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Crackdown on gangs Two arrested after stoush

BY DAISY HUDSON

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A six-month-old baby was abandoned in a car as an offender fled police following an armed gang stoush in Ashburton on Wednesday.

Police carried out a dramatic operation in Allenton after being alerted to the incident by members of the public at about 3.30pm, a police spokesperson said.

A man was arrested after the vehicle he was in rammed another vehicle as he tried to flee police on Clark Street, following an altercation between people with gang connections that reportedly involved firearms.

The other occupant, the driver

of a black SUV, fled the scene and headed towards Racecourse Road, where he abandoned the vehicle and took off on foot.

Police yesterday confirmed a “distressed” baby was left alone in the vehicle as the man ran from police.

Detective Sergeant Kevin Holder said the fact that someone would abandon a baby was “just unbelievable”.

“The fact that someone would behave in that manner, we’re absolutely shocked,” he said.

Mr Holder said the infant had been returned to its mother.

The female driver of the rammed vehicle, who does not want to be named, said a man armed with a gun and a knife

had entered a property and demanded drugs before stealing items of jewellery.

The car rammed the front of her vehicle as the occupants attempted to flee police, she said.

The armed offenders squad and police dog handlers worked with other officers as they carried out enquiries at a number of nearby properties.

People in surrounding properties were advised to stay inside as police converged on a house on the corner of Russell Avenue and Racecourse Road.

A second man was arrested at the property without incident.

Newstalk ZB reported that Rua Rimene, who police say has gang connections, has been

charged with carrying a shotgun, robbing a woman using two knives and intentionally damaging Housing New Zealand property, as well as a string of driving offences.

The 23-year-old was arrested alongside a 31-year-old man charged with possession of an offensive weapon.

The 31-year-old Ashburton man will appear in Ashburton District Court on Monday.

Rimene appeared in the Christchurch District Court yesterday, and will reappear in the court next Thursday.

The incident comes as police look to crack down on drug and gang-related crime.

Canterbury police have

launched a new operation, titled Operation Focus, which aims to change the way police respond to drug-related offending and reduce victimisation.

Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Cottam of Canterbury police’s organised crime unit said the change in attitude towards drug offending would become part of “business as usual” policing.

The operation has three key interventions, including reducing the opportunity for crime to occur, rehabilitating offenders, and redirecting offenders into other areas such as employment, sports, and culture.

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Campbell Live on the chopping block?

TV3 bosses have told Campbell Live staff the channel is thinking of canning the current affairs show for a daily version of the Jono and Ben entertainment show. That is one of the options in a “consultative document” handed out this week, which left Campbell Live staff shell-shocked. The move follows a period of poor ratings at the show and TV3’s drift away from news and into entertainment. A TV3 source said Campbell Live staff turned up at the regular editorial meeting and were met by the head of news and current affairs, Mark Jennings, and a human resources legal representative. One TV3 staffer said that while the document suggested options, staff felt closure was inevitable because the programme did not have the support of chief executive Mark Weldon and MediaWorks director Julie Christie. The document asked: “Is the 7pm slot still the right time for hard hitting current affairs in the changing landscape of media consumption?”

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Best way to lose weight While Australians spend more than $600 million a year on weight loss programmes, a new US study shows only two have proven long-term results. Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig are both effective in helping people shed kilos and keep them off, according to researchers at John Hopkins University. Jenny Craig participants lost on average at least 6.8kg and kept it off for a year, while Weight Watchers dieters shed at least 3.6kg and kept it off for at least 12 months, team leader Dr Kimberly Gudzune said. Of 32 major diet programmes sold in the US, they found only 11 had been rigorously studied. “Other popular programmes, such as Nutrisystem, show promising weight-loss results; however, additional studies evaluating long-term outcomes are needed,” they wrote in the study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Three other systems, Health Management Resources, Medifast and OPTIFAST, show short-term weightloss but whether they result in long-term loss is unclear, they said. Of the five self-directed programmes analysed, Atkins showed greater short-term weight loss.

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It’s taken 15 emergency crew members to rescue a 160kg man who fell down a Sydney stormwater drain. Rescue teams were called to Meadowbank in Sydney’s west about 11pm on Wednesday with reports a man was trapped in a drain. It took an hour for firefighters, paramedics and police to extract the man from the hole using ropes and ladders due to injuries he sustained to his shoulder and leg. “In order to get him out they had to set up a ladder and put him on a stokes stretcher and slide him up,” NSW Fire & Rescue Superintendent Tom Cooper said. Due to the size of the man it took 15 firefighters, ambulance and the police to get him out of the drain.

Male long-distance runners are not only fitter than most they may also find it easier to attract women, researchers say. People who are better at running half marathons are likely to have been exposed to high levels of the sex hormone testosterone before birth, researchers from the University of Cambridge have found. This means they not only have better cardiovascular efficiency but also a strong sex drive and high sperm count suggesting they have historically been chosen by women as more desirable mates.

Dr Danny Longman, from the university’s division of biological anthropology, said: “The observation that endurance running ability is connected to reproductive potential in men suggests that women in our hunter-gatherer past were able to observe running as a signal for a good breeding partner.” Pre-birth exposure to testosterone has previously been found to give men an evolutionary advantage. The latest research focused on half marathon competitors and found the faster runners also tended to also have longer ring fingers - a signal of hormone exposure in the womb.

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Striding towards success A lot can happen in a year. Just ask Vaughan Couillault, principal of James Cook High School, which was labelled “worst school in Auckland” for 2014 and is now among the top performers in the newly released NCEA results. “It is a long road and we are not done yet,” Mr Couillault says.

“But it is inspiring. Every day. Because of the work that our students and all our staff are doing.” James Cook, a co-ed decile one school in Manurewa, has achieved some of the most impressive improvement rates in Auckland across all NCEA levels. At level one, for example, it had a year-on-year increase of 25.2 per cent to see 95.3 per cent of students pass the standard. To put things in context, nationally around 85 per cent of learners achieve at Level 1.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Hybrid ECan governance plan backed By sue newman

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The Ashburton District Council has put a stake in the ground, supporting the Government’s proposed hybrid governance structure for Environment Canterbury.

While there has been a call from several quarters for a return to a fully democratically elected council for ECan in the 2016 local body elections, the government has made it very clear it prefers a mix of elected members and government appointees.

Yesterday associate local government minister Louise Upston told Ashburton District councillors why the mixed member governance model was the best option for the organisation, but said through the submission process the council and the community could have their say.

The Government appointed commissioners to govern ECan in 2010 after considerable community dissatisfaction with its performance and following a request from Canterbury’s mayors for intervention.

Over the past five years, ECan had reshaped itself and was now working efficiently and effectively, Ms Upston said.

Retaining some government appointees on its governance team would ensure the progress made over the past five

years was not lost and it would also ensure the right mix of people were in charge of decision making, she said.

“It ensures Canterbury has a democratically elected voice but that there’s a good mix of skills around the table. We need to maintain the high performance standard ECan has achieved; back in time it was highly dysfunctional but now it’s an incredibly high performing organisation.”

The key in moving away from a full commissioner governance was ensuring the transition was smooth and no gains were lost, Ms Upston said.

While councillors supported the hybrid governance model they were not united in their support for the seven appointee, six elected member split.

And they were less than happy with the proposal to have three councillors elected from Christchurch city and just one each from North, Mid and South Canterbury.

The governance team might be a mix of appointees and elected members, but all would be equal in terms of their power around the council table, she said.

The only dissenting voice around the council table was councillor Ken Cutforth.

“I’m hot on the idea of a fully democratic election.

“This is undemocratic to me, I can’t support it,” he said.

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Sisters have a ball in autumn leaves Sisters Lucy Pearce, 6, and Olivia Pearce, 9, are making the most of autumn, frolicking in the leaves outside the Ashburton Community Pool on Tuesday.

Cellphone use driving earns fines

By Daisy HuDson

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Mid Canterbury motorists are increasingly flouting the rules and using cellphones while driving.

However the risky move has hit drivers in the pocket - to the tune of over $40,000.

Police figures show 550 people in the Mid/South Canter-

bury district were caught using cellphones while driving last year.

That was a 32 per cent jump from 2013, when 416 infringements notices were issued.

Using a handheld phone while driving, even if the vehicle is stationary, has been illegal since November 2009.

The number of people using

More motorists have been using cellphones while driving, according to police figures.

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phones while they’re behind the wheel has been steadily increasing since the law came into effect.

In 2010 just 210 infringements were issued in the region - less than half the number of tickets dished out last year.

Mid/South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin said people breaking the rules with cellphones was a problem nationwide.

“People believe they have a God-given right to use a cellphone in a car, and they don’t,” he said.

He said fines for breaching the rules came with demerit points, meaning repeat offenders could face losing their licence.

“It’s simple to stop on the side of the road,” he said.

“There would be nothing worse than being in an accident, or causing an accident, where you were distracted by using a cellphone.”

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■ NEW ZEALAND PRINCIPALS’ FEDERATION

In brief

Tensions ease one year on

By Daisy HuDson

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Tensions in the education sector have eased and principals country wide are feeling more optimistic, according to the president of the Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association.

Methven Primary School principal Chris Murphy recently attended the New Zealand Principals’ Federation moot in Wellington.

The annual event sees re-

gional school representatives and politicians meet to discuss the imminent future of education in New Zealand.

Last year’s event was full of tension, with uncertainty over the position of the sector during a tumultuous election year.

Education was a major talking point of the election, with a series of controversial policies and initiatives shaking up the sector.

“There was a very tangible

sense of apprehension amongst the group,” Mr Murphy said.

However the outlook seems a lot brighter this year.

Mr Murphy said there was a general feeling of optimism for education among attendees.

The theme of this year’s moot was ‘taking the lead’, with guest speakers discussing how principals could show leadership in areas such as ICT, professional development, and special needs.

Discussions were also held about raising the achievement of Maori and Pasifika students.

The moot was very positive, Mr Murphy said.

“My take home message is that we’re in good stead, and the general feeling of optimism in the profession was very noticeable,” he said.

“We’ve got a minister now who has moved from the ‘blame game’ and is now working with the sector, which is good.”

Another anxious night The families of two fishermen missing at Port Waikato face another anxious night, after a third day of searching failed to find any signs of the pair.

Arthur Brown, 67, of Tuakau, and a 57-year-old friend from Pahiatua, had been fishing in the area on Easter Monday. They were reported missing when they did not return that night.

Their boat - a 5.7m runabout - was found capsized on Tuesday morning.

On Wednesday, search teams managed to access the boat, revealing the two mates were not inside. Nothing else of note was discovered, police said.

The police Eagle helicopter spent a third day scouring the area for signs of the pair, but no progress was made yesterday, a police spokeswoman said.

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New Zealand is one of only three countries in the world where the non-religious are expected to outnumber the religious by 2050, according to new research.

New Zealand will join France and the Netherlands as having the religiously unaffiliated – referring to atheists, agnostics and those who do not identify with a religion – as the majority group in 35 years time.

It is a trend in contrast to most other countries in the world, which will see an increase in Christianity and a sharp rise in Muslim populations. Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion, ac-

Unicef New Zealand is calling on young people from Canterbury, and from across New Zealand to attend the Unicef NZ Youth Congress in Wellington. The theme for this year’s congress is Living in Harmony and youth who have a strong interest in global issues are urged to apply for a place via the Unicef website. Applications close Friday, May 15.

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■ HOLIDAY PROGRAMME

Paper bags get a hat makeover Olivia Kelly, 6, (left) and Libby Jackson, 6, (right) made the most of being indoors yesterday, taking part in an arts and crafts exercise at the Ashburton Public Library. The children made paper bag hats adorned with the likes of feathers, glitter and coloured paper.

cording to new figures from the Pew Research Centre, with Muslims expected to make up 30 per cent of the world’s population by 2050 – on near parity with Christians, at 31 per cent of the global population, for the first time in history.

However, New Zealand is one of eight countries where the Christian majority is expected to drop below 50 per cent of the population – alongside Australia, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the Netherlands, the Republic of Macedonia and the United Kingdom.

By 2050, Pew believes 45.1 per cent of New Zealand’s population will be the unaffiliated - making it the largest religious group in the country.

Only France (44.1 per cent) and the Netherlands (49.1 per cent) saw a similar projection, the centre said in its Future of World Religions study.

But Dr Nick Thompson, lecturer in theology at the University of Auckland, believed this was a conservative estimate. “I think it will be over 50 per cent well before the 2050 figure that the Pew people give,” he said.

Pointing at the last two censuses, he said there had been a more than 10 per cent jump in the number of people who identified as non religious from 2006 to 2013.

“It’s pretty clear.”

The only factor that would slow that increase would be immigration from countries

A Kuranui College cleaner was found dead in the college grounds on Saturday. Stephen Goggin, 59, one of several full-time cleaners, was a former police officer who started work at the college in 2011.

Authorities said no suspicious circumstances were involved in the death. Principal Geoff Shepherd said police and search and rescue had been working to locate Mr Goggin on the day.

With the school off for holidays, Mr Shepherd said staff had been contacted and advised. He said the school’s priority was to support Mr Goggin’s family and the students and staff.

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Non-religious to outnumber religious

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where religious affiliation is a lot higher, Dr Thompson said.

“Especially among Pakeha, Maori and even to an extent Pacific Island communities, religious affiliation is either in decline or slowing down.”

Globally the religiously unaffiliated population is projected to shrink as a percentage of world population, despite an increase in absolute number, Pew said.

Dr Thompson said New Zealand was “at the forefront of a trend” in a rising non-religious community. “In world terms we’re a real outlier. Religion is resurgent everywhere else in the world, so we’re quite strange in that respect,” he said.

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Firefighters remain on the scene of a central Auckland office block where hundreds of workers were evacuated from yesterday following a fire in a chimney duct.

Thick smoke was seen billowing out the top of Federal House on Federal Street around 2pm.

Workers in the nine storey building - a SkyCity administrative building - and staff from the AA Tower on Albert St were rushed out of the buildings on to the street.

Lunchtime diners in a number of restaurants on the popular Federal Street strip were also forced to leave. Television chef Al Brown’s restaurants Federal St Deli and Depot were among those evacuated, while nearby Masu was also emptied.

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Worker exploitation Three people involved in the management of an Auckland restaurant chain have been arrested at their homes in the city yesterday and charged with offences relating to the exploitation of migrant workers.

The charges follow an investigation

by Immigration New Zealand (INZ) into allegations of exploitation of migrant workers. The three people, who have been given name suppression, have been bailed to appear in the Auckland District Court next Wednesday.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Roundabout tipped for Tinwald

By Sue NewmaN

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When it came to finding solutions to traffic problems in Tinwald, Ashburton is caught between a rock and a hard place, says Ashburton District councillor Alasdair Urquhart.

While the council and the community have been fighting to have traffic lights installed along State Highway 1 in Tinwald, that option hasn’t found favour with the New Zealand Transport Agency, the organisation that would be footing the bill.

A draft programme business case has been prepared in consultation with the agency and a group of community and council representatives, and it leaves traffic lights off the list, replacing them with a roundabout at Grahams Road and options that will channel traffic at several intersections.

And while that might not be ideal, it seems it’s the best Ashburton is going to get, Mr Urquhart said.

“We probably have to accept what NZTA tells us they’re going to do. It takes so long to get anything through the eightstage process. We’re at stage four going on to five and if we stop now I don’t know when

An open road today, but in the future the intersection of Grahams Road and State Highway 1 could be the site of a roundabout.

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we’ll get anything done. We’re just a small drop in the ocean compared to Auckland,” he said.

Mr Urquhart believes the transport agency has underestimated the speed at which traffic volumes are increasing through Ashburton.

He recommended the council

endorsed the draft Tinwald corridor business case even though it did not include the traffic lights the council wanted. “We have to start somewhere.”

Councillor Russell Ellis said he couldn’t support the business case because of a timeframe that wouldn’t see the roundabout

built for six years.

He asked NZTA highway manager for Canterbury Colin Knaggs if Ashburton could have traffic lights if the council was prepared to pay for them, but was told that even with council cash, the lights would have to be looked at in conjunction

with over all traffic movements through town.

Whatever the long term solutions might be, it was important a start was made now with the first stage solutions to ensure traffic was able to flow along the highway, councillor Stuart Wilson said.

Prison units to close; hundreds of jobs lost

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Members of the New Zealand Navy unload the REMUS sonar as they join the search for the missing kayaker.

