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Jackson ‘controlling film-maker’ Kiwi film great Sir Peter Jackson was described as one of the “most controlling film-makers” in the world in an email apparently hacked from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The reference to Sir Peter was made in one of a number of emails among Sony’s top executives expected to be released online yesterday which show some of the industry’s most powerful people taking a “kid gloves” approach to Sir Peter and protege director Neill Blomkamp over the District 9 film, which Sony wanted to franchise into a TV series. An email apparently sent by company co-chair Amy Pascal shows her pushing back against announcements of the planned District 9 television series to be released through PlayStation, saying, “This isn’t gonna happen on this kind of a timeline.

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Gervais turns hunter into hunted Animal lovers around the globe have turned on a hunter who posed for a photo beside a dead giraffe after actor Ricky Gervais mocked her online. He spotted a shot of Rebecca Francis, the co-host of US TV show Eye of the Hunter, lying down next to a dead giraffe, and posted it online. He added the caption: “What must’ve happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling?”

Gervais’ post fired up his followers who have since targeted Francis with death threats.

Call for urgent knighthood A petition to grant ailing New Zealand cricket great Martin Crowe an urgent knighthood has gained more than 5000 signatures. The petition, titled “Recommend the Award of a Knighthood under urgency to Martin David Crowe”, already has 5352 supporters after being created this week. Crowe, 52, has been battling for his health since announcing in October 2012 he had been diagnosed with lymphoma. Eight months later there was hope after he revealed he was free of cancer. However, late last year Crowe announced his “friend and tough taskmaster lymphoma is back”. “He, after Sir Richard Hadlee, is the iconic figure in NZ Cricket of the last 30 years. He has inspired generations of young cricketers and is a genuinely great New Zealand leader,” the petition says.

“The award of a knighthood should bear no discussion.

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Kardashian, Obama make list US President Barack Obama, rapper Kanye West, reality star Kim Kardashian and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen are among those who have been named 100 most influential people by Time magazine. The annual list does not rank candidates, but groups them together into five categories of titans, pioneers, artists, leaders and icons. Also on the list are Pope Francis, head of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, 31-year-old billionaire Elizabeth Holmes, dancer Misty Copeland, actresses Reese Witherspoon and Emma Watson, and astronaut Scott Kelly. Among those categorised as leaders were Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Cuban President Raul Castro, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power.

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Sinead spooked Sinead O’Connor has suggested she’s ready to quit social media after revealing she’s become the target of two creepy stalkers.

The singer took to her Facebook.com page yesterday to alert fans and friends to her fears, insisting “two frightening and sexually disturbed” men were following her. She also posted the name and a photograph of one of the alleged stalkers. “Both of these predatory males have also stalked several women who follow this page,” she added. “Please be extremely vigilant regarding whom you engage with on any fan page, especially if you are a hard core (sic) fan. You are extremely vulnerable if you are followed by predators familiar with the music business who know the type of sensitive souls you are and you cannot safely assume that anyone is who or what they claim to be.” The Mandinka singer then called the world wide web “the most dangerous place on earth”.

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■ MEAN THEFT

Stolen jewellery recovered

By Daisy HuDson

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Tens of thousands of good Samaritans on social media have helped reunite an Ashburton man with his late wife’s stolen jewellery.

Gavin Borthwick was left devastated after he returned from a holiday with his 11-yearold daughter on Tuesday to find their house had been burgled.

Among the items taken were rings left to his daughter by her

late mother Anna, who passed away about a year ago after a battle with breast cancer. A pearl necklace worn by Anna on her wedding day was also stolen.

As well as reporting the incident to police, Mr Borthwick turned to social media in a bid to track down the precious items.

The move paid off, and Mr Borthwick and his daughter have been reunited with their precious heirlooms.

On Wednesday night he posted a photo of the rings and a short appeal for information on his Facebook page.

While he hoped the post may have led to some information being passed on to police, he had no idea the post would quickly go viral.

The outpouring of support he received from around the world has left him stunned, he said.

More than 27,000 people shared the post on Facebook

between Wednesday night and yesterday afternoon. A further 16,000 people ‘liked’ it, while dozens of people commented on it to offer their support.

A staff member at The Pawn Shop in Christchurch recognised the rings after seeing the post, purchased them, and handed them over to police.

Mr Borthwick said he was “forever grateful” to the woman for returning the rings.

He said he was blown away by

the reaction to the post on social media.

“It’s pretty weird,” he said. “I just sent it out to my friends and they said I should make it public so I did, and it just went crazy.”

As well as a surge of support from Ashburton locals, people from as far afield as the UK and the United States had shared the post.

“It shows you what the community can do when they get behind something,” he said.

Benefit numbers decline continues

Life Pharmacy pharmacist Melissa West vaccinates yet another patient against influenza.

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■ INFLUENZA VACCINATIONS

It’s not just doctors that can give flu jabs

By Caitlin Porter

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Mid Cantabrians once again have the choice of where to get their influenza vaccines.

Life Pharmacy now has three accredited flu vaccinators who can administer the vaccine to people around the district.

Rachel Eaton and Jane Kelly are authorised vaccinators and Melissa West is a pharmacist vaccinator.

The difference between the two is authorised vaccinators can get called upon in times of crisis, such as if there is an outbreak of a disease.

Last year the pharmacy administered

hundreds of flu vaccinations and Mrs Eaton expected it would be the same this year.

Miss West said she vaccinates at least two people a day, and expects numbers to increase in the coming weeks.

“It’s the convenience factor,” Miss West said.

“People have opted to come in for easy access, and it gives them a choice.”

Appointments to get the flu vaccine at Life Pharmacy are not required.

In addition to administering vaccinations at the pharmacy, they are also able to provide vaccinations in workplace environments.

Life Pharmacy is part of Green Cross Health, a primary healthcare provider,

which is behind the delivery of the vaccines.

Head of professional services Alison van Wyk said the flu is a serious, highly contagious illness that can be deadly, and immunisation is the best form of protection.

Before getting vaccinated at Life Pharmacy people can opt to head along to www.flushot.co.nz to fill out a consent form. The website was developed to reduce time filling out paperwork and to keep track of vaccinations.

In conjunction with the flu vaccine, the pharmacists are also authorised to administer additional vaccinations for things such as meningococcal disease, shingles and whooping cough.

The number of beneficiaries in the Ashburton District continues to drop, hitting 875 in march, the lowest March total for the past 10 years.

In its falling numbers, Ashburton has played its part in helping Canterbury, along with Auckland to be national leaders on the dropping benefit numbers chart.

Across Canterbury as a whole benefit numbers dropped by 6.9 per cent and in Auckland by 6.2 per cent. Christchurch has been the biggest contributor to Canterbury’s decline.

Ashburton’s numbers were made up of 278 people on job seeker support, 300 solo parent support, 390 supported living (people who have or care for someone with a health or injury disability). There are seven people on other benefits – youth or young parent.

In March last year there were 992 beneficiaries but the number of people receiving job seeker support was slightly lower at 269. The number of supported living beneficiaries, however was higher, 409.

Overall, the latest figures show that the number of working-aged people on benefits fell by just over 11,000 in the past year, from 295,320 to 284,260.

This was a slightly slower rate of decline than in the previous year, when numbers dropped by almost 15,000, but this was partly because of a big jump of 27,500 in the working-age population driven by the surge in immigration.

Only 10.4 per cent of all workingage people aged 18 to 64 are now on benefits, down from 10.9 per cent last year, 11.4 per cent in 2013 and a recession peak of 12.4 per cent in 2011.

The proportion of working-aged people on benefits is now lower than in all but two of the past 25 years, bettered only in 2007 (10.3 per cent) and 2008 (9.8 per cent).

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■ POLICE STATISTICS

In brief

Victims often know attackers

By Daisy HuDson

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Nearly half of all assaults in the Mid/South Canterbury district are committed by people known to the victim.

Domestic violence has once again hit the headlines following the death of 47-year-old Katrina Rose Drummond in Taupo.

Her former husband, Martin Cranswick Schofield, has been

charged with her murder.

New police statistics show 43 per cent of assaults in the district in January and February were committed by people known to the victim.

Of the 144 assaults committed during that period, 36 were by a family member, 15 were by a partner, and six were committed by a parent.

There were also nine sexual assaults in the district in Feb-

ruary, three of which were committed by family members.

Jill Proudfoot, client services director at national anti-violence organisation Shine, was reported as saying as long as any form of violence was accepted in society, it would be very difficult to stop it.

She said shock and horror were often expressed after a domestic violence related

death, but the outrage did not last.

She condemned the death of Ms Drummond as “utterly tragic”.

On average, 14 women are killed by a family member each year, while about half of all homicides in New Zealand are related to family violence.

Ashburton police did not respond to requests for comment yesterday.

■ ASHBURTON COMMUNITY HOUSE

New home a place of fresh beginnings By sue newman

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While its tragic past will always be part of Ashburton’s history, the Cass Street building that will soon house Community House, will now be a place of new beginnings.

Earlier this year Ashburton’s Community House trust raised the last of the money it needed to buy the building that was once home to Work and Income New Zealand, confirming a positive future for a building with a tragic past.

In September last year two Winz staff were shot and killed and another was injured.

Since then the building has been closed and until a deal was signed by the community house trust to buy the property, its future was unclear.

The community house deal has given the building a new life, but when the organisations that are part of the cluster move in next year, it will be to a very different building, said trust board chair John Driscoll.

Community House was forced from its original home after the Canterbury earthquakes and relocated to a much smaller premises behind the Westpac Bank while it searched for a new home.

“We needed a community hub and this location is perfect,” Mr Driscoll said.

Using the services of architect Julian O’Sullivan plans have been drawn up for the building, changing its exterior

Incidents reported yesterday: -Police attended a domestic incident at 7.50pm on Thursday.

-Two pairs of shoes in a supermarket bag have been handed into the Ashburton police station.

Davidsons to gather If the name Davidson features on your family tree then you will have an opportunity to meet up with others in your clan next month when the Clan Davidson Society of New Zealand gathers.

The clan is unique in that it is the only one whose chief resides in New Zealand, with the new chief Grand Davidson to be inaugurated at the gathering. Clan Davidson surnames include: Davey, Davie, Davidson, Davis, Davison, Daw, Dawson, Day, Dea, Dean, Deane, Deas, Deason, Dey, Dhai, Dow, Dye, Dyson, Kay, Keay, Key, Keys, MacDade, MacDagny, MacDaid, MacDavid, MacDavitt, MacDhai, McKeddie, Slora, Slorach, Slory and Mackay (Moray & Invernesshire).

The gathering will be held at the Chateau on the Park, Deans Avenue, Christchurch on May 9.

A kirking of the tartan ceremony and church service will be held at St Andrew’s at Rangi Ruru on May 10 at 10am.

Correction A story on World War One soldier William Graham McCormick in Friday’s Guardian gave incorrect information about his brother Donald who fought in World War Two. Donald was not killed in action, he returned home when the war was over.

Man identified in a way that makes it very different to the original, he said.

“Our aim was to make it completely different. We knew it was important to get the outside right, with a new entranceway so it looks like a completely new building, so it is very different to what it was, and so people won’t recognise it.”

With plans drawn up for a revamp of the building both inside and out, the trust needs to wait until the outcome of a Lotteries facilities grant application for its interior refurbishment before construction tenders can be called.

Mr Driscoll anticipates these will be known by the end of May. Funds for the community house trust to buy the build-

Artist’s impressions of the new home for Ashburton’s Community House, that will see a Cass Street building, previously home to Work and Income New Zealand undergo a dramatic change of appearance.

ing were kick-started by a $500,000 grant from the Ashburton District Council with other money coming from the Ashburton Trust Lion Foundation, $200,000, the Mid South Canterbury Community Trust,

$250,000, Mackenzie Charitable Trust, $100,000 and Lochhead Trust, $20,000 as well as a number of smaller donations.

Over a four-month period the trust raised in excess of $1.1 million.

Dismay expressed over second quarry death Unions have expressed dismay at the death of a second quarry worker in less than a month.

A 24-year-old man died on Thursday after being trapped under a 45-tonne rock cutter at a Tauranga quarry.

Jeff Sissons, Council of Trade Unions general counsel, said the deaths were tragic.

“Our hearts go out to the

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families and co-workers of Scott Baldwin, who was killed on March 19 in South Timaru, and the yet-unnamed worker, who died yesterday in Tauranga.”

Mr Baldwin, 43, was killed in an incident at Gordons Valley Lime Company.

Mr Sissons said health and safety laws for mining were

strengthened in 2013 in response to the Royal Commission into the Pike River Mine tragedy.

“But after lobbying from industry and assurances that quarries were safer than mines, the Government excluded quarries from the protections of the new law.”

Mr Sissons said the Health

and Safety Reform Bill currently before select committee could be amended to include quarries in the mining protections.

“Specific regulations for quarries should be urgently made. These would be big steps towards stopping further deaths or injuries.”

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A man police were hoping to speak to in regards to the search for missing tourist Christine Lenicker has been identified. Ms Lenicker, 29, parked her car in the Homer Tunnel carpark in Fiordland before beginning a tramp on March 30, and did not return. Friends in Nelson reported her missing on April 10 when they had not heard from her. Police and search and rescuers have since searched the Homer Tunnel and Gertrude Saddle areas. Earlier police said the man may have spoken with Christine about her travel plans and where she was planning to hike. Today, police thanked all those who helped to identify the man, and in particular a tramper who came into the Stratford police station.

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Trial delayed again The trial of a Wanganui man facing drugs charges overseas has again been delayed due to his health.

Antony de Malmanche appeared briefly in a Bali court on Thursday but was unwell and the case was adjourned. He had an angina attack on Wednesday, his New Zealand based lawyer Craig Tuck said. It follows de Malmanche’s collapse in court the previous Thursday, again due to an angina attack. Mr Tuck said de Malmanche was fragile. De Malmanche was arrested in December at Bali’s Denpasar International Airport and subsequently charged with carrying 1.7kg of methamphetamine in his backpack.

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Help for drug addicts – if they want it

By Daisy HuDson

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Skate Jam fitting way to end school holidays Damien Green, 10, was one of many keen skaters who celebrated the end of the school holidays at the Ashburton Skate Jam yesterday.

The event, which was held at the Ashburton Skate Park, drew a large crowd as a group of young skaters showed off their tricks.

The two-hour event featured gear hire, spot prizes, music and a free barbecue.

It marked the final day of the school holidays for the

■ ASHBURTON MATERNITY CARE

Women get in early

By Caitlin Porter

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Pregnant women in Mid Canterbury are now receiving maternity care earlier than ever before.

A recent report shows that nationwide women are receiving support from Lead Maternity Carers (LMC) in the early stages of pregnancy.

Nationwide 63 per cent of women who registered with an LMC and gave birth in 2012 had registered in their first trimester, a 28 per cent increase on 2008.

Mid Canterbury LMC Biddy Sheehan said the trend is one she is noticing here, with women registering with her in the fifth or sixth week of pregnancy.

“In Ashburton we don’t have a lot of LMC midwives, so women know if they want a certain midwife they need to get in quick,” she said.

There are currently eight LMCs in Ashburton but that will drop to seven at the end of July when Mrs Sheehan departs. “Apparently that is the amount the CDHB have said we need for the Ashburton area,” she said.

LMCs are advised by the College of Midwives to look after between 40 and 60 women a year, but many take on more than that.“Most of us look after more than that because there are 450 women that are having babies [in Ashburton] each year,” she said.

Mrs Sheehan said there are benefits for women who get in early with a midwife.

“They can have their prescription for iodine which the Ministry of Health recommends and also for folic acid, so we prescribe those scripts for them and it saves them going to the GP to confirm the pregnancy, we can do that.”

Search on to find centenarians Ashburton might struggle to match Christchurch when it comes to seriously old people, but there are several people in our community who have passed the magic milestone of their 100th birthday.

Christchurch’s Annie Mason this week celebrated her 107th birthday. Annie lived in her own home until she was 105.

Her youngest child is 72.

While Ashburton can’t quite match that, Coldstream House resident Rita Turtill is not far behind. She will celebrate her 105th birthday in November.

And with that birthday behind her, Mrs Turtill will become part of an elite group of super elderly. Over the past decade less than a handful of Ashburton

women have reached their 105th birthday – Barbara Tucker and Gertie Gregory, with Mollie Bell dying just two weeks short of making that milestone.

When the Guardian called Ashburton rest homes just one centenarian was found, Betty Young, with one Methven House resident soon to celebrate turning 99 and one Tuarangi resident turning 100 later this year.

The Guardian would like to find Ashburton’s most senior seniors to ensure we do not miss their milestone 100th birthday. We’d also like to find people who have passed that milestone so we can share their special stories with our readers.

district’s students, who will head back into the classroom on Monday.

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A new move by police to get help for drug addicts could be a real positive for the community.

However it will only work if the addicts themselves take up the offer of help.

That’s the message from Ashburton Community Alcohol and Drug Services (Acads) manager Chris Clark following the announcement of a new police operation targeting drug offending in Canterbury.

Operation Focus aims to reduce the victims of those crimes and will include all aspects of offending, including drug supply, those committing crime to fund drug habits, and those purchasing stolen property illegally.

It will also look to rehabilitate drug addicts and crack down on those people supplying drugs to the community.

Ms Clark said the move had the potential to be positive for the community, provided addicts were willing to work with drug and alcohol agencies.

She said Acads had not seen a rise in people requesting help with drug or alcohol dependency, but numbers were holding steady.

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Duncan’s on path to success

BY ROBIN RAYMOND This time last year Canterbury teen Duncan McIntyre was a high school dropout whose ambition in life was to get a job at Video Ezy; today he has a job as a machine maintenance person at an international company who are likely to send him to Italy to study for two years.

Ashburton-based Salvation Army Education and Employment Tutor Heather Daly said Duncan has been her biggest success story from three years as a tutor. He joined the course in June last year taking the Careers and Computing course with a view to completing his NCEA Level Two. “When his parents brought him into the Ashburton centre, none of them were confident he’d turn up every day or get his level two. They said he’d probably be alright for the first few weeks then start making excuses not to come,” Ms Daly said.

At the start she said, those fears proved well founded as Duncan struggled with having to come in to town with his mother at 7.30am and having to wait after the course finished for a ride home.

“He was coming on average three days a week and making silly excuses why he couldn’t come. When he was here he would work hard and then say he was

Duncan McIntyre, proving that taking an opportunity can lead to a new career.

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tired. He didn’t want to talk to anybody and felt he had the weight of the world on his shoulders.”

Duncan’s background didn’t help; he faced learning difficulties, making it difficult for him to write and was picked on at school and often absent.

However, Ms Daly said, she was not willing to give up on Duncan or let him skip classes.

“I don’t lower my goalposts for dif-

ferent students. I expect them to reach them with different levels of help.”

To help Duncan overcome his learning difficulties she began highlighting sections of his work book in different colours, offering practical, hands-on learning, and encouraging him to see the value in getting his NCEA Level Two. He began to work harder and began to teach parts of the course he was good at, to help him with his self-confidence and

he became talkative and friendly, as well as doing well on the course.

Last month Ms Daly read in the Ashburton Guardian the New Zealand Sock Factory was looking for staff and organised for students to go on a visit.

Duncan impressed the manager so much he asked him to go home and fill out an application form for a job repairing and maintaining the factory’s delicate machines.

Two weeks later he had an interview and was offered a job and went on to complete his NCEA Level Two, six weeks earlier than the expected 40 weeks.

“The job entails two years working in the factory and in the third year they said they will send him to Italy for two years to learn about the machines and the parts.

“Duncan is now an 18-year-old with a huge future ahead of him. I’ve had quite a few fantastic success stories, but this is even bigger again. To see where he’s come from and where he’s going is so, so exciting,’ Ms Daly said.

Education and Employment (E&E) is a fees-free private training establishment providing foundation learning and job placement around New Zealand for 16 to 19-year-olds whom school does not suit.

It has been running since 1978 and is affiliated with The Salvation Army.

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New software a step into 21st century

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To the borrower it will be business as usual, but for staff and Ashburton library members using online services, the new Kotui software installed on Thursday will be a giant step into the 21st century.

It might come with an annual $40,000 fee, but unlike its cheaper predecessor, the new library system is designed by libraries, for libraries and it puts Ashburton into a linked network with dozens of other libraries around New Zealand.

The old system had all but fallen over, library manager Jill Watson said.

“Customers using it couldn’t access catalogues online or borrow books from home. It was over 10 years old and that’s old in computer software terms. It was basic and it stayed static.”

Its replacement will be constantly changing, constantly upgraded.

It offers library members significantly more powerful search tools of both the library’s catalogues and the internet, she said.

“While it will make E lending easier for customers, but we won’t have the bonus of having a long chat with people on the phone while we were waiting for the system to come up.”

Kotui is the first subscription based shared service that allows public libraries across New Zealand to collaborate regardless of where they are.

