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Athletics with a side of fun: Ashburton College students brought their bright costumes, fierce house pride and sporting skills to the domain yesterday during the school’s annual Athletics Prelims.

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Higher honours on offer

BY KATIE TODD

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Around 1200 Ashburton College students descended on the domain yesterday in good sporting spirit.

Students participated in the annual athletics prelims to vie for house points and secure their spots in the college’s athletics finals.

House points were awarded to students based on how many of the 10 events they tried – from shotput to discus, high jump to

long jump, varying length races and javelin and cricket ball throwing.

Students dressed in creative house costumes and pitched brightly coloured house tents in different spots in the domain.

The college’s athletics finals will be held on March 1 and at the end of the month, the Aoraki Secondary Schools’ Athletics tournament will take place in Timaru.

The athletics prelims are the first major house point competition to take place each year.

Ashburton Lions Club members (from left) Garth Bateup, Jeff King and Rex Whiting working their way through the tough task of matching exhibitors, sellers and campers to sites in readiness for this weekend’s two-day, Island motorhome and caravan expo at the Ashburton Showgrounds.

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Mobile home expo a new ball game

BY SUE NEWMAN

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They might have manned the gate for years, but taking over the running of Ashburton’s massive caravan and campervan fair is a whole new ball game for members of Ashburton Lions.

For 14 years the expo was run by founders Murray and Bev Meadows, but last year they decided the 2017 event would be their last and the Lions club stepped up to the plate.

Yesterday they realised just how big the task actually was.

Sites were marked out on Tuesday and from early morning they were busy checking off bookings as casual campers, sellers and trade site holders arrived as well as dealing with non-stop inquiries from people who simply turned up hoping to find a spot to trade.

But event convenor Rex Whiting had a firm hand on the controls. Money changed hands, information packs were handed out and visitors were sent off to set up camp for the weekend.

As much as the expo is about buying and selling motorhomes and caravans and accessories, it has also become an important event for campers. Yesterday they were turning up in large numbers and setting up for a social weekend.

Having a tried and tested template for the event made the first year easier, Whiting said, but like all new operators, the Lions are trying a few changes this year.

And they’ll be surveying people to gauge satisfaction and hopefully to get ideas for improvements, he said.

“Some of the ways we’re doing things might be a bit tighter but

there’s a lot of history with this event. We’re trying to follow this and it might take a bit of adjusting for some, but we’re learning as we go.”

Lions president Garth Bateup said the project was a large one for the club and would involve most members for what he anticipated would be two very long days.

Money made will go into the club’s charitable trust and would be used for charitable purposes around the district, he said.

Lions will continue to man the gate as well as running the event but have handed over the running of the Lions food caravan to the Celtic Rugby Club’s juniors.

The South Island caravan and motorhome expo will be held at the Ashburton Showgrounds from 9am to 4pm, today and tomorrow.

Riley Campbell, Year 10, having a crack at the long jump yesterday.

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Council versus sport?

A number of local news articles of late have me a little perplexed and I have felt the need to put pen to paper.

I have lived in Ashburton all my life, love the town, enjoyed growing up here, went to school here, been a proud sporting representative of the district for many years, do business here and get involved with community events/needs through both sponsorship and time.

This letter is not about me, just giving a little background to my thoughts. A couple of years ago I was gladly involved in fundraising for our magnificent new stadium.

A big part of fundraising for that project involved volunteers approaching many businesses in town and asking them to make a significant contribution to the new complex.

Many did, we were/are really grateful, and we now have a great facility.

The new pool/stadium is now used and enjoyed by numbers far reaching expectation. And apparently this is now a problem?

No-one will argue the fact that the council contributed the bulk of the funds to build the new facility. Purpose-built for community needs and affordable for the public and sports intending to use it.

That was an absolute prerequisite for user groups and the community before the build commenced. But now I sit here writing this letter shaking my head and wondering what the thought process is behind (and who is directly responsible) for even mooting an increase in not just stadium charges to users, but charges to any sport that uses facilities requiring work done by the council.

That also includes any sport using the domain. I am writing this letter with no figures to back it up, just using the emotion and frustration that has bottled up inside recently.

Council’s defence is that facilities need to be more user pays?

That means charging the sporting associations more as they

Well known local identity, Dean Harrison, weighs in on the stadium fees debate with the following letter to the editor.

Dean Harrison are the “users”.

Council, let me tell you this for a fact. All sporting organisations in our district are governed by volunteers. Some have much needed paid employees, but for the main, clubs in our district are run by your ratepayers.

Granted, there are many district ratepayers not involved in sport. Many of them probably feel that it should be user-pays, why should they contribute any more than they do now.

Firstly, if you are a ratepayer that has played sport and may be a generation or two older, you have already been afforded the privilege of playing on grounds or in facilities probably funded in part by council or ratepayers, so just think back to your day.

Granted, there was more fun-

draising or working bees done back then, but it was five days a week trading/working.

Today club committees have very limited time, new health and safety rules, and limited income streams. The bulk of all sporting codes’ income is from subs.

So, our council feels the need to increase charges to sports as user-pays is the way to go. That’s right, charge those people more for being active and when selected, proudly representing the Mid Canterbury district.

But it doesn’t stop there. Just this week, I read up for public consultation is proposed new/ extra charges for other sports.

Now, for sporting organisations using the domain as an example.

You may be required to pay for council services such as

mowing the domain (is that all they do, not sure?). To me though, it is glaringly obvious, the domain is not mowed every week entirely for the benefit of those sporting codes that use it.

Most nights I drive past and there are people/families playing touch rugby or soccer or walking their dog or going for a jog or socialising (on the mown grass).

If it is user-pays, they must contribute also to the cost. The only fair solution is to fence off the entire domain and put in a toll gate.

In fact, why just stop at sport?

I read in today’s paper that the council contributes almost $2 million a year to arts and culture in the district.

At the risk of playing the devil’s advocate here, apply the same set of rules, user-pays.

For example, how much does it cost the community/ratepayer to host say the Multi Cultural Bite. A great event, showcases the district, but if I don’t attend, why should any costs attributed come out of my rates.

Woo back! That is just an example, but a really valid one if you are looking at a user-pays model. In reality I could go on for ages with more examples and you can either agree with me or not.

But I will say this. For those in the community worried about things such as the crime rate in the district going up, there is one sure way to make sure that crime continues to rise. You make sport in the district unaffordable for families.

Be it on your head council; be careful what you wish for. Sport is a big part of the Kiwi psych, and I would suggest a healthy community past-time.

The consequences of less people in the community playing sport as a result of your proposals will come at a much greater and hidden cost.

Dean Harrison

Ashburton Guardian

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Village lifestyle coming to Lake Hood

By Sue NewmaN

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A dream that has been 10 years in the growing is about to see the light of day as Jo Ruane and John Skevington finalise plans for their long awaited subdivision on terraced land above Lake Hood.

For them what will be a 32 home, village style housing development, is a project that has special links with the past.

The 20 hectare block above the Lake Hood terrace was owned by Skevington’s grandmother’s family and more than 20 years ago he bought it back into the family fold, dreaming that one day he could create a special housing development on the site.

That day has come and Ruane and Skevington have started ticking the boxes – resource consent, tick, subdivision concept drawn up, tick, house sites pegged out, tick and engineering plans, almost completed.

“We started planning this about 12 years ago, but timing is everything. It was not the right time back then, but now it is and what we’re planning fits in nicely with the aquatic park’s development,” Ruane said.

Their development, however, is very different to the aquatic park extension project.

“It’ll be called the Village Green and the best way to describe it is as groups of houses in a parklike setting, a working farm. It’s unique and totally different to any concept down at the lake. We’ve sited the houses in clusters to take advantage of the views.”

The development offers sections in four groups, nine sections along the lake terrace, one of 10 sections and two of seven. There are views, covenanted green spaces and the sections are large enough that each will feel quite separate, she said.

While the sections are in clusters, they are shaped in a way that will ensure home builders’ privacy and views are retained.

“It’s about creating a sense of space,” Ruane said.

It’s been a long and challenging journey to get to this point, Skevington said, but when he stands on site and thinks about the future, every challenge has been

John Skevington and Jo Ruane looking over plans for their Village Green subdivision at Lake Hood.

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“We see this as an opportunity to live in the country without the hassle of a lifestyle block where the sections have all been sited to

take advantage of the views.”

“We see this as creating a community within a community.”

The sections will come with covenants around areas such as

fencing and sheds, and terrace houses and those on the west side of the central road must be single storey. When completed the subdivision will have two entry points

off Huntingdon Avenue.

“We have to strike a balance where we’re not too covenanted and we limit the market and where it’s open slather. We want to set a standard so that if someone builds a nice house they can be confident other people will too.

“We want this to be a subdivision we can be proud of now and in the future and we want that for the people who live here too,” Skevington said.

As the land begins its transformation from bare paddock to housing development, Skevington and Ruane are spending hours in Christchurch identifying landscaping and perimeter ideas they believe will work in the Village Green.

“This will be like living in a park and the covenants we are putting in place are for ever. people can buy here and know things won’t change,” he said.

Earthmoving equipment will be on site in April and they’re hoping the first homes will be built later this year. Marketing is to start around April too, but the couple are happy to talk to people interested in being part of the Village Green and to share site plans with them.

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Children pelt dog with stones

By Katie todd

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An Allenton resident is reeling after schoolchildren pelted her beloved dog with rocks.

Gayle Cumberland returned home from work on Wednesday to find her Shetland sheepdog Zoe acting unhappy, lethargic and “out of character” after damage inflicted by children earlier that afternoon over her fence, and witnessed by her flatmate.

“I’m absolutely gobsmacked that anyone would want to hurt an animal, let alone mine,” she said.

“She is such an affectionate girl, she is a lovely girl.”

The incident occurred at about 3pm on Wednesday, and Cumberland’s flatmate ran outside to scare off the children. However, by Thursday morning, Zoe was struggling to stand from the damage inflicted, and Cumberland was highly concerned.

She took her to the vet and reported the incident to police and local schools, but said she no longer feels safe living in her area.

Cumberland moved to Allenton in May last year, and said the incident occurred despite a tall fence right around her yard.

“I think policing in school areas needs to be more visual in these times of the day,

when children are [hanging] around after school.”

The incident occurred in the wake of several other reported animal cruelty incidents, including a cat shot with a BB gun and a dog allegedly fed rat poison, both during night-time and within the past fortnight.

Ashburton and Methven Beware Facebook page administrator Kylee Sissons said she thought the other incidents were particularly concerning in light of recent robberies.

“People have targeted the one thing that might stop them from entering a property, that would alert their owner to anything suspicious.”

“It’s taking low to a whole new level.”

Police said they advise any owners with concerns about the safety of their pets to make sure their property is secure, especially if they have animals who spend most of their time outside.

“They may want to consider using CCTV cameras or sensor lights, and where possible keeping hutches and kennels out of sight … also, noting down registrations of any suspicious vehicles near their home, as burglars may scope out a place beforehand.”

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Minor injuries and major traffic delays resulted from a car crash on Rakaia Bridge yesterday afternoon.

About 1.30pm a car travelling north crashed into the side of the bridge towards the northern end, blocking traffic in the lane behind it.

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On the trail of the Black Panther

By Katie todd

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The ever-elusive Mid Canterbury Black Panther might be about to meet its match: a Canberra-born author with a penchant for the peculiar.

For nearly 50 years Tony Healy has travelled the world investigating and writing about rare animal sightings – from the UK’s Exmoor Beast to the Himalayan Yeti Man, Scottish Loch Ness Monster, Canadian Sasquatch and Malaysian Orang Mawas, to name just a few.

Now Healy has journeyed to New Zealand to uncover our biggest cryptozoological mystery: the Mid Canterbury Black Panther.

The incentive, he said, is simple.

“There’s a story there which should be told.”

Healy’s interest in the pursuit of mysterious beasts dates back to the 1950s, where he sighted a sandy coloured mountain lion on an Australian back road.

“I was hitchhiking from Canberra to Darwin … we were driving through corn fields near Ennisdale when I saw it,” he said.

“The road was zig-zagging and when we came around one corner, the headlights caught a mountain lion. It was crouched and it sort of looked at the car and did a snarl and then the headlights swept

Australian investigator of the unexplained Tony Healy is in town, attempting to crack the mystery of the Mid Canterbury Black Panther. He has a footprint cast from a big cat sighting in Kangaroo Valley, Australia.

PHOTO KATIE TODD 140218-KT-011 past it. I don’t know if the driver saw it, and I immediately thought I’d imagined it.

“It wasn’t until at a party months later when I met someone else who had seen something similar – I started researching and in

turned out 200 to 300 people had seen it over the years.”

Healy began seriously researching crypto mysteries around the world from 1970, along with author Paul Cropper. The two have penned two books about their

research: Out of the Shadows: Mystery Animals of Australia, and The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot.

“Our research goes back so far now I think we have an unusually good perspective,” he said.

“We can now see patterns in the evidence. We’re dealing with the unexplainable but yet there is a continuity.”

One such pattern is the common and zoologically strange phenomenon of seeing large black cats more often than their lighter-furred counterparts – despite the latter being much more common, and despite the two “not really hanging out together,” Healy said.

Another is the frequent sighting of mysterious land animals nearby to other mysterious water animals. Healy said the only large cat to be caught in Scotland, a puma called Felicity, was caught just 10 miles from Loch Ness.

Healy will be in the South Island for five weeks, gathering content for his next book titled Mystery Safari.

While here, he hopes to do research on a couple of other animal mysteries – one being a lakedwelling creature with a reptilian head and teeth like a wolf once sighted near Lake Coleridge, and the other the well-known Taniwha.

Healy urges anyone with any information about the Mid Canterbury Black Panther to get in touch with him at tonyhealy05@gmail. com.

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Betty O’Neil celebrating her hole-in-one back in 1999.

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Age no handicap for avid golfer Golf might be a game you need to start when you’re young if you hope to make the big time, but for club golfers, it’s a game that can remain with you for many years.

Ask Betty O’Neill. She’s 90 and still hitting a mean ball around the Tinwald Golf Club.

She talks to reporter Sue Newman about the game she loves.

Age is most definitely just a number to golfer Betty O’Neill.

That she’s just celebrated her 90th birthday (but looks 80) is absolutely irrelevant to the sprightly nonagenarian.

She still turns out at least once a week at the Tinwald Golf Club and still plays a tidy enough game to whip many half her age.

She started playing in 1971 when she was in her late 30s and since then she’s rarely missed a club day or a tournament.

Back then she was one of the growing band of young women who celebrated their last child starting school by picking up a sport that was tailor-made to fit around child-free hours.

“My friends had started, they asked me to join. It was a lot of fun and we had a lot of laughs,” she said.

She’s the only one of that group of friends, who struggled through the tough months as new golfers, who is still walking the course.

Over the years she’s played most courses in the South Island and 15 years ago joined a golfing trip to Australia, playing seven courses over a couple of weeks.

While she has a long history with the game, Betty says she’s never been one of the club’s stars.

“I got down to silver division for a week, but soon went back out again. The good thing about golf is you can enjoy it at every level.

You’ll never conquer it. One day you think you’ve got it and the next

day you get the shock of your life when it’s gone again.”

Betty last played in a team representing her club about six years ago and her last 18 hole handicap was 30. Her lowest was 18 and she reckons her best round was a nett 63.

She has a bronze A championship title to her name, and five years ago she was runner-up in the same grade.

The red letter achievement in her golfing scrapbook, however, was a hole-in-one. She scored that on Tinwald’s 6th hole in 1999.

This year Betty opted to join the nine hole golf section rather than playing the traditional 18 hole game but that had nothing to do with lack of fitness.

Rather it was because most of her friends – many, years younger – had opted to make the change.

“We’re a good, close crowd and we have a lot of laughs. It’s just good to be out there walking,” she said.

With almost 50 golfing years behind her, Betty looks back at a game where the fundamentals have stayed the same but where there has been significant change in playing numbers.

“Back then we would have about 120 women on a Tuesday, now it’s more like 15 nine holers and 20 to 25, 18 holers. Women have to work today. Look at the cost of things, the price of houses.

Then, women were at home looking after children. It was a very

different era,” she said.

While her early golfing years were as a stay-at-home mum playing mid-week golf, a move to town meant a return to work and Betty joined the business women’s ranks, playing on Saturday mornings for 10 years.

In the 70s golf was a very formal affair.

Women wore skirts rather than trousers and when that rule relaxed a little, trousers could be worn on the course but players had to change into a skirt to enter the club house.

Betty applauds today’s more casual dress code but says she still likes to see players dressed in club colours when they’re representing their club or as a team.

Golf clubs have changed over the years and Betty has always made sure she’s kept hers up to date, however, she reckons the only real difference is in the size of the head.

Like many golfers, she’s concerned about falling club membership, but says the Ashburton District seems to be one of the stronger golfing areas.

“I’ve heard a lot of talk about clubs around the country that are just sitting there and not being used but we don’t have many of those down here. We have some great little country clubs, they’re wonderful.”

As keen as she is on playing, Betty is also a keen watcher of the sport. She’s kept an eye on Kiwi star Lydia Ko’s progress and says

Betty practising her golfing skills in the backyard.

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her constant changing of caddies and coaches has her puzzled.

“You just start wondering what she’s going to do next. She’s the only one I know of who changes so many times.”

She might be just one of very few competitive golfers around New Zealand aged 90 or more, but Betty doesn’t see that achievement as anything remarkable.

“I just go from day to day. It’s

what you are really … if you’re lucky enough … I’ll be playing golf as long as I can walk,” she said.

If she’s not golfing, Betty spends her time looking after an immaculate quarter acre section that boasts a full vegetable garden and flourishing beds of flowers and shrubs.

When asked who does the work, the answer shouldn’t be a surprise – “why me, of course,” she said.

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Farmers join forces for lamb sale

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A long-running South Canterbury lamb sale has taken on extra significance for Mid Canterbury sheep farmers in recent years.

The Rollesby Valley sale, one of the biggest on-farm lamb sales in the South Island, has been running for 24 years.

About five years ago 70 per cent of the lambs sold at the sale went south, but these days the same percentage instead go to Mid Canterbury lamb finishers.

This year’s sale, held on February 8, involved 12 vendors and nine locations, so it was a big couple of days for the South Canterbury PGG Wrightson livestock team, with team members working both the day prior and then on the morning of the sale to prepare the stock for sale.

More than 20,000 lambs and ewes were on offer at this year’s sale, held up the Rollesby Valley near Fairlie.