Search continues for kayaker New Zealand Defence Force personnel have joined the search for a kayaker missing on Lake Coleridge.

In a statement yesterday police confirmed the New Zealand Navy and other defence personnel were working alongside search and rescue teams to locate the man, who went missing on the lake on Saturday afternoon.

Police divers from Wellington started an underwater search on Sunday morning of

the area the man was last seen in. So far they have searched over an acre of the silty and rocky lake floor, but there has been no sign of him.

The navy joined the search on Wednesday by deploying the REMUS sonar to scan a further 700 x 300 metre area.

A defence force spokesperson has confirmed the missing man is a member of the NZ Army who is understood to have gone on his own to Lake Coleridge for a recreational trip.

He was not participating in any military exercise or training, the spokesperson said.

No details of the missing man have been released.

According to the police statement, the man’s family are being supported by the NZ Army and Canterbury police and have asked for privacy while the search continues.

Coleridge Intake Road will remain closed from Algidus Road to the intake while the recovery operation is under way.

Hundreds of prison staff will lose their jobs as units in Waikeria, Tongariro-Rangipo and Rimutaka Prisons are closed.

About 260 staff are expected to lose their jobs over the next year in a proposal announced yesterday.

Department of Corrections chief executive Ray Smith said the closures of the older prison units coincided with the development of newer facilities elsewhere in the country.

“Corrections will help [affected staff] move to other prisons if they wish.”

The job losses come as the brutal death of an inmate puts a spotlight on prison safety.

Benton Marni Parata, 44, was attacked by several inmates in his cell at Christchurch Men’s Prison’s high-security Rawhiti unit last month.

The closures will save around $20 million, plus capital costs of up to $145 million had the units remained open.

“I understand that this proposal may be unsettling for affected staff but Corrections

will have extensive support and assistance in place should the proposal go ahead,” Corrections Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga said.

The Department of Corrections said the closure of the prison units will coincide with the opening of the new 960-bed Auckland South Corrections Facility.

The new prison will be run by private company Serco.

Corrections will help affected staff move to other prisons, where there are vacancies.

Corrections Association industrial officer Beven Hanlon said yesterday’s announcement was, put simply, the privatisation of corrections jobs.

“This Auckland prison ... The Government committed to this in the worst recession this country has ever seen. It was a $900 million commitment.

“We didn’t need the prison at the time. We said that at the time. We said, if they build this prison it will cost public service jobs.

“And this is the second round of losses that we have had because of it.”

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Prayers answered for restoration

By SuSan SandyS

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Ashburton town centre Baring Square Methodist Church parishioners are planning to be back worshipping in their historic church building by Christmas next year.

The 1925 landmark building was shut down after the 2010 September earthquake, triggering years of soul searching for parishioners as they decided whether to demolish or restore the building.

Parishioners have now decided restoration is best, depending on final costings.

They have about $1 million to spend after receiving an insurance payout and funds from other sources.

Steward Brian Reesby said a breakthrough in enabling restoration to go ahead had been the assurance that the church would still have money to pay its minister.

It had applied to a national Methodist presidents’ earthquake fund.

“We have been fortunate to be granted money from that, that’s for support of ministry not buildings.”

The restoration would involve an altered

interior to make it more user-friendly, and would be expected to take about 18 months.

“If restoration costs come back higher than what they originally estimated it could be a bit tricky, but we have been led to believe some of these restoration jobs are not costing as much as originally feared.”

He said he was hoping for final costs to come back soon and work to begin, and hopefully by Christmas next year services would be able to return to the building.

Parishioner and property convenor Ken Leadley said restoration of the building would include strengthening work. The building was generally in good shape and a spiral staircase to a public lookout at the top, which he helped install in the 1990s, was still useable.

A scarecrow bird had been recently installed and was successfully keeping pigeons, which had increased in number since the building wasn’t being used, at bay.

He was not sure if the church’s organ, one of the best in Ashburton, would still be useable after having gathered dust for almost five years.

Right - Baring Square Methodist church property convenor Ken Leadley, at the church in 2012, will be pleased to see the church’s many unique features retained if restoration goes ahead.

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Parole denied Convicted baby killer Elizabeth Healy has been denied parole after an “abysmal” performance after her release from prison. Healy was jailed in 1998 on a life sentence of preventive detention for the murder of 17-month-old Shae Hammond, along with concurrent terms for injuring with intent and poisoning another child. She was granted parole in May 2013 but was recalled to prison in November last year for breaching her release conditions. The board declined parole, noting more work was required to prevent a repeat of “the multitude of serious lapses that occurred”.

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People who want to learn more about natural savvy living have the chance to do so this weekend at the Back to Basics expo.

The expo has been organised

by Julia Crosson and Katie Esler, and is in its second year.

Ninety people are booked in and keen to share their techniques, up from 80 last year.

Site holders include people with tips and tricks about food preservation, low cost nutritious meals, composting, natural remedies and even sewing, darning and spinning.

Mrs Crosson said this year the event will be indoor and outdoor, occupying the bowling green at the New Life Church premises in Tinwald.

“Because it’s starting at 11am there will be food included, there’s a soup kitchen, and some food vans,” she said.

Other than learning, people who attend will be able to do things like purchase solar cooking kits, talk to community ser-

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“In a nutshell, it’s using the resources that are around us, here, helping to reduce your

cost of living and connecting the community.”

The event is a family one and Mrs Crosson said there would also be “old school games” such as walking on tins and sack rac-

es, which kids can try.

The expo will be at the New Life Church premises, 58 Melcombe Street, Tinwald, on Saturday, from 11am until 3pm and entry is free.

The identity of a Canterbury businessman who is alleged to have put a man in hospital and killed a puppy in a case of extreme road rage can now be revealed.

Police allege Andrew McDaniel, 51, repeatedly ran down the victim injuring his ankle, back and shoulder, missing his head by centimetres. The victim’s puppy had to be euthanised after being struck by the vehicle.

McDaniel’s bid for continued name suppression was denied in the Christchurch District Court. He has indicated he will plead not guilty.

McDaniel will reappear in court on April 23.

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n the five years a team of government appointees has taken Environment Canterbury from a dysfunctional organisation to one that runs like a well oiled machine.

The government has signalled that now the hard work is done, democracy will return to the organisation in the next local body elections, but how that’s done will be key when it comes to ensuring the gains of the past are not lost for the future.

It’s signalled the new governance team will be a hybrid mix of appointees and elected members. That’s probably the best outcome possible. The best of the proven structure is retained, with a gradual return to Canterbury running its own ship.

There’s a big call for the government to butt out, to hand back the reins to the people and to let ECan be run by the people and for the people. That didn’t work in the past, why would it work in the future?

Unlike territorial local authorities, ECan is an organisation that embraces a region that crosses all boundaries in terms of its work. Its focus is environmental, but what makes up an environmental issue depends where you live; town, city, country, the concerns are all different.

And that’s where ECan came unstuck. In its elected membership it was city heavy but the main thrust of its work needed to be in the country. Over the past five years that’s exactly where its energies have been directed – water, effluent discharge, stream and river health – the list is endless.

Yes there’ve been town and city issues, such as air pollution, but the commissioners, with their lack of allegiance to any sector have been able to push money and energy in the right direction.

A return to a fully elected governance team would put all of that work at risk as elected members inevitably come with their own sector interests.

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his (Arab) nation, in its darkest hour, has never faced a challenge to its existence and a threat to its identity like the one it’s facing now,” said General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, now the ruler of Egypt.

And you wanted to say: Not the Crusades? Not the Mongol invasion? Not even the European conquest of the entire Arab world between 1830 and 1920?

You really think the gravest threat ever to Arab existence and identity is a bunch of tribal warriors in Yemen?

Sisi was addressing the Arab League summit in Cairo last week that created a new panArab military force to confront this threat, so overheated rhetoric was standard issue, but still .... The air forces of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours are blasting Yemen from the air, and there is talk of Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, and even Pakistani troops invading on the ground, but it all smells more of panic than of strategic calculation.

The panic is because the status quo that has prevailed in the Middle East since approximately 1980 is at an end. Iran is back, and there is great dismay in the palaces of Riyadh—especially because it was Saudi Arabia’s great friend and ally, the United States, who finally set Iran free.

It was the agreement in Lausanne last Thursday (April 2) between Iran and the group of 5+1 (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany) that marked the end of the status quo. It was about ending the various trade embargoes against Iran in return for 10 to 15 years of strict controls on Iran’s nuclear power program, but it will also let Iran out of the jail it has been confined to since the 1979 revolution.

Initially that revolution was quite scary for Iran’s Arab neighbours, because Iran’s example in overthrowing the local pro-Western ruler and taking a stronger stand against Israel was very popular in the

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Arab street. The solution was to paint Iran as a crazy terrorist state and isolate it as much as possible from the rest of the region.

The other tactic that the conservative Arab states deployed was to stress the religious gulf between Iran (which is 90 percent Shia) and the Arab countries (whose people are at least 85 percent Sunni). The doctrinal differences are real, but they do not normally make ordinary people see one another as natural enemies unless somebody (like state propaganda) works hard at it.

Those measures worked for 20 years, assisted by some really stupid Iranian actions like holding U.S. embassy personnel hostage for 444 days, but by the end of the 20th century they were losing credibility. What saved the “quarantine” policy in 2002 was the discovery that Tehran had been working on nuclear weapons design.

The work was a revival of research that had been started during the US-backed Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980-88 (when Saddam Hussein certainly was working on nuclear weapons), and was shut down afterwards. It was restarted in 1998, almost certainly in re-

sponse to the nuclear weapons tests by Pakistan, Iran’s eastern neighbour. It was Iran being stupid again, but it was probably never about Israel.

The alleged Iranian nuclear threat provided the basis for another decade and more of political quarantine and trade embargoes that have crippled Iran economically and isolated it politically. All that came to a sudden end last week with the agreement in principle in Lausanne (unless the Saudi Arabian and Israeli lobbies in Washington manage to torpedo the deal in the next few months).

Iran has about the same population and GDP as Egypt, the biggest Arab country by far, but it is far closer both to the Arab Gulf states and to the Sunni-Shia battlegrounds in Iraq and Syria (both of whose governments are closely linked to Tehran). That’s what Sisi was really talking about when he spoke of an existential threat to Arab existence and identity. However, he’s still talking through his hat.

Arab existence and identity are nowhere at risk, and Iran has no need to paint the Sunni Arab countries as enemies. The Iranian regime may be losing its support among the young

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(or maybe not), but it has absolutely no need to inoculate them against the attraction of Arab political systems and foreign policies by promoting an Arab-Iranian confrontation.

They hold no attraction whatever for young Iranians.

As for the notion that the Houthi militia that now controls most of Yemen is really an Iranian tool (which is the main justification for the military intervention there), it is nonsense. The Houthis, like the Iranians, are Shias, but they have their own local interests to protect, and Iran has no plausible reason to want some sort of strategic foothold in Yemen. It is a safe bet that there is not now even a single armed Iranian in Yemen.

If the United States could send troops into Iraq in 2003 in the delusionary belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, then Saudi Arabia can believe that it is fighting Iranians in Yemen now. No country has a monopoly on stupidity, and Riyadh will probably have ample opportunity to regret its mistake.

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In brief Greece repays loan Greece’s government has given the order to repay a roughly 450 million euro ($485-million) loan instalment to the International Monetary Fund — a debt Athens had insisted it will honour despite being severely cash-strapped.

The debt stems from Greece’s international bailout, under which the country was extended 240 billion euros in rescue loans from other eurozone countries and the IMF to prevent bankruptcy.

“The order (for the repayment) has been given,” and the payment was being processed and carried out, a Finance Ministry official said. - AP

Shots fired in court Italy’s ANSA news agency reports that a man has opened fire in Milan’s courthouse and at least two persons are believed to have been hit. There was no word on their condition. ANSA quoted the president of the appeals court, Giovanni Canzio, as saying there was more than one victim. The building has been evacuated.

The shooter is believed to be at large.

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Captive soldiers killed Boston Marathon bombing survivor Karen Brassard (second from left), speaks alongside Carlos Arredondo (left), Laurie Scher (second from right), and Mike Ward outside federal court in Boston.

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Jury to decide life or death Now that a jury has convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all charges, even more is at stake in the next phase of the federal trial: The same 12 people must decide whether the 21-year-old lives or dies.

Tsarnaev was found guilty yesterday of 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those charges are punishable by death.

The verdict was considered practically a foregone conclu-

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sion since Tsarnaev’s lawyer admitted he participated in the bombings.

The former college student

was found responsible for the deaths of three people who died in the bombings as well as the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who was gunned down days later as Tsarnaev and his now-dead brother, Tamerlan, attempted to flee.

In addition to the people who were killed, more than 260 others were injured when twin pressure-cooker bombs packed with shrapnel exploded near the marathon’s finish line on April 15, 2013, turning the traditionally celebratory home stretch of the world-famous

race into a scene of carnage.

The defence lawyers, who barely cross-examined the prosecution’s witnesses during the first part of the trial, are expected to become much more aggressive during the penalty phase, when they will make a case that Tsarnaev’s life should be spared.

The defence gave a preview of its case during the trial when it insisted that the then 19-year-old Tsarnaev was strongly influenced by his radicalised older brother, who was said to have masterminded the attack.

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■ FRANCE

TV channels hacked by group claiming IS ties Hackers claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group seized control of a French television network, simultaneously blacking out 11 channels and taking over the network’s website and social media accounts.

The attack appeared to be an unprecedented step in the extremists’ tactics.

The hackers briefly cut transmission of 11 channels belonging to TV5 Monde and took over its websites and social media accounts. The channel’s director, Yves Bigot told RTL radio that the network

has restored its signal but can only broadcast recorded programmes.

The Islamic extremist group has claimed complex hackings before, but the ability to black out a global television network appeared without precedent.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said it has opened an investigation into the attack.

Bigot said he was shaken when he saw the black screen across the network’s broadcasts “and when we discovered the sense of the message appearing on our social media

and our websites, it both allowed us to understand what was happening and obviously worried us.”

In a Facebook message that went up after the network resumed control of the site, Bigot said the “very powerful cyber attack” began Wednesday at 10pm.

The message on the TV5 Monde website read in part “I am IS” with a banner by a group that called itself Cybercaliphate. That was replaced later by a simple message saying that it was undergoing

maintenance. A group with the same name hacked Newsweek’s Twitter feed in February.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, on his Twitter account, called the attack “an unacceptable insult to freedom of information and expression” and expressed his support for the editorial staff.

After January terrorist attacks in France by gunmen claiming links to the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda in Yemen, officials said hackers had targeted some 19,000 French websites.

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Amnesty International said it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine have killed several captured government soldiers in gross violation of international humanitarian law.

The human rights group said in a statement that footage it has seen shows at least four Ukrainian soldiers — now confirmed dead — being interrogated by rebel militia.

Pictures showing bullet wounds to the soldier’s heads and bodies appeared to show they had died as the result of summary killings, the group said. Hundreds of Ukrainian troops are believed to have been captured by rebels over the course of a year-long war that has claimed more than 6000 lives.

- AP

Airstrikes ‘a mistake’ Iran’s president warned Saudi Arabia and its allies that their airstrikes’ campaign in Yemen is a “mistake” and called for a halt to the strikes targeting the Iranbacked Shiite rebels who have seized much of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country. For two weeks now, the Saudi-led coalition has failed to stop the power grab by the Houthi rebels, whose advance has forced President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country. Both Tehran and the rebels deny that Iran is arming them. In his speech in Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged for a ceasefire in Yemen to allow for broad-based talks on resolving the crisis.

- AP

Nine guilty of fraud An Indian court has convicted the founder of an outsourcing giant and nine others on charges of stealing millions of dollars in one of the largest frauds in the country’s corporate history. B. Rama Raju, his two brothers and seven other officials of Satyam Computer Services face life imprisonment.

Judge B.V.L.N. Chakravarthy said he would sentence them today.

They were also found guilty of using forged documents, falsifying accounts and concealing evidence.

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Wellington Airport: Pilots may refuse to land there.

“It just isn’t conceivable.”

He said the while the current 90m was sufficient for pilots of smaller narrow body planes who were experienced landing at the airport, pilots flying long haul from Asia or other regions were likely to be unfamiliar with the airport.

