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Elderly housing ‘hidden problem’

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Elderly people are in danger of falling through the cracks in the housing sector, new Ashburton Salvation Army pastor Mike Allwright says.

Allwright has welcomed a government report, released yesterday, on what the government has described as a housing crisis, in particular its recognition of hidden problems being faced by the elderly,

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many of whom cannot afford mortgages and may never have been to Work and Income in their lives, except to claim their pension.

“There will be a lot of elderly who don’t know the help they can get, therefore they are struggling, it’s this hidden effect,” he said.

Allwright, who is new to the Ashburton role, has worked with the Salvation Army across the country for 13 years, and un-

derstood the problem was nationwide.

He not only welcomed the report, but also the government’s description of the situation as a crisis, and not just as a shortage or an issue, as the previous government had referred to it as.

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Methven A&P facilities receive upgrade

By Colin WillisCroft

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Volunteers were hard at work yesterday at the Methven A&P Showgrounds carrying out an upgrade of the site’s facilities.

Methven A&P president Andrew Griffiths said the association with help from the Methven Vintage Club, Methven Rodeo and the Methven Pony Club, was installing underground power cables at the showgrounds, while also upgrading the trade area by installing new power boxes.

To help pay for the project the society had milled a number of 50 to 60-year-old Oregon trees from the showgrounds that had been hampering the growth of younger trees by keeping them in the shade. The three clubs were also chipping in.

Griffiths said as well as the cabling, a new irrigation system was being installed that would water the main and northern show rings.

He said the society was grateful for the support of Mark Davies of Welshy Contracting, who is a member of the Vintage Club, for donating his time and equipment, including the use of a brand new bulldozer worth around $500,000.

He said the society would also like to thank Rainer Irrigation

Electrician Greg Anderson (left), and contractor Mark Davies help to put power cable at the Methven A&P Showgrounds underground on Monday.

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and installation of the power boxes.

Work is due to be completed later this week, in plenty of time

for this year’s Methven A&P Show, which is scheduled for March 17.

Entries for this year’s event close this Friday, February 16.

■ THOMPSONS TRACK

Annual rehab work under way Motorists are being advised to take extra care and to follow detours in place, with annual rehabilitation work under way on Thompsons Track.

Three kilometres of the rural road will be strengthened and widened during the next eight weeks, bringing the total distance of road renewals completed on Thompsons Track since 2013 to 14.6km.

The work will be carried out between the Mitcham Road and Lethams Road intersections, and drivers will be directed onto

Winchmore Lauriston Road and Pannetts Road to avoid the road works during daylight hours through the week. The road will open again each evening from 6pm until 6am.

“Thompsons Track has experienced a 150 per cent increase in heavy vehicle use during the past 10 years, and 30 per cent growth in regular traffic. That use puts more demand on the road and obviously wears it out faster,” Ashburton District Council roading manager Brian Fauth said.

“Considering the road was

initially never designed for such heavy use, we are now doing our best to strengthen it to meet those continually growing demands.”

During the next eight weeks, motorists are asked to slow down through the works when the road is open.

Travelling too fast can compromise the work and can be dangerous for all road users.

Although traffic volumes have increased, Thompsons Track does not meet state highway criteria.

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Rehabilitation work is also currently under way on Maronan Road to strengthen a section south west of the Hinds River.

KiwiRail was also replacing sleepers at the North Park Road level crossing at the weekend and has work planned for the Maronan Road crossing in a fortnight’s time.

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Elderly housing ‘hidden problem’ From P1 “Calling it a crisis will bring a focus to looking for remedies for it,” Allwright said.

In releasing the report, A Stocktake of New Zealand’s Housing, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford said it painted a “sobering picture of the devastating impacts of the housing crisis”.

The stocktake highlighted effects of homelessness, transience and substandard housing on children, as well as the increasing number of elderly facing housing-related poverty, with fewer and fewer being mortgage free.

Numbers receiving both New Zealand Superannuation and an Accommodation Supplement was growing by 2000 per year.

“Most concerning is the hidden homeless – those who feel they can’t seek government housing support for their families – for which there are no official estimates. The stocktake suggests there could be significant numbers of ‘floating homeless’ which will lead to a growing homeless rate as more people seek help,” Twyford said.

The government had “bold action” planned, he said.

The report found home ownership had fallen to its lowest level in 60 years, and house price inflation over the past five years was about 30 per cent compared to half this rate for wage increases. High house prices had also subdued yields on rental property investment.

In Ashburton District, the yield on rental property investment was 4.9 per cent in 2017, similar to the national average of 4.6 per cent, and down from 7.4 per cent and 6.6 per cent nationally 20 years ago.

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■ MOUNT HUTT COLLEGE

Records fall at annual swimming sports Mount Hutt College students enjoyed sunshine and warm temperatures for their annual swimming sports yesterday.

Records tumbled in a few events, and Bree Middleton (right) was the star of the day.

Middleton won the coveted Lachlan Cup, and sliced a few tenths of a second off three records, including two which had been held for as long as 12 years.

She recorded a time of 37 seconds in the 60 metre Year 10 and 11 girls’ freestyle.

The previous top time was 37.38, recorded by Alice Sommerville in 2006.

Middleton recorded a time of 1.10.18 in

the 90 metre Year 10 and 11 girls’ tredley, also beating Somerville’s previous record of 1.10.33.

In the 180 metre Year 10 and 11 girls’ freestyle, she recorded a time of 2.06.57, beating the previous record of 2.06.66, achieved by Aimee Elliott in 2015.

In the junior section, William Lemon was fastest in the 30 metre breaststroke for Year 7 boys, claiming a new record of 26.05 seconds, beating the former record held by Joshua Harkness for 26.39 in 2013.

Interhouse competition was tough, and blue house emerged as the victors.

RESULTS Other results, in order from first to third: Junior: Year 7 male - William Lemon, Henry King, George Fulton Year 7 female – Lucy Reeve, Jessie Lill, Genna Oates Year 8/9 male - Oliver Maw, Hunter Lill, Patrick Currie Year 8/9 female - Piper Hood, Zanthe-Lee Butterick, Maggie Hood

Senior: Year 10/11 male - Alexander Roderick, Charlie Brown, Thomas Luff Year 10/11 female - Bree Middleton, Brea Roderick, Courtney Elliott Year 12/13 male - Jackson Allred, Alex Blake Year 12/13 female - Ellie Boekholt, Victoria Pluck, Clancy Brown PHOTO ROBYN HOOD

■ ASHBURTON CRIME WAVE

‘It’s not just police under resourced’

By Katie todd

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The spike in crime around the district has seen calls to boost local police numbers, but residents say it isn’t just local police who are under resourced.

After founding a Facebook neighbourhood watch group, Methven resident Kylee Sissons has seen more than 1000 concerned Ashburtonians joining in the space of two weeks.

While better, more 24/7 police resourcing was a key concern often raised among members, she said it’s clear to see there’s a bigger problem at hand and a lot more work to be done.

“Everyone’s really concerned and really stressed … and they’re saying the exact same things,” said Sissons.

“They’re saying it’s not just police that we don’t have enough of, but also the support systems, you

know, the ability to get help when something happens.”

While she said groups like her page Ashburton and Methven Beware were a small step in the right direction of people being aware, members were all keen to see more action taken on a number of fronts.

Among those posting on her page are several hoping to start self-defence classes and a number offering to partake in neigh-

bourhood patrols. “Everyone deserves the right to help, and there’s been heaps of ideas,” she said.

“Police are doing what they can with the limited resources they have at the moment and I have nothing bad to say about them – but I guess people just want all the help they can get.”

Items reported stolen since Friday alone include a car, a bike, a handbag, a car battery and oth-

er car parts, while a number of other individuals have reported concerns around alleged animal abuse.

Ashburton Police said they had identified a number of suspects in relation to recent robberies, and were now in the process of gathering evidence to further the enquiry.

Sissons said she encouraged people to continue reporting any activity to police.

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■ DUCKMANTON MURDER TRIAL

Google ‘implicates’ accused The Google history of a butcher accused of murdering Christchurch sex worker Renee Duckmanton “deeply implicates” him, the Crown says; it includes alleged searches for kidnapping and necrophilia, and an article entitled, How to kidnap a girl: an informative guide.

Sainey Marong, a 33-year-old originally from Gambia, picked up Duckmanton from Christchurch red light district, before strangling her to death, dumping her body on the side of a country road, and setting her on fire, the High Court in Christchurch heard yesterday.

Marong denies murdering Duckmanton on or about May 14, 2016.

The Crown outlined its “overwhelming” evidence in an opening address to a jury of nine women and three men yesterday.

Crown prosecutor Sean Mallett says Duckmanton left her Cashmere home for work at 8.09pm on May 14, 2016.

She was picked up by her minder and went to her usual corner at the intersection of Manchester and Peterborough streets.

Duckmanton, the court heard, texted her boyfriend at 9.05pm to say she had a job paying $100.

The Crown alleges the client was Marong.

CCTV will show, Mallett said, a silver Audi belonging to Marong driving past her corner several times before eventually picking her up.

Eight minutes later, Duckmanton phoned her boyfriend again to say the client wanted to go back to his house, and that job was now worth $300. She also texted her minder.

The Crown alleges it has CCTV footage and evidence of Marong getting $300 out of a cash machine.

A final text to her boyfriend was sent at 10.23pm. It then went to voicemail after that and her phone has never been recovered.

The following day, at around 7.30pm, members of the public noticed a fire on the grass verge at Main Rakaia Road, near State

Sainey Marong stands in the dock of the High Court in Christchurch for the murder of Christchurch sex worker Renee Larissa Duckmanton.

Highway 1. They stopped and made the grisly discovery of Duckmanton’s half-naked and burning body.

During the police scene examination of Operation Lightning, they found a lighter, beanie, and “bizarrely”, Mallett said, a sheep’s tongue. They are all allegedly linked to Marong.

A halal butcher will give evidence that on the day of the murder, Marong had a sheep slaughtered, and will allege that he removed the animal’s tongue with knives he had bought with him.

Testing shows the tongue found where Duckmanton’s body was found is from the same sheep slaughtered that day.

DNA samples taken from Duckmanton belong to Marong, the Crown alleges.

However, Mallett said while it suggests sexual intercourse took place, it can’t be determined whether it happened before or after her death.

Duckmanton’s hair was also allegedly found in Marong’s car, the court heard, and in his vac-

uum cleaner. The Crown alleged that the day after her body was found, he bought cleaning products and rubbish bags.

Police examinations of Marong’s mobile phone, the Crown alleges, “deeply implicates” him in the murder.

Weeks before the alleged murder, the Crown says Marong searched for what kidnappers use to make people unconscious, chloroform, and is claimed to have clicked on an article entitled, How to kidnap a girl: an informative guide.

There were also multiple searches about necrophilia, including a “man having sex with dead body”.

Marong was arrested on May 26, 2016.

When interviewed, he exercised his right to silence to most questions except at one stage when he said he had been “mentally and physically unwell”, the Crown alleges.

While awaiting trial in custody, Marong is alleged to have told a Corrections officer, “If I was in my own country, I would be

taken outside and killed for what I did”.

He also allegedly told a prison guard when asked why he did it, that it was “like hunting in the wild”, and that it was “brutal what I did to her. She didn’t deserve it”.

Marong is represented by defence counsel Jonathan Krebs.

In a short opening address, Krebs encouraged the jury to keep an open mind.

What they will hear during the trial may best be understood and rationalised through “a lens of mental imbalance”, the lawyer said.

The High Court trial is the first to be held at Christchurch’s new courthouse, part of the $300 million justice and emergency services precinct.

Justice Cameron Mander earlier instructed jurors to set aside any feeling of prejudice or sympathy and to remain entirely objective.

The trial is expected to hear from more than 80 witnesses and is set down for three weeks.

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Local skiers outstanding A big day on the water at Lake Hood over the weekend produced some personal bests and outstanding results for top local water skiers.

Chief judge Janeen Donaldson said organisers pushed the envelope with Saturday’s great weather and completed two rounds of both slalom and jump, with the trick skiers finishing up on Sunday in less perfect weather, though it didn’t affect their results.

She said under 17 squad members were are all training hard and looking for tournament personal bests in the lead-up to nationals when the next junior worlds team will be announced.

Ashburton’s Emily Milner is one of those in contention and she had an awesome weekend with PBs in the slalolm and tricks, and jumping 25.1 metres.

With Aquafest slalom trophies up for grabs, the aim was consistency with cumulative scores of both rounds.

The top slalom score of the day, and Open Men’s slalom trophy, went to Karl Donaldson with brother Hugh Donaldson second and Chris Brown third.

Open Women’s slalom trophy was won by Lana Donaldson, with Rachel Donaldson second and Lydia Munro third. Juniors slalom trophy was won by Alex Brown, ahead of Sam Bainbridge and Diaz McKay. The Novice trophy went to Zak Bainbridge.

Jump honours were hotly contested by the three Donaldson boys, who had hoped for a wee head breeze to push forward against off the 5’5” ramp. Scores were close with Hugh on 46.5m, Karl 45.1m and George 44.6m.

Ricus van Zyl was determined to reach the nationals, despite his first jump going pear-shaped. He nailed it later with a personal best of 17.9m.

Josh Hood was another local who had a great tournament, with PBs in tricks and good scores in both slalom and jump.

The tricks went ahead in the rain on Sunday, with the top score going to Hilary Munro with 4050 points, ahead of Hugh and George Donaldson.

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Challenging season and times

By SuSan SandyS

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Garden competitions are in their twilight years in rural Mid Canterbury, but for many the passion remains strong.

Tinwald residents Shona Thomas and family took out the top premier section prize at the Ashburton Garden Competition at the weekend, impressing judges with a bountiful display of colour thanks to a good mix of perennials and annuals.

Thomas is no stranger to winning the event, having done this three years in a row prior to taking a break for seven years and judging for the competition.

She said it was unexpected to win again on her first year back, but she was flattered nonetheless.

Gardening was something she loved, and each day in summer she would usually get up early and work away outside until the sun came out, and then go out again after tea each evening.

“Quite a lot of perennials and annuals make a nice mix, it’s definitely a garden for all year round,” Thomas said.

This season had been challenging with heat burning some plants, and water restrictions.

She had also had a new puppy to contend with, Angus the west highland terrier, who liked to dig holes.

Thankfully, these were out of the line of sight of the judges, who observe only from the street.

The competition is run by the Ashburton Horticultural Society and this year judges scanned 21 gardens, and observed a dozen more for the special lawn award and special feature award.

President Trevor Gamblin said the future of the event was in the hands of a dozen entrants in the new gardens and easy care gardens sections, and he was looking forward to a continuation of strong support from this sector.

“A boost in society membership would be equally welcome,” Gamblin said.

Rakaia Garden Club held its annual garden competition at the weekend, and taking out the top prize in the premier sec-

Shona Thomas and Angus the west highland terrier enjoy their prize-winning garden. tion was Pam and Phil Dolan on Cridland Street.

