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

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Members of the Ashburton District Road Safety co-ordinating committee have questioned the Government’s decision to fund lights at an intersection in Tinwald, While the funding deal was greeted positively when announced last month, committee members are asking whether the project would be completed with any urgency and they also querying whether there was a better location than at the Lagmhor Road intersection with State Highway 1 identified.

The lights were part of a multi-billion dollar infrastructure roading upgrade package and the Government indicated funding would be given for lights to be installed at the intersection Archibald Street (State Highway 1) and Lagmhor and Agnes Street.

However, a number of members of

Funding for lights at the intersection of Archibald Street with Lagmhor Road and Agnes Street has been granted.

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the road safety committee suggested a more appropriate place for the lights would be at the intersection of Archibald Street and Grahams Road.

Canterbury and West Coast Automobile Association council member John Skevington said the intersection in question was very complicated and that lights at Grahams Road would be a much simpler option.

“With Sims (Bakery) on one side and businesses on the other side making visibility difficult and more traffic coming up from Lake Hood it seems like a better option,” he said.

Ashburton District Council group service delivery manager Neil McCann told the meeting that the plan for lights at the Lagmhor Road site had to be put

aside due to the level of work required to install signals at the intersection and that he had been surprised that the site had been chosen when the funding was announced.

While discussion around the table indicated pessimism that the project would take many years to complete, McCann said the Government had shown a sense of urgency to get these projects moving, hence why they had chosen projects that could be considered ready to go, like this one at the installation of traffic lights at the West Street, Walnut Avenue intersection.

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Vintage cars a hit at daycare outing

By Sue Newman

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It might have been a day where some of Ashburton’s older residents enjoyed a day out in a beautiful country garden, but it was also a day where some of the vehicles they travelled in outstripped them in years.

About 50 clients from the Elizabeth Street Day Care yesterday headed to Lois and Peter Etheridge’s Greenstreet garden for lunch, entertainment and an opportunity to take a ride in some beautifully restored vintage cars.

The day out came cost free, thanks to benefactors who support the day care facility and their generosity saw members of Winchmore Rural Women turn on lunch. Any profits from the day will go to the Australian Bush Fire appeal.

Daycare manager Sue Hopkins said the event was about making memories for their clients and was part of a wide range of life enriching activities they took part in during the year.

The offer of the Etheridge garden to host the event and the willingness of several vintage car owners to take clients for a jaunt around the property made it a very special day out, Hopkins said.

Among the vintage vehicles was Ian Johnson’s 1930 Model A. He bought the vehicle for 85 pounds (about $170) and has owned it for 61 years – come April.

He and the car lived on Stewart

Enjoying a day in a beautiful country garden (from left), vintage car owner Ian Johnson with his 1930 Model A Ford, Elizabeth Street Day Care clients Ian Paterson and John Fahey and vintage car owner Les Bennett with his 1929 Plymouth.

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Island for many of those years, and while it was in reasonable condition when he took over ownership, Paterson said its restoration was a 25 year project.

Les Bennett and his 1929 Plymouth also go back a long way.

He’s owned the vehicle for 52 years and its restoration has been a long labour of love over many

of those years.

Today it’s his pride and joy.

And Cynthia Young’s 1929 Chevrolet is a true survivor, coming though the Napier earth-

quakes in 1931.

She’s been the proud owner for the last 25 years and in spite of its years, the car is in superb condition and runs perfectly, she said.

Questions remain over new traffic lights From P1 The traffic lights have been in the works for many years, with talks taking place between the council and the New Zealand Transport Agency in 2012 about the costing and location of the lights.

At that time the preferred option from NZTA was expected to cost $1.7 million, but never eventuated.

The New Zealand Transport Agency had previously told the council, before those discussions, that lights in Tinwald were a low priority because traffic issues did not justify the expense.

Included in the roading upgrade deal was the go ahead for the long planned for traffic signals at the corner of Walnut Avenue and State Highway One. NZTA director regional relationships Jim Harland said the

NZ Upgrade announcement would allow the transport agency to reopen the Tinwald corridor investigation.

“This will allow us to consider any other potential investment alongside the announced intersection improvement. This will include working closely with the Ashburton District Council.”

To date the preparation of a business case for the Tinwald corridor has cost $40,000.

In terms of the Walnut Avenue intersection upgrade, because designs were completed around six years ago they would need to be checked to ensure they still met the current standards and they would be updated where required, Harland said.

Some of the land required for the project is owned by KiwiRail and the transport agency would now be working with that organisation to finalise the design and

property acquisition needed, he said.

The transport agency has spent about $65,000 for minor property purchases at the intersection but land is still to be purchased from KiwiRail.

Close to $300,000 was spent on the pre-implementation phase six years ago by the agency. This included detailed design. Resource consenting has been kept up to date.

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Licence offences remain at a high level

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

People breaching the conditions of their graduate licences continue to be an issue for local police who are frustrated at not seeing the number of offences dropping.

In his report to the Ashburton District road safety co-ordinating committee meeting on Tuesday, Mid South Canterbury Highway patrol sergeant Steve Burgerhout told committee members that since July last year more than 500 tickets had been handed out by police staff on licence-related offences.

“There are still plenty of these coming through and it is not just young drivers that continue to be a problem,” he said.

“I stopped a woman the other day who was 56 years old, on her learner licence, which she had had for the past 28 years.”

When asked why so many offences were still occurring involving people on their learner and restricted licences, Burgerhout explained that drivers were either picked up through unsafe driving or checkpoints, with the vast majority being stopped at checkpoints and apprehended as opposed to any unsafe driving behaviour.

Breath testing checkpoints will also be a bigger focus for highway patrol staff this year.

Burgerhout said due to staffing requirements across the large

Increasing the number of breath tests they carry out will be a focus for highway patrol staff this year.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN area that is the Mid/South Canterbury policing district it was often difficult to get the staff together to run a checkpoint.

“There has been a message

come down from headquarters that there is less breath testing going on and it is something I will be looking to increase,” he said.

Staffing numbers will likely be

increasing in the district, with an advert currently in place for a highway patrol officer based out of Timaru or Ashburton.

Burgerhout said ideally they

would operate out of Ashburton but the position also needed to be advertised for Timaru as that area had more state highways and demand for services.

“The most driving complaints that we receive come from the Hundalees/Cheviot area and the Mackenzie District,” he said.

It was likely two further positions would be advertised out of Fairlie at some point this year.

Other information provided

by Burgerhout to the meeting included the road toll so far this year, which includes 34 deaths nationwide, down on 42 for the previous year at this point and 24 of which have been over the age of 40.

Three fatalities have occurred in Canterbury, down on six for the previous year.

Since July last year 79 people have been apprehended whilst drink driving.

Twenty-five of those were by highway patrol staff, while 54 were by regular police staff.

These numbers include those infringing at a fine-only level, and those required to appear in court.

In that time highway patrol staff have handed out 193 tickets for intersection offences such as failing to give way, or failing to stop, and just under 2500 speeding tickets.

Local staff have handed out 191 tickets for intersection offences and 382 speeding tickets.

CDHB committed to bowel screening by June 2020

By Susan Sandys

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The National Bowel Screening Programme is saving lives around New Zealand, but Mid Cantabrians are still waiting for it to be rolled out here.

Since its introduction in July 2017, the programme has found bowel cancers in 500 people, and in addition has led to the removal of thousands of polyps that can become cancerous in time.

All going well, residents in the Ashburton District and the rest

of the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) area will see the programme introduced by June.

A Ministry of Health spokesperson said yesterday that the ministry’s current timetable for the CDHB to go live with the programme was in June.

However, confirmation was dependent on the CDHB meeting readiness criteria.

CDHB executive director planning, funding and decision support, Carolyn Gullery, said the earliest proposed start date for

the roll-out was May to June 2020.

This date was subject to confirmation and/or change by the Ministry of Health, and was also dependent on the roll-out of the ministry’s National Screening Solution, which is information technology which supports the programme.

The CDHB was committed to working alongside the ministry to achieve the May to June roll-out date, however, had yet to meet the readiness criteria.

“In order to be ready for the

programme, we need to increase our capacity to carry out diagnostic processes such as endoscopies, and procedures such as colonoscopies,” Gullery said.

“We do not have space in existing facilities to achieve this currently, so have undertaken work to address these constraints and we’ll be in a position to comment further once this work has concluded.”

The programme is available free to those aged 60 to 74 in 10 of the country’s district health board

areas, with another six including the CDHB set to join this year.

People do not need to register, they are automatically contacted by mail to participate in the programme. Those aged 60 to 74 receive a bowel screening kit, which they undertake and then send back in the mail, receiving their test results within three weeks.

New Zealand has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world, and the disease kills as many people as breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.

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In brief Homicide inquiry A man who was at a house that is now the scene of a homicide investigation was among several people who ran for their lives when gunshots rang out. As he fled, he could not help but wonder if a girl he had seen at the property had got out safely too. Bay of Plenty Police have launched a homicide investigation after two men were found dead at a house on Ormsby Lane, in Omanawa near Tauranga, on Tuesday night. Authorities were called to the area after a report of gunshots fired shortly after 7.30pm – NZME Tuesday.

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Volunteer Leonie Green takes care of Gavin Blackwell’s toes.

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Every third Tuesday the meeting room at the Methven Presbyterian Hall is abuzz with the sound of foot spas and merry chit-chat, it’s foot clinic day.

Dating back to May 2009 the clinic was the brainchild of Methven stalwart Joan McKay and the then Presbyterian Minister, David Vaughan.

McKay recognised a need for regular foot care in the community and aimed to set up a service that catered for those who could no longer take care of their feet.

First up on her to-do list was to find a venue. As an active member of the Presbyterian Church, McKay approached Vaughan to see if he thought the hall would be available. Thankfully Vaughan could also see merit in the idea and agreed to make the hall booking permanent.

Next McKay cast her eye around for a co-ordinator to manage

bookings and marshal the volunteers. Ex-Methven House nurse manager Janette Shearer was approached, as Shearer’s friendly, yet no-nonsense, management style made her perfect for the role.

Shearer ran the foot clinic for nine years until illness forced her to step down, sadly Shearer passed away in 2018.

The co-ordinator’s role is now shared between Lumsden, and fellow volunteers Cathie Jackson and Annette Garde. Lumsden said the trio work well together.

