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Farmers feeling vulnerable

By Linda Clarke

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Mid Canterbury farmers are feeling vulnerable and nervous over Government plans to restrict irrigation and farming expansion in favour of faster environmental gains, says Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers president David Clark.

He said many farmers were already farming with water and nitrate leaching limits aimed at improving water quality and quantity but some of the restrictions contained in the Essential Freshwater Action Plan, released last week, would be hard to achieve.

Environment Canterbury rules have already effectively halted dairy conver-

sions on the Hinds Plains and Clark says proposed new blanket rules around nitrate leaching would mean arable farmers would be unable to supply enough nitrogen to growing crops, like wheat.

“The wheat that is grown to make toast requires nitrogen to drive plant growth, whether it is nitrogen fixed in the soil or applied. With those blanket restrictions I don’t yet see a pathway for me as an arable farmer to comply with some of the restrictions in the plan.”

He said farmers were sick of being painted as environmental villains for political gain.

The Mid Canterbury district would also suffer if farmers had to reduce stock

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numbers, he warned.

Fewer stock meant less income for the farmer, with a knock-on effect to those people who supplied winter grazing or supplementary feed. There would also be less to spend in town.

In turn, land values would drop, which would be worrying for those with high debt, he said.

“I have a view that the policies we are seeing coming out of government at the moment are going to cause an ’80s style collapse in confidence in agriculture.

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Early start for 2022 rally

By Linda Clarke

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The wheels are already in motion for the Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery Club’s next big rally, expected to attract at least 5000 people.

Club members have begun planning a Wheat and Wheels Rally for 2022, to be held on April 1, 2 and 3.

The rally will coincide with the 175 year anniversary of Massey tractors and has been expanded to include sprayers and spreaders.

Committee member John Hall said the event would be held at Anthony Hampton’s farm on Lauriston Barrhill Road. Hampton is a big Massey fan and has a private collection of over 50 tractors.

Early planning is needed for the event, which will need wheat to be harvested by vintage machines and grass paddocks for the hundreds of vehicles expected to attend; these needed to be worked into crop rotations at the host farm.

Hall said local, national and international visitors were expected. The event will take place in the weeks before a steam rally and Wings over Wanaka.

There will be daily parades of vehicles, including traction engines, vintage and classic trac-

Crawler action from the Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery Club’s 2016 Wheat and Wheels Rally.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN tors, cars and trucks. There will also be some of the country’s largest modern tractors and combines on display, as well as a military display.

It will be the club’s third Wheat and Wheels Rally, with

the first in 2013 attracting some 5000 people and the second in 2016 attracting similar numbers.

The 2022 event has been expanded to three days and Hall said it was being promoted

around the world among vintage machinery enthusiasts so they could begin planning trips to New Zealand.

He said it was a big event to organise and the club’s members were starting early.

Fish and Game drops case over river works Central South Island Fish and Game Council has agreed not to continue a prosecution against Environment Canterbury over work in Bowyers Stream two years ago.

The case involved instream works undertaken by ECan in an 11-kilometre section of Bowyers Stream in April and May 2017.

Bowyers Stream is an important trout and salmon spawning tributary of the Ashburton River.

Central South Island Fish and Game considers the current state of the salmon fishery throughout the Canterbury region is at

a critical level and any activities undertaken in waterways that could adversely affect sports fisheries populations are serious.

ECan had been charged by Fish and Game under the Conservation Act 1987, which specifies that it is an offence to “disturb or damage the spawning ground of any freshwater fish, namely trout and salmon”.

The case had been set down for hearing in the Christchurch District Court yesterday.

ECan, without admitting to the charge, acknowledged that what it considered to be emergency

works undertaken in April and May 2017 had the potential to disturb or damage the spawning grounds of trout and salmon and that it failed to notify Fish and Game before commencing the works.

Central South Island chief executive Jay Graybill said it had been two and a half years since the Bowyers Stream works and ECan has improved its systems and its liaison with Fish and Game.

“It is the council’s expectation that incidents such as this will not happen in the future.”

Under the settlement, ECan will negotiate in good faith with Fish and Game to develop a communication protocol about instream river works under ECan’s Code of Practice. This work has already commenced.

ECan chief executive Bill Bayfield said the regional council had learned important lessons from the case and he was pleased the matter had been resolved.

“Environment Canterbury and Fish & Game have shared goals, to protect freshwater environments, and we work best when we work together.”

Farmers feeling vulnerable From P1 “What the community needs to understand is all of this will impact on the money that is available to spend in Ashburton.”

Clark said farmers believed they were already on a journey to achieving environmental improvements, driven by Environment Canterbury rules around water quality, quantity and nitrate leaching.

“Catchments not already on the journey are in for a massive shock.”

“Ecan has done a lot of work since the commissioners were put in place. There was little restriction until then and people invested based on rules of the day, and developed farms and irrigation.

“There has been a lot of work done by the commissioners and the farming sector has been very engaged, but it has been onerous and expensive and placed significant restrictions on the way we farm with pathways for reductions going forward, through farm environment plans and Overseer.”

Clark said farmers felt the proposed new rules “completely pulled the mat out from under their feet” and the new dissolved nitrogen rate for waterways was unachievable.

The latter was six times lower than the rate for drinking water, he said.

If Environment Minister David Parker was using the dissolved nitrogen rate as a negotiation tool, then it was a very disingenuous method of negotiating public policy, he added.

“And if society expects us as a rural community to achieve that then it is reasonable to expect the good folk of Christchurch to achieve the same pristine water in the Heathcote or Avon Rivers.”

Clark said farmers needed to give feedback on the proposal, which is open for consultation until October 17.

There will be a primary sector meeting about the proposed fresha water plan at the Hotel Ashburton tomorrow, from 10am until noon.

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Four-wheel-drive fun park open

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

Mid Canterbury’s 4x4 community now have their own purpose built playground to enjoy after the Mid Canterbury 4x4 Park was opened on Saturday.

The park, which is located at the river end of Cochranes Road is an eight hectare area that has been developed for 4x4 activities.

“It is a project that has been ongoing for a number of years,” Mid Canterbury Four Wheel Drive Club president Marcus Ewart said.

“We had a fantastic opening, there were about 30 vehicles there for the start and when we left late in the day it would’ve been near to 50.”

Ewart said the main goal of the park was to give enthusiasts a place to enjoy four-wheel-driving, but not in places like the riverbed during nesting season of endangered birds.

“ECan have been really supportive of this and without them it wouldn’t have happened,” he said.

The space was developed by club members in their spare time, using borrowed diggers and hard work to get the space up and running.

“It took a reasonable amount of time from club members, we fenced off the entire area with concrete blocks and wire fencing so people know where they are going and ACL lent us a digger for the day to help us make the tracks,” he said.

“There was also a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with ECan to get the thing off the ground, I became president four years ago and it has been a big drive in that time to make it happen.”

While the park is now up and running, Ewart said there is still plenty that can be done to develop it in the future.

“There is lots we can do, this is only phase one really so we can see how it works,” he said.

Ewart said it was not just locals who came down to enjoy the opening, with people coming from Christchurch and Timaru to have a spin around the park.

“We had 18 club members there and the rest were just randoms that had seen it on social media,” he said.

The park is located at the river end of Cochranes Road and there is no entry fee, but there is a signposted list of rules that guests are asked to follow.

Mid Canterbury Four Wheel Drive Club president Marcus Ewart goes for a spin around the Mid Canterbury 4x4 Park at the opening on Saturday.

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Major ice issues with lifts delay Saturday skiing

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

A large amount of ice might have delayed the lifts on Mt Hutt on Saturday and led to a few angry comments on Facebook, but the mountain’s boss is reminding people to check the information available to them before coming to the mountain.

“We have around 15 major ice events a year and usually one of those makes it in to the news,” ski area manager James McKenzie said.

“Ice can take on all sorts of forms depending on temperature, wind and humidity and five per cent of events result in de-

lays. “We have a huge team that start very early in the morning and work right through until the lifts are cleared.”

On Saturday some lifts were not operational until after midday, with staff having to lean on the power of the sun to get things moving.

“This ice is really tough it is the kind of stuff you hit with a bat (used by the de-icing teams to remove the ice) and it just glares back at you and says bring it on,” he said.

“We had the lift de-iced by 9.30am but we could still not get it to shift it was stuck so severely.

“When you’ve smashed every

bit of ice you can but it still won’t move you have to rely on the solar radiation to move the ice.”

Mt Hutt received several comments on their Facebook page complaining about the delays, with some asking for refunds, but McKenzie said the snow reports make it very clear if there is going to be delays on the mountain.

“We have the snow report and that indicates the status of the lifts and if they are open or de-icing and if the mountain is closed, open or stage opening,” he said.

“Some people will see that it is open one way or another and not check it and make their way up

expecting them to be working.

“There are also people who do just set off and see what they get.

“They are often the people requesting refunds but if they have purchased a pass and not used it, they are transferable to another day.”

McKenzie said season pass holders were more likely to check the conditions before coming up, and were less likely to complain.

“I mean I was speaking to one skier who saw the snow report, delayed coming up from Christchurch, got here a bit after 11, did a few runs on the Quad and then had some lunch and

had a great afternoon skiing,” he said. McKenzie said developments on the mountain had seen icing have less of an impact on operations.

“We have retrofitted a lot of parts on the lifts so the ice doesn’t have as much of an effect, now 95 per cent of the time things go smoothly whereas in the past it might have only been 50 per cent of the time we would’ve got them working,” he said.

Mt Hutt’s geographical location also makes life difficult for staff as being closer to the ocean than most other skifields means there is more moisture in the air, increasing the likelihood of ice.

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In brief Whitebait obstacles Concrete plinths, wooden platforms and a pallet jetty are amongst the dozens of illegal structures erected in Canterbury’s rivers this whitebaiting season. An increase in complaints from members of the public has led Environment Canterbury to visit waterways this week and assess the scale of the issue. Environment Canterbury’s zone delivery manager Paul Hulse said new structures are being constructed all the time and he wants people to report them as they are against the rules.

Bede’s new chapel The Chapel of St Bede, rebuilt after being devastated in the 2011 earthquakes, will be officially opened by Bishop Paul Martin at the school on Thursday. Rector Justin Boyle said the chapel was the college’s most important building and the soul of the school.

It was designed in a collegiate gothic style to integrate with the original 1920s buildings of the Christchurch campus.

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Lack of ice means no skating this season

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

For another season there will be no sound of ice skates sliding their way over the surface of the Staveley ice rink.

Volunteers in charge of the rink thought they were going to get to open, said ice manager Ivan Syme, but much needed frosts never came.

“We just didn’t get enough ice,” he said.

“We had three-and-a-half inches but never got any more.”

Syme said the season had looked promising once they reached that level of ice in June, but barely any frosts followed in July meaning no more ice formed.

The level of ice meant the curlers were able to get some curling in, but the ice

remained too thin for ice skating which is the main drawcard and a big financial boost to the community.

“It is a shame as that money helps to keep the community going with the hall and other things,” he said.

Syme said it had been four years since they had been able to open the rink, but expected their fortunes would swing around eventually.

“It has happened before, quite a few years ago we went seven years without opening, it is just doing a little cycle,” he said.

“You can never really tell, it could be a good season and hopefully it is.

“It has happened before and it will happen again.”

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More funding to stop wallaby plague Forest & Bird says the government urgently needs to fund wallaby control, before the pest reaches plague proportions.

Wallabies could spread over a third of New Zealand within the next 50 years, unless control is increased dramatically, the organisation says.

Wallabies eat native trees and plants in the undergrowth of forests and compete with native wildlife for food. They also damage tall tussock grasslands, leaving bare ground and increasing soil erosion.

Forest & Bird Canterbury regional manager Nicky Snoyink says wallabies pose a serious threat to Aoraki Mount Cook and the fragile Mackenzie Basin.

Hundreds of thousands of Bennett’s wallabies are believed to live within the South Canterbury containment area, which is bordered by the Waitaki River, Lake Tekapo and the Rangitata River.

They are quickly spreading from the 900,000 hectare containment area into the mountains, where they eat rare native plants and mushrooms.

“Wallabies are spreading into the upper Waitaki and Mackenzie Basin,” Snoyink said.

“They’re grazers, so they pose a serious threat to rare alpine plants. Once established in alpine areas, they will be difficult to eradicate.”

The Bennett’s wallaby weighs up to 18kg and eats six times more than a rabbit.

The government provided funding for wallaby control in South Canterbury until 1992, when farmers in the containment area were handed responsibility for controlling the pests.

Since then, wallaby numbers in the south have escalated.

Wallabies have already been sighted in fresh territories in Auckland, Northland, Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne, Wellington, Marlborough, Southland, and the West Coast.

If wallabies are allowed to spread without further control, the Ministry for Primary Industries estimates that in 10 years they will cost $84 million per year in economic losses. The current annual impact of wallabies is $28 million.

Forest & Bird central North Island regional manager Rebecca Stirnemann said farms and forestry will also suffer if wallaby populations explode, because they eat large amounts of pasture grass and young pine trees.

Effective control would cost about $7.4 million a year for 10 years, she said, but currently only about $1.38m was spent on control by local and central government and private landowners.

Dama and Bennett’s wallabies were introduced to New Zealand from Australia, in much the same way as possums.

Populations of dama wallabies in the Rotorua lakes region are dangerously high and threatening new areas.

Wallabies could spread over a third of New Zealand within the next five decades, unless control is increased, says Forest & Bird.

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Blind Foundation seeks volunteers for Blind Week collection The Blind Foundation is seeking volunteers to support this year’s Blind Week street collection on Friday 18 and Saturday, October 19.

Volunteers play a crucial role in raising funds needed to provide practical and emotional support for New Zealanders who are blind or have low vision.

Liz Anstice, of Invercargill, is this year marking five years volunteering for the cause and she

appreciates the significance of Blind Week for many.

A Blind Foundation client herself, she was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) nine years ago in her 30s and admits she never expected to go blind.

“No-one knows what it’s like until they have gone through it,” she said.

“The first couple of years are tough but having the staff and the support of the Blind Foundation

she says she got “the keys” to her independence from the Blind Foundation, which taught her the skills she needed to adjust to living with sight loss.

This year’s street collection will also mark the first in the charity’s new name: Blind & Low Vision NZ. By retaining ‘blind’ at its core and adding in ‘low vision’ the new name more clearly conveys that support is available for everyone

around you makes all the difference.

“Once you learn how to use a white cane, how to use voice-over and technology, how to do everyday living with a vision impairment, then you just get on with living your life.”

Anstice said Blind Week is important for highlighting how people who are blind or have low vision can live independently.

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Double tragedy for family NZME The man who died in freezing conditions after battling for an hour to reach land when his boat was swamped in Fiordland has been named as well-known jet-boat maker Peter John McKenzie.

The 57-year-old was one of three men tossed from their boat into icy water off the southern coast of the South Island on Saturday afternoon.

They swam to shore but McKenzie died on the beach after waiting hours for help in bitterly cold conditions.

It’s the second tragic death for his family after McKenzie’s brother Morrell died in 2015 when his truck went off the wharf at South Port.

The Bluff brothers founded McKenzie Marine and Mackcraft, a jet boat manufacturing company.

The three men went overboard on Saturday about 1km west of the Wairaurahiri River mouth. All were wearing life jackets but it’s understood it took them an hour to swim about 1km back to shore.

As darkness fell the youngest man battled through 2km of rugged terrain to Waitutu Lodge where he raised the alarm.

The remote lodge had no cellphone reception and had to radio for help before police were called at 7.15pm.

The two remaining men, including McKenzie, were whipped by strong winds up to 20 knots and pelted with rain for up to four hours as they waited for help.

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Peter McKenzie (left) and brother Morrell McKenzie were well known in the jet boating community.

By the time a helicopter from Southern Lakes Helicopters arrived with a paramedic, McKenzie had died. The other man was freezing from sitting in the bitterly cold conditions.

