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College principal slams fight club

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Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan has smashed a student fight club at the school.

Over the past two weeks students have been bringing boxing gloves to the college and sparring with each other during break times.

Mr McMillan said while there were no injuries the situation was being taken very seriously because of the potential dangers involved.

Fight clubs will not be tolerated, he said.

Anyone bringing boxing gloves onto school grounds was actually bringing a

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weapon into the premises and any further incidents would be viewed in this way.

“There is a risk … it’s not that anything serious was happening but the potential for it to become serious was my biggest concern.”

The fighting was between a group of Year 11 boys who decided boxing gloves were a “cool thing to bring to college”.

It was brought to staff attention on Thursday lunchtime and by Friday they had enough information for Mr McMillan to have a strong word during the Year 11 assembly.

“I set a very clear line in the sand.

“I was very clear about how the college

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The students involved knew it was wrong because they would stop or relocate whenever a duty teacher came near them, he said.

While it was mainly Year 11 boys, others, including juniors, were taking part because they saw it as a bit of fun, Mr McMillan said.

“It’s just boys thinking it’s a really good game without thinking of the consequences.”

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

■ CANTERBURY AIR PLAN

Inciting disorderly behaviour earns community work

Stubble burning to continue under plan

Four members of the same family appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday where they were sentenced for inciting disorderly behaviour.

Chase, Emitana, Mahaki and Maria Aranui admitted the charge along with associates Breeze Hunter-Weston and William Kiteanga Kimilia.

Another defendant, Sela Mita Cook was unable to be in court yesterday but pleaded guilty to the same charges through her lawyer.

All seven initially faced charges of rioting, but those were downgraded.

Kimilia also faces a charge of carrying an offensive weapon which will be heard at a later

date. The court was told the group had arrived at a park on Davis Crescent on about 3.40pm on August 27 armed with baseball bats, golf clubs, a length of pipe and a half round fence post.

One member of the group had covered his face with a blue bandana and was carrying a blue baseball bat.

At the park they engaged in a prearranged confrontation with another group, prompting numerous calls to the police station from concerned neighbours.

Cook had laid down the gauntlet earlier in the day in response to intimidating behaviour toward her babysitter, the court was told.

Judge Ian Mill heard submis-

sions from the lawyers of several of the offenders, who attempted to mitigate their clients’ roles.

However, he said they all encouraged each other to behave in a disorderly manner.

“This was a violent and threatening event – not only to those challenged but also to others in the neighbourhood,” he said.

Despite the various levels of participation in the brawl, all seven offenders received 80 hours of community work.

The two ringleaders in the melee were sentenced to 150 hours and 100 hours last year.

To counter the tension around the courthouse at the time of their sentencing, extra police were on hand yesterday.

By Sue NewmaN

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Ashburton residents are asking whether the revised Canterbury Air Plan will go far enough to clean up summer air quality.

As harvest wraps up and farmers clear paddocks of stubble, late afternoon fires are commonplace, with regular complaints to Environment Canterbury about smoke billowing over town.

Banning stubble burning, however, is not as easy as simply rewriting the rules, says Marty Mortiaux, ECan’s regional manager RMA monitoring and compliance.

As part of the review of Canterbury’s air plan, tighter conditions have been placed on stubble burning, including the establishment of a buffer zone around Ashburton to keep smoke drift away from the urban area.

Fires within that zone can only be lit with a permit. Outside the buffer zone stubble burning will remain a permitted activity, with conditions.

The proposed air plan has been through the hearing process, but appeals have been made to the commissioners’ decisions, some centred around stubble burning.

As part of the review, Mr Mortiaux said, advice was sought from the Foundation for Arable Research to ensure ECan understood the reasons behind

stubble burning as a farm management tool.

“We got a comprehensive report stating it was still a practice that was needed in Canterbury and that was agreed as part of the air plan.”

The result was that a buffer zone was established around Ashburton and Timaru, and tighter rules written around smoke management plans. The revised plan, however, is still a work in progress, he said Until the air plan became operative, ECan had to operate under existing rules and the over-riding issue there was that smoke from stubble burning was neither offensive nor objectionable in its effect.

Many people are complaining that while people in Ashburton have been forced to replace their log burners with low emission models to reduce winter air pollution, farmers appeared able to burn at will.

The two issues were not the same, Mr Mortiaux said.

“People are measuring it against our desire to clean up airsheds in towns and the ambient air quality in winter, but the science of the two types of air pollution is quite different.”

The revised air plan is scheduled to be fully operative in June and that will set stubble burning rules for the next 10 years. The plan content, however, is revisited every five years.

Ashburton College principal slams fight club

Armed police search the Davis Crescent park for weapons and suspects following a confrontation between two groups in August last year.

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From P1 Following the assembly, 12 of the students involved came forward to apologise and explain that they had not considered the potential risks, he said.

There are still a few who have not owned up and the college

will be speaking to their parents.

The situation should now be resolved because the students involved have been reminded of the dangers of the situation and the hard line the college is taking, Mr McMillan said.

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■ METHVEN SEARCH AND RESCUE

By SuSan SandyS

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Whether or not Ashburton’s water supply is fluoridated in the future is likely to be a decision made by central government, says Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay. The fluoridation of drinking water supplies has divided communities but at last week’s local government rural and provincial meeting indications were given that future decisions on the controversial issue could be taken out of local authorities’ hands, Mr McKay said.

Speaking at the meeting, as-

Meth found in ties Up to $1.5 million worth of methamphetamine has been found inside baby carriers and neck ties at Auckland Airport. Customs officials found approximately 1.5kg of the Class A drug hidden in the ties and colourful baby carriers. The carriers have the words “Sweet Baby” and a smiling teddy bear drawn across the front. A 20-year-old man from Latvia has been arrested and charged with importing the drug in his luggage. He appeared in the Manukau District Court yesterday afternoon.

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Heading down from their camp in the Hawdon River on Sunday morning was one of 20 teams in a Canterbury Search & Rescue exercise. Team members are (from left) Malcolm Clapperton, Rachel Pilling, Brent Christie and Ruth Odlin.

PHOTO LEW SHAW were hoping to do more around real-life cold cases, such as the case at the weekend had been.

“It’s quite exciting because you know something may be there, you just have to try and find it,” Mr Smith said.

However, despite the scale of the exercise, with 120 searchers from teams throughout Canter-

bury, including three from Methven, nothing of note had been found.

This had been disappointing, as it would have been good for the family’s sake to have provided some clue as to what had happened to their loved one.

Detective Inspector Dave Long told media when the search was

suspended in 2013 that there was no indication of suspicious circumstances or foul play.

“As a result of our inquiries, including discussions with Mr Crowther’s family about his personal circumstances prior to going missing, we believe it is most likely that he is deceased,” Mr Long said.

‘Fluoride a health issue, not a local issue’

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In brief

Exercise with a purpose Methven Search and Rescue personnel hoped to bring closure for the family of a missing man when they embarked on an exercise at the weekend.

But it was not to be, and after covering mountainous and difficult terrain for hours on end, there was still no clue as to what had happened to Peter John Crowther of Christchurch.

The 55-year-old went missing in 2013. He was last seen about 4pm on June 14 at his workplace in Addington, and his car was found about three weeks later near the Mount White bridge at Arthur’s Pass National Park.

Methven search and rescuers were part of teams sent into that area at the time.

Deputy chairman Ron Smith said yesterday it had been good to go back at the weekend for the annual Canterbury Region Search and Rescue Exercise.

“When we have an exercise, it’s quite nice to have a go at something where we didn’t find anything originally,” Mr Smith said.

Search and rescue organisers generally held their exercises around hypothetical situations, where people in the field acted as lost or injured. However, they

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sociate health minister Peter Dunne made it very clear that he believed fluoride was a health issue and as such decisions on its use, or not, should be made by Parliament, not individual councils.

That statement was greeted with considerable relief by mayors and chief executives, he said.

“This is what local government has been wanting. He’s accepted it’s a health issue and that it is so time consuming for every local authority to have to do their own thing on this issue.”

Ashburton’s water supply is no

longer fluoridated. After being part of the town’s water supply for many years, fluoride was withdrawn in 2002 after a petition was presented to the Ashburton District Council.

The vote came down to the wire with mayor of the day Murray Anderson using his casting vote in favour of removing the substance from the town’s water supply.

Attempts were made to have it reintroduced in 2006 and a heated campaign saw supporters and opponents of the practice go head-to-head on many occa-

sions. A referendum was held and the status quo remained.

Methven had also had a fluoridated water supply for many years and the practice survived an attempt by referendum in 2007 to have it removed. The village remains one of a dwindling number of areas where a town water supply is fluoridated.

Because the Ministry of Health strongly supports water fluoridation making the issue one that is decided by Parliament could clear the way for water supplies across New Zealand to be fluoridated as normal practice.

A court ruling finding a leaseholder liable for almost $175,000 in back rent is “definitive” and means this sort of dispute will unlikely need to be argued again, says the Cornwall Park Trust Board. The Court of Appeal yesterday found that Yong Xin Chen, who abandoned her house on Maungakiekie Ave in the Auckland suburb of One Tree Hill, was liable for almost $175,000 in back rent. Chen also failed to challenge the nearly $120,000 bill she was ordered to pay by the High Court for the cost of repairs done to her property after she left.

Chen bought a house, on the edge of Auckland’s Cornwall Park, on leasehold land in 2005 for $450,000 but in 2010 her annual rent increased from $8300 to $73,750. Chen tried to negotiate to freehold the property and adjust the rent if her lease was renewed but vacated the house in November 2011.

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Police officer struck A man’s been charged with assault, after a police officer was hit during a routine bail check in Pukekohe yesterday. The police officer went to a Pukekohe address yesterday morning, knocked on the door, and was hit in the face.

It sparked a major police callout, with the Armed Offenders Squad, the Eagle helicopter and the dog squad heading straight there. A woman at the nearby pools saw police rushing to the scene, and says her friend called to see if she was okay ... because the Parkside Special School and a nearby kindergarten were going into lockdown. The police officer suffered facial injuries, but is otherwise fine.

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■ COMMUNITY HOUSE MID CANTERBURY

In brief

Doors open in new home

By Caitlin Porter

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It has been nearly five years in the making but today Community House Mid Canterbury opens the doors to its new premises.

Last year Community House Trust raised the last of the money it needed to buy a building on the corner of Cass and Moore streets, previously home to Work and Income New Zealand. The purchase ensured a positive future for a building with a tragic past.

To ensure a smooth and swift shift Community House closed

its doors for a short period but is now back in action.

Trust board chairman John Driscoll said the move was a success, with no big dramas.

No movers had to be called in either, the tenants managed it all themselves, he said.

Now open for its first day of trading, Mr Driscoll said the building will be blessed in a closed ceremony by members of the Hakatere Marae and Arowhenua. A formal public opening will take place next month.

At that time a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Winz tragedy will also be unveiled.

As for how everyone has found their new premises so far, Mr Driscoll said the general consensus was very positive.

“They all love it,” he said.

While a lot happened renovation wise to the building – with painting, landscaping and interior and exterior refurbishment – it was not completely revamped. Some areas, including the staff room and amenities remained intact and the heating system was also left as is.

A new community hub, the building boasts permanent and temporary offices, a staff room and meeting rooms.

The anchor tenant for the rental is Safer Ashburton – who are moving in this week – and other permanent tenants include Birthright Ashburton, Ashburton Senior Citizens, Barnardos, Rural Canterbury Primary Health Organisation, Riding for the Disabled, CCS Disability and the Mid Canterbury Playcentre.

Temporary tenants include the JP signing centre, MoleMap, Volunteer Mid and South Canterbury and Overeaters Anonymous.

All tenants are expected to be settled in to the new building in the next two weeks.

■ DISTRICT COUNCIL

Big Brother is watching and counting

Methven Volunteer Fire Brigade members were called to a car on fire at Ashburton Forks about 4pm on Sunday. Deputy chief Mike Seque said by the time firefighters arrived on the scene the fire was out, after a passing motorist with a fire extinguisher stopped to help the driver.

Man’s jaw broken Police are appealing for witnesses following a man receiving a broken jaw in a suspected assault on Sunday about 2.30am. St John reported transporting two patients to hospital, and the Canterbury District Health Board said both had been treated and discharged.

Acting detective sergeant Leigh Jenkins in Ashburton had details of just one patient relating to the incident. The man had yet to be spoken to by police, and police had yet to see surveillance footage from the scene, which was at the Burnett Street entrance to the alleyway which accesses The Print Room.

Any witnesses can phone Constable Nathan Forbes on 307-8400.

Woman hurt in fall An elderly woman who fell at EA Networks Centre was discharged after hospital treatment. The woman, in her 80s, was transported to Ashburton Hospital with moderate injuries on Sunday at about 5.45pm.

Females trespassed Two females have been trespassed from Ashburton College following a confrontation at the school at about 2pm on Friday. Principal Grant McMillan said police were called after two people came onto school property to speak to several students and were being evasive with staff.

By Sue newman

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Big Brother has arrived in Ashburton in the form of a high tech, 3-D people counter.

Anyone using one of several Ashburton District Council facilities can no longer slip unnoticed through the door. A new electronic device mounted in the ceiling above the entranceway is now running a head count of every person entering that building.

The counter is in use at the Ashburton Library, EA Networks Centre stadium entrance, the Ashburton Museum and above the council’s front counter.

While they’re counting numbers, the new cameras are definitely not counting faces, council service delivery group manager Neil McCann said.

They’re positioned to view the tops of heads, but they’re sufficiently refined to enable them to determine whether the person passing below is an adult or child, he said. They are also set to count movements in one direction only.

“They’ve been running less than a week but they’re already producing some pretty valuable information,” he said.

The new door counters, however, weren’t foolproof and a system was still being devised to ensure regular staff movements were not counted. There were also complications at the stadium where users often entered and exited the court area quite frequently, Mr McCann said.

Information gathered is fed into a website that can be accessed by council staff.

Car catches fire

Living expo

Methven A&P Association volunteers Trevor Monson (front) and Mark Lock prepare the grounds for Saturday.

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■ METHVEN A&P SHOW

Show ready to roll on Saturday

By SuSan SandyS

SuSan.S@theguardian.Co.nz

Methven A&P Association committee members are gearing up for a fantastic show on Saturday following a successful working bee yesterday.

“Everything is tidied up, everything is in its rightful place, and we are ready to roll,” president Andrew Currie said.

The home industries pavilion, which was over 80 years old, had recently had a new concrete floor poured, after the former surface of asphalt began to deteriorate.

Brick work on a new centennial gate would be completed soon, while the stone work for it would be done through the winter.

The show ring had been ir-

rigated due to the dry weather of late, something which had had to be undertaken three out of the past five years, although not for any of the shows prior to that.

“It’s just so dry at this time of year,” Mr Currie said.

Entry numbers were up overall, and there were new exhibitors in the trade space area.

The world’s biggest capacity combine harvester would be a guest on the day, travelling from Timaru, courtesy of Johnson Gluyas of Ashburton.

Mr Currie has been involved in running the animal tent for the past 12 years, and due to the help of Jo Thorpe was looking forward to a good year this year.

It would feature many crea-

tures great and small, ranging from eels to baby buffalo.

There would be a treasure hunt lift-out in the catalogue, and participants could look for real-life items around the showgrounds, and the first 12 correct entries drawn from a box in the secretary’s office would win prizes.

The gift calf auction and events such as sheep riding, steer riding, wood chopping, shearing, and top team were all shaping up well.

The long-term weather forecast was good, and Mr Currie expected the show would be a success.

School children had free admission, and there would be free carparking access off Barkers Road.