They have been regular winners over the years, both at their current address, which they transformed from a bare section, and at the home where they lived previously.

The club has been holding the competition for what is believed to be about 60 years, but this year may have been its last.

Secretary Jean Evans said while there were many people in Rakaia who had nice gardens and kept them well, the competitive aspect had fallen by the wayside.

“A lot of people now both partners work, they don’t want garden work, they want easy care work and everybody seems to lead the busy life,” she said.

For the first time this year the club called for entries, however there were none.

So judges focused on the premier gardens, which was for previous winners, and had five of these to choose a winner from.

PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 120218-SS-082

RESULTS

Ashburton Garden Competition Premier grade – First S. Thomas, 5 Ferrier Place, Tinwald; Second R. and P. Tarbotton, 3 Filey Place, Allenton; Third B. Boag, 1 Charlesworth Place, Allenton.

Also judged: Norma Galway, 5 Mason Place, Allenton; Jack Sclater, 33

Suffolk Street, Hampstead.

Open grade – First C. Keen, Orchard Grove, Netherby.

Flats and townhouses – First W. Grieve, 38A Burnett Street, Borough; Second G. Hurst, 2 Balmoral Place, Allenton; Third U. Green, 7 Cox Street Mews, Borough.

New gardens – First L. Wilson, 10 Balmoral Place, Allenton; Second A. Leath, 11 Parkdale Close, Allenton; Third M. Hanrahan, 48 Philip Street, Borough.

Also judged: P. Elder, 26 Hanrahan Street, Allenton; P. Winchester, 1 Didby Place, Allenton; L. Jaine, 87 Oxford Street, Hampstead; D. Frost, 8 Rowan Place, Tinwald.

Easy care gardens – First S. Williams, 11 Wisteria Place, Tinwald; Second B. and M. Chamberlain, 10 Elm-

wood Grove, Tinwald; Third I. and R. Lilley, 19 Nixon Street, Tinwald.

Also judged: K. Conner, 4 Ludlow Drive, Lake Hood; J. Veale, 60 Philip Street, Borough.

Display of flowers – First R. and P. Tarbotton, 3 Filey place, Allenton; Second B. Boag, 1 Charlesworth Place, Allenton; Third S. Thomas, 5 Ferrier Place, Tinwald.

Best lawn - R. and P. Tarbotton, 3 Filey Place, Allenton.

Best special feature - Trellis display of flowers, A. and T. Gamblin, 62/25 Charlesworth Drive, Allenton.

Cul-de-sacs, etc – First Parkdale Close, Second Filey Place, Third Country Place.

Streets, roads, etc – First Reighton Drive, Second Pages Road, Third Jordan Avenue.

The way of judging the gardens in the past had been awarding points for aspects such as colour, lawns, trees and

maintenance. New style easycare gardens were not so easy to categorise in this way.

The threat to the future of the

Rakaia competition comes after Methven Garden Club ceased its annual competition some years ago.

Rakaia Garden Competition Premier Section – First Mr and Mrs P Dolan, 87 Cridland St; Second Mr and Mrs R Watts, 92 Michael St; Third Mr and Mrs D Watson, 105 Rolleston St. Open Section - No Competition.

Special feature - Mr and Mrs P Dolan, grape pergola.

Best Floral display - Mr and Mrs P Dolan.

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■ TONGA

‘Direct hit’ likely Tonga has declared a state of emergency as a powerful tropical cyclone heads towards the country.

Acting Prime Minister Semisi Sika issued a statement from the island kingdom as it waits for Tropical Cyclone Gita – nearing a category 4 to 5 strength – which was due to strike overnight.

Sika said he was satisfied that an emergency is happening or about to happen in the kingdom due to the destructive winds and sea rises caused by the cyclone.

“It is necessary for emergency powers to be exercised in order to prevent or minimise the loss of human life, illness or injury, property loss or damage and damage to the environment...’’

WeatherWatch said the cyclone is forecast to make “a direct hit” over the top of Tonga and the capital, Nuku’alofa, on the main island of Tongatapu in the early hours of this morning.

“Over 75,000 people are in the path of a storm already more powerful than anything New Zealand has ever seen, with torrential rain and damaging winds forecast to be averaging close to 200km/h,’’ a spokesman said.

The Red Cross in Tonga is advising the public to be prepared as Cyclone Gita approaches.

The NZ MetService said the cyclone strengthened over-

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night – meaning the winds in the centre of it could reach up to 167km/h.

“It bypassed Niue overnight, fortunately the winds did too with just strong to gale winds there.

“It is now moving west towards the southern islands in

Tonga, and has the potential to strengthen to a category 5 with winds in the centre reaching 200km/h.”

The cyclone has already wrought significant damage in both Samoa and American Samoa, and is heading towards Tonga and then southern Fiji.

As those in Samoa take on the mammoth task of cleaning up, those in Tonga are preparing for the worst.

New Zealanders in Tonga are being advised to follow the advice of local authorities at all times – including evacuation orders.

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Grand Canyon helicopter crash kills three Three people died and four were rushed to a Nevada hospital with life-threatening injuries after a tour helicopter crashed into a section of the Grand Canyon on Sunday.

Photos from the scene

showed the charred wreckage of the aircraft, obscured by orange flames and billowing black smoke.

The four survivors were rushed to a hospital as Level 1 trauma patients, the Associ-

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OUR VIEW

Housing report sobering reading T

he government’s stocktake report on the state of the housing sector in New Zealand paints a grim picture.

Critics of the report quite rightly point out that a government-commissioned investigation is always going to back what the current administration is saying, given it appoints the people who write it.

However, to deny the sector is at best under a lot of stress would be akin to sticking your head in the sand.

New Zealand used to be a place that, for many, home ownership was an achievable goal. It was something as a nation that we prided ourselves on.

That’s not the case anymore.

The report found that in 2013, just under 65 per cent of households owned their own home,

the lowest level in 60 years.

That number will have only got worse in the past five years and, given that house price inflation is running at about 30 per cent nationally, while incomes have only risen at about half that rate, that’s a trend that’s unlikely to reverse in the near future.

On a personal level, as someone who rents rather than owns their own home, I’m out of step with many of my generation.

However, given current trends I’m going to be completely in-

step with the next generation, who will struggle to achieve that goal. It’s no surprise that they are now being referred to as generation rent.

It’s not just the young struggling with the reality of home ownership, according to the report, which states that the proportion of older people living in a mortgage-free house has fallen from 86 per cent to 72 per cent.

For many, one of the attractions of home ownership is that by the time they reach their later years, at the very least they will have a roof over their heads.

To be still paying a mortgage at that time of life will be a cold reality those people could do without.

The news isn’t much better for those renting, with shortages in

the rental market, particularly in centres like Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington, making it difficult for people living in those cities to find, let alone afford, somewhere to live.

It has to be said that in Mid Canterbury, the situation is not as dire as elsewhere in the country but if you think that means we’re going to avoid the problem, think again.

One of the ways the government plans to deal with the problem is to build 100,000 new homes over the next decade.

While not all of the cost of that will come out of the public purse a fair amount of it will, which means taxpayers will foot at least some of the bill.

That’s money that won’t be spent in other areas, which will trickle down, to a greater or less-

er extent, around the country.

Then there’s those people whose children plan to take on tertiary education in one of the main centres. Given the cost of rental accommodation in those areas, the bank of mum and dad will likely take a hit as rental costs will be too much for many students to meet themselves.

Whichever way you look at it, the housing sector is not coping with the pressure that’s being placed on it and something has to be done.

That’s only likely to be achieved if the problems are acknowledged, not over or understated for the sake of political point-scoring, and then all groups work together to find a solution.

Something tells me it’s not going to be as easy as that.

Congress: “I have never taken steroids or HGH,” while his accuser, former personal trainer Brian McNamee, sat a few feet away.

Five years ago: Beginning a long farewell to his flock, a weary Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his final public Mass as pontiff, presiding over Ash Wednesday services inside St. Peter’s Basilica.

One year ago: President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned following reports he had misled Vice President Mike

Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, died after falling ill at an airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; two women are accused of killing him by smearing a nerve agent onto his face.

Today’s birthdays: US Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager (ret.) is 95. Actress Kim Novak is 85. Actor George Segal is 84. Actor Bo Svenson is 77. Actress Carol Lynley is 76. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 76.

Actress Stockard Channing is 74.

Talk show host Jerry Springer is 74. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, is 72. Singer Peter Gabriel is 68.

Actor David Naughton is 67.

Rock musician Peter Hook is 62.

Actor Matt Salinger is 58. Singer Henry Rollins is 57. Actor Neal McDonough is 52. Singer Freedom Williams is 52. Actress Kelly Hu is 50. Rock singer Matt Berninger (The National) is 47. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 46.

Country musician Scott Thomas (Parmalee) is 45. Singer Robbie Williams is 44. Singer-songwriter

Feist is 42. Rhythm-and-blues performer Natalie Stewart is 39.

Actress Mena Suvari is 39. Rock musician Dash Hutton (Haim (HY’ehm)) is 33. Actress Katie Volding is 29. Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (also known as Prince Michael Jackson I) is 21.

Thought for today: “To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.” — Theodore H. White, American political writer (19151986).

Colin Williscroft SENIOR REPORTER

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, February 13, the 44th day of 2018. There are 321 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Feb. 13, 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. (Galileo was found vehemently suspect of heresy, and ended up being sentenced to a form of house arrest.)

On this date: In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.

In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.

In 1933, the Warsaw Convention, governing airlines’ liability for international carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect.

In 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)

In 1943, during World War Two, the US Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was officially established.

In 1968, actress Mae Marsh, known mostly for her silent film work (The Birth of a Nation; Intolerance), died in Hermosa Beach, California, at age 73.

In 1974, Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union.

In 1988, the 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Ten years ago: Under oath and sometimes blistering questioning, seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens told

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Arable farmers don’t have much choice; when the heat is on it is the ideal time to bring in the harvest.

Some like it hot A

bout the only people in New Zealand enjoying the sweltering heat of late January and early February are arable farmers.

For the first time in a number of years we have had a sustained period of long, hot and dry days.

These days are perfect harvesting weather, allowing us to harvest through the day and into the night. Most arable farmers will have big smiles on their faces after spending a few days in the header.

Harvest of small seeds and cereal crops is progressing well, any spring or autumn sown barley and wheat will now be harvested.

By all reports the quality is variable, but much better than expected after the heat of October and November threatened to rob crops of any quality.

It’s looking so promising, I ex-

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pect the majority of the harvest will be complete by mid-February which is far earlier than we have finished in recent years.

For me, in South Canterbury, harvest is going much better than expected with the majority of my wheat harvested and just a smattering of oil seed rape and barley to go.

It is fortunate that prices for wheat and barley are returning to more sustainable levels.

While arable farmers are enjoying harvesting in the heat, we need to be wary about putting warm, cereal grains in aluminium silos, as you need to

be able to cool the grain before it goes in the silo.

The warm grain can create condensation and wet the surface layer of the grain, this grain then germinates and creates a layer of grass. Federated Farmers reminds arable farmers to ventilate and cool grain this harvest.

Agricultural crop residue burning is under way with ideal conditions over the past week or so.

Arable farmers can follow the Crop Residue Burning Code of Practice available on the Federated Farmers website or by visiting www.checkitsalright.nz and following the prompts.

Looking ahead, planning is under way for the Federated Farmers’ Arable Conference scheduled for June 6 in Timaru.

For the second year we are hosting the United Wheatgrowers/RuralCo Wheat Awards with

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Aiming to give women opportunities LIC chairman Murray King says the new share proposal is about future proofing the coop.

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LIC proposes new share structure Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited (LIC) has released its proposal to simplify the company’s share structure by bringing the farmer-owned cooperative’s existing two classes of shares together into a single class.

LIC currently has two classes of shares – co-operative control shares and investment shares, which are listed on the NZX Alternative Market (NZAX).

Board chairman, Murray King, said the board is pleased to recommend the new share structure to shareholders following a comprehensive review of LIC’s share structure that began in 2016 in response to concerns around the growing disparity between the two share classes.

“Under the current share structure, co-operative shareholders have greater voting rights but have limited exposure to the financial benefits of our recent transformation programme and future growth opportunities,”

King said.

“Conversely, investment shareholders, whilst having a right to a greater share of the economic value created by LIC for its shareholders, have limited ability to control the strategy or direction that LIC takes to optimise that value.

“This creates potentially serious conflicts between the two existing classes of shares. The board believes these conflicts will worsen over time and that now is the time to address these conflicts given they will otherwise lead to issues for the ongoing management and governance of LIC. “The proposal will reduce this conflict, preserve LIC’s co-operative principles and allow us to focus on a strategy designed to benefit all shareholders equally.

“Share simplification is in the best interests of both classes of shareholders and LIC. While the impacts of moving to a single share structure differ for share-

holders depending on their current investment mix, we believe that the overall benefits outweigh the negative effects,” he said.

King said the board of LIC along with the Shareholder Council recommend a “yes” vote. The independent adviser believes that, on balance, the proposal is in the best interests of both classes of shareholders and LIC. The changes will only happen if approved by co-operative shareholders and investment shareholders, each to a level of 75 per cent or more of the votes received.

The proposal is now subject to a shareholder vote, which can be done online, by post, in person or by proxy at a special meeting at LIC’s head office in Newstead, Hamilton on March 14. Voting papers and notice of meeting details are contained in the information packs.

More information about the proposed changes is available at www.lic.co.nz/vote.

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Two new Dairy Women’s Network Mid Canterbury volunteer regional leaders are firm believers in the organisation’s purpose – providing unlimited opportunities to women in dairy.

Tania Burrows and Tracy Harris recently joined Alice Liljeback and Cheyenne Wilson as regional leaders, bringing with them diverse backgrounds and a willingness to bringing women in dairying together.

Burrows and her husband Johno, who have three girls, are sharemilkers at Carew, although they will move to Valetta in June.

Growing up in a farming environment on the Hauraki Plains, she has a background in teaching and management, and has recently started her own coaching business.

Many of her skills are transferrable, she says, adding that she joined the network because of a love of learning and meeting new people.

“Women are often the backbone of our communities and I love to support women to achieve all they want to be,” she said.

Harris grew up in Martinborough before living on two Landcorp properties after leaving school.

Following a spell in Wellington she took up a cadetship with Ballance Agri-Nutrients in Feilding, learning on the job, which led to a maternity cover position in the Taihape/Central Plateau area.

She then spent just over a year with Ballance in North Otago, before taking up her current Rangitata River patch.

Both Burrows and Harris encourage women involved in dairying to come along to the network’s

Tracy Harris

Tania Burrows coffee catch-ups, on the third Tuesday of every month from 10.30am to noon, for a complimentary morning tea. The catchups are hosted month about between Farm Source Ashburton and Farm Source Methven. The next one is in Ashburton on February 20.

