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New parents Prince William and Kate Middleton have politely asked members of the paparazzi to respect their privacy as they settle into their summer residence with their new baby daughter. The British royals welcomed Princess Charlotte at the weekend and left their London home at Kensington Palace for their Anmer Hall mansion on Queen Elizabeth II’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England on Thursday. The couple will spend the summer at the country retreat with Charlotte and Prince George, who turns two in July.

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A Kardashian block Sometimes an invention comes along that has life-changing capabilities. Edison created the lightbulb, Steve Jobs launched the iPod and now James Shamsi has created the #KardBlock. The #KardBlock is an internet tool that will block all Kardashian news and content from your internet feed. “If there’s anything on your newsfeed, the website you’re on, whatever... we simply make it disappear. You won’t ever know the stories about the Kardashians are there, because you won’t ever see them,” the KardBlock website promises. On the website, the creator James Shamsi speaks for a lot of people in the world when he says, “We’re tired of logging on to any site and seeing stories of the Kardashian family overshadow REAL news.” The #KardBlock tool is a version of AdBlock, which blocks ads on YouTube, Facebook and all ads by default. There are definitely people out there who want to know more about social issues, such as the recent earthquake in Nepal, rather than what hair colour Kim has decided upon today. It’s now possible they will never have to read about Kylie Jenner’s lip-plumping ever again.

But wait, there’s more good news. “We are also working on customisation to block content related to Justin Bieber,” Shamsi writes.

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Lindsay Lohan gets jail warning Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has been warned by a judge she could face jail time if she fails to complete 125 hours of community service over a reckless driving offence within the next three weeks. The US actress, living in London, has only completed about nine of the hours so far, and US judge Mark Young said yesterday there will be “consequences” if she fails to finish the sentence by May 28. Lohan’s lawyer Shawn Holley said the actress was having trouble completing her service in London due to travel and costs, and limits on the number of hours she can perform each day.

Life expectancy gap narrows The gap between male and female life expectancy at birth has narrowed, according to new data. Data released by Statistics New Zealand yesterday showed the life expectancy for children has increased by one year for females and 1.5 years for males in the past eight years. Life expectancy at birth was 83.2 years for females and 79.5 years for males, based on death rates between 2012 and 2014. Females were expected to live four years longer than males born between 2005 and 2007, but were now expected to live 3.7 years longer. The difference between Maori and non-Maori life expectancy has also decreased. Between 2005 and 2007, a non-Maori person was expected to live 8.2 years longer than a Maori person. That gap has now fallen to 7.1 years. Life expectancy at birth is 77.1 years for Maori females, and 73 years for Maori males.

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■ RANGITATA MP

Abuse unfortunate part of job

By Daisy HuDson

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A Mid Canterbury MP says she’s been yelled at, received abusive phone calls, and had anonymous letters sent to her home since she entered politics.

Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew has had to tighten up security at her Ashburton office after experiencing harassment and verbal abuse.

The abuse has also extended to her staff and family, who have been faced with inappropriate and offensive comments over the years.

However Ms Goodhew says

it’s just an unfortunate part of the job.

A new research paper by the University of Otago and Capital and Coast District Health Board shows nine out of 10 New Zealand MPs have been victims of harassment.

That harassment has included death threats, physical violence, and verbal abuse.

The report also found that one MP received 1080 poison in the mail, while another had their back door smashed and a bullet thrown through their window.

While Ms Goodhew says

she has not experienced death threats, she admitted her family had become concerned about her safety in the past.

“That’s kind of the job I’m in, that people, when they’re very frustrated in their life, they hit out at politicians,” she said.

Ms Goodhew said security had been ramped up at her Ashburton electorate office following the shootings at Ashburton’s Work and Income office last September.

Russell John Tully, who is charged with killing three Work and Income staff, had also expressed frustrations with pol-

iticians before the incident.

Ms Goodhew said it was never acceptable for someone to be intimidating, aggressive, or threatening towards another person.

“There are two things that bother me the most about it, and the first of those is that I don’t respect people who aren’t able to discuss openly their concerns – in other words, they hide behind anonymity,” she said.

“The second and more important one is that it really brasses me off when people are obnoxious or threatening towards my staff.”

She said her staff had experienced verbal abuse and harassment, which made her “really upset”.

“We have people coming into the electorate office who are really grumpy about things, so it is important to me that we do everything we can to protect the staff,” she said.

While she believed harassment was never okay, it was something MPs had to deal with more than those in other professions.

“It doesn’t make it okay, but that’s one of things you should be aware can happen.”

■ ASHBURTON COMMUNITY POOL

End of one era and the start of another

By Daisy HuDson

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As one door closed on a chapter of Ashburton’s swimming history, another one is preparing to open.

Les Briggs marked the end of an era last night when he closed the door of the Ashburton Community Pool for the final time.

Mr Briggs was chairman of the pool board when the community pool first opened in 1982.

He was also instrumental in leading the effort to have the pool heated and covered – a project that saw the community band together to raise over $300,000.

Mr Briggs said the project was a contentious one at first, but the community soon came on board.

The pool closed to make way for the EA Networks Centre, which will officially open its doors for the first time today.

While last night marked the end of over three decades of swimming at the community pool, Mr Briggs was looking forward to the opening of the new facility, which he described as a “good com-

munity project”.

The sports complex will be officially opened by deputy prime minister Bill English at a ceremony expected to draw up to 1000 people.

People will then have the chance to inspect the sports and pool facility for the first time before it opens for public use on Sunday.

However while the centre will open, its café will remained closed.

The council received several tenders for the café but was not able to agree on lease terms with tenderers.

It was then put back out for tender, with the expressions of interest process closing on Tuesday.

Commercial manager James Webb said five applications for tender were received.

He said the council was pleased with the number and calibre of expressions of interest it received.

A review and selection process is expected to take about three weeks, after which the lease arrangements will be worked through.

Former chairman of the community pool board Les Briggs (left) and EA Networks Centre manager Steve Prescott close the door on the Ashburton Community Pool for the last time.

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■ NATIONAL PARTY CONFERENCE

Adams hosts SI conference

By Daisy HuDson

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Some of the country’s most powerful decision makers have arrived in Ashburton.

The National Party is holding its Mainland conference at Hotel Ashburton this weekend, bringing with it the Prime Minister and a host of high ranking government ministers and South Island MPs. The conference officially kicked off last night with a

Young Nats function, titled Muldoon Country, at the hotel.

Politicians will then converge on the hotel for a jam-packed conference.

Selwyn MP Amy Adams, who is hosting the event, will welcome attendees and kick off the official programme this morning.

The first day of the conference will see addresses by Attorney General Chris Finlayson and Deputy Prime Min-

ister Bill English, as well as a series of breakout group sessions on topics ranging from education to the economy.

Tomorrow’s programme will open with a BlueGreens breakfast with guest speaker awardwinning local farmer Mark Slee, who will discuss sustainable dairy farming.

Environment minister Nick Smith will then address the conference before the arrival of Prime Minister John Key,

who will present the Leader’s Speech. The conference will conclude with a closing address

by Defence minister Gerry Brownlee.

The Mainland Conference is the party’s annual South Island gathering.

It kicks off a busy fortnight for politicians in Mid Canterbury, with the Labour Party holding its annual South Island conference in Ashburton later this month.

Businesses get behind Nepal quake relief

By Caitlin Porter

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Three Mid Canterbury businesses have banded together in an effort to support those affected by the devastating Nepal earthquake.

Transport company managers Jim Crouchley (Rural Transport), Jonathan Ward (Wilsons Bulk Transport) and Philip Wareing (Philip Wareing Contractors) have come together, along with the Rotary Club of Ashburton, to donate money for a ShelterBox. They are challenging other Mid Canterbury businesses to do the same.

A ShelterBox is an international disaster relief project that provides shelter and lifesaving equipment to families who have been affected by natural disasters.

The first box was deployed in 2000 and was sponsored by Rotary, and it has grown to become the largest Rotary Club project to date.

Mr Crouchley first approached a Rotary club member who had been involved with ShelterBox after the idea was suggested to him by one of his staff.

The idea was then put to Ro-

Demolition complete The Canterbury District Health Board yesterday confirmed demolition at Ashburton Hospital is now complete. A spokeswoman said the partial seismic upgrades and refurbishment work of the existing ward blocks is now under way and the construction of the new building looks set to begin next month. The overall completion date for the entirety of the work is mid-2016.

Indecent assault A 24-year-old man has been charged with indecent assault after chasing after and cuddling a 10-year-old as she was leaving her Wellington school yesterday. The incident happened on Jillet Street, near Titahi Bay School, about 3.15pm, police said. The man spoke to the girl before gathering her in an embrace, which frightened her.

She was able to break free, but the man gave chase catching her a short distance away where he again cuddled her, police said.

A passing motorist stopped, intervened and called police. The man was found and spoken to about the incidents. He has since been arrested and charged with indecent assault, police said.

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Ashburton businessmen (from left) Philip Wareing, Rotary Club of Ashburton Charitable Trust chairman Phillip Godfrey, Jim Crouchley and Jonathan Ward have come together to support people in need, in Nepal.

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tary Club of Ashburton Charitable Trust chairman Phillip Godfrey, who said the organisation was more than happy to help facilitate the donation.

As monsoon season is approaching, shelter has become a pressing concern.

The three businesses provided the $1500 needed for a ShelterBox which includes a family

tent, water containers and water purification gear, nets, hats, gloves, cooking equipment, blankets and ground mats.

Mr Godfrey said the Rotary Club would match the donation, and so would send two boxes from Mid Canterbury.

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try, and someone accompanies the boxes,” he said.

Now, Mr Crouchley is encouraging other businesses in Mid Canterbury to chip in and send other ShelterBoxes over.

“I thought what we do here might inspire others to do the same,” he said.

“It could be a bit of a challenge.”

Dairy targeted twice A dairy in Christchurch has been targeted by cartoon-mask wearing robbers twice in past month, police say.

The most recent incident at the Union Street dairy in New Brighton happened on Wednesday about 6.45pm.

A man wearing a ‘joker’ type mask demanded money from the dairy staff before fleeing on foot, empty handed, police said.

He was described as 172cm tall, slim to medium build, in his 20s and was wearing a burgundy hoodie, black trousers and grey beanie over a rubber/plastic ‘joker’ mask.

The attempted theft followed a similar incident on April 4 where shortly after noon a person of above average height wearing a fluoro orange sweatshirt and a distinctive cartoon mask demanded money and fled the scene with a quantity of cash.

No one was injured in either incident.

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An historic barn has been destroyed in a suspicious fire in Christchurch, police say.

Emergency services were called to the blaze on River Road in Avonside on Wednesday, about 4pm. The fire was being treated as suspicious, Detective Anita Osborne said. “The historic barn was on Crown-owned land and was due to be demolished later this year. “Canterbury Police are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time, particularly if they were taking photographs and videos of the fire, as they may be able to provide valuable information that can assist with this ongoing investigation.”

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Crash victim named The man who died when his car crashed into a truck during a police chase has been named.

He was Calum John Meyer, aged 25, of Whanganui. On Thursday, Mr Meyer hit a cyclist with his car and fled the scene. While attempting to evade police, his car hit a truck and caught fire.

Inspector Mark Harrison told the Wanganui Chronicle that police had attempted to pull Mr Meyer over that morning, but the car fled police and hit the cyclist “seconds later”. He continued to flee and was seen heading out of town, before returning to Whanganui where police had set up road spikes. Mr Meyer smashed into a culvert to avoid one set of spikes, then accelerated for a further 2km where more spikes had been laid out. “In a further attempt to avoid the spikes, the vehicle has driven into a large truck which was stationary on Tayforth Rd,” Inspector Harrison said. The cyclist was taken to hospital with “non life-threatening” injuries. The driver of the truck, which was stationary at the time, was shaken but not injured. Police are continuing to investigate this incident. - NZME

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■ MID CANTERBURY DOCTORS

All GPs sign up to free under 13 visits

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Natalie Currie was a Volunteer Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse overseas during World War Two, and spent yesterday morning admiring the war-time displays at the World Red Cross Day celebrations.

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■ WORLD CROSS DAY

Special day also marks a century of care

BY CAITLIN PORTER

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People from all over Mid Canterbury flocked to the Tinwald Memorial Hall yesterday, to celebrate World Red Cross Day and New Zealand Red Cross’ century of care.

The event started off with introductions by MC Carol Ball, which was simultaneously translated into sign language by tutor Carol Smith.

Before official proceedings took place Mid-South Canterbury area council

chair Zelda McGirr addressed the attendees and a minute’s silence was held, in honour of deceased members, volunteers, staff and benefactors involved in the district’s Red Cross branches.

Dignitaries including Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew, Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay, Dr Godfrey from the Order of St John and Maurice Baker, president of the RSA spoke.

Former Red Cross national president and Tinwald branch member Pat O’Brien said she was extremely pleased with how everything turned out.

Community trust grant winners Four Mid Canterbury organisations have benefited to the tune of $16,000 from the latest round of grants awarded by the Community Trust of South and Mid Canterbury.

Of the $40,000 the trust handed over the Timaru branch of the Salvation

Army received the largest donation of $7000. The Ashburton branch of Alzheimers Canterbury, Ashburton Woodworkers, and the Tapestry of NZ Trust (Mid Canterbury panel) received $5000 each. The Mt Somers Staveley Playcentre received $1000.

All seven Mid Canterbury general practices will offer free doctors’ visits to children under the age of 13 from July 1.

The move to extend the age range of free doctors’ visits and prescriptions from children aged under six to children aged under 13 was confirmed by Health Minister Jonathan Coleman and ACC Minister Nikki Kaye in February.

Originally the Government pledged to make the visits and prescriptions free for all children under the age of 13, but last month the Green Party obtained documents stating that only 90 per cent of visits would be funded.

As a result, Dr Coleman advised parents to “shop around for a GP” until they found one that did not charge.

However, Mid Canterbury parents need not worry as all seven practices in the district have opted in to the under 13 scheme.

Rural Canterbury Primary Health Organisation (RCPHO) chief executive Bill Eschenbach yesterday confirmed that all

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six of its practices had responded from within the Ashburton area.

“All have indicated ‘buy in’ at present,” he said.

Late last month Methven Medical Centre GP Dr John McGettigan confirmed that Methven, which operates within the Pegasus Health PHO, would also be adopting the change.

As of now doctors’ visits are free for children under the age of six at around 98 per cent of the practices in New Zealand.

Dr Coleman has said that when that particular policy was introduced, uptake was not immediate.

“Initial uptake was 70 per cent in January 2008, and it has steadily increased to current levels. There are only around 12 general practices in New Zealand that are not offering free under 6s doctor visits,” he said.

ACC Minister Nikki Kaye said she expected the uptake of GPs providing free injury related visits to under 13s to steadily increase over time in a similar fashion.

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■ ASHBURTON ART GALLERY

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Opening artists announced Renowned Kiwi artist Philip Trusttum will exhibit at the long awaited opening of the Ashburton Art Gallery alongside local artist David Elliot.

Mr Trusttum has had a close relationship with the gallery since 1999 and the gallery was pleased to include his show, Current Affairs, in the opening line up, curator Shirin Khosraviani said.

Ashburton-born Mr Elliot, whose work is the cornerstone of the gallery collection, will exhibit his large scale drawing called The Great Bridge Brouhaha. The seven-metre high drawing is inspired by the creation of the first Ashburton Bridge. He will also read the story which accompanies the work.

Installation of recent masters graduate Tara Douglas’ Midnight Blooms is also under way.

“Her work is transformative and incredibly engaging. We are eager to see how the public respond to her installation,” Ms Khosraviani said.

The final exhibition is a significant one as a grouping of

Newsletter grant The Ashburton District Council’s finance and business support committee has approved $1755 of funding for a Hinds newsletter.

At its regular meeting this week, committee members heard from senior policy advisor Fleur Mulligan that Mayfield and Mt Somers initiatives received funding, of about $3000 each for 11 issues per year. “It is understood that this funding is seed funding and is not ongoing,” she said.

The Hinds newsletter was to be produced by the Hinds and District Citizen Association, which would ultimately be able to fund the newsletter itself via advertising.

The $1755 was for printing and delivering six editions.

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Nicole Bourke and Simone Barnsdale hang artwork in preparation for the opening of the Ashburton Art Gallery.

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work from the gallery’s collection comes to light.

The appropriately-titled, Lesser-known Tales gives the public an opportunity to glimpse some of the gems the

gallery has had in safe storage for the past year.

“The opening line-up is designed to cater to the wider community with four exhibitions that range in practice and

visual outcomes,” Ms Khosraviani said. Staff and volunteers are working alongside the artists to ensure everything is ready when the doors open at 1pm on May 23.

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Locals getting excited

Constable vows to keep searching

By ReBecca Quilliam

Constable Mike Wakefield has shed tears and gone to sleep exhausted since his police dog Thames vanished in the Tararua Ranges six days ago but support from across New Zealand has helped steel his resolve to keep searching, he says.

Mr Wakefield, a police dog handler and volunteer firefighter, became separated from his fouryear-old sable german shepherd near the High Ridge to Totara Creek area at Mt Holdsworth near Masterton as he and his dog were returning from a routine search and rescue exercise with a small group on Sunday morning.

“There was a bit of panic and a bit of fear. It’s a horrible feeling. You don’t know what to do.

When he still wasn’t back after about half an hour I became concerned and as more time went

by I became more and more concerned.”

He and the group began scouring the area immediately and over the next two days more than 20 volunteers, fellow handlers, and off-duty officers tracked through the rugged terrain and patrolled nearby roads in case Thames had made his way out of the forest park.

He said Thames, who had himself successfully helped track down a lost woman, was an operational frontline police dog and member of his family since the pair started working together about three years ago.

“He’s a pretty good dog and he has his own quirks, he loves running in circles and chasing his own tail. We’d developed a pretty good bond, we’ve been a team for the last three years - we work together, we eat together, we play together - so yeah, we’re pretty close. He’s part of the family.”

Mr Wakefield said Wairarapa Land Search and Rescue team members, police colleagues, and the public response had been overwhelming and “heart-warming”.

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For the next week the country will play host to one of the more popular royals on his first official visit and the locals are getting excited.

Prince Harry will travel the length of the country, landing in Wellington today before heading south to Stewart Island on Sunday and then making his way to Auckland via Christchurch and Wanganui.

On his travels, he will meet locals, rugby players, dignitaries and maybe even a kiwi.

Wellington will live up to its windy reputation by greeting the young prince with strong gusty northerlies and a high of 14°C - but the rain should stay away, according to MetService.

After a day of ceremonial events and meeting some Wellington fans, shaking some hands and maybe the odd cheeky kiss, the 30-year-old price will head to Westpac Stadium to watch a Super Rugby match between the Hurricanes and Sharks.

Following the game, he will head to the changing rooms to meet the players.

Hurricanes captain Conrad Smith said the team had been informed of the protocols during the royal visit.

“Hopefully we treat him to a good game and there’s some nice weather and a good crowd.

“I’m sure he’ll be open to a bit of banter,” he said.

Tomorrow will see the prince wing-

ing his way to Invercargill for a little over half an hour where he will meet the city’s charismatic mayor Tim Shadbolt and Ngai Tahu before leaving for Stewart Island and then pest-free sanctuary Ulva Island.

Department of Conservation ranger Cherie Hemsley will be on Ulva Island during the prince’s hour-long visit and said the island was “buzzing” with excitement over the visit.

She hoped it would put the islands on the international map.

With luck the South Island saddleback, the Stewart Island robin and the Stewart Island brown kiwi could show themselves to their regal visitor.

That evening Prince Harry will attend a private service at St Andrews Anglican Church on Stewart Island.

Reverend Canon Richard Johnson said there would be a bi-cultural flavour to the service that included a poi chant.

“Myself and the congregation are delighted [the prince is coming],” he said.

He said he did not think he would be nervous giving the service.

“Prince Harry comes across as a very down to earth person.”

Children on the small island will also get to hang out with the charming royal when he visits the small Halfmoon Bay school.

Principal Kath Johnson said the 24 pupils will sing some songs before getting to grill him with questions of their own.

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Trains between Wellington and Ngaio have been suspended until further notice following a landslip just south of Crofton Downs. The slip, which occurred yesterday afternoon, had not resulted in any injuries to passengers and crew, Kiwi Rail communications advisor David Miller said. The train was due to be inspected by Kiwi Rail staff for any damage.

Tranz Metro was organising bus replacements for travellers, but said passengers using the Johnsonville Line should expect delays.

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Man crushed by beast A 51-year-old man from Ruatapu was airlifted to Grey Base Hospital yesterday after coming off second best with a cattle beast. NZCC Rescue Helicopter pilot Angus Taylor said the man suffered moderate to severe back injuries after he was crushed against the side of a cattle yard on a lifestyle block. The incident occurred while stock were being loaded on to a truck. Mr Taylor said the animal apparently became “a bit titchy” and charged the man, pinning him against the yard railings. - NZME

Heroic actions praised The heroic actions of a farmer who pulled a 17-year-old man from a burning car following a crash, have been praised by police. The crash occurred on State Highway 2, north of Eketahuna, at around 8.30pm on Thursday night. The police, Fire Service and ambulance were all called to the scene. Initial reports suggested the vehicle had drifted off the road and onto a grass verge, before hitting a culvert, police said. A nearby farmer heard the crash and came outside to find the vehicle on fire.

He then pulled the unconscious driver from the burning vehicle before emergency services arrived.

