasonable amount standing but that will likely be harvested in another month,” he said.

The annual national survey of maize growers reported average

yields of maize grain (10.9t/ha) and maize silage (21.3t drymatter/ha) for the 2019 season were similar to last season.

At June 1, almost 80 per cent of the grain harvest was complete on the 102 farms surveyed.

The estimated total tonnage of 195,400 tonnes was similar to last season too. About 92 per cent of the total crop had been sold.

The maize silage harvest was up 8 per cent compared to last season’s harvest, as the result of a slightly higher yield from a slightly higher harvest.

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By Guy Trafford The issue of deception is starting to raise its head with New Zealand primary export industries.

The only recent example (that I’m aware of) to reach the level where it has gone to prosecution has been the case of the adulterated manuka honey.

The company, Evergreen Life Ltd, has been in the news as far back as 2016 for a food recall for similar incursions into adding illegal substances to honey to increase its value.

The lack of any substantial fine obviously encouraged them to persist with the profitable approach, however, after getting substantial proof from a whistle-blower this time Evergreen Life ended up in the law courts, were found guilty and ,unfortunately from their perspective, had a judge who, correctly, took a very dim view of the practice and fined the company and manager a total of $370,000.

All (honest) producers and processors of our primary products will have welcomed the court’s response which is certainly not out of balance.

New Zealand products receive a premium internationally for the very fact that they are produced in a safe and healthy environment and processors have to jump through all sorts of hoops to satisfy regulatory bodies which, in turn, reassures our export markets.

The costs involved can only be justified by receiving premiums, so this prosecution has to be seen as a timely warning to those yet to be caught.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of rumours of other exporters of New Zealand Pure products who are exploiting New Zealand’s reputation and supposedly importing products from overseas at cheaper prices than the same products can be obtained locally, and then, with very little transformation, re-exporting to markets prepared to pay a premium for New Zealand branded products.

These practices, as occurred with the honey case, put our respective industries at risk and must be outed.

MPI in this case got a good result, no doubt as a result of good evidence from the whistleblower. However, I’m aware of others where they have been alerted to possible fraudulent activities, but they have chosen not to follow them up.

They have the powers to go onto sites and request information of where product is coming from, which the average Kiwi does not and so we rely upon them to be more pro-active in their approach.

New Zealand has enough threats to its export markets from outside of the country without having to contend with threats from within.

Deception has also been in the news for other reasons.

Hell Pizza’s just completed a new special with burger pizzas. The catch (or deception) was it was made with Impossible Burgers, ie the plant-based burger.

Judging by some television reactions not everyone appreciated being used as guinea pigs for Hell Pizza’s benefit.

It is not as though the Beyond Meat Burger is a benign food as it contains far more additives than conventional meat burgers and at least one source (www.cookinglight.com) considers them distinctly unhealthy.

Another source, healthline.com, which is a little more agnostic, does highlight the fact that several of the additives are genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).

Given that many of those who select the plant-based foods over natural (real) meats are doing so for health, as well as environmental, reasons, this knowledge may not go down well.

Completing the masquerade that accompanies this particular product the Impossible Burger company requires (at least in the USA) supermarkets that wish to stock it, and there is no denying it is gaining in popularity, must display it on the meat shelves.

This deception of products continues across the plant based milk ranges.

Why a country that relies upon the repu-

tation of its food products to stand unchallenged with milk beggars belief.

Back in 2017 the EU passed regulations saying that vegan-alternative dairy products cannot be sold using dairy names such as butter, cheese and milk and, presumably, ice creams and yoghurt.

The New Zealand government seems reluctant to go down this path and in a Stuff article last year Food Safety Minister Damien O’Connor said it would be a big challenge to change the labelling.

“I can understand the concern and share their passion to protect the integrity of milk, but we’ve had alternative products like soy milk in the marketplace for a long time.

“Ultimately we’ve got to brand our products as from New Zealand and from systems that deliver the nutrition consumers expect, backed by sound animal welfare, environmental and labour systems,” O’Connor said.

Come on minister ‘a big challenge’, how difficult can it be?

An area of concern is that it is becoming increasingly obvious that these products are not as good a source of nutrients and vitamins as the real product and if people are providing these to children, in the belief they are providing a complete diet, they are sadly wrong.

It is also now revealed that environmentally New Zealand-based pasture milk products have a smaller footprint and water demand.

Surprisingly, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, which oversees labelling, said it had not been asked to consider any changes to the Food Standards Code.

Surprisingly because there have been plenty of headlines on both sides of the Tasman calling for just that. Perhaps there is another agenda afoot here?

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Dairy The latest Global Dairy Trade results did nothing to assuage the feeling that international dairy trade is sitting on the fence and not sure which way to jump.

Although the fall was only 0.4 per cent it is the fourth drop in succession.

The positives are that whole milk powder managed to remain unchanged (actually there was a small fall from $US3006 to $US2969) however there have been seven drops in a row and the current price is almost identical to where it was 12 months ago.

The actual main features of the GDT are; butter down 4.8 per cent, skim milk powder up 3.2 per cent no doubt on the back that the EU has now cleared its backlog, and cheddar cheese down 1.5 per cent.

Westpac have come back to the pack with their forecasts and have reduced their Fonterra farmgate price from $7.20 to $6.90.

Given that globally there is a lot of uncertainty around trade compliments of Trump and China it is perhaps fortunate that the GDT price has held up reasonably well.

Sheep The schedules had small moves again in the right direction with mutton heading off lamb in the increases this week.

The stronger schedule prices continue to lift saleyard prices along with a growing scarcity of livestock. Top finished lambs achieved $220 at Coalgate last week with prime ewes getting up to $207 as the dry ewes from scanning are coming out.

Wool No sale last week as the season has taken a pause between the old and new seasons.

Cattle Schedules lifted for most grades of cattle, be them at modest levels.

Limited numbers of cattle coming through yards at the moment made assessing sales difficult and on stock sold there is a drop despite the schedule. However, on small numbers not too much should be read into this.

Venison Despite the optimism mentioned last week the venison schedule actually fell this week.

Despite the earlier positive rhetoric, the lack of much life in the venison trade should be starting to sound some alarm bells. But we’ve been wrong before.

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Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 116.44 17.5 kg YX SI 131.47 19.0 kg YX SI 142.74 21.0 kg YX SI 157.76 Local trade (c/kg) SI 770 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 113.61 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 514.0 (270-295kg) P Cow SI 388 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 474 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 550 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 443 AP Stag 60kg SI 537 AP Stag 80kg SI 716

Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 421 420 Wheat, feed 421 420 Barley, feed 402 405

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The commission said in a statement that the Commerce Act banned price fixing and agreements that parties “would not compete at auctions or on tenders” – commonly known as “bid rigging”.

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In-market prices for logs in China – New Zealand’s largest export market – have fallen in recent weeks and ANZ Bank warns the drop will make the harvest of some woodlots unprofitable.

While some price softening is not unusual at this time of year as construction activity slows in the hot months, “the scale of the correction was unexpected,” ANZ agriculture economist Susan Kilsby said.

The price of an A-grade log landed in China has fallen from $US130/JAS cubic-metre in early June to approximately $US105/JAS cubic-metre.

“The current price level is difficult to quantify as the market has been moving rapidly downwards and in this environment, buyers are unwilling to commit to pricing,” she adds.

While some exporters are optimistic the bottom may have been reached “this seems unlikely given the quantity of logs sitting on wharves in China is expected to increase,” Kilsby said.

A number of ships are sitting on the water destined for China without letters of credit. Sales are typically negotiated on a cost and freight basis where the buyer is responsible for the freight costs. This means for a portion of the logs on the water, the sales process has not been completed, she says.

Logs and timber products are the country’s third-largest export after dairy products and meat and were worth almost $5.47 billion in the year ended May, according to Stats NZ data. That was 11 per cent more than a year earlier.

A lift in the supply of logs and lumber into China relative to current demand is the main reason log prices have corrected, Kilsby said.

The quantity of logs that have been imported into China in recent months is more than normal. New Zealand has steadily increased its share of the China log market in recent years to become the largest supplier of logs to China.

New Zealand’s exports this year to date have lifted by 22 per cent. An extra 1.35 million cubic metres of logs were exported from New Zealand during the first five months of 2019 – equivalent to about one additional month of supply.

The quantity of logs sitting on wharves in China has lifted to about twice the normal level. While that is not unusual for this time of year, Kilsby said the figure is likely to grow due to the volume of logs

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currently on the water.

Kilsby said harvesting activity is slowing in New Zealand as a result of the lower returns. Some harvesting crews have been laid off while others are having volume restrictions placed on them.

The drop in harvesting is expected to primarily occur in the smaller woodlots due to the one-off nature of this revenue. The larger forest owners are more likely to continue harvesting as lower returns from the current spot market will be offset in some cases by contracts already in place, and will be more readily absorbed due to receiving continuous revenue from harvesting.

She said, however, any slowing of felling activity will help the oversupply situation and therefore will assist the China market to recover, or at the least reduce further price falls.

A substantial improvement in prices is not likely to occur in the short-term and it may take six months for a marked lift in price, as existing stocks need to be worked through and buyer confidence needs to rebuild.

Kilsby also says diverting a portion of the logs destined for China to other markets would also be beneficial. The quantity of raw logs exported to markets other than China has fallen away in recent years. This is primarily due to these markets not being able to match the prices being offered by Chinese buyers.

“The drop in pricing may now help other markets be more competitive. But it will still be a challenge to divert a significant volume of logs into other markets given that China currently accounts for approximately 80 percent of all the logs exported from New Zealand,” she said.

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members on how to acquire and improve investment properties in Auckland. By March 2018, Ronovation had over 400 paid members.