For more information, check out their regional Facebook page, Dairy Womens Network – Mid Canterbury or the network’s website, https://www.dwn.co.nz/

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Dairy The lift in the GDT indicator prices provided better news for dairy farmers with most observers believing that Fonterra will be able to meet its predicted price of $6.40/ kg MS for the season.

This compares to Synlait’s recent update of $6.50. Westland Milk, perhaps a bit wary of the high dollar has gone in the other direction reducing their predicted payout from $6.40 to $6.68 down to $6.20 to $6.50, more in line with the other companies.

February 20 is when the next GDT is due.

Mycoplasma bovis is still spreading with two more herds bringing the total of confirmed reactor herds to 23 and restricted properties from 34 to 38.

It is unclear whether the confirmed herd have resulted from the regional testing programme or from being identified by cows’ ill health.

Perhaps a little concerning is that the Minister of Agriculture and Biosecurity, Minister Damien O’Connor, is not seeing further funding for farmer compensation and M. bovis eradication at this stage.

Probably waiting with everyone else to see just how far-ranging this disease is.

Lamb The store market for lambs remains strong with small lambs particularly fetching good returns. Given the price of ewes, normal one-year ewe breeders may be getting pushed out of the market by the processors’ strong demand for mutton and are looking at the smaller lambs for a longerterm finishing investment.

There was a 10 cent reduction for lamb from one processor this week, however, generally prices are holding well. The regular rain being experienced will no doubt keep demand for store and finished stock alike healthy.

Wool There were lifts in wool prices at both the

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Napier and Christchurch wools sales last Friday.

With Christchurch being treated particularly well with fleece wool up by 6.5 per cent and second shear over 11 per cent.

Unfortunately, lambs’ wool went the other way with a 4.5 per cent reduction.

The issue with SI lambs’ wool fineness is not going away. Various colleagues and experts have tried to explain why SI lambs may have coarser sale wool.

Probably the soundest reason that was given to me was that the SI farmers may be more conservative and have more traditional romney and coopworth breeds and therefore lambs have coarser wool.

Sounded good until I analysed the ewe fleece results and found SI ewes wool was finer than their NI counterparts, and that was after any corriedale or half-bred lines were excluded. So, the mystery continues.

Beef Little change to beef prices this week with everything status quo.

The numbers of cattle coming forward to processors have reduced with adequate rainfall and grass in most parts of the country and prices are holding well.

Southland and Central Otago have also had good rainfall, but still have some catching up to do with grass covers before soils start to cool down and slow grass growth.

Deer Deer farmers must be pinching themselves with yet another lift in the schedule by 20 cents to close the gap between the SI processors to 30 cents.

In the NI the schedule for one processor jumped by 50 cents, the most this observer can recall for a while at this time of year.

Volatility around Wall Street does not seem to be affecting prices in New Zealand for any of our products going to the US. The UK is also reported as having good demand.

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International market prices … u LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index Dec - 17 2017 129.00 129.00 118.00

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Fletcher Building investors worried

Fletcher Building has extended its trading halt as it grapples with huge losses. the write-downs is more complex than first thought.

“It might also suggest that the complexity of Fletcher Building’s different debt layers is requiring some time to get the different debt investors on the same page as regards a waiver and just what the ‘price’ of that waiver might be – whether it is merely higher

interest costs at one of the spectrum or an equity raising at the other.

“Remember, though, the breach is largely a one-off in that they are taking the great bulk of the hit from the construction issues in the 2018 financial year and they should return to compliance in the 2019 year, barring a sharp

downturn in their wider business operations,” Goodson said.

The company yesterday refused to comment on Lister’s prediction of a capital-raising prospect saying it was in a trading halt so could issue no statements.

Fletcher, which has debt of just over $2b, announced at 8.40am it was cancelling its media brief-

■ STARBUCKS

to report the incident and an employee told them that one of the baristas had been bleeding earlier and was taken off the floor.

The manager at first offered the family free drinks for a week, and said that the barista would get tested to make sure he or she didn’t have HIV or any other kind of blood borne disease.

But the family later learned that the employee was never forced to get tested, so they had to test themselves.

“We felt sick to our stomachs,

Net profit sank 40 per cent to $58 million, or 8.1 cents per share, which it said was due to a greater reliance on thermal power supply.

Revenue rose 15 per cent to $1.19 billion.

The result was in line with Forsyth Barr analyst Andrew HarveyGreen’s forecast for an 11 per cent decline in ebitdaf to $236.1 million on a 14 per cent increase in revenue to $1.18 billion.

“Wholesale market conditions in the first half of the financial year were book-ended by record low inflows into our Clutha catchment”, chief executive Dennis

Barnes said in a statement.

“Our flexible thermal fuel supply and diverse assets ensured a reliable supply to customers through these dry periods, but the additional fuel and carbon costs incurred adversely impact financial performance.”

Contact lucked out in the period as dry spells in the South Island left its hydro lakes operating below average, while wet weather in the North Island left rivals such as Trustpower and Mercury NZ flush with wholesale electricity prices almost twice what they were a year earlier.

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we shouldn’t have to worry about going to get something to drink and there being blood in our drink where we could get sick,” Mrs Vice said. “It’s very stressful.”

The first test came back negative, but they had to do another one six months later to make sure they were clean.

“This caused the family stress, nervousness, fright, anguish, grief, anxiety, worry and shock for several months while awaiting the second round of test results,” their lawyers said.

The second tests came back negative as well.

Starbucks later upped their offer to $US1000 ($NZ1378) for each family member who drank a tainted drink, but the Vices say that won’t cut it.

“I thought it was sort of belittling,” Mrs Vice says now of the offer.

The family is now suing for unspecified damages.

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Contact Energy profit slumps 11 per cent Contact Energy’s first-half earnings fell 11 per cent as the electricity generator-retailer dealt with a dry spell, which sapped its hydro generation in what it described as a “highly competitive” market.

Earnings before tax, depreciation, amortisation and changes in the value of financial instruments, a measure in the electricity sector to demonstrate performance shorn of one-off factors, dropped to $236 million in the six months ended December 31 from $264 million a year earlier, the Wellington-based company said.

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Drink ‘tainted with blood’; family sues A California family is suing Starbucks after they say their twoyear-old daughter drank a frappuccino tainted with a barista’s blood.

The Vice family stopped for drinks at the Starbucks in San Bernardino on February 6, 2016.

The drinks had a “strong metallic smell” but they didn’t think anything about it until they got home, and noticed blood stains in and outside the cups.

Most concerning for Amanda Vice was the fact that her toddler daughter Payton had been drinking the remnants of her frappuccino.

“She was licking the whipped cream where it had been sitting on top,” Vice said.

“It was inside of the rim of my frappuccino,” she added.

“My wife and my baby just drank someone’s blood,” her husband Louis said. “It was bad.”

The family called the Starbucks

ing, saying it had “commenced discussions with its lenders in relation to the expected covenant breaches.”

It requested a further trading halt from the NZX and suspension of trading on the ASX until Wednesday “prior to which it will provide to the market an update of its review and the status of its discussions with its lenders”.

Lister believes the company would have been in discussion with its bankers during the weekend “and working on this pretty hard. It’s not a great look for the company,” he said of yesterday’s announcements.

Fletcher’s main bankers are the ANZ Bank New Zealand, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp and Westpac Banking Corp. Other members of its existing syndicate are the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Bank of New Zealand, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Citibank.

Lister said the investment community would have been “unnerved” by yesterday’s announcements.

“It’s another unwanted piece of bad news from the company’s perspective.”

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Investment specialists are even more concerned about NZX giant Fletcher Building after it sought a trading halt extension yesterday morning, cancelled a 10am press conference, said it was talking to financiers and reiterated it could be in breach of banking covenants.

Mark Lister, head of private wealth research at Craigs Investment Partners, said the construction company, which has a market capitalisation of $5.1 billion, might embark on a capital-raising exercise to appease its bankers after it flagged further construction division losses on Thursday.

“The worst case scenario we might see is having to raise capital. Shareholders might be asked to put money into the company, which would mean the share price comes down. Fletcher might have to do a rights issue, so shareholders might have to tip some money in. That’s the worst it could get to,” Lister said yesterday.

Salt Funds Management managing director Matt Goodson said yesterday’s announcements might show a potentially complex situation.

“Today’s delay is a little concerning. It shows that finalising

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–17.3

–0.3%

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–78.3

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16.33

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6,755.0

–83.0

–1.21%

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What’s not so hot about summer?

BY KATHLEEN STRINGER

P

eople rave about summer.

But this year it’s a bit hard to know from week to week if we are really having summer, or some other season.

Early religions, such as the Celts, celebrated the ending of winter and the lengthening days, bringing warmer weather.

But here in the Southern Hemisphere, with summer coinciding with the Christmas and New Year festivities, we seem to have fallen in love with what is usually the hottest part of the year.

Most people have some holidays over this time and many people wait all year to relax and unwind with trips to the beach or lakes, barbecues and generally fully embracing the outdoors life.

However, not everyone loves summer.

With a high proportion of New Zealanders having European ancestry, summertime can bring sunburn and the ever-increasing fear of melanoma.

Long days can also mean long work days for many in the agricultural sector, with harvesting an activity that can last well into the hot night.

Some people find the scorching temperatures unpleasant through the day and hot nights bring little or no sleep. But when the summer days turn cold, it’s also a challenge.

So while this summer Ashburton Museum celebrates all things Kiwi, including summer, this week we will consider the things that aren’t so hot about this season.

1 – While the long hot summers are ideal for harvesting crops, just pity the farmers of earlier times, who had no mod-cons such as air-conditioned harvesters, or the ability to wear what they liked. Imagine this harvesting scene for times gone past – the noise of the engine, the dust of the chaff and the oppressive summer heat made all the more uncomfortable by the social demands that one should be respectably dressed at all times.

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4 – Parasols were rather expensive and often considered a little showy.

However, everyone needed a hat to complete their attire. Hats and parasols protected the pasty white ‘English rose’ complexion prized by our ancestors. While this lady looks refined, imagine wearing all that in the summer heat.

2 – Water restrictions are a summer constant. Gardeners and farmers alike do what they can to save their precious plants, but often have to recycle water from other sources. This image shows council staff pumping water from the Ashburton Domain. It was taken on March 18, 1931, when it was very hot, according to the photographer – 87.5°F, or 30°C.

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5 – Sun protection these days concentrates on sun creams and clothing, however, a few people have been spotted with sun umbrellas. Our ancestors hid from the sun using some beautiful parasols. This one, from our collection, has a peach satin lining.

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6 – Flies are a common summer problem. Today there are all manner of inventions to get rid of these dirty pests. In earlier days, homes hung these sticky papers from ceilings and flies stuck to them. Eventually the papers resembled the fruit slice so commonly called fly cemeteries.

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3 – With these hot days, fire is a constant concern. This image shows the result of a spark from a steam engine. A massive fire raced through Chertsey in January, 1926, killing one person and destroying the home of J. P. Cameron.

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Honouring the Fallen During the period of World War One, 1914 to 1915, many men from the Ashburton District signed up to fight for the Empire against the German army. Many did not return — almost 450 from Ashburton were killed. The first Ashburton men were killed on April 25, 1915 — the first Anzac Day. Ashburton philanthropist and patriot Frederick Ferriman presented a special flag and a flagpole to the families of those men. The Ashburton Museum, with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Ashburton, has erected in front of the museum one of the original Ferriman flagpoles, and on the centennial of the death of each Ashburton soldier will fly a replica flag. This week the Ashburton Museum honours: February 18: William George WOODS

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Medals galore in the pool

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club

■ Bowls Allenton Bowling Club February 10 Anama Tray sponsored by Heartland Bank 1st G. Bishop & R. Kane 3 wins, 17 ends & 32 points, 2nd G. Sparks & M. Foggo 3 wins, 17 ends, 27 points (Diff 8), 3rd I. Kaye & B. Molloy 3 wins, 17 ends, 27 points (Diff 12), 4th N. Sharplin & B. Hopwood 3 wins, 15 ends & 30 points, 5th D. Gutberlet & L. Spargo 2 wins, 1 draw, 15 ends & 27 points

Ashburton Bowling Club February 9 Toyota Friday Triples 1st Mike Quinn, John Drayton and Wendy Watson 3 wins 19 ends 43 points, 2nd Murray Anderson, John Kewish and Jo Ryk 3 wins 16 ends 36 points, 3rd Alan Hill, Margaret Watson and Don Taylor 3 wins 14 ends 40 points 4th John Argyle, Chas Cleghorn and Bruce Watson 2 wins 1 draw 16 ends 24 points, 5th Min Hill, Jim Rush and Jenny Mitchell 2 wins 1 draw 15 ends 30 points Novelty Draw: Raymond Suttie, Wendy Suttie and Roger Gutberlet.

■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club February 5 2 rds duplicate 1st Elizabeth Hutten & Bruce Leighton, 2nd Colin Clemens & Linda Osborne, 3rd Joyce Johnson & George Brown February 6 2 rds duplicate: N/S 1st Amanda Gray & Maree Moore, 2nd Linda Baker & Mike Holmes, 3rd Pat Jordan & Jan de Jong. E/W 1st Pauline Fergus & Val Palmer, 2nd Trish Small & Jim Rooney, 3rd Kay Robb & Rosemary McLaughlin February 7 2 rds diff ptner: 1st Trish & Peter Downward, 2nd Rosemary McLaughlin & Judith Edmond, 3rd Johnny Wright & Perry Jowers February 8 Duplicate: N/S 1st Trish Small & Rewa Kyle, 2nd Martin & Jan de Jong, 3rd Melva Stowell & Paul Fergus. E/W 1st Mary Buckland & Maryke Blignault, 2nd Joyce Johnson & Shirley Harris, 3rd Linda Baker & Mike Holmes

■ Croquet Croquet South Canterbury February 10 and 11 Golf Croquet Handicap Singles, Geraldine Winner (on a count back) J Tallents (Waireka), runner up K McGlinchy (Aorangi) 13 wins

■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers February 7 19 riders 1st Paul Chapman CT. 28.36. HT. 1.30m. RT. 27m 06s. 2nd Ronnie Campbell CT 28.37. HT. 1.30m. RT. 27m 07s. 3rd. Paul Summerfield CT. 29.35. HT. 3.30m. RT. 26m 05s. 4th Martin Hyde CT. 29.37. HT. 3.30m. RT. 26m 07s.

5th. Don Morrison CT. 29.37. HT. 3.30m. RT. 26m 07s. 6th. Roger Wilson Ct. 29.41. HT. 3.30m. RT.26m 07s. 7th Ethan Titheridge CT. 29.54. HT. 5.10m. RT. 24m 44s. 8th. Kevin Opele CT.30.05. HT. 5.10m. RT. 24m 55s. 9th Marty Cuttle CT.30.06. HT. 5.10m. RT. 24m 56s. 10th Paul Macfie CT. 30.08. HT. 5.10m.

