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Firefighters diverted traffic as they battled a wheat paddock blaze in soaring heat at Lauriston yesterday.

Appliances from Lauriston, Rakaia and Methven were at the scene from about 2.45pm for about two hours.

Lauriston fire force controller Mark Shears said fire investigators would be examining how the blaze began from the rear of a combine harvester working in the paddock.

“Quite often it’s just a freak thing that happens,” he said, adding it was good advice for farmers to check their machinery before harvesting.

Firefighters quickly established a detour as thick smoke poured across Thompsons Track, and contained the blaze, which burned about 14 hectares of wheat.

Rural firefighters remain on edge as February’s hot and dry start is set to continue into the week.

Ashburton experienced the warmest temperatures in the country over the weekend, climbing over 31 degrees on Saturday and Sunday. Lush growth in wet conditions has been succeeded by just 0.8 millimetres of rain this month, and no rain in the forecast until Thursday.

Mayfield fire unit members are unsure what caused a fire in grass on Tinwald Westerfield Mayfield Road about 6.15pm on Friday, but say it may have been a cigarette butt tossed from a car.

Rural fire officer Mike Farnell said the blaze burned out about 20 metres of roadside.

He said one of the unit’s firefighters hooked a water trailer to his vehicle and was able to get to the scene prior to the

brigade, as the fire was on his way to the station. This meant he was able to dampen down the flames, helping the fire from spreading, and leaving mainly old stumps for brigade members to extinguish.

Farnell said grass along roadsides might look green, but it was dry and could catch alight easily.

In many cases it was now too dry for farmers to mow long grass on the roadsides due to the risk of sparks causing a fire.

The catastrophic fires in Tasman were a reminder of how things could go wrong quickly, and he urged Mid Cantabrians to be careful, particularly not tossing cigarette butts.

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■ POLICE

Police seek info on fires

Firefighters battled a wheat paddock blaze in soaring heat at Lauriston yesterday.

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■ FIRE

Battling blazes in soaring heat From P1 “It just doesn’t take much,” he said.

The fire unit had another happy end to a callout, about 10.25pm on Saturday, when a fire in hay build-up in a tractor was quickly extinguished.

Farnell said there were a few other tractors working in the same paddock and their drivers had extinguishers on board and were able to get to the fire quickly before the brigade’s arrival.

Meanwhile, an electric fence earthing was blamed for a grass fire in the foothills on Saturday afternoon.

Mt Somers rural unit firefighters

responded to the small blaze about 4.25pm.

Crew leader Kevin Fews said the fire was only the size of about two cars.

The farmer had called the brigade out as a precaution, and he had it under control with no smoke or flames by the time crew members arrived on the scene. Nevertheless, they emptied one tanker of water, dampening the area around, considering dry conditions of late.

Fews applauded the farmer’s precautionary actions in calling the brigade.

“The grass is getting dry, and it’s dry under tree lines,” Fews said.

Help for Nelson Seven Mid Canterbury firefighters have left for Nelson to help battle the Tasman region’s sprawling bush fire.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade chief Alan Burgess said yesterday three brigade members and four Alford Forest rural unit members had gone to assist.

More members may leave this week.

“We just have to wait and see what the outcome is on a day by day basis,” Burgess said.

A rural appliance from the Ashburton rural unit had also been deployed, and was being backed up here by a replacement vehicle.

Fires show no sign of easing; 3000 flee Strong winds are expected to fan fires that have been burning for a week through New Zealand’s South Island, forcing thousands of people from their homes, with more residents expected to flee.

The Pigeon Valley fire covers 2300 hectares, with a 25km perimeter, NZ Civil Defence said.

No deaths have been reported and only one home destroyed.

Early yesterday, 155 firefighters were battling the blaze on the ground with air support from 23 helicopters and three fixed wing planes, the agency said, making it the largest aerial firefight on record in New Zealand.

Up to 3000 people have been forced to leave the Wakefield and Pigeon Valley areas, NZ Civil Defence Controller Roger Ball said.

More people were likely to be forced from their homes.

New Zealand Red Cross Communications Manager Ellie van Baaren said evacuees were tired and frustrated.

“When you have to leave your home and in some cases your livestock and animals and you don’t know what’s become of them, and you’re staying with

friends and family, then it’s an uncertain situation for everybody,” she said.

Fires started on Monday and Tuesday and quickly spread. On Wednesday, authorities declared a state of emergency. Hundreds of volunteer and professional firefighters, police, civil defence and military personnel are battling the fires.

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Police are seeking information from the public as they continue to investigate two fires believed to be intentionally lit in Nelson.

One was on Rabbit Island, on Wednesday February 6, and another on Iwa Road around 2.30pm on Friday February 8.

Both fires were brought under control quickly utilising resources deployed away from fighting the Pigeon Valley fire.

The fire on Iwa Road started near the lower end of the street and spread quickly up the hillside.

It had the potential to place further lives and properties at risk, police said.

As part of their investigation, police want to identify and speak with three males seen on a bench on the Centre of New Zealand track in close proximity to Iwa Road, around 1.30pm on Friday.

They are described as Caucasian and between 16 and 20 years old.

Two were possibly wearing baseball caps and one had fair hair.

Yesterday afternoon police visited properties in the Iwa Road area and neighbouring addresses looking for witnesses and gathering information from the public.

The Rabbit Island fire blazed over 10ha on Wednesday afternoon and people were asked to leave the island and nearby Rough Island immediately.

Fire and Emergency NZ (FENZ) were alerted to the fire about 2.30pm. Crews were sent from Nelson, Richmond and Brightwater.

Four ground crews and three aircraft had to be redirected from fighting the massive Pigeon Valley fire to deal with it.

The fire was said to have broken out at the popular recreation and beach reserve on the island.

It was brought under control by 8pm on Wednesday and managed overnight.

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■ RESOURCE RECOVERY PARK

Shop on shaky ground

By Sue NewmaN

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The reuse shop at Ashburton’s Resource Recovery Park is at a crossroads.

It’s served the community well for many years, but recently the shop building was assessed by an engineer for compliance with the building code and found wanting. Alterations and modifications over the years meant it was no longer up to code.

And that, council solid waste

manager Craig Goodwin told Ashburton District councillors at a meeting last week, created a problem. But it was a problem with an almost immediate, if short-term solution, he said.

The current reuse shop had been assessed as not having a high snow loading capacity and that combined with the filled site on which it was built meant an alternative shop site was needed, Goodwin said. With the new canopy area completed and ready for

use, the existing pole shed will shortly become the reuse shop.

That, however, meant a decision had to be made over the future of the current shop, he said.

Councillor Diane Rawlinson questioned the value of the shop, whether it was worth the council investing money in either strengthening the existing building or constructing a new one when the returns might be low.

Goodwin didn’t agree.

“There is potentially a lot of val-

ue there to earn a lot of money for the community and there are benefits in getting goods to people who need them. There’s also the potential to do this much better than we do now.”

Looking to the future, councillors needed to decide the best way forward for the shop, he said.

Options could include upgrading the building for storage and building a new reuse shop somewhere else in the park, upgrading the building to code and using it

as a shop or demolishing the old building and building a new one in its place.

Councillor Russell Ellis suggested that with no money tagged in the budget for this work, an option could be to use the money set aside for recyclables bunkers ($261,000 in next year’s budget) for the reuse shop project.

The reuse shop will continue to trade from its existing building until it relocates to the pole shed near the recycling drop-off area.

Bride’s plea gets unwanted attention A bride who advertised for a student to take her wedding photos for free says a man who objects to her approach has urged people to assault her.

The story of her post, covered by The Herald on Thursday, had “gone viral all over the world”.

The Christchurch woman, who asked not to be named, said she had received many negative comments in response to her ad on a Facebook buy/sell/trade page – and some positive ones, as well as private messages from people “wanting to take up the opportunity” to take her wedding photos.

Among the negative comments, the responses from a Christchurch photographer “stood out horribly ... he was really saying nasty things”.

“At one stage he even posted saying people must wack [sic - whack] me if they see me,” the woman said in an email to the Herald.

The man – whom she did not ask to take her wedding photos – followed up with

threatening notes via Facebook private messages.

She told her fiance about the disturbing posts by the photographer, whose phone number was on his listing. He called the photographer, who didn’t answer but responded with “very abusive messages”.

“There were over 50 messages on my partner’s phone and they just kept coming.”

He didn’t block the photographer’s messages as they “could be evidence if anything happens to me”.

The photographer started sending messages to the woman’s Facebook friends, tried to hack her Facebook page, and threatened to turn up at the wedding.

“I guess what bothers me most is, if this fella has done this, how far will he go? When will I need to start fearing for my safety or my kids’ safety.”

The couple are to wed at the Sign of the Takahe, a neo-Gothic castle-like venue on the city’s Port Hills, and the theme is Game of Thrones/ Medieval.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Self check-out a winner Sue Newman shares some of the news from the first round of meetings for the civic year which were held last week for the Ashburton District Council’s environmental services and service delivery committee in the new temporary council chamber on Havelock Street. The council’s finance and business services committee meets this Thursday.

New library system a winner The Ashburton library’s new self-return and check-out system for books is proving a winner with borrowers, library manager Jill Watson says.

While there were still customers who preferred to have their books issued by staff, most became committed self check-out users once they tried the new system, she said.

“We’ll always take people over and explain how to use it if they need,” Watson said.

There were a few initial teething problems with the new system, she said, but a technician had run a post installation check in January and the system was now performing well.

The new system, however did mean there were delays in gathering revenue from overdue books, she said.

Fines will show up on a borrower’s account the next time they borrowed books but if they were not regular library users, the fine could sit there for some time until it was cleared.

After several years of growth, numbers using the library’s free public internet sessions is reducing as more households have their own computers and personal devices. Last year there were 42,556 individual sessions on the library system.

Dogs on the loose During the last six months of 2018, 67 dogs found their way into the Ashburton District Council’s pound.

While the majority of those were reunited with their owners, six were rehomed and three were destroyed.

Over the same period there were 14 reported dog attacks — two on stock, one on a cat, four on another dog, three on a person, two on a rabbit and two on poultry.

Those attacks and other unruly dog behaviour saw the council issue 50 infringement notices to dog owners.

The council’s dog control team has carried out nine dog smart or dog safe education programmes during the month, two to preschools and the remainder for council taff, meter readers and Envirowaste staff.

Police attend fight Police responded to two people fighting at Ashburton South Countdown, and then yelling at each other, on Saturday afternoon.

“No-one was seriously injured and ambulance were not required. No arrests have been made at this time,” a police spokesperson said.

Police received a report of a minor assault shortly after 1am yesterday on Burnett Street. One person was assaulted and police transported that person to hospital for medical treatment. “Inquiries into the circumstances of the incident are ongoing,” the police spokesperson said.

Police also arrested and processed a driver for excess breath alcohol shortly after 1am on Saturday, and processed another driver for excess breath alcohol after the driver crashed their car on Surveyors Road, Hinds, about 10.20pm on Saturday.

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Arthur Giller was one of the first to use the Ashburton Public Library’s new self-checkout system in December last year.

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Liquor licence holders largely toeing the line Ashburton District licensing inspector Helene Faass has given the district’s sports clubs the thumbs up for their compliance with liquor licensing laws.

While she continues to work with those clubs to ensure they understand the requirements of their licenses, Faass said the clubs had generally accepted the need for compliance.

“They’ve taken this on board and we’re quite happy with that,” she said.

Regional meetings were held on two occasions over the past six months where clubs could share their views and concerns with the licensing team.

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tion was held with one out of 15 premises tested found to be selling to volunteer minors.

“This was a pleasing result for the district,” Faass said.

One public liquor licence hearing was held over the past six months. This was for Countdown South for its off-licence. This was opposed by the medical officer of health but subsequently granted by the District Licensing Committee after the hearing.

During the past six months 160 licensing applications were received and processed.

Group targets intersection safety Walnut Avenue might be a 50km/h zone, but one motorist last year was clocked travelling the western stretch of the avenue at 108 kilometres per hour.

A report to Ashburton’s District Road Safety co-ordinating committee last week gave details of speed breaches on four of the Ashburton District’s roads, with breaches on three of these many times over the speed limit.

Out of the 38,134 vehicles that travelled down Walnut Avenue West during the period data was captured, 9.21 per cent travelled at speeds above 50km/h. The average speed of those motorists however, was 49m/h.

On Havelock Street, out of the 20,384 vehicles recorded, 12.18 per cent were in breach of the speed limit with the highest speed recorded at 99 km/h. The average speed on Havelock Street was 43km/h.

Beach Road was travelled by 24,827 vehicles during the period with 37.34 violating the speed limit Highest speed recorded was 138km/h.

Committee chair Liz McMillan said that the committee’s quarterly meetings provided a good opportunity for people from many sides of traffic safety to come together and share concerns and ideas. Police, KiwiRail and the NZ Transport Agency are members of the group along with the Automobile Association and the Mid Canterbury Principals association.

“We’re all working together for safer roads. It’s a forum for airing concerns where you can ask questions and get the right answers,” she said.

The big focus for the road safety group was around intersection safety.

An Air New Zealand flight to Shanghai has turned back several hours into its journey after discovering it did not have permission to land in China.

Flight NZ289 carrying about 270 passengers left Auckland shortly before midnight on Saturday only to return about 8am AEDT on Sunday. It turned around several hours into the flight. “A technicality meant the particular aircraft operating this service did not have Chinese regulatory authority to land in China,” the airline said.