His actions were commended by police, who said he put himself at risk to save the driver. - NZME

Unprovoked assault A woman was attacked in an unprovoked attack while she was talking on her cellphone at a Hamilton pharmacy, police say.

The incident happened at the Anglesea Pharmacy on April 26, about 3.10pm yesterday. A man approached the woman, assaulted her and ran from the pharmacy, Senior Constable Paul Helwig said.

The attack resulted in the woman requiring medical attention. - NZME

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Ashburton Guardian

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

■ SUSTAINABLE LIVING EDUCATION TRUST

Education programme on the cards

By SuSan SandyS

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Night courses on sustainable living will be available to Mid Cantabrians if the Ashburton District Council joins a nationwide education programme.

It would cost the council $1100 for a one-year subscription to the Sustainable Living Education Trust.

Trust co-ordinator Rhys Taylor, who lives at Geraldine, was speaking in Ashburton last night at a public meeting organised by residents Katie Esler and Julia Crosson.

The pair established Ashburton’s annual Back to Basics sustainable living expo, and decided to invite Mr Taylor to speak to the public, after he could not make it to the expo last month.

Mr Taylor said yesterday the timing of a submission he put to the council on it becoming a member of the trust happened to coincide with him being in Ashburton.

He hoped the council would support his submission to its long-term plan.

In it he encourages the council to follow the lead of other councils around the country, including the Timaru District Council and Christchurch City Council, in joining the trust.

The trust teaches people how to grow their own food, save water, use sustainable transport, get by after a natural disaster, and resulted in cost and

In brief Motat award An Auckland museum’s clever use of te reo has seen it receive top honours at the ServiceIQ 2015 New Zealand Museum Awards in Dunedin. The Museum of Transport and Technology (Motat) was awarded the prize for Most Innovative Use of Te Reo Maori at last night’s ceremony for its most recent exhibition, Welcome to the Machine. The interactive exhibition aims to educate tamariki about fundamental physical properties, which are represented by six different machines. The exhibition has a strong bicultural narrative and the machines are explained in te reo Maori alongside clear interpretive diagrams. It was the first exhibition to deal with these technical concepts in te reo Maori, the museum believed.

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Sustainable Living Education Trust co-ordinator Rhys Taylor and sustainable living expo organisers Katie Esler and Julia Crosson prepare for a public meeting in Ashburton last night.

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environmental benefits.

“To live as if we are on one planet rather than if we have a couple to spare,” Mr Taylor explained.

Mrs Esler said she hoped the council would take up the trust membership.

“I think it would be fantastic to have these courses in Ashburton.”

SUBMISSIONS TO LTP Mid Canterbury residents have until 5pm on Monday to make submissions on the Ashburton District Council’s Long-Term Plan (LTP).

The council delivered the plan’s consultation document and feedback form to households in the Courier newspaper last month, and posted it to its website.

Among projects outlined are additional investment in the district’s roads, hydroslides at the EA Net-

works Centre, stockwater, a sports facility for Rakaia, the Civic Administration Building and Ashburton Public Library.

Council has proposed an average rates increase of 6.5 per cent for the 2014/15 year, 3.8 per cent for 2017/18 and 11.1 per cent for year three. The increase in year three is driven by the cost of the wheelie bin initiative, which is budgeted at $2.1 million.

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Rates bills soon to be on email

Court challenge lost

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Ashburton District Council ratepayers will soon have the opportunity to have their rates bills sent to them via email.

It costs the council $57,000 per year to print and post its hard-copy rates demands.

At the council’s finance and business support committee meeting on Wednesday, councilor Donna Favel said she was “very excited” by the new initiative, and asked what was the council’s goal for its first year.

Information systems manager Gordon Tupper said the council was doing live testing of the system, and if successful it would become available to ratepayers from July 1, in time for the first installment for the new rating year.

Uptake had been relatively low in councils which had introduced the initiative around the country.

He believed the New Plymouth District Council had a 10 per cent uptake after about four years.

However, the initiative was to “enable choice for the ratepayer”.

Finance manager Sandy Hogg said after the meeting the council sent out

15,800 rates notices six times per year, at an annual cost of $33,000 for postage and $24,000 for printing.

She hoped there would be a 30 to 40 per cent uptake in Mid Canterbury within five years, saving that proportion in postage costs.

How much it would save in printing was more difficult to calculate because pricing was based on blocks of 1000.

When councillor Don McLeod was asking a question regarding the initiative during the meeting, he commented he was a little worried for councillor Favel.

“She’s one of the few people I have ever met excited about getting their rates bill.”

Mrs Favel explained after the meeting she was “passionate about the planet”, and wanted her desk to be paper-free.

And she was not the only one excited about the benefits of the information age.

Mayor Angus McKay said the new EA Networks Centre website “sounds really exciting” and asked about its applications.

Staff told him the ability to book online was currently being worked on.

A Lotto winner has lost his latest court bid to challenge a ruling that his former partner is entitled to a cut of the winnings.

Malcolm Edward Rabson has been battling with his former partner Linda Gallagher through the courts for several years.

The High Court and Court of Appeal have both upheld decisions that Ms Gallagher is entitled to part of the $1.3 million winnings, and capital gains on houses they bought with the prize money.

Mr Rabson claimed he bought the ticket with his own money on behalf of a family trust.

An application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court was denied on December 2.

An application by Mr Rabson to recall that decision was also dismissed on December 23.

His latest bid to seek leave to appeal a High Court decision to strike out a judicial review of against the Supreme Court registrar has also failed.

Supreme Court Justices Susan Glazebrook, Terence Arnold and Mark O’Regan said leave to appeal a decision of the High Court was only given in “exceptional circumstances”.

“The application for leave to appeal is dismissed accordingly.”

Mr Rabson won the draw on November 5, 2001, but didn’t realise he had a winning ticket until the following February.

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A man was killed and another seriously injured when a car crashed yesterday near Taumarunui. The crash happened on State Highway 4 about 30km north of Taumarunui in the central North Island. The vehicle left the road, went down a ditch and hit a tree, police said. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

Emergency services attended but the 19-year-old male driver of the vehicle died at the scene. A 22-year-old male passenger was taken by ambulance to Taumarunui Hospital and then airlifted to Waikato Hospital in critical condition.

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Huge haul A huge stash of stolen goods uncovered by police, including scaffolding, dishwashers, fireworks and a 30,000 litre water tank, was so big it took up 12 shipping containers and multiple sheds. The haul of stolen goods, uncovered this week, was thought to be the biggest in the history of the Waitemata police district. Rodney Police believed the loot was from dozens of burglaries carried out across the upper North Island.

Although a 43-year-old man has already been charged, police expect more arrests after the raid on the Dairy Flat Highway property two days ago.

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Man praised by police A 26-year-old man who helped stop an attack on a woman in Mt Roskill has been praised by police for his actions. The woman was being punched by a man through the driver’s window of the car she was sitting in, at about 8.45pm on Thursday in the Auckland suburb.

The man, who police have hailed as a ‘Good Samaritan’, confronted the attacker and subdued him, then detained him with the help of neighbours. Detective Senior Sergeant Andrew Fabish of Avondale CIB said the young man’s efforts were “gutsy”. He was checked for an injury to the hand, but came out of the ordeal comparatively unscathed.

“The woman was treated in hospital for her injuries and we’re all grateful they were less serious than they could have been had the young man not intervened. “Once again, we are heartened to know that people are prepared to assist neighbours or even strangers who are clearly in distress.”

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

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WHAT IT TOOK TO BUILD What it took to build your sports centre: ■ 2,686m3 of concrete ■ 137, 897kg of reinforcing steel to insitu concrete ■ 18,020m of 100 x 50 timber framing ■ 17,430m of 150 x 50 timber framing ■ 4960m of framing in various gauges ■ 47,000no 250 x 125 tiles to the pools ■ 3229m2 of Dimond colour steel roofing (stadium roof) ■ 1955m2 of Kingspan insulated cladding (pool roof) ■ 1970m2 of Equuus warm roof (administration, change and gym areas) ■ 3342m2 of Junkers timber sports floor ■ 1703m2 of Traxite resin flooring ■ 586m2 of carpet ■ 818m2 of vinyl ■ 248m2 of rubber flooring ■ 1558m2 of gib linings ■ 1109m2 of blockwork

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It has taken six decades of gestation, false starts and near-misses for Ashburton to get its high-spec, multi-purpose aquatic and sports centre.

Here is a snapshot of the many projects that – eventually – beat a path to the EA Networks Centre A first attempt 1949 to 1950 The first push for a sport and recreational centre was from sports enthusiasts keen on land on the Walnut Avenue side of the Ashburton Domain, where they wanted to build a war memorial hall accommodating indoor sports and that would be large enough to attract a government subsidy. They talked to the council, the idea was approved and in 1950 planning began.

The original plan was for a 39 x 27 metre building, costing $44,000. There were also plans to add a squash court, gym and boxing training room, tiered seating for 450 people, a cafeteria, reception room and change facilities.

The community raised almost $12,000 but the project died as the project committee crumbled under relentless pressure from people living along Walnut Avenue to can the project.

That first stadium site is today home to the Walnut Avenue hockey pavilion.

Another option 1954 Those driving the domain project looked for new options: they bought an old building in Tancred Street and started planning again. The former livery stable and garage became the Ashburton Sports Hall, a facility that would serve basketballers in Ashburton well for decades.

The desire remains 1981 to 1987 Enthusiasm for a multi-purpose facility did not go away and, in 1982, the council began to consider future recreational needs that could be met by a full community effort involving the council, Government, commercial organisations and voluntary and educational groups.

Council, cricket, bowling and athletic association representatives discussed building of a multi-purpose sports pavilion in the Ashburton Domain. The council was also asked to look into constructing a sports ground and

multi-purpose stadium on land that had been used as the town dump.

It was suggested the project could include an aquatic centre.

This report and a plan were later circulated at a public meeting and there were requests for space from archery, athletics, basketball, badminton, croquet, cricket, gymnastics, hockey, indoor bowls, football, table tennis, netball and a range of community organisations. Twenty-four acres of land was targeted and user feedback indicated heavy use was likely. Planning continued.

In 1983, the Mid Canterbury Basketball Association decided it couldn’t wait any longer and applied for consent to use a property in Oxford Street for an indoor sports stadium. Soon, Ashburton Indoor Bowls applied for consent to use an existing building in McNally Street as a headquarters. A year later, there were concerns the project was running out of steam.

It might well have come to an end in 1987, when council staff wanted the land off Smallbone

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Drive tagged for industrial use.

Councillor Ted Wood vehemently opposed the move and said it was too early in the town’s history to consider giving away such a premier site when there wasn’t a pressing need. The industrial designation did not proceed, but the project was again shelved.

The race for your new aquatic and sports centre 2001 to 2014 The sports complex project lay all-but forgotten for 14 years until Mid Canterbury Netball and the trustees of the Ashburton Sports Hall rekindled interest.

A working party considered the feasibility of the project and, as the district’s community pool became older and more expensive to run, an indoor pool became a must.

Consultation continued through 2002 and 2003. Then, the stadium and aquatic centre was expected to have a $15 million price tag – and a community

survey gave council a strong mandate to proceed.

A feasibility study was commissioned and the search for a site began in 2004. Reports mounted, site assessments were carried out and community fundraising began until 2009, when debate on options began in earnest.

Public outcry saw an Ashburton Domain site ditched and, in 2010, a site off Smallbone Drive was proposed – a site close to the same site tagged back in 1981.

The site survived the public submissions and the project survived the council’s budget process. It also met its ambitious, $5 million community fundraising target.

Plans were finalised, the lead build contract was awarded to Naylor Love and the first ceremonial sod was turned in August, 2013.

And this afternoon, Ashburton will officially open its new, $35 million aquatic and sports centre.

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rchitects Warren and Mahoney are confident their design for the state-of-the-art EA Networks Centre is precedent-setting.

Clustering many sports under one roof allows efficiencies in staffing, support services and maintenance and encourages participation in a building whose design creates visual connections between the indoor courts and swimming pools, project architect Alex Head said this week.

Sustainability was at the core of the design. Louvre window ventilation lessens the load on air-conditioning, rainwater collected from the roof feeds the hydrotherapy pool make-up water system and an efficient heat recovery system minimises waste heat, he said.

The gymnasium is designed with roof-lights to provide

natural light while daylight sensors dim the artificial light according to the user’s needs.

Using local materials was a priority and the centre is clad in precast concrete panels with an exposed aggregate greywacke pattern. In the foyer, a material palette of concrete, timber and glass sets up the public space while colour – yellow and green – helps people find their way through the facility.

Warren and Mahoney managing director Peter Marshall said the building will be a “magnet for human interaction” and will inspire people to get active and nurture our next generation of top athletes.

“Projects like these, for regional centres such as Ashburton, are significant developments that demonstrate a confidence in, and commitment to, the future.”

What we have at our new EA Networks Centre A group of women huddled behind the EA Networks Centre’s new reception counter, quietly asking questions of their trainer as they came to terms with the computer system before opening day.

Another woman mopped a light coating of construction dust from the polished concrete floors as a cleaner extended his squeegee pole to tackle the highest reaches of the centre’s tall front windows.

Behind them all lay a complex Ashburton has waited decades to see. The pools were quiet and glassy, save the occasional gushing of the water feature and the playing courts were clean and empty.

Not for long. Today, hundreds of people will wander through the centre for their first look at a $35 million facility that rivals anything provided in much bigger regions.

The formalities will come when the complex is opened by Deputy Prime Minister Bill English ahead of the informalities that will last for decades after Allenton schoolgirl

The official opening today of Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre marks the start of a new era.

The Guardian looks at the newest community sports and recreation facility in the country.

Jorja Roulston becomes the first person to take a dip in the pool on its first official day of operation tomorrow.

Jorja and the many people who visit the centre this weekend will see an 8000 square metre facility whose scale may surprise many.

Architects Warren and Mahoney designed it to be long – linear – so that the indoor courts, aquatic and fitness centres can be expanded as the community’s needs grow.

On the other side of the long foyer, past the reception area and changing rooms is a stadium of 4000 sq m plus of sprung beech wood floor that took a big team 10 days to lay.

It is home to four playing courts, which are marked for a range of sporting codes, ready for netball, basketball, futsal, badminton, volleyball and tennis. Backboards hang from the towering ceiling and each court has its own electronic scoreboard

on the wall. A drop-down divider will allow different events to run at the same time, making the hall a truly multi-use space, and there is low-slung courtside seating for about 350 people and enough space to wheel in more seats.

Mid Canterbury’s littlest junior netballers will play on the courts on Monday, by which time plenty of people would have had the chance to enjoy the aquatic centre on the other side of the stadium-length glass wall.

The aquatic centre has everything but a hydroslide – though the long-term plan and annual plan process will soon tell us whether the much-anticipated bolt on will, eventually, be bolted on.

There are four, wheelchair-accessible pools. The main, 25x25 metre pool has the usual starter blocks and a timer – linked to one of only two such 3m x 2m video scoreboards in the country – that is so accurate that swimming re-

cords will make it to the national record books.

Across the way is a smaller learn-to-swim pool, a hydro therapy pool and a water play area dedicated to small children, complete with a lazy or rapid river.

A water feature just-as-lazily drops water on to the wet deck area while more relaxing can be done in a spa in the main pool area. Nearby, floor-to-ceiling windows look out at the bare land that will eventual develop into a recreation precinct complete with outdoor cricket, hockey and rugby pitches.

Behind the scenes, state-ofthe-art and energy-efficient filtration, heating and treatment plants maintain an environment in which the temperatures are set at 27.5°C for the main pool, 32°C learners’ pool, 34°C hydro pool and 38°C for the steam room and spa. The café adjoins the pool and has a wet area for swimming patrons and a dry area for others. While there is not yet a business

to run it, the council yesterday confirmed it had five parties interested, pending a selection process that starts next week.

Sports House, the new home of dozens of sports groups, is across the foyer from the café.

Behind it is one of the most modern gyms in New Zealand, presenting a new challenge to local gym owners who face new, council-backed competition to their business.

The gym will offer group fitness and spinning classes.

Among its new gear is the first kayaking machine in the country.

The new complex opens today, but its first day of business is tomorrow, from 10am. Then, it is hoped many people will file into the changing rooms, past one of the most impressive sights of the entire facility.

A huge panel forms a wall between the foyer and the corridor to the gym and on it is printed the names of the organisations, groups, people and businesses that helped the Ashburton Stadium Trust and ratepayers fund the centre.

There are 444 names on the panel, adding to a long list of unsung community fundraisers and donors that made what became a truly community project possible.

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

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Preschool high tea a success Mum drove drunk

with kids in car Police have referred the case of a mother who allegedly dropped her child at school while drunk to Child, Youth and Family.

The Hastings woman also allegedly had an unrestrained toddler in the car, Hawke’s Bay Senior Sergeant Greg Brown said.

Police were first alerted to the woman when she drove erratically along Wall Road in Hastings about 9am on Wednesday. A concerned driver followed the woman to the primary school, where she struck a parked car while trying to do a Uturn.

Mr Brown said it would be up to Child, Youth and Family to decide what course of action to take in regards to the children’s care.

Police were unsure whether the mother was drunk from the night before or whether she had been drinking that morning, Mr Brown said.

“She wasn’t particularly co-operative so we have to go with what’s in front of us,” he said.

“Given her state you would expect

Tiddlywinks Preschool children got together to celebrate their mothers, grandmothers and caregivers on Thursday afternoon.

The preschool held a Mother’s Day high tea in honour of the women.

The preschool children played games, and were taught to give their mothers or caregivers a massage, before everyone tucked into their afternoon tea.

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The woman was taken to the Hastings Police Station, where she was processed for drink-driving. She will appear in Hastings District Court next Wednesday, charged with dangerous driving and refusing to give a blood sample.

The school-aged child went to school as normal on Wednesday, while the pre-school-aged child was taken to a family friend’s house.

“Police had to go back to the station and get a car seat because the toddler was completely unrestrained,” Mr Brown said. “Luckily, there was a family friend who lived nearby who could look after the toddler.”

Mr Brown said police had spoken to all relevant witnesses and had sufficient evidence to take the matter to court. There would be no further charges at this stage.

The school hadn’t been involved in the police investigation as the incident happened outside school grounds, Mr Brown said.

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A special breakfast with cook, author Popular New Zealand cook Allyson Gofton stopped off in Ashburton on Thursday morning for a special breakfast. The Somerset Grocer was packed with keen foodies as Ms Gofton discussed her latest book, Recipes From My French Kitchen. Part cookbook and part travel memoir, the book focuses on the year Ms Gofton and her family spent living in a tiny village at the foot of the Pyrénées mountain range.

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Mr Key also received a golf putter from President Barack Obama and private plane trips around Europe with British Tory peer and billionaire businessman Lord Michael Ashcroft.

The Register of Pecuniary Interests for MPs was released on Thursday, outlining what assets and investments they have, and any gifts they received in the year to the end of January.

Mr Key declared 22 gifts, many related to his love of golf.

He was twice flown by helicopter to the Kauri Cliffs golf course in Northland by Bell Investment Trust, with accommodation and golf included on one occasion.

Businessman Gary Lane shouted Mr Key helicopter transport, accommodation and

golf at his luxurious Wairakei Resort near Taupo. Multimillionaire investor Trevor Farmer also chipped in with helicopter flights and a round of golf at Kauri Cliffs.

President Obama gave the Prime Minister a golf putter and golf balls.

Lord Ashcroft, a philanthropist and businessman, shouted the Prime Minister a private plane trip from London to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from there to Davos, Switzerland.

The register also shows that North Shore MP Maggie Barry was given three tickets to the Rolling Stones concert by Regional Facilities Auckland.

National list MP Melissa Lee was given golfing gear by Kiwi superstar Lydia Ko, and Labour leader Andrew Little attended the Womad festival this year, paid for by the Taranaki Arts Festival Trust.

NZ First list MP Darroch Ball was the only MP to declare no pecuniary interests.

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Ashburton Guardian

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Woman breaks Facebook ban By timothy Brown A Mosgiel woman, who victims say has bullied and abused them online, has been convicted for not adhering to her ban from Facebook.

Susanne Frances Day (47) was convicted and fined $500 for breaching a restraining order, when she appeared before Judge John Macdonald in the Dunedin District Court yesterday.

A woman, who wished only to be identified as Lauren, said Day posted “vile” abuse on to social media sites during a targeted and concerted campaign against her.

As a result Lauren took out a restraining order against Day. One of its conditions banned

Day from maintaining Facebook accounts.

Yesterday’s conviction related to Day flouting that ban.

Lauren said while she was pleased Day was convicted, she felt the sentence did not match the gravity of the impact Day’s online harassment had on her life.

“I’m very, very pleased there’s been a conviction but ... I don’t believe she will stop her behaviour,” she said.

Day had used Facebook to gather information and then pinned abusive messages on Pinterest, Lauren said.

“Some people might see some of this and think what are you worried about, but when it’s constant and unabated it’s really horrible,” Lauren said.

Day maintained Facebook pages under pseudonyms, which she also used to post abuse.

The online abuse started after Lauren began a relationship with Day’s husband in 2012. Lauren met Mr Day in Christchurch, where he was working, in late-2011.

He told her he was separated from his wife and Lauren had no reason to doubt this until the online harassment began, she said.

The relationship lasted almost two years, before she was confronted by Day in December 2013.

The advice she received from police was to ignore the messages, she said.

