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Married... with Children spin-off?

A Married... with Children spin-off is reportedly in the works. More than 17 years after the US sitcom finished its run, the Sony Pictures Television is taking out a pitch for a new series based on David Faustino’s character Bud Bundy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s unclear at this stage if any other original cast members would be involved in the potential spin-off, and who will write and produce it.

Married... with Children, which followed the dysfunctional Bundy family, was the longestlasting live-action sitcom to air on Fox. It catapulted leads Faustino, Ed O’Neill (Modern Family), Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy) and Christina Applegate to stardom. The cast reunited this week to help celebrate with Sagal, 60, who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday.

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Counting down to the Guardian’s 135th birthday we are looking back at papers from the past

Nine out of 10 New Zealanders believe a “Friday feeling” exists while many spend the last two hours of the working week getting ready for the weekend, a survey has found. Research

by Colmar Brunton has found the average working Kiwi moves into a lower gear at 3.29pm on a Friday, finishes work at 4.04pm and “switches off ” for the weekend an hour later.

The research, commissioned by Mitre 10 and conducted last month, looked at New Zealanders’ habits in the build-up to the weekend. It found people in the Bay of Plenty get the weekend started earlier than anyone else in the country, winding down around 3pm.

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Kiwis begin weekends early

Farm sales were reported in great detail in the Guardian of 1903: The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-Operative Association report having sold, on account of Mr A Thompson, his farm of 257 acres at Waterton, to Mr Walter Timms, at a satisfactory price.

Goldblum has babies on the brain Newly-engaged actor Jeff Goldblum is so keen to become a dad at 61 he has already started picking out baby names. The Jurassic Park star, who fronts his own jazz band, proposed to his actress/gymnast girlfriend Emilie Livingston in July and he’s already making family plans.

During an appearance on US talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers this week, he said, “I’m looking for names for babies, possible babies.

Well, it (becoming a dad) may (happen)... It probably jinxes it to talk about it, but I like thinking of names and Goldblum is such a kind of particular, challenging name, sound-wise. “I have two names... Coda ... Coda Goldblum, it’s a musical term ... the other one is Mingus...(after) Charles Mingus, who was a wonderful jazz player.”

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Killer’s portrait ‘distasteful A portrait of a convicted husband-killer deemed one of the 49 top works entered for a national art award has been dubbed “distasteful” by the victim’s sister. The artwork, showing Christchurch murderer Helen Milner – dubbed the Black Widow – is on display at the Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland.

The family of the killer’s victim say the piece “idolises” the woman who poisoned husband Philip Nesbit in 2009, and her son has questioned its validity. Black Widow

by Wanganui artist Mark Rayner is described as “hand hooked rug wool on rug canvas” and was judged one of the top 49 of 524 entries for the annual Wallace Art Awards.

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Hinds School pupils Adrian Serrano, Sophie Wilson, Finley Fulton, Ryan Watt, Blake Clark-Torrance and Guy Ward put their odd shoes forward yesterday to raise money for Camp Quality, a camp for children living with cancer.

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■ WINZ TRIPLE SHOOTING

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Police say an intensive search of the Ashburton River has uncovered a number of items of interest to the investigation into last week’s Ashburton shooting tragedy.

The police team investigating last week’s shooting at the Ashburton Work and Income (Winz) office, which claimed the lives of Peg Noble and Leigh Cleveland, and left Lindy Curtis injured, yesterday announced they’d completed their intensive underwater and river bank search of the Ashburton River.

Police divers from Wellington, specialist police search teams, police firearms dog handlers, dogs and Land Search and Rescue (SAR) personnel.

They confirmed a number of

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■ ODD SHOE DAY

By Erin TaskEr

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items of interest to the investigation had been located, and although they would not elaborate further on what those items were, the additional firearm and ammunition they were looking for were not among them.

They’re still asking people to keep an eye out for a potential second firearm and additional ammunition.

Another thing they are still looking for is a 1985 model white Mitsubishi Mirage GLX five-door hatch.

Police believe the man they arrested in relation to the shootings – Russell John Tully – had the vehicle in his possession August 5 and 6 this year, but its current whereabouts is not known.

While the river area search was now complete and police

said they wanted to thank everyone who stayed away from the Ashburton River area while the extensive search took place, they were also asking people to continue to keep an eye out for any items which could have belonged to Tully. That includes the additional firearm and ammunition, but if people do come across it they’re asked not to pick it up. They’re asked to mark the area and call police in Ashburton immediately.

If any items are found, or anyone thinks they may have information which could help in locating the car police are seeking, people can call Ashburton Police on 03 307 8400.

Information can also be provided anonymously to the organisation Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Hinds School was just one of the schools in the district to get behind the nationwide Camp Quality Odd Shoe Day Appeal.

Camp Quality camps, for children living with cancer, were held once a year at different locations throughout the country.

The camp programmes got the children to compete in challenges in a fun, friendly environment.

They allowed the children to be kids, get a sense of normality and independence, and focus on the positive aspects of their lives.

Donations can be made online or at any BNZ store, just mention the Camp Quality Odd Shoe Day Appeal.

Winz not returning to scene of shooting

By Erin TaskEr

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Ashburton’s Work and Income staff will not be returning to work at the scene of last week’s shootings which claimed the lives of two of their staff members.

When he visited Ashburton to attend Thursday’s memorial service to the two women who died – Peg Noble and Leigh Cleveland – Prime Minister John Key said Ashburton staff would not return to work at the site, and that was confirmed later by the chief executive of Work and Income, Brendon Boyle.

“We’re looking - now we’re trying to organise something as an interim site in Ashburton, but beyond that we’ll be looking to see in the medium to long

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term what sort of an alternative premise we can get, but we will not be doing business out of that site,” Mr Boyle said.

But a Winz spokesperson said they were unable to answer questions on what the future held for the Cass Street site – known as the Ashburton Community Link building.

Lindy Curtis, the third woman it’s alleged Russell John Tully shot when he entered the Ashburton Winz office just before 10am on September 1, is making good progress in her recovery, according to Mr Boyle.

The building also housed Child, Youth and Family (CYF) and anyone needing Winz or CYF for now is asked to call them on 0800 552 002 (for Winz) and 0800 88 99 00 (for CYF).

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■ BLACK GRASS CONTAMINATION

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Germination still a risk Black grass remains a threat to the Mid Canterbury economy this summer following a roadside spill last year, and farmers are being warned to remain on alert.

They’re being urged to be vigilant in checking for black grass this season, despite a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) response team failing to find any sign of black grass last season.

Federated Farmers grain and seed section Mid Canterbury chair David Clark said the danger remained.

“We are not out of the woods yet as we are advised that the second year is the highest risk for germination and establish-

ment,” Mr Clark said.

So they were now moving into the second year of a multi-year response to the spillage of a shipment of contaminated black grass seed, while it was being moved between Ashburton and Methven in July last year.

“Black grass is an invasive plant that affects winter grains in Europe and the United Kingdom, and is proving to be one of the toughest weeds to control on European and United Kingdom cropping farms.

“Our arable farmers are world leaders and in Mid Canterbury. They are at the centre of ensuring this threat doesn’t become a reality. It is para-

mount we maintain a biosecurity system that ensures harmful pests and diseases are kept out of New Zealand.”

It was estimated that the direct sales from arable production were $868 million in 2011, in a report commissioned by the Arable Foods Industry Council in 2012.

The indirect impact from suppliers to arable producers brought arable sales up to $2.2 billion, with a total contribution to GDP at approximately $959 million.

“A biosecurity breach of any magnitude could seriously impede our ability to remain a productive part of the New Zealand economy, and is why

MPI and industry partners have been working together to mitigate this biosecurity risk,” Mr Clark said.

“It is encouraging that the range of surveillance and control options didn’t find any black grass last season, and Federated Farmers continues to support MPI and farmers in their response.

Federated Farmers urges the public and farmers to remain alert to any signs of black grass along the spillage route and report their concerns to MPI’s pest and disease hotline 0800 80 99 66.

Information on how to identify black grass is available on the MPI’s website.

■ HISTORIC PLACES MID CANTERBURY

Operations changed

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Methven’s fight to demolish its historic public library may never have happened if new legislation was in use at the time.

Heritage New Zealand southern general manager Rob Hall visited Ashburton this week to attend the annual general meeting of Historic Places Mid Canterbury.

The purpose of his visit was to talk about the new Heritage New Zealand Act which came into effect about 10 weeks ago.

The legislation disestablished branch committees such as Historic Places Mid Canterbury from the national body and gave them autonomy to act independently.

Heritage New Zealand is the former New Zealand Historic Places Trust, which under the

Resource Management Act opposed the demolition of the Methven Public Library, as well as the nearby Methven Historical Society.

Both buildings had been damaged in the Canterbury earthquakes and their community leaders and supporters decided they could not afford to strengthen and insure them.

The Historic Places Trust fought the community’s demolition plans, and the Ashburton District Council appointed a commissioner to oversee a hearing process.

The community won its battle and the buildings were demolished last year.

Mr Hall said the recent changes meant the organisation was not as involved in smaller issues at a local level since the changes.

Attempted abduction Police have released a description of a man they would like to speak to after a possible abduction attempt in Mount Maunganui yesterday morning. A 12-yearold female was delivering newspapers down Bain Street, Mount Maunganui about 11.15am when an unknown male grabbed her by the arm. The young girl managed to break free, and run to a neighbour’s house for help.

The man has been described by police as being of Maori appearance, and in his 50s. - APNZ

Firearms stolen Fourteen firearms have been stolen from a a rural property in Mataura, near Gore. Police were investigating the burglary in which ammunition, a large amount of frozen meat, tools, chainsaws and scuba diving gear were also stolen.

A red 2003 Holden Commodore, registration BQQ793, was also stolen from the address. Police asked anyone with information about the burglary, or who had seen the vehicle, to ring Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Kidnapping arrest A 50-year-old man has been arrested over a kidnapping incident in Whangarei last month.

The man, who has been charged with aggravated robbery and kidnapping, will appear in Whangarei District Court today.

The man allegedly threatened a 33-year-old woman with a knife when she was parked in the Laurie Hall car park. He then allegedly forced her to drive around Whangarei before leaving her and her car in the Town Basin. Police were pleased to have made an arrest, Detective Sergeant Shane Pilmer said. “It has been a very traumatic time for the victim and this result also provides reassurance to the public police will act with urgency.”

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A person has been killed in a quad bike accident on a farm in Timaru yesterday, police say. Emergency services were called around 1.15pm when a man was fally injured while riding a quad bike. No further details were available.

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■ ASHBURTON REAL ESTATE

Agents hope for big thaw

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Ashburton real estate agents will be hoping August was the last month of the winter chill in terms of property sales and listings.

The number of houses sold in the district during the month fell to 33, down from 40 last month and 37 in August 2013.

The median selling price, however was strong, at $305,000, up more than 10 per cent on August last year.

In July, the median price

spiked at $352,000 on the back of the sale of a number of homes in the upper price bracket. June, however, saw prices slum to a median low of $265,000.

Coming off winter, Baileys agent Debbie Boon said there were already signs that the market was turning.

“We’ve had quite a few new properties coming on the market, listing numbers are growing and we’re doing quite a few appraisals.”

Listings were particularly strong at the top end of the

market, but properties were coming forward across the board and were matched with a wide spread of inquiry in terms of price range.

The market was looking pretty positive for the summer, she said.

Nationally, the real estate market was also in pause mode, with industry commentators saying it had been impacted by both the end of winter and a pending election.

Nationally the median price sits at $420,000, up $4000 on July and $30,000 on August

last year.

Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) Chief Executive Helen O’Sullivan believes the market is “idling”.

The upcoming election was not the only factor however, as August was the tenth consecutive month of sales volumes being below the prior year’s levels, she said.

Canterbury and Auckland continued to drive the increase in national median price. Canterbury also led the way in the shortest number of days to sell at 31.

Two Ashburton law practices become one Two Ashburton law firms are about to become one.

From October 1 Tavendale and Partners and Cooney, Silva, Evatt will join forces, creating a 25 strong legal and support team specialising in agri-business and the commercial sector.

Cooney, Silva, Evatt is one of the Ashburton District’s oldest law firms, with one of its early partners the late Laurence Cooney building a reputation across Canterbury. He was also a Notary Public and the district’s coroner.

Tavendale and partners director Mark Tavendale said the two firms shared similar values, philosophy and industry focus, which provided a perfect platform for the merger.

“The combined expertise this partnership will bring to the Mid Canterbury region will be of strategic importance to our clients,” Mr Tavendale said.

Both firms have a strong agri-business base across Canterbury and the merger effectively brings together the two biggest players in that sector,

Familiar faces working together, directors of the new Tavendale and Partners legal firm from left Tom Evatt, Mark Tavendale, Andrew Leete and Tim Silva.

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Cooney, Silva, Evatt director Tim Silva said.

“Our evaluation of the benefits of joining forces has highlighted our respective and complementary capabilities and strengths,” Mr Silva said.

“A period of significant growth has prompted us to carefully consider the best way

to continue delivery of exceptional service in the strong traditions of our firm, but also reflecting the environment is becoming increasingly sophisticated and specialised.

“Accordingly, we sought to partner with a firm with the range and depth of experience needed to deliver all of the core

services that our clients need and deserve, while allowing us to build on our substantial Mid Canterbury agribusiness and commercial practice.”

The 25 strong merged firm will trade under the Tavendale and Partners brand from the Cooney, Silva, Evatt premises on Tancred Street.

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Carr Group moves into irrigation as T-L Irrigation distributor Ten new irrigation jobs have been created across Canterbury and Central Otago following the appointment of Ashburton-based New Zealand Agricultural Machinery Group Ltd (NZAMG) as a T-L Irrigation distributor for New Zealand.

Six people were employed last month and four more positions are currently under recruitment putting the new T-L Irrigation distributor on track for the start of the irrigation season, NZAMG’s national sales manager Matthew Keen said.

“By later next month we expect to be fully operational with parts in the country and fullystaffed with teams ready to assist clients in both regions.”

Brendan Hawes has been appointed national sales manager and starts work later this month from NZAMG’s Ashburton office. He comes to the role after nine years experience as an irrigation designer, specialising in the design and construction of large scale irrigation distribution networks.

Adding irrigation equipment, parts and service to NZAMG is a natural evolution for the Carr Group-owned business.

Like the Carr Group, the Nebraskan-based T-L Irrigation is a family-owned business with a strong focus on after-sales service and continuing to innovate to service the agricultural industry.

“From one irrigation product 59 years ago, T-L Irrigation now distributes pivot and lateral irrigation equipment through 250 dealers worldwide in 50 countries,” Mr Keen said.

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■ BROWN AFFAIR

Batch of papers released

BY BERNARD ORSMAN The Auckland Council has just released a batch of documents from around the time of Auckland Mayor Len Brown’s affair with council adviser Bevan Chuang.

The documents have been released under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act. The material primarily relates to a study trip Mr Brown

took to China and Hong Kong in November 2011.

Ms Chuang did not join Mr Brown on the trip.

Mr Brown had a two-year affair with Ms Chuang in his first term as mayor of the Super City.

Details of the affair were made public on Cameron Slater’s WhaleOil blog three days after he was re-elected mayor for a second term on October 12 last year.

Mr Brown rejected calls to resign and stayed on as mayor.

A report by EY (formerly Ernst & Young) found that he failed to declare more than $39,000 in free hotel rooms and upgrades but cleared him of using council resources or giving preferential treatment in connection to the affair.

Earlier papers released under the Official Information Act in May uncovered a large number of telephone calls and text

messages the mayor made to five unidentified numbers.

The papers showed that of the 25 telephone numbers with the highest frequency of calls and text messages, six could not be attributed by the council to a person or council.

Council telco analyst Tracy Findlay did recognise one of the six telephone numbers as that of a female member of the mayoral team.

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In brief Murder trial The woman accused of murdering Ashburton man Cory James Protos will face a two week trial in April.

Zariah Jae Samson, 22, is charged with murdering 30-year-old Protos in Christchurch on April 27 and her trial was set down for two weeks, starting April 13, when she made a brief appearance at a pre-trial call-over in the High Court in Christchurch yesterday. Samson denies murdering Protos, who lived in Christchurch, but grew up in Ashburton and attended Ashburton College. At the time of his death, police alleged Protos was killed at a central Christchurch address but his body was moved to a home in Bryndwr, where Samson lived. It was there that his body was discovered.

Compost workshop A free weekend workshop to unravel the mysteries of food composting is being held on Monday at the Eco Education Centre at Mastagard Recycling Centre. The hands-on session will show gardeners how to make compost from food waste and also how to make a raised bed garden.

There will also be an opportunity to look at various worm farms, Bokashi and compost bins The workshop will be held on Monday between 1pm and 2pm

Propogation class Expert propagator Elizabeth Brown will be sharing her skills on Monday night in a plant propogation workshop. The NZ Soil and Health evening will be held in the Hub building on West Street beside NZ Biograins. People attending are asked to bring small seed trays and containers as well as some seeds or plants. The evening starts at 7pm.

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■ HAMPSTEAD SCHOOL

College students’ teaching skills put to test Ashburton College pupils Ella Sinclair, Sophie Worsfold and Jordyn Love were teaching Hampstead School pupils yesterday as part of their Year 12 Physical Education, sports

leadership programme NCEA Assessment.

There were 28 Year 12 students under assessment at Hampstead School doing a variety of different sports.

Another 20 would be assessed at St Joseph’s School on Wednesday.

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In their evaluation, they earned NCEA credits and were assessed on their teaching skills and communication.

School for sale The Trade Me listing for a Buller school has had over 60,000 views since it was listed on the site in early July. The Waimangaroa School has officially been on the market since April this year.

It closed in January last year when the number of enrolled students dropped to just 13. Land Information New Zealand acting group manager of Crown property Sharyn Pilbrow said there were two parties currently interested in the school.

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Environment Canterbury in Ashburton Volunteers spring into action with 1000 plants A clear spring day saw over 60 volunteers recently plant close to 1000 native plants at the Harris Scientific Reserve in Lovetts Rd, near Tinwald.

Planting organiser Edith Smith of the Ashburton Community Conservation Trust, which manages the reserve, said seedlings planted included kanuka propagated from one of the last remaining stands of dryland kanuka in Canterbury, protected in the reserve.

A $5320 Immediate Steps grant from the Canterbury Water Management Strategy Ashburton Zone Committee paid for propagation of the kowhai seedlings, sourced from a Rakaia River terrace.

Among other seedlings specially grown for the planting day were rare Olearia bullata, discovered in a hedge at Lagmhor, and a yetto-be named Melicytus commonly known as “porcupine bush”.

The next step would be starting to plant a 2-hectare bare paddock alongside the planted area, Mrs Smith said.

Farmers Arthur and Shirley Harris placed a QEII conservation covenant on the kanuka stand in 1988. Ashburton District Council later bought the farm and leased the 11-hectare Harris Reserve to the Community Conservation Trust.

Shirley Harris said her husband Arthur, who died earlier this year, was an enthusiastic member of the Conservation Trust and the kowhai planting realised his dream of attracting keruru to the site.

Immediate Steps has allocated $500,000 to each of 10 Canterbury water management zones over five years, to support projects protecting and enhancing native biodiversity and freshwater habitats.

For information on Immediate Steps funding, contact the Environment Canterbury Biodiversity Team on 0800 324 636.

For information about the reserve, contact Edith Smith on 03 308 4440.

Ashburton District Council grew the kanuka seed and the rest of the plants were propagated in the Ashburton Forest & Bird nursery.

“The large-scale planting continued what was proving a good year for the reserve,” Mrs Smith said. “As well as gaining Immediate Steps funding, the trust learned that support from the Living Legends project, kicked off in 2011 to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, had been extended for another three years.”

A part-time caretaker was employed, for the first time, to organise volunteers and make sure plants were watered and weeds removed.

Almost all plants had survived in recent years, despite the dry and infertile site, Mrs Smith said. “This was due to regular watering, especially during the plants’ first summer since Living Legends donated storage tanks and hoses. This makes watering easy and accurate, compared with lugging buckets of water.”

Ready to plant: Betty Smith, left, and Val Clemens of the Ashburton Community Conservation Trust with kanuka and kowhai seedlings planted at the Harris Scientific Reserve

Summer is on its way – are you water-safe?

Now is a great time to check that you have everything you need for the impending summer boating season. Planning and preparation is needed before you take to the water at any time of the year.

Check that your boat is well-maintained: Having a regular maintenance and equipment check of everything on board is vital to ensuring a safe day on the water. Check the battery, radio equipment, lifejackets and their gas cylinders.

A reminder to landowners on riverbed works Landowners are being reminded that carrying out unauthorised works in riverbeds can result in convictions or costly fines.

Corrosion – the silent assassin: Be sure to keep up with regular corrosion checks. Although the anti-corrosion sprays available are very good, it also pays to check all controls and mechanical and electrical connections on a regular basis. Waterproof grease is definitely your friend here!

Old fuel is bad fuel: Storing fuel over the winter is likely to take it well beyond the use by date. Be sure to dispose of it cleanly and safely. Do not tip it down the drain.

Landowners or land managers who are in doubt about consent requirements for river bed works should contact Environment Canterbury before commencing any work to ensure that they are not contravening the law and exposing themselves to prosecution and potential fines.

Over the past year several landowners were prosecuted and found guilty of removing and damaging flood protection vegetation in river beds. The removal of flood protection has the potential to adversely affect the flow and course of the river and to affect downstream neighbouring properties by exposing them to flood risk. Resource consents may be required for work within the river bed.