“I take care of the appointment times as well as making sure we have all the supplies we need for each clinic. Cathie and Annette organise the volunteers and collect donations at the door.”

For Lumsden her involvement with the foot clinic has been a labour of love from the start.

“It’s a nice feeling to volunteer in a small community like ours. I enjoyed it on day one, that’s not

changed after all this time.”

Lumsden wanted to stress the vital part the volunteers have played in keeping the clinic going for the last 11 years and into the future.

“They are an amazing group of people to work with. To put it simply, without them the foot clinic would have ceased to exist long ago.”

Clients are referred from the likes of the Methven Medical Centre and Methven House.

However, the community wordof-mouth grapevine is also an effective marketing tool.

“We have people from Methven and the surrounding districts attend. There are around 40 to 45 clients on our books at any one time, a couple of them have been coming since the beginning.”

Two original clients were Dulcie Lyttle and husband Ivan, the pair would arrive together every six weeks. When Ivan passed away five years ago Dulcie kept

their long established tradition going.

“This is so lovely and my feet feel so nice when I leave and I enjoy catching up with everybody.”

Even though the clinics are held every three weeks, clients are on a six-week rotation. Treatment begins with a 10 minute foot spa, toenails are then trimmed and given a general tidy up, finishing with a relaxing foot massage.

Of course, any iconic New Zealand church hall would not be complete without a cuppa and a biscuit, served by the ladies in the kitchen.

In the past it has been noted that some have arrived before their allotted time so they can have a cuppa first and then line up again after their treatment.

This willingness to come early and stay later, says as much about the social aspect of the afternoon as it does about the quality of the baking or the services on offer.

Reserve boards need keen volunteers

By Sue Newman

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To most people the reserves and domains dotted around the Ashburton District are simply there to be enjoyed, but making sure those reserves are in top order falls on the shoulders of a dwindling number of people.

They make up the district’s reserves boards, but finding people to take up positions on those boards is not an easy job.

Ask Duncan King. He’s done two terms – that’s six years – as the Ruapuna board chair. He’d like to step down, but he knows finding someone to take his place might not be easy. At the last triennial meeting just four people turned up and that meant they all got a job.

But, with a reserve, swimming pool and tennis courts to maintain and farms to run, there’s a lot of work that falls to very few, King said.

“It’s a real struggle because everyone is too busy. I feel like I’m married to the Ruapuna pool most summers,” he said.

Rather than trying to hold working bees or create rosters for mowing and maintenance, it’s sometimes easier to pay someone to do the work and that’s where Ruapuna was fortunate having a bit of land on which it could generate some income, King said.

Residents will meet on February 22, a Saturday morning and King is keeping his fingers crossed that holding the meeting at that time will see a decent

turn out. A recent community event has given him cause for optimism.

“We had a fireworks display a while back and a lot of young people with families turned up so here’s hoping people with families will want to be involved. If we get a few more there than usual it’ll be great.”

HInds held its reserve board meeting on Tuesday night and Ashburton District councillor Stuart Wilson said it attracted more people than usual, a good sign.

“One or two dropped off the committee but we’ve got six people and some of those are new,” he said.

Reserves were an important part of a rural community and

community involvement was critical in keeping them in good order, Wilson said.

Some reserve boards have shut up shop over the years as schools or halls have closed or been moved off site. One of those is Maronan. It’s school became a hall and then eventually closed and the reserve is not under the umbrella of Hinds.

Lynford is also looking at a different future once the fate of its now closed school is decided, and that future could see it administered by Hinds.

Tinwald held its reserve board triennial meeting on Monday night and the Mayfield community will meet on February 19 and several other rural reserve boards will meet next month.

Climate change is throwing beech forests out of sync – a new finding that could have big implications for pest-fuelling “mast seeds” in New Zealand. A new study co-authored by a Kiwi scientist has shed more light on how the tree species is responding to a warming world, suggesting that its reproduction was being negatively affected by climate-driven changes to seed production systems. It took researchers closer to answering the key question of how climate change will ultimately affect the frequency of big mast seed years – events that typically occur at irregular intervals, and which can bring about pest explosions.

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‘Age is only a number’ A Mosgiel man who believed he was sexually grooming a 14-yearold girl online has been sentenced to five months’ home detention.

The schoolgirl was actually an undercover police officer, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday, and Evan Hedley Smith, 63, was finally arrested waiting for the teen by a playground in December following the threemonth sting. It came just six months after the defendant was acquitted at trial on two charges of rape and six of indecent assault.

The undercover detective told him she was living with her mother in Wellington while her father lived in Dunedin. She made her under age status clear but it did not deter Smith. By November, he professed his love for the teen. When she claimed to have recently turned 14, he reassured her age was “only a – NZME number”.

Dead tramper named A Dunedin student, who was one of two people found dead in the Makarora River at the weekend, was a senior member of the Otago University Tramping Club and a keen photographer. Police yesterday identified the man as Kevin Kum Fike Lee, 22, who lived in Dunedin. They are yet to release the name of a woman also found dead in the river. The two bodies were found in the Makarora River by members of the public at the weekend – the first about 5.15pm on Friday and the second about 12.30pm on Saturday. Otago University Students’ Association president Jack Manning said it was “deeply saddened to hear of the tragic death of Kevin Lee”. The circumstances of the deaths were not believed to be suspicious. The deaths came after several days of extreme weather in the lower half of the South Island.

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Weather warning for South Island

By Jamie Morton NZME

New Zealand is set to get its first visit from an ex-tropical cyclone this season, with the South Island’s West Coast and Fiordland forecast to bear Uesi’s brunt on Sunday.

But little of the system’s moisture was expected to go where it was needed most – in drought-stricken Auckland and Northland.

MetService meteorologist Rob Kerr said the latest models showed a “big jump” in the category 3 storm’s track, which was now looking to approach Fiordland from the north-west on Sunday, before stalling and weakening offshore on Monday.

Although Uesi’s low centre might not make landfall, rain bands associated with the storm should sweep over the South Island from later on Sunday, possibly bringing heavy falls and severe gales for Fiordland and parts of Westland.

Even though the storm will no longer be characterised as a Tropical Cyclone by then, the severity of the weather associated with it will still be significant for parts of

the country still recovering from recent storms.”

Kerr said severe weather warnings were required, these would begin appearing on MetService’s website from tomorrow.

He added that, as the forecast

track of this system had changed significantly from Tuesdday, there was still a level of uncertainty associated with the exact impacts.

But at this stage there was nothing to suggest that the upper North Island would receive any of the rain.

“As the cyclone comes down to the west of the country, that ridge that is over the North Island at the moment is going to move away, and we’ll start feeling a little more of an easterly flow.”

That could bring warmer,

moister conditions – and potentially some showers – but nothing significant enough to break a drought, he said.

WeatherWatch was advising trampers planning to walk in Fiordland and surrounding National Parks to pay close attention to the forecast from Sunday to next Wednesday – and alter plans if necessary.

While it was too early to lock in rainfall totals, preliminary estimates showed between 100mm to 150mm falling for the lower western side of the South Island – and that could potentially double, the website predicted.

It also pointed to the possibility of remnants of the system lingering and reaching the North Island at the end of next week.

“It may only be in the form of showers but Uesi will churn up currents in the atmosphere dragging down more moisture into the Tasman Sea region,” WeatherWatch reported.

“There is some modelling showing showers are more likely in the end of February for the North Island.”

Family of missing British tramper fly out to join search NZME The family of missing British tramper Stephanie Simpson say they are “desperate for information” and her parents are flying to New Zealand to help with the search.

The hunt for the 32-year-old from Essex, who disappeared in Mt Aspiring National Park over the weekend, continued yesterday with search and rescue teams using thermal imaging cameras and drones.

Simpson’s brother-in-law Sam Hazelton told media the family were all worried and desperate for information.

“The New Zealand police have said there have been two sightings of her on the trail but we don’t know the source of the information or have any further details.”

Hazelton said the last time the

Stephanie Simpson family heard from Stephanie was on WhatsApp early on Thursday morning.

“She contacted her friends after that on the Friday to say she was going hiking and camping.

“This was something Stephanie would do most weekends, it was her main reason for staying in Wanaka in New Zealand as it offered so many different trails.

“Stephanie is very competent and physically fit. She is relative-

ly experienced in outdoor activities and has already completed a number of hikes. She is such a fun-loving, kind, determined and adventurous woman, we are asking anyone who might know anything to please get in touch with police,” Hazelton said.

A police spokesperson yesterday said the search continued to focus on the area from Fantail Falls to Mt Brewster, the Brewster Hut and Mt Armstrong track, and also Makarora Valley.

“It is a large search area and much of it is difficult terrain.”

Police continue to appeal to hear from anyone who stayed in the Cameron Flat area on Friday and saw or spoke to Simpson, or anyone who may have seen her on the track from Fantail Falls to Mt Armstrong, or in the Makarora Valley.

Anyone with information

should call 105 and quote file 200211/4896.

On Tuesday, police said they were still optimistic they would find Simpson.

Sergeant Mark Kirkwood, of Haast, in charge of the search operation, said overnight temperatures had not been cold, the rivers were not as high as recent levels and Simpson was “an experienced and very fit” tramper.

Simpson was believed to have gone for a day hike to Brewster hut and had planned to walk to the glacier about 2km north of the hut.

The tramper also planned to visit Blue Pools, near Makarora.

She was reported missing about 8.45am on Monday when she failed to keep an appointment.

Wanaka and West Coast search and rescue teams as well as members of the public began combing

the trails from Fantail Falls to Mt Armstrong and in the Makarora Valley yesterday.

Kirkwood said Simpson was carrying only a day pack and probably did not take a search and rescue beacon with her.

Simpson arrived in Wanaka in November and has been working as a landscape gardener for Doug the Gardener.

Her employer, Douglas Peddle, was in Haast on Tuesday and was believed to have joined one of the volunteer search parties.

Peddle said Simpson was a keen tramper and had lots of equipment.

“She’s very fit and healthy. She came over from the UK and was keen to explore everything this region has to offer.

“She’s been doing a few tramps in the area and went away last weekend.”

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Deaths at denim factory AP Shouting and crying, workers in an Indian denim factory struggled to claw their way up a ladder to a door, their only exit as a fire blazed through fabric and machinery, officials said.

Seven people died in the weekend blaze, and families were still waiting yesterday to recover loved ones’ bodies.

