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What a difference six years can make. Tinwald School new entrants in February 2011, leaving six years later ready for their intermediate school years. Out of the 11 who walked through the gates together in Feburary, 2011, only two were not part of the leaving team.

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Above – The way they are (from left): Finn Kelly, Simon Moore, Thomas Patrick, Mao Nishioka, Kasey Higson, Benjamin Rushton, Ruby Leverton, Molly McKenna and Lachie Crosbie.

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■ TIMARU DISTRICT COURT

Detention for assaults Early last year four young men with no previous convictions ventured into the Ashburton CBD. They had been drinking at home before visiting nightclubs, where the booze binge continued.

By daybreak on February 1 they had racked up a raft of serious charges.

Yesterday Verokia Akama and Henare Te Mana Toa Carroll narrowly avoided prison sentences for assault charges laid by the Crown, following their appearances before Judge Joanna Maze in the Timaru District Court.

Both received sentences of 12 months home detention, Akama on charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to injure and three counts of injuring with intent, and Carroll on convictions for causing grievous bodily harm, aggravated assault and assaulting a police officer. Each received a warning under the three strikes law.

The men were jointly charged on the grievous bodily harm matter (GBH). They were to have been jointly sentenced however after a period of legal wrangling it was agreed Akama, who was 19 at the time of the offending, would appear first. Carroll’s defence lawyer Lee Lee Heah argued that while her client had admitted the GBH charge his actions had not caused the serious injuries inflicted on the victim.

By definition the blows Carroll rained on the man’s body could constitute GBH, however Carroll, 26 at the time, denied hitting the man in the head or kicking him in the face as he lay on the ground.

Akama on the other hand had admitted responsibility for those actions.

Prosecutor Andrew McRae said the Crown accepted Carroll had not punched or kicked the victim while he lay on the ground, but had participated in bringing

him to the ground and had encouraged Akama’s subsequent actions.

The victim, the last of seven assaulted over the course of the evening, was left with a broken jaw, an impacted tooth and injuries to his hand.

Six of the seven victims were rendered unconscious. A police constable required five sutures to close a wound in his chin.

Akama’s first victim was kinghit then kicked in the head while he was down during an unprovoked attack in the Arcadia nightclub. A man who intended to offer assistance was also punched in the head.

About 3am Akama knocked out a man on East Street before crossing the road and rendering his fourth victim unconscious.

There he met up with Carroll, who had run off after earlier attacking a man on the street and punching the constable in the face.

The pair entered the West Street carpark, where the joint attack took place. They left the scene together leaving the injured man lying on the ground.

Akama’s lawyer, Douglas Brown, asked Judge Maze to consider his client’s youth, remorse and offers to pay reparation in sentencing him. He must pay the GBH victim $1500, and each of the others $500.

Carroll had already made good $800 to the GBH victim, $500 to his other victim and paid the insurance excess for the constable’s broken glasses.

Judge Maze found Carroll less culpable than Akama. She also considered the extraordinary number of references testifying to his good character and his commitments to his family.

Two other men charged with lesser offences are to be sentenced in the Ashburton District Court on Monday.

Among those enjoying a race day in the sun were Kim Mason, Hannah Phillips and Bridget Woodsted.

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■ ASHBURTON RACES

Races a great day out for all The official action may have been on the track, but the Ashburton Racing Club’s Christmas meeting was also about punters enjoying a social day out.

Each year Ashburton holds one of New Zealand’s festive Christmas at the Races events that sees minimarquees line the grounds as businesses take the opportunity to entertain staff and clients.

When it came to crowds flocking to be part of the festive atmosphere, this year was no exception, with marquees booked out weeks ahead of race day.

Right - Lara Biggs and Alexis Wendelken.

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■ ROADWORKS

Smooth ride on South Street

By Sue NewmaN

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Any route through Ashburton that involved using South Street has been an exercise in dodging potholes and a shattered road surface, but from today, that street is unrecognisable.

The Ashburton District Council’s contractors were yesterday completing road markings at the street’s intersection with State Highway One and that will be a huge relief for motorists, said council roading manager Brian Fauth.

The growing numbers of heavy trucks using the street over recent years had taken a toll on the road surface, but with work planned on both sewer and water lines, a rebuild had to wait until that work was completed, he said.

“We wanted to get the storm water tidied up on the central borough project and the water main done. We also knew Progressive was building Countdown so we didn’t want to get our part done and then have to dig it up again.”

By Monday the first phase of South Street’s rebuild will have been completed and contractors will also have wrapped up work on the intersection of the street with State Highway One.

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Ashburton’s Heartland Bank is harnessing technology to step into the future.

While some banks continue to provide face-to-face teller services for cash deposits and withdrawals, Heartland plans to gradually phase out cash teller services at its Ashburton branch.

The change comes in the wake of changing customer needs, says chief executive Jeff Greenslade.

“Handling cash is inefficient and has security implications, both for our customers and for us. We do realise that this transi-

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In brief Berries slow A week’s a long time in politics . . . and also in the raspberrygrowing business. Unseasonable cold weather in Mid Canterbury has meant raspberries and other summer berries are slow to ripen.

But that could easily change with a few solid days of sunshine and warmer temperatures.

Southberry’s Vicki Dobson said pickers were working the vines, but the raspberries were slow ripening. “We are still getting raspberries but not in quantity.”

She said it was a matter of when, not if, with fruit on the vine. Tayberries, blackberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants and boysenberries would also eventually be available.

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Ashburton District Council service delivery chairman Stuart Wilson (left) and deputy chairman Russell Ellis check out the final stages of work on South Street.

PHOTO JAMIE ADAIR 151216-JA-143 Contractors will return to South Street after Easter, however, to apply a final coat of seal to the road.

“We’ve fielded a lot of complaints from residents over South Street over the past few years, but people should be pretty happy with this area of road now,” Fauth said.

The council had opted for a new method of road reconstruction for the $320,000 project.

This involved a shallower digout and rehabilitation that involved foamed bitumen mixed with cement. This was then topped with two coats of chip seal. The final smooth asphalt surface will be applied after a bedding-in pe-

riod of three to four months.

New kerb and channel has also been installed along the street.

Motorists will now be able to use the South and East street intersection, but the set of traffic lights installed as part of the supermarket construction, will not be commissioned until later in January.

Time catches up with cash teller services

By Sue NewmaN

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tion away from cash will not suit some of our customers, so we will be sensitive to individual preferences,” he said.

Cash withdrawals, cheque deposits and some cash deposits will still be available via an ATM machine located in the branch.

As cash handling changes, there will also be a raft of physical changes to the East Street business.

While engineering reports indicated the building was safe to occupy, Greenslade said the building was well overdue for a refurbishment and would use that work as an opportunity to strengthen it

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as well. The change to electronic cash handling in Ashburton had been on the drawing board for some time as this change had already been introduced in the bank’s other branches.

While the work was underway, banking services would move to a temporary location for three or four months, he said.

“We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this may cause, but the work is essential and it will result in a much better building in Ashburton.”

The bank would also launch an online platform for home loans in the new year and it expected to

create a service centre in Ashburton to support this. The new service could create additional jobs.

“The planned changes represent a significant investment for us, and they reaffirm our commitment to Ashburton and the region, which Heartland has been part of for more than 100 years,” Greenslade said.

When the refurbished bank reopened, the electronic cash handling system would be in place and while that might be create a few concerns for some clients, staff would still be working in the public areas and would provide all the assistance needed, he said.

A group of Christchurch homeowners have been given the thumb’s up to proceed with a class action against their insurer, Southern Response. The policyholders, whose homes were damaged in the Canterbury earthquakes, had their application approved in the High Court at Christchurch yesterday. Justice Warwick Gendall was satisfied that the strategy employed by Southern Response provided a common “spine” to all of the policyholders and, “if substantiated at trial ... might well constitute a breach of Southern Response’s express obligations under each policy.” “Southern Response engaged in a deliberate ‘strategy’ designed to deceive policyholders and delay claims with a view to reducing their financial liability to its policyholders.

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Jack’s painting winning over competition voters

By Linda CLarke

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Artist Jack McDonald misses country life after spending the past five years in cities.

The former Ashburton College head boy now works for a software company in Wellington but tapped into his rural roots to paint a quiet Kurow road that is winning over voters in a Fonterra art competition.

The competition involves paintings and photographs of rural life and voting ends on Wednesday.

McDonald grew up on a dairy farm in Mid Canterbury and paints alongside his dad Mark. He has never planned for a life in the cowshed and studied civil engineering at the University of Canterbury.

He has been working as a project manager for the software company for a year and the job involves designing the visual components of interfaces for apps.

“It’s true what your teachers say at school. This wasn’t even a job a few years ago.”

McDonald combines his artistic talent in the design work,

and loves it. He finds time early in the morning or late at night to paint and has sold several pieces in the past year, using social media to raise his profile.

The inspiration for the Fonterra artwork followed a trip to Kurow with his father.

They cruised the iconic countryside snapping photographs they would later use to recreate the scene with brushes.

McDonald said he was struck by the clear blue sky and mountains in Kurow and the quiet beauty of the landscape.

“It took a couple of weeks to paint and, for me, the sky was a challenge.”

He hopes to find a special home for this painting after the competition and has plans to sell other art offshore.

Jack McDonald, international artist, has a nice ring to it.

Help Jack’s cause by voting for his painting, go to https:// fonterra.shuttlerock.com/ fonterra-art-competition#/ boards/fonterra-art-competition or check out Fonterra’s Facebook page

Ashburton-born artist Jack McDonald with his Kurow-inspired landscape.

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■ WHITEBAIT FISHERY

Big hauls spark management calls

By SuSan SandyS

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Mid Canterbury whitebaiters are backing scientists’ concerns on sustainability of the resource, particularly after huge catches this year.

As some whitebaiters earn tens of thousands of dollars, others are calling for a limit on how much each person can take.

It follows scientists this month calling for a whitebaiting licence similar to a fishing licence, and a ban on commercial whitebaiting.

Dr Mike Hickford, marine ecology researcher at the University of Canterbury, recommended whitebait licences similar to fishing li-

cences, where whitebaiters could nominate the number of days they wanted it for, and what areas.

Revenue would support research and data could be gathered.

“These are basic data required to manage a fishery,” Hickford said.

Massey University senior lecturer Dr Mike Joy is calling for a ban on commercial harvesting.

“We have no idea whether current whitebaiting practices are sustainable because there is no requirement for records of catches to be kept,” Joy said.

Whitebait are the juveniles of five species of galaxid, four of which are considered threatened

or declining. An Ashburton whitebaiter of about 20 years, who did not wish to be named, said he caught about 18 kilograms at the Rakaia River mouth this season.

He knew of one Ashburton couple who had caught 400 kilograms; their family members would have caught similar, and they all would have made about $20,000 from selling it.

“On every river there are people who are fishing for the wrong reasons,” he said.

He said many whitebaiters would sell their catches when they got too much, or swap it for beer or other items, and he had done this himself. However, it was

the huge hauls he had a problem with. Such whitebaiters would rise at 4am, be on the river by 6am and work the spot in shifts with family and friends, seven days a week.

In order to ensure sustainability there needed to be a bag limit, a suggestion agreed on by other whitebaiters talked to by the Guardian. He also believed there should be a ban on selling the delicacy, and perhaps even one day a week where whitebaiting was not allowed.

Department of Conservation acting director aquatic Peter Brunt said contributing factors to the decline of the whitebait fishery were habitat loss, barriers to

migration, reduced water quality and pressure from introduced species. In addition, whitebaiters could help conserve the fishery by keeping their catch small and contacting their local department or regional council office if they saw overhanging culverts which stopped whitebait migrating upriver.

DOC was collating information and working with regional councils to get a better picture of whether improvements to the management of the whitebait fishery were needed. It was also working with Otago University into the structure of whitebait stocks.

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Radio banter triggers friendship memories

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Ashburton born-and-bred radio personality Simon Barnett is daily receiving a ribbing from his More FM breakfast show cohosts, claiming his childhood BFF is not real.

However, David Fendall is ofcourse a real person, and his parents have fond memories of him and Barnett growing up in Ashburton together.

“They were buddies,” Fendall’s father Bob Fendall, who now lives in Christchurch, said this week.

“It’s been a life-long friendship.”

Bob, a church minister, and wife Leita moved to Ashburton when their son was in Standard 4, and they stayed in the town for nine years as Bob served at St David’s union parish.

Fendall and Barnett attended Ashburton College together, where Barnett was head boy, and the pair would come home at lunch times to play backyard cricket at the Fendall home.

They enjoyed bike riding at the industrial estate “death drop”, soccer, tennis, and appearing in college theatrical productions together, Bob said.

Bob said he was himself a Radio New Zealand listener, and as

such had not been aware of the jokes about whether his son, a corporate banker in Auckland, was a real person or not.

At any rate, it did not concern him.

“It’s just a fun gimmick,” he said.

Fendall said from Auckland he was aware of the debate over whether he was real or not, as many friends and family members had phoned and told him about it.

He and Barnett had been friends since their Allenton School days.

“We were certainly best friends growing up … we have stayed pretty tight for a long time.”

He said he would be making an appearance at the More FM Christchurch studio to prove he was an actual person, and sharing childhood memories of growing up with Barnett, on December 23.

“I suspect I will be asked for a few stories when it goes on air,” Fendall said.

He would be in the city to share Christmas with his family based there, and he and his wife Jodene would be going out in the evening for dinner, following the radio show, with Barnett and his wife Jodi.

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Primary schools’ festivities

■ ALLENTON SCHOOL

Mid Canterbury’s primary schools enjoyed festive activities as they wound down academic pursuits for 2016!

Allenton School junior Josh on the Ashburton Domain climbing frame during their junior school picnic.

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Front (from left): Eloise Openshaw, Vienna Smith, Charlotte Neal, Amber Peace, Teila Pitama, Meeah Pawsey, Jackson Couper, Isaiah Smith, Hayley McQuillan-Ross, Melissa Wilson, Sarah Wilson and Alex Wilson.

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■ FAIRTON SCHOOL Fairton School students took a giant step back in time this week to the days of the early settlers and the gold rush era.

Under the direction of teacher Andrea Small the youngsters sang, danced and acted their way through the musical Goldrush,

adding their own touches as well.

All 34 students were on stage during the show with each having a part in the show, Small said.

Enjoying a ride are (from front) Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Zoe, Charlotte and Kiara.

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■ TINWALD SCHOOL Tinwald School youngsters had the perfect end to their school year this week when they held a Christmas picnic in the Tinwald Domain, complete with a visit from Santa.

Above right – Read to swim, Bella Robertson.

Left – Novadah Paese, enjoying time on the swing.

Right – Jackson Adair, cooling down in the pool.

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Hampstead Primary School’s end-of-year festivities Mid Canterbury’s primary schools enjoyed festive activities as they wound down academic pursuits for 2016!

Left – Hampstead School students spent their last day of the school year enjoying a picnic lunch and playing games.

Riley Broker is in action on the cricket field.

Below – Taking a break, Mary-Faith Hamilton.

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Teachers meet and greet Hampstead School teacher Julia Crossen getting a head start on 2017, meeting her new students. The class of Room 13 was part of a school-wide meet and greet session designed to help students transition into the new school year.

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Citizen science monitoring of water a win-win – research N

ew research has revealed that citizen science monitoring of water is a win-win for scientists and volunteers – one gains access to new data, and the other the skills and confidence to become involved in discussions over what is happening to their streams.

Niwa freshwater ecologist Dr Richard Storey is the lead author of a recently published scientific paper in the journal Ecology and Society that examined the usefulness of volunteer stream monitoring – including the quality of the data and participation in freshwater management.

The research showed that not only were volunteers providing reliable data, but the experience was having a huge effect on them, with many describing the experience as “life-changing”.

“I’ve gone from somebody who used to mountain bike beside a river and never taken any notice of it, to it becoming all consuming,” one volunteer said.

Dr Storey said public participa-

All sorts of fans of the great outdoors are helping scientists monitor what’s happening in our streams and waterways. tion in environmental monitoring, a form of citizen science, has increased dramatically around the world in the past 20 years.

“We think that if communities are involved with the monitoring, that will lead to a better understanding of stream values and better equip them to get involved with freshwater planning processes.”

One of the reasons to encourage community monitoring is the need for more data for research and better freshwater management – something volunteers can contribute to by conducting monitoring beyond what regional councils and researchers can achieve on their own.

Dr Storey believed that providing evidence that communitybased monitoring data is reliable encourages officials and others to

use volunteer data.

There was also an expectation with recent freshwater policy reforms in New Zealand for greater community involvement at all levels.

“What we’re trying to do is show volunteer data can complement Niwa data and council data with the aim of promoting community monitoring around the country and get a lot more data coming in. Streams are a bit like blood vessels – councils monitor the arteries and big veins but the capillaries need monitoring as well.”

Volunteers used simpler equipment than council staff based on the Niwa-developed Stream Health and Monitoring Assessment Kit or SHMAK. Dr Storey and his team found the reliability of volunteer data

was strongest when it came to measuring water temperature, electrical conductivity, visual water clarity and the cover of thick periphyton growths, but less strong, although still useful, for indicators of stream ecological health and E.coli indicator bacteria, for example.

Taking E.coli measurements and identifying invertebrates were regarded as more difficult, but Dr Storey said many volunteers relished the challenge and the results were in line with council monitoring.

“People are always fascinated by bugs and they put a huge effort into it.”

Follow-up interviews with volunteers from nine community groups found many people had a better understanding of scientific processes and greater awareness

of freshwater environmental issues. Professional support, mainly by regional councils, was crucial to ensure the monitoring was being carried out correctly and to increase the confidence of volunteers who identified “learning” from scientists as one of the main rewards to taking part.

Dr Storey said that while community monitoring had long been used as an educational tool, the research had shown it can also provide extremely useful data.

“This is data that could highlight hotspots of pollution or habitat degradation that could lead to professional investigation or show trends over time.”

The next step is to set up a national online data base which would be a repository for all available information and able to be used by everyone.

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Year 10 prize list 2016: General Awards Grace Adams, 10RW, Excellence in Mathematics, Excellence in Money Management, Excellence in Agriculture, Excellence in Physical Education, Excellence in Science, Excellence in Social Studies, Application and Effort Jacklynn Afu, 10OY, Application and Effort Connor Allan, 10GY, Application and Effort Zoe Aschen, 10OW, Application and Effort Chloe Barker, 10GZ, Application and Effort Cole Beeman, 10RX, Excellence in Technology Wood, Excellence in Exercise Performance Sacha Begbie, 10GY, Application and Effort Georgia Bennett-Collett, 10BX, Application and Effort Alisha Broker, 10RW, Application and Effort Noah Broomhall, 10OX, Application and Effort Carl Cayanan, 10OY, Excellence in Technology Wood, Application and Effort Jack Chen, 10RY, Application and Effort Hayley Clark, 10GZ, Application and Effort Siah Claydon-Wade, 10BW, Application and Effort Tim Davison, 10RX, Excellence in Technology Metal Kristene De Guzman, 10BX, Application and Effort Sarah Dickson, 10BX, Excellence in Technology Wood, Application and Effort Sammy Doak, 10OW, Application and Effort Jemma Donnelly, 10OW, Highly commended in the junior prose section of the Ashburton College Creative Writing Competition, Excellence in Drama, Application and Effort Taryn Douglas, 10RY, Application and Effort Opeti Draunibaka, 10BX, Excellence in English Language Studies Natasha Drummond, 10RY, Excellence in Graphics Tayla Dunlea, 10OY, Application and Effort Sarah Du Toit, 10RW, Excellence in English, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Ernest Encarnado, 10RY, Excellence in English as a second language, Application and Effort Mitchell Farr, 10RW, Application and Effort Kate Flanagan, 10OY, Application and Effort Lara Frost, 10BW, Application and Effort Josh Giles, 10BW, Excellence in Exercise Performance Tayla Glenie, 10BW, Application and Effort Charlie Goulter, 10GZ, Application and Effort Ashleigh Hadfield, 10OX, Excellence in Materials Fabrics, Application and Effort Emma Hands, 10BW, Application and Effort Ben Harris, 10OW, Excellence in English, Application and Effort James Harris, 10GY, Application and Effort Leigh Harrison, 10OW, Application and Effort Lily Hewson, 10OY, Application and Effort Ben Hislop, 10RW, Excellence in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Samantha Holden, 10RX, Application and Effort Teaghan Holland, 10RY, Application and Effort Brooke Hooper, 10RW, Application and Effort Jessica Hunter, 10RX, Excellence in Agriculture, Application and Effort Alesha Ingham, 10RY, Application and Effort Charlotte Jackson, 10GY, Application and Effort Josh Jones, 10GZ, Application and Effort Piper Jones, 10OX, Application and Effort Tori Kelland, 10OW, Excellence in German as a second language, Excellence in Music, Application and Effort Sophie Kemp, 10GZ, Excellence in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Shante Kereopa, 10OY, Excellence in

Ashburton High School Centennial Trust Top Scholar of Year 10 Mollie Gibson. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Maori Jess Kettley, 10RW, Excellence in Drama, Application and Effort Jacob Kilworth, 10RY, General Excellence in 10W, Application and Effort Titus Lambert-Lane, 10OW, Excellence in Science, Application and Effort Rachel Leak, 10OW, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Toby Lee, 10GY, Application and Effort Sudarshan Malla, 10OX, Excellence in Technology Metal, Excellence in Technology Wood, Application and Effort Cody Maher, 10OY, Application and Effort Kudzai Mahere, 10OX, Application and Effort Matthew Marriott, 10OY, Application and Effort Karla Martin, 10OX, Application and Effort Ryan Maslin, 10OY, Application and Effort Jared Mattson, 10RX, Excellence in Graphics, Application and Effort Dani McArthur, 10RW, Excellence in Agriculture, Application and Effort Kate McIlroy, 10OW, Excellence in Social Studies, Application and Effort Tegan McIntyre, 10RY, Excellence in Materials Fabrics, Application and Effort Ella McQuillan, 10OW, Application and Effort Jade Meyer, 10GY, Application and Effort Tom Middleton, 10RX, Excellence in Exercise Performance, Application and Effort Simone Mielnik, 10RX, Application and Effort Natsuki Mori, 10OW, Application and Effort Ann Moriarty, 10BW, Excellence in Money Management, Application and Effort Danelle Munro, 10RW, Application and Effort Jacob Murray, 10OX, Application and Effort Julie Mushonga, 10RX, Application and Effort Ben Norton, 10OW, Excellence in Digital Technologies, Excellence in Music, Application and Effort Izack Otene, 10BW, Application and Effort Louie Pabualan, 10BW, Excellence in English Language Studies Alena Patterson, 10RW, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Sam Pearce, 10RY, Application and Effort Logan Perkins, 10OY, Excellence in Digital Technologies, Application and Effort Jade Peters, 10RW, Application and Effort Bradley Phillips, 10OW, Application and

Effort Grace Pierce, 10OY, Application and Effort Katie Polmear, 10GY, Application and Effort Liam Pram, 10BX, Application and Effort Luke Prendergast, 10RY, Application and Effort Courtney Quinn, 10GZ, Excellence in Digital Technologies, Application and Effort Yvangeline Radan, 10RY, Excellence in English Language Studies, Application and Effort Nick Radford, 10BX, Application and Effort Sarah Rawlings, 10OW, Application and Effort Lezlie Reusora, 10BX, Application and Effort Quinn Ritchie, 10RW, Application and Effort Sam Ross, 10OY, Application and Effort Lupepe Saofai, 10BX, Application and Effort Jared Scammell, 10RX, Application and Effort Jacob Skinner, 10BX, Excellence in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Luke Skinner, 10RW, Application and Effort Thomas Smith, 10OX, Application and Effort Alo Solofuti, 10OX, Excellence in Music, Application and Effort Ben Sooaemalelagi, 10BW, Excellence in English as a second language, Application and Effort Clark Stewart, 10OW, Application and Effort Emily Tane, 10GZ, Application and Effort Matine Tairi, Excellence in Maori Joe Te Are Daniel, 10GZ, Excellence in English Language Studies, Excellence in English as a second language Kauri Te Moananui-Gamble, 10RW, Excellence in Maori, Application and Effort Cody Teroi, 10RY, Excellence in English as a second language, Application and Effort Ofaloto Teulilo, 10RY, Application and Effort Kian Teves, 10BX, Application and Effort Phinenah Teves, 10GY, Excellence in Digital Technologies, Excellence in Graphics, Excellence in Physical Education, Application and Effort Ben Thomas, 10GZ, Application and Effort Tessa Thompson, 10RX, Application and Effort Taumaoe Touli, 10GZ, Excellence in English as a second language Summer Trinnaman, 10RX, Excellence in Materials Fabrics, Application and Effort Ella Vessey, 10OX, Application and Effort Natasha Waddell, 10RX, Excellence in

