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Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury president Michael Salvesen is confident hill and high country farmers in the area are well prepared for the oncoming bad weather.

MetService has forecast a front to move on to the South Island today, followed by cold southerlies, which will bring snow down to 200-300 metres from this afternoon through to Thursday. It said those conditions could cause problems for livestock.

However, Salvesen said most sheep farmers would be well aware of the weather forecast and would have taken precautions in case the snow was heavy.

“Up in the hills they get snow every year during winter so most people are

pretty au fait with it,” he said.

“I think those farmers will be pretty organised and will have moved stock if they thought they needed to, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

“My only concern is I just hope the MetService don’t overplay it. How often can you cry wolf and then nothing happens before people start saying ‘oh yeah, just another warning, I don’t really need to worry about it’. And then that’s the time that the wolf really is there and people get badly caught out.”

Salvesen said some sheep farmers nearer the coast had already begun lambing and the forecast rain, sleet and cold temperatures over the next few days could spell danger for new lambs, as they chilled easily, so would need shelter.

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NZTA journey manager Lee Wright said drivers needed to slow down and drive with care and patience.

“Allow for much greater braking distances and avoid braking suddenly,” Wright said.

Black ice is hazardous due to the increased risk of losing control and the loss of traction.

“Please take extra care on bridges and overpasses as black ice forms first on these surfaces, making the road surface particularly hazardous.

“If you do have to travel, be prepared for road restrictions, road closures, long delays and carry chains and know how to fit them, for your own safety and everyone else on the roads.”

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Mt Hutt skier numbers highest since 2010

By SuSan SandyS

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The triple chair and South Face have opened, skier numbers are up and more snow is on the way.

Mt Hutt Ski Area management could not be happier with how ski season 2017 is shaping up.

Manager James McKenzie said yesterday the snow base was sitting at 50 to 75 centimetres, and a snowfall conservatively estimated to be 65 centimetres between today and Friday would boost ontrail cover to over the magic onemetre mark.

On the whole skier numbers were up on last year, and last year had been the best since 2010. At the same time it had not been excessively busy this year, generally reaching a daily peak of about 75 per cent of capacity.

Natural snowfalls, including two centimetres on July 4 and 15 centimetres on July 1, had combined with man-made snow to improve conditions.

The off-trail runs of South Face and Towers had been open about one week now, and the triple chairlift opened on Friday, meaning all ski lifts were open. More terrain parks were opening and steep trails were being groomed off the Virgin Mile. Conditions were better than at the same time last year.

“The snow is driving business really,” McKenzie said.

Skiers are flocking to Mt Hutt Skifield, attracted by snow conditions which are getting better by the day.

With the forecast snowstorm coming in, management would endeavour to keep the ski area open as much as possible but as soon as safety became an issue they would “pull the pin and ride the storm out”, he said.

It will mean Methven’s streets will be full of tourists during the day time seeking things to do, and maybe making a snowman or two, with snow likely to also fall in the town.

It is now peak season when the

mountain has skiers and snowboarders visit from around the world.

At the weekend it was the beginning of the school holidays, which saw big crowds and plenty of activities to entertain them. They in-

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cluded an outdoor beer and pizza bar at the top of the quad chair, face-painting, ski and ride with Spike and Shred, and bouncy castle and trampoline. Sunday was Retro Day where staff dressed up in all their colourful old gear.

■ METHVEN WATER SUPPLY

Council plans to improve system

By SuSan SandyS

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The Ashburton District Council plans to learn from its neighbouring local authority on how to better notify boil water notices.

The council has come under fire for being too slow to issue a notice and then having inadequate notification processes following a power outage at the Methven water supply recently.

Assets manager Andrew Guthrie

said yesterday the council’s supplies were generally very reliable.

“So we just haven’t had the opportunity to test these systems,” he said.

The council’s notification process for the boil water notice put on the supply on the evening of June 30 following test results, included alerting via its own and other Facebook pages, media channels and direct communication with Methven Community Board members.

There was no formal process for informing hospitality premises on a busy Friday night in the ski town, nor for notifying the town’s resthome, Methven House.

This is in stark contrast to the thoroughness of notification procedures in the Selwyn District.

The Selwyn District Council told the Guardian its notification processes were “comprehensive”, and included the following: media release, website notice, social

media notice (Facebook, Twitter), letter drop to households in the affected area for smaller townships, text alerts, email alerts, and phone calls to high-risk premises such as schools, early childhood, food outlets and medical centres.

“Text and email alerts are sent where we hold those details. We also use our Selwyn Gets Ready network, which is an additional database of residents who have subscribed to receive emergency

alerts,” a media spokesperson said.

Guthrie said if such a system was adopted here, Methven House would be on the list of places which would get some sort of direct notification.

“We knew we were going to be able to learn from this,” Guthrie said.

“We are going to take a lesson out of Selwyn’s book, we will see what they have got in place and we will see if we can apply it here.”

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■ ACT PARTY

ACT candidates seek party vote

By SuSan SandyS

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Neither of Mid Canterbury’s two political candidates for ACT want people to vote for them in the upcoming election.

Brian Davidson, for the Selwyn electorate, and Tom Corbett, for the Rangitata electorate, are instead aiming to get as many votes for their party as they can.

When it comes to the candidate vote, they both want people to vote for the National representative in their electorates – Andrew Falloon in Rangitata and Amy Adams in Selwyn.

“I want National to have a partner it can rely on. I don’t want the National Party having to do deals with Winston Peters,” said Davidson, who has been ranked 21st on his party list which was unveiled on Sunday.

“I will be voting for Amy Adams and I want people to vote for Amy Adams, all I want is the party vote,” he said.

Getting enough party votes

Brian Davidson

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throughout the country would ensure five ACT MPs in Parliament, a hark back to ACT’s earlier days and an improvement on the one member it now had.

He said there were three policies which made ACT stand out – they were its support of Tomorrow’s Schools, its push for an overhaul of superannuation, and

■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

its proposal that government sell its Landcorp properties and the money used to establish wildlife refuges.

“We need to work to bring the birds back,” Davidson said.

The 68-year-old insurance consultant is surrounded by nature at his French Farm home in Akaroa Harbour. He is married to wife Penny and the pair have five children.

This is the third time he is standing as an ACT candidate.

He ran a financial planning practice in Ashburton for 17 years until 2005, and was the candidate for the Rakaia electorate that year.

He and Penny then moved to Christchurch and were moteliers for eight years and he stood as the Ilam candidate in 2008.

Similarly, it is the third time Corbett has stood for the party.

He was the Rangitata candidate at the two last elections in 2014 and 2011.

Ranked 20th on the 41-mem-

ber list, He said he was standing again because he liked ACT’s values and it was a “pragmatic” party.

Aged over 70, Corbett has a mixed farming operation at Mayfield and lives there with his wife Suzanne. They have three children aged 14 to 23.

The farm was settled by his grandfather Thomas in 1878, and then farmed by his father Thomas, born in 1895.

On the topical election issue of water, Corbett was critical of the Green’s plan to charge water bottlers 10 cents per litre.

Such a policy for farmers would bankrupt them within a week and Irrigation New Zealand figures had shown that even the more reasoned suggestion of one cent per cubic metre would cost Canterbury $440 million per year.

“What do you think it’s going to do to employment in Canterbury?” he said.

■ WATER USE LEGISLATION

Drink driving incident Greens’ policy ‘goes too far’ an ‘aberration’

A new Green Party programme for tax on pledge to tax comwater and distributmercial water use ing the revenue,” he goes too far and isn’t said. “They’ve now fully thought out, got pretty interesting A roofer who admitted drink driv- Waszczak’s keys and police were Prime Minister Bill questions to answer, ing after an argument with his called.

English says. like what happens to Waszczak admitted driving to brother was fined $600 when he The Greens over the all the water use for appeared in the Ashburton Dis- the petrol station and was breath weekend announced electricity?” tested. He blew 739mcg. trict Court yesterday. if elected they would English said the Bill English His lawyer Eden Holmes said it Zac Waszczak, 26, was also put an immediate 10c Government had been disqualified from driving for six was his first drink driving charge a litre levy on sales or looking at the possimonths and ordered to pay court and he was busy and stressed in exports of bottled water and bility of charging for water botthe lead-up to Christmas, which costs of $130. would then develop a plan to tling for years, but it and other Police said Waszczak was drink- was when the incident occurred. charge for all commercial water water ownership issues were “He is remorseful and knows it ing with his brother in Ashburton use. complex. on December 22 last year when a was a stupid thing to do.”

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“Water bottling companies are taking the purest, cleanest water out from under our feet.

They bottle it and sell it and pay practically nothing for the resource,” he said.

The Greens would also develop a “fair way” to charge all commercial water users, something the National Government had avoided responsibility for the entire time it had been in government, he said.

“We’ll do this through a process involving nationwide meetings and hui with all interested people and organisations.”

The party expects tangata whenua will play a critical role.

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Homes more affordable in Christchurch since 2014 Christchurch is the place to go for affordable housing if a report released at the weekend is anything to go by.

The June Monitoring Greater Christchurch Regeneration report collates data in six key areas as the southern city continues to recover from the quakes of 2010 and 2011.

It says housing affordability in

greater Christchurch has been improving since 2014.

The average weekly rent has continued to fall, with the proportion of private bonds lodged for rents below $400 a week increasing.

For buyers, Christchurch experienced the lowest house price growth among 15 main areas in

New Zealand between April 2014 and April 2017, the report says.

For 77.8 per cent of renting households in Canterbury, buying was unaffordable in the June 2015 quarter, down from 84.3 per cent in the September 2010 quarter.

Homes are more affordable for first-time buyers in Christchurch because average household in-

comes in Canterbury have grown faster than the cost of housing since 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, the report says.

The earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 damaged about three quarters of Canterbury’s housing stock.

The population of greater Christchurch dropped sharply in the first two years following the

initial 2010 earthquake but by 2016 it had fully recovered and exceeded the 2010 population by 5.2 per cent.

In the central city, however, there are still 32.3 per cent fewer residents.

The population has also become more diverse with the influx of construction workers. – NZN

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Performers Mitchell Farr (left) and Elise Heffernan have grown up with the Big Little Theatre Company, and are now preparing for its latest show.

Award-winning actors to star in musical

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Big Little Theatre Company longtime members Mitchell Farr and Elise Heffernan are among actors preparing for the powerful musical Children of Eden opening on Friday.

The pair, aged 16 and 15 respectively, have both been with the company for more than half their young lives – nine years each – and have developed into strong performers along the way.

In the first part of the show,

Mitchell will play Cain in Children of Eden, an angry young man who feels he and his family were unjustly banished to the wilderness.

He resembles his mother, Eve, to be played by Elise, who was banished forever from the Garden of Eden, because she too wanted to ask questions of life and had a desire for knowledge.

The show’s script is based on the Book of Genesis and depicts human struggle as the characters are torn between life choices.

In the second half of the show,

Mitchell will play Noah, while Elise will play Yonah, a daughter of Cain.

Big Little director Jackie Heffernan said Children of Eden, which premiered in the West End in London in 1991, provided a challenge and created opportunities for indepth acting and singing.

And it was a challenge her young actors, including Mitchell and Elise, were rising to.

Their acting background encompassed appearing in the company’s earliest shows and Mitchell was the first child the company

ever “flew”, appearing from the rafters as Puck in a Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The pair had acted together in examination drama, attaining Exhibition Awards from Trinity College London two years in a row, for achieving the highest mark internationally.

Both had been part of the ensemble which took King Lear to Court Theatre as part of the company’s winning Sheila Winn Shakespeare in Schools Festival.

Additionally, Mitchell had been

awarded a Best Actor award by Theatre New Zealand in last year’s Theatre Fest. “Who knows what lies in store for them in the future.

“They are both extremely humble, hugely rewarding to work with, and it has been a privilege for me to have been a part of their amazing journey so far,” Heffernan said.

Children of Eden is directed by Bryan Aitken and musically directed by Keeneth Love, both of Christchurch, and will stage at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre July 14 to 16.

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In brief Correction A story in yesterday’s Guardian incorrectly stated that John Skevington was chairman of AA’s Canterbury/West Coast council.

He is now past chairman; Roy Hughes is the current chairman.

Skevington is still involved with the Students Against Dangerous Driving (SADD).

Staff hide Hamilton McDonald’s staff hid in a freezer as three men armed with crowbars smashed their way into the takeaway outlet.

A police spokesperson said the armed robbers were all wearing balaclavas when they stormed their way into the store about 3.20am yesterday. The scene was secured overnight before forensic police staff got to the scene.

It’s unclear what was taken and inquiries are ongoing.

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Primary school students celebrated their first official day of holidays yesterday with some DIY slippery slime at the Allenton School Hall.

As part of the Hit Play school holiday programme, children aged between 9 and 13 experimented with different ingredients and colours to produce different varieties of slime.

Today, they will be returning to learn how to create their own fidget spinners.

Hit Play will continue daily throughout the school holidays with fun in all forms – from games and sports to art, craft, music, baking, language and even science experiments.

Hit Play school holiday programmes are hosted in Ashburton at both Allenton and Hampstead primary schools.

Bluff oysters cleared The latest testing has revealed a parasite feared to have spread to the Bluff wild oyster fishery hasn’t been detected, the Ministry of Primary Industries says. Bonamia ostreae was found on two oyster farms around Stewart Island but MPI is now 95 per cent confident it isn’t present in wild oysters. – NZN

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The I Kissed A Girl singer has just announced that she will be coming to New Zealand next July or August, but no details about exact dates or locations have been revealed yet. Her US promoters have now confirmed she will play at least one New Zealand show.

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■ UNITED STATES

Jr’s stunning admission Donald Trump’s eldest son said Sunday he met with a Kremlinlinked lawyer shortly after his father clinched the Republican nomination, hoping to get information helpful to the campaign.

A New York Times report citing advisers to the White House briefed on the encounter said Trump Jr agreed to the meeting after being promised information damaging to Hillary Clinton.

The June meeting at Trump Tower with attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya involved Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who was then the campaign chairman.