Back to Basics’ natural savvy living expo is edging closer, with hangi meals for sale. Set to take place on Saturday, April 2 at noon at the New Life Church premises in Tinwald, the expo will use local knowledge and supplies to educate people on how to live in a creative, natural and costeffective way. Hangi meals will be available for $10 with the options being hogget, chicken, stuffing and vegetables and can be eaten at the expo or taken away. More information can be obtained from the expo’s Facebook page.

Nappy Lady back again Parents keen to learn all about waste reduction, waste-free baby products and of course – nappies, are in luck. Kate Meads, better known as the Nappy Lady, is headed back to Ashburton this weekend to hold two workshops.

Her second time in the district, Mrs Meads was here in September last year, wowing crowds and showing off her waste reduction expertise.

This year she will stop by the Eco Education Centre at the Resource Recovery Park on Wednesday from 6pm to 8.30pm and Thursday between 10am and 12.30pm. The workshops are subsidised by the district council and people pay a part-payment of $25 to attend.

Upon leaving, everyone gets a gift bag containing $100 worth of products. For more information or to book head to www. thenappylady.co.nz.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

Four on drink driving charges The following people appeared before Judge Ian Mill in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

Trent William Roulston, 23, Tinwald – admitted a charge of drink driving with an excess breath alcohol level of 691 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath (EBA 691mcg/l). He was convicted, disqualified from driving for eight months, fined $800, ordered to pay court costs of $130 and to undertake six months’ of supervision.

Thomas Michael Cochrane of Ashburton, admitted charges of drink driving (EBA 520mcg/l) and driving while suspended. He was disqualified from driving for six months, fined $800 and ordered to pay court costs of $260.

Niki Merry-Church, 22, of Allenton was convicted of drink driving (EBA 985mcg/l). She was disqualified from driving for eight months, fined $800 and ordered to pay court costs of $130.

Rochelle Marie Forward, 42, of Tinwald, was ordered to complete 100 hours of community

work on a charge of drink driving (EBA 655mcg/l). Judge Mill held back from disqualifying Forward from driving on the grounds there were extenuating circumstances but warned her not to come back before the court with the same argument.

Kylie Catherine Sissons, 26, of Hampstead, gave police a false name when she was pulled over while her licence was suspended, but later admitted her fault. She was disqualified for six months, effective from March 26 and fined $400 on the driving while suspended charge, and $300 for supplying a false name and ordered to pay total court costs of $260.

James Robert Grant, 31, of Ashburton, admitted contravening the conditions of his work licence – he was convicted, disqualified from driving for six months, fined $400 and ordered to pay court costs of $130.

Michael Robert Fraser, 51, of Allenton, was convicted and discharged on charges of careless driving and exceeding the vehi-

cle weight limit on a bridge.

Judge Mill said Fraser’s letters of apology published in Cambridge newspapers, where the offending occurred, were well received. He said Fraser had been diverted off the route he usually travelled as a tanker driver and had inadvertently ended up on the bridge, which was damaged.

Jean Pablo Callie Rospigliosi, 27, of Ruapuna admitted a charge of assaulting a woman; however Judge Mill refused an application for a discharge without conviction.

Callie Rospigliosi’s lawyer requested a discharge without conviction on the grounds it could impact on his immigration status.

Judge Mill said such a request could only be granted if he was satisfied a conviction would directly or indirectly be out of proportion to the severity of the offending.

While taking into account the measures Callie Rospigliosi had taken to mitigate his offending, Judge Mill said higher courts, including the Court of Appeal have made it clear courts can-

not interfere with immigration processes.

“It is not my place to pre-empt of determine that they (Immigration NZ) can do – they will be in possession of the same facts that I am and will be able to make their own decision,” he said.

Callie Rospigliosi had lost his job and with it his accommodation as a result of the assault, which occurred in July last year.

Judge Mill convicted Callie Rospigliosi, fined him $400 and ordered him to pay court costs of $130, on the condition he makes a $300 donation to Women’s Refuge.

Jason Ross Ford, 30, of Ealing, admitted charges of burglary. He was convicted, fined $500, ordered to pay court costs of $130 and to undertake six months’ supervision.

He must also make monthly payments to clear reparations totalling $4700.

Andrew William Leigh, 46, of Ruapuna, admitted a charge of assault. He was convicted and sentenced to 150 hours of com-

munity work.

Jacob Matthew Presnall, 33, of Oamaru, was convicted and sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment on two counts of burglary.

Presnall was due to enter a residential rehabilitation programme but chose to accompany Mark Joh Sheridan on a crime spree which involved breaking into a supermarket in Waimate and a petrol station in Temuka.

Judge Mill noted Presnall’s role was secondary and shaved six months off the sentenced handed down to his co-offender.

He will also be subject to 12 months’ supervision on his release and was ordered to pay reparations of $3424.

Kane Regan Beattie, 20, of Ashburton Forks, admitted charges of burglary and wilful damage. He was convicted and sentenced to complete 160 hours of community work.

Brandon Lee Farr-Wilson, of Ashburton, was sentenced to nine months’ supervision for receiving stolen property, which was later recovered.

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■ ASHBURTON RESOURCE RECOVERY PARK

In brief

Construction causes chaos

By Sue NewmaN

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Ashburton’s resource recovery park might look like a bomb site now, but inconvenience today will result in a much safer and much more efficient park in the future.

While construction work at the park was under way, the council had received quite a few complaints from the public, service delivery group manager Neil McCann said.

“The fact is, yes it is a construction site at the moment, but the wait and the end product will be worth waiting for,” he said.

Waste recovery manager Craig Goodwin is the man on the ground at the park and said that good progress was being made and that changes and temporary routes and drop-off points were well sign-posted.

The main access road has been closed to enable construction around the new weighbridge area, and the recycling drop-off area is now back in front of the re-use shop, he said.

Two new weighbridges are being installed – one to weigh traffic entering the park and another to weigh departing vehicles.

These will be located between the park’s education classroom and a new drop-off area.

Glass bunkers are being renewed and future plans include providing additional concrete

A Napier man sustained a nasty head wound during a violent home invasion early yesterday.

At about 3am yesterday, the 58-year-old male victim was awakened by three men at his door. The callers kicked their way inside and demanded money.

When the victim was unable to provide any, he was tied up with his own clothing and his property was ransacked. Items were taken, including the victim’s black wallet containing his identification, cheque and deposit books and men’s jewellery. During the incident, the victim was hit around the head with a blunt object, sustaining a nasty head wound. He was also kicked in the head. The victim is now recovering after his ordeal.

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Opportunist thief

floor bunkers for other recyclables such as cardboard, scrap metals, clean gib, timber and rubble.

The goal of the redevelopment is to improve both traffic flow and health and safety for park users, Mr Goodwin said.

“Publicly accessible areas will be separated from machinery and large trucks operating on site. New sealed areas will also

eliminate potential problems arising from slippery conditions in winter and keep the park tidier and more user-friendly.”

The new drop-off area will be sealed and that, combined with a one-way circular road, will enable traffic to move smoothly through that area, he said.

“In the past we’ve had traffic backed up right out to the road and we need to resolve this. We

have budgeted next year to do more on roading access, but right now the separation of activities is key.”

When he updated councillors on work at the park at last week’s service delivery meeting, councillor Darryl Nelson said that money should be made available now for additional roading work rather than waiting until next year.

All services to go under spotlight comprehensive review, council community relations manager Vincie Billante said.

These reviews have already started, using a specialist consultant to consider council’s options and advise on how to deliver these services in the most cost effective manner, she said.

Not all activities will require the same level of review, however.

“Many will primarily be a desktop analysis, because the service has either already been analysed for cost effectiveness as part of a tendering process – such as roading – or is legally required to be done by council,” Ms Billante said.

The desktop reviews are likely to be part of a summer student programme for a student studying towards a commerce degree.

It is expected that the final Section 17A Service Delivery Review catalogue, with all the service delivery reviews, will be presented to council for adoption in June 2017.

A French tourist fell victim to petty thieves who ransacked her vehicle after she crashed on Taylorville Road on Saturday afternoon.

The woman, who was the sole occupant, lost control of her car on a bend and the vehicle ended up hitting a bank. Police said there was some delay in having her vehicle towed and while she was at Grey Base Hospital receiving treatment for lacerations, an opportunist thief stopped at the crash scene. “Someone has stopped at the vehicle and broken into it and stolen personal possessions,” acting senior sergeant Paul Watson said. - NZME

Crushed by container A person has been killed after being crushed between a container and a truck at Mount Maunganui.

Bay of Plenty police Senior Sergeant Graham Perks said police and WorkSafe New Zealand attended the Totara Street site. “It is being investigated as a workrelated incident,” Mr Perks said.

St John ambulance paramedics have confirmed a person has died as the result of an accident in the industrial area of Mount Maunganui.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Every service it provides to the community is about to come under Ashburton District Council’s spotlight.

By August next year all local authorities must have reviewed their services to ensure they meet the needs of their communities in terms of cost effectiveness.

The review will include infrastructure as well as public and regulatory services.

The review is required under Section 17A of the Local Government Act, 2002.

Ashburton District Council has commenced a programme to review the services it provides to meet the needs of the community for cost effectiveness.

These include local infrastructure, local public services, and regulatory services.

Many of the council’s activities already meet the requirements of Section A, but activities that have been contracted to other organisations, such as district tourism and economic development, require a more

Home invasion

US spy chief in NZ The US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, is in New Zealand for farewell talks with the Government and spy chiefs.

It had been a secret visit until Mr Key was asked at his post-Cabinet press conference if he knew why a Globemaster C-17 was parked at Wellington airport. Mr Key said: “Yes, because Jim Clapper’s in town.” Mr Clapper is the chief intelligence adviser to President Barack Obama and oversees the 16 agencies within the US intelligence community, including the CIA and National Security Agency. - NZME

Pupils up for the challenge Hampstead School students Bryce Wilson and Todd McCloy, both 10, got to test out the climbing wall at the school’s Year 6 camp last week.

The students spent Wednesday to Friday at Woodend Camp, Christchurch, participating in activities such as ar-

Cap plan for cats

chery, shooting and orienteering.

Principal Peter Melrose said the annual camp is a terrific adventure for the children and an opportunity to challenge themselves and grow as individuals.

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Wellingtonians wanting to own more than three cats may have to ask the city council for permission first. The council’s environment committee will on Thursday be presented with a proposed animal bylaw, capping the number of cats a person can own without council consent. People wanting to have more than three need council permission first. Committee chairwoman Iona Pannett said it’s about making sure cat owners are staying responsible.

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■ TURKEY

Car bomb toll 34 A car bomb in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara, killed at least 34 people, heightening anxieties that violence from the war against Kurdish militants in the southeast is spilling into Turkish cities.

The early evening local time explosion struck near a busy square along Ataturk Boulevard, an area of malls and restaurants that is typically packed with shoppers and commuters.

It was the second such bombing in Ankara in less than four weeks and occurred less than 1.5km from the earlier one.

The previous attack, on February 17, targeted a bus full of Turkish soldiers, killing 28 of them, and was claimed by an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. There was no immediate assertion of responsibility for yesterday’s blast, but the pro-government Daily Sabah quoted a Turkish government official as saying the PKK or one of its affiliates is the main suspect.

The exact target wasn’t clear, and some Turkish media reports suggested it may have been a group of riot police, a common sight on the streets of Turkish cities, that had gathered nearby.

CCTV footage showed a car parked on the busy boulevard exploding in a ball of flame as traffic whizzed past.

But initial reports suggested at least some of the casualties were civilians waiting at nearby bus stops, which would mark another worrying twist in the escalating violence between the Turkish government and the PKK. The Health Ministry said that 34 people were killed and

Trump ‘a brat’ says Depp Actor Johnny Depp has lashed out on presidential hopeful Donald Trump, deeming the republican a “brat”. While speaking to students at Arizona State University, Depp diverged from the subject of acting, instead voicing his not so shy opinions on Trump.

“I approach Donald Trump as - and not just about being a rich kid or anything like that - I approach Donald Trump as what you kind of see in him when you really watch him,” he said alongside Professor Lawrence Krauss who joined the actor in conversation onstage. “There is a pretence, there’s something created about him in the sense of bullydom but what he is, I believe is a brat.”

Medics and security members at the explosion site in the busy centre of Turkish capital, Ankara, yesterday.

PHOTO AP at least 128 were injured.

Smaller-scale attacks have been commonplace against Turkish military targets in the largely Kurdish southeast since a cease-fire broke down last summer and engulfed cities there in full-scale war.

The two recent attacks suggest that the militants are seeking to escalate the fight by taking it into the heart of the country and hitting civilians, too.

The US Embassy warned on Saturday in a message to American citizens that a terrorist attack might be imminent in Ankara, but it did not identify any group.

Isis (Islamic State) has also

carried out attacks in Turkey in recent months, but those were suicide bombings, not car bombs.

The worst killed more than 100 people in Ankara at a Kurdish peace rally last October.

In Istanbul, 11 people, most of them German tourists, died in January when a suicide bomber struck the historic Sultanahmet district.

The violence has unnerved Turkey, which finds itself entangled in fights on two fronts, against the Kurds in southeastern Turkey and against the Islamic State in Syria.

The two wars are becoming ever more closely intertwined, with Turkey firing artillery into

Syria to halt advances there by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, which is allied with the PKK, against the Islamic State and Syrian rebels.

The fighting between Turkey and the YPG has caused friction with the United States, too, which is allied with both of them in the war against Isis.

The US Government, like Turkey, has designated the PKK a terrorist organisation.

But it has still refused Turkey’s demands to designate the YPG as terrorist, saying it regards the YPG as a vital ally in the ongoing fight against Isis.

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■ NORTH KOREA

H-bomb ‘could wipe out New York’ North Korea has claimed that it could wipe out Manhattan by sending a hydrogen bomb on a ballistic missile to the heart of New York, the latest in a string of brazen threats.

Although there are many reasons to believe that Kim Jong Un’s regime is exaggerating its technical capabilities, the near-daily drumbeat of boasts and warnings from Pyongyang underlines the regime’s anger at efforts to thwart its ambitions.

“Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union,” DPRK Today, a state-run outlet that uses the official acronym

for North Korea, reported.

“If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an inter-continental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes,” the report said, citing a nuclear scientist named Cho Hyong Il. The website is a strange choice for issuing such a proclamation, given that it also carried reports about rabbit farming and domestically made school backpacks.

North Korea’s newly developed hydrogen bomb “surpasses our imagination,” Cho

is quoted as saying, because it is many times as powerful as anything the Soviet Union had.

“The H-bomb developed by the Soviet Union in the past was able to smash windows of buildings 1000 kms away and the heat was strong enough to cause third-degree burns 100 kms away,” the report continued.

Kim in January ordered North Korea’s fourth nuclear test and claimed that it was a hydrogen bomb, not a simple atomic one.

But most experts are skeptical of the claim, saying the seismic waves caused by the

blast were similar to those caused by the North’s three previous tests.

Then in February, Kim oversaw the launch of what North Korea said was a rocket that put a satellite into orbit but that is widely considered part of a long-range ballistic missile programme.

North Korea has made advances in its inter-continental ballistic missile programme, and experts generally conclude that the United States’ West Coast might now be in reach but that there has been no suggestion that the North would be able to hit the East Coast.

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Marijuana on every table Miley Cyrus wants “everyone to get high” at her wedding. The Wrecking Ball hitmaker has enlisted celebrity party planner Kevin Lee to help arrange her nuptials to Liam Hemsworth and her love of marijuana will reportedly be a key feature at the celebrations in Los Angeles. A source said: “Everyone knows Miley loves to throw an outrageous party and her wedding won’t be any different. With weed being decriminalised in California, Miley wants some on every table, as well as a dessert buffet of marijuana edibles. She says her dream would be for everyone to get high together.” The 23-year-old star is also planning a special hen party with her six dogs and her beloved pooches will play a key role in the wedding celebrations.

