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$200k schools’ windfall

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Mid Canterbury’s two secondary schools are set to collect nearly $200,000 in fees from international students this year.

Education New Zealand data showed the number of international students in Canterbury secondary schools was up by 11 per cent last year.

Ashburton College has nine

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Seinfeld has a new web series Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has teamed up with old pal Colin Quinn for a new web series about the development of a TV police drama. Quinn will direct and star in Cop Show, which will debut online this year and Seinfeld will appear in one of the project’s eight episodes.

Fellow comedians Jim Norton, Jim Gaffigan and Amy Schumer will also appear in the “brave, bold new show”.

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Cricket makes way for romance Cricket stopped play across four matches to make way for romance as a bride swept in by helicopter. Hastings couple Wayne Jensen and Caro Greenwood’s (nee Williams) whole relationship has been a whirlwind. After meeting in May last year they became engaged on steps to a sunken garden at Frimley Park, where her family’s grand home once stood. When that house burnt down, the land was gifted to Hastings District Council by Caro Greenwood’s greatgrandparents. The bride and her two bridesmaids arrived by helicopter, a total surprise to the rest of the wedding party and gathered guests – on Valentine’s Day. They wed in the rose rotunda at Frimley Park, before returning to their Hastings home for a relaxed garden party reception.

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Steven Tyler has a ‘God wink’ moment Rocker Steven Tyler has revealed he made it to the hospital just before his daughter Liv’s baby boy was born. The 37-year-old actress gave birth to her second son last week and her dad was there to witness the delivery. “When I got the call that Liv was going into labour, after crying like a baby myself, I immediately dropped everything and went to the airport to get on the next available flight ... When I landed I kept calling my daughter Mia, who was already helping Liv, and she kept giving me minuteby-minute updates: ‘Hurry, the baby is coming!’ I made it right in time before my second grandson entered this world. It was another God wink moment of a lifetime for me.”

Winter to be fritter judge Whangarei’s finest fritter will be chosen by one of New Zealand’s top food writers. Cookbook author and MasterChef New Zealand winner Chelsea Winter was this week announced as the celebrity judge at the Whangarei Fritter Festival. At the March 28 event Mrs Winter will taste the fritter creations from cafes and restaurants from across Northland, and award the Best Fritter Trophy 2015 – all the while listening to the dulcet tones of the festival’s musical offerings, including headlining act, Kiwi music legend Dave Dobbyn. “Fritters are an integral part of my summers. My mussel fritters from (her book) Everyday Delicious have been a regular on the family menu at the beach this year,” she said. “I also love Whangarei, so it’s safe to say I’m pretty excited about being a part of the festival where I’ll taste some tantalising frittery treats.”

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Pumped for 50 Shades Shane Warne is off to indulge in a bit of bondage – at the cinema, that is. The cricket commentator was intending to see 50 Shades of Grey last night and has told author E. L. James, responsible for the book on which the movie is based, about his plans. “@E_L_ James Morning from sunny Australia. I’m off to see 50 shades today with a friend, could be an interesting afternoon in the cinema haha,” Warne tweeted.

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Power records broken Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

Electricity consumption in the Ashburton District is soaring on the back of huge irrigator demand as farmers pump water onto parched paddocks.

EA Networks distributed more power in January than any other month on record, with more than 103 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity supplied to farms, homes and businesses across the district.

This is more than 42 per cent above the five-year average for that month.

The record-breaking month indicated the depth of this

summer’s big dry, EA Networks general manager Gordon Guthrie said, but extensive upgrading work to its 22kv network several years ago had future-proofed the system against big demand years.

“We were definitely looking ahead of our time when we made that call.

“It represented a real vote of confidence in Mid Canterbury’s future growth and prosperity. Had we not made that decision to start upgrading our entire network when we did, we would have really struggled to deliver the required volume of electricity this summer,”

he said. While January’s consumption was significantly up on the five year average, it was also 20 per cent up on the next highest month, November last year.

“Every irrigator lying around the district has had its button pushed and it’s starting to push things pretty hard, but we have the capacity where we need it.”

Meeting customer requirements was a non-negotiable, he said.

“As far as we’re concerned, if Mid Canterbury needs it, we do our utmost to deliver it.

Electricity supply is crucial infrastructure underpinning our

economic growth and we’re committed to staying one step ahead of demand. We have no worries at the moment. The demand is where we expected it to be if it got really dry, so there are no surprises.”

Upgrading work is still needed on some smaller sections of lines but this could not be done until after the peak demand period.

In terms of bills, the useage makes little difference to us as EA Networks was just the delivery truck, but there would be farmers with significant power bills coming in, Mr Guthrie said.

On a mission to rescue stranded fish

By Sue NewmaN

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A rescue mission was under way in Ashburton’s Mill Creek yesterday as dozens of trout and the odd eel were captured and rehomed.

Weeks of dry weather have caused water levels in the creek to drop, posing a threat to fish life. Mill Creek is fed from stockwater races and Ashburton District Council water rangers have been endeavouring to push more water into the creek.

Over the past 48 hours, however, there had been a further decline in water levels said council group service delivery manager Neil McCann.

“We’d normally see around 500 to 700 litres of water per second flowing down from the springs at the Winchmore intake (near the Ashburton River) into the stockwater race system and then on to Mill Creek but because of the continuing dry weather, this intake has dropped to about 90 litres per second – which translates into a trickle rather than a healthy flow,” Mr McCann said.

Knowing they were fighting a losing battle, he decided to call in Fish and Game New Zealand to capture fish in the rapidly drying creek and re-

Vegetation fire The Ashburton Fire Brigade attended a vegetation fire on Wakanui Beach Rd at around 1.40pm yesterday.

Berry health scare New Zealand officials are monitoring all sources of imported frozen berries after an Australian hepatitis scare involving berries from China. Australian health officials ordered a full national recall of 1kg packs of Nanna’s frozen mixed berries on Saturday due to potential hepatitis A contamination. New Zealand supermarket chains Foodstuffs and Countdown yesterday said they did not stock that brand of frozen berries. The Ministry for Primary Industries has now confirmed the recalled product is not exported to New Zealand. Officials are still monitoring the situation. - NZME

One killed in crash One person is dead and two in hospital after a two-car crash in south Taranaki yesterday afternoon. Police said the cars, a blue Mazda hatchback and a white Nissan Saloon, collided on State Highway 3, near Waitotara at 12.30 yesterday. A woman, the driver of the eastbound Nissan, died at the scene. She is yet to be formally identified. Her passenger, a man, was taken to Taranaki Base Hospital. He is in a stable condition, with moderate injuries.

The male driver of the westbound Mazda, the sole occupant, was transported to the Whanganui Hospital by ambulance and is in a serious condition.

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Fish and Game New Zealand staff Hamish Stevens (left) and Mark Webb, salvaging fish from the bed of a rapidly drying Mill Creek.

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locate these to the Ashburton River.

While council contractors were carrying out work on sections of Mill Creek to line the creek bed and banks, this had not contributed to the low water levels, he said.

As he was undertaking the fish rescue yesterday, Fish and

Game’s Mark Webb said quite a large number of trout and the odd eel had been caught.

“The water’s pretty warm in here, around 30 degrees so they wouldn’t have lasted much longer,” he said.

A section of creek near State Highway One has already been cleared of fish and yesterday

over a 300 metre strip Mr Webb said staff had caught about 50 trout.

The fish will be released into the Ashburton River but there are no fears of a fish shortage in the creek once water levels rise.

Mr Webb said other stretches of the creek were well stocked with trout and eels.

Education, gay rights activist Robin Duff dies Education and gay rights activist Robin Duff died yesterday.

Mr Duff, the senior vice president of the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA), died at Christchurch Hospital surrounded by his family and friends, the PPTA said in a statement.

Paying tribute to the longtime activist, PPTA president Angela Roberts said: “Robin

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has been a caring and vibrant part of the association for many years and will be sorely missed.”

Mr Duff was a senior figure in the association for 10 years, serving as junior vice president from 2005 to 2007, president from 2007 to 2009 and again from 2011 to 2013, the PPTA said. He sat as senior vice president from 2009 to 2011 and

2013 until his death yesterday.

Ms Roberts praised Mr Duff ’s “commitment to supporting secondary teachers and the work he had done to make schools a better place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) students”.

In recent years Mr Duff had been working to support Canterbury teachers in the after-

math of the 2011 earthquake.

“His strength and compassion in this area have been appreciated by many,” Ms Roberts said.

Mr Duff was the first openly gay man in New Zealand to stand for Parliament, according to PrideNZ. He was also involved in the beginnings of the National Gay Rights Coalition.

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A car has bowled over the front of a Chinese takeaway shop on Auckland’s North Shore last evening. A Fire Service spokeswoman said emergency services were called to the Eban Ave shop in Hillcrest about 5.45pm. No one was trapped in the car, she said. A police spokesman said the driver of the car, an elderly man, suffered minor injuries from the crash. The circumstances around the incident were unknown, he said. No one else was injured.

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Crash victims named Two Korean nationals who died after a two-car crash in Dunedin on Friday night have been named by police. Male passenger Jewon Yeon, 32, died at the scene of the crash, which happened at the intersection of Blackhead Rd, Tunnel Beach Rd and Green Island Bush Rd. Female driver Jiseon Jeon, 31, died later in hospital.

Both had been living in the Waitaki District, police said yesterday.

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Fisherman dies A 61-year-old Far North man collapsed and died while surfcasting on 90 Mile Beach on Sunday. The Pukenui man was fishing with a friend just south of Ngataki, when he collapsed at 6.30pm, Kaitaia police Acting Senior Sergeant Dean Gorrie said.

The man’s friend got him out of the water and performed CPR on him without success, Mr Gorrie said.

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Waiting lists should be cut

By Caitlin Porter

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A new preschool should alleviate a three month waiting list for some Mid Canterbury parents.

Stepping Stones @ Braebrook has been granted resource consent to build a preschool in the Braebrook subdivision on the corner of Redhaven Rise and Magnolia Drive.

The application was lodged

by Mid Canterbury residents Michelle Thompson and Sue Cromie.

Ms Thompson said she and Ms Cromie did their research and identified a need for another early childhood centre in the area.

Hampstead Kindergarten currently has a waiting list, as does Ashburton Montessori Preschool and Merle Leask Kindergarten.

Owner of Ashburton Montessori Preschool Tessa Skevington said the preschool had a three month waiting list.

Hampstead Kindergarten

Last month the Ashburton District Council’s website was visited 10,130 times by 6499 unique visitors who viewed 32,486 pages. Of the individual pages on the website, the maintenance shutdowns, restrictions and notices pages were the most regularly visited. The council launched its Facebook page in October and this has now received more than 600 likes.

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A 3D mock-up of the new preschool.

also had a two to three month waiting list. “It really fluctuates on when children are going to school,” head teacher Justine Hanrahan said.

The kindergarten has 44 children in the morning and 40 children in the afternoon.

Merle Leask Kindergarten’s waiting list was also two to three months.

Head teacher Judith Nelson said it was not uncommon as the kindy could only accommodate a certain number of children.

“We have always had a waiting list, because we can only go to 30 children so there has always been children waiting.”

Ashburton Parents’ Centre co-president Emma Prichard said another early childhood centre in the Netherby area would be beneficial as the Braebrook subdivision continued to expand.

Ms Thompson she said was looking forward to the centre opening and was excited for the venture.

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jected opening date and Ms Thompson said it was not yet known how many teachers would be needed, or the number of students that would attend. Neither of the applicants wanted to disclose the value of the build.

David Harford, who prepared the resource consent said the next step was obtaining building consent. “I think we’ve got something looking pretty special quite frankly, I think they’ve done a great job,” he said.

Schools’ $200k windfall From P1 At the time, Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said the school was hoping to attract between 25 and 35 international students.

However, while the number may have fallen short of that goal, Ashburton College international department director Michelle Hosking said having nine international students was on par with previous years.

Mrs Hosking said 29 Chinese students would also be arriving in the middle of March for a shorter stay of nine months.

The trip to China was about building relationships and understanding more about where students came from, she said.

“It’s certainly a new market for our school but I think it’s a very important market,” she said.

“Ashburton is a great place for international students because it’s safe, it’s a community of care.”

Mt Hutt College principal John Schreurs said the number of international students at the college fluctuated because it was a smaller school.

Mr Schreurs believed it was important for students to interact with people from other cultures.

“For us here in Mid Canterbury, a lot of students haven’t experienced people with different cultural backgrounds,” he said.

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The days of community records languishing in the Ashburton District Council’s cellar are nearing an end. With storage facilities available in the district’s new art and heritage centre on West Street, council staff are assessing, re-organising and recording physical records from the borough, county and district councils and relocating these to the new museum archive store. The first delivery of council archives arrived into the museum store two weeks ago.

NZ’s op shop capital Tauranga’s Greerton Village has been dubbed the op shop capital of New Zealand, drawing punters from as far afield as Hamilton and Auckland hunting retro treasures.

The village’s Mainstreet manager David Hart said the opening of Up Cycle op shop yesterday brought the number of charity shops in the suburb to 10 including several in Glenlyon Ave – the equivalent of one op shop for every 420 Greerton residents. Mr Hart put a lot of the growth in the prosperity of the village on the popularity of the op shops, saying they appealed to everyone regardless of their incomes. “We have a certain niche ... op shops bring in an eclectic funkiness.”

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Blue house streaks into the lead

By SuSan SandyS

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Participation rates were high, but the temperatures weren’t, at the Mount Hutt College swimming sports yesterday.

Junior events kicked off in chilly conditions, before the sun stayed out and temperatures, according to the MetService, rose to 17 degrees by 2pm.

Novelty races such as the tug boat and bucket race proved to be highlights as students got into the competitive spirit and aimed for a head

start on the house points leaderboard for the year.

It was the first house points event for 2015, and 2014 house winner blue left fellow teams in its wake as members notched up 364 points, followed by green on 339, Red on 232 and gold on 213.

Teacher Rebecca JefferyJones said student participation was high.

And as much as pupils got into the racing and interhouse competition, there was not too much rivalry.

“They were absolutely fan-

tastic, they were so fully into it, one of the best things was they were all supporting one another,” she said.

Results for the day were: Year 7 boys: 1st Bailey Allred, 2nd Alex Roderick, 3rd Jared Mee. Year 7 girls: 1st Bree Middleton, 2nd Penny Nell, 3rd Catelin Riordan.

Year 8/9 boys: 1st Josh Harkness, 2nd Jarrad Hill, 3rd George Seque.

Year 8/9 girls: 1st equal Ashleigh Allred and Courtney Elliott, 3rd Ellie Boekholt.

A man whose dog attacked and killed a protected New Zealand fur seal pup on a West Auckland beach has been fined $1000 and will have his dog put down.

Auckland sickness beneficiary Neil Russell Morris, 52, was sentenced in Waitakere District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to owning the staffordshire cross which attacked the seal pup at Muriwai Beach on September 26 last year. The prolonged attack was witnessed by a photographer who captured graphic images of the incident. Morris’ lawyer Ashley Thomas said in admitting the charge, laid by the Department of Conservation, his client accepted responsibility for the death of the seal.

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Vodafone outage Phone lines to Vodafone’s customer service call centres have been fully restored, following a cut to its fibre lines earlier yesterday.

The cut in Penrose, Auckland, affected call centres nationwide, with customers unable to get through on the 0800 and 0508 numbers, or by calling 777 and 888. It also affected customer selfservice tools such as MyVodafone, but did not disrupt its network.

One customer spent more than four hours trying to get through to Vodafone customer service.