The surviving pair were taken to Invercargill Hospital and a second helicopter sent to retrieve McKenzie’s body.

Sir Richard Hayes, who piloted the second chopper, said conditions were difficult. It was high tide and the beach was too steep to land the chopper on.

He balanced the aircraft while three crew members retrieved the body, which was then flown

to Invercargill Hospital.

Given the conditions, the two surviving men were lucky to be alive, Hayes said.

“They were in the water for about an hour. The water temperatures are pretty low along that south shore at this time of year.

“There was a bit of a sea running too.

“I guess the other two were quite fortunate that they survived.”

The death had been referred to the coroner.

McKenzie’s family and friends did not want to comment when

contacted yesterday.

However, several Bluff residents, who requested anonymity, said McKenzie was a good man and it was a sad day for the community.

McKenzie and his brother didn’t just design boats – they also raced them, winning a world championship tournament in 1992, before expanding into designing and building boats for adventure tourism.

At the time of Morrell McKenzie’s death in 2015, he was described as a “great Bluff guy” from a well-known family in the area.

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Acupuncturist punctures patient’s lungs

By Nikki Preston NZME

An acupuncturist who punctured a patient’s lungs while giving her treatment for an arm and wrist injury has been found to be in breach of the Health and Disability Consumers’ Rights code.

The acupuncturist was treating the woman’s jian jing points on both sides of her shoulders and inserted the needles in too deeply, leaving the woman with chest pain and shortness of breath, according to findings released by the Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill.

The acupuncturist then withdrew the needles and provided additional treatment until the patient said she felt better. She then sent her home and told her to rest up.

But when the patient went home to rest she began feeling extremely unwell and her left chest was in pain and her right chest was numb.

Her husband took her to the accident and medical clinic later that evening who referred her

Calls for Labour staffer to step down

An acupuncturist failed to provide adequate care when she punctured a patient’s lungs while treating her for an arm and wrist injury. written consent before she carto the emergency department ried out needling to her jian jing at the hospital who diagnosed points in March 2018. her with a bilateral apical pneuHe also criticised her for not mothoraces caused by the acuproviding services with reasonpuncture. able care and skill when she did Hill found the acupuncturnot pick up that she had puncist breached the code when she tured the woman’s lungs and failed to tell the patient there sent her home. was a risk of pneumothorax or Hill recommended the acua collapsed lung and getting

puncturist carry out further training on acupuncture needling techniques and provide the HDC with evidence it had been completed and carry out an audit on whether existing clients had received an information brochure and provided a written consent.

He also recommended the clinic the woman worked in developed formal policies ensuring consent is obtained from clients.

Meanwhile a paramedic has been told to apologise to a patient after not providing accurate advice to the husband of a woman who was bleeding from a Caesarean section wound.

Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall said the paramedic should have prioritised the job and warned the husband not to move his wife and to wait for an ambulance.

Ms Wall was critical that the paramedic did not upgrade the green response code, and did not instruct the man to apply pressure to the wound. She recommended he carry out further training.

The Opposition is calling for the Labour Party to stand down a staffer over reports of a serious sexual assault against a 19-yearold volunteer.

The Herald, meanwhile, understands the man accused of the attack is now working away from Parliament.

Seven formal complaints were laid with the party about a male staffer who had worked in the parliamentary precinct, but in July Labour decided to take no disciplinary action after an investigation.

Following reports members of the party had resigned over the investigation and contact with media, Labour last month said it would allow the complainants to appeal.

The Spinoff website yesterday published a detailed account of an alleged sexual assault by the staffer against one of the complainants – a Labour party volunteer – saying he had pinned her to the ground and attacked her at his home in February 2018.

National Party deputy leader Paula Bennett has now called for Labour to stand the staffer down while the review is conducted.

“The staff member accused of these violent acts needs to be stood down and removed from Parliament immediately until an earlier investigation into his conduct is completed,” she said.

“Any other workplace would take this sensible step to ensure the safety of its entire staff.”

The Herald has been told the staffer subject to the complaints has voluntarily moved to work offsite, and had been there for some time.

Bennett said five complainants had come to her with concerns.

The lawyer for the staffer has declined to reply to a request to comment, as has Labour Party president Nigel Haworth.

In a statement to the Spinoff, Haworth said none of the allegations looked into during that review related to sexual assault.

“The person leading the original review made it clear to the complainants that the party would never be the appropriate body to handle allegations of that nature and that they would need to be investigated by the police,” he said.

The complainant told The Spinoff she had raised the sexual assault with the panel hearing the allegations in March.

In a statement, Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard said no complaint had been made to Parliamentary Service – the man’s employer – by anyone involved in the case.

“I repeat my request for any individual who feels unsafe at work or when visiting to contact me or the general manager. Any further action requires a complaint,” he said.

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Braced for fresh violence AP Afghans are bracing for a possible new wave of Taliban violence after President Donald Trump abruptly called off talks with the insurgent group, which vows to continue its fight against what it calls “foreign occupation”.

Trump’s surprise weekend announcement came shortly before a string of highly sensitive days in Afghanistan, including today’s anniversary of the death of anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the major Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashoura Tuesday and Wednesday’s 9/11 anniversary.

It’s not immediately clear whether the U.S.-Taliban talks will resume and when.

President Donald Trump’s weekend tweet cancelling secret meetings at Camp David with the Taliban and Afghan leaders is the latest example of a commander in chief willing to take a big risk in pursuit of a foreign policy victory only to see it dashed.

What had seemed like an imminent deal to end the war has unravelled, with Trump and the Taliban blaming each other for the collapse of nearly a year of US-Taliban negotiations in Doha, Qatar.

The insurgents are promising more bloodshed. The Afghan government remains mostly on the sidelines of the US effort to end America’s longest war. And as Trump’s reelection campaign heats up, his quest to withdraw the remaining 14,000 US troops from Afghanistan remains unfulfilled – so far.

Trump said he axed the Camp David meetings and called off negotiations be-

Sinead in stunning return Sinead O’Connor has made a stunning return to the stage to perform her most famous song – which she once vowed never to play live again. The singer played for the first time in five years during an appearance on Ireland’s The Late Late Show over the weekend. The 52-year-old performed her biggest commercial hit Nothing Compares 2 U – despite saying in 2015 that she would never play it live again – and a cover of The Pogues’ Rainy Night In Soho. She dedicated the first song to Prince, who famously wrote Nothing Compares 2 U before O’Connor enjoyed worldwide success with it in 1990.

Forces remove a damaged vehicle after a car bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan near a neighbourhood housing the US Embassy, the NATO Resolute Support mission and other diplomatic missions.

PHOTO AP base in Congress. unorthodox foreign policy cause of a recent Taliban And while the meetings initiatives – with North Korea, bombing near the US Embasproduced the ready-for-telChina and Iran – that the pressy in Kabul that killed a US evision visuals that Trump is ident has pursued that have service member, even though known to relish, negotiations yet to bear fruit. nine other Americans have between Washington and “When the Taliban tried to died since June 25 in TalibPyongyang have been stalled gain negotiating advantage by an-orchestrated violence. But for months with no tangible conducting terror attacks inthe deal started unravelling progress in getting the North side of the country, President days earlier after Afghan Presto abandon its nuclear weapTrump made the right deciident Ashraf Ghani postponed ons. sion to say that’s not going to his trip to Washington and the Trump’s offers to hold talks work,” said Secretary of State Taliban refused to travel to the with the Iranian leadership Mike Pompeo, who appeared US before a deal was actually have similarly met with no on five TV news shows. signed, according to a former result and Iran has moved Trump’s three high-profile senior Afghan official. ahead with actions that viomeetings with North Korea’s Trump’s secret plan for late the 2015 nuclear deal that Kim Jong Un prompted deep high-level meetings at the the president withdrew from unease from many quarters, presidential retreat in Marlast year. including his conservative yland resembled other bold,

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Charlie not paying support Denise Richards claims her ex-husband Charlie Sheen has not been paying his child support payments and that he owes $NZ775,000. The New York Post says Richards has filed court documents against the Two and a Half Men actor for not paying his share of raising their two daughters, Sam, 15, and Lola, 14. Richards, who stars in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, wants a judge to force her wayward ex-husband to cough up the dough. “[Charlie] has squandered over $24,000,000 ($NZ37 million) to support his extravagant lifestyle at the expense of support payments for his children,” read the papers.

Corpses strewn, people still missing a week on NZME The corpse was lying on its back, dressed in black shorts and a red shirt, arms outstretched, face toward the sky.

There is no telling where the man died, or exactly when, or how. But Hurricane Dorian’s swirling, pounding floodwaters receded early last week to reveal his body sprawled amid the wreckage of a vast shantytown here in Marsh Harbour, the capital of the Abaco Islands.

On Sunday, a full week after the hurricane hit, the corpse was still where it had come to rest.

The extent of the damage here and elsewhere in the Abaco Islands is so great, the work of assessing it so arduous and the Bahamian government so overwhelmed that a full accounting of the missing and

Herbert Luberal fled Pigeon Peas when the hurricane approached. He returned to check on a friend, and found him, alive. dead may not be known for weeks or even months.

The official death toll attributed to the hurricane remained at 44 but there is no estimate yet of how many people are unaccounted for. The Bahamian security forces are still re-

sponding to reports of missing and trapped people, officials said, and teams of forensic investigators are still combing through the storm debris.

Officials could not be reached for comment on why the bodies have not yet been

collected.

But that body – splayed on the foundation of a house that, like the rest of the neighbourhood, had been turned to splinters – was a grim reminder that there are more deaths to be counted and perhaps many more.

“Listen, it’s been a week,” said McAdrian Farrington. He lost his 5-year-old son and namesake when the floodwaters rose in Murphy Town, just west of Marsh Harbour, after he put the boy on the roof for safety. “Bodies are decomposing day by day.”

His child’s body has not been found.

Hurricanes are indiscriminate in where they strike but they often take a disproportionate toll on the poor, who may live in less resilient structures and in areas prone to flooding.

Jagger hits out Rock legend Mick Jagger has made a rare entry into the war that is modern politics by attacking US President Donald Trump for his rudeness, lies and for “tearing apart” environment controls in America.

Jagger said he deplored how politics has descended into name-calling, “including in my own country this week” – a reference to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson comparing opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to a “big girl’s blouse” and a “chlorinated chicken”. The icon, now 76, bewailed “the polarisation and incivility in public life”, although the one-time bad boy of 1960s rock admitted he was “not always for civility” himself.

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Spark Sport – will it or won’t it work?

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ess than two weeks out from what will be one of the biggest sporting events of the year for many New Zealanders, it would seem the confidence levels when it comes to those charged with providing coverage of the Rugby World Cup aren’t that high.

If you haven’t caught up with the news, or don’t really care for rugby too much, after years of being provided for by Sky Sport, the Rugby World Cup will this year be streamed by a new player to the scene, Spark Sport.

It’s a bit of curly one in the fact that matches are to be livestreamed onto devices by users as opposed to just click over to the channel on the television set and watching away to your heart’s content.

It requires a good device, a television capable of undertaking streaming and most importantly, a strong internet connection and network to carry it. The latter of which is, unfortunately, not in many parts of New Zealand.

So people are worried.

Spark have tried to alleviate some of those concerns, but the majority of the issues seem to sit with their ability to successfully

pull the stream off with literally hundreds of thousands of people watching at one time.

They’ve countered by saying that, if there are any problems, matches will revert to a free-toair channel available on all free television networks, but the fear of that failing too is worrying.

This country has been, in so many ways, blessed with the services of Sky Sport.

I know, it’s probably the least popular viewing platform around currently, largely because of their costs and an apparent lack of loyalty to long-standing customers, I get that – I am one of them, but in terms of being able to provide for a big event, they’ve never really let me down either.

Thomas to the US Supreme Court.

In 1998, President Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologise, ask forgiveness and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

In 2000, The musical Cats closed on Broadway after 7485 performances.

Ten years ago: The activist group ACORN fired two employees of its Baltimore office after they were seen in hidden-camera video giving tax advice to a pair of conservative activists, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who were posing as a pimp and a prostitute.

Five years ago: During a prime-time address, President Barack Obama announced he was authorising air strikes inside Syria for the first time along with expanded strikes in Iraq as part of a “steady, relentless effort” to root out Islamic State extremists.

One year ago: The Trump administration ordered the closure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, citing the refusal of Palestinian leaders to enter into peace talks with Israel.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Philip Baker Hall is 88. Actor Greg Mullavey is 86. Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers is 79. Actor Tom Ligon

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Theirs has proven to be a reliable platform. One which can stand the test of huge amounts of viewers with little fault, if any at all. They’ve provided excellent coverage.

Sure, there are numerous other things that they could have done better – but their coverage of sport, in particular rugby, has long been the go-to for many a sporting fan.

And the loss of that heading into the Rugby World Cup is concerning.

Spark Sport hasn’t exactly screamed confidence from the outset with multiple issues across multiple platforms seemingly almost every time they get a huge number of viewers.

So, it’s going to be an interest-

ing wee period of time.

Society, especially in rural parts of New Zealand, is still in that transitional stage from watching television normally as opposed to getting involved in the streaming world.

Many are already doing it, but even more are not, so the prospect of having to stream the All Blacks matches is a daunting one for those people.

People like what they know.

They like the tried and true and for this year’s Rugby World Cup it’s a little bit like diving into the deep, dark back hole without really knowing what’s sitting at the bottom.

Hopefully a nice cushion and not a whole bunch of metal barbs.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, September 10, the 253rd day of 2019. There are 112 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On September 10, 1813, an American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

On this date: In 1912, the jungle character Tarzan made his debut as Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in The AllStory magazine.

In 1914, Ten miners were killed after an eruption on White Island, New Zealand.

In 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen John J Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who’d served in the US First Division during World War One. In 1960, Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm eventually blamed for 364 deaths, struck the Florida Keys.

In 1962, the US Supreme Court ordered the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student.

In 1963, 20 black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov George C. Wallace.

In 1979, four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the US House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Harry S Truman were freed from prison after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter.

1984, the landmark Te Maori exhibition, a milestone in the Māori cultural renaissance, opened in New York.

In 1987, Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was welcomed

by President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan as he began a 10-day tour of the United States.

In 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence

is 79. Singer Danny Hutton is 77. Singer Jose Feliciano is 74.

Actress Judy Geeson is 71. Former Canadian first lady Margaret Trudeau is 71. Rock musician Joe Perry is 69. Country singer Rosie Flores is 69. Actress Amy Irving is 66. Actor-director Clark Johnson is 65. Actress Kate Burton is 62.

Movie director Chris Columbus is 61. Actor Colin Firth is 59. Rock singer-musician David Lowery is 59. Actor Sean O’Bryan is 56.

Actor Raymond Cruz is 55. Rock musician Robin Goodridge is 54. Rock musician Stevie D. is 53. Rock singer-musician Miles Zuniga is 53. Actress Nina Repeta is 52. Rapper Big Daddy Kane

is 51. Movie director Guy Ritchie is 51. Actor Johnathan Schaech is 50. Contemporary Christian singer Sara Groves is 47. Actor Ryan Phillippe is 45. Actor Kyle Bornheimer is 44. Actor Jacob Young is 40. Rock musician Mikey Way is 39. Rock musician Matthew Followill is 35. Singer Ashley Monroe is 33. Singer Sanjaya Malakar is 30. Actor Chandler Massey is 29. Actress Hannah Hodson is 28. Actor Gabriel Bateman is 15.

Thought for today: “If there is no knowledge, there is no understanding; if there is no understanding, there is no knowledge.” – The Talmud. – AP

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A missed chance on council funding reform F

armers, need and have always needed, a top-totoe review of local government funding, with analysis of the relative contributions of ratepayers to local services and amenities.

With the release last month of the Productivity Commission’s draft report on local government funding and financing it seems farmers will have to wait quite a bit longer.