Ashburton mayor Angus McKay checks out the new Kotui software installed at Ashburton’s library on Thursday by project manager John Truesdale (left). With him are Corin Haines manager services to public libraries, National Library of New Zealand and Ashburton’s library manager Jill Watson.

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Community meetings will be held in the following locations The Consultation document, “Working together for lifestyle and opportunity” details key decisions facing the district and our proposed direction for the next decade. It includes the impact this might have on rates.

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Grab a copy of the consultation document from the Council, Ashburton Public Library, Methven i-SITE, Rakaia Mobil, On the Spot (Hinds), Mount Somers General Store or The Udder Dairy (Mayfield)

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A personal connection Trooper Francis “Frank” Woodhouse Born 2 June 1897 to William and Julia Woodhouse of Alexandra Date enlisted: 8 December 1914 He was 17 when he enlisted but gave his age as 20 Left New Zealand for Egypt on 17 April 1915 from Wellington Was a trooper for the 4th Reinforcements, Otago Mounted Rifles Travelled via ship on Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo Reported missing after the assault on Hill 60 at Gallipoli on 27 August 1915 Board of enquiry in January 1916 ruled he was killed in action during the assault

Anna Leask, originally from Methven, now a journalist with the New Zealand Herald, is heading to Gallipoli to cover the centenary of the Anzac landings. Anna has a personal connection with Gallipoli through her late grandfather Ted Woodhouse who lived in Ashburton. His uncle Frank Woodhouse was a trooper with the Otago Mounted Rifles, and was killed in action at Gallipoli in August 1915.

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y great great uncle Francis Woodhouse was just 17 when he enlisted to go to war. He wasn’t legally old enough to join the army so, like many others, the small-town teenager fibbed about his age.

I bet if he had the luxury of regrets, that would have been his biggest.

Frank was working as a labourer in Alexandra, Central Otago, when he signed up. His attestation form, filled out in meticulous cursive handwriting, states he was 20, but according to a Woodhouse family bible in which all birth and death dates were noted, he was just 17 years, six months and six days old at the time.

He left New Zealand for Turkey on April 17, 1915; eight days before the failed Anzac landings.

It is thought he went to Egypt via the Suez Canal and then embarked from there to the Dardenelles on August 3, 1915, to bolster the Allies rapidly flailing invasion effort.

He was a trooper in the Otago Mounted Rifles and among a wave of reinforcements that took part in the Battle of Hill 60 - the last major assault of the Gallipoli campaign.

The first offensive was launched on the 21st of the month. A week later during the second push to take the hill, 183 Anzacs were killed.

Frank was reported missing that day and on January 19, 1916, a Board of En-

quiry ruled that he had been killed in action on August 27, 1915.

He was 18 years two months and 25 days old when he died.

Like so many, his life ended far too soon and needlessly on that bloody battlefield.

Where Frank’s remains lie, no-one knows. But his name is inscribed on the New Zealand memorial at the cemetery at Hill 60 - known as Kaiajik Aghala to the Turks.

The memorial is one of four erected to commemorate Kiwi troops who died at Gallipoli but whose graves are not known.

I will be visiting that memorial this month when I travel to Gallipoli to cover the centenary for the Herald.

Frank was the uncle of my maternal grandfather Victor Edward Woodhouse - better known as Ted. He passed away aged 61 when I was just five, so I never had the

chance to grill him for information about the family like I have my other grandparents (I’ve always been quite the history and family tree nerd).

Luckily others in the family share my interest and have over the years gathered a good stock of information about Uncle Frank. There is a great sense of pride that we have an Anzac in our family, that one of our number was part of that bravery, tenacity, determination and spirit that carved a new identity for New Zealand and is still held sacred 100 years on.

But there is also sadness when I think of what we lost – what Frank never got to experience and achieve in his life.

What his mother and father, his siblings lost and how that impacted on the rest of their lives.

I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like to go to war at 17; to leave your tiny South Island town and everything you know to board a ship full of strangers for the unknown and a shadowy enemy.

At 17 in my tiny South Island town I was at high school, the hardest part of my daily life deciding what to have on my toast each morning. The comparison is unfathomable.

I find myself wondering what the journey to Gallipoli was like for him – was he nervous? How did he get to Hill 60 – was he scared, was it cold at night, was he hungry, lonely, homesick?

What did he see at Gallipoli?

How many Turks did he kill or maim? The more my mind wanders the more questions I come up with.

I don’t know what it will be like visiting Hill 60, seeing a family name etched into the memorial, walking where he walked, standing where he met his fate. Some say it’s unexpectedly emotional, that you don’t realise until you get there how strongly you feel that Anzac connection. Others have described it to me as peaceful, reflective, eerie.

I don’t know how I will react, what I will feel or how visiting the memorial will affect me.

What I do know is that it will be a privilege to visit the place where my great great uncle served for King and country, fought bravely and fell doing what he believed was right.

I’ll let you all know how it goes…

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Terns under attack It is death and destruction on the fauna frontline in Mid Canterbury riverbeds. Thankfully, the Department of Conservation is launching a pest-trapping programme to help some of our most endangered bird species. Susan Sandys reports.

ton Lakes and would also help species such as dotterils and wrybill.

A range of kill traps would be set on trap lines parallel with the river and spaced at 200-metre intervals. Soft jaw leg hold and cage traps would also be used in designated areas.

Poison is also expected to be used, specifically for blackbacked gulls, a major predator of the birds.

Mr Edwards said there were high hopes for the trapping programme.

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larm bells are ringing over the future of the black-fronted tern as nest monitoring footage from the Rangitata Riverbed shows heavy predation of nests.

Chicks, eggs and adults are becoming tasty meals for introduced predators, especially cats, but also stoats and rats.

The Department of Conservation is so concerned by the footage it has this week launched a pest-trapping programme.

O Tu Wharekai ranger Brad Edwards said yesterday that final results from the 165 nests monitored showed only 18 chicks successfully hatched and no chicks survived to fledging age. Eighty per cent of monitored failures were caused by predation or predator pressure.

Black-fronted terns nest on the eastern side of the South Island, in braided riverbed colonies. They only exist in New Zealand and there are less than 10,000 birds left.

“It’s not a very good prognosis,” Mr Edwards said.

It was unknown how well the birds might be doing in other nesting areas.

“We can’t identify anywhere around the country where they are really successfully breeding,” Mr Edwards said.

Part of the response to the footage was to undertake predator trapping and traps were being deployed this week. The department programme would complement community programmes in the nearby Ashbur-

Above left – Black-fronted tern eggs.

Above right – This black-fronted tern chick was one of many that did not make it to adulthood in the Rangitata Riverbed this breeding season.

Left – O Tu Wharekai ranger Brad Edwards is laying predator traps to try and give native bird species a chance.

Below – Nest monitoring footage shows a feral cat scaring off a parent black-fronted tern from its nest in the Rangitata Riverbed.

throughout the South Island.

If we can learn to deal with it at one site, we can learn to replicate it elsewhere.”

He said it was unknown how the predators got out to the big riverbed shingle islands where the tern nested.

“It’s amazing where the predators turn up,” he said.

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t is not all doom and gloom for New Zealand’s rare birds in the Mid Canterbury high country, as rock wren, blue duck, kea and falcon have all been seen recently.

Department of Conservation partnerships ranger George Isles last month went on a trip up the South Ashburton and saw a pair of rock wrens, a pair of adult kea and a New Zealand falcon.

“I was really excited to see those,” he said.

With regard to the rock wren, Mr Isles said the species was one of only two remaining species of wren in New Zealand.

“Our tiny wrens didn’t fare well after people and their pests arrived.”

While seeing the birds did not signify they were any more common than they had been in the past, it at least showed they were still in Mid Canterbury. It was the first time he had ever

A pair of rock wren were spied in the Mid Canterbury high country.

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A pair of blue ducks have also been spotted recently in the upper reaches of the Rangitata River. The species, once common, has been seen intermittently over the years in the area.

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Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served.”

Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. Gallipoli: The landings On April 25, some British and French troops, together

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with soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac), landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

Turkish soldiers had been expecting the landings and were lying in wait in strong fortifications above the beaches. British and French troops landing at Cape Helles on the tip of the peninsula came under severe fire and barely managed to capture the beach.

At the end of the first day their forces were too depleted to mount an advance beyond the beach. To the north, Anzac troops faced an even worse

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situation. They landed almost a mile off course and faced an impossible terrain. Trapped between the sea and the surrounding hills, they were lambs to slaughter.

The Lest We Forget 8km event is in recognition of the distance our Anzac heroes were required to conquer upon landing at Gallipoli.

The event is targeted at family involvement and participation offering an event that optimises New Zealanders in healthy and enjoyable physical recreation at the same time helping our local RSA. Lest We Forget.

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Come and join us for a commemorative 1km or 8km run or walk Ashburton Domain - Walnut Avenue, Hockey Pavilion Saturday 25th April, 1.00pm Enter on the day Entry is $10 by way of a donation for a poppy $3 for children under 12 and for students Proceeds towards Anzac Poppy Fund Proudly supported by the Ashburton RSA and Ashburton Rotary Club.

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"The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair..."

by A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

A mother says goodbye to her son, a sergeant in the NZEF Main Body which left Wellington aboard 10 troopships on 16 October 1914.

The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold, The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.

There's chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart, And many to count are the stalwart, and many the brave, And many the handsome of face and the handsome of heart,

A British kite balloon ascending into position, circa 1916. Kite balloons were used by both sides to observe enemy activity and direct artillery fire. Usually located 4-5 km behind the front line

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And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.

I wish one could know them, I wish there were tokens to tell The fortunate fellows that now you can never discern; And then one could talk with them friendly and wish them farewell And watch them depart on the way that they will not return.

But now you may stare as you like and there's nothing to scan; And brushing your elbow unguessed-at and not to be told They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

and winched to a height of 1-1.5 km, they carried in a small gondola an observer equipped with binoculars and a field telephone connected by signal cable to the ground.

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Thirty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant George Black, a sheepfarmer from Poverty Bay, took part in the 1st Otago Battalion's disastrous trench raid of 13 July 1916.

The night before the raid, George wrote to his mother expressing his excitement and pride at being picked to go.

He did not survive the experience. His younger brother, Lieutenant Ernest 'Dick' Black (1888- 1970), Otago Mounted Rifles, wrote home a few days later to tell his parents the terrible news.

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Men scraped 'coffin' holes on the ridges above Anzac Cove, and peered into the metre-high scrub that was gradually cut away by the constant stream of bullets. (Gresson Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library)

Four men who came in three days after the landing. Posted missing, 26 April 1915. (Davy Collection, 3rd Auckland & Northland Battalion)

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The First Death in the NZEF The first death in the NZEF occurred on 25 August 1914, when 19-year-old Gunner Ludolph Edwin Wynn West, New Zealand Field Artillery, died of pneumonia at Awapuni Mobilisation Camp. Due to clerical error West's death was not included in the official Roll of Honour compiled after the war, and he effectively disappeared from history. His story was rediscovered by researcher Trevor Richards in the early 2000s and publicly acknowledged with an official wreathlaying ceremony in 2006. Gunner West's name was added to the Roll of Honour and his refurbished burial plot in Palmerston North’s Terrace End Cemetery is now considered an official war grave.

The temporary mobilisation camp set up for Canterbury NZEF Main Body volunteers at Addington Show Grounds, Christchurch, August 1914. Each bell tent housed up to eight men.

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Anzac commemorative circulating coin

For many years, New Zealanders and Australians have paid their respects to the brave soldiers who lost their lives fighting for ‘Country, King and Empire’ on 25 April 1915. Anzac Day 2015 marks 100 years since this tragic event and we remember our Anzacs through this special Anzac commemorative circulating coin.

Designed by renowned artist Dave Burke, the coin design features a New Zealand soldier and an Australian soldier brought together by the hardships of Gallipoli.

The soldiers stand back to back with their heads bowed in respect and remembrance.

Incorporated in the background of the design are mangopare patterns (hammerhead shark), patterns traditionally associated with warriors and symbolising strength, determination and an unwillingness to back down.

The silver ferns represent New Zealand’s national identity and appear on the war graves of fallen New Zealand soldiers around the world.

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ATTACK

by Siegfried Sassoon

At dawn the ridge emerges ‘massed and dun In the wild purple of the glow’ring sun, Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one, Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire.

The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed With bombs and guns and shovels and battle-gear, Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire.

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear, They leave their trenches, going over the top, While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists, And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, Flounders in mud. 0 Jesus, make it stop!

A soldier from the Australian Imperial Guard, complete with his own gramophone, listens to music to while away the hours on sentry duty.

Soldiers armed with pickaxes make their way to the front. In many cases their first challenge was to dig the trenches they were to live in for the next few weeks. According to British guidelines it was estimated 450 men would take 6 hours to build a 275-yard front-line trench system.

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TRENCH DUTY

by Siegfried Sassoon

Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake, Out in the trench with three hours’ watch to take, I blunder through the splashing mirk; and then Hear the gruff muttering voices of the men Crouching in cabins candlechinked with light.

Hark! There’s the big bombardment on our right Rumbling and bumping; and the dark’s a glare Of flickering horror in the sectors where We raid the Boche; men waiting, stiff and chilled, Or crawling on their bellies through the wire.

‘What? Stretcher-bearers wanted? Some one killed?’

Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire; Why did he do it? ... Starlight overhead Blank stars. I’m wide-awake; and some chap’s dead.

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The Hero

by Siegfried Sassoon

'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the Mother said, And folded up the letter that she'd read.

'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke.

In the tired voice that quavered to a choke.

She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud Of our dead soldiers.' Then her face was bowed.

Quietly the Brother Officer went out.

He'd told the poor old dear some gallant lies.

That she would nourish all her days, no doubt.

For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes.

Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy, Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy.

He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine, Had panicked down the trench that night the mine.

Went up at Wicked Comer; how he'd tried.

To get sent home, and how, at last, he died, Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care Except that lonely woman with white hair.

New Zealand wounded from the Dardanelles.

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An Ashburton teen with a passion for helping people has found success on a national level after winning big at a St John competition.

Ashburton College student Amy White, 17, was part of the South Island regional team that took out the top prize at the St John National Youth Festival and Competitions in Lincoln last weekend.

The competition sees teams from the South Island region, Central region, and North Island region competing in a range of areas including first aid, communications, and drills.

Amy was selected from 80 hopefuls as one of 24 members of the South Island region squad after attending a selection camp earlier in the year.

After months of training, preparation and hard work,

Amy and the South Island squad were over the moon with their impressive results at the competition.

As well as taking out the overall prize, Amy’s team came first in the drills section and third in the communications section.

“We were all really proud of ourselves,” she said.

However, the weekend was marred slightly when Amy dislocated her knee on the final night.

“I was taken away in the ambulance from a St John event,” she said with a laugh.

She said the incident did not take the shine off a successful weekend.

Having spent seven years in St John, Amy is looking to continue her passion for medicine by studying paramedicine next year.

“I love the medical side, I love teaching, and I love helping out the community,” she said.

Ashburton teen Amy White is still buzzing after her recent success at the St John National Youth Festival and Competitions.

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Crusaders crushed

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Even the injection of some serious All Blacks firepower wasn’t enough to rescue the Crusaders from the Chiefs’ onslaught in Christchurch last night.

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Sports diary Around the Grounds

Saturday Bowls Junior Singles Championships @ Allenton Bowling Club 9am start

Hockey Women’s: Hampstead 1 v Hampstead-Collegians @ NBS Ashburton Turf 1.30pm Men’s: Wakanui Blue v Wakanui Black @ NBS Ashburton Turf 3.00pm

Netball Senior B, Senior Reserve A and B and Second Grade from 1.30pm

Mainland Football Men’s Div 4: MCU Eastern v Burnham @ Coronation Park S12:30 PM Men’s Div 5 Methven v PapanuiRedwood @ Methven Domain 2.30pm Men’s Masters Div 2: MCU Masters WIN BY DEF v Hurnui Rangers Men’s 18th Div 3: MCU v Papanui-Redwood @ Ashburton Domain 10:45am Men’s 18th Div 4 Methven v CBHS 3rd XI @ Methven Domain 10.45am

Rugby Combined Country Cup Celtic v Rakaia @ Celtic 1, 2.45pm Methven v Darfield, @ Methven 1, 2.45pm Southern v Waihora, @ Hinds 1, 2.45pm Rolleston v Hampstead, @ Rolleston 1, 2.45pm

Rugby League Ashburton Barbarians v Papanui Tigers @ Papanui 1pm

Sunday Bowls Champion of Champion Singles @ Ashburton MSA Bowling Club 9am start

Hockey Men’s: Mid Canterbury XI vs Canterbury U21 @ NBS Ashburton Turf 1pm Women’s: Canterbury Selection v Canterbury U21 at 2.30pm

Mainland Football Women’s Div 1: Methven A v Halswell United Green @ Mt Hutt College 10.30am Women’s Div 2: Methven B v Selwyn United at Methven Domain 10.30am

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Keeping an eye on the ball

By DaviD Skipwith Defence has been a focus for Bodene Thompson in his first few games for the Warriors, but he hopes to make more of an impression with the ball in hand as the side’s right edge combinations begin to gel.

Before round five, Thompson and halfback Shaun Johnson were the only mainstays on a right edge that failed to fire, as the centre, wing and fullback positions shuffled each week to stunt their cohesion.

Heading into tonight’s clash with the Cowboys in Townsville, Thompson feels confident that combinations are starting to click after consecutive games with Konrad Hurrell and Jonathan Wright settling into the midfield and flank positions together.

“It’s good, the combinations are starting to get going and we’re getting familiar with each other and the same people,” Thompson said.

“The first few weeks we had a different centre and winger every week so we weren’t quite getting things right.

“I’m starting to find my timing and am just getting the feel of everyone I’m playing with.

“It takes a couple of weeks to get used to how everyone plays and they’re getting used to how I play.

“It’s starting to feel all right and hopefully we can put some better performances together individually and as a team in the next couple of weeks.”

That settling-in period hasn’t stopped Thompson from rolling his sleeves up and together with Ryan Hoffman and captain Simon Mannering, the back-row trio have been effective in restricting the impact of opposition forward packs.

His next goal is to vary his game more by getting his hands

Bodene Thompson: Determined to do more on attack.

on the ball and making bigger inroads through the defensive line.

“I have been doing a little bit more work but that comes with the job defensively,” he said.

“It’s something I have to work on because after doing so many tackles I have to back up and have a powerful run.

“I just have to keep consistently working on that and trying to get better at it week in and week out.”

It hasn’t been an easy ride for Wright either, but after some initial hurdles, the former Parramatta, Canterbury and Cronulla finisher has looked more assured out wide.

“I’m enjoying it,” Wright said.

“I’m just getting into the structures of our game and how the boys play and there were a few weeks there where I was just sort of learning as I go.

“It was [difficult].

“We’ve been doing a lot of work and we’re getting a good combination together and we want to build on last week’s game.”

Coach Andrew McFadden was critical of Wright’s positional play in their round five loss to Melbourne, but was quick to compliment his efforts against the Tigers last Saturday.

But he hinted that the return of David Fusitu’a and Glen Fisiiahi to NSW Cup would ramp up competition for his

right wing spot.

“He was really rock solid,” McFadden said.

“Most people don’t see what he does in terms of how he carries for a lot of metres, he’s always working for the team and he’s obviously very, very safe under the high ball.

“He’s had a fair few combinations inside him and that always makes it a little more difficult.

“If we can settle on a line-up that will help him, but obviously he’s got some competition coming.”

Meanwhile, Wright says the Warriors right side are determined to match the efforts of their left edge counterparts who have enjoyed plenty of success in the early rounds.

“They were giving us a bit of stick and they’ve been scoring a few tries and stopping a few too.

“That’s where we want to be, we’ve got high standards here and we just want to make sure no one comes through our edge.

“That’s what we want to hit the mark on this weekend and throughout the rest of the season.”

WARRIORS Cowboys v Warriors 1300 Smiles Stadium, 7.30 tonight Tuimoala Lolohea Jonathan Wright Konrad Hurrell Solomone Kata Manu Vatuvei Chad Townsend Shaun Johnson Jacob Lillyman Thomas Leuluai Ben Matulino Bodene Thompson Ryan Hoffman S Mannering (c) Interchange: Nathan Friend, Dominique Peyroux, Sam Lisone, Albert Vete, Raymond FaitalaMariner.

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Storm expecting tough test from Roosters

By MeliSSa wooDS Melbourne Storm five-eighth Blake Green says the Sydney Roosters should present their toughest test of the NRL season, particularly in the halves.

Green and Test halfback Cooper Cronk will lead the charge for the home side tonight at AAMI Park against one-time NSW Origin halves combination James Maloney and Mitchell Pearce.

The 28-year-old, who will play his 50th NRL game after returning from England, said it was a

great chance to measure his new partnership with Cronk against the leading duo. Pearce is once again pushing for Blues selection, ranking third in the NRL for try assists and equal fourth in line-break assists.

“It is a great opportunity for us, they are probably two of the best halves in the competition,” Green said yesterday.