RT. 24m 58s. 11th Brian Fauth CT. 30.33.

HT. Go. RT. 30.33m. 12th Brent Hudson CT. 30.34. HT. Go. RT. 30m 34s. 13th Oliver Davidson CT. 31.08. HT. 8.00m. RT. 23m 08s F/T. 14th Tony Ward CT. 31.09. HT. 8.00m. RT. 23m 09s 2/ft. 15th Richard Kirwan CT. 31.09.

HT. 7.30m. RT. 23m 39s $f/t. 16th Brad Hudson CT. 31.09. HT. 8.00m. RT.23m 09s 3f/t.

17th Coleman Burke C T. 31.10. Ht. 7.30m. RT. 23m 40s. 18th Michael Gallagher CT. 31.11. HT. 7.30m RT. 23m 41s. 19th Matt Marshall CT.

February 9 Midlands Seed Friday night Top Team: One Man Handicap 93 – Shane Beaven, Steve Tabener, Jamie Stone, Men: Pakeke Pros 90.5, Read Rebels 87, Burton Battlers 86.5, Coastal Sharks 86, Women: The Follies 92.5, New World Beauty Queens 91, Mixed: Morning Wood 88.5, Periwinkles 87, Gabities Swingers 86.5, Vintage Wine 86.5, Top lady: Joan Stocker 36, Top man: Bruce Leighton 32.5 Nearest the Pins: Mac & Maggies – Jono Hay, BP Ashburton – Geoff Read, Paul May Motor – Matt Hunt, Templeton Motors – David Fisher, Gabites Lucky Player – Peter Wright, BP Lucky Player – Tony Bennett Twos: Geoff Read, Marylou Watson, Sean Strange, Paddy Bradford February 10 Ashburton Open 36 hole Stroke tournament Winner: Cameron Grant with rounds of 68 and a course record 61 giving a total of 129!

Other winning scores: Women’s Gross Sharon Bradford; Women’s Nett Michelle Scott; Men’s Intermediate Gross Chris Ralston; Senior Nett Paddy Bradford; Intermediate Nett Sam Clarke; 2nd Senior Nett Terry Kingsbury; 2nd Intermediate Nett Brayden Wood.

Twos: Tufugs Sa, Paddy Bradford, Paul Macfie, Brendon Davidson, Sam Clarke, Sharon Bradford, Brent Smith (2), Michelle Scott, Blair Franklin and Gavin Douglas.

In the 18 hole Stroke round the Radius Care Player of the day was Tony Bennett 73-5=68.

Other winning scores were: Chris Lovelock 69; Tong King and Jordan Bird 70; Gavin Johnston 71; George Brown, Stewart Dunlop and Bill Hetrick 72.

Nearest The Pins: South Island Seeds: Tony Bennett; Rothbury Insurance Mike Scott; Allenton Meat Centre: Michelle Scott; Braided Rivers: Terry Kingsbury; Charming Thai Longest Putt: Not struck Twos: Tony Bennett and Terry O’Reilly Birdy Jackpot: # 8, Nett Eagles: # 11 Nine Hole Winner: Dick Hansen with 23 pts on c/b.

Other winning scores were: Chris Anderson, Kevin Hurley and Peter Woods also with 23pts. A Two for Peter Woods.

Methven Golf Club February 10 Opening Day Results Jubille Trophy - Heather & Gavin Santy 8423-61, Bev Isherwood & Ben Rutter 63.5, Heather Middleton & Tim Robinson 63.5, Ruth Smith & Mick Hodgson 64, Ellen & Michael Kemp 64.5, Fay Redfern & Ian Lucas 64.5.

Single Person- Gary Foy 76-11-65 by lot,65 Paul Plimmer , 68 Andy Gorman , 69 Phil Elliott, Jim Lattimore, Bernard Walsh, Athol McAlpine. 70 Keith Middleton.

Two’s – Athol McAlpinex2, Bev Isherwood & Ben Rutter, Tania & Stuart Wilson.

Tinwald Golf Club February 8 Twilight, Par Leading scores in the par round: -6; Brian Rouse 3 up b/l Stephen Moorehead, Alton Fletcher 3 up. 7-10; Craig Meyrick 3 up b/l Mitch VanderKrogt 3 up, Rob Davis, Pete Trembath 2 up, Chris Hart, Eugene Davis 1 up b/l. 11 plus; Geoff Soal 4 up, Gordon Smith, Mike Sandrey 3 up.

Women: -14; Jacqui Beardsley 3 up, Kirsty McAuliffe 2 up, Bronwyn Flannery 2 up b/l.

15 plus; Maree Moore 2 up, Diana Wellman, Barb Cochrane sq. Non-Handicap; James Fougere 40. Nearest the pin: # 6 Johnny Moore. # 16 Owen Miller. Two’s; Pete Trembath, Gordon Smith, Mitch VanderKrogt, Nick Wilson.

February 10 Par Leading scores in the 2nd round of the Doherty Trophy (par): -12; Dave King 4 up c/b Gordon Rennie 4 up, Adam Marshall 4 up b/l. 13-18; Bill Anstey 11 up, Mark Banks 3 up, Pete Summerfield 2 up, Cawte Whiting 2 up.

19 plus; Richard Hewson 5 up, Tony McAn-

Ashburton swimmers showing off their medal haul from the Masters Games in Dunedin are (from left) Alison Fleming, Manette Boucher, Helen Argyle and Cherie SummersWright.

Ashburton master swimmers have returned home with a fistful of medals from the Masters Games in Dunedin.

The club, which swims out of the EA Networks Centre, sent a team of five to the event, all returning with medals.

Steve Prescott was the first to compete, in the 3km open water swim held in chilly Otago Harbour, and exited the water first for a gold medal.

Four women were in action at Moana Pool, with events held over two days. drew 3 up, Alec Millar 3 up, Kerry Whiting 2 up b/l. Women (stroke), Bronwyn Flannery 69, June Bruhns 70, Leen Bell 71.

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Pete Summerfield. Gluyas Ford # 6; June Bruhns. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Steve Kircher. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Ryan Ford. Two’s; Shane Moore, Ryan Ford, Neil Connelly, Andrew Barrie. Net eagle; # 10 Not struck February 8 Women’s Division Stroke Joan Undy 71, Kirsty McAuliffe 73 c/b, Val Prendergast 73, Karen Young 73, Lyn Bird 75.

Murray Young Property Broker #2 Sally Lane, Sims Bakery #6 Joan Undy, Mac & Maggie #12 Kirsty McAuliffe, Outdoor Adventure #16 Diana Wellman.

9 Hole Competition Combined Stableford Maureen Colville and Nancy Costin 30

■ Squash Celtic Squash Club Results from last week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s summer league competition: Adam Clement beat Mick Hooper 4-0, Jordan Hooper l ost to Ron Carlson 1-3, Rebecca Abernethy beat Amy Muckle 3-1, Hannah Mowat lost to Kyla Murphy 0-4.

Nick Marshall lost to John McDonnell 0-4, Carl Hough lost to Harry Stanway 0-4, Rob Giles beat Di Ness 3-0, Jan Lee beat Kate O’Reilly 3-1.

Ben Kruger lost to Chris O’Reilly 1-2, Ian Dolden beat Nathan Forbes 2-1, Charlotte Smith lost to Kirsty Clay 0-3, Jane Kingan lost to Rebecca McCloy 0-3.

Ben Kruger drew with James McCloy 2-2, Jimmy Hunn beat James Bowker 2-1, Heather Bowker beat Reece Wallington 3-1, Kate Williams drew with Sian Hurley 2-2.

Brendon Adam drew with Billy Nolan 2-2, Steve Devereux beat Brendan Clark 2-1, Shane Muckle beat Melissa Wilson 4-1, Robbie Kok drew with Chrissie Stratford 1-1.

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Team member Helen Argyle said it was the best showing ever by Ashburton masters swimmers at the games and the women brought home another 21 medals. New member Cherie Summers-Wright landed six silver medals, Alison Fleming six silver and bronze, Manette Boucher five silver and bronze and Argyle one gold and one silver.

Argyle, who swims in the 70-74 category, said the four also teamed up to win the medley relay and took silver in the freestyle relay.

“It was a great achievement.”

A Grade Southern lost to Methven 5 matches to 1 J. Feutz & L. Glendining lost to S. Bubb & G. Evans 2-6, 5-7, A. Watt & A. McKeown lost to E. Connelly-White & T. Parsons 0-6, 4-6, J. Feutz beat S. Bubb 6-3, 7-6, L. Glendining lost to G. Evans (walkover), A. Watt lost to E. Connelly-Whyte 1-6, 2-6, A. McKeown lost to T. Parsons 4-6, 1-6.

Allenton beat Tinwald 4 matches to 2: A. Van Rooyen & C. Brosnahan lost to P. Leonard & E. Dargue 6-7 (4-7), 3-6, M. Martin & A. Reid beat J. Jones & H. Tawatao 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 (1210), A. Van Rooyen beat E. Dargue 6-2, 6-2, C. Brosnahan beat H. Tawatao 6-1, 6-3, A. Reid lost to J. Jones 3-6, 4-6, J. Martin beat J. Leslie 6-2, 6-3.

Fairton beat Hampstead 5 matches to 1: R. Cromie & T. Leonard beat A. Mitchell & M. Kerr 6-0, 6-3, P. Crozier & W. Edgar beat M. Thyne & J. Brosnahan 6-7 (3-7), 6-2, 1-0 (10-4), R. Cromie beat A. Mitchell 6-2, 6-2, T. Leonard beat M. Kerr 6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (10-7), P. Crozier beat M. Lucas 6-1, 6-1, W. Edgar lost to J. Brosnahan 1-6, 2-6.

A Reserve Methven Diamonds beat Methven gold 3 matches to 1: N. Alombro & M. Farrell beat J. Sheridan & S. Fulton 6-3, 6-2, N. Alombro beat J. Sheridan 7-6 (7-1), 6-1, M. Farrell beat J. Ermio 7-6 (7-2), 0-6, 1-0 (10-4), J. Sheridan lost to S. Fulton 3-6, 1-6.

Southern Wakanui lost to Hampstead Hammers 52 games to 38: R. Watt & L. Adam beat L. Scott & A. Spooner 6-2, 6-3, S. Scott & B. Fleming lost to A. Spicer & L. Doody 0-6, 0-6, R. Watt beat L. Scott 6-4, 6-0, L. Adam beat A. Spooner 6-3, 6-4, S. Scott lost to A. Spicer 1-6, 1-6, B. Fleming lost to L. Doody 0-6, 0-6.

Allenton beat Hampstead Aces 5 matches to 1: J. Parsons & G. Preston beat O. Bubb & J. Barry 6-4, 6-2, C. Collins & I. Cabalse beat M. Hopkins & K. Williams 6-3, 6-4, J. Parsons beat O. Bubb 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (10-8), G. Preston beat J. Barry 6-4, 6-4, C. Collins lost to M. Hopkins 5-7, 2-6, I. Cabalse beat K. Williams 6-4, 6-2.

Junior A Allenton Wolves beat Methven Bronze 43 games to 39: S. Van Rooyen & D. Gilbert beat J. King & E. McSweeney 6-3, R. Gray & I. Adam beat A. Cavanagh & S. Furndorfler 7-6, S. Van Rooyen lost to J. King 6-9,

D. Gilbert beat E. McSweeney 9-3, R. Gray lost to A. Cavanagh 8-9, I. Adam lost to S. Furndorfler 7-9.

Methven silver lost to Wakanui 35 games to 29: A Erimo & M. Hydes lost to M. Veix & W. Copland 3-6, B. Giera & J. Hydes beat A. Whittaker & F. Veix 6-3, A. Erimo lost to M. Veix 2-9, B. Giera lost to W. Copland 0-9, M. Hydes beat A. Whittaker 9-3, J. Hydes beat F. Veix 9-6.

Southern Sparks lost to Hampstead 4 matches to 2: G. Austin & C. O’Connell lost to A. Spooner & H. Feutz 4-6, S. Wilson & I. Brooke beat E. Bessima & A. McGrath 6-1, G. Austin lost to A. Spooner 2-9, C. O’Connell lost to H. Feutz 5-9, S. Wilson lost to E. Bessima 2-9, I. Brook beat A. McGrath 9-1.

Junior B Hampstead beat Methven 5 matches to 1: R. Wall & J. Bruce beat J. Campbell & E. Watson 6-1, O. Flack & B. McRae beat P. Humm & E. Armour 6-3, R. Wall lost to J. Campbell 1-6, J. Bruce beat E. Watson 6-1, O. Flack beat P. Humm 6-4, B. McRae beat E. Armour 6-3.

Tinwald Federer beat Southern Slammers 29 games to 25 A. Burgess & S. Jessop lost to A. Cromie & J. Johnson 4-6, D. Burgess & J. Chapman beat S. Wilson & R. Rid 6-3, A. Burgess lost to A. Cromie 5-6, S. Jessop lost to J. Johnson 2-6, D. Burgess beat S. Wilson 6-1, J. Chapman beat R. Kid 6-3.

Methven Black beat Dorie 4 matches to 2: L. Farrell & R. Giera lost to O. Jackways & S. Pye 5-6, A. Armour & C. McSweeney beat B. Sloper & S. Drye 6-4, L. Farrell lost to O. Jackways 1-6, A. Armour beat S. Pye 6-3, R. Giera beat B. Sloper 6-3, C. McSweeney beat S. Drye 6-1.

Junior C Allenton lost to Dorie 5 matches to 1: N. Robins & T. Hart lost to D. Dolan & C. Kingsbury 3-6, H. Sparks & A. Leete beat C. Heneghan & L. Sloper 6-3, N. Robins lost to D. Dolan 1-6, T. Hart lost to C. Kingsbury 3-6, H. Sparks lost to L. Sloper 5-6, A. Leete lost to C. Heneghan 4-6.

Hampstead Owls drew with Allenton Tigers 25 games all: J. Carr & A. Artz beat F. Nichol & T. Amos 6-1, I. Wall & L. Watson beat C. Gordon & C. Van Rooyen 6-2, J. Carr beat F. Nicol 6-4, A. Artz lost to T. Amos 2-6, I. Wall lost to C. Gorton 3-6, L. Watson lost to C. Van Rooyen 2-6.

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Richard McClea showed he can still pull off some stylish cricket shots on Saturday, making a valuable 64 runs for Coldstream.

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■ CRICKET

Tech in demolition mode

By Linda CLarke

Linda.c@theguardian.co.nz

Tech was on fire in Mid Canterbury Cricket’s senior competition on Saturday, dismissing Lauriston for 108 then wasting no time chasing it down.

Bevan Richan was the top scorer for Lauriston on 43, but his side was 3/21 when he came to the crease and while he stayed put, the wickets continued to fall around him.

Richan too departed after being given out lbw off the bowling of Hayden Sinclair.