“The Commission alleges that Ronovation developed rules in September 2011 to govern the conduct of members, including rules that prevented Ronovation members from competing for properties.

“The Commission alleges the rules, which applied between September 2011 and September 2018,

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es, and give vendors false names when making repeat offers.

The Commerce Commission launched its own investigation after Labour’s then consumer affairs spokesman Michael Wood lodged a formal complaint about Fong’s tactics.

In a statement yesterday it confirmed legal action had now been launched against the company.

“Ronovation (trading as Ronovationz) was set up in April 2009 and conducted business advising

conduct and is prohibited.”

The Commission and Ronovation had entered into a settlement to resolve the proceedings, and a penalty hearing would be scheduled in due course.

“As this case is before the court, the Commission cannot comment further at this time.”

Fong had previously denied exploiting people and blamed real estate agents for advertising properties with “motivated sellers” or “divorcees looking to sell up urgent”.

After media revealed the contents of Fong’s tutoring videos in 2017, businesses pulled sponsorship arrangements with the APIA in droves.

ANZ said it was “appalled” by the tactics being advocated, which did not align with the bank’s core values.

APIA president Andrew Bruce issued a public apology “for any offence” the video may have caused and his organisation immediately withdrew it.

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A company owned by a property investment guru who allegedly encouraged buyers to use fake names, work in packs to drive down prices and target desperate homeowners facing foreclosure is being prosecuted by the Commerce Commission.

The commission has filed High Court proceedings against Ronovation Limited for alleged price fixing in Auckland’s residential real estate market.

The move follows a media investigation into property investment coach Ron Hoy Fong.

The investigation revealed a tutoring video by Fong was being supplied free to members of the Auckland Property Investors Association (APIA).

It encouraged investors to look for the “seven Ds” – targeting deceased estates, desperate homeowners facing foreclosure, developers on the brink of bankruptcy, divorcees and dummies who didn’t know the value of their home.

The video also advised people to work in packs to drive down pric-

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q Gold

London – $US/ounce

1,388.65 –26.25 –1.86%

q Silver London – $US/ounce

15.21

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–0.46%

q Copper London – $US/tonne

5,857.0

–43.0

–0.73%

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Source: BNZ

Country

As at 4pm July 8, 2019

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0.9334 0.8521 4.2714 0.5791 1.3453 0.5207 70.50 1.5862 9.229 19.74 0.6532

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 - In roman numerals, which number is represented as CC? a. 2 b. 200 c. 2,000,000 2 - Which plant is sometimes known as the sword lily? a. Gladioli b. Iris c. Hyacinth 3 - Which country’s flag features two green triangles, two black triangles and a yellow cross? a. Jamaica b. Mexico c. Peru 4. In which year was the first motor race meeting organised in New Zealand? a. 1900 b. 1905 c. 1910 5 - Time After Time and True Colours were hit records for which singer? a. Madonna b. Cyndi Lauper c. Annie Lennox 6 - In the visible spectrum of colours, which has the longest wavelength? a. Red b. Yellow c. Violet 7 - Which actor played the title role in the film The Talented Mr Ripley? a. Matt Damon b. Jude Law c. Tom Hanks 8 - What nationality was tennis player Gustavo Kuerten? a. Russian b. Brazilian c. American

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QUICK RECIPE

Chocolate peanut butter raw slice 1/2 C regular dates 2T dark cocoa powder 1C almonds, roasted 25g coconut oil, melted 30g dark chocolate (70 per cent or more cocoa), chopped 100g peanut butter 4T maple syrup Decent pinch of sea salt 1C desiccated coconut Sauce topping 1T peanut butter 2T maple syrup Cacao nibs to garnish ■■ Put dates into a bowl and cover with boiling water. Allow to soak for 20 minutes, then drain and squeeze out any excess moisture.

■■ Blitz cocoa powder and roasted almonds, add dates and blitz again. Press the mixture in an even 1cm layer of a 10cm x 15cm tin. Don’t worry if it doesn’t cover the entire base. Refrigerate.

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■■ In a small saucepan, melt the coconut oil, then add the chocolate. Cover with a tea towel and leave for 10 minutes before whisking together.

■■ In a food processor, add the peanut butter, maple syrup and salt. Add the melted chocolate mixture and desiccated coconut.

Combine, being careful not to over mix.

■■ Spoon over the firmed base and smooth with the spoon.

■■ For the topping, melt the peanut butter and maple syrup together. Drizzle over the slice. Sprinkle on the cacao nibs to garnish. Refrigerate.

■■ Slice into small squares and eat up!

Recipe courtesy of www.countdown.co.nz

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The art of making do

By Kathleen Stringer

T

he current exhibition on at Ashburton Museum is called Make, Do and Mend.

It promotes the idea of recycling and reusing items in clever ways.

Today these principles are part of a philosophy of reducing waste to save the planet.

In the past, however, people made, mended or reused items because it made economic sense.

Often there wasn’t an alternative to repairing items. You made do, did or went without.

Often when we think of such thrifty characteristics as reusing, we imagine our parents or grandparents who lived through the depression or wartime. When we were planning our exhibition that was what we thought of at first too.

People who had limited access to materials and goods or little money in times of difficulty learnt to make and do, and then carried on those habits when things became better. But these principles often give rise to resourcefulness and ingenuity, which are characteristics that we, as a nation, are very proud of.

New country, new ideas New countries give new opportunities, and right from our country’s beginning people have had to be adaptable, by changing old ways of doing things to suit their new environment.

Polynesians were used to working with materials that didn’t exist here in Aotearoa. Paper mulberry, for example, simply couldn’t survive here, so Maori had to make do with flax.

Learning about Maori material culture you can’t help but be amazed by how, over a relatively short period of time, they found uses for local materials – plants, stones and woods – that they had never seen before.

This allowed Maori to not only develop new forms of art and architecture but more importantly, survive in a colder climate.

When the first Europeans came to New Zealand, many relied heavily on Maori people and knowledge.

For example, the first settlers in Dunedin arrived in March and had no time to plant crops before winter. Without the help of Otakau Maori, my ancestors, and many others, would have starved.

Even when European communities set up their own economies people still had to make and do.

Ships may have come to a port infrequently and goods were sold at a premium, so people had to make a lot of their own utensils and repair things as they broke.

Being so far away from everything instigated the Kiwi can-do attitude, where people made things out of other things to give them what they needed.

Repairing items became a

praiseworthy skill. Shoe lasts were used to repair boots, people darned socks or cut down clothes for children. Mending could be quite inventive and creative.

If one looks at Victorian clothing you often see many alterations as people got bigger, or garments became stained or ripped. Lace collars and panels of contrast fabric down the front of skirts or bodices are ingenuous ways of mending and making-do which sometimes become the highlight of the item of clothing.

Home grown When the depression hit in the 1920s and 1930s many people were already used to making and doing.

Adversity can bring rewards and benefits. For example, a number of New Zealand potteries, such as Crown Lynn and Temuka pottery, owe their success to the fact that during World War Two ceramics weren’t coming from England as they used to.

Here in Ashburton, petrol restrictions meant carrying companies could only travel short distances which threatened their viability. However, a number of small companies banded together and distributed jobs amongst themselves – giving rise to the lucrative business known as Mid Canterbury Transport.

Mid Canterbury is full of examples of people who made a business by turning a negative situation into a profitable one.

In the post-war economic boom, making, doing, mending or generally scrimping became seen as a miserly, negative trait.

However, many of us still make and do if we have a goal we wish to achieve. As a child I’d walk home instead of catching the bus from school to save my bus money to buy things that I wanted.

Others may mend something

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that is special to them, such as an item of clothing made by someone special or those shoes that are so comfy.

Now, of course, saving the environment is as important as saving one’s money, so mending and recycling have become quite fashionable.

However, some skills have been lost through time, so our exhibition will be exploring ways Ashburton people have used the principles of Make, Do and Mend to upcycle items.

We hope you will come to visit and also share what tips you may have.

1. While neither mending nor making-do, part of the philosophy is using resources efficiently. No better example can be the electric tractor, developed right here in Ashburton. With so much surplus power why not electrify tractors?

2. The best of both ideas – homemade soap was a cost saver and used all manner of odd leftovers, such as animal fat and wood ash.

3. A common Sunday afternoon activity was darning socks and jerseys. Now, with cheap synthetic clothes, darning is becoming a forgotten skill. This mushroom -shaped object is a wooden darning tool to hold the hole flat while mending.

4. William Morris once said, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”. But sometimes you can have both, here a bag used for holding light coloured wool when knitting has been embroidered.

Have any questions?

Material for this page is co-ordinated by the Ashburton Museum. Articles from other organisations are welcomed, as is any feedback on what appears.

Email museum@adc.govt.nz mail to Ashburton Museum, PO Box 94, Ashburton 7740 or phone 307-7891.

Copies of many of the photos on this page are available for purchase from the Ashburton Museum

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RESULTS ■■ Bowls Allenton Winter Bowls July 3 5th Round Bishop Plate 1st M. Palmer, T. Johnson & M. Watson 2 wins, 1 draw, 20 ends & 36 points, 2nd B. Hopwood, B. Molloy & B. Beck 2 wins, 1 draw, 19 ends & 30 points, 3rd M. Quinn, S. Holdom & J. May 2 wins, 16 ends & 32 points July 6 5th Round Aussie Pairs 1st B. & L. Osborne 3 wins, 11 ends & 32 points, 2nd B. & S. Holdom 2 wins, 1 draw, 15 ends & 30 points, 3rd G. Clarke & J. Mitchell 2 wins, 1 draw, 12 ends & 22 points July 7 Temuka inter-club visit A very enjoyable day with Allenton winning back the cup.