It’s a big report, but one that stays at a high level.

It doesn’t go very deeply into how rates are allocated locally, yet makes the unbelievable central finding that the existing system “measures up well”.

So, no fundamental reform on offer at this stage.

Nevertheless, despite the main conclusion the commission has identified areas of pressure, where councils are clearly struggling.

Their proposals might eventually ease the pain of ratepayers – but it’s a long shot.

Of real interest to farmers is the cost on ratepayers of the tourism boom, and this got a lot of attention in the draft report.

The commission has proposed legislation to allow councils to set accommodation levies. This could offer an income stream for tourism towns and cities under pressure, but whether councils in rural and lower growth areas could benefit

Nigel Billings FROM THE FARM

from this is an open question.

Freedom campers would remain oblivious, and central government would still be raking in the big GST returns, while giving little back.

The absence of any money for councils in the first allocation of revenue from the International Visitor Levy might be a disturbing insight, however, into government’s priorities.

None of that money has gone to local government.

The commission also calls for a “reset” of the central-local government relationship, with a revenue share for the plethora of new regulations and standards emanating from Parliament that councils are expected to administer.

In recent years – certainly since the enactment of the RMA – there has been a quite considerable transferral of costs from taxpayer to ratepayer. This is a very old chestnut.

For councils under major pressure to develop infrastructure for growth, the commission felt that central government could contribute funds based

on new building work in place.

This would in theory take some of the costs of growth for the future off today’s ratepayers.

Included too, are proposals that would assist councils with climate change adaptation, for the roading network by way of a formula similar in kind to that used to allocate money from the National Land Transport Fund to councils.

Government money for flood protection schemes would be a factor too; it’s not well known that farmers pay for a lot of these schemes that serve national and regional interests and which government largely walked away from in 1989.

Perhaps most valuable of the draft report’s propositions is that councils should allocate rates according to the level of benefit ratepayers, or groups of ratepayers, receive from council amenities and services.

This isn’t by any means a new idea.

The benefit principle is already among the considerations for allocating rates in the Local Government Act. Any farmer knows councils never fully apply it, and the notion of paying less cash for urban amenities than urban ratepayers is the stuff of dreams.

Tacked on, however, is the very odd suggestion that this should all be done with targeted rates, with the commission also

proposing the removal of differentials and the uniform annual general charge.

As veteran submitters on rating policy, Federated Farmers knows that these are key methods for some councils to smooth the rating allocation between rural and urban, and their removal would be disastrous for farm rates in a lot of places.

It would seem the commission has some positive suggestions for growth and the right idea on allocating rates according to benefit, but a dodgy recipe for doing that.

All rather disappointing for a process that, at first, seemed to carry some promise for the farming community.

Federated Farmers will stick to the message that property value rates are hopelessly inequitable and at their limit for our people.

We’ll see what comes in the commission’s final report, and whether government decides to do anything with it, or leave it in the too hard basket.

Nigel Billings is a senior policy advisor for Federated Farmers.

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Future proofing pasture farming Leading Mid Canterbury dairy farmers Greg and Rachel Roadley will host farmers from around the South Island for a Pasture Summit field day in October.

The idea of the gathering is to share the latest ideas and developments on achieving profitable food production from grass and the summit is a collaboration of progressive and committed farm business owners and dairy sector experts from across New Zealand and Ireland.

It brings together farmers and local and international researchers to tap into the latest practical and scientific tools, resources and information about turning pasture into profit.

The Roadleys farm at Dorie, and Greg was a farmer speaker at last year’s inaugural summit, which also included technical input from dairy sector specialists including DairyNZ. Pasture Summit committee member Robert Ferris says this year’s feature farms will show what the sector needs to focus on for the future.

“Providing nutritious food profitably through pasture has, and will, provide New Zealand communities with prosperity for generations to come. These two farms are among leaders in the field – so come and get your boots dirty and see how they tick.”

This year’s attendees will have an opportunity to find out what makes the Roadleys’ dairy business consistently and robustly profitable with topics including business financials, a farm walk and discussion on pasture, the herd and how to adapt and thrive through the next decade.

Pasture Summit secretary Alistair Rayne says Pasture Summit events are held for farmers,

Rachel and Greg Roadley will host a field day to share information and resources about turning pasture into profit.

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by farmers who believe dairy farming can and should be profitable and rewarding.

The event at Roadleys will be on October 2, and follows another event which will be held in the

North Island on September 19.

“These farmers also believe that our pasture-fed products are best for the consumer and environment,” he said.

Other activities and topics at

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examples are designed to demonstrate what’s achievable when combining strong free cashflow and capable managers.

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By Guy Trafford The government has turned its focus onto the broader aspect of water quality. Given that focus, it is perhaps worth having a look at how New Zealand’s water resource stacks up against other countries as a resource.

In New Zealand (contaminations aside) we have an abundance of fresh water and while the quality has been questioned of late, we do, by and large, take the availability of it for granted.

We are one of the few lucky countries who can take water for granted.

Although the planet is largely covered with water with oceans covering approximately 71 per cent of earth’s surface area, little of it is in a drinkable state.

In fact, around 97.4 per cent of total water is in the oceans or in a saline state, leaving 2.6 per cent as fresh.

However, much of this is in the form of glaciers and ice caps, in fact over twothirds is, leaving a total of 1.2 per cent of water remaining.

It gets even further reduced when the permafrost and ground ice (not glacial) is taken into account and reduces the 1.2 per cent by a further two-thirds down to .4 per cent of total water.

The only real upside is that much of this is renewable in the form of rain and snow etc, that is except for the fresh water stored in ancient aquifers which are being rapidly depleted.

Happily, this does not apply to New Zealand where the aquifers have a relatively quick recharge rate.

The High Plain aquifer in the USA which includes the Ogallala aquifer has dropped by over 30 metres since records began.

While much of this is used for agricultural irrigation much is also required to meet the growing population’s needs. It is estimated it will take 6000 years to recharge it.

At the moment farmers are moving away from water hungry crops to ones which require lesser amounts, but generally with lower yields.

A major environmental disaster is what has happened to the Aral Sea (actually a lake) which, through water being diverted and overused, has dried up a huge proportion of the lake.

It was the fourth largest lake in the world and through water depletion dropped to 10 per cent of its original size. Kazakhstan is leading a programme to try and at least partially restore the lake and fish have been found again there. At one point 2 million hectares were being irrigated either from lake water or water normally flowing into the lake.

So, where does this leave New Zealand?

Public pressure and common sense dictate that we need to be careful about what and how we use our water.

But New Zealand is also very fortunate in that it has some very beneficial advantages over other countries when it comes to water.

One of them is the fact that we have no land borders with other countries. This means that what water we get we keep without having to worry about the political ramifications of the downstream effects and likewise we don’t have to worry about the upstream impacts upon rivers etc from other countries.

The Mekong River, for instance, flows through six countries and the Nile is influenced by 11. When looking at freshwater availability (water derived internal river flows and groundwater from rainfall) New Zealand is ranked 11th from 180 countries with 72.5 thousand cubic metres per head of capita.

This is nearly half of what it used to be in the early 1960s but the change appears to be driven by the increased population rather than less water.

New Zealand is also in the fortunate position in that, being a maritime nation, our

weather patterns are more regular in bringing moisture from the ocean in the form of rain, it is just what direction it comes from that is the difficult part to predict.

In the meantime, the major countries we trade with are experiencing more unreliable weather patterns, increasing heat and growing populations. All of which are contributing to additional demands on available fresh water for drinking and for agriculture.

China for instance has gone from 4.2 thousand cubic metres per capita to 2 thousand by 2014. Even the UK, while not reducing hugely, only has about the same as China per head of capita.

What all this means, is that, while Australia has always considered itself the lucky country, in fact it is New Zealand which really can lay claim to that title as, not only do we have water, we also have the climate to magnify our water into a competitive advantage, be it as a source for agriculture or as a means to showcase the environment and ecological values and recreation.

While, much of the domestic debate around water is focused on overuse by agriculture and the impact on water quality, in reality only 2 to 3 per cent of the available water in New Zealand is extracted for irrigation.

The debate should be on the how it is used rather than if it is used. Other countries’ natural resources tend to be mined and are totally non-renewable.

New Zealand’s biggest natural resource and our greatest competitive advantage is our access to fresh water, which is totally renewable, benign and potentially very profitable.

If we manage it correctly.

Markets

A positively benign week this week, schedules and saleyards all held their prices with some small lifts.

This time last year was when things started to decline, although that was earlier than the norm.

Wool was the only real negative on the sheep and beef front and the Global Dairy Trade declined again, be it at a minor ebb.

Sheep A good week in the saleyards with prices slightly ahead of the previous week especially in the prime ewe pens. Numbers are reducing so that is helping to push up demand.

Wool Coarse wool, which looked like it had dodged the fall the finer grades have been experiencing, got pulled back into line with the average dropping below the $3 per kg mark last week.

Finer grades also continued their downward trend and this was with around 24 per cent of offerings being passed in.

Cattle A similar story to sheep in the beef pens, small yardings are holding up the prices especially for prime cattle.

A small lift in the bull schedule but little movement for other grades.

Venison Venison continues to improve in small jumps but welcomed after the prolonged period of stagnation.

Dairy The GDT was down 0.4 per cent and WMP down 0.8 per cent. Not a lot but the compounding falls are starting to make this season look a little shaky.

Fonterra’s image is not looking so great at the moment and this is reflected in their share price dropping to $3.16 last week.

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Farm gate price watch … for the latest prices, visit www.interest.co.nz/rural September 9, 2019 current price range Saleyard prices … u LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 132-145 Prime 169-246 u HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 126 -228 u STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 281-313 This week Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 123.81 17.5 kg YX SI 139.79 19.0 kg YX SI 151.76 21.0 kg YX SI 167.74 Local trade (c/kg) SI 820 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 118.34 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 543.0 (270-295kg) P Cow SI 414 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 498 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 590 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 454 AP Stag 60kg SI 551 AP Stag 80kg SI 734

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Auction prices … u SI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) 1,024 1,191 Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 450 511 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 298 302 Merino 1,895 2,121

1,141 482 319 1,753

Source: WSI, NZMerino 1,245 1,557 727 454 540 302 350 352 280 2,340 2,980 1,588

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Source: Midlands Grain 440 440 300 435 435 280 430 430 290

Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 424 420 Wheat, feed 423 420 Barley, feed 410 400

International market prices … u LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index Aug-19 125.00 125.00 132.00

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u DAIRY (NZ$/tonne) Butter Skimmilk powder Wholemilk powder Cheese - cheddar

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Fonterra milk price Fonterra dividend Fonterra share price

6,269 3,889 4,785 5,954

6,438 3,837 4,698 5,933

7,212 3,656 4,710 5,928

2018/19 f'cast $6.30-$6.40* 2018/19 f'cast $0.00 * before retentions

u EXCHANGE RATE (NZ$1.00=) US dollar 0.6401 Euro 0.5764

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Source: PF Olsen 138.00 125.00 8,874 4,202 5,063 7,422

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Trade barriers for NZ exporters spike – US worst culprit

By Liam Dann NZME

New Zealand exporters face increasing trade barriers and the US is the worst offender when it comes to imposing them, says a British academic who visited New Zealand last week.

Globally this year has been the worst in at least a decade for the implementation of trade distorting polices.

So far this year 710 trade distortions have been implemented worldwide, according to new research by Simon Evenett, a British Professor of International Trade and Economic Development, based at University of St Gallen in Switzerland.

“In no other year by early September has so much protectionism been documented,” Evenett says.

Acts of trade liberalisation have fallen this year, exacerbating the protectionist trend, he says.

But Evenett’s research shows the protectionist trend pre-dates the US/China trade war of the past 18 months.

In fact, trade distortions for New Zealand and Australia spiked in 2015 and 2016, he says.

“I think it’s misleading to think that [Donald] Trump broke the system,” he says. “The system was already in bad shape.”

Research looking at trade-distorting policies across the past decade shows that the US has long caused New Zealand exporters the most problems.

Across the decade (to September 6, 2019) the US was responsible for 347 trade policy acts that

were harmful to New Zealand interests.

Many of those are measures relating to steel, Evenett says.

But America also engages in a great deal of subsidisation at a state level, which often goes under the radar, he says.

China is the second biggest protectionist offender for New Zealand exporters, despite the Free Trade Deal, with 97 negative policy moves in the past decade.

That reflects the fact that tariffs and other non-tariff barriers are still widespread in China and that there are many sectors that fall outside the trade agreement, Evenett says.

Across the decade there has been a consistent pattern, he says.

For every act of trade reform that benefited New Zealand there has been two and a half trade distortions put in place which have harmed New Zealand.

That is actually slightly better than the global ratio (of 3-1), Evenett says.

“But still, it points to a cumu-

lative pile up of trade distortions that are facing New Zealand exporters which isn’t good news.”

Donald Trump’s protectionist attitude has played a part in the sharp rise of trade-distorting policies this year, Evenett says.

But the data shows the trend pre-dates his election.

“Before Trump came along there was this diplomatic fiction amongst many trade diplomats that the system had controlled and tamed protectionism,” he says. “That’s just not true. The facts point in the other direction.”

Trump has done some very overt protectionist things, he says.

“It basically says: there is less restraint in the system so why bother following the rules,” he says. “Which is bad news for small trading nations like New Zealand.”

Evenett visited New Zealand to meet with local trade officials because he’s sees this country as one of the most proactive in its attempts to find a path through the difficult trade policy landscape.

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operating in the country have increased the pressure on other G7 members to reach an agreement.

The OECD has been charged with identifying globally acceptable solutions by next year.

Nearly half of the phantom FDI

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Nearly half of the phantom FDI the researchers identified was in Luxembourg (pictured) and the Netherlands.

Behind the global number, countries differ widely. The UK’s share of phantom inward FDI jumped from just 3 per cent in 2009 to 18 per cent in 2017, the estimates show. In Belgium and Sweden, the share fell from about 30 per cent to single digits in the same period.

Alex Cobham, head of the Tax Justice Network, a campaigning organisation, said efforts to reduce “profit-shifting” to lowtax jurisdictions earlier in the decade because of “fiscal and political pressures after the crisis” had, perversely, led to even “more aggressive avoidance behaviour”.

“Profit shifting has gone from a marginal feature of the global economy to a systemic feature,” he said.

“This is just the way of doing business now.”

But the current reform effort is promising, he added. It will “allocate some share of profit according to where real activity takes place, and that has to be the answer, the systemic response this systemic problem requires”.

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A large proportion of the world’s stock of foreign direct investment is “phantom” capital, designed to minimise companies’ tax liabilities rather than financing productive activity, according to research.

Nearly 40 per cent of worldwide FDI – worth a total of $US15t – “passes through empty corporate shells” with “no real business activities”, the study by the IMF and the University of Copenhagen found.

Instead, they are a vehicle for financial engineering, “often to minimise multinationals’ global tax bill”, said researchers Jannick Damgaard, Thomas Elkjaer, and Niels Johannesen, who carried out the study.

The findings come at a time when governments are trying to clamp down on multinational corporate tax avoidance.

Tax reform features high among the priorities of the G7 group of countries.

Recent unilateral moves by France to tax global tech groups

study’s authors.

Brad Setser, an international economist at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, said the study showed that “these structures – phantom companies or phantom investments – are optimised for minimising firms’ global tax”.

“Apple does not produce its iPhones in Ireland, nor does Apple design them or develop the majority of its operating system in Ireland [but] one of the most valuable US foreign direct investments now is Apple’s ownership stake in Apple Ireland,” Setser said.

Nearly two-thirds of Ireland’s inward investment is “phantom”, the IMF study found.

Despite recent international efforts to prevent companies from shifting profits internationally for tax purposes, the study showed that phantom capital was growing as a share of overall FDI. As late as 2010, phantom FDI made up 31 per cent of the total FDI stock; by 2017 it had reached 38 per cent.