Gap fillers: Mary Ralston of Methven, left, and Joyce Giller of Ashburton place seedlings ready for planting

Nesting-bird protection focuses on long-term predator control The twelfth consecutive year of an operation to help protect two of New Zealand`s rare native river birds starts in mid-September in the Ashburton District with the co-operation of adjacent landowners.

The work beginning this month is critical to ensure fewer predators are on the ground when the birds are nesting in spring/ early summer.

Environment Canterbury`s control operation targeting animal predators in two sections of the Ashburton River/Hakatere will help protect populations of wrybill and black-fronted tern when they are at their most vulnerable – in the breeding season.

Both birds are classified as endangered with numbers declining due to loss of habitat, human disturbance and predation by introduced mammal pests.

Environment Canterbury`s Southern Biosecurity Team Leader, Brent Glentworth, says that while expectations of bird recovery is high, these operations are not a quick fix. “It takes many years to allow breeding birds to boost numbers naturally and encourage other birds back into areas where they have been largely absent for years,” he said.

Signs will be placed at entry points to control locations advising what is taking place, and the public are reminded to keep dogs under tight control in these areas.

We now have the flood protection and drainage bylaw that is separate to the Resource Management Act. The Bylaw applies to all rivers, drains and floodways where the Canterbury Regional Council has established rating districts for drainage and flood control schemes and will provide for the integrity and effective operation of flood protection and flood control works owned or controlled by the regional council.

These works include drains, floodways, flood protection vegetation, stopbanks and other structures that help protect people and property from the natural hazards of flooding and erosion, and the effects of poor drainage.

To find out whether you need a consent for riverbed activities phone Environment Canterbury on 0800 324 636.

Wrybills need protection from predators during their nesting season

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Saturday, September 13, 2014

■ CARTERTON

Church brassed off by theft

By Erin Kavanagh-hall A “safe haven” for the Carterton community has been targeted by thieves – with one of its most beloved historic relics going missing.

St Mary’s Carterton parishioners are praying for the safe return of its 152cm high brass candle holder, which was removed from the King St church last weekend.

Church lay pastoral leader Sharron Penny said the candlestick – which usually held the St Mary’s blessed Paschal (Easter) candle – had been in the church for “generations” and was an important part of the church’s liturgy and heritage.

Ms Penney is appealing to the community to keep their eyes peeled – but fears the can-

dle holder may be on its way to the scrap-metal yard.

“I would hope they wouldn’t take it to a metal dealer, and that the dealer wouldn’t accept something like this,” she said.

“But, there’s some desperate people out there who are after a bit of money.

“Unless someone’s used it to decorate their house.

“I just hope it’s still intact.”

Ms Penney said the candlestick – with the Easter candle – was used at a funeral service on Friday, September 5.

She replaced the candle on the Saturday morning, but when congregation members arrived to set up for Mass that evening, the candlestick was gone.

“At Mass, there was just a small candle holder on the altar, which I thought was odd.

“I asked the ladies who set up, and they said they couldn’t find it anywhere. “It’s just completely gone.”

Ms Penney said the church was left open that Saturday, as usual, so residents could use the space to pray and meditate.

“I believe a church should always be open: it’s a safe haven from the rest of the world.

“It’s very disappointing – you open your church to the community, and people steal from you.

“It makes me sad.”

This is not the first time St Mary’s has been targeted – three years ago, copper piping and the Easter bell in the courtyard were taken from the church.

Around the same time, the bell at the Carterton Fire Station also went missing, and

was later recovered “in bits and pieces”. The St Mary’s bell was never found.

Ms Penney has reported the theft to the Carterton Police, and is appealing to the community to contact her if they see anything suspicious outside the church on the weekend in question.

“The candle holder is big and very heavy,” she said.

“They would have had to have taken it out the front doors and on to the street, and I can’t imagine it would have been easy to get into a car.

“Someone must have seen something.”

The church community just wanted the candle holder back.

“If you took it, and you just come back in and return it, we don’t care – as long as we get it back.”

- APNZ

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Mt Somers Springburn School pupil Eddie Millichamp delivers his speech Factory Farming at the Year 5/6 Ashburton Plains Rotary Speech Competition this week at the Ashburton Club and MSA. Eddie finished in third place.

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■ ASHBURTON PLAINS ROTARY

Speech writing, delivery skills under spotlight

By Toni Williams

Toni.w@Theguardian.co.nz

Competition was tough at the recent Ashburton Plains Rotary Speech Competition with all seven competitors showing good technical ability.

However, the Year 5/6 competition was eventually won by Ashburton Christian School

pupil Hannah Kuipers and her speech Electronic Games.

Ashburton Borough School’s Grace Richan (Marketing my Brother) was second and Mt Somers Springburn School pupil Eddie Millichamp (Factory Farming) was third.

Ashburton Plains Rotary Speech Competition co-ordina-

tor Ray King said the standard of the speakers – dominated by girls -- was “very high making the adjudicators’ decision difficult”. There were six girls and one boy in the age group final.

“All the speakers were very good technically in their approach to their address,” Mr King said.

The finalists had been whittled down from 100 pupils that had taken part from throughout the district.

Mr King said there was also an Honour Roll presentation made to Victoria Binnie, from Netherby School for her leadership qualities within the school.

Battle of Britain church service

By Toni Williams

Toni.w@Theguardian.co.nz

The Battle of Britain Sunday will be commemorated at a special church service at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church this weekend.

The Ashburton Air Training Corp (ATC) will be on parade at the service.

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church ministry assistant Dellwyn Moylan said the service was open to anyone but people who had served, or were serving in the Air Force, or were of British decent might be especially interested.

The Battle of Britain Sunday commemorated the great victory won by the Royal Air Force, which saved Britain from invasion in 1940.

From early July of that year through until October British troops were bombarded in attacks on Britain soil, designed to “draw the Air Force into battle and wear down its strength”.

The attacks reached their climax on September 15.

Sir Winston Churchill called it “one of the decisive battles of the war”, Ms Moylan said.

She said the church was holding the service as part of its community of faith.

The parish was approached last year by ATC to hold a service to mark the importance and significance of the occasion.

“We seek to immerse ourselves in the life of this community and the lives of the people in our community,” she said.

The commemoration of the Battle of Britain will take place at the regular service on worship.

It starts at 10am.

The theme for the service is Remembering the Story, and during the service The Act of Remembrance will include the Ode to the Fallen, Poem: High Flight written by Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee No 412 squadron, RCAF who was killed on December 11, 1941.

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■ ASHBURTON CIVIC SERVICE

Bishop here in supporting role She was off-duty, but Anglican Bishop of Christchurch Victoria Matthews said she felt compelled to come to Ashburton on Thursday to show her support for the community and families of the Work and Income shootings.

Community events after a tragedy were an important way of helping people work through their grief and start healing, Ms Matthews said.

An outpouring of community grief and community support was healthy and showed a healthy community, she said.

“It’s when you take something like this for granted, when it becomes just one more murder, one more act of violence that there is something very wrong.

“When there is a sense of disbelief, of grief of outrage, it shows you have a community that has a heart.”

Among the many things that people remembered about tragic events there were always two that stood out. One

Victoria Matthews, Anglican Bishop of Christchurch, showing her support for the families of the Winz shooting victims.

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of those was the moment frozen in time of where they were when something happened and the other was the times when a

community came together and stood together to show its support, she said.

At the civic service, her role

was simply to become part of a community that stood together, showing solidarity, Ms Matthews said.

■ ASHBURTON CAFE

Cafe’s award win tinged with sadness

By Erin TaskEr

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

It’s been an unusual couple of weeks for the owners of Ashburton’s Robert Harris Café.

One minute they’re learning they’ve won the title of the chain’s franchisees of the year for the second year running; the next they’re finding out the woman they purchased the café from has been shot.

That woman was Lindy Curtis – the survivor of last week’s Work and Income shootings in Ashburton, which claimed the lives of two of her co-workers.

Ms Curtis opened the Ashburton Robert Harris Café in 2007 and two-and-a-half years ago she sold to current owners Graeme and Fiona Stirling.

With the tragedy at the forefront of their minds, the decision was made to hold off making a big public announcement about the Stirlings’ win. But now, the news is out.

The Stirlings, who live in Rolleston and have been in the café game for about 10 years, said being recognised as the best in the country for the second year running was as much about their team, as it was about them.

They have about 15 staff on their books and to win the award, every part of their business went under the mi-

Part of the award-winning team at Robert Harris Ashburton (from left) owners Graeme and Fiona Stirling, James Woods, Ekta Rani, Ann Hylands, Emma Boyens (front) and Amelia Ryan.

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croscope, meaning everyone played a part.

The award was given out at the recent Robert Harris Café Franchise Awards, which bring New Zealand’s 45 cafes together, in Queenstown and the Stirlings didn’t know they were up for the prize until they were announced as nominees.

Just moments earlier they’d

been told what the prize was, and it was even better than the year before’s mystery trip and $5000 cash.

For winning franchisee of the year, the Stirlings took away a trip for two to Italy, which they plan to take next summer. They also took home the award for sales growth.

“The award win hasn’t re-

ally sunk in yet. Ashburton is a very tight-knit community.

I think this award reflects our staff ’s commitment to giving Ashburton locals excellent service every single day,” Mrs Stirling said.

“We have never been to Italy before so we are very excited to go and experience the Italian coffee culture.”

Scratch hoax scams almost $4 million The public is being warned against a scratch and win hoax which has scammed more than 150 victims out of almost $4 million.

Police said that despite publicity and warnings against the scam since 2013, they were concerned that people were continuing to send money through.

The scam was simple, victims received a travel brochure along with two scratch and win tickets.

One of the tickets showed the recipient had ‘won’ second prize, which was usually somewhere between US$160,000 and US$175,000.

The victims were then put in touch with the prize sponsor and, once verifying they are the ‘winner’ are asked to pay upfront fees such as, entertainment tax, Hong Kong government taxes, court costs, transaction insurances and fees to join travel and investment groups.

Police said they are told many of these fees are refundable, and often victims are losing $20,000 to $30,000 at a time.

Scammers continued to ask victims for money, until they ran out or refused to pay any more.

Police believed scammers were creating new mail-outs two or three times a month, which were sent all over the country.

The scammers constantly re-branded their ‘product’ by changing the travel companies names.

Police said some recent names included Asia Star Holidays, Moonspirit Paradise Tours, Panmarina Travel, Royal Hibiscus Tours and Blue Oasis Travel Agency.

These are backed up by seemingly plausible websites.

Many New Zealanders were falling for these types of scams, making it very profitable for the offenders, said Detective Senior Sergeant Aaron Pascoe.

“Victims are promised ‘guaranteed’ refunds will be paid in 45 days - but they never are.

“These people are in the business of taking money, not giving it back.”

Mr Pascoe said despite being warned by police some victims have refused to accept advice and have continued sending money.

“Let us be clear, there is no prize and any money sent to these offenders is gone forever,” Mr Pascoe said.

“We have had people who, months after we have contacted them, have continued to send one last payment to release their ‘winnings’, which they never receive. We need people to wise up.”

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lmost overnight, Ashburton’s new stadium and aquatic centre has gone from a sprawling building site to take on its final shape and form.

The Riverside site is a hive of activity as contractors race to meet the March 4 completion target. It’s clear they’re winning.

The complex is huge, what you see from River Terrace doesn’t really paint the real picture of its size, says sports facility manager Steve Prescott.

“It’s not until you get in here you realise how vast it is,” he said.

Walking into the four-court stadium area you are overwhelmed by the area. Unlike some complexes where courts are crammed together and there is little room for spectators, the

In less than six months As taking shape, reporter Sue EA Networks centre is spacious.

Adjoining the indoor courts there will be additional outdoor courts and when user demand exceeds the ability of the stadium to cope, these two can be covered. That, Mr Prescott says, will be a relatively simple job – unbolt the end wall, move it out, extend the roof and fill in the remaining two walls.

Ask him how long he thinks it will take until court space maxes out and he simply grins.

“We’re getting a lot of interest in booking space,” is all he’ll say.

On one side of the court area

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shburton’s long awaited stadium and aquatic complex, the EA Networks Centre will be completed. With the building rapidly ue Newman took a walk through the complex with sports facility manager Steve Prescott. there is access to gym rooms and on the other there will be permanent seating with space to move additional seating courtside for big matches.

The player gym areas lead through into the gym proper which is also accessed from the main public area of the centre. Again, space is generous, a light-filled main room with a spin-room off to the side.

Through the reception and public areas, light pours in from massive north-facing windows.

Again the sheer scale of this area is impressive.

And that’s just the beginning.

While the aquatic centre is still a work in progress, each of the four pools in the complex are well down the track to completion. The learn-to-swim pool is tiled, the hydrotherapy pool partially tiled; the children’s pool and lazy river are taking shape and the main pool is a mass of steel.

Across the whole area, light pours in from roof to floor windows and the high stud will clearly go a long way towards keeping the atmosphere clear and clean.

For Mr Prescott, managing a complex that’s he’s watching

grow from the ground up is like living a dream.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, being part of something you’re watching develop,” he said.

In the centre is sports house, a space designed to house the administration arm of a range of sporting codes. Already there is interest across the district in becoming part of this, Mr Prescott said.

While there will inevitably be one or two anchor tenants who will be resident full time, there will be many other smaller sports groups that will require

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space for just a few hours a week or month and they’ll probably hot desk with one another, he said.

At the moment his life is a juggling act. On one hand he’s the man on the spot as the complex is completed and on the other he’s employing staff and fielding calls of interest in court time and sports house space.

And then there’s the gym to fit out and further down the track the running of the café will have to be decided.

As manager of the complex, Mr Prescott said he’s also become its PR arm, increasingly

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being asked to speak to community groups about the centre and what it will offer the community.

The feedback was all positive, he said.

One thing he’s adamant about, that’s a non-negotiable, is that it will be a place for all people of all ages, able bodied and less able.

“Particularly in the pool areas, people need to know there will be plenty of room for the public.

A facility like this has to be accessible for every single person in our community, everyone should have the right and the ability to use it.”

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NZ GENERAL ELECTION 2014

‘A recipe for disaster’

BY BRENDAN MANNING

An Act party policy that would allow shopkeepers to arm themselves against violent robberies is a “recipe for disaster” the Prime Minister says.

Announcing Act’s law and order policy yesterday, party leader Jamie Whyte said shopkeepers, especially those in Auckland, were subject to increasingly violent robberies.

“Criminals are well aware that shopkeepers are defenceless and are taking advantage of this in brutal robberies. What Act proposes here should reassure the shopkeepers of New Zealand.

“Act says it will not be illegal for a shopkeeper to keep a weapon in their own shop.”

The possibility that a shopkeeper was armed would deter would-be offenders, Dr Whyte said.

The party would also

strengthen laws relating to selfdefence and introduce a dedicated home invasion law.

Dr Whyte said he had no view on what weapons shopkeepers should arm themselves with but believed firearms were appropriate, “if they felt that there was sufficient threat”.

The idea was dismissed by Prime Minister John Key yesterday.

“The reason I think it’s a bad idea is that firstly you’d be putting weapons in the hands of people that are not trained,” he said.

“Those weapons could be used [against] the very shopkeepers themselves. It’s a recipe for disaster.”

New Zealand Association of Convenience Stores chairman Roger Bull said the association did not support shopkeepers arming themselves.

“Our policy has always been

if there’s a robbery, you comply with the instructions of the person and you do not try to do anything quick or sudden because you don’t know the mental state [of the offender].”

Currently under the Crimes Act, “Everyone is justified in using, in the defence of himself or herself or another, such force as, in the circumstances as he or she believes them to be, it is reasonable to use”.

Police Association president Greg O’Connor said introducing “stand your ground-type laws” would benefit criminals more than law-abiding citizens.

“The law is not that much of an ass, nobody in New Zealand is going to be convicted of an offence where it is quite clear that they were acting in selfdefence.

“That doesn’t happen and it’s not going to happen.

“Once dairy owners start

POLITICAL PULSE Today’s Political Pulse features representatives at Ashburton’s Red Cross opportunity shop on Burnett Street. Reporter Susan Sandys asked – What do you see as the most important issue for Mid Canterbury leading into the election?

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Health. Mrs Beach hoped Ashburton Hospital had a strong future, but believed it needed more resources. It was sad that politicians leading into the election were playing dirty, taking attention away from the real issues which mattered. She was looking forward to a health hub being established in the town.

Affordable housing.

Mrs Johnston wanted to see Government put some effort into making housing more affordable.

It was difficult for young people today to get into their first homes, due to rising property prices.

“How do you save up the 20 per cent deposit needed?”

Health. Some years ago Miss Hooper had to have emergency surgery at Ashburton Hospital when her appendix burst, and she would like to know how much need there is in Mid Canterbury for the return of this service. The hospital was an important facility for the district, with Christchurch over one hour’s drive away.

having firearms, major issues [arise] because I don’t think New Zealanders are ready for a dairy owner to shoot a shoplifter, but that’s what will end up happening.”

Labour leader David Cunliffe dismissed the policy as “an extreme Tea Party-type policy” that had no place in New Zealand society. “We don’t want vigilantes, we want a police force we can rely on.”

Auckland barrister Gary Gotlieb said current self-defence legislation was sufficient and it was questionable that such a “populist” policy was coming out a week before the election.

Sensible Sentencing Trust spokeswoman Ruth Money said the organisation supported a review of current self-defence legislation but didn’t want to see “a crazy increase of firearms behind every counter”.

- APNZ

Maori Party ruled out

BY CLAIRE TREVETT Labour leader David Cunliffe is refusing to reveal who made the decision to rule the Maori Party out of a Labour government after several Labour MPs confirmed the decision had taken them by surprise.

Mr Cunliffe said it was a “collective decision”but would not say who had made it or if his front bench or campaign committee had known he intended to make that decision.

“We don’t talk about our internal processes like that. We are very comfortable with the position we’ve got. We’ve had good collective discussions about it but it’s not for me to go into the internal processes.”

He said no MPs had raised concerns with him, Labour’s Maori caucus were happy with it and he stood by the decision.

“What’s important is that the public deserve some certainty about the shape of the future Government.” Mr Cunliffe has said that will only include the Green Party and NZ First – and ruled out any government roles for the Maori Party and Internet Mana although he would ‘talk’ to them.

Several senior MPs, including some frontbench MPs, said they did not know about it until Mr Cunliffe said it on Newstalk ZB last week.

It was also not run past the campaign committee before Mr Cunliffe announced it.

- APNZ

Re-election ‘a certainty’

BY ISAAC DAVISON New Zealand First leader Winston Peters was in a buoyant mood as he returned to his old stamping ground on Thursday, boasting that his re-election was now beyond doubt.

Despite steady rain, about 200 people turned up for a public rally in Tauranga’s Red Square, the location of Mr Peters’ biggest meetings in the electorate he held for 21 years.

His half-hour speech covered familiar territory as he railed against foreign ownership, increased immigration, and high debt.

But he was mostly in a relaxed mood, apparently because of his party’s momentum in the polls.

Introducing his party’s candidates in the audience, he said: “Needless to say all of us will be in Parliament very shortly.”

After the speech, Rotorua candidate Fletcher Tabuteau admitted he had already begun looking at apartments in Wellington. Ranked fourth on the New Zealand First list, he appears likely to enter Parliament for the first time.

Tauranga candidate and city councillor Clayton Mitchell could join him.

Mr Peters said that along with these new faces, his party list had “a balance of experience _ not people who don’t know where the parliamentary toilets are”.

Asked about his campaign strategy, Mr Peters said his party had struck a chord by avoiding “the dirt and grubby stuff ” and by visiting the parts of New Zealand that “never saw any politicians at all”.

He again dismissed any talk of coalitions with a wave of his hand, saying it was too early to make commitments.

The biggest cheers from the mostly grey-haired crowd followed his promises of restricting foreign land sales and wringing maximum value out of New Zealand’s primary industries.

If New Zealand doesn’t add value, guess who will? he asked the crowd.

“China,” the audience responded in unison.

Long-time supporter Valerie Scott braved the rain and sat in the front row, holding an umbrella close to her face.

“I’ve voted for him every time.

I still think he’s a great man,” she said.

“I came to listen but I don’t really need to. He’s had the same facts, the same schedule, every time. I know what he stands for.”

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NZ First rising; Labour holding New Zealand First is on the rise and seems assured of returning to Parliament in bigger numbers, according to the latest Herald-DigiPoll survey.

And Labour appears to have arrested its steady decline.

National has dropped below 50 per cent for the first time in DigiPoll surveys this year and would need partners to govern.

With eight days to go to the election, it could turn out to be a tighter race than the past few weeks have suggested.

“It just shows you how tight the race is going to be, “ Prime Minister John Key said last night.

New Zealand First is on 8.1 per cent, up by two points. That would bring in 10 MPs including former MP Ron Mark.

That’s two more MPs than it got in the last election.

New Zealand First would not hold the balance of power under this poll scenario because National could form a bare majority with just one of its support partners (Act, United Future or the Maori Party) or a comfortable one with all three of them, assuming they are returned.

Labour is up slightly to 24.6 per cent. It is the first time in the past six DigiPoll surveys that it has not declined. However, Labour would not be able to form a Government even if it combined with the Greens, New Zealand First, Internet-Mana and the Maori Party.

Their combined vote would be 59 when a majority in a 122seat Parliament would be 62.

The Conservatives are unchanged on 3.8 per cent and would not make it into Parlia-

Winston Peters is on the rise again and could play a part in a coalition.

ment.

