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Street closure clash

By Sue Newman

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Simmering tensions between two event planners could spill over this week as the two go head-to-head in a district council hearing to see who has the right to close East Street for a retail festival.

Bob McDonald and Sue Cooper applied to the Ashburton District Council to close East Street for the town’s annual Boulevard Day on September 23, keeping up a tradition that has run for more than 30 years, but this year they found they had a competing event chasing the same street on the same day.

Carol Johns had also applied for that date for a new event, East Street Bazaar, an event that she said would replace Boulevard Day. The original event, Johns said, had had its day and needed a refresh.

The challenge stunned McDonald and Cooper who believed that Boulevard Day was such an established part of Ashburton’s retail scene that it was cemented in the street closure diary.

When councillors looked at the two applications, they realised there were

no policies or precedents that gave long-standing events first option for a specific street closure date.

Tension between the two groups has been simmering for several years with both believing they had the right to stage the long-running event on behalf of the town’s retailers.

With two applications on the table, councillors decided they had only one option and that was to put the issue to a hearing to decide who had the greatest right to hold an event on that day.

History will be made on two fronts on that day as not only will it be the first time councillors have had to decide between two competing events, but it will also be the first time a council hearing has been livestreamed.

Currently the council is running a six-month trial of livestreaming council and council standing committee meetings only, but knowing there would be considerable community interest in the outcome, councillors wanted to expand their trial on livestreaming meetings to include hearings.

When the extra coverage was dis-

cussed councillor Russell Ellis said hearings were often the events with greatest public interest. Mayor Donna Favel agreed and suggested it should be considered for submissions on an East Street closure on May 15 and at Thursday’s finance and business support meeting councillors agreed to include hearings in the trial to ensure as many people as possible could view the East Street closure hearings.

“We often talk about openness and transparency and during the trial period this is another step. It is important we provide as much information as we can out there so the community can see the whole picture,” Favel said.

The challenge to an established event by a newcomer for the same day street closure may also see the council look at whether it needs to establish a policy to ensure long-running events have certainty over their slot on the calendar.

This will be held on Wednesday at 1.30pm in the East Street council chamber. Russell Ellis, Diane Rawlinson and Leen Braam will have the task of deciding who wins the September 23 date.

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In brief Grants scheme Eight community groups have been given a financial boost in the latest funding round from the Ashburton District Council’s creative communities grants scheme. A total of saw $15,996 given to those groups, half of what was requested. The largest grant was made to the Ashburton Operatic Society, $4000. Other grants made were to Fale Pasifica O Aoraki Trust, $3000; Connecting Mid Canterbury Charitable Trust, $2640; Ashburton Indian Multicultural Charitable Trust, $2500; Ashburton Society of Performing Arts, $1131; Ashburton Embroiderers’ Guild, $1000; Ashburton Creative Fibre, $975; Ashburton Wrriters’ Group, $350.

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EA Networks gym member Christine Wilson with the row of portraits taken of members by Emmily Harmer to celebrate the gym’s 4th birthday.

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■■ EA NETWORKS CENTRE

Gym exhibition stars

By Sue Newman

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When Emmily Harmer joined the EA Networks gym, she feared she’d be surrounded by fitness fanatics in skin-tight lycra.

The reality was vastly different.

There were people of all shapes, sizes and ages and that diversity got her thinking. As a professional photographer Harmer said she’s endlessly fascinated by people.

“I just love watching people and watching them at the gym sparked an idea,” she said.

That idea was for an exhibition of portraits that would tell the

story of the gym’s people, their diversity and the fact that they were just ordinary people who came to the gym for a wide range of reasons.

She approached gym manager Anna Johnson, she came on board and Faces of the Gym was born. Johnson approached members and virtually everyone she asked said yes. Harmer found herself with 26 photo shoots that included individuals, couples, families, friends, older members and teenagers.

“The gym did incredibly well pulling this together and what they came up was a really good

representation of people who use the gym,” Harmer said.

And when it came to photographing members, they were an absolute delight, she said.

“I’m really happy with how they’ve come out and the gym should be really proud of taking this project on board.”

The portraits were unveiled on Friday morning as part of the gym’s fourth birthday celebrations and the reactions of people when they saw their photos were generally good, she said.

One of those who found herself starring in the Faces of the Gym exhibition was Christine Wilson.

She described the 26 photographs as a great snapshot of the fitness community, showing its oldest members, some of its youngest and everyone in between.

“Look at all these gorgeous people, each one has a wonderful story,” she said.

As a regular gym user, Wilson said the exhibition showed very clearly that a gym was a place for everyone, not just the young and the fit.

The stories of members whose photos are in the exhibition will be told on the gym’s Facebook page over the coming weeks.

■■ REFUGEE SETTLEMENT

Mentors to make refugees welcome

By Sue Newman

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A hand of friendship will be one of the key elements in making refugees arriving in Ashburton feel at home, says Ashburton Mayor Donna Favel.

She’s keen to establish a pool of individuals or families who will become familiar faces to new arrivals through an informal mentoring scheme.

And she’s already had phone calls from residents wanting to be part of that pool.

Last week Ashburton was identified as the sixth town in the latest network of refugee settlement towns, with our first newcomers due to arrive in August next year.

Ashburton is likely to receive between 10 and 15 refugees (about three to five families) per intake and there will be several intakes each year.

The district is well positioned to welcome these newcomers, Favel said, with good employment opportunities and available housing.

A programme that matched newcomers with locals willing to help them deal with the myriad of small issues that would come with being new arrivals in what was likely to be a very foreign environment, would go a long way towards making the transition easier, she said.

“I’ve already had people reach-

ing out and wanting to do something like this. People are saying, how can we help,” she said.

She’s keen to compile a list of volunteers and anyone wanting to be part of the welcoming project can register their interest by emailing her at mayor@adc.govt. nz, Favel said.

Red Cross also runs an official mentoring programme to support refugees and this covers help in setting up a home before refuges arrive, helping enrol families with a doctor and children in a school.

It also provides budgeting, shopping and familiarisation with local services and facilities.

Favel said she had been field-

ing mixed reactions to Ashburton’s choice as a refugee settlement town, but said she was heartened by the growing number of comments from people who were saying it was the right thing for Ashburton to do.

One of Ashburton’s advantages as a refugee settlement town was its strong Newcomers’ Network and its membership of the Welcoming Communities project, she said.

Staff from Immigration New Zealand will be in Ashburton on May 30 and will be talking through the process of refugee settlement, what the government did and what would be required locally.

Pua Magasiva’s family is in an “acute stage of grief” after his sudden death at the weekend.

Tributes are also flowing from across the world for the actor, who died overnight on Friday.

The 38-year-old former Shortland Street star died suddenly during a visit to Wellington. His wife Lizz is understood to have been in the capital with him. Police are investigating his death and it will be referred to the Coroner. - NZME

Housing project The Government will spend almost $200 million on housing 2700 long-term homeless people in New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the pre-Budget announcement at a community centre in Glen Eden yesterday as the single largest Government investment in tackling chronic homelessness. Housing First is a collective response offering people immediate access to housing, with “wraparound” health and welfare services, as required, backing up the placements.

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Teachers to strike Primary and secondary teachers have voted for a historic first combined all-schools strike on May 29. The strike, on the eve of the Government’s much-vaunted May 30 “Wellbeing Budget”, will aim to persuade ministers to spend more on boosting teachers’ pay and conditions than the $1.2 billion over four years that they have already offered. But the Ministry of Education will seek an immediate return to facilitated bargaining to try to stave off the strike. Both primary and secondary teachers have been offered pay rises of 3 per cent a year for three years plus an extra top grade that would give many teachers effective pay rises of 12 per cent over three years.

But the primary teachers’ NZ Educational Institute and the PostPrimary Teachers’ Association are holding out for more action on more staffing and more classroom release time to reduce heavy workloads. Primary teachers have already gone on strike twice in this bargaining round.

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Lotto results Official Lotto results for draw number 1854 drawn on Saturday.

Winning numbers (in ascending order): 2, 3, 16, 19, 20, 39.

Bonus number: 32.

Powerball winning number: 3.

Strike: 3, 39, 20, 16.

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■■ ROBILLIARD TROPHY

Rugby stalwart honoured

By Sue Newman

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When his name was called out at this year’s Mid Canterbury Sports Awards on Friday night, as winner of the Robilliard Trophy for services to sport, Stuart Leadley was gobsmacked.

The rugby stalwart might have given years of his life to the game, but those were given willingly. He’d done no more than many others for a sport he loved, Leadley said.

“I’ve been there when so many other people have been given this award, but I never thought I’d be up there. I am absolutely thrilled,” he said.

Yesterday the large Robilliard Trophy was taking pride of place on the family dining table and Leadley said he felt pretty humbled when he read through the names inscribed on its base.

“It’s not about awards, it’s not about rewards, it’s about doing something you love,” he said.

For him, giving time to the sport he loved as a coach, administrator and team manager was a great way to be part of the sport without getting his knees dirty.

He played school boy rugby but as an adult only ran out two or three times for what was then Tech senior B. Work as a shearer meant he couldn’t risk on-field injury.

“If I had my time over again I’d love to have been a rugby player to have played more sport, but when you’re one of a family of eight and you live eight kilometres from town, that’s a lot of after school running around.”

A casual conversation in 1974 with Peter Street sparked the idea of becoming involved in junior rugby.

“I said to him I could teach the little kids to run, throw a ball and tackle so I ended up coaching JAB for five or six seasons,” Leadley said.

He moved up to under 15s but said he didn’t have the technical knowledge to coach at that level. He pulled the pin on coaching and took his first step as an administrator, becoming Tech’s club captain.

