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BY SUE NEWMAN

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Lessons learned from past projects have ensured the Ashburton District Council will be open, transparent and absolutely honest about plans for the district’s new civic centre and library, says chief executive Hamish Riach.

Yesterday it fronted to a blow out of more than $20 million in its build budget for the project.

The original amount tagged in its long-term plan had proven woefully inadequate in terms of what

was needed for the future and what building costs, under new earthquake building standards, actually were, he said.

“It became apparent around the middle of the year that we couldn’t build what we wanted or what was needed with this amount of money and lessons from recent history with council building projects is to not pretend we can build stuff for less than what it’ll cost.”

In coming up with four build options that ranged from $39 million to $53 million the council had

put the project through an exceptionally rigorous and independent assessment process to make sure it had the numbers absolutely right, Riach said.

“Whatever we built for $22 million would not be right for the community or the council’s needs. We need to be absolutely open and honest about this. We believe we’ve got enough experience outside this building to know we now have the numbers right.”

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The council’s preferred option is the mid-priced plan at $45 million.

“What we’re planning is what a modern library really should be, and that’s a modern learning space, a community space embracing technology, a building that will meet the community’s needs for several generations.”

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2022 due to it being earthquake prone. A rebuild of the civic centre has been on the council’s drawing board for many years and this building too needs strengthening to meet earthquake standards, he said.

“We have to do something and we’re fronting up and saying doing something will cost more.”

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■ METHVEN A&P SHOW

Methven show set to draw the crowds

By SuSan SandyS

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There is no guarantee the sun will be shining, but the trophies definitely will be, at the Methven A&P Show on Saturday.

Secretary Amy Russell is pleased to see more than 2500 entries on a par with last year, and has been preparing the many silver cups, ribbons and prizes which will be presented on the day.

Most of the awards hark back to decades gone by, and Russell was aware of at least one trophy going back a century – for most points in preserves and cookery, first awarded in 1919.

She said in some areas entries were down slightly, such as goats and horses, but in others they were up. The latter included photography, with more than 50 entries. There were also good entries in the cooking section, which had a new class this year of undecorated pavlova.

“Cooking always seems to do quite well,” Russell said.

President Simon Wilson said

the theme for this year is Recreation In and Around the Methven District. There will be a recreation display paddock behind the rodeo ring featuring displays from clubs including motorcycling, mountain biking, vintage machinery and football.

The vintage machinery club would run a shuttle to the site from the shearing shed.

Another new feature was holding the dog trial final at the far end of the main ring at 3pm.

“We just thought that it was quite a crowd puller,” Wilson said.

He was hoping to ramp up interest in the Methven Young Farmers’ tug-of-war, calling for entries from local contractors, businesses and others.

He thought the animal tent was sure to be a highlight this year, and it had increased 50 per cent on space compared to last year.

There would be donkeys, goats, puppies, a beehive, rats, budgies, sheep, miniature ponies, calves, cats, and of course eels.

Another new event would be the free-entry guess-the-weight

competition featuring cattle in the calf pens.

“The show is about everyone doing their best and promoting excellence in what they do,” Wilson said.

Whether Mother Nature does her best is yet to be seen however.

But Wilson and fellow organisers are remaining optimistic, putting little faith in long-range forecasts earlier this week showing rain.

Methven A&P Association secretary Amy Russell prepares trophies for the show on Saturday.

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Budget blow out transparency critical From page 1 Because the cost of the new complex is much higher than the long term plan budget, the council is taking the project out for community consultation, knowing there would be detractors as well as supporters, Riach said.

The challenge now was for people to read the consultation document, to understand what the project was really about and to let the council know whether they agreed or not, he said.

The new complex was also part of creating a community with facilities that would attract people to come and live in the district.

“It’s a significant difference

in the amount of money we acknowledge that and we’re looking forward to engaging the community on this and hearing their views. This project is way too important to just dismiss. We want to know from everyone, those who support it and those who do not.”

With the $45 million build the owner of an average price urban home will pay less than $1 more on their rates per week towards the project. Owners of an average value rural property will pay less than $10 a week and commercial property owners around $4 a week. Debt on the complex will be repaid over 40 years.

The council’s experience in

building the EA Networks Centre proved that if the community had a facility in which it took pride, it would be well used, mayor Donna Favel said.

“Yes, this is not what we envisaged with regard to the cost, it’s a significant change and this is why we’re going back to the community,” she said.

“We really want to hear from people, those who agree and those who don’t so we have a better understanding of how the whole community feels.”

Doing nothing was not an option. The council would not hide from the very large cost increase and was laying all the facts out for the community to see, she said.

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Option 1: A 3600 square metre civic centre and a 1950 square metre modern library including a children’s discovery centre, teen space, lounge and study areas, a learning centre, a wet space activity centre, video/audio studio for music and film, two small meeting spaces and book collection areas. $45 million.

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Option 2: A 3600 square metre civic centre and a 2450 square metre modern library with all of the facilities of option one, with larger meeting rooms and the inclusion of a performance space with tiered seating. $53 million.

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Option 3: A 3600 square metre civic centre and a 1500 square metre modern library with a children’s discovery area. $41 million.

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Option 4: A 3600 square metre civic centre but with the current library strengthened, a civic centre $27 million, library $12 million. Total cost $39 million.

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■ KICKSTART BREAKFAST

Breakfast club hits 30 millionth bowl of goodness

By Sue NewmaN

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When the option for schools to provide students with a healthy breakfast was offered, four in the Ashburton District put their hands up.

And those four schools have played a part in helping Fonterra’s KickStart Breakfast programme hit is 30 millionth breakfast, a serving of Weet-Bix and Anchor milk.

The programme began 10 years ago and today more than 1000 schools have come on board.

Among those are Ashburton’s Borough, Netherby, Hinds and Rakaia.

They are part of 72 schools across Canterbury taking part.

Borough School joined the programme two-and-a-half years ago as a student-driven initiative.

It is run by mum Nadine Pearce who can find herself catering for up to 40 children some mornings.

“The numbers vary each day and our children are having the breakfast for all sorts of reasons.

Some have to get an early bus to school, others have parents who have to be at work early, some come in for a chat but we also definitely have some who don’t

have food at home,” she said.

Among the school breakfast eaters are often children of teachers and that’s part of making the progamme just a normal before-school option so no one stands out, she said.

For those students who may not have other breakfast options, it’s great to know they’re starting the day with a full tummy, Pearce said.

Year 8 student Scarlett Hanrahan is also on the breakfast team earning credits towards a service award.

At Rakaia School the programme is less open door and more about meeting a need, principal Mark Ellis said.

“Ours is a more subtle approach, perhaps a teacher has talked to a child who’s indicated they haven’t had breakfast, so numbers are never large, it’s usually one or two students,” he said.

In the past Ellis has run a breakfast-with-the-principal programme that had been very popular with families.

The programme receives $1.2 million in funding from the Ministry of Social Development each year.

Starting the day a healthy way with Weet-Bix and milk, Ashburton Borough School students Eden McAuslan and Ruby Pearce with breakfast club co-ordinator Nadine Pearce.

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NZ Post business on the move

By Sue NewmaN

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Ashburton’s NZ Post business is on the move.

From May 13 the service’s long time base on East Street will close and postal services will move 450 metres south to Ashburton Paper Plus.

It’s been a business deal that’s been a long time in the making, says Paper Plus owner Terry McNabb, but it’s one he’s happy to finally have across the line.

“We’ve been looking forward to this for quite a while; it’ll keep foot traffic in the area going,” he said.

The prospect of becoming a NZ Post agency had been in the wind for several years as the service

had moved to Paper Plus shops in many parts of New Zealand, McNabb said.

“We’ve kept asking for years, what’s happening with NZ Post in Ashburton, but at the time it was operating strongly.”

McNabb said taking on the agency would mean taking on additional staff, but he plans to remodel his customer service areas to accommodate retail, post and the shop’s AA service from the same counters.

The only area where specialist staff would be needed was bill paying, he said.

For post customers, the change would mean a seven-day-a-week postal and courier service.

“There’s a real incentive for us to make this work,” McNabb said.

Office Spot on East Street north already offers an overseas post and courier bag service. It has provided those services since November.

While the postal service will relocate, there will be no changes to the box lobby.

New Zealand Post head of retail, Mark Yagmich, said he was pleased to be working with Ashburton Paper Plus.

“We already successfully work in this way in over 800 locations across the country, and have done so in many locations for years. While we acknowledge this is a change in how people access

these services, we hope people will enjoy the location of our new partner business,” he said.

The agency model using a local business was more financially sustainable for NZ Post, in an ever-changing mix of postal services usage – the decline of mail, versus the significant increase in parcel services, Yagmich said.

“It’s also good for the businesses we work with, as they enjoy additional income both from transacting postal services on our behalf and by having more customers coming through their doors to pick up their parcel or send a postcard.”

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“It’s a long-standing and recognised business in Ashburton, which importantly for customers is centrally located. Many in our community rely on the services that NZ Post provides,” Falloon said.

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■ WATER SAFETY

Video highlights water dangers

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

The Ashburton District Council is joining with local businesses to get behind a new water safety campaign in a bid to help prevent toddler drowning in Mid Canterbury.

The council has partnered with Water Safety New Zealand and local irrigation companies, MHV Water, Barrhill Chertsey Irrigation, and Ashburton Lyndhurst Irrigation Limited to produce a minute-long video reinforcing important water safety messages.

“In the last 10 years there have been 58 preventable toddler drownings in New Zealand.

“As a vibrant farming community, the Ashburton District has many water races, irrigation ponds, streams and rivers, most of which are not fenced or restricted, and many are often on private properties.

“These waterways can pose a deadly threat to unattended children,” Ashburton District Coun-

The Ashburton District Council’s new water safety campaign video highlights the dangers of toddlers around water in New Zealand.

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“It is not realistic to expect every waterway in rural areas to

be fenced. With so many potential drowning hazards around, it is vital that everyone is keeping a vigilant eye on their young

ones at all times.

“The council is proud to be working in partnership with local irrigation companies and Water

Safety NZ to help reinforce this crucial message.”

This water safety video campaign features local residents delivering key messages on keeping children safe around water, with a focus on adult supervision.

It highlights local environments and encourages people to take note of where waterways are, particularly when visiting farms or unfamiliar rural areas.

These key messages are built on the fact that it can take less than one minute for a child to drown.

One of the local residents featured in the video includes Mid Canterbury Rugby centurion Jon Dampney and his family.

“We have a young family and live on a farm with water races so it made sense,” he said.

“It is an important message when you have young kids yourself so we were happy to do it.”

The video is available to be viewed on the council’s Facebook page and Youtube channel.

■ ROAD SAFETY

Driver safety being compromised by signage thefts

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

Signs that have been put in place to keep the site of a fatal crash safe until repairs can be made have been repeatedly stolen.

Lower speed limit signs that have been in place at the Hinds River Bridge on Maronan Road have had been reinstated for a fifth time after repeat thefts.

Ashburton District Council group manager service delivery Neil McCann said it was disappointing and frustrating because of the inconvenience and the cost of replacing the signs, along with the danger it poses as the signs are in place for the safety

of road users.

The bridge was the scene of the crash where 79-year old Ray Harraway was killed after the fertiliser truck he was driving crashed off the bridge on February 15.

The bridge is still awaiting repairs, with special parts having to be ordered and fabricated for the bridge.

“The bridge parts are due in about two weeks,” he said.

“The bridge has been made safe with what has been done.”

The bridge was the scene of a similar fatal accident in 2015, when a 62-year-old man died after the fertiliser truck he was driving crashed off the bridge.

Right – The makeshift repairs to the bridge across the Hinds River on Maronan Road.

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Report in to resthome care damning Elderly living in resthomes are getting around six minutes of care a day and unions are warning some residents are dying as a result.

A shocking new report, In Safe Hands, released by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and E tu, has revealed patients trying to ration their own care to help overworked staff – including one case of a man dying from an infected wound.

It was reported the man saw how over-worked the staff were and didn’t want to be a burden by reporting his infected wound.

Further information about the tragic death is not being made publicly available as it was collected through an anonymous survey and is still being looked into.

E tu industry co-ordinator care and support Alastair Duncan told media this was extremely concerning and action needed to be taken urgently to ensure safe aged-care staffing.

“When residents are paying $1200 to $1400 a week to stay in a resthome and are only getting six minutes of care a day, which is what our data has shown us, that’s rotten.

“If that was me checking into a resthome and finding that out, I’d walk out the door,” Duncan said.

The unions held a summit yesterday in Wellington calling for an updated Government review into

aged-care staffing standards – and for new and better standards to be made mandatory.

The report also revealed many staff believe they cannot offer safe, quality care to residents because there are not enough people rostered on.

Surveyed staff said they were offering “below par service” and sometimes go home in tears due to inadequate staffing levels and care standards.

Standard care is missed or delayed in almost every shift, and that aged care staff frequently face distress and exhaustion in their work, the report shows.

The research surveyed 1194 respondents across the country, including more than 600 registered nurses, nearly 60 enrolled nurses, more than 450 caregivers and nearly 20 facility and clinical managers.

Standards for level C secure environment care, such as dementia, recommend just six minutes of care per hour be given to each patient.

But 81 per cent of staff said the needs of residents had increased significantly since those standards were put in place about 14 years ago.

Additionally, the standards are voluntary – meaning resthomes can choose whether or not they meet the suggested levels of care.

Low staffing levels and the high-

er needs of more frail residents mean staff are having to face the ethical dilemma of deciding who gets care, the report said.

Eighty-three per cent of staff said care was missed or delayed on most or every shift.

Staff said this meant things such as medication and pain relief could be delayed, and that there were increases in falls and pressure injuries. Illnesses were also being missed, and diagnoses were being delayed.

“A very concerning, and common observation was residents themselves trying to ration their

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own care to help staff,” the report said.

