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Sutton to steer EA Networks When Gordon Guthrie hands in his door key at Electricity Ashburton, he’ll be handing it on to a man with a huge background in the electricity industry.

Roger Sutton, who started his career with the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in 1987, will take over the lines company’s top job in February.

He brings with him a more than 20 years experience in the electricity industry, many of those with Christchurch based lines company Orion, as chief executive of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) from 2011 to 2014 and latterly for a number of non-profit organisations including as

the Anglican Missioner.

In announcing the appointment, EA board chairman of directors Phil McKendry said that Sutton was an obvious choice for the role because of his many directorships with various electrical lines companies.

Sutton will take over the lines company’s top job on February 3, the same day Guthrie begins his retirement.

“We are confident that Roger will take the ever-changing challenges of this exciting industry within his stride, while adding his own flavour to our worldclass organisation. The board looks forward to working with him, in his new

capacity, next year,” McKendry said.

Over the next two months Sutton will be stepping down from his current role as Anglican Missioner and relinquishing all governance roles, to enable him to concentrate fully on his new role.

Sutton said he was attracted to the role because of its co-operative ownership model and because of his passion for the energy industry.

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■■ SEQUOIA TREE

Fighting to fell protected tree

By Sue Newman

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Stefan and Mieke Brook with their children, Maxwell, four weeks, Maddox, 4, and Maddie, 7, are fighting to see a dangerous tree near their property felled.

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Two large sequoia trees on Allens Road might have historic value, but they pose a danger to people living in their fall line, homeowner Stefan Brook says.

He’s lived in the shadow of the trees for 14 years and over those years he’s been forced to clean up fallen branches and windblown debris on both his property and on the pavement outside his gate.

He’s finally had enough.

During last Wednesday’s high winds a large bough that had already broken free but was lodged within the tree broke free and was hurled across the road onto his lawn, a lawn his children had been playing on only moments earlier.

Over the years, he said, he’d tried to get the council to remove the trees because of the nuisance and danger they posed to neighbours but was repeatedly told they were heritage trees and would not be touched.

After last Wednesday’s incident Brook said he’s prepared to fight the council to have the trees removed. A similar battle was fought by a ratepayer in Christchurch, Brook said.

The ratepayer won and the offending trees were removed.

Heritage values should not come before personal safety, particularly when Allenton School was also one of the offending trees’ neighbours, he said.

Council service delivery group manager Neil McCann confirmed that the trees were on the council’s protected list in its district plan and said their removal could only be

achieved by having them taken off the council’s tree schedule or by residents obtaining a resource consent.

“Protected trees are included in the district plan because they have a wider benefit to the community due to one or several of their characteristic or unusual features,” McCann said.

For the removal of a protected tree to be allowed the applicant would need to prove that it was structurally dangerous, dead or dying and that it could not be made safe by trimming. It could also be removed if there was proof it was no longer worthy of its listing, he said.

The case for removal would be strengthened if a number of residents were united in wanting it taken off the protected list and removed, McCann said.

In its current district plan, which will soon be reviewed, there are 72 sites across the district where there are protected trees.

Some of those sites have more than one protected tree.

Those trees can only be trimmed or pruned by council staff.

“Council will do maintenance on these trees, even though they are not on council property,” he said.

McCann said he had met with Brook on site and said he had made him aware of the two avenues he could use if he wanted the council to consider the tree’s removal.

Ashburton was not alone in having occasions when residents wanted protected trees removed, it was something most local authorities grappled with from time to time, he said.

Former Cera head Sutton to steer EA Networks From P1 “Opportunities like this don’t come up very often and I’m extremely excited to be taking up the CEO role. I admire the way EA operates and the team has a fantastic reputation for innovation and getting things done,

which can be in no small way attributed to Gordon’s leadership.

I’m grateful for the great shape he has left the organisation in and I intend to build on what he has done – I have big boots to fill,” he said.

Guthrie started at EA Networks

44 years ago as an electrical apprentice when it was the Ashburton Power Board and since then he had led many complex projects, McKendry said including the rollout of the near complete 66kV transmission network, partnering with the Barrhill

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The last 20 years of his career have been as the company’s chief executive.

“All of these he approached with his ‘let’s get on with it’ attitude and over the past 15 years Gordon has also delivered consistent profits to shareholders and grown nett infrastructure assets at a compound 9 per cent,” McKendry said.

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Resthome complex a bargain buy

By Sue Newman

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It could be the bargain buy of the century, a large house and adjoining section, valued at $1.93 million that sold for just $702,000.

And when you consider that house sits on a 2752 square metre section and has 31 bedrooms the bargain gets better for the buyer, but even grimmer news for the seller.

Yesterday, Cameron Courts Resthome on Philip Street and a 758 square metre section also on Philip Street, went under the auctioneer’s hammer in a mortgagee sale.

The Harcourts Grenadier website shows the section sold for $227,000, 10 per cent above its rateable value of $210,000, with the resthome bombing and selling for just $475,000. Its rateable value as at July last year is $1.720 million. Both prices were plus GST Until earlier this year Cameron Courts had been run as a resthome. Its owners Ashwin and Laureen Mani tried to sell the complex but could not find a buyer.

In March declining resident numbers forced them to close the doors and find new homes for their remaining residents.

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Cameron Courts was once a thriving resthome, but now has a new future awaiting it after being sold in a mortgagee sale yesterday.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN Since then the building has been empty and while he had explored every option and opportunity to find a new use for the complex or a buyer, Mani had drawn a series of blanks.

“It’s the end of an era for us.

It’s a shame, but I’ve looked at all options, everywhere, tried every angle,” Mani said.

With a greater emphasis on keeping older people supported

in their own homes, tight government subsidies for resthomes and competition from newer complexes, the elder care sector was becoming increasingly tough for small complex operators, he said.

“I did my best in that market but it just didn’t work out. This was not due to how it was run and managed, the market just destroyed it. The smaller owner

operators are all hurting now, the market is very different to what it used to be.”

The couple bought the complex and adjoining section in 2010 for $1.320 million The properties were auctioned

by Roger Dawson, Harcourts Grenadier, Christchurch. Agent Tristan Harcourt confirmed that there was more than one bidder for the properties.

Surviving sister takes a turn for the worse The surviving sibling of an Ashburton teenager killed in a car crash on the Port Hills has taken a turn for the worse days after her older sister’s funeral.

Sunmara Alexander, 15, remains in a critical condition in a hospital in Auckland where she has been since the crash that killed 17-year-old sister Tayla on November 27.

The girls’ father, Jason Alexander, has been giving online updates on her condition and gave some bad news late on Tuesday night.

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surgeons earlier today (Tuesday), my heart is breaking and strength is fading.

“Sunmara is in a very bad way.

Apart from her amputation to [her] arm, they have also had to cut more muscle from her body, as infection is setting in.

“They seem to think they will need to take more off her arm and most likely one of her feet.

“They can’t promise just how high on the leg they will need to go,” he said.

“If she can’t fight the infection off in the next 24 hours, then they said she will more than likely die from her wounds.”

Sunmara has had a number of

amputations and could have to have further limb amputations, her father revealed.

He acknowledged that the doctors and medical staff involved in his younger daughter’s care were doing their best, but that they could only do so much until the choice came that they had to let her go.

“It breaks me to say this. I pray she proves them wrong and continues to fight.”

Sunmara, a student at Ashburton College, was critically injured and suffered severe burns to her body when the car she and her sister – as well as at least two other teenagers –

were in crashed on Port Hills, Christchurch, late that Wednesday night.

The vehicle caught fire shortly afterwards and emergency services were called to Summit Road about 11pm.

Jason Alexander has been living a parent’s nightmare since the accident – travelling to Auckland to be with his younger daughter before heading back to Ashburton for his older daughter’s funeral service last Thursday.

A Givealittlepage which has been established to help Alexander and his family had last night raised close to $20,000.

After days of detours and delays travellers once again have two options for crossing the Rangitata River.

The State Highway 1 bridge over the Rangitata re-opened at 6pm last night after being closed on Saturday morning due to flooding from the river.

Temporary speed limits will remain in place in the area for a number of days as repairs are made to reduce any dangers presented by rubber-neckers, says New Zealand Transport Agency maintenance contract manager John Keenan.

“The speed limits will be there for the areas that aren’t repaired yet and there will be a lot of people gawking out of windows so this will hopefully reduce the chance of any nose-to-tail crashes,” he said.

Around a 60 metre stretch of the road has been damaged by the flood waters that spilled through the south branch of the river and flowed over the top of the main bridge at times, but it is much less damage than was anticipated.

“We expected the water to drain away and it to be a real mess, so the road has held up exceptionally well,” he said.

The 60m stretch of road is likely to be re-sealed today.

A significant amount of water continues to flow through the typically dry south branch of the river, and Keenan said people would be surprised at just how much water is travelling through the south branch, which he estimated to be more than through the main branch of the river.

The re-opening of SH1 means the detour through Inland Route 72 has been removed, with the recommend turn-off at Hinds no longer in place.

“People can expect to see work continuing to strengthen the bunds around the river and stopbanks right through to Christmas,” NZTA system manager Pete Connors said.

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In brief Swifter dog justice Dog owners who fail to look after, microchip or register their pets could soon see themselves facing swifter justice under a new law passed by Parliament. MPs yesterday voted through a bill introduced by National MP Ian McKelvie that will see low-level dog control offences sorted out by court magistrates and Justices of the Peace, rather than having to go in front of a District Court. McKelvie said the bill was intended to ease the frustration that dog owners and authorities faced in backlogs of cases and would take about 400 minor cases out of the court system, freeing up judges. - NZME

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Big play day for playcentres Mid Canterbury Playcentres got together at the Ashburton Domain last Friday for a Big Play Day to celebrate their Healthy Heart and coming together for Christmas. Four of the seven centres were involved, each bringing along an activity and contributing to the fun successful morning. The whanau and tamariki all had a great time exploring and trying new things. There was a range of play invitations set up such as playdough, music, climbing, obstacles challenges, a baby heuristic mat and even face painting. There was a shared sausage in bread for lunch before packing up. Organiser Jenese Houston said she organised the event to celebrate the year with the other centres and whanau and to endorse the Healthy Heart initiative they are promoting in the centres.

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■■ COMMUNITY TRUST GRANTS

Community funding to end the year In the last funding round for the Community Trust of Mid & South Canterbury this year, the organisation approved grants totalling $626,056 to 25 organisations from around the region supporting a range of outcomes for health, community, education, welfare and recreational groups.

Chief executive officer Liz Shea said she was delighted with the level of funding that the trustees were able to approve.

“These grants will help the organisations to continue their good work into 2020 and beyond, with many and varied benefits to the entire region,” she said.

Community House Mid Canterbury received $14,290 for an air conditioning system which

manager John Driscoll said will lead to some satisfied tenants once they are installed.

The Canterbury Men’s Centre received $12,000 for operational costs and wages.

Based in Christchurch and with a counsellor based in Ashburton, this organisation provides phone support for three main services (grief intervention social work/counselling, male survivors of sexual abuse, dads).

“The Canterbury Men’s Centre expects to keep finding ways to build its support work in Mid and South Canterbury. That includes getting more Blokes Books out in the region,” CEO Donald Pettitt said. “We also expect to be offering training and support to those

working with male survivors of sexual abuse. And more than anything, we expect to figure out more ways we can be useful in seeing that men and whanau in the region live rewarding lives.”

The Hakatere Ceramics and Pottery Club were first-time applicants to the trust, and were granted $17,000 for a new potter’s wheel and other equipment.

“It was great to see this firsttime applicant as we don’t see many applications from visual arts group. This club allows people to attend evening classes and club nights to try handwork and wheel work,” Shea said.

Golf and cricket clubs around the region were granted a number of capital and operational

grants to improve either the experiences of their members or the environment offered such as Ashburton Golf Club ($5500 for clubhouse heating), Rakaia Golf Club ($5000 towards a new mower), Waimate Golf Club ($5000 for course maintenance), Pleasant Point Golf Club ($10,000 towards a new mower) and Pleasant Point Cricket Club ($23,300) towards a storage shed that will be large enough to store all the equipment used by this growing club.

The Hakatere Multicultural Council (formerly the Mid Canterbury Newcomers’ Network) was granted $7500 in recognition of wider community use of their facilities and services.

National Leader Simon Bridges is accusing the Government of “screwing up the economy,” after new Treasury figures revealed the books would be going into deficit next year. He is also critical of the Government’s economic management, after new GDP numbers showed the economy is growing slower than has been expected. At the Half Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) yesterday, Treasury revealed next year there will be $900 million deficit – down from an expected $1.3 billion surplus. “Labour is screwing up the economy in two short years,” Bridges told reporters yesterday afternoon. He said they had gone from surpluses “as far as the eye could see to going into the red”.

- NZME

Fires’ effects felt here Australia’s bushfires have been blamed for unusually high concentrations of carbon monoxide over New Zealand.