However, they did not stop and at her own expense she

hired a lawyer and took out a restraining order against Day. Lauren’s lawyer, Hamish Evans, said that Lauren had gone through a “distressing experience” as a result of the online bullying.

“She moved city, if not solely because of this, then this was a very large and significant part of the shift,” he said.

“She had some very significant concerns about her personal safety.”

The case was a “good example” of the need for the Harmful Digital Communications Bill, which passed its second reading in March, he said.

He was pleased police had seen the effect it was having on his client and decided to prosecute, he said.

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■ ASHBURTON FAMILIES WITHOUT VIOLENCE NETWORK

Mural to have an anti-violence message The Ashburton police station will soon be turned into a colourful canvas thanks to a new mural competition.

Families Without Violence Network co-ordinator Anna Arrowsmith and family violence coordinator sergeant Jim Sole (right) were showing off the blank wall on the Cass Street side of the police station on Monday, which will soon be transformed as part of the Ashburton Families Without Violence Network mural competition.

The themes of the competition include ‘keeping our children safe’, ‘growing great kids’, ‘loving families’, and ‘protecting our future’.

As well as the chance to show off their artwork to the public, the winner will also receive an “amazing” prize pack.

Entries for the competition close on May 22, and can be sent to familyviolence@saferashburton.org.nz.

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Together in life . . . and death

By Kurt Bayer When Arthur Hoffman passed away in his sleep, his beloved wife of 69 years couldn’t bear it.

Two days later, Paddy Hoffman also slipped away.

“They were soulmates. It’s all very romantic, together in life, together in death, and together right to the end,” their grandson Jason Hoffman said yesterday as he cleared their Orewa home, full of mementoes from a long and happy life.

New Zealand Air Force pilot Aaron Arthur Hoffman met a young Irish nurse during the World War Two. After the Nazis were defeated in Europe, he brought her back to Wellington with him.

Married in 1946, they later had a son, Shane Arthur Bradford Hoffman.

They retired to picturesque Orewa on the Hibiscus Coast.

But in early March this year, Mr and Mrs Hoffman’s health began to deteriorate.

They were admitted to Northhaven Hospital at Whangaparoa in adjoining beds.

On April 28, Mr Hoffman, aged 95, died peacefully in his sleep.

Heartbroken, 90-year-old Mrs Hoffman passed away in the same vein two days later.

“She was very much aware that my grandfather had passed away and without him ... she just wanted to be with him,” said 29-year-old grandson, Jason, who along with two sisters, arrived in New Zealand from London this week.

They have been clearing their “intelligent and stoic” grandparents’ house and making funeral arrangements.

Jason said he always looked up to his grandparents down under.

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Grants winners receive cheques

By Caitlin Porter

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Three Ashburton students will find the financial burden of tertiary study a little bit lighter, thanks to the Mid Canterbury members of Rural Women New Zealand.

Sarah Hayman and Louise Cross both received a $1000 scholarship from the organisation, while Ashleigh Grant received a $500 research grant.

Miss Hayman is in the second stage of her degree, a Masters of Water Resource Management, which she is studying towards at the University of Canterbury.

She said the money would definitely help her out, as studying was expensive.

Working towards her Masters of Education, specialising in the early years, Miss Grant said her $500 grant would help to ease the financial burden of study.

Miss Grant said she was particularly interested in children’s brain development and hoped to one day become a lecturer to help educate others.

Rural Women New Zealand Mid Canterbury representative (from left) Sandra Curd presented this year’s grant winner Ashleigh Grant with her cheque, while Sarah Hayman’s scholarship cheque was presented to her by convenor Pauline Hewson.

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Studying at Otago Polytechnic, Louise Cross is working towards completing her Bachelor of Nursing.

Each student had to complete a detailed application, stipulat-

ing who they were, what study results they were achieving, and why they thought they were the best candidate.

Rural Women convenor Pauline Hewson said the calibre of

applications this year was outstanding.

“With over 20 applicants this year, the appointment committee had some tough decisions to make,” she said.

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Greens call to end spying The Green Party has appealed to Government to cease some of its spying programmes after a US court ruled that mass collection of phone records was illegal.

The US Court of Appeal ruled the National Security Agency’s mass collection of telephone metadata was unlawful, though it did not order the spying programme to cease operations.

The extent of the NSA’s collection of data was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.

Green Party security and intelligence spokesman Kennedy Graham said the Government Communications and Security Bureau (GCSB) conducted the same method of spying “that has now been found to be illegal in the United States”.

“John Key only needs to look at rulings from around the world to see that this gross violation of privacy cannot ever be justified.

“The GCSB needs to put a stop to mass surveillance and come clean with New Zealanders about how much spying goes on.”

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Rakaia’s history recorded on Rakaia’s extensive history has been recorded for the benefit of current and future generations in a newly-released book. Rakaia Our History, by Janine Irvine and the Rakaia History Group, has detailed almost every aspect of the town and community since its inception over 150 years ago.

Guardian reporter Susan Sandys briefly summarises excerpts from the book.

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ew Zealand’s longest bridge at Rakaia was suffering a bad case of surface flooding when it opened in March, 1939.

It had rained extensively for days before so the river was high, but nothing could dampen the spirits of those attending.

A large gathering of residents, official visitors and construction workers witnessed the Minister of Public Works and Transport Robert Semple open the bridge in an impressive ceremony.

Above – The last span is pulled from the old Rakaia dual bridge around 1940.

Above right – Official car crossing the new Rakaia Bridge after it was opened in 1939.

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Resident Murray Gaylor recalled riding down on his bike at the age of five with his father.

“There was about two inches of water covering the bridge. Joe Johnston had a flash new tractor and trailer so he brought the Honorary Robert Semple across the water to cut the ribbon on the other side,” Mr Gaylor said.

Mr Semple used a pair of silver

scissors presented to him for the occasion by Mr Rope, head of the construction company.

As soon as the bridge was open, Rakaia residents were able to walk the length of the bridge and the day’s festivities continued.

The road bridge had replaced a dual bridge built by William White.

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unford’s Acommodation House on the north bank of the Rakaia River was a bustling social hub, with an often “coarse clientele”, from 1859.

Squatters, farm workers, and men from gold mines on the West Coast would visit and often made for volatile gatherings at river crossings.

As hotel licensee, Mr Dunford himself was appointed a special constable for the district by the provincial government.

He was permitted to carry arms, which were kept under the bar counters and was expected to ferry any police constables working in the area, and prisoners in their custody, over the Rakaia River free of charge.

He was called in to intervene in local disputes if one of the constabulary was not around.

A police barracks was built on the north bank in the early 1860s, but development later shifted to the south bank and it

Left – The Rakaia jail, today restored and on display, was a much-needed facility in the town’s early years.

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Queen of the Carnival Beatrice Hanrahan and her attendants on the way to her coronation.

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When three queens ‘ruled’ Rakaia

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any Rakaia residents still remember the Queen’s Carnival of 1952, the main fundraiser for the new community hall.

Beatrice Weir (nee Hanrahan) recalls in the book the “wonderful social time” of the carnival.

“We were always out at events such as card nights, dances and shows,” Mrs Weir said.

“The carnival lasted about three to four months and there was an outpouring of great goodwill and fun.

“The public was definitely getting something for their spending.

The fundraising committee for the new hall chose three princesses and formed three committees,” Mrs Weir said.

“It was a bit of a shock at the time, when I was chosen, so I had to

give it a bit of thought but quickly realised it would benefit Rakaia so that was worth it. The three queens were public figures for about five months and we all wore our colours fondly.

“We were young and loved dressing up and going to the functions. It kept us on our toes and busy those few months.”

She was the Country Queen, and

ended up winning the Queen of the Carnival title against the Town Queen and the Sports Queen.

She was crowned queen at a special ceremony in November at the Rakaia Domain.

“Both the town and sports queens were quick to offer their congratulations and all three teams celebrated the mammoth result they had accomplished,” the book says.

came a necessity was closed down.

With the departure of the railway gangs, Rakaia had become more settled, however, residents wanted their own police station and petitioned for a new station on the south side of the river.

It was opened at 42 Mackie Street in 1878, complete with stables and a jail.

The construction of the railway between Rakaia and Methven had re-introduced railway gangs to the community and the district was experiencing an increase in unlawful activity.

Two constables positioned there were charged with maintaining law and order, and curbing the criminal and nuisance pursuits of the day.

Notable criminals included the infamous Amy Bock. The charming and experienced swindler had just been released from jail in Christchurch when she was employed by John Gardiner as his housekeeper in 1904.

She soon changed a £2 cheque she was given to pay an account into a £12 cheque, and pocketed the change. She later denied her guilt in court.

In 1887, widow Martha Dalziel was charged with the wilful murder of her son Thomas.

The small child was the victim of his mother’s alcoholism and sad circumstances in life, and did not survive a murdersuicide attempt by drowning in the Rakaia River.

Fishing on the Rakaia (from left) Bill, George and Harry Cromie after a record salmon catch in 1922.

The photo states that the three caught 66 salmon on April 30.

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Sports diary Around the Grounds

Saturday AutoSparks Ashburton Car Club Street Sprints Riverside Industrial Estate 8.30am and the club are also running a Night Autocross within the Street Sprint track from 5.30pm

Combined Country Cup Celtic v Hornby, Celtic, 2.45pm Rakaia v Glenmark, Rakaia, 2.45pm Methven v Southern, Methven, 2.45pm Hampstead v Darfield, Darfield, 2.45pm

UC Championships Ashburton College 1st XV v Christs College, Ashburton Showgrounds, midday

Premier Mid-South Canterbury Hockey Hampstead-Collegians v TGHS at NBS Ashburton Turf 1.30pm Hampstead v Craighead at NBS Ashburton Turf, 3.00pm Wakanui Blue v Cambridge at NBS Ashburton Turf 4.30pm Wakanui Black v TBHS 1ST XI at NBS Ashburton Turf 6.00pm

Mainland Football Men’s Div 4: MCU Eastern v Parklands United @ Ashburton Domain 2:30pm Men’s Div 5 Methven v Halswell United @ Halswell Domian 2.30pm Men’s Masters Div 2: MCU Masters v Parklands United Black @ Ashburton Domain 2.30pm Men’s 18th Div 3: MCU v Halswell United @ Ashburton Domain 10:45am Men’s 18th Div 4 Methven Bye Men’s 16th Div 1: MCU v Coastal Spirit @ Cuthberts Green 12.30pm

Netball Junior Grading from 9ammidday at Ashburton Netball Courts Senior B, Senior Reserve A and B and Second Grade from 1.30pm at Ashburton Netball Courts

Canterbury Rugby League Ashburton Barbarians v Woolston Rams at Collegiate South at 1pm

Sunday Mainland Football Women Div 1 Methven A v Western @ Walter Park 10.30am Div 2 Methven B v Hornby @ McFarlane Park 10.30am

Mid Canterbury Mountain Bike Club 6 hour relay ride- solo/teams.

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Luke looking forward to home The Warriors have confirmed the signing of Kiwis and South Sydney Rabbitohs hooker Issac Luke on a three-year deal from the end of this season.

The 27-year-old has been granted a release from the last two years of his Rabbitohs contract opening the way for him to join several fellow Kiwi internationals at Mt Smart Stadium.

It means the Warriors will start 2016 with three of the Kiwis’ spine players from the lineup that accounted for the Kangaroos 26-12 in Sunday’s Anzac Test at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane - Tuivasa-Sheck, Luke and halfback Shaun Johnson.

It was Luke’s 33rd Test since his Kiwi debut in 2008 while he has also played 176 NRL games for South Sydney so far.

“I’ve been away from home for a long time now and I really miss it,” he said.

“I’ve loved playing for the Rabbitohs. They’ve done so much for me but I wanted to go back to New Zealand at some stage and I’m grateful they’ve allowed me to go.

“Going home to play for the Warriors has always been something I wanted to do. I know so many of the boys there and I also like what’s happening at the club since Jim has taken over.”

Warriors chief executive Jim Doyle said Luke’s signing was

Issac Luke has been signed by the Warriors.

one of the most significant in the club’s history.

“On top of signing Roger as well, it’s a fantastic coup for us to secure Issac,” Doyle said.

“We are always looking to bring elite players to our club and in Issac we have signed one of the very best there is.”

Warriors head coach Andrew McFadden was elated.

“His arrival at the club will provide a massive lift to our side,” he said.

“With the game getting faster

and the prospect of the number of interchanges being reduced, 80-minute hookers have become a real asset. Issac is an exceptional dummy half and he underlined that for the Kiwis in the Anzac Test against the Kangaroos. He was outstanding.

“It’s hugely exciting for us knowing Issac and Roger will on board next year.”

While he missed last year’s NRL grand final through suspension, the Hawera-born Luke was a critical contributor to

South Sydney’s first premiership in 43 years.

He has also been as integral performer in the Kiwis’ string of international successes in the last seven years. He was used from the interchange bench in the wins in the Rugby League World Cup final in 2008 and the Four Nations final in 2010 while he started in the Four Nations final win last year and again in Brisbane last Sunday when the Kiwis won their third consecutive Test against the Kangaroos.

Warriors keen to build on win Hooker Thomas Leuluai says the Warriors can take confidence out of the Kiwis’ Anzac test win but transferring that winning momentum to the NRL is far from straight forward.

The Warriors’ Kiwis contingent have returned to their club environment with their tails up and hopeful of bringing their enthusiasm from the New Zealand camp back with them.

Leuluai (right) says the best way they can do that is by being energetic in their play and producing the same amount of effort as the Kiwis did in last Sunday’s transtasman win.

“I know a lot of people see that Kiwis performance and think ‘how do you transfer that?’ but it’s a different team and a different competition,” Leuluai said.

“The whole environment is different but as individuals we can get a lot of confidence from it.

“To be fair, we haven’t been going too bad there, so the main thing is our energy and putting in those sorts of performances for our club.”

The best way to demonstrate that effort is in defence, Leul-

uai said, reiterating the point that the Warriors are focused on showing greater willingness when protecting their line.

“It’s the other side of the ball, defence,” he said. “That’s our biggest improvement as a club.

“We don’t have any trouble in attack, we’re second in points

scored so that’s not a problem but defensively we’re down the bottom. We need to start showing more steel on our line because we’re leaking too many points there.

“Line defence has been a big focus and we’ve trained pretty well and hopefully we can take

that on to the field,” Leuluai said.

Warriors prop and test teammate Ben Matulino revealed Leuluai had been in his ear following the Kiwis Suncorp Stadium success, urging them to bring a confident and united front back to the Warriors.

“Tommy spoke to me and said we’ll try and bring the energy we got out of the Kiwis into our camp,” Matulino explained.

“Just to brighten things up and bring the same kind of energy and we did that at training which was pretty good.”

After back to back losses to the North Queensland Cowboys and Gold Coast Titans, Matulino insisted the Warriors remained confident they can get things back on track in tonight’s away clash with the Cronulla Sharks.

“There’s no panic. We know that we’re close to getting it right and that’s mostly to do with errors when we’re coming out of our own half.

“We’re scoring enough points to win games but obviously our defence is not holding up the way it should.”

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■ WHEELS WEEK

Street sprints drives family battle

By Jonathan Leask

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Cars sat idle on East Street in Ashburton yesterday but they will be a blur of speed today.

The Ashburton Riverside Industrial Park will be once again transformed into a race track for the 26th annual Ashburton Street Sprints.

Sixty-four drivers will tear up the tarmac for two days but come Sunday afternoon only one will be crowned the king of streets in the Ashburton Car Club event.

As well as the overall winner, there are several other category and class titles to be claimed.

Ashburton’s Danielle Mitchell is one of four female drivers – the same four as last year - that will have their own mini-battle for fastest female.

Dianne Prendergast claimed that honour last year with Mitchell third.

Mitchell also has her own personal battle with her husband Bryce to see who can clock the fastest time in their Toyota Starlett.

“I’d like to think I could beat him but I don’t quite push it as hard as he does,” she said Pushing hard is what any driver wanting to dethrone the defending champion will have to do.

Southland’s Glenn Frew will not only be chasing the clock but a piece of history.

Already the first driver with

Ashburton driver Danielle Mitchell is one of 60 set to race the clock in the AutoSparks Ashburton Street Sprints.

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four straight titles, Frew is looking to be the most successful street sprinter in the event’s 26year history if he can collect a fifth title. Jim Spillane won five titles (1993-95, 1997 and 2000).

Frew is also looking at eclips-

ing the course record, set by James Marshall in 2010 when he stopped the clock at 2.23.25.

Frew clocked 2:24.668 in the final last year - beating Tim Cook in the final shootout and will be pushing hard to break

the record.

The 60 drivers start their engines from 8.30am this morning with a brief intermission around 1pm for the opening of the neighbouring EA Network centre sports complex.

Completing three runs today, the drivers get one last chance with a fourth run tomorrow before the top 32 drivers begin the knockout rounds, culminating with a two-car shootout at around 4pm.

Cambridge is the new sporting mecca

By DyLan CLeaver At a rough estimate Brook Robertson hasn’t seen his mates for three to four years.

He’s got a bunch of new friends, including his colleagues in the rowing eight, but his mate-mates, the ones he grew up with in Nelson, are disappearing in the rearview mirror.

Robertson, 23, is one of hundreds of athletes who have made Cambridge, nestled on the banks of the Waikato River, their home. In a kind of reverse diaspora, athletes are sucked into the town’s vortex with the promise of Olympic and world championship glory.

The town itself is like a giant sports science experiment, a Sportopolis, acting as an incubator for the country’s most ambitious and committed athletes.

Part of it is an accident of geography. Cambridge is a few kilometres downstream from the hydro-electric dam that rudely interrupts the serene progress of the mighty Waikato River

and turns it into Lake Karapiro, New Zealand’s premier rowing lake and home to the sport’s elite high-performance centre.

Part of it is planned. Last year the $30 million AvantiDrome opened, making Cambridge the hub for New Zealand cycling. Triathlon New Zealand also runs its high-performance programme out of the AvantiDrome.

The result: Cambridge has become the sort of place where it pays to suck your guts in when you walk the streets, the sort of place where you drink protein shakes even when you’re hang-

ing out for an L&P and the sort of place where you’re not really driving unless you’re driving a sponsored Hilux.

Robertson has no cause to suck in any flab, likes a good shake but could do with the car.

The men’s eight have not yet achieved enough at elite level to qualify its rowers for government money in the form of Performance Enhancement Grants.

He instead relies on a Rowing New Zealand stipend, which, he says with a grin that looks a lot like a grimace, is “enough to live on”.

Life would be a lot more com-

fortable back in Nelson, with family, or even at the regional rowing base in Blenheim, but he has no choice. If he wants to make it to the top step of an Olympic or world championship, and he desperately does, he can be nowhere else, even if it means he cannot even afford a decent bike to help with his training.

This is not a lament, but the life he has chosen.

“You don’t do it for the pay cheque. It’s for the love of the sport. I just want to help get the eight back to the top of the world.”

Meanwhile, at the other end of town, in a world of cranks and sprockets, of drinks called Cytomax and edible gels called Peak Fuel, is another refugee to sporting ambition.

Racquel Sheath’s story is similar to Robertson, but has one crucial distinction: while the latter had to move to Cambridge to further his sporting career, Sheath chose to.

In March last year she left her home in Red Beach, Whangaparaoa, and moved to Cambridge, bringing with her dreams of cycling success and her family.

“When the track was being built, I knew this was the place I had to be,” said the 21-year-old omnium rider. “I had the support of my family. They all came down with me. It made my life a whole lot easier.”

She said training in Auckland was “hellish,” referencing the almost daily drive from Whangaparaoa Peninsula to the old outdoor velodrome in Manukau, “here it is a breeze”.

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A more relaxed Shanan Mactier is still recovering from severe internal injuries suffered from a shoulder charge in a senior B rugby match.

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Shanan on the mend

By Jonathan Leask

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A shoulder charge tackle sent Shanan Mactier into a world of hurt.

The big blow left him writhing with severe internal injuries in a horror end to his outing for the Celtic senior Bs against Mt Somers on Anzac Day. “I was running down the side-line towards what I thought would be a try but one of their defenders desperately needed to tackle me but did so with no arms,” Mactier said.

The illegal shoulder charge in the opening minutes of the game flattened the 22-year-old.

“I fell on my back and thought I was just badly winded. I got up and tried to walk it off to keep playing but after a couple of minutes I knew something was up.”

Something certainly was up and he soon in absolute agony.

“It turned out I had split my kidney, put a hole in my spleen and a hole in my urinary tract.”

“Easily the worst pain I’ve ever felt.

“I was lying on the ground for about an hour waiting on the ambulance.”

He was transported to Christchurch and spent five days in hospital before returning home where he has been slowly recovering.

“The last few days I’ve been really sore and nauseous again. I guess it’s what I have to go through to get better but I’m definitely on the mend.”

Mactier will make a return to rugby of sorts today after an agonising few weeks.

The nasty injuries mean the builder will be off work for at least four months, so his teammates and the Celtic Rugby

Club decided to help him out.

At the Celtic Club Day today there will be an auction for one of their special senior B Movember edition jerseys signed by the Crusaders and the All Blacks.

The money raised will help with his medical bills.

After being stuck on the couch for the past few weeks, Mactier intends to escape the cabin fever and head along to support his team and show his gratitude.

“This is my first season at Celtic. They have been great. The club and New Zealand Rugby Association have done so much for me.”

The incident may have showed him that rugby might not be his thing.

This year was his first year back after a two-year hiatus for concussion, however, he is intent he’ll be back next year.