The existence of the meeting was disclosed only recently to government officials and confirmed on Saturday by representatives of Trump Jr and Kushner following a separate Times report.

In a statement Sunday, Trump Jr did not confirm that the information he was promised would be damaging to Clinton.

But he said he was asked by an acquaintance he knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant to have a meeting with a person

David Bowie honoured David Bowie has been honoured with a posthumous award for his final album Blackstar at an awards ceremony at London’s Savoy Hotel while Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber received the Outstanding Achievement award. Bowie’s 25th studio album won the Pop Music category at The South Bank Sky Arts Awards, with Iggy Pop accepting the gong on his late friend’s behalf, with a touching video message recorded from his US home.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, tipped to take over from Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who, won the comedy category for Fleabag.

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child scooped the theatre gong.

Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr (above) son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with a Russian lawyer shortly after Trump won the Republican nomination.

PHOTO AP he was told might have information that would be helpful to the Trump campaign. He said he was not told the name of the person before the meeting.

Trump Jr said that during the meeting the attorney claimed

to have information that “individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee” and supporting Clinton.

“No details or supporting information was provided or

even offered,” Trump Jr said. “It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.”

He said no details or supporting information was ever offered.

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■ UNITED KINGDOM

Meg Mac’s debut album

Fire erupts in part of Camden Lock Market Dozens of firefighters poured water onto a big fire early yesterday at Camden Lock Market, which is a popular tourist destination in north London.

The London Fire Brigade said 10 firetrucks and 70 firefighters had been sent to the site shortly after midnight Sunday when a blaze erupted near Camden

Stables. It said three floors and the roof of a building within the complex were on fire.

Ambulance crews also rushed to the scene, but authorities said no injuries had been reported.

The market is very popular with tourists and Londoners, who are drawn to the area by

the shopping and nightlife on offer.

“The fire was moving very fast,” said witness Joan Ribes.

“People were watching, but we were scared the building could explode at any time since there are restaurants with kitchens nearby.”

A different part of the mar-

ket complex was ravaged by a fire in 2008, and vendors were not able to operate for several months.

Yesterday’s fire came less than four weeks after a fastspreading blaze engulfed the Grenfell Tower apartment block in west London, killing at least 80 people.

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Australian singer songwriter Meg Mac is used to hearing the term “highly anticipated”. It’s a term that’s preceded her debut album for the last few years.

In 2014, she was crowned Triple J’s Unearthed artist of the year, giving her a massive boost in profile, and tracks from her self-titled EP were even played on US TV shows Girls, and Grace and Frankie.

Now, three years later, her debut album Low Blows is finally about to be released.

“Reading things like ‘most anticipated album’ and seeing your album on a list makes you think ‘oh my gosh, no one’s even heard this yet?’ it does feel really different to releasing my EP,” Mac said.

■ AUSTRALIA

Cardinal Pell returns to face charges The most senior Vatican cleric to ever be charged in the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal returned to Australia yesterday to stand trial in his home state on charges alleging he sexually assaulted multiple people years ago.

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ top financial adviser, avoided waiting media when he arrived at Sydney Airport on a flight from Singapore. He had declined to comment in Singapore over the weekend as he made his way home from Rome.

The 76-year-old cleric is due to appear in a court in the Victoria state capital Melbourne on July 26 on what Victoria Police described as multiple counts of “historical sexual assault offences” – meaning

Cardinal George Pell crimes that generally occurred years ago. There is no statute of limitations on such crimes in Australia. Police said there were multiple complainants, but have released no other details.

Pell is free ahead of his court hearing, during which he can formally apply for bail.

When police announced the

charges last month, Pell vowed to fight the allegations, saying: “The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me.”

The Sydney archdiocese said the cardinal had made multiple stops on his journey to Australia to avoid long-haul flights, based on the advice of his doctors. Last year, Pell said he was too ill to make the long flight back to his home country to testify before a government inquiry into how the Catholic Church and other institutions have responded to child sex abuse allegations.

“When he was told of the charges by Victoria Police, Cardinal Pell said in Rome he totally rejected the allegations, was completely innocent of the charges and would return to Australia to vigorously defend

himself and clear his name,” the archdiocese said in a statement. “Cardinal Pell will not be making further comment other than to say he is grateful for the numerous messages of support he continues to receive.”

Pell has taken a leave of absence to fight the charges in Australia and has said he intends to return to the Vatican to continue his work as a prefect of the church’s economy ministry.

For years, Pell has faced allegations that he mishandled cases of clergy abuse as archbishop of Melbourne and, later, Sydney. But more recently, Pell himself became the focus of a clergy sex abuse investigation, with Victoria detectives flying to the Vatican to interview him last year.

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Baby number three James Corden and his wife are expecting their third child. The chat show host and comedic actor, 38, and wife Julia Carey already have two young children together - Max, six, and Carey, two.

According to reports, the latest addition to the family is due in December.

The Late Late Show host has been enjoying success in the US with his talk show, internationally famous for its Carpool Karaoke segment which has featured the likes of Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Stevie Wonder, One Direction and Michelle Obama. A segment featuring Adele reached 42 million views within five days.

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OUR VIEW

Water tax – how much can people afford Matt Markham

EDITOR

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ater – it’s a necessity of life, but how would we feel if we had to pay for

it?

In the eyes of Federated Farmers, who know a thing or two about the subject, it would send our country down an irreversible path of taxing ourselves unnecessarily, increasing prices and limiting economic growth.

Their comments yesterday came hot on the heels of an announced plan by the Green Party to charge a per litre tax on bottled water and to also charge for commercial water uses, like farming.

And they say it could end up costing New Zealand hugely.

Conscious not only of the impact it would have on their sector, but the entire country as a whole, Federated Farmers – through the voice of spokesperson, Chris Allen, said it wouldn’t make the problem disappear.

Instead, Allen said, it would put more burden on people, the nation’s taxpayers and the communities.

Something figures would certainly back up.

Just from the pool of people who consume their water through a connection to a domestic water supply, the cost would come in at an estimated $18 billion.

Then chuck in the Federated Farmers statistic that 60 per cent of water consumed in New Zealand is for electricity generation and the bill from just the Manapouri power station alone would cost users around $160 billion.

The water charging debate has come from both The Green Party and the Labour Party with both seeming quite keen on introducing some form of fee for something we generally take for granted.

But when you look at the effect it would have on the economy and on everyday Kiwis who are already suffering financially, you have to wonder if it is actually worth it come the end of the day.

Our water use is something that New Zealand needs to be aware of, but to charge for it – considering the impact it would have, seems to be stretching a rather long bow.

Allen probably summed it up best when he said it would be like “having a tax on living”.

Don’t we already get that enough?

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ith wintry weather supposedly set to hit us at some stage this afternoon there’s always a mad rush to get to the supermarket and get your hands on those much needed supplies.

While very rarely a major issue in Ashburton itself, potentially large snowfalls can have a major impact on those who live a little closer to the hills.

We asked what you do to prepare for such an event, or whether you prepare at all. Your comments are today’s Your Views on Facebook section.

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Darrell So Ashburton will become a mass of idiots buying up supplies as if the world is going to end and supermarkets are going to disappear

Samara On a serious note, theres always gas in the bbq and heater, plus wood for the fire and plenty of food. We will be fine for atleast a week if it snows big, itll just be inconvenient.

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Ashburton Public Library 34.48%

Rachel Lets all panic buy coz the shops will be closed for a day. Idiots

Ashburton Art Gallery 24.14% Plains Railway & Preservation Museum 22.41% Ashburton Aviation Museum 8.62%

Sarah Bread and milk bread and milk BUY ALL THE BREAD AND MIIIIILK

Ashburton Heritage Centre (Museum) 6.9% Methven Alpine & Agricultural Encounter 3.45%

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Why is New Zealand wool languishing?

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t’s incredibly frustrating that wool is languishing as the cellar-dweller in terms of returns to the farmer producers.

Given wool’s incredible attributes, and world markets that supposedly are clamouring for products that are renewable, natural, biodegradable and healthy, New Zealand wool should be doing just fine.

But, while the prices for sheep and beef meat have bounced backed to sustainable levels, the returns from wool remain dismal, with no immediate prospect of an upward turn.

Adding to the concern is the ever-increasing stockpiles of wool in sheds and wool stores around the country; one estimate is that close to 50 per cent of the national clip is sitting unsold.

Wool quality deteriorates over time, especially colour – a driver of price.

These stocks will have to come into the market at some stage – perhaps when demand from China turns the corner again – but that could dampen any market lift. The last thing we want to see are these stockpiles sold because of pressure from banks, further weakening soft markets.

As farmers, we need to ask ourselves what we are doing with our wool to add value to the clip.

Are we maximising opportunities for smart presentation?

The reply from some people will be, “we’re not getting paid enough to do it properly”.

But that’s a vicious circle; we can’t expect better prices if our presentation is sub-par.

One of the messages from the outgoing Federated Farmers meat and fibre chairman Rick Powdrell, addressing the national conference in Wellington last week, was that some in the industry are not helping with the perception of wool with the language they use when commenting on the product.

Using terms like waste product or by-product is hardly inspir-

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ing to end-users.

If we can’t be more positive about the product we produce, how can we expect the uninformed end user to be upbeat.

A wool working group Powdrell has been involved with is soon to report to the Ministry for Primary Industries on ideas for a national future wool strategy.

If a strong case for change can be made, Rick says it will then need the backing of all involved – and anyone not prepared to get in behind with the agreed united approach “should be left to fend for themselves outside the tent”.

I’ll throw in my own challenge.

What are our wool purchasers/merchants doing that adds to the equation?

They get the same margin whether farmers’ returns are high or low, and it seems to me that some of them are content to clip the ticket without doing much to help the cause.

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One exception I can think of is Craig Smith and PGG Wrightson.

They’re making the effort to get out into the various markets and ask consumers what they want, as part of a push to grow the pipeline. We all need to be on the lookout for new uses for wool.

If there are middlemen who aren’t prepared to pull their weight by looking for new products, markets and opportunities, we should be culling them from the supply chain.

Wool’s story deserves to be told a hell of a lot better than it is.

Its warmth and insulation properties are unrivalled; it’s a natural product with myriad uses; it’s flame resistant.

Wool acts as an air filter, trapping allergens, so it is great for those who suffer from asthma and the like; in carpet and insulation products it is great for absorbing noise.

These are the advantages we need to get out there.

Politicians are in electioneering mode, with the September election looming large.

I think farmers should be lobbying all MPs, no matter their political colours, to commit to insisting that wool has preferred product status in any government building refurbishment – for linings, flooring, insulation and the like.

There is no product more ‘Kiwi’ than wool and every government agency CEO should be taking the lead and using wool products in their head offices, showing it off to corporate and overseas visitors.

Chris Irons is a Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre Council member.

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■ SIMPLICITY FOUNDER

Pressure on top 50 to diversify KiwiSaver provider Simplicity is putting pressure on New Zealand’s top 50 listed companies to improve the diversity of their boards and senior management.

And Simplicity’s founder Sam Stubbs warns that if no progress is made the non-profit provider would use its position as a shareholder of these firms to try force change.

Simplicity, which launched last year and has investments in S&P/ NZX 50 Index companies, has written to these firms and asked them to provide a plan in the next six months on how they will improve diversity.

Stubbs expected these companies to have fully implemented their diversity plans in the next five years and said Simplicity would prepare an annual scorecard that would monitor the individual progress of each firm.

“I really believe sunlight and transparency on this will actually achieve a lot ... if not then as a shareholder we have several courses available to us and the most extreme of course is to vote

to replace or vote down directors and you can get shareholder proxies from other investors in order to achieve that,” he said.

“But that will be years away and there’d have to be demonstrably no progress ... I doubt very much we’d get to that situation but if we had to get [to] that point we would do it,” he said.

Simplicity has close to 6700 members and $175 million funds under management and Stubbs said if that level of growth continued the provider would become a “reasonably large shareholder” of these firms within five years.

“We would have some sway or influence all by ourselves but I’d be surprised if we wouldn’t get other shareholders rallying around if it became obvious that nothing was happening,” he said.

Stubbs said a growing amount of research showed that companies with more diverse management were outperforming their less diverse counterparts.

He said it was not up to Simplicity to explain to companies what improved diversity would

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–0.5%

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8,225.49

–41.13

–0.5%

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5,724.4

+20.8

+0.36%

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p FTSE 100 index

7,350.9

look like – whether across gender, ethnicity or age.

“But it will be obvious when you see photos of the board and management when it’s been achieved,” he said.

AUT University research from earlier this year found that only

4 per cent of the NZX 50’s chief executives or chairpersons were women and even fewer were Maori, Polynesian or Asian.

That research examined the board makeup of the stock exchange’s 100 biggest companies and found that 22.17 per cent of

■ LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL

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Simplicity’s founder Sam Stubbs.

their directors were women. That was up from 8.65 per cent in 2008.

The research, by AUT’s Judy McGregor and Stevie Sikuea, found that six of these companies had an equal number of female and male directors but that 25 still had no women on their boards.

YWCA chief executive Monica Briggs supported Simplicity’s initiative and said the five-year time-frame was reasonable.

Having a publicly available scorecard on diversity was going to put pressure on firms, she said.

“We do need some urgency around this now ... there are a lot of women which are board ready. I think five years is do-able and that New Zealand is starting to lag behind [other countries],” Briggs said.

While diversity was the first issue on Simplicity’s radar, Stubbs said the KiwiSaver provider could also look to drive a debate about whether companies were paying out too much in dividends instead of reinvesting profits for growth.

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Lawyer struck off roll for failing to pay back trust account funds A former Dunedin lawyer who only paid the contents of a trust account back after a former client complained to the New Zealand Law Society has been struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors.

Richard James Woodhouse was struck off by the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal.

He admitted a charge of misconduct but did not attend the hearing.

Woodhouse’s misconduct relates to action he took before ceasing practice in 2009.

He had held funds in his trust

account on behalf of an overseas client which by 2006 amounted to $13,275. On ceasing practice in 2009 he failed to pay the money to his client in breach of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Trust Account) Regulations 2008.