China’s foreign ministry did not make any immediate comment when contacted.

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Car fire A person who was burned in a car fire in Riwaka, northwest of Nelson City, has been flown to hospital.

The fire happened shortly after 6pm. Riwaka is on the western side of Tasman Bay, north of Motueka. “A person suffered burns to the hand and face from a fire in a car engine,” said a Fire and Emergency spokesman. “They were transported to hospital by helicopter.”

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Otara fire Firefighters were last night battling a large fire at a large commercial building in Otara. Fire and Emergency NZ were called out to the fire on Everitt Road at 3.55pm.

Six fire crews from Otara, Howick, Ellerslie and Papatoetoe were working to put out the blaze. Fire and Emergency NZ communications shift manager Craig Dally said the fire was “well alight”. Initial reports were that the fire was at Otara Community Preschool.

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■ EDUCATION

Preschoolers turn superheroes for a day Phoenix Preschool students spent their week learning about the role of superheroes in their community.

During the week the youngsters took part in a range of activities that encouraged them to behave as a superhero would, demonstrating kindness, bravery and helpfulness to one another.

They wrapped their week up with a dress-up event on Friday when most came along dressed as their favourite character.

Dressed up for superhero day Phoenix pre-schoolers Brooklyn Richardson, 3, Willow Harrison, 4, Lucy McGregor, 4, Chace Kamate, 4 and Xavier McBride, 3.

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■ POLITICS

New moves on smoking in cars Smoking will be banned in cars when children under 18 are present minister, Associate Health Minister Jenny Salesa has announced.

Vaping will also be included in the prohibition and it will apply to all vehicles both parked and on the move.

“Public education and social marketing campaigns over many years have had some impact, but the rate of reduction in children exposed to smoking in vehicles is slowing. It is now time to do more by legislating,” Salesa said.

She expected the Smoke-free Environments Act 1990 to be changed by the end of this year.

Once changed, police will be able to require people to stop smoking in their cars if children (under 18) are present.

They will also be able to use their discretion to give warnings, refer people to stop-smoking support services, or issue an infringement fee of $50.

According to research by ASH in 2014, 100,000 children a week are exposed to second-hand smoke.

The law change will come into effect by an amendment to the Smoke-free Environments Act

1990. “First and foremost, this change is about protecting children. However, it is also part of the Government’s commitment to achieving Smokefree 2025,” Salesa said.

“Too many New Zealand children, particularly Maori and Pacific children, are exposed to second-hand smoke in the vehicles they usually travel in,” she said.

“Children are especially vulnerable to the harmful effects of second-hand smoke due to their smaller lungs, higher respiratory

rate and immature immune systems.

“Second-hand smoke accumulates in vehicles, even with the windows open. It reaches much higher levels than in homes.”

“The legislation will also be backed up with a new and innovative public education and social marketing effort.

“Ultimately, the focus of this change will be on education and changing social norms – not on issuing infringement notices.

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port for the move; several surveys show around 90 per cent support to ban smoking in cars with children present.

Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, South Africa, parts of the United States, and most of Canada already have such bans.

Salesa made the announcement at the Weet-Bix Kids Tryathalon in Pt England, Auckland, alongside Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft and the Ministry of Health’s, director-general, Ashley Bloomfield.

Becroft welcomed the move, citing wide health benefits.

“Many New Zealand children and young people are exposed to second-hand smoke in cars every day,” Becroft said.

“Once this legislation is passed they will no longer be forced to inhale this chemical poison.”

It would help reduce middle ear infections, cancer, sudden death in infancy, asthma and respiratory illnesses.

He also called on the Opposition to support the move.

“While some have questioned whether a ban can be enforced, there’s really no issue.

“The police will be able to over-

see it in the same way as they do the law on cell-phone use and seatbelts.”

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) programme manager Boyd Broughton said while the ban was a good move, its effectiveness would depend on how it was implemented.

“If it can help people reconsider smoking around young people, and be a trigger for even stopping smoking altogether, it is ultimately a good thing.

“But there needs to be good support structures and a strong public campaign around it with a lead in time, otherwise it could have more harm on our high smoking community, who are predominantly lower socioeconomic, Maori and Pacific Islanders,” he said.

Many in that demographic could miss the announcement, and simply fining them would not have the desired effect of reducing smoking harm.

“We want to decrease harm, rather than simply fine people. So police need to be able to offer support to help people stop smoking, rather than giving instant fines.”

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■ AIR NEW ZEALAND

Passengers complain of ‘debacle’ Passengers have reported spending $120 on taxis and missing a day’s work after an Air NZ flight to Queenstown wound up back in Auckland.

Last Wednesday, an Air NZ flight from Auckland at 2.20pm had to be redirected to Christchurch after strong tailwinds prevented it from landing at Queenstown.

The plane then returned to Auckland five hours later.

Passengers accused the airline of poor communication and treating them “like cattle” after the debacle left them right back where they started.

After touching back down in Auckland about 7pm, the passengers of Air NZ flight 623 were booked into the Holiday Inn airport hotel for the night and put on a flight back to Queenstown for the next morning.

But one passenger said those living in Auckland were not compensated and had to find their own way to and from the airport.

“We were told that Auckland residents were expected to return home and return to the airport the following day,” the woman said.

“This meant for me a $120 taxi ride home and a 5.30am start back to the airport the following morning.

“Although we arrived safely in Queenstown to whooping and applause I lost a day’s work and was exhausted. No compensation for transport home in Auckland and

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During the flight, however, attendants and crew were “terrific”, she said.

Another woman on the flight said there had been poor communication during the flight.

An attendant told her row mate there was a one-and-a-half hour wait for the domestic gates, and there also were not enough seats from Christchurch to Queenstown the next day for everyone.

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“I was not aware of any anger or frustration by the passengers. The plane was cool with lots of fresh air, no one appeared visibly angry and there were no raised or angry voices.

“I can understand it was difficult for parents, but it is a gross exaggeration to say people were losing their minds. It was an inconvenience – but that can happen when flying.”

An Air NZ spokeswoman told the Herald the reason passengers could not disembark in Christchurch was because the plane was parked at an international gate.

This meant the passengers would have needed to make their way through Customs on arrival, which Air NZ said was not usual process for customers travelling domestically.

“Customers were not offered the opportunity to disembark in Christchurch as this would have caused significant further delays for the majority of customers still onboard while the corresponding baggage was located and offloaded and clearance was arranged through Customs,” the spokeswoman said.

As much was done as possible to make the passengers’ redirected flight tolerable, including making tea, coffee, water and snacks available to passengers, she said.

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However, none of this information was relayed to other customers, she said.

Back in Auckland, customers spent another hour waiting in line to arrange accommodation.

“With the number of Air New Zealand staff employed, and the fact that there were no flights checking in at that time, I would have expected at least one or two other staff to be present.”

She, too, said she was offered no compensation for organising accommodation with family, and missing a day of work.

“While everyone understood the flight was aborted for safety reasons, the lack of communication on the flight and once we landed left a lot to be desired.”

Passengers Joel Herbert and Kimberly Davis were on board with their 16-monthold baby and told the Herald what happened on the Christchurch airport tarmac and from that point on was a “shambles”.

“People were losing their minds, they were incredibly angry, particularly people who were coming in from overseas, who only have a finite amount of time in the South Island, they’d lost an extra day,” Herbert said.

Another woman on the flight praised the crew and the captain, and disputed that people were “losing their minds”.

“The captain was very clear why we could not land and Christchurch was the obvious choice to go to.

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TERRACE VIEW MANAGEMENT

Name: Donna Coxshall

• Recording and management of all facility accidents/incidents and complaints • Attend resident meetings • Join in activities and outings with residents • Market available apartments • Meet and show prospective clients around our facility • Oversee refurbishment of our apartments when they become available • Meet with residents one on one

How long have you worked at Terrace View for?

14 months Position: Facility manager

What does your job entail? As a facility manager I am accountable for the day-to-day running of Terrace View Retirement Village.

My role includes• Ensuring we have appropriately skilled staff members to meet the needs of our residents • That we meet all legislation that governs the operating of the facility and agreements with funders (DHB/MOH) and the Health and Disability sector standards.

These are just some of the things I do. To assist me in meeting this demanding role I have a clinical care manager (Cathy Salcedo) and a team of staff who are committed to providing the best service and support available to our

residents.

How does it benefit the residents? It is our intent to excel at delivering services that exceed expectations by being the aged-care provider of choice in our region. This will be achieved through provision of excellent care and services in a welcoming warm and safe environment which meets the unique individual needs of each resident at Terrace View Retirement Village. Residents can relax knowing that we promote best practice in all that we do. We have a team of highly skilled staff who are very professional in what they do and are focused on putting the resident first.

What is special about working at Terrace View?

The residents, staff, environment and atmosphere. I have worked In Aged Care for many years and Terrace View Retirement Village staff are very passionate in what they do. They have created a warm and welcoming environment that gives the feeling that we are all family here. The care they provide to their residents is to a very high standard. They are very clear that the resident is their centre of focus and I’m very proud to lead this team.

RECEPTION Name: Jo Pratt How long have you worked at Terrace View for?

I have been here since the village opened in November 2013.

Position: Office manager What does your job entail? There as so many aspects to running the main office/reception area. I am here to help any visitors to the village, either visiting a resident or wanting to look around. I do the monthly accounts,

ordering, keep records up to date and a multitude of other day-to-day jobs. There is always something to keep me busy.

How does it benefit the residents? I am here to help with any non-nursing queries residents have. This involves making hair appointments with our in-house hairdresser, podiatrist appointments or arranging transport. Money is held in a ‘comfort fund’ for residents so they don’t have to worry about misplacing it and

they come to reception If they want to get money out. We try to make the transition into our village as easy as possible.

What is special about working at Terrace View?

I enjoy working with the elderly. It is rewarding being around to help in any way possible to make their lives as easy and uncomplicated as possible, whether it is helping them to find something, or just being there for a chat.

I now work three days a week and Annette

NURSES/HCA Name: Lynette Piduhan

How long have you worked at Terrace View for? 3 years and 7 months Position: Registered nurse

What does your job entail? My job entails planning, assisting and intervening and evaluating residents’ needs. I am also in charge of coordinating teams efforts for holistic care.

How does it benefit the residents? It benefits my residents in that they are

Glassey two days a week which works really well for both of us and means that the reception area is always covered by someone the residents and their families know.

I also enjoy working with other staff to make TerraceView a happy and caring environment for our residents - that is the most important job of all.

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able to receive attention that is appropriate to their changing needs.

Name: Stephanie Woods

How long have you worked at Terrace View for? 3 years and 3 months

What is special about working at Terrace View? Our residents have always been appreciative of what we do. We have a fantastic, dynamic interdisciplinary team. Each one of us contributes to making Terrace View a pleasant place to live in for the residents and a happy environment for work.

Position: Head chef/kitchen manager What does your job entail? My main priority of my job entails cooking for all residents and ensuring they get their nutritional needs met. I also do all food and stock orders while keeping to our budget. I could not do my job without the hardworking team that I have backing

me up every day. As I get on with all my team, I still need to ensure all hygiene and cleaning is kept up to audit standards.

How does it benefit the residents?

All food and nutrition requirements for each individual resident are being met. We have regular resident meetings so they can come forward with any complaints or suggestions so we can better understand what we can change if need be to make their home more comfortable.

What is special about working at Terrace View? Terrace View is special because we are like one big family. There are many different cultures coming together as one to make an enjoyable home for all residents. It makes me feel proud being able to provide for them all, and seeing them smile and laugh while enjoying their food.

• Two care suites • One studio • One-bedroom apartment • Five acres of extensive grounds and gardens • Independent 1 or 2 bedroom apartments with either garages or parking spaces • Serviced apartments or studios • Rest home or hospital • Village community room/theatre • Café/bar and lounges • Great open space

call in anytime to look at our available options

CALL TODAY FOR MORE INFORMATION Donna Coxshall 03 307 6140 – FACILITY MANAGER 37 Carters Terrace, Tinwald, Ashburton 7700 | www.terraceview.co.nz

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Call for compassion Insurance companies are being urged not to skip out on Townsville residents left to clean up the damage left behind by floodwaters that swamped much of the far north Queensland city.

Deputy Premier and Treasurer Jackie Trad has invited insurers to meet her there after media reports that claimants who had lost their insurance documents were not being paid out.

“Some of the assessments have been very brash and on the spot, rather than allowing residents and households to compile the information and have a conversation with the insurance companies and claim assessors,” Ms Trad said. “(But households) want compassion, and they want a responsive organisation that understands that they are going through a traumatic event.”

The Insurance Council of Australia says it will hold two forums in Townsville in coming weeks to guide policyholders about making a claim.

A disaster declaration for Townsville was lifted yesterday, and there are bipartisan calls for insurers not to ditch residential

and commercial flood victims as they grapple with a rush of mould.

But the mopping up will not be helped by the hot and humid heatwave conditions the Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting for Townsville this week.

About 13,560 insurance claims amounting to more than $165 million have been lodged after more than a year’s rainfall was dumped on large swathes of north and western Queensland within days. Ms Trad says more than 500 government buildings, including schools and social housing, are among the affected properties.

Owners of businesses at the Fairfield Central Shopping Centre in the southern suburbs have told Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington they won’t get help from their insurers, she says.

