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■■ KIDZMETHVEN

Skatepark work progresses

By Heather Mackenzie

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Methven Skatepark site is once again a hive of activity.

KidzMethven committee member and site manager Josh Horn said he and his Civil Concrete team are looking forward to putting the finishing touches on the ‘street’ side of the park soon.

Horn said that Covid-19 certainly had put a dampener on things, but the good weather over the last couple of weeks meant his team could crack on and get lots done.

“We have been finishing as we go, so all that remains on this side of the park is to wait for the concrete to dry and then seal it, which will make the colours in the park really pop.”

To keep progress on the park flowing Horn said he and his younger site workers formed a collective bubble once Level 3 was announced.

“I made sure my older staff were protected from any potential risks and the rest of us kept within our bubbles outside of work,” he said.

Once the street side of the park is completed, the team will then move on to finishing the

Methven Skatepark designer Sam Kircher got to test out his handiwork first-hand this week, while committee members Josh Horn and Sally-Anne Kircher, look on. Next to try the ramp is Civil Concrete worker Poppy Jo. PHOTO HEATHER MACKENZIE 130520-HM-0011

concrete work on the two skate bowls.

There are plans to make the steps leading into the park something quite special. Horn didn’t want to give too much away, but he did admit they have some creative ways to pay homage to those who played a major part in making the dream

come true.

The reduction in Covid-19 levels may have allowed for construction to resume, but it still has a hold over any planned opening date.

Horn said they will not open until at least Level 1, as it is impossible to practise social distancing in a park setting.

Horn is proud of how it has taken shape and said apart from a few tweaks here and there, the build has stayed true to the original design.

Horn was not the only one finding the KidzMethven project coming to life emotional, long time committee member Sally-Anne Kircher also had a lump in her throat as she checked out the progress this week.

Kircher’s tie to the park goes to the next level as it was son Sam who designed it.

“It has been really special working together with him on this, and now we get to hand it over to the next generation together.”

Once the park itself is completed the call will be sent out for an all hands on deck community planting day.

Kircher said it would also be a good opportunity for locals to come along and check it out and leave with renewed excitement for Methven’s latest attraction.

A Givealittle page has also been set up in order to help the committee get over the line with final landscaping and clean-up jobs – go to KidzMethven Methven Skatepark.

Free lunches may come Ashburton schools’ way

By Sue Newman

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With New Zealand’s school lunch programme set to expand, Netherby School principal Phil Wheeler is hoping his students may make it onto the lunch list.

In Thursday’s budget $216.7 million has been tagged to expand the scheme from the current 8000 students to 200,000 by terms two and three next year. And with the qualification criteria set around school decile rankings, Wheeler believes Netherby at decile 3 might just make the cut.

“We would definitely be the first school to be targeted if this

comes to Mid Canterbury,’ he said.

Lunch break surveys showed that most of his students came to school with lunch and the largest percentage of those were healthy lunches.

While he’d be happy to get on board if the lunch scheme was offered to his school, Wheeler said it would be important that it was a self-contained service rather than one that relied on staff to administer. He’s also keen to survey the school community if the free lunch option is made available.

The school already runs a breakfast club with a staff member in charge and that was

an additional layer of work for that person, he said however, indications are that the programme will include community input and it is being touted as creating local jobs.

In announcing the expansion of the scheme education minister Chris Hipkins estimated it could create around 2000 jobs in local communities.

It is unclear whether the free lunch option would be available to all students in an eligible school or whether would be a qualifying criteria.

At decile 4, Hampstead School would be unlikely to make the free lunch cut, principal Peter Melrose said.

He supports the increase in numbers able to be part of the programme but in terms of eligibility, he suggested it should be rolled out to all students rather than to selected students.

Like Netherby, Hampstead staff checked to ensure students had lunch and that their lunch was healthy.

“And those checks are good because often the lack of a lunch could indicate other issues in a family and if that’s the case it makes us aware and we can get help.

The short term goal is 21,000 students by the end of this school year.

Feed tight for farmers leading into winter

By Susan Sandys

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Dry conditions have set in for autumn in Mid Canterbury, but farmers are not too worried.

As of Friday, the MetService had recorded just 140 millimetres of rain for the year at Ashburton, compared to the long-term average of 248 millimetres.

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers provincial president David Clark said while a lack of rain had reduced the flush of winter feed growth expected in April, irrigation had buffered the district making it better placed than anywhere else in New Zealand.

Farmers had sent feed, such as straw and silage, out of the district to drought-affected areas all over New Zealand. There had also been feed go to export markets.

Winter feed supplies for Mid Canterbury farmers would be “tight”, but they would get through.

“It would not be the year to have a snowfall, let’s hope we don’t get that,” Clark said.

He advised farmers to do a robust assessment of what feed they needed, and to get it secured while the last of it was still available.

“This is not the year to buy your straw supplies at the straw sales.”

And while Mid Canterbury had lost the opportunity of rain in April to boost winter feed growth, any large amount of rainfall now would only turn conditions wet and cold as winter approached.

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers dairy chairman Chris Ford agreed, and said while there had not been significant rainfall for a couple of months, showers were preferred over a big rainfall event.

“If it rains now it will bring snow, and snow brings frosts, so everything effectively stops growing.”

The MetService’s forecast through to next week predicts conditions remaining dry with showers on Monday and Tuesday.

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Striking gold during Covid-19

By Susan Sandys

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Two new $60,000 mobile fan guns will help keep Mt Hutt skiers happy this winter.

It is set to be a winter more challenging than most, with season pass sales to be limited for the first time as the ski area plans to open limited days during Alert Level 2.

And a new well, drilled to provide more water to the ski area’s state-of-the art snowmaking system, can not be accessed until next winter, after the installation project was stalled in the lockdown.

Ski area manager James McKenzie said the two new guns, imported from Italy, were part of a gradual year-by-year replacement and upgrade of the ski area’s snowmaking system initially installed in 1990.

The ski area had been buying two of the mobile fan guns per year for the past few years, and now had seven of them.

They can produce 1.5 tonnes of snow per minute, and they have remote operation and weather-monitoring capability aligning with variables such as water volume.

“In super cold conditions we can make an amazing amount of snow, so these guns are really useful in our base area where we have to cover a large amount of terrain around our lifts,” McKenzie said.

A new 110-metre bore installed over summer will increase the mountain’s snowmaking water supply, but due to lockdown there was no time to connect the pumps from the bore up to the skifield reservoir.

The bore will supplement the two bores already on the mountain, and be useful in the case of extraordinarily dry, cold and windless conditions occurring for more than four days in a row, allowing continuous snowmaking during this time.

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A father has shared his frustrations of his family court hearing being pushed back repeatedly in the Ashburton District Court while the country was at Alert Levels 3 and 4 due to a lack of security guards.

The man, who the Guardian has chosen not to name, was meant to have had a hearing last week in the family court at the Ashburton District Court.

However, this has now been put off for a month due to a lack of security guards being available to attend the court.

“Three months is a long time for a little baby to be away from its parents,” he said.

“They said they couldn’t get security guards from Christchurch or Timaru here,

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Mt Hutt slopes manager Adam Preston welcomes two mobile fan snowmaking guns from Italy.

PHOTO SUPPLIED McKenzie said while the bore could not be used for this year, it would be all on deck and ready for next year.

He said reaching water when drilling the bore had been a great moment, with the flow capacity upwards of 25 litres per second.

“We did strike gold in a sense this year, but we can’t spent it until next year, we just have to hold it in the bank until we are ready to go,” he said.

And while there was currently no snow in the weather forecast, beside the possibility of a “flick” on Monday night, McKenzie was expecting that, due to the law of averages, Mid Canterbury’s dry spell would break at some point.

At any rate, it was good to see night-time temperatures cooling down. Snowmaking would begin leading into ski season opening mid-June. A good 10 days of snowmaking was enough to open the mountain on.

He said for the first time ever the ski area was to limit ski season passes due to the reduced days of operation planned following Covid-19, and he expected they would sell out. However, the ski area was also going to introduce mid-week season passes.

Meanwhile, NZSki confirmed yesterday afternoon that government had given ski areas clearance to operate under Level 2.

There would be no limit on numbers due to the large mountain space, except in restaurants and hospitality facilities.

A father’s frustration over family court delays

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay

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but I don’t see why they should take precedence or they couldn’t just get security guards in Ashburton to do the job.”

The man said he could not see why they could not find a way to hire more security guards to work in Ashburton.

“It is getting very frustrating and depriving a little baby of being with its parents,” he said.

The Ministry of Justice’s chief operating officer Carl Crafar confirmed the reason the family court session was not held in Ashburton was due to a lack of security.

“Due to the current situation, the Ministry has had to prioritise its reduced resources, including security, across each region,” he said.

For some hearings in different courts

that have been determined to be urgent matters under Alert Levels 3 and 4, parties have been able to appear in different courts that are open in different areas, or appear by phone or audio visual link to the courtroom.

Crafar said this is always considered, however unfortunately due to reduced resources across courts, and court protocols during Alert Level 3 and 4, alternative arrangements were not possible.

On Friday morning the Government announced they have made a $62 million investment from the Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund to start the reform of the family court and enable it to respond effectively to the increased backlog caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The past week has gone from bad to worse for the Waireka Croquet Club who have had their clubrooms broken into in the same week their greens were hit by vandals.

“On Monday we discovered hoons had been doing wheelies on our lawns and on Wednesday night there was a breakin and a large container of biscuits was taken from a drawer and a bottle of drink was taken out of a cupboard and left on the lawn and there is a hole in the wall in the kitchen and one in the glass where they have broken in,” club spokesperson Audrey Leath said.

“The fact is our excess is $2500 so it’s not really viable to claim insurance on it, so it’s just another cost for the club that we don’t need.”

Leath said police had visited and taken evidence from inside the clubrooms and the bottle left on the lawns and was hopeful they would be able to find who was responsible.

No progress had been made into the vandalism to the club’s lawns which had been ripped up by a vehicle of some sort, having only recently undergone between $40,000 and $50,000 worth of upgrade work.

“I’m not sure why they are picking on us, we don’t have anything that is valuable to steal,” she said.

“We will definitely be looking at getting security cameras installed.”

Ashburton Sub-Area Supervisor Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins said earlier this week police attended the scene following the vandalism incident and conducted enquiries to try and locate any witnesses to the event.

They also attended following the break-in and seized some items for forensic examination which they are awaiting results for, and are also progressing lines of enquiry in relation to some persons of interest known to be in the area at the time of the complaint.

“Police request that any person with information relating to the event contact the Ashburton Police via a call to 105, through the police website or anonymously through Crimestoppers (0800 555 111).

“I also request that any person who may have CCTV cameras operating from their address please check the footage and advise police if any suspicious activity is found.”

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■■COVID-19 CRUNCH

Event centre funds hit hard

By Sue Newman

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Roger Farr was looking at a business year that would have been his best on record, but Covid-19 meant that year just went down a deep hole.

The Ashburton Trust Event Centre manager says he’s lost about $75,000 in income from cancelled shows and events and said life and any form of income, is unlikely to return to the complex until mid-June when the first bookings are logged on his calendar.

“Financially it’s the worst time of the year for this to happen because most of our big productions are in April to June. Our whole industry has been turned on its head. It’ll be a long way back,” Farr said.

On the positive side, the event centre had only lost three international events as the national ones forced to cancel were already looking at new dates in 2021, he said.

“They’re saying we’ve got the product, we want to put it on, it’s just a matter of when. We could open now with 100 people but there would still be a question over people’s attitudes, would they want to come and be part of a large group,” he said.

As much as he was gutted to be losing income from events, Farr said he felt for the local groups that had been forced to cancel

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The rural sector might have continued to run during the seven weeks of Covid-19 lockdown, but the flow-on effect from a dampened economy might not be felt for at least six months, says Ashburton mayor Neil Brown.

He’s leading a group representing a range of industries that has been charged with steering the Ashburton District back onto a sound economic footing.

That group met for the first time on Wednesday in what was a bit

Pursuit arrest One person has been arrested and has had their vehicle impounded following a pursuit in Ashburton around midday on Friday. Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins said the vehicle failed to stop for police and the suspected driver was arrested and their vehicle impounded. No property was damaged as a result of the pursuit.

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The Ashburton Trust Event Centre has lost around $75,000 in cancelled shows and events.

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shows and events, however, it was heartening to hear that many of those would still go ahead. It was just a question of when they could put a date in the calendar with confidence.

“The market is definitely not dead as far as performances go and we’re getting bookings coming in for next year. I’m not concerned at all about getting product back in the door, this is a road bump we have to get through.

There are still a lot of positives on the other side of this.”

A grant from the Ashburton District Council covers about half the event centre’s running costs, but even though it has been closed for weeks, there were still bills to be paid and no income coming in to pay them with, he said.

The first real crunch would come when his government wage subsidy ran out on June 22, Farr said.

“I’m trying to put plans in place to keep my staff on board. They’re a good team and I don’t want to lose them and we’re in discus-

sions at the moment about what we can do and they’re very accepting about the position we’re in.”

For the whole events industry, planning to reopen was huge in terms of compliance issues, he said.

In 12 years the event centre had grown from a fledgling business to a profitable business and Farr said he was confident, there were good indications across the industry that it would rebound quite quickly.

Economic issues under the spotlight

By Sue Newman

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of a temperature-taking exercise over the sectors they represented.

It was very clear at this point that hospitality and retail were the two most badly hit by the lockdown and while some may have opened to some degree during Level 2, a week or two of being open for business would be needed to gauge how they were faring, Brown said.

“And while the agricultural sector and manufacturing may have got off not too badly, we’ll be seeing what the flow-on effect will be on milk and meat prices and work

going forward for contractors.”

One of the big questions in that sector and in contracting would be what would happen with the pool of overseas staff they used during peak times.

“Those who were here might want to go home if borders reopened, but replacement employees might not come to fill those gaps,” he said.

“They’re thinking there might be some big gaps and we don’t know if local people who find they are unemployed, will fill those gaps.”

The economic recovery group was working to identify the issues the economy would be facing and to come up with ideas and options around minimising the impact of what would be a national economic downturn, Brown said.

“At the moment there are lots of questions and as time goes by we’ll firm up on where the issues really are.”

He’s keen to see more government support for businesses because keeping businesses going was critical in keeping and creating jobs.

Life at Level 2 for members of the Ashburton MSA is going to look different to how the popular club operates. Under Level 2 only members will be allowed in, and will be required to be seated and purchase a meal before purchasing any drinks. A limit of 100 people will be allowed in for a maximum of two hours at a time, following guidelines set out by the Government. Club president Murray Campbell said everything will be following the rules with social distancing and the three Ss (seated, single server and separated). Campbell said the club will be running with massively reduced hours with no TAB Services’ gaming machines operating until May 21. “I think a lot will stay away but we will still get some coming in,” he said.