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School fee proposal dismissed

By Daisy HuDson

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Mid Canterbury principals have dismissed a call to scrap school donations in favour of compulsory fees.

It was reported this week that Auckland Grammar School principal Tim O’Connor had written to the Ministry of Education to appeal for it to let state schools charge a compulsory school fee, rather than relying on donations.

While some Mid Canterbury principals believe schools are in need of more funding, they don’t think compulsory fees are the answer.

Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president Chris Murphy said students could be excluded from some schools if fees became mandatory.

“The government’s position may be that schools like Grammar may use the concept of a fee to make their school more

exclusive than it is,” he said.

“If you keep it as a donation, any child from within your zone can attend your school.”

Mr Murphy said the debate around school donations had been around for a long time, and it was a tricky issue.

“As I’ve said before, the government gives you enough money to run a bare bones operation, and for anything extra you’re going to have to find money somewhere else,” he said.

“The concept of a first class, free education in New Zealand is a bit of a myth.”

Ministry of Education head of sector enablement and support Katrina Casey said boards of trustees could not enforce the payment of contributions or donations. Ms Casey said schools could also seek voluntary donations, and parents were free to pay those donations in full, in part, or not at all.

Mount Hutt College princi-

pal John Schreurs said he would be concerned about the consequences of not paying fees, if they were introduced.

Mr Schreurs said over 80 per cent of college families paid the school donation, which he was “incredibly grateful” for.

“Education isn’t funded enough to meet the needs that are there,” he said.

“That said, we’ll always want more money, because if we have more we’ll do more.”

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Woman facing charges over Smith’s escape A woman has been charged with assisting murderer and paedophile Phillip John Smith to flee the country last year.

A 33-year-old woman from Palmerston North had been summonsed to appear in the Auckland District Court on February 24 to face a charge of assisting him to escape lawful custody in November, police said.

The charge falls under Section 121(1)(b) of the Crimes Act and carries a maximum prison sentence of seven years, Auckland city police district commander Superintendent Richard Chambers said.

Ashburton College teacher Trevor Cochrane, who attended the college on its very first day, checks out some memorabilia ahead of the college’s 50th jubilee.

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World-class concert planned for college jubilee

By Daisy HuDson

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A host of world-class performers will soon be making their way to Mid Canterbury as Ashburton College prepares to celebrate a special milestone.

Preparations for Ashburton College’s 50th jubilee are ramping up, with just four weeks to go until the big event.

The jubilee marks not only the 50th birthday of the college, but also celebrates its predecessor schools, Ashburton High School and Hakatere Technical College.

As the big weekend draws closer, preparations are in full swing for one of the standout events of the jubilee – a free variety concert at the Ashburton Domain.

The concert, which will kick off on March 14, will feature internationally renowned opera star and former college student Simon O’Neill.

Mr O’Neill is not the only big name

on the star-studded line up, with performances also expected by Anna Leese, Tim Beveridge, Tina Cross, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The Ashburton College Phoenix choirs will also perform at the event.

Jubilee co-ordinator Sheena Tyrrell said not only would the performers be world-class, but the production would also be impressive.

The stage would be the same as the one used at popular music festival Rhythm and Alps, while the sound and lighting would be run by the same company used for the Cricket World Cup. “It’s an international, world-class concert in the Ashburton Domain,” she said.

“It doesn’t get much better than that.”

Mrs Tyrrell said people should continue to get their registrations in for the event, with former staff and students coming from as far afield as the UK and the United States.

Smith was caught in Rio de Janeiro on November 13 a week after allegedly fleeing New Zealand while on temporary release from Spring Hill Corrections Facility in South Auckland, where he was serving a life term.

In 1995, he stabbed to death the father of a boy he had been sexually abusing, after tracking the family down to a Wellington house where they had moved to escape him.

Smith was on bail at the time for the sexual offending and charges of blackmail against a man who later killed himself.

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Museum off to a busy start

By Sue NewmaN

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Day one of life in Ashburton’s new museum was a busy one.

When the museum ran its business from its old home in Baring Square, Sunday was a quiet day. Not so this week on its first official working day.

More than 50 visitors called in to check out displays and judging by their comments in the heritage centre’s visitor book, they were impressed.

With Saturday’s official opening now behind him, Ashburton Museum manager Michael Hanrahan says he can now get down to the business of running the facility and yesterday that meant playing host to members of the Oxford Museum who spent almost two hours checking out displays.

Yesterday was also spent compiling lists of the behind the scenes items that needed to be ticked off his checklist, Mr Hanrahan said.

And one of those must-do items is to rebuild his team of volunteers, the people who help keep the museum running and adding to the visitor experience provided by paid staff.

“We need people who’re prepared to give some time to sit at the front desk or to walk around the building talking to people,” he said.

Mike Griffiths, learning about the Ashburton District of the past in Ashburton’s newly opened heritage centre.

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Fishing ship out in open ocean A fishing ship trapped in ice last week has made it to the open ocean and will now head to New Zealand under its own steam.

The Antarctic Chieftain, a 63m toothfishing vessel, ran into trouble last Wednesday after damaging three of its four propeller blades deep in the Southern Ocean.

It was escorted through the ice for three days by the US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star.

The Rescue Co-ordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ), which organised the rescue effort, said the vessels had now made it to open water.

The damaged Australian fishing ship rendezvoused with the New Zealand fishing boat Janas about 75km clear of the ice, and would now head to Nelson under its own steam.

RCCNZ said the Janas was likely to accompany the Antarctic Chieftain for about two days as its performance in open water was assessed.

The Antarctic Chieftain was currently travelling at a speed of about 7 knots (13km/h) and could take up to two weeks to reach Nelson, almost 4500km away.

RCCNZ rescue mission co-ordinator Dave Wilson said the operation to free the vessel from the ice had been challenging.

“The crew of the Polar Star and the US Coast Guard have done an outstanding job and we’d like to thank them all for their efforts.

“They’ve worked around-the-clock in extreme conditions to bring the Antarctic Chieftain to safer waters.

“We’d also like to thank the captain and crew of the Janas for making themselves available to provide assistance.”

The Antarctic Chieftain became stuck about 1700km from McMurdo Sound, on the edge of New Zealand’s search and rescue region.

Half of its crew of 26 are New Zealanders.

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Snowman record A small Japanese city has claimed a new snowman-building world record after a winter storm dumped tonnes of the white stuff. More than 600 people raced to complete a whopping 1585 snowmen - each at least 90 centimetres tall - in an hour, smashing the previous Guinness World Record. “We’ve been preparing the event since last year,” said an official in Iiyama city, where 23 centimetres of snow fell in 24 hours.

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High risk of psychosis A powerful “skunk-like” cannabis is associated with one in four new cases of psychosis, a UK study has found.

Scientists at King’s College London also found the potent form of the Class B drug led to a three-times higher risk of psychosis in casual users, rising to a five-fold risk in those who used it every day. The findings of the six-year study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, suggest strong forms of cannabis can lead to serious mental illness, the researchers said, as they called for greater public awareness. - PA

Egypt strikes jihadists

Raji Sukumaran (left) the mother of condemned Australian Myuran Sukumaran, arrives at a prison to visit her son in Bali yesterday.

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Attorney-General HM Prasetyo says this round of executions takes more planning, because prisoners have to be transferred from various jails to Nusakambangan.

Bali officials were also in a planning meeting yesterday, while at Kerobokan prison, the Sukumaran family, Chan’s brother Michael, and their Australian barrister Julian McMahon visited the men.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo insists the Bali Nine duo and other drug offenders

sentenced to death should be executed to shock the nation out of a “drugs emergency”.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has again written to Mr Joko about the case.

He had urged the president not to act hastily while Chan and Sukumaran have legal options that are still being explored.

“The Indonesian government doesn’t normally go ahead with executions of this type while there are legal options still available,” Mr Ab-

bott told reporters yesterday.

“And that’s what we’re saying to the Indonesian government: given that there are legal options that apparently are still there, let’s not do this dreadful, final, irrevocable thing any time soon.”

The pair’s Indonesian legal team was seeking a meeting with Mr Prasetyo yesterday to ask for the execution planning to stop while the administrative court assesses their challenge of Mr Joko’s decree denying clemency.

- AAP

■ HONG KONG

HK captain jailed over ferry disaster A Hong Kong boat captain has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of 39 people in a 2012 ferry collision, the city’s worst maritime disaster in nearly four decades.

Sea Smooth skipper Lai Sai Ming, 56, was found guilty following a trial that gripped the city, over the accident between his high-speed ferry and a pleasure boat near Lamma Island.

“I have concluded you should go to prison for eight years,” judge Brian Keith told a court.

“It’s been a personal tragedy for you and your family but it

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Execution D-Day nears Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will likely be transferred this week to the place marked for their executions.

Tony Spontana, spokesman for Indonesia’s attorney-general, says once they and other prisoners are on Nusakambangan island in Central Java, they will announce “D-Day” - the date of their executions.

“We’re already in the stage of preparing the executions and these must be implemented,” he told reporters in Jakarta.

“Maybe this week (Chan and Sukumaran) will be transferred.

“Hopefully.”

Australian embassy officials will attend a Jakarta meeting next Monday where Indonesia will convey the formalities in its plan to execute the Bali Nine ring leaders.

Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry has invited all embassies with citizens to be executed.

The meeting won’t provide the date but it will discuss the provision of 72 hours notice, access to prisoners for family, and the conduct of foreign media coverage.

Mr Spontana said embassies had been asking when lawyers and families were permitted to visit the prisoners.

He said the meeting was “not compulsory, just a good initiative” from the foreign ministry.

When Indonesia executed one Indonesian and five foreign nationals last month, the meeting with embassies, the announcement of the 72-hours notice and the executions all happened within the week.

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cannot begin to compare with the grief of those who lost their loved ones,” he said, as Lai listened from the dock with his head lowered.

Lai was jailed for a further 18 months for endangering the safety of others at sea, but the terms will be served concurrently.

Chow Chi-wai, 58, who was steering the leisure boat Lamma IV with 120 people on board during the collision on October 1, 2012, was jailed for nine months for endangering others’ safety at sea.

He was acquitted of all 39

charges of manslaughter.

The verdict came after a ninemember jury deliberated for four days following a 60-day trial.

The collision raised questions over safety in the crowded waters of Hong Kong, one of the world’s busiest ports, with an inquiry pointing to a “litany of errors” that caused the disaster.

It was the city’s most serious maritime accident since 1971 when a ferry between Hong Kong and Macau sank off the island of Lantau during a typhoon, killing 88 people. - AFP

Egypt has carried out air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Libya after the jihadists posted a video showing the decapitation of 21 Coptic Christians. “Your armed forces on Monday carried out focused air strikes in Libya against Daesh camps, places of gathering and training, and weapons depots,” the military said in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for IS. State television showed footage of Egyptian fighter jets it said were taking off to conduct the strikes.

- AFP

Fireworks for Kim North Korea has celebrated the birthday of late ruler Kim Jong-Il with mass fireworks, high-ranking military promotions and a rally by senior officials to pledge loyalty to current leader Kim Jong-Un. To mark the February 16 date, Kim Jong-Un promoted dozens of top military officers and paid a midnight visit to the mausoleum housing his father’s embalmed body.

- AFP

Found: $28m in cash Trustworthy Tokyo-ites handed in $US28 million of lost cash last year, police say, with three quarters of it returned to its rightful owner, in the latest example of Japan’s startling honesty. Upstanding citizens who had chanced upon wallets full of money took a total 3.34 billion yen to their local police officers, a spokeswoman for Tokyo Metropolitan Police said. They included one seemingly incorruptible person who found a sports bag stuffed with notes worth $US155,000 - enough to buy a Maserati GranTurismo, or a small apartment in the capital.

- AFP

Standing by berries

Skipper Lai Sai Ming

McCain Foods has moved to distance its frozen berry products from those at the centre of a Hepatitis A food scare in Australia. The company said it recently stopped sourcing frozen berries from Chile, where the suspect berries were grown. Frozen berries grown in Chile, packaged in China, and sold in Australia have been linked to eight cases of hepatitis A infection.

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OUR VIEW

Declaration no silver bullet Stu Oldham

EDITOR

T

he big dry now recast as a drought is having a significant impact on Mid Canterbury communities struggling with conditions whose legacy will last well into winter.

The district’s significant irrigation investment may have insulated it from the worst effects of prolonged dry weather but this insulation has not been evenly applied.

Not all farms have irrigation and are not getting the water they need to condition animals or produce plentiful, good quality summer (let alone autumn and winter) feed.

Dry land farmers know this is part of farming in Mid Canterbury and they have reoriented their farms to cope. But coping does not mean producing or profiting. It is simply getting by.

The declaration of a drought across almost all of the east coast of the South Island, including Mid Canterbury, was welcomed as an administrative acknowledgement of what farmers already knew.

It unlocked a small purse to help the excellent Rural Support Trusts that support farming communities and made a suite of financial measures available to the worst affected.

But the declaration is no silver bullet. It does not unlock the clouds, it does not make feed grow and it does not restore the stretched balance sheets of alltoo-dry farms.

Banks and businesses with a stake in our rural communities have been working with farmers as they try and chart their way through the drought without slipping into dangerous debt.

And in our towns, supply companies and other businesses have been doing what they can to accommodate farmer debtors who now seem many months away from shaking the dry.

In Ashburton, retailers report sales have slowed as people – on farms or not – wait for such an essential cog in our economic machine to kick back into gear.

Discretionary spending is even more discretionary.

The reduced dairy payout and now the drought will have an effect on the fortunes of the province. But our economy is built on people, and the effort of the next few months must focus on the wellbeing of those weathering these weeks-without-storm.

YOUR VIEW Mixed messages With regards to your article in Saturday’s paper, 14/2/15 stating that the “perception” by [Ashburton District Mayor Angus] McKay, that the opening ceremony of the art gallery was ever an invitation only event, is incorrect.

I, along with a significant number of other people, believed that the ceremony was by invitation only as understood via reading the Guardian paper over the past few weeks.

Can you confirm whether the Guardian was told by [Mr] McKay, or his staff, that the opening was an invitation only event?

There are a number of people including myself as well as a councillor who up until the end of January believed the opening to be invited guests only?

Edward Gates Editor Stu Oldham responds: The council said “the opening event is

CRUMB

invitation only, with the public able to access the building from Sunday, 15 February” in a press release on January 20. Saturday’s story records the comments of Mayor Angus McKay, who in effect said people could not be prevented from attending an event in a public place.

Ratepayers Thank you Felicity for your Food for Thought (Saturday, February 14); you struck the nail on the head.

Many of the local body officials seem to be after either the money or the glory and have forgotten who they represent – the ratepayers – and not the many residents who will agree to anything as they don’t pay rates.

After the stupid and ill thought out hydroslide survey it’s time they woke up and did the job they were elected to do by the voters – not the residents.

by David Fletcher

Doug Forsyth The Local Government Act says territorial authorities must make themselves aware of, and have regard for, the views of all their communities. - Editor

Rajah Re: Rajah the Wonder Dog statue unveiling.

I am overwhelmed and totally amazed with the support of everyone who helped in anyway at all with the culmination which resulted in the completion and unveiling of Rajah the Wonder Dog Bronze Statue that now stands proudly outside Methven’s Mt Hutt Memorial Hall.

Thank you.

Hopefully this is the first of many True Stories of Methven.

“Nga Korere pono o Methven.”

Everyone is looking forward to Mt Hutt College’s production of the Children’s Story book.