“Residents don’t report injuries to us because they think we are too busy. In one case this has meant an assisted living resident had infected wounds no one knew about, which he later died from,” one respondent said.

“Residents worry they are a burden and won’t ring the bell because they know we are busy, so lie in pain rather than ‘making a fuss’,” said another.

Staff were concerned they had to constantly rush through residents’ care, meaning people often didn’t

get the little things that would improve their quality of life, such as “a cup of tea, the toilet when they really need it, their teeth brushed, or even just a hug, a laugh or conversation”.

Staff said higher staffing levels would allow them to build relationships with residents and see them as more than a name on a list.

“There is nothing better than being thanked, not just for doing something like dressing them, but dressing them how they like,” said one person.

The public would be shocked at the findings of the research, which was conducted late last year, NZNO industrial advisor aged care David Wait said.

“Right now aged-care under-staffing is hurting everybody, and we’re confident the public will back our call for the Government to review existing standards.”

Wait said the current standards were published in 2005, and were inadequate even then.

NZNO delegate and registered nurse Sacha Young said if there were enough staff to meet residents’ needs, people in aged care would have much better physical and emotional wellbeing.

“It’s time to set staffing levels high enough to ensure our residents are always in safe hands,” she said.

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Safety first for Pike River re-entry Pike River Recovery Agency boss Dave Gawn says that he has had zero political pressure to re-enter the mine, and will not hesitate to stop the operation if safety concerns warranted it.

Gawn appeared before the finance and expenditure select committee at Parliament yesterday, a day after Pike River Re-entry Minister Andrew Little said that re-entry would begin on May 3 by breaking through the 30m seal at the start of the mine’s drift.

Gawn told MPs that, if things go according to plan, the whole drift to the roof fall area could be recovered by the end of September.

The Government has fended off suggestions that they had put too much pressure on the recovery operation by creating expectations of re-entering the mine, which the previous Government said was too unsafe.

But Gawn said he had not been under any political pressure for the agency to go into the drift, nor would he allow it.

“Do I feel confident that I’m not going to get any political pressure? Absolutely. Quite frankly I wouldn’t accept that. It would be very public if there was.”

National MP Judith Collins jokingly added: “We could help you with that.”

Gawn added that safety was paramount and he would not hesitate to call off the re-entry plan if necessary.

“The families know that, notwithstanding the fact that they’d love to be able to recover the area where most likely their loved ones are. But they don’t want to see any other injuries.”

He said it was “certainly possible” that the operation could recover some of the 29 men who perished at the mine in 2010. Some had been near the roof fall that now blocks the far end of the drift, and some may have tried to move closer to the entrance after the first explosion.

“It’s possible there may have been some movement, a drift runner, which is a vehicle that carries them out, shortly after the first

explosion ... We really don’t know until we get in there,” Gawn said.

The main safety concerns were the level of methane gas and the explosive atmosphere it can create, the potential of fire in the roof fall area – where there had been fires previously – and the possibility of the drift collapsing.

Gawn said there were plans in place to mitigate these risks, and last Friday the agency had run through a rehearsal of what to do if the drift collapsed.

“I’m confident we have minimised the risk to the smallest amount that we can. You can’t undertake mining operations without an element of risk. That remains there, but in terms of having contingency plans, having the right equipment, having the right training, doing the right rehearsals – absolutely.”

He said he was surprised that Bernie Monk, a key supporter of the project who lost a son in the 2010 tragedy, had withdrawn from the Family Reference Group after refusing to sign a document that asked him not to reveal information that could interfere with a police investigation.

Gawn said he had yet to speak to Monk about it.

“What both the Family Reference Group and we have said is that Mr Monk is welcome to continue to engage with Pike River in the totally transparent approach that we have.”

The Government has provided $36m to the agency, which Gawn said may not be enough.

“Knowing there are uncertainties in terms of the amount of roof that has to be supported, I’m not going to beat around the bush. It’s likely to be tight,” Gawn said.

The chief purposes of the operation were to look for reasons behind the explosions in 2010, recover any human remains, gather any forensic evidence, and to provide closure for those who lost loved ones.

“This is a chapter of New Zealand history that’s not closed,” Gawn said.

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Ristevski pleads guilty

Just as his five-week murder trial was due to commence, Borce Ristevski has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his wife Karen Ristevski.

New Zealand woman Karen, who moved to Australia when as a child, went missing in the early hours of June 29, 2016 and her decomposed body was discovered in bushland at Mount Macedon Regional Park eight months later.

Ristevski had maintained his innocence, insisting his 47-year-old wife had left their Avondale Heights home on foot after an argument.

Police had alleged the Melbourne father of two, 54, killed Karen and driven her body in her black Mercedes-Benz Roadster to dump it.

But detectives allege he lied about his movements that day to avoid detection.

In a hearing last year, a forensic pathologist described the injuries sustained by Karen.

Professor Stephen Cordner told the court she had an irregular break in her hyoid bone — a bone in the neck — that could have been the result of a number of things, including blunt force trauma.

He said it was difficult to say exactly what happened to Karen because her body was found so long after her disappearance.

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Borce and Karen Ristevski.

Ahead of the trial, prosecutors had compiled a 22,000-page evidence brief, including CCTV footage of what they alleged was Ristevski driving his wife’s car to dump the body.

In the days after Karen went missing, a neighbour told police that “yelling and screaming” could be heard coming from the Ristevski home.

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Yesterday, the day before his Supreme Court murder trial was due to commence, Ristevski dramatically confessed and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

A pre-sentence hearing is now set down for March 27.

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Oscar-winning actress and singer Julie Andrews will be honoured by the Venice Film Festival with its Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement. Best known for her iconic roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, Andrews has starred in more than 40 movies, including a memorable performance as Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in Victor Victoria. “I am so honoured to have been selected as this year’s recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement,” Andrews said, thanking the festival’s parent organisation, the Venice Biennale, “for this acknowledgment of my work”.

Disgraced Cardinal Pell sentenced to six years Disgraced cardinal George Pell has been jailed for a maximum six years for “brazen” abuse he committed with “venom” on two choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990s.

Pell, 77, sat emotionless and unflinching when the sentence was handed down on yesterday.

He must serve at least three years and eight months in prison before being eligible for release on parole.

Before walking back to the court’s cells, flanked by security, Pell signed paperwork to be registered for life as a sex offender.

A jury convicted him in December of orally raping a 13-year-old choirboy and molesting another at St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996 and 1997, finding him guilty of five charges.

County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd handed down his sentence in front of a packed courtroom and global television audience.

The courtroom was packed with abuse survivors who have their own interest in the result, beyond that of Pell’s surviving victim, now aged in his 30s.

The second boy died in 2014.

“Our client is disappointed with the short sentencing and has expressed sad-

George Pell. ness over what he believes is inadequate for the crime,” a law firm said on behalf of the dead man’s father.

Judge Kidd explicitly set out the facts of the case.

“The acts were sexually graphic. Both victims were visibly and audibly distressed during this offending,” he said.

“There is an added layer of degradation and humiliation that each of your victims must have felt in knowing that their abuse had been witnessed by the other.”

Judge Kidd said the second episode was “brief and spontaneous” but could not be viewed as an “isolated lapse” as Pell had ample time to reflect on his previous abuse of one of the boys.

Judge Kidd rejected a defence argument Pell had been acting as a man, and not an archbishop when the offending occurred.

“Your obvious status as archbishop cast a powerful shadow over this offending,” he said.

But he also condemned the witch-hunt that followed Pell from his return to Australia in mid-2017 until he was taken into custody last week.

The sentence was not a vindication of trauma suffered by survivors of abuse at the hands of other clergy.

“You are not to be made a scapegoat for any failings or perceived failings of the Catholic Church,” he said.

Pell, who was until late-February the Vatican’s treasurer, is the highest-ranking Catholic to be convicted and jailed for child sexual abuse.

Pell denies all allegations of wrongdoing and has launched an appeal to the convictions, to be heard by the Court of Appeal in June.

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South Korea to step up pollution fight South Korea has ramped up its firepower as it battles pollution, passing a set of bills that designate the problem a ‘social disaster’ and which could unlock emergency funds to tackle the issue.

Pollution in Asia’s fourth-largest economy has been driven up by factors including coal-fired power generation and high vehicle emissions, sparking widespread concern among the public and weighing on President Moon Jae-in’s approval ratings.

Designating the issue a ‘disaster’ allows the government to use parts of its reserve funds to help respond to any damage or emergency caused by polluted air.

The country’s reserve funds stand at up to 3 trillion won this year.

Other bills that were passed included mandating that every school classroom should have an air purifier and removing a limit on sales of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vehicles, which typically produce less emissions than petrol and diesel.

The latest bills follow previous steps to battle pollution such as capping operations at coal-fired power plants.

South Korea’s air quality was the worst among its peers in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as of 2017, according to data from the group.

Its average annual exposure to fine particulate matter (PM) of less than 2.5 micrometres was 25.1 micrograms per cubic metre, slightly more than double the

OECD average of 12.5.

The World Health Organisation recommends that air quality standard should be no more than 10 micrograms in terms of PM 2.5 levels.

For six consecutive days in early March, high levels of concentrated pollutants enveloped most parts of South Korea.

According to a weekly poll by Gallup Korea released on March 8, President Moon’s approval rating was down by 3 percentage points from a week earlier at 46 per cent.

The nation’s regional neighbour China has also been fighting pollution as it tries to reverse damage from over three decades of untrammelled economic growth.

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Bieber suffering depression Justin Bieber is going through a hard time and he’s telling his fans all about it. The Biebs wrote an emotional social media post, explaining how he’s been feeling lately, beginning, “Just wanted to keep you guys updated a little bit hopefully what I’m going through will resonate with you guys.” He continued, “Been struggling a lot. Just feeling super disconnected and weird. I always bounce back so I’m not worried just wanted to reach out and ask for you guys to pray for me.” Bieber concluded by saying, “God is faithful and ur prayers really work thanks ... the most human season I’ve ever been in facing my stuff head on”.

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f the average home owner invested $1 a week, if the average farmer spent $9, what could they buy?

In weekly terms, very little, but over a 40 year period, they could be the owners of a civic building and library complex that would be ranked as one of New Zealand’s best.

And for that investment they could also be playing a part in providing one more reason for people to relocate to the Ashburton District to live and work.

Those are the sums that ratepayers will be doing after the Ashburton District Council dropped its budget bombshell on the cost of building a new civic centre and library which leaped from $22 million to $45 million.

The initial gasps of horror over the project’s big price tag – between $43 million and $53

million, are still sending ripples around the district.

How could the council get it so wrong, how could a $22 million estimate suddenly double, people are asking.

There’s no one, simple answer.

Yes, building standards have changed dramatically and they keep changing, getting tougher.

Those changes all come with a cost, but the real contributor to the extra millions comes in ensuring the longevity of the new building.

No point in spending $22 million on something that becomes

non-functional in 10 years.

That’s a pretty poor investment.

What the council is planning with the $45 million of our money it plans to spend on the complex, is that it will last well into the future.

And the cost of borrowing the money to do the job will be spread over 40 of those years.

It’s called inter-generational debt. It’s called spreading the pain so today’s ratepayers don’t give the next lot a free ride.

There was always a danger with this project that our councillors would set their sights low, would go for the mediocre, would tailor the project to fit the woefully inadequate amount of money they planned to spend.

Congratulations to each of them and to council staff involved.

That didn’t happen.

They looked around the country, saw what could be achieved and went for gold knowing that there’d be plenty of angry ratepayers.

And they were right.

Social media has had a flurry of angry commentators who reckon money is better spent on small things, day-to-day things rather than a project that will set the district up for the future.

It comes down to the kind of picture you see – big, as provincial New Zealand leaders, or small, as caretakers of a provincial thinking village.

As we come to terms with a project that has an unashamedly eye-watering price tag, it’s important to take a step back and look at two facilities built over the past five or so years.

Both were subject to cost and corner cutting to some degree.

The art gallery and museum building was mired in controversy, designed to a budget and today it’s far from robust. There are significant issues relating to design and build that makes it the council project that keeps on burning – expensively.

And the EA Networks Centre, to a lesser degree, has had issues.

Air conditioning units were scrapped, its footprint was downscaled and less than four years after it opened extensions are planned.

How much cheaper to have spent another $5 million at the outset to get a complex for the future rather than today?

The council is laying all its cards on the table. It got its budget wrong, it’s fronting up and it wants the community’s thoughts – positive as well as negative.

prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, as its new president.

Ten years ago: President Barack Obama met at the White House with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; afterward, Obama downplayed divisions between the US and Europe over how to tackle the world’s financial crisis. Finance officials from rich and developing countries, meeting in Horsham, England, pledged to do “whatever is necessary” to fix the global economy.

Five years ago: The West braced

for a vote by the Crimean Peninsula to secede from Ukraine; calling the results all but a foregone conclusion, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Russia’s parliament against accepting any offer to claim Crimea as its own.

One year ago: Stephen Hawking, the best-known theoretical physicist of his time, died at his home in Cambridge, England, at the age of 76; he had stunned doctors by living with the normally fatal illness ALS for more than 50 years.

Today’s birthdays: Former astronaut Frank Borman is 91. Actor Michael Caine is 86.

Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 86. Actor Raymond J. Barry is 80. Movie director Wolfgang Petersen is 78. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 74. Actor Steve Kanaly is 73.

Comedian Billy Crystal is 71.

Actor-writer-comedian-radio personality Rick Dees is 68.

Country singer Jann Browne is 65. Actor Adrian Zmed is 65. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco, is 61. Actress Laila

Robins is 60. Country singer Kristian Bush is 49. Rock musician Derrick is 47. Actress Betsy Brandt is 46. Actress Grace Park is 45. Actor Daniel Gillies is 43. Actor Corey Stoll is 43.

Actor Jake Fogelnest is 40. Actor Chris Klein is 40. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson is 36. Actor Jamie Bell is 33. Actor James FreedsonJackson is 17.