Long-term marriage pact Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin reportedly agreed not to marry again until their children are adults. The former couple - who have kids Apple, 11, and Moses, nine, together - split almost two years ago and it emerged last week the Coldplay frontman has yet to respond to divorce papers which he was served with in May last year. It has now been claimed the Paradise hitmaker is deliberately “stalling” because he is concerned about how serious the Iron Man 3 actress’ relationship with Brad Falchuk has gotten.

A source said: “The truth is, Chris stalling on signing documents is very much a calculated move to stop Gwyneth remarrying. He’s just not ready to let her go. At the start, things with Brad and Gwyneth were very off and on but in recent months it’s got serious and that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Chris. “When he and Gwyneth first agreed to consciously uncouple they completely prioritised their children, and one of the agreements was that they wouldn’t remarry until the children were much older and had moved out of home.”

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Clean rivers are not an impossible dream Sue Newman

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f ever there was an admission we’d lost control over river pollution it came in a recent statement by Environment Minister Nick Smith that expecting to swim in clean rivers was “not practical”.

The statement was made in response to a petition calling for the Government to introduce compulsory nationwide bottom lines that would ensure New Zealand’s rivers were clean enough to swim in.

The answer was no. Not on, can’t do. Are we too far down the track of polluted waterways to ever come back – or are the decisions required too hard and the work involved too complex and too costly?

There will always be times when rivers and streams are unswimable – after heavy rain or mass bird arrivals. Those are acts of God. The rest of the time it’s because of acts of man. Over these we have control.

The comments have outraged anglers, environmentalists and Joe Citizens. And it’s earned him the ire of tourism interests too. How can we put our hands on our hearts and say we are a clean, green country while we’re turning our backs on river water quality?

There’s a fine balance between harnessing water from rivers for irrigation and raping the natural resource. In Canterbury we, at least, are making some headway with the Canterbury Water Strategy, but progress is slow.

Canterbury is an excellent example of just how far from perfect New Zealand’s river water is today and the Ashburton River is probably one of the best examples – for all the wrong reasons.

It was not too many years distant that swimming in the river was one of the pleasures of summer in Ashburton. There were always good holes to be found and a day spent on the river was just a normal part of life.

Now the Ashburton River is marred by low flows and, in parts, no-flows. What water there is, is far from clean and even if you fancied a dip, you’d be hard pressed to find any stretch that would do more than wet your ankles.

Nick Smith might have given up on clean river water, the rest of us haven’t.

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Fonterra isn’t the enemy

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rom last week’s payout reduction announcement, it seemed everyone and their dog jumped on the bandwagon and started putting the boot into Fonterra.

As is the case when you have people jumping on the bandwagon, factual accuracy is secondary to making some noise.

Now I’m not going to claim all is rosy, there are definitely things Fonterra needs to do better, but I take exception to claims the fall in milk price is their fault.

To me when people make that claim it shows they don’t actually understand how the payments to farmers are structured.

The milk price is a reflection of the world price for milk and the fact that other companies are paying the same amount is a fair indication that this is a global issue not a Fonterra issue.

When people say Fonterra needs to do more to add value to milk they are 100 per cent right.

However, we need to remember

Andrew Hoggard FROM THE FARM

that added value only relates to the dividend and not an increased milk price.

If you look at the current dividend we would need to see it increase by around 400 per cent to achieve a total payout of around $5.50, which many feel is a liveable number.

That in itself creates its own challenge as the share value will also increase by 400 per cent. But what I hope this shows is even if Fonterra were to double its value added total overnight, it still will not equal a silver bullet.

End of the day we still need a decent milk price and the solution for that lies offshore.

In the past week we’ve had various calls for government assistance. To be blunt I have no interest whatsoever in government subsidies, to do so would make absolute hypocrites of us.

The problem with the world dairy market right now is too much subsidised production in the world. So we do look to maintain that moral high ground.

As for our Government, it does need to keep pursuing less distortion in world markets and keep pushing for more open trade around the world.

Given a level playing field, Kiwi farmers will be able to make a go of it.

I’ve also heard many of our competitors do play dirty in these markets. New Zealand gets the blame for the oversupply in global markets. So our Government needs to respond to that.

Domestically, there’s not much the Government can do.

However, in an extreme weather event, your production stops,

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you then get assistance to put food on the table if you no longer have the means.

In this situation some sharemilkers are in the same boat, no money for groceries, but way harder to get that assistance for support.

So those people whom the rural support trusts are assisting need a similar level of access to assistance as the case would be in an extreme weather event.

It might appear I’m in la la land with my head in the sand, but I’m more than aware of the difficult situation the industry is in as I live it every day.

I’m sick to the back teeth of all the doom and gloom stories, farming isn’t just about dollars it’s also about lifestyle.

I encourage all farmers to stay positive, but obviously think and act as realistically as possible.

Andrew Hoggard is Federated Farmers Dairy Industry Group chairperson

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■ NEW ZEALAND WORKFORCE

Call for more women tradies Women are being called on to take up a trade to help ease looming skills shortages in New Zealand’s building and construction sector.

Hawkins Group general manager of corporate affairs, Nancy McConnell, said success in the trades sector was now no longer dependent on physical strength, despite common misconceptions.

“In the past, heavy machinery really was heavy machinery, but that’s not the case today. Many women make incredible operators and tradespeople,” she said.

In 2013, tradeswomen made up just 5 per cent of all tradespeople.

“Construction has traditionally been described as a tough environment, but I’d actually describe it as a team environment,” McConnell said.

Recently there has been a push for more Maori and Pasifika women to join the trades industry.

Maori and Pasifika Trades Training (MPTT) Auckland pro-

Elizabeth Cruickshank – a former nurse and trainee carpenter at Auckland’s Maori and Pasifika Trades Training course.

PHOTO MANUKAU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ject manager Kirk Sargent said the trades sector had traditionally been male-dominated, but hoped the number of trades-

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growing number of women finding success as carpenters, electricians and plumbers, for example,” he said.

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women would jump to 40 per cent within four years.

“The good news is that’s starting to change and we’re seeing a

“Many of the employers we’re talking to are keen to get more women on board, and a lot of the women who train with us are thriving.”

Trainee tradeswoman Elizabeth Cruickshank, formerly a nurse, said she loved what she does, despite coming across many who didn’t want her in the field.

“Some people say building’s a man’s thing. But it’s so weird that we’ve made it manly to hammer a nail into a wall. Anyone can do that.”

Cruickshank said gender stereotypes could make it more difficult for women to do their best work, but says having more women in the industry would change that.

Within the next five years, it is expected there will be $200 billion worth of building projects, creating an additional 12,000 construction and infrastructure jobs forecast for Auckland alone.

Last year, 23 per cent of all people training at MPTT were women.

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Fonterra has launched its international infant formula brand, Anmum, in New Zealand, and said it wants to become one of the top three brands in the $76.9 million local market within three or four years.

Fonterra Brands New Zealand managing director Leon Clem-

ent said Anmum was already a $200 million established brand in Fonterra’s Asian markets.

Clement said paediatric nutrition was the fastest-growing dairy category in the world and developing leading positions in paediatric nutrition is one of Fonterra’s seven strategic goals.

The range will be blended and packed at Fonterra’s Canpac site in the Waikato and will be sold in select supermarkets nationwide from yesterday.

Each Anmum product will be sold in 900g cans, with Fonterra labelling.

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usinesses in various sectors now openly acknowledge that cyber attacks are one of the most prevalent and high impact risks they face.

Keeping data safe is no longer an afterthought, whether it’s customer data, IP or the straight forward data necessary to run your company.

The information security landscape is constantly evolving and dealing with cyber threats can be a complex challenge.

Technology is enabling you to connect with your customers and stakeholders in ways no one could have imagined a decade ago. Businesses use smart phones and devices to automate services, customised marketing, streamline back office tasks as well as offering more immediate and personalised services. We can now do most of our banking transactions through a computer that we carry in our back pocket.

However, innovation almost always runs ahead of security and cyber criminals are advanced.

Every day there are new tools, new attack services and new

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strategies being developed and shared.

The increase in occurrences demonstrate the risk posed by cyber attackers from individuals and opportunistic hackers, to professional and organised groups of cyber criminals with strategies for stealing intellectual property and disrupting business.

It can be difficult to believe that your business could be a target for cyber attacks but this mindset needs to change. Neglecting to take action can result in a breach that can seriously undermine consumer confidence and damage brand reputation.

The leadership team in any business face the task of ensuring that they understand the risks

and sets the right priorities. This is no easy task, especially with the large amount of technical jargon involved and the pace of change.

Focusing on technology alone to address issues is not enough.

Effectively managing cyber risk means putting in place the right governance and the right supporting processes, getting the right advice, along with the right enabling technology.

While it’s important to build better security into the products and the processes, gaining more visibility into who is attacking and having a plan for mitigating threats when they are detected is just as important.

It is also important to remember that just because you identify the risks doesn’t mean you are ready for action. You should consider working with your trusted advisors to develop a strategic, customised and comprehensive cyber security programme.

Matt Hannah is a director of KPMG Private Enterprise

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Farm gate price watch …

for the latest prices, visit www.interest.co.nz/rural current price range Saleyard prices … u LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 64 - 65 Prime 85 - 93 u HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 188 - 257 u STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 277 - 296 last week

MARKET REPORT Dairy The heat and dry intensified, setting the scene for an autumn where dryland pasture is short, brassica crops are struggling to fill out before winter and the Opuha irrigation restrictions return.

The region had the first frost of the year last week and although some rain is predicted, it will do little for parched soils and dry streams as many areas broke records for least moisture and most sunshine.

However, such is the seriousness of the dairy downturn even the weather would have taken second place as Fonterra reduced the payout to $3.90/kg ms. Reports from Open Country Dairy suggests the third settlement period is even lower than this.

Everyone is very jittery about financial insecurity, although Fonterra has been quick to reassure the market it is comfortable with its debt and will reveal details to the market on March the 23rd.

The co-op’s decision to enforce a 90-day payment provision on many of its contractors has caused plenty of negative comments about these bullying tactics and portrays a feeling that management seem isolated from the crisis.

Sadly, talk has now turned to how many farmers will be at risk and figures of between 15-25 per cent could fail shows the enormity of the situation. This reversal will take many years of recovery.

The core issue of global over supply is illustrated by the European Union predicting it will receive significant increases in milk output this year and next, but demand will only consume about 40 per cent of the global surplus.

Lamb A lift in schedules by one smaller northern processor could be more of a sign of a lack of supply than market lift, but processors report the previously difficult shoulder cuts are now selling again.

Pelt prices at present are at their lowest level in 7-8 years and with no NZ pelt purchases by China in January, and the Chinese New Year disrupting February, any reversal will be slow.

Alliance reports success in selling lamb direct to a large supermarket chain in Spain and also dominated entrants at the “Glammies”, with a Central Otago animal wining the premier award.

The store lamb market eased with the dry in the Canterbury region as the focus changes from last year’s crop to next year’s and early rams are now out and active.

Wool The single island wool auction in the south saw prices lift for coarser crossbred wools but fall again for lambs and finer crossbred fibre.

After very strong prices for early lambs fleece, prices have now fallen to last year’s levels, but with volumes declining and island sales now fortnightly true demand could soon be exposed.

Beef A lift in manufacturing and prime cow schedules this week as numbers of animals processed eases after an early kill altered the flow.

The total beef harvest is now nearly 7 per cent behind last year, as some northern areas with feed grow out animals to heavier weights and others are reinvesting in females as beef with deer are the best returning livestock sectors at present.

Values of store stock in the Canterbury region have fallen considerably in the past few weeks as dry conditions dominate and breeders will be nervous this does not spill over into the oncoming weaner beef sales.

Deer Quiet optimism by deer farmers as a season where both products have performed above expectations, but older managers will remember past boom/bust times and hope this turn-around is sustainable.

Deer skins are the only problematic area for the industry and for months processors have been reporting they are difficult to place.

Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 68.47 17.5 kg YX SI 77.23 19.0 kg YX SI 83.93 21.0 kg YX SI 92.20 Local trade (c/kg) SI 480 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 44.95 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 497 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 342 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 442 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 550 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 362 AP Stag 60kg SI 441 AP Stag 80kg SI 536

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507

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575

450

330

348

312

410

312

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480

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353 430 541

307 375 468

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306 373 466

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549 499 659

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u DAIRY (NZ$/tonne) Butter Skimmilk powder Wholemilk powder Cheese - cheddar

5,402 3,941 4,739 4,927

4,563 2,771 3,150 4,443

4,376 2,799 3,337 4,672

2014/15 final $4.40 2014/15 final 0.25c

Source: PF Olsen 115.60 93.00 5,402 3,941 4,739 5,055

3,978 2,291 2,614 4,055

2015/16 f'cast $3.90 2015/16 f'cast $0.45-$0.55 NZX FGG $5.61

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0.6721 0.5944

Source: WSI 1,061 891 696 549 614 489 748 643

Source: Midlands Grain 410 410 350 380 380 300 370 370 290

International market prices … u LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index Feb -16 115.60 110.78 104.15

u EXCHANGE RATE (NZ$1.00=) US dollar 0.6724 Euro 0.6036

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77.51 87.44 95.02 104.45 530

Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 350 350 370 Wheat, feed 300 310 310 Barley, feed 290 290 290

Fonterra milk price Fonterra dividend Fonterra share price

41 85

68.98 77.82 84.57 92.90 490

Auction prices … u SI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) 952 Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 590 592 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 579 573 Lamb 653 708

4,304 2,638 2,994 4,117

92 125

0.6742 0.6165

0.7279 0.6814

0.7773 0.7141

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Stock numbers too low to fill grazing contracts

By NadiNe Porter

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While the store lamb market is realistic at present, pressure is expected to come on it and beef prices as more farmers lose dairy grazing contracts and enter the market to utilise their excess feed.

PGG Wrightson Mid Canterbury livestock manager Greg Cook said there were a lot of inquiries from farmers wanting to know their options now that most dairy farmers are looking to winter their cows on the platform, rather than sending them out to graze.

Mr Cook said all that was holding the market back at the moment was the dry period being experienced on farm.

However, he didn’t expect prices to get out of hand and said he thought store lamb prices would only gain around $0.20 cents per kilogram on what they are at present.

While lambs had been fetching $2.20 to $2.40 per kilogram a fortnight ago, the dry conditions had decreased the price by up to $0.20 cents.

Beef cattle prices had been absurdly dear, he said, as rapid grass growth, coupled with dairy grazers panicking following the loss of contracts, had affected the market.

“But now they’ve come back $0.30 to $0.40 cents per kilogram.”

Good beef steers were now

Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury meat and fibre chairman Michael Salvesen says New Zealand is short of stock. fetching $2.90 to $3 per kilogram, he said.

Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury meat and fibre chairman, Michael Salvesen, said it was his belief with the dairy herd doubling in the past 15 years and sheep, beef and deer numbers reducing substantially that there wasn’t the stock available to purchase.

“New Zealand is short of stock – full stop. There’s been a sudden correction which has left us short.”

Mr Salvesen said there were limited options for dairy grazers looking to find a fit for the feed

they were growing.

“How many lambs are there?

The guys in Southland aren’t going to sell them because they’ve got no dairy grazing either.”

Mr Salvesen himself faced uncertainty with the farmer he grazed heifers for, selling his farm.

“So I don’t know what’s happening.”

His foothills farm was drying out so he wasn’t weaning cattle because he didn’t have the grass on the flat to grow them.