“Smoke kept billowing from the building as workers trapped inside screamed for help,” said one eyewitness who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was worried he’d lose his job.

The factory where the fire occurred, Nandan Denim, has ties to major US retailers, according to its website. Nandan says it supplies jeans, denim and other garments to more than 20 global brands including popular US companies like Target, Ann Taylor, Mango and Wrangler, and its sister company supplies Walmart and H&M. Some of the US and multinational companies listed on the website said they were not actually customers, and many issued statements that strongly condemned dangerous work sites.

Nandan Denim is one of the largest denim suppliers in the world.

The fire broke out Saturday in its two-storey factory on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, a fast-growing city of 8.6 million in western Gujarat state.

The city’s industrial area, once covered with mountains of garbage, has slowly shifted into a hub for factories that make clothes sold to brands across the world.

Rajesh Bhatt, a senior fire of-

Burned remains are seen after a fire broke out at Nandan Denim garment factory, one of the largest denim suppliers in the world.

PHOTO AP ficial at the scene, told The Associated Press that the factory had just one door that could only be reached by climbing a steep ladder. The workers, Bhatt said, were resting after long shifts when the fire started.

“There were hardly any means of escape from the blaze,” said Bhatt.

Police investigators said the factory had violated multiple regulations and the owner, a manager and a fire safety officer have been arrested.

Local safety and health authorities have asked the company to close until further notice. Its licenses have been suspended, and Nandan Denim has agreed to pay the families of those killed a reported $US14,000 each.

Purvee, a factory spokeswoman who goes by only her first name, did not explain how it started but called the fire “unfortunate.” Factory officials would not comment on

whether they had undergone required audits and reviews.

Surviving workers, who are paid about 35 cents per hour, said conditions had been dangerous.

“We work almost 14 hours a day. But do we have an option?” said Vimalbhai, a textile worker, who goes by only one name.

“Every once a while there is a fire in some factory or the other. Nobody cares and we keep on working.”

Some workers said they were given impossible assignments, stitching more than 400 pieces of garments a day.

This forced many of them, mostly women, to work at a frantic pace, often forgoing meal breaks or using the toilet, said survivors.

One victim, Dayabhai Makwana, 43, made it out alive, but went back in to rescue co-workers and perished.

“I wish he hadn’t gone back to save his colleagues,” said

his grieving brother Dhanabai Makwana. He said more than 30 workers were in the factory at the time of the blaze.

Sobbing families were still waiting Wednesday outside one of the city’s hospital mortuaries to identify bodies charred beyond recognition.

They were told DNA confirmation would not come before Friday.

“We can’t even mourn our dead because we don’t know which one is ours,” said Mahesh Patel, whose nephew lost his life in the blaze.

Amar Barot of the Textile Labour Association said working conditions in the textile factories across the city are grim, with rare inspections and few safety norms.

“These incidents are irreversible and only strict monitoring by the government and its agencies can help prevent such disasters,” said Barot.

He also said labour unions across the region have been declining over the last few decades, making it difficult for the voices of workers to be heard.

Because thread, fabric cutting, weaving and sewing can be done in different locations, apparel supply chains can be complicated and it becomes nearly impossible to track a specific item to a specific factory.

Nandan Denim reported revenues of $218 million last year, and says it exports to more than 20 countries and has more than 4,500 employees. Shares of the firm were tumbling after news of the fire.

“The result is that workers are losing their lives in factory disasters that could easily have been prevented.”

Australia scraps indigenous disadvantage timetable AP The Australian government has scrapped a 12-year-old timetable for ending indigenous disadvantage, declaring on Wednesday that the policy had failed.

A new centre-left Labor Party government launched the ambitious Closing the Gap initiative in 2008 aimed at achieving equality for indigenous Australians in health and life expectancy within a generation.

Prime ministers have presented to Parliament a report every year since then quantifying progress made in seven areas.

Conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison used his annual report yesterday to note only two of the seven measures were on track – closing the gap between indigenous and other Australians in finishing high school and getting 4-year-olds enrolled in early education.

But indigenous men continued to die almost nine years younger than other Australian men and indigenous women died almost eight years younger than other women.

The gap is widening in the measure of child mortality, which is twice rate in the indigenous community than in the wider Australian society.

Morrison said successive governments’ top-down approach to Closing the Gap “hasn’t worked.”

“For 12 years, I have sat in this chamber and listened to Closing the Gap speeches. It’s a tale of hope, frustration and disappointment,” Morrison told Parliament.

“The results are not good enough.”

“Over decades, our top-down, government-knows-best approach has not delivered the improvements we all yearn for,” he added.

Morrison foreshadowed

new measures of progress that focused on local problems and priorities involving local indigenous communities. Those new steps would be agreed within months.

“I want the gaps to be defined by indigenous Australians,” Morrison said.

“I look forward to the shared targets with the right data that can inform us.”

Morrison said the federal government would work with state governments and indigenous groups to reach a new agreement aimed by at creating equality for indigenous Australians.

“I’m very hopeful that a new approach that’s more locally-led and more collaborative will take us much further than the top-down, one-size-fitsall, government-led approach ever could,” Morrison said.

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese described the current targets as “modest” and the gap in living standards between indigenous Austral-

ians as a “chasm”.

Albanese noted that while indigenous adults made up only 2 per cent of the Australian population, they accounted for 27 per cent of the prison population.

Ken Wyatt, the first indigenous person to become minister for indigenous Australians, said that leaders from the Coalition of Peaks, which represents 50 indigenous groups, had asked to “sit at the table to shape the direction of Closing the Gap into the future.”

Coalition of Peaks representative Jonathan Ford welcomed the new collaborative approach.

“Over the last 12 years, the failure has primarily been because we haven’t had a say on what happens to our people,” Ford said.

“So the new approach that they’re talking about is basically giving us an opportunity to have a say, co-design and make decisions in partnership with government.”

Culkin on Jackson friendship Macaulay Culkin has nothing to “speak up about” when it comes to the late Michael Jackson. The Home Alone actor was just 10-years-old when he befriended the late Thriller hitmaker – who died in 2009.

Despite the singer later being accused of molestation by a number of young men, Macaulay insisted he never saw “anything” untoward and has no reason to lie. “He never did anything to me. I never saw him do anything. And especially at this flashpoint in time, I’d have no reason to hold anything back. The guy has passed on. If anything - I’m not gonna say it would be stylish or anything like that, but right now is a good time to speak up. And if I had something to speak up about, I would totally do it. But no, I never saw anything.”

Amber Rose’s face tattoo Amber Rose has shown off a new tattoo. The model and actress now has a permanent reminder of her children on her forehead. The tattoo has the names of her children Bash and Slash written in a cursive font, media have reported. The 36-year-old debuted the tattoo in public while shopping in Los Angeles, however, she is yet to post a photo of the look on her social media accounts. She shares her 7-year-old son Bash, real name Sebastian Taylor Thomaz, with her ex-husband Wiz Khalifa. She recently had her second child, Slash Electric Alexander Edwards, with her boyfriend Alexander “AE” Edwards in October last year.

Debts paid in 12-day marriage Jon Peters claims he paid Pamela Anderson’s $200,000 debt. The couple were married for just a matter of days before they announced they were splitting and the filmmaker has now claimed he paid off the Baywatch stars’ hefty amount of debt. He told media: “Needless to say that when she texted me that she wanted to get married, it was kind of a dream come true even though I was engaged to someone else and the lady was moving in. I dropped everything for Pam. She had almost $200,000 in bills and no way to pay it so I paid it and this is the thanks I get.

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Get what you wish for in election year I

t’s hard not to be cynical when something you’ve wanted for a very long time, something that’s been off the radar because of cost, suddenly zooms into focus in an election year.

For years we’ve been banging on about the need for traffic lights in Tinwald and at the Walnut Avenue intersection with State Highway 1. We’ve come close on Walnut Avenue but never got within sniffing distance of Tinwald. And yet, here we are, seven months out from an election and we’ve been promised not one of those projects, but two.

You can forgive members of the Ashburton road safety committee raising a few eyebrows,

asking a few questions, wanting an assurance that those projects are locked and loaded. It seems unbelievable that the Tinwald traffic signal project can go from scrap heap to funded list in the blink of an eye, that something deemed impossible is now very possible indeed.

Walnut Avenue is a no-brainer.

The work’s been done in terms of design and planning and land acquisition has started – then stopped. Plans will need to be

revisited and revised, but in essence it’s ready to roll.

Negotiations between the NZ Transport Agency and KiwiRail are still required over land needed, but that’s two government agencies doing battle. Not our problem.

This project, however, does require effort, money and a land deal by the Ashburton District Council. The problem lies with our town centre railway line. You simply can’t put lights on West Street without putting them on East Street too. And while NZTA will cover the cost of the state highway work, it’ll be ratepayers footing the bill for the East Street – Walnut Avenue part of the work.

But this is a cost most of us

will be happy to cover. This intersection is diabolical most of the day; impossible before and after school. That it proceeds is a no-brainer.

Tinwald however is much more complex.

In the years of debates, discussions, public meetings, plans and proposals, the intersection tagged for lights in Tinwald has been in and out of favour.

It was dropped because of the complexity around land acquisition. While two corners are guarded by greenspace, presumably owned by KiwiRail, the other two are part of a tavern and a service station.

Nothing’s changed.

No room to slice anything off there. The question remains,

who has decided this will suddenly work – and how?

An option that’s been talked about, and favoured by many, is Grahams Road. Yes it’s a t-intersection, but it’s a super busy one. with traffic volumes from Lake Hood growing annually. This is already a busy road, it leads directly to Tinwald School. How much more sensible – and desirable would it be to put lights there?

The objective of easing passage from east to west Tinwald will still be achieved as lights, where ever they are, will create gaps in traffic flows. and when the second bridge across the Ashburton River is built, Grahams Road will be the logical feeder to and from the highway.

chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov.

In 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroyed an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been identified as a military command centre; Iraqi officials said 500 civilians were killed.

In 1998, Dr David Satcher was sworn in as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States during an Oval Office ceremony.

In 2000, Tiger Woods saw his streak of six consecutive victories come to an end as he fell short to Phil Mickelson in the Buick Invitational.

In 2013, 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 at the Vatican.

Ten years ago: President Barack Obama delivered a video address to the 7th US-Islamic World Forum meeting in Doha, Qatar, as part of his continuing effort to repair strained US relations with the world’s Muslims.