Thought for today: “Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” – Ayn Rand, American author (1905-1982).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2019. There are 292 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On March 14, 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)

On this date: In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionised America’s cotton industry.

In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London at age 64.

In 1885, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado premièred at the Savoy Theatre in London.

In 1962, Democrat Edward M. Kennedy officially launched in Boston his successful candidacy for the US Senate seat from Massachusetts once held by his brother, President John F. Kennedy. (Edward Kennedy served in the Senate for nearly 47 years.)

In 1967, the body of President John F. Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

In 1980, a LOT Polish Airlines jet crashed while attempting to land in Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a US amateur boxing team.

In 1980, Kiwi group Split Enz had their first New Zealand No 1 hit with I Got You. - nzhistory.govt. nz In 1990, the Soviet Congress of People’s Deputies held a secret ballot that elected Mikhail S. Gorbachev to a new, powerful presidency.

In 1998, India’s Congress party picked Sonia Gandhi, the Italianborn widow of assassinated

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Family violence our country’s great shame F

amily violence is New Zealand’s great shame. We have the worst rate of partner and family violence in the developed world. We don’t just have a problem. We are in the midst of a crisis. A crisis where one in three Kiwi women will experience violence from a partner in their lifetime.

One in three.

Our mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, colleagues. From all demographics, all walks of life.

Ashburton, of course, is not immune to this violence. In 2016 we had 177 victimisations in Mid-South Canterbury where the victim was a family member.

In 2017, we had 193.

Last year 57,000 women and children spent the night at a Women’s Refuge somewhere in our country.

Kiwi kids need to feel secure, not battle the fallout of domestic violence.

The Family Violence (Amendments) Bill passed its third

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reading in Parliament last year, and introduced non-fatal strangulation as a new offence. This became an offence on December 3, 2018 and the first person charged with it was arrested that same day. There have been a further 415 charges in the following three months.

The new Family Violence Act, which will replace the Domestic Violence Act 1995, comes into effect on July 1 this year. Significant changes have been made.

Approved organisations will now be able to apply for protection orders on behalf of victims, improving accessibility of protection orders.

The bill will enable relevant information to be shared between services and agencies to ensure a more integrated and co-ordinated response to family violence incidents.

Meaningful change for victims demands that we build a society where violence is not tolerated, where perpetrators are held to account for their actions.

These bills are a significant step forward.

But changing the law is only part of the solution.

The Coalition Government boosted family violence support services by $76 million in Budget 2018, to support the new legislative foundation for ongoing change.

We all have a role to play in making our community violence-free.

Last Friday we celebrated International Women’s Day. We celebrated the women in our lives.

I had breakfast with David

White on Friday. A meeting that truly opened my eyes to the impact of family violence, and the importance of action. Of speaking up.

David is an ambassador for the White Ribbon anti-violence campaign.

He lost his dear daughter to domestic violence, and is doing such important work all over the country to help to end our country’s great shame.

I urge you to use your voice, to educate yourself on warning signs, to look out for the people around you.

And remember, family violence; it’s not okay. It is okay to ask for help.

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

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NZ bans Boeing Max planes

New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the operation of Boeing 737 Max aircraft to or from New Zealand.

Currently this affects only one operator, Fiji Airways, which flies between Nadi and Wellington.

There are no other airlines that fly this aircraft type to New Zealand.

The director of Civil Aviation, Graeme Harris, said that because of the very low utilisation of this type of aircraft on flights into and out of New Zealand, the authority has had time to thoroughly review concerns about the B737 Max series aircraft following the tragic accidents involving the type in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The decision to suspend operations by the aircraft follows recent discussions with other aviation authorities, including the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which have responsibility for oversight of the design of the aircraft.

The CAA’s assessment has taken into consideration the level of uncertainty regarding the cause of the recent Ethiopian Airlines acci-

dent plus its review of the aircraft design.

“This is a temporary suspension while we continue to monitor the situation closely and analyse information as it comes to hand to determine the safety risks of continued operation of the Boeing 737 Max to and from New Zealand,” Harris said.

The authority said it regretted any inconvenience to passengers on Fiji Airways flights in and out

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“They’ve probably got a better insight into the risk mitigation that Boeing is taking with this automated control system.”

The Ethiopian Airways crash was the second of a Max plane within five months and had similarities to the Lion Air accident in October.

Following that the FAA issued an airworthiness directive to all airlines operating about 350 of the planes on new training for pilots to deal with suspected systems problem.

Airlines were required to put their pilots through specific exercises to deal with the circumstances where the aircraft angle of attack gauge fails and this automated system drives the aircraft into a nose dive, Robinson said.

Although the possibly linked problems happened at a critical stage of flight – take-off – Robinson said trained pilots should be able to implement the new measures.

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Robinson said he understood the conservative approach.

“That’s a better approach than letting the aircraft fly when there’s uncertainty. We don’t recommend it but we’d understand and support it.”

Robinson said a grounding by the FAA would be a bigger call because of higher numbers of the new generation 737s in North America and that body had a closer relationship with Boeing than other regulators around the world.

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Auckland student Josh Brown was intrigued when he saw a clip about the “drop-shipping” fad early last year.

Drop-shipping is when you create an online store, but hold no stock. You take orders for a product via your website, then get the manufacturer – usually based in China – to deliver it directly to your buyers.

The idea is that you scour the web for a consumer product that’s going viral – or seem like they are on the cusp of popularity, create a website to sell it, advertise on social media, then sit back and harvest orders and profits.

A fortune is to be had from a laptop in your bedroom.

Or so Brown thought.

Over a four-month period, the former St Kentigern College student created websites that dropshipped what he hoped would be popular products.

Instead, he lost around $15,000.

By August, he was ready to throw in the towel when a site he created, Ezymounts, hawking phone holders for your car, suddenly took off.

In its first week online, Ezymounts generated $7000 in orders.

By the end of its first month, it had brought in $50,000 revenue.

Brown decided to drop-out of his BCom at AUT and concentrate on drop-shipping full-time.

By the end of the year, Ezymounts had brought in $800,000. Brown had two more hits, taking his haul to $1.2m by the end of 2018.

He says he’s running a profitable business with a 25 per cent margin.

His other hits are quirkier than Ezymounts – but although sharing them with the NZ Herald, the young entrepreneur is wary of making them public. Drop-ship-

Dropping out to drop-ship: 19-year-old Aucklander Josh Brown.

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ping is a crowded field, and he fears giving rivals the inside line.

When the Herald phoned Brown, he was in LA, where he’s camped out for two months, networking with other drop-shippers and making contacts with more conventional marketers. After that, he’s heading for Europe.

The teenager now has five staff: three taking care of phone support from the Philippines and a graphic designer and developer in Auckland to create websites.

How has he got to this point?

Brown says he noticed early last year that ads on Facebook and Instagram were “completely underpriced”.

He used Shopify to create online stores, and Chinese e-commerce site AliExpress to hook up with manufacturers based in China.

The young Aucklander initially took a leap of faith, and says things went relatively smoothly, but early

on in the piece he also travelled to Beijing and Ningbo for face-to-face meetings.

Although he’s still based in NZ, Brown says only around 2 per cent of his customers are here. Most are in the US or Canada.

What’s next? Brown has more products in the pipeline for drop-shipping.

He’s not certain the golden weather will continue for social media ad rates, however. He sees squeezed margins ahead, making the sector tougher, despite his moves to almost fully automate his sites.

So Brown is diversifying by creating his own social media marketing agency, plus a product for the US yoga market as he moves from drop-shipping middle-man to brand builder.

Planning is good as you prepare to enter the advanced years of your 20s.

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Balsamic glazed lamb salad ■ Preheat the oven to 210°C. ■ Glaze: Add all glaze ingredients to a saucepan and simmer to reduce by half (around 15 minutes) Set aside to cool down.

■ Lamb: Pat the lamb rumps dry, rub with a little oil and season.

Heat a frying pan over a high heat and sear the lamb for a couple of minutes to brown. Place the lamb on a plate and coat with glaze. Transfer to an oven dish lined with tinfoil, spoon a little more glaze over top and finish cooking in the oven for 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven, spoon a little more glaze over top, cover loosely with foil and rest for 10-15 minutes before slicing thinly across the grain.

■ Salad: Add a dash of oil to a frying pan and bring to a high heat.

Fry the cooked kumara pieces for a few minutes until golden.

Set aside, add the asparagus to

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■ Vinigrette: Whisk the ingredients together until combined.

Season as required.

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Sprinkle with toasted nuts and drizzle with a little more vinaigrette or balsamic glaze if you like. Season with salt and pepper before serving.

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xcept for the odd two-fingered salute most motorists treat Grant Henderson’s 1896 Fowler steam traction engine with the respect it deserves on the open road.

Henderson and fellow steam engine enthusiast Pete Ridge tend to avoid taking the compound two cylinder engine on highways.

Even on country roads they keep as far to the left as possible as the patience of drivers seems to be getting thinner nowadays.

“We trundle along at 12-13 kilometres an hour and although we can wind them up it wrecks the engine,’’ said Henderson. “As long as we are off the main highway a lot of people are tolerant, but I have noticed people are less tolerant. They used to stop and wave at us, but the odd one gives us the fingers and everyone seems to be in a hurry.’’

Truck drivers, however, remain fans as they can overtake the steam driven vehicles easily.

There’s no hurry when the two farmers go on a road trip. For a start, it takes two hours to build up a head of steam to the required 180psi.

The steam devotees shared steering and stoker duties during the two hours

it took to cover the 35km distance to show the Fowler at the Mayfield A&P Show last Saturday.

“We thought we might as well – we’ve finished the harvest and thought we might as well get some stress relief.’’

This was their first foray at the show although the Fowler is a regular feature of the Methven A&P Show and will be at the event this weekend.

Henderson has just the radish seed to harvest at Braelyn farm at Lyndhurst. Later sown crops bypassed the worst of the wet spring for a solid harvest with irrigated wheat and clover seed “back a bit’’ but the brassica and grass seed crops were well up.

Ridge owns a 1906 6hp McLaren and is similarly placed at Greenfields farm at Highbank with more time on his hands to spend on his hobby.

They met as a result of their common interest in vintage machinery although knew of each other as they attended the same school.

Henderson’s engine came off a farm and was brought to New Zealand by two brothers at Saltwater Creek to drive a threshing mill.

The mill was placed under roof and the engine was left outside because it was steel.

Exposed to the weather, rot set in and a later model boiler had to be

■ MYCOPLASMA BOVIS

Feedlot part of M. bovis surveillance programme

By Tim Cronshaw

Tim.c@Theguardian.co.nz

The Five Star Beef feedlot at Wakanui will be part of a new beef surveillance pilot for the mycoplasma bovis cattle disease.

Arriving cattle will be tested at the feedlot owned by Anzco Foods in a surveillance programme with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

Anzco livestock and supply chain general manager Grant Bunting said the feedlot would be testing animals from most incoming lines to provide vital information for the national eradication programme.

“The feedlot has been under movement control following confirmation of infection with M. bovis in late winter 2018. Testing has been occurring since then, but the pilot significantly increases the number of cattle being tested on arrival.’’

Feedlot-bound cattle are raised naturally on grass until about 18 months. They are then sent to Five Star Beef for finishing on grain for an average of 120 days in a controlled environment.

“In a typical year around 40,000 cattle pass through the feedlot, providing a good opportunity to increase knowledge of M. bovis within the beef industry,” said Bunting.

Blood samples from cattle on most arriving truckloads would be tested as part of the pilot, which will run for four weeks to test and confirm the methodology.

Tracing the origin and movement of cattle is a major part of managing the spread of the disease and large scale testing at the feedlot is expected to provide strong data.

Bunting said MPI would contact farmers with cattle detected with the disease

Anzco livestock and supply chain general manager Grant Bunting.

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through the testing.

There was no risk of the disease spreading from the feedlot because all cattle go directly to a processing plant for slaughter and neighbouring farms are some distance from the feeding unit. The test pilot will not change this process.

MPI has confirmed that M. bovis posed no food safety risk and there was no issue with eating beef from infected herds.

Five Star Beef is the largest feedlot in New Zealand, employing 30 people and has about 14,000 cattle on site at any one time.

Its grain-fed beef is mainly bound for the Japanese market.

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respect installed. The engine was only used for a few years under reduced pressure because the barrel was too thin.

Henderson said the previous owner before him wanted to put in a new barrel, but was in his 80s so he helped him do the riveting work and eventually bought the Fowler off him.

“He always said if your wife isn’t into [steam traction engines] stay away from them but Aileen is keen on it and she helps steer it. On the road she is hard going and the old body gets shaken around. They always say you start off owning an engine at six feet and end up at 5 foot five inches. It’s a disease and I took Ridgey out and he told me he had to have one.’’

Over the years Henderson found the Fowler worked best with coal from the Cascade mine until it closed. Running a steam engine is hard work without good coal as they “clinker’’ up and can’t get air through them.

The steam engine tows a small cabin which acts as their sleeping quarters on road trips. The “whare’’ is an old grader’s hut from Ashburton Gorge and built in 1938.

Since remodelled, it has bunks and a coal burning stove with the odd piece of steam paraphernalia hanging on its walls.

The Fowler is no show pony and is put to work at the Henderson farm. “I used it at home for pulling trees out of the garden. I smashed a big macrocarpa and we pulled 10 oak trees out. It’s good because it doesn’t make marks on the lawn as I can feed the line through the fence.

A 150hp tractor is hooked onto the front of the Fowler to anchor it during tree pulling sessions. A cable is attached to a winching drum which has tremendous power and the macrocarpa which was pulled out was one metre in girth.

The Fowler was one of five engines with three trailers which went to Don Patterson’s farm at Manuka Point several years ago.

About 50 bales of hand clipped merino wool was taken across the Rakaia River and then loaded on old wooden trailers and brought out the old way.

“That was a fair few bales of merino wool and we didn’t want them to end up in the river,’’ said Henderson. “That was bloody good fun.’’