“We’ll just have to wean them and put on them feed but I gather feed’s quite cheap.”

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Dairy farmers warned

By NadiNe Porter

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Vets and industry advisers are urging dairy farmers to be cautious when it comes to hiring pregnancy scanner contractors after problems were reported in Southland.

The warning follows confirmation of issues around an independent scanner operating in northern Southland who was new to the industry.

The scanner was advertising services at a cheaper rate than most others in the area but problems surfaced when herds reported exceptionally high in-calf rates and consequently there was a very low number of cows identified for rechecks.

DairyNZ regional leader for Southland and Otago Richard Kyle said in the cases involved, had the farmers used the results they would have culled the wrong cows and still had empty cows in the herd.

“Our advice to farmers is to make sure you know your scanner and are confident in their ability.”

Mr Kyle also advised farmers to check references with other farmers in the area. He urged farmers who were concerned that their six week in-calf rate results were well above, to consider contacting their vet and re-scanning.

VetEnt South Island general manager Paul Fitzpatrick said his firm took particular care prior to the scanning season to calibrate and check their scanners as it was crucial the equipment and operator was reading correctly.

In Mid Canterbury vets have seen some higher than expected empty rates among cows this season.

VetEnt general manager Ian Hodge said while he hadn’t been as “hands-on” this year, vets had reported to him some “pretty good” in-calf results but there had also been some unusually low rates as well.

An inexperienced pregnancy sc

He was unable to comment in depth as to what might be causing the low rates as vets were still scanning at present.

“But the general trends are that

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farmers may-be didn’t do as much intervention work as they might have done in other seasons and that’s for obvious reasons.

“Because I haven’t been at the

coalface I can’t really comment on cow condition which is obviously a significant contributor to these things.”

Meanwhile, DairyNZ reported

six week in-calf rates have on average been 66 per cent in Southland and said a wide range of not-in-calf rates of between 12 to 19 per cent was not uncommon.

The 2016 BNZ Maori Excellence in Farming Awards (Ahuwhenua Trophy) has two finalists from the South Island for the first time – including a Mid Canterbury farm.

Ngai Tahu Farms in Oxford and Rakaia Incorporated in Dorie will compete for the trophy alongside Tewi Trust near Matamata.

Rakaia Incorporated has been dairying for 19 years on 218 hectares, milking 820 cows at Dorie.

An open field day is planned for each finalist with Rakaia Incorporated hosting its at 1290 Kyle Road Dorie from 9.30 till 2pm tomorrow.

The community is being encouraged to turn out to support their local finalists.

Rakaia Incorporated’s history dates back to 1886 where 27 original owners were identified by the Maori land courts and, accordingly, Maori Reserve land was set aside.

The owners’ list has grown since then and now stands around 300.

Of the original 16 land blocks set aside by the courts in the district, only four remain in Maori ownership today, with Rakaia Incorporated an excellent example of a can-do attitude in farming.

Farm supervisor John Donkers has been involved from day one as project manager for the conversion from arable to dairying.

John says the secret to dairying on the farm is getting the

John Donkers irrigation right, along with planned re-pasturing and nutrient management.

Mark and Julie Cressey are the 50:50 sharemilkers on the farm and are into their ninth season.

Working with the corporation has been a rewarding relationship between the owners and the sharemilkers where ideas are openly discussed and the corporation is not afraid to invest in tools and infrastructure to help the sharemilkers.

The hallmark of the corporation is the long-standing service it has had from its committee, advisers and sharemilkers.

The current chairman is James Russell who was a key member of the committee when the decision was made to convert to dairying in 1996.

He recalls that the returns from unimproved land were meagre and, having researched dairying, the leap of faith was taken to get more from the farm.

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A D. V. Good shoehorn from the Ashburton Museum collection.

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Doug Good – shoe repairer and inventor By trevor good

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hortly after the end of World War Two Doug Good, boot and shoe repairer and retailer, trading as D.V. Good Boot and Shoe Repairer at 40 Tancred Street, was receiving reports of workers at the Ashburton Flour Mill in West Street dropping heavy bags of flour on their feet and causing injuries to their toes and associated areas.

Doug got to thinking, there must be a way to prevent or at least limit the amount of injuries he was hearing about.

He came up with an idea of fitting a steel cover over the toe area of the boots these workers were wearing. He proceeded to make a solid steel mould with a recess in it shaped like the toe end of a boot and another piece of steel of toe shape that could be hammered into the recess of the larger piece of steel. This was to act as a mould that a piece of flat steel could be moulded in. This shaped piece of steel could then be fitted over the toe section of a boot and fastened by screwing it to the sole of the boot.

Much trial and error was

needed to arrive at the elliptical shape required to cut the steel so when hammered into the mould it would come out suitable to fit the boot.

This was one of the first inventions of this nature on this side of the world, but the Germans were experimenting with a similar idea towards the end of World War Two. Now, as we know, you can buy all types of footwear with steel caps, but these are usually fitted inside the covering of the footwear and are not visible like the ones my father made.

A different type of migration

By Kathleen Stringer

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here has been a lot of talk about migrants recently.

These new arrivals come from a different place – possibly from a land where the language and culture are different – to settle in New Zealand and the act of settling in requires some changes and adjustment.

While migration in this sense is understood, in archival circles we talk about migration as pertaining to the transformation of information or images into different formats.

Many of you will have experienced the despair and frustration when you upgrade a programme, or computer only to find that some of your files won’t open.

We are told repeatedly to back up our computer files, but less often reminded to update our files so your new machine or programme will read them.

I remember the drama when I religiously saved all my family tree on to floppy discs (wow that does make me old), but forgot that when I got my bright, shiny laptop it had no facility for discs that were square.

A home movie camera is typical of the type of device that is fast disappearing in the digital age.

This dilemma may be hard for non-computer owners to fully comprehend what I’m talking about, so here’s an example most will be able to understand.

Pictured is a movie camera.

When I was a baby, my aunt and great uncle each possessed one of these machines.

At every family function, or gathering, out would come the cameras and my cousin and I, plus a few adults, would be filmed.

After the film was sent to Australia to be processed, we would all get together and see the movies.

I hated it, but as time went on they became invaluable as one by

Below – On the left are the two parts of the die, or mould, that were made by Doug Good. Bottom right is a piece of steel the correct shape to be made into a steel cap, and above it, the finished product.

one the adults died.

As time went by, everyone wanted to see the movies, to rekindle memories or to show children who their forebears were.

But the projector had developed faults and the film began to deteriorate so I decided to have them migrated on to video.

That was great, for a time. Video tape, like cassette tape is susceptible to damage due to temperature and even magnetic fields (such as vacuum cleaners).

As video players became less common and my cousin upgraded to a DVD player I again had to source someone to convert (or migrate) our memories to DVD. Just recently I have had to upgrade again to blue ray. It may be costly and an exercise in detective work finding people who can convert the images, but unless we do so we will have effectively lost our history.

As more and more people and organisations live in a purely digital world, migration of their material has become an essential task in the list of chores that archivists and records managers have to preserve the community or business memory.

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RESULTS ■ Bowls MSA Friday triples Results from March 11 Results Skip 2It Flooring Xtra MSA Outdoor Bowling Club Friday Triples held 11th March 1st B. Mayson. G, Turnbull. A. Smith 3 wins 17 ends 37 points 2nd R. Harrison. R. Smitheram. D. McEvery. 3 wins 15 ends 36 points 3rd R. Neilson. R. Petrie. M. Sunbeam 2 wins 14 ends 24 points.

Ashburton Bowling Club March 12, Saturday Rollovers: 1st Trevor Watson and Jeff Withington 2 wins1 draw 12 ends 24 points; 2nd Lex Johns and Ewan Voyce 2 wins 1 draw 10 ends 18 points.

Hampstead Bowling Club March 12: Histon Cup results: 1st Bruce White, Bob Holdom, Shirley Doig 4 Wins, 27 Ends, 47 Points; 2nd Brent Mayson, John Drayton, Murray Smallridge 4 Wins, 26 Ends, 53 Points; 3rd Diane Gutberlet, Noeline Woods, Ollie Collins 4 Wins, 25 Ends, 47 Points

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club March 11 Midlands Seed Friday night teams Top Team: Country Classics 95 – Erin Porter, Judy McKeown, Gary McKeown, Dick Johnson. Men: The Fishermen 90.5, One Man Handicap 89.5, X Cockies 87, Probians 87.

Women: Brandy Slice 94.5, Mayfield Magic 89. Mixed: Wait N C 93.5, Stroke & Poke 90.5 Top man: Mark Lemon 34, Dick Johnson 34 Nearest the Pins: Templeton Motors – Tafuga Sa; Paul May Motors – Grant Smith; Mac & Maggies – Alison Hunt; BP Ashburton – Sue Graham. Gabites Lucky Player – Jude Stara, BP Lucky Player – Daphne Hinton Final teams winners: 1st overall – Concrete Blockheads 631.5; 2nd overall – Pakeke Pros 625; 3rd overall – Gabites Sloggers 624.5 Women’s Section: 1st Brandy Slice 613; 2nd Mayfield Magic 612.5. Mixed Section: 1st Slice n Dice 617; 2nd Hit & Miss 614. Men’s Section: 1st Trying 621; 2nd Four Putters 613; 3rd Wez R Good 612.5; 4th X Cockies 611 March 12 Top score of the day was by Bill Hetrick who again played under his age 86-25=61. Equalling that score was Tong King net 61. Other winning scores were: Ray Lambert 64; Pat Turton, Peter Morgan and Tufuga Sa all 65; Jason Gutsell and David Fisher 66; Gaby Jansen 67; Peter Wright, Chris Robertson and Don Houghton all 68 on c/b from many others.

Nearest The Pins: Braided Rivers: Brendon Davidson; Rothbury Insurance: Neville Trueman, Netherby Meats: Daphne Hinton, South Island Seeds: Bruce Day, Charming Thai (longest putt) George Brown.

Twos: Peter Morgan, Brendon Davidson, Brent MacGregor, Paul May, Bruce Day and David Fisher (2).

Nett Eagles: # 8; Birdy Jackpot: #6

Methven Golf Club March 9, Ladies Division All Irons Margaret Lilley Putting All Irons: Sandra Marr 100-27-73 Bev Isherwood 103-29-74 Lynn Worsfold 94-19-75 Sally Jones 99-24-75 Putting: Fay Redfern 29 Sandra Ilton 29 Sharryn Bree 30 Sonja Allen 30.

Nearest Pins Silver #17 Methven Pharmacy Jenny Senior. Bronze A #4 Arabica Ruth Smith Bronze B 2nd Shot Methven Supervalue Heather Middleton Open # 13 Methven Foursquare Lynn Worsfold Saturday Ladies # 13 Methven Travel Ellen Kemp 2’s & Nett Eagles Bev Isherwood, Sally Jones, Dorothy Gray. Naomi Fairfull, Lynn Worsfold, Sharryn Bree, Sandra Marr & Angela Mowbray x 2 March 11 9 Hole: 2nd Sue Bunt Salver: Jodie Monk 53-19-34; Hiromi Ikehata 47-8-39; Alister Goodwin 58-21-37; Bridget Thompson 7328-45; Adrienne Goodwin 74-29-45. PGG Wrightsons Best Player - Jodie Monk; Methven Travel 2nd shot - Alister Goodwin March 12 Men’s Division: Third round Rodger Harris Memorial, First Round Green Jacket.

Senior: Grant Hargreaves 74-9-65 (42); Intermediate: Athol McAlpine 80-13-67 (40); Junior A: Dale Fisher 85-18-67 (41); Junior B: Bob Fairfull 104-42-62 (45).

Other Good Scores: 41 Michael Kemp, Graham Gunn, Les Linton. 40 Alan Smith, Phil Elliott. 39 James Rooney, Dave Puckett,

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Mark Lock. 38 Bob Collins, Barry Wackwitz, Peter Harper, John Robinson.

Twos: Grant Hargreaves x3, Matt Mason, Athol McAlpine, Phil Johnson, Martin Hickman. Dubliner Best Nett: Bob Fairfull 62.

Topnotch Foursquare 2nd Best Nett: Grant Hargreaves 65. Methven Travel Best Gross: Graham Gunn 72.

Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Peter Kemp; Hunters Wine No 6: Athol McAlpine; Ski Time No 13: Jack Gorman; Green Parrot No 17: Grant Hargreaves; Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Mark Gorman. Next Week – Stroke Round.

Rakaia Golf Club March 9 Ladies Division: LGU Bryant Cup 1st Ringers Sue Martin 96 – 28 – 67; Marion Wederell 93 – 21 - 72. 9 holers: Stroke – Putting Sue Bunt 1st Round. Judy Moore 14 Putts Railway Tavern 2nd shot no 3: S. Martin; Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd shot no 6: F. Bierema; V Bell Nearest Pin no 8: Not Struck; Chertsey Spraying 2nd shot no 15: V Bell; S. Quinn 2nd shot no 17: S. Martin

Tinwald Golf Club Twilight March 10, Stableford Men: 0-6: Gordon Rennie 19 b/l, Paul Boon 19, Snow Pierce 19 b/l. 7-10: Ray Wards 21, Richie Watson 20, Steve McCloy 20, Tim Stoddart 20, Eugene Davis 20 b/l. 11 plus: Keith Bonnington 22, Ryan Braddock 19, Stan Stringer 19. Women 0-14: Belinda Kirdy 20, Joyce VanderHeide 19. 15 plus: Val Prendergast 23, Marg Reddecliffe 19. Bayley’s nearest the pin: # 6 Wayne Mellish. # 16 Josh Smith. Radio Hokonui lucky card; Alton Fletcher. Two’s; Wayne Mellish, Ben King.

March 12 Stroke Leading scores in the 3rd round of the Smitheram and Grant Trophies played on Saturday were; Senior - 12: Greg Hubbard 63, Justin Smith 64, Bill Mason 69 b/l. Intermediate 13-18: Lucas McGee 68, Trevor Emery 70, Brian Rouse 71, Andrew Barrie 71 b/l. Junior 19 plus: Roger Duff 70c/b, Alan Anderson 70, Dave Rush 71, Roger Bruce 72 b/l. Women: (4BBB).Joyce VanderHeide and Jo Peacock 66. Winners of the Margaret Mapu Memorial Trophy Elizabeth Collins and Maxine Whiting 67.

Nearest pin: Tinwald Liqourland # 2; Wendy Stevenson. Gluyas Ford # 6; Alan Lilley. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Pete Marshall.

Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Cameron Miller. G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Ryan Ford. Two’s: Shane Moore, Warren Scott, Alan Lilley, Kevin Greenaway, Randall Feutz. Net Eagle; # 16 not struck.

■ Petanque Mid Canterbury Petanque March 12, Doubles Tournament Trophy Winners: Richard Browne (Ashburton) Stephane Montel (Christchurch); Runners-up: Karen Stephen (Ashburton) Chris Taylor Trophy Consolation Winners: Brian Ramage, Brian Monks; Runners-up: Noeline Newton (Ascot) Janet Wilkinson (Ascot) Plate Winners: Kay and Tony Morrison (Papanui); Runners-up: Vicky Bailey (Woolston) Ann Pickard (Woolston) Plate Consolation Winners - Tilo Petschick (Woolston) Tim Williams (Woolston); Runners-up: Keith Dickson Rosemary McLaughlin (Ashburton). Bowl Winners: Peter Marriott (Ashburton) Jonathan Crum (Ashburton)

■ Pigeon racing Ashburton Racing Pigeon Club March 12, Oamaru 5 Flyers entered 164 birds Winners Flying Time 2 hours, 32 minutes, 25 seconds: 1st M. Davidson 970.188 mpm 2nd L. Davidson 969.658 mpm 3rd T. Drummond 964.900 mpm 4th N. Martin 963.328 mpm 5th R Cornwall 961.993 mpm

■ Squash Celtic Squash Club Results from the final round of the Celtic Squash Club’s summer league competition: Mark O’Grady beat Jordan Hooper 4-0, Ange Harris beat Terry Hutchinson 3-0, Gary Casey beat Chris Thompson 3-0, Rebecca Abernethy beat Suzanne Nijjar 3-0, Craig Campbell beat Ron Carlson 3-1, Mark O’Grady lost to James McCloy 0-4, Adam Clement lost to Ben Kruger 1-3, Charlotte Smith beat Kyla Murphy 2-1.