“That was in the 1980s and I was the last one of the tech club captains and the first for Collegiate once we did the merger,” he said.

That merger between Tech and Old Boys to form the new Collegiate club was controversial and while it might have made sense to administrators, it was a long and hard sell to members of each club.

“I moved the motion for that amalgama-

tion but it was by no means universal, I can tell you.”

Leadley served four years as chairman of that club, but where he says he feels his skills were best used was as bar manager. He and wife Liz gave 20 years to that job.

They got the bar turning a healthy profit by putting solid processes in place and establishing a strict reporting process to the club committee. It was all about accountability, Leadley said.

His commitment to the club didn’t stop at the bar. He and Liz also took on the task of washing the senior team jerseys each week.

“We washed 105 jerseys every week and if they were really bad I’d hang them on the fence and take to them with the garden hose, if they were moderately dirty we would fill the bath and soak them,” he said.

And if it was wet, the gear still had to be dried and on occasion they hung those 105 jerseys around their lounge.

“We had our own personal wallpaper.”

Leadley recalls appearing on a Frontline television programme during the tough farming era of the 1980s and the jerseys just happened to be hanging in the living room.

“The reporter described us as a farming couple who had to take in rugby washing to put food on the table. We laughed and laughed when we saw that,” he said.

Leadley played a strong role in the Collegiate club for decades and then took up a position on the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union where he was part of a small sub committee that created the current combined Ellesmere, Mid Canterbury and North Canterbury competition.

He was elected to the union board in 2004 and also managed the Heartland Team.

“I really enjoyed my Heartland team. At time it was demanding but it was very fulfilling,” he said.

In 2011 he took up the chairmanship of the union, serving in this role for four years.

Like all elected positions, there is a time limit, a time when people should move aside and let new blood through, he said.

“Now I have the privilege of watching from the sideline. I’m still an absolute rugby fan. I go every week when I can and I’m a dedicated TV rugby fan and love the Crusaders.” Any suggestions that the team’s name should change is nonsense, he said.

Today Leadley is a life member of both Collegiate and the Mid Canterbury Union and is patron of Collegiate and has his name carved on the Mid Canterbury sporting hall of fame.

Stuart Leadley, winner of the Robilliard Trophy for services to rugby, at this year’s Mid Canterbury Sports Awards.

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■■ AIR FORCE ON TOUR

Set to perform in home patch Mid Canterbury man Bandmaster Sergeant Ben Robertson is looking forward to showing just what the Royal New Zealand Air Force band can do when the annual Air Force on Tour concert stops off in Methven.

The band’s concert, which will be held at Methven’s Mt Hutt Memorial Theatre on May 24, will feature a range of musical styles, from Dvorak to Queen, and Kenneth Alford to George Gershwin, led by outstanding vocalist Leading Aircraftman Barbara Graham, and of course Robertson himself.

The 65-member band is made up of New Zealand Defence Force Reservists, many of whom are active in Wellington’s music scene.

Robertson, who recently returned from conducting the NZDF Anzac Day contingent at Chunuk Bair in Gallipoli, is looking forward to performing near his home town Ashburton.

“I’m really excited to be bringing such a talented group of musicians on a homecoming of sorts,” he said.

“It’s great to be able to show off the

awesome versatility of the RNZAF Band.”

Robertson has made a career out of military music, starting with the New Zealand Army Band in 2003.

After studying trombone at undergraduate level in Wellington and then at postgraduate level in London, he returned to Wellington in 2014 to join the RNZAF Band and was appointed Bandmaster in 2018.

One of the highlights of his career so far was travelling to Turkey with the NZDF Contingent in 2015 for the centenary of the Gallipoli landings.

“That was one of the defining moments of New Zealand military history and was such an honour to be a part of,” he said.

He rates the RNZAF Band as the best symphonic band in the country, with unbelievable players.

“There is a very high standard of playing and a great mix of ages and types of musicians,” he said.

The Air Force on Tour concert is in the Mt Hutt Memorial Theatre on Friday May 24 at 7pm, and tickets are available to purchase from the Methven iSite.

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These trailers have hydraulic brakes, LED lights and spare wheel.

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Large or small, we have furniture wagons starting from 2.5 cu/m through to 15.8 cu/m in size.

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Needing more up market toilets. Then call as we can source these too.

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A broad range of toilets available, trailered or other.

Accessible toilets for the disabled can be arranged but require advanced notice.

Plumbing work at home is playing up with no plumber in sight then consider a stand-alone toilet until things are back to normal.

Cleaning and servicing are arranged as often as you want.

Extensive range of toilets on a trailer or other available.

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If you have driven a tractor, truck or car and have a correct driver’s licence endorsement, and not frightened of having a go, then that’s the first step passed.

Have you ever towed a trailer before or confident to.

This is the second question you have to ask yourself.

Is your car or ute big enough to tow and does it have the correct size rated drawbar? For example, our 1.7 tonne excavator requires a 2.5 tonne rated drawbar, 2 tonne excavator requires 3 tonne rated drawbar, and our 2.5 tonne excavator requires a 3.5 tonne rated drawbar.

Our excavators are easy to operate and straight forward. Start out in the open where there are no obstructions and have a go with it first. Within 20-40 minutes your confidence levels will be right up.

If it is specialised work, then we may recommend you contact a contractor.

Yes, we can give you a familiarisation before you go.

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15 metres height reach, Suitable for a multitude of outdoor uses such as building maintenance, sign installation and painting.

This machine provides lift for up to two people. NOT TO EXCEED 200kg Independently operated hydraulic outriggers provide a safe, stable and level working platform irrespective of the terrain.

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We have four different towable petrol powered hydraulic log splitters These very popular log splitters are capable of splitting all types of wood, and some have the choice of a lifter for those big rings to help you to save some of the back-breaking work.

Also, we have an OSH approved 14HP log splitter as well for the customers that have strict health and safety.

Consider using our mega Raptor log splitter. It can process up to three cords or nine cubic metres per hour (subject to ideal conditions).

Position either a front-end loader bucket at the end of splitter or low trailer for almost self-loading of split wood.

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Militants storm hotel AP Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Pakistan’s southwestern port city of Gwadar, killing at least one guard and battling security forces for hours after all guests were evacuated. Four attackers were killed, officials said.

A regional separatist group, the Baluch Liberation Army, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement. Gwadar’s commercial and political profile has been raised as the hub of a multibillion-dollar Chinese infrastructure project.

“All four of the terrorists have been killed,” said a senior security official told AP after security forces cornered the attackers inside the Pearl Continental Hotel.

The army spokesman office said the militants attempted to enter the hotel and

opened fire on guards. It said all guests had been safely evacuated.

The attack came just weeks after 14 members of Pakistan’s armed forces were attacked and killed while travelling on a highway near Ormara, an area in the same region. That attack was claimed by militants linked to another regional separatist movement.

Pakistan has complained to neighbouring Iran that such militant groups are active along their shared border but that Tehran has taken no action.

The Pearl Continental in Gwadar is a popular accommodation and meeting place for business travellers, many of them connected to the ambitious development and transportation project there that is a centerpiece of Beijing’s burgeoning economic and political alliance with Pakistan.

China has invested a reported US$60 billion in Pakistan, especially the Gwadar deep port on the Arabian Sea, to open and upgrade transport, infrastructure and communication links with far-western China.

The Balochistan Chief Minister, Jam Kamal Khan, condemned the attack and ordered security forces to place a high priority on ensuring the safety of all guests at the hotel.

Balochistan, a vast desert province, has been plagued with political violence for years. It is the home of several different ethnic and tribal militant separatist groups, as well as Islamist militants that have attacked churches.

Pakistani officials have also accused India of sending spies to infiltrate the region.

India denies the claims.

■■UNITED STATES

Man who reported girl missing arrested

Star’s romantic wedding Kiwi actress Elizabeth Dowden has married in an intimate Beverley Hills wedding. The 26-year-old former Westside star decided to try her luck by moving to Hollywood — and found love with director/producer Matthew Felker.

Dowden, whose credits include Roman Empire and American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story is walking on air since her nuptials. “We had a very small wedding with only a few of our closest friends. We got married in Beverly Hills and had the reception at the Hotel Bel-Air,” she said.

The couple’s Maltese-cross dog, Rosie, was dressed in a tux by Barc Jacobs. The nuptials made the Hollywood Reporter pages.

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AP The man who reported 4-year-old Maleah Davis had been abducted last weekend was arrested near Houston at the weekend in connection with her disappearance and police said they found blood in his apartment linked to her.

Derion Vence, who had lived with Maleah and her mother, was arrested at his brother’s home in Sugar Land, Texas, about 35km southwest of Houston, a statement from Houston police said. He was charged with tampering with evidence. A court document said the charge related to tampering with a human corpse.

Asked if police believe Vence killed Maleah, Houston police spokesman Kese Smith said: “At this point in time those are the charges we have filed and I can’t say any more than that.”

Vence, 26, told police last Saturday that men in a pickup truck abducted him, Maleah and his 2-year-old son before freeing him and the boy. But Sugar Land police, who initially interviewed him, said his story kept changing and didn’t add up.

Houston police said at the weekend some of those claims were false.

Vence reported that his silver Nissan Altima was taken in the abduction but surveillance video showed that vehicle was used to drop Vence off later at a hospital, where he first reported the abduction, police said.

“His story turned out not to be the case, including the fact that there was that blood evidence in the apartment linked to Maleah,” Smith said.

He said authorities have not found the girl and the investigation is continuing.

The police statement said Vence was observed carrying a full laundry basket from the apartment. That basket was later found in the trunk of the Nissan along with a gas can.