Kirwan sta

John Kirwan is expected to remain with the Blues for 2016.

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Crusaders show spark Crusaders 58 Reds 17

BY KRIS SHANNON A rampant attack and a generous opponent combined to provide a fitting farewell for a quintet of Crusaders last night.

With a host of key men heading offshore at the end of the year, the Crusaders gave the home fans plenty of reason for cheer in their final game at AMI Stadium this season.

The Crusaders ran in eight tries and enjoyed their third 50-point haul of the season, earning a bonus point victory that was important far beyond mere sentimental value. The five competition points lifted the Crusaders back into the playoff picture but, before Todd Blackadder’s men get too carried away with renewed hope for the finals, we must pause to consider the opposition.

The Reds were an absolute rabble. Actually, that may be too kind, given even the most disorderly mob of men would have provided greater resistance than what the visitors offered during a second half that saw them ship 43 points.

There’s a reason the Reds are in last place – several of them, in fact. Tackling is one, or a lack thereof. A weak mentality must be added to that list after last night, given the manner in which they capitulated after heading to halftime just five points in arrears.

The visitors appeared to change tack in the second 40, eschewing a competitive approach in favour of giving the likes of Richie McCaw and Dan Carter the finales their Crusaders careers deserved.

McCaw managed 35 minutes off the bench while Carter shone in his decision-making and distribution throughout. But if the last hurrahs of that pair were at the forefront of the agenda, it was Colin Slade who experienced perhaps the best send-off.

Another player headed for the departure lounge after this season, Slade established once more what an impactful player French club Pau would soon receive. The first five picked up 23 points in 80 impressive min-

Andy Ellis scores for the Crusaders against the hapless Reds, while Dan Carter celebrates.

Sir John Kirwan is believed to be only two weeks away from being re-appointed for at least another season at the Blues.

Long viewed as a dead duck, the embattled coach is being supported by his players who want to see an end to the culture of poorly performing coaches being automatically terminated.

The former All Black legend has presided over one of the worst campaigns in Blues history but having accepted a multitude of shortcomings, Kirwan, the players and the wider administration of the Blues are now working through plans on how the problems could be fixed in 2016.

As the Herald revealed last week, one of the proposed changes is to bring Crusaders assistant Tabai Matson to Auckland.

Matson is thought to be coming to mastermind the Blues’ faltering attack – one of the biggest weaknesses of their 2015 season.

The Blues will bolster their coaching team

In brief Brumbies against it The Brumbies will need to defy the odds against the Stormers tomorrow if they are to maintain any hope of a Super Rugby premiership in 2015. The Canberra-based franchise lead the Australian conference by a single point and are in danger of missing the finals for the first time since 2012. They’ve lost three of their last four games, including last start to the defending champion NSW Waratahs, who are finding form at the right time. The Stormers, on the other hand, have won three of their last four games, and are out for redemption after losing to rivals the Cheetahs last round.

Giteau in mix

utes, almost flawless with the boot and again demonstrating his abundant ability with ball in hand.

Slade stepped well off both feet, showed a real turn of pace and illustrated awareness of when to pass and when instead to use the threat of a pass, a skill that served him well in grabbing his try. It was try created by a brilliant line break from Carter and the fiveeighths pairing were far from the only Crusaders to enjoy dynamic outings.

Nemani Nadolo was again the home side’s plan A – creating the opening try before grabbing a brace of his own in the second spell – but the Crusaders weren’t as overreliant on the giant wing as they has been in recent weeks.

Both forwards and backs showed enterprise and utilised a varied passing game to

create plenty of penetration. Their fluidity in possession was exactly what had been missing for large stretches of the season but, to re-emphasise, the Reds were rubbish.

Their performance was all the more galling given their efforts in the first half, building pressure through penalties and driving the lineout at every opportunity. A succession of threats eventually saw Samu Kerevi cross on the stroke of halftime and appeared to make a real game of it.

But that possibility disappeared as rapidly as Sam Whitelock did during the lock’s stunning 65-metre solo burst, the clear pick of a wide array of spectacular tries.

Crusaders 58 (Ellis, Slade, Nadolo 2, Whitelock, Todd, Macilai, Bird tries; Slade 6 cons, 2 pens) Reds 17 (Kerevi, Feauai-Sautia tries; O’Connor pen, 2 cons) HT: 15-10

aying . . . as Blues building block

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with other new personnel – with contestable positions expected to be advertised in June.

The overall objective is to create a management group that enables the team to improve tactically and technically.

The extensive review conducted by the Blues in the last few weeks – in which the players have had significant input – also identified issues with recruitment, retention and consistency of selection.

Given the raft of failings - apparent long before they were identified in the review - Kirwan’s chances of surviving have widely been viewed as bleak.

But there has been reluctance among the squad and the executive to cut Kirwan loose without fully exploring all the options to change things next year. If the right coaching team is put around Kirwan, the players believe he has the vision, passion and respect to lead the club to a better future.

“It is about building collective leadership,” says New Zealand Rugby Players’ Association boss Rob Nichol. “Everyone has to trust the

process and understand that the days of leadership being about one man [head coach] are gone.

“Being a successful team doesn’t happen straight away. It is my opinion that the Blues are on the brink of having a really strong culture. From the players’ perspective it is not about throwing people out by any stretch. It is not about individuals. It is about creating an environment where there is collective responsibility and we think that is the right way to go.”

The situation at the Blues is similar to the one in which the Highlanders found themselves at the end of 2013. After an awful campaign, player feedback about head coach Jamie Joseph was non-ambiguous: he was seen as possessing a number of qualities but could only be retained if he agreed to making significant and wholesale changes.

After all the problems had been identified in the first phase of the Blues’ review, Kirwan had to agree that he accepted them for the process to continue.

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Matt Giteau is offering “no promises” that he’s up to representing Australia at a Rugby World Cup for a third time. But he’s hoping to find out. Giteau, his European Cup-winning teammate Drew Mitchell and veteran flanker George Smith are all in the mix for a Wallabies recall following the ARU’s decision last month to relax eligibility rules to select overseas-based players with 60 caps and seven years’ national service.

While 34-year-old Smith is understood not to be overly interested, Giteau and Mitchell are firmly in coach Michael Cheika’s sights after helping Toulon claim a European Cup win last weekend.

Hurricanes hover The Hurricanes can break their playoff drought tonight.

They haven’t played in the Super Rugby finals since 2009 – only six players remain on their roster from the team that lost 14-10 to the Chiefs in Hamilton in the semifinals that season – and the side has gone through a host of changes since. Coach Chris Boyd and his assistant John Plumtree have taken the side to another level this year and they’ve won nine from 10 to start their campaign.

Generally speaking, 10 wins is good enough to earn a spot in the playoffs and victory over the Sharks at Westpac Stadium in Wellington tonight would be their 10th.

Foley vows fight Western Force coach Michael Foley is confident he remains the right man for the job despite the team’s poor record this Super Rugby season. Pressure is starting to mount on Foley following his team’s 10-match losing run, which has left the Perthbased franchise languishing in last spot. Foley, whose contract runs through to the end of 2017, led the team to their best-ever season last year, said on Friday he’s determined to inspire another big turnaround in 2016. The Force face the NSW Waratahs today, having not won since their boilover victory against them in round one.

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Christie ambitious Ashburton cyclist Jason Christie is looking to go one better in the third round of the Calder Stewart Cycling Series on the West Coast this weekend before returning to race in Asia. Christie was beaten into second place in a sprint finish by Sam Horgan in the previous round in Timaru and will aim up a first place finish in 140km Hokitika Classic today. He will have competition from Horgan and series leader Luke McPherson who has a five point lead on Tom Hubbard. The women’s field features a record nine teams and is a great mixture of youth and experience set to tackle a 110 kilometre course.

Turf war over MCG AFL boss Gillon McLachlan has moved to diffuse tensions with Cricket Australia over a looming dispute about the availability of the MCG. The AFL learned on Thursday that Cricket Australia plans to allow Victoria to host the Sheffield Shield final at the MCG over next year’s Easter long weekend if they finish top of the Shield ladder. That position is at odds with the AFL’s desire to open the 2016 season with the traditional Richmond-Carlton blockbuster on Easter Thursday.

“People in this town love cricket and football and people will expect us to work this out,” McLauchlan said.

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Final blowout The Mid Canterbury Badminton Club joined the list of sports clubs saying farewell to their former homes ahead of a move into the EA Networks Centre sports complex.

The club had their final hit in the sports hall on Thursday morning before a much anticipated move into the new stadium next week.

Among the group on Thursday morning were (pictured from left) club patron Rod Cumming, Sandi Leith, Kay Hughes and Susan Spencer, four long-

standing players with a combined total of 147 years of badminton inside the confines of the hall on Tancred Street.

The experienced quartet joins the exodus from the historic home to the future of local sport, joining the next generation inside the new complex.

On Tuesday night the club will continue to easily fill eight badminton courts from 7pm and on Thursday mornings players are on court between 9.30am11.30am with new players welcome to come along.

Wall breaks wrist

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Kiwis get it right; now it’s the Warriors’ turn

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he magnificent victory for the Kiwis over the Kangaroos last Sunday will go down in history as one of their finest, not least of all because it completed a hat-trick over the green and golds, and that is a very rare feat indeed.

It confirms that there has been a major shift in the power base of league, and that base is now in the land of the long white cloud.

So, with so many Warriors in the Kiwis ranks, why isn’t the Auckland-based team a major player in the NRL? You’ve got Shaun Johnson doing his best Ma’a Nonu impressions (OK, not this year!) and not firing for his ‘normal’ team, but when pulling on the black jersey turning into Superman, or at the very least Ironman.

You’ve got Captain Mannering (no, not the Dad’s Army one) running the show - for the Kiwis he’s like Todd Blackadder in his playing days at the Crusaders, leading from the front and inspiring every man to follow

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him to the gates of hell, but he can’t quite get the Warriors to gel the same way.

Even though half the troops are the same for both teams.

You’ve got Manu Vatuvei, who somehow seems to be elevating his game to an even higher level, especially when he lines up on the biggest stage.

You’ve got a huge forward pack, who should be putting the frighteners on all and sundry, and allowing their smart men to play merry hell with the ball.

There is certainly no other team in the NRL with the same number of international players in the ranks.

But they just can’t get their act together; there’s maybe four or five games they should have won, but they’ve let them slip.

That may change next year.

Enter Jim Doyle.

He’s their latest CEO, and he’s been quietly beavering away behind the scenes, and suddenly announced yesterday that Issac Luke would be wearing a Warriors jersey from next year.

No doubt there’ll be a hundred conspiracy stories swirling around about how he was poached from the champion, but currently struggling, side Souths, who apparently have let him go with no transfer fee or compensation.

Is the international rugby league arena important? A lot of Aussies will still argue that Origin footy is the pinnacle of the game, but tell that to the shattered men in Kangaroo jerseys after the final whistle on Sunday. * * * * * What do you do with someone like Greg Bird?

A brilliant hard-man player for years in the NRL, but with one serious, major flaw, he can’t stop himself from doing something that is outlawed, with good rea-

son, and that’s the lifting tackle.

In the latest episode, you can clearly see on the replays he goes into the tackle, actually pauses for a moment halfway through, but then consciously grabs Jason Nightingale’s legs again and tips him up, and drives him down.

It’s funny watching Bird’s friends on the telly trying to defend him, even though there is no defence whatsoever; he’s making the same tackles he was five years ago when they were legal, but just as dangerous, ask Alex McKinnon. Or Jarrod McCracken.

This time around Bird is on holiday for eight weeks, which puts him up there with the best/ worst of them, and it’s costing his team dearly every time they hit the paddock without him.

Do you put something in his contract? Or give him another ‘final’ warning?

Cut him altogether right now, which, given his recidivist nature, might be their only option.

The game changes, players simply have to change with it.

Washington point guard John Wall has five fractures in his left wrist and hand that could sideline him for the rest of the Wizards’ second-round NBA playoff series against Atlanta. The team announced the diagnosis on Thursday, days after Wall was hurt in Washington’s victory over the Hawks on Sunday in the series opener. Eastern Conference top seeds Atlanta struck back in game two to level the series at one game apiece, and the loss of All-Star Wall is a hard blow to the Wizards’ hopes of advancing from the best-of-seven series.

Pele in hospital Pele is in stable condition in hospital after undergoing surgery for an enlarged prostate, doctors said, in the latest health scare for the Brazilian football legend.

The 74-year-old had the surgery on Tuesday and is to have tests to see when he can be released from the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, the same facility that treated him for two weeks last year for a urinary infection.

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Lowe re-signs North Queensland have confirmed back-rower Ethan Lowe has re-signed with the Cowboys until the end of next year. Lowe, who debuted for the Cowboys in 2013, has been an ever present for the NRL club in 2015. Cowboys football manager Peter Parr said the club was happy to extend the 24-year-old former Sydney Roosters junior’s stay in Townsville. “Ethan has a bright future in the game and we’re delighted that he will continue his career with the Cowboys,” Parr said.

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Hughes filly to challenge Purdon power The absence of around 20,000 people should negate a repeat of the nightmare last time Brian Hughes and Maurice McKendry went group one hunting at Addington.

The pair team up with The Orange Agent in the $150,000 Nevele R Fillies Final in Christchurch today, the sensational northern filly taking on a small army of Purdon-Rasmussen stars headed by Fight For Glory.

The Orange Agent has been heavily backed after a string of stunning wins in the north and has the draw advantage over her All Stars rivals.

If that sounds familiar to smart harness punters it should, because it was exactly the same scenario of the Sires’ Stakes Final at Addington on NZ Cup Day last November when the Hughes-trained, McKendrydriven Hughie Green carried northern hopes.

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He, too, was thought to be good enough to defeat the Purdon runners but after a hard run he freaked out halfway up the Addington home straight, ducked inside the markers and almost rolled his way up on to the greyhound track as a Purdon trio raced to the trifecta.

Like Hughie Green, The Orange Agent has shown an occasional tendency to lose her way under extreme pressure, so the similarities could be enough to scare punters away from her now $1.80 fixed odds quote.

McKendry says he isn’t worried by that, or anything else for that matter. “Hughie was still very green that day and the huge crowd didn’t help when he was under pressure,” he offers.

“And while this filly used to have a few tricks Bunty [Hughes] has done a great job with her and she has been great recently.

And, of course, there won’t be

a huge crowd like that.

“So I am not worried about her manners and her fitness should be spot on as she has had three or four workouts and has been really good.

“She travelled down well and Bunty is happy so I am, too.”

A crucial ingredient of The Orange Agent’s recent mental development has been her improved gate speed because if she can lead from barrier two then the race is hers to lose.

If the foreign environment sees her even slightly wayward early and one of the PurdonRasmussen runners gets in front of her then the dynamic of the race changes dramatically.

Her Northern Oaks win was so stunning The Orange Agent deserves to be favourite but it was no more impressive than Fight For Glory’s win two days later in the NSW Oaks so the difference in their price is maybe too great, especially if Fight

Natalie Rasmussen drives Fight For Glory in the Fillies Final at Addington today.

For Glory could somehow get in front of the northerner.

The likes of Democrat Party, Supersonic Miss and Classical Art all add depth to the race but they could also said to be racing a length below their best so one of the two favourites should win.

While McKendry is confident in one of today’s elite races with

The Orange Agent, he realises his own stable runner Shandale might need more than just a good draw in the other, the $200,000 Sales Series Pace.

The lightly-raced juvenile has looked slippery in weakish northern company and was a charging third against the older horses last start so looks the best of the rest in the day’s richest race.

“The Rest” are those not from the Purdon-Rasmussen stable, who have remarkably won every major juvenile race they have contested in Australasia so far this season.

That looks certain to continue today as they have the two favourites in Lazarus and Chase The Dream, as well as high-class back-up in Motu Premier and Cash N Flow. Their dominance has become so complete at juvenile level they could realistically clean sweep the major races for the season.

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Auckland dogs Today at Manukau Stadium

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Manukau Stadium on May 10. NZ Meeting number: 9.

Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13.

1 2.08pm (NZT) GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT SERIES FINAL C1f, 318m 1 77273 Another Fantasy nwtd ..................... M Mann 2 71514 Bill Rush 18.85 ............................. H Mullane 3 23212 Opawa Venus 19.02 B & .................... Steele 4 36243 Making You Paw 18.74 ................B Littlejohn 5 23261 Speed Lorde 18.49 ...........................B Craik 6 81326 Lord De Air 18.58 U & ...........................Bliek 7 27534 Sandor Glegane 18.45 .................... T Green 8 64141 Becoming Paw 18.53 ..................B Littlejohn 9 42456 Jetsun Storm 18.86 ........................G Wilson 10 24535 Skyler White nwtd .............................B Craik 2 2.25pm TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT SERIES HEAT 1 C0q, 318m 1 66 Boris Gump nwtd ............................. S Clark 2 7534 Botany Hot Shot nwtd .....................P Green 3 24854 Out of Trouble nwtd R & N O’ .............Regan 4 33875 Redstar Reaper nwtd U & .................Cottam 5 3x665 Comet Foot nwtd ................................ J Foot 6 34235 Cawbourne Legs nwtd ..............J McInerney 7 22763 Krack It nwtd .................................... S Clark 8 5 Mittyesque nwtd ................................B Craik 9 762 Peaknuckle nwtd .......................... H Mullane 10 8486 Bad Business nwtd R & N O’ .............Regan 3 2.43pm TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT SERIES HEAT 2 C0q, 318m 1 574F4 Dobbie nwtd ..................................... S Clark

2 73258 Homebush Inquiry nwtd ............J McInerney 3 2x388 Hugglemonster nwtd .................... H Mullane 4 8x252 Calzini nwtd...................................... S Clark 5 26833 You Betcha Guff nwtd R & N O’..........Regan 6 1 Ralphonso nwtd ................................C Hore 7 465 Lady Jane nwtd B & ........................... Steele 8 Sometime Soon nwtd ........................B Craik 9 6F Hallo Star nwtd..................................B Bond 10 F757 Botany Flame nwtd .........................P Green 4 3.01pm DOGZONE SPRINT C0, 318m 1 527 Scary Spice nwtd ...........................P Henley 2 855x Herschke nwtd ................................P Green 3 26327 Ruby Murray nwtd ...........................P Green 4 74434 Chateau Neuf nwtd .........................P Green 5 864 Scott Some Gas nwtd .................... G Parker 6 6564 Watch That Gypsy nwtd ............... H Mullane 7 762 Peaknuckle nwtd .......................... H Mullane 8 54323 Cookie Monster nwtd ........................B Craik 9 8486 Bad Business nwtd R & N O’ .............Regan 10 F757 Botany Flame nwtd .........................P Green 5 3.19pm DELI’S SPORTS BAR SPRINT SERIES HEAT 1 C1q, 318m 1 42456 Jetsun Storm 18.86 ........................G Wilson 2 21347 Thrilling Echo 18.86 ........................ K Walsh 3 55285 Hermione Baxter nwtd ..............J McInerney 4 F11 Whisper Magic 18.54 ......................P Green 5 22737 Banbit nwtd ......................................T Agent 6 43663 Poppa Conquest nwtd U & ....................Bliek 7 x3651 Who You nwtd .............................. H Mullane 8 65547 Lenny Mac nwtd ...............................T Agent 9 57771 Hell Fire 18.85 U &............................Cottam 10 87562 Cool Foot Luke nwtd .......................... J Foot

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3.37pm DELI’S SPORTS BAR SPRINT SERIES HEAT 2 C1q, 318m 1 57874 Another Plane 18.71 ....................... M Mann 2 44422 Zipping Tay nwtd ..............................T Agent 3 64184 Botany Bev 18.80 ............................P Green 4 81277 Homebush Dodger nwtd ...........J McInerney 5 76337 Cosmic Warra 18.93 W & ................T Steele 6 32332 Cyclone Lusi 18.64 U & ....................Cottam 7 22211 Baymax 18.72 ...................................B Craik 8 54378 Jetsun Jinny 19.04 .........................G Wilson 9 34465 Banjo’s Retreat nwtd ........................T Agent 10 7x6x2 Let’s Go Lettie nwtd ..................... H Mullane 7 3.55pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 78645 Carolina Moon nwtd .........................T Agent 2 38522 Mockingjay nwtd................................B Craik 3 64576 Vicariously 18.68 B & ......................... Steele 4 57771 Hell Fire 18.85 U &............................Cottam 5 65865 Asia Ostee 18.78 ............................ M Mann 6 34465 Banjo’s Retreat nwtd ........................T Agent 7 87562 Cool Foot Luke nwtd .......................... J Foot 8 86275 Carter Cash nwtd R & N O’................Regan 9 43886 Charles Fredrick nwtd ..................... M Mann 10 24457 Creme Da Genes 18.71 R & N O’ ......Regan 8 4.13pm PLASTERBOARD LTD SPRINT C3, 318m 1 75874 It’s The Dream 18.56 B & ................... Steele 2 15328 Our Jack Attack 18.62 .................. M J Lozell 3 12327 Homebush Sarah nwtd..............J McInerney 4 686x3 Multicam Lad 18.75....................D Schofield 5 12111 Yeboah 18.23 ................................... S Clark 6 38722 Fortis Fiona 18.65 U & ......................Cottam

