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A&P raffle proceeds to fund scholarship

Ready to update the fundraising goal signage in the Methven Mall are Methven Care Trust members (from left): Janine Holland (trustee), Joanna Suyker (chairperson), Sue van den Heuvel (fundraising co-ordinator).

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■ METHVEN CARE TRUST

$1m closer to target Methven Care Trust has hit the $1 million mark in its fundraising programme to rebuild the village’s community run resthome Methven House.

The milestone was reached at the end of the first quarter of this year, thanks to three significant, anonymous donations of $200,000, $100,000 and $100,000.

And the good news does not stop there with close to another $20,000 likely next month from the the trust’s raffle of a Hyundai car, trust chairwoman Joanna Suyker said.

“The trust has worked tirelessly to reach this point and we’d like to pause and thank our supporters and the wider Methven com-

munity for getting us here. It’s no small feat raising $1 million in this economic climate and we’ve been told the first million dollars is the hardest,” she said.

Having three anonymous donors come forward and contribute such significant amounts showed there was real faith in the project, Suyker said.

Methven Care Trust is a fundraising group set up by the Methven Aged Persons Welfare Association (MAPWAI) to raise funds for, and oversee, the building of a new aged care facility for Methven. Trustees have been drawn from the Methven and foothills community and work alongside Methven Care Trust fundraising

co-ordinator Sue van den Heuvel to deliver fundraising initiatives hand-in-hand with the community.

The trust’s goal is to replace the existing community-run resthome Methven House within the next few years. The estimated cost is $5.5 million.

There is an urgent need to replace Methven House as the building is rapidly reaching the end of its useable life, Suyker said.

“Methven House has served us well for 40 years but it certainly won’t last another 40. It’s vital we attract sufficient funds so we can get on with building a new facility that will care for the elderly in our district,” she says.

Recent fundraising activity includes a raffle for a Hyundai car which will be drawn in May. With only 400 tickets on sale at $100 each, punters across Ashburton District have embraced the opportunity to win a car at such good odds, she said.

Other funds this year have come from the Landrover 70th anniversary celebrations, leasing of land for farming activities and a lily fundraiser initiated by Sue Duff’s childcare operation. More fundraising ventures are being sought from the community.

Methven Care Trust will build the new aged care facility on gifted land in the town’s Camrose Estate.

Raffle ticket sales at four A&P shows raised $1216 to go towards a local STEM scholarship, says Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon.

“We had a fantastic response from people across all four A&P shows in the Rangitata electorate – Ashburton, Winchester, Mayfield and Methven.

“I’ll now top up the fund to $1500 and open applications on September 1 to anyone who has studied at a high school level in the Rangitata electorate.

“Students undertaking a course at a tertiary institution in science, technology, engineering or mathematics are eligible, and (the scholarship) is available for any year of tertiary study.

“When National were in government we changed the funding mechanism to make it easier for students to study those subjects, but with strong economic growth and unemployment low there’s still a real shortage in some parts of the country, like Canterbury.

“Arts degrees are great, I studied one myself, but it’s important we continue to encourage kids to study courses like engineering and agricultural science; our local economy needs them and there’s jobs for them at the end of it,” Falloon said.

There’ll be a page on Falloon’s website – https://andrewfalloon.national.org.nz/ – in the next month or two with more information for those interested in applying.

He will also write to every high school in the electorate with full details.

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■ MYCOPLASMA BOVIS OUTBREAK

Two more local farms infected

By Colin WillisCroft

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Two more properties in the Ashburton area have tested positive for mycoplasma bovis, with an additional 2000 cattle set to be culled as a result.

That’s on top of the 3253 that will need to be destroyed on the four Mid Canterbury properties previously identified.

Both of the latest properties are dairy farms and are connected to properties already known to be infected.

A Ministry for Primary Industries spokesperson said although a full census is yet to be completed on the latest two properties, it appeared around 2000 animals are involved.

The spokesperson said culling has begun on some of the local properties, while planning is in progress for the others.

Ashburton District mayor Donna Favel said she

was saddened to hear that two more properties in the area have tested positive.

“It is a very worrying time for the farming community, as it has been for the past few months,” Favel said. “My thoughts and sympathies go out to those with animals affected by this disease.

“If you know people who are directly affected by the discovery of M. bovis, please give them your support to help them through this difficult time.

“I know dairy farmers in our district will be concerned but the Ministry for Primary Industries has assured me that this recent detection does not mean the disease is out of control.”

The MPI spokesperson said as well as the six infected properties, there are four more in the Ashburton area under restricted place notices (RPNs), and another five under notices of direction (NODs).

RPNs prohibit all unauthorised movements of farm stock and other risk goods onto and off the property, while NODs don’t restrict movement of stock or goods onto a farm but cattle can only be moved off with a permit.

The spokesperson said MPI was still confident culling across the country would be completed in time for Gypsy Day but that was dependent on a number of factors, some of which are outside its control.

■ PHONE SCAMS

Don’t return those unknown missed calls

By Katie todd

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As phone scammers dial their way through Ashburton phone lists, authorities are refreshing warnings to stay wary.

The growing “one ring” scam has seen bots targeting cellphone numbers around the country, including dozens of Ashburton residents.

Scammers are dialling numbers and letting the phone ring once before hanging up, said Canterbury Rural Area Prevention Manager Senior Sergeant Antony Cal-

lon. “This is bait to get you to call them back, and they then charge a call-back rate which could scam you out of a lot of money. You will likely be greeted and then put on hold or they will try and engage in conversation,” he said.

It’s understood call-back rates can cost customers up to $50 a minute. Ashburton residents are among those being repeatedly rung from international numbers from Taiwan, Canada, France, the UK and Tunisia, along with other New Zealand cellphone numbers.

the number back,” she said.

Meanwhile, a second type of scam sees callers ringing up from supposed technical support teams offering to fix computerrelated issues, but instead making off with people’s bank details and money.

An elderly man in Katikati put out a warning to other Kiwis this week, after he was scammed out of $6700 he was saving for his own funeral, thinking he was talking to someone who was fixing his modem.

In a recent Consumer NZ sur-

vey, about one in 10 consumers said they had been the target of a scam in the past year.

“People who are less savvy about technology are more vulnerable to these types of scams,” said Consumer NZ head of research Jessica Wilson.

“If you receive a call saying there’s a problem with your computer or modem, hang up immediately.”

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Our Place survey a national winner

By Sue NewmaN

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When a survey generates 2324 responses and 2200 individual ideas, it has to be rated an outstanding success.

That was the response to the Ashburton District Council’s preconsultation project, Our Place, ahead of its long-term plan review and on Thursday that project’s success won the hearts and minds of the judges in the Society of Local Government Managers (SOLGM) excellence awards.

With their entry in the community relations category, monitoring and research adviser Toni Durham and policy adviser Rachel Thomas had to pitch their project, Our Place, against 25 others.

When the results came in Ashburton was placed second.

Kaikoura, with its earthquake recovery presentation, won the category and that’s a win no one could quibble with, it was outstanding, said council community relations manager Vincie Billante.

“Our Place was a great campaign, it was a first in New Zealand using this method for a survey, it was unique. It was Toni’s brainchild and she took something that was academic and developed it into this context,” she said.

The project saw a team of people involved in developing the survey and one of the keys to its public appeal were the great graphics created by design and media officer Rosemary Hinchliffe, Billante said.

“Selling it to the elected members was key and they bought into it and were along for the journey.

We put this out to the community and said, ‘tell us what you want’.”

The response was overwhelming and out of the 2200 ideas, eight clear priorities emerged, she said. “We couldn’t do all the

A great reward for breaking new ground in community consultation, Ashburton District Council monitoring and research advisor Toni Durham (left) and policy adviser Rachel Thomas with their award for the council’s Our Place survey.

PHOTO SUPPLIED things people listed as priorities, some of those weren’t ours to do, but we have the things that people said were important and

they’re in the plan in some form.”

In presenting the award, the judges said the Our Place entry struck them as an entry that best

demonstrated engagement as a two-way discussion and gave best effect to the principles of local government.

Zookeeper’s death result of ‘tight budget’

By Natalie akoorie Cost-cutting ultimately claimed zookeeper Samantha Kudeweh’s life when she was mauled by a Sumatran tiger, according to a WorkSafe report into her death.

Hamilton Zoo was critically understaffed and changes made to a gate system on the tiger enclosure where Kudeweh was killed in 2015 contributed to the tragedy, the report said.

The crucial change, installing a two-gate airlock system and repositioning the keeper gate following a near-miss encounter between another keeper and tiger in 2013, meant Kudeweh, 43, could not easily see the tigers’ exit gates were open.

And simple changes including painting sliding-gate counterweights a bright colour could have saved Kudeweh’s life, but the paint was deemed too expensive to buy, according to the report – released to the Herald under the Official Information Act. Moving the keeper gate was chosen over realigning the fence because that would cost too much and the report found the Hamilton City Council-owned zoo had a dangerous staffing ratio of one keeper per 21 animals, compared to one per seven at Auckland and Wellington zoos.

It also found those low staffing numbers meant zookeepers were attending to the most dangerous animals, tigers and chimpanzees, alone instead of in pairs.

Staff felt it was a matter of time before an accident would happen.

Kudeweh, a mother-of-two young children, was killed on September 20, 2015, when she entered the enclosure of one of two Sumatran tigers without realising he was not secured.

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Clarkie calling time on Tuarangi

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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It’s time to move on, says Tuarangi Home owner Paul Clark.

He has had the former rest home and hospital on the market for four years and while there has been plenty of interest, a sale has never quite materialised.

Now he’s dropped his price, and is confident the property will be snapped up by someone with an eye for a bargain.

Clark’s ties with Tuarangi stretch back to early last century.

His grandfather Jim Clark lived there for years when it was run by the local hospital board, providing accommodation for single elderly or homeless men. It was initially built for Boer War veterans and opened in 1901.

Clark had fought in World War One and been mustard gassed and had also developed Parkinson’s disease in his old age.

Clark remembers visiting him as a child at Tuarangi.

Later Clark’s association with Tuarangi developed further when he bought it in 1993.

He ran it as a backpackers’ and boarding house, and has lived there for many years, more recently taking on a minder who has moved in to help him protect and keep the grounds.

There’s been incidents of vandalism over the years, but the rewards have outweighed the challenges and Clark revels in the property’s rich history.

“Half of Ashburton has just about worked here, or know someone who has worked here over the years,” he said.

And as much as he has enjoyed that association, he said it was now time to move on, and for the Guardian photo he held a clock from long ago he had found inside.

He initially put Tuarangi on the market in 2014, and has had strong interest, from the likes of

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In brief Flu vacs pushed The Government is looking to vaccinate 80 per cent of healthcare workers, with Health Minister David Clark leading the charge. Mr Clark has rolled up a sleeve to receive the influenza jab to encourage more healthcare workers to get vaccinated to avoid passing the virus on to vulnerable patients.

It’s important that people are vaccinated by mid-May, he says.

“Recent research shows about one in four New Zealanders are infected with influenza each winter, but many don’t develop symptoms and may be unaware they’re sick,” he said.

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Measles hit SI More than 100 people may have been exposed to measles in the South Island. Along with confirmations in Queenstown, Wanaka and Nelson, there are two in Christchurch – the age ranges for those infected are 13 months to 46 years old – and infected patients have likely visited supermarkets, restaurants and campgrounds.

The highly contagious virus first showed up at Queenstown Airport late last month.

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Low blow An emergency generator has been stolen from rural Auckland doctors who were using it to keep medicines cool during the region’s widespread storm-caused power-cuts. The Kumeu police are appealing for information to lead them to the machine or the thieves. The generator was taken from the Waimauku Doctors clinic on Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

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Collins, Twyford clash

Tuarangi Home owner Paul Clark says it’s time to move on, and has dropped his price on the historic property.

PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 110418-SS-016 developers, schools and church groups.

But every time bureaucracy associated with site development has been one fish hook too many for potential purchasers.

He has now dropped his price to almost half of what one pur-

chaser once offered him, and at $1.15 million plus GST he is confident of a sale.

The 4.125 hectare grounds border the new Braebrook subdivision, which had taken off successfully, and was now nudging up against his boundary.

He believed whoever took it over would be more likely to demolish and subdivide than keep the buildings, due to the value of the land.

“They are not making any more land, what’s here is here,” Clark said.

Cabinet minister Phil Twyford has accused National’s Judith Collins of lying during a fiery clash over the Government’s decision to end offshore oil and gas exploration.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday that no new offshore permits would be granted and inshore exploration would be limited to Taranaki.

National called it “economic vandalism” and on Newshub’s AM Show on Friday former energy minister Ms Collins reaffirmed her party would reverse the decision.

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Colour run marks end to first term

By Katie todd

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Tinwald School students were literally dashing across the finish line of term 1 yesterday, with a colour run held on their last day before the holidays.

The PTA event saw students flocking to the school field in white clothes and tackling a course featuring obstacles, a water slide and volunteers hurling colourful paint their way.

Among those to tackle the course was principal Peter Livingstone, who initially endured difficulties with the crawlthrough obstacle course but made it across the finish line.

Dozens of parents turned out to cheer students on at the fun event, and many students chose to run the course multiple times.

ACL Contracting provided water by the truckload for the waterslide.

Tinwald School, along with the rest of the district’s primary and secondary schools, will now be on holiday until April 30.

Right – Navadah negotiates the last leg of Tinwald School’s colour run yesterday.

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■ ASHBURTON SOCIETY OF ARTS

Annual autumn art show ready for opening

By Katie todd

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Autumn is here, and local art lovers know just what that means.

With the shift in seasons brings a brand new array of artwork for sale from talented local creators.

Ashburton Society of Arts have just put the final touches on their annual autumn show at the Short Street Studio, and will be welcoming viewers from tomorrow morning.

This year, around 12 of the society’s own artists have joined guest artist Sue Currie, who hails from Charteris Bay in Lyttelton.

Convener Ngaio McKee said Currie is a wellknown Canterbury artist who has previously helped to tutor the society of arts’ members.

She has over four decades experience as a painter, best known for producing contemporary style paintings in watercolour, acrylics and oils. Currie’s paintings, which she describes as “colourful, lively work to capture the light on the subject,” have been lauded with countless accolades and awards throughout New Zealand and overseas.

The Autumn Show will open at 9am on Sunday, and will be open for viewing on weekends from 10am to 3pm until May 17 at 53 Short Street, or by appointment.

Guest artist Sue Currie will be exhibiting a range of her “colourful, lively work” at the Ashburton Society of Arts Autumn Show.

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Our place, our fu Every year every property owner in the Ashburton District hands over around $2000 – more if you’re a rural landowner – in hard-earned cash to the Ashburton District Council.

We do this believing the people we’ve elected to run our district will spend our money wisely.

Reporter Sue Newman takes a look at what they’re planning to do with our money over the next 10 years.

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othing is left to chance when it comes to spending the $36.4 million the Ashburton District Council will receive in rates next year.

This money represents 51 per cent of its total income for the year.

How our rates will be spent is carefully planned and carefully detailed every three years in the council’s long-term plan.

The plan spells out what is spent where and when. Like all good plans the LTP, as it’s known, requires hundreds of hours of work by council staff who build the plan, work out the numbers and present their work to councillors to mull over, change, add items and delete others. While the spending details might change, how much is spent is governed by the council’s self-imposed cap on the percentage rates should rise in any one year and the borrowing level it believes is acceptable.

And that means when they look at where the money goes, councillors start juggling – what’s urgent, what’s needed and what’s nice to have. Some spending – roads, water, infrastructure, core council business – doesn’t come with a choice.

The long-term plan does not belong to council staff and councillors, it belongs to the community.

Already there has been preconsultation through an Our Place survey that identified the things that are most important to residents and there has been consultation on the council’s revenue and financing policy.

That draft policy attracted more than 200 submissions from people who wanted to have their say on several key issues – the proposal to change Lake Hood to an urban rating area and the plan to change the way the EA Networks Centre was funded. This would have resulted in a huge price hike for stadium users in particular.

On both issues councillors listened to what people were saying and modified the plan.

The same process will be followed with the long-term plan.

It’s now out for consultation in draft form. Yes, it’s complex, but council staff have created an abbreviated document that spells out clearly through graphs, diagrams and in words where every cent of rates money will go in the years ahead. It tells residents what they should expect in terms of rate increases, it explains the real cost of some big ticket items and it looks at the challenges the district will face in the years ahead.

The long-term plan is our plan.

We have two choices – ignore it and simply accept what we’re given, or we take the time to read it, think about it and, if we don’t like it, complete a submission form or attend a public meeting.

It’s too late when the plan is done and dusted to say we don’t agree. No point in being part of the anonymous wave of critics. This is an opportunity for every person living in the Ashburton District to take the long-term plan and make it their own.

Read it, look at the options and have your say.

WHERE DO MY RATES GO? The council spends its money across 12 areas, each one playing an integral part in keeping the district not just ticking over, but that it grows and develops to meet the needs of residents today and well into the future.

Planning how to spend the approximately $444 million over the next 10 years is a constant balancing act – keeping the rates component as affordable for ratepayers as possible, but ensuring there is sufficient in the pot to pay the bills.

THE FINANCIAL LIMITS The council’s financial strategy aims to keep rates affordable at the same time as a good level of services is provided for residents. Like its residents, the council has to work to a budget.

It can’t always do what it might like, or what it’s ratepayers want. Councillors have to make smart choices when they decide what’s in and what’s not.

Activities and services are funded through a mix of rates, fees, charges and other sources such as central government. Sometimes law changes or community demand means unexpected expenditure and that means borrowing, with debt servicing likely to impact on rates.

Like every budget, the council’s comes with some self-imposed limits and that means councillors have to make smart choices as they plan for our future.

It has decided that total rates in any one year should be no greater than 1 per cent of the capital value of the district; that interest payments on borrowings for external debt are less than 25 per cent of total rates for the year ,that interest payments to service external debt are less than 20 per cent of total revenue, that net debt does not exceed 175 per cent of total revenue and that its liquidity level is no less than 110 per cent.

To meet those targets, the council has to spread major expenditure over the 10-year span of the long-term plan and that means some years will have higher rate rises than others.

Inevitably this means some projects are deferred to allow others deemed more urgent to move forward a year or two.

The long-term plan does not belong to council staff and councillors, it belongs to the community.

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COUNCIL DEBT The council has limits on the amount of money it can borrow.

Most new capital expenditure is from loan funding and this ensures today’s ratepayers don’t pay all the costs for assets that future generations will also use. This is called intergenerational equity.

This graph shows the council is well within its debt levels. At the highest level of debt the council could still potentially borrow around another $60 million in 2021/2022 and at the lowest level of debt that borrowing potential is around $110 million in 2026/2027.

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Rates increases When it comes to rates increases, the amounts will inevitably be different for ratepayers in different parts of the district.

Each year when it does its annual plan, fine-tuning expenditure in the year ahead, it must take into account the rates increase it has tagged in the longterm plan.

Its goal is to achieve an increase below that signalled in this plan.

Key issues: Roading Ashburton has the fourth largest roading network in New Zealand and the third largest rural roading network. Of that total network, of 2623 kilometres, 1116km is unsealed.

Keeping the district’s roading network in good order takes the greatest slice out of rates. While the NZ Transport Agency funds work on state highways, the council is left to pay 49 per cent of the cost of maintaining the rest of the district’s roads.

