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Homicide cases not linked

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

Police are reassuring the public that it is nothing more than a coincidence two people were killed at the same property three years apart, and that there have been two homicides in the Ashburton District in the past three months.

Detective Senior Sergeant Richard Quested is leading both investigations and stressed yesterday that there is no link between the

cases.

“They are not linked at all, the Rakaia homicide and this recent one at McDonald Street are not related in any way and it is not linked with the other homicide that occurred on McDonald Street,” he said.

Quested said through their enquiries they had determined there was nobody who was linked to the earlier homicide associated with this case.

“So as far as the public is concerned Police do not think there is any risk to the community and we have an offender before the courts in both of these cases.”

A 19-year-old woman was granted interim name suppression in the Christchurch District Court yesterday after being charged with the murder of 23-year-old Peter Tawhiwhorangi Hemi.

The woman was arrested in

Ashburton on Monday.

Hemi sustained fatal injuries at a property on McDonald Street late on Friday evening.

“Condolences to the family of Peter Hemi. It is an absolute tragedy,” Ashburton Sub-Area Supervisor Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins said.

Jenkins said a police team from Christchurch and Timaru had been assisting in the inquiry.

“It was a good result and such a

quick turnaround.”

A large number of armed police swarmed Ashburton on Monday and executed a search warrant at an Agnes Street address.

People also reported seeing a vehicle being pulled over by armed police in the centre of Ashburton.

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Dream comes true for local florist

By Susan Sandys

to work with a wide range of fragrances and colours and types of flowers, including roses ranging in shades from lilac to red, as well as orchids, hydrangeas and snap dragons.

She said she named her work The Proposal, and it features a semicircle of flowers around an ottoman, with an engagement ring on it.

“The woman is slipping into a bath to admire her new ring,” she said.

“The floral backdrop and colours have been selected to repre-

an emotion tying into the event’s theme, The Power Of Flowers, and for Trott she was given the emotion of love.

“It’s like the most amazing experience that’s ever happened in my career, to be selected, I was overwhelmed,” Trott said.

She said the most unusual request she made while creating her installation had been for a bathtub.

“But they managed to find one, and the colour was perfect,” she said.

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Creating a floral installation representative of love was a dream come true for Ashburton florist Samantha Trott.

The Samantha Rose Flowers founder was one of five florists in New Zealand who were invited to participate in this week’s NZ Flowers Week.

The brief was to be flown to Auckland, and create a scene from the thousands of blooms and props on offer. Each of the installations had to be reflective of

who were experts and global leaders in the craft.

“This year’s florists have gone above-and-beyond and we’re so grateful to be working with such long-standing, world-class women for 2019’s event,” Jones said.

“It was amazing watching the selected florists assimilate their given emotion and conceptually grow idiosyncratic arrangements.

Each florist has her own special narrative, which is beautifully transcended as they worked to produce a broad range of vibrant designs.”

sent her feeling all the love.”

The installations by the five florists were created in the lead up to NZ Flowers Week this week, but only released publicly this week.

Linda McKenzie from Dunedin, Kerri Murphy from Wellington, Kath Parkes from Christchurch, and Chikako Shiraki from Auckland, were the other florists involved.

NZ Flowers Week group marketing manager Rebecca Jones said New Zealand had a diverse range of home-grown florists

Homicide cases not linked – police in less than three months after dairy farm worker Tony Grant Waldron was killed in his home near Rakaia.

Waldron, who was aged 29 at the time of his death and a father of two, was found dead in his bed by a work colleague on the morning of September 18 after he had failed to turn up for work.

He had texted a colleague about 9pm the evening before to say that he was going to get some bourbons.

Initial reports suggested the dairy farm worker had died as a result of a gunshot wound however Police would later rule this out as a cause of death.

The Police investigation, which was led by Detective Senior Sergeant Richard Quested, saw officers and specialists search teams scouring effluent and irrigation ponds near to the Gardiners Road address and also spending considerable time completing searches in both the Rakaia and Selwyn River beds.

From P1 A McDonald Street resident, who asked not to be named, said he and his partner had not heard any disturbance on Friday evening, but woke on Saturday morning to news of a homicide investigation being launched and being unable to leave his property due to the Police cordons.

“We couldn’t really get out for a few days but the cops were good,” he said.

The McDonald Street property was the scene of another homicide in 2016, where Tainui James Wano was stabbed by his brother Jayden Shane Alexander with a boning knife.

The nearby resident said those had been two isolated incidents with two separate families and that for the majority of the time the street did not experience any issues.

“We have had no issues with any neighbours, no issues at all,” he said.

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■■AUSTRALIA BUSH FIRES

Family hope for best as fires rage

By Susan Sandys

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Ashburton couple Ryan Lamb and Natalie Hinton are facing the loss of their much-loved home in Australia as catastrophic bush fires rage across the Tasman.

Hinton is originally from the city of Taree, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. She and Lamb have lived in the area for the past 10 years, and they bought a house together on the bushy outskirts of the city in the Wingham area two years ago.

They and their four children have called the area home ever since, but last month the family decided to move back to Lamb’s home town of Ashburton to be closer to their Kiwi relatives.

They rented their house out, and planned to consider returning there after spending 12 months in New Zealand.

But now as the bush fires rage in the area and have destroyed a school and other houses nearby, they do not know whether they will have a home to return to.

Their tenant was forced to evacuate the property on Sunday, with her children and dogs, and was staying at a Taree evacuation centre.

Hinton said her family members and the tenant were keeping her updated as to how the fires were going.

“The fires that are behind our property, if the wind changes it’s just going to blow straight through our house,” she said.

She received updates late yesterday and was fearing the worst as flames were as close as two kilometres away.

“I don’t think I have ever felt this sick in the stomach,” she said.

The house was covered by insurance, however, financial com-

Natalie Hinton and children Bradley, 12, Tanille, 9, and Laxton, 2, await news from Australia on whether their house will survive New South Wales’ catastrophic bush fires.

PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 121119-SS-0037 pensation would not be able to make up for the trauma of losing the property.

“We always wanted somewhere to go home to, because that’s where I grew up, and that’s our home,” she said.

She also felt for family members living in the Taree area, including her oldest daughter, Breanka, 17, who was living with

her mother. Yesterday they were stocking up on supplies such as candles, torches, batteries and long-life food in the case of the power going out and roads being cut off.

Meanwhile, a former Methven resident, who did not want to be named, was also hoping for the best yesterday.

She lives in an apartment near

the beach at Coffs Harbour, and was packing a suitcase to prepare for the scenario of having to leave quickly. She was also preparing for the power and phone lines to be burned out.

The city was filling up with evacuees from nearby towns coming into the smoke-filled city.

The city had sold out of breathing masks and the air quality was

poor. The worst case scenario in her area would be if embers drifted in and started a fire in nearby bush.

In that case she was prepared to go to the water at the nearby beach.

“Nobody has ever seen it like this, ever,” she said.

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■■GERALDINE ARTS AND PLANTS FESTIVAL

Festival honours long-tailed bat Geraldine’s gone batty for its annual arts and plants festival this long weekend.

The festival is honouring the critically-endangered long-tailed bat, which flit like butterflies in the town’s Talbot Forest.

The Department of Conservation is working hard to preserve populations.

Geraldine is one of the few towns in New Zealand where it is possible to see the bats, which is why the annual arts and plants festival has adopted a batty theme.

The festival will run from Thursday night until Sunday and is in its 31st year. Organisers are doing things a little differently this year, with the art and photography exhibition continuing until November 24.

DOC staff will be on hand to talk about their work with the longtailed bat on Friday and Saturday.

Their Friday talk at 4pm, Bats on the Brink, will tell the story of the long-tailed bats in the area to help raise awareness of the species.

The festival features live music entertainment as well as 380 stalls. Local businesses are also part of the festival, with batty

Geraldine’s special long-tailed bat. window displays and hanging baskets.

There are plenty of other events, with a classic car display, patchwork and craft display, flo-

ral festival and a host of garden walks.

Twenty properties have offered up garden experiences, including out of town spots at Mia Flora in

Winchester and the home of the pole people, Liz and James Foster on Arundel Rangitata Road.

Ann and Mike McSweeney moved into their Woodside Road

property in 2012 and have been gradually adding and changing the garden since.

They have planted several specimen trees and lots of rhododendrons, azaleas, bearded iris, hellebores, trilliums and spring bulbs.

Geraldine Cinema will be screening a selection of short films including Life on Earth: Severance. Former Geraldine actor Keiran King stars as Adam Connolly in the film, which he produced and wrote the screenplay for with his partner Emma Burnside.

The story is about a race against time to find an antiviral to save the world from a deadly alien virus.

A battle of the bands, with a top prize of $5000, is part of Saturday’s music entertainment and 14 acts, including Jacks Point from Ashburton, will be competing at the Geraldine Domain.

There will also be plenty for the youngsters, with free face painting, segways and bouncy inflatables.

Sunday’s events include an ecumenical service.

Check out more details on www.geraldinefestival.co.nz

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■■ASHBURTON COLLEGE

Aidan aiming for a helping profession Ashburton College senior student Aidan Elvines has been awarded the $1000 annual alumni sponsorship.

Aidan is planning a gap year next year to build funds and life experience before applying for teachers’ college or the police. She says she wants to be in a job that helps people.

The NBS AshColl Alumni sponsorship is awarded to a student who has shown commitment to the life of the school and been a good role model.

Aidan was not only fully involved during her five years there but also made sure others did too. She was Orange House captain and has captain of the girls’ rugby team for the past two years. She also “surprised herself” by winning the Year 13 girls cross country this year.

Another major sporting commitment has been rowing, with up to a dozen trainings a week in the season.

A favourite subject has been classics with teacher Greta Hampton.

Aidan’s primary school years were spent at Longbeach and later at Ashburton Intermediate School.

Right – Show me the money: NBS manager David Jones (left), Aidan Elvines and AshColl Alumni chairman Peter Gluyas.

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Trading up to boost a charity The Ashburton Guardian has donated a $400 annual newspaper and website subscription in exchange for a $300 bicycle as part of the Hokonui FM Trade Up initiative for Ronald McDonald House.

The company is represented by staff (from left) Steve Stratford, Susan Sandys, Jaime Pitt-McKay, Cushla Harborne (partly obscured), Yendis Albert, Pauline Woolley, Karen Hall, Barbara Adam, Sue Newman, Francoise Belpadrome, Neil Cushen, Charin Phumcharoen, and Sonia Gill.

Hokonui’s Phill Hooper said the radio station came up with the Trade Up idea, which involves people donating something of greater value in exchange for the latest Trade Up donation, until there is something of high value left at the end.

“Hopefully we will end up with something cool like a car that we can then auction off and all that money will go to Ronald McDonald House. We are hoping to get it wrapped up by Christmas,” Hooper said.

Hokonui approached Dave Whalley at McDonald’s, who got the ball rolling with a $100 meal voucher.

Ashburton hamburger fan Jason Mactier donated the bike, which he had won in a raffle, and now there is an Ashburton Guardian subscription awaiting someone who wants to swap it for something even better!

Meanwhile, the Guardian is now the proud owner of a brand new bicycle, which it plans to donate to a school or charity.

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Farmers head north for march

By Linda Clarke

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Mid Canterbury farmer David Clark heads to Wellington tomorrow with his heart on his sleeve.

He, fellow Federated Farmers leader Chris Ford and several other Mid Canterbury farmers will be taking part in a peaceful march in Wellington, organised by 50 Shades of Green to show support for rural New Zealand.

Farmers are feeling under pressure from proposed policies around greenhouse gas emissions and freshwater use and say current proposals will spell economic downturn for some rural communities.

Clark appeared on television’s Sunday programme and talked with other farmers about the policies’ impact.

David Clark He said he had received many phone calls of support from people around the country. “It was overwhelmingly positive.”

The programme also featured an interview with Environment Minister David Parker.

Clark said people who contact-

ed him this week were alarmed that Parker did not seem to realise the relevance of a report saying proposed environmental rules would have devastating economic effects on some parts of rural New Zealand.

Clark will leave the farm for a day tomorrow to take part in the march, which starts in a city square and finishes at the Beehive.

“Rural New Zealand has had a gutsful of being beaten up. There is a lot of pressure on farmers at the moment and we are being wrongly blamed for being the main aggravator of climate change.”

The 50 Shades group is concerned at the number of sheep and beef hill country farms that are being bought by overseas in-

vestors, so the land can be planted in pine for the carbon sequestration market.

Clark said some South Otago farms had already been sold, and others in the Canterbury foothills were vulnerable.

“I am going to the march to add to the numbers and to provide support for the people running it. And to show my displeasure at how rural New Zealand is being treated and my personal displeasure at New Zealand sheep and beef farms being bought by overseas carbon speculators.”

Clark will be wearing green for the march and is urging other Mid Canterbury people to do the same on the day. Alternatively people going to the Christchurch show on any of its three days this week should also wear green.

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Police have named the two women killed in Sunday’s crash.

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Bankside crash victims named NZME Two women who were killed in a crash involving a truck and several other vehicles south of Christchurch over the weekend have been named.

They were Fox McCrossin, 58, and her wife, Joan McCrossin, 56, of Victoria, Australia, police said.

The crash occurred on State Highway 1 (Main South Road) in Bankside, Selwyn on Sunday about 8.50am.

Police were initially called to reports of a truck rolling onto a train line.

The McCrossins were killed in the crash and seven others received a range of injuries, police said.

“Police offer our condolences to their family and friends.”

An investigation into the circumstances of the crash is continuing.

Photos showed the truck – that had been pulling two trailers – having flipped and come to rest across railway tracks, shutting down the train line south of Christchurch.

A resident of a local farm said he heard

a bang and went out to see what had happened. He could only see the truck – no cars were visible from his farm’s boundary.