Wellington had the worst turbulence he had experienced

in 27 years of commercial flying and there were hills on flights paths to the airport.

“If the CAA continues the current dispensation, non-Australasian pilots and or airlines may refuse to risk flying into what is already a challenging airport to land at,” said Torenvlied.

Concrete tiles that slow air-

craft down could be used and require a run-off area of 130m.

The airport is investigating extending the runway by 300m to 350m in an effort to try and attract longhaul flights to Wellington which it says would boost tourism and make travel from the capital more convenient.

Councils have allowed for around $150m in spending plans, should the work go ahead.

However, airlines are not enthusiastic with the Board of Airline Representatives saying it knew of no carriers which would fly longhaul to Wellington.

“We’re not against progress to increase tourism or economic viability but it must not come at the cost of safety to passengers, pilots and crew flying in and out of Wellington.” Torenvlied said.

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IT recruitment drive Software developers are the most sought-after staff in the IT profession in Auckland. New projects and increased demand will underpin a recruitment drive this year in Auckland’s information technology sector, says Absolute IT director Grant Burley. A survey found the most sought-after skills this year included software development, business analysis, project management and data or database use, topping the previous highly demanded network and infrastructure roles.

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Some of the headwinds Australia is currently facing include lacklustre growth, rising unemployment, falling iron ore prices (currently at the lowest level in over a decade), and a slowdown in China, Australia’s largest trading partner.

This was the second meeting in a row when markets had been pricing in another rate cut and have been surprised when Governor Glenn Stevens has announced that they would stay on hold.

The Australian dollar spiked against all major trading partners following the announcement, however has tapered off again since.

The US Federal Reserve minutes were released this week and painted a picture of divergence within the committee.

Leading up to the release there had been many Fed speakers, with somewhat mixed messages.

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This was reiterated in the minutes which showed that some members are ready to raise rates as early as June whereas others thought that they should be waiting until at least the end of the year.

The Fed have commented that they will need to continue with accommodative monetary policy until they feel the US economy can stand alone, however given recent weakness seen in economic data including a lacklustre jobs report and a slowdown in the manufacturing sector, it appears that the economy is not quite ready yet.

Low wage growth, harsh winter weather and a slowdown in global demand are contributing to the stall in the recovery and keeping inflation down.

Fed chair Janet Yellen has said that policy makers don’t necessarily have to see wage growth or inflation but they do need to be reasonably confident that these things will gather momentum in the near term.

Equity markets in the US took this dovish tone and ran with it, making gains following the release.

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Eventful week for the dollar M arkets have had a mixed week with a small number of events that have had reasonably large impacts. These events include the release of the minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting, a Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate announcement and the beginning of the reporting season in the US. New Zealand has had a short but eventful week after a long weekend due to the Easter break.

The biggest news was that the New Zealand dollar came very close to reaching dollar for dollar parity with Australia, but stopped just short after the Reserve Bank of Australia’s surprise decision to hold rates.

The New Zealand dollar/Aussie dollar cross rate reached a high of $0.9978, a post float high.

Many analysts still believe that the currencies will reach parity although it is unlikely to be a long term situation.

As mentioned above, the Reserve Bank of Australia surprised markets this week with its decision to hold rates again.

The bank cut rates in February by 25 basis points taking it to an historical low of 2.25 per cent but has resisted from cutting again.

It was widely thought that, given the weak data that has

The Financial Markets Authority says it found nothing of concern in trading of SkyCity Entertainment Group shares ahead of a government announcement that it wouldn’t help fund Auckland’s convention centre. The regulator worked with the NZX to look into share trading in the week of February 9-13 after receiving two complaints, including one from Winston Peters.

The NZ First leader said there was a suspicious spike in the volume of SkyCity shares on Friday, February 13. The government and SkyCity announced on the following Sunday that no more taxpayer money would be put into the convention centre project.

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Pilots are worried expansion plans at Wellington Airport could risk safety.

The New Zealand Air Line Pilots Association says a runoff area for larger planes the airport hopes to attract by extending the runway is not long enough.

The “runway end safety area” should meet internationally recommended standards of 240m not the 90m that has been signed off by the Civil Aviation Authority as part of a historic dispensation, said the association’s technical director Captain Rob Torenvlied.

“Building this runway extension without proper run-off areas is akin to building the Transmission Gully motorway with cardboard crash barriers because the proper ones are too expensive.

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Swapping the classroom for kayaks You’re supposed to have wind to go sailing but no, we just had a slight breeze. We were going sailing and kayaking. We had been split up into two groups and each group was doing each of the activities.

I’m going sailing first. We are shown were the rudder is, how to handle the ropes and where the skipper should sit. We have to put three to a boat.

We’re all setting off and we manage to get moving. We are supposed to go to the buoy. We did it once, twice and then we got off track and just went in circles.

Everyone dipped their hands into the water and every once in a while we got a big gust of wind and shot forwards. We bumped into one another a little but everyone was having so much fun we didn’t care. After a while we stopped bumping into each other but we had a few

close calls with other boats. We all took turns so each person could have a go with each job.

We were told to come back to shore so we slowly glided along the water as we came back to shore. Once back we had a bite to eat and a drink and then we got back on the water.

The groups swapped over so I was in a kayak now. As this is a school event we can’t hurt ourselves in the water, so we are shown how to paddle properly and how to get back on a kayak once you have fallen off. Once that was done we all ran to a kayak and set off one at a time.

I was one of the last ones in the water but I didn’t mind.

I asked Mrs Scott to hold my kayak and I jumped, SPLASH! I popped right back up because of the life jacket. I climbed back on and got paddling. Everything was muted and muffled because of the water in my ears.

Mrs Scott decided to make a raft so we all joined her. She picked me and Brooklyn to swap kayaks so we had to crawl along the ends of the kayaks to get to our new kayak. I fell off and again I popped right back up. I had to swim to the kayak and climb on. I ended up jumping off my kayak again and again and again. Everyone is slowly going back to shore so I follow them. I wish we could’ve done it a bit longer. The people who went sailing are already eating. I joined my friends for lunch.

Everyone was talking, eating and laughing. After a few minutes everyone got up and put their lunch away. I walk around with the girls after lunch for a little bit but end up playing bullrush with the boys.

I enjoyed aquatics day very much and hope we do more trips like it throughout the year.

By Olivia Lill

Building boats tests hard materials skills By students from Class 7/4 Hello, my name is Maddy. I am enjoying Ashburton Intermediate so far. My favourite subject at school is Hard Materials (woodwork). This term we have been making powered boats. We got the option to choose what type of boat we wanted.

There were steam, paddle, swamp, jet and propeller.

We started with three blocks of wood.

We traced it, sanded it and glued it. Mr Butler is a very good teacher. He helps you lots and knows what he is talking about. On my boat I am up to putting the motor together. I really enjoy Hard Materials. It’s not just about learning. You also get to make cool things and learn how to operate different machines. I enjoy Hard Materials lots.

Hello, my name is Victoria. This is my first year at Ashburton Intermediate. It is so fun especially when it comes to Hard Materials woodwork. In the Hard Materials room there’s an awesome teacher and his name is Mr Butler. This term

Triathlon champs Mid Canterbury Schools’ Triathlon results for AIS students: Lucy Moore - 3rd Year 8 Girls. William Joyce - 3rd Year 7 Boys. Megan Harrison - 6th Year 7 Girls. Blake Farr - 7th Year 7 Boys. Jack Gibson – 10th Year 7 Boys. Ethan Green - 13th Year 7 Boys.

Back row, from left: Megan Harrison, Lucy Moore, William Joyce. Lying, from left: Jack Gibson, Ethan Green, Blake Farr.

am loving it, especially Hard Materials.

We are making boats. I have made my deck and my under deck. I’m now working on my battery pack. I am making a propeller boat. I love working with Mr Butler in Hard Materials. I am really enjoying it.

we are making electric boats that move through the water by themselves.

Mr Butler lets us use different materials to make our boats. There are different kinds of boats you can make. There’s paddle, steam, fan and jet boat. I am doing a paddle boat. There are a lot of steps to finish your masterpiece. You have to carve, sand and drill. So if you have a trip to Ashburton Intermediate you could probably see our boats and other cool things.

Hi, my name is Emma. It is almost the end of my first term at Ashburton Intermediate. I really like Hard Materials. I never

knew that constructing items could take so many steps. Mr Butler is our teacher.

I value him as a teacher as he gave us a hard object to make so we get to use different tools, materials and textures.

My favourite tool is the drill press as it is fun to use whenever you need to drill a hole through something. Anybody can use it. The tool I don’t like is the solder machine because it is hard to use and you can burn yourself easily. I have had fun designing my project and I can’t wait to test out my boat.

My name is Hannah McC. I am 11 years old and go to Ashburton Intermediate. I

Hi, my name is Hannah K and this is my first year at Ashburton Intermediate. I really like it here especially when it comes to Hard Materials (woodwork).

This term we have been making electronic toy boats. We started off with three little planks of wood. We shaped, designed, sanded and we drilled. We’ve all made our mini masterpiece! We had certain options of what kinds of boat we were going to make.

There was the option of a jet, paddle, propeller, swamp and a steam boat. I’m doing a paddle boat because I think it will move through the water more swiftly than the others.

All in all I really love Hard Materials and never knew I could make such technical stuff like that.

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■ AMAZON ON THE RISE

eBay ‘on life support’ EBay’s once-loyal merchants are moving more of their business to Amazon.com, saying they get more for their money by selling merchandise via the Web retailer.

Amazon’s pool of merchants doubled to about two million in 2014, while the number of sellers on eBay has remained flat at 25 million in the past two years.

Businesses that at first set up online storefronts on eBay say they’re surprised how quickly sales surge on Amazon once products appear on both sites.

The move to Amazon, which boasts a bigger user base and offers more ways to ship merchandise, poses a threat to eBay, which pioneered the idea of an Internet marketplace where merchants big and small could hawk wares.

“We saw sales drop 10 per cent on eBay and gain 10 per cent on Amazon,” said Chance Knapp, chief executive officer of Vivo Technology, a laptop parts and accessories business, about a few product lines he moved last year.

“It was like customers were actually shifting from eBay to Amazon.”

EBay is already under pressure, chalking up lackluster holiday-quarter sales and suffering a marketplace traffic slowdown that CEO John Donahoe blamed on changes in the way Google handles shoppingsearch results.

EBay is spinning off its PayPal division this year after pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, who lamented sluggish gains in the online shopping division.

Moving storefronts doesn’t come cheap. Amazon charges a premium for its logistics services, which include storage, packaging and ensuring products

Apple watch online When it comes to buying the Apple Watch, it’s time to think different. Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s sales chief, wants to scrap the company’s tradition of having customers wait in line, sometimes for days, to get their hands on the latest gadget. Apple has instructed its sales force to prod shoppers to the company’s website to purchase the new smartwatch. “The days of waiting in line and crossing fingers for a product are over for our customers,” according to a memo to Apple sales staff. “This is a significant change in mindset and we need your help to make it happen.”

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Amazon’s pool of merchants doubled to about two million in 2014.

are shipped in a timely manner.

Both companies have complex price formulas that vary by product category. While eBay typically charges about 10 per cent of each item’s final sale price, Amazon takes 15 per cent in most cases, with additional fees for optional storage and packaging.

Many sellers say Amazon is worth the extra expense to achieve greater sales volumes and that it’s cheaper to let Amazon handle logistics than do it themselves.

ChannelAdvisor, a Morrisville, North Carolina consulting company that helped 3000 merchants sell $6 billion in merchandise last year, saw the migration to Amazon from eBay begin last year.

Slowing sales growth on eBay encouraged sellers to move inventory to Amazon, and the gap widened, according to Scot Wingo, ChannelAdvisor’s CEO. By the last three months of 2014 - critical for retailers because of holiday shopping ChannelAdvisor saw its clients’ Amazon sales rise 33 per cent

from a year earlier, compared with 5 per cent growth on eBay. “EBay remains a good part of the business, but it’s on life support and the growth is on Amazon,” Wingo said.

Chris Matsakis, president of daily-deal site DealGenius.com in Chicago, said that as recently as 2013 sales on eBay exceeded those on Amazon’s marketplace. Last year, his revenue via Amazon grew fivefold, and are now four times greater than sales on eBay, he said.

“We’re seeing significant growth on Amazon where eBay has sort of plateaued,” Matsakis said.

Amazon - which also sells goods from its own inventory of products, not just from third-party retailers, such as eBay’s marketplace - attracted 174.9 million unique visitors in the US in February, 46 per cent more than eBay, according to ComScore.

Ryan Moore, a spokesman for eBay, declined to comment on any sales shift, referring instead to Donahoe’s previous statements on revenue growth.

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more than two million merchants at the end of last year, up from more than one million at the end of 2013.

Still, Amazon’s logistical support services and larger customer base make it attractive to sellers with high sales volumes of quick-moving inventory, while eBay remains more favorable to small sellers of collectibles and specialty items.

Amazon, which has 270 million active buyers compared with eBay’s 155 million, has had a third-party marketplace since 2000 and started offering Fulfillment by Amazon in 2007.

Some sellers have been wary of Amazon, since it can also be a retail competitor.

The shift highlights the value of Amazon’s paid membership model and its investments in distribution. Amazon boasts tens of millions of customers who pay $99 a year for fast delivery, as well as offering online music and movies. Merchants are willing to pay Amazon more to access those shoppers and have Amazon handle and deliver their products. - Bloomberg

An Auckland accounting firm has hired a robot to allow staff to have a presence at conferences, meetings and training programmes without physically attending.

Dubbed “George” the telepresence robot was created by American company Double Robotics and retails for around $3300. George is the first robot of its kind to be brought to New Zealand, and is controlled by a remote user who can appear on-screen, or use the robot as a platform to show others content during training, workshops and seminars. He was bought by Brad Golchin, founder and director of Auckland accounting firm Wise Advice.

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Targeting kids online For decades, advertising to children on television has been held to tougher rules than commercials for adults. US federal regulators have long been concerned that kids are more vulnerable to marketing and have a tougher time distinguishing between an ad and a show. Now with new apps such as YouTube Kids, hosting videos aimed at children, the same rules aren’t being applied, opening up children to more advertising than ever, according to a coalition of children’s advocacy and public interest groups. In a complaint to be filed this week with the US Federal Trade Commission, the groups alleged that YouTube Kids, owned by Google, contains a host of videos created by McDonald’s, Fisher-Price, American Greetings and other companies to encourage children to buy their products.