Food and Nutrition, Application and Effort Max Watson, 10BW, Application and Effort Reece Watson, 10OW, Application and Effort Zac White, 10BX, Excellence in Digital Technologies, Application and Effort Bree Wichman-Beech, 10GZ, Application and Effort Rory Willis, 10OX, Application and Effort Andrew Wills, 10GZ, Application and Effort Jackson Winstone, 10GY, Application and Effort Alex Wood, 10RW, Application and Effort Brynmor Workman, 10OW, Excellence in Exercise Performance Subject and Special Prizes Laurraine Aperocho, 10BW, Top Student in English Language Studies, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Application and Effort Emily Armstrong, 10OW, Top Student in English (Lonsdale Cup), Top Student in German as a second language (German Embassy Prize), 1st equal in the junior poetry section of the Ashburton College Creative Writing Competition, Excellence in Science, Application and Effort Zif Balagulan, 10RW, Top Student in Art, Application and Effort Kelly-Anne Bentley, 10BW, General Excellence in 10M, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Application and Effort Jade Brosnahan, 10RY, Junior Girls Tennis Champion (The Ashburton High School Old Girls Cup), Application and Effort Chloe Buchanan, 10OY, Top Student in Graphics, Excellence in Art, Application and Effort Jayden Collett, 10RW, Best Male Shooter (RSA Trophy Belt), Highly Commended in the Year 10 Speech Competition, Application and Effort Shane Crawford, 10OW, Top Student in Digital Technologies, Top Student in Money Management – joint award, Highly Commended in the Year 10 Speech Competition, Excellence in Graphics, Excellence in Mathematics, Excellence in Social Studies, Application and Effort Keno De Leon, 10OX, Top Student in English as a second language, Application and Effort Zoe Diedricks, 10OW, Top Student in Music, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Aidan Elvines, 10OW, Girls Rugby Cup for Dedication, Application and Effort Junita Faoagali, 10OX, Top Student in Drama, most Merits in the Junior School – joint award Excellence in English as a second lan-

guage, Application and Effort Brittany Fowler, 10OW, Animal Supplies Equestrian Trophy, Top Student in Money Management – joint award, Excellence in Art, Excellence in Agriculture, Application and Effort Mollie Gibson, 10OW, Top Student in Social Studies, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Excellence in Graphics, Excellence in Mathematics, Excellence in Physical Education, Excellence in Science, General Excellence in 10X, Application and Effort Ruby Goodes, 10RX, Top student in Materials Fabrics, Application and Effort Thom Graham, 10RW, ANZ Bank Junior Cricketer of the Year, Application and Effort Josh Kershaw, 10OX, Ashburton College Snowboarding Champion (Boardercross Trophy), Excellence in Technology Wood, Application and Effort Soul Lima, 10GZ, Top Student in Physical Education, Top Student in Exercise Performance – joint award General Excellence in 10N, Excellence in Drama, Application and Effort Oliver Livingstone, 10OW, Top Student in Agriculture, Excellence in German as a second language, Excellence in Music, Application and Effort Maisie Looij, 10RW, Top Student in Japanese – joint award, Excellence in Social Studies, Application and Effort Eirinn MacLean, 10BX, General Excellence in 10V, Application and Effort Jay Martin, 10OW, Toro Iwikau –Archie Keepa (Kaumata Ashburton College 1993-2003) Trophy for Top Overall Year 10 Maori student – joint award, Excellence in Mathematics, Excellence in Money Management, Excellence in Physical Education, Excellence in Science, Application and Effort Bridget McArthur, 10RX, General Excellence in 10K, Excellence in Drama, Excellence in Materials Fabrics, Application and Effort Meg McIntyre, 10BX, General Excellence in 10P, Application and Effort Abe O’Donnell, 10RW, Junior Boys Sports Cup, Application and Effort Amy Pearson, 10OW, The Ashburton College Spelling Bee trophy for her performance in the National Spelling Bee. Amy placed in the top 12 in New Zealand, Top Student in Science, 1st equal in the junior poetry section of the Ashburton College Creative Writing Competition, General Excellence in 10L, Excellence in Art, Excellence in English, Excellence in German as a second language, Excellence in Music, Excellence in Physical Education, Application and Effort Andrew Phimester, 10RW, Ashburton College Junior Chess Champion, Application and Effort Tane Putaranui, 10BX, General Excellence in 10J, Application and Effort Isabella Roulston, 10BX, Clayton Cup for Cycling Emma Stagg, 10RY, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, General Excellence in 10Y, Application and Effort Caleb Staite, 10GZ, Top Student in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Sonia Stephens-Tahuri, 10GY, Toro Iwikau –Archie Keepa (Kaumata Ashburton College 1993-2003) Trophy for Top Overall Year 10 Maori student – joint award, Top Student in Maori, Application and Effort Harriet Stock, 10OW, Top Student in Mathematics (McLean Cup), Junior Girls Squash Champion, Excellence in English, Excellence in Art, Application and Effort Ashlee Strawbridge, 10RW, Junior Girls Sports Cup, Top Student in Exercise Performance – Joint award, Application and Effort William Wallis, 10OW. Top Student in Japanese – joint award, Winner of the Year 10 Speech Competition, Excellence in Music, Application and Effort Leanne Walsh, 10RW, Registered Music Teachers Trophy for the most promising instrumental student in the junior school, Excellence in German as a second language, Excellence in Music, Application and Effort George Watson, 10RY, Top Student in Technology Wood, Application and Effort Gemma Whiting, 10OX, Top Student in Food and Nutrition, Excellence in Agriculture, Excellence in Money, Management, Application and Effort Ashburton High School Centennial Trust Top Scholar of Year 10 Mollie Gibson

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Year 9 Prize list 2016: General Awards Cyndie Afunggol, 9RV, Application and Effort Tayla Alexander, 9BP, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Application and Effort Shinnaye Alford, 9BP, Application and Effort Arch Amos, 9GS, Application and Effort Jerome Andrada, 9BP, Application and Effort Zarah Aquino, 9RT, Application and Effort Alijah Arnold, 9OP, Excellence in Maori, Application and Effort Marshall Ashdowne, 9BP, Application and Effort Caitlyn Barwell, 9GV, Application and Effort Ben Beattie, 9OP, Application and Effort Zoe Beckley, 9GS, Excellence in Music, Application and Effort Anna Bennett, 9OS, Application and Effort Georga Bent, 9OS, Application and Effort Chloe Blake, 9OP, Excellence in Graphics, Application and Effort Jacob Body, 9RV, Application and Effort Callum Breen, 9OS, Application and Effort Crystal Brown, 9GS, Excellence in Technology Wood, Application and Effort Isabella Brown, 9BP, Application and Effort Ken Bulagnir, 9BT, Application and Effort Mac Burdett, 9GS, Excellence in Physical Education, Application and Effort Adele Burgess, 9BT, Excellence in Drama, Application and Effort Kyle Cabangun, 9GV, Excellence in Graphics, General Excellence in 9GV, Application and Effort Joshua Cameron-Neighbour, 9RT, Application and Effort Montana Cannan, 9GS, Application and Effort Sam Chamberlain, 9BP, Application and Effort Henry Chapman, 9GS, Application and Effort Kaveesha Clark, 9RT, Excellence in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Joseph Collins, 9RV, Application and Effort Rob Corbett, 9GV, Application and Effort Maria Costas, 9RT, Excellence in English, General Excellence in 9RT, Application and Effort Jane Cribb, 9OS, General Excellence in 9OS, Application and Effort Sophie Dalgety, 9OP, Application and Effort Katie Danielson, 9OP, General Excellence in 9OP, Application and Effort Oliver Davidson, 9BP, Application and Effort Eddie Davis, 9GS, Excellence in Agriculture, Application and Effort Denielle De Leon, 9GV, Application and Effort Matt De Ocampo, 9OP, Application and Effort Paddy Dekker, 9GV, Excellence in Technology Wood, Excellence in Art, Excellence in Graphics, Application and Effort Shikarna Delore, 9OP, Application and Effort Hayley Dickson, 9GS, Application and Effort Alyssa Fitzpatrick, 9BP, Excellence in Agriculture, Application and Effort Ryan Geeson, 9BP, Application and Effort Bailey Gray, 9BP, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Application and Effort Jacob Gray, 9GS, Excellence in Drama Hayden Greer, 9RT, Application and Effort Oscar Guthrie, 9GS, Application and Effort Teresa Herewini, 9RV, Excellence in Art, Excellence in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Calais Hill, 9RT, Application and Effort McKenzie Hooper, 9GS, Excellence in Drama Rita Iakopo, 9RV, Application and Effort Spencer Ifopo, 9RV, Application and Effort Alex Jones, 9RT, Application and Effort Brayden Kidgell, 9RT, Excellence in Food and Nutrition Lachlan Kingan, 9OS, Excellence in Digi-

Ashburton High School Centennial Trust Top Scholar of Year 9 Penny Stilgoe. PHOTO SUPPLIED

tal Technology, Application and Effort Prithvi Kumar, 9OS, Excellence in Drama, Application and Effort Sapphire Kururangi, 9GS, Application and Effort Ashton Lamborn-Vear, 9BP, Excellence in German as a second language Paige Leak, 9OP, Application and Effort Harriet Leverton, 9BT, Application and Effort Kepueli Maamaloa, 9BT, Application and Effort Roi Makutu, 9OS, Application and Effort Ivan Mangubat, 9BP, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Devon McGrath, 9RT, Application and Effort Ramona McIlroy, 9RT, Application and Effort Chirag Mehta, 9GV, Application and Effort Brooke Miller, 9BP, Application and Effort Jessica Moore, 9RV, General Excellence in 9RV, Application and Effort Logan Moore, 9OP, Application and Effort Georgia Muir, 9BP, Excellence in German as a second language, Application and Effort Lottie Norton, 9OP, Application and Effort Megan O’Brien, 9OS, Application and Effort Arnold Pantoja, 9RV, Application and Effort Ricalene Pantoja, 9GV, Application and Effort Kotiti Patea, 9BP, Application and Effort Cam Pearce, 9BP, Excellence in Social Studies, Excellence in Science, Excellence in Digital Technology, Application and Effort Aakash Poudel, 9RT, Application and Effort Aannana Rai, 9BT, Excellence in English Language Studies, Application and Effort Jestena Raj, 9BP, Excellence in Science, Application and Effort Roan Redpath, 9GS, Excellence in Agriculture, Application and Effort Bre Rennie, 9GS, Application and Effort Ryan Robinson, 9GS, Excellence in Mathematics, Application and Effort

Emma Rollinson, 9BP, Application and Effort Jack Savage, 9GS, Application and Effort Matthew Scammell, 9RT, Application and Effort Sean Scott, 9BT, Application and Effort Wendy Sheng, 9GV, Excellence in Mathematics, Excellence in English as a Second Language, Application and Effort Jonty Small, 9GS, Excellence in Social Studies, Application and Effort Jack Soal, 9RV, Application and Effort Olivia Stockdill, 9OS, Excellence in Graphics, Application and Effort Cole Stringer, 9GS, Application and Effort Liam Sullivan, 9BP, Application and Effort Zoila Suyat, 9BT, Application and Effort Monaro Tahapehi, 9RV, Excellence in Maori, Application and Effort Kalen Tait, 9GS, Application and Effort Henrik Tawatao, 9BT, Excellence in Physical Education, Application and Effort Jacqueline Teulilo, 9BT, Excellence in English Language Studies, Application and Effort Scott Thomson, 9RT, Application and Effort Aljean Timajo, 9RV, Application and Effort Jessica Timmo, 9GS, Excellence in English, Application and Effort Delta Taeauga, 10OR, Application and Effort Lachie Urquhart, 10OR, Application and Effort Jonathan Vaevae, 9RV, Application and Effort Riley Vessey, 9OP, Application and Effort Ethan Walsh, 9BT, General Excellence in 9BT, Application and Effort Grace Watson, 9GS, Application and Effort Jakob Watson, 9OS, Application and Effort Maddy Watson, 9BP, Excellence in Science, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Caleb Wells, 9GS, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Callum Whyte, 9RT, Application and Ef-

fort Brianna Williams, 9RV, Application and Effort Stacey Wilmshurst, 9OP, Excellence in Digital Technology, Application and Effort Subject and Special Prizes Josh Ackerley, 9BP, Glover Trophy for Best Golf Aggregate Score, Application and Effort Sophie Adams, 9OS, Myers Junior Netball Trophy for skill, sportsmanship and dedication, Application and Effort Isaac Bazley, 9GS, Junior Boys Squash Champion, Excellence in Agriculture, Application and Effort Jed Cameron, 9GS, Top Student in Graphics, Excellence in Art, Excellence in German as a second language, Application and Effort Tau Daniel, 9OS, Top Student in Maori – joint award, most Merits in the Junior School – joint award, Application and Effort Hazel De Paz, 9OP, Top Student in Japanese – joint award, Excellence in Technology Wood, Excellence in German as a second language, Excellence in Digital Technology, Application and Effort Willow Diedricks, 9BP, Top Student in English (Hill Cup), Top Student in Music – joint award, 1st place in the junior prose section of the Ashburton College Creative Writing Competition, Application and Effort Shania Harrison-Lee, 9BP, Galletly Award for Leadership, Initiative and Innovation, Excellence in Mathematics, Excellence in Social Studies, Excellence in Music, Excellence in English, General Excellence in 9BP, Application and Effort Klara Harrison, 9GS, Top Student in Art – joint award, Application and Effort Chloe Johnson, 9GS, Top Student in Japanese – joint award, Application and Effort Poppy Kilworth, 9BP, Top Student in Physical Education – joint award, Winner of the Year 9 Speech Competition, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Excellence in Science, Excellence in Graphics, Excellence in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Lily Lyu, 9GV, Top Student in English In-

tensive Course, Excellence in Mathematics, Application and Effort Harry McMillan, 9BP, Top Student in Music – joint award, Top Student in Social Studies (Edsall Cup), Excellence in Technology Wood, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Excellence in Science, Application and Effort Lucy Moore, 9BP, Top Student in Physical Education – joint award, Top Student in Art – joint award, Top Student in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Mia Pearson, 9GS, Top Student in Technology Wood, Excellence in Mathematics, Excellence in Physical Education, Excellence in Music, Excellence in Agriculture, Excellence in Technology Metal, Application and Effort Seluvaia Ratoul, 9BP, Top Student in Agriculture, Application and Effort Emma Smith, 9GS, ATC Trophy for Junior Shooting Champion, Excellence in Food and Nutrition, Excellence in Japanese as a second language, Application and Effort Naomi Sooaemalelagi, 9GV, Top Student in English Language Studies Penny Stilgoe, 9GS, Top Student in Mathematics (Williamson Cup), Top Student in Food and Nutrition, Top Student in German as a second language (German Embassy Prize), Top Student in Science, Excellence in Social Studies, Excellence in Art, Excellence in Agriculture, Excellence in English, General Excellence in 9GS, Application and Effort Riley Stringer, 9OS, Top Student in Digital Technology Hemi Te Paki, 9RT, Top Student in Drama, Application and Effort Naumai Terekia, 9BT, Girls’ Rugby Trophy for Most Improved Back, Application and Effort Aaliyah Toa, 9GV, Top Student in Maori – joint award Ocean Waitokia, 9GS, Ashburton Society of Performing Arts Shield for a student participating to a high standard in the Performing Arts, Rakiura Trophy for the top overall Year 9 Maori student, Excellence in Music Excellence in Maori, Application and Effort Ashburton High School Centennial Trust Top Scholar of Year 9: Penny Stilgoe

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Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 - In the Christmas song, where was Mommy kissing Santa Claus? a. On the corner of the street b. Underneath the mistletoe c. By the garden gate 2 - Which musician recently published an autobiography called Not Dead Yet? a. Phil Collins b. Eric Clapton c. Paul McCartney 3 - What animal do you fear if you have ichthyophobia? a. Fish b. Cats c. Birds 4 - From which country did popcorn originate? a. United Kingdom b. Mexico c. USA 5 - What sort of drink is oloroso? a. Sherry b. Port c. Brandy 6 - Denmark has a land border with which country? a. Sweden b. Germany c. Norway 7 - The Romans considered which month to be unlucky for marriage? a. May b. August c. December 8 - Pythagoras was particularly associated with which geometric shape? a. Square b. Circle c. Triangle

When Fiji took on Ashburton’s cricket team A truly international cricket match was held in Ashburton in 1968 when a touring Fiji side took on the Ashburton County Cricket Team at the Ashburton Domain Oval.

Featuring some of Mid Canterbury’s finest cricketing names from the era it was the locals who emerged on top with a 51-run victory.

Batting first Ashburton posted 190 with Ken Butler’s 42, batting at No.10, the highest total.

In return the Fijian side put up a competitive 289 declared.

Ashburton reacted brilliantly to reply with 374-4 declared with runs in the bank from Brian Tutty (92), David Isherwood (72), Russell Hortin (69) and Brian Isherwood (62 not out).

Fiji were then bowled out for 224 with Ken Butler and Hortin each chipping in with four

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Winners will be announced in this column the following week, so keep looking! If you see your name in the winner’s box, come into the Guardian and claim your prize. ID may be required.

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Four real estate firms fined $10m

emphasising that they had sought legal advice before embarking on the arrangement, but this did not raise any red flags.

There were a number of mitigating factors in the case, including the companies’ lack of intent to breach the Act, the fact that none had done so before, and the

substantially increased costs that Trade Me’s new pricing scheme entailed.

Commission lawyer John Dixon said the companies were the largest and most influential in the industry and had the potential to affect a large number of transactions.

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many vendors rely on to deliver substantial sales.

The survey of 1005 people found a net 13 per cent of respondents said they were better off now than a year ago, and a net 32 per cent expect to be better off in 12 months’ time, both largely unchanged from November. A net 38 per cent of respondents see now as a good time to buy a big-ticket item, down from a peak of 42 per cent in November.

ANZ’s Bagrie said the Wellington and Canterbury regions

didn’t appear to show any material response to the Kaikoura quake, which isolated the South Island town and closed down parts of the capital city’s central business district, with both in step with the rest of the country.

The survey found a net 22 per cent of respondents were optimistic about the economy over the coming 12 months, down from 23 per cent in November, while a net 18 per cent were upbeat about the next five years, compared to 28 per cent a month earlier.

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Vector comes out swinging Auckland’s electricity network owner Vector has come out swinging at the Electricity Authority’s latest proposals to shift the cost of the national grid to those areas benefitting most from investment in upgrades, saying the revamped proposals released this week change nothing of substance while introducing “huge risk” to the process.

The EA this week released proposals that would preserve its hotly contested desire to shift the so-called Transmission Pricing Methodology (TPM) to those

that benefit from them by having the reforms coincide in 2020 with Commerce Commission decisions on the weighted average cost of capital that network companies like Vector can earn on their monopoly assets.

Included in the rejigged proposals, which were subject to furious lobbying by the Auckland Employers and Manufacturers Association and major industrial consumers in the upper North Island, is a mechanism to prevent any consumer experiencing more than a 3.5 per cent annual increase in network

charges. However, Vector chief executive Simon Mackenzie said in a statement yesterday that “nothing has changed” in the latest proposals, which “will mean a 33 per cent per annum increase in Auckland’s transmission grid charges”.

“It’s hard to reconcile how the EA can continue to support a system where large generators only pay less than 10 per cent of the costs. It basically leaves everyday users across the country bearing an even heavier burden while generators make windfall gains,” said Mackenzie.

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NZ consumer confidence slips New Zealand consumer confidence slipped from a 19-month high this month while remaining relatively upbeat as people’s optimism about the strength of the economy shook off the impacts of last month’s Kaikoura earthquake.

The ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence index fell 2.7 points to 124.5, snapping three months of gains, and when combined with optimistic business sentiment pointed to annual economic growth of more than 4 per cent. The current conditions index fell 2.2 points to 125.1 while the future conditions index declined 3.1 points to 124.1.

“Pound-for-pound there is a lot for consumers to be happy about,” ANZ Bank New Zealand chief economist Cameron Bagrie said in his report. “Wage growth might be subdued but with little inflation, purchasing power is still moving up.”

The upbeat outlook for consumers will give retailers heart as they go into the all-important Christmas trading period, which

He added that the arrangement was entered into by staff who occupied positions at the highest levels.

Barfoot & Thompson lawyer Miriam Dean said the new Trade Me pricing regime would have meant a 700 per cent increase for the company – from about $30,000 per year to some $2m.

LJ Hooker lawyer James Craig said his client was smaller than other defendants, and that it was subject to the agreement for a shorter period of time.

Simon Ladd for Ray White pointed out the company’s early admission and co-operation with the Commerce Commission.

He said the company did not gain financially from the deal.

Harcourts lawyer Andrew Peterson said the company believed it was inevitable that the new fees would be vendor-funded. - NZME

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Justice Paul Heath ordered Barfoot & Thompson to pay $2.575 million, Harcourts $2.575m, LJ Hooker $2.475m and Ray White $2.2m.

Bayleys was also subject to the action but that case was settled earlier this year after the firm agreed to pay a $2.2m penalty.

Justice Heath said the agreement the companies reached “had the potential to affect a large number of transactions for residential properties” adding that it had “affected ordinary New Zealanders in the buying and selling of houses”.

“I find that some vendors were likely to have been prejudiced by being required to pay more than they would otherwise have had to pay for a Trade Me listing.”

The companies did not deliberately set out to breach the Commerce Act, Justice Heath said,

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Four major real estate agencies have been ordered to pay close to $10 million for price fixing.

In the High Court at Auckland yesterday, Barfoot & Thompson, Harcourts, LJ Hooker and Ray White were found to have breached the Commerce Act when they joined forces to avoid increases in Trade Me’s pricing system.

Following a lengthy Commerce Commission investigation, it was found that the companies had agreed to pass the addition costs onto vendors.

They also agreed to not commit to any preferential or discounted listing fees with Trade Me. The deal came after Trade Me stopped allowing the companies to pay a monthly subscription, instead charging them for every property they listed.

In front of a packed court room,

p S&P/NZX 50 Gross

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–0.1%

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+49.82

+0.72%

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p Nikkei 225 index

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–3.04%

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16.14

–0.96

–5.61%

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5,682.0

–53.0

–0.92%

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Syrians evacuate Aleppo Weeping, hobbling on crutches or dragging suitcases, hundreds of survivors of a devastating government bombardment and siege left the last sliver of opposition-held Aleppo yesterday, an evacuation that sealed the end of the rebellion’s most important stronghold and was a watershed moment in Syria’s 5-yearold civil war.

For the opposition, it was a humiliating defeat. A smiling President Bashar Assad called it a historic event comparable to the birth of Christ and the revelation of the Koran.

A UN official described it as “a black chapter in the history of international relations”.

Traumatised residents filtered out to green government buses on a chilly day through Aleppo’s streets lined with flattened buildings.

Years of resistance were stamped out in a relentless campaign over the past month that saw hospitals bombed, bodies left unburied and civilians blown apart by shells as they fled for safety.

“We struggled for six years.

We were supposed to be the ones to get them out, not them us,” said one tearful woman who held a baby, speaking in a video posted online by an opposition activist.

She explained that it wasn’t the bombardment that forced them out.

“We left because we feared for our honour from the regime,” the unidentified woman said.

Under a surrender deal brokered by Russia and Turkey, tens of thousands of residents and rebel fighters are being evacuated to opposition-con-

Harley-lujah – she’s back Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie is returning to the live-action DC cinematic universe, and she’s bringing a familiar foe with her. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Robbie will reprise her role as Harley Quinn in Gotham City Sirens, which will be directed by Suicide Squad’s David Ayer. Robbie will also be an executive producer. Ayer will once again be directing a DC Comics movie full of bad guys, as Gotham City Sirens, like the comic book of the same name, will feature some of DC Comics’ most popular female villains.

Residents gather near green government buses for evacuating from eastern Aleppo, Syria.

PHOTO AP trolled areas in the surrounding countryside, a process likely to take several days.

They said it was too dangerous to go to government-held areas, where they faced potential retribution from security services alleged to carry out arrests and torture of opposition sympathisers. Many are of fighting age and don’t want to be drafted into the military.

“We slept in the streets. It’s shameful,” an unidentified man said in an opposition video. “Where is the world?”

Leaning on crutches and sobbing uncontrollably, he described fleeing the bombardment.

“You don’t know if it’s an airplane or shelling or rockets.

You never know,” he added.

Eastern Aleppo rose in revolt against Assad in 2012 and battled since then with the western, government-held part of the city in one of the most horrific and destructive fronts of the civil war.

The rebels’ hold in Syria’s one-time commercial powerhouse was a major point of pride, and at times it seemed an invulnerable part of what was once a growing opposition-held patch of territory in the north.

But government forces finally surrounded eastern Aleppo and then battered it to pieces.

The air and ground campaign

by Syrian troops – backed by Russian warplanes and forces from Assad’s regional allies – relentlessly wore away at the

enclave. Hundreds of civilians were killed, and tens of thousands fled to governmentheld areas.

The pocket was reduced to a few blocks packed with the bloodied, exhausted and demoralised but also die-hard opposition forces.

For Assad, the victory puts most major cities under his control and raises hopes for the beginning of the end of the revolt.

“History is being made,” an upbeat Assad proclaimed in a video on social media.

“What is happening is bigger than congratulations,” he said, calling it comparable to Christ’s birth and the revelation of Islam’s holy Koran to Muhammad.

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■ UNITED STATES

Putin ‘personally involved in hacking’ The Obama administration suggested yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorised the hacking of Democratic officials’ email accounts in the run-up to the presidential election and said it was “fact” that such actions helped Donald Trump’s campaign.

The White House also assailed Trump himself, saying he must have known of Russia’s interference.

No proof was offered for any of the accusations, the latest to unsettle America’s uneasy transition from eight years under Democratic President Barack Obama to a new Republican administration led by Trump.

The claims of Russian meddling in the election also have heightened already debilitating tensions between Washington and Moscow over Syria, Ukraine and a host of

The Obama administration has suggested that Vladimir Putin personally authorised the hacking of Democratic officials’ email accounts in the run-up to the presidential election. repeating the words from an other disagreements. “Only October US intelligence asRussia’s senior-most offisessment. cials could have authorised Obama’s deputy national these activities,” White House security adviser, Ben Rhodes, spokesman Josh Earnest said,

connected the dots further, saying it was Putin who was responsible for the Russian government’s actions.