Internet-Mana is down by 1.2 points to 2.3 per cent, possibly a reflection of talk of tensions in the alliance, although this result would see Laila Harre and Annette Sykes elected as long as leader Hone Harawira keeps his seat.

The biggest movement has been in the preferred PM ratings.

The popularity of Mr Key has fallen by 7.3 points to 61.6 per cent, his second lowest rating since becoming Prime Minister in 2008. The popularity of Labour leader David Cunliffe is

up by 3.9 points to 17.9 per cent and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is up by 1.4 to 7.8 per cent.

Mr Key’s advice to voters was not to try to second-guess the polls and if they wanted a National-led Government, to vote for National.

Polling began on Thursday last week in relatively clean air _ six days after Judith Collins resigned from the Cabinet. An inquiry will determine whether Ms Collins sought to undermine former Serious Fraud Office head Adam Feeley while she was Minister of Justice, as sug-

gested in an email from Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater.

Since her resignation, there has been far less coverage of the Dirty Politics book that was denying oxygen to Opposition parties in the election campaign.

Mr Peters continued to reiterate there would be no decision made on future coalition partners before next week’s general election.

He told Radio New Zealand yesterday he would not be a “king maker”.

“That is to think that a party is just some sort of dictatorship and not a democratic organisation.

“More than any other party we have always gone with the decision of the board and the caucus and the senior operatives in New Zealand First.”

His party would use its best judgement possible based on all the information available, Mr Peters said.

“What’s happening now is that people are voting and coming out for New Zealand First because they do not like underhand dirty politics.

“They’re coming out for a thing called integrity and honour and whether the commentators like it or not that will rise in this poll everyday as we go towards the election.”

He would not be drawn on whether the party would work with the Green Party.

“We are concentrating on a party called New Zealand First and some serious policies to deal with the economic crisis that’s facing this country.

“It’s unavoidable now - there’s no rock star economy.” - APNZ

WHERE THEY STAND Labour has the support of 21.2 per cent of men for the party vote, compared to 18.4 per cent last week, according to a breakdown of the latest Herald-DigiPoll survey.

Labour’s support among women is 27.8 per cent this week, compared to 28.9 per cent last week.

In the preferred Prime Minister stakes, Prime Minister John Key had 74.8 per cent of men supporting him last week. This week 65.4 per cent of men support him. Last week, 11.9 per cent of men supported David Cunliffe. This week, 17.1 per cent support him. Winston Peters last week had the support of 5 per cent of men. This week, he has the support of 8.5 per cent of men.

Major events during the polling period include two televised smallparty leaders’ debates and the Press debate between Mr Cunliffe and Mr Key.

THE PARTY VOTE National 48.6 (down 1.5), Labour 24.6 (up 0.8), Green 11.5 (up 0.1), NZ First 8.1 (up 2.1), Conservatives 3.8 (no change), Internet-Mana 2.3 (down 1.2), Maori Party 0.7 (up 0.3), Act 0.3 (down 0.1), United Future 0 (down 0.3), Legalise Cannabis 0 (down 0.1). * The poll of 750 eligible voters was conducted between September 4 and 10. The party vote is of decided voters only. Undecided voters were 9.1 per cent. The margin of error is 3.6 per cent.

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Candidate snapshots Next Saturday, voters will choose who they want to represent them in Parliament.

Mid Canterbury is a province of two electorates after Selwyn snared the north-eastern part of the Rangitata electorate when the boundaries were redrawn.

This means some not-so-familiar faces join familiar ones in the candidate line-up and, with this in mind, some candidates agreed to talk about themselves to Guardian reporter Susan Sandys to help voters learn more about who they might vote for.

AMY ADAMS

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t is easy for people to make assumptions, says Selwyn MP Amy Adams.

She said on occasions she does find people saying to her, either out loud or with their looks, “It’s okay for you, what would you know”.

“But I worked three jobs to pay my way through law school, I’ve worked ever since I was 16.”

The primly-dressed and well-spoken blonde may seem the embodient of wealth and privilege, but among the first things she will tell you about her life is that she and her older sister moved around throughout their childhoods as their single-parenting mum shifted for her work, which was as a psychologist bonded to the Education Department.

She talked about her childhood in her maiden speech to Parliament in 2008, saying it was only last week in Wellington that someone had called her a “typical Nat”.

“Well I make no apology for that side of my background,”

she told her new fellow politicians. “I am extremely proud of what I have worked very hard to achieve. But for those who are looking to stereotype me, it’s worth pointing out I also grew up in a solo parent household, always short of money with my mother putting herself through a degree with two preschoolers under foot, eventually becoming a psychologist bonded with the education department.

“Her job working with some of the most unfortunate families meant we grew up all over the place – Ngaruawahia, Hamilton, Wellington and eventually Auckland.

“Compared to many kids though I was fortunate because I came from a family of self starters who believed that anything was possible if you worked hard enough.”

One of her grandfathers was an engineer and inventor who started a factory in his Wellington garage which employed people for decades.

Her other grandfather, a well-respected accountant in Motueka, built his business from the ground up.

Her story is perhaps a little like her leader John Key’s, in that a strong matriarch in the form of their mothers gave stability and inspiration to power them on to career success. Her mother’s hard work combined with her own (Amy had a paper round from the age of 12) meant she could follow her passion of “messing around” with horses at pony club, getting into equestrian showing and events.

She is also a keen tennis player and triathlete, although being in Parliament has given her little time for the latter and she said she was “less fit than I would like to be”.

Mrs Adams completed her schooling at Rangitoto College in Auckland before moving to Canterbuy in 1988. She attended Canterbury University where she studied law, graduating with first class honours in 1992.

Her jobs throughout her uni years included in a bakery and press clippings bureau, and as a horse-riding instructor, house mistress in a boarding school and vet nurse. She married Don Adams whose family had farmed at Aylesbury in the Malvern District for 150 years.

He was studying at Lincoln at the time and the pair met socially.

Starting at the bottom of the legal ladder, she worked her way up until she was a partner in the Christchurch-based Mortlock McCormack Law, a role she gave up when she was chosen as the National candidate for Selwyn in 2008. Today she and Mr Adams farm the 250-hectare sheep and crop family property, where they live with their 16-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter, as well as a pet springer spaniel, cat and farm dogs.

Mrs Adams said until 10 years ago she had never really been interested in politics, but through her job had become inspired by some of the frustrations she witnessed her clients facing as they tried to navigate the complexities of the Resource Management Act. She was also not happy with the direction she saw the government under Labour heading at the time, and thought maybe instead of suffering in silence, she may be able to do something about it.

“I’m a passionate New Zealander and I saw it was a way I could contribute to the future of this country.”

TOM CORBETT

As a lawyer, farmer and mother though she could represent a lot of the interests which made up her district.

She said she was not that well known however, despite having community roles such as chairperson of her local school board of trustees and secretary of her local tennis club.

“I thought I didn’t have much of a chance, but I thought I would rather give it a go and not make it, than not give it a go,” she said.

“I was always brought up with the view if you don’t like the way something is going you should do something about it,” Mrs Adams said.

“My mum brought us up to be very independent and very driven, anything is possible.

You get out of life what you put in. To me it’s very much about going out and making it happen.”

She gave up her job once she became selected as the new Selwyn electorate’s MP. She found her new role had a high feel-good factor, as she could help people out as she did in her job as a lawyer, but did not have to send them a bill afterwards.

Mrs Adams is ranked 15th on the National Party’s list, and upon her re-election in 2011 was made a member of Cabinet. She currently holds the roles of Minister for the Environment and Minister of Communications and Information Technology. She has previously held the roles of Minister for Internal Affairs and Associate Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery.

Her older sister today lives in Wellington, and she has a half sister and half brother on her father’s side.

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angitata electorate ACT candidate Tom Corbett of Mayfield has a problem, it’s that his friends and aquaintances want to vote for him.

The 69-year-old said many do not understand Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation political party voting, introduced to New Zealand in 1996.

“People say ‘I will vote for you Tom’. A lot of people don’t understand the system,” he said.

It’s not that Mr Corbett does not want people’s votes, he does, but he wants them for his party.

He will not be voting for himself, he will instead cast his electorate vote for Rangitata incumbent, National’s Jo Goodhew, and would like to see others do the same.

JO GOODHEW

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t the encouragement of her father, a keen Jaycees member and public speaking enthusiastic, Timaru Girls’ boarder Jo McCully entered her school speech competition.

“I performed woefully,” the wife of Timaru dentist Mark Goodhew recalls today.

“And vowed to my father I would never speak in public again.”

However, while working in her chosen profession of nursing, a young Miss McCully became involved with the Young Farmers’ Club.

She had grown up on her parents’ farm just south of the Rangitata.

Being in Young Farmers gave her the opportunity to learn the skills of public speaking and debating all over again.

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Mr Corbett is the third Thomas Corbett to farm his 400-hectare property, which is today a cropping, livestock and dairy support unit. The farm was settled by his grandfather Thomas in 1878, and then farmed by his father Thomas, born in 1895.

Mr Corbett grew up in the home he today lives in with his wife and three children, although the wooden house has been extended and altered to become two-storey with a brick exterior. His primary-school aged son, the only boy, is also Thomas.

Mr Corbett said he and his father and grandfather had all married late. He left school at 15 to work on the farm.

“My father said when I was 21 “And I came to really enjoy it. It is something the more you do the more confident you get.”

Young Farmer exchange trips, one to Australia and one to the UK, followed. She met Mr Goodhew in 1985 at the age of 24 while nursing in Dunedin, and the couple married the following year. They had twin daughters in 1990 and a third daughter in 1992.

Mrs Goodhew continued to work part-time as her children were growing up, and threw herself into community work.

She was a volunteer for Plunket, Victim Support, Project Turnaround, chairwoman of her children’s primary school board of trustees and a member of Craighead Diocesan School’s board.

She returned inspired from a Knowledge Wave Conference in Auckland which she attended after Plunket had nominated her as an emerging leader attendee.

Mr Goodhew suggested she direct her enthusiasm into a political career, “I said – ‘I think the children are a bit young’. He said – ‘Don’t worry you will never get elected the first time’ ”.

“But I did,” she said.

Living in Timaru, she had stood for the Aoraki electorate candidacy against another National Party hopeful.

Then, after a relentless doorknocking campaign, where she knocked on 12,000 doors throughout Timaru, Twizel, Geraldine and surrounding areas, she won the 2005 election with a 13,000 vote swing, and 6500-vote majority over incumbent MP Jim Sutton, who was Labour’s Minister of Trade.

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I could have it, at 21 he signed it over. At the time I just thought that was ordinary,” he said.

“He said ‘you know what you have to pay your sisters’.” His two sisters continued their education and he worked hard on the farm to have enough money to pay them out.

Mr Corbett did his big OE at the age of 29, travelling through Europe and America. It was in later years while back on the farm he met his wife Sue through his interest in canoeing, and they married when he was in his late 40s.

They also have two daughters – Elizabeth, who is at university, and Nicola, who attends Mount Hutt College. Mr Corbett said he

had enjoyed parenting in his 50s and 60s.

“If you want to be a father and you want to do the best for the children, I don’t think age is a big thing.

“I think the most important thing is you want them.”

Mr Corbett has been a supporter of the ACT Party since its early days and he stood as the party’s candidate for Rangitata at the last election as well. He said the ACT Party was liberal in its views, but conservative in its spending.

However, Mr Corbett was, at one time, a Labour supporter. He voted for the party at the 1987 election, due to its support of economic reforms. The reforms

changed to take in Mid Canterbury in 2008, giving her a whole new area and its people to become familiar with.

Four days per week she begins her day at 5.30am with exercise, and even earlier on Mondays when she hits her local gym by 5.30am to work with a personal trainer.

“I do that because I think it gives you more energy,” she said.

She has cut down on jogging after a few injuries, but does plenty of walking.

Days at her Wellington office in Bowen House begin at her desk at 7.30am, and run until at least 10pm when the house is sitting Tuesday to Thursday.

Mondays and Fridays she alternates between her Timaru and Ashburton electorates.

It is long days for the Minister of Women’s Affairs, Minister for Senior Citizens, Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, and Associate Minister of Health and Associate Minister for Primary Industries. And lots of weeks run into seven days.

“But I absolutely love it, because you couldn’t do the hours if you didn’t, you just wouldn’t.”

And following the election, Mrs Goodhew is hoping for even more responsibility.

Currently ranking 21, she said she makes no secret of the fact she would like to be a cabinet minister.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed the portfolios I have held, but I would also relish any challenge the Prime Minister would offer me, but, and it’s a very big but, we have an election to win first and I’m not taking anything for granted,” she said.

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n a hot-air balloon trip above Methven in 2010, Peter and Kathy Hill of Dunsandel all of a sudden became worried.

Mrs Hill was struck with an upset stomach and the couple were not sure what the consequences might be, both for them and their fellow seven passengers, not to mention the town below.

Happily, however, as Mr Hill, Selwyn’s new Green Party candidate, told the Guardian in an interview this month, “she managed to hold everything in”.

The 65-year-old’s story about the Methven hot-air balloon trip, which the couples’ two daughters had shouted them for their 40th wedding anniversary, was more than just an amusing anecdote.

were controversial and spelt the end of farm subsidies and contributed to the rural downturn which drove some farmers off their land. Despite this, Mr Corbett had believed they were desperately needed for the benefit of the country’s economy.

“I believe the reforms were good for New Zealand, New Zealand was better for it,” he said.

“If I supported my own interests I would vote for Labour this year because they are going to give free everything for over-65s, you vote for what’s best for the country not necessarily what’s good for you.”

Mr Corbett’s passion for politics was perhaps inherited from his father. He remembers It was an incident representative of a turning point in Mr Hill’s personal and political life.

The reason Mrs Hill had felt ill was most likely due to consuming E. coli bacteria from a contaminated community water supply at their lifestyle block home.

Mr Hill was concerned about the contamination and couldn’t believe it when a Selwyn District Council employee reported the potential source as ruminants, such as “sheep, goats and llamas”.

Owning six sheep himself, Mr Hill was surprised by the omission of dairy cows, particularly as there was a 1000-cow farm across the road from the town’s community well.

With a local body election coming up, he decided to stand, and campaigned on water and other environmental issues. Ten stood for the four councillor positions in the central ward, including two incumbents. One of the incumbents missed out, but Mr Hill obtained enough votes and has been quietly championing environmental causes on the council ever since.

“Sometimes it’s been lonely, because there’s a lot of people who don’t put the environment first.

“Most of them look upon the economic wellbeing of the district as being more important than the environment. I keep saying the environment is the place we live, the economy is part of the environment, not the other way around.”

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his father refusing to pay an annual supporters’ donation to the National Party after it oversaw the introduction of a new tax on bank account interest. The new rule affected his children’s saving accounts and his father told the party’s collector to his face when he came knocking.

“Dad said ‘You don’t get a penny, you are a baby taxer’. He may have voted for them but he never paid them a cent afterwards.”

Despite growing up on the farm and living his whole life there, Mr Corbett has never wished to be anywhere else.

“I have always wanted to farm, I have travelled enough of the world to know it’s a sweet spot here.”

2008, Mr Hill deepened his political commitment to the environment further when he put his hand up to become the party’s Selwyn candidate. After his candidacy became confirmed, about one month ago he sent out an email to the mayor, other councilors and senior staff to let them know. He said he felt like it was a “coming out”, as now he would be green with a capital G. One reply had a not-tooimpressed tone, saying this was the first time there had been party allegiances on the council.

“But we all know who votes for National and Greens and Labour around the table, so I thought I might as well be up front about it,” he said.

Mr Hill was brought up in Templeton and went to Canterbury University where he completed a MA in Industrial Psychology. He worked as a human resources manager for various large companies, including Firestone and Environment Canterbury.

“I discovered after 20 years of doing it that I didn’t really like it anyway.”

A few years ago he bought painting and decorating gear and started doing that instead.

In recent years he has dedicated his work time mainly to his councillor role.

He has been busy over the past few weeks also campaigning for his party, including guest speaking at an Ashburton First Union meeting, and leaflet dropping in various areas, including the town of Rakaia.

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In brief Smith no passenger Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy says Cameron Smith is set to play in Sunday’s suddendeath NRL final against Canterbury if he’s 85-90 per cent fit - but the skipper won’t be allowed to defy common sense. Smith was a notable absentee at Melbourne’s open training session on Thursday, instead undergoing intensive rehabilitation on his high ankle sprain in a bid to be ready for the elimination final at AAMI Park. The Test hooker isn’t expected to run at all before game day, with a decision to be made after their final hit-out this morning. “We’d probably play him if he was 85 to 90 per cent fit but we can’t put him out there if he can’t do his job reasonably well,” Bellamy said.

“If he’s going to be a passenger we’ll be better off going with someone else.”

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Barba ready for crowd A “ruthless” crowd awaits Brisbane at their elimination final with North Queensland in Townsville tonight - and Broncos strike weapon Ben Barba can’t wait. In 2004, Brisbane could depend upon at least 50-50 crowd support when the Cowboys hosted their first final against the Broncos. Fast forward 10 years and Brisbane co-captain Justin Hodges admits the NRL-mad Townsville public have turned on the state’s former league darlings. “They are pretty ruthless,” Hodges said when asked what to expect from an expected sold-out, 25,000-strong Cowboys home crowd. “So it is important we get on top of them early. Hopefully we can send the crowd home a little early.”

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Warriors chase Matai The Warriors have continued their pursuit of Manly centre Steve Matai and remain hopeful the Sea Eagles will grant him a release for next season.

The Warriors made an initial approach in July, tabling a four-year deal reportedly worth $2.4 million. Matai has twice asked Manly for a release but the club has resisted. The 30-year-old’s agent, Gavin Orr, yesterday confirmed the Warriors had made another approach in recent weeks and are awaiting the outcome of further discussions with Manly.

Matai recently knocked back a $1 million two-year extension offer from Manly.

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Sonny Bill ready Roosters coach Trent Robinson insists Sonny Bill Williams is in good form and his chief game breaker knows what is required to make a mark in big matches.

Robinson said his players were calm and focused as they prepare to take on Penrith in Saturday’s NRL qualifying final at Allianz Stadium. Williams stepped up in last year’s grand final against Manly and while his form hasn’t regularly scaled those heights this season, Robinson felt the gifted New Zealander was still going well.

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Test for Roosters’ depth

By Adrian Warren Roosters coach Trent Robinson expects his depleted pack’s depth to be thoroughly tested by a dangerous Penrith side in tonight’s NRL qualifying final.

Rival coaches Robinson and Ivan Cleary are happy to embrace the tags of favourite and underdog respectively for the showdown at Allianz Stadium where the Roosters beat the Panthers 32-12 in their sole clash this season.

The defending champions and minor premiers appear to have timed their run to perfection, entering the finals on a six-match win streak.

However, Robinson’s forward stocks have taken a hit with suspensions to Dylan Napa and Aidan Guerra, while Jake Friend and Frank-Paul Nuuausula are recovering from injury.

“It’s a bit skinny. There’s some depth tested there,” Robinson said yesterday.

“But that’s what squads are about. Most teams have gone through it.

“We’ve been lucky. For quite a long time we’ve had most of our players available and now we have to see how we go tomorrow.”

Friend, who has missed one game after undergoing surgery to clear blood from his lungs, was running around at yesterday’s captain’s run, but Robinson said the hooker wasn’t a chance to play on Saturday.

However, he admitted if the game was an elimination final he might well have selected Friend, who he now definitely expects to play a part in the Roosters’ finals campaign.

James Segeyaro is one of the new young guns at the Panthers.

Penrith have made the finals for just the second time in the past 10 years, but Cleary feels their battle to nail down a top four spot has put them in good stead.

“We’ve been playing pretty close to semi-finals footy for the last month really and every game’s been meaningful,” Cleary said.

“While a lot of our guys

haven’t really played semis I think we’re about as ready as we can be.

“We don’t go in with a siege mentality, no-one would really listen, but we are the underdogs.

“That’s what we are and that’s what we’ve been all season.

“But we believe in our own game and we know what works for us and what doesn’t and what has worked for us this year will work for us again tomorrow night if we’re able to deliver it.”

Robinson said the surprise packet Panthers had earned fourth spot and was wary of their game breakers in key positions.

“Playing especially off (hooker James) Segeyaro, (fullback Matt) Moylan and (halfback Jamie) Soward there, they’ve got some ad-lib footy with some big guys around them,” Robinson said.

“They’ve got lots of rep experience around their team and they know how to play.

“They’ve really got a good structure about them, so very dangerous.”

Asked if the mantle of favourite sat comfortably on the Roosters, Robinson said: “It has to. It has at different points last year and this year.

“We’re not betting men but we understand where we’re placed and what team we’ve got and we’ve got to deliver on that.

“We feel like we’re in a good spot, we feel like we’ve worked hard to get to this point.

“We’ve struggled at different points during the season, but still picked up wins and finished in a good position with good momentum.”

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Kahu pitchforked into Broncos side

By Laine Clark In a bold move, Broncos coach Anthony Griffin has opted to thrust Jordan Kahu into his starting side for tonight’s NRL elimination final against North Queensland in Townsville.

Considered a long term fiveeighth option, the 23-year-old Kahu has played only two NRL games this year - none at centre - and 12 overall.

Yet the Kiwi-born utility is seen by Griffin as the best option to replace injured left centre Jack Reed (shoulder) for their crunch match.

Kahu - who has a history of knee injuries - knocks initial cen-

tre selection Corey Oates back to the bench.

Griffin said he had not yet finalised his interchange for the must-win showdown.