Five years ago: Calling cyberspace the new “Wild West,” President Barack Obama told the private sector during a White House cybersecurity summit at Stanford University that it needed to do

more to stop cyber attacks aimed at the US every day.

One year ago: NASA’s Mars rover “Opportunity,” which had been built to operate for just three months on the planet’s surface but kept rolling for years longer, was finally declared to be no longer operational, 15 years after it landed on Mars.

Today’s birthdays: Actress Kim Novak is 87. Actor George Segal is 86. Actor Bo Svenson is 79.

Actress Stockard Channing is 76.

Talk show host Jerry Springer is 76. Singer Peter Gabriel is 70.

Actor David Naughton is 69.

Rock musician Peter Hook is 64.

Actor Matt Salinger is 60. Singer

Henry Rollins is 59. Actor Neal McDonough is 54. Singer Freedom Williams is 54. Actress Kelly Hu is 52. Rock singer Matt Berninger is 49. Rock musician Todd Harrell is 48. Country musician Scott Thomas is 47. Singer Robbie Williams is 46. Singer-songwriter Feist is 44. Rhythm-and-blues performer Natalie Stewart is 41.

Actress Mena Suvari is 41. Rock musician Dash Hutton is 35.

Actress Katie Volding is 31, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr is 23.

Thought for today: “An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” – C.S. Lewis, English author (1898-1963).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, February 13, the 44th day of 2020. There are 322 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On February 13, 1945, during World War Two, Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden. The Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans.

On this date: In 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending the 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.)

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

In 1869, Killings occurred Pukearuhe, a redoubt 50km north-east of New Plymouth. A Ngāti Maniapoto war party killed two soldiers as well as a lieutenant and his family, plus a Wesleyan missionary.

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.

In 1965, during the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorised Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese.

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

In 1974, Sergeant Murray Hudson died attempting to save the life of another soldier during a live grenade training exercise at Waiouru military camp.

In 1983, Lance Cairns hits six sixes during a test match against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko was

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y the time this hits the press, I’ll be back in Parliament.

The House sits for the first time this year on February 11, and as much as I hate being away from Rangitata, I am very excited to hear Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern deliver her opening statement – it always gets me fired up for the year ahead.

The Government hit the ground running this year, so there’ll be plenty for her to reflect on.

From the launch of our Big New Zealand Upgrade infrastructure programme to constructive discussions at Ratana and Waitangi, we’ve started the year as we intend to continue – with energy, enthusiasm, and determination.

This summer we’ve shared more of our plan to improve road safety and public transport, to help upgrade almost every

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public school in the country, to fix up hospitals, and to help lower our carbon emissions.

The Government has made good progress on many issues over the past two years, but there is still more mahi to do – and we’ll never lose sight of that.

Over the summer we also learned the date of the next election – September 19.

This is an opportunity for New Zealanders to have their say; to share their thoughts, cast their votes, and ultimately shape their future.

And it’s an opportunity for politicians to listen carefully, reflect on the three years past, and share their vision for New Zealand’s future.

But regardless of the election date, providing a strong and stable government comes first.

Kiwis can trust that the Government will continue to serve its people; delivering on its promises, and making progress in tackling the long-term challenges facing New Zealand.

The Prime Minister has also made clear that it’s not just what we do – it’s how we do it.

We’re going to be upbeat as we always are, because we know you prefer positive politics to bickering and negativity.

We’ll be telling the truth, both about what we’ve achieved so far, and the work ahead of us.

And we’ve committed to Facebook’s transparency rules, so you can learn more about

how we’re communicating with people online.

There’s still plenty of mahi to do in our electorates as well.

You can trust that I will continue to represent Rangitata with integrity; wearing my values on my sleeve, staying in touch with local people and local issues, and fighting hard for the things that matter to us here.

Because, with a boss like mine, who leads by example every day, whether here at home or on the world stage, no other style of politics will cut it.

Jo Luxton is a Labour list MP. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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Three Mid Canterbury farms are among the five finalists in the 2020 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Two family-owned Mount Somers livestock properties as well as a Pamu (Landcorp Farming) dairy support farm at Carew are finalists in the awards, which celebrate good farm practices that promote sustainable land management.

Finalists include the Wakare property of former Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers’ president Mike Salvesen.

Canterbury’s category award winners and the supreme regional winner will be announced at an awards function in Christchurch on March 11.

Pamu’s Rosebank farm at Carew, managed by John Taylor, Brendon Stent and Aafke Huisman, has made a considerable investment in infrastructure over the past six seasons to improve its environmental sustainability.

Primarily a dairy support block, the property had diversified by trialling new crops, fertiliser regimes and stocking rates, as well as having a strong commitment to biodiversity.

Growing 1500 dairy replacement stock, Rosebank farm had been transformed in recent years thanks to impressive investment in development and capital projects which were driven with a focus on sustainability. Different

Far left – The beef, dairy and cropping farm at Mount Somers, owned by Richard and Chrissie Wright, has grown considerably since they bought it in 2002.

Inset – Finalists Mike and Nicky Salvesen, of Mount Somers, run a breeding and finishing beef and deer farm.

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cropping options were being trialled to diversify and spread risk, while also aiming to reduce nitrogen leaching and greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to prioritising stock performance and health, the farm also has a strong community involvement outside of the farm gate.

Tamar Farm at Mount Somers, owned by Richard and Chrissie Wright, has grown considerably since they bought it in 2002. Attention to detail was paramount despite its scale.

The beef, dairy and cropping farm is self-contained in terms of stock replacements and grazing, ensuring a profitable and productive business with healthy animals.

As hands-on managers, the

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Wrights are passionate about farming and proud of their team members, actively advancing them into farming.

A significant number of trees have been planted on the property, including shelterbelts, ornamental and native plantings.

The farm had responsible grazing practices and crop rotation, a focus on energy efficiency and technology, and excellent management of nutrients.

The business was an inspiring example of a family committed to advancing good people into farming and providing options for family succession.

At, Wakare, at Mount Somers, owned by Mike and Nicky Salvesen, a progressive vision for the future was guiding the breeding and finishing beef and deer farm,

enabling it to adapt to changing conditions and reduce its environmental footprint.

The main block runs calving cows and breeding bulls for dairy herds, deer for venison production and about 1000 lambs. Genetic measurements were tracked as the business strives to continually improve the quality of its animals. A second block runs dairy grazers and wagyu beef.

Numerous improvements had been made to the property in terms of production and the environment, including a significant tree-planting programme.

All activities were guided by an acute awareness of how the Salvesens can affect the local and wider environment.

Finalists Tony Coltman and Dana Carver are equity partners at Canlac Holdings dairy farm near Dunsandel.

Canlac Holdings was a

high-performing farm when this couple took over in 2013 and their focus on good management practice meant they had lifted it to another level.

The business demonstrated how it was possible to look after the environment while still being profitable. For example, the farm was bringing in high profits while significantly reducing its environmental footprint, including cutting nitrogen leaching by 48 per cent.

Priorities include stock health, maximising a high-genetic herd and leaving the farm in top environmental condition for future generations through emphasis on plantings, soil fertility and irrigation.

The couple had clear goals for both themselves and the health and wellbeing of staff, plus were heavily involved in off-farm activities.

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Coronavirus will loom over Budget

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ment time to pass budget legislation before the September 19 election.

He said the new budget is a “continuation of us taking the approach to future-proof New Zealand”. The budget will continue to address the “big issues” that exist in New Zealand such as a “just transition” to dealing with climate change or child well-being.

Budget 2019 marked the New Zealand government’s first Well-

being Budget – a document intended to include measures of human fulfilment as well as conventional economic success.

“There will always be something we add on in each budget, but having taken on these big issues, we know that we have made good progress, but we know that we’ve got more to do.”

The finance minister said this year’s budget would incorporate lessons from 2019, particularly on

the process of putting a well-being budget together.

Last year was “the first time we’d done it and setting priorities that all ministers are responsible for delivering on requires quite a different way of working,” he said.

Under each priority there is now a team of ministers working to produce one package under that priority. “We have sharpened that up a little bit, so we are more able to link the initiatives that are com-

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Sky’s contracts for future programming commitments have topped $1 billion, having been just $342.5 million six months earlier.

The media company said rights renewals are cyclical and end-ofyear commitments peaked at $740 million in June 2016.

Jarden analysts this month said Sky may struggle to transition to a streaming service and may not generate enough cash to support the business.

Sky’s accounts show the board is

We have reached 925,000 customers this month, an alltime high for Sky, and have now set our sights on reaching the 1 million mark

31, before the Lightbox acquisition, from 113,000 a year earlier.

Sky affirmed annual guidance for revenue of $750 million to $770 million and ebitda of $170 million to $190 million. It expects capital spending to be 7 per cent to 9 per cent of revenue.

The media group signed a fiveyear deal with New Zealand Rugby to keep the domestic and international rugby rights out to 2025, which included offering equity to the sporting body.

The emergence of new streaming platforms has bid up the cost of securing broadcasting rights, and

reviewing the company’s funding structure, with a $100 million bond maturing in March next year, and its banking facility stepping down in July 2021.

Chairman Philip Bowman said Sky’s transformation won’t be easy and that the firm faces many competitive challenges, including more expensive content.

“Delivering this strategy will also require a strengthened capital structure. Management, together with the board, is currently evaluating best how to align the capital structure with these requirements,” he said.

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Sky Network Television paid $6 million for Spark New Zealand’s Lightbox entertainment service as it chases a million customers.

The pay-TV operator settled the deal this month, adding 130,000 active users, including those customers who received the service as part of their Spark broadband bundle. Sky will pay the fair value of prepaid content rights, which has yet to be settled, and as part of the deal, Spark will continue to make Lightbox available to its 695,000 broadband customers.

Sky reported a net profit attributable to shareholders of $11.7 million in the six months ended December 31, tumbling 78 per cent from $53.4 million a year earlier.

Revenue fell 4.5 per cent to $384.8 million and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation sank 30 per cent to $89.7 million. That was broadly in line with Forsyth Barr analyst Matt Henry’s forecast for revenue of $385.5 million and ebitda of $86.9 million.

The shares jumped as much as 14.3 per cent to 72 cents, having hit a record low 61 cents on Tuesday.

They were recently at 64 cents.