The money was not repaid until 2015 when his former client contacted the New Zealand Law Society about the missing money.

Woodhouse repaid $17,000 which included interest.

The prosecuting lawyers standards committee submitted that Woodhouse had misappropriated the money and he only repaid it when his former client com-

plained about it. New Zealand Law Society Executive Director Christine Grice says the honesty and trustworthiness of lawyers is something the public should be able to have complete faith in.

“Mr Woodhouse’s behaviour is not reflective of the honesty and ethical behaviour that the vast majority of lawyers are committed to. There is no place in the profession for dishonesty,” she says.

In addition to striking Woodhouse off the roll, the tribunal ordered him to pay the New Zealand Law Society costs of $8500.

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■ EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AUTHORITY

Restaurant fined over pay breaches An Indian restaurant in Timaru has been ordered to stump up $13,865 after it failed to pay migrant workers a minimum wage or the correct holiday entitlements.

Labour Inspectorate said its investigation had uncovered a string of breaches concerning three migrant workers at Tandoori King.

The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) ordered the restaurant to pay $6000 in penalties, in addition to the $7865 in arrears already paid to the workers.

The Labour Inspectorate said

it had discovered that the restaurant had failed to pay minimum wage, the correct holiday pay, and keep holiday and leave records.

“Every employer in New Zealand must provide their employees with all their entitlements, such as at least the minimum wage for every hour worked – anything less will not be tolerated,” Labour Inspectorate regional manager David Milne said.

“While migrant workers have all the same employment rights as any other worker in New Zealand, they are less likely to know their rights and this makes them

vulnerable. “In this case the employer withheld final holiday pay from two of the employees when they left, and paid another below the minimum wage for all the hours worked after they failed to adjust the employee’s wage to match a rise in the minimum wage,” he said.

“While they fixed the issue when they became aware of it and paid arrears back to the employee, this penalty is a good reminder the onus is on the employer to get it right and ignorance is no excuse.

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What do customers want? – DiaryNZ

By Colin WillisCroft

Colin.w@theguardian.Co.nz

A renewed focus on discovering what customers really want should be a priority for DairyNZ research, the industry good group was told last week.

At the end of presentation by South Island Dairying Development Centre executive director Ron Pellow at the Rakaia Community Hall, DairyNZ Mid Canterbury consulting officer Natalia Benquet asked the farmers present which areas they thought DairyNZ should focus its research on.

Top of the list was developing a better understanding of overseas consumers who bought New Zealand dairy products.

It was thought that given the distance farmers and others in the dairy industry are from their customers, it would be to everyone’s advantage if those customers’ interests and wants were better understood.

Given the current discussion around nutrient management and Environment Canterbury’s Plan Change 5, it was not surprising that nutrient loss was also raised as a research priority.

However, research should not only focus on milking platforms, it was suggested that more work needed to be done looking at nutrient loss on dairy support farms to ensure the owners of those properties did not decide to opt out of the industry.

Other suggestions for DairyNZ research included addressing reproductive performance without hormonal interference, once-aday milking and its effect on reproduction, staff and profitability, and how to improve the general public’s perception of dairy farmers, particularly those people who lived in large urban areas.

South Island Dairying Development Centre executive director Ron Pellow addresses a meeting of dairy farmers at Rakaia last week.

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■ LINCOLN UNIVERSITY

Farm performing well

By Colin WillisCroft

Colin.w@theguardian.Co.nz

Lincoln University’s dairy demonstration farm continues to perform well compared to the Canterbury farms it is benchmarked against.

South Island Dairying Development Centre executive director Ron Pellow told an audience of about 60 Mid Canterbury dairy farmers at Rakaia on Friday that, while there was always room for improvement, he was relatively pleased with the performance of the 160-hectare farm which milked 550 cows during the season just gone.

It is benchmarked against sev-

en well-performing dairy farms around Canterbury to ensure its performance measures up.

There were however some challenges during the 2016-17 season.

Reproduction levels were down, with the six-week in-calf rate particularly low. That could be attributed to an outbreak of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), and it did improve by the end of the season.

In-calf performance at LUDF at the end of the first three weeks was 14 per cent below last year, although this was reduced to 6 per cent behind at the end of six weeks and only three per cent

behind past year’s performance at the end of mating.

In terms of animal health, with changes in vacuum pressure and teat spray in the previous season, mastitis seemed to have been held at more acceptable levels.

A combination of high notin-calf rates and the Johne’s disease screening and culling programme contributed to keeping animals that, under other circumstances could have been culled for high SCC counts.

The challenge ahead was the level of lameness that occurred in the herd, although several approaches were being analysed to tackle the problem for

the 2017-18 season.

LUDF operates under a selfimposed nitrogen cap and Pellow said there could be lessons for the dairy industry to be learnt from the practice in the future, as farms are charged with meeting new environmental targets in terms of nutrient loss.

He said not only does the farm use less nitrogen than it used to, its use has been delayed.

Both the Lincoln farm and the dairy industry as a whole can still improve the way nitrogen is used, he said.

“There are more efficiencies to drive out of nitrogen use as an industry yet,” he said.

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■ BEEF + LAMB

Alternative protein research

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Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 98.18 95.66 17.5 kg YX SI 110.46 107.61 19.0 kg YX SI 120.04 116.95 21.0 kg YX SI 132.31 128.90 Local trade (c/kg) SI 660 640 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 82.95 80.01 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 536 537 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 425 399 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 510 507 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 600 580 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 450 445 AP Stag 60kg SI 546 540 AP Stag 80kg SI 728 720 Auction prices … u NI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 395 400 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 267 359 Lamb 390 409

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Beef + Lamb New Zealand is leading a project to assess potential red meat sector responses to alternative protein advances.

Chief executive Sam McIvor said the organisation, on behalf of New Zealand sheep and beef farmers, wants to better understand the shifts in food and food production technology. This will include identifying the threats and in particular the opportunities for the sector – and how to address them.

“We want to distinguish hype from reality and have an objective view on what’s happening in the alternative protein space.

“That will mean better understanding the technologies, business models and how quickly advancements are being made that could impact the New Zealand red meat sector.”

McIvor said the current view from commentators was that alternative proteins was being positioned as a premium product today but that could change tomorrow.

“For example, if the price to produce these foods comes down in the future it could have an impact on the likes of hamburger meat. That could be a risk for the sector, given a large percentage of New Zealand processing beef currently goes to quick service restaurants.”

Another part of the project will be to gather a deep understanding of what consumers think about alternative proteins and their acceptance of them.

“We want to understand their perceptions, choices and the trade-offs they might make in the future.”

McIvor said Beef + Lamb New Zealand will be reaching out to other organisations with food technology and consumer insight experience, that have a deep knowledge and exposure to what’s happening in places like Silicon Valley and the Netherlands where protein alternative technologies and investment are being heavily focused.

MARKET REPORT Dairy After a frosty period another southerly blast is due to hit the province and feeding allowances will need to be adjusted for the predicted very cold conditions.

Feed utilisation rates will be compromised and intakes should to be lifted to allow for a temperature induced energy loss as many cows are now just a month from calving.

National milk flows have ended only 0.6 per cent down on the previous year after the poor spring was boosted by a wet summer and growthy autumn.

This fall in production is the second in a row but bank analysts forecast a recovery of 4 per cent this coming season and this should be coupled with better prices.

Last week’s global dairy trade sat in a holding pattern with whole milk powders lifting but tempered by falls from other commodities that caused the index to sit slightly back on the last event.

Butter prices further strengthen in the Oceania area with values breaking through the $NZ8000/tonne barrier for the first time.

Rabobank reports that the growth of the infant formula market has been over-hyped and NZ needs to broaden its markets away from China and into countries like Indonesia and Vietnam.

The tractor sale barometer was strong at the Fieldays and one major brand reported this was the best in the last seven for sales.

Lamb Another steady week for lamb export schedules as pricing is approaching historic highs for some frozen cuts.

Most of the product is now being sold chilled and one exporter reports strong consumer interest in product produced on grass and which is antibiotic free.

Scanning results look good and some are reporting levels are 20 per cent ahead of last year.

Demand for breeding ewes is strong and one line of 5yr animals scanned in lamb with twins sold for over $200/head last week in Fielding.

The Sheep Industry awards were held in

Invercargill last week as the sector highlighted excellence and innovation from farmers over the last year.

The mutton schedule has gone off the boil but few are now being harvested and those are mainly on contract.

NZ trade officials believe they are in a good space to sign a free trade deal with the UK post Brexit but strong political lobbing is expected from British sheep farmers.

WOOL The first sale of the new season was a North Island auction and this again revealed the disastrous state of wool pricing.

In a sale dominated by second shear wool, coarse price indicators fell to levels not seen since 2009 and even other longer wool types met very poor pricing levels.

Exporters report global demand for crossbred wool is at an all time low and industry sources suggest that maybe about 200300,000 bales remain unsold.

Some farmers report that returns for second shear and lambs have not covered costs and will be looking at shearing patterns to address this loss making procedure.

Beef Some easing in prime schedules this week but the US market for manufacturing type beef remains strong.

A lack of supply from Australia and NZ combined with a suspension of Brazilian beef imports unable to achieve US regulation has driven demand further.

US beef production is expected to increase next year by 4 per cent and will be at the highest level since 2010. And with burger prices and corn futures low, some readjustment in pricing could be due any time soon.

Deer Another week of stable venison schedules as early harvesting begins for the European chilled harvest.

Spot prices have now moved ahead of minimum price contracts offered back in May by about 40c/kg cwt and show just how strong the market now is.

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■ BIOSECURITY

Firm fined for customs breach A Christchurch customs broking firm has been convicted and fined $3000 for submitting a false customs declaration that had the potential to create a serious biosecurity breach.

Gateway Cargo Systems Limited pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court last week to one charge of falsely declaring that the header unit of a combine harvester imported from the United Kingdom was new when in fact it had been used.

The offending was detected in December last year after the combine harvester was inspected by a Ministry for Primary Industries quarantine officer.

MPI spokesman, Steve Ham, says the company correctly stated that the combine harvester was used, however, declared the header unit as new.

“When the container was opened, it became very clear the header was used and when it was further inspected, it was found to be heavily contaminated,” Ham said.

“It was decided the header needed to be disassembled completely to ensure it was steam

cleaned effectively. The subsequent cleaning process took 30 hours and the waste filled three 240-litre containers.

“This offending had potentially serious ramifications. The Biosecurity Act aims to protect the natural balance of native New Zealand.

“If invasive organisms enter our country the impact would be incalculable.”

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Museum discoveries in Croatia

By Kathleen Stringer

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believe that one should take any opportunity that comes your way, so when I was invited to go to the Czech Republic and Slovakia for a brief, but full-on, holiday recently, I took advantage of it. The area I travelled through is very old and history is everywhere.

Once there, I noticed that while some history is experienced as a fine church or castle, much of it is contained and presented in the many buildings that call themselves ‘museums’.

A little like the Ashburton district, it seems that most towns want to have more than one museum. Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, boasts 30!

While some focus on the town or village as a whole, many specialise in a single topic. These topics may be a person, location, event, or – as it sometimes appeared to me – just a rather strange collection.

Does the world really need, for example, a marzipan museum (in Bratislava) when a perfectly good café that specialises in that super sweet concoction was right next door?

Sometimes the focus of the collection had merit, but because of sparse information you left feeling more entertained than educated. Surely a good museum can do both?

In order to buy some embarrassing gift for my nephew, I bravely ventured inside the Sex Machine Museum in Prague.

(The joke was on me as they didn’t have any souvenirs!). While

they had an interesting collection that could have been used to explore many questions about sexuality, I left thinking their sole purpose was to shock or titillate.

Labels or not Other times there was plenty of information but not what was crucial to understanding the collection.

At the Loreta in Prague they have a well-publicised collection of monstrances – the vessels used in Catholic and Anglican churches for holding the communion wafer.

There, the labels commented on the age, maker and components (one contained 6222 diamonds). However, as there was no real explanation of what the objects were for, some viewers were left looking at apparently pretty, but meaningless, objects.

In most instances the lack of understanding was a frustration, however, sometimes you missed out on the experience altogether.

The Pinkas Synagogue, in Prague, is part of the Jewish Museum, which isn’t a museum at all, but a collection of buildings, including a historic cemetery that seeks to preserve and celebrate the Jewish culture.

Compared to the older and more ornate synagogues, the modern synagogue could seem to be just a plain, empty building. Its only decoration appears, on first view, to be walls decorated with tiny wavy patterns.

Due to insufficient information, people could miss out on the moving fact that the wavy lines are actually names of all the Czech Jews who died during

World War Two. Some of the best museums were found in unexpected places – unexpected as there was little publicity or even signage to tell you where they were.

The castle museum in Bratislava was something I really only stumbled upon and although it stated that it dealt with the history of the castle and its restoration, it also had an excellent exhibition on the early Celtic tribes that lived in the area.

In Olomouc I popped into a rather sad looking ‘museum’ down a side street that purported to display old statuary. This too had a most impressive Celtic exhibition, including a 3000 year old boat – perhaps the only one its kind.

Passionate people If some museums didn’t advertise, others overinflated their worth. The Anthros Pavilion, an anthropology museum in Brno, was a must-see for me after seeing their great website presence.

After making an effort to get there on a 32 degree day, I found a sad building with displays that even had cobwebs and which had very out-of-date information panels. This was especially odd as some of the findings were based on discoveries made nearby!

Yet in the small village of Bojnice a group of volunteers did a great job providing up-to-date information on Neanderthals, and even offered a very entertaining programme for children.

It was easy to pick which museums (whatever their focus) had enthusiastic people involved. It

didn’t matter if the museum was large or the collection important, or what the budget was like.

Passionate people who wanted to share with visitors what they had to offer provided a much better experience than ‘soulless’ institutions.

The age and history of the areas I visited was vast and impressive. It would be ridiculous to imagine therefore, that what we have here in Ashburton could ever compare with institutions that themselves have been around for hundreds of years.

However, in terms of passion and dedication I believe we can compare ourselves more than favourably.

