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Road toll plan falls short – MP

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

A new strategy has been proposed by the Government to reduce the nation’s road toll by 40 per cent within the next decade and local reaction to it has been mixed.

The strategy, named Road to Zero, was released for consultation to the public on Wednesday, and while some local emergency services are welcoming a more preventative approach to road safety, a local MP believes not enough is being done.

The broad-spanning strategy looks to focus on roads, drivers, vehicles, policing and speed cameras.

Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon said everyone agrees with the intent of re-

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ducing the road toll, but that simply reducing speed limits will not be the right way to get there.

“International evidence and the new roads that have been built in New Zealand in the last decade show that the quality of roads has a huge bearing on their safety,” he said.

“The four-lane Waikato Expressway and Tauranga Eastern Link roads are now two of the safest in the country.

“Ashburton to Christchurch is the second most dangerous stretch of highway in the country for fatal crashes and serious injuries, and yet the Government’s programme to reduce road accidents doesn’t mention it at all.”

Local firefighters, who are often the first on the scene of fatal accidents, have

welcomed the new strategy as Fire and Emergency New Zealand itself looks to become more proactive in reducing the road toll.

“The end result is that us and the (St John) ambos tend to be bottom of the cliff stuff tidying up the aftermath, but if we can minimise it before it happens that is a good thing,” Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade chief Alan Burgess said.

Vehicle safety standards are another thing that are set to be assessed under the new strategy.

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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Stampede for Lion King

By Matt Markham

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Local cinema operators are saying hakuna matata (no worries) to an influx of visitors flooding through the doors to watch The Lion King movie which was released yesterday.

The updated version of the 1994 Disney classic officially kicked off in New Zealand yesterday and both Regent Cinema in Ashburton and Cinema Paradiso in Methven were forced to put on extra showings of the movie to cope with demand from the public, a notunheard-of move, but something that doesn’t happen all the time.

“It’s been huge,” Regent Cinema’s David Favel said.

“We were forced to put an extra show for tonight (Wednesday) the interest in the movie has been absolutely massive.

“We did get this kind of interest in Avengers End Game, but mix in the weather and the school holidays and it’s been non-stop that’s for sure.”

While general uptake can be gained in ticket sales, Favel referred to a staple of the movie-going diet, popcorn, as a measure of success.

In an average year of business, his cinema would go through oneand-a-half tonnes of popcorn.

During the first three days of the Avengers movie he sold 150 kilograms of the good stuff.

“I’d predict that even at this early stage we are well on track to get to that mark again with Lion King,

Huge crowds have been flocking to cinemas to watch the new adaptation of the Disney classic, The Lion King. if not more.”

Regent’s main cinema can hold 115 people and all three shows initially scheduled for yesterday were sold out and by early yesterday afternoon there were only half a dozen tickets remaining for the added showing that night.

Couple that with the early success of Toy Story 4 and it’s been a big few weeks.

“A big few weeks yes, but from a business perspective a great few weeks – the demand for movies has had a flow-on effect to other showings, right now as well as having a full room watching the Lion King I’ve got 68 out of a possible 70 seats filled watching Toy Story 4.”

Up the road in Methven, Cinema Paradiso’s Richard Sheppard

has been going non-top too.

With only the one screen in action and a capacity to hold a maximum crowd of 40 people, it’s been a big battle to meet the public demand.

“I don’t even think the final Lord of the Rings movie was this big here to be honest, it’s quite remarkable,” he said.

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four viewings over the weekend and cancelled a couple of other showings to allow it and is showing two sessions of the movie a day. I’m rapt, it’s great – a successful movie like this gives me the potential to get the new seats I’ve been trying to get my hands on for a while.

“It’s busy, but you can’t complain about it.”

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Burgess said while vehicles are now built to a higher standard in terms of safety, the often highspeed impacts that occur in the

district still have a massive impact.

“The high impact nature (of crashes) in our area, things are still going to be messy,” he said.

The road toll in 2018 was 377, while seven people have lost their lives as a result of accidents on Mid Canterbury roads this year.

If the new road safety strategy

is implemented and is successful, that figure will drop to 226 or fewer in 2030, a reduction of 151 deaths nationwide.

Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter said the strategy will follow Sweden’s Vision Zero strategy which seeks to eliminate road deaths.

“The Government has made road safety a top priority and that

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“But we didn’t just want to say it’s a priority, we want a strategy backed up by evidence based action that’s actually going to deliver a sustained and meaningful reduction in deaths and serious injuries on our roads.

“We know that no New Zealander wants or deserves to lose

a loved one on the road.”

Genter said the aim of a 40 per cent reduction in road deaths is long-term and won’t involve short-term goals for reducing road death.

“Over the period of the 10 years that the strategy is in place, we’re expecting that it will save 750 lives, and thousands of serious injuries.”

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Rare items left at St John Shop

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

An influx of personal items that are believed to have been dropped in accidentally to the St John shop have left staff hunting out the owners of the items.

In the past month two birth certificates and an old family photograph have ended up in the possession of the staff, not linked to each other and believed to have been dropped in by accident.

“They were handed in with a bunch of donations, we aren’t sure if they were in the pocket of a jacket or in a wallet or a purse,” store manager Deborah Lysaght said. “We check all of our donations thoroughly and found them. Looking at the age of them they are probably very precious to somebody.”

Fortunately through a Facebook post they believe they will be able to reunite the owner of the birth certificates with the important pieces of paper, but mystery still surrounds the photograph.

“The niece of the gentleman has messaged us saying she believes it belongs to her uncle who is on the birth certificate so she is going to get in touch with him and let him know we have it,” she said.

The photograph, of a photograph, does not contain an exact

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date, but has this message written on the back.

“Taken in Scotland 19, Jean Miller with her three sons, David, Robert and John.”

Lysaght said it was rare for the shop to receive donations with

items like this.

“It is rare, we normally find things you don’t want to find in donations,” she said.

“There are some people out there that are interested in family history and it is rare that these

items all came in in the same month.”

Anyone who believes they may know the story or the owner of the photograph are asked to pop down to the St John Shop on Tancred Street.

Above – Staff at the Ashburton St John Shop Colleen Sweetman and Jan Fitzgerald are hoping to find the rightful owners for a number of special items.

Ashburton CBD makeover work continues to progress Plans for the Ashburton CBD to receive a makeover continue to move forward with detailed design work progressing.

In a statement yesterday the Ashburton District Council announced it has been working through design plans to finalise what the town centre (bordered

by East, Havelock, Moore and Cass streets) might look like following the development of concept plans, community consultation and ongoing engagement with businesses.

And for group manager of

enivronmental services, Jane Donaldson, it’s work intended to future-proof the CBD for years to come.

“We began work on his project in 2017 with the intention of reinforcing the CBD’s importance, reclaiming retail spend and attracting business back into the commerical centre of town,” Donaldson said.

“We understood that to achieve this, this space needed to be vibrant and viable, and this remains the goal for the project.”

A draft concept plan for the

streetscape was adopted in 2018, with community feedback sought the following month with the revised plans adopted in September of last year.

Plans included introducing a 30km/hour speed limit in the area; gateway treatments at the four key entry locations; pursuing the development of laneway connections and landscaping.

“This is a major project that affects infrastructure, activities and features that might not immediately come to mind. For example, we’ve engaged arbo-

rists to assess the condition and lifespan of the trees in the area, conducted a parking survey and carried out a traffic safety audit.

“Although the exciting aspect of the revitalisation might be what’s happening on the surface, there’s actually a lot to do underground to ensure the infrastructure will meet the CBD’s needs years down the track.”

The council has now begun working on a draft construction timetable and will be discussing this with CBD businesses and property owners.

Design plans, available on the council website, feature artists’ impressions of what each street could look like. Plans include cycle paths, shared spaces, new plantings including rain gardens, new street furniture and lighting.

While the design plan currently reflects council’s decision to move the water feature located at East and Tancred streets to the Ashburton Domain, this may change given public interest on the matter and further consideration by council at their upcoming August 15 meeting.

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Winter set to kick in

By Jonathan Leask jonathan@selwynapp.nz

It’s a case of better late then never as forecasters predict winter is finally set to wake up.