Social recovery The social recovery of the Ashburton District is not being left to chance post Covid-19 with a wide reaching strategy likely to be developed to help lessen the impact on the community after spending seven weeks in virtual isolation. While the Ashburton District Council has established an economic recovery group that includes representatives from a cross section of the business community, it has opted to use Safe Communities to tackle the social recovery task. This group includes representatives from 27 welfare and community organisations and is chaired by deputy mayor Liz McMillan. Similar groups were working on social recovery strategies in communities across New Zealand, McMillan said and some had undertaken surveys to gauge what life post Covid-19 would be like. Ashburton, however, is likely to draw on the knowledge of the Safe Communities group initially, before deciding on the value of a formal survey.

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$10k for learning network The distance learning environment sparked by the Covid-19 lockdown has created some innovative new ideas around the use of technology, says Allenton School associate principal Kerrin Corcoran.

Prior to the pandemic, Corcoran had plans to establish the Mid Canterbury e-learning Network and now, with the learning and innovation that distance learning had sparked, there would be a new pool of ideas that could become part of this.

“A lot of this has been done in individual bubbles, a lot of exciting developments have happened, but they’ve all happened in people’s own spaces and once we settle down again I want to catch up with people who’re interested in contributing their ideas,” Corcoran said.

She is head of Allenton’s ICT and has been involved in technology in schools for several years.

The idea of the e-learning Network was to create a platform where educators could network and learn from one another to develop their own and their students’ digital capabilities.

The pool of ideas would have expanded during lockdown as people worked out their own ways to use technology to fit with their own learning needs, Corcoran said.

She has been awarded a $10,000

Kerrin Corcoran scholarship from the Advance Ashburton Foundation to help her develop her network.

Once the network is established it will be tested at Allenton School and will then be available to all schools and to the community.

The scholarship will allow her to have classroom release time to work on the project and principal Bruce Tibly can see its potential for the school and the

wider community, Corcoran said.

“In the early days of technology in schools we had a really good network, but now people are in their own spaces doing some amazing things. The key thing for me is to draw together what people have developed. It’s about getting people to understand the skills they have and that they can share those ideas and developments.”

The need to use technology during the lockdown meant there were many people who may have thought they had few skills in that area, with a little time – and need – had come up with great ideas, she said.

“I strongly believe that digital tools offer great opportunities to enhance learning and improve educational outcomes for all. We are all learners, as the digital landscape is forever changing and evolving.

“The challenge is not to know how everything ‘works’ . . . the challenge is to become digitally fluent, so we are capable of choosing the right digital tool to meet our needs or desired outcome,” she said.

She will also undertake further study and become a Google Certified Teacher and Certified Trainer using the Google Suite.

Her study units will include digital safety, tools for diverse learners and supporting English language learners.

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Art Gallery to re-open on Monday Ashburton’s art community is excited about launching back into life after the Covid-19 lockdown.

The Ashburton Art Gallery will re-open May 18, while Ashburton Society of Arts members are hoping to hold their major annual exhibition at the gallery in October or November.

While in Level 2, there will be no public programmes, the gallery announced on its Facebook page on Tuesday.

However, visitors are welcome and ZAFAA20 and The Trappings of Ghosts exhibition will remain in the gallery until the end of May, while the new exhibition The Creators’ Room will also be on.

There will be strict signing in and social distancing protocols in place, and reduced opening hours of 10am to 4pm.

Ashburton Society of Arts exhibition co-ordinator Jen Dearborn said the exhibition initially planned for July 6 would hopefully be able to go ahead later in the year. Discussions were under way with the gallery and sponsors to work out a date.

Generally the exhibition’s opening night attracted about 250 people.

If government restrictions prohibited gatherings over 100, opening night could still be held with the reduced number, she said.

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Court to re-open under Level 2

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

The way courthouses will operate will look different under Alert Level 2 as the Ministry of Justice attempts to get the justice system operating as close to normal as possible.

The Ashburton District Court has remained closed during Alert Levels 3 and 4, but is expected to re-open from May 18 with a list and sentencing day.

Health and safety advice released for Level 2 says the emphasis for the Ministry of Justice is for courts to operate as efficiently as possible, with the overriding principle that everyone who works in or comes to courts and tribunals must be kept safe.

This includes screening people on entry, limiting access to the courts, cleaning and providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to staff.

Signage will be placed in the courts telling everyone who feels unwell with cold or flulike symptoms, including fever, coughing, and difficulty breathing, not to enter the court building.

Access will continue to be denied to those who have a temperature of 38° or above, who are showing signs of illness such as coughing and sneezing, report

The Ashburton District Court might be closed, but Restorative Justice operations are continuing online.

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from the presiding judge.

Such permission should be sought in the first instance by e-mail to the registrar in advance (if granted this must be supplied to the court security officer at the front entrance) or on the day of the hearing by requesting a court security officer at the front entrance to convey an application via the registrar to the presiding judge.

This restriction is necessary to protect others and allow courts to conduct business.

All people entering a courthouse or tribunal will continue to be required to provide their

feeling unwell, who have had close-contact with a suspected, probable or confirmed case, or unwilling to disclose the purpose of their visit or their personal information.

Thermal scanners have been installed in sites with permanent screening stations to reduce the risk of an unwell person entering a court building, which will become operational throughout May. Members of public (including whanau or other support person) whose presence is not required at court will not be permitted to enter unless granted permission

name and contact details on entrance to enable contact tracing.

It is not a Ministry of Health requirement that all participants and staff wear PPE, however, it is available for use if people wish.

All court security officers and bailiffs are provided with disposable gloves, facemasks, and googles.

Contracted private security guards will wear the same PPE when working at a court site.

PPE (gloves and facemasks) are available for all court participants. These supplies are located at the entrance point with security staff.

The majority of counters are open under Alert Level 2 and most sites will have plastic shields at counters to guard people against fluids.

To manage the increased numbers of people, some areas have been marked off in court buildings to help ensure physical distancing is maintained.

Physical distancing requirements are that people keep at least one metre apart.

Participants in queues will need to keep one metre apart from others standing on the marked areas in the line.

Security staff will ensure physical distance is maintained in public areas.

Firefighters expecting much of the same

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

While many areas are expecting a step closer to normality when the country shifts to Alert Level 2, local firefighters are expecting to operate under similar conditions as Levels 3 and 4.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Alan Burgess said he expects things to stay much the same when the

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new safety measures to reduce their risk of exposure when attending call-outs.

Burgess said the biggest risk is not being able to enforce social distancing when attending callouts or training, and for that reason things were likely to stay the same under Level 2.

“When you look at what is happening in some fire departments across the world it can have a big

country does make the shift to level two later this week.

“We will stay as we are for at least a week and see what comes from FENZ (Fire and Emergency New Zealand) as to how we will operate going forwards,” he said.

Fire brigades have been operating a roster of watches during Alert Levels 3 and 4 to minimise the contact between members in the brigade as well as adopting

impact,” he said.

“When the first wave of infections went through the US, the San Jose Fire Brigade lost like 24 or 26 guys from working because of infections.”

Burgess said looking at the clusters New Zealand has had, it does not take much for the virus to spread quickly in a group and that it could quickly take an entire brigade out of action.

Police urge people to stick to the rules

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

Local police are urging people to stick to the rules under Alert Level 2 as people move back to a more normal way of living.

More than 1168 breaches of Level 3 restrictions were recorded nationwide by police, with Canterbury accounting for around 95 of those.

Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins said police will continue to be highly visible in the community under Alert Level 2, including areas where people would typically tend to gather.

“A range of restrictions remain in place at Alert Level 2 and police are urging the community to continue adhering to the rules,” he said.

“We need to stay safe and this means maintaining physical distancing with strangers, not holding mass gatherings and always following good hygiene practices.”

The front counter of the Ashburton Police Station will re-open next Monday, from 8am to 4pm, with physical distancing from staff at the front counter required.

Through Level 3 at least 57 people have been prosecuted with obstructing a medical officer of health, the law that allows police to enforce lockdown restrictions put in place by the Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield.

Jenkins said while breach data is only available at a national and police district level, he can confirm a number of charges have been put before the court from Mid Canterbury.

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Adapt or risk going under, is how former Ashburton resident Regan Molloy sees life in business thanks to Covid-19.

Switching his Napier based business, Mammoth Print and Signs, from signs to acyclic counter shields ensured his 14 staff kept working.

“The first week or so of lockdown was pretty quiet for us, but changing to the counter shields certainly kept us going.”

Molloy said it all came about when existing clients needed clear counter shields to reopen and found the options available a bit on the expensive side.

“We already had the material needed on hand, so it was just a matter putting together a couple of designs and cutting them out on our machines.”

They offered two generic options, but Molloy said they also produced a few one-off shapes as well.

Designs sorted, Molly and his team took to social media to promote the new side of the business and the orders rolled in.

“We thought we would sell around 20 or 30, but we have sold over 300 to date. One-third of the orders were for the Hawke’s Bay and the rest went around New Zea-

land.” Molloy feels the demand for the shields may slow down from this point on and as that happens the company will begin its transition back into print and media solutions.

After leaving Ashburton College Molloy bounced around the country for a number of years, finally ending up in Hawke’s Bay. Three years ago, redundancy forced Molloy to reassess employment and geographical options for him, his wife and their three sons.

It was either buy a business or move, he said.

“Hawke’s Bay feels very much like Canterbury and where we live in Havelock North the surrounding hills are similar to the Port Hills.”

Their love of the area meant moving was off the table, so Molloy looked around for a suitable business to buy.

When Fastways Couriers put their printing and signmaking business on the market, Molloy knew he had what it took to take the business forward.

Molloy’s parents still live in Ashburton, so Molloy said they like to come and visit as often as they can.

“Heading south from Havelock North is not quite as easy as it was when we lived in Auckland, but we still make the trip at least twice a year.”

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e’ve received this letter from a reader, Dear Bernard, Reading about the person who bought an Austin 7 and got his driver’s licence in it brought back memories for me.

I got my licence about the same time, also in an Austin but a bigger one – Mum and Dad’s A40.

It had column change gears.

Remember those?

Dad taught me to drive, we’d go out on Sunday afternoons and I had to practise starting, moving off and stopping on a shingle road.

In those days we didn’t have to go very far out of town to find an unsealed road.

I studied the Road Code and finally the day came for my test here in Ashburton.

Now, those who are new to town may wonder where we did a “hill start” around here.

It was on Willow Street.

I had to do the other tests your other reader mentioned plus reversing into a parking space.

Didn’t worry about hitting a parking meter.

There weren’t any in those days.

I do agree with your other reader – those were the days!

Soon after I got my first car.

Austins ran in the family so, like

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your other reader, I got an Austin 7 but mine was a 1938 Big Seven.

I think about two years ago you published a photo of one like it which had an unusual name.

Your column is called Tales from the Backseat and apparently if that little car could talk it may be able to tell one or two.

So could my brother who used to borrow the car but he’s sworn to secrecy.

I asked and all he would say is there wasn’t much room for social distancing.

He’s a real Arthur Daley fan and said his ’er indoors has told him if he says anything there’ll be no more roast dinners or apple pies.

My sister-in-law is a great cook so there’s no chance of hearing anything from him!

As for myself, sadly I don’t think there’s anything to tell.

Anyway that was all a long while ago, I’m old now.

I’ve had two bypass operations,

The Siegfried Austin

I’m a bit blind, can’t hear anything quieter than a jet engine and take about 40 different medications when I remember.

It’s probably them that make me a bit dizzy, winded and subject to blackouts.

Although the doctor did say something I can’t remember about not mixing them with liquids.

I’ve had three hip replacements.

In case you’re wondering I’m not Jake the Peg, one was done twice.

The other day the nurse doing my medical asked if I had my own teeth, I said “yes”.

Then she noticed my dentures and said, “you’ve got dentures but you said you have your own teeth.”

I said, “they are my own I paid

for them!”

My circulation isn’t as good as it used to be and I can’t remember exactly how old I am, whether I’m 85 or 92.

But things could be worse!

Thank goodness I’ve still got my driver’s licence.

By the way I kept referring to your other reader.

You’ll now know he’s not the only one.

You’ve got at least two thanks to the fact I’ve got lenses about an inch thick in my glasses.

Putting them on and off is my weight training.

Yours faithfully, Bill.

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We’re glad you’ve still got your licence.

Well, we think we are.

Your memory isn’t too bad, we did publish a photo of Siegfried in April 2018.

Here it is again.

Best wishes, Bernard.

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Well and truly back in business

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ow good is it to be alive again!

Out walking the streets of Ashburton and Methven over the past few days, it’s been a lot like coming back from an extended holiday where you haven’t seen people for months.

The streets are literally abuzz with people and there’s smiles and waves and hellos as far as the eye can see – most because of a lack of human interaction for the best part of two months, but it’s a good feeling all the same.

Seeing our local businesses back with people in their doors, doing what they do best and in a similar fashion seeing people in those stores supporting local business is equally as heart warming.

It’s been a long road to get to this point – but boy it feels good to have reached it.

Now we just need one other crucial part of our community and our society to come back and that’s the sporting fold. It’s been a long wait, and could potentially be even longer, but there’s a desire out there to get back out on the fields and courts and enjoy everything that playing sport brings.

Even for those who enjoy being on the sidelines too. I know how much I’m missing my Saturday afternoon club rugby fix.

It really does feel like when sport returns we’ll be back to a full normal – ignoring for a moment all the other pressures that the last few months have heaped upon us in a financial and business sense.

So we’re getting there, and the last couple of days have been fantastic and slowly but surely, especially with schools back on Monday and the opportunity to socialise safely later in the week, we’re ticking things off.

The hypothetical list of life and what we can and can’t do is growing smaller by the day.

And if that’s not something to smile about heading into the weekend, then what is?

YOUR VIEW

Opposition in a pandemic N

itpicking or legitimate criticism of government policy?

It’s axiomatic the Opposition Party (Parties) in Parliament are expected – paid – to “oppose”.

Their brief, to keep the party in power under constant scrutiny and show the electorate-at-large, despite their failure to win the most recent election, they are, nevertheless, dedicated to ensuring good government for all by checking and challenging what comes from the Treasury benches.

Thus the MPs occupying those benches can expect to be questioned vigorously on whatever they may be proposing, from principle to punctuation.

In a word, that is “democracy” at work.

The interests and good of the country is the basis of what all MPs are about, their beliefs, as well as their differences of opinion; at heart, they are all committed – most of them at least – Kiwis, attempting to do their best for the country they love.

In the course of their debates, emotions can run high, to the point where the Speaker – appointed for just such situations – calls for calm and a pull back of passion.