Sky has been overhauling its operation under chief executive Martin Stewart, who has put premium sports – rugby in particular – and streaming platforms at the heart of his strategy.

The media group lifted customer numbers to 795,000 from 750,000 in the reported period, and reached 925,000 customers this month with the Lightbox acquisition.

“The Lightbox acquisition and

our investment in ground-breaking new digital services gives us confidence that we will continue our growth trajectory,” Stewart said in a statement.

“We have reached 925,000 customers this month, an all-time high for Sky, and have now set our sights on reaching the 1 million mark.”

Satellite customer numbers fell to 599,000 from 637,000 a year earlier, while streaming customers were up at 196,000 at December

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Finance Minister Grant Robertson has announced this year’s budget will be on May 14, with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak too hard to assess for him to rule out the potential for it to cause a recession.

The precise impact will depend on the duration of the outbreak and its geographic spread, “but at the macro level at this point we think the impacts will be measurable but still somewhat limited,” Treasury secretary Caralee McLiesh told a parliamentary select committee.

When pushed for details, she said it’s too early to tell, while Finance Minister Robertson said “I don’t have the information to make that call” when asked whether the pandemic could cause a recession, defined as two quarters in which the economy shrinks rather than grows.

McLiesh: “We are still assessing the economic impact. We are going to incorporate those impacts in a quantitative sense into our next budget update,” she said.

Robertson told the finance and expenditure select committee the date gave the coalition govern-

ing through to the priorities in the budget,” he said.

On coronavirus, Robertson reiterated the government was closely monitoring the situation but that it was “very early days” to be making any significant assessment.

“I am not underestimating here the potential impact on New Zealand. And there will be an impact on first quarter GDP,” he said.

Robertson said “the question of how quickly we are able to come out of it” relates to how long the virus has an impact, and what impact there is on confidence, both in China and in the rest of the world.

When asked if New Zealand could slide into recession, he said “I don’t have the information to make that call.”

He also said the Government was ready to provide support if necessary.

“Of course, the Government is looking at what we can do and what we may need to do,” he said.

He noted there are government systems set up to deal with crisis situations and “if we need to do things in addition to that, we are actively looking at that and looking at the sectors that might need help and support”.

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Club news www.guardianonline.co.nz Ashburton Bowling Club At Ashburton Bowling Club this week, our members continued to play and compete in fine weather.

The Ashburton Friday Triples on the 8th, kindly sponsored by Toyota and Skip-2-it Xtra, fielded a smaller number than usual due to quite a few players being at a West Coast tournament.

The results are: 1st B White, R Tonks, N Woods, 3 wins, 16 ends, 31 points; 2nd A Hill, M Watson, M Grice, 3 wins, 13 ends, 31 points; 3rd M Reid, A Reid, D Watson, 2 wins, 1 draw, 18 ends, 30 points; 4th A Crawford, S Holdom, S Doing, 2 wins, 1 draw, 14 ends, 29 points; 5th C Dennis, R Herriott, W Herriott, 2 wins, 16 ends, 29 points.

We had no qualifiers from the men’s Lowry Cup on Saturday.

Also there was no Club Rollover Triples on Saturday 8th, due to rain.

On Sunday 9th Wendie Suttie skipped a composite team to winning the Green Keepers Triples Tray. Well done to Wendy and her team!

Good bowling everyone!

Ashburton Golf Club A big field took to the Brandon on Saturday, a mixed day playing for the Blacklow Trophy. It was wonderful to see Peter Blacklow and Tom playing in dad and grandad’s memorial tournament, and many invited guests made for a great day.

Top players of the day were new member Jacobus van der Westhusen and country member Tom Bird, they set the bar a bit too high for the old dogs to jump over. Well done, and again it was nice to see the club house bouncing at the end of golf with a big crowd.

The Harvey Norman Classic is filling up fast, we have been inundated with early entries, which is brilliant. The afternoon tee times filled up more or less straight away. We have now opened up another afternoon time and can maybe squeeze in another couple of pairs, but we still have a few morning times left, so if you are thinking about playing get your entries into the club before you miss out.

We have the same format that has worked well for the past six years or so.

Two player ambrose on Saturday and best ball pairs on Sunday. Land on any par three green on Saturday then come back for the chip-off in the evening to win $250 cash.

Stay for the complimentary pulled pork rolls and the Calcutta on Saturday night.

Nearest pins on Sunday sponsored

by Vision Insurance for $600 worth of prizes. Hole-in-one sponsored by Sega Golf, big raffle and prizegiving on Sunday with over $7000 of prizes on offer.

Sounds like a wonderful weekend. See you there. Good golfing.

Ashburton Writers’ Group President Julie Fechney welcomed members to the first meeting of the year for the Ashburton Writers’ Group.

Debbie read a quotation – “Keep writing. You never know in whose story your words will be placed and in whose heart your words will leave footprints.”

Stacey read the chapter for the progressive story that she had written, Heather is to write the next chapter.

The Assignment for the meeting was Shadow For the Day. Members wrote detective agency, never leaves me, follow my footsteps, tour guide, a day in the life of and trembling hands.

The instant exercise was to begin with “A sea of”.

Members wrote of congregating people, on the floor, on the bus, sea of yellow, sea of emotions, becalmed yacht and rock star.

A grammar exercise was given out and caused some discussion.

The meeting concluded at 3pm with the serving of afternoon tea.

The March assignment is Dirty! Write a poem about getting covered in mud!

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Ashburton Lions Club Our first meeting for the year was held at the Hotel Ashburton on Wednesday, February 5.

It featured a most insightful talk from Pup Chamberlain about Mental Health in the rural community with particular emphasis on suicide prevention.

Unfortunately his co-coordinator Connie Quigley was unable to attend. Pup spoke highly of her knowledge and work.

It was interesting to note that Mid Canterbury is undertaking a pilot programme with the main focus being well-being and prevention of suicide in our community.

Pup stressed that by texting or phoning 1737, immediate support could be obtained from a trained counsellor. Males are the most vulnerable, making up 70 per cent of suicides in New Zealand.

Newly inducted member Craig Hadley gave a very interesting 3 minute talk on his lifetime experiences to date. We welcome Craig to our club.

Motorhome Show – the increasingly popular South Island Motorhome Show is to be held at the Ashburton Showgrounds on Friday, February 28, Saturday February 29 and Sunday March 1.

Tony Adams (0211267992), is seeking retro caravans for display over the weekend. If you have revitalised an older model and are interested in displaying it for free passes, please contact him.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand will man a site over the weekend.

Three short presentations re advice in respect of fire safety for mobile homes will occur on Saturday February 29.

Please note we have no Eftpos or credit card facilities on site so the $5 public entrance fee and the social camper pass will mean people need to come prepared with cash.

Our March meeting on Wednesday March 4, is a members and partners night. Full details will be confirmed soon.

Club members Brent Read and Barney Parsons are organising another cycling trip, this time featuring the Alps to Ocean cycle trail. Possible dates are in early April.

Also circulated were the Meals on Wheels roster and Methven Show gate helpers for Saturday March 21.

Mid Canterbury Provincial Rural Women We had much pleasure in presenting Mid Canterbury Provincial Life Membership to Kerry Smith at our December meeting. Kerry was Provincial President 2017-2018.

With school resuming, we urge awareness around school buses. “Either Way It’s 20k” when passing a stationary School Bus. Rural Women have a site at the Age Concern Ashburton Positive Ageing Expo on Thursday, March 5. 10am 3pm Hotel Ashburton. Come along to view exhibits, displays and social clubs you may like to join. Food available on site.

Sharon Davie Martin (Amuri) was elected as South Island representative onto the national board.

Sandra Curd (Winchmore) accepted the role as Area 2 Canterbury leadership councillor.

Our profile will be one of positively and enthusiasm with two dedicated Rural Women at the helm.

Mid Canterbury Provincial Rural Women Scholarship 2020 The scholarship is open to both male and female applicants who have a home base in Mid Canterbury.

Two grants to the value of $1000.

One resource grant of $500.

Application forms are available now and further details from scholarship coordinator Pauline Hewson. Phone (03) 3036397. Email: hopelands407@ gmail.com Branch News Winchmore, five members headed to

Lions Club banners to be used for food trailer and project outings.

Methven with sewing machines, overlocker and knitting needles, making joey pouches and knitted birds’ nests as part of NZ Gifts of Love, for recovering animals in Australian wildlife centres.

National Office News President Fiona Gower attended the Women’s World Shearing record challenge, in Turangi. RWNZ was a sponsor for this event.

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RWNZ is in close contact with our sister Australian organisation, Country Women’s Association of Australia, (CWAA), donations are being collected and forwarded to CWAA, to distribute as they see fit.

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■■RUGBY LEAGUE

Warriors players petition coaches

By Michael Burgess NZME

Player power has come to Mt Smart, with the Warriors squad petitioning the coaches for changes to the way they play.

Stephen Kearney and his staff have listened, resulting in a re-shaping of the game model, with the players to be given more licence to express themselves in 2020.

Senior Warriors forward Adam Blair said the playing group had concerns late last season about their game plan, and were collectively able to voice those opinions during the review period in September.

Their feedback has resulted in substantial change, which will hopefully manifest in positive ways when the NRL starts next month.

“It was the back end of last year,” said Blair. “We recognised it late in the season but by then it was a bit too late to change. We sat down as a playing group, put it forward to the coaches and [they] really actioned what we wanted, so credit to them.”

Blair said doubts about the style they were being asked to play began to creep in during the final two months of the season.

“It was most probably after some tough losses,” said Blair. “Those are the ones when you think about if the game plan is actually working. We realised a lot more when we played our last game, that may have been the one that opened our eyes and our coaches’ eyes to a lot of things.”

That round 25 match in Canberra might become a template, though it was a strange set of circumstances.

The Raiders chose to rest some first choice players ahead of the finals, but the Warriors were missing some top liners too, and lost David Fusitu’a during the captain’s run.

But they played with freedom, flair and ferocity, and came back from 10 points down to beat the eventual grand finalists 24-20.

“We didn’t change too much, we just went out there and played

Warriors head coach Stephen Kearney during a training session held at Mt Smart Stadium. what suited our group of players,” said Blair. “That may have triggered a point for the players and the coaches. We have those kind of players. Why not play that way ... as long as you can back it up defensively?”

That victory was the impetus for the players to have their say, both in the formal feedback sessions and during meetings of the playing group.