Over the past three years the council has included extra money from rates for rehabilitation on the district’s roads because the NZTA fund was lower than expected. The gap between what is needed and what is subsidised is $3 million – just to maintain the current level of service.

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Option one: Reduce the amount of work to match NZTA-approved funding. This would mean roads would deteriorate over time, but a lower level of spending by council would mean rates would decrease.

Option two: Maintain council funding without NZTA subsidy.

This would mean about half the work proposed by NZTA would be done using only council money from loan funding and from rates. This would mean a decreased level of service, increased borrowing, but no change to rates.

Option three: Fully fund the extra $3 million without loan funding by rating for the work needed. Rates would increase by 1.8 per cent next year. This option, however, would not result in an increased level of service, it would simply mean maintaining the current road maintenance programme.

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The question for ratepayers is how much they are prepared to pay for this project. For the council, the question is who should pay and what proportion of the costs the council should absorb.

While NZTA has suggested a 50/50 split between itself and the council, the council wants NZTA to pay 80 per cent of the costs.

Construction of the bridge is anticipated to start in the 2025/26 year and take two years to complete. It is intended that borrowings will be intergenerational, with repayments spread over 25 years.

There has been no indication from NZTA that it will pay 80 per cent of the costs.

If funding is not provided the project could be placed lower on the NZTA priority list and work could be deferred or the council could revisit the project when it reviews the long-term plan in three years and reconsider how it is paid for.

The centre receives more than 480,000 visitors each year and currently carries $28.8 million of debt that is being paid back over 40 years through rates across all properties in the district.

A number of additions have been considered for the complex, including a climbing wall, ice rink, hydroslide, extensions to the pools and stadium and adjacent sports field development.

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Option one: If the council pays 49 per cent of the cost of the bridge, the $17.2 million needed would be loan funded over 25 years and there would be a moderate increase in rates at that time.

Option two: If NZTA assumes 80 per cent of the costs, the $7 million would be loan funded over 25 years and there would be a minimal increase in rates.

Option three: The council could opt to pay all of the costs, likely to be $35 million. This would still sit well within the council’s borrowing limits and this would mean a significant increase in rates

Tougher standards around drinking water are anticipated to be introduced after the Havelock North water contamination incident in 2016 and that means local authorities have to make significant improvements to their drinking water supplies.

The district has 12 potable water schemes which service more than 70 per cent of its population.

New standards are likely to mean below ground boreheads need to be raised and additional groundwater bore treatment will be needed. The council currently has two options.

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Option one: Adopt a waitand-see approach which means no work is carried out until there is a directive from central government.

This would mean no change to service and no change to rates.

Option two: Plan and prepare for the future. This would mean an increased level of service but no change in rates.

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Option one – climbing wall: The Our Place survey indicated many people felt there was not enough for young people to do in Ashburton and a climbing wall has been proposed as an additional recreational activity young people and families would enjoy.

The likely cost of this is $307,000. This would be loan funded and would have a minimal impact on rates.

Option two – swim school extension and splash deck: The EANC swim school has experienced significant growth and this proposal would see the swim school area extended and a new interactive splash zone area created.

The addition would cost $5.2 million and would be loan funded over the life of the asset. This would see a minimal change in rates.

Option three – sports field development: There is a large area of land around the centre that is intended to be developed as sports grounds in the future.

The proposed development would cost $4.8 million, with the costs split between the council and a partner. There would be a moderate increase in rates.

WHAT HAPPENS NOW? The draft long-term plan document is available on the council’s website www.ashburtondc.govt. nz or the Our Place Our Plan booklet is available from the council’s Baring Square office.

Feedback can be made by using the submission form attached to the Our Place Our Plan booklet, on the council’s website, over the phone, by dropping a submission form off at the council office, on Instagram or Facebook.

A number of meetings will be held around the district where councillors will be available to discuss the long-term plan and the options included: ■ Ashburton council meeting room, Baring Square East, April 17, 6.30pm to 8.30pm ■ Mt Hutt Memorial Hall, Methven, April 18, 6.30pm to 8.30pm ■ Hakatere Hall, April 23, 6.30pm to 8.30pm ■ Mayfield Memorial Hall, April 30, 6.30pm to 8.30pm ■ Hinds Community Hall, May 1, 6.30pm to 8.30pm ■ Rakaia Rugby Club, May 2, 6.30pm to 8.30pm ■ Ashburton council meeting room, Baring Square East, May 9, noon to 2pm.

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OUR VIEW

The fascination of Facebook

I

’ve been a newspaper sub-editor since leaving school.

Without telling anyone my exact age (I’m 48), that’s 31 years.

When I started at the age of 17, we used paper and wax and a giant camera. Some of the younger reporters like to say that we chipped the paper out of rock.

The newspaper industry has seen massive changes and the biggest, of course, was the arrival of the internet. Some of those changes are fantastic … some of them make me doubt whether humanity has a right to make it past 2020.

As a daily paper, joining the growing Facebook crowd was a necessity. You move, or you get left behind. And it’s fantastic when we need to inform people of things quickly, do updates to help keep people safe, run old photos from our archives to give our community a giggle and to promo our

publications and what might be coming out in a day or two.

But it’s astounding what I’ve learned about people through Facebook in my workplace. It’s a source of endless repulsion and fascination to me, all at the same time.

Facebook evokes emotions and quickly. It’s very easy for a tiny flame to become Dante’s Inferno.

It’s like being stuck in a king tide that can drag you under very quickly.

Here’s some of my lessons: 1: Many don’t read the whole sto-

ry to be completely informed 2: Lots of people can’t spell 3: People can be brave and abusive when they’ve not face-toface 4: People think it’s ok to sink to name-calling and/or threatening when they don’t like the job being done Yes, it’s a public forum, and if anyone believes in giving people a voice it’s newspapers. But honestly, I question my faith in humanity after reading Facebook comments at times. One week, I left my place of employment feeling like a battered woman … and I don’t have the thinnest of skins, newspaper people are used to being told off. I’m not too bothered when it’s aimed at me, I’ve been in the game for some time now, so a tough skin becomes a mental prerequisite. Sometimes we deserve it, sometimes we don’t. But what I do find is that no-one seems to

understand the complexities of other people’s jobs … and that’s a problem – for us, for farmers, for councillors, for anyone to be fair.

Facebook has become an almost living, breathing, all-powerful being. Even some big companies live in fear of being trashed on that social media platform.

Take the council, for example.

I’m not anti or pro the council.

They are just doing a job, many of them for the love of the district, because it’s sure not going to make them rich. And, for sure, as a ratepayer there are times I may not like a decision, but I know that if I wanted an opinion I should’ve moved faster and added my voice when I was invited to.

Freedom of speech is fantastic.

We should be able to criticise openly and honestly, we’re not living in North Korea. But many times I find that criticism is little more than an ignorant, personal

attack that lacks in understanding of the process, the role – the whole picture.

Come back with an intelligent, factual, well-thought-out response and I’ll clap my hands in glee and enjoy the healthy debate that will ensue.

Waggling your fingers on a keyboard when you’ve never so much as attempted to read a council document or speak to a councillor, well that comes from the “bravery” of being a keyboard warrior.

They’re the reason I like my dogs so much.

Backbenchers are what I call those people. You know, the ones who won’t stand up, who won’t make an effort to find out facts … the ones that just flap their gums.

We, as a society, have a long way to go before we understand the true potential, power and problems of Facebook.

It’s fascinating and dangerous.

killing 26 people, including 15 Americans.

Ten years ago: Kidnapped British journalist Richard Butler, who worked for CBS News, was rescued by Iraqi troops from a house in Basra after two months in captivity.

Five years ago: Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, won Venezuela’s presidential election by a narrow margin over challenger Henrique Capriles. Adam Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters, beating Angel Cabrera

on the second hole of a playoff on a rainy day at Augusta National. Colin Davis, 85, former principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and one of Britain’s elder statesmen of classical music, died in London.

One year ago: Pope Francis, at the end of a 90-minute Good Friday procession, read a prayer he had composed that alternated between expressing shame for humanity’s failings and hope that “hardened hearts” would become capable of forgiving and loving.

Today’s birthdays: Country

singer Loretta Lynn is 86.

Actress Julie Christie is 78. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 73. Actor John Shea is 69.

Actor Brad Garrett is 58. Actor Robert Carlyle is 57. Rock singer-musician John Bell (Widespread Panic) is 56.

Actor Robert Clendenin is 54.

Actress Catherine Dent is 53.

Actor Lloyd Owen is 52. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 50. Actor Adrien Brody is 45. Classical singer David Miller (Il Divo) is 45. Rapper DaBrat is 44. Actor Antwon Tanner is 43. Actress

Sarah Michelle Gellar is 41. Actorproducer Rob McElhenney is 41.

Roots singer JD McPherson is 41.

Rock singer Win Butler (Arcade Fire) is 38. Actress Claire Coffee is 38. Actor Christian Alexander is 28. Actor Nick Krause is 26.

Actress Vivien Cardone is 25.

Actor Graham Phillips is 25.

Actress Skyler Samuels is 24.

Actress Abigail Breslin is 22.

Thought for today: “When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.”

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, April 14, the 104th day of 2018. There are 261 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater in Washington.

On this date: In 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia.

In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language was published.

In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11.40pm (ship’s time) and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1514 lives.)

In 1939, the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath was first published by Viking Press.

In 1949, the Wilhelmstrasse trial in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.

In 1956, Ampex Corp. demonstrated the first practical videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago.

In 1968, the gay-themed play The Boys in the Band, by Mart Crowley, opened in New York.

In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

In 1994, two US Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shot down two US Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq,

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Email us! editor@theguardian. co.nz Don’t get caught sleeping on the job at your next meeting. Peter Livingstone has some prime tips to help you survive meetings with your credibility intact.

Own that meeting ...

H

ave you ever sat amongst colleagues in a meeting, daydreaming about getting out of there and then realised you have missed a part of the discussion and are not sure what’s going on?

Even worse, been faced with a question or asked to comment and you didn’t actually know what you were talking about?

Well don’t you panic my little confused desk jockey, stick to my handy little guide about how to look smart in a meeting and you won’t go wrong.

Use non-committal phrasing Practise and remember a couple of the following phrases that can be used for making statements or answering questions in any situation: “Thinking through the points raised, I’m left to ponder the next steps.”

“Is this requiring further analysis before decisions are made?”

“I agree with the sentiments expressed and appreciate personal opinions are being valued.”

“I think I may need to take time to reflect on the objectives at hand.”

Use current trend words Yip, being able to drop in some current phrases and words from your industry is a great way to make others feel inadequate, especially if you couple them

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together.

For example, in education I am coming across the following words: segue (pronounced segway), co-construct, pedagogy, relational, cognitive, responsiveness, agency and disequilibrium.

Now, they might sound flash on their own, but string them together and here’s how it goes; Question – “So Peter, what is your belief about charter schools?”

Answer – “It highlights a belief that cognitive responsiveness should be based on relational pedagogy that enables us to co-construct student agency preventing a segue into a state of disequilibrium.”

They will never ask you another question.

Direct questions back to the chair Often used in Parliament to get a wayward MP out of a tight spot, deflecting back to the chair of the meeting puts the pressure on them.

Often the chair is some poor sod who reluctantly accepted

the role, or an arrogant and ignorant superior who is actually more clueless than you.

Here’s how it goes: “Peter – any comment to make about that last point?”

“It has crossed my mind during the discussion, has the chair considered where our organisational goals sit in relation to the points raised?”

See, now the poor chairperson now has to come up with some fluff while you sit back and dream of a vanilla latte with a Cadbury Cream Egg. Blame technology Yip, having your laptop open and reading the Guardian online is a good use of technology during meetings. Being interrupted by a question is just downright rude.

So, what you do is thump the space bar a couple of times, sigh heavily, lower the screen with all the eye rolling of a contestant on Married At First Sight, and say – “I was about to share a Google doc I had prepared in anticipation of that very question, however, my wifi is playing up so I will get back to you about that.”

Use your phone Blaming technology is one trick, but actually it can be a real use to you as well. Set the alarm on your phone for odd times during the meeting and make

Tell the truth – your version Yip, this one blows them away.

When asked to respond, tell them you weren’t actually listening because previous comments had caused you to deeply reevaluate your philosophy on the ethos of the conversation.

They can’t handle this because you told them you were deliberately not listening and the reason is one they themselves don’t have the guts to admit to.

You see, you gave them an honest and irrefutable answer – now that’s smart.

Peter Livingstone is the principal of Tinwald School. The views expressed in this column are his and do not represent the views of his school, the Ashburton Guardian or the Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association.

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Kiwi retailers to cop Aust GST

By Aimee ShAw Retail NZ is urging Kiwi retailers to register to pay Australian GST and again urging the Government to follow suit by making foreign websites pay their fair share of tax.

The Australian Tax Office has been holding seminars in New Zealand this week to brief local retailers on the new tax requirements which will take effect from July 1.

Australia has updated its GST legislation on low-value goods, meaning Kiwi businesses will soon be required to charge 10 per cent GST, effective from July next year, if they have sales of more than $A75,000 ($NZ83,000) a year to consumers.

Currently, imported physical goods under $A1000 are not subject to GST. Greg Harford, general manager of public affairs for Retail NZ, acknowledged New Zealand online retailers did substantial business in Australia, but was concerned Australia was giving Kiwis yet another disadvantage.

“Retail NZ accepts Australia’s

Greg Harford ... NZ retailers have long suffered a competitive disadvantage.

Stuart Nash ... Getting GST legislation changed is a lengthy process.

right to tax foreign firms on the same basis as Australian firms, but we are deeply concerned that the New Zealand Government has so far failed to follow suit,” Harford said.

“Retailers in New Zealand have long suffered a competitive disadvantage as a result of Government tax policy, but the ultimate indignity is now that New Zealand retailers selling into Australia need

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to pay Australian GST to the Canberra Government, while Australian retailers are effectively given a tax-free pass by our Government when selling into New Zealand.

“It’s another example of action

by Australia to disadvantage Kiwis that’s not being reciprocated by the New Zealand Government.”

Deloitte tax partner Allan Bullot said Australia’s new legislation could be a challenge for small retailers, who will now need to advertise payable GST. “If you’re a New Zealand retailer, supplier or manufacturer, selling directly to end consumers in the Australian market, and you sell more than $A75,000 of sales into Australia in any 12-month period and any of those goods which are less than $A1000, you will have to charge Australian GST when you make that sale,” Bullot said.

“Even though you have no physical presence in Australia you will have an obligation to return Australian GST at 10 per cent ... and you want to be charging that 10 per cent GST when you’re making the sale.”

Retail NZ, lobby groups and New Zealand retailers have long

been calling for the Government to update its current tax legislation.

The Business Herald approached revenue minister Stuart Nash in February about the matter who said new GST legislation on imports was off the table this year.

“We won’t have it by July this year, that there’s no doubt [about], but we will be watching Australia very closely,” Nash said at the time.

The Government’s Tax Working Group was examining the matter, but getting such GST legislation changed was a lengthy process, he said.

“I’m certainly not in favour of rushing tax legislation because that’s when you end up with something that really is sub-optimal and doesn’t benefit the country.”

Nash could not confirm whether new legislation would be implemented next year.

Retail NZ estimates the Government is missing out on $235 million of GST per year, or $5.8 billion, over the next 10 years.

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Trump flip-flops on TPP US President Donald Trump (right) has told top administration officials to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the multination trade agreement he pulled the United States out of shortly after taking office.

Rejoining the pact would be a major reversal as Trump escalates a trade conflict with China. The Pacific Rim trade deal was intended by the Obama administration as a way to counter China’s influence, but Trump criticised the pact as a candidate and pulled the United States out of the pact in early 2017.

Trump gave the new orders to US trade representative Robert Lighthizer and national economic council director Larry Kudlow during a meeting with lawmakers and governors on trade issues, according to two GOP senators in attendance.

Senator John Thune said that he and others at the table raised the point that “if you really want to get China’s attention, one way to do it is start doing business with all the people they’re doing business with in the region: their competitors”.

Trump then told Lighthizer and Kudlow to “take a look at getting us back into that agreement, on our terms of course”, Thune said. “He was very, I would say, bullish about that.”

Senator Ben Sasse also confirmed Trump’s surprise move.

“We should be leading TPP,” Sasse said. “China is a bunch of cheaters and the best way to push back on their cheating would be to be leading all these other ruleof-law nations in the Pacific that would rather be aligned with the US than with China.”

Engaging in talks to re-enter the TPP would be part of a broader White House strategy to respond

to an escalating trade flap between Trump and Beijing. Trump is looking for ways to crack down on what he believes are unfair trade practices in China, but he is having a hard time rallying other countries to backstop his push to impose new tariffs or raise the costs of exports and imports for China.

The president is also running into strong pushback from Republican lawmakers, particularly those representing agricultural regions where China’s threatened retaliation against US exports would hit hard.

The TPP is a trade agreement the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other countries signed in early 2016, aiming to strengthen economic ties between the countries and give them more leverage in dealing with China.

The agreement never went into effect, however, because Trump withdrew from it three days after he was sworn in. The remaining countries still ratified a version of the TPP without the United States earlier this year.

Trump has never fully articulated what he opposed about the TPP, but he has shown a general reluctance to enter into multilateral trade deals because he believes these allow the United States to be ripped off.

“The Trans-Pacific Partnership is another disaster done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country,” Trump said in June 2016.

“Just a continuing rape of our country. That’s what it is, too. It’s a harsh word – it’s a rape of our country. This is done by wealthy people that want to take advantage of us and that want to sign another partnership.”

Trump was not the only one to oppose TPP during the campaign.

His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, also said she did not plan on ratifying the deal, even after she had a role in its formation during her time as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State.

Before Trump’s election, efforts to ratify the deal had stalled in Congress.

In May 2016, as domestic political support for TPP was starting to erode, Obama wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post aiming to rally support.

“Increasing trade in this area of the world would be a boon to American businesses and American workers, and it would give us a leg up on our economic competitors, including one we hear a lot about on the campaign trail these days: China,” he wrote.

Trump did not give Japan, one of the US’s closest allies, an exemption from new steel and aluminium tariffs, making it less likely that they would rush to the White House’s defence during a trade war.

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■ UNITED STATES

Syria action decision ‘soon’ President Donald Trump has put off a final decision on possible military strikes against Syria after tweeting earlier that they could happen “very soon or not so soon at all”. The White House said he would consult further with allies.

Defence Secretary Jim Mattis warned such an attack carried the risk of spinning out of control, suggesting caution ahead of a decision on how to respond to an attack against civilians last weekend that US officials are increasingly certain involved the use of banned chemical weapons. British officials said up to 75 people were killed.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a brief statement after Trump met with Mattis and other members of his National Security Council: “No final decision has been made.

We are continuing to assess intelligence and are engaged in conversations with our partners and allies.”

Sanders said Trump would speak later with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May. Although Mattis noted that military action carried risks, he also emphasised that Syr-

It’s a girl Khloe Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl. The 33-year-old reality star has reportedly welcomed her first child into the world with her boyfriend Tristan Thompson. Khloe and Tristan’s baby was reportedly born at around 4am yesterday, at a hospital just outside of Cleveland.

TMZ reports that Khloe’s sister Kourtney and Kim, as well as mother Kris and best friend Malika Haqq were present in the delivery room. Tristan was also reportedly by her side, which comes as a shock, after video footage emerged earlier this week which showed the star locking lips with a mystery woman.