Above – A Celtic boat, found in a tiny museum in Olomouc. The man responsible was closing but let me in, and although we didn’t share the same language we somehow communicated our mutual interest. With lots of nods and pointing he was obviously very proud of the item and very pleased I was excited to see it.

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Above – Made it! One of the oldest palaeolithic sites in Europe, this open air ‘museum’ in Bojnice was both enjoyable and informative.

Left – The importance of signage. On seeing an open church I ventured inside, a small sign in a corner said ‘To the rack’. It transpired that I was in the former prison in Olomouc where St John Sarkander was martyred. Good information panels informed me that I was looking at the very rack where he died.

Below – This museum in Prague entices visitors inside by claiming it has chamber pots used by Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon.

Left – One of my favourite places has to be Cesky Krumlov. Not able to confine their history in a single building, the whole village has been recognised by UNESCO as a world heritage site. It must have one of the most beautiful castles in Europe. They have a number of specialist museums and stage festivals throughout the year celebrating different aspects of their heritage.

Honouring the Fallen During the period of the First World War, 1914 to 1915, many men from the Ashburton District signed up to fight for the Empire against the German army. Many did not return — almost 450 from Ashburton were killed. The Ashburton Museum with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Ashburton Plains, has erected in front of the Museum one of the original Ferriman flagpoles, and on the centennial of the death of each Ashburton soldier will fly a replica flag. An original flag is on display in the museum.

This week the Ashburton Museum honours: July 12: (Roderick Dhu) BONN(E) July 13: Frank Cecil WOTTEN July 15: William PROTHEROE

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www.guardianonline.co.nz Ben Hobson, Andrew Barrie, Bronwyn Flannery, Christine Kinita. Net eagle; # 2, Not struck.

Players to contest the finals of the R.S.A. Trophy: Gary Lee and Paul Hefford and in the Plate division Ben Hobson will play Arthur Pawsey.

RESULTS ■ Bridge

■ Rugby

Ashburton Bridge Club July 3 Individual & Walker Trophies N/S 1st David Robins & George Brown, 2nd Fiona Williamson & Dee Murdoch, 3rd Pauline Scott & Maryke Blignault E/W 1st Faye Priest & Shirley Harris, 2nd Wendy Parr & Bruce Leighton, 3rd Mary Francis & Hilda Blee July 4 Ron Sutherland Trophy N/S 1st David Sewell & Sue Rosevear, 2nd Mary Buckland & Judith Edmond, 3rd Betty Hawthorne & Melva Stowell E/W 1st Rewa Kyle & John Fechney, 2nd Maree Moore & Arthur Maude, 3rd Val Palmer & Annette Blain July 5 Individual Ladder N/S 1st Rose McLaughlin & Judith Edmond, 2nd Shirley Harris & Peter Downward, 3rd Melva Stowell & Beth McIlraith E/W 1st Bev Turton & Rona Brownlie, 2nd Jeanette Lovett & Val Palmer, 3rd Kay Robb & Trish Downward July 6 Smith Trophy N/S 1st Mary Buckland & Bev Turton, 2nd Mike Holmes & Rewa Kyle, 3rd Jim Rooney & John Fechney E/W 1st Mike Holdaway & Trish Small, 2nd Kay Robb & David Sewell, 3rd Trevor Coulter & John Irwin July 7 Waireka Croquet N/S 1st Iris Taylor & Maree Moore, 2nd Johnny Wright & Rose McLaughlin, 3rd David Sewell & Sue Rosevear E/W 1st John Fechney & Pat Jordan 2nd Audrey Rooney & Lois Rose, 3rd Annette Blain & Rona Brownlie

■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers 16km. 17 riders.

1st Brent Hudson CT> 30.59. HT> go.

RT. 30m 59s, 2nd. Brian Ellis CT> 31.01.

HT. go. RT. 31m 01s. 3rd. Russell Ward.

CT> 31.02. HT. 1.30m. RT. 29m 32s. 4th.

Andy Skinner CT>31.03. HT. 1.30m RT. 29m 33s. 5th. Janette Hooper CT>31.03.

HT. 1.30m.RT.29m 33s. 6th. Liz Wylie CT>31.03. HT. Go. RT. 31m 03s. 7th. Roger Wilson CT>31.13. HT. 3.30m. RT. 27m 43s. 8th. Don Morrison CT> 31.13. HT. 3.30m. RT. 27m 43s. 9th. Dave Knight CT> 31.34. HT. 6.50m. RT. 24m 44s F/T. 10th Rob Hooper CT>31.34. HT. 6.50m.

RT. 24m 44s. 2f/t. 11th. Kristine Marriott CT> 31.34. HT> 6.50m. RT. 24m 45s.

3f/t. 12th. Ross Templeton CT> 31.35.

HT. 6.50m. RT. 24m 45s. 4f/t. 13th. Paul Macfie CT.31.36. HT.6.50m. RT. 24m 46s.

14th. Doug Coley CT>31.48. HT. 6.50m.

RT.24m 58s. 15th. Wayne Clement CT> 32.17. HT. 7.25m. RT. 24m 52s. 16th. Brad Hudson CT> 32.21m. HT> 7.25m. RT. 24m 56s. 17th. Lewis Kaye CT> 32.30.

HT. 7.25m. RT. 25m 05s.

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club July 8 President’s Trophy match play Winners: Ray Lambert, Josh Ackerley, Ken Clucas and Greig Sparrow. In the Plate Matches

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton County Ladies Vets Club July 14 Play at Mayfield 9.30am for 10.00am start 9 Hole players welcome Please bring lunch and a small raffle gift

Ashburton Golf Club

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Valtteri Bottas of Finland, Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Daniel Ricciardo of Australia, celebrate on the podium of the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix.

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Bottas victorious in Austria Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas made a great start from pole position to win the Austrian Grand Prix, while Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel finished just behind in second to extend his championship lead over main rival Lewis Hamilton to 20 points.

Bottas just held off Vettel’s late Winners: Gaby Jansen (19th), Ian Rive, Adrian Hopwood and Paddy Bradford.

Best score on the day in the Stroke round: Philip Kerr 86-21=65. Other winning scores: Alan White 66; Paul Greer and Greg Fleming 68; Miti Daniels, Neil MacDonald and Jeff Williamson 69; Chris Lovelock, Murray Moorehead and Chris Robertson 70.

Nearest The Pins: Braided Rivers: Adrian Hopwood; Rothbury Insurance: Sharon Bradford, Netherby Meats: Royce Jamieson, South Island Seeds: Sharon Bradford, Charming Thai (longest putt) Murray Moorehead.

Twos: Greig Sparrow, Tony Bennett, Alan White, Andrew Tindall, Adrian Hopwood (2) and Paddy Bradford.

Birdy Jackpot: #10, Nett Eagles: #13 Nine Hole Stableford Best score of the day: Brian Fauth 22pts followed by Ryan Stoddart 20; Chris Thomas and Geoff Rhodes 19 and Laurence Hanrahan 18pts.

Mayfield Golf Club July 5 Mid-Week Stableford Competition Ali McLeod 39 stableford points, Thomas Wing 39 Charlie Rapsey 38, Steve Cross 37, Jack Allan 36.

Nearest the Pin: Steve Cross Twos: Gordon Duthie, & Steve Cross.

Methven Golf Club July 5 Ladies Division LGU Silver: Sarah Gallagher 95-18-77, Jenny Senior 95-17-78 Bronze A: Jan Lane 99-24-75, Jane Helmore 102-26-76 Bronze B: Sharon Burrell-Smith 108-3672, Heather Middleton 108-31-77, Faye

July 15 Semi-finals of the President’s Trophy and Plate.

A Stableford round will be held for those not involved in the match play.

Number 1 Tee 12.00 Gaby Jansen vs Ian Rive; Adrian Hopwood vs Paddy Bradford 12.06 Ray Lambert vs Josh Ackerley; Ken Clucas; vs Greig Sparrow.

Starting times: Morning 8.30am (winter start time), Afternoon report to the Pro shop at 11.30 for a 12noon start.

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

charge, with the German driver crossing the line 0.6 seconds behind.

“He was catching up. I had a massive blister in the rear left (tire),” Bottas said. “I was losing more and more stability of the rear. I was happy the race ended on that lap.”

Vettel was frustrated at missing out on a 46th career win by so little.

“I was told he was in trouble, I was pushing. The car came alive and I had really good pace,” Vettel said. “I really wanted to win, so not entirely happy.”

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Redfern 108-31-77 6th Tui’s: Sharon Burrell-Smith 37, Faye Redfern 34, Jan Lane 36 Paradiso Best Nett: Sharon BurrellSmith 72 Nearest the Pin # 6 Silver Methven Foursquare Sarah Gallagher, #17 Bronze A Methven Travel Jan Lane, # 4 Bronze B Methven Pharmacy Heather Middleton, #13 Open Aribica Heather Santy, #14 Aqua 2nd shot Aqua Japanese Restaurant Jan Lane, # 4 Sat Ladies Methven Supervalue Not Played Two’s and Nett Eagles: Lynn Worsfold.

Jenny Senior July 12 Captain v Secretary. Margaret Lilley Putting July 7 9 hole golf Hatem Holes Comp Hiromi Ikehata 47-8-39 / 44, Alan Dent 63-22-41 / 51, Kevin Thompson 57-15-42 / 51 PGG Wrightson Best Player - Hiromi Ikehata July 8 Men’s Division 4th Round Club Champs Qualifing Senior: Piers Rolton 76-7-69. Intermediate: Phil Johnson 83-13-70. Junior A: Eric Grimwade 89-21-68 by lot. Junior B: Peter Kemp 93-25-68.

Other Good Scores: 68 Paul Plimmer.

69 Craig Middleton. 70 Pete Wood. 71 Alister Maxwell Graham Gunn. 72 Tony Worsfold, John McGettigan, Ian Lucas, Tim Robinson.

Twos: Tony Worsfold, Alister Maxwell, Frank Sandys, Eric Grimwade.

Dubliner Best Nett: Paul Plimmer 68 by lot. Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Peter Kemp 68. Methven Travel

Best Gross: Piers Rolton 76.

Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Tim Robinson. Hunters Wine No 6: Not Struck. Ski Time No 13: Graham Gunn. Green Parrot No 17: Tony Worsfold. Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Paddy Helmore.

Next Week July 15: Gerard Fitzgerald Memorial Shield- Four ball best ball.

■ Hockey

Mid Canterbury Rugby

Mid Canterbury Hockey July 15 Played at NBS Ashburton Hockey Turf At Ashburton (Senior Men) 5.00pm Wakanui v Cambridge (C Watson,TBC) At Timaru (Senior Women) 1.00pm Cambridge v Hampstead July 16 (deferred game) At Ashburton (Senior Women) 3.30pm Hampstead/Collegians v Geraldine (Sarah Reith, Jacob Gray)

■ Rugby

Rakaia Golf Club July 5 Ladies Division LGU Bryant Cup – 3rd Putting Round Sue Martin 103- 30 – 73, Teresa Booker 99 – 23 – 76 Putting Sally Smith 29 Putts 9 Hole Putting Lillian Ohanlon Railway Tavern 2nd Shot No 3 - Sue Martin, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd Shot No 6 - Sally Smith, Val Bell , Nearest the Pin No 8 – Sandra Quinn, Chertsey Spraying 2nd Shot No 15 – Tina Pearce, S Quinn 2nd Shot No 17 – Sue Martin.

Tinwald Golf Club July 8 Stroke 3rd round of the Alan Teale Memorial stroke Leading Scores - Senior; -12: Gordy Kenton 67. Intermediate; 13-18: Snow Pierce 71, Wayne Ross 74, Dave Rush 75 b/l.

Junior; 19 Plus; Des Green 73 c/b, Doug Osborn 73, Ross Preece 74. Women; Christine Kinita 68. Nearest the pin; Tinwald Liquorland: #2; Kevin Bishop.

Gluyas Ford # 6; Ray Kirdy. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill# 12; Ben Hobson.

Ace Auto Electrical # 16. Jeff Hewitt. G& R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Randall Feutz.

Two’s; Richard Thompson, Des Green,

July 15 Senior Division 1 – Luisetti Seeds Watters Cup Competition Dave White Memorial Cup / Max Gilbert Trophy Darryl Phillips Motor Company Celtic v Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Southern, Celtic 1, 2:45pm: W Burrett, C O’Malley, G Clement Railway Tavern Rakaia v PWL Methven, Rakaia 1, 2:45pm: K Opele, G Shaw, A McGirr Devon Tavern Hampstead Bye Senior B - Centennial Mug Competition – Semi Finals Wholesale Seeds Southern v KFC

July 4 Ellesmere/Mid Canterbury representative fixture Ellesmere 20 v Mid Canterbury 24 Ellesmere Colts 34 v Mid Canterbury Colts 26 July 8 Senior PWL Methven 67 (11T) v Devon Tavern Hampstead 15 (3T) Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Southern 39 v Railway Tavern Rakaia 45 Darryl Phillips Motor Company Celtic Bye Senior B - Centennial Mug Competition Kellys Café & Bar Celtic 39 (7T) v Grieve Construction Allenton 15 (2T) Collegiate 10(2T) v Mt Somers 39 (6T) R & R Spreading Methven 22 (4T) v KFC Hampstead 62 (10T) Wholesale Seed Southern 74 v Rakaia 0 UC Championship Nelson College 52 v Mid Canterbury Combined 3 Combined Competition – Colts Lincoln 21 (3T) v EuroAgri Celtic 36 (6T) Rakaia/Methven 32 v Darfield 26 Prebbleton 26 v Springston 32 Combined Competition - Under 18- Finals Hanham Concrete Celtic 18 (2T) v Hurunui 20 (2T) 3rd & 4th Darfield Win – Ashley/Oxford – Default Play Offs – Under 18 Waihora 56 v Pegasus Bay 7 Lincoln/Prebbleton Win v Aoraki Default Southern/Hampstead 5 v Rolleston 60 TBHS Bye Combined Competition – Under 16 – Round 2 Section 1 Mid Canterbury Mechanical Hampstead 19 v Waihora/Springston 17 Rolleston 25 v WN/BDI 25 Prebbleton Default v RD Petroleum Tinwald Win Harnett Contracting Celtic/Shearmac Methven Bye Combined Competition Round 2 - Top 4 – Under 14.5 Southbridge 35 v Hampstead 22 Lincoln 48 v West Melton 22 Combined Competition Round 2 – Bottom 5 – Under 14.5 Fowler Homes Celtic/Purata Farms Rakaia 34 v Rolleston 36 Prebbleton 65 v Waihora 12 Methven v Bye MCRU/ACL – Under 13 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Lysaght Glass Celtic 0 v Lifestyle Motorhomes Hampstead 42 Ashton Garage Doors Collegiate 55 v Methven 17 Hyde Bros Spraying Southern 24 v Allenton Tinwald 17 MCRU/ACL – Under 11.5 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Ashburton Online Celtic 55 v Hampstead 19 Ross Leadley Building Collegiate v Methven Moore Mechanical Southern 33 v Allenton/Tinwald 40

Hampstead, Hinds 1, 1pm: D McKibbon, K Faalogo, H Grant Mt Somers v Kellys Café & Bar Celtic, Mt Somers 1, 2.30pm: J O’Connor, P Hunt, M Southby UC Championship – No Rugby School Holidays Combined Competition – Colts - No Rugby Combined Competition - Under 18 - No Rugby Ellesmere/MCRU Competition - Under 16 – No Rugby MCRU Competition – Under 14.5, 13, 11.5 - No Rugby School Holidays MCRU Non- Competition – Under 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 - No Rugby School Holidays

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Smolda heads out to pasture

“Then he had some issues in the middle of his career, with a virus and a burst blood vessel in his leg and most horses wouldn’t have come back after spending so

long away from the track.