After the debate, the former protagonists may well share a beer at the parliamentary bar, provided for that very purpose, their recent disagreement put on hold for another day.

That, one might maintain, is

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the weft and woof of democracy in operation, firmly built into the parliamentary procedure.

What it does not mean is that the protagonists are anything but loyal Kiwis “exchanging differing views”.

In the USA, however, and no doubt as the direct result of the evil Trump, Republicans and Democrats are, currently, encouraged to see themselves as “enemies” first, Americans second.

In other words two parties are at war, where slur and snub are the favoured weapons of mass destruction.

However, it has to be said, the cultured rules of democracy as currently practised in Aotearoa, New Zealand, were not necessarily designed to respond to a pandemic.

In such a potentially dire situation a rather more subtle form of “opposition” is required which, under the “crash, bang, wallop” approach favoured by National’s Simon Bridges, is not likely to make him many friends or gain him the votes he will so badly need in September, or whenever

the next election will, finally, be held.

Admittedly, being the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition at a time of world pandemic would have taxed even the skills of the revered John Key or even the bluff approach of “Farmer” Keith Holyoake.

Sadly, Simon is not in that league, so criticising, baldly, lockdown and other anti Covid-19 procedures, does not sit well in the face of the relentless persistence throughout the vicissitudes of the virus – ably assisted by Dr Ashley “The Unflappable” Bloomfield – or our almost saintly Prime Minister, Jacinda, “the crisis ameliorator”, Ardern.

Without wishing to turn this piece into a sustained “gush”, one would have to say Jacinda’s handling of the crisis has been exemplary, to say nothing of her similar response to the Moslem massacre of two years ago, and sundry other challenges along the way.

Having a baby might also be seen as one of them!

Meanwhile, Bridges’ 2I/C, Paula Bennett, has been doing a bit of nitpicking herself, querying the lack of time being allowed for a debate on the reduction of danger from Level 3 to 2 as well as other perceived failings of our creaky coalition, which, it’s true, would, undoubtedly have collapsed months ago had it not been for Jacinda’s firm hand at the helm of the good ship of state.

Even other National MPs through this emergency have been heard grumbling about earlier lockdowns and the adverse effect they are perceived to have had on the economy.

If the economy flourished but I were too dead to benefit, I know which one I would choose.

No, the fact has to be, in a crisis of this magnitude, Party differences should be forgotten – at least temporarily – while the greater good takes precedence.

There might even have been an argument for a genuine coalition government including members from all parties, the sort of coalition, indeed, over which Sir Winston Churchill presided in Britain from 1940-45.

The grand coalition was acceptable to the people for as long as the war lasted but did not prevent Britain returning to the party system immediately that war ended.

Such was the depth of the Democratic doctrine, even “Hero” Churchill was summarily defeated.

Lesson for future parliamentarians facing a pandemic: “We’re all in this together”.

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To the parents of Mid Canty

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ear parents and families, Thank you.

That’s it.

No smart sarcastic comment, no comparing your abilities to home schooling with that of Trump’s ability to understand his health advisers.

Simply, thank you and you did great.

As teachers and principals we sometimes talk about the triangle when it comes learning – home, teacher and child. The last two months have been more of a bowl of spaghetti between the child and home learning than anything else.

We never expected you would be tasked with distant learning.

Our schools are a slowly evolving organism of collective knowledge on how children learn and what conditions are needed to engage them.

You never had the time to even begin to replicate any form of schooling, thrown into a parent/teacher role that was like trying to herd cats.

If you sat there and worried that you weren’t doing enough, you weren’t the only one.

If you scoured the internet for ‘fun science experiments’ using only eggs, paper towels and carpet fluff, you were being creative.

If at some point you simply went for a day of self-choosing that ended resembling a cross

Peter Livingstone OUT OF SCHOOL

between a movie theatre and a 6-year-old’s pyjama party, you were doing it right.

There was no rulebook for this, no secret code that the home-schoolers wouldn’t share that kept you in the dark and certainly no way schooling in lockdown could ever come close to what a school day looks like.

So thank you to the Dads who had the opportunity and time to give it a go.

To take up the challenge and unleash the power of DIY merged with Dad jokes and bottom burps!

Thank you to the Mums who nabbed all the chalk from the supermarket or found it in the third drawer down and enlivened the footpath while still thinking they could be doing more.

Have you ever tried to paint your kitchen while still using it – that’s lockdown schooling.

Have you ever tried to peel sticky tape off a Christmas present and put it back on the roll – that’s lockdown schooling.

Have you ever tried to write a

third ‘have you ever’ but couldn’t – that’s lockdown learning.

Modern schooling is not that old. Our notion of what a school is, is really only a few hundred years old, whereas the family unit has been in motion for thousands of years.

And, for thousands of years it was in families that life learning took place. It is only recently that parents have sent their children to other adults to learn stuff.

Then you were told – not asked – stay home, keep safe and here’s ya kids for day-afterday-after-day.

Dang!

It’s not easy is it?

So it’s okay if you only did a little bit of the work your school sent you.

It’s fine if you made stuff up or tried things from a parent facebook page.

And it is seriously okay if you just want to drop your kids off on Monday and go and shout yourself an uninterrupted luxury coffee.

We get it.

We know parents weren’t set up for this.

We are prepared for your children to come back with stories, questions, and concerns.

We get it that you are worried your child is behind in their learning. Everyone is in the same position.

There are no studies, no guidelines, and no previous events for us as teachers to use to know what this has meant for your child’s learning.

So we will do what we do when we first start a year. We will connect again with your child, establish that relationship, talk to them, listen to their stories and try to answer questions. We will put in place some of the old class routines and teach new ones.

We will have to work through health guidelines and reset the mindset on what ‘normal’ schooling is going to be.

We do this knowing one certainty – our children are adaptable, especially when we include them in the discussion of why we are doing this.

Our children can cope with change when supported by the adults around them.

And so again I say “thank you”.

To you as parents, we as teachers know what you would have been trying to do and we appreciate that you put your best into it.

Peter Livingstone is the principal of Tinwald School.

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

YOUR VIEW Vandalism May I, through your media, express my utter disgust at the vandalism created by some scumheads who thought it was okay to drive their vehicles and do doughnuts over the newly laid lawns at the Waireka Croquet Club on the corner of Grigg and Phillip streets.

Who would have thought, in this time of being kind to each other and being in lockdown,

that some mindless idiots would do such a thing?

I only hope their consciencesget the better of them and they come forward and own up to their devastating deeds.

Did they not think of how much their damage will cost and how gutted the groundsmen are?

Over the last two years the croquet club has put nearly $50,000 into upgrading these lawns and they have destroyed

it all in a matter of seconds.

I trust their vehicles will be plagued with punctures and engine failures for years to come.

Bruce Leath Treasurer and member Waireka Croquet Club

Roundabout road rules Now that we have dropped down to Level 2, please people,

observe roundabout road rules.

I was driving west, approaching the roundabout at Mobil service station, a car on my left driving north, straight through, didn’t even look to give way.

Only to find the exact same thing happened at the West Street roundabout.

All within a minute.

Wake up people!

There are now other cars on the road – not just you.

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Massive drop in house sales National house sales dropped 78.5 per cent in April as the Alert Level 4 lockdown strangled the market.

The Real Estate Institute has just released figures showing that only 1305 houses were sold last month compared to April last year when 6082 sales occurred.

Excluding the busy Auckland market, sales dropped 82.4 per cent, from 4357 to 767 as real estate agents were not classified as essential and the house sales market almost dried up.

Southland sales fell 92 per cent, Nelson was down 91.6 per cent, Manawatu/Wanganui down 87 per cent and Gisborne was down 86 per cent.

Bindi Norwell, REINZ said the figures were unsurprising because for 27 days in April, New Zealand was in Alert Level 4. Properties could only be sold remotely using online or phone auctions or digital technology.

Of the 1305 properties which did sell last month, 656 transactions were in the first 10 days.

Only 272 sold between April 11 and April 20 April which included Easter.

In the last 10 days, 377 properties sold.

Peter Thompson, managing director of Barfoot & Thompson, said earlier this month that many of that agency’s April sales were under way before the lockdown started.

REINZ said Auckland appeared to be the least impacted. Its sale volumes only fell 68.8 per cent last month.

Most of the transactions were in Auckland City with 172 sales, followed by the North Shore with 102 sales and Manukau with 92 sales.

New listings might help the market recover but Norwell cited unemployment and people’s ability to get finance as factors which would affect sales.

“Talking to our members around the country, there are good levels of activity starting to occur with first time buyers and investors active in the market which is a positive sign.

“We expect this to pick up,” she said.

Median prices rose 17.2 per cent in April to a new record high

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METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

p Gold

1,731.60

London – $US/ounce

+29.2

+1.72%

p Silver London – $US/ounce

15.53

+0.05

+0.32%

q Copper London – $US/tonne

5,155.50

–57.0

–1.09%

NZ DoLLAR

Source: BNZ

Country

on the same time last year to a record median high of $680,000,” Norwell said.

“It looks as if the continued listings shortage has helped prices hold during April, however, as many of these sales will have been negotiated during March when confidence levels were higher than they are now, it’s important to take this into consideration when looking at the figures,” she said.

“We were surprised to see three regions with record median prices but looking into the detail of these regions, it’s more to do with uplifts

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of $680,000, up from $580,000 in April last year.

Auckland’s median rose from $847,000 to $925,000 – the second highest price on record.

Record median prices were recorded in the Hawke’s Bay up 39.4 per cent to $648,000, Wellington up 18.3 per cent to $730,000 and Nelson up 22.8 per cent to $660,000.

“Median prices during April were less volatile than we anticipated, especially with such a significant drop in sales volumes, with median prices for the country showing a 17.2 per cent uplift

in the upper sales price brackets than an uplift in the underlying value in these regions.

“However, time will tell what the true impact has been,” she said.

The REINZ House Price Index, which measures the changing value of property in the market, increased 8.5 per cent year-on-year.

The index excluding Auckland increased 8.6 per cent from April last year.

Owen Vaughan, editor of NZME-owned property listing platform OneRoof, said the REINZ data clearly showed what happened when the plug was pulled on the housing market.

“You get a black hole of nothing.

But the big drops in sales volumes were always to be expected.

“The figures that matter most now are the ones that measure activity from Alert Level 2 onward.

“Will the removal of restrictions on open homes and auctions kick-start the market?

“Key to this is confidence that you have the financial security to buy and that you’ll get the price you need when you sell,” Vaughan said.

As at 4pm May 15, 2020

TT buy

TT sell

Australia 0.9462 0.9105 Canada 0.8581 0.8257 China 4.3507 4.1518 Euro 0.5653 0.544 Fiji 1.39 1.3131 Great Britain 0.5002 0.4813 Japan 65.53 63.06 Samoa 1.7362 1.5715 South Africa 11.2865 10.8319 Thailand 19.60 18.85 United States 0.6107 0.5877

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Movac spends up large Fast-growing NZ tech company TracPlus has landed a $5 million investment from the largest local venture capital firm, Movac.

It gives TracPlus the funds to continue an international push for its tracking and messaging technology, used primarily by emergency services.

And it shows that contrary to some pundit speculation, the Covid-19 crisis hasn’t quashed all venture capital investment.

In fact, as with the Global Financial Crisis, Movac sees it as a time to buy in.

“Successful Kiwi tech firms like Vend, PowerbyProxi and Greenbutton were all founded in the GFC, so we know times like this are great for innovation,” Movac partner Mark Vivian says.

TracPlus was founded in Dunedin in 2007, with the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust among its anchor customers.

Emergency, fire-fighting and search-and-rescue remain TracPlus’s biggest markets, but clients also use its tracking technology in areas such as tourism and agriculture.

Many customers, such as Christchurch Helicopters – where ex-All Black captain Richie McCaw is a director and pilot – are adaptable to any kind of work.

Other hero customers include CalFire (aka the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection), San Diego Gas & Electric, Australia’s National Aerial Firefighting Centre and Chile’s Ministry of Agriculture.

Privately-held TracPlus was ticking over at breakeven and revenue around the $2.5m mark when South African expat and one-time PwC M&A manager Trevor McIntyre arrived three years ago.

Last year, revenue was around $7.5m. This year, it’s on track for $10m.

That growth means TracPlus has had no need to tap the government wage subsidy scheme.

“Covid-19 pays no heed to emergencies, or fires – two of our major markets,” McIntyre says.

The CEO says the business is still breakeven, but its faster growth over the past three years has allowed it to increase staff numbers from 11 to 50 and it now has offices in Chile (not an immediately obvious South American base – but McIntyre says a lot of tourists go missing around the Andes), the US (in Colorado, chosen for similar reasons as Chile), the UK, South Africa and Aus-

Richie McCaw is one of TracPlus’s signature customers.

tralia. The injection of capital from Movac will be used in part to open a new office in Singapore, which will be used as a staging post for expansion into Asia.

The company will also hire its first chief marketing officer, and flesh out its sales team.

McIntyre says three years ago “TracPlus was like a lot of Kiwi companies. Very good at technology but not very good at selling it.”

There was nobody in marketing. Sales was a side-gig for a member of the tech support team.

Some of the Movac funds were also used to complete the purchase of V2track – a four-man Cambridge company that makes tracking devices.

TracPlus’s secret sauce has traditionally been that it’s hardware-agnostic – its cloud-based tracking, messaging and event tracking platform, which costs from $45 to $90 per month, works across a number of popular brands of satellite and cellular gear.

But McIntyre says buying V2track gives TracPlus control over firmware (software programmed into a hardware device), giving it control over a whole ecosystem.

He says TracPlus retains another of its traditional key strengths and market differentiator: working with both satellite GPS and cellular hardware.

“We’ll always give you the cheapest and best signature type,” he says.

And during the likes of search-and-rescue operations, TracPlus will still be able to pull together messages from, say, police and military comms systems plus those used by Joe Public.

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Cancer doesn’t stop for Covid-19 T

he Cancer Society has continued to provide accommodation, transport, welfare and emotional support for Mid Canterbury patients during this difficult time. Chief executive, Elizabeth Chesterman, says staff have ramped up their commitment, over and above their usual responsibilities, to support people with cancer and their families.

With anxiety levels at an all-time high and Covid-19 restrictions in place, there has been a need to find innovative ways of staying connected and providing support to those in need.

The charity has been forced to cancel a number of its planned community events, which it relies upon for service provision.

Despite this funding shortfall, the Cancer Society remains committed to serving its community.

“Our services remain absolutely essential because cancer doesn’t stop for Covid-19,” says Chesterman.