“It is tough to single out one aspect that they are really good at, but something that we picked out this week was that they are really good support players.

“They also kick really well and off the back of that their forwards defend really well and they often win field position because of that.”

While second-placed Melbourne are out to make it three wins on the trot, the Roosters are looking to avoid their third successive loss.

Sixth heading into the round, Green said the Roosters were better team than their ladder position suggested.

“It’s probably our biggest test,” Green said. “As we’ve seen

over the last couple of years they have probably been the benchmark in the competition.”

Green left the NRL as a 24-year-old after failing to nail down a regular role with the Sharks, Eels and Bulldogs.

He spent three seasons in the English Super League with Hull KR and Wigan.

Green said he was a better player and person from the experience of playing overseas and that players shouldn’t only consider it as a stepping stone to retirement.

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In brief 1st XV hitting straps The Ashburton College 1st XV recorded another solid pre-season win beating Marlborough Boys’ High School 35-17 in Rangiora yesterday. College are still missing a few players but new coach Dave McCrea was impressed with the performance. “They went out and from the kick-off played some decent structured rugby,” McCrea said. “With a few guys still to come back it’s looking promising for the season.” College had earlier had a 14-12 win over Roncalli College last month. The University Championship kicks off next weekend with College at home to Burnside before a bye in week two.

Canes get jitters

Colin Slade looks for a way through the Chiefs’ defence in their match at AMI Stadium in Christchurch last night.

Clinical Chiefs down Crusaders

By Patrick McKendry The Chiefs easily recovered from the first-half loss of Aaron Cruden to secure a memorable double over the Crusaders in Christchurch 26-9 last night.

Cruden jarred his left knee after 20 minutes and was replaced

by Andrew Horrell, but his side hardly missed a beat against a predictable Crusaders team who made constant errors and hardly fired a shot on attack.

Israel Dagg was a late scratching for the Crusaders due to a calf strain but it’s hard to see what difference he would have made.

The comprehensive threetries-to-nil victory makes it two wins from two for the Chiefs over the Crusaders this season.

They were good - they unpicked the Crusaders set piece in the first half - especially the lineout, which was often shambolic, despite the presence of All Blacks ball winners Richie McCaw, Luke Romano, Sam Whitelock and Kieran Read.

But the Crusaders were extremely poor.

Their main attacking weapon, Nemani Nadolo, did not touch the ball in the first half and they failed to take advantage of Sam Cane’s sinbinning, with Carter missing two penalties in that time. All up, Carter missed three shots at goal and was very quiet throughout.

Their scrum - so good in the early stages of the competition - was defused by the Chiefs, who won a tighthead, although pen-

alty magnet Ben Tameifuna was put under increasing pressure in this area.

Defensively the home side were way off as well.

They were exposed around the fringes in their humiliating loss to the Chiefs in Hamilton in February and it was a case of same again in Christchurch.

The connected visitors gave a masterclass in this area.

It all means that Todd Blackadder’s team have fallen further off the pace - their big win over the Sharks in Durban a fortnight ago appearing to be a false dawn rather than a corner turned.

It is still reasonably early days but sixth place - a last play-off spot - seems a long way off after this loss and the previous one to the Highlanders, also at home.

Something isn’t right at the Crusaders - their players are down on confidence and are in a big hole.

The Chiefs, meanwhile, stay on track and will be a big force come finals time. Brodie Retallick was a colossus in the Chiefs lineout, with Sonny Bill Williams, Tim Nanai-Williams and James Lowe big threats in their backline.

It was Lowe’s runaway try after the halftime hooter which effectively sunk the Crusaders.

They were on the hunt for points only for another mistake to send Lowe scampering away and at 18-6 they were always going to struggle against a team who these days finishes games much stronger than them and so it proved.

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Highlanders a different team now - Cowan

By Patrick McKendry Jimmy Cowan is going back to his roots - back to Dunedin to face the team he played more than 100 times for, a team he freely admits is much better now.

Cowan, on the reserves bench for the Blues against the Highlanders under the roof tonight, played 108 times for the southerners between 2003 and 2012, a lean period in terms of success.

The Highlanders’ glory days were between 1998 and 2002 when they lost three semi-finals and a final.

They’ve encountered a few rough patches since - the worst of which was probably in 2013, the year after Cowan left for his two-year stint at Gloucester, when Jamie Joseph’s men finished 14th of 15 teams and won only three games all year.

They’re on the rise again now, though.

The Highlanders finished sixth last year after losing a qualifier match to the Sharks and last week they reaffirmed their title aspirations when beating the Crusaders in Christchurch.

They have already beaten the

Chiefs in Hamilton, a feat few teams achieve these days.

“It will be a challenge because of the way they are playing,” Cowan said of the Highlanders, currently sitting in fifth place overall compared with the Blues’ 13th.

“It was a bit different when I was there. They’re playing a winning brand of rugby but when I was there they aren’t quite where they are at the moment.

“You have to give them credit, they’re playing very well.

“They put the Crusaders away

last week, and they beat the Chiefs away.

“They’re one of the form teams of the competition and we realise what’s ahead.

“We’re looking forward to it, it’s a great place to play and I’ve had a season under the roof there in Dunedin. I think our boys will enjoy the roof and the dry ball.”

All Blacks Aaron Smith, namesake Ben Smith and Malakai Fekitoa have ensured the Highlanders are capable of striking when teams least expect it, as Cowan noted.

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Coaches must always carry nerves as their team comes off a bye. Every time a team has a round off, each coach does their best to explain why it was good for their side. Rugby coaches like to point to the physical nature of the game and acknowledge their players needed a rest. The Hurricanes have fallen in to that category this week as they will come off a bye and meet the Waratahs in Wellington today. “The downside of a bye is [losing] your momentum,” coach Chris Boyd said. “But we found the Stormers game particularly physical and I think, post the Stormers, was a good time to get rid of a few creaks and bumps and bruises.” - NZME

Reds turning corner It has been the Super Rugby season from hell for the Reds, but Kiwi hardman Adam Thomson has seen enough glimmers of hope throughout to convince himself they’ve seen the worst of it. Their tour of South Africa wraps up on Sunday morning when they will be seeking just their second victory of this campaign against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein. Thomson is taking an optimistic view. “I think we’ve shown some really good rugby in patches,” said Thomson.

“But that’s our problem - it’s only been in patches. We haven’t really put that full performance together. If we can do that we’re going to be dangerous and we’re going to be winning some games. - AAP

Tahs aim to kick on The NSW Waratahs are planning to ditch their signature ballin-hand game plan in search of a crucial Super Rugby win over the unbeaten Hurricanes today. The Waratahs venture to Wellington with their title defence flatlining and bracing for a testing encounter in wind and rain. The ugly forecast has forced last year’s stylish champions into modifying their approach. “I know we’re traditionally not big on kicking but we have little ideas around playing (for) territory and just being smarter with our attacking options,” said skipper Dave Dennis. - AAP

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In brief Fans identified Four Canterbury fans are assisting police after being identified in relation to crowd violence following the BulldogsSouth Sydney match on Good Friday. They were found after police released 13 images yesterday from the end of the game at ANZ Stadium, when officials were pelted with plastic bottles and other projectiles. Those found guilty of throwing projectiles face possible bans from the stadium, and the NRL has also raised the possibility of life bans.

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Tomkins OK to go Warriors fullback Sam Tomkins’ return to the UK Super League was confirmed yesterday with the England international set to rejoin Wigan on a four-year contract at the end of the NRL season. The 26-year-old has been granted an early release from the final year of his Warriors contract on compassionate grounds, with Tomkins citing homesickness for his decision to leave.

Wigan have agreed to repay $389,000 of the world record $1.34 million transfer fee the Warriors paid for Tomkins back in 2013.

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■ NETBALL

Netball’s new era

By Caitlin Porter

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N

etball is heading into unknown territory this year with the move to covered hardwood floors and midweek matches.

Last year Mid Canterbury Netball changed the format of their competition to six teams per grade, played over three rounds including promotion-relegation.

This year they have gone even further, moving from the standard Saturday timeslot and moving the future home of netball indoors, to the EA Networks Centre.

Move in day won’t occur until May but the schedule changes will take place from today, at the Middle Road courts.

Premier and Senior A now play on Thursday nights, with social netball on Wednesday nights.

Senior B through to second grade retains the Saturday afternoon timeslot from

1.30pm, and the competitive junior netball grades will also be playing on Saturday mornings.

Year three and four will play on Friday nights and year one and twos will play on Monday nights.

Another new initiative to spice up the Premier, senior A and social grade has been the introduction of challenge trophies, as well as silverware for finishing in the top spot in their own individual round.

The promotion-relegation stretches across all the grades and is automatic in round one but at the completion of round two – heading into the championship round that concludes with play-offs – there are promotion relegation matches.

During all three rounds the challenge trophies will be up for grabs with the initial holders to be decided upon on opening night.

The current trophy holder will put the

trophy up each week and at the end of the season it will be held by the winning teams until next year.

If a team holding the trophy is promoted or relegated at any stage, the trophy will remain in that grade, with the new holder being the team to last challenge for it.

The exciting new season will however have to deal with the wintry woes of wind and rain for a few weeks yet, before discovering the comfort of the state-of-the-art stadium.

Right: The EA Networks Centre will be the new home of netball this year, but not until May.

Gallen ‘still a Shark’ Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan has no doubts Paul Gallen will be a Sharks player next season, even though a deal has yet to be thrashed out between the two parties. Gallen said this week he feared being squeezed out of the only club he has ever played for but Flanagan said there is no danger of that happening to the 34-yearold. “It’s work in progress, his management and our CEO met yesterday and by all accounts it went well,” Flanagan said.

“There’s been a lot of media speculation but Paul Gallen will be here in 2016.”

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Premier netball

Big names missing The NBA playoffs are about to start without some of the most recognisable players in the game. The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and New York’s Carmelo Anthony will miss the playoffs for the second straight year, and Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant and Miami’s Dwyane Wade are also out.

So is Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook, the first scoring champion to miss the play-offs since Tracy McGrady in 2004.

“I’m at home, watching other teams play,” Westbrook said.

“It doesn’t mean nothing.” - AP

Kimi enjoying life Kimi Raikkonen said yesterday that he is enjoying life at Ferrari this season more than at any other time in his career.

On the eve of opening practice for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, the long-serving 35-year-old Finn told reporters that the atmosphere inside the Italian team this year was the best he had experienced with any team. Ferrari ended their long two-year win drought when German Sebastian Vettel triumphed in Malaysia. - AFP

Celtic took out the top spot in premier grade the last year it was played outdoors, will they do it again in its first year indoors?

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wo-time defending premiers Celtic are excited about what could be another historic season.

They were the last team to win the title outdoors and the first with back-to-back titles in over a decade, and this winter they could be the first to win the title indoors as well as claim the first hat-trick of titles since Old Collegians won in 1985-86-87.

Celtic’s A team includes a number of new faces, including Kim Bougen, but also what coach Angela Leadley refers to as “recycled faces” - those who have come back to play for the club.

Olivia Hutchinson, Gina Taylor Anna Holland are all back in the mix while a new-look shooting circle will be rolled out with Lynda Summerfield also back at the club.

Methven A’s Leanne Clemens claims a ball ahead of College A’s Kate Lloyd during the Premier competition last year.

College A goal defence Kate Lloyd, who has been at the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ trial this week.

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ormer Silver Fern Angela Mitchell returns as the College A coach again this year.

The team has its two talented defenders from last year in Sophie Worsfold and New Zealand Secondary Schools’ trialist Kate Lloyd, who have also been training with the Canterbury Emerging Talent Squad over summer.

There is also “fierce talent” in the side coming up from last year’s Year 10 team that won the Senior A title.

Mitchell said that unlike other sides, College had already had a few games under their belt and would also benefit from contesting the Supernet Secondary Schools competition in Christchurch on Wednesday nights.

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our new faces have been added to Methven’s top team, and they have a new coach in Maree McPhail.

McPhail is new to the Methven area and hasn’t been involved with Mid Canterbury netball for a number of years, but said she was looking forward to the upcoming season, and so far everything is looking good.

“You’ve got to be positive for the season ahead,” she said.

Having been premier finalists for three years in a row a new-look Methven struggled last year and staved off relegation with a win in the promotion-relegation game before going on to make the semi-finals.

They will rely on the experience of Sally Williams, Kate Cairns and Leanne Clemens.

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In brief Pietersen in Ashes?

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They’ll be team-mates in the Big Bash League come summer but Michael Clarke thinks he might have to do battle with Kevin Pietersen for the Ashes before then. Speaking at his unveiling as Melbourne Stars captain for the next two seasons, Clarke suggested his fellow 34-year-old could not only earn a stunning recall for England but cause his side difficulty during the five-Test series.

Pietersen hasn’t played first-class cricket since 2014 in Sydney, where Australia completed a 5-0 whitewash of England during the last Ashes series. But he scored 170 runs last week against Oxford and is eager to impress English selectors again.

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he Senior A competition will beplaying on Thursday night, the same night as premier.

College Y10A were the Senior A champions last year beating Rakaia A, but with the annual change

in personnel in the college sides College B will likely be a leading contender for promotion with Rakaia A. College B started last year in Premier but were relegated in round one and lost the promotion-relegation match against Methven.

Allenton A, Methven B and Hampstead B complete the Senior A line-up for round one.

The bad news for the bottom team after round one is that they will drop down to Senior B and will return to the Saturday afternoon time-slot for round two.

England worked themselves into a winning position despite strong West Indies resistance in their second innings on the fourth day of the first Test at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Set an improbable 438 for victory after the tourists declared their second innings at 7-333 in the afternoon session, the home side reached the close of play at 2-98 with opening batsman Devon Smith leading the way with an unbeaten 59. While the pitch has held up well over the four days, it is the English who remain favourites to complete their first-ever Test match victory in Antigua.

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Southee v Boult Tim Southee has gained one over Black Caps team-mate Trent Boult after facing off in the Indian Premier League. Southee’s Rajasthan Royals won a last ball thriller when James Faulkner hit the final ball for four to secure the win. It was the side’s fourth straight win in the competition. Batting first Boult’s Sunrisers made 127 for five with England’s Eion Morgan topscoring with 27 from 30 balls.

Southee failed to take a wicket, finishing with 0-30 from four overs. In the chase, Rajasthan opener Ajinkya Rahane made 62, bowled by Boult who took 1-31 from four overs.

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Dank found guilty United’s Kendra Eilken collects a high ball.

Hampstead’s Emma Rosevear looks for her target down the court.

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he 2015 Hampstead side barely resembles the one that lost the premier final to Celtic last year.

With many veteran players having to leave the team due to work and other commitments, Hampstead coach Cindy Meadows has seen some major changes to her squad.

“It’s kind of exciting, a bit of a challenge,” Meadows said.

The team is full of new faces but also has a few players who have returned to the Hampstead ranks after a few years of absence.

Lizzie Bell has returned after time overseas and Alice Breading is back in blue and gold, while Sarah Tait has transferred over from United.

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nited A are coming off what they would consider a disappointing season.

They stepped up to finish top of the table in the second round, only to stumble in the third round and miss the semi-finals finishing fifth.

This year they have a young squad under new coach Anne Gilbert which will be led by the defensive combination of Kendra Eilken and Julia McLeod - considered veterans in the youthful line-up.

They have picked up goal shoot Steph Polson who won a premier title with College in 2010.

She will come into the attacking third with Caitlin Adlam and Kate Benny.

Newcomers to premier include Alyce Lysaght and Hazel Redmond.

Collegiate’s Sarah McCormick takes a ball under extreme pressure from her Methven opponents.

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ollegiate A were the first team to benefit from the promotion to premier last year and maintained their spot by season’s end to remain in the top grade.

Coming back in as coach is Sonya Frew, the side’s inaugural coach when the team returned to senior in 2011.

There are still a few familiar faces in the side from Frew’s first year as coach, such as Rennae Taylor and Anna Tonks.

Their challenge – as it was last year - will be to stay there.

“We are probably the underdogs in the grade and have a lot of work to do, but we will be working hard every week to be competitive and keep our place in premier,” Frew said.

The AFL anti-doping tribunal is said to have found sports scientist Stephen Dank guilty of charges relating to the Essendon supplements scandal. But the Age website is also reporting that Dank was found not guilty of three charges relating to the administering of the banned substance Thymosin beta-4. Last month, the same tribunal acquitted 34 current and past Essendon players of doping charges.

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NBA dope testing The NBA is stepping up its drug testing programme by having the players undergo blood testing for Human Growth Hormone beginning next season. The NBA said that the players’ union had signed off on the random drug testing.

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In brief Chelsea’s big test Chelsea will face an in-form Manchester United as they try to move one step closer to the English Premier League title at Stamford Bridge. Jose Mourinho’s table-toppers are currently seven points in front of Arsenal, who are involved in FA Cup semi-final action against Reading this weekend.

Third-placed United are a point further back, having played a game more than Chelsea, but Louis van Gaal’s men will arrive in London on a run of six successive wins. Chelsea need just 12 points from their seven remaining matches to win their first league title since 2010 and while a defeat wouldn’t spell the end of their challenge, it would give the chasing pack a glimmer of hope.

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‘Surprises’ in store Adelaide United have some surprises in store for Western Sydney Wanderers, Reds coach Josep Gombau says. With Adelaide trying to remain in the race for a top two A-League slot, Gombau says it’s time for some tactical and personnel changes for today’s away fixture. “Last week some things don’t work and as a coach you want to try to improve,” Gombau said yesterday. “We are making changes, tomorrow people will see, it’s not something that I want to expose here and let everybody know.”

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Salary cap support Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou says Football Federation Australia have done the right thing by sticking firm to their hard-line salary cap stance.

Perth Glory were booted out of this season’s A-League finals and fined $269,000 after the club finally accepted its guilt over cap breaches. Some critics have called for the salary cap to be scrapped in the wake of the drama. But Postecoglou says irrespective of plans for the cap, current rules must be enforced to their full extent. “Whatever rules are in place need to be protected and honoured,” Postecoglou said.

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France goes hi-tech Goal-line technology will be introduced in the French top flight from next season, the league’s president Frederic Thiriez announced yesterday.

“It is a unanimous decision by our board,” declared LFP chief Thiriez after the decision to go the way of the English Premier League, which introduced goalline technology at the start of last season.

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Napoli run rampant Rafael Benitez worked his European magic again as a rampant Napoli produced a superb display to beat VfL Wolfsburg 4-1 in Germany in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final.

Captain Marek Hamsik scored twice in between strikes by Gonzalo Higuain and Manolo Gabbiadini for the visitors at the Volkswagen Arena, and next week’s second leg now looks set to be a formality.

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■ FOOTBALL

Phoenix leave it late

By Daniel Richardson The Wellington Phoenix are still in the hunt for a top-two finish in the A-League.

After dropping a pair of home outings 3-0 recently and battling to a 0-all draw across the Tasman with Melbourne City last week, they claimed a 3-2 win over the Central Coast Mariners at Westpac Stadium in the capital last night.

Two late goals from Kenny Cunningham proved just the tonic as the Phoenix had to fight back from 2-0 down at halftime after a horror opening spell left them looking down the barrel at the break.

Last night, they welcomed back centre back Ben Sigmund after the veteran had missed the past two games with a quad injury.

In a slightly surprising move, Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick dropped regular left back Manny Muscat in favour of Louis Fenton with Michael Boxall on the right.

The positional switch was likely done with attacking intent as Merrick likes his fullbacks to get forward and provide an outlet but Fenton’s defensive frailties were exposed in the 11th minute as the Mariners scored the opening goal through Nick Fitzgerald.

It was Fenton who played

Phoenix goalkeeper Glen Moss: Let two in but saved several more.

the striker onside and Fitzgerald made no mistake as he went one-on-one with Phoenix goalkeeper Glen Moss.

The Mariners enjoyed a greater share of possession during the opening spell and they bagged their second goal via Eddy Bosnar when the centre back smashed home a free kick.

It was sloppy defending from the Phoenix who set up their

wall poorly, which left Moss stranded as the home side went to the halftime break in need of a spark.

It came through midfielder Roly Bonevacia when his leftfoot shot found the back of the net, which marked their first goal in four games.

That effort kicked the Phoenix into life and Cunningham, who has been used sparingly this season, was ultimately able

to make the difference for his team.

His second goal - the winner came deep into injury time and it was nearly the last kick of the ball, which banked three points for Wellington.

The result means the Phoenix are still in with a chance of finishing inside the top two on the A-League ladder, which would give them a better road in the play-offs.

- NZME

■ OPINION

Hiccups in the first five production line

T

his week we saw a machine break down, one that has been working with the efficiency of an unbreakable diesel engine for decades.

That machine is the one that has faithfully been turning out top quality first-fives from the Canterbury catchment for ever and ever, and three months ago it appeared to be chugging along with all systems working as normal - but somewhere along the line somebody has sneaked some sugar into the fuel tank, and that machine has quietly ground to a halt.

Since well before my time there’s been a steady stream of high-class pivots being groomed for that oh-so-important spot in the red and black colours, and invariably the All Black selectors came calling.