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Orange poppy seed cake 1/4 C poppy seeds 1/3 C milk 1 3/4 C caster sugar 1 C water 2 small oranges, cut into 5mm slices plus extra for 3t finely grated orange zest 1/2 C freshly squeezed orange juice 185g butter, at room temperature 3 eggs 1 3/4 C self-raising flour, sifted Ice cream, to serve ■■ Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease and line base and sides of a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.

■■ Combine poppy seeds and milk in a small bowl and leave to stand for 20 minutes.

■■ Meanwhile, in a medium-sized saucepan, combine 1 cup of the sugar and water over a medium heat. Cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes, or until sugar dissolves.

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■■ Add half of the orange juice to the remaining syrup. Bring to the boil, and boil uncovered for 10-12 minutes, or until thickened slightly. Strain syrup into a heatproof jug and set aside.

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■■ Brush warm cake with half the syrup. Serve with ice cream, and remaining syrup drizzled over top.

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End of the line

By Connor Lysaght

W

hen I was a very young child living in Ireland, I had an ungodly obsession with trains. I loved everything about them – there was just some elusive appeal that drew me to anything that slid on rails and went “choo-choo”.

I loved my Thomas the Tank Engine toys so much that I used to bury them in the vegetable garden and dig them up days later.

I bet that by now somebody in rural County Wexford has dug up a few neglected toy trains that fell victim to playtime Stockholm Syndrome.

Later on, when we lived in Cobh, which was the last port of call for the ill-fated RMS Titanic, my mum and I would ride the train right into Cork City to go shopping, which was a very fast and comfortable ride overall.

Reminiscing about my childhood obsession got me thinking about the history of rail in Ashburton.

While the topic of rail in Mid Canterbury may seem as straightforward and monotonous as the tracks themselves, there are some interesting anecdotes and events to be explored.

Our patch of New Zealand is home to a fair bit of ghost track now, due to disuse and the rise of the automobile, and the remnants of a once revered mode of transportation can be found scattered about.

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Trains were both revered and detested by the general public in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The papers lauded the quick and easy travel times, while reports and reviews bore complaints of bumpy, sickening rides and luggage problems.

Regardless of any issues, and the likelihood of the occasional accident, rail travel was popular and widespread in Canterbury.

The residents of Mount Somers used a now defunct railway known as the Mount Somers Branch, or Springburn Branch, for decades, and it served as a crucial lifeline for the town’s exports and residents.

Construction on the line began in 1878, and it reached Mount Somers in 1885. In tandem with the Mount Somers tramway, according to I D Maffey, these two lines led to the rapid development of the town, thereby saving the area from remaining a desolate backwater.

The history of the Sharplin Falls tramway, however, was forever tainted by an incident which occurred in early 1898, when a man named Frank Henry was killed on the bridge, due to a derailment, while on a trip with a large group.

According to the Guardian on the March 1, 1898, a large stone had caused the trolley to wobble violently and veer off the bridge, and all who were riding it managed to jump clear except Henry, who unfortunately couldn’t react in time.

That’s not to say that accidents were uncommon on New Zealand tracks, but this one particular incident stood out as particularly eerie since the group took a photograph mere hours before the accident, thus warranting a quick mention.

Closures and clearances Sadly, many lines around our district became defunct and were shut down, including the Mount Somers line, which was one of the most significant railroads in Ashburton history, excepting the main Christchurch-Dunedin thoroughfare.

The last train to Mount Somers ran on December 30, 1967, and the day was a bittersweet affair overall which included a mock funeral ceremony.

Today, little remains of the branch apart from the occasional bit of formation, some loading banks, ballast, and goods sheds at Mount Somers, as well as loading banks at the Westerfield yard site.

Of course, a section of track has been preserved at The Plains Vintage Railway & Historical Museum in Tinwald.

Maybe one day widespread passenger rail will make a comeback in a more sustainable form than coal combustion and diesel – and a quick trip to Mount Somers by rail will be back on the cards.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

Methven station under snow with a railway engine pulled in, 1901.

Advertisement for the last train to Mount Somers before line closure, 1967.

Photograph taken shortly before the death of Frank Henry, 1898.

Mount Somers railway line, taken by Florence Wright around 1900.

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RESULTS ■■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club September 2 B & C Ladder N/S 1st Maryke Blignault & Georgina Black, 2nd Ken Kingsland & Paul Leadley, 3rd Hilda Blee & Jan McClelland E/W 1st Debbie Seddon-Sewell & Janine Havis, 2nd Anne Gilbert & Jill Wilce, 3rd Shirley Young & Marion Oakley September 3 Hazelmere Trophy N/S 1st Jim Rooney & Mike Holmes, 2nd Mary Buckland & Trish Downward, 3rd Audrey Rooney & Jan de Jong E/W 1st Paul Fergus & Betty Hawthorne, 2nd Alan Wright & Sue Rosevear, 3rd Kay Robb & David Sewell September 4 3 rds, diff ptr ea rd 1st Sue Rosevear & Anne Reid, 2nd = Shirley Harris & Johnny Wright and Trish Downward & David Sewell, 3rd Rewa Kyle & Kay Robb September 5 Eileen Willoughby Trophy Section A-N/S 1st Pauline & Paul Fergus, 2nd Mike Holmes & Rewa Kyle, 3rd Mary Buckland & David Sewell E/W 1st Sue Rosevear & Pat Jordan, 2nd Kay Robb & Jim Rooney, 3rd Maree Moore & Iris Taylor Section B – N/S 1st Lynette Leadley & Beth McIlraith, 2nd Bev Macaulay & Trevor Coulter, 3rd Sheila Lyons & Jan de Jong E/W 1st Lois Rose & Maureen Kolkman, 2nd Val Palmer & Johnny Wright, 3rd Pauline Scott & Perry Jowers

■■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers September 7 Winter Series 2019. 33 Riders 16 km. 1st Ross Templeton CT.31.54. HT.3.10.

RT.28m 44s. 2nd Riley Strachan CT.31.55.

HT.1.50m. RT. 30m 05s. 3rd Colin Teahan CT.31.56. HT.3.10m. RT.28m 46s. 4th.

Andy Skinner CT.31.57. HT.3.10m. RT.28m 47s. 5th Liz Wylie CT.31.58. HT.1.50m.

RT.30m 08s. 6th Brent Hudson CT.31.58.

HT. 1.50m. RT.30m 08s. 7th Debbie Skinner CT.31.59. HT. GO. RT. 31m 59s. 8th Brian Ellis CT.32.01. HT.3.10m. RT.28m 51s. 9th John Delore CT.32.08. HT.3.10m. RT.28m 58s.

10th John McIntosh CT.32.24. HT.6.40m.

RT.25m 44s. 11th Don Morrison CT.32.32.

HT.6.40m. RT. 25m 52s. 12th Martin Hyde CT. 32.34. HT.6.40m RT.25m 54s. 13th Larry Neal CT.32.34. HT. 6.40m RT.25m 54s. 14th Doug Coley CT.32.36. HT. 6.40m. RT.25m 56s. 15th Kevin Opele CT.33.54. HT.6.40m.

RT. 27m 14s. 16th Chris Reid CT.33.54.

HT.9.40m RT. 24m 14s. 17th Paul Macfie CT.33.55. HT.9.40m. RT. 24m 15s. 18th Mark Summerfield CT.33.55. HT. 940m.

RT. 24m15s. 19th Nick Grijns CT.33.56. HT. 9.40m. RT. 24m16s. 20th Paul Summerfield CT.33.56. HT. 9.40m. RT. 24m 16s. 21st John Uden CT.33.57. HT. 9.40m. RT. 24m 17s.

22nd Ronnie Campbell CT.33.57. HT.940m.

RT.24m 17s. 23rd Matt Marshall CT.34.00.

HT.9.40m. RT.24m 20s. 24th Richard Kirwan CT. 34.03. HT. 9.40m. RT.24m 23s.

25th Nigel Chatterton CT. 34.04. HT.6.40m.

RT.27m 24s. 26th Tony Ward CT.34.08.

HT, 10.40m RT.23m 28s F/t. 27th Michael Gallagher CT.34.08. HT.10.40m RT.23m 28s. 2f/t. 28th Rob Hooper CT.34.08. HT. 10.40m. RT.23m 28s 3f/t. 29th Kristine Marriott CT.34.09. HT. 10.40m. RT.23m 29s.

4f/t. 30th Gerard Morrison CT.34.10. HT. 1040m. RT. 23m30s. 5f/t. 31st Ron Kennedy CT.34.48. HT.1.50m. RT.32m 58s. 32nd Merv Grewer CT.36.07. HT.Go. RT. 36m.07s.

33rd Roger Wilson CT.37.11. HT. 9.40m. RT. 27m 31s.

DRAWS ■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club September 14 Championship match play. For those not playing a match a Par round will be played, No 1 Tee 11.30 W Hetrick vs P Turton; J Stone vs G Brown 11.38 G Fleming vs E Parr; W Hii vs J Williamson 11.45 K Smith vs J McFarlane;

■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club September 7 Winners from the first round of the Club Championships were: Senior; Hiro Kekado, Adrian Hopwood, Peter Walker, Robbie Bell, Hamish Niles (at 20th), Paul May. Intermediate; Brent MacGregor, Chris Ralston, Peter Morrison, Chris Lovelock, Brayden Wood, Sean Strange, Sam Clarke and Jason Overend.

Junior A; John Richards, Alan White, Chris Robertson, James McFarlane, Kevin Smith (at 19th) and Wilson Hii. In the stableford round the Radius Care Player of the day was Blair Franklin 662=64 and 44pts.

Other winning scores were: Terry Molloy 40; Bill Hetrick39; David Fisher and Paul Greer 37; Greg Fleming, Paul Warren, Derek Prebble and Jeff Williamson 36 on c/b.

Twos: Blair Franklin, Peter Morrison, Terry Molloy, Hamish Niles and Jeff Williamson.

Nearest The Pins: Braided Rivers: Blair Franklin; Rothbury Insurance: Peter Walker; Value Plus Processing: Steve Vivian; South Island Seeds: Sam Clarke: Property Brokers #6: Blair Franklin; Charming Thai Longest Putt: Kit Kennedy; Tinwald Tavern Spot Prize: George Brown.

Birdy Jackpot: #14, Net Eagles Jackpot: #10 Harvey Bakehouse Nine Hole The winner of the Stableford round was Antony White with 25pts.

Other winning scores were: Sam Prince 22; Wendy Smith 21; Robynne Nicol and Gavin Johnstone 19pts. In the match play Tonee Hurley defeated Anne Fleming and Kath Read defeated Jenny Matthews.

Mayfield Golf Club September 5 9 Hole Stroke & 8th Stablefords Stroke: Men 1st John Greenslade 55-19-36, 2nd Eddie Graham 56-16-40 Women 1st Jo Cook 61-20-41, 2nd Tessa Gallagher 63-20-43 Stablefords Men 1st John Greenslade 18 c/b 2nd Robert Schikker 18 Ladies: Jo Cook 13, 2nd Tessa Gallagher 12 Greg Sim Building & Excavating No 2: Eddie Graham, Mayfield Transport No 5: Robert Schikker September 7 Stroke round winners Haden Tasker net 63, Murray Keir and Wayne Vessey net 69, Logan Tasker and Paul Gardner 70, Charlie Rapsey and Alan Dixon 71 Nearest Pins: No 2 Aon Insurance: Logan Tasker, No 11 Jon McAuliffe Bayleys: Ian Hopping, No 5 Marilyn Cross Property Brokers: Haden Tasker, No 14 ANZ Bank: Wayne Vessey, 9&18 second shot: Murray Keir Twos: Logan Tasker, Wayne Vessey Rosehope Rommey Player of the Day: Haden Tasker 80/17/63

Methven Golf Club September 4 Ladies Division Championship Match Play Bronze B: Bev Isherwood beat Sandra Marr Competition of the Day Stableford played over 9 Holes due to the weather: Gail Limbrick 19 Aqua Japanese Restaurant Best Nett of the Day: Gail Limbrick 35.5 Nearest the Pins: #17 Open Arabica Gail Limbrick, #4 Open Cinema Paradiso Jenny Senior, #6 Br B & Open Methven Foursquare Wendy Wareing, #13 Open Methven Travel Jan Lane, #14 Sil/Br A Supervalue Pam Watson, #17 Saturday Girls Methven Pharmacy Ellen Kemp Twos and Nett Eagles: Gail Limbrick Championship Finals to be played on Saturday September 21 Silver: Sara Gallagher v Angela Mowbray;

A White vs C Robertson 11.52 J Fechney vs J Richards; J Overend vs S Clarke 12.00 B Wood vs S Strange; C Lovelock vs Peter Morrison 12.08 B MacGregor vs C Ralston; B Franklin vs P May 12.15 R Bell vs H Niles; A Hopwood vs P Walker 12.22 J Hewitt vs H Kekado + 2 seniors No 10 Tee 11.52 P Hunt v S Dunlop; N Ralston vs D Hewitt 12.00 J Bird v D Morrison; I Rive v M Tait 12.08 T Blacklow v Paul Morrison; R Stoddart vs R Carlson; 12.15 B Jury v P Bradford; G Sparrow vs B Davidson Byes for: R Pawsey, K Clucas, D Peace, T Kingsbury, T Sa.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Bronze A: Jan Lane v Ellen Kemp; Bronze B: Heather Middleton v Bev Isherwood September 7 Men’s Division Semi Finals Club Champs & First Round Flights.

Senior: Cruise Tare 76-7-69. Intermediate: Jimmy Anderson 83-15-68 by lot. Junior A: Mike Gray 91-20-71. Junior B: Russel Currie 98-28-70.

Other Good Scores: 68 Richard Maw.72 Ross Breach, Rod Carson. 73 Roger Callaghan. 74 Grant Hargraves, Stuart Wilson, Dave Puckett, Alan Lock.

Eagle: Cruise Tare no 2. Two’s: Rod Carson.

Dubliner Best Nett: James Anderson 68 by lot. Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Richard Maw 68. Methven Travel Best Gross: Cruise Tare 76.

Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Michael Kemp. Hunters Wine No 6: Russell Currie. Ski Time No 13: Grant Hargraves. Green Parrot No 17: Rod Carson. Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Alan Lock.

Next Week September 14: Semi Finals Flights

Tinwald Golf Club September 7 Stableford Leading scores in the stableford round.

Kevin Bishop 38 b/l Jeff Naish, Mark Williams, Neil Rayner 37 b/l. Women; (stroke) Jo Peacock 74 b/l .

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Dave Allan. Gluyas Ford # 6; Jenny Harrex. House of Travel # 12; Struan Scott. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Trevor Taylor. G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Adam Wilson. Two’s; Jason King (2), Brian Rouse, Trevor Taylor, Nigel Heney, Struan Scott, Lindsay Jackson, Adam Wilson, Dave Allan, Jenny Harrex, Myson, Gordy Kenton (2). Net Eagle; # 14 not struck.

The following players are through to the championship semi-finals: Senior; Nigel Heney, Ryan Ford, John Smitheram, Regan Stills. Intermediate; Rau Tare, Brock Peddie, Phill Hooper, Steve Anderson. Junior A; Gary Lee, Adam Lowe, Phil Keir, Snow Pierce. Junior B; Pete Nolan, Doug Osborn, Murray Beach, Alan Anderson.

September 8 Stableford Foodstuffs Trophy results in the Tinwald v Ashburton annual challenge; Jeff Naish 40, Terry Kingsbury 39, Peter Walker, Greg Sparrow, Matt Tait 38, Bronwyn Flannery 34.

Two’s; Peter Walker, Bronwyn Flannery, Perry Hunt.

Tinwald retained the Foodstuffs Trophy with an average stableford score of 34.53 to Ashburton’s 32.12.