Elizabeth Dowden and Matthew Felker

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West have welcomed their fourth child, a boy born via surrogate. Kardashian West tweeted: “He’s here and he’s perfect!” A spokeswoman said in an email the baby was born last week, weighing in at 6 pounds, 9 ounces. The new baby joins North, Saint and Chicago. Chicago, who’s a year and a half, was also born via a gestational carrier. North, the oldest, is five. The new baby is the couple’s second son after Saint.

- AP A Sri Lankan Catholic devotee attends Sunday mass at a church in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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First mass since attacks AP The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka have held the first regular Sunday mass since the Easter suicide bombings of churches and hotels killed more than 250 people.

Military forces and police armed with assault rifles patrolled the streets leading to churches and stood guard outside the compounds.

Everyone entering was required to produce identity cards and was body searched.

Volunteers were stationed at the gates of churches to identify parishioners and look for suspicious individuals.

Parking was banned near the churches and officials requested worshippers to bring along only minimum baggage.

Seven suicide bombers struck two Catholic and one Protestant church and three luxury hotels on Easter Sunday.

The Islamic State group claimed re-

sponsibility for the attacks, carried out by a local radicalised Muslim group.

Sunday services were cancelled in the two subsequent weekends for fear of more attacks, leaving the faithful to hear Mass via live TV transmission from the Colombo residence of Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith.

Church authorities are also mulling reopening church-run schools this week if they can be satisfied with security.

President Maithripala Sirisena said last week most of the remaining suspects in the Easter attacks had been arrested and their explosive materials seized.

Police say two previously little-known radical Islamist groups — National Towheed Jamaat and Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim — conspired in the attacks. Officials say Zahran Hashim, a vitriolic preacher from the country’s east, may have led the attackers and was one of the bombers to die.

Axl Rose

Band sues brewery The rock band Guns N’ Roses is accusing a Colorado brewery of piggybacking off their fame to sell beer and merchandise.

The band has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Coloradobased Oskar Blues Brewery, which sells Guns ‘N’ Rosé beer and merchandise and bandannas the group says are associated with singer Axl Rose. The complaint says Oskar Blues applied to trademark Guns ‘N’ Rosé last year and abandoned the effort after the band objected. The lawsuit says the brewery is still selling the beer and the merchandise.

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Taking out the athlete with a disability category was Delta Taeauga (left).

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Ashburton’s indoor bowls representative team took out senior team of the year.

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Coach of the year was Mati Morrison from Celtic rugby.

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Guest speaker at the Mid Canterbury Sports Awards on Friday night, netballer Kate Beveridge, answers questions from the event’s MC James Cochrane.

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Mid Canterbury’s junior team of the year was Ashburton College’s smallbore rifle shooting team of (from left) Emma Smith, Shania Harrison-Lee and Lanelle Millar-McArthur.

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Emma Stagg was female all rounder of the year.

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Triathlete Brea Roderick was named Mid Canterbury’s junior sportsperson of the year.

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Taonga Mbambo was male all rounder of the year.

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Preparing for Golden Guitars

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The Angelettas are gearing up for a practice performance as they prepare to head off to the Golden Guitars in Gore this month.

They will play at the Woolshed Theatre on Back Track on May 19, 4.30pm, where they will be joined by local country music singer and singing teacher Amelia James.

For lead singers Charli Hellyer and Bella Casey-Solly, it will be a completely different experience in terms of how nervous they feel on the stage.

For Bella, singing in front of family and friends is most daunting, so the bigger the audience the better.

For Charli, however, she finds singing in front of family and friends just fine, but can be a little daunted by larger audiences.

To counter nerves in the past she had taken a spoonful of honey to help her voice, but at the Golden Guitars and the Woolshed concert she planned to just take a few deep breaths.

The two 12-year-olds and their fellow band members – Alice Miers, Rose Dargue and Leah Maw – are all in Year 8 at Mount Hutt College, and formed their band while all in Year 6 together at Lauriston School.

The Angelettas play predominantly country rock and instrumentals, and have a few original songs amongst their repertoire.

Bella is the songwriter of the band, and looking forward to debuting A Hundred Dreams, about finding one’s passion in life, Promise, about being strong and resilient, and Mojo, about her horse.

“You can’t just write a song on the spot, something has to happen to write a song,” Bella said of the song-writing process.

“It’s just a good way to express feelings.”

Twelve-year-olds Bella Casey-Solly and Charli Hellyer have a different take on performance nerves.

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ARTS DIARY ■■ May 19 - The Angelettas play at the Woolshed Theatre on Back Track on May 19, 4.30pm.

■■ May 23 - The Topp Twins – Heading for The Hills, at Mount Hutt Memorial Hall from 7pm to 10pm.

■■ May 24 – Variety Theatre Ashburton’s Sister Act opens at Ashburton Trust Event Centre, runs to June 1.

■■ May 30 – New Zealand Country Music Awards 2019 kick off in Gore. The Angelettas, made up of five Year 8 musicians from Mount Hutt College, will be competing.

■■ June 6 – Cancer Society’s Wellbeing and Resilience Presentation at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre by clinical psychologist Julie Zarifeh, 5.30pm.

■■ June 15 - Room On the Broom, Ashburton Trust Event Centre, noon to 3pm. CDP presents Tall Stories’ production of Room On the Broom adapted from the picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

■■ To June 18 – In Your Likeness and 2018 Adam Portraiture Award finalist exhibition at Ashburton Art Gallery.

■■ June 22 - Life and Love concert, combined Mid Canterbury Choir and Selwyn Community Choirs, 2pm, Sinclair Centre, Park Street, Ashburton.

■■SISTER ACT

Kim enjoying playing a memorable character M id Canterbury audiences will be rejoicing in the musical power of Sister Act when the Variety Theatre Ashburton production opens at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on May 24.

As disco diva Deloris Van Cartier, played by Sharleyne Diamond, hides from her murderer ex-boyfriend Curtis, played by Matt Williams, an exciting and hilarious storyline unfolds.

Here the Guardian profiles some of the leading duo’s fellow cast members.

Kim Vessey

Kim Vessey, accounts clerk at Gabites Limited, plays Sister Mary Lazarus.

What do you like about playing this character?

This is my first named role in a show so love that it’s a memorable character without having a lot of dialogue to learn.

Are there any similarities between yourself and this character?

My character is stubborn, grumpy and bossy, which according to my husband are all traits that come naturally to me, so I’ve been told I won’t need to try very hard to get into character.

What have been the highlights and lowlights, challenges and achieve-

ments, of rehearsals so far?

It is a great cast and rehearsals have been lots of fun, which makes being away from family easier (I have oneyear-old and three-year-old boys).

The music is challenging with lots of harmony, and in most songs the timing is crucial, so that’s been tough but rewarding at the same time.

What are you looking forward to most about bringing Sister Act to the stage?

We have all been working our butts off to make this show the best we can, so it will be great to see the audience’s response and see all elements of onstage and offstage efforts come together.

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Is a stay-at-home mum a luxury?

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aternity care has come a long way since the days when new mums were confined to bed for several days after a birth and when they rarely left hospital earlier than two weeks after delivery.

Many new mothers today find themselves virtually out on the street just hours after giving birth.

For some that might be the option they’d choose anyway, but for most, a few days rest postbirth is a perfect way to regain strength and hopefully stockpile sleep before becoming number one carer for a newborn.

While women are currently funded by the government for two days of hospital care, in

many cases this simply does not happen because of bed demand.

But National MP Louise Upston wants to change that.

Mums, she says, should be entitled to three days of hospital care, no questions asked, and she’s proposing a parliamentary bill to try and make this happen.

The policy would cost an additional $16-$20 million, and would be ring-fenced to prevent

health boards putting the money into other areas. Sounds great, but in a sector that’s already chronically under-funded and critically over-burdened, coughing up for an extra day’s hospital stay is unlikely to fly.

For many new mums, life pre and post-birth is lived at speed – work as long as you can, leave hospital as quickly as possible and for many, return to work as soon as possible.

Somewhere in there there’s a baby to consider.

While New Zealand’s parental leave has now been increased to 22 weeks and will jump to 26 weeks in 2020, there are many women for whom a return to work earlier is either desirable or

In 2002, Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba, becoming the first US president in or out of office to visit since the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.

In 2008, a devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake in China’s Sichuan province left more than 87,000 people dead or missing.

Ten years ago: Five Miami men were convicted in a plot to blow up FBI buildings and Chicago’s Sears Tower; one man was acquitted. Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from the United States to Germany.

Five years ago: Scientists expressed concern during a

NASA news conference over a pair of studies which said the huge West Antarctic ice sheet was starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, a melt that could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels.

One year ago: North Korea said it would dismantle its nuclear test site later in the month, in what analysts described as a mostly symbolic event that wouldn’t represent a material step toward denuclearization.

Today’s birthdays: Critic John Simon is 94. Composer Burt Bacharach is 91. Actress Millie Perkins is 83. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jayotis Washington is 78.

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non-optional. The career ladder or stretched finances see to that.

Check out any preschool around Ashburton and you’ll see plenty of babies, some who are in their day care home for almost as long each day as they are in their own homes.

Something’s out of kilter. Yes, families are under huge financial pressure, but each one of those has assumed that pressure willingly in their drive to have the best, to have it all, to have it now.

Gone are the days when young families started in an older home with second-hand furniture and worked their way up.

Today they start at the top – new home, new furniture, overseas trips and eye-water-

ing mortgages. Starting at the top is fine when both partners are working. Drop one out of the workforce and the dynamic changes.

Yes we have paid parental leave, but for most who receiving it, it will fall short of the amount they’d be earning if they were back on the job.

For couples with borrowings to the hilt, debt servicing was generally built around two incomes, hence the fastest-growing business in town is probably early childhood education.