The crash happened right on the Main South Road bend, he said.

Bridget Shimmin was on a southbound Intercity bus that arrived on the scene not long after the crash.

She said a car that was involved in the crash had ended up at least 100m down the road. “[It] sounds like the truck clipped the car and spun out of control as a result. I think a couple of other cars closely missed the truck and had to swerve out the way.”

The bus had waited at the scene while several paramedics who happened to be on board went to help, Shimmin said.

Once they reboarded the bus was redirected onto a gravel road that looped back to SH1 just before Rakaia.

St John was called at 8.45am, and five ambulances and a helicopter were sent to crash, a spokeswoman said.

Three fire appliances from Rakaia and Dunsandel were also in attendance.

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It’s time to call out violence

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id Canterbury people might pause on White Ribbon Day, this November 25, to reflect on the fact that two people have lost their lives in violent circumstances in our district over the past three months.

Two other people are before the courts facing charges of murder.

Nationally, we are hearing horrific details of the cases of Grace Millane, Amber-Rose Rush and Leon Jayet-Cole. The national Network of Family Violence Services says they are some of the worst cases seen in this country.

The network is asking people not to bury their heads in the sand and instead challenge ourselves as a nation to stand up

and call out inappropriate behaviour that leads to aggression and violence in our day-to-day lives.

Turning a blind eye is no solution.

Violence is perpetrated by men and women, by children, teens and old people. By people of all races. By people who go to church. By people who belong to gangs. By all kinds of people.

It is never okay.

So why do people resort to violence? What is wrong with people?

Experts say there are many factors that determine behaviour, including biological traits, family bonding, intelligence and education, peer relationships, cultural shaping and resiliency.

One negative factor can be affected by another factor and they can accumulate into a big ball of negative energy. A ball that can erupt, often with the help of alcohol or drugs.

Positive factors are important to balance out the equation and we can all look for ways to better the lives of others, even if it is in a small way.

White Ribbon is traditionally about men’s violence towards

women but violence goes both ways. Organisers are asking this year for people to challenge the unspoken rules, the rules that boys and young men inherit from society, based on outdated ideas of what a man is, how he acts and how he should express himself.

We’ve all heard them, maybe said them: Be the man. Boys don’t cry. Toughen up.

These rules put pressure on boys and young men to behave in certain ways and it affects how they feel about themselves and treat others.

As parents, we have the opportunity to snuff out these unspoken rules. To tell our boys and girls that it is okay for them to be who they are and help them

have respectful relationships that have benefits for our whole community.

The brave people who work against violence – police, family violence, counsellors, psychologists, judges and those in restorative justice – have special skills.

They can see what is needed in often complex circumstances and provide support, tools and time.

The rest of us can show our support in other ways.

There are two events that come to mind immediately: The White Ribbon family fun day at the Ashburton Domain on November 23 and the White Ribbon quiz night at the Hotel Ashburton on November 22.

Stand up.

of what was then the deadliest mass murder in New Zealand history.

In 2000, lawyers for George W Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced she would end the recounting at 5pm eastern time the next day – prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.

In 2001, President George W Bush approved the use of a special military tribunal that could put accused terrorists on trial faster and in greater secrecy than an ordinary criminal court.

In 2015, Islamic State militants carried out a set of co-ordinated attacks in Paris on the national stadium, restaurants and streets, and a crowded concert hall, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War Two. Ten years ago: Scientists said analysis of data from two NASA spacecraft that were intentionally crashed into the moon showed ample water near the lunar south pole.

Five years ago: The European Space Agency published the first images taken from the surface of a comet; the photos sent back to Earth showed a rocky surface, with one

of the lander’s three feet in the corner of the frame.

One year ago: CNN went to court, demanding the reinstatement of the White House press credentials of correspondent Jim Acosta.

Today’s birthdays: Journalistauthor Peter Arnett is 85. Actor Jimmy Hawkins is 78. Blues singer John Hammond is 77.

Country singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard is 73. Actor Joe Mantegna is 72. Actress Sheila Frazier is 71. Musician Andrew Ranken is 66. Actress Tracy Scoggins is 66. Actor Chris Noth is 65. Actress-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is 64. Actor Rex Linn

is 63. Actress Caroline Goodall is 60. Actor Neil Flynn is 59. Rock musician Walter Kibby is 55.

Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is 52. Actor Steve Zahn is 52. Actor Gerard Butler is 50. Writer-activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali is 50. Actor Jordan Bridges is 46. Actress Aisha Hinds is 44.

Rock musician Nikolai Fraiture is 41. Actress Monique Coleman is 39. Actor Rahul Kohli is 34. Actor Devon Bostick is 28.

Thought for today: “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (18991986).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, November 13, the 317th day of 2019. There are 48 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.

On this date: In 1312, England’s King Edward III was born at Windsor Castle.

In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

In 1986, at 12.40pm on November 13, 1896, Te Maari, a crater at the northern end of the Tongariro range, erupted spectacularly. It continued to erupt sporadically for nearly a year.

In 1911, the US Supreme Court ruled that an unauthorised motion picture adaptation of the novel Ben-Hur by General Lew Wallace infringed on the book’s copyright.

In 1940, the Walt Disney film Fantasia, featuring animated segments set to classical music, had its world première in New York.

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

In 1969, speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.

In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a 28-yearold technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.

In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, DC. In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city. in 1990, David Gray killed 13 at Aramoana, a small seaside township near Dunedin, the scene

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Upcoming Ashburton festive events

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n a little over two weeks, a special festival will officially launch our district into the Christmas season, and this year, the annual Ashburton Nights of Lights festival has been dialled up another notch for our community to celebrate the festive spirit even more.

Every Friday evening from November 29 until December 20, Baring Square East will host a series of events as part of our Christmas festival, Nights of Lights.

The festival will kick off with the lighting of our giant Christmas tree at Light Up the Night on November 29, and it’s set to be a fantastic night for every member of the family.

In addition to the food trucks, on-stage entertainment, carols, a visit from Santa and the countdown to the lighting of the tree (which is now even bigger than before), this year the council has partnered with local businesses to really get into the ‘season of giving’.

Every person that comes along to Light Up the Night beginning at 6.30pm will go into the draw to win amazing Christmas gifts, and there will be something for the whole family, including bikes, scooters, wireless headphones, barbecues, lawnmowers and even gaming consoles.

All you need to do to take part in this festive gift activity is to be there at Light Up the Night as the presents are drawn throughout the evening. The first draw will be at 7pm, so make sure to be on time to sort your free tickets.

Christmas is a time that we celebrate the virtues of gen-

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and the activities planned.

I hope to see you and your family out celebrating throughout the Nights of Lights seasonal festival.

Hamish Riach CEO’S MESSAGE

erosity, sharing and coming together.

The goodwill of our local businesses to help add something special to people’s Santa sacks this year not only brings out this generosity, but also showcases our community spirit.

This spirit is also seen in the number of retailers who are coming on board with the Nights of Lights events and are extending their opening hours on November 29 and December 13.

Also happening on the night will be the launch of our even bigger Festive Walk along the East Street walkway from Cameron Street to Moore Street.

The Festive Walk will be available every night until early January.

The trees are being carefully wrapped in thousands of fairy lights, which is sure to make for a magical walk through town.

In the Fridays that follow, we will have our two Busker Nights (December 6 and December 20) and the special outdoor screening of the film Elf at Movie Night on December 13.

These events are all free to attend and are specially designed to share the Christmas cheer around town with friends and family.

Head to nightsoflights.nz to learn more about each event

Hamish Riach is the chief executive officer for the Ashburton District

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Performance ‘painful’ Janet Jackson has been slammed in scathing reviews for a headlining gig, with attendees of her concert saying the pop star had major sound issues, “low energy” and may have been lip-synching. The singer was lashed online, with attendees suggesting the former chart topper, who is the headlining act for national concert series RNB Fridays, was the “downer” of the Perth leg of the event. Serious audio and visual issues plagued the 90s superstar’s performance, and Jackson was reportedly lip-synching at a different time to the backing track, according to a scathing review on WA Today.

Exhausted firemen battling the blazes in Australia.

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Fires raging in NSW AP Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia’s most populous state yesterday as authorities warned most populations in their paths that there was no longer time to flee.

New South Wales state is under a week-long state of emergency, a declaration that gives the Rural Fire Service sweeping powers to control resources and direct other government agencies in its efforts to battle fires.

The worst fires yesterday emerged in the state’s northeast, where three people have died and more than 150 homes have been destroyed since Friday.

A catastrophic fire warning was in place for Sydney, Australia’s largest city, as well as coastal communities to the

city’s north and south.

Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said that many people had heeded his warning and evacuated their homes in the area’s danger zone well ahead of the escalating fire threat yesterday.

“We’ve got very tight, winding roads into a lot of these areas which is why we talked about leaving early as the safest option,” Fitzsimmons told reporters.

“The last thing we want to do is be managing mass evacuations in pretty difficult to access areas and running the risk of having a whole bunch of congested roadways and seeing people incinerated in their cars,” he added.

Of 71 fires burning across New South Wales, 11 were rated as emergencies and burning out of control by midafternoon.

Kutcher’s kids bereft Hollywood megastar Ashton Kutcher and wife Mila Kunis are among a growing list of celebrities who plan on giving away their fortune instead of passing it onto their kids. The famous couple share two children, daughter Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher, 5, and son Dimitri Portwood Kutcher, 3. Kutcher said he would not set up trust funds for his kids. “My kids are living a really privileged life, and they don’t even know it,” the star said. “I’m not setting up a trust for them. We’ll end up giving our money away to charity and to various things.”

A helicopter heads back into the murky smoke.

That’s the largest number across the state in decades apart from Friday when an unprecedented 17 emergency fires blazed.

“It is too late to leave on most of these fires and sheltering is now your only option as fire approaches,” Fitzsimmons said.

Winds were reaching up to 80 km/h in some areas and were expected to gather pace as the day progressed.

There were more reports coming in of potential destruction of homes south of the town of Taree near where

a woman died in her home on Friday, Fitzsimmons said.

More than 600 schools and technical colleges were closed because they are close to woodlands at risk of fire.

The Australian fire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer, has started early after an unusually warm and dry winter.

More than one million hectares of forest and farmland had already burned across the state this fire season, more than three times the 280,000 hectares that burned during the entire last season.

Depp ‘scarred for life’ Johnny Depp fans have amassed 35,000 signatures on a petition to have Amber Heard cut as the lead actress in Aquaman 2. Depp’s legion of supporters describe Heard as a “domestic abuser” as the pair continue their legal stoush after the demise of their turbulent marriage. Depp produced accounts of physical abuse allegedly suffered at the hands of the 33-year-old actress and model. The petition Remove Amber Heard from Aquaman 2 claims she left Depp “scarred for life” and implores DC Entertainment to wipe her from the cast.

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Australians flock to our shores

to an upgraded free trade agreement with China, which included a reallocation of visa places, doubling the number of Chinese tour guide places to 200, and broadening the category to make it easier for New Zealand firms to hire suitably qualified staff.

Stats NZ’s provisional migration data showed net migration of 685 Chinese nationals in September, down from 967 the year ear-

The lower number of Chinese visitors has come in the NZ-China Year of Tourism, which was officially closed on Sunday by Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis and China’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Luo Shugang in Guangzhou. Davis also held bilateral tourism and trade promotion meetings during a four-day trip to China.

New Zealand this month agreed

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Inflation expectations fall sharply Inflation expectations have fallen sharply in the Reserve Bank’s latest survey, both making it more likely the central bank will cut interest rates again today and suggesting that the outsized rate cut in August failed to achieve governor Adrian Orr’s aims.

The most-watched numbers in the survey, mean two-year ahead inflation expectations, fell to 1.8 per cent from 1.86 per cent in the September quarter and 2.01 per cent in the June quarter.

Mean expectations for one-year ahead inflation fell to 1.66 per cent in the current quarter from 1.71 per cent in the September quarter and 1.97 per cent in the June quarter.

RBNZ, which is charged with keeping inflation at about 2 per cent over the medium term, has cut its

Modular build system launched NZME A Wanaka-based company has launched a modular building system which will allow houses to be constructed in under a week, it says.

“Nautilus Modular was established as an alternative to conventional building processes, which are often time-consuming and dependent on external factors, such as weather and the availability of labour,” co-founder Peter Marshall said.

The flexibility of the Nautilus Modular system allowed the creation of buildings of any size and configuration including residential homes, accommodation, classrooms and commercial buildings.

Modules were produced in a

factory using a special mould, then transported to a site. Once connected, the modules would be covered with weather-proofing materials and clad with corrugated iron.

Most buildings were liveable within one to three days.

All modules are dimensionally based on standard sizes of materials to minimise off-cuts and wastage.

Nautilus Modular buildings were priced in the lower-to-middle range of the market.

Nautilus Modular will be seeking certification under the CodeMark Scheme and will engage in a submission process with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment for MultiProof Certification of the Nautilus Modular design and specification.

than neutral.

But despite low inflation generally, there was a big jump in house price inflation expectations with mean expectations for 4.51 per cent inflation in a year’s time, easing to 4.08 per cent two years ahead.

Respondents continue to expect the economy to grow at a little above a 2 per cent pace for the next couple of years while the unemployment rate isn’t expected to increase very much.

One-year ahead expected annual wages growth was steady at 2.76 per cent with two-year ahead expectations falling a little to 2.68 per cent from 2.76 per cent.

Figures released after the RBNZ survey was completed showed private sector average ordinary time hourly earnings rose 3.9 per cent in the September quarter from a year earlier

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official cash rate from 1.75 per cent to 1 per cent so far this year, with 25 basis points of that coming in May and 50 points in August.

Normally, RBNZ has only cut by more than 25 basis points in times of crisis such as the global financial crisis and the Christchurch earthquakes.