Maybe the machine just choked on its own overproduction. Names like Doug Bruce, Wayne Smith, Andrew

Mehrtens and more, stretching well back into history, litter every season’s story of Canterbury/Crusader/All Blacks rugby.

There has been the occasional outsider in the mix, there was a guy named Fox who gallantly did his best there for a while, scored a few points even, but generally speaking Canterbury is the place where first-fives are created, moulded and readied for national duty.

With just a touch of irony, Simon Mannix, one of those ‘fillins’ who did the job in the black jersey for a couple of weeks while the Canterbury boys were getting themselves re-organised, is now waving a French chequebook around, a chequebook with a very healthy balance behind it.

Anyway, when the promising Tyler Bleyendaal arrived on the scene, he had a daunting line-up in front of him, with Colin Slade, Tom Taylor and Dan Carter all claiming the ten

to Pau for $720,000 a season.

With our comparatively minuscule spectator base, that situation simply isn’t going to change, except maybe in the wrong direction.

Steve Devereux That’s a reality, there’s more MY SHOUT than 300 New Zealand rugby players ‘out there’ somewhere getting paid well to play rugby, jersey at some time, and it was no real surprise when he jumped and we’re stuck in that reality until someone comes up with an ship and headed off to sample unlikely magic bullet. some Irish hospitality.

Back to the broken machine.

But suddenly Taylor joined While it’s being fixed, Toddy the exit queue, Carter is coming will be looking outside the to the end of it and the killer square, possibly Damian Mcblow was Slade signing on the Kenzie is his prime target to run dotted line for Pau. There’s little point in bemoan- the cutter in Crusader-land for ing the fact that the top guys are the next couple of years.

In fact, it would be best leaving.

Money doesn’t talk, it shouts, if Toddy’s boys get back to and the deals all these playmak- championship-winning form this year, giving the mechanics a ers are heading into are for money they would be foolish to decent bit of breathing space to turn down. Last year the NZRU get that machine back into prime working order. made a profit of just over But after last night’s activities $300,000, and they were happy about that. Colin Slade is going that might be a tall order.

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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Ashburton Guardian 27

In brief

■ ELLERSLIE

Vespa motoring for Easter Vespa is in peak form for Saturday’s Gr.1 Manco Easter Handicap, says Otaki trainer Johno Benner.

A winner of seven of his 12 starts, Vespa goes into the Ellerslie feature having won the Gr.2 Wellington Guineas (1400m) at Trentham and the Listed Flying Handicap (1400m) at Awapuni in his last two appearances.

“I can’t fault him,” Benner said.

“I feel he’s improved again going into this one. He’s peaking now.”

Vespa was a luckless third in the Gr.3 Eclipse Stakes at Ellerslie in his first appearance on the course before winning the Listed Karaka Million and the Gr.1 Diamond Stakes in his only two

starts on the track since.

However, just one three-yearold has won the Easter Handicap since 1990, that being the Graeme Nicholson-trained Time Keeper, who carried the minimum 51kg to defeat fellow three-year-old November Rain in 2010.

With minimums in Group One races since raised to 52kg, Vespa gets in well at that weight, dropping 1kg on his Flying Handicap win despite going up five ratings points.

“We’ve known this option was there, mainly because of the bad luck in the spring and missing those other options,” Benner said.

“We’ve got to try and get a

TAB bookmakers have installed Vespa as a $4.80 favourite ahead of Kawi at $7, Allez Eagle at $8 and Mighty Solomon at $9, with Benner unshakable in his faith in his charge.

“I wouldn’t want to trade my horse for anything else.

“We’re pretty confident,” he said.

“It’s not easy to win a Group One race, but we pretty happy with him.

“He’s spot on for this race.”

Benner is in no hurry to decide the programme for Vespa after the Easter Handicap, but will consider the $A2 million Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Doomben on June 6.

- NZME

Group One win somewhere.

“He’s down in the weights and the 1600m - we’re pretty adamant he’ll run it.

“He can sit just behind the pace and put himself to sleep.”

Vespa was badly hampered when looking a distinct chance in the Caulfield Guineas Prelude before he was undone by poor riding tactics in his other start in Melbourne in the spring.

South Auckland jockey Mark Du Plessis, who was the Elusive City colt’s regular rider for his two-year-old campaign, has been reunited with Vespa for his past two wins and now boasts a record of seven rides on the horse for six wins and a third placing.

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Hawkes Bay gallops

M2

Auckland gallops

Oaks for top filly Group One winner Platinum Witness will run at next month’s Rotorua meeting before boarding a flight to Brisbane. She will make her Australian debut in the $A175,000 Gr.2 The Roses on May 23 as a lead in to the $A500,000 Gr.1 Queensland Oaks a week later. The Lisa Latta-trained Platinum Witness has this season won the Gr.1 NZ 1000 Guineas and was second in the Gr.1 NZ Oaks.

- NZME

New barriers The long-awaited new set of northern starting gates are close to being under starter’s orders. Commissioned to replace the old Caddy-style barriers, the new barriers are currently undergoing testing and transporting procedures

by Northern Race Day Services. “We’re not prepared to put an exact time limit on it, but we are getting close,” operations manager Peter Stewart said.

- NZME

Today at Hastings Raceway

Hawkes Bay RI Venue: Hastings Meeting Date: 18 Apr 2015 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 11.46am (NZT) NIAGARA’S AT KARAKA MAIDEN 2YO $10,000, MDN 2YO, 1400m 1 4 Belle Boy (1) 57.5...........................H Tinsley 2 9. Buffalo Chief (4) 57.5 ............ N Teeluck (a3) 3 Jubilant (6) 57.5 .............................. R Jones 4 Xtravagant (5) 57.5 ....................M Sweeney 5 74235 Platinum Looker (9) 55.5 ............L Hemi (a3) 6 3 Chic h (8) 55.5 .................................S Doyle 7 4x Miss Fi (2) 55.5 .............................D Bradley 8 7 Oscar’s Shadow h (7) 55.5..............R Myers 9 Our Abbadean (3) 55.5 .................P Holmes 2 12.21pm HAWKE’S BAY HUNT 125TH JUBILEE R75 HANDICAP $18,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2500m 1 34518 Miss Ana t (4) 60.5 2 27702 Dubai Shuffle (8) 59 3 58843 Mako m (3) 58.5 4 x6509 San Pedro tdh (7) 57.5 .................... R Jones 5 31542 Guarantor (5) 57 .............................R Myers 6 16634 Bajour 56.5................................... Scratched 7 04315 Fast Profit (9) 56 8 51006 Attivaree (2) 54.5...........................D Bradley 9 54636 Rosehip h (6) 54 ....................... A Collett (a) 10 21834 Nolawood m (1) 54 ......................T Thornton 3 12.56pm THE ST JOHN APPEAL SPRINT RATING 75 $18,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 1286x Porotene Park d (9) 59 ................T Thornton 2 4249x Rocky tdh (10) 58.5 ......................... R Jones 3 4054x Tiberius (5) 58 ................................H Tinsley

4 12414 Endeavour 57 ............................... Scratched 5 33133 Lady Zafira th (1) 57........................R Myers 6 70325 Shades Of Grey b (6) 57 ........... A Collett (a) 7 28355 Bingo d (2) 56 ...............................D Bradley 8 42425 Centre Cross (7) 56 ............... K Chiong (a2) 9 2468x If I Can I Can mb (3) 56 ...... M Dravitzki (a1) 10 22273 Zaperb (4) 55.5 .............................P Holmes 11 1315x Miss Professional (8) 54.5..... N Teeluck (a3) 4 1.31pm THE RITA BEST MILE RATING 85 $20,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1600m 1 43901 Rohaise d (5) 60.5 ...................M Singh (a4) 2 30x55 Popeye Braggins d (11) 58............D Bradley 3 x10x6 Miss Selby th (8) 56 .........................S Doyle 4 x9366 Weissmuller d (10) 56 ........... N Teeluck (a3) 5 49561 Shezgorgeous tmh (1) 55.5R Goldsbury (a3) 6 054x6 Miss Mossman t (9) 54........ M Dravitzki (a1) 7 72143 Mae West th (6) 54..........................R Myers 8 159x2 Flirty Gertey b (2) 54 ................. A Collett (a) 9 38247 Landlord dmb (7) 54....................T Thornton 10 12414 Endeavour d (4) 54 ................ K Chiong (a2) 11 88343 Tronic Rose (3) 54......................M Sweeney 12 413x9 Lucky Tonight 54 .......................... Scratched 5 2.08pm DUNSTAN FEEDS AUTUMN SPRINT CHAMPS QUALIFYING $17,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 82x12 Kairanga Lad d (3) 59 ......................K Smith 2 8x183 One Direktion d (1) 58.5............ A Collett (a) 3 41 Kingofplatinum d (11) 58 ................H Tinsley 4 15 Point Percy db (10) 58...................D Bradley 5 31833 Ballybay b (13) 58 ......................M Sweeney 6 x75x1 The Knight’s Queen tdh (17) 57.5 ...R Myers 7 4974x Itsagem (9) 57 ............................L Hemi (a3)

3 26874 Neat Belt (3) 58.5 .......................L Hemi (a3) 4 05x Is Possible h (10) 58.5 .................. R Norvall 5 Sir Buckalot (4) 58.5 ................M Singh (a4) 6 09333 Louvres (7) 58 ............................. B Lammas 7 8x552 Free And Bold (9) 58 ...................T Thornton 8 6447 Castup (13) 58 ...........................M Sweeney 9 Huracan h (8) 58 ............................H Tinsley 10 0x Bordeaux (15) 58 ..........................P Holmes 11 568 Ratpack h (11) 58 ............................K Smith 12 Star Choice (1) 58 .........................D Bradley 13 8x74 Excuse Me Baybee (16) 56.5 N Teeluck (a3) 14 434x6 Waipatiki Girl h (12) 56.5..... M Dravitzki (a1) 15 Karelia (6) 56 ............................ A Collett (a) Em: Foibles, Ambitious Hero, Just The Deal, Tornado Alley 16 9x Nathalie Falmet (5) 56..................... R Jones 6 2.43pm NZ BLOODSTOCK FINANCE AND LEAS- 17 078x7 Bang (2) 58.5 18 40x Lawries Impact 58.5 ..................... Scratched ING SPRINT $50,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 59291 Whosyourmaster tdm (12) 59 ........H Tinsley Emergencies: Bang, Lawries Impact 2 24161 Adventador tdmh (4) 55 ..................R Myers 8 3.53pm WINNING EDGE PRESENTATIONS HAWKE’S 3 60403 Captain Kirk d (5) 54.5 .............. A Collett (a) BAY GOLD CUP $75,000, OPN HCP, 2200m 4 05076 McLaren td (2) 53.5..........................K Smith 1 50442 Jubilate (4) 59 ................................H Tinsley 5 64602 Ruud Awakening db (9) 53............D Bradley 2 59405 Ringo t (16) 57 ................................R Myers 6 x4542 Angelica Hall d (11) 53...............M Sweeney 3 87622 Langdon tb (13) 55.5............... N Teeluck (a) 7 x06x2 Costa Viva db (10) 53 4 640x8 Intransigent tdm (5) 54 .....................K Smith 8 26044 Sierra Beel d (6) 53 ....................... R Norvall 5 54562 Storming The Tower dm (7) 54 ........ R Jones 9 87512 Eternity td (3) 53 ..................... N Teeluck (a) 6 43297 Classcoroc (14) 53 .................... A Collett (a) 10 61523 Stunning Princess tdmb (1) 53M Dravitzki (a) 7 16615 Rose Of Virginia b (3) 53...............P Holmes 11 830x1 She’s Slinky tdm (7) 53 ................L Hemi (a) 8 54125 City Chic m (11) 53 ............... M Dravitzki (a) 12 137x1 Vibrant Moss 53 ........................... Scratched 9 11763 Apache Fireworks t (8) 53 ...........T Thornton 13 28124 Funhouse d (8) 53.......................T Thornton 10 3x241 Blathwayt dm (9) 53 ................. K Chiong (a) 7 3.18pm LIVAMOL MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1400m 11 32211 Slazenjah t (12) 53 .......................L Hemi (a) 1 342x La Monnoye b (14) 58.5 ..................R Myers 12 23113 Iffwedance tb (6) 53 ......................D Bradley 2 x4x55 Fruition 58.5 ................................. Scratched 13 9L032 The Fire Inside (15) 53...............M Sweeney 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

x003x Chantilly Lass d (6) 56.5 ....... N Teeluck (a3) x519x Anuka (7) 56 ...............................T Thornton 41. Final Over d (15) 56 ............ M Dravitzki (a1) x136x Copper Reign d (8) 56 .............M Singh (a4) x210x Diamond Cut d (14) 56........... K Chiong (a2) 4108x Edge Of Glory (4) 56 .........R Goldsbury (a3) 19x Pico Turquino d (16) 56 63431 Maggie’s Secret (5) 55.5 48x16 Xcuses Xcuses h (18) 55.5 ..............S Doyle 91005 Foibles tdh (12) 55.5 ........... C O’Beirne (a3) 0x770 Ambitious Hero (2) 55 15240 Just The Deal 58.5 ....................... Scratched x498x Tornado Alley 57.5 ....................... Scratched

14 27702 Dubai Shuffle d (2) 53 15 58843 Mako m (1) 53 ....................... C O’Beirne (a) 16 16634 Bajour (10) 53 ...................................M Chui 9 4.32pm HAWKE’S BAY RACING AUTUMN RACING FINALE R65 $17,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 32010 Wait A Sec dh (4) 59 ....................... R Jones 2 8331 Furuvik (12) 58 ................................R Myers 3 53254 Gold Moet h (1) 58 ................ N Teeluck (a3) 4 7x410 Shankly (5) 58 .............................T Thornton 5 14589 Joanna d (18) 57.5 6 1x088 Party Girl td (2) 57....................... B Lammas 7 44179 Thien Ly t (17) 57 ...........................H Tinsley 8 32505 Notionannagins dh (14) 56.5 9 85241 Light Up A Screen (8) 56 ..............D Bradley 10 100x6 Jandakot d (13) 56 .....................M Sweeney 11 83074 Hot Spot t (9) 55.5......................L Hemi (a3) 12 32010 Jazz Rock 55.5............................. Scratched 13 02681 Suggest Gold t (10) 55.5 ...R Goldsbury (a3) 14 x6170 Shezenthusiastic h (11) 55 . M Dravitzki (a1) 15 54887 Pit A Pat dh (7) 54 16 7698x Star Emerald m (3) 54 17 0x602 Chop Chop d (6) 57.5 18 10029 In A Minute 58.5 ........................... Scratched 19 5769x Legless h (15) 54 20 750x8 Dual Agent (16) 55 Emergencies: Pit A Pat, Star Emerald, Chop Chop, In A Minute, Legless, Dual Agent Blinkers on: Porotene Park (R3), Weissmuller (R4), Classcoroc (R8) Blinkers off: Zaperb (R3), Popeye Braggins (R4) Winkers on: Guarantor (R2), Miss Selby (R4), Copper Reign (R5)

Today at Ellerslie Raceway

Auckland RC Venue: Ellerslie Meeting Date: 18 Apr 2015 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 11.35am WHITE REFRIGERATION RATING 65 2200 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2200m 1 61041 Morena (6) 59 ...............................L Allpress 2 8x025 Nigelissima t (8) 59 ............. R Hutchings (a) 3 316x2 Lady Kalimara b (11) 58.5.............O Bosson 4 x7446 Secretary Of State (5) 58.5 ............V Colgan 5 6165 Blue Flag t (12) 57.5 ....................... C Grylls 6 46307 Ocean Bound (7) 57.5............. R Smyth (a1) 7 97295 Team Pete td (10) 57....................... K Myers 8 71065 Tiffany’s (4) 56.5.........................M Cameron 9 97x93 Silver Minx (3) 56 ...............L Magorrian (a2) 10 572x0 Arose m (1) 56 ................... J Whiteside (a3) 11 x3080 Running Scared (2) 54 .............A Jones (a2) 12 x6723 Maurral (9) 54 .........................B Hutton (a2) 2 12.10pm BRINKS OPEN HANDICAP 2200 $40,000, OPN HCP, 2200m 1 54562 Storming The Tower 59 ................ Scratched 2 306x4 Coachline td (8) 58.5.........................L Innes 3 13875 Re Deel d (1) 57.5........................... C Grylls 4 06042 Lion Red tdm (6) 57 ......................O Bosson 5 x0626 He’s Dan m (4) 56.5 .................A Jones (a2) 6 34154 Carlotta tmb (2) 56 .............. R Hutchings (a) 7 47121 Killarney Kid t (10) 56.................M Coleman 8 08003 Back In Black m (9) 54 ...... U Holmquist (a3) 9 02701 Jagersfontein td (3) 53 ................ D Johnson 10 0x811 Augusta National td (5) 53 ......B Hutton (a2) 11 76543 Even Better (7) 53 ................... R Smyth (a1) 3 12.45pm VRC 3YO TROPHY $20,000, SW+P, 1400m 1 07681 Al Pacino (2) 58.5............................J Riddell 2 81 Watch This Space (7) 57.5 .............. C Grylls 3 86145 Goodspeed (9) 57.5 ................ R Smyth (a1) 4 1 Harry (13) 57.5 ..............................O Bosson 5 x3231 Naughty Knuckles d (4) 57.5L Magorrian (a2) 6 7x621 Silver Rod td (11) 57.5 ..................M McNab 7 1 Vallone d (5) 57.5 ........................ D Johnson

8 x10x0 Roc That d (6) 57.5 .......................L Allpress 9 09326 Orange Peel db (12) 56.5...........M Coleman 10 355 Duke Of Sussex (8) 56 11 Chequered Flag (14) 56 ..........B Hutton (a2) 12 31 Touch The Sky td (1) 55.5 ..........M Cameron 13 1 Visible d (3) 55.5 ............................V Colgan 14 6x353 Jouet Cuvee (10) 54.................. M D Plessis 4 1.20pm BARFOOT & THOMPSON MAIDEN MILE $20,000, MDN, 1600m 1 2555. Goshawk (13) 58.5 .......................... C Grylls 2 2 Nisaean (12) 58.5 ............... R Hutchings (a) 3 0x422 Spreadeagled b (4) 58 ..................O Bosson 4 3x333 Zucchero b (5) 58...................... M D Plessis 5 8x62 Foxburrow Hill (7) 58 ................... D Johnson 6 355 Duke Of Sussex (8) 58 .................... K Myers 7 0 Arite Guru (14) 58 .......................... J Parkes 8 30324 Go Teena (11) 56.5 ....................M Coleman 9 3320x Ina Jam (6) 56.5 ......................B Hutton (a2) 10 20735 Beaming (10) 56.5 ............................L Innes 11 95P22 Sisterhood (1) 56 .......................M Cameron 12 22673 Diamond Duchess b (9) 56 ...........L Allpress 13 4 Brunette (3) 56 ...............................V Colgan 14 58466 La Novice (2) 56................ U Holmquist (a3) 5 1.54pm BUFFALO & CO. CHAMPAGNE 2YO STKS $50,000, 2YO SW, 1600m 1 11 Lamarosa t (3) 56.5............. R Hutchings (a) 2 9453 Brigadier (6) 56.5 ............................J Riddell 3 3 Brighton (11) 56.5 .............................L Innes 4 43 San Miguel (8) 56.5.......................O Bosson 5 5 Dragon Dancer (12) 56.5 ...................M Hills 6 76 Ronchi (9) 56.5 ..........................G Cooksley 7 43x2 Electric Aura (2) 54.5 ....................M McNab 8 3330 Girlsarebackintown (5) 54.5 ........ D Johnson 9 6x24 Royal Raine (10) 54.5 ....................V Colgan 10 639 Fanatic (1) 54.5 ..........................M Cameron 11 50 Lady Painton (4) 54.5 ...................... C Grylls 12 8 Sneaky Darci (7) 54.5 ................A Jones (a) 6 2.27pm MADISON QUALITEX MILE R65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m