■■ Pigeon racing Pigeon Racing Saturday’s race from Cape Campbell 1st T. Drummond Velocity 1187.97, 2nd M. Davidson Velocity 1182.77, 3rd L. Davidson Velocity 1182.54, 4th N. Marton Velocity 1182.46, 5th E. Westgarth Velocity 1182.17

■■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby September 7 Heartland Week 3 West Coast 43 v Agstaff Mid Canterbury 41 Mid Canterbury A Agstaff Mid Canterbury A 38 v North Otago 15 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 18 Canterbury Metro v Mid Canterbury ACL Mid Canterbury Under 16 Mid Canterbury 45 v South Canterbury 0 ACL Mid Canterbury under 14.5 Mid Canterbury 33 v West Coast 43 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 13 Mid Canterbury 29 v West Coast 17

Any matches seeking a morning start time should contact Matt Davis.

Starting Times: Morning start at 8.30am; Afternoon (non match play) report at 11.30 for a 12pm start.

Nine hole golfers report at 12.30 for a 1pm start.

■■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby September 14 Heartland Week 4 Agstaff Mid Canterbury v South Canter-

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■■CRICKET

Ashes return to Australia NZME Australia has broken an 18-year Ashes hoodoo, winning the urn on English soil for the first time since 2001 with a thrilling 185run victory in the fourth test at Old Trafford.

The Aussies have taken an unassailable 2-1 lead in the series with one match left to play.

Even an English win at The Oval and a 2-2 final result will see the tourists leave British shores with bragging rights because they won the last series Down Under in 2017/18.

Not since Steve Waugh was captain just after the turn of the century have Australian cricket fans had the chance to celebrate an away Ashes triumph.

Now captain Tim Paine and coach Justin Langer will forever be remembered as the brains trust that masterminded a historic chapter in Australia’s cricket history after four straight Ashes series losses overseas in 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2015.

“That feels amazing to know the urn’s coming home now,” Steve Smith told Sky Sports.

“It was always one I wanted to tick off my bucket list to get the urn over here … to know that’s coming home is extremely satisfying.”

An elated Paine told the BBC: “I didn’t think it would be this emotional.

“The amount of work that’s gone into retaining the Ashes has been enormous and I’m really proud of this group and how we bounced back from Headingley.”

Most expected the tourists to stroll to victory on day five but as we saw in Leeds anything can happen in cricket, and the nerves would have been churning when Australia went to tea still needing four more wickets after England showed plenty of fight earlier in the day.

The final session was full of drama as Josh Hazlewood delivered an absolute beauty straight after the break that seamed back a mile and hit Jos Buttler’s off stump when he shouldered arms and next over Nathan Lyon trapped Jofra Archer LBW for a single.

That came after Archer narrowly avoided accidentally kicking the ball onto his own stumps and the thrills continued when Craig bury, 2:30pm, A&P Showground, James Munroe, Kalifa Faalogo, Hamsih Grant, Charlie Kelland, Gary Clement, Mike Southby, Pete McKnight Mid Canterbury A Agstaff Mid Canterbury A v South Canterbury A, 12:50pm, A&P Showgrounds, Craig Kingan ARs Simon Vernon, John Keenan, Mike Southby ACL Mid Canterbury Under 16 Mid Canterbury v Metro Black, Methven1, 12:00pm, Josh Hamill, Simon Bennett, Ant McGirr ACL Mid Canterbury Under 14.5 (Hanan Festival)

Celebration time for the Australians as they seal the Ashes series.

Overton survived a desperately close shout when Hazlewood’s toe crusher was shown to just be missing leg stump.

With the Aussies needing two wickets to win, Overton and Jack Leach revived memories of Cardiff in 2009, when Jimmy Anderson and Monty Panesar blocked things out for an incredible draw.

The pair stood firm and even after taking the second new ball Australia still couldn’t break the partnership and fears bad light might stop play started creeping into Australian supporters’ heads.

The noise coming from the western stand – the unofficial party stand at Old Trafford – was deafening as the punters willed England to hold on.

Tim Paine’s next move was a shock that proved to be a stroke of genius as he brought part-time leg-spinner Marnus Labuschagne into the attack with 16 overs left in the day.

He ripped a ball into Jack Leach from the footmarks outside off stump and it caught Leach’s glove and popped up to a close-in fielder.

Hazlewood then trapped Overton lbw for 21 with 81 balls left in the day and the match was over, sparking jubilant scenes of celebration from the Aussies.

September 14 Day 1 Game 1 11.00am #1 SC1 v MC (Simon Bennet), 11.00am #2 SC2 v WC (Jeremy Robinson), 12.00pm #3 NO v Buller (Nathan Forbes) Day 1 Game 2 1.30pm #1WC v NO (Simon Bennett or Ant McGirr), 1.30pm #2 MC v SC2 (Nathan Forbes), 1.30pm #3 SC1 v Buller (Jeremy Robinson) September 15 Day 2 (Full Game of 30min halves) 11.00am #1 MC v NO (Joc O’Connor), 11.00 #2 SC1 v WC (Paul Arnold), 11.00am #3 SC2 v Buller (Simon Bennet)

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In brief Robinson new CEO Ex-All Blacks center Mark Robinson has been appointed chief executive of New Zealand Rugby to replace Steve Tew. Robinson, 45, played nine tests for New Zealand from 2000 to 2002. He was elected to the NZ Rugby board in 2013.

Robinson represented New Zealand on the World Rugby council since 2014. He has degrees from Victoria and Cambridge universities and worked as a consultant in education, energy and agriculture.

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Weather the winner?

Japan’s scary weather has claimed its first World Cup victim, with the Wallabies forced to delay their departure for Tokyo. All flights into Tokyo’s Haneda Airport have been cancelled. The Rugby World Cup is facing the prospect of washed out games which would result in pool games – such as the one between the All Blacks and Namibia – being declared a draw. The arrival of the potential life-threatening Typhoon Faxai is a reminder that the weather could play a massive part in the tournament outcome.

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Sunny skies for opening day Lining up a shot during the opening day of the croquet season at the Waireka Croquet Club on Saturday, was Sandra Sinclair.

She was just one of those who made the most of the fine conditions that greeted those who went along for the opening day on the club’s lawns. The club will host a have-a-go day on September 29 for anyone wanting to try their hand at the sport.

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The All Blacks are again the second-best team in the world — apparently — despite scoring a 92-7 win over Tonga in their last hit-out before leaving in search of a third straight Rugby World Cup triumph. Steve Hansen’s men are ranked No.2 in the world behind Ireland, who beat world No.1 Wales in their last game before the fouryearly tournament kicks off on September 20.

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■■OPINION

An All Blacks fan’s journey to the Rugby World Cup

By Simon Wilson

M

y theory is that wingers get only a couple of years at their peak.

Maybe less.

So hard for the great Rieko Ioane, peaking between world cups.

But hey, this month, have we got the best wing in the world right now or what? And another not far off it?

Good timing, George Bridge and Sevu Reece. Brilliantly good.

Tonga’s got the best bearded hooker, Sione Anga’aelangi, which is saying something, because total respect for Liam Coltman, his beard is pretty good too.

But it’s not saying much really because beards don’t win world cups.

What does win world cups?

Confidence? The best record that year, the previous four years?

Referees who are so in awe of you they let you get away with standing offside and going off your feet?

It’s like asking what is art.

For every answer there’s an exception to prove you wrong. The All Blacks are always confident but sometimes they lose, sometimes when you least expect it.

They had the best record, filled all

the refs with so much awe until that one time, and then another one time, and another, when they didn’t.

What’s the rugby equivalent of dot balls?

In one-day cricket, the team with fewer dot balls will win.

True, mostly. But in rugby, teams with less possession often win, so you can’t look at run metres or number of passes.

It’s not best beards, we’ve established that, and sorry guys but it’s not best haircuts either.

Though someone should definitely write a social history of All Blacks haircuts.

My favourite time was when hippies had long hair and All Blacks with short back and sides scoffed, and then All Blacks suddenly had long hair too. Best thing Chris Laidlaw ever did.

By the way, have you seen the new publicity shots for Jack Goodhue where he doesn’t have a mullet? He’ll be useless now, or unstoppable. So hard to know which.

Winning without having possession: it’s a function of defence being better than attack. Steve Hansen says somebody’s going to “crack that one”, and he believes it could be the All Blacks.

Course he does.

I’m not so sure.

It looks to me like it’s almost the only thing the ABs don’t know how to do, because chipping it over or through defensive lines is still what they try most often and it doesn’t work, guys, it just doesn’t work, not against decent teams.

The thing that’s exciting, though, is that all the decent teams will be trying to crack the defensive domination and there’s only one way: to play such fast and daring rugby their opponents will just fall on their knees in worship.

This could be so good.

We could do with some quick rule changes.

How about you can bring on specialists for special moments, the way they bring on the goal kicker in American football?

Bring on Paddy when they’re defending the line. Bring on a hooker for lineout throws if Dane Coles has a shocker like in the Aussie game. Bring on Zinzan Brooke if we need a drop goal from halfway.

Whatever happened to skills like that?

Another good rule change: give the weak teams 50 points for a try. That’d sharpen things up.

If there was a world cup for entertaining rugby against weak teams, the All Blacks would

definitely win it. Did we learn anything?

Yes. Josh Ioane should be going to Japan: give him game time in every pool match and watch him grow.

Ngani Laumape should be going: the All Blacks backline ran rings around the Tongans, but did the midfield ever punch its way through the middle?

And there was that one truly special moment when super-skilled forwards elbowed the backs out of the way and passed the ball over and round and back and forth to each other, and Kieran Read didn’t drop the ball but scored instead, and a couple of the backs were there, just hanging around to watch.

That’s what we learned.

They’re that good. We’re that good.

Japan will be thrilling.

Great 21st-century cities, blossom trees everywhere, the best sushi.

To be honest I’m guessing, I’ve never been there and even though I’m going to be writing the journey of a rugby fan, right through the cup, it’s not like they’re putting me on the plane or anything. I’ll be stuck at home, just like everyone else, listening to whomever Spark gets to replace Justin Marshall.

I have one request for Spark.

Well, two.

The first is that the streaming works, obv.

The second is that they enforce a contractual obligation on all their commentators to support the refs’ calls on dangerous play.

It’s not a lot to ask.

In Hamilton on Saturday it was 92-7, afternoon rugby in the best stadium in the country, and just wow. I’m so excited.

Mainly, I think, because of Bridge and Reece, and Ardie Savea getting to start, and the Richie and Beaudie show.

New and different and better, and all just at the right time.

Also, my initials are SBW so that’s gotta count for something.

Besides, after a whole season supporting the Blues as best I could – honest, I really did try, I wrote up every glimmer of hope week after anguished week – I reckon I deserve this.

And in the office sweepstake I’ve got Russia.

Don’t laugh, I hear there are 15 “social media specialists” in that team and they don’t lose.

So sure, it will be great watching the All Blacks go nearly all the way.

But you read it here first: NZ v Russia in the final, and I’ll be in the money.

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■■RUGBY LEAGUE

Attention turns to Aoraki comp

New season under way Timothy Douglas gets a bit close to the wall during the opening day of the season at Ashburton Speedway on Sunday afternoon.

The full on day on the track included adult and youth ministocks, stockcars, streetstocks, side chairs, C grade, saloons and productions. Drivers will be back on the track again for the next meeting on October 6, which is a double points challenge, while the November 3 meeting will be the interclub championships and the Ashburton versus Christchurch development stockcar teams race.

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■■MOTOR RACING

Ferrari finally back on Monza podium AP Charles Leclerc hadn’t even reached his teens the last time Ferrari won the Italian Grand Prix.

Only a week after achieving a first Formula One victory in Spa, Leclerc ended the storied team’s lengthy wait for victory at its home circuit.

The noise from the passionate Ferrari “tifosi” (fans) was deafening as Leclerc roared to the finish line at Monza.

It grew even louder when he became the team’s first driver to step onto the top spot of the iconic podium since Fernando Alonso in 2010.

“It really means so much to me,” said Leclerc in Italian, as he spoke above a sea of red as thousands of Ferrari fans wearing that colour chanted his name and waved flags. Flares were lit, red, white and green ticker tape unleashed and giant Ferrari flags unfurled.

“It was already a dream come true at Spa (Belgian GP), winning here is 10 times more,” said the 21-year-old Leclerc, who was only 12 when Ferrari won in 2010.

Ferrari flags fly as delirious fans watch their hero win at Monza.

“I don’t have words.”

Leclerc, who started from pole position, roared in delight as he crossed the line 0.8 seconds ahead of Valtteri Bottas and 35.1 seconds ahead of championship leader Lewis Hamilton.

“In the last two laps I started to believe that the win was possible.

“I let all my emotions on the radio, I don’t think anyone could understand what I said,” said Leclerc with a laugh.

Leclerc’s credentials were tested to the maximum by Hamilton but the five-time world champion ended up playing second fiddle to the sport’s rising star.

“Charles did a great job,” Hamilton said.

“He came under a lot of pressure from Valtteri and I. “I did the best I could, but following so closely for so many laps, the tyres just went off the cliff. It was not our day.”

Hamilton hounded Leclerc, especially after pitting at the end of lap 19 and emerging on medium tyres.

Leclerc pitted a lap later and although he managed to come out in front of Hamilton, he was on hard tyres.

Shortly afterward, Hamilton almost got past but Leclerc held him off in a move that ended with the Mercedes on the grass.

Any hope Hamilton had of snatching victory slipped away with 11 laps remaining as he made a mistake at the first corner, allowing Bottas to take second.

Bottas took over the attack on Leclerc and, on fresher tyres, kept gaining but locked up with two laps remaining, paving the way for an emotional win for Leclerc, who recorded the first victory of his F1 career at last weekend’s Belgian GP. “The race felt a lot longer than 53 laps but the moment I crossed the finish line to now is just pure happiness,” Leclerc said.

Hamilton saw his championship lead trimmed by two points but is still 63 points ahead of Bottas with seven races remaining.

The Aoraki Eels have finished the South Island rugby league premiership with some silverware in the cabinet, although they missed out on the big title on offer.

Their 30-26 win over the West Coast Chargers in the final round in Timaru on Saturday meant they kept hold of the competition’s new Challenge Cup, as well as putting them into a tie at the top of the table with the Otago Whalers and the Southland Rams.

Although the Eels beat the Otago Whalers 20-14 last month in a game which earned them the Challenge Cup, a countback on results from the season meant the Whalers ended up taking the competition out, after beating the previously unbeaten Rams 38-22 in the final round.

The Eels side featured a handful of players from Mid Canterbury over the past few weeks, with Ash Searle and Seamus Smyth from the Chertsey Oilers starting against the Coast on Saturday, and Leps Seitava from the Ashburton Barbarians on the bench.

Smyth was a key player in that last game, with the hooker scoring a try on full time to snatch the late win.

With their representative season now done, players now head back to their clubs and turn their attention to the Aoraki competition – the Duncan McGregor Aoraki Cup – which gets under way this weekend.

It’s set to start with a massive double header in Geraldine, with the Timaru Outlaws taking on the Chertsey Oilers at 1pm at the Geraldine Rugby Club, followed by the Country Cowboys taking on the Ashburton Barbarians at 2.30pm.

The Ashburton Barbarians head into the competition as the defending champions, having beaten the Country Cowboys in last year’s final.

Adding to the action on Saturday, will be the inclusion of junior teams once again. Kids’ teams from clubs, including the Ashburton Barbarians, will be in action from 10am on Saturday in Geraldine.

Seamus Smyth in action.

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Rafael Nadal of Spain sprawls on the court after defeating Daniil Medvedev of Russia to win the men’s singles final of the US Open tennis championships yesterday.

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■■HORSE TRIALS

Another Slam for Rafa

Price, Bango score fifth at Burghley

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■■TENNIS

Rafael Nadal’s 19th Grand Slam trophy went from inevitable to suddenly in doubt in a thrill-aminute US Open final yesterday.