“But he really wanted to be there and had great will to win.

He isn’t the fastest or best horse I have trained but he would be one of the bravest.”

As epic as his 32-win career worth over $2.5 million was, Smolda’s trophy haul could have been even greater, with only an early gallop costing him in the New Zealand Cup last season while he was also placed in a Victoria Cup, Auckland Cup and two Derbys.

“While it will be sad to see him leave the stable he will probably go back to Australia where the Kirkwoods, who part own him, will give him a lovely home for the rest of his life,” Purdon said.

“And I’m thrilled he got to have the season he just has, so people will remember what a great horse he was.”

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington 4 22586 Tilt 17.39 ..........................................L Waretini 5 61788 Smash Rumour 17.19 ........................ M Grant 4 46222 Andolas 17.66 ..............................R Blackburn Raceway Meeting Date: 11 July, 2017 NZ Meeting number: 5 66F58 Kablitz 17.62 ................................... K Cassidy 6 67754 Ready Teddy 17.64 M & ......................... Smith 5 25465 Falconhurst 17.73................................A Joyce 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 6 66465 Jinga Snag 17.85 ................................A Joyce 7 27646 Road Block 17.59 ................................A Joyce 6 61727 Magma 17.60 C & ................................. Fagan 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 7 17754 Another Message nwtd M & .................Jopson 7 46546 Sergio Star nwtd........................J T McInerney 8 42734 Dragon Queen 17.85 M & ....................Jopson 11 and 12 8 58838 Cawbourne Murf 17.55.................... C Roberts 8 21126 Dave’s Dot 17.55 .......................J T McInerney 9 58748 Unfettered 17.57 M & ...........................Jopson 1 12.04pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C1, 9 58748 Unfettered 17.57 M & ...........................Jopson 10 8Fx86 No Biffo nwtd ..................................D Kingston 9 4887x Crystal Flame nwtd ............................ M Grant 295m 10 44888 Smash Attack 17.36 ........................... M Grant 7 2.02pm STEVE ANNGOW DRAPES & BLINDS PH 10 8Fx86 No Biffo nwtd ..................................D Kingston 10 2.57pm MAC DEVELOPMENTS STAKES C1, 520m 0272719588 STAKE C1, 520m 1 36564 Max Brainstrain 17.39 M & ..................... Smith 4 1.04pm LITTLE BROWN JUG STAKES C1, 520m 1 28525 Patty Boy 30.64 L &................................Wales 1 77541 Magnetrix 31.14 C & ............................. Fagan 1 32626 Gentleman Tim 30.18 J &................... D Fahey 2 77756 Ester Action nwtd S & ........................ B Evans 2 51374 Goldstar Marvely 31.04 S & ............... B Evans 2 15687 Rushcuter Action 30.51 S & ............... B Evans 2 57778 Mr. Fuss Pot nwtd S & ........................ B Evans 3 56188 Magic Velvet 17.64 .........................D Kingston 3 76733 Arcane Sabre 30.35 M & ......................Jopson 3 47774 Goldstar Coco 30.51 S & ................... B Evans 3 48736 Smokey Action 30.36 S &................... B Evans 4 8451 Smash Prince 17.66 ........................... M Grant 4 47362 Opawa Extreme 30.48 L & .....................Wales 4 8F761 Idol Ajay 31.35 L & .................................Wales 4 13665 Opawa Sledge 30.96 L & .......................Wales 5 62234 Umbreon Bale nwtd......................... C Roberts 5 33733 Qadir Bale nwtd............................... C Roberts 5 12287 Kia Tere 30.50 J & .............................. D Fahey 5 43224 Opawa Amber 30.60 L & ........................Wales 6 17774 Jaded Affair 17.46 ............................L Waretini 6 35244 Know Cheers 30.36...........................G Cleeve 6 25822 Opawa Mine 31.62 L & ...........................Wales 6 26416 Dyna Hadvar 30.74 ......................... C Roberts 7 52111 Scoobasi 17.34 H & ...............................Taylor 7 46664 Homebush Clint nwtd ................J T McInerney 7 45515 Wong Box nwtd M & .............................Jopson 7 13445 Idol Jazz 31.13 L &.................................Wales 8 75554 Rum Gin Mixer nwtd ............................A Joyce 8 31743 El Narco nwtd J &............................... D Fahey 8 1165 Aussi Joshy 30.75 L & ............................Wales 8 55658 Dead Wong 30.98 M & .........................Jopson 9 58748 Unfettered 17.57 M & ...........................Jopson 9 16658 Ghost 30.63..................................... C Roberts 9 16658 Ghost 30.63..................................... C Roberts 9 16658 Ghost 30.63..................................... C Roberts 10 44888 Homebush Tulip 17.59...............J T McInerney 2 12.24pm CLARKSON’S SIGN STUDIO DASH C1, 10 46786 Fab Action 30.62 S & ......................... B Evans 10 58758 Opawa Faith 30.32 .......................... K M Grant 10 14787 Homebush Ivana nwtd...............J T McInerney 5 1.24pm CHRIS & LISA EARL DASH C1, 295m 8 2.22pm CRATE AND BARREL HOTEL DASH C1, 295m 11 3.17pm ISLINGTON TAVERN DASH C1, 295m 295m 1 35662 Idol Star 17.59 L & .................................Wales 1 86457 Unbridled 17.37 M & ............................Jopson 1 65713 Cannonball Bolt 17.49 C & .................... Fagan 1 34477 Hell’s A Coming nwtd .................. A Botherway 2 11888 Fill The Till 17.58 .............................A Williams 2 16847 Terra Jago 17.41 C & ............................ Fagan 2 84381 Belfast Delanie 17.93 H & ......................Taylor 2 77464 Tricky Action 17.48 S & ...................... B Evans 3 54122 We Rocking 17.58 H & ...........................Taylor 3 44232 Jinno Gino 17.65 ............................ J McMillan 3 24463 Genetic Marlow 17.61 ........................ M Grant 3 38F76 Goldstar Dodge nwtd S &................... B Evans 4 25517 Ohoka Angel 17.51 ......................... A Waretini 4 68x71 Extradite 17.08 J & ............................. D Fahey 4 58858 Aroha nwtd .......................................L Waretini 4 65672 High On Vee 17.54 ..........................A Williams 5 6241 Little Lottie 17.66 M & ............................ Smith 5 76x46 Bigtime Tip 17.39 M & ............................ Smith 5 77563 Know Bias nwtd.................................G Cleeve 5 45751 White Not Wong 17.74 M & ..................Jopson 6 587x5 Goldstar Miley nwtd S & ..................... B Evans 6 78256 Flat Pack 17.73 .........................J T McInerney 6 74554 Idol Georgie 17.33................................ J Rush 6 84771 Coco Bango 17.58 ....................J T McInerney 7 22332 Distinctive Miss 17.60 .........................A Joyce 7 81F Minalinka nwtd S &............................. B Evans 7 48534 Black Dan 17.85 ........................J T McInerney 7 74777 Dyna Bevlin nwtd............................. C Roberts 8 85575 Unconscionable 17.66 M & ..................Jopson 8 131 Inside Affair 17.41 ........................R Blackburn 8 77735 Blazin Action 17.86 S &...................... B Evans 8 48141 Fabre’s Lass 17.53 .......................R Blackburn 9 4887x Crystal Flame nwtd ............................ M Grant 9 4887x Crystal Flame nwtd ............................ M Grant 9 58748 Unfettered 17.57 M & ...........................Jopson 9 4887x Crystal Flame nwtd ............................ M Grant 10 18887 Heidi Style 17.58 M &............................. Smith 10 48578 Epic Style 17.65 M & ............................Jopson 10 18678 Lexie Rae 17.53 M & ............................Jopson 10 44888 Smash Attack 17.36 ........................... M Grant 3 12.44pm GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND SPRINT 6 1.44pm COALGATE TAVERN SPRINT C1, 295m 9 2.38pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT 12 3.36pm PROTEXIN SPRINT C1, 295m C1, 295m 1 76566 Brooke Davis 17.25 ..........................L Waretini C1, 295m 1 45648 Minor Brainwave 17.97 M & ................... Smith 1 72855 Kalonga 17.47 S & ............................. B Evans 2 8x661 Know Deception 17.40 ......................G Cleeve 1 55327 Lagoon Allira nwtd M & .......................... Smith 2 5121 Bossy Affair 17.60 ............................L Waretini 2 53513 Tui Style 17.54 M & ................................ Smith 3 65535 Royal Action 17.29 S & ...................... B Evans 2 77747 Goldstar Phelps 17.71 S & ................. B Evans 3 15675 Zabambi 17.62 ....................................A Joyce 3 7314 Smash Wild 17.74 .............................. M Grant 4 54275 Princely Gold 17.59 ...................J T McInerney 3 46682 Wong Answer 17.43 M &......................Jopson 4 37713 Hotdog Shannon 17.69 ................... C Roberts

5 67356 Homebush Patriot nwtd .............J T McInerney 6 86623 Another Fan 17.38 M & ........................Jopson 7 86277 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S &................... B Evans 8 313 Cee Ash nwtd ....................................G Cleeve 9 4887x Crystal Flame nwtd ............................ M Grant 10 48578 Epic Style 17.65 M & ............................Jopson LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Scoobasi, Smash Prince, Umbreon Bale, Jaded Affair, Rum Gin Mixer Race 2: Fabre’s Lass, Coco Bango, Goldstar Dodge, Tricky Action, Dyna Bevlin Race 3: Dave’s Dot, Tui Style, Smash Wild, Another Message, Kalonga Race 4: Patty Boy, El Narco, Know Cheers, Arcane Sabre, Qadir Bale Race 5: We Rocking, Distinctive Miss, Idol Star, Fill The Till, Little Lottie Race 6: Know Deception, Royal Action, Princely Gold, Dragon Queen, Brooke Davis Race 7: Gentleman Tim, Opawa Amber, Idol Jazz, Dyna Hadvar, Smokey Action Race 8: Extradite, Inside Affair, Unbridled, Jinno Gino, Terra Jago Race 9: Wong Answer, Andolas, Cawbourne Murf, Magma, Falconhurst Race 10: Kia Tere, Aussi Joshy, Opawa Mine, Goldstar Coco, Magnetrix Race 11: Cannonball Bolt, Black Dan, Genetic Marlow, Belfast Delanie, Idol Georgie Race 12: Bossy Affair, Cee Ash, Hotdog Shannon, Another Fan, Zabambi

Champion trainer Mark Purdon has trained faster and more talented horses than Smolda – but none braver.

The Inter Dominion hero has been retired after the wear and tear of six seasons’ racing at the highest level finally caught up on him over the weekend.

Purdon had been unhappy with the eight-year-old’s soundness since he came back into work and a scan has confirmed a tear in a tendon.

In a younger horse it would be a problem healed by time but for Smolda, whose old legs need hundreds of kilometres of training in them to keep up with the young bucks, it was a sign the end had come.

“We could have put him aside and tried again but at his age, with the work load he needs to race, he would have re-injured it,”

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M9 Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 11 July, 2017 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13 1 12.12pm (NZT) OTAGO GRC MAIDEN SPRINT C0, 310m 1 64275 Uncle Jock nwtd ......................P Hammond 2 78323 Goldstar Sawyer nwtd S &............. B Evans 3 57222 Black Tori nwtd ........................ A Bradshaw 4 77487 Paris Global nwtd .................J T McInerney 5 86633 Goldstar Bindi nwtd S & ................ B Evans 6 3441 Lavarno nwtd S & .......................... B Evans 7 Bublin Max nwtd ...................J T McInerney 8 77736 Goldstar Raven nwtd S & .............. B Evans 9 84587 African Violet nwtd ................J T McInerney 10 45755 Goldstar Lottie nwtd S &................ B Evans 2 12.32pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C0, 310m 1 38253 Goldstar Bryton nwtd S & .............. B Evans 2 67321 Summer Salt nwtd ...................... K M Grant 3 36638 Hungry Machine nwtd S & ............. B Evans 4 24 Epic Boom nwtd .......................... R Adcock 5 85462 Brad Baxter nwtd ..................J T McInerney 6 63877 Homebush Stormy nwtd .......J T McInerney 7 453 Dave’s Pick nwtd ..................J T McInerney 8 76542 Goldstar Renee nwtd S & .............. B Evans 9 Coma Berenices nwtd .............. H Anderton 10 64776 Goldstar Scooby nwtd S & ............ B Evans 3 12.52pm GLAMOUR HOOVES RACING STABLES STAKES C0, 545m 1 54643 Goldstar Ashton nwtd S & ............. B Evans 2 5 Eyrewell Lucy nwtd....................... H Cairns 3 53F32 Take By Storm nwtd ................ A Bradshaw 4 45487 Kim’s My Name nwtd .................... H Cairns 5 7 Koputai nwtd .................................J Guthrie 6 22776 Opawa Spirit nwtd L & .......................Wales 7 Eyrewell Valetta nwtd ................... H Cairns

Purdon said. “He has been a great horse, owned by top people, so they made the decision to retire him because he has nothing left to prove.”