Researchers at Niwa’s Lauder atmospheric research station observed how readings of the poisonous gas last week peaked at 150 parts per billion – more than twice the normal amount of 60 parts per billion. Principal atmosphere technician Dan Smale said the poisonous gas was a product of the New South Wales bushfires that have been burning for several weeks. Measurements were made with an instrument known as an in-situ FTIR gas analyser which sucks in air from a height of 10m.

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■■WHITE ISLAND ERUPTION

Risk still too high to recover bodies NZME Volcanic activity on White Island increased yesterday, in what could be a blow for authorities’ attempts to retrieve the eight bodies still on the island.

GeoNet said that “volcanic tremor has significantly increased overnight (Tuesday) indicating that volcanic gas pressures remain high”.

Meanwhile the status of several more victims has emerged.

Nine News is reporting Brisbane mother Julie Richards, 47, and her daughter Jessica, 20, have been identified as among the dead. Police told the family of the deaths.

Meanwhile, Jesse Langford, 19, of the missing Australian family-of-four, has reportedly been found to be among the injured.

Police said yesterday serious hazards remained for those involved in the retrieval operation.

A drone had been sent over White Island to test for toxic gas yesterday morning, and police would be speaking with GNS scientists before deciding whether it was safe to return to the island.

The mayor of Whakatane says local families are “desperate” to bring home those still on White Island.

Speaking at the cordon near Whakatane wharf yesterday, Judy Turner said police were poised to start the recovery mission.

“That’s just a matter of timing but I’m very comfortable they’ll be able to do that,” she told Newstalk ZB. “From what I understand, they’re taking a team of experts out to do this work. [The families are] just desperate to get their loved ones back, it’s horrendous.”

Of the 47 people who were on the island at the time of the eruption, 39 have been brought off the island. Six of those have been confirmed dead.

A further eight people are still

Whakaari/White Island shortly after it erupted on Monday, sending plumes of gas and ash into the air. missing on the island and are presumed dead.

For all involved, Turner said getting those still on the island back to the mainland was the last hurdle.

She believed local iwi leaders would head out to White Island with the recovery team to do a karakia and make sure the process was done respectfully.

Among the survivors, 30 were still in hospital as of Tuesday night – 24 in regional burns units, while the other six would be transferred as soon as possible.

Three had been discharged.

Police deputy commissioner John Tims said identification was a complex process.

Monday’s eruption sent an ash plume 4000m into the air, visible from as far away as 50km.

Eight people remain on the island and are presumed dead but a recovery operation will not begin until it is deemed safe for teams to go there.

“We understand people’s desire to recover their loved ones and we are working around the clock to get on to the island so we can recover them as soon as possible,” said Tims. “Based on the effects of the eruption on the bodies, this recovery will need to be handled with expert skill and care.”

The majority of those on the island were from the Ovation of the Seas and came from Australia, China, Germany, Malaysia, Britain and the US. Five were from New Zealand.

Most have serious burn injuries.

Ministry of Health spokesman Pete Watson said 27 of the injured people taken off the island had burns to more than 30 per cent of their body and many had inhalation burns requiring airways support.

He said most were in four regional burns units around the country and the rest would be

transferred to burns units as soon as possible.

Middlemore Hospital’s burns unit has received the equivalent of a year’s worth of work in one day since the eruption.

All burns units are now at capacity and some patients well enough to travel will likely be transferred to Australian hospitals where they can be closer to family.

Watson reiterated the seriousness of the injuries and the number injured. “It is possible that not all of the patients will survive. But at this stage everybody is receiving the care that they require,” he said.

Experts say many of the victims might have been knocked out almost instantly by toxic gas.

Tims said an investigation into the circumstances of the deaths and injuries was under way on behalf of the Coroner and in parallel with a WorkSafe investigation.

Tour operators could face huge fines of $1.5m NZME White Island tour operators could face a maximum fine of $1.5 million if found liable under health and safety laws but any prosecution is likely to be a year away, a legal expert says.

On Tuesday WorkSafe New Zealand opened a health and safety investigation into the harm and loss of life caused by the eruption which took the lives of six people and has left 30 others injured.

Graeme Christie, a specialist insurance lawyer at Bankside

Chambers, said the White Island tour operators would be expected to have public liability cover and director liability cover.

But that would only cover the cost of reparations to those affected and legal costs if a case was taken against them.

“You can’t get protection for fines anywhere,” he said.

Christie said fines for prosecutions of other adventure tourism operators had been around $500,000 but he said in those cases the level of fine had been handed out when there was one death.

The maximum fine a company could face was $1.5m.

“It is subject to prosecution deciding there is a case to answer.”

Christie said a million-dollar fine would not be out of kilter with the legislation given the number of deaths in this situation.

There had been previous cases of WorkSafe prosecutions of adventure tourism companies, including a death in Nelson from a dive charter.

While larger companies may be able to handle fines, he said often smaller companies were

unable to pay, resulting in a company going under.

The Herald understands people who went on tours to White Island were asked to sign a waiver form.

But Christie said that waiver would not let the companies off any legal action taken under health and safety law.

“You can’t contract out of the Health and Safety Act.” In New Zealand, Christie said, waivers had limited impact because ACC covered medical costs associated with incidents involving international tourists.

Death to remain a mystery – coroner

By Kurt Bayer NZME

The family of a University of Canterbury student whose body lay unnoticed in campus accommodation for two to four weeks will “never know what he died of”, a coroner has concluded.

Mason Drake Pendrous, a 19-year-old commerce student, died between August 26 and September 10 this year, Coroner Sue Johnson found after a special hearing in Christchurch on November 5 to verify when he had died.

England-born Pendrous was found dead by a staff member in his room, number 209 in the Hinoki building of the University of Canterbury’s Sonoda Campus in Ilam, Christchurch, at about 10.50pm on September 23.

Yesterday, Coroner Johnson ruled that his death is “undetermined due to decomposition”.

“Mason died some time between 26 August 2019 and 10 September 2019,” she said in a finding released yesterday.

“His body was not found until 23 September 2019. The delay in finding Mason’s body meant that the cause of his death is unable to be determined. His family will never know what he died of.”

Coroner Johnson is still looking into the circumstances of the student’s death.

And at this stage, she says she cannot rule out that before his death, Pendrous was ill in his room.

Forensic pathologist Dr Christopher Lawrence performed a full post-mortem examination of Pendrous’ body on September 24.

He noted decomposition and saw no injury or obvious cause of death.

There was no evidence of drugs or elevated alcohol levels in his blood and no identifiable pneumonia.

Lawrence stated that although the heart appeared normal he could not exclude some form of cardiac arrhythmia.

And because of the condition of the body it was not possible for Lawrence to assess some infective causes of death like influenza, pneumonia, myocarditis or meningitis.

There was a medicine for gastrointestinal upset in the room and Pendrous’ body was found close to a heater which was on and the central heating was turned up, which Lawrence said could be consistent with a fever.

His medical opinion was that the cause of death was undetermined due to decomposition – which the coroner agreed with.

Coroner Johnson said it was “impossible” to know exactly when Pendrous died between August 26 and September 10.

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■■CHILE

Air force plane missing AP Chile’s air force said it lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight yesterday to the country’s base in Antarctica.

It said the military had declared an alert and activated search and rescue teams.

The C-130 Hercules carried 17 crew members and 21 passengers, including three civilians. The personnel were to check on a floating fuel supply line and other equipment at the Chilean base.

President Sebastián Piñera said via Twitter that he was with his defence and interior ministers at the air force headquarters monitoring developments.

The plane took off at 4.55pm from the southern city of Punta Arenas, which is more than 3000km from the capital of Santiago.

General Eduardo Mosqueira of the Fourth Air Brigade told local media that a search was under way and a ship was in the area where the plane should have been when contact was lost.

Mosqueira said the aircraft would have been about halfway to the Antarctic base when it lost contact. No emergency signals had been activated, he said.

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Relatives of passengers of a missing military plane arrive at the Cerrillos airbase in Santiago, Chile, yesterday.

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British comedian, actor and activist Russell Brand is returning to New Zealand in 2020 with his new Recovery Live show.

Brand will appear in front of audiences at Auckland’s Bruce Mason Centre on March 14, Christchurch’s Isaac Theatre Royal on March 17, and at Wellington’s Opera House on March 19. Recovery Live is billed as a funny and profane exploration into personal development and wellness from a comedian who has dedicated himself to spirituality to avoid self-destruction. The 90-minute show will introduce audiences to the system that saved Russell’s life, continues to save his sanity and will work for anyone who is willing to commit to it.

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■■CZECH REPUBLIC

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Police personnel outside the Ostrava Teaching Hospital after a shooting incident in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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Six people were killed in a shooting in a hospital in the eastern Czech Republic, the prime minister said.

Police initially said the shooter was at large.

Video footage and pictures published by media later showed police arresting a person at the site but police didn’t immediately confirm that it was the suspect.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis told Czech public television the shooting took place in a waiting

room.

The attacker opened fire at people’s heads from close range, Babis said.

Officials initially published a photo of a man in a red jacket they said was the suspect, but later said that person was an important witness.

The shooting happened yesterday in the University hospital in the city of Ostrava, located 350 kilometres east of Prague.

Officials say people have been evacuated from the clinic. Police are boosting security across the country.

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The Greenland ice sheet’s losses have accelerated so fast since the 1990s it is now shedding more than seven times as much ice each year, according to 89 scientists who use satellites to study the area.

The sheet’s total losses nearly doubled each decade, from 33 billion tons per year in the 1990s to an average now of 254 billion tons annually. Since 1992, nearly 4 trillion tons of Greenland ice have entered the ocean, the new analysis found, equivalent to roughly a centimetre of global sea-level rise, reports The Washington Post.

“Around the planet, just 1 centimeter of sea-level rise brings another 6 million people into seasonal, annual floods,” said Andrew Shepherd, a University of Leeds professor who co-led the study.

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Cosby loses appeal Bill Cosby has lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction, as an appeals court ruled in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. In its ruling, the Superior Court upheld the right of prosecutors to call other accusers to bolster their case — the same issue that was fought over in pre-trial hearings before movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial. “This decision is a reminder that no one is above the law,” Andrea Constand, the victim in Cosby’s case, said. Cosby’s lawyers in his appeal said the suburban Philadelphia judge had improperly allowed the five women to testify at last year’s retrial although he’d let just one woman testify at the first trial in 2017.

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Matafeo a big winner Rose Matafeo was the big winner at the annual NZ Comedy Guild Awards on Tuesday night.

Comedians from all over the country Rose Matafeo gathered at The Classic in Auckland to celebrate a big year for the local industry, recognising overseas successes and burgeoning local scenes taking off around New Zealand.

UK-based Matafeo won the Kevin Smith Memorial Cup For Outstanding Artist Achievement following a successful year that included a star turn on comedy panel game show Taskmaster and the recent announcement of an HBO Max comedy special.

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The big question, do we go, or don’t we?

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ust because a decision might seem like the right and logical one to make doesn’t necessarily make it so and as a country, this week we’re finding out just why.

In the wake of Monday’s horrific events on White Island, there’s been plenty of comment and speculation on why emergency services weren’t straight onto a boat of helicopter and over on the island scouring for survivors.

Of course, immediately, there were some who did. And they deserve every mention of the word hero that is thrown their way because what they chose to do in that split moment, acting on nothing else other than instinct probably saved numerous

lives.

But the truth was, in that environment, it was incredibly dangerous to do so and but for good luck the situation could have become a whole lot worse if the unthinkable had happened while they were there trying to get people off.

Logically, it’s the right reaction in all of our minds.

Get in there, get them out and worry about all the other stuff

once that job is done.

Reality is that it’s never that simple.

It can be so easy to sit back, and criticise and demand that they just get there and do what needs to be done. But often, it’s never that simple and in this case, it certainly appears as though that is exactly the case.

We’re dealing with some of the most dangerous and volatile elements in the world.

The unpredictability and the dangers that await anyone who goes onto the island now are far greater than those which were faced by those who were there when it erupted.

And so, it’s a case of common sense.

That doesn’t make it anymore

morally right, but it’s just the way it has to be. The other harsh reality is that had there been further signs of life on the island once those initial people were rescued then perhaps it may have enforced a more urgent and risky approach to retrieving them and bringing them to safety.

But it would seem that there was no such signs and therefore the probabilities attached with heading back into such a dangerous situation for all those involved has, in this case, outweighed the logical option.

It doesn’t sit well with many people. Particularly those who are directly involved.

But you can also guarantee that it won’t have sat well with those there to rescue and assist

either. They’re trained to handle these situations, but sometimes, when the risk on their own life is far greater than ever, the best thing they can do is, sadly, nothing.

I’ve seen and read a lot of comments this week which have laid fault on our emergency services and our government for not acting sooner and calling this the Pike River disaster all over again because of inaction.

Those who are making those comments could perhaps do with a dose of reality and a better understanding of just what is being faced and the dangers associated and at the same time, a willingness to allow the right people to make the right decisions when tasked with doing so.