Has being a stay-at-home mum become a luxury most young parents cannot afford – or has it simply become something they choose not to do?

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Sunday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2019. There are 233 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.

On this date: In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered to British forces.

In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr, the 20-month-old kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, New Jersey.

In 1936, following their crushing defeat by the Labour Party in the 1935 general election, the remnants of the United–Reform coalition government met in Wellington on May 13–14 to establish a new ‘anti-socialist’ party – the National Party. nzhistory.govt.nz In 1937, Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey; his wife, Elizabeth, was crowned as queen consort.

In 1943, during World War Two, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington.

In 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that hurricanes would no longer be given only female names.

In 1982, in Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who attacked Pope John Paul II. (In 2008, the pope’s longtime private secretary revealed that the pontiff was slightly wounded in the assault.)

In 1995, New Zealand wom the America’s Cup with a 5–0 sweep

by Black Magic (NZL 32) over Stars and Stripes in San Diego. nzhistory.govt.nz

Country singer Billy Swan is 77.

Actress Linda Dano is 76. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 71. Singermusician Steve Winwood is 71.

Actor Gabriel Byrne is 69. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 69. Blues singer-musician Guy Davis is 67.

Country singer Kix Brooks is 64.

Actress Kim Greist is 61. Rock musician Eric Singer (KISS) is 61.

Actor Ving Rhames is 60. Rock musician Billy Duffy is 58. Actor Emilio Estevez is 57. Actress April Grace is 57. Actress Vanessa A. Williams is 56. Country musician Eddie Kilgallon is 54. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 53. Actor Scott Schwartz is 51. Actress Kim Fields is 50. Actress Samantha

Mathis is 49. Actress Jamie Luner is 48. Actor Christian Campbell is 47. Actress Rebecca Herbst is 42. Actor Jason Biggs is 41. Actor Actress-singer Clare Bowen is 35. Actress Emily VanCamp is 33.

Actor Malcolm David Kelley is 27.

Actor Sullivan Sweeten is 24.

Thought for today: “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers — but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.” — Katharine Hepburn, US actress (born this date in 1907, died 2003). - AP

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he Government has announced some details of its referendum on legalising cannabis which will occur during next year’s general election.

Justice Minister Andrew Little has indicated that the referendum will be a yes or no question on draft legislation which would make it legal for persons aged 20 and over to purchase and use cannabis.

The Government’s decision means that while legislation will be drafted, it won’t have gone through Parliament’s processes before the referendum meaning voters won’t know exactly what any new law would finally look like.

The minister has indicated that the draft law would say that cannabis products would be able to be bought only from a licensed and registered retailer in a licensed premises. It is proposed that cannabis would be able to be used in special licensed cafes or bars or on private property, but not in public places.

While I am relieved to see that

the Government’s proposals include a ban on the advertising of cannabis products, I remain concerned at the message legislation will send to our young people when the evidence is clear that young people’s brain development can be harmed by cannabis use.

We are already seeing worryingly high rates of mental illness and suicide amongst our youth, and I worry that this will only get worse if we sanction recreational drug use.

I have also received the same message of concern from experts working in public services, who are already dealing with children and young people with increasingly complex behaviour-

al, mental and physical challenges.

In many of these cases parental drug use has been a key factor in the course these children’s lives have taken.

While I agree that drug use and addiction is causing societal harm, I am not convinced that legalising drug use will make this better.

The Global Commission on Drug Policy has described a “for-profit” model with relaxed regulation as just as harmful as an unregulated black market.

So does that mean that we should have a not-for-profit, state-controlled model such as exists in Uruguay?

I am sure most people would agree with me that the idea of the Government acting as a dealer of recreational drugs is alarming to say the least.

The Government has indicated it is not in favour of a market under “corporate control, like tobacco or alcohol” but it is reportedly not intending to opt for a state-controlled model either.

So what would this look like?

There is a lot of detail yet to be worked out.

For example, the Government has indicated that it would allow “limited home-growing”.

It will be very difficult to regulate the strength of home-grown cannabis products.

There are a range of other consequences to be worked through in terms of the impact of legalising cannabis on drug testing for health and safety purposes and driving.

What limits will be acceptable at work?

The Government has a lot of work to do between now and next year to make sure that members of the public have as much information as possible about exactly what they are voting for.

wander round the shops, have a coffee without the worry her parking was running out the having to go back to move her car or feed the meter.

Here in Ashburton we olds have the same problem of car

shifting, meter feeding etc. Also volunteers in the op shops which are all in restricted or metered area whose staff usually work in at least three-hour shifts regularly get issued with parking offences or have to walk from their cars

which are outside the zone and as more than half of these shops are staffed by over 80s.

Come on council, give the olds a break – you will be there sooner than you think.

Ann McKay

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Guests watch a show near a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse in front of the Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, part of the Orlando area in Florida. Orlando had 75 million visitors last year as the theme park mecca continued to be the most visited destination in the United States.

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rlando had 75 million visitors last year as the theme park mecca continued to be the most visited destination in the United States, tourism officials said Thursday.

Orlando in 2018 had 68.5 million domestic visitors, a year-to-year increase of 4.1%, and almost 6.5 million international visitors, a year-to-year increase of 5.4%.

The overall 4.2% increase over 2017 figures was slightly smaller than the previous year-to-year increase of 5%. But there was a robust return of international visitors, a segment that had softened in previous years.

The international improvement was driven by Latin American visitors, especially from Brazil and Mexico, said George Aguel, CEO of Visit Orlando, the area’s tourism marketing agency.

“When folks are thinking about what they can and can’t do, we try to market why this is a good place for them to come. We focus on the feeling you get when you come here,” Aguel said.

“There really is no place in the

country ... where you have the ability to make a connection emotionally. We play a lot on the memories we create.”

Orlando has been in the middle of a years-long expansion of rides and hotel rooms.

Accommodation expansion is at a 20-year high. The metro area already has more than 120,000 hotel rooms, the second highest in the nation behind only Las Vegas.

Additionally, attractions at the area’s theme parks are opening at a break-neck pace.

In 2017, a new water park, Volcano Bay, opened at Universal Orlando, and a new section, Pandora-The World of Avatar, opened at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom.

Last year, Disney World opened a Toy Story Land.

Disney World is opening a Star Wars-themed land in August, SeaWorld debuted a Sesame Street land this spring and Universal Orlando is opening a new Harry Potter-themed ride this summer.

“We think it will help us carry over in 2020,” Aguel said. “A lot of these things start to kick in the following year.”

Park guests relax and cool off with a water mist under the globe at Universal Studios City Walk in Orlando, Florida.

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Fulton takes over batting coach role NZME A former Canterbury and New Zealand batsman has replaced a former Canterbury and New Zealand batsman as the Black Caps’ new batting coach, where he will be working under, well, a former Canterbury and New Zealand batsman.

Peter Fulton has been appointed as the Black Caps’ new batting coach, replacing Craig McMillan, who stands down from the role at the end of the ODI World Cup in July.

Fulton will link up with former team-mate Gary Stead, with the pair having played together in the early 2000s, before Fulton then played under Stead in his stint as Canterbury coach, calling him the most prepared coach he ever had.

That relationship will now continue in the Black Caps environment, with the 38-year-old getting the nod to replace McMillan, who had spent five years in the role.

Since retiring from cricket in 2017, Fulton had set up a meth-testing business in Christchurch, while also having coaching stints at Christ’s College and as head coach of the New Zealand Under 19 side.

Fulton played in every format for the Black Caps, racking up 23 test matches, 49 ODIs and 12 Twenty20s in nearly 10 years of bouncing in and out of the international arena.

He averaged just 25.4 in test cricket, with his finest test coming in 2013 against England, where he hit a century in both innings – the only two of his test career – in what was an eventually thrilling draw at Eden Park.

Fulton averaged 32.5 in ODI cricket with a solitary century, against Sri Lanka in 2006, though his biggest moments arguably came in the memorable Chappell-Hadlee series in 2007.

Fulton started the Black Caps’ comeback in Hamilton, carving 51 from 40 balls as they came

Richard Turpie’s destructive spell with the ball against Otago Country was recognised at the Mid Canterbury Sports Awards on Friday.

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A top sporting moment Peter Fulton on test duty. back from 41-4 to chase down 347, while the game earlier he saw them home in Auckland, hitting an unbeaten 76 from 65 balls as they hunted down 337.

Fulton, who retired as Canterbury’s first-class leader in matches (121), runs (8719) and catches (128), as well as their all-time top Twenty20 run scorer (1708), is also the only player to score a triple century for Canterbury, smashing an unbeaten 301 against Auckland in 2003.

His final one-day game for Canterbury was just as sensational, thumping an unbeaten 116 from just 58 balls in a bizarre one-day final which was turned into a 20-over affair.

Fulton’s incredible knock was enough for a 28-run win over Wellington, and sending the veteran out with a domestic title.

Now, he will be part of the coaching team trying to produce titles on the world stage.

One of the most memorable sporting moments of 2018/19 cricket season took out a special new honour at the Mid Canterbury Sports Awards at the Hotel Ashburton on Friday night.

Every year, the judging panel had a tough job deciding who should be crowned the district’s top performers, or top teams.

Within the pile of nomination forms they were given every year there were some moments that, while may not be enough for that person or team to take out the main award, were pretty special feats.

So they decided there should be a new award, one for Mid Canterbury’s sporting moment of the year.

Among this year’s nominations, there was one moment which stood out, and that was Richard Turpie’s destructive spell with the ball in hand against Otago Country in January.

Playing for Mid Canterbury, Turpie ripped through the Otago Country batting line-up in their Hawke Cup zone match.