Angela Grieve

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Drought shows storage vital

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Did you get anything for Valentine’s Day? No 75%

Katie Milne

Yes 25%

W

ater storage will never stop the types of drought which have just been declared throughout the eastern South Island.

But water retention schemes can blunt their impact and negate their effect.

It should be a no-brainer.

We are, as Geoffrey Palmer so famously once put it, a pluvial country – in other words, it rains a lot here.

In simple terms, the problem is that most rain falls when it’s too cold for pasture to grow.

And, conversely, it doesn’t rain when it’s warm enough for pasture to grow.

We are so accustomed to farming in between these seasons in our spring and autumn flushes that we don’t realise that in other parts of the world it doesn’t happen that way.

It’s not even universal in New Zealand.

It certainly applies for the east coast. From East Cape to the Clutha farmers take the summer dry for granted. A drought is merely a longer dry period than usual.

There are four good reasons why we should not put up with this uncertainty and why we need to develop water storage.

The first is that we are told the climate will bring more frequent, acute and widespread dry periods. Even the hardy native plants are dying off this summer.

Historically, regions outside the east coast belt didn’t have summer droughts. Stock could be sent from east to west and feed from west to east. Alarmingly in some of the past few summers, droughts have become more widespread. The safety margin is disappearing.

Secondly, the status quo is no way to run a business. If New Zealand is to meet the government’s goal of doubling the value of primary exports by 2025, its achievement must rest on water storage capacity.

We currently dry off dairy cows early or cull dry stock when it gets dry. The free sunshine goes to waste when

Today’s online poll question Q: Should schools be allowed to have mandatory fees?

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it should be powering our production of animal protein for export.

The works – both dairy and meat – cut back early and lay off staff. First they are struggling to cope then they are idle.

That is no way to run a business either.

The third good reason is that dam storage is more environmentally friendly and sustainable than coaxing more water out of aquifers. The great Ogallala Aquifer in the western United States has irrigated vast grain crops for export to hungry people in hungry countries for decades. Perhaps the world’s greatest irrigator, it has been the salvation against starvation for many.

Yet, the Ogallala, and other major world aquifers, are suffering depletion and shrinkage.

At best, they will take thousands of years to recharge.

In contrast New Zealand water storage projects are sustainable and renewable. Even the critically low Opuha in South Canterbury will recharge over a winter or two. Once the dams are built the benefits are

effectively permanent. Like genetic gain it does not need to be constantly rebuilt.

The fourth reason is the recreational and other benefits of lake water storage. Our world champion rowers honed their skills on Lake Karipiro on the Waikato. That’s an artificial lake created as one of the chain to generate electricity for our cities. The play area was the by-product of hydro-electricity capacity.

There are other recreational and economic benefits. The Opuha River would have dried out by now were it not for the continuing flow created by the lake behind the dam.

A supply of water was obligated under the consent to construct the scheme. Water storage arrangements for supplementary flow can improve the health of a river system too fragile to cope with climatic fluctuations.

Communities in towns and cites can enjoy clean, plentiful, certain and cheap water supply.

Fishing, sailing, aquiculture and tourism opportunities lie behind each dam as well.

Unfortunately a lot of contemporary political thinking, and legislative underpinning, on major works of any sort is less ambitious and much more negative than a generation ago.

They are terrified of anything bigger than a cycle lane.

They see dams as a plot to encourage dairy farming as though that was case proven.

The ancient civilisations of Rome in particular, East Asia, or Mesoamerica were all built on water storage and sophisticated reticulation of that water. The technology freed populations from drudgery and famine.

Our position is no different and is as stark. If water storage is not developed our nation’s economic future is bereft of options. With adequate water storage our future is as sure as anything in an otherwise uncertain world.

The best time to build these dams was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.

Katie Milne is Federated Farmers’ spokesperson on Adverse Events

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■ CONTACT ENERGY

Shares slump after profit fall

BY PATTRICK SMELLIE Contact Energy shares dropped 8.4 per cent to $6.34 by late afternoon yesterday following an announcement that it is considering an offshore geothermal energy investment strategy in the absence of growth opportunities in the New Zealand market, disappointing investors who had expected capital returns or higher dividends as the company starts throwing off cash after six years of heavy capital investments.

“I’m a bit dumb-founded,” said Grant Swanepol, a leading energy stocks analyst at Craigs Investment Partners.

Contact’s chief executive, Dennis Barnes, had met market expectations with yesterday’s profit announcement for the six months to December 31, declaring a statutory profit down 54 percent to $51 million, largely due to one-off and non-cash factors, and an unchanged interim

Te Mihi, Contact Energy’s newest geothermal power station in Wairakei.

dividend of 11 cents per share.

“So what is the new news?” said Swanepol. “It’s that he (Barnes) is not giving the cash back. Did we expect to get the cash back? Yes, we did. Had he promised to give it back to us?

Yes, he had.

“I wouldn’t have minded so much if he’d said: ‘guys, I just want to hang off for six months

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6,828.1

years was conceivable, roughly the same as the cost of the proposed Tauhara geothermal power station near Taupo, for which Contact can see no demand over that period.

Opportunities in geothermal construction were likely to exist in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, encompassing Indonesia, Chile, the US, Mexico, the Philippines and Peru, he said.

Craig Stent at funds manager Harbour Asset Management echoed Swanepol’s view.

“There’s disappointment around the capital management,” he said. “Nothing’s really materialised. They’ve been talking about dividends and capital returns to shareholders for some time and now they’ve surprised the market.

“One of the key points it highlights for the whole industry is that there’s not much growth in the New Zealand market,” said Stent.

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in declaring a dividend policy because before I offload my capability for geothermal build, I want to make sure I can’t utilise on an NPV (net present value) positive basis and I’d be remiss not to do that’.

“But he didn’t do that. He said I plan to go offshore and must just see if my plans are correct or not. So things have changed.”

“Where we had seen a positive in the industry with no risky growth capex with limited hope of return, and rather give back this cash generation which had been promised and now being delivered on has been dissipated,” said Swanepol. “So is the market justified in knocking $350 to $400 million off its value? Well, that’s the metric.”

Barnes himself acknowledged at the company’s media briefing that the initial negative reaction from investors reflected disappointment that higher cashflows in future years might not all be applied to dividends or, more likely, capital returns.

“Our results are never really a surprise. I suspect the reaction in the share price is markets telling us cash returns are their preference.”

Contact has yet to formulate or have plans for offshore expansion approved, but Barnes indicated investment in the order of $1 billion over five to six

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Sales jump - driven by cars, food, drinks New Zealand retail sales rose more than expected in the fourth quarter, led by vehiclerelated transactions, food and beverages, adding to evidence that cheap credit and a growing jobs market are encouraging consumers to spend.

Sales rose 1.7 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in the fourth quarter from three months earlier, according to Statistics New Zealand.

Actual sales climbed 5.9 per cent from the year-earlier quarter by volume and rose 4.7 percent to $20.9 billion in value, the first time sales have exceeded $20 billion. Sales were expected to rise 1.3 per cent in the quarter and to increase 4.2 per cent from a year earlier, according to

a Reuters survey.

Sturdy consumer spending may continue in the face of low credit costs and strong employment growth. Core retail sales spending on credit and debit cards rose 0.9 per cent in January, figures showed last week.

Spending on consumables rose for a fourth straight month. Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler noted a falling jobless rate, strong migration, robust labour force participation and upbeat business and consumer sentiment in a speech this month that downplayed the prospect of interest rate cuts.

The New Zealand dollar jumped as high as 74.82 US cents after the data was released, from 74.48 cents immediately

before. The trade-weighted index climbed to 77.51 from 77.25.

The 1.7 per cent quarterly gain is the first of that magnitude since the June 2012 quarter. Core retailing, which excludes vehicle-related spending, rose 1.5 per cent in the fourth quarter.

Twelve of the 15 retail industry types measured rose in the latest period. The gains were driven by a 3.4 per cent increase in the volume of motor-vehicle and parts retailing.

Sales in the food and beverage services industry climbed 3 per cent in the latest quarter, matching the third-quarter gain, while the value rose 3.5 per cent.

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■ SILVER FERN FARMS ELECTION

MIE gets their person on SFF board Rob Hewett is back at the helm of Silver Fern Farms’ board of directors following a clean run home in the meat company’s governance elections.

But Otago sheep and beef farmer Fiona Hancox has kicked South Canterbury’s Herstall Ulrich to the kerb, by close to 5,000,000 votes.

Ms Hancox has the backing of Meat Industry Excellence – a group set up to lobby for reform in the red meat sector, by targeting director seats on both the SFF and Alliance group

boards. To become eligible to vote, shareholders needed to meet requirements that included supplying a minimum level of stock for processing over the past two seasons.

Almost 40 per cent of eligible shareholders, about 1500 from a pool of 4860 eligible voters, had voted by the time polls closed on Friday, up 4.1 per cent on the 2013 return of 26.76 per cent.

The vote represents 68.10 per cent of total shares, and was up from the 61.76 per cent turnout in the 2013 election.

RESULTS Rob Hewett Fiona Hancox Herstall Ulrich

41,437,912 25,241,163 20,695,485

SFF processes and markets lamb, mutton, beef, venison and associated products to more than 60 countries and employs more than 7000 staff in the peak of season.

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PGG Wrightson Wool business development manager Craig Smith and New Zealand farmer/investor Chris White with Point6 founders Peter and Patty Duke at the Outdoor Retailer conference in Utah, US. PHOTO SUPPLIED

US sock company wants Kiwi wool An exclusive multi-million dollar deal has been signed to supply New Zealand fine micron wool to one of the world’s premium sock manufacturers, Point6.

The Point6 sock range was developed in the United States by apparel entrepreneurs Peter and Patty Duke seven years ago.

The brand has earned international acclaim for quality multi-sports socks made from fine micron wool. With demand now at record levels the Dukes opted to enter a direct supply contract to provide line-of-sight to where and how the wool, used in their garments, is grown.

PGG Wrightson Wool’s business development manager, Craig Smith, said the opportunity to join forces with Point6 came about through the proactive efforts of New Zealand farmers Walter Cameron and Simon Williamson, following a chance meeting in the US. “The Dukes have been frequent visitors to New Zealand and know that New Zealand 22.5 micron wool is the best in the world,” Mr Smith said.

“They wanted to lift an already premium product to another level by going to a pure New Zealand 22.5 micron wool and, because they work on 12 to 15 month lead manufacturing times, also wanted to lock in price stability.

“The contract will see PGG Wright-

son Wool source 150 tonnes per year of 22.5 micron wool from New Zealand growers.

“Starting in early March we’ll be talking with growers of fine micron merino wool and, providing they can meet the tight measurement criteria which includes length, strength and whiteness, will be offering them a price which equates to a little below the 10-year average.”

The wool will be shipped to a yarn spinner in China and then on to Point6 in the United States where it will be made into socks.

“In the future, Point6 socks will be made exclusively from New Zealand fine micron merino wool.”

PGG Wrightson Wool representatives will assist fine woolgrowers preparing to enter into supply contracts and again at the start of shearing to ensure quality criteria are met.

“In a market such as this, quality is vital to the success of the end product and to ensure on-going demand,” Mr Smith said. “We are confident that 100 per cent pure fine micron merino wool will enhance an already prestigious brand and will potentially lead to greater demand for this unique fibre in the growing baselayer clothing and specialty outdoor clothing market.”

Farm gate price watch … for the latest prices, visit www.interest.co.nz/rural current price range Saleyard prices …

X LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 48 - 49 Prime 91 - 101 X HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 169 - 223 X STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 234 - 257 last week

4 wks ago

Processor prices …

X LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 75.96 78.80 17.5 kg YX SI 85.11 88.32 19.0 kg YX SI 92.48 95.97 21.0 kg YX SI 101.65 105.50 Local trade (c/kg) SI 510 535 (16-22kg) X MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 55.87 61.54 X BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 460 480 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 333 357 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 446 467 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 490 500 (180-280kg) X VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 308 307 AP Stag 60kg SI 376 375 AP Stag 80kg SI 469 468 Auction prices …

X SI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) 796 796 Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 553 518 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 502 472 Lambs 664 618

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The search is on for a dairy herd to participate in a 12-month lameness trial.

Veehof vet Fred Hoekstra will run the trial in conjunction with Helwi Tacoma of Intelact, to establish the effects of preventative trimming in reducing lameness and improving productivity.

They are looking for a herd of 900-plus cows in the Mid Canterbury area, where herd testing, daily recordings, pregnancy testing and/or scanning are established practices.

The hoof trimming will be done free of charge by Mr Hoekstra in April/May this year, after calving and again in autumn 2016.

“If we do the trimming when the cows are being dried off it should be taking effect by calving, then they will be trimmed again,” Mr Hoekstra said.

“It’s a bit like going to the dentist once and expecting a quick fix, teeth need to be maintained and so do cows’ hooves.

The trial will run for a year, but we might carry it on, depending on how it goes.”

The trial will include a control mob of 400 as well as the mob identified for treatment.

“We need at least 900 cows to ensure there will be enough cows in each group after cull-

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ing, but that shouldn’t be hard to find around here,” Mr Hoekstra said.

It will be conducted on a pasture-based conventional unit, to maximise the relevance for farmers.

“If we conducted it in a barn situation it would only be applicable to a small number of farmers.

“Once we have identified a suitable herd we will look at all the cows – we’ll physically pick

up all the back feet and measure the outside claw to the inside claw – then we can look at sub groups within the herd and identify which cows would be good candidates for hoof trimming.

“We want to be able to put a value figure on proper hoof trimming – the main aim of the trial, so we’ve got that information to give to farmers.”

Mr Hoekstra said Veehof had run smaller trials in the past, but this was the first large-scale project the business has undertaken, aiming to prove the role of hoof trimming in improving health and performance in dairy herds.

“When you have a low payout year and a drought, looking after your animals is paramount, because you can’t afford to lose production. If it costs $1000 for a day’s trimming and you get an extra $2000-$3000 back it’s well worth it.”

But hoof trimming is as much an animal welfare issue, as it is a measure to improve profitability, Mr Hoekstra said.

“If you can see lame cows then tourists driving past can also see them. Rightly or wrongly, dairy farmers have a bad name, so we need to be proactive and look after our animals.”

For more information call Mr Hoekstra on 302-2911 or email fred@veehof.co.nz

A Timaru farmer with a proven track record, is challenging the world record for the highest barley yield.

The Guinness World Record attempt took place on Friday in a crop of Blackman Agriculturebred variety 776, which yielded an impressive 13.8 tonnes per hectare.

Arable farmers Warren and Joy Darling have been growing barley for more than 30 years, each season aiming to up the ante on previous harvests.

Last year the couple harvested 11.5 tonnes per hectare on Poplar Grove Farm. Unaware of how close they came to breaking the world record, it became the catalyst for attempting the world record.

Mr Darling said the Timaru climate had a big part to play in their success.

“Since we are on the coast we get the right mix of weather for the high yield. There’s a lot of rain in the winter to carry us through to

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“The opportunity to achieve world record status is incredible – it is outstanding that the South Canterbury region has the potential to be recognised on the global stage for growing world record breaking crops”.

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empt for barley crop grain production supply chain to make this happen,” Exclusive Grain Group spokesperson and Canterbury Seeds manager Craig Noonan said.

“We have been all very much involved in the lead-up to the attempt and we were there on the day to lend a hand with keeping a track of the weight records – these then had to be verified by a Justice of the Peace.

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MARKET REPORT Dairy The intensity of the drought just got stronger last week, even though cooler temperatures prevailed and some misty rain arrived.