1 23324 Bulldozer mb (9) 60.................... Z Moki (a3) 2 26560 Payday td (6) 59 .................L Magorrian (a2) 3 x6970 Klitschko t (16) 58.5 ................B Hutton (a2) 4 57912 Hollywood Lad td (10) 58 .... R Hutchings (a) 5 421 Mikimoto d (4) 58 .......................M Coleman 6 23341 Take It Out td (2) 57.5 ....................V Colgan 7 104x0 All About Fun dm (14) 57.5 .....S McKay (a3) 8 0x602 Chop Chop d (18) 57 .................. D Johnson 9 43433 Gisela (3) 57 ............................A Jones (a2) 10 x59x5 Budwiser (12) 57 ........................V Gatu (a3) 11 9309x St Rhythm m (1) 57 ........................ J Parkes 12 19x47 Zavamar (13) 57............................O Bosson 13 036x0 Vicki Anne dm (11) 56.5 ............ M D Plessis 14 79636 Kentucky Son m (7) 56.5... U Holmquist (a3) 15 x0231 Galaktika td (17) 56....................M Cameron 16 73x08 Wajima m (8) 56 .............................. C Grylls 17 5636x Istimagic tm (5) 54.5 ............... R Smyth (a1) 18 548x4 On Parole dm (15) 54...................... K Myers 7 3.03pm VALACHI DOWNS CHAMPIONSHIP 3YO STKS $100,000, 3YO SW, 2100m 1 11246 Dee I Cee b (7) 56.5 2 x1912 Werther (12) 56.5 ..........................O Bosson 3 4114 Redeem Code t (6) 56.5 ............M Cameron 4 35695 Kolonel Kev (9) 56.5 ........................J Riddell 5 35110 Francis Drake (2) 56.5......... R Hutchings (a) 6 88291 Etonett (5) 56.5 .........................B Hutton (a) 7 81201 Gifted Lad 56.5 ............................ Scratched 8 36615 Valante (11) 56.5.......................S McKay (a) 9 24519 Lucoblu (14) 56.5 ........................... J Parkes 10 82817 Sir Sava (3) 56.5 ....................... M D Plessis 11 39741 Exquisite Jewel dm (13) 54.5 ...... R Hannam 12 1P121 Stolen Dance t (4) 54.5 .....................L Innes 13 37101 Candybelle d (8) 54.5...................... C Grylls 14 27447 Vive La Difference (1) 54.5 ...........L Allpress 15 16703 Stars In Align (10) 54.5 ............... D Johnson 8 3.38pm WESTBURY CLUB R85 1200 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1200m 1 5288x D’Cash Man d (5) 59 .................. Z Moki (a3) 2 71437 Elusive Gold tdm (3) 57.................O Bosson

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

43275 Agent Ziva d (10) 56.5..............A Jones (a2) 26044 Sierra Beel 55.5 ........................... Scratched 1259x Aaja Nachle m (6) 55 .................M Cameron 24766 Living The Dream td (2) 54 ............. C Grylls x2203 Sancerre db (9) 54 ............................L Innes 33212 Fascination Street tdb (12) 54 ....M Coleman 26234 Biggin Hill tdb (8) 54....................... J Parkes 7232x Ramarro dm (4) 54...................... D Johnson 131x2 Sir Andrew m (1) 54 .................. M D Plessis 137x1 Vibrant Moss td (7) 54...................M McNab 3345x Airman d (11) 54 ............................. K Myers 9 4.18pm MANCO EASTER HANDICAP $200,000, OPN HCP, 1600m 1 82161 Iamishwara d (15) 59 ....................L Allpress 2 43831 Julinsky Prince dm (17) 58............O Bosson 3 02254 Natuzzi 58 .................................... Scratched 4 081x2 Addictive Habit tdm (13) 57 ......... D Johnson 5 60238 Nashville dm (21) 56.5 .................... K Myers 6 24112 Kawi db (2) 55.5 ............................. J Parkes 7 11317 Mighty Solomon (9) 55.5 .................J Riddell 8 13570 Fast Dragon td (3) 54.5 ......................M Hills 9 12013 King Krovanh td (19) 54.5 ..........M Coleman 10 40043 Abidewithme td (4) 53.5 ................M McNab 11 11131 Allez Eagle t (10) 53.5.......................L Innes 12 10545 Silverdale m (14) 53.5 ..................... C Grylls 13 80528 Pussy O’Reilly t (16) 53 .............. R Hannam 14 93715 Candle In The Wind td (12) 52L Magorrian (a) 15 x0063 Chintz td (18) 52 ............................V Colgan 16 06735 Pondarosa Miss tdb (5) 52 ................ D Hain 17 7x210 Spellbinder td (7) 52...................M Cameron 18 0x211 Vespa t (1) 52 ............................ M D Plessis 19 020x0 Danza Lad 52............................... Scratched 20 0x0x4 It Has To Be You td (20) 52 21 15338 To Be Sure t (11) 52 22 11965 Kaleidoscope td (6) 52 23 22123 Miss Foxwood t (8) 52 Emergencies: Danza Lad, It Has To Be You, To Be Sure, Kaleidoscope, Miss Foxwood 10 4.52pm IRISH RACEDAY 23/5 @ ELLERSLIE MILE

RATING 75 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 3345x Magna Carta tdm (1) 61.5.......... Z Moki (a3) 2 05087 Moneytree 59 ............................... Scratched 3 2255x Reka m (6) 58.5 .......................A Jones (a2) 4 8x55x Firepower m (3) 58 .............. R Hutchings (a) 5 4648x Her To Eternity d (16) 57.5 ..............J Riddell 6 00416 Our Pink Diamond td (18) 57.5Holmquist (a3) 7 58131 Flyinby tdm (13) 57 ......................... K Myers 8 31282 Seize The Moment b (20) 57....... D Johnson 9 11622 Light Shadow tb (17) 56.5 .............M McNab 10 765x4 Rough Copy td (4) 56.5 .................. J Parkes 11 04343 Ray’s Girl tdb (12) 56 12 81236 Chipandchase t (9) 56 13 160x1 Amadeus (10) 55.5 .......................O Bosson 14 63275 Dark And Stormy d (11) 54.5 .... M D Plessis 15 85321 Dalezinga td (8) 54.....................M Coleman 16 40x12 Nailed It db (14) 54 ....................M Cameron 17 45561 Muscat Hills (7) 54 .......................... C Grylls 18 17x63 Thee Achiever d (5) 54...................V Colgan 19 4314x Top Choice tdm (19) 55.5...L Magorrian (a2) 20 00357 Tonbridge tdm (15) 55.5 21 23324 Bulldozer mb (2) 55 Emergencies: Top Choice, Tonbridge, Bulldozer Blinkers on: Spreadeagled (R4), Girlsarebackintown (R5), Biggin Hill (R8), Silverdale (R9) Blinkers off: Redeem Code (R7) Winkers on: Roc That (R3), Foxburrow Hill (R4), Electric Aura (R5) Winkers off: Sancerre (R8) Pacifiers on: Payday (R6) SELECTIONS Race 1: Lady Kalimara, Secretary Of State, Blue Flag, Tiffany’s Race 2: Lion Red, Killarney Kid, Coachline, Jagersfontein Race 3: Harry, Vallone, Orange Peel, Visible, Silver Rod Race 4: Spreadeagled, Foxburrow Hill, Zucchero, Go Teena Race 5: Lamarosa, Brigadier, Dragon Dancer, San Miguel Race 6: Hollywood Lad, Zavamar, Take It Out, Budwiser Race 7: Dee I Cee, Candybelle, Exquisite Jewel Race 8: Sancerre, Sir Andrew, Vibrant Moss, Biggin Hill Race 9: Allez Eagle, Spellbinder, King Krovanh, Addictive Habit Race 10: Rough Copy, Light Shadow, Seize The Moment

Mid Ca nterbury Sports Awards 2015 Act now to acknowledge our local outstanding achievers in sport NEXT WEEK IS THE FINAL WEEK TO SEND IN NOMINATIONS FOR THE SPORTS AWARDS.

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Time to take a stick to obesity epidemic Stu Oldham

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age advice and a dose of personal responsibility will do little to stop New Zealand from waddling its tubby-old way toward becoming the fattest nation on Earth.

That approach has been tried for the best part of a decade and now that 1.2 million New Zealanders are obese – among them one-in-six children – it would be fair to say it is failing.

Sensible health watchers want the government to take a more proscriptive approach to tackling the obesity epidemic after it launched the first of ten Healthy Families initiative programmes.

They advocate a mix of taxes on sugar and junk food, less tax on healthy food, and stricter controls on fast food marketing and food labelling.

The “carrot” of help needs the “stick” of regulation.

Disappointingly, the government response was muted, at best.

Taxes are not on the cards and levies on fizzy drinks have been ruled out as unworkable and unnecessarily burdensome on poorer people.

There would be no nanny state here.

The new programme was not about enabling the food police: it was about promoting healthy living where the message could make the most difference.

However, education and facilitation can only go so far when some of the people who need to make sometimes significant life changes are influenced by so many other factors.

It is difficult to see how some will make the leap from bad to good diets while it is cheaper to buy fizzy drink than it is to buy milk, or while pies are cheaper than broccoli.

It is also hard to see how some influenced by a lifetime of junk food advertising, so ingrained in busy urban lives or so disassociated from good sense will make long term change.

Good-old personal responsibility will help many people on the path to wellness, but it is in everyone’s interests that further measures that make good decisions possible are considered.

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Yep, NZ wins with Shrek Hanne Nielsen

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asmania is often the butt of jokes for those from the Australian “mainland’’ – rumoured to be home of the hillbillies with two heads – but it is, in fact, quite a civilised isle.

Any city that boasts a weekly inner-city market with more than two stalls selling merino/ possum blend socks has got to be a winner in my books and Hobart ticks that box.

Even though it is a city, with four-storey buildings and a whole fleet of parking wardens, it is nevertheless remarkably similar to New Zealand. This was reinforced to me last week, thanks to, well, a sheep in general conversation.

A discussion on digital media suddenly took an interesting turn, when the question of what constitutes breaking news came up.

The answer? 23kg of wild fleece, recently detached from a sheep that called the wilderness of Tasmania home. Shaun the sheep was headline news not only in the local Tassie paper, but all over Australia.

I even heard about it in almost real time from my Australian colleagues while we were out in the middle of the ocean – the animal had global penetration.

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Shaun’s shavings didn’t have a patch on the fleece of our very own Shrek. And, of course, I couldn’t resist letting everyone know this fact. But it didn’t end there.

Arguments over the relative merits of YouTube and Twitter were soon left by the wayside, thanks to the use of the words sheep and iceberg in the same sentence.

Hobart may be a Gateway to Antarctica, but it is not the sort of port where icebergs head for a sightseeing holiday.

Dunedin, of course, is exactly the sort of port

past which large chunks of ice from the far south periodically cruise.

“It’s not just about the fleece,” I told my colleagues, “that’s not where the story ends at all. It’s what the sheep does afterwards that is the really ground-breaking stuff.”

This concept appeared to be ground breaking for all those

around the table.

Sheep, of course, are not only good for grazing our lawns and gracing our plates. They are also great models to star in wool commercials for the warmest textiles – and where better to stage such an advert than on an Antarctic iceberg?

Crampons, clippers, and a chopper ride had New Zealand transfixed a decade ago, and Hobart transfixed last week.

Shaun and Shrek do have plenty in common, but for me, the iceberg-shearing incident seals the deal.

Next time an overgrown ovine appears from the Hobart hinterlands though, we’d best keep an eye on our own headlines, as seeds of ideas have now been planted … A bit of trans-Tasman rivalry never did anyone any harm, but it is nice to be on the winning side, even if I am currently on the wrong side of the ditch.

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K-tape is ‘no magic bullet’

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Ashburton physiotherapists are pleased that claims about a sports tape improving strength and helping with the overall recovery of sports injuries have recently been disproved.

Kinesiology tape, or k-tape as it is commonly referred to, helps support muscles after injury, but it does not do things such as reduce recovery time or improve fitness, as it claims to.

Owner and principal physiotherapist of Physiosteps in Ashburton, Shaun Clark, admitted it was not hard to get caught up in the hype, when it came to new technology.

“There is a lot of new research coming out disproving a lot of the claims that are made by k-tape manufacturers, which is great.

“It’s important for people to be informed,” he said.

“The advertising standards authority recently investigated a company making these claims

and ruled that these claims must not appear again,” he said.

He said his practice uses kinesiology tape only in situations where the staff know it will benefit a patient.

For instance, it can help with elbow, calf or shoulder conditions.

It’s also hypo-allergenic which results in far fewer allergic reactions compared to regular strapping tape, he said.

Standard strapping tape is more rigid, but definitely does the job, Mr Clark said, with his practice using it 90 per cent of the time.

He has encountered people coming to him wanting to use the k-tape, because of the hype.

Compared to standard strapping tape, k-tape is more expensive and retails for around $17.50, compared to $10 for standard tape.

“K-tape isn’t the magic bullet that it is claimed to be, but it definitely has its uses and works great for muscle and ten-

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Owner of Physiosteps, Shaun Clark, said often standard strapping tape works just as well as the newer, more expensive versions.

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How the retail sector is performing online T

oday many aspects of human interaction can be digitised: from purchasing goods and services, to acquiring knowledge and information; from communicating remotely to socialising in virtual reality.

In many respects, it can be argued that the physical interaction which has characterised professional and personal relationships of past generations is becoming increasingly superfluous. In fact, PricewaterhouseCoopers note that by 2020, an entire generation, known as Generation C (for “connected”), will have grown up in a primarily digital world based around the internet, mobile devices, texting and social networking.

According to the BNZ 2014 Online Retail Sales Report, nearly 10% of all retail sales made in New Zealand are now made online (via the internet), with the growth rate in online sales now nearly matching that for retail sales overall. Overall, nearly half of all online sales are being made through international merchants, which emphasises the increasing globalisation of the traditional consumer market for retail goods and services.

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Briscoes (BGR) is one company, whose online sales comprise a bigger portion of overall sales, growing by 50 percent year-on-year. Briscoes’ Managing Director Rod Duke acknowledges the considerable potential for on-going growth in online sales, with the company looking to increase its share of the market which prefers to shop this way.

The Warehouse Group (WHS) is also realising the benefits of virtual stores, with online sales growing by 30% in the 2014 summer quarter (November to January). The company reported that a product was shipped every four seconds in December 2014, with internet traffic showing more than 1.3 million unique users in the month.

Globally, the best known example of the growth of online sales is perhaps amazon.com, which recently reported more

than 237 million active customer accounts worldwide and net income of US$214 million for the fourth quarter of 2014.

In the fast-moving world of retail, the evidence is now clear to see that the behaviour of consumers is moving increasingly online, with more people becoming comfortable with performing non-personalised transactions. However, while it can be suggested that convenience has come at the expense of a personalised relationship between consumer and retailer; digital transactions are unlikely to become a total substitute for bricks and mortar stores.

One recent shopping preferences survey (by A. T. Kearney) notes that even if shoppers buy everything online, two-thirds will still probably go to a store to at least look at the product before purchasing.

Selwyn Sloan and Michael Coleman are Investment Advisors with Forsyth Barr Limited in Ashburton and are both qualified Authorised Financial Advisers. This column is general in nature and should not be regarded as personalised investment advice. Disclosure Statements are available on request and free of charge.

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In brief Fishing boat seized Armed men seized an Italian fishing boat with seven crew members 65 kilometres off the Libyan coast early yesterday, and were bringing the boat and crew to the Libyan port of Misrata, a Sicilian fishing co-operative said.

Port authorities in Mazara del Vallo were alerted to the seizure by other fishing boats in the area, said Francesco Mezzapelle, spokesman for the COSVAP Sicilian fishermen’s consortium.

The consortium’s president has contacted both Libya’s agriculture and fishing ministry as well as the Italian foreign ministry in efforts to resolve the incident. Mezzapelle called it “an act of piracy,” and said the gunmen did not appear to be from the Libyan military, but their loyalties were not clear.

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People leave their hometown Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Iraq. Islamic State militants are pressing their offensive for the town, the capital of western Anbar province.

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Isis closes in on Ramadi More than 2000 families have fled the Iraqi city of Ramadi with little more than the clothes on their backs, officials said, as the Islamic State group closed in on the capital of western Anbar province, clashing with Iraqi troops and turning it into a ghost town.

The extremist group, which has controlled the nearby city of Fallujah for more than a year, captured three villages on Ramadi’s eastern outskirts.

The advance is widely seen as a counter-offensive after the

Islamic State group lost the city of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown, earlier this month.

Hundreds of US troops are training Iraqi forces at a military base west of Ramadi, but a US military official said the fighting had no impact on the US soldiers there, and that there were no plans to withdraw them.

The fleeing Ramadi residents were settling in the southern and western suburbs of Baghdad, and tents, food and other

aid were being sent to them, said Sattar Nowruz, an official of the Ministry of Migration and the Displaced.

The ministry was assessing the situation with the provincial government in order “to provide the displaced people, who are undergoing difficult conditions, with better services and help,” Nowruz said.

Sporadic clashes were still under way, according to security officials in Ramadi. Government forces control the city centre, while the IS group has

had a presence in the suburbs and outskirts for months.

They described Ramadi as a ghost town, with empty streets and closed shops.

Video obtained by The Associated Press showed plumes of thick, black smoke billowing above the city as fighter jets pounded militant targets.

On the city outskirts, displaced residents frantically tried to make their way out of the city amid the heavy bombardment.

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■ YEMEN

UN chief calls for immediate ceasefire United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen to spur peace talks and get lifesaving aid into the impoverished Middle East nation.

The UN chief addressed “the many fateful challenges” the world confronts, from 50 million refugees and displaced people — the largest number since World War Two — to the urgent problem of climate change in a speech at the National Press Club.

“Millions of people face ha-

tred and persecution, billions suffer from hunger and exploitation,” he said. “The United Nations has appealed for $16 billion to cover humanitarian relief for this year — almost five times what we needed a decade ago.”

Ban announced he will visit the Vatican later this month to meet with Pope Francis and discuss “common concerns,” including the encyclical on the environment that the pontiff plans to issue in the months ahead.

He said he has invited the

pope, President Barack Obama and all other world leaders to the United Nations in September to adopt new UN goals for 2030 to protect the environment, combat poverty and promote human rights and economic development that doesn’t contribute to climate change.

Surveying the crisis-ridden state of the world and the “many fateful challenges on our plate,” Ban pointed to the ever-worsening “nightmare” in Syria, now in its fifth year, and said his envoy Staffan de

Mistura will be holding a series of talks in Geneva to see if anyone is “truly serious” about engaging in meaningful negotiations to end the conflict.

He made a special plea for Palestinians in the Yarmouk refugee camp caught between the Syrian government’s “military machine ... and the brutality of extremist groups.”

Ban said Yemen is “in flames,” and UN-brokered talks offered “the best way out of a drawnout war with terrifying implications for regional stability.”

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Turkish Airlines says a Basel, Switzerland-bound flight was returning to Istanbul after a note saying there was a bomb on board was found in a toilet. The airline said Flight TK1923 with 151 people on board was heading back to Istanbul to be searched. It was the third such incident in recent weeks. On March 30, the company diverted an Istanbul-to-Sao Paulo flight to Morocco after finding a note with the word “bomb” in the toilet. No bomb was found. A day earlier, a flight to Tokyo also returned to Istanbul before being cleared. Turkish Airlines says it is standard procedure to make emergency landings under such circumstances.

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Separatist leader arrest Indian police arrested a top Kashmiri separatist leader yesterday for leading an antiIndia demonstration and detained two others to prevent a planned protest in the Himalayan region.

Masarat Alam was initially placed under house arrest on Thursday night and then formally arrested yesterday, police officer K. Rajendra said. The arrest came just weeks after he was released from five years in prison for organising anti-India protests in 2010.

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Journalist sentenced A Beijing court sentenced a veteran Chinese journalist to seven years in prison yesterday on charges of leaking a document detailing the Communist Party leadership’s resolve to aggressively target civil society and press freedom as a threat to its monopoly on power. The sentence against Gao Yu, 71, comes amid a widening clampdown on free speech that highlights the gap between China’s vision of rule of law and Western notions of civil liberties and judicial fairness. - AP

Planes without pilots?

To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots.

That radical idea is decades away, if it ever becomes a reality. But following the intentional crashing of Germanwings Flight 9525 by the co-pilot, a long-running debate over autonomous jets is resurfacing. At the very least, some have suggested allowing authorities on the ground to take control of a plane if there is a rogue pilot in the cockpit.

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China building airstrip on reclaimed island China is building an airstrip on an artificially created island in a disputed section of the South China Sea, according to independent analysts, a move the US has warned could raise tensions in the area.

Defence group IHS Jane’s said satellite images of Fiery Cross Reef taken March 23 show a runway more than 500 metres long as well as paved sections

of apron. The US says China is carrying out eight such land reclamation projects in the area.

Jane’s said the island is already big enough for a runway 3000 metres long that would be able to accommodate air force planes.

China already operates a runway on Woody Island to the west of Fiery Cross Reef, which is also claimed by Vietnam, the

Protesters display placards during a rally at the Chinese Consulate in Makati city east of Manila, Philippines to protest against Beijing’s land reclamation activities on disputed territory in the South China Sea.

Philippines and Taiwan, and another island it is creating could also be big enough to accommodate a runway.

The airfield construction also was mentioned by the commander of US forces in the Pacific at a congressional hearing earlier this week. Adm. Samuel Locklear said the reclamation work would allow China to exert more influence in the contested region and possibly deploy military assets such as long-range radar and advanced missile systems.

China claims virtually all of the South China Sea and its island chains. Malaysia and Brunei also claim waters and islands in the area.

At a briefing yesterday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei defended the island reclamation work, which China says is largely to improve living conditions for people in the area and help with weather forecasting and search and rescue work.