7 57718 English Honey 18.55 R & N O’...........Regan 8 43712 Lockett In Eddie 18.90 R & N O’ ........Regan 9 13458 Sacred Can You 18.63 R & N O’ ........Regan 10 27687 Bee Rabbit 18.61 .............................T Agent 9 4.32pm HAPPY RETIREMENT JINJA JAM STAKES C1, 527m 1 63111 Tennessee Smile nwtd ......................C Hore 2 217x4 Winterfell 30.93 .................................B Craik 3 24525 Percentage Girl 30.97 .................L Laagland 4 23775 What That Does 30.73 .................... T Green 5 8x526 Whirly Ralston 31.32 ........................ S Clark 6 24535 Skyler White nwtd .............................B Craik 7 73786 Miss Votchka nwtd B &....................... Steele 8 31234 Zalia 30.85 W &...............................T Steele 9 14885 Jinja Jam 30.78 ...........................B Littlejohn 10 37777 Montana 30.68 ................................P Green 10 4.57pm MTA GIFT VOUCHERS SPRINT SERIES FINAL C4f, 318m 1 55715 Explosive Osti 18.31 .........................C Hore 2 66663 Cosmic Mack 18.48 ...................D Schofield 3 32443 Crackles Appeal 18.62 ....................P Green 4 72746 Opawa Uno 18.64 W & ...................T Steele 5 37812 Rotovegas Junior 18.51 ..................S Payne 6 65521 Rotovegas Rat 18.55 ......................S Payne 7 55323 Ninjago 18.65 ................................... S Clark 8 58625 Uno Lachlan 18.37 .....................D Schofield 9 21353 Where’s Carlos 18.62 R & N O’..........Regan 10 53155 Manyana Groper nwtd......................T Agent 11 5.17pm GREYHOUNDS NORTH GRADUATION DISTANCE C1d, 603m 1 21222 Botany Richie nwtd ...................J McInerney 2 77163 Miss Selfies nwtd ......................J McInerney

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

55162 Ramah Reason nwtd ...................... T Green 23585 Mrs. Punting nwtd W & ....................T Steele 66476 Three Rivers nwtd ........................... T Green 68477 Boston Mona nwtd ...........................T Agent 63712 Moore Park Miss nwtd...................... S Clark 53441 Kitty’s Shiraz 35.53 H & ..............L Laagland 68856 Legal Aid nwtd ............................... P Lowen 65x78 Bella Forza nwtd M O’ .........................Bryan 12 5.37pm SUNLINE TROPHY STAKES C3, 527m 1 32146 Artic Rouge 30.83 W & ...................T Steele 2 12434 Bloo Bloomers 30.67........................ S Clark 3 22533 Don Draper 30.51 .............................B Craik 4 47666 Kiki Rhode 30.25 W & .....................T Steele 5 25143 Zipping Reece 30.80 ......................P Henley 6 26376 My Beauty 30.88 .......................... M J Lozell 7 55528 Harajuku Baby 30.64.........................B Craik 8 32131 Thrilling Spell nwtd .......................... K Walsh 9 68668 Zipping Orrick 30.40 M & ................. J Smith 10 55877 Fortis Flier 30.74 U & ........................Cottam 13 5.57pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C2, 318m 1 36533 Asta 18.76 .....................................A Cleaver 2 55436 Peeta Mellark 18.80 ..........................B Craik 3 44535 Uncle Romilly 18.72 ..........................B Craik 4 35F35 Heza Carlos 18.66 ....................... M J Lozell 5 72827 Arizona Sky nwtd .............................T Agent 6 4Fx42 Jay Low nwtd ................................... S Clark 7 56618 You’re Lucky 18.67 ............................B Craik 8 73363 Cawbourne Kiwi 18.84 U & ...................Bliek 9 25364 Mr. Darci nwtd R & N O’ .....................Regan 10 23543 Winsome George 18.62 .............D Schofield - NZME

9 4x641 Miss Mossman t (4) 53.5...............D Bradley 10 7x641 Sea Eagle dm (16) 53.5 ..............C Lammas 11 83339 Flying Orca (17) 53 .........................S Collett 12 80400 Smartly t (12) 53 ........................M Coleman 13 118x8 Ethical dm (9) 53 ............................V Colgan 14 66152 Rose Of Virginia (2) 53..................P Holmes 15 60425 Lion Red dm (10) 54 16 52164 Seconds Out 53.5 ........................ Scratched 17 x8113 Augusta National db (11) 53 18 315x2 Mr Kanton tm (8) 53 Emergencies: Lion Red, Seconds Out, Augusta National, Mr Kanton 7 3.12pm METALCRAFT ROOFING 1400 RATING 75 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 3735x Cornelius dm (10) 59.5 ..............V Gatu (a3) 2 10459 Red King dm (6) 59 ...........................L Innes 3 8428x Boy dm (9) 58.5.............................. R Schistl 4 707x7 Cody Cat tdm (4) 58.5...................D Bradley 5 8647x Peacefuleasyfeelin (15) 58 .......A Jones (a2) 6 11x1. Snapshot td (3) 58 .......................... C Grylls 7 59x25 Flirty Gertey db (5) 57.5 ............J Oliver (a2) 8 x3557 Commett tdm (2) 56.5 ................M Cameron 9 15542 Giardini (8) 55.5 .........................M Coleman 10 11x0x Moon Tide dm (7) 55.5 ................ D Johnson 11 54x21 Hamacho dm (14) 55 .....................V Colgan 12 1209x Sweetazcuz tmh (1) 55 ................... R Jones 13 75x11 The Knight’s Queen td (11) 54.5 .....R Myers 14 19321 Flying Fantasy dm (13) 54 .L Magorrian (a2) 15 x3711 Rocknrolla dm (12) 55.5 ..................S Collett 16 60x19 Amadeus 55 ................................. Scratched Emergencies: Rocknrolla, Amadeus 8 3.47pm WINDSOR PARK STUD ROTORUA STAKES $50,000, WFA F&M, 1400m 1 10990 The Filly dm (9) 57 .............................M Hills 2 718x6 Kelly O’Reilly d (15) 57......................L Innes 3 07x51 Queens Rose dm (5) 57.................. C Grylls

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M2 Rotorua gallops Today at Rotorua Raceway

Racing Rotorua’s meeting at Rotorua on May 9. NZ Meeting number: 2. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9.

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11 5346x Mistaar m (10) 54 .......................M Cameron 12 01220 Silk Chardonnay (15) 54 ..........A Jones (a2) 13 34305 Tronic Rose (6) 54 14 04454 Sierra Beel (13) 55.5 ......................V Colgan 15 8647x Peacefuleasyfeelin (12) 54 Emergencies: Tronic Rose, Sierra Beel, Peacefuleasyfeelin 5 2.00pm CRAIG THOM MEMORIAL 1200 RATING 65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 17x Eletist dmb (8) 59 ............................ C Grylls 2 0800x Coolibah t (3) 58.5 .......................... R Jones 3 x1838 One Direktion d (2) 58.5.............M Cameron 4 50x46 Stralis db (6) 57.5........................... R Schistl 5 x7292 Gardone td (12) 57......................C Lammas 6 7321x Heeby Jeeby d (16) 57 ......................L Innes 7 0650x Princess Nicole tdm (5) 57 .......A Jones (a2) 8 0x241 Hysteria Lane tdm (9) 56.5 ........M Coleman 9 6x210 Jacqui Ickx tdm (7) 56.5 .... U Holmquist (a3) 10 4580x Airworthy dm (4) 56.........................R Myers 11 3090x Cape Mapperley (1) 56 .............J Oliver (a2) 12 4229x Flossy The Cat d (15) 56...............D Bradley 13 620x7 Nighean dm (13) 56 ................ R Smyth (a1) 14 688x8 Nectacolecta dm (11) 55 ............. D Johnson 15 49x7x Huckleberry Flyer (14) 56.5L Magorrian (a2) 16 84x55 Amber Rayne m (10) 56 Emergencies: Huckleberry Flyer, Amber Rayne 6 2.35pm CAMPBELL INFRASTRUCTURE ROTORUA CUP $75,000, OPN HCP, 2200m 1 25413 Decorah tm (3) 59 ......................M Cameron 2 34531 El Soldado td (6) 56.5 .....................A Collett 3 7x944 Pump Up The Volume m (1) 56 ... D Johnson 4 4x752 Spring Cheer tdm (5) 55.5 ..............R Myers 5 6x425 Coachline db (13) 55.5......................L Innes 6 45625 Storming The Tower dm (7) 55.5 ..... R Jones 7 40x88 Intransigent tdm (15) 55 ...................K Smith 8 88432 Mako m (14) 54.5 ............................ C Grylls

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■ CHRISTCHURCH REBUILD

Change for the better

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industry forward through innovation.

The reality of today’s market conditions offer businesses little choice but to embrace change.

This is particularly important as your competition is no longer just in your neighbourhood, but on the other side of the world.

Companies in almost every industry are challenged to keep assessing whether they have the structure, governance skills, products, services and productivity to capitalise on rapidly shifting business conditions and opportunities.

Often businesses find they need to adopt new practices to foster a climate of innovation, continuous improvement, and strong customer focus.

At all levels, you need people who can lead and contribute but a business also needs guidance and support in making the transition to new ways of doing business.

Change should never be viewed as complete, it is a way of operating which is continuous and the most successful businesses are always looking to adapt faster than their peers.

Moving your business forward demands a robust process to design and deploy specific strategies and plans your company needs to capture the opportunities in change. Developing and implementing such strategies require a specific skill set so it is worth seeking the advice and guidance of an advisor.

Continuous change lies at the heart of human progress. Organisations which try to resist change or fail to adapt, quickly find themselves overtaken.

Matt Hannah is a director of KPMG Private Enterprise

will have to be repaired. Some retaining walls, footpaths and crash barriers have also been affected,” Mr Gliddon said.

The spokeswoman said work on Ramp 4 was ongoing.

“It is likely that construction on Ramp 4 will continue as planned, and then repairs to the affected portion of the ramp will be carried out later this year. The cost of repairs has not yet been finalised.”

A whistle-blowing contractor working on Waterview estimated it would take a month to demolish the work. The contractor said repairs probably would not hold up the huge tunnel and motorway interchange job.

“But I’m guessing it would take a month so it’s going to cost someone a lot of money,” he said, referring to Ramp 4 retaining walls, footpaths and crash barriers.

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cord with the Christchurch City Council.

“The Government’s objective with the council is to facilitate more housing in the central city, to encourage innovative design while also ensuring the new apartments and townhouses are affordable. Twenty per cent, or 38 of the new homes must be priced at or below $450,000.

“This price limit is set to coincide with the Government’s new KiwiSaver HomeStart scheme that provides grants of up to $20,000 to help first home buyers to put together a deposit a new home,” he said.

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Investigations are being carried out into weak, substandard, faulty Firth concrete supplied to the $1.4 billion Waterview Connection.

The Well-Connected Alliance building Waterview and the NZ Transport Agency, which will own it, are involved in the work.

A spokeswoman yesterday said: “The NZ Transport Agency and the other organisations in the Well-Connected Alliance are still investigating what repairs will be needed, and how they will be carried out.”

This week, Brett Gliddon, the agency’s highway manager for Auckland and Northland, said part of the work already completed would be demolished.

“On-site investigations confirm a section of Ramp 4 on the Great North Rd Interchange

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residents return to the central city. The Colombo and Welles developments were just outside the CBD in a part of the city that is being revitalised.

“It’s a vibrant area on the rise with great amenities including green spaces, the nearby retail and innovation precincts and of course all the excitement of central city living,” he said.

“Our high quality developments will be great additions to their neighbourhoods with their mixture of homes and shops.”

Dr Smith said the Government has signed the deal with Fletcher as part of the Housing Ac-

■ OPINION

t is human nature to believe that if you’ve been doing something a certain way for a long time, it must be the right way to do it. The longer you’ve been doing something a particular way, the assumption is that the better it must be.

Therefore, change and innovation requires that you not only embrace new ideas as a good thing to do, you must also acknowledge that the old way is not necessarily better. Change is not just about accepting something new, it can also mean giving up something old.

In business you must adapt and change in order to sustain viability, continuous growth and long-term success. If you stand still, you’ll be overtaken.

Look at how the Uber online application has changed the taxi industry. Uber is now considered the world’s largest taxi company despite not owning vehicles. Online accommodation website, Airbnb, is another example of a company that has moved the accommodation

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Costly repairs for motorway

Fletcher wins rebuild project Fletcher Building subsidiary Fletcher Living has just won a huge Government contract to build 191 new Christchurch houses.

Housing Minister Nick Smith and Fletcher Living chief operating officer Steve Evans have announced the deal for the houses to be built during the next two years.

Fletcher has been appointed a preferred partner for the Colombo and Welles housing developments and selected after a competitive procurement process.

Mr Evans said the company was excited to help Christchurch

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+0.1%

p NZX 20 index

4,316.0

+6.23

+0.14%

p NZX All index

6,148.61

+5.82

+0.09%

p Rises 51 q Falls 36

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5,634.6

–11.1

–0.2%

At close of trading on May 8, 2015

p Dow Jones Indust.

17,924.1 +82.08 +0.46% At close of trading on May 7, 2015

FTSE 100 index q

6,887.0

–46.79

–0.67%

At close of trading on May 7, 2015

p Nikkei 225 index

19,379.2 +87.20 +0.45% At close of trading on May 8, 2015

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

q Gold

1,187.0

London – $US/ounce

–10.0

–0.84%

q Silver London – $US/ounce

16.35

–0.07

–0.43%

p Copper London – $US/tonne

6,437.0

+27.0

+0.42%

NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ

Country

As at 4pm May 8, 2015

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

TT buy

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TT sell

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New centre held up by community Stu Oldham

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he pools are remarkable, the indoor courts are fantastic and the gym is probably as flash as any you’ll see.

There’s plenty to admire at the EA Networks Centre, but one of its most admirable features is also its simplest.

A glass panel on the $35 million centre’s long central corridor should be a source of local pride and inter-regional jealousy.

It’s a wall, but it doesn’t hold up the ceiling. It’s not crucial to the building, but it would be nothing without it.

The panel presents a very long list of everyone who helped make the decades-awaited centre a reality.

Among them are some of the district’s biggest businesses, its most active trusts and myriad service groups, schools and families that did what they could to make the project happen.

There are 444 names on the panel and behind many of them are thousands more who donated their time, money and services to help fundraisers secure the district’s new aquatic and recreation centre.

The names say this is a true community facility. It has tangible community support.

That the Ashburton Stadium Complex Trust and its many supporters raised the $5 million community target so quickly and so thoroughly is testament to that broad and consistent backing.

Successive surveys and public consultation demonstrated this time and again, even as many prudent ratepayers worried about paying for a new stadium, museum and art gallery.

Many still worry. The centre’s hefty cost will linger on rates bills for many years and there may be more when playing fields are added to a modern sports precinct envied by districts too timid to build for growth.

As the doors finally open, the worry has shifted to debate the popular, costly plans to bolt a couple of hydroslides on to the facility.

It is another debate for a facility that has been discussed for decades. In the meantime, the new EA Networks Centre has time to show why thousands of people sought the best for Mid Canterbury.

YOUR VIEW Dung v shingle v car Last week Brian Fauth, the roading manager for the [Ashburton] District Council said that all farmers should have mats across the road when dairy cows are crossing.

I haven’t seen any mats on the Ashburton-Staveley road through Green Street.

This week he states shingle from driveways is a safety issue on busy tar-sealed roads.

I would think cow [dung] is more of a safety issue than shingle from driveways getting on tar-sealed roads.

Gary Webb

Cannabis action The police showed good sense when they ignored some minor cannabis-smoking incidents last Saturday.

People were protesting against cannabis laws at 10 cit-

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ies and towns around NZ and calling on our government to regulate cannabis similarly to alcohol.

When people are exercising their democratic rights, police harassment of smokers would have been a waste of taxpayers’ money and valuable police resources. Protesting against unjust laws is our democratic right, so long as it’s not a threat to others in any way.

New Zealand spent more than $59 million between 2007 and 2011 imprisoning those who were convicted of minor drug offences and had to serve custodial sentences. This money is spent on imprisonment costs alone – it does not include costs to police, the courts, treatment or probation Current policy has proven highly ineffective at restricting young people’s access to cannabis. Legal regulation, which includes age restrictions, can

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limit young people’s access to it. Only 23 per cent of Dutch people aged 15 to 64 had ever tried cannabis and 7 per cent had used it recently, compared to 52 per cent and 24 per cent in the US, and 50 per cent lifetime use and 15 per cent recent use in New Zealand.

Government surveys show around 540,000 New Zealanders smoke pot regularly, while 70,000 light up every day despite harsh laws against its use.

Our public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it.

William Rea This letter refers to a national day of action, but there were no organised protests in Mid Canterbury.

– Editor

EA Networks Centre This morning, I stopped to view your district’s impressive new indoor sports centre, the EA Networks Centre.

I only wish I was back in town on Saturday, so I could see firsthand the amazing work that has been done there. It looks like it will be an asset and a drawcard for your district. I for one will be back from Christchurch with my grandchildren.

A. Hobbs

Council spending Are we dealing with a handicapped café, empty for the opening of the EA Networks Museum as well?

Now second thoughts on rubbish collection, finally realised there is no difference to old model, just cost. Much more disaster, after disaster. Like I said in a letter to the editor two months ago: Shame on you Ashburton District Council; your communication means nothing now, you lost your trust a long time ago.

Martin Laffey

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North Ashburton River flows again Jetboats on the north branch of the Ashburton River are an uncommon sight these days, but it needn’t be, according to Steve Gerard of Future Rivers.

S

o what’s going on in the North Ashburton, where has all this water suddenly come from?

Since about mid-March the RDR has been spilling water from its canal up behind Methven, supplementing the flow in the North Ashburton River with surplus water as the Highbank power station undergoes maintenance.

It couldn’t have come at a better time for the river, with the river mouth being closed for some months over the hot dry summer.

And how quickly the environment has responded, the increased flow has opened the river mouth, allowing for the immediate interaction between those species that move between sea and river. And it’s been in the nick of time for the Ashburton salmon run, allowing them to enter the river to run up to spawn.

For the North Ashburton River it’s the salvation it badly needed, reconnecting the permanent flow in the upper river with the river mouth.

In the crystal clear mountain water of the upper river in the pool against the RDR’s siphon, two large fish show that the salmon have taken full advantage of the opportunity to run the river, Mother Nature doesn’t mess about, it would seem!

A pat on the back for the RDR would seem appropriate.

While it may not have been their intention, they have shown what can be achieved in a very short period of time.

There is a “but” though.

For years now the Canterbury Water Management Strategy has been doing its thing, in my opinion popping a few sticky plasters on the environment in the odd place, pretending to be providing the so-called win-win collaborative approach to water management, while quietly ignoring questions about the bigger issues and certainly not coming up with any substantial environmental solutions.

We have the North Ashburton River, where normal summer

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Will you attend the official opening of the EA Networks Centre on Saturday?

No 81% Yes 19%

Today’s online poll question Q: Do you plan to utilise the EA Networks Centre sports complex?

Jetboats enjoying a rare opportunity to boat the North Ashburton River at Digby’s Bridge on Anzac Day. PHOTO SUPPLIED

flows at Digby’s Bridge are non-existent, just a dry barren expanse of riverbed largely robbed of flow by over a century of agricultural development, development that we all welcome as it has made Mid Canterbury the prosperous region we see today, but it has had an environment cost.

And yet the solution looms so large and obvious before us; either supplement the flow from the RDR directly, the infrastructure is largely already there as the RDR itself has demonstrated, so this could happen immediately! Or a better solution might be a combination of first supplementing the stock water races that rob a good percentage of the river’s natural flow, allowing that natural flow to stay in the river in the first instance, and then supplementing the rest directly to maintain an environment flow as needed.

But where will the water come from? What water is already allocated? We don’t have enough as it is? Well true and not so true, as we also know that there have been great strides in the efficiency of irrigation systems, efficiency means doing more with less.

Less water is now needed to irrigate the same amount of land as a decade ago. As efficiency grows, it means water can be redistributed, either expanding irrigated areas on individual farms or re-allocated to other users. Or it could be put aside for environmental initiatives!

In a true win-win approach to water management, benefits should flow each way, but to date that has largely not happened.

Yet there are very real benefits to be had from giving back to the environment, shoring up our agricultural exports against the growing perception that New Zealand isn’t as green as it should be for one.

Markets would be reassured if they saw positive improvements in our environmental stewardship as opposed to our current position where the signals are largely the opposite.

Surely this is a concern to all

in agriculture, not to mention our now rather shaky Clean Green Image that our tourism industry depends upon so heavily.

And this water would not necessarily be lost to agriculture, for instance if the North Ashburton did have a permanently augmented flow, a certain percentage would leak back into the ground-water system. Likewise once the flow reached the south branch it would enhance flows there and in theory could be re-allocated to users in the lower plains.

Environmental groups would be less likely to stand in the way of further developments if they knew these sorts of environmental benefits were the likely outcomes; in fact they might even actively encourage such development if there was to be an environmental payoff. I know I, for one, would.

There’s also the dilution effect that alpine water will have; a tool to dilute nitrate levels.

And the Hinds River, there’s another opportunity missed.

In the CWMS Hinds Zip there’s a clause to investigate direct flow augmentation to the Hinds River.

This little river used to be a thriving small stream fishery, but unfortunately that fishery has died as nitrate levels in the river and feeder nursery streams have increased as a result of agriculture intensification to the state we find it in today, where the nitrate levels are toxic to fish.