Medical workers treat toddlers following an alleged poison gas attack in the oppositionheld town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria.

PHOTO AP ian use of chemical weapons should not be tolerated. And he insisted it remains US policy not to be involved directly in Syria’s civil war.

“Our strategy remains the same as a year ago,” he said.

“It is to drive this to a UN-brokered peace but, at the same time, keep our foot on the neck

of Isis until we suffocate it,” referring to the Islamic State extremist group.

Mattis’ remarks at a House Armed Services Committee hearing followed a series of Trump tweets this week that initially indicated he was committed to bombing Syria but later suggested he was await-

ing further advice and assessment. Early yesterday Trump wrote in a tweet that an attack could happen “very soon or not so soon at all.”

Later he was noncommittal.

“We’re looking very, very seriously, very closely at the whole situation,” he told reporters.

- AP

Comedy Store owner dies

■ MALAYSIA

‘Stranded at Malaysia airport for weeks’ A Syrian man says he has spent over a month stranded in the transit section of a Malaysian airport, partly as a consequence of his country’s civil war.

Hassan al-Kontar’s plight emerged when he began posting videos of himself at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2.

He says he was deported from the UAE to Malaysia in

2016, after losing his work permit when war broke out in Syria.

He says he is unable to enter Malaysia, and that his attempts to reach Cambodia and Ecuador were also in vain.

The airport and Malaysia’s Immigration Department did not immediately respond to journalists’ requests for comment.

Speaking on a call over

WhatsApp, a worried and distressed Mr al-Kontar told the BBC that he has “lost count” over the number of days he has spent stuck in limbo.

“I’m desperate for help. I can’t live in this airport any longer, the uncertainty is driving me crazy. It feels like my life hit a new low,” he said, adding that he hadn’t had a proper shower and had run out of clean clothes.”

- BBC

Hassan al-Kontar

Some of the biggest names in comedy, the people who stood as giants in the genre, developed their craft at the Comedy Store – people such as Robin Williams, Richard Pryor and David Letterman. It was there that Roseanne Barr was discovered, that Jim Carrey worked the door. And the woman who became synonymous with that Los Angeles institution was owner Mitzi Shore. She died at the age of 87, according to her son, actor and comedian Pauly Shore. “Looking back on my mom’s life, the one word that comes to mind is giver,” Pauly Shore said. “She gave her heart and her soul. So Mom, on behalf of myself and all of the other comedians, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”

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Methven’s Kipione Manumua will be bKiack in the midfield for their clash with Southern today under the mountain.

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Methven aim to bounce back

BY MATT MARKHAM

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Hampstead’s tough start to the Combined Country Rugby season takes another step into the difficult corner this weekend with another former competition winner, this time Waihora, waiting to take them on.

In the opening month of the 2018 season, they’ve already faced Lincoln and Southbridge who are former winners and then current Division One leader, Celtic.

In a season where the club is out to get its mojo back and get back on track after a few seasons in disarray, the tough nature of the draw has certainly tested the steely reserves of the blue and golds.

But if there’s been any concerns, all conversations with coach Shaun Bovey haven’t

shown them – they know it’s going to take time and are prepared to wait and let it happen.

“Nothing is going to happen overnight,” Bovey said recently.

“We were never going to come straight out and win the combined comp – it’s about building the culture back in the club and taking steps slowly but surely to achieve that.”

Waihora will pose another tough challenge today considering their recent form including a demolition job on Ohoka last weekend.

Celtic will get a chance to extend their unbeaten streak to five on the trot when they face the winless Ashley in front of their green faithful in one of only two matches

played locally over the weekend.

They’ve been the surprise package of the season so far, especially after starting the campaign with a huge turnover in players form last season.

Shane Enright has worked his magic and has them firing on all cylinders and already in a good position to push for higher honours later in the competition, particularly if they can win again today.

Up the road in Methven there’s another Mid Canterbury derby in the offing with Methven hosting Southern.

Both sides have had less the desirable starts to the competition with just the one win to show for their efforts and whichever side puts the hand up and performs today is going to find themselves in a good po-

sition as the halfway point in round robin play looms.

Methven were woeful against Prebbleton last week, failing to keep the game tight and allowing their rivals to run all over them.

Andy Pearce won’t want to be seeing that again this week and will be fully aware of what Southern are capable of doing to a side which allows them a chance.

Southern were disappointing last week too, beaten soundly by Springston.

They have a squad capable of winning the competition, but like last year seem to be taking some time to get everything going properly.

Mid Canterbury’s other side, Rakaia, who are also unbeaten, have the weekend off with the bye.

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■ RUGBY

Winning return vital Two byes in the early rounds of Super Rugby has had some benefits, believes Highlanders coach Aaron Mauger.

The southerners return to action against the Brumbies in Dunedin on Saturday anxious they unearth their winning ways after Kiwi derby losses away to the Hurricanes and Chiefs.

Those results came as a reality check after winning their three opening games in Dunedin.

While five matches is less than anyone in the competition has played, leaving the Highlanders with a closing run of 11 successive matches, Mauger says the latest week off was beneficial.

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a little bit disappointed with,” he said.

“But we feel in both of those games, although both teams were slightly better than us on the night, there were things in our control that we could have been better with, that could have influenced a different outcome.

“We don’t like losing at all – any game – so the last couple of weeks have been pretty bitter, to be fair”.

The Highlanders have now won their last eight matches in a row under Dunedin’s covered roof.

And they won’t want to be the Kiwi team which ends a remarkable winning streak of 33 matches against Australian opposition stretching back nearly two years.

Mauger has named a largely unchanged side to that beaten

in Hamilton two weeks ago.

He retains first five-eighth Lima Sopoaga, who hobbled off early with what had looked like a serious Achilles injury.

Mauger said the injury was two bones that had “jammed up”, causing pain and inflammation.

“Lima’s trained really well this week,” Mauger said.

“Obviously, a bit of a scare against the Chiefs but he did everything he needed to do in those first two or three days and he’s been very diligent around his rehab.”

Lock Alex Ainley is on the reserves bench and is poised for his first appearance of the season.

Mauger revealed the 36-yearold workhorse had been sidelined by a blood clot in his leg suffered earlier in the year.

- NZME

Change for Brumbies The Brumbies have made one forced change as they head to Forsyth Barr Stadium for a vital match with the Highlanders tonight. Tom Cusack comes into the starting XV at blindside flanker for Lachlan McCaffrey, who dislocated his left elbow in last week’s 45-21 win over the Reds. McCaffrey will miss up to six weeks after an outstanding season so far after returning to Super Rugby this year.

- AAP

Derby intense as ever

Lima Sopoaga

Waratahs captain Michael Hooper has shot down suggestions the NSWQueensland rivalry has lost its intensity as his side prepares to lock hornS with the Reds in a retro Super Rugby derby in Sydney.

The Waratahs and Reds will clash at the SCG for the first time in 35 years tonight. But unlike 1983, when the Wallabies only played a handful of tests, Hooper will unite with Queensland state rivals for as many as 16 weeks in 2018 due to the jam-packed international schedule. Hooper, though, insists there’s still no love lost between the Waratahs and Reds.

- NZME

Raiders silence critics

■ RUGBY LEAGUE

No chance of complacency in Warriors’ camp

By DaviD Skipwith Warriors back-rower Leivaha Pulu says he’ll happily make way for Simon Mannering as the former skipper continues to work his way back to full fitness ahead of today’s clash against Brisbane.

Intrigue surrounds the makeup of the Warriors forward pack to face the Broncos at Mt Smart Stadium, with Mannering again named on the bench after overcoming a shoulder injury to get through close to an hour of work in last week’s win over the North Queensland Cowboys.

Mannering’s initial replacement, Isaiah Papali’i, has also been included among the extended reserves after making a swift recovery from a knee injury suffered in the round two win over the Titans.

Pulu performed strongly while filling in for Papali’i and has grown in confidence over the past four games, but the hardrunning Gold Coast recruit says he’s prepared to play a reduced role once Mannering is ready to reclaim his starting spot on the left edge.

“It’s all right, I’ll still be going out there to do my job for the team,” Pulu said.

“Simon came back on to the left edge and it’s awesome to have him back.

Leivaha Pulu is happy to put the team before himself.

“He brings another presence, he’s been around for that long and I’m still learning from him as well.

“I don’t know what’s in Mooks’ [coach Stephen Kearney’s] plans.

“I’m happy to put the team before myself and if that means I have to fit in wherever I can, so be it.”

Kearney has plenty of options around his forwards, with Mannering equally at home on the edge or at lock, while Adam Blair is able to fill both middle roles of lock or prop, with Jazz Tevaga providing a point of difference off the bench as cover for both the back-row and hooker.

Front-row enforcer James Gavet is expected to miss another couple of weeks with a hamstring injury, but the side has covered his absence well over the last two weeks.

Kearney may make a late change and start with Mannering this week, but Pulu says he’s just focused on improving his own play regardless of whether his job description changes.

“I’m happy with the direction I’m going but I can keep improving,” he said.

“Tackle technique, there’s times in the game where I get a bit sloppy, and just being a voice on the field.

“As you get fatigued you go into your shell and so I need to have a louder voice and be more of a leader in that situation.”

The second-placed Warriors are full of momentum having started their campaign with fivestraight wins, while the 12thranked Broncos suffered their third loss in last Saturday’s 15-10 defeat to Newcastle.

Questions are being asked of Brisbane’s underperforming halves, Kodi Nikorima and Anthony Milford, with talk strong that big money recruit Jack Bird could make the switch from centre to five-eighth to ignite their attack.

But Pulu believes there’s no risk of the Warriors getting too comfortable, with the players desperate to extend their winning run.

“We know they’re going to come out firing and the Broncos have always been a classy outfit,” he said of coach Wayne Bennett’s troops.

“We’ve got a lot to improve on and it’s still a learning curve for us. The players understand that.

“We know our faults and we’re still growing as a team and as a club, and as the weeks go by we’re just getting hungrier for more.

“But we’re keeping our feet on the ground and just looking to better ourselves every week.”

- NZME

Ricky Stuart says Canberra’s gutsy drought-breaking victory over Canterbury has “shoved it straight back” in the face of critics. His Raiders had been under the pump after going 0-4 for the first time since 1997. “All the critics were telling me over the last month that we were an unfit football team.

We played with five interchange last week so I think that shoved it straight back in their face.” - AAP

Bulldogs face cap battle Canterbury coach Dean Pay says he knew of the NRL salary cap mess the club was in when he took over from Des Hasler late last year. The Dogs have just $800,000 left in their salary cap for 2019 with 12 players coming off contract including veteran outside backs Josh and Brett Morris. Pay inherited the club’s salary cap position from Hasler, who backended many of his big name contracts. It leaves the Morris twins in danger of being squeezed out of Belmore.

- AAP

Boost for the Eels Parramatta coach Brad Arthur says Clint Gutherson’s return from a long-term knee injury has given the club a boost as the Eels look to end a winless start to the season. While Arthur said Gutherson wouldn’t automatically turn around their worst start to a year since 1991, the 23-year-old’s “good energy” had rubbed off on his teammates. The fullback hasn’t played since round 20 last year when he ruptured his ACL for the second time in his 47game career.

- AAP

Delivering on promise

Injuries hit Broncos ahead of Mt Smart clash The Broncos have suffered twin injury blows with halfback Kodi Nikorima and back-rower Matt Gillett ruled out of today’s clash with the Warriors at Mt Smart.

Nikorima has failed to recover from a corked thigh suffered in last week’s 15-10 loss to New-

castle, with the 24-year-old Kiwi international unable to pass a fitness test in Auckland yesterday.

Nikorima’s scratching follows confirmation yesterday that Broncos, Queensland and Kangaroos back-rower Matt Gillett is facing up to three months on the

sidelines with a fractured neck.

Remarkably, Gillett sustained the injury during Brisbane’s season-opening defeat to St George, but he played on believing he had little more than a sore neck.

Following last week’s defeat to the Knights, concerned Bron-

cos medical staff sent Gillett for scans which revealed the true extent of the problem.

The 29-year-old has three fractures in his neck but does not require surgery and only needs time out to ensure the injury heals properly.

- NZME

Last March, Damien Cook boldly declared he didn’t just want Robbie Farah’s South Sydney jersey but his NSW State of Origin one too.

To say eyebrows were raised would be an understatement. Cook had just been relegated to the bench for Farah’s arrival. Fast forward 13 months, and that statement doesn’t seem quite so ambitious as Cook is now the form hooker of the NRL. - AAP

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By Angelo Risso Kiwi boxer David Nyika says his Commonwealth Games men’s 91kg semifinal victory was even easier than his first-round win.

The 22-year-old Nyika won through to the Gold Coast gold medal match yesterday with a 5-0 unanimous verdict win over Englishman Cheavon Clarke.

Despite Nyika’s fighting words, he struggled early, took several blows and lost the first round in the eyes of all five judges.

But he eventually got on top of his opponent, dominating the second and third rounds and proving too technically strong and agile.

Notable was a second-round combination that caught Clarke – who had a cut eye by the end of the fight – flush in the face.

Having won gold in the men’s 81kg division at the 2014 Glasgow Games, Nyika will look for successive Games golds in today’s final.

He will face a boxer he’s already beaten three times in Jason Whateley after the Australian overpowered Indian opponent Naman Tanwar by a 4-0 scoreline.

“It was easier and more straightforward than my first fight.

“I know Cheavon well, I’ve worked with him over in England (and) he always comes and brings his A-game,” Nyika said. “He’s No.5 in the world and I have the utmost respect for him.

“I finished strongly, I’ve got gas to spare.”

Nyika had earlier defeated Antigua and Barbuda’s Yakita Aska and Cameroon’s Christian Ndzie Tsoye, and benefited from a second-round walkover.

He backed himself to defeat Whateley.

“I’ve beaten him three times but I can’t take anyone for a given,” Nyika said.

“He won’t stop coming forward, a little bit more boxer than puncher.

“I’ve just got to bring him out of his comfort zone.”

Meanwhile the New Zealand women’s sevens team have opened their campaign with a thumping 45-0 win over Kenya, which included a hat-trick to try-scoring machine Portia Woodman.

The Black Ferns Sevens outscored the African side seven tries to none, dominating possession and territory at Robina Stadium on the Gold Coast.

The Kenyans never had possession in the New Zealand half while the New Zealanders were able to run at will.

Woodman scored 45 seconds after the kick off when she beat three would-be tacklers, and Kelly Brazier then scored a long-range try when she split the Kenyans through the middle Gayle Broughton scored on the stroke of half-time after an extended attack spread the Kenyans across the park to stretch the lead to 19-0 at halftime.

It took Woodman less than 45 seconds after the break to score her second, proving too fast and strong in a blitzing left-hand side run from inside her own half.

- NZME

Finally, the Black Sticks win a penalty shootout. And what a time to do it. Black Sticks captain Stacey Michelson, Samantha Harrison and keeper Grace O’Hanlon, with a heroic effort, proved match winners as New Zealand snuck past England in their Commonwealth Games semi-final to progress to contest gold against host Australia today.

- NZME

Discus thrower Siositina Hakeai was robbed of a Commonwealth Games bronze in the final round at the athletics field on Thursday. Hakeai was sitting in third with a best effort of 57.16 but ended up fourth for the second straight Games after Indian Navjeet Dhillon bettered the Kiwi by just 37cm with her sixth and final effort. “Finishing fourth it’s heart-breaking. But there’s nothing I can do. I can only come back stronger,” Hakeai said. - NZME

Garton earns bronze New Zealand boxer Troy Garton has picked up a Commonwealth Games women’s 60kg bronze medal after losing her semi-final. The Aucklander fell to a comprehensive 5-0 loss to Australian Anja Stridsman yesterday, outscored by each judge in all three rounds.

The 30-year-old Garton, who beat Botswana’s Aratwa Kasemang in the quarters, collects Games bronze as there are no bronzemedal matches in boxing. - NZME

Bizarre end to 200m David Nyika

Sam Gaze and Anton Cooper after the race. [my race was over]. In the heat of the moment I made a decision that was not respectable by any means. I am gravely sorry.”

Gaze said he left the race course in a sour state and wanted to put it right.

“There’s so much tension and anger when it comes to racing.

Shootout curse over

Heartbreak for Hakeai

Apology for ‘unsportsmanlike behaviour’ Sam Gaze has apologised for his unsportsmanlike behaviour after winning gold in the mountain bike race.

He delivered one of the most exhilarating moments of this Commonwealth Games when he suffered a puncture on the final lap but chased down Anton Cooper to take gold, reversing the medal order from four years ago.

However, poor sportsmanship overshadowed his performance when he was captured extending his middle finger in the direction of Cooper after getting forced off his bike.

Gaze was fined 200 Swiss francs ($282) for the gesture. The currency is used because Switzerland is the base for cycling’s governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale.

Gaze also put his forefinger to his lips as he crossed the finish line and suggested that “the good guys always win” afterwards.

Yesterday he addressed his actions and showed contrition after putting together a magnificent piece of sporting theatre.

“If I’m going to act like a boy, I’d better act like a man now,” the 22-year-old said from New Zealand House in Surfers Paradise.

“Yesterday was the first time of my life I really had to deal with pressure ... it was a hard moment to handle when I thought

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“I thought about it, and as soon as I got home I said, ‘I’m not happy with how this was’.

“I pulled the high performance director aside and said ‘this is not who I am and I’m going to make things right’ … so I drafted up an apology.”

Gaze was asked whether his

obligations under the New Zealand Olympic Committee athlete agreement were brought to his attention.

They state that athletes: “agree not to make or endorse any public statements which may have a negative effect on any member of the actual or potential team (including support staff) during the build-up to the Games and/ or the protected period”.

“It’s self-evident,” Gaze said.

“As a person wearing the silver fern I made a wrong decision and that has to be lived with.

“I’m going to do everything I can to make that right. Anton’s been understanding about it, we’ve had this feud for years. It’s one thing that drives us.”

Chef de mission Rob Waddell confirmed Gaze had come to him and apologised of his own volition.

Cooper said he had accepted the apology after Gaze berated him for attacking post-puncture.

“He does a lot of road riding and I assume this is where it comes from,” Cooper said.

“We have had a heated rivalry, which makes for tough competition that brings out the best and worst in people. It’s a healthy competition, we respect each other and we have to get on because we’re going to see a lot more of each other.”

- NZME

The men’s 200m final exploded in bizarre controversy after England’s Zharnel Hughes flirted across his rival’s lane and then slowed down in the final 30m – taking the win by a debatable photo finish.

Hughes was more than halfway around the stadium completing his victory lap when he was dramatically informed he’d been disqualified. Replays showed he crossed into Richard’s lane, forcing his rival to change his line. “I would be surprised if they did not appeal this,” Lord Seb Coe said.

- AAP

Sevens defended World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont has defended rugby sevens’ presence at the Commonwealth Games, saying it only enhances the format amidst a jam-packed 2018 schedule. The All Blacks Sevens, preparing for this weekend’s Gold Coast action, sent a B-team to last week’s prestigious Hong Kong Sevens and duly finished fourth after losing their semi-final to Kenya. As well as the Games campaign and the regular 201718 World Sevens Series meets, a Rugby Sevens World Cup will also be held in July.