Aged just 18 at the time, and one of the newest players in the side, Turpie produced an unbelieva-

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ble spell of bowling which turned the game on its head.

He bowled a quadruple wicket maiden – which included a hat-trick – and finished the game with figures that well and truly earned him a spot on the Mid Canterbury Cricket honours board.

Turpie took 8/13, and his side went on to win the game by an incredible 106 runs.

Otago Country needed 142 runs in their second innings to win and had more than enough time to do it.

But Turpie had other ideas, taking Otago Country from 7/0 to 9/8.

The real turning point was the eighth over where he bowled a dot ball, took a hattrick, bowled another dot ball, then finished the over off by taking his fourth wicket in six balls.

Otago Country ended up all out for 36, and Mid Canterbury went on to beat North Otago in their final zone match and earn themselves a rare Hawke Cup challenge against Southland.

Turpie was overseas and unable to attend on Friday night, with family accepting the honour on his behalf.

Turpie had other ideas, taking Otago Country from 7/0 to 9/8.

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McLarens dominate at Pukekohe endurance event Endurance and GT-racing veterans Glenn Smith and John DeVeth have won the second round of the three-hour ENEOS North Island Endurance Series in their McLaren 650S GT3. Second went to Anthony Leighs and Paul Kelly (Porsche 911), with Rod Gimblett and Cameron Jones (Holden Commodore) completing the podium.

It was a race of attrition from the outset, with three of the McLaren duo’s key rivals striking trouble in the early laps.

The most significant of those was the No. 1 International Motorsport Audi R8 GT3 shared between Neil Foster and Jonny Reid.

The round-one winners failed to complete qualifying due to a

diff failure earlier in the day. And, after an arduous morning of attempted repairs, they were unable to make the start of the race.

There were pre-race issues too for the Hamilton Asphalts Holden VE Commodore of Lance Hughes and Matt Griffin. Early gremlins meant that they missed the start, although ultimately they were

able to join the race a few laps down. Ultimately the pair of BNT V8s regulars finished 19th.

Their finishing slot was three spots shy of the third of the early race casualties, with the wild, winged Ford Mustang beast driven by Nick Ross and former touring car world champion Paul Radisich ending proceedings 17th.

After featuring early in the race, they lose numerous laps in pit lane with issues of their own.

Although their biggest threats had unlucky races, it wasn’t to say their result wasn’t deserved. They led each lap of the three-hour showdown, barring a few early laps, and mistakes were few. In the end they won by two laps.

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Southern to fly the flag

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Southern are the sole Mid Canterbury team still in the running for the title of the best country rugby team in Canterbury after a drama-filled final round on Saturday.

Southern headed into their final pool game of the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup against Kaiapoi in Hinds as one of just two teams safe in their top eight spot, but their 29-20 win ensured that they were not just in the top eight, they were also one of the favourites to take it out.

This year’s revamped 22-team competition has involved three pools, with the top two teams from each pool going straight into the quarter-finals, and the other two spots being wildcards and going to the next best teams on a combined points table.

Despite a loss to Darfield in pool play Southern finished top in pool A to finish on 32 points overall, and while the side’s coach Andrew Carr was happy, he also knew they’d have to step it up another notch from here, with Darfield their quarter-final opponents.

But no matter who they’d drawn in the play-offs it would have been the same story.

Carr said that at the end of the

day they just had to win.

“We will have to play well. We can’t afford to not play well, if we don’t front up we will come second,” Carr said.

Southern – playing in a specially made strip on their jubilee weekend – got off to a slow start against Kaiapoi and although they got there in the end and scored some good tries, including a double to Matt McAtamney, they were capable of better and would need to be better from here on in.

On paper, Southern were one of the teams to beat, along with Glenmark-Cheviot, the side that topped pool B. They finished on the same points as Southern – 32 – but they were the competition’s only unbeaten team and that unblemished record meant they finished as the top ranked team, with Southern second.

The top team in pool C, Lincoln, finished just one point back on 31 and, like Southern, had dropped just the one game during pool play.

There had been plenty on the line for a number of other teams heading into Saturday’s final round, with a few in the running for the wildcard spots.

Two of those teams were Celtic and Rakaia, with both needing

to win and for other results to go their way.

But neither managed a win, so the other results didn’t end up mattering.

In pool B Rakaia – last year’s runners up – were beaten by Southbridge 31-17, while Celtic put up a real fight against the top side in pool C, Lincoln, before going down 29-14.

In the end, the two play-off spots both went to pool A sides.

Southern finished on top while defending champions Waihora beat Darfield 24-7 on Saturday to move from third into second, and take the pool’s other automatic qualification spot.

The loss to Waihora was Darfield’s first of the season, so they had enough points to their name to take the first wildcard, while Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell’s 45-15 win over Ashley on Saturday moved them into fourth and onto 26 points.

That was enough to see them take the second wildcard spot, finishing just one point ahead of Southbridge on a combined points table.

Who played who this coming weekend came down to rankings.

In the main section play-offs Southern will host Darfield in what was likely to be one of the toughest semi-finals, while Glen-

mark-Cheviot would take on BDI, Lincoln will host Prebbleton, and defending champions Waihora would head to Springston.

In the ninth to 12th play-offs for the Canterbury Rugby Supporters Club Trophy, Rakaia will play Southbridge for the second week running, while Celtic will play Saracens.

Despite losing to Southbridge on Saturday, Rakaia coach Terry Murray was happy with the performance his under-strength side produced against a tough opposition.

“We are really proud of the way the guys stuck to the task and they probably played some of their best football of the season,” Murray said.

They showed true commitment, and well and truly knew what they’d be up against this weekend, and how to combat it.

Hampstead picked up a 22-20 win over Hornby on Saturday – just their second win of the season – to ensure that for the first time in many years they would not play off in the bottom section.

Hampstead coach Shaun Bovey said it was good to win, but it was far from easy.

“We did our best to throw it away, to be honest,” Bovey said.

Hampstead led 19-8 with 12 minutes to go and thought they

had another try, but it was disallowed due to an indiscretion which resulted in a player being sent to the sin bin, and he was followed by another about two minutes later leaving Hampstead down to 13 men for much of the last 10 minutes.

Hornby had a chance to win it with a last minute penalty, but it just missed.

“It wasn’t my favourite day at the office,” Bovey said.

Hampstead will play off for 13th to 16th place in the North Canterbury RSU Plate round, with Kaiapoi their first-up opposition.

Also in the plate section were Methven, who would take on Oxford in the next round, after pulling off a nail-biting 29-28 win over Ohoka on Saturday.

It was both Simon Fleetwood and James McLeod’s 100th game for Methven, and Country Day at the Methven Domain with 19 home teams playing all up, which made for a very big day in Methven all around.

What all of the results meant, was that the lowest possible finish for a Mid Canterbury side this season would be 16th, with West Melton, Ohoka, Hurunui, Ashley, Hornby and Rolleston being the bottom six who would play-of in the plaque section.

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Lions hanging by a thread AP The Lions came from behind for a 29-28 win over New South Wales Waratahs in Super Rugby yesterday, doing little to help coach Swys de Bruin’s nerves on his return to duty after a break because of stress.

The Lions trailed at halftime and again midway through the second half before a Shaun Reynolds penalty with just over 10 minutes to go saw them squeeze home.

Both teams scored four tries.

Finalists for the last three seasons, the Lions have been off the pace this year with their 6-5 record.

They are 21 points behind overall leaders the Crusaders, the team they’ve lost to in the last two Super Rugby finals.

Earlier, the Highlanders scored three tries in the last 10 minutes of the first half and hung on in the second half to beat the Jaguares 32-27, consolidating their place in the top eight with five rounds of the regular season to play.

Scrumhalf Brad Weber scored two tries including the match-winner in the 70th minute as the Chiefs rallied to beat South African conference leaders the Sharks 29-23 in Hamilton.

The Sharks are still second overall, but 18 points behind the Crusaders.

Melbourne Rebels, the Wellington-based Hurricanes, Dunedin-based Highlanders, Pretoria-based Bulls, Argentina-based Jaguares and Johannesburg-based Lions are the other teams in the playoff spots.

The Waratahs led the Lions in the sixth minute in Johannesburg when scrumhalf Nick Phipps darted through for the first try.

Captain Michael Hooper and Rob Simmons also crossed for the Waratahs to give them a surprise halftime lead.

The Lions kept in touch and were ahead for the first time when wing Courtnall Skosan finished after good interplay from the Lions forwards early in the second.

Anton Lienert-Brown was again a shining star for the Chiefs.

The Waratahs hit back with their fourth try, to Tom Staniforth after a powerful run by wing Curtis Rona took the Waratahs to a metre from the tryline.

Reynolds landed what was the game-deciding penalty in the 68th minute but both teams attacked relentlessly after that in a breathless finish.

The Lions have slim hopes of making another final but are only fourth in the South African conference.

The Waratahs are fourth in the Australian conference and 13th overall.

Fullback Matt Faddes, center Sio Tompkinson and hooker Liam Coltman touched down in the last minutes of a frenetic half to give the Highlanders a 26-13 lead over the Jaguares at halftime in Dunedin.

They needed every point, managing only two penalties in the second half while the Jaguares rallied with two converted tries.

But contentious calls went against the Jaguares in the last quarter, stalling their comeback and allowing the Highlanders to hold on for a win which lifted them to fifth overall.

Frustrations boiled over in a me-

lee involving almost all 30 players just before the final whistle and Jaguares captain Agustin Creevy was involved in a long conversation with referee Ben O’Keeffe after he signalled fulltime.

“We did a great job in coming back into the game,” Jaguares scrumhalf Tomas Cubelli said.

“The end of the game was a bit frustrating. We will have to double and maybe triple check some penalties at the end.”