“Everyone was a part of it ... not only the leaders,” said Blair. “We all sat down together, spoke about what worked and what needs to change and they sat down over the break and actioned it in November.”

Kearney said he was impressed with the proactive stance taken by the players, but emphasised that the feedback loop went across the board.

“It was listening to the collective group, right across the whole footy department and taking on board what we needed to get better,” said Kearney. “It was mostly about our game model and training accordingly, to complement that game model.

“In a footy club you need to take on board all feedback. I’ve got no problems in making some adjustments but the players need to have an awareness that there’s an expectation from [the coaches’]

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Rocco Berry, son of former All Black Marty, will also make his first official appearance in Warriors colours.

The Warriors open their campaign against the Newcastle Knights on Friday (9.55pm NZT).

Their second and final pool match is against the Sydney Roosters on Saturday (4.35pm NZT).

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point of view if we make those adjustments.”

Last year the Warriors emphasised a grinding, basic style, built around achieving field position and limiting mistakes. But their attack became predictable and one dimensional and lacked punch, which in turn put more pressure on the defensive side of their game, and neither worked optimally.

Both Blair and Kearney agreed that the work on the training field had been positive, but the true test will come next March.

The Warriors Nines squad left for Perth yesterday, ahead of the tournament which starts on Fri-

Age no barrier

Australian Olympic BMX cycling hopeful Kai Sakakibara is in a medically-induced coma in Canberra Hospital after sustaining serious head injuries in a weekend racing accident.

The 23-year-old rider underwent surgery on Sunday morning to relieve pressure on his brain following the Saturday crash.

Described as being in a critical but stable condition, Sakakibara is expected to remain in a coma for the next two weeks.

Sakakibara, ranked among the world’s top 10 riders in recent years, was aiming to make his Olympic debut in Japan, where he spent part of his childhood after being born on the Gold Coast in Australia.

“We understand the road ahead will be a long and difficult one, we are staying posi-

tive and taking things day by day,” a statement from Sakakibara’s family said yesterday.

“There isn’t much we can do at this point, but Kai needs your support and your positive energy sent his way.”

Sakakibara fell on the second corner during his opening-round heat at a World Cup event in Bathurst and was treated on site by paramedics and a doctor before he was airlifted to hospital.

He began racing as a four-year-old, moving to Tokyo in 2000 and collecting multiple national titles before returning to Australia in 2008.

Sakakibara’s parents Martin and Yuki said their son’s BMX career was “on hold for now” as they focused on his long-term rehabilitation.

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The Warren Gatland effect NZME Chiefs head coach Warren Gatland has given a rare insight into his halftime team talks after the Hamilton franchise completed their second successive second-half comeback against the Crusaders on Saturday.

The back-to-back-to-back reigning Super Rugby champions took a 12-8 lead into the halftime break at Waikato Stadium over the weekend, but Gatland’s men put in a storming second half effort to walk away with a 25-15 victory.

The result follows on from the Chiefs’ 37-29 win over the Blues at Eden Park in round one, when the visitors overturned a 19-5 deficit at the break.

Speaking to TVNZ on Monday, Gatland claimed there was “a bit of luck involved” in the win against the Crusaders compared to their success against the Blues.

“We had to sort a few things out at halftime, just to get the defensive things right,” he said.

“Normally, the Crusaders are really strong in the second half and we’d seen their preseason games and warm-up games so to come out in the second half and keep them try-less was a pretty good effort.”

While maintaining a level of discretion about his halftime speech, Gatland opened up about what was said to his players as they looked to overcome the Crusaders’ four-point lead.

“The thing at halftime is sometimes you come in and there’s a lot of emotion so you spend the first three-four minutes with players rehydrating, taking a bit of time to calm and relax.

Chiefs coach Warren Gatland.

“We split into a couple of groups – the forwards sort a few things out and [so do] the backs – and then we’ll deliver a couple of messages from a coaching perspective whether it’s attack or defence.”

The 56-year-old former All Blacks hooker, who will take charge of the British and Irish Li-

ons for the third time next year during their tour of South Africa, unveiled that it took more than just words to get his message across to his side.

“We showed them a video I’d gotten the analysts to clip up that we needed to work on from the first half and we just showed that,”

Gatland said.

“It was something that we needed to work on and improve on. It was a drill that we’d been running at training and it emphasised that we weren’t quite there in that first half and in the second half we improved significantly and we defended exceptionally well in that

second half.”

The Chiefs will now travel to Tokyo to face the Sunwolves this weekend, although they will have to play the Japanese franchise without a raft of key players, including All Blacks stars Sam Cane, Anton Lienert-Brown and Aaron Cruden.

Foster lifts lid on what went wrong at World Cup NZME Ian Foster has admitted that the All Blacks need to “figure out” a new way of playing if they are to get back to the top of world rugby.

Speaking on Sky Sports’ The Breakdown, the new All Blacks coach opened up on his side’s semi-final defeat to England at last year’s World Cup, saying there are a few changes needed in the team environment.

“There are a few things in our environment that we do need to re-shape,” Foster said.

“We need to figure out how to play teams physically when they play us physically. More and more teams are wanting to prevent us from playing.”

Foster, who took over from the All Blacks’ most successful coach in Steve Hansen, said the team’s inability to adapt to the unique challenge proposed by England ended up costing them.

“When we get our game right, when we understand the nature of the beast we’re playing – we got up for South Africa, we got

Kieran Read and his All Blacks teammates walk from the field after defeat to England at the World Cup. up for Ireland – I thought they were outstanding games. But we didn’t get up for England.

“We didn’t define that challenge well enough. They played us a certain way, and it looked like it surprised us, even though it shouldn’t have.

“We’ve got to figure out how we approach that type of challenge. Some of the physicality of our game, and where we use it, needs addressing.”

The 54-year-old urged the next generation of All Blacks to use that loss as fuel to reclaim

their No. 1 status in world rugby.

“Nobody in the playing group had lost a World Cup game,” Foster said.

“Now we know what it feels like, and it’s not nice. That’s got to fuel this next generation. We want to be No. 1, and we’re not, and it hurt.”

Last year, halfback Aaron Smith echoed similar sentiments of the “tough” review process after the All Blacks’ heartbreaking defeat, something that still seems to be on Foster’s mind.

“The review process was ruthless. It was tough,” Smith told the Rugby Bricks podcast.

“We were watching one of the worst games we’ve ever played, and you’re part of some ugly stuff. Was the effort there? It was big-picture, there was no actual name-calling, just things like ‘We needed to be better there, here’s a big moment that we mucked up, here’s a chance that we could have made’.

“Steve did it with the whole room – everyone got their one minute or two minutes to say

how they felt. There was a range of emotions – there were 51 of us there to start the review.”

The review followed a meeting that the leadership team had the day before, which featured elements that Smith said he “hated hearing”.

“We had our leadership meeting with the coaches and it was tough – Steve Hansen asked right away ‘how do you feel right now?’ We all told each other how we felt – and as you can imagine it was pretty sombre.

“One thing I love and hate about rugby players is we won’t take the glory either, but we love falling on the sword, and that’s what I hated the most about what I was hearing – we all wanted to jump on the sword, you know – ‘It was because of me’.

“Coach was like ‘cut that – it wasn’t that, we all did our part, and we all lost’. That was what I hated hearing, some of the best players in the world saying ‘it was my fault’ or ‘If I had done this …’ But the good thing was once we all said how we felt, we all felt a bit better.”

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South Africa rumours raise questions T

he murky waters enveloping rugby have again surfaced, in the middle of cricket season no less.

We are a mere two weeks deep into both Super Rugby and the Six Nations and the conversation has already been drawn away from the paddock.

Latest reports stemming from the “ever reliable” north circle, the possibility of South Africa abandoning SANZAAR and joining the Six Nations following the 2023 World Cup in France.

It is just as exhausting to digest the ramifications of such a move as it is to consider the validity of the Daily Mail write-up.

Bargaining ploy or not, this prospect is nothing new for South Africa and you can hardly blame them for wanting to secure their future given they are the recently crowned world champions.

Amid the expansion of Super Rugby, administrators in the

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republic threatened to splinter off from their Australian and Kiwi counterparts about a decade ago which of course, did not come to fruition.

What has come to fruition is the bloatfest which is now Super Rugby and, to a degree, the Rugby Championship over the past nine years.

Bottom line of this latest take is that South Africa are locked into a deal with SANZAAR until 2025.

Beyond that? Who knows.

For me, I wish it was true.

The value of such yarns made public is it should force New Zea-

land Rugby to look within.

If South Africa absconded from proceedings how would it look for the professional game in this country?

Would we be resigned to an annual competition where our biggest rivals would be the Wallabies, who themselves are against the ropes in their ongoing battle for sustainability.

An optimistic view is that it could be the tipping point to force a drastic overhaul.

Could this be the opportunity to integrate the Pacific nations – a notoriously overdue notion.

The prioritisation and commercialisation of the All Blacks has seen New Zealand Rugby cash in economically and the national team remains a brand worth more than $US200 million.

But outside of this, the local product capped by a broken Super Rugby model, has become tired and unappealing.

A lot of this is due to an omission of the desires of the local fan.

The New Zealand derbies remain the competition’s biggest, regular season drawcards, serving as pseudo-All Black trials.

Elsewhere, there is apathy and indifference from the general audience in response to the perceived value other fixtures offer.

Television audiences, crowd numbers and the number of youngsters opting for the oval ball option have dropped off and the game’s marquee names are nowhere to be seen during the early season exchanges.

The grassroots has been left to languish as club rugby appears to be dying a slow death in this country with little support from the top.

The insistence of 7.30pm kickoffs in the middle of winter to accommodate the northern hemisphere’s Sky UK television

viewing audience has been a long bugbear of mine and while it has made sense commercially, the lack of flexibility within these broadcast deals has perturbed the competition from a viewing perspective.

Ironically, there was a suggestion, back in the day, that a shift from afternoon rugby to rugby under lights ensured clashes with club rugby were avoided.

One important commodity New Zealand does have, imbedded in our DNA, is a love for the game.

But that love needs nurturing, and investment.

Establishing a way to liquidate that affection, without compromising our integrity, remains the biggest challenge moving forward for the game’s administrators.

Something that New Zealand Rugby is yet to find an answer to.

Whatever the long term makeup, there will be a price to pay.