“These hard working family businesses have done the right thing, they’ve paid their premiums and now they have been devastated by this disaster,” Ms Frecklington said. “It is clear they have been affected by storm water.”

Authorities are still searching for a 35-year-old Townsville man who went

missing in floodwaters on Friday.

Meanwhile, the financial impact on individual farmers in the state’s interior and the broader cost to the economy may not be known for weeks.

Rural communities from Longreach to Charters Towers, and north to Kowanyama on Cape York Peninsula, remain surrounded by floodwaters.

Drought-stricken graziers, who are estimated to have lost a staggering 300,000 head of cattle, have been using helicopters to find their surviving cattle.

Nigel Simmons is one of them.

He has lost up to 60 per cent of his herd, including a majority of the young cattle that would give his family an income over the next two to three years. “Financially it will be very hard for us,” he said yesterday.

“But for people who only have country around here, and have lost most of their breeding herd, I really feel for them.”

Posts online show graziers using jetskis to walk their horses for kilometres to get out of floodwaters, and others have spoken of seeing mobs of up to 500 head of dead cattle stacked up in paddocks. - AP

Miley Ray Hemsworth

Miley changes name Meet Miley Ray Hemsworth. That’s right, Miley has officially changed her last name after she tied the knot with Liam Hemsworth. Liam revealed it was it was her idea to change her last name after the couple’s secret wedding in December.

Liam, who is starring in the upcoming movie Isn’t It Romantic, spoke on the television show Live With Kelly and Ryan and discussed his relationship with Miley.

During the interview, he interrupted the TV host Kelly Ripa after she referred to his wife as Miley Cyrus. “Miley Ray Hemsworth now, actually.”

- AP

■ UNITED STATES

Warren announces presidential bid US Senator Elizabeth Warren says she’s running for president, adding a fierce advocate of economic populism to an already crowded field of Democrats vying for the presidency in 2020.

Warren, a Harvard Law School professor-turned-politician, may be the most well-known figure to enter the presidential race. Since being elected to the Senate in 2012, Warren has stood at the most progressive end of the Democratic party, advocating higher taxes on the wealthy and consumer protections.

Her platform includes a tax on the richest 75,000 Americans.

“Hard working people are up against a small group of people that holds far too much power, not just in our economy but also in our democracy,” Warren said at a rally announcing her presidential bid in

Lawrence, Massachusetts. “We are here to say enough is enough.”

She called President Donald Trump a “product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.”

The 69-year-old Massachusettsan has already become a main target of Trump, who has dubbed her Pocahontas for previously identifying herself as a Native American, a controversy that has plagued the run-up to her candidacy.

Trump invoked the controversy when he ridiculed Warren on Saturday, tweeting: “Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore?”

“See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” he added.

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Kate Middleton

Kate enters flower show

Elizabeth Warren

The Duchess of Cambridge has helped design a “back to nature garden” for the Chelsea Flower Show. Kate designed the woodland wilderness garden alongside landscape architects Andree Davies and Adam White, and the Royal Horticultural Society. Kensington Palace said the garden will help “inspire families to get outside and explore nature together”.

The garden’s centrepiece will be a high platform tree house, clad in stag horn oak that draws inspiration from a bird or animal nest. It will also feature a swing seat, rustic den and a campfire as well as tree stumps, stepping stones and a hollow log for children to play on.

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■ BRITAIN

Prince Philip gives up driver’s licence Prince Philip has surrendered his driving licence as prosecutors consider whether to bring charges over a crash that injured two women.

Philip, 97, voluntarily gave up his credentials to Norfolk Police at the weekend.

Police said a file on the investigation into the crash last month had been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.

A CPS statement said the file would be reviewed before a decision to charge or not was brought, and noted that prosecutors “will take this development into account”.

One lawyer had previously suggested the duke could avoid any potential prosecution for driving without due care and attention by giving up his licence.

Philip apologised for his part in the accident on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk when his Land Rover Freelander collided with another car, leaving two women

Prince Phillip needing hospital treatment.

On Saturday, a statement from Buckingham Palace said “the Duke of Edinburgh has taken the decision to voluntarily sur-

render his driving licence”.

Norfolk Police confirmed Philip had voluntarily surrendered his licence to officers.

“We review each file carefully before a decision is made and will take this development into account,” police said.

Philip’s driving woes began on January 17 when his car flipped over after he pulled out into a busy A road and collided with a Kia, carrying a nine-month-old boy, his mother and another passenger.

He escaped injury, but passenger Emma Fairweather broke her wrist and called for the duke to be prosecuted if he was found to be at a fault.

On Saturday, she told the Sunday Mirror: “Undoubtedly the roads will be safer now. It [the decision] won’t have been easy for him to make as it is a loss of independence. But he can work around it.”

- AP

Tamati Coffey

Coffey to be a dad Labour MP Tamati Coffey and his partner are expecting a baby. The MP for Waiariki made the announcement today at the Big Gay Out on the main stage alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. “I wanted to seize the opportunity at the biggest gay event in the country right now to share the news me and my partner over there are expecting a baby in July.” His words were met with huge cheers and applause from the packed audience.

Coffey and his partner Tim Smith have been together for over a decade, and had a civil union in 2011.

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David Bishop prepares to connect with a forehand return during an A grade tennis game on Saturday.

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Judge Leonie Green casts an eye over a line-up of riders and their ponies during the Mill Creek Pony Club Show on Saturday.

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Looking to return a forehand during an A grade tennis match on Saturday was Gareth Evans.

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Strutting their stuff at the Mill Creek Pony Club Show on Saturday were Piper Harvey and Hillbilly Ambition.

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Above - No point trying to stay clean, as kids including Hunter Lill found out.

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Flying before sliding was among techniques deployed at the mudslide day.

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All it took was heaps of water and dirt and heaps of fun, to keep kids, including Jacob Olsen, happy.

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The Mania-O-Roto event was the perfect way to cool off in Ashburton yesterday as temperatures climbed over 30 degrees.

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Pouring himself into art One of the more adventurous ways to apply paint onto a canvas is by simply pouring it.

This is proving to be a satisfying way of working for Lincoln artist John Bromley, who will be guest artist at the Ashburton Society of Arts summer exhibition opening this month.

“While the practice of pouring paints is certainly not a new way to apply paint, achieving consistent and excellent results can be frustrating, messy and costly. One needs to be careful not to create a mud pie,” Bromley said.

“It is vital to the process to conduct experiments to gain knowledge of what the critical controlling factors are.”

He said for his series of paintings created in this manner he had mixed fluid acrylic medium and acrylic ink together.

“Once mixed it is poured on to the canvases and the developing puddles are blended by tilting the canvas boards.

“I consider the results have been amazing.”

Bromley is originally from Christchurch and said it was his art teacher, Yvonne Rust, at Christchurch West High School who motivated him to be different with his artwork.

He elected not to go to art school, instead becoming a primary school teacher and principal. In 2005 he established himself as a full-time artist in Lincoln and has successfully exhibited throughout New Zealand.

His large body of work includes both traditional and abstract works, which are held in many private collections here and overseas.

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Taking the time to look at art

Ashburton Society of Arts members, including (from left) Val Henderson, Jane Rant and Amy White, are more often creating art rather than viewing it.

But they visited Ashburton Art Gallery last week as part of a new initiative by the gallery to host members regularly and take them on tours of exhibitions under way.

As part of the visit they also did an art activity (pictured).

“We are hoping this will become a regular thing,” said curator Shirin Khosraviani.

“Because the society members are busy at Short Street Studio making art and we love to have them here looking at art as well, it’s a nice relationship to build.”

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■ February 11 – Sandra Dryland’s Art – A Celebration. Exhibition underway at Mt Hutt Memorial Hall Methven after opening yesterday at 2pm. Come and see works from this talented and thoughtful artist, a valued member of the Ashburton Society of Arts who passed away last year.

■ February 17 – Ashburton Society of Arts Summer Exhibition begins at Short Street Studio, guest artist John Bromley. Runs to March 17.

■ February 17 – Swedish folk/ Americana artist Sofia Talvik in concert, open hat, at Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 7.30pm.

■ To February 17 – The Process of Place, exhibition by Clive Humphreys, at Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ To February 22 - Fluid Scape exhibition, featuring works by Sandra Hussey, at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ February 23 – Ryan Neville and the Midnight Blues Showband at Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 8pm.

■ March 18 – Tutus on Tour, Royal New Zealand Ballet, at Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ To March – Croactus by Tony Bond at Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ March 19 – Mockingbird, Ashburton Trust Event Centre at 7.30pm. Based on the true stories of four generations of women and their devilish alter egos, Mockingbird is a tonguein-cheek portrayal of postnatal distress, which affects approximately one in seven women and many men every year.

■ April 7 – Get Coloured by CainInspire Colour Fun Run, April 7 10am-noon, Lake Hood.

■ April 15 – Cats the musical at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 7.30-10pm.

■ May 1 – The Adele and Amy Songbook tribute band. Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ May 24–June 1: Sister Act! Variety Theatre of Ashburton.

■ If you have any arts diary listings please email susan.s@theguardian.co.nz

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ard work, dedication and common sense are combining to keep Mid Cantabrians safe as the fire risk soars this week.

Yesterday afternoon Ashburton climbed over 31 degrees, reaching the MetService’s top spot as the hottest place in the country, following holding the same honour the day before when it hit 31.5 degrees.

The hot weather is nice for a trip to the lake or the beach, or a day by the swimming pool, but our rural firefighters are on tenterhooks.

Last year was the wettest year for 40 years in Mid Canterbury.

The rain gauge brimmed over the 1000 millimetre mark for the first time since 1978.

This had a positive effect of weeds in and around the rivers being flushed out in floods, so the fire risk has been reduced there.

However, roadsides, treelines and other bare areas have had a lot of growth, and now they are drying out.

In this situation it takes just a spark to start a fire, and for that fire to get away on itself.

A classic case in point is in Tasman where more than 2600

people have been evacuated from their homes as a fire covering about 2300 hectares rages.

One can only feel sorry for the contractor ploughing a paddock in Pigeon Valley whose machinery is believed to have sparked the blaze. He must feel terrible.

Here we have had our own dramas, as a fire started from the back of a combine harvester at Lauriston yesterday.

Flames quickly took off in the surrounding wheat paddock.

Firefighters were on the scene immediately and quickly set up a detour as thick smoke billowed across Thompsons Track. Smoke could be seen across the Canterbury Plains from the blaze, which firefighters were able to bring under control and confine to the paddock.

It followed some close calls earlier in the weekend.

Mayfield rural unit members were called to a tractor fire and a grass fire, the latter potentially sparked by a discarded cigarette butt.

Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the September 11 attacks.

In 2012, pop singer Whitney Houston, 48, was found dead in a hotel room bathtub in Beverly Hills, California.

In 2013, with a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation.

Ten years ago: President Robert Mugabe swore in longtime rival Morgan Tsvangirai as Zimbabwe’s prime minister.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama, during a joint White

House news conference with French President Francois Hollande, vowed to come down like “a ton of bricks” on businesses that violated Iranian sanctions while nuclear negotiations were under way.

One year ago: A Russian passenger plane crashed into a snowy field six minutes after taking off from Moscow, killing all 65 passengers and six crew members; investigators would blame human error, saying the pilots had received flawed air speed readings after failing to

turn on a heating unit for the measurement equipment.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Conrad Janis is 91. Fashion designer Mary Quant is 85. Actress Tina Louise is 81. Bandleader Sergio Mendes is 78. Actor Philip Anglim is 67.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is 66. Actress Catherine Hickland is 63. Singer Sheryl Crow is 57.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is 55. Actress Jennifer Aniston is 50. Actor Damian Lewis is 48. Actress Marisa Petroro is 47. Singer D’Angelo is 45. Actor Brice Beckham is 43. Rock M-C/

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The tractor fire was put out straight away thanks to fellow drivers in the paddock having extinguishers on board.

Mt Somers members attended a small grass fire on Saturday afternoon, believed to have been caused by an electric fence earthing.

The farmer was on the scene immediately and basically had the fire out, but he called emergency services as a precaution.

Mid Cantabrians working on the land are a pretty clued up lot, and will be deploying as many risk-reducing strategies as they can.

They are backed up by our highly skilled and hardworking firefighters, who give up their precious time to keep us all safe.

vocalist Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) is 42. Singer-actress Brandy is 40. Actor Matthew Lawrence is 39. Rhythm-andblues singer Kelly Rowland is 38. Actress Natalie Dormer is 37. Singer Aubrey O’Day is 35.

Actress Q’orianka Kilcher is 29.

Actor Taylor Lautner is 27.

Thought for today: “Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.” — Augusta Jane Evans, American novelist (1835-1909).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2019. There are 323 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On February 11, 1990, South African black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.

On this date: In 1531, the Church of England grudgingly accepted King Henry VIII as its supreme head.

In 1864, recommended for a Victoria Cross after rescuing a soldier under fire at Waiari, near Pirongia, Charles Heaphy was given the decoration in 1867. nzhistory.govt.nz In 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognising the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.

In 1937, a six-week-old sit-down strike against General Motors ended, with the company agreeing to recognise the United Automobile Workers Union.

In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement, in which Stalin agreed to declare war against Imperial Japan following Nazi Germany’s capitulation.

In 1968, New York City’s fourth and current Madison Square Garden, located on Manhattan’s West Side at the site of what used to be the Pennsylvania Station building, opened with a “Salute to the USO” hosted by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.