In March, 2012, a four-day trial augmentation occurred when water was put into the Hinds from the RDR. The trial’s report recommended additional testing over a longer period.

Three years and no action later, we have the RDR spilling unused water and this second trial is still not happening – so the question is – just what is the zone committee waiting for?

For some unknown reason the target for reducing nitrate in the Hinds is 2035, yet it is physically possible to do it in about 24 hours, the time it takes water

to flow down the river from the RDR, the infrastructure used for the trial could allow that to happen tomorrow. So why isn’t the zone committee doing it?

The benefits to the Hinds River are obvious, adding clean alpine water would immediately provide flow and dilute the nitrate levels in the river, allowing an environmental recovery to start. So why hasn’t this trial been completed long ago and why aren’t we now actually seeing the river recovering? How long is it reasonable to wait, why do they sit on their hands?

To answer my own question, it is no doubt all about money, as it always has been, supplementing river flows with water that could otherwise be used for irrigation is somewhere that the zone committee – dominated by farming interests – doesn’t want to go.

If they did one, they might have to do them all – and we couldn’t have that could we?

Of course there are many nuts and bolts that would need to be put in place to make the above scenarios happen – iwi have their concerns and need to be consulted, water will need to be made available, infrastructure modified – but it could be done, that is the message I want to convey.

It’s time that these environmental issues were addressed positively and quickly, because it’s not alright for one sector of our community to cause a river to run dry in the pursuit of personal profit.

Likewise, it’s not okay to poison another and then not work tirelessly to find a solution. And then when solutions are presented, to ignore them and come up with bland excuses to brush those concerns off, causing a never-ending circle of delays.

It’s not good enough in any way or form and we, the wider community, need to demand better of them.

It’s time the agricultural community took responsibility for the problems that agriculture has caused and give something back to the environment.

Is it really asking too much?

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In brief Extremists attack school Suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked a business school in northeast Nigeria yesterday with gunfire and two bomb blasts before being overcome by security forces. A suicide bomber died when he blew himself up prematurely in the car park of the College of Administrative and Business Studies in Potiskum, according to a security officer and a hospital worker. A second bomb exploded in the college dormitory, but all the students apparently were already in classrooms. Five students were wounded by gunfire and another 45 people are being treated for injuries sustained as they jumped out of windows and over walls to escape the attackers, the hospital worker said. Those injured include schoolchildren from the neighbouring Government Science Secondary School, who also thought they were under attack.

- AP

Impeached on graft

The Conservative Party surged to a surprisingly commanding lead in Britain’s parliamentary election, returning Prime Minister David Cameron to 10 Downing Street.

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Cameron back, stronger The Conservative Party swept to power yesterday in Britain’s Parliamentary elections, winning an unexpected and resounding victory that returns Prime Minister David Cameron to 10 Downing Street in a stronger position than before.

Cameron’s office said he would go to Buckingham Palace, where he is expected to tell Queen Elizabeth II that he has enough support to form a government.

That brings the election to a much-quicker-than-expected conclusion. Polls ahead of Election Day showed Conservatives locked in a tight race with the opposition Labour Party, raising the possibility of

days or weeks of negotiations to form a government.

Labour took a beating, mostly from energised Scottish nationalists who pulled off a landslide in Scotland.

With Cameron’s Conservatives winning a working majority in the 650-seat House of Commons, the election result looked to be far better for him than even his own party had foreseen.

With 639 constituencies counted, the Conservatives had 324 seats to Labour’s 229.

The prime minister beamed early yesterday as he was announced the winner of his Witney constituency in southern England.

“This is clearly a very strong night for the Conservative Party,” he said, stopping just short of declaring overall victory. He would be the first Conservative prime minister to win a second term since Margaret Thatcher.

“I want my party, and I hope a government that I would like to lead, to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost — the mantle of one nation, one United Kingdom,” Cameron said, vowing to counter the rise of Scottish nationalism with more powers for Scotland and Wales.

Labour, led by Ed Miliband, was routed in Scotland by the Scottish National Party, which took almost all of the 59 seats

in Scotland. “What we’re seeing tonight is Scotland voting to put its trust in the SNP to make Scotland’s voice heard, a clear voice for an end to austerity, better public services and more progressive politics at Westminster,” party leader Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC. “The Scottish lion has roared this morning across the country,” said former SNP leader Alex Salmond, who was elected in the seat of Gordon.

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy insisted he would not resign despite losing his seat but Miliband’s grip on the overall leadership seemed more tenuous, as the party failed to make predicted gains.

- AP

Spaceship falls to Earth Russia’s space agency says the unmanned cargo ship that went out of control en route to the International Space Station has fallen to Earth over the Pacific Ocean. A brief statement from Roscosmos says the Progress craft entered the planet’s atmosphere yesterday. Progress was expected to mostly burn up from the friction of the re-entry and there were no reports of fragments being spotted. The statement said the re-entry was over the central part of the ocean but did not give co-ordinates. The cargo ship was launched on April 28, but entered the wrong orbit and went into a spin.

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Pirate’s treasure

■ PAKISTAN

Two ambassadors killed in Pakistan crash A Pakistani military helicopter has crashed into a school in the country’s north, killing six people including the Norwegian and Philippine ambassadors, and setting the building ablaze.

The helicopter was one of three carrying a delegation of envoys to inspect projects on a three-day trip to Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan territory where they were set to meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Leif H. Larsen,

Thailand’s military-appointed legislature voted yesterday to impeach the former commerce minister and his deputy for alleged corruption in a rice deal the nation’s graft watchdog said was bogus. Members of the National Legislative Assembly voted overwhelmingly to impeach former Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and deputy Commerce Minister Poom Sarapol over the charges brought forward by the country’s anti-graft commission, which suggested that a government-to-government rice deal that the pair and other government officials oversaw was non-existent.

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the Norwegian envoy, and Domingo D. Lucenario Jr of the Philippines were killed along with the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors, as well as the helicopter’s two pilots, according to official tweets by the army.

Polish ambassador Andrzej Ananiczolish and Dutch ambassador Marcel de Vink were also injured, the army added.

It was the worst air crash since 2012 when a civilian 737 went down in Islamabad, kill-

ing 130 people. The incident was also reminiscent of the 1988 plane crash which killed then military-ruler General Zia-ul-Haq as well as the US ambassador at the time, Arnold Raphel.

A senior local administration official warned the situation was “urgent” after the helicopter - one of three carrying the delegation, their aides and members of the press - crashed into the school.

Prime Minister Sharif “ex-

pressed deep grief and sorrow” over the incident according to a statement issued by his office, which added that he had been on his way to the region but his plane returned to Islamabad after hearing the news.

According to a list of passengers the ambassadors of Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Romania, Norway, South Africa, the Philippines and Poland were scheduled to be on the helicopter.

- AFP

Divers in Madagascar have found a silver bar weighing about 50 kilograms that they believe was part of the treasure of pirate Captain Kidd. The bar was found this week in a bay off the island of Sainte Marie, near Madagascar’s northeast coast. It was presented to the president of Madagascar, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, in a ceremony on the island yesterday.

The diving team was led by Barry Clifford, an American undersea explorer who has been searching for pirate treasure for many decades. Clifford believes there could be more treasure on the bay floor where he found the bar.

William Kidd, known as Captain Kidd, raided ships at the end of the 17th century before being captured and executed in London in 1701.

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PM optimistic bailout deal will be reached Greece’s prime minister said Friday he is optimistic his cashstrapped country will soon reach an agreement with its international creditors, averting a potential default.

Speaking in Parliament, Alexis Tsipras said Greece was doing everything it could to reach a deal with its creditors in Europe and the International

Monetary Fund.

“I am optimistic we will soon have a good outcome,” he said.

Negotiations between Greece, other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund have faltered for months, since Tsipras’ radical left government won January elections on promises of repealing budget austerity measures accompa-

A woman walks on Pnyx hill in front of the ancient Acropolis of Athens. Cash-strapped Greece scraped together a 200 million-euro repayment to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday amid signs its long-stalled bailout negotiations were making some progress.

nying the country’s bailout.

Greece desperately needs an agreement so creditors can release the final 7.2 billion euro ($8.1 billion) installment of its 240 billion euro bailout. It is scraping together reserves from local governments and state entities to be able to meet a repayment to the IMF next week and to pay pensions and salaries.

There had been hopes that the sides would reach a deal by Monday, when eurozone finance ministers meet. But both sides have lowered such expectations.

Tsipras said that whether a deal was reached was now a question of political will among the country’s creditors.

“There is no technical issue of whether there will be an agreement. It is only (a question of) political will,” Tsipras said.

Despite low expectations for a deal by Monday, creditors and Greece have both sounded more positive about the talks in recent days, saying progress was being made.

“In the last few days everyone has seen Greece is doing what it must to reach an agreement,” Tsipras said.

- AP

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Donors’ response slow – UN official The international response has been slow to an appeal for emergency funds to help the millions of people hit by last month’s earthquake in Nepal, a UN official said yesterday.

Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s chief official in Nepal, said the agency had received $22 million so far against an appeal last week for $ 415 million to support relief efforts for the first three months in the Himalayan nation.

“This needs to be dramatically ramped up,” McGoldrick told reporters in the Nepalese capital.

The April 25 earthquake

killed more than 7800 people and injured thousands more.

The government figures show that tens of thousands of houses have been demolished and assistance is immediately needed for 400,000 families.

The UN estimates that as many as eight million people have been affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

McGoldrick said his agency’s main focus now was to reach the many affected people in remote, hard-to-reach areas.

“And we need to do so urgently, so that people have roofs over their heads and their other urgent needs are addressed before

the monsoon season starts,” he said.

The monsoon rains generally start in the second week of June and often trigger landslides in the mountains and flooding in the southern plains.

But roads are already blocked the landslides triggered by last month’s earthquake and there are fears that rain hitting soil loosened by the earthquake could trigger more landslides.

A UN health official said there have been no epidemics in areas hit by the earthquake or in camps where homeless people are sheltered.

- AP

Almost 7000 civilians killed in war Nearly 7000 civilians have been killed in the war in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, the nation’s president said yesterday.

Speaking before parliament, Petro Poroshenko said that more than 1000 people remained unaccounted for.

The figures mark a sharp increase from the most recent

United Nations tally of around 6100 people killed.

Addressing an assembly packed with soldiers, Poroshenko said 1657 Ukrainian troops had also been killed in combat.

Moscow has always denied supplying separatist rebels with either equipment or manpower, but it has been open in its diplomatic support for the separatists. Poroshenko said Russian

involvement in the war had forced Ukraine to seek to align further with the West.

“Given the Russian threat is long-term and considering the aggressive stance and policy of the Russian Federation poses a major threat to national security, the strategy aims to reach full compatibility in the security and defense sectors of Ukraine and NATO.” - AP

In this July 30, 2013 file photo, visitors walk past a display of the unearthed Terra Cotta Warriors cast by sunlight at the excavation site inside the No.1 pit of the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi’an, in central China.

■ CHINA

Excavations to reveal more Terra Cotta Warriors China is expanding the ranks of the famed Terra Cotta Warrior army with new excavations expected to yield hundreds more of the ancient life-size figures.

The museum overseeing the vast mausoleum of China’s first emperor says it began work March 30 on the tomb’s No. 2 pit that is smaller in scale but believed to be richer in archaeological value than the already excavated No. 1 pit.

Along with 1400 warrior and horse statues, the pit is believed to contain 89 war chariots and 116 mounted soldiers, offering invaluable insights into the military culture of the Qin dynasty, the museum said in a statement on its website.

“The No. 2 pit contains the true essence of the Terra Cotta army,” the museum’s former curator was quoted as saying.

Discovered in 1974, the army is one of China’s biggest tourist draws, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. In recent years, the warriors have joined the giant panda as a tool of Chinese “soft power,” with several batches being exhibited overseas to enthusiastic crowds.

The army was built to guard the tomb of the first Qin emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 A.D. after conquering much of what is now modern China.

In all, the tomb’s three pits are thought to hold more than 8000 figures of archers, infantry soldiers, mounted cavalry, horse-drawn chariots, officers, acrobats, musicians and others.

The pits is adjacent to the emperor’s sprawling mausoleum that lies under a 76-metre mound and remains unexcavated as experts debate the pros and cons of doing so.

Ancient accounts tell of a huge complex of chambers, including underground rivers filled with flowing mercury, along with the remains of craftsmen and imperial concubines sealed alive in the tomb with the dead emperor.

The Terra Cotta statues weigh about 180 kilograms each and range in height up to 183-195 centimetres depending on rank. Generals are the tallest.

Originally brightly painted, they are intricately detailed with armour, top knots, weapons and boots. No two figures are alike, and craftsmen are believed to have modeled them after a real army.

A ruthless figure of fear and awe in Chinese history, Qin built an extensive system of roads and canals along with an early incarnation of the Great Wall of China while unifying measurements and establishing a single written language, currency and legal statutes.

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Winter Scarves Natural Dye, Wool, Silk and Cotton

Solid Perfumes With Natural Ingredients

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Call Elliot to tend to all your rural electrical needs . . ElectraServe, for everything electrical 24/7 Breakdown Service Dairy Effluent Irrigation Generators

Industrial Commercial Residential

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Blair Watson, General Manager personally guarantees ElectraServe’s tradesmen’s workmanship. If you are not 100% satisfied with the quality of the work, ElectraServe will put it right . . . every time, or your money back.

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Weekend Services

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

MEDICAL SERVICES

from 10am - 1pm Sunday, and from 6pm - 8pm both days.

MENTAL HEALTH Call free on 0800 222 COMMUNITY POOL WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm.

955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

DUTY DOCTORS This service is for emergency medical care Children must be accompanied by an adult.

WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & only. Please remember your Community Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. Services Card.

Allenton Medical Centre, The Mall, Harrison MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit Street is the duty practice for Saturday and Sunday until 8am Monday. The surgery will be the patient from: 7am - 10pm. open from 10am - 12 noon and from 6pm - 7pm TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, both days. No appointment necessary. Surgery -unrestricted visiting. phone 308 9139.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, Saturday, and Sunday doctor and emergency unrestricted visiting. details - please telephone the Rakaia Medical Centre, ph 303 5002.

EMERGENCY DENTIST If you do not have or cannot contact your Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring for the name of the rostered weekend dentist medical attention must consult their own or the in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently Sundays and Public Holidays. requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must ELPLINE ERVICES have a general practitioners note of referral.

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Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353

COMMUNITY SERVICES ART GALLERY

Due to relocation, the Art Gallery is closed until further notice.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890. Open weekdays 10am - 4pm, weekends 1pm - 4pm.

Research facilities weekday afternoons.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

INFORMATION CENTRES

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021 1356

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Shannon Reeve. Small: Kasia Chapman-Labecka.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Rd, Methven. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Renate Haveman.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Neroli Wall. Small: Ref Vetlife.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 999, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Katie Kent. Full emergency service all weekend.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-

DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL hours small animal emergency service. To use Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service.

this service please phone your vet as usual.

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SITUATIONS VACANT

Manager Ashburton

Are you an experienced Manager looking to step up and take charge?

Do you have excellent knowledge of the rural transport industry?

Do you know Canterbury inside and out?

Ryal Bush Transport Ashburton is a joint venture partner of the HWR Group of companies. Based in Ashburton RBT operate a fleet of 25 trucks specialising in carting livestock nationwide as well as topdressing, bulk fertiliser and grain cartage, baleage and hay.

Now we need someone just like you to help us drive our team towards success. You will be well organised and able to communicate and make management decisions quickly in consultation with your General Manager.

We never said this was going to be easy – this role is challenging and requires you to be flexible, proactive and adaptable. Your problem solving skills will be second to none and your previous experience within the Rural Transport industry will be a strong advantage as you’ll know all too well how contingency plans are a must in this unpredictable industry. You will have an excellent customer focus, be friendly and approachable and have a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude.

We offer a very stable work environment, and an attractive remuneration package including a modern company vehicle will be provided.

You must have a strong focus towards Health & Safety.

If this sounds like you please apply now to: Wayne McEwan, General Manager, Rural Transport at: wayne.mcewan@hwr.co.nz.

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We are searching for someone with experience in arable farming, engineering and agricultural machinery operation to join us on our family owned, 600 ha cropping farm, situated 3km from Methven.

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SITUATIONS VACANT DRUMMOND & ETHERIDGE

Can you do the cancan?

Milk nutrition for a modern world

Diesel Technician Ashburton

Canning and Blending Opportunities – Register your interest We’ve got your attention now. And our blending and canning plant is worthy of attention.

Our recently commissioned blending and canning plant in Dunsandel, Canterbury, is one of the most technically advanced quality controlled infant formula canning lines and admired by companies all over the world. Right now we’re experiencing significant growth, which means we need competent people to support us during this challenging but exciting time. This equates to opportunity. We’re big on internal promotion and on-the-job training, so within the advertised roles there’s room to grow if you’re up for the challenge.

We’re also big believers of attitude over experience, so don’t be put off if you haven’t had exposure to the dairy industry and don’t know your lactose from your lactase.

Synlait’s success isn’t limited to New Zealand. We now export to over 50 countries and are becoming perceived as leaders in our field on the world stage. We operate in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same. We’re innovative and progressive. We’re passionate and proud. But enough of us. We want to hear from you.

Apply for these positions at

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COMING TO ASHBURTON EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Yes it’s happening! LJ Hooker with 750 offices worldwide are bringing their expertise to ASHBURTON.

SECURITY OFFICERS Talbot Security Group is seeking security officers for a number of new positions within our Ashburton based business.

Drummond & Etheridge Ltd is a locally owned and operated business with branches in Ashburton, Timaru and Christchurch.

We are looking for a Diesel Technician to join our busy Repairs and Spares team at our Chalmers St yard in Ashburton.

At this branch we service late model and used machinery, dismantle and sell spare parts, alongside our exciting new Projects - Track and Trail and D&E Water Solutions.

Our Service Workshop has an increasing amount of work, so we are looking for an experienced Technician to join us.

You will have worked on a broad range of agricultural machinery/ plant or equipment, can happily work in the field carrying out warranty checks as well as working regularly in the workshop. You will be able to work well with our team, have great communication skills, a strong work ethic and be able to work unsupervised.

To find out more about this opportunity please apply with an up to date CV and application letter to: Courtney Freller, HR Manager courtney@dne.co.nz or post to: Drummond & Etheridge Ltd PO Box 340 Ashburton 7740 Ph. 027 4867 773 for more details

Paint/Checkout position Full time

If you enjoy working as part of a team, have a date 10Closing MEGA Ashburton has a vacancy for strong work Date:_______________________________ ethic and take pride in your work, URL Mitre Rachel roof read We by:_______________________________ With: _______________________________ x tested:a x checked: invite existing real estate dual position working in our busy Paint we want to hear from you. These roles would suit personnel who may wish to advance department and Check out. This is an ideal a mature minded person, reliability is essential. role for someone who enjoys working with their career with LJ Hooker to enquire A background in the security industry would be peoplerevisions: also passion for colour. The role in total confidence. preferred, however full training will be provided 2 full 3 4time 5 sales opportunity in progress1 into $0 $0 $25 $50 $75 to the successful applicants.

We are interested in speaking with the the future. The 40 hours involves Sunday Essential requirements are: Thursday roster. following: job: C51895 PLEASE NOTE: • Strong communication skills, Theprepared success that we have this applicant will have the • Self motivated, Licensed Salespeople advertisement proof based on our following attributes: size: 11 x 5 format: colour • Work independently and in a team, Experienced Property Managers understanding of the instructions • Excellent customer service skills • Must havesort clean criminal record,gst) received. In approving the publication run date position cost (excl • Reliable and able to lift If you want a change pleaseWed contact: advertisement, it is client’s responsibility • Full clean NZ Drivers licence, Ashburton Guardian 6 May Sits Vacant $721.87 • accuracy Work inofaboth team to check the the environment Keith Niederer (General Manager) • Be able to follow instructions, Sat 9 May $876.97 advertisement, the media and the In return we offer job security and excellent • A proven ability to learn new skills, 0274 933 477 Tue 12 May Selwyn Times Sits Vacant $436.15 position nominated. staff buying privileges.

• Committed to study$328.35 and gain Malvern News or Roger Stark (Director) Fri 8 May Sits Vacant Cancellation of adverts booked with qualifications, media will incur a media cancellation Please send your c.v. and covering letter 0274 325 315. fee of $50.

• A desire to succeed, outlining your preference within this role to: • Live within the Ashburton area.

HR.ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Rachel your contact: An excellent remuneration package will be Lyn Church, Human Resources, Mitre 10 offered to the successful applicant including a MEGA, P.O. Box 35, Ashburton 7740. competitive rate of pay.

Applications remain confidential and close Hinds School is looking for an efficient, loyal, For more detail go to: www.talbotsecurity.co.nz on Monday, May 18, 2015. organised, personable Administration Officer E-mail: tsgltd@xtra.co.nz to fulfil the many needs of a modern Primary Applicants must be able to attend an interview.

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This is a part time permanent position that requires excellent self-management, computer, spoken and writing skills.

Please visit the “Vacancies” section of our school webpage at www.hinds.school.nz for more details.

Further information contact The Principal (Vicki McIntyre) 03 303 7208 or 027 2588 798.

Farm Assistant Wanted

Qualified and Non-Qualified Relief Staff Ashburton Baptist Preschool are looking for both qualified and non-qualified relief staff to work on a casual basis to cover staff absences.

We are looking for a motivated, honest and reliable farm assistant to join our team.

Must have at least one years experience.