Asked why he had opted for Kahu, Griffin said: “He’s our best option.

“He’s done a good job in the centres or on the wing every time he has had an opportunity over the last couple of years.

“It’s a real message about persistence.”

Alarm bells were ringing for Kahu when he went down with yet another knee injury in a preseason clash with the Cowboys.

However, scans revealed only minor damage and Kahu was

sidelined for just six weeks before providing a selection argument Griffin could no longer ignore playing for Wynnum Manly in the second-tier Queensland Cup. Griffin said lanky 19-year-old Oates - who can play centre, back row and wing - offered more value on the bench.

“He (Jordan) is a natural outside back,” Griffin said.

“Corey can do a job there but we see he provides more value on the bench where he can also assist the forwards.

“Jordie is a real classy guy, he’s not a rookie.”

It caps a remarkable comeback

by Kahu who feared the worst when he went down with a

knee injury in a pre-season trial against the Cowboys in February.

Kahu - who has already undergone two knee reconstructions breathed a little easier after the match when scans revealed only minor damage.

He missed six weeks before starring for Wynnum Manly.

Regular fullback Josh Hoffman had a light run yesterday but was off the field almost as quickly as he arrived on it as he recovered from a three week ankle injury.

“He only just started running on Wednesday,” Griffin said.

“He is still a week away.”

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Carswell returns Former Commonwealth Games medallist Tim Carswell has been named as the new men’s endurance coach as the road to Rio continues.

Carswell, who took the track team to the last two Olympics, will work under head coach Dayle Cheatley as BikeNZ looks to build on a successful Commonwealth Games.

With Carswell looking after the men’s endurance squad, Craig Palmer coaching the women’s team and Anthony Peden leading the sprint programme, Cheatley will be allowed to oversee all three squads at the 2016 Olympics.

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Auks chase double

Ashburton College batsman Jordan Scott-Wells rocks onto the back foot during a net session this week.

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Steady start for Ko

Australian sojourn for 1st XI

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

The Ashburton College 1st XI has been working hard over winter, and hope to reap some reward at the start of their summer in Australia.

The college heads across the Tasman for a pre-season warm up tour on September 26.

College manager Greg Jopson said the biggest hurdle will be adjusting to playing outside again, having spent the last six weeks training at the indoor nets.

“You realistically can’t get

an outside pitch running here at this time of the year, which is a big reason why we go over there,” Jopson said They will however attempt to simulate it with a hit-out match against a Mid Canterbury invitation team next Saturday, giving them some semblance of outdoor cricket before they depart.

For two of the side’s senior members, Tom Dudley and Kieran Hunt, it is a second trip across the ditch with the team last completing a pre-season tour in 2012.

On day two of the tour they

meet Caloundra, a team featuring two Queensland under 16 representatives, in a 50 over match They then meet Gympie in a 50 over match the next day before completing the limited overs part of the tour against Sunshine Coast Grammar School.

On October 1 they finish the cricket part of the tour with two Twenty20 matches, against Scorchers XI and Caloundra – under lights - before flying home on October 3.

Their season in the Canterbury Secondary Schools’ compe-

tition then begins on October 18 with college in division two this year.

Playing their season in a calendar year, they will lose key contributors Dudley, Jordan Scott-Wells and Canterbury under 17 bowler Deon Biggs after Christmas.

The player turnover is part and parcel of secondary school cricket but Jopson said there was some “good depth to bring through”, with some year 10 and 11 players pushing for selection now that will step up in the new year.

Perjury accusations ‘despicable lies’

By DyLan CLeaver Former New Zealand test cricketer Chris Cairns is to be charged by the Metropolitan Police for perjury.

Cairns confirmed that the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service had contacted him yesterday after the Herald learned from sources close to the investigation that he was about to be charged.

Cairns released a statement yesterday, after refusing to speak to the Herald, saying he was “extremely disappointed” and that

The last time Auckland did a title double at the National Hockey League finals was three years ago, and even that wasn’t a clean-cut success.

Auckland won the women’s K Cup that year, but had to share the Challenge Shield with Central. Both Auckland teams go into the semi-finals today favoured to advance to tomorrow’s finals. Northland and Canterbury should be tight. Canterbury won a penalty shootout to win their round-robin clash last Wednesday.

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he would be flying to the UK to clear his name “once and for all”.

He said that he had been notified he would be formally charged in London on September 25.

“I’m obviously extremely disappointed. However, at least there will now be an opportunity to face my accusers in an open forum, with some rigour and proper process around that, so that I can clear my name once and for all,” he said in his statement.

“I hope that, through this fo-

rum, significant additional information will be flushed out that will help people to better assess the situation, as well as the character and motives of the parties involved.

“I wish this wasn’t the situation - having been to Court before, I know what lies ahead and how gruelling it will be and how tough it is on my family - but I have nothing to hide and I will do whatever it takes to once again prove my innocence.”

Cairns has denied any wrongdoing and described match-fix-

ing allegations against him as “despicable lies”.

Cairns’ file has been with the Crown Prosecution Service since the Met Police, whose representatives have travelled to New Zealand several times over the past year, recently wrapped up their investigation.

The perjury charge stems from a High Court libel trial in London when the former all-rounder won damages of £90,000 and costs against Lalit Modi, the former boss of the Indian Premier League.

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Lydia Ko has made a solid start to the final major of the year but she has some work to do to catch the first round leader of the Evian Championship in Evian-lesBains, France. The 17-year-old shot a two-under 69 in an upand-down round that included five birdies and three bogeys to be in a share of 12th. The New Zealander is eight shots behind leader Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea who blitzed the field with an opening round 10-under 61.

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NZ sailors in form Team New Zealand have shown a return to form in round six of the Extreme Sailing Series in Istanbul following a disastrous outing in Cardiff earlier this month. Dean Barker’s crew bounced back from their last placed finish in Cardiff in the best possible way yesterday, topping the standings after the opening day of racing.

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Ravens crush Steelers The embattled Baltimore Ravens put the Ray Rice firestorm behind them for a few hours yesterday, routing Pittsburgh 26-6 in their first contest since the disgraced running back was sent packing. Joe Flacco threw a pair of touchdown passes to Owen Daniels, Justin Tucker kicked four field goals and Baltimore forced three turnovers in placing the focus back on football amid a difficult week for the 2012 Super Bowl champions. - AFP

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In brief Cantabs crush Wgtn At the start of the ITM Cup many would have predicted the week five match between Canterbury and Wellington to be a clash of two unbeaten teams. But last year’s finalists have travelled contrasting paths in 2014 and while Canterbury won their first four outings with relative ease, Wellington experienced four defeats from as many games.

Chris Boyd’s Lions have been ravaged by injuries this year, which has disrupted their campaign and relegation now looks like a distinct possibility.

Their season didn’t get any better when they were thumped 46-12 by Canterbury in Christchurch last night as they were outgunned by the competition’s heavyweights.

Canterbury have class throughout their side and they welcomed back three-test All Black Tom Taylor to run the cutter from first-five. The 25-year-old Taylor opened the scoring with a try and his steady boot helped tick the scoreboard along.

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Upset for Harbour The upsets keep coming in the ITM Cup. Despite coming in to the game without a win this season, North Harbour toppled the Championshipleading Manawatu 24-13 at a sodden QBE Stadium in Albany last night. It wasn’t pretty but the home side were effective enough and tries to Luke Devcich and Pita Ahki plus the boot of pivot Daniel Halangahu provided the points. Manawatu came close to scoring a much-needed try in the second half but they were repelled by a desperate Harbour side.

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Pressure on Pollard Another All Blacks’ opponent, another team getting to grips with the crucial No10 position.

Following hard on the heels of Australia’s conundrum about whether they should play Kurtley Beale or Bernard Foley at first-five, South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer has gambled on playing 20-year-old Handre Pollard there for what will be his fourth test. A player with a more attacking mindset than Morne Steyn, Pollard will be expected to bring an unconventional dimension to a Boks team which has looked predictable.

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Springbok team 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Cornal Hendricks, 13 Jan Serfontein, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Handré Pollard, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Marcell Coetzee, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Tendai Mtawarira. Replacements: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Marcel van der Merwe, 19 Lood de Jager, 20 Warren Whiteley, 21 Francois Hougaard, 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Damian de Allende.

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Comeback kid out to make his mark

By Jonathan Leask

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This time last year Jackson Donlan was on crutches watching Mid Canterbury play in the Heartland Rugby Championship.

The now 23-year-old had broken his leg during Rakaia’s semi-final win in the club season when he was in line for a Hammers call-up, with coach Glenn Moore seeing him as a flexible option off the bench, covering hooker and flanker.

“It was pretty gutting, and still lingered around a bit at the start of this year but it is all good now,” Donlan said.

Last week he finally made his Hammers’ debut, coming on in the final 10 minutes of the 15-20 loss to Thames Valley in Paeroa, but will be hoping for a better result in his first run-on start against Wanganui today.

His comeback trail had some hurdles.

Donlan missed the opening few weeks of this season for Rakaia as he waited for his leg to fully recover.

He was also looking to make a more permanent move back to the front row, playing most of his junior rugby at hooker, only for Jon Sharpe to turn up in Rakaia.

“Sharpey came in, but he’s been good and teaching me lot so it has had its ups and downs,” he said.

Sharpe’s return to Rakaia meant Donlan spent plenty of time on the side of the scrum, but it is his ability to be a fourth loose forward that provides Donlan with impact off the bench, and today he gets a chance to put some pressure on Sharpe.

“The thing is these days is that hookers have to effectively be a fourth loose forward,

and that’s the element I try to bring to the forward pack.”

“Now I’ve got my shot and get to fill Sharpey’s boots for the day.”

He will get his first taste of Mid Canterbury’s rivalry with Wanganui.

The defending Meads Cup champions meet the only team that has regularly had their measure, with the Butchers getting the better of the Hammers nine times out of 12 meetings, but more importantly six of those wins were in the playoffs.

“I don’t really know too much about the history.

“I’m just going to get out there and try to do what I can for the team.

“I just have to focus on getting my bit right and hopefully the rest will go right for the boys.”

Coming off a draw and last week’s loss to Thames Valley there should be no lack of motivation to get back on track against their nemesis.

Wanganui proved last week in their win over North Otago they can mentally lift for the big occasions.

Donlan will get a stern test up against the experienced hooker Cole Baldwin, closing in on 70 caps, one of the experienced heads in the Butchers pack including skipper Peter Rowe, but the pressure is on their youthful backline that has been inconsistent over three Jackson Donlan in action for Rakaia. rounds.

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ALL BLACKS

Israel Dagg, Ben Smith, Conrad Smith, Ma’a Nonu, Julian Savea, Aaron Cruden, Aaron Smith; Kieran Read, Richie McCaw (captain), Steven Luatua, Jeremy Thrush, Brodie Retallick, Owen Franks, Dane Coles, Wyatt Crockett. Reserves: Keven Mealamu, Joe Moody, Ben Franks, Patrick Tuipulotu, Sam Cane, TJ Perenara, Beauden Barrett, Cory Jane.

Dynamic duo ‘p

By GreGor PauL On a night they will become the equal longest-serving midfield pairing, Ma’a Nonu and Conrad Smith could do with reminding the world they are still also the best.

Not many would dispute that in their 54 tests together, they have established their credentials as a combination that has it all.

In Nonu they have the best linebreaking second-five around: a destructive force of nature who at 1.81m and 108kg offers defenders the least forgiving target.

He’s not purely an Armageddon option though - he has, since his test debut in 2003, developed strong

wrists and soft hands which allow him to distribute under fearsome pressure.

Smith covers more ground than any man really should and by being two steps ahead of the opposition, he finds space on attack and occupies it on defence.

Renowned as an organiser, his 25 test tries are a reminder that he’s a strike runner in his own right.

These are the component parts, the sum of which has been almost priceless for the All Blacks since they first appeared in jerseys 12 and 13 against Ireland in June, 2008.

They haven’t been perfect throughout their seven seasons together, but they have been mostly brilliant.

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HEAD TO HEAD RESULTS 2006 Wanganui 46 Mid Canterbury 8 @ Wanganui 2006 Wanganui 30 Mid Canterbury 17 Meads Cup Semi @ Wanganui 2007 Mid Canterbury 21 Wanganui 19 @ Ashburton 2007 Wanganui 18 Mid Canterbury 12 MC Semi @ Ashburton 2008 Wanganui 43 Mid Canterbury 12 @ Wanganui 2008 Wanganui 27 Mid Canterbury 12 MC Final @ Wanganui 2009 Mid Canterbury 23 Wanganui 14 @ Ashburton 2009 Wanganui 34 Mid Canterbury 13 MC Final @ Chch 2010 Wanganui 29 Mid Canterbury 3 @ Wanganui 2011 Mid Canterbury 26 Wanganui 23 @ Wanganui 2011 Wanganui 32 Mid Canterbury 22 MC Semi@ Wanganui 2012 Wanganui 24 Mid Canterbury 23 @ Ashburton

TODAY’S TEAM LINE-UPS Mid Canterbury 1 Tukulua Tolu, 2 Jackson Donlan, 3 Simon Fleetwood, 4 Logan Bonnington, 5 Andrew Smith, 6 Tevita Ula, 7 Gary Redmond, 8 Jon Dampney, 9 Will Mackenzie, 10 Murray Williams, 11 Seta Koritamana, 12 Peni Manumanuniwila, 13 Dwayne Burrows, 14 Brenton Connell, 15 Richard Catherwood.

Reserves: 16 Matt Groom, 17 Domenic Visesio, 18 Eric Duff, 19 Sam Houston, 20 Cawte Whiting, 21 Matt Thatcher, 22 Josh Walker.

Wanganui 1 Shaun Mcdonough, 2 Cole Baldwin, 3 Kamipeli Latu, 4 Sonny Woodmass, 5 John Laurie, 6 Tremaine Gilbert, 7 Peter Rowe, 8 Bryn Hudson, 9 Lindsay Horrocks, 10 Dane Whale, 11 Jaye Flaws, 12 Rhema Sagote, 13 Tevita Taufui, 14 Zyon Hekenui, 15 Josh Hamilton.

Reserves: 16 Roman Tutauha, 17 Lasa Ulukuta, 18 Sam Madams, 19 Ginge Evans, 20 William Short, 21 Tautahi Rawiri, 22 Samu Kubunavanua.

DEVELOPMENT SIDE

A distraught Jackson Donlan after breaking his leg in the 2013 Watters Cup semi-final made his long awaited debut for Mid Canterbury last week, and gets his first run-on start against Wanganui today.

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Mid Canterbury Development chase their first win of the season when they meet Canterbury Maori Development in the curtain raiser at the Ashburton Showgrounds at 1pm today.

At Allenton Mid Canterbury Under 18s host South Canterbury at midday with Hanan Shield Under 65kg and U48kg teams playing Canterbury Metro, both at 10.45.

Down in Timaru the Mid Canterbury Under 16s and under 14s play South Canterbury.

priceless’ for the All Blacks

instinctive reading of the nd each other has enabled conjure frequent small mira-

erhaps their most valuable is the assurance and confiey inspire in those around

just know what they are goo, what they can bring to the ays All Black fullback Israel

have got such great vision I love about them is that they lly hard for the full 80 minow that when we are looking er-attack both of them will here to lend a hand. n defence they will be work-

ing hard to get across and help out. I just love their desire and determination to have each other’s backs.”

Ben Smith, as another major beneficiary of the productivity of the All Black midfield, has spent enough time in the No13 jersey to have an even deeper appreciation of the Nonu-Smith partnership.

“We could be here all day,” he says when asked to give some idea about what he thinks Nonu and Smith bring to the All Black backline.

“But yeah, I think Ma’a is a really strong ball carrier. On a wet night he can get the momentum back on your side by his strong ball carries. He sucks in a few defenders.

“Defensively, he shuts down people’s

space and I think Conrad is a wee bit the same. He uses his experience both on attack and defence and sees where the opposition are vulnerable.

“They are two very classy players.”

The stage is perfectly set for Nonu and Smith to reinforce their status tonight.

For various reasons, it has been more than a year since they put together a run of high-impact performances where their partnership acts as both provider and finisher, where they exploit as much as they create.

Smith’s end-of-year sabbatical saw him miss the last five tests of 2013, while injury has reduced them to four starts together in 2014 and in two of those - Eden Park against

England and Sydney - the All Blacks were collectively poor.

On the rock-hard, super-dry surface in Dunedin, there was a 20 minute-period where the world was treated to vintage Smith and Nonu.

They have been the adhesive that has allowed other more prominent features such as Julian Savea and Ben Smith to command the attention.

To beat South Africa tonight, Nonu and Smith may have to be more than the adhesive.

The All Black threat is so much more potent when Nonu and Smith are punching holes, when they are working in tandem to break the first line of defence and set their outsides up with one-on-one opportunities.

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In brief Buller battler Buller loose forward Luke Brownlee will play his 138th consecutive game for the union against South Canterbury in Westport today, setting a New Zealand record for consecutive first class appearances. The 34-year-old Buller legend first pulled on the No 7 jersey back in 1999 and no-one else has worn it since, clocking up his 163rd appearance in the top of the table clash against the also unbeaten South Canterbury. Mid Canterbury’s Jon Dampney is closing in on 100 games, playing his 98th game today, and has also become a father with partner Hayley Bennett.

Home record vital The last time the All Blacks lost in New Zealand was exactly five years ago - against South Africa at Waikato Stadium when the visitors won 32-29.

As the All Blacks prepare to play their last game on home soil for the year, another victory over the old foe will preserve a proud record.

After the All Blacks put their finishing touches on their week with yesterday’s captain’s run in a warm Wellington, Richie McCaw spoke of the rivalry his team shares with the Boks.

“They’re No2 in the world,” McCaw said. “It’s always a hell of a test match. These are the games that you really get excited about.” Wet weather is again expected tonight, but McCaw’s team showed against the Pumas that the lessons from the Sydney draw against the Wallabies have been taken on board.

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Wallabies wary Many have been crying for them, but Argentina believe their time has come and a “special day” awaits on the Gold Coast.

After three seasons and 15 matches, with only one draw to show for their time in The Rugby Championship, the Pumas say they are finally ready to pounce and close out a Test win. In a worry for the Wallabies tonight, inspirational captain Agustin Creevy declared his team had learned from heart-breaking fade-outs to be on the cusp of an historic performance. “We have had a lot of chances to win,” the hooker said yesterday.

“Every match we can win, but tomorrow is a special day for us.”

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Betham a starter Henry Speight’s continued pain is pinch-hitting Peter Betham’s gain in the Wallabies wing roundabout. Kiwi-born Betham, a reserve for NSW just six weeks ago, has continued his happy knack of being the last speedster sprinting in Australia to start his second Test tonight. The elusive 25-year-old this time can even ensure more than a one-off shot after Fiji-born Speight, forced to wait a full year to be Test eligible, aggravated his hamstring problem to be ruled out for an extra month. - AAP

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In brief Celtic club champs The Celtic Squash Club will be holdings its annual club championships over the next couple of weeks. After a long winter league season, Chris O’Reilly has finished on top of the leader board and will be the tournament top seed, while Jock O’Connor, John McDonnell and Billy Nolan fill the other seedings. In the ladies grade Di Ness, Marie Kennedy, Rebecca Abernethy and Cath Blacklow are expected to fight out the semi-finals.

Less radio help in F1 Formula One teams and drivers were yesterday ordered to severely cut back on radio conversations that help with car or driver performance during races.

The ruling was handed down

by Formula One’s governing body the FIA. From now on conversations from the pit telling a driver where he is losing time on the circuit will be illegal. The change is being implemented through a strict enforcement of Article 20.1 of F1’s sporting regulations which states: “The driver must drive the car alone and unaided.”

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Sandown ‘vital’ for Frosty

BY BEN MCKAY Ford’s championship chasing Mark Winterbottom says his 150th V8 Supercars event this weekend could be decisive for his title hopes.

Sunday’s Sandown 500 marks the start of the three endurance races on the V8s calendar.

At the scene of his first event in 2003 and now his 150th, Winterbottom said the 300 points on offer for a race win will bring the series alive.

“You work out whether you’re a contender during these races,” he said.

“When you come out of enduros into the run home, you know what you have to do on the run home.”

The reigning Bathurst champion has arrived at Sandown without 2013 co-driver Steve Richards - now with Craig Lowndes - and will instead share a seat with Steve Owen.

Importantly for “Frosty” the

Mark Winterbottom, with race-face firmly in place.

change-up to longer racing also brings a chance to halt series leader Jamie Whincup’s championship momentum.

After seeing the Red Bull Racing champion erode and replace his lead in recent rounds, Winterbottom says he only has himself to blame. “(Whincup) hasn’t been that

good in the recent rounds, we’ve just been bad to be honest,” he said.

“In terms of race pace we’ve been competitive with him, but he’s qualified well and gone on and marched up the order.”

Unfortunately for Winterbottom, a gap in race pace emerged in yesterday’s practice session.

Whincup and co-driver Paul Dumbrell impressed, with Whincup fastest of all.

The series leader’s 1:09.19 lap beat home Garth Tander and James Courtney ahead of today’s qualifying. Alexandre Premat, in Scott McLaughlin’s Volvo, was the quickest of all co-drivers ahead of Dumbrell by less than 0.04 seconds.

Car No.6, belonging to Winterbottom’s Ford Performance Racing team-mate Chaz Mostert, found the top of the timing charts early but then languished.

Mostert backed Winterbottom, who charted ninth in a handful of laps, to re-discover his winning ways at Sandown.