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L Lester (J) N Rasmussen

April 11, 2015

DUNSTAN FEEDS AUTUMN SPRINT CHAMPIONS QUAL R65 $17,500, R65 benchmark*, 1200m

1 32632 Individual (9) 59 C Spittles 3 2 42432. Kage Is King (6) 58.5 G & T Shaw 4 3 3142X Pat In Brackets (3) 58 Kevin & Pam Hughes 4 24724 Cinderella (13) 57 K Hampton 1 5 10382 Vitesse Rose (5) 57 Kennedy/Furlong 6 9X186 The Real Deal (10) 56.5 B Foote 2 7 12. Tiebreaker (11) 56 K Myers 8 446X1 Gold Promise (1) 56 B Court 9 008X0. Kodema (2) 56 R McKay 10 15568. Gallant Babe (12) 55.5 D Frye 11 503X4 Justa Secret (7) 55 L Latta 12 X2201 Maia’s Angel (8) 55 T & M Stokes 13 22716 Peggy’s Choice (4) 55 R McKay 2:02PM 604

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G Jogoo (a3) C Johnson C Grylls R Cuneen (a2) D Prastiyou (a2) M Du Plessis S Wynne (a1) D Walsh A McKay (a3) L Callaway K Williams B Murray (a3) T Moseley

PGG WRIGHTSON SEEDS OPEN HANDICAP $25,000, opn hcp, 1000m

1 51625 King Montrose (4) 59 N Ridley 2 R Cuneen (a2) 1 2 12182 Toma Valea (2) 56.5 T & M Stokes M Cameron 3 3 11341 Red Dirt Girl (9) 54 M McCann S Muniandy 4 93730 Our Premonition (8) 54 Kevin & Pam Hughes M Haruki (a3) 5 23312 Jazzman (7) 54 M & M Pitman P Shaikh (a3) 6 4X07X Victory Dragon (5) 54 B Court D Walsh K Williams 12:52PM THREE VALLEYS SALES DRAFT RATING 75 7 45663 Snow Line (3) 54 L Latta M Du Plessis OPT 602 $18,500, rating 75 benchmark, 1400m 8 21643 Pacific Choice (1) 54 B Foote 4 9 01512 Signify (6) 54 A M Cowan C Johnson 1 4826X Vaporetto (9) 59 J Hay M Du Plessis 2 51424 Volcano (6) 59 L Robinson J Lowry (a3) 2:37PM ZONDA/SO CASUAL RATING 65 3 36839 Nine Pin (2) 57 N Ridley R Cuneen (a2) OPT 605 $17,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 4 56124 Gallant Boy (7) 56.5 B & S Anderton S Muniandy 1 78970. El Bee Dee (23) 59 R McKay T Direen 1 5 31151 Ash (10) 56 L Didham C Barnes (a1) 2 23403 Metro Lover (15) 58 B Court D Walsh 6 83256 Prince Ransom (5) 56 M & M Pitman M Cameron 2 3 24216 Waitino Biscuit (21) 57.5 R Patterson D Bradley 7 04054 Natkingcole (4) 55.5 R McKay A McKay (a3) 4 54303 Coup Secrecy (14) 57.5 Champion/Murphy R Myers 4 8 06012 Why Wait (1) 55.5 L Latta K Williams 1 5 11844 Gold Allure (7) 57 K Myers 2 9 X3823 Double Blue (11) 54 Kevin & Pam Hughes M Haruki (a3) 4 6 52633 Bellaleah (5) 57 R Beckett T Moseley 10 91249 Shezastunna (12) 54 R Patterson D Bradley 7 08257. Mr Wiz (18) 57 L Latta R Bishop 11 15069 Madam Bentley (8) 54 J & K Parsons C Johnson 8 44424 Young Jim (1) 57 J & K Parsons C Johnson 3 12 178X7 Silhouette Noire (3) 54 T Rae R Myers 9 536X7 Inis Rose (3) 56 L Robinson S Wynne (a1)

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21 Know Hero 30.32 53657 Nicksta nwtd 25246 Protonic Pedro 31.08 2F376 Star Apache 30.74 37542 Luminary nwtd 67637 Homebush Ninja 30.79 43222 Boston Billy nwtd 41657 Goldstar Bomber 30.92 66341 Goldstar Junior 30.66

2:03PM

1 1 3 2 $1,100, c0, 295m D Stapleton 3 J Tanner 4 S Hindson 5 4 6 McCook & Jopson J McInerney 7 2 8 J McInerney Casey & Fagan 9 A Lee 10

I PAVE CONCRETE SPRINT

1 X8373 Mobilize nwtd 1 2 35537 What A Party nwtd 3 83636 First Officer nwtd 3 4 24262 Jamaican Archie nwtd 5 8 Another Key nwtd 6 8876 El Movin nwtd 4 7 64 Terra Mondo nwtd 2 8 Replay nwtd 9 887 Fair trading nwtd 1:28PM

2 1 3 4 5 4 6 7 2 8 9 10

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1 52267 Nicky Noir 30.15 2 1 2 21F38 Country Crossing 30.31 3 353X6 Flying Amelia 30.29 4 34236 Elwood Sensation nwtd 5 34545 Hello Blondie nwtd 4 6 87117 Plutonium 30.37 3 7 53332 Expect Delay nwtd 8 35114 Blushing Belle 30.63 9 63736 Opawa Stella 30.33 10 37418 Zulu Chanel 30.60 2:40PM

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DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

2 2 4 3 1 4 5 6 7 LIVAMOL SPRINT HEAT 1 8 $1,400, c2q, 295m 9 D Stapleton 10

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12223 Batiatus 17.34 63225 Jack’s A Jewel 17.35 85872 Goldstar Chyna 17.30 74625 Butterbean 17.29 46585 Laudable nwtd 73487 Hanna The Spanna 17.23 78365 Bad Week 17.33 63168 Uno Shelley nwtd 47756 Will Excite 17.33 88886 La Fontaine 17.36

2:22PM

G Cleeve J McInerney B Dann S & B Evans R Blackburn J McInerney Hart & Taylor S & B Evans S & B Evans

C Roberts S & B Evans M & P Binnie D Stapleton J Dunn J McInerney J McInerney L Waretini J Tanner

Compiled by

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 7-8-9-10-11-12

53554 Little Midnight 17.24 38476 Blue Review 17.45 58111 Arbre Chene 17.12 57662 Blonde Tori 17.47 42687 Homebush Bruno 17.34 75814 Tony’s Choice 17.50 24872 Trumped Up 17.34 47756 Will Excite 17.33 88886 La Fontaine 17.36

2:59PM

D Stapleton R Adcock M & P Binnie A Bradshaw J McInerney D Stapleton McCook & Jopson L Waretini J Tanner

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LIVAMOL SPRINT HEAT 3

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LIVAMOL SPRINT HEAT 4

$1,400, c2q, 295m

1 535X8 Homebush Craig 17.29 1 2 31117 Royal Apache 17.43 3 78563 Car Bootle 17.62 4 36875 Blazing Hot 17.58 2 5 12184 Premier Prince 17.36 3 6 88883 Ohoka Hope 17.49 7 16736 Homebush Flyte 17.50 4 8 53213 Cec Divine 17.40 KOLORFUL KANVAS STAKES $2,200, c2, 520m 9 47756 Will Excite 17.33 B Dann 10 X8877 Another Cover 17.43

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58451 Know Salute 17.49

J & D Fahey C Weir R Blackburn R Adcock Hart & Taylor M Grant Lane & Wales Lane & Wales C Roberts

$1,400, c2q, 295m

1 5278X Conaloo 17.53 1 2 54127 Sheza Gamble 17.33 2 3 82443 Unreliable Andy 17.42 4 38547 Jasper Haka 17.27 4 5 34853 Know Fault 17.24 6 25177 Business Review 17.44 3 7 17343 Goldstar Mario 17.42 LIVAMOL SPRINT HEAT 2 8 51175 Cawbourne Rowan nwtd $1,400, c2q, 295m 9 47756 Will Excite 17.33 G Cleeve 10 X8877 Another Cover 17.43

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1193m Weather: A few showers.

3 02149 Summer Vacation (3) T Trathen 4 1 4 83523 Trouble Rieu (4) B White 5 1780P Lisa Marie P (u1) M Perriton 6 94630 All Lit Up (1) L & J Smith 7 542PX Sunoflindenny (u1) M Jones 8 83778 Tart N Tights (1) M Austin 9 56704 Jayceekay (2) N Munro 2 10 418P0 Santorini Sunset (u1) K Townley 3 11 01810 The Bog (1) N McGrath 12 32590 Valmagne (u1) J Kennett

3:15PM

I Kaye S & B Evans M Robinson D Stapleton C Roberts L Waretini J McInerney G Cleeve L Waretini J McInerney

T Trathen S McNally M Perriton J Smith M Jones B Orange G O'Reilly D Dunn N McGrath S Ottley

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

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M Robinson McCook & Jopson A Bradshaw J McInerney G Cleeve D Stapleton S & B Evans C Roberts L Waretini J McInerney

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9

55 Sparkling Delight (7) G O'Reilly

G O'Reilly

Barrier

Chicago Bull

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SCRATCHED

XCM SPORT MOBILE TROT

$7,000, 3yo+ c0 mob. trot, 1950m

1 4X Great Things Happen (1) G Smith 1 G Smith 2 2 25320 Zsa Zara (2) K Ford A Tomlinson 3 X8698 Harley (3) Wakelin/Noble P Wakelin 7:53PM GRAPHITE DEVELOPMENTS LTD MOBILE PACE 4 05X00 Izinthezone (4) K Cameron K Cameron OPT 806 $7,500, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace jun.d, 2600m 3 5 0 October Rain (5) G Smith J Dunn 4 1 25724 Bandana (1) G & N Hope S Golding (J) 6 08040 Rocknpop (6) K Ford C Ford 2 59662 Jacko (2) J Hay I Lee (J) 7 Landora’s Girl SCRATCHED 2 3 82238 Gracious Star (3) P Burrows M Neilson (J) 8 Sunny Spirit (7) F Fletcher S Smolenski 4 87477 Handlebar Hank (4) P Robertson A Fitzgerald (J) 9 6054 The Denniston Rose (8) T & G Chmiel T Chmiel

1 5 132 Christopher Banner (5) L Hanrahan Barrier K Butt (J) 6 71442 Sandvik Star (6) R Todd R Close (J) 4 10 Paris Princess (21) F Fletcher C DeFilippi 7 37277 Little Tess (7) T & G Chmiel T Quate (J) 11 07X00 Later (u1) L & J Smith J Smith 3 8 1047 Mach’s Terminator (8) P Burrows M Anderson (J) 12 0X90X Jims Dragon (u2) J Sheenan J Sheenan

Duntalkin (9) M Howard J Anderson (J) 9 61980 Barrier

BLUE STAR TAXIS MOBILE PACE 9:24PM $12,000, 3yo+ c3–c4, c5 with cond., 1950m 10 00580 Northview Gambler (21) B Mowbray J Harrington (J) 2 1 15455 Happy Heidi (1) J Howe T Chmiel 11 7X35X Woodlea Wager (u1) T Twidle K Cox (J) 2 14277 Justalittlebettor (2) B Butt B Butt 8:22PM GARRARDS SIRES STAKES SERIES NO.32 HT2 MBL PACE 3 3 01426 Goodness Gracious Me (3) M Jones B Orange $25,000, 2yo c&g mob. pace, 1950m 4 38700 Someardensomewhere (4) G Payne OPT 807 T Williams 1 Scotlynn Jack (1) D Taylor C DeFilippi 5 21707 Artismee (5) R Dunn S Ottley 4 2 5 Classie Brigade (2) N McGrath R May 1 6 13743 Brilliant Strike (6) G & P Court R May 1 3 3232 Motu Premier (3) Purdon/Rasmussen N Rasmussen 7 12041 Smart Caesar (7) N Edge M Neilson (J) 3 4 Ice Crusher (4) M Jones M Jones 4 8 27731 Mr Franklin (8) S Dolan D Dunn 2 5 Wannabet (5) K Barron B Orange 9 615X9 Franco Nattai (9) B Cusdin B Cusdin

Barrier 6 First Class Arden (6) G Payne D Dunn

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Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Good; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 2400m; Straight: 400m; Rail: Rail out 5m; Weather: Mainly fine.

10 0220X Blu Mach (12) 56 L Didham C Barnes (a1) 11 7X005 Chipmunk (10) 56 M & W Coles M Cameron 12 4856X One For The Money (2) 56 T Charles R Tyler (a1) 3 13 20166 Zhanim (6) 55.5 S Woodsford M Du Plessis 14 367X3. Falzano (13) 55.5 L Didham D Prastiyou (a2) 15 X5087 Umshini Wami (11) 55.5 Kevin & Pam Hughes M Haruki (a3) 16 83630 Western Warrior (9) 55.5 D Frye L Callaway 17 76410. Carolina Island (16) 55 T & M Stokes 18 74550 Ekstra Special (20) 54 M & M Pitman L Allpress 0 19 90008 Night Owl (4) 55.5 B Gliddon 0 20 80553. Miss Citron (8) 54 G & T Shaw 0 21 88904 Rikho (17) 55 G Robinson 0 22 9028X Showcase (22) 54 L Morris 0 23 60708 Truth (19) 54.5 B Gliddon

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9

9 20274 La Veuve (4) 56.5 Kennedy/Furlong 10 19781 Platinum Command (6) 56.5 L Latta 11 22X13 Brillante Brigitte (13) 56.5 K Zimmerman 12 42022 Petty Thief (12) 56.5 B Thurlow 13 8X302 Celtic Lass (9) 56.5 T & M Stokes 4:26PM 608

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D Prastiyou (a) D Bradley K Williams R Myers B Murray (a)

CHRISTCHURCH CASINO EASTER CUP $50,000, opn hcp, 1600m

1 13126 Scapolo (8) 59 K Myers 1 S Wynne (a) 2 2 09X42 The Solitaire (2) 57.5 D Bros S Muniandy 3 37254. Dr Dee Bee (4) 55.5 J Hay T Direen 4 4 10885 El Chico (5) 55 M & M Pitman M Cameron 3 5 11171 Overtheriver (1) 54.5 K Myers R Myers 6 58666 Too Much Torque (9) 53 T & M Stokes M Du Plessis 3:11PM HORNBY WORKING MEN’S CLUB FOUNDERS CUP 7 35708 Locket (10) 53 J & K Parsons C Johnson OPT 606 $25,000, opn hcp, 2000m 8 1X797. Needastar (3) 53 D Crozier D Prastiyou (a) 2 1 33234 Eva Keeneva (9) 59 T Charles R Tyler (a1) 9 20374 Sir Singo (7) 53 M & M Pitman L Allpress 2 00500 Alpine Heights (2) 58.5 J & K Parsons C Johnson 10 16832 Timy Tyler (6) 53 K Tyler R Tyler (a) 1 3 41X4X Spring Cheer (6) 58 K Myers R Myers 4 71758 King Prawn (1) 58 J Phillips L Allpress 5:06PM NZB SOUTH ISLAND SALE 17TH APRIL RATING 75 5 75775 Ric O’Shea (8) 58 L Latta T Direen OPT 609 $18,500, rating 75 benchmark, 1800m 3 6 34110 The Bishop (10) 58 D Bros D Walsh 1 29534 Ishipal (11) 60.5 N Ridley R Cuneen (a2) 4 7 18210 Blue ’N’ Gold (4) 57 B & S Anderton K Williams 2 31854 Southern Power (4) 58.5 J & K Parsons G Jogoo (a3) 8 93X50 Crystal Duke (3) 55.5 Kevin & Pam Hughes M Haruki (a3) 3 605X0 Pheasant (1) 58 B Gliddon R Bishop 9 63457 Sadlers Rock (5) 55 L Latta M Du Plessis 4 46270 Southern Sav (14) 57.5 M & M Pitman L Allpress 10 42049 The Hand Of Faith (7) 54 A Taylor L Callaway 3 5 99223 Lakota (12) 56 T Charles R Tyler (a1) 2 6 41171 Merci Cherie (7) 55.5 Kennedy/Furlong D Prastiyou (a2) 3:46PM NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK 3YOF AIRFREIGHT STAKES C Johnson OPT 607 $50,000, 3yof sw, 1600m 7 667X2 Kings Pal (15) 55.5 B Smith S Wynne (a1) 1 1 31415 Belle Miraaj (2) 56.5 G Robinson S Wynne (a) 8 60431 Mister Spiderman (13) 55.5 L Latta K Williams 3 2 12011 Miss Seton Sands (8) 56.5 S Woodsford R Cuneen (a) 9 81216 Stonemason (5) 55 L Latta S Muniandy 2 3 22444 No Tricks (7) 56.5 J Bridgman M Cameron 10 22772 Rejoice (3) 54.5 M McCann M Du Plessis 4 16233 Querer (5) 56.5 J & K Parsons C Johnson 11 61610 Rosheen (6) 54 J & K Parsons 4 12 74641 Avow (9) 54 B & S Anderton J Lowry (a3) 4 5 64111 Somethingvain (1) 56.5 M/Rogers D Walsh 1 13 22151 Epineaux (10) 54 K Myers R Myers 6 31286. Choice (10) 56.5 R Patterson L Allpress T Direen 7 12 Starlight Angel (3) 56.5 Kevin & Pam Hughes C Grylls 14 44311. Evancho (8) 54 J Hay 8 37548 Consensus (11) 56.5 T Rae T Moseley M Du Plessis 15 479X8 Jimmy The One (2) 54 E G Low

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Barrier

Wellington Races Tomorrow at Trentham

10 $17,500, 3yo sw+p, 1600m 11 3YO SAVARIA CUP

1 21666. Sealed By A Dance (5) 59.5 K Myers 2 3 2 86191 Just A Lover (2) 57.5 E & JJ Rayner 4 3 127 Bushfire (3) 57.5 T Bambry 1 4 1 Vallone (1) 57.5 S Marsh 5 21724. Angelica Rox (4) 55.5 D & C Bothwell 6 67199 Habitude (6) 55.5 J Wheeler

Jockey

K Myers J Parkes J Riddell

April 11, 2015

81436 Agostini (3) 54 G & D Rogerson 49587 Platinum Lincoln (11) 54 L Latta

1:39pm 404

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C O'Beirne (a3)

SACRED STAR MAIDEN CUP $10,000, mdn, 1000m

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Slow; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 2000m; Straight: 450m; Rail: Rail out 10m; Weather: Mainly fine.