The Durban-based Sharks were on target to cap a highly successful tour to Australia and New Zealand when they led the Chiefs 23-17 with 12 minutes remaining.

They had previously beaten the Waratahs in Sydney and last week drew with defending champions the Crusaders 21-21 in Christchurch.

They should have beaten the Crusaders but conceded a try after the fulltime siren and, on Saturday, were again overtaken in sight of the finish line.

The Chiefs first scored a 68th-minute try to center Anton Lienert-Brown to cut the margin to a point, 23-22.

From the restart Alex Nankivell made a long break out of the Chiefs’ half, linked with Solomon Alaimalo, and Weber took the last pass to score.

“If you compare that to the start of the season, we probably would have given up at the start,” Weber said.

“But now there’s a helluva lot of fight in us. We were down with 15 minutes to go but I knew we still had it in us.”

Weber scored his first try as the Chiefs led throughout the first half, 17-13 at halftime.

The Sharks took the lead for the first time with a try to Ruan Botha in the 57th. Flyhalf Curwin Bosch kicked a penalty to make the lead 23-17 but the Sharks weren’t able to hold on.

They were still trying at the end, holding the ball for 18 phases after the fulltime siren until a turnover ended the game.

Mo’unga again the main man for Crusaders Richie Mo’unga back, and the Crusaders return to clinical ways. Just.

Like. Clockwork.

It’s no major slight on Mitch Hunt to say the Crusaders are a completely different team with Mo’unga at the helm.

Few players in world rugby could replace Mo’unga in this form.

Of the four matches the red and blacks have dropped in the past two-and-a-half-years, Mo’unga featured in one. That’s how influential he has become to the defending champions.

Last week, during the scrappy draw with the Sharks, the Crusaders lacked direction and struggled to spark their attack, in part due to the shambolic state of the scrums in Christchurch.

This week on the high veldt in

Pretoria their forward pack laid the platform – Jordan Taufua, Kieran Read and Scott Barrett all featuring prominently - which allowed those wider out to run out 45-13 winners over the Bulls.

Visiting teams at altitude can opt for the conservative route to retain energy for the final quarter. The Crusaders went the opposite way and by making a staggering 670 metres, more than double that of the Bulls, it paid off in spades.

They scored four first half tries, Mo’unga grabbing two, to lead by 20 points at the break and effectively put the contest to bed.

Seven tries to one sums up the final shellacking.

This was the exact response Scott Robertson and, well, the rest of Super Rugby expects.

Mo’unga’s second try was a thing of beauty; a dummy and step to beat stagnant lock RG Snyman, a pop off the left foot to leave opposite Handre Pollard for dead and he then carried fullback Warrick Gelant over the line in a superb 40m effort.

When he wasn’t scoring tries, Mo’unga controlled territory and picked out his wingers with pinpoint cross-field kicks. At one point in the second half he went from a kick to the left wing to, on the next play, the right. In all he scored 20 points, and had it on a string throughout.

Mitchell Dunshea, starting in the absence of skipper Sam Whitelock, also claimed a corker for his first Super Rugby try, striding down the left edge after the set up from George

Bridge and Jack Goodhue.

Sevu Reece again impressed by running for over 100m and collecting a hat trick but, in many ways, the Fijian prospect was outshone by back three partners, Bridge and David Havili.

Taking the place of the injured Will Jordan, Havili was excellent in everything he did. He and Bridge handled the predictable high ball bombardment with aplomb, and Havili also had some nice touches from the boot.

As they were last week the Crusaders were again on the wrong side of the penalty count (13-4) – an area that threatens to become an issue. Their lineout also stuttered at times, losing three on their own throw. In the end, though, neither area mattered in this match.

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Saracens take out top title For the third time in four years, European glory belongs to Saracens.

Leinster’s historic ‘drive for five’ has fallen at the final hurdle, losing their first European final in front of 51,000 at Newcastle’s St James’ Park.

The defending champion’s bid to eclipse Toulouse’s four titles was ultimately crippled by a relentless red defensive wall.

In a fitting finale, featuring 16 British and Irish Lions players, Saracens are worthy victors.

They showed character to come back, survive a yellow card to Maro Itoje, and the early loss of both starting props to score 20 unanswered points to claim the title.

Leinster set standards last year and pulled off a great escape in their quarter-final win over Ulster but after leading for 58 minutes, the title slipped from their grasp. Forced to chase a 10 point deficit, they never seemed likely of running it down.

For Saracens there will be satisfaction, too, having extracted revenge after losing their last three European matches against Leinster.

They also finish this nine-match tournament unbeaten, only the third side to do so.

Accolades will go to Billy Vunipola for his decisive try 13 minutes from time but defensively, to a man, Saracens were superb.

Leinster’s favoured wrap around plays were, for the most, nullified. Try as they might they could only breakthrough for one try to prop Tadhg Furlong when Saracens were reduced to 14 men.

At one point, 10 points down, Saracens were on the ropes.

Itoje was joined by starting props Mako Vunipola (hamstring) and Titi Lamositele (ankle) on the sideline after half an hour, giving Leinster the firm upper hand.

Saracens remained calm, as all quality teams do, to earn a breakdown penalty to chip away at the lead.

When former Crusader Sean Maitland struck on half time, suddenly it was all square.

Scott Fardy’s yellow card gave Saracens the chance to pull clear – and Billy Vunipola took full advantage. Charging off the back of the scrum, the English No 8 never looked like passing, beating four defenders on his way over.

From there, Saracens were too good.

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Wakanui on winning roll

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Wakanui are now three-fromthree in the Mid/South Canterbury senior men’s hockey competition after seeing off a challenge from a tough Cambridge side on Saturday, 3-1.

Player/coach Sam Moore said Cambridge were always a hard side to play, and on Saturday it was no different.

“Cambridge are an interesting team to play against because they play a very fast and open style, and it’s difficult for team – like us – that are a bit lower and slower,” Moore said.

But the differing styles did work

in Wakanui’s favour at times, leaving Cambridge open and exposing opportunities which – in Ashburton on Saturday – the home side happily took advantage of.

Wakanui were missing a few players due to one of their players getting married, but that gave an opportunity for other players to put their hands up.

One of those was Jed Cameron, from the Ashburton College 1st XI and Wakanui first grade teams, who ran on for his first ever senior match.

It was difficult to separate the two sides early on, with the first quarter being played at a frantic

pace, end-to-end with opportunities for both sides.

But both were unable to convert early, until a Wakanui break about 10 minutes in ended in a goal to Hayden Sinclair.

A late penalty corner to Wakanui was defended to keep the score to 1-0 at the end of the first quarter, and a mixed second quarter with attacking opportunities largely dominated by Cambridge ended with the visitors capitalising on some miscommunication in the circle to knock one in to bring it level at 1-all at halftime.

More end-to-end hockey to start the third quarter was fol-

lowed by some nice work up the left side by Thomas White finding Andrew Fisher alone in the circle, who popped one over the keeper to put Wakanui back in front 2-1.

Wakanui were awarded a penalty corner late in the quarter but Cambridge were able to clear it, as the last quarter followed a similar pattern to the first three, with the last scoring play coming five minutes from the end when a sprawling White cross found a diving Fisher who again put the ball into the back of the net.

The news wasn’t so good for Mid Canterbury’s senior team in the Mid/South Canterbury,

with Hampstead falling to their second loss of the season, going down 3-1 to Cambridge.

The Cambridge women went home with smiles on their faces, unlike the club’s men’s side, after coming back from a goal down early to record their second win of the season.

Hampstead’s Hannah Young said her side had a strong first half, and while their fitness was probably found a bit lacking as the game progressed, it certainly wasn’t a walkover.

Hampstead’s next opposition is Geraldine, while Wakanui’s is Temuka, with both again being in Ashburton.

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King heading the right way for another PSA title Another satisfying win has seen Kiwi squash pro, Joelle King progress to the semi-finals at the PSA Silver Manchester Open.

Ranked No.5 in the world King had to battle at first but then built up her momentum to make short work of England’s Alison Waters in the third game.

“I was 2-0 up so I didn’t want to give Al (Alison) a sniff or allow her

back into the match. I’m happy to be off in three.

“She was down and out in the fifth yesterday and she managed to come back and win.

“She is so dangerous when she goes for it and on this court her kills are pretty dangerous, so I’m pleased to be off in three,” said the 30-year-old from Cambridge.

For King the 12-10, 11-9.11-6

victory in 31 minutes was ideal preparation for her semi-final match where she’ll face the much improved Amanda Sobhy, ranked eighth in the world, for a place in the final.

The Kiwi has a 6-1 head-tohead record over the American, however the majority of those matches were more than a year ago.

“It’s been a while – the last time I was near in the final was in Hong Kong when I went onto win it. It’s nice to be in contention for the final, but I’ve got a tough opponent in front of me in Amanda.

“She has just come back really strong after an Achilles injury.

She’s young and hungry and I’ve got to try and weather the storm, so we will see tomorrow.”

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Pike thrilled with success

Praise for apprentice

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Twenty-year-old apprentice jockey Hazel Schofer will have fond memories of her raceday debut after kicking home a pair of winners on her home track at New Plymouth on Saturday.

Indentured to local trainer Allan Sharrock, the softly spoken Schofer produced a confident display aboard Tavi Mac to record her inaugural win at just her first ride on a raceday before bringing up a double when scoring on Collinstreet in the last race of the day.

In between times she finished second on class mare Art Deco and impressed Sharrock with the level of maturity she displayed throughout the day.

“She’s a lovely lass who has a big future ahead of her,” Sharrock said.

“She’s not a natural lightweight but she is nice and strong and has good balance.