■■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club July 1 Individual & Walker Trophies N/S 1st Bruce & Heather Sim, 2nd Debbie Seddon-Sewell & Colin Clemens, 3rd Bruce Leighton & George Brown E/W 1st Maryke Blignault & Sheila Lyons, 2nd Fiona Williamson & Ruth Logan, 3rd John & Margaret Rickard July 2 Ron Sutherland Trophy N/S 1st Peter Downward & John McDonald, 2nd Mary Buckland & Judith Edmond, 3rd Pat Jordan & Audrey Rooney E/W 1st Bill Kolkman & Mike Holmes, 2nd Rewa Kyle & John Fechney, 3rd Jeanette Lovett & Carolyn King July 3 Individual Ladder 1st Mary Buckland & Rosemary McLaughlin, 2nd Trish & Peter Downward, 3rd Kay Robb & John Fechney July 4 Smith Trophy N/S 1st Mary Buckland & Rosemary McLaughlin, 2nd Pauline Fergus & John McDonald, 3rd Maree Moore & Linda Baker E/W 1st Anne Reid & Trish Small, 2nd John Fechney & Jim Rooney, 3rd Rewa Kyle & Kay Robb July 5 Waireka Tournament

N/S 1st Rosemary McLaughlin & Rewa Kyle, 2nd Perry Jowers & Pat Jordan, 3rd Jim Rooney & John Fechney E/W 1st Peter & Trish Downward, 2nd Sue Rosevear & Anne Reid, 3rd Kay Robb & Carolyn King

July 6 22 Riders. 16km out and home Handicap 1st Tim Craig CT.34.07. HT. 5.30m. RT. 28m 37s. 2nd Andy Skinner C T. 34.97. HT. 5.30m.

RT. 28m 37s. 3rd Don Morrison CT.34.08.

HT. 5.30m. RT. 28m 38s. 4th Nick Grijns CT. 34.19. HT.7.20m. RT. 26m 59s. 5th Roger Wilson CT. 34.23. HT. 7.20m. RT. 27m 03s. 6th John Uden CT.34.27. HT.7.20m. RT. 27m 07s.

7th Doug Coley CT.34.27. HT. 7.20m. RT. 27m 07s.8th Kerry Clough CT.34.28. HT. 4.00m.

RT. 30m 28s. 9th Paul Macfie CT. 34.35. HT. 8.00m. RT. 26m 35s. 4f/t. 10th Simon Chapman CT. 34.35. HT. 8.00m. RT. 26m 35s. 5f/t.

11th Brian Ellis CT.35.13. HT. 5.30m. RT. 29m 43s. 12th Colin Teahan (Tim) CT. 35.14. HT. 5.30m. RT. 29m 44s. 13th Liz Wylie CT. 35.14.

HT. 4.00m. RT.31m 14s. 14th Tony Ward CT. 35.15. HT. 10.30m. RT. 24m 45s F/T. 15th Brent Hudson CT.35.16. HT.4.00m RT. 31m 16s. 16th Allan Johns CT. 35.17. HT. 1.00m. RT. 34m 17s. 17th Michael Gallagher CT.35.19. HT. 10.30m RT. 24m 49s. 2f/t. 18th Rob Hooper CT. 35.20. HT. 10.30m. RT.24m 50s. 3f/t.

19th Debbie Skinner CT.35.36. HT. 4.00m. RT. 31m 36s. 20th Janette Hooper CT.37.29. HT. 4.00m. RT. 33m 29s. 21st Nigel Chatterton CT.38.03. HT. 5.30m. RT. 32m 33s. 22nd Merv Grewar CT. 38.04. HT. Go. RT. 38m 04s.

6th Tuis: Robyn Maw 40, Jan Lane 37, Sharon Burrell-Smith 36, Gail Limbrick 36 Best Scores: Robyn Maw 89-20-69, Jan Lane 94-22-72 Aqua Japanese Restaurant Best Nett of Day: Robyn Maw 69 Nearest the Pins: #17 Open Methven Pharmacy Jane Helmore, #4 Open Arabica Heather Middleton, #6 Br B & Open Cinema Paradiso Sandra Marr, #13 Open Methven Foursquare Jan Lane, #14 Sil&BrA (2nd Shot) Supervalue Jenny Senior, #13 Sat Girls Methven Travel Robyn Maw Two’s and Nett Eagles: Heather Santy. Robyn Maw. Pam Watson. Sally Jones. Bev Isherwood.

July 6 Men’s Division Medal Round, Blue tees, 4th round club champs qualifying, 5th round Callaghan trophy.

Senior: Piers Rolton 77-7-70. Intermediate: Rod Carson 90-16-74. Junior A: Jim Lattimore. Junior B: Alan Smith 103-30-73.

Other Good Scores: 70 Max Ferris. 72 Bruce Dickson. 73 Pete Wood, Gary Foy, Eric Meaclem. 74 Ben Rutter. 75 Graham Gunn, Russell Currie Two’s: Max Ferris, Gary Foy, Tim Robinson, James Anderson.

Dubliner Best Nett: Jim Lattimore 69. Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Max Ferris By lot. Methven Travel Best Gross Piers Rolton Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Michael Kemp. Hunters Wine No 6: Ben Rutter. Ski Time No 13: James Anderson. Green Parrot No 17: Tim Robinson.

Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: James Anderson.

Next Week July 13: Istas

■■ Golf

Rakaia Golf Club

■■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers

Ashburton Golf Club

July 13 The finals of the President’s Trophy and Plate match play will be held. For those not in the match play a Par round will be held.

Number 1 Tee 12.00 Vince Carr v Paddy Bradford; Alan White v Chris Robertson Starting Times: Morning start at 8.30am; Afternoon report at 11.30 for a 12pm start Nine hole golfers report at 12.30 for a 1pm start

July 4 9 Hole Golf Winners of the Stroke round were: Joy Nicholas 31, Gail Gutsell 32, Peter Stechman 33 July 6 Presidents Trophy semi final Vince Carr defeated Brayden Wood and Paddy Bradford defeated Paul Greer.

In the Plate: Alan White defeated George Brown and Chris Robertson defeated Ken Clucas.

The Radius Care Player of the Day was Darren Peace 84-19=65nett.

Other winning scores: Matt Tait and Dave Hewitt 68; Don McQuarters, Barry Jury and Shane Beavan 69; Tom Blacklow, Stewart Dunlop, Ian Rive and Guildford Lane 70; John Richards, Bevan Wilson, Terry Kingsbury and Hamish Niles 71.

Twos: Paul MacFie, Dave Hewitt, John Richards, Peter Walker and Barry Jury.

Nearest The Pins: Braided Rivers: Jeff Hewitt; Rothbury Insurance: Peter Walker; Value Plus Processing: Tom Blacklow; South Island Seeds: Perry Hunt: Property Brokers #6: Jeff Hewitt Charming Thai Longest Putt: Stewart Dunlop; Tinwald Tavern Spot Prize: Stewart Dunlop.

Birdy Jackpot: #16, Net Eagles Jackpot: #15 Harvey Bakehouse Nine Hole Stroke round Winner: Peter Stetchman 34nett.

Other good scores: Gordon Clinton 35, Dick Hansen 36, Gavin Johnson 36 on c/b

■■ Rugby

Mayfield Golf Club

DRAWS ■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club

Mid Canterbury Rugby July 13 Senior Watters Cup - Semi Final Rakaia v Southern Rakaia: 1, 2.30pm Matt Gallagher, Kevin Opele, Kalifa Faalogo, Pete McKnight, Mike Southby Senior B Centennial Mug Rakaia v Southern Rakaia: 1, 12.45pm Simon Bennett, Pete McKnight, Mike Southby Methven v Collegiate Methven: 1, 2.30pm Joc O’Connor, Charlie Kelland, Jeremy Robinson Combined Colts (Playoffs) Celtic v Waihora Celtic: 1, 1pm Hamish Grant Southern v Darfield, Rakaia: 3, 12.30pm Greg Jopson Rakaia/Methven v Lincoln, Rakaia: 2, 1.00pm Phill Everest UC Championship No Rugby - School Holiday Under 18 No Rugby - School Holiday Under 16 Combined Comp No Rugby - School Holiday Under 14.5 Combined Comp No Rugby School Holiday ACL - Under 13 – Under 6 No Rugby - School Holiday JAB Tournament Methven 10am.

July 14 JAB Tournament Methven 10am.

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Men’s Division Mid-week stableford competition Steve Schmack 39, Wayne Vessey 38 July 4 9 Hole division Handicap and putting Ladies 1st T Gallagher 57:20:37, 18 putts, 2nd C Hogan-Wright 67:29:38, J Schmack 19 putts Men 1st J Greenslade 57:18:39, 21 putts Nearest the Pins: Greg Sim Building and Excavating 2nd Shot No. 2 – B Morrison, Mayfield Transport No 5 – J Greenslade July 6 President v Captain Trophy; President won 4½3½ Nearest the Pins: No 2 Aon Insurance: Murray Keir, No 11 Jon McAuliffe Bayleys: Steve King, No 5 Marilyn Cross Property Brokers: Harley Davies, No 14 ANZ Bank: Dave Morrow 9&18 second shot: Kerry Reid Twos: Harley Davies Rosehope Rommey Player of the Day: Charlie Rapsey

Methven Golf Club July 3 Ladies Division

July 3 Ladies Division LGU – Bryant Cup – Championship Qualifying Val Sisson 100 – 30 – 70, Tina Pearce 95 – 23 – 72, Sally Smith 105 – 29 – 76 9 Hole Stroke – Putting Lillian OHanlon 59 – 20 – 39 Val Bell 18 Putts Railway Hotel 2nd Shot No 3 Teresa Booker, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd Shot No 6 Teresa Booker, Val Bell Nearest the Pin No 8 Not Struck, Chertsey Spraying 2nd Shot No 15 Sandra Quinn, S. Quinn 2nd Shot No 17 Jill Burrowes

Tinwald Golf Club July 6 Stroke Leading scores in the stroke for the 3rd round the Alan Teale Memorial Trophy: – 0-12; Poko Paraia 71, Alex Roa 74 c/b. 1318; Nick Wilson 70, Pete Marshall 72 b/l.19 Plus; Arthur Pawsey 72, Mark Williams 73.