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Lamb prices at healthy level Lamb prices look as though they will bottom out just below the $7 a kilogram mark as farmers near the end of the main processing season.

ASB said in a commodities report that lamb prices were “bottoming out’’ at a healthy level even though they had fallen more than they normally do at this time of year.

The bank’s senior rural economist Nathan Penny said in the report that the prices were still reasonable when taking into account the record highs reached in the spring.

Lamb prices were, looking ahead, expected to peak in spring 2019 in the high $7/kg range.

The underlying tight supply conditions that boosted last year’s prices look set to continue though weather and feed availability, as always, remain swing factors.

“If last year’s peak prices took out the gold medal, it follows that this spring may be in line for silver,’’ said Penny in the report.

Lamb demand remains strong in the United States and firm in China, but traditional markets such as the United Kingdom and EU continue to lose importance.

Analysts will be keeping an eye on how Chinese demand holds up amid hints of a slowdown, with Beijing recently dropping its GDP growth target to 30-year low.

Overall, the bank expected a second-successive season of healthy lamb returns.

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Allenton Bowling Club Whew what a week of winning for the Allenton Bowling Club.

First up Sandra Keith finished third in the Stoke Invitation Singles just missing in the semis going down to Mandy Boyd 21 – 20 who was the winner of the Tournament well played Sandra.

The Canterbury Country Girls played in the Lex Kimber in Alexandra and won over all – what a fabulous effort from them.

This team included two Allenton Girls Rachel Davies & Anne Reid – great bowling and congratulations.

Allenton’s team of Graham Bishop, Rosemary Bennett, Wendy Watson and Rowan Tonks pulled off the win in the MSA Getaway Tournament last Sunday, well done an excellent result.

Allenton Friday Triples March 1 resulted in a win for Murray Smallridge, Pete Whinham and Gordon Sparks closely followed by Bob and Sandra Holdem and Shirley Doig.

Rakaia’s last tourney of the season on Monday was won by Mike Quinn’s Allenton team. Cheers and well done.

Championships are almost completed well done to all for getting these games played.

The Friday night Business House Bowls have been good fun and really enjoyed by the participants and their last game this Friday night with a BBQ to follow a big thanks to Richard Kane for the organising of this event a job very well done.

Our season is drawing to a close but what a full and rewarding one we have had and pretty good weather as well.

See you on the greens soon. Good bowling to all.

Ashburton Bowling Club Still busy at the club even though the season is drawing to a close. Last Wednesday at Methven, in the Mary Stone Triples 2nd was Margaret Eder, Heather Gray, Annette Blain and 3rd was Shirley Taylor, Wendy Suttie, Leonie Spargo.

Then on Friday in their triples Murray Anderson, John Kewish and George Crack managed a win with three wins. On Sunday in the MSA Getaway Open Fours.

Lariane and Jim Mills along with Gary and John Eddington of Methven were place second equal with four wins.

Last Thursday our club played our In House Harry Lee Drawn Teams. Coming out on top was GT well supported

by Winston Lee and Anne Gibson with 3 wins, 14 ends, 2nd was Glad Body with Ray Suttie and Owen Gray 3 wins and 13 ends, 3rd was John Kewish, Jim Mills and Russell Lowe with 2.5 wins. Members, nomination forms are now up on the board ready to be filled in. Please give this matter thought as there are vacant positions to be filled.

This is a rewarding bowling experience helping to run our club.

Coming up on March 26 is our visit from Cashmere Bowling Club, who are keen to come down and revenge their defeat from last year. Names up on the board please. Until next time good bowling.

Ashburton Golf Club Firstly I would like to humbly apologise to anyone who ventured down to the golf club last Thursday morning to stare in awe at the Bristol Cup. Due to unfore-

Run and Walk Ashburton A warm sunny autumn afternoon greeted nine walkers and four runners to the opening day of the 2019 season.

Everyone ventured up Alford Forest Road with the runners branching off down Melrose Road to the river track and the walkers heading off along Farm Road and taking in the streets of Allenton. Everyone enjoyed the warm weather, some finding it a little warmer than others.

A delicious afternoon tea was enjoyed by everyone on their return along with four of our morning group joining us plus five children who were all thrilled seen circumstances, it was not on show.

Those big bullies from Fairlie would not let us bring it home with us.

Something about “us not winning it” kept being bandied about.

Honestly! I can’t abide people nit-picking, with minor discrepancies.

I don’t know what went wrong with the team, we prepped well, arrived early well refreshed, we looked good, we talked ourselves up to anyone who was listening. We may just have overlooked one little detail.

Our total lack of talent! Oh well, it will be Terry’s turn to pick next year’s team, not much to beat.

On Saturday we had a pairs ambrose and the top prize was picked up by two of our young guns Wilson Hii and Hero Kekeda with a net 58, well done boys.

They ended up a full 3 shots clear of the not so young guns Peter Walker and Paul Greer.

The course pulled up well after maintenance week, and scoring proved that.

This Saturday we have a Par round with normal starting times, then on Tuesday night we have our two club challenge, tee off between 5pm and 6pm, play nine holes with only two clubs, one of which must be your putter, so choose your weapon carefully. Do you play rescue wood for length and hope you don’t visit a bunker or do you go, say, 7 iron and give up length for more accuracy, the choice is yours, just come on down for a fun evening.

Aorangi pennants are kicking off later this month and as a club we have teams in most grades and two teams in some.

Good luck to all the girls and boys representing the club around the district.

We should soon have our new shirts available and it would be lovely if every

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to see one another again. The Early Bird group of eight runners and three walkers headed down the south side walkway at 7.30am. Throughout summer they have continued to meet with numbers growing.

It is encouraging that some who have been attending the Summer Series are now joining the Early Bird group.

Many have races which they are training for and others are simply enjoying being with likeminded people and improving their fitness.

The Tuesday evening Summer Series has been running since early January and has another four weeks to go. We

are delighted with the numbers attending and the positive vibe amongst attendees. The opportunity to either walk, run or a bit of both with options of 1, 3 or 5km.

Wednesday Walkers continue to meet with two groups leaving from the Croquet Club at 5.30pm and 6pm. Completing their usual town circuit allows them to push themselves and improve on previous times.

Check out our programme on Run and Walk Ashburton Facebook page and join us for one of the many options available. All abilities and fitness levels catered for.

pennant player was wearing their club colours with pride. Until next time good golfing.

Secretary Carolyn Nelson our monthly meeting was held on February 21 with a Show and Tell which was well supported.

The first half of our Annual General Meeting was held with all positions for the 2019/20 year being filled. The first Monday of each month a social time for members, friends and partners is held at a café in town.

In May 2019 the NZ Conference is being held in Auckland and Ashburton member Carol Haskett is going in as New Zealand Inner Wheel National President a very special honour.

Several of our members will be attending this conference.

The objects of Inner Wheel are: To promote true friendship To encourage the ideals of personal service To foster international understanding Anyone interested in the Inner Wheel Club of Ashburton phone 3087689.

Hinds Women’s Institute The Hinds Women’s Institute met for their monthly meeting and their AGM in late February. A good attendance gathered to approve the Election of Officers for the coming year. The monthly meeting was opened by the retiring President Betty Wilson, who led both the Ode and the Aspirations.

The usual business format was observed and mention was made of the very enjoyable Founder’s Day gathering at Staveley. There we had attended a meaningful church service, enjoyed a picnic lunch in peaceful garden surroundings and later visited the Staveley Museum, where Mr Totty entertained us with a pictorial Staveley history.

The Hinds WI AGM welcomed a new President and a new Secretary, thankfully the treasurer was able to continue in her role.

When the president’s and secretary’s reports were read, members were able to realise just how much we have contributed to both local and national causes.

Our new committee is: President, Rosa Bennett, Vice President, Annette Simister, Secretary, Valmai McKenzie, Treasurer, Ruth Sheppard, also Christine, Val and Betty.

We trust that the year ahead will be one of interest and WI fellowship.

Inner Wheel Club of Ashburton Inner Wheel started the year on January 10 with a gathering at Nosh to celebrate International Inner Wheel Day. Under our President Judy Kingsbury and

MSA Golf Section Fourteen members of the MSA Golf Section travelled to Tai Tapu on Sunday.

Playing in cooler conditions and a few showers the winners on the day were Trish Clarke 57pts, followed by Steve Stratford 56pts, Wayne Smith and Bill Clarke 54pts.

Nearest the pins went to Lindsay Jackson and Wayne Smith. Then it was off to the Lincoln Tavern for prizegiving and a few drinks, great day had by all.

Chump of the day went to Wayne Smith for misplacing the nearest pin marker.

Cheers – next game April 7 at Tinwald.

Netherby Women’s Institute 25 members attended our monthly meeting on March 11, 2019 where some

Ashburton Bridge Club This gem of a hand from Thursday night’s play illustrates the value and power of a wildly distributional hand.

Some Wests, as dealer, may choose to open a weak 2, bidding 2 Spades with a 6 card suit, although there is only one honour in the Spade suit.

Others may upgrade with the Club void and open 1 Spade, or choose to pass and when partner, East, opens 1 NT, transfer to Spades and raise to game – 4 spades.

How ever they get there, West needs to ensure that they, E/W, do bid the 4 Spades with their meagre 21 high card points.

The opening lead, whether it be from North or South, depending on who is declarer, matters not greatly to the play of the hand, and when the Heart Q & J fall under West’s A & K, the Heart 10 is promoted to a winning trick.

Once the singleton Spade K is played on the first lead of trumps, 12 tricks are there for the taking.

A very pleasing result for a bold and rewarding bid.

of us wore green for the forthcoming St. Patricks Day. The motto for the month is “Don’t walk this year in last year’s rut”.

We all sang Comrades and Friends and recited the Aspirations.

Golden Threads was given by Patsy Huggins who read Rules for Teachers 1915.

Two of these rules were “You are not to keep company with men” and “You may not loiter downtown in ice cream stores”.

How things have changed?

Roll call was biscuits for Age Concern’s 206 Club which resulted in a good selection received.

Several of us attended the Mid Canterbury Federation Founder’s Day on February 21 and the AGM on February 26 where we won the Begg Trophy for most points in the competitions. We received 1 second and 5 third placings.

At this meeting Alan Burgess the Chief Fire Officer gave us a very interesting and thought provoking talk on fire safety in the home.

Competition results were read out and the Moyland Trophy was won by Valmai Mitchell and Northchurch Trophy by Barbara Burst.

Raffle was won by Denise Clark.

Happy birthday was sung to three members – one who is turning 80.

During the year we will have seven members turning 80 so we are having a luncheon at the Hotel Ashburton in June to celebrate their birthdays.

Our guest speaker was Marilyn Cross who wrote her first poem at age 14. She gave up writing to have a family and started again in 2011.

She has written several books which she self sells and pointed out that you do not make money out of it. By the time you get them published and pay your illustrator it proves expensive.

Marilyn said that her books end up all over the world.

She also helps with reading at the Borough and Longbeach schools and stressed how important it is to be able to read.

Denise thanked her and presented her with a bunch of flowers.

Afternoon tea completed a pleasant meeting.

Wakanui WI The February meeting of the Wakanui WI began with dinner and a short meeting at the Stables Restaurant followed by a visit to the home of Brian Glassey to view his prize winning poultry and interesting garden “paradise”.

Colourful flower beds and propagation houses scattered through wandering paths made this an interesting walk.

Brian specialises in growing dahlias and chrysanthemums and although it was too early for the chrysanthemum blooms the prize-winning dahlias made a colourful display. Many special shrubs are scattered through the garden. A very pleasant outing.

Matters discussed at our short meeting conducted by newly appointed President Juliana Protheroe included reports of the Founders Day Service at Staveley and the Mid Canterbury Federation AGM. Wakanui WI now has three members on the Federation Executive with Dianne Carter having been elected at the AGM. A most enjoyable evening.

Next meeting Wednesday, March 27 at the Sinclair Centre.

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■ RUGBY

Hansen next Lions coach?

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen will finish his remarkable stint with the team following the Rugby World Cup this year.

Since he became head coach in 2012 the side have won 85 of their 102 tests at an unprecedented 90 per cent winning percentage and have kept New Zealand Rugby’s trophy cabinet laden including a World Cup title in 2015.

The one blip on Hansen’s near perfect CV as head coach – no series win over the British and Irish Lions after a drawn series two years ago.

Could he claim an elusive Lions series win with the Lions however?

That’s the suggestion of The Times newspaper as the Lions look to name a coach for the 2021 series in South Africa.

The Times has listed four possible candidates for the British and Irish Lions job – Hansen, Warren Gatland, Eddie Jones and Joe Schmidt.

The appointment is expected to be made before the World Cup with the selected candidate starting in January 2020.

While it can’t be ruled out, any

Hansen announcement before the World Cup is very unlikely.

When Hansen announced last December he was stepping down at the end of this season, he said he had no plans post World Cup, where the All Blacks will look to win three straight.

“I haven’t thought about what I will do after the World Cup. It is such a great privilege to coach the All Blacks and I am focused on nothing more than the next 21 months as we have an incredible opportunity to do something that no other team has ever done before,” he said.

Gatland has coached the Lions on the previous two tours, a series win in Australia followed by the 1-1 series in New Zealand. The Kiwi stands down as Wales coach following the Rugby World Cup as does Irish coach Schmidt.

Both have been named as possible candidates for the Lions job however Schmidt plans to return to New Zealand, stating he plans to give up coaching for good, while Gatland has been linked to the England job to replace Jones.

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Where to next for Steve Hansen? The Times believes it is as coach of the Lions.

‘Bloody shocking’ start Chiefs flanker Mitchell Brown has given a blunt assessment of his side’s defensive woes in the opening four rounds of the Super Rugby season.

Without a win in their first four matches, the Chiefs have conceded a league high 171 points. It’s an alarming statistic for the side, and one Brown said needed to be fixed quickly.

“We’ve conceded on average about 40 points per game which is bloody shocking,” Brown said.