“I don’t think things happen in the Russian government of this consequence without Vladimir Putin knowing about it,” Rhodes said on MSNBC. The explosive accusation paints Putin, the leader of perhaps the nation’s greatest geopolitical foe, as having directly undermined US democracy.

US officials have not contended, however, that Trump would have been defeated by Hillary Clinton on November 8 if not for Russia’s assistance.

Nor has there has been any indication of tampering with the vote-counting.

The Kremlin flatly rejected the claim of Putin’s involvement, with Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissing it as “laughable nonsense”. - AP

Affleck vents about Lopez They were once one of the hottest couples in Hollywood, but Ben Affleck is pretty angry about the legacy of his time with Jennifer Lopez. Affleck, 44, vented about his highly-publicised relationship with the pop star during a TimesTalks forum in New York City this week. The Oscar winner and Lopez, 47, began dating after meeting on the set of boxoffice bomb Gigli, and became engaged before splitting up for good in 2004.

“It could have been a bad movie no one cared about. But it was because I was dating Jennifer Lopez that made it such a big deal.”

Not in it for the money A word of advice for future Oscars hosts: don’t do it for the money. Host Jimmy Kimmel has spilled the beans to a US radio show on what the gig actually pays.

The comedian revealed he’ll receive just $US15,000 (about $21,000) to anchor the film industry’s biggest awards show.

It may seem like a paltry amount, but turns out it’s in keeping with the general pay range. USA Today has estimated that hosts traditionally receive between $15,000 to $25,000 for the one-night gig. Even Kimmel poked fun at the paycheque: “You know why? I think it’s illegal to pay nothing.”

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Roof guilty on nine counts Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday in the chilling slaughter of nine black church members who had welcomed him to their Bible study, a devastating crime in a country that was already deeply embroiled in racial tension.

The same federal jury that found Roof guilty of all 33 counts will reconvene next month to hear more testimony and weigh whether to sentence him to death.

As the verdict was read, Roof just stared ahead, much as he did the entire trial. Family members of victims held hands and squeezed one another’s arms.

One woman nodded her head every time the clerk said “guilty”.

Roof, 22, told FBI agents he wanted to bring back segregation or perhaps start a race war with the slayings.

Instead, the single biggest change to emerge from the June 17, 2015, killings was the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse, where it had flown for 50 years over the capital or on the grounds. Roof appeared with the flag in several photos in a racist manifesto.

In Roof’s confession to the FBI, the gunman said he carried

Dylann Roof was convicted yesterday in the chilling attack on nine black church members who were shot to death last year during a Bible study.

PHOTO AP out the killings after researching “black on white crime” on the internet. He said he chose a church because that setting posed little danger to him.

Roof told the judge again yesterday that he wanted to act as his own attorney during the penalty phase. He will also face a

death penalty trial in state court on nine murder charges.

In closing arguments, Assistant US Attorney Nathan Williams mocked Roof for calling himself brave in his hate-filled journal and during his confession, saying the real bravery came from the victims who tried

to stop him as he fired 77 bullets at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church.

“Those people couldn’t see the hatred in his heart any more than they could see the .45-calibre handgun and the eight magazines concealed around his waist,” Williams said.

Defence lawyer David Bruck conceded Roof committed the slayings, but he asked jurors to look into his head and see what caused him to become so full of hatred, calling him a suicidal loner who never grasped the gravity of what he did.

The defence put up no witnesses during the seven-day trial. They tried to present evidence about his mental state, but the judge ruled that it did not have anything to do with Roof’s guilt or innocence.

Roof was just imitating what he saw on the internet and believed he had to give his life to “a fight to the death between white people and black people that only he” could see and act on, Bruck said.

The prosecutor’s 50-minute closing argument filled the court with tension. At times, the prosecutor raised his voice, saying Roof was a cold, calculated killer.

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■ EGYPT

Traces of explosives found on vcitims Traces of explosives have been found on some of the victims of an EgyptAir flight from Paris that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in May, Egypt’s government said yesterday, a finding that could deal another major blow to the country’s vital tourism sector.

A Civil Aviation Ministry statement said a criminal investigation will be launched into the crash of Flight 804, which killed all 66 people on board and came just seven months after a Russian passenger plane was blown up over the Sinai Peninsula in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

That attack, which killed all 226 people on board in October 2015, led to widespread flight cancellations and emptied out Egypt’s Red Sea resorts. Tourism has been sharply down in much of the rest of the country following years of unrest unleashed by the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt has never officially said what caused the downing of the Russian plane. But a local Isis affiliate said it blew up the plane with a bomb smuggled on board, and Russia said the aircraft was likely downed by explosives.

No one has claimed to have brought down Flight 804. France opened a manslaughter inquiry into the crash in June, but made clear it was an accident investigation, not a terrorism investi-

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In brief Crackdown on fake news Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge and influential social network. It will focus on the “worst of the worst” offenders and partner with outside fact-checkers and news organisations to sort honest news reports from madeup stories that play to people’s passions and preconceived notions. The social network will make it easier for users to report fake news when they see it. If enough people report a story as fake, Facebook will pass it to thirdparty fact-checking organisations that are part of the non-profit Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network.

- AP

Teachers to have guns A rural Colorado school district decided yesterday to allow its teachers and other school staff to carry guns on campus to protect students. The Hanover School District 28 board voted 3-2 to allow school employees to volunteer to be armed on the job after undergoing training. The district’s two schools serve about 270 students about 48km southeast of Colorado Springs, and it takes law enforcement an average of 20 minutes to get there. The district currently shares an armed school resource officer with four other school districts.

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Teen admits hack A teenage computer geek yesterday admitted being the mastermind behind the catastrophic TalkTalk data hack.

Daniel Kelley, 19, led a group of cyber criminals who brought the mobile network to its knees by looting sensitive customer data last year. The baby-faced hacker, who was already on bail for similar offences, obtained email addresses, names and phone numbers, as well as 21,000 unique bank account details.

Co-ordinating the attack from his bedroom at his family home in Wales, he then demanded more than £285,000 from its chief executive. The ransom sparked an urgent Scotland Yard investigation and an outcry over the company’s lax security.

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Don’t drink the water

An EgyptAir Airbus A320 registration SU-GCC takes off from Vienna International Airport, Austria. The plane crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in May, 2016, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.

PHOTO AP gation. An official at the office of Egypt’s top prosecutor said Egyptian criminal investigators would now co-ordinate with their French counterparts.

Authorities have said that before dawn on May 19, the Airbus A320 lurched left, then right, spun all the way around and plummeted 11,582 metres into the Mediterranean as it was approaching Egypt’s northern coast. The plane never issued a distress call.

Experts have suggested a rogue passenger might have taken control of the plane or that there may have been a struggle between the pilots.

But three European security officials said at the time that the flight’s passenger manifest contained no known names on terror watch lists, often used by European and American security and law enforcement agencies.

Egyptian investigators said in July after analysing a recovered

cockpit voice recorder that the pilots of Flight 804 tried to extinguish a fire on board the aircraft.

The recordings were consistent with data that had previously been recovered from the plane’s wreckage that showed heat, fire, and smoke around a bathroom and the avionics area, they said.

France’s accident investigation agency has said that smoke detectors went off during Flight 804’s final moments.

- AP

A harmful chemical from an industrial plant leaked into the water supply in Corpus Christi, forcing school closures, disrupting commerce and causing a run on bottled water at supermarkets in the Gulf Coast city. The spill happened at a plant that didn’t have the equipment or infrastructure needed to prevent it, though the owners of the property and plant claim it does.

- AP

Alaska has legal dope Possibly the unlikeliest customer of all became the first person to legally buy marijuana in Alaska’s largest city. Anna Ercoli, 81, pulled into Arctic Herbery’s small parking lot 3½ hours before the store was to open and become the first legal retail marijuana store in Anchorage. She was waiting at the store when owner Bryant Thorp pulled in. “I need this medication for me because it works better than taking anti-pain or sleeping pills, and not really solving anything,” said Ercoli.

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Sending our love to Kaikoura Sue Newman

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f your heart has to go out to anyone in need this Christmas it surely must go out to the people of Kaikoura.

While most of us are enjoying our Christmas break safe in the knowledge that, when the Christmas break is over, God willing our lives will continue pretty much as they have for the past year. That’s something the people of Kaikoura cannot do.

For many of them this Christmas will be hideous. Some no longer have homes, others may have a business that’s future could be in doubt. For others, jobs they thought were secure, no longer may be.

Yes, in Canterbury we’ve been through the same deal, but with one factor missing – virtual isolation.

Kaikoura residents can’t get out and we can’t get in. Any access is at best, flaky and that creates a very different dimension for those who call the beautiful seaside town their home.

Tempers flared this week during a meeting with politicians over the reinstatement of State Highway One. Some say they’ve all but been forgotten by the country’s funders. Others don’t agree, but it’s easy to see how people, particularly those living north of the town can feel completely cut off from the rest of the world.

It’s anyone’s guess when the road north will reopen and rail reinstatement could be even longer. Five weeks will seem like forever; the predicted 12 months is an eternity.

Access by the inland road from Waiau is likely to be back in limited form shortly and while good progress is being made on the highway south of the town, to allow limited access, that’s along way from allowing the return of the area’s life blood, its tourists.

While we can support Kaikoura with appeals, fund raisers and the like, nothing anyone can do will change the reality of living in the place you feel the world has forgotten.

But the people of Kaikoura have not been forgotten.

The earthquake may have canned the scenic spot as a Christmas holiday destination this year, but there are many, many people who say they’re committed to making a trip north as soon as they can to stay, play, spend money and most of all show the people of Kaikoura that the rest of the country truly cares.

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ne of the major sponsors of the All Blacks admitted this week that they have ‘despaired’ at the controversy that has enveloped the sport in 2016.

ASB Bank CEO Barbara Chapman used her speech at Thursday night’s rugby awards to gently chide New Zealand Rugby after a year of unprecedented success on the field was sullied by a series of regrettable off-field incidents.

The Chiefs ‘Strippergate’ controversy, the Aaron Smith bathroom incident at Christchurch airport, the homophobic slurs attributed to a Chiefs player and perhaps worst of all the Losi Filipo affair – where the Wellington Rugby Union initially backed Filipo despite his involvement in a brutal, unprovoked attack and NZR were also slow to grasp the ramifications of the case – all cast a negative shadow over the sport.

The stories dominated the media for weeks, led to condemnation from various women’s groups and drew comment from senior government ministers, including former Prime Minister John Key. Chapman reminded the NZRU – and the black tie audience – that such incidents had not gone unnoticed.

“As a New Zealander, and a woman, I share with you the joys and highlights of the game but despair at the controversy which

ASB Bank chief executive Barbara Chapman. can engulf the sport we all love,” said Chapman.

“In many ways, rugby is a microcosm of New Zealand society; so much good and positive work is done by the rugby community and yet, just like New Zealand society as a whole, there is always more work to be done around

building diversity and ensuring people from all backgrounds feel included and valued.”

Chapman said it had been another “hugely successful year” for the sport, but the role of rugby and the conduct of players had “been the subject of a great deal of media scrutiny and kitchen

table debate”.

“Rugby, as well as being something we love, is a lightning rod for everything which is good, and a few things which are not good, about New Zealand. As a nation we feel that rugby represents us and we want to be proud of it. As a sponsor our team at ASB aligns

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Chapman also congratulated the NZRU on the appointment of Dr Farah Palmer to their board, though noted drily that it came after “nearly 125 years of no women representation”.

Chapman’s speech was significant. It was a talking point among the guests at the conclusion of the night, and probably reflects the damage done to rugby’s off-field image during 2016.

It was also unusual for a sponsor within the rugby fraternity to air their dissatisfaction – albeit very balanced – as most sponsors associated with the national game over the last few decades have tended to take a ‘see no evil, hear no evil’ approach.

This was best epitomised by the infamous comments of Margaret Comer, the corporate services executive of Gallagher Group, who were major Chiefs sponsors, in the immediate aftermath of the ‘Strippergate’ affair.

“If a woman takes her clothes off and walks around in a group of men, what are we supposed to do if one of them tries to touch her,” said Comer. “It’s not nice and perhaps the stripper shouldn’t have been hired, but I’m reluctant to say that the boys were out of line.”

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For my family it’s all about the kids, the pure enjoyment when they open their eyes on Christmas morning and realise that yes, Santa has been. This is my favourite bit, seeing how much joy they get from each present as they open them.

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our Elderly wishes campaign was so well supported by volunteers, it blew us away.

So, as we surround ourselves with friends and family this Christmas, and reconnect with those we love, near and far, take time to help those less fortunate, every little action, no matter how big or small will make a difference.

We hope you enjoy this Christmas feature, we’ve tried to keep it easy, fun and family focused. Packed to the brim of things to make and do as well as eat!

Have an amazing Christmas and enjoy the last few days of 2016. ~ Desme

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Dogs make great companions and will be a life-long friend.

This time of year many people look at bringing a dog into their life.

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Please remember that dog ownership comes with responsibilities.

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Easy pre-schooler craft ideas

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Any of the craft ideas opposite can be adapted into Christmas tree decorations, these can be brought out year-after-year, just remember to write the child’s name and year on the back. It’s a lovely reminder of the family feeling Christmas holds.

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Santa’s now tech savvy

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any parents today find themselves ditching some of the old-school Christmas traditions like getting the children to write letters to Santa, or visiting the big man himself in the local store or mall, in favour of a more digitally proficient Santa Claus.

With children glued to screens at ever-earlier ages, the average age of initial digital interaction is now a mere 11 months old, according to one study. With this in mind, there have been an overwhelming increase in digital services allowing Santa to be put in the palm of little people’s hands.

We’ve shortlisted some of the best tech savvy ways to contact Santa Claus and have some fun this Christmas, from the comfort of your very own living room.

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Get the festive juices flowing Watermelon cooler

Ginger basil grapefruit mimosas

4-5 cups of seedless watermelon (1 medium-sized watermelon), cut into chunks 1/2 peeled cucumber, cut into chunks 5 -10 mint leaves roughly chopped 3 tablespoons of sugar 1 tablespoon of fresh lime juice A pinch of salt –

Depending on the size of your blender, you may have to do this in two batches, I did.

Divide your ingredients in half, and process it twice if need be. Place all the ingredients in a blender, and process until it smooth. Pour the mixture through a strainer into a bowl,

Strawberry lemonade

1 grapefruit; plus additional grapefruit for garnish 2 cups of ice 3 x 12oz cans of ginger soda handful of fresh basil 1/4 cup basil simple syrup –

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pressing the solids with a wooden spoon to get all the liquid out.

Place the watermelon mixture back in your blender and add ice cubes. Depending on how slushy you want it, add your ice cubes accordingly. I wanted mine very slushy, almost like a snow cone, so I used lots of ice cubes. Serve immediately.

Juice one large grapefruit and segment additional grapefruit for garnish if preferred. Fill a pitcher half way with ice. Pour soda, fresh grapefruit juice and simple syrup. Mix well.

Garnish with grapefruit slices and fresh basil.

BASIL SIMPLE SYRUP 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 1 cup loosely packed fresh basil

3 c. water 1½ c. sugar 2 c. lemon juice (about 8 to 10 lemons) 1 pt. strawberries 1 L seltzer or sparkling water Garnish: lemon slices and mint (optional) –

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Place sugar and water in a small pan over medium heat until sugar is fully dissolved, about 2 minutes. Add the basil. Allow to steep for 15-20 minutes and strain and discard basil.

Place syrup in a glass tupperware container or squeeze bottle if you have it.

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In a saucepan, bring water and sugar to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat; stir in lemon juice.

Let cool completely.

Place strawberries in blender with ½ cup lemonade mixture.

Blend until puréed.

Strain purée through a fine sieve to remove seeds. Add purée to remaining lemonade mixture; stir well to

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Stir in seltzer. Pour over ice. Garnish with lemon and mint, if using.

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Simple summer salad starters Crayfish cocktail

Griddled halloumi, beetroot and orange

1 red chili peppers, deseeded and finely chopped 1/2 lemon, plus lemon wedges to serve 4 T dill, chopped 1/4 pounds crayfish tails, cooked 2 T olive oil 2 hass avocado, halved, stoned, peeled and cut into cubes Iceberg lettuce, washed and shredded Cayenne pepper, to serve – – – –

250g pack cooked beetroot, cut into wedges 3 medium oranges, segments and juice 4 t white wine vinegar 2 250g packs halloumi cheese, drained 100g watercress

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In a large bowl, combine the beetroot, orange segments and juice and white wine vinegar. Season, then gently mix together.

Carefully slice each block of halloumi into four pieces, then season on both sides with black pepper. Griddle or fry the halloumi for 1-2 minutes on each side until golden and crisp, and the cheese is beginning to melt.

Add the watercress to the beetroot and orange salad, then toss together.

Divide the salad between plates, then top each with slices of hot cheese.

Mix the chili, lemon, dill and oil with the crayfish tails.

Cut the avocado, into bite size chunks.

Line each of your starter dishes with shredded iceberg lettuce.

Divide the avocado and crayfish between four dishes then sprinkle with cayenne pepper and serve with lemon wedges.

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Parma ham, fig and mozzarella salad 4 ripe figs 4 slices quality Parma ham or prosciutto Buffalo mozzarella cheese 1 bunch of fresh green or purple basil, roughly chopped 6 T extra virgin olive oil 1 lemon 1 T runny honey Sea salt and cracked pepper –

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Grilled peach and toasted macadamia spinach salad 1 clove garlic, pressed Dijon mustard Balsamic vinegar Extra virgin olive oil Sea salt and cracked pepper Ripe peaches, halved, pits removed, each half cut into thirds Baby spinach Macadamia nuts, toasted at 325F for about 10 minutes, tossing occasionally Blue cheese, crumbed, optional

Prepare the figs, with a knife cut them across, but not through to the bottom. Nip the fig at the base to open the fig up.

Place figs in a dish, or on individual starter dishes.

Place the Parma ham around the figs.

Add the buffalo mozzarella and sprinkle with basil.

Mix oil, half the lemon juice, honey, a pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper together in a bowl and drizzle with the dressing.

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In a small bowl, mix together garlic, dijon, and desired ratio of balsamic and olive oil.

Season with sea salt and cracked pepper and set aside.

Heat grill or grill pan to mediumhigh and grill peaches for about 30 seconds per side to get nice grill marks.

Add spinach to a large shallow bowl.

Scatter with grilled peaches and toasted macadamia nuts. Crumbled blue cheese can also be added if desired.

Drizzle with vinaigrette and toss.

Season with more sea salt and cracked pepper.

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Christmas Day BBQ Dinner Barbecued leg of pork with grilled summer vegetables

Handful bay leaves Handful rosemary sprigs Handful thyme sprigs 4 garlic clove 3 tbsp olive oil 4 tbsp cider vinegar 2-3kg boneless, skinless pork leg, butterflied into 1 piece Handful parsley leaves, chopped

For the vegetables 2 fennel bulbs cut into wedges, fronds picked and kept separate Bunch spring onions green parts finely sliced and kept separate, whites trimmed but left whole 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into large chunks 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into large chunks 3 courgettes cut on an angle into long slices 2 tbsp olive oil Juice ½ lemon –

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Using a pestle and mortar, bash and bruise the bay, rosemary and thyme with the garlic, olive oil and 1 tbsp of the vinegar, plus some seasoning. Smear the mixture all over the meat to marinate. Can be done up to 24 hrs ahead.

Set aside the fennel fronds and sliced spring onions, and toss the

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rest of the vegetables in 1 tbsp of the olive oil and some seasoning.

Grill the vegetables until lightly charred and wilted. Scoop them into a dish and dress with the rest of the olive oil and the lemon juice, then scatter with the fennel fronds and sliced spring onions, and set aside.

Now cook the pork. It needs to sizzle for 1 hr over a fairly low heat. Lay the pork on the coolest side of the barbecue, fat-side down, and brown for about 20 mins until well charred. Flip the meat and continue to cook slowly for about 1 hr more, turning and moving the meat occasionally, until the thickest part is very firm when prodded, or when the juices show no sign of pink when pierced with a skewer.

When the pork is cooked, place on a dish, scatter with parsley, drizzle over the rest of the vinegar and leave to rest somewhere warm for 15 mins. Carve the pork into thin slices on a board and serve with the just warm vegetables and vinegary resting juices.

4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts 4 rashers bacon 4 large burger buns, sliced in half Lettuce , tomato and red onion, to serve For the sauce and marinade 4 tbsp tomato ketchup 4 tbsp brown sauce Splash chilli sauce (optional) 2 tsp clear honey 2 garlic cloves, crushed –

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Make the sauce and marinade by mixing everything together in a large bowl, then put a few spoonfuls aside.

Slice halfway into the thickest part of each breast and open it up like a book. Flatten down slightly with your hand,

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Chill for as little, or as long, as you have time to.

Barbecue the chicken for about 10 mins until completely cooked through, turning so it doesn’t burn but is nicely charred and sticky.

Cook the bacon at the same time until crisp, and toast the buns.

Assemble the burgers with lettuce, slices of tomato, onion and the reserved sauce on the side for dolloping on top.

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BBQ Prawns with ginger & mango mayonnaise

Barbecued saddle of lamb with lemon & rosemary 1 boned saddle of lamb, about 2kg/4lb 8oz large bunch rosemary, sprigs left whole 3 garlic cloves, chopped 2 lemongrass sticks, woody outers removed, then cut in half lengthways zest and juice 3 lemons 200ml olive oil

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Combine the prawns, lemongrass, lime leaves and peanut oil in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap.

Place in the fridge for 1.5 hours to marinate.

To make the mayonnaise, place mango, ginger, lime juice, egg yolks and mustard powder in the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth. With the motor running, add the oil in a thin, steady stream until mixture is thick and pale.

Taste and season with salt and pepper.

Preheat barbecue on high.

Add prawns and cook, turning occasionally, for 5-7 minutes or until prawns curl and change colour.

Serve prawns on platter , with fresh lime wedges & with the mayonnaise.

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Open up the saddle, then put the rosemary, garlic and lemongrass along the length of the joint. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, then roll back up, keeping it as tight as possible. Tie with string. Lightly score the fat and season all over.

Mix the lemon zest with the olive oil, then use to baste the lamb.

You can leave it to marinate in the fridge for up to a day at this stage.

Bring back to room temperature before cooking and lift out of the lemon oil.

Cook the lamb gently on the BBQ, to prevent burning.

Cook the lamb for 45 mins for medium rare, turning it regularly, or for longer if you prefer your lamb well done.

Transfer the lamb to a serving platter and leave to rest for at least 10 mins. Pour over the lemon juice just before serving.

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Christmas desserts –

Christmas trifle

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12 sponge fingers, about 75g 3 tbsp sweet sherry, optional 2 x sachets, 23g of raspberry flavour sugar-free jelly crystals 300ml just-boiled water 600ml cold water 200g fresh strawberries 300ml low-fat ready-made custard, preferably fresh 125ml double cream 100g fresh raspberries 100g fresh blueberries Fresh mint leaves, to decorate

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just-boiled water in a large jug per the packet instructions. As soon as they have dissolved, stir in the 600ml of cold water.

Hull the strawberries and cut them in half or into quarters if they are very large. Scatter the strawberries over the sponge fingers. Pour the jelly slowly over the broken sponge fingers and strawberries until they are evenly covered. Cover the dishes with cling film and chill in the fridge for 3–4 hours or until the jellies are set.

Take the dishes out of the fridge and remove the cling film. Spoon the custard on top of each jelly without taking it right to the sides.

Put the cream in a bowl and whisk with electric beaters until soft peaks form. Try not to overwhip the cream – it’s ready when it looks like soft, billowing clouds. Add a large spoonful of the whipped cream to each trifle, placing it on top of the custard. Decorate the trifles with fresh raspberries, blueberries and a few fresh mint leaves.

These keep well in the fridge so you can make them up to two days before serving – ideal if you’re planning a party.

Baileys chocolate cheesecake trifle CHEESECAKE LAYERS 16 oz cream cheese, room temperature 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup cocoa (I used Hershey’s Special Dark) 4 tbsp Baileys WHIPPED CREAM AND COOKIES 1 cup heavy whipping cream, cold 2 tbsp Baileys 1 1/2 tbsp cocoa 3 tbsp powdered sugar 15 Oreo cookies, crushed – – –

Beat cream cheese, sugar and cocoa together in a bowl until smooth.

Add Baileys and mix until well incorporated. Set aside.

In another bowl, whip heavy whipping cream

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Add Baileys, cocoa and powdered sugar and continue to whip until stiff peaks form.

To make the trifles, divide half of the cookie crumbs evenly between the four cups (or jars) and spread into an even layer in the bottom of the cups.

Pipe, or spoon, an even layer of cheesecake fill-

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Pipe, or spoon, an even layer of whipped cream on top of the cheesecake filling in each of the four cups.

Divide remaining cookie crumbs between the four cups and evenly distribute the second layer of crumbs on top of the whipped cream. You can keep a little bit of crumbs aside, if you want to use them to sprinkle on top of the finished trifles.

Pipe, or spoon, remaining cheesecake filling on top of cookie crumbs, distributing evenly between the four cups.

Top each trifle with a swirl of whipped cream and a few more cookie crumbs, if you kept some aside in step 8.

Refrigerate until ready to serve. I recommend setting them out for about 15 minutes prior to eating, so that they aren’t too firm.

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The perfect cheeseboard We all love a great cheeseboard, so the big question is – What makes the perfect cheeseboard?

So, off I went on a quick 10-minute survey of some of our staff to come up with our interpretation of the “Perfect Cheeseboard” Having done a quick survey around the office, it quickly became apparent that Kraft cheese slices were an absolute no-no, as were flavoured cheeses. Even the most culinary challenged has a deep appreciation of a well-balanced cheeseboard.