The Cancer Society’s Christchurch accommodation facilities, Daffodil House and Lodge, have remained open to enable cancer patients from throughout the South Island to access their life-saving cancer treatment. With patients unable, at times, to have family accompany them to Christchurch or return home during weekends, this has made one of the most stressful experiences of a lifetime even more distressing.

The society has reacted to this need by providing additional supportive care on-site, along with staff throughout the division maintaining contact and delivering regular support via phone and video calls from their homes.

Chesterman says there is a lot of concern for cancer patients and their families right now, and the organisation is com-

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mitted to being there to assist with their needs.

“It might be we arrange transport to treatment, deliver a merino turban, provide support with grocery or fuel vouchers, drop information booklets at the front door, arrange counselling, or just be a friendly ear to listen to and assist with concerns, no matter how big or small.”

“Our support also extends to whanau of those with cancer, as you can imagine this lockdown time has meant many have been unable to support or visit their loved ones.

This has been extremely challenging and our staff have worked tirelessly to help find solutions for these issues.”

Since the beginning of lockdown demand for our services has continued to be strong in Mid Canterbury.

Over the last six weeks we have offered emotional and practical support to our patients, received new referrals, arranged accommodation, counselling services, the delivery of turbans, firewood, fuel and grocery vouchers, and even a donated puppy to our patients and their families.

The puppy, a beautiful chihuhua/toy poodle cross was donated by a patient who wanted it to go to another patient and family that were going through something similar.

Last Sunday centre manager Annie Bonifant delivered the beautiful puppy whilst maintaining distancing and bubbles to a very excited and thrilled family, a highlight for her during this lockdown time.

Entry into Alert Level 2 has seen an even greater demand on Cancer Society services in Mid Canterbury.

“We are prepared for a significant in-

crease in accommodation needs, transport requirements, welfare assistance and counselling” With no direct government funding, free patient services are primarily funded by fundraising, donations, grants and bequests. “ We know we are going to have a considerable funding shortfall because we have already had to cancel/postpone a

number of significant fundraising activities, are very uncertain about what the rest of 2020 has in store for us all and we are acutely aware of the economic impact on all of our very generous and supportive community donors and sponsors.”

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Supporting winter wellness NATURALLY YOU with Jane Logie

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eeling grumpy? Feeling tired?

Exhaustion setting in? Trouble sleeping? Feelings of irritation?

Short fuse? Trouble completing tasks? Feels like you need a vacation? Missing socialisation?

These are all possibly symptoms of cabin fever or otherwise known today as Covid-19 lockdown fever.

Ways to improve your mental health through the lockdown restrictions set before us: Just by making sure that you are implementing the simple things in life that can help keep your mental health on track as well, is really important to your overall well-being.

SUNLIGHT Seeking some sunlight and just spending some time sitting in it soaking up its rays, taking your time to drink that cup of tea. Pref-

erably sitting outdoors in a green space such as your garden will help to lift your mood and spirits.

Taking in the pleasure of enjoying something so simple.

FRESH AIR Getting some fresh air is absolutely paramount to your health and well-being. Breathing in oxygen deep into your lungs, is replenishing to all your cells in your body, helping you feel refreshed from those cabin fever type feelings that come with spending more time than usual indoors.

EXERCISE Even if it is only a brief walk around the block, it doesn’t have to been very far at all just to feel new again. To blow away those feelings of similarity and sameness. To feel refreshed and re-invigorated. Some may need to take a little longer, but regular short walks can be a game changer to your mental health and those

Rosemary foccacia bread

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uick and easy to make with very little fuss. Takes around 3 hours total from start to end result.

feelings of Covid-19 cabin fever, giving you a change of scenery.

SLEEP Going to bed that little bit earlier than usual and even reading, getting away from the reality of television can be a great way to calm the CNS (central nervous system) and help you feel a lot calmer and rejuvenated to tackle a new day with a sense of calmness and renewed energy.

NOURISHMENT Constantly seeking nourishing foods in your diet to help you feel well, and providing you with the much needed nutrition to get through your day’s tasks. Nourishing your cells through nutrition is really important to how well your mental health performs for you. So think plenty of fruits and vegetables.

ROUTINE Routine is a must during a diffi-

cult and testing time such as the one that we are all facing at present. It doesn’t have to be to exact times but doing the same things each day, around similar times that you usually would, helps immensely to your brain health as the brain actually like patterns which is routine in itself.

BUSY/PROJECTS Setting yourself new tasks and projects each day, other than your general day-to-day tasks help to fill in your time, and gives you a sense of accomplishment of something new when completed.

Which is actually great for your overall feelings of well-being as it takes away those feelings of ground-hog day.

Keeping yourself busy with current, and new tasks and projects, helps to fill in idle time.

LEARN SOMETHING NEW Teaching yourself, or learning something new is also a great way

365mls water 15g active dry yeast 500g strong bread flour 15g salt (rock) 15g sugar 2T olive oil 5T olive oil on top Black olive thinly sliced (optional) Fresh rosemary sprigs (optional)

– In a large mixing bowl add the measured water and yeast, set aside.

– Measure and sift the flour, salt and sugar, and place into the bowl with the water and yeast.

– Measure and place in the 2T olive oil. And mix all the ingredients together until well mixed and mould into a large ball, leaving in the bowl.

– Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel, and set aside for 10 minutes.

– Remove the dough from the bowl and place on a floured board, and knead the bread for exactly five minutes.

– Place the dough back into the large mixing bowl, cover with clean tea towel, set aside and leave to rise for exactly 30 minutes.

READING Reading is a great way to pass the time, and take you to another place, much like taking a vacation from your own surroundings. It gives you something else to think about, than the general day-today stuff. What has just happened in your book, did you learn something new about another country, or time, what is going to happen next in your book? Reading is a great way to calm and relax the brain.

SOCIALISATION If socialising is your thing, and you are struggling with not being connected as much to people around you, reaching out and

– After 30 minutes, knock the air out of the risen dough with your fists until all the air is knocked out.

– Then remove the dough from the bowl, and place in a baking tray or cast iron pan to form the desired shape, pressing with your fingers to make the focaccia indentations.

– Place 5T olive oil over the top and press into dough with your fingers. So they hit the bottom of tray/ pan.

– Optional: you can thinly slice some black olives and sprinkle on top of the dough, as well as sprinkling some individual fresh rosemary leaves on top of the dough for added texture and taste.

– Set the focaccia bread to the side in a cupboard to allow it to rise to the top of the tray or pan.

– Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius.

– When bread dough has risen to the top of tray/pan, sprinkle with rock salt and place in oven to cook for 20 minutes or until golden on the top.

– Take out of oven when cooked, set aside to allow to cool, then serve with soup etc.

– Using leftover baked bread: Slice thinly and grill on tray both sides, and serve buttered, or with a drizzle of olive oil, or a basil pesto with some soup, risotto or a grilled salad.

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communicating with others, talking to your neighbours, making phone calls, or via virtual face-to-face forms of communication, can be of great benefit to your overall health as we are social beings, and a lack of socialisation can really affect mental health for some more than others.

MUSIC Just sitting back in the sun and listening to the radio filled with the music you like can help to calm your brain and make you feel good again, as music really does benefit your brain health. Classical music is great to listen to when you are feeling over anxious as it has the ability to produce a sense of calm within the brain.

and anxiety, and a bit of comedy can help to put things into perspective and not make life feel so serious as well as having the ability to produce endorphias (the feel good hormones), that help you feel uplifted from the Covid-19 news that we are currently receiving daily.

It is important to stay well and feel well mentally. If you are finding that things are getting all a bit much, perhaps trying a few of the suggestions above which could help to clear a few of the mental cobwebs you may currently have. This way may help to change your perspective of what is happening around you giving you a better overall picture and helping to keep you on track for mental wellness.

LAUGHTER Find something funny to watch as this can really help to lift your spirits and mood, and Covid-19 can produce feeling of stress

With the compliments of Jane Logie, a medicinal herbalist, clinical nutritionist and chef from Methven

Lockdown pumpkin soup

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ant the taste of a restaurant soup but can’t quite get to the restaurant just yet with the current Covid-19 restrictions. You could try cooking this soup in your own home and serve with a freshly baked foccacia bread on the side.

Pumpkins pack our bodies with plenty of fibre, protein and vitamins to help nourish all of our cells hungry for the right nutrition, feeding our brains nourishment as well.

This can be cooked in your crockpot on low or high, or cooked in a large pot on the stove if you don’t have a crockpot. It is an easy soup if done in the crockpot, just put it together, let cook and then whizz.

and set aside.

– Peel and dice the onions into small dice and set aside.

– Start the soup ingredients off in a large pot then keep in pot, or transfer into crockpot to finish off the cooking process.

– In a large pot, place the olive oil, let heat through on medium heat then add the onions, gently fry whilst adding the herbs, coriander, curry powder, turmeric, ginger, white pepper and salt. This allows the herbs to release their flavour.

– Once the onion feels soft, and caramelised (slightly brown), place in the pumpkin and potatoes, and blend all 1 whole pumpkin the onion and herb mix through the 6 medium sized potatoes pumpkin and potatoes.

2-4 small onions (can use 4 if you want, – Cover to just the top of the soup depends on your taste) ingredients with boiling water, put on 8T olive oil low heat to cook. Or transfer the soup 2tsp coriander ground ingredients to a crockpot and place on 2tsp curry powder plain high heat to cook. When cooked the 1tsp turmeric pumpkin will be soft to touch.

1tsp ginger – Turn off the pot or crockpot and set ½tsp white pepper aside the soup to cool. Whizz in the 1tsp salt (rock) kitchen whizz when cool.

Kettle of boiling water – Season with salt and pepper to your taste.

– Skin and chop the pumpkin into cubes – Serve with a swirl of plain yoghurt and set aside. some fresh bread.

– Peel and dice the potatoes into cubes

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The realities of lockdown L

ife in limbo continues. Isn’t this all a bit odd ... a bit strange?

Even as this unprecedented drama unfolds, the humble little farm has continued to hum, with all those farmy jobs still needing to be done.

I think the farmer himself remains rather unfazed as he leaves the house every morning to ... well ... farm.

Life on the ranch is strangely normal – Except I feel like I’ve been grounded!

The silver lining in all this is the huge amount of money I’m now saving.

There really isn’t anywhere to spend it anymore, which is a good thing, because probably like you, I’ve lost a swag of contracts and freelance work and my calendar for the next few months is rather empty and all looks a little bit grim.

All cancelled.

So with no funds in and no funds out we are all good, right? Wrong.

You see I thought I’d saved a fortune, but my Visa statement tells a different story. It appears from day one of lockdown, I found even the most essential of essential items to buy online.

Those deemed things we couldn’t live without. In my case, my first purchase – coffee capsules.

It started small. As rules were relaxed, my grocery bill exceeded the astronomical

FARMY PRINCESS with DONNA-MARIE LEVER

Christmas spend, and I was finding “new” essentials to buy.

Suddenly, in a short span of six weeks, my children both had phenomenal growth spurts and as the weather turned cold neither had a tracksuit that fitted them.

Essential. The seven-year-old’s feet also grew another size. Essential. I suddenly needed jeans, salon-only haircare, Trelise Cooper had her only - once-a-year sale and then I found a clearance deal on nut bars.

Nut bars! I don’t even like nut bars … but if you do, I have heaps! I purchased felt tip pens, weed mat, seeds (that have yet to be planted) skincare, makeup, you name it, I have been shopping up a storm, all the time thinking no money has been spent. Woops.

Of course as we return to our new “normal” it’s important we support the local economy – so if nothing else, at least I have well and truly played my part in that.

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Late autumn tasks

xperiencing Level 4 lockdown has reminded us all the importance of home gardens – not only as a sanctuary of safety, but also a source of fresh fruit and vegetables. No doubt there are some very well cared for gardens around the country right now.

Vegetable gardens It’s the month for planting out seedlings of cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach and silverbeet. If seedlings are not available, purchase seeds and raise seedlings indoors to plant out later. Seeds that can be sown directly into the garden include broad beans, onions, peas, radish and spinach.

May is the traditional time for planting garlic, dividing existing garlic cloves or purchasing new garlic cloves. Do not plant them too deeply – just 30-40mm below the soil surface is enough and about 60-70mm apart.

Always enrich your soil with fresh compost before planting a new row of vegetables.

Flowering annuals Annuals live for one growing

season.

Winter annuals should be displaying early flowers by mid-May. Freshen up flower beds with new compost before planting. Some winter annuals to plant include alyssum, calendula, cineraria, cornflower, larkspur, pansies, polyanthus, primulas, snapdragons, stock, viola and wallflowers.

Perennials These grow for three or more growing seasons.

With most herbaceous perennials dormant by May, it’s time to divide them if they have become overcrowded or to create new perennials gardens in other parts of your property. New season perennial are available at local garden centres so it is an excellent time for planting. Check online before ordering.

Fruit trees Now that pip and stone fruit have dropped their leaves, pruning can commence. Reduce the height of trees, especially plums, to allow easier harvesting and maintenance. Remove all weak and inward growing branches and

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remove others where there will be excessive crowding of foliage (leaves). Spray with a copper compound afterwards to prevent re-infection of fungal diseases in spring.

Strawberries May is the beginning of planting time for new strawberry plants.

Prepare the soil by adding compost to the existing soil. Create mounds 200mm apart. Plant several different varieties to extend the harvesting season. A minimum of 20 plants is required to provide plentiful amounts of strawberries next summer.

Roses Dormant roses can now be pruned. Garden hygiene is important so remove all old leaves around the plant that can harbour overwintering fungal diseases.

Add compost around plants as a soil conditioner and mulch.

Hedges Time for a final light tidy-up trim of hedges before winter.

No major trimming should be

undertaken as there will be no significant regrowth until spring and if you overdo it, hedges will look very bare for the next four months.

Lawns Grass growth will come to a halt this month with the cooler weather. Level uneven lawns with a roller as the moist soil allows for levelling quite easily. Check the lawn for early signs of wet areas as they may require some additional drainage.

Paths Paths around the house and throughout the garden become more important over winter months when surrounding areas become very wet. Water blast slippery driveways and paths now to make passage safer. It may be time to consider additional paths through your garden to make winter access easier.

Planning For many of us, the enforced lockdown period provided an

opportunity to reflect on our existing gardens and plan for future extensions. There will be a spring desire to incorporate more edible plants into existing landscapes or when planning new plantings.

Planting edible hedges can be a starting point with the use of edible trees and shrubs eg. feijoas, guavas, some citrus and bay leaves all making excellent screening plants.

Training fruit trees against north-facing walls (espalier) occupies little or no room in an existing garden and can supply plentiful amounts of fruit as the trees mature. Apples, pears, plums, quinces and persimmons all espalier superbly.