“Frosty needs to get his boots back again, the last couple of races has been a bit of a struggle, but he’s got a great partnership,” he said. “A lot of things have got to go my way to get a podium - I’d be happy with a couple of top ten finishes to keep chasing top five in the championship.”

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A S H B U RTO N

id you watch the US Open final last week?

I conducted a highly scientific poll over a massive range of four people, and the results were unanimously no.

Add the question ‘If a superstar was in the final, would you have watched?’ and the answers came in possibly/maybe/probably/probably, thereby proving conclusively (with a margin of error of 100%) that tennis needs the big names to keep itself in the headlines.

Roger Federer admitted as much himself in an interview, saying that big names were important for the game to survive in the future.

So is it the new boys catching up, or just a blip on the radar that the Big Four-and-a-half weren’t represented come final time?

Certainly nobody was picking that combination in the final; one player who was off the court in drug-related disgrace just a few months ago, and the other who barely made it to the tournament - just days before Nishikori was hitting balls from a chair because he couldn’t stand on an infected toe.

But there they were, no Federer, no Djokovic, no Nadal, no Murray and no Ferrer.

That lot is far from finished, they will all be back next year, but after that?

The Fed can’t go on forever, although he might just sneak one more major; Djokovic really should have won more than seven, Nadal has got 14 but do you envy his broken body? and Murray really isn’t going to threaten any records.

So where is the new breed, the new John McEnroe, the new Andre

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Agassi, the new Pete Sampras?

Is there still a chance for the likes of del Potro, Wawrinka or Tsonga to come from the second tier and be regular champions?

Or, heaven forbid, is one of the new Aussie brats going to take over and rule the roost for the next ten years?

Whatever happens, the powers that be will be hoping that the picture becomes clearer in the next 12 months, and they can find a new top-line rivalry to match those in the past, to keep the paying customers hooked in. * * * * * Feelgood story of the week: Todd Blackadder was guest speaker at a golf club do down south somewhere; at the fundraising auction at the conclusion of the event Toddy put his hand up to buy one of the major donated items on display, a very nice fridge, for a generous several hundred dollars, fair play to him.

According to rumour, he thought about it for a moment, then re-donated said fridge for auction again, except this time it would be filled with a certain sponsor’s product, and Toddy would come down some time soon to help the fridge’s new owner dispose of the contents!

Win-win; golf club suddenly better off by several thousand dollars, and Toddy’s star shines even brighter.

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Spratt back to business

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Ex-pat scores on home track Ashburton jockey David Walsh (above) picks up a win on board Ontario in the John McCormick Spraying Maiden 1200m at the Ashburton gallops yesterday.

Walsh led Ontario to the line by a neck from Czarista and jockey Centaine Spittles, with

three-quarters of a length back to third placed Lotterio and Chris Johnson.

Ontario paid $5.70 for the win, coming home in 1:11.90.

It was the 54-year-old Walsh’s fourth win of the new season to bring his career tally of wins up

to 2165, the most by a New Zealand jockey.

The six-race meet had opened with a $15.40 win for Prince Eden and Racha Cunneen, with Cunneen then riding Miss Mia to victory in the second for a $2.80 collect.

Ashburton trainer Russell McKay had a third place with his daughter Lisa riding Natkingcole in race three, which was won convincingly by six lengths by Homeland, making it the six-year-old’s fourth straight win.

The weather was fine and the track good for the Ashburton Races yesterday.

RACE 1 - STAPLETONS/COMCAT RATING 65 2100M, $7000, 2100m 7-7 Prince Eden (2) R Cuneen 1 6-6 Hughes That Girl (6) K Williams 2 2-3 Seeking Redemption (4) C Johnson 3 All Started. Also (in finishing order): 1-1 Angel Falls, 5-5 Braehill, 3-2 Hydraulic, 4-4 Shaylee Wilde, 8-8 Lord Yarborough.

Hd, 3L, 1/2L. Time: 2:10.23.

Win: $15.40. Places: $3.60, $3.30, $1.70. Q: $59.80. Trifecta: $740.00 (2,6,4). First4: $3218.00 (2,6,4,5). Sub: Angel Falls (5).

Trainer: Peter Rudkin, Riccarton. Breeding: 5 g Edenwold (CAN)-Sumarian.

RACE 2 - ASHBURTON SECURITY MDN 2100M, $7000, 2100m 1-1 Miss Mia (5) R Cuneen 1 3-2 Chaparral’s Jet (2) R Bishop 2 5-5 Lady Grace (7) S Wynne 3 All Started. Also (in finishing order): 6-6 Belen, 2-4 Sergios, 8-8 Bush Lawyer, 4-3 Indian Burt, 7-7 Tobette.

2-1/4L, 1/2L, 3/4L. Time: 2:12.44.

Win: $2.80. Places: $1.30, $1.70, $2.20.

Quinella: $7.70. Trifecta: $80.80 (5,2,7).

First4: $449.40 (5,2,7,6). Double: $32.80 (2/5+), $27.40 (2/2). Sub: Miss Mia (5).

Trainer: Neill Ridley, Riccarton. Breeding: 4 m Zed-Dido.

RACE 3 - SEALES WINSLOW RATING 85 1200M, $8000, 1200m 2-0 Homeland (2) M Dee 1 1-0 Halo Buster (1) R Cuneen 2 4-0 Natkingcole (4) L McKay 3 Scratched: Davone Code.

Also (in finishing order): 3-0 El Dorado Sun. 4L, 2-3/4L, 4L. Time: 1:10.25.

Win: $2.50. Places: Refund. Quinella: $1.80.

Trifecta: $8.40 (2,1,4). First4: $7.80 (2,1,4,5).

Treble: $110.10 (2/5+/2). Sub: Halo Buster (1).

Trainer: T & M Stokes, Waikuku. Breeding: 6 g My Halo (ARG)-Durham Lass (AUS).

RACE 4 - JOHN MCCORMICK SPRAYING MAIDEN 1200M, $7000, 1200m 2-2 Ontario (1) D Walsh 1 3-5 Czarista (15) C Spittles 2

1-1 Lotterio (11) C Johnson 3 Scratched: King Kahuna.

Also: 6-6 Gee Wiz Gerry, 8-8 Black Paint, 9-9 Imakiwi, 13-13 Moonofklairessa, 7-7 Beautiful Buffalo, 12-11 Yourlips Ar Movin, 11-12 Pro Bono, 4-3 Maybe Miami, 5-4 Master Cubitt, 14-14 Nakoma, 10-10 Danske In Time.

Nk, 3/4L, 3/4L. Time: 1:11.90.

Win: $5.70. Places: $2.30, $2.60, $1.80.

Quinella: $21.60. Trifecta: $137.10 (1,15,11).

First4: $719.70 (1,15,11,3). Double: $10.50 (2/1), $6.30 (2/15). Sub: Lotterio (11).

Trainer: Danny Frye, Balcairn. Breeding: 5 g One Cool Cat (USA)-Unite (AUS).

RACE 5 - PREMIER EQUINE VETS RATING 65 1400M, $7000, 1400m 2-3 Percy Possum (1) S Wynne 1 1-1 Zabbadak (2) D Prastiyou 2 4-4 Lightning Lucy (8) C Johnson 3 Scratched: Emilio.

Also: 5-5 Black Hennessy, 3-2 Toetwotoe, 6-6 No Surrenda, 8-8 Presley, 7-7 Sir Daniel.

Nk, 1L, Nse. Time: 1:24.47.

Win: $4.90. Places: $1.80, $1.20, $2.00.

Quinella: $5.40. Trifecta: $52.60 (1,2,8).

First4: $285.20 (1,2,8,5). Sub: Zabbadak (2).

Trainer: Neill Ridley, Riccarton. Breeding: 5 g Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)-Arboretum (AUS).

RACE 6 - BARNESWOOD FARM MAIDEN 1600M, $7000, 1600m 4-4 Truth (2) J Morris 1 9-9 She’s Riveting (10) S Wynne 2 6-7 Wanderin Along (7) T Moseley 3 All Started.

Also (finishing order): 10-10 Strategic Ride, 3-3 El Guapo, 2-2 Fair Spoken, 5-5 Bellaleah, 1-1 D’Ellis, 11-11 Halo Of Mercury, 8-8 Owe The Ransom, 7-6 La Croupier, 12-12 Mr Tripster.

3/4L, 1/2L, 2L. Time: 1:37.24.

Win: $9.50. Places: $3.10, $6.60, $3.80. Q: $132.90. Tri: $2561.60 (2,10,7). First4: $6872.50 (2,10,7,12). Quaddie: $1065.60 (2/1/1/2). Place6: $90.20 (2,4,6/2,5+,7/ALL/1,11+,15/1,2+,8/2,7,10).

Double: $42.90 (1/2), $52.40 (1/10). Treble: $346.30 (1/1/2). Sub: D’Ellis (8).

Trainer: Brian Gliddon, Prebbleton. Breeding: 5 g Edenwold (CAN)-Proof.

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The 29-year-old jockey returned from her overseas travels during the week and will team up with the Group One performer Little Wonder in the Spire Sprint at the Whangarei meeting.

She has ridden the close relation to the former people’s champion Sir Slick in all six of his career wins, including the Gr.3 Darley Plate, and a third placing in the Gr.1 Railway Stakes.

Little Wonder hasn’t raced since May, but he has a handy first-up record and was placed at the Avondale trials earlier this month ahead of his return.

With son Cody, Spratt spent the last four and ahalf months in the United Kingdom and picked up a handful of raceday rides for a couple of placings.

She also had the opportunity to ride work for top trainers Richard Hannon and Brian Meehan.

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■ ASHBURTON ROTHBURY HOLMES

Branch of the year again

Selwyn Sloan and Michael Coleman MONEY MATTERS

challenges in this sector because it is highly regulated; products have a limited lifespan before generic versions are made available; and governments can change their approaches to the purchase of healthcare products.

To access this sector, the big names are located in the United States and Europe: Actavis, Gilead, Roche, and Novartis are but a few of the many large scale, quality names offering strong growth potential.

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n important aspect of investing is choosing the right sectors to invest in. The pharmaceutical sector offers investors an opportunity to diversify away from New Zealand and de-risk their portfolio from exposure to an economy which is largely based on farming the primary sector.

The Pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors are interesting to investors due to the explosion in man’s ability to treat medical conditions.

Pharmaceutical companies race to develop products and achieve sales in a highly competitive market. The bottom line is that personal health is something that people are prepared to pay for.

The sector can be considered both defensive and growth oriented due to huge ongoing demand for pharmaceutical products. There are always

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Celebrating his award as the Rothbury Directors’ branch of the year, Ashburton’s Kelvin Holmes (right) with Rothbury managing director Roger Abel.

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Twenty years ago Kelvin Holmes set up business as an insurance broker as a one-man band; today that business has become a team of eight celebrating national success as the 2014 Rothbury branch of the year.

In the insurance broking business awards are not handed out lightly said Rothbury managing director Roger Abel.

Winning has everything to do with client satisfaction but includes a number of other criteria, none of which can be met without strong leadership within a branch, Mr Abel said.

The awards are judged by a panel of industry experts and professionals from other fields.

While Rothbury is a national brand, each branch is locally owned. The business is done face-to-face by locals, policy renewals and claims are handled locally.

The parent company is the behind the scenes, back end support for branches; all services

and client contact is with the local branch.

The brand is the umbrella for 14 individually owned brokerage companies and while it provides behind the scenes support, each of those companies runs its own shop, Mr Abel said.

The Ashburton branch won the directors’ award in 2009, one year after Mr Holmes joined the group.

“Becoming part of Rothbury gave us a lot of advantages such as better HR and IT but I still see this as my business. We’ve worked hard to be where we are today, we’ve more than doubled in size at a revenue level. It enabled us to be more profitable and more efficient,” Mr Holmes said.

Because the business rises or falls on the quality of service it provides for its clients, building a first class team was the key to success and while surveying customers meant you were putting yourself up for scrutiny, it was that feedback that kept a business on its toes, he said.

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Sports ‘star’ rising Sue Newman

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tand on River Terrace and look towards the Ashburton River. There’s something very special on the horizon.

Where just a few months ago there were tangled weeds, broken trees and piles of shingle, today there’s a building that could become a major attraction for locals and out-of-towners.

That building is the EA Networks Centre, one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the Ashburton District Council, one of its most expensive and one of its most popular.

The combined stadium and aquatic centre has the potential to take sport to a new level in this district. Not only will the building itself cater for the court and pool needs of the district, its grounds, stretching towards the river and Melrose Road, offer untold opportunities for a range of sporting codes to be part of the central hub.

From the outset public support for the project was huge.

While it is still in its naked, half-constructed form, it’s clear we will have a facility that will become the district’s recreational star.

The project won’t end there.

When the opening ribbon is cut, it’s likely to signal phase two of the development.

The council has always said the stadium could become the hub around which greenfields were developed to cater for a wide range of outdoor sports.

The initiative for this development has to come from the sporting codes, but already the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union has put its hand up.

There will be a huge advantage in being first cab off the rank, the one around which the development is based. And rugby is perfectly placed. With the Allenton club and grounds at the top end, it’s not a huge leap to imagine the flow from junior fields to a first-class playing surface and grandstand to the stadium proper.

It’s an opportunity begging to be taken up.

YOUR VIEW Civic service Your coverage of the civic service for the victims of the [Winz] shootings was lovely (Ashburton Guardian, September 12).

I was there to support my friends and I thought it was nice to see so many people there to support each other. Well done to those people.

It was a very moving ceremony. It is just a shame more people were not there to see it.

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joy their lifestyle – and once again the council has let the people down. Help them out, clean your mess up.

J. Mowatt Ashburton District Council district forester Terry O’Neill responds: The neighbouring plantation has been harvested and the boundary fence cleared when recent land preparation operations were completed.

A fencing contractor is expected to complete the boundary fence next week.

Storm damage

Daffodil Day

After reading the article about Noel and Rose Ashton’s property (Ashburton Guardian, September 10) I cannot believe that, after a year, the council has not had a contractor in to tidy up their trees.

Honest people trying to en-

I would like to thank the people of Mid Canterbury for their overwhelming generosity in supporting Daffodil Day this year.

A final tally of over $22,000 was raised.

Donations enable the Cancer

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Society to provide free support services and information, fund important scientific cancer research and implement health promotion initiatives to reduce the risk of cancer.

The Cancer Society is an independent non-government organisation dedicated to reducing the incidence and impact of cancer in the community through support, information and research and health promotion.

No-one budgets for cancer and the impact a diagnosis has on the family is huge. Latest statistics state 55 people in New Zealand are diagnosed with cancer each day.

Thank you again, Mid Canterbury, for supporting the Cancer Society.

Annie Bonifant Cancer Society of New Zealand Mid Canterbury Manager

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Do you support the US air strikes against Iraq?

Yes 82% Felicity Stacey-Clark

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s a child, hearing stories about Britain and Europe at war, what stayed with me the most were not the horrors, although they certainly weren’t erased, but the goodness that shone through.

Stories of the people who risked their own lives to save or help others, and those who held out their hands in comfort and support, stay in my mind.

They were the people who fed, hid or otherwise helped those at the greatest risk, often putting their own lives on the line in the process.

The last couple of weeks have been sombre and scary ones for Ashburton residents.

Much of the town was in lockdown as the events of September 1 took place.

There were those who weren’t specifically locked down, who huddled behind their curtains and waited.

They may not have waited specificaly for a gunman, but there is little doubt that they knew fear in their own homes and workplaces.

I don’t recall Ashburton people I know being fearful in that way, even when Constable

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Today’s online poll question Q: Do you spend the last two hours of your working week planning your weekend?

Support for the survivors of the Winz shootings will need to be ongoing.

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Vince Nolan was shot while on watch-house duty in the old police station in Mona Square in the early 70s.

I’ve heard several people question why the gunman hadn’t been in psychiatric care since he was apparently noticeably angry and unstable.

The question there is, who decides someone needs that care and what residential services are available for them?

More and more often we hear of peope who have committed crimes and are unfit to plead.

So where do they go? They often end up in a prison system which is ill-equipped to deal with the mentally ill.

We have farewelled our dead as best we know how.

But let’s not forget there are other Winz victims who live with the memories and the horrors of that day.

Understandably, the family of the seriously wounded staff member has asked for privacy, and I hope we continue to demonstrate our respect by sticking with that.

But let’s not forget that in addition to her injuries there will be the memories,.

That’s true too for those who were on the scene, and physically saw and heard the entire bloody affair.

Despite their lack of visible wounds, they will live with the memories of September 1 for the rest of their lives.

They are heroes too.

They may have been taken cakes and flowers, but in time memories fade, and it will be easy for those of us who weren’t there, to believe the victims have put it to the back of their minds.

But it just doesn’t work like that. The memories will be with them forever.

Can we take heed of the community spirit demonstrated in previous tragedies to get behind them and show that Ashburton too can be a caring and loving place?

Not just for today, but for as long as it is needed.

And the survivors are the ones who decide when or if the need is over.

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here was a very interesting letter to the Editor in Tuesday’s Guardian from Rodger Letham about the recent tragedy in Ashburton.

He wrote about how our lovely town has been battered and bruised by recent events and how many wrong ideas and values have entered our lovely country and become normalised.

I would like to quote from his letter: “We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

“We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

“We have ridiculed the time-

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honoured values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.”

How has this happened? Earlier in our history our values came from the words of Jesus Christ.

Now there is almost a vacuum into which the ideas of the singers and actors of Hollywood are promoted as normal.

Do we need to blindly absorb their lifestyle, language and values? Do we want them setting the values in our country?

It is worth considering how many of those singers and actors end up badly in their lives.

The area of sex education is important.

Schools teach the how of sex, but not much on the when or with whom. It appears to be with someone you “care about”.

Is this truthful? Research suggests the more sexual partners there are the less the chances of settling happily with one.

Settling with one married partner is the best scenario for the upbringing of healthy children. We have great compassion for people with relationship problems, while still upholding a Christian ideal of marriage.

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Is there a better way? Two hundred years ago the gospel came to this land. It is almost written out of the history, but huge numbers of Maori became Christians, including some of my Ngai Tahu ancestors.

Soon a project will begin on television with the aim of explaining the gospel of Jesus Christ and how that good news has changed people’s lives.

When people open their hearts to Jesus they are changed in a deep way.

The values flow from our relationship with Jesus. It changed our land 200 years ago and I hope it will happen again.

David Hyslop is from the Assembly of God church

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Guilty: culpable homicide Olympian Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide, one day after his shock murder acquittal over the death of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

South African Judge Thokozile Masipa read out her verdict in the Pretoria High Court yesterday.

On the charge of murder, Masipa said, “the accused is found not guilty and is discharged, instead he is found guilty of culpable homicide.”

Steenkamp’s father Barry leaned forward in his seat when the culpable homicide verdict was read. Her mother, June, showed no reaction.

Members of Pistorius’ family embraced the shamed athlete as the judge called for a short adjournment.

On Thursday, on the first day of delivering her verdict, Masipa had criticised Pistorius for acting hastily when he shot Steenkamp.

“If the accused, for example, had awoken in the middle of the night and in darkness seen a silhouette by his bed and in a panic shot at that figure, only to find it was the deceased, his conduct would have been understandable and perhaps excusable,” she said.

“The accused had reasonable time to think, reflect and conduct himself.

“I’m not persuaded that a reasonable person with the same disability would have fired the

Centre of attention: Escorted by police and security, Oscar Pistorius, centre, makes his way through media to enter the court in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday.

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four shots. The accused knew there was a person behind the toilet door, he chose to use a firearm.

“I am of the view the accused acted too hastily and used too much force. It is clear his conduct is negligent.”

Earlier yesterday Pistorius was cleared of two gun charges and convicted of a third.

The guilty verdict related to an incident at a restaurant where more than 200 people were present in January 2013, although Pistorius denied he was the one to pull the trigger.

“The accused asked for a fire-

arm while in a restaurant full of patrons,” Judge Masipa said.

“He may not have intentionally pulled the trigger but that does not absolve him.”

She added: “I view the state has proved beyond all reasonable doubt” that Pistorius contravened gun laws.

Pistorius was found not guilty of illegally being in possession of .38 ammunition.

He told the court the bullets belonged to his father and he had them for safe-keeping, although his father refused to make a statement confirming that.

“The state must prove the accused had the necessary mental intention ... to possess a firearm or ammunition before there can be a conviction.

“It is quite possible to possess a firearm innocently is clear if ... with an intention of returning it to an owner.

“He cannot be found guilty on this count.”

Pistorius was earlier cleared of another gun charge. The incident related to an allegation that the Olympian fired his weapon through a car sunroof in November 2012.

- AFP/PA

Moscow reacts angrily to new sanctions Tough new EU sanctions have come into effect against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, with Moscow angrily accusing its foes of trying to wreck the push for peace in the former Soviet state.

US President Barack Obama had also announced yesterday that Washington would intensify punitive measures against Moscow over its “illegal actions” in Ukraine to further isolate the Kremlin, despite a ceasefire deal between Kiev and the pro-Russia separatists unveiled six days ago.

The co-ordinated announcements came after Kiev and NATO said around 1000 Russian troops remained in Ukraine after allegedly crossing the border to bolster the

Fans have been told not to worry about terrorism at the AFL and NRL finals and just enjoy the football. “We certainly want people to enjoy the football if their teams are lucky enough to be in the grand final,” Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters yesterday. “But what you almost certainly will notice is some additional security, the presence of perhaps somewhat more police than might otherwise be the case.”

Security will be increased at football finals in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Townsville this weekend, following the lift in Australia’s terrorism alert level from medium to high.