Our serving tips to ensure the cheese board is presented to perfection • Separate strong-smelling cheeses. If you want to serve pungent cheese, place it on a separate plate so it doesn’t overpower more delicate ones.

We all agreed upon the need to have a balance of different cheese types, Aged, Soft, Firm and Blue.

Something to dunk or pile the cheese onto is next, Walnut bread was a top favourite, as were oat crackers or savoury biscuits.

• Set out a separate knife for each cheese, especially the soft varieties.

The accompaniments add colour and freshness to your board.

They’re essential to cut through the flavours of sharp and rich cheeses. A chutney, or caramelised onion along with some olives, grapes, figs & strawberries

• Remove the cheese from the refrigerator an hour before serving, if the cheese is too cold you won’t get the full flavour.

• Spread out the spread. Place the cheese platters and the other nibbles on several tables to avoid guest gridlock.

To balance the cheese, you need salty, melt in the mouth cured meats. Prosciutto and salami are the best options.

Assorted seasonal and dried fruits can include figs, cherries, apples, and pears.

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Come one, come all...

The largest Christmas dinner gathering in the Ashburton District is likely to see more than 160 people share a festive feast that has now become entrenched as a district tradition.

Step back in time 12 years, and the first fledgling lunch was held. It was the brain-child of the New Life Church and a local café.

Pastor Rob Davison decided he’d test the water with a community lunch on Christmas Day and Jalan Café’s owners were keen to come on board as caterers.

That first event in 2004 took organisers by surprise with its popularity. More than 188 people sat down to share the festive feast, with many saying they celebrated their best Christmas in years.

With the inaugural event wrapped up, the New Life Church was keen to stage a second community lunch and again Jalan Café came to the party to share a traditional meal with new friends.

The popularity of the event, however, meant it became simply too great a task for the church and café partnership to continue and with no-one stepping up to take over, the large-scale

This year’s organiser Ann Allott said the event now had such a good history and the framework was so well tried and proven that the tough job of planning was now a lot easier.

As it has every year, the community response to a call for help has been strong – food, money and volunteers keen to help make other people’s Christmas Day extra special.

Each year regulars put their hand up to help and each year there are new recruits keen to be part of the team, she said.

This year there are even families who have decided to volunteer as helpers.

Ann has been involved in the lunch for several years and said she is always humbled by the willingness of people to contribute either goods, money or labour to ensure the lunch is a success.

“We never say no to anyone or anything. And we never turn anyone away,” she said.

The community lunch is there for everyone and that means there is no need for anyone to be alone or lonely on Christmas Day.

Santa, greeting his fans at last year’s Ashburton community Christmas lunch.

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Christmas dinner was off the district’s calendar in 2006.

It was sorely missed by those who’d attended in the past and in 2007 Presbyterian Support decided it would step up and reinstate the event.

This time around the lunch was

very much a community affair, with food and cash donations and huge teams of volunteers on board preparing food, decorating the Seniors’ Centre and serving lunch on the day.

And so it continued for several years.

In 2009 the lunch transferred to the Sinclair Centre and a special organising committee was established. That group has worked tirelessly every year since, planning, preparing and serving a meal to well over 150 each time.

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Dallas Scott beat Connor Brosnahan in a tennis marathon at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre on Thursday. Scott eventually won 4-5(3), 4-1, 4-1.

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New champions on the court

BY MATT MARKHAM

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Five new tennis champions were found on Thursday at the Mid Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Singles tournament at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre.

A few familiar names, particu-

larly to those who follow Mid Canterbury tennis closely, figured on the podiums in the five categories including an in-form Sam Bubb who claimed the Year 9 and 10 boys’ title in what was arguably the match of the day.

Bubb locked horns with Edwin

Dargue, with Dargue claiming the first set 6-2 before Bubb bounced back to claim the second 6-1 before also winning the tiebreak 11-9 to claim the title.

In the Year 11 and older boys section is was Dallas Scott who overcame Connor Brosnahan 4-5

(3), 4-1, 4-1 in a titanic three set match.

The girls’ Year 11 and older event was won by Larissa Allan who defeated Erin Connelly-Whyte and Lucy Moore took out the Year 9 and 10 girls’ title.

A new event was included this

year to cater for the novice players with the four entries received all playing in a round robin.

At the completion of the three games it was Thomas Ravenscroft who emerged on top from William Tod who finished in second position.

Curry could be looking at $200 million salary Stephen Curry stands to be one of the biggest winners from the NBA’s newest collective bargaining agreement.

The Golden State Warriors superstar could earn a contract that would exceed $200 million thanks

to the new designated veteran play provision, ESPN reported.

Curry, who is in the final year of a four-year, $44 million extension, will be eligible for a five-year deal worth an estimated $207 million – the most lucrative in league his-

tory – when the reigning two-time MVP becomes a free agent in July, according to the report.

The new rule allows certain superstars who are willing to re-sign with their current teams to receive up to 35 per cent of the team’s sal-

ary cap, but specific benchmarks need to be met and according to the report, Curry, a two-time MVP who’s played his entire career with one team, would meet those qualifications.

If Curry, who is making $12 mil-

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■ BOWLS

Top bowlers on show

By Matt MarkhaM

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Canterbury’s best outdoor bowlers will be in action over the weekend in the Bowls Canterbury Sub-Centre singles, including a strong contingent of Mid Canterbury players.

Split over six greens around the region, including a full rink at Methven, qualifying is held today with the knockout finals held tomorrow at three greens in Christchurch.

The men’s competition comprises of 59 entries with seven players hailing from, or playing for, Mid Canterbury clubs.

At Methven Aaron Allred, Simon Fleetwood and Craig Carter will all have the advantage of home town knowledge in what is a strong section that includes noted names Paddy Stewart, Alvin Gardiner and Nathan Glasson.

Methven’s Brent Mayson is the sole Mid Canterbury representative on the Woolston Park green while at Papanui Hampstead’s Benny Hill and Mat Bassett, who plays out of the Elmwood club, are in action.

Neil Atkinson, who also plays for Hampstead will compete in the final section of the men’s draw at the Centre Green in Christchurch.

The women’s draw is a lot more condensed with just the

Lesnar punished Former heavyweight champion and WWE convert Brock Lesnar has finally faced his punishment after failing a pair of drugs tests in the wake of his UFC 200 bout with Mark Hunt. Lesnar tested positive for a pair of anti-estrogen drugs in both an out-of-competition sample taken two weeks before the fight, and a second sample taken the night of his victory against Hunt. Now, Lesnar has been suspended for one year retroactive to the date of the fight, and has also been fined $US250,000. - NZME

Dragons on the hunt St George-Illawarra will look internally before considering whether to make a play for Todd Carney, Chris Sandow or Jackson Hastings following young halfback Drew Hutchison’s long-term knee injury. The Dragons have been forced back to the drawing board over their 2017 halves combination with promising No.7 Hutchison set to miss most of next season after going down at training on Thursday. The 21-year-old was widely expected to partner fiveeighth Gareth Widdop next year following Benji Marshall’s recent move to Brisbane.

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Code-hopper criticised two sections and 27 entries.

Allenton has strong representation at the Kaiapoi Bowling Club with former Black Jack, Sandra Keith and Rachel Davies flying the flag.

Cait Bassett, who plays her bowls for Burnside, is also in

that section which also includes current Black Jack, Katelyn Inch.

In order to qualify for Sunday’s knockout events, players are required to win three of their four games today making every game important.

Above: Cait Bassett now plays out of the Burnside club, and is up against the likes of Black Jack Katelyn Inch in today’s competition.

■ MOTOR RACING

Tander takes over from McLaughlin Veteran Supercars driver Garth Tander will return to Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2017 replacing departing Kiwi Scott McLaughlin.

The 2007 series champion began his career with GRM in 1998 and spent seven seasons with the outfit before moving to the HSV Dealer Team, with who he won his title.

The 39-year-old has been with the

Holden Racing Team since 2008 but was not re-signed this year, replaced with DJR Team Penske driver Scott Pye. Tander’s signing comes in the same week that GRM held mediation talks with Volvo about continuing to use the two S60s next year despite Polestar’s withdrawal from Supercars.

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Queensland Reds recruit Lachlan Maranta has brushed off criticism from former Wallaby Greg Martin over his move from the NRL. Maranta, 24, was slammed as “the worst signing I have ever seen” by Martin when his shift from the Broncos was announced earlier this year. “I dealt with it for two minutes, then you just move on,” Maranta said. Maranta’s grandfather was one of the Broncos’ founders and is Wayne Bennett’s godson. - AAP

Ickx to honour Amon Jacky Ickx, whose friendship with Chris Amon began when they were young Ferrari team-mates, has been announced as the guest speaker at a Manfeild celebration of the Kiwi’s life. Manfeild chief executive Julie Keane says it is fantastic the Belgian superstar of Formula One, sports car racing and endurance desert rallying is attending the Chris Amon Celebration, central to the New Zealand Grand Prix at Feilding on February 11-12, 2017.

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Barrett confirms top billing By caMPBell Burnes The world’s best rugby player is now confirmed as New Zealand’s best rugby player.

At a glittering black tie affair in Auckland on Thursday night, All Blacks No 10 Beauden Barrett, the 25-year-old, the only man to score tries in the finals of a Rugby World Cup and Junior World Championship, won the coveted Kelvin Tremain Memorial Trophy (succeeding Ma’a Nonu in 2015) for his quality work with the Hurricanes and the All Blacks in 2016.

Barrett was the leading points scorer in both Super Rugby (223), for which he also annexed the player of the year gong, and the Rugby Championship.

In all, he racked up 152 points in 2016 for the All Blacks, team of the year for the sixth straight season.

The event was something of a bonanza for the Barrett family, with younger brother Jordie, who toured as an apprentice with the All Blacks last month, scooping the age grade and Mitre 10 Cup player of the year awards.

The utility back showed his full array of skills in June for the New Zealand Under 20s, and then chalked up 123 points to help Canterbury to another Premiership crown.

Dane Coles, the world’s best hooker, who was in line for the supreme award, played the best rugby of any player with Maori blood, and the Ngati Porou rake duly clinched the Tom French Memorial Cup. Steve Hansen, already with the World Rugby coach of the year

Beuaden Barrett is officially the best rugby player in New Zealand.

honour to his credit, claimed an unprecedented fifth successive New Zealand coach of the year title.

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) chairman Brent Impey congratulated all award winners, adding that the annual event was an opportunity to celebrate rugby from community to the elite level.

“There is something very special in recognising our best people on the field alongside the people who give their very best off it,” said Impey.

“That support at the community level is a key reason rugby is thriving.

“Registered player numbers now tip 155,000, with solid increases in the number of young players, women and girls picking up the ball.”

Those who were recognised for their off-field service were Gary Donovan of Auckland’s Suburbs club, 2016 Gallaher Shield champions.

He took the Charles Monro volunteer of the year award, named after the 19th century founder of rugby in New Zealand.

Veteran television producer Gavin Service is the recipient of the 2016 Steinlager Salver, which recognises an outstanding contribution to the game.

Service was a pioneer of live television rugby coverage in New Zealand.

His involvement in televising rugby in New Zealand began in 1978 as a producer and he went on to direct nearly 200 tests.

Service has always been at the forefront of innovation interna-

tionally. In recent years he has seamlessly integrated new techniques, including spider cam, into rugby coverage.

The New Zealand Rugby Players’ Association Kirk award was presented for the first time, to former Blues, Chiefs, Auckland and Northland loose forward Justin Collins, who has made a significant contribution on behalf of professional players as a long-serving board member of the NZRPA, not to mention in 273 first-class matches.

Sarah Goss (sevens) and Selica Winiata (overall) won the women’s awards, the latter proving, with her prolific tryscoring feats for the Black Ferns, that she was unlucky to miss the cut for Rio, where the Black Ferns Sevens won a silver medal.

The 19-year-old Rieko Ioane capped a remarkable year by winning the Richard Crawshaw Memorial All Blacks Sevens award, scoring 28 tries during the 201516 World Sevens Series.

Young Wanganui wing Te Rangatira Waitokia is the Mitre 10 Heartland Championship Player of the Year.

He burst onto the scene this year, scoring 12 tries, with a four-try bag against Poverty Bay. Waitokia was rewarded with selection to the New Zealand Heartland XV. Isaiah Punivai’s try for Christ’s College against Christchurch BHS in their televised annual interschool match was a beauty, and clinched the try of the year amid some stiff competition.

The judging panel was Brent Anderson, Mike Eagle, Tony Johnson and Graham Mourie. - NZME

Arnold re-signs with Wallabies, Brumbies Rory Arnold has shunned bigmoney interest from French glamour club Toulon to pledge his future to Australian rugby, signing a new three-year deal with the ACT Brumbies.

The 208cm giant has been a

consistent contributor since breaking through for his test debut against England in June, the first of his eight appearances at international level this year.

Arnold is now in coach Michael Cheika’s first-choice starting

team, along with Adam Coleman.

Wary of the dangers of heading overseas too early in his career, Arnold said the lure of the Rugby World Cup in 2019 was too strong.

“It was flattering to receive of-

fers from overseas, and it wasn’t an easy decision to make, but I am looking forward to attempting to stake a claim for a regular place in both the Super Rugby and international line-ups,” he said.

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Cleanouts need a clean-up

By Patrick Mckendry Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a high tackle will welcome World Rugby’s new crackdown.

Sometimes you see them coming in the form of a swinging arm, sometimes you don’t.

Either way, your nose, jaw or neck area is in the firing line and serious injury can result.

And yet, while World Rugby should be congratulated for taking high tackles, and by extension, head injuries, seriously, the administrators appear to be picking on the obvious, one that happens maybe two or three times a match, or maybe not at all, while neglecting a potentially more dangerous issue – the ruck “cleanout”.

The modern-day professional player has to be a brave man or woman indeed, because they put their heads in extremely dangerous places in attempting to win the ball in the ruck or tackle, and what makes it worse is that as they’re doing it, they can’t see the threats coming.

How many times have we seen those brave individuals go for a turnover while doing everything within the law?

They release the tackled player and support their own body weight, head down looking for the ball, only to be smashed backwards by an opposition player “cleaning out” a ruck or tackle.

Their heads and the back of their necks are dangerously exposed. Really, it’s a serious injury waiting to happen.

It’s enough to make viewers wince, so heaven only knows what it’s like for the players on the receiving end, let alone their loved ones watching.

Taking a stand on high tackles is a good one, but a broader message is needed.

The ruck and tackle areas are difficult to police, but it appears World Rugby are waiting on a serious injury for them to complete the circle on head injuries.- NZME

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■ CRICKET

Selectors spring a surprise

BY DAVID LEGGAT It’s six years since Neil Broom last played a one-day international for New Zealand, but he gets a chance this month with his recall for the three-game ODI series against Bangladesh.

Broom is one of two changes from the squad beaten 3-0 by Australia in the recent Chappell Hadlee series, with wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi back after a short stint on the outer.

Three players drop out from Australia in the reduced 13-man squad – wicketkeeper BJ Watling, batsman Henry Nicholls and legspinner Todd Astle.

An aggressive batsman, Broom, 33, played for Derbyshire in English county cricket last year but

has opted to forego the second year of a deal in order to return to the national side.

His average in 22 ODIs isn’t flattering – 17.52, with one half century – and he’s played 10 T20s, the last one three years ago in Sri Lanka.

In 13 years of first-class cricket, Broom averages 39.32 with 18 centuries over 135 games. In oneday cricket he goes at 38.61 with seven centuries.

“I appreciate everything Derbyshire have done for me and have really enjoyed my time with the club,” said Broom.

“At the end of the day I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to represent New Zealand and am excited about the opportunity to play international cricket again.

year, with an average of 84.66.

“He has an impressive strikerate and obviously fills the No 4 role with Ross Taylor out injured.”

Ronchi’s recaptured some of his form – he made a first-class century at better than run-a-ball against Otago around the time he discovered he’d been dropped from the national team, and made an unbeaten 58 off 31 balls for Wellington in their Super Smash loss to Canterbury on Thursday.

Neil Broom “It’s the ultimate.”

National selector Gavin Larsen said Broom brought plenty to the squad.

“Neil was the top run-scorer in the Ford Trophy competition last

New Zealand team for the threegame ODI series against Bangladesh starting in Christchurch on Boxing Day: Kane Williamson ©, Martin Guptill, Tom Latham, Jimmy Neesham, Neil Broom, Colin Munro, Colin de Grandhomme, Luke Ronchi, Mitch Santner, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult.

■ OPINION

Parker’s win opens a can of worms L

ast week’s boxing result, brilliant as it was for our Kiwi lad, appears to have raised a whole lot more questions than it has answered.

There’s no point at all in commenting on the fight itself.

While three professional and respected international judges ruled that Joseph Parker was now a world champion, there’s a huge groundswell of opinions world-wide on both sides of the debate, with any number of experts claiming it was a ‘hometown’ decision, Ruiz’ camp vehemently agreeing and demanding a rematch, the Parker people looking forward to world domination, and noted Kiwi boxing legend Lance Revill resigning from the boxing association in protest, igniting a vicious war of words with promoter Dean Lonergan.

So who are we expected to believe?

While boxing on some levels (such as right here in Ashburton, with Cornelius Grobler doing

some fine work) is a superb sport, teaching young folk skills, fitness and most importantly discipline, and Joseph Parker appears to be one of the finer young men to emerge on the New Zealand sporting scene, the sport has always had a very murky background.

The likes of Don King and Mike Tyson, both fine upstanding citizens (not) have hogged the headlines for many years, and with results of boxing matches that go the distance being arbitrarily decided by three onlookers’ opinions on what happened (and we’ve just seen how a million experts couldn’t agree on what they saw in the Parker-Ruiz bout) there will always be fierce debate about who was actually better than who.

Then there’s the belts.

Four of them.

So, is Parker a world champ, or not?

The fellers he’s been fighting simply don’t appear as contenders on the ‘other’ belt lists;

Steve Devereux MY SHOUT

likewise there’s a heap of names that don’t appear interested in the WBO belt that now bears Parker’s name.

Until such time as somebody (maybe Parker in a few years’ time) wins all the belts, surely nobody can actually claim to be the genuine world champion. ****** Watching some of the rugby highlights of the year with the rugby awards being held this week, it seems quite incredible to imagine the knives were out for Beauden Barrett in a couple of games later in the international season.

The guy is a freak, a champion, a bona fide superstar, and well deserving of the title of best

rugby player in New Zealand, to go with the international gong he picked up a few weeks ago. ******** While I’m digressing all over the place (hey, it’s my column) one night the TV remote rested briefly (because I’m not a fan) on Nigel Latta delving deeply into the psyches of people who did really bad things, trying to figure out why they did them.

That’s all very fine, but the ad break featured another programme with that same Nigel Latta, blowing things up!

Now I have nothing against blowing stuff up; one of my best friends who shall remain nameless (we’ll call him ‘Quint’ to protect the guilty) loves indulging in huge explosions that destroy things, especially after a few beers, but should an allegedly noted psychologist be putting himself out there as a proficient destroyer of stuff, just after probing into the dark recesses of bad guys who in lots of ways are just doing the same thing?

Cummins ‘scary’ for Thunder With top order woes standing as a roadblock to their Big Bash League title defence, paceman Pat Cummins is shaping as the Thunder’s X-factor.

With Usman Khawaja to miss most of the 2016-17 campaign on national duties, veterans Jacques Kallis and Mike Hussey stepping down and skipper Shane Watson not expected back from a calf injury until after Christmas, they are facing an uphill slog.

The quartet together amassed 1023 last campaign, or about two thirds of 1574 runs scored by Thunder batsmen on their run to a surprise championship.

Just as Khawaja proved the difference last year, Cummins shapes as the ace up their sleeve.

Thunder quick Gurinder Sandhu has watched Cummins terrify batsmen since their junior days, having played junior representative cricket together.

While Sandhu is adamant it’s not up to the bowler to carry the can, putting his faith in the likes of young batsmen Kurtis Patterson and Ryan Gibson, he knows Cummins can lend the side some authority.

“We’ve played together since we were about 15, 16, 17,” Sandhu said.

“I think he made his debut for NSW when he was 17 in the old school T20 competition. He was pretty scary early on.

“I’ve been playing cricket with him for a long time now.

“He’s going to lead the attack with maybe myself or Andre Russell or Clint McKay. It’s always great to have him in your changeroom rather than playing against him.”

Cummins, 23, is on the comeback trail from back and leg injuries which have plagued him most of his career and made a successful return to the international arena in this month’s oneday series against New Zealand, including an impressive 4-41 in Canberra.

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■ TENNIS

Suzukis remain unbeaten

BY MATT MARKHAM

MATT.M@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

There will be target on the back of team We are Stihl Suzuki when twilight tennis returns in the New Year.

The social tennis side extended their unbeaten run through the competition to 12 wins from 12 matches on Wednesday night when they scraped home against the Tridents 17-16 in a hard-fought encounter.

The win leaves them in clear control of section one of the competition with only the Hackers on 10 wins close enough to make the leaders glance over their shoulders.

Hackers recorded a comprehensive victory in the final round of play before a Christmas and New Year break when they beat Hit And Miss 20-13.

In section two, Hit 4 Brains kept their good run intact, extending their winning sequence seven with a victory over Cats 20-13.

Hit 4 Brains now have 11 wins from their 12 matches with their sole defeat coming from the racquets of String Quartet back in the fifth round of the competition.

James Smith keeps an eye on his serve on the last night of Twilight Tennis for the year on Wednesday night at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre.

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Top spot on the line

BY MATT MARKHAM

MATT.M@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The two big winners of last weekend’s round of A-grade tennis will face off with each other today at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre.

Fairton and Hampstead, who both recorded 6-0 victories last weekend in their respective matches, will battle it out this afternoon in a match which will decide which side heads into the Christmas and New Year break on top of the overall standings.

As it sits currently after two games in the second round of the competition, Hampstead have a one point margin over Fairton, thanks largely to their big win over Methven last weekend and also a 4-2 win over Southern the previous week.

Hampstead will be without Tony Bros-

nahan who is in Auckland as a chair umpire for the semi-finals and finals of the New Zealand Tennis Championships.

Allenton, who went through the opening round of the competition unbeaten, will be licking their wounds and looking to bounce back when they step out against Tinwald today.

The Allenton side have suffered consecutive defeats after their undefeated stretch but come up against a Tinwald side humbled 0-6 seven days ago, leaving all the makings of a classic contest.

The third match of the round sees Methven, who have won just the one match this season take on a confident Southern after their win over Allenton last weekend.

In A-reserve action today, Allenton take on Tinwald, Dorie will play Hampstead and Methven faces Southern.

Four-year ban for football star Mohammed Noor, one of Saudi Arabia’s most decorated footballers, has been given a four-year doping ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after FIFA successfully challenged a domestic appeal ruling that reduced his sanction to four months.

The 38-year-old midfielder played 96 times for his country and appeared at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, as well as winning seven Saudi Professional League and two Asian Champions League titles with Al-Ittihad.

But in November 2015, Noor tested positive for amphetamine in a standard, incompetition drugs test.

He was initially given a four-year suspension by the Saudi Arabian Anti-Doping Committee but on April 17 a Saudi appeal panel annulled that sanction, despite recognising the presence of the prohibited substance in Noor’s system.

According to yesterday’s CAS ruling, that appeal panel said the time Noor had served since November “will be sufficient, and the player has the right to resume his sport activity and go back to his sport from the date of this decision”.

FIFA, however, filed an appeal at CAS in May, with the hearing taking place earlier this month.

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In brief Latta heading north Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta is eyeing Group One features at Ellerslie with Authentic Paddy and Reilly Lincoln. The former will head north for the Zabeel Classic on Boxing Day and Reilly Lincoln will be kept fresh for the Railway on New Year’s Day. Authentic Paddy, third to Kawi and Stolen Dance in the weight-for-age feature in 2015, was a last-start second in the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes at Trentham.

Reilly Lincoln, who has won seven of her 16 starts, had a break following her decisive win in the Gr.3 Stewards at Riccarton. - NZME

Telegraph tempting

Matt Cameron and Indy Evolution are in control as they get down toward the line in the McCrea Painters 2YO, run over 1200 metres at the Ashburton races yesterday. Indy Evolution beat Always Explosive (Rafi Firdhaus) by one and a quarter lengths, with Chris Johnson and Per Form half a length back in third, and the trio formed a $763.50 trifecta, with favourite Silvermist not featuring in PHOTO JAMIE ADAIR 161216-JA-249 the finish.

■ ASHBURTON

Debut start, debut win

By Matt MarkhaM

matt.m@theguardian.co.nz

As far as beginnings to a racing career go, they don’t come much better than what Indy Evolution served up yesterday at Ashburton.

The Kenny and Lisa Raetrained three-year-old made the best possible start by winning her debut race appearance in emphatic fashion.

A filly by Thewayyouare, Indy Revolution had made an impression at trials prior to yesterday’s appearance and backed it up with a dour performance.

Forced to work hard by the

pace-making Always Explosive, Indy Revolution showed real fortitude up the demanding Ashburton straight to kick clear in the shadows of the post and grab the win.

Despite being held in Ashburton, the win was somewhat of a North Island affair.

The Raes’ home base is Ruakaka and on board was leading North Island hoop, Matthew Cameron.

Victories were spread far and wide throughout yesterday’s short and sharp programme which saw a crowd of over 700 in attendance for the annual

Christmas at the Races meeting.

Samantha Collett was the only one to taste success twice winning early in the day with What A Deeza and then Don Carlo later in the day.

Steven Woodsford picked up the prize for leading trainer and claimed $600 for his efforts courtesy of McCrea Painters And Decorators.