Especially after this season, when Smolda turned back time and won over $1 million, highlighted by his Inter Dominion victory in Perth where he simply ran harder for longer than his younger, faster opponents.

On a track where he never looked entirely comfortable, it was a triumph of belligerence over brilliance.

He almost added another of pacing’s mega races with a narrow second to old foe Lennytheshark in the Miracle Mile and became the only horse to beat Lazarus and Lennytheshark in the same race when he crushed them in the Ballarat Cup. “Those sort of races sum him

Great old warrior Smolda is to be retired. up, he is just a great old warrior,” Purdon said.

“He was a wonderful young horse, with his Jewels win at three something pretty special.

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

Otago dogs

Today at Forbury Park Raceway 8 P Uncas nwtd S & ............................. B Evans 9 Peekay Shout nwtd L & .....................Wales 10 43565 Pat Allie nwtd L & ..............................Wales 4 1.12pm KEYOSK SERVICE BAR STAKES C0, 545m 1 4F633 Forkner Bale nwtd ...................... C Roberts 2 32342 Goldstar Spotty nwtd S & .............. B Evans 3 1 Opawa Silver nwtd L & ......................Wales 4 5 Eyrewell Tango nwtd..................... H Cairns 5 5 Melting World nwtd .......................J Guthrie 6 7 Eyrewell Vienna nwtd ................... H Cairns 7 8 Glass Harpoon nwtd.....................J Guthrie 8 88877 Just Ernie nwtd ......................... H Anderton 9 Uno Eleven nwtd L & .........................Wales 10 64776 Goldstar Scooby nwtd S & ............ B Evans 5 1.32pm BRIAN BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING SPRINT C2, 310m 1 85634 Botany Cold 18.75 ................J T McInerney 2 56532 Homebush Banker 18.84 ......J T McInerney 3 48835 NippaOfSambucca 18.84 .....J T McInerney 4 24664 His Nibs 18.64 ..................................J Allen 5 38316 Adjudicator nwtd S & ..................... B Evans 6 86148 Nippa Eel 18.86 ....................J T McInerney 7 54153 Wears The Gold 18.68 ............... K M Grant 8 76571 Ana Dior nwtd ............................. C Roberts 9 77817 Knocka Few Back 18.56 ...............C Healey 10 24274 Token Ace 18.71.............................. J Rush 6 1.52pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C3, 310m 1 17313 Homebush Fued nwtd ..........J T McInerney 2 51242 Max Stix nwtd ............................. C Roberts 3 15528 My Hoki nwtd M & ...........................Jopson 4 71123 Homebush Riley 18.48 .........J T McInerney 5 18511 Asserting Power nwtd.............. A Bradshaw 6 14174 Oxford Red nwtd ..................... A Bradshaw 7 78271 Opawa Blinky 18.81 L & ....................Wales 8 63882 Magic Mike nwtd......................... C Roberts 9 226x6 Epic Knoxy 18.66 ........................ R Adcock

545m 1 67642 Goldstar Dallas 33.23 S & ............. B Evans 2 28718 Trendy Blake 32.64...............J T McInerney C4, 310m 3 67611 Harry Fields 32.00 ....................... R Adcock 1 18742 Zircon 18.58 M & .............................Jopson 4 32524 Penalty Bale 32.67 ..................... C Roberts 2 82438 Botany Alan 18.98 ................J T McInerney 5 15734 Shift The Blame 33.03 ..........J T McInerney 3 44852 Puma Pants 18.36 ................J T McInerney 6 75373 Mystic Action 32.54 S & ................ B Evans 4 6612F Majestic Action nwtd S & ............... B Evans 7 84333 Nozzno Fear nwtd ................... A Bradshaw 5 55633 Storming Norm 18.20 ................ B I Conner 8 4F168 Storming Mack nwtd .................. B I Conner 6 83728 Homebush Flame 18.72 .......J T McInerney 9 81857 Frosty Action 32.73 S & ................. B Evans 7 36544 Hilton Open nwtd ..................... A Bradshaw 8 32612 Express Gunn 18.49.................... R Adcock 10 67877 Opawa Anthony nwtd L & ..................Wales 9 23478 Homebush Sloan 18.54 ........J T McInerney 11 3.27pm OTAGO DISTANCE C1/2d, 770m 1 33486 Luciastar nwtd ......................J T McInerney 10 73876 My First Litter nwtd ..................... C Roberts 8 2.32pm BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS 2 52735 Heritage Watch nwtd ....................J Guthrie 3 11111 Ring The Bell nwtd ...................... R Adcock STAKES C1, 545m 4 67788 No Tinkerbell nwtd ........................J Guthrie 1 66888 Pianissimo 32.49 ....................... B I Conner 5 Box Vacant 2 58577 Subterfuge 33.54 ..............................J Allen 6 11735 Waimac nwtd ........................J T McInerney 3 78324 Goldstar Archie 33.53 M & ..............Jopson 7 31554 Opawa Cheviot 47.70 S & ............. B Evans 4 56585 Light Thaw nwtd ...............................J Allen 8 64487 Opawa Hope nwtd L & ......................Wales 5 74744 Rib Curler nwtd.................................J Allen 6 46343 Avalanch City 32.24..............J T McInerney 12 3.46pm ST KILDA VETERINARY CENTRE 7 x6522 Southern Honey 33.02 ..............R Hamilton SPRINT C5, 310m 1 86271 Opawa Waihemo 18.63 L & ...............Wales 8 74216 Homebush Flutey nwtd .........J T McInerney 2 11111 Wheelchair Norm 18.13 .......J T McInerney 9 117 Invincible Sue 32.99 .................... R Adcock 3 81488 Opawa Binge 18.36 L & ....................Wales 10 26416 Dyna Hadvar nwtd ...................... C Roberts 9 2.51pm WILLIAMS SIGNS AND GRAPHIX LTD 4 74337 Sopoaga nwtd ......................... A Bradshaw 5 14833 Amino Trouble nwtd ................. A Bradshaw SPRINT C2, 545m 6 12616 Cawbourne Dotty 18.49.............. C Roberts 1 56216 Spring Sam 32.42.................J T McInerney 7 51144 Opawa Sheldon 18.35 L & ................Wales 2 42615 Freckle Flyer 33.46 ...........................J Allen 8 11283 Zipping Clyde 18.45 .................. B I Conner 3 13164 Hilton Forabeer nwtd ............... A Bradshaw 9 16558 Sozin’s Blue 18.69 ................J T McInerney 4 65134 Cawbourne Steele 33.18 ............ C Roberts 5 64461 Obeyance 32.77 ...............................J Allen 10 21757 Cactus Jack nwtd J & .................... D Fahey 6 68x86 Goldstar Avery 32.89 S & .............. B Evans 13 4.11pm RACING AGAIN TUESDAY 25 JULY C1, 7 x1111 Little Bit Funny 32.44 J & .............. D Fahey 310m 1 54763 Sozin’s Noir 18.46 ................J T McInerney 8 3Fx16 Rock Bottom nwtd M & ....................Jopson 2 17222 Mr. Bear 18.55 ............................. R Adcock 9 13652 Dyna Alk 33.01 ........................... C Roberts 3 38443 Stormy Sunday 18.88 ...........J T McInerney 10 67877 Opawa Anthony nwtd L & ..................Wales 10 3.11pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C2/3, 4 27652 Opawa Bear 18.46 L & ......................Wales 10 83147 Nippa-A-Spot nwtd ...............J T McInerney

7 2.16pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT

5 62122 Murphy Magic nwtd ................. A Bradshaw 6 66812 Just James nwtd ....................... H Anderton 7 54462 Graeburn nwtd......................... A Bradshaw 8 23321 Goldstar Linkin 18.60 S &.............. B Evans 9 28653 Hatfield nwtd............................ A Bradshaw 10 21316 Detective Dash 18.80 ...........J T McInerney LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Black Tori, Goldstar Sawyer, Lavarno, Bublin Max, Uncle Jock Race 2: Summer Salt, Epic Boom, Goldstar Bryton, Dave’s Pick, Goldstar Renee Race 3: Take By Storm, Goldstar Ashton, Opawa Spirit, Eyrewell Lucy, Peekay Shout Race 4: Opawa Silver, Goldstar Spotty, Forkner Bale, Uno Eleven, Eyrewell Tango Race 5: Homebush Banker, Botany Cold, NippaOfSambucca, Wears The Gold, Nippa Eel Race 6: Asserting Power, Homebush Fued, Max Stix, Oxford Red, Epic Knoxy Race 7: Puma Pants, Express Gunn, Botany Alan, Storming Norm, Hilton Open Race 8: Avalanch City, Goldstar Archie, Southern Honey, Rib Curler, Invincible Sue Race 9: Little Bit Funny, Rock Bottom, Spring Sam, Cawbourne Steele, Dyna Alk Race 10: Penalty Bale, Goldstar Dallas, Nozzno Fear, Frosty Action, Mystic Action Race 11: Ring The Bell, Opawa Cheviot, Waimac, Heritage Watch, Opawa Hope Race 12: Wheelchair Norm, Zipping Clyde, Opawa Sheldon, Opawa Waihemo, Cawbourne Dotty Race 13: Mr. Bear, Goldstar Linkin, Sozin’s Noir, Opawa Bear, Stormy Sunday

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In brief Bennett in tenth Kiwi George Bennett, who is riding into Kiwi sports lore in the Tour de France, says life flashed before his eyes on a day of horror crashes in the famous race. Bennett, who lies 10th on general classification after finishing seventh in the 180km Nantua to Chambéry stage, narrowly avoided crashing himself.

Five riders, including one of Team Sky’s stars Geraint Thomas, were forced to quit the race. A crash involving Aussie Richie Porte was particularly bad. Bennett, who had a breakthrough tour win in California this year, warned against over-optimism about his chances.

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Castroneves wins

Southern’s Levi Hart looks to burst through the defence in Senior B rugby action on the weekend.

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Southern the hot favourites

By Matt MarkhaM

Matt.M@theguardian.co.nz

Southern will carry all the form and all the expectation into the business end of Senior B rugby’s Centennial Mug this weekend.

The southern lads made it a seven from seven run on the weekend when they smashed the hapless Rakaia 74-0 at Mayfield.

As you would expect with an unbeaten round robin effort, they have finished top of the points standings ahead of

this weekend’s semi-finals and will host Hampstead, who also dished out a bit of a hiding on Saturday afternoon.

They travelled up to Methven and came home winners, running away with a 62-22 win.

The win was enough for Hampstead to draw level on points with Allenton who weren’t helped by their loss to Celtic on Saturday.

They were soundly beaten 39-15 in which not only Hampstead, but also their opponents

drew clear of them on the standings to see them miss out on a semi-final spot this weekend.

Celtic will square off with Mt Somers up under the mountain on Saturday afternoon in the second semi-final after they rounded out their round robin campaign with a strong win against Collegiate.

With five wins from their seven games, the Mt Somers side have gradually done what they have promised to do all season

and are deserved second seeds for the playoffs.

Most importantly to them though, second place also means another shot at the Beckley Cup at the completion of the season.

They hosted the match earlier this year after it was transferred from last season due to snow.

They will face off against Southern for the prized piece of silverware again with only one point between the two sides when they last met.

Chiefs travelling, but don’t know where to The Chiefs will be anxious to put away the Brumbies this Saturday to round out the Super Rugby regular season, but they will not be showing their full hand.

There is every chance the two sides will meet again in Canberra the following week in the 4 v 5 quarter-final, a scenario that would play out if the Chiefs win in Hamilton and then watch the Hurricanes lose at home to the Crusaders later that evening.

That would seal fifth place on the official table.

A Hurricanes win, and both the Canes and the Chiefs finishing on equal competition points, would see the Hurricanes place higher as their points differential is the best of all teams.

That would result in the Chiefs jumping on a bus at 2am

on Sunday to head to Auckland for the long flight to Cape Town for a quarter-final against the Stormers. No prizes for guessing what is the Chiefs’ preferred scenario.

But first things first. They must continue the unbeaten run of New Zealand franchises against their trans-Tasman counterparts in 2017 and defeat the Australian conference winners, who were sunk 16-15 on Friday night by the Reds via a late Quade Cooper penalty goal.

“We’ve spent a bit of time studying the Brumbies, but also done a bit on the Stormers,” says Chiefs coach Dave Rennie.

“We’ve still got to get a result, so you can’t hide everything.”

The Chiefs will be keeping a very close eye on the Hurri-

canes-Crusaders, which kicks off about 20 minutes after fulltime in their game.

“It will have a massive impact on our travel. We’ll know by about 9.20pm. Packs are packed ready to go. If we have to leave them in a corner for a few days and go to Canberra, that will be good.”

Hooker Nathan Harris was the only member of the All Blacks contingent at Chiefs’ training yesterday, but he, Aaron Cruden and Damian McKenzie should be fine to play on Saturday.

“We told them (the All Blacks) to stay away (today). They’ve had a pretty intense three weeks, and only left the camp after lunchtime on Sunday, so we’ll let them clear their heads a bit. We just want them fizzing

come playoff time,” says Rennie.

That means potentially Sam Cane, Brodie Retallick and Anton Lienert-Brown, who played extensive minutes in the Lions series, will not suit up against the Brumbies.