A drought declaration confirmed the seriousness of the situation and bought in feed increased in demand and price.

Reports suggest younger farmers are struggling to cope with the intensity of the dry after the past 10 years have been relatively moist, but older managers still recall past droughts, and are using their experience to deal with the situation.

LIC has reported a better financial year than expected, with strong interest in animals with short gestation genes, DNA parentage testing, and automation technology helping keep their results respectable.

News that Fonterra is bidding to take a 20 per cent interest in a Chinese infant formula processing company shows where growth aspirations lie, but the challenges remain in this market, with reports of a high number of rejections and returns of product blamed on tardy paperwork, not poor quality product.

Lamb In a week where the industry celebrated the 133 years since the first frozen shipment, farmers are disappointed with the lamb price plunge, after early season optimism.

Those that secured those early high prices with seasonal contracts have been insulated from the falls, but with half the season’s product still to be harvested many are feeling the financial pinch.

National kill weights mid January have held remarkably well considering the slow spring and now dry summer, but this is sure to rapidly change in February and March amid a processing backlog that is up to three weeks

in some areas. The processing statistics show a big increase in lamb numbers harvested but a big fall in the mutton kill, after big culls in previous years.

Store lamb values have stabilised and numbers offered fell this week, and it is hoped the early harvest of crops will ensure irrigated farms will chase trading stock to fill a developing gap of quality lambs for the autumn chilled season.

Wool Wool has hit a purple patch of increasing values in the last four sales, led by lambs wool hitting near record prices amid an easing currency and strong demand.

Lambs wool prices have gone a little way to compensating for the weak pelt market, but all sheep producers will be disappointed at the lack of profitability this year after early high hopes.

Beef More easing beef schedules again this week, as the kill statistics show processing is now over 20 per cent ahead of last year, as the dry and early high prices pushed the harvest forward.

While processors report short-term concerns over the Indonesian ban and a quiet Chinese market, prices are still well ahead of last year, and the US and Australian beef herd will take years to recover, and allow NZ’s supply to fill the market.

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Dangers were known, but ignored

By Kathleen Stringer

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very once in a while we turn up an item in the collection that could have the potential to do harm. This pocket watch is one such.

Rather shabby and certainly plainer than some pocket watches we have in our collection, it was still probably a prized item for the man who had it. It is American, always a talking point when most of our goods were English or at least European. It told the time right to the second, and it glowed in the dark. Designed for the man who needed to know the time, exactly, and even at night – it was an artefact of the modern, post-war age. So modern in fact that the manufacturers had no time to investigate the effects of used radium, even in small amounts, had on people.

They really had no excuse as the risks were well known. I remember as a child reading the story of Madam Curie – the female scientist who discovered radium and its benefits for medicine.

It was an interesting story, it had a sad end in that she died from over-exposure to radium. In fact much of her research archive is still considered too radioactive to handle safely. Yet, regardless, people

continued to use the substance unwisely.

There are many accounts of how shoe stores employed X-ray machines to see if their shoes fitted correctly and of course the fact that radium glowed in the dark was used on a number of items, such as this watch.

Even if the dial no longer glows, the radium is still embedded in the timepiece – it has a half life of about 1600 years.

Although the amount used in the watch face won’t kill or seriously harm you, such items should be treated with respect.

Watches with broken glass should be handled carefully as particles of radium could flake off and be inhaled, or absorbed through the skin. While the wearer probably suffered little, or any, side-effects from the watch, spare a thought for the people who painted the substance on hundreds of watches every day.

Such over-exposure resulted in a number of cancers and what was often referred to as radium jaw (due largely because the female painters often licked their paint brush to give it a nice point).

The company that made this watch was a family one, based in Connecticut and operated between 1831 until 1967. This item was probably manufactured between 1958 and 1967.

More from Mrs Beaton ... fish on the menu A s a family “treat” at Christmas we chartered a boat and went fishing.

While for some this would be a heaven beyond compare, the idea of fishing leaves me cold and, as I am not a big fish eater, it is less of a treat than an obligation.

Perhaps using some recipes from Mrs Beaton’s Book of Household Management could have inspired me.

Naturally, being an English publication, she uses species of fish we don’t see here in New Zealand, however, along with unknown types of fish, she also

has some interesting recipes for those fish I have heard of.

Have you tried cod swim bladders covered in anchovies and oysters, so much better than lobster, which she says is rather indigestible?

A surprise to me was the comment that English people were known to eat dolphins, seals and even whale. Thankfully even Mrs Beaton says this is a practice long since past.

Fish, it would appear, is a most versatile type of meat with which you can do almost anything.

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the celebrated scene from Forest Gump where the properties of shrimp were extolled, salmon, for example, can be served boiled, collared (split and stuffed), as cutlets, pickled and poached as well as cooked in a variety of sauces and dressings.

One method of cooking was to crimp the fish – this was a procedure performed on live or recently killed fish. It involved scoring the flesh so that when cooked it took on a wavy appearance and became firm to the bite – Think about hair crimping and you will know

what I mean. This inhumane act comes second to the tragedy of the red mullet. Its red flesh changes colour as it dies, so to get the full “enjoyment” of the spectacle it was often eaten alive from a glass serving dish.

As well as giving recipes, Mrs Beaton also gives a potted history of fish as a food group as well as when each type was in season. Concluding her section on fish, she gives some tips on how to carve fish – stressing that no metal should touch it – and if silver was not affordable, electroplated fish carvers are a must for the cutlery drawer.

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RESULTS ■ Bowls Allenton Business House Bowls February 11, First Week 1st Moore Architecture 4pts +22, 2nd Brophy Knight 4pts +21, 3rd Awhii 4pts +5, 4th Sam 4pts -2. Thanks to our sponsors Harcourts and Tinwald Tavern.

Ashburton Bowling Club February 13, Toyota Friday Triples 1st Murray Smallbridge, Gordon Sparks and Anne Reid 3 wins 19 ends 43 points.

2nd Gavin Eder, Roger Gutberlet and Winstone Lee 3 wins 17 ends 41 points. 3rd Bob Neilson, Robin Petrie and Jack Schlater 3 wins 16 ends 30 points. 4th B Stott, J Argyle and Charlie Cleghorn 3 wins 15 ends 30 points. 5th Jo Ryk, Murray Anderson and Doug Kinvig 3 wins 14 ends 32 points February 14, Saturday Rollovers 1st Colin Cross, Ted Connell and Heather Gray 2 wins 9 ends. 2nd Wally Porter and John McLay 1 win 8 ends 11 points on count back from Trevor Watson and Heather Mowatt 1 win 8 ends and 9 points.

Corner to Corner played Feb 14 1st Rodger Herriott, 2nd Jo Ryk, 3rd Trevor Watson.

■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 ness Birdies 90 Men: Read’s Rammers 91, Franks Pride 87, Smoking Trees & Stroking 3’sMixed: New World 91.5, Hoppy’s Hopefulls 88.5, Stroke N Poke 88 Top lady: Jude Stara 33.5 Top man: Chris Hurley 35 Nearest Pins: Templeton Motors – Steve Cross; Paul May Motors – Tony Bennett; Mac & Maggies – Chris Buckland; BP Ashburton – David Gleeson Gabites Lucky Player – Hugh McLenaghan, BP Lucky Player – Gerraardo Eskuche Twos: Chris Buckland, Dennis Stoddart, Steve Cross February 14 First round of Qualifying for Club Championships were: Senior Grade Adrian Hopwood 78-7=71 by c/b; Intermediate Gaby Jansen 81-13=68; Junior A Gavin Douglas 86-20=66; Junior B Chris Robertson 94-25=69. Other good scores were: Don Houghton, Josh Ackerley and Ron Carlson 69; Bill Hetrick, Miti Daniel, Jeff Williamson and Vince Carr 70; Greig Sparrow and Ray Lambert 71 (by c/b).

Best score in the RMF Cup was 66, worth 15 points for Gavin Douglas, the cutoff score was 72. Nearest Pins: Robbies: Tufuga Sa, Braided Rivers: Steve Stratford, Rothburys Insurance: Matt Davis, Netherby Meats: Ray Lambert, Charming Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) Paul Tuakeu. Twos: Gaby Jansen, Gavin Douglas, Shane Beavan, Pieter van Vollenhoven and Tufuga Sa. Nett Eagles # 13; Birdy Jackpot # 14 February 15 First Round winners in the White Trophy are: W&E Parr, K&M Green, B Turton & B Nuttall, J&G Kean, H Robertson & P Bradford, H Ward & C Robertson. The second round will be held on 1 March. In the stroke round played the winners were: H Ward & C Robertson 89-23=66; second were J&G Kean 67.

February 13 Monday Evening – 2 rnd Duplicate N/S 1 G Baker and M Hoar, 2 G Brown and D Mayfield Golf Club Fisher, 3 A Gray and Paul Fergus E/W 1 P Wise and Joyce Johnson, 2 B Blair February 12, 9 Hole division and M Bruce, 3 A Gilbert and C Robins W Sim Opening Day Trophy- Best Nett Tuesday Evening – 2 rnd. Duplicate 1st E Graham 49:14:35 on c/b, 2nd J N/S 1 B Smith and J Knight, 2 M Holmes and Schmack 63:28:35 L Baker, 3 M Stowell and M Buckland Men 2nd J Greenslade 55:18:37, Ladies 2nd E/W 1 S Rosevear and J Fechney, 2 K Robb B Morrison 60:22:38. Nearest the Pins: Greg and R McLaughlin, 3 T Coulter and L Rose Sim Builders and Excavators 2nd Shot No. Wednesday Afternoon – 2rnds. Duplicate 2 – J Greenslade, Mayfield Transport No. 5 1 T and P Downward, 2 A van Dyk and J – E Graham Lovett, 3 K Robb and B Smith, 4 M Stowell Methven Ladies Golf and S Rosevear.

Thursday Evening – Mary Mulligan Trophy February 11 N/S 1 J Lovett and S Rosevear, 2 E Segers White Tees: Sandra Marr 102-33-69; Sara and R McLaughlin 3 M Stowell and B Smith Gallagher 88-18-70; Erna Smith 103-32-71; E/W 1 P Fergus and K Robb 2 P Downward Sandra Ilton 101-28-73; Lynn Worsfold 98and A Maude, 3 A van Dyk and B Leighton 25-73 Yellow Tees: Fay Redfern 97-27-70

■ Cycling

Calder Stewart, McDonalds, Tinwald Supervalue February 13 Friday Night Velodrome Racing Trainer Wheels W/W. Group 1.

1st Holly Douglas 10pts. 2nd Henry Pottinger 6pts. B. Grade W/W. 1st. Zac Bartlett 10pts. 2nd Mitchell Veix 6pts. C. Grade W/W. 1st. Brooke Wylie 10pts. 2nd= Luke Rhodes & Tyler Bartlett 5pts.

D. Grade W/W. 1st Finn Veix 8pts. 2nd Sarah Bradley 6pts. 3rd Phillip Soshnikov 4pts 4th.= Callum Kingsbury & Juliet Kingsbury 2pts. E. Grade. W/W. 1st. Ryan Gallagher 8pts. 2nd. Edward Portinger 7pts. 3rd. =Fluer Kingsbury & Jamie Paine 3pts. 4th.

Dennis Soshnikov 1pt.

Open & 17 Grade. 1st Daniel Rafferty 11pts.

2nd Nigel Douglas 7pts. 3rd Petert Restieaux 5pts. 4th Myles O’Donnell 4pts. 5th= James Skinner & Ben Sutton 3pts. B. Grade U17. 1st Bella Roulston 11pts. 2nd Ryan Jackson 10pts. 3rd Abe O’Donnell 8pts. 4th. Oliver Davidson 4pts. C. Grade U17. 1st Ethan Titheridge 11pts. 2nd Madison Clark 9pts.

3rd Maddie Lowry 8pts. 4th Luke Skinner 5pts.

Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers February 14, 14km. 7 riders.

1st Brent Hudson CT. 26m 38.25s. HT. Go. Rt. 26m 38.25s. 2nd Janette Hooper CT. 26m 38.77s. HT. Go. Rt. 26m 38.77s. 3rd Liz Wylie CT. 26m 39.61s. HT. Go. Rt. 26m 39.61s. 4th Shona Proctor CT. 27m 05.04s.

HT. 3.10m. Rt. 24m 55.04s 3f/t. 5th Dean Rattray CT. 27m 05.36s. HT. 3.10m. Rt. 24m 55.36s. 4f/t. 6th. Ross Templeton CT. 27m 21.39s. HT. 4m. Rt. 23m 21.39s F/T. 7th. Ben Sutton CT. 27m 21.66s. HT. 4m. Rt. 23m 21.66s 2f/t.

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club February 13 Top Team: One Man Handicap 95.5 – Kris Greer, Shane Beaven, Steve Tabener, Kelvin Strange Ladies: Busi-

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Tinwald Golf Club February 12, Twilight Stableford 0-6: Brendan Hurley 22 b/l, Phill Hooper 22, Alton Fletcher 22, Pete Trembath 21, Robin Simms 21 b/l. 7-10: Kevin Bishop 23 b/l, Pete Summerfield 23, Craig Meyrick 22, Pete Ranson 22,Cameron Miller 22, Brent Green 21. 11 plus: Bryce Prendergast 23, Selwyn Munro 22, Roger Bruce 21 b/l.

Non-Handicap: Richard Jamieson net 33.

Women 0-14: Diana Wellman 22, Maxine Whiting 21, Barb MacGregor 20. 15 plus: Verna Hampton 21 b/l, Pat McLauchlan 21, Margaret Pawsey 21. Bayley’s nearest the pin; # 2 Brendan Hurley. # 16 Roger Bruce.

Radio Hokonui longest drive; Bronwyn Flannery. Two’s: Betty O’Neill, Phill Hooper, Mara Kennedy, Mark Argyle, Brent Smith, Kevin Bishop, Allen Moore.

February 14, Medal - stroke Leading scores in the 1st medal round of the 2015 season. Senior; Wayne Lloyd 67 c/b Steve Kennedy 67, Rod Harris 68 b/l.

Intermediate; Alex Millar 66, Trevor Emery 68, Bruce Collins 68, Ray Wards 71 b/l.

Junior; Dave Rush 66, Wayne Ross 67, Pete Summerfield 68. Women; Jacqui Beardsley 70, Elizabeth Collins 72. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liqourland # 2; Alex Millar. Gluyas Ford # 6; Rod Harris. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Simon Ross. Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16; Jacqui Beardsley. Two’s: Rod Harris, Ray Kirdy, Brent Kirdy, Alex Millar (2), Randall Feutz, John Smitheram. Eagle # 3 Steve Kennedy. # 18 Josh Smith. Net Eagle; # 3 John Harris, Steve Kennedy.

■ Shooting Ashburton District Rifle Club February 15 Third round of Club Championship John Snowden 50.5, 49.6, 49.8, 148.19, John Fleming 48.4, 49.5, 48.4, 145.13, John Miller 49.4, 49.3, 47.3, 145.10, Kevin Hooper 48.1, 50.5, 45.2, 143.8, Brian Hawksby 49.2, 48.3, 46.2, 143.7, Coby Snowden 47.3, 50.4, 45.2, 142.9, Murray Cook 35, 47.5, 48.3, 130.8.

F class, Stuart Amos 59, 60, 60, 179, Daniel Alexander 56, 60, 53, 169, Brian Graystone

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton County Ladies Vets February 20 At Mayfield - Stableford Round.

9am for 9.30 start.