In 1986, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was released by the Soviet Union after nine years of captivity as part of an East-West prisoner exchange.

In 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded Harry Whittington, a companion during a weekend quail-hunting trip in Texas.

In 2008, the Pentagon charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other detainees at

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arliament resumes tomorrow from the summer recess. There’s often a view expressed that Parliamentary recess equates to a holiday, but for most electorate MPs we’ve been back working for weeks.

The reason for that is simple.

The issues that many in our community have don’t go away.

In fact for some, the stress of the holiday period and that many of our Government and community agencies take some well-deserved time off, do exacerbate them.

In the past few weeks in my Ashburton office, and further south in Timaru, we’ve seen a sharp rise in issues as diverse as immigration, ACC, health and disability, and road safety.

In most cases we’ve been able to help. Ultimately that’s my job as your local MP, to help where I can whenever someone might have a problem.

A few weeks ago in this newspaper I wrote about the discussion going around Parliament of a four-year term.

I expressed some scepticism, but also my concern that too

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many of our politicians seem keen to write off the first year of our three-year term as “getting your feet under the table” and the third year for campaigning.

That’s unfortunately been underlined in recent days by the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claiming that 2019 will be the Government’s “year of delivery”.

I just don’t subscribe to that.

Governments, and all Members of Parliament, should be ready to go from day one.

It’s an important job we’re expected to do and we should be prepared for it.

Right now the opposition National Party are deep in policy development.

We spent last year seeking ideas and looking at new solutions to the challenges New Zealand

faces. This year we’ll be releasing eight policy discussion documents and holding more public meetings around the country on areas like education, crime, and climate change.

We’re doing the work that opposition parties should do, to avoid the 220 working groups the Government have established at a cost of more than $300 million.

The work that’s needed to avoid policy disasters like KiwiBuild, the Provincial Growth Fund, and tightening the screws on immigration.

With grand plans of building 100,000 houses over ten years, and despite being handed $2 billion to do it with, Housing Minister Phil Twyford has admitted he won’t come close to his first year target of 1000 new homes.

Sixteen months into Government, he’s scrapped the target having delivered just 47 houses.

If that’s bad, consider Shane Jones for a moment. Given a billion dollars a year to dole out, with claims he’ll deliver upwards of 10,000 new jobs in regional New Zealand, he’s delivered 54 at a cost of $460,000 per job.

Not bad work, if you can get it. Unfortunately not a cent has yet come to our district, and the fund has actually created two additional bureaucrats for every new job in the regions (118 civil servants to run the fund for the 54 jobs created).

All the while regions like ours are being squeezed by a lack of skilled workers and an Immigration Minister more focused on distractions like his bungled decision to give residency to a convicted drug smuggler, instead of helping law-abiding people who have become part of our community.

I’m hopeful in this so-called year of delivery that things will improve. But the question remains: why did we have to wait so long?

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■ RUSSIA

End of the imperialist line D

ashing through the centuries, I devoured An Illustrated History of the Romanovs as the train thundered through Siberia on its way to Yekaterinburg. I was aboard Tsar’s Gold, a private train that ferries 200 passengers along the Trans-Siberian, Beijing to Moscow route.

We started in Beijing, home to one toppled monarch, Emperor Pu-Yi and we were about to arrive in Yekaterinburg where another emperor was felled.

We’d been travelling for 12 days and had fallen into a comfortable routine of wining, dining and reclining. It was a rare treat to find myself with time to kill – my quarry: a weighty tome recounting the scurrilous lives of Romanov emperors and empresses.

Twenty-two monarchs and three centuries to digest but it was page-turning stuff and gory to boot.

I had 7621km and 15 days to reach the final chapter: “Tsar Nicholas II and the demise of the imperial family.”

Back in 1917, the 300-year-old dynasty balanced precariously on a legacy of murder, intrigue and treachery, nudged ever closer to the precipice by a hundred million hungry serfs: hungry for land; hungry for change and just plain hungry.

Russian royalty was peculiarly immune to the suffering of its people, but Empress Alexandra was something else.

She was fanatically religious.

Her short-sightedness greatly exceeded the horizon of her royal contemporaries and the Russian people hated her for it. Her husband was equally unpopular and though their children were innocents, they carried the Romanov name, a regal moniker and death warrant.

I knew how this one was going to end, so I decided to steel myself for the final chapter with vodka.

I peeked over the leather book binding at the stash of booze I had in my double cabin.

When we stopped in Ulan Ba-

Tim Warrington visits the place where Nicholas II and his family were slaughtered.

The Church on Blood, built on the site of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where Nicholas II and his family were shot. tor, I’d done a spot of shopping.

Browsing the alcohol aisle at the local supermarket quickly turned to buying and I stocked up on the good stuff. It had to be vodka.

And it had to be Genghis Khan, but silver, gold or platinum?

“Very good. Try all,” said the shop assistant with a face like old parchment.“And this one, too,” she mumbled.

“This: very good,” she said as she dropped another in my trolley. And another.

Back on the train, in my cabin, a dozen Genghis Khan vodka labels eyeballed me from the other bunk and I was again faced with

the dilemma of “which one?”

Somewhere, the distant voice of the shop assistant echoed in my memory — “try all” ... so I did.

The next thing I remembered was the screech of steel on steel heralding our scheduled stop.

We had arrived in Yekaterinburg.

Sobriety restored, I attempted to wrangle my bed hair, squinting at the cabin’s huge mirror.

I became giddy with excitement. I was about to visit the exact place the royal family, toppled and then banished to this industrial outpost, were murdered, almost a century ago.

I emerged from my cabin

somewhat dishevelled.

I joined my fellow travellers for the short trip from the station to the site of the execution.

There had been a residence, the Ipatiev House or House of Special Purpose, where the family were slain, but in 1977 Boris Yeltsin ordered it demolished.

Following the collapse of the USSR, the Church on Blood was constructed and became a major place of pilgrimage.

To mark the centenary, a chapel had been built in the crypt, exactly where the cellar was — on the spot where the imperial family were slain.

The devout had been camping outside for days and had walked the 20km or so from the church to the site where the bodies were buried. And back again.

My first impression of the site of the Romanov executions was that the modern cathedral built there had escaped some of the wilder excesses of the rococo, but the gilded domes seemed at odds with the humble congregation of pilgrims milling about. I made my way downstairs to the crypt where an exhibition displayed grand portraits of the martyred family.

In 1917, there were about 65 members of the imperial family, 18 of those were killed during the revolution – seven right where I was standing. The Tsar’s brother was shot in a forest along with his English equerry, and the Empress’ sister Ella was tossed down a mine shaft along with several Romanov grand dukes and princes.

The mood was suitably sombre.

As I rounded the corner into the main shrine, a gaggle of nuns crossed themselves vigorously, crucifixes flying and heavy vestments flapping violently.

All around me there was whispering and praying and signs of the cross and whimpering and tears.

Historians tend to agree that Nicholas II of Russia died instantly in the Ipatiev cellar. His

son, 13-year-old Alexei, did not.

Frozen in fear he remained seated as bodies fell about him. The Empress too perished in the first volley of bullets, experts think.

They say she probably lost her finger as she made the sign of the cross: her final act.

But it took the vodka-touched executioners more than 20 minutes to finish off the royal children, with bayonets and rifle butts: Olga, 22; Tatiana, 21; Maria, 19; Anastasia, 17 and Alexei, 13.

Stories of corsets sewn with royal gems acting as body armour seem vaguely believable.

According to a first-hand account of the murder, bullets did ricochet off the grand duchesses and the tsarevich, who was nursing a cushion filled with diamonds.

As I walked away from the chapel built on the exact site the Romanovs were slaughtered in 1918, I couldn’t shake this mental image from my thoughts. And neither, it seemed, could the hundreds of pilgrims milling about, praying, glassy eyed and lost in thought. An elderly lady with a large portrait of Christ slung about her neck swung at me with her walking stick “No cameras,” she barked in a husky voice heavy with emotion and tobacco.

As I left the chapel I passed an exhibit dedicated to the royal family — huge portraits to either side. The last picture was of Alexei, the heir apparent. I paused.

I asked my Russian guide what she thought of the Romanovs.

“They had to die,” she replied matter of factly.

“But the children ... “ I replied.

“They had to die,” she repeated with rising frustration.

“Is it ever okay to bayonet children?” I called after her.

She didn’t answer.

“You would kill a child?”

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■ CRICKET

Kruger turns destroyer

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An unbeaten 77 from opener Harry Jones helped his Tech Stags side to yet another win in Mid Canterbury Cricket’s Muirhead Rosebowl competition on Saturday.

Playing Coldstream in round four of the competition, the Stags continued their unbeaten Muirhead Rosebowl run with a seven-wicket win to put them in the box seat to add another piece of silverware to their collection this season.

But Coldstream didn’t make it easy for them. Batting first at the

Ashburton Domain they made steady progress, but lost their final four wickets for just 10 runs to finish 161 all out.

Jono Print was Coldstream’s top batsman with 50 runs to his name before becoming one of Bevan Ravenscroft’s three victims, while Ben Niles made 34 before also falling to Ravenscroft.

But it was Des Kruger – better known more recently for his batting exploits – who did most of the damage with the ball for Tech. He was the last bowler to come into the attack and bowled 7.3 overs, taking 5/20, including three of the last four wickets.

With a decent total to chase, Tech’s reply got off to a good start, with William McKee the first wicket to fall for 33 with his side on 55.

His fellow opener wasn’t going anywhere though, with Jones seeing his side home with a knock of 77 not out.

Tech made the target in 39.5 overs for the loss of just three wickets, with Kruger also still there at the end on 16 not out to complete a man of the match performance.

Meanwhile, up the road in Methven, the hosts managed to scrape a team together after

having to default their game the previous week due to only having five players.

But it wasn’t their day, with visitors Lauriston heading away from the Methven Domain with a 174-run win to their names.

Lauriston batted first and made one of the biggest totals of the season so far, finishing up on 304/9, with opener Scott Maher making a fine 71 before Bevan Richan added 73 after coming in at four.

A nine-man Methven struggled to get anything going in reply and were eventually all out for 130 in 32.1 overs.

Minor premiers Hobart reset for BBL finals Having crashed Perth Scorchers’ launch party at Optus Stadium last year, Hobart are acutely aware their BBL minor premiership counts for little in their upcoming semi-final.

The table-topping Hurricanes finished their regular season with a four-wicket loss to Sydney

Thunder on Saturday night.

The club’s fourth loss of a dominant BBL campaign, led by the league’s two leading run-scorers D’Arcy Short and Matthew Wade, had zero effect on their ladder position.

Bookmakers suggest Hobart remain the team to beat in the

playoffs, which start with the Hurricanes hosting either Brisbane Heat or Melbourne Stars in a knockout fixture.

However, the BBL’s short history is littered with examples of minor premiers folding in the last four. Perth did exactly that in 2018, winning eight of 10 games

then suffering a 71-run loss in the first BBL game at the city’s new stadium.

“Calls for a rejigged BBL finals system, which might reward the top-ranked team with either a double chance or direct entry to the final, have been ignored by Cricket Australia.

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The White Ferns completed the sweep of India but once again they had to work for it, claiming the third Twenty20 match by two runs.

India needed a four of the final ball to claim a consulation victory but could only manage a single off the last ball of the innings delivered by Leigh Kasperek. New Zealand made 161 for seven in their 20 overs with Sophie Devine making an impressive 72 from 67 balls. Devine then took 2-21 as India could only manage 159 for four.

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Ponting tips Aussies Ricky Ponting is adamant the return of Steve Smith and David Warner can propel Australia to World Cup glory despite the team’s recent ODI woes. Ponting, who captained Australia’s triumphant 2003 and 2007 World Cup sides, has been appointed as an assistant coach for this year’s campaign in England.

“India and England are probably the two standout teams but if you add Warner and Smith into that lineup, I think that team looks as strong as any,” Ponting said. - AAP

England in box seat Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes are unbeaten on half-centuries with England wearing down the West Indies to be a healthy 4-231 at stumps on the first day of their third test. England have already lost the series 2-0 but finally dug in against a bowling attack minus captain Jason Holder, who was banned from the test.

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Wanaka-based Dougal Allan finally got his hands on the Coast to Coast trophy after a decade of trying.

■ COAST TO COAST

Locals to the fore

Among the tired yet happy bunch of people at the finish line of the Coast to Coast multisport race on Christchurch’s New Brighton beach on Saturday afternoon were a number of Mid Cantabrians.

With the course and countless training opportunities just a stone’s throw away, the event – which took competitors from one side of the South Island to the other via foot, bike and kayak – always attracts a number of keen participants from Mid Canterbury, many of whom have been back more than once, and this year was no different.

Among those from Mid Canterbury taking part again this year was Sam Clements-Stewart, who tackled the longest day course for the first time and finished third in the open men’s category and 20th overall, crossing the line in 13.11.36 hours.

Also racing the longest day was

Cameron Harcourt, who finished ninth in the open men’s category in 13.38.59 hours, while Mark Summerfield was 12th in the open men’s one day event in a time of 13.52.29 hours, and Matt Amos was 21st in the open men’s section in a time of 14.33.34 hours.

In the two-day event, Paul Sinclair was seventh overall in a time of 13.24.53 hours, while Ben Aldridge was 16th overall and in a time of 14.01.48 hours.

Methven’s Jarrod Coutts was 24th in the men’s open section in 14.56.19 hours, while Mark Cressey finished in 18.41.47 hours to finish 27th in the men’s 50-59 classic category.