Chris O’Reilly beat Pat Summerfield 2-1, Lawrence McCormick lost to Paul Cousins 0-4, Steve Devereux beat Kendra Hall 2-0,

Defending champion Scott Dixon has finished seventh in the opening race of the new IndyCar season. Juan Pablo Montoya won the seasonopener for the second consecutive year to continue the Team Penske dominance on the streets of St. Petersburg.

Di Ness beat Kirsty Clay 3-2, Rob Beale beat Mick Hooper 2-1.

John Surridge beat Chrissie Stratford 2-1, Scott van den Bemd lost to Nigel Tew 0-3, Ed Harrison lost to Pat Summerfield 1-3, Brendan Clark drew with Jess Dargue 2-2, Jock O’Connor lost to Billy Nolan 1-2.

■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Tennis March 8 Mixed Masters: Gold lost to Green 4 matches to 2: H. Woodhouse & S Spittal lost to W. Christie & L. Robinson 6-9; D. Young & A. Hodson lost to F. Royston & T. Robinson 4-9; H. Woodhouse & A. Hodson lost to W. Christie & T. Robinson 6-9; S. Spittal & D. Young beat L. Robinson & R. Royston 9-3; H. Woodhouse & D. Young beat W. Christie & F. Royston 9-3; S. Spittal & A. Hodson lost to L. Robinson & T. Robinson 1-9.

Orange beat Red 31 games to 27: B. Crozier & S. Smith lost to D. Fisher & M. Morrow 3-9; B. Taylor & G. Esker beat B. Riseley & S. Leith by default; B. Crozier & G. Esker beat D. Fisher & S. Leith by default; S., Smith & B. Taylor lost to M. Morrow & B. Riseley 1-9; B. Crozier & B. Taylor lost to D. Fisher & B. RIseley 0-9; S. Smith & G. Esker beat M. Morrow & S. Leith by default.

A Grade Allenton beat Hampstead 4 matches to 2: R. Cromie & B. Looij lost to A. Mitchell & C. Brosnahan 3-6, 4-6; S. Ness & H. Dargue beat E. Connelly-Whyte & C. Gray 6-3, 6-1; R. Cromie beat A. Mitchell 6-2, 6-1; M. Ness lost to C. Brosnahan 2-6, 1-6; H. Dargue beat E. ConnellyWhyte 6-1, 6-2; S Ness beat C. Gray 6-0, 6-0.

Fairton beat Southern 4 matches to 2: L. Gilbert & P. Crozier lost to A. Hunt & C. Stock 6-2, 3-6, 0-1 (7-10), D. Taylor & M. Tyne beat N. Thomassen & O. McKeown 6-2, 6-4; L. Gilbert beat A. Hunt 1-6, 1-6; P. Crozier beat N. Thomassen 6-2, 6-3; D. Taylor beat C. Stock 6-1, 6-1; M. Tyne beat O. McKeown 6-0, 6-3.

Methven beat Tinwald 4 matches to 2: F. Ness & E. Dargue lost to N. Mccann & T. Mccann 3-6, 0-6; J. Hill & T. Leonard beat M. Bubb & M. Lucas 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7), F. Ness beat N. Mccann 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (10-4); E. Dargue lost to T. Mccann 0-6, 4-6; J. Hill beat M. Bubb 6-2, 6-0; T. Leonard beat M. Lucas 6-0, 6-0.

A Reserve Methven lost to Tinwald 5 matches to 1: I. Talbot & R. Taggart lost to D. Scott & J. Jones 3-6, 0-6; L. Muckle & S. Innes lost to J. Millar & J. Leslie 3-6, 1-6; I. Talbot lost to D. Scott 4-6, 6-1, 0-1 (8-10); R. taggart lost to J. Jones 7-5, 4-6, 0-1 (9—11); L. Muckle beat J. Millar 6-4, 5-7; S. Innes lost to J. Leslie 7-5, 5-7, 0-1 (9-11).

Hampstead beat Allenton/Wakanui 5 matches to 1: Q. Ritchie & L. Schikker beat M. Looij & R. Twamley 6-4, 6-3; J. Aschen & L. Scott beat C. Paul & W. Wallis 6-1, 6-0; Q. Ritchie beat M. Looij 7-5, 6-3; L. Schikker beat R. Twamley 6-2, 6-2; J. Aschen lost to C. Paul 3-6, 1-6; L. Scott beat W. Wallis 6-1, 6-1.

B Grade Rakaia Blue lost to Hinds Southern Warriors 5 matches to 1: J. Helem & T. Bassett lost to A. Watt & A. McKeown 3-9; H. Helem & S. Moore lost to L. Slee & L. Adams 3-9; J. Helem lost to A. Watt 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 0-1 (4-10); H. Helem lost to L. Slee 5-7, 2-6; S. Moore beat A. McKeown 6-1, 6-0; T. Bassett lost to L. Adams 3-6, 0-6.

Dorie beat Methven Green 6 matches to 0: L. Pye & C. Sloper beat J. Sheridan & C. Hollings 9-6; F. Pye & B. Rose beat N. Alombro & J. Sheridan 9-3; L. Pye beat J. Sheridan 6-3, 6-4; C. Sloper beat N. Alombro 6-4, 6-4; F. Pye beat C. Hollings 6-4, 6-4; B. Rose beat J. Sheridan 6-0, 6-0.

Allenton beat Hampstead 5 matches to 1: M. Dargue & H. Preston beat Z. Diedricks & R. Breen 9-5; L. Moore & C. Collins beat T. Lee & L. Prendergast 9-8; M. Dargue beat Z. Diedricks 6-1, 6-0; C. Collins beat T. Lee 7-5, 6-0; H. Preston lost to L. Prendergast 4-6,

2-6; L. Moore beat R. Breen 6-2, 6-1.

Junior A Hinds Southern/Allenton beat Wakanui/ Southern Wild Slammers 6 matches to 0: M. Furrer & G. Preston beat J. Adam & L. Peck 6-0; R. Furrer & M. Armstrong beat W. Copland & G. Austin 6-2; M. Furrer beat J. Adam 9-1; G. Preston beat L. Peck 9-1; R. Furrer beat W. Copland 9-2; M. Armstrong beat G. Austin 9-1.

Hampstead beat Hampstead/Tinwald 4 matches to 2: O. Bubb & A. Spicer lost to D. Williams & T. Feutz 5-7; J. Reid & J. Barry beat W. Diedricks & J. Hunter 7-5; O. Bubb beat D. Williams 9-5; A. Spicer beat T. Fetuz 9-8 (7-5); J. Reid lost to W. Diedricks 2-9; J. Barry beat J. Hunter 9-4.

Junior B Allenton lost to Methven 6 matches to 0: J. Parsons & R. Blundell lost to G. Casey-Solly & C. Holmes 2-6; R. Gray & D. Stevenson lost to G. Holdsworth & M. Hydes 2-6; J. Parsons lost to G. Casey-Solly 4-6; R. Blundell lost to C. Holmes 3-6; R. Gray lost to G. Holdsworth 0-6; D. Stevenson lost to M. Hydes 4-6.

Junior C Southern Stingers beat Southern Stars 4 matches to 2: K. Olawale & R McKeown lost to S. Henson & L. Jones 4-6; F. Fulton & E. Kingston beat S. Sheppard & C. Maddison 6-1; K. Olawale lost to S. Henson 2-6; F. Fulton beat S. Sheppard 6-3; R. McKeown beat L. Jones 6-5; E. Kingston beat C. Maddison 6-3.

Hampstead beat Methven 4 matches to 2: H. Feutz & E. Bessai beat J. Campbell & C. McSweeney 6-1; A. Whittaker & W. Watson lost to T. King & J. King 0-6; H. Feutz beat J. Campbell 6-0; E. Bessai beat C. McSweeney 6-1; A. Whittaker beat T. King 6-2; W. Watson lost to J. King 0-6.

Christchurch Challenger Grade, March 11 Girls Division: Mid Canterbury beat Bishopdale 5 matches to 1: S. Innes & M. Looij beat A. Couper & K. Hurring 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 1-0 (107); I. Talbot & R. Taggart lost to L. Looi & T. Gilmore 0-6, 6-4, 0-1 (8-10); S. Innes beat A. Couper 6-2, 6-4; M. Looij beat K. Hurring 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-4); I. Talbot beat L. Looi 6-1, 6-2; R. Taggart beat T. Gilmore 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (10-7).

Junior Reps, March 13, Mid Canterbury v South Canterbury Mid Canterbury 10s Boy’s Doubles: M. Dargue & L. Slee lost to R. Paul & L. Melville 0-4, 3-5; L. Adam & O. Bubb beat M. Cleland & W. Heap 5-3, 4-2 Girls Doubles: F. Pye & V. Talbot lost to L. Crawford & A. Acland 2-4, 2-4; M. Farrell & G. Austin lost to J. Aldridge & E. Crotty 5-3, 2-4, 0-1 (2-7).

Boys Singles: M. Dargue lost to R. Paul 2-4, 0-4; L. Adam lost to L. Melville 0-4, 5-3, 0-1 (5-7); L. Slee beat M. Cleland 4-1, 4-0; O. Bubb beat W. Heap 4-1, 4-0.

Girls Singles: F. Pye lost to L. Crawford 2-4, 4-5; V. Talbot lost to A. Acland 1-4, 0-4; M. Farrell lost to J. Aldridge 1-4, 1-4; G. Austin lost to E. Crotty 1-4, 2-4.

Mixed Doubles: M. Dargue & F. Pye beat R. Paul & A. Acland 7-5, 1-4, 1-0 (7-4); L. Adam & V. Talbot lost to L. Melville & L. Crawford 2-4, 1-4; L. Slee & M. Farrell beat M. Cleland & J. Aldridge 5-3, 4-1; O. Bubb & G. Austin lost to W. Heap & E. Crotty 1-4, 1-4.

South Canterbury won 11 matches to 5 Mid Canterbury 12s Boys Doubles: T. Leonard & H. Dargue beat C. Crotty & J. Rollinson 6-1, 6-3; A. Watt & H. Preston lost to S. Young & B. Gelding 2-6, 3-6.

Girls Doubles: S. Innes & L. Pye lost to K. Crawford & B. Horrell 3-6, 2-6; A. McKeown & H. Simpson beat I. Thomson & H. Morrison 6-0, 7-6 (7-5).

Boys Singles: T. Leonard beat C. Crotty 6-2, 6-0; H. Dargue beat J. Rollinson 6-3, 6-3; A. Watt lost to S. Young 3-6, 6-3, 0-1 (9-11); H. Preston lost to B. Gelding 2-6, 1-6.

Girls Singles: S. Innes beat K. Crawford 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-5); L. Pye lost to B. Horrell 1-6, 2-6; A. McKeown beat I. Thomson 6-1, 6-0;

H. Simpson beat H. Morrison 6-2, 6-2.

Mixed Doubles: T. Leonard & S. Innes beat C. Crotty & M. Morrison 6-0, 6-0; H. Dargue & L. Pye lost to J. Rollinson & K. Crawford 3-6, 3-6; A. Watt & A. McKeown lost to S. Young & B. Horrell 2-6, 5-7; H. Preston & H. Simpson lost to B. Gelding & I. Thomson.

Mid Canterbury won 136 games to 128 Mid Canterbury 14s Boys Doubles: E. Dargue & J. Hill beat G. McAlear & M. Ellis 7-5, 6-2; Q. Ritchie & H. Tawatao lost to T. Sheed & R. mcNulty 5-7, 2-6; Girls Doubles: M. Ness & S. Ness beat C. Murdoch & M. Hayman 7-5, 6-2; E. ConnellyWhyte & M. Looij beat S. Wilson & K. Harvey 6-1, 6-3 Boys Singles: E. Dargue beat G. McAlear 6-2, 6-0; J. Hill beat M. Ellis 6-3, 6-0; Q. Ritchie lost to T. Sheed 0-6, 3-6; H. Tawatao lost to R. McNulty 1-6, 0-6.

Girls Singles: M. Ness lost to C. Murdoch 6-7 (5-7), 3-6; E Connelly-Whyte beat S. Wilson 5-7, 6-1 1-0 (10-5), S. Ness beat M. Hayman 6-2, 6-3; M. Looij beat K. Harvey 6-1, 6-3.

Mixed Doubles: E. Dargue & S. Ness beat G. McAlear & K. Harvey 7-5, 6-2; J. Hill & E. Connelly-Whyte beat T. Sheed & M. Hayman 6-3, 6-1; Q. Ritchie & M. Ness lost to M. Ellis & C. Murdoch 0-6, 1-6; H. Tawatao & M. Looij beat R. McNulty & S. Wilson 6-2, 6-1.

Mid Canterbury won 11 matches to 5

DRAWS ■ Bowls Mid Canterbury Sub Centre Champion of Champion Pairs To be played at the Allenton Bowling Club on Sunday March 20, 9.00am start.

Dress Code: Whites or Club Uniforms (All team members to be dressed the same please) Senior Men: Ashburton MSA v Methven; Hampstead v Hinds; Ashburton v Allenton; Rakaia a Bye. Report at 10.30am Senior Women: Allenton v Ashburton MSA; Ashburton, Rakaia, Methven a Bye – report at 10.30am Junior Men: Report at 10.30am. Ashburton MSA v Allenton; Methven vs. Hinds Junior Women: Allenton v Rakaia; Methven a Bye – report at 12 noon.

Colts Men: Allenton v Methven; Ashburton MSA v Ashburton.

Players to bring their own lunch, morning and afternoon teas provided free of charge for players and officials.

Umpires: Faye McKnight, Jan Hammond, John Bennett. Controllers for the Day: Wendy Suttie and Rodger Herriott.

Junior Singles: To be played at the Methven Bowling Club on Saturday 19th March, 9.00am start Players entered are as follows: B. Redmond, M. Reid, L. Muir A. Allred, J Eddington, C. Tubb, G. Brown, J. Lattimore, B. Donaldson, A. Leitch, L. Fensom, J. Withell, R. Fensom, G. Blackwell.

Dress Code: Whites or club shirts. Players to bring their own lunches, morning and afternoon tea provided for players and officials.

Controller and Umpire: Wendy Blackwell

Ashburton Bowling Club March 18, Toyota Friday Triples The following skips have entered teams:J Argyle, N Atkinson, T Blain, L Connell, G Crack, J Dennis, G Eder, M Eder, D Gutberlet, B Harper, B Harrison, G Hawkins, R Herriott, B Holdom, T Johnson, C Leech, J Smart, B Marsden, J Martin, E Maw, B Neilson, M Quinn, M Reid, J Ryk, B Saussey N Sharplin, M Smallridge, A Smith, G Taylor, W Watts, B White, B Williams.