Tech’s main bowlers were merciless, Harry Jones taking three wickets for 17 runs off his nine overs and Kody Stuthridge taking 3-13 off six.

Scott Punselie was the other destroyer, with two for 18 off his nine-over spell.

Opening batsman Will McKee turned out to be the star of their chase, departing with 60 runs after being caught by Bevan Ravenscroft off the bowling of Richan.

Sinclair was next best on 17.

Tech made the target easily,

losing just three wickets.

Saturday was the second round of cricket’s Muirhead Rosebowl and in the other senior game, Coldstream was at home against Allenton.

The hosts batted first and made 192 in 45 overs, thanks largely to a productive partnership between father and son Richard and Kieran McClea.

McClea senior was a ring-in as the side had four players on Mid Canterbury Hawke Cup representative duty, but he showed he had lost none of his cricketing

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DRAWS ■ Bowls Sub Centre over 80s February 14 At the Hampstead Bowling Club starting at 12 30pm.

E Maw, C Brake, M Richardson; R Petrie, R Keeling, R Prendergast; T Watson, H Weir, M Jones; J Ryk, K McLaren, M Wallace; M Anderson, B Brassell, J Sclater; T Johnson, H Kemp, A Gowan; D Prendergast, D Thomas, U Crack; D Duff, N McKenzie, M Stone; A Smith, G Crack, B Boothroyd; A McKenzie, D Waller.

One more player is required. Mufti. Tournament Convenor Wendy Blackwell 3028834.

■ Golf Ashburton Country Ladies February 16 Vets Golf, At Ashburton, 9.00am for 9.30am start 9 Hole Players Welcome Food available but bring small gift for raffle

Ashburton Golf Club February 17 A Teams Ambrose mixed event will be played.

Starting Times: Morning 8.00am. Afternoon report to the Pro shop at 12.00 for a 12.30pm start. Nine hole golfers report at 1.00 for a 1.30pm start.

February 13 Women’s Division LGU 2nd Borrows Cup 2nd Maree Moore No 1 9.00 J. Undy J. Bruhns D. Bell 9.05 M. Kennedy C. Linney J. Vander Heide No 10 9.00 B. Harris M. Moore M. Smith 9.05 D. Wellman I. Divers K. Young No 13 9.00 D. Lowe M. Bemmett K. Mcauliffe 9.05 V. Prendergast P. Preece 9 holes LGU 1st 2 J’s Cup. Off No1 & No 7 Starters M. Kennedy J Fitzgerald, Cards M. Bennett J. Undy, Kitchen D. Wellman, Draw Steward J. Bruhns

■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis February 10 Round 9. All games to start at 9am sharp Junior A Grade – Duty Team is Wakanui. All Junior A Games played at ATTC this week.

Southern Sparks v Hampstead Eagles; Methven Silver v Wakanui; Allenton Wolves v Methven Bronze.

Junior B Grade Tinwald Federer v Southern Slammers at ATTC; Methven White v Hampstead Pelicans at Hampstead; Dorie B v Methven Black at Methven Domain; Southern Allenton Sharks v Allenton Bears at Allenton.

Junior C Grade Hampstead Owls v Allenton Tigers at Hampstead; Methven Red v Tinwald Williams at Tinwald; Allenton Leopards v Dorie C at Dorie Hall; Bye – Methven Blue Please phone any defaults through to Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis 308-3020 as soon as possible.

skills over the years by putting on 64 runs at a crucial stage of the game.

Kieran McClea also brought up his 50.

The partnership was vital as Coldstream had been six wickets down for only 40-odd runs and the pair dug in to help their side post a decent total.

Allenton, helped by some economical bowling by Ryan Bell, chased down the target with several overs to spare and down to their last batsman.

Methven had the bye.

AshColl run down The Ashburton College First XI couldn’t hang on to its slender lead against Christchurch Boys’ High School 3rds heading into their second day on Saturday, the city lads scoring 162 for an outright win.

AshColl scored 191 on the back of a good knock by captain Tom Middleton (66) on day one and bowled CBHS out for 178, so the second day shaped as another close one.

Middleton performed again with the bat, smoking 40 off 65 balls. Fellow opener Angus Jemmett was also in good form, scoring 21 before he was bowled, but AshColl was all out for 148.

Boys’ High chased down the target of 162 runs with the loss of seven wickets in 30 overs.

Spinner Jemmett took three wickets for 29 runs, while Forbes took two for 39.

While the AshColl boys take first innings points, the outright loss will hurt though the new-look side has shown it is competitive in the second grade and should take heart.

All the players will be in action again today when Ashburton College takes on Mt Hutt College in a Gillette Cup qualifier in Methven, with Will Copeland and Chris Spittal turning out for the hosts.

New Zealand’s match against England in the Twenty20 tri-series is shaping as a crunch match for both sides, with Australia virtually assured a final spot.

“We certainly want to get on the board in this tri-series and it becomes very important that we play our best cricket tomorrow night,” Black Caps skipper Kane Williamson told reporters ahead of today’s match in Wellington.

However, the Kiwis haven’t played together since their seven-wicket loss to Australia more than a week ago and haven’t trained together while players took a break.

Weather also delayed their flights into Wellington, meaning training started only yesterday.

“It’s hard when you’ve got three teams and they are all trying to play cricket at the same time,” said Williamson, who is carrying a back niggle with Henry Nicholls in the side as a back up.

“Obviously England and Australia have played two in a row which means we didn’t have a game to play.

“It’s the nature of a tri series.”

However, they just had to take it in their stride.

“T20, if we look at it straight off the bat it is fickle.

“It’s important we don’t chase the win, we chase how we want to be playing our cricket.”

The New Zealanders are coming off three T20 losses and commentator Simon Doull has suggested Williamson and coach Mike Hesson step back from the T20 side.

Williamson said he had spoken to Doull, who had said his comments hadn’t come across as he meant them.

“He’s looking a lot at volume of cricket, bringing new players in in terms of growth into the international game.

“There’s sense that he makes but ... T20 cricket is so prevalent ... and you play a lot more of it ... and it’s something you want to be a part of.”

Williamson was adamant he wanted to play all three forms.

The Black Caps had been resting players this summer and it was a balancing act to keep players fresh, he said.

- AAP

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■ RUGBY

Blues realistic about success

By Liam Napier

The Combined XI’s William Wills puts plenty of effort into another delivery in his team’s game against Christ’s College Colts at the Ashburton Domain on Saturday.

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■ CRICKET

Second XI on a hiding to nothing The Ashburton College/Mt Hutt College combined second XI was on the end of a big loss to the Christ’s College colts’ side on Saturday, with the local side

struggling to find players.

Christ’s batted first and reached 285/8 off their 50 overs.

The best AshColl bowler was 13-year-old William Wills with

29/2 off six overs, followed by Jonty Small 47/2 off eight.

Combined was then bowled out for 71, the best batting coming from Sam Reilly-Segill with 14 no.

It might have been a different result had the team had a full side, as they played with nine.

More regular players are currently being sought.

■ RUGBY

Moody ready for battle Joe Moody and Owen Franks like nothing more than an old fashioned front row stoush and they reckon they’ve got one – to reclaim their All Blacks jerseys.

The first-choice test props since 2015, both were forced into extensive breaks midway through last season.

In a remarkable display of co-ordination, the heavyweight Crusaders pair went down within weeks of each other during the Rugby Championship, underwent surgery and began rehabilitating for a targeted return in April.

Franks, the 95-test tighthead, had ongoing Achilles tendon problems to alleviate while loosehead specialist Moody underwent a shoulder operation.

Powerhouse loosehead Moody says the pair’s delayed return midway through the Super

Rugby campaign allows even more time for the likes of Kane Hames, Nepo Laulala and Ofa Tu’ungafasi to push their claims.

The young trio impressed hugely on the season-ending tour of Europe, with the All Blacks scrum arguably their strongest facet while other parts of the world champions’ game struggled to click.

“You can’t fault them really.

“It was a good end of year tour as far as set piece went,” Moody said.

“There’s no opportunity for me to slacken off because nothing’s a given. There is that depth there so anyone can step in.”

The 29-year-old nearly has full range of motion back in his shoulder and is desperate to return to the Super Rugby champions after months of training on his lonesome.

Joe Moody He has been unable to recuperate alongside good mate Franks as the pair are coming off such different injuries.

“I hate doing all the conditioning and running blocks by myself, lone ranger,” he said.

“But I’m well aware that’s going to be a big contributing factor for me getting back on the park and getting back in good nick.”

Moody senses the Crusaders can have another season to match their title-winning charge last year but says coach Scott Robertson will know how to keep the players grounded.

“We had an awesome team environment and everyone wanted to play for each other,” he said.

“Razor (Robertson) had a big influence on it. You always see what the media portrays him, as a bit of a clown.

“But he knows when to have fun and when it’s time to work.

“Now it’s time to do it all over again and do it even better than last year.”

- NZME

The Brisbane Global Tens title couldn’t be further from the Super Rugby crown but for a franchise devoid of recent success, the Blues will take what they can get.

Tana Umaga knows it would be foolish to get all euphoric after watching the Blues capture the second edition of the Tens.

Many of his young squad, the likes of Hoskins Sotutu, one of four players eligible for the under-20s, will now make way for established names. But, in time, these experiences could prove invaluable.

Success also breeds success.

It is certainly better to start the season with positive vibes than not, and after emerging as the only unbeaten team from five matches over two taxing days in the Suncorp Stadium heat, the Blues were rightly chuffed with their achievement.

“We’ll take any win at the minute, especially with the group we had over here. It was really young,” Umaga said.

“Some had been with us two months, some had been with us two weeks but they showed some real resilience to come together.

“All we can offer these young guys is an opportunity because when our All Blacks or the injured guy comes back they move on but it has given us some insight about their ability to play at this level.

“Even at this tournament the level is still pretty high; the hits are still there and the physicality came out in the last couple of games and they withstood that well.

“The result is great but some of the off-field stuff and learning to follow through and win those critical moments was really pleasing for us this weekend.”

Of those who will feature come Super Rugby, the performances of young halfback Sam Nock, talented finisher Melani Nanai, George Moala, Akira Ioane and 18-year-old talent Caleb Clarke, named player of the tournament after claiming five tries, boost confidence ahead of the Blues final preseason hit-out against the Hurricanes in Warkworth on Thursday.

Then, the real business starts.

“We got some confidence out of it.

“We understand that there’s no points awarded in the preseason.

“We still need to work on some things and integrate our All Blacks but we’re pretty positive about what’s come out of the last couple of weeks.

“We do want to kick on from where we’ve been before.”- NZME

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In brief

■ GOLF

Grant blitzes course record

By Linda CLarke

Linda.c@theguardian.co.nz

Cameron Grant smashed his way into the record books at the Ashburton Golf Club on Saturday when he carded a 61 – three shots better than the previous course record.

Grant was taking part in the club’s inaugural 36-hole Brandon Open and was leading with a very good 68 after the first round.

But he tore the course apart in his second round with 30 off the opening nine holes and coming home with a 31.

Club captain Paddy Bradford said Grant’s golf was amazing and during the day he had five eagles, plus two bogies in the afternoon.

The 61 is 11 under par for the course, which Grant said was in great condition for the day’s play.

He was a late starter for the tournament and was rung by a mate the night before to travel down from West Melton to take part.

Grant grew up playing on the fairways and greens of the Brandon course and needed little encouragement to make the trip, though it would be only the third time he had picked up his clubs in 2018.

The former scratch golfer now plays off a +1 and is a social member of the nine-hole Rakaia Golf Club.

Grant is a former Aorangi golf representative and played the game full-time in 2014 and 2015, testing the waters as a professional golfer.

He has played in national and interprovincial tournaments and in 2011 won a national long drive championship.

But he plays for enjoyment these days.

Grant, who was in a four with out-of-towners Blair Franklin, Michael Scott and Steve Vivian,

Ashburton College is still on the hunt for a rugby coach for its first XV; the players, meanwhile, have begun their pre-season fitness sessions. Good numbers have been turning up to sessions on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and students not yet signed up to play are being encouraged to do so as soon as possible. Anyone interested in coaching should contact principal Ross Preece at the college.

Synnott misses medal New Zealand snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has finished 13th in a crash-filled women’s slopestyle at the Winter Olympics.

The 16-year-old made several mistakes on her two efforts, scoring 26.7 and 48.38 in heavy winds in PyeongChang on Monday as only a small number of the 25 riders were able to land their runs in a poor advertisement for the sport. American Jamie Anderson took gold with a best run awarded 83 points.

- AAP

Dixon crashes in test

Cameron Grant (left) and fellow golfers Blair Franklin, Michael Scott and Steve Vivian were all smiling after Grant’s record-breaking round on Saturday.

PHOTO SUPPLIED said he knew he was playing well on Saturday and tried to stay relaxed.

His first round was going well until he “blew to bits”, carding a 68.

His second was better and, to the delight of the other golfers in his group, he blitzed around in 61, playing off the blue tees (the furtherest from the holes).

“You know you are going good.

“But I have been going all right before … when you start thinking about it, you start trying too

hard and the wheels fall off.”

Grant said he was based at the Ashburton course when he played seriously and knowing the course well was an advantage.

“And the course was in pretty good nick.”

The real estate agent said he enjoyed a beer after the game to celebrate and would look forward to seeing his scorecard framed and hanging in the clubhouse on his next visit.

The club was pleased with the field that took part in the 36-hole

event and plans to run it again next year.

Sharon Bradford won the ladies’ gross prize, Chris Ralston won the intermediate men’s gross, Paddy Bradford won senior men’s nett followed by Tufuga Sa, while Michelle Scott from Greendale took out the ladies’ nett, and Sam Clarke pipped Braydon Wood to the intermediate nett.

The club will host its annual Harvey Normal Classic on February 24 and 25.

Potter repels all Pebble Beach rivals Ted Potter Jr. outplayed the world’s No. 1 player and held off everyone else yesterday to win the AT&T Pebble Beach National for his first victory since a broken ankle nearly ended his career.

Potter holed a chip from behind the green for birdie on the par-3 seventh hole to build a two-shot lead over Dustin Johnson, and no one got any closer the rest of the way.

He finished with 11 straight pars for a 3-under 69 and a threeshot victory over Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Jason Day and Chez Reavie.

Potter was unflappable playing alongside Johnson, who next week completes one full year at No. 1 in the world. That changed when he tapped in for par on the 18th hole, and he choked back emotion of a week he won’t soon forget.

He stepped off a curb in Cana-

Coach hunt still on

da in August 2014 and broke his ankle, keeping him out of golf for two years and then back to the minor leagues a year ago.

Potter’s only other victory was at The Greenbrier Classic in 2012.

He has missed the cut in 55 percent of his PGA Tour events in his career.

And then he didn’t flinch next to Johnson, with Mickelson making a late charge and Day never too far behind.