Chris Reid finished in 15.57.15 hours to finish 47th overall in the open men’s category, while his wife Rachel Reid finished in 17.33.59 hours to be 25th in the open women’s category.

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O’Shea was 11th in the open women’s category and 94th overall after coming home in a time of 16.09.5 hours, while Rachel Schmack’s time of 17.32.5 hours was enough to see her eighth in the veteran 4049 women’s category.

Germaine Srhoy finished in 19.24.24 hours to finish 41st in the open women’s category.

When it came to teams, Mid Canterbury’s Penny Costello and Michelle Knight were the first women’s team over the line and ninth overall in a time of 15.05.24 hours.

Team All Torque – James Doyle and James Murdoch – proved to more than just talk in the men’s two-day event, being the ninth men’s team across the line.

They were fourth in their veteran men’s category and the 26th team overall with their time of 16.03.58 hours.

Celtic sports clubs were also celebrating the success of their

members, with Anna Holland and Donald Summerfield combining to cross the line as the first mixed team home in a time of 14.39.22 hours, while Paddy Strange and Paul Summerfield teamed up to finish sixth in the veteran men’s category in a time of 16.21.17 hours.

For the three-person teams, the Mt Hutt College team of George Seque, Isabelle Talbot and Louis Bryson-Boe were in sublime form, finishing second in the schools’ category and 27th overall in a time of 15.45.33 hours.

Ashburton man Graeme Oates combined with Vincent Labat and Dave Reeve to finish in 15.28.11 hours to be third overall in the veteran category, and 24th overall.

In the tandem teams’ events, the team of Amy Ferguson and Anna Johnson finished in 20.45.20 hours to finish eighth in the women’s open category.

■ TENNIS

Barty, Keys set up for titanic clash

Australia’s Fed Cup hopes will largely rest on the shoulders of Ashleigh Barty with the tie against the US in North Carolina locked at 1-1 heading into an intense final day.

Barty is happy to carry the load.

The world number 13 from Ipswich will play two of the three

remaining rubbers, including a titanic singles clash with American ace Madison Keys.

“No pressure at all,” Barty said after winning yesterday’s opening singles rubber 6-1 7-6 (7-2) against US number two, Sofia Kenin.

“For me it is an opportunity

to go out there and play for my country and enjoy the fact I have the privilege of putting on the green and gold and wearing Australia on my back.”

Keys, ranked 17th in the world, evened the tie with a convincing 6-2 6-2 win over Queensland’s Kimberly Birrell at Asheville’s US

Cellular Center indoor arena.

The Barty-Keys singles clash this morning could dictate the winner of the world group first round tie.

“That’s what you want on day two – the number ones going at it,” Australian team captain Alicia Molik said.

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Dougal Allan and Simone Maier have taken out the men’s and women’s Coast to Coast longest day titles in what was a close race in both fields.

After finishing second in three previous efforts, Allan finally broke his duck to cross the finish line with a time of 11:15:00.

In a field that didn’t include any previous winners, the men’s title was always going to be tough to call – and it turned out to be one of the closest in recent memory.

The Wanaka based athlete fended off a stern challenge from runner-up Sam Manson of Christchurch (11:30:04) and Australian Alex Hunt (11:39:34) who finished in third, with the three competitors battling within minutes of each other halfway through the kayaking stage.

It was always going to come down to where Allan, one of the strongest cyclists in the field, would end up out of the water and when he came out of the kayaking stage in front, he made no mistake in the cycle leg and stormed home to take his first win.

With his son Flynn sitting on his lap, the 33-year-old said coming back to race in his first Coast to Coast since 2013 was a chance to make amends and set an example for his kids.

“Flynn here and Matilda (Allan’s daughter), they’re my world,” he said after the race.

“A big part of coming back was to set an example to them that you’ve got to reach for your goals, and success is never guaranteed, but I just wanted them to see that I had the courage to come and have a crack.

“It’s been six years since my last shot at it. I was probably guilty of fearing failure in a way.

“It’s really a career highlight.

This race, it means a lot to me and I’ve been trying to win it for the best part of a decade.”

The women’s race was equally eventful, with Christchurchbased Maier also becoming a first-time winner, beating fourtime champ Elina Ussher of Finland (13:07:10) and Ireland’s Fiona Downling (13:09:17).

Maier was nearly speechless after crossing the line in 12:58:36, finally taking the championship in her third attempt.

“I don’t know [how I feel]. I need to give it some time,” she said.

“I put a lot of time and effort into this event and I guess there was a lot of expectation on me – a lot of pressure on myself.

“So to actually finally win the Coast is pretty amazing.”

It didn’t, however, go smoothly for Maier, who crashed her bike into a van and was then given a two-minute penalty for an incorrect transition.

“I was just smashing it down and the next thing there was a corner and I was just flying ... next thing I didn’t make the corner,” she said about the crash.

“I was like oh s*** my race is over.”

In the two-men tandem event, All Blacks great Richie McCaw and partner Rob Nichol finished in fourth in the open men’s category, improving from sixth after a difficult first day.

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■ TENNIS

Finish line in sight for Tinwald Tinwald notched up a 4-2 win over Allenton on Saturday to ensure their kept hold of their spot at the top of the table in the Mid Canterbury Tennis A grade competition.

In sweltering conditions at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre on Saturday, Tinwald’s win was set up by wins in both of the doubles matches, with Peter Leonard and Henry Ross combining to take down Andre van Rooyen and Bryn Looij in the top doubles 6-4 6-4, while Ryan Watt and Dianna Leonard made it two from two with a 6-1 6-3 win over Matt Bubb and Jacob Pye. Peter Leonard and van Rooyen then battled it out in what was the match of the day in the top singles match, with Leonard eventually coming out on top in a tense third set super tie-break 6-3 2-6 1-0 (108), while Dianna Leonard’s 6-0 6-1 win over Pye in the four singles wrapped it up for Tinwald.

Allenton’s two wins came courtesy of Ross, who downed Looij 6-2 7-5 at two, and Bubb, who beat Watt 6-4 6-2 at three.

The win meant Tinwald stayed at the top of the table and with only one round to go, Fairton were the only team capable of stopping them from taking out the round two title.

Fairton had moved into second spot heading into Saturday’s round, and remained there thanks to a 4-2 win over Hampstead on Saturday.

The doubles matches were shared, with Connor Brosnahan and Neil McCann taking out the top doubles for Hampstead 6-3 6-4 over Fairton’s Rhys Cromie and Tyler Leonard, while Phil Crozier and John Leslie got one back for Fairton, getting past Hampstead’s Erin Connelly-Whyte and Erin Tasker in the other doubles match 6-3 6-2.

Fairton dominated on the sin-

Mathieu Lucas looks to return a backhand volley during Saturday’s A grade tennis action. gles court though, sealing the overall victory with wins in three of the four games. Cromie beat Brosnahan 6-3 6-4 at number one, Leonard beat Connelly-Whyte 6-2 6-1 at number two, and Crozier beat Christal Brosnahan 6-1 6-2 at number three.

Hampstead’s sole singles win came from Tasker, who beat Leslie 6-1 6-4 at four.

The day’s other match pitted Methven against Southern, and it was Methven that came out on top, also winning 4-2.

Methven started the day well, taking out both of the doubles matches.

In the top doubles Eddie Dargue and Jarrad Hill-Scott got past Jason Feutz and Gareth Evans in a third set super tie-break 4-6 7-5

1-0 (10-7), while David Bishop and Josh Jones downed Mathieu Lucas and Aidan Watt 6-2 6-4.

Methven’s dominance in the lower order continued with Bishop proving too good for Lucas, winning 6-0 6-1 in the three singles and Jones getting past Watt in a third set super tie-break.

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order, winning both the number one and two singles. Feutz beat Dargue 7-5 6-0 while Evans beat Hill-Scott 6-4 6-1.

In A reserve action on Saturday, the Allenton Wekas got past the Methven Diamonds 4-2, and the Allenton Kakapos beat Hampstead 4-2, making it a clean sweep of 4-2 margins across the board in senior tennis on Saturday.

Results from yesterday’s Hororata harness racing at Methven The weather was fine and the track good for the Methven Harness yesterday.

RACE 1 - DUNSANDEL CAFE & BAR/HORORATA TC COMMIT, $8500, 2400m 1-3 You Really Got Me (16) J Dunn 1 6-6 Appearance (10) J Smith 2 3-2 Kash Valley (11) J Curtin 3 Also (in finishing order): 12-14 Fekitoa, 8-8 Sun Swinger, 7-7 Awesome Impee, 4-5 Mikemaro, 1010 Helga’s Monarch, 5-4 One Over Da Son, 9-9 Call Me Trouble, 14-12 About Last Night, 2-1 Ruby Seddon, 11-13 October Trouble, 15-15 Motu Moondancer, 13-11 Halfway There.

1-1/2L, 1/2L, 3/4L. Time: 3:16.60. MR: 2:11.80.

Last 800m: 60.20. Win: $3.30. Places: $2.50, $3.00, $2.30. Quinella: $19.10. Trifecta: $185.40 (16,10,11). First4: $1174.80 (16,10,11,8).

Trainer: Robert Dunn, Woodend Beach. Breeding: 3 g Love You-Rondo.

RACE 2 - PGG WRIGHTSON STANDARDBRED DIVISION MOBI, $8500, 2300m 1-1 Tabitha Franco (12) R May 1 2-2 Ohoka Matty (3) B Orange 2 3-3 Superstar Legend (5) M Williamson 3 Scratched: Shot In The Dark, Szybka Lane.

Also (in finishing order): 8-7 Jaffa, 7-8 Midas Touch, 4-6 Katie Daly, 11-12 Lincoln Toy, 12-11 Jims Mama, 9-9 Markham Eyre, 6-5 Bossmaro, 5-4 Jafa Kitten, 14-14 Nadira Franco, 13-13 Hasta La Vista, 10-10 L J’s Jet. 3/4L, 4-1/2L, 1-1/4L. Time: 2:56.20. MR: 2:03.30.

Last 800m: 60.66. Win: $4.70. Places: $1.70, $2.00, $2.30. Quinella: $8.40. Trifecta: $77.00 (12,3,5). First4: $572.10 (12,3,5,1).

Trainer: Terry May, Methven. Breeding: 4 m Changeover-Treaty Franco.

RACE 3 NUFARM NZ LTD PACE, $8500, 2400m 5-5 Glory Days (7) D White 1

9-7 Victor Tango (2) J Morrison 2 12-13 Franco Hatton (10) R Close 3 Also (finish order): 13-12 Fusitua, 1-1 Mighty Monica, 10-10 Shadow Dancer, 2-2 Strong Enough, 8-6 Smirken, 7-8 It’s Me, 3-4 Koromiko Eyre, 6-9 Social Media, 11-11 Nans Choice, 14-15 Chris Aynsley, 15-14 Motown Bromac, 4-3 Taumalolo.

Lg hd, 3/4L, 3-3/4L. Time: 3:08.20. MR: 2:06.20. Last 800m: 58.72. Win: $9.40. Places: $3.20, $5.50, $9.60. Quinella: $77.00. Trifecta: $2389.60 (7,2,10). First4: Not Struck.

Double: $24.80 (12+/7), $14.60 (12+/2). Treble: $233.50 (16+/12+/7).

Trainer: Derek & Adele Jones, Rolleston. Breeding: 3 f Art Major-Gem Power.

RACE 4 - PHILIP WAREING LTD TROT, $9500, 2400m 10-10 Stellar Success (7) J Morrison 1 3-3 Rocknpop (15) K Tomlinson 2 4-6 Shpeedy (6) J Dunn 3 Scratched: Dolly Jones, Sunny Glenis.

Also (in finishing order): 9-8 Foreigner, 11-11 Aldebaran Bonny, 6-4 BK Dawn, 12-12 Rusty I Am, 1-1 One Over Da Stars, 8-9 Tehoro Tease, 7-7 Clover Lou, 13-13 Fireman, 2-2 Girls Let Loose, 14-15 Diana Harbour, 15-14 Wandering Star, 5-5 Escargo.

3L, 2-3/4L, 1L. Time: 3:08.80. MR: 2:08.70. Last 800m: 62.16. Win: $27.20. Places: $5.40, $2.80, $3.50. Quinella: $110.40. Trifecta: $3876.80 (7,15,6). First4: Not Struck.

Trainer: Michael Heenan, Methven. Breeding: 7 m Great Success-Speedy Nova.

RACE 5 - DJ PEARCE GRAZING & AGISTMENT MOBILE PAC, $9000, 2300m 2-3 Just N Awe (2) B Hope 1 11-11 The Kaik (12) K Butt 2 1-1 Cheezel (6) J Morrison 3

Scratched: Living Legend.

Also (in finishing order): 4-4 Lilac Star, 9-9 Swap Over, 5-5 Mr Midnight, 3-2 Santanna Lad, 8-8 Black Art, 12-12 Pembrook Blue, 6-7 Fun In The Dark, 10-10 Senorita Margarita, 7-6 Fortune Tiller, 13-13 Pay Me Visa.

Nk, Hd, 1L. Time: 2:53.90. MR: 2:01.70. Last 800m: 60.54. Win: $5.50. Places: $2.40, $6.30, $1.80. Quinella: $87.40. Trifecta: $669.50 (2,12,6). First4: $3295.60 (2,12,6,8). Quaddie: $6925.50 (12+/7/7/2). Double: $116.60 (7/2), $249.90 (7/12).