Inquires to J Ryk Phone 3087907. jandjryk@ gmail.com March 21 Ladies Open Triples – 10.30am start The following skips have teams entered: G. Baker, R. Bennett, S. Bewes, G. Body, L. Brown, L. Chaney, M. Clark, A. Duncan, S. Dunlop, S. Fowler, M. Galloway, H. Goodall, M. Gray, D. Guthberlet, M. Hack, J. Hamilton, J. Harman, G. Hawkins, R. Heads, S. Holdom, D. King, J. Krammer, N. McKenzie, M. Middleton, H. Patterson, F. Penderson, S. Scott, F. Skurr, V. Veint, W. Watson, L. Williams, N. Woods.

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club March 19 An African Stableford match will be played.

This is played in pairs with the two stableford scores on each hole multiplied together.

Starting Times: Morning 8.00am; Afternoon report to the Pro Shop at 12.00 for a 12.30 start.

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■ RUGBY SEVENS

Team effort gets NZ home

BY CAMPBELL BURNES The All Blacks Sevens are back in the winning circle after six weeks.

In a physically rugged and draining Cup final, they beat South Africa 19-14 to claim the inaugural Canada Sevens in Vancouver.

Led by the indefatigable DJ Forbes, New Zealand played a tactically smart game to stymie South Africa, who were the prematch favourites, and win their third tournament out of six in the World Series.

“It was a huge team effort.

“I’m absolutely stoked,” said man of the match Sam Dickson.

New Zealand showed their hand with the inclusion of Liam Messam in the starting seven and proceeded to play it tight, mixing a short passing game with direct running and some judicious long kicking.

And yet it was Rosko Specman who scored first for South Africa, in dubious circumstances.

DJ Forbes: Once again the veteran was a stand-out.

He crossed the line but there was no clear evidence he had grounded the ball in the tackle of Kurt Baker and Sherwin Stowers.

Not to worry, as Dickson hit

back two minutes later, after Messam got on the outside of his man and timed the pass perfectly.

Dickson then leapt two-handed to claim the kickoff, brilliant-

ly, and set Baker away with the assist.

New Zealand again looked composed but could not shake South Africa, but they had the bit between the teeth when Lewis Ormond scored out wide following a patient build-up of controlled sevens.

At one point New Zealand had completed 43 passes to seven, which highlighted their manipulation of possession in the encounter.

Seabelo Senatla scored almost at the death, but the kickoff sailed out on the full, handing New Zealand a gritty and well thought out victory, which leaves them just one point behind South Africa and two behind Fiji on the overall World Series standings.

New Zealand 19 (Sam Dickson, Kurt Baker, Lewis Ormond tries; Gillies Kaka 2 con) South Africa 14 (Rosko Specman, Seabelo Senatla tries; Justin Geduld 2 con) HT: 14-7.

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Leary takes start-to-finish victory fourth spot with Paul Macfie and Dave Knight signalling that they will be ones to watch in next week’s Mid Canterbury Championships, rounding out the top six.

Brad Hudson rode the course in 96.14 to record fastest time honours and is riding himself in to good form at the business end of the season, while co-markers Michael Templeton and Sam Letham took second and third time.

The juniors and division two contested a 25km handicap event.

Matt Clough continued his good run of results claiming the victory and fastest time honours

in the juniors ranks, riding the distance in 44.18.

Oliver Davidson continued to impress with a solid ride to take second place with Luke Skinner producing a storming effort to secure the final podium position.

Connie Davidson, Suzie Leech and Daniel Marshall filled the top six places.

Kerry Clough made it a good day for ‘Team Clough’ taking line and fastest time honours in division two.

Janette Hooper was in the thick of the finish to take second place with Andy Skinner right on her tail in third.

Next week Mid Canterbury championship titles will be up for grabs in an 80km handicap event around the Wakanui block.

Connie Davidson was fourth on Sunday.

■ OLYMPICS

Yachting crews announced for Rio Two medal-winning crews from the London Olympics headline first batch of New Zealand sailors named for Rio yesterday.

Olympic champions Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie will return to defend their 470 crown at the August Games, while four-time 49er world champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, who have not been beaten since claiming silver in Weymouth, were another feature of the announcement.

The pair were among five crews Yachting New Zealand an-

High praise for Jones World Cup-winning coach Clive Woodward has led the praise for Eddie Jones after the Australian guided England to the Six Nations rugby title at his first attempt.

Just five months after their home World Cup pool stage exit debacle, unbeaten England clinched the Six Nations with a round to spare when Scotland toppled France 2918 yesterday. Signed late last year to resurrect England’s fortunes, coach Jones was credited for the turnaround as England celebrated their first Six Nations crown since 2011.

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Carter in sizzling form While the Six Nations sucks up most of the main media coverage in Europe, this is the time for New Zealanders to shine, and Dan Carter appears to be earning his huge salary at Racing-Metro.

The 34-year-old former All Black scored a try and kicked three goals as his club won a Parisian local derby 34-16 over defending champions Stade Francais.

Carter’s team-mates included Joe Rokocoko, Chris Masoe and Casey Laulala. Meanwhile Ma’a Nonu scored a try and copped a yellow card as Toulon defeated Steven Setephano’s Grenoble 38-8. - AP

Hayne’s big pay cut

■ CYCLING

Front markers Nigel Leary and Liz Wylie dug deep in Tinwald Cycling Club’s penultimate event of the season - a 66km handicap event around the WakanuiHakatere block on Sunday.

Well aware that the entire field was hunting them down, both riders showed plenty of grit and determination, finding the line with a two minute buffer on the chasing group.

Leary had a bit extra in the legs in the charge to the line to claim the victory followed by Wylie in second, while Coleman Burke continued his good form to secure third place.

Glen Marshall produced his best race of the season taking

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nounced yesterday - all in the double-handed classes.

Alex Maloney and Molly Meech will represent New Zealand in the women’s skiff event which makes its Olympic debut in 2016, as does the mixed gender multihull Nacra 17 where Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders will compete. Paul SnowHansen and Daniel Willcox will race in the men’s 470.

New Zealand has qualified a berth in all 10 Olympic classes, with the remainder of the team

to be named in May following key selection regattas in Europe.

Yachting New Zealand’s high performance director Jez Fanstone said the crews named today had worked hard over the past three seasons to ensure the decision for the selectors was a straight-forward one.

“They’ve had to prove that they are capable of performing to a high level on the world stage and doing so consistently, that’s why it’s so exciting being here today because those 10 people

have done that, and I know they will continue to work hard over the next five months going into Rio,” said Fanstone.

Fanstone said all the sailors will head to Rio at least twice before the Olympic regatta in August to familiarise themselves with the conditions and ensure they are comfortable with the venue.

Burling, who will be attending his third Olympics, said it is still a special feeling being named in an Olympic team.

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We knew Jarryd Hayne took a pay cut when he left the Parramatta Eels to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL - but the San Francisco 49ers recruit revealed just how much on 60 Minutes on Sunday night. Hayne revealed he was paid just $100,000 in his first season with the Niners - a whopping $1.4 million less than he would have taken home in salary if he stayed in rugby league. Obviously Hayne was in a position to survive a drop like that after being well-paid as one of the biggest stars in the NRL during his nine-year career.

New sponsorships like the one he signed with apparel giant Under Armour and the launch of his own clothing line may have also helped to bridge the gap.

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Sharapova ‘a cheater’ French tennis player Kristina Mladenovic has no sympathy for Maria Sharapova, and says the rest of the locker room doesn’t either.

The 22-year-old didn’t hold back when letting her feelings known on the Russian’s recent drug scandal.

“All the other players are saying she’s a cheater,” Mladenovic said.

“You sure doubt and think that she didn’t deserve all she won until now. That’s dreadful, but it’s good that it’s finally out. If I take an aspirin I worry 10 times about what I do. She’s been taking this drug for 10 years and it’s a serious drug.

She thought, if it’s not banned, then I can take it. For me that’s very disappointing. I don’t like the mentality to be the best by playing with the rules.”

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In brief College in top form Ashburton College’s year 9/10 cricket XI produced a fine performance in their final pool game of the season against Geraldine on Saturday. The College batsmen were in solid form to record 201 in their allotted overs.

Tom Middleton (58) top-scored while Harry McMillan and Bryden Smith also had fine knocks, posting 38 each. In reply, Geraldine were unable to cope with Ashburton College’s bowling attack and were dismissed for 128. College will head in to next week’s final with confidence following a convincing performance with bat and ball.

McFadden still confident Successive defeats to begin the NRL season have not dented Andrew McFadden’s belief in himself and the Warriors.

McFadden was answering fans’ criticism about losses to the Tigers and Broncos which have revved up the early-season calls for a coaching change. “I don’t waver here. I am really determined and I am very confident with what we are doing,” McFadden said yesterday.

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Townsend looks sharp

The Ashburton Sailing Club hosted a junior training day and classic boat rally on Sunday.

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■ SAILING

Classics on the water

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

The Ashburton Sailing Club enjoyed a busy day at Lake Hood on Sunday - hosting a junior training day and classic boat rally.

Sailing club commodore Grant Badger said there was a good turnout for both events, with approximately 10 youngsters taking to the water along with sail, motor, steam and ra-

dio controlled boats in the classic rally.

“The classic boat rally was for boats that are over 40 years old or real character boats,” he said.

“It was a really lovely day.

“People enjoyed not only the boats, but having a picnic on the shore and the great facility that Lake Hood is, and we had plenty of great feedback about the whole day.”

■ CRICKET

Spin twins in form for the Black Caps By david Leggat Two men who could be the most significant figures in New Zealand’s World T20 cricket opener this week had good workouts yesterday.

New Zealand lost their second and final warm-up game by six wickets to England in Mumbai but thumped Sri Lanka by 74 runs in their first.

All four wickets went to spinners Mitchell Santner and Nathan McCullum, and there were handy figures too, Santner taking two for 24, McCullum two for 25, off their four overs as England reached 170 for four to win with four balls to spare.

New Zealand face India in Nagpur early on Wednesday morning (NZT) and the strong expectation is there will be support for the spinners.

Worryingly, New Zealand got into a bind against England’s

slow men, legspinner Adil Rashid (3-15 off four overs) and offspinner Moeen Ali. With captain Kane Williamson flying to 63 off 39 balls, New Zealand were 78 for one at seven overs, but 101 for two at 10 became 123 for five at 15, as the batsmen became befuddled.

No one else reached 20, then England openers Jason Roy (55) and Alex Hales (44) got their side into a solid position.

They needed 42 off the last four overs, 20 off the last two and wicketkeeper Jos Buttler (24 not out off nine balls) saw them home.

“It’s definitely tougher over here against spinners but everyone’s got their own game plan against spin, whether using their feet or going back in the box,” Santner said.

“We’re pretty confident with our batters that, confronted with spin, they can play all right.”

Mitchell Santner: Happy with their performances so far.

Santner didn’t see the loss as reason for concern.

“It was a good hit-out.

“Obviously there’s aspects we want to work on but good things came out of it. We’re pretty happy with the performance.”

Out of the two warm-ups, Martin Guptill, Williamson, Colin Munro, Corey Anderson and Grant Elliott got good runs and all the squad had valuable

time in the middle.

New Zealand might also be slightly heartened by the sight of South Africa beating India, also in Mumbai by four runs, 196-8 seeing off 192 for three, albeit with several batsmen retiring during the innings.

In other developments, Afghanistan followed their performances at last year’s World Cup by qualifying for the tournament proper, comfortably seeing off test nation, but cricketing basket case, Zimbabwe.

The New Zealand’s women lost their second preparatory match, by 20 runs to England in Chennai, having lost a last-ball thriller to them 24 hours earlier.

Sophie Devine, with 31, provided New Zealand’s only success with the bat.

New Zealand’s women start their tournament proper against Sri Lanka also early on Wednesday morning (NZT).

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Chad Townsend says he’s refusing to play second fiddle to Cronulla halves partner James Maloney after moving back across the Tasman in an attempt to finally step out of the shadows. In just his second NRL game back in Cronulla colours, Townsend looked sharp as his side ran roughshod over St George Illawarra 30-2 at Shark Park on Sunday.

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Filling the breach If any NRL team could afford to lose Billy Slater it’s one with a readymade replacement like Cameron Munster. The 21-year-old stepped up as the Storm’s fullback last year when Slater was ruled out with a shoulder injury following Origin II in June. After only one game back Slater requires exploratory surgery this week with his shoulder failing to properly heal, again handing Munster the No.1 jersey. The 21-year-old looked right at home in their round two win over Gold Coast.

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Watford stun Arsenal Watford stunned holders Arsenal 2-1 in the FA Cup quarter-finals yesterday, ending the Gunners’ bid for a third straight title. Odion Ighalo and Adlene Guedioura scored at the Emirates Stadium to send Watford to the semi-finals for the first time since 2007. Watford join Everton and Crystal Palace in the last four with the final spot going to Manchester United or West Ham, who drew 1-1 yesterday to force a replay.

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Dortmund stay on top Borussia Dortmund scored in each half to ease past Mainz 05 2-0 yesterday and stay five points off leaders Bayern Munich with eight matches of the season remaining.

The Ruhr valley club, who hammered EPL side Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 in the Europa League on Thursday, were never troubled in the game and should have scored more goals were it not for Mainz’s Loris Karius. Bayer Leverkusen edged past Hamburg SV 1-0.

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■ SOUTHERN STAR

Monbet finds a serious rival

By AdAm HAmilton Josh Dickie celebrated his 25th birthday with his biggest win on a “once in a lifetime horse”.

Dickie teamed with his father, John, and immensely talented young trotter Speeding Spur for a spine-tingling win in Sunday night’s $300,000 Great Southern Star at Melton’s Tabcorp Park.

Speeding Spur became the third Kiwi-trained winner in the four-year history of what is now the biggest trotting race in this part of the world.

It continued the amazing influence of four-year-olds in Australasia’s major trotting races this season off the back of Monbet’s deeds.

It sets the scene for an epic rivalry between Monbet and Speeding Spur in coming years.

“We deliberately brought our guy back later (than Monbet) because he had such a big threeyear-old season,” Josh Dickie said.

“We’re certainly looking forward to racing him a lot more … our guy just keeps getting better.”

John Dickie described the Great Southern Star as “by far my best win and extra special to share it with Josh.”

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Speeding Spur: Comprehensive winner of the biggest trot around.

“He’s a special horse and it’s a great time of life for him to come along,” he said.

“I’m so proud of Josh. It was a great drive.

“He’s only a four-year-old against the older horses, but we’d trained him running heats to prepare him for having to back up twice on the same night.

“We knew he’d need luck when he drew inside the back (row) in the final, but I told Josh I thought he’d win if he got that luck.

“When Josh got him away from the inside (three back on the pegs) and into the clear, I said to those around me ‘here he comes, he’ll get them now’.”

Speeding Spur finished so quickly he won by 3.3m from an incredibly brave Glenferrie Typhoon with another Kiwi visitor Quite A Moment third in a 1min55.5sec mile rate for 1720m.

“It’s really special to share this with Dad. He’s a once in a lifetime horse,” Josh said.

“They say Monbet is fast, but this guy is fast as well.

“He showed it tonight. He can run incredible sectional times without looking like he is.

“Knowing how highly I rate him, it’s hard to believe he can keep improving, but that’s just what he’s doing.”

Speeding Spur now returns home to prepare for the Rowe Cup and Harness Jewels.

“He’s very good now, but he’s going to be a heck of a five-yearold,” John Dickie said.

Keystone Del started a hot $1.60 favourite to win his second Great Southern Star after leading throughout and smashing the track record (beating Speeding Spur) in a 1min53.7sec mile rate in heat two.

“He just didn’t back-up,” driver Anthony Butt said. “He was under pressure on the home bend.”

Glenferrie Typhoon, who sat behind the leader and used the sprint lane to win the first and weaker heat, ran the race of his career in the final.