2:53pm 406

opt

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DAL CIELO CUP MAIDEN

$10,000, mdn, 1600m

1 97372 Zartan (6) 58.5 K Little 2 1 2 40X2. Regal Steps (3) 58.5 J Lynds 3 60 Classic Gold (2) 58.5 R Frost 4 38998 Keen Tempo (7) 58.5 D Parry 5 40325. Miss Interpreted (4) 56.5 S Mercer 3 6 74633 Sanjara (8) 56.5 R Allen 4 7 54 Awesome Princess (5) 56.5 H Johnson 8 Serene Star 9 43 Miss Norway (1) 56 M Breslin 10 5737 Biddie Walker (9) 56 A Sharrock

M Dravitzki (a1) R Hutchings (a) H Tinsley M McNelis (a4) J Parkes K Myers K Smith SC RATC HED

1 0X462 Dan Cugat (5) 58.5 K Gray S Doyle 3 2 0205X Lincoln’s Legacy (7) 58.5 L Latta J Riddell Thanque (4) 58.5 H Mathews H Tinsley R Hutchings (a) 3 R Hutchings (a) S Doyle 4 24332 Saber (6) 58 G & D Rogerson 5 24358 Daytime Robbery (3) 58 K Lawrence K Smith 12:30pm 2YO MARKY MARK CUP 6 Marquateer (11) 58 D Caskey M Dravitzki (a1) $17,500, 2yo sw+p, 1200m opt 402 2 7 The Sheik (8) 58 P & K Shailer M McNab 3 1 13813. Jacquetta (2) 58.5 G & D Rogerson R Hutchings (a) 8 550X7. Whoopsie (2) 56.5 K Lawrence K C hiong (a2) J Riddell 4 2 2X Hover (4) 56 A Sharrock J Riddell 1 9 223. Isola Bella (1) 56 A Sharrock J Parkes 2 3 37423 Platinum Looker (1) 54 L Latta K Myers THE DIAMOND ONE CUP RATING 75 4 10 20X20 Floscee’s Gold (10) 56 M Loveday 1 K Myers 3:28pm 4 43X Electric Aura (6) 54 P & K Shailer M McNab 11 60X30 Paua Eyes (9) 56 M Johnson $18,500, rating 75 benchmark, 1600m C O'Beirne (a3) opt 407 5 6. Liana (7) 54 G Vile J Shackleton 12 7X Red Bordeaux (12) 56 H Mathews B Lammas R Goldsbury (a3) 1 5030X Running Late (1) 59 G Nicholson 1 6 Miss Wilson (5) 54 J Bary M Dravitzki (a1) 4 2 52127. Diamantine (11) 58 J Wheeler J Riddell 7 Shocktillyoudrop (3) 54 L Latta 3 3 1286X Porotene Park (7) 57.5 F Auret J Parkes 2:18pm MAYGROVE CUP MAIDEN 1 4 22721 Postboy (6) 57 R Bergerson H Tinsley $17,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 2400m 1:03pm DANICA GUY RACING GAULTIER CUP RATING 85 opt 405 2 5 5920X Teddytwinkletoes (2) 56.5 J Rathbone K Myers $20,000, rating 85 benchmark, 1000m 1 63717 Taipa Tiger (5) 59 L Latta opt 403 J Riddell 6 160X0 Katie McKeen (8) 55.5 G McBeth K C hiong (a2) 1 12574 Magic Shaft (5) 59 D Caskey 4 2 55088 Jack’s Boy (6) 57 A MacGregor J Parkes H Tinsley 7 838X9 Jackfrost (5) 55.5 David & Emma Haworth R Hutchings (a) 2 2 16152 Stunning Princess (4) 57 L Latta K Myers 3 84010 Michelin (2) 56.5 G Nicholson K Myers 8 75343 Kings Court (10) 55.5 S Gordon 3 3 5056X Mr Darcee’s Gold (1) 57 M Loveday 1 K C hiong (a2) 4 50737 Love Me Moore (3) 56 T Egan R Hutchings (a) 9 40X41 Carlton Princess (3) 54 K Zimmerman M McNab 5 4 40379. Frank Whitaker (2) 56.5 J Lynds Piccadilly SC RATC HED R Hutchings (a) 10 1X088. Party Girl (4) 54 David & Emma Haworth M Dravitzki (a1) 1 5 X1756. Alleyoop (8) 56 J Bridge J Riddell 6 99244 Eyeful Tower (4) 55 D & C Bothwell J Parkes 11 97555 Phoenix Tycoon (9) 54 M Eales 6 78318 Written Command (7) 56 M Eales 3 7 85367 Rock Band (9) 54.5 G Freeman K Smith 4 7 6410X Pasha Sumore (9) 55 C Dravitzki 1 8 66744 Diamond Thorn (1) 54 S Ritchie PUCCINI CUP M Dravitzki (a1) M McNab 4:05pm 8 4830X She’s Slinky (6) 54 G Lambert 2 9 83788 Outoftime (8) 54 P Bourke $25,000, opn hcp, 1400m L Hemi (a3) K C hiong (a2) opt 408 3 1 1X165 Cosmic Cube (10) 59 G & D Rogerson 9 7X40X Hot In Pink (10) 54 A Sharrock R Goldsbury (a3) R Hutchings (a) D Mo (a3) 10 00604. Twilight Doll (7) 54 G Haigh

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Invercargill Harness Sunday at Ascot Park Raceway

DIAMOND CREEK FARM 2YO MOBILE PACE

11:40am $22,000, 2yo mob. pace, 2200m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver

12:57pm

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April 12, 2015

OLPHERT CONTRACTING MOBILE PACE

$8,000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2700m

1 67600 Rockefeller (1) C Gerken R McIlwrick (J) 4 2 X0724 Justa Dale (2) K Barclay K Barclay 1 7 Pantastic (1) T Stratford J W C ox B Shirley 2 66 Three Ways (2) Paul & Mitchell Kerr S Walkinshaw 3 666 Up The Creek (3) B Shirley J W C ox 3 Franco Rayner (3) S McRae C D Thornley 4 72037 Kilkenny Turk (4) A Hoffman 85 Blow A Cloud (5) J Tither A Armour 4 4 10 Envious (4) T Stratford D Dunn 5 2 6 62424 Wayward Roc (6) K Wood C Ferguson (J) 3 5 5132 Pat Campbell (5) T Barron R May 7 Pepperjack SC RATC HED 2 6 2141 Chicago Bull (6) Katrina & John Price N Williamson Franco Santiago (7) M Saunders B Barclay 1 Lazarus (7) Purdon/Rasmussen T Williams 8 4472X Barrier

7 1121 Barrier 9 999 Flight Deck (21) C Barron C Barron MORE FM HANDICAP TROT 10 O’Gara (22) B McLellan R May 12:08pm $10,000, 4yo+ c2 to oc spechcp trot, 2700m 11 Tilly Patron (23) B McLellan B McLellan 1 02320 Gee Up Neddy (1) L Pearson T Williams B Barclay 12 008X Tank Commander (24) T Stratford 3 13 Only In Rome (25) B Shirley N Williamson 2 65460 Grey Power (2) N Williamson A Armour 1 14 Jacky’s Choice (26) T Barron D Dunn 4 3 57002 Golden Gate (u1) J Ryan J Ryan 4 01704 Overcast (1) A Paisley A Beck HENRY SKINNER MEMORIAL MOBILE PACE 1 5 X3116 Poppymalda (2) N Williamson N Williamson 1:22pm $10,000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2200m 6 94333 Anothersuperstar (3) A Shaw R Norman 1 1 02916 Sue Me (1) N Williamson N Williamson 3 7 49647 Experiment (u1) T Barron D Dunn 2 80209 Sumtala (2) G & J Knight T Williams 8 98800 Moment Of Sun (1) G & C Lee G Lee 3 36002 Mach Of The Man (3) T Stratford C Barron 9 65551 Jaccka Jack (1) C Smaill R McIlwrick (J) 4 X3431 Black Rock Babe (4) L Pearson B Barclay 2 10 70258 Jaccka Justy (u1) A Hoffman J W C ox 5 31062 Johan’s Jet (5) J Lynch R McIlwrick (J) 3 6 45221 Macy Blue Chip (6) T Barron D Dunn MCMILLAN EQUINE FEED HOT TO TROT GRADUATION TROT 12:32pm 2 7 53353 Scotlynn Justis (7) D Taylor R May $10,000, 3yo+ c0 to c2 spechcp trot, 2700m Risk Factor (8) K Larsen B Williamson (J) 1 45335 Denn Nee Nose Best (1) E Swain A Beck 8 64561 Barrier

2 53774 One Cool Chick (u1) R Swain N Williamson A Beck 3 07308 Tessa’s Rocket (u2) R Rennie D Dunn 9 09094 Liam Sienna (21) Reg & Earl Drake 4 10 0183 Summertime Lizzie (22) W Adams C Ferguson (J) 0 4 97900 Snoop Dog (u3) P Andrews A Milne

1 1 50034 In The Kitty (23) H Hunter

H Hunter 5 39223 O’Driscoll (u4) R Swain R Swain 0 12 51689 Maritime Arden (24) M Jones 2 6 017 Sunny Demon (1) A Hoffman J W C ox J W C ox 1 7 X2115 Sky Commander (2) B Gray B Barclay 13 33049 Franco Tyson (25) L Bond 14 03735 Afellas Boy (26) M Todd C D Thornley 8 20204 Filigree Sheree (3) K Barclay K Barclay 15 25960 Give Me The Night (27) S Walkinshaw S Walkinshaw 9 8X609 Kiwi Kex (4) E Swain E Swain 0 16 X0066 Vega Sicilia (28) B Hamilton 10 06563 Continental Boy (5) Paul & Shayne Kelly B McLellan 11 90885 Larch (u1) G McClymont K Larsen SOUTH PORT MOBILE PACE 12 02067 Cheeky Pat (u2) G Woodhouse R McIlwrick (J) 1:55pm $10,000, 4yo+ c2 mob. pace, 2200m 0 13 7X009 Apollo Mission (u3) S Lock 1 36060 Astro Boy (1) H Hunter H Hunter 4 14 90X32 Florrie Bendix (u4) D Gregory T Williams 2 30094 Veecewah (2) A Milne A Milne 15 04096 Scarlett Lane (u5) S Lock C Ferguson (J) 3 74018 Rainbow Romance (3) K Barclay K Barclay 3 16 22281 Mass Invasion (1) C Barron C Barron 4 39821 Sammy The Bull (4) B McLellan B McLellan

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Motukarara Harness

Sunday at Motukarara Raceway WESTFIELD HOLDINGS LTD TROT

$7,000, 3yo+ c0 trot, 2170m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver

1 98378 Poppa Don (1) B May 2 75445 Natives Lasting Love (2) K Cameron 3 33266 Need Success (3) M Austin 1 4 2 Gleneleven (4) F Fletcher 5 57046 Contella (5) B Ford 6 0X703 Boyz Let Loose (6) A Sutherland 7 09425 Arran Chief (7) A Faulks 8 Lynette The Vet (8) M Edmonds 9 78306 Little Miss (9) T Jellyman 0 10 Look Ahead (10) L & J Smith 4 11 Sunspot (11) G O'Reilly 12 Ruthless Success 13 South C oaster 3 14 3 Shadow Galleon (12) J Smolenski 0 15 08098 Wandering Star (13) A Lowe 16 53067 Henley Park (14) B Borcoskie 2 17 I Asked Nicely (15) S Adlam 0 18 98500 Natives Brite Gem (16) A Thornton 12:20pm

C DeFilippi K C ameron B Orange G Smith B Ford L O'Reilly A Faulks

T Jellyman J Smith G O'Reilly SC RATC HED SC RATC HED J Smolenski A Lowe P Borcoskie S Adlam R C lose (J)

2 GRANITE BENCHTOP CO & ADVANCED JOINERY LTD PACE $7,000, 2yo+ c0 pace, 2170m

1:11pm

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$7,000, 2yo+ f&m c0 mob. pace, 2000m

1 09X Shar Nee Vale (1) G Gillard 0 0 2 0X Rare Pocket (2) A Bell 4 3 X0764 Tilly Bromac (3) S Adlam 2 4 6355 Expressive Victor (4) G & P Court 5 43270 Changeover A Flyin (5) M Edmonds 6 6X700 Major Overdrive (6) A Stuart 7 7 Veneto (7) J Kennett 8 Allison Stokke (8) G Smith 0 Eilean Shona (9) J Kennett 9 8L0 Barrier

10 Shelly Ann (21) D Taylor 1 11 Givematasteofkiwi (22) R Holmes 12 560 Ashdal Maid (23) A Sewell 13 Jewelz (24) S McRae 14 86486 Classie Regal (25) B Negus 15 20447 Fernleigh Hannah (26) N McGrath 3 16 8 Glitzy Gal (27) C Dalgety 17 47 Champagne Reign (28) C & J DeFilippi 1:35pm

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MARK ALEXANDER F&M MOBILE PACE G Gillard R C lose (J) G O'Reilly D White M Edmonds S Ottley S Golding (J) K Grant (J) K C ox (J) B Orange S McNally T C hmiel J Young (J) N Harris (J) D Dunn C DeFilippi

DAKINS RENT-A-LOO MOBILE PACE

$7,000, 4yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2000m

1 64332 Mustang Bullitt (1) L Hanrahan 2 S McNally 1 40587 Nomattermee (1) D Taylor K C ox (J) 4 2 44232 Flagpole (2) M Nyhan P Davis 2 2 Judys McArdle (2) M Edmonds Riley Dylan (3) T Williamson J Dunn 3 50375 Natasha Franco (3) M Nyhan P Davis 3 1 4 45463 Zena Mac (4) M Jones W Higgs 4 02496 Sioux West (4) B Waldron B Orange K C ox (J) 5 05690 Whychange (5) J Wigzell J Wigzell 5 80768 Young Mister Grace (5) J Tanner 3 6 Living Legend (6) R Dunn R Houghton 1 6 0 Chip Ganassi (6) N McGrath N McGrath R C lose (J) 3 7 52 Dakota Fred (7) J Hay J Hay 7 56670 Yippe Ki Yay (7) K Neilson 8 6099P John Doe (8) W Stapleton G O'Reilly 8 Tiger John (8) K Dixon

9 52944 Houdini (9) P Anderson

K Butt (J) 4 9 0 Gee Jay Easter (9) A Stuart S Ottley

Barrier 10 06945 Gabby’s Star (10) R Holmes C DeFilippi T C hmiel 11 7 Shards Halo (11) G Payne G A Payne 10 05865 Olde Oake Arnie (21) J McDermott 11 26430 Burn Off (22) B Kerr B Orange SUZI MORRISON MEMORIAL & HAPPY BDAY RHONDA 12 03000 Lavros Cash (23) R Kennedy C DeFilippi 12:45pm PACE $7,000, 2yo+ c0, 2170m 13 46229 Choosy Tart (24) A Stuart S Ottley 1 1 Miss Brown (1) P Burrows B Butt 14 5928 Extreme Princess (25) R Holmes L O'Reilly 2 2 73232 Itsa Leggy Lass (2) B Mills K C ameron 15 Daniel Thomas SC RATC HED 3 09X Shar Nee Vale (3) G Gillard G Gillard TREVINOS RESTAURANT & BAR PACE 4 097X Desirable Styx (4) Jason & Scott Lethaby T Lethaby (J) 2:11pm $7,500, 3yo+ c1 pace, 2170m 3 5 23 Real Raider (5) D Taylor B Orange 4 6 3 Delightful Jack (6) B Hill S McNally 1 97754 Lacroix Franco (1) M Nyhan P Davis 7 1 2 141 Pocket Of Jewels (2) L Hanrahan Lislord (7) N McGrath S McNally 8 0 Tutoko Kid (8) C Markham J Markham (J) 3 04530 Red Under Fire (3) D Pearce K Barron 9 7070X Miss Judgeford (9) M Larter 2 4 05403 As Kiwi As (4) R Holmes C D Thornley S Golding (J) 10 5700X Dreamcoat (10) L O'Reilly L O'Reilly 5 00897 Shadow Rider (5) F Shrives C DeFilippi 11 Texas Ruler (11) B Hutton C DeFilippi 6 50866 Tough Enough (6) M Pash G Smith 12 0050 Take A Gamble (u1) R Jenkins

R Jenkins 7 33828 Nothingtolaughabout (7) P Robertson C D Thornley

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Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1029m; Weather: Showers with hail.