The feature event of the day went to the old marvel, El Chico.

At 12 years old the Michael and Matt Pitman-trained gelding continues to defy his age bracket and yesterday picked up the 24th win of his 141-start career.

Ridden off the speed by apprentice jockey Parvesh Shaikh, El Chico stalked the speed throughout the 1400 metre event and unwound stylishly down centre track to take the win comfortably.

It was his fifth win on the Ashburton track in his 12 starts there and his stake levels now sit above $660,000 – roughly $4700 for each of his starts.

Ashburton Racing Club members were happy to report that the crowd, many of whom were booked into corporate marquees for the day were well behaved with no incidents reported.

Results from yesterday’s Ashburton races The weather was fine and the track good for the Ashburton Races at Ashburton yesterday.

RACE 1 INSURANCE 4U MAIDEN, $7000, 1400m 3-4 Radiant (11) R Firdhaus 1 2-2 Showyouhow (3) M Cameron 2 4-3 Los Cabos (10) S Collett 3 Scratched: Jepezz George, Taxihome.

Also (in finishing order): 8-8 Windermere Lass, 1-1 Pippi Rea, 6-6 Sebring Dragon, 10-9 Crystal Harmony, 7-7 Galisini, 9-10 On Guard, 12-12 High Play, 5-5 Masters Choice, 11-11 Big Mac. 1-1/2L, 1/2 hd, Nk. Time: 1:22.56. Win: $7.40.

Places: $2.10, $1.70, $2.00. Quinella: $20.70.

Trifecta: $328.70 (11,3,10). First4: $1927.80 (11,3,10,12).

Trainer: Danny Crozier, Riccarton. Breeding: 4 m Nom du Jeu-Shining Star.

RACE 2 - SEALESWINSLOW MAIDEN, $7000, 2100m 6-6 What A Deeza (7) S Collett 1 4-3 Sweet Indulgence (5) A Collett 2 7-7 Justrush (9) M Cameron 3 All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 3-4 Lin, 5-5 Misty Trella, 8-8 Pickup, 1-1 Scandalo, 2-2 Penny Perfect, 11-11 Hou La La, 10-10 Conflagration, 9-9 El Bee Dancer.

3/4L, 1-3/4L, Hd. Time: 2:09.8. Win: $12.20.

Pl: $3.30, $2.00, $4.00. Quinella: $29.90. Tri: $827.10 (7,5,9). First4: $2869.60 (7,5,9,6).

Double: $36.50 (11/7), $16.00 (11/5).

Trainer: Peter Rudkin, Riccarton. Breeding:

4 m Roc de Cambes-Snowmobeel.

RACE 3 - RAVENSDOWN RATING 65, $8000, 2100m 1-2 McMay (2) S Wynne 1 7-8 Precious Percy (1) C Johnson 2 13-11 Lady Em (14) R Firdhaus 3 Scratched: Parana, Shezatoucha.

Also (finish order): 14-14 Monte Cinto, 5-5 Barclay Creek, 2-1 Zanotti, 10-10 The Beaut, 9-9 Stonemason, 6-6 Mister Spiderman, 12-13 Letmego, 4-4 Skeen, 11-12 Gottagetmywoohoo, 3-3 Missteeflying, 8-7 Asoma.

1-1/4L, 1-1/4L, 3/4L. Time: 2:09.09. Win: $4.70. Places: $2.10, $4.60, $7.80. Quinella: $23.70. Trifecta: $1396.30 (2,1,14). First4: Not Struck.

Trainer: T & L Prendergast, West Melton.

Breeding: 7 m Yamanin Vital-McMammoth.

RACE 4 - BEVAN, GILBERT & NORM @ CATR RATING 85, $12000, 2100m 4-4 Zhanim (3) A Collett 1 3-3 Da Shindig (5) M McNab 2 5-6 Show MacCool (6) G Jogoo 3 All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 1-1 Saint Kitt, 7-7 Suzerain, 2-2 Angel Falls, 8-8 Sadlers Rock, 6-5 Speedy Jax. 1L, 2L, Sht hd. Time: 2:09.51. Win: $7.40. Pl: $2.00, $1.90, $2.50. Quinella: $14.50. Tri: $294.70 (3,5,6). First4: $1008.60 (3,5,6,1).

Quaddie: $2614.70 (11/7/2+/3). Double: $15.00 (2+/3), $7.40 (2+/5). Treble: $440.90 (7/2+/3).

Tr: Steven Woodsford, Rangiora. Breeding: 6 m Savabeel (AUS)-Tafelberg.

RACE 5 - MCCREA PAINTERS & DECORATORS 2YO+ F&M MA, $7000, 1200m 5-5 Indy Evolution (12) M Cameron 1 7-7 Always Explosive (10) R Firdhaus 2 3-4 Per Form (13) C Johnson 3 Scr: Mimimac, Vicar’s Daughter, Miss Dolce Vita.

Also (in finishing order): 10-10 Three Shots, 6-6 Danielle, 2-2 Macha, 4-3 Shockette, 1-1 Silvermist, 9-9 Thewayweroll, 8-8 Countmein.

1-1/4L, 1/2L, 3-1/2L. Time: 1:11.18. Win: $10.00.

Places: $2.80, $3.90, $2.30. Q: $49.10. Tri: $673.50 (12,10,13). First4: $4259.80 (12,10,13,7).

Trainer: K & L Rae, Ruakaka. Breeding: 3 f Thewayyouare (USA)-Evolution.

RACE 6 - VALACHI DOWNS RATING 75, $10,000, 1200m 2-2 Don Carlo (9) S Collett 1 6-6 Tomm Jones (1) K Mudhoo 2 12-12 Whackomaco (12) T Moseley 3 All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 8-8 Springwater, 3-3 Enzo’s Lad, 4-5 Bonaparte, 11-10 El Bee Darci, 5-4 He’s Gold, 7-7 Carpathia, 10-11 Toetwotoe, 9-9 Flytime, 1-1 Pinzano.

2L, Sht hd, 1/2 nk. Time: 1:09.24. Win: $4.70. Places: $2.00, $3.40, $15.40. Quinella: $37.10. Trifecta: $1446.50 (9,1,12). First4: $22731.40 (9,1,12,5). Double: $52.30 (12/9), $37.10 (12/1).

Trainer: Michael Daly, Washdyke. Breeding: 3 g Per Incanto (USA)-Turf Fire.

RACE 7 - RD PETROLEUM OPEN HANDICAP, $15,000, 1400m

4-5 El Chico (4) P Shaikh 1 7-7 Volcano (10) S Wynne 2 1-1 Pepper Mill (3) M McNab 3 Scratched: Capo.

Also (in finishing order): 3-4 Absolut Excelencia, 8-8 Opihi Ranger, 6-6 Double Blue, 9-9 Nippin, 5-3 Somethings Burning, 2-2 Elusive Gold, 10-10 Keepa Tramp.

1-1/2L, Hd, 1/2L. Time: 1:22.74. Win: $9.90.

Places: $2.80, $3.20, $1.70. Quinella: $49.30. Trifecta: $690.00 (4,10,3). First4: $4363.20 (4,10,3,1).

Trainer: M & M Pitman, Riccarton. Breeding: 12 g Stravinsky (USA)-Las Chicas Buenas.

RACE 8 - HINDS RIDGE FARM & STACKHOUSE FARMING R6, $8000, 1400m 3-3 Hot Tempo (10) C Johnson 1 8-5 Red Ace (4) T Moseley 2 1-1 Lindis Pass (6) A Collett 3 Scr: River Raider, Cotta Pin, Sniparinda, Lane Frost, Bahhare Babe, Roc City.

Also: 4-4 Prince Ransom, 2-2 Royal Road, 7-7 Opihi Jade, 5-6 You Are Amazing, 11-11 Kearney, 6-8 Beach Beauty, 12-13 Arapito, 14-14 Fashion Lass, 10-9 Montego Bay, 1312 Mystify Me, 9-10 Alice Webb Ellis.

1L, 1-1/4L, Nk. Time: 1:23.13. Win: $6.30.

Pl: $2.30, $3.60, $2.10. Quinella: $50.70.

Tri: $425.20 (10,4,6). First4: $1389.70 (10,4,6,1). Quaddie: $3569.50 (12/9/4/10).

Place6: $869.70 (1,2+,14/3,5,6/10,12,13/1,9,1 2/3+,4,10/4,6+,10). Double: $36.70 (4/10), $57.80 (4/4). Treble: $639.50 (9/4/10).

Trainer: Murray Tapper, Timaru. Breeding: 4 m Per Incanto (USA)-Danse Sauvage.

Lightly-raced colt Weatherly could be in line for a trip to New Zealand.

Nominated for the Gr.1 J. R & N. Berkett Telegraph at Trentham, the three-year-old will make an overdue return to racing in the Razor Sharp Handicap at Randwick on Saturday. “He’s a first-class horse.

He’s a top-ender there’s no doubt,” Scone trainer Paul Messara said.

“Every time he’s been ready to race we’ve had a setback so it’s cost him a fair bit.” Weatherly won the Listed Talindert Stakes at Flemington earlier this year and he hasn’t raced since he finished third in the Gr.2 Todman Stakes at Randwick in March.

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Drought over?

Iggi Pop will be out to claim a long overdue victory when he runs in today’s Listed Christmas Cup at Randwick. The New Zealand-bred son of Savabeel hasn’t won since he claimed the Listed Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm in July, 2014.

The Peter Robl-trained eight-yearold has placed in all but one of his four runs this preparation and was last seen earlier this month when he finished third in the ATC Cup at Rosehill. Iggi Pop is a half-brother to the Gr.1 Makfi Challenge Stakes winner I Do. - NZME

Filly assists sibling The well-related Crystal Fountain has provided another pedigree update for her half-sister in Cambridge Stud’s 2017 Premier Sale line-up at Karaka. The Stravinsky three-year-old followed up her debut victory at Werribee with further success against the older horses at Geelong on Thursday for Lee and Anthony Freedman. Crystal Fountain was a $180,000 yearling and her sibling (Lot 350) is by Tavistock. They are out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Pride Of Tralee, a half-sister to the dual Group One winner Serenade Rose.

- NZME

Back in the saddle Group One-winning jockey Jason Jago has a renewed passion for race riding and is excited to continue his comeback aboard a Group One winner at the Te Rapa meeting today. Jago, who rode Fleur de Lune to win the Gr.1 Railway Stakes at Ellerslie in 2013 before quitting the saddle the following year, had his comeback ride at Matamata on Wednesday on the unplaced Etonian. He has two rides at Te Rapa today aboard the Tim and Margaret Cartertrained Sky Idea in the Hamilton Taxis 2100 and Gr.1 Auckland Cup winner El Soldado in the Dunstan Feeds Championship Qualifier (2100m).

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Huge payday looms for Monte A six figure bonus has resulted in a change of plan for Nymph Monte.

With $1 million now on offer to any horse to win the Gr.3 Laser Plumbing Te Puke City of Auckland Cup, the Gr.2 Go Racing Syndications Avondale Cup and the Gr.1

Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup, trainer Grant Nicholson has altered his charge’s programme.

“We were looking at the Zabeel Classic, but that $1 million is a big carrot so the preference is now the City of Auckland Cup,” he said.

“After that he’ll run in the Herbie Dyke Stakes and then back up into the Avondale Cup – I’m not worried about that, he’s done it before – and then it’s three weeks to the Auckland Cup. “It’s a bit of an ask, but this

horse is more than capable.”

Nymph Monte showed his staying ability two runs back with a strong performance at Riccarton to win the Metropolitan Trophy before he ran fifth in the New Zealand Cup. - NZME

Grant Nicholson

M4 Manawatu gallops Today at Awapuni Raceway

Manawatu RC Venue: Awapuni Meeting Date: 17 Dec 2016 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.46pm TOTALLY VETS PREMIER RATING 75 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 215x9 Ballybay (2) 60.5 .............................J Riddell 2 44272 Saber m (5) 60 ............................ C Johnson 3 397x0 Charlestown th (9) 59.5..............R Elliot (a2) 4 x23x1 Lewis Caroll d (4) 59.5 ..............S McKay (a) 5 42x66 Silver Bubbles dm (12) 56.5R Goldsbury (a2) 6 126x4 Paddy Bourke dh (8) 56.5 .... T Johnson (a2) 7 4561x All Charm t (11) 56 ......................C Lammas 8 05x78 Gold Allure d (10) 55.5 ......... S MacNab (a4) 9 810x4 Legnani d (7) 55.5 .................... K McCulloch 10 x0681 Platinum Express tdh (6) 55........ R Hannam 11 6x616 Black Sav tdbh (3) 54 .................. D Johnson 12 0x116 Prosecco tdmh (13) 54.............. D Hirini (a2) 13 51332 Lucyinrio (1) 54 .............................. J Parkes 2 1.21 MILLS REEF WINERY 2YO PREMIER $20,000, 2YO SW+P, 1100m 1 1 Gold Fever (5) 57 ........................C Lammas 2 336 Dreams Of Platinum h (3) 55.5 ... R Hannam 3 3 Nothin’ On Me (4) 55.5 ................... J Parkes 4 255 Empress Tzu Hsi (1) 55.5 ........... D Johnson 5 Sainted Pearl (6) 55.5 ................L Hemi (a1) 6 Dare To Rock (7) 55.5 .....................R Myers 7 Dijon Bleu h (2) 55.5 ................ K McCulloch

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3 1.56pm PROPERTY BROKERS PREMIER RATING 65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 57722 Itsa Tru Story dm (2) 60 ....... S MacNab (a4) 2 4x023 Star Of Greenbeel b (15) 60 ..... D Hirini (a2) 3 41x3 Great Haste (6) 59 ........................D Bradley 4 1 Handsome Return (1) 59 ...........L Hemi (a1) 5 20x40 Boxamosa t (16) 58.5 .....................H Tinsley 6 6x310 Casaquinman d (11) 58.5 ...............J Riddell 7 050x4 The Bandito (14) 58.5 ...................M Tanaka 8 x0581 O’Ceirins Choice d (8) 58............... J Parkes 9 233x5 Judi Anne h (5) 57.5...................R Elliot (a2) 10 621x8 Blue Lagoon (12) 56.5 ................ D Johnson 11 218x6 Icehouse tb (9) 56 12 37x77 Incantation (13) 56 ..........................R Myers 13 37729 Konohiki t (4) 56 .......................... C Johnson 14 0x240 Piece Of Kate b (7) 56 ..............S McKay (a) 15 15x67 Princess Belle dh (10) 56 ......... K McCulloch 16 15 Exhibit 55.5 .................................. Scratched 17 4x652 Gladstone Belle (17) 55 18 04387 Maneo Invictus h (3) 54 ..............C Lammas 4 2.32pm RICH HILL STUD 3YO PREMIER $20,000, 3YO SW+P, 1400m 1 6x541 Leading Role dh (7) 58.5 ............ C Johnson 2 x3217 Savasava dm (2) 58.5 ................R Elliot (a2) 3 1x522 Undercover (3) 57.5 ......................D Bradley 4 41 Tiptronic d (8) 57.5 ......................... J Parkes 5 210 Almo Street dh (9) 57.5 ...................J Riddell

6 6139 Gobuyit (1) 57.5 ................R Goldsbury (a2) 7 3x10 Fine Taylor dh (4) 57.5 ...................H Tinsley 8 6x478 Hugo The Boss b (11) 57.5 .........C Lammas 9 424 Outstanding (6) 56 ....................S McKay (a) 10 15 Exhibit (10) 55.5 .......................... D Johnson 11 48x10 Desano (12) 55.5 ............................R Myers 12 419x0 Platinum Diva h (5) 55.5........... K McCulloch 5 3.12 PAVEMASTERS PREMIER RATING 85 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 2000m 1 56237 Our Gazza mh (7) 59.5 ...................J Riddell 2 66724 Guarantor tdbh (5) 59 ....................H Tinsley 3 55x26 China Star tdh (4) 57................... R Hannam 4 71532 Prize Lad d (1) 56.5 ....................C Lammas 5 74x86 Vive La Difference (6) 55 ................R Myers 6 01x20 All In Vogue d (13) 54.................. C Johnson 7 04110 She’s Poppy m (8) 54 ................S McKay (a) 8 x0646 Wait A Sec t (10) 54 ........................D Turner 9 96213 Captain Lincoln tmh (2) 54 ....... K McCulloch 10 31776 Doiknowyou m (12) 54 ..................M Tanaka 11 07212 El Fernando (3) 54 ...................... D Johnson 12 25213 Rock On tbh (9) 54......................... J Parkes 13 x8117 Gobstopper (11) 54 ....................R Elliot (a2) 6 3.46pm HOTEL COACHMAN MANAWATU CUP (G3) $100,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 2300m 1 9x052 King Kamada h (3) 60 .............. K McCulloch 2 x0401 Sampson m (4) 60 ......................... J Parkes 3 x1121 Chocante (6) 58.5 ....................... D Johnson

4 0x131 Five To Midnight tmh (9) 57 ...........D Bradley 5 32980 Savaria th (13) 56............................R Myers 6 74353 Dubai Shuffle m (11) 56 ......... T Johnson (a) 7 x0214 Endeavour d (1) 53.5 ................S McKay (a) 8 53804 Balham (7) 53 ............................. C Johnson 9 09431 Jacksstar tmh (8) 53....................C Lammas 10 08545 Tequila Sunrise t (10) 53 .....................C Dell 11 90508 Jayla Monet (12) 53 .....................L Hemi (a) 12 97949 Tiffany’s h (2) 53............................M Tanaka 13 03296 White Diamond (5) 53 ................. R Hannam 7 4.21pm KAMADA PARK MANAWATU CHALLENGE STAKES (G2) $100,000, WFA, 1400m 1 6179x Iamishwara tdbh (9) 59 .................M Tanaka 2 x1323 Ringo tdh (5) 59 .............................H Tinsley 3 71664 Scapolo dm (10) 59........................ J Parkes 4 7226x Mighty Solomon tdh (6) 59 ..............J Riddell 5 52144 Salamanca tdmh (8) 59.............S McKay (a) 6 44115 Nymph Monte tb (7) 59 ................R Elliot (a) 7 41102 Maybe Miami dm (13) 59 ............ C Johnson 8 86331 North And South tdmh (11) 57 .... R Hannam 9 31233 Miss Appleton tdmbh (12) 57 ......C Lammas 10 114x2 Summer’s Day dm (1) 57 ............ D Johnson 11 35239 Slice Of Class d (2) 57 ............. K McCulloch 12 8x151 La Fille En Jeu d (3) 57 ................L Hemi (a) 13 20x21 Profile d (4) 57 ................................R Myers 8 4.56pm BROKERWEB RISK SERVICES PREMIER RATING 75 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1500m

1 21x72 Beefeater th (14) 60 .......................H Tinsley 2 x4365 Shadows Cast tbh (12) 60 ............M Tanaka 3 40110 Hotshot Lass tm (6) 59......R Goldsbury (a2) 4 6x194 Pat In Brackets (7) 58..................... J Parkes 5 x6x60 The Beama t (5) 57.5 ......................J Riddell 6 1x146 Freddy Lad (1) 56.5..........................K Smith 7 x5x24 Wafer h (10) 56 .........................S McKay (a) 8 60442 Itsagem h (9) 55 .........................L Hemi (a1) 9 60x88 Bella Court h (13) 54.5................ D Johnson 10 97213 Foxy Wolf (2) 54.5 ...........................R Myers 11 0x826 Francome (4) 54.5......................R Elliot (a2) 12 46x15 Malibu Miss (8) 54 .................... K McCulloch 13 63281 Strolling Vagabond (11) 54.......... C Johnson 14 0x905 Chic (3) 54 ......................................D Turner Blinkers on: Dreams Of Platinum, Nothin’ On Me (R2), Almo Street, Fine Taylor, Hugo The Boss (R4), Wait A Sec (R5), Freddy Lad (R8) Blinkers off: Boxamosa (R3), Platinum Diva (R4), Nymph Monte (R7) SELECTIONS

7 x2700 Arrow In The Sand t (1) 54 ..............A Collett 8 1x690 Fanatic (8) 54 .....................................M Hills 9 02605 Seconds Out dm (11) 54 ............A Jones (a) 10 00610 Southern Dancer d (6) 54 ......... M D Plessis 11 x1630 Moderation (10) 54....................B Hutton (a) 7 4.03 GOLDSMITH’S GALLERY JEWELLERS 2100 RATING 65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 x8037 Aston Park (4) 60 ....................... L Satherley 2 x0032 Zacada (14) 60...........................M Cameron 3 x3275 Clarify (6) 59 .................................M McNab 4 591x0 Delegate dm (13) 58.5 .............. M D Plessis 5 20421 Road Trip (19) 58.5 .....................T Thornton 6 66x71 Angelica Rox (5) 58............................M Hills 7 0x026 All Knitted Up 58 .......................... Scratched 8 32217 El Bayardo 58............................... Scratched 9 2x006 Inastride d (10) 58 .........................O Bosson 10 82184 Son Taari (11) 58.............................A Collett 11 24610 Wrangler (17) 58 ........................M Coleman 12 0618. The Tetian Titan (2) 56.5 ................V Colgan 13 x6724 Maytra Dee (18) 56 ....................G Cooksley 14 8x830 Ekarosa m (3) 55.5 .................B Hutton (a1) 15 04050 Lil Miss Waitoki td (7) 55.5 ....... D Danis (a4) 16 20x97 Lustrous (16) 55.5 ....................... E Farr (a2) 17 40x80 Sure Enough (12) 55.5 18 x0x93 Jesdemona m (8) 55 ....................... R Jones 19 0x829 Riverdeep (9) 57 20 45748 Pentire Babe (1) 55 ....................V Gatu (a1) 21 x9107 Gangsters Lass (15) 54 22 x8338 Varro (20) 56.5 Emergencies: Sure Enough, Jesdemona, Riverdeep, Pentire Babe, Gangsters Lass, Varro 8 4.38pm METRO DIRECT 1500 RATING 75 $22,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1500m

1 815x9 Santiago (5) 59.5 ..............................L Innes 2 12197 Dynamo m (16) 58.5 3 5122x Mountain Jack b (15) 57.5..................M Hills 4 687x0 Prince Mambo t (9) 57.5 .................A Collett 5 528x0 Sasanof’s Hero (8) 57.5 .................. R Jones 6 39445 Alamer d (17) 57 ........................M Coleman 7 x9450 Highland Park t (2) 57 ................M Cameron 8 19103 Cantare tm (14) 56.5 .......................S Collett 9 269x0 Ryker (4) 56.5 .............................T Thornton 10 7x134 Red Tsunami tmh (11) 55.5 ....... L Satherley 11 20x35 Vinevale (13) 55 ........................ M D Plessis 12 50x84 Ali Baba b (18) 55 13 9x231 Effectav (3) 54.5 ............................M McNab 14 370x0 Downton Abbey (6) 54 15 57x11 Keep Carmen Carion (7) 54 Z N Azman (a3) 16 42181 Swinging Skirts t (10) 54 .... D Prastiyou (a1) 17 7x306 Bamurru (12) 54 18 x4x00 Ultimate Image b (1) 54 19 x8037 Aston Park 55............................... Scratched Emergencies: Bamurru, Ultimate Image, Aston Park Blinkers on: Excalibur, Eden Rose (R3), Daytona Red (R4), Delegate, Lil Miss Waitoki (R7), Alamer, Bamurru (R8) Blinkers off: Roc Me, Ruby Bloom (R1), Endean Rose (R5), Storming The Tower (R6), Inastride, Sure Enough (R7) SELECTIONS

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Race 1: Ballybay, All Charm, Lewis Caroll, Black Sav, Lucyinrio Race 2: Dijon Bleu, Empress Tzu Hsi, Gold Fever, Nothin’ On Me Race 3: Itza True Story, Great Haste, Icehouse, Piece Of Kate Race 4: Fine Taylor, Tiptronic, Leading Role, Exhibit, Almo Street Race 5: Our Gazza, Vive La Differe,ce Prize Lad, China Star Race 6: Sampson, Dubai Shuffle, Chocante, Five To Midnight Race 7: Mighty Solomon, Maybe Miami, Scapolo, Ringo Race 8: Wafer, Pat In Brackets, Beefeater, Shadows Cast

Waikato gallops Today at Te Rapa Raceway

Waikato RC Venue: Te Rapa Meeting Date: 17 Dec 2016 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.28pm NATIONWIDE LIVESTOCK 1200 RATING 65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 213x Julius dmb (6) 59 ...........................V Colgan 2 21 Ambitious Winner (11) 57.5........M Coleman 3 1569x Roc Me d (1) 57.5 .............................L Innes 4 9x154 Mannie’s Power d (5) 57 ............ L Satherley 5 35x19 Bruce Arthur d (4) 57 ......................S Collett 6 x5088 Tennessee (10) 56.5 ...................T Thornton 7 00x23 A’Larose td (3) 56.5 .................. M D Plessis 8 070x0 Just Call Me Riley td (7) 56.5 ..B Hutton (a1) 9 4459x Ruby Bloom d (8) 56 .......................A Collett 10 4419x Odisha m (2) 55.5 .........................M McNab 11 08870 Amparo d (9) 54 .......................A Jones (a1) 2 1.03pm LODGE CITY RENTALS 1600 OPEN HANDICAP $30,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 1600m 1 x1212 Ronchi tdm (5) 60 ......................G Cooksley 2 x5530 Consensus d (6) 57.5......................A Collett 3 0100x Mister Impatience (1) 57.5 .........M Cameron 4 406x6 Breaking Dawn td (3) 56 ...................L Innes 5 0x280 Matimba td (4) 56 .....................A Jones (a1) 6 100x5 Silhouette Noire tdm (2) 54 .........T Thornton 3 1.38pm PRINT HOUSE 1600 MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 1600m 1 34663 Splendido b (13) 58.5.................G Cooksley 2 08320 Who Dares Wins (14) 58.5 ..........T Thornton 3 37074 Nipabrandy (10) 58.5 ......................S Collett 4 958 Shine On (16) 58.5.............................M Hills 5 407x8 El Corredor (5) 58.5 ........................ R Jones 6 0 Via Est Veritas (8) 58.5 ............... E Farr (a2) 7 3x235 Excalibur b (3) 57 ..............................L Innes