18 months behind bars, plus a month at a halfway house and two months of house arrest.)

In 1995, by three votes, the Senate killed a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against Old Glory.

In 1997, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. (Ramirez was convicted and is serving a life prison sentence.)

Ten years ago: Houston elected its first openly gay mayor, with

voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff with former city attorney Gene Locke.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama urged the Senate to ratify a $1.1 trillion spending bill opposed by some Democrats, judging it an imperfect measure that stemmed from “the divided government that the American people voted for.” (The Senate passed the measure the next day.)

One year ago: British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a political crisis over her Brexit deal, winning a no-confidence

vote by Conservative lawmakers that could have brought an end to her leadership. (May announced her resignation as Conservative leader in June of 2019, after her Brexit deal was rejected by Parliament three times.)

Today’s birthdays: Former TV host Bob Barker is 96. Singer Connie Francis is 82. Singer Dionne Warwick is 79. Rock singer-musician Dickey Betts is 76. Actor Wings Hauser is 72. Actor Bill Nighy is 70. Actor Duane Chase is 69. Country singer LaCosta is 69. Gymnastturned-actress Cathy Rigby is 67. Author Lorna Landvik is 65.

Singer-musician Sheila E. is 62.

Actress Sheree J. Wilson is 61.

Pop singer Daniel O’Donnell is 58. Rock musician Eric Schenkman is 56. Rock musician Nicholas Dimichino is 52. Author Sophie Kinsella is 50. Actress Jennifer Connelly is 49. Actress Madchen Amick is 49. Actress Regina Hall is 49. Country singer Hank Williams III is 47. Actress Mayim Bialik is 44. Model Bridget Hall is 42. Actor Lucas Hedges is 23. Actress Sky Katz is 15.

Thought for today: “If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it . . . it possesses you.”

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, December 12, the 346th day of 2019.

There are 19 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On December 12, 2000, George W. Bush became presidentelect as a divided US Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida’s contested election.

On this date: In 1913, authorities in Florence, Italy, announced that the Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, had been recovered.

In 1915, singer-actor Frank Sinatra was born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey.

In 1917, during World War One, a train carrying some 1000 French troops from the Italian front derailed while descending a steep hill in Modane; at least half of the soldiers were killed in France’s greatest rail disaster.

Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska.

In 1946, a United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to be the site of the UN’s headquarters.

In 1961, the first tickets went on sale for New Zealand’s new national Golden Kiwi lottery. All 250,000 tickets sold with 24 hours, with the £12,000 top prize (equivalent to around $500,000 today) four times that offered in previous lotteries.

In 1963, Kenya became independent of Britain.

In 1977, the dance movie Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta, premiered in New York.

In 1985, 248 American soldiers and eight crew members were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.

In 1989, in New York, hotel queen Leona Helmsley, 69, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $7.1 million for tax evasion. (Helmsley served

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everal green bottles, representing members of the coalition Cabinet collection, (and close associates) have now “accidentally fallen” from the shelf to which they were prematurely elevated soon after coming to power two, long years ago.

Kris Faafoi, hitherto a Labour green bottle of impeccable integrity and high mana, is but the latest.

The names Ian Lees-Galloway and Claire Cullen come, at once, to mind, while Phil Twyford and others like him are teetering constantly on the edge of this exalted ledge.

To remain safely affixed to such an illustrious protrusion, a keen sense of balance is required, a quality not easily achieved by the current crop of tinted glass containers occupying the government benches.

Thus is Jacinda obliged to spend precious time covering for them, explaining away the cracks in their exteriors, giving them a quick polish and then re-instating them more securely onto the slippery surface.

Shane “Pomposity” Jones, he of the rampant rhetoric and overweening self-conceit, is another who must give Jacinda prime ministerial nightmares, and over whom she seems powerless.

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He continues to make a complete, and very loud fool of himself, relying on his party leader, the equally erratic and bad-tempered, Winston Peters to keep him onside (just) with the PM. I assume Jacinda must have had more than a shrewd idea of what she was taking on when getting into a political bed with those two, but the lure of parliamentary power was too much to resist.

If this was the cost of her accession to the ninth floor of the Beehive, then – reluctantly or otherwise – she would pay it.

Faafoi’s fall from grace is as inexplicable as it is unexpected.

To promise a friend backstage assistance to get a would-be immigrant into this country, seems entirely out of character.

Ardern must despair that even such a hitherto pillar of rectitude and of all things needed to make a fine, upstanding colleague and minister could, despite such an inspirational cv, suddenly throw

out the Cabinet rule book and descend to the lower reaches of parliamentary sculduggery.

Hardly surprising, she gave him “a stern talking to”.

It was also hardly surprising that Simon Bridges, the moment the news came to hand, was bellowing to anybody who couldn’t avoid hearing him, that if he were PM, “Faafoi would be gone”.

Future National ministers beware.

Meanwhile, the political planets above are circling less aimlessly and beginning to take up more specific polling positions as the 2020 election is spotted sliding over the not so distant horizon.

This week, Labour and – even – Jacinda are measurably down in the polls while National and – even – Simon are up.

The pallid Greens are flickering above the existence line, Winston and his mini cohort, flailing below it.

Only one party can find genuine solace in the latest figures, ACT. It seems David Seymour’s sustained and exhausting one-man campaign is at last showing signs of acquiring another seated MP in addition to the grace and favour electorate of Epsom “held” these past several elections by Seymour and ACT, courtesy of National.

The prospects of the Nats forming some variety of a winning coalition with ACT could thus be on the cards.

David Seymour’s heroic fight to get the End of Life Bill onto the statute book is undoubtedly a triumph of pure bloody-mindedness and persistence, and I get the strong impression Seymour has shown himself to be rather more than a mere buffoon seen “twerking” on Strictly Come Dancing!

Next year’s election result may well be skewed by two referenda attached to the voting paper, the legalising of cannabis and the End of Life Bill.

They will complicate the pollsters’ job immeasurably but, no doubt, the latest gathering of psephologists – in a subterranean cellar somewhere in the Bay of Plenty – have been working on a new formula of mind-blowing accuracy.

A Merry Christmas to all or any readers who have stuck with me throughout the year and all the very best for 2020.

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The critical spring mating period is under way on most of the country’s dairy farms, but heavy rain, slips and floodwaters have closed key roads in the South Island, making it difficult to reach a number of flood-hit farms and get the cows in-calf.

Despite the tough conditions, agritech and herd improvement co-operative LIC is using small planes and helicopters to make sure semen straws are still delivered to farmers on time.

Around three out of four dairy cows mated to AB in New Zealand are from LIC’s bull semen.

LIC’s national artificial breeding manager David Hale said LIC understood the importance of delivering semen to all farms on schedule, regardless of weather conditions.

“The dairy cow cycle takes roughly between 18-24 days. If insemination doesn’t occur at the right time during that cycle, it means a three-week wait until the cow is in heat again. This threeweek loss can have negative flowon effects for farmers, including the potential loss of three weeks’ worth of milk supply and an impact on calving periods the following year.

“This is why LIC is working hard to ensure semen delivery is not impacted by the adverse weather A helicopter touches down with semen supconditions.” plies in the flood-affected West Coast.

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“We are pleased to see farmers helping LIC dispatches and delivers around five each other get through the wild weather. million fresh semen straws and one million LIC will continue to deliver to flood-affectfrozen semen straws each year from Seped farms, unless it is too dangerous to do tember through to Christmas. so.”

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■■ NITROGEN LEACHING

Bid to reduce environmental impact

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A coastal Mid Canterbury dairy farm is reducing its rates of applied nitrogen and switching to more grass-based wintering as it seeks to significantly reduce its environmental impact from nitrogen leaching.

Clearbrook Farm is owned by the Tait Family Trust, an inter-generational family business at Lowcliffe.

The 275-hectare home farm was previously operated as a sheep farm with some cropping and beef before being converted by the Tait family for the 2011-12 season.

Another 123ha, 1km east of the dairy was purchased in 2014 to provide dairy support.

Initially milking 700 cows, the farm has increased its herd size to 820 cows for the last three years.

It is largely self-contained, apart from some bought in palm kernel and grain, with grazing of young stock and wintering done on-farm.

Campbell Tait, with the support of his wife Martine, runs the business as an operations manager, assisted by about four other staff.

At a field day at Clearbrook Farm, Tait said he was approached by DairyNZ consulting officer Stuart Moorhouse two years ago about joining a project assisting farmers in the Hinds and Selwyn water management zones to meet their nitrogen loss limits while maintaining a profitable business.

“It was a good way of getting into the nitty gritty of what we were doing and understanding the drivers of our nitrogen loss and ways to mitigate these.

For “better or worse” Clearbrook Farm was a complicated system, Tait said.

When analysed, the farm had 30 to 40 different management blocks depending on soil type, irrigation type and crop regime.

“It has definitely shown that I need to do better in my recording.

“We have some good information now, enabling the farm to implement some changes last season and we have made some progress.”

From a peak nitrogen loss in the 2016-17 season of 104kg/N/ha, changes in management had reduced this to 90kg/N/ha in the 2018-19 season, but Tait acknowledged there was a long way to go.

“It is daunting wondering how we will get there, after putting quite a bit of effort into reducing levels last season.”

While an N loss of 104kg/ha was high for a centre pivot irrigated dairy farm, this figure included the wintering block.

Both the home farm and support block

Clearbrook Farm operations manager Campbell Tait tells a field day at his Lowcliffe farm about management changes to reduce nitrogen leaching.

PHOTO HEATHER CHALMERS had Lismore and Lowcliffe shallow silt loam soils which were free draining, had low water-holding capacity and were vulnerable to drainage and N leaching.

Dairy farms like the Tait family’s, in the Hinds water zone, were required to progressively reduce their N loss beyond good management practice levels by 15 per cent by 2025, 25 per cent by 2030 and 36 per cent by 2035.

As a result of becoming involved in the five-year DairyNZ project, a range of options were considered to reduce N loss on Clearbrook Farm.

“It was based around where nitrogen surplus existed in the farming operation.

Consideration was given to soil type, the timing of N use, irrigation and cropping.”

An obvious first choice was to reduce

synthetic nitrogen fertiliser applications, which were cut from about 250kg/ha in the 2017-18 season to 203kg/ha in 2018-19.

Another change was to reduce the area in winter fodder crops in favour of wintering on grass.

In both the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons about 65ha (one-third of the home farm and two-thirds of the support block) was planted in kale, fodder beet and sugar beet to support wintering of the dairy cows and young stock.

Last season this was reduced to 56ha and this season was expected to be cut further to 48ha. Much of this area was followed by cereal crops that acted as catch crops to soak up the excess nitrogen before it potentially leached through the soil profile.

Cropping was also being targeted to more

suitable areas of the farm.

“Coupled with a slightly lower stocking rate, we are working towards having 200 cows on grass for winter in 2020.

“There will not be the bulk of feed we are used to having in winter.

“We will need a buffer for wet weather and a much higher pasture cover over winter.

“The upside is that once we hit September, we will have 235ha of grass for the first round rather than 210ha.”

A switch was also made to variable rate fertiliser applications for phosphorus and potassium after it was identified that Clearbrook Farm had variable levels of Olsen P and potassium.

“These were the nutrients holding us back, not N,” Tait said.

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■■MOBILE NETWORK UPGRADES

Is 5G the UFB fibre killer?

By Chris Keall

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As with all mobile network upgrades, 5G has begun modestly, with Vodafone upgrading 100 sites around the main centres (1500 will be upgraded over the next two years) and only a handful of phones yet able to support the faster new mobile technology.

But it’s going to keep coming, like a steamroller, and change the way we connect to the internet.

At Vodafone’s 5G launch in Wellington yesterday, I managed to hit over 500 megabits per second – or five times the speed most people get from their UFB fibre at home – while connecting with the 5G version of Samsung’s Note 10+.

That’s stonking speed.

I also got huge speeds (well, 40Mbits was huge for the time) when 4G rolled out earlier this decade. Then, the maxim was true that I was like one of the first drivers to hit a new stretch of motorway. Things would choke up as more traffic arrived.

And there will be an element of

Vodafone NZ boss Jason Paris at the telco’s 5G launch in Wellington yesterday.

PHOTO NZME that with the first wave of 5G. But it very much is only the first wave. Although the initial rollout of 5G has been attractive enough to attract early adopters like the NZ Police, BNZ, Auckland’s Rescue Helicopter and Waste Management.

With 4G, the technology was tweaked and squeezed (and is still been tweaked and squeezed), to

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Vodafone pairing millimetric 5G with roadside cabinet and cable assets inherited from TelstraClear so businesses in the Wellington CBD and Auckland CBD – plus light-industry suburbs like East Tamaki and Albany – can be offered 1 gbit/s or faster fixed-wireless 5G. That’s a mobile connection so fast that you could use it all around your office, and forget about wi-fi. Vodafone and others say licensed 5G spectrum will offer more speed, flexibility and consistency than unlicensed wifi – and that’s been the experience of at least one early adopter in the industrial sector.