It first came about after local farmers agreed it would be great to get lambs off their farms in one go, rather than drafting until June.

Fairlie-based PGG Wrightson livestock agent Bruce Dunbar was key to co-ordinating the first sale – with Stanton and Airies Station owners being a big part of the genesis of the sale.

It’s now seen as a great example of farmers in a community working together for a common goal.

Joe Higgins, PGG Wrightson regional livestock manager, said this year’s sale was very successful.

“We are extremely happy with how the day went and all of the vendors are pleased with their results – with all up on last year by $15 to $25,” Higgins said.

“It is always challenging logistically selling a large number of lambs and travelling from property to property – and keeping the momentum of the sale going – but the day went very well.

“Over the years the sale has gained a good reputation and was well supported by a strong gallery of repeat buyers.

“Top price on the day was $149 at Herb and Cate Ross’s Single Hill Station for a pen of 125 Perendale wether lambs.

“The interest in halfbred lambs was strong, with a top price of $102 at both Mt Dalgety Station and Ranui Station.”

THE SALE WAS HELD AT THE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Chris McCarthy Stanton Station Burkes Pass Farm (and Paddy’s Market Farm and CF Waters lambs) Airies Station Coolgardie Station Single Hill Station (and NG and BE McKerchar) Mt Dalgety Station Te Ngawai Estate Ranui Station.

Above – A bird’s-eye view of Burkes Pass Station as buyers arrive for the sale.

Right – Joe Higgins (with white notebook) looks for bids at Single Hill Station.

Below, right – Joe Higgins (with red notebook) and the auction team during the Rollesby Valley sale.

Bottom, left – An aerial view of Airies Station during the sale.

Bottom, right – Herb and Cate Ross of Single Hill Station with a pen of their lambs.

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■ RANGITIRA DEVELOPMENTS

High Court rules for Crown over mine on the council “to manage and protect the scenic, biological and natural features present on the reserve to the extent compatible with” the primary purpose of the reserve.

The reserve, from which Westport draws its water supply, is about 1825 hectares.

Rangitira specifically asked the court what role s23 of the Reserves Act had in decisions regarding access for coal mining made by administering bodies of reserves under s60 Crown Minerals Act which covers right of access arrangements.

It wanted to know whether the

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Govt explores whistleblower protection employee to first raise their concerns with their employer before they can go to an appropriate authority such as police.

The law does not protect employees who leak confidential information to the press.

The New Zealand public sector ranked ninth out of the 19 groups of public and private sector organisations in a study last year into 699 organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

Next week’s workshops will be attended by stakeholders in the public and private sectors who have knowledge and experience with the law.

The aim is to gather perspectives on the key issues and challenges and discuss the benefits and risks of different reform choices.

Feedback from the workshops will inform the next step in the process, including the issue of a wider public discussion. – NZME

Mercer Group narrows loss Mercer Group narrowed its firsthalf loss after more doubling revenue, but says its performance was still not where it needed to be with disappointing earnings in its robotic bulk foods handling division.

The Christchurch-based company reported a net loss of $370,000 in the six months ended December 31, narrowing from a loss of $2.6 million a year earlier.

Revenue rose to $16.4m from $7.9m a year earlier. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation were $96,000, turning from an ebitda loss of $1.5m.

Last financial year, Mercer repositioned the business into what it now sees as a holding company for

three separate businesses: automated and robotic bulk foods handling system Haden Custance; the still-to-be-commercialised medical sterilisation technology unit SClave; and the traditional stainless steel fabricator Mercer Stainless.

“While the performance of the group is not where it needs to be, we are pleased to have recorded a positive group ebitda for the half year,” the company said in a statement to the NZX. “We remain confident that Haden Custance can generate profitable growth going forward through a greater focus on sales origination in its markets.”

The company said its stainless

division lifted revenue 35 per cent to $10.6m, while Haden Custance sales momentum was slower than previously projected at $6.3m.

“In the short term, the business has decent workflows that should result in a stronger second half of the financial year.

“We are still targeting having the S-Clave in market this financial year. While this will be a significant milestone for the group, its growth, if successful, will occur over the years ahead. Mercer Stainless has adequate workflows for the second half of the financial year.”

The shares last traded at 46 cents, up 24 per cent in the past year.

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It also found that ministry workers were uncertain of the complaints process for whistle-blowers, and were fearful about the repercussions of speaking out.

The fallout included the resignation of Auditor-General Martin Matthews, who headed the Transport Ministry at the time.

A State Services Commission review was launched into the Protected Disclosures Act, and State Services Minister Chris Hipkins said a series of workshops will begin next week.

“It is crucial that employees feel safe to report cases of serious misconduct,” Hipkins said.

Hipkins said recent analysis suggested that the law may not be working as effectively as it could, and lags behind international practice in a number of key areas.

The law aims to protect people who report serious wrongdoing in the workplace, but it requires an

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The Government is exploring greater protections for whistleblowers, which it says is vital to enhance public and private sector service integrity.

This work follows the highprofile case last year of Ministry of Transport workers that raised concerns about fraudster Joanne Harrison, and then lost their jobs in a restructure that Harrison was involved in.

Harrison, a ministry senior manager, stole $726,000 from the ministry and was sentenced to three years and seven months, after charges were laid by the Serious Fraud Office.

In the aftermath, State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes ordered an investigation that found that the three ministry employees suffered disadvantage, including hurt and humiliation, but did not lose their jobs because of their whistle-blowing.

council could exercise its discretion in weighing factors such as economic benefits to the region and offers to offset environmental impact with the enhancement of other natural areas.

Justice Nation held that the application for access is to be treated as an application governed by the Crown Minerals Act but that in considering all relevant matters it should have regard to the values that the Reserves Act seeks to protect.

But matters relevant under the Crown Minerals Act could include the economic and social benefits which the Buller District might obtain and it was for the council to decide what the ultimate outcome should be.

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consent. DOC has joined the appeal process as an interested party to provide expert advice.

Rangitira is owned by a limited partnership associated with Stevenson Group which includes Stevenson Mining and was granted resource consents following a hearing by commissioners.

That decision was adopted by the council, whose officers had advised that the local authority only had to have regard to the Reserves Act. Opposing the plans is the Forest & Bird Protection Society, which argues that the Reserves Act, with its more restrictive obligations

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Minerals Act but mine development also requires approval from the Buller District Council to access its land.

Approval is also needed from the Department of Conservation because the development extends onto a small portion of stewardship land.

Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has declined to comment on the case, given she still needs to make a decision jointly with the Minister of Energy and Resources, in regard to mining on the conservation land.

In the meantime, Forest and Bird has appealed the resource

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The High Court has ruled that the Crown Minerals Act has primacy over the Reserve Act in an application to mine coal on reserve land in Buller.

Justice Gerald Nation’s ruling was sought by Rangitira Developments, which wanted to know what Buller District Council was required to consider when considering its application for access to land managed by the council as a ‘water conservation reserve’ under the Reserve Act. Rangitira wants to develop the Te Kuha open cast coal mine at the site which is south of the Denniston and Stockton Plateaus, southeast of Westport.

It already holds a mining permit granted under the Crown

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The battle to find our new blue leader B

ig Bad Bill has gone over the hill, but who’s going to fetch his pail of water?

There’s growing unrest among New Zealand as innuendos and suggestions float free, like the contamination in the Ashburton River, around who will be the one to step into the big boy, or big girl, pants and take the helm of the opposition.

As far as we definitively know, there’s three.

So, it should be easy enough to select the trifecta.

Don’t write off Mark Mitchell just yet though, there’s strong word he will join the race and there are similar murmurings for one Steven Joyce to also join alongside the apparent contenders; Simon Bridges, Amy Adams

and Judith Collins.

What a line-up.

We’re one short of being able to form the cast of Friends, yet it may even still play out like a bit of a sitcom when things do get serious because the whole process of electing a new party leader is an exasperating task.

Secret ballots, behind closed door deals and who knows what other underhanded tactics all in an effort to get the top job.

All 56 of National’s MPs will vote in the secret ballot to elect the new leader.

A majority of 29 is required to have a clear winner.

Yet, as if it was a battle to the absolute death, the first vote is highly unlikely to be the last.

The lowest polling contender in the first round will be kicked from the island – with Jeff Probst popping up to state that “the tribe has spoken”.

Then we will continue down the path until we get to the last two lions in the den – an all-out blood fight that could, in some sense, leave a party in tatters – if they aren’t already there, of course.

The switched votes following an elimination will make for

interesting times.

Those who vote for one, might not necessarily favour another but their vote becomes incredibly almighty after the first one or two rounds.

Of the declared contenders, there’s an interesting mix of personalities sitting there.

Amy Adams, who holds a strong tie to this region is like the quietly spoken – yet incredibly wellinformed and educated Camp Mum, who would whip the ship back into shape, yet it’s hard to imagine her on the rostrum going to war with Jacinda because she just seems too nice.

Crusher Collins on the other hand, is her polar opposite.

She’s like the proverbial bulldog locked up in a cage and you know

when she gets loose she’s going to be biting the shins of more than just a few.

That could ultimately be her downfall, she’s come a long way in the past two years, but leopards – do they ever change their spots?

And then there’s Simon Bridges.

Many will predict his victory based largely on the fact he’s a male who is assertive and seems to know what he wants and how to get it, but he comes with more question marks than answers.

For weeks this will carry on and the malarkey will drag right out and when it does finally come to a halt and a new fighter for the blue corner is determined, it will probably be time for them to be voted out again.

backed terrorists (he was later slain by his captors).

In 1993, Haitian ferry boat capsizes in a storm, 800-2000 die In 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, winning a six-game match in Philadelphia (however, Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in a rematch in 1997).

Ten years ago: Kosovo declared itself a nation in defiance of Serbia and Russia.

Five years ago: Danica Patrick won the Daytona 500 pole, becoming the first woman to

secure the top spot for any Sprint Cup race.

One year ago: Making his debut on the world stage, Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Germany, looking to reassure sceptical allies in Europe about US foreign policy under President Donald Trump, who had made his “America First” mantra a centrepiece of his new administration.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Hal Holbrook is 93. Actor-comedian Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna) is 84. Country singersongwriter Johnny Bush is 83.

Actress Christina Pickles is 83.

Actress Brenda Fricker is 73.

Actress Becky Ann Baker is 65. Actress Rene Russo is 64.

Actor Richard Karn is 62. Actor Lou Diamond Phillips is 56.

Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan is 55. Actor-comedian Larry, the Cable Guy is 55. TV personality Rene Syler is 55.

Movie director Michael Bay is 54.

Singer Chante Moore is 51. Rock musician Timothy J. Mahoney is 48. Actor Dominic Purcell is 48. Actress Denise Richards is 47. Rock singer-musician Billie Joe Armstrong is 46. Rock musician Taylor Hawkins is 46.

Actor Jerry O’Connell is 44.

Country singer Bryan White is 44. Actress Kelly Carlson is 42. Actor Ashton Holmes is 40. Actor Conrad Ricamora is 39. Actor Jason Ritter is 38. TV personality Paris Hilton is 37.

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 37.

TV host Daphne Oz is 32. Actor Chord Overstreet is 29. Singersongwriter Ed Sheeran is 27.

Actress Meaghan Martin is 26.

Thought for Today: “Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.” — George Sand, French author (1804-1876).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, February 17, the 48th day of 2018.

There are 317 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On February 17, 1968, the original Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located on the campus of Springfield College in Massachusetts, was opened to the public.

On this date: In 1815, the United States and Britain exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.

In 1897, the forerunner of the National PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, convened its first meeting in Washington.

In 1913, the Armory Show, a landmark modern art exhibit, opened in New York City.

In 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker magazine (bearing the cover date of February 21) was published.

In 1933, Newsweek magazine was first published under the title “News-Week.”

In 1944, during World War Two, US forces invaded Eniwetok Atoll, encountering little initial resistance from Imperial Japanese troops.

In 1959, the United States launched Vanguard 2, a satellite which carried meteorological equipment.

In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon departed the White House with his wife, Pat, on a historic trip to China. British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market. TV comedy M*A*S*H, adapted from the movie, starring Alan Alda, Loretta Swit and Wayne Rogers debuts on CBS in the US. In 1983, Netherlands adopts constitution. US performs nuclear test at Nevada test site.

In 1988, Lt Col William Higgins, a Marine Corps officer serving with a United Nations truce monitoring group, was kidnapped in southern Lebanon by Iranian-

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Politics and junk TV love affair

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have to come clean to you – I have loved the start of this year when it comes to politics and junk TV. And yes, they are two different beasts. My hat goes off to our Aussie neighbours for the train wreck that is Married at First Sight! I can’t get enough of the stuff. Not since the Chappell brothers cheated to win a one dayer, have the mighty Aussies come up with such a stupid idea.

And then the Opposition Circus arrived in town. I love the circus and I must say the National Party are quite good for first timers.

Cracks me up to hear PM wannabes deny they are interested in the leadership role and then announce their bid as soon as Bill said he was stepping down.

Amy Adams has written a couple of Guardian columns that follow the same formula, express what National did when in government, then lament the changes Labour are proposing and how this will be a disaster for the district.

It’s like when you catch up with former neighbours who express dismay that the new owners of their house decided to take out a garden or paint the fence a different colour.

It’s a predictable opposition tactic we will see from her for the next three years unless she picks up the top job and that becomes her focus.

Falloon has also had a go at the sideshow act of opposition MP, by writing stuff. In his first hundred

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days, our investigative newspaper has reported that he started a petition to the new Government requesting a four-lane road from here to Christchurch.

Sadly his petition has not arrived as it has been held up in the post truck on the Rakaia Bridge, as they wait for a Hikoi on better funding for special needs children to get across.

Now had the bridge been four-laned, his mail would have arrived.

Then recently, it was reported that Falloon bashed the keyboard again and wrote another letter asking for more cops to crush the tidal wave of burglaries plaguing the town.

Unfortunately this letter will never arrive as the postbox he popped it into was stolen. The postie couldn’t deliver it anyway as her new electric bike was nicked as well.

Now he will have to lay his cards on the table and declare his allegiance for the next leader.

I also see that the editor of this fine paper mentioned Falloon’s actions in an editorial. A smart move because if Hoops had gone around on election day and pulled voters pants down, more

people would have been seen wearing blue undies, not red.

However this copped the editor some flak and raised the old impartiality question. What reaction would he have got if he had questioned what National been doing about the lack of police resourcing in Ashburton?

This is not a new problem and you couldn’t expect Labour to fix it in its first 100 days, when National had nine years to do something about it. Perhaps they never got a letter about the problem.

Never mind, these are just the warm ups for the main show; reactions to the Government carrying out its promise to stop charter schools.

Bill English called the actions to can the political deal stitched together by two white privileged male politicians in order to keep themselves in taxpayer positions of power, as “nasty and vindictive”.

I wonder what he thought of Hekia Parata’s actions when, at the height of opposition to National Standards, she threatened 440 opposing schools with the removal of their elected boards of trustees if they didn’t comply.

After English spoke (he got very tired and said I’d rather write poetry about Foveaux Strait and decided to step down), Judith Collins was interviewed at some swanky Tauranga Yacht Club type centre, and slapped Jacinda with the hypocrisy sausage and called the teachers union, “big, fat and mean”.

I wonder how the union and its members felt, as most of them are women, to hear a leading woman politician calling them fat? Yay for female solidarity! Of course this was part of her leadership plans to position herself as the new tough talking sheriff with a passion for free Chinese business lunches.

With all this political circus drama going on, I can’t wait to read what this paper’s political column writer has to say, as he has tended to express everything with capitals and quotation marks. This will be no different, but I’m not sure of his tendency to talk about how good looking some of the younger female politicians are, this hints at Creepy Uncle Syndrome.

So, am I in favour of charter schools? Not the US model, that is corrupt, just like its leader.

The New Zealand model has so far worked for the 1400 students enrolled, so perhaps a well informed decision should be made before a major education decision is announced.

But that will never happen as, as always, education remains a circus lion, taunted and toyed with by political ringmasters, hoping to win the favour of a constituency crowd.

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

Avoid burnouts, take time to rest and reflect

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nyone one working with or associating with lots of people can, without careful planning, burn out.

Normal fatigue can be cured with rest since it is mainly a physical state.

Burnout is more complex, not just stress in a new dress, but a form of emotional exhaustion that includes disenchantment, disillusionment and sometimes anger.

We can’t constantly be giving, and by giving I don’t mean financially, but giving out our time or emotions to family, friends, neighbours, those people we encounter, volunteering without getting in return, all of which can cause burn out.

Jesus knew that, which is why he withdrew from the crowds to have time out.

So, who can burnout? Well any of us can.

Think of all the roles you have in life spouse, parent, worker, volunteer, friend, member of the

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community and all these require us to give out, to be there for people, to listen, to offer advice, to care, to reach out, to do practical things, to make time for them and it’s exhausting and at times demanding.

And you can’t keep going without getting something in return.

Think of yourself as a car. You fill up at the petrol station and all is fine and running well, then the fuel warning light comes on.

The warning there is that if we don’t take care of things there is going to be a problem. Then the needle is sitting on empty and if you are like me you might try to push it to see how far you can go on empty.

Then suddenly one day you stop. That’s it, you have pushed beyond the limit. It’s not only

cars that need refuelling, we all do.

And I would hope one place you may get some of your refuelling is in the church.

So, what can we do to prevent compassion burnout? Jesus showed us the answer.

After being around people all day, every day, after ministering to a variety of needs, after healing people, after giving out, he withdrew to be quiet, to take time out, to rest, to recharge the batteries, to reflect.

And no matter who we are or what we do we all need time out, without it, we burnout.

Time out is not an option. If we don’t take it, something, often like an illness of body or mind, will hit us and stop us.

When Jesus was in the Garden, what did he do? He went off by himself to pray, to have some alone time.

Jesus knew the value and importance of time out and of time to ourselves. God also knew the

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After giving out and working hard, remember that after six days of creating, on the seventh day God rested.

We all need the time of Sabbath rest. It may not be a Sunday or a whole day, but it needs to be regular, it needs to be relaxing and it needs to be your time.

No matter who you are or what you are doing, if you are being compassionate, if you are giving out to others, you need to take care of yourself, listen to your spirit, your mind and body and take time out before you burnout.

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LETTER Police numbers Andrew Falloon blames the current government on the lack of police numbers.

He conveniently forgets it was National that let the ratio of police to the population slip over the previous nine years.

In April of last year the National government announced the police increase of 70 for all of Canterbury.