The unemployment rate ticked up from 3.9 per cent to 4.2 per cent in the September quarter.

According to a Bloomberg survey, 15 out of 21 economists are predicting RBNZ will cut the OCR to 0.75 per cent from 1 per cent currently while the other six are expecting no change.

The RBNZ survey of business managers and professionals, which was conducted between October 16 and 22 by Nielsen, found a net 80.6 per cent of respondents believe current monetary conditions are easier

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Australian tourists are travelling to New Zealand in growing numbers, more than offsetting the ongoing decline in Chinese visitors.

Stats NZ figures show the number of short-term Australian visitors was 131,400 in September, up 6.4 per cent from the same month a year earlier, taking the annual tally to 1.53 million, up 3.8 per cent. That made up for fewer Chinese – New Zealand’s second-biggest tourist pool – with a 15 per cent slide in the monthly number of visitors at 27,500 for an 8.8 per cent decline in annual Chinese visitors at 413,000.

Total short-term arrivals were up 1.4 per cent at 261,800 in September for a 12-month increase of 2.5 per cent to 3.9 million.

“The strong growth in the Australian market was dampened by a decline in visitor arrivals from the Asian region, in particular China and Malaysia,” population indicators manager Tehseen Islam said.

ASB Bank economist Mike Jones said the tourism impulse in the economy remained remarka-

lier and 711 in 2017. Annual net migration by Chinese nationals was a provisional 9331, compared to 7452 a year earlier and 9851 in 2017.

Net migration in September was a provisional 4245, up from 5614 a year earlier. That took the provisional annual net inflow to 54,600 from 49,500 a year earlier.

The provisional 12-month figure may be adjusted higher or lower by about 1800, the agency said.

The net migration estimate for the month of August was revised to a net inflow of 4337, from 3661.

ASB’s Jones said the combination of the tourism and provisional migration numbers should provide some support for retail spending and the housing market. ASB economists predict longterm migration will decline over the coming years and that assumption underpins forecasts for restrained consumer spending, house price inflation, and labour supply in the Reserve Bank’s outlook.

“So the prospect of migration continuing to hold up is a clear risk to this outlook,” Jones said.

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bly strong due to the number of Australian visitors at a time when a weak Aussie dollar would typically deter trans-Tasman jaunts.

“We have the Aussies to thank.

Australian tourists continue to make up not only the largest share of all arrivals, but have also been responsible for around 60 per cent of the growth in arrival numbers over the past year,” Jones said in a note.

The number of Kiwis heading across the Tasman for a brief stay was 127,000 in September, flat compared to a year earlier, for an annual increase of 2.6 per cent to 1.41 million, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures out yesterday.

Australia counts China as its biggest pool for tourism, with 1.43 million visitors in the year through September, up 0.8 per cent. The 99,000 Chinese visitors to Australia in the month of September was up from 97,600 a year earlier.

February 2018 was the single biggest month for Chinese visitor arrivals in both New Zealand and Australia at 68,900 and 227,400 respectively.

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TT buy

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TT sell

0.9128 0.8272 4.1663 0.565 1.3364 0.4862 68.08 1.5495 9.276 18.65 0.6265

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Easy baking with no-bake slices Baking might have gone out of fashion for both health and time reasons, but occasionally it’s nice to have something sweet to eat with a coffee or cup of tea.

If you don’t want to go to the trouble of getting the cake mixer out or turning on the oven, why not opt for a no bake slice. All the sweetness with half the work.

Lemon slice 1/2 C condensed milk 100g butter 200g wine biscuits 1 C desiccated coconut 2t finely grated lemon rind Icing 2C icing sugar 20g butter, softened 2 1/2 T lemon juice

Nutella Bars

Caramel slice

120g butter 2C caster sugar 2T cocoa, sifted 1/2 C milk 1/2 C Nutella 1T vanilla essence 2 1/2 C rolled oats 2 1/2 C Kellogg’s Rice Bubbles 1/4 C sprinkles or chocolate chips ■■ Line a slice pan with baking paper and set aside.

■■ In a large saucepan melt the butter then add sugar, cocoa and milk.

■■ Whisk together and bring to the boil. Boil for one minute.

■■ Remove from heat.

■■ Add the Nutella, vanilla, rolled oats and rice bubbles to the pan and combine well.

■■ Pour into slice pan and smooth flat with the back of a metal spoon.

■■ Scatter over your choice of sprinkles.

■■ Refrigerate until set. This will take about 3 hours.

■■ Cut into squares with a sharp knife.

1 packet wine biscuits 2T shredded coconut 80g butter, melted Filling 1 tin condensed milk 125g butter 1/3 C caster sugar 1/3 C golden syrup Topping 250g chocolate melts 1T oil ■■ Grease a square tin (medium size) with either butter or nonstick oil spray or line with baking paper.

■■ In a food processor, crush packet of wine biscuits.

■■ Add coconut and butter and mix well.

■■ Press mixture in the tin evenly making a smooth, flat surface.

■■ In a saucepan mix condensed milk, butter, sugar and syrup.

■■ Stir on low heat until sugar is dissolved and mixture is smooth and thick.

■■ Set aside to cool slightly.

■■ Pour over biscuit base and smooth out.

■■ In a heat-proof bowl melt chocolate and oil over simmering water.

■■ Stir until melted and smooth.

Spread evenly over caramel.

■■ Refrigerate for at least 3 hours or overnight.

■■ Grease a 3cm deep, 15.5x25cm (base) sponge roll tin ■■ Line base and sides with baking paper, extending paper 2cm above edges of pan.

■■ Place condensed milk and butter in a small saucepan over medium heat ■■ Cook, stirring, for five minutes or until smooth and combined. Remove from heat.

■■ Using a food processor, process biscuits until fine crumbs.

■■ Transfer to a bowl. Add coconut and lemon rind. Stir to combine.

■■ Add hot butter mixture.

■■ Mix well to combine.

■■ Press mixture over the base of prepared pan.

■■ Cover. Refrigerate for 1 1/2 hours or until firm.

Icing ■■ Sift icing sugar into a bowl.

■■ Add butter and lemon juice.

■■ Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth and combined.

■■ Spread icing over slice.

■■ Leave until icing sets and cut into squares.

Pineapple lump slice 120g butter 200g tin condensed milk 250g malt biscuits, crushed 190g bag pineapple lumps, roughly chopped Desiccated coconut

Fudgy chocolate slice 150g butter, chopped 1 can condensed milk 1/4 C dark cocoa, sifted 1t pure vanilla extract 500g plain wine biscuits 1C chopped dried apricots 1C chopped dark chocolate 3/4 C desiccated coconut Icing 1C icing sugar 50g butter, melted 2T cocoa 1-3T boiled water Pinch salt ■■ Line a 20cm slice tin with baking paper – bottom and sides.

■■ Add the butter and condensed milk to a medium saucepan over a medium low.

■■ Stir until just melted and smooth.

■■ Remove from the heat.

■■ Add the cocoa and vanilla and stir to combine.

■■ Crush the biscuits finely in a food processor.

■■ Add all the biscuits to the butter mixture along with the apricots, chopped chocolate, and coconut.

■■ Stir with a wooden spoon to combine evenly.

■■ Scrape the mixture into the tin with a spatula and press down firmly into an even layer.

Icing ■■ Sift the icing sugar, cocoa and salt into a mixing bowl.

■■ Add the melted butter and 1T boiled water, and stir until smooth.

■■ Spread out on top of the slice.

■■ Cover and refrigerate for at least three hours or overnight.

■■ Slice into pieces with a hot knife.

■■ Melt the butter and condensed milk in a small pan over a low heat, don’t boil it.

■■ Add the crushed biscuits and pineapple lumps to a large bowl.

■■ Pour butter and condensed milk mixture into the bowl and mix well.

■■ Pour into a lined slice tray and press down firmly so top is level.

■■ Sprinkle with coconut and place in the fridge until set.

■■ Once set, slice into small pieces.

White chocolate cheesecake 500g Arnott’s Nice biscuits 100g butter, melted, cooled 1kg cream cheese, at room temperature 1C white sugar 1t vanilla extract 1C thickened cream 200g white chocolate melts, melted 2 sachets gelatine powder 1/4 C hot water 1/2 C chocolate chips ■■ Line a slice tin with baking paper.

■■ Process the biscuits and melted butter in a food processor until you have fine crumbs.

■■ Press into the base of the slice tin and refrigerate while you are making the topping.

■■ In the food processor, combine the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla extract, thickened cream and melted chocolate, until smooth.

■■ Dissolve the gelatine in the hot water and add to the cream cheese mixture and combine well.

■■ Pour the mixture over the biscuit base and sprinkle chocolate chips over the top.

■■ Refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight.

■■ Slice into squares taking care to wipe the knife in between cuts.

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 - How many dozen are there in a gross? a. Six b. Twelve c. Twenty 2 - What is the name of John Le Carre’s 2019 novel? a. A Most Wanted Man b. Agent Running in the Field c. A Legacy of Spies 3 - What sort of animal is a long-tailed ground roller? a. Bird b. Lizard c. Butterfly 4 - In which year did the Soviet Union refuse to send a team to the Summer Olympics? a. 1972 b. 1980 c. 1984 5 - Which American singer was nicknamed Ol’ Blue Eyes? a. Tony Bennett b. Frank Sinatra c. Bing Crosby 6 - Which was the eighth month of the Roman calendar? a. August b. October c. December 7 - Which of these countries consists of two regions separated by the South China Sea? a. Malaysia b. Cambodia c. Thailand 8 - What does the letter W stand for in the internet abbreviation NSFW? a. Watch b. Work c. Web

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The floodlit McElhinney Fountain, located beside the West – Havelock streets intersection. It was recently restored in a collaboration bwtween ACL, Laser Electrical and Throwin’ Shapes Glass. Its features include a fish on its side and a drinking tap on its top. Tash Sim created a new multicolour glass fish, replacing the previous copper one, that had adorned the fountain since the 1984 unveiling of the Hampton Studios creation. The water fountain was a bequest, in 1983, by Myra McElhinney (following the 1977 death of her keen angling husband, Bob).

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The Ashburton Guardian gives readers a chance to win DVDs courtesy of Universal Pictures. Winners will be announced in this column the following week, so keep looking! If you see your name in the winner’s box, come into the Guardian and claim your prize. ID may be required. Winners have two months to claim their DVDs.

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■■ In a small bowl, whip cream cheese with 2 1/2 tablespoons of the caster sugar and vanilla extract.

■■ Separate the egg yolk and white, putting the white in a grease proof bowl.

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■■OPINION

Enjoy Smithy while you can

By Hamish Bidwell

I

an Smith said something interesting the other day. Not for the first time, you hasten to add.

The New Zealand cricketer, turned television commentator, has long been among the most authoritative and entertaining voices on sport.

Everyone’s got an opinion these days, but few carry the weight of Smith’s.

One of the great pleasures of this year’s Cricket World Cup was the way Smith was showcased to a wider audience.

We’ve always known how good he was, but it was fascinating to see the praise he earned from fellow broadcasters and rank and file viewers during New Zealand’s run to the final.

It was in the context of that match, in which England were crowned champions, that Smith made the relevant comment.

Speaking to English broadcasters Ian Ward and David Lloyd, for their Sky Sports Cricket Podcast, Smith was asked to reflect on the World Cup final and how it was to commentate the finale.

Originally down for the usual half-hour stint, Smith ended up calling the last 90 minutes of a truly enthralling match.

Many of us have said New Zealand were hard done by that day.

That the mechanism by which England were declared winners was a nonsense and that, after the scores were tied after both the 50 overs and subsequent Super Over, awarding the trophy on most boundaries hit was unsatisfactory and probably unfair.

But not Smith.

“I class myself as a commentator from New Zealand but not a New Zealand commentator, if you get my drift,’’ Smith told Ward and Lloyd.

“So I don’t travel round the world to cheerlead for New Zealand and I never have.

“I just call what I see out the window.’’

I’ve rolled those words around in my head for days.

Even now I’m sitting and reading them over and over.

Smith, and colleagues such as Grant Nisbett, are out of step with the times and,

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Left – Ian Smith is comfortable in the commentary box with all the commentators, including Michael Atherton.

Above – In his playing days Ian Smith was one of New Zealand’s best. in the former’s case, soon to be out of their primary job too.

Spark Sport are about to assume the rights to New Zealand domestic cricket and, at this point, it appears unlikely Smith forms part of their plans.

“I don’t quite know how it will pan out, but I find it quite sad.

“Cricket has been ingrained in my life and in the last 20-odd years I’ve never missed a session of test cricket at home.

“I’m very sad about it,’’ said Smith to The Guardian about the prospect of not commentating next summer.

There was a time when the people who covered sport on our behalf were impartial.

It wasn’t something that needed to be pointed out because it was so patently obvious in all the words that were said and written about athletes and teams.

As rights-holding came in, then so did a bit more trumpeting.

Commentators extolled the virtues of the sport their employers had paid so much for, or lauded the participants, but they still weren’t overtly partial.

But that’s changed.

England coach Eddie Jones described the travelling New Zealand media as “fans with a keyboard’’ at the recent Rugby World Cup and it’s hard to argue.

These days there’s no question that the majority of media will, as Smith put it, “cheerlead for New Zealand’’.

The only differentiation is the volume they cheer at.

Smith’s has been a remarkable career, not least because he’s a former player.

Athletes don’t tend to criticise their own, but Smith has always been even-handed.

When something’s good he’ll say so and when it’s not, he’ll point that out too.

He doesn’t admonish those who point out a player’s failings, but nor has he been prone to “in my day-ism”.

There’s no insistence that the game was better when he played and you feel Smith enjoys cricket as much now as he did when he began broadcasting almost 30 years ago.