Glenferrie Typhoon was hailed the winner briefly in the home straight before Speeding Spur found clear air and stormed past him.

- HRNZ

Manolo back in work Talented two-year-old Manolo Blahniq returned to Craig Thornton’s stable yesterday. The Gr.3 Eclipse Stakes winner was given a break after finishing unplaced as favourite in the Listed Karaka Million. “He had six weeks out and that was always the plan,” Thornton said.

“He’s done very well and he’s in really good shape.”

- NZME

Dancer gets week off Stolen Dance will have a few days off following her fourth placing in the Gr.1 New Zealand Stakes before her immediate programme is confirmed. The David Greenetrained mare didn’t round off in her usual style at Ellerslie, according to rider Sam Spratt.

“She followed the favourite (Volkstok’n’barrell), but just didn’t let down like she normally does.

I’m not sure if she was feeling the ground a bit,” she said.

- NZME

Gold star for effort Group winner Consensus gets a gold star for effort every time she steps out. “She’s a bonny little mare and she just tries so hard,” co-trainer Eddie Chippendale said.

Consensus continued her ultraconsistent form when she finished in third place in Saturday’s Gr.1 New Zealand Stakes after copping interference 100 metres from home.

- NZME

Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway

Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park 2 85422 Homebush Slinky 23.23 .........J T McInerney Raceway Meeting Date: 15 Mar 2016 NZ Meeting num- 3 15865 Deborah Bay 23.04 ........................J Guthrie ber: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 4 62256 No Bro nwtd ................................ B I Conner 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 5 46377 Thunder Dragon nwtd ........................J Allen 6 31764 Unreliable Andy 22.72............... A Bradshaw 1 12.05pm (NZT) SGRC WELCOME C0, 390m 7 27873 Subterfuge nwtd .................................J Allen 1 7 Botany Alan nwtd ...................J T McInerney 8 61834 Southern Mist nwtd .....................R Hamilton 2 88 Boyish Charms nwtd ..............J T McInerney 9 56768 Glory Hog 23.00 .....................J T McInerney 3 281 Speedy Return nwtd J & .................D Fahey 4 8387 King Simba nwtd ..........................M Roberts 10 68785 His Nibs nwtd .....................................J Allen 5 42243 Totes nwtd ..............................J T McInerney 4 1.00pm HAPPY 80TH DAWN MCLEOD C1, 457m 1 27483 Opawa Zena nwtd L &........................ Wales 6 47 Rib Curler nwtd ..................................J Allen 2 76241 Jon Snow Lives 26.19 ..................C Roberts 7 824 Chill Out Rach nwtd M & ...................Jopson 3 F4543 Albie McLeod 26.21 ..........................B Eade 8 27277 Slyness nwtd ......................................J Allen 4 12485 Opawa Alex nwtd L & ......................... Wales 9 7675 Hilton Cust nwtd ........................ A Bradshaw 5 88485 La Kinks 26.36 ...............................C Healey 10 8685 Ozark’s Watch nwtd .......................J Guthrie 6 63876 Another Vespa nwtd ...............J T McInerney 2 12.24pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C0, 457m 7 35652 Freckle Flyer nwtd ..............................J Allen 1 46668 Goldstar Scooter nwtd S &..............B Evans 8 75543 Regalyn nwtd ....................................B Eade 2 5 Cawbourne Murf nwtd ..................C Roberts 9 56768 Glory Hog nwtd ......................J T McInerney 3 25727 Opawa Libby nwtd L & ....................... Wales 10 68785 His Nibs 27.07....................................J Allen 4 637 Obeyance nwtd ..................................J Allen 5 Rhinegolde nwtd ................................J Allen 5 1.21pm ADDED ENERGY C2/3, 457m 1 55323 Lagoon Twist 26.52 ......................C Roberts 6 641 Opawa Gail nwtd L & ......................... Wales 2 42842 Thrilling Luke nwtd M &.....................Jopson 7 52544 Opawa Diva nwtd L &......................... Wales 3 31776 Opawa Stella 26.11 L & ..................... Wales 8 73233 Goldstar Dallas nwtd S & ................B Evans 4 27528 Homebush Howard 26.02 ......J T McInerney 9 784 Opawa Bucks nwtd L & ...................... Wales 5 48887 Zipping Sonny nwtd ...............J T McInerney 10 8685 Ozark’s Watch nwtd .......................J Guthrie 3 12.42pm CONGRATULATIONS LATRENT C1, 390m 6 32126 Alex Rumble nwtd ..................J T McInerney 7 35146 Homebush Buck 26.99 ...........J T McInerney 1 11658 Smoking Marley 22.90 .............. A Bradshaw

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3 71266 Abrasador 26.39 ...............................B Eade 4 43565 Goldstar Po nwtd S & ......................B Evans 5 37645 Chokehold nwtd M & .........................Jopson 1 62271 Goldstar Bomber nwtd S & .............B Evans 6 14267 Black Crow nwtd ....................... A Bradshaw 2 53453 Opawa Colin 22.46 L & ...................... Wales 7 25442 Robbie 25.72.................................R Adcock 3 43736 Homebush Gru 22.55.............J T McInerney 8 63578 Homebush Chopper 26.03 .....J T McInerney 4 11753 Wally Baxter 23.37 .................J T McInerney 5 74644 Opawa Lean Meat 22.55 L & ............. Wales Emergencies: 9 26748 Homebush Kelso nwtd ...........J T McInerney 6 53828 Opawa Crusade 22.63 L &................. Wales 7 15754 Air Express 22.77...................J T McInerney 10 75334 Opawa Stretch nwtd L & .................... Wales 8 71127 Magic Mike 23.01 .........................C Roberts 9 2.36pm WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ C1d, 630m Emergencies: 1 86584 Octagons Ghost nwtd ....................J Guthrie 9 67648 Human Instinct nwtd ..............J T McInerney 2 36625 Pianissimo nwtd .......................... B I Conner 10 37585 Opawa Tom nwtd L & ......................... Wales 7 2.01 SOUTHLAND OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C4/5, 390m 3 25437 Rushcuter Action nwtd S & .............B Evans 4 74333 No Tinkerbell nwtd .........................J Guthrie 1 84513 Puma Pants 22.54..................J T McInerney 5 22526 Heritage Watch nwtd ......................J Guthrie 2 15813 Technic 22.86 ................................R Adcock 6 33283 Lagoon Belle nwtd .......................C Roberts 3 13147 Royal Action nwtd S &.....................B Evans 7 F8887 War Cloak nwtd ..............................J Guthrie 4 61775 Wunzee nwtd .........................J T McInerney 8 44276 Mystic Action nwtd S & ...................B Evans 5 54415 Opawa Opal 22.84 L & ....................... Wales 6 13127 Wheelchair Norm 22.30 .........J T McInerney 10 2.56 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMIE SEARLE C1/2, 390m 1 63244 Thunder Storm nwtd ..............J T McInerney 7 16252 My First Litter 22.70 .....................C Roberts 2 27172 Homebush Errol 22.70 ...........J T McInerney 8 22122 Om Nom Nom 22.70 ..............J T McInerney 3 47451 Harden Faster 22.99 M & ..................Jopson 9 15313 Dyna Quirk 22.69 .........................C Roberts 4 47241 Another Jamie 22.73 ..............J T McInerney 10 75334 Opawa Stretch nwtd L & .................... Wales 8 2.19pm RACING SERIES ADVANCED FINAL NZ- 5 42577 Bad Week 23.51.....................J T McInerney 6 31314 Southern Affair 23.26 ..................R Hamilton RSf, 457m 7 71766 Another Spin nwtd..................J T McInerney 1 56417 Goldstar Avery nwtd S & .................B Evans 8 44555 Lots Of Beersies 22.90 ............... B I Conner 2 51272 Dirk The Jerk 26.25 ...........................J Dunn 8 71674 Nina Baxter nwtd....................J T McInerney

6 1.41pm HAPPY 70TH DAVE ROBBIE C3, 390m

9 48677 Thrilling Shrimp nwtd .................. B I Conner 10 88848 Shez Keen nwtd ................................S Keen 11 3.13pm JUSTRACING.COM.AU C1/2, 390m 1 17282 Super Bad nwtd ...........................M Roberts 2 26178 Opawa Express 22.90 ................. B I Conner 3 42123 Ilabb nwtd M & ..................................Jopson 4 83443 Homebush Riley 22.81 ...........J T McInerney 5 77235 Another Fan nwtd ...................J T McInerney 6 88678 Thrilling Spell 23.00 .................... B I Conner 7 F7264 Lil Danny Rascal 23.30 ..........J T McInerney 8 11531 Rand nwtd ..............................J T McInerney Emergencies: 9 48677 Thrilling Shrimp nwtd .................. B I Conner 10 78788 Business Boss nwtd ..........................S Keen SELECTIONS Race 1: Speedy Return, Totes, Slyness, Botany Alan Race 2: Cawbourne Murf, Opawa Gail, Opawa Libby, Opawa Diva Race 3: Smoking Marley, Southern Mist, Unreliable Andy Race 4: Jon Snow Lives, Opawa Alex, Freckle Flyer, Glory Hog Race 5: Homebush Howard, Alex Rumble, Homebush Buck Race 6: Magic Mike, Goldstar Bomber, Opawa Lean Meat Race 7: Puma Pants, My First Litter, Technic, Dyna Quirk Race 8: Robbie, Dirk The Jerk, Goldstar Avery, Abrasador Race 9: Lagoon Belle, Rushcuter Action, No Tinkerbell Race 10: Homebush Errol, Another Jamie, Southern Affair Race 11: Rand, Super Bad, Homebush Riley, Another Fan LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington 4 71766 Mitchell Dean 17.68 ..........................M J Hill 2 37667 Noble Fantasy 17.30 S & ................B Evans 9 2.47 I PAVE CONCRETE STKS HEAT 3 C1q, 520m 6 56123 Cupcake 17.73 ....................................A Lee Raceway Meeting Date: 15 Mar 2016 NZ Meeting num- 5 67588 Know Luck nwtd .............................G Cleeve 3 67577 Definite 17.43 ................................R Adcock 7 42688 Devilskin nwtd ........................J T McInerney 1 55266 Skillz Taylor nwtd .......................... L Waretini ber: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 6 11214 Ekali 17.43 J & ................................D Fahey 4 78746 Max Brainstrain 17.39 M & .................. Smith 8 6686F Kablitz 17.73 ................................ K Cassidy 2 43665 Pagani nwtd .............................. G T Bennett 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 7 45348 Max Stix 17.58 .............................C Roberts 5 34167 Sal’s Babe 17.81 C & ......................... Fagan 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 3 87768 Goldstar Junior 30.58 S & ...............B Evans 10, 11 and 12 6 55311 Jinja Brian 17.38 ..........................A Waretini 8 88272 Doosh nwtd ............................J T McInerney 4 34115 Fancy Nomikai 30.41 ....................... B Dann 12 3.43pm PROTEXIN SPRINT C1, 295m 7 72537 Cawbourne Shadow nwtd ...............J Tanner 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 5 57847 Private Action 31.14 S & .................B Evans 1 12.15pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C1, 295m 1 32148 Zircon nwtd ............................J T McInerney 8 25566 Johnnybruce 17.43 ................J T McInerney 6 45663 Opawa Paul 30.64 L & ....................... Wales 1 846x6 Castle Eden 17.77 ............................M J Hill 4 1.09pm DOGZONE DASH C1, 295m 2 67x15 Fiery Fagan 17.59 C & ....................... Fagan 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 7 6422F Opawa Minstrel 30.63 L & .................. Wales 1 62744 Know Energy 17.50........................G Cleeve 2 25151 Barcia Express 17.62 ...................... M Grant 3 65688 First Officer 17.65 ........................S Hindson 8 34487 Briseur De Reves 30.47 ............ A Bradshaw 2 578xF Infernal Majesty nwtd ................ G T Bennett 7 2.09 I PAVE CONCRETE STKS HEAT 2 C1q, 520m 3 21535 God Particle 17.63 ..............................A Lee 4 43237 Sam’s Flyin Norm nwtd ...................J Tanner 1 5176x Opawa Peaches 30.47 J & ..............D Fahey Emergencies: 3 8766F Mobilize 17.53 .................................J Tanner 4 F6636 Jinno Gino 17.65 ......................... J McMillan 5 76856 Petra Haka 17.45 ......................... L Waretini 9 76787 Cawbourne Miami 30.18 ..............C Roberts 2 13723 Cawbourne Web nwtd ..................C Roberts 4 22261 Royal Bash 17.35 ............................. B Dann 5 87878 Another Cruise nwtd ..............J T McInerney 6 31324 Chippy Jordy 17.47 ............................C Weir 3 26757 Opawa Kendal 30.38 L & ................... Wales 10 77765 Opawa Born 30.43 L &....................... Wales 5 F73F3 Adrenalin Kick 17.50 ..............J T McInerney 6 71313 You’re The Best 17.53 ........................C Weir 7 52776 Red Hot Action nwtd S & ................B Evans 4 57816 Ester Action nwtd S & .....................B Evans 10 3.04pm CHRISTCHURCHGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ 8 38285 Coleridge Jim 17.60 M &..................... Smith 6 63746 Verbatim 17.66 ............................. K Cassidy 7 66436 Giganaire 17.41 S &........................B Evans 5 63484 Opawa Bucks Eye nwtd L & ............... Wales SPRINT C1, 295m 7 34657 Cawbourne Kin nwtd ....................C Roberts 8 44787 Foxy Babe 17.87 ..............................A Joyce 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 6 23281 Hip Hop Sofia 30.78 .................. A Bradshaw 8 27733 Kinloch Action nwtd S & ..................B Evans 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 1 26883 Budgie Right 17.51 H & ......................Taylor SELECTIONS 7 28822 Star Apache 30.74 S & ...................B Evans 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 2 76468 Rio Action nwtd S & ........................B Evans Race 1: You’re The Best, Giganaire, God Particle, Jinno Gino 2 12.33pm THE TURF BAR DASH C1, 295m 8 45374 Steel The Gold nwtd .....................M Roberts 3 117 Wicked Winston 17.41...................... B Dann Race 2: Bigtime Tip, Dream Academy, Cawbourne Craig 1 28442 Bigtime Tip 17.55 M & ......................... Smith 5 1.29 I PAVE CONCRETE STAKES HEAT 1 C1q, 520m 9 76787 Cawbourne Miami 30.18 ..............C Roberts 4 68451 Wow Madonna 17.26 M & ...............P Binnie Race 3: Krista Barista, Doosh, Max Stix, Jewel Apache 1 24652 Jewel Eagle 30.42 S & ....................B Evans 2 24322 Goldstar Rosie 17.43 S & ...............B Evans 5 24723 Tip The Babe 17.56 C &..................... Fagan Race 4: Royal Bash, Know Energy, Kinloch Action, Verbatim 2 77448 Opawa Smoke 31.38 L & ................... Wales 10 77765 Opawa Born 30.43 L &....................... Wales 3 44565 Ohoka Hope 17.38 ....................... L Waretini 3 12347 Goldstar Jagger nwtd S & ...............B Evans 8 2.28pm ANGLER’S ARMS TAVERN DASH C1, 295m 6 37885 Idol Georgie 17.64 ............................ J Rush Race 5: Cawbourne Patty, Opawa Grunter, Jewel Eagle 4 14544 Cawbourne Craig 17.69 ...............C Roberts 7 18884 Chicago Black 17.58 ..............J T McInerney Race 6: Jinja Brian, Definite, Max Brainstrain, Noble Fantasy 1 47856 Paddy The Baker 17.30..........J T McInerney 4 57461 Opawa Grunter 30.38 L & .................. Wales 5 64385 Uno James nwtd L & .......................... Wales 8 56352 Lexie Rae 17.53 ...........................C Roberts Race 7: Hip Hop Sofia, Star Apache, Steel The Gold 2 33477 Eug The Scrooge 17.69 M & .............Jopson 5 11 Cawbourne Patty 30.72................C Roberts 6 48758 Another Zircon 17.45 .............J T McInerney 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott Race 8: Southern Blue, Paddy The Baker, Jack’s A Jewel 3 72426 Midnight Action nwtd S & ................B Evans 6 66365 Crystal Flame 30.59 ........................ M Grant 7 87563 Dream Academy nwtd............... G T Bennett 4 87846 Rob’s Mate nwtd ...............................M J Hill 11 3.21 ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 295m Race 9: Opawa Minstrel, Briseur De Reves, Cawbourne Miami 7 26237 Plutonium 30.37 H & ...........................Taylor 8 F2685 Jackpot Jake 17.46 .......................... B Dann 5 52734 Jack’s A Jewel 17.35 ....................C Roberts 8 76525 Magic Dozer nwtd ..................... G T Bennett 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 1 82218 Sahara Sam 17.75 H & .......................Taylor Race 10: Wicked Winston, Wow Madonna, Lexie Rae 6 28467 Tayla’s Friend 17.61 ..................... K Cassidy 9 76787 Cawbourne Miami 30.18 ..............C Roberts 2 33357 Lucas Scott 17.77 ........................ L Waretini Race 11: Sahara Sam, Cupcake, Lucas Scott, Shakayla Rose 3 12.51pm CAROL’S TAB SPRINT C1, 295m 7 74254 Ohoka Faith 17.44........................ L Waretini 3 x5767 Susan Jewel nwtd ...........................J Tanner Race 12: Chippy Jordy, Fiery Fagan, Zircon, Red Hot Action 1 56656 Glenn Is Goodesy 17.20 ................. M Grant 10 77765 Opawa Born 30.43 L &....................... Wales 8 61615 Southern Blue 17.37 ..........................C Weir 4 54228 Cawbourne Eden 17.64 ...............C Roberts LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 2 15132 Krista Barista 17.40.......................... B Dann 6 1.49pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC SPRINT C1, 295m 9 76688 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 5 6782x Shakayla Rose 17.49 M &.................Jopson - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track 1 55585 Our John 17.60 ............................S Hindson 3 56783 Jewel Apache 17.57 S & .................B Evans