Way before that – probably within months – we’ll see Vodafone start to aggressively offer fixed-wireless connections to households as a landline substitute. Baird – and new co-owner Infratil – has already flagged a headline goal to move up to a quarter of Vodafone NZ’s base of around 420,000 landline customers to fixed wireless over the next two to three years.

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eek out a bit more bandwidth.

But with 5G, we’re very much at the bottom of the curve. We’re going to see huge speed increases from here - increases that will make some ask if the $3 billion or so in public-private funds spent on UFB fibre will be quickly redundant.

Vodafone NZ launched its new mobile service yesterday using

its 53MHz slice of 5G-friendly 3.5GHz bandwidth (which it inherited with its TelstraClear purchase, making it the only carrier with a substantial 5G spectrum holding).

Vodafone has already been open about the fact it wants to top up to a 100MHz slice once the Government auctions more 3.5GHz spectrum next year – a Treaty challenge allowing – or allocates temporary spectrum.

Then, along with some standards upgrades, we’ll be heading for “pure 5G”, or the latest mobile spec being everywhere, and no 4G infill for uploads.

And Vodafone and Spark are both eyeing the “millimetric” 30GHz spectrum that is expected to be put on the table after 2022.

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Customers wanting a tipple at Air New Zealand’s domestic Auckland airport lounge will find themselves out of luck at the moment.

A spokeswoman for Air NZ said due to a processing delay with its liquor licence, it was currently unable to offer alcoholic beverages in the Auckland domestic lounge.

“We hope to have this sorted soon.”

The spokeswoman said in the meantime, customers were welcome to visit its new Auckland regional lounge or enjoy its non-alcoholic options.

The regional lounge, which is three times bigger than the old one, opened in mid-November and caters for 265 passengers.

It’s located on Level 1 of the Auckland Airport domestic terminal, above the airline’s old regional lounge, and has wide views out over the runway. The new Auckland regional lounge is part of a $60 million investment in lounges throughout

New Zealand during the next two years. This includes a refurbishment of the airline’s domestic lounges at Auckland and Wellington airports and new regional lounges in Nelson and New Plymouth.

Lounges around the country have been under pressure as Koru membership grows and more passengers can access them through Airpoints balances.

The delay in the licence will be a blow to the airline which is now headed into one of the busiest travel periods of the year.

Demand for regional lounge space at Air New Zealand is expected to grow as it adds hundreds more regional flights to its schedule at the start of next year following the withdrawal of Jetstar’s regional services.

This bureaucratic headache comes right before the busiest time of the year for the airport.

Auckland Airport is expected to hit the highest numbers at the international terminal in the two and a half weeks from December 19 to January 6.

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■■PRODUCT RECALL

Mini bottles of Lindauer recalled NZME Some of Lindauer’s strawberry bubbly has been pulled from shelves following fears of glass contamination.

Parent company Lion has issued a recall for its four-pack of Lindauer Strawberry Fraise, citing issues with bottling equipment used on

the 200ml products.

It is warning that any bottles with the batch numbers “L9164 PW374 20:27 to 20:39” and “L9165 PW374 07:41 to 07:58” should not be consumed.

“There have been no reports of injury, however if you have consumed any of this product and have any concerns about your health,

seek medical advice,” Lion said.

“Lion wishes to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused.”

Consumers are being asked to call Lion on 0800 835 554 to arrange a refund.

Other Lindauer products are not affected, the Ministry of Primary Industries said on its website.

Club news www.guardianonline.co.nz Ashburton Bowling Club Ashburton Bowling Club members’ results and other pertinent matters for the past week or so, are as follows: At the Friday Triples, held at Ashburton on the 6th, G Eder, Judie Ryk, D Ross came 3rd with 3 wins, 12 ends, 29 points, and T Blain, A Blain, J Buchanan came 6th with 2 wins, 14 ends 29 points +9.

The Ashburton men’s interclub ¾’s, playing in Christchurch, finished 1st in their section, winning 16.5 games out of 21.

A huge congratulations to all those players!

In our Saturday Rollover Triples on the 7th, 1st were A Blain and C Rooke with 3 wins, and 2nd with 11 ends and 2nd were T Watson and M Patterson.

It was a small showing because of the triples on the Friday and the pairs and fours being held on the Sunday, three days bowling being too much for most.

The Ashburton pairs and fours on Sun-

day, December 8 was played on a fine and breezy morning and afternoon, although there were reminders around us of the chaos being inflicted by the flooding south and west of Ashburton – circling gulls trying in vain to find their flooded nests and the convoy of five helicopters flying across ferrying people to Christchurch.

The winners were G Eder, D Muir, M Eder, K Muir with 5 wins, 1 draw, 32 ends, 68 points +32 differential; 2nd were G Bishop, P Whinham, S Holdom, V Whinham with 5 wins, 36 ends, 72 points +23 differential and 3rd were R Gutberlet, R Davies, M Quinn, D Gutberlet with 4 wins, 25 ends, 54 points -7 differential.

The Ladies Bowman Cup is on December 16 (previously November 11).

The club’s annual Christmas Dinner is on December 14 (previously the 7), 5pm for 6pm in the club rooms and the Ashburton Ladies’ Christmas Lunch is on December 19 at 12 noon at Stables.

Good bowling everyone!

Thursday, December 12, 2019 Ashburton Golf Club Matt held another one of his wonderful pro shop days last Saturday. A stroke round off the red tees was the game of choice but the twist was that you could only use half of your clubs, so a bit of thought had to be used pre game.

The player who chose perfectly and played the same way was Hamish Niles who shot a superb gross 68 off a 4 handicap for a stunning 64.

Plenty more players had fine rounds with nett 69 just scraping into the prizes. Big hitting Cam Grant did what nobody has seen before when he managed to go out of bounds from the tee on the 9th hole. His drive flew through the green over the 1st fairway and into the driving range. The man’s a beast.

This Saturday we have the Radius Care Xmas Salvers, individual stableford rounds playing for plenty of Christmas cheer. It is also the first qualifying round for the Property Brokers shootout. This wonderful event is entering its 10th

year and is always an eagerly followed tournament. Your best two stableford rounds out of five qualifiers can get you into the top 19 to fight it out in the final in late January.

If you wish to enter just pay the starter an extra $10 before your game and then go and shoot the lights out. We will have qualifying for this every Saturday right through the holiday season.

Get yourself down there and have a bash. Good golfing

Ashburton Hearing Association The Ashburton Hearing Association’s Christmas lunch was a well attended and very pleasant gathering.

Before enjoying a delicious meal those present adopted the recommendation of the committee to appoint Russell Anstiss as patron of the branch.

Russell’s appointment reflects his huge contribution to the Hearing Association

■■BASKETBALL

Cameron to take over Tall Blacks reins RNZ Tall Blacks legend Pero Cameron has been named as the New Zealand men’s basketball team head coach.

Cameron replaces Paul Henare who stepped down from the role last month.

The FIBA Hall of Famer’s appointment to the role is for the short term, taking the Tall Blacks to the Tokyo Olympic Games, should New Zealand qualify through the Asian Cup qualifying games and then the Olympic Games repechage tournament in Serbia in June.

Although Cameron said he wants to do the role for a longer term.

“Of course, I want this job longer term, that is something out of my control though,” Cameron said.

“I am just focused on the job at hand, the qualifying window in February and the Olympic qualifying tournament in June. I think all coaches want that long term security, but for now that is the hand I am given, and we will go and take care of business.”

Cameron enjoyed a stellar career in the black singlet and is the third highest cap player in Tall Blacks’ history with 154 games, including playing at the Sydney and Athens Olympics.

So he knows how big of an impact another appearance at the Olympics would have on the game in New Zealand.

“The Olympics is huge, not just for me, but for the players, the whole group and support staff and for the future of the game in New Zealand.

“If we can get back to the Olympics, it truly puts us on the map, to be competing with the best in the world in front of family, friends and the basketball community back home.”

For the past eight years, Cameron has worked as an assistant coach with the Tall Blacks

Pero Cameron is the new coach of the New Zealand men’s basketball team. and will retain current assistant coach Ross McMains in his coaching team.

Cameron’s appointment means minimal disruption to the playing group.

“Continuity is important to this group right now, the past few years has seen us bring in so many new and young players,” he said.

“From the Asia Cup to the qualifying windows, we have brought in many new players and exposed them to what Tall Blacks basketball is all about. It is important that we don’t lose that investment and go back to square one with a new system or

new staff.”

Cameron said coaching the Tall Blacks is a unique job in international basketball coaching.

“Culture and understanding who we are is everything,” he said.

“Previous coaches like Tab, Keith, Nenad, Pauli - they were all part of the team as players or lived and worked in New Zealand for years and understood who we are as a people and how we do things.

“And as Kiwis it is important to understand that we do things differently to most other countries.

Sometimes we have to due to a lack of time together or resource

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Entertainment at the lunch included a fabulous demonstration given by some members of R and R Line Dancers Group and a visit from Santa.

The dear old chap in the red suit dispensed gifts to those who have or said they have been good during the year.

Everyone must have been good because they all received a gift!

The Christmas lunch capped off a very successful year for the Ashburton Hearing Association during which it provided services to members, hosted the national conference, enjoyed various social activities and established a named fund within the Advance Ashburton Community Foundation.

While extending Season’s Greetings to members and friends, President Aine Whiting said the branch will continue its social programme in the New Year beginning with a bus trip in February 2020.

Johnson to the rescue NZME A simple gesture from Kiwi rugby league star Shaun Johnson and the Cronulla Sharks has helped change the life of a boy with cancer.

After collapsing in the shower in March, 12-year-old Jason Braniff was diagnosed with leukaemia and was flown to Sydney Children’s Hospital for treatment.

Undergoing rounds of chemotherapy Jason started to lose hope.

At one point, Jason had whispered to his mother Sharon: “Just let me die, I don’t want to do this anymore.”

However, thanks to a visit from the Sharks and their star player Johnson, Jason’s world was turned upside down.

But it was what Johnson – who dad Greg described as “running around like an idiot” with a sombrero during the visit – did next that made a lasting impression on Jason.

“I got quite emotional obviously,” Sharon said.

“Shaun pulled us aside and I explained what was happening with our son … how he had given up a bit.

“He took his jumper off and signed it and gave it to Jason and said ‘keep the fight going mate, you’ve got this, I’m 100 per cent behind you’.

“It made me cry how he was so there with him.

“From then on Jason was like I’ve got this, I’m going to beat this.”

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available to us as a team, but for the most part we have a style, we adjust to our competitors differently, we plan differently and as we showed at the World Cup, we do things our way to get the best out of our team.”

Cameron first made the Junior Tall Blacks when he was 16, so he is coming up on 30 years representing the black singlet in one way or another.

Since retiring as a player in 2010, 45-year-old Cameron has been involved in coaching at a variety of levels including winning back-to-back New Zealand NBL championships with the Wellington Saints.

DRAWS ■■ Bowls Ashburton Bowling Club December 15 Milsom Cup – men only Kindly sponsored by: Patersons/Liquorland - 9.30pm start Whites or club colours to be worn.

The following skips have entered teams.

M Behrnes, G Bishop, B Donaldson, G Eder, G Eddington, C Fowles, R Gutberlet, R Herriott, Hinds 1, Hinds 2, Hinds 3, T Inwood, B Mayson, L Muir, B Osbourne, J Ryk, M Skilling, M Smallridge, R Tonks.

For information contact: G Eder 307 7498

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■■RUGBY

Foster new All Blacks coach All Blacks assistant coach Ian Foster has been promoted to the top job, taking over from head coach Steve Hansen who stepped down after the Rugby World Cup. Foster and Crusaders coach Scott Robertson were the two candidates interviewed for the role and Robertson’s lack of international coaching experience appears to have counted against him.

Foster’s lack of success with the Chiefs in Super Rugby had raised questions of whether he’s the right person for the job, but New Zealand Rugby (NZR) believe they’ve made the right choice.

Foster, 54, has been given a twoyear contract by NZR, rather than a four-year deal through to the next world cup in France.

Foster has been an All Blacks assistant coach since 2012, in charge of the team’s attack, and it’s believed his inside knowledge of the set-up helped get him across the line.

NZR chair Brent Impey said Foster would be joined by four other coaches, who will be announced in due course.

“While we can’t confirm the full make-up of the coaching team today, we’re delighted with the quality they bring − they have a wide range of coaching experiences and are a diverse group of thinkers.

“On behalf of New Zealand Rugby, I want to congratulate Ian on his appointment, and we wish him well for this next phase in the All Blacks’ story,” Impey said.

Foster said he was humbled to be selected as head coach.

“I feel truly privileged and honoured to be given this opportunity and I can’t wait to lead the team into the next chapter of what is a remarkable legacy,” he said.

“I’m incredibly proud of what we have achieved in the All Blacks over the last eight years and I’m excited and energised by a new coaching team who will join me.