Such work is “lawful, justifiable and reasonable. It does not target or impact on any other country and we hope that relevant parties can have a correct understanding on that,” Hong said.

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■ VATICAN CITY

Pope considering Cuba stop during US trip but no decision Pope Francis is considering adding a stop in Cuba to his US trip in September but no decision has been made, the Vatican said yesterday.

Francis has been credited with having helped the United States and Cuba reach their historic rapprochement by writing to the leaders of both countries and having the Vatican host their delegations for the final negotiations.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Francis “is considering the idea of a Cuba leg” but that discussions with Cuba are at an early stage. He said it’s too early to say that a decision has been taken or that there is an operational plan under way.

The possibility of a Cuban stop was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Francis is scheduled to visit three US cities in the last week of September. He will address Congress and meet with President Barack Obama at the White House, address the UN in New York and attend a church rally for families in Philadelphia.

If a Cuba stop is confirmed on either end of the US trip, Francis would become the third pope to visit the island nation after the historic 1998 visit of St. John Paul II during which he said Cuba should “open itself up to the world, and may the world open itself up to Cuba.”

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI followed up with a 2012 trip during which he voiced the Vatican’s

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during his weekly general audience earlier this week.

long-standing position that the US embargo was unjust and only hurt the most vulnerable on the island.

Francis also has spoken out against the US embargo while also condemning socialism.

Francis’ personal intervention in the US-Cuban thaw was one of the most tangible signs that he wants the Vatican to be a greater player in international diplomacy. A more controversial intervention was his recent declaration that the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago was “genocide.”

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A man rows in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, surrounded by dead small silvery fish, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Dead fish clog Rio Olympic venue Fish continued to die by the ton Thursday in a Rio de Janeiro lake that’s slated to host Olympic rowing events, while city authorities and biologists argued about the cause of the die-off.

Rio’s Comlurb waste management company said it had collected more than 37 tons of dead fish from the Rodrigo de Freitas lake since the die-off started late last week.

Garbage collectors were out in force again yesterday to rake dead fish off the water’s surface, and Comlurb said the effort would continue till the die-off subsides.

The decomposing fish, a small silvery species called twaite shad, were trucked to the city’s main dump.

But an overwhelming stench still enveloped the lake, sparking complaints by angry neighbours and passers-by.

Such die-offs are common in Rio, where rivers, lakes and even the ocean are blighted by raw sewage and garbage.

In February, twaite shad died en masse in the blighted waters of the Guanabara Bay, where the Olympic sailing events are to be held.

Rio’s environmental secretariat insisted yesterday that the latest incident is the result of a sudden change in water temperature.

“The intense rains that happened last week and a rise in the sea levels led to a spike in the (sea) water entering the lake, causing a thermal shock,” it said in a statement, reporting that water temperature in the lake fell by 4 degrees Celsius in a short pe-

riod of time.

However, several scientists rejected that explanation, saying that pollution is really to blame.

Estefan Monteiro da Fonseca, an oceanographer at the Fluminense Federal University, said the official explanation “makes no sense.”

“The lake continues receiving large quantities of sewage,” he said, adding that it “has large concentrations of sulfur because of the organic material dumped into it, and depending on the winds, that material rises to the surface and kills fish.”

Rio’s water quality has become one of the most contentious issues heading into the 2016 Olympics.

Authorities have long said that the games would be the catalyst for a major cleanup of the city’s waterways, but as the showcase sporting event approaches with few improvements, authorities are now admitting that the Olympic promises won’t be met.

Rio Governor Luiz Fernando Pezao acknowledged earlier this week “there’s not going to be time” to finish the cleanup ahead of the games, suggesting it might wrap up by the end of 2018 instead.

Sailors have repeatedly voiced concerns about possible health and safety threats posed by competing in Rio’s waters.

Fonseca, the oceanographer, warned that if another fish die-off occurs during the games in August 2016, “Rio’s image could suffer irreparable damage.”

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

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CONNECTIONS

PODIATRY

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Foot specialists diagnosing & treating conditions such as: toe nail problems, corns, calluses, foot/ ankle pain, knee & hip pain. Orthotics/gait assessment

CALL US 03 308 5900 - Gym Company, 54 Cass St, Ashburton

New Strapping Clinic Open Saturdays 8am-10am Starting March 28

If you need strapping for playing your winter sport, or if you would like to make an appointment for physio treatment, give us a call today!

Physio services available Mon-Fri with late nights on Mon and Thurs!

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Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

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

DUTY DOCTORS

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, -unrestricted visiting.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your Community Services Card.

Allenton Medical Centre, Harrison Street is the duty practice for Saturday and Sunday until 8am Monday. The surgery will be open from 10am - 12 noon and from 6pm - 7pm both days. ASHBURTON REST HOMES No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 COLDSTREAM HOUSE - DAILY, unrestricted 9139. visiting.

CAMERON COURTS - DAILY, unrestricted METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA Saturday and Sunday doctor and emergency visiting. details - please telephone the Rakaia Medical PRINCES COURT - DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

Centre, ph 303 5002.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners note of referral.

PHARMACIES

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.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

MENTAL HEALTH Call free on 0800 222 TINWALD POOL: Open 12noon - 7pm.

955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES 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) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

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

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353

COMMUNITY SERVICES ART GALLERY

Due to relocation, the Art Gallery is closed until further notice.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

INFORMATION CENTRES

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

HELPLINE SERVICES

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

4pm. Research facilities weekday afternoons.

ANIMAL SERVICES

COMMUNITY POOL

DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 6pm - 8pm org.nz for more information. both evenings.

Baring Square West, Asburton. Ph 308 3167 Open weekdays 10am - 4pm, weekends 1pm -

WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm.

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24

hour service.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021 1356

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Phil Stoakes. Small: Juan Gray.

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

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Reon McMurtrie. Small: Ref Vet Ent. ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 999, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Katie Kent. Full emergency service all weekend.

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

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Daily Events Saturday

8.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Potts river area, medium level. All welcome, phone Jenny 308-6862. Meet Ashburton Court House, Baring Square West.

9.00am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS MARKET. Local produce by local producers and hot food!!. North End West Street car park.

Sunday 8.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion and Harvest Thanksgiving, Park Street.

8.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Potts river area, medium level. All welcome, phone Jenny 308-6862. Meet Ashburton Court House, Baring Square West.

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

9.00am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion and Harvest Thanksgiving, Harrison Street, Allenton.

Monday 6.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 10.30am AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Monday morning ladies exercise group.

Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9.45am THE PLAINS LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting, Doris Linton lounge,

9.00am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET, West Street.

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am - 12.00pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB.

Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, all welcome, West Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

11.00am - 2.00pm STASH RE HASH. Fabric and craft market, Arthritis fundraiser. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

6.00pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

9.00am MID CANTERBURY 4WD CLUB MUD PLUG. Sign posted from Mayfield and Mt Somers. www.midcanterburynz.com Mike Salvesen’s property, 405 Upper Downs Road.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship led by Rev laurence Ennor, 48 Allens Road.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Service and worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge.

Baring Square East.

10.00am ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting. Lovetts Road, off

Maronan Road.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

10.00am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Harvest Thanksgiving, all age worship followed by Parish Annual General Meeting, Park Street.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

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

10.30am EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives.

63 Princes Street, Netherby.

11.00am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. No service as combined with St James Church, cnr Graham and Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

2.00pm MID CANTERBURY COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB. Club day with guest artist Craig Adams, everyone welcome, free entry.

Ashburton Club and M.S.A. Havelock Street.

7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Service with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

R.S.A. Cox Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

10.00am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF. Members will compete for the McPherson trophy. Tinwald Golf Course.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, West St. All welcome.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet. Allenton Sports

Club, Cavendish Street.

2.00pm GREY POWER. Speaker Les Howard QSM Past President of Grey Power. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Circuit training, 1st time free. St Andrews Church Hall, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

7.00pm MID CANTERBURY CHOIR.

Open rehearsal, all welcome to come sing, no bookings just show up on the night! Bradford Room, upstairs in the Event Centre, Wills Street.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre . Holy Name Parish Hall, Winter Street.

8.00pm ASHBURTON ELECTRONIC ORGAN AND KEYBOARD CLUB. Club night concert, visitors very welcome. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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VET NURSE Customer Services Maintenance Person It’s not often that Ashburton U-Hire has the need to advertise for a valued team member… however with an increase of business and a new building to open soon, we feel we need to find the right person, right now.

Locally owned business, Ashburton U-Hire has been providing Mid Canterbury residents with trailers, small motors and generators, tools and catering equipment for more than 17 years.

Ideally the successful applicant will be mechanically minded, service driven, reliable and have a desire to be part of an amazing team. Paperwork is minimal; however accuracy and neatness in recording customer details would be a priority. An ability to work well in a small team, a good sense of humour and a positive outlook are attributes that would fit in at Ashburton U-Hire.

A full job description will be available at the interview stage.

Wage package and hours will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

How to apply - if you hold a current, clean NZ Drivers Licence and have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa and think that your inclusion will add to an already awesome team, please send application letter and current CV before May 1, 2015 to: Box No. 1057 C/ - Ashburton Guardian PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740

Ashburton Clinic - Permanent Full Time

Agriculture Sprayer Operator Full Time Position

Molloy Agriculture Limited is one of Mid Canterbury’s fastest growing agriculture spraying Companies. We operate a modern fleet of equipment and provide a range of agriculture services. An outline of our business and the services we provide can be found on our website: www.molloyag.co.nz We are currently looking for a motivated, hard-working and responsible person to join our team.

We Offer: • The latest spraying equipment and GPS technology • Full training and support in a skill that there is a worldwide demand for • Rostered weekends off and the ability to plan holidays throughout the year • Company Health Scheme • Market leading remuneration packages which include time and a half Beneficial to Have: • Agriculture background • Class 2 Drivers Licence • Positive personal attributes including honesty and reliability

Applicants for this position should have NZ Residency or valid NZ Work Visa.

Contact David Molloy Phone: (03) 302 8098 Mobile: 0274 362 441 Email: david@molloyag.co.nz Post: PO Box 85, Methven 7730

Canterbury Vets Ltd is a busy mixed animal veterinary practice with clinics in Ashburton and Methven.

An exciting opportunity has become available for a qualified, experienced Vet Nurse to join our professional, friendly Ashburton team. We seek an extraordinary, enthusiastic person who is compassionate towards people and animals, is focused on providing outstanding customer services; while undertaking all aspects of vet nursing to the highest standard.

The successful applicant will also have the following qualities: • Ability to differentiate between major and minor issues, as they relate to the care of patients • Ability to multi task in a busy environment, and flexibility with unexpected requests take priority over planned duties.

• Confidently assist veterinary surgeons with anaesthesia, surgery and clinical procedures.

• Ability to stay ‘focused’ with minimal supervision, and accomplish required tasks by designated deadlines.

If the above describes you, then please apply with a hand written letter and enclose your Curriculum Vitae to:

Applications close Sunday, May 17, 2015

We have an exciting position available in our Fashion store.

If you enjoy people, clothing and fashion, want to work for a well established company and to be part of a fun, dedicated, talented team we want to hear from you.

At Sparrows our clothing and customer service is what sets us apart and we are looking for a person who has the ability to understand customer needs and will ensure their in-store experience is a memorable one.

Hours are flexible, however will include rostered weekend hours.

If this sounds like you then please email your CV to richard@sparrows.co.nz

Office Administration

Our Nicki has hurt her ankle really badly and will be out of action for a couple of months at this stage.

We are looking for someone with office experience to cover her for her recovery time.

Her role at Lysaghts is varied and covers administration in the Horse Coach and Homeplus, and back up with the windscreens and house glass.

Her hours are full time 8.30 to 5.30.

If you have some available time to help us out please send your CV to sandyl@lysaghtltd.co.nz 51 Robinson Street, Ashburton Phone 03 308 2966 www.lysaghtltd.co.nz

SALES REPRESENTATIVE Ryal Bush Transport Ashburton Ltd is a rural based transport company. We have a position available based in Ashburton as a Sales Representative.

This person will be required to attend Stock/ Plant Sales and complete the appropriate paperwork associated with sales, visit clients, relief driving and support for Dispatch.

This position would suit: • Someone with rural sales experience • Someone with rural transport knowledge • Drivers ready for a change If you are motivated, have great people skills and are customer focused - please get in touch now.

Successful applicants will be required to undergo a pre employment drug test.

Brad Kincaid Ryal Bush Transport Ashburton Ltd P O Box 233, Ashburton 7740 Phone: 03 307 8136 Or email brad.kincaid@hwr.co.nz

Bulk Truck & Trailer Driver We require a Bulk Truck & Trailer Driver to drive a Volvo 540.

Applications close Friday, May 8, 2015

The successful applicant must have a current class 5 license.

A solid work ethic, positive attitude and willingness to learn.

SERVICES: Hay covers, farm truck seat covers, upholstery repairs, shade sails and blinds, marquee and event hire Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

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Niagara is an innovative sawmill, manufacturer, and distributor of quality timber products. We export product all over the world, as well as supply building merchants and fabricators throughout NZ. As a company we pride ourselves on delivering outstanding service to our customers, it is vital that we deliver our product on time and in full.

Local dispatch role Due to growth in the domestic market, the Sales and Distribution site in Ashburton is looking to employ someone to assist the local dispatch team, as well as other general duties across the site. This appointment is a full time permanent position with scope to learn and grow as the company grows.

Amongst other duties the role will include: • Picking customer orders • Liaising with transport firms to collect orders • Restocking rack supplies • Maintaining stock levels Ideally the successful applicant will: • Be physically fit • Be well organised with good time management skills • Demonstrate good attention to detail • Have reasonable levels of computer literacy Having some knowledge of the timber industry and forklift experience would be an advantage but not critical as full training will be supplied.

Applications close May 1, 2015 and must include a cover letter and CV to be considered.

Please address to: Phillip Townshend, Niagara Sawmilling Co. Ltd, 145 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton, or email: phillipt@niagara.net.nz

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Join the timber team

Applications close Tuesday, April 21, 2015

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Reliability and excellent communication skills.

Fixed Term 0.4 Teaching Position of Mind Plus Mid Canterbury - Gifted and Talented One Day Programme.

A new initiative for 13 of our local schools and in association with The New Zealand Centre for Gifted Education.

Some experience with gifted and talented education would be an advantage.

Applicants should be fully registered NZ teachers and have the ability to work independently and innovatively.

Applications close May 8, 2015.

Application information available from the lead school: Methven Primary - 03 302 8500.

Practice Manager - Canterbury Vets Ltd 363 West Street, ASHBURTON or email: saraht@canvet.co.nz

All applications will be treated with confidentiality.

Fashion Sales Person

TEACHING POSITION

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FOR DETAILED INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: PHILLIP TOWNSHEND 021 116 4696 • phillipt@niagara.net.nz

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Buying or selling a vehicle?

Call the Guardian today for your motoring advertising requirements.

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Can you do the cancan?

Milk nutrition for a modern world

FULL TIME PICKER / PACKER We are seeking a physically fit, strong and reliable person to fill a position picking and packing orders.

Canning Operator Opportunities – Register your interest We’ve got your attention now. And our blending and canning plant is worthy of attention.

Our recently commissioned blending and canning plant in Dunsandel, Canterbury, is one of the most technically advanced quality controlled infant formula canning lines and admired by companies all over the world. Right now we’re experiencing significant growth, which means we need competent people to support us during this challenging but exciting time. This equates to opportunity. We’re big on internal promotion and on-the-job training, so within the advertised roles there’s room to grow if you’re up for the challenge.

We’re also big believers of attitude over experience, so don’t be put off if you haven’t had exposure to the dairy industry and don’t know your lactose from your lactase.

Synlait’s success isn’t limited to New Zealand. We now export to over 50 countries and are becoming perceived as leaders in our field on the world stage. We operate in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same. We’re innovative and progressive. We’re passionate and proud. But enough of us. We want to hear from you.

You will be required to pick and pack orders on a daily basis, assist with the processing of incoming shipments, package/assemble and label products as required along with general warehouse duties.

We are looking for someone who is a self starter and enjoys challenging themselves.

We require you to have excellent work ethics, good math and written skills, a desire to work in a team environment and be able to communicate clearly.

We offer a stable and interesting work environment plus long term career prospects for quality staff. This position is full time, 8am to 5pm Monday - Friday.

If this sounds like you, please email your CV, including references to alasdair@cm.net.nz or post to Picker/Packer Position CM Trailer Parts PO Box 124, ASHBURTON

Apply for these positions at

synlait.com Part Time Pharmacy Dispensary Technician Opportunity

Ashburton Guardian,

We are seeking a qualified Pharmacy Technician to assist our hard working team. This is a part time weekend position.

To be considered for this position you must have: • A New Zealand Pharmacy Technician qualification.

• Good communication skills and a cheerful disposition.

• Experience and ability to work as part of a busy dispensary team.

• Be flexible to work rostered hours throughout the weekend (approximately one weekend in three) and other hours during the week as required.

Please apply in writing before April 24, 2015 to: Wises Pharmacy PO Box 25, Ashburton 7740

Applications close Friday, April 24, 2015.

Irrigation Works ACL are currently involved in a number of exciting projects throughout the Ashburton District. Due to increased workloads on these Projects we are looking for suitable people to fill the following positions in our Large Projects Team:

Motorbike mechanic

20t Excavator Operator to operate a late model machine on Irrigation Works 14t Wheeled Excavator Operator to operate a new machine on Irrigation Works Fencer to remove and reinstate fences as part of a Large Irrigation Project Team Key attributes are: • Good Communication Skills • Ability to work in a team • Focus on safety and delivering quality work • Experienced Operator • Minimum of Class 2 W, T license required for all positions Successful applicants will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screen.

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

Please send applications to: Large Projects Manager Ashburton Contracting Ltd P O Box 264, Ashburton 7740

Part time to service two-wheel farm bikes.

Part-time Fixed-term 2015 NE-Year 2 Teacher

Must have experience.

Hinds School is looking for a part-time teacher to support our junior syndicate due to roll growth. Start immediate. The position involves teaching literacy and mathematics four mornings a week – 15 hours per week.

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Proficient with computer skills Able to work in a team environment Capable of dealing with clients and staff Knowledge of Simpro & Xero systems would be an advantage but onsite training would be available.

• This is a full time job and would suit a person who has a cheerful disposition and the ability to cover a wide range of office work.

Guardian Classifieds

Applicants please supply a CV to:

Office Manager Rainer Irrigation Ltd 10 Robinson Street, Ashburton or email: colleen@briggs.co.nz

CJ’s Concrete Pumping

essential

Work vehicle and phone available to suitable applicant.

Higher hourly rate paid.

Contact Chris 0279 331 872

Looking for a builder with a little more experience?  Housing  Commercial  Farm Contact Des anytime for an obligation free quote.

Buying or selling a property?

Call the Guardian today or your real estate advertising 307 7900 requirements.

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Class 4 License

Training will be given.

Ph 03 308 9936 or 0274 323 258

0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

Birthday Greetings

Concrete Pump Operator required

Experience with hydraulics and concrete a bonus.

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline

Please contact Vicki McIntyre, Principal for more informationphone 03 303 7208 or 027 258 8798, email principal@hinds.school.nz

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Rainer Irrigation requires the services of an experienced office person as a 2nd in charge. This is a senior position & requires the following attributes.

Phone 0274 532 087

We are looking for a passionate, experienced junior teacher with strength in the core curriculum and ability to work well in a team environment.

Countdown Complex, East Street, Ashburton Phone: 03 308 6733 Fax: 03 308 6755

Assistant Office Manager

Suit weekends?

CARETAKER We require someone for term two to cover long term leave.

Start date negotiable For further information contact: The Principal on 021 496 912

We’ve built a reputation of being solid and reliable, just like the buildings we construct.

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

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

Charlie Quinlan Happy 4th Birthday Charlie, tomorrow.

Love always, Nana and Poppa. xxxx

Jack Boyd Happy 1st Birthday!

Lots of love Mum and Dad. xox Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Minion cake tin set available for hire.

$20 for 7 days

A University of Otago Centre of Research Excellence

The Arcade, Ashburton 03 308 8287 www.kitchenkapers.co.nz

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PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

We currently have funds available to distribute in grants for the following purposes in the Canterbury area:

Rubbish and Recycling – ANZAC Day Collection

Resource Recovery Parks The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks will be closed on: • •

Saturday 25 April (from 9.00am until 1.00pm) Monday 27 April 2015

The Methven Inorganic Materials Drop-off Facility will be closed on: •

Saturday 25 April 2015

Rubbish and Recycling - Kerbside Collection If your collection day is a Monday there will be a change for ANZAC day.

Collections normally scheduled for Monday 27 April 2015 will be collected on Tuesday 28 April 2015.

There are no changes to any other collections.

• Research, treatment, provision of equipment in relation to, and the education and training of skilled persons relative to, the disease of cancer.

• Research, development, education for, training and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture.

• The needs of young people who suffer physical or mental disabilities or have less chance in life than their peers.