Trainer: G & N Hope, Woodend Beach. Breeding: 4 g American Ideal-Just Rose.

RACE 6 - NEVELE R FILLIES SERIES (HEAT 2) MOBILE , $14999, 1609m 2-1 Bubbled Up (4) T Williams 1 1-2 Kendra (7) R May 2 4-4 Mossdale Art (9) B Hope 3 Scratched: The Diva, Canstar, La Bella Vita.

Also (in finishing order): 6-6 Shecandance, 3-3 Kotare Yolande, 5-5 Anamajor, 7-7 Lilac Becky, 8-8 Refine.

1/2L, 1-1/4L, 1/2L. Time: 1:55.90. MR: 1:55.90. Last 800m: 57.92. Win: $3.50. Places: $1.20, $1.40, $1.90. Quinella: $5.30. Trifecta: $53.90 (4,7,9).

First4: $260.60 (4,7,9,10).

Tr: Purdon/Rasmussen, Rolleston. Breeding: 3 f American Ideal-Speights Girl.

RACE 7 - BUY KIWI MADE MOBILE PACE, $9500, 2300m 5-4 Myboylolliepop (2) B Laughton 1 12-12 Doc Seelster (5) R Houghton 2 13-14 Hot Starff (14) S McNally 3 All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 1-1 Artstanding, 11-11 Beaudiene Gambler, 2-2 Bush Man, 10-9 Sounds Lika Gem, 14-13 Canardly Remember, 4-5 Mr

Asia, 3-3 Shardan Suzie, 7-10 Clarendon Falcon, 8-7 Paul’s Verdict, 9-8 Katamach, 6-6 Lucy Diamond.

3/4L, 2-3/4L, 1/2 nk. Time: 2:53.40. MR: 2:01.30.

Last 800m: 61.77. Win: $28.20. Places: $3.60, $7.30, $11.90. Quinella: $167.30. Trifecta: $12641.30 (2,5,14). First4: Not Struck.

Double: $74.10 (4/2), $60.90 (4/5). Treble: $449.90 (2/4/2).

Trainer: Sue Blake, Lincoln. Breeding: 8 g Lis Mara-Miss Lolliepop.

RACE 8 GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND HORORATA CUP (HCP, $14999, 3000m 2-1 Di Caprio (1) J Morrison 1 1-3 Kotare Cullen (12) J Dunn 2 5-6 Doitson (6) B Butt 3 Also: 12-11 Essence Of Easton, 11-13 Nui Ba Den, 7-7 Johnny Eyre, 4-4 Clasina Maria, 3-2 Gore Bay, 8-8 Go Davey, 9-9 Tuapeka Trick, 13-12 Mogul, 10-10 Miss Big, 6-5 Franco Hampton.

1-1/2L, 3L, 1-1/2L. Time: 3:52.70. MR: 2:04.90.

Last 800m: 55.83. Win: $4.70. Places: $1.70, $2.50, $4.00. Quinella: $10.80. Trifecta: $264.20 (1,12,6). First4: $2633.10 (1,12,6,4).

Sub: Kotare Cullen (12).

Trainer: Brian O’Meara, Rangiora. Breeding: 4 h Shadow Play-Pay Me Girl.

RACE 9 LONZA NZ LTD PACE, $9500, 2400m 3-3 Arocknatthepark (9) G Smith 1 6-5 Corena Lea (10) G O’Reilly 2 9-8 Gotta Future (4) B Orange 3 Also (finishing order): 5-7 I’m Jimmy James, 1-1 Maurice, 8-10 Caesar’s Quest, 2-2 Ultimate Rocker, 11-11 Hes Fast And Furious, 7-6 Unfinished Business, 4-4 Brantley, 13-13 Madame Frost, 1212 Bound To Impress, 10-9 Tombelina.

1/2L, 3/4L, 2L. Time: 3:07.90. MR: 2:06.00.

Last 800m: 57.65. Win: $6.30. Places: $2.20,

$3.10, $4.90. Quinella: $31.00. Trifecta: $685.60 (9,10,4). First4: $2512.70 (9,10,4,8). Double: $25.30 (1/9), $18.20 (1/10).

Trainer: Paul Kerr, Ohoka. Breeding: 3 g A Rocknroll Dance-Toppathepark.

RACE 10 - BAYER NZ LTD HANDICAP TROT, $10000, 2400m 4-2 Time For Diamonds (14) J Ford 1 6-6 Speedy Command (10) B Orange 2 9-9 I’ldoitmyway (4) R Close 3 Also (in finishing order): 2-3 One Over Dover, 10-10 Trick Star, 7-4 We’ll Meet Again, 11-11 Clifden Clowers, 5-7 Sundons Flyer, 12-12 Young Stranger, 13-13 Dolly Jones, 8-8 Tokyo Joe, 15-15 Foreverman, 3-5 One Over Da Skye, 14-14 Don’t Rock The Boat, 1-1 Take After Me (Pulled up).

Hd, 1-1/4L, 1/2 nk. Time: 3:09.70. MR: 2:07.20.

Last 800m: 59.23. Win: $9.90. Places: $2.30, $3.30, $5.20. Quinella: $58.90. Trifecta: $2281.90 (14,10,4). First4: $6834.30 (14,10,4,7).

Trainer: Allan Ford, Rakaia.

RACE 11 - ARYSTA LIFE SCIENCE NZ LTD MOBILE PACE, $10000, 2300m 1-1 Vinnie Rulz (1) B Hope 1 6-6 Three Ideas (13) R May 2 4-5 Feel The Money (12) M Anderson 3 Also: 2-4 Johnny White, 5-3 Overarm, 11-12 One Direction, 9-7 Mini Mine Yet, 7-8 Calendar Girlz, 12-11 Pembrook Legacy, 3-2 Nurburgring, 8-9 Selena Franco, 10-10 Queen Of Glory, 13-13 Clive.

Hd, 2L, 1/2L. Time: 2:52.80. MR: 2:00.9. Last 800m: 58.8. Win: $4.10. Places: $1.90, $3.00, $2.90. Q: $19.80. Tri: $250.80 (1,13,12). First4: $1288.40 (1,13,12,11). Quaddie: $1563.10 (1/9/14/1+). Place6: $2776.60 (4,7+,9/2,5,14/1,6,12+/4,9,10/4,10,14/1+,1 2,13). Double: $19.60 (14/1+), $34.80 (14/13). Treble: $313.80 (9/14/1+).

Trainer: G & N Hope, Woodend Beach.

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In brief Sword derby prospect Cambridge trainer Lauren Brennan has confirmed that her promising three-year-old Sword In Stone is New Zealand Derby bound after a fighting performance for third in Saturday’s Gr.2 Warren Storm Lifebrokers Waikato Guineas. Having just his third raceday start, Sword In Stone was forced to take up an unfamiliar role outside the pacemaker before being edged out by Sponge Bob and Arrogant in a desperate three-way finish. “He fought on very bravely and has pulled up very well. We will push on to the Derby now.”

- NZME

On The Rocks too tough Matamata galloper On The Rocks provided rider Jake Bayliss with his second New Zealand Group One prize when he stormed to victory in the Herbie Dyke Stakes on Saturday. Australian-born Bayliss, who is enjoying his second extended riding stint in New Zealand, had picked up his first elite level victory when successful on Volpe Veloce in the 2018 Sistema Railway (1200m).

Brought to New Zealand in 2017 to ride for trainers Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard, Bayliss repaid their faith with a superb effort to guide On The Rocks to victory at Te Rapa for the Matamata stable.

- NZME

John Morrison has time to smile for the camera as he gets Di Caprio over the line in the Hororata Cup at Methven yesterday.

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Big double for Morrison A Mid Canterbury local stole the show on the Hororata Trotting Club’s annual meeting at Methven yesterday.

Former Ashburton boy, John Morrison, continued his golden run in the sulky this season when he claimed the day’s feature, the Hororata Cup with Di Caprio for legendary trainer Brian O’Meara.

And for good measure, Morrison had already been in the winners’ circle earlier in the day when he made a push for one of the front-running drives of the season on the Methven trained, Stellar Success.

The winning double took Morrison to 31 winners for the season

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and kept him in the hunt for the national junior drivers’ premiership behind leader, Sheree Tomlinson.

Morrison and Di Caprio had won at last weekend’s Geraldine meeting in Orari, but faced a major rise in grade yesterday, not that it stopped them.

Stuck in behind traffic half way down the straight, Morrison found clear air and the showy pacer burst through to claim the feature win.

While many expected Di Caprio to win, the victory of Stellar Success was a little more of a surprise.

Morrison threw caution to the

wind with an all-the-way effort in which he had his rivals off the bit for the entire journey.

When he kicked clear at the top of the straight, Stellar Success had enough of a margin to hold off the late challenge of Rocknpop to claim success.

A seven-year-old mare by Great Success, Stellar Success is raced by the Gorman family by Methven – making for an impressive local victory.

Morrison added placings on both Victor Tango and Cheezel to cap off a good day at the office.

Stellar Success’ victory wasn’t the only Methven success though.

A few races earler Ricky May and his father Terry combined to win with Tabitha Franco for one of New Zealand’s longest standing ownership syndicates, the Strappers Syndicate.

A consistent mare who has been right amongst the action in all her career starts, Tabitha Franco surged to the lead at the top of the straight for May and held too many guns for her rivals, winning impressively.

The Neumann family continued their great start to 2019 when their promising trotter, You Really Got Me won the opening race of the day for Robert and John Dunn.

A pair of elite level victories on the weekend has jockey Troy Harris keen for more as he continues his resurgence from the battle he has had with his weight over the last few years. Forced to ride over fences for a period of time after struggling with his weight, Harris has made a concerted effort to continue his flat-riding career and reaped the benefit at Te Rapa on Saturday. Harris was feeling justifiably satisfied with his efforts yesterday but also eager to continue on the upward path he is currently on.

- NZME

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incorpo- 8 17441 Bigtime Jasmine nwtd ........................L Cole 9 46575 Go Ash nwtd .....................................M Flipp rated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 11 Feb 2019 9 76758 Goldstar Sawyer nwtd ......................S Stone 10 87657 Tumbalaioo nwtd ........................P Ferguson NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 10 58678 Lissadell Marcus 22.16 ................. D Donlon 5 2.20pm MATT CROSS COMMENTATING HERE 18 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 3 1.44 AFFORDABLE PET ACCESORIES C2, 375m MARCH C4/5, 375m 1 1.10pm (NZT) FORMPRO RATINGS FREE EVERY 1 66811 White Comet 21.68 ....................... D Donlon 1 54424 Bigtime Blackie 21.07 ........................L Cole MONDAY C0, 375m 2 65435 Retail Mayhem 21.93 ..................... L Pearce 2 51774 Bigtime Honey 21.98..........................L Cole 1 24333 Bigtime Baxter nwtd ...........................L Cole 3 41342 Barbarossa Boy 22.32................B Goldsack 3 72613 Bigtime Basher 21.25.........................L Cole 2 55225 Sahara Pippa nwtd............................M Flipp 4 86566 Nippa-A-Spot 21.88 ..................J McInerney 4 25376 Fantastic Teddy 21.67 .................A Turnwald 3 5 Cawbourne Rhys nwtd J & ..................D Bell 5 62117 Americano 21.54 G &............. S Fredrickson 5 55661 Bigtime Eve 21.35 ..............................L Cole 4 1 Awesome Quality nwtd.......................L Cole 6 75132 Scoobasi nwtd...................................M Flipp 6 51181 Dynamite Danger 21.61 G & .. S Fredrickson 5 32441 Bigtime Ziggy nwtd.............................L Cole 7 57674 Cawbourne Agar nwtd J & ..................D Bell 7 25337 Mikachu 21.68.............................A Turnwald 6 727 Bigtime Sheer nwtd ............................L Cole 8 86455 Kirkham Coby 21.54 .......................C Morris 8 3F113 Bigtime Emjay 21.69 G & ....... S Fredrickson 7 1 Bigtime Lizzy nwtd .............................L Cole 9 68178 Homebush Belle 22.01..............J McInerney 9 27682 Hard Merch 21.45 G & ........... S Fredrickson 8 34422 Goldstar Wilson nwtd .......................S Stone 10 88x44 Cawbourne Assist 21.65 ..............M Roberts 10 84178 Mahala Bay 22.22 H & ...................... Woods 9 5 Bigtime Cutie nwtd .............................L Cole 4 2.02pm ANDY MCCOOK COMMENTATING HERE 6 2.37pm J P PRINT, PETONE C1, 410m 10 56668 Leslie Albert nwtd ......................B Goldsack 18TH MARCH C2, 375m 1 56462 Blue Precision nwtd ........................C Morris 2 1.27pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS C1, 375m 1 53155 Judge Me Jackie 22.30 .................. L Pearce 2 22635 Pick A Pascal nwtd G & ......... S Fredrickson 1 74474 Apricity 21.82 ..............................A Turnwald 2 26234 Bigtime Marley 22.13 .........................L Cole 3 117 Bigtime Cooper nwtd..........................L Cole 2 78x36 Coco Bango nwtd..................... K Gommans 3 54214 Cawbourne Cruz 21.85 ................M Roberts 4 75853 Broken Wallet 23.83 ................. K Gommans 3 63265 I’ll Be Loyal 22.11 ......................... T Downey 4 17623 Cool Wolf 22.10............................. D Donlon 5 45451 Idol Alan 23.71 ..................................M Flipp 4 22547 Cawbourne Moss 22.08 ...............M Roberts 5 85871 Rambo 22.25 H & ............................. Woods 6 76763 Slam It nwtd ..............................J McInerney 5 43555 Stole Me Wallet 22.12 .............. K Gommans 6 34387 Mitcham Moody 22.34...............J McInerney 7 88657 Alf Tupper nwtd .............................. L A Hunt 6 22361 He’s A Sharkie 21.83 ............... K Gommans 7 32728 Blackjack Man 21.65 ..................B Goldsack 8 57735 Homebush Clint nwtd ............... K Gommans 7 48352 Homebush Rieko nwtd ..............J McInerney 8 13837 Cawbourne Looks 21.46 .......... K Gommans 9 26885 Flying Huey nwtd ..................... K Gommans