“It’s incredibly humbling to be appointed to the job and I have a strong desire to serve the jersey well and represent New Zealand to the best of my ability.

All Blacks assistant coach Ian Foster has been given the nod over Crusaders coach Scott Robinson for the position of All Blacks coach.

Incoming NZR chief executive Mark Robinson also congratulated Foster, saying he had impressed the panel.

“These are exciting times. Ian has pulled together a very strong team and he is an outstanding person in his own right with a high-quality set of values.

“He is committed to stamping his own mark on the team and it’s clear that he and his coaching team want to bring a new and fresh energy into the All Blacks environment.”

Robinson has also acknowl-

edged Crusaders head coach Robertson, who also interviewed for the role.

“As someone who knows ‘Razor’ well as a former teammate, he was a very impressive candidate and these decisions are never easy.

We know Razor is an outstanding coach and I have no doubt he’ll have a big future in our game at international level.”

The appointment panel for the head coach position was made up of Impey, Robinson, NZR Head of High Performance Mike Anthony, former All Blacks coach and NZR

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During his time in charge of the Chiefs the side made one final, in 2009, losing to the South African side the Bulls.

Foster had two stints as cocoach of the Junior All Blacks before being appointed as All Blacks assistant coach in 2012 alongside head coach Steve Hansen.

As an All Blacks assistant coach Foster has been involved with the All Blacks’ victorious 2015 Rugby World Cup campaign as well as 2019’s RWC third placing.

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As a first-five Foster played nearly 150 games for Waikato between 1985 and 1998 as well as 26 games of Super Rugby with the Chiefs, ending his playing career in 1998.

Foster’s previous coaching experience includes being an assistant coach and coach of Waikato’s national provincial competition side before coaching the Chiefs in Super Rugby for eight years between

Age no barrier

The men set to work under the helm of new All Blacks head coach Ian Foster is all but set.

And it would appear hopes of recruiting Joe Schmidt in an assistant role are all but over.

Last month, the Herald reported that Foster was trying to unite Hurricanes coach John Plumtree and Schmidt to join Scott McLeod on his ticket.

Schmidt has only said he intends to remain in Ireland to take a break from the game until June – a timeframe that would, potentially, leave him free to join the All Blacks coaching ranks for their next test series in July.

But rugby expert Scotty Stevenson has reported that Brad Mooar and Greg Feek are instead likely to join Plumtree and Foster, as well as Scott McLeod and David Hill, who are part of the current set-up.

Foster remained tight-lipped on the

makeup of his coaching team when asked at a press conference in Auckland yesterday.

“I can’t wait to tell you but I just can’t. As soon as we can, we will,” Foster said.

“I’ve got guys that are willing to challenge and I’ve got fresh voices in there that I think are going to really help us look at the game, to look at what we’re doing and add spice to it.

“I know they’re buzzing and there’s a bit of youth there, there’s a bit of overseas experience and there’s a bit of hardness in that group all designed to take this team to a new level.”

NZR chair Brent Impey described the mystery team as a “diverse group of thinkers.”

“While we can’t confirm the full make-up of the coaching team today, we’re delighted with the quality they bring − they have a wide range of coaching experiences,” he said in a statement.

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■■ CRICKET

Locals play role in NZ success Two young Mid Canterbury cricketers have played their part in leading their school to national glory in one of New Zealand’s toughest cricketing competitions.

Both Harry McMillan and Ben Innes, who were both set to make their Hawke Cup debut for Mid Canterbury last weekend against South Canterbury before it was abandoned, have figured prominently in the St Andew’s College First XI who became national champions by winning the highly competitive Gillette Cup. Playing against the other top five schools from around New Zealand, the Mid Canterbury lads featured in almost all of the matches with McMillan missing from one fixture.

They recorded wins early in the competition against Wellington College and Rossmini Auckland at Lincoln but then suffered defeat when they stepped onto Hagley Park to play Lindisfarne College.

They then turned around and avenged that defeat with a dominant performance against Otago Boys’ High School before taking on Hamilton Boys’ High School in the final match. With everything to play for, they delivered a big effort to get the win and do enough to be crowned champions.

Batting first, St Andrews put together an imposing total of 276/8 from their 50 overs.

Innes chipped in with a rapid fire 19 when his side were looking to lift the run rate, scoring one four and two sixes – McMillan was not required to bat.

In reply though, McMillan played his part with the ball. He claimed the opening wicket of the innings in the fifth over of the match by clean-bowling one of the Hamilton opening batsmen and then claimed another wicket in his second spell and Hamilton were rolled for 102 inside 35 overs.

Mid Canterbury’s Harry McMillan claims the first wicket of the match in the Gillette Cup decider between his St Andrew’s College side and Hamilton Boys’ High School.

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■■ RUGBY

Hansen reveals perfect storm which led to defeat Outgoing All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has admitted his side may have dropped a bit in desperation before the Rugby World Cup exit.

In the wide-ranging interview with All Blacks TV, Hansen reflected on the All Blacks’ Rugby World Cup semifinal loss to England.

Hansen concedes that the match still hurts and he has had a lot of time to reflect on it.

“It’s still one of those things that bugs you, it still hurts and will do for the rest of time,” he said.

“Why did we lose the World Cup? Well, we lost to England, and why did we lose to England? I’ve reflected on that quite a lot.”

Hansen went on to explain that the massive win over Ireland did them no favours, as they may have relaxed a little bit ahead of a task that no side has achieved, winning three World Cups in a row.

“What we were trying to do has never been done before, and with success comes a little less desperation.

“It was a perfect storm really, we played South Africa first up, got that job done, had lesser opponents after that so that mental side of the game didn’t come into it.

“We had a massive week into [the quarterfinal with] Ireland, and that was a game that had everyone on the end of their seat.

The All Blacks after their Rugby World Cup semifinal defeat to England.

When we won that and won it so comfortably, subconsciously I think all of us may have relaxed a little bit. Let go of two percent of that desperation we had. It’s not something that you do deliberately, it just happens.

Hansen’s side pummeled a hap-

less Ireland side 46-14 in a match where the Irish self-imploded to gift the All Blacks countless opportunities from turnover ball along with a horror error rate. It would be a stark contrast to how clinical the English would be a week later.

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“Then we played England who have been waiting for two and a half years to play this one game.

Very, very desperate, right up at 100 percent, and if we are at 92 percent, that’s a big shift. They came at us and played well and deserved to win.

In hindsight, Hansen believes the messages during the week may have been off, given the preceding win in the quarterfinal.

“I looked at myself, and the messages during the week and maybe they weren’t on the money the way they could have been from a mental point of view, knowing that we have just come off a big win against Ireland.”

Hansen also handed out some free advice for his imminent successor. With just two candidates thought to be left in the running for New Zealand Rugby’s top coaching job – Ian Foster and Scott Robertson – Hansen made it clear that whoever gets the role must be an incredible leader.

“Leadership is about influencing through relationship,” Hansen told All Blacks TV. “It’s not about how much IQ you’ve got, it’s about how much EQ [emotional quotient] you’ve got.”

At one point Hansen illustrated that Foster, his assistant coach for the past eight years, may have an advantage over Robertson who has yet to play a part in the All Blacks coaching ranks.

“Understanding the environment you’re in is going to be important, building relationships within that. Getting your team around you right [is] also really important, and what roles you want them to do.”

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Sarah hits the front in championship

By Matt Markham

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Sarah O’Reilly has made her play, now it’s up to the others to try and chase her down.

The Mid Canterbury junior driver is one of four New Zealand drivers competing in the Australasian Young Drivers Championship across the country at the moment, competing against a total of 12 of her contemporaries in a bid to be crowned the best in Australasia.

After racing action from both Addington and Methven at the weekend, the group found themselves at Manawatu on Tuesday afternoon for three heats of the series and O’Reilly really came into her own, winning the final two heats of the day.

She’d started the series solidly, picking up good points with a second at Addington on Saturday night and then went without much luck at Methven on Sunday when one of her drives was scratched.

All eyes, at that point, were on New South Wales reinsman, Cam Hart who won the first three heats of the series but when he failed to pick up any significant points on Tuesday, the chance was there for someone to fly past him – and O’Reilly was the right girl for the job.

The Mid Canterbury junior driver hit the front on the points

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Sarah O’Reilly with her parents, Gerard and Jane following one of her two victories at Manawatu on Tuesday.

PHOTO HRNZ table for the Australasian Young Drivers Championship on Tuesday night courtesy of back-toback victories in the fifth and sixth heats of the series at Mana-

watu. The two wins came hot off the back of a second placing in the first of the three heats.

She then saluted with Final Delight for Michael House in the

second heat before propelling herself into the lead when she won the final race of the day with Ace Strike.

“I was lucky to drive some nice

horses today,” O’Reilly told Harness Racing New Zealand.

“I’m having a great time so far and it is great to meet new people on the trip,” she added.

O’Reilly’s parents, renowned horseman Gerard and his wife Jane were in the Manawatu on Tuesday to see their daughter’s success.

The series returns to the Manawatu Raceway tonight for another three heats of the series and O’Reilly has a good chance to extend her lead in the competition with some nice looking drives.

Her first drive in the three heats, Molly Dooker was the horse which stopped her making it three wins from three heats on the first day when it was victorious while both Payment Plan and The Bandit Queen look each way prospects.

From Manawatu, the series concludes at Alexandra Park on Friday night with the final heat of the series before a winner is confirmed.

O’Reilly is joined on the tour by fellow Mid Cantabrian, John Morrison.

While yet to still taste success in the series, Morrison is currently sitting in the middle of the points table and has some nice drives to round out the series so can’t have his chances completely written off.

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Manawatu Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 12 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 5.08pm (NZT) FOCUS PLANNING MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners., mobile, 2000m 1 60x99 Trooper Cooper (1) fr.......................... J Curtin 2 70x43 Downtown Babe (2) fr....................P Ferguson 3 70568 Shan One (3) fr................................. S Phelan 4 776P5 Hey Good Lookin (4) fr.................... B Butcher 5 5x66 With Revenge (5) fr..................... Z Phillips (J) 6 53902 Panda Girl (6) fr................................B Orange 7 5x007 Zip Code (7) fr..............................J Abernethy 2 5.35pm ALBERT OLDIES MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2000m 1 3x787 Nicky Jay (1) fr...............................P Ferguson 2 80095 Arya Famous (2) fr.....................J Morrison (J) 3 05564 Emmi Rose (3) fr.............................. S Phelan 4 Inquisito (4) fr..................................... B Taylor 5 94502 Sarandon (5) fr................................ B Butcher 6 06493 Drum Beat (6) fr.................................. J Curtin 7 98446 Razcal Alley (7) fr.............................B Orange 3 6.05pm CARTOWN MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners., mobile, 2500m 1 04572 Shesheartandsole (1) fr...................... J Curtin

2 x0672 He’s Gratis (2) fr................................. B Taylor 3 74x65 Lady Ameera (3) fr.......................J Abernethy 4 57353 Jetson Hunter (4) fr.......................... S Phelan 5 84434 Speciale Uno (5) fr........................P Ferguson 6 33778 Carse O Fern Cully (6) fr............. Z Phillips (J) 7 6x807 Outlander (7) fr..........................J Morrison (J) 4 6.31pm ITM PALMERSTON NORTH HANDICAP TROT $9000, non-winners & r42-r74 discrhcp, stand, 2500m 1 47P Battle Commander (1) fr..................... J Curtin 2 x9375 Buller Whitebait (2) fr.....................P Ferguson 3 2D757 Leesa Castleton (1) 30M.................. S Phelan 4 9P9x8 Mackali (U1) 30M.........................J Abernethy 5 12604 The Rev (U2) 30M...........................S Dickson 6 x0841 Flying Monkey (1) 40M.................... B Butcher 7 873x9 Dauntless (2) 40M.................. S Tomlinson (J) 8 0x893 Caitlin’s Surprise (3) 40M................P Fleming 9 02312 Recycle (4) 40M........................J Morrison (J) 10 97526 Mekong Princess (U1) 40M......... M Hurrell (J) 11 31491 Sundons Flyer (1) 80M.....................B Orange 5 6.56pm COURTESY FORD MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r40-r54., mobile, 2000m 1 65706 Beaudiene Emerald (1) fr................... J Curtin 2 75832 Martin McGuinness (2) fr............. M Hurrell (J) 3 75289 Magic Blaze (3) fr..........................P Ferguson 4 298x8 Madiba (4) fr..................................... S Phelan