Potter, who came into the week at No. 246 in the world, earns a trip back to the Masters for the first time in five years.

Meanwhile Mark Calcavecchia took advantage of Bernhard Langer’s messy finish to complete a wire-to-wire victory in the Boca Raton Championship.

Calcavecchia had a 20-foot bogey save on the par-3 16th and parred the final two holes for a 2-under 70 and a two-stroke

Ted Potter Jr victory over Langer on The Old Course at Broken Sound.

The 57-year-old Calcavecchia won his fourth senior title and first since 2015.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thai-

land won the World Super 6 Perth with a 2-and-1 victory over James Nitties in the six-hole final.

Kiradech had to win five sixhole matches for his European Tour title since the Saltire Paul Lawrie Match Play in 2015.

He reached the championship match by beating Lucas Herbert in a 90-metre shootout hole.

In the final, Kiradech overcame an early deficit with a par on the third hole, and then followed with an eagle and a birdie to close out the Australian.

Jiyai Shin of South Korea closed with an 8-under 64 for a six-shot victory in the Canberra Classic, a tournament co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour.

Shin, a former world No. 1, won for the 50th time worldwide in her career.

Minjee Lee had a three-shot lead going into the final round but closed with a 73.

- AP

Four-time series champion Scott Dixon crashed in Indycar’s final test session at IMS Raceway yesterday.

The 37-year-old Kiwi has established himself as one of the modern day greats and has rarely made mistakes that have resulted in crashes during his 18-year Indycar career. “A couple of the Andretti cars got by and were a little bit slower. I got low in 1 and 2, touched the throttle and had a bit of a run and lost the rear. Kind of late in the corner, but just touched with the rear and bent the left-rear suspension.”

- NZME

Clarification sought Wales will seek clarification from World Rugby’s officiating department this week over why a ‘try’ for Gareth Anscombe was not awarded during the first half of their 12-6 defeat by England at Twickenham.

Warren Gatland criticised a “bad call” from match official Glenn Newman, who adjudged that Anthony Watson touched the ball down ahead of Anscombe. As well as the decision itself, he will query the communication between Newman and referee Jérôme Garcès. “It will be interesting to chat to him to see what his explanation is of it. I don’t know anyone who has said they agree with the decision.”

- NZME

Job ‘open to all’ David Kidwell’s chances of staying on as Kiwis coach remain doubtful after the New Zealand Rugby League confirmed the job will be made open to all applicants – not just New Zealanders. The NZRL announced yesterday the head coaching position would be open to all candidates but stressed the change “should not be read in any way as a comment on the World Cup coach’s past performance, nor on his possible re-appointment in the role”. Kidwell is off-contract and facing a battle to win reappointment after the Kiwis managed just three wins from 10 tests under his guidance, culminating in their shock World Cup quarter-final exit at the hands of Fiji late last year.

The fact the NZRL are looking to broaden their scope does not bode well for his chances.

- NZME

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In brief

■ SENSIBLE PRINCESS

Big plans for talented mare Plans are in place for the talented mare Sensible Princess to add to her family’s roll of honour.

She made excellent progress during her last preparation when she won races at Wanganui, Otaki, Awapuni and at New Plymouth before she beat Francaletta and Coldplay in the Gr.2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe.

Trainer Fraser Auret said the emergence of the daughter of Street Sense didn’t surprise him at all.

“She’s always looked pretty classy so she’s been doing what we’ve thought she was capable of.

“She’s back in work and coming along nicely for the autumn.”

Auret has set his sights on taking Sensible Princess, who has fashioned the smart record of six wins from her 10 appearances, to another level with a Group One feature top of his wish list.

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“We’ll hopefully be heading toward the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes at Te Aroha,” he said.

Auret and breeder-owner John Bromley have also enjoyed recent black type success with Sensible Princess’ half-sister Darscape Princess, winner of the Listed Wairarapa Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m).

Meanwhile, their stablemate Alinko Prince is another on a path toward a Group One target.

“All going well, we’ll be having a crack at the Auckland Cup with him,” Auret said.

The winner of six races, the strapping son of Alamosa ran third in the Gr.3 Manawatu Cup (2100m) and filled a similar placing in the Gr.2 Wellington Cup (3200m).

“The race at Trentham really wasn’t run to suit him,” Auret said.

“I’ve never seen him race so fiercely before and he boxed on well, he needs his races to be run at a good clip.”

- NZME

Ugo Foscolo returns Group One winner Ugo Foscolo will be back on track on Saturday week. “He was going to trial at Matamata tomorrow, but they’ve been cancelled, so he’ll go straight to the open 1200m on Matamata Cup day,” trainer Stephen Marsh said. “He looks great and it’s great to have him back.”

- NZME

Oaks still a target Sparingly-raced filly Gold Spice overcame testing conditions at Pukekohe to remain in Group One contention. The daughter of Rock ‘N’ Pop opened her winning account on Sunday at her third appearance with black type racing now confirmed for her immediate future. Trainer Graeme Richardson was unsure of her chances on a heavy track, but were forced to start with bigger prizes in mind. - NZME

4YO in hot form

Sensible Princess has been in superb winning form this season.

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M7 Manawatu harness

Tannhauser’s latest Singapore success has confirmed turf plans for the New Zealand-bred. The Tavistock four-year-old’s previous four wins had all been on the all-weather track at Kranji before Sunday’s dynamic victory on the grass course.

“We’re looking at the Rocket Man Sprint for him,” trainer Michael Clements said.

- NZME

Today at Manawatu Raceway

Manawatu Harness Racing Club Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 13 Feb 2018 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 1.38pm ROYDEN WILLIAMS RACE PHOTOGRAPHY HANDICAP TROT $8000, 3yo+, non-winners & up to r46 with cond. spechcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 50539 Here We Are (1) fr ........................ D Butcher 2 7 J Cees Choice (2) fr ..................S Abernethy 3 95498 T A’s Cracker (3) fr .........................S Phelan 4 55003 Amabede (4) fr ..............................P Butcher 5 78722 Caroline Wozniacki (5) fr ........... J Abernethy 6 56666 Imnotquitesure (1) 30 .................P Ferguson 7 97007 Above The Rest (2) 30 ............ B Butcher (J) 8 03092 Sunny Bill (3) 30 9 04302 Hot N Fast (4) 30.................. D Ferguson (J) 10 09066 Kai Time (5) 30............................A Poutama 2 2.12 GOLD CUP FESTIVAL MEETING 29TH MARCH MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ mobile, 2500m 1 46903 Hunter Red (1) fr .................. D Ferguson (J) 2 03258 Go Paddy (2) fr.................................A Pyers 3 00 Ashley Tisdale (3) fr .................. J Abernethy 4 06x Ideal Cullen (4) fr ..........................B Orange 5 85232 Marrera (5) fr ..............................P Ferguson 6 798 Mr Billiards (6) fr........................... D Butcher 7 870x6 Spritz (7) fr .....................................S Phelan 8 94460 Bonnie Boy (U1) fr.......................A Poutama 9 53004 Wicklow Star (U2) fr .................... K Marshall

3 00050 Show Business (3) fr ............ D Ferguson (J) 4 00307 Strawberry Moose (4) fr .............P Ferguson 5 x8372 Master Of Escape (5) fr............... K Marshall DAY MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ 2000m 6 63149 Ask Me Art (6) fr............................B Orange 1 040P3 Toppatherock (1) fr ....................S Abernethy 7 63135 Paul’s Verdict (7) fr 2 237P7 Delia May (2) fr.......................... J Abernethy 8 65616 Emira (21) fr ..............................S Abernethy 3 9955 Delightful Kas (3) fr .....................A Poutama 9 02068 Hezaluckygrinner (22) fr................N Chilcott 4 7858 Bye Bye Lucy (4) fr.....................P Ferguson 10 9645P Madiba (23) fr..................................S Doody 5 385 Pump Up The Volume (5) fr...........P Butcher 11 61447 Shadow Maker (24) fr................... D Butcher 6 0x77x Delightful Infusion (6) fr .................B Orange 7 Trickle Treat (7) fr ...........................B Towers 12 15021 Sheeza Sport (25) fr 8 88234 Viewfield Chatton (21) fr ................S Phelan 6 4.06pm T MARKET FRESH MOBILE PACE $8000, 9 85455 Santanna Legend (22) fr ..................A Pyers r40 to r44 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 00739 The Hurricane (1) fr.......................B Weaver 10 34x09 Moniaive (23) fr ............................ D Butcher 4 3.13pm THE MEMBERS TROT $8000, 3yo+ r46 to 2 63557 Toll Gate (2) fr ..................................A Pyers 3 7x000 Was Meant To Be (3) fr .............S Abernethy r52 trot, stand, 2500m 4 25643 Itsokbeingbetter (4) fr .................. K Marshall 1 46544 Burt Munro (1) fr ..................... B Butcher (J) 5 24093 Atom Hanover (5) fr.....................A Poutama 2 54442 Dauntless (2) fr ...........................B Edwards 6 84686 Bobby M (6) fr 3 75381 Monaro Mia (3) fr ......................S Abernethy 7 62468 Pure Desire (7) fr ......................... D Butcher 4 00640 Fira (4) fr ...................................... D Butcher 8 00800 Burning Reign (21) fr 5 20350 Xtra Time (5) fr ...............................S Phelan 9 07968 Nova Time (22) fr ..........................B Orange 6 90833 Meander With Pegasus (6) fr .... J Abernethy 7 8P320 Mekong Princess (U1) fr ...............B Orange 10 32475 Rangi Rangdu (23) fr .....................S Phelan 8 06800 Idle Boys (U2) fr ..........................A Poutama 11 77088 Contractual Issues (24) fr..... D Ferguson (J) 9 20446 Commando One (U3) fr ....... D Ferguson (J) 7 4.41 HARRISON CARPET HANDICAP TROT $8000, 5 3.38pm BRIAN AHERN RETIREMENT MBL PACE r53 to r74 discrhcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 x9882 Majestic One (1) fr ....................S Abernethy $8000, 3yo+ r40 to r55 mob. pace, 2500m 2 48133 Clifden Clowers (2) fr 1 88022 Jack Bates (1) fr ..........................A Poutama 3 64506 Clover Kate (3) fr ........................P Ferguson 2 82579 Megatron (2) fr ...............................S Phelan 10 5Px9 The Hawke (U3) fr ...........................S Doody

3 2.47 SPEIGHTS ALE HOUSE MANAWATU CUP THURS-

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4 87977 Danke (1) 10 5 40685 The Prince (1) 20 ...........................S Phelan 6 96114 Caitlin’s Surprise (2) 20............... K Marshall 7 32534 Trouble Giero (3) 20 ....................A Poutama 8 68355 Sol Invictus (U1) 30 .......................B Orange 9 21321 November Guy (U2) 30 ................ D Butcher 8 5.11pm CARTOWN MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r45 to r50 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 61540 Carbonado (1) fr........................... D Butcher 2 12280 Our Wicklow (2) fr .....................S Abernethy 3 89398 Arcano (3) fr ...............................P Ferguson 4 54664 Grey Skies (4) fr ..........................A Poutama 5 x7760 Amaro (5) fr ....................................S Phelan 6 33008 Sauchiehall (6) fr ...........................B Orange 7 Px963 Hold All Bets (7) fr ....................... K Marshall 8 73730 Brainstormer (21) fr ................... J Abernethy 9 0x687 Lady Santanna (22) fr 10 13604 Hes Fast And Furious (23) fr D Ferguson (J) 11 61958 Lincoln Lovely (24) fr ............. T Cameron (J) 9 5.36pm MANAWATU ITM MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r51 to r58 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 06903 Cerberus (1) fr............................P Ferguson 2 38622 Gotta Moment (2) fr.............. D Ferguson (J) 3 52315 Jenora (3) fr ................................A Poutama 4 30173 Balfast (4) fr...................................P Butcher 5 23425 Royal Jester (5) fr..........................B Orange 6 x7522 Mister Harris (6) fr ........................ D Butcher 7 5P402 Ardent Lustre (7) fr .................. B Butcher (J)

8 57531 Ohoka Maximus (21) fr ......... T Cameron (J) 9 15696 Whale Rider (22) fr.........................S Phelan 10 48955 Franco Lennox (23) fr ..................A Donnelly 10 6.11pm SILVESTER CLARK MOBILE PACE $8000, r63 to r90 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 P4143 Gunpowder (1) fr 2 17221 Santanna Mach (2) fr 3 53625 Rhythm N Blues (3) fr.............. B Butcher (J) 4 64309 Delightful Zen (4) fr ...................... D Butcher 5 43648 Max Phactor (5) fr .........................P Butcher 6 0x847 Bettor Spirits (6) fr ................. T Cameron (J) 7 77060 Lusty Mac (7) fr ...........................A Poutama 8 63P16 Marshal Star (21) fr ...................... S Dickson 9 14411 Shillelagh (22) fr ............................B Orange SELECTIONS

3 71233 Kia Tere nwtd J & ............................D Fahey 4 31522 Goldstar Ashton 33.46 S & .............B Evans 5 66551 Mazu 32.11 J & ...............................D Fahey 6 65212 Opawa Brad 33.00 J & ....................D Fahey 7 81332 Know Conclusion 33.74 .................G Cleeve 8 87641 Botany Alan 32.81.....................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 31554 Southern Honey 33.02 ................R Hamilton 10 35586 Goldstar Jagger 33.41 S & ..............B Evans 11 3.00pm NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEAT 2 NZRSq, 545m 1 67614 Perfect Result 32.75 ......................R Adcock 2 24835 Opawa Norris 32.62 ........................R Wales 3 41166 Homebush Skip 33.58 ...............J McInerney 4 32224 Hard Questions nwtd .....................G Cleeve 5 25131 Goldstar Marvely nwtd S & .............B Evans 6 61125 Trevor Gibbs 32.75 J &....................D Fahey 7 66221 Shift The Blame 32.60...............J McInerney 8 52321 Opawa Rooster nwtd J & ................D Fahey 9 72533 Goldstar Dodge 33.16 S & ..............B Evans 10 46667 Flaming Sambuca nwtd ............J McInerney 12 3.24pm OTAGO DAILY TIMES DASH C5, 310m 1 22815 Botany Cold 18.73 ....................J McInerney 2 34282 Hey Jude nwtd ..........................J McInerney 3 67413 Opawa Sheldon 18.35..................... R Wales 4 38164 Know Scrutiny 18.58 ......................G Cleeve 5 64882 Detective Dash 18.75 ................J McInerney 6 78617 Sergess 18.66 ...........................J McInerney 7 11531 Wheelchair Norm 18.09 ............J McInerney 8 61616 Homebush Rufus 18.42 ............J McInerney 9 51276 Must Be Rusty nwtd ..................J McInerney 10 75551 Cosmic Richie 18.49 .................J McInerney 13 3.46 KEYOSK SERVICE BAR SPRINT C1, 310m 1 5512 Mitcham Faye nwtd ...................J McInerney 2 372P5 Homebush Kazzy nwtd .............J McInerney 3 21787 La Kinks 18.59 ...............................C Healey 4 66643 Trendy Blake nwtd .....................J McInerney