- AAP

Marine allowed home

■ UKRAINE

By Tanya Willmer

Terror at finals?

separatist rebellion in what has been described as an invasion by stealth.

Kiev also acknowledged that the insurgents have extended their control over territory on the eastern border to the Sea of Azov after a lightning counteroffensive last month reportedly backed by elite Russian forces.

The European Union’s latest restrictions target major Russian oil, finance and defence companies and impose asset freezes and visa bans on a host of Russian figures as well as rebels in Ukraine and annexed Crimea.

However, the 28-member bloc held out the prospect that they could be lifted after a review of the truce at the end of September.

The Russian ruble sank to a new historic low of 37.72

against the US dollar yesterday.

Moscow, its economy already on the brink of recession, had responded furiously to the new measures by its largest trading partner.

“By taking this measure, the EU has practically decided against the process of a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis,” the foreign ministry said, urging Europe to give Ukraine “a chance for peace”.

The EU move had been delayed after some member states - wary that further Kremlin reprisals could hit their own fragile economies - had said they wanted to wait and see what happened on the ground in Ukraine before acting.

Russia’s neighbours in eastern Europe have accused energy giant Gazprom of slashing gas deliveries in what analysts

say was a message directed at Brussels, although Moscow denied such a move.

Russia has threatened to bar EU airlines from its airspace, and said it has drawn up a list targeting imports of consumer goods and second-hand cars from the West.

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said the EU could “amend, suspend or repeal” the sanctions depending on the results of a comprehensive review of the ceasefire at the end of the month.

The stepped up restrictions reflect deep Western suspicions over Moscow’s territorial ambitions in its western neighbour after the seizure of Crimea in March in the chaotic weeks that followed the ouster of a pro-Kremlin leader in Kiev.

- AFP

India’s top court has ruled that a sick Italian marine detained over the 2012 killing of two fishermen can go home for medical treatment. The Supreme Court said yesterday it had agreed to allow Massimiliano Latorre to head home after the Italian ambassador undertook to ensure he returned to India to stand trial. Latorre, 47, and fellow marine Salvatore Girone are accused of shooting the fishermen while serving as part of an anti-piracy mission on an Italianflagged oil tanker, the Enrica Lexie, in February 2012.

- AFP

Prince Harry distressed A police officer in Prince Harry’s motorcade has had to be taken to hospital after hitting a car as the royal was on his way to an engagement. The police motorcyclist was thrown from his motorbike after colliding with the car near Regent’s Park in London and had to be taken to hospital for treatment. According to one witness, speaking to the Daily Mail, the Prince looked “distressed” in his Range Rover.

- PA

No change to G20 Security plans for world leaders visiting Brisbane remain unchanged despite an increase to Australia’s terrorism alert level. The nation’s threat level has been raised from medium to high, meaning a terrorist attack is likely, just two months before the G20 summit. But Queensland Premier Campbell Newman denies the event has made Brisbane a target. “There was always going to be a major security operation for the G20 in Brisbane,” he said yesterday.

- AAP

Hollande in Iraq French President Francois Hollande has arrived in Iraq to support the new government, in the first visit by a head of state since jihadists overran large parts of the country three months ago. Hollande’s plane was carrying 15 tonnes of humanitarian aid to be delivered in the Kurdish capital of Arbil later yesterday, after talks in Baghdad with his counterpart Fuad Masum, parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi and Prime Minister Haidar alAbadi. France has been supplying arms to Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State jihadist group since August and has also been flying in humanitarian supplies. France was prepared to take part in US-led air strikes against the militants in Iraq “if necessary”.

- AFP

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SITUATIONS VACANT proud of our people. progressive setting a new standard. partnership working hard together.

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PROCESS WORKERS NEEDED

Due to our ever increasing work load and expansion of our precast manufacturing facilities, we seek to fill the following positions:

Silver Fern Farms is looking for seasonal staff for the 2014-2015 processing season at our Fairton Plant, Ashburton.

Precast Workers Concrete Placers Concrete Finishers General Labourers

• Ashburton Location • Mid Canterbury

We offer a great team environment, the money’s good, and you’ll be working with a proud team of people in a progressive food processing company.

So if you enjoy working as part of a team, have a ‘can do’ attitude, keen to learn, not afraid of a bit of hard work, and are a New Zealand Citizen/Resident, or hold an open valid work permit, then we want to hear from you.

Just remember that Silver Fern Farms is working hard to maintain a drug and alcohol free workplace. Pre-employment drug testing is mandatory.

To apply, call into the Fairton Plant Main Office, Office Rd Fairton, RD 2 Ashburton to complete an application form or email francis.renner@silverfernfarms.co.nz Alternatively apply online at careers.silverfernfarms.co.nz

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a newly formed family operated business that is set to become one of the leading suppliers of Architectural Precast Concrete in the South Island.

Excellent remuneration will be paid to the right candidates.

All applicants will be dealt with in the strictest confidence.

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FREW & LEADLEY

WANTED: Carpenter Labourer Want to extend your Accounting punch?

See the Ashburton Guardian Accounts Administrator position in today’s Situations Vacant section. . .

Please apply in writing to: Carpenter/Labourer Frew & Leadley Housing Company P O Box 5010 Tinwald, Ashburton 7741 Or contact Geoff or Ross on 03 308 4606 Applications close September 19, 2014.

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Showcasing Natalie’s quilts and a sneak peek of her latest designs.

Friday, September 19 at 7.30 pm Linton Lounge, Ashburton RSA, Cox Street.

Tickets are $5.00 each and the evening includes a light supper and spot prizes.

Please RSVP to Annie’s Country Quilt Store by 12.9.14 307 6277 - rachel@anniesquilts.co.nz

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Manager Community & Youth Development, YMCA Ashburton (Full-time, NEW position)

Neighbourhood Support is a community initiative working to: 9 Create safer more caring communities 9 Reduce the incidences and effects of criminal offending 9 Strengthening communities’ networks 9 Improve quality of life Ashburton District Neighbourhood Support is looking for an individual to lead a new phase of growth for the organisation across the Ashburton District. Although we currently have a good base to work from we are looking to further grow membership of Neighbourhood Support in rural areas of our district. As such we require someone with a proven track record in building relationships with individuals from a wide array of backgrounds and strategic partnerships with groups, businesses and organisations. The ideal candidate will be able to answer yes to the following questions: 9 Are you passionate about community safety and wellbeing?

9 Do you have a proven track record in service coordination?

9 Are you a skilled communicator with excellent relationship management?

9 Do you have excellent organisational and time management skills?

9 Do you have a knowledge of and commitment to the principles of Neighbourhood Support?

9 Do you have the ability to work in a flexible manner?

Your role would be to maintain, grow, promote and coordinate Neighbourhood Support across the Ashburton District maintaining existing partnerships and seeking new opportunities to support this work. It is envisaged the coordinator will spend the majority of their time out and about making connections and building relationships. You would be required to pound the pavement and knock on doors so you must be comfortable with working in this way.

This position is for 20 hours per week and is based at the Ashburton Police Station.

Applications close Friday, September 26.

For an application pack please contact Mary Bailey at:

Are you passionate about the future of your community?

Are you able to “roll up your sleeves” and convert opportunities into financially sustainable community outcomes?

Are you a strategic thinker, who can develop, design and deliver community and youth development programmes and/or services?

The YMCA is looking to strengthen its community presence within the Ashburton District by working alongside other community agencies and service providers to strengthen, coordinate and develop new programmes and/or services within the Ashburton District.

To be successful in this role you will have: • A tertiary qualification relevant to the position and/or relevant experience • Significant experience in community and youth development • Exceptional relationship and communication skills and ideally established networks • Creative, visionary, confident, innovative problem solving skills • Experience in developing and managing community and youth events • Experience in managing finances, within agreed budgets • A passion about making a difference in young peoples’ lives • The confidence to facilitate a wide range of community planning initiatives with a view to identifying opportunities to strengthen collaborative working in the community.

• A positive, pro-active, community minded, team-spirited attitude • Proven experience of managing and inspiring a cohesive staff team • A full drivers licence As a part of the wider YMCA South and Mid Canterbury, staff are offered a supportive and collegial team environment, training and professional development opportunities and the chance to be a part of a well-regarded, values based organisation.

Please contact us for a job description.

Applications close 23 September 2014.

Please send your application, marked ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ to:

Christina Cullimore, Senior Manager Community Development YMCA, P O Box 777 Timaru Or e-mail

christina@ymcasc.org.nz

Located at: 20 William Street, Ashburton 7700 Phone: 03 308 1395 www.saferashburton.org.nz Email: info@saferashburton.org.nz We offer a collegial, family friendly and flexible work environment.

ESOL Tutor

Ashburton Based • Casual Aoraki Polytechnic is seeking a qualified ESOL tutor to deliver an Intensive English Language programme.

The successful applicant would ideally; • Hold a Qualification in ESOL teaching • A minimum of 3 years teaching experience • Available to start from October • Knowledge or experience of

the primary industry would be preferable The position description and application form are available on our website at www.aoraki.ac.nz/ about-us/employment Please email your application to Leonie Rasmussen leonie.rasmussen@aoraki.ac.nz Applications close 5.00pm Thursday 18th September 2014

For more details contact us:

0800 426 725 www.aoraki.ac.nz

Vet Nurse / Clinic Assistant (Approximately 30 hours per week) Canterbury Vets Ltd is a busy mixed animal veterinary practice with clinics in Ashburton and Methven. Due to our continuing business growth, we seek an additional member to join our friendly and professional team.

You will need to be reliable, 100% customer focused, passionate about animals, highly organised with excellent communication skills, and a willingness to learn new skills. The successful applicant will also have the following qualities:

Respite care family needed Occasional respite care required for our son who is 18 years old Also regular carer support hours on either a Saturday or a Sunday.

If you are passionate about working with a special needs person, and this sounds like you, then please send your application letter to:

heatherdaly2@xtra.co.nz Applications close September 22, 2014

• Ability to follow instructions, while also having initiative to identify areas requiring attention and taking action • Willingness to help out where required • A full drivers license • Clean to an excellent standard • Flexibility with regard to unexpected requests taking priority over planned duties • Ability to stay ‘focused’ with minimal supervision, and accomplish required tasks by designated deadlines.

• Vet nurse qualifications/training would be an advantage.

This position involves some heavy lifting, assisting in our Methven clinic on a regular basis, and some weekend work.

If the above describes you, then please apply with a hand written letter and enclose your Curriculum Vitae to: Practice Manager Canterbury Vets Ltd 363 West Street ASHBURTON Applications close Monday 22 September 2014.

Monday-Friday 8am – 5.30pm Saturday 10am – 1pm

0800 LASER 4 U (0800 527 374) www.laserelectrical.co.nz

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Grain and Seed Co-ordinator Ashburton ATS is a farmer owned rural supplies co-operative based in Mid Canterbury.

Are you an Accounts Administrator that stands out?

Accounts Administrator Flexibility to be full-time or part-time This varied role will stretch your organisation skills as you will be managing internal and external queries, alongside daily and monthly accounting tasks, so your ability to organise and prioritise your workload is essential! This role is key to ensure the routine departmental accounting functions are solid and, sits within a small team, so you’ll be asked to roll your sleeves up and take on a variety of tasks.

Specific aspects of the role will include: • Payroll • Accounts Payable • Accounts Receivable • GST/FBT We are looking for a flexible and adaptable accounts-all-rounder that stands out from the crowd! Preferably you will have a relevant qualification or you are currently studying accounting. However, consideration will be given to candidates with relevant experience, who can demonstrate themselves to be quick learners, with the right attitude and a positive approach.

Your accounting experience will include: • demonstrable accounts knowledge • minimum two years relevant work experience and familiarity with accounting packages • payroll experience • confident user of Microsoft Office including solid Excel skills • be self-managing with analytical and logical problem solving skills • must have excellent oral and written communication skills To view a position description please visit guardianonline.co.nz and search AG101 To apply, please email your CV, cover letter and relevant work references to: kirstin.c@theguardian.co.nz

This dynamic and growing organisation has a membership of more than 3,000 shareholders. It operates three local farm supply stores and has a team of around 50 full-time staff. Through ATS, members are able to obtain sound technical advice about purchasing appropriate farm inputs, and can purchase fuel, fertiliser and electricity at competitive rates. Members are also able to take advantage of the Ruralco discount charge card.

ATS now wishes to appoint a full-time Grain and Seed Co-ordinator. In this newly created role, you will report to the General Manager of Seed. You will work from the Ashburton office and interact daily with all Grain and Seed stakeholders.

Competencies required to succeed in the role include: • Ability to relate to both farmers and seed industry business representatives • A willingness to learn the details of trading and product management • Agronomy or other relevant agricultural experience • Good administration skills • Experience with logistics and stock control would be beneficial.

To enquire in confidence about this role, please phone either Al Coll on 027 229 1444 or Deb Francis on 021 224 5000. Otherwise, send your CV with covering letter to apply@agrecruit.co.nz (Quote ref ATSGS) by Thursday 25 September.

We specialise in agri-business

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Required for busy, property maintenance company. Variety of work from new commercial and residential to HNZ. Experience essential.

Stockperson ANZCO Foods Limited is one of New Zealand’s largest exporters employing over 3,000 staff worldwide. A dynamic, multinational company, ANZCO’s core purpose is to procure, process and market New Zealand beef and lamb products to the world.

As part of ANZCO, Five Star Beef operates a large scale beef feedlot, finishing up to 30,000 head of beef cattle annually.

Phone Shane on 307-7071

We are looking for a Stockperson to join our team. This role covers the health and welfare of the cattle including the areas of inspection, treatment and sorting of animals. Most of the stock work is performed on horseback.

You will be a competent horse rider, be conscientious, reliable and work effectively within a small team. You will be required to supply 2 of your own horses, which the company will feed, stable and maintain. There is also a requirement to work rostered weekends.

For all your classified requirements.

Ready to start your career, apply online careers.anzcofoods.com or post your CV and covering letter to: Emma Collett, Five Star Beef Ltd PO Box 42, Ashburton 7740.

Phone: 03 308 1599

Phone the Guardian 307 7900

Applications close 4pm Friday 26 September.

Truck Driver Jackson Holmes Ltd. is a well established agricultural contracting business based in Methven. We operate a modern fleet of equipment, providing a range of contracting services as well as feed supplement trading and compost product supply services. An outline of our business and the services we provide is on our website: www.jacksonholmes.co.nz We are looking for an experienced driver to join our team. We provide good work hours, a friendly atmosphere and competitive pay rates.

Job Description: • Routine driving and maintenance of truck and trailer units both flat deck and bulk • Some operation of other agricultural equipment.

We offer: • Excellent remuneration • Varied and interesting role • Training as required Requirements: • Positive friendly attitude • Good communication skills • Ability to work in a team environment • Class 4 or 5 heavy vehicle licence essential.

This is a full time position commencing immediately Please email: todd@jacksonholmes.co.nz or phone (027) 279 8926

STOCK/BULK TRUCK DRIVER Mayfield Transport/Hobbs & Banks Transport Ltd is a rural based company which operates a modern fleet of trucks. We are looking for an experienced Class 5 Truck Driver.

Suitable candidates will have: • A FULL and current class 5 truck and trailer licence • Relevant driving experience (additional training will be given) • Self-motivation and a can-do attitude • Excellent references To apply, please call Mick on 03 303 6102 (Extension 1) or 027 435 4371 or email your current CV to mick.mayfieldtransport@xtra.co.nz.

Wanted – We require the services of a Volunteer Van/Truck Driver for our Family Store Do you have some time on your hands and would like to give back to the community?

We would live to hear from you.

You will need good health as some heavy lifting is required; a clean full drivers licence and be able to give 4 hours on Tuesday and Thursday mornings

Please call us on 308 7610

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Team Leader, Training For Work Programme, YMCA Ashburton - (Full-time, NEW position) YMCA Ashburton offers an employment focused programme, where adult participants are empowered and/or supported to secure permanent sustainable employment and obtain their Learner Driver Licence or staircase to a Restricted or Full Driver Licence.

We seek a passionate, skilful and motivated person to join our team to lead, manage and facilitate our Training For Work Programme and also to deliver Class 1 Driver Licence instruction.

Is this you?

• you are able to communicate effectively with adult participants and with potential employers • you have good local business and employment networks and are outcome focused • you enjoy making a difference in peoples’ lives and bringing about positive change • you are self motivated and have a passion to be part of a strong, cohesive YMCA team • you have proven classroom/work broker delivery skills, whilst able to lead, coach and empower both staff and adult participants • you hold a clean full Class 1 Driver’s Licence and ideally the incumbent would also hold a Class 1 “I” endorsement (Driving Instructor qualification) Please contact us for a job description and/or send your application, marked ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ to:

Sharyn Kake, Manager Training For Work, YMCA, P O Box 777, Timaru or e-mail sharyn@ymcasc.org.nz Applications close 17 September 2014

Netherby Meats Three positions have become available within our busy business Butcher, Small goods Assistant and Slaughter man

Vacancy for Civil Construction Foreman Stuart Tarbotton Contractors would like to recruit a suitable person to fill the above vacancy.

The Successful person will be: • Self Motivated and have experience in the Civil Construction Industry.

• Display Good Work Ethics and be able to work in a team environment.

• Have an ability to read plans and interpret levels.

• Be a good communicator and display and ability to lead a small team.

• Display a can do attitude and possess good problem solving skills.

• Be punctual and complete all paper work in a timely manner.

• Maintain good client relations and adhere to Company Policies.

• Have a clean drivers licence with class 4 as a minimum.

In return for the right applicant a competitive remuneration package will be negotiated.

Stuart Tarbotton Contractors is a small family based Company operating in Ashburton and surrounding districts specialising in a range of Civil Construction projects including Sub Divisions, Commercial Projects, Car Parks, Household Driveways, On farm Site works etc..

To apply please send your CV with a covering Letter to: Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Limited P O Box 5072 Tinwald, Ashburton 7741 or Email to: office.stc@xtra.co.nz Phone: 0274 350 963 or 0274 915 636 All Applicants will be treated with the strictest confidence.

Ashburton Racecourse TRACK & RACECOURSE MANAGER Applications are invited for the above position. The successful applicant will have responsibility for the all weather Harness Track, training tracks, grounds, buildings & facilities. This is a full time position and if you are a great communicator with the necessary skills to work to deadlines, we would like to hear from you.

A job description is available from ashrace@xtra.co.nz or by phoning the Ashburton Raceway on (03) 308-6794.

Applications including a current CV and cover letter will be accepted by post, email or at reception.

Applications close on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 Fiona Stuart Manager Ashburton Racing Centre P.O. Box 54, Ashburton 7740

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The persons we are looking for will have to demonstrate the following qualities: • Working as a team member • Supervising and training of staff • Provide support to other business functions and our customers • Experience in making small goods (sausages, bacon etc) this is not essential as training will be provided for the right person.

• Able to work hard and have fun at the same time.

The successful applicant will need to have the following: • A Butcher qualification or equivalent experience.

• Experience in boning sheep, beef, pigs and deer.

• Able to demonstrate good knife skills and presentation for high quality product to our customers.

• Work unsupervised with a disciplined work style.

• Must have a NZ Firearms licence for the Slaughterman position • Slaughterman position with flexible hours may suit a hunter • All three positions requires a high level of fitness Weekend work is sometimes required. If you feel you are the right person for this position and would like to be a part of our team, with a full time job offered we would like to hear from you Please send your C.V or fill an application form at Netherby Meats, 212 Chlamers Ave, Ashburton or email info@netherbymeats.co.nz

Truck Driver Needed!

Due to increased work load we require another driver Successful applicant must be physically fit, enthusiastic and hold a Class 4 truck license.

To apply call 021 327 318 Casual Position Ecowize NZ is a hygiene cleaning company who are looking for casual staff.

They are in charge of cleaning ANZCO Ashburton.

Immediate start Training and P.P.E gear all supplied.

Night shift 7:30pm-1:00pm Contact Maurice Robinson 021 835 684

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Driver/Milk Round Duties

Mt Somers Excavation

We currently have a full-time position for a driver to carry out Milk Round duties, which could also include some vineyard work.

Digger / Truck & Trailer Driver Wanted

We are seeking applications from people with the following attributes:

Must have full class 5 license and five years digger experience minimum.

Days of work and hours will be discussed at the time of interview.

If this sounds like you to being multi task, then please apply to:

Charles & Esma Hill Meadow Fresh Milk Vendors/ CharRees Vineyard Ashburton Mobile: 0274 846 269 After hours: 308 9705

You will be responsible for driving new business, increasing market share and achieving sales objective. This role would involve New Zealand wide travel.

To be successful in this role you will: • You will be a self-starter who has the ability to develop rapport with customers and suppliers alike • Have experience in the agriculture industry • Have strong verbal and written communication skills • Commit 100% of your time as this is a full time role The company has a fun and rewarding culture where you will feel part of the team and enjoy excellent working conditions. In additions to this the role offers the following: • Competitive remuneration package • A support team that is dedicated to driving your success • A supportive and friendly work environment Applications close September 29, 2014, please email our C.V. along with a covering letter to:

andrew@quigleycontracting.co.nz.

5 Fixed Term Positions As we are coming into our busy spring/ summer season Mitre 10 MEGA Ashburton now have vacancies for:

Green Garden

October to January, 32 hours.

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Seasonal (Outdoor Furniture) October to February, 24 hours.

Sunday to Tuesday.

Power Garden

September to January, 32 hours.

Friday to Monday.

Housewares

October for 12 months, 16 hours.

Week 1 – Thursday and Saturday.