But despite being regarded as the voice of cricket in this country, Smith’s skill is maybe best illustrated by his work in rugby.

The best many sideline analysts and

reporters can do is repeat the words of the lead commentator: “You’re right [insert nickname here], she is pretty physical out there” or stammer out the name of the latest substitute.

Smith tells you things you don’t know or can’t see. He pinpoints tactical or positional switches and then asks pertinent questions after the match, instead of just telling the interviewee how great they are.

When he goes, and Nisbett too in time, we’ll all be saying goodbye to an era in which the pictures told much of the story and the commentator merely enhanced them. A time when the broadcast was about the images and not the person furiously talking over them.

Who knows what Spark and next summer will bring.

Maybe we’ve heard the last of Ian Smith commentating on cricket and maybe we haven’t. Even if our new rights holders don’t want him you hope there’ll be room for “a commentator from New Zealand’’ at overseas networks.

Either way, we’ve all been better for Smith’s long involvement with cricket and we should enjoy him while we can.

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Super Over call explained NZME New Zealand cricket coach Gary Stead has defended the Black Caps’ decision to hurl inexperienced Tim Seifert into the Super Over showdown at Eden Park.

Seifert took strike against Chris Jordan, after England had whacked an impressive 17 in their T20 tiebreaker over at Eden Park.

England repeated their World Cup Super Over triumph against New Zealand, to clinch the T20 series 3-2.

With veteran short form specialist Martin Guptill at the other end, and big hitters Colin de Grandhomme, Jimmy Neesham and Colin Munro watching on, wicketkeeper Seifert was the man in the middle tasked with giving New Zealand a flying start.

Seifert had smacked 39 of 16 balls in his regular bat, but the Super Over move fell well short, with New Zealand mustering only eight.

The reason for Seifert’s Super Over role: the scoop and ramp shots which have now become an accepted part Ashburton College’s Tom Middleton receives the trophy for successfully beating the Willows team on Sunday.

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Winners at the Willows Every year the Ashburton College 1st XI heads north to take on a Willows Cricket Club XI, and it’s not often that they come home with a win.

But this year, they did.

They headed to the Willows for their annual match on Sunday and came home with a seven-wicket win to their names.

It was the first time Ashburton College had beaten the Willows since 2015, and it was also the young side’s first win of the summer, which will give them a big boost in confidence for the rest of the season.

Ashburton College looked in control from the start, after the Willows headed out to bat first.

The Ashburton bowlers started strongly and Tom Middleton took early wickets, and went on to end up with three to his name by the end of the innings, while two young year 10 bowlers – Liam Fuller and Will Jemmett – also performed well.

The Willows were eventually dismissed

for just 72 and Ashburton College got there just three wickets down in little more than 13 overs, with Devon Flannery topping the run-scoring.

It was fortunate they knocked the runs off quickly, too, with rain setting in a few minutes after they finished.

It was a good win for the young Ashburton side, against a side that’s traditionally tough to beat.

The Willows Club’s objective is to encourage players in secondary school first XI’s to play with and against experienced players, many of who were present or first class cricketers.

They offer quality cricket in a country atmosphere and it’s always a day enjoyed by all.

Sunday’s experience for the young Ashburton players made even better by a visit and talk from two New Zealand cricketing legends – John Wright and Richard Hadlee – in the morning.

Sophie in smashing form

Sophie Devine

White Fern Sophie Devine smashed five consecutive sixes in an over as she led the Adelaide Strikers to a 17-run win over the Melbourne Stars in the women’s Big Bash.

The Strikers opener hit 85 from 56 balls including a 54run opening stand with New Zealand team-mate Suzie Bates (36 off 30).

Devine carried her bat across the 20 overs and saved the best until the end with her five sixes coming off the last five balls of the innings hitting Madeline Penna to all areas.

She brought up her 50 in 49 balls before hitting 35 runs off her final seven balls.

Adelaide finished on 164 for four before Devine (2-19) and Bates (2-17) both starred with the ball as the Melbourne Stars fell short, reaching 147 for eight.

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of the modern cricket game.

Seifert’s ability to play those made him the ideal candidate this time, according to Stead.

“We were pretty certain Chris Jordan would bowl and he is one of best yorker bowlers in the world,” Stead said.

“Tim is probably the best guy in our team who can scoop and ramp, the idea being he would hopefully get the first one away.

“He tried but only got two. The aim was to take him (Jordan) off his length and make him bowl something different.

“Earlier in the day it was the slower balls which were getting hit out of the park.

“We needed to try some way of upsetting one of the best in the world at bowling yorkers.”

The decision to bowl captain Tim Southee in the Super Over was down to Southee.

“Tim said ‘I’m happy to do it’ and put his hand up. You’ve got to trust people when they do that,” Stead said.

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It’s time for a new challenge T

his is going to be a bit of an odd sports column, for both me and you.

Odd for you because it may not be 100 per cent about sport.

And odd for me because I’m sitting here writing it on my final day at the Ashburton Guardian, knowing that the words I write in this column could possibly be the last words I will write as this newspaper’s sports reporter.

So it’s a column that I’m a little sad to write, but it’s one I wanted to write, because I wanted to say thank you to all of you for helping make the job of sports reporter at the Ashburton Guardian such an enjoyable one.

We live in an awesome wee town, that’s not as wee as it was when I was growing up here.

It’s now a town full of opportunities, and so many of our kids

Erin Tasker SPORTS REPORTER

are making the most of those opportunities and really turning heads on courts, fields and pitches around both the district, and further afield.

We are lucky in so many respects.

We have some incredible sporting facilities in our district, that many people from other districts are envious of, but most importantly we have the people using them and the people still willing to put their hands up to make sure all these groups and facilities

run smoothly.

We’ve produced some top sporting talent over the years, but the likes of Lauren Ellis, Hayden Roulston and Stacey Carr wouldn’t have got to where they did without the support of both their families, and their sporting families.

No sporting body in a district like Mid Canterbury can run without volunteers.

Volunteers are the backbone of so many things in our district, not just in sport.

I spent many years as the emergency services reporter at the Guardian, too, and I’ve always had a huge respect for everything they do, particularly our volunteer fire brigade, and even just recently my eyes have been opened further to the incredible work they do and the situations they face every day.

Mid Canterbury is just an awesome place to live.

It’s a region full of amazing people doing amazing things every day, and the sports fields, courts, velodromes, lawns and greens are just one part of the bigger picture.

It’s been an absolute pleasure telling the stories of so many of these people over the years.

Ashburton has changed a lot since I first walked into the Guardian office in November 2002.

I was only meant to be here for a couple of months, helping out in the lead-up to the silly season, but here I am 17 years later, signing off – again.

At the same time, though, there’s a lot that hasn’t changed about this town.

It’s still a town that punches well above its weight, that’s often underestimated by outsiders.

While I haven’t been with the Guardian for 17 years solid, due to a couple of breaks to have kids and a couple of years working elsewhere in there, the bulk of my working life has been spent at the Guardian and it’s going to be weird no longer introducing myself to people as ‘Erin from the Guardian’.

I have loved it and have met so many amazing people with incredible stories to tell over the years, but, it’s time for a change.

It’s certainly more than a little nerve-wracking leaving the only job I’ve ever known, for something where I’m going to have a lot of learning to do.

But I’m looking forward to challenging myself, and am looking forward to reading about the amazing things happening in this town, instead of writing about them.

Hockey in the summer Looking to move the ball across the turf and towards the goal during the opening week of Mid Canterbury Hockey’s summer league competition last week, was Ethan Walsh.

The Mid Canterbury Hockey-run competition runs over two nights at the Ashburton Hockey Turf, with a social competition on a Monday night and a competitive section on Wednesday nights.

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More big names lining up for Auckland spectacular The line-ups for the 2020 ASB Classic just got even bigger with two two-time champions, Julia Goerges and John Isner, confirming they’ll be returning to Auckland this January.

Julia Goerges will be returning to the ASB Classic looking to complete the three-peat, having taken home back-to-back titles in 2018 and 2019.

Goerges lifted the trophy on centre court earlier this year after fending off a spirited challenge

from the young Canadian Bianca Andreescu, who has since risen to number 5 in the world.

Goerges has had a solid year on the Tour, reaching the final of the WTA Premier tournament in Birmingham before losing to world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty in the final.

Goerges went on to Wimbledon where she met Serena Williams in the third round in a replay of the previous years semi-final.

At the US Open, Goerges had strong run beating world No. 7

Kiki Bertens before going down to Donna Vekic in the fourth round in a hard-fought 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-3 thriller.

The hard-hitting German also made it through to the final in Luxembourg before falling to Jelena Ostapenko in the final.

Goerges is looking forward to returning to Auckland to defend her title in 2020.

“Auckland is one of my favourite tournaments and I can’t wait to come back and see all of the

amazing people. I’ve definitely had some great memories and I’m looking forward to defending my title again in January,” said Goerges.

John Isner, the number one seeded American player on the Tour, listed the trophy aloft on centre court in 2010 and 2014, the former being his first evert ATP Tour title.

Isner, who had a mid season break due to injury, came in to the hard court season strongly,

making the final of the ATP Masters 100 Miami Open where he took strong wins over fellow ASB Classic champion Roberto Bautista-Agut and young gun Felix Auger-Aliassime.

However it was here that he suffered a foot injury, with the result that he wasn’t able to defend his title against a ruthless Roger Federer.

The six-foot-ten giant’s serve is feared by all tour players and considered the biggest in the game.

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Orange snares first NZ Cup

Millar in unfamiliar territory

Cruz Bromac, in the hands of top reinsman Blair Orange, yesterday won the 2019 New Zealand Trotting Cup, giving trainers Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon their their fourth consecutive Cup win.

Remarkably, it was Orange’s first taste of New Zealand Cup victory.

Spankem, driven by Natalie Rasmussen, finished second, while Classie Brigade claimed third via photo finish.

Cruz Bromac was one of four horses from the champion Mark Purdon-Natalie Rasmussen stable and their fifth win in six years.

Meanwhile ex-pat Kiwi horseman Anthony Butt put aside a hellish 18 hours to win the day’s feature trot at Addington.

Driving Sydney visitor Tough Monarch, Butt executed an aggressive front-running drive to win the $100,000 Group 1 New Zealand Trotting Free For All. In frantic scenes, the now Sydney-based Cantabrian Butt only arrived on course mere minutes before the horses were due to go on track.

Smoke from the fires raging in New South Wales saw his flight cancelled Monday evening and he only landed in the country one hour before the start of the race.

“It was a nightmare,” he said post-race.

“I went there yesterday afternoon and when I’d nearly got to the airport, I got a text that said the flight was postponed for three hours until 10 o’clock last night.

“I went to them and said, tell me now if it’s not going to go and I’ll get on something else.

“They said no, no it’s definitely going to go and then at about 9 o’clock they cancelled on me.

“By then it was too late to get on anything else.”

So, Butt went back home to Menangle and tried everything he could to try and get to Addington the next day.

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Tough Monarch and Anthony Butt took out the New Zealand Trotting Free-For-All at Addington yesterday. night trying to find flights.

“I tried everything – through Auckland, through Melbourne, through Brisbane.

“But there was only one option and it got in at 2 o’clock.”

The race was set down to start at 2.47 on the other side of town.

“It didn’t seem likely.

“But luckily we landed 10 minutes early. Plus, I only had carry-on and the attendants put me right by the door so I was first off.”

His mum, Jenny Butt, picked him up and rushed across town while Butt got changed in to his driving gear in the back seat.

He ran in to the Addington stables just five minutes before the horses were called on to the track.

Tough Monarch, off the back of an excellent trial on the track last

Wednesday, was a $3 favourite with punters and never them any cause for concern.

“He felt good the whole way,” said Butt.

“We sort of had to go a bit early but he was comfortable and Rickie (Alchin, trainer) said to not let them get up to him.

“Round the bend they started to drop off and we put a gap on them.”

About then, fellow Australian trotter, McLovin, was extracted to the outside by Kate Gath and launched a grinding finish.

He got close, but not close enough, and the pair recorded a famous Australian quinella on New Zealand’s biggest race day.

Tough Monarch has been there or thereabouts in all the

features across the ditch in recent seasons, but yesterday’s was his first Group 1 win after three placings.

“He’s just a wee professional.

“It was his first Group 1, but he’s been around about it a lot of the time so he really deserves this.”

Gath was thrilled with McLovin’s effort, saying he overcome a less-than-preferable draw and trip to finish close up in second.

“I was really happy with him.

“I was a little bit disheartened when the draws came out and we knew Tough Monarch would be tough to beat off the front.

“So, to get as close as we did was pleasing and it’s a good sign for the Dominion on Friday.”

New Plymouth trainer Janelle Millar has crossed the Cook Strait for the first time in a bid to snare some stakes spoils on the second day of the New Zealand Cup Carnival at Riccarton today.

Millar will line-up Group Three performer Tinkalicious in the Gr.3 Valachi Downs Canterbury Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) and she is optimistic with the daughter of Nadeem after her last-start runner-up performance behind Shadows Cast at Awapuni.

“I thought it was a great run in the Red Craze Bowl considering she was drawn out and was threedeep the whole way,” Millar said.

“She got beaten by a Group One horse, so she didn’t disgrace herself that’s for sure.”

Tinkalicious was victorious in her previous run at Hawera last month and Millar has been pleased with her progress this preparation.

“She is only getting better.

“She is a six-year-old mare now so we are chasing a black-type win with her,” she said.

With a lack of suitable targets in the North Island, Millar elected to campaign in the South Island for the first time in her 15-year training career.

“There was nothing really around in the North Island, so I thought I would aim her for this race and then we will put her out for three weeks and bring her back for the Wellington Cup Carnival in January,” Millar said.