And this was over a projected four year period! So how many were Mid Canterbury going to get?

What with Andrew calling out the government over not building his “four lane highway” pet project, he seems to be suffering from selective amnesia when it comes to his friends in the National party.

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■ UNITED STATES

Gunman ‘remorseful’ A cowering Nikolas Cruz was comforted by his public defender as he was ordered held without bail during his first court appearance in connection to the deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school that killed 17 and injured 14.

The 19-year-old wore an orange jumpsuit and had shackles on his wrists and ankles as he was officially charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.

He kept his eyes down and didn’t speak in court yesterday, other than to confirm his name with a polite “yes ma’am” to the judge, the Daily Mail reports.

His public defender, Melisa McNeill, comforted him by putting a hand around his shoulder.

After the hearing, Cruz’s defence team revealed he was on suicide watch and that he understood the magnitude of his actions.

McNeill told reporters gathered outside the courtroom that her client was “broken”.

“He’s sad. He’s mournful.

He’s remorseful.

“He is fully aware of what is going on, and he’s just a broken human being,” she said.

She became emotional while speaking to reporters, saying she’s fully aware of the impact the shooting has had on the community, as a parent herself.

“I had to have the exact same conversation that every parent in Broward had to have with their children this morning,

His public defender, Melisa McNeill, comforted Nikolas Cruz by putting a hand around his shoulder. then I had to walk and meet with him,” McNeill said.

“I’m fully aware of the impact this has on the people who live here.”

According to her LinkedIn profile, McNeill has worked in the homicide division of the Broward public defender’s office since 2000.

Another member of the defence team, Gordon Weeks, was brought to tears as he addressed reporters, telling them that Cruz “recognises” what he

has done and is “deeply sad”.

“He is dealing with the shock of all this that’s going on,” Weeks said.

McNeill and Weeks said that Cruz suffers from autism, depression and has dealt with significant psychological problems – all without the sort of support system that most people have.

“When your brain is not fully developed, you don’t know how to deal with these things,” McNeill said.

“That’s the child I’m sitting across from.”

Weeks added: “The child is deeply troubled and he has endured significant trauma that stems from the loss of his mother.”

Florida Attorney-General Pam Bondi has said she is “certain” prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty for the teen.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel revealed that Cruz had tried to mix with a group of students fleeing the school before stopping at fast food restaurants after the attack.

The sheriff said Cruz headed to a Wal-Mart and bought a drink at a Subway restaurant before walking to a McDonald’s. Cruz was confronted by a police officer and taken into custody about 40 minutes after leaving McDonald’s.

Cruz was initially taken to the hospital to be treated for “laboured breathing”.

He was soon released to the police who spent most of the night questioning Cruz, trying to make sense of the horrific school shooting – now the third deadliest in American history.

The fact that it was the 30th mass shooting so far this year has spurred activists to call on Congress again to revamp the nation’s gun control policies.

President Trump, a staunch defender of the National Rifle Association, said at a press conference that the real issue lawmakers need to tackle is mental health, not guns. - AP

■ ENGLAND

Court martial for nuclear sub crash One of the Royal Navy’s most senior commanders has admitted hazarding a ship after the nuclear submarine of which he was in charge crashed into a merchant vessel.

Commander Justin Codd pleaded guilty at a court martial to hazarding the £1 billion vessel, one of Britain’s four nuclear submarines, during a training exercise off the coast of Spain.

The 45-year-old, who is attached to the UK Maritime Battle Staff, was said to have taken “his eye off the ball” and caused a crash costing £2.1 million.

He was stripped of a year of seniority by a panel of senior officers at a court martial at Portsmouth Naval Base.

The charge relates to an incident in which HMS Ambush suffered damage to its conning tower after hitting the ship as it surfaced near the Gibraltar coast on July 20, 2016.

At a court martial yesterday, Cdr Codd lost his seniority for a year after a panel heard he failed to prioritise the safety of the vessel, which was being operated by two sailors on the final day of the 23-week long course.

Prosecutor Captain John Atwill explained Cdr Codd, overseeing the training exercise, did not utilise a second periscope to examine his surroundings in order to ‘reduce risk of detection’ and relied only on the information being gathered by the students in the first periscope.

Cdr Codd ‘wrongly assumed’ MV Andreas, which was ‘loitering’ in the water and clearly visible, was not a threat.

When students turned to avoid a small yacht named Katharsis the submarine was put on course to collide with the merchant vessel.

Portsmouth Military Court, Hants, heard despite this there still would have been enough

Commander Justin Codd time to avoid the collision by diving, but Cdr Codd failed to take action and the two vessels collided.

Cpt Atwill said: “While it may be justifiable to take risks in war situations it is not justifiable in a training exercise.

“His decision to focus on teaching and not safety com-

pounded the errors made by the students. He believed his understanding was enough to keep the submarine safe – the very fact of the collision disproves this case.”

The court heard it is not necessarily dangerous for instructors to not use a second periscope.

Cdr Codd is in charge of teaching the Royal Navy’s Perisher programme – a course so tough it was named Perisher because of its high failure rate.

HMS Ambush, one of the Royal Navy’s 7400-ton Astuteclass vessels, carries what are described as “world leading sensors to detect other submarines and surface ships”.

Despite this equipment it still managed to hit the merchant vessel, which escaped undamaged.

Submariners were photographed looking grim, with their heads bowed next to its badly dented turret as it limped into Gibraltar.

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Aniston single again It took less than five minutes for the rumour mill to kick into high gear after news broke of Jennifer Aniston’s split from husband Justin Theroux. Now, for the first time in 13 years, Brad Pitt and his ex-wife are both single at the same time.

Their marriage infamously ended in 2005 after Angelina Jolie entered the picture, but Jolie and Pitt broke up in late 2016.

While many are mourning the breakdown of the seemingly rock-solid marriage, plenty of fans are over the moon at the opportunity — unlikely as it may be — to see Brad and Jen 2.0.

Gad sends a message Actor Josh Gad has revealed his friend’s son died in the Florida school massacre, and has led the call among Hollywood celebrities for tighter gun control laws.

The Frozen favourite wrote a heartwrenching tweet overnight upon finding out about the death of his friend’s son, after earlier revealing: “A child of one of our friends has a bullet in his chest because a 19 year old had access to military weapon. Pretend it’s normal. It’s not.” He made a series of posts detailing what he planned to do in the wake of the shooting, including remaining a voice of reason, and supporting “every single person who challenges a politician with NRA money behind them”.

No nudity for SJP Sarah Jessica Parker was reduced to tears when she was asked to appear naked in a scene. The 52-year-old actress – who is now widely known for her refusal to shoot nude scenes – has recalled one of the turning points in her hugely successful career, when she insisted she wouldn’t take her clothes off for a movie. The Sex and the City actress explained: “I don’t know if I had confidence or if I was being counselled by people. There was so much pressure for me to take my clothes off.

My agent sent a car and a plane ticket [to the film set] and he said, ‘If anybody makes you do anything that you’re not comfortable doing, you don’t”.

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An answer to every question Age Concern Ashburton is planning an event that will be the perfect onestop-shop for anyone wanting to find out what’s on offer for people in the Ashburton District who have retired or who are nearing retirement.

The district’s second Positive Ageing Expo will be held at the Ashburton Racecourse on March 8 and will bring together providers of more than 60 services that are targeted towards older people.

Age Concern Ashburton president Trish Small said the event is the perfect opportunity for people to gather information and ask questions of service providers.

“We’re so pleased to be able to showcase the many things that are available in our district for our older and very valued citizens. There will be so much information available about things that people may not be aware of,” she said.

Site holders will range from health professionals, community law advisors, bankers, IT specialists, support agencies, service clubs retirement villages and rest homes, Ashburton District Council, Mobility options CDHB, government

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The first expo was held in 2016 and attracted more than 500 visitors.

Feedback from both site holders and visitors was extremely positive, Trish said.

For many people, finding out about the opportunities and services available, made it much easier to plan for retirement, she said.

“And it’s good for families also to find out what is available for their older family members, so the expo is just not for retirees.”

Rural Women will be selling light refreshments on the day and there will be ample parking in the racecourse grounds, Trish said.

“We’re really excited about the opportunity to bring this Expo to the community and we know from the 2016 event that attendees found it really beneficial and that the site holders too, were pleased with the contacts they made and the questions asked about their services.”

The Positive Ageing Expo will be held at the Ashburton Racecourse from 10am to 3pm on March 8. Entry is by gold coin donation.

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Braden Currie at Wanaka earlier this year.

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‘I’m racing to win’ Methven-grown multisport champion Braden Currie will go toe-to-toe with his sporting idol Javier Gomez in Challenge Wanaka’s half-ironman event today.

Currie grew up watching the Spanish triathlon superstar on TV and followed him for 20 years before getting into the sport himself.

He says Gomez has won plenty of world championships, titles and an Olympic medal over the years, but it’s his mentality he admires most.

“You have to respect fearlessness in any sport. To attack what you’re doing, to grab it by the collar and assert yourself from start

to finish, that takes massive guts.

“Javier races with an aggression that I really appreciate, and I try to channel a similar approach every time I race.

“It’s something that not every athlete has, so to get the chance to line up next to someone like that in Wanaka is exciting.”

But Currie won’t be overawed by the situation today.

“Of course, I’m racing to win.

“It’s no different to any other event in that sense.”

Currie has rarely been off the podium in the past 12 months, competing in ironman events around the world.

His last event in Taupo in December resulted in a second placing – but Currie had to complete the whole 180km cycle leg with just one gear after a mechanical malfunction.

Gomez says Challenge Wanaka presents something new and fresh, and he had enjoyed training in the beautiful region in the build-up to the race.

Currie’s preparation for Challenge Wanaka has been unconventional, in that his focus has been on Ironman New Zealand, which is a full distance triathlon, rather than the half distance that he and Gomez will battle over in Wanaka.

The specificity required in training from one event to the other varies, but Currie is confident that his big engine will be enough for him to hold pace with the front of the pack.

“Obviously the half requires more explosiveness, more pace because you don’t need to leave as much petrol in the tank for a full marathon in the last leg.

“But that’s something that I’ve always had more naturally, so I’m not too concerned about my preparation.

“It’s impossible to say what’ll happen, but I think I can adapt to the higher tempo of the challenge half pretty quickly.”

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Ashburton swimmers in the pool this weekend at Dunedin are (from left) Meagan Binnie, 12, Lucie Hood, 10, Leah Reid, 11, Hannah Kin 12, Guy Roadley 12, Phoebe McKenzie 10, Kylana Peauafi-Symonds 11, Logan Scammell 12 and Mitchell Veix (12).

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■ SWIMMING

Youngsters get serious Nine junior swimmers of the Jennian Homes Ashburton Swim Team are in Dunedin this weekend for three days of racing at a New Zealand Junior Festival.

They are among 204 swimmers from all over the South Island competing at the Mako Zone Swim Meet.

The swimmers have been putting in a lot of time at the pool preparing for this meet, which is

the first national event for all of them.

They will be accompanied by coach Pip White and head down with the hopes of achieving personal best times, perfecting techniques, and hopefully some medals.

The NZ Junior Festival-Mako Zone Swim Meet is the new national meet for junior swimmers (12 and under) and replaces

New Zealand Juniors Swim Meet which was last run two years ago.

The changes made split the event into four zones – Harlequins (upper North Island), Aquaknights (Central North Island), All Stars (lower North Island) and Makos (entire South Island).

All zones will be competing this weekend.

Swimmers must qualify in an

individual medley event first before qualifying in any other event.

Swimming New Zealand introduced the new criteria to keep kids interested in swimming longer by making it more engaging, fun and taking the pressure off the swimmers in the hopes that they will stay in the sport longer and produce more success at top level events.

■ WINTER OLYMPICS

Expensive mistake for Thornbury A horror final run has cost Kiwi skeleton racer Rhys Thornbury a top 10 finish at the Winter Olympics.

Thornbury came into the final run in seventh spot, but a mis-

take at the start saw him finish with the worst time in the fourth and final run.

The 28-year-old lost control of his sled as he started his run, and while he eventually corralled it,

he had lost all of his momentum, significantly slowing his eventual run down the course.

He eventually finished with a time of 52.14 seconds, by far his worst of his four runs, and 0.5

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As a result, he dropped from seventh overall to 14th overall, and cut a dejected figure after the conclusion of his race. - NZME

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In brief AshColl into 3x3 Ashburton College will send two teams to the annual 3x3 secondary school basketball championships in Tauranga next month. Coach Roasty Douglas will take a junior boys’ team and a senior girls’ team to the three-day tournament on March 21-23. Around 70 teams are expected to enter and AshColl will spearhead a larger contingent of South Island teams as interest in the 3x3 format of the game grows. The junior boys’ team is: Thomas Patterson, William Joyce, Jacob Swan, Jacob Tallentire and Otto Mareko. The senior girls are: Taryn Douglas, Poppy Kilworth, Grace Adams, Sophie Adams and Summer Anderson.

Star still on the rise Ben Simmons thought he should be an All-Star by now. Yet each time commissioner Adam Silver needed to tab an injury replacement from the Eastern Conference, he looked in another direction, to Simmons’ disappointment.

Simmons expressed disappointment he didn’t get the call. Be patient, rookie. Simmons will likely get his chance some day. Maybe a bunch of them. “He’s a young player that has a bright future that is going to have a long and steady All-Star career,” Hall of Famer and TNT analyst Reggie Miller said.

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

In brief

■ SOUTHLAND

Trentham trip on the line Promising filly Anythingcouldhappn can take a step closer to a North Island trip when she runs at Ascot Park today.

The daughter of Iffraaj faces the toughest test of her fledgling career in the Listed ILT Ascot Park Hotel Southland Guineas (1600m).

Trained by Steven Woodsford, Anythingcouldhappn holds a nomination for the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) and a couple more bold showings will book her ticket to Trentham.

“As long as she runs well on Saturday and then at Riccarton we’ll give it a go,” Woodsford said.

Anythingcouldhappn won over a mile at Wingatui last time out and has trained on well since.

“She’s got a good draw and she’s got a bit of gate speed so she’ll put herself up there on the pace,” Woodsford said.

“She’s a pretty good filly and she’ll have no trouble staying so the Oaks is the ultimate goal.”

Anythingcouldhappn is out of the Istidaad mare Dimondsontheinside, who won six races and finished fourth in the Gr.2 New Zealand Cup (3200m), fifth in a Gr.1 Wellington Cup and sixth in a Gr.1 Auckland Cup (3200m).

The well-related Iago will use a better surface at Gisborne tomorrow to further his Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) preparation. Rain-affected going at Ellerslie for the Electrolux Avondale Guineas (2100m) has forced Team Rogerson to opt for the Gisborne Refrigeration 2000m.

“It’s too wet at Ellerslie for him, he needs a good track,” Graeme Rogerson said.

- NZME

Oaks challenge still on The responsibility of retaining Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman’s Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld New Zealand Oaks title now rests with Marcellina and Milseain. The Cambridge trainers, who produced Bonneval to win last season’s edition, had Lily The Pink in contention until injury forced her late scratching from the Listed Oaks Prelude (1800m) at New Plymouth. “She’s fractured a splint bone in her hind leg, although it’s not quite as bad as it sounds,” Forsman said. - NZME

Outside draw a worry

Anythingcouldhappn has been nominated for the Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks.

The stable will also be represented in the Guineas by Thom Brown.

He is the winner of one of his four appearances and a last-

start sixth in the Listed Dunedin Guineas (1500m).

“He’s still learning and he didn’t have a lot of luck at Wingatui,” Woodsford said.

“The start before at Riccarton he should have finished closer as well, so not very much has gone his way in his races lately.”

- NZME

Danzdanzdance’s tricky barrier in today’s Gr.2 Electrolux Waikato Guineas at Ellerslie is a niggling concern for co-trainer Chris Gibbs.

“The draw (18) is awkward, it’s a short run to the first turn so there is a little bit of uncertainty,” he said.

Danzdanzdance has won once from three appearances and last time out she finished off well for sixth in the Karaka 3YO Classic.

- NZME

Stakes test beckons

■ AUCKLAND CUP

Shift of focus for the Sharrock stable Kawi’s season might be over, but New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock has a Group One firmly in his sights with another emerging star of his stable.

Sharrock has confirmed a fetlock issue, which came to light after Kawi’s unplaced run in last Saturday’s Gr.1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa, has ended the seven-time Group One winner’s season.

“He’s got heat and filling in a fetlock and while it’s not serious, he’s too good a horse to be mucking around with for a couple of weeks trying to get an-

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Iago off to Gisborne

other run out of this campaign,” he said.

“He’s up at the Hamilton Vet Clinic and they are happy with him.

“It’s nothing major, but enough to back off him for the season.

“We’re pulling out at the right time and this way he can come back and have a really good year as an eight-year-old.”

Sharrock’s Group One focus now switches to his Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) favourite Ladies First, who tackles right-handed racing for the first time in today’s West-

inghouse Nathan’s Memorial (2400m) at Ellerslie.

Sharrock said there was room for improvement in the Dylan Thomas five-year-old’s work right-handed on Tuesday and though she trained well on Thursday morning, he was expecting her to take benefit from her first race in the clockwise direction.

“She’ll have two runs righthanded before the Auckland Cup – this Saturday and the Saturday before the race,” Sharrock said.

“I always like them to have a practice run that way around.

“She’s not gilt-edged for Saturday, but then the heavy ground will suit her so she should still run well.”

Ladies First has won seven of her 13 starts, six on heavy tracks to go with her last-start win on a good track at Te Rapa.

“It was a terrific run at Te Rapa, albeit in just a three-horse field.

It caught me a bit by surprise just how forward she was.

“If it’s a firm track for the Auckland Cup, she’ll be very competitive, but if it rains, they might just be in a world of pain.”

- NZME

Talented filly Astor will chase her first black type victory at Ellerslie on Derby day. The Listed Mufhasa Stakes (1300m) on March 3 is the three-year-old’s goal, but the immediate focus is on today’s Beko Appliances 1200m. Astor delighted trainer Cody Cole with her effort for second when resuming in the Mongolian Khan Trophy and said the daughter of Iffraaj hasn’t missed a beat since.

- NZME

Kiwi-breds doing well New Zealand-breds have already provided Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young with three winners this week. The Cranbourne-based couple produced Montaser to score at Sandown on Wednesday, then followed up with a winning double at Pakenham on Thursday courtesy of the Tavistock filly Hapuka and Our Peaky Blinders.