Some more traditional winter weather is set to produce a cold and wet few days ahead with South Island skifields set be the main benefactors.

Since an initial hefty snowfall in the first weekend of June it has been a lengthy period of mild weather but the forecast has it crashing to an end.

A colder southerly change and scattered rain swept through the region yesterday, a precursor to a prolonged period of cold southerlies, rain and snow from Friday.

“It’s been an incredibly dry winter so far for parts of the Canterbury Plains but it all changes [yesterday] with our first cold surge of cold air, showers and snow about the higher hills,” Canterbury Weather Updates analyst Russell Voice said.

“We’ll experience a short window of fine weather on Thursday before a bleak end to the week with widespread rain, potentially heavy falls, and significant snowfall about the ranges.

“Out east a colder south-easterly will develop on Friday and persist through the weekend bringing widespread rain and snow about the higher hills.”

Alarm interrupts holiday fun Users of the EA Networks Centre had their afternoon fun disrupted yesterday after an alarm activation in the building.

Swimmers using the pool were handed foil blankets to keep themselves warm as firefighters did their checks of the building and as everyone huddled under the front of the building to hide from the rain. Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Alan Burgess said it appeared a man had been using a grinder too close to fire alarm and had activated it.

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Good results for dancers Local highland dancers have returned from the New Zealand Highland and National Dancing Championships with some outstanding results across a myriad of age groups.

Competing at the new look ASB Theatre in Blenheim late last week and into the weekend, the group were in the middle of the action throughout the championship under the guidance of Julie Hawke and local teacher Leighton Terry.

In the junior divisions, all the locals who competed picked up medals and ribbons.

Tamati Graham was named runner-up champion in the 8-10-year age group and Chloe Graham was third overall in the 10-12-year age group.

The seniors began on Friday and were competing for 10 individual titles and New Zealand rankings.

Highlights from the local performances included 14-year-old Milly Christie winning the Under 16 New Zealand Championship and Seann Triubhas and receiving a ranking of third overall in the Under 16 age group.

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With less than three months before ownership papers are expected to change hands, Timaru’s Muslim residents have turned to the wider community to help raise the remaining funds required to secure the property for their new and impending mosque (Masjid).

Earlier this year, the Timaru Muslim Education Trust, a non-profit charitable organisation, entered into a six-month contract to purchase the former Sacred Heart Parish Centre building on Napier Road.

The property, costing $425,000, has previously been used as a Roman Catholic Church and community centre, with the building

In brief Dog stabber in court A Christchurch man appeared in court yesterday accused of stabbing a dog to death on Tuesday. Neil Harrison, 54, has been charged with wilfully ill-treating a dog by stabbing it “with a knife to the neck and causing it to die”. He was also charged with intending to frighten a woman by threatening to damage a dog. He was arrested Tuesday night and appeared at Christchurch District Court via audiovisual link from custody.

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Ashburton Highland and National Dancing’s senior competitors and teachers (from left): Julie Hawke, Milly Christie, Britney Moore, Eirinn MacLean, Megan Harrison, Charlotte Sloper and Leighton Terry.

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Also competing in the Under 18’s was 17-year-old Eirinn MacNean and 16-year-old Megan Harrison.

Eirinn was awarded a New Zealand ranking of sixth over-

all and Megan was ranked seventh.

Britney Moore, competing for the first time in the 18 and over class, was awarded a national overall ranking of seventh.

able to accommodate up to 200 people and 30 cars on site.

Going forward, the building will be transformed into Timaru’s first Masjid, with donations now being called on to help pay for the building, further renovations, to purchase materials such as prayer mats, Quran and community resources to help teach Islam to interested members of the community.

A fundraising drive has been set up on Launchgood.com, with almost $10,000 of the required $15,000 already pledged as the clock closes in on the July 19 deadline.

“Due to being just near to State Highway One and within the town, this place is going to be very useful for the community to

use as a masjid, an Islamic Education and Community Centre, a place for our children and the wider community to get to understand Islam better,” the page reads.

“We are a small group and to help us realise the completion of the building purchase, we are humbly appealing to our fellow Islamic organisations and community members for your support and financial assistance.”