5 43212 Den’s Legacy (5) fr...........................B Orange 6 21937 Jessie Kelly (6) fr........................ S O’Reilly (J) 7 76321 Lavazza (7) fr................................... B Butcher 8 x794P Our Wicklow (U1) fr.........................P Fleming 6 7.23pm OUTBACK TRADING MOBILE PACE $9000, 4yo+ r40-r48. inv.d, mobile, 2500m 1 0x903 Lincoln Lovely (1) fr..................... Z Phillips (J) 2 x7574 Amaro (2) fr............................... B Webster (J) 3 88855 Red River Dash (3) fr.............. S Tomlinson (J) 4 65x77 Pure Desire (4) fr............................. C Hart (J) 5 06x38 Uncle Drew (5) fr............................. B Butcher 6 32215 Absolut Russian (6) fr...............C Peterson (J) 7 69x51 Ripsnorter (7) fr............................ M Elkins (J) 8 676x7 Port Delight (21) fr.........................C Crook (J) 9 x7686 Mr Billiards (22) fr......................J Morrison (J) 10 64431 Molly Dooker (23) fr.................... S O’Reilly (J) 7 7.48pm WENHAM GRAIN & SEED MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r56-r78., mobile, 2000m 1 86422 American Me (1) fr........................J Abernethy 2 97726 Shillelagh (2) fr............................ M Hurrell (J) 3 00295 Frankie Jones (3) fr......................... B Butcher 4 6x113 Mister Harris (4) fr.........................P Ferguson 5 78091 Mogul (5) fr.......................................B Orange 8 8.14pm STORAGE NZ MOBILE PACE $9000, 4yo+ r49-r54. inv.d, mobile, 2500m

1 1P856 Payment Plan (1) fr..................... S O’Reilly (J) 2 25x8P Brooke’s Image (2) fr.................J Morrison (J) 3 23965 Ideal Tiger (3) fr.............................C Crook (J) 4 21937 Jessie Kelly (4) fr 5 32219 Tempo Rose (5) fr......................... M Elkins (J) 6 8x762 Sheikh Yabooty (6) fr................C Peterson (J) 7 44244 Matai Minky (7) fr............................. C Hart (J) 8 7x9x1 Marianna Bromac (21) fr................. B Butcher 9 76981 Final Delight (22) fr................. S Tomlinson (J) 10 33474 Milner (23) fr.............................. B Webster (J) 11 6x123 Play Ball (24) fr............................ Z Phillips (J) Emergency: Jessie Kelly 9 8.39pm RACING 31/01/HANLEY FORMULA A.Y.D.C. MOBILE PACE $9000, 4yo+ r54-r59. inv.d, mobile, 2500m 1 96x1 Sonny Reactor (1) fr........................ B Butcher 2 44057 Burst Out Laughing (2) fr................. C Hart (J) 3 47152 Rake (3) fr................................. B Webster (J) 4 L5666 Sweet Maggie Ryan (4) fr.Z Phillips (J) 5 0x155 Scelta Uno (5) fr..................... S Tomlinson (J) 6 70321 Masada (6) fr.................................C Crook (J) 7 2x843 The Bandit Queen (7) fr.............. S O’Reilly (J) 8 5x694 Pats Dragon (21) fr....................... M Elkins (J) 9 32131 Ace Strike (22) fr.......................J Morrison (J) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months

P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS: Race 1: Panda Girl, Downtown Babe, Shan One, Hey Good Lookin, With Revenge Race 2: Sarandon, Emmi Rose, Arya Famous, Razcal Alley, Drum Beat Race 3: Shesheartandsole, Jetson Hunter, Speciale Uno, He’s Gratis, Lady Ameera Race 4: Recycle, Sundons Flyer, Flying Monkey, Battle Commander, Mekong Princess Race 5: Den’s Legacy, Martin McGuinness, Lavazza, Beaudiene Emerald, Our Wicklow Race 6: Ripsnorter, Molly Dooker, Port Delight, Absolut Russian, Amaro Race 7: American Me, Mogul, Mister Harris, Frankie Jones, Shillelagh Race 8: Play Ball, Tempo Rose, Sheikh Yabooty, Matai Minky, Milner Race 9: Ace Strike, Rake, Sonny Reactor, Masada, The Bandit Queen

3 26x83 Apellido 59.5....................................Scratched 4 7x3x0 Iago t (7) 59.5..................................... A Collett 5 1300x Charli Rose m (2) 59............. S Weatherley (a) 6 90933 Holy Loch (13) 58.5............................. J Childs 7 x8595 En Soie d (5) 58..............................D Johnson 8 5x512 Rip Em Up (12) 58..............................S Spratt 9 21x05 Anjameme d (11) 57.5.............T Yanagida (a2) 10 47x79 Socialights (14) 57................................R Elliot 11 16464 Greyvee m (10) 56.5............................ L Innes 12 x0503 Anna Cecelia (6) 55.5...................... L Allpress 13 x7346 Deels Done db (9) 58.5....................... C Grylls 14 06847 Single Moment (4) 56 15 5457x Bitethebullet td (3) 56 Emergencies: Deels Done, Single Moment, Bitethebullet Blinkers on : My World (R1), Charred (R2), Marbuzet (R3), Verbalizer (R5) Blinkers off : Thousandkissesdeep (R1), Firoden (R4), Master Painton (R5) Winkers on : Master Painton (R5) LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information

hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances SELECTIONS: Race 1: Humbucker, Kabu, Vladivostok, Not Usual Litening, My World Race 2: Clever Approach, Piggy Malone, Man Oh Man, Not Usual Dream, Valmur Race 3: Drake Bay, Sardonia, Foodie King, Kiwianna, Darcee Que Race 4: Acutus, Mekelle, Rusavy, Giant Gem, Sweet Nineteen Race 5: Riding The Wave, Verbalizer, Royal Prince, Jip Jip Rock, Master Painton Race 6: Deels Done, Rip Em Up, Hasabro, En Soie, Greyvee

M2 Auckland gallops Today at Ellerslie

Auckland Racing Club Venue: Ellerslie Meeting Date: 12 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6 1 4.35pm (NZT) EVENFLO MAIDEN 1400 $15,000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 222 Humbucker b (8) 57.5........................... L Innes 2 2x26 My World (11) 57.5................ S Weatherley (a) 3 79x3 Not Usual Litening (6) 57.5..................J Winks 4 3 Vladivostok (5) 57.5............................. J Childs 5 Not Ideal (1) 57.5............................D Johnson 6 8 Mersey Beat (3) 57.5...........................S Spratt 7 Monlula (12) 57.5....................T Yanagida (a2) 8 3 Kabu (4) 55.5...................................... C Grylls 9 8484 Azafran (7) 55.5................................. A Collett 10 Agey Babe (2) 55.5.......................... L Allpress 11 Always Sacred (9) 55.5...............K Asano (a2) 12 6x867 Thousandkissesdeep (10) 55.5.............R Elliot 2 5.14pm FIRST GLOBAL LOGISTICS - ASENDIA MAIDEN 2100 $15,000, MDN, 2100m 1 45222 Piggy Malone (3) 58.5......................... J Childs 2 65247 Charred (11) 58.5..................................R Elliot 3 8x632 Man Oh Man b (8) 58.5........................J Winks 4 50062 Not Usual Dream (5) 58.5.................... L Innes 5 074 Ying Resolute (13) 58.5..................... A Collett 6 0x498 Rapidz (12) 58.5.................................. C Grylls 7 886 Viva Volare (7) 58.5.................T Yanagida (a2) 8 5342 Clever Approach b (6) 57...... S Weatherley (a)

9 x5324 Jakama Krystal (14) 56.5....................S Spratt 10 5x073 Valmur (4) 56.5................................. L Allpress 11 67945 Altar Girl (1) 55............................K Asano (a2) 12 8857 Shocking Penny (2) 55....................D Johnson 13 77789 Meant To Be (10) 58.5 14 9x988 Rip ‘n’ Burn (9) 56.5 Emergencies: Meant To Be, Rip ‘n’ Burn 3 5.51pm THE POND PREMIUM RECRUITMENT MAIDEN 1600 $15,000, MDN, 1600m 1 33522 Drake Bay b (12) 58.5...................... L Allpress 2 564x2 Foodie King (3) 58.5............................S Spratt 3 x0240 Bayeux (4) 58.5................................... J Childs 4 0x027 Master Herb (5) 58.5........................... C Grylls 5 607 Fired (6) 58.5........................................J Winks 6 7x688 Marbuzet (11) 58.5................ S Weatherley (a) 7 8 Mersey Beat (9) 57......................K Asano (a2) 8 940x3 Kiwianna b (10) 56.5.......................... A Collett 9 57x57 Sardonia (1) 56.5....................T Yanagida (a2) 10 x0x68 Masarova (2) 56.5................................ L Innes 11 0x Ready To Roar (7) 56.5...................D Johnson 12 55x5 Darcee Que (8) 55................................R Elliot 4 6.26pm DUNSTAN FEEDS 1500 CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER 1400 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 550x0 Giant Gem d (6) 60.5....................... L Allpress 2 x226P Firoden d (1) 60.................................... L Innes 3 57x53 Acutus (5) 59.5....................................S Spratt

4 967x1 Quick Preview (9) 59.5............T Yanagida (a2) 5 28670 Annie Okay tdm (7) 59..........................R Elliot 6 x8230 Rusavy td (12) 59................................ C Grylls 7 68x74 Iffindoubt d (3) 58.5..............................J Winks 8 04216 Boogie Easy d (2) 58.......................D Johnson 9 25x1 Mekelle (8) 58....................... S Weatherley (a) 10 62x00 Sweet Nineteen tdm (11) 57.5........... A Collett 11 9060x Mighty Colombo d (4) 57.............K Asano (a2) 12 60488 Van Diamond (13) 56.5....................... J Childs 13 139x7 In Fashion (10) 56 Emergency: In Fashion 5 7.01pm BARFOOT & THOMPSON TWILIGHT CUP $30,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1500m 1 x0x09 Royal Prince d (7) 61...........................S Spratt 2 6200x August Edition tm (3) 60.......................J Winks 3 12x72 Riding The Wave (1) 59.5.................... J Childs 4 4x037 Master Painton tb (4) 58.5...............D Johnson 5 0x205 Verbalizer t (9) 58.5.....................K Asano (a2) 6 216x7 Incantesimo t (8) 57............................. L Innes 7 x1672 It’s Doable (6) 57.....................T Yanagida (a2) 8 27x98 Jip Jip Rock (10) 56.5............................R Elliot 9 1x095 Prodigal Son m (5) 56......................... C Grylls 10 x0x9x Sacre Coeur m (2) 55......................... A Collett 6 7.36pm CARDINAL LOGISTICS 1600 $27,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 340x5 Hasabro d (8) 60.5...............................J Winks 2 292x8 Civilised (1) 60............................K Asano (a2)

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Ashburton Guardian 19

Maurice still has the Methven magic

By Michael Guerin After 3259 wins, it is still there for Maurice McKendry.

Not just the talent. That was never in doubt. Never has been since the little fella left Methven nearly 40 years ago to try his luck in the big smoke.

What is still there is the rush, that thrill a good horse can still give even a legend even in “the twilight of my career”.

That twilight has shone a little brighter during this Inter Dominion after McKendry got the call-up to partner A G’s White Socks.

Just three weeks ago A G’s White Socks wasn’t coming to the series and McKendry was resigned to watching it from the drivers’ room after his sole Interdom steer, trotter Lemond, was withdrawn.

Now McKendry goes into Saturday’s final with two heat wins under his belt and may be the best chance to upset hot favourite Ultimate Sniper.

A G’s White Socks reminded us how good he is with his two heat wins and peeled off a sizzling last 800m in defeat last Friday.

McKendry has also had an Interdom to remember, perfectly patient winning his opening night heat, aggressive enough to attack an All Stars runner and wrest control of his second round heat.

So how does it feel to be one of the stories

M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 12 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 4.04pm (NZT) TAB BONUS BACK PROMO ON RACES 1 & 2 DASH C3, 295m 1 85817 Princely Gold 17.15....................J McInerney 2 17587 Homebush Aimee 17.34............J McInerney 3 78143 Mega Dream nwtd..........................R Adcock 4 14374 Broken Penniless 17.40..................G Cleeve 5 55574 Famous Lee nwtd S &......................B Evans 6 52736 King Kali 17.19................................. M Grant 7 63263 Enchantee 17.51........................R Blackburn 8 41186 Ineffable 17.34.................................. B Dann 9 88378 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 10 85785 Amuri George 17.33...................J McInerney 2 4.22pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C3, 295m 1 47525 Reign Of Fire 17.36....................J McInerney 2 54756 Homebush Sayer 17.54.............J McInerney 3 22177 Eternal Debt 17.29..........................G Cleeve 4 62112 Amuri Magic 17.28.....................J McInerney 5 67338 Cawbourne Britty 17.22................C Roberts 6 58523 Smash Damage 17.17..................... M Grant 7 13121 Prince Zulu 17.31.......................... L Waretini 8 25883 Goldstar Avalon 17.31 S &...............B Evans 9 88378 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 10 85785 Amuri George 17.33...................J McInerney 3 4.44pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL SCOTT DASH C3, 295m 1 21725 Just Izzy 17.35.................................. B Dann 2 21315 Goldstar Willa 17.39 S &..................B Evans 3 15x74 Jaded Affair 17.33......................... L Waretini

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 12 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.01pm (NZT) COOKIES KITCHEN SPRINT C1, 375m 1 45356 Stay Rich 21.46 M &......................... J Smith 2 16574 Just Maddie 21.72.............................M Black 3 72585 Dignity Dented 21.68....................... T Green 4 64552 Ahuroa Prince nwtd.........................R Murray 5 3535F Jinja Lad 21.72..............................R McPhee 6 21678 Fancy 21.71.................................. H Mullane 7 22674 Thrilling Arnold 21.48.......................S Codlin 8 28263 Shrewdy nwtd........................ L E Dunkerton 9 73685 Shambi’s Girl nwtd......................K T Herbert 10 67867 Bigtime Wayno nwtd A &..................Williams 2 12.18pm YVETTE BODIAM PHOTOGRAPHY SPRINT C0, 375m 1 66322 Bailey And Cream nwtd R &................L Udy 2 Dobby Who nwtd......................... M Prangley 3 25 Amaro nwtd................................ A Lawrence 4 4 My Bro Bobby nwtd....................... H Mullane 5 4 Cointreau Time nwtd.................. A Lawrence 6 65844 Xena Poppy nwtd R &..........................L Udy 7 2 Kapai Chris nwtd W &......................T Steele 8 643 Thrilling Hudson nwtd...................... K Walsh 9 86665 Riccitelli nwtd....................................M Black

Maurice McKendry of an Inter Dominion which must have felt like it had passed McKendry by?