Auckland gallops Today at Ellerslie Raceway

Auckland RC Venue: Ellerslie Meeting Date: 17 Feb 2018 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles : 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.49pm (NZT) BEKO APPLIANCES 1200 $25,000, 3YO SW+P, 1200m 1 85022 Morrie Ock d (1) 57.5 ...................... S Spratt 2 4x814 Eeny Meeny Miny Mo (3) 57.5J Fawcett (a2) 3 2147x Inca Warrior dm (4) 57.5 .................A Collett 4 143x2 Astor m (2) 56.5 ..............................S Collett 5 5x01 Not Usual Heart d (5) 55.5 .........M Cameron 6 68x66 Mutechi dm (6) 55.5 ...................R Elliot (a1) 2 1.24pm PATEL PIKE & ASSOCIATES 1200 $35,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1200m 1 3608x Magnum d (2) 60...........................J Waddell 2 4300x Marciano tm (7) 59.5 ................. M D Plessis 3 14137 Vanilla Moon dm (5) 54 .................. J Bayliss 4 111x2 Blue Shadow db (6) 54 ................... S Spratt 5 x236x Showemup dmb (3) 54 ...............M Cameron 6 69472 Rich Billie Marsh dm (4) 54 ....J Fawcett (a2) 7 1114x Monarch Chimes tmb (1) 54 ...E McCall (a4) 3 1.59pm 100% APPLIANCES 1200 $27,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 40166 Breezon td (3) 59.5 ....................... M Walker 2 71927 Blue Breeze (12) 59 ....................T Abel (a4) 3 x4521 Corporate Raider t (7) 59 ...........G Cooksley 4 21 Forever Clever d (8) 59 ......................M Hills 5 4x814 Eeny Meeny Miny Mo (6) 58.5 ........A Collett

6 92173 Full Of Talent td (11) 58.5................M Vance 7 58719 Nopele (1) 58.5 .........................T Wenn (a3) 8 16. Its Destinys Child db (9) 57 .............J Riddell 9 3x126 Silver Cloud db (5) 57 ................. D Johnson 10 1058x O’Princess (4) 55.5 .............A Schwerin (a2) 11 16x07 Combat Warrior m (2) 55 ...........R Elliot (a1) 12 89 Its All Fake News (10) 54 .........J Nason (a2) 4 2.34 APPLIANCE SHED 1500 $40,000, OPN HCP 1 28424 Consensus t (4) 60..........................A Collett 2 75450 Saint Emilion td (1) 60................M Cameron 3 42022 Camino Rocoso tb (6) 54 ............ D Johnson 4 30x41 Iwannadancelikehim t (5) 54 ......M Coleman 5 29191 Break My Stride tm (7) 54 .............. J Parkes 6 63130 Arraignment (2) 54 7 70126 Elusive Meteor (3) 54 ......................S Collett 5 3.09pm VECTOR WERO WHITEWATER PARK 1600 $30,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 4718x Weather With You (6) 59 .................J Riddell 2 34427 Toorak Tower d (8) 58.5......S Weatherley (a) 3 61452 Irish Mist tdm (1) 57.5 .................... J Parkes 4 23112 Neverstopdreaming (7) 57.5 5 01250 Bella Court t (5) 57..........................S Collett 6 96117 Daytona Red t (12) 57 .....................A Collett 7 50641 Lucky Sweep td (4) 56.5 ................. S Spratt 8 23555 Silver Sasanof d (2) 56.5......T Newman (a3) 9 x8712 Richie McHorse td (11) 55.5 ...........R Myers 10 22x11 Hinerangi d (9) 55 ......................M Cameron

11 7x521 Southern Princess dm (3) 55 ...J Nason (a2) 12 43081 Piece Of Kate 54.5 ....................... Scratched 13 9x548 Veearma tm (10) 54.5 ............... M D Plessis 14 651 Excelsior Island 54 ....................... Scratched 6 3.44pm WESTINGHOUSE NATHAN’S MEMORIAL $40,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 2400m 1 13223 Kaharau td (13) 60 .......................... S Spratt 2 65717 Von Tunzelman b (9) 60 ....................L Innes 3 32515 Zacada td (6) 59.......................... D Johnson 4 01331 Charles Road td (10) 58.5.............. J Bayliss 5 51131 Magic Chai t (14) 58.5...................M McNab 6 18x90 Araldo Junior (3) 58.......................J Waddell 7 1x501 Ladies First m (12) 55.5 .................V Colgan 8 06717 Call Me Royal tm (11) 55 .......... M D Plessis 9 06x42 Show The World tb (5) 54.5 ........... J Parkes 10 41811 Excalibur t (15) 54 ......................M Cameron 11 68550 Smedley tm (4) 54 ...................H Marzuki (a) 12 01616 August Edition tm (8) 54..................R Myers 13 64533 Comin’through t (1) 54 ....................A Collett 14 15155 High Spirits (2) 54 ...........................S Collett 15 90990 Arite Guru m (7) 54 ..................J Fawcett (a) 7 4.25 ELECTROLUX AVONDALE GUINEAS $100,000, 3YO SW, 2100m 1 12811 Scott Base tm (15) 56.5 ..................R Myers 2 11x11 Mission Hill m (20) 56.5 .............. D Johnson 3 1324 Endowment b (8) 56.5.....................A Collett 4 21132 Mongolianconqueror (9) 56.5 ........M McNab

5 51138 On The Rocks t (5) 56.5 ................. J Bayliss 6 78718 Irish Flame (21) 56.5 ......................V Colgan 7 51030 Secret Ambition (6) 56.5 .................S Collett 8 141 The Mayor (19) 56.5...........S Weatherley (a) 9 35x46 Vin De Dance m (2) 56.5 ..............J Waddell 10 212 Flying Feet b (17) 56.5 .................. M Walker 11 03457 Griffin (4) 56.5 ................................ J Parkes 12 41862 Iago tb (14) 56.5........................ M D Plessis 13 21227 Persian Empire (12) 56.5 ..................L Innes 14 6331 Sacred Party (11) 56.5 ...............M Coleman 15 3x16 Danzdanzdance (18) 54.5..........M Cameron 16 62361 Transformer (13) 56.5......................J Riddell 17 33310 Jimmy Rocket (7) 56.5 18 04108 Iffraajinator (3) 56.5 19 94628 Eitilt (1) 56.5 20 x2100 Tavlin (10) 56.5 21 033 Le Patron (16) 56.5 Emergencies: Transformer, Jimmy Rocket, Iffraajinator, Eitilt, Tavlin, Le Patron 8 5.00 VODAFONE EVENTS CENTRE 2100 $27,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 x6601 Major Tom m (5) 59.5 .............J Fawcett (a2) 2 4x133 Boomerang (6) 59 .............................L Innes 3 x0060 Heart Beat td (19) 59 ...................... S Spratt 4 x0043 Splendido d (1) 59......................G Cooksley 5 25187 Aero De Paris (4) 58.5 ................... J Bayliss 6 13 Contraband (13) 58.5 ....................J Waddell

7 45821 He’s A Freak (16) 58.5 ..................M Tanaka 8 21 Joe’s Legacy (12) 58.5 ....................A Collett 9 62361 Transformer (7) 58.5........................J Riddell 10 33310 Jimmy Rocket (2) 58 ..................M Coleman 11 x0x05 Cool Tart d (14) 57.5 .......................S Collett 12 00x01 Secret Embrace (17) 57 .............. D Johnson 13 33621 Madam Woo 56.5 ......................... Scratched 14 x8761 Princess El Jay d (3) 56.5 ..S Weatherley (a) 15 0710 Counting Crows (10) 56 .............M Cameron 16 57852 Sovereign Prince 58 ..................... Scratched 17 04108 Iffraajinator (15) 57.5 18 0x188 Time Alone (8) 58 19 x2100 Tavlin (11) 57.5 20 41x09 Itsabird (18) 55.5 21 50206 Soul Sensation m (9) 55.5 Blinkers on: Its Destinys Child (R3), Hinerangi, Veearma (R5), Heart Beat, Itsabird (R8) Blinkers off: Camino Rocoso (R4), Weather With You (R5) SELECTIONS

Race 1: Astor, Not Usual Heart, Morrie Ock, Eeny Meeny Miny Mo Race 2: Blue Shadow, Vanilla Moon, Showemup, Marciano Race 3: Silver Cloud, Breezon, Its Destinys Child, Full Of Talent Race 4: Break My Stride, Camino Rocoso, Iwannadancelikehim Race 5: Hinerangi, Richie McHorse, Daytona Red, Lucky Sweep Race 6: Magic Chai, Zacada, Excalibur, Charles Road Race 7: Mission Hill, Scott Base, Mongolianconqueror, Sacred Party Race 8: Boomerang, Aero De Paris, Splendido, Joe’s Legacy

Sunday racing www.guardianonline.co.nz

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Winton harness

Tomorrow at the Central Southland Raceway

Winton Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Central Southland 9 84901 Overcast (8) fr ...........................E Barron (J) Raceway Meeting Date: 18 Feb 2018 NZ Meeting number: 8 10 06600 Miss Bamboocha (9) fr ..................... A Milne Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 11 46097 Our Budd (10) fr ..................... S Walkinshaw 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 12 43899 Moniburns (11) fr........................... B Barclay

1 12.05pm (NZT) HYDROFLOW MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 23 Thisexcusebetterbeit (1) fr ............B Orange 2 25232 Kiwis Are Flying (2) fr ....................R Holmes 3 Franco Noah (3) fr ................... C D Thornley 4 Emoji (4) fr ....................................... D Dunn 5 3 Convair Hustler (5) fr ..................... B Barclay 6 26565 Broadway Banner (6) fr ..................H Hunter 7 88590 Queen Of The Nite (7) fr ................C Barron 8 06 Change Up Dulc (U1) fr ......... S Walkinshaw 2 12.35pm JOIN MASTER PLUMBERS MOBILE PACE $9000, up to mr47 mob. pace, mobile, 2400m 1 42309 Razcal Alley (1) fr ................... S Walkinshaw 2 37956 Lady’s Lass (2) fr...................... T Robertson 3 55745 Carlo Gambino (3) fr ...................B McLellan 4 03046 Fun Sponge (4) fr ..........................B Orange 5 03607 Bettor Option (5) fr ...................B Williamson 6 88839 Honour Scroll (6) fr........................... D Dunn 7 74589 Particular (7) fr .........................C Faithful (J) 8 59402 Honour The Bet (8) fr ...........S Tomlinson (J) 9 57586 Dreaminsover (21) fr ............... C D Thornley 10 00x06 Jilaire’s Mac (22) fr .........................K Larsen 11 0807 Got Another Lover (23) fr ...............H Hunter 12 0790 Sherwood Ashlyn (24) fr 13 679 Vigoroso (25) fr ....................... M Williamson 14 26770 Vintage Rose (26) fr ...................... B Barclay 15 60837 Blue Chip Lady (27) fr ................R McIlwrick 16 08070 Iechyd Da (28) fr ..................... N Williamson

13 50660 Makarewa Rum (U1) fr ..................B Orange 14 49364 Pres The Belle (U2) fr ...................R Holmes 15 90082 Rydgemont Milly (U3) fr ....................A Beck 16 098x0 Ko Wrected (U4) fr ............................. A Kyle Emergencies: Another Delight, Miss Bamboocha 4 1.45 RWC RELIANCE WORLDWIDE MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m mob. pace, 1609m 1 Chitura (1) fr ............................ C D Thornley 2 80008 Hans Ideal (2) fr .........................C Ferguson 3 Edie Jaccka (3) fr .......................... B Barclay 4 8x Thisladyrocks (4) fr.................. M Williamson 5 0x990 Classie Princess fr ....................... Scratched 6 Me And My Excuses (5) fr.............B Orange 7 8 Kath’s Finale (6) fr .............................A Beck 8 08070 Iechyd Da (7) fr 9 0 Blarney Babe (21) fr ..................M Hurrell (J) 10 7x057 Nicky Anew (22) fr .................. J Morrison (J) 11 090 Char Ellie (23) fr .......................B Williamson 12 56364 Lis Amore (24) fr ........................R McIlwrick 13 00x0 Sportage Denario (25) fr ......... N Williamson 14 6 Zenola’s Art (26) fr ........................... D Dunn 15 43043 Gotta Good Looker (27) fr ..............K Larsen Emergencies: Classie Princess, Iechyd Da

5 2.20pm PLUMBING WORLD MOBILE TROT $10,000,

3yo+ up to & including r70 mob. trot, mobile, 2400m 1 96x09 Another Delight fr ......................... Scratched 2 272x4 Lynette The Vet (1) fr ...........................G Lee 3 16178 War Admiral (2) fr ............................. D Dunn Emergencies: Sherwood Ashlyn, Iechyd Da 29x00 Daiquiri (3) fr ........................... N Williamson 3 1.10pm RHEEM FOR HOT WATER TROT $8000, up 45 10600 I’ve Got This (4) fr ................... M Williamson to & including r55 trot, stand, 2400m 6 61933 Ace Commander (5) fr ................. B Norman 1 90655 Lundqvist (1) fr .........................B Williamson 7 78770 Spotlight The Valley (6) fr ..............B Orange 2 04342 Nottingham K Two (2) fr ..............G McEwan 8 13201 Jeddy R Ya Ready (7) fr ...........B Williamson 3 05320 Grace O’Malley (3) fr ...................... P Hunter 9 x1004 Too Cool (21) fr ............................. B Barclay 4 43246 Scarlett Lane (4) fr .................... M Purvis (J) 5 32P1x Kiwi Crusher (5) fr ............................ D Dunn 6 2.55 PETER COCKS DAIRY CYLINDERS MOBILE 6 96x09 Another Delight fr ......................... Scratched PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+ mr47 to mr50 2400m 1 0x990 Classie Princess (1) fr 7 6631x Svelt (6) fr................................ N Williamson 2 2 Ideal For Sure (2) fr ...........................A Beck 8 65555 Heavenly Love (7) fr ................ M Williamson

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

3 2 Tact Maggie (3) fr .......................... B Barclay 4 0790 Sherwood Ashlyn (4) fr 5 07x23 L J’s Jet (5) fr ......................... J Morrison (J) 6 5 Mister Mighty (6) fr ........................R Holmes 7 8 Cruisin Reuben (7) fr........................ D Dunn 8 74 Complete Package (8) fr ......M Anderson (J) 9 43094 Kagee VC (21) fr .................... S Walkinshaw 10 23456 Bettors Atom (22) fr....................C Ferguson 11 057 Stormntaza (23) fr .........................B Orange 12 43 Glacier Coaster (24) fr ..............E Barron (J) 13 040 Franco June (25) fr.................. M Williamson 14 40 Be Holme By Three (26) fr ...... N Williamson 15 32250 Maahes (U1) fr ........................ C D Thornley 16 0 Lite Piccolo (U2) fr ........................ K Barclay Emergencies: Classie Princess, Sherwood Ashlyn 7 3.29pm MICO PLUMBING BATHROOMS MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ f&m up to & including r63 1609m 1 68888 RnR Windermere (1) fr.........S Tomlinson (J) 2 03034 Dachy (2) fr ..............................B Williamson 3 16074 Bridesdale Robyn (3) fr ..............C Ferguson 4 017 Raksbet (4) fr ................................B Orange 5 013 Loma Jaccka (5) fr ........................ B Barclay 6 7x061 Ideal Breeze (6) fr .......................B McLellan 7 23143 Tara Tutaia (7) fr ...................... C D Thornley 8 16901 Maidonthebeach (8) fr ............. M Williamson 9 23306 Bettor Enforce (21) fr.........................A Beck 10 232x6 Indiana Dreaming (22) fr .................R Swain 11 24Fx4 Jody Direen (23) fr ........................... D Dunn 12 11 Nemera Franco fr ......................... Scratched 13 34165 Idealistic Lass (24) fr ............... N Williamson 8 4.04pm EMPLOY A MASTER PLUMBER MOBILE PACE $12,000, 3yo+ r58 to r75 mob. pace, 2400m 1 27785 Ossessione (1) fr..................... M Williamson 2 15231 Lawrence (2) fr .........................B Williamson 3 76411 Ardtoo (3) fr ................................C Ferguson 4 40019 The Maroon Marauder (4) fr............. A Milne 5 66634 Southbound Train (5) fr ...................R Swain 6 77707 Bettor Buy It (6) fr........................B McLellan 7 x3387 Young Conqueror (7) fr.................. B Barclay 8 1119x Expresso Martini (8) fr .........M Anderson (J) 9 71180 Some Excusesomewhere (21) fr ...B Orange 10 21106 Zealand Star (22) fr ................. C D Thornley 11 x1147 Gotta Minute (23) fr ..............S Tomlinson (J)

Blair Orange looks to continue a purple patch of form at the Winton HRC meeting tomorrow.