Extending vegetable and herb gardens is almost mandatory. As well as growing and harvesting, consider saving seed from particularly bountiful vegetables. Remember to involve your children in the garden fun with planning, planting and harvesting!

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You may also need to spray surfaces in the glasshouse with horticultural oil at winter-strength which kills whitefly very quickly and efficiently. By doing this you can start next season plantings with a clean glasshouse.

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Homemade Japanese Pan (bread) FROM JAPAN with Miya Komatsu

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miss bakeries in Japan. They have everything from English loaves, French baguettes and croissants, kashi-pan (sweet bread) to sozai-pan (savoury bread). They are ideal for breakfasts and snacks.

We have been stuck inside for six weeks.

I had a lot of time to play around with cooking and baking.

I know, baking bread is time consuming (almost takes a half day!) and requires muscles to knead dough.

But, nothing is better than freshly baked bread straight from

the oven and you can adjust to your taste.

This month I would like to share my best basic pan recipe and turn it into two different flavours as well.

I hope everybody is doing well in this hard time and enjoy my recipes.

Miya Komatsu is a Japanese-trained chef and nutritionist who has made Ashburton her home.

She has been living here for 14 years.

Basic Pan dough

Cream pan Custard buns

2C high grade flour 1t dried yeast 2T sugar 1t salt 1 egg - whisked, save 1 tablespoon for brushing the dough later 100ml hot water + 80ml cold milk – to make warm liquid 45g butter – melt

– Mix the dried ingredients together in a large bowl.

– Stir in the warm liquid, egg and butter to make a soft dough.

– Turn the dough onto a floured bench and knead well, stretching and turning dough for 5 to 10min until smooth and elastic.

– Place the dough into a clean greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap. Set aside in a warm place for about 1 hour or until doubled in size.

– I usually place the bowl in a bigger bowl with warm water.

– When the dough has risen to double its bulk, knead it lightly and shape as required.

Miya’s hint: This dough is good to use for sweet and savoury.

Half of the basic pan dough Remaining egg from basic pan dough – mix with 1T water Custard cream 2 large egg yolks 2T sugar 2 1/2T flour 200ml milk – warmed in microwave 1min 1/2t vanilla extract

– Make custard: place egg yolks in a medium sauce pot. Add the sugar and flour and mix well to incorporate into the egg yolks.

Add milk and heat the cream mixture over medium to high heat, stirring constantly until custard comes to the boil and thickens. Put plastic wrap on the custard and set aside to cool down, then divide into six portions.

– Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and divide into six even portions then roll into smooth balls. Cover with a damp cloth and rest 15min.

– Flatten each portion into an 18cm x 10cm oval. Place a portion of custard and fold in half to enclose, pinching the edges, tuck the edges under the base to make a smooth bun.

– Place the bun on baking paper on a baking tray. Repeat with the remaining dough and custard, cut slits, then cover with a damp cloth and leave until double in size for about 1 hour.

– Preheat the oven to 180oC. Brush the top of the buns with the egg mixture (save leftover for sausage bread roll), and bake for around 15min until golden.

Sausage bread roll Remaining Basic pan dough 6 frankfurters Remaining egg mixture Cheese for topping – Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and divide into six even portions then roll into smooth balls. Cover with a dump clean cloth and rest 15min.

– Roll out each portion into a rope, about 30cm in length.

– Wrap the rolled dough around the frankfurter, with seals facing down.

Place the roll on baking paper on a baking tray. Repeat with the remaining dough and frankfurters. Cover the rolls with a damp cloth and leave until double in size.

– Preheat the oven to 180oC. Brush the top of the rolls with the egg mixture then top with cheese and bake for around 15min until golden.

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EVENTS CANNED

By Adam Burns

adam.b@theguardian.co.nz

A handful of secondary school netball events scheduled for later in the year have succumbed to the ongoing effects of Covid-19.

Netball New Zealand confirmed a move this week to cancel three regional events including September’s South Island Secondary Schools event in Timaru, adding a further blow for com-

munity sport in 2020.

It also announced the coveted New Zealand Secondary Schools (NZSS) Netball Championships, which was to be held in Porirua in October had also been moved to next year.

Ashburton College placed fourth at last year’s South Island tournament, which propelled them to the nationals in Nelson.

AshColl placed 15th at the NZSS

tournament, which was won by Cambridge’s St Peter’s School.

Netball New Zealand chief executive Jennie Wyllie said they understood the disappointment felt by secondary school netballers around the country but made the decision in conjunction with organisers of regional events and School Sport New Zealand.

“This has been a difficult decision to make but we are making

it early rather than later to help schools with their planning,” she said.

She said that a large number of officials and volunteers who were needed to help run these events, would now find it difficult to take annual leave from their jobs later in the year.

“It is not a decision we take lightly, but the degree of uncertainty around what the remainder

Netball New Zealand scratched four secondary school netball tournaments this week. of the year will look like for sport means we wanted to make an early decision,” she said.

“We look forward to seeing our secondary school athletes back in action next year.”

The SISS event is scheduled to be held on August 30-September 2, 2021 at Timaru’s Aorangi Park while the NZSS tournament is slated for October 12-15, 2021 in Porirua.

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■■ COMMUNITY SPORT

No rush for local sport

By Adam Burns

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Vigilant steps are being taken by local sports organisations as planning begins on the return to competition.

Mirroring the country’s step-by-step progress out of lockdown, many sports are erring on the side of caution, adopting a phased approach in their quest back to action.

New Zealand Rugby outlined a threephase process for its unions this week, earmarking June 20 as a possible start date for play.

Meanwhile, New Zealand Football (NZF) updated its associations on its pre-season requirements around contact tracing, gathering limits, hygiene and physical distancing.

Players are unable to begin pre-season trainings until clubs had signed off and documented all procedures, which may also need approval from councils and facility owners.

“Clubs will need to satisfy the requirements as outlined in the document to allow a return to training in groups of 10,” a Mainland Football spokesperson said.

No training to commence without receiving sign-off from your club.”

Although NZF have not designated a possible start date for club competitions, Sport New Zealand confirmed sport competitions could commence no earlier than May 30.

New Zealand Rugby League was also adopting a three-phase approach, however have only outlined details for an initial planning period.

A Canterbury Rugby League spokesperson said districts and clubs must use the next two weeks to plan for the required measures they need to ensure they comply with the strict health requirements.

“We will advise in due course when we can enter the ‘prepare to play’ phase and what this looks like in regards to training.

“Timings will be subject to government

Community sports are adopting a considered approach ahead of a return to training and play under Alert Level 2 guidelines.

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updates on numbers permitted for grassroots sport.”

Basketball New Zealand (BBNZ) confirmed all forms of competition and tournament basketball remain postponed until June 4.

“This time enables associations and clubs time to ensure all appropriate meas-

ures are in place before returning to competition,” a BBNZ spokesperson said.

BBNZ added that training is permitted during this ‘prepare to play’ period if strict hygiene measures, physical distancing guidelines and a maximum of 10 people per group are followed​.

Netball administrators are still map-

ping their course back towards play and further announcements were expected in the coming days from their governing body.

Mid Canterbury Hockey said it was developing its processes to ensure it met obligations under the current restrictions.

The NBS turf remains closed.

■■CRICKET

NZ Cricket rush to sign up Conway Wellington’s prolific run scorer Devon Conway is one of three new players to be offered Black Caps contracts by New Zealand Cricket.

Auckland pace bowler Kyle Jamieson and Central Stags spinner Ajaz Patel are the other two in the proposed 20-player list for the 2020-21 season.

Twenty-eight-year-old Conway, who migrated from South Africa in 2017, has had a phenomenal past two seasons, topping the domestic batting charts and becomes eligible for national selection in August.

Jamieson burst onto the international stage over the summer with Player of the Match performances in his debut ODI and test series against the highly-rated Indians.

Patel possesses a formidable first-class record and has been in the Black Caps’ test mix for the past 18 months, featuring most prominently away from home.

Of the players centrally contracted during the previous year, Auckland batsmen Colin Munro and Jeet Raval have not received offers to renew the arrangement, along with Canterbury spinner Todd Astle who confirmed his retirement from red-ball cricket in January.

Selection manager Gavin Larsen said the three new players all have compelling cases for inclusion.

“It’s really exciting to offer contracts to Kyle, Ajaz and Devon who have all impressed over the past 12 months,” he said.

“Kyle’s performances against the might of India were nothing short of outstanding and at 25 years of age he’s certainly got a big future.

“We see Ajaz as the incumbent test spinner at present and he’ll be looking to stamp his mark on that spot after some superb efforts with the ball in the sub-continent.

“Devon’s form with the bat ac-

ross all three formats these past two seasons made him impossible to ignore, he’s going to be a great option to add to the batting mix.”

Jimmy Neesham, Will Young and Tom Blundell have all retained their contracts after being added to the list last season.

The White Ferns contract offers are set to be released next week.

Players offered central contracts for 2020-21: Tom Blundell, Trent Boult, Devon Conway, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls, James Neesham, Ajaz Patel, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson, Will Young.

Under the terms of NZC’s Master Agreement with the New Zealand Cricket Players Association, the players have until May 22 to accept or decline the contracts, which will officially begin on AuDevon Conway has been a run machine for Wellington. gust 1.

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■■A WEEK OF TURMOIL

Racing ‘changed forever’ It’s been a week for the ages for the beleaguered racing industry, with a government bailout creating positivity before drastic changes including the closure of tracks across the country were announced later in the week.

MATT MARKHAM delves a little deeper and tries to break down the week that was.

Ask Winston Peters what he’s up to, and he’ll tell you he’s making racing great again.

However, ask many racing industry participants what he’s up to and they’ll tell you he’s indirectly cutting a massive industry off at the knees.

They say there are two sides to every story.

In the case of this week for the racing industry, it’s a statement that couldn’t ring any truer.

It’s been well-heralded the impact Covid-19 has had on the industry which contributes $1.6 billion annually to New Zealand’s GDP – but what we’d learnt and heard leading into the past week was really only the tip of the iceberg.

A lot centres around the failings of the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA), who were appointed by Peters in 2019 in reaction to a scathing report on the state of play in New Zealand by John Messara.

Their goal?

To enable the urgent changes required to drive the racing industry toward a financially sustainable future.

Through the Racing Reform Act, RITA has a legislative mandate to manage the changes needed to revitalise the racing industry and carry out the day-to-day functions of the TAB and Trackside.

So far, it’s been a failed mission.

Peters announced a $72.5 million rescue package for the racing industry in a prebudget speech earlier this week. $50 million was given to RITA, with more than half of that gone automatically, allocated to pay a $26 million outstanding supplier bill. $20 million was granted from the Provincial Growth Fund to go towards building two new all-weather, synthetic tracks which have been earmarked for Awapuni in the Manawatu and to Riccarton Park in Christchurch – benefiting the thoroughbred leg of the game, but leaving the other two codes in the industry, harness and greyhounds, without direct funding.

The final $2.5 million has been given to the Department of Internal Affairs to fasttrack investigations into online gambling with the industry losing millions to overseas betting agencies – largely, in punters’ opinion – due to ineptitude from the TAB which has a monopoly on the domestic market.

Some of the news painted a good picture.

Importantly, the remaining $24 million from the $50m payout to RITA will be redistributed to the codes to ensure racing can continue into the new season which begins on August 1 and there seemed a renewed hope that things were starting to turn around.

Then the communication barriers burst at RITA during the week with some damn-

The Methven Trotting Club has picked up four new dates this season. ing nationwide changes which will leave the industry looking completely different too what it did before this saga began.

After announcing sweeping job cuts, which were estimated to save $10 million, across the country late last week, including the loss of identities such as Southland race caller, Dave McDonald – the axe reverberated again through the latter stages of the week, culminating yesterday with the release of the draft racing calendar from August 1, which signalled the potential end of a huge number of venues around the country with no dates allocated.

But, I loved my day out at the Orari Trots ...

The racing landscape across New Zealand shifted to a whole new norm when the proposed draft calendar for next season was released and a number of historic and well-regarded venues across the country were absent.

All counted, 14 venues will have no racing on them for at least the next 12 months, with a number of others losing either their thoroughbred dates, or their harness dates while retaining the other.

Close to home, both the Geraldine Trotting Club and the Timaru Harness Racing

Club have found themselves without dates and now must ponder their futures.

Fifteen harness racing clubs and 10 thoroughbred racing venues have been culled.

For Harness Racing New Zealand boss Peter Jensen – those calls were tough.

“They were tough calls to make, but it always paid to remember that it was tougher on those on the other end of the phone, that’s for sure.

“You’re speaking with passionate people about the industry, often people who have put their life and soul into the game and you’re telling them that they can’t race, that’s tough.”

While it was tough news around the country, locally here in Mid Canterbury it was the opposite.

The Ashburton Racing Club, the Ashburton Trotting Club and the Methven Trotting Club are all in action – with Methven being one of the big winners out of the draft calendar, increasing their meetings to 10 across the course of the season as the industry leans on one of the most popular grass track surfaces in the country.

“One of the key factors in deciding where meetings would go was wagering,” Jensen said.

“And Methven, along with many other

Popular Southland commentator Dave McDonald is just one who has lost his job.

clubs across Canterbury, has always performed very well in that regard, with good turnovers due to the large fields they can produce.”

Jensen said Methven’s sound financial position was another key factor in the decision.

They’ll race on 10 occasions across the warmer months, picking up additional dates from their normal calendar in October, January and two meetings across March and April to join an existing meeting.

In Ashburton, the Ashburton Racing Club will be asked to host eight meetings across the season, acting as a main supporting role for Riccarton Racecourse in Christchurch.

The Ashburton Trotting Club has been allocated seven meetings, with their Christmas Eve meeting remaining but their popular Flying Stakes Day in October shifted to the Sunday of Labour Weekend.

Thoroughbred venues without a date in the next season are: Avondale, Te Teko, Waipa, Gisborne, Wairoa, Waipukurau, Blenheim, Motukarara, Waikouaiti and Omakau, while harness venues without dates in the draft calendar are: Manawatu, Hawera, Rotorua, Stratford, New Plymouth, Otaki, Blenheim, Orari, Timaru, Waimate, Roxburgh, Wingatui, Forbury Park, Gore and Wyndham.

Racing Industry Transition Agency executive chair Dean McKenzie said the racing calendar is a critical driver to enable the recovery of New Zealand racing and an essential part of the overall reform programme being led by RITA and the three racing codes.

“The leaders of New Zealand racing have repeatedly talked over decades about change but have not been courageous enough to address the critical need for venue intensification,” he said.

“Repeated reports on the industry, including most recently by John Messara, as well as the industry-led future venue plan, have identified that there were too many racing venues and this was a commercial drain on limited industry resources.