“It has been fun,” he says with his trademark half giggle.

“After Lemond got pulled out I thought I wouldn’t be part of it all and then I got the call-up for this horse, which I really didn’t see coming.

“I didn’t know what to expect from him but I have really enjoyed it.

“Even at this stage of my career, when maybe I am getting close to winding down a bit, that feeling is still the same when you drive a good horse.

“When they let down and sprint is a great feeling. It is fun, a rush, even now.”

That is one reason McKendry still loves going to work at 64 years old, because the sensation is the same as four decades ago on the training tracks of Mid Canterbury.

“I love the speed. I always have. And when you sit behind the good horses and they let down, it feels special.

“So to be here, driving a horse trained by Barry in the final, it is a real bonus.”

It is odd to think that McKendry needs to remind us of his talents.

He is, after all, one of only two New Zealanders with over 3000 domestic wins. The other is his good mate Tony Herlihy, who McKendry has sat next to in the Alexandra Park drivers’ room for as long as anybody remembers.

Like famous Brazilian soccer players, they require only one name inside the industry. Say Tony or Maurice and everybody knows who you are talking about.

But their Inter Dominion records are vastly different, Herlihy with 37 total career victories at the Interdoms including four trotting finals, McKendry has nine heat wins.

That is not about ability, but opportunity. And those opportunities are becoming rarer.

“It has always been hard to get on good

horses, it is a hard game,” says McKendry.

“And it is harder now because there are less horses and less trainers, and many of the bigger stables already have their drivers.

“But I am still getting a few drives so I am in no hurry to retire. I think I’ll know when I have had enough or I am starting to lose it.” The last fortnight tells us that won’t be any time soon.

So what does Saturday hold for McKendry and his rejuvenated grand final hope?

From barrier seven A G’s White Socks looks best placed of the favourites to try and bustle to the lead and maybe take a sit on hot favourite Ultimate Sniper? “Hard to tell,” says the understated one.

“It doesn’t look the strongest front line so he might be able to work around them and get in front of Natalie’s horse.

“But if I try and it doesn’t work out that can go bad. I’ll ask Barry (Purdon) what he thinks but he will probably tell me he is fine with whatever I think,” comes the laugh again.

“So you can’t have too much of a plan.

Sometimes you go on your gut instinct as the gate pulls away.

“And to be honest, sometimes that is completely wrong.” The good news for A G’s White Socks punters is, 3259 times the gut instinct has been right.

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 4 46734 Smash Over 17.32........................... M Grant 5 65137 Know Logic 17.21...........................G Cleeve 6 11648 Punch On Buzz 17.28................J McInerney 7 54141 Double Scoop 17.28........................C Steele 8 82541 Homebush Finn 17.21................J McInerney 9 88378 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 10 85785 Amuri George 17.33...................J McInerney 4 5.01pm AVONHEAD TAVERN SPRINT FINAL C3f, 295m 1 51351 Nikko Baxter 17.32.....................J McInerney 2 82482 Opawa Oscar 17.24.........................R Wales 3 37212 Citizen Aguero 17.30.................J McInerney 4 71762 Justin Ryan 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 5 88681 Dyna Elliot 17.31...........................C Roberts 6 62481 Jax Jewel 17.37............................D Roberts 7 64511 Golden Bay 17.13 J M..................... McCook 8 85552 Feral Kaiaka 17.45...........................M Butler 9 25883 Goldstar Avalon 17.31 S &...............B Evans 10 63263 Enchantee 17.51........................R Blackburn 5 5.25pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK STAKES C3, 520m 1 41234 Orina Allen 30.44..........................C Roberts 2 21248 Bashful Buffy 30.55....................J McInerney 3 16728 Goldstar Alaska 31.07 S &...............B Evans 4 73653 Joe Bonanza 30.39....................J McInerney 5 87432 Opawa Sweet 30.23.........................R Wales 6 41271 Nippa Enough 30.57..................J McInerney 7 46246 Know Threat 30.21..........................G Cleeve 8 75351 Classy Witch 30.29.........................G Cleeve 9 14546 Goldstar Yankee 30.54 S &..............B Evans 10 x87F7 Ophelia Allen 30.09.......................D Roberts 6 5.43pm KOLORFUL KANVAS SPRINT C3/4, 295m 1 66342 Goldstar Major 17.24 S &.................B Evans

2 84112 Goldstar Spotty 17.25 S &...............B Evans 3 1F628 Special As 17.30 J M....................... McCook 4 45743 Fickle Mistress 17.36 H &....................Taylor 5 32127 Starr Blueblood 17.34................J McInerney 6 46144 Ohana Lad 17.48................................C Weir 7 65225 Fidgety Feet 17.21...............................A Lee 8 51125 King Toliman 17.32........................C Roberts 9 88378 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 10 85785 Amuri George 17.33...................J McInerney 7 6.14pm FLAIR FEATURE R/A, 520m 1 2411 Pretty Busy 30.17 J &......................D Fahey 2 27724 Miss Honey 30.61 J &......................D Fahey 3 1725x Born Tasha 30.65 J &.......................D Fahey 4 42152 Opawa Nat 30.01 J &.......................D Fahey 5 Vacant Box Five n & a 6 13514 Creme Brulee 30.26...................... L Waretini 7 16127 My Rosie 30.51............................. L Waretini 8 28878 Our Anna 30.38................................R Wales 8 6.40pm I PAVE CONCRETE SPRINT C5, 295m 1 61512 Little Krakatoa 17.24..................A Bradshaw 2 42835 Smash Wild 17.07............................ M Grant 3 62247 Hear This 17.30................................ M Grant 4 78286 Hilton Forabet 17.16......................... B Dann 5 33523 Treville 17.27......................................J Dunn 6 74388 Memoir 17.39 H &................................Taylor 7 53741 Taieri Terra 17.31.............................R Casey 8 17358 Super Over Drama 17.12 S &..........B Evans 9 77378 Nelso Allen 16.89..........................C Roberts 9 7.06pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO DASH C5, 295m 1 55111 Beck Eleven 17.04........................ L Waretini 2 57177 Billy Frost 17.37............................... M Grant 3 51561 Elodea 17.37..............................R Blackburn 4 64145 Goldstar Trooper 17.01 S &..............B Evans

5 18386 Fired Up Jed 17.21........................... B Dann 6 64132 Homebush Boots 17.24.............J McInerney 7 36418 Jinja Ellie 17.24.................................A Joyce 8 51543 Wildebeest 17.20.......................A Bradshaw 9 77378 Nelso Allen 16.89..........................C Roberts 10 7.31pm KAISA EARTHWORKS PH 0272073323 STAKES C4/5, 520m 1 47233 Goldstar Sydney 30.14 S &..............B Evans 2 521F7 Our Jolene 30.14.............................R Wales 3 42x87 Bertie Allen 30.01.........................C Roberts 4 51211 Oster Bale nwtd............................C Roberts 5 18536 Thrilling Watch 30.60....................D Roberts 6 21362 Start The Show 30.02....................R Adcock 7 15471 Dyna Xarvel 30.35........................C Roberts 8 45617 Opawa May 30.21............................R Wales 9 7x878 Viktoria Vikkers 30.19...................C Roberts 11 7.58pm SPECTATOR’S BAR & BISTRO DASH C5, 295m 1 87383 Nippa Martino 17.22..................J McInerney 2 52131 Lisa’s Boy 17.24...............................R Casey 3 7175x Martha Magic 17.33...................... L Waretini 4 28247 Chanyaka 17.23................................ B Dann 5 56321 Man Of Letters 17.19...........................A Lee 6 61882 Disobedience 17.19 S &..................B Evans 7 21186 Smash Attack 17.22......................... M Grant 8 42314 Hankenstein 17.19.....................A Bradshaw 9 77378 Nelso Allen 16.89..........................C Roberts 12 8.23pm PROTEXIN DASH C3/4, 295m 1 42344 Platinum Marshal 17.00................C Roberts 2 26136 Dizzy Banjo 17.12 S &.....................B Evans 3 44616 Chitina Tin 17.15..................................A Lee 4 86276 Goldstar Dodge 17.26 S &...............B Evans 5 24416 Sozin’s Empire 17.26.................J McInerney 6 34688 High Dreamer 17.11......................... M Grant

7 55615 Dyna Quark 17.52.........................C Roberts 8 26573 Culvie Ness 17.28 H &.........................Taylor 9 88378 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 10 85785 Amuri George 17.33...................J 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: Homebush Aimee, Princely Gold, Mega Dream, Enchantee, King Kali Race 2: Amuri Magic, Homebush Sayer, Prince Zulu, Eternal Debt, Smash Damage Race 3: Double Scoop, Just Izzy, Goldstar Willa, Jaded Affair, Smash Over Race 4: Golden Bay, Opawa Oscar, Nikko Baxter, Citizen Aguero, Feral Kaiaka Race 5: Opawa Sweet, Orina Allen, Classy Witch, Know Threat, Nippa Enough Race 6: Fidgety Feet, Goldstar Major, Goldstar Spotty, King Toliman, Fickle Mistress Race 7: Opawa Nat, Pretty Busy, Creme Brulee, Miss Honey, Born Tasha Race 8: Super Over Drama, Little Krakatoa, Smash Wild, Treville, Nelso Allen Race 9: Beck Eleven, Goldstar Trooper, Homebush Boots, Wildebeest, Nelso Allen Race 10: Start The Show, Our Jolene, Dyna Xarvel, Oster Bale, Goldstar Sydney Race 11: Lisa’s Boy, Hankenstein, Man Of Letters, Martha Magic, Nelso Allen Race 12: Platinum Marshal, Dizzy Banjo, Culvie Ness, Chitina Tin, Sozin’s Empire

8 2.02pm VETORA CAMBRIDGE SPRINT C3, 375m 1 41715 Big Time Rusty nwtd A &.................Williams 2 46633 Idol Ajay 21.44 W &..........................T Steele 3 65618 Luke Skywalker nwtd...................... L A Hunt 4 24375 Over Indulgence 21.66....................P Henley 5 66341 Gain Capital 21.22.............................B Craik 6 26114 Bigtime Jacob 21.24..........................B Craik 7 83282 Charlow nwtd R &........................N O’Regan 8 218T1 Sovereign Pride 21.37.......................S Ross 9 8168x Lennox Heads 21.46 W &................T Steele 10 42454 Pat Tama 21.35................................. S Clark 9 2.20pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C4, 375m 1 11241 Thrilling Peta 20.93.......................... K Walsh 2 62437 Platinum Earner 21.55...................... S Clark 3 34654 Busy Flash nwtd W &.......................T Steele 4 51245 Native Scout 21.34...........................P Green 5 58633 Relevance nwtd R &.............................L Udy 6 81748 Raging Demon 20.99 R &....................L Udy 7 774x2 Jinja Murphy nwtd W &....................T Steele 8 15527 Go All Lin 21.54.............................. S O’Neill 10 2.35pm FARMLANDS VIRKON GREYHOUNDS NORTH DISTANCE C2d, 650m 1 35325 Amy Amy 38.12............................... G Farrell 2 42333 Shaynee nwtd...................................S Lozell 3 12171 Sefton Stan nwtd...............................S Lozell 4 36554 Aleng nwtd......................................S E Hunt 5 41344 Thrilling Amigo 38.45....................... K Walsh