10 231 Duke Of Wellington (22) fr ............. B Barclay 11 05215 Archman (23) fr ..........................R McIlwrick 12 80070 Cullens Avenue (24) fr ............ M Williamson 13 96975 First Son (25) fr ....................S Tomlinson (J) 14 7Px12 Vin Scully (26) fr.......................B Williamson 15 17780 It’s All Over Now (27) fr 16 32770 Hopeful Harriet (28) fr ...................... D Dunn Emergencies: Mach’s Back, It’s All Over Now 10 5.14pm BUTELINE MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r40 to r52, r53 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2400m 1 01706 John Coltrane (1) fr ..............M Anderson (J) 2 57845 Misty Memory (2) fr ................. M Williamson 3 x0393 Repartee (3) fr ........................ N Williamson 4 34322 Nightmarch (4) fr ........................... B Barclay 5 60990 Man I’m Good (5) fr ............................ A Kyle 6 95490 Northview Betta (6) fr ....................... D Dunn 7 09373 El Dinero (7) fr............................C Ferguson 8 36490 Pegasus Merrily (8) fr 9 07932 My Georgie Boy (21) fr ................... P Hunter 10 51541 Annie Fitz (22) fr ....................... C Purvis (J) 11 56763 Hurricane Banner (23) fr ......S Tomlinson (J) 12 32602 Canardly Remember (24) fr ......M Hurrell (J) 13 07318 The Heart Rulz fr ......................... Scratched 14 57387 Bold Ruler (25) fr............................K Larsen 15 65369 Belle Of Brooklyn (26) fr................B Orange 16 82207 Ellnbac (27) fr..............................B McLellan Emergencies: Northview Betta, Pegasus Merrily SELECTIONS

12 120x1 Especial (24) fr ................................. D Dunn 13 31005 Shezacullengirl (25) fr ............. N Williamson 14 13935 Shortys Mate (26) fr ..........................A Beck 9 4.39 MASTERLINK FOR APPRENTICESHIPS MBL PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r53 to r57, r58 with cond. 2400m 1 0x000 Mach’s Back (1) fr 2 22123 Shelby Bromac (2) fr .........................A Beck 3 74988 Franco Huntington (3) fr ......... S Walkinshaw 4 1x Mr Kiwi (4) fr............................ N Williamson 5 04236 Kiwi On Show (5) fr .......................R Holmes 6 93621 Son Of Brahma (6) fr.....................B Orange 7 38522 Ansett Flight (7) fr .......................... P Hunter 8 82x89 Knockmanaugh (8) fr .............. C D Thornley 9 x8019 Jeremy Jones (21) fr ...........................G Lee

Race 1: Kiwis Are Flying, Convair Hustler, Thisexcusebetterbeit Race 2: Carlo Gambino, Honour Scroll, Fun Sponge Race 3: Rydgemont Milly, Pres The Belle, Overcast, Svelt Race 4: Chitura, Edie Jaccka, Me And My Excuses Race 5: War Admiral, Ace Commander, Jeddy R Ya Ready Race 6: Tact Maggie, Be Holme By Three, Stormntaza Race 7: Raksbet, Loma Jaccka, Jody Direen, Bettor Enforce Race 8: Especial, Young Conqueror, Southbound Train Race 9: Mr Kiwi, Shelby Bromac, Duke Of Wellington Race 10: Repartee, Belle Of Brooklyn, John Coltrane, Nightmarch

10 61604 Real Beach (11) 56.5 ....................M Tanaka 11 2149 So You Sparkle (16) 56 12 54354 Sweet Treat m (10) 55.5 .............R Elliot (a1) 13 65790 Eskimo Kiss m (1) 55 ......................A Collett 14 49396 Star Ella d (12) 54 ................T Newman (a3) 15 41862 Iago b (9) 59................................ C Johnson 16 70x16 Carnaby mb (5) 57.5 Emergencies: Iago, Carnaby 7 4.23pm VINTECH PACIFIC MAIDEN 1400 $10,000, MAIDEN, 1400m 1 x7224 Powerball (9) 58.5 ................ S MacNab (a2) 2 77037 Al Be Civics (4) 58.5 .............H Marzuki (a3) 3 35x00 Ruby Rueben (10) 58.5.......A Schwerin (a2) 4 8x0x Determination (5) 58.5 .............J Nason (a2) 5 x66x3 Tuigold (8) 58 ..................................S Collett 6 02456 Tuff Girl (3) 56.5 .........................R Elliot (a1) 7 800. Jezibaba (7) 56.5 ..........................M Tanaka 8 x5703 Politely (2) 56 ..................................R Myers 9 30477 Lavish (11) 56 .................................A Collett 10 90 Altenari (1) 56 ............................. C Johnson 11 Honfleur (12) 56 .........................M Coleman 12 Lady Zeraph (6) 56 ............S Weatherley (a) 8 4.58pm JON SNOW POVERTY BAY CUP $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1600m 1 26252 Scapolo tdm (14) 68.5.......... S MacNab (a2) 2 55272 Overtheriver td (8) 66.5 ............. D Hirini (a1) 3 74000 Saint Kitt d (6) 60.5 ........................... T Allan 4 16616 Shadow King dm (1) 58.5 ...............R Myers 5 17064 Locally Sauced tm (12) 57.5 ...........S Collett 6 28346 Skyweka d (13) 55 .....................M Coleman 7 92238 Staccato dm (5) 54.5.....................M Tanaka 8 46146 Don’t Look Back m (2) 54 9 38532 Pasabahce dm (3) 54 .................R Elliot (a1) 10 4163x Sacred Empire (10) 54 .............J Nason (a2)

11 18104 Lady Guinness db (11) 54..S Weatherley (a) 12 24122 Can You Hear Me d (4) 54...............A Collett 13 212x7 Zed Em m (9) 54 14 60171 Tavigarde td (7) 54 ...................... C Johnson 15 x440x Malfarious tdm (15) 54 Emergency: Malfarious 9 5.35pm GISBORNE FISHERIES MILE $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 0x556 Highbrook dm (9) 60 .......................R Myers 2 582D1 Prized Pins (7) 59 ................ S MacNab (a2) 3 9x240 Tavis Star dm (2) 58 .............T Newman (a3) 4 x4175 Swiss Eire (13) 58 ......................R Elliot (a1) 5 70x16 Carnaby dmb (4) 57.5 6 56758 Prodigal Son m (5) 57.5 .............. C Johnson 7 656x4 Voxer (1) 57 ...................................M Tanaka 8 61 Okoto d (6) 56.5 .........................M Coleman 9 1 Terra Sancta (10) 56.5 ....................S Collett 10 4x510 Imeldas Girl d (12) 56.5 ..................A Collett 11 0x553 Scarlet Princess (8) 56.5....S Weatherley (a) 12 06608 Cutting Up Rough (14) 56.5 13 408x7 Commander m (11) 55 ............... J Grob (a2) 14 78778 Em Kay Pops m (3) 54 .................... A Jones

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

Poverty Bay gallops Tomorrow at Makaraka Raceway

Poverty Bay TC Venue: Makaraka Date: 18 Feb 2018 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.53pm BETAVET & EAST OUTDOOR WORK & LEISURE MILE MDN $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 334Fx Ardenne (1) 58.5 2 x54x2 Nabiac (2) 58.5 ..........................R Elliot (a1) 3 0x54x Tipical (4) 58.5 ................................A Collett 4 94496 Exonerate (6) 58.5 ...................... C Johnson 5 7x008 Riptyne (5) 58.5 .......................J Nason (a2) 6 2223 Lillet Rose (10) 56.5 ...........S Weatherley (a) 7 x27x9 Bare With (8) 56.5 ................ S MacNab (a2) 8 0x56 Aperol (9) 56.5 .................................. T Allan 9 x3809 Over Torque (7) 56.5 .......................S Collett 10 3 Skaaboom (3) 56 .......................M Coleman 2 1.28pm PAK’nSAVE MAIDEN 1200 $10,000, MDN 2YO&UP, 1200m 1 28x Lala Land (2) 58 ..............................A Collett 2 8x870 Ellison (1) 58 .............................. J Grob (a2) Rosie Myers is aboard Shadow 3 5x60x Delta De Lago (4) 56.5..................M Tanaka King, a top chance in the Jon Snow 4 08060 Madam Makfi (10) 56.5 ................... A Jones Poverty Bay Cup tomorrow.

5 432 Pink Graffiti (9) 56 ......................M Coleman 6 3 Torre Del Greco (5) 56 6 x4223 Walkin’ By (3) 56 ........................M Coleman 7 5 Honesty (8) 56 ............................ C Johnson 7 33. One Way Street (7) 56 ....................S Collett 8 Reliable Glow (7) 56........................S Collett 8 55x44 Confessional (5) 56 ..................... C Johnson 9 Sasanqua (3) 56 ......................J Nason (a2) 9 4x Lunar Lady (1) 56..........................M Tanaka 10 Winner Takes All (6) 56 ..............R Elliot (a1) Tintero (10) 56 ...........................R Elliot (a1) 3 2.03pm THE GISBORNE HERALD MAIDEN 1200 10 4 2.38pm DONALDSON’S PLUMBING 1200 $12,000, $10,000, MAIDEN 2YO&UP, 1200m 1 2 Abrahams (4) 58 ........................ J Grob (a2) Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 41P25 Culzean (7) 59 ................................S Collett 2 Stand Tall (8) 58 2 5061. Supagili (10) 58.5 ..................H Marzuki (a3) 3 0x Off The Grid (9) 58 3 63376 Ichiban dm (5) 58.5 .........................R Myers 4 Remington (2) 58 ...............S Weatherley (a) 4 0100x Luen Yat Miracle (11) 58 .................A Collett 5 5800x La Roccetta (6) 56.5 ................J Nason (a2)

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5 360x4 Maestro Max d (12) 57.5 ............M Coleman 6 2x186 Island Bay (8) 56.5 .....................R Elliot (a1) 7 53622 Saignon tdmb (9) 56.5 ................ C Johnson 8 x7186 Deb (3) 56 .....................................M Tanaka 9 08578 Flavouring dm (1) 56 ................J Nason (a2) 10 75460 St Regis d (4) 56 ........................ J Grob (a2) 11 048x7 Abbey Kay d (2) 55.5 ...........T Newman (a3) 12 7096x Milly Moo tdm (6) 54 ..........S Weatherley (a) 5 3.13 MATAWHERO WINES MAIDEN 2000 $10,000, MAIDEN, 2000m 1 27346 Deejay Mac (7) 58.5 .................... C Johnson 2 785x9 Rocking Good Time (3) 58.5 ............. T Allan 3 x0558 Smiling Assassin (10) 58.5 ...........M Tanaka 4 x09F0 Duke Street (9) 58.5.................J Nason (a2) 5 7x008 Riptyne 58.5 ................................. Scratched 6 5239 Sacred Tonic (6) 58 ....................M Coleman 7 337 Bel Ragazzo (8) 58 .........................A Collett 8 8x3. Dangerman (4) 58 ...........................S Collett 9 33374 Hello Sailor 56.5........................... Scratched 10 8x035 Bastille Babe (5) 56.5........... S MacNab (a2) 11 94056 Keep The Moment (11) 56.5 ..... D Hirini (a1) 12 36275 Pont Alma b (2) 56 .....................R Elliot (a1) 13 6463 English Rose (1) 56 ........................R Myers 6 3.48 GISBORNE REFRIGERATION 2000 $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 4x1 Sacred Day (4) 58.5 ...................M Coleman 2 75087 Garfunkel d (2) 58.5 3 55506 Stormy Habit dm (13) 58.5 .............. A Jones 4 58317 Suffice To Say (15) 58.5 ............. J Grob (a2) 5 03198 Baxfull d (8) 58 ................................S Collett 6 43618 Here To Stay d (7) 58 7 06264 Wilijonmcbride (6) 57 8 63243 En Suite td (3) 56.5 .........................R Myers 9 x0080 Keen To Keeper m (14) 56.5S Weatherley (a)

Blinkers on: Over Torque (R1), Pink Graffiti (R2), Abrahams, Walkin’ By (R3), Sacred Tonic (R5), Determination (R7), Cutting Up Rough (R9)

SELECTIONS Race 1: Lillet Rose, Skaaboom, Nabiac, Tipical, Aperol Race 2: Pink Graffiti, Torre Del Greco, Sasanqua, Lala Land Race 3: Abrahams, One Way Street, Stand Tall, Lunar Lady Race 4: Culzean, Saignon, Island Bay, Abbey Kay, Deb Race 5: Sacred Tonic, Dangerman, Pont Alma, Keep The Moment Race 6: En Suite, So You Sparkle, Real Beach, Sweet Treat Race 7: Tuigold, Powerball, Politely, Tuff Girl, Honfleur Race 8: Scapolo, Skyweka, Lady Guinness, Pasabahce Race 9: Okoto, Prized Pins, Swiss Eire, Terra Sancta

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium 5 31567 Warrior Tony nwtd U & ......................Cottam 4 8x612 Forever And Ever nwtd.................K Williams Date: 18 Feb 2018 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 6 78883 Made Time 18.31 ............................S Codlin 5 72761 Jetsun Doll 31.31 ...........................G Wilson 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12; 13 and 14 7 58642 Zimmer Frame 18.81 R &....................L Udy 6 44426 Secret Rory 30.98 .......................... G Farrell Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 8, 9 and 10; 12, 13 and 14 7 65647 Barwon Babe nwtd .....................D Schofield 8 24715 Barwon Bandit 18.74..................D Schofield 8 45622 Atomic Missile nwtd ..................... H Mullane 9 74664 Agistri 18.68 ................................... G Farrell 1 1.02pm (NZT) HIFI ALLEGRO SPRINT C3, 318m 9 75548 Hitch A Ride nwtd ........................... T Green 1 73585 Beat The Butcher 18.36 R & ...............L Udy 10 67557 Hows Your Mum 18.62 U & ...............Cottam 2 23813 Alex Attack 18.38 U & .......................Cottam 4 1.54pm (NZT) HE’S ALL POWER STAKES C1, 527m 10 25461 Opawa Vegan nwtd W &..................T Steele 3 44641 Ekali 18.42 ..................................... G Farrell 1 54237 Out Of Paper nwtd .......................... T Green 7 2.47pm LAST ONE STANDING SPRINT C4, 318m 4 77236 Nangar Panther 18.53 ................D Schofield 1 36212 Alyeska nwtd .....................................B Craik 2 22311 Don Morocco nwtd P & ................. J Cleaver 5 88657 Irinka Darcy 18.51 ...........................S Codlin 2 2742F Fantastic Sid 18.49 ....................D Schofield 3 48627 Jack No Lag 31.51 ......................... Y Castro 6 46747 Amazing Contact 18.67.....................B Bond 3 33422 Obstinatus 18.25 R & ..................N O’Regan 4 64855 Midnight Daydream 31.25 R & ............L Udy 7 15234 I’m A Leo 18.46 ...........................L Laagland 4 1211F Kiwi Boy 18.37 U & ...........................Cottam 5 43872 Deception Diva 31.01 W & ..............T Steele 8 82864 Harry Brown nwtd ........................ H Mullane 5 52811 Bitters 18.59 ..................................... S Clark 6 47747 Jetsun Stampede 31.39 .................G Wilson 9 26558 Guru Secret 18.86........................K Williams 6 54751 Waerenga Star 18.63 U & .................Cottam 7 56338 Dyna Bevlin nwtd U & .......................Cottam 10 868F4 Fantastic Zoe 18.51 ...................D Schofield 7 54634 Vee Marina nwtd U & ........................Cottam 8 63315 Talkabout Izzy 31.08 R & ......................Hunt 2 1.19 DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT 9 37741 Bark De Triomphe 31.17 ...................B Craik 8 67817 All Hail Caesar 18.58 U & .................Cottam 9 61457 Hallo Star 18.23 R & ...........................L Udy 10 74845 Home Bound nwtd .......................... T Green C0, 318m 10 84657 Mad Harry 18.61 .............................. S Clark 1 4 Red Dot Special nwtd .......................B Craik 5 2.11pm BRADANCAS SPRINT C2, 318m 2 76663 Bright Concept nwtd R &.....................L Udy 1 36561 Epic Force 18.63 .......................... H Mullane 8 3.04pm (NZT) WINSOME UNO STAKES C2, 527m 3 65456 Phuket Paul nwtd ............................S Codlin 1 56714 My Red Hero 30.87 R & ........................Hunt 2 36622 Noah Who 18.63 .......................... H Mullane 4 34323 Just A Matthew nwtd ........................M Black 2 14132 Thrilling Major nwtd ......................... K Walsh 3 537F5 Bigtime Summer nwtd .................. H Mullane 5 25 Leezrom nwtd ...................................B Craik 3 64264 Electric Dee Eye 30.71 ...................P Green 4 3822x Subzero Princess nwtd ..................C Henley 6 32583 It’s All Me nwtd ..................................G Hunt 4 72F18 Cosmic Barwon 31.24 ................D Schofield 5 56434 Umaga Rama 18.59 .........................M Black 7 57332 Snoopy’s Bro nwtd R & .........................Hunt 5 44152 Princess Alea 31.02 .......................C Henley 6 11211 Blitz ‘Em Rene 18.41 U &..................Cottam 8 53684 Star Secret nwtd ..........................K Williams 6 74163 Opawa Silver 30.60 .......................... S Clark 7 x3751 Scott No Value 18.51 ........................G Hunt 9 67851 Bigtime Olivia nwtd ......................K Williams 7 32315 Cameo Syd 30.79 .............................B Craik 8 21221 Brotastic 18.62 ..................................B Craik 10 24746 Crampton nwtd..............................A Cleaver 8 13216 Token Jasper 30.92 .......................... S Clark 9 11683 Unprofound 18.53 .............................E Potts 9 15763 San Tan Samson 30.68 ................... T Green 10 41155 King Shaq 18.45 ............................. T Green 3 1.37pm SWIMMING GOAT SPRINT C1, 318m 1 11231 Suspicious Minds nwtd .....................B Craik 6 2.29 CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN STKS C1, 527m 10 65278 Hey Khali nwtd U & ...........................Cottam 2 25523 Emoji 18.51 .......................................B Craik 1 86726 Tabulam Girl nwtd W &....................T Steele 9 3.22 MT WELLINGTON TAB DISTANCE C0d, 603m 3 65441 Carefree Highway nwtd ................K Williams 1 561x3 Light ‘em Elsa nwtd ......................... K Walsh 2 13543 Kiwi Gal 31.05 U & ............................Cottam 4 76563 Rocky’s To Much nwtd..................K Williams 2 62535 Swift Order nwtd ............................C Henley 3 74352 Victini 31.05 ...................................C Henley

3 4 5 6 7 8

63864 Hey Pretty Girl nwtd .......................C Henley 34868 Bigtime Bakagain nwtd ................ H Mullane 63467 Effectual nwtd....................................E Potts 47543 Finkle Foot Hero nwtd R & ....................Hunt 68156 Tullabung Googar nwtd ..............P Ferguson 56643 Thrilling Billy nwtd ......................P Ferguson 10 3.39pm LITTLE MOTHER STAKES C2/3, 527m 1 73638 Barwon Annie 31.02...................D Schofield 2 4F344 Jinja Squeak 30.48 W & ..................T Steele 3 67455 Letron James 30.59 ........................C Steele 4 11534 Kapai Bart 30.71 W & .....................T Steele 5 82365 Good Job 30.66 ..............................P Green 6 28274 Yooldome 30.59 .........................D Schofield 7 28145 Secret Lily 30.79 W &......................T Steele 8 14321 Idol Ajay 30.90 W &.........................T Steele Emergencies: 9 87787 Salvarotti 30.70 ..........................D Schofield 10 77461 Bigtime Dazzler nwtd ........................E Potts 11 3.57 QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C5, 318m 1 23323 Mrs Browns Girl nwtd R & ...........N O’Regan 2 16157 Elouera Mist 18.53 .....................P Ferguson 3 21221 Nitrology 18.26 ................................. S Clark 4 11131 Danny Dee nwtd ............................. K Walsh 5 61134 Classy Impact 18.35 ....................... T Green 6 33431 Kapai Lana 18.57 R & .........................L Udy 7 32244 Zipping Gabby nwtd ........................ K Walsh 8 25516 Wong Way 18.44 U & ........................Cottam 9 251x8 Ima Lucky Zarr 18.60 U & .................Cottam 10 12326 Belcroft Banker 18.15 ................H Laagland 12 4.14pm MANUKAU CUP C5, 527m 1 57111 Nangar Rock 30.31 ....................D Schofield 2 1F312 It’s A Plan 30.14 .............................P Henley

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85828 Opawa Jimbo nwtd W & ..................T Steele 23511 Global Conquest 30.27 W &............T Steele 63111 Amy Amy 30.47 .............................. G Farrell 11441 Sue Zooki 30.50 .............................. T Green 77537 Lochinvar Brogue 30.31 .............D Schofield 43414 Beautiful Boy 30.40 ...........................B Craik 72365 Zipping Ringo 30.63 R & .......................Hunt 13 4.32pm WILD PUNTING SPRINT C1, 318m 1 84423 Finkle Foot Fred nwtd R & ....................Hunt 2 72357 Spider Phil 18.98 R &..................N O’Regan 3 48344 Hot Machine nwtd ........................... T Green 4 116x8 Extroverted nwtd .......................... H Mullane 5 75358 Pepper’s Choice nwtd ..................K Williams 6 51752 Oloroso nwtd U & ..............................Cottam 7 84275 Just Jiggle nwtd U & .........................Cottam 8 1543 Bad 19.07..........................................B Craik Emergencies: 9 63446 Statman Dave 18.76 ..................H Laagland 10 55447 Bigtime Moola 18.60 R & ....................L Udy 14 4.49 JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS C1, 318m 1 16376 Katcha Ninja 18.78............................B Craik 2 78357 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver 3 78123 Forcible 18.79 .................................. S Clark 4 8415 Dagny nwtd .................................. H Mullane 5 16644 Simple Request 18.84.......................B Bond 6 36543 Scott Tied Up 18.63 U & ...................Cottam 7 56213 Mobility Scooter nwtd .......................M Black 8 x8638 Bahama Gas 19.06 ......................K Williams 9 44668 Zarzuella nwtd.................................S Codlin 10 78667 Was Just Saying 18.59 R &.................L Udy

LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Sport 22 Ashburton Guardian

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

In brief

■ ROWING

Rowers among the medals Ashburton rowers have three medals in the bank heading into the final day of the national rowing championships at Lake Karapiro today.