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Harris ready for more

10 77686 Choice Lass 24.34 ..........................C Morris

7 2.54 RED SNAPPER SEAFOODS, CHRISTCHURCH

C3, 375m 1 41114 Cawbourne Symsy 21.56 J &..............D Bell 2 41412 Hurricane Al nwtd............................C Morris 3 33563 Eye Kno 21.78 H & ........................... Woods 4 11445 Justa Gift nwtd J & ..............................D Bell 5 54461 Quistis Bale 21.85 ........................M Roberts 6 21125 Bigtime Molly 21.74............................L Cole 7 83124 Little Scamp 21.80 ....................... D Denbee 8 65736 Avedon Film 21.41 ............................M Flipp 9 66782 Tazia 21.56................................... D Denbee 10 15656 Plan Stan 21.76 ............................. L Pearce 8 3.10pm TOTAL BODYSHOP SUPPLIES C4, 375m 1 14453 Reality Check nwtd ......................... K Walsh 2 63433 Thomas William 22.35.................. D Denbee 3 38117 Bigtime Jetty 21.50 ............................L Cole 4 36F43 Hypocritical 21.46 .......................A Turnwald 5 35333 Cawbourne Liz 21.45 ...................M Roberts 6 36751 Three Amigos 21.96 J & .....................D Bell 7 13231 Fancy Fifita 21.68............................C Morris 8 2183F Bigtime Lucy 21.58 ............................L Cole 9 84178 Mahala Bay 22.22 H & ...................... Woods 10 12778 Born Fab 21.60 ...............................S Maher

9 3.26pm OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY C0, 457m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Thrilling Winter nwtd........................ K Walsh 36377 Tuff An’ Spicy nwtd ........................B Mitchell 667 Bigtime Dexter nwtd ...........................L Cole 444 Bigtime Benji nwtd .............................L Cole 8 Bigtime Otis nwtd ...............................L Cole 1 Bigtime Brody nwtd ............................L Cole 573 Bigtime Homie nwtd ...........................L Cole 54425 Race Me Home nwtd ..................B Hodgson 33488 Jetlag Jag nwtd .........................J McInerney 67556 Rockoneva nwtd ..........................B Hodgson 10 3.42 COMMENTATOR’S DAY 18 MARCH C1, 457m 1 54253 Billy Bright nwtd .........................P Ferguson 2 54644 Tuff Treasure nwtd .........................B Mitchell 3 72163 Arm Turner nwtd........................J McInerney 4 36322 Bigtime Alfie nwtd ..............................L Cole 5 33237 Hashtag Blessed 26.68 ................M Roberts 6 31112 Thrilling Trev nwtd ........................... K Walsh 7 111 Bigtime Rocco nwtd ...........................L Cole 8 14846 Odnoc Ankie nwtd ......................P Ferguson 9 57725 Bigtime Sandy 26.15 G &....... S Fredrickson 10 26885 Flying Huey nwtd ..................... K Gommans LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incor- 7 75154 Hot Mayhem 26.71 ........................... P Clark porated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 11 8 38882 Caveman Sam 25.88 ..................B Hodgson Feb 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 4 and 9 43773 Iris Allen nwtd G & ................. S Fredrickson 5 Trebles: 3, 4 and 5 10 87874 Here’s Hemi 26.33 ....................J McInerney 1 4.02pm CITY OF PALMERSTON NORTH GOLDEN 2 4.22pm KAMADA PARK C1/2, 457m CHASE 29TH MARCH C1/2, 457m 1 28441 Kamada Park 26.11 ....................A Turnwald 1 354Fx Millie Prince 26.46......................P Ferguson 2 61658 Bigtime Rosie 26.24 G &........ S Fredrickson 2 11111 Bigtime Lilah 26.22 ............................L Cole 3 42525 Bigtime Forest 26.21 ..........................L Cole 3 53867 Cawbourne Zulu 26.19.................M Roberts 4 56241 Thrilling Eddie nwtd J & ......................D Bell 4 82567 Bigtime Chris 26.32 G & ........ S Fredrickson 5 88x44 Cawbourne Assist 26.16 ..............M Roberts 5 76233 Queen Big League nwtd G & . S Fredrickson 6 43128 Tuff Knight 26.78 ...........................B Mitchell 6 45166 Tuff Mr. Tee 26.55 ..........................B Mitchell 7 61657 Midnight Molly 26.28 ...................B Hodgson

8 44165 Thrilling Amigo nwtd........................ K Walsh 9 5636F Zipping Cobra 26.01 ..........................L Cole 9 43773 Iris Allen nwtd G & ................. S Fredrickson 10 33786 Cawbourne Palmer 25.93 ...........A Turnwald 10 66787 Cawbourne Serina nwtd............... T Downey 4 5.02pm M & M MASTER BUTCHERS C3/4, 457m 3 4.42pm STEVE THE AUCTIONEER DAVIS C3, 457m 1 2x6x1 You Can Be 26.01 ..............................L Cole 1 53711 Electrical Storm nwtd ...................M Goodier 2 32516 Sub Eighteen 26.48 ...........................L Cole 2 52345 Buddy Loaded 26.23 .................. G Hodgson 3 43222 Bigtime Levi 25.75..............................L Cole 3 15432 Bigtime Leads nwtd............................L Cole 4 25542 Ask King Jeff 25.78 ............................L Cole 4 32124 Tommy The Jett 26.48.................A Turnwald 5 74177 Thrilling Billy nwtd ......................P Ferguson 5 13866 Bigtime Talker 26.20 ...........................L Cole 6 28184 Big League Diva 25.95 G &.... S Fredrickson 6 36647 Bigtime Hunter nwtd...........................L Cole 7 54711 Diddilee 25.92 .............................A Turnwald 7 31158 Gunnar Blueblood 26.34 ...........J McInerney 8 41278 Lunch Special 26.14 ..........................L Cole 8 26476 Dyna Vernon 26.06 ......................M Roberts 9 78x71 Bigtime Brucie 26.16 ..........................L Cole

10 5636F Zipping Cobra 26.01 ..........................L Cole

5 5.22pm FAREWELL JACK COOPER C4/5, 457m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

41511 Rumble Soldier nwtd ..................P Ferguson 62154 Fusion Cronulla 25.81 .................A Turnwald 63763 All Black Star 26.10..................E Duganzich 65717 Fare Dodger 26.03 .......................M Goodier 56774 Gray Bale nwtd.............................M Roberts 16111 Monster Fish 25.62 .....................A Turnwald 41653 Shallay Pallay nwtd .....................A Turnwald 35747 Waitohi 26.05 ..............................A Turnwald

LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Classifieds 20 Ashburton Guardian

■ RUGBY

Wales posts record win Wales equalled the longest unbeaten run in their 138-year Test match history as they defeated dogged Guinness Six Nations opponents Italy 26-15 at Stadio Olimpico.

It was Wales’ 11th successive victory, matching the sequence set between 1907 and 1910, and teed up a crunch Cardiff clash against England in a fortnight’s time.

Wales, though, will need to be significantly better for that game as a team showing 10 changes from the side that staged a stunning second-half fightback to beat France in Paris last week laboured far too much in Rome.

Tries by wing Josh Adams and centre Owen Watkin proved the difference, while fly-half Dan Biggar kicked 14 points and Gareth Anscombe converted Watkin’s touchdown.

But Italy, despite slipping to a 19th successive Six Nations defeat and a 13th on the bounce against Wales, battled hard throughout.

They claimed a first-half try from flanker Abraham Steyn, with fly-half Tommaso Allan kicking a penalty and conversion, before wing Edoardo Padovani crossed late on.

Wales were ultimately deserved winners, yet they will be frustrated at not collecting a winning bonus point, which might prove costly in the final championship shake-up.

Head coach Warren Gatland made wholesale changes following last week’s comeback victory over France, handing Six Nations debuts to Leicester wing Jonah Holmes and Wasps flanker Thomas Young, plus first Six Nations starts for scrum-half Aled Davies and back-row forward Aaron Wainwright.

Italy, apart from one break by wing Angelo Esposito, showed nothing in attack, being pinned on the back foot as Biggar completed a penalty hat-trick inside the opening quarter to put Wales 9-0 ahead.

Biggar, back in the starting line-up ahead of Gareth Anscombe, was at the heart of Wales’ attacking game.

French referee Mathieu Raynal adopted a surprisingly lenient approach in terms of possible yellow cards, given Italy’s consistent transgressing, but the Azzurri stunned Wales eight minutes before half-time.

They sacrificed a kickable penalty to go for the corner and great work by their forwards proved too much for Wales’ defence as Steyn powered over for a try that Allan converted.

It was a warning shot for Wales and they trooped off at the break with only a five-point advantage, although it should have been less as a short-range Allan penalty hit a post.

Allan, though, made amends

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Liam Williams on the charge for Wales. for his miss just four minutes into the second period, finding the target from a similar range as Wales’ lead was further eroded.

Wales claimed their first try as Jonathan Davies found Liam Williams out wide and he delivered a scoring pass to Adams.

Biggar converted, but it was his final act of the match as Gatland then sent on Anscombe to replace him with Wales leading 19-10.

The final quarter saw Watkin cross for Wales and Padovani cancel that out as Wales closed down the clock on a game and performance that will not live long in the memory.

Meanwhile Ireland have got their Six Nations campaign back on track with a pulsating 22-13 victory over Scotland, but the physical encounter meant both sides lost players to injury.

Scotland’s livewire fullback Stuart Hogg and Ireland’s flyhalf and world player of the year Jonathan Sexton limped off in a close first half, during which the visitors outscored Scotland with two tries to one through Conor Murray and Jacob Stockdale.

Ireland, beaten by England in the opening game last weekend, added a third try after the break at Murrayfield as replacement flyhalf Joey Carbery sliced through a gap before flinging a wide pass for winger Keith Earls to score.

While Scotland hammered away at the Irish defence on a cool, clear afternoon that defied pre-game expectations of high winds from storm Erik, the home side could not add to a single try from centre Sam Johnson.

Scotland will have the opportunity for revenge on September 22 when the two sides meet again in the opening round of the World Cup in Japan. The Celtic rivals will be desperate to top their pool and avoid a likely quarter-final against the mighty New Zealand.

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9.30am - 11am WALKING NETBALL. GOLD COIN DONATION. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace (not school holidays).

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture 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.

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Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.co.nz or phone 027640-4094. Racecourse Road.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

12 noon BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Weekly lunch, available at Baptist Church, foyer entrance off Cass Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

1.30pm LITTER FREE ASHBURTON. Volunteers needed to help pick up litter.

Meet East Street Chess Board, opposite Burnett Street.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

(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.

Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.co.nz or phone 027640-4094. Racecourse Road.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

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

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

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

1.30pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE CLUB. Social day. Come and join us. 115 Racecourse Road.

6pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Summer Park Series, 1.3 or 5km. Adults $2, children free. Check our facebook page, weekly, all welcome. Meet Ashburton Domain, Walnut Avenue Pavilion.

7.30am ASHBURTON TABLE TENNIS. Everyone welcome, every Tuesday, Tennis bats available. MSA Havelock Street.

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Cryptic crossword

Monday, February 11, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): It’s better to let off steam little by little than to let it build and eventually blow up at an inopportune time. The perfect partner in letting loose will come along tonight.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Your life is full of gifts and blessings, so many that someone off the street wouldn’t be sure where to start the gratitude list. But you know where to start it.

So go there, and be happy.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): It will be a scenario you feel familiar with but on guard about. You’ll prepare to say no, but inexplicably, when the moment comes, all won’t go as planned.

Consider inviting a friend into this with you.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Most people are not quite so effective as they think they are but you have the opposite dynamic going on today. You don’t know your own strength. Hint: It’s about five times more effective than you expect.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): When it’s not working, the answer can be to try harder and do more. Sometimes the answer is to stop or to go at it a different way. But right now, what’s needed is repetition of effort. Prove your stamina.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Greatness isn’t something that exists in a few rare souls. It’s in there inside all. The problem for many is that they just don’t believe in their own kernel of greatness.

You’ll remedy this for someone today.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): This is not a time for leaping.

Steps will be enough. There’s someone you want to know better. Allow things to build slowly. Small risks escalate the action.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Validation can be addictive.