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Hooker Ben Funnell was the only Crusader to score a try in Friday night’s loss to the Rebels in the first round of the Super 15.

47, 53, 44, 144, Erica Alexander 58, 50, 108.

■ Rugby Super Rugby Results Rd 1 REBELS 20 (Nic Stirzaker, Lopeti Timani tries Michael Harris 2 cons 2 pens) bt CRUSADERS 10 (Ben Funnell try Daniel Carter con pen) at Christchurch Stadium. Referee: Nick Briant.

BRUMBIES 47 (Robbie Coleman, James Dargaville, Tevita Kuridrani, Joe Tomane, Matt Toomua, Nic White tries Christian Leali’ifano 4 cons 3 pens) bt QUEENSLAND REDS 3 (Karmichael Hunt pen) at GIO Stadium. Ref: Angus Gardner. Crowd: 13,570.

HURRICANES 22 (TJ Perenara, Matt Proctor tries Beauden Barrett 4 pens) bt LIONS 8 (Ruan Combrinck try Marnitz Boshoff pen) at Ellis Park. Referee: Rohan Hoffman.

CHIEFS 23 (Bryce Heem, James Lowe tries Damian McKenzie 2 cons 3 pens) bt BLUES 18 (Ihaia West 6 pens) at North Harbour Stadium. Referee: Chris Pollock.

CHEETAHS 35 (Jean Cook, Boom Prinsloo, Francois Venter, Carl Wegner tries Joe Pietersen 2, Willie du Plessis cons Pietersen 3 pens) bt SHARKS 29 (Patrick Lambie, Lwazi Mvovo tries Lambie 2 cons 5 pens) at Kings Park Stadium. Referee: Andrew Lees.

STORMERS 29 (Dillyn Leyds, Duane Vermeulen tries Demetri Catrakilis 2 cons Catrakilis 3, Kurt Coleman pens Coleman drop goal) bt BULLS 17 (Deon Stegmann try Handre Pollard 4 pens) at Loftus Versfeld.

FORCE 25 (Chris Alcock, Angus Cottrell, Luke Morahan, Francois van Wyk tries Sias Ebersohn con pen) bt NSW WARATAHS 13 (Rob Horne 2 tries Bernard Foley pen) at Allianz Stadium. Referee: Steve R. Walsh.

■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Tennis Twilight, February 11 Division 1: ACA’s Hackers 16 v Tridents 17; Misfits 16 v Council Crew 17; Famous Grouse 14 v Electric Donkey Bottom Biters 19; High Raters 15 v What’s The Score 18; Spare Parts 22 v Property Brokers 11; 5 Shades 20 v Balls of Steel 13.

Division 2: Bubba Downs 11 v Baseline Bandits 22; The Racqueteers 20 v Team Alpha Sandrey 13; The Young and the Restless 16 Rob’s Mates 17.

February 14 A Grade Methven lost to Tinwald 8 sets to 7: K. Kawamata & J. Hurst beat A. Mitchell & S. Benny 7-6, (7-4), 6-2; H. Hood & E. Connelly-Whyte lost to S. Hayman & M. Thyne 0-6, 6-3, 0-1 (6-10); K. Kawamata lost to A. Mitchell 3-6, 2-6; J. Hurst lost to S. Benny 2-6, 2-6; H. Hood beat N. Thomassen 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (10-7); E. Connelly-Whyte beat S. Hayman 2-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-2).

B Grade: Tinwald Orange beat Hampstead by default. Tinwald Red beat Rakaia Blue by default Junior A Hampstead beat Allenton 37 games to 36: T. Wilson & T. Lee lost to A. Brownlee & T. McIntyre 2-6; Z. Aschen & W. Diedricks beat K. Danielson & C. Harnett 6-3; T. Wilson lost to A. Brownlee 7-9; T. Lee lost to T. McIntyre 4-9; Z. Aschen beat K. Danielson 9-7; W. Diedricks beat C. Harnett 9-2.

Hinds Southern Smash beat Dorie A 35 games to 33: W. Wallis & A. McKeown lost to L. Pye & C. Sloper 5-7; L. Slee & R. Watt beat J. Jackways & Felicity Pye 6-1; W. Wallis lost to L. Pye 3-9; L. Slee beat J. Jackways 9-1; R. Watt lost to C. Sloper 3-9; A. McKeown beat F. Pye 9-6.

Junior B Allenton beat Methven Silver 29 games to 24: J. Bryning & M. Dargue beat A. Ikenaga & V. Talbot 6-1, C. Allan & C. Donnelly lost to G. Holdsworth & J. Lamond 5-6; J. Bryning beat A. Ikenaga 6-4; C. Allan lost to G. Holdsworth 4-6; M. Dargue beat J. Lamond 6-1; C. Donnelly lost to V. Talbot 2-6.

Methven Red lost to Hampstead 2 matches to 0: B. Roderick & A. Roderick lost to L .Prendergast & T. Feutz 1-6, 0-6; J. Panentt & M. Hydes lost to D. Williams & A. Sparks 0-6 – singles rained off.

Junior C Methven Black beat Rakaia 6 matches to 0: C. Allred & H. Simpson beat S. Mattson & M. Helem 6-2; M. Farrell & E. McSweeney beat J. Kilday & G. Felton 6-0; C. Allred beat S. Mattson 6-1; H. Simpson beat M. Helem 6-0; M. Farrell beat J. Kilday 6-0; E. McSweeney beat G. Felton 6-1.

Allenton Indigo beat Wakalong Wolves 6 matches to 0: L. Moore & B. Norton beat C. Brook & I. Carr 6-1; E. Gray & R. Gray beat O. Davies & Z. Stock 6-3; L. Moore beat C. Brook 6-1; B. Norton beat I. Carr 6-1; E. Gray beat O. Davies 6-0; R. Gray beat Z. Stock 6-1.

Christchurch Competition, February 13 Boys Challenger 2 Mid Canterbury Flyers beat Opawa-Beckenham 6 matches to 0: C. Brosnahan & B. Looij beat T. Burns & D. Williams 6-2, 6-4; A. Mitchell & S. Bubb beat B. Alder & J. Karakia-Brown 6-1, 6-2; A. Mitchell beat T. Burns 6-0, 6-0; S. Bubb beat D. Williams 6-3, 6-2; C. Brosnahan beat B. Alder 6-0, 6-3; B. Looij beat J. Karakia-Brown 6-1, 6-0.

Boys Challenger 4 Mid Canterbury Rascals beat Sumner White 5 matches to 1: J. Hill & T. Leonard lost to O. Cameron & T. Harcourt 7-5, 4-6, 0-1 (8-10); T. McNulty & J. Rollinson beat E. Cameron & J. Rule 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 (10-4); J. Hill beat O. Cameron 1-6, 7-5 1-0 (10-2); T. Leonard beat T. Harcourt 6-3, 6-3; R. McNulty beat E. Cameron 7-5, 7-5; J. Rollinson beat J. Rule 6-4, 6-1.

Girls Challenger 2 Mid Canterbury beat Te Kura Red 7 sets to 6: S. Ness & M. Looij lost to S. Gordon & E. Morrison 6-7 (10-8), 4-6; M. Ness & J. Brosnahan beat O. Ridgen & S. Hay 7-6 (107), 7-5; S. Ness beat S. Gordon 6-3, 6-4; M. Ness beat E. Morrison 6-0, 6-1; J. Brosnahan lost to O. Ridgen 3-6, 1-6; M. Looij lost to S. Hay 3-6, 3-6.

ASB Premier, Women’s Grade Hagley lost to Shirley 50 games to 43: A. Leonard & C. Yap beat R. McConnell & C. Riordan 6-1, 6-2; A. Leonard lost to J. Shaw 3-6, 6-4, 0-1 (1-6).

ASB Senior Women’s Grade: Burwood Park beat Shirley 6 matches to 0: A. Falck & T. Mccann beat C. Brosnahan & A. McConnell 6-2, 6-2; T. Mccann beat M. Edwards 6-1, 6-1; C. Brosnahan lost to C. Hughes 7-6, 6-7, 0-1 (8-10).

February 21-22: The Harvey Norman Classic will be held, any last minute entries to Paddy Bradford ph 308 9022 February 21-22, Harvey Norman Classic Saturday, 1st tee: 8.00; T Newton + M Watson; R Carlson + S Carlson 8.07; G Brown + D Fisher; A Morrison + P Morrison 8.15; V Moore + B Turton; D Hinton + C Trott 8.30; G Bellamy + B Donaldson; S Beavan + G Crawford 8.37; J Dunlop + K Green; S Lemon + M Kelk 8.45; Lady Captains 4 Ball 9.00; J Guildford + H Hawksby; S Bradford + N Gill 9.15; K Shaw + P Bell; L Small + M Stoddart 9.30; C Robertson + H Ward; L Spence + T Johnston 11.45; P Bradford + B Hawksby; G Jansen + P Hunt 11.52; B Clarke + H Niles; M Young + S Stratford 12.00; P Kerr + M Holmes; G Rennie + T Clark 12.07; M Daniel + M Ngutu; M Ewing + B Peddiic 12.15; H Mclenaghan + P Macaulay; B Day + J Mcgrath 12.22; P Greer + A Middleton; R Greer + G Greer 12.30; B Chinn + T Sa; W Bruce + H Lovett 12.37; R Bell + G Gunn; P Roulton + Partner 12.45; S Richards + R O’Neil; R Cockburn + J Cockburn 1.00; C Knight + N Nathan; M Wedderell + J Evans 10th tee: 8.00; S Reid + R Nicol; F Williamson + J Williamson 8.07; T Kingsbury + J Hurst; J Eddington + G Eddington 8.22; A Anderson + S Cowie; R Hewson + M Thomas 8.45; J Stara + A Watson; E Sullivan + B Fechney 8.52; K Fox + M Carter; P Van Vollanhovan + T Gimblett 9.00; L Wackrow + M Wackrow; W Parr + E Parr 9.07; J Kean + G Kean; G Ackerley + J Ackerley 9.22; S Dunlop + M Green; J Hewitt + D Hewitt 9.30; K Smith + T O’reilly; B Wilson + M Trewavas 11.45; Pk Ngutu + W Tahuri; R Hoepa + T Tuakeu 11.52; L Thomas + R Lambert; B Hetrick + Partner 12.00; P May + K Clucas; G Sparrow + D Houghton 12.07; G Russell + R Chatterton; E Davis + B Nuttall 12.15; D Small + J Small; P Fergus + J Hobbs 12.22; M Douglas + G Douglas; A Tindall + A Hopwood 12.30; K Ross + P Whitaker; J Green + D Green 12.37; S Anderson + J Smith; B Smith + W Smith 12.45; D Gill + S King; Partner + Partner 12.52; V Carr + G Smith; J Fechney + Partner Please report to starters 30 minutes before tee off time, Sunday’s draw at same time on opposite tee, unless otherwise informed, we will still take post entries up to Friday 20

Tinwald Golf Club February 21: 1st round of the Doug Gray Trophy (stableford). Morning players will have a clubhouse draw for 8am start. Players are asked to report 15 minutes prior to tee off times.

No 1 Tee 12.30, R Harris, D Gill, K Bonnington, D Allan, 12.36, S Kennedy, P Marshall, B Collins, A Millar, 12.42, C Hart, R Bruce No 10 Tee 12.30, S Lane, W Stevenson, J VanderHeide, 12.36, J Beardsley, E Collins, M Moore, 12.42, A Pierce, P Hefford, N Rayner, A Barrie, No 13 Tee12.30, C Whiting, D Green, A Pawsey, O Everest.

Starters: am B Collins, pm C Hart, R Bruce.

Cards: K Bonnington

■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis February 21 - Round 11: All games to start at 9am sharp. B Grade - played at ATTC. Duty Team Tinwald Red Tinwald Purple v Hampstead; Wakanui Southern Stars v Tinwald Orange; Tinwald Red v Methven Bronze; Rakaia Blue v Methven Green.

Junior A: Hinds Southern Smash v Hampstead at Hampstead; Dorie A v Allenton at Dorie Hall.

Junior B: Methven Red v Tinwald at Methven Domain; Methven Silver v Hampstead at Mt Hutt College; Longbeach/Willowby Southern Strikers v Allenton at Hinds..

Junior C: Mayfield Silver Racquets has the bye. Allenton Indigo v Hampstead Gold at Hampstead; Dorie C v Hampstead Blue at Hampstead; Methven Black v Longbeach/ Willowby Wakalong Wolves at Longbeach; Allenton Maroon v Hinds Southern Stingers at Allenton; Methven White v Rakaia at Rakaia.

Please phone any defaults through to Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis 308 3020 as soon as possible.

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In brief Brownlie scores 334 Dean Brownlie picked up where he left off on day two of Northern Districts’ Plunket Shield encounter with Central Districts at Pukekura Park in New Plymouth. The opener began yesterday on 222 not out and continued to plunder the CD attack as he made a Northern Districts record 334 before he was finally dismissed

by George Worker. The innings eclipsed Kane William’s 284 for ND against Wellington in 2011. ND declared at 556-9. CD were 145-4 in reply.

Meanwhile at Rangiora, Auckland won the toss and sent Canterbury in to bat. Canterbury were bowled out for 268 and Auckland closed the day on 83-2.

- NZME

Ireland upset Windies

Allenton four best on the greens Rakaia’s Rosemary Bennett in action at the Anstiss Cup tournament at the Hampstead Bowling Club on Sunday. The Allenton quartet of Alec Crawford, Bob Holdom, Rowan Tonks and John Drayton came up trumps as the only four-game winners.

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■ CYCLING

■ ROWING

Shurrock conquers Terrace Downs race

Top rowers head to Lake Ruataniwha

Gene Shurrock wasn’t distracted by the scenic surroundings as he took the win when the Tinwald Cycling Club travelled to Terrace Downs on Sunday to contest a 43km handicap event.

A picture perfect day enhanced the course’s reputation as one of the best on the club’s calendar.

Shurrock made a decisive solo bid in the second half of the race and bridged across to the front markers before kicking on to take the victory for the Spicer Cup. Doug Lowry and Shane Gerken chased hard making steady inroads into Shurrock’s lead but the finish line came too early. Lowry out-gunned Gerken for second.

Kathy Askin held on bravely to secure fourth with Dave Knight and Mike Kennish rounding out the top six.

Alex Hooper led in a solid bunch of back markers to claim fastest time, riding the course in 64.37 minutes.

The Juniors and Division 2 competed over a 16km course.

Timaru’s Chase Domigan

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Race-winner Gene Shurrock

rode strongly off the front mark to take the win while a fast-finishing Oliver Davidson charged into second place, and in doing so claimed third fastest time.

Ethan Titheridge continued his good form of late to take third place.

Abe O’Donnell covered the course in 29.40 minutes to secure fastest time honours from India Domigan.

John Harcourt powered to victory in Division 2 from Brian Ellis and Janette Hooper.

Next week the club travels to Hinds to contest a 50km handicap race.

The New Zealand Rowing Championships start today at Lake Ruataniwha, with several Mid Canterbury products set to take to the water.

Halberg winner Hamish Bond and Southern RPC members Emma Dyke, Renee Olley and Natalie Bocock will be on the water.

The championship regatta runs for five days, with 691 rowers representing 35 rowing clubs and four regional performance centres in 72 boat classes.

Heats and repechages occupy the first three days, and finals are split over Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The headline races will be the men’s premier single sculls with Olympic champion Mahe Drysdale looking to claim his eighth national title in the single, after being unable to clinch victory at the 2014 championship regattalosing out to Bond.

Drysdale had the win in the recent North Island Championships with Bond third.