Timaru is home to around 20 Muslim families, or around 65 individuals counting men, women and children. Recently selected as one of the Government’s refugee resettlement areas, that number is expected to increase to almost double the number of families residing in the region by

the end of 2020, creating more need than ever for a dedicated Masjid.

Until now, it is understood Muslim members of the community have banded together to hire community halls to hold Taraweeh prayers and iftar events – though with the anticipated addition of a mosque in the city, it’s only a matter of time before the Muslim community can lay claim to having not only a dedicated place of worship, but a place to call home.

Donations can be channelled through the Launchgood.com page on; https://www.launchgood.com/project/timaru_masjid_ and_community_centre_1#!/, or by visiting the Timaru Muslim Education Trust Facebook page.

Emergency services went to a house in the Christchurch suburb of Redwood where a person was found dead yesterday afternoon. A member of the public called police after finding the person dead in the house on Momorangi Crescent.

A police spokeswoman said they received the call just before 2pm.

A spokesman for St John said a unit had been called to assist emergency services. At 3.30pm yesterday, a police spokesman told media inquiries were still being made into the incident but it didn’t appear to be suspicious. – NZME

Fresh leads for police Police have received about 50 phone calls since reopening investigations into one of New Zealand’s most puzzling unsolved crimes — the Wellington Trades Hall bombing that killed caretaker Ernie Abbott in 1984. Abbott was killed when he picked up a briefcase containing a bomb that had been rigged to blow once moved. While police have long had their eyes on a key suspect, they have not had sufficient evidence to bring charges. But a newly formed cold case team hopes modern DNA testing can provide them with the crucial evidence to bring the killer to justice.

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Lady Godiva Rotoura police responded to reports of a naked woman driving in a Rotoura car park yesterday afternoon. A police media spokeswoman said police received reports of the woman at 4.10pm.

The spokeswoman said police went to the scene and spoke to the woman and witnesses. MetService recorded the temperature in Rotorua to be 9.9C yesterday.

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Having a say on animal procedures NZME

Rangitata Youth MP Phoebe Scarsbrook and Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon at Parliament.

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Youth MPs tackle Parliament As elected MPs sit back and enjoy a short break from the rigours of life in Parliament during recess, they have opened the doors to allow the next generation of politicians to step into the Beehive and experience the running of the country first-hand.

The Rangitata electorate, typically the domain of National Party member Andrew Falloon, has been in the hands of Phoebe Scarsbrook.

“Phoebe did a superb job representing our area in Youth Parliament,” Falloon said.

“Her speech was excellent, and she made an impressive contribution to the Education and Workforce Select Committee which was considering how our

schools operate.”

Youth Parliament is held every three years to give young people from around the country the opportunity to debate and discuss issues facing them and our country.

“Phoebe was chosen from 17 applicants across Mid and South Canterbury,” he said.

“It’s not just about the two days they sit in Parliament, youth MPs also have a responsibility to engage other young people in the area.”

The electorate is represented by two youth MPs, with Labour List MP Jo Luxton, who is based in the electorate, selecting Jessica Timmo as her representative in the youth parliament.

New Zealanders are being urged to have their say on rules governing surgical procedures on animals before submissions close next week.

The Ministry for Primary Industries is proposing clearer rules about who can do what, looking at regulations to clarify the rules for significant surgical procedures on a wide range of animals.

Deputy director general for regulation and assurance, Bryan Wilson, said it was essential that procedures on animals be carried out by the right people with the right skills and care, to ensure the wellbeing of animals.

“We are proposing clearer rules about who can carry out certain procedures on animals and how they must be done.

“We want to hear from people who work with and care for animals, and anyone else who is interested in animal welfare regulations.”

Public consultation is open with submissions closing on Wednesday, July 24 on proposed regulations under the Animal Welfare Act 1999.

Seven public meetings were held around the country during June and July.

“Animal welfare matters. It’s important to animals, it’s important to people and it’s important to New Zealand,” Wilson said.

“The proposed rules mostly allow competent people to continue doing routine procedures on animals. Some proposals raise the standard.”