Week 2 – Saturday and Sunday.

Seasonal (Outdoor Furniture)

Netherby Shopping Centre, Ashburton

- A commitment to excellent customer service.

- The ability to work under pressure and in a team environment.

- Have excellent communication skills.

- Be fit and able, as some heavy lifting is required.

- A Class 2 Licence essential

Quigley Contracting Ltd is an Agricultural Contracting Business incorporating silage baling, chopping, transport, cultivation and drilling operations. Due to our continued growth a rare opportunity exists for a sales representative to join the Quigley Team.

Job will include general farm maintenance and possible irrigation work, therefore irrigation experience would be an advantage.

Must be able to work unsupervised and within a team demonstrating good communication skills.

Full or part time position to suit the right applicant.

To apply: Phone: Allister 0274 347 278 Email: mtsomersexcavation@xtra.co.nz

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16 hours. Sunday and Monday.

If you think you are the people we are looking for, please send you CV and covering letter, stating which position you are interested in, to: hr.ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Human Resources, PO Box 35, Ashburton 7740 Applications remain confidential and close on Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Kitchen Positions Available 1 - Sous / Grill Chef 2 - Chef de-Partie 3 - Junior Chef Kitchen Hand Previous experience necessary. Must have current New Zealand working visa or residency.

Full or part-time as required Ph. 03 302 6064 Email bookings@thelakehouse.net.nz

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TENDERS

PLANTS, PRODUCE

BUILDING LTD

Green grapes

Millstream Hospital Tender Closing Thursday, September 25 at 12 noon Subcontractors & Suppliers pricing the above are invited to submit their quotations to: Phone: (03) 308 9039 Fax: (03) 308 1191 e-mail: clark@bradfords.co.nz

Pineapples Carrots 1 kg NZ peppers Jazz apples

Tender

– C625 Pipe Laying & Reinstatement of Stockwater and Replacement of Kerb and Channel, Ashburton District, 2014/15

TRADES, SERVICES

Tenders are invited for pipe laying and reinstatement of Stockwater and replacement of kerb and channel on Harrison Street, Allens Road and Wellington Street, Ashburton District, 2014/15.

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

• •

Pipe laying and reinstatement of the Stockwater on Harrison Street.

The replacement kerb and channel on: » Harrison Street - North side from Bathurst Street to intersection with Allens Road » Allens Road - North side from intersection with Harrison Street to Middle Road » Wellington Street - North side from Oxford Street to Trevors Road Tender documents are available from the Ashburton District Council, PO Box 94, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton, 7740 - Phone (03) 307 7700, Fax (03) 308 1836. All inquiries should be directed to Hernando Marilla Contracts Engineer - Urban.

Tenders close with the Chief Executive, Ashburton District Council, at 4.00pm, Tuesday 30 September 2014.

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Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

NEIL McCANN Group Manager Service Delivery

307 7900

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz Honda’s range of lawn and garden advanced 4-stroke technology products offer everything you need to make gardening a dream.

ASHBURTON 832 East St 03 307 9911 www.dne.co.nz 0800 432 633

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

REAL ESTATE

OPEN HOME

DEER FENCING and Posts Wanted. 2000 metres of deer fencing 1.800 and posts, strainers, etc. Please ph Darryn 021 373 582.

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WANTED

WANTED to hire - three berth caravan from 20-12-2014 to 10-01-2015. WOF and rego a must. Phone 308 9561 pm.

308-1095

RURAL TRADING POST PEARSON GRANTWAY Silage Wagon

TRADES, SERVICES

• 202m2 • Three bedrooms • Two bathrooms

COMPUTER PROBLEMS? For Prompt, Reliable Service contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Ph 308 8989.

30 years local experience.

SUPERGOLD discount card accepted.

Saturday, Sept 13 12.30pm - 1.30pm

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

Ph 027 433 9345

RURAL TRADING POST

296 Wills Street, Ashburton

Trademe # DYP983

WANTED

$2.99 each $1.49 a bag $1.99 each $1.99 kg

Specials available from 9/09 - 16/09

The works included in this contract are:

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

$3.99 kg

WANTED

FOR spring feed wheat/feed barley requirements contact Midlands Seed Limited on (03) 308 1265 or (027) 444 5122.

GRAIN silo for removal Cosgrove 80 T wheat. 18 foot diameter, flat bottom.. Half RUSTY barbed wire wanted. top ring and half roof panels Will pick up. Please phone damaged. Offers? Please 021 129 9439. phone 027 460 5879.

- Hydraulic drive - Adjustable feedout speed - Floor area 2.450 x 1.800 - Suitable for large squares - Very good condition Phone 308 0222 or 027 438 2311.

PLANTS, PRODUCE CONVENTIAL Pea Straw, good quality and weed free. $5 per bale delivered. Ph 027 390 0002.

Call Elliot to tend to all your rural electrical needs . . ElectraServe, for everything electrical 24/7 Breakdown Service Dairy Effluent Irrigation Generators

Industrial Commercial Residential

the ElectraServe guarantee

Blair Watson, General Manager personally guarantees ElectraServe’s tradesmen’s workmanship. If you are not 100% satisfied with the quality of the work, ElectraServe will put it right . . . every time, or your money back.

a 166 moore street ashburton p 03 308 9008 e service@electraserve.co.nz w www.electraserve.co.nz

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

DUTY DOCTORS

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your Community Services Card.

Sealy Street Medical Practice, Sealy Street, will be the duty doctor for Saturday and Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm both days. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

For weekend doctor and emergency details - please telephone the Methven Medical Centre, ph 303 8105.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner.

Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners note of referral.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

Methven Pharmacy, Main Street, Methven, Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) will be open from 4pm - 6pm Saturday and or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholicsSunday. Phone 302 8103. anonymous.org.nz for more information.

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL WARD 1 - DAILY, 10am - 11.30am and 2pm - 7.30pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, -unrestricted visiting.

MENTAL HEALTH Call free on 0800

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE

INFORMATION CENTRES

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

COLDSTREAM HOUSE - DAILY, unrestricted Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days. visiting.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 CAMERON COURTS - DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

OMMUNITY ERVICES PRINCES COURT - DAILY, unrestricted ART GALLERY visiting.

Due to relocation, the Art Gallery is closed EMERGENCY DENTIST until further notice.

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY for the name of the rostered weekend dentist Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Saturday: 10:00am - 1:00pm PHARMACIES Sunday 1:00pm - 4:00pm Unichem Ashburton Pharmacy, East Street, Sundays and Public Holidays. will be open from 9.30am - 12.30pm Saturday ASHBURTON MUSEUM and from 10.30am - 12noon Sunday, and from ELPLINE ERVICES Due to relocation, the Ashburton Museum is 6.30pm - 7pm both evenings. closed until further notice.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

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WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm.

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES

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ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021

1356 969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Rd, Methven.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Steve Williams. Small: Katherine Lewis.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Reon McMurtie &Susan Geddes. Small: Ref VetEnt. VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Ian Hodge & Tammy Wilson. Small: Nina Fields.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 999, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallentstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-

DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL hours small animal emergency service. To use Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 this service please phone your vet as usual. hour service

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MEETINGS, EVENTS

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Look out for Steve Gibson Candidate for Rangitata At a street meeting or event near you

All Stock

Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 4:00pm

Shimano corvalUs reel $140 TASyS $4 ABU reel 6500 $190

Phone 0211 703 192

Ashburton & Methven Including election day Call Elaine Ph 3072688 Authorised by Steve Gibson, 128 Pages Road, Timaru.

PERSONAL

ALONE???

Stop searching for someone we already know!

You deserve love and happiness so call today and get in touch with someone wonderful who is match-made just for you!

0800 856 640 til 7pm All Ages – Seniors Welcome In town or on the land Or get your free search www.lovesuccess.co.nz

OFFICES, sheds and parking. Close to town boundary. Flexible lease options. Offices may suit one to three small, rural type businesses. Secure and in an exceptionally maintained setting. Fibre and phone services. Please phone 027 475 4241.

307 7900

RODS ’N’ REELS, TICERS, TASYS, RAPALA, GRAPH CAST 2 & 3 BLANKS, NEW & SECOND HAND LURE RODS, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS, DECOYS $50 A DOZ, AMMUNITION 12 GAUGE, CF, .22, LOWA AND MEINDL BOOTS Open Saturday | 9am – 4pm Call: 308 8498, 130 Moore St, Ashburton Please note any goods left for repair and not collected by end of Sept will be sold to cover costs.

ASHBURTON

FIREARMS & SPORTS

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Birthday Greetings

MOTORING

Brought to you by Kitchen Kapers.

VEHICLE GROOMING, Cars, RV/SUV, Utes, Campervans, Buses, Caravans. 10% discount until the end of September. Interior, Exterior, cut and polish. We can pick up and deliver. Robinson Street Auto Groomers, 13 Robinson St, phone Paul 027 887 4786.

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

Matchmaker since 1989

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BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

Daily Events

Chloe Hill Happy 6th Birthday!

Lots of love Mummy and Daddy xxx Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

“Red Pettinice fondant icing”

Was $11.99 NOW ONLY $7.99 For a limited time, while stocks last

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

The Arcade, Ashburton 03 308 8287

10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

BOARDERS wanted. $150 per room. Power and food not included. Please phone 022 3710 857.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

ABSOLUTELY new Asian pretty sexy 24 years, big busty, excellent service.

Phone Grace 021 215 3297.

GRAZING

DAIRY GRAZING available FOR SALE for R.1 and calves, Hinds GOLF CLUBS, right handed area. Phone 027 719 9089. ladies. Four Gallaway woods, Sirlimor irons, near new bag GRASS wanted for lambs, $275. phone 308 9571. mobs of 400 plus, top money for top feed. Phone Mitch 027 GREEN Blue Gum $150, Macrocarpa $150, Old Man 313 1320.

Pine $130. All 3.6m3. Phone WANTED - Grazing for 2 Shane James, Firewood 303 7063. horses - Kirk 308 5856.

GARAGE SALE. 25 McDonald street.

Saturday. Start 9am. Two fridge/freezers, bedroom furniture, plus more.

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

HOT, warm and friendly, mature, busty blonde. In town Friday and Saturday. Phone HIRE FLOAT hire - single, double 022 065 7059. (Don’t forget and tandem. Reasonable your swimming goggles). rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & SUE - Attractive and busty.

Feed. Phone 308-3422 any- Genuine callers only. Please time. no texting. Available all week.

Phone 021 0233 9259.

GARAGE SALES

Church Services

Genuine enquiries

HOUSE TO RENT - Three bedroom. Brick house East side with garage; good heating. No dogs. Available soon. Phone 021 0237 9941.

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LET OR LEASE

For voting assistance

BUSINESS WANTED/SELL

The next meeting of the Ashburton Trust Board will be held in the Head Office Boardroom, Level 1 – Somerset House, Cnr East + Burnett Streets, Ashburton on

Giles Beal Chief Executive

EARLY VOTING NOW OPEN

SALE

FOR SALE

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131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School Hall)

Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays @10.00am Including Children’s church Everyone is welcome.

See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron St’s Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm We hope to see you this Sunday!

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES (Ashburton) St Andrew’s Havelock St. 10am & 7pm

St James

Thomson St. 11am

St Paul’s Oxford St. 9.30am

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 Website

www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

10am Morning Service & Communion

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church) Creche Available Refreshments to follow 24/7 Prayer time ends at 7pm ALL VERY WELCOME

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday All Welcome

Fear not for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

Saturday

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Large variety of toys for hire. Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

10.00am - 12.00noon ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP.

Open for research, all welcome. Upstairs 254 Cameron Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

12.45pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Association Croquet, singles and doubles.

Waireka Croquet Club, The Domain, Philip Street.

7.30pm LAMB OF GOD CHRISTCHRCH. Fr John Rea Ecumenical Healing Meeting, Holy Name Parish Centre, Cnr Burnett and Winter Street, Ashburton.

7.30pm ASHBURTON MUSICAL CLUB. Monthly concert “Musical Mirth” arranged by Alister Argyle. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

Sunday

ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship and Holy Communion led by rev Graham Hawkey. Congregational meeting to follow service. 65 Oxford Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting. Lovett’s Road, Maronan Road.

ASHBURTON M.S.A. QUOITS. All welcome to have a throw. Racecourse Road M.S.A. Sports ground.

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion and blanket blessing, Park St. ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm GOLF CROQUET WAIREKA. Social time at Waireka, Philip Street.

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Have a go at Croquet. Waireka Croquet Club, The Domain, Philip Street.

1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome.

Racecourse Road.

6.30pm - 8.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Youth group meets in youth room. 48 Allens Rd. 7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Service with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

Monday

9.40am MID CANTERBURY MENS PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting with a mini and main speaker.

Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.00am CARDIAC COMPANIONS. Exercises, social time with occasional speakers.

Buffalo Lodge Hall, Cox Street.

10.00am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF.

Members will play a Gross round in grades.

Mayfield Golf course.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Seafield Rd.

2.00pm ASHBURTON GREY POWER. Speaker Sharon Breakwell from Wastebusters.

Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Real women circuit training in the hall, St Andrews Church, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Rd. 8.00pm ASHBURTON ELECTRONIC ORGAN AND KEYBOARD CLUB. Club night concert, visitors welcome, Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9.00am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET West Street.

9.00am - 11.00am ST PAUL’S CHURCH FAIR. All the usual stalls, be early for some great bargains. 65 Oxford Street, Hampstead.

8.00am ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele.

Church lounge, Baring Square East.

ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Spring flower service led by Rev Laurence Ennor, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Rd. 9.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries.

Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Come Dine With Me Omnibus PGR 11:30 Tagata Pasifika Noon Chinese Food In Minutes (Starting Today) 3 12:30 N Real Pasifik A gastronomic journey across New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, presented by international chef and social entrepreneur Robert Oliver.

1pm Paddock To Plate 2pm Four Rooms 3pm F Is Modern Medicine Killing You? 3 0 3:30 F Code – 1 PGR 3 0 4pm Outback Wrangler 3 0 5pm The Fishing Show 0 6pm One News 0 7pm N Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook – Through the Seasons Annabel Langbein goes on a winter dog-sledding adventure, and treats her companions to hot chicken noodle soup. 0 7:30 Location, Location, Location 0 8:30 Coronation Street PGR 0 9:30 Happy Hour 0 10:30 M Tamara Drewe AO 2010 Comedy. Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans. 0

6am Guess How Much I Love You 3 0 6:10 Poppet Stars 0 6:15 Paw Patrol 3 0 6:40 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 7am The Tom And Jerry Show 3 0 7:25 Robot And Monster 3 0 7:50 Randy Cunningham – 9th Grade Ninja 3 0 8:15 Generator Rex 3 0 8:40 Transformers Prime Beasthunters 0 9:05 Regular Show PGR 3 0 9:30 Zeke And Luther 0 10am 2Kaha PGR 10:30 Rodney 3 0 11am The Amazing Race – Australia v New Zealand 3 0 12:10 Oh Sit! 0 1:05 The Vineyard PGR 2pm Secret Life Of The American Teenager PGR 3 0 3pm The Fosters PGR 4pm Step By Step 0 4:30 Full House 3 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 According To Jim 3 0 6pm 72 Hours 0 7pm M The Pacifier PGR 2005 Comedy. Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham. 0 8pm L Lotto This week’s Lotto draw.

8:05 M The Pacifier PGR Continued. 0 8:50 M Observe and Report AO 2009 Comedy. Seth Rogen, Anna Faris. 0 10:35 M Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist PGR 2008 Comedy. Michael Cera, Kat Dennings. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 11am Project Runway – All Stars 30 Noon Million Dollar Listing Josh Flagg and Josh Altman vie for the same client; Madison hosts an exclusive charity event.

1pm America’s Next Top Model – College Edition PGR 3 1:55 The X Factor Australia 3 0 4pm The X Factor Australia 3 The results show for the top 11. 0 5pm Outdoors With Geoff Geoff Thomas showcases the outdoors in New Zealand and abroad.

5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm 3 News 7pm Destroyed in Seconds PGR 3 0 7:30 Ice Road Truckers PGR 0 8:30 SVU AO 0 9:25 Blue Bloods AO 0 10:25 M Frost/Nixon AO 3 2008 Drama History. A retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon, Michael Sheen. 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 8:30 The Wild Thornberrys 3 0 8:55 Rocket Power 9:20 Fanboy And Chum Chum 9:45 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm iCarly 5:30 Big Time Rush 6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 6:30 M Catch That Kid 3 2004 Action.

A 12-year-old girl plans to rob a hi-tech bank to get the money for a life-saving operation for her father.

Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Beals.

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 Noon NRL Fulltime (Highlights) 12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 3pm Bondi Rescue PGR 3:30 Rugby – ITM Cup Canterbury v Wellington.

5:30 Prime News 6pm James May’s 20th Century For most of human history, cities have been low-rise, so James May sets out to discover how the medieval concept of a street has changed to the high-rise.

6:30 N Lorraine Pascale – Home Cooking Made Easy Lorraine Pascale makes roasted butternut squash soup, marshmallow fudge, and five-spice baked ribs.

8:30 M The Godfather Part III AO 3 1990 Crime.

The aging Don tries to legitimise the family business while dealing with a protege’s affair with his daughter.

Al Pacino, Andy Garcia. 0

7pm Storage Wars PGR The buyers go to Oxnard, where Dave looks for gold and finds bronze instead; Darrell and Brandon get into a fight that could spell the end of the Tank Top Twins.

7:30 New Zealand from Above 3 8:30 Rugby – International All Blacks v South Africa.

12:40 Piha Rescue PGR 3 0 1:20 Neighbourhood 3 Exploring New Zealand’s cultural diversity. 0 1:50 L Football – English Premier League Chelsea v Swansea.

From Stamford Bridge in London.

4am Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

12:20 M The Hot Chick AO 2002 Comedy. Anna Faris, Rob Schneider, Matthew Lawrence.

2:25 The Celebrity Apprentice PGR 3 4am Jeremy Kyle USA PGR 3 4:45 Melissa And Joey 3 0 5:05 2Kaha PGR 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

1am Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:45 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia AO 3 12:15 Excused AO 3 12:40 NZOwn PGR 1:15 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am What’s Really In Our Food?

6:30 Kirstie’s Fill Your House For Free Kirstie Allsopp takes on the challenge of transforming homes without spending any money.

7:30 Love The Place You’re In 8:30 Rachel Allen’s Cake Diaries 9am Turkish Delights With Allegra McEvedy 9:30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features 10:30 Bath Crashers 11am Carter Can 11:30 Kirstie’s Fill Your House For Free 12:30 Love Your Garden 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Barter Kings 4pm Fantasy Homes By The Sea With Jenni Falconer.

5pm The People’s Cookbook 6pm Dream Build 6:30 All Roads Lead Home 7:30 Operation Iceberg An expedition to the Arctic investigates the unknown world of icebergs, exploring the creation, life, and death of the frozen behemoths.

8:30 Zen AO A police drama set against the decaying grandeur of Rome.

10:30 A Young Doctor’s Notebook AO 11pm Fantasy Homes By The Sea With Jenni Falconer.

SUNDAY

Midnight Barter Kings 1am The People’s Cookbook 2am Dream Build 2:30 Zen AO 4:30 A Young Doctor’s Notebook AO 5am All Roads Lead Home

11pm Psych PGR Shawn and Gus visit their old nemesis Despereaux, who then uses them to escape and perform one last job before he is extradited to the United States.

Midnight Psych PGR 1am Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Toku Reo 3 2pm The Big Hit PGR 3 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Waka Ama Sprints 3 4:30 Swagger 3 A series where youth become the directors and storytellers of their own stories, and share what is important to them.

5pm Behind The Faces 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Journey To The West 7pm Te Kaea 3 2

THE BOX 6am The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

8:30 Last Man Standing PG 8:55 Survivor – Marquesas Marathon PG 12:15 Mountain Men PG 1:05 No Man’s Land M 1:55 Duck Commander ML 2:20 Billy The Exterminator PGL 2:45 By Any Means ML 3:45 CSI MV 4:35 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

7:30 Last Man Standing PG 8pm Duck Commander ML 8:30 Billy The Exterminator PGL 9pm Lizard Lick Towing MVL 9:30 Mountain Men PG 10:30 No Man’s Land M 11:30 Spartacus – War Of The Damned 18VLS

SUNDAY

12:35 Raw MC 3:20 Spartacus – War Of The Damned 18VLS 4:20 Survivor – Marquesas Marathon PG

7am Golf – US PGA Tour (Replay) Tour Championship by Coca-Cola – Round Two. 10am Golf Central 10:30 Golf – European Tour (Highlights) KLM Open – Round Two. 11am Cycling – Tour Of Britain (Highlights) Stage Six. 11:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Noon L Rugby – Women’s Provincial Championship Bay of Plenty v Auckland.

2pm All Access Mayweather v Maidana II. 2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Bay of Plenty v Auckland. Coverage from Rotorua.

4:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Southland v Northland.

6:30 L Rugby – International All Blacks v South Africa.

9:55 L Rugby – International Australia v Argentina.

From Cbus Super Stadium on the Gold Coast.

12:30 Rugby – International (Replay) 2:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 3am Fox Sports News 3:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) 4am L Golf – US PGA Tour Tour Championship by Coca-Cola – Round Three. From East Lake Golf Club, in Atlanta, Georgia.

SKY SPORT 2 7:30 M The Hulk PGR 2003 Adventure. A research scientist turns into a powerful green monster when his emotions get the better of him.

Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly.

10pm M The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith AO 3 1978 Drama. A half aboriginal man finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and snaps in a violent manner.