Women; Elizabeth Collins 75, Leen Bell 79 c/b. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Neil Connelly. Gluyas Ford # 6; Struan Scott.

House of Travel # 12; Pete Marshall. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Gary Lee. G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Gary Lee. Two’s; Ross Preece, Poko Paraia, Randall Feutz, Pete Marshall, Gary Lee. Net Eagle; # 15 not struck.

Finalists of the RSA Trophy are Raui Tare, Ray Wards, and in the cup section, Andrew Barrie, Neil Rayner.

■■ Squash Celtic Squash Club July 1 Team 6 lost to Team 2 7-16: Billy Nolan lost to John McDonnell 2-3, Ron Carlson beat James McCloy 3-1, Melissa Wilson beat Brendon Clark 3-0, Hamish Trott beat Shad Katipa 3-0, Kate Williams lost to Jan Lee 1-3.

Team 4 lost to Team 1 7-16: Kevin Milne lost to Nick Marshall 0-3, Mick Hooper lost to Harry Stanway 2-3, Ian Dolden lost to Julie Smith 0-3, Chris Lima lost to Rob Giles 1-3, Robbie Kok lost to Sam Kuipers 1-3, Hayden Robinson beat Guy Stanway 3-1.

July 3 Team 7 drew with Team 8 11-11: Chris O’Reilly lost to Jason Feutz 1-3, Jimmy Hunn beat Pete Blacklow 3-0, Nathan Forbes beat Jordy Hooper 3-0, Shane Muckle beat Reece Wallington 3-2, Michelle Boleyn lost to Charlotte Smith 1-3, Jane Kingan lost to Guy Stanway 0-3.

Team 5 lost to Team 3 5-14: Ed Harrison beat Ben Kruger 3-2, Steve Devereux lost to Chris Thompson 1-3, Neil Keenan lost to Rob Giles 0-3, Amy Muckle lost to Rebecca Abernethy 0-3, Hamish O’Reilly lost to Julian Syme 1-3.

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■■TENNIS

Barty eyes big bucks NZME Australian Ash Barty has been cheekily sneaking Disney lines in her press conferences at Wimbledon – and if she was to pick a soundtrack for her stunning new tennis reality it would have to be A Whole New World.

Barty’s incredible rise from outside the world’s top 600 players a few years ago to her lofty position atop the sport’s summit has captured the imagination of all tennis fans – including Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

“The way she wins and represents us is just so terrific,” Morrison tweeted on Sunday.

“Proud as.”

But it’s only going to get better.

Set to play America’s Alison Riske in the fourth round at tennis’s showpiece event last night, Barty’s star is set to soar higher than Aladdin’s magic carpet.

Barty’s breakthrough French Open win netted her $3.7 million and rocketed her inside the top 50 biggest earners in tennis history with career prize money of $14.8 million.

Backing up at Wimbledon – which hands $4.2 million to its singles champs – would see her soar inside the top 30.

Sam Stosur, with more than $26 million in career earnings, is the only Australian woman ahead of Barty on the list, ranked 19th all-time. Lleyton Hewitt, at just shy of $30 million, is the only Aussie men’s player with more.

The tennis gods have been smiling on the 23-year-old from Ipswich in Queensland after she initially appeared to have been handed a brutal Wimbledon draw.

Positioned in a section described by veteran New York Times tennis scribe Christopher Clarey as one of the “craziest, nastiest grand slam quarters in the open era”, Barty is still yet to face a seeded player.

After negotiating a tricky first-up match against world number 43 Saisai Zheng, Barty has enjoyed a dream run.

Instead of facing two-time grand slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova in round two, she played Alison Van Uytvanck.

A predicted third-round clash against another two-time major winner Garbine Muguruza also didn’t eventuate when she was knocked out early and Barty ended up facing British wildcard Harriet Dart.

The seeds in Barty’s path continued to fall before she reached them as looming fourth round opponent Belinda Bencic – seeded 13 – was knocked out by Riske.

Ash Barty It means Zheng remains the highest ranked opponent Barty will have faced before potentially meeting Serena Williams in the quarters.

That match-up would be the biggest women’s encounter featuring an Aussie on Wimbledon’s centre court in decades.

And if Barty won?

Close the voting for Australian of the Year.

Like her path to the quarters, Barty’s chances of hanging on to the world number one ranking have also benefited from the early exits of her main rivals.

World No 2 Naomi Osaka – while no grass court favourite – was a shock loser in the first round, while No 4 Kiki Bertens (third round) and No 5 Angelique Kerber (second round) also fell fast.

It leaves Karolina Pliskova as the only player capable of stealing top spot from Barty at this tournament – but it remains unlikely.

Pliskova needs to win her fourth round match against Karolina Muchova to better her result from last year and begin growing her current points total of 6055.

Barty has already improved on her total of 6495 points because she only made it to the third round at the All England Club in 2018.

Both women have benefited from upsets on their sides of the draw.

Sixth seed Petra Kvitova is the highest-ranked player remaining in Barty’s half, while seventh seed Simona Halep appears to be the biggest hurdle between Pliskova and the final appearance she needs to even have a chance of passing the Aussie.

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Kiwi duo strike gold

Rep spots going on the line Trials for Mid Canterbury’s primary hockey teams were held on Sunday, and among those putting their hand up for selection was Lucy Hood. The girls were trialing for the Mid Canterbury team to go to the Collier Trophy tournament, which is being held in Wellington in October, while the boys were trialing for the Hatch Cup side to attend that national tournament in Palmerston North at the same time. Primary B sides to take part in Festival of Hockey tournaments would also be selected.

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Robertson the man with the moves AP Another Super Rugby season is over and once again the Crusaders are crowned champions.

As eyes turn to the Rugby Championship and the World Cup, here are some things we learned from the 21-week season featuring teams from New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, South Africa and Japan.

Robertson’s moves

Scott Robertson can coach ... but dance?

Robertson has made a strong case for inclusion in any coaching group which takes over when New Zealand All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen steps down after the World Cup. Robertson has guided the Christchurch-based Crusaders to the Super Rugby title in each of his three years in charge.

He has celebrated each of those victories by break-dancing on the pitch ... which only goes to show he’s better at planning moves than busting them.

Robertson also won three Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders as a player.

The 44-year-old Robertson breaks the mould of New Zea-

land coaches who are often poker-faced and taciturn.

A surfer with a mane of blonde hair, Robertson lets his emotions hang out in the coaching box.

The next All Blacks coach?

Maybe.

The next winner of Dancing With the Stars?

Not likely.

Jaguares locked in

Argentina’s Jaguares showed this season they belong in Super Rugby.

They struggled in their first three years to cope with the tournament’s unique travel demands, and with injuries.

But under new coach Gonzalo Quesada they developed an efficient and enterprising style which carried them to the final for the first time.

Quesada said the Jaguares should be proud of their achievements, and the 19-3 loss in the final was not a reflection of the difference between the two teams.

The critics say the Jaguares are more-or-less a national team playing in a provincial competition, but it would be impossible for Argentina to sustain a Super Rugby team if it couldn’t call on its best players.

Rugby down under

Super Rugby took the temperature of Australian rugby and found it not in the best of health.

Again, only one Australian team – the Canberra-based Brumbies – qualified for the playoffs.

The other three franchises didn’t make the top 10.

That follows an international season in which the Wallabies lost nine tests.

And there’s no reason for optimism that these are short-term problems.

Meanwhile, the other football codes in Australia continue to grow and prosper, squeezing rugby’s television ratings and its sponsorships.

Oh, TMO

TMO = Too Much Officiating.

The interventions by Television Match Officials in decision-making, often without being called on and frequently to no good purpose – have been one of the hot talking points of the season.

TMOs are meant to be heard from only when the on-field referee and assistants need help to reach a decision, most-often in determining whether a try has been scored.

But this season TMOs just couldn’t keep out of the conversation.

Their interjections were constant.

Fans despaired as scoring plays were too frequently subjected to minute and unnecessary review.

To make matters worse, the TMOs were prone to making errors.

World Cup time

As an appetiser to this year’s World Cup, the Super Rugby was just right – not too overpowering, just enough to whet the palate.

As hopes of a global rugby season fade away, Super Rugby remains the best provincial rugby competition in the world, graced by many of the world’s best players.

Super Rugby is unique among all sporting competitions, played over 18 conference rounds – before playoffs – across four continents and almost a dozen time zones.

Now to see players like Matias Orlando, Emiliano Boffelli, Pablo Matera, Beauden Barrett, Rieko Ioane, Cheslin Kolbe, Siya Kolisi, Marika Koroibete, Will Genia, Yu Tamura and Kotaro Matsushima in action at the World Cup.

Sam Osborne and Samantha Kingsford from New Zealand captured the XTERRA Victoria offroad triathlon elite titles in British Columbia, Canada yesterday with winning times of 2:03:27 and 2:27:26, respectively.

It’s the 11th career XTERRA World Tour win for Osborne, his fourth this season, and third in a row on the Pan Am Tour.