New Zealand junior team and former Ashburton College rower Veronica Wall teamed up with Grace Wilson to win silver in the women’s under 20 double sculls, while sisters Olivia and Mollie Gibson won bronze in the senior women’s doubles.

Para rower Terry O’Neill also took home a bronze medal.

The largest contingent of Ashburton rowers to ever attend the national regatta is producing great results, says coach Justin Wall.

The day started with the heats of the under 19 double sculls, with the two best crews in each heat progressing straight to the A final.

Wall and Wilson won their heat and the Gibson girls finished second to earn final spots.

Two fifth placings followed, with the senior women’s quad (Wilson, the Gibsons and Fran Connelly-Whyte) finishing in 7:03.15, 10 seconds outside a medal placing.

The men’s club quad (Matt Rae, Michael Wall, Haxby Hefford and Cameron Moffat) cut out the 2km course in 6:28.01, just four seconds off a bronze medal place.

The Gibson sisters combined just before midday in the senior women’s double sculls, lining up alongside another Ashburton crew of Wilson and ConnellyWhyte.

The sisters were just one second adrift of the second-placed boat, finishing in 7:42.16.

Wilson and Connelly-Whyte were seventh in 7:55.19.

Wall and Wilson produced the biggest prize of the day, winning silver in the under 20 doubles.

It was a two-horse race be-

Safe start for Paddon Kiwi Hayden Paddon posted the seventh fastest time in the opening stage of Rally Sweden yesterday. The Hyundai factory driver was 2.1s slower than stage winner Ott Tanak’s Toyota Yaris over the short, 1.9km city test. The stage saw two cars on track at the same time – Paddon pipped the Toyota of Esapekka Lappi by 0.1s in their head-to-head battle. “It’s good to be back, a good way to shake off the cobwebs,” Paddon said via Twitter.

- NZME

Lowndes hopeful Veteran Craig Lowndes will consider two things when weighing up his Supercars future as he comes out of contract at the end of next year. Three-time champion Lowndes, 43, finished 10th in last year’s championship and only mounted the podium once. With the Adelaide 500 getting this year’s campaign under way on March 1, he said he was unsure if his current contract would be his last. “I’ve had a great run and two things I’ve always said are that if the race car is being competitive and the enjoyment is always still there (I’ll continue),” Lowndes said. - AAP

McLaughlin crashes out Ford driver Scott McLaughlin has crashed out of yesterday’s preseason Supercars testing day in Sydney. The DJR Team Penske star slammed his Falcon into a wall at the first turn after a tyre failure.

The crash ended McLaughlin’s day but the New Zealand driver walked away unhurt from what he described as the “biggest” headon hit of his career.

- AAP

Thurston ‘nervous’ Veronica Wall will be hoping all the hard yards at training pay off in the last day of the national rowing championships at Lake Karapiro today. tween Ashburton and an Auckland crew, the winners crossing the line in 7:33.98 and the Ashburton rowers four seconds back.

There was a big gap to the bronze medal winners.

Hefford and Rae finished sixth

and eighth respectively in the club singles A final.

Despite their finals’ efforts, rowers had no time to relax and were back on the water late yesterday training for today’s finals.

Rae and Hefford are in the club doubles A final at 8.15am, while

Wall is a favourite to take out the under 22 singles at 8.30am.

She will be back with Wilson for the under 19 doubles, racing alongside the Gibson sisters, and will be one of three Ashburton rowers in the senior women’s A final at 1pm.

Johnathan Thurston admits he is nervous but has full confidence in his troublesome shoulder ahead of his long awaited NRL comeback.

The North Queensland co-captain has received the green light from a specialist to return from an eight month shoulder injury in tonight’s trial against Wests Tigers in Cairns, in what will be his 17th and final season.

- AAP

■ WHAT’S ON WHERE

Around the grounds

Sporting events we think are worth checking out around the Ashburton District this weekend.

Cricket Saturday: Allenton take on Tech at the Allenton wicket in Muirhead Rosebowl senior cricket, while Methven are at home to Lauriston.

Sunday: Ashburton College First XI play Timaru Boys at the Ashburton Domain in a Gillette Cup qualifier.

Paddleboarding

Tennis

Golf

A fun event at Lake Hood to engage some of the thousands of paddlers around New Zealand that paddle for fun and fitness.

The challenge is on Saturday and Sunday.

A grade and A reserve players are in action at the Mid Canterbury Tennis Centre on Oak Grove on Saturday.

Tinwald Golf Club hosts the Celtic Rugby Club’s annual fun tournament.

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

■ TENNIS

Title up for grabs

By Matt MarkhaM

Matt.M@theguardian.co.nz

Methven will hold their own destiny at the end of their racquets this weekend in the final round of Open Grade Interclub for the season.

In a fitting finale to the second round of the competition, the two teams who sit atop the leader board will battle it out on the final day for supremacy with everything to both gain and lose from the match.

The position should have belonged to Hampstead – but their shock defeat to Fairton last weekend left them relegated to second, four points off Methven, meaning that they need to win by better than four matches to two to leapfrog them this weekend.

Should they finish at 4-2 in favour of Hampstead, then both sides will be tied on 28 competition points.

Anything less than that, or a win for Methven will see them crowned the round two champions.

The most intriguing match up of the day will be in the No.1 singles where Sam Bubb (Methven) and Aidan Mitchell (Hampstead) lock horns.

Both were soundly beaten last weekend in their singles matches so will be out for some form of redemption when they take to the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre courts this afternoon.

In other A Grade matches today, Fairton take on Tinwald and Southern will square off with Allenton.

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In brief Iceland big mover Germany has continued to lead the FIFA rankings, but Iceland’s star continues to rise after it became the smallest nation in history to qualify for a World Cup. In this month’s ranking, Iceland climbed two places and ascended to the 18th position, its best rank to date.

Perpetual favourite Brazil remained in the second spot, while Portugal, Argentina and Belgium followed in third, fourth and fifth place respectively.

- PA

Gunners closing in Arsenal have one foot in the last 16 of the Europa League after making light of sub-zero temperatures to secure a 3-0 first-leg win over Ostersund in Sweden yesterday.

Nacho Monreal gave the Gunners a 13th-minute lead and an own goal from Ostersund defender Sotirios Papagiannopoulos put the visitors in full control at the break. Mesut Ozil added a third just before the hour mark. Celtic also take an advantage into their second leg after Callum McGregor earned the Hoops a narrow 1-0 win over Zenit St Petersburg at Parkhead.

- AP

Liverpool on target

Hampstead’s Aidan Mitchell has a huge battle on his hands today when he clashes with Methven’s Sam Bubb.

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Liverpool’s fearsome front three have been the most prolific goalscoring trio among Premier League teams this season. After racking up five goals between them in Liverpool’s Champions League victory over Porto on Wednesday, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane can boast a combined tally of 63 in all competitions.

- AP

February 17, 18 and 19, 2018

Saturday

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Local crafts, new stalls welcome. West Street Car park.

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

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

Sunday

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square East.

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

10am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship led by Rev. Helen Wallis, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, First Sunday of Lent, Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road .

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

Monday

10am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF. HearTland Championship, round 3. Methven Golf Club.

10am - 3pm AGE CONCERN, 206 CLUB. Fun fill days for 60 years and older, for more information ring 308-6817. Cameron Street.

12pm - 1pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. A Free lunch. Ashburton Baptist Church, entry off Cass Street.

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

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research. Heritage Centre, 327 West St. 2pm GREYPOWER ASHBURTON. Meeting with speaker Trish Small from Age Concern Ashburton. Senior Centre, Cameron St.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm ASHBURTON ELECTRONIC ORGAN AND KEYBOARD GROUP. First club night concert for 2018, all welcome.

Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, hot and cold food and drinks.

North End West Street car park, Ashburton.

8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9am ST PETERS ANGLIAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street, Allenton.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rev Henry Mbambo, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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

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

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Keeping your property protected with a security camera system from Masterguard

Enjoy spot and streak free windows!

Protect your biggest asset with a home security camera package from Masterguard Call me today for a free, no obligation quote

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

Book your high windows in today

“we clean to a standard, not a price”

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

OCAL 100% L

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

03 307 2656 | www.ashburtoncleaning.co.nz

Gary Flack

ELECTRICAL ELECTRICAL

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Heat pumps Undertile Heating Inslab Heating Fresh Air Ventilation systems Ducted Heat Pumps

Contact us 0800 287 423 or 03 307 1544 www.auricelectrical.co.nz

PAINTER & DECORATOR Phone 03 307 4200 022 698 7358 No obligation free quotes

Farms, factories, commercial buildings, private homes, club rooms, sheds, etc.

Services include but not limited to:

• Minor repairs • Roof painting • Spouting cleaning • Water blasting • Mould and moss treatment • Airless spraying

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

•Mobile repair service •Combine harvester repairs •Header front floor repairs or replacement •Clover conversions for direct heading •Dairy shed and yard fence repairs •General Engineering

Let us sweat the small stuff • Fence line • Spot spraying

• Gorse & broom • Waterways

Call Allan now

to discuss how we can help 027 2095 026 aaperformanceservicesltd@gmail.com

Phone Ewan Cairns 03 302 6011 - 0274 354 031

Manufacturers of •Cattle ramps •Bale forks •Grain feeder trailers •Stock crate stands

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Wash Rite Ashburton – 027 915 3571

Let the team at Insideout take care of all your painting and property maintenance • Painting • Carpentry • Maintenance & repairs • Handyman services

• Low Pressure House washing • Moss and Mould Roof Cleaning • Commercial Building Cleaning • Gutter Cleaning • Driveway and concrete cleaning • Pest and spider spraying

• Airless spraying • Waterblasting • Renovations • Project management

Phone Shane today on 307-7071

www.washrite.co.nz www.facebook.com/washritenz www.instagram.com/washritenz

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CONNECTIONS

YOGA RETREAT Saturday, March 24 9.30am – 3.30pm, Tinwald School Hall Deeply relax and energise your body, feel balanced and calm

Paints & supplies

Hobby model kits

Giftware – Crafts & Hobby Supplies – Collectables & Revamped Furniture 128 Victoria Street, Ashburton | 03 308 2295 | victoria128@xtra.co.nz

NOISY WORK?

Experiencing signs of hearing loss?

House of Hearing can help, with • FREE hearing check • FREE hearing aids • FREE servicing of hearing aids For all ACC approved patients

ouse of earing

• $100 if paid by March 10 Includes morning tea and a light lunch • $10 per registration donated to St John’s • Suitable for all abilities and ages • Numbers limited, pre-registration required

Late registrations $110

Contact Janet Cross | janetcrossyoga@gmail.com | Phone 027 434 7958 or 303 6067

HURRY HURRY LAST DAYS OF SALES

Call 03 307 8949

To make your appointment Or visit us at 326 East Street

To advertise here contact Carmen on 021 836 543 or 03 307 7963

DON’T MISS OUT! Ladies and Menswear Summer Sale

Open East Street, Ashburton Mon - Thu 9am - 5.30pm Phone 308 5771 Fri 9am - 6pm www.sparrows.co.nz Sat 10am - 2pm, Sun 11am - 2pm

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SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

SERVICE TECHNICIAN TIMARU LOCATION! Milking machine, pumps, engineering or electronics background wanted.

Installation, service, repair, fabrication Suit team player with maturity/life skills Competitive salary package Great work environment/training provided

Inwards Goods Full time Mitre 10 MEGA Ashburton has a vacancy for a person in their Inwards Goods department.

This is a great opportunity to join the Mitre 10 team, a full time position (40 hours) working with a small team coordinating the process of goods from delivery to the retail store.

The role involves administration duties along with some physical tasks such as lifting and moving goods.

The successful applicant will need the following: • Be Physically fit • Be motivated • Able to use a computer • Reliable • Ability to work in a team.

Countdown Ashburton South Wants You! Our Ashburton South team are on the lookout for the following team members:

Butchery Manager Bakery Apprentice These roles will require your commitment for weekdays and weekends including some late nights or early mornings.

In return, we offer you the opportunity to begin your career with a large and well established supermarket chain.

Please apply online at: www.wowcareers.com.au

SITUATIONS VACANT

Marketing Manager 30-40 Hours Per Week

Customer Service roles Building Supplies

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Mitre 10 Team, managing the local marketing for our three branches.

(2 Positions – Part-time) 20hrs & 34hrs

The role involves maximising a budgeted spend through various media tools, communication / co-ordination with the store management teams and keeping up to pace with the fast-changing digital world. The role does include some additional duties supporting our inventory team.

Mitre 10 MEGA have vacancies for two part-time customer service roles in their busy Building Supplies department serving both trade and DIY customers.

This position would ideally suit a semiretired trades person or someone with a passion for DIY looking for a few hours work a week and enjoys working with people.

The successful applicant will possess the following qualities: • Strong organisational skills • Experience in marketing • Excellent communication skills • Experience in Word and Excel • Ability to work under pressure • Work at fast pace • Good accuracy skills • Willingness to learn

The rostered hours do include weekend days.

If you have the following attributes we would like to hear from you: • Strong Interest in DIY or Trade Experience • Be physically fit • Reliable • People Skills • Enjoy working in a team environment

If you feel you meet our requirement and are seeking a challenge, please email your C.V. and covering letter to: HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Lyn Church Human Resources Manager, Mitre 10 MEGA, P.O. Box 35, Ashburton.

Please email your C.V. and a covering letter to: HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Human Resources Manager, Mitre10 MEGA, P.O. Box 35, Ashburton 7740.

Applications close on Wednesday, February 28, 2018.

Applications close on Friday, February 23, 2018.

and search for opportunities in Ashburton South.

Please email your C.V. and covering letter to: HR.ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Lyn Church, Human Resources Manager, Mitre 10 MEGA, P.O. Box 35, Ashburton 7740.

Guardian Situations Vacant

STOCK DRIVER

Applications close on Wednesday, February 21, 2018.

Hobbs & Banks Transport is a rural based company which operates a modern fleet of trucks based in Geraldine and Mayfield. We are looking for an experienced class 5 Stock Driver.

Suitable candidates will have: • A full and current class 5 truck and trailer licence • Relevant driving experience (additional training will be given) • Self-motivation and a can-do attitude • Flexibility with working hours

Dairy Farm Worker Required Drive in role Farm based at Rakaia • 8-9hrs a day 9-3 Roster (neg) • Mix of early shifts (4am) and later shifts (7am).

• Hourly rate.

• Milking duties / Tractor driving other general farm duties.

To apply, please call: Peter on 027 437 3169 or Mick on 027 435 4371 or email office@hbl.nz

Experience of dairy farming preferred but not essential.

Applications close 28 Feb 2018.

307 7900

Practice Nurse

Methven Medical Centre We are looking for a Practice Nurse to join our practice from May 2018.

The vacancy we have is for a part-time Practice Nurse to work a combination of weekday, weekend clinics and relieving work. The winter weekend clinics run every weekend for 3 months from July till October and they are 10 hour days. The successful candidate will work 3 out of 4 winter weekends.

The rest of the year the weekend clinics are approximately every 2nd weekend and are 3-4 hours each day. The rostered hours per week (not including relieving) for summer would be 25 and winter 30 (averaged over a month).

Previous practice nurse experience would be an advantage; however this is not a necessity. We are looking for nurses with an interest in, or who have post graduate education in diabetes management.

Childhood Immunisations is a staple part of the job so having a vaccinators certificate would also be an advantage however not a necessity.

Absolute requirements of the successful candidate include: • A NZ registered Nurse with current practising certificate • Be willing and confident to accompany Prime trained staff to offsite emergencies.

• Be willing, if needed, to undertake further education (funded by the Medical Centre) in areas such as diabetes and PRIME.

Two references required.

Email C.V and cover letter to: burmontholdings@spectrumgroup.co.nz

This position has the potential to expand to more permanent hours in time.

For more information or if interested please email: 73St, Burnett Ashburton Members I.B.A.N.Z & & Brokernet Ltd. NZ Ltd. LevelSt, 2, 73 St,|Ashburton Members of NZBrokers I.B.A.N.Z & NZ Brokernet 2, 73 Level Burnett Ashburton | Members of|of I.B.A.N.Z Level Level 2, 73 Burnett St,2, Ashburton |Burnett Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd.