After an impressive campaign in 2018, the Chiefs have stumbled into the season.

Among the league’s top eight offenders in turnovers, missed tackles, errors, and points, tries and linebreaks conceded per game, it’s been a tough four weeks for the Hamilton club.

As a result, head coach Colin Cooper’s role

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has come under fire from fans and media.

“I think he’s probably unfairly copping a lot of the blame,” Brown said. “At the end of the day it comes down to the players on the field and how we perform so we’ve just got to go out there and do our jobs.

“Obviously we’ve been under the pump a wee bit for the last four games, but I think the belief is still there that when we get it right we’ll beat anyone on our day. We’re keeping spirits high and the belief’s still high.”

The Chiefs will host the Hurricanes in Hamilton on Friday night as they look to get their season off the ground. It’s the Chiefs’ third local derby in five matches, and one they know they need to step up for.

“It’s bloody important,” Brown said of the fixture. “Not just in terms of the competition but just for our personal pride and for our fans and family.”

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9.30am AGE CONCERN EXERCISE CLASS. Weekly classes. Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Join our friendly group for fun exercise. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

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

10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Road.

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

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

6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road.

9am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Zumba. 48 Allens Road.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture

Mar 14 & 15, 2019 welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.co.nz or phone 027 640 4094. Racecourse Road.

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

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

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St Peters Church, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO.

Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome.

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Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

1pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Bring your stitching and join a friendly group. New members very welcome. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

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

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE CLUB. Social play, newcomers welcome. 115 Racecourse Road.

1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIOR NET. Problem solving, pop in with your queries, concerns etc.

Tutors will endeavor to help you.

Cost $2. Reading Room, MSA Havelock Street.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing.

Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.co.nz or phone 027 640 4094. Racecourse Road.

10am - 4pm

HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome. Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

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In brief Fan banned for life The NBA has fined Oklahoma City guard Russell Westbrook $25,000 for the language he directed toward a fan in Utah.

Meanwhile, the Jazz have banned the fan from all events at their arena permanently and effective immediately. Westbrook says the fan made racial comments toward him during the Jazz-Thunder game on Monday night. The NBA and the Jazz both investigated the matter.

Westbrook was fined for using both profanity and threatening language, which he did from the sideline. The Jazz say that the fan was banned for “excessive and derogatory verbal abuse” during the game.

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Assault inquiry

Tu Kareko lines up the Shirley Hawks’ defence during an Ashburton Barbarians’ pre-season hit-out.

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A promising young Warriors player and his mother allegedly assaulted a teenager at a party over the weekend – prompting an investigation by the club and the NRL. Patrick Herbert, 22, who joined the Warriors this season after three years at the St George Illawarra Dragons, was allegedly involved in an altercation between two families on Saturday night. The Herald understands at least three other people were alleged to have been involved. In a social media post this week, Elizabeth Baker claimed Herbert and his mother attacked her 19-year-old son.

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Assault charge

Unfinished business

A former national sports coach will stand trial on an assault charge.

But his identity – and the sport he was involved in – will be kept secret for now due to suppression orders. The man first appeared in the North Shore District Court on March 6 charged with assault. It is understood the charge came after an incident in Stanmore Bay in early February. The man will stand trial before a judge alone in April.

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Their pre-season may have begun with a loss, but the Ashburton Barbarians say you can’t read too much into that.

They’ve got unfinished business this season. In 2018, they were one of the competition’s two most consistent sides all season and were top contenders to take out the Canterbury Rugby League (CRL) division one competition.

But, they ended up failing to even make the final, losing to the Woolston Rams in the preliminary final. The Woolston Rams went on to lose the final to the

Burnham Chevaliers.

The Barbarians regrouped though, and finished the season on a high, winning the Aoraki competition.

Now, they were determined to step things up a notch in 2019 and were eyeing up that CRL division one title.

Ashburton Barbarians president Kate Moses said this year’s team was looking to be a real mixture of new players and existing ones, and numbers were good, with between 20 and 30 players regularly turning up to trainings.

“This year we’ve had new players turning up and just wanting

to be part of the game. League is definitely a developing sport in Mid Canterbury, so it’s really good we are able to get more numbers and promote the game more,” Moses said.

There would be some familiar faces absent this year, including one of last year’s standouts, Devaun Thompson. Thompson made the South Island Scorpions last year, but had recently moved to Auckland.

A long-serving Barbarian who retired from the game last season, Steve Gamble, was set to make a return, but as the side’s new head coach, assisted by Blair Hanifin.

Len Wilson was again the side’s trainer, while Regan Broker had come on board as team manager.

The Barbarians took to the field for the first time this season in a pre-season match against the Shirley Hawks at Ashburton’s Robilliard Park on Saturday, and while they went down 36-20, they weren’t too worried. If you were going to lose, it was better to do it now than when the competition started.

The Barbarians were set to play their next pre-season match against Otago University in Dunedin on March 23, and the CRL division one competition is set to get under way in early April.

March 18 – Women’s Triples – sponsored by Ashburton Trust 10.00am morning tea – 10.30am start List of local teams – skips R. Bennett, D. Gutberlet, D. King, H. Goodall, J. Harris, M. Lloyd, M. Eder, L. Spargo, G. Body, M. Middleton, H. Boag, N. Woods, B. Skilling, S. Taylor, S. Scott.

ton Hawks at ATTC; Methven Bronze v Dorie Junior A at ATTC. Junior B Grade - Duty Team Tinwald Junior B Pool 1 – Southern Steel v Southern Slammers at Hinds; Methven Black v Methven White at Mt Hutt College.

Pool 2 – Dorie Hampstead v Dorie Jnr B at Dorie Hall; Allenton Falcons v Tinwald Jnr B at Hampstead; Bye – Allenton Keas.

Junior C Grade - Methven Yellow v Tinwald Jnr C at ATTC; Hampstead Jnr C v Allenton Tuis at Hampstead; Methven Red v Methven Blue at Methven Domain; Allenton Kiwis v Southern Stars at Allenton.

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SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS son and Alison Vessey.

RESULTS ■ Golf Mayfield Golf Club March 12 – Ladies Division L G U & 2nd Stableford Grade 1 0-20 Betty Wilson 90-19-71, Christine Ross 90-15-75; Grade 2 21-29 Helen Rapsey 98-24-74, Lal Mulligan 101-25-76; Grade 3 30+ Alison Vessey 102-33-69, Ruth Keeley 111-38-73 Stablefords Betty Wilson 37, Alison Vessey 37, Helen Rapsey 36, Marilyn Cross 2nd Shot 2&11; 0-29 Helen Rapsey 30+, Sue Graham; Sims Bakery Nearest The Pin No 5&14 Alison Vessey; Players Of The Day Betty Wil-

Tinwald Golf Club March 12 – Ladies Division Captains Salver Foursome Lyn Bird & Phylis Smith 70.5, Marilyn Bennett & Ina Divers 73 c/b, Sue Gutsell & Mara Kennedy 9 Hole Competition – 4BBB Denise Morgan & Diana Wellman 30, Judith Smith & Cath Carr

DRAWS ■ Bowls Ashburton Bowling Club

■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis March 16 – Round 7 All games to start at 9am sharp Junior A Grade Southern Sharps v Hampstead Jnr A at Hampstead; Methven Silver v Allenton Eagles at ATTC; Methven Gold v Allen-

Split? What split?

Chiefs coach Colin Cooper has denied claims that his dressing room is split after their horror start to the Super Rugby season. The side has struggled with handling errors and defensive lapses in the early season, finding themselves without a win through the first four rounds. And while their season appears to be on life support, Cooper has denied claims that the losing streak is affecting the dressing room. “We work really hard on feedback and we’ve got good leaders in the group that will keep tapping in with us as coaches and making sure that we’re all aligned and in the same waka,” he told Radio Sport.

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Cristiano wins again Cristiano Ronaldo is once again the biggest name in sports, according to an ESPN ranking list. ESPN’s annual World Fame 100 lists the biggest sporting names based on search score, endorsements and social following. The Juventus star topped the list for the fourth straight year beating out NBA player LeBron James and Barcelona rival Lionel Messi. No New Zealanders made the list with golfer Lydia Ko previously ranked 81st in the 2016 edition.

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■ ROWING

College rowers bring home silver Ashburton College rowers came home from the South Island Secondary Schools’ rowing regatta at Twizel’s Lake Ruataniwha at the weekend with two silver medals to show for their efforts.

Just two weeks out from the national secondary schools’ championships, Mollie Gibson and Aidan Elvines teamed up to take silver in the girls’ under-18 pair, while Emma Stagg, Gibson, Elvines and Grace Adams, along with coxswain Harriet Leverton, also took silver in the girls’ under-18 coxed quad.

It was a regatta of super close finishes, and Gibson just missed out on two other podium placings. She was fourth in the girls’ under-18 single, and fourth in the girls’ under-18 double with Stagg.

Ged Wall also put in a stellar performance, finishing sixth in the boys’ under-18 single A final, while a number of rowers made B finals.

Elvines was second in the girls’ under-18 single B final, while Stagg was third, and Elvines and Grace Adams finished fifth in the girls’ under-18 double B final.

The South Island Secondary Schools’ Champs was a big three days of racing at Lake Ruataniwha for the young rowers, and they now faced an intense two weeks of training leading into the pinnacle event of their season, the Maadi Cup, which is this year being held at Lake Karapirio, near Cambridge. The Maadi Cup is set to get under way on March 25.

Ashburton College’s girls’ under-18 coxed quad of Harriet Leverton (cox), Emma Stagg, Mollie Gibson, Aidan Elvines, Grace Adams won silver at the South Island secondary schools’ rowing champs.

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■ CYCLING

Bennett avoids chaos to be in a solid position New Zealand cyclist George Bennett has survived a chaotic start at Paris-Nice, to be in a strong position after three stages of the famous French race.

On paper, the first three stages looked like traditional sprint stages, but they were anything but, with ferocious 50km/h winds causing echelons, and creating major splits on the road.

On the first two stages, those winds caught out a number of contenders who were expected to contest for the overall title. Stage one saw a clump of general classification riders lose over a minute, including the likes of Miguel Angel Lopez, Ion Izagirre, and defending champion Marc Soler.

Stage two was even more drastic, with Rigoberto Uran and Gorka Izagirre crashing out, while riders such as Vuelta a Espana champion Simon Yates got caught out by the winds and never recovered, losing nearly seven minutes.

Bennett managed to finish safely inside the lead groups on both stages, and crossed the line in 49th on a more traditional finish yesterday, to sit 26th overall, 25 seconds off the lead held by his teammate and sprint specialist Dylan Groenewegen.

Others were not so lucky. One moment of bad positioning in the crosswinds, and you can lose serious time, with the benefits

Kiwi cyclist George Bennett has survived a chaotic start at Paris-Nice, to be in a strong position after three stages. of drafting and sheltering in a group so significant, and making it nearly impossible to move from one group to another without the assistance of several teammates.

The winds on the first two stages were so strong that multiple riders got pushed off the road, and Bennett was most in trouble on stage two, where he was caught in the second group on

the road for most of the race.

It was a group that was still a minute behind with 20 kilometres to go, but they managed to fight back on. When the race broke up in the wind with five kilometres to go once more, eight riders went up the road, but Bennett held steady in the second group to cross the line just five seconds down.

Stage three was a sedate affair by comparison, with a crash with 32 kilometres causing the most drama, before Team Sky tried to create some echelons with six kilometres remaining. However, despite some nervy moments, it all came back together for a sprint, won by Sam Bennett.

Despite the relatively drama-free stage, the damage had

already been done for many contenders, with only 13 riders who could be considered general classification contenders still within a minute of the lead.

Bob Jungels, Jack Haig, Ilnur Zakarin, Wilco Kelderman, Nairo Quintana, Felix Grossschartner, Lilian Calmejane, Romain Bardet, Tony Gallopin, Egan Bernal, Luis Leon Sanchez and Michal Kwiatkowski join Bennett in being the main contenders for a top overall finish, with Bennett having moved from 81-1 to 41-1 with the bookmakers – the 10th-most favoured rider.

He should move close to the top 10 on the general classification after stage four today, which sees the race go to the hills, where most of the sprinters should be dropped.

A 25.5 kilometre time trial will follow, in which Bennett will likely lose over a minute to some contenders, but he should still be in a solid position before the race hits the mountains for the final three stages.

There, if he’s in good form, he could be a threat for a stage win, or at least a top 10 overall finish, and with the chaos that has unfolded to date, it would be unwise to rule anything out as the cyclists head into the deciding stages of a rabid race.

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Stakes leap for exciting 3-y-o Emerging three-year-old Vigor Winner will be out to maintain his picket fence formline as he steps up to stakes company for the first time in his brief career when he contests Saturday’s Gr.2 Norwood Family Wellington Guineas (1400m) at Trentham.

The Lauren Brennan-trained galloper strolled to victory on debut at Hawke’s Bay in January and ran out a ready winner of the Platinum Homes Taranaki Summer Challenge (1400m) last month to make it two wins from two starts.

“We want to space his races just because he has some fetlock issues, so we trialled him at Avondale a couple of weeks ago,” Brennan said.

“He ran a nice third and wasn’t placed under any pressure and it was an easy trial. He benefited from the experience of the trip up there.

“The ground was pretty hard that day, so Troy (Harris, jockey) never let him go and he galloped out really well and I couldn’t be happier with him.”

Amongst the opposition on Saturday will be Gr.1 New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas (1600m) runner-up Dawn Patrol and last start stakes winners Qiji Express, Weaponry and Emily Margaret.

“I think he will be competitive,” Brennan said. “Obviously it is a lot

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tougher than what he has met in his first two starts, but I think he is up to it.

“We have got to give him a chance at stakes level and he has got a nice draw in barrier four.”

Brennan said she might look to try the son of Declaration Of War

over a mile at Ellerslie towards the end of the month, depending on how he comes through Saturday’s contest.