It’s the third career major title for Kingsford, her second this season.

In the men’s elite race Osborne led from wire-to-wire after posting the fastest swim, the second-best bike split behind the reigning XTERRA Pan Am Champion Josiah Middaugh, and then the fastest run.

“If you look at the splits it was wire-to-wire, but trust me, that one really hurt today,” said Osborne.

“I really didn’t want to ride with anyone on this technical bike course, so I put the hammer down straight away after the swim and managed to get rid of Karsten (Madsen).

“I was riding at my limit the whole time, and just dug really deep on the bike to try to keep away from Josiah.”

Middaugh was one minute back out of the swim and then pulled to within about 50 seconds of Osborne heading into the bike-torun transition.

“I had a good swim, about one-minute down from Sam and we rode pretty even on the bike,” said Middaugh.

“I saw him heading out of transition from the bike to run as I was heading in, but Sam was running strong today and unfortunately put some more time on me on the run.”

Osborne saw Middaugh coming in from the bike, and said, “One-minute was not enough of a lead on Josiah, he’s not a guy you can play tactically with, so I ran on the limit the whole time.

“My legs felt incredible on the run, probably the best run I put together this year.”

Karsten Madsen was the top Canadian in third, with Branden Rakita in fourth and Will Ross in fifth.

“Everyone knows how famous BC is for mountain biking and it was cool to race on those trails,” said Osborne.

“It has been a bucket place list since I was kid to ride here.

“It’s a lot like Rotorua, except there is no rock in Rotorua and there is a ton of rock on this race course.

“Still, no crashes today, and I even nailed some of the pieces I was trying to get right.

“All in all, this is one of the best courses I’ve ever raced on.

“Lots of power climbs, super punchy stuff, and real proper technical riding on the bike. Lots of roots and rocks on the run as well so you have to be quick and agile or you could really come undone.

It’s a real XTERRA, that rewards not just the strongest, but also the most skilled athlete, and to me that is what the sport is all about.”

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■■ FOOTBALL

Winning run comes to an end

Youngsters notch impressive win Mid Canterbury United’s 13th grade football side picked up a big win at the Ashburton Domain on Saturday morning. The young team hosted Christchurch side Nomads United AFC 13s in the Mainland Football 13th grade division one competition and won 10-1. The Mid Canterbury side is now sitting in fourth spot on the competition ladder with seven games gone.

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Mid Canterbury United have dropped to second on the Mainland Football division one leaderboard after suffering their first loss of the season on Saturday.

The 2-1 loss in what was a topof-the-table clash against the Halswell United 1964s in Christchurch brought to an end a pretty impressive winning streak which began last year, when the Mid Canterbury side earned promotion to division one thanks to finishing last season unbeaten and taking out the division two title.

Up until Saturday, a draw earlier in the season had been Mid Canterbury United’s only blemish on their record this season, and while disappointed to now have a mark in the loss column, Mid Canterbury United are still in a strong position.

The 1964s are now top of the table on 36 points, with Mid Canterbury United second on 34 points.

It wasn’t a great day for Mid Canterbury United’s division five team, either, as they also headed up to Christchurch and came home with a loss to their names.

They went down 4-3 to Universities AFC Lincoln.

Meanwhile, the Methven FC Seniors had a better day, picking up a 3-0 win over the Coastal Spirit D3s which meant that the Methven side were still top of the division three table.

Methven FC’s Reserves in the division six competition were in action in Christchurch and came away with a 5-all draw with the Universities AFC Burgundy Beavers.

■■BASKETBALL

Steven Adams ‘untradeable’ NZME The crazy NBA off season got crazier in the weekend when finals MVP Kawhi Leonard announced he was signing with the Los Angles Clippers along with fellow All-Star Paul George who was part of a blockbuster trade to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Having just led the Toronto Raptors to their maiden title in his first and now only season in Canada, Leonard and George instantly make the Clippers one of the favourites to win next season’s NBA championship, while the Thunder are left to consider a total rebuild.

George agreed to a four-year, US$137m max contract with the Thunder just last July as Oklahoma City secured a second star to play alongside 2017 MVP Russell Westbrook for the long term.

But with George demanding a trade just one year into that deal there are suggestions the Thunder may also part with Westbrook,

leaving Kiwi Steven Adams’ side in a total rebuilding phase.

After two seasons together Westbrook and George failed to get the Thunder out of the first round of the playoffs, while the team’s salary cap sheet was looking to be over the luxury gap limit for the second year in a row. They received five first-round picks and multiple pick swaps from the Clippers in the trade for George which gives Thunder boss Sam Presti a strong incentive to look to the future.

In the Bill Simmons podcast, Sports Illustrated writer Chris Mannix said that Adams was offered other teams in the last few weeks but was ‘untradeable’.

The Kiwi signed a four-year $100m deal with the Thunder two years ago and is owed more than $53m over the next two seasons.

“I think this was the all-time get out of jail free card.

“That roster was going nowhere,” Simmons said about the Thunder.

“Steven Adams was available

two weeks ago as you know,” the basketball pundit added.

“Untradeable. Untradeable at this point,” Mannix replied.

Simmons and Mannix suggested that the Miami Heat, Orlando Magic or New York Knicks could be possible destinations for Westbrook.

Meanwhile the deal bringing Kevin Durant to Brooklyn is official, and he’s changing his number along with his address.

The Nets completed a signand-trade with the Golden State Warriors yesterday, with Brooklyn landing Durant and a protected first-round pick in next year’s draft for D’Angelo Russell, Shabazz Napier and Treveon Graham.

Durant said last week he would sign a max deal with Brooklyn, which would be $141 million over four years, after three seasons with the Warriors.

The rest of the deal was worked out over several subsequent days, and the NBA officials signed off

on the terms yesterday.

“Along with the rest of the league, our coaching staff has long admired Kevin’s incredible skill, resilience and tenacity,” Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said.

“He has already established himself as a champion and one of the best players of all-time, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome him into our programme in Brooklyn.”

Durant isn’t expected to play at all next season while he recovers from an Achilles injury.

When he does return to join a new-look Nets team that added Kyrie Irving as well this summer, he’ll wear No. 7 – after playing in No. 35 throughout his career.

Durant released a statement saying he wore 35 to honour someone “very near and dear” to him.

“But as I start this new chapter in my basketball life, the number I’ll be wearing on my back is the Number 7 next time you see me on the floor,” Durant said.

Steven Adams

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■■CRICKET

World Cup - what we learned

AP

After five weeks, 45 games and a large dollop of rain, the Cricket World Cup has finally reached the semi-final stage with India, Australia, England and New Zealand still in with a chance of lifting the trophy at Lord’s on July 14.

Here’s what we have learned so far:

Flip of a coin

Skipper Kane Williamson has been a superstar for the Black Caps at this World Cup, but will need some serious support in the batting line-up if they are to get close to the Indians tonight.

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■■CRICKET

NZ massive underdogs

By Niall Anderson It was all looking so good for the Black Caps through their first six games, sitting snugly at the top of the Cup ladder with an unbeaten record.

Then the really difficult games arrived.

Losses to Pakistan, Australia and England left the Black Caps having to rely on net run rate to make the semi-finals, and while it was always going to require a miracle for them to miss out, it’s hardly the type of form they’d like to be carrying into their biggest game in four years.

It’s a run that doesn’t bode well for their chances, either.

On 16 occasions a team has come into the knockout stage of the World Cup off the back of a loss – and none of those sides won the World Cup. Add in the fact that no side has ever gone into the knockout stage on the back of three consecutive losses, and the Black Caps will have to be the first side in World Cup history to overcome a pre-knockout loss – and a historic streak of losses at that.

The Black Caps have been relatively lucky with injuries.

While Tim Southee and Henry Nicholls missed the first few games, they weren’t certain starters, and other than that, only Lockie Ferguson – out against England with a tight hamstring – has been forced to miss any action.

Compare that to the rest of the semi-finalists, and the Black Caps can have few complaints.

Australia have had Shaun Marsh and Usman Khawaja ruled out of the tournament and Marcus Stoinis in doubt, India had standout opener Shikhar Dhawan ruled out at an early stage, and England went several games without a crucial part of their gameplan, opener Jason Roy. The Black Caps should have a fit and healthy 15 to pick from, with Ferguson giving himself the all clear to play.

“There was definitely some tightness, particularly the day before the game.

“With the playoff coming up and it happening the day before, it was more of a precaution than anything and the scans came back with nothing too serious,” Ferguson said.

There’s been no problem with the bowling attack, who have given up 300 runs only once this tournament, and provided plenty of opportunities, largely thanks to the pace attack of Trent Boult and Lockie Ferguson.

The seam bowling all-rounders – Jimmy Neesham and Colin de Grandhomme – have both had match-winning moments and performed well, while Kane Williamson has, unsurprisingly, been one of the stars of the tournament with the bat.

Unfortunately for New Zealand, Williamson’s two centuries – in back-to-back games – are

the only centuries the team have mustered.

Ross Taylor has been solid without finding the spectacular form he’s shown the past few years, but the Black Caps openers have been the worst at the World Cup, and Tom Latham only managed to pass 15 for the first time all tournament when he struck 57 against England.

If one of Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls or Latham can notch a big score in the semi-final, it would go a long way to patching over what has been a disappointing World Cup for the Black Caps batsmen.

India are a familiar opponent for the Black Caps, but not at World Cups, where they haven’t played them since 2003.

Their group stage showdown was washed out, meaning to look for any insights, you have to instead scrutinise the ODI series this summer, where India cruised to a 4-1 victory, without Jasprit Bumrah and with Virat Kohli only playing three games.

The Black Caps’ challenge?