What had all the makings of a crowning morphed into a real contest thanks to Nadal’s opponent, Daniil Medvedev, a man a decade younger and appearing in his first major title match.

Down by two sets and a break, Medvedev shifted styles, upped his level against a rattled Nadal – and even received an unexpected boost from Arthur Ashe Stadium spectators.

Truly tested for the only time in the tournament, the No. 2-seeded Nadal managed to stop Medvedev’s surge and hold off his historic comeback bid, pulling out a 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4 victory in 4 hours, 50 minutes of highlight-worthy action and Broadway-worthy drama to collect his fourth championship at Flushing Meadows.

“An amazing final.

“Seems that I had, more or less, the match under control,” said Nadal, who covered his face with his hands while crying when arena video boards showed clips from each of his Slam triumphs.

“One of the most emotional nights of my tennis career.”

Now at 19 majors – a total Med-

vedev called “outrageous” – Nadal is merely one away from rival Roger Federer’s record for a man.

But this one did not come easily.

Not at all.

Sure seemed it might, with Nadal ahead by two sets and a break in the third at 3-2.

At that moment, the No. 5-seeded Medvedev would joke afterward, he figured the match was about 20 minutes from ending and so this is where his thoughts were: “OK, what do I say in the speech?”

But the 23-year-old from Russia did not go gently into the night.

He broke right back to 3-all, then again to claim that set and yet again to end the fourth.

“The nerves were so high,” Nadal said. “A crazy match.”

Not since 1949 had a man won the US Open final after trailing by two sets to none.

Never before had Medvedev won a five-set match. Only once before had Nadal lost a Grand Slam match after taking the opening two sets.

And yet the tension was real.

Even at the very end – or what appeared to be the very end – Nadal couldn’t close it out.

After breaking to lead 3-2 in the fifth, in a game Medvedev led 40-love before flubbing an easy forehand, Nadal broke again and

served for the championship at 5-2.

The way this back-and-forth tale was spun, though, it probably was inevitable that Medvedev would break there.

And so he did, because Nadal double-faulted on break point after he was docked a serve for his third time violation of the evening, which elicited loud boos from folks in the stands.

In the next game, Nadal held a pair of match points, but Medvedev, of course, avoided defeat yet another time, erasing one of those with a backhand winner, the other with a service winner, earning a standing ovation.

With Nadal’s backers screaming, “Close it out!” at the ensuing changeover, he once more stepped to the baseline to try to serve it out, this time at 5-4.

Naturally, he was forced to deal with another heart-in-throat break point, but came up with a stinging forehand that drew a long forehand from Medvedev.

Two points later, it was over, and Nadal was splayed on his back on the court, the victor at Flushing Meadows for the fourth time.

Add the Spaniard’s haul in New York to his 12 titles at the French Open, two at Wimbledon and one at the Australian Open, and the 20-19 gap between Federer and

Nadal is the closest it’s been in 15 years.

Federer led 1-0 after his breakthrough triumph at the All England Club in 2004, and he had four by the time Nadal got his first at Roland Garros in 2005.

Federer, who lost in the quarter-finals at the US Open, is 38, while Nadal is 33 – making him the oldest male champion at Flushing Meadows since 1970.

He’s also the first man to win five majors after turning 30.

Nadal says he wants to finish his career at No. 1 in the Grand Slam standings – ahead of Federer and Novak Djokovic, looming in third place currently with 16 – but also insists he won’t base his happiness on how it all shakes out in the end.

This particular match ended the way he wanted it to.

The journey just took more detours than anyone could have anticipated.

The Flushing Meadows fans that jeered Medvedev in Week 1 because of his on-court behaviour – he trolled his detractors by sarcastically thanking them and telling him their vitriol was why he won – were pulling for him.

Or, as he noted during the trophy ceremony, pulling for more bang for the bucks they spent on tickets.

They certainly got that.

Tim Price is already looking to the future with Bango, who yesterday placed fifth at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in the UK. The world No.1 was defending champ aboard Ringwood Sky Boy but an unfortunate slip in the water during the cross country saw them out of the running.

However, Bango stepped up beautifully to reinforce the belief Price always had in him to finish the event on 41.6 penalty points.

“That was a great advancement in his career,” said Tim. “He has been excelling and demonstrating his ability to jump around tracks and to be like a 5horse, but this time was a bit better where he was able to be composed on the flat, closer to the time in the cross country and in the showjumping he jumped a nice clear round. I am really pleased with him.”

The combination were first out in the 64-strong field in the cross country which Price felt probably disadvantaged them a little. Their clear efforts in the showjumping yesterday morning saw them move up the leaderboard from seventh.

“There are so many different emotions in this journey of preparing horses to come here and then to try and deliver the results.

“To get to the end is quite a lot of relief I have to admit.”

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■■U MAY CULLECT

In brief

Unbeaten run at an end

By Garrick Knight A heady Nathan Williamson drive spelled the end of U May Cullect’s unbeaten record at Winton on Sunday.

Williamson, driving the horse he trains, Franco Santino, ensured a frantic pace throughout which meant the 50-metre handicap of the race favourite was insurmountable.

Despite running a last half in a tick over 53 seconds, U May Cullect could still only manage third.

“The way it worked out, once we made a good beginning, it just sort of made sense to keep them running,” Williamson said.

“We had a 30-metre advantage over him and there was no point letting him cruise back in to the race because he was always going to be too good in that situation.

“I wasn’t actually expecting to be in front at that point, but when the speed backed off early, I thought that I would whip

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around and put it back on.”

Franco Santino, kept in work through winter, had a distinct advantage on the score of fitness, and that paid dividends.

And for Williamson, the second win in a row has been an overdue delivery of the ability he always knew the horse had.

“He’s been a bit of a problem horse in that he showed a bit of ability early – he actually went 1.52 as a three-year-old – but has always struggled to get really physically stronger.

“He couldn’t take a lot of work and we kind of had to baby him through it.

“As well as that, he was a picky doer and we had to space out his runs because of it.”

A trip to Addington for an unplaced effort in the Uncut Gems in June left Williamson scratching his head.

“That’s the only time he’s only disappointed me badly and to be honest I think it’s because he

Nathan Williamson didn’t travel up that well.

“Being a colt, in new surrounds, he did not settle in and for two days was running around, not himself.”

Not gelding the son of Christian Cullen was a conscious decision on the part of owner Neville Cleaver, but one that Williamson agreed with.

“Neville loves colts and he spent a bit of money on him so didn’t want him gelded.

“And because he’s always been physically a bit behind the others his age, I thought that leaving him a colt might help his development.

“That extra bit of testosterone would help him get stronger.

“And he’s good-mannered for a colt so it worked out well.”

Kirstin Barclay, revitalised after a holiday in Queensland, was over the moon with the fresh-up performance of her and Tank Ellis’ stable star, U May Cullect.

“I was absolutely rapt with him.

“He couldn’t have run home any quicker than what I timed him in.

“He just got too far back and the horses in front didn’t cart him up.”

But it was after the race that had Barclay particularly excited.

“He pulled up a treat and would hardly have blown out a candle, so I think we are right on track for the Hannon Memorial next week.”

Melody Belle dominates Glamour galloper Melody Belle has added the New Zealand Horse of the Year title to her growing list of achievements. The Matamata mare was an almost unanimous choice for Horse of the Year, which was announced at the New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards, in Auckland on Sunday night. Of the 61 votes cast for Horse of the Year, Melody Belle received 59, with one apiece for stablemate Te Akau Shark and Bostonian.

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It’s all go for Asano Promising Canterbury apprentice Kozzi Asano has come a long way from picking strawberries in Queensland for a living. The Japanese 24-year-old left his homeland six years ago and after almost two and a half years in Australia he is now calling New Zealand home and pursuing his desired career as a jockey. He is making a fine impression to be sitting fourth equal on the New Zealand Jockeys’ Premiership. Asano is indentured to Riccarton trainer Andrew Carston, for him he has ridden half of his 16 winners, the latest being on Ticket To Ride on Saturday.

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway 3 68187 Smash Story 17.86.......................... M Grant 4 78847 Goldstar Power 17.49 S &................B Evans 5 52712 Just William 17.68 M &.....................P Binnie 6 43162 Maybe Right 17.59...............................A Lee 7 26233 Andrea Said 18.14 J M.................... McCook 8 4231 Homebush Lukas 17.55.............J McInerney Emergencies: 9 64688 Sozin’s Onyx 17.88....................J McInerney 10 88x76 Homebush Diego nwtd...............J McInerney 4 3.47pm SWIMMING GOAT @ STUD DASH C1, 295m 1 12442 Opa’s Mate 17.71.............................R Casey 2 78487 Homebush Maycee nwtd............J McInerney 3 53822 Goldstar Tasman 17.68 S &.............B Evans 4 28658 Jealous Affair 18.13...................... L Waretini 5 54634 Jinja Cream Fizz 17.27.....................A Joyce 6 58273 Sozin’s Delight 17.57.................J McInerney 7 32435 Twizel Storm 17.55........................... M Grant 8 57857 Little Lottie 17.47 M &.......................... Smith Emergencies: 9 64688 Sozin’s Onyx 17.88....................J McInerney 10 67758 Opal Nora nwtd..........................J McInerney 5 4.08pm ISLINGTON TAVERN SPRINT C0, 520m 1 34343 Ain’t He Lucky nwtd....................N Wanhalla 2 62 Punters Delight nwtd........................R Wales 3 8634 My Pablo nwtd..................................R Wales 4 34453 Our Scarlett nwtd.............................R Wales 5 5 Mr Muppet nwtd...............................R Wales 6 7225 Trevor Wilks nwtd........................N Wanhalla 7 8 Flipping Crazy nwtd................... A Bradshaw 8 46 Go Kiki nwtd.....................................R Wales 9 75438 Billy Ray nwtd.............................N Wanhalla

10 5555x Sheza Looker nwtd J &....................D Fahey 6 4.26pm CLARKSON’S SIGN STUDIO SPRINT C1, 295m 1 73744 Goldstar Hurley nwtd.................... L Waretini 2 83213 Alexia nwtd......................................D J Lane 3 764F2 Vasterbottenost 17.47..........................A Lee 4 65567 Smash Surprise 17.49..................... M Grant 5 23675 Sozin’s Blue 17.26.....................J McInerney 6 76153 Homebush Reed nwtd...............J McInerney 7 468x6 Epic Boom 17.47 J M....................... McCook 8 45378 Caramel Rose 17.52.................. M Dempsey 9 64688 Sozin’s Onyx 17.88....................J McInerney 10 5887x Macey Baxter 17.22...................J McInerney 7 4.46pm THE TURF BAR STAKES C1, 520m 1 83753 Jay Shirley 31.20..............................R Wales 2 21313 Darla Bale 30.42...........................C Roberts 3 72417 Go Punter Go nwtd..........................R Wales 4 x7434 Isavana 30.67 J &............................D Fahey 5 35427 My Giovanni 30.99...........................R Wales 6 43343 Barrel Runner nwtd.................... A Bradshaw 7 13577 Smash McDougal 30.95...............D Kingston 8 33424 Ohoka Carsen 30.88..................... L Waretini 8 5.03 KAISA EARTHWORKS 0272073323 STAKES C1, 520m 1 5x542 Aussie Muscle nwtd J &...................D Fahey 2 67888 Sly Rose 30.96 J M.......................... McCook 3 52276 Go Ladybird nwtd.............................R Wales 4 63426 Shermo Bale 30.57.......................C Roberts 5 43288 Little Secret 30.44......................... L Waretini 6 77565 Goldstar Flora 31.15 S &.................B Evans 7 67646 Tikao Jackie nwtd M &......................... Smith

8 13285 Opawa Delight 30.56.......................R Wales 9 5.21 POWER FARMING CANTERBURY DASH C1, 295m 1 44734 Tonkawa 17.62 M &.............................. Smith 2 21523 Ohoka Lacey 17.67....................... L Waretini 3 65767 Dagny 17.38 J M.............................. McCook 4 1 Smash Dragon 17.63....................... M Grant 5 13415 Freya Beauchamp 17.53................... B Dann 6 27568 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37........................A Joyce 7 75237 Homebush Alexei 17.41.............J McInerney 8 33166 Go Mufasa 17.16.............................R Wales Emergencies: 9 64688 Sozin’s Onyx 17.88....................J McInerney 10 36878 Little Lozza 17.93.......................J McInerney 10 5.39pm KAIKANUI TAVERN STAKES C1, 520m 1 75435 Goldstar Scooby 30.65 S &..............B Evans 2 11 My Khloe 30.49 J &..........................D Fahey 3 47578 Our Nala 30.70.................................R Wales 4 4668x Pearls Are Us nwtd.........................G Cleeve 5 87365 Born Ellie 30.92...............................R Wales 6 33754 Stumpy Bill 30.61....................... M Dempsey 7 75324 High Sparrow nwtd..................... A Bradshaw 8 3162 Creme Brulee 30.66...................... L Waretini 11 5.56 MURRAY & HANNAH@RAY WHITE CASHMERE DASH C1, 295m 1 31525 Gadzooks 17.44................................ B Dann 2 24565 Goldstar Marvely 17.35 S &.............B Evans 3 22345 Homebush Scorpio 17.38..........J McInerney 4 8F317 Our Olive 17.66................................R Wales 5 x17F1 Yanira Bale 17.60..........................C Roberts 6 48763 Homebush Flynn 17.30..............J McInerney

7 16468 Big Cod 17.73 J M........................... McCook 8 64875 Cold Affair 17.48........................... L Waretini 9 64688 Sozin’s Onyx 17.88....................J McInerney 10 5887x Macey Baxter 17.22...................J McInerney 12 6.16pm RE-ENERGISE DASH C1, 295m 1 85475 Know Legend nwtd.........................G Cleeve 2 67558 Goldstar Charger nwtd S &..............B Evans 3 75362 Homebush Rapper nwtd............J McInerney 4 43264 Every Minute 17.51..............................A Lee 5 58367 Cosmic Richie 17.30..................J McInerney 6 53611 Sefton Double 17.59........................R Wales 7 52346 Whose He 17.44...............................A Joyce 8 21637 King Toliman nwtd.........................C Roberts Emergencies: 9 64688 Sozin’s Onyx 17.88....................J McInerney 10 88x76 Homebush Diego nwtd...............J McInerney SELECTIONS

4 24345 Citizen Aguero nwtd...................J McInerney 5 42672 Cosmic Jase 22.65....................J McInerney 6 77674 Reign Of Fire 22.49....................J McInerney 7 18465 Astro Tipple 22.67...................D J MacMillan 8 63456 Homebush Rehaina 23.16.........J McInerney 9 58667 Black Dan 22.67.........................J McInerney 10 67678 Zipping Mia nwtd............................ B Conner 11 3.03 GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C3/4, 390m 1 1F585 Princely Gold 22.49....................J McInerney 2 78565 Nippa Martino 22.47..................J McInerney 3 51465 Goldstar Diesel 22.94 S &................B Evans 4 41664 Debbie Baxter 22.57..................J McInerney 5 36117 Dream Runner 22.67 J M................. McCook 6 24534 Goldstar Major nwtd S &..................B Evans 7 67323 Special As nwtd J M......................... McCook 8 56636 Ezra Blueblood 22.72.................J McInerney 9 52536 Mitcham Reado nwtd.................J McInerney 10 85125 Mitcham Trudy nwtd...................J McInerney 12 3.21pm TONI@BODYAUDITSOUTH PH021657001 C1, 390m 1 82433 Homebush Miles 22.44..............J McInerney 2 76744 Eyrewell Tango nwtd....................... H Cairns 3 65777 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 4 12854 Homebush Liam 23.38...............J McInerney 5 3128 Impressive Flash nwtd...............J McInerney 6 56545 Mitcham Doug 23.22..................J McInerney 7 76824 Sozin’s Symphony 22.74............J McInerney 8 66146 Homebush Keasha nwtd............J McInerney 9 58x58 Punch On Scooby 22.89............J McInerney 10 67678 Zipping Mia nwtd............................ B Conner 13 3.38pm SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C1, 390m 1 67336 Gracie Lee 23.28.......................J McInerney 2 55173 Homebush Vassy 23.29.............J McInerney 3 52267 Lucy Lingers nwtd......................J McInerney