“She is drinking and eating really well and so the weight she did lose over the trip she has put back on, so I will be happy with the way she goes out there.”

Tinkalicious has been installed as a $6 third-favourite behind Kiwi Ida at $3.50 and Emily Margaret at $5.50.

Ultimate Sniper confirms champion status

By Jonny Turner Owners and racegoers looked on in disbelief as Ultimate Sniper produced a jaw-dropping performance to win the Junior Free-ForAll on New Zealand Cup day.

The Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen trained 4yr-old set a big Addington crowd buzzing with a tough effort that reminded harness fans why he is New Zealand’s reigning champion 3-yr-old.

Rasmussen was denied the chance to take the Bettor’s Delight pacer to the front early in the race, when driver Matt Anderson insisted on holding the front with A Bettor Act. That set Ultimate Sniper a massive task to win – one that co-owner Phil Kennard admitted

he thought was impossible during the running 2600m Group 3 feature.

“I wasn’t confident at all, when he was doing all that work.”

“To run 3.06 with a run like that was phenomenal.”

Ultimate Sniper stopped the clock in a sizzling 3-06.4, setting a new race record in the Junior Free-For-All on New Zealand Cup day.

The performance was undoubtedly the best of Ultimate Sniper’s 4-yr-old campaign, that has included a derailed New Zealand Cup bid.

Kennard puts the horse bouncing back to his best on the country’s biggest stage down to his conditioning.

The pacer was sent to the pad-

dock for several months after his 3yr-old season was ended early by injury.

Ultimate Sniper made the most of it, returning to work for his 5yrold campaign far from the sleek athlete that won yesterday.

“Today is the first day we have seen his ribs – he just hasn’t been ready,” Kennard said.

“But, when I saw him at the stables yesterday I though this horse is ready.”

Purdon said the All Stars stable would monitor Ultimate Sniper’s recovery before making a decision on whether the horse would start in Friday’s New Zealand Free-ForAll. The master trainer said his first inclination was not to line the 4yrold up on Friday.

Natalie Rasmussen Rasmussen made sure her charge was not going to be unlucky by taking Ultimate Sniper to the parked position.

The leading reinswoman said

it was a case of taking advantage of the horse’s drop in class after he had competed in New Zealand Cup lead-up races.

“The way he did it – I knew I had to drive him with a fair amount of confidence,” Rasmussen said.

“That [race] was a bit of a class drop from what he has been racing – he has been going good races behind Spankem and Chase Auckland.”

Ultimate Sniper’s withdrawal from the New Zealand Cup and his win yesterday has now seen his season evolve in to a transitioning term.

“It was just a year too soon for him for the cup,” Rasmussen said.

“He is a good horse.”

“I really think next year will be his year.”

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‘Pack horse’ ready for Couplands People can be forgiven for confusing Shadows Cast for a pack horse of late given the amount of weight he has been carrying.

The Group One-winning miler carried a mammoth 63kg to victory last start at Awapuni to win the Red Craze Bowl (1400m) by 1-1/4 lengths, while he is set to be a clear topweight in the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) today.

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While Shadows Cast has proven he can carry extreme weights, trainer Mark Oulaghan still holds some concerns about the weight disparity today, with the Per Incanto gelding set to carry 59kg, 4kg more than his nearest rival.

“It is going to be a bit of a test for him tomorrow,” he said.

“He showed he can carry it, but the way it is weighted tomorrow,

you have got those horses down on 53 and 52 kilos.

“He is giving some of them six or seven kilos and especially if the track is a bit off it might not be ideal for him, but that’s what handicap racing is and we have just got to take it as it is.”

One of those horses on the 52kg minimum is Son Of Maher, who dead-heated with Shadows Cast

in the 2017 edition of the Coupland’s Mile.

Shadows Cast won the Red Craze Bowl as a lead-in to the race that year and Oulaghan is hoping this year’s result is a good omen heading into today.

“The pattern has proved successful in the past, so we are hoping for success again tomorrow,” he said.

While Shadows Cast has tasted success in the race, he has also had some misfortune after suffering a heart fibrillation in the event last year.

However, he quickly recovered and went on to win his two proceeding races, the Gr.2 Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni and Gr.1 Thorndon Mile (1600m) at Trentham.

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8 7x003 Dark Princess dm (8) 52.............. C Johnson 9 311x3 Sacred Day d (12) 52.........................R Elliot 10 x8318 Secret Allure tdmb (1) 52.................R Myers 11 1x350 Camino Rocoso d (10) 52.......T Comignaghi 12 x0345 Sir Nate dmb (2) 52...................... R Hannam 13 09196 Vigor Winner b (13) 52.....................S Collett 14 82x42 Lincoln Raider db (11) 52....................M Dee 11 5.49 AMICUS INSURANCE BROKERS PREMIER $30,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2500m 1 65562 Mondorani tb (2) 60.................. K Asano (a3) 2 75753 Midnite Kaos m (8) 59.5................T Moseley 3 5x071 Mataro 59...................................... Scratched 4 58132 Verses (5) 59......................... R Mudhoo (a3) 5 4x401 Morrellmac m (4) 58.5......... C Campbell (a2) 6 90x02 Vencedora (7) 58...........................J Waddell 7 05160 Kipling 58...................................... Scratched 8 x0026 Red River Rock h (10) 56.5............L Allpress 9 61605 Jildi Jildi (13) 56.............................M McNab 10 47003 Katiem Marie t (3) 56.........................R Elliot 11 50x75 Leuluai (12) 56................................S Wynne 12 34267 Metasequoia 55.5......................... Scratched 13 75427 Bahhgoofy h (9) 54.................T Comignaghi 14 x2054 Big Wink h (14) 54...............................M Dee 15 96248 Last Letter (11) 54.......... K Chowdhoory (a2) 16 00066 Bruce Banner 54........................... Scratched 17 48x06 Latasso h (6) 54..................... S Toolooa (a3) 18 90008 Our Royal (1) 54........................... C Johnson

7 1.52pm LIQUORLAND WANGANU C0 C0, 305m

1 14455 Cawbourne Moss 17.66................M Roberts 2 58661 Opal Nora 18.30.........................J McInerney 3 64381 Xanthe Jewel 18.12.................. S Gommans 4 66782 Thrilling Arnold nwtd........................S Codlin 5 65776 Miss Dupre nwtd.............................S E Hunt 6 38553 Monty 18.00........................................ N Udy 7 77833 Leger’s Magic 18.05...........................M Flipp 8 22864 Clansman Douglas 18.16............B Goldsack Emergencies: 9 76875 Rose And Crown nwtd..................M Goodier 10 76678 Duke Bruce 17.94............................... N Udy 10 2.44pm FIRST SECURITY C1 C1, 520m 1 44636 Slam It nwtd...............................J McInerney 2 45344 True Testament 30.59...................B Hodgson 3 88752 Bigtime Kate 30.43 G &.......... S Fredrickson 4 76426 Opawa Tai 30.66................................. N Udy 5 47674 Bigtime Rosie 31.03 G &......... S Fredrickson 6 13461 Melita Vella 30.55................................L Cole 7 F4157 Master Brady nwtd...........................S Codlin 8 43247 Goldstar Dayton nwtd.......................S Stone 9 76875 Rose And Crown 30.32.................M Goodier 10 64877 Big Time Dynasty 30.85......................L Cole

Canterbury gallops Today at Riccarton Park Raceway

Canterbury Racing - Canterbury JC Venue: Riccarton Park Meeting Date: 13 Nov 2019 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 11.57am FASTTRACK INSURANCE $5K STAKE TOP UP MAIDEN $15,000, MDN, 1600m 1 598x4 Danny Green h (1) 58.5...................J Laking 2 x98x5 The Saintly One h (14) 58.5.S Weatherley (a) 3 0477 Always (7) 58.5......................A Mudhoo (a4) 4 048x0 Aristotle h (2) 58.5.................... K Asano (a3) 5 505 Hibachi h (18) 58.5.........................M McNab 6 02979 Roullette (10) 58.5.......................K Kwo (a3) 7 x0x86 All About Roy (11) 58.5.....................J Lowry 8 30L06 Divinexcuse (3) 58.5............. R Mudhoo (a3) 9 0x9 Saboteur (8) 58.5......................... C Johnson 10 8x00 Take The Deel (13) 58.5............... R Hannam 11 84 Panzer h (5) 57 12 7x0 Tormund (15) 57.................................R Elliot 13 508x5 Showmethebubbles (9) 56.5..............L Hemi 14 970 Ataahualuvthedream h (4) 56.5.......S Collett 15 0x0x8 Bi Ying (17) 56.5..............................S Wynne 16 8 Itsonlymoney (12) 56.5...................S Shinde 17 5 Lavaglo h (16) 55 18 0x97 Onestar h (6) 55............................T Moseley 2 12.34 CHAMPION FLOUR PREMIER $40,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 2000m 1 63x39 Overtheriver tdm (1) 60.............. D Hirini (a1) 2 01140 Kaharau h (8) 56.5................ R Mudhoo (a3) 3 41410 Lochan Ora tdm (3) 53.5..............K Kwo (a3) 4 00x57 Shadow King tdm (4) 53.....................M Dee 5 056x7 Shantav dm (7) 53........................T Moseley 6 67041 Sitarist td (2) 53.......................T Comignaghi 7 9x961 Veladero tmh (6) 53 8 09x93 Lorde Have Mercy d (5) 53..............R Myers 3 1.09pm ROMANO’S PIZZAS PREMIER MAIDEN $30,000, MDN, 1200m 1 x355x The Garrison (6) 58.5..................M Cameron 2 0940x Grand Express (4) 58.5.....................J Lowry 3 3 Macron (5) 58.5........................Z Bholah (a3) 4 3270x Alonzo bh (2) 58.5..........................M McNab 5 604x Noah (19) 58.5.................................J Laking 6 x34x5 Khitan Warrior bh (12) 57.................R Myers 7 Golden Harvest h (13) 57....S Weatherley (a) 8 05x20 Montreux Miss h (10) 56.5....... K Asano (a3)

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Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 13 Nov 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.07pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C2 C2, 305m 1 12756 Bigtime Baxter 17.67................... D P Symes 2 56431 De Blonde 17.78................................ B Hunt 3 56341 Eye Kno 17.77...............................W Woods 4 36758 Mitsuta 17.61.....................................D Edlin 5 45113 Johny Mowhawk 18.03.................. D Denbee 6 48413 Uno Again 17.71.................................. L Bell 7 31874 Checkpoint 17.95...............................M Flipp 8 36131 Gotcha Marshall 17.96...............J McInerney 9 43377 Nuclear Jewel nwtd..........................L Doody 10 41767 Sir Kinloch nwtd...............................S Codlin 2 12.24pm WHANGANUI CHRONICLE C2 C2, 305m 1 73421 Bright Concept 17.84........................... L Bell 2 43483 Shamrock Green 17.88...............B Goldsack 3 56446 Oskitz nwtd......................................S Codlin 4 71388 Cookie Biscuit 17.75..........................M Flipp 5 64512 Mitcham Doug 17.95..................J McInerney 6 15656 Luke Skywalker 17.79..................... L A Hunt 7 76751 Dyna Bryleigh 18.15.....................M Roberts 8 23317 Bigtime Boy 17.76........................ P B Briggs

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Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 13 Nov 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 4 and 5 Trebles: 3, 4 and 5 1 3.03pm (NZT) DASH FOR CASH HEATS 29TH NOVEMBER C1 C1, 305m 1 35245 No Mug 17.90..................................C Morris 2 44212 Big Time May 17.87............................L Cole 3 76566 Bigtime Hannah 17.80.............. S Gommans 4 63876 Sefton Brew 18.07 J &.........................D Bell 5 168 Criminal Justice 18.30......................M Olden 6 85873 Mustang Moo nwtd.............................. N Udy 7 37763 Homebush Razor nwtd..............J McInerney 8 86865 Bigtime Ronnie nwtd.......................... I Howe

9 520x7 Norma Jean h (24) 56.5................T Moseley 10 72x27 Wondering bh (15) 56.5...................S Collett 11 5725x Jandles b (17) 56.5...................... C Johnson 12 8x2x4 Recommended Flight (7) 56.5........S Wynne 13 9345x Qwerty (18) 56.5...........................K Williams 14 268 Kandhu b (14) 56.5............................R Elliot 15 5299x The Selection (20) 56.5....... C Campbell (a2) 16 53x86 Touchabeel (11) 55.................T Comignaghi 17 23 La Conseille (23) 55........................S Shinde 18 39x06 Our Rosette h (16) 55.... K Chowdhoory (a2) 19 Heapzahope (1) 58.5 20 5x9 Nymphadora Tonks h (22) 55 21 799x0 Darci Can h (21) 58.5 22 Lady Camorra h (9) 55.......... R Mudhoo (a3) 23 Battle Code (3) 58.5 24 8 The Suze (8) 56.5 Emergencies: Heapzahope, Nymphadora Tonks, Darci Can, Lady Camorra, Battle Code, The Suze