At the South Island Championships Dyke and Olley collected silver in the coxless four, with Dyke also picking up silver in the pair.

Former coxswain, Bocock, will call the shots in the four and eight boats.

The regatta provides the selectors the opportunity to identify future talent in New Zealand rowing and they are expecting some world class performances across all the boat classes before they name rowers to trial for the elite and under-23 teams.

Rowing New Zealand plans to take competitive squads to the upcoming 2015 World Cup events in Varese, Italy and Lucerne, Switzerland and the World Championships in Aiguebelette, France.

The World Championships regatta doubles as the first Olympic qualifier.

Elite and under-23 trialists will be named on Sunday, with the trials at Lake Karapiro from March 2-5.

The crews are to be announced at the conclusion of the trials.

Ireland have provided the first upset of the Cricket World Cup after their well-timed run chase saw them beat the West Indies by four wickets in Nelson. The West Indies, once a force in world cricket, batted first and racked up 304-7, which looked a competitive score on a sun-drenched Saxton oval wicket.

But the men from the Caribbean provided little consistency in their bowling attack and Ireland’s underrated batting line-up guided them home as contributions from Paul Stirling (92) and Ed Joyce (84) led the charge.

- NZME

Big runs on the cards Expect a torrent of runs in this World Cup. In the first five games of the tournament, the sides batting first - New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India and the West Indies - have piled up 300-plus runs. New Zealand, should they go in first against Scotland at University Oval today, will have their sights on extending that run.

Captain Brendon McCullum said the type of pitches in the two host countries are one significant reason he predicts heavy scoring. “I think it will continue as the tournament goes on,” he said yesterday. “The wickets in Australia and New Zealand are pure wickets, so it does allow good ball striking and high scores to unfold.”

- NZME

Line-up changes likely New Zealand are expected to make changes for today’s game against Scotland, but Brendon McCullum was coy yesterday. His brother Nathan is expected to replace Dan Vettori, while Adam Milne and perhaps either Trent Boult or Tim Southee could sit the game out to keep the other two members of the five-strong seam attack, Kyle Mills and Mitchell McClenaghan, in work.

Scotland skipper Preston Mommsen has talked an upbeat game since arriving in a city where the Scots feel closest to home. While they respect New Zealand’s recent form and batting power, he used the old line that they can nick out just like any other batsman.

- NZME

Fiji rule in Vegas The All Blacks Sevens are closing the gap on World Series leaders South Africa, but Gordon Tietjens’ men will be licking their wounds after defeat to Fiji in yesterday’s Las Vegas Cup final. Fiji were too physical and too fast to clinch the decider 35-19, after racing out to a 21-0 halftime lead over the depleted New Zealanders. - NZME

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In brief

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Bunker-blaster!

Carter ‘optimistic’ Three days on and updates about Daniel Carter’s latest leg injury are fuzzy. The official line signalled some improvement when he was assessed by the medical staff and then involved in the squad’s light workout yesterday at their Christchurch headquarters. Carter was optimistic there was no significant issue. “He is improving and the medical staff with the coaches will make a dayto-day assessment on whether he will be available for our next game,” a spokesman said. - NZME

Waratahs embarrassed Chastened NSW Waratahs players have rejected concern about coach Michael Cheika’s dual roles and say they’re embarrassed by their Super Rugby opening round loss. After being unbeaten at home in their 2014 campaign, the Waratahs crashed to a 25-13 loss to the Western Force at Allianz Stadium on Sunday, conceding four tries in an ignominious start to their title defence. “Coming back home and starting the season like we did yesterday is definitely a very embarrassing performance,” Kurtley Beale said yesterday. “No doubt what we’re all thinking leading into this week’s game is to try and redeem ourselves.” - AAP

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Brent Smith chips out of a bunker during the Methven Golf Club’s 36 hole tournament on Sunday. However, it was Tinwald’s Josh Smith who won the senior men’s division, with Methven’s Ben Ritter topping the intermediate grade and Ashburton’s Catherine Bell the women’s grade.

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Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

Manawatu HRC Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 17 Feb 2015 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 1.00pm ACCOMMODATION GATEWAY MOTEL MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 Chillysgottacollect (1) fr.................P Butcher 2 22404 Cherry Evans (2) fr.....................P Ferguson 3 06588 Highview Linda (3) fr ............ D Ferguson (J) 4 43 Strathbridge Regal (4) fr ....... A Poutama (J) 5 86855 Analeigh (5) fr ......................... B Butcher (J) 6 49532 Hey Knowitall (6) fr .......................... D Jones 7 6 Manhatten Prince (7) fr ................ S Dickson 8 39372 Bubbaloobah (21) fr ..................... D Butcher 9 45096 Billy The Bad (U1) fr .................. J Abernethy 10 38764 Golden Billion (U2) fr......................S Phelan 2 1.25pm MANAWATU ITM HANDICAP TROT $6000, 4yo+ c0 to c2 spechcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 x9040 Continental Lover (U1) fr ............ A Drake (J) 2 1x962 Successful Woman (1) 30 ..........P Ferguson 3 05364 Two Wishes (2) 30..................... J Abernethy 4 22175 See Ya (3) 30................................ S Dickson 5 0043P Innes Boyz (4) 30 ...........................M Hickey 6 77747 Rarangi Jewel (5) 30 .....................B Weaver

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40x03 Imnotquitesure (6) 30 ............ A Poutama (J) 05981 Mistress Castleton (7) 30 ....... K Marshall (J) 05247 Burt Munro (8) 30...........................S Branch 49052 Earls Buller Girl (9) 30.................. D Butcher 09870 Desert Storm (U1) 30......................S Doody 78800 Clifden Clowers (1) 40....................S Phelan 3 1.50pm SPEIGHTS ALE HOUSE MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 00x86 God’s Delight (1) fr .....................P Ferguson 2 x0067 Washington Diva (2) fr ......... D Ferguson (J) 3 57759 Fracture (3) fr ............................ J Abernethy 4 06588 Highview Linda fr ......................... Scratched 5 55x42 Portia (4) fr ............................ A Poutama (J) 6 42 Jericho Road (5) fr ................. K Marshall (J) 7 33285 Santanna Jewel (6) fr .....................S Phelan 8 79487 Boomchickawowwow (21) fr .... B Butcher (J) 9 68 Taylahs Girl (22) fr .........................B Weaver 10 07953 Local Yokel (23) fr ......................... S Dickson 11 065 Change Tune (24) fr ..................... D Butcher 12 26523 Lady Maria (25) fr.............................A Pyers 13 55 One More Night (26) fr ....................S Doody Emergency: Highview Linda 4 2.15pm SILVESTER CLARK MOBILE PACE $6000,

4yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 3699x Got To Be Good (1) fr ....................P Butcher 2 23463 Balius (2) fr.............................. B Butcher (J) 3 37534 Branch Rickey (3) fr ..................... S Dickson 4 19647 Brandy (4) fr ...............................P Ferguson 5 90009 Halston Bromac (5) fr .....................S Phelan 6 27532 Bankcard (6) fr ...................... A Poutama (J) 7 88914 Travelling Man (7) fr ............. D Ferguson (J) 8 76610 Lady Molly (21) fr ................... K Marshall (J) 9 54066 Waipipi Falcon (22) fr .................. S Kane (J) 10 30075 Rimutoto Prince (23) fr ................. D Butcher 11 8060P Crusader Courage fr .................... Scratched 5 2.40pm OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY MOBILE PACE $6000, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 55340 Taittinger Rose (1) fr ............. A Poutama (J) 2 94146 Wave Song (2) fr ....................... J Abernethy 3 73621 Bettor Backim (3) fr ..........................B Taylor 4 04070 Ashley H (4) fr ............................P Ferguson 5 37134 Miss Badlands (5) fr ............. D Ferguson (J) 6 38938 Johnny Vegas (6) fr ...................... D Butcher 7 65780 Violet Bromac (7) fr .................... A Drake (J) 8 00774 Desire To Fly (21) fr.......................P Butcher 9 80903 Tafadhali (22) fr ............................... D Jones

10 87513 Mapua Mabel (23) fr..................... S Dickson 3.15pm COMMITTEE MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c1, c2 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 90725 Steal A Grin (1) fr .......................P Ferguson 2 12198 Stand Sure (2) fr ...........................P Butcher 3 72368 Millwood Roxy (3) fr ............. D Ferguson (J) 4 x6700 Miro Bay (4) fr .............................. D Butcher 5 98957 Pilot Officer (5) fr .................... K Marshall (J) 6 49980 Monets Daughter (6) fr A Drake (J, ..........Cl) 7 20516 V C Dell (7) fr B Butcher (J,......................Cl) 8 90699 Flyin Louie (21) fr ...........................S Phelan 9 88062 Benji Maguire (22) fr ................. J Abernethy 10 75325 Sambuca Joe (23) fr .................... S Dickson 7 3.50pm GO THE BLACK CAPS MOBILE PACE $6000, 4yo+ c2, c3 with cond. +claimers mob. pace, 2000m 1 80872 Thats Bettor (1) fr ...................... J Abernethy 2 35745 Mach Cullen (2) fr ........................ D Butcher 3 00088 Dashing Dane (3) fr....................P Ferguson 4 67019 The Persuader (4) fr ............... K Marshall (J) 5 99321 Howzat (5) fr ......................... A Poutama (J) 6 47758 Lofty Brogden (6) fr B Butcher (J, ............Cl) 7 87002 Viewfield Apache (7) fr S Kane (J, ...........Cl) 8 00067 Wyatt Earp (21) fr......................... S Dickson

9 67544 Stormy Breeze (22) fr D Ferguson (J, ......Cl) 10 62221 Eyre Hostess (23) fr A Drake (J, ..............Cl) 11 10266 Prime Legal (24) fr .........................S Phelan 8 4.30pm RACING AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT MOBILE PACE $6000, 4yo+ c3 to c6 +claimer mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 65168 Playaway fr ................................... Scratched 2 32059 Beckinsale (1) fr ................... D Ferguson (J) 3 80066 Aces N Eights (2) fr ...................... S Dickson 4 12918 Cougar Bromac (3) fr .....................S Phelan 5 x2070 Chillysjustastrutter (4) fr ........ A Poutama (J) 6 87820 Golden Delight (5) fr..................... D Butcher 7 20833 Maloo (6) fr....................................P Butcher 8 00754 Lucia Bromac (21) fr ..................P Ferguson 9 02007 Mach Cruiser (22) fr .................. J Abernethy 10 141x4 Machie Mach (23) fr ................ B Butcher (J) 11 30x00 Change Gear (24) fr ............... K Marshall (J) 12 x0336 Glenlochar fr ................................ Scratched Pacifiers off : Desert Storm (R2) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

NZRSq, 545m 1 63625 Wears The Gold nwtd...................C Roberts 2 1114F Can’t Catch Tim nwtd ....................R Adcock 3 37557 Opawa Kendal nwtd L &..................... Wales 4 21152 Jinja Loch nwtd J & .........................D Fahey 5 13x26 Gee Whizz Jeanie nwtd ................... B Dann 6 78754 Botany Seaton 32.49 ................J McInerney 7 51588 Cover To Cover 32.74.................D Stapleton 8 38223 Runaway Taxi nwtd M & ....................Jopson 9 33614 Opawa Bro 32.73 L & ......................... Wales 10 34184 Chill Out Ralph 32.31 L & .................. Wales 9 4.14pm ST KILDA VETERINARY CENTRE STAKES C4/5, 545m 1 76332 His Lordship 32.69 ........................R Adcock 2 63334 Soumillon 32.61 ................................J Dunn 3 33322 Opawa Amy 32.61 L & ....................... Wales 4 22335 Karen’s Magic 32.72 .....................R Adcock 5 64147 Thrilling Marty 32.93 ................... B I Conner 6 11212 Robbie 32.48.................................R Adcock 7 87363 Stolen Money 32.64 .......................G Cleeve 8 43761 What I Like 32.78 ......................J McInerney 9 72486 Invidious 32.73 ..................................J Dunn 10 55878 Game Girl 32.95............................R Adcock 10 4.39pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C3, 310m 1 44441 Dillmanstown 18.63...........................J Dunn 2 88624 Red Hot Fury 18.75 M & ...................Jopson 3 85118 Another Groom 18.57 ...............J McInerney 4 46413 Chaimbo 18.71..........................J McInerney 5 46731 Another Colt 18.63 ....................J McInerney

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Today at Forbury Park Raceway

Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park 545m Raceway Meeting Date: 17 Feb 2015 NZ Meeting num- 1 55621 Know Mention nwtd........................G Cleeve ber: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 2 43438 Tepirita Mega nwtd ....................R Blackburn 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 3 32627 Know Worth nwtd ...........................G Cleeve 4 24336 Know Luck nwtd .............................G Cleeve 10, 11 and 12 nwtd .....................................R Adcock 1 1.42pm OTAGO FIRST4 MAIDEN SPRINT C0, 310m 65 426482 Willis Zahra Moon nwtd .............................S Stone 1 1 Cawbourne Pirate nwtd......................C Weir 7 53553 Cawbourne Kenny nwtd ...............C Roberts 2 54527 Jamaican Archie nwtd M & ...............Jopson 8 24 Jinjaless nwtd J & ...........................D Fahey 3 3F Cloudy Noir nwtd................................J Allen 9 77 Opawa Larry nwtd L & ....................... Wales 4 65626 Smash Who nwtd ........................R Hamilton 5 44231 Boltin Archie nwtd M & ......................Jopson 4 2.51pm BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING SPRINT C1, 310m 1 85174 Nicksta nwtd..............................J McInerney 6 76727 Cawbourne Kitt nwtd ..................D Stapleton 2 43341 Know Cheers nwtd .........................G Cleeve 7 7732 Terra Alert nwtd C & ........................... Fagan 3 1476x Cherry Crusher 18.95 M & ....................J Hill 8 726 Wooly Whatsit nwtd...........................J Dunn 4 12512 Bound To Erupt nwtd ....................... M Grant 9 72664 Butterfly Terra nwtd C & ..................... Fagan 5 1213 Adjudicator nwtd ...............................J Dunn 10 84767 Master At Arms nwtd......................J Guthrie Corporate Image nwtd ..............R Blackburn 2 2.05pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER STKS C1, 545m 76 72321 32717 Pukeko Warrior 19.11.....................B Healey 1 56257 Hyperparadise 33.00 S & ................B Evans 8 14112 Another Fortune 18.67 ............. P Hammond 2 46222 Pukeko Thunder 32.80 ...................C Healey 9 72342 John Dory 18.64........................J McInerney 3 25326 Know Clown nwtd...........................G Cleeve 10 x1372 Fancy Kiwi nwtd .......................... B I Conner 4 66156 Sailors Collar nwtd .........................J Guthrie 5 57372 Noggin 32.74......................................J Allen 5 3.06pm ST KILDA VET CENTRE SPRINT C2, 310m 1 78111 Cawbourne Danial 18.86 ...................C Weir 6 71785 Calm Spirit 33.00 ...............................J Allen 2 14318 Lots Of Beersies 18.93 ............... B I Conner 7 61844 Homebush Hansome nwtd ........J McInerney 3 26722 Sweet Marylou nwtd..................R Blackburn 8 85216 Wairio Dee Jay 33.59 .................. B I Conner 4 24571 Millie’s Boy 18.52 ........................R Hamilton 9 88487 Opawa Viv nwtd L & ........................... Wales 5 16633 Waimak Dave 18.81 ..................J McInerney 10 35773 Goldstar Rosie nwtd S & .................B Evans Jasper Haka nwtd .....................J McInerney 3 2.30pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C0, 67 62524 65643 Homebush Bruno 18.81 ............J McInerney