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Level 2, 73 Burnett St, Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd.

Ellen Kemp at desk@methvenmedical.co.nz Applications close 28/02/2018.

Qualified Carpenter Required for a full-time position in Methven based Construction Company.

Good pay rates – for immediate start.

Contact Busty 0275 287 897

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

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

Happy Birthday

For just $10!* Book your birthday greeting, including a photo, for just $10! Ten words only.*

Phone 03 307 7900 Email: classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

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

Level 3, Somerset House, 161 Burnett Street

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PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

SCVCC Annual Swap Meet Winchester Domain SH1, March 24, gates open 7.30am.

All makes car Display Something for everyone.

Sites – Michelle Munro Phone 03 686 4824 Or email scvccswapmeet@hotmail.com No dogs allowed.

HAKATERE HUTT HOLDERS SOCIETY (INC)

WANTED

Special General Meeting

FISHING - Collector buying old/vintage fishing rods, reels and tackles. Top prices.

Phone Steve 03 324 2064.

MECHANIC/ Panel Beater/ Painter – Looking for a multiindividual in talented the motor vehicle / tractor machinery industry.

Immediate start. Must be a reliable, honest, punctual and innovative person with full driver’s license and clean criminal record. Navin 027 574 0411.

SURROGATE wanted. We are looking for a wonderful giving lady to help us expand our family. Please contact if you are wanting to know more. Bec 027 462 4600.

WANTED 1500cc automatic hatchback for learner driver. $4 – 5000 price range.

Anything considered. Contact 027 303 7290.

TRADES, SERVICES

DENTURES. Dr Peter Rumping, retired dentist, continues to provide full dentures. Repairs to existing dentures also available.

Phone 027 220 9997.

Sunday, February 25, 2018 10am at the Hall Business Proposals: Increase New Member Fee and Hut Transfer Fee to $100 G Clancy, Secretary Ashburton Returned & Services Association (Inc) Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held in the Moore Lounge, R.S.A. Clubrooms, Cox Street, Ashburton at 10.00am on Sunday, March 25, 2018 Maurice Baker President

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PUBLIC NOTICES

MID CANTERBURY PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIP Mid Canterbury Rural Women New Zealand is calling for applications for their 2018 Scholarship.

The $2,500 a year scholarship this year will be allocated through two grants to the value of $1,000 and a Research Grant of $500.

Applications for the Scholarship close on April 1, 2018 with previous applicants welcome to apply again. A committee will consider the applications with the recipients being announced in April.

Scholarship application forms and further details may be obtained by contacting Rural Women Branches or Scholarship Co-ordinator Pauline Hewson, phone (03) 303-6397, email hopelands407@gmail.com

TRADES, SERVICES

COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

Prompt reliable Computer repairs and laser engraving.

Contact Kelvin, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Phone 308 8989.

Proudly serving locals for 30 years. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed.

SITUATIONS WANTED

SEMI RETIRED farmer looking for work, farm work, truck driving, tractor driver etc. Phone 308 8585. Leave a message.

RURAL TRADING POST

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

MOTORING

The Advance Ashburton Community Foundation is pleased to announce that the

Leader’s Scholarship 2018 is now available Would you like to complete a leadership or personal development course, or perhaps a project or experience to enhance your leadership skills?

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

NEW Asian bombshell. Hot lingerie, nice figure. Relaxing massage. Phone 022 541 9041.

SASA, Asian lady, 36 D, busty. Good massage. In/out calls. Phone 021 169 2715.

Closing date Wednesday, March 7, 2018.

SOPHIA, attractive, busty, 24/7 for all your needs. No texting thank you. Phone 021 044 0698.

For more information, application criteria and forms: www.advanceashburton.org.nz

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

Advance Ashburton Community Foundation PO Box 310 Ashburton info@advanceashburton.org.nz

HOLIDAY

SERVICE ALL MAKES

AIRCON - ELECTRICAL

REPAIRS

LEVEL OF SERVICE

MAKE SMALLBONE HOLDENGENUINE YOUR NEXT STOP WOF CHECKS HOLDEN PARTS FULL MECHANICAL CHOOSE YOUR & GET THE SERVICE YOUYOU DESERVE Bookings essential Main South Road, Tinwald, Ashburton 03 307 9028 www.smallbones.co.nz

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FOR SALE

Are you a leader in our community?

FOR SALE - Mitsubishi Pajero Field Master. Three ACCOMMODATION doors, diesel, 140,000km. AKAROA - CHARMING, Tidy condition. $3500 or near spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all offer. Phone 027 460 7388. electric heating. Sky, all mod WHEEL alignments at great cons, short walk to village. prices. Maximise the life Phone Brian 307-8000 or of your tyres with an 308-6180. alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills HIRE Street. Phone 308-6737.

GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

LIVESTOCK, PETS All your DIY / party hire, call BUYER of unwanted and see Ashburton U-Hire. animals. Cattle, bobby calves, 588 East Street. Open Monhorse and all farm animals. Fri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am We also sell pet food. Call - 5.00pm; Sunday 8.30am Nick’s MAKE Pet Food 0272 101 SMALLBONE HOLDEN YOUR–NEXT 3.00pm.

Ph: STOP 308 8061 621, A/H 03 348 9439. & GET THE SERVICE YOU DESERVE www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

GRAZING GRAZING REQUIRED Beef cattle and lamb grazing required.

Please call Luke Thompson on 021 246 0801

TO LET Chertsey - Three bedroom cottage to rent.

Double garage, woodshed, open plan living, large covered outdoor area, logburner, warm, dry, family home. Rubbish collection. $300/wk. Available after February 26. Please phone 0278 659 058.

WANTED - House with land wanted to rent. Prefer long term. Must allow dogs.

Please contact Bess 027 342 8412.

We Help Save Lives We help save lives every day through the research and development of improved diagnosis, be er prediction and treatment of heart disease in our hospital and community.

Find out how you can help by visiting: www.otago.ac.nz/chchheart

A University of Otago Centre of Research Excellence

GRAZING wanted for store lambs. Phone Mitch 027 3131 320.

GARAGE SALES

PAKEKE Lions Charitable Trust - Charity Market and Garage Sale, 9am Saturday, March 3, Ashburton Racecourse.

Saleable household, garden, workshop, sporting etc items required. No electrical, audio, computers please. Phone George 308 8231.

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Weekend Services MEDICAL SERVICES

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

DUTY DOCTORS

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

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultation will be by appointment only. To make a booking, please phone 0800 700 155.

Sealy Street Medical, Sealy Street, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. Clinics will be held between 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm. Please phone 308 1212 for an appointment from 9.30am on Sunday.

Ashburton Rest Homes

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

Emergency Dentist

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

HELPLINE SERVICES Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24 hr Rape and Sexual

Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

Victims Support Group

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) For weekend and emergency services please phone 302 Direct dials to a volunteer.

8105 for details on how to access the after hours service Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm outside of these hours leave a message. each weekend.

Methven & Rakaia Area

Pharmacies

Ashburton Guardian

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

Alcohol Drug Help Line

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Lifeline - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

COMMUNITY SERVICES

Bus Departures

Art Gallery

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Ashburton Museum

ANIMAL SERVICES

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

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

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm

Dog, Stock & Noise Control

Ashburton Public Library

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

EA Networks Centre - Pools

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - 308 4432.

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

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

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

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

Mail Closing Times

Mid Canterbury Spca

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter - Contact President 021 1356 969.

Veterinarians

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East Street and Seafield Road, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron Street, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein.

Full emergency service all weekend.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, Information Centres Methven - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-hours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Along For The Ride 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am House Hunt 3 0 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 10am Couples Come Dine With Me 0 11am Alphabetical 0 Noon Coronation Street PGR 3 0 1:55 Restoration Man 3 0 2:55 The Aussie Property Flippers 0 3:55 Location, Location, Location 3 0 4:55 The Celebrity Chase Emmerdale’s Dominic Brunt, dancer Wayne Sleep, TV presenter Charlotte Hawkins, and actor Ricky Tomlinson take on one of Britain’s finest quiz brains to win money for charity. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm F The Casketeers 0 7:30 Hell’s Kitchen Australia Marco meets the celebrities at the Sydney Fish Market to show them how to prepare shellfish. 0 8pm L Lotto The Lotto draw.

8:05 Hell’s Kitchen Australia Continued. 0 8:40 F The Toy Box 0 9:40 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:35 Blindspot AO 3 0

6am Blaze And The Monster Machines 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:45 Peppa Pig 0 6:55 The Furchester Hotel 3 0 7:05 Thunderbirds Are Go! 3 0 7:30 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 3 0 7:50 The Legendaries 3 0 8:15 Star Wars Rebels 3 0 8:40 Teen Titans Go! 3 0 9am Regular Show 3 0 9:10 Mech-X4! 3 0 9:35 F Gamer’s Guide To Pretty Much Everything 3 10am Fresh 0 10:30 F Terry Teo 0 11am Young And Hungry 11:50 Meet The Parents PGR 0 12:45 The Fosters 0 1:40 Recovery Road PGR 0 2:35 Famous In Love PGR 0 3:30 Dr Ken 3 0 4pm Movie Juice 0 4:30 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 0 6pm N Wilde Ride 0 6:30 The Middle 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 The Project 3 7:25 Infomercials 9:25 Married At First Sight USA PGR 3 11:20 The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 12:20 Face Off PGR 1:20 Lip Sync Battle PGR 3 0 1:50 New Girl PGR 3 2:20 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 2:50 The Goldbergs PGR 3 0 3:20 Come Dine With Me New Zealand 3 0 3:50 This Time Next Year 3 0 4:55 F Snow Wolf Family And Me Wildlife cameraman Gordan Buchanan returns to the white wolf family to document their lives and behaviours. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm M The Giver PGR 2014 Drama. As a man spends time with the keeper of his community’s memories, he learns a secret that puts his life in danger. 0 8:55 M Men In Black 3 PGR 2012 Sci-fi Comedy. 0

7pm M The Boxtrolls PGR 3 2014 Animated Adventure.

An orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors must save his friends from an evil exterminator. 0 9pm M Ted AO 3 2012 Comedy. 0

12:20 Aquarius AO 3 On the day of Martin Luther King jr’s assassination, Hodiak must investigate a murder in a black neighbourhood, as well as preventing a riot. 0 1:15 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:20 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

11pm M The Waterboy AO 1998 Comedy.

0 12:40 Grey’s Anatomy AO 3 0 2:15 Wentworth AO 3 0 3:50 Galavant PGR 3 0 4:15 Undateable 3 0 4:40 Young And Hungry PGR 5:05 Kevin From Work PGR 3 5:30 Beyond The Search

Hell’s Kitchen Australia 8:05pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 10am How Do I Look?

3 10:53 The Dish 3 10:55 Four Weddings USA 3 11:50 Four Weddings USA 3 12:43 The Dish 3 12:45 World Of Dance PGR 3 1:40 How Do I Look? 3 2:33 The Dish 3 2:35 Million Dollar Decorators PGR 3 3:35 David Tutera – Celebrations 3 4:30 David Tutera – Celebrations 3 5:30 David Tutera – Celebrations 3 6:30 Mom’s A Medium 7pm Mom’s A Medium 7:30 Revenge Body With Khloe PGR 8:28 The Dish 3 8:30 Keeping Up With The Kardashians AO 9:30 My Crazy Sex AO 10:25 60 Days In 3 11:15 Four Weddings USA 3

SUNDAY

12:10 Infomercials 3 5am Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3

Wilde Ride

6pm on TVNZ 2

SKY 5 6am Raw MV 8:30 Smackdown MV 10:15 Main Event MV 11:10 Border Security PG 12:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 12:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 12:55 Shearing Gang PG 1:25 The Amazing Race PG 2:20 Supernatural MVS 3:10 Arrow MVS 4pm Border Security PG 5pm The Amazing Race PG 6pm The Simpsons PG 6:30 Supergirl MVS 7:30 The Flash M 8:30 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow M 9:30 Arrow MVS 10:30 Supernatural MVS 11:30 Border Security PG

SUNDAY

Midnight Border Security PG 12:30 Supergirl MVS 1:25 The Flash M 2:15 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow M 3:05 Arrow MVS 3:55 Supernatural MVS 4:45 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 5:10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 5:35 Deep Undercover MVLC

11:05 M Endless Love AO 3 2014 Romantic Drama. When a privileged girl meets a charismatic boy, their instant attraction sparks a love affair made more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer. 0 1:15 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

4am Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:50 The Dramatics 16LSC 2015 Comedy Romance.

Kat Foster, Scott Rodgers.

8:20 Her Secret Sessions MLSC 2016 Drama.

Brooke Smith, Bonnie Bedelia.

9:55 Hard Sell MLS 2016 Comedy. Katrina Bowden, Skyler Gisondo.

11:30 Growing Up Smith MLC 2015 Drama.

Jason Lee, Anjul Nigam.

1:15 Get Out 16VLC 2017 Thriller. Allison Williams, Daniel Kaluuya. 3pm Worlds Apart 16VLSC 2016 Drama. JK Simmons, Christoforos Papakaliatis.

4:55 Goodbye To All That 16LS 2014 Drama. Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey. 6:20 Rogue One – A Star Wars Story MV 2016 Sci-fi. Felicity Jones, Diego Luna. 8:30 Snatched 16VLS 2017 Comedy. A polar opposite mother and daughter go on an exotic jungle adventure, until their kidnapping goes badly wrong, for the kidnappers.

Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn.

10:05 The Fate Of The Furious MVL 2017 Action.

Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson.

SUNDAY 12:20 Yoga Hosers MVSC 2016 Comedy.

1:45 Worlds Apart 16VLSC 2016 Drama. 3:40 Goodbye To All That 16LS 2014 Drama.

5:05 Snatched 16VLS 2017 Comedy.

7:15 Nothing But Trailers M 7:35 Jersey Girl MLS 2004 Comedy Drama. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Liv Tyler.

9:15 Wolf Creek 18VLS 2005 Horror. John Jarratt.

10:55 Up In The Air MLS 2009 Drama. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga.

12:45 The Social Network ML 2010 Drama. Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield.

2:45 Flightplan MV 2005 Thriller. Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard.

4:20 AI Artificial Intelligence M 2001 Drama. Jude Law, Haley Joel Osment.

6:45 Tropic Thunder 16VLS 2008 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Jack Black.

8:30 The Grey 16L 2011 Action Adventure. A group of oil-rig workers stranded on the Alaskan tundra after their plane crashes find their efforts to survive threatened by a pack of wolves. Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo.

10:30 Rock The Kasbah MVLSC 2015 Comedy. Bill Murray, Kate Hudson.

SUNDAY

MAORI

6am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 0 7am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 3 0 8:05 Batman – Brave And The Bold 8:30 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky And Dawn 3 8:55 The Thundermans 10am Robot Wars PGR 11am The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 1:30 Football – English Premier League Highlights (HLS) 2:30 Storage Hunters PGR 3pm Storage Wars PGR 3 3:30 Olympic Winter Games 5:30 Prime News 6pm Olympic Winter Games Day eight from Gangneung Ice Arena, hosted by Bernadine OliverKerby. 0 7:30 MasterChef Junior USA PGR The final four compete in the semi-final. 0 8:30 The Queen At 90 3 Featuring interviews with members of the Royal Family, a documentary looking at the Queen on her 90th birthday, a story of inspiration and duty. 0 9:30 Olympic Winter Games

12:15 Hereafter MVL 2010 Drama. Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard.

2:20 Flightplan MV 2005 Thriller. Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard. 3:55 AI Artificial Intelligence M 2001 Drama. Jude Law, Haley Joel Osment.

CHOICE

6:30 Takaro Tribe 3 6:40 Team Umizoomi 3 7:10 Huhu 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 7:40 Huritua 3 7:50 Paia 3 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 Morena 3 9am Celebrity Playlist 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 11:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 Noon Hahana 3 12:30 Street Dance Nationals 3 1pm Aratere 2pm Touch Rugby – E Tu Whanau National Championships 3 3pm Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 4pm Waiata 3 4:30 Te Po Mekemeke 3 5pm My Reggae Song 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukuhohe 3 6:30 Haka Nation 3 7pm The Making Of Utu PGR 3 8pm F What’s Up With The Tumoanas? PGR 3 8:30 M The Kids Are All Right AO 2010 Comedy Drama. Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.

10:25 Aotearoa 3 10:55 Te Kaea 3 2 11:25 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am The World Rugby Show 6:30 Motorsport – TR Series (HLS) Round Five. 7:30 Golf – Women’s Australian Open (HLS) Round Two. 8am Hook Me Up! 9am Golf – European Tour (HLS) NBO Oman Golf Classic – Round Two. 9:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Genesis Open – Round One. 10am L Golf – PGA Tour Genesis Open – Round Two. 2pm Golf – Women’s Australian Open (HLS) Round Two. 2:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Round Two. 3pm L Golf – Women’s Australian Open Round Three. 8pm Golf – European Tour (HLS) NBO Oman Golf Classic – Round Two. From Al Mouj Golf Club in Muscat, Oman.

8:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Genesis Open – Round Two. From Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California.

9pm ISPS Handa Premiership Highlight Show 9:45 L Football – A-League Adelaide United v Central Coast Mariners.

SUNDAY Midnight Fox Sports News 12:30 Cricket – T20 Tri-Series (HLS) Australia v Blackcaps. 1am Golf – Women’s Australian Open (HLS) Round Three. 1:30 The World Rugby Show 1:55 L Rugby – Super Rugby Stormers v Jaguares.

4:05 L Rugby – Super Rugby Lions v Sharks.

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6am American Pickers 7am American Restoration 8am Buying The Bayou 8:30 Love Nature – America The Wild 9:30 James Martin’s French Adventure 10:30 Selling Houses With Amanda Lamb 11:30 American Pickers 12:30 Gardeners’ World 1:30 Best Laid Plans 2:30 Outback Wrangler 3pm Escape To The Chateau 4pm Gem Hunt Ron LeBlanc goes inside the gem industry, travelling to remote trading regions in search of the world’s biggest and most profitable jewels.

5pm Sold!

5:30 Four Rooms 6:30 China On Four Wheels 7:30 American Pickers 8:30 M Pawn Sacrifice AO 2014 Biography Drama.

During the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Union.

10:50 New Zealand Hunter Adventures PGR 11:50 Sold!