To make a submission, find a public meeting or find out more visit www.mpi.govt.nz/animalconsult.

Background to changes Under the Animal Welfare Act 1999 (the Act), ‘significant surgical procedures’ may only be undertaken by a veterinarian (or a veterinary student under the direct supervision of a veterinarian) unless regulations provide otherwise.

From May 2020, new criteria will be brought in to the Act to make it easier to determine whether a procedure is a ‘significant surgical procedure’.

To go with these criteria, MPI is proposing regulations to make it clear who can carry out certain procedures and what requirements must be met.

MPI says it is seeking submissions on the proposed regulations and asking general questions to do with the proposals on issues such as compliance and enforcement.

MPI says it wants to understand the possible impacts, benefits and costs of the proposals to animals and the people who work with and care for them.

Where the proposed regulations will mean changes to current practice, it wants to hear whether a lead-in time is necessary.

THE PROPOSED REGULATIONS ■■ Continue allowing competent non-veterinarians to undertake some procedures, with certain conditions ensuring proper skill and care – an example is treating sheep vaginal prolapses (bearings) ■■ Confirm that some procedures must only be carried out by a veterinarian – an example is castrating donkeys ■■ Confirm that some procedures are prohibited meaning no one, not even a veterinarian, can perform them – an example is cropping dogs’ ears to make them stand up ■■ Require that for specified procedures, suitable pain relief must be used – an example is disbudding goats.

Towel used as toilet paper by break-in teen NZME A 17-year-old defecated on a toilet lid in a property then sought out towels belonging to the victim, a recent former tenant of the property, and used them to wipe herself.

The case of Tabitha Janine Shaw, of Cromwell, came before Judge Michael Turner in the Alexandra District Court yesterday.

Shaw was charged with committing an indecent act with intent to offend, in Cromwell on April 6.

She was also jointly charged with Kaylum John Halliwell, also 17 and of Cromwell, of entering a building without authority and with intent to commit an imprisonable offence in that building.

The pair had gained access through a broken window to the property, from which the victim had recently been evicted by Halliwell’s family because of damage he had caused to the property.

The victim had re-varnished and painted the property, but Shaw and Halliwell scraped the fresh paint in four bedrooms, the

hall and the kitchen, police prosecutor sergeant Grant Gerken said.

Shaw then defecated on the toilet lid and used towels belonging to the victim to wipe herself.

The pair also ripped the pages from a bible belonging to the victim.

Counsel for Shaw, Kieran Tohill, who was also acting on behalf of Halliwell’s counsel, entered guilty pleas for the pair but said through counsel they would both apply for a discharge without conviction.

They were remanded until November 19.

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Community helps with dying mum’s final wishes

By Belinda Feek

Left – Litisha Cleave (right) with fiancé Riki.

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Litisha Cleave is busily buying each of her two young daughters birthday presents.

She’s buying her girls, Lylah Boyle, 3, and Hazel Boyle, 4, presents for every year up until their 21st birthdays as they’re birthdays she won’t be able to spend with them.

In May this year, Cleave not only turned 30 but she was informed the breast cancer discovered a year earlier was now terminal.

Not only was it a shock to herself and her family, but also medical staff, who were surprised given her young age.

She has been given six months to live.

Faced with a limited future, Cleave said she’s trying to keep positive and spend as much time with her daughters and fiancé, Riki, as she can.

But one of her most important wishes before she dies is to marry her fiancé who proposed to her on the tram in Christchurch in 2017.

Close family friend Lisa Attewell didn’t muck about in getting it sorted. The creation of a givealittle page last month has since led to a flood of donations from friends, businesses and others not only in Christchurch, but also in Nelson-Marlborough and around the country.

The response has floored

Cleave who, not wanting to forget anyone or leave them out, wanted to thank those who had contributed.

“Everyone has made it possible and now I am able to get married [on July 27]. It’s amazing. I don’t even know how to thank everyone because it’s just so big.

“I feel like I’ve won Lotto but yet I’m dying, it’s really mixed emotions. I actually feel lucky that I have this time to know that I’m dying and to prepare myself, my family and my kids.

“It’s so unreal.”