- AAP

Diamonds wary of Ferns Beware a wounded Fern, warns Australian centre Kim Ravaillion as the teams prepare to meet in a Commonwealth Games for the first time without a gold medal on the line. New Zealand’s poor form has been the talk of the Games, with losses to Malawi and England meaning they only scraped into the semi-finals on percentage. The rivals have met in the previous five gold medal games and produced a string of memorable, nailbiting moments.

- AAP

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■ CHAMPIONS

Rakaia’s sporting legends The Rakaia community paid tribute recently to two local sporting legends, Noreen Smith and John Hough. The pair were honoured at the Rakaia Sports Awards and the Guardian is sharing their biographies.

Noreen Smith

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oreen Smith is one of those sportspeople who loves playing sport and her service to sport at club level, from committees to fundraising, is seemingly endless.

Always competitive, Noreen enjoyed running and playing netball at primary school and played hockey on Saturdays.

She moved on to tennis and golf and now enjoys outdoor bowls.

She is probably best known for her connection to hockey, which started while she was in school.

She was a member of several winning teams, including the 1947 winning Methven six-a-side team.

By 1950-51, Noreen was in the Rakaia senior team, which won both the Ashburton competition and the Bishop Shield.

She continued playing senior until 1954 and over that time represented the Ashburton association at the K Cup, Mills Cup and Holden Cup travelling to Christchurch, Auckland and Gore to compete.

These competitions are still played today.

During this period Noreen coached an intermediate grade

Noreen Smith hockey team, was treasurer of the club, served on the committee for many years and was often involved with fundraising ventures along the way. She helped organise the ladies’ hockey club’s centennial in 2000.

Noreen also played tennis for

the Rakaia club and a highlight of the season was an annual exchange with the St Albans tennis club in Christchurch.

After a break to have her two daughters, Gail and Robyn, Noreen returned to Saturday tennis, playing senior reserve.

She was again involved in fundraising to help raise money for new courts in 1969 and then the pavilion which followed a few years later.

After son Aaron was born, Noreen started playing golf and it wasn’t long before she was representing the club in pennant teams and competitions in the Aorangi district. A highlight was being in the winning vets pennant team in 2008.

She involved herself on the ladies’ committee as treasurer from 1997 to 1999, was catering convener and helped with the garden.

She was on the Rakaia Golf Club’s 75th jubilee organising committee in 2002 and continued to walk the fairways until 2012.

In 2000 Noreen joined the Rakaia Bowling Club and played both golf and bowls for 12 years.

Her parents Amy and Tom Gaylor were keen bowlers and Noreen also supported her late husband Des in the sport.

The bowling club also benefitted by Noreen’s presence on the committee and after 15 years, she has retired from the committee although she is still tournament convener.

She was once elected Queen of Sports in a competition to raise money to rebuild the community hall, which burnt down and, at age 85, she shows no signs of taking off the crown.

John Hough

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odest John Hough has a long list of achievements and a stack of medals and trophies, most to do with shearing.

John started shearing in the late 1960s; he had a run in Riversdale where he helped to start the Riversdale Shears, which he won a couple of years after it was up and running.

He shore his biggest tally in Riversdale, 609, which at the time was an unofficial record.

He was offered a job with the New Zealand Wool Board, so sold his run in Riversale to work as a shearing instructor from 19811985.

John went back to shearing for other contractors before having an open run in Canterbury.

Settling in Rakaia in the 1990s, he became an integral part of the Rakaia shearing committee and decided to move the three stand Chertsey shearing competition to the Rakaia Community Centre.

This created a six stand major event, with over 1000 sheep be-

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Pit lane victim home The Ferrari mechanic, mowed down

by Kimi Raikkonen at the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix has arrived back in Italy after successful surgery on his horror double leg break. Francesco Cigarini was left in a heap on the pit-lane floor after Raikkonen was given the green signal to leave.

As the Finn pulled away at speed, he inadvertently struck Cigarini.

Ferrari were fined $88,000 for their unsafe release.

- PA

Picken’s career in limbo Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has laid bare Liam Picken’s concussion woes, saying he may not play AFL football again. Picken is yet to return to full training six weeks after a head clash with teammate Josh Dunkley in pre-season, leaving the 31-yearold’s career in the balance. “He may not play this year. He may not every play again,” Beveridge said yesterday.

- AAP

City’s day of reckoning Melbourne City could be without captain Michael Jakobsen for their last-round duel with Wellington Phoenix. The defensive stalwart will travel to Auckland but has a thigh issue which may see him miss the match that could decide City’s Asian Champions League fate. City sit third heading into today’s encounter. Jakobsen’s injury is a bother for coach Warren Joyce, who has not made a change to his starting XI in three weeks, producing three wins in that run.

- AAP

Kane claims a goal The ridicule facing Harry Kane has been cutting and biting. Opposition players dished out emojis.

Rival fans targeted him on social media. Kane’s misdemeanor?

Wanting credit for a goal. Not just in the heat of the moment but by using a little-known process that allows players to appeal against the official scorer. Spurs won 2-1 with Christian Eriksen recorded as the scorer of both goals but Kane was adamant he got the faintest touch to the second shot. “It was my goal,” Kane said. “It flicked off my shoulder and went in.”

- PA

Gunners get nervous

Julie and John Hough ing shorn on the day.

In the 1980s, he was a member of a three-man team that set a world record for the number of sheep shorn in a three stand shed over nine hours.

John became a master shearer in 1986, a title you earn when you shear more than 500 sheep in a nine-hour day and when you’ve won more than five open class competitions.

He has also managed New Zealand shearing teams and

judged at the World Championships in Norway.

He was a competitor and judge, as well as referee for blade and machine shearing competitions, as well as a drugs tester and tutor.

He was chairman of New Zealand Shearing Sports South Island committee, examiner for judges in the South Island and record referee for shearers for the World Records’ committee covering Australia and South

Africa as well as New Zealand.

When John retired, he and six mates shore at 22 shows around the country in a memorable Last Stand tour.

His last outing with the blade was in Fairlie in 2015.

Shearing’s man of influence also coached Kirwee senior rugby in the 1980s and Rakaia’s senior netball team at the end of that decade and managed the Rakaia Senior B team in the mid-1990s.

Arsene Wenger conceded his side lacked urgency as they were made to fight for their place in the Europa League semis having fallen two goals behind at CSKA Moscow. The Gunners were boasting a 4-1 lead from the opening leg but found themselves behind as Fedor Chalov and Kirill Nababkin pounced to put the hosts within touching distance.

Danny Welbeck halted the comeback on 75 minutes, Arsenal’s first shot on target on the night.

Aaron Ramsey then scored in stoppage time to send Arsenal through 6-3 on aggregate.

- PA

Bomb blast at stadium A bomb exploded at a packed soccer stadium in southern Somalia, killing five spectators while wounding several others, according to local police. The Somalia-based, al-Qaidalinked al-Shabab extremist group immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion at the game played in the port town of Barawa.

- AP

Racing 20 Ashburton Guardian

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Saturday, April 14, 2018

In brief

■ METHVEN

Clasina Maria set for finale The Canterbury Country Cups series is set for an intriguing finish in the Mt Hutt TC Cup at Methven tomorrow with the top five points scorers all engaged and a chance to win the $6000 bonus.

With double points on offer, or 34 to the winner and 24 for second, a win by either Johnny Eyre (51.5 points), Don Domingo (49), Kardesler (47), Mossdale Rose (46) or Clasina Maria (44) will see them take the bonus, regardless of who runs second.

If one of them doesn’t win, but some are involved in the finish, then there’ll be a rush for the calculators.

Acolyte and Boomer Bailey are next on the points table that are starting in the Mt Hutt TC Cup, but with 17 points they cannot head off Johnny Eyre.

Much of the interest will centre around the backmarkers Don Domingo (40m) and Clasina Maria (30m) and the latter is clearly in the best form of her career.

She was super last time in the Waimate Cup, steaming home from the tail of the field for fifth in a race dominated by the front runners Acolyte and Boomer Bailey.

Before that she was left parked and shunted three-wide down the back in a race won by Don Domingo at Addington, while in the Hororata Cup she was unlucky when denied racing room

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The Ross McCarroll-trained Calligraphy will be looking for redemption when she resumes after her disappointing unplaced performance in the Manawatu Breeders’ at Awapuni last Friday. “I thought her run in the Manawatu Breeders was poor,” McCarroll said. “I think she travelled badly down there and the track was pretty rough. I’ll try her closer to home in the black-type race.”

- NZME

Cup goal for Kaharau Stakes-winning stayer Kaharau is in the running for a trip to Queensland. “He races at Pukekohe next Saturday over 2200m,” co-trainer Kenny Rae said. “He’s on track to head to Brisbane as well, I think the Caloundra Cup would suit him.”

Kaharau has won 10 races, including the Listed Dunedin Cup (2400m) and also placed in this season’s Gr.3 New Zealand Cup (3200m).

- NZME

Clasina Maria is already familiar with the winning post at the Mt Harding Racecourse. in the run home.

Four starts ago, Clasina Maria showed what she can do with a good run when she proved too strong for Diamonds N Cash and Don Domingo in the Amberley Cup. “At Methven (Hororata Cup) she was just humming in behind them and would have bolted in had she got the gap earlier,” said regular driver Jessica Young.

“And I had a big smile on my dial after Waimate the way she flew home.

“She just got too far back and they were going so hard all the way that I never got a chance to get into it.

“She seems to have been showing a bit more speed in her last few starts and she seemed as good as ever when I worked her the other day.”

Clasina Maria has won seven races and all of them have been on grass tracks since winning her debut at Omakau over two years ago.

Whatever the outcome tomorrow, Clasina Maria will have her usual big following of fans, or the 30-odd owners who make up the One Chance Syndicate which races her on lease.

The five-year-old daughter of Art Major began racing for trainer Paul Young and his wife Barbara

along with breeder Richard Sissons, but then the syndicate made a “one-off” payment to lease her for her racing career, which meant they no longer paid any training fees or vet bills.

The Youngs will get her back for breeding one day.

“They’re mostly people who had never raced a horse before, hence the name of the syndicate,” said Jessica.

“One of them is Pete Drummond, a retired friend of dad’s in Ashburton who travels to where ever Clasina Maria races.

“She’s quite well-bred and is the last filly foal her of dam who died a few years ago.”

- NZHN

Fee unchanged Little Avondale stallion Per Incanto’s fee for 2018 will remain at $15,000 plus GST. The son of Street Cry’s leading representative is the Diamond Stakes winner Dal Cielo while Amanaat and Magnum have been his latest black type success stories this season. Per Incanto’s progeny continue to be in demand in the sale ring and he was the third leading New Zealand-based stallion at the Book 1 session at Karaka this year with nine yearlings sold at an average of $160,000.

- NZME

Hawkes Bay gallops Today at Hastings Raceway

Hawkes Bay RI Venue: Hastings Date: 14 Apr 2018 Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.45pm (NZT) STELLA ARTOIS MILE $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 43x90 Johnny Lincoln (3) 59.................. R Hannam 2 03343 Link Road b (4) 59 3 827x8 Class Above dm (2) 58.5............ A Shin (a4) 4 716x8 Londaro tdh (11) 58.5 .....................S Collett 5 54x32 Smiling More (5) 58.5.................M Cameron 6 44493 Chouxperb h (1) 57.5 ..................... J Bayliss 7 63324 Rusty In Melbourne d (7) 57 .........L Allpress 8 03429 Wafer (9) 57 ....................................R Myers 9 x1295 Lubaya b (8) 56.5 ........................... J Parkes 10 8x0x9 Artaxerxes dm (10) 56.5 ...................L Hemi 11 65864 Pincanto (6) 55.5............................ S McKay 2 1.19pm LIVAMOL 1200 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 56237 Hugo The Boss h (1) 59.5 .............L Allpress 2 56640 Steppenwolf td (6) 59.5 ................... S Spratt 3 1462 Windsor d (13) 59 .......................... J Parkes 4 16626 Pep Torque (3) 58.5...........................L Hemi 5 18745 Wonder Woman (10) 58 ................. J Bayliss 6 10730 All In Mana (7) 58 7 0x125 Tavijazz dh (4) 57 .......................M Cameron

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8 1. She’s Not Bad (12) 56.5 ...................S Rusof 9 550x5 Conjuring d (5) 56.5 .................... R Hannam 10 10738 Orange Shore d (8) 56.5 ................ S McKay 11 910x Vino Blanco dh (2) 56.5 ..................S Collett 12 44517 Confessional d (9) 56 13 50004 Exhibit d (11) 55 ............................M Tanaka 3 1.55pm THE ELBOW ROOM SPORTS BAR MAHORA $22,500, 2YO SW+P, 1300m 1 2 Langkawi (13) 57 ........................... S McKay 2 3 Kahu Rock (5) 57 ........................... J Parkes 3 3 Madison County (7) 57...............M Cameron 4 4447x Cassius Clay (9) 57 5 Fattore Otto (10) 57..................... R Hannam 6 6. Mighty Connor (3) 57 ..................C Lammas 7 Lincoln Fury (4) 57 ........................M Tanaka 8 Performante h (8) 57 .......................S Collett 9 Visconti (1) 57 .................................R Myers 10 2120 What A Smasher (12) 56.5 ...........L Allpress 11 36x Danelyn (11) 55 .............................. S Spratt 12 54 Fialka (2) 55 ................................... J Bayliss 13 0 The One Thing (6) 55 .......................S Rusof 4 2.32 WINNING EDGE PRESENTATIONS STAYERS $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2500m 1 628x6 No Change tdmh (4) 59 ................. J Parkes 2 15251 Woodloveto (7) 57 ......................M Cameron

3 6x930 What A Deeza (1) 56.5 .................M Tanaka 4 x1510 Challenge (2) 56.5 5 92235 Hare Bawl m (3) 55.5 ....................L Allpress 6 6x830 Trisha Lea m (5) 55 .........................S Collett 7 25345 Tipping Point b (10) 54 ....................R Myers 8 00x77 El Bayardo m (11) 54 ...................... S Spratt 9 31982 Owned (9) 54 ................................. J Bayliss 10 x4006 Voxer h (6) 54 .................................... T Allan 11 8x059 Charlie Chine m (8) 54 ......................L Hemi 5 3.05 NZ CONTRACTORS FEDERATION HAWKE’S BAY 1400 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1400m 1 61238 Scandalo th (5) 59...................... A Shin (a4) 2 3257x Leeds dm (1) 58 .......................... R Hannam 3 80x02 Lucyinrio td (4) 57.5 ........................S Collett 4 19354 Disturbance d (8) 57 .............C Waddell (a4) 5 417x6 Temple Tiger dm (7) 57 .................. S McKay 6 12211 Honneur Noir d (6) 56 ..................... S Spratt 7 83469 Skyweka d (9) 55 ........................... J Bayliss 8 0x00x Luna Rossa dm (3) 54 ...............M Cameron 9 9060x Ophelia Lee m (2) 54 ......................R Myers 6 3.40pm ROYSTON HOSPITAL HAWKE’S BAY CUP $75,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 2200m 1 0x036 Nymph Monte t (2) 60 .....................R Myers 2 92503 Sampson dm (7) 59.5 .................... J Parkes 3 00511 Our Abbadean d (6) 59 ....................S Rusof

4 05274 Saint Kitt tdh (8) 58.5 ........................ T Allan 5 16781 Highlad tdm (10) 58 ...................M Cameron 6 14952 All In Vogue t (1) 57.5....................L Allpress 7 14312 Hunta Pence tbh (4) 55.5 ................S Collett 8 33757 Comin’through (3) 53.5 ...............C Lammas 9 13813 Royal Ruby t (5) 53 ......................... S Spratt 10 12212 Richie McHorse b (9) 53 ................ J Bayliss 7 4.15pm NZB FINANCE SPRINT $50,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 1200m 1 7307x Ringo t (10) 60 ..................................L Hemi 2 3746x Salamanca dm (8) 58...................... S Spratt 3 30653 Volks Lightning d (7) 57.................. J Parkes 4 6264x Mighty Solomon td (1) 57 ............ R Hannam 5 3159x Deals In Heels tm (6) 54 ...............L Allpress 6 11132 Gift Of Power dmb (11) 53 .........M Cameron 7 10116 Rikki Tikki Tavi d (5) 53 ...................S Collett 8 14144 Akoya td (9) 53 ................................R Myers 9 91452 Barcelo d (3) 53 ............................. S McKay 10 21173 Indecision dm (2) 53 ...................... J Bayliss 11 31614 Miss Oahu td (4) 53 8 4.55pm CONGRATULATIONS “MISS WILSON” 1300 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1300m 1 16x9x De Niro t (11) 59.5 ......................... S McKay 2 13758 Vanilla Moon m (7) 58 .................C Lammas 3 148x3 Redefine tm (2) 58 ......................... J Bayliss

4 2157x Jessiegee (10) 57 .......................... J Parkes 5 25252 Chicane dm (9) 56.5 6 56123 Keely Be d (4) 56.5 ......................... S Spratt 7 3297x Hutch (6) 56 ......................... S MacNab (a2) 8 41040 Dontpokethetiger (8) 55.5 ...............S Collett 9 10637 Glory Days t (5) 55.5 .......................R Myers 10 1x214 Aileen Grace d (1) 54.5 .................L Allpress 11 31614 Miss Oahu t (3) 54 ........................M Tanaka Blinkers on: Artaxerxes (R1), The One Thing (R3) Blinkers off: All In Vogue, Comin’through (R6), Mighty Solomon (R7), Hutch (R8) Runner Form: b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months

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SELECTIONS

Race 1: Londaro, Smiling More, Rusty In Melbourne, Lubaya Race 2: Windsor, Steppenwolf, All In Mana, Wonder Woman Race 3: Madison County, Fattore Otto, Visconti, Langkawi Race 4: Woodloveto, Challenge, Tipping Point, Hare Bawl Race 5: Lucyinrio, Scandalo, Temple Tiger, Disturbance, Leeds Race 6: Highlad, Nymph Monte, Comin’through, Sampson Race 7: Volks Lightning, Akoya, Deals In Heels, Indecision Race 8: Chicane, Glory Days, Jessiegee, Aileen Grace

Waikato gallops Today at Te Rapa Raceway

Waikato RC Venue: Te Rapa Meeting Date: 14 Apr 2018 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.27pm RISK ADVICE LTD MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MAIDEN, 1600m 1 72075 Amen Corner (4) 58.5 ........S Weatherley (a) 2 49573 Flash As (3) 58.5................................M Hills 3 84 Guess Who (9) 58.5 ....................T Thornton 4 8 San Siro (6) 58 ............................ D Johnson 5 43868 Hoof Hefner (2) 58 ..........................M Vance 6 53223 Don’t Lie To Me (5) 56.5 ................M McNab 7 35442 Top Actress (1) 56.5 ........................A Collett 8 54226 Midsummer Magic (8) 56.5 ........ L Satherley 9 55843 En Soie (11) 56 10 6209x Replica (7) 56.............................M Coleman 11 34695 Swiss Maid (10) 56 ....................R Elliot (a1) 2 1.02 SEAFOOD BAZAAR 1200 $25,000, 3YO SW+P 1 1194x Prom Queen db (10) 58.5 ...............A Collett 2 5x119 Merlini (9) 58.5 .........................J Nason (a2) 3 30255 Malambo tdm (6) 57.5 ................R Elliot (a1) 4 2134x Karisto tb (2) 57.5 ...........................J Riddell 5 46324 Caesour’s Dream tb (8) 56.5 ......M Coleman 6 1178. Sandrine d (7) 56.5 ............S Weatherley (a) 7 70x21 Sistabeel d (4) 56.5 ...........................L Innes 8 12 Paulownia d (5) 55.5 .....................M McNab