February 7 Hampstead Slow Pitch: Marines & Angels 19-5 As Good As It Gets; Marines & Angels 15-9 Demolition; Shits & Giggles 29-6 Lion Brown Club; More Beers Than Gear 18-14 Laser Attack; Hawkies Hawks 18-9 Reigning Champs.

Convenors: S Bradford 0211590983/B Fechney 0211305366 February 18 – Mid-Week Ladies Report 8.30am for 9.00am start Rnd 1 Longbeach Cup (N) qual for Matchplay Starters M Watson/D Hinton February 20 – Nine hole Men and Women Report 9.15am for 9.30am start Convenor M Morgan 0279645380; Club Captain V Moore 0272437724

9 Holes report 8.30am for 9.00am start.

Starters J. Bruhns D. Morgan Cards S. Gutsell V. Prendergast; Kitchen committee.

Swimming sports hit EA Networks pool Year 5 to 8 school pupils leapt into gear yesterday for School Swimming Sports at the EA Networks Centre. About 100 budding swimmers, from Mayfield, Longbeach, Mt Somers and Hinds schools, were in action throughout the day.

Mayfield School pupil Louise Greenslade comes to the end of a race.

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SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS RESULTS ■■ Golf Mayfield Golf Club February 11 – Ladies Division Opening Day, Playing for the King Vase.

Best Nett Winner, Margaret Read 10333-70. Other good scores Marilyn Cross Nett 73,Jacquie Murdock Nett 74,Christine Ross Nett 74,Sharon Duthie Nett 75, Judy Webb Nett 75, Mr Manns Bakery & Café 2nd Shot 2 or 11 Alison Vessey.

Sims Bakery 5 or 14 Nearest the Pin, Ruth Keeley. Twos Alison Vessey No 2, Ruth Keeley No 5.

Tinwald Golf Club February 11 – Stroke Barb Harris 68, Joan Undy 71 c/b, Madeleine Smith 71, Karen Young 71, June Steenson 71 9 Hole Stroke: Judith Smith 33, Putting: Diana Wellman 13, Pam McAndrew 15 Nearest the Pin: Murray Young Property Broker (2nd Shot) #2 Pam McAndrew, Sims Bakery #6 Pam McAndrew, Mac & Maggie #12 Sally Lane, Outdoor Adventure (2nd Shot) #16 Di Bell.

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DRAWS ■■ Golf Ashburton Ladies Golf February 15 – Weekend Ladies Report 8.15am for 8.45am start Rnd 1 Bonnington Frostbite Cup (N)

Tinwald Golf Club February 18 – Ladies Division Medal 1st Norma Bradford Putting 9 Holes 1st Bell Trophy Stroke 18 Holes as we have visitors coming please report by 10.30am for cuppa and start by approximately 11.15am.

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Hampstead Softball Slow Pitch February 14 6.00pm: Devon Tavern D1: Demolition v Lion Brown Club; 7.10pm: Devon Tavern D1: Demolition v As Good As It Gets; 6.30pm: Laser Electrical D2: Hawkies Hawks v Laser Attack; 6.30pm: First National Real Estate D3: Marines & Angels v Shits & Giggles; 6.30pm: Dell Phillips Landscaping D4: Reigning Champs v More Beer Than Gear.

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Ray Suttie follows through during the Green Keepers Triples tournament over the weekend.

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Winners emerge from tussle The annual Green Keepers Triples tournament, held each year in Mid Canterbury, has a reputation for being a closely fought affair and the 2020 edition on Sunday didn’t stray from tradition.

Across two greens at Allenton and Ashburton, 32 teams set out to try and win the hugely popular tournament but only

one emerged from the heap on top after a big day of play.

At Allenton, Bruce White continued his hot form winning there alongside Noeline Woods and Anne Reid while David Hickman, Doug Thorne and Denys McEvedy were second with Graeme Bishop, Annette Sargisson and Jenny Mitchell third.

Across town on the Ashburton Green at the Ashburton Domain, Wendy Suttie, Raylene Heads and Pat McElwain won, finishing ahead of Malcolm Berhns, Scott Hyndman and Manu Otene with Linton Muir, Shane Calder and David Muir third.

Teams from both greens came together for finals play with Sut-

tie’s side managing to hold on to a good lead going into the last end against White, winning 10-7 to claim the overall title.

In the third and fourth playoff Berhns’ team managed to hold off the challenge of the Hickman skipped trio to win narrowly 7-6 while Bishop claimed a narrow win in the fifth and sixth playoff, 5-4.

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Aussie Diamonds coach shocked over axing NZME Australia Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander has admitted she’s shocked over the decision that Netball Australia will not be renewing her contract.

Alexander, who has coached the side for more than eight years, will officially step down as coach of the Diamonds after the bushfire relief charity match in Sydney on March 1.

Under Alexander’s watch, the Diamonds have been one of Australia’s most successful national teams but last year they lost the World Cup title for the first time in 16 years and also failed to get gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2018.

Although aware Netball Australia were in talks over her future, she said she wasn’t expecting the news.

“I was pretty confident, particularly with the win in the Constellation Cup, that it would be possible to seek an extension of

Axed Australia Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander. the contract but obviously the board thought differently to that,” she told Radio Sport.

“This is the thing that’s hard with coaching, you’ve got to be creating the next group of athletes for the next event as well at

the same time as winning ... I was excited by the group and the talent we had and that was on display in the Constellation Cup. “It was looking quite good for the future but obviously I’m disappointed that the board haven’t

seen fit to renew my contract and they’ve made the decision to go in a different direction. At the end of the day, that’s their decision to make.”

Netball Australia CEO Marne Fechner praised Alexander’s time with the team but said there was an “appetite for change”.

“Lisa has had a significant impact on our sport and achieved great things in her time, both on and off the court. She is leaving a great legacy,” Fechner said in a statement.

“As we looked to the next high-performance cycle and beyond, there was a consensus and appetite for change heading into 2021.

“The high-performance landscape is ever-changing and increasingly competitive and we believe it’s in the best interest of the programme to open up the role.”

Netball Australia will begin their search for the next coach early next month.

The sight of a fit and slim Beauden Barrett on the Blues’ training field will likely gladden the hearts of the franchise’s supporters, many of whom may still be marvelling at last weekend’s bonus point victory over the Waratahs which featured some uncharacteristic composure at the end.

But while the All Black and twotime World Rugby player of the year threw a few passes under the blazing sun at the team’s Alexandra Park base and conferred with several teammates, including the injured Rieko Ioane, Barrett’s midApril start for his new franchise remains in place.

The 28-year-old, on an extended break after the World Cup, has been in and out of Blues headquarters following his shift from the Hurricanes, and his advice delivered yesterday – albeit in trainers rather than boots – was appreciated, as his teammates prepared for their crunch match against the Crusaders at Eden Park on Friday.

The match on Valentine’s Day will have a rainbow diversity theme but there is likely to be little love lost between the rivals on the field.

“He’s in today to have a look around and see how we’re going and we can check on him and see how he’s going,” assistant coach Tom Coventry said. “It’s good to have him back around.

“He’s in great nick. He’s a true professional who knows how to keep himself in shape when he’s away from the game. He’s going to be short of a few games of footy but we’ve got a plan around how we get him ready to play. It won’t be too long before he’s back with us.”

Blues hooker James Parsons, who entered the 32-12 victory over the Waratahs in Newcastle via the reserves bench, knows a thing or two about return-to-play protocols; a back injury suffered while playing for Harbour in the Mitre 10 Cup has made him a late starter for the Blues.

“Talking about the return to play for Beaudy – I can assure you it’s not easy,” Parsons said. “The old master here [Coventry] puts you through a few tricks.”

Parsons added to what, for the media, is a rare Barrett sighting at his new club: “One hundred Super games and nearly 100 tests – there’s plenty to be excited about.

It’s great having him around for the young boys.”

The presence of Barrett, likely to return following a couple of club matches plus a development game, comes as coaches such as the Chiefs’ Warren Gatland and Highlanders’ Tony Brown, along with others, call for changes to New Zealand Rugby’s policy of protecting their All Blacks at the expense of their Super Rugby teams.

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■■CRICKET

Third umpire end of epidemic NZME Yesterday marked the four-year anniversary of the most controversial front-foot no ball in cricket’s history.

On February 12 in 2016, Australia commenced their opening test of the two-match series against New Zealand in Wellington.

After they were rolled for 183 on day one, the Black Caps made early inroads in the field, cheaply dismissing openers Joe Burns and David Warner.

But late in the final session, New Zealand had another breakthrough – or so they thought.

Batsman Adam Voges was on seven when he left a length delivery from paceman Doug Bracewell, which crashed into his off stump. However, umpire Richard Illingworth had his right arm outstretched, calling a no ball for overstepping.

Unbeknown to the players of the field, television replays exposed Illingworth’s horrific error of judgement. Bracewell’s foot was not even marginally close to overstepping – he had at least an inch of breathing room.

The mistake would have been less disheartening for the New Zealanders if not for what followed – Voges batted for another 115 overs, accumulating 239 runs and guiding Australia to a 379run first innings lead.

On that fateful day, former test opener Chris Rogers labelled the decision “horrific” and called for cricket to use technology more effectively.

“I don’t understand it, why can we not get these decisions right?

There’s enough time for the third umpire to change the decision,” Rogers told Optus Sport’s Across the Ditch.

“We keep seeing these incidents happen, why can we not embrace technology and get it right every time?”

Almost four years later, Rogers finally got his wish.

On Wednesday, the International Cricket Council announced the introduction of front-foot technology for the upcoming T20 Women’s World Cup. After a recent trial during an ODI series between India and the West Indies, it was decided

Doug Bracewell’s delivery that bowled Voges and was then called a no-ball. the third umpire will monitor the landing foot of bowlers after each ball and communicate to their on-field counterparts whether it was a legal delivery.

It’s a drastic change for the sport, as on-field umpires will not call any front-foot no balls unless advised by their colleague in the box. They will no longer have to simultaneously monitor where the bowler’s front foot lands and whatever occurs at the other end of the wicket.

It had already been the norm for third umpires to check whether a bowler overstepped after a wicket, but not for every ball.

Umpires are regularly criticised for missing a stack of no balls in Test cricket — during Australia’s first Test against Pakistan at the Gabba, the umpires missed 21 no balls in two sessions, eventually denying 16-year-old prodigy Naseem Shah his first interna-

tional wicket. In January, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting called the front-foot no ball dilemma an “epidemic” in the sport.