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6am Breakfast 9am Whanau Living New Zealand Women’s Weekly food editor Nici Wickes shares recipes from her travels; Maihi upcycles old metal garden furniture; Jenny May looks at greyhound adoption.

9:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 10:30 The Chase 0 11:30 Coach Trip 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2pm Our First Home 3 0 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 6:52 Angry Birds Toons 0 6:55 My Little Pony 0 7:20 Yo-Kai Watch 0 7:45 The Day My Butt Went Psycho 0 8:10 Paw Patrol 3 0 8:35 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Home And Away 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon Hope And Faith 3 0 12:30 Jeremy Kyle PGR 1:30 Judge Rinder 2:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:30 Angry Birds Toons 0 3:35 F Inspector Gadget 4pm Kickin It 0 4:30 The Adam And Eve Show 0 5pm Friends 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Middle 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Our First Home 0 7:30 The Big Ward 0 8:30 Autopsy AO 0 8pm RBT 0 9:30 Star Paws – The Rise 8:30 Filthy Rich AO Vader helps Of The Superstar Pets Savannah cover her tracks; Documentary about the Brady gets a message from professional animal agents beyond the grave; Joe realises and pet owners who supply he has made a deal with the a new wave of animal stars to devil. 0 appear in advertisements. 0 9:30 How To Get Away With 10:30 One News 0 Murder 0 10:30 Mike And Molly PGR 0 11pm Cougar Town PGR 3 0

11pm Stalker AO 0 Midnight Real Crime – Broken Promises Broken Brides AO 0 12:50 Te Karere 3 2 1:15 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 32

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Secrets Of Great British Castles 7:30 Reno v Relocate 8am Better Homes And Gardens 9:30 Jamie At Home 10am Poh’s Kitchen 10:30 Selling LA 11am Home By Novogratz 11:30 Beverly Hills Pawn Noon Secrets Of Great British Castles 1pm Indian Ocean With Simon Reeve 2pm Billy Connolly’s Route 66 PGR 3pm Reno v Relocate 3:30 Love Nature – World’s Wildest City 4pm Love Nature – Africa’s Super Seven 5pm Luke Nguyen’s United Kingdom 6pm Decks, Docks And Gazebos 6:30 Buying The Bayou 7pm Auction Hunters PG 7:30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea 8:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 9:30 Project – Restoration 10pm Kitchen Crashers 10:30 Auction Hunters PG 11pm Luke Nguyen’s United Kingdom

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Midnight Gardeners’ World 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Reno v Relocate 1:30 Love Nature – World’s Wildest City 2am Love Nature – Africa’s Super Seven 3am Decks, Docks And Gazebos 3:30 Buying The Bayou 4am Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea 5am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers

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6am Paul Henry 9am The Queen Latifah Show PGR 3 With country-music performers Big and Rich, and actors Tom Arnold and Freddie Prinze jr.

10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud 3 0 Noon NewsHub Midday 12:30 Dr Phil AO 1:30 M Hitchcock PGR 3 2012 Biography Drama. Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette. 0 3:30 Entertainment Tonight 4pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 30 4:30 The X Factor Australia 3 5:25 Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Digimon Fusion 3 7:50 Power Rangers – Megaforce 3 8:15 Chuggington 3 8:25 Hi-5 House 3 8:50 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 9am Peppa Pig 3 9:05 Fireman Sam 3 0 9:15 Thomas And Friends 3 9:30 Bob The Builder 3 9:40 Barney And Friends 3 10:05 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:35 Tuff Puppy 3 5pm Turbo Fast 3 5:30 Drake And Josh 3 6pm It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3 6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm Madam Secretary PGR 3 Elizabeth takes Alison with her to India on her first state-department trip abroad, but finds herself in crisis mode when a major earthquake occurs.

2pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 3pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:30 Antiques Roadshow 3 0 4:30 Hot Bench Judge Judy and other judges exchange debate before reaching a verdict.

5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm Escape To The Country

7pm Story 7:30 The Bachelor NZ PGR An evening of art and culture leaves one Bachelorette shining, but when a group date becomes competitive, shots are fired and boundaries are crossed. 0 8:30 NCIS AO 0 9:25 SVU AO 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:55 The Good Wife AO

7pm The Simpsons 3 0 7:30 N Face Off PGR 8:30 M Raising Arizona AO 3 1987 Crime Comedy.

A childless couple, consisting of a former convict and a former police officer, decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintuplets.

Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman.

10:25 Burn Notice AO (Starting Today) 3

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Zoo PGR Jamie gets in touch with a fellow journalist to expose Reiden’s involvement in the global animal crisis; an army of birds confronts Mitch and Abraham.

8:30 M Snakes On A Plane AO 2006 Action. Samuel L Jackson, Julianna Margulies.

0 10:45 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR

11:20 Entertainment Tonight 11:45 Infomercials 5am Infomercials

11:45 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

12:15 Home Shopping 1:45 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2:15 Home Shopping

11:55 Infomercials Midnight Rizzoli And Isles AO 0 5am Infomercials 12:55 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:25 The Real 3 3:15 Pretty Little Liars PGR 3 0 4:05 Regular Show PGR 3 0 4:15 ANT Farm 3 0 4:40 The Adam And Eve Show 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Pukana 2 7:30 Matika 3 8am Miharo 3 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Ako 3 2 3pm City Slickers Rodeo 3:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 4pm Whanau Living PGR 4:30 Fresh 5pm Te Mana Kuratahi

THE BOX 6am CSI MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Piha Rescue PG 7:40 Modern Family PGL 8:05 Survivor – Nicaragua PG 8:55 CSI – Miami MV 9:45 Criminal Intent MV 10:35 Criminal Minds 16VS 11:25 RBT MC 11:50 Crash Investigation Unit M 12:15 CSI MV 1:05 Shipping Wars PG 1:30 CSI – Miami MV 2:20 CSI MV 3:10 Survivor – Nicaragua PG 4pm Piha Rescue PG 4:30 Modern Family PGL 5pm The Simpsons PG 5:30 CSI – Miami MV 6:30 Shipping Wars PG 7pm Piha Rescue PG 7:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 8:30 The Interceptor MVLS 9:30 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 10:30 Criminal Intent MV 11:30 Criminal Minds 16VS

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12:30 Survivor – Nicaragua PG 1:20 Modern Family PGL 1:45 CSI MV 2:35 Criminal Intent MV 3:25 The Simpsons PG 3:55 The Interceptor MVLS 4:45 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 5:35 Shipping Wars PG

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6am Cycling – Tirreno-Adriatico (Replay) Stage six from Italy.

8am Golf – European Tour (Highlights) True Thailand Classic.

9am Sport TBC 10am Motorsport – Nascar Xfinity (Highlights) Axalta Faster, Tougher, Brighter 200. From Phoenix International Speedway, Arizona.

11am Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup (Highlights) Good Sam 500. From Phoenix International Speedway, Arizona.

Noon Rugby Nation 1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) 3pm Squash – PSA (Highlights) Canary Wharf Classic.

4pm Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 6pm The After Match 6:30 Monday Night With Matty Johns 7:30 UFC Now Experts discuss the most important fights and controversial topics in the UFC. 8:30 Fight Night 10:30 Tarawera Ultra Marathon

11pm Rugby Nation Midnight UFC Now 1am Squash – PSA World Tour (Highlights) Canary Wharf Classic.

From London, England. 2am The Crowd Goes Wild 2:30 L Cricket – ICC T20 World Cup India v Blackcaps. From Nagpur, India.

SKY SPORT 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukoro 2 6:20 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 6:30 Pukana 2 7pm SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 7:30 Real Pasifik 8pm N Native Affairs Regional and national stories from a Maori perspective, as well as international indigenous news.

8:30 M An Inconvenient Truth PG 2006 Documentary.

10:15 Media Take 10:45 Te Kaea 3 2 11:15 Kawe Korero – Reporters 11:45 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 8:30 MythBusters PG 9:25 You Have Been Warned M 10:20 Chaos Caught On Camera M 10:45 Chaos Caught On Camera M 11:15 Scorned – Love Kills M 12:10 Dates From Hell M 12:35 Dates From Hell M 1:05 Dates From Hell M 1:30 Dates From Hell M 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:25 How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG 3:20 Auction Kings PG 3:50 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 4:45 MythBusters v Jaws PG 5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Alaskan Bush People M 7:30 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 8:30 Naked And Afraid M 9:30 Naked And Afraid Pop-Up Edition M 10:30 How It’s Made PG 11pm How It’s Made PG 11:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG WEDNESDAY 12:30 The Perfect Murder M 1:25 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M 1:50 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M 2:20 Auction Kings PG 2:45 Destroyed In Seconds PG 3:15 Tribe Alive PG 4:10 Dirty Jobs PG 5:05 Gold Rush – Alaska PG

Star Paws – The Rise of the Superstar Pets, 9:30pm on TV One

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:30 The Making Of Godzilla PG 6:45 As Above, So Below MVL 2014 Horror. Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge. 8:20 In Security 16VLC 2013 Comedy.

Ethan Embry, Michael Gladis.

9:55 The Time Being MLC 2012 Thriller. Wes Bentley, Frank Langella.

11:25 Horrible Bosses 2 16VLS 2014 Comedy. Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis. 1:10 Mad Max – Fury Road 16VC 2015 Action.

Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron.

3:10 The Making Of Godzilla PG 3:25 Forever 16 M 2013 Fantasy. Andrea Roth. 4:55 Smiley 16VLS 2012 Horror. Caitlin Gerard, Shane Dawson. 6:30 Chappie 16VLC 2015 Sci-fi. Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman. 8:30 Dumb And Dumber To MVLSC 2014 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels.

10:20 Tracers MVL 2014 Action.

Taylor Lautner, Marie Avgeropoulos.

11:55 Gone Tomorrow 16VLS 2015 Thriller. WEDNESDAY 1:25 Smiley 16VLS 2012 Horror.

3am Would Be Kings 16VLS (Miniseries) Part 1. 4:30 Forever 16 M 2013 Fantasy.

Snakes On a Plane 8:30pm on Prime

MOVIES GREATS 7:35 Fantastic Four PGR 2005 Action. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Julian McMahon. 9:20 Cold Creek Manor MVL 2003 Thriller.

Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Juliette Lewis. 11:15 The Time Traveller’s Wife MV 2009 Drama.

Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams.

1pm Rock Star MLS 2001 Drama.

Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston.

2:45 Runaway Bride PGS 1999 Comedy. Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo.

4:40 The Truman Show PGL 1998 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Laura Linney.

6:20 He’s Just Not That Into You MLS 2009 Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long.

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2am He’s Just Not That Into You MLS 2009 Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long.

4:10 Children Of Men 16VL 2006 Drama. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine.

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6am Golf – European Tour (Highlights) True Thailand Classic.

6:30 Motorsport – IndyCar (Highlights) 7am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 7:30 Monday Night With Matty Johns 8:30 Football – ASB Premiership (Highlights) Grand Final.

9am Cycling – Tirreno-Adriatico (Highlights) 9:30 Motorsport – IndyCar (Highlights) 10am Mountain Biking – Cape Epic (Highlights) Stage One. 10:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) 11am Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) 11:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Noon Mountain Biking – Cape Epic (Highlights) Stage One. 12:30 Football – ASB Premiership (Replay) Grand Final.

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Sport

Tinwald’s father-daughter duo Neil and Tessa McCann downed Flynn Ness and Harry Dargue 6-3, 6-0 on Saturday.

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Methven best on court

BY JAMES FORD

JAMES.F@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Methven have been crowned Mid Canterbury open grade champions following a 4-2 victory over Tinwald at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre on Saturday.

Methven got off to an unconvincing start, however, with Tinwald’s father-daughter duo Neil and Tessa McCann inflicting a 6-3, 6-0 loss on Flynn Ness and Harry Dargue.

Jarrad Hill and Tyler Leonard then downed Matt Bubb and Mathieu Lucas 6-2, 4-6, (10-8) to level proceedings.

In the singles, Flynn Ness beat former Gala Cup winner Neil McCann 6-3, 4-6, (10-4), but Tessa struck back to see off Edwin Dargue 6-0, 6-4.

Hill then accounted for Bubb 6-2, 6-0 to add another win to the champion-elect’s tally and Tyler Leonard defeated Mathieu Lucas

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to secure the competition title in style and condemn Tinwald to second place on the points ladder.

In the day’s other fixtures, Allenton won their mid-table battle with Hampstead 4-2.

The spoils were shared in the singles as Hampstead’s Aidan Mitchell and Connor Brosnahan defeated Gala Cup winner Rhys Cromie and Bryn Looij 6-3, 6-4, while Sophie Ness and Harry

Dargue toppled Erin ConnellyWhyte and Cathal Gray 6-3, 6-1, but Allenton came to life in the singles.

Cromie, Dargue and Sophie Ness posted wins over Mitchell, Connelly-Whyte and Gray respectively but Hampstead took some consolation from Connor Brosnahan’s 6-2, 6-1 victory over Millie Ness.

Meanwhile, fifth place Fairton rounded out their season with a

4-2 win over last placed Southern.

It was one win each in the doubles matches but Fairton showed their superiority in singles play with three victories to one.

The open grade play may have concluded for the season but there will be more action on the tennis centre courts with the Mid Canterbury Junior Graded Tournament taking place this weekend.

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