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5 2.50pm HAMILTON TAXIS 2100 RATING 75 $22,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m 1 52346 Francis Drake t (6) 60.................. E Farr (a2) 2 26619 El Luchador m (8) 59.5 ...................S Collett 3 35401 Diesel dm (2) 58.5...........................A Collett 4 4x408 Naughty Knuckles (4) 57.5 ........ M D Plessis 5 x1621 Laddie Of Oakview (7) 57 .................L Innes 6 x0043 Richie McHorse t (19) 57 ...............V Colgan 7 05481 Street Smart d (18) 57 ..................O Bosson 8 x1434 Verdi b (14) 57............................M Coleman 9 53816 Banrock (10) 56.5 .....................T Wenn (a3) Emergencies: Amen Corner, Upandgo 10 31720 No Need m (17) 56.5 .................G Cooksley 4 2.13 THEBESTLITTLEBOOKSTORE.CO.NZ 1400 11 33756 Sky Idea t (13) 56.5............................J Jago 12 53816 Archduchess td (11) 56 3YO MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 382 Time To Celebrate 57.5 ................ Scratched 13 x0368 Endean Rose (16) 56 ..............B Hutton (a1) 2 335 Wehadadeal b (4) 57.5..................M McNab 14 x4727 Realta t (12) 54.5 ............... D Prastiyou (a1) 3 937 Smiling Assassin (13) 57.5 .........T Thornton 15 35x73 Lady Kalimara td (9) 54..............M Cameron 4 646x Melbourne Born (3) 57.5 ............ L Satherley 16 11x9 Quintessentially (5) 54 ..................M McNab 5 5 Justacanta h (2) 57.5 .................M Coleman 17 29805 Hayley Grace (3) 54 ....................T Thornton 6 Plazabeel 57.5 ............................. Scratched 18 446x0 Blue Flag td (15) 54 ................... L Satherley 7 Suliman (7) 57.5........................ M D Plessis 19 7x490 Our Daisy (1) 54 20 12x45 Sopraffina 55................................ Scratched 8 5. Sure He Can (14) 57.5 9 Tavidream (5) 57.5 ........................O Bosson 21 00610 Southern Dancer 54.5 .................. Scratched 10 0 Daytona Red (10) 57.5 .................... R Jones Em: Hayley Grace, Blue Flag, Our Daisy, Sopraffina, 11 32 Crafty Jess b (1) 55.5.................M Cameron Southern Dancer 12 4x673 Irish Missile (9) 55.5 ........................A Collett 6 3.30pm DUNSTAN FEEDS CHAMPIONSHIP QUALI13 3 Inscription (11) 55.5 FIER OPEN HCP $30,000, OPN HCP, 2100m 14 443 Nothinglefttolose (6) 55.5 ................S Collett 1 9910x El Soldado td (3) 60 ...........................J Jago 15 584 Soul Serenade (8) 55.5 ...........B Hutton (a1) 2 x6606 Storming The Tower tdm (7) 60 ..M Cameron 16 6 O’Princess 55.5............................ Scratched 3 85585 Guess What td (4) 57 ........................L Innes 17 Vironvay (12) 55.5 .............................L Innes 4 00464 Celebrity Miss tdm (2) 56.5 .........T Thornton 18 7 Beretta 55.5 ................................. Scratched 5 31610 Cheeky Boy tdm (9) 56.5 ...........G Cooksley Emergencies: Vironvay, Beretta 6 x7327 Sanasar t (5) 56 ............................O Bosson 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

726 Decades (12) 57 ...........................O Bosson x33x0 Khepera (15) 56.5 ..................... M D Plessis 64x28 Almarie (7) 56.5 ..............................A Collett 473x5 Lovethefeeling (1) 56.5 .................M McNab 44769 Eden Rose (11) 56.5 ...........Z N Azman (a3) 0x0 Princess Dillon (4) 56.5 ..............M Coleman 967 Queenstown (17) 56.5 760x7 Yamato Nadeshiko (9) 56.5 ........M Cameron 54 Driven Force (2) 55 ........................V Colgan 58x00 Amen Corner (6) 57 009x0 Upandgo (18) 58.5 -

Race 1: Julius, A’Larose, Bruce Arthur, Mannie’s Power, Roc Me Race 2: Ronchi, Consensus, Breaking Dawn, Silhouette Noire, Matimba Race 3: Splendido, Nipabrandy, Decades, Almarie, Driven Force Race 4: Suliman, Melbourne Born, Justacanta, Crafty Jess, Inscription Race 5: Francis Drake, Laddie Of Oakview, Richie McHorse, Diesel Race 6: Storming The Tower, Sanasar, Cheeky Boy, Guess What Race 7: Delegate, All Knitted Up, Zacada, Maytra Dee, Clarify Race 8: Highland Park, Prince Mambo, Red Tsunami, Sasanof’s Hero

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium 7 67367 Agent Schrader 18.56 .......................B Craik Meeting Date: 18 Dec 2016 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 8 351 Beat The Butcher 18.85 U & .................Bliek 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 9 x8384 Electric Dandy nwtd .......................... B Hunt Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13 10 4147x Scott Some Ticka 18.85 .................... D Hunt 1 2.33pm (NZT) DOGZONE SPRINT C4, 318m 4 3.27pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON SPRINT C2, 318m 1 15151 Gimme Hot Chips 18.56 U &.............Cottam 1 22668 Scott Tied Up 18.63 U & ...................Cottam 2 F7375 Gumbalanya 18.52 .........................P Henley 2 35275 Jinja Fantasy 18.62 W & .................T Steele 3 72288 Made Time 18.31 ..............................B Bond 3 73765 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver 4 11277 Little Kiwi 18.54 B & ........................... Steele 4 13835 Simply Yeti 18.56 ............................. T Green 5 42232 Stylish Fancy 18.39 ....................D Schofield 5 45832 Camside Gold nwtd...................... H Mullane 6 11154 Obstinatus 18.25 R & ..................N O’Regan 6 314F4 New Look nwtd ..........................D Schofield 7 1F842 Zipping Steve 18.41 ...................D Schofield 7 48412 Hows Your Mum 18.62 ......................B Bond 8 84284 No More Debt 18.46........................ T Green 8 43857 Willi Gas It 18.80 ........................ G Pomeroy 9 66344 Rampion nwtd ...................................C Hore 9 52585 Go Andwyn 18.63 ............................ S Clark 10 61566 Idol Gee 18.68 B &............................. Steele 10 67867 Waerenga Star 18.63 U & .................Cottam 2 2.51pm $2,000 BONUS QUADDIE SPRINT C2, 318m 5 3.44pm PLASTERBOARD LTD STAKES C2/3, 527m 1 35146 Sacred Can You 18.54 R & .........N O’Regan 1 58746 Fabio 30.32 B & ................................. Steele 2 66314 Scott No Value 18.51 ........................G Hunt 2 51177 Zimmer Frame 30.77 U &......................Bliek 3 87516 Tuff Star 18.66 U &............................Cottam 3 34727 Opawa Kuru 30.35 W &...................T Steele 4 51381 La Wildy Man 18.46 ........................P Green 4 62434 Rubeus Hagrid 30.91 ....................... S Clark 5 81783 Cool Marlow 18.50 ..................... G Pomeroy 5 74616 Electric Impulse 30.12 W & .............T Steele 6 77711 Lloyd Attack 18.54........................ M J Lozell 6 53321 Our Sambo 30.87......................... M J Lozell 7 21244 Kapai Lana 18.83 U & ...........................Bliek 7 53226 Miss Velocette 30.36 ...................L Laagland 8 36156 Embrace Me nwtd ............................ S Clark 8 38F15 Zipping Kasey 30.74 ..................D Schofield 9 18475 Myrniong Girl 18.62 ........................ T Green 9 43111 Zipping Ringo 31.09 .......................... D Hunt 10 77467 Bee Lichter 18.56 ............................. S Clark 10 11627 Golden Ivy 30.60 W & .....................T Steele 3 3.09pm AGRC REWARDS SPRINT C1, 318m 6 4.02pm PUMP AND ENGINEERING C4/5, 318m 1 44736 Bigtime Dasher nwtd U & ......................Bliek 1 11657 Speed Lorde 18.21 ...........................B Craik 2 8536F Indefinite Order nwtd..........................L Hunt 2 1x387 Mittyesque 18.39...............................B Craik 3 21172 Bruce Banner 18.71 ..................... H Mullane 3 44354 Hallo Star 18.23 ................................B Bond 4 64633 Tepirita Amber 18.58 R & ............N O’Regan 4 11118 Just As Gentle 18.50.................... M J Lozell 5 65242 Pat Not Plait nwtd...........................P Henley 5 11154 Tee Kay Yapper 18.29 ...................... S Clark 6 44885 Typhoon Ted 18.70 ........................... S Clark 6 48521 Sharella nwtd ....................................B Craik

7 73135 Brown Eye Boy 18.43................... H Mullane 8 21578 Eva Diva nwtd ............................D Schofield 9 46556 Sonic Attack 18.62 ....................... M J Lozell 10 61566 Idol Gee 18.68 B &............................. Steele 7 4.19 DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN STAKES SERIES FINAL C1f, 527m 1 45141 Imperial Court nwtd.........................P Green 2 16553 Rocky McAwesome nwtd U & ...........Cottam 3 57534 Jinja Mia nwtd W &..........................T Steele 4 33241 Fortis Flier 30.74 U & ........................Cottam 5 7D721 Scott The Looks 30.62 U & ...............Cottam 6 87641 Nangar Gem 30.75 ....................D Schofield 7 12672 Bobanuska 30.92 ............................ L Martin 8 46242 Opawa Paul nwtd W & ....................T Steele 9 54354 Thrilling Evie 30.98 U & ........................Bliek 10 73757 Hey Khali nwtd U & ...........................Cottam 8 4.37 GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C2/3, 318m 1 58345 Let’s Go Sprite 18.53 .......................L Ahern 2 15465 Bigtime Moola 18.78 U & ......................Bliek 3 26675 Allegro Lass 18.65 ...........................L Ahern 4 82566 Fantastic Sid nwtd ......................D Schofield 5 76234 Lovely Rita 18.50 .......................D Schofield 6 35856 Southern Blue nwtd...........................C Hore 7 6266F Baymax 18.50 ...................................B Craik 8 16312 Highland Laddie 18.66 ................. H Mullane 9 67867 Waerenga Star 18.63 U & .................Cottam 10 52585 Go Andwyn 18.63 ............................ S Clark 9 4.54pm FOUNDERS DAY CUP C5, 527m 1 55133 Triple Parked 30.51 .......................... S Clark 2 3F181 Fantastic Ricki 30.67 ..................D Schofield 3 44118 Stinger 30.61 B & ............................... Steele 4 83136 Spud Missile 30.10........................... S Clark 5 36843 Joe Joe 30.13 B &.............................. Steele

x24x6 Martin Clegg nwtd ...........................P Green 13143 Blazing Spirit 30.32 ....................D Schofield 32142 Multicam Ranger 30.76 ..............D Schofield 31236 Jinja Squeak 30.48 W & ..................T Steele 31785 Untraceable 30.19 ......................D Schofield 10 5.11pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL STKS C1, 527m 1 85434 Kitty’s Shiraz 30.55 H & ..............L Laagland 2 17262 Good Job nwtd ................................P Green 3 54354 Thrilling Evie 30.98 U & ........................Bliek 4 46716 Bold Sassy 31.50 .......................D Schofield 5 864F8 Golfing Buddy nwtd R & ..............N O’Regan 6 77773 Miss Bunnythorpe nwtd U &..............Cottam 7 44547 Mr. Mumbles 30.75 R &...............N O’Regan 8 58777 Cawbourne Wales 30.57 ..............R McPhee Emergencies: 9 86787 Frontal Lobe nwtd G H &......... PC Ferguson 10 16488 Cosmic Rover 30.73........................ T Green 11 5.28pm FOUNDERS DAY TROPHY C5, 318m 1 18432 Vegas Burst 18.17 ..........................P Henley 2 13333 Unileven 18.45 ...........................D Schofield 3 61211 Von Trapp 18.18 ................................B Craik 4 46281 Jump Up 18.34............................. H Mullane 5 85316 Locha Knocka 18.63 ....................... T Green 6 73737 Thunderation 18.66 ..........................L Ahern 7 13312 Fantastic Lucy 18.22 ..................D Schofield 8 13741 Fabrelee 18.20 ..................................C Hore 9 11154 Tee Kay Yapper 18.29 ...................... S Clark 10 44354 Hallo Star 18.23 ................................B Bond 12 5.48pm MCGHIE PLUMBING SPRINT C2/3, 318m 1 16734 Opawa Libby 18.55 B & ..................... Steele 2 48681 Zipping Jane 18.61 ........................... D Hunt 3 64664 Cyclone Lusi 18.62 U & ....................Cottam 4 38557 Ekali 18.42 ..................................... G Farrell

64823 Cranky Pants 18.64..........................L Ahern 22411 Missing Allegro 18.75.......................L Ahern 23284 Macjam 18.33 ............................D Schofield 11458 Fantastic Zoe 18.67 ...................D Schofield 77467 Bee Lichter 18.56 ............................. S Clark 18475 Myrniong Girl 18.62 ........................ T Green 13 6.06 JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS C1, 318m 1 57257 Allegro Cody nwtd ............................. D Hunt 2 87428 On Demand 19.15 U &..........................Bliek 3 33274 Eva Kaneva 18.62 ............................ S Clark 4 82253 Skyler White 18.60 ............................B Craik 5 82611 Bigtime Speedy nwtd .......................L Ahern 6 48665 Cawbourne Eden nwtd.................R McPhee 7 72546 Stainless Knocka nwtd U & ...................Bliek 8 7462F Mega Munchies 18.70 U &................Cottam 9 45437 Just About Ready 18.92...................M Black 10 28264 Asta 18.74 .....................................A Cleaver SELECTIONS

Race 1: Gimme Hot Chips, Zipping Steve, Little Kiwi, Obstinatus Race 2: Kapai Lana, La Wildy Man, Lloyd Attack, Sacred Can You Race 3: Bigtime Dasher, Bruce Banner, Pat Not Plait, Typhoon Ted Race 4: Hows Your Mum, Simply Yeti, Camside Gold, Scott Tied Up Race 5: Fabio, Electric Impulse, Opawa Kuru, Our Sambo Race 6: Mittyesque, Sharella, Speed Lorde, Eva Diva Race 7: Fortis Flier, Bobanuska, Imperial Court, Opawa Paul Race 8: Baymax, Fantastic Sid, Let’s Go Sprite, Highland Laddie Race 9: Jinja Squeak, Joe Joe, Blazing Spirit, Martin Clegg Race 10: Kitty’s Shiraz, Good Job, Mr. Mumbles, Thrilling Evie Race 11: Jump Up, Fantastic Lucy, Von Trapp, Fabrelee, Vegas Burst Race 12: Zipping Jane, Opawa Libby, Fantastic Zoe, Macjam Race 13: Eva Kaneva, Allegro Cody, Bigtime Speedy, Skyler White LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Trades & Services To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

GARDEN MAINTENANCE

HEAT PUMPS

ATTENTION: PROPERTY OWNERS

KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

HEAT PUMPS

For your rural, residential and commercial property maintenance, contact us.

Perfect all year round

• Wall or floor mounted available • Most models will continue to heat even with outside temperatures of minus 15°C

electriCOOL Ltd

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274 362 362 or 308 4573.

• Landscape and garden renovations • Ride-on lawn mowing • Gardening • Hedge trimming • Clean-ups

Don & Sue Cooper 027 339 6350 or a/h 03 308 9257

Painting – Wallpapering – Plastering “NO JOB TOO SMALL”

New Pure Water System Enjoy spot and streak free windows!

• Interior • Exterior • Professional • Prompt • Competitive

• regular full house cleans • one off spring cleans • farm houses • builders cleans • floor buffing

Book your high windows in today

“we clean to a standard, not a price”

Tony Sivier: M 021 878 794 - P 307 7289 Email: paintitash@yahoo.co.nz – www.paint-it-ashburton.com

Better than a beach in your own backyard Swimming pools / Spas For every lifestyle and budget, see our range!

• All staff are police vetted •Able to travel out of town

03 307 2656 | www.ashburtoncleaning.co.nz

HEAVY VEHICLE DRIVER LICENSING Certified Assessor for licensing from Learner to Full

Servicing / Advice

• Licence classer 2 - 5 • Wheels, tracks & roller endorsements • NZTA Certified • Tranzqual Assessor Drive Rite - But Keep Left

We service pools, spas, pumps, water filters etc.

Now Stockist Of BioGuard chemical range.

Contact Paul McCormick

27 Gordons Road, Ashburton Free Phone: 0800 155 343 | After Hours: 027 3353 206 Email: admin@poolandpumpworld.co.nz | www.poolandpumpworld.co.nz

Phone 03 307 7402 Mob 027 433 5766

Groundup

Do you feel secure in your home?

FROM THE

Security doors made for your house.

For a free measure and quote phone 308 2966

OCAL 100% L

M 027 840 0201 | P 03 308 1500 | E lessmith51@yahoo.co.nz OBLIGATION FREE QUOTES

Custom made for your home PHONE 308 2966 51 Robinson Street, Ashburton www.lysaghtltd.co.nz

LAWNS

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SMALL MAINTENANCE

For all your Scaffolding and Edge Protection Requirements

For all your S

Locally owned and operated

For all your Scaffolding and Edge Protection Requirements Locally owned and operated

Contact Scott 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126 | elitescaffolding@clear.net.nz

WE OFFER: • H Frames • Aluminium Scaffold Towers • Full Edge Protection • Tube & Clip Scaffolds • Proping

Contact Mark 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126| admin@elitescaffolding.net.nz

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Contact Scott 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126 WE OFFER: | elitescaffolding@clear.net.nz Tube & clip scaffolds H frames Propping Aluminium scaffold towers Safety nets Full edge protection

WE OFFER: • H Frames • Aluminium Sca • Full Edge Prote • Tube & Clip Sca • Proping

Contact Mark 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126| admin@elitescaffolding.net.nz

Trades & Services To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

FActorY SprAY LAcquer

Yes, ugly stuff can look great again!

Dave Muldrew LICENSED BUILDER 027 227 8808 NEW HOMES

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muldrewdavid@hotmail.com

RENOVATIONS

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The Finishing Company 03 307 8870 or 0274 444 856 Lacquer Finishes for doors, joinery, existing kitchens, furniture, appliances.

A new look for your old stuff!

MOBILE MOWER SERVICING

How do you put a dollar value on keeping your property protected?

• Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

Protect your biggest asset with a home security camera package from Masterguard

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

Call me today for a free, no obligation quote

Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301 57 Dobson Street, Ashburton.

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36 FOR EVERYTHING RV

Your local specialist for Access Hire Equipment 2WD/4WD/Boomlift

40 South Street, Ashburton Call Simon Woolley

• Solar panels & batteries • LED lighting • Satellite dish & TV’s • Design & build consultation • Plumbing & tanks • Joinery - build, refurb, repair • Insurance work • Seat & seat belt installs • Gas & diesel heaters

• Certification: gas, electrical & self-containment • Camec parts & accessories shop • TV & audio • Joinery • Upholstery • Electrical & lighting • Plumbing • Engineering Contact Lifestyle Motorhomes for all your RV requirements. All work is carried out on site by our own qualified tradesmen.

199 Dobson St, Ashburton 0800 287 284 I www.life-style.co.nz

0800 808 155 www.scissorlift.co.nz

Your local Painting Professionals.

Call Now.

BUILD. REFURB. REPAIR.

Plumbing emergency?

Richard Donnelly P 03 308 9039 M 027 279 8952 E richard@bradfords.co.nz www.bradfords.co.nz

CALL NOW !

Doaky’s Plumbing Ltd 150 Smithfield Rd, Ashburton doakys@xtra.co.nz 03 308 1248

Lindsay 027 555 5575

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For just $10!* Book your birthday greeting, including a photo, for just $10!

Ten words only.* (Under 12 children’s birthday greetings remain FREE) *Terms and conditions apply.

F Phone 03 307 7900 Email: classifieds@theguardian.co.nz Level 3, Somerset House, 161 Burnett Street

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Lifestyle

CONNECTIONS

CHRISTMAS CLEARANCE Women’s and Men’s from $ .00 OVER 450 PAIRS! only 69 NEW STYLES!

East Street, Ashburton - Phone 308 5771 - www.sparrows.co.nz

Your Rieker Destination Store

House of Hearing

* Only while stocks last Open Mon - Fri 9am - 5.30pm Sat 10am – 2pm Sun 11am – 2pm

Experience. The Difference

100% NZ Owned & Operated

Denture Problems?

SUMMER ST OCK NOW IN STO RE

Come see Life Dental! (previously The Timaru Dental Lab) Every Wednesday at Dr Peter Rumping’s Dental Surgery Serving South Canterbury, Oamaru and Ashburton for the last 40 years Free Consultation Mr Rafik Hanna Clinical Dental Technologist B.Dent. (Otago) PG. Dip. C.D.Tech (Otago)

Starting price for full dentures $1700 inclusive of GST

www.comfyshoes.co.nz 49 Main Road, Pleasant Point Phone: 03 614 8750 - A/H 0508 RIEKER 743537

85 Burnett Street, Ashburton PH 03 688 3504 | www.lifedental.co.nz

Hours: 11am - 4pm Tuesday to Saturday

To advertise here contact Trisha on 021 836 543 or 307 7963

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

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

DUTY DOCTORS

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

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am Sunday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12 noon and from 6pm until 7pm by appointment only. To make an appointment phone 308 3066 from 9.30am.

Gym Company Medical, Tancred Street, Trevor Thomas Building will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 9am until 1pm and from 5pm until 7pm.

Please phone for appointment. Surgery phone 308 9489.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

attention during the weekend there are drop SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual in clinics from 11am - 12noon and 5pm - 6pm Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 Saturday and Sunday.

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE PHARMACIES FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - POST DELIVERY CENTRES Mon - Fri 5pm from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 5pm - 7pm 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. Allenton & Tinwald: Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm both evenings.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS ASHBURTON REST HOMES Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 INFORMATION CENTRES unrestricted visiting.

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

OMMUNITY ERVICES EMERGENCY DENTIST Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until If you do not have or cannot contact your ART GALLERY 2pm. Phone 308-1050. regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public for the name of the rostered weekend dentist Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm Holidays 10am until 3pm. in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Sundays and Public Holidays.

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

BUS DEPARTURES Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

ELPLINE ERVICES Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

ASHBURTON MUSEUM ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

327 West Street, Asburton.

Ph 307 7890.

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Weekends 1pm 4pm.

Research facilities 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. weekday afternoons. org.nz for more information.

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

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For weekend doctor and emergency details MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 please phone Rakaia 303 5002. For medical 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

ANIMAL SERVICES

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - John Keeley - 308 4432 or 0274 342 646.

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact - President 021 1356 969.

VETERINARIANS VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies: Large: Tammy Wilson. Small: Catherine Hayward.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Seafield Rd, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies: Large: Ciprian Verdes, Reon McMurtrie. Small: Ref Vet Ent. CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 999, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Lucie Stanley. Full emergency service all weekend.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL hours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24h/sce.

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Here at Goldpine, we are proud of being not just Kiwi-owned, but family-owned.

We are the ‘Outdoor Timber Specialist’, run by and focused on rural people.

We are committed to working as a team, to deliver value to our customers and achieve our company and individuals’ success.

5 ton Excavator / Truck Operator

Everyone loves great value teamed with the best quality product for the job and as one of our Outdoor Timber Specialists we will give you the products and knowledge to ensure our customers get both!

What will this involve?

• Ensuring our customers, either in store, over the phone, or on site if needed, are provided with specialist advice and product options to ensure we deliver the best value for their project.

• Assisting in the yard; preparing customer orders, ensuring stock levels are maintained and presented with pride.

• Ensuring after sales processes are completed.

We are looking to employ an 5 ton Excavator / Truck Operator to operate a late model 5 ton excavator and tip truck. This is a good opportunity to work for a well established company that has been operating for 27 years.

Type of work includes but is not limited to: • • • • • •

It would be great if you have some experience in either sales, customer service or fencing. Consideration will also be given to those who have previous experience in any role where they have demonstrated they are a confident communicator. Being able to relate to the farming/rural community or timber users will also be important.

Digging trenches for drains Vehicle entrance ways for new and existing properties Boring holes Landscape work House foundations and footings Variety of general small excavator work Prep for driveways and kerbing

Suitable applicant must have: • Minimum class 2 drivers license • Self motivation and be able to work unsupervised • Be a team player and have good communication skills • Ability to complete a job to a high standard Good remuneration package will be offered to the right applicant.

If this sounds like you please phone: or Stuart on 0274 350 963 or email your interest to office@tarbotton.co.nz Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

You have the drive, we have the direction

LIVESTOCK DRIVER REQUIRED CASUAL POSITON

Ashburton Based Casual reliable livestock driver required for busy medium business with modern trucks. Due to retirement an opportunity has arisen for a driver for our small stock truck.