Facing the number one ODI side, featuring the number one ODI bowler (Bumrah), number one ODI batsman (Kohli), and, oh, Rohit Sharma, who has only smacked a record five centuries at this World Cup. This is before we even get to the Indian spinners, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal, who combined for 17 wickets in the New Zealand series, or seam-

er Mohammed Shami, who has already taken a hat-trick at this World Cup, or some bloke named MS Dhoni.

Old Trafford in Manchester, which has been the go-to ground if you’ve wanted to see runs scored at this Cricket World Cup, is where this semi-final will be played out.

Batting first has proven to be the winning formula, with scores of 336-5, 397-6, 291-8, 268-7 and 325-6 seeing all five sides who batted first claim victory.

A new pitch is being prepared for the semi-final, and Black Caps coach Gary Stead believes whoever bats first will need to score 300 to have a good chance at progressing to the final.

“It’s a good cricket surface out there and has been right throughout the tournament.

“If you look at scores at Old Trafford you’re looking at somewhere around 300 as probably about par. No doubt about it – you’re going to have to score that many.”

The weather could also play a part, with a chance of drizzle and the forecast set to worsen for the reserve day on Wednesday. If the game does happen to be washed out India would advance as the higher qualifier.

The Black Caps are at $3.50 to beat India and massive outsiders compared to the other three teams left standing, being installed at $10 to win the World Cup.

It’s a simple equation: Win toss, bat first, win match.

OK, that might be pushing it too far but the advantage of winning the toss at this World Cup has been mighty, leading some frustrated onlookers to claim the title might be decided by who wins the flip of a coin 30 minutes before the semifinals and final.

Maybe it’s tournament pressure.

But few teams have liked to chase this World Cup, especially in the second half of the group stage when even England has chosen to bat first.

The English needed to win their last two group games to secure a semi-final spot. They won the toss both times, batted both times, and won both times. Expect them to do the same against Australia on Thursday if they get the chance.

Tiebreaker change?

You had to feel for Pakistan.

The net run-rate tiebreaker proved the team’s undoing, largely because of that heavy seven-wicket beating by West Indies in their first match. Pakistan finished tied with New Zealand but was behind on run rate, 0.175 vs. -0.43.

Using net run-rate as the tiebreaker has often led to teams playing negatively in the final overs of matches, even at the expense of going for victory. All to preserve those tiny NRR fractions.

It is hardly conducive to exciting, attacking cricket that fans want to see. The ICC might want to look at something like head-to-head between teams level on points if they have the same number of wins.

Scoring and records

We were promised record-breaking scores – remember those predictions that 500 would be passed for the first time this World Cup? – but they haven’t materialised.

Indeed, no team has even made 400. England came closest with 397-6 against Afghanistan at Old Trafford when Eoin Morgan smashed a world-record 17 sixes.

In general, though, the scoring has been higher than previous World Cups and records are being, or will be, broken.

Rohit Sharma has struck an unprecedented five centuries and is on 647 runs for this World Cup, 26 off the record for a single edition held by fellow Indian Sachin Tendulkar.

Flops

South Africa came in with a solid all-round team. West Indies was the dangerous outsider. Rashid Khan was the Afghanistan allrounder set to announce himself on a global stage. All flopped.

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■■TRAINING SUCCESS

■■MAIDEN WIN

Million-dollar milestone

Whites get it just right

John and Karen Parsons were caught by surprise with the latest milestone in their training careers.

When Sitarist, a Road To Rock mare part-owned by Karen Parsons, won the open 2200m at Ashburton last Wednesday she took the prizemoney tally for the Balcairn-based couple beyond $1 million for the season.

It’s just the second time the Parsons have eclipsed the $1 million barrier.

The previous occasion was in the 2012-13 season when the star of their stable Final Touch picked up three Group One wins – the Captain Cook Stakes (1600m), the Telegraph (1200m) and the Waikato Draught Sprint – and went on to land the New Zealand Champion Sprinter Award.

A phone call from their friend, Levin trainer Sylvia Kay, alerted them to their $1 million achievement.

“Sylvia rang to congratulate us and that’s the first we realised we’d done it,” Karen Parsons said.

“It was a real surprise because when we did it last time we had Final Touch going and good horses like her to take north for the bigger races. But this season we haven’t had those sort of horses to travel so we’ve done it from just racing around the South Island.”

One of the rare trips north was to Te Aroha last winter with the jumper Delacroix, who won and also ran third in the Waikato Hunt Cup Steeplechase (4250m).

“We’ve had a nice enough team this season, but had no real standouts like Final Touch,” Parsons said.

“I suppose Kiwi Ida and Residential have been the best of them, but they’ve done all their

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Sitarist in winning form at Ashburton. racing down this way.”

Kiwi Ida, a last-start winner at Wingatui in late May, took her record to 10 wins this season and was responsible for one of the Parsons’ two black type wins when taking the Gr.3 Canterbury Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton last November.

The other black type victory came via the recently retired Residential in the Gr.3 South Island Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton last March.

The Parsons achieved a personal record of seven Group or Listed races during the 2012-13 season when their prizemoney tally reached $1,127,453, and this term they are eight wins short of their best tally of 60 wins, registered in 2015-16.

But they don’t have the firepower in action at present to be confident of setting a new win-

ning tally, though they are sure to better their prizemoney figure of $1,007,133.

“It’s a quieter time for us at the moment,” Parsons said.

“We’ve got a skeleton staff with some off on holidays and horses out spelling or just coming back into work.

“We like to keep our maximum to 30 in work and we’ll soon be back to full strength.”

The Parsons don’t have as much ammunition as most leading stables, but are once again in the top 10 on the New Zealand Trainers’ Premiership which is dominated by northern trainers.

They are currently sitting in seventh position, three behind Michael and Matthew Pitman, the other South Islanders in the top dozen.

Like many older trainers, the couple has at times pondered on

how much longer they will continue training, especially as both have encountered health issues.

But a look over the young horses in the paddocks, along with their team for the upcoming season, and thoughts of retirement are soon put on the backburner.

“We’re both feeling well at the moment and we’ve got probably the most promising team we’ve had for a while,” Parsons said.

“We’ve got some cracking yearlings. I’m excited about what we’ve got to work with.”

While Kiwi Ida and Pippi Rea (unbeaten in his last five starts) are still enjoying a spell, Johnny Jones, Letsbringiton and Shezatoucha are among the capable gallopers back in work and former northerner Camino Rocoso is progressing well.

Parsons is also optimistic over the prospects of Final Touch’s oldest foal, rising four-year-old Final Savings, a winner and multiple placegetter.

“He’s coming up fantastic,” she said.

“He’s strengthened and we know he’s got the ability. He could be at his best this time round.

“I still believe Touchabeel, his younger sister, will make the grade, too. She’s been just a bit weak like he has been.”

Parsons also has high hopes for Final Touch’s youngest foal, a rising two-year-old colt by Pins, and is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Final Touch’s latest foal by Sweynesse.

“We’re not going to put Final Touch back in foal this year,” she said. “We’re doing that with all our mares, breeding them just every second season.

“I’ve given away 11 broodmares, but still have half a dozen.

That’s plenty for us.”

By Jonny Turner Husband and wife training duo David and Stacey White (nee Markham) added to what has already been a huge year for them when scoring their first training success with Far From True at Rangiora on Sunday.

The trotting victory, which came with David in the sulky, came less than four months after the couple were married.

Far From True clinched the maiden win for the Whites’ training partnership by capping her consistent form with a gritty passing lane win.

“It sure is a good thrill to get that first one out of the way, she has been close a couple of times,” David said.

The victory was not only their first in partnership, but also the first for David and Stacey, individually.

Though it was their maiden win as trainers, the couple could hardly be ranked as newbies to training or racetrack success.

Stacey is well known through her current role as the sales, marketing and media manager at Woodlands Stud and her prior work at Harness Racing New Zealand.

She has enjoyed prior success as an owner and David has been a regular in the winner’s circle as a driver since moving to Canterbury from Australia in 2015.

David who also works as a farrier and a farm manager, paid tribute to his wife after Far From True’s win as she does most of the training with the horse.

“Stacey does most of the work with this one – she is her little pet,” David said. “It is great that she can be rewarded with the horse going so well.”