“I was impressed with the way she conducted herself during the day, which is half the battle sometimes and I’m sure she will take plenty away from the experience.

“She is a terrific listener who thinks about what she is doing so she should be very satisfied with how the day went and what she achieved.”

Sharrock has full belief in his apprentice which was clearly shown by giving her four rides on stable runners during the day.

“You have got to have confidence in them and show that by giving them the rides,” he said.

“I thought she was up to the task and the reality is they can only learn and get better if they are riding.

“The horse she won on in race two (Tavi Mac) is an awkward customer and she didn’t look that pretty on him but she got the job done. He was a bit of a rogue in the gates but she handled that well and put him in the race at the right time.

“I was very proud of the way she handled Collinstreet in the last as she got in a tough spot where most kids would have let them drift out. She gave him a couple of backhanders to get him up and travelling and that probably won her the race.”

Trainer Tony Pike had a feeling his class sprinter, The Bostonian, was in the sort of form to run the race of his life in Saturday’s Gr.1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m).

A strong final gallop in the hands of raceday rider Michael Cahill during the week suggested the Jimmy Choux four-yearold was back to his best and so it proved as he defied race favourite Osborne Bulls.

“He seems to really come right at this time of the year and Michael said his work on Tuesday was simply sensational,” Pike said.

“We were confident of a big run although it was a top-class field, so you couldn’t think he would just turn up and win.

“His record in Queensland is very good (unbeaten five from five) so I knew if we could get some luck, he would acquit himself well.”

Pike wasn’t at Doomben to witness the win first-hand, however he managed to catch all the action on television back in New Zealand.

“I had a commitment back in New Zealand for Sam Beatson’s wedding so that was why I wasn’t at Doomben,” he said.

“We did get to see the race live though and got a great thrill.

“Watching it all unfold I thought he was really trucking and turning for home he just needed a gap.

“Michael did a superb job and he was very strong to the line to get the win.”

Pike will now monitor The Bos-

The Bostonian gets home ahead of Osborne Bulls in the Doomben 10,000 on Saturday. tonian’s recovery before committing to his next target.

“We will see how he comes through the race during the week and then I will have a chat with David Archer (owner) about where we go,” he said.

“The Kingsford-Smith Cup (Gr.1 1300m) in a fortnight is an option but as he goes so well fresh it might be better to wait for the Stradbroke on June 8.”

Pike has a seven-strong team

in Brisbane for the winter carnival, with several members likely to be in action over the next week.

“Ever Loyal will likely be running in the BRC Sprint (Gr.3 1350m) next weekend while Intrigue will have her second start at the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday,” Pike said.

“Sacred Day is flying over today (Sunday) and he might have a start at Doomben on Saturday.

“I’m happy with the team and how they are shaping up, including Terra Sancta who I thought went a really cheeky race, out of her grade, on Saturday.

“She was very strong at the line and afterwards, so she is making good progress.

“She could run in the Premier’s Cup (Gr.3 2200m) in a fortnight and then tackle a race like the Ipswich Cup (Listed 2150m) after that.”

Bishara continues a Verry good year NZME Ardmore trainer Nick Bishara’s year just keeps on getting better after promising stayer Verry Flash returned to winning form with a win at Rotorua on the weekend.

Four-year-old Zed gelding Ver-

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ry Flash started the golden run for Bishara and his co-owner and breeder Don Goodwin, when he broke his maiden status at Avondale just over 12 months ago. He went on to win three of his next four to stamp himself as a horse with real potential.

of Australian and New Zealand interests, with her original owners retaining a shareholding, before commencing a campaign that saw her complete a Group One double in the Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) and ATC Oaks (2400m) in Sydney last month.

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

3 13111 Lochinvar Flash 23.29.........................L Cole 4 25512 Jax Jewel 23.83............................M Roberts 5 31124 Bigtime Otis 24.63...............................L Cole 6 11331 Cawbourne Moss 23.75................M Roberts 1 1.30pm (NZT) FORMPRO RATINGS FREE EVERY 7 25454 Bigtime Lizzy 23.60.............................L Cole 8 17854 Bigtime Bee nwtd................................L Cole MONDAY C0 C0, 410m 1 27421 Bigtime Stella nwtd.............................L Cole 9 15435 Thrilling Trev nwtd..................... K Gommans 2 x2361 Paradox Prince nwtd....................B Hodgson 10 64473 Born Fab 23.84................................S Maher 3 56675 Tuff An’ Spicy nwtd................. S D Blackburn 4 2.20 RED SNAPPER SEAFOODS, CHRISTCHURCH 4 5 Blazing Diamond nwtd...................B Mitchell C3 C3, 410m 5 8T Bigtime Daisy nwtd.............................L Cole 1 71878 Mahala Bay nwtd H &........................ Woods 6 2 Star Way nwtd..................................C Morris 2 73228 Bigtime Marley nwtd............................L Cole 7 34533 Stormin’ Home nwtd S &............C Blackburn 3 18812 Millie Prince 23.29 J &.........................D Bell 8 Harpoon Harry nwtd D &.............J MacAuley 4 53754 Fantastic Teddy nwtd....................A Turnwald 9 73871 Euphamistic nwtd.........................B Hodgson 5 62231 Cawbourne Ridge 23.56 J &................D Bell 10 48877 That’s Frank nwtd.......................J McInerney 6 6433P Limpy Jackson nwtd J &.......................D Bell 7 77874 Hard Merch nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 2 1.47pm CREATIVE CATERING C1 C1, 410m 1 25177 Yee Coo Coo nwtd.....................J McInerney 8 66625 Bigtime Honey 24.01...........................L Cole 2 43634 Shrewdy nwtd........................ L E Dunkerton 9 45377 Little Scamp 23.69........................ D Denbee 3 25123 Bigtime Puma 23.83............................L Cole 10 85477 Bigtime Jasmine 23.92........................L Cole 4 65231 Flying Huey nwtd...................... K Gommans 5 2.38pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL C3/4, 410m 5 23355 Cawbourne Symsy 23.75 J &...............D Bell 1 26123 Bigtime Annie nwtd.............................L Cole 6 124 Magic Flynn 24.22...............................L Cole 2 21281 Bigtime Banjo 23.58............................L Cole 7 41336 Idol Duke nwtd...................................M Flipp 3 3124F Mila Mila 24.06.............................A Turnwald 8 52322 Cawbourne Cruz nwtd..................M Roberts 4 36818 Sub Eighteen 23.82............................L Cole 9 16281 Bigtime Thor nwtd...............................L Cole 5 22524 Cheese And Chalk nwtd.....................L Cole 10 51475 Bigtime Sam 23.91 G &.......... S Fredrickson 6 52417 Bigtime Ziggy 23.86............................L Cole 7 36687 All Black Star nwtd......................... M Gowan 3 2.03pm J P PRINT, PETONE C2 C2, 410m 1 43633 Electrical Storm 23.69...................M Goodier 8 61414 Bigtime Brody 23.52............................L Cole 2 51642 Articulator nwtd............................B Hodgson 9 66276 Butterball nwtd............................... M Gowan Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club Incorporated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 13 May 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12

Shortly after Verry Flash won his fourth race, his younger sister Verry Elleegant notched her maiden win at Ruakaka under the ownership of Bishara, Goodwin and some of Bishara’s friends.

The three-year-old filly was subsequently sold to a syndicate

10 45377 Little Scamp 23.69........................ D Denbee 6 2.55pm DOUG BRADLEY PAINTERS C5 C5, 410m 1 38342 Dynamite Danger nwtd G &.... S Fredrickson 2 65123 Bigtime Shine 23.28............................L Cole 3 43355 Bigtime Minnie nwtd............................L Cole 4 61111 Bigtime Cooper 23.27.........................L Cole 5 21711 Bigtime Pete 23.15..............................L Cole 6 53244 Bigtime Blackie nwtd...........................L Cole 7 26734 Bigtime Emjay 23.56 G &........ S Fredrickson 8 14718 Bigtime Kiss 23.33..............................L Cole 9 83768 It’s Complicated 23.52.........................L Cole 10 82881 Bigtime Jetty 23.62.............................L Cole 7 3.12pm TOTAL BODYSHOP SUPPLIES C1 C1, 457m 1 14157 Bigtime Rex nwtd................................L Cole 2 63634 Bigtime Diesel nwtd............................L Cole 3 25274 Jetlag Jag nwtd..........................J McInerney 4 32358 Tuff Treasure nwtd..........................B Mitchell 5 25885 Eye Kno 26.34 H &............................ Woods 6 43452 Tuff Mr. Tee 26.55...........................B Mitchell 7 83647 Toki Girl 26.45............................... D Denbee 8 43444 Gunnar Blueblood 26.34............J McInerney 9 67372 Flash Barry nwtd..........................B Hodgson 10 57845 Tiddy Cash nwtd........................J McInerney 8 3.27pm KAMADA PARK C1/C2 C1/2, 457m 1 74776 Lady Jellybean nwtd.....................M Goodier 2 78528 Bigtime Leads 26.03...........................L Cole 3 27346 Plan Stan nwtd................................ L Pearce 4 44178 Flying Dewy 26.42.......................A Turnwald 5 48726 Van Jack nwtd............................... D Denbee 6 46576 Bigtime Chris 26.27 G &......... S Fredrickson