8 61878 Car Bootle 18.49 ....................... M Robinson 9 45425 Matty Hooky 18.81 ....................J McInerney 10 37277 Mamalulu 18.77 C & .......................... Fagan 6 3.24pm BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS STAKES C1, 545m 1 48848 Toddy’s A Flyer 33.33 ...................C Roberts 2 55557 Elwood Sensation nwtd.............R Blackburn 3 36364 Moon And Sea 34.08 .........................J Allen 4 32435 Goldstar Junior 32.76 S & ...............B Evans 5 76442 Archi Bale nwtd .........................J McInerney 6 74674 Mega Volt 34.09 .............................. M Grant 7 81753 Subterfuge 33.54 ...............................J Allen 8 87383 Opawa Rapid 33.08 L & ..................... Wales 9 74651 Memphis Girl nwtd S & ...................B Evans 10 1768 Cawbourne Gable nwtd .....................C Weir 7 3.41pm RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEATS NZRSq, 545m 1 23217 Homebush Howard nwtd ...........J McInerney 2 45571 Speedy Swede 32.83 L & .................. Wales 3 12423 Pukeko Prowler 32.86 ....................B Healey 4 44212 Know Security 32.80 ......................G Cleeve 5 54176 Rob’s Mate 32.55 M &...........................J Hill 6 78723 Botany Richie 32.97 ..................J McInerney 7 61244 Mickey Tee nwtd ............................R Adcock 8 42756 Flip Flippa nwtd L & ........................... Wales 9 21134 Opawa Diesel nwtd J & ...................D Fahey 10 67438 Opawa Jed nwtd L & .......................... Wales 8 3.59pm RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEATS

x1111 Aiden Baxter nwtd .....................J McInerney 17348 Hanna The Spanna nwtd ..................J Dunn 54434 Homebush Rocky 18.73 ............J McInerney 51744 Stich Up nwtd S & ...........................B Evans 8x546 Laudable nwtd............................D Stapleton 11 4.54pm OTAGO DAILY TIMES SPRINT C4, 310m 1 42112 Homebush Errol 18.44 ..............J McInerney 2 17217 Know Favours 18.56 ......................G Cleeve 3 54722 Wunzee 18.54 ...........................J McInerney 4 16515 Know Magic nwtd ...........................G Cleeve 5 44718 San Sebastian 18.57..........................J Allen 6 54188 Captain’s Choice nwtd .................C Roberts 7 54165 Know Jealousy 18.33 .....................G Cleeve 8 27834 Wee Terra 18.54 C & .......................... Fagan 9 24738 Umaga Rama 18.72 ......................R Adcock 10 23746 Plagiarism nwtd.................................J Dunn 12 5.14pm RACING TUESDAY 3RD MARCH C5, 310m 1 43452 Angelic Star 18.47.............................J Dunn 2 41177 Rick’s Terra 18.49 C & ........................ Fagan 3 74116 No Leaf Clover nwtd...........................C Weir 4 17737 On The Level nwtd .......................C Roberts 5 32x42 Abound 18.60................................R Adcock 6 418x8 Ronrose Hill 18.46 M & .........................J Hill 7 11347 Tee Time 18.64 .............................R Adcock 8 76246 Cawbourne Jelly 18.41 ......................C Weir 9 66278 Homebush Ariel 18.71 ..............J McInerney 10 31872 Stirling Dann 18.63 C & ..................... Fagan LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Coast to Coast

Above: Greg Roadley kayaks down the Waimakiriri River on the Longest Day.

Above: Two-day Mixed team-mates Hayden Bonnington and Kayla Frew run to the finish line at Sumner beach together.

Below: Michael Gallagher cross a river during the mountain run.

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Ashburton competitors’ results from the weekend’s Coast to Coast race: One Day Male Open 1st Braden Currie 11:27:46 Greg Roadley 14:37:33 (5th Veteran) Women Open Laura Thomas 16:33.52 Two-day Individual Rob Nesbitt 12:52:58 (5th open men) Michael Gallagher 14:30:10 (3rd veteran 40-49) Graham Shaw 16:59:59 (1st vintage) James Kay (17:01:41) Team Men’s Ryan Ford and Greg Hubbard 15:41:36 Harley Davies and Matthew William Burbery 15:25:06 Dan Dwyer and Phil Rogers clocked 17:41:32 Mixed Kayla Frew and Hayden Bonnington 16:47:45

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MID CANTERBURY MENS PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting with speakers. Senior Centre, Cameron St. 9.45am “GOLF CROQUET’ WAIREKA. Golf Croquet singles. Philip Street.

10.00am NEWCOMERS. Social group coffee morning, All welcome. Nosh Cafe in the Ashford Village, West Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter.

11.00am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Class for beginners.

M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

12.00pm - 3.00pm

ASHBURTON JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ASSOCIATION (INC).

Document or service from a JP, open every Tuesday. Community House, 122 Tancred Street. (rear of Westpac Bank).

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future, Seafield Rd. 1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. For new and regular players. M.S.A. Sports Grounds, Racecourse Road.

1.30pm WESTPARK WOMENS INSTITUTE. Monthly meeting, Annual General Meeting. St Paul’s Church lounge, 65

Oxford Street.

6.00pm ASHBURTON ATHLETICS. 5Km run, jog or walk. Weekly from January 13 - March 31. Ashburton Domain Walnut Avenue, opposite the end of Creek Road.

7.30pm FOREST AND BIRD. Andy Cox speaking on dealing with introduced pests with DOC. Sinclair Centre, Cameron Street.

7.30pm - 9.30pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Night section club night, new players welcomed, racquets available.

Sports Hall, Tancred Street.

Wednesday

Coffee morning, Robert Harris, 361 West Street.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. Social hall, Havelock Street.

11.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid-week service and lunch. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHRUCH. Pre-loved clothing sale, bargains and cuppa. St Andrews Anglican church hall, cnr Thomson and Jane Street, Tinwald.

1.15pm “GOLF CROQUET” WAIREKA. Doubles, drawn partners. Waireka,

Philip Street.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and Golf Croquet.

Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish St. 1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIOR NET. Demostration from local business plus Grand Sidway CEO speaking.

M.S.A. Lounge off Burnett Street.

6.00pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Welcomes regular and new players.

M.S.A. Sports grounds, Racecourse Rd. 7.00pm ASHBURTON UKUKELE GROUP. Beginners and new members welcome. St Paul’s Church hall, Oxford street.

7.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women walking group. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.00pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing. Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

7.00pm - 9.30pm MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance 7pm, beginner/ intermediate (8pm-9pm). Annette (instructor) phone 307-7138a/h.

Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON TRAVEL CLUB. Ngaire Frewen trekking into the Himalaya’s. St David’s Church Lounge, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group, meet at the Church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH GOODWILL SHOP. Pre-loved clothing. Tinwald Methodist Church, Cnr Main Road and Jane Street, Tinwald.

9.30am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Stretching exercises and Tai Chi maintenance, Social Hall, Havelock St. 9.40am

6.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allen’s Road, Allenton.

9.00am - 11.00am HAKATERE MARAE HEALTH CLINIC. Closed, reopening February 25.

9.30am - 1.30 pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time around Op- shop. Cnr Cass and Havelock Street.

10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Ash Wednesday Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am MID CANTERBURY LADIES PROBUS CLUB.

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www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Frolic about with a bud in a pickle (5) 4. Firework in its present form writhes about (7) 8. Goes over and over the lists (5) 9. Like cur somehow to be more fortunate (7) 10. Where counsel may get his refresher? (3) 11. Garment in holes but with neat hem to be made (4-5) 12. Is forthwith out of consciousness (4) 13. To be beaten by an animal’s collar of hair (4) 18. Assumed identity if noticing nothing different (9) 20. Pekoe one will consume tail-first (3) 21. One rejected as to cut being made (7) 22. Chestnut horse may pack some wallop (5) 23. US politician responsible for treason of a sort (7) 24. Scowl at one farther down (5)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across 1. Settles down 8. Input 9. Prosper 10. Trounce 11. Enrol 12. Drench 14. Vandal 18. Swell 19. Dynasty 21. Provide 23. Grunt 24. Forgettable Down 1. Shifted 2. Top-hole 3. Let on 4. Supper 5. Oropesa 6. Nep 7. Coral 13. Collier 15. Disturb 16. Layette 17. Adhere 18. Sapid 20. Night 22. Oaf QUICK Across 1. Battle 5. Loathe 9. Racist 10. In step 11. Kick 12. Aversion 14. Desert 16. Pierce 19. Called on 21. Coil 22. Amends 23. Insist 24. Entire 25. Easing Down 2. Avarice 3. Trickle 4. Extracted 6. Owner 7. Tattier 8. Expunge 13. Expensive 14. Declare 15. Solvent 17. Excuses 18. Crimson 20. Elder

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14. Until today, own up to confusion (2,2,3) 15. Horrified if silver has started to tarnish (6) 16. With loss of a biretta, turns to beer (6) 17. The absolute truth will disappear, spell being incomplete (6) 19. Interrupt the making of tunic (3,2)

QUICK ACROSS 1. Martial art (4) 8. Mostly (2,3,5) 9. Military waking signal (8) 10. Not any (4) 12. Off the correct path (6) 14. Rhythmic hums (6) 15. Awakened (6) 17. Antenna (6) 18. Likelihood (4) 19. Executioner’s platform (8) 21. Places of refuge (4,6) 22. Level (4)

DOWN 2. Comprehended (10) 3. Musical instrument (4) 4. Ship’s kitchen (6) 5. Notable arrival (6) 6. Sensitive topic (3,5) 7. Dried-up (4) 11. Assumed name (3,2,5) 13. Stood firm (8) 16. Dreary (6) 17. Worn at edge (6) 18. Drive out (4) 20. Quick (4)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Pay attention to clues and hunches that give you an intuitive read on people and situations, and a link to what happens behind the scenes.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) With 20/20 hindsight and having had a chance to spend time at the drawing board you’re ready to draw a new professional line in the sand.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) While there’s a sense of professional urgency creeping in this has to be balanced by a new sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) The Moon’s return to your financial sector brings a need to keep your finger on the pulse and ear to the ground, trusting financial instincts.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) As the Moon returns to your relationship sector ahead of Thursday’s New Moon, pay attention to emotional, intuitive and imaginative responses.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) You’re moving into defining days on the work front, with a need to keep your head in the game, finger on the pulse and ear to the ground.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Where you’ve had to perfect your juggling skills over recent weeks as you balanced playful and work forces, this becomes a lot more urgent.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian BIRTHS

RAVENSCROFT – Jeremy and Rebecca would like to announce the early arrival of Isabella Joan Ravenscroft on February 13, 2015, weighing 7lb, 3oz. A dearly loved sister for Liam (13), Mason (2) and Flynn (1).

All doing well.

DEATHS

BLACKWOOD, Heather Jean – On February 16, 2015.

Passed away peacefully at Rosebank Resthome, Ashburton. Aged 74 years.

Dearly loved wife and companion of Ian for 50 years. A great friend of Heather and Graham Maw and dearly loved niece of Alma Strang (Timaru). Loved sister in law of Allan and Wendy (Christchurch), the late Jeanette Curruth, Anne and George Spriggs (Christchurch) and Barbara and Mac Renata (Christchurch). A loved aunt of all her nieces and nephews. Messages to P.O. Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service for Heather will be held at Our Chapel, cnr East & Cox Streets, Ashburton on THURSDAY, February 19, commencing at 1.30pm.

Followed by private interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

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CROSSEN, Daisy Diana (nee Shellock) (formerly of Mead and Rakaia) – On Sunday, February 15, 2015, at Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village, in her 100th year. Dearly loved wife of the late Cecil for 69 years.

Beloved mother of Elizabeth and Bob Hamilton, Frances and Richard Boyce, Lindsay and Jillian, Russell and Trish.

Treasured grandma to her 10 grandchildren and their partners and her 16 greatgrandchildren. Much loved sister, aunty and friend.

Special thanks to the nursing staff and carers at Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village for their loving care and support of Daisy. Messages may be addressed to The Family of the late Daisy Crossen, c/PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Nurse Maude Association (Canterbury) would be appreciated, and may be made at the service. The Service to remember Daisy will be held in our Westpark Chapel, 467 Wairakei Road, Burnside, Christchurch, on FRIDAY, February 20, at 10.00am, private interment to follow.

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MCGREGOR, June Margaret (nee Cook) – On Sunday, February 15, 2015 surrounded by her children at Oakwoods Llifecare, Richmond. Aged 92 years. Much loved wife of the late Alexander Gordon McGregor (Gordon). Loved mother of the late Gordon, Deirdre, Struan and Sandra and mother-in-law of Roger.

Beloved grandmother of Hamish and Rachel; Matthew and Emma and Tiaana and great grandmother of Kaylee, Baxter and Lucy. Many thanks to the staff of Oakwoods Lifecare for the care and attention of mum.

A service to celebrate June’s life will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on THURSDAY, February 19, 2015 commencing at 2.00pm to be followed by a private family interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery. Messages to Sandra McCormick, 153 Strachan Road, RD 1, Motueka, 7196.

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GOWANS, Linda – Auckland showers 23 15 TODAY TODAY FZL: 3200m 17-02-2005 A page in our book of Fine spells, isolated afternoon and evening Hamilton showers 24 11 Paterson’s Funeral Services memories is gently turned Fine. Northeasterlies developing in the showers about the divide.

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Napier fine 22 12 Wind at 1000m: Light.

Ph 307 7433 A sadness still comes over us Wind at 2000m: W 20 km/h.

Tears in silence often flow, Palmerston North fine 24 9 TOMORROW Memory keeps you TOMORROW FZL: Above 3000m ever near us, Wellington fine 21 13 MOORE, Bruce James – Fine with light winds.

Though you died Fine.

On February 14, 2015 at ten years ago.

Nelson fine 21 12 Christchurch Hospital. Aged David and family.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to 35 km/h.

THURSDAY 63 years. He fought a long Wind at 2000m: W rising to 35 km/h.

Blenheim fine 24 9 and courageous battle, now Showers with southerlies, then clearing with at peace. Dearly loved and THURSDAY Greymouth fine 19 13 cherished husband of Susan. winds dying.

Showers with southerlies, then clearing with Very much loved dad of Christchurch fine 23 11 Phillip and Kelly, and Robyn winds dying.

FRIDAY and Paul Chapman. Loving Timaru fine 23 9 and cherished granddad of FRIDAY Cloudy periods. Northeast breezes.

Logan, Mischa; and Holly.

Queenstown fine 24 10 Mainly fine. Light winds.

Loved brother and brother in law of Lindy and John Peck SAT A URDAY AT Dunedin fine 22 13 SAT A URDAY AT and Val and Trevor Ward, and Colin and Karen Banks.

Cloudy periods. Northeast breezes.

Mainly fine. Light winds.

Invercargill fine 24 12 Loved and respected uncle of the Ward and Banks children.