5 40520 Add No Interest (5) B Gray 6 38407 Bettabe Perfect (6) A Beck 2 7 17323 Milligan (7) R Wilson Machrie (8) Katrina & John Price 3 8 74390 Barrier

9 76226 Ultra Shok (21) T Stratford 4 10 70949 The Flying Scotsman (22) N McGrath 11 02633 Rapid Mach (23) C Dalgety 1 12 54X72 Al’s Courage (24) J Gameson 2:27pm

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2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9

2 X133X Duffers Creek (4) 57 K Myers 2 3 664X9 Taurus (2) 56.5 E & JJ Rayner 1 4 376X4 Marotiri Miss (5) 56 R French 5 05076 McLaren (8) 55.5 K Gray 6 11927 Coastal Express (11) 55 K Zimmerman 4 7 61123 Dont Gloat (6) 55 A Sharrock 8 4X60X Grace With Power (1) 54 K Zimmerman 9 4210X Superturf (3) 54 G Lambert 10 0X936. Weissmuller (9) 54 A Campbell 11 37556. Brave Kat (7) 54 R Patterson

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A Milne R McIlwrick (J) C Ferguson (J) B Barclay D Dunn J W C ox A Armour R May

4:12pm

1 2 2 3 4 5 6 K Larsen 4 7 R Swain 8 3 9 NEVELE R/MACCA LODGE SOUTHLAND OAKS MOBILE 1 10 PACE $45,000, 3yo fillies, 2700m

1 48560 Twitter Bromac (1) J Gameson 3 2 X3139 Smokin Bird (2) K Court 3 23314 Art Exhibit (3) G & C Lee 0 4 43975 Machjagger (4) B Gray 4 5 12634 Bonnie’s Khaleesi (5) T Stratford 6 30102 Crackabella (6) D Taylor

Bettor Think Twice (7) C Dalgety 7 91686 Barrier

0 8 51689 Maritime Arden (21) M Jones 9 75553 Leave It To Me (22) D Baynes 10 44213 Mighty Empire (23) G & C Lee 2 11 34112 Rocker Band (24) M Jones 12 52141 Princess Arts (25) Paul & Mitchell Kerr 13 63134 Annajodi (26) M G Brown 1 14 111 Donegal Kahlum (27) C Dalgety

C D Thornley J W C ox B McLellan B Barclay C Barron C Ferguson (J) T Williams

2:45pm

7

J Dunn B Orange J Anderson (J) B Butt J Versteeg

11

JOAN & PETER COCKS MOBILE PACE $7,500, 4yo+ mares c1–c2, 2000m

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

10 11

C Ferguson (J) B Barclay C Barron J W C ox N Williamson C D Thornley B Shirley D Dunn

B Barclay B Shirley H Hunter K Larsen C Barron G Lee N Williamson R May C Ferguson (J) T Williams

ELITE RACING PRODUCTS F&M MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ f&m c1–c3, 1700m

B Barclay S Walkinshaw C D Thornley C Ferguson (J) A Beck B McLellan T Williams D Dunn R May K Larsen C Barron A Armour J W C ox N Williamson

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 1-2-3, 5-6-7, 9-10-11 2-3-4-5, 8-9-10-11 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 6-7-8-9-10-11

10758 It’s All Over Now (10) B Ward 01069 Doctor McDreamy (11) A Garters

4:32pm

J Shackleton M Dravitzki (a1) R Goldsbury (a3)

$25,000, 4yo+ c3–oc spechcp, 2700m

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8 59100 Jonah Jones (8) K O'Dea 9 00875 Courage To Fly (9) A Faulks 10 1600X Dapper George (10) K Mounce 3 11 15 Idealindiamonds (11) D & C Butt 4 12 50030 Givethejobtobarnsy (12) J Versteeg

D Mo (a3) J Riddell R Hutchings (a) K C hiong (a2) J Parkes

10 PACEBMAC SHEETMETAL 2005 LTD STHN COUNTRY CUPS

1 43975 Machjagger (1) B Gray 2 50X27 Incredible Anvil (2) M Calder 4 3 85471 Sauchiehall (3) J Gameson 4 16559 Popular (4) W Adams 5 00637 Opting Options (5) M Swain 3 6 02624 Vera’s Delight (6) B McLellan A Beck 7 33PX0 Vincennes (7) G & J Knight G Lee 1 Even Flo (8) T Stratford 8 66612 Barrier R May N Williamson 9 P5009 Sage (21) G & J Knight A Armour 10 92890 Van Eva (22) S Cook D Dunn 11 43763 Leigh Major (23) B McLellan ALABAR SOUTHERN SUPREMACY STAKES FINAL PACE 12 81991 Double Impact (24) M G Brown 3:37pm $45,000, 3yo c&g, 2700m 13 20510 Secret’s Out (25) T Barron 2 14 45210 Livy Franco (26) N Williamson 1 95473 Man I’m Good (1) A Kyle A Kyle Track Information Type: Grass; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1811m; Weather: Cloudy

SC RATC HED T Johnson (a4) H Tinsley K Myers

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 1-2-3, 5-6-7, 9-10-11 2-3-4-5, 8-9-10-11 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 6-7-8-9-10-11

83351 Char Do Neigh (1) A McVicar 89609 I Smart (2) B Shirley 66324 Devil May Care (1) H Hunter 69085 Jango Fett (2) K Larsen 20979 Ted West (3) B Heads 07467 Shak’n Cullen (4) G & C Lee 14337 Sheeza Shark (1) A Stack 16918 That’s Hunting Pink (u1) D Taylor 41501 The Wrath Of Robyn (1) T Cross 73127 Al Raza (2) G & J Knight

4:47pm

M McNab J Shackleton K C hiong (a) M Dravitzki (a)

EL CHEAPO CARS RATING 65

1 Hey Mr 2 14736 Paddy Owen (10) 59 M Oulaghan 3 3312 Figurac (14) 58.5 R Bergerson 1 4 21 Cornwall (6) 58 K Myers 5 7X621 Silver Rod (9) 57.5 S Marsh 6 282X1 Kairanga Lad (8) 57.5 B McDermott 7 4629X One Kay (4) 57 K Zimmerman 8 4406X Corporal Lincoln (2) 57 L Latta 9 267X4 Pass It On (13) 56.5 R Allen 4 10 12467. Outspoken (1) 56 D & C Bothwell 3 11 104X Silver Nancho (3) 56 K Zimmerman 2 12 43429 Moi Oh Ma (11) 55.5 T Egan 13 28307 Hot Spot (5) 55 G Lambert 14 07620. Dixie Express (12) 54.5 L Latta 15 787X8 Heza Rebel (7) 54 M W F Lewin 1 DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

J Riddell J Parkes R Goldsbury (a) K Myers

$17,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m

2 07106 Christian Grey (2) W Adams 3 3 21211 Statham (3) N Williamson 4 55421 I’m Full Of Excuses (4) C Barron R McIlwrick (J) 5 14083 Robyn’s Bad Boy (5) R Wilson R May 1 6 13111 Tas Man Bromac (6) N Williamson D Dunn 7 0X118 Smithy (7) J Gameson

C D Thornley Barrier 4 8 22272 Costa Del Magnifico (21) B Shirley FOVEAUX COMMUNICATIONS RISING STARS MOBILE PACE 2 9 13013 Pulp Fiction (22) T Stratford $10,000, 3yo+ c0 to c1 mob. pace, 2200m

1 X2X00 Kennington Kandee (1) P Andrews 2 0X242 Sweet As (2) A Paisley 2 3 72759 One Bad Dream (3) W Adams 4 4 Idunknow (4) B Gray 1 5 3 Flashing On (5) T Stratford 6 60330 Newmans Jet (6) S Lock 3 7 39651 Northview Hanover (7) M G Brown

Baileys Wish (8) N McGrath 8 76018 Barrier 9 52860 Melina Lowe (21) K Larsen 4 10 42537 River Patrol (22) C Laurenson 3:02pm

B Barclay A Beck C Ferguson (J) N Williamson

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

10 RON ELLEN MEMORIAL TROT

S Ottley J Dunn

$7,500, 4yo+ c1–c3 discrhcp, 2810m

1 7340X Fireman (1) P Toomey I C ameron 2 777X0 Diggerboy (2) C Markham J Markham (J) 3 01000 Saltwater Gold (3) I Schwamm I Schwamm 4 00706 Miri (4) D O'Connell D O'C onnell 5 73478 Clean Break (5) R Holmes L O'Reilly 6 50405 Danke (6) M Edmonds J Anderson (J) 7 02605 Shell Seeker (7) K Townley D Dunn 0 8 7000X Peterhof (8) B Graham G Archer 9 09004 Solar Sam (9) R Thornley K C ox (J) 10 6700L Native’s Brite Spark (10) A Thornton R C lose (J) K Barron R C lose (J) 11 84006 Thanksforplaying (u1) G Mills C DeFilippi B Butt 12 18934 Star Commando (u2) B Hutton 13 01996 Brookside Colt (u3) P Nairn D Butt B & J SANDFORD AND J & C MCDERMOTT PACE $8,500, 0 14 00X90 Berkshire Son (u4) G Laing G Laing 3:20pm 4yo+ c2–c4 spechcp, 2810m 15 01600 Opawa Speed (1) K Cameron K C ameron 1 43562 K C Monet (1) R Dunn J Dunn 2 16 37421 Blue Don (2) G & N Hope R May 2 88809 Franco Harrison (2) B Mowbray A Fitzgerald (J) 3 17 72078 Young Stranger (3) T Grant C R Thornley 3 26610 Marshal Star (3) N Le Lievre C DeFilippi 18 P0D80 Willie Shine (u1) R Holmes G O'Reilly 4 04787 Greenburn Creek (4) T Butt B Butt 1 19 18332 X mas Joyella (1) F Morris S McNally 5 0X221 Carrickmannon (5) G O'Reilly G O'Reilly 4 20 21766 Sarah Palin (2) M Nyhan P Davis 6 67913 Midfrew Tarpediem (6) W Lake S Ottley NZ BLOODSTOCK AIRFREIGHT LTD MOBILE PACE 7 68100 Whyamibettor (1) D Pearce K Barron 5:07pm $7,500, c1–c2 with cond., 2000m 8 71404 Maddison Hill (2) C Chalmers T C hmiel 3 1 50962 Maybe Flyin (1) R Needham J Young (J) 9 78349 Tubby Jim (3) Jason & Scott Lethaby T Lethaby (J) B Orange 10 93027 Ideal Arden (4) B Hutton J Anderson (J) 2 73205 Aveross Rustler (2) A Faulks 0 3 04787 Greenburn Creek (3) T Butt B Butt 11 44328 Jack Hammer (5) T May R C lose (J) 4 4 06619 Canndew (4) M Nyhan 3 12 1014X Joe The Hunter (6) G & N Hope P Davis S Golding (J) 4 13 16092 Destined For Glory (1) G & N Hope D Dunn 5 49903 Riga Doon (5) T May G O'Reilly 2 14 54578 River Black (2) D Taylor B Orange 6 25724 Bandana (6) G & N Hope 1 15 15533 Graduate Under Fire (3) R Dunn M Purvis (J) 7 53687 Flyin Louie (7) J Tanner K C ox (J) 2 8 5419X Leading The Way (8) K Hadfield L Newton NORJO MOTORCYCLES & JEMMETT’S POWERTOOL PACE 3:55pm Franco Neeson (9) N McGrath N McGrath $7,500, 3yo+ c1 pace, 2170m 9 451FX Barrier

3 1 640X6 Ranfurly Rulz (1) G & N Hope R May

10 07209 Franco Envoy (21) C Thornley C R Thornley 2 94820 Halston Bromac (2) S Mounce C D Thornley C DeFilippi 1 3 41 Regal Suzy (3) T & G Chmiel T C hmiel 11 0010P Alan Golightly (22) A Garters

12 46044 K C Pedro (23) A Hastie A Hastie 2 4 019 Just Ben (4) K Williams C DeFilippi

1 3 2190X All For D B (24) A Hutton

A Veint (J) 5 8L480 Jericho (5) K Hadfield S McNally

1 4 37742 Justoclassie (25) P Bagrie

6 45210 Maximus Prime (6) M Heenan G O'Reilly 1 15 50051 Reklaw Supreme (26) M Jones W Higgs 7 7679X Call Me Danny (7) R Thornley K C ox (J) 0 16 1600X Dapper George (27) K Mounce J Anderson (J) 8 22040 Outta Sight (8) R Bennett L McC ormick 0 17 0P840 Firebreak (28) J McDermott 4 9 54580 Sounds Swift (9) K O'Reilly S Ottley K O'Reilly 1 82221 Amounis (1) G & P Court 3 2 0X359 Stylish Babe (2) J McDermott 3 X7009 This Ain’t Tennessee (3) R Holmes 4 08510 Highland Reign (4) B Negus 5 39400 Tubbys Sister (5) D Swanston 6 7590X Hit The Spot (6) S Adlam 7 33657 Sicilian Secret (7) T & G Chmiel 1 8 11609 Geisha Girl (8) R Dunn 2 Lurah (9) R Holmes 9 60708 Barrier

10 03080 Batini (21) M Hallett 4 11 05040 Georgie Mach (u1) D & C Butt

D White S McNally P Davis J Young (J) G Smith G O'Reilly T C hmiel J Dunn K Butt (J)

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Local riders tackle Tour De Lakes Sam Letham (right) sits at the front of the peloton during the fourth stage of the Tour De Lakes in Southland over Easter.

The six stage ‘mini tour of Southland’ had four local riders journey to the deep south. Letham finished up 13th in the B grade general classification while Frances Smith was 10th in the women’s race.

In C grade Paul Macfie was 15th and Dave Knight 17th.

In A grade Southland’s Luke Macpherson went into the final day on Monday with a 2 minute 34 second lead and held on to take the crown by 1: 55.

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By Jonathan Leask

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Ashburton’s Hayden Roulston has been able to avoid the drama on the road in Belgium this week.

Fellow Kiwi and Trek Racing team-mate Jesse Sargent was knocked out of the rest of the season after being hit by a car on the Tour of Flanders and then Roulston avoided a major pile up on Thursday morning (NZT).

The 103rd edition of the Scheldeprijs was the usual 200-kilometre that played out in a routine manner.

Although the race is part of the Flanders Classics the absence of climbs and limited sectors of cobbles made it easily controlled for the fast men, providing a rare opportunity for the pure sprinters during the Belgian spring, and this year was no different.

Alexander Kristoff (Katu-

sha) - fresh off his victory in the Tour of Flanders - was the first to jump and no-one could match the Norwegian’s power and speed.

Trek’s Danny van Poppel had his wheel but faded in the final metres and settled for fifth with Roulston unscathed in 73rd 1.32 back from Kristoff.

Many riders used Scheldeprijs as a tune-up for Monday’s Paris-Roubaix and thankfully Trek’s riders avoided the large pile-up in the final kilometre, a nasty fast-speed crash.

Sargent wasn’t so fortunate earlier in the week.

The Kiwi was hit by a neutral service vehicle while leading the Tour of Flanders in Belgium on Monday and has had to have surgery on a broken collarbone.

Roulston finished 65th in Flanders and after avoiding the carnage in Scheldeprijs will likely contest the 257km ParisRoubaix.

New Zealand cricket may have a fight to keep coach Mike Hesson as Indian Premier League franchises have indicated some serious interest in the New Zealand coach.

Eight Black Caps are in India for the T20 extravaganza, and three coaches, but it is those who are not there that will be concerning those who occupy New Zealand Cricket’s mahogany row.

Overtures have been made to Hesson, after New Zealand’s rapid upturn in fortunes in the recent World Cup. Hesson’s ability to establish an attacking template that changed the way one-day cricket was viewed has dramatically increased the value of his stock.

Hesson signed a contract extension with NZC midway through last year, but with salaries twice the size of that he could receive in New Zea-

land for about a quarter of the work, it would be difficult for the national body to stop him going if he wanted to.

It is thought Hesson’s backof-house style would suit most of the franchises, whose flamboyant owners like either themselves or their marquee players to be front and centre.