5 27715 Know Approval nwtd ......................G Cleeve 6 15471 Epic Boom 18.95 M & .......................Jopson 7 67253 Idol Star 18.77.................................R Wales 8 41386 Cosmic Jase 18.69 ...................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 61657 Auros Advantage nwtd S & .............B Evans 10 45888 Homebush Riley 18.48 ..............J McInerney 14 4.15pm RACING AGAIN TUESDAY 27TH FEBRUARY SPRINT C1, 310m 1 73274 Amy Baxter nwtd .......................J McInerney 2 65636 Homebush Scorpio 19.17 .........J McInerney 3 78721 Southern Fantasy 18.90 .................B Healey 4 62284 Homebush Hundy 19.18 ...........J McInerney 5 65873 Jinja Cody nwtd.........................J McInerney 6 Fx288 Opawa Leigh 18.99 ......................... R Wales 7 37157 Uncle Jock 19.12 ..................... P Hammond 8 32426 Chief Doug 18.74 ......................J McInerney 9 48785 Goldstar Bindi nwtd S & ..................B Evans 10 68577 Magic Velvet nwtd .......................D Kingston

Race 1: Hot N Fast, Caroline Wozniacki, Sunny Bill, Here We Are Race 2: Spritz, Marrera, Hunter Red, Ideal Cullen Race 3: Delightful Infusion, Viewfield Chatton, Delightful Kas Race 4: Mekong Princess, Dauntless, Monaro Mia, Xtra Time Race 5: Madiba, Jack Bates, Shadow Maker, Sheeza Sport Race 6: Atom Hanover, Nova Time, Itsokbeingbetter, Toll Gate Race 7: November Guy, Trouble Giero, The Prince, Clifden Clowers Race 8: Sauchiehall, Carbonado, Grey Skies, Hold All Bets Race 9: Ardent Lustre, Mister Harris, Gotta Moment Race 10: Max Phactor, Lusty Mac, Shillelagh, Bettor Spirits 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

Today at Forbury Park Raceway

Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 13 Feb 2018 Z Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12; 13 and 14 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 8, 9 and 10; 12, 13 and 14 1 11.58am (NZT) OGRC MAIDEN SPRINT C0, 310m 1 46767 Koputai nwtd ..................................J Guthrie 2 34578 Goldstar Alfie nwtd S & ...................B Evans 3 43887 Cassia nwtd ..............................J McInerney 4 43453 It’s A Must nwtd J &.........................D Fahey 5 6xF73 Homebush Tasha nwtd ..............J McInerney 6 7 Pam Arising nwtd M & .......................Jopson 7 Sly Bet nwtd M &...............................Jopson 8 32 Cosmic Ruben nwtd ..................J McInerney 9 36587 Four Twenty nwtd ......................J McInerney 10 68F Mounga nwtd ............................J McInerney 2 12.15pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C0, 310m 1 74434 Melting World nwtd.........................J Guthrie 2 52526 Cosmic Ryder nwtd ...................J McInerney 3 821 Epic Mate nwtd M & ..........................Jopson 4 76488 Kowloon Lights nwtd ......................J Guthrie 5 5 Jinja Spirit nwtd .........................J McInerney 6 54576 Goldstar Raven nwtd S & ................B Evans 7 7 Mumma Itch Bay nwtd M & ...............Jopson 8 85545 Devon Baxter nwtd ....................J McInerney 9 6887x Homebush Marko nwtd .............J McInerney 10 88 Goldstar Wilson nwtd S & ...............B Evans 3 12.33pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER STAKES C0, 545m 1 432 Sefton Jay nwtd...............................R Wales 2 53736 Malaga Molly nwtd ....................J McInerney 3 44441 Go Belle nwtd..................................R Wales 4 77777 Dig Dig Dig nwtd M & ........................Jopson 5 86784 Springheel Jack nwtd .....................J Guthrie 6 83534 Glass Harpoon nwtd ......................J Guthrie 7 6244 Goldstar Diesel nwtd S & ................B Evans

8 225 Jinja Flash nwtd J & ........................D Fahey 9 34252 Go Show nwtd.................................R Wales 10 28664 Lucky Mick nwtd ..............................R Wales 4 12.50 BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS STAKES C1, 545m 1 67274 Homebush Boden 33.32 ...........J McInerney 2 14181 Classy Witch 32.72 ........................G Cleeve 3 55188 Bouncer Milos nwtd...................J McInerney 4 88738 Pukeko Bolt 32.44 ..........................B Healey 5 17878 Opawa Richie 32.79 ........................R Wales 6 64285 Dave’s Pick 33.37......................J McInerney 7 1114 Lord Louie 33.39 ...........................R Adcock 8 77746 Know Scholar 32.23 .......................G Cleeve 9 x8665 Heritage Watch 32.93 ....................J Guthrie 10 46875 Goldstar Scooby nwtd S & ..............B Evans 5 1.08 ALL FENCING SOLUTIONS SPRINT C1, 310m 1 22674 Replica Casino nwtd ......................B Pringle 2 84878 Knocka Few Back 18.56.................C Healey 3 38754 Homebush Sloan 18.54 ............J McInerney 4 52716 Homebush Pansy nwtd .............J McInerney 5 58825 Rib Curler nwtd ..................................J Allen 6 48421 Debbie Baxter nwtd...................J McInerney 7 48557 Idol Eve 18.78 .................................R Wales 8 52122 Botany Whisper nwtd ................J McInerney 9 33575 Know Dollars nwtd .........................G Cleeve 10 7x685 Homebush Ivana nwtd ..............J McInerney 6 1.27pm ST KILDA VET CENTRE SPRINT C2, 310m 1 67511 Homebush Austin 18.87 ............J McInerney 2 47413 Disclaimer nwtd.............................R Adcock 3 53361 Goldstar Scooter nwtd S &..............B Evans 4 55172 Queen Kong nwtd .....................J McInerney 5 22736 Mitcham Reado 18.68 ...............J McInerney 6 76741 Stormy Sunday 18.77 ...............J McInerney 7 23463 Mertz 18.75 ...............................J McInerney 8 13653 Jealous Much 18.80 ..................J McInerney 9 34145 Senorita Julie nwtd....................J McInerney 10 64344 Know Sweat 18.74 .........................G Cleeve

7 1.47 BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING STKS C1, 545m

1 62451 Cosmic Stu 33.20......................J McInerney 2 67667 Opawa Val 32.70 .............................R Wales 3 74434 Gorm The Great 33.43 ................D Kingston 4 15625 Know Leave 33.62 .........................G Cleeve 5 56437 Homebush Fued nwtd ...............J McInerney 6 37776 Majestic Action 32.85 S & ...............B Evans 7 32436 Homebush Ragna nwtd ............J McInerney 8 65676 No Tinkerbell 32.96 ........................J Guthrie 9 45577 Luciastar 32.67 .........................J McInerney 10 57657 Awesome Annie 32.70 ................ B I Conner 8 2.05 MORNINGTON VET CENTRE SPRINT C3, 310m 1 21221 Homebush Banker 18.50 ..........J McInerney 2 22111 Coco Bango 18.64 ....................J McInerney 3 65473 Zipping Clyde 18.45 .................... B I Conner 4 15343 Zugzwang nwtd ...........................R Hamilton 5 14467 Opawa Jumper 18.68 ......................R Wales 6 36355 Valyrian Steel 18.83 ..................J McInerney 7 11145 Gotcha Penny 18.66 .................J McInerney 8 38716 Zipping Jen nwtd ......................... B I Conner 9 26458 Justin Ryan 18.51 S &..................... B Evans 10 17746 Opawa Binge 18.36......................... R Wales 9 2.22 GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C4, 310m 1 17388 Koputara 18.73 M & ..........................Jopson 2 64827 Super Bad 18.44 ..........................D Roberts 3 22216 Ohoka Alex 18.67..........................R Adcock 4 53536 Princely Gold 18.62...................J McInerney 5 51774 Chop Shop 19.09 ......................J McInerney 6 34435 Star Bucking 18.57....................J McInerney 7 55114 Epic Mango 18.79 M &......................Jopson 8 72515 Think Tank 18.85 .......................J McInerney 9 45653 Watta Gunn nwtd ..........................R Adcock 10 24487 Know Hassle 18.64 ........................G Cleeve 10 2.40pm NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEAT 1 NZRSq, 545m 1 27217 Dream Kay nwtd..............................R Wales 2 41332 Opawa Plum nwtd ...........................R Wales

SELECTIONS

Race 1: It’s A Must, Cosmic Ruben, Cassia, Sly Bet, Four Twenty Race 2: Epic Mate, Melting World, Jinja Spirit, Devon Baxter Race 3: Jinja Flash, Go Belle, Malaga Molly, Go Show Race 4: Lord Louie, Classy Witch, Homebush Boden, Pukeko Bolt Race 5: Homebush Sloan, Replica Casino, Know Dollars Race 6: Disclaimer, Queen Kong, Mitcham Reado, Mertz Race 7: Homebush Ragna, Majestic Action, Gorm The Great Race 8: Coco Bango, Gotcha Penny, Zipping Clyde, Opawa Jumper Race 9: Super Bad, Princely Gold, Koputara, Watta Gunn Race 10: Mazu, Opawa Brad, Dream Kay, Kia Tere, Opawa Plum Race 11: Opawa Rooster, Hard Questions, Goldstar Marvely Race 12: Wheelchair Norm, Hey Jude, Opawa Sheldon Race 13: Epic Boom, Cosmic Jase, Know Approval, Trendy Blake Race 14: Chief Doug, Amy Baxter, Homebush Hundy, Jinja Cody LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Cavs batter Celtics LeBron James silenced a Boston Celtics crowd that came to celebrate Paul Pierce, helping the newlook Cleveland Cavaliers to a 12199 NBA victory.

The Cavs star’s individual performance was reminiscent of the rivalry’s heyday.

But this time, Pierce was sitting court side in street clothes, unable to do anything about it.

With the former Celtics great waiting to see his No. 34 raised to the Boston Garden rafters, James shook off a first-quarter leg injury, sustained when he collided with Australian centre Aron Baynes, to score 24 points with 10 assists and eight rebounds.

In their first appearances since being acquired at the trade deadline, Jordan Clarkson scored 17 points, Rodney Hood had 15, George Hill had 12 and Larry Nance Jr. five.

Cleveland are third in the east with a 33-22 record while the Celtics, who have spent much of the season in first place in the eastern conference, have lost four of their past 10 to slip to 40-18.

Both teams trail the Toronto Raptors, who cruised to a comfortable 123-103 victory over the Charlotte Hornets.

DeMar DeRozan had 25 points

LeBron James on the board and eight assists while C.J. Miles added 24 points as six Toronto players scored in double figures.

Their fifth-straight win improved their record to 39-16 and gave Dwane Casey his 300th victory as head coach of the team.

James Harden scored 27 points and Chris Paul added 25 as the Houston Rockets easily handled the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 104-97.

The Mavericks, who were playing their first game this season without veteran Dirk Nowitzki, were game but never in the hunt against the second seeds in western conference, who improved to 42-13.

The Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 121-113 with Victor Oladipo contributing 30 points, nine assists and eight rebounds.

The Pacers have won six of their past eight while the Knicks losing streak reached six games.

The Minnesota Timberwolves overcame an uncharacteristic sloppy performance at home to beat the Sacramento Kings 111-106.

Karl-Anthony Towns led all scorers with 29 points.

Paul George scored 33 points to help the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Memphis Grizzlies 110-92, without injured duo Russell Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony.

Dewayne Dedmon gave the Atlanta Hawks the lead with a threepoint play and then padded the margin with a three-pointer to lift them past the Detroit Pistons 118115.

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

10am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Exercises and Tai Chi for arthritis. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street. (excludes school and public holidays).

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Cryptic crossword

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

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

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There is at least one fiveletter word.

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ACROSS 6. Natural environment (7) 7. Glances (5) 9. Enemy (3) 10. Strike back (9) 12. Gain full understanding (3,3,5) 15. Aggressive and hostile (11) 17. An actor’s alias (5,4) 19. Pork product (3) 21. Candid (5) 22. Souvenir (7)

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): There’s usually a need that goes lurking beneath the request that’s being made. You sense what it is in yourself and in others: for instance, when they ask for advice but really want corroboration.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): There may be tension between differing generations. To get around it, tune in to what the other party finds relevant and to steer clear of topics and manners that may be difficult for others to relate to.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): All of life is an experience: good and bad, the exciting and the tedious, the struggle and the triumph. Don’t worry so much about whether you’re on the right path.

Today, the point is just that you’re moving.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): There’s a venture in the back of your mind that is starting to push its way to the front. Will people pay for your special talent? Could you make a living with this?

Toy around with the idea more seriously.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): There’s nothing that influences you more today than the scary example someone else sets forth. You don’t want it to be you. You’ve better ideas about how you want your life to go.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Being comfortable with yourself is insurance against loneliness. Your own friendship is truly the cornerstone that anchors all the other relationships. So be nice to yourself.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Reading and writing is well and good, but conversation is the best mental exercise you can get today. It’s an intellectual game of catch. The bouncing around in the moment is what keeps you sharp.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Take on the challenge of extrapolating accurate nuggets of truth out of the stories you’ll hear today, because people are likely to make exaggerated claims -- part of the fun of the day!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Strike out on your own and the adventure will be noteworthy, though it will lack the conflict and compromise that inevitably makes for a better story.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The mind-body connection is strengthening. Every time you decide on how you want to move and follow through with this, your body will become increasingly receptive to your command.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): It seems that someone always loves more, sacrifices greater and gets their way less often... and that’s always you. Today you feel like a victim of love, but distortions abound. Later you’ll feel differently.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): People lie when they are afraid to tell the truth. You make it safe to say the truth, and the truth is what you’ll get.

Perfect because you hunger for honest and intimate conversations.