After failing the vetting process to race in Hong Kong, Vigor Winner is likely to be a longterm member of Brennan’s team,

however high-profile stablemate Sword In Stone has been sold and will be doing his future racing in Hong Kong.

Raced by Singapore-based Englishman Paul Hickman, Sword In Stone was placed in all three of his New Zealand starts, including an

Ashburton gallops Today at Ashburton Raceway

Ashburton County Racing Club Venue: Ashburton Meeting Date: 14 March 2019 NZ 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 1.07pm (NZT) SIM’S BAKERY 1200M $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1200m 1 22155 Barabas d (4) 62.5............. T Comignaghi (a2) 2 01027 Mr Typhon d (5) 62.5 ........K Chowdhoory (a3) 3 34x92 Pipiana d (3) 57.5 ........................... T Moseley 4 11425 Theonlyway (1) 57.5 ...................T Jonker (a2) 5 24944 Why Me t (2) 57.5 ........................ K Gundowry 2 1.42pm NORM AND LEANNE STEWART 1200M $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 71846 Fly To The Sky d (6) 60 .................. T Moseley 2 39528 Swiss Eire db (8) 58 .........K Chowdhoory (a3) 3 14434 Celtic Wonder tdb (2) 57.... T Comignaghi (a2) 4 x7680 Seduttore d (3) 56 ............................. D Turner 5 73168 Frosted (4) 55.5 ..............................C Johnson 6 10x76 Let Her Rip Riley d (5) 55 ..................S Wynne 7 08560 Miroslava (1) 54..........................T Jonker (a2) 8 00005 Ultra Chic d (7) 54 ..................... K Cowan (a2) 3 2.17pm MORRISON’S SADDLERY 1200M $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 0x042 Van Halen h (10) 58.5 ......................C Barnes 2 0036 Billabong Billy h (9) 58.5.................... D Turner 3 58x0x Smoke ‘Em Wilson (15) 58.5 ..... K Cowan (a2) 4 9x60x Alfie River (2) 58.5................. J Anderson (a4) 5 03904 Final Savings (8) 58 .......................C Johnson 6 5532 Alonzo (3) 58 ....................K Chowdhoory (a3) 7 42 Whale Song (4) 58 ...................... K Gundowry 8 Champagne On Ice (5) 58........ B Morgenrood 9 750 Clooney h (7) 58 .................................J Laking 10 Danny Green (1) 58.................R Mudhoo (a3)

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Vigor Winner taking out the Platinum Homes Taranaki Summer Challenge (1400m) last month.

eye-catching maiden win at Ellerslie and a narrow third placing in the Gr.2 Waikato Guineas (2000m).

The son of Redwood was ultimately left languishing as second emergency for the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) after not amassing enough prizemoney, frustrating both connections and pre-post punters alike.

“You’ve got to expect these things when you’re training in New Zealand,” Brennan said. “The big buyers are overseas and it was an offer that Mr Hickman couldn’t refuse.

“I hope the horse goes on and does well in Hong Kong.

“I’m still getting over him not making the Derby field. It was frustrating more than anything and I knew we had a horse that was going to be competitive and he had drawn well which made it even worse.”

Meanwhile, Brennan also has one more target in mind for hardy sprinter Magnum, who finished seventh to star galloper Melody Belle in the Gr.1 Waikato Sprint (1400m) last month.

“He had a week off in the paddock after his last start and we are just freshening him up and getting him ready for the Flying Handicap (Listed, 1400m) at Palmerston North,” Brennan said.

– NZ Racing Desk

11 x5035 Cailin (13) 56.5 .......................... B Murray (a2) 12 79x07 Three Shots (11) 56.5 ..............S Toolooa (a4) 13 577x5 Arnage (12) 56 ............................... T Moseley 14 Road To Diamonds (6) 56...........G Jogoo (a1) 15 95980 Montreux Miss (14) 56 16 x30x0 Rothacker 58.5 ................................Scratched Emergencies: Montreux Miss, Rothacker 4 2.52pm METHVEN EQUINE CENTRE 2100M $10,000, MDN, 2100m 1 78346 Producer (4) 58.5 ...................... B Murray (a2) 2 98393 I Am A Rock (13) 58.5 ................ D Bothamley 3 04554 Bannock (9) 58.5 ................................J Laking 4 00445 Grant (12) 58.5 .................. T Comignaghi (a2) 5 69450 Tacktheflag (11) 58.5 ........K Chowdhoory (a3) 6 34499 Diplomat (8) 58.5............................ T Moseley 7 00x0x Roullette (1) 58.5.....................R Mudhoo (a3) 8 0 Bahhgoofy (7) 58.5............... G Saejorhor (a4) 9 987 Doubt That (10) 58.5 ..................G Jogoo (a1) 10 72402 Hard But Fair (3) 56.5........................S Wynne 11 86407 Letzpartyon (5) 56.5 .......................C Johnson 12 x6098 Cinto Bay (6) 56.5 ........................B Hong (a3) 13 068x0 Latasso (14) 56.5 .....................S Toolooa (a4) 14 09000 Realm (2) 56.5 .................................. D Turner 5 3.27pm ECOLAB 2200M $11,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 2200m 1 22591 Taxihome h (4) 59.................... K Mudhoo (a1) 2 72630 Vantaa (3) 58 .....................................S Wynne 3 15144 Pamir tb (2) 55.5......................R Mudhoo (a3) 4 0x554 Lady Bealey tm (5) 54 ...........C Campbell (a2) 5 35Px8 Speedy Jax tdm (6) 54 .............S Toolooa (a4) 6 64096 Bal Harbour d (1) 54...................T Jonker (a2) 6 4.02pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE

$10,000, MDN F&M, 1400m 1 82374 Rosie Marie (19) 57.5 2 780x2 Show Cloud (3) 57.5................. B Morgenrood 3 692x Zurafaa (10) 57.5 4 28727 Per Form b (9) 57.5 ........................C Johnson 5 34603 Reliable Glow (15) 57.5 ............... K Gundowry 6 63 She’s A Beauty (1) 57.5 ..........R Mudhoo (a3) 7 93556 Space Cadet (11) 57.5 ...................... D Turner 8 60x48 Langbein (4) 57.5 ..............................S Wynne 9 20x55 Norma Jean (2) 57 ......................... T Moseley 10 60x57 Thunder Bay (6) 57 ..........K Chowdhoory (a3) 11 50 Llovizna (12) 57 ..........................G Jogoo (a1) 12 586 Succoso Segreto (14) 57.......C Campbell (a2) 13 Lucy Overmire (17) 57 ......... G Saejorhor (a4) 14 0 Shock Prospect (5) 57 .................. D Prastiyou 15 0 Volvik (8) 57 16 95980 Montreux Miss (7) 57 17 09090 Snowbelle (18) 57.5 ...................T Jonker (a2) 18 60009 Stirling Lady (13) 57 19 0x70x Iwonderwai (16) 57 Emergencies: Volvik, Montreux Miss, Snowbelle, Stirling Lady, Iwonderwai 7 4.42pm ECOLAB 1400M $11,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1400m 1 57206 Koxinga d (4) 59 .........................T Jonker (a2) 2 x5247 Dynamic tdm (2) 58.5 ........................S Wynne 3 34282 Nowhere Man tdmb (1) 58.5.... K Chowdhoory (a3) 4 6588x Wize Act tdmh (3) 58 ................. K Cowan (a2) 5 31149 Hoofbeat d (6) 56.5 ........... T Comignaghi (a2) 6 69664 Ballybay (5) 56 .......................... B Murray (a2) 7 23731 Strowan d (8) 56 ........................... D Prastiyou

8 13768 Xcuses Xcuses d (9) 55 .................C Johnson 9 5x413 Mamma Sans (7) 54...................G Jogoo (a1) 8 5.22pm THE BRAND FAMILY 1600M $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 78421 El Campeador d (6) 59 ...............K Asano (a4) 2 22760 Jin Lu b (4) 59 ....................................J Laking 3 02520 Gloss d (8) 57.5................K Chowdhoory (a3) 4 94253 Welcome d (1) 57.5 ........... T Comignaghi (a2) 5 710x5 Baby Menaka tm (7) 57 ..............G Jogoo (a1) 6 x0466 Irish Express m (5) 57 .................... T Moseley 7 17709 Ride The Storm (10) 57 .....................S Wynne 8 84216 Musee D’Orsay (13) 56.5 ........ K Mudhoo (a1) 9 430x0 Thailand (2) 56.5 ............................C Johnson 10 0x057 Moreira (3) 56.5 ......................... K Cowan (a2) 11 90409 Miss Diorella dh (12) 55 ........C Campbell (a2) 12 98095 Red Tiara (9) 54.5 ..........................L Callaway 13 0x70x Iwonderwai (11) 54 .................... B Murray (a2) Blinkers on : Producer (R4), Xcuses Xcuses (R7) Blinkers off : Alfie River (R3), Tacktheflag, Diplomat, Bahhgoofy, Doubt That (R4), Vantaa (R5) Winkers on : Frosted (R2), Montreux Miss (R3), Montreux Miss (R6), Baby Menaka (R8) Winkers off : Producer (R4), Rosie Marie, Shock Prospect (R6) LEGEND: 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 Race Information

hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances

9 00989 Arcano (22) fr .................................S Phelan 10 27524 Lincoln Moment (23) fr .............. J Abernethy 6 7.38pm RS FLOOR COATINGS MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2000m 1 50456 Moniaive (1) fr ...................... D Ferguson (J) 2 69784 Beaudiene Emerald (2) fr ....... A Harrison (J) 3 76405 Changed My Mind (3) fr ............... D Butcher 4 25523 Ideal Tiger (4) fr..............................S Phelan 5 0945P Owhata Angel (5) fr ..........................J Curtin 6 94880 Mainland Reactor (6) fr .................B Orange 7 79752 Lincoln Toy (7) fr ............................Z Butcher 7 8.03pm REHAB PHYSIO CENTRE MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2500m 1 70546 Notorious (1) fr ............................. D Butcher 2 89094 Lady Ameera (2) fr .................... J Abernethy 3 47208 Downtown Babe (3) fr ................P Ferguson 4 Joshua Dylan (4) fr........................B Orange 5 50888 Raging Thunder (5) fr .................. K Marshall 6 6073 Wilson Street (6) fr ...........................J Curtin 7 75042 Ain’t Nothing Bettor (7) fr ..............Z Butcher LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months

P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS: Race 1: Natty Pagger, Laura Bush, Eden Creek, Leesa Castleton, Commando One Race 2: The Kapiti Express, Betstars Blue Jean, Express Play, Fancy Schmancy, Amaro Race 3: Motoring Major, Dixie Jazz, Jetenara, Apocalypse, Maddisons Desire Race 4: Eastanbull, Bill Haley, The Night Hawk, Johnny Mac, Misty Memory Race 5: Whitehaven Beach, Katamach, Lincoln Moment, Our Wicklow, Itsokbeingbetter Race 6: Ideal Tiger, Mainland Reactor, Lincoln Toy, Changed My Mind, Owhata Angel Race 7: Ain’t Nothing Bettor, Wilson Street, Joshua Dylan, Notorious, Downtown Babe

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Barabas, Pipiana, Theonlyway, Mr Typhon, Why Me Race 2: Swiss Eire, Fly To The Sky, Seduttore, Frosted, Celtic Wonder Race 3: Final Savings, Clooney, Alonzo, Cailin, Billabong Billy Race 4: Producer, Hard But Fair, I Am A Rock, Diplomat, Grant Race 5: Lady Bealey, Pamir, Vantaa, Taxihome, Bal Harbour Race 6: Langbein, Zurafaa, Norma Jean, Rosie Marie, Thunder Bay Race 7: Dynamic, Nowhere Man, Wize Act, Strowan, Xcuses Xcuses Race 8: Welcome, Gloss, Irish Express, Jin Lu, Musee D’Orsay

Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

Manawatu Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 14 March 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7.