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C1, 545m 1 75435 Flying Canary nwtd....................J McInerney 2 34322 Goldstar Alaska 33.38 S &...............B Evans 3 84447 Homebush Izzy 33.01................J McInerney 4 213 Our Anna nwtd.................................R Wales 5 55511 Opawa Nat nwtd..............................R Wales 6 81273 Sefton Joy 33.16..............................R Wales 7 52725 Trajan nwtd.................................J McInerney 8 42431 Eddie Hemi 32.57............................R Wales 9 74254 M’Lady Sadie nwtd..................... A Bradshaw 10 67826 Dave’s Dot 32.22........................J McInerney 5 1.10 GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C2, 310m 1 38451 Opawa Hypo nwtd............................R Wales 2 11481 Special As 19.23 J M....................... McCook 3 25351 Know Approval 18.75......................G Cleeve 4 82848 Cosmic Richie 18.49..................J McInerney 5 82531 Taramakau 18.79.......................J McInerney 6 11548 Goldstar Shiloah nwtd S &...............B Evans 7 48333 Nikko Baxter 18.71.....................J McInerney 8 52544 Miss Dupre nwtd...........................D Roberts 9 14478 Gracie Lee nwtd.........................J McInerney 10 75158 Mick The Mower 18.78...............J McInerney 6 1.27pm ST KILDA VETERINARY CENTRE SPRINT C2, 310m 1 62163 Citizen Aguero nwtd...................J McInerney 2 56851 Jitterbug Jewel 19.05....................C Roberts 3 8x637 Mitcham Doug 19.07..................J McInerney 4 77412 Cosmic Jase 18.43....................J McInerney 5 84511 Know Cause nwtd...........................G Cleeve 6 35234 Goldstar Galaxie nwtd S &...............B Evans 7 61272 Chasing Great 18.77..........................S Keen 8 75632 Shanly Star 19.04......................J McInerney 9 26654 Yi Feng nwtd..............................J McInerney 10 37186 Avalanch City 18.80...................J McInerney 7 1.45pm BRIAN BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING STKS C2, 545m 1 65176 Dyna Elliot nwtd............................C Roberts 2 3x111 Our Jolene nwtd...............................R Wales 3 47546 Cosmic Ruben nwtd...................J McInerney

4 36547 Opawa Silver 32.62..........................R Wales 5 73165 Know Conclusion 32.66..................G Cleeve 6 31247 Happy Days 32.85..........................R Adcock 7 64168 Chunk 32.86...............................J McInerney 8 45522 Thrilling Watch nwtd......................D Roberts Emergencies: 9 43758 Cosmic Stu 32.65.......................J McInerney 10 86886 Goldstar Scooby nwtd S &...............B Evans 8 2.04 GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C3, 310m 1 14373 Justin Ryan 18.51 S &.....................B Evans 2 46661 Black Bobby 18.70......................... B Conner 3 47221 Inside Affair nwtd...............................J Dunn 4 16537 Opawa Waihemo 18.63....................R Wales 5 77213 Kalonga 19.08 S &...........................B Evans 6 25234 Know Logic 18.85...........................G Cleeve 7 12122 Opawa Lacy 18.59 J &.....................D Fahey 8 37121 Astro Tipple nwtd....................D J MacMillan 9 61348 Homebush Comet 18.69............J McInerney 10 33448 Doomsday nwtd.........................J McInerney 9 2.22pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C5, 310m 1 24648 Hankenstein 18.48..................... A Bradshaw 2 45334 Wildebeest 18.35....................... A Bradshaw 3 11281 Country Gent nwtd..................... A Bradshaw 4 34723 Goldstar Trooper 18.41 S &..............B Evans 5 41161 Platinum Paisley nwtd........................J Dunn 6 42332 Hands Of Steel 18.88.....................R Adcock 7 12622 Business Ethics 18.51........................J Dunn 8 23816 Ketchikan Kim 18.35..........................J Dunn 9 26173 Astrid 18.26........................................J Dunn 10 12618 Black Rounder nwtd...........................J Dunn 10 2.41pm ALL FENCING SOLUTIONS STAKES C3, 545m 1 38736 Know Shame 32.45.........................G Cleeve 2 47323 Know Denying 32.73.......................G Cleeve 3 15627 Goldstar Marvely 32.79 S &.............B Evans 4 83258 Zefside nwtd...............................J McInerney 5 36633 Classy Witch 32.54.........................G Cleeve 6 17317 Opawa Sweet 33.02 J &...................D Fahey 7 76634 Joe Bonanza 32.36....................J McInerney 8 43243 Shift The Blame 32.60................J McInerney

9 42156 Cawbourne Taber nwtd.................C Roberts 10 33355 Cawbourne Taylor nwtd.................M Roberts 11 2.57 NZ NATIONALS MIDDLE DISTANCE QUALIFYING HEATS C5, 545m 1 44158 Bahama Queen nwtd.........................J Dunn 2 56222 Goldstar Ashton 32.81 S &..............B Evans 3 25171 Must Be Rusty 32.41..................J McInerney 4 72551 Kia Tere nwtd S &.............................B Evans 5 34115 Know Refusal 32.57........................G Cleeve 6 13157 Malaga Molly 32.56....................J McInerney 7 11113 Opawa Hop nwtd J &.......................D Fahey 8 63473 Egomaniacal 32.35.......................D Roberts 9 17548 Know Betrayal 32.72.......................G Cleeve 10 52374 Mr. Matt 33.07 J &............................D Fahey 12 3.18pm OGRC LATE QUADDIE C4, 310m 1 17848 Forehand Raid 18.95.........................J Dunn 2 75636 Goldstar Dodge 18.72 S &...............B Evans 3 56213 Mitcham Reado 18.52................J McInerney 4 66424 Nelso Allen nwtd...........................C Roberts 5 81874 Magic Jess Lass 18.40...................C Healey 6 88836 Homebush Boots 18.87.............J McInerney 7 38382 Nozzno Fear 18.44.................... A Bradshaw 8 35718 Nippa Martino 18.53..................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 73642 Princely Gold 18.31....................J McInerney 10 83371 Raptor Attack 18.94................... A Bradshaw 13 3.38pm PETER SINTON PLUMBING SPRINT C1, 310m 1 87582 Elsa Blueblood 19.21.................J McInerney 2 78613 Lucy Lingers 18.81.....................J McInerney 3 75633 Nippa Eel 18.86.........................J McInerney 4 34322 Goldstar Diesel 18.91 S &................B Evans 5 2111 Sozin’s Empire 18.45.................J McInerney 6 43133 Pacemaker nwtd........................A Bradshaw 7 2164 Homebush Rapper 18.75...........J McInerney 8 65362 Cosmic Ryder nwtd....................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 52228 Goldstar Bryton 18.94 S &...............B Evans 10 67826 Dave’s Dot 18.66........................J McInerney 14 3.56pm FORBURY NOVICE SPRINT C1, 310m

1 131 Punters Bolt nwtd.............................R Wales 2 15 Homebush Sayer nwtd...............J McInerney 3 87567 Magic Jean Lass nwtd....................C Healey 4 4F313 Sozin’s Azure nwtd.....................J McInerney 5 85362 Pretty Keen 19.04..............................S Keen 6 871 Sozin’s Onyx nwtd......................J McInerney 7 13823 Inky Dinky Jewel nwtd...................C Roberts 8 12 Amuri Liv nwtd...........................J McInerney 9 42126 Machine Gunn nwtd.......................R Adcock 10 46374 Baldrick 19.36............................J McInerney 15 4.13pm RACING AGAIN SUNDAY 14 JULY C1, 310m 1 74452 Jealous Much 18.80...................J McInerney 2 14771 Goldstar Halsey nwtd S &................B Evans 3 86684 My Girl Sofia nwtd...........................B Healey 4 41473 Opawa Slick nwtd.............................R Wales 5 53342 Elton Blueblood nwtd.................J McInerney 6 11214 Sozin’s Symphony 18.92............J McInerney 7 88862 Homebush Scorpio 18.41..........J McInerney 8 74523 Nippa Enough nwtd....................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 77825 Homebush Flynn nwtd...............J McInerney 10 47436 Sefton Jay 19.09........................J McInerney SELECTIONS Race 1: Amuri Magic, Amuri George, Sefton Double, Lucky Scar Race 2: Homebush Rehaina, Gorm The Great, Koputai Race 3: Our Cook, Opawa Lola, Opawa Oscar, Goldstar Vale Race 4: Opawa Nat, Eddie Hemi, Our Anna, Flying Canary Race 5: Opawa Hypo, Cosmic Richie, Nikko Baxter, Miss Dupre Race 6: Shanly Star, Citizen Aguero, Cosmic Jase, Mitcham Doug Race 7: Our Jolene, Happy Days, Opawa Silver, Thrilling Watch Race 8: Inside Affair, Know Logic, Opawa Waihemo Race 9: Business Ethics, Astrid, Ketchikan Kim, Wildebeest Race 10: Opawa Sweet, Classy Witch, Shift The Blame Race 11: Opawa Hop, Egomaniacal, Know Refusal, Must Be Rusty Race 12: Nelso Allen, Mitcham Reado, Nozzno Fear, Goldstar Dodge Race 13: Lucy Lingers, Homebush Rapper, Goldstar Diesel Race 14: Punters Bolt, Sozin’s Azure, Machine Gunn Race 15: Sozin’s Symphony, Goldstar Halsey, My Girl Sofia 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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Daily Events TUESDAY 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group meets outside church. 48 Allens Road.

9.00am - 10.30am WALKING NETBALL. Gold coin donation. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace (not school holidays).

9.30am ASHBURTON COMBINED FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Monthly meeting with guest speaker. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

10am NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. Weekly coffee morning, any

WEDNESDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Rd, Allenton.

8.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Motukarara to Lincoln. New members welcome, phone Jenny 308 6862. Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square West.

9.30am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

St David’s Church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William St. 9.30am WALKING GROUP. One hour walking varying fitness levels. Meet Walnut Avenue by the College Auditorium carpark.

9.45am MID CANTERBURY LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB.

July 9 & 8, 2019 enquiries to Merrill 307 6363.

Nosh Cafe, West Street.

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

10am ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL OF ASHBURTON. Fabric and craft pop up shop on Burnett Street, next to Flight Centre.

10am MSA TAI CHI. Weekly exercises and Tai Chi for arthritis. Meet MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (excludes school holidays).

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For more information ring Age Concern 308 6817.

Seniors Centre, Cameron St.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10.30am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

All Saints Church. Methven.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome, Phone Age Concern 308-6817.

Presbyterian Church, Rakaia.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Rd.

1.30pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE CLUB. Social day. Come and join us.

115 Racecourse Road.

6pm sharp RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Winter Series 3km or 6km.

Group run or walk around the perimeter of the domain under lights. All abilities and fitness levels, all welcome, no charge. Meet Walnut Avenue Pavilion.

7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Night time section, all welcome, rackets available.

EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace, Ashburton.

7.30pm ASHBURTON TABLE TENNIS. Everyone welcome, every Tuesday, Tennis bats available.