This scenario highlights the bind smaller nations find themselves in when trying to retain coaching talent.

Meanwhile Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara has been named as the Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2015 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.

Sangakkara joined India’s Virender Sehwag as the only two players to be named as Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for a second occasion.

Kiwi Jeetan Patel was also named by the Almanack as one of the year’s best.

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Baker-Finch backs Day for green jacket

By Ben everiLL Former British Open champion and now well-respected Masters commentator Ian Baker-Finch has plumped for countryman Jason Day to win Australia’s second green jacket.

Baker-Finch has anointed Day his top pick to take out

the 79th Masters at Augusta National which got under way overnight. After playing the relaxed par-three competition on Masters eve with fellow major winner Nick Faldo and Australian John Senden, Baker-Finch extolled Day’s chances.

“There is a certain level or style of player who get to a

point where they expect to win and I think Jason has got to that point now,” Baker-Finch said.

“I think Jason is now at the point where he has done so well in majors before and he believes he can do it, he’s in good form and he’s fit.”

The 1991 British Open champion bracketed world No.1 Rory

McIlroy, defending champion and world No.3 Bubba Watson, world No.2 Henrik Stenson and big-hitting Dustin Johnson (world No.7) as the main threats, but he also held special praise for 2013 champion Adam Scott.

“I think Adam has the ability to do it again,” he said. - AAP

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In brief Christie in Classic Jason Christie is set to start in the second round of the Calder Stewart Cycling Series - the Timaru Classic tomorrow. Christie (Avanti Team Racing) is one of four riders not required by their Australian Continental teams in this week’s Adelaide Tour, so are fronting up for domestic teams. Sam Horgan, Dan Barry, Keagan Girdlestone and Christie are all taking the start line, and all four have good recent form.

Christie was third in the national road championships earlier this year but more recently took out the Grape Ride in Marlborough, finishing five seconds clear of Horgan. The elite men will tackle three laps of an undulating circuit around Pleasant Point, covering 148 kilometres while the masters and women will do two laps for a 109km race. The series will then swing across the Alps in May to Hokitika before the fourth round in Ashburton on August 15.

Mercedes’ wake-up call As the Formula One circuit heads to Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix, it’s no longer a safe bet that Mercedes will top the podium by the end of the weekend. After a jubilant Sebastian Vettel emerged as the surprise winner for Ferrari at the Malaysian Grand Prix two weeks ago, a season once expected to be dominated by the silver cars of Mercedes could be shaping up to be far more competitive. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said after the race it was the “wake-up call that we needed.”

- AFP

Schu Junior on track Mick Schumacher, the teenage son of seven-time world champion Michael, has generated huge media interest as he began official testing before his Formula Four Junior Series debut. Cameras followed the shy 16-year-old wherever he went at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben yesterday, as he tested with Team Van Amersfoort. His father is still recovering from serious head injuries suffered in a skiing accident in 2013 and Oschersleben is the same track where Michael Schumacher drove his first official motorbike race in 2008.

- AFP

Nicklaus nails an ace Jack Nicklaus, the 75-year-old US golf legend who has won a record 18 major titles, has shown he’s still got the skills to mix it with the modern champions by acing the fourth hole at the Masters Par-3 Contest.

Nicklaus owns a record six Masters crowns. At the 130-yard fourth hole in the annual casual competition played on the eve of the Masters, Nicklaus fired his tee shot beyond the pin, watched it bounce twice and then spin backward and roll 20 feet into the cup. Nicklaus celebrated with his playing partners as the spectators roared.

- AFP

MSA outdoor tourney Skips entered M.S.A outdoor bowls Tournament Sunday April 12, 9am start. MSA Green: P. Felton, W. Blackwell, G. Taylor, A. Hill, M. Reid, A. MacKenzie, C. Leech West Coast, J. Ryk, J. Rassmusson, C. Cleghorn, W. Watson. Hampstead Green M. Skilling, I. Kaye, G. Eder, M. Davis, B. Williams M. Middleton, M. Grice, B. Lynn, B. Marsh M. Smallridge, J. Withell.

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Battered Blues remain in good spirits

BY PATRICK MCKENDRY There’s nothing funny about losing seven matches in a row, but the Blues still have a sense of humour.

Want proof ?

After their latest close defeat - the 23-16 reverse against the Chiefs in Hamilton last weekend, a kid, thought to be 11 or 12, shouted a question to Blues halfback Jimmy Cowan as he made his way off the Waikato Stadium pitch.

“Hey, Jimmy!”, the boy shouted, “how’s Owen?”

“Huh?” Cowan is said to have replied. The kid responded: “How’s 0 and 7?”

Cowan duly passed the joke on to his team-mates, some of whom even managed wry smiles.

On the eve of their match against the Brumbies at Eden Park, the first time they have played there this season, the Blues figure there’s no point in being down in the dumps about

their horror streak, and that makes sense.

They have suffered some terrible luck to go along with their poor decision-making at crucial times, but they remain together and committed to the cause.

They have to prepare for every match like it will be the one which will stop the rot.

There are no factions within the squad, according to one player, who was pleasantly surprised at the culture within a franchise which last enjoyed

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“We can fall apart or we can stick together and I know which way I want to go.”

Mealamu’s call to arms has had a galvanising effect on the squad, especially the younger members who need strong leadership during these tough times.

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Napa has score to settle Brisbane had the chance to sign rising Sydney Roosters NRL player Dylan Napa when he was just 17. Tonight at Suncorp Stadium, there’s every chance they’ll wish they had. Napa, in line for a possible Queensland State of Origin call-up after a stunning start to the NRL season, is licking his lips at the prospect of taking on the team he supported as a youngster - the same team that showed no interest in his talents until the Roosters did. The Brisbane-born forward was playing junior football for the North Devils when he was snatched from under the noses of the Broncos by a visiting scout.

- AAP

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Fifita finding form A rejuvenated Andrew Fifita believes he’s getting close to the form that earned him selection for NSW and a Rugby League World Cup winners medal in 2013. Fifita endured a 12 months to forget last year with injury limiting him to just a dozen appearances, leading to him losing his spot in both the Test and NSW sides. But after recovering from surgery for a broken arm at the end of last year, the former Wests front-rower has started 2015 strongly. He’s averaging 149 metres a game - the sixth most in the NRL - behind Sharks team-mate Paul Gallen who tops the list with 202.

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Slater ‘will be back’ Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy says it’s premature to call time on Billy Slater’s Test career following his latest shoulder injury. The 31-year-old Kangaroos custodian will be sidelined for a month after injuring his shoulder in Melbourne’s impressive NRL win over the Warriors and he will miss the May Test against New Zealand. With Greg Inglis a ready replacement in the Australian line-up, there’s a question mark over Slater’s representative future.

But Bellamy said Slater had proven even in the twilight of his career that he was still worthy of a Test jersey. “From what we’ve seen this year I think Billy Slater’s still capable of playing for Australia again, without a doubt.”

- AAP

Warning from Sanzar The approach by Waratahs coach Michael Cheika to referee Jaco Peyper during halftime of the match against the Blues in Sydney a fortnight ago has been confirmed by governing body Sanzar. Sanzar yesterday issued a statement that Cheika, who was on a final warning due to previous misconduct charges, and Peyper, had received formal warnings. “After undertaking a thorough investigation, including receiving statements from all parties involved, it was determined that Mr Cheika had approached the match referee, Jaco Peyper, in front of the other match officials to seek clarification on a scrum interpretation during the half time break of the Waratahs v Blues match,” the statement said.

“Both Mr Cheika and Mr Peyper have subsequently acknowledged this exchange should not have taken place and apologised. Sanzar has issued formal warnings to both Mr Cheika and Mr Peyper” - NZME

Rakaia’s Seta Koroitamana carries the ball in last year’s Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup semi-final against Lincoln. The flanker-come-centre has been in sparkling form for a depleted Rakaia and should be a key figure in their rematch with Lincoln tomorrow.

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Rakaia have unfinished business with Lincoln in the Combined Country Cup rugby competition.

They also have a shrinking list of fit and available players.

The last two times Lincoln have made the trip to Rakaia, they have claimed the win to advance to the competition final a week later.

Tomorrow’s match may not be as high stakes as a semi-final, but both sides have tasted defeat in the opening rounds.

The defending champions went down to Glenmark last Thursday while Rakaia bounced back from a loss to Southbridge to beat Prebbleton.

Rakaia coach Wayne Foxcroft knows his injury-hit squad face a huge test to avoid another defeat.

“We’ll be struggling for a starting XV as we lost two

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If teams keep tipping each other up it could go in our favour at the back end

more to injury filling in for the Senior Bs and we have three away this weekend,” Foxcroft said.

“We are disappointed to lose any game but the reality is starting to set in that if you don’t have the players for a team you’ll run out of luck sooner or later.

“You can’t afford to lose too many games if you want to make the top four but if teams keep tipping each other up it could go in our favour at the back end.

“We just have to hang in this month.”

With several players due

back within the next few weeks, the stocks will be restored in time for the second half of the round.

However, converted centre Seta Koroitamana, who has been in sparkling form, could be lost for the middle part of the season for Fiji Under 20 duties at the Junior World Trophy in Portugal.

Koroitamana has had a stroll on the wing for the Crusader Knights development team recently, and has already made an impact this season switching to the midfield, scoring a hattrick of tries in the opening game of the season and even

doing a spot of goal kicking.

With a depleted line-up Rakaia will be leaning on their game-breaking midfield of Koroitamana and Nete Caucau.

Celtic are at home again to West Melton coming off their superb win over Southbridge, while elsewhere in section one the two unbeaten teams go head-to-head when Oxford host Glenmark, while Southbridge host Hornby and Prebbleton play Kaiapoi.

Over in section two Methven and Southern are unbeaten after two rounds.

Southern are the only Mid Canterbury team heading north with an away trip to Darfield, while Methven have their first home game against the winless Ohoka.

Hampstead are back at home to face an unbeaten BurnhamDunsandel.

Waihora are at home to Saracens and Ashley are up against Rolleston.

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■ RUGBY

Ellis eyeing black jersey

BY KRIS SHANNON New Zealand derbies are a highlight on any player’s calendar but Andy Ellis has particular reason to relish the next few weeks.

Beginning with the Highlanders tomorrow night, the Crusaders face Kiwi opposition for four games in a row, an important period for the veteran halfback.

Ellis makes no secret of his desire to once again pull on the black jersey and, throughout the rest of the month, he will have the chance to test himself against those currently in the All Blacks frame.

First, it’s incumbent Aaron Smith at AMI Stadium before the Chiefs and two-test halfback Augustine Pulu come to town, followed by a visit to TJ Perenara and the Hurricanes.

The encounters will be crucial on a team level, considering the congested nature of the New Zealand conference, and the individual battles may be equally pivotal.

“I love playing all the New Zealand teams,” Ellis said. “There’s always a real edge in it - a lot

of the guys know each other and there’s just a really good rivalry that’s built up over the years.

They’re probably the ones that hurt the most when you don’t put in a good performance.”

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Andy Ellis

good performance will be imperative for both personal pride and higher aspirations.

It’s still early in the season but Ellis is seen as a strong chance to secure one of three halfback spots in the All Blacks’ World Cup squad, with experience and a cool head working in the 31-year-old’s favour.

After all, Ellis is the only player in the picture with prior knowledge of the World Cup pressure cauldron, part of both the 2007 and 2011 teams.

And just like in the triumphant final four years ago, when he was the last man with the ball in his hands, Ellis again appeals as a safe option off the bench late in games.

“There’s no doubt about it, I’d love to be in the black jersey again,” he said. “But it’s been a few years since I had it, so I’ve just learned to really enjoy what I do with the Crusaders and with Canterbury and the wee stint I had in Japan.

“I’ve kind of just relaxed - I enjoy going to work and working on my game and doing all those little things.

“I would love to play

for the All Blacks again but I’ll just let that take care of itself.”

Meanwhile, the Crusaders could find no room for Richie McCaw or Dan Carter in their starting XV for the crunch clash against the Highlanders.

The southern sides are separated by only a point in the Super Rugby standings, leaving the encounter at AMI Stadium pivotal in the playoff picture, but coach Todd Blackadder has declined the opportunity to inject the experienced duo.

Colin Slade will again start at first five-eighth, having taken the No10 jersey for last weekend’s thumping of the Sharks.

Carter was a late withdrawal after returning to New Zealand for the birth of his second son, with the All Black back on the Crusaders’ bench for Saturday night.

Carter will be joined in the reserves by McCaw, set to make his second straight substitute appearance after being introduced in the 51st minute during last week’s win in Durban.

Crusaders: Israel Dagg, David Havili, Kieron Fonotia, Ryan Crotty, Nemani Nadolo, Colin Slade, Andy Ellis, Kieran Read (c), Matt Todd, Jordan Taufua, Sam Whitelock, Jimmy Tupou, Owen Franks, Ben Funnell, Joe Moody. Reserves: Codie Taylor, Alex Hodgman, Nepo Laulala, Scott Barrett, Richie McCaw, Mitchell Drummond, Dan Carter, Nafi Tuitavake.

- NZME

World Cup win was ‘duty to my country’

BY PATRICK MCKENDRY At the age of 40, Brad Thorn has conceded defeat probably for the first time in his life.

As he said in a series of interviews over the past few days as he faces up to retirement this season, no one can beat Old Father Time. Thorn, for-

merly of the All Blacks, Highlanders, Crusaders, Kangaroos league and Queensland State of Origin and Brisbane Broncos teams, not to mention latterly of Leinster and Leicester, is finally calling it quits.

Thorn said his career highlights were his Grand Final wins with the Broncos and Su-

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per Rugby titles with the Crusaders, plus a Heineken Cup win with Leinster. The World Cup victory in 2011, however, he puts on another level.

“The World Cup wasn’t really like that for me, it was a duty to my country,” he said.

“There was too much on the line. There’s too much at stake.

“I was a senior member of that team and it was a job I just had to get done and then move on with my life. I was in tears after the whistle in the final and that was because I had put so much pressure on myself.”

Thorn, who will settle with his wife and four children in Brisbane.

- NZME

Cavs shoot down Bucks Superstar LeBron James drained a three-pointer with 14.9 seconds left to help the Cavaliers beat Milwaukee 104-99 yesterday and clinch the NBA Central Division title. Even before completing their fourth straight victory, the Cavaliers were assured of the division title thanks to Chicago’s 105-103 loss to Orlando. They also secured the second seed behind Atlanta in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

James finished with 21 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. The Celtics inched closer to a playoff berth with a 113-103 victory over Detroit, but Miami and Indiana are just one game back in the race for the final post-season spot. In the Western Conference, reigning NBA champions San Antonio continued their bid to grab the Southwest Division with a 110-98 victory over division leaders Houston.

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Celtic closes in on title Celtic maintained their seven point advantage at the top of the Scottish Premiership as they ground out a 2-0 victory over 10-man Partick Thistle at Parkhead yesterday. The Hoops struggled to break down a wellorganised Thistle side but made the breakthrough on the stroke of halftime when Kris Commons scored from the penalty spot after James Craigen saw red for a tackle from behind on Stuart Armstrong.

The Scottish champions then spurned a number of opportunities before stand-in skipper Stefan Johansen finished off a fine move in the 63rd minute.

- AFP

Liverpool into semis Philippe Coutinho produced a moment of magic to earn Liverpool a much-needed 1-0 victory at secondtier Blackburn Rovers in their FA Cup quarter-final replay. The Brazilian fired in an accurate low drive in the 70th minute at Ewood Park to earn Brendan Rodgers’s side an FA Cup semi-final date with Aston Villa at Wembley on April 19. “Over the two games it was a difficult tie,” said Rodgers yesterday. “They are strong and well organised. We knew it would be difficult. But my players were brilliant.” Since Blackburn held out for a goalless draw at Anfield in their first encounter a month ago, Liverpool have seen their hopes of a place in the Premier League’s top four fade, with two defeats in three matches.- AFP

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– Draft Development & Financial Contributions Policy

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Ashburton District Council’s consultation document, “Working together for lifestyle and opportunity” - which details key decisions facing the district over the next 10 years - is now available for community feedback and comment.

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Council wants to hear what you think.

The consultation document, supporting information and a feedback form can be found on Council’s website ashburtondc.govt.nz, or from the Council reception, Ashburton Library, Rakaia Mobil, Methven i-SITE, The Udder Dairy (Mayfield), On the Spot (Hinds) and the Mt Somers General Store.