SUNDAY

Midnight Te Kaea 3 2 12:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Savage Family Diggers PG 10am Auction Kings PG 10:30 Rise Of The Machines PG 11:30 River Monsters With Jeremy Wade PG 12:30 Dual Survival PG 1:30 MythBusters PG 2:30 Auction Hunters 3pm Auction Hunters 3:30 Clash Of The Ozarks M 4:30 What Happened Next? PG 5pm The Mind Control Freaks M 5:30 Deadliest Catch PG 6:30 Rise Of The Machines PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 King Of Thrones PG 9:30 Fat N’ Furious PG 10:30 Clash Of The Ozarks M 11:30 Boss Hog M

SUNDAY

Midnight House Of Horrors – Kidnapped M 12:30 House Of Horrors – Kidnapped M 1am Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets M 2am Bering Sea Gold PG 3am Bering Sea Gold PG 4am Bering Sea Gold PG 5am MythBusters PG

Frost/Nixon

10:25pm on TV3

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:05 Warm Bodies MV 2013 Comedy. Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer.

8:40 Skid Marks 16S 2008 Comedy.

Tyler Poelle, Dianna Argon.

10:05 Taken 2 MV 2012 Action.

Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace.

11:40 Chernobyl Diaries 16VL 2012 Horror. Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski.

1:10 Iron Man 3 MV 2013 Action.

Robert Downey jr, Gwyneth Paltrow.

3:20 Warm Bodies MV 2013 Comedy. Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer.

5pm After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi.

Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

6:40 The Sweeney 16VLS 2012 Action. Ray Winstone, Ben Drew.

8:30 The Lone Ranger MV 2013 Western.

11pm We’re The Millers 16VLS 2013 Comedy.

SUNDAY

12:50 Roadkill 16V 2010 Sci-fi.

2:20 After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi.

4am We’re The Millers 16VLS 2013 Comedy. 5:50 Roadkill 16V 2010 Sci-fi.

Catch That Kid

6:30pm on FOUR

MOVIES GREATS 6:20 O Brother, Where Art Thou?

MV 2000 Comedy. John Turturro, George Clooney.

8:10 Indecent Proposal ML 1993 Drama. Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Robert Redford.

10:10 Resident Evil 16V 2002 Action Thriller. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius.

11:50 Armageddon ML 1998 Action. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Liv Tyler.

2:20 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin MV 2001 War. Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz.

4:30 X-Men M 2000 Action.

6:15 X2 MV 2003 Action.

8:30 X-Men – The Last Stand PGR 2006 Action.

10:15 Deuce Bigalow – Male Gigolo MS 1999 Comedy.

11:45 Hustle And Flow 16VLS 2005 Drama.

SUNDAY

1:40 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin MV 2001 War. 3:45 X-Men M 2000 Action. 5:30 X2 MV 2003 Action.

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13Sep14

9:30 Cycling – La Vuelta (Highlights) Stage 19.

10am Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Friday Night.

10:30 Motorsport – Global RallyCross Championship 11:30 Sport 365 Noon Cycling – La Vuelta (Highlights) Stage 19.

12:30 Equestrian – Burghley Horse Trials (Highlights) 2pm Sport 365 2:30 Sky Sports News UK 3pm L Rugby League – Holden Cup Qualifying Final Two – Knights v Dragons. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

5pm L Rugby League – Holden Cup Elimination Final Two – Roosters v Warriors. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

7pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Finals Week One. 7:30 L Rugby League – NRL Qualifying Final One – Roosters v Panthers.

9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Elimination Final One – Cowboys v Broncos.

SUNDAY

Midnight Rugby – International (Highlights) All Blacks v South Africa.

12:45 L Cycling – La Vuelta Stage 20. The second to last stage covers 185.7kms between Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil and Puerto de Ancares. 4am Rugby – International (Highlights) Australia v Argentina. 4:30 Rugby – International (Highlights) All Blacks v South Africa. 5am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 5:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights)

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PRIME

SKY SPORT 1 10am Golf Central Golfing action from New Zealand and around the world.

10:30 Golf – European Tour KLM Open – Round Three. From Kennemer Golf and Country Club.

12:30 Rugby – International (Replay) All Blacks v South Africa. From Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Waikato v Counties Manukau. From Waikato Stadium, Hamilton.

4:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Hawke’s Bay v Otago. From McLean Park, Napier.

6:30 Rugby Nation Hosted by Tony Johnson.

6am Rural Delivery 3 6:25 Do Or Die 3 0 7:10 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Marae 2 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Fire Scene Investigation 30 11:55 River Monsters With Jeremy Wade 0 12:50 Secret Location 3 0 1:50 My Kitchen Rules New Zealand Omnibus. 0 4:55 N Honey Badgers – Masters Of Mayhem Barely 30-centimetres tall, honey badgers have a reputation for attacking just about anything, from venomous snakes to full-grown lions. 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 7:30 My Kitchen Rules New Zealand Hawke’s Bay sisters Kelly and Megan host Group Two’s final instant restaurant, and the judges reveal a twist no one sees coming. 0 8:35 Call the Midwife AO 0 9:40 A Place to Call Home AO 0 10:40 Rake AO 3 0

6am Pajanimals 3 0 6:10 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:15 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:25 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 30 6:45 Henry Hugglemonster 3 0 7:10 SpongeBob SquarePants 30 7:35 Sanjay And Craig 0 8am What Now? 10am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon Scrubs PGR 3 0 12:30 Pretty Little Liars 3 0 1:30 The 100 PGR 0 2:30 Once Upon A Time In Wonderland PGR 0 3:30 Home And Away 3 0 6pm Hart Of Dixie Zoe finds herself in the middle of Wade and Vivian’s relationship; George agrees to go on a date with a Bible School teacher. 0 7pm The Big Bang Theory 0 7:30 The Middle (Part 2) 0 8pm The Neighbors 0 8:30 M The Campaign AO 2012 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis.

0 10:25 M Piranha 3DD AO 2012 Comedy Horror.

Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff.

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 9am Re-Think 9:30 Three60 10am The Nation 0 11:30 The Best Of Campbell Live 12:05 Ross Kemp – Battle For The Amazon PGR 3 1pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 2pm Motorsport – Australian Porsche Carrera Cup (Highlights) 2:30 Motorsport – Monster Jam 3pm Motorsport – NHRA 4pm Motorsport – New Zealand Rally Championship Round five, from the Coromandel Peninsula.

5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Big Angry Fish 6pm 3 News 7pm The X Factor Australia The top 10 contestants perform. 0 8:35 M X-Men – First Class AO 3 2011 Action.

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men working together to prevent nuclear Armageddon.

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender. 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Monsuno 3 7:25 Max Steel 3 7:45 Grojband 3 8:10 The Wild Thornberrys 3 0 8:35 Rocket Power 9am Fanboy And Chum Chum 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm iCarly The adventures of a teen who produces popular webcasts for kids and becomes an online celebrity.

5:30 Big Time Rush 6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 6:30 Top Chef 7:30 America’s Next Top Model PGR 8:30 Glee PGR 3 9:30 F Witches of East End AO Freya gets married; Joanna and Wendy discover the identity of the shifter.

10:25 Unsupervised AO 3 10:55 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world, highlighting sport for young New Zealand fans.

Noon Great Outdoors 3 Travel tips with the Great Outdoors team as they journey to exotic destinations around the world.

12:55 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 1:25 Mainfreight Rugby Rugby matches from around New Zealand.

2:25 Rugby – International (Replay) All Blacks v South Africa.

4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm MasterChef USA The top 10 contestants cook fish tacos and burgers for football fans.

7pm Storage Wars PGR 3 7:30 Doctor Who PGR 8:30 Weekend Murders – Poirot PGR 10:35 Who Do You Think You Are? UK Television personality Alan Carr discovers a surprising truth in his family, and exposes a previously hidden chapter of social history.

7:30 Rugby – International (Replay) All Blacks v South Africa.

From Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

9:30 Football – Arsenal TV Arsenal v Manchester City.

11:45 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme.

12:45 Attitude 3 0 1:15 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Marae Maori current affairs show. 2 3:35 Infomercials

12:05 M Stephen King’s Desperation AO 2006 Horror. Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabelle Gish. 0 2:30 Infomercials 3:05 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 3:55 Partners PGR 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Beverly Hills Nannies PGR 3 5:30 Infomercials

11:20 N Hannibal AO With Will Graham in prison, the FBI investigates his claims against Hannibal; a new serial killer emerges.

0 12:20 Hounds AO 3 12:50 The Radio PGR 3 1:20 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

11:50 Infomercials

11:45 Wild Boys PGR 3 Facing the rope, the Wild Boys are offered a last-minute reprieve by Fife, rescuing Emilia from the Butlers; Jack and the boys face Frank and his gang.

12:45 Home Shopping

12:30 Fox Sports News 1am Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) 1:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) 3:30 Fox Sports News 4am L Golf – US PGA Tour Tour Championship by Coca-Cola – Round Four.

CHOICE TV 6am Dream Build 6:30 Christ Embassy 7am Operation Iceberg 8am Fantasy Homes By The Sea 9am The People’s Cookbook 10am Barter Kings 11am All Roads Lead Home Noon Early Edition 1pm Extreme Fishing With Robson Green PGR 2pm Operation Iceberg 3pm The Hook And The Cook 3:30 Baggage Battles 4pm Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – London 4:30 Tales From River Cottage 5pm Italian Food Safari 5:30 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 6:30 Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever 7pm Great Escapes 7:30 Ben And James Versus The Arabian Desert 8:30 Mad Dogs AO 9:30 Walking Through History With Tony Robinson 10:30 Mr Sunshine PGR 11pm Baggage Battles 11:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – London

MONDAY

Midnight Tales From River Cottage 12:30 Italian Food Safari 1am The Hook And The Cook 1:30 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 2:30 Mr Sunshine PGR 3am Ben And James Versus The Arabian Desert 4am Mad Dogs AO 5am Great Escapes 5:30 Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 2pm Tangaroa With Pio 3 2:30 My Country Song 3 3:30 Rugby League – UK Super League Wigan v Warrington.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Kai Time On The Road With Cook Island huawhenua (vegetables) on the menu, Kai Time presenter Rewi Spraggon cooks on a beach an island-style vegetable dish with an island potato salad.

6:30 Kuia Mihiarangi Wihongi talks to 91-year-old Ngapuhi kuia

THE BOX 6am Survivor – Marquesas PG Marathon.

7:40 Duck Commander ML 8:05 Billy The Exterminator PGL 8:30 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 8:55 The Simpsons Marathon PG 11:25 Last Man Standing PG 11:50 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 12:15 No Man’s Land M 1:05 Mountain Men PG 2pm Crossing Lines MV 2:55 Raw MC 5:45 WWE Main Event MC 6:45 SmackDown! MC 8:30 CSI MV 9:30 CSI MV 10:30 Crossing Lines MV 11:30 Deadliest Warrior MV

MONDAY

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:15 CSI MV 3:05 CSI MV 3:55 Deadliest Warrior MV 4:45 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 5:10 Crossing Lines MV

SKY SPORT 2 Marara Mary Toi, who shares her life, enriched by a deep spiritual connection to her god, and her adventures with her grandparents.

7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Rugby League – NRL Qualifying Final Game. 2 9:30 M Three Colours – Blue AO 1993 Drama. A woman must find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

Juliette Binoche.

11:10 Te Kaea 3 2 11:40 Closedown

DISCOVERY

My Kitchen Rules New Zealand 7:30pm on TV One

MOVIES PREMIERE

6am Auction Hunters Disco and Dice. 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 MythBusters PG Square Wheels.

8:30 What Happened Next? PG 9am The Mind Control Freaks M 9:30 King Of Thrones PG Country v City.

10:30 Deadliest Catch PG Lost at Sea. 11:30 9/11 – Heroes Of The 88th Floor M 1:30 Dual Survival PG 3:30 Dual Survival PG 4:30 Dual Survival PG 5:30 Dual Survival PG 6:30 Dual Survival PG 7:30 Everest – The Promise M 8:30 Naked And Afraid M Primal Fear.

9:30 Dual Survival PG 10:30 Treehouse Masters PG 11:30 The Big Brain Theory PG

7:20 The Sweeney 16VLS 2012 Action. Ray Winstone, Ben Drew.

9:10 The Lone Ranger MV 2013 Western. Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer.

11:40 After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi.

Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

1:20 We’re The Millers 16VLS 2013 Comedy. Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston.

3:10 Chasing Mavericks PGL 2012 Drama. Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston.

5:05 21 And Over 16VLS 2013 Comedy. Miles Teller, Skylar Astin.

6:40 GI Joe – Retaliation MV 2013 Action. Dwayne Johnson.

8:30 The Family 16VLS 2013 Crime.

Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer.

10:25 Evil Dead 18VL 2013 Horror.

Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez.

11:55 Chasing Mavericks PGL 2012 Drama. Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston.

12:30 Auction Hunters 1am River Monsters With Jeremy Wade PG 2am Dirty Jobs PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Bering Sea Gold PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

1:50 21 And Over 16VLS 2013 Comedy. 3:25 Evil Dead 18VL 2013 Horror. 4:55 The Making Of Fast And Furious 6 PG 5:25 GI Joe – Retaliation MV 2013 Action.

MONDAY

MONDAY

X-Men – First Class 8:35pm on TV3

MOVIES GREATS 7:40 X-Men – The Last Stand PGR 2006 Action. Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin.

9:25 Deuce Bigalow – Male Gigolo MS 1999 Comedy. Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin.

10:55 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin MV 2001 War. Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz.

1:05 Shall We Dance ML 2004 Comedy. Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez.

2:50 Insomnia MVL 2002 Crime. Al Pacino, Hilary Swank, Robin Williams.

4:50 Shanghai Knights MV 2003 Action. Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson.

6:45 Step Up PGV 2006 Drama.

8:30 Pineapple Express 16VL 2008 Comedy.

10:25 K-19 – The Widowmaker M 2002 Action.

MONDAY

12:40 Remember Me MVLS 2010 Drama. 2:30 Shall We Dance ML 2004 Comedy. 4:15 Insomnia MVL 2002 Crime.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language. RATINGS: 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for 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

14Sep14

6am Rugby – International (Replay) All Blacks v South Africa.

8am Rugby – International (Replay) Australia v Argentina.

10am Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Saturday.

10:30 Cycling – La Vuelta (Highlights) Stage 20.

11am Motorsport – FIA World Rally Championship (Highlights) 11am Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) Noon L Motorsport – FIA World Rally Championship Australia – Stage Two. From Coffs Harbour, NSW. 1pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 1:30 Sunday Footy Show 3:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 4pm Rugby League – Holden Cup (Delayed) 5:30 L Rugby League – NRL Elimination Final Two – Storm v Bulldogs.

8pm L Rugby League – NSW Cup Semi-final Two – Illawarra v Warriors.

9:45 Rugby League – 40/20 10:20 L Cricket – Champions League Twenty20 Northern Knights v Lahore Lions. From Raipur International Cricket Stadium.

MONDAY

2am Cycling – La Vuelta (Highlights) 2:30 Rugby Nation 3:30 Fishing And Adventure 4am Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) 4:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) 5am L Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Geico 400. From Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois.

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TUESDAY: A few showers, southwest fresh for a time.

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OVERNIGHT MIN

MONDAY: High cloud, northerly.

Chance late shower with southerly.

3 3 2

gitata

NZ Situation

less than 30 fine

mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers 30 to 59

fog

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

Canterbury Plains

rain

snow

hail

60 plus

NZ Today

Canterbury High Country

TODAY

TODAY

Mostly cloudy, with rain easing to a few showers, then clearing from the south in the evening. Southerlies for a time.

TOMORROW

Mainly fine at first, but isolated showers developing in the morning with southwesterlies. Showers clearing in the evening and winds dying out.

Saturday, 13 September 2014

An active trough over the North Island moves away to the east and a weak ridge spreads over central New Zealand tomorrow. A low pressure system moves onto the South Island during Monday, with westerlies strengthening over the North Island. The low moves away to the east on Tuesday. overnight max low

Auckland

showers

Rain, and snow above 1600 metres, easing during the morning, and clearing from the south from afternoon.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: SW rising to 40 km/h.

Hamilton

showers

Napier

few showers

TOMORROW

FZL: About 1900m

Palmerston North few showers Wellington

few showers

Nelson

rain

MONDAY

Mainly fine, high cloud increasing.

Wind at 1000m: W 30 km/h developing.

Wind at 2000m: W 50 km/h developing.

Blenheim

rain

MONDAY

Greymouth

rain

Christchurch

showers

TUESDAY

High cloud increasing, rain developing about the divide with snow down to 1000 metres.

NW, rising to gale about the tops.

Timaru

showers

TUESDAY

Queenstown

mainly fine

Dunedin

few showers

Invercargill

mainly fine

Fine with high cloud and northwesterlies.

Southwesterlies developing later south of Ashburton, bringing a few showers.

A few showers. Southwesterlies freshening, dying out later.

Becoming mainly fine. Westerly breezes.

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Dubai Dublin Edinburgh Frankfurt

fine fine rain cloudy showers fine fine thunder fine rain fine fine fine cloudy cloudy

FZL: 1500m

Rain about the divide, showers developing elsewhere. Snow lowering to 800 metres.

NW gale about the tops, changing SW.

WEDNESDAY

Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi Delhi

22 21 32 23 24 28 33 34 18 29 34 40 18 16 21

fine fine drizzle fine showers rain fine showers cloudy fine fine fine fine fine thunder

12 8 27 23 22 23 11 25 13 21 17 6 12 19 25

21 17 31 32 31 33 32 34 21 35 29 20 20 31 35

New York Paris Perth Rarotonga Rome San Francisco Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Tokyo Washington Zurich

rain fine fine showers cloudy fine cloudy thunder fine showers drizzle showers cloudy rain showers

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Bad fishing

Set 8:50 am Rise 11:15 pm

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9 pm am 3

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Rise 6:38 am Set 6:20 pm

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9 noon 3

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Good fishing

Rise 12:17 am Set 10:14 am

24 Sep 6:15 pm

First quarter

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Good

Set 9:30 am

New moon

9 pm

Rise 6:36 am Set 6:21 pm

Bad fishing

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22 23 22 24 26 24 28 32 18 20 30 30 28 20 18

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cumecs

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 124.9 Nth Ashburton at 3:00 pm, yesterday

4.41

Sth Ashburton at 1:15 pm, yesterday

6.20 nc

Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

40.7

Waitaki Kurow at 3:00 pm, yesterday

487.4

Source: Environment Canterbury

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12:28 6:43 12:57 7:09 1:24 7:43 1:54 8:10 2:22 8:44 2:54 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 17.3 21.2 Max to 4pm 4.6 Minimum -1.1 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm September to date 0.8 Avg Sep to date 20 2014 to date 541.2 481 Avg year to date Wind km/h N 13 At 4pm Strongest gust N 37 Time of gust 1:47pm

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INGLIS, Ian David – Barbara and family would like to extend their sincere thanks to family and friends for their wonderful support, condolences, cards, flowers and baking in the recent passing of a loved husband, dad and grandad. Also special thanks to Coldstream House for their loving care.

PHILPOTT, Douglas – Olive, Susan and Alastair wish to thank everyone for all the love and care shown to us by way of phone calls, flowers, food, cards and visits at the passing of a loved husband and father. Thank you for your attendance at Doug’s service and the support of donations to the PRICE, Elsie – Cancer Society. Very much Much loved mum of Shirley. appreciated.

Loved nana and great nana of Paul, Kim, Sam and Logan; Nicola, Matthew and James. IN MEMORIAM HESELTINE, Bill – Missing you Mum. x In loving memory of a loved brother and uncle who Please note all late death notices or notices sent out- passed away one year ago today. side ordinary office hours Miss you Willy. must be emailed to:

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PRICE, Elsie Winifred – On August 22, in the arms of her loving daughters. Loved mum of Ally and Ron Smith, Methven. Beloved Nana Robbie of the late Aaron, Leah, Mark and Sammy Phillips, Auckland, Nathan, Kristy, Tane, Billy, Charlie and Dani, New Plymouth, Ben, Lucy, Mac and Rosie, Methven, and Daniel, Christchurch.

Will be sadly missed by the Smiths.

PRICE, Elsie Winifred – On August 22, 2014.

Surrounded by her loved ones at Princes Court, Ashburton. In her 90th year.

Dearly loved wife of the late Hugh. Much loved mum and mother in law of the late Graham, Judith and Leo Johnston, Dennis and Lyn (Christchurch), Shirley Doig, Carol and Abe Dabora (Greytown), Wendy and Gary Blackwell (Methven), Ali and Ron Smith (Methven) Brenda and Eric Sheehan and the deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication. late George Allen, Chris and Jeanette, Adrienne and Tim During office hours notices Dowdle, and Robbie and may also be sent to: Catherine. Much loved nana classifieds@theguardian.co.nz of all her grandchildren and Any queries great grandchildren. A special please contact thanks to Dr Sparks and the 0800 great staff at Princes Court ASHBURTON for their loving care of Elsie.

(0800-274-287).

Messages to 11 Pages Road, Ashburton 7700. A service to celebrate Mum’s life will be DEATHS held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on MONDAY, September 15, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Canterbury owned, Cemetery.

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ANDERSON - CLARK – Kayla and Adam are delighted to announce the birth of their beautiful daughter, Harper Grace Clark, who was welcomed into the world on August 28, at 9.26pm, weighing 5lb 14oz.

A special thank you to our midwife, Hannah Bowden and staff at Ashburton Hospital.

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