6 22254 Smoochie 38.24......................... A Lawrence 7 62235 Billy’s Bake 37.95.............................P Green 8 14116 Gao Gao 37.81............................... G Farrell 11 2.56pm CONGRATULATIONS SAM LOZELL 1ST GROUP 1 WINNER C1, 457m 1 73435 Little Teegs 25.83....................... A Lawrence 2 6231 Thrilling Murphy nwtd....................... K Walsh 3 767FF Happy Days nwtd.............................P Green 4 87745 Hua Hua nwtd...............................R McPhee 5 5514 Baileys Nice 25.94..................... A Lawrence 6 46674 Jinja Babe nwtd..................................E Potts 7 42134 Opawa Delight 25.97.........................B Craik 8 86463 Canya Sniper nwtd.............................E Potts 9 82777 Jinja Jake nwtd W &.........................T Steele 12 3.16pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 33561 Odnoc Ankie 25.69.....................P Ferguson 2 63533 Typical nwtd.......................................S Ross 3 71665 Robson 25.51..............................P Ferguson 4 32218 Thrilling Vice 25.48.......................... K Walsh 5 31132 Tuff’s My Mum 25.93..........................S Ross 6 44232 Stefano 25.57............................. A Lawrence 7 41233 Opawa Viking nwtd..........................S Codlin 8 66173 Our Rick 25.62...................................E Potts LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway

756 Fear The Fur nwtd........................... S O’Neill 4 41656 Smash Burton nwtd R &......................L Udy 5 8x344 Platinum Spirit nwtd.......................... S Clark WAY SPRINT C1, 375m 6 25111 Zipping Luther 21.30 J &......................D Bell 1 58F22 Botany Esmay 21.27........................P Green 7 25227 Ford Man nwtd R &..............................L Udy 2 2415 Thrilling Dora 21.52.......................... K Walsh 8 11546 Black Bridge 21.72...........................R Roper 3 56455 Ginny Weasley nwtd...........................E Potts 9 44747 Agbeze nwtd.....................................M Black 4 548x8 Thrilling Dexter 21.39........................S Lozell 6 1.27pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SPRINT 5 54727 Mad Jack nwtd................................. T Green C2, 375m 6 55263 Talkabout Sophie 21.54....................M Black 1 64757 Kai Nan 21.63................................. G Farrell 7 54358 Smash Charger nwtd...................... L A Hunt 2 78681 Bigtime Dean nwtd A &....................Williams 8 67744 Winbourn Freddy nwtd.....................S Codlin 3 42426 Barbarossa Boy nwtd..................B Goldsack 9 73786 Wairoa Angel 21.41..................... M Prangley 4 55713 Seven Sharp 21.56..................... W Toomath 10 44747 Agbeze nwtd.....................................M Black 5 23474 Botany Wayne 21.24........................P Green 4 12.52pm FARMLANDS COPRICE STAKES C2/3, 6 42138 Mother’s Touch nwtd J &......................D Bell 457m 7 21367 El Narco 21.57.................................P Green 1 13331 Waiterimu Ripper 25.94 R &................L Udy 8 82322 Don Morocco 21.33........................P Cleaver 2 68x53 Opawa Light nwtd..............................E Potts 9 64464 Oskitz 21.47.....................................S Codlin 3 32324 Zoro 25.85.................................. A Lawrence 10 58586 Bigtime Minnie nwtd A &..................Williams 4 31162 Thrilling Stomp 26.05....................... K Walsh 7 1.45pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C4/5, 375m 5 Vacant Box Five n & a 6 42142 Enjoy The Perks 26.13....................P Henley 1 31477 See Eye Be 21.04......................... H Mullane 7 1412x Thrilling Winter 25.61....................... K Walsh 2 62366 Ti Amo 21.38......................................B Craik 8 84256 Jinja Nice nwtd...................................E Potts 3 788x8 How Goodesy nwtd........................... S Clark 5 1.10pm MAYHOUNDS RACING RETIREMENT 4 53663 Suspicious Minds 20.89.....................B Craik PROJECT SERIES FINAL C1f, 375m 5 8x765 Puzzle Tin nwtd W &........................T Steele 1 51261 Go Falcon 21.41 W &.......................T Steele 6 42857 Sophia Noir 21.18...................... A Lawrence 2 648x6 Miss Sweet Pea nwtd........................ S Clark 7 22126 Athenais 21.19...................................S Ross 3 31871 Pliskova nwtd.................................... S Clark 8 13151 Captain Kev 21.09 W &....................T Steele 10

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BOXING DAY RACES “It’s an institution”

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9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB DAY TIME SECTION. New members very welcome, rackets available.

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The lunch is being held at the Tinwald Hall, cnr Graham and McMurdo BOOK NOW Streets, Tinwald at 12.30pm on Christmas Day and there is no charge.

This lunch is for anyone who would like to share Christmas Day with others.

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Celebrating 20 years of musical theatre camps this show has it all.

With students from the past and present there will be 110 students who will showcase their talents.

The gala evening on Saturday night will include an alumni choir.

Dec 12 & 13, 2019 hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

8.30am - 1pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

9.30am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

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

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH.

Fit Kidz for preschoolers and caregivers. 48 Allens Road.

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

10am - 4pm ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL ASHBURTON INC. Write a message for a loved one and place on our Tree of Remembrance, cost $2. Ashburton Arcade, Burnett Street end. Last messages Friday, December 20.

10.15am MSA TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for arthritis. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

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

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

Peters Church, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

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

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

10am - 4pm

ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL ASHBURTON INC. Write a message for a loved one and place on our Tree of Remembrance, cost $2.

Ashburton Arcade, Burnett Street end. Last messages Friday, December 20.

10.30am - 11.30am WALKING NETBALL. $2. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace.

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ST STEPHEN’S PARISH CENTRE. Seniors’ Coffee Club, all welcome. Park St. 12pm - 2pm ASHBURTON JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ASSOCIATION. Signing any document a JP can witness, open Tuesdays and Fridays. Ashburton Community House, 44 Cass Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Rd. 1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street.

Closed most public holidays.

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Cryptic crossword

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

ACROSS 1. Clerks he disturbs while they interrupt speaker (8) 4. Canterbury Elia (4) 8. Talk rubbish about decay (3) 9. Woodland god held silver to be heathen (5) 10. Get the stones out of mine (3) 11. A TV wavelength the French call la Manche (7) 12. Some hero decided to wear it away (5) 13. Fleeing the middle fruit maybe in a sort of glance (11) 17. Mad Academician gets involved in play (5) 18. Proposition empire’s reassembly (7) 20. It could add up to a drink of rum (3) 21. Six, etc, work out how to drive one out of home (5) 22. To pose for portrait is not to be upstanding (3) 23. It could be as hard as seaside sweetmeat (4) 24. It is intended to put one’s name to it, indeed (8) DOWN 1. Rumpole, for one, was a classic poet (6) 2. Has a bed, thanks to the surplice (5) 3. It is just like George V in a genuine setting (5) 5. Jug with two handles in lamp 1 Down held (7) 6. Give a beating to the coating cook uses (6) 7. Meeting nut in such a way, the outer covering is found (10) 9. Got through and had writer mistreated (10) 14. Lets CIA set out how it may do a stretch (7) 15. Tried perhaps to hide nothing from newspaper boss (6) 16. Drove very fast, though wearing a restraint (6) 18. Public relations is what’s frozen cost-wise (5) 19. A playwright who produced some glib sentences (5)

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Some part of you thinks it’s OK for you not to do the things you tell yourself to do. Why? Root out the rebel and ask. Perhaps it’s because your demands are unrealistic or misaligned with your routine. Investigate.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Tasks done by rote are easy this way. But once you start thinking about them or trying to explain them to someone, they become difficult. Motion will go beyond reason. Get your head out of the deal.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): What if the void you are trying to fill is actually not a void at all? It would explain a lot about why nothing seems to fit or stick to the area. Maybe you need to subtract before you can add.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): When you have to fight for a thing, you appreciate it better and are stronger.

When a thing comes easily, it’s a nonissue, and it allows you to focus elsewhere. Both have merit. Love where you’re at.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You want normalcy around things that really seem they should be a natural part of life as a human. Food and relationships fit the category. You’re not the only one struggling. Learn more about these topics.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): The thoughts that drive you to a behaviour are more important than the behaviour itself. Unravelling those moments in your mind that precipitate events will give you the keys to the kingdom.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Your relationship with yourself is the throughline of your life and, ultimately, so much more important than any shortterm goal you are or are not able to achieve.

Be kind to yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Anytime you catch yourself making all-or-nothing statements, you are witnessing a lie in progress. Hyperbole is a lie’s favourite outfit! Pause; get calm; and recalibrate for a more honest assessment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): The good that comes out of a collective can be more than the sum of the goodness of individuals in the group.

Some people add an exponential X-factor that multiplies good in mysterious ways.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Some things are more useful to think about than others, and you’re willing to go there. It will mean resisting the distractions that keep you from the heart of the matter affecting your current life.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Try this method of assessment on today: The good feelings will come from doing something worthwhile. If it’s not producing the good feelings, it isn’t worthwhile.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): People would rather pay for something than get it for free. This applies to situations today, though the currency exchanged is more likely to be trustworthy behaviours instead of money.

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KINGSBURY, Gillian Lorraine (Gill) – On December 10, 2019.

Passed away peacefully at Ashburton Hospital, aged 83 years. Very much loved and special wife of Lynn. Dearly loved mother and mother-inlaw of Celia and David, Vanessa and Scott, Robin and Lisa and treasured Grandma of Jack, and Kate; Jessica, Emily, and Olivia; Callum, Juliet, and Fleur. A special thank you to St John and the nursing staff at Ashburton Hospital for the compassion and support shown to Gill and family.

Donations to Ashburton St John would be appreciated and may be left at the service. Messages to the Kingsbury family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to remember Gill will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton on SATURDAY, December 14, commencing at 11.00am. Followed by private interment.

SMITH, Valda Jessie – Peacefully at The Oaks Rest Home, Christchurch on December 9, 2019. Aged 87 years. Beloved wife of the late Bevan, cherished and loved Mum, Mum-in-law and Nana of Brenda, Mark, and Madison. Messages to: the Smith family, c/- PO Box 6035, Ashburton 7742.

Always so loving, thoughtful and kind, what beautiful memories you leave behind.

You may have left this world behind, but you will never leave our hearts and mind.

A service to celebrate Val’s life will be held at the Brantwood Chapel, Trott’s Garden, 371 Racecourse Road, Ashburton on MONDAY, December 16, at 1.30pm. Followed by private Interment.

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:03 pm, yesterday

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Wind at 2000m: NW 40 km/h developing in the afternoon.

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Northeasterlies changing southerly in the south during the evening.

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GILBERT, Nancy (Nan) – Peacefully on December 10, 2019 at Summerset in the Bay, Napier. Aged 93 years.

Nan was the loving wife of the late Max, dearly loved and treasured mother and motherin-law of Grant and Colleen, Jeromy and Lena, much loved ‘Nan’ of Renee, Francesco (Brisbane), Michael (Melbourne), and Gavin (Christchurch) and grand granddaughters Jennifer, Sophia and Amelia (Brisbane). In accordance with Nan’s long held and often expressed views, a private cremation has been held and she will be interred beside her beloved husband Max at a later date in Ashburton. Special thanks to the wonderful nursing staff at Summerset in the Bay, Napier for the superb care they have taken of Nancy in her last years. Online tributes can be made at www.tnphb.co.nz or messages to the Gilbert family, c/- PO Box 967 Hastings 4156.

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Victoria Talbot is at full stretch during the Age Group Tennis Championships last weekend.

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The future is in good hands

By Matt Markham

matt.m@theguardian.co.nz

The rising stars of Mid Canterbury tennis came out to play last weekend at the Junior Age Group Championships which were held at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre.

Playing across a number of age groups, starting at under 8 and under 9 and right through to under 16 and under 18, in both singles and doubles, the two-day tournament saw the cream rise

to the top with a number of top seeds taking away their age group titles.

In the under 8 and 9 boys’ singles, Arlo Parsons was declared the winner after he went through the competition unbeaten.

Josh Gilbert had a good weekend on the courts.

He took out the boys’ under 10 singles, winning his two matches comfortably and then combined with Ollie Jackways to take on some older players in the 12 and

under doubles to win that title as well.

Riley Breen claimed success in the under 12 singles heading off Ashton Cromie who finish second while Sam Kingsbury was the winner of the 14 and under title.

In the girls’ action, Annalise King emerged victorious in the 10 and under singles and then it was double success for both Isobel Brook and Holly-Jayne Feutz who won their respective singles categories and then also went on

to win the doubles tennis titles as well.

Brook, playing with Libby Feutz, won the 12 and under doubles while Feutz teamed up with Angel Spooner to win a very competitive 14 and under girls’ double.

The other event for the tournament was the under 18-18 boys’ singles and Tyler Leonard was in devastating form.

With only three entries, the section was held as a round-robin

Ian Foster appointed new All Blacks coach

and Leonard was dominant.

He didn’t drop a single game across his two matches, winning 6-0, 6-0 and then recording the same score in his second match to win untouched.

Interclub tennis returns to the courts this weekend in both the junior and open grades for the final time for 2019 before a Christmas break while a lot of eyes will be on the secondary schools’ singles tournament which begins next Tuesday.

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