9 12582 Short Fuse d (1) 55.5 ..................T Thornton 10 315x Power Dream db (3) 55.5 ............ D Johnson 3 1.37pm RED CABS HAMILTON 2100 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m 1 84050 Prince Mambo t (6) 59 ..................M McNab 2 21221 Nabiac (4) 58.5 ..........................R Elliot (a1) 3 42755 Toorak Tower (2) 58.5..................T Thornton 4 11034 Lovelight tdb (9) 57 ........................V Colgan 5 x1510 Challenge d (3) 57 ................. K Cowan (a3) 6 48813 Veearma dm (7) 56.5 ................ M D Plessis 7 44913 Lady Shabeel (8) 56...........S Weatherley (a) 8 35109 Brookbars tdm (10) 55.5 ..........J Nason (a2) 9 1x631 Fawn (5) 55 .....................................A Collett 10 34254 Infinite Joy 55 ............................... Scratched 11 03369 On Parole m (1) 55..................... J Grob (a2) 4 2.14pm JOE BLACK MUNNS THE MANS STORE 2100 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 47612 Aigne (10) 59 ..................................M Vance 2 0x553 Divine Duke td (6) 58.5 ......S Weatherley (a) 3 34293 Narvick d (9) 58.5............................J Riddell 4 35764 Epae Road (8) 58............................A Collett 5 14890 Rosso Corsa (4) 58 ...........................L Innes 6 4x070 He’s No Saint d (12) 57.5 ...........M Coleman 7 36823 Chou Chou (1) 56.5 .......................V Colgan 8 50761 Lucky Dreamer (5) 56.5 ............. L Satherley

9 02403 Voler Pour Moi (2) 56.5 .............. J Grob (a2) 10 90900 Arite Guru m (7) 56.5 ................ R Scott (a3) 11 x5590 Rube Bridges (3) 56 ......................M McNab 12 09550 Itsabird (11) 55 .............................. R Norvall 5 2.50 PUNTERS CHALLENGE 5 MAY 1400 $35,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 1400m 1 02708 Seize The Moment td (1) 60..........M McNab 2 58621 Go Nicholas d (6) 59.5 ...............G Cooksley 3 1x8x7 Ugo Foscolo tdb (2) 59................ D Johnson 4 20x08 Galaxy Miss tdm (3) 56 ..............M Coleman 5 36130 Tomelilla tdm (7) 54.................... L Satherley 6 017x8 The Kipling Girl td (4) 54 7 25252 Chicane m (5) 54 ...............S Weatherley (a) 6 3.24pm CK TREEWORK 1600 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1600m 1 66294 Our King Sway dm (7) 61 ................ R Jones 2 483x0 Francis Drake td (14) 60.5..........R Elliot (a1) 3 487x6 Waipipi Lad tdm (11) 58 ....................L Innes 4 10x45 He’s Cavalier dm (2) 57.5.......... M D Plessis 5 1x530 Athena Baby d (12) 57 ....................A Collett 6 190x0 Meritaggio dm (9) 56.5 ...................V Colgan 7 017x8 The Kipling Girl td (6) 55 ............. D Johnson 8 6138x Youwantmore tm (1) 54.5 ........... J Grob (a2) 9 6x374 Showemup dm (10) 54 ...............M Coleman 10 27132 Stacey Ann d (4) 54 .......................... D Hain

17751 Donna Anne Billy d (3) 54 ...........T Thornton 0898x Pure Lorde (8) 54 ..........................M McNab 1428x Vittachi m (5) 54 ......................... L Satherley x5023 Luen Yat Miracle td (13) 54 7 3.59pm SENSORTRONIC SCALES 1200 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 30x16 O’Guy (5) 60 .................................M McNab 2 R1073 One Prize One Goal d (4) 60M Vance 3 22152 Malo Bik (3) 59 ...........................M Coleman 4 147x2 Ottavio m (2) 59 ..........................T Thornton 5 71x Tightlign (9) 59 ............................ D Johnson 6 1x Aligns With Me m (13) 58.5 S Weatherley (a) 7 18745 Wonder Woman (10) 58 8 03873 Impulsive Habit m (7) 58 ........... M D Plessis 9 7x612 Pitch And Switch d (1) 57...............V Colgan 10 17x Capucine tdb (14) 57 ......................J Riddell 11 4523x Ticket To Ride m (6) 57 ...................A Collett 12 1. She’s Not Bad (12) 56.5 13 63307 Orphea d (8) 56.5..............................L Innes 14 970x4 Indian Maid (11) 54.5 ................. L Satherley 8 4.34pm SIGNATURE HOMES 1200 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 560x8 Stradivarius tdm (11) 60 ..................M Vance 2 x90x5 Jetwings d (1) 59.5.............S Weatherley (a) 3 3237x Kensington dm (2) 59.5 ..................V Colgan

2154x Pacquiao m (12) 59 ............. T Yanagida (a4) 1652x Manhattan Flame dm (10) 58.5 11x1 Mihaul dm (9) 58.5 ............................L Innes x435x Bella Gioia td (7) 57 ......................M McNab 15x1. Bevan Street d (13) 57 ................ D Johnson 81220 Memories Only td (5) 57 ............... R Norvall 119x Ricky Baker d (6) 56 87415 Amastar tdm (8) 55 ................... M D Plessis 161. Its Destinys Child d (3) 55 ...... K Cowan (a3) 24220 Legramor td (4) 54.5 ..................M Coleman

Blinkers on: Rube Bridges (R4), Seize The Moment, Galaxy Miss (R5), One Prize One Goal (R7), Stradivarius (R8) Blinkers off: Youwantmore (R6) Winkers on: Paulownia (R2), Legramor (R8) Winkers off: Amastar (R8) Pacifiers off: Rosso Corsa (R4)

SELECTIONS Race 1: Don’t Lie To Me, Guess Who, Top Actress, Replica Race 2: Prom Queen, Paulownia, Karisto, Merlini, Sistabeel Race 3: Lovelight, Nabiac, Fawn, Veearma, Challenge Race 4: Divine Duke, Voler Pour Moi, Narvick, Chou Chou Race 5: Go Nicholas, Ugo Foscolo, Tomelilla, Chicane Race 6: Stacey Ann, Waipipi Lad, Luen Yat Miracle, Showemup Race 7: Ottavio, Malo Bik, Aligns With Me, Pitch And Switch Race 8: Mihaul, Its Destinys Child, Legramor, Bella Gioia

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Saturday, April 14, 2018

Methven harness Today at Mt Harding Racecourse

Methven Trotting Club Inc Venue: Mt Harding Racecourse Meeting Date: 15 Apr 2018 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 11.47am FULTON HOGAN TROT $9000, non-winners 3yo+ trot, stand, 2400m 1 50 With Ice (1) fr ......................................B Butt 2 58 Foreigner (2) fr 3 00x8x Monarchy Princess (3) fr ............ L Lester (J) 4 00070 Ken’s Dream (4) fr ...........................R Payne 5 0302 Future Queen (5) fr ..........................S Ottley 6 600x0 Aldebaran Bonny (6) fr ................C DeFilippi 7 P0337 Masies Pride (7) fr.............................. R May 8 09x97 Don’t Rock The Boat (8) fr .... O Thornley (J) 9 07455 Tequila Sunset (9) fr ................... K Cameron 10 00 Noble Mistress (10) fr ...................M Perriton 11 D0528 Well Defined (U1) fr .............. D Dunn 12 47 Rydgemont Son (U2) fr 13 9664 Rites Of Zhou (U3) fr...........................K Cox 14 0 Same (U4) fr .................................... J Smith 15 0000 President Pat (U5) fr ......................N Burton 16 Youneedabitofmuscle (U6) fr .............G Hunt Emergency: Noble Mistress 2 12.12pm DONALDSON CONTRACTING/WESTVIEW RACING MBL PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+, 2300m 1 0 Awesome Rush (1) fr ......................... R May 2 80367 Downtown Train (2) fr ....................... D Dunn 3 40 Katamach (3) fr ............................ G O’Reilly 4 72028 Matinee Idol (4) fr .................... M Williamson 5 00000 Franco Hatton (5) fr .........................J W Cox 6 33406 Tom Me Gun (6) fr .......................C DeFilippi 7 06060 Comfortably Numb (7) fr ...............B Orange 8 6785 Santanna Lad (8) fr ..........................S Ottley 9 32026 Delightful Tanner (9) fr.........................K Cox 10 70253 Franco Garcia (21) fr ............... C D Thornley 11 53355 Betterthankaty (22) fr ................ R Anderson 12 78096 Bobbie’s Medley (U1) fr ................. K Butt (J) 3 12.42pm MID CANTERBURY TROTTING OWNERS PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+ pace, stand, 2400m 1 x4243 Jungle Gem (1) fr ...................... B Borcoskie 2 00000 Franco Hatton (2) fr 3 9 Itsbeenforever (3) fr ..........................J Young 4 52265 Driftin Away (4) fr .................... M Williamson

5 x77x4 Rosinupthebow (5) fr .....................B Orange 6 0P Ain’t Nothing Bettor (6) fr ........ C D Thornley 7 Sweeney Todd (7) fr .......................T Chmiel 8 2 Ever So Bettor (8) fr ........................... R May 9 0023 Nucleus VC (9) fr........................ L Lester (J) 10 76039 Capital Plan (10) fr .................. L McCormick 11 74744 Sounds Bettor (11) fr.....................K O’Reilly 12 x5470 Flyingmasterwilliams (12) fr ..........L O’Reilly 13 44658 Victor Tango (13) fr................. J Morrison (J) 14 30 Fletch (14) fr................................C DeFilippi 15 x0002 A Better Dancer (15) fr ................ B Hope (J) 16 34906 Franco Toddy (16) fr ................... K Cameron Emergency: Franco Hatton 4 1.12 PAT MCGIRR MEMORIAL TROT $9500, 3yo+ r40 to r54, r55 with cond. trot, stand, 2400m 1 510 Breaking Bad (1) fr ........................... D Dunn 2 P0x07 Elvis P (2) fr .................................M Perriton 3 72951 Still Eyre (3) fr ......................... M Williamson 4 x0495 Ali Lindenny (4) fr ..........................R Holmes 5 30901 The Bloss (5) fr ......................... B Borcoskie 6 45234 Leo’s Gift (6) fr ............................. G O’Reilly 7 36x48 Agatha Tyron (7) fr ........................P O’Reilly 8 00210 Ideal Invasion (8) fr ..........................J Curtin 9 x1x0x Fireman (9) fr ..................................... R May 10 23533 Beyond The Horizon (10) fr .............. J Smith 11 10600 Jean Sebastien (11) fr........... J Markham (J) 12 40332 Glenis Marie (U1) fr................... R Anderson 13 71 Neverneverland (U2) fr................C DeFilippi 14 84241 Rusty I Am (U3) fr ................S Tomlinson (J) 5 1.47pm THE PHAT DUCK BREW BAR & KITCHEN PACE $9500, 3yo+ up to & including r55 pace, 2400m 1 60588 Corena Lea (1) fr................................ R May 2 14746 Kensington Kate (2) fr 3 54062 Vera’s Delight (3) fr......................B McLellan 4 81 Abiento (4) fr .................................R Holmes 5 09040 Texas Ruler (5) fr 6 21065 OK I’m Bad (6) fr ........................... K Butt (J) 7 66154 Christie Marie (7) fr .......................B Orange 8 83789 Take After Me (8) fr 9 678x6 Out Of Aces (9) fr ............................. D Dunn 10 313 Astuto (10) fr ...............................C DeFilippi 11 55x10 Overarm (11) fr ..............................T Chmiel 12 35032 Smoke N Reactor (12) fr ..................S Ottley 13 541 Shadow Minister (13) fr .................L O’Reilly

14 05050 Mr Asia (14) fr ......................... C D Thornley 15 42709 Rainy River (15) fr ...................... K Cameron 16 13030 Awaytocullect (16) fr .............. O Thornley (J) 17 18x95 Sheez Good (17) fr ...................... G O’Reilly Emergencies: Texas Ruler, Take After Me 6 2.22pm MT HUTT TROTTING CLUB JUNIOR DRIVERS MOBILE PACE $9500, 4yo+ up to & including r55 mob. pace jun.d, mobile, 2300m 1 x0633 Jonty James (1) fr ................. O Thornley (J) 2 98072 Doc Seelster (2) fr .................. J Morrison (J) 3 x2205 Double Rainbow (3) fr ........... J Campbell (J) 4 41057 Editorial (4) fr ............................M Hurrell (J) 5 36478 Augusta (5) fr .............................. B Hope (J) 6 96603 Alexy (6) fr 7 32067 The Kaik (7) fr ............................... K Butt (J) 8 02157 Aveross Ferrari (8) fr ............A Fitzgerald (J) 9 2109x Myboylolliepop (9) fr ..............B Laughton (J) 10 90P59 Every Option (21) fr 11 7x928 Errol Finn (22) fr ...................M Anderson (J) 12 84107 Just One Good One (23) fr ........C Jones (J) 13 09040 Texas Ruler fr ............................... Scratched 14 35603 Mogul (24) fr 15 85404 The Go To Man (25) fr .............. J Kennett (J) 16 70445 Blingiton (26) fr.....................S Tomlinson (J) Emergencies: Alexy, Texas Ruler 7 2.57 PG O’REILLY snr MEMORIAL MBL PACE $9500, 3yo+ r40 to r52 mob. pace, 2300m 1 51940 Clarendon Falcon (1) fr ................ G O’Reilly 2 70445 Blingiton fr .................................... Scratched 3 74003 Scoob Operator (2) fr ................ R Anderson 4 96603 Alexy (3) fr 5 06387 Shardan Suzie (4) fr ................... K Cameron 6 10P0 Stone The Crows (5) fr ........................ J Hay 7 45000 Awayovernight (6) fr ........................R Payne 8 33300 Port Hanover (7) fr .................. M Williamson 9 73448 JJ’s Delight (8) fr ...........................R Holmes 10 02188 Vinnie Rulz (21) fr ....................... B Hope (J) 11 0P618 Limoso (22) fr ................................B Orange 12 30002 His Royal Harness (23) fr ..............L O’Reilly 13 x0582 Johnny White (24) fr ..........................J Dunn 14 1970 Donegal Mary Francis (25) fr ........... D Dunn 15 32084 Scotlynn Justis (26) fr .................C DeFilippi 16 80009 The Jandel Machine (27) fr ..............P Davis Emergencies: Blingiton, Alexy

9 4.11 MAINLAND WOOL HANDICAP TROT $10,000, 3yo+ r55 to r80 discrhcp trot, stand, 2400m 1 58233 BK Dawn (1) fr .................................J Young 2 36625 Sunny Glenis (2) fr .................... R Anderson 3 30341 Gorilla Playboy (3) fr .....................B Orange 4 05314 Red Hot Rocket (4) fr ........................J Dunn 5 74773 Stylish Duke (U1) fr ................. M Williamson 6 31130 Rachmaninov (U2) fr ........................ T Grant 7 53040 Red Hot Poker (1) 10 ...................T Williams 8 11952 One Over Dover (2) 10............ C D Thornley 9 10796 Valmagne (1) 20............................R Holmes 10 13550 We’ll Meet Again (2) 20 .................... J Smith 11 22061 Playboy’s Brother (3) 20 ................... D Dunn 10 4.46 SHEARMAC ALUMINIUM MBL PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r54 to r60 mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 1 93510 Calendar Girlz (1) fr .....................T Williams 2 40321 Groomsman (2) fr.................... M Williamson 3 2071 London Delight (3) fr ........................ D Dunn 4 18421 Nurburgring (4) fr .............................S Ottley 5 69140 Onedin Reign (5) fr ...........................J Dunn 6 30450 Eja Patron (6) fr ............................ G O’Reilly 7 50006 Bird Of Paradise (7) fr ..........S Tomlinson (J) 8 27153 Leading The Way (8) fr ....................... R May Robbie Holmes is in the sulky be- 9 14309 Buckeye (9) fr ................................J Geddes hind JJ’s Delight in the PG O’Reilly 10 26152 Lets Hustle (21) fr 11 03116 Officialdon (22) fr snr Memorial Pace at Methven.

12 95321 Bobby T (23) fr ...........................R Cameron 05838 Mighty American (24) fr.................B Orange 8 3.37pm WOODLANDS STUD MT HUTT TC COUN- 13 14 94961 Mister Slick (25) fr ................... C D Thornley TRY CUP HANDICAP $14,999, r56 & faster discrhcp 15 12320 Stompem (26) fr ............................R Holmes pace, stand, 3000m Pacifiers on : Elvis P (R4) Pacifiers off : Noble Mistress (R1) 1 62503 Mossdale Rose (1) fr 2 00720 Asset Control (2) fr NZME SELECTIONS 3 05414 Nearis Green (3) fr ....................... S McNally Race 1: Future Queen, Youneedabitofmuscle, With Ice 4 57257 Boomer Bailey (4) fr ..........................J Dunn Race 2: Tom Me Gun, Betterthankaty, Matinee Idol 5 12766 Westar Sam (5) fr .................M Anderson (J) Race 3: Ever So Bettor, Rosinupthebow, Nucleus VC 6 12368 Kardesler (1) 10 ..............................R Payne Race 4: Leo’s Gift, Glenis Marie, Beyond The Horizon 7 64105 Machjagger (2) 10 ............................ D Dunn Race 5: Kensington Kate, OK I’m Bad, Smoke N Reactor 8 62212 All About Henry (3) 10......................D White 9 36918 Acolyte (1) 20 .......................... M Williamson Race 6: Jonty James, Doc Seelster, Mogul, The Go To Man 10 30192 Franco Tai (2) 20 ........................... G Chmiel Race 7: Johnny White, Scotlynn Justis, Vinnie Rulz, Scoob Operator 11 46708 Johnny Eyre (3) 20...........................S Ottley Race 8: All About Henry, Nearis Green, Clasina Maria, Franco Tai 12 51365 Clasina Maria (1) 30.........................J Young Race 9: Red Hot Rocket, Valmagne, Playboy’s Brother, BK Dawn 13 31137 Don Domingo (1) 40......................B Orange Race 10: London Delight, Groomsman, Lets Hustle, Stompem