Emergencies: Panzer, Danny Green, The Saintly One, Always, Aristotle, Lavaglo 5 2.19 NZB READY TO RUN SALE PREMIER $30,000, 3YO SW+P, 1400m 1 1x218 Miss Federer th (2) 58.5........... K Asano (a3) 2 x6239 El Gladiador (9) 57.5...............T Comignaghi 3 221 Savvy Lad tdh (7) 57.5........S Weatherley (a) 4 1x64 Live Drama th (1) 55.5..................T Moseley 5 61 React mh (4) 55.5...............................M Dee 6 x2901 Sanctify dmh (6) 55.5................... C Johnson 7 x4976 Bronte Beach h (8) 55.5 8 1x706 Kitty Power mb (3) 55.5..................L Allpress 9 47x43 Clubcard h (11) 54......... K Chowdhoory (a2) 10 64578 Take A Risk h (5) 54.........................S Collett 11 94x8 Vivace Lady h (10) 54.................M Cameron 6 2.53pm VALACHI DOWNS CANTERBURY BREEDERS STAKES (G3) $80,000, F&M SW+P, 1400m 1 x2217 Kiwi Ida tdm (13) 56..................... C Johnson 4 1.44pm BIDFOOD BUTCHERY PREMIER MAIDEN 2 12x73 Emily Margaret tdh (11) 56.......... R Hannam 3 3x712 Tinkalicious dmb (17) 55..................R Myers $30,000, MDN, 1600m 1 2222 Capodanno bh (15) 58.5................L Allpress 4 32111 Monza Circuito tdmh (12) 55... R Mudhoo (a) 2 32x72 Tubthumping b (6) 58.5....................S Collett 5 8x042 Livin’ On A Prayer (6) 55................. R Kozaki 3 5x437 Albaron (23) 58.5....................... D Hirini (a1) 6 04126 Ticket To Ride tdmbh (2) 55..........K Williams 4 57432 Five Princes (14) 58.5....................M McNab 7 24x93 Sweepstake (10) 55.......................L Allpress 5 84x24 Hey Happy b (17) 58.5............. K Asano (a3) 8 6x351 Shirley Maude m (16) 55...............T Moseley 6 x00x2 Blair Flight (20) 58.5........................S Shinde 9 53x27 Feelin The Love tdm (7) 55.....T Comignaghi 7 2 Vineyard McPhee (1) 58.5...............R Myers 10 20x55 Zabay d (4) 55....................... C Campbell (a) 8 08288 Brother Will h (8) 58.5............ S Toolooa (a3) 11 x1861 Belle Fascino tdmh (1) 55...............S Wynne 9 0x37 Grab The Bar (16) 58.5.................... T Harris 12 x99x9 Caprikosa d (9) 55.........................M McNab 10 76366 Oceans Away (3) 58.5....................J Waddell 13 577x1 The Sparkle (8) 55...........................S Collett 11 36 Red Light District h (11) 58.5......M Cameron 14 00511 Meara Mary dmh (14) 55....S Weatherley (a) 12 06305 Leighton Warrior h (5) 57................S Wynne 15 14220 Boundtobehonored dh (3) 55.............R Elliot 16 00x33 Lake Chalice tdh (15) 55.............M Cameron 13 53052 She’ll Cat Choux (24) 56.5 14 93723 Rumour Has It bh (4) 56.5........... C Johnson 17 x1315 Red Chois mbh (5) 55 15 70x20 Ampuis (10) 56.5................................R Elliot Emergency: Red Chois 16 63642 Miss Oaks h (21) 56.5...................K Williams 7 3.29 HALLS REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT PRE 17 63053 Vows You Made (19) 56.5........T Comignaghi MIER $30,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1400m 18 22 Can I Get An Amen b (2) 55 1 21238 Just Push Play tdm (7) 59........Z Bholah (a3) 19 84 Panzer h (22) 57 2 34281 Torre Del Greco tdm (10) 57.5. K Asano (a3) 20 598x4 Danny Green h (12) 58.5.................J Laking 3 6114x Carson River tdh (5) 57.5.K Chowdhoory (a2) 21 x98x5 The Saintly One h (9) 58.5..S Weatherley (a) 4 16833 Upperhand tdm (2) 57.5 22 0477 Always (13) 58.5 5 1x750 Xcuses Xcuses d (4) 57............... C Johnson 23 048x0 Aristotle h (7) 58.5 6 48x40 Mr Typhon th (3) 57.............S Weatherley (a) 24 5 Lavaglo h (18) 55................................M Dee 7 680x0 Top Laurels d (6) 55.........................S Collett

Blinkers on: Take The Deel, Tormund (R1), Macron, Nymphadora Tonks (R3), Miss Oaks (R4), Sir Nate (R10) Blinkers off: Kaharau (R2), Noah (R3), Mr Typhon (R7) Winkers on: Saboteur (R1), Mr Typhon (R7) Winkers off: Take The Deel, Lavaglo (R1), Nymphadora Tonks (R3), Miss Oaks, Lavaglo (R4)

SELECTIONS

Race 1: Showmethebubbles, Lavaglo, Always, Hibachi, Aristotle Race 2: Lochan Ora, Veladero, Lorde Have Mercy, Sitarist Race 3: Kandhu, Alonzo, Golden Harvest, The Garrison Race 4: Rumour Has It, Capodanno, Tubthumping, Hey Happy Race 5: Savvy Lad, Bronte Beach, Miss Federer, Live Drama Race 6: Livin’ On A Prayer, Kiwi Ida, Tinkalicious, Monza Circuito Race 7: Upperhand, Tryfan, Carson River, Xcuses Xcuses Race 8: Sensei, Sheezallmine, Enzo’s Lad, Morweka Race 9: Leaderboard, Ripcord, Mondorani, To Love You Race 10: Sacred Day, Sir Nate, Lincoln Raider, Shadows Cast Race 11: Mondorani, Vencedora, Red River Rock, Verses

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

9 32781 Bigtime On Track 17.77........................F Kite 10 37771 Jericho Warrior 17.83........................R Waite 3 12.42pm RAY HUNTLEY MEMORIAL C1 NZ BRED FINAL C1f, 520m 1 57584 Jay Mike 30.43.................................... N Udy 2 38454 Jay Grim nwtd J &................................D Bell 3 14441 My Khloe 30.53..................................M Flipp 4 28432 Born Ellie nwtd.................................... N Udy 5 22553 Bigtime Ava 30.70............................. P Clark 6 44652 Opawa Lara nwtd................................ N Udy 7 64331 Lady Jellybean 30.51....................M Goodier 8 45643 Opawa Marcie 31.23..........................M Flipp 9 28765 Tuff Temptress nwtd.......................B Mitchell 10 65435 Here’s Hemi 30.56.....................J McInerney 4 12.59pm ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS C2 C2, 305m 1 82261 So Severe 17.77..............................C Morris 2 47342 Butterball 17.59..............................M Gowan 3 F8876 Dark Syrah 17.77..............................R Waite 4 13526 Scoobasi 17.68..................................M Flipp 5 16575 Bigtime Jamie 17.71...........................L Cole 6 67887 Bigtime Coco 17.72..................... D P Symes 7 23147 Sedgebrook Saint 17.78......................F Kite 8 1F662 Bigtime Leo 17.86............................. P Clark 9 85782 Cawbourne Ridge 17.65 J &................D Bell

10 27681 Bigtime Kylie 17.82................... S Gommans 5 1.17pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C1 C1, 520m 1 2612 Big Time Elsa 30.61............................L Cole 2 35442 Bigtime Diesel 31.16 G &........ S Fredrickson 3 63376 Opawa Jody nwtd..............................M Flipp 4 66767 Peekay Shout nwtd............................J Black 5 36262 Valve Bouncing nwtd........................... N Udy 6 86711 Big Time Vince 30.39..........................L Cole 7 53255 Rockoneva 31.41.........................B Hodgson 8 55744 Black Mags nwtd...............................S Stone Emergencies: 9 68566 Midnight Molly 30.46....................B Hodgson 10 57876 Lucky James 30.59............................M Flipp 6 1.34pm RIVERCITY GAS C0 C0, 305m 1 Bees And Birds nwtd...........................L Cole 2 7 Rowdy Ratbag nwtd.........................S Codlin 3 62632 Ahuroa Whizz nwtd.........................R Murray 4 86723 My Emmett nwtd................................M Flipp 5 83863 Star Way nwtd..................................C Morris 6 72323 Big Time Spot nwtd.............................L Cole 7 4 Idol Wilson nwtd.................................M Flipp 8 37522 Gemmas Dilemma nwtd.............J McInerney 9 56775 Dewie nwtd............................... S Gommans 10 48666 Goldstar Malone nwtd............... K Gommans

1 Paris End nwtd....................................L Cole 2 85652 Piruleta nwtd......................................M Flipp 3 5 Telltale Signs nwtd...........................M Olden 4 45x7x Ostapenko nwtd.............................. L A Hunt 5 53853 Zara Jewel nwtd........................ S Gommans 6 66626 Sideline Sally nwtd.....................J McInerney 7 64577 Jamboree nwtd................................C Morris 8 4 Idol Steffie nwtd.................................M Flipp 9 56775 Dewie nwtd............................... S Gommans 10 48666 Goldstar Malone nwtd............... K Gommans 8 2.09pm QUALITY INN COLLEGIATE C1 C1, 305m 1 56684 Dream On Dreamer 17.91...............M Olden 2 57534 Big Time Rusty 18.19..........................L Cole 3 2D244 Go Stopper 17.95................................ N Udy 4 77474 Homebush Shea 17.91............. S Gommans 5 57272 Elouera Mist nwtd J &..........................D Bell 6 48278 Empty Pocket 18.08............................ N Udy 7 75584 Collete Baxter 18.32..................J McInerney 8 76247 Judge Me Jackie 17.91................... L Pearce 9 28765 Tuff Temptress 18.04......................B Mitchell 10 27488 Mahala Bay 17.75..........................W Woods 9 2.27pm SPION ROSE HEATS 29TH NOVEMBER C1 C1, 305m

LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

9 76875 Rose And Crown nwtd..................M Goodier 10 88687 Blue Whizz 18.16........................B Goldsack 2 3.19pm BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK C1 C1, 305m 1 76766 Homebush Keasha nwtd............J McInerney 2 8x137 Bigtime Toby 17.96............................ P Clark 3 65435 Smash Charger 17.66..................... L A Hunt 4 37464 Three Amigos 17.55 J &......................D Bell 5 28647 Final Straw 18.10................................ N Udy 6 21656 Idol Jan 17.80....................................M Flipp 7 45F78 Euphamistic 18.26.......................B Hodgson 8 5x626 Ophira Bale nwtd..........................M Roberts 9 28765 Tuff Temptress 18.04......................B Mitchell

10 87688 Sly Cath nwtd.....................................J Black 3 3.38pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C1 C1, 305m 1 74826 Ahuroa Prince 18.11.......................R Murray 2 76757 Mister Booze 18.09......................J McArthur 3 3716 Black Widow Baby 18.07..............M Roberts 4 33245 Uno Eleven 17.75................................ N Udy 5 65556 Zipping Romeo 17.99 J &....................D Bell 6 22422 Opehu Express 17.86.......................R Waite 7 57732 Homebush Yuri nwtd..................J McInerney 8 67442 Auros Advantage nwtd.................... T Pilcher 9 16786 Big Time Ivy 18.00.........................M Gowan 10 38867 Bigtime Roll 17.65....................... D P Symes

4 3.55pm WANGANUI TOYOTA C1 C1, 305m

1 53475 Double Change nwtd................ S Gommans 2 825F5 Epic Spark 18.00................................ B Hunt 3 43516 Big Time Ricky 18.10..........................L Cole 4 44275 Hurricane Al 17.85...........................C Morris 5 3F886 Secret Babe nwtd.........................S J Phillips 6 87664 Clover Victoria 17.59........................S Codlin 7 46763 Lucy Lingers nwtd......................J McInerney 8 57763 Jay Wendy 18.04................................. N Udy 9 16786 Big Time Ivy 18.00.........................M Gowan 10 17768 Homebush Maxi nwtd................J McInerney 5 4.14pm BRIAN MARTIN COMMENTATING DEC 6TH C1 C1, 305m

1 83122 Hypothetical 18.19...........................M Olden 2 77874 Yee Coo Coo 18.01....................J McInerney 3 F5717 I’ll Be Loyal 18.10.........................B Hodgson 4 81885 Dottie Bell 18.09 J &............................D Bell 5 x8574 Rising Hawke 17.99.........................C Morris 6 72282 Mr. Postman 17.85.............................. N Udy 7 38162 Elsa Blueblood 18.11.................J McInerney 8 56573 Chat Ya Later nwtd............................. I Howe Emergencies: 9 67677 Not Shackley 17.86............................. N Udy 10 78787 Inky Dinky Jewel nwtd......................L Doody 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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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

■■RUGBY

ABs’ tactical blunder NZME Coaching legend Wayne Smith – the man credited as the power behind the throne during the most recent All Black glory years – has detailed the tactical error which led to the big World Cup semi-final defeat against England.

He also revealed what he believes was the Springboks’ trick play which fooled England before they even kicked off in the final.

In a lengthy interview from Japan with Newstalk ZB’s Martin Devlin, Smith – who was a key lieutenant for World Cup-winning coaches Graham Henry and Steve Hansen – said the public and media had underrated the All Blacks’ ability to get up game after game during a golden decade.

But cracks had started to appear before the World Cup, with mounting losses and the retirement of seven greats after the 2015 triumph suggesting “there were going to be some tough moments”.

Smith, himself a former All Blacks head coach, picked out a key tactical ploy which he believes backfired on the All Blacks as they were smashed by England in Yokohama.

“Whilst we played outstandingly against Ireland (in the quarter-final), the tactical plan that day worked because those outside backs from Ireland rushed up

with out-to-in defence all the way to Anton Lienert-Brown in the midfield,” he told Devlin.

“This gave the All Blacks that relief zone out wide through crossfield kicks or passing over the top but unfortunately the English watched that game too and they had a defensive plan that countered that attacking strategy.

“Therein lay the issues I think.

“Essentially from what I understand – I’m not close to the environment anymore – and through reading and looking at stuff, that plan of having two All Black forwards standing up flat and then passing way behind them to the 10 who then played wide, was put together for teams like Ireland rushing up, and gave them the chance to outflank them.

“Those two forwards are the players you generally rely on to keep the ball alive in the tackle.

“They would take the offload or make the cleanout to give you the lightning-quick ball you are after.”