1 5.32pm (NZT) SCOTT DICKSON STABLES HANDICAP TROT $9000, 3yo+ r41-r83 discrhcp, stand, 2500m 1 36436 Caroline Wozniacki (1) fr ........... J Abernethy 2 99842 Commando One (2) fr ......................J Curtin 3 15823 Leesa Castleton (3) fr ....................S Phelan 4 84902 Eden Creek (4) fr ..........................B Orange 5 07301 Mackali (U1) fr ............................P Ferguson 6 2106 Natty Pagger (U2) fr ................... T Cameron 7 55075 Shona Mary (U3) fr .......................Z Butcher 8 76944 Such Fun (U4) fr .......................... D Butcher 9 35653 Laura Bush (1) 10M .............. L Whittaker (J) 10 52D94 Majestic One (1) 50M................S Abernethy 2 5.58pm DARRYL & NICK BRADLEY MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r40-r51., mobile, 2500m 1 74474 Express Play (1) fr............................J Curtin 2 5030P Marrera (2) fr ............................. J Abernethy

22009 Rangi Rangdu (3) fr .......................S Phelan STONIAN MBL PACE $12,000, r77., mobile, 2500m 1 01x Johnny Mac (1) fr ..........................B Orange 05078 Pure Desire (4) fr ................... A Harrison (J) 2 22642 Mister Harris (2) fr ..........................S Phelan 62246 Uncle Drew (5) fr ...........................Z Butcher 3 11627 Westar Sam (3) fr ..........................Z Butcher 07155 Red River Dash (6) fr ................S Abernethy 4 00218 Anna Barclay (4) fr ...........................J Curtin 46518 Sheikh Yabooty (7) fr .................... P Fleming 5 67611 Misty Memory (5) fr ............... L Whittaker (J) 83088 Jack Bates (21) fr ........................ K Marshall 6 25705 Imola (6) fr.................................S Abernethy 70924 Amaro (22) fr ........................ D Ferguson (J) 7 71486 Shillelagh (7) fr ..................... D Ferguson (J) 02392 Betstars Blue Jean (23) fr .............B Orange 8 75433 Bill Haley (21) fr ........................ J Abernethy 48403 The Kapiti Express (24) fr ..........P Ferguson 9 10411 Eastanbull (22) fr......................... K Marshall 79385 Fancy Schmancy (25) fr ............... D Butcher 3 6.23pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL MOBILE 10 21114 The Night Hawk (23) fr ................. D Butcher 5 7.13pm RICOH MOBILE PACE $9000, r47., mobile, PACE $9000, 3yo+ r50-r60., mobile, 2500m 1 65166 Waingaro Mara (1) fr ................... K Marshall 2000m 1 89080 Lincoln Lovely (1) fr .................... T Cameron 2 02381 Dixie Jazz (2) fr ..........................P Ferguson 2 69603 Our Wicklow (2) fr ................ D Ferguson (J) 3 68622 Jetenara (3) fr ...............................Z Butcher 3 90976 Whitehaven Beach (3) fr ....... L Whittaker (J) 4 500x1 Motoring Major (4) fr ........................J Curtin 4 00622 Katamach (4) fr ............................ D Butcher 5 01x Johnny Mac fr .............................. Scratched 5 22009 Rangi Rangdu fr ........................... Scratched 6 56001 Apocalypse (5) fr ...........................B Orange 6 68467 Jakira (5) fr ................................S Abernethy 7 02124 Maddisons Desire (6) fr................ D Butcher 7 69097 Geoff’s Legacy (6) fr ..................P Ferguson 8 54461 Milner (21) fr...................................S Phelan 4 6.48pm MANELINE FARRIER SUPPLIES PALMER- 8 70053 Itsokbeingbetter (21) fr ........... A Harrison (J) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 14 March 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 3.40pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR DASH C2, 295m 1 82782 Smash Calling 17.34 ......................... M Grant 2 34565 Opawa Waihemo 17.33 .....................R Wales 3 64367 Know Approval 17.32 ...................... G Cleeve 4 61444 Homebush Scorpio 17.38 ........... J McInerney 5 11125 Chanyaka 17.34 .................................B Dann 6 42244 Lisa’s Boy 17.24 ............................... R Casey 7 31442 Homebush Carl nwtd .................. J McInerney 8 24541 Native Scout 17.39 ................................A Lee 9 47276 Feral Kaiaka 17.63 ............................M Butler 10 54686 Culvie Jay Dee 17.40 H & .....................Taylor 2 3.57pm POWER FARMING CANTERBURY SPRINT C2, 295m 1 34115 Mitcham Quinn 17.22 .........................B Dann 2 14565 Boston Powers 17.22...................A Bradshaw 3 78165 Chop Shop 17.32 ....................... J McInerney 4 14685 Whose He 17.44................................ A Joyce 5 66613 Gotcha Rocky 17.51 ................... J McInerney 6 67676 Homebush Indi 17.47 ................. J McInerney 7 62136 Cisco Reign 17.58 .......................... L Waretini 8 16113 Randy Raccoon 17.08 ......................... C Weir 9 34476 Vasterbottenost 17.47............................A Lee 10 54686 Culvie Jay Dee 17.40 H & .....................Taylor 3 4.18pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH 4 43283 My Bro Michael 17.29..................M Robinson SPRINT C3, 295m 5 63451 Botany Alan 17.85 ...................... J McInerney 1 33363 Homebush Comet 17.55............. J McInerney 6 24217 Cosmic Marty 17.65 ................... J McInerney 2 78851 It’s A Joke 17.26 ......................... J McInerney 7 13817 Goldstar Major 17.26 S & ..................B Evans 3 26431 Dyna Lenny 17.17 ..........................C Roberts 8 42156 Homebush Finn 17.21 ................ J McInerney 4 72127 Cosmic Jase 17.42 ..................... J McInerney 9 15744 Smash Bomber 17.23........................ M Grant 5 83168 Culvie Lass 17.33 H & ...........................Taylor 10 16677 Hear This 17.30 ................................. M Grant 6 12255 Goldstar Dodge 17.32 S & ................B Evans 5 4.54pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C3, 295m 7 52213 Rock Bottom 17.54 J M .....................McCook 1 83116 Homebush Tesan 17.28 .............. J McInerney 8 27442 Mertz 17.47 ................................ J McInerney 2 32648 Fiery Jen 17.19...................................B Dann 9 15744 Smash Bomber 17.23........................ M Grant 3 71233 Nippa Martino 17.22 ................... J McInerney 10 7x848 Aroha 17.19 ..................................... B Pringle 4 33452 Barellen Panther 17.44 ...................C Roberts 4 4.37pm SPECTATOR’S BAR & BISTRO DASH C3, 5 15481 Princely Gold 17.15 .................... J McInerney 295m 6 53855 Sozin’s Blue 17.31 ...................... J McInerney 1 17645 Sass ‘Em Up 17.31 J M .....................McCook 7 58264 Jaded Affair 17.35 .......................... L Waretini 2 13242 Reign Of Fire 17.49 .................... J McInerney 8 54531 Sierra Delta 17.34 S & .......................B Evans 3 54371 Know Respect 17.28 ....................... G Cleeve 9 62787 Homebush Maycee nwtd ............ J McInerney

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 14 March 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.06pm (NZT) WELCOME TO CAMBRIDGE RACEWAY SPRINT C0, 375m 1 Irinka Jacob nwtd ..............................E Potts 2 Thrilling Massey nwtd ..................... K Walsh 3 35422 Ebby Raptor nwtd........................A Turnwald 4 46463 Pukekohe Smurf nwtd .......................H Scott 5 F4324 Zipping Romeo nwtd ...................A Turnwald 6 66667 Stellar Babe nwtd P & ................... J Cleaver 7 5733 Shozip Ruby nwtd ...........................T Patton 8 Shozip Luca nwtd............................T Patton 2 12.22pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C1, 375m 1 26676 Yella Ella 21.54 R &.............................L Udy 2 81324 Platinum Tears nwtd ......................... S Clark 3 67288 Jay Grim nwtd ................................ G Farrell 4 45436 Twelve Gauge 21.70 ........................M Black 5 64545 Opawa Velocette 21.81 W &............T Steele 6 22364 Barossa nwtd ............................ A Lawrence 7 24378 Token Jasper 21.30 .......................... S Clark 8 33464 Thrilling Ivy 21.42 ............................ K Walsh 9 88648 Seven Sharp 21.70 ...........................S Ross 10 14858 Flying Dewy nwtd ........................A Turnwald 3 12.40pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C3, 375m 1 52523 Finkle Foot Fred 21.14 ....................... D Ray 2 x2241 Cawbourne Cool 21.40 ..............K T Herbert 3 56x48 Zipping Ringo 21.48 ........................... D Ray

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3 13155 Avenger Bale 29.82 ........................C Roberts 4 43623 Eyrewell Turbo 30.25 ........................H Cairns 5 54173 Goldstar Ashton 30.35 S & ................B Evans 6 77626 Dyna Monty 29.94 ..........................C Roberts 7 61682 Double Speed 30.11 ........................R Adcock 8 25163 Manooka 30.21 J & ...........................D Fahey 9 33847 Barge Bale 30.20............................D Roberts 10 56764 Must Be Rusty 30.24 .................. J McInerney 8 6.08pm FLAIR FEATURE C5, 520m 1 26277 Martha Magic 30.17 H &........................Taylor 2 82612 Kiacatoo Fever 30.14 S & ..................B Evans 3 12271 Opawa May 30.21 J & .......................D Fahey 4 17245 Goldstar Sydney 30.41 S & ...............B Evans 5 Box Vacant 6 16235 Busy Flash 30.41 J & ........................D Fahey 7 42512 Dyna Weslyn 29.81.........................C Roberts 8 42127 Go Glow 30.24 J & ............................D Fahey 9 6.33pm I PAVE CONCRETE DASH C4, 295m 1 5F267 Mitcham Faye 17.22 ................... J McInerney 2 12558 Torpedo Tuck 17.21 .....................A Bradshaw 3 35762 Cash A Roo 17.27 S & ......................B Evans 4 33447 Hands Of Steel 17.25 ......................R Adcock 5 14622 Go All Lin 17.30 ...........................A Bradshaw 6 84631 Smash Damage 17.24....................... M Grant 7 12755 Custom Paint 17.06 ............................. C Weir 8 36335 Joe Bonanza nwtd ...................... J McInerney 9 88626 Black Tori 17.35 ...........................A Bradshaw 10 35567 Jinja Ellie 17.26 ................................. A Joyce 10 6.58pm ANGLER’S ARMS TAVERN DASH C5, 295m 1 31337 Dove Love 17.15.................................. C Weir 10 26776 Come A Guster 17.33........................ M Grant 6 5.20pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN SPRINT C4, 2 1F134 Business Ethics 17.18 .........................J Dunn 3 721F2 Wheelie Wheels 17.18......................... C Weir 295m 4 26181 Dunk It 17.24 ......................................B Dann 1 45421 High Return 17.29 ............................. M Grant 5 24234 Chitina Tin 17.15 ...................................A Lee 2 16117 Man Of Letters 17.41.............................A Lee 6 64612 Smash Wild 17.08 ............................. M Grant 3 1F678 Black Dan 17.60 ......................... J McInerney 7 32122 Shanly Star 17.15 ....................... J McInerney 4 54638 Ohoka Clare 17.17 ......................... L Waretini 8 14313 Nelso Allen 16.89 ...........................C Roberts 5 47113 Homebush Boden 17.47 ............. J McInerney 9 11484 Disobedience 17.19 S & ....................B Evans 6 42466 Nozzno Fear 17.16 ......................A Bradshaw 7 52261 Kalonga 17.36 S & ............................B Evans 10 55761 Beck Eleven 17.42 ...........................R Adcock 8 12886 It’s That Fresh 17.23 S & ...................B Evans 11 7.23pm KAISA EARTHWORKS PH 0272073323 9 88626 Black Tori 17.35 ...........................A Bradshaw SPRINT C5, 295m 1 53142 Cawbourne Britty 17.22 ..................C Roberts 10 35567 Jinja Ellie 17.26 ................................. A Joyce 7 5.43pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C4/5, 2 62672 Mitcham Reado 17.24 ................ J McInerney 3 8F315 Dizzy Banjo 17.12 ............................... C Weir 520m 4 32213 Sunlit Johnny 17.13 ............................. C Weir 1 33366 Kia Tere 30.48 S &.............................B Evans 5 17F31 Hankenstein 17.28.......................A Bradshaw 2 22411 Dyna Dave 29.73 ............................C Roberts

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15521 Fired Up Jasper 17.04 ........................B Dann 25121 Lord Louie 17.52 .............................R Adcock 21817 Smash Reward 17.13 ........................ M Grant 11484 Disobedience 17.19 S & ....................B Evans 13376 Ketchikan Kim 17.25............................J Dunn 12 7.48pm PROTEXIN DASH C4, 295m 1 82254 Little Krakatoa 17.36....................A Bradshaw 2 68173 Saraya Jayde 17.25 ........................ L Waretini 3 15643 Dusky Brew 17.32 S &.......................B Evans 4 11668 Wildebeest 17.29.........................A Bradshaw 5 73513 Miss Dupre 17.33 ...........................D Roberts 6 57165 Billy Frost 17.45 ................................. M Grant 7 76787 Debbie Baxter 17.11 ................... J McInerney 8 51113 Goldstar Trooper 17.01 S & ...............B Evans 9 88626 Black Tori 17.35 ...........................A Bradshaw 10 35567 Jinja Ellie 17.26 ................................. A Joyce LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Opawa Waihemo, Native Scout, Chanyaka, Smash Calling, Lisa’s Boy Race 2: Randy Raccoon, Mitcham Quinn, Boston Powers, Cisco Reign, Whose He Race 3: Dyna Lenny, It’s A Joke, Mertz, Rock Bottom, Homebush Comet Race 4: Goldstar Major, Reign Of Fire, Know Respect, Cosmic Marty, Homebush Finn Race 5: Fiery Jen, Homebush Tesan, Princely Gold, Nippa Martino, Sierra Delta Race 6: High Return, It’s That Fresh, Ohoka Clare, Nozzno Fear, Man Of Letters Race 7: Dyna Dave, Avenger Bale, Double Speed, Dyna Monty, Manooka Race 8: Dyna Weslyn, Kiacatoo Fever, Opawa May, Martha Magic, Go Glow Race 9: Torpedo Tuck, Cash A Roo, Custom Paint, Hands Of Steel, Mitcham Faye Race 10: Nelso Allen, Business Ethics, Wheelie Wheels, Dove Love, Chitina Tin Race 11: Fired Up Jasper, Lord Louie, Dizzy Banjo, Sunlit Johnny, Cawbourne Britty Race 12: Goldstar Trooper, Wildebeest, Dusky Brew, Saraya Jayde, Debbie Baxter

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 4 57864 Opawa Jimbo 21.30 W & ................T Steele 5 72658 Powerful Lomar 21.29 .......................B Craik 6 51677 Jimmy’s Rocket 21.00 ...................... S Clark 7 67357 Bigtime Jacob 21.24 .................... H Mullane 8 26221 Typical 21.49 .....................................S Ross 4 12.57pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER FENEMOR C1, 457m 1 45452 Thrilling Dexter nwtd ........................S Lozell 2 88475 San Tan Samson 26.25 ................... T Green 3 28536 Home Bound 26.28 R & ......................L Udy 4 42175 Kapai Tahi nwtd W & .......................T Steele 5 56831 Talkabout Ziggy nwtd ......................... D Ray 6 41835 Little Trilise nwtd ........................ A Lawrence 7 35233 Just Maddie nwtd .............................M Black 8 75564 Billy Bright 26.15 ........................P Ferguson 9 17578 Finkle Foot Hero nwtd ........................ D Ray 10 64565 Talkabout Sophie nwtd .....................M Black 5 1.15pm FARMLANDS COPRICE SPRINT C2, 375m 1 32174 Secret Rory 21.34 .......................... G Farrell 2 54417 Nasa 21.34........................................B Craik 3 67674 Mobility Scooter 21.33 .....................M Black 4 55572 Botany Wayne 21.31 .......................P Green 5 45513 Don Morocco 21.33 P & ................ J Cleaver 6 41481 Cry Lonely nwtd ................................E Potts 7 15856 Gotcha Millie 21.55 ...................... H Mullane 8 17265 Waiterimu Ripper 21.37 R & ...............L Udy 9 18676 Unconscionable 21.45 R & .................L Udy 6 1.32pm GREYHOUNDS NORTH GRADUATION DISTANCE C1d, 650m 1 17666 Deception Diva nwtd W & ...............T Steele 2 72146 Go Angel nwtd ............................... G Farrell 3 Box Vacant

4 73278 Amy Amy nwtd ............................... G Farrell 4 16433 Sparta 20.81 ................................... K Walsh 5 3x775 Shooters Hill nwtd ............................S Lozell 5 36322 Fancy Fox 21.25.............................C Henley Box Vacant.