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“Over the last two years the codes have undertaken considerable work identifying their optimal future venue footprint.

“The impact of Covid-19 has created greater financial need to accelerate the implementation of the codes’ plans.”

A key principle of the proposed changes are more meetings closer to where the horse and greyhound populations are trained.

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In Ashburton, the Ashburton Racing Club will be asked to host eight meeting across the season.

I’ll have a dollar each-way on number seven, please The first shock news from RITA for the week came on Wednesday when it was revealed that RITA intend to stop punters being able to place bets over the counter at race meetings.

Manual betting facilities will be removed from racetracks around the country, with punters set to be encouraged to bet through their phones or devices, or make use of self-service terminals which will be allocated to each meeting.

Tote staff are employed across the country to service punters needs on race day and offer an easy, human-interaction model, which allows the racing novice to be guided in what the best options are for their investments – a key factor at country meetings, particularly in areas where racing isn’t held regularly.

The prospect of a huge portion of the 20,000 who attend Cup Day at Addington on the second Tuesday in November lining up to use a self-service terminal is mind-boggling, however RITA said they would work with the three codes to present a specific on course solution for marquee events.

With phone betting also set to be canned, there is some hope that a touch-tone betting option will be retained.

Officially, phone betting with an operator was canned in 2016, however exemptions were made for certain members of society, including those with medical conditions.

The industry is set to be consulted on the changes – but the writing certainly seems to be on the wall.

wall-to-wall racing set to become the new norm.

Trackside will also cease to cover special events such as awards ceremonies and yearling sales too.

Those presenters, all they entice me to do is press the mute button That’s not a problem any more, with most now out in the market and looking for new jobs.

Renowned racing journalist Barry Lichter this week described the staff cull as leaving “blood on the floor” and he couldn’t have been any closer to the truth.

With such significant staff cuts, it was inevitable that some of the familiar names of the racing game would be gone, but no-one

probably expected some of the more iconic names to be included in the list.

McDonald, as mentioned previously, seems the most significant.

But also gone is Mick Guerin and also Craig ‘The Whale’ Thompson, while Trackside will operate with just eight staff in the studio – with 10 players set to compete for the jobs, including former Ashburton Guardian journalist, Aidan Rodley, alongside well-known names like Greg O’Connor, Brendan Popplewell and Emily Bosson – the wife of champion jockey Opie Bosson.

In the commentating sphere, Matt Cross, Justin Evans and Trevor Wilkes all appear safe and capable of handling the reduced workload over the coming months, while

Honey, I can’t seem to find the Radio Trackside frequency The hugely popular Radio Trackside has also been dealt a death blow.

Once the only way that New Zealand could gain racing coverage without being on-course, the station will not be revived to the airwaves after being suspended during the Covid-19 lockdown.

That means the voices of Des Coppins, Peter Early and Alby Gain are gone – with some working as contractors and given the axe as part of the staff reductions announced earlier and there seems to be no provisions for its return in the future.

Joining Radio Trackside on the casualty list are popular racing shows The Box Seat, The First Call and Dogzone, with special coverage and specialist shows all wiped from the schedules with a favour toward

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just three will be kept in the North Island; George Simon, Aaron White and Peter Early will be pitted against each other for two roles, with Early seeming the likely casualty and Mark Rosanowski set to call the Central Districts’ greyhound meetings.

You’ve left out the fields for the Manukau Greyhounds in today’s paper As if it’s been decided that promotion, and enticement to place a bet is no longer a necessity of a successful industry, it was announced on Thursday that there will no longer be racing fields in newspapers – and a strong likelihood that there will be no racing form guide published either.

The TAB has long invested and seen the merit in spending money with newspapers across the country to produce and print race fields, but no more – with a real push to encourage punters to garner their form and information from online platforms.

While racing coverage has diminished in major newspapers across the country over recent years, a Friday liftout with fields for the weekend was always a must-have for racing fans and punters alike.

The decision will now become that of editors of individual papers and whether or not there is reader value in printing the fields without financial gain, which is tough to see happening in many newsrooms across the country.

The industry’s own publication, RaceForm, which took over from The Informant last year, also seems destined for the chop, with printing and distribution costs alone seemingly too much for a battling industry to cover.

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■■RUGBY

The fight for rugby’s future

By Liam Napier Test rugby’s landscape will never be the same.

From competition restructures to private investment and the re-tabling of the Nations Championship concept, the platforms for change are not only here but more importantly so is the appetite.

Evolution of international structures won’t happen overnight, but a selection of rugby insiders canvassed by the Herald said that one way or another it will happen, even if that means New Zealand Rugby “going rogue”.

With all international unions in survival mode, most issuing drastic cuts across their businesses, rugby’s year of reckoning has arrived.

As Covid-19 blocks borders for the foreseeable future an immediate localised focus takes hold, ceasing the prospect of the All Blacks facing opponents other than the Wallabies.

From a funding perspective, the rapid decline in All Blacks tests is the primary reason New Zealand Rugby is forecasting a 70 per cent drop in revenue this year and laying off half its staff.

Last year, a season in which the All Blacks played five tests outside the World Cup and therefore received $20 million in compensation from World Rugby, NZ Rugby lost $7.4m.

This year that figure is expected to swell to tens of millions.

The All Blacks are the cash cow that drives revenue which then filters through all levels of the New Zealand game.

They are NZR’s global marketing tool, chief sponsorship driver and broadcast revenue generator.

It is simple mathematics: without the All Blacks playing their customary 14 tests per year, the squeeze comes on.

For all New Zealand franchises, provinces and clubs that squeeze will feel more like a noose.

Scheduled tests against Wayne Pivac’s Wales (twice) and Scotland in July will be postponed, probably to October in the first instance, but there no guarantees those assignments will be played this year.

Six scheduled Rugby Championship tests against South Africa, Argentina and Australia due to kick off from August 18 are, likewise, in serious doubt.

Even a touted Rugby Championship bubble based out of Perth seems far-fetched, with the Springboks and Pumas needing exemptions to travel.

The logistical complexities of those destinations weigh heavily on the future of the Sanzaar alliance, too.

For example, the massive disruption to the travel industry and the subsequent distress on the airline industry could simply make transporting teams from New Zealand to South America unfeasible in the medium term.

South Africa and Argentina are, therefore, understood to be in discussions about forming their own rugby bubble.

The All Blacks remain the jewel in the crown of world rugby.

Faint hope for test rugby’s return extends to this year’s traditional northern tour in which the All Blacks were expected to make a money-making venture to Tokyo en route to Twickenham, Murrayfield and Cardiff.

The global pandemic will improve, and Boris Johnson has indicated the United Kingdom will start reopening for sport next month, but, realistically, the All Blacks are likely to only play the Wallabies in 2020.

Yet even a highly-marketable series against Dave Rennie’s Wallabies inside a trans-Tasman bubble will represent a drop in the financial ocean compared with that of a traditional schedule.

Perspective on the All Blacks’ intrinsic influence on NZ Rugby’s funding is evident in that one “add on” test each year – those that sit outside the three allocated November internationals – typically generates around $1.5m in profit.

As border restrictions remain, this year’s Japanese venture will be the first match axed, stripping that valued one-off earner.

With NZ Rugby’s six scheduled home tests this year, all of which usually sell out, likely to be reduced to two, the source of the projected $120m revenue hole becomes evident.

Outside gate takings, the lack of exposure for global sponsors and the decline in content for broadcasters, both here and abroad, also hits balance sheets hard.

All Tier One nations sit in the same leaky boat. England’s RFU expects to lose £10m ($20m) in ticket sales alone from the expected non-hosting of the All Blacks in November.

The Welsh and Scottish unions will also suffer.

Desperation to rapidly regain revenue offers the motivation to shake up test rugby’s landscape.

In the immediate aftermath of his victory over Agustin Pi-

chot, newly-elected World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont outlined his blueprint for a long-coveted aligned global season.

This centres on shifting the Southern Hemisphere-hosted July test window to October, and pushing through the 12-team Nations Championship concept the Six Nations vetoed when it was first proposed last year.

The ideas are intertwined.

Moving the July window to October would allow test rugby to run back-to-back rather than being interrupted by the northern club competitions.

The Rugby Championship (August-September) and the Six Nations (February-March) may also move closer together to forge clearly defined test and club windows.

Shifting the south’s July test window would leave the respective domestic leagues in both hemispheres to run outside October and November.

Crucially this plan leaves July open for a potential world club championship recently tabled

by French Rugby president Bernard Laporte, who as Beaumont’s vice-chairman, is said to be the most influential man at rugby’s top table – a not altogether welcome prospect in the south.

Such a concept could see the likes of Irish powerhouse Leinster, the English champions (potentially Exeter or Sale after giants Saracens were docked points for cheating the salary cap), and Jerome Kaino’s French champions Toulouse facing the best southern clubs sides, possibly every two years.

If this window can be freed and player welfare concerns mitigated, the world club league is understood to have the support of leading clubs in both hemispheres.

Beaumont and Laporte must first, however, sell the concept to the all-powerful European clubs.

The latter proposal to revive the 12-team Nations Championship is seen as fundamental in uplifting Tier One test revenues and creating a more equitable share of the pie for southern nations.

While the Rugby Championship and Six Nations would stand alone, each test within those tournaments and cross-hemisphere clash thereafter would award points to the winners on the path towards a proposed test rugby final.

Southern nations long fed up with the status quo, which allows the Six Nations to pocket significantly more gate takings from their home tests, cling to the Nations Championship revival.

New Zealand, Australia and South Africa rely on British and Irish Lions tours once every 12 years to bail them out.

NZ Rugby cleared $39m profit from the 2017 Lions tour, but the collective message from Sanzaar is this inequitable model is no longer sustainable.

“Our financial model at this stage is the All Blacks provide everything – 100 per cent of the profit and we then farm it out to keep the players that then flows throughout the rest of the game,” a high-ranking NZ Rugby official said recently.

“We’re totally dependent on them remaining, as they have been, at the top of the world for 100 years.

“We need a completely brandnew model. NZ Rugby making multimillion-dollar losses [that are] covered every 12 years by the Lions ... it’s gone; we have to change it completely.”

This untenable reliance on Lions tours and the All Blacks to fund the game here is why NZ Rugby have engaged in talks with private investment firms about potential equity partnerships with a view to diversifying revenue streams.

Test rugby’s model is particularly frustrating for the All Blacks who command such appeal that they could sell out Twickenham four times over during each west London visit. And yet while Twickenham tests gross in excess of $29m, NZ Rugby receives next to nothing from these matches.

As Covid-19 threatens to send unions under, it is hoped the $6.6 billion in private investment over the first 12 years of the proposed Nations Championship will remain on the table and, this time, be enough of a lure to get the Six Nations to agree to promotion-relegation.

If Beaumont ushers in the Nations Championship, Japan and Fiji will join the Rugby Championship.

Japan’s kickback for helping to reinstate Beaumont is the promise of elevation to Tier One status, but plans were already in place for the Brave Blossoms to join the Rugby Championship from 2023, as the World Cup that year creates a truncated window which leaves room for a “guest” union.

Not everyone supports the Nations Championship proposal, however. Concerns persist about it devaluing the World Cup, the global showpiece that funds the global game once every four years.

Beaumont has detailed plans for second- and third-tier tournaments to sit below the top 12 teams, but Tier Two nations fear this model leaves them out in the cold and will only exacerbate a lack of exposure against the established elite.

Samoa, for instance, are likely to face less Tier One opposition than they do now.

While a bright and shiny prospect, whether the Nations Championship benefits the global game is questionable.

From a New Zealand and indeed Sanzaar perspective, though, the concept would represent a major victory.

A new World Rugby-governed tournament, backed by significant private investment, would force the north to negotiate revenue-sharing models that, to this point, they have refused to engage on.

Equally shared profits, and the prospect of revenue incentives based on finishing positions, could lift the southern nations off life support.

If Beaumont can’t deliver on his promise for change, NZ Rugby and the Sanzaar partners are considering taking matters into their own hands in what has been described as a Kerry Packer moment.

This path could involve major unions negotiating test tours without World Rugby.

As NZR chairman Brent Impey said this week, the All Blacks are not “beholden to the north”.

No-one is certain what next month will bring rugby’s international arena, let alone the next decade, but the opportunity to seek long-term sustainability is one that cannot be squandered.

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Family Works Team Leader & Social Worker in Schools Permanent full – time role This role has two components, acting hands-on as a Social Worker in schools and providing support and guidance internally as a Team Leader to the Family Works team.

The Social Worker in Schools role (SWiS) is focused on supporting children and their family / whanāu while they are facing complex challenges. The aim is to enable positive strategies and practical support for children and parents, who will benefit from strengths based intervention; to improve their well-being and contribute to long term positive outcomes. This role will require collaborative and/ or partnered responses in order to facilitate good outcomes with our clients.

Blake Green and the Warriors will be in action first-up against the Dragons.

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Dragons first-up

The NRL has released the first two rounds of its revised 2020 season draw, with the Warriors set to restart their campaign against the Dragons.

The Warriors will face the Dragons on Saturday May 30, followed by the Panthers on June 5, as they look to bounce back from two straight losses before the suspension of the league.

ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys originally set a deadline for the entire draw to be finalised by yesterday, but delicate broadcast negotiations have dragged on.

The rest of the schedule are set to be made public next week.

Despite all the drama, the NRL delivered the first full fixtures for Round 3 and Round 4 of the competition in an announcement yesterday – after the first two rounds were played before the game was brought to a shuddering halt by coronavirus restrictions.

It was revealed before the announcement that the NRL planned to use BankWest Stadium and NetStrata Jubilee Stadium (formerly WIN Jubilee Stadium) in Kogarah as its two home grounds for every Sydney club, as well as Newcastle and Canberra.

The Gold Coast Titans will be forced to play their home games at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, while the Broncos, Melbourne Storm and North Queensland will play at their regular home grounds.

Meanwhile, the 2020 State of Origin series is reportedly set for a shake-up as an end-of-season showpiece that will be staged over three consecutive weeks, beginning November 4.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the NRL is expected to confirm next week the series will be played on three consecutive Wednesday nights – November 4, 11, and 18.

The venues have not yet been announced with the NRL reportedly still holding out hope of staging one game at the Adelaide Oval as part of a previous $6 million deal with the South Australian government.

Game 1 was originally scheduled for the Adelaide Oval in June before coronavirus restrictions wreaked havoc on the game.

The NRL has also been unable to announce the venues for the third and fourth rounds of the competition, despite the fixtures being confirmed yesterday.

The fixtures include a Brisbane-Parramatta showdown as the game that will re-start the season on Thursday, May 28.

A Roosters-Rabbitohs grudge match headlines the action for the first Friday night of the re-launched season.