MSA Havelock Street.

Monthly meeting, Doris Linton lounge, RSA, Cox St. 10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL OF ASHBURTON. Fabric and craft pop up shop on Burnett Street, next to Flight Centre.

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

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For more information ring Age Concern 308 6817.

Seniors Centre, Cameron St. 10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10.30am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome, Phone Age Concern 308-6817.

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox St. 10.30am - 12pm ASHBURTON OPEN COFFEE MORNINGS.

Every Wednesday, come for a coffee and chat, child friendly location, all welcome. Phone Adi 027 220 8791 or Sue-ann 021 679 348.

10.30am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Rd. 10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility.

MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street. (Not School holidays).

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome. Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Euchre $4. Newcomers welcome we are friendly.

Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

1.30pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox St. 5pm (sharp) RUN AND WALK

ASHBURTON. Wednesday walks, 5km town circuit for all walking abilities and fitness levels. Meet on Philip Street beside the Croquet lawn.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing, all welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Corner Queens Drive and Creek Road.

7pm THE MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to dance (7pm), Beginner/Intermediate (8pm9pm), Instructor Annette Fyfe.

Phone 307 7138 a/h, Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Weekly fitness, fun and friendship. Contact Elizabeth 308 5437. Buffalo Hall, 20 Cox Street.

7.30pm ALLENTON INDOOR BOWLS. All welcome to come and play indoor bowls at the Indoor Bowls Stadium, McNally Street, in the Riverside industrial area.

7.30pm ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Night photography, bring kit and meet at Plains Railway, Maronan Road, Tinwald.

Raising the bar, always Consistently one of Bayleys high performers, Mike has enjoyed continuous success with Bayleys Canterbury. Backed by a boundless energy, informed intellect and determined hard-work, Mike’s rise to the top of Ashburton’s rural property sector is no means by accident.

Experience the results that Mike Preston brings to the table today.

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Cryptic crossword

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): We work toward and celebrate abundance, though it’s an obstacle more often than not. Too much of a thing lessens its value. It’s cumbersome to carry around. It attracts envy. Keep it lean and mean.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Before you cast people in insider roles of your life, there’s an extensive get-to-know-you period. You like to see how people handle defeat and difficulty. And how they handle success is even more important.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): It’s pretty easy to figure out what can be controlled and what can’t.

What’s hard is accepting it, not fighting with the truth of the matter, and turning attention to controllable things only.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You can be alert and wise without being worried. It’s an internal posture shift – an attitude that helps you align yourself so you’re ready to move instead of draining into hypothetical spirals.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): No matter what your reach or resources are, the first step to getting a message out is making it understandable. It’s easier to comprehend a clear whisper than an unclear shout.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Getting away from a thing isn’t the same as running away from it like you’re scared. Not every retreat is an escape. New goals will help you put distance between you and the thing you’re sensing just isn’t right.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): The emotions and intent of an action are an intrinsic part of the alchemy.

The same action can be done in anger or done with dignity, and that will make all of the difference in what happens next.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): If you didn’t have all that’s making your life so full and interesting now, you’d give a pretty penny to acquire it. And though you’ve gotten used to the way things are, there’s luck when you see it anew today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): When you’re working with or for someone, get to know the whole person, to whatever extent possible, instead of centring everything around a transaction.

Context is more important than any detail.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Things don’t always feel like what they are... running can feel more like flying than being in a jet, but the jet gets you there faster. Analyse data today. If you’re going by feel, you’ll miss something.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You intend a certain outcome, though what you actually do next may not reflect this. It’s like there’s two of you living in that body, one that wants to follow directions and one that doesn’t.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary isn’t always effort, talent or anything easily controllable.

Sometimes it’s just a mood, lighting, or timing. The X-factor favours you today.

ACROSS 1. Seeing the old boy in decay, he behaves mechanically (5) 4. On which it is brave to be prepared for a fight (7) 8. An informal agreement is beneath one’s status (13) 10. Part of act made by one having a row (5) 11. Get one’s fish to the house all right (4) 12. The all black fruit of the Chinese gooseberry (4) 16. Have to wash the top of the rock for seaweed the Welsh eat (5) 17. Can’t say how it is one could discern a Bible version of it (13) 19. There’s drama in general at the scene of operations (7) 20. Make some fuss in using a cavity in the head (5) DOWN 1. Circular article on Oliver must be mad (5,3,5) 2. It may come into flower as an American address (3) 3. Thoroughly beat one at a party (6) 4. Threw one out to blight (6) 5. An athlete may be seen laid on the table (6) 6. The making of cartoon films requires vigour (9) 7. Holy woman who perishes, sight being destroyed (4,9) 9. Kew, golden as it may be, may be acquired by learning (9) 13. There’s little room available near the top table (6) 14. May be disinclined to serve a medley (6) 15. Lots of people may consider Rhode Island best for them (6) 18. Put the wine in the rack and tie the end off (3)

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Ra n BINGHAM, William Derek (Derek) – 09-07-2012 BINGHAM, Catherine (Kate) – 11-07-2018 Though their smile is gone forever, and their hand we cannot touch, we still have so many memories of the ones we loved so much.

Their memory is our keepsake with which we will never part.

God has them in his keeping.

Sadly missed, but never forgotten.

With love, Lawrence, Derek, Lynda and their families.

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Canterbury Plains

Canterbury High Country

TODAY

TODAY FZL: 1200m about the divide; 1900m further E

Auckland

shower

Fine at first with morning frosts, but cloud developing from afternoon.

Wind at 1000m: NW 40 km/h, but 50 km/h N of Mt Hutt in the morning.

Wind at 2000m: SW 55 km/h, gradually easing to 40 km/h and tending NW in the evening.

Hamilton

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TOMORROW

Fine with morning frosts, but high cloud developing from afternoon. Northwest breezes.

TOMORROW High cloud and early frosts. A few spots of rain developing afternoon, clearing at night.

Northerlies strengthening.

THURSDAY Fine with early frosts. Southwesterlies dying out in the morning, northerlies developing later.

Rain developing about the divide, with snow to about 1200m, scattered falls further east.

Wind at 1000m: NW 45 km/h, rising to gale 65 km/h for a time N of Mt Hutt in the morning.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to gale 65 km/h in the morning, then easing to 40 km/h from afternoon.

FRIDAY Becoming cloudy, chance brief shower.

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McCULLOUGH, Donald Please note all late death Ross – notices or notices sent As the result of an on farm outside ordinary office accident at home in Mayfield on July 6, 2019 aged 66 hours must be emailed to: years. Dearly loved husband deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication. of Julie, much loved Dad of Aaron and Hilary, Sonya and To place a notice during Heta, and Callum and Jody, office hours please contact and cherished and devoted us on 03 307 7900 for more Grandad of Olive, Alice, and information.

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Messages to: the McCullough family, 965 Montalto Road, Canterbury owned, locally operated RD 8, Ashburton 7778. A service to celebrate Donald’s Patersons life will be held at The Alpine Energy Stadium, Ferguson Funeral Services Drive, Temuka on FRIDAY, and Ashburton July 12, at 1.30pm. Followed by interment at the Temuka Crematorium Ltd Cemetery. Refreshments will Office and Chapel be held at the Geraldine Corner East & Cox Rugby Clubrooms, Geraldine.

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Lance Hawkes returns a shot during the Ashburton Collegiate Squash Club’s open tournament at the weekend.

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Mulvihill claims Collegiate title

By Erin Tasker

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Top seed Patrick Mulvihill came out on top as expected in the Ashburton Collegiate Squash Club’s open tournament at the weekend, although it wasn’t all smooth sailing.

Mulvihill, from Geraldine, took on Ashburton’s Lee Barker in the men’s open final and eventually took it out in a tight five-setter to claim the title and cap off what was a hugely successful tournament.

Club captain Kelly Wing couldn’t have been happier.

This year’s tournament attracted more than 70 entries, which was absolute capacity and meant that a few games had to be played at the Celtic club, too.

It was a much different tournament to Collegiate’s one last year, which was almost half the size, and Wing put the difference down to a change in timing.

Last year, Collegiate’s tournament was last on the Midlands Squash calendar, and it showed through the dismal entry numbers, so this year they moved the tournament to mid-way through the season, and it worked a treat.

Not only did the tournament attract good numbers, it also attracted good quality players, which made for some top squash action on court.

While Mulvihill won the men’s title, it was an Ashburton player who came through to win the women’s open grade title. Karen Nieman beat Rachael Sullivan in that final, while the women’s A grade was won by Ashburton youngster Darnell Lima, with Tamzin Smith the runner-up.

The men’s A grade title came down to a battle between two home players, with Ken Thom-

son downing Bryan Ford in the final, while the men’s B grade was won by Taine Stoddart, beating Alastair White in the final.

In the men’s C grade, Rakaia’s Matt Parsons took the title thanks to a win over Collegiate’s Bruce Leslie in the final, while Timaru’s MacGregor Rae won the men’s D grade, with Campbell Bedward-Chapman the runner-up.

Devon Flannery won the men’s E grade, with Peter Leonard the runner-up, while the mixed F grade was won by Josh Verberne, with Rakaia’s Alice Cartwright the runner-up.

The next tournament on the Midlands calendar is the Pleasant Point tournament this weekend, with the Midlands Open to follow the next weekend, at the Timaru Squash Club.

The next tournament at a Mid Canterbury club will be the Ashburton Open, to be held at the Ashburton Squash Club on August 2 and 3.

As of June 19, Pleasant Point youngster Flynn Brookland was leading the Midlands Circuit’s points table, with Ashburton’s Lee Barker second and Rakaia’s Matt Parsons third.

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