This farm is situated in Hinds.

Milking 420 cows.

Accommodation provided.

For further information, please phone 03 303 7539 or 027 353 5060

If you are flexible with your work days and hours, energetic, a great team player and communicator that would enjoy working as a part of a great team that ensures quality education and care for our precious children, whilst embracing our special character Christian centre, then we would love to hear from you.

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Please send your CV along with a cover letter in the first instance to: Ashleigh Grant at abelc@xtra.co.nz or feel free to drop your CV into the office at 8 Eton Street.

Phone 03 308 2325

DRILLERS ASSISTANTS, MACHINE OPERATORS, SKILLED LABOUR Southbridge Based

We are currently recruiting for the above positions; experience operating or supporting Dual Rotary, Schramm or Cable Tool and/or multi-purpose rigs is an advantage but a willingness to learn and develop new skills is essential.

Applicants must have a CLASS 2 LICENCE, be reliable, hardworking and enjoy working outdoors.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing dynamic business with operations throughout New Zealand and the Pacific.

For further information Ph: (03) 324 2571, 8am - 5pm Monday - Friday or email admin@drilling.co.nz

Agriculture Sprayer Operator Full Time Position

Molloy Agriculture Limited is one of Mid Canterbury’s fastest growing agriculture spraying Companies. We operate a modern fleet of equipment and provide a range of agriculture services. An outline of our business and the services we provide can be found on our website: www.molloyag.co.nz We are currently looking for a motivated, hard-working and responsible person to join our team.

We Offer: • The latest spraying equipment and GPS technology • Full training and support in a skill that there is a worldwide demand for • Rostered weekends off and the ability to plan holidays throughout the year • Company Health Scheme • Market leading remuneration packages which include time and a half Beneficial to Have: • Agriculture background • Class 2 Drivers Licence • Positive personal attributes including honesty and reliability

Applicants for this position should have NZ Residency or valid NZ Work Visa.

Contact David Molloy Phone: (03) 302 8098 Mobile: 0274 362 441 Email: david@molloyag.co.nz Post: PO Box 85, Methven 7730 Applications close Sunday, May 17, 2015

Qualified Beautician Panache Hair and Beauty are seeking a fully qualified beautician who is confident, enthusiastic and customer focused.

Applicants need to be motivated and passionate about the beauty industry, must be a flexible team player and reliability is essential.

Please contact Panache Hair and Beauty on 308 9127 or drop your CV into the salon at 36 Beach Road, Ashburton.

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RURAL TRADING POST

Sawmill Labourer MID/SOUTH CANTERBURY SALES AND TERRITORY MANAGER POSITION Rare Sales Opportunity.

Canterbury Continuous Spouting (an iconic New Zealand company and the South Island’s leading supplier of reliable, high quality continuous rainwater goods and installation service) has an opportunity for a motivated, successful and practical Sales Representative. This position requires the successful applicant to cover the Mid/ South Canterbury and occasionally North Otago region.

The current territory manager has held this position for 16 years. He has built up a strong portfolio of clientele by offering excellent service to our mid and south Canterbury area clients. The new appointment will manage a portfolio of existing commercial building industry clients and call on domestic customers (i.e. home owners wanting their existing spouting replaced/repaired) to ensure qualified leads are turned into orders. There is a minor role within the job description that involves overseeing the local depot, machinery and installation team. First and foremost we are looking for some one who has a bright, outgoing personality and local knowledge along with an enthusiasm for our product.

Our commercial work involves: • compiling tenders + quotes for our established building-related customers • sourcing new business • being highly visible “on-site”, talking with builders and gaining their confidence by effectively answering/resolving their technical questions regarding our products.

On going training and support will be provided.

To be considered for this important sales role you will ideally have the following skills and attributes: • Be a practical person who can quickly build rapport with builders and home owners.

• Be familiar with the sales process • Have previous building industry experience • Have the energy, drive and passion to achieve sales targets • Have a down to earth, can do attitude • A full drivers licence is essential This position is based from our premises in McMurdo Street, Tinwald.

An attractive remuneration package (base salary, commission and a company vehicle) will be offered to the successful candidate.

If you are looking to join a successful, non-bureaucratic company that values its staff, please email your application to: ian@canterburycontinuous.co.nz or by mail to The Managing Director P O Box 102, Rolleston 7643

Office Administrator Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Limited is a locally owned and operated family business within the Mid Canterbury region and has been operating in the area for 25 years.

We are looking for a keen, motivated person to join our Office Team in our newly developed premises to help with the day to day running of our busy office including general office duties and to be trained in all areas of our office environment. This position will be flexible and will be approximately 30 hours per week.

To be successful in this position you will need: • • •

This position is suited to a person who is physically fit and prepared to work 40 hours a week.

So, if this sounds like you, please apply in person with CV, to: Adams Sawmilling Co Ltd Malcolm McDowell Road, Ashburton

TRADES, SERVICES

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more

FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

TRADES, SERVICES

COMPUTER PROBLEMS? For Prompt Reliable Service Contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Ph 308 8989.

30yrs Local experience, Same day service if possible, *SUPERGOLD discount card accepted.*

TENDERS

Tender

– C634 Streetlight Operation and Maintenance, Ashburton District 2015 - 2018 Tenders are invited for the operation and maintenance of streetlights, Ashburton District, 2015 - 2018. Work includes the inspection, operation and maintenance of streetlights and other light facilities throughout the Ashburton District Council roading network.

COMPUTER Tuneup and Repairs, New Computer Sales & Setup, Internet setup, Onsite Day Or Evenings and Weekends, LOW FEES, call Robin Johnstone at Networks Firewalls & PCS 308 1440 or 027-768 4058.

Tender documents are available from the Ashburton District Council, PO Box 94, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton, 7740, Phone (03) 307 7700. All enquiries should be directed to Hernando Marilla, Contracts Engineer - Urban.

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

RURAL TRADING POST

ASSORTED electric fencing gear for sale. Reels, standards etc, Spinning Jenny (wire). Phone 308 0222 or 027 382 311.

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Tenders close with the Chief Executive, Ashburton District Council, at 4.00pm on Thursday 5 June 2015.

Neil McCann Group Manager Service Delivery www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

REAL ESTATE

55 HECTARE title, for sale.

Southbank, Rakaia. Silt loan soils, unirrigated, average 950mm rainfall. In addition, adjacent title, 55 hectare for lease. Expressions of interest welcome. Phone 022 432 2014.

FLOORING Call today for an obligation free quote East to Burnett St, Ashburton • Phone 03 308 5269

Ability to pick up administration tasks confidently Experience In Word, Excel and MYOB would be an advantage Full NZ Drivers Licence

This is a new position.

If this sounds like you please forward your CV with current references by Tuesday, May 12, 2015 to: Tanya Lobb Stuart Tarbotton Contractors P O Box 5072, Tinwald, Ashburton Ph: 0274 915 636 Email: office.stc@xtra.co.nz

Welcome to the World Quality Preschool TLC for your VIP

Monday - Friday 7.30am - 5.30pm Ph 308 2959, Main South Rd, Tinwald www.childsplaypreschool.ac.nz

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Selling to raise money for Children’s Literacy Programmes The Community Rotary project has now finished and the stylish house in Braebrook is now on sale.

Main features: • Four bedroom house • Two living spaces • Easy care section

• 227 sqm property • Two bathrooms

Price: UNDER OFFER

You are still welcome at our Open Home on TODAY, Saturday, May 9, 1.00pm - 2.00pm at 41 Braebrook Drive For more information, please phone Walter on 03 302 6629 or 027 4088 994 or email walteravdk@hotmail.com PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

Air Training Corps

SETTING NEW ZEALAND’S CLIMATE CHANGE TARGET We want your views In December, countries will meet in Paris to establish a new international climate change agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Each country has been asked to put forward its target to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change. These commitments will come into effect from 2020.

The New Zealand Government seeks your views on the key issues as we decide on our national contribution. A discussion document on New Zealand’s climate change contribution can be found on the Ministry for the Environment’s website at:

www.mfe.govt.nz/climate/consultation Public meetings and hui on this issue will be held during May. Details of meeting dates and venues, and how to make a submission, are available on the Ministry’s website or you can email: climate.contribution@mfe.govt.nz.

Submissions may be made in writing by any person or organisation.

Submissions close: 5.00pm on Wednesday 3 June 2015 TENDERS TENDER POLYTHENE PIPE BUSINESS FOR REMOVAL Canterbury Polythene pipe is a family run business that has been manufacturing pipe since 1994.

The owner is now retiring.

This successful business, including all manufacturing equipment, customer lists forklift, website etc is for sale by tender for removal.

Closing date for TENDERS: Fri 22 May 2015 Address for TENDERS: 7B/303 Blenheim Rd, Chch INSPECTION BY APPOINTMENT WITH SOLE AGENTS Edwin Lewis Ph 0275 963 912 REAA2008 SOUTHERN WIDE REAL ESTATE

RAFFLES Heartland Rugby Supporters Club Raffles draw results Drawn under police supervision 1st prize: Knackers 2nd prize: Oakley Woods 3rd prize: Howie Hunt 4th prize: Rodney 5th prize: Pip All winners have been contacted

SERVICES: Hay covers, farm truck seat covers, upholstery repairs, shade sails and blinds, marquee and event hire.

Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

151 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton Visit us at www.petermay.co.nz

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Fire Control Measures – Change of Fire Season Status

Notice is hereby given that the Restricted Fire Season in the Hill and High Country areas of the Ashburton District has been replaced with an Open Fire Season from midnight Friday 8 May 2015.

Raffle Ticket Sale (wood + meat) Sunday, May 10, 2015 9.00am to 4.00pm The Warehouse, Ashburton All welcome

An Open Fire Season remains in place across the Ashburton Plains.

Note that a Restricted Fire season remains in place for all lands administered by the Department of Conservation that are State areas, and to the fire safety margins of any such State areas.

Under Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Air Regional Plan rules, no outdoor burning is allowed at any time within all urban areas of the District.

There is still an expectation that any outdoor burning is conducted in a safe and considerate manner.

Don Geddes, Principal Rural Fire Officer

Saturday, May 23 Ashburton MSA | 6.30pm

Wear Something Pink!

Storage Pond Proposal Public Information Sessions Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd (RDRML) Thursday, May 14, 2015 10am to 2pm and 4pm to 8pm Hinds Community Hall

$10 from the price of your ticket* will be donated to the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation

For more information please contact RDRML, phone 03 307 8320 or www.rdrml.co.nz

*Tickets cost $36.00

 Best pink outfit competition  $2 raffle  Merchandise available to purchase  Quiz  Facts and information  Spot prizes  Two course meal

Contact Becky on 027 800 5551 Advert kindly sponsored by the Ashburton Guardian.

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IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

“Real Estate is about people; moving forward, being honest and building strong lasting relationships”

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AGM Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7.00pm Ashburton Airport Museum All welcome

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline

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Pink Ribbon Dinner

Air Training Corps

0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

I have a great understanding of the property market. My interior design, banking and business backgrounds mean you receive exceptional customer service, superior negotiation skills and guidance to help prepare, present and market your home which will showcase it to all potential buyers at its premium. Backed by the Bayleys brand in Ashburton, I am aligned to help you move forward with all your real estate needs. Give me a call today, I’m free to talk!

M 027 751 1801 | B 03 307 7377 E nicky.butler@bayleys.co.nz

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

Classifieds www.guardianonline.co.nz PLANTS, PRODUCE CONVENTIONAL pea straw, weed free $6, delivered. Ph 027 390 0002.

Mothers Day Bouquets Smithfield Flowers 211 Smithfield Road Beautiful bouquets made from chrysanthemums and other goodies, available every day. Long lasting and great value at $15 for florist quality bouquets or purchase bunches chrysanthemums $6 or 2 for $10.

PLANTS, PRODUCE

LIVESTOCK, PETS

Blade Steak

Specials available from 05/05 - 12/05

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

MOTORCYCLES wanted for cash. Please phone Cliff on 308 7982.

Fresh Fruit & Vege

LIVESTOCK, PETS

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life WANTED surplus cull cows. of your tyres with an Please phone 021 489 390. alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills HOLIDAY Street. Phone 308-6737.

MEETINGS, EVENTS Ashburton Aviation Museum Society Inc. AGM The annual general meeting of the Museum will be held at the Museum on Thursday, May 28 at 7.30pm

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

$1.99 bag $1.99 ea $1.99 bag $4.50 kg

ACCOMMODATION

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

HIRE

GRAZING

308-1095

FOR SALE

GRAZING required for 300 plus lambs. Please phone TREES wanted. Suitable for milling and export. No 027 230 2188. obligation quote. Phone John Rose Logging 03 693 9385 or FOR SALE FIREWOOD Dry 021 935 628. macrocarpa oregon, blue gum $250, semi dry pine ADULT $170, green blue gum wattle ENTERTAINMENT $150 all 3.6m³. Phone Shane James Firewood 303 7063.

MISS Eva, abc, gf, no texts FIREWOOD - pine $60 a all block calls will not metre, macro, blue gum $70 answered. Phone 021 044 a metre, all dry. 027 507 0698.

3880.

ACCOMMODATION,

FOR SALE: Kelvinator clothes dryer $50 and pull-out RENTAL FLOAT hire - single, double clothesline $20. Phone 308 and tandem. Reasonable 7771 or 0274 398 497.

TWO bedroom townhouse. rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & Warm, sunny, heat pump, all Feed. Phone 308-3422 any- NISSAN Navara Ute, 2.5TD, recently redecorated.

2WD, single cab, $9495 ono. Allenton, single garage, small time.

Phone 308 7982. section. No pets, no smoking. required. Phone GRAZING SCOOTER’S - new and References 0274 382 311. secondhand three and four GRAZING available. 11ha wheel electric scooters and kale - Dromore. 13ha fodder wheel chairs. Call Fred WARM two bedroom house, beet - Coast. Greg Tait, Reddecliffe at Electric suit older couple. No pets.

Canterbury Grazing, ph 027 Mobility Ashburton today. $300 per week. Phone 307 378 6314.

Phone 308-3602 2503.

Ashburton Guardian

livestock@farmlands.co.nz

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

Grazing Available • • •

10am Morning Service & Communion

Winter grazing available for 600 dairy cows in Hinds area – on fodder beet with baleage, barley straw and grass.

Also grazing available for 120 cows at Pleasant Point – on kale and baleage.

Calf grazing available on weight gain contracts, up to 600 required.

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church)

Creche available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

Contact: John Travers 021 841 592 For Sale •

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$8.99 kg

Onions 1.5kg Whole Pumpkin Feijoas 500gm Easypeel Mandarin

MOTORCYCLES

MOTORING

Saturday, May 9, 2015

We have several lines of in-calf heifers and cow numbers to suit.

Contact: John Travers 021 841 592

MEETINGS, EVENTS

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES (Ashburton)

Jubilee Christian St Andrew’s Fellowship Havelock St. 10am Every Sunday All welcome

The Mid Canterbury Choir Presents

There is no hope in this world but the believers future is assured

Big Band Theory

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

10am & 7pm

St James

Thomson St. 7pm

St Paul’s Oxford St. 9.30am

Songs from the 30’s and 40’s

Sunday 10th May 2015 2.30pm Sinclair Centre, Park Street, Ashburton Tickets $20 (afternoon tea included) Tickets available from choir members or at the door

Guardian Situations Vacant

307 7900

Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays@10.00am Including Children’s Church Everyone is welcome.

See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron Sts Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting 10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

Daily Events Saturday 9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street,

Sunday 8.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON AIR TRAINING CORPS. Raffle ticket sale wood and meat. The Warehouse, Kermode Street.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship led by Laurence Ennor. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am

Monday

Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE.

New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am -12.00pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open, 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY

GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, all welcome, West Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

6.00pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON MUSICAL CLUB. Autumn Splender, Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Service and worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge.

Baring Square East.

9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship led by senior women’s group, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

10.00am ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting. Lovetts Road, off Maronan Road.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

10.00am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131

Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives.

63 Princes Street, Netherby.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

2.30pm MID CANTERBURY CHOIR CONCERT. “The Big Band Theory” M.S.A and Silver Bands combined. $20 includes afternoon tea at door or Mid Canterbury Choir members. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

4.00pm

ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Messy Church - Mother’s Day theme. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

4.00pm - 6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Youth group combines with Messy Church for a; Mother’s Day theme. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Service with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

floor Heritage Centre, East St. All welcome.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting. Waireka Croquet Clubrooms, Philip Street.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet. Allenton Sports Club,

Cavendish Street.

6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Circuit training, 1st time free. St Andrews Church Hall, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.00pm ASHBURTON AIR TRAINING CORPS. Annual General Meeting, Ashburton Airport and Aviation Museum, Seafield Road.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre . Holy Name Parish Hall, Winter Street.

Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm 6.00am ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. A great selection of many aircraft from Real women circuit training in hall, 48 the past to the future. Seafield Road.

Allens Road, Allenton.

1.00pm - 4.00pm 10.00am ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground interactive fun for all ages. Main Street,

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 0 9:30 Come Dine With Me Australia PGR Noon There’s No Taste Like Home 1pm Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook 3 Annabel Langbein nets flounder on a Nelson beach, and her haul is the starting point for a Mediterranean-themed feast. 0 1:30 Highway Cops PGR 3 0 2pm F Four Weddings USA 3pm Code – 1 PGR 0 3:30 Border Security – International PGR 3 0 4pm Topp Country 3 0 4:30 Taste Of A Traveller 0 5pm The Fishing Show 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Frozen Planet 0 8:35 Coronation Street PGR The Windasses threaten to implode; Carla’s net closes in on Rob and Tracy; Chesney silently stews as Katy moves in with Ryan. 0 9:30 Nashville PGR 0 10:30 M Country Strong AO 2010 Drama. Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow. 0

6am Guess How Much I Love You 3 0 6:10 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:15 Transformers Rescue Bots 3 0 6:40 Doc McStuffins 3 0 7am The Jungle Bunch – To The Rescue! 0 7:25 Ben 10 – Omniverse 3 0 7:50 Phineas And Ferb 3 0 8:15 Green Lantern – The Animated Series 3 0 8:40 Adventure Time 3 0 9:10 Regular Show PGR 3 0 9:35 Lab Rats 10am Fresh 10:30 Switched At Birth PGR 0 11:30 The 100 PGR 0 12:30 The Hero 0 1:30 Malibu Country 0 2pm The Bachelor Australia 0 3:05 The Fosters PGR 4pm Step

By Step 3 0 4:30 Full House 3 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 6pm Oh Sit! 0

12:35 Gavin And Stacey PGR 3 0 2:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 4:20 L Football – English Premier League Crystal Palace v Manchester United. From Selhurst Park in London.

CHOICE TV 6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 Beat My Build 8:30 Ask The Butcher 9am Simply Italian 9:30 House Crashers 10am Million Dollar Contractor 10:30 Baggage Battles 11am Buying The Bayou 11:30 American Restoration Noon Chelsea’s Greatest Garden 1pm Gardeners’ World – Life In A Cottage Garden 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Garage Gold 3:30 House Crashers 4pm Holiday Home Sweet Home 5pm This Old Thing 6pm Extreme Collectors PGR 6:30 The Water Brothers 7pm The Wild West With Ray Mears 7:30 Natural World In-depth stories of incredible animals with award-winning photography.

8:30 Moses Jones AO A mysterious wave of terror runs through the immigrant community of Shepherd’s Bush when the body of a man is pulled out of the Thames.

9:30 Vexed AO 10:30 Garage Gold Following the adventures of the Garage Brothers as they search for treasure in the most unlikely places.

11pm House Crashers 11:30 NZ Hunter Adventures PGR

SUNDAY

Midnight This Old Thing 1am Extreme Collectors PGR 2am The Wild West With Ray Mears 2:30 Moses Jones AO 3:30 Vexed AO 4:30 NZ Hunter Adventures PGR 5am Holiday Home Sweet Home

TV THREE

FOUR

6am Charles Stanley 3 6:30 Outdoors With Geoff 3 7am Gone Fishin’ 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 The X Factor New Zealand 3 11:25 The X Factor New Zealand 3 12:20 The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 1:20 F The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 2:25 The Face Australia 3 3:30 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 30 4pm Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking 3 0 4:30 Native Kitchen 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm 3 News

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 8:30 Digimon Fusion 3 8:50 Rocket Power 3 9:20 Power Rangers – Super Megaforce 9:45 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Big Time Rush 3 5:30 Mr Young 6pm ICarly 3 Series about a 13-year-old girl who hosts her own homemade web show.

6:30 M Dunston Checks In 3 1996 Comedy. Jason Alexander, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett. 0

7pm M Shanghai Noon PGR 2000 Action Western.

A Chinese Imperial Guard comes to America to rescue a kidnapped princess and finds himself facing gunslingers in the West. Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Owen Wilson. 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Shanghai Noon PGR 0 9:15 M Déjà Vu AO 2006 Action Thriller. Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer. 0

7pm Storage Hunters PGR 7:30 Highway Thru Hell PGR 0 8:30 CSI AO 3 The team investigates when contestants on a reality cooking show accidentally eat human flesh during a competition. 0 9:30 Chicago PD AO 0 10:25 F Hawaii Five-0 AO 0

8:20 M Rocky AO 1976 Action.

A boxer gets a million-to-one chance at boxing’s World Heavyweight crown. Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire. 0 10:50 90210 PGR 3 When Dixon is arrested in connection with a sorority-house fire, it could expose Annie’s secret.