Applications close at 5pm, Friday, April 24, 2015.

For further information and application forms, please contact: The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation C/- Croys Ltd Level 2, 161 Burnett Street PO Box 582 Ashburton 7740 Phone 03 308 8353 Email: mcf@croys.co.nz www.mcf.org.nz

Please ensure all rubbish and recycling is placed at kerbside by 7.30am on collection day.

Neil McCann Group Manager Service Delivery

Long Term Grazing Required

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RURAL TRADING POST

For 900 Ewe Hoggets Period May to September Contact Rob Harvey Phone 021 331 519 PGG Wrightson

NOTICE OF MEETINGS

APRIL 2015 Further to the meetings advertised for April, notice is given of the following changes: Thursday, 23 April Council meeting, 10.00am Thursday, 30 April Performance, Audit & Risk Committee meeting will commence at the earlier time of 11.00am Both meeting will be held at the Council offices at Matthew Fraser House, 5 Sir William Pickering Drive, Burnside, Christchurch.

Members of the public are welcome to attend.

Bill Bayfield CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Clearing Sale Machinery, Plant & Sundries

Thursday 23rd April - 12.30pm On Behalf Grant CR Kingsbury P/ship 142 Wakanui Township Road

Wakanui PLANT & MACHINERY Case 2388 Axial Flow Harvester with 22ft Front & Trailer (1549 mill hours), Super 810 Drapier Pickup, Overum DV590H 5 Furrow Reversable Plough, 12ft Duncan 702 Seedliner Drill, 12ft Gray Engineering Water Ballast Roller, 10ft PZ Cultivator, Westerfield MK100/51 Swing Auger, Gray Engineering 45 x 8” PTO Auger, Aitcheson 9 Leg Sub Soiler, 12’6” Cambridge Roller with 2 x 5ft Wings, 9 Reel Columbia TR9 Hayrake, 16ft 32 Tyne Folding Wing Trailing Grubber, Kverneland 28ft Folding Wing Cultivator, 7 Leaf 23ft Harrows on Wheels, Trailer Mounted A&B Seed Scalper - Petrol & Power Operated, Busatis Double Knife Mower, Winstone Spray Rig, Heston Hydro 1014 Swing Windrower, 8ft 6 Disc Lely Mower, 2 x Bamford 6 Reel Hay Rakes, Booth Mac 10ft Offset Discs, Leaf Harrows & Bar

TRACTORS Case MXM 155 Pro 4WD Tractor (3587hrs), McCormick Farmal A Tractor, International 886 Series B, International 886 Tractor (not running), International 684 Tractor, Hough 50 Loader, Clark Forklift, Hyster Challenger 60 Forklift

TRUCKS & TRAILERS 1984 ERF Tandem Steer Tandem Drive 12 Tonne Tip Truck with Bulk Bin (COF), 3 Axle 15 Tonne Bulk Tipulator Trailer, 1975 International Acco 1700 Tip Truck with Bulk Bin (farm use only), 1963 Thames Trader Diesel Tip Truck with Bulk Bin, International D200 Truck with Spray Rig 50ft Boom, 1450 Litre Tank with Controls, International D200 with 1 Tonne CPW Fertiliser Spreader, 1985 Suzuki SJ413 (AIWI), 2 Axle 1800 Gallon Water Tanker

SUNDRIES 8ft Massey Harris Drill, 2 Furrow Reid & Gray Plough, Mobile Sheep Loading Race, Donald Steel Woolpress, Donald Post Driver, 1/2m F/E Loader Grain Bucket, Manual Bin Tipper, 11 x 36” Dual Wheels, Post Hole Digger, Concrete Mixer, Coils Netting, Concrete Strainer Posts, LPG Bird Scarer, Dagging Plant, LPG Burner, Diesel Burner, Forklift Hyd Mask, Grain Drying Fan, Old Style Electric Fuel Bowser MF Rideon Mower, Large Wooden Seed Mixing Box, Boxes of Farm Sundries

Light Lunch Available

TRADES, SERVICES

FODDER BEET HARVESTING

BALEAGE FOR SALE

Jacob Holdaway Contracting Ltd

Account:

Air West Helicopters Ltd Individually wrapped round fusion baleage consisting of rye grass & clover. 1st, 2nd & 3rd cuts.

To be sold in lots of 40 only. Not advisable for lactating dairy cows.

Test results available.

Situated at Ashton/Ashburton.

For further information: John Harrison • 027 435 6243

Grimme harvester proven in Canterbury conditions.

PETER WALSH & ASSOCIATES LTD www.peterwalsh.co.nz

WANTED

TRADES, SERVICES

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

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

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

4 TINT-A-WINDOW solar protective films, UV block, NEW clients wanted by fade, heat and glare control, See for yourself - phone Jacob today experienced private cleaner. privacy and safety films for TRADES, SERVICES Text name and phone glass. FREE quotes - 20 and ask about our very competitive rates. number to 027 663 0803. years local service, Bill Breukelaar - phone 0800 368 COMPUTER PROBLEMS? 468. www.tintawindow.co.nz For Prompt Reliable Service Jacob Holdaway SHEARING GEAR Contact Kelvin Boult, KJB WANTED. Old shearing DOAKY’S Plumbing Ltd. Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, 0274 225 464 plants, grinders, hand pieces, www.jholdawaycontracting.com screwdrivers and bale Plumbing, drain laying, Ashburton. Ph 308 8989. blocked drains. No job too 30yrs Local experience, stencils. Anything considered. BIG or too SMALL. Call Same day service if possible, Good prices paid. Phone 03 Lindsay now 027 555 5575 or *SUPERGOLD discount card Guardian Situations Vacant 307 7900 614 7858 or 027 363 9930.

03 308 1248. accepted.*

TRADES, SERVICES COMPUTER Tuneup and Repairs, New Computer Sales & Setup, Internet setup, Onsite Day Or Evenings and Weekends, LOW FEES, call Robin Johnstone at Networks Firewalls & PCS 308 1440 or 027-768 4058.

HOME handyman available.

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

PLANTS, PRODUCE PEASTRAW for sale. Small bales. Weed free. Phone 303 7677.

PLANT CLEARANCE - Big grade trees, camellias and rhododendrons, standards etc. Shrubs from $2.50. All just go: Friday, 8am - 3pm and Saturday 9am - 1pm. NO EFTPOS. Braam Landscapes, 119 Maronan Road, Ashburton.

SMITHFIELD FLOWERS, 211 Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Chrysanthemums $6 bunch or 2 for $10, bouquets $15.

Buy at Smithfield Road or Farmers Market on West Street for the next two Saturdays. Ph 0274 425 847 for special orders. Available in many colours.

Vendor Finance Available to Approved Purchaser of Combine Harvester Auction PLUS GST Payment on Day: Farmlands Card, Eftpos, cash, cheque

Auctioneer: Noel Lowery 0274 328 859

To view images visit www.crtfarmlands.co.nz

YOUR LOCAL

PAINTING PROFESSIONALS Contact us today on: Richard: 027 279 8952 Office: 308 9039

www.bradfords.co.nz

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LET OR LEASE

MOTORCYCLES

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Church Services

Ashburton Motorcycle Club

100th Anniversary Celebrations

Expressions of Interest – EA Networks Centre, Cafe Lease

Ashburton District Council are seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the operation of a commercial cafe at the EA Networks Centre, being the stadium and aquatic centre, located in the Riverside area accessed off River Terrace.

For further information visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz or to request documents please email info@adc.govt.nz or phone 03 307 7700.

Expressions of Interest close Tuesday 5 May 2015 at 4.00pm and should be made in writing to: “EOI Cafe Operations” The Chief Executive Ashburton District Council PO Box 94 Ashburton 7740

FREE Compost workshop this Monday, April 20 Learn simple ways to transform your food and garden waste quickly and easily and grow food over winter.

Enquiries contact 0800 627 824 or email sherylstivens@gmail.com Supported by Ashburton District Council

Organic New Zealand - Soil & Health Ashburton

MUSICAL

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Royal Gala

.99c kg

Bananas Kiwifruit Bacon Pieces Avocadoes

$2.29 kg $2.99 1kg bag $4.99 1kg ea .99c ea

Specials available from 14/04 - 21/04

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

PERSONAL REAL PEOPLE REAL LOVE No more lonely weekends or internet dating disasters.

Your personal matchmaker will handpick your ideal partner. Someone wonderful is waiting to meet you right now, so call today and get in touch as soon as tonight.

MEETINGS, EVENTS ANZAC DAY SERVICE Ealing Hall Saturday, April 25, 2015 9.15am.

Please bring a plate for morning tea.

All welcome.

Ph 0800 856 640 til 7pm

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

Guardian Job Vacancies

Ashburton Fanciers Society Poultry Auction Sunday, April 19, 2015 Sports Hall, Tancred Street West, Ashburton.

Viewing: 11am Start: 12.30pm Huge selection to choose from: Bantams, Poultry, Ducks, Cavies, Pheasants, Finches, and equipment.

308-1095

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Beckley Coachlines Programme ◊ PHANTOM OF THE OPERA April 30 @ 7.30pm Isaac Theatre Royal, Chch ◊ FOSTER & ALLEN May 27 Theatre Royal, Timaru ◊ COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA May 25 Isaac Theatre Royal, Chch

For bookings phone

308 7646

LIVESTOCK, PETS

Rakaia Land SAR

Free Lease

AGM

30 x bred in calf heifers for lease.

May 5, 2015 7.30pm Rakaia HQ General Meeting, 7pm

LOST, FOUND

LOST IPHONE. Lost Black Iphone. Battery is/was flat. In Ashburton town centre night of March 21/22 either near Print Room or Z garage (West St). Has many photos that I want back! Please contact Caroline 022 092 0611.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

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

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

Guardian Motoring

June 1 delivery fully recorded average BW 165.

Phone 027 299 6208.

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

307 7900

Monday 20th, 7pm - St John First Aid rooms, Moore Street Ashburton Guest speaker - Robz and his son Matai - check out his site http://bethechange.net.nz/our-story A great speaker travelling around NZ talking to communities about the importance of respecting our environment and our responsibility regarding this.

All welcome - Gold Coin donation Enquiries contact Frith 021 260 9996 or Sheryl 021 138 0964

FOR SALE Ashburton Kindergarten Association Annual General Meeting 2015 Tuesday, April 28 7.00pm at Hampstead Kindergarten, 44 Cambridge St, Ash All welcome Barbara Kirk Association Manager

GRAZING

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting 10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton

10am Every Sunday All welcome Fear not for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays@10.00am Including Children’s Church Everyone is welcome.

See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron Sts Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES (Ashburton)

St Andrew’s Havelock St. 10am & 7pm

St James & St Paul’s

Combined Service at St James Thomson St. 11am

SUPERB Mid Victorian walnut bookcase chiffonier in excellent condition. Height 2550, width 1375, depth 325 and 600. Phone 308 7511.

GARAGE SALES

LULU - cute and cuddly, attractive and busty. Specials, GARAGE SALE - Tools, let all your dreams come true. household, furniture and Phone 021 0233 9259 (no items. Saturday, April 18, texting).

Aitken Street. Sign out at 8.30 RORY, young gay, attractive, am - 12 noon.

20 year old male for pleasure or fun. Ph 027 345 9870 FOR SALE in/out calls.

TREES wanted. Suitable for milling and export. No 12HA kale for sale. Close to obligation quote. Phone John Winchmore Hall. Contact: 027 Rose Logging 03 693 9385 or 222 5360.

021 935 628.

Jubilee Christian Fellowship

Add some luxury to your lunchtime

LAMB grazing required for ADULT May/June. Phone 027 321 ENTERTAINMENT 6060.

CINDY, Kiwi, attractive, late 30’s, size 8. Ph calls only 022 TOP QUALITY Grazing 036 5404. available for R2 and Yearling JASMINE 24, pleasure for Dairy Heifers with proven you, flirtations and fun, dark Graziers. Phone No. 0800 hair, blue eyed, beauty. In/out GRAZ4U. calls. Ph 020 4064 4885.

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

Phone Brian 307-8000 or FIREWOOD dry pine $160, semi dry old man pine $150, 308-6180. green $130, dry blue gum $215, semi dry $180. Ph/text: HIRE GENERAL hire.

Lawn- John 0274 334 740 or 308 mowers, chainsaws, concrete 2590 after 7pm. breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / contracting SCOOTER’S - new and work, Call and see U-Hire secondhand three and four Ashburton. 588 East Street. wheel electric scooters and Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; wheel chairs. Call Fred Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday Reddecliffe at Electric 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: 308 Mobility Ashburton today.

8061 A/h: 308 7460 Phone 308-3602 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

GRAZING

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison Creche Available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

MEETINGS, EVENTS

All welcome

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

10am Morning Service

Check out Ashburton Motorcycle Club Facebook page for details or contact your local motorcycle shop.

• Where: Eco Education Centre - alongside Mastagard Recycle shed.

Andrew Dalziel Chief Executive

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

There is something for everyone and everyone is invited, including a Motorcycle Quizco, an exhibition at the Museum, a road ride, international guest speaker Graeme Crosby, a vintage Moto Cross and a TT.

• When: Monday, April 20, 10.30am - 11.30am

Officer for enquiries: James Webb, Commercial Manager.

Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

307 7900

From Friday, May 1 to Sunday, May 3 during Wheels Week

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

100 GREY Street. Three bedrooms. $300 per week.

Available April 27. Phone 022 360 8815.

HOUSE for sale or for rent.

Three bedroom, double glazed, ¼ acre section, no smokers, no dogs. $345 per week. Phone 027 430 8854.

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Let Hotel Ashburton impress with express lunches, served up fresh. Delicious fusion flavours from our award winning kitchen.

Open 7 days 0800 330 880 HotelAsh.co.nz

CALL IN AND CHECK OUT OUR GREAT RANGE OF LAWN CARE EQUIPMENT! ASHBURTON 832 East St 03 307 9911

www.dne.co.nz 0800 432 633

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 A couple convert historic buildings into a farm-stay, and encourage guests to get involved in day-to-day life on their sheep and beef farm. 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 0 9:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 3 Noon There’s No Taste Like Home 3 1pm Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook 3 0 1:30 Highway Cops PGR 3 0 2pm Four Weddings USA 3pm F Life Flight PGR 3 0 3:30 Piha Rescue PGR 3 0 4pm Fishy Business 0 5pm F Robson Green – Extreme Fisherman 6pm One News 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Our World – Search For The Ocean’s Super Predator PGR The story of a super predator’s attack on a great white shark. 0 8:45 Coronation Street PGR 0 9:45 Nashville PGR 0 10:40 Ladies And Gentlemen…

Sol3 Mio Live In Concert 0

6am Guess How Much I Love You 3 0 6:10 Transformers Rescue Bots 3 0 6:30 Doc McStuffins 3 0 6:55 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:20 Ben 10 – Omniverse 0 7:45 Phineas And Ferb 3 0 8:10 Green Lantern – The Animated Series 3 0 8:40 Adventure Time PGR 0 9:05 Regular Show 0 9:30 Lab Rats 10am Fresh 10:30 Switched At Birth 0 11:30 The 100 PGR 0 12:30 The Quest PGR 1:30 F Young And Hungry PGR 2pm The Bachelor Australia 0 3:05 The Fosters PGR 4pm Step By Step 3 0 4:30 Full House 3 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 The Amazing Race PGR 0 6:30 Joey 0 7pm M Cats And Dogs PGR 3 2001 Family.

The cats and dogs of the world do battle over a new vaccine that would prevent human allergy to dogs. 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Cats And Dogs 0 8:45 M Playing For Keeps PGR 2012 Comedy Romance Sport. 0 10:50 M People Like Us AO 2012 Drama. 0

6am Charles Stanley 3 6:30 Outdoors With Geoff 3 The annual fishing competition for youngsters with cancer sees a lot of smiles, a lot of fish, and some great prizes. 7am Gone Fishin’ 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 The X Factor NZ 3 The remaining acts perform songs of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.

12:30 The X Factor NZ 3 Following the live live performances, one act is eliminated.

A performance by Ed Sheeran.

1:25 The Bachelor NZ PGR 3 0 2:25 The Bachelor NZ PGR 3 0 3:25 The Face Australia 3 4:30 Native Kitchen 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 The Simpsons 0 6pm 3 News 7pm Storage Hunters PGR 7:30 Ice Road Truckers PGR 0 8:30 F CSI AO 0 9:25 Chicago PD AO Halstead is threatened with losing his job after Lonnie Rodiger is found dead; Severide and Clarke discover the body of a doctor who helped put many criminals behind bars. 0 10:20 Hawaii Five-0 AO 0

6am Sesame Street 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 8:30 Digimon Fusion 3 8:55 Rocket Power 3 9:20 Power Rangers – Super Megaforce 9:45 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Big Time Rush 3 5:30 Mr Young 6pm Futurama 3 Earth is invaded by a race of intelligent cats.

6:30 M The Borrowers PGR 3 1997 Comedy.

John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie. 0 8:30 M Almost Famous AO 3 2000 Drama.

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on tour. Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson. 0 10:55 90210 PGR 3 Naomi receives an unwelcome assignment to oversee Holly’s birthday party.

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Rugby League – NRL Fulltime (Highlights) Round six of the NRL Telstra Premiership.

Noon The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 2:30 Antiques Roadshow 3 3:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

USA PGR 3 4pm Horse Racing – Easter Handicap The Manco Easter Handicap from Ellerslie Racecourse, the 142nd running of the last group one event of the New Zealand racing season.

4:30 Nigellissima 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Chef’s Apprentice 3 6:30 Jamie At Home

Midnight Golf – LPGA Tour (Highlights) 12:55 Gavin And Stacey PGR 3 0 2am Emmerdale PGR 3 0 4:15 L Football – English Premier League Chelsea v Manchester United.

From Stamford Bridge in London.

1:05 M London Boulevard AO 2010 Crime Drama. Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley. 0 2:55 M Machete AO 2010 Action Thriller.

Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro. 0 4:40 Rodney 3 0 5:05 Fresh 5:30 It Is Written 3

11:20 The Blue Rose AO 3 A party and a tragedy lead the Blue Roses to crisis, but Sonya is certain of one thing – in the middle of an investigation, you do not go round sleeping with the suspects. 0 12:20 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 3 5:30 Charles Stanley 3

11:50 Just Shoot Me! PGR Sensing pressure from Jack, Elliott decides to ask Maya to marry him. 0 12:15 Infomercials

11:35 Midsomer Murders AO 3 A giant round of cheese crushes a woman at the Midsomer Blue dairy when the factory goes under some controversial changes. As others also meet agonising deaths, secrets begin to emerge.

1:35 Home Shopping

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Irikura 3 6:30 Te Tepu 3 2 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 M The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland 1999 Family.

Kevin Clash, Mandy Patinkin, Vanessa L Williams.

9:05 M The Pianist AO 3 2002 Drama. Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann.

11:35 Te Kaea 3 2 12:05 Closedown

6:30 L Rugby League – Super League St Helens v Leeds Rhinos.

From Langtree Park, St Helens.

9:15 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round Seven Friday.

9:45 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Wigan Warriors v Warrington Wolves.

From DW Stadium, Wigan.

10:15 Rugby League – NRL Cats and Dogs Chicago PD (Replay) Dragons v Broncos.

7pm on TV2 9:25pm on TV3 From Jubilee Oval, Sydney.

12:30 L Rugby League – NSW Cup Wests Tigers v Illawarra.

MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS From Campbelltown Stadium, 6am World War Z ML 2013 7:35 Panic Room 16V 2002 Thriller.

Sydney.

Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker.

Action. Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos.

2:30 L Rugby League – 9:25 My Best Friend’s Wedding 8am No Clue M 2013 Comedy.

Holden Cup ML 1997 Romantic Comedy.

Brent Butt, Amy Smart. 9:35 The Titans U20 v Panthers U20.

Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Butterfly Room MVL 2012 Horror.

From Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Cameron Diaz. 11:10 Exorcist – Barbara Steele, Ray Wise. 11:05 Out The Beginning 16VLC 2004 Horror.

Coast.

Of The Furnace 16VLC 2013 Thriller.

Stellan Skarsgaard, Izabella Scorupco. 4:30 L Rugby League – NRL Christian Bale, Casey Affleck.

1:05 Spider-Man MV 2002 Action.

Titans v Panthers.

1:05 World War Z ML 2013 Action.

Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, From Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos. 3:10 The Coast.

Legend Of Hercules MV 2014 Action Willem Defoe. 3:05 The Boy In The Striped Pajamas MC 2008 7pm L Rugby League – NRL Fantasy. Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss.

Drama. Asa Butterfield. 4:40 Space Cowboys v Warriors.

4:50 Bad Words MLS 2014 Comedy.

Cowboys PGL 2000 Comedy.

From 1300 Smiles Stadium, Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn.

Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Townsville.

6:20 X-Men – Days Of Future Past Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones.