The Chiefs’ injury toll is not too extensive, having played just one game in the last month, but Sam McNicol (concussion), Toni Pulu (knee) and Taleni Seu (forearm) are all scratched for the rest of the campaign.

Rennie will be seeking more of the intensity shown in the 17-14 win over the Hurricanes on June 9, rather than the loose play when his underpowered charges were pumped 34-6 by the Lions in the tourists’ most complete 80 minutes of the tour.

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Helio Castroneves has taken a major bite out of Kiwi Scott Dixon’s IndyCar championship lead in winning the latest race in Iowa.

The Brazilian took the chequered flag at the Iowa Corn 300 while Dixon finished a lowly eighth. The New Zealander qualified badly and started the race in 17th place but managed to minimise the damage by pushing forward to salvage eighth place and retain an eightpoint championship lead over the Penske driver. It was a dominant win for Castroneves, who led for over two-thirds of the short oval race, and marks his 30th career win and his first victory since 2014. - NZME

Black Sticks draw The Black Sticks Men have been held to a 3-3 draw with France in their opening clash at the Hockey World League Semi Final in Johannesburg. New Zealand shook off a slow start to put together some flowing hockey against the physical French, but struggled to convert more of their chances into goals. Striker Hugo Inglis scored a double while Stephen Jenness added his side’s third in a result which sees the Black Sticks come away with one point. Southern defender Kane Russell brought up his 100th test cap in the drawn game.

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De Bruin a Thunderbird Leana de Bruin has continued to defy time after signing to play for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in next year’s Australia’s national netball league. The former Silver Fern defender turned 40 on Sunday but couldn’t resist a crack at the new competition after being contacted by coach Dan Ryan. She had been in the process of considering retirement. “Definitely shocked because here you are, sitting on the crossroads of whether to retire or what road you’re going to take, and then an opportunity like this comes up,” de Bruin said. - NZME

Stunning drive New Zealander Will Bamber has orchestrated a stunning last to first drive to win round four of the China GT Championship at the Zhuhai International Circuit.

Bamber and co-driver Bian Hao started the race in 10th place but dropped to the back of the field after a first lap incident. The duo then started their recovery, tearing through the field and picking up spots at will. Bamber caught race leader Kimi King on the final lap.

King made a mistake and Bamber went through to seal a memorable win.

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Fowler-Reid heading to Australia

Allenton school students ready to try out Mid Canterbury Netball’s new hoop padding are (from left) Keziah Harris, Madelyn Chivers, Sylvie Thompson, Lennox Officer, Nerida Gawn, Amelia Cosgrove, with ANZ representatives Hayden Marshall and Anna Woolley.

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Junior netballers safe thanks to donation

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

Thanks to the ANZ Dream Deliveries programme, junior netballers in Mid Canterbury will now have much safer courts to play

on. Through the programme, Mid Canterbury Netball were gifted eight sets of safety padding for the netball hoops, as well as four new netballs.

After moving in to the EA

Networks Centre, they had the hoops required to run the junior games, but they lacked the correct padding to keep the game as safe as possible.

“Moving our competition in-

doors has meant we can play in all weathers, and now I’m so happy we can also make the juniors game as safe as possible,” Mid Canterbury Netball administrator Aimee Cosgrove said.

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Bledisloe Cup looms large

By PatricK mcKendry In five weeks’ time, the All Blacks will travel to Sydney for the first Bledisloe Cup test and it promises to be an explosive build-up for all sorts of reasons.

The test itself will be an opportunity for the All Blacks to redeem themselves after a couple of below-par performances against the Lions.

Soon after the final whistle sounded on the 15-15 draw at Eden Park, many of the All Blacks were talking about preparing for their next challenge - the clash against the Wallabies across the ditch on August 19.

As a preparation for a Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship series, there can’t be many better than a Lions tour.

The All Blacks were challenged all over the park in three tests, are battle hardened, and have blooded several new talents in Rieko Ioane, Ngani Lau-

mape and Jordie Barrett. They will be determined to create and finish many more opportunities than they did against the Lions.

The Wallabies, by contrast, beat Fiji and Italy and suffered the indignation of losing to Scotland in their June series.

Added to that, the Force and Rebels Super Rugby franchises face an extremely uncertain future, the players from those clubs in an almost constant state of limbo.

There is also the not insignificant matter of the Spygate controversy to consider, a scandal that blew up in the faces of both camps, plus that of World Rugby’s, the last time the All Blacks were in Sydney.

All Blacks security consultant Adrian Gard, an Australian who had been involved with the team for 12 years, pleaded not guilty in court earlier this year after a listening device was

found in the All Blacks’ team room last August.

The case is pending and is likely to cast a dark shadow over the week, and following the treatment at the hands of the New Zealand media that Wallabies coach Michael Cheika received last year, the Aussie press spotlight on Hansen and his team is likely to be intense.

Hansen will have questions to consider in the interim, including why the ball skills of many of his players failed under the heat applied by the Lions’ defence when that is normally a strength of the All Blacks, Beauden Barrett’s goalkicking and we learned the day after the Eden Park draw that the No10 is working through a “technical” issue - and the make-up of his best midfield.

Malakai Fekitoa is almost certainly out of the picture after apparently signing with Toulon in France, but Laumape proved

he has a big future with his performance in his first test start, and then there is Sonny Bill Williams, Ryan Crotty and Anton Lienert-Brown to consider.

Jordie Barrett will have forced himself closer to the match-day 23 with his recent performance, too, even when Ben Smith is fit.

Barrett, 20, who can cover anywhere from second-five out to wing, looks to be an ideal man to have on the reserves bench for even the biggest test.

As brilliant as the Lions series was, Bledisloe 1 is an occasion to look forward to as well for supporters and everyone connected with the All Blacks. The Wallabies, remember, haven’t held the cup since 2002.

“We’ve got to take it on the nose and move forward,” All Blacks hooker Codie Taylor said in the Eden Park aftermath.

“We’ve got a tough Bledisloe coming up so that’s our focus no w.”

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After five years dominating the New Zealand netball scene, the Southern Steel’s powerhouse shooter Jhaniele Fowler-Reid is heading to Australia.

The 1.98m Jamaican international is bidding farewell to the Steel to compete in the 2018 Suncorp Super League, where she is tipped to join the West Coast Fever.

“It wasn’t easy because I had to do heaps of thinking around leaving behind something that I’ve grown to know for five years and just the culture and everything so the decision to move away from that has been hard,” she said.

“It definitely comes down to me needing a new challenge and me broadening my horizons and seeing what else is out there for me.

“It’s going to be a new lifestyle and a new environment with different people but I adapt easily so that’s a good thing.”

The prolific goal scorer has slotted 3678 goals from 4020 attempts with an accuracy rate of 91.4 per cent over the past five seasons with the Steel.

Her last season with the Steels was the franchise’s best, going through the ANZ Premiership unbeaten before also winning the Super Club tournament in Nelson.

“I’ve grown so much – not only within my career but also personally,” Fowler-Reid said.

“My game has changed tremendously ... I have many tricks up my sleeve now to keep defenders thinking. I’m not a onetrick pony anymore.”

She was “incredibly grateful” for the opportunity to join the Steel ranks in 2013.

“It has changed me and it has grown me so much and the opportunity to come over to New Zealand is something that I really appreciate. The Steel have had such patience with me and supported me so much in feeling like I’m at home,” she said.

The competitive nature of the inaugural Super League was a definite drawcard for FowlerReid.

“I’m impressed. I feel the teams over there are tracking good and there’s some pretty exciting players over there. I know it’s going to be a good league to ply my trade,” she said.

“There’s some tough defenders but I’ve played them before so I know them. They may not know me because I think I’ve evolved in the past season so it will be a good thing for me to go in even stronger.”

A battle against the 2017 champions the Sunshine Coast Lightning, coached by her former mentor Noeline Taurua, also loomed.

“I look forward to playing against her team and I know she’s going to have her defenders pull out all the stops on me but I’m sure I’m going to have some stops myself.”

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Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): When it goes as planned time and again, you’ll be sure to change the plan up. You don’t want to bore your audience, and, even more importantly, you don’t want to get bored yourself.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): As for the people don’t believe as you do: You treat their faith with respect and gentleness, as you would expect others to treat yours. In this way, world peace could be an eventuality.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Would you rather manage something you don’t understand or understand something you can’t manage?

You’ll have your choice of problems today.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): The thing to work on now is on selling yourself harder. This isn’t about a lack of talent: You’ve got plenty! But do you have the belief and ambition and vision?

Flesh it out.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): If you want to cry over love, there always seems to be something for you to cry about. It’s good for the emotional hydration system, like a wash of fluids through the whole network – ultimately refreshing.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Honest introspection is the call of the day. Your soul’s quieter needs will get attention. The outside world will reflect back to you what’s happening with your inner life.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You may not have done right by yourself, but there’s no need for punishment.

That would only be counterproductive.

Emphasise your positive characteristics, and ignore the behaviours you’d like to be rid of.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Steer clear of dramas.

Compassionate detachment will be the best way to help your loved ones. Walk a fine line, giving generously but not in a manner that would make them dependent on you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Some around you are inwardly more insecure than you might have guessed. If you have to constantly reassure someone of your love, it will be very tiring.

Anything you can do proactively will help.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): There are those who will try and use their moods to manipulate those around them. But another person’s bad mood should not have too much to do with how you go about your business. Bring your own emotional weather.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): This day holds plenty of opportunities for whimsy, and you’ll enjoy it to the degree that you take advantage of that opportunity. Take a gamble. Win or lose, the experience will be a win.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Success isn’t a plate to be gobbled up alone: It’s a banquet to share with many guests. Invite others to your recent win. More bounty is on the way.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

BREADING, Timothy Hamish (Tim) – On July 9, 2017. Passed away peacefully after a courageous battle, at Ashburton. Aged 43 years.

Beloved husband and best friend of Kristine. Father of Cameron, Georgia, and Blake. Dearly loved son of Wilma and the late Barry.

Loved brother of Dawn and Paki, Jim, Carl and Sue, Dean and Marg, Richard and Kara and their families. Loved son in law of Nancy and Chris Diehl, and brother in law of Chuck and family. Messages to Breading family c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to celebrate Tim’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, July 14, commencing at 11am, followed by interment at the Ellesmere cemetery at 2.30pm.

HILL, Melville – In loving memory of Melville, sadly passed peacefully with family by his side at Ashburton Hospital, on July 7, 2017. Loving father of Darren, Rodney, Julie, and Lisa, father-in-law of Gary, Steve, and Anna, and a loved grandad of his 14 grandchildren.

Messages may be addressed to the family of the late Melville Hill, c/PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545. The funeral service for Melville will be held in the Dunsandel Sports Centre, Tramway Road, Dunsandel, TOMORROW (Wednesday), at 1.00pm, followed by interment at Dunsandel Cemetery.

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Rain, heavy falls possible about the foothills. Snow down to 200 metres at first.

Southerlies easing.

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 105.4 Nth Ashburton at 12:05 pm, yesterday

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Southerlies dying out.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 9.6 10.2 Max to 4pm -1.0 Minimum -4.0 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm July to date 8.6 Avg Jul to date 18 2017 to date 421.8 363 Avg year to date Wind km/h SE 2 At 4pm Strongest gust N 13 Time of gust 8:49am

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6am Breakfast The Breakfast team presents news, interviews, weather, and information.

9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show With special guest Ed O’Neill. 0 10am Tipping Point 11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Red Rock 1:55 Yes Chef 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Four In A Bed The second visit of the week is to The Burley Inn in the New Forest, where newlyweds Darren and James host, and guests Jane and Keith disagree over a toilet roll.

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Tashi 3 0 7:20 Beyblade Burst 3 7:50 The Day My Butt Went Psycho 3 0 8:15 Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 8:35 The Lion Guard 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am First Dates New Zealand PGR 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle PGR 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 3 2pm Home And Away 3 0 2:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:32 Leon 3 0 3:35 The Adam And Eve Show 0 4:05 Kirby Buckets Kirby is excited to gain new students as followers. 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 The Middle 0 8pm American Housewife 0 8:30 N Filthy Rich AO Vader vows to avenge Savannah; Brady hits the comeback trail; John jr uses blackmail to his advantage; Joe’s loyalties are tested. 0 10pm Grey’s Anatomy AO 0 10:55 Cougar Town PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 11pm Offspring AO 11:25 Girlfriends’ Guide To Dr Patrick returns in Nina’s fantasy as Divorce she deals with a dilemma with major 1am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 consequences for everyone involved, 1:25 Infomercials 2:25 Switched including Billie. 0 At Birth PGR 3 0 3:10 The Midnight L Tennis – Real PGR 3 3:55 Family Matters Wimbledon Day Eight.

3 4:40 The Adam And Eve Coverage from the grass courts of Show 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 Wimbledon in London. NB: Play past 5:30 Infomercials 6am will continue on Duke.

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 MasterChef Australia PGR As Heston Blumenthal takes the top 12 contestants on a trip through regional Victoria, the first stop is the Murray River in Swan Hill. 0 9:10 Border Patrol PGR 0 9:40 The Profit PGR 0 10:40 1 News Tonight 0

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BRAVO 10am Top Chef 3 10:55 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:20 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:50 Snapped (Starting Today) 3 12:45 Shahs Of Sunset PGR 1:40 Masters Of Flip 3 2:40 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 3:35 Hoarders 3 4:30 Dance Moms 3 5:30 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles 3 6:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 7pm Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta A bride must choose between her own dress vision and that of her family; another bride shares her appointment with her terminally ill father.

7:30 Botched – Post Op PGR 3 8pm Botched – Post Op PGR 3 8:30 The Real Housewives Of New York City PGR 9:30 Dating Naked AO 10:30 Snapped 11:30 Hoarders 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

Poldark

8:30pm on Prime

THE BOX 6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 Jeopardy PG 6:50 Criminal Intent MV 7:40 The Carbonaro Effect PG 8:05 The Carbonaro Effect PG 8:30 The Simpsons PG 8:55 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:45 The Crayfishers PG 10:15 Deep Undercover MVLC 10:45 Helicopter ER M 11:35 Jeopardy PG Noon Live Raw MV 3:15 CSI – Miami MV 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5pm Jeopardy PG 5:30 Criminal Intent MV 6:30 Piha Rescue PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 Covert Affairs MV 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 11:25 CSI – Miami MV

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MAORI

6am The AM Show Duncan Garner, Amanda Gillies, and Mark Richardson present news, interviews, and humour to start the day.