4 78682 Punch On Buzz 22.60................J McInerney 5 32812 Homebush Aimee nwtd..............J McInerney 6 76676 Long Live Love nwtd...... M P Hamilton-Dyett 7 41268 Sozin’s Melody 23.52.................J McInerney 8 18566 Regal George nwtd....................J McInerney 9 68487 Pukeko Rustler nwtd.......................B Healey 10 67678 Zipping Mia nwtd............................ B Conner 14 3.59 RACING AGAIN 24TH SEPTEMBER C1, 390m 1 84438 Avalanch City 22.66...................J McInerney 2 8x382 Coming Of Love nwtd..... M P Hamilton-Dyett 3 41355 Homebush Jordie nwtd..............J McInerney 4 56447 Jealous Much 22.57...................J McInerney 5 52412 Souffle Sue nwtd........................J McInerney 6 86726 Nikko Baxter 22.88.....................J McInerney 7 75461 Homebush Velma 22.47.............J McInerney 8 78783 Punch On Woody 22.94.............J McInerney 9 64688 Sozin’s Onyx nwtd......................J McInerney 10 67678 Zipping Mia nwtd............................ B Conner SELECTIONS

Race 1: Ohoka Kate, Opa’s Joy, Sonja, Jacks Point, Prince Zulu Race 2: Yi Feng, Venetia, Homebush Comet, Jingili Jill Race 3: Andrea Said, Just William, Snickerdoodle, Maybe Right Race 4: Opa’s Mate, Twizel Storm, Little Lottie, Goldstar Tasman Race 5: Mr Muppet, My Pablo, Ain’t He Lucky, Trevor Wilks Race 6: Alexia, Vasterbottenost, Sozin’s Blue, Smash Surprise Race 7: Darla Bale, Isavana, My Giovanni, Barrel Runner Race 8: Aussie Muscle, Shermo Bale, Little Secret, Goldstar Flora Race 9: Ohoka Lacey, Homebush Alexei, Freya Beauchamp Race 10: Pearls Are Us, My Khloe, Creme Brulee, Our Nala Race 11: Gadzooks, Yanira Bale, Our Olive, Homebush Scorpio Race 12: Sefton Double, King Toliman, Every Minute, Know Legend LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway 7 11442 Shaw Lee 23.00 J M........................ McCook 8 25366 Must Be Rusty 22.38..................J McInerney 9 36648 Goldstar Liberty 22.45 J M............... McCook 4 12.55pm CONGRATULATIONS RUFUS C2/3, 457m 1 41114 Sausage 26.14 J &...........................D Fahey 2 27413 Punters Bolt nwtd.............................R Wales 3 46677 Cosmic Stu 26.29.......................J McInerney 4 3117x Opawa May 26.29............................R Wales 5 64487 Shift The Blame 25.94................J McInerney 6 74674 Galifianakis 26.16..............................B Eade 7 55255 Bashful Buffy 26.40....................J McInerney 8 65656 Kia Tere 26.07 S &...........................B Evans 5 1.12pm ASCOT PARK DISTANCE C2d, 630m 1 x4753 Opawa Abbie Joy nwtd....................R Wales 2 77685 Opawa Hope nwtd...........................R Wales 3 32158 Opawa Silver nwtd...........................R Wales 4 115x6 Opawa Racer 37.10.........................R Wales 5 Box Vacant 6 77x25 Opawa Plum nwtd............................R Wales 7 62716 Opawa Tab 37.15.............................R Wales 8 63153 Opawa Rooster nwtd.......................R Wales 6 1.29pm MARK TURNER PAINTER PH021737111 C1/2, 457m 1 51171 Translation nwtd J &.........................D Fahey 2 64222 Lakota Kohana nwtd....................... H Cairns 3 34612 C’Mon Benny Boy 26.42.................J Guthrie 4 51543 Lakota Tonka 26.84......................... H Cairns 5 83468 Homebush Hotshot 26.35..........J McInerney 6 87514 Eyrewell Bentley nwtd..................... H Cairns 7 42542 Goldstar Alaska nwtd S &................B Evans 8 68621 Lakota Micco nwtd.......................... H Cairns 9 58667 Black Dan 26.48.........................J McInerney 10 67678 Zipping Mia 26.57.......................... B Conner 7 1.47 MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND HEATS C1q, 457m 1 54572 Blazing Banjo 26.53...................J McInerney

2 21226 Goldstar Willa nwtd S &...................B Evans 3 515F Ringside Rusty nwtd.......................B Healey 4 66468 Chunk 26.28...............................J McInerney 5 74366 Homebush Boden 26.94............J McInerney 6 44386 Melting World nwtd..........................J Guthrie 7 56482 Opawa Lara 26.18............................R Wales 8 47865 Rocky Vincitore nwtd...............D J MacMillan 9 58667 Black Dan 26.48.........................J McInerney 10 67678 Zipping Mia 26.57.......................... B Conner 8 2.05 MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND HEATS C1q, 457m 1 23455 Homebush Carl nwtd.................J McInerney 2 37368 Koputai nwtd...................................J Guthrie 3 78444 Mick The Mower 26.60...............J McInerney 4 52775 Baldrick nwtd..............................J McInerney 5 72378 Bruiser’s Day 26.37........................ B Conner 6 72158 Goldstar Wynter nwtd S &................B Evans 7 87523 Vik Vikkers nwtd J M........................ McCook 8 28751 Dusty’s Ink nwtd..............................B Healey 9 F7748 Opawa Al 26.55...............................R Wales 10 67678 Zipping Mia 26.57.......................... B Conner 9 2.22 FIND US ON TWITTER@SGRCINFO C1/2, 390m 1 42865 Amuri Magic nwtd......................J McInerney 2 15471 Pretty Keen 22.98..............................S Keen 3 77343 Nippa Enough 23.22..................J McInerney 4 52783 Homebush Tesan 22.54.............J McInerney 5 32267 Goldstar Galaxie 23.38 S &.............B Evans 6 44345 Shaw Winner 22.78 J M................... McCook 7 74668 Homebush Hundy 22.87............J McInerney 8 32131 Homebush Sayer 23.01.............J McInerney 9 58667 Black Dan 22.67.........................J McInerney 10 67678 Zipping Mia nwtd............................ B Conner 10 2.42pm SOUTHERN LIGHTS AT STUD C1/2, 390m 1 78657 Homebush Finn 22.58................J McInerney 2 22413 My Girl Sofia 22.88.........................B Healey 3 62177 Homebush Pierce 22.88............J McInerney

Race 1: Homebush Monkey, Starr Blueblood, Citizen Zagreb Race 2: Homebush Yuri, Eric Blueblood, Homebush Captain Race 3: Opawa Lacy, Goldstar Trooper, Shaw Lee, Eyrewell Turbo Race 4: Sausage, Kia Tere, Opawa May, Galifianakis Race 5: Opawa Rooster, Opawa Abbie Joy, Opawa Racer Race 6: Translation, Black Dan, C’Mon Benny Boy, Goldstar Alaska Race 7: Opawa Lara, Blazing Banjo, Goldstar Willa, Homebush Boden Race 8: Dusty’s Ink, Vik Vikkers, Mick The Mower, Goldstar Wynter Race 9: Homebush Sayer, Goldstar Galaxie, Homebush Hundy Race 10: My Girl Sofia, Homebush Finn, Citizen Aguero Race 11: Princely Gold, Goldstar Major, Debbie Baxter Race 12: Homebush Miles, Mitcham Doug, Eyrewell Tango Race 13: Punch On Buzz, Gracie Lee, Homebush Vassy Race 14: Homebush Velma, Punch On Woody, Souffle Sue LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Daily Events TUESDAY 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group meets outside church. 48 Allens Road.

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

9.30am - 10.30am WALKING NETBALL Cost $2. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace. (not school holidays).

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William St. 9.45am WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Handicap singles Golf Croquet. New players welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

10am NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. Weekly coffee morning, any enquiries to Merrill 307-6363.

Nosh Cafe, West Street.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture

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

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

Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

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

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

9.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Langdon’s Wetland, all welcome. Phone Jenny 308 6862. Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square West.

9.45am MID CANTERBURY LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Monthly meeting, Doris Linton lounge, Cox Street.

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

Sept 10 & 11, 2019 Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

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

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

Seniors Centre, Cameron St. 10am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

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

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD EXHIBITION. Gathering of Stitches made by guild members items are on display daily from now until 22 September. Ashburton Art Gallery, West Street.

10.10am U3A HAKATERE ASHBURTON.

Ashburton Astronomer, Ian Perkins, Laymens Guide to the Universe. Coffee/tea from 9.30am. Visitors welcome $10 charge. St David’s Union Church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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

All Saints Church. Methven.

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

Presbyterian Church, Rakaia.

1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome. boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

1pm - 2.30pm R AND R LINEDANCING ASHBURTON. Absolute beginners line dance class. Enquiries Rayma 0274 867 504. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily

with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Singles, handicap range -6 to 8, 9 to16, Golf Croquet new players welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

3pm - 4.30pm R AND R LINEDANCING ASHBURTON. Intermediate line dance class.

Enquiries Rayma 0274 867 504.

MSA Social hall, Havelock St. 6pm sharp.

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

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

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

EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace, Ashburton.

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

MSA Havelock Street.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park St. 10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For more information ring Age Concern 308 6817.

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

10am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

10am - 7pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD EXHIBITION. Gathering of Stitches made by guild members items are on display daily from now until 22 September. Ashburton Art Gallery, West Street.

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

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox St. 10.30am - 12pm ASHBURTON OPEN COFFEE MORNINGS. Every Wednesday, come for a coffee and chat, child friendly location, all welcome. Phone Adi 027 220 8791 or Sue-ann 021 679 348.

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

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility.

MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

10.45am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

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

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet doubles, new players welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

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

Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox St.

5pm (sharp) RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Wednesday walks, 5km town circuit for all walking abilities and fitness levels. Meet on Philip Street beside the Croquet lawn.

6.30pm THE MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Beginners learn to Line Dance (6.30pm), lower Intermediate/ intermediate (7.30pm-9pm), Instructor Annette Fyfe Phone 0274 813 131, Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

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

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

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

7.30pm ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Technology evening, bring your camera and laptop or photos on a memory stick.

Entries 3rd open. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): If people don’t respond to your messages, then it could be because they don’t understand, they don’t know the answer or they are at a loss as to how to move it forward. Don’t take it personally.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Do you dare reach into the past? Talking to someone you haven’t talked to in a long while will be a kind measuring stick inserted into the annals of personal history.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): If you miss a beat, don’t scramble back to try and pick it up. Be like the professional musicians and show people. Keep moving forward, no explaining, complaining or excusing... onward always.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): What you want radiates through your body language whether you want it to or not. You don’t have to talk if you don’t want to, because people understand you loud and clear.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): In her defence, Dorothy didn’t know about the power of the shoes she was wearing.

Have you been minimising the big blessing of your life? Have you been pocketing the secret weapon, the special sauce, the X factor?

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): It’s the science that matters today – what can be proven via systematic observation, measurement and experiment.

Make your hypothesis and test it.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Though fighting for love is an oxymoron, you’ll do it anyway, mainly because you’re up to it, you’re a believer and if anything could make things better, love has the best chance of being that thing.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): What you’re trying to do is far more important than what you’re trying to resist. The people in your life are only starting to support you in this. They need more training. Excuse them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): What a happy day this will be – a day when you’ll happen to catch the most important events of the sky involving clouds and a very fortunate diffusion of light.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Who wants to live in mystery? Everyone! No one! Because the tension of mystery is essential to living and also the release of that tension is implied.

Unsolved mysteries are no fun!

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Love gets confused for ownership all of the time. But no one can say, “I love you and therefore you must do as I want” and still stay nestled in the folds of reason or the true emotion and nature of love.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The amateurs go for one moment, the pros go for another – a moment that’s much further... months, maybe even years, down the line. The pros take long-term risks and grow rich or poor by them.

ACROSS 1. Understands how inclusive it is (11) 7. The very outside text remembered as containing it (7) 9. When it’s finished, there’s too much (4) 11. A massacre flows with such a bath (5) 12. The fight Doré had with a shuttlecock (6) 14. Try looming around the East with the technical names for it (11) 18. Even a fellow may be granted amnesty (6) 20. Poet who gave one simple but contradictory answers (5) 22. Following the artillery, I’d gone on an incursion (4) 23. Lettuce it could be disastrous to come across at sea (7) 24. Be in the swim and retain a portion of chicken (4,7) DOWN 2. Emerge in different order for the result (7) 3. The sheep we found among opponents at bridge (4) 4. Piece of turf dislodged by a little girl of about four (5) 5. Such plants are meant to go to pot (5) 6. Going light on the street (5) 8. Deny I’m no different from the version that Keats wrote (8) 10. Knock up a cavalry weapon, in a manner of speaking (8) 13. Somebody unspecified who is single (3) 15. Hot springs found in Iceland bathrooms? (7) 16. It’s a bright young fellow who can set things alight (5) 17. Custom by which American reaches maturity (5) 19. Both is and are intermingled to elevate one (5) 21. One such of Satan is a scapegrace (4)

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Across: 1. Gumdrop 5. Minim 8. Enlaced 9. Datum 10. Straggler 12. See 13. Exact 17. End 19. Nevermore 21. Mania 22. Condole 24. Named 25. Ladders 2 3 Down: 1. Grease 2. Mildred 3. Roc 4. Pedal 5. Moderator 8 1 7 6. Notes 7. Mummer 11. Greenland 14. Provoke 15. Seaman 16. Recess 18. Denim 20. Vocal 23. Nod

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Areas of morning cloud then fine.

Winds at 1000m and 2000m: Light.

TOMORROW

Fine. Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: SW 35 km/h developing in the morning, dying out in the afternoon.

NW 30 km/h developing overnight.

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THURSDAY

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High cloud increasing, rain developing about the divide later with snow to 1400m. NW strengthening, rising to gale/severe gale later.

Greymouth

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Timaru

Rain about the divide, heavy for a time, scattered falls further E. Snow down to 800m for a time. Gale NW, possibly severe, changing lighter SW.

Queenstown

Fine with early frosts, high cloud at times.

Northerlies picking up.

FRIDAY High cloud, scattered rain for a time, mainly about the foothills. Gusty Northerlies tending westerly.

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Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Delhi Dubai Dublin Edinburgh

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 6.5 7.2 Max to 4pm 1.0 Minimum 0.2 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.2 16hr to 4pm September to date 14.0 Avg Sep to date 16 2019 to date 522.8 477 Avg year to date Wind km/h E9 At 4pm Strongest gust E 24 Time of gust 3:20pm

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MANGIN, Ronald Francis Please note all late death (Ron) – notices or notices sent 17.02.1929 – 08.09.2019 outside ordinary office Ron passed away peacefully at Nurse Maude Hospital, hours must be emailed to: surrounded by his family. deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication.

Dearly loved husband of Betty, loving father and To place a notice during father-in-law of Derelie (Dee) office hours please contact and Les, and Richard and us on 03 307 7900 for more Sarah, much loved granddad information. of Matthew, Thomas, Hannah Any queries please and Ben. Special thanks to Dr contact 0800 Andrew Osborne (Ilam), Dr ASHBURTON Clive Low and to all the (0800-274-287) exceptional Doctors and Nurses at Christchurch Hospital. Thanks also to the staff of St John for their compassionate care.

Messages may be addressed to the family of the late Ron Mangin, c/- PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545.