M6 Southland gallops Tomorrow at Ascot Park Raceway

Southland RC Venue: Ascot Park Meeting Date: 15 Apr 2018 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 11.57am ASCOT SPORTS BAR HANDICAP $15,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 143x3 Irish Excuse tdm (3) 60 ...............K Kwo (a3) 2 56671 Secret Power dm (4) 54 ..... C Campbell (a3) 3 66812 Friar Tuck td (1) 54 .................. G Jogoo (a1) 4 19830 Robin Charles t (2) 54 ..................... J Morris 5 330x4 Napoleon Dynamite (5) 54 ..R Beeharry (a3) 2 12.27 NORTHERN SPORTS BAR MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 1200m 1 95553 Yes You Did (12) 58.5 ................B Hong (a3) 2 Align The World h (1) 58.5 ........... R Cuneen 3 04606 Get Rythm (4) 58.5 .....................L Callaway 4 97 Haywood (9) 58.5 ............................J Laking 5 Peshawar (5) 58.5 ......................... C Barnes 6 7908x Runningthegauntlet (2) 58.5 ........ D Skerrett 7 Ivan Kane (8) 58...................... G Jogoo (a1) 8 02252 Verify h (10) 56.5....................... S Muniandy 9 85x9 Dream Start (3) 56.5 ....................K Williams 10 8 Gallant Suzi h (13) 56.5 ........ S Toolooa (a3) 11 098x Polly Parker (7) 56.5.....................T Moseley 12 9x Raise The Alarm h (6) 56.5 . R Firdhaus (a2) 13 0x00 Hold The Raddle (11) 58.5 Emergency: Hold The Raddle 3 12.57 WAXY’S IRISH PUB MAIDEN $10,000, 1200m 1 86x4x Drumroyal (5) 58.5 .................... S Muniandy 2 56880 Itz My One (6) 58.5 .....................K Kwo (a3) 3 Pedro h (7) 58.5 .......................D Bothamley 4 67x5 Rock Master h (8) 58 ............ S Toolooa (a3) 5 x4724 Opio Rose (10) 56.5.............A Bohorun (a3) 6 4x463 Haka Star (11) 56.5......................T Moseley 7 88436 Where Angels Walk (12) 56.5 .....L Callaway

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8 9708x Miss Catherine (4) 56.5.......R Beeharry (a3) 9 88 Tap Tap (9) 56.5 ........................... D Skerrett 10 8 Danzi Creek (1) 56 ............. C Campbell (a3) 11 0 Highly Royal (13) 56.....................K Williams 12 Picture Me Rollin h (3) 56 ....... G Jogoo (a1) 13 0x00 Hold The Raddle (2) 58.5 4 1.30pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1200m 1 95812 Promising dmb (4) 60............. B Murray (a2) 2 72543 All Dressed Up dmh (8) 59...... G Jogoo (a1) 3 x5109 Little Miss td (1) 59........................ C Barnes 4 17x Eckse dh (9) 58.5 ...................... S Muniandy 5 39526 Knutquacker d (5) 58.5....... C Campbell (a3) 6 43265 Lily Grecia dm (6) 58.......................J Laking 7 107. Mutunga Tap d (11) 57.5 .............. D Skerrett 8 1090x Double Choice d (3) 57 ................T Moseley 9 53547 Supatwista td (10) 56.5 ................K Williams 10 6270x Higher Authority (2) 55.5 .............. R Cuneen 11 00300 Sunset Girl t (7) 55.5 ...................L Callaway 5 2.05pm HOMESTEAD COBB CO/HOMESTEAD VILLA MOTEL MDN $10,000, MDN, 2130m 1 92353 Itemize (4) 58.5 ............................. C Barnes 2 09443 Coatncollar h (11) 58.5 ................T Moseley 3 44664 Heza Duke (10) 58.5 .......... C Campbell (a3) 4 36560 Shotglass h (5) 58.5 .................D Bothamley 5 07089 Nomen Ludi (6) 58.5 .................... R Cuneen 6 Power Punch (1) 58.5 .................L Callaway 7 92283 Tatum (8) 56.5 ........................ B Murray (a2) 8 59295 The Style (3) 56.5 ...........................J Laking 9 76929 Dowry Duty (13) 56.5 ...................K Williams 10 46x04 Minue (7) 56.5 ..................... R Firdhaus (a2) 11 0 Choice du Jeu h (12) 56.5............... J Morris 12 55x60 Otago Flyer (9) 56.5 .................. S Muniandy 13 08000 Sapphon (2) 56.5 ........................K Kwo (a3)

Racha Cuneen is down to ride Blues Breaker in the Lone Star Handicap at Ascot Park tomorrow.

6 2.40 LONE STAR CAFE & BAR HANDICAP $10,000,

Rating 65&JMPS Benchmark*, 2130m 1 23127 Mac Murdoch tdbh (5) 59 ................J Laking 2 x0001 The Young Pretenda th (6) 59R Firdhaus (a2) 3 x59x0 Civic Reception m (11) 58........D Bothamley 4 548x0 Gingerbread Man m (15) 58............ J Morris 5 257x9 Slammer (1) 58 ............................. C Barnes

6 58073 Sir Ed (9) 57.5 .............................K Kwo (a3) 7 00002 The Energizer m (12) 57.5 ..........L Callaway 8 610x9 Erin’s Babe (8) 56.5 ........... C Campbell (a3) 9 03x76 Drumgold (13) 56 ...................... S Muniandy 10 39684 Franconi h (2) 56 .......................B Hong (a3) 11 559x0 Blues Breaker m (14) 55.5 ........... R Cuneen 12 33x09 Tai Ho m (3) 55.5 .........................T Moseley 13 86603 All The Drama (7) 55 .............. B Murray (a2) 14 70506 Letthethunderroll h (10) 54...... G Jogoo (a1) 15 L980x Limousine mh (4) 55.5 7 3.20pm KELVIN HOTEL HANDICAP $11,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 465x5 King Nero m (4) 59..............R Beeharry (a3) 2 74795 What’s Up Alf m (3) 58.5 ........ B Murray (a2) 3 86833 Gold’nguru m (7) 58 .................. S Muniandy 4 42851 Galway Garry dm (1) 57.5 5 10940 Madam De Soir t (5) 54................K Williams 6 009x0 Squizzy dm (2) 54 ........................... J Morris 7 860x0 Miss Norway (6) 54 ....................... C Barnes 8 3.54pm ILT CENTREPOINT & SOUTHCITY LIQUORLAND MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 9x002 Wentworth (6) 58.5 ...................... D Skerrett 2 3 Orepuki Lad (5) 58.5 .................... R Cuneen 3 90004 Fly Without Wings (1) 58.5 ...A Bohorun (a3) 4 79738 Our Boy Baz (8) 58.5 ............. B Murray (a2) 5 08465 Midnite Kaos (9) 58.5 ...................T Moseley 6 647x0 Paco Rabanne (13) 58.5 ........... S Muniandy 7 7x080 Park Lane (10) 58.5 ........... C Campbell (a3) 8 60x44 Iwo Jima (4) 58 ...........................L Callaway 9 3x7x6 Macpac h (7) 56.5 ........................... J Morris 10 00x99 Pyjamarama (2) 56.5 .................... C Barnes 11 4x0 Miss Tanira (14) 56.......................K Williams 12 0x0 Carol’s Cheval h (12) 56.......... G Jogoo (a1) 13 00 Luuka (3) 56 -

14 x00x0 Peggy Stewart (11) 56 ................K Kwo (a3) 4.25pm WAIKIWI TAVERN FOUNDRY RESTAURANT HANDICAP $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 00154 Richie Rox m (6) 59 ........................ J Morris 2 32243 Road To Redemption b (13) 59 D Bothamley 3 1444x Dream Divine dm (10) 58.5 C Campbell (a3) 4 03513 Finbarr h (2) 58.5 ...................... S Muniandy 5 80038 The Believer td (8) 58.5........... G Jogoo (a1) 6 41008 Miss Tuscan dh (12) 58 ......... S Toolooa (a3) 7 25628 Jakob Gambino d (5) 58......R Beeharry (a3) 8 04452 Vino Tinto (4) 57...........................T Moseley 9 26390 Pacific Tap 56.5 ............................ Scratched 10 0x0x0 Chica Rapida m (9) 55.5 ........ B Murray (a2) 11 x0060 Casing The Joint (1) 55.5 .............K Williams 12 867x0 Twizel Guru td (11) 55.5 ................ C Barnes 13 06870 Leila Eve th (7) 55 ............... R Firdhaus (a2) 14 66638 Lizzie Bordon tdh (3) 55 ..............L Callaway 15 10940 Madam De Soir 58 ....................... Scratched 16 009x0 Squizzy 56.5 ................................ Scratched 17 860x0 Miss Norway 54............................ Scratched Blinkers on: Tap Tap, Highly Royal (R3), Miss Tanira, Carol’s Cheval (R8), Finbarr (R9) Blinkers off: Park Lane, Luuka (R8) Winkers on: Haywood (R2), Luuka (R8) Winkers off: Tap Tap, Highly Royal (R3), Carol’s Cheval (R8), Finbarr SELECTIONS

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Race 1: Secret Power, Irish Excuse, Friar Tuck, Robin Charles Race 2: Verify, Ivan Kane, Yes You Did, Get Rythm, Dream Start Race 3: Opio Rose, Where Angels Walk, Rock Master, Drumroyal Race 4: Promising, All Dressed Up, Supatwista, Little Miss Race 5: Heza Duke, Itemize, Tatum, Coatncollar, The Style Race 6: Sir Ed, Mac Murdoch, The Young Pretenda, Franconi Race 7: Galway Garry, Gold’nguru, King Nero, Madam De Soir Race 8: Wentworth, Midnite Kaos, Iwo Jima, Fly Without Wings Race 9: Road To Redemption, Finbarr, Lizzie Bordon, Richie Rox

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium 3 21422 Talkabout Izzy 30.56 R & ......................Hunt 6 2.49pm MT WELLINGTON TAB STAKES C1, 527m 8 77582 Unileven 18.45 ...........................D Schofield Meeting Date: 15 Apr 2018 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 4 31656 Cosmic Barwon 30.92 ................D Schofield 9 32187 Carefree Highway nwtd ................K Williams 1 41252 Red Dot Special nwtd .......................B Craik 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 5 26613 Secret Rory 30.98 .......................... G Farrell 2 77685 Talkabout Ziggy 30.95 R & ....................Hunt 10 56255 Epic Force 18.63 .......................... H Mullane Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13 6 26211 Jinja Might 30.75 U & ........................Cottam 3 67643 Midnight Daydream 30.82 R & ............L Udy 9 3.46 CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN STKS C1, 527m 1 1.21pm WELCOME TO THE MANUKAU SPORTS- 7 87518 Opawa Silver 30.60 .......................... S Clark 4 61838 Opawa Vegan nwtd W &..................T Steele 1 41238 Out Of Paper nwtd .......................... T Green 8 53463 Electric Dee Eye 30.71 ...................P Green BOWL SPRINT C0, 318m 5 67872 Deception Diva 31.01 W & ..............T Steele 2 42814 Bigtime Wayno nwtd..................... H Mullane 9 86F37 Barwon Annie 31.02...................D Schofield 1 75673 Jetsun Bear nwtd ...........................G Wilson 6 68345 Scott The Looks 30.62 U & ...............Cottam 3 67386 Secret Babe nwtd W & ....................T Steele 2 8x578 Riccitelli nwtd ................................A Cleaver 10 61477 Secret Lily 30.79 W &......................T Steele 7 26337 Swift Order nwtd ............................C Henley 4 45244 Hey Pretty Girl 30.79......................C Henley 3 228 Bigtime Winnie nwtd.....................K Williams 4 2.14pm DOGZONE SPRINT C1, 318m 8 7734F Jetsun Stampede 31.39 .................G Wilson 5 33331 Thrilling Arnold nwtd ....................... K Walsh 4 67433 Crampton nwtd..............................A Cleaver 9 83544 Token Jasper 30.92 .......................... S Clark 1 28873 Ken Wilde 18.53 ........................... H Mullane 6 53187 Ungrateful 30.77 ...............................E Potts 5 58442 Kuridrani nwtd ...............................A Cleaver 2 34442 Katcha Ninja 18.78............................B Craik 10 42775 Fancy Fox nwtd ..........................D Schofield 7 87852 Jinja Liv nwtd U & .............................Cottam 6 252 C’est L’Amour nwtd ...........................B Craik 3 46657 Red Dee 18.53 ................................P Green 7 3.10pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C3, 318m 8 435x2 Zara Petal nwtd ................................ S Clark 7 648x Tilly Toodle nwtd............................... S Clark 4 5F437 Thrilling Wiggle 18.69................. G Pomeroy 9 26674 Blocker 30.99 R & .......................N O’Regan 1 77434 Bitters 18.59 ..................................... S Clark 8 77635 Bigtime Dean nwtd .......................K Williams 5 x1815 Reality Check nwtd ........................G J Hore 2 57416 Nangar Panther 18.53 ................D Schofield 10 1565x Mai Meng 31.14 ................................B Craik 9 23224 Finkle Foot Hero nwtd R & ....................Hunt 6 36142 Pepper’s Choice nwtd ..................K Williams 3 22216 Jinja Mongo 18.58 W & ...................T Steele 10 4.03 GREYHOUND CENTRE STAKES C3, 527m 10 4536 Spark ‘Em Up nwtd .........................S Codlin 7 81223 Spider Phil 18.78 R &..................N O’Regan 4 43142 It’s The Lovely nwtd ..........................M Black 1 33452 San Tan Samson 30.68 ................... T Green 2 1.39pm $5,000 BONUS QUADDIE SPRINT C4, 318m 8 54783 Twelve Gauge 19.10 ........................M Black 5 16224 Subzero Princess 18.57 .................C Henley 2 77288 Little Moo 30.50 U & .........................Cottam 9 41666 Bigtime Sassy 19.11 ....................K Williams 1 74183 Mad Harry 18.47 .............................. S Clark 6 36117 Bad 18.41..........................................B Craik 3 25435 Salvarotti 30.70 ..........................D Schofield 2 32645 Belcroft Banker 18.15 ................H Laagland 10 68158 Bright Concept nwtd R &.....................L Udy 7 33171 Was Just Saying 18.59 R &.................L Udy 4 12687 Opawa Loyal 31.12 .......................... S Clark 3 238x8 Fantastic Lucy 18.22 ..................D Schofield 5 2.32 QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C5, 318m 8 65582 Guru Secret 18.86........................K Williams 5 34166 Pretty and Pink 30.74................... H Mullane 4 41867 One Cool Chap 18.47 W &..............T Steele 9 24724 Jinja Roman nwtd W & ....................T Steele 1 18534 Highland Laddie 18.32 ................. H Mullane 6 51111 Kiwi Gal 30.59 U & ............................Cottam 5 21246 Zoie Willow nwtd .............................. S Clark 2 37828 Zipping Arnold nwtd ...................D Schofield 10 11268 Suspicious Minds 18.67 ....................B Craik 7 65518 Forever And Ever 31.24 ...............K Williams 6 52145 Brotastic 18.57 ..................................B Craik 3 24441 Zipping Gabby 18.47 ..................P Ferguson 8 3.29pm TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT C2, 318m 8 75212 Uno Twenty Five 30.72 ................... G Farrell 7 15876 Formation 18.25 ................................B Craik 4 52623 Mrs Browns Girl nwtd R & ...........N O’Regan 9 33548 Kapai Bart 30.71 W & .....................T Steele 1 25611 Bright Boy 18.76 ...............................B Bond 8 165F8 Timma Turtle 18.36 ...................... H Mullane 5 42321 Kiwi Boy 18.37 U & ...........................Cottam 10 88458 Idol Ajay 30.90 W &.........................T Steele 2 84425 Amazing Contact 18.67.....................B Bond 9 x8887 Ima Lucky Zarr 18.60 U & .................Cottam 6 36356 On Fleek 18.56 .................................B Craik 3 41527 Princess Alea 18.94 .......................C Henley 11 4.19 PUMP ENGINEERING LTD STKS C4/5, 527m 10 76568 Wong Way 18.44 U & ........................Cottam 7 47125 Nitrology 18.26 ................................. S Clark 4 24641 Simple Request 18.58.......................B Bond 1 13125 Ridin’ Shotgun 30.22 ....................... K Walsh 8 22321 Obstinatus 18.25 R & ..................N O’Regan 3 1.56pm PLASTERBOARD STAKES C2, 527m 5 15237 Luke Skywalker nwtd ..................... L A Hunt 2 76166 Thrilling Billy 30.65 .....................P Ferguson 9 32167 Invasion nwtd .................................. K Walsh 1 54311 Jinja Bailey 30.65 U & .......................Cottam 6 17216 Retired Mouse nwtd ........................ T Green 3 21252 Cactus Jack nwtd W & ....................T Steele 2 25535 Bark De Triomphe 31.17 ...................B Craik 10 75177 Kapai Lana 18.57 R & .........................L Udy 7 15833 Unconscionable 18.61 R & .................L Udy 4 11868 Nangar Dream 31.06 .................D Schofield

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71528 Good Job 30.66 ..............................P Green 41133 Trip To Eden 30.06 .....................D Schofield 51635 Opawa Jimbo 30.47 W & ................T Steele 32224 Stay Away Haydo 30.55 .................. T Green 46461 Pat Tama 30.60 ................................ S Clark 58x52 Zipping Kirby 30.72 ....................D Schofield 12 4.37pm DELI’S SPORTS BAR SPRINT C4, 318m 1 48711 I’m A Leo 18.46 ...........................L Laagland 2 6178x Bigtime Sneaky 18.63 .................. H Mullane 3 26254 Alex Attack 18.38 U & .......................Cottam 4 73525 Sun Is Shining 18.56 .........................B Craik 5 34336 Ekali 18.42 ..................................... G Farrell 6 46331 Shot Gun Harry 18.68 .................. H Mullane 7 24132 Hallo Star 18.23 R & ...........................L Udy 8 51246 Leroy Spirit 18.59 ............................S Codlin 9 238x8 Fantastic Lucy 18.22 ..................D Schofield 10 32645 Belcroft Banker 18.15 ................H Laagland 13 4.56pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS C1, 318m 1 72752 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver 2 27653 Fancy Chap 18.65 ......................D Schofield 3 88537 Atlas Shrugged 18.69 .................. H Mullane 4 65766 Tabulam Girl nwtd W &....................T Steele 5 28411 Majik Mikado 18.75 ...........................B Craik 6 48268 Hot Machine nwtd ........................K Williams 7 24463 Finkle Foot Fred nwtd R & ....................Hunt 8 45426 Fancy Gas 18.70 M & ...................... J Smith 9 x6175 Parra Eels 18.97 R & ..................N O’Regan 10 15245 Just A Matthew 18.73.......................M Black LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Whether you’re looking to get into the industry to get hands-on experience or you’re looking to change up and grow your career altogether - this is a not-tobe-missed opportunity as there’s no better place to nourish it than here. We’re committed to providing our people with all they need to positively thrive. So, isn’t it time you put your trust in the company that’s been trusted throughout New Zealand for over 40 years?

Applications close Monday, 16 April 2018.

It’s a job that’s got variety: one moment you’ll be helping a customer with their order; the next driving the loader to meet a despatch deadline. This is a permanent full time role and would suit someone who is not afraid of getting their hands dirty. You’ll also need the desire and the ability to pick up our computer system and administrative processes. If you like the idea of an enjoyable career with like-minded people, while contributing to the growth of your local community, this is the perfect place to make it happen.

We are seeking to employ a Boiler Operator for our 14mW Coal Fired Boiler.

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Currently holding a Level 2 National Certificate – Boiler Operation, but we would consider a suitable candidate with past boiler operation experience, who is prepared to study towards and attain this qualification.

Your other duties will include daily preventative maintenance tasks for other items of the services plant. Relevant training will be provided.

The position will involve shift work on our rotating 12 hour shift pattern (3 days, 3 nights, 3 days off).

If this position is of interest to you, please email your CV and cover letter to human.resources@talleys.co.nz

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Applications close on Sunday, 22 April 2018.

Ravensdown is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment drug test.

The grazing platform will run a stocking capacity of 750 R1 and 750 R2 dairy heifers alongside the wintering requirements of 3000 MA cows.