11:40 M I Love You Phillip Morris AO Biography Comedy.

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor. 0 1:30 M Law Abiding Citizen AO 2009 Crime. Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler. 0 3:20 M Texas Killing Fields AO 2011 Crime. 0 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

11:20 Last Resort AO (Starting Today) 3 Series following the crew of a US submarine, who seek refuge after being attacked under suspicious circumstances.

12:20 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:40 Just Shoot Me! PGR 3 A new security guard is revealed to be an old junior-college classmate, and the inspiration behind Finch’s personality. 0 12:05 Infomercials

PRIME

6am Cycling – La Fléche Wallonne (Highlights) 6:30 Cycling – Liege-BastogneLiege (Highlights) 7am InCycle 7:30 Cycling – Four Days Of Dunkerque (Replay) Day Three.

9:30 Cycling – Tour Of Azerbaijan (Replay) Stage Three. 11am InCycle 11:30 World Rugby Noon Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Crusaders v Reds. 12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Rebels v Blues. 1pm Athletics – IAAF World Relays (Highlights) Day One. 2pm L Boxing Tapia v Soro. 4pm Incycle 4:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Rebels v Blues. 5pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 5:30 World Rugby 6pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 7pm Storage Wars – Canada PGR 7pm L Rugby – Super 7:30 N MasterChef Junior Rugby Hurricanes v Sharks.

USA PGR Young cooks present From Westpac Stadium, their dishes to Gordon Wellington.

Ramsay and his fellow judges. 9:35 L Rugby – Super Rugby 8:30 Top Gear USA AO Force v Waratahs. From nib 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Stadium, Perth.

Hurricanes v Sharks. From Wellington’s Westpac Stadium.

11:30 Sleepy Hollow PGR 3 A vision from Ichabod’s former wife, Katrina, sends the duo hunting for a vengeful witch from the 1700s.

12:30 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 8am Tribe 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Maumahara (Starting Today) 32 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm The Big Hit 3 2:30 F Whanau Living PGR 3pm F Home Krew 3:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals

THE BOX 6am The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 8:30 New Girl MS 8:55 Modern Family PGL 9:20 The Amazing Race Omnibus PG 12:40 Wild West Alaska M 1:35 RBT MC 2:25 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 2:50 Graceland MVLC 3:40 SVU MVS 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 New Girl MS 8pm Modern Family PGL 8:30 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 9pm Counting Cars PG 9:30 Wild West Alaska M 10:30 RBT MC 11:30 Crossing Lines MV

SUNDAY

12:30 Raw MC 3:10 Crossing Lines MV 4:05 New Girl MS 4:30 Modern Family PGL 4:55 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 5:20 CSI – New York MV

SKY SPORT 1

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Jamie At Home 3 Jamie Oliver is doing what he does best – cooking, at home, with simple, accessible ingredients, including fruit and veg that he recently started to grow in his kitchen garden.

Noon The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 2:30 Shearing Gang PGR 3 3pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

USA PGR 3 3:30 Rivers 3 4:30 N Fishing And Adventure An adventure show featuring some of New Zealand’s top fishing destinations.

5pm Addicted To Fishing 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Chef’s Apprentice 3 6:30 Jamie At Home

11:40 Fox Sports News 12:10 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 12:40 Small Blacks TV 12:55 L Rugby – Super Rugby Lions v Highlanders. 3am L Rugby – Super Rugby Stormers v Brumbies.

5:05 World Rugby 5:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights)

SKY SPORT 2 6am Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Hull KR v Wakefield Wildcats. From KC Lightstream Stadium in Hull.

6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Salford Red Devils v Huddersfield Giants. From A J Bell Stadium in Salford.

9:15 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Broncos v Panthers. From Suncorp Nashville Hawaii Five-0 Stadium in Brisbane.

9:30pm on TV One 10:25pm on TV3 11:15 Small Blacks TV A rugby show for children.

11:30 Rugby League – Super DISCOVERY MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS League (Highlights) Salford Red 6:15 Mean Girls MC 2004 Comedy.

6am Auction Kings 7:30 Scary Movie 5 MVLS 2013 Devils v Huddersfield Giants. From 7:50 Miss Potter PG 2006 Drama.

PG 6:30 MythBusters PG Comedy Horror. Ashley Tisdale.

A J Bell Stadium in Salford.

Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor.

7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 ET 9am The Making Of Godzilla PG Noon Rugby League – NRL Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Savage 9:20 Olympus Has Fallen 16VL 2013 9:20 School For Scoundrels MLS (Highlights) Round Nine, Friday.

Family Diggers PG 10:30 Railroad Action. Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart. 2006 Comedy. Billy Bob Thornton.

12:30 L Rugby League – 11am The Lost World – Jurassic Alaska PG Bear Attack. 11:30 What 11:20 Odd Thomas MVL 2014 Holden Cup Raiders U20 v Titans Happened Next? M Noon What Horror. Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe. Park PGV 1997 Sci-fi Adventure.

U20.

Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore.

Happened Next? M 12:30 Insane 12:55 The Wolverine MVL 2013 1:05 The Bourne Identity MVL 2002 2:30 L Rugby League – NSW Pools – Off The Deep End PG In Action. Hugh Jackman.

Thriller. Matt Damon, Franka Potente. Cup Mounties v Canterbury.

Hot Water. 1:30 Gold Rush PG 3pm Lost Treasure Of The Maya 3:05 Head Of State MLS 2003 2:30 Dual Survival M 3:30 You MVLS 2009 Action. Michael Madsen.

4:30 L Rugby League – NRL Comedy. Chris Rock, Bernie Mac. Have Been Warned M Lords of the 4:40 Out Of The Furnace 16VLC Raiders v Titans. From GIO Stadium 4:40 Spider-Man MV 2002 Action.

Elements. 4:30 Auction Hunters 2013 Thriller. Christian Bale. in Canberra.

PG Don’t Taze Me Bro. 5pm Auction 6:35 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst.

7pm L Rugby League – NRL 6:40 Night At The Museum PGV Hunters PG 5:30 Alaska – The Action. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt.

Sharks v Warriors. From Remondis Last Frontier M 6:30 Man v 8:30 Closed Circuit MVL 2013 Crime. 2006 Comedy. Ben Stiller.

Stadium in Cronulla.

8:30 The Bourne Supremacy MVL Expert PG 7:30 Treehouse Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall.

9:25 The After Match 2004 Action. Matt Damon.

10:10 The Lone Ranger MV Masters PG 8:30 Insane Pools – 10pm Random Rugby TV 10:20 Layer Cake 16VLS 2004 2013 Western.

Johnny Depp, Off The Deep End PG Green with 10:20 L Cricket – Indian Thriller. Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller.

Armie Hammer.

Envy. 9:30 Billy Bob’s Gags To Premier League Kolkata Knight Riches M 10:30 Moonshiners M SUNDAY SUNDAY Riders v Kings XI Punjab. From Eden 11:30 MythBusters PG 12:40 Guns MVL (Mini-series) 12:05 Head Of State MLS 2003 Gardens, Kolkata.

(Part 1) Colm Feroe, Elisha Cuthbert. Comedy. Chris Rock, Bernie Mac. SUNDAY SUNDAY 2:10 Lost Treasure Of The Maya 1:40 The Bourne Supremacy 12:30 Tabloid M Lights, Camera, 2:20 L Cricket – Indian MVL 2004 Action. Matt Damon.

Murder. 1:30 Stalked – Someone’s MVLS 2009 Action. Michael Madsen.

3:25 Layer Cake 16VLS 2004 Thriller. Premier League Delhi Daredevils Watching M 2am Bering Sea Gold 3:50 Out Of The Furnace 16VLC v Sunrisers Hyderabad. From 5:10 Night At The Museum PGV PG 3am Man v Wild PG 4am Man 2013 Thriller. Christian Bale.

5:45 Closed Circuit MVL 2013 Crime. 2006 Comedy. Ben Stiller. v Wild PG 5am MythBusters PG Chhattisgarh Cricket Stadium, Raipur.

4:30 City Slickers Rodeo 3 5pm Project Whenua 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Irikura 6:30 Death Threat PGR 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 M Babe – Pig In The City 3 1998 Family. James Cromwell, Mickey Rooney, E Daily.

9:15 M The Tracker AO 3 2002 Drama. David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet.

11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Closedown

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

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6:30 F The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 6:55 Sunday 3 0 7:40 Tagata Pasifika 3 0 8:05 Praise Be 8:35 Attitude 0 9:05 Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Survival Tales From The Wild 3 0 12:55 F Intrepid Journeys 30 1:50 Location, Location, Location 30 2:50 F Inside Claridge’s 3 0 3:55 This Town 3 0 4:55 F Outback Truckers PGR 30 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm Nigel Latta Blows Stuff Up PGR 0 8:30 When We Go To War AO Manaaki faces a recurring nightmare; John takes his guilt out on James; Richard finds an unlikely ally in Awa. 0 9:30 Our Girl AO 0 10:30 A Place To Call Home AO 0

6am Pajanimals 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:45 Crash And Bernstein 0 7:10 SpongeBob SquarePants 3 0 7:35 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 0 8am What Now In a Mother’s day special, mothers try What Now’s messiest, foamiest, and gungiest games.

10am ANT Farm 0 10:25 The Bachelor PGR Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 2:30 Suburgatory PGR 3 0 3pm Hot In Cleveland PGR 3 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 30 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Joey 3 0

11:30 Q+A 3 0 12:40 Attitude 3 0 1:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Marae 3 2 3:30 Infomercials

11:15 F Gotham 0 12:10 The Flash PGR 3 0 1:05 Arrow AO 3 0 2:05 Good Vibes AO 3 2:30 Infomercials 3:05 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 3:55 Suburgatory PGR 3 0 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 The Carrie Diaries PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

CHOICE TV

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Rugrats 3 7:25 Dream Defenders 3 7:50 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 8:15 Digimon Fusion 3 8:35 Rocket Power 3 9am Lalaloopsy 3 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm ICarly 3 Series about a 13-year-old girl who hosts her own homemade web show.

6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 Hustling America PGR 3 0 8:30 The Xtra Factor New Zealand PGR 9pm The GC PGR 3 0 9:30 Burn Notice AO 10:25 Welcome To The Family PGR3 10:50 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

11:25 State Of Affairs AO Nick 11:45 Infomercials has the most-wanted terrorist in his sights; Charlie is at odds with President Payton on how to proceed.

0 12:20 Jono And Ben PGR 3 1:20 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world, highlighting sport for young New Zealand fans.

Noon MasterChef USA PGR 3 12:50 Village SOS 3 2pm The Animal Files PGR 3 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 N Stephen Fry – Gadget Man Stephen Fry relies on his collection of gadgets to make his life run smoothly.

6am Small Blacks TV 6:15 Random Rugby TV 6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Lions v Highlanders.

8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Hurricanes v Sharks.

9am Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Lions v Highlanders.

9:30 Small Blacks TV 9:45 Random Rugby TV 10am Rugby – World Sevens (Highlights) Glasgow, Day One. 11:30 Sport 365 Noon Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Stormers v Brumbies. 2pm L Netball – ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds v Melbourne Vixens. 4pm L Netball – ANZ Championship NSW Swifts v Adelaide Thunderbirds.

6pm Fishing And Adventure 6:30 Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race 7pm Storage Wars – Texas 7pm L Netball – ANZ 7:30 Antiques Roadshow Championship Waikato Bay 8:30 CSI – Cyber PGR of Plenty Magic v Southern 9:30 Elementary PGR Steel. From Claudelands 10:30 Top Gear USA AO The hosts Arena, Hamilton. choose their favourite SUVs, 8:55 Motorsport – Indycar and test them on a journey (Highlights) Angie’s List through vineyards, desert, Grand Prix of Indianapolis. and snow, attempting a series 9:25 L Rowing – World of SUV-themed challenges Rowing Cup 2015 Slovenia. along the way.

From Bled, Slovenia.

11:25 Silk AO 3 Martha is at the Supreme Court as defence in a death row case and, with time running out, and with Billy breathing down her neck, she faces the toughest legal argument of her career.

12:30 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai (Starting Today) 3 Series using drama to teach te reo Maori. 2 1pm The Rugby Show (Replay) Dilworth College v Sacred Heart College.

2:30 Code (Starting Today) 3 3:30 Rugby – World Cup 2011 3 Ireland v Wales.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm N Waka Huia 6:30 Paepae Chris and Tupoutahi Winitana debate the latest issues

6am The Water Brothers 6:35 The Wild West With Ray Mears 7am Natural World In-depth stories of incredible animals with award-winning photography.

8am Catch And Cook – World Aaron travels to countries like New Zealand, South Korea, America and Austria.

8:30 Garage Gold Following the adventures of the Garage Brothers as they search for treasure in the most unlikely places.

9am House Crashers 9:30 Holiday Home Sweet Home 10:30 This Old Thing 11:30 Extreme Collectors PGR Noon Vexed AO 1pm Natural World 2pm Bath Crashers 2:30 Merlin 3:30 IFish 4pm Nigel And Adam’s Farm Kitchen 5pm Bill’s Kitchen – Notting Hill 5:30 Coast 6:30 Kirstie’s Fill Your House For Free 7:30 Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren Giles Coren is a controversial restaurant critic.

8:30 The Time Of Our Lives PGR A drama following the lives of a typical extended Australian family.

10:30 Coast 11:30 Wild At Heart PGR

6:05 The Amazing Race Omnibus PG 9:25 The Simpsons Marathon PG 11:55 Raw MC 2:40 WWE Main Event MC 3:45 SmackDown! MC 5:25 RBT MC 6:15 Counting Cars PG 6:40 Wild West Alaska M 7:30 Longmire 16V Walt and Branch reluctantly team up when an apparent suicide is connected to Cady’s accident.

8:30 CSI – Miami MV The team is on the verge of putting away members of the Mala Noche gang, but the gang’s planned hit on Horatio endangers the lives of those close to him.

9:30 CSI – Miami MV 10:30 Banshee 18VLSC 11:30 Longmire 16V

12:30 The Time Of Our Lives PGR 2:30 Bath Crashers 3am Merlin 4am Wild At Heart 5am Bill’s Kitchen – Notting Hill 5:30 IFish

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:10 Banshee 18VLSC 3:05 CSI – Miami MV 3:55 CSI – Miami MV 4:45 Counting Cars PG 5:10 Longmire 16V

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6am Life TV 3 6:30 Brian Houston 3 7am Charles Stanley 3 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 3 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 3 9am Three60 9:30 Re-Think 10am The Nation 0 11am The Bold And The Beautiful Omnibus PGR 1pm Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking PGR 3 0 1:30 Big Angry Fish 3 2pm Motorsport – Race To The Sky The revitalised international hill-climb event returns for the first time in eight years, and is now the longest gravel hill climb in the world.

3pm Motorsport – MotoGP Coverage from round four in Spain. 4pm Motorsport – World Endurance Championship 5pm N Whale Adventure With Nigel Marven 0 6pm 3 News 7pm The X Factor New Zealand 7pm Thunderbirds Are Go 0 The semi-final sees the top 7:30 Galavant PGR An encounter four compete for a place in with land-bound pirates leads next week’s grand final.

Galavant, Isabella, and Sid to 8:30 M Transformers – learn how to get over their Revenge Of The Fallen petty squabbles and work AO 3 2009 Adventure. Shia together. 0 LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh 8pm Black-ish PGR 0 Duhamel. 0 8:30 M The Amazing Spider-Man PGR 2012 Action.

Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans. 0

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1am Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 1:30 Football – A-League (Highlights) 2am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 2:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 3am Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) 4:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay)

SKY SPORT 2 with reo speakers from around the country.

7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Warriors v Sharks.

9:30 M Children Of Heaven PGR 1997 Family Drama. After a boy loses his sister’s pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures to find them. Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian.

When We Go to War 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 8:30pm on TV One 11:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Kings PG 6:30 MythBusters PG Blue Ice. 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 You Have Been Warned M Lords of the Elements. 9:30 What Happened Next? M 10am What Happened Next? M 10:30 Tutankhamun – The Truth Uncovered M 11:30 Naked And Afraid M Beware the Bayou. 12:30 Secrets Of Bin Laden’s Lair M 1:30 Billy Bob’s Gags To Riches M 2:30 Railroad Alaska PG Bear Attack. 3:30 Flight 8501 – Storm Disaster M 4:30 Moonshiners M 5:30 Big Giant Swords PG 6:30 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Why Is Sex Fun? M 8:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 9:30 Dual Survival M 10:30 Taiwan Made PG 11:30 You Have Been Warned M

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12:30 What Happened Next? M 1am What Happened Next? M 1:30 A Crime To Remember M 2:30 Auction Kings PG 3am Taiwan Made PG 4am Man v Wild PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:20 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Action. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt.

9:15 Guns MVL (Mini-series) (Part 1) Colm Feroe, Elisha Cuthbert.

10:45 The Lone Ranger MV 2013 Western. Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer.

1:15 Closed Circuit MVL 2013 Crime. Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall.

2:55 Below The Beltway MC 2010 Comedy. Tate Donavon, Noah Wyle.

4:30 Rush MVLS 2013 Drama.

Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl.

6:35 The Heat MVLS 2013 Comedy.

Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy.

8:30 Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes MVL 2014 Action. Jason Clarke.

10:45 Paranormal Movie 16VLSC 2013 Comedy. Kevin Farley, Nicky Whelan.

MONDAY

12:15 Guns MVL (Mini-series) (Part 1) Colm Feroe, Elisha Cuthbert.

1:45 Below The Beltway MC 2010 Comedy. Tate Donavon, Noah Wyle.

3:20 Close Up – Kevin Costner PG 3:55 Rush MVLS 2013 Drama.

Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl.

Gotham

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MOVIES GREATS 6:55 Spider-Man MV 2002 Action.

8:55 Head Of State MLS 2003 Comedy. Chris Rock, Bernie Mac. 10:30 The Bourne Supremacy MVL 2004 Action. Matt Damon.

12:15 Night At The Museum PGV 2006 Comedy. Ben Stiller.

2:05 Austin Powers In Goldmember MVLS 2002 Comedy.

Mike Myers, Beyonce Knowles.

3:40 Batman Begins MV 2005 Adventure. Christian Bale.

6pm The Dark Knight MV 2008 Action. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger.

8:30 The Whole Ten Yards MVS 2004 Comedy Thriller. Jimmy the Tulip's quiet new life is shattered by the kidnapping of his friend's wife by the Hungarian Mob. Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet.

10:10 Hitman 16VLS 2007 Action.

Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott.

11:45 Hot Fuzz MVL 2007 Comedy.

MONDAY

1:45 The Whole Ten Yards MVS 2004 Comedy Thriller.

3:25 Hitman 16VLS 2007 Action.

5am Hot Fuzz MVL 2007 Comedy.

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6am Alvarez v Kirkland 24/7 6:30 Motorsport – GP2 Series (Replay) Spain – Race One. 7:30 L Motorsport – Indycar Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis.

10:30 Motorsport – Formula One (Replay) Gran Premio de Espana Peirelli.

Noon Motorsport – GP2 Series (Replay) Race One. 1pm Football – A-League (Highlights) Semi-final Two – Sydney FC v Adelaide United.

1:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Catalan Dragons v St Helens.

2pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round Nine Saturday.

2:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Sharks v Warriors.

3pm The After Match 3:30 L Rugby League – NRL Sea Eagles v Knights.

6pm L Rugby League – NRL Eels v Storm.

8pm L Motorsport – Superbike World Championship Italy. Race One and Supersport. From the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari.

10:40 L Motorsport – Superbike World Championship Italy – Race Two, Stock 1000, and European Junior Cup.

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2am Motorsport – IndyCar (Highlights) Grand Prix of Indianapolis.

2:30 Rugby Nation 3:30 Rowing – World Rowing Cup 2015 (Highlights) 4am Football – A-League (Replay) Semi-final Two – Sydney FC v Adelaide United.

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Your heart is likely to be close to home today, either enjoying a chance to potter and ground yourself or spend time with family and loved ones.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) With adventurous lunar vibes in play and a sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure in the air, old excuses no longer cut it.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) Choose to use any financial tension being triggered as motivation, with the doors now open to the most lucrative months of 2015.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) As she spends her first weekend in your sign chances are Venus is evoking a sense of defiance, as you begin to put your own needs first.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) This weekend is likely to see a desire to slow down, with old memories and daydreams more vivid as your heart begins a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) You’re likely to find yourself in the right place at the right time, with serendipitous moments or encounters becoming more commonplace.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Mars’ last weekend in your financial sector brings a chance to get inside your financial passions, to establish what you’re fighting for.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) You should be starting to get a sense the wheels are not only starting to turn on the career front, but that the pace is starting to pick up.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) For the first time this year a smart head for money comes with 20/20 hindsight, just as things are coming together on the work front.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) While Venus is dialling up an auspicious weekend for relationship matters, this can’t be at the expense of your own needs, which are starting to fight back.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Work with Venus during her first weekend in your work sector to establish what your heart is telling you and what you do and don’t want.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) This weekend brings a need to have fun and follow your heart, without fear that this means losing your professional or any other edge.

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Lake Hood 24 Ludlow Drive

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* Lifestyle block on 2.7086 hectares * Modernised character home, clad in linear board * 4 bedroom, 2 small ensuites + 1 bathroom * Outbuildings with lots of scope to develop * This is a unique property, great opportunity for a growing family to live the lifestyle.

Offers over $370,000 Open Home Sat 12.15pm - 12.45pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20597

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