Cementing the competition schedule has been a minefield for V’landys with the NRL also juggling anti-vaccination headaches that could see some players denied special exemptions to enter Queensland after the government’s decision to stand firm on a “no jab, no play” policy.

The Queensland government last week said influenza immunisations were part of the biosecurity protocols the NRL promised in its request to allow the season to re-start on May 28 in the northern state.

The NRL has also been juggling a sensitive workplace dispute with the game’s referees after the referees union made a complaint with the Fair Work Commission over the NRL’s new one-referee system.

Strike action has not been ruled out.

V’landys earlier said the biggest headache surrounding the season fixture was locking in an agreement with broadcast partners Channel 9 and Foxtel.

“The problem we have is the broadcasters.

“We are caught in the middle of it, we are trying to finalise it,” V’landys told News Corp.

“I’ve discussed with (acting chief executive) Andrew (Abdo) and Andrew and I agree we should just do the first two rounds to get the coaches up and going again.

“We will do the rest by next week.

“I’m frustrated like everyone else about the draw.”

Round 3 matches – May 28 Thursday:

Broncos v Eels 9.50pm May 29 Friday:

Cowboys v Titans 8pm

Roosters v Rabbitohs 9.55pm.

May 30 Saturday:

Warriors v Dragons 5pm

Sharks v Tigers 7.30pm

Storm v Raiders 9.35pm May 31 Sunday

Panthers v Knights 6.05pm

Sea Eagles v Bulldogs 8.30pm.

Blockbuster rematch on the cards Former heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield has sparked rumours about a potential rematch – nearly a quarter of a century later – with rival Mike Tyson.

A day after Tyson shared a workout video declaring “I’m back”, Holyfield followed suit, posting a training video of his own saying that he too was back.

The Team Leader aspect of the role holds responsibility to work alongside the Area Manager, to provide leadership and support to the Mid-Canterbury Family Works Team. To ensure that service responses are well coordinated and integrated. The role will include oversight of group programmes, student placements, leadership and administrative supervision of employees and responsibility for maintaining relevant external relationships.

Who we are: Presbyterian Support aims to create a better life for everyone. Our social services are focused on whakawhāngatanga and manākitanga (relationships and hospitality) to help to build safer, stronger, more connected families and communities.

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The 53-year-old Tyson’s initial video fueled speculation across the sport, with reports that even former All Black Sonny Bill Williams was potentially lined up as an opponent for the former champ.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

WE ARE OPEN TODAY AT 10 AM Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultations will be by appointment only. To make a booking please phone 0800 700 155.

Weekend Services

Medical ServiceS

IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

For all other medical assistance outside of normal hours, please phone your General Practice team, 24/7, to speak with a health professional who will give you free health advice on what to do or where to go if you need urgent care.

If you don’t have a regular General Practice, call any GP team 24/7 for free telephone health advice.

DUTY DOCTORS

Pharmacies

Lifeline

Toll-free: 0800 353 353.

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

Ashburton Rest Homes

All Ashburton Rest Homes open with Covid-19 restrictions.

Emergency Dentist

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

Bus Departures

Art Gallery

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Ashburton Museum

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327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm, Wednesday: 10am – 7pm 327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm

Ashburton Public Library

aniMal ServiceS Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24hr service.

Animal Welfare Centre

All enquiries - phone 308 4432 or 027 3329286.

Helpline ServiceS

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

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter

Alcoholics Anonymous

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Veterinarians

Sealy Street Medical Centre, Sealy Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. To make an appointment call your regular GP. Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. To make an appointment call your regular GP. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID.

Support. Phone 03 364 8791

Methven & Rakaia Area

Victims Support Group

For weekend and emergency services please phone Methven Medical Centre on 302 8105 or Rakaia Medical Centre on 303 5002 for details on how to access the after-hours service each weekend.

Healthline is a free health advice service. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The toll-free number to call is 0800 611 116. Healthline is staffed by registered nurses who are trained to assess health problems and offer advice over the phone. The service is free and confidential.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

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

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis 24hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846).

Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm, outside of these hours leave a message.

Alcohol Drug Help Line

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Contact - President 021 1356 969.

20 River Terrace - phone 03 308 4020. WEEKEND HOURS: ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, Sat and Sun 7am - 7pm. Public holidays 10am - 5pm.

149 Cameron Street, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein.

Full emergency service all weekend.

Mail Closing Times ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Cnr East Street and Seafield Road, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

Information Centre Methven - Saturday and public holidays 10am until 2.30pm. Vet Ent and Vet Life operate a joint after-hours SMALL animal emergency service. To use this service please phone Phone 302 8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com your vet as usual.

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Mihingarangi Forbes.

6:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food 5:30 Nga Tamariki O Te Kohu 3 Fight Club 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 7pm M A Simple Wish 7:30 Restoration Home – One 1997 Family. A girl’s plea Year On for help from the fairy 8:30 Antiques Roadshow godmothers of the world has Fiona Bruce is at the V&A unexpected results.

Dundee in Scotland, where 8:40 M Babel 16VLS 2006 items include a self-pouring Drama. Tragedy strikes a teapot, a glass helmet, and a married couple on holiday piece of tartan that has been in the Moroccan desert, to the moon. setting off an interlocking 9:30 Alex Polizzi’s Secret Italy story involving four different 10:30 Running Wild With Bear families around the world.

Grylls

11:40 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

PG Clive Anderson puts a team of comedians through a series of games to total the points and announce a winner.

12:10 Guiltology M 3 1:05 Closedown

11:10 Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:40 Closedown

MOVIES GREAtS 6:05 Shaun Of The Dead M 2004 Horror Comedy.

Simon Pegg, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield.

7:40 Kick-Ass 2 16VLS 2013 Action. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Moretz. 9:20 Eastern Promises 18VS 2007 Drama.

Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen.

11am Wedding Crashers MVLS 2005 Comedy.

Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn.

12:55 Pitch Perfect 2 MS 2015 Comedy. Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick.

2:45 Derailed 16VLS 2005 Drama. Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston.

4:30 The Wolverine MVL 2013 Action. Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tao Okamoto.

6:35 The Man From UNCLE MV 2015 Action. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer.

8:30 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Action. In a near future where an alien race has made an unrelenting assault on Earth, only one man has the power to stop them.

Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt.

10:25 American Hustle ML 2013 Drama. Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams.

Sunday

MAORI

6am Ben 10 – Ultimate Alien 3 0 6:50 Endangered Species 3 0 7:15 Henry Danger 7:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 0 8:05 Teen Titans 3 0 8:30 Batman – The Animated Series 0 9am Samurai Jack PG 0 10am SmackDown PGV 3 11am Raw PGV 3 Noon Shearing Gang PG 3 0 1pm Ultimate Fishing 3 0 2pm Borderforce USA – The Bridges PG 3 3pm Outback Truckers PG 3 0 4pm American Restoration 3 0 4:30 Hot Bench 3 5pm Fishing Classics 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice After Dessert Week, Jo’s celebrity guests are Emma Bunton, Phil Wang, and Stacey Dooley, as well as the latest baker to leave the tent. 0 7pm WhichCar 0 7:30 The Seventies PG 3 0 8:30 Living With Tourette’s M3 0 9:30 M Dirty Harry 16 1971 Action.

A San Francisco detective breaks all the rules to catch a serial killer.

Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino. 0

12:45 The Dark Knight MV 2008 Action. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger. 3:15 Pitch Perfect 2 MS 2015 Comedy.

Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick.

5:15 The Wolverine MVL 2013 Action. Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tao Okamoto.

MOVIES ExtRA 6:31 This Teacher 16VC 2018 Drama. Hafsia Herzi, Lucy Walters.

8:02 After MS 2019 Drama.

Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin.

9:46 Midsommar Directors Cut 18VLSC 2019 Horror.

Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh.

12:31 McKellen MLS 2018 Documentary. 2pm The Mad Whale 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

Camilla Belle, James Franco.

3:45 Daughter Of The Wolf 16V 2019 Action. Gina Carano, Richard Dreyfuss. 5:15 Fixed MLSC 2019 Comedy. 6:45 Hot Summer Nights 16VLSC 2018 Drama. Timothee Chalamet, Maika Monroe.

8:30 Acquainted 16LS 2018 Drama. A pair of former classmates attempt to make sense of the chemistry between them while questioning their own long-term relationships.

Giacomo Gianniotti, Laysla De Oliveira.

10:15 Dear Dictator MLS 2017 Comedy. Michael Caine, Katie Holmes.

11:45 Family Life 18LSC 2018 Drama. Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia.

Sunday

1:05 Dry Blood 16VLC 2017 Horror. 2:30 The Mad Whale 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

4:15 Daughter Of The Wolf 16V 2019 Action. 5:45 Fixed MLSC 2019 Comedy.

11:30 Great Blue Wild 12:30 Mysteries At The Monument 1:30 Sand Masters 2am Bear Grylls – Mission Survive PG 3am Antiques Roadshow 4am Restoration Home – One Year On 5am Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club

UktV 6:05 Qi M 6:40 Qi M 7:10 Qi M 7:45 Would I Lie To You? PG 8:15 Would I Lie To You? PG 8:45 Would I Lie To You? PG 9:20 The Bill MVC 10:10 The Bill MVC 11am The Bill M 11:50 The Bill MVC 12:40 The Bill MVC 1:30 Casualty PG 2:25 Casualty PG 3:20 Holby City MC 4:25 Inspector George Gently M 6:05 Qi MLSC 6:40 Father Brown PG 7:35 Casualty PG Rash’s career is threatened when he is blamed for Mason’s mistake; Iain’s confidence is knocked by Jan and Ruby’s reaction when they hear he will be applying for the HEMS job.

8:30 A Touch Of Frost MVC After four burglaries in four days at the same house, Frost comes up with an arrest as a result of lateral thinking.

10:20 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 11:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG

Sunday

12:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 1:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 2:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 3:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 4:10 A Touch Of Frost MVC

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audi- 16May20 ences 16 years and over; PG Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits FM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

DISCOVERy 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7am How It’s Made PG 7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 8:20 Aussie Salvage Squad PG Best on Ground.

9:10 Aussie Salvage Squad PG Goodbye My Friends.

10am Aussie Lobster Men PG Money Fish. 10:50 Aussie Lobster Men PG Superstition.

11:40 Aussie Lobster Men PG 12:30 Expedition Unknown 1:20 Deadliest Catch PG Episode 3 Recap.

3pm Aussie Gold Hunters PG 3:50 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! PG Natural Born Thrillers.

4:45 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! PG Beyond Driven.

5:40 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! PG Showstoppers.

6:35 BattleBots PG 7:30 Curse Of The Bermuda Triangle PG 8:30 UFOs – The Lost Evidence PG Police UFO Files.

9:25 Gold Rush – White Water PG The Gold Cave.

10:15 The Day I Ran China PG Grand Finale.

11:05 Expedition Unknown 11:55 How It’s Made PG

Sunday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 BattleBots PG 1:35 What On Earth? PG 2:25 Strange Evidence PG 3:15 Strange Evidence PG 4:05 Strange Evidence PG 4:55 Strange Evidence PG 5:45 Strange Evidence PG

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6am Rural Delivery 0 6:25 Country Calendar The Power of Whanau. 0 6:45 Tiny House Nation 3 7:30 Tagata Pasifika 3 7:55 Praise Be 3 0 8:25 Karena And Kasey’s Kitchen Diplomacy 3 0 8:45 Topp Country 3 0 9:10 20/20 3 0 10am Marae 2 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Attitude 0 11:30 The Inside Word PG 3 0 11:55 Sunday 3 0 12:55 Location, Location, Location 3 0 1:55 Adventure All Stars 0 3pm World’s Busiest Train Stations 3 0 4pm NZ Hunter Adventures PGC Willie and Greg are joined by the Cleaver family on a tahr-hunting adventure.

5pm The Chase 3 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Sunday 0 8:30 N The Luminaries PGV A 19th-century tale of love, murder, and revenge as men and women make their fortunes on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. 0 9:35 DNA Detectives 3 0 10:35 F The Bay 16C 3 0

6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:20 Thomas And Friends 0 6:30 New Looney Tunes 3 0 6:55 Powerpuff Girls 3 0 7:05 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:25 Littlest Pet Shop 0 7:50 Kai Five 0 7:55 The Drawing Show 0 8am What Now? 10am Young And Hungry PGS 3 10:45 Shortland Street Omnibus PGL 3 0 12:05 The Bachelorette PG 0 1:55 Little Big Shots 2:50 Home And Away Omnibus 3 0 4:45 Ellen’s Game Of Games 3 0 5:45 The Voice UK Tom Jones, will.i.am, Olly Murs, and Meghan Trainor search for the UK’s best voice talent. 0 7pm M Rush Hour PGVL 1998 Action Comedy. 0 8:50 M Rush Hour 2 MV 2001 Action.

Two detectives, one American, one Chinese, encounter Triads, counterfeiting, and bomb smuggling while on holiday in Hong Kong. 0 10:30 The Bad Seed 16C 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 3 7am Charles Stanley 3 8am Life TV 3 8:30 Turning Point 3 9am R&R With Eru And K’Lee 9:30 The Hui 0 10am NewsHub Nation 3 0 11am Classical Destinations 11:30 Xscape 11:55 Mega Transports 6 1pm Muscle Garage 1:30 Formula E Race At Home Challenge 2pm FIA European Rally Championship 3pm British Superbikes 4pm Supercars Super 2 3 Round Two – Barbagallo.

4:55 The Fishing Show Classics What starts off as a West Coast jigging session for kingfish ends up on the East Coast for a rock-fishing session, and Matt’s first solo spearfish. 0 5:25 Fish Of The Day 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

12:20 The Case Against Adnan Syed M Eighteen years after he was convicted, and almost a year after he won a new trial at the PCR hearing, Adnan Syed faces yet another hurdle, the endless morass of the appeals process.

1:25 Infomercials

12:05 The New Adventures Of Old Christine 3 0 3:50 Infomercials 4:25 Mike And Molly PG 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:10 Humans M (Starting Today) 3 0 12:10 Magnum PI M 3 After a 16-year-old kidnap victim escapes her captors, her parents hire Magnum, who experienced similar trauma as a POW, to find who took her.

1am Infomercials

The Luminaries

8:30pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 6am Clean House 3 9:25 Love It Or List It 3 10:10 Love It Or List It 3 11am Botched PG 3 11:45 Masters Of Flip 3 12:40 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 1:35 Hoarders 3 2:25 Hoarders 3 3:20 Judge Jerry 3 3:45 Judge Jerry 3 4:10 Judge Jerry 3 4:35 Judge Jerry 3 5:05 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 6pm Masters Of Flip 7pm M The Mummy M 3 1999 Action.

Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Jonathan Hannah.

9:20 M Gladiator M 3 2000 Action. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he goes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen.

Monday

12:05 Shahs Of Sunset M 12:55 Infomercials

Lego Masters Australia 7pm on Three

Sky 5 6am Ronnie’s Redneck Roadtrip MVL 6:25 Supergirl MVS 7:10 Criminal Minds – Beyond Borders 16VS 7:55 Main Event MV 8:50 Survivor – Worlds Apart PG 9:40 Supergirl MVS 10:25 Pawn Stars PG 10:55 Criminal Minds – Beyond Borders 16VS 11:45 Ax Men ML 12:40 Mountain Men PG 1:30 Ronnie’s Redneck Roadtrip MVL 2pm Ultimate Fishing PG 3pm Raw PGV 5:45 SmackDown PGV 7:30 Criminal Minds – Beyond Borders 16VS 8:30 NCIS MV 10:30 Chicago PD 16V 11:25 Survivor – Worlds Apart PG

Monday

12:15 SmackDown PGV 1:55 Chicago PD 16V 2:45 Criminal Minds – Beyond Borders 16VS 3:35 Survivor – Worlds Apart PG 4:25 NCIS MV 5:10 NCIS MV

7pm N Lego Masters Australia PG Eight new teams have 15 hours to build a new world, to win not only the immunity-giving Golden Brick, but also the new Flash Jordy Brick. 0 8:45 M The Magnificent Seven MV 3 2016 Action Western. 0

7pm Storage Wars PG 0 7:30 Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip PG Travelling from Brisbane to Cairns aboard the Spirit of Queensland, Griff is warned there are a lot of things that can kill you in Australia’s far north, so his challenge is not to die. 0 8:30 McMillion$ M 2/6. 0 9:40 White Dragon 16VLSC 10:40 Shearing Gang PG 3 11:40 SmackDown PGV Programme with a blend of athleticism and entertainment, featuring the WWE SmackDown Live superstars.

12:40 60 Minutes PG 1:40 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREAtS

7:50 Five Feet Apart ML 2019 Drama. Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse. 9:50 An Interview With God PG 2018 Drama. David Strathairn, Brenton Thwaites.

11:25 Hellboy 16VL 2019 Action. David Harbour, Milla Jovovich.

1:30 The Darkest Minds MV 2018 Action. Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore.

3:15 The Meg MLC 2018 Action.

Jason Statham, Cliff Curtis.

5:10 The Wife MLS 2018 Drama.

Glenn Close, Jonathan Price.

6:50 Top-End Wedding ML 2019 Comedy. Miranda Tapsell, Gwilym Lee. 8:30 Angel Has Fallen 16VL 2019 Action. When a secretservice agent is framed for the attempted assassination of the president, he must evade his own agency to discover the real threat. Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman.

10:35 Child’s Play 16VL 2019 Horror. Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill.

7:25 The Man From UNCLE MV 2015 Action. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer. 9:25 The Dark Knight MV 2008 Action.

Christian Bale, Heath Ledger.

Noon The Hundred-Foot Journey PGL 2014 Drama.

Helen Mirren, Manish Dayal.

2:05 Space Cowboys PGL 2000 Comedy.

Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones.

4:20 I Am Number Four MV 2011 Sci-fi Action. Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant.

6:15 The Next Three Days MVL 2010 Crime. Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks.

8:30 Star Trek – Into Darkness MV 2013 Sci-fi Action. After a ruthless mastermind threatens the Federation, Captain Kirk, Spock, and the USS Enterprise embark on a manhunt to eliminate the threat. Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch.

10:40 The Fault In Our Stars ML 2014 Drama.

Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff.

Monday

MAORI

6am Religious Programming 7am Nella The Princess Knight 3 0 7:30 Religious Programming 10am 100 Day Bach 3 0 11am The Great Escapers 3 0 Noon Fishing Classics 3 0 1pm Ice Road Truckers PG 3 0 2pm Mad About You PG 3 2:30 IRT Deadliest Roads PG 3 3:30 Judge Judy PG 4pm Hot Bench 3 4:30 Hook Me Up! 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm F Cruising With Jane McDonald In a special festive episode, Jane McDonald travels around Europe visiting the world’s best Christmas markets, and creating her own ‘wonderland’ in her cabin. 0

12:45 Space Cowboys Monday PGL 2000 Comedy.

12:05 The Hate U Give MVLSC 2019 Drama. Amandla Stenberg, Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Regina Hall. 2:15 The Tommy Lee Jones. 2:52 The Darkest Minds MV 2018 Next Three Days MVL Action. Amandla Stenberg, 2010 Crime. Russell Crowe, Mandy Moore. 4am The Meg Elizabeth Banks. 5:01 I Am MLC 2018 Action. Jason Statham, Number Four MV 2011 Cliff Curtis. 5:50 Close Up – Sci-fi Action. Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant.

Jennifer Lawrence PG

11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:30 Closedown

MOVIES ExtRA 7:15 Hot Summer Nights 16VLSC 2018 Drama.

Timothee Chalamet, Maika Monroe.

9am Acquainted 16LS 2018 Drama. Giacomo Gianniotti, Laysla De Oliveira. 10:43 Dear Dictator MLS 2017 Comedy.

Michael Caine, Katie Holmes.

12:15 Family Life 18LSC 2018 Drama. Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia. 1:35 Dry Blood 16VLC 2017 Horror.

Clint Carney, Kelton Jones.

3pm Burying Yasmeen MVLC 2019 Comedy. Jason Lott, Mike Langer. 4:15 The Devil’s Daughter 18VLC 2014 Horror.

Paulie Rojas, Nancy Wolfe.

5:35 Messi And Maud 18SC 2017 Drama. 7:05 Josie 16VLS 2018 Drama. Dylan McDermott, Sophie Turner. 8:30 Tyson 16VLS 2007 Documentary. Told through the words of Iron Mike himself, Tyson is a powerfully frank and provocative look at one of the most controversial and misunderstood sports figures of all time. Mike Tyson.

10:02 Phoenix, Oregon 16L 2019 Comedy.

James Le Gros, Jesse Borrego.

11:49 Helmet Heads MC 2018 Comedy. Arturo Pardo, Daniela Mora.

Monday

CHOICE

6am Discovering… Chicago PGC 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Leading The Way 7:30 Key Of David 8am Discovering… Aretha Franklin PGC 8:30 Secret Cities 9:30 Restoration Home – One Year On 10:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 11:30 Love Your Home And Garden 12:30 Great Blue Wild 1:30 Mysteries At The Monument 2:30 Antiques Roadshow 3:30 Love Nature – Inside The Vets 4:30 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends Rick’s latest culinary long weekend takes him to Berlin, where history and the avant garde dwell side by side.

5:30 My Dream Home 6:30 American Restoration 7pm American Restoration 7pm The Negotiators 3 7:30 Irish Pickers 7:30 Jimmy Little’s Gentle Ian Dowling and his DublinJourney based team of pickers 8:30 M The Party M 2017 travel everywhere, from the Comedy. A woman hosts shipyard that built the RMS a party to celebrate her Titanic to medieval castles, promotion but, as the guests to discover remarkable and arrive, it becomes clear things valuable finds. are going to fall apart. Kristin 8:30 The Cold Case Files MCV Scott Thomas.

9:30 Paranormal Survivor MCV 10pm Nanakia PGC 10:30 Irish Pickers 6:30 Tamariki Haka 6:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 7am Darwin + Newts 3 7:10 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Smooth 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Haati Paati 3 8:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 9am Globe 9:30 Swagger 10am Cam’s Kai 3 11am Tapatahi 11:30 Te Ao With Moana Noon Matau Bros Gone Fishing PGL 3 12:30 Piri’s Tiki Tour PGC 1pm Touch Rugby – Junior Championships 3 1:45 M A Simple Wish 1997 Family. 3:30 Marae DIY 3 4:30 Tagata Pasifika 5pm Tamaki Paenga Hira 3 5:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6pm Waka Huia 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

1:11 Holy Lands ML 2019 Drama. 2:51 Burying Yasmeen MVLC 2019 Comedy.

4:06 The Devil’s Daughter 18VLC 2014 Horror. 5:26 Messi And Maud 18SC 2017 Drama.

11:30 American Restoration Midnight American Restoration 12:30 My Dream Home 1:30 Baby Animals 2am Bear Grylls – Mission Survive PG 3am The Cold Case Files 4am Rick Stein’s Long Weekends 5am Love Your Home And Garden

UktV 6am Qi MLSC 6:30 Holby City MC 7:30 EastEnders PG 8am EastEnders PG 8:35 Lewis M 10:10 Heartbeat MVC 11am The Jonathan Ross Show MLS 11:50 The Graham Norton Show MVS 12:40 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown M 1:30 A Touch Of Frost MVC 3:20 Sanditon MVS 4:15 Doc Martin PG 5:10 Heartbeat MVC 6:05 Would I Lie To You? PG 6:40 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 7:35 Casualty PG David and Ollie continue to disagree; Rash decides to fight to stay in Holby; a new member joins the paramedic team.

8:30 Who Do You Think You Are? PG Presenter Emma Willis’s family history leads her down two very different paths in Ireland.

9:35 Inspector George Gently M Gently and Bacchus explore the tension in the once-thriving colliery town of Burnsend.

11:10 Sanditon MVS

Monday

Midnight Casualty PG 12:50 Casualty PG 1:40 Father Brown PG 2:30 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 3:30 Inspector George Gently M 5am Doc Martin PG 5:45 Midsomer Murders MVC

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audi- 17May20 ences 16 years and over; PG Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits FM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

DISCOVERy 6:35 How Do They Do It? PG 7am How Do They Do It? PG 7:30 Curse Of The Bermuda Triangle PG 8:20 UFOs – The Lost Evidence PG Police UFO Files. 9:10 Rob Riggle – Global Investigator PG Pirate Booty. 10am Gold Rush – Dave Turin’s Lost Mine PG 10:50 Deadliest Catch PG Episode 3 Recap.

12:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 1:20 Gold Rush – White Water PG The Gold Cave.

2:10 Aussie Lobster Men PG 7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG The Dust Devils’ operation must shut down as The Poseidon Crew’s dig zone floods, meaning they must abandon their deep-pit mining.

8:30 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! PG Invisible Worlds.

9:25 Curse Of The Bermuda Triangle PG 10:15 Expedition Unknown 11:05 Gold Rush – White Water PG The Gold Cave.

11:55 How It’s Made PG

Monday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Curse Of The Bermuda Triangle PG 1:35 What On Earth? PG 2:25 Naked And Afraid M 3:15 Naked And Afraid M 4:05 Naked And Afraid M 4:55 Naked And Afraid XL MC 5:45 Naked And Afraid XL MC

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 3:05 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 134.4 nc Nth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:03 pm, yesterday

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Canterbury Readings

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Showers, falling as snow to 1100 metres, clearing and fine spells increasing.

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overnight max low

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Wind at 2000m: Light.

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Saturday, 16 May 2020

A southeast flow affects the North Island this weekend, while the ridge lies over the South Island. A front moves north over southern and central New Zealand during Monday and early Tuesday.

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 11.1 12.1 Max to 4pm 6.9 Minimum 3.6 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm May to date 8.0 Avg May to date 30 2020 to date 140.0 250 Avg year to date Wind km/h SE 9 At 4pm Strongest gust SE 17 Time of gust 12:01pm

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Cryptic crossword

Saturday, May 16, 2020

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ACROSS 1. An official paper in which a thousand may be counted out (8) 7. Situation of one coming in behind the winner (5) 8. Remark how the French put it (7) 9. Fish for a weapon submariners use (7) 10. Evil things turn out to be endlessly silly (4) 12. Fundamental change to car laid out like this (7) 14. Is mental image of fats formed any differently? (7) 17. Look over the picture ultrasonics can give one (4) 18. It cuts about fifty possibly places (7) 21. To let liar loose could be a mistake in print (7) 22. Wood is like stone, by one account of it (5) 23. The Lay of the Last … Bird? (8) DOWN 1. Fraud can take one short month to tie up (6) 2. Policeman hasn’t the energy to turn grouse (8) 3. One’s bearing when one is among soldiers (4) 4. Talk a lot about little Jack, toad that he is (6) 5. One’s lot, at being encased in iron (4) 6. Shrink in horror from the kick of a gun (6) 7. A seeming contradiction to the peace of Rome, road-making (7) 11. Roy may be the chap to go to bed in India (7) 13. Musical work put in prom, and nothing else (8) 14. Fan set out to tie it up (6) 15. So cowardly, it’s sensational (6) 16. Take it out of its socket and get lung up for overhaul (6) 19. A mariner’s cry to a sloop-rigged vessel (4) 20. Crazy upset that may take one’s breath away (4)

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ACROSS 7. Uncontrollable (6) 8. Impede (6) 10. Stiffly (7) 11. Bush (5) 12. Swirl (4) 13. Kayak (5) 17. Furious (5) 18. Shaft (4) 22. Threat (5) 23. Envelops (7) 24. Change or improve (6) 25. Cask (6)

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): There’s beauty in rigidity.

There’s beauty in flexibility. There’s beauty in however things are right now. As long as you’re looking for beauty, you will find it.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Everywhere you look, you’ll see the attention-seeking traps of our narcissistic age. You are called by modesty and service; in this way, you’ll stand out from the crowd.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): What task will move the needle for you today? What is the one thing that’s going to make you feel accomplished when your head hits the pillow tonight? Start with that. Anything else is gravy.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): People wear a series of masks to be taken away one by one with those they begin go know, like and trust. You’re getting to know who a person really is. Don’t rush.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): There’s a reason they call it “the courage of your convictions.” The conviction comes with a bag of courage. When you commit to fully to the action, there will be no room for anything like doubt.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Creation is one process.

Analysis is another process. Separate the two, and you’ll be comfortable and focused inside each separate process. This will bring about your best work.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): There are natural forces of attraction at work in your day, and they will play an even more prevalent role once you become aware of them enough to consciously engage in this dance.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): If you are working too hard at something, then you’ll become resentful and bitter. To figure out a better, smarter, shorter route is not the lazy thing; rather, it’s what’s best for all.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It can be unnerving to see others doing the very thing you want to be doing, but don’t let their success shake you up. Mind your own journey. Yours is coming.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You enjoy the challenge that comes with getting to know another person and are almost annoyed when you find out too much too soon. It takes the fun out of discovery! This principle works in reverse, too.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Being aware of what thrills you will clue you in to the sort of goals you can really get behind. After all, if you’re going to commit to something, shouldn’t it hold a great potential to excite you?

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): What’s the difference between an ordinary magician and a great one, a plate of food and a culinary feat, a movement and a dance? Presentation. You’ll add your flourish.

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