6 2188x How Goodesy nwtd .......................... S Clark 7 57343 Hot Platter nwtd ..........................A Turnwald 7 65117 Suspicious Minds 20.94 ....................B Craik 8 21653 Kamada Park nwtd ......................A Turnwald 8 37738 Mikachu nwtd ..............................A Turnwald 7 1.50pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR SPRINT 9 25376 Fantastic Teddy nwtd...................A Turnwald 10 2.45pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SPRINT C1, 375m 1 23824 Bigtime Monty nwtd...................... H Mullane C2, 375m 1 53F15 Hop On Mate 21.76......................... T Green 2 85742 Opawa Loyal 21.27 .......................... S Clark 2 12447 Elouera Mist 21.33 .....................P Ferguson 3 68854 Millie Prince nwtd .......................P Ferguson 3 65761 Grouch Pawset 21.57......................P Green 4 28216 Jinja Ted nwtd ...................................E Potts 4 42762 Gao Gao 21.54 .............................. G Farrell 5 424F7 In Focus 21.72 P &........................ J Cleaver 5 53444 C’est L’Amour 21.44 ..........................B Craik 6 72132 Kai Nan nwtd.................................. G Farrell 6 72377 Billy Bullet 21.47 ...............................H Scott 7 83851 Decision nwtd................................... S Clark 7 83776 Nangar Magic 21.32..........................B Craik 8 44428 Tilly’s Silly nwtd R & ............................L Udy 8 53748 Talkabout Izzy 21.33 .......................... D Ray 9 84687 El Hefe 21.67 ............................... D R Laing 9 18676 Unconscionable 21.45 R & .................L Udy 10 14858 Flying Dewy nwtd ........................A Turnwald 8 2.08pm TOKOROA GRC RACE HERE ON SUNDAY 11 3.08pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD C4, 375m STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 48587 Zou Star nwtd............................... H Mullane 1 55414 Thrilling Carly 25.83 ........................ K Walsh 2 65248 Disclaimer 21.36 .............................P Green 2 22314 Heart Shaped Box 25.97...................B Craik 3 74424 Ekali 21.28 ..................................... G Farrell 3 1514x Westworld 26.07 ...............................B Craik 4 88885 Kapai Lana nwtd R & ..........................L Udy 4 65121 Thrilling Amigo 25.68 ...................... K Walsh 5 16542 See Eye Be 21.04 ........................ H Mullane 5 46156 Over Indulgence 25.69 ...................P Henley 6 11335 Retired Mouse 21.34....................... T Green 6 35415 Reality Check nwtd ......................... K Walsh 7 74325 Trevor Gibbs nwtd W &....................T Steele 7 11213 Thrilling Talk 25.42 .......................... K Walsh 8 337F5 Botany Esmay 21.58 .......................P Green 8 35172 Tianyu 25.68 .................................. G Farrell 9 2.26pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT 9 74325 Trevor Gibbs 25.60 W & ..................T Steele C5, 375m 10 46534 Shallay Pallay 25.49 ....................A Turnwald 1 62112 Too The Nail nwtd .............................E Potts 12 3.34pm FARMLANDS VIRKON STAKES C2, 457m 1 73348 Salvarotti 25.99 .................................B Craik 2 17861 Raging Demon 20.99 R & ...................L Udy 2 21211 Thrilling Vice 25.76.......................... K Walsh 3 65814 Zipping Vito 21.46 .............................B Craik

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3 37232 Pat Tama 25.59 ................................ S Clark 4 31172 Opawa Big nwtd ............................. G Farrell 5 57331 Smoochie 25.85 ........................ A Lawrence 6 25636 Jinja Twist nwtd W &........................T Steele 7 22215 Thrilling Trev 25.73 .......................... K Walsh 8 44654 Tommy The Jett nwtd ..................A Turnwald LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Irinka Jacob, Thrilling Massey, Ebby Raptor, Zipping Romeo, Shozip Ruby Race 2: Thrilling Ivy, Platinum Tears, Token Jasper, Barossa, Opawa Velocette Race 3: Jimmy’s Rocket, Cawbourne Cool, Finkle Foot Fred, Powerful Lomar, Opawa Jimbo Race 4: Thrilling Dexter, Billy Bright, Little Trilise, San Tan Samson, Just Maddie Race 5: Botany Wayne, Don Morocco, Secret Rory, Gotcha Millie, Nasa Race 6: Hot Platter, Go Angel, Amy Amy, Deception Diva, Kamada Park Race 7: Jinja Ted, Opawa Loyal, Bigtime Monty, Kai Nan, Tilly’s Silly Race 8: See Eye Be, Retired Mouse, Zou Star, Ekali, Botany Esmay Race 9: Suspicious Minds, Sparta, Too The Nail, Fancy Fox, How Goodesy Race 10: C’est L’Amour, Elouera Mist, Gao Gao, Hop On Mate, Nangar Magic

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Some degree of work always goes into presenting oneself in society. You can make that work easier for yourself in the days to come by taking the time to envision what you need and planning ahead.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Stay passive and people will believe what they want to or what’s convenient. The other way is to actively present your belief in an attractive light, and then stand back and see if there are takers.

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VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Things that enhance your perspective include annual appointments and seeing someone you haven’t seen in a long while. Stretches of time inform us in ways that day-to-day familiarity cannot.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): It’s like you’re in a movie and all the other characters, the action and the plot twists are there to help you grow your way into your victory sequence. Just trust that this is going to be good.

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AKAROA

DEATHS

DEATHS

DEATHS

KENTON, Brian James – Please note change of venue. On March 9, 2019 at Timaru Hospital after a short illness, aged 83 years. Dearly loved husband of Phim.

Loved Dad of Gordy and Kellie, Di, Andy and Simone; Nikki, Brook and Ja. Loved Grandad of Danielle, and Alyssia, Katie, Todd, and Annabel; Leah and Ryan, and Paige; Sophie, BJ, and Hunter. Great Grandad of Mason and Mila. Friend of Barbara, and the late Lyn. Please note change of venue. A farewell for Brian will be held at the Southern Trust Events Centre, 70 Morgans Road, Timaru TODAY Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 1.00pm. Special thanks to the medical team at the Intensive Care Unit Timaru Hospital for their incredible care of Brian.

RICHARDSON, Judith Anne – On March 12, 2019 at Ashburton. Aged 77 years.

Beloved wife and soulmate of Mervyn. Dearly loved mother, mother-in-law and Grandma of Andrew, Barbara, the late Matthew, Rachel, Jacinta, and Katie; Karlyn and Stephen Lewthwaite, Jeremy, and Victoria and Cory; Heather, Michael, Kevin, Julia and Chris, and Henry Daly; Michelle, Darren, Nic and Susan, and Hamish Green.

Loved sister and sister-in-law of John and Janett Griffiths.

Messages to the Richardson family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to World Vision would be appreciated and may be left at the service. Special thanks to the staff at Rosebank for their loving care of Judith and the Sealy Street Medical Practice. A service for Judith will be held at the Ashburton Baptist Church, Cass Street, Ashburton TOMORROW Friday, March 15, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

SKILLING, Ronald SUNDAY: Often cloudy. Occasional ASHBURTON Ra Benjamin James (Ron) – ka i 16 rain.

SE, NE for a time. a Passed away peacefully at MAX 19 OVERNIGHT MIN 10 Ashburton Hospital on March Ash 12, 2019. Aged 97 years. bur to Geraldine n Husband of Nisbet for 72 Midnight Tonight years. Loved father and Ra n father-in-law of Annette and gitata Les Wickstead (Australia), Lyall (Australia), Carolyn and Les Donaldson and loved TIMARU grandad of Jason, and Julian 15 SUN PROTECTION ALERT and great grandad of Ally, and Jessie (Australia) and :35 :45 Tristan (Germany). Loved AM PM uncle of Raymond Colville.

PROTECTION REQUIRED Even on cloudy days Messages to Skilling family, Data provided by NIWA PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740.

Waimate Special thanks to Carolyn and Les for their wonderful Wind km/h Thursday, 14 March 2019 NZ Situation support, the staff at less than 30 A front becomes slow-moving over central New Coldstream House and fine mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers Zealand today as a ridge begins to build over the fine showers clearing showers Ashburton Hospital for their 30 to 59 south of the South Island. The ridge moves onto special care and attention northern New Zealand tomorrow while a front moves they gave to Ron. A service fog isolated snow sleet thunder rain snow hail 60 plus to celebrate Ron’s life will be up the South Island, becoming slow moving over thunder flurries held at our Chapel, cnr East central New Zealand into the weekend. and Cox streets, Ashburton overnight on MONDAY, March 18, Canterbury Plains NZ Today Canterbury High Country max low commencing at 2.00pm.

Auckland fi ne 26 17 TODAY TODAY FZL: Above 3000m Followed by private cremation Scattered rain. Wind at 1000m: NW rising to at the Ashburton Cloudy with patchy drizzle. Rain developing Hamilton shower 26 15 40 km/h during the afternoon and evening.

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Periods of rain, easing later. Southerlies developing.

Periods of rain, possibly heavy about the divide at first, easing later. S developing, tending SE later.

Often cloudy. Scattered rain. Southeasterlies, turning northeasterly for a time in the afternoon.

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Morning cloud, then fine spells. Scattered rain developing in the north later. SE dying out, tending NE later.

MONDAY Occasional rain or drizzle. Southerlies.

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:30 pm, yesterday 123.2 Nth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Rain, possibly heavy about the divide.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to 40 km/h in the morning and to gale 65 km/h at night.

Wind at 2000m: NW 50 km/h rising to gale 75 km/h in the evening.

Occasional rain. Northeasterlies.

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Aiming to right wrongs

Rowers glowing silver

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History in the making Fran Clark heads towards the try-line during what was a successful first outing for the new Celtic women’s rugby team on Sunday.

BY ERIN TASKER

ERIN.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

For the first time in the 98 years the Celtic Rugby Club has been in existence, it officially has a women’s rugby team.

History was made on Sunday when the new Celtic women’s team ran out on to the field for the first time in a pre-season friendly against Burnside.

It was a pretty good first showing, too. Celtic dominated the 10-a-side match and finished the day with a convincing 60-15 win to their names.

For Celtic club president Kevin Donaldson it was an exciting moment which was the result of months of hard work.

Fielding a women’s team was something he’d wanted to see Celt-

ic do for some time, and it turned out someone else had the same idea. That person was Aleisha Wells, a woman who had never played rugby before but was keen to give it a go, so the two of them started working together.

Around 20 players turned out to an initial muster day, and it all flowed from there.

Donaldson said the players had

been training for months, but training was different from an actual game, and no-one really had any idea how they’d fare. So, Sunday’s result was great.

“Early form looks not too bad.

There’s still lots of room for improvement of course, but overall some of them have got pretty good skillsets that we can build on.”

For some of the players who took

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to the park on Sunday it was their first ever game of rugby, but Donaldson said you couldn’t tell them apart from the rest.

The side had another pre-season game against a University of Canterbury side on March 30, and would also take part in a 10-a-side tournament in Queenstown, before their competition kicked off in early April.

‘Scandal a thunderbolt’ Penrith boss Phil Gould has described the sex tapes scandal engulfing the NRL club as a thunderbolt, but claims to being glad it struck them.

The Panthers will kick off their premiership campaign under a dark cloud on Sunday following a week of turmoil resulting in the standing down of Tyrone May. May has been banned under the code’s new no-fault policy after being charged with recording and disseminating image without consent.

And the drama has shattered Gould, who has been left with picking up the pieces of a squad widely expected to contend for the title this season.

“From a club perspective and a personal perspective, it’s been like a thunderbolt, to be honest,” Gould said on Six Tackles with Gus podcast yesterday.

The premiership-winning coach was astonished at the sexual behaviours of the current generation, and how the aftermath of the saga has affected the club.

He spoke of how fullback Dylan Edwards, the wife of another senior player, and daughter of club legend Mark Geyer were wrongly linked to other tapes.

However Gould has attempted to derive the positives out of what’s unfolded.

“I’m glad it’s happened to us because it now gives us reality, a chance to understand what’s out there,” he said.

“How secretive it’s been, how private they thought it was, how naive they were to think it was go-

ing to be that way.

“The NRL integrity talking to me have said that in all the information they’ve gathered, there is nothing majorly concerning,” said Gould, adding more videos might surface.

“Even if these things came out there are just images of sexual acts. The stupidity is in taping them. It’s grade five stupidity and naivety, and it’s damaging.”

Gould has been the spearhead of the club’s rebuild since returning to the fold when the leagues

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club went perilously close to liquidation in 2011.

The latest drama had not tempted him to walk away from the Panthers.

“I’ve tried not to let my thoughts go down that road because it would be reacting out of emotion or just how I was feeling at the time,” he said.

“This is not something that you need to give up on. I can’t give up on our club, and our game because of the actions of these people.”

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