12:20 Outback Wrangler 12:50 Escape To The Chateau 1:50 M Pawn Sacrifice AO 2014 Biography Drama. Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard.

4am China On Four Wheels 5am American Pickers

SKY SPORT 2 6am Basketball – NBL NZ Breakers v Illawarra Hawks. 8am World Rugby 8:30 L Rugby League – Super League Widnes Vikings v Warrington Wolves.

10:30 NRL 360 11:30 Rugby League – World Club Challenge Storm v Leeds.

Noon Fox Sport News 12:30 Sky Sports News UK 1pm Rugby League – World Club Challenge Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos.

3pm L Rugby League – NRL Pre-Season Warriors v Storm. 5pm Cricket – T20 Tri Series Blackcaps v Australia.

5:30 Rugby League – World Club Challenge Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos.

7:30 L Rugby League – World Club Challenge St George Illawarra Dragons v Hull FC. 9:30 L Rugby League – World Club Challenge South Sydney Rabbitohs v Wigan Warriors.

11:45 Basketball – NBL Adelaide 36ers v Brisbane Bullets. SUNDAY 1:55 Rugby League – NRL Pre-Season – Warriors v Storm.

2:25 Rugby League – World Club Challenge South Sydney Rabbitohs v Wigan Warriors.

2:55 Rugby League – World Club Challenge St George Illawarra Dragons v Hull FC. 3:25 Cricket – T20 Tri-Series 3:55 L Rugby – Aviva Premiership Northampton Saints v London Irish.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 MythBusters PG Exploding Steak. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Blowing Up History PG Hunt For King Arthur’s Castle.

9:10 Homestead Rescue PG The Hill of Death. 10am The Coroner – I Speak For The Dead M Love in Pieces.

10:50 Blood Relatives M 11:40 What On Earth?

PG 12:30 Street Science PG Fire Tornado. 12:55 Street Science PG Flying Saucers.

1:20 Garage Rehab PG Fast-Lane Auto Repair.

2:10 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG 3pm Outback Opal Hunters PG 3:50 Megatrains PG Australia – Transcontinental Train. 4:45 Megatrains PG USA – Schnabel Car. 5:40 Megatrains PG France – LRS (Long Rail Soude).

6:35 Gold Rush PG The Mighty Uppercut. 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 9:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 10:15 Auction Hunters PG 10:40 Impossible Engineering PG 11:30 What On Earth? PG SUNDAY 12:20 Outback Opal Hunters PG 1:10 Moonshiners M 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Treehouse Masters PG 4:05 Edge Of Alaska M 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How It’s Made PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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6am Fierce 0 6:50 The Art Of The Architect 3 0 7:40 Tagata Pasifika 8:05 Praise Be 8:35 Attitude 0 9:10 Whanau Living 10am Homemade 3 0 10:35 Waka Huia 11:05 Mucking In 0 11:30 Rapid Response PGR 0 11:55 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 12:55 Natural Born Monsters 0 1:55 Dog Squad 3 0 2:25 Water Patrol 3 0 2:55 Piha Rescue PGR 3 0 3:25 Pound Pups To Dog Stars 3 0 3:55 Chasing Monsters 3 4:55 The Celebrity Chase The celebrities are former cricketer Michael Vaughan, presenter Anna Richardson, Jane Danson from Coronation Street, and adventure specialist Ray Mears. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm N Country Calendar 0 7:30 Sunday Carlos Askew was born severely disfigured and with complex health issues.

But instead of letting that destroy his life, it’s inspired him to believe anything is possible. 0 8:30 Liar AO 0 9:35 Ride Upon The Storm AO 0 10:50 In The Club PGR 3 0

6am Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Peppa Pig 0 6:45 Masha And The Bear 3 0 6:55 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 7am Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:10 Elena Of Avalor 0 7:35 Best Friends Whenever 3 0 8am What Now 10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 0 Noon N The Bachelor 0 1pm Budgies Make You Laugh Out Loud PGR 0 2pm Black-Ish PGR 0 2:30 Home And Away Omnibus 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 American Housewife 3 0 6pm The Middle 0 6:30 Young Sheldon 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Living Church Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am The X Factor Australia PGR 3 0 10:30 F The X Factor Australia PGR 3 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR 1pm Motorsport – Formula E Street Racers 1:30 Motorsport – NZV8 Ute Racing Series 2:30 Motorsport – Muscle Car Garage 3pm Motorsport – New Zealand Touring Cars 4pm Motorsport – Toyota Racing Series From Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in Taupo.

5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 XVenture Family Challenge 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 0 7am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 3 0 8am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box Noon Top Gear – From A-Z PGR 3 1pm Storage Wars PGR 3 1:30 Hot Bench 3 2pm Mad About You PGR 2:30 School Of Hard Knocks PGR 0 3pm Storage Wars PGR 3 3:30 Olympic Winter Games Freestyle Skiing.

5:30 Prime News 6pm Olympic Winter Games Freestyle Skiing.

Men’s slopestyle final at Phoenix Snow Park, hosted by Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. 0

10am Tradition On A Plate 3 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 11am Native Affairs Summer Series 3 11:30 Survive Aoteaora PGR 3 12:30 Code PGR 3 1pm Matau PGR 3 1:30 Get Your Fish On 3 2pm School Of Hard Knocks PGR 2:30 Toa – Toa O Aotearoa PGR 3 3pm Kapa Haka Whanau 3:30 KTK – The Next Level 4pm Hoiho 3 Annabelle Lee-Harris explores the Maori horse culture of Aotearoa.

4:30 Street Dance Nationals 3 Highlights of the 2016 New Zealand Street Dance National Competition.

5pm Hakanation 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Waru Pumanawa 3

6am Buying The Bayou 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Christ Embassy 7:30 Buying Alaska 8am Baby Animals In The Wild 8:45 Organic Edible Garden 9am Outback Wrangler 9:30 Sold! 10am Escape To The Chateau 11am China On Four Wheels Noon Buying The Bayou 12:30 Four Rooms 1:30 Gem Hunt 2:30 American Pickers 3:30 Empire Of The Tsars 4:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes British baker Paul Hollywood sets out to sample the recipes that have helped shape the culture and heritage of some of the world’s cities.

5:30 Tiny House Nation 6:30 American Pickers

7pm M Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade PGR 1998 Adventure. Archaeologist Indiana Jones and his father search for the Holy Grail and fight the Nazis. 0 9:25 M Blended AO 2014 Comedy. After a disastrous date, two single parents never want to see each other again, but find themselves on holiday together. 0

7pm Married At First Sight Australia PGR Twenty strangers are matched by experts to make 10 couples whom meet for the first time on their wedding day. 0 8:35 M Maze Runner – The Scorch Trials PGR 2015 Action. 0

7:30 Prime Planet – The Cruise A look at one of the world’s largest luxury cruise liners, the Royal Princess, and the crew that keeps everything running smoothly during a busy summer season in the Mediterranean. 0 8:30 Prime Presents – Making New Zealand 0 9:30 Olympic Winter Games

7pm Te Mana O Te Moana – The Pacific Voyagers 3 8pm Haka Life PGR 3 8:30 M Carol AO 2015 Romantic Drama. An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson.

10:35 Taha Tauiwi 3

7:30 Astronauts – Toughest Job In The Universe 8:30 M Mr Brooks AO 2007 Thriller. A successful businessman is also addicted to killing. Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook.

Midnight Love Child PGR 3 Joan is distressed when Jim goes on the run to avoid jail, taking baby James with him. 0 1am Attitude 3 0 1:30 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:30 Infomercials

11:45 M Blade AO 1998 Action. 0 2am Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 2:50 Infomercials 3:25 Swedish Dicks 3:50 Galavant PGR 3 0 4:10 Beyond The Search 3 4:40 Ellen 3 0 5:05 N Galavant PGR 5:30 Infomercials

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 7pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 6am How Do I Look? 3 6:45 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 7:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 8:20 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 9:05 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 9:53 The Dish 3 9:55 How Do I Look? 3 10:40 Revenge Body With Khloe PGR 3 11:25 Million Dollar Decorators PGR 3 12:13 The Dish 3 12:15 60 Days In 3 1:05 Four Weddings USA 3 2pm Four Weddings USA 3 2:55 Four Weddings USA 3 3:48 The Dish 3 3:50 How Do I Look? 3 4:45 David Tutera – Celebrations 3 5:35 David Tutera – Celebrations 3 6:30 Child Genius USA 7:30 Top Chef Jr 8:30 World Of Dance PGR 9:30 M Baby Mama AO 3 2008 Comedy. 11:33 The Dish 3 11:35 Sweet Home Oklahoma AO MONDAY 12:05 Sweet Home Oklahoma AO 12:30 Infomercials 3

Maze Runner – The Scorch Trials, 8:35pm on Three

SKY 5 6am Face Off M 6:50 The Amazing Race PG 7:40 Shearing Gang PG 8:10 The Simpsons PG 8:40 Supernatural MVS 9:30 The Librarians MV 10:25 Supergirl MVS 11:15 The Flash M 12:10 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow M 1:05 Arrow MVS 2pm Raw MV 4:45 SmackDown MV 6:30 Main Event MV 7:30 The Librarians MV The Librarians risk their lives once more to save the world, but their greatest challenge comes from within the library itself.

8:30 NCIS – LA MV 9:30 Longmire 16V 10:30 Raw MV

MONDAY

1am SmackDown MV 2:35 Main Event MV 3:30 Face Off M 4:20 Longmire 16V 5:10 NCIS – LA MV

11:05 Chicago Med AO 3 April and Dr Halstead disagree about how to treat an alcoholic homeless man with a broken leg; Dr Manning continues to grieve over her husband’s death. 0 Midnight Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR Entertainment stories of the past week.

1am Infomercials

4am Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:35 The Fate Of The Furious MVL 2017 Action.

Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson.

8:50 Yoga Hosers MVSC 2016 Comedy. Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith.

10:15 Worlds Apart 16VLSC 2016 Drama. JK Simmons, Christoforos Papakaliatis.

12:10 Rogue One – A Star Wars Story MV 2016 Sci-fi. Felicity Jones, Diego Luna. 2:20 Snatched 16VLS 2017 Comedy.

Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn.

3:55 Accidentally Engaged PG 2015 Romance. Lexi Giovagnoli, Brant Daugherty.

5:20 Morgan 16VL 2016 Sci-fi.

Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy. 6:50 Rough Night 16VLSC 2017 Comedy. Scarlett Johansson, ZoÎ Kravitz. 8:30 King Arthur – Legend Of The Sword MVL 2017 Action Adventure.

Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city but, when he pulls the sword from the stone, he must acknowledge his true legacy.

10:40 Table 19 MLSC 2017 Comedy.

MONDAY 12:05 The Devil You Know MVLSC 2013 Drama. 1:20 Morgan 16VL 2016 Sci-fi. 2:50 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 3:05 Rough Night 16VLSC 2017 Comedy. 4:45 King Arthur – Legend Of The Sword MVL 2017 Action Adventure.

6:20 Rock The Kasbah MVLSC 2015 Comedy.

Bill Murray, Kate Hudson.

8:05 Tropic Thunder 16VLS 2008 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Jack Black. 9:50 The Grey 16L 2011 Action Adventure. Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo.

11:45 Hereafter MVL 2010 Drama. Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard.

1:50 Rock The Kasbah MVLSC 2015 Comedy.

Bill Murray, Kate Hudson.

3:35 What To Expect When You’re Expecting MLS 2012 Romantic Comedy.

Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Chase Crawford. 5:25 The Whole Nine Yards MVLS 2000 Crime Comedy.

Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry.

7:05 Surrogates MV 2009 Action. Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell. 8:30 Bandits MV 2001 Comedy. Two bank robbers fall in love with the young woman they have kidnapped. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett.

10:35 Twelve Monkeys MVL 1995 Sci-fi Thriller.

Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe.

11:05 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:35 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Pre-Season – Warriors v Storm.

7am Rugby League – World Club Challenge (RPL) South Sydney Rabbitohs v Wigan Warriors. 9am Rugby League – World Club Challenge (RPL) St George Illawarra Dragons v Hull FC. 11am Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Stormers v Jaguares.

11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Lions v Sharks.

Noon Rugby – Brisbane Tens (HLS) Day Two. 1:30 Cricket – T20 Tri Series (RPL) Blackcaps v Australia.

5pm Golf – PGA Tour Genesis Open – Round Three.

5:30 Golf – European Tour (HLS) NBO Oman Golf Classic – Round Three.

6pm The Cricket Show 6:30 L Cricket – T20 TriSeries England v Blackcaps.

10:30 UEFA Champions League Magazine Programme 11pm Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Stormers v Jaguares.

MONDAY

1am Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Lions v Sharks.

3am Rugby League – World Club Challenge (RPL) Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos. 5am Rugby League MONDAY – World Club Challenge 12:45 Battle – Los (HLS) Rabbitohs v Wigan.

Angeles MVL 2011 Action.

5:30 Rugby League – World 2:40 Surrogates MV 2009 Action. 4:10 Bandits MV 2001 Club Challenge (HLS) Dragons v Hull.

Comedy.

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11pm Polar Bear Town Midnight Baby Animals In The Wild 1am Paul Hollywood City Bakes 1:50 M Mr Brooks PGR 2007 Thriller. Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook.

4:10 Astronauts – Toughest Job In The Universe 5:10 Tiny House Nation

SKY SPORT 2

DISCOVERY

6am Inside The PGA Tour Previewing and profiling the world of golf across America.

6:30 Golf – Women’s Australian Open (HLS) Round Three.

7am Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Genesis Open – Round Two. From Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California.

7:30 Golf – European Tour (HLS) NBO Oman Golf Classic – Round Three.

8am L Golf – PGA Tour Genesis Open – Round Three.

1pm Sky Sports News UK 1:30 Inside The PGA Tour 2pm Golf – European Tour NBO Oman Golf Classic – Round Three.

2:30 Golf – Women’s Australian Open (HLS) Round Three.

3pm L Golf – Women’s Australian Open Round Four.

8pm Football – W-League (DLY) Sydney FC v Melbourne City FC. 10:30 Bowls – New Zealand Open (HLS) Day Two. 11:30 Basketball – NBL (DLY) Melbourne United v Illawarra Hawks.

6:35 MythBusters PG Ninjas 2. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Gold Rush PG The Mighty Uppercut.

9:10 What On Earth? PG 10am Outback Opal Hunters PG 10:50 Moonshiners M 11:40 Homestead Rescue PG The Hill of Death.

12:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 1:20 Blowing Up History PG Hunt For King Arthur’s Castle. 2:10 Mighty Ships PG 3pm Mighty Ships PG 3:50 Mighty Ships PG 4:45 Mighty Ships PG 5:40 Mighty Ships PG 6:35 Mighty Ships PG 7:30 Blowing Up History PG Ghosts of Stonehenge.

Stonehenge is one of the ancient world’s greatest wonders, and one of its biggest mysteries, but new discoveries are revealing its secrets.

8:30 Mighty Ships PG 9:25 Outback Opal Hunters PG 10:15 Railroad Australia PG 11:05 Gold Rush PG 11:55 Treehouse Masters PG

1:30 Fox Sports News 2am Cricket – T20 Tri-Series (HLS) England v Blackcaps.

2:30 Bowls – New Zealand Open (HLS) Day Two. 3:30 L Cycling – Tour Of Andalucia Stage Five.

5am L Cycling – Tour Of Algarve

12:45 Edge Of Alaska M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Edge Of Alaska M 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How It’s Made PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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BUSCH, Derek (Buschy) – Please note all late death February 18, 2017 notices or notices sent Life Well Lived outside ordinary office hours A life well lived must be emailed to: is a precious gift, deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz Of hope and strength to ensure publication. and grace, From someone who has To place a notice during made our world office hours please contact A brighter, better place. us on 03 307 7900 for more information It’s filled with moments sweet and sad, Any queries With smiles please contact and sometime tears, 0800 With friendships formed ASHBURTON and good times shared, (0800-274-287) And laughter through the years.

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WordWheel Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

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ACROSS 1. Ring of radiance (4) 8. Broad-minded (10) 9. Unchanging (8) 10. Hind quarters (4) 12. Ruins (6) 14. Goes under (6) 15. Accumulated knowledge (6) 17. Lose (6) 18. Flavoursome plant (4) 19. Hired killer (8) 21. Resign (4,6) 22. Disguise (4)

Across 1. Sickle 4. Wander 9. Airport 10. Lined 11. Chin 12. Mean 13. Elk 15. Hobo 16. Lisp 19. Rag 21. Ugly 22. Gown 24. Avoid 25. Parking 26. Trends 27. Resent Down 1. Search warrant 2. Cornish 3. Look 5. Atlantic 9 14. Abounded 3 6. Dunce 7. Red sky at night 8. Steer 7 4 8 17. Promise 18. Slips 20. Globe 23. True

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Why does it have to make sense to be valid? “Making sense” isn’t a universal law like gravity or motion. In fact, much of what works won’t make sense today, and much of what makes sense won’t work.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): In the way that big moves require the packing and transfer of many boxes, big projects will have you working in a world of details. By the day’s end, you’ll have “packed” about a hundred “boxes.”

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The omens say your energy increases as you trust your inner light.

Practical voices are pretty sure it’s dark inside your body but you can get your energy going with exercise under the outside light.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You have a gift for discerning what’s necessary and what’s not. This will be perhaps be even more valuable to others who are struggling with focusing on the wrong things. Don’t hesitate to help them out.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Success is not an achievement, it’s a feeling. If you don’t allow yourself to feel successful until a certain metric has been met, that’s a choice and not a fact based on the rules of success. Feelings don’t follow rules.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Your life could take many different directions from here. As you entertain possibilities (even just in your imagination) you’ll be joined by flashes of memory and ghost guides from the past.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You don’t have to believe in reincarnation to understand you’ve lived many lives and you will live many more. So what do you need to do to become your next version? Don’t worry. You’ll become it.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): There are amazing talents around you and here’s hoping you’ll use them as inspiration instead of comparison. You are capable of your own kind of greatness, and that’s a very good place to put your focus.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): And your picture of life won’t look anything like your neighbour’s because even though you connected the very same dots, you didn’t do it in the very same order.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Respect lasts longer than attention. Those who make a grab for the spotlight without delivering something of real value soon lose their audience and their credibility with you.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Anyone exerting pressure on you to make the best choice (most likely yourself) simply doesn’t realise there is no best choice. Many are good. All lead to the future.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): It’s said you can never be over-educated. Yet you wonder if you’d be better off not knowing some things. It’s better to learn even more about it because the wider picture will be somehow more palatable.

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