Messages to 19 Catherwood Forecasts for today River Levels cumecs World Weather Ave, Ashburton 7700. At Y snow -5 -13 Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday cloudy 6 0 New York Adelaide fine 28 15 Frankfurt 0.70 cloudy 10 5 fine 7 0 Paris Amsterdam cloudy 8 1 Geneva Bruces request donations to fine 37 22 showers 20 14 Perth Bangkok rain 32 24 Hobart the Ashburton SPCA would showers 29 25 Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 126.9 fine 21 17 Rarotonga Berlin cloudy 7 -1 Hong Kong be appreciated and may be cloudy 15 7 fine 28 19 Rome Brisbane showers 30 21 Honolulu left at the service. A very 17 11 Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday showers 22 10 San Francisco fine Cairns showers 30 24 Islamabad 2.87 special thank you to the Bone rain 5 2 drizzle 31 23 Seoul Cairo fine 19 10 Jakarta Marrow Unit at Christchurch showers 32 24 Sth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday 27 16 Singapore Calcutta thunder 29 18 Johannesburg fine 4.71 nc Hospital and Ashburton cloudy 3 -2 33 25 Stockholm Canberra showers 31 16 Kuala Lumpur rain fine 29 22 fine 9 1 Sydney Colombo showers 30 21 London Hospital for their wonderful 52.2 cloudy 20 15 Rangitata Klondyke at 2:00 pm, yesterday fog 24 13 Taipei Darwin thunder 32 27 Los Angeles care and support of Bruce. A showers 17 7 rain 11 3 Tel Aviv Delhi fine 29 14 Madrid celebration of Bruces’s life rain 7 1 Waitaki Kurow at 12:00 pm, yesterday drizzle 23 16 Tokyo Dubai fine 33 21 Melbourne 252.4 will be held at Our Chapel, snow 0 -16 fine -7 -12 Washington Dublin fine 9 7 Moscow Cnr East and Cox Streets, cloudy 6 0 Source: Environment Canterbury thunder 32 24 Zurich Edinburgh cloudy 7 1 Nadi Ashburton TOMORROW Wednesday, February 18, Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing Canterbury Readings to 4pm yesterday commencing at 1.30pm.

Ashburton Methven Christchurch Timaru Followed by interment at the Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Airport Airport Airport m Ashburton New Lawn am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm 3 Temperature °C Cemetery At 4pm 19.4 19.5 17.9 19.4 Paterson’s Funeral Services 2 19.5 19.5 19.2 19.8 FDANZ Ashburton Max to 4pm 1 Ph 307 7433 9.9 9.8 5.8 11.2 Minimum 5.9 – 1.6 – Grass minimum 0 2:52 9:04 3:13 9:23 3:44 9:53 4:03 10:15 4:34 10:43 4:54 11:08 Rainfall mm The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river FUNERAL mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

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SKY SPORT 1

6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am Whanau Living Chelsea Winter shares recipe for a sweet treat; Meg has tips for great soil; DIY expert Eru has a low-cost and simple way to spruce up the home.

10:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 11:30 Coach Trip PGR 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Cain makes a discovery; Katie and Andy make an announcement. 0 1:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2pm Four Weddings USA 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Our First Home The families are into their first week of renovating, and are preparing to present their first finished space to the experts; three people compete to win an extra $5000. 0 8:35 Person Of Interest AO 0 9:35 Fat Tony And Co AO 0 10:35 One News Tonight 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 3 0 6:52 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 6:55 My Little Pony 0 7:20 Back At The Barnyard 3 0 7:50 The 7D 0 8:15 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 8:40 Dinosaur Train 3 0 8:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 9am Infomercials 11am Neighbours 3 0 11:30 Home And Away 3 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:30 Jeremy Kyle AO 1:30 Judge Rinder 2:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:30 Get Ace 0 4pm Shake It Up (Part 3) 0 4:30 The 4:30 Show 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Motorway Patrol Caught short and caught out on the Southern Motorway; drunken crosslane wanderings; things go from bad to worse for two checkpoint dodgers. 0 8pm RBT 0 8:30 How To Get Away With Murder 0 9:30 Grey’s Anatomy PGR 0 10:30 Revenge AO 0

6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 Rachael Ray Servicemen and women from all five military branches cook their best 30-minute meals.

11:30 ‘Til Death 3 Noon 3 News 12:30 Baggage AO 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful PGR 1:30 Dr Phil AO (Part 2) 2:30 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 3:30 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 30 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 The Big Adventure 6pm 3 News

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Beyblade – Shogun Steel 3 7:55 Danny Phantom 8:20 Chuggington 3 8:30 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 8:40 Peppa Pig 3 8:50 Bob The Builder 3 9am Thomas And Friends 3 9:10 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 9:25 The Moe Show 3 0 9:35 Julius Jr 3 10am Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:35 Punk’d PGR 5pm It Only Hurts When I Laugh 5:30 The Nanny 3 0 6pm Futurama 3 0 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 0 7pm Campbell Live 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 The X Factor New Zealand 7:30 Family Guy PGR PGR Peter runs into Jesus at the Contestants from all over mall, and discovers he is still New Zealand perform in front a virgin. of the judges.

8pm Family Guy PGR 3 8:30 NCIS AO 0 8:30 M Drive Me Crazy 9:30 NCIS – LA AO 0 AO 3 1999 Comedy.

10:30 3 News A high-school girl must find a substitute date to escort her to the prom. John Schultz, Melissa Joan Hart.

10:25 Witches Of East End AO 3

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 3 12:50 The Test PGR 3 1:45 Empire PGR 3 British television broadcaster Jeremy Paxman looks at how the British created a particular idea of home wherever they conquered and settled.

3pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 3:30 The Late Show With David Letterman 4:30 Hot Bench Judge Judy and other judges exchange debate before reaching a verdict.

5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 3 A celebrity chat show.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Earthflight 3 8:35 Elementary AO Sherlock and Kitty investigate the murder of a small postal-store owner whose death is connected to the illegal diamond trade; an altercation threatens Captain Gregson’s career.

9:30 Sleepy Hollow AO 10:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

6am Rugby – IRB Sevens World Series (Highlights) Las Vegas, Day Three. 7:30 Football League Show 8am Football – A-League Highlights Show 8:30 Rugby Nation 9:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Warriors v Panthers (Preseason).

10am Fox Sports News 10:30 Motorcycling – North West 200 (Highlights) 11:30 Rugby – IRB Sevens World Series (Highlights) Las Vegas, Day Three.

1pm L Ice Hockey – NHL New York Islanders v New York Rangers.

4pm Rugby Nation 5pm Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Perth Wildcats v New Zealand Breakers.

5:30 Sky Sport Select 6pm Golf Central 7pm Golf – Feherty Ben Crenshaw.

8pm Golf – Titleist Performance Institute Analysis of the golf game.

8:30 Golf – Big Break Mexico From Cancun, Mexico.

9:30 Rugby – IRB Sevens World Series (Highlights) Las Vegas, Day Three.

From Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas.

11:05 The Operatives AO When the team investigates illegal fishing in Costa Rica, Pete ends up going missing at sea. 0 Midnight Born To Kill AO 3 0 1:05 Te Karere 3 2 0 1:40 Infomercials 5:05 Faith In Action 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

11:30 Scandal AO 3 12:30 Embarrassing Bodies – From The Clinic AO 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:30 Scandal AO 3 0 3:15 Army Wives AO 3 0 4am Regular Show PGR 3 0 4:10 Shake It Up 3 0 4:35 The 4:30 Show 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11pm N The Good Wife AO Alicia refuses to run for State Attorney despite Eli’s attempts to persuade her.

Midnight Infomercials

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

Midnight Home Shopping 1:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2am Home Shopping

11pm Ice Hockey – NHL (Replay) New York Islanders v New York Rangers. 1am Sky Sport Select 1:30 Fox Sports News 2am Football – A-League (Replay) Sydney FC v Melbourne Victory.

4am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Sharks v Cheetahs.

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness 7:30 Grand Tours Of Scotland 8am Baggage Battles 8:30 The Flying Winemaker 9am Cook The Books 9:30 House Wreck Rescue 10:30 Dear Genevieve 11am Buying Alaska 11:30 Buy It, Fix It, Sell It Noon Crossing The Ice 1pm Mekong River With Sue Perkins 2pm Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness 3pm Grand Tours Of Scotland 3:30 Baggage Battles 4pm NZ Food Culture 4:30 Trish’s Paris Kitchen 5pm Better Homes And Gardens 6:30 Buying The Bayou 7pm Traders And Collectors 7:30 Double Your House For Half The Money Property developer Sarah Beeny helps people achieve their property dreams without breaking the bank.

8:30 My Dream Home Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott are determined to help couples find, buy and transform extreme fixer-uppers into the ultimate dream home.

9:30 Nick Knowles’s Original Features Nick Knowles delves into the history of homes across the UK. 10:30 Traders And Collectors 11pm Better Homes And Gardens

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12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Grand Tours Of Scotland 1:30 Baggage Battles 2am NZ Food Culture 2:30 Trish’s Paris Kitchen 3am Buying The Bayou 3:30 Auction 4am Double Your House For Half The Money 5am My Dream Home

11:20 Entertainment Tonight 11:45 Infomercials

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Miharo 3 2 7:30 Pukana 3 2 8am Toi Whakaari 3 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Tatai Hono 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Korero Mai 3 2 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Pukoro 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2

THE BOX

SKY SPORT 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 2 6:30 Ako 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Toi Whakaari 2 8pm Re-Think 8:30 M The High Cost Of Low Price AO 2005 Documentary.

Lee Scott, Don Hunter, Jon Hunter.

10:20 The Festival AO 10:50 Tagata Pasifika 11:20 Te Kaea 3 2 11:50 Closedown

DISCOVERY

6am Law And Order MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Hardcore Pawn PG 7:40 Modern Family PGL 8:05 Ax Men ML 8:55 CSI MV 9:45 SVU MV 10:35 CSI – New York MV 11:25 RBT MC 11:50 Fire Scene Investigation M 12:15 CSI MV 1:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 1:30 CSI MV 2:20 Law And Order MV 3:10 Ax Men ML 4pm Modern Family PGL 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Hardcore Pawn PG 5:30 CSI MV 6:30 The Simpsons PG 7pm Hardcore Pawn PG 7:30 CSI – New York MV 8:30 Elementary MV 9:30 Played 16VLSC 10:30 SVU MV 11:30 CSI – New York MV

6am Savage Family Diggers PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG Sea Tested.

7:30 Moonshiners M More Shiners More Problems. 8:30 MythBusters PG Alaska Special. 9:30 MythBusters PG 10:30 You Have Been Warned Again M Weirdest Science. 11:30 Dates From Hell M Noon Dates From Hell M 12:30 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M Hell Hath No Fury. 1pm Stalked – Someone’s Watching M Stalked. com – DNA. 1:30 Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M He’s No Angel. 2pm Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry?

M 2:30 Moonshiners M 3:30 Auction Hunters PG 4pm Auction Hunters PG 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 MythBusters PG 6:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 7:30 World’s Biggest Ship PG 8:30 Survive That! M 9:30 Commandos M 10:30 Alaskan Bush People M 11:30 Tabloid M

12:30 Ax Men ML 1:20 Modern Family PGL 1:45 Law And Order MV 2:35 SVU MV 3:25 Elementary MV 4:15 Played 16VLSC 5:05 Billy The Exterminator PGL 5:35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG

12:30 Redrum M 1am Redrum M 1:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M 2:30 Savage Family Diggers PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Get Out Alive With Bear Grylls PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Elementary

8:35pm on Prime

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:25 Tom, Dick And Harriet M 2013 Comedy. Steven Weber, Michelle Harrison. 7:55 Mindscape MLS 2013 Thriller. Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga. 9:35 42 PGL 2013 Drama. Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford. 11:45 Insidious – Chapter 2 MV 2013 Horror.

Rose Byrne, Patrick Wilson. 1:30 Bafta: A Life In Pictures – Kenneth Branagh PG 2012 Documentary. 2pm Moms’ Night Out PGV 2014 Comedy. Sarah Drew, Sean Astin. 3:40 Mindscape MLS 2013 Thriller. Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga. 5:20 Freaky Deaky 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Billy Burke, Christian Slater. 6:55 Tell Tale 16VLS 2011 Thriller. Josh Lucas, Lena Headey. 8:30 We’re The Millers 16VLS 2013 Comedy.

Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston.

10:25 The Last Stand 16VL 2013 Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker. WEDNESDAY 12:10 A Common Man MVL 2013 Thriller. Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross.

1:35 Freaky Deaky 16VLS 2012 Comedy. 3:10 Tell Tale 16VLS 2011 Thriller. 4:40 We’re The Millers 16VLS 2013 Comedy.

Drive Me Crazy

8:30pm on FOUR

MOVIES GREATS 7:05 Philadelphia PGC 1993 Drama.

Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas. 9:10 Underworld – Rise Of The Lycans 16V 2009 Action. Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy. 10:40 50 First Dates MS 2004 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider.

12:20 Doubt M 2008 Drama.

Meryl Streep. 2:05 Confessions Of A Shopaholic PGL 2009 Romantic Comedy. Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy.

3:50 Underworld – Rise Of The Lycans 16V 2009 Action.

Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy. 5:25 The Marine MV 2006 Action. John Cena, Robert Patrick.

7pm Fun With Dick And Jane ML 2005 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni.

8:30 Fast Five MVL 2011 Action.

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

10:40 The Matrix Revolutions MV 2003 Sci-fi Action. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne.

WEDNESDAY

12:50 The Marine MV 2006 Action.

John Cena, Robert Patrick. 2:20 Fun With Dick And Jane ML 2005 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni.

3:50 Fast Five MVL 2011 Action.

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language. RATINGS: 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 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

17Feb15

6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race (Highlights) 7am The Fishing Show 8am L Snooker – World Tour Welsh Open – Day One, Session Two. From Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales.

11am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) All Stars v Indigenous All Stars. From Cbus Super Stadium on the Gold Coast.

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Fox Sports News 12:30 Sky Sports UK News 1pm Golf Central 2pm Golf – Australian Women’s Masters (Highlights) Round Four.

From RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast.

2:30 New Zealand Rural Games 3:30 Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup (Highlights) Sprint Unlimited.

4:30 Motorsport – World Rally Championship (Highlights) Sweden.

5:30 Football League Show 6pm Football – A-League Highlights Show 6:30 Super League Fulltime 7:30 UFC Now 8:30 Fight Night 10:30 Sky Sport Select 11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild

WEDNESDAY

Midnight Motorcycling – North West 200 (Highlights) 1am Motorsport – Toyota Racing Series (Highlights) Taupo – Round Four.

2am L Snooker – World Tour Welsh Open – Day Two, Session One. 5am The Fishing Show

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Tactix netballer Hayley Saunders offers some advice to Ashlee Strawbridge and Kate Brady during a specialist session at the Mid Canterbury Netball emerging talent identification weekend.

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■ NETBALL

‘Next level’ training for netballers

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Netball coach Andrea Cousins will work with an enlarged Mid Canterbury Emerging Talent Squad for the next six weeks.

Cousins held an emerging talent identification weekend to gauge interest for a squad that

she will work with in specialised coaching sessions.

The original concept used last year was for Cousins to work with a select group, but this year the decision was made to keep it open to any player willing to commit to the six weeks of the programme.

Big runs on the cards - McCullum P17

“It is now to benefit a wider range of players than just a select few,” Cousins said.

“It exposes more girls to more specialist skills and at this stage that will be at least 30.”

As well as the players Cousins will call on local coaches to cope with the numbers, but also ex-

pose them to different training techniques.

Both players and coaches got to witness the ‘next level’ when Tactix players Hayley Saunders and Erikana Pederson held specialist sessions on Saturday.

“They were just brilliant with

the girls and exposed them to a higher intensity, they worked them hard and made them think.”

It is that kind of specialised training and intensity Cousins plans to continue to test the players with over the coming weeks, starting on Sunday.

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