As a busy transport company devoted to livestock, we are looking for an honest and reliable driver to join our team.

You will need: • Class 2 or higher clean licence • Honest, reliable, hardworking and well presented • Good written and verbal communication skills • Have good attention to detail with gear and paperwork • Have a strong focus on client needs • Ability to work individually, but also be a great team player This position would be ideal for a retired farmer wanting casual work Ideal start date of mid-January.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work permit.

To ensure the after sales tasks are completed and assisting in the yard attention to detail, basic computer skills and physical fitness for lifting timber will be required.

A full drivers licence is preferred, if you have not had forklift experience in the past training will be provided.

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This is an exciting opportunity to join our wider team located New Zealand wide across 22 retail stores, three production sites and a national support office. If you like the idea of having ongoing training, long service rewards and a team discount scheme, then this is the place for you!

Apply now at http://careers.goldpine.co.nz

Great People, Great Opportunities

BRADY’S PAINTING AND DECORATING LTD Need a change for the New Year?

We have a vacancy for a Brush Hand/Trade Qualified Painter We undertake a variety of new and old work around the Mid Canterbury district.

Love variety and not working in the same place each day, then this job is for you.

You must be: • honest and reliable • self-motivated and able to work unsupervised • able to follow instructions • hold a current driver’s licence • take pride in your work and be able to work as part of a team At least three years’ experience would be preferred.

Please phone Dave 0274071521 or email bradysdecorating@gmail.com

Contact: Robin on 027 258 6540 or admin@eastcoasttransport.co.nz Geraldine High School Learning Assistants – Teacher Aides Geraldine High School is seeking Learning Assistants/ Teacher Aides with expertise and interest in promoting an inclusive approach to realising the educational goals of our diverse learners.

Up to 17 hours per week are available, fixed term for Terms 1 to 4, 2017, term-time only.

We are also seeking applications for casual Learning Support Teacher Aides.

The successful applicants will be able to contribute to the success of learners as part of a professional and supportive team. They will need to be able to work 1:1, in small groups in the classroom setting, and be able to follow specific strategies for managing behaviour and learning.

Excellent communication skills, patience, flexibility and an ability to develop positive relationships are essential.

Applicants should have recent Teacher Aide experience. Knowledge of and experience working with children with specific learning disabilities is preferred. A relevant Teacher Aide qualification is preferred but not essential.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

For an application pack, please email: j.watkins@geraldinehs.school.nz, or phone the School on 03 693 0017 Applications close at 5 pm on Monday, January 23, 2017.

Receptionist

ASHBURTON Outdoor Timber Specialist

Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Limited is a locally owned and operated company based in the Ashburton District.

BULK TRUCK DRIVER ASHBURTON BRANCH An opportunity for a Bulk truck driver to operate a truck and trailer unit has arisen within our team at our Ashburton depot.

A class 5 licence is essential for this position and previous experience in this type of work would be preferable.

Apply in writing or email your application to: Rhys Young PO Box 104, Ashburton rhys@ruraltransport.co.nz (03) 308 4079 or 027 593 2142

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SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

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SITUATIONS VACANT

Ashburton Guardian

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Guardian Classifieds

This is initially a Part time Position with the prospect of becoming full time.

Starting Monday, January 30, 2017.

Due to a staff member leaving we are looking for a bright, friendly person to join our team in the reception area.

To be a successful applicant for this position, you must have a high level of confidentiality and enjoy working with people. You will need to have good computer skills, and general office administration experience would be an advantage.

Please apply with your C.V. in writing or by email by Friday, January 6, 2017 to: Kathryn Barr Practice Co-ordinator Dentistry on Parkside 80 Park Street, Ashburton kathryn@parksidenz.co.nz

307 7900

Grocery Assistant

Permanent part time A part time position has become available in our busy Supermarket. Suitable candidates will need the following…

• A pleasant manner with good communication skills • Be physically fit as some heavy lifting is required • Have motivation and initiative • Basic computer skills and money handling • A current Duty Managers Certificate or the ability to obtain this qualification is a requirement.

• Full training within the grocery industry will be provided to the successful applicant • Some Weekend and Evening duties will be required • Hours to be discussed at interview An application form is available at the checkout in store.

Please return with C.V addressed to: The Manager Hecs Four Square Supermarket 98 Harrison Street, Ashburton 7700 Alternatively email your current CV and cover letter to: hecs@foursquare-si.co.nz

Youth Mentor Methven Te Puawaitanga Charitable Trust is looking for a Mentor for young people in Methven plus providing support for their families to help encourage a caring and positive community.

The Trustees are looking for the following: • Enthusiasm for and experience working with young people • Highly developed communication skills • Good understanding of and ability to work with people from diverse cultures • Able to work flexible hours in this full time or job share position Presbyterian Support Ashburton are providing management of this position and can be contacted for an application pack.

Contact Jackie Girvan ph 03 308 5868 or e-mail: jackieg@psusi.org.nz

TRADE RETAIL / CUSTOMER SERVICE We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team.

This is a fullltime permanent position in Ashburton.

Building industry knowledge would be an advantage but is not essential.

If you have great customer service skills, please email your details to: Maree hrs@sutherland.co.nz

Building – it’s what we know and it’s what we do best. That’s why clients have chosen us, again and again.

Applications close 5pm January 18, 2017.

Guardian Situations Vacant

307 7900

211 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton (03) 307 6130 www.calderstewart.co.nz

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TRADES, SERVICES

Advertising Deadlines CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING DEADLINES For ALL display classified advertising Publication Date

Deadline

Saturday Dec 24 Monday Dec 26 Tuesday Dec 27 Wednesday Dec 28 Thursday Dec 29 Friday Dec 30 Saturday Dec 31 Monday Jan 2 Tuesday Jan 3 Wednesday Jan 4 Thursday Jan 5

Friday Dec 23 12 noon Friday Dec 23 12 noon Friday Dec 23 12 noon Friday Dec 23 12 noon Wednesday Dec 28 12 noon Thursday Dec 29 12 noon Friday Dec 30 12 noon Friday Dec 30 12 noon Friday Dec 30 12 noon Friday Dec 30 12 noon Normal deadlines resume

Deadline

Saturday Dec 24 Monday Dec 26 Tuesday Dec 27 Wednesday Dec 28 Thursday Dec 29 Friday Dec 30 Saturday Dec 31 Monday Jan 2 Tuesday Jan 3 Wednesday Jan 4 Thursday Jan 5

Friday Dec 23 2pm Friday Dec 23 2pm Friday Dec 23 2pm Friday Dec 23 2pm Wednesday Dec 28 2pm Thursday Dec 29 2pm Friday Dec 30 2pm Friday Dec 30 2pm Friday Dec 30 2pm Friday Dec 30 2pm Normal deadlines resume

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

Rubbish and Recycling

– Christmas and New Years Holiday Collection The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks will be closed on: • • •

TRADES, SERVICES

Sunday 25 December 2016 for Christmas and Sunday 1 January 2017 for New Years

Rubbish and Recycling - Kerbside Collection If your collection day is a Monday or Tuesday there will be a change for Christmas and New Year:

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

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Collections normally scheduled for Monday 26 December 2016 will be collected on Friday 23 December 2016.

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Collections normally scheduled for Tuesday 27 December 2016 will be collected on Wednesday 28 December 2016.

There are no changes to any other collections. Please ensure all rubbish and recycling is placed at kerbside by 7.30am on collection day.

OLD newspapers available.

Perfect for packing, fires, bedding for animals, birds, craft work and so on. Please call in to the Guardian, Level 3, 161 Burnett Street or phone 307 7900 for bundles of 10 or more.

OFFICE HOURS

Sunday 25, Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 December 2016 for Christmas and; Sunday 1, Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 January 2017 for New Years

The Methven Green Waste drop off facility will be closed on:

COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

For prompt reliable computer servicing or laser engraving, contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Ph 308 8989. 30 years local service. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed.

NON DISPLAY CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Publication Date

PUBLIC NOTICES

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR

Neil McCann Group Manager Service Delivery ashburtondc.govt.nz

RURAL TRADING POST

All advertising enquiries should be directed to our third floor office, phone 03 307 7900 or email classifieds@ theguardian.co.nz Friday Dec 23 Monday Dec 26 Tuesday Dec 27 Wednesday Dec 28 Thursday Dec 29 Friday Dec 30 Monday Jan 2 Tuesday Jan 3 Wednesday Jan 4

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

8am - 3.00pm CLOSED CLOSED 10am - 3.00pm 10am - 3.00pm 10am - 3.00pm CLOSED CLOSED 9am - 1pm

AMSOIL SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, antifreeze, car polish, V & L cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust bust, rain clear, engine cleaner and more. Call local distributor: Veehof phone 302 2911.

Triennial Meetings

-Pendarves Recreational Reserve Board

Pendarves Recreational Reserve Board

PUBLIC NOTICES

OLD newspapers available.

Perfect for packing, fires, bedding for animals, birds, craft work and so on. Please call in to the Guardian, Level 3, 161 Burnett Street or phone 307 7900 for bundles of 10 or more.

PLANTS, PRODUCE

RUN OF PAPER To enquire about Run Of Paper advertising deadlines during the Christmas and New Year period, please phone the Ashburton Guardian office to speak to an Advertising Sales Consultant. Phone 03 307 7900.

Merry Christmas FROM THE

GUARDIAN

NEW potatoes. $2.50 kg, digging daily. Order for Christmas now. Bennett Melrose Road. Phone 308 4015.

NEW potatoes 5kg for $10.

Green peas P.Y.O. 10L bucket $5. 8am to 12 noon. sold only at Plains Museum, Maronan Road and Z Service Stations. Orders phone 308 3669 evenings.

NEW potatoes Nadine $2.50 kg, digging daily, Xmas orders taken 81 Elizabeth Street, 308 3195 or 027 531 9103.

Guardian Classifieds

LIVESTOCK, PETS

LOST, FOUND

Wednesday 14 December 2016 Pendarves Hall

8pm The purpose of the meeting is to elect up to seven residents to fill the vacancies on the Board.

The Board will meet immediately following the Triennial Meeting and appoint members to the positions of Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer.

All residents welcome.

Vincie Billante Community Relations Manager www.ashbur tondc.gov t.nz

MUSICAL

LADYBANK Learning School of Music, Now taking enrolments for 2017.

Keyboard/piano, ukulele, singing, guitar, drums. Phone Barbara 027 474 2003.

MOTORING

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

Found Cat Tinwald Cat found in Tinwald area. Male black cat with white markings.

Wanted

No microchip, neutered.

Super friendly and talkative.

FR-X-Bred beef weaners calves.

Immediate payment $500.

Phone 027 311 2532.

Phone: 027 444 2919.

Guardian Real Esate 307 7900

WANTED to buy - Weaned hereford / friesian cross calves. Phone 308 4406.

Birthday Greetings Alycia Millichamp 7 today!

Happy Birthday beautiful girl.

Lots of love Mum, April, Daniel and Grandad Peter.

Ryan Prichard Happy 7th Birthday for the 22nd, have a great day buddy.

Love Mum, Dad and Connor. xxx

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ENTERTAINMENT

Southberry

www.ateventcentre.co.nz

Open 9am - 6pm daily.

Raspberries Hastings McLeod Limited Licensed REAA 2008

Telephone 03 307 9176

CAFE OPPORTUNITY

$25,000 + GST (IF ANY)

Freshly Picked & PYO 56 Tinwald/Westerfield, Mayfield Road, Ashburton.

Phone 308 1338 No eftpos No Christmas orders taken

WEB ID AC51577 ASHBURTON Ashburton Arcade

Here is your chance to get yourself into business in this superbly located cafe in the busy Ashburton Arcade.

For all subscriber enquiries, missed deliveries, new subscriptions, temporary stops – text, call or email:

A great opportunity for an enthusiastic owner operator.

Excellent location in the middle of Ashburton. Room to expand or diversify.

Text 021 271 3399 Phone 0800 274 287 Email circulation@ theguardian.co.nz

VIEW By Appointment Hamish Niles

Mobile 0274 356 265 Office 03 307 9182 hamish@propertybrokers.co.nz

SALE

www.propertybrokers.co.nz RAFFLES

LIONS CLUB OF ASHBURTON Community Projects Raffle drawn under police supervision.

1st prize - Childs Playhouse #4642 Jane Hooper Ph 308 8528 2nd prize - DIY Christmas Dinner #3524 Heather Mangin Ph 302 8073 3rd prize - Christmas Cake #4869 Atu Ph 022 409 1728.

Thank you for your support.

The proceeds of $4000.00 have been donated to:

Blueberries New Potatoes Bunched Carrots Lettuce

Ronald McDonald House.

Pakeke Lions Ashburton

Christmas stocking raffle Drawn Under Police supervision 1st - 3201 Jane Naish 2nd - 4251 BM Varley 3rd - 1733 G Mabley Winners have been notified.

Pakeke Lions would like to thank the following sponsors Countdown, Barkers Geraldine, The Warehouse, Netherby Butcher, Harveys Bakehouse, New World and Mitre 10.

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

punnet

$3.99 punnet $2.49 kg $1.99 bunch $1.99 ea

FIREWOOD - Green old man pine $130, semi-dry blue gum FOR SALE $200, green macrocarpa $160. All 3.6m³. Phone Shane James Firewood 303 EDISON WAX BURNER. A 7063. beautiful wax melter with a 40 watt vintage Edison bulb to WHITEBAIT, West Coast. add ambience to any room. Back outside Ashburton $39. Highly fragranced wax Domain, SH1, Saturday, melts $13 packet 6. The December 17 9am-3pm.

China Shop in The Arcade Phone 027 223 1941.

FOR SALE

OLD newspapers available.

Perfect for packing, fires, bedding for animals, birds, craft work and so on. Please call in to the Guardian, Level 3, 161 Burnett Street or phone 307 7900 for bundles of 10 or more.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT 021 044 0698 SOPHIA. With Christmas approaching, approach me for appointments. Active and attractive, the lady Sophia.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL FLATMATE wanted. Must be working. $130 per week plus expenses. Phone 308 9122.

THREE bedroom executive style brick house, Hinds.

Double glazed.

New 308-1095 kitchen/carpet. Log burner with wetback. Sunny and SHELLY, mature, curvy warm. Single garage. Large FOR SALE blonde. Saturday only 10am - garden. References required.

SCOOTER’S - new and 6pm. Phone 022 045 2189. $350 per week negotiable. secondhand three and four Phone 027 314 7180. wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

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In support of Ashburton Trust Event Centre

Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

FOR SALE

Sing-alongs, Irish Segment, Comedy, Song & Dance, Christmas Themes

Directed and Choreographed by: Jenny Beach, Susan Spencer, Penny Wilson

OPEN 7 DAYS Fresh Fruit & Vege

Magic MOMENTS Adults $22 Senior Citizens & Children $20 (inc. service fees) available at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre or www.ticketdirect.co.nz

Specials available from 14/12 - 20/12

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

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Sunday 18th December 2016 2.00PM & 7.00PM

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Strawberries $199

Ashburton Trust Event Centre proudly presents...

Today’s construction is tomorrow’s legacy  Housing  Commercial  Farm  Renovations

Guardian

Motoring 307 7900

Contact Des anytime for an obligation free quote on 03 308 9936 or 027 432 3258

Daily Events SATURDAY 9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS MARKET. Weekly market with fresh local produce, hot drinks and food. North end West St Car park.

9am - 12.30pm CRAFT MARKET.

SUNDAY 8am ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS. Open to all level of swimmers over 20 years followed by coffee and chat. E A Networks Centre.

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

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

9am

MONDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Rd. 10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter,

Crafts for sale in the West St car park.

9.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Community Garden, Thomson St. 9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY HIRE. Open for toy hire. Methodist Church Baring Square.

10am

METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main St, Methven.

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10am - 1pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY

GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

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

10am - 4pm

ALTRUSA CLUB OF ASHBURTON TREE OF REMEMBRANCE. Put a message on the tree to a loved one Mon 12 Dec - Fri 23 Dec, Palliative care project $2. The Arcade, Ashburton 5pm ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS. Open to all level of swimmers over 20 years followed by coffee and chat. E A Stadium.

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

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Advent 4 - Choir Christmas Celebration.

Allen’s Road, Allenton.

9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship led by Rev John Coutts, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Combined service and worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square Church

Lounge. Baring Square East.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service and children’s programme, Ashburton Baptist Church, Cass Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship in the Sinclair Centre , Park Street.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

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

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

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

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63

Princes Street, Netherby.

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

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

8pm ASHBURTON CADET UNIT. Tickets for Star Wars, Phone 027-5044-019.

Regent Cinema, Wills Street.

interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm ALTRUSA CLUB OF ASHBURTON TREE OF REMEMBRANCE. Put a message on the tree to a loved one Mon 12 Dec - Fri 23 Dec, Palliative care project $2. The Arcade, Ashburton

12noon - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Free lunch every Monday. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets, entry off Cass Street.

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

past to the future. Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

6pm

ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in the hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

6pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLIAN CHURCH. Community Carol Singing around town. Meet at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Park St.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar Generation Next. 0 7am There And Back 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 Come Date With Me Australia PGR 12:25 The Food Truck 0 12:55 Who’s Doing The Dishes?

1:55 Four Weddings USA 2:55 Border Security 0 3:25 The Force PGR 0 4pm Robson Green – Extreme Fisherman Robson travels to the third largest island in the world, and one of the most biologically diverse landscapes known, to catch fish with super powers.

5pm The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Country Calendar One Big Family. 0 7:30 Posh Pawn 0 8pm L Lotto The Lotto draw.

8:05 Posh Pawn Continued. 0 8:35 Coast New Zealand The East Cape. 0 9:35 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:35 F Winter AO 0 11:30 F Devil’s Playground AO Margaret, Tom, and Quaid attempt to end the Church’s corruption, but risk ruining their futures in the process. 0 12:30 Betrayal AO 3 0 1:20 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:20 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

Love Nature – Great Bear Stakeout, 6:30pm on Choice

BRAVO 10am Flipping Out 3 10:50 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 3 11:40 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles 3 12:30 Wahlburgers 3 1:30 Flipping Out (Starting Today) 3 2:30 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 3:30 Dance Moms 3 4:30 Dance Moms 3 5:30 Dance Moms 3 6:30 Flipping Out 7:30 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 8:30 Timber Creek Lodge 9:30 Shahs Of Sunset PGR 10:30 N Kourtney & Kim Take New York AO Kourtney and Kim arrive in New York City; Kourtney is pleased to have Scott along for the ride, and debates moving him into her hotel suite, much to Kim’s dismay.

11pm Kourtney & Kim Take New York AO 11:30 Snapped – Killer Couples PGR 12:20 Infomercials 3

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6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:20 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 The Octonauts 3 0 6:45 Elmo The Musical 0 6:55 Thunderbirds Are Go 3 0 7:20 The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue! 3 0 7:45 Ninjago – Masters Of Spinjitzu 0 8:15 Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy 0 8:40 Marvel’s Avengers Assemble 0 9:05 Adventure Time 3 0 9:35 Lab Rats 0 10am Crash And Bernstein 0 10:30 Blossom 0 11am Full House 0 11:30 Baby Daddy PGR 0 Noon Switched At Birth PGR 0 1pm M Father’s Day PGR 1997 Comedy Romance. 0 3pm The Voice 0 4pm F Food Fighters 0 5pm Cupcake Wars 6pm BlackIsh 0 6:30 The Middle 0

Silent Witness

8:40pm on Prime

THE BOX 6am Elementary MV 6:50 Law And Order – UK MV 7:40 Marston’s Brewery – One Ale Of A Job PG 8:30 Wild West Alaska M 9:20 Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 9:45 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

US PG 10:10 The Musketeers MVLS 11:05 Pawnography PG 11:30 Pawnography PG 11:55 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 2:50 Law And Order – UK MV 3:40 Elementary MV 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 Modern Family PGL 8pm Last Man Standing PG 8:30 Counting Cars PG 9pm Call Of The Wildman PG 9:30 Marston’s Brewery – One Ale Of A Job PG 10:20 The Musketeers MVLS 11:20 Pawnography PG 11:45 Pawnography PG SUNDAY 12:10 Modern Family PGL 12:35 Last Man Standing PG 1am Counting Cars PG 1:25 Call Of The Wildman PG 1:50 Marston’s Brewery – One Ale Of A Job PG 2:40 The Musketeers MVLS 3:35 Pawnography PG 4am Pawnography PG 4:25 Scorpion MV 5:10 Modern Family PGL 5:35 Last Man Standing PG

MAORI

6am Home Shopping Noon The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2:30 MythBusters PGR 3 3:30 Fishing And Adventure 3 4pm Addicted To Fishing 3 Nicky Sinden travels to Motiti Island to reveal secrets about catching snapper and to investigate the effects of the Rena disaster on the Astrolabe reef.

4:30 Football – English Premier League (HLS) 5:30 Prime News 6pm University Challenge Auckland v Waikato. 0 6:30 MasterChef USA In the final challenge, the top two home cooks have one last chance to prove they deserve the MasterChef title by creating a three-course meal.

7pm M Dr Seuss’s How The 7:30 New Tricks PGR 0 Grinch Stole Christmas 3 8:40 Silent Witness AO 2000 Fantasy. The Who family When a Police Sergeant is of Whoville love Christmas, found beaten and shot in but the cave-dwelling Grinch his burnt-out car, the police is determined to put an end are up in arms in what is an to their festivities. 0 emotive and political case for 9:05 M The Dilemma AO 3 them, and DCI Sullivan wants 2011 Comedy. A man finds to nail the killer. 0 out that what he does not say 10:50 The Hunters’ Club PGR to a friend is just as important as what he does. 0

7pm M Richie Rich PGR 1994 Comedy. The richest boy in the world has two problems – he has no friends, and a villain is out to get his family fortune. 0 8:50 M Delivery Man AO 2013 Comedy. 0 10:55 M A Walk Among The Tombstones AO 2013 Thriller. 0 1:10 M Killer Joe AO 2011 Crime. When debt endangers a man’s life, he resorts to putting a hit out on his mother to collect the insurance. Matthew McConaughey.

0 3am Mike Tyson Mysteries AO 3 3:25 Constantine AO 0 4:15 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 5:05 Mystery Girls PGR 3 0 5:30 It Is Written 3

PRIME

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Pukana 2 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 Oscar’s Guide To The Chinese Zodiac 3 0 10:30 Survivor – San Juan Del Sur 3 11:30 America’s Next Top Model PGR 3 12:30 Face Off PGR 1:25 The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 2:25 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 2:55 New Girl PGR 3:25 The Goldbergs PGR 0 3:55 Grand Designs Australia 0 4:55 Africa David Attenborough looks at Northern Africa, home to the largest desert on Earth, the Sahara. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

11:20 Motive AO The murder of a street artist is investigated. 0 12:10 Nurse Jackie AO 12:50 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:25 60 Minutes PGR 3 Current affairs from New Zealand and around the world.

12:25 Home Shopping

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:05 War Room PGC 2015 Drama. Priscilla Shirer, TC Stallings.

8:05 Maze Runner – The Scorch Trials MV 2015 Action.

Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario.

10:15 Self/Less MVL 2015 Scifi. Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley.

12:15 Break Point MLS 2014 Comedy Sport. Jeremy Sisto, David Walton, Adam Devine.

1:45 Regression 16VLSC 2014 Thriller. Ethan Hawke, David Thewlis, Emma Watson.

3:30 The Sound And The Fury 16S 2014 Drama.

5:10 Z For Zachariah ML 2014 Sci-fi. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie.

6:50 Zoolander 2 MVLS 2016 Comedy.

8:30 The 5th Wave MVL 2016 Action. Earth has been destroyed by alien attacks rolled out in waves and, to find her brother, a woman must survive the fifth wave. Chloe Grace Moretz, Liev Schreiber.

10:25 The Hateful Eight 18VLSC 2016 Western.

Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh.

6:15 The Green Mile 16V 1999 Thriller. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise. 9:15 Brothers MVL 2009 Drama. Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman.

11am Superbad 16LS 2007 Comedy. Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, Emma Stone.

12:50 In The Valley Of Elah 16VLC 2007 Crime.

Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron. 2:50 Tin Cup ML 1996 Comedy Drama.

Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Don Johnson. 5:05 The Runaways 16LSC 2010 Drama. Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning.

6:50 Baby Mama ML 2008 Comedy. Tina Fey, Greg Kinnear; Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver. 8:30 The Fighter 16VLSC 2010 Drama.

The early years of boxer Irish Micky Ward and his brother, who helped train him before going professional in the mid 1980s. Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale.

10:30 Anchorman – The Legend Of Ron Burgundy MS 2004 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate.

SUNDAY 12:05 Crash 16VL 2004 Crime. Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon.

1:55 Making Of The Mummy – Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor PG 2008 2:10 Tin Cup ML 1996 Comedy Drama.

4:25 The Runaways 16LSC 2010 Drama.

SUNDAY

1:10 Love And Air Sex 16LS 2013 Comedy. Michael StahlDavid, Sara Paxton. 2:40 Z For Zachariah ML 2014 Sci-fi. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie.

4:15 Zoolander 2 MVLS 2016 Comedy. 5:55 The Directors – Tom Shadyac PG

CHOICE

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Avatar 7:30 My Mokai 3 8am The Zoo 8:30 Te Kaea 2 9am Playlist 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Hoiho 3 10:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 11am Kawe Korero – Reporters 1:30 Te Po Mekemeke 3 2pm World Forklift League PGR 2:30 L Basketball – College National Championship 3:30 The Kapa 3 4:30 The Big Sing 3 5pm He Kupenga Hou 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 M Annie – A Royal Adventure PGR 1995 Family Musical. Annie and the gang stumble onto a scheme led by a woman who plans to blow up Buckingham Palace so she can become Queen.