The role requires: • Proven experience in pasture management, animal husbandry, general farm machinery operation and maintenance.

• An ability to work sole charge and as part of a team • Strong communication and reporting skills A newly renovated 4 bedroom house is available.

For further information please contact: Mark & Devon Slee 027 6327 305 (Mark) 027 3248 143 (Devon)

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers

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Melrose Dairy Ltd is looking for an energetic and experienced operator to manage its fully irrigated 314ha Support Block in the Carew district, 18km north of Geraldine.

To find out more about these vacancies and what the Ashburton District Council has to offer you visit our website.

About the Role:

So what can you expect in return? Well, you’ll have plenty of autonomy, lots of interaction with local people, and stacks of opportunity to grow your career with one of New Zealand’s most successful and respected co-operatives. We offer fantastic staff benefits (including medical, life and income protection insurances and 5% Superannuation to name a few) and an environment which values and promotes training and development.

(Full time permanent position)

twice a week (or more if needed) year round, and that the Campground; which includes 24 powered sites, a large number of non-powered sites, a kitchen/laundry/toilet block, provides a quality service for our return and new guests.

We’re looking for a customer-focused individual to join the busy team at our Ashburton Store to help keep our operations running smoothly, safely and successfully. From blending bulk fertiliser and operating heavy machinery to processing computerised orders and selling to customers - this is where your attitude is truly your most highly valued skill. If you have loader and forklift experience this is great, but if not we are keen to provide the training you need.

Benefits:

Dairy Support Farm Manager

This unique caretaker/camping ground management role will see you responsible for ensuring the public conveniences are cleaned

To enable smarter farming for a better New Zealand Ka pukekotia a Rongomatane, ka poho kereru a Aotearoa

• Reasonable physical fitness and be comfortable working in the yard • The desire to provide great customer service experience every time and be an excellent ‘people person’ • Be capable of picking up Ravensdown’s ordering and stock management system • The ability to work as a team and follow instructions is essential

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Chefs wanted Looking for full-time Thai chefs.

The candidates must have 5 or more years’ experience cooking Thai cuisine in a restaurant.

Please send your CV’s to: Charming Thai Restaurant 148 East street, Ashburton

Korean/Japanese Food Chef Green Sushi are looking for a full time experienced Chef in Ashburton.

Minimum of three years’ experience required.

Must have a wide knowledge of Korean/ Japanese cuisine.

Please apply by emailing your CV to gladi1004@naver. com

Applications are to be in writing including a covering letter, CV and two referees.

Please email to: office@melrosedairy.nz

by April 30, 2018.

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TRUCK DRIVERS REQUIRED Our busy company is looking for full time, permanent Truck Drivers. Both Class 4 and Class 5 license positions available.

The successful applicants will hold a current forklift license, enjoy working in a busy team and will possess great work ethic and communication skills.

To apply for this position please Phone Zac: 021 273 2704 or Email: zac.edgar@idltransport.co.nz

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Foreman and Leading Hand We have an opportunity for someone to join a new roofing team, we are looking for a foreman and leading hand.

Roofing experience preferred.

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Full drivers licence required.

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Office Administrator Rotowiper Ltd have a sole charge office administrator position becoming available in early May. We are a small manufacturing company based in Ashburton and selling to the world.

The position entails every aspect of office administration with reception, processing, wages, banking, accounting plus much more. Computer skills is a must with our own in house system.

The person we require will need to have some experience in the above functions and have a general understanding on how a office and business runs. You will be working along-side of the managing director and factory manager.

The position is 35 hours a week - 8.30am to 4pm daily, Monday to Friday.

Please reply with your CV and application letter to: Dougal Lamont - Managing Director dougal@rotowiper.co.nz Rotowiper Ltd PO Box 333 Ashburton 7740

Looking for the ideal part-time driving job?

We need school bus drivers!

Driving a school bus is very rewarding and allows you plenty of time to follow other pursuits in between daily trips.

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Daily Events SATURDAY 7.30am RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Rise and Shine Saturday runners meet at Frontrunner, 7.30am sharp. 28 Moore Street.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, hot and cold food

SUNDAY 8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street.

9am ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Challenging event for registered Petanque players, 115 Racecourse Road,

MONDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road.

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

10am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS

April 14, 15 & 16, 2018 and drinks. North End West Street car park, Ashburton.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Local crafts, new stalls welcome. West Street Car park.

9.30am - 12.30pm THE ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC.

Open for toy exchange, 106 Victoria Street in the Triangle.

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

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB.

Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON.

Afternoon social meets walkers.

Everyone welcome, meet at Robert Harris Cafe, West Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON MUSICAL CLUB. First monthly concert for 2018 “Let the Music Begin.” Sinclair Centre, Park Street, Ashburton.

Ashburton.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Tevita Taufalele.

Baring Square East.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rev Henry Mbambo, 48 Allen’s Road, Allenton.

10am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship led by James Shaw and family from Geraldine, all welcome.

65 Oxford Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH. Morning Worship, Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

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

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10am

ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

11am - 4pm THE PLAINS RAILWAY. Steam train rides, machinery displays and much more. Maronan Road, Tinwald.

11am - 4pm RAILWAY AND PRESERVATION SOCIETY PLAINS MUSUEM. Welcome all craft people to join us, contact Jenny 308-5911 or Pam 3072801. Plains Museum, Maronan Road, Tinwald.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road .

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

GOLF. Members will contest the McPherson Shield, Tinwald Golf Club.

10am - 3pm AGE CONCERN, 206 CLUB. Fun fill days for 60 years and older, for more information ring 308-6817.

Cameron Street. (excludes public holidays).

12pm - 1pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. A Free lunch. Ashburton Baptist Church, entry off Cass Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research. Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

2pm GREY POWER ASHBURTON. Speaker Tina Mitchell, Deputy banking Ombudsman. Senior Centre, Cameron

Street.

6pm BOOTCAMP. Catering for all levels of fitness. Walnut Avenue Pavilion. Contact Georgia 0276888686 or Aleisha 0278489309.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road.

7pm MID CANTERBURY CHOIR. Open night at the Bradford Room,

Ashburton Trust Event Centre, Wills Street.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre evening, new players welcome.

Holy Name Pastoral Centre, Cnr Winter Street and Burnett Street. (every Monday, excludes public holidays).

7.30pm ASHBURTON ELECTRONIC ORGAN AND KEYBOARD CLUB. Club night concert, all visitors welcome, Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

MEETINGS, EVENTS Ashburton Society of Arts Short Street Studio

Hotel Ashburton (2016) Limited (In Receivership & Liquidation)

The Ashburton District Council is seeking tender submissions for the following:

• To partially demolish, preserve and restore the heritage buildings located at the Chinese Settlement on Allens Road.

The tender documentation is available online at ashburtondc.govt.nz/publicnotices. The tendered contract is proposed with the commencement date of 18 June 2018.

WANTED

Interested parties may contact the Council directly for a copy of the tender documentation. All queries should be directed to Vincie Billante at Vincie.billante@adc.govt.nz in the first instance.

FISHING - Collector buying old/vintage fishing rods, reels and tackle. Top prices. Phone Steve 03 324 2064.

TRADES, SERVICES AG LEADER GPS Technology - Based in Mid Canterbury. Keane Farm Services offer the full range of Ag Leader GPS technology products and services. We pride ourselves on providing reliable back up and support.

Ruralco Suppliers. Call now...

Mick Keane 027 267 9384.

RURAL TRADING POST PLANTS, PRODUCE

AMSOIL SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, antifreeze, car polish, V & L cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust bust, rain clear, engine DENTURES. Dr Peter cleaner and more. Call local Rumping, retired dentist, distributor: Veehof phone 302 continues to provide full 2911. dentures. Repairs to existing dentures also available. PUBLIC NOTICES Phone 027 220 9997.

Ashburton County Scottish Society Pipe Band INTERIOR PLASTERING. For all your plastering and AGM Gib stopping requirements.

New builds, alterations etc.

May 1, 2018 No job too small. Loyal 7.30pm Interior Plastering; phone 027 384 7118 or 027 303 4746.

Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road, Ashburton

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FOR SALE - White oats, approx 16 tonnes, $325 + GST. Phone 302 0709.

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FOR sale – Nadine and Agria potatoes. $1.50 per kg.

Phone 027 531 9103 or 308 3195. 81 Elizabeth Street.

MOTORING 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 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.

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.

HIRE

GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire.

588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8.30am 3.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

SHELLY – health massage.

Open 9am - 9pm. Chinese girl. Ashburton. Phone 022 684 1692.

GRAZING GRAZING available for 200 yearlings from May 1, 2018.

Experienced grazier, irrigated property, all grass and silage.

Phone Greg Tait at Canterbury Grazing Ltd, 0273 786 314.

GRAZING wanted for store lambs. Phone Steve 027 321 6060.

Autumn Show Guest – Sue Currie Opening Sunday April 15, 10am – 3pm Continuing Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and weekends 11am – 3pm when sign out.

Enquiries phone 03 308 4533

GRAZING WINTER GRAZING 26ha Corsa Kale with silage and straw.

No other cattle on farm or neighbouring.

Valetta Area.

Enquiries to David Clark 0274 955 202

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

ONE bedroom flat – Tidy, warm and cosy, new heat pump, good area, off street FOR SALE SCOOTER’S - new and parking, $195 per week, no secondhand three and four letting fee. Phone 021 821 wheel electric scooters and 466 after hours. wheel chairs. Call Fred THREE bedroom house for Reddecliffe at Electric rent, $320 per week in Mobility Ashburton today. Allenton area. Non-smokers Phone 308-3602 preferred, pets negotiable.

VIDEOS – Rediscover your Log burner, heat pump and special memories trapped in HRV system installed. Single your VHS. Convert them onto garage and off street parking. a DVD at The Photo Shop, Phone 303 6163, evenings 6pm.

References The Arcade. Phone 03 307 after required, mature tenants 7595. preferred.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

TO LET - Three bedroom house, warm sunny, log fire, no dogs. Hampstead. $320 NEW to town. Beautiful per week. Leave a message Asian. Hot, slim, sexy, curvy, to 307 0009. busty, DD. Friendly, playful.

Good massage. Phone 021 024 39513.

Looking for a person to join your business?

Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

IRRIGATED Heifer grazing available. Grazing for up to 500 yearlings. May to May and calves in November it required. Phone Stewart 027 SOPHIE. Attractive and 225 3429. busty.

Available for appointment. No texting please. Phone 0210 440 698.

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Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

DUTY DOCTORS

For all urgent medical calls phone 0800 700 155 at any time. IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultations will be held by appointment only. To make a booking please phone 0800 700 155.

Three Rivers Health, Allens Road, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. Consultations will be held between 10am - 12.30pm and 2pm - 5pm. Please phone 0800 700 155 for an appointment.

Ashburton Rest Homes

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

Emergency Dentist

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

HELPLINE SERVICES Alcoholics Anonymous

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information.

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24 hr Rape and Sexual

Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

Victims Support Group

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) Direct dials to a volunteer.

For weekend and emergency services please phone 302 Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm 8105 for details on how to access the after-hours service outside of these hours leave a message. each weekend.

Methven & Rakaia Area

Pharmacies

Located only an hour from Christchurch, the Hotel Ashburton is an established 54 room hotel with multiple conference facilities, spacious manicured gardens, Clearwater Restaurant and Bar, and Turf Sports Bar including TAB and gaming machines.

Looking for a new owner, the assets for sale comprise the lease and intellectual property including all restaurant menus and customer lists, together with all company chattels located at the business premises.

The business currently has an experienced workforce of approximately 50 full and part time employees, including department managers and supervisors who have been employed by the business for a number of years.

For a confidentiality agreement and further information, please contact Libby Huisman for the receivers.

Email: restructuring@nz.pwc.com Phone: 03 374 3000 PwC, PO Box 13244 Level 4, 60 Cashel Street Christchurch 8141

HEALTH & BEAUTY

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Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday, and from 5pm - 7pm both days.

Alcohol Drug Help Line

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Lifeline - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

COMMUNITY SERVICES Art Gallery

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm - Wednesday: 10am – 7pm

ANIMAL SERVICES

Ashburton Museum

Dog, Stock & Noise Control

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm

Ashburton Public Library

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm.

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24h service.

Mid Canterbury SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - 308 4432.

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter -

Contact - President 021 1356 969.

20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020. WEEKEND HOURS: Veterinarians Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm. Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, Mail Closing Times West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, POST DELIVERY CENTRES 149 Cameron Street, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein.

Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Full emergency service all weekend.

Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Information Centres Cnr East Street and Seafield Road, Ashburton. Saturday Methven - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Bus Departures

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Vet Ent and Vet Life operate a joint after-hours SMALL animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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6:15 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 A wine maker creates fine wine on one of Marlborough’s most prized parcels of land, while his daughters learn the ropes in the family business. 0 7am Rural Delivery The science behind a new nitratedetector tool; how biosecurity is being put at the centre of operations at the Port of Tauranga; Design Spun, a Napier worsted-wool yarn manufacturer. 0 7:30 Infomercials 8:30 Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 9am Commonwealth Games Today Latest updates from 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm The latest news, sport, and weather. 0 7pm L Commonwealth Games Men’s cycling road race; netball semi-final matches; javelin. 0 8pm L Lotto The Lotto draw.

8:05 L Commonwealth Games Continued. 0 8:30 L Commonwealth Games Men’s rugby 7s preliminary match – Fiji v Uganda; women’s rugby 7s preliminary match – Australia v Fiji; boxing. 0

SUNDAY

12:30 Commonwealth Games Tonight 0 2:30 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

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BRAVO 10am Beverly Hills Pawn 3 10:25 Beverly Hills Pawn 3 10:53 The Dish 3 10:55 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:20 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:45 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 12:15 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 12:43 The Dish 3 12:45 Little Big Shots – Forever Young 3 1:40 How Do I Look? 3 2:33 The Dish 3 2:35 Million Dollar Decorators PGR 3:35 David Tutera –Unveiled 3 4:30 David Tutera – Unveiled 3 5:30 David Tutera – Unveiled 3 6:30 Mom’s A Medium 7pm Mom’s A Medium 7:30 Below Deck PGR 8:43 The Dish 3 8:45 Keeping Up With The Kardashians AO 9:45 Southern Charm 10:45 Killing Versace – Hunt For A Serial Killer PGR 3 11:40 How Do I Look? 3 SUNDAY 12:30 Infomercials 3 5am Love It Or List It –

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6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:45 Peppa Pig 0 6:55 Elmo The Musical 0 7:05 Penn Zero – PartTime Hero 0 7:30 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 0 7:50 The Legendaries 0 8:15 Pokemon Sun And Moon 0 8:40 Teen Titans Go! 0 9am Regular Show 0 9:10 Mech-X4 0 9:35 Kirby Buckets Warped 0 10am Fresh 10:30 The Barefoot Bandits 0 11am Melissa And Joey 0 11:30 Take Me Out PGR 0 12:30 The Fosters PGR 1:30 The 100 PGR 0 2:30 Once Upon A Time PGR 0 3:30 Australian Spartan 0 5pm M 101 Dalmatians 1996 Family. A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals gang up against her and get their revenge. 0 7pm M Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day PGR 2014 Family Comedy.

Alexander’s day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities, and he begins to wonder if bad things happen only to him and his family. 0 9pm M The Expendables 2 AO 2012 Action. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 The Project 3 7:25 Infomercials 9:30 NewsHub Nation 0 10:30 Married At First Sight USA PGR 3 0 11:30 F The Bachelor New Zealand – Women Tell All PGR 3 0 1pm Minute To Win It 3 2pm N New Girl PGR 2:30 9JKL PGR 0 3pm The Goldbergs PGR 0 3:30 Come Dine With Me New Zealand 3 0 4pm Arranged Princess Virginia prepares to marry Lopeti in the grandest Tongan wedding to be held in New Zealand; Kiwi-Sikh Manpreet travels to India for his arranged wedding. 0 5pm Survivor – Ghost Island 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Despicable Me PGR 3 2010 Animated Adventure.

When a criminal mastermind uses three orphan girls as pawns in a grand scheme, he finds their love changing him for the better. 0 8:45 M The Lovely Bones AO 3 2009 Drama. 0

6am Shimmer And Shine 3 6:25 Ben 10 – Alien Force 6:50 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 3 7:15 Kid v Kat 3 7:40 Monsters v Aliens 3 8:05 Max Steel 3 8:30 Henry Danger 3 8:55 The Thundermans 10am Robot Wars PGR 11am The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 12:30 NRL Try Time 1:30 Football – English Premier League (HLS) 2:30 Storage Hunters PGR 3pm IRT Deadliest Roads PGR 4pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 5pm Fishing Classics 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Antiques Roadshow 0

11pm M Scary Movie 3 AO 2003 Comedy.

1am Grey’s Anatomy AO 3 0 2:30 The Exorcist AO 3 0 3:10 Once Upon A Time PGR 3 0 4:40 Mike And Molly 3 0 5:05 Young And Hungry PGR 3 5:30 Beyond The Search 3

11:05 M Hidden Camera AO 2007 Thriller. A reporter must evade a corrupt Interpol agent while investigating his brother’s death. Dean Cain, Lucia Jiménez, Arnold Vosloo. 0 1am Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:30 Rugby League – NRL (DLY) Warriors v Broncos.

From Mt Smart Stadium.

1:15 Closedown

101 Dalmatians 5pm on TVNZ 2

SKY 5 6am Raw MVC 8:30 SmackDown MVL 10:15 Main Event MVC 11:10 Wild West Alaska M 12:05 Ice Road Truckers PG 12:55 Shearing Gang PG 1:25 The Amazing Race PG 2:20 Supernatural MVS 3:10 Arrow MVS 4pm Wild West Alaska M 5pm The Amazing Race PG 6pm The Simpsons PG 6:30 Supergirl MVS 7:30 The Flash M 8:30 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow M 9:30 Arrow MVS 10:30 Supernatural MVS 11:30 Wild West Alaska M

SUNDAY 12:30 Supergirl MVS 1:25 The Flash M 2:15 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow M 3:05 Arrow MVS 3:55 Supernatural MVS 4:45 Ice Road Truckers PG 5:35 The Simpsons PG

7pm Storage Wars PGR 3 7:30 MythBusters PGR 3 Myths Revisited.

Adam and Jamie return to right their wrongs.

8:30 Elementary PGR 0 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (DLY) Highlanders v Brumbies.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:15 A Dog’s Purpose PG 2017 Adventure.

Dennis Quaid, Josh Gad. 7:55 People Interview – Blake Lively 8:20 Baywatch 16VLSC 2017 Comedy.

Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron.

10:15 Chuck 16VLSC 2017 Drama. Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts. 11:50 Never Here 16LS 2017 Thriller.

Mireille Enos, Sam Shepard.

1:40 Split 16VC 2016 Thriller.

James McAvoy, Anya TaylorJoy. 3:35 Kids In Love 16LS 2017 Drama. Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky. 5pm The Last Word 16L 2017 Comedy Drama. Amanda Seyfried, Shirley MacLaine. 6:50 Rings MVC 2017 Horror. Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe. 8:30 Wakefield MLS 2016 Drama. A successful man decides to disappear from his perfect suburban life ito observe his family in secret. Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner.

10:20 Mr Right 16VL 2015 Comedy. Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick.

11:55 All Eyez On Me 16VLSC 2017 Drama Biography.