A Canterbury owned, locally operated celebration of Ron’s life will be held in our Westpark Patersons Chapel, 467 Wairakei Road, Burnside, Christchurch, on Funeral Services FRIDAY, September 13, at and Ashburton 10.00am, private cremation Crematorium Ltd thereafter.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 Ellen is joined by Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Winkler. 0 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am The Chase 3 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Kim is still annoyed with Graham for keeping the truth about Joe’s death from her, and she is not happy that he let his personal feelings for Joe cloud his judgement. 0 1pm Coronation Street Catch-Up PGR 3 0 2pm Coast v Country 3 0 3pm Tipping Point 3 0 4pm Te Karere 2 4:30 Funny You Should Ask 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6am Infomercials 6:30 MyaGo 3 0 6:40 PJ Masks 0 7am The Tom And Jerry Show 0 7:25 Beyblade Burst Turbo 0 7:50 Bunnicula 0 8:15 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 3 0 8:35 The Lion Guard 3 0 9am Infomercials 10am The Middle 3 0 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Celebrity Treasure Island PGR 3 0 Noon The Seven Year Switch Australia PGR 3 0 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 3 2pm Will And Grace PGR 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Power Rangers – Beast Morphers PGR 0 3:55 Clarence 0 4:05 Fanimals 0 4:35 Friends 3 0 5:05 The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

6am The AM Show 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:30 Entertainment Tonight Noon Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0 1pm Dr Phil AO Anthony and Jill fear their marriage is headed for divorce due to 14-year-old Kendall’s out-of-control behaviour and stories of abuse.

2pm Married At First Sight NZ PGR 3 The married couples embrace life together; experts Tony and Stephanie match four more singles; two couples marry a stranger. 0 3:30 Open Homes 3 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 NewsHub Live At 4:30pm 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am The Powerpuff Girls 3 0 6:30 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 3 0 7am Sky Sport News 8am Henry Danger 3 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Million Dollar Minute 9:30 Hot Bench 10am The Doctors PGR 11am Antiques Roadshow 3 Noon Sky Sport News 12:30 Ed PGR 3 1:30 Just Shoot Me PGR 3 0 2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Judge Judy PGR 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm The Chase Australia 0 5pm Everybody Loves Raymond 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Motorcycling – Isle Of Man TT (HLS)

6:30 Takoha 3 6:40 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 7:10 Kia Mau 3 7:20 E Kori 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Huhu 3 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Pukana 3 2 8:50 Paia 3 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 R&R 3 10am Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 11am Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 Noon School Of Training 3 12:30 Hamu And Tofiga PGR 3 1pm Ride Or Die 1:30 Finding Aroha PGR 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 3:40 Kia Mau 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Huhu 3 4:20 Huritua 3 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Te Pou Herenga O Kia Aroha 5:30 Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Made From America 6:30 River Cottage Spring 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Hope For Wildlife 9am Junk Gypsies 9:30 Hoard Hunters 11:30 World’s Busiest Cities 12:30 The Great Interior Design Challenge 1:30 British Airways – 100 Years In The Sky PGR 2:30 Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America PGR 3:30 Hope For Wildlife 4:30 Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 5pm Destination Flavour Singapore In his quest to find the best ingredients for his banquet dinner, Adam Liaw visits a fruit-andvegetable market in Geylang and a Michelin-starred restaurant.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Paramedics PGR Mark must deal with a misbehaving driver who has crashed into a pole; Matt must treat a worker burnt in an explosion. 0 8:30 Impossible Builds 0 9:30 20/20 AO 0 10:30 1 News Tonight 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Celebrity Treasure Island 0 8:30 The Seven Year Switch Australia PGR 0 9:35 Grey’s Anatomy AO 0 10:30 The Resident AO 0

7pm The Project 7:30 Married At First Sight NZ PGR 0 9pm 9-1-1 AO 0 9:55 Road Cops PGR 3 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:55 Chicago Med AO 3 0

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Queen Mother 0 8:30 Poldark PGR Ross returns to a starving Cornwall with hope for Ned, but finds Ralph returning with Cecily, too; Ralph seeks to ruin Ned as rebellion stirs, and the Poldarks are caught in the middle. 0 9:40 Seal Team PGR 10:40 Golf – PGA Tour

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Kitchen Kura 3 8pm Te Ao With Moana 8:30 Shear Bro PGR 3 9pm Hunt With Me AO 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 10pm Whawhai 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

7:30 George Clarke’s Old House New Home 8:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 9:30 Building The Dream 10:30 American Pickers

11pm Sunday 0 12:05 What Next? 3 Miriama Kamo examines the impact of AI and technology on the next generation. Can New Zealand catch the automation wave, or should we kill the robots?

1:05 Te Karere 3 2 1:30 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

11:20 How To Get Away With 11:55 Infomercials Murder AO 0 12:10 The Walking Dead AO 3 0 12:55 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:20 Regular Show 3 1:40 Infomercials 2:40 Army Wives PGR 3 0 3:25 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Australia AO 3 0 4:45 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Tomorrow’s World

11:40 The Late Show With 11pm L Basketball – Fiba Stephen Colbert PGR The best of World Cup Quarter-finals.

Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, 3am Closedown discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:40 Closedown

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Brent Owens – Extreme, Authentic, And Unwrapped 1am Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 1:30 Destination Flavour Singapore 2am Collectaholics 3am Love Nature – Hope For Wildlife 4am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 5am Mysteries At The Museum

Grey’s Anatomy

9:35pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am Sweet Home Oklahoma PGR 3 10:30 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles PGR 3 Noon I Killed My BFF PGR 3 1pm Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 3 2pm Masters Of Flip 3 3pm The People’s Court 4pm Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles PGR 3 After the successful sale of actress Rose McGowan’s Hollywood Hills home, Tracy holds an estate sale of the actress’s belongings and Hollywood memorabilia.

5:35 Catfish 3 6:30 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 7:35 Snapped AO 3 She said her husband ran away with his much younger mistress but, after years of suspicion, the police find him much closer to home.

8:35 Bachelor Australia PGR 9:45 License To Kill AO 10:45 Snapped PGR 3 11:40 I Killed My BFF PGR 3 12:30 Infomercials 3

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9pm on Three

SKY 5 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Ghost Mine M 8:05 Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 8:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 9:15 Lizard Lick Towing PG 9:40 NCIS – New Orleans MVS 10:25 SVU MV 11:10 Ghost Mine M Noon Raw Live MVC 3:05 NCIS – New Orleans MVS 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Lizard Lick Towing PG 6pm Ice Road Truckers PG 7pm Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 7:30 NCIS – New Orleans MVS 8:30 Truck Night In America PGL 9:30 Rooster And Butch PGC 10:30 SVU MV 11:20 Ice Road Truckers PG Wednesday 12:05 Ghost Mine M 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 2:05 Rooster And Butch PGC 2:50 Truck Night In America PGL 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Lizard Lick Towing PG 4:50 NCIS – New Orleans MVS 5:35 The Simpsons PG

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7:35 The Amaranth MVLC 2018 Thriller. Melora Walters, Jeffrey DeMunn.

9:05 Nothing But Trailers M 9:20 Welcome Home MVLS 2018 Thriller.

Aaron Paul, Emily Ratajkowski.

11am Blockers 16LSC 2018 Comedy.

Leslie Mann, John Cena.

12:40 Christopher Robin 2018 Drama. Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell. 2:25 Collide MVL 2016 Action.

Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones.

4:05 Close Up – Liam Neeson PG 4:35 Daphne 16LC 2017 Comedy. Emily Beecham, Geraldine James. 6:05 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson.

8pm Occupation MVL 2018 Sci-fi. After a small town is destroyed by an airborne attack, a group of survivors evade capture and form an army to fight back. Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison.

10pm Kodachrome MLS 2017 Drama. Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris.

11:45 They’re Inside 18VLC 2019 Horror. Karli Hall, Amanda Kathleen Ward.

6:05 Minority Report MVLS 2002 Sci-fi Thriller. Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton.

8:30 A Beautiful Mind M 2001 Drama. Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe. 10:45 Tower Heist MLS 2011 Comedy.

Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy.

12:30 Cabin Fever 16VLS 2002 Horror. Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd. 2pm 12 Years A Slave 16VS 2013 Historical Drama. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender.

4:15 Dallas Buyers Club 16VLSC 2013 Biography Drama.

Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto.

6:10 Identity Thief MVLS 2013 Comedy. Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy. 8pm Big Eyes ML 2014 Drama. Based on the story of Walter Keane, one of the most successful painters of the 1950s, whose art was not actually his at all.

Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz.

9:50 Mission – Impossible: Ghost Protocol MV 2011 Action. Tom Cruise.

Wednesday

1:10 Daphne 16LC 2017 Comedy. Emily Beecham, Geraldine James. 2:40 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

4:35 They’re Inside 18VLC 2019 Horror.

Wednesday

Midnight Killer Joe 18VLS 2011 Crime.

Matthew McConaughey.

1:40 Dallas Buyers Club 16VLSC 2013 Biography Drama.

Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto.

3:35 Identity Thief MVLS 2013 Comedy. Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy.

5:25 Mission – Impossible: Ghost Protocol MV 2011 Action. Tom Cruise.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Rugby Nation 7am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Manawatu v Northland.

7:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Hawke’s Bay v Southland.

8am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Counties v Tasman.

8:30 Rugby – First XV National Top Four Co-ed Final. 9am Rugby – First XV National Top Four Girls Final. 9:30 Rugby – First XV National Top Four Boys Final. 10am Rugby – French Top 14 Round Three.

10:30 Rugby – French Top 14 Brive v Clermont.

12:30 Rugby – French Top 14 Toulouse v Racing 92. 2:30 Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup Otago v Taranaki.

3pm Rugby – First XV National Top Four – Semi-final One. 4:30 Rugby – First XV 6pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup 6:30 Game Of The Weekend 8:30 The Breakdown 9:30 Rugby Nation 10:30 Rugby – All Blacks v Tonga 11pm Rugby – Australia v Samoa 11:30 Rugby – England v Italy Wednesday Midnight Rugby – Scotland v Georgia 12:30 Rugby – Ireland v Wales 1am The Breakdown 2am Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup 2:30 Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup 3am Rugby – Farah Palmer Cup 3:30 Rugby – Australia v Samoa 5:30 Rugby – New Zealand Barbarian Legends v Pacific Legends

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SKY SPORT 2 6am Cricket – Women’s Super League (HLS) Grand Final. 6:30 Cricket – The Ashes (RPL) England v Australia – Fourth Test. 8:30 Cricket – CPL (HLS) Trinidad v Jamaica. 9:30 Cricket – CPL (HLS) Trinidad v St Lucia.

10:30 Cricket – CPL Guyana v Barbados. 11:30 Cricket – Women’s Super League Grand Final. Noon Cricket – The Ashes England v Australia – Fourth Test. 1pm Cricket – T20 Blast Lancashire Lightning v Essex Eagles. 1:30 Cricket – T20 Blast Notts Outlaws v Middlesex. 2pm Cricket – T20 Blast Sussex Sharks v Worcestershire Rapids.

2:30 Cricket – T20 Blast Gloucestershire v Derbyshire Falcons. 3pm Cricket – CPL (RPL) Guyana v Barbados.

6:30 Cricket – Sri Lanka v Blackcaps (RPL) Third T20.

10pm Cricket – The Ashes England v Australia – Fourth Test. 11pm Cricket – T20 Blast Lancashire Lightning v Essex Eagles. 11:30 Cricket – T20 Blast Notts Outlaws v Middlesex. Wednesday Midnight Cricket – T20 Blast Sussex Sharks v Worcestershire Rapids.

12:30 Cricket – T20 Blast Gloucestershire v Derbyshire Falcons. 1am Cricket – The Ashes (RPL) England v Australia – Fourth Test. 3am Cricket – CPL Trinidad v Jamaica.

4am Cricket – CPL Trinidad v St Lucia. 5am Cricket – CPL Guyana v Barbados.

10Sep19

DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast ’n’ Loud PG 1971 Cool Kingwood; Retro Replicar.

7:30 Car Crash TV 7:55 Car Crash TV 8:20 Diesel Brothers PG Failure to Launch.

9:10 Towies PG 9:35 Towies PG 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11:40 Evil Lives Here M She Made Me Do It. 12:30 Murder Comes To Town M Wicked Witness.

1:20 Murder Chose Me M 2:10 Car Crash TV 2:35 Car Crash TV 3pm Homestead Rescue PG Storm Shelter Showdown. 3:50 Gold Rush PG Dead Even. 4:45 Fast ’n’ Loud PG Shelby Rent-A-Racer Restoration 1/2.

5:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6:35 Aussie Lobster Men PG 7:30 BattleBots PG The Desperado Tournament.

8:30 Expedition Unknown PG 9:25 Legends Of The Lost With Megan Fox PG Viking Women Warriors.

10:15 Naked And Afraid M Naked and Haunted.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M The Swarm.

11:55 How It’s Made PG

Wednesday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Car Crash TV 1:10 Car Crash TV 1:35 Gold Rush PG 2:25 Bering Sea Gold PG 3:15 Homestead Rescue PG 4:05 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Gold Rush PG

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Leclerc a winner for Ferrari

Rafa closing in on Roger

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Mud flies at Staveley

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

It was cold, it was wet and it was muddy, but that just added to the fun at the Ashburton Car Club’s latest event on Sunday.

The Ashburton Car Club hosted a grass autocross at Wayne Muckle’s Staveley property and while the less than ideal weather kept a few drivers away, those who turned out certainly made the most of it.

A total of 14 entries lined up for a shot at the event, with a couple of drivers forced to withdraw late due to engine problems and lack of traction, and it was Tony Green who proved to be the best of the bunch.

Each car had two runs of the course and Green produced the day’s best time on his first run, with his Subaru Impreza crossing the line in 2.25.42 minutes.

That time was almost five sec-

Byron Kelsall sends mud flying during one of his runs at the Ashburton Car Club’s autocross on Sunday.

PHOTO HEATHER MACKENZIE 080919-HM-0160 onds faster than the day’s next best, which belonged to Scott Clark in a Subaru WRX. His best time of 2.30.34 minutes was enough to see him finish in second ahead of Matt Hillyer, who produced a best time of 2.32.01 minutes in a Toyota Starlet.

Probably not surprisingly given the conditions and the fact the track become muddier and trickier with every run, all bar one driver’s best time came from their first run.

Malcolm Lovett, in his Starion, was the only driver to better his time in his second attempt, fin-

ishing almost four seconds faster than in his first run.

The Ashburton Car Club’s next event will be a motorkhana to be run at their clubrooms on Wakelins Road on September 29, a day club members hope will dawn warmer and drier than what Sunday did.

All Blacks embracing tough start to Rugby World Cup

By Christopher Reive They might not be the top ranked team in the world at the start of the tournament, but the All Blacks won’t have to wait long for a chance to prove they’re still the team to beat at the Rugby World Cup. Meeting fellow contenders

South Africa in the opening round of pool play, there won’t be any chance of showing up and easing their way into form.

Instead, they’ll start their campaign with what should be the game that decides who wins their pool, with Canada, Namibia and Italy rounding out the group.

“It is what it is,” All Blacks assis-

tant coach Ian Foster said of the draw. “I think if you look at every country they’ve got a draw that is going to have some peaks and troughs.

“For us, we love it.

“Coming in and playing South Africa first, the challenge is there right in front of us isn’t it? There’s no way that anyone is going to

drift into this game, so it’s going to set the World Cup for us really strongly.

“We know we’ve got to get over there and be at our best straight away, then after that we’ll just see what happens in that game and modify things.”

The All Blacks will have the best part of two weeks to acclimatise

themselves to what are expected to be hot conditions before trotting out onto the park against South Africa on September 21.

Foster said the All Blacks had been working on what to expect in Japan for the past few years, and a two week trip to the country last November was an important part of that process.

Mark Robinson replaces Steve Tew at NZ Rugby

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