8:10 M Footnote PGR 2011 Comedy Drama. When a father and son who are rival professors in Talmudic Studies learn the father is to be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.

10:05 Iti Pounamu 3 New Zealand Short Films.

10:30 Te Kaea 3 2

6am Double Your House For Half The Money 7am The Liquidator 7:30 Catching The Impossible 8:30 Monkey Thieves 9am Rick Stein’s Christmas Odyssey 10am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 11am The Liquidator 11:30 Money Barn Noon Gardeners’ World 12:30 Sandcastles 1pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 2pm Double Your House For Half The Money 3pm Brother v Brother 4pm Beverly Hills Pawn 4:30 Salvage Hunters 5:30 My Welsh Sheepdog 6pm Wild Transport 6:30 Love Nature – Great Bear Stakeout As the salmon run begins in Alaska, Parsnip and Pushki must catch hundreds of them to bulk up and survive the winter.

7:30 American Pickers Series that follows two skilled pickers as they look for objects with historical, collectible, and pop-culture value.

8:30 The Tropic Of Cancer 9:30 The Auction House 10:30 New Zealand Hunter Adventures

11pm Closedown

11:30 Brother v Brother 12:30 Beverly Hills Pawn 1am My Welsh Sheepdog 1:30 Wild Transport 2am Love Nature – Great Bear Stakeout 3am American Pickers 4am The Auction House 5am The Tropic Of Cancer

SKY SPORT 1 6am FIH Hockey World 6:30 New Zealand Rugby Awards (HLS) 7am World Rugby A show reflecting on the best of rugby union around the world.

7:30 Tennis – New Zealand Nationals (HLS) 8am The Golf Fix 9am School Of Golf With Martin Hall.

10am L Rugby – World Schools Sevens 5:30 World Rugby 6pm The Fishing Show 7pm L Cricket – Super Smash Northern Knights v Auckland Aces.

From Seddon Park, Hamilton.

10:30 Darts – World Championship (RPL) Day Two.

SUNDAY

2am Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Northern Knights v Auckland Aces.

2:30 Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Canterbury Kings v Wellington Firebirds.

3am Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Central Stags v Otago Volts.

3:30 The Cricket Show 4am Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v Pakistan – First Test, Day Three.

4:30 Cricket – International (HLS) India v England – Fifth Test, Day Two. 5am L Boxing Povetkin v Stiverne.

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

SKY SPORT 2 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Golf – FedEx Cup Playoffs Official Film 7:30 Basketball – NBL (HLS) New Zealand Breakers v Perth Wildcats.

8am L Darts – World Championship Day Two. Noon Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Canterbury Kings v Wellington Firebirds.

12:30 Cricket – Super Smash (RPL) Central Stags v Otago Volts.

4:20 Cricket – International (HLS) India v England – Fifth Test, Day One. From M A Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

4:50 L Cricket – International India v England – Fifth Test, Day Two. Morning Session from M A Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

7:05 The Cricket Show 7:35 L Cricket – International India v England – Fifth Test, Day Two. Afternoon Session from M A Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

SUNDAY

12:30 Basketball – NBL (HLS) New Zealand Breakers v Perth Wildcats.

1am Tennis – New Zealand Nationals (HLS) 1:30 Fox Sports News 2am L Darts – World Championships Day Three – Session One. 17Dec16

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters PG 6:30 MythBusters PG 101 Uses for Duct Tape. 7:30 MythBusters PG Hurricane Window.

8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:25 What On Earth?

PG Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan. 10:20 The Last Alaskans Holiday Special M 11:15 Treehouse Masters PG 12:10 Bering Sea Gold PG Backseat Diver. 1:05 Naked And Afraid M Strength in Pain. 2pm Harley And The Davidsons M Legacy.

3:50 Deadliest Catch – Dungeon Cove PG Sacrifice.

4:45 Alaskan Bush People M High Tide Housing.

5:40 You Have Been Warned M Brain v Brawn.

6:35 Bering Sea Gold PG Backseat Diver.

7:30 Treehouse Masters PG Ultimate Treehouses IV. At the end of his adventure, Pete begins his own treehouse engineering repair.

8:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Rockin’ it in Rocket City.

9:30 Abalone Wars M Best Laid Plans.

10:30 Auction Hunters PG SUNDAY Midnight The Last Alaskans Holiday Special M 12:55 What On Earth? PG 1:50 Dual Survival M 2:45 Auction Hunters PG 3:15 Treehouse Masters PG 4:10 Moonshiners M 5:05 MythBusters PG

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6am The Fishing Show 0 7am Going, Going, Gone 0 7:50 Tagata Pasifika 8:15 Praise Be 8:45 Attitude 0 9:15 Attitude Awards 2016 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae Summer Series 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 The Disease That’s Killing My Family 0 Noon Primeval New Zealand 0 12:55 F Storage – Flog The Lot! PGR 0 1:55 F George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 2:55 Intrepid New Zealand 0 3:55 The Secret World Of Lego 0 4:55 Gadget Man’s Guide To Christmas 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

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6am Art Attack 3 0 6:20 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 The Octonauts 3 0 6:45 Little Monstar 3 0 6:50 My Little Pony 3 0 7:10 Looped 0 7:35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles 0 8am M Tom And Jerry – Robin Hood And His Merry Mouse 2012 Animated. Voices of Jamie Bamber, Charles Shaughnessy, John Michael Higgins. 0 8:55 Mako Mermaids 0 10:10 Good Luck Charlie 0 10:35 The Bachelorette PGR 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 2pm Home And Away 3 0 6pm Coca-Cola Christmas In The Park Hosted by Jason Gunn and featuring Stan Walker, Tami Neilson, and Black Quartet. 0 7pm Attenborough’s Big Birds 0 7pm F Terry Teo PGR Terry unwittingly takes a job 8:05 Nigel Latta Blows Stuff from a woman accused of Up 0 murder, but the plot thickens 8:35 F Victoria when a rare coin intended A heavily pregnant Victoria for her daughter’s inheritance attempts to preserve her goes missing. 0 independence, until a threat 8pm The Simpsons 0 to her life leaves her in fear and she clashes with Albert. 0 8:30 M Godzilla PGR 2014 Action. 0 9:40 F Broadchurch AO 0 10:50 F The Exorcist 0 10:40 F Call The Midwife PGR 0 11:45 M Apollo 18 AO 2011 12:50 Attitude 3 0 Sci-fi. 0 1:15 Batman v Robin AO 1:20 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 2:40 Mike Tyson Mysteries 3 3:25 Infomercials 2:50 Infomercials 3:25 Marvel’s Agent Carter AO 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Hart Of Dixie 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

THREE

MOVIES PREMIERE

Victoria

8:35pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 6am Flipping Out 3 6:45 Flipping Out 3 7:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 8:15 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 9am Flipping Out 3 9:45 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 3 10:40 Below Deck PGR 3 11:30 The Real Housewives Of Melbourne PGR 3 12:30 The Real Housewives Of Atlanta 3 1:30 Timber Creek Lodge 3 2:30 Shahs Of Sunset PGR 3 3:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 4:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 5:30 Million Dollar Listing: NY 3 6:30 N Kim Of Queens 7:30 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 8:30 Dance Moms 9:30 Botched AO 10:30 Mother Funder$ PGR 11:30 Snapped – Killer Couples AO 12:20 Infomercials 3

PRIME

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am UCKG 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 Family Secret PGR 3 0 9:55 Prison Families PGR 3 0 10:20 Grand Designs Revisited 30 11:10 A Bit Mental 3 0 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR 1pm Motorsport – Car Culture 1:30 Motorsport – Inside Formula Drift Long Beach.

2pm Motorsport – TR 86 3pm Motorsport – New Zealand Touring Cars 4pm Motorsport – NHRA 24 5pm Highway Thru Hell 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Home Alone PGR 3 1990 Comedy. An eightyear-old boy accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas must defend his home against burglars.

Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern. 0 9:05 Best Of The Graham Norton Show AO 3 0 10:05 Humans AO 3 0 11:10 M Proof Of Love AO 2011 Comedy. A female scientist wants concrete proof that her boyfriend is ‘the one’ before she accepts his proposal. Miranda Kent, Reid Scott, Kathleen Robertson.

1:15 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

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THE BOX 1:25 The 5th Wave MVL 2016 6am Counting Cars PG Action. Chloe Grace Moretz, 6:25 Call Of The Wildman Liev Schreiber.

PG 6:50 Border Security 3:15 Maggie MV 2014 M 7:15 Shearing Gang PG Thriller. Abigail Breslin, 7:45 The Simpsons Super Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sunday PG 4:50 Mad Max – Fury Road A marathon of Simpson’s 16VC 2015 Action. Tom Hardy, episodes. 10:20 Storage Charlize Theron. 6:50 The Wars – Texas PG Night Before 16LSC 2015 10:45 Storage Wars – Texas Comedy. Colin Egglesfield, PG 11:10 Border Security Drew Fuller. 8:30 London M 11:35 Shearing Gang Has Fallen 16VL 2016 Action PG Noon Survivor – Blood Crime. In London for the v Water PG 1:10 Raw Prime Minister’s funeral, a man MV 3:50 Smackdown MV discovers a plot to assassinate 5:35 Main Event MV all the attending world leaders.

6:30 Scorpion MV Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, 7:20 Survivor – Blood v Morgan Freeman.

Water PG 8:35 NCIS LA MV 10:10 Triple 9 18VLS 2016 9:30 NCIS LA MV Crime. Casey Affleck, 10:30 Main Event MV Chiwetel Ejiofor, 11:30 Scorpion MV Anthony Mackie.

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Security M 2:45 Shearing Colin Egglesfield, Drew Fuller.

Gang PG 3:15 NCIS LA MV 3:25 Triple 9 18VLS 2016 4:10 NCIS LA MV 5:05 Main Crime. 5:20 Maggie MV 2014 Thriller.

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6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box Noon Mayday PGR 3 1pm Elementary PGR 3 2pm The Crayfishers PGR 3 0 2:30 Piha Rescue PGR 3 0 3pm The Millers PGR 3 3:30 Storage Wars – Canada PGR 3 4pm David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 3 0 4:30 Escape To The Country 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Rick Stein – From Venice To Istanbul 3 Rick cooks some of his favourite Venetian dishes – seafood risotto, tiramisu, and gnocchi with spider crab.

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10am Whanau Bake-Off 3 10:30 Whanau Living 3 11am Native Affairs – Summer Series 3 11:30 Ka Tu Ka Korero Noon My Reggae Song 3 12:30 Kapa Haka Whanau 3 1pm Hoiho 3 1:30 Play PGR 2:30 L Basketball – College National Championship 3:30 Marae Kai Masters 3 4:30 Waiata 3 Rob Ruha; Nga Tumanako; Majic Paora; Smashproof.

5pm Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3

6am Monkey Thieves 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am The Auction House 8am Love Nature – Great Bear Stakeout 9am Salvage Hunters 10am American Pickers 11am Brother v Brother Noon Beverly Hills Pawn 12:30 My Welsh Sheepdog 1pm Wild Transport 1:30 Salvage Hunters 2:30 The Tropic Of Cancer 3:30 Extreme Frontiers South Africa 4:30 Jamie’s Best Ever Christmas Jamie focuses on festive-food options like jerk ham and clementine jelly, along with ideas for using up the inevitable leftovers.

5:30 Restoration Man 6:30 The Living Room

7pm The Laughing Samoans 7pm Storage Wars – Texas 7:30 British Treasure, American 7:30 Prime Planet – The Wonder 7:30 Tales From The Trails 3 Gold 8:30 M A Late Quartet Of Britain 8:30 M The Rebound AO AO 2012 Romance Music.

Julia Bradbury’s list of 2009 Romantic Comedy.

Members of a worldcoastal wonders celebrates In New York, a single renowned string quartet everything from Britain’s mother captivates her new must stay together in the face wildlife and scenery to neighbour, a much younger of death, competing egos, industry and the coast’s role man. and irrepressible lust. in keeping Britain safe. 0 10:30 M Kon-Tiki AO Adventure 10:30 Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 Weekend Murders – History.

Midsomer Murders AO 0 10:30 Tatau AO 11:30 Al’s Fish’n With Mates PGR Al McGlashan joins advertisingagency creative director Paul Nagy to celebrate Australia’s first national day for fishing as they take on their children off the coast of Sydney.

Midnight Home Shopping

MOVIES GREATS 6:10 Baby Mama ML 2008 Comedy. Tina Fey, Greg Kinnear; Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver.

7:50 Making Of The Mummy – Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor PG 2008 8:05 The Fighter 16VLSC 2010 Drama.

Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale.

10am Anchorman – The Legend Of Ron Burgundy MS 2004 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate.

11:35 Crash 16VL 2004 Crime.

Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon. 1:25 The Mummy – Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor MV 2008 Action. Brendan Fraser, Jet Li. 3:15 50 Dead Men Walking MVL 2008 Drama.

Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley.

5:10 Life As We Know It MS 2010 Comedy. Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel. 7:05 The Final Destination 16VC 2009 Thriller.

Bobby Campo. 8:30 The Town 16VLS 2010 Crime. A thief must balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his robberies and the FBI agent after him and his crew. Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall.

10:35 2012 MC 2009 Action.

MONDAY 1:10 Snake Eyes MVL 1998 Thriller.

2:50 The Mummy – Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor MV 2008 Action. 4:40 Directors – Chris Columbus PG 5:10 50 Dead Men Walking MVL 2008 Drama.

11pm Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 8am Cricket – Super Smash (RPL) Northern Knights v Auckland Aces.

11:30 Sky Sport News NZ Noon Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v Pakistan – First Test, Day Three.

12:30 Cricket – International (HLS) India v England – Fifth Test, Day Two. 1pm The Cricket Show 1:30 Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Northern Knights v Auckland Aces.

2pm L Cricket – Super Smash Northern Knights v Otago Volts.

5:30 Tennis – New Zealand Nationals (HLS) 6pm Golf Channel Academy 6:30 Darts – World Championships Day Three Match of the Day. 7pm Fox Sports News 7:48 L Football – Fifa Club World Cup Third Place Playoff.

Teams TBC. 10pm Football – A-League (HLS) Wellington Phoenix v Western Sydney Wanderers FC. 10:30 Fox Sports News 11pm Yachting – Vendee Globe Update Week Six. 11:18 L Football – Fifa Club World Cup Final.

MONDAY

1:30 NZ Football Weekly 2am Football – A League (RPL) Perth Glory v Sydney FC. 4am Football – A League (RPL) Wellington Phoenix v Western Sydney Wanderers FC.

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12:30 Decks, Docks And Gazebos 1am Jamie’s Best Ever Christmas 2am M The Rebound AO 2009 Romantic Comedy. In New York, a single mother captivates her new neighbour, a much younger man.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Art Garfunkel.

4am British Treasure, American Gold 5am Restoration Man

SKY SPORT 2 6am Rugby – World Schools Sevens (HLS) 7:30 Tennis – New Zealand Nationals (HLS) 8am L Darts – World Championships Day Three – Session Two. Noon Golf – FedEx Cup Playoffs Official Film 1pm Rugby – World Schools Sevens (HLS) 2:30 The Golf Academy 3pm Golf – PGA Tour Year In Review 4pm Yachting – Vendee Globe Weekly Update Week Six. 4:20 Cricket – International (HLS) India v England – Fifth Test, Day Two. 4:50 L Cricket – International India v England – Fifth Test, Day Three.

7:05 The Cricket Show 7:35 L Cricket – International India v England – Fifth Test, Day Three.

Afternoon Session from M A Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

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12:30 Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Northern Knights v Auckland Aces.

1am Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Northern Knights v Otago Volts. 1:30 Darts – World Championships Day Three – Match of the Day. 2am L Darts – World Championships Day Four, Session One. 18Dec16

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters PG 6:30 MythBusters PG Myth Evolution.

7:30 MythBusters PG Greased Lightning. 8:30 Abalone Wars M Best Laid Plans.

9:25 Treehouse Masters PG Ultimate Treehouses IV. 10:20 Deadliest Catch – Dungeon Cove PG Sacrifice.

11:15 You Have Been Warned M Brain v Brawn.

12:10 What On Earth? PG Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan.

1:05 Dual Survival M Croatian Castaway. 2pm Dual Survival M Mosquito Coast. 2:55 Dual Survival M Bulgarian Blizzard.

3:50 Dual Survival M Burning Island. 4:45 Dual Survival M Out of Air. 5:40 Dual Survival Special M Ultimate Survival Bible.

6:35 Railroad Australia PG 7:30 Dogs – The Untold Story PG Wild Survivors.

8:30 Beat The Ancestors PG Medieval Machine Gun. 9:30 Sydney Harbour Patrol PG 10:30 Treehouse Masters PG Ultimate Treehouses IV. 11:30 MythBusters PG Cooking Chaos.

MONDAY 12:30 You Have Been Warned M 1:25 Moonshiners M 2:20 Auction Hunters PG 2:45 Auction Hunters PG 3:15 Dual Survival M 4:10 Treehouse Masters PG 5:05 MythBusters PG

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Family Notices 54 Ashburton Guardian BIRTHS

HENDERSON – Tony and Madeleine (nee Thwaites) are delighted to announce the arrival of their daughter, Sophie Madeleine (5lb 14oz), on Tuesday, 29 November 2016. Special thanks to Ben Sharp, Bec Sutherland and the neonatal staff at Christchurch Women's Hospital.

GREENSLADE, Rhona – On December 15, 2016.

Passed away peacefully at Ashburton. Aged 86 years.

Much loved wife of Bill and stepmother of John and Betty, Alan and Gillian and Anne and Graham Macphail and their families. Loved sister of Miriam, and the late Jo. Messages to the Greenslade family, 108 Longbeach Road, Ashburton 7773. A private family service will be held.

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WILLIAMS – Matt, Aimee, Noah and Marley are delighted to welcome Cash Luca Williams to their family on December 13 weighing 7lb 14oz, a big thanks to Sandra Scott and the staff at Ashburton Maternity.

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HASKETT, Stanley – Margaret Haskett and family would like to sincerely thank everyone for their kindness, love, and support, baking, flowers, cards, phone calls and donations to St John, after the death of Stanley.

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HISTEN, Denis Patrick (Dinny) – Denise, Carolyn and Suzanne and family wish to sincerely thank all those who attended Dad’s service of celebration of his life. The cards, flowers, baking and the phone calls have been greatly appreciated. We would like to acknowledge the wonderful care given to Dad by the staff at Rosebank. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgement.

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Map for today

WHITE, Jarrod James – 1.4.75-18.12.00 And yet another year flys by...

You are always in our thoughts, Our conversations, our dreams and our hearts.

We love and miss you so much.

Mum, Dad, Kylie, Darryl, Josh and Ella Xxxxxxx

Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka & Surrounding Districts since 1905

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NZ Situation

Wind km/h less than 30 fine

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fog

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

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Saturday, 17 December 2016

A trough crosses the South Island tomorrow, then weakens as it moves over the North Island on Monday.

A ridge follows the trough. On Wednesday, a strong moist northerly flow builds over the lower South Island ahead of a trough approaching from the Tasman Sea.

60 plus

Canterbury Plains

Canterbury High Country

TODAY

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Fine, some high cloud. Northeasterlies developing in the morning.

NZ Today

overnight max low

Auckland

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Hamilton

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Napier

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High cloud, brief patchy rain. Northerlies strengthening, changing southwest late.

Mainly fine, some high cloud.

Wind at 1000m: W easing to 25 km/h in the morning, then turning NW and rising to gale 60 km/h in the evening.

Wind at 2000m: W easing to 30 km/h in the morning, then turning NW W and rising to gale 80 km/h.

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Blenheim

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Greymouth

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Christchurch

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Timaru

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Rain developing, with heavy falls about the divide, then easing to a few showers later.

Wind at 1000m: NW gusting 70 km/h, easing later.

Wind at 2000m: NW 60 km/h gusting 10 km/h, easing later.

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Showers clearing. Gale west to southwest winds easing.

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World Weather

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Delhi Dubai Dublin Edinburgh

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Rise 5:45 am Set 9:13 pm Bad

Bad fishing Set 9:04 am Rise 11:46 pm

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Rise 5:45 am Set 9:14 pm Bad

Bad fishing Set 10:11 am

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Rise 5:45 am Set 9:14 pm Bad

Bad fishing Rise 12:24 am Set 11:17 am

First quarter 6 Jan

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 305.6 Nth Ashburton at 9:35 am, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 12:10 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 12:11 pm, yesterday

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Canterbury Readings

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 22.5 23.4 Max to 4pm 3.3 Minimum -1.9 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm December to date 48.0 Avg Dec to date 30 2016 to date 618.6 667 Avg year to date Wind km/h W 15 At 4pm Strongest gust NW 39 Time of gust 12:05am

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Puzzles and horoscopes www.guardianonline.co.nz Cryptic crossword

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Simon Shuker’s CodeCracker

ACROSS 1. Small bear holding lady, the dear little fellow (6) 8. Before midday a portion of the precincts can be seen (5) 9. Telling-off for perhaps being insecure without one (7) 11. See me, in battered setting, sent out of my mind (8) 12. With which too much interest is taken (5) 15. A low joint that will go under (4) 16. Perhaps it will be seen as a bloomer (3) 17. Utensil one might expect to get from a bucket-shop (4) 19. A model comforter it may be, but it’s not the real thing (5) 21. One whose charges are said to be stubborn (8) 24. There’s so much French spirit in an outburst of rage (7) 25. Flower one will almost drag back in (5) 26. The tank-top may carry something cutting (6) DOWN 2. Foot parts taken to in flight (5) 3. Almost got up at the sign of The Ram with strings of beads (8) 4. It’s a flighty thing a prisoner may be doing (4) 5. Have the aspiration to state one will talk nonsense (5) 6. Nothing was so cutting as this short death appreciation (4) 7. Large-headed nail may close the collar (4) 10. A fish trap one could ask beetle to supply (3-6) 12. A party at Manhattan may resolve the trouble (4) 13. About fifty putters needed to articulate with fury (8) 14. It is a work one may consider as recreation (4) 18. It is cold, deaf and may be precious (5) 20. Army doctor will employ a computer hand-control (5) 21. The bar that will give one the shakes? (4) 22. From which pour the mouth parts (4) 23. Also rave about some older anthology (4)

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You’re more likely to keep a commitment to a friend than to honour your private and personal wish. This is why, when you really want something for yourself, you absolutely must get other people involved.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Existential angst can be alleviated by practical means. Environmental improvements will contribute. Perhaps there’s a nutritional issue to be addressed.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Once your internal parent decides what’s good for you, your internal child will spend time whining, complaining and trying to talk you out of it. Good parents stay true to their word.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): It will take many hours of research and development to make an effective presentation. The amount of time you get to present your ideas may be short: Make it count. Relevant details go up front.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You may be interrupted. It’s an opportunity to extend respect to the other person, even if they’re rude. When you make a mistake, it’s an opportunity to show poise.

Catastrophes are opportunities to show grit.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): A partnership that drains you is defeating the purpose of partnership.

Partnerships should contribute to your sense of well-being. Get a partner who shares your goals and complements your skills.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): When you come to the roadblock, you don’t automatically turn back.

Instead, you move laterally until you find a way through. This is a day when sideways moves can be counted as progress.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Your least-satisfying lunch would be the best a person in another part of the world has had in months. There may be little you can do about that, but a global view should help your mood, at least.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Believing differently from your friend can cause a rift. It’s not the believing exactly; it’s the expression of that belief. Diplomacy, softness, warmth – this is a dance, and you’re a wonderful dancer.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You know what you want to do, yet you’re not doing it. Baffling!

You may have to trick yourself to get going.

Write down the “when” and “where” in your calendar. You’ll figure out the “how.”

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Give and receive and receive and give. Try not to pay too much attention to the math of it. Dollar amounts will be deceiving. Focus on the care.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Socialising with a friend or partner has its challenges. If only you could telepathically convey the message “stop talking” or “save me,” it would smooth the way. Perhaps you could work out a signal.

Previous Cryptic solution

Across 1. Reading-room 8. Edgewise 9. Loco 10. Prays 13. Dead 16. Rain 17. Mien 18. Axle 20. Speck 24. Edit 25. Cupboard 26. Deliberates Down 2. Eggs 3. Dower 4. Nasty 5. Oiled 6. Repatriated 7. London pride 11. Alias 12. Snake 14. Emit 15. Bill 19. Extol 21. Prune 22. Cobra 23. Maze

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Previous solution: age, ale, alee, eagle, eel, gal, gale, gee, gel, glee, lag, lea, lee, leg.

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9

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ACROSS 1. Constructor (7) 5. Jeers (5) 8. Confidence (4-9) 9. Also (3) 10. Provided funds, supported (9) 12. Defeated (6) 13. Ocean floor (6) 15. In the way (9) 16. Bath (3) 18. Stealthy (13) 20. Move furtively (5) 21. Opposes (7)

Across 1. Cede 3. Scorched 9. Umpteen 10. Glare 11. Introduction 13. Upsets 15. Lawful 17. Undependable 20. Piece 21. Leasing 22. Tempting 23. Epic Down 1. Cautious 2. Depot 4. Census 5. Right-hand man 6. Head off 7. Deep 8. Below the belt 12. Allergic 14. Sunbeam 16. Tell on 18. Blimp 19. Spat

DOWN 1. Plagued (5) 2. Imprudent (3-10) 3. Approaches (5,4) 4. Depend (4,2) 5. Spoil (3) 6. Donations (13) 7. Rushed (7) 11. Watches (9) 12. Contusions (7) 14. Plunderer (6) 17. Defeats (5) 19. The day before (3)

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