Demetrius Shipp jr, Danai Gurira. SUNDAY 2:10 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 2:40 The Last Word 16L 2017 Comedy Drama. Amanda Seyfried, Shirley MacLaine. 4:30 Kids In Love 16LS 2017 Drama.

Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky.

5:55 Rings MVC 2017 Horror.

7:15 The Rite MV 2011 Horror. Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue.

9:05 The Ring 16C 2002 Horror. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox. 11am Unstoppable ML 2010 Action. Denzel Washington, Chris Pine. 12:40 Pineapple Express 16VL 2008 Comedy.

Seth Rogen. 2:30 The Illusionist MVS 2006 Drama. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel.

4:20 Sideways MLS 2004 Comedy. Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen. 6:25 Deja Vu MV 2006 Action Thriller.

Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton. 8:30 Magic Mike 16LS 2012 Comedy Drama. A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.

Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Munn.

10:25 Three Kings 16VL 1999 Action. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube.

SUNDAY

12:20 Zookeeper PGL 2011 Comedy. Kevin James, Rosario Dawson. 2am The Illusionist MVS 2006 Drama. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel.

3:45 Sideways MLS 2004 Comedy. Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen. 5:50 Deja Vu MV 2006 Action Thriller.

CHOICE

6:30 Takaro Tribe 3 6:40 Pukoro 2 7:10 Huhu 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 7:40 Huritua 3 7:50 Paia 3 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 Morena 9am Celebrity Playlist 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am KaweKorero 3 12:30 Matau 1pm Basketball – Secondary Schools’ Nationals 3 2pm The Pits TV 3pm Waka Ama Sprints 3 4pm Get Your Fish On 3 4:30 Marae Kai Masters 3 5pm My Reggae Song 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukuhohe 3 6:30 Haka Nation 3 7pm On The Ladder 3 7:30 Raw PGR 8:30 M Ladies In Lavender AO 2004 Drama. Two sisters befriend a foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930s Cornish seaside village.

Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl.

10:25 Hunting Aotearoa AO 3 10:55 Te Kaea 3 2 11:25 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Dragons v Sharks.

8am The Professor’s Farewell Tour 8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Hurricanes v Chiefs.

10:30 The World Rugby Show A show reflecting on the best of rugby union around the world.

11am Cricket – IPL (RPL) Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab.

2:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Hurricanes v Chiefs.

3pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Sunwolves v Blues.

From Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium.

5:10 L Rugby – Super Rugby Rebels v Jaguares.

From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

7:15 L Rugby – Super Rugby Highlanders v Brumbies.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium.

9:40 L Rugby – Super Rugby Waratahs v Reds.

From Allianz Stadium.

11:45 Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Sunwolves v Blues.

From Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium.

6am Best Of American Pickers 7am A Place In The Sun – Summer Sun 8am Colin And Justin’s Cabin Pressure 8:30 Love Nature – Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 9:30 James Martin’s French Adventure 10:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 11:30 Best Of American Pickers 12:30 Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens 1:30 Big Fish Man 2:30 Sandcastles 3pm Storage Hoarders 4pm Gem Hunt 5pm Auction Hunters 5:30 Four Rooms 6:30 Coast Coast explores the riches in the seas around the UK, and how they are used.

7:30 American Pickers 8:30 M The Tall Man AO 3 2012 Crime Horror. When her child goes missing, a mother seeks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

Jessica Biel.

10:50 The Auction House

11:45 Gem Hunt Ron LeBlanc goes in search of the world’s biggest and most profitable jewels.

12:35 Gary And His Demons AO 1:05 Auction Hunters 1:30 The Tall Man AO 3:35 Colin And Justin’s Cabin Pressure 4am Coast 5am American Pickers

SKY SPORT 2 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Leeds Rhinos v Wigan Warriors.

9:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Friday.

10am The Professor’s Farewell Tour 10:30 The Kiwi League Show 11am Team Talk 11:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Hurricanes v Chiefs.

Noon Rugby League – NRL Friday.

12:30 Rugby League – Super League (RPL) Leeds Rhinos v Wigan Warriors.

2:30 L Rugby League – NSW Cup NZ Warriors v Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles.

4:30 L Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Broncos.

7:30 L Rugby League – NRL Cowboys v Bulldogs.

From 1300Smiles Stadium, Townsville.

9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Raiders v Eels.

From GIO Stadium, Canberra.

SUNDAY

12:05 L Golf – European Tour Open de Espana – Round Three. 4am Football – SUNDAY A-League (HLS) Wellington 1:45 Rugby – Super Rugby Phoenix v Melbourne City FC. (HLS) Highlanders v Brumbies.

4:30 Rugby – Super Rugby 2:15 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Highlanders v Brumbies.

(HLS) Rebels v Jaguares.

2:45 The World Rugby Show 5am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Cowboys v Bulldogs; 3:10 L Rugby – Super Raiders v Eels. 5:30 Rugby Rugby Sharks v Bulls.

League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v 5:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Broncos.

(HLS) Sunwolves v Blues.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 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

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DISCOVERY 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7am How It’s Made PG 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Blowing Up History PG Great Wall of China. 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 10am The Perfect Murder M Garden of Evil. 10:50 Evil Lives Here M 11:40 Mighty Ships PG 12:30 Street Science PG 12:55 Street Science PG Fistful of Flames. 1:20 Diesel Brothers – Power Hour PG Minivans. 2:10 Fast N’ Loud PG Motorcycle Mayhem – Packing a Packard for Pebble 2/2. 3pm Street Science PG 3:25 Street Science PG 3:50 Street Science PG 4:15 Street Science PG 4:45 Street Science PG 5:10 Street Science PG 5:40 Street Science PG 6:05 Street Science PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 9:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 10:15 Auction Hunters PG 11:30 What On Earth? PG SUNDAY 12:20 Sydney Harbour Patrol PG 1:10 MythBusters PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Treehouse Masters PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How It’s Made PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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6am Rural Delivery The science behind a new nitratedetector tool; how biosecurity is being put at the centre of operations at the Port of Tauranga; Design Spun, a Napier worsted-wool yarn manufacturer. 0 6:20 Sunday A weekly in-depth current affairs show. 0 7:10 Praise Be A programme of hymns and songs of praise.

7:35 Tagata Pasifika Pacific Islands magazine show including news and profiles.

8am Commonwealth Games Today Latest updates from the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm The latest news, sport, and weather. 0

6am Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Peppa Pig 0 6:45 Elmo The Musical 3 0 6:55 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 7am Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:10 Elena Of Avalor 3 0 7:35 Andi Mack 3 0 8am What Now 10am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon The Bachelor 3 0 2pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 2:30 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 3pm M She’s The Man PGR 2006 Romantic Comedy.

Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum. 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 The Amazing Race 0 6:30 Young Sheldon 3 0

7pm L Commonwealth Games Coverage includes best moments from the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. 0 10:30 L Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony The closing ceremony of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. 0

7pm M The Good Dinosaur PGR 2015 Animated Adventure. A 23-metre teenaged Apatosaurus befriends a human boy. 0 9pm M The Shallows AO 2016 Drama Thriller. After the death of her mother, a medical student travels to a secluded beach for a surfing weekend, but a great white shark intrudes.

2:30 Infomercials

11pm Time After Time AO 0 Midnight M The Call AO 2013 Crime. 1:40 N Emerald City AO 0 2:25 Infomercials 3am Significant Mother PGR 3 0 3:25 Red Band Society PGR 3 4:10 Beyond The Search 3 4:40 Cougar Town PGR 3 0 5:05 Galavant PGR 3 5:30 Infomercials

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6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Living Church Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 The Hui 0 10am NewsHub Nation 0 11:05 Ocean Bounty 3 0 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR 1pm Motorsport – Muscle Garage 1:30 Motorsport – Formula E Street Racers 2pm Motorsport – MotoGP (HLS) 3pm Motorsport – World Rally Championship (HLS) 4pm Motorsport – IndyCar Championship (HLS) 5pm Gone Fishin’ Local fly tier and dedicated trout fisherman Pat Swift discusses recent innovations guaranteed to lift productivity.

5:30 Towies 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Penguins Of Madagascar PGR 3 2014 Animated Adventure.

Penguin spies Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private join undercover organisation The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr Octavius Brine from destroying the world. 0 8:50 M The Change-Up AO 3 2011 Comedy. 0

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box Noon Flog It! 1pm Grassroots Rugby 2pm Mad About You PGR 2:30 Escape To The Continent 3 0 3:30 Antiques Road Trip 3 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice Jo Brand reviews pudding week with comedians Josh Widdicombe and Tom Allen, and radio host Edith Bowman.

6:30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities David Attenborough investigates two shells that have proved to be winners in evolution, the bird’s shell and the hard shell of the tortoise. 0 7pm Storage Wars – New York PGR 7:30 Prime Planet – Coast Australia 0 8:30 Midsomer Murders AO A sinister side to a local pet show is revealed when a dead body is found covered in live rabbits. 0 10:30 60 Minutes PGR 3

10am Both Worlds 10:30 Sisters 3 11am Native Affairs 11:30 Hamu And Tofiga PGR 3 Noon Waiata 3 12:30 Code PGR 3 1pm The Ring Inz PGR 3 1:30 Touch Rugby – Youth TransTasman Test Series 3 2:30 On The Ladder PGR 3 3pm My Party Song 3:30 N Touch Rugby – Junior Championships Coverage of the best young touchrugby players in New Zealand as they compete in six grades – U16 boys, girls, and mixed, and U18 boys, girls, and mixed.

4:30 Tangaroa With Pio 3 5pm Marae PGR 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Waru Pumanawa 3 7pm Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 7:30 SmackDown AO 8:30 M Ulee’s Gold AO 1997 Drama. A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son’s previous dangerous friends.

10:35 Ipukarea 3

6am Real Deal 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Christ Embassy 7:30 Waterfront House Hunting 8am Gem Hunt 9am Sandcastles 9:30 Auction Hunters 10am Storage Hoarders 11am Coast Noon Real Deal 12:30 Four Rooms 1:30 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy 2:30 American Pickers 3:30 Sacred Wonders Of Britain 4:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure Korean food is set to be the next big thing in the UK, so the bikers want to find out about it.

5:30 Double Your House For Half The Money 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Bear’s Mission With Anthony Joshua Adventurer Bear Grylls teaches world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua some alternate survival skills, starting on the Commando Ridge in Cornwall.

8:30 M The King’s Speech AO 2010 Biography.

10:50 Cold Water Cowboys

11:10 Chicago Med AO 3 Goodwin reconnects with her childhood sweetheart, who arrives at the hospital in dire straits. 0 12:05 Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR Entertainment stories of the past week.

1am Infomercials

11:30 Football – English Premier League 3 Highlights of the week’s English Premier League games.

12:30 Closedown

11:05 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:35 Closedown

11:50 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy 12:50 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure 1:50 M The King’s Speech AO 2010 Biography.

Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter. 4am Bear’s Mission With Anthony Joshua 5am Double Your House For Half The Money

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:35 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 7:50 Wakefield MLS 2016 Drama. Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner. 9:35 Mr Right 16VL 2015 Comedy.

Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick.

11:10 All Eyez On Me 16VLSC 2017 Drama Biography.

Commonwealth Games The Shallows Demetrius Shipp jr, Today, 8am on TVNZ 1 9pm on TVNZ 2 Danai Gurira. 1:25 The Last Word 16L 2017 Comedy BRAVO SKY 5 Drama. Amanda Seyfried, 6am Love It Or List It – 6am Ghost Mine M 6:50 The Shirley MacLaine. 3:15 Allied Vancouver 3 6:45 Love Amazing Race PG 7:40 The MVLSC 2017 Drama.

It Or List It – Vancouver 3 Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard.

Simpsons PG 8:10 Shearing 7:35 Love It Or List It – 5:20 The Last Poker Game Gang PG 8:40 Supernatural Vancouver 3 8:20 Love 2017 Comedy Drama.

It Or List It – Vancouver 3 MVS 9:30 The Librarians Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino.

9:10 How Do I Look? 3 MV 10:25 Supergirl 6:50 Bad Moms 16VLSC 9:58 The Dish 3 10am How MVS 11:15 The Flash M Do I Look? 3 10:45 Below 2016 Comedy. Mila Kunis, 12:10 DC’s Legends Of Deck PGR 3 11:40 Million Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell.

Dollar Decorators Tomorrow M 1:05 Arrow 8:30 The Dark Tower MV PGR 3 12:28 The Dish 3 MVS 2pm Raw MVC 2017 Action. With the help 12:30 Killing Versace – Hunt of an unlikely sidekick, the 4:45 SmackDown MVL For A Serial Killer PGR 3 Last Gunslinger must prevent 6:30 Main Event MVC 1:20 Say Yes To The Dress the Dark Tower from being Atlanta 3 1:50 Say Yes To 7:30 The Librarians MV destroyed by the evil ‘Man in The Dress Atlanta 3 2:15 Say When Jenkins body-switches Black’. Matthew McConaughey, Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 with a 28-year-old slacker 2:40 Say Yes To The Dress Idris Elba. named Jeff, he must find his Atlanta 3 3:05 Say Yes To 10:10 Live By Night 16VLS The Dress Atlanta 3 3:33 The way back into the Library to 2016 Crime. Ben Affleck, Dish 3 3:35 How Do I correct the mistake, and will Elle Fanning.

Look? 3 4:30 David Tutera need the help of Jeff’s friends. MONDAY 12:15 Lovesick – Unveiled 3 5:30 I Found 8:30 NCIS – LA MV MLS 2014 Romantic The Gown 3 6pm I Found The Gown 3 6:35 Child 9:30 Longmire 16V Comedy. Matt LeBlanc, Genius USA 7:30 Top Chef Jr 10:30 Raw MVC Ali Larter. 1:40 Allied 8:30 Little Big Shots – Forever MVLSC 2017 Drama.

MONDAY Young 9:30 Hollywood Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard.

Medium With Tyler Henry 1am SmackDown 3:45 The Last Poker Game 10:33 The Dish 3 10:35 Don’t MVL 2:35 Main Event 2017 Comedy Drama.

Be Tardy AO 11:05 Don’t MVC 3:30 Ghost Mine Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino.

Be Tardy AO 11:30 Relative M 4:20 Longmire 16V 5:15 The Dark Tower MV Success With Tabatha PGR 3 2017 Action.

5:10 NCIS – LA MV 12:20 Infomercials 3

MOVIES GREATS 7:55 Magic Mike 16LS 2012 Comedy Drama.

Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Munn.

9:45 Three Kings 16VL 1999 Action. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube.

11:40 Zookeeper PGL 2011 Comedy. Kevin James, Rosario Dawson. 1:20 The Illusionist MVS 2006 Drama.

Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel. 3:05 Final Destination 5 16V 2011 Horror. Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell. 4:35 Made In Dagenham ML 2010 Biography Drama.

Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins.

6:25 The Five-Year Engagement 16LS 2012 Comedy Romance.

Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt. 8:30 The Good Shepherd MVLS 2006 Drama.

The early history of the Central Intelligence Agency, viewed through the prism of one man’s life. Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie.

11:20 Aeon Flux MVL 2005 Action. Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Frances McDormand.

MONDAY 12:50 Bad Santa 16VLS 2003 Comedy.

Billy Bob Thornton. 2:20 The Five-Year Engagement 16LS 2012 Comedy Romance.

4:25 Final Destination 5 16V 2011 Horror. 5:55 Aeon Flux MVL 2005 Action.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Rugby – Super Rugby Waratahs v Reds. 6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Rebels v Jaguares. 7am Rugby – Super Rugby Highlanders v Brumbies. 9am Fox Sports News 9:30 The F1 Show 10am Motorcycling – FIM Superbike World Championship Spain – Race One. 10:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Sunwolves v Blues.

11am L Golf – LPGA Lotte Championship – Round Four. 3pm Golf – PGA Tour RBC Heritage – Round Three.

3:30 Golf – European Tour Open de Espana – Round Three. 4pm Cricket – IPL Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils. 4:30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 5pm Football – A-League Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne City FC. 7pm L Football – A-League Western Sydney Wanderers FC v Adelaide United. 9pm Rugby – Super Rugby Sharks v Bulls.

9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Highlanders v Brumbies.

10pm Rugby – Super Rugby 10:30 Golf – LPGA 11pm Golf – PGA Tour 11:30 L Golf – European Tour Open de Espana – Round Four. MONDAY 4am Rugby League – NRL 4:30 Sunday Night With Matty Johns 5:30 L Motorsport – Nascar Cup Series Food City 500.

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7:30 Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Warriors v Broncos.

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1:20 What On Earth? PG 2:10 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Swimming with the Fishes. 3pm Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Mountain Lodge Oasis.

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BISHOP, Margaret Ellen – Suddenly but peacefully at home on April 9, 2018, aged 84. Much loved wife of the late Ron Bishop. Dearly loved mother and mother-in-law of Gus and Jenny, Michael and Shelley, Kerrie and Grant, Sharyon and Pieter.

Cherished Nana of all her grand and great grandchildren. In keeping with Margaret’s wishes a private cremation has been held.

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EVANS, William John (Jack) – Pamela, John, Eunice and their families wish to express their sincere gratitude for the words of comfort and expressions of sympathy given to them during Jack’s short illness and following his recent death. We wish to thank all those who cared for Jack, gave baking, flowers etc. and attended his funeral to celebrate Jack’s life. The support and kindness we have been shown is very much appreciated and will always be remembered. To us this was an indication of the high regard in which our father and grandfather was held. We miss his presence in our lives but he left us with many cherished memories.

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

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

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Previous solution: den, denim, die, dim, dime, din, dine, end, ide, idem, men, mend, mid, mien, mind, mine, mined, nide, nim.

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Can you trick yourself into better behaviour? See what makes you feel more generous. What if, you thought of your relative as your friend’s parent or child?

Would there be more love or less love?

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): In a movie, people sit together in the dark to look on the bright side – or the dramatic, adventurous, thrilling side, according to taste. The point is, in movies and in life, the darkness helps with contrast.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Seeing someone or something from your past makes you realise what you’ve really got to get back to. Now you have a different perspective to bring to whatever that is.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): At the end of the day, you may not see all that happened today as progress, but hopefully you’ll sense that it has made you better in ways you couldn’t have anticipated or designed all by yourself.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): If you’re bored, you can bet that others are, too. The difference is that you have the guts to do something about it, while others may not. Your sense of silliness will not lead you astray.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): It will pay to think ahead this weekend. Forethought will help you manage the impression you make, your reputation and the general expectations of others.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): It’s weird, but humans place higher value on what’s scarce than what’s available, even if what’s available is better in most ways. You want people to value what you have. How can you make it scarce?

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): In play, children can become professionals, get married, perform acts of heroism and be super in any way, all within the game. You’ll feel playful like that now and can momentarily take on any role you desire.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): If you go after too specific a result, you’ll tire out people around you who aren’t invested in the same thing. What can you want that others want too? That’s the focus that will make for a happy group.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Some of your dreams haven’t come true, but if you really did try, then they got you into the flow of life in a way you weren’t before. It’s a day for taking stock and thanking your lucky stars.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You’re getting stronger and more independent. It helps your relationships, as it allows you to jointly focus on building toward the future and new adventures instead of rehashing old problems.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): There’s comfort in the knowledge that people think about and care about you. That said, if you don’t want them to bother you with their worries, don’t tell them everything you’re up to.

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