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Ashburton District Council’s draft Revenue and Financing Policy is now available for community feedback and comment.

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Puzzles Friday, April 10, 2015

www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. The highest class of carry-cot is a different form of it (11) 8. At university, to take a girl out may be considered modern (2-2-4) 9. Letterhead device of record of voyage comes to nothing (4) 10. The averages of financial resources (5) 13. Don’t quite be the author of a legal document (4) 16. Love god got up tail-first (4) 17. Fly high, but sound irritated (4) 18. As an ongoing TV drama, it will wash (4) 20. Measures the areas by the houses (5) 24. Price charged for changing silver one has, nothing more (4) 25. It is wrong to call it ‘M’ in Morse maybe (8) 26. Right to be ferreting about with a liquid in cooler (11) DOWN 2. Was an author, one is told, learning by repetition (4) 3. Make a furtive move to include local leader in the team (5)

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DOWN 1. Overshadow (7) 2. Associate in business venture (7) 3. Coin; girl’s name (5) 4. Shoemaker (7) 5. Young female horse (5) 6. Resist authority (5) 9. Reclaim (9) 14. Wander aimlessly (7) 15. Innate (7) 16. Setback (7) 19. Digging implement (5) 20. Non-believer (5) 21. Challenged (5)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) It is now that you’ve got the intellectual savvy and strategic edge needed to create a smart game plan for the coming year.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) With your birthday month and new solar year now just 10 days away this brings a call to start closing old doors.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) This is an important day for friendship and relationship building, creating a special and potential auspicious day for talks and connecting.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) As the tide turns on the income front, this will reinforce the strong connection and partnership between income, work and career forces.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) With a sense of adventure and playfulness in the air you’re not just ready to embrace the future, it all of a sudden looks a lot more exciting and tempting.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) While you’ll hold the hindsight gained over recent months, a time for being absorbed in the past is over, with the future drawing your attention.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Communication, relationship and friendship forces have come together to create a chance for a breakthrough or turnaround on all three fronts.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) The professional and money gods come together to make a professional turnaround underway as dramatic as possible, highlighting something has shifted.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) Heed a message from Mars, who is already creating some of the busiest weeks of the year, that if you work hard you need to play hard.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) As the Sun moves into his final 10 days in your home and family sector and Mercury into his 5 days, there is a call to start bringing things home.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Urgency or need for haste is missing, with an ideal day for friendship and relationship building also one for taking it slowly and naturally.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) So many different aspects overlap in this one point in time that it’s likely to be a game changing time on the income, work and career fronts.

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Family Notices 26 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

McKIBBIN, Robert (Bob) (late of Longbeach and Hinds) – On April 9, 2015 in Australia.

Aged 89 years. Elder son of the late Bob and Mary McKibbin. Brother of the late June Lambie, the late Doreen Vincent, Joan and David Dutton, and John and Judy McKibbon.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

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FECHNEY, Alan – 10-04-2014 classifieds@theguardian.co.nz One year today you left us and it still hurts like hell.

Any queries “In our home there please contact stands a photo 0800 More precious to us than gold ASHBURTON A photograph of you, (0800-274-287).

Your memory will never grow old People say we have our memories Maybe this is true But we never wanted memories We only wanted you.

The tears that flow we can wipe away But the ache in our hearts is here to stay.”

Loved always, “memories are forever.”

Pat, Ivan and Rosie, Wayne and Julie, Neal and Sharon, Carl, and all the grandchildren. xxxxxx

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Wind at 2000m: W 30 km/h, turning S.

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COOMBES, Reginald – 10-04-2005. The years pass by but missing you as much as ever. You are always close beside me, deep in my heart. Loving you always, Audrey.

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Television Friday, April 10, 2015

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6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 11am F Coach Trip PGR 3 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Debbie is concerned for Cain; Moira must choose; Lisa is concerned about Belle’s behaviour. 0 1pm Coronation Street PGR 3 Anna makes a difficult decision; Dev fails to find his Mary Poppins. 0 2pm F Come Dine With Me Couples Rival couples compete to host the best dinner party.

3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Location, Location, Location Property experts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help people find their dream homes. 0 8:30 Coronation Street PGR Katy finds solace with Ryan; Izzy confides her fears to Gary; Leanne wants out of the bookie’s. 0 10:30 One News 0 11pm F 24 Hours In A&E AO A look at the frequency of fall-related injuries and problems to do with alcohol. Midnight The Following AO 3 0 1am Te Karere 3 2 0 1:30 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Michela’s Classic Italian 7am Rachel Khoo’s Cosmopolitan Cook 7:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 8:30 River Cottage 9am Clodagh’s Irish Food Trails 9:30 Beat My Build 10:30 Auction Room 11am Buying Hawaii 11:30 The Liquidator Noon Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes 1:15 Michela’s Classic Italian 1:50 Rachel Khoo’s Cosmopolitan Cook 2:25 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Turkey 3pm The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 4pm Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – London 4:30 The Roux Masterclass 5pm House Crashers 5:30 Selling London 6pm Auction Room 6:30 Buying The Bayou 7pm American Restoration 7:30 Brother v Brother Drew and Jonathan Scott lead two teams of real estate and remodelling experts in a renovation challenge.

8:30 Better Homes And Gardens 10pm Gardeners’ World 10:30 American Restoration 11pm House Crashers 11:30 Selling London

SATURDAY

Midnight Auction Room 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 2am Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – London 2:30 The Roux Masterclass 3am Buying The Bayou 3:35 Auction Room 4:10 Brother v Brother 5:15 Gardeners’ World

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 F Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 6:52 F Angry Birds Toons 3 0 6:55 Pokemon – Black And White 3 0 7:20 Monsters v Aliens 3 0 7:45 Rated A For Awesome 3 0 8:15 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 8:35 Jane And The Dragon 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Home And Away 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 12:30 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 1:30 Judge Rinder PGR 3 2:35 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:30 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 4pm Mighty Med 4:30 The 4:30 Show 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The New Adventures Of Old Christine 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR Bella rejects to protect; Kane’s hopes for home are dashed; Harry loses the girl. 0 7:30 Mom PGR 3 0 8pm The Big Bang Theory PGR 3 0 8:30 M The Hunger Games AO 3 2012 Sci-fi Adventure.

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. 0

6am Paul Henry Paul Henry hosts a news show.

9am Infomercials 10:30 Rachael Ray 3 Rachael dedicates the show to pizza.

11:30 F Crazy Ones PGR The ad agency faces a buyout and Simon’s former wife has the deciding vote.

Noon 3 News 12:30 Baggage PGR 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful PGR 1:30 Dr Phil PGR 3 2:30 F The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 2/2.

3:25 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 30 3:55 Entertainment Tonight 4:25 Million Dollar Minute 3 4:55 The Block – Fans v Favourites 6pm 3 News 7pm Campbell Live 7:30 Jono And Ben AO Presented

by Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce, with Guy Williams and Rose Matafeo.

8:30 The Graham Norton Show AO 0 9:30 7 Days AO 10:05 Fail Army AO 10:35 3 News

11:25 Supernatural AO 0 12:25 The Vampire Diaries AO 1:20 Infomercials 2:20 The 100 AO 3 0 3:10 Golden Boy AO 3 3:55 Robotomy AO 3 4:20 ANT Farm 3 0 4:40 The 4:30 Show 3 5:10 Neighbours 3 0 5:35 I’m In The Band 3 0

11:05 Rake AO Ben takes over the law firm after the death of his father and hires Keegan, who manages to win his first case despite being unprepared for it. 12:05 The Good Wife AO 3 1am Hawaii Five-0 AO 3 0 2am Infomercials

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6am Sesame Street 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Turbo Fast 3 7:55 As Told By Ginger 3 8:20 Chuggington 3 0 8:30 Care Bears 3 8:55 Peppa Pig 3 9:05 Bob The Builder 3 9:15 Thomas And Friends 3 9:25 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 9:35 Barney And Friends 3 10am Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:35 Punk’d PGR 3 5pm Life’s Funniest Moments 5:30 It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3 6pm Futurama 3 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30

The Simpsons PGR 3 New Girl PGR 3 Raising Hope PGR 3 M Underworld AO 3 2003 Action Thriller. A centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves comes to a head when a vampire warrior falls for the one werewolf who can end the fighting. 0 10:50 Californication AO 3 11:55 Entertainment Tonight 12:25 Infomercials

SKY SPORT 1

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 12:50 The Jeff Probst Show Jeff Probst hosts a daytime talk show.

1:45 Antiques Roadshow 3 In Wales, the team finds some unusual Native Canadian carvings and a painting potentially by Francis Bacon.

3pm Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Cookery Course 3 3:30 The Late Show With David Letterman 4:30 Hot Bench 5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 3

THE BOX

7pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Blues v Brumbies. From Eden Park, Auckland.

9:30 World Rugby A show reflecting on the best of rugby union around the world.

10pm Grassroots Rugby Showcasing premier and senior club rugby matches from around New Zealand, as well as social grades and junior rugby.

11:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon A celebrity chat show.

12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

1am Home Shopping 2:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3am Home Shopping

11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) 1:30 L Cycling – Tour Of Basque Country 3:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 4am Fox Sports News 4:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 5am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 5:30 World Rugby

SKY SPORT 2 Madagascar 2 5pm Tribe 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 2 6:30 Ako 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Toi Whakaari 3 2 8pm Kina’s K9s 8:30 Tales From The Trails 9:30 In Bed With Anika Moa AO 3 10:30 Fresh 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY

Scorpion

7:30pm on Prime

MOVIES PREMIERE

6am Law And Order MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Pawn Stars PG 7:40 Parking Wars PGL 8:05 The Amazing Race PG 8:55 CSI MV 9:45 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 10:35 CSI – New York MV 11:25 Longmire 16V 12:15 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

PG 1:05 Pawn Stars PG 1:30 CSI MV 2:20 Law And Order MV 3:10 The Amazing Race PG 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Parking Wars PGL 5pm Pawn Stars PG 5:30 CSI MV 6:30 Pawn Stars PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 CSI – New York MV 8:30 SVU MV 9:30 Graceland MVLC Part One of Two. 10:30 Transporter – The Series 16VLSC 11:30 CSI – New York MV

6am Game Of Pawns M 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Siberian Cut M 8:30 MythBusters PG 9:30 Naked And Afraid M Punishment in Panama.

10:30 Alaskan Bush People M 11:30 Scorned – Love Kills M 12:30 Evil-In-Law M 1:30 Bloody Marys M 2:30 How It’s Made PG 3:30 Gold Rush PG 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 Flight 8501 – Storm Disaster M 8:30 The Pool Master PG Cliffside Pool. Anthony Archer-Wills, natural pool designer, and his team build an adventure pool complete with natural beach entry and waterfall.

9:30 Alaska Monsters M 10:30 How It’s Made PG 11:30 Cry Wolfe M

7:35 Paranoia MVL 2013 Thriller.

Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford.

9:20 Biography – Brad Pitt PG 2010 Documentary.

10:10 Draft Day MVL 2014 Drama.

Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner.

Noon The Call 16VL 2013 Crime.

Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin.

1:35 X-Men – Days Of Future Past MVL 2014 Action. Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence.

3:45 Paranoia MVL 2013 Thriller.

Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford.

5:30 Allegiance MVL 2012 Thriller.

Bow Wow, Seth Gabel.

7pm Bad Words MLS 2014 Comedy.

Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn.

8:30 Prisoners 16VLC 2013 Crime.

Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal.

11:05 A Million Ways To Die In The West 16VLSC 2014 Comedy.

Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron.

12:30 The Amazing Race PG 1:20 Parking Wars PGL 1:45 Law And Order MV 2:35 Transporter – The Series 16VLSC 3:30 The Simpsons PG 3:55 SVU MV 4:45 Graceland MVLC 5:35 Pawn Stars PG

Midnight Cry Wolfe M 12:30 I Married A Mobster M No Way Out; Jekyll and Hyde. 1:30 Dead Of Night M 2:30 Dukes Of Haggle M 3am Deadliest Catch PG 5am MythBusters PG Soda Cup Killer.

1am A Stranger In Paradise 16VLS 2013 Thriller. Colin Egglesfield, Stuart Townsend. 2:25 Bad Words MLS 2014 Comedy. Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn. 3:55 Prisoners 16VLC 2013 Crime. Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal.

SATURDAY

6am L Darts – Premier League The eleventh event from Sheffield.

9:30 Cycling – Tour Of Basque Country (Replay) Stage Four.

11am Big Weekend With Matty Johns Noon NRL Footy Show 2pm Boots ’n’ All A weekly magazine programme focusing on the Super League.

3pm Triathlon – ITU World Series (Highlights) 4pm Cricket – Indian Premier League (Highlights) Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils.

4:30 Grassroots Rugby 5:30 World Rugby 6pm Rugby – The Breakdown

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Scorpion PGR While on a mission to save lost hikers, Team Scorpion’s helicopter crashes, injuring the pilot and igniting a wildfire that quickly closes in on them.

8:30 NCIS – New Orleans AO 3 9:30 American Idol

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 Penguins Of Madagascar 3 2 8am Swagger 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am It’s In The Bag 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Korero Mai 3 2 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Pukoro 3 2 4pm Dora Matatoa 3 2 4:30 Penguins Of

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Underworld

8:30pm on FOUR

MOVIES GREATS 7:10 Space Cowboys PGL 2000 Comedy. Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones. 9:20 Ali MVL 2001 Drama. Jon Voigt, Will Smith.

11:55 The Sweetest Thing 16LS 2002 Romantic Comedy.

Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair. 1:20 Red Eye MVL 2005 Drama. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy. 2:45 The Sum Of All Fears MVL 2002 Action.

Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman.

4:45 I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry MLS 2007 Comedy.

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel. 6:40 The Illusionist MVS 2006 Drama. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel. 8:30 The Bucket List ML 2007 Comedy.

10:10 Ghost Rider MV 2007 Action.

SATURDAY

Midnight Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay 18LS 2008 Comedy. 1:40 The Sum Of All Fears MVL 2002 Action.

3:40 I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry MLS 2007 Comedy.

5:35 The Making Of Get Smart PG 5:55 The Illusionist MVS 2006 Drama.

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Ashburton swimmer Caitlin Johnstone will compete at the New Zealand Open Championships for a second time in Auckland next week.

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Caitlin on ‘huge learning curve’

BY JONATHAN LEASK

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Caitlin Johnstone is set for a second crack at the New Zealand Open Championships in Auckland next week.

Enjoying a strong season in the pool the 17-year-old Johnstone decided to give the pre-

mier swim meet a second crack and knows what she wants to achieve.

“I’ve recorded some personal bests but I’m hoping to improve my breaststroke.

“I would really like to PB in all my events.

“Placing wise I’m aiming at

the A final, so the top eight, in the 50m breaststroke and the B final, top 15, in the other two.”

Johnstone went to the open championships back in 2013, recording three top 20 placings.

“With age and more experience everything’s not as scary as it was that first time.

“I’ll know to warm up better and things like that, but it’s still a big learning curve.”

It is a big learning curve, and rubbing shoulders with the likes of New Zealand representatives Lauren Boyle and Glen Snyders only adds to that.

“Even just watching them and

how they carry themselves you learn heaps.”

Johnstone is the lone representative of the Jennian Homes Ashburton Swim Team, but she will be linking up with other Canterbury swimmers and coaches to keep her company at the championships.

Scott ready to follow in champion foosteps at Augusta

BY BEN EVERILL Adam Scott thinks he can “do a Bubba” at the Masters this week.

Only Jack Nicklaus (1965-66), Nick Faldo (1989-90) and Tiger Woods (2001-02) have success-

fully defended the Masters title.

But 17 players have won more than one green jacket.

Scott’s breakthrough victory in 2013 has been sandwiched by Bubba Watson’s two wins and now, with the pressures of be-

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ing defending champion off his back, the Australian feels ready to become the 18th multiple champion.

“It is tough to defend any title but especially around here when the best players all come togeth-

er and they are trying to peak for this event,” Scott explained.

“So to defend is an incredible achievement. But I’m thinking I can do a Bubba this week.”

The 79th Masters is shaping to be a great one with numerous

big name players in form.

World No.1 Rory McIlroy is going for a career grand slam and human headline Tiger Woods returning from his selfimposed tour exile to sharpen his game.

- AAP

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