9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:30 Entertainment Tonight 3 Noon Dr Phil PGR 1pm The Block NZ PGR 3 0 1:55 Minute To Win It 3 2:50 Entertainment Tonight 3:20 Sticky TV 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm 4:25 The Biggest Loser Australia Contestants will have to rescue one of their teammates from dropping into the Harbour by correctly answering questions on health and fitness.

5:25 The Best Of Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

CHOICE

6am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 6:25 Bella And The Bulldogs 3 6:50 Kid v Kat 3 7:15 The Fairly Odd Parents 3 7:40 League Of Super Evil 3 8:05 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 8:30 Kung Fu Dino Posse 3 8:55 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:25 Wheel Of Fortune 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 12:40 Suits PGR 3 1:35 Poldark PGR 3 3pm Escape To The Country 3 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 0 5pm Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Prime News 6pm Wheel Of Fortune 6:30 Jeopardy 7pm The Project 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Block NZ PGR 7:30 Best Of Top Gear PGR An unexpected challenge 8:30 N Poldark PGR forces the teams to shift gears George’s rise to power if they want to make it to the continues; Ross and Demelza finish line. 0 seek to rebuild their marriage, 8:30 NCIS AO 0 but new arrivals threaten 9:30 SVU AO 0 their reconciliation. 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 9:50 Qi PGR 10:55 Chicago PD AO 0 10:25 60 Minutes PGR 3

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Miharo 2 7:30 Dora Matatoa 2 8am Tao 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 R&R 10am Ako 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Pukoro 2 3:30 Miharo 2 4pm Dora Matatoa 2 4:30 Whanau Living 3 5pm Tagata Pasifika 5:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu Ngati Whakaue-Whakanuia.

6:30 Te Kaea 2 7pm Kawe Korero – Reporters 7:30 Sachie’s Kitchen 8pm Native Affairs 8:30 M How To Change The World PGR 2015 Documentary. Story of a group of friends who, in 1971, sailed into a nuclear-test zone, founded Greenpeace, and defined the modern green movement.

10:30 Whare Taonga

11:45 The Project News and entertainment show hosted by Jesse Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd, and Josh Thomson.

12:15 Infomercials

11pm Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:30 Kawe Korero – Reporters News reporters dissect and discuss the day’s news and events.

Midnight Closedown

11:25 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR A celebrity chat show.

12:25 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

12:55 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:50 The 5th Wave MVL 2016 Action. Chloe Grace Moretz, Liev Schreiber. 8:40 Don’t Blink 16VLS 2014 Horror. Mena Suvari, Brian Austin Green. 10:10 The Making Of Spectre – Just Getting Started PG 10:25 Cabin Fever 16VLSC 2016 Horror. Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario.

12:05 Captive MVC 2015 Drama. David Oyelowo, Kate Mara.

1:40 The Boy MVC 2016 Horror. Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans.

3:15 The 5th Wave MVL 2016 Action. Chloe Grace Moretz, Liev Schreiber. 5:05 Swing State 16LSC 2016 Comedy.

Taryn Manning, Billy Zane.

6:35 Crimson Peak 16VLSC 2015 Drama. Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska.

8:30 Dirty Grandpa 16VLSC 2016 Comedy. Tricked into a road trip to Florida by his lecherous grandfather, an uptight lawyer learns a few lessons in living life to the full.

10:25 Bridge Of Spies MVL 2015 Thriller. Tom Hanks, Alan Alda.

7:40 Warrior MVL 2011 Action. Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte.

9:55 Happy Gilmore ML 1996 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen.

11:30 Rosewood Lane MVL 2011 Horror. Rose McGowan, Lin Shaye.

1:05 Battle – Los Angeles MVL 2011 Action. Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez.

3pm Life As We Know It MS 2010 Comedy. Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel.

4:55 The Three Musketeers MV 2011 Adventure. Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen.

6:45 The Break-Up MLS 2006 Romantic Comedy.

Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn.

8:30 Waterworld MVL 1995 Action. In a futuristic world engulfed by water, one hardened survivor readies himself for the ultimate showdown. Dennis Hopper, Kevin Costner.

10:45 Arthur PGVL 2011 Comedy. Russell Brand, Helen Mirren.

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12:35 The Three Musketeers MV 2011 12:45 Deadly Voltage Adventure. Logan Lerman, PGC 2016 Drama.

Matthew Macfadyen.

Mike Dopud, Alaina Huffman.

WEDNESDAY 2:25 Nothing But Trailers 2:10 Crimson Peak 16VLSC 12:15 Raw MV 2015 Drama. Tom Hiddleston, M 2:55 Life As We Know 2:40 Jeopardy PG 3:05 Pawn Mia Wasikowska. 4:05 Dirty It MS 2010 Comedy.

Stars PG 3:30 The Simpsons Grandpa 16VLSC 2016 Comedy. Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel.

PG 3:55 Covert Affairs 4:50 Waterworld MVL 1995 5:55 Bridge Of Spies MVL MV 4:45 Hawaii Five-0 MV Action. Dennis Hopper, 2015 Thriller. Tom Hanks, Kevin Costner.

Alan Alda.

5:35 Piha Rescue PG

SKY SPORT 1 6am Aussie Rules – AFL West Coast Eagles v Port Adelaide.

9am Golf – US PGA Tour The Greenbrier Classic. 10am Golf – European Tour Irish Open.

10:30 Rugby League – NRL Bulldogs v Knights.

11am League Legends 11:30 Rugby League – NRL Saturday. Noon NRL 360 1pm Monday Night With Matty Johns 2pm Rugby League – NRL Roosters v Rabbitohs. 2:30 The Professors Second Year Syndrome 3pm Hunters Club 4pm Rugby Nation 5pm Rugby – First XV Tauranga Boys’ College v Hamilton Boys’. 6:30 Rugby – Lions Series All Blacks v British and Irish Lions – Third Test. 8:30 The Breakdown 9pm Rugby Nation 10pm The Crowd Goes Wild 10:30 Cricket – ICC Women’s World Cup England v Australia. 11:30 Cricket – International England v South Africa – First Test, Day Five. WEDNESDAY Midnight AFL Weekly Highlights 12:30 Rowing – Henley Royal Regatta 1:30 Rowing – World Cup 1:55 L Hockey – Men’s World League Black Sticks v Japan.

4am L Motorcycling – Road Racing Series Oliver’s Mount. 5am Cricket – Blast T20 5:28 L Cricket – Blast T20 Northamptonshire v Yorkshire.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Secret Cities 7:30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 10am Nigel Slater Eating Together 10:30 The House That 100K Built – Tricks Of The Trade 11:30 Poh’s Kitchen Noon Secret Cities 1pm Treasures Decoded 2pm Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb 3pm The Cook And The Chef 3:30 Extreme Animal Babies 4:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes British baker Paul Hollywood sets out to sample the recipes that have helped shape the culture and heritage of some of the world’s cities.

5:30 Salvage Hunters 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Location, Location, Location 8:30 Building The Dream 9:30 Money For Nothing 10:30 American Pickers Series that follows two skilled pickers as they look for objects with historical, collectible, and pop-culture value.

11:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes British baker Paul Hollywood sets out to sample the recipes that have helped shape the culture and heritage of some of the world’s cities.

12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Getaway 2am Supercar Showdown 2:30 Poh’s Kitchen 3am Gardeners’ World 4am Location, Location, Location 5am Building The Dream

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DISCOVERY

6am Hunters Club 7am UFC Now 8am Rugby – Lions Series All Blacks v British and Irish Lions – Third Test. 8:30 ICC Cricket 360 9am Cricket – Blast T20 Essex v Surrey. 9:30 Cricket – Blast T20 Birmingham v Nottinghamshire.

10am Cricket – International England v South Africa – First Test, Day Five. 10:30 Cricket – ICC Women’s World Cup England v Australia. 11:30 Cricket – ICC Women’s World Cup New Zealand v Pakistan. Noon Hunters Club 1pm UFC Now 2pm Fight Night 4pm L Motorcycling – Road Racing Series Oliver’s Mount. 5pm Rowing – World Cup 5:30 Rowing – Henley Royal Regatta 6:30 Cricket – International 7pm Cricket – ICC Women’s World Cup 8pm Super League Fulltime 8:30 NRL 360 9:30 On The Couch With Sterlo 10:30 Rugby – Lions Series 11pm The Breakdown 11:30 Ironman – Championship Series

6:35 Gold Rush PG Paid in Full. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 MythBusters PG Alaska Special. 9:10 Alaskan Bush People M 10am Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10:50 What On Earth? PG Raiders of the Holy Lance. 11:40 Web Of Lies M 12:30 Murder Comes To Town M 1:20 Evil Lives Here M The Horror I Don’t Remember. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 Auction Hunters 3:50 Gold Rush PG Jungle Boogie. 4:45 Treehouse Masters PG International – Scandinavia.

5:40 MythBusters PG Nasa Moon Landing.

6:35 Mega Trains PG 7:30 Railroad Australia PG 8:30 Dr Karl’s Outrageous Acts Of Science PG 9:25 Street Science PG 9:50 Street Science PG 10:15 Moonshiners M End of an Era. 11:05 Evil Lives Here M The Horror I Don’t Remember.

11:55 Murder Comes To Town M

Midnight Super League Fulltime 12:30 NRL Fulltime 1am NRL 360 2am On The Couch With Sterlo 3am Monday Night With Matty Johns 4am NRL Fulltime 4:30 AFL Weekly Highlights 5am Rowing – Henley Royal Regatta

12:45 Gold Rush PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am Auction Hunters PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How Do They Do It? PG 5:20 Auction Hunters 5:45 Moonshiners M

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Sport Vatuvei released Long-serving Warriors winger Manu Vatuvei has been released from his contract and will link up with Salford in the English Super League. The Warriors’ all-time leading try-scorer was originally contracted until the end of the 2018 NRL season but asked the Warriors for an early release in order to join Salford and experience playing in Europe. A fixture at Mt Smart Stadium for well over a decade, Vatuvei has been restricted to just one NRL appearance in 2017. He had to battle shoulder, rib, hamstring and knee injuries over the past three seasons.

Coles tracking well Mark Sheard sends a bowl up the mat at the triangular rep tournament between Ashburton, Timaru and North Otago on Saturday.

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Wilson’s run continues The pressure will be on Grant Wilson to carry his red-hot form on the mats to Nelson this weekend for the annual Paterson trophy.

The Willowby Indoor Bowler made it five straight championship titles on the weekend when he claimed the Men’s Championship Singles title at the McNally Street stadium, earning his second gold star for 10 Ashburton titles in the process.

That bodes well for the eight Ashburton players who will head to Nelson on Friday to compete against sides from Nelson, Golden Bay and Motueka, Marlborough, West Coast and Canterbury

for the annual Paterson Trophy with a spot at the national final, the Welch Trophy on the line.

From a field of 18 in the men’s championship on Sunday, seven players qualified for post section play with Ken Johnstone getting to set out the first round courtesy of the bye.

Wilson managed to see off Neil Chapman while Ken MacKenzie beat Geoff Laird. Matt Markham won the third match beating Rakaia clubmate, Tom Palatchie.

Wilson and MacKenzie squared off in one semi-final with Wilson winning 14-5 and Markham accounted for Johnstone, winning 21-3.

In the 12 end final, Markham led at the half way stage before Wilson fought his way back into the match before the two players drew level 8-all after 10 ends. Wilson picked up a three on the second last and Markham was unable to respond on the final end.

Methven’s Chris Talbot also picked up her 10th title with her success in the Women’s Championship.

She was one of four players to qualify for post-section and beat Rowena MacKenzie in one semifinal while Joan Hardy saw of Bernice Laird in the other in what was a close fought affair.

Talbot showed her class early

in the final against Hardy and raced out to a big lead with the match ending early at 16-3.

On Saturday bowlers were in action as well for the annual Triangular rep tournament against sides from Timaru and North Otago.

Ashburton walked away victors at the end of the day’s play by one match point from Timaru after both sides ended the day on 20 and a half wins. That meant a countback on scored shots throughout the day and Ashburton had collected 327 to Timaru’s 326.

North Otago finished the day with seven wins.

Crusaders lock in three top young prospects The Crusaders have consolidated their future by locking in three of their top young prospects.

Mitchell Hunt and George Bridge have signed on until 2019, while Mitchell Drummond has signed until 2020 as the Cru-

saders look to retain their young core of the team which currently sits with a 14-0 record in this year’s Super Rugby competition.

With Hunt and Bridge both just 22 years old and Drummond one year older, Crusaders coach Scott Robertson says they pos-

sess plenty of upside.

“We have an incredible group of young players in this squad who have stepped up and impressed with their talent this year. These three players are a shining example of that. We are thrilled to have re-signed them

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all,” Robertson said.

Hunt and Drummond both hail from the Tasman region and played together in the Nelson College First XV, while Drummond and Bridge both play for the High School Old Boys club in Christchurch.

Dane Coles will not make his longawaited return for the Hurricanes for this Saturday’s clash with the Crusaders, but the signs are that he is tracking well for a return in the playoffs. The hooker, who has not played since March 18 due to prolonged concussion symptoms, is said to be clear medically, but now must ramp up his training. “He’s looking pretty good, actually. From all accounts, he’s in a good place and has turned that corner,” says Hurricanes assistant coach John Plumtree.

Fox books open spot Ryan Fox has booked a spot at the British Open, and will be teeing off in some of the best form of his career.

Fox finished in a share of fourth at the Irish Open, booking one of the three available spots on offer to players not already qualified for the major, which will be held at Royal Birkdale. A final round four-under par 68 saw Fox finish at 17-under, and sealed a fifth straight top 30 finish for the in-form New Zealander.

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