9:25 The After Match MVL 2014 Action. Hugh Jackman, 6:50 The Bucket List ML 2007 Jennifer Lawrence. 8:30 Red 2 MVL 10pm Random Rugby TV Comedy. 8:30 Black Hawk Down 2013 Action. Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren. 16V 2001 Action. 10:55 Spartan MVL A rugby-themed show with 10:30 Prisoners 16VLC 2013 Crime. teenagers in mind.

2004 Thriller.

Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal.

10:20 L Cricket – SUNDAY Indian Premier League SUNDAY 12:40 Harold And Kumar Escape Sunrisers Hyderabad v 1am Father v Son 16S 2010 Comedy. From Guantanamo Bay 18LS 2008 2:35 The Legend Of Hercules Comedy. 2:20 The Making Of Fast Delhi Daredevils.

2:20 L Cricket – MV 2014 Action Fantasy. 4:15 Bad And Furious 4 M 2:35 The Boy Indian Premier League Words MLS 2014 Comedy. 5:45 Bafta: In The Striped Pajamas MC 2008 A Life In Pictures – Martin Scorsese Drama. 4:10 Black Hawk Down 16V Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders.

2001 Action.

PG 2011 Documentary.

CHOICE TV 6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 8:30 Ask The Butcher 9am The Roux Masterclass 9:30 House Crashers 10am Selling London 10:30 Great Escapes 11am Buying The Bayou 11:30 How Did You Do That?

Office Reno Noon Brother v Brother 1pm Gardeners’ World 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Garage Gold 3:30 House Crashers 4pm Holiday Home Sweet Home 5pm This Old Thing 6pm Extreme Collectors PGR 6:30 The Water Brothers 7pm The Wild West With Ray Mears 7:30 Natural World – Invasion Of The Crocodiles 8:30 South Riding AO In 1930s Yorkshire, a spirited new headmistress brings inspiration and modern ideas to an all girls’ school and shakes up the more conservative-minded residents of South Riding.

9:30 Being Erica PGR 10:30 Garage Gold 11pm House Crashers 11:30 NZ Hunter Adventures PGR

SUNDAY

Midnight This Old Thing 1am Extreme Collectors PGR 1:30 The Water Brothers 2am The Wild West With Ray Mears 2:30 South Riding AO 3:30 Catch And Cook – World 4am Being Erica PGR 5am Holiday Home Sweet Home

7pm Storage Wars – Canada PGR 7:30 James May’s Man Lab PGR James takes on Mother Nature, and enters the Rock Paper Scissors World Championships.

8:35 Top Gear USA AO 9:35 Rugby – Super Rugby Highlanders v Blues.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium.

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 8am Tribe 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am It’s In The Bag 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm The Big Hit 3 2:30 Whanau Living PGR 3pm Home Krew PGR 3:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 4:30 City Slickers Rodeo 3 5pm Project Whenua 3

THE BOX 6am The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

8:30 Pawnography PG 8:55 Survivor Marathon PG 12:20 Wild West Alaska M 1:10 RBT MC 1:35 Fire Scene Investigation M 2pm Call Of The Wildman PG 2:25 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 2:50 Graceland MVLC 3:40 SVU MVS 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

7:30 Pawnography PG 8pm Call Of The Wildman PG 8:30 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 9pm Counting Cars PG 9:30 Wild West Alaska M 10:30 RBT MC 11pm Fire Scene Investigation M 11:30 Crossing Lines MV

SUNDAY

12:25 Raw MC 3:10 Crossing Lines MV 4am Counting Cars PG 4:25 Call Of The Wildman PG 4:50 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 5:15 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG

6am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Crusaders v Chiefs. From AMI Stadium, Christchurch.

8am Swimming – New Zealand Open Championships (Highlights) Day Four.

8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9am Football – A-League (Replay) Wellington Phoenix v Central Coast Mariners.

11am Sport 365 11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Crusaders v Chiefs.

1:30 World Rugby 2pm Sailing – Barcelona World Race (Highlights) 3:10 Small Blacks TV 3:25 World Rugby 3:55 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Crusaders v Chiefs.

4:25 L Rugby – Super Rugby Hurricanes v Waratahs.

7pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Highlanders v Blues.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

9:35 L Rugby – Super Rugby Brumbies v Rebels.

From GIO Stadium, Canberra.

11:40 L Rugby – Super Rugby Force v Stormers. 1:45 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 2:15 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 2:45 Random Rugby TV 3am L Rugby – Super Rugby Sharks v Bulls. 5:05 L Rugby – Super Rugby Cheetahs v Reds.

SKY SPORT 2

DISCOVERY 6am Game Of Pawns M 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Gunslingers M 10:30 Alaska Monsters M 11:30 The Unexplained Files PG 12:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 1:30 Gold Rush PG 2:30 Dual Survival M 3:30 Chaos Caught On Camera M 4pm Chaos Caught On Camera M 4:30 Auction Hunters PG 5pm Auction Hunters PG 5:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 6:30 Supersized Earth PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 9:30 Billy Bob’s Gags To Riches M 10:30 Auction Hunters PG 11pm Hour China – Man Made Marvels M

SUNDAY

Midnight Moonshiners M 1am I (Almost) Got Away With It M 2am Bering Sea Gold PG 3am Bering Sea Gold PG 4am Bering Sea Gold PG 5am MythBusters PG

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language. RATINGS: 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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6:30 F The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 3 0 7:20 Sunday 3 0 7:45 Tagata Pasifika 3 0 8:10 Praise Be Chris Nichol presents a programme of hymns and worship songs from throughout New Zealand.

8:40 Attitude 0 9:10 Q+A 0 10:10 Waka Huia 10:40 Marae 2 11:10 Neighbourhood 0 11:40 Fair Go 3 0 12:05 Survival Tales From The Wild 3 0 1pm Intrepid Journeys PGR 3 0 2pm F Our First Home Omnibus 3 0 4:50 Outback Truckers 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm N Nigel Latta Blows Stuff Up From burning down a house to being hit with 10,000 volts of electricity, Nigel Latta goes to any extreme in the interests of science. 0 8:30 The Killing Field AO 0 10:30 A Place To Call Home PGR 3 0

11:30 Golf – LPGA Tour (Highlights) Final round from the Ko Olina Golf Club on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

12:35 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme. 0 1:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:35 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am The Water Brothers 6:35 The Wild West With Ray Mears 7am Natural World – Invasion Of The Crocodile 8am Catch And Cook – World 8:30 Garage Gold 9am House Crashers 9:30 Holiday Home Sweet Home 10:30 This Old Thing 11:30 Extreme Collectors PGR Noon Being Erica PGR 1pm Natural World – Invasion Of The Crocodile 2pm Bath Crashers 2:30 Merlin (Mini-series) 3:30 IFish 4:30 Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers 5pm Bill’s Kitchen – Notting Hill 5:30 Coast 6:30 Kirstie’s Fill Your House For Free 7:30 Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren Giles Coren is a controversial restaurant critic.

8:30 M Crash 16VL 2004 Crime.

Over two days, the lives of several people in Los Angeles intertwine.

Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon.

10:30 Coast A fascinating journey around the coast of the United Kingdom.

11:45 Wild At Heart PGR

MONDAY

12:30 M Crash 16VL 2004 Crime. Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon.

2:30 Bath Crashers 3am Merlin (Mini-series) 4am Wild At Heart PGR 5am Bill’s Kitchen – Notting Hill 5:30 IFish

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PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Pajanimals 3 0 6:20 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:30 Art Attack 0 6:50 Crash And Bernstein 3 0 7:10 SpongeBob SquarePants 3 0 7:35 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 After a girl loses her doll at the zoo, Rico is persuaded to give up his own doll to replace it. Private assures Rico his good deed will come back to him, but Rico is not so sure. 0 8am What Now 10am ANT Farm 3 0 10:25 The Bachelor PGR Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 2:30 Suburgatory PGR 3 0 3pm Hot In Cleveland PGR 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 30 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Joey 3 0 7pm Thunderbirds Are Go 0 7:30 N Galavant PGR Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Galavant, lost the love of his life to the evil King Richard. Now he is ready to take revenge and restore his happy ending. 0 8pm Black-Ish PGR 0 8:30 M Grown Ups 2 AO 2013 Comedy. 0 10:30 Gotham AO 0

6am Life TV 3 6:30 Brian Houston 3 7am Charles Stanley 3 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 3 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 9am Three60 9:30 Re-Think 10am The Nation 0 11am The Bold And The Beautiful Omnibus PGR 1pm The Block Unlocked – Fans v Favourites 1:30 Big Angry Fish 3 2pm Motorsport – WEC Silverstone (Highlights) 3pm Motorsport – MotoGP 4pm Motorsport – Indycar (Highlights) 5pm Ice Road Truckers 3 0 6pm 3 News 7pm The X Factor NZ The remaining acts sing.

8:30 M Fast And Furious 6 AO 2013 Action.

Hobbs has Dom and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a mastermind who commands an organisation of mercenary drivers.

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson. 0

6am Sesame Street 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Rugrats 3 7:25 Dream Defenders 3 7:50 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 8:15 Digimon Fusion 3 8:35 Rocket Power 3 9am Lalaloopsy 3 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm Futurama 3 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 Ted and Barney discuss making an important decision together; Robin sets out to discourage Marshall and Lily from moving to Long Island.

7pm The Simpsons 3 0 7:30 Troy PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 8:30 The Xtra Factor NZ PGR 9pm The GC PGR 3 0 9:30 World’s Scariest Animal Attacks PGR 3 0 10:30 Bro’ Town PGR 3 Jeff’s unhinged Uncle Murray returns from Afghanistan and takes the boys to a fun camp, but before long everyone except Jeff realises things are not what they seem. 0

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world, highlighting sport for young New Zealand fans.

Noon MasterChef USA 3 The contestants must work individually, each catering for a table of 10 at a southern-style charity volunteer luncheon hosted by Paula Dean.

12:55 Earthflight 3 A look inside the series.

2pm The Animal Files PGR 3 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 4:30 Rugby Nation (Highlights) 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great British Bake-Off – Masterclass 7pm Storage Wars – Texas 7:30 Antiques Roadshow 8:30 CSI – Cyber PGR Special Agent Avery Ryan and her team of cyber-crime fighters investigate a rollercoaster crash caused by a criminal who hacked into the ride’s internal computer.

9:30 Elementary PGR 10:30 Top Gear USA AO 3

7:10 Small Blacks TV 7:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Firebirds v Magic. 8am Soccer Saturday 10am Sport 365 10:30 Sky Sports News UK 11am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Saturday Games. 11:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Noon The After Match 12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 1:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 2pm L Netball – ANZ Championship Swifts v Mystics. 4pm L Netball – ANZ Championship Vixens v Steel. 6pm Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 6:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 7pm L Netball – ANZ Championship Pulse v Fever. From TSB Bank Arena in Wellington.

9pm Rugby Nation 10pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Hurricanes v Waratahs. From Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

10:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Highlanders v Blues. From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

11:25 M Chloe AO 2009 Drama.

Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried. 0 1:25 The Flash 3 0 2:10 Arrow 3 0 2:55 Infomercials 3:25 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Bunheads PGR 3 5:30 Infomercials

11:05 State Of Affairs AO 3 Jack Dawkins is kidnapped from a Panamanian prison and held for ransom; Charlie returns to Langley to coordinate an operation. 0 Midnight Jono And Ben PGR 3 1am Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

11pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend The biggest entertainment stories of the last week.

11:55 Infomercials

11:25 Silk AO 3 While Clive is in Oxford prosecuting three students accused of sexually assaulting a waitress, he discovers a passion for prosecuting he did not know he had.

12:30 Home Shopping

11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round Seven Sunday.

Midnight L Cycling – Amstel Gold Race 3:15 Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) Vixens v Steel. 3:45 L Motorsport – MotoGP Argentina.

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 2 2pm Media Take 3 A media commentary show with Russell Brown and Toi Iti analysing the weekly news.

2:30 Marae Kai Masters 3 Marae teams from around the country compete in a cooking show, hunting, gathering, and cooking local delicacies.

3:30 Rugby – World Cup 2011 (Replay) New Zealand v France.

5:30 Te Kaea 2

THE BOX 6:05 Survivor Marathon PG 9:25 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

11:55 Raw MC 2:40 WWE Main Event MC 3:45 SmackDown! MC 5:25 RBT MC 5:50 Fire Scene Investigation M 6:15 Counting Cars PG 6:40 Wild West Alaska M 7:30 Longmire 16V On the day of the sheriff elections, a terrible accident puts things into perspective for Walt.

8:30 CSI – Miami MV After a man is found not guilty of his wife’s murder the team finds evidence to the contrary.

9:30 CSI – Miami MV 10:30 Banshee 18VLSC 11:30 Longmire 16V

MONDAY

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:15 Pawnography PG 2:40 CSI – Miami MV 3:30 CSI – Miami MV 4:20 Banshee 18VLSC 5:10 Longmire 16V

SKY SPORT 2 6pm Kai Time On The Road 6:30 Paepae 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Warriors v Cowboys.

9:30 M The Barbarian Invasions AO 2003 Drama.

During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his former wife, and his estranged son. Rémy Girard.

Nigel Latta Blows Stuff Up 11:10 Te Kaea 3 2 8pm on TV One 11:40 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Game Of Pawns M 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 Chaos Caught On Camera M Boiling Bus; Lethal Landslide; Risky Rescue.

9am Chaos Caught On Camera M 9:30 The Unexplained Files M 10:30 Supersized Earth PG 11:30 Naked And Afraid M 12:30 Surviving Exodus PG 1:30 Billy Bob’s Gags To Riches M 2:30 Alaska Monsters M 3:30 Alaskan Bush People M 4:30 Moonshiners M 5:30 Big Giant Swords PG 6:30 Gold Rush PG 7:30 World’s Dirtiest Man M 8:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 9:30 Dual Survival M 10:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 11:30 Chaos Caught On Camera M

MONDAY

Midnight Chaos Caught On Camera M 12:30 The Unexplained Files M 1:30 A Crime To Remember M 2:30 Auction Kings PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Bering Sea Gold PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:15 X-Men – Days Of Future Past MVL 2014 Action. Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence. 8:25 Red 2 MVL 2013 Action. Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren. 10:20 Prisoners 16VLC 2013 Crime. Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal. 12:50 Bafta – A Life In Pictures: Martin Scorsese PG 2011 Documentary.

1:20 Father v Son 16S 2010 Comedy. Eric Stonestreet, Josh Dean.

3pm Paranoia MVL 2013 Thriller.

Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford.

4:45 Disorientation 16VLSC 2012 Comedy. Eric Toms, Todd Gaebe.

6:10 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 MV 2014 Action. 8:30 Divergent MV 2014 Action. 10:50 2 Guns 16VL 2013 Action.

MONDAY

12:40 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 18VLC 2013 Horror.

2:10 Paranoia MVL 2013 Thriller.

3:55 Disorientation 16VLSC 2012 Comedy. 5:20 The Making Of Edge Of Tomorrow PG 2014 Featurette. 5:40 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 MV 2014 Action.

CSI – Cyber

8:30pm on Prime

MOVIES GREATS 6:30 Space Cowboys PGL 2000 Comedy. Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones. 8:40 The Bucket List ML 2007 Comedy.

Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman.

10:15 Spartan MVL 2004 Thriller.

Val Kilmer, Derek Luke. Noon Black Hawk Down 16V 2001 Action.

Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett.

2:20 School For Scoundrels MLS 2006 Comedy. Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder. 4pm Jumper MVL 2008 Adventure. Samuel L Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson.

5:30 Red Eye MVL 2005 Drama.

Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy.

6:55 Old School MLS 2003 Comedy.

8:30 Starsky And Hutch MVL 2004 Action Comedy. 10:15 Fantastic Four PGV 2005 Action.

MONDAY

Midnight Nights In Rodanthe PGL 2008 Drama. 1:35 School For Scoundrels MLS 2006 Comedy.

3:15 Jumper MVL 2008 Adventure.

4:45 Fantastic Four PGV 2005 Action.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language. RATINGS: 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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6am Fox Sports News 6:30 Small Blacks TV 6:45 Random Rugby TV 7am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Hurricanes v Waratahs.

From Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

9am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Highlanders v Blues.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

11am Sport 365 11:30 Cricket – Indian Premier League (Highlights) Sunrisers Hyderabad v Delhi Daredevils.

Noon Cricket – Indian Premier League (Highlights) Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders.

12:30 Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race 1pm Sport 365 1:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Wests Tigers U20 v Raiders U20.

From Leichhardt Oval in Sydney.

3:30 L Rugby League – NRL Tigers v Raiders.

From Leichhardt Oval in Sydney.

6pm L Rugby League – NRL Knights v Eels.

From Hunter Stadium in Newcastle.

8pm L Motorsport – Superbike World Championship TT Assen Circuit.

Coverage of Race One and Supersport from The Netherlands.

8pm Fox Sports News 10:40 L Motorsport – Superbike World Championship TT Assen Circuit. Coverage of race two from The Netherlands.

MONDAY

12:10 L Motorcycling – British Superbikes Brands Hatch Indy.

5am Motorsport – GP2 Series (Replay) Brands Hatch Indy.

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Family Notices 46 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

SMITH, Kenneth Raymond (Ken) – On April 15, 2015, suddenly at Ashburton Hospital aged 54 years. Loved brother and brother in law of Jim and Elaine, Barbara and Phil Gunn, and Heather McLennan, Clarke, father of Corinna and Karl. Thanks to the wonderful staff at Ashburton Hospital and Homecare Services.

Messages to The Smith Family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A farewell service for Ken is to be held at our Chapel Cnr of East and Cox Street Ashburton on MONDAY, April 20 commencing at 11am, followed by a cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

TATTERSON, Robert (Leicester) – On April 15, 2015, suddenly at home, in his 82nd year.

Loved husband of Pam for 57 years. Loved father and father in law of Noel and Allison. Loved grandfather of Sophie. Loved brother and brother in law of Audrey Cromie, and Rex and Noeileen, and Bruce and Pauline Kerr. Messages C/Hall & Co Funeral Directors, 12 High Street, Rangiora, 7400. In accordance with Leicester’s wish a private cremation has been held.

Hall & Co Funeral Directors www.undertaker.co.nz

TATTERSON, Robert Leicester – Passed away suddenly at home in Rakaia, April 15, 2015. Loved son of the late Addie and Wally Tatterson and loved brother of Audrey and the late Don Cromie, Kevin (dec), Rex and Noeileen, Rangiora, Errol (dec), Isobel (dec), and loved uncle of all his nieces and nephews.

Will be sadly missed by everyone.

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ELLIS, Edna – Gaynor, Vivian, Philip, Russell, Grant and families wish to thank everyone for their kindness and support during the sad and sudden loss of a much loved mother and granny. The visits, phone calls, cards, baking and flowers have been much appreciated. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgement from us all.

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MAGUIRE, Lorraine Grace – 8.1.1925 - 22.3.2015.

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BLEE, Dorothy (Joy) – We wish to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who has shown their love, sympathy and support following the loss of our dearly loved Joy / mum / grandma. Our heartfelt thank you to the staff at Coldstream HAMMOND, Alan – House for their sensitivity and 18 April 2014 care. A special thanks to Lois “Today we remember the Ranson for her love and best dad and grandad ever! support and for a beautiful You were THE MAN! service and to the staff at You are always in our Paterson’s for their thoughts...” professionalism and Alana, Keith, Catherine and guidance. The many kind Rebecca Frankum, Ashley, messages, cards, phone calls Joanne, Toni and Michael and food deliveries have Hammond. been greatly appreciated by the family. John, Paul, Alison, Craig and families.

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HAMMOND, Alan – Passed away April 18, 2014.

You float in with the sunshine.

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I know I cannot see you.

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Gone, but not forgotten.

I’ll always keep you dear.

Rona.

HASLETT, Clarice Mary (Mary) – April 19, 2014 Aunty Mary, You left us one year ago, On the April 19.

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) In the final days of your birthday month a New Moon brings a chance to commit to your new solar year, the future and the journey ahead.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) With your birthday month and new solar year kicking off on Monday seize any chance to recharge your batteries and reflect on the past.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) This weekend is all about smart time management as well as knowing when to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to invitations or demands on your time.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) Trust your professional instincts as much as possible, though not instead of a need to keep your eyes open and head out of the sand.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) Embrace the weekend spirit and a sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure, with a big professional week ahead of you come Monday.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) With the Sun leaving your financial sector on Monday a New Moon over the weekend is a chance to take money matters in your own hands.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Having established what you want from your relationships and what they need it is time now to draw a line in the sand and walk the talk.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) With the Sun leaving your work sector on Monday and a New Moon over the weekend it’s time to draw a firm line in the sand, for a fresh start.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) As playful and work forces fight for your attention find a way to keep them happy, finding balance between work and play you can stick at.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) You’ve not only reached an important weekend for home and family matters, but for making a fresh start, decisions or creating new rituals.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) An important weekend for communication is less about anything resolved or what’s being said and more about having the communication lines open.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) While you’ll need to keep your money hat on over the weekend it’s in order to ride the surge from Sunday’s New Moon in your income sector.

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