“Without pointing the finger at anybody … I’m not having it for one minute that umpires are looking down at that front line,” Ponting said after the no-ball in Channel 7 commentary.

“It’s an epidemic around the world at the moment.”

ICC general manager of cricket Geoff Allardice is “confident” the change will help reduce the number of errors in professional cricket.

“No-balls are difficult for umpires to call accurately, and even though the percentage of deliveries that are no balls is low, it is important to call them correctly,” Allardice said.

“I’m confident that this technology will reduce the small

number of front-foot no-ball errors at the ICC women’s T20 World Cup.” When the technology was recently trialled, 4717 balls were bowled in 12 matches, all judged accurately by the third umpire.

Interestingly, only 0.28 per cent of the deliveries were no balls.

“Since we first trialled this concept in the ODI series between England and Pakistan in 2016 the technology has improved significantly, enabling us to introduce it cost-effectively, and with minimum impact on the flow of the game,” Allardice said.

Financial costs were blamed for the not introducing the new method in the past, but Channel 7 cricket presenter Trent Copeland argued the change was becoming “non-negotiable”.

“It’s a glaringly obvious thing that had to change and it’s great the ICC has taken action,”

Copeland said.

“I know there’s financial hurdles … But my question is always is this important or not? Is it important the ICC has games that function well, correct decisions?

“If the answer is yes, and I think they’d be hard-pressed to say no, then it’s something we have to find money for.”

It’s dangerous to start considering what incorrect calls would have been overturned if this tecnology had been implemented earlier — New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori famously overstepped when he dismissed Shane Warne for 99, caught at deep mid wicket in 2001.

Warne remains the highest run-scorer of all test cricketers to never reach a century.

The women’s T20 World Cup commences February 21 with a clash between Australia and India at Sydney Olympic Park.

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■■RUGBY

ABs star back to help Crusaders NZME Richie Mo’unga is back for the Crusaders as they attempt to extend a 10-match winning record over the Blues.

The Blues last beat the Crusaders in 2014 and while it has been close since – like round one last year at Eden Park when the visitors sneaked home 24-22 – there have been occasional ugly ones from a Blues perspective. In 2018 in Christchurch the Crusaders thrashed the Blues 54-17.

And while the titles have piled up in Christchurch – three in three years for them and their coach Scott Robertson – the last time the Blues made the playoffs was in 2011.

So while the Blues will go into the match with their confidence boosted following a good win over the Waratahs in Newcastle, they will need to lift again significantly in order to beat a team with that weight of history behind them, plus the assistance of All Blacks first-five Mo’unga, one of the best playmakers in the game.

Mo’unga missed his side’s 25-15 defeat to the Chiefs in Hamilton due to groin and knee issues, but, as Robertson said yesterday: “He’s good. Like I said last week, he was pretty keen to play but we decided the best thing was to give him an extra week. He’s good to go.”

Not so good is loose forward Whetukamokamo Douglas, out with two broken fingers.

But with David Havili back at fullback after playing at No.10 at Waikato Stadium, and Sevu Reece, Braydon Ennor, Jack Goodhue and George Bridge in the backline, the Crusaders will not lack for firepower.

Not that Robertson is think-

Richie Mo’unga, back for the Crusaders. ing about his side’s recent record against the Blues.

“If you look at the last few years, they’ve led us, we’ve come from behind, they’ve pushed us late in games,” he said.

“These are all tough games, they’re earned, they’re not

gimmes. It will be no different on Friday.

“I think you saw the best of the Blues in the last 10 minutes against the Waratahs. They can rip you apart. They’ve got a lot of power, they’ve got structure – Leon’s a good coach. We’re expecting

another hell of a game, just like we have had over the last 10 years.”

Crusaders team to play Blues at Eden Park on Friday, kick-off 7.05pm is: David Havili, Sevu Reece, Braydon Ennor, Jack Goodhue, George Bridge, Richie Mo’unga, Bryn Hall, Tom Sanders, Tom

Christie, Cullen Grace, Mitchell Dunshea, Scott Barrett ©, Oliver Jager, Codie Taylor, Joe Moody.

Reserves: Andrew Makalio, George Bower, Michael Alaalatoa, Luke Romano, Sione Havili, Mitchell Drummond, Brett Cameron, Will Jordan.

■■UFC, BOXING

McGregor moves one step closer to blockbuster fight NZME Potential fight foes Conor McGregor and Manny Pacquiao are now represented by the same management in what’s being seen as a step towards the pair meeting in the ring.

Paradigm Sports Management announced yesterday it has added the Filipino boxing legend to a stable that includes UFC stars McGregor, Israel Adesanya and Cris Cyborg.

Sharing management would make any negotiations far easier and McGregor responded to the announcement by tweeting: “Welcome to the team Emmanuel.”

The possibility of the Irish star meeting the eight-division world champion in a boxing fight gathered some momentum in the week leading up to McGregor’s UFC return last month.

Pacquiao’s now former manager Sean Gibbons hyped the possibility of the two meeting in a new stadium being built in Las Vegas

to house the NFL’s Raiders.

Asked about the match-up, McGregor – who fought Floyd Mayweather in the only professional boxing bout of his career in 2017 – welcomed the idea.

“I always want bigger and better and to reach for the stars”, McGregor continued.

“I would love a rematch with

Floyd Mayweather and I know the Manny one is there whenever I want it.

“I would be honoured and love to be the first combatant to fight in that arena and what a fight that would be against a small and powerful southpaw.

“We would have to figure out the weight we do it at, but it inter-

ests me no doubt.”

The fight makes sense for both men because outside of a rematch for either of them with Mayweather, it’s likely the most money they can make.

Pacquiao is still a star at 41 and is on a three-fight winning streak after responding to a controversial defeat against Australia’s Jeff

Horn by knocking out Lucas Matthysse and outpointing Adrien Broner and Keith Thurman.

McGregor spoke last month about his desire to win a boxing world title and Pacquiao has one to put on the table – the WBA welterweight strap.

But getting down to the 147-pound limit required could prove a challenge to McGregor, who weighed 170 pounds against Donald Cerrone at UFC 246 and hasn’t fought below 155 pounds since 2015.

McGregor would also need the permission and potential involvement of his UFC bosses.

Dana White is deadset on the 31-year-old’s next fight coming against Khabib Nurmagomedov in a rematch of their lightweight title bout.

But the Dagestani has a defence against Tony Ferguson in April followed by Ramadan, forcing McGregor into a long wait which could be filled with a boxing venture.

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Expectation determines satisfaction. But if you’ve never done it, how do you know what to expect? Having an open mind that’s not too attached to any outcome takes maturity. Mature people have more fun!

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Creativity isn’t about what you’re able to come up with, it’s the connections you make, and how you bring them together. Does that take the pressure off?

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Don’t worry about authenticity.

It could be argued it’s not “a thing” anyway.

If not you, who else could you possibly be?

Focus on being useful to those around you and your soul essence will naturally shine.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): The belief that habits take 21 days to establish has been proven incorrect by social scientists who agree it takes much longer. The one you’re trying to form will be worth the persistence. Also, it will get easier.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Certain loops of activity that bring you comfort, solace and a sense of being healthfully at home. Then there are the deadly boring loops you’d best interrupt right now, and much is aligning to help you with that.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You care enough to do the work, but don’t know which work to do. You’re not sure which moves would be effective and neither do you know the order to put them in.

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Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary

Russell and Claire Thomson (nee Wright) Married February 13, 1960 St Marks, Rakaia.

Love from all the family.

DEATHS HARRIS, Russell James (OStJ) – Peacefully at Rosebank Rest Home, Ashburton on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.

Aged 68 years. Dearly loved husband of Raewyn, much loved father and father-in-law of Neil and Sarah (Woodend), Anna and Scott Wishart (Lincoln), and Martin and Jess (Christchurch), loved Grandad of Evie, and Pippa; Liam, Isla (deceased), and Zachary. Special thanks to Dr Wootton and Three Rivers Health, Palliative Care, and District Nurses for their care.

In lieu of flowers, donations to St John Ambulance Ashburton would be appreciated and may be left at the service. Messages to: the Harris family, c/- PO Box 6035, Ashburton 7742. A service to celebrate Russell’s life will be held at the Hotel Ashburton, Racecourse Road, Ashburton TOMORROW Friday, February 14, at 1.00pm, followed by interment in the Ashburton Cemetery.

DEATHS HARRIS, Russell (OStJ) – The wider Ashburton St John family acknowledge the death of a respected and loved station manager from 2001 until 2016, and an active and passionate area committee member until the time of his death.

Russell – You have made us all richer for having worked alongside you.

You may be gone from our sight... ...but you are never gone from our hearts.

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New Zealand water skiers (from left) George Donaldson, Emily Milner and Hugh Donaldson celebrate their medal-winning performances at the Oz-Kiwi Challenge on Sunday.

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Skiers among the medals

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Mid Canterbury’s group of Kiwi water skiing representatives were among the medals at Lake Chrichton following the Oz-Kiwi Challenge.

It was the first time the annual event had been held in the region since the 2014 edition at Lake Hood.

The touring Australians reigned supreme on the water

across the four days of competition, however the Kiwis had their moments of glory.

Emily Milner was a multiple medal winner at under-17 level following a tussle with her trans-Tasman rivals.

The Ashburton teen secured bronze medals in the slalom and tricks with a personal best tally of 3210 points.

She went one better in the jump as her 35.1m leap won her

silver and a second best ever score to boot.

Ashburton’s George Donaldson took home a bronze medal in the slalom, skiing a best of half a bouy on the short 12m line in the under-21 category.

He placed sixth overall.

Brother Hugh Donaldson placed fourth overall but earned silver in the tricks following two good runs.

A total of 48 skiers from both

countries hit the lake, contesting honours in the under-14, under-17 and under-21 categories.

The under-17 and under-21 divisions, in particular, were hotly contested with medals well shared among both nations.

Event co-ordinator Janeen Donaldson said the podiums rewarded “consistency”.

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throw away a score in.”

Skiers showcased top form throughout as competitors gunned for Junior World Team selection later in the season.

Australian under-17 representative Sade Ferguson – number one seed in the junior world jump rankings – also broke the New Zealand Girls’ Allcomers Jump Record by over three metres, courtesy of a towering 43.6m leap on Saturday.

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