Instead, Smith said, the All Blacks had to rely on slow possession – a key contributor to the surprise defeat.

“But because they were 10 metres ahead of the attack they were late arriving to all those breakdowns.

“It gave us slow ball and didn’t really give us a chance to keep the ball alive.

“It probably was the reason we

Wayne Smith lost so convincingly,” Smith told Devlin.

“Everybody talks about us losing the gain line – we clearly did.

“We got tackled 10 or 15 metres behind the gain line probably nine times in the game.

“From that we got slow ball or lost the ball. But that’s the reason – those forwards were out of the game and not able to give any support.

“Also John Mitchell had their defence numbering up from the outside so rather than rolling the dice and everyone rushing in to make the tackles, generally – although not all the time – they had that outside man marked. It took away the cross-field kick and our ability to pass over the top, which put us in trouble.

“We didn’t have any solutions to it and kept getting smacked behind the lines.”

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The All Blacks weren’t able to change to Plan B after the halftime break, Smith said.

“So can you change?

“Yes, you can change.

“They came out from halftime and changed the pattern, we hit shorter and tried to penetrate in closer. But as with any tactical plan, it’s stuck in the brain and it’s pretty difficult to get wholesale changes.

“That’s what happened – we went back to moving it wide in that second half and it just didn’t work.”

Smith also believes South Africa used the warm-up period before the final to fool England by having their halfbacks Faf du Klerk and Herschel Jantjies put up a stream of high kicks. “(South Africa) showed in the final they were the best team in the tournament because they were able to adapt,” he said.

“They changed from kicking every second ball to actually playing some footy and using the skills they’ve got.

“It was a clever plan – I watched de Klerk and Jantjies warm-up and they did half an hour of box kicking with the English coaches watching them.

“They didn’t practice a pass, yet seldom boxed kicked (in the game).

“They sucked a few people in before the final.”

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10.30am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily

with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not School holidays).

10.45am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

11.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Midweek service, communion and lunch. 48 Allens Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street.

Closed most public holidays.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet doubles, new players welcome.

Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

1.30pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

6.30pm THE MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Beginners learn to Line Dance (6.30pm), lower Intermediate/intermediate (7.30pm9pm). Instructor Annette Fyfe. Phone 0274 813 131, Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

6.30pm (registration 6pm) MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. Ford’s Road, Tinwald.

7pm - 9pm ASHBURTON UKELELE CLUB. Club night, phone 027 696 2607. Savage Club Hall, Cox Street.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing, all welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Corner Queens Drive and Creek Road.

DAY TIME SECTION. New members very welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

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

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

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

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz for preschoolers and caregivers. 48 Allens Road.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peters Church, Allenton.

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

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

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

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

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SITUATIONS VACANT

Due to increasing work load, we are looking for the following personal.

Full Time Position: Assemblers/Finishers Here’s a great opportunity to join the progressive team at Advance Ashburton and to help make a difference to our community We are looking for a confident and proactive person that can offer administration support to our Grants and Communications Committees and to our Executive Officer.

Hours are 15-20 per week with flexible days/times and a varied workload.

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If you have excellent communication, organisational and time management skills, have strong attention to detail, are a team player, and have good computer skills, then we are looking for you.

If this sounds like you, please email your cv with covering letter to: info@advanceashburton.org.nz or post to Advance Ashburton Community Foundation PO Box 310, Ashburton 7740 Att: Sandi Wood.

We are presently looking to appoint an assembler for our finishing department.

We would expect applicants to have an aptitude for working with metal and wood and have a good eye for detail.

An ability to show initiative and a good attitude are a prerequisite.

In return we offer a competitive wage with good working environment and opportunities to learn new skills.

Closing date: November 22, 2019.

Contact: Paul Mullen at Helmack Engineering Ltd phone 308 4867 email at admin@helmack.co.nz post or drop off your CV to 92 Dobson Street, Ashburton 7700.

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES Learning Support Co-ordinator role Permanent position beginning in Term 1 2020.

Wakanui, Ashburton Christian School and St Joseph’s School Ashburton are seeking a certificated teacher to work across the three schools as a Learning Support Co-ordinator, beginning Term 1, 2020.

This role would suit a self motivated passionate teacher with diverse strengths who can add value to our team of schools as our new Learning Support Coordinator.

The Learning Support Co-ordinator will be based at St Joseph’s School.

If you would like to know more about this role please contact: Cath Blacklow 308 5299 (Principal, St Josephs School) Please send a cover letter and CV to: principal@st-josephs.school.nz Applications close on November 30, 2019.

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MEETINGS, EVENTS Clearwater Aquatic Club Inc. The club AGM will be held at the C.A.C Clubrooms at Lake Camp, Saturday, 16 November 2019 at 3.00pm.

Applicants should be: • Honest, reliable and enjoy being part of a team • Be able to work under pressure and possess a ‘can-do’ attitude • Be a team player and a good communicator • Have excellent customer service skills • Be available to work over the Xmas and New Year period These positions may include day, evening and weekend shifts.

Applications are invited from exceptional people to join several of our departments in full-time or part time Permanent Positions.

For more information on the Foundation please visit: www.advanceashburton.org.nz or search Advance Ashburton on Facebook.

MOTORING

Duties may include shelf filling, cabinet merchandising and customer service.

Permanent Positions Available

Applications close November 29, 2019.

ASHBURTON Society of Arts – Spring into Christmas exhibition, Short Street Studio. Guest artist - Vicki Knudsen. Open weekends, 11am - 4pm. Monday and Wednesday when sign out.

Fixed Term Opportunities!

We are seeking Fixed Term Assistants to join our team from now until the end of January 2020.

Key responsibilities for these positions include: • Ensuring that our customers are provided service to a high standard • Creating a friendly and helpful environment for customers and staff alike • Working within Food Safety and Health and Safety requirements These positions may include day, evening and weekend shifts.

If you believe you have the passion and energy to join our team for any of these roles, please apply online to: donalda.hartley@newworld-si.co.nz or in-store and include a cover letter and CV. Applications close: November 23, 2019.

Fixed Term Teacher for 2020

St Joseph’s School requires a 0.4 (two days a week) Fixed Term Teacher for 2020.

This is a job share position in a Year 1 classroom.

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Cryptic crossword

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars

ACROSS 1. Throw me something to support my arm (5) 4. For Mede, liberty was not straightforward (7) 8. Time to change, about, what shows airman his height (9) 9. The collection may become solid (3) 10. Tourist first fished with rod and line, and got in a muddle (7) 12. Remains unruffled in medical matters (4) 14. A tailor with his favourite bit of information (7) 17. Chess piece one will take to uncle’s (4) 18. If it’s very severe, he’ll give rise to his confusion (7) 20. The Italian finally doubled up, being sick (3) 21. Prayers for votes do, in their turn (9) 23. The height is always set awry (7) 24. There are nudes disporting on the sand-hills (5) DOWN 1. Beginning with what it costs, these are the odds (8,5) 2. Mean to take one to the National Theatre to conclude it (6) 3. With broken limb, gang may have been having a flutter (8) 4. Such as lard, given to her by the old man (3) 5. It is almost too soon for this nobleman (4) 6. It is hell for a month, such a hapless state (6) 7. Met Amos, or ship turning for change of state (13) 11. How far down it is sounded (5) 13. Felt let down, having let the air out? (8) 15. Apostolic number we let out around five (6) 16. No longer recognise the snow I’d distributed (6) 19. Doing nothing, one gets mis-led (4) 22. In short, an animal surgeon to examine for soundness (3)

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Having people close by who believe in you will help, but it’s not a necessity.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Everything you say and do has influence. It’s easy to note the first few ripples caused by an action. That’s all most people take note of. But keep watching, because today’s ripples are extremely far-reaching.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Instead of hoping for the best, take more control of the situation. How could it go wrong? This is where pessimism is an asset. And here’s how it will go right: You’ll anticipate, prevent and succeed.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You’ll do the work of a passionate individual, one who is not consumed with the bottom financial line but with the whole impact of a cycle of meaningful, purposeful contribution.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’ll share what you do and who you are in a way that gets people talking. While they are free to have their own impressions, you’re also clever at presenting things in a light that leans most to your desired response.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): There are things to start up and things to shut down. The time has come to start looking at the entire picture and deciding which is which. Your mind is clear, and your heart is true.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): When you enter a room of people, what do you see? Exciting potential and unique opportunity? An obstacle course to navigate?

A political minefield? Get your mindset aligned with the outcome you’re hoping for.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): The very nature of a support system is that the help is not all coming from one source. That would just be a support pillar. Consider your system. Couldn’t you use a few more beams and pressure absorbers?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Curiosity elevates life from ordinary to extraordinary. The trouble comes when curiosity strays from the situation at hand, thus developing into distraction. Keep bringing attention back to the current moment.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You’ll be dealing with a thing that requires constant attention. It will feel as though you are riding this – steering it with all parts of your being, every inch of the way. Well, that’s what it takes to get there.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): If you like how you feel around a person, you’ll want to be with that person. This simple principle of attraction will be at the root of the day’s surprising developments.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Every relationship brings a lesson. The theme of today’s tutorial is fear.

You’ll think about what you might be afraid of, overcoming that, and how you might comfort and allay the fears of others.

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DEATHS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

MINGAY, Joan Margaret – On November 10, 2019.

Peacefully at Princes Court Lifecare, Ashburton surrounded by her family.

Aged 89 years. Loved wife of Tony and mother of Graham, Dawn and Gail. A loved grandmother and great grandmother. Messages to the Mingay family, 2/350 Burnett Street, Ashburton 7700. A special thank you to the staff at Princes Court and Dr Wootton for their care of Joan over the years. A private cremation has been held.

BROWN, Alan William Alfred – Adeline, Garry, Nicky, Wayne, Janice, Wendy, Dougal and families thank everyone for the expressions of sympathy and amazing support extended to us all for Alan. Thank you for the phone calls, cards, flowers, baking, visits and personal support shown to us all. To Rev Henry, thank you for your visits with Alan and for conducting the funeral service with such compassion. To Lesley thank you, the music was lovely. To the St David’s team who prepared the church and worked in the kitchen your efforts on the day of the funeral are appreciated. A special thanks to Barry and Polly and the team at Paterson’s your support and guidance was without fault. Finally thank you to all who came to celebrate Alan’s life and the kind donations to St John.

Please accept this as our personal acknowledgement for all your help and support.

“A quiet man leaves treasured memories.”

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Please note all late death notices or notices sent outside ordinary office hours must be emailed to: deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz

MILLWARD, John Francis – On November 8, 2019 peacefully at Edith Cavell Rest Home, aged 80 years.

Loved husband of the late Esma, loved father, stepfather, grandfather, greatgrandfather, brother, uncle, and friend to many.

Messages to the Millward family, c/- PO Box 26112, Christchurch 8148.

A memorial service to celebrate John's life will be held in the Canterbury Crematorium Chapel, corner of Linwood Avenue and Keighleys Road, on FRIDAY, November 22, at 2pm.

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SHEA, Marie Catherine – Marie’s family sincerely thank you for all the love, support and messages of sympathy shown to them following the loss of their much loved mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, sister, sister-inlaw and Me-Me. Your kindness has been greatly appreciated and will always be remembered. Please accept this as a personal thank you.

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Wind at 1000m: NW 40 km/h, rising to severe gale 100 km/h from midday in exposed places, gradually easing to W 50 km/h late evening.

Wind at 2000m: NW gale 65 km/h, rising to severe gale 130 km/h by midday, then gradually easing to W 60 km/h late evening.

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FRIDAY A few morning showers clearing, then becoming fine. Northeasterlies developing.

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SUNDAY Early showers, then becoming fine.

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LINCOLN Rakaia

JUDD, Betty Laura (Formerly Ashburton) – Peacefully at Wanganui Hospital on November 11, 2019. Aged 87 years. Much loved wife of the late Ray Forrest and the late William (Bill) Judd. Loved Mum of Wayne (deceased), Roy (deceased) and Alan. Loving sister to Annette Le Comte.

Cherished Nan to Phillip, Clifton, Seddon and Shannon and great grandmother to Aiden, Lily; Abel, Hendrix; and Zali. Loved Aunty Betty of all her nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers donations to Hospice Wanganui would be greatly appreciated and can be left at Betty’s service. Friends are invited to attend a celebration of Betty’s life in the Forrest Lawn Chapel, 208 Guyton Street, Wanganui on FRIDAY, November 15, 2019 at 1.30pm to be followed by a private cremation.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 0 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am The Celebrity Chase 3 With impressionist Rory Bremner, ‘Dragon’ Deborah Meaden, and TV presenters Laura Tobin and Alan Titchmarsh. 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Pollard makes an admission; Chas is unconvinced by a promise; Harriet sticks to her guns. 0 1pm Coronation Street Catchup 3 0 2pm Coast v Country 3 0 3pm Tipping Point 0 4pm Te Karere 2 0 4:30 Extreme Cake Makers 3 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 MasterChef Australia The Service Challenge has the contestants preparing a fivecourse degustation at Perth’s Wildflower restaurant, one of the best restaurants in the country. 0 8:30 Motorbike Cops 0 9pm The Force PGR 3 0 9:30 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:30 1 News Tonight 0 11pm Code Black AO 3 Jesse is in denial when his brother arrives at Angels Memorial in bad shape after a warehouse collapse, and further tests reveal he has advanced congestive heart failure. 0 Midnight Queen Sugar PGR 1am Te Karere 3 2 1:30 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

Wellington Paranormal 8:30pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am I Found The Gown 3 10:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 11:30 Snapped PGR 3 12:30 Mysteries And Scandals PGR 3 1:30 Below Deck Mediterranean AO 3 2:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 3:30 The People’s Court 4:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 5:30 Catfish 3 6:30 Beverly Hills Pawn 3 7pm Beverly Hills Pawn 3 Yossi and Cory hope to strike a deal for the stone tablets from The Ten Commandments.