Knowing this, when you hear the praise, keep your head. Recognise it for what it is, a sticky bit of honey that can trap you if you land and rest too long there.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It’s time to narrow your focus and home in on one goal. Can you pull this off with less? Can you involve fewer people? By getting small, you will accomplish big.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Sometimes it’s right to take “no” for an answer, and other times, you have such a strong feeling that your offering will really help all involved that it’s worth it to move past “no” with a counteroffer.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): People will not sanction the cost of what they don’t understand. Your options are to make them understand or flesh it out yourself at whatever cost it takes and let them catch up later.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’ve an instinct to disclose that’s running counter to your instinct toward charm. Consider the wisdom of the French writer Voltaire when he said that the secret to being boring is to say everything.

ACROSS 1. Bird from the moor can’t get round it (9) 5. Vehicle for hire starts charging at boarding (3) 7. The fleur-de-lis is to be found around one of the USA (4) 8. Position one takes may be insolent in manner (8) 10. Our spice may be of great value (8) 11. A somewhat socialist small sailing-ship (4) 13. Unexpected rejection with respect to the enthusiast (6) 15. Broken chest contains nitrogen and a bad smell (6) 18. It may be after one’s job (4) 19. Passageway or Doric order right for it (8) 22. A lad turning blue deserves one’s praise (8) 23. End of Axis seen by one invaded by it (4) 24. Add a dram for the infant (3) 25. The way the railway was meant to last (9) DOWN 1. A tea-ship looked singular in a barber’s hands (7) 2. Ear is flapping if there’s more money in the pay-packet (5) 3. Scheming with the Dodger (6) 4. It may give a hint of being skinny (4) 5. A warning about an amusing person (7) 6. Snooker score built up in the intermission (5) 9. The instant success of the padded mail-bag (5) 12. Utterly nude and unadorned (5) 14. Unglazed pottery may be a cracker (7) 16. Crop has rash: vet can deal with it (7) 17. A copper for the old fowl (6) 18. Flier has to plan his route around one (5) 20. A non-worker will sound very boring (5) 21. An eye on the electric light bulb (4)

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Previous solution: deer, deter, dree, ere, red, rede, reed, ret, rete, ted, tee, teed, tree, treed

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DOWN 1. Accumulate (5) 2. Think carefully (8) 3. Diminish (6) 4. Paper measure (4) 5. Falls (7) 6. Sensible and practical (10) 9. Stands for (10) 12. Throw overboard (8) 14. Deadly poison (7) 16. Open-toed footwear (6) 19. Put aside for future (5) 20. Coagulate (4)

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MEERS, Edmund John (Eddie) – Peacefully at home with his family by his side on February 8, 2019, aged 79 years. Dearly loved husband of Bessie, loved father and father-in-law of Colin and Kate, Vanessa Boote, and Andrea Meers. Much loved Grandad of Sam, and Jack; Alex, Matthew, and Reuben Boote; and Tyla, and Emma Warrender. Loved brother of Joan Wilson, and Shirley Cowles. Special thanks to Dr Penny Holdaway for her care. Messages to: C/- The Meers family, PO Box 6035, Ashburton 7742. A service for Eddie will be held at Memory Funerals, 22 Moore Street, Ashburton on Tuesday, February 12 at 1.30pm.

Followed by private cremation.

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Partly cloudy. Winds mainly light, but northeasterlies developing about the coast.

THURSDAY Morning cloud, then fine with northeast breezes. However, a few showers developing later with a southwesterly change.

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Wind at 2000m: NW 30 km/h rising to gale 70 km/h in the evening.

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Scattered rain becoming confined to the divide in the morning, then clearing from afternoon.

Wind at 1000m: NW 60 km/h easing to NW 40 km/h in the morning, rising to NW gale 70 km/h for a time in the evening.

Wind at 2000m: NW gale 70 km/h easing to NW 50 km/h in the morning.

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THOMSON, Brian – 26-01-1969 – 11-02-2014. It has been five years since we lost an adored husband and dad. We miss you and will never forget you.

When I think of you, I cry but I do not mind, Because each tear-drop And each tear-drop And each tear-drop Love always, Nicky and Grace. xxxx

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GOLDSBURY, Donna Leigh – On December 7, 2019 peacefully at home in Christchurch. A much loved sister-in-law, friend and auntie of James and Lynley, Hamish,Jeremy and Penny.

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4:20 Paia 3 5:30 American Restoration 4:30 Pukana 3 6pm Baggage Battles 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6:30 American Pickers 6pm Te Matatini 3 7:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less 7pm Whanau Living 3 Travelled 7:30 Moosemeat And 8:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Marmalade PGR 3 Railway Journeys 8pm Native Affairs – Summer 9:30 Treasures Decoded Series 10:30 Ancient Egypt – Life And 8:30 M Pina PGR 3 2011 Death In The Valley Of The Documentary.

Kings 10:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3

11:50 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:50 Football – English Premier League Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City.

At Wembley Stadium, London.

2:50 Closedown

11pm Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:30 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS 6:10 And So It Goes MS 2014 Romance. Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas. 7:45 Mama MVLC 2013 Horror.

Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj CosterWaldau, Megan Charpentier.

9:25 Fast Five MVL 2011 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

11:35 American Psycho 2 16VLS 2002 Horror.

Mila Kunis, William Shatner.

1:05 Shanghai Noon PGV 2000 Action Western.

Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Owen Wilson. 2:55 Shanghai Knights MV 2003 Action.

Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson.

4:50 Bounce ML 2000 Drama.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck.

6:40 Hanna MVL 2011 Action.

Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana. 8:30 Lawless 18VL 2012 Crime Drama. In depression-era Virginia, three bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities wanting a cut of their profits.

Shia LeBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman.

10:30 The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 16VL 2009 Thriller. Denzel Washington, John Travolta.

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6am Endangered Species 3 6:25 Codename – Kids Next Door 3 6:50 Batman – Brave And The Bold 3 0 7:15 Danny Phantom 7:40 Ben 10 – Ultimate Alien 3 0 8:05 The Legend Of Korra 3 8:30 100 Things To Do Before High School 8:55 The Moe Show 3 0 9:20 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 Mad About You PGR 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 3 12:35 Robot Wars PGR 1:35 Married With Children PGR 2:05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 0 5pm Frasier 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Million Dollar Minute 6:30 Pawn Stars 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 American Pickers 8:30 FBI PGR Maggie, OA, and the team investigate the murders of 18 young women with help from a survivor associated with the deceased. 0 9:30 M Red 2 AO 2013 Action.

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7:05 Roman J Israel, Esq MVL 2017 Drama. Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell. 9:05 Dead Draw MVL 2016 Thriller. Gil Bellows, Bitsie Tulloch. 10:40 Love In Paradise PG 2015 Comedy.

Luke Perry, Emmanuelle Vaugier.

12:05 An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth To Power PG 2017 Documentary. Al Gore, Barack Obama, Donald Trump.

1:45 I Feel Pretty MSC 2018 Comedy. Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams. 3:35 Roman J Israel, Esq MVL 2017 Drama.

Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell.

5:35 The Nanny Betrayal MVC 2018 Thriller. 7pm Five Weddings PG 2018 Comedy.

An American journalist travels to India to cover Bollywood weddings, only to discover a mosaic of cultural clashes, transgender tangles, and lost loves. 8:30 The Disaster Artist ML 2017 Comedy. Based on the cult film The Room, an actor Greg and an eccentric band together to write, direct, produce, and star in their own movie.

10:15 Justice League MV 2017 Action.

12:15 Madame MLS 2017 Comedy. 1:45 The Directors – Jon Favreau PG 2:15 The Nanny Betrayal MVC 2018 Thriller. 3:40 Five Weddings PG 2018 Comedy. 5:10 The Disaster Artist ML 2017 Comedy.

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TUESDAY

12:15 Boogeyman MC 2005 Horror. Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless.

1:45 Bounce ML 2000 Drama.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck.

3:30 Hanna MVL 2011 Action.

Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana. 5:20 The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 16VL 2009 Thriller.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Cricket – White Ferns v India (RPL) Third T20.

9:30 Fox Sports News 10am Cricket – Blackcaps v India (RPL) Third T20.

1:30 Cricket – Big Bash (RPL) Stars v Sixers.

5pm Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Knights v Volts.

From the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui.

5:30 Cricket – Blackcaps v India (HLS) Third T20.

From Seddon Park in Hamilton.

6pm Cricket – White Ferns v India (HLS) Third T20.

From Seddon Park in Hamilton.

6:30 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Stars v Sixers.

7pm Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Thunder v Hurricanes.

7:50 Rugby – Six Nations (RPL) Scotland v Ireland.

From Murrayfield.

10pm Six Nations Review Show A look back at the action from round two – Scotland v Ireland, Italy v Wales and England v France.

11pm Cricket – Blackcaps v India (HLS) Third T20.

From Seddon Park in Hamilton.

11:40 Rugby – Six Nations (RPL) Italy v Wales.

From the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

TUESDAY

1:50 Rugby – Six Nations (RPL) England v France.

4am Six Nations Review Show 5am Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup (HLS) Advance Auto Parts Clash.

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11:30 American Restoration Midnight Wild Transport 12:30 Tiny House Hunting 1am The Living Room 2am Love Nature – Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 3am Money For Nothing 4am American Pickers 5am Weird Wonders Of The World

SKY SPORT 2 8:20 L Football – Serie A AC Milan v Cagliari.

From San Siro, Milan.

10:30 Rugby – Women’s Six Nations (RPL) England v France.

12:30 Rugby – Six Nations (RPL) England v France.

2:40 Basketball – NBL (RPL) Wildcat v Kings.

4:50 Basketball – NBL (RPL) 36ers v Melbourne United.

From Titanium Security Arena.

7pm Basketball – NBL (RPL) Hawks v Breakers.

From Win Entertainment Centre.

9pm Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) ISPS Handa Vic Open – Round Four.

9:30 Golf – European Tour (HLS) ISPS Handa Vic Open – Round Four.

From Geelong in Australia.

10pm Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am – Round Four.

From Pebble Beach Golf Links in California.

10:30 Golf Central 11:30 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Stars v Sixers.

TUESDAY

Midnight Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Thunder v Hurricanes.

12:30 Cricket – Blackcaps v India (HLS) Third T20.

1am Cricket – White Ferns v India (HLS) Third T20.

1:30 Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Knights v Volts.

2am Fight Night 4am Football – ISPS Handa Premiership (RPL) Hamilton Wanderers v Canterbury United.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Alaskan Bush People M 9:10 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Frustrated with a 1932 Ford; Return to Pike’s Peak 1/2. 10am Outback Opal Hunters PG 10:50 Blowing Up History PG 11:40 Web Of Lies M Tainted Love.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M Open-Door Policy.

1:20 Murder Calls M Under Siege. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG 4:45 Shifting Gears With Aaron Kaufman PG A New Start. 5:40 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Frustrated with a 1932 Ford; Return to Pike’s Peak.

6:35 Misfit Garage PG Fired Up And Throwing Down.

7:30 American Chopper M Getting the Bike Back Together.

8:30 Jay Leno’s Garage PG Over the Top. 9:25 Shifting Gears With Aaron Kaufman PG Scout 66. 10:15 Misfit Garage PG Blaze It Up. 11:05 Naked And Afraid M 11:55 Murder Calls M TUESDAY 12:45 Murder Comes To Town M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Treehouse Masters PG

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Stags remain unbeaten P16

Tinwald eyes up finish line P18

RIBBONS GALORE

With plenty of ribbons to take away for her efforts at her first ever pony club show, nine-year-old Tayla Henderson was all smiles aboard Montheith Rosie on Saturday. Henderson was one of the many young riders who took to their ponies to compete at the Mill Creek Pony Club Show on Saturday. It was a busy day down the club’s Trevors Road grounds, and a hot one, with the mercury rising above 30-degrees as the day wore on meaning shade and water were in high demand for both the riders and their ponies.

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Kiwis shine in UFC 234

BY CHRISTOPHER REIVE Put that one straight into the scrapbook of Israel Adesanya’s career highlights.

His headline bout against Anderson Silva at UFC 234 in Melbourne might not have finished how many expected, but he faced – and beat – the greatest middleweight in UFC history, as Adesanya lived out a dream.

As he put it immediately after the bout: “For a basketballer, this

is like playing against Michael Jordan.

“This is it for me.”

The 29-year-old Kiwi remained unbeaten in MMA with a unanimous decision win over Silva at a sold out Rod Laver Arena, with the two putting on a show in the Brazilian’s first ever fight Down Under.

After City Kickboxing teammates Kai Kara-France and Shane Young took decision wins earlier on the card, Adesanya followed

suit in a showdown of two wild styles.

The influences Silva has had on Adesanya were clear during the fight, with similarities between the approaches of the two clear to see.

Adesanya started strong and landed some heavy shots in the first round. Silva came back in the second, but a strong third round got the win for Adesanya. Silva’s durability surprised, as Adesanya couldn’t knock him down despite

planting some good shots on the Brazillian’s chin.

“It was just like fighting anyone else, but there were certain things that he was doing that I have seen so many times, that he has caught other people with, like with his hands down, the bounce, calling me on to the cage with his back against the fence, but not me,” Adesanya said.

“The energy was cool. As a kid, as a fan, it was cool, just cool.

“In the long-term, I am defi-

nitely getting the belt next.”

The fight was named fight of the night, with both athletes earning a US$50,000 bonus.

With the win, Adesanya earns a title shot, however it remains to be seen whether that will be the next bout for the middleweight title.

Current champion Robert Whittaker was supposed to headline the card in a title defence, but had to withdraw hours before the card due to a twisted bowel and a hernia.

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Wales unconvincing in record Six Nations victory

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