Previous cryptic solution

Across 1. Chamber 5. Haver 8. Decorum 9. Thump 10. Trumpeter 12. Her 13. Rigid 17. Off 19. Index-link 21. Midge 22. Convert 24. Treat 25. Stretch Down 1. Cadets 2. Accrues 3. Bar24. Remit 4 5. Heterodox 8 6. Vouch 7. Report 11. Pertinent 14. Evident 15. Commit 3 7 4 16. Sketch 18. Fudge 20. Docks 23. Nor

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ACROSS 1. One instrument is backing combination of notes by another (11) 7. An anchorite will reemploy about a hundredth of a litre (7) 9. Harbour left for a sailor (4) 11. Discovered how to establish it on a basis (5) 12. Has been, at heart, defeated (6) 14. The assignation to Britain tout arranges (11) 18. Feverish way he got critic to drop right one (6) 20. Such as Madam Butterfly a rope is thrown to (5) 22. It is not common to be so 1ightly cooked (4) 23. It should give one a clear sight of such nonsense (3-4) 24. With lozenge-shaped stones alter die cut out for it (11) DOWN 2. Give a reason for the bill (7) 3. One met up with something listed (4) 4. Small marsupial on the street that chickens come home to (5) 5. To make a transplant is hard work (5) 6. The weight of a hard fruit kernel (5) 8. Nun could take pride and offer support from below (8) 10. Almost a bit more in a dose of glucose (8) 13. Decline to be up before breakfast starts (3) 15. Work a machine, as would chirurgeon (7) 16. Personal magnetism may act like a spell (5) 17. School subject for changing hat in manuscript (5) 19. A graph will not be straight (5) 21. A dandy with gold will be first (4)

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 10am Whanau Living 10:30 Four In A Bed 11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 2pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 0 3pm Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 The Best Of New Zealand With Nick Honeyman Nick meets a family who own a boutique vineyard, and a farmer who raises Southdown sheep, and makes a roast-lamb dish with a twist, matched with local wine. 0 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 The Celebrity Chase 0 8:30 The Monster Of Mangatiti AO When 19-year-old Heather Walsh accepts a job on a farm in the Mangatiti Valley, she has no idea it will become a nightmare. 0 10:05 Dog Squad PGR 0 10:35 1 News Tonight 0 11:05 F Boss AO Miller publishes a story that could destroy Kane. 0 12:20 Secrets And Lies AO Ben must keep his family together after a damaging revelation is made public just before the holidays. 0 1:15 Te Karere 3 2 1:40 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

The Monster of Mangatiti 8:30pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 10am Four Weddings USA 3 10:55 David Tutera – Celebrations 3 11:50 Snapped PGR 3 12:40 The Real Housewives Of New York City PGR 1:40 He Shed She Shed 3 2:30 World Of Dance PGR 3 3:30 How Do I Look?

4:30 Four Weddings USA 5:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 6:30 David Tutera – Celebrations 7:28 The Dish Series featuring entertainment and celebrity news, presented

by Cassidy Morris.

7:30 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 3 8:30 The Real Housewives Of Melbourne AO The women celebrate Jackie’s 37th birthday, with the notable exception of Lydia; Jackie takes everyone by surprise, motivating Venus to patch things up with Gamble.

9:35 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey 10:33 The Dish 10:35 Intervention AO 3 11:25 Snapped PGR 3 12:15 Infomercials 3

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6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Peppa Pig 0 7am My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic 3 0 7:25 Milo Murphy’s Law 0 7:50 Beyblade Burst 3 8:15 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 0 8:35 Doc McStuffins – Toy Hospital 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am The Amazing Race 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle PGR 1pm Judge Rinder 2pm Home Improvement 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 3:35 Ultimate Spider-Man 0 4pm The Lodge 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 My Kitchen Rules The show travels to the Gold Coast, where hospitality couple Alex and Emily aim to raise the bar. 0 8:45 Instant Hotel 0 10pm I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Australia 0

11:30 Mom PGR 3 0 Midnight Agent X AO 0 1:35 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 2am Infomercials 3:05 Army Wives AO 3 0 4:30 Cougar Town 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

My Kitchen Rules 7:30pm on TVNZ 2

SKY 5 6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 Jeopardy! PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Scorpion ML 8:05 Pawn Stars – UK PG 8:30 The Force MC 8:55 Ice Road Truckers PG 9:45 NCIS PGV 10:40 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 11:35 Jeopardy! PG Noon Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:30 MacGyver M 1:30 Border Security PG 2pm Raw Live MV 5:15 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:40 Ice Road Truckers PG 6:30 The Force MC 7pm Pawn Stars – UK PG 7:30 Supergirl MVS 8:30 NCIS – New Orleans MV 9:30 NCIS PGV 10:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 11:25 Ice Road Truckers PG

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12:20 Border Security PG 1:20 Pawn Stars PG 1:50 NCIS – New Orleans MV 2:40 Supergirl MVS 3:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 4:20 The Force MC 4:45 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:10 Jeopardy! PG 5:35 The Simpsons PG

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6am The AM Show 9am Boy To Man PGR 3 10am Infomercials 11:30 Entertainment Tonight 3 Noon Family Feud Australia 3 12:30 Dr Phil AO 1:25 Married At First Sight Australia PGR 3 0 3pm Entertainment Tonight 3:30 Family Feud Australia 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm Susie Nordqvist presents comprehensive coverage of global and local news.

4:30 The Block Australia The couples begin demolition and planning for their guest bedroom; Clint and Hannah have some major decisions to make; a contestant receives some sad news.

5:30 Modern Family 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm The Project 7:30 Married At First Sight Australia PGR 0 9pm SVU – Special Victims Unit AO 0 10pm Road Cops PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 10:30 NewsHub Late

6am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 0 7am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 3 0 8:05 Batman – Brave And The Bold 8:30 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky And Dawn 3 8:55 Tiki Tour 0 9:25 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 Hot Bench 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 12:40 Elementary AO 3 0 1:35 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 2:30 Wheel Of Fortune 3pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:30 Olympic Winter Games 5:30 Prime News 6pm Olympic Winter Games The men’s halfpipe qualifiers from Phoenix Snow Park, hosted by Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. 0 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Great Australian Bake Off For dessert week, the six remaining bakers must create signature individual puddings, a dried-apricot pavlova, and a tiered showstopper. 0 8:35 The Eighties PGR 9:35 Olympic Winter Games

11pm The Blacklist AO When bodies are found in abandoned woods, Red points the Task Force to The Invisible Hand, a group that targets those whose actions are morally reprehensible yet legal. 0 Midnight Infomercials

4am Closedown

6am The Living Room 7am Gardeners’ World 7:30 Love Nature – Wild Birds Of Australia 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things – Best Bites 10am Luke Nguyen’s United Kingdom 10:30 Caribbean Pirate Treasure 11am David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 11:30 Tiny House Hunting Noon Caligula With Mary Beard 1pm Stephen Fry In Central America 2pm Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 3pm Gardeners’ World 3:30 Love Nature – Catching The Impossible 4:30 Jimmy’s Australian Food Adventure 5pm A Taste Of South Africa 5:30 Cash Cowboys 6:30 Expedition Unknown

7pm Pukuhohe 3 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 8pm The Topp Twins – Do Not Adjust Your Twinset PGR 3 8:30 F School Of Training 3 9pm Songs From The Inside AO 3 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 3 10pm Whawhai 10:30 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3

7:30 Restoration Man 8:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers A few years ago, Frank and Diana got into their milliondollar neighbourhood with a three-bedroom fixer-upper but, four children later, they have not even begun renovating.

9:30 Big House, Little House 10:30 Cash Cowboys

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

11:30 Jimmy’s Australian Food Adventure Midnight A Taste Of South Africa 12:30 Undersea Edens 1am Expedition Unknown 2am Love Nature – Catching The Impossible 3am Tiny House Hunting 3:30 Gardeners’ World 4am Restoration Man 5am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers

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MOVIES GREATS 6:55 What To Expect When You’re Expecting MLS 2012 Romantic Comedy.

Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Chase Crawford. 8:45 There Will Be Blood MV 2007 Drama. Daniel DayLewis. 11:20 Notorious 16VLS 2009 Drama.

Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett.

1:25 Paranormal Activity 16L 2007 Horror Thriller.

Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs. 2:50 Pain And Gain 18VLS 2013 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson.

5pm Flightplan MV 2005 Thriller. Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard. 6:35 Battle – Los Angeles MVL 2011 Action. Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez. 8:30 The Whole Nine Yards MVLS 2000 Crime Comedy. When a hit man moves into suburbia, the lives of the local inhabitants change dramatically.

Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry.

10:10 Hereafter MVL 2010 Drama. Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard.

6:30 The World Rugby Show (RPL) 7am Rugby – Brisbane Tens (HLS) Day One. 8:30 Rugby – Brisbane Tens (HLS) Day Two. 10am Golf – European Tour (HLS) ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth.

10:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. 11am The Cricket Show 11:30 Cricket – T20 Tri Series (HLS) Australia v England.

Noon Fox Sports News 12:30 Sky Sports News UK 1pm Netball – Super League (RPL) Wasps v Surrey Storm. 2:30 Sky Sports News UK 3pm Hook Me Up! 4pm Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race (HLS) Leg Four. 4:30 The Cricket Show 5pm Cricket – T20 Tri Series (HLS) Australia v Blackcaps. 5:30 Cricket – T20 Tri Series (HLS) Australia v England. 6pm Cricket – T20 Tri Series (HLS) Australia v England. 6:30 L Cricket – T20 Tri Series Blackcaps v England. 10:30 The Cricket Show 11pm Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race (HLS) Leg Four.

11:30 Basketball – NBL (HLS) NZ Breakers v Melbourne United.

12:15 Evan Almighty PGL 2007 Comedy. Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham.

1:50 Flightplan MV 2005 Thriller. Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard. 3:25 Battle – Los Angeles MVL 2011 Action.

5:20 The Whole Nine Yards MVLS 2000 Crime Comedy.

Midnight Fox Sports News 12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 1am Cricket – T20 Tri Series (HLS) Blackcaps v England. 1:30 The Golf Show 2:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. 3:30 Rugby – Brisbane Tens (HLS) Day One. 5am Rugby – Brisbane Tens (HLS) Day Two.

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1:05 The Directors – Mel Gibson PG 1:35 A Date With Miss Fortune MLS 2015 Romantic Comedy.

3:10 Criminal 16VL 2016 Action Crime. 5am War On Everyone 16VLSC 2016 Action Comedy.

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Dora Matatoa 2 7:10 Te Mana Kuratahi 7:40 Kia Mau 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 Morena 3 9am It’s In The Bag 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Waiata Mai 3 3:10 Dora Matatoa 2 3:40 Te Mana Kuratahi 4:10 Kia Mau 3 4:20 Huritua 3 4:30 Swagger 5pm Sisters 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 6:30 Te Kaea 3 2

7:05 Hard Sell MLS 2016 Comedy. Katrina Bowden, Skyler Gisondo. 8:40 Worlds Apart 16VLSC 2016 Drama. JK Simmons, Christoforos Papakaliatis.

10:35 Conspiracy ML 2016 Drama.

Minnie Driver, Frank Grillo.

Noon Table 19 MLSC 2017 Comedy. Anna Kendrick, Stephen Merchant. 1:25 The Infiltrator 16VLSC 2016 Crime.

Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger.

3:30 Hard Sell MLS 2016 Comedy. Katrina Bowden, Skyler Gisondo. 5:05 A Date With Miss Fortune MLS 2015 Romantic Comedy.

Jeannette Sousa, Ryan Scott.

6:40 Criminal 16VL 2016 Action Crime. Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot.

8:30 War On Everyone 16VLSC 2016 Action Comedy.

Two fast-talking, drugsnorting, corrupt police officers blackmail every criminal they encounter, until they cross one who is too sinister to bring down.

10:10 Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong ML 2015 Romantic Comedy.

11:30 Dial A Prayer MLC 2015 Comedy Drama.

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SKY SPORT 2 6am Hook Me Up! 7am NRL 360 8am Rugby – Six Nations (RPL) Ireland v Italy.

10am Rugby – Six Nations (RPL) England v Wales.

Noon Rugby – Six Nations (RPL) Scotland v France.

2pm Hold Back The River 4:30 Rugby – Brisbane Tens (HLS) Day One. From Suncorp Stadium.

6pm Rugby – Brisbane Tens (HLS) Day Two. From Suncorp Stadium.

7:30 Football – A-League (HLS) Wellington Phoenix v Perth Glory.

From Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

8pm ISPS Handa Premiership Highlight Show 8:30 Football – A-League Shootout 9:30 Football – A-League Hour 10:30 UEFA Europa League Magazine Show 11pm Football – A-League (HLS) Western Sydney Wanderers FC v Wellington Phoenix.

11:30 Hold Back The River

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2am Football – A-League (HLS) 2:30 Football – A-League Shootout 3:30 Football – A-League Hour 4:30 Halberg Awards (HLS) 13Feb18

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12:30 The Perfect Murder M The Curious Case of the Persian Violet. 1:20 Blood Relatives M 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm Deadliest Catch PG We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight.

4:45 What On Earth? PG 5:40 MythBusters PG Moon Landing Hoax Hour.

6:35 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG 7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG Gold Gypsies Chris and Greg Clark start their season with heartbreak; the Dirt Dogs stumble on a possible jackpot.

8:30 What On Earth? PG 9:25 Street Science PG Fire Tornado.

9:50 Street Science PG Flying Saucers.

10:15 Moonshiners M 11:05 Naked And Afraid M Lost at Sea. 11:55 Blood Relatives M

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12:45 The Perfect Murder M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Edge Of Alaska M

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Methven’s Sam Bubb sends down a big serve in his match against Southern’s Jason Feutz on Saturday. Bubb lost this encounter, but his team won 5-1 on the day.

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Fairton upsets front-runners

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Fairton caused a stir in Mid Canterbury senior tennis on Saturday, beating competition leaders Hampstead 5-1.

Rhys Cromie and Tyler Leonard teamed up to beat Aidan Mitchell and Michael Kerr 6-0, 6-3, then Cromie went on to beat Mitchell 6-2, 6-2.

Leonard needed a tie-breaker to beat Kerr 6-4, 3-6 (10-7).

Phil Crozier and William Edgar had a close tussle against Mary-Anne Thyne and

Jade Brosnahan, needing a tie-break to decide the first set, which went Hampstead’s way 3-7.

Fairton won the second 6-2 then took the deciding tie-break 10-4.

Crozier beat Mathieu Lucas 6-1, 6-1 in the singles, while Brosnahan was the only shining light for the Hampstead side, eventually winning her singles against Edgar 6-1, 6-2.

Allenton beat Tinwald 4-2, Connor Brosnahan and Andre van Rooyen losing their doubles to Peter Leonard and Eddie Dargue

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but righting the ledger with wins in their singles matches.

Van Rooyen beat Dargue 6-2, 6-2 and Brosnahan beat Henrick Tawatao 6-1, 6-3.

Mary-Anne Martin teamed up with Aaron Reid for Allenton against Josh Jones and Tawatao in the doubles, the match decided with a tie-breaker going Allenton’s way 1210.

Martin beat John Leslie in the singles, while Jones beat Reid 6-3, 6-4 for Tinwald’s only other winning match-up.

Methven beat Southern 5-1.

Methven’s Sam Bubb and Gareth Evans beat Jason Feutz and Luke Glendining, while Erin Connelly-Whyte and Tim Parsons made short work of Aidan Watt and Amelia McKeown.

Feutz beat Bubb 6-3, 7-6 for Southern’s only win.

One round remains in the senior tennis competition, which will take a break on February 24 and 25 for a Browning Shield match.

The annual Gala Cup will be contested on March 17.

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