7:30 The Real Housewives Of Dallas 8:30 Bachelorette Australia 9:30 Catfish LA fashion designer Truth falls for his online crush Ray’Quan despite being in a relationship but, when Nev and co-host Zeke Thomas find out who is behind the profile, Truth cannot handle the truth.

10:30 Snapped PGR 3 11:30 Mysteries And Scandals PGR 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 ©TVNZ 2019

THREE

PRIME

6am Infomercials 3 6:30 Paw Patrol 3 6:50 Littlest Pet Shop 7:20 Yo-Kai Watch 3 7:45 Be Cool Scooby Doo! 3 8:15 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 8:35 Muppet Babies 3 9am Infomercials 10am Neighbours PGR 3 10:30 Australian Survivor PGR 3 12:05 Mom AO 3 12:30 2 Broke Girls AO 3 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 3 2pm Will And Grace PGR 3 2:30 Home And Away 3 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:35 Bakugan – Battle Planet 0 4pm Fanimals 0 4:30 Friends 3 5pm The Simpsons 3 5:30 Home And Away Dean’s new surf student affects Ziggy’s relationship insecurities; Willow and Alex take a leap of faith; Irene gives Robbo some tough love.

6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 6:30 Neighbours

6am The AM Show 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:30 Entertainment Tonight 3 Noon Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0 1pm Dr Phil PGR 3 2pm M Presumed Guilty AO 3 2017 Crime.

A couple appear to have the perfect marriage until the husband disappears. As detectives investigate, the wife becomes their chief suspect and, to prove her innocence, she begins to look for the truth.

April Bowlby, Corin Nemec, Virginia Williams.

4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 NewsHub Live At 4:30pm 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 0 8:30 Wellington Paranormal Minogue and O’Leary pull over a driverless 1980s boyracer car, and discover it is haunted.

9:05 Zombody Save Me! AO 9:35 God Friended Me PGR 10:35 Two And A Half Men PGR 3

7pm The Project 7:30 The Block Australia PGR A rushed week of renovation sees the judges walking into unfinished guest bedrooms, but fresh design choices see some teams justly rewarded.

0 8:40 The Block Australia PGR 9:45 Hawaii Five-0 AO 0 10:45 NewsHub Late

11:05 Cougar Town PGR 3 11:35 This Is Us PGR 3 12:30 Private Practice AO 3 1:15 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:40 Infomercials 2:45 Army Wives PGR 3 3:30 The Amazing Race 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 5:30 Infomercials

11:15 Love Island – Australia AO Young and single Australian contestants experience the holiday of a lifetime, with the added possibility of meeting their soul mate.

12:15 SVU AO 3 1:05 Infomercials

Ocean Warriors – Chasing the Thunder, 7:30pm on Choice

SKY 5 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Shipping Wars UK PG 8:05 Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 8:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 9:15 Storage Wars – Texas PG 9:40 CSI MV 10:25 SVU MV 11:10 Shipping Wars UK PG Noon Jeopardy! PG 12:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:50 Storage Wars – Barry’s Best Buys PG 1:40 Crazy On A Plane MVLC 2:25 CSI MV 3:10 Shipping Wars UK PG 3:35 Shipping Wars UK PG 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Storage Wars – Texas PG 6pm Ice Road Truckers PG 7pm Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 7:30 CSI MV 8:30 The Force MC 9pm Piha Rescue PG 9:30 Helicopter ER M 10:30 SVU MV 11:15 Ice Road Truckers PG

Thursday

12:05 Shipping Wars UK PG 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 2:05 Helicopter ER M 2:50 Piha Rescue PG 3:15 The Force MC 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Storage Wars – Texas PG 4:50 CSI MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

7:24 The Spy Who Dumped Me 16VLC 2018 Comedy.

Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon.

9:19 Hotel Artemis 16VL 2018 Thriller. Jodie Foster, Sterling K Brown. 10:54 The Favourite 16LSC 2019 Drama.

Olivia Colman, Emma Stone.

12:54 Another Kind Of Wedding MLSC 2018 Comedy.

Kathleen Turner, Kevin Zegers.

2:19 Sweetheart Con MVLC 2017 Thriller. Jessalyn Gilsig, Jon Cor. 3:44 The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot 16VLC 2018 Action.

Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner.

5:20 A Little Something For Your Birthday MLS 2017 Romantic Comedy.

Sharon Stone, Tony Goldwyn.

6:55 Extra Ordinary 16C 2019 Comedy. Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward. 8:30 Lancaster Skies PGVL 2019 War. After surviving the Blitz, a Spitfire pilot must overcome his past to lead a bomber crew in the aerial war over Berlin.

Jeffrey Mundell, David Dobson.

10:10 The Front Runner ML 2018 Drama. Hugh Jackman, JK Simmons.

Thursday 12:01 On The Basis Of Sex ML 2018 Drama. Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer. 1:59 Dry Blood 16VLC 2017 Horror.

Clint Carney, Kelton Jones.

3:21 The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot 16VLC 2018 Action.

4:56 People Interview – Anna Kendrick 5:39 On The Basis Of Sex ML 2018 Drama.

7:50 With Great Power – The Stan Lee Story PGV 2010 Documentary. 9:10 Les Miserables MVS 2012 Musical Drama. Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. 11:45 Hot Tub Time Machine 2 16VLSC 2015 Comedy.

Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson.

1:19 Four Holidays MS 2008 Comedy. Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon. 2:46 The Devil Wears Prada PGL 2006 Comedy. 4:34 The Forgotten MVL 2004 Thriller.

6:05 The Hunger Games – Catching Fire MV 2013 Action. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson.

8:30 Silver Linings Playbook MVLS 2012 Comedy Romance.

A man recently released from a mental hospital is determined to get his life back on track and reunite with his wife, but when he meets a girl with problems of her own, things become complicated. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence.

10:35 The Thing 16VL 2011 Horror.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton.

Thursday

MAORI

6am The Powerpuff Girls 3 0 6:30 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 3 0 7am Sky Sport News 8am Game Shakers 3 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Million Dollar Minute 9:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 10am The Doctors PGR 3 11am Antiques Roadshow 3 Noon Sky Sport News 12:30 NCIS – New Orleans PGR 3 0 1:30 Man With A Plan PGR 3 0 2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 0 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm A Place In The Sun 5pm Third Rock From The Sun 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Pawn Stars 6:30 Pawn Stars 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 0 7:30 Traffic Cops PGR A routine stop leads to the discovery of tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of cigarettes; a hunt for a stolen van and mini-digger could end badly on one of Britain’s busiest highways. 0 8:30 Prime Rocks – Bros: After The Screaming Stops AO 0 10:30 Courtside 11pm Prime Sport The latest sporting highlights. 0 11:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:30 Closedown

12:16 Borat – Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan 16LS 2006 Comedy. 1:39 The Forgotten MVL 2004 Thriller.

3:10 The Hunger Games – Catching Fire MV 2013 Action.

5:34 Silver Linings Playbook MVLS 2012 Comedy Romance.

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 8pm Ride Or Die Six people set out to overcome their lifelong weight problems.

8:30 Holding Court With Steven Adams 9pm Ahikaroa AO 9:30 Ahikaroa AO 10pm #whiuatepatai AO 3 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 11pm Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 3 Highlights from 2019 Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival, held at Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

11:30 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 8am NZ Rugby Awards 8:55 L Sevens – World Schools Day One. 5:15 NZ Rugby Awards (RPL) 9:30 The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School.

Behind the scenes of Hamilton Boys’ High School rugby.

10pm The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School.

Behind the scenes of Hamilton Boys’ High School rugby.

10:30 Pro14 Weekly Highlights Show 11:30 Gallagher Premiership Highlights Show

Thursday 12:30 French Top 14 (HLS) 1am Getting Grilled With Marshy Sam Neill.

1:30 Getting Grilled With Marshy Darryl Gibson.

2am Wednesday Wind Back 4am French Top 14 (RPL) Toulouse v Clermont.

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mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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6:30 Takoha 3 6:40 Pukoro 2 7:10 Tamariki Haka 3 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Darwin + Newts 3 7:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 8am Fresh 3 8:30 Hip Hop – NZ Nationals 3 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 R&R 3 10am Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 11am Tautohetohe 3 Noon Waka Ama Sprints 3 12:30 Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm Kapa Haka Whanau 3 1:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 Pukoro 2 3:40 Tamariki Haka 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Potae Pai 3 4:10 Darwin + Newts 3 4:20 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Ariki 5:30 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Game Of The Weekend

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6am Destination Flavour Singapore 6:30 Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 7am Choccywoccydoodah 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am The Big Dry 9am Gardeners’ World 9:30 Earth’s Natural Wonders 10:30 Millau Viaduct – The Bridge In The Sky 11:30 The Big Food Rescue 12:30 Building The Dream 1:30 Restoration Home 2:30 Brother v Brother 3:30 Secret Life Of The Wombat 4:30 Hemsley And Hemsley – Healthy And Delicious The Hemsley sisters share healthy recipes for all occasions.

5pm Forever Summer With Nigella 5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 Mine Hunters 7:30 Ocean Warriors – Chasing The Thunder PGR Documentary about the Sea Shepherd’s 110-day, 16,600km chase of the Thunder, considered the world’s most notorious poaching vessel.

9:30 Fishy Business 10pm Alone – Redemption PGR 11pm Hemsley And Hemsley – Healthy And Delicious The Hemsley sisters share healthy recipes for all occasions.

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Gardeners’ World 1am Fishy Business 1:30 Forever Summer With Nigella 2am Craft It Yourself 3am Secret Life Of The Wombat 4am Alone – Redemption PGR 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 2 6am Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) First Test, Day One. From Eden Park.

7am Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) First Test, Day Two. From Eden Park.

8am Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) First Test, Day Four.

From Eden Park.

9am Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) First Test, Day Five.

From Eden Park.

10am India v Bangladesh (HLS) Third T20.

From Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur.

11am Australia v Pakistan (HLS) Third T20.

From Optus Stadium in Perth.

Noon The Forty-Niners Based on Walter Hadlee’s diary during his playing days which was turned into a book by his son Sir Richard Hadlee, this documentary tells the story of the famous tour of England in 1949.

2pm ICC Cricket 360 2:30 Women’s Big Bash (RPL) Strikers v Stars.

5:30 Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) First Test, Day Five.

From Eden Park.

5:58 L Australia A v Pakistan Tour Match, Day Three.

From Perth Stadium, Perth.

Thursday

1:30 Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) Fifth T20.

2:30 India v Bangladesh (RPL) Third T20.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Big Red Caddy 2/2. 7:30 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 8:20 BattleBots PG Championship Night.

9:10 Expedition Unknown PG Mysteries of Jesus. 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Robson Green’s Australia Adventure PG 11:40 Swamp Murders M While She Lay Sleeping.

12:30 Blood Relatives M Let’s Slay Together. 1:20 American Monster M Stages of Grief.

2:10 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 3pm Alaskan Bush People M 3:50 Gold Rush – White Water PG Dredge Down. 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG 5:40 Robson Green’s Australia Adventure PG 6:35 Deadliest Catch PG Unholy Alliance.

7:30 Deadliest Catch PG Dark Ship. 8:30 Aussie Lobster Men PG 9:25 Jeremy Wade’s Dark Waters PG Jurassic River Beast. 10:15 Moonshiners M Breaking the Laws.

11:05 Naked And Afraid MLC 11:55 How It’s Made PG

Thursday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 1:35 Gold Rush – White Water PG 2:25 Moonshiners M 3:15 Alaskan Bush People M 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid MLC 5:45 Gold Rush – White Water PG

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Sport

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Willows win for first XI

Georges back for Classic

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Triples champs

Wendy Suttie sends a bowl rolling down the green during the Skip-To-It Ashburton Open Triples bowls tournament played at the Ashburton Bowling Club on Sunday. The team of Roger Gutberlet, Mike Quinn and Diane Gutberlet took it out with three wins, 27 ends and 45 points, while Brent Mayson, Di Callaghan and Millie Foggo were second, and Suttie’s team of herself, John Smart and Raymond Suttie, were third. In fourth place was the team of Graeme Bishop, Kelvin O’Connor and Jason O’Connor.

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Why Gatland said no to ABs NZME Warren Gatland has revealed he was asked to apply for the head coach job at the All Blacks but turned down the chance to replace Steve Hansen due to his loyalty to the Chiefs and Lions.

The former Wales coach will take the reins as the Chiefs head coach next season in the first year of a contract that will see him with the club until the end of 2023.

However, he will take time away from the team in 2021 to coach the British and Irish Lions, before returning to the helm.

New Zealand Rugby chairman Brent Impey

said last week that 26 top New Zealand coaches had been approached to apply for the All Blacks head coach role.

Gatland has told the Radio Sport Breakfast he had to say no to New Zealand Rugby.

“I was contacted about that … it was nice to be contacted I politely declined putting my name forward,” Gatland said yesterday.

“I’m a little bit old school … I’d made the commitment to the Chiefs and I’d made the commitment to the Lions, it was important that I carry on with that … honour the commitment I made to those two sides.

“Maybe sometime in the future I may get that opportunity again,” he added.

Gatland said if the chance to coach the All Blacks never arose again, he wouldn’t have any regrets.

“No it’s not something I think about,” he said.

“I’m not one of those people who plan ahead too much … I’m a great believer in what will be will be. For me having been away a long time there are a lot of different challenges and the challenges are to kind of re-integrate myself back into New Zeland rugby.

“If you are successful other opportunities will come along. It was time for me to make a decision to leave Wales and the northern hemisphere and come back to New Zealand and I’m excited by that,” Gatland said.

Blair Orange finally claims a New Zealand Cup

Warren Gatland

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