7 26737 Caveman Sam 25.88...................B Hodgson 8 76715 Bigtime Lonestar 27.28 G &.... S Fredrickson 9 55486 Norton Baxter nwtd....................J McInerney 10 57845 Tiddy Cash nwtd........................J McInerney 9 3.46 OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY C1/2, 457m 1 62611 Bigtime Mike 26.18.............................L Cole 2 61144 Opawa June nwtd........................A Turnwald 3 12113 Our Hemi nwtd.............................A Turnwald 4 52237 Pick A Pascal nwtd G &.......... S Fredrickson 5 11111 Bigtime Bruno 27.47...........................L Cole 6 55864 Bigtime Forest 25.97...........................L Cole 7 55646 Buddy Loaded 26.23................... G Hodgson 8 F5234 Zipping Cobra 26.01...........................L Cole 9 57584 Bill’s Barker 26.58............................S Maher 10 57845 Tiddy Cash nwtd........................J McInerney 10 4.06 STEVE THE AUCTIONEER DAVIS C3, 457m 1 77635 Cawbourne Assist 26.16 J &................D Bell 2 74717 Bigtime Lilah 26.05.............................L Cole 3 34448 Thomas William 25.97................... D Denbee 4 15511 Bigtime Archie 26.45...........................L Cole 5 22153 Bigtime Fred 26.04..............................L Cole 6 8436F Bigtime Acacia 26.09..........................L Cole 7 34575 Kamada Park 26.11.....................A Turnwald 8 11413 Funky Facts nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 11 4.24pm MONSTER FISH AT STUD C4 C4, 457m 1 41212 Bigtime Rod 26.04..............................L Cole 2 31733 Tommy The Jett 26.17..................A Turnwald 3 72555 Arden Emgrand 26.07..................A Turnwald 4 21284 Bigtime Caleb 25.99............................L Cole 5 11325 Bigtime Homie 26.08...........................L Cole

6 11681 Turanza’s Terror 25.98..................A Turnwald 7 23356 Gazza’s Girl nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 8 22338 Awesome Quality nwtd........................L Cole 9 15584 Bigtime Rocco 26.05...........................L Cole 12 4.41pm DUKE OF EDINBURGH SILVER COLLAR HEATS 06/19 C4/5 C4/5, 457m 1 11274 You Can Be 26.01...............................L Cole 2 64262 Bigtime Tank 26.37..............................L Cole 3 82736 Ask King Jeff 25.78.............................L Cole 4 66611 Bigtime Levi 25.75..............................L Cole 5 15744 All About Space 25.75........................L Cole 6 22882 Bigtime Mia 25.95...............................L Cole 7 56761 Fusion Cronulla 25.81..................A Turnwald 8 71188 Fare Dodger 26.03........................M Goodier 9 15584 Bigtime Rocco 26.05...........................L Cole SELECTIONS

Race 1: Bigtime Stella, Euphamistic, Paradox Prince, Stormin’ Home Race 2: Cawbourne Cruz, Magic Flynn, Yee Coo Coo, Flying Huey Race 3: Lochinvar Flash, Bigtime Bee, Electrical Storm, Thrilling Trev Race 4: Bigtime Marley, Bigtime Honey, Millie Prince, Mahala Bay Race 5: Cheese And Chalk, Bigtime Brody, Bigtime Banjo Race 6: Bigtime Pete, Bigtime Shine, Bigtime Cooper, Bigtime Kiss Race 7: Bigtime Diesel, Bigtime Rex, Jetlag Jag, Gunnar Blueblood Race 8: Bigtime Leads, Caveman Sam, Van Jack, Plan Stan Race 9: Bigtime Bruno, Zipping Cobra, Our Hemi, Opawa June Race 10: Bigtime Lilah, Cawbourne Assist, Bigtime Archie Race 11: Bigtime Rod, Turanza’s Terror, Tommy The Jett Race 12: Bigtime Levi, You Can Be, Bigtime Tank, All About Space LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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T

here were promising signs for the Warriors in Brisbane on Saturday night but shush, don’t tell them.

Recent history says this: One good week never deserves another with this mob.

Sure as eggs, the Warriors – Kodi Nikorima and all – will go crashing against the Panthers in Sydney on Friday night.

It’s the perfect game for the Warriors .... to lose. All the signs point to it.

For starters, they’ve just had a surprise win over the Dragons (then again, most Warriors wins are surprising).

Next up, they play the current NRL bums. The Panthers are in disarray. The Warriors should smash them.

No, no, no, no, no ... to quote the esteemed Phil Gould.

It doesn’t work like that with the Warriors. Every victory is followed by lots of back-slapping and the blowing of smoke in places where the sun doesn’t shine.

Then they turn up half asleep and crash to defeat. And you can see the danger signs already.

Coach Steve Kearney mentioned Nikorima – who has played all of one game for the club – in the same breath as Stacey Jones, who played about three zillion.

Nikorima underplayed his hand really smartly against the Dragons. And as Kearney says, the club could do with a dose of his zippy confidence.

But I’m not going to say that, nor anything else nice about them. No way.

Let’s do the Warriors a favour and emphasise how lucky they were in the comeback win over the Dragons. They started really badly and for some reason the Dragons responded by falling into cruise mode.

Then little Ben Hunt had one of his infamous attacks of dropsies, just as the Dragons were about to mount a wave of attack. It wrecked the Dragons and energised the Warriors, no doubt about it.

Many eight-year-olds would have caught that ball. Even five year olds would have had a chance.

I mention that in the name of helping the Warriors.

While Hurricanes halfback TJ Perenara was messing with the Blues scrum at Eden Park, the Sky commentators were drooling like they had wandered into a second hand shop and stumbled upon a Rembrandt.

Okay, so TJ was very clever, But the game isn’t. Big scrum battles are a great part of rugby. But this wasn’t a big scrum battle. It was a big mess.

The scene was this. At a pivotal time in the game, the Blues were smashing in on the goal-line but couldn’t quite get their scrum to work properly and overcome the Hurricanes illegalities, which led to one yellow card being issued.

Meanwhile, Perenara was pushing the limits of the law, and stepping over them as well, creating a nuisance as the Blues struggled to clear the ball.

At one point, he stepped between Blues halfback Augustine Pulu and any intended receiver, way offside, waving an arm. Then he stepped back onside, as if nothing had happened even though he may clearly have affected the play.

Apparently this is all kosher. Maybe it was. But should it be?

Rugby wasn’t the winner.

The name of the game should be encouraging clean ball from scrums, rather than allowing one pesky rule pusher to run amok and increase the chance of more scrums from knock ons.

Personally, I think Perenara got away with murder, partly because once the Blues were operating with a penalty advantage, he knew he could do what he liked.

But if he was operating within the rules, then they are stupid rules.

The old guard may love a crazy scrum duel.

But it won’t be a big seller down the line, when today’s kids are adults who love basketball and anything else full of action on the internet.

Stuff like this – where the team who deserves the ball is at a confusing disadvantage – is not the way to keep an audience and win new ones.

A rule forcing scrum halves to keep clear would go some way to cleaning the problems up.

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Queenstown

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Dunedin

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River Levels

1.78 nc

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 119.8 Nth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

6.77 nc

Rangitata Klondyke at 3:10 pm, yesterday

66.5

Waitaki Kurow at 3:05 pm, yesterday

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Source: Environment Canterbury

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 13.5 16.0 Max to 4pm 6.8 Minimum 4.5 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.8 16hr to 4pm May to date 4.0 Avg May to date 24 2019 to date 268.0 244 Avg year to date Wind km/h NE 17 At 4pm Strongest gust NE 30 Time of gust 2:26pm

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Todd Hewson prepares to round a bend during a dry day one at the Ashburton Car Club’s Street Sprints.

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With a borrowed set of wet weather tyres and windscreen wiper, Glenn Frew drove his way to a sixth Ashburton Car Club Street Sprints title yesterday.

Mosgiel driver Frew drove a 2:31.431 minute lap in the top two shoot-out at the Riverside Industrial Park late yesterday, which was enough to seal him the title, with his final two opponent Jeremy Beaton’s final time being 2:33.114 minutes.

It was the second year in a row Beaton, from Christchurch, had finished runner-up and the man he finished behind in 2018 – Josh Mitchell – looked to have been

the one to beat again this year, breaking the lap record on his fourth qualifying run.

His new record time was 2:22.939 minutes, beating the previous mark of 2:22.996 minutes set by Tim Cook on his way to winning the 2017 title.

Cook bowed out this year at the top 32 stage, while Mitchell made it through to the top four, but that was where his title defence ended.

His car mounted the kerb and he was out of the running.

Mitchell was the first driver to go in the top four round, so that left just Frew, Beaton and Christchurch driver Tyson Adams to battle it out for the top

two spots, with Frew and Beaton emerging as the top two.

For Frew, winning his sixth Street Sprints title was a pretty good feeling, considering the effort that had gone in to getting there.

He crashed his Mitsubishi Evo at Ashley Forest in October and his car needed a lot of work, but he’d been determined to get to Ashburton at the weekend because it was an event he hadn’t missed since the first year he entered.

He struggled to remember how long ago that was, but he won the event for four years running from 2011 to 2014, and won it again in 2016.

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Last year he had mechanical issues and finished ninth.

When racing got under way in the 30th running of the annual event on Saturday morning Frew said he didn’t really have any expectations.

“It’s a lot of racing, anything can happen.

“Cars can break down, you just don’t know,” Frew said.

Ashburton Car Club spokesperson Ben Lambert said the two days were largely incident free and the biggest disappointment had been the weather, which – after a perfect first day and a half – changed mid-afternoon yesterday.

Rain started falling and changed

the game, bringing average times back a good 15 seconds.

Frew didn’t have wet weather tyres, or a windscreen wiper, so borrowed them off Cook, whose help he was grateful for.

When the top two raced off the rain had stopped falling but the road was still wet and greasy, and those tyres took him to what was a pretty good winning time, given the conditions.

Frew said the weather had a big impact and ruined the competition to an extent, which was a shame, but he was still happy to have driven away with another title and said there was no doubt about it – he’d be back to defend it in 2020.

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