She is currently buying her children birthday presents; some-

thing special they could open for each year until they’re 21.

As for her diagnosis, Cleave said it was the last thing she’d expected.

She was an avid gymgoer, was into weights and boot camps, and when she first felt the lumps – one on each breast – she thought it was muscle from her workouts.

“I didn’t expect it, I’d just turned 30 ... the kids were going to daycare, everything was good, I was doing some boot camps and weightlifting and I did feel these lumps come up.

“I would compare them in the shower, and they were always in

the same place on each side.”

The lump on her right side was slightly bigger but, being her dominant side, she figured it made sense given her gym work.

However, after a few months she started getting unusually tired and wasn’t feeling herself.

The Plunket health worker went to her GP, who sent her off for an ultrasound just in case.

The first lump appeared fine but the second caused concern.

Twenty-four hours later she was told to come back in with a support person.

A year on, she was then told that the cancer had travelled to her lymph nodes.

She’s since had them removed but opted not to have further chemotherapy as she wants to spend more quality time with her family, especially her two daughters.

She said she and Riki, a Taranaki man who moved to Christchurch after the earthquakes, met six years ago in the small South Canterbury town of Waimate.

The pair had been inseparable since.

Being able to marry him in front of their children was at the top of her bucket list.

The couple will get married on July 27.

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Blogger ordered to attend court NZME The bankruptcy of former blogger Cameron Slater has not allowed him to slip free of a defamation case over claims he took money to write blog posts attacking health professionals.

The High Court at Auckland has told Slater, who had a stroke in November, his bankruptcy does not impact on his obligation to obey court orders and submit to examination over his role in the alleged campaign.

Instead, Slater has to prove he is too medically unwell to turn up to court to answer questions.

The ruling is the latest turn in a defamation case which came out of the 2014 book Dirty Politics, which alleged Slater wrote blog posts attacking health academics for cash.

The defamation case sees Slater accused of being paid to write blog posts by former National Party MP Katherine Rich, who is the chief executive of the Food and Grocery Council.

The case alleges Carrick Graham, who does public relations and lobbying, of being the conduit through which Slater was paid.

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Road to Zero plan outlined by govt NZME The Automobile Association is welcoming the Government’s road safety vision for zero road deaths, but says it will need billions of dollars to realise.

National Party leader Simon Bridges says the government is ignoring the single best thing it could do, which would be to invest in its Roads of National Significance projects.

Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter yesterday morning released the Road to Zero strategy for public consultation.

It is based on the principle that one road death is too many, and aims to cut road deaths by 40 per cent in the next decade.

Fines could also be reviewed, and even lowered, if the evidence showed that they played a trivial role in reducing road harm.

AA spokesman Mike Noon said it was a “comprehensive and ambitious” strategy that targeted all the right things.

“It will need a lot of investment.

Substantial investment,” he added, noting the government’s $1.4 billion announcement last year to make 870km of high volume, highrisk State Highways safer by 2021.

“Just lowering the speed limit on a road doesn’t necessarily deliver the benefits you want and the speed reductions you want.

Julie Anne Genter You need to do engineering to that road. A crash at 80km/h is still a very serious crash if the road is not safe.

“If you have ditches, poles, trees, and culverts, even at 80km/h the infrastructure is not protecting if a driver makes a mistake. And drivers will make mistakes.”

Many roads needed to be improved, such as State Highway 58, the most dangerous road in the Wellington region.

“It has been a black collective risk (many injuries and deaths) for over a decade. It was supposed to be upgraded by 2020 and it has not been funded yet.”

He said the vehicle fleet also needed to be made safer, even if that led to a “small risk” that some drivers would keep their cars for longer.

He also welcomed the review of

fines to balance penalties and enforcement.

“The previous approach to speed cameras has been a covert model. That’s not actually slowing people down. It’s just ticketing people.

“This strategy follows the overt, Swedish model. We work out where there is a problem with speed, and we signpost that area to say there is camera enforcement, so people know they need to slow down.”

He noted the government’s stated intention to drop speed limits on 10 per cent of the country’s most dangerous roads.

At the last election National promised eight roading projects but the government has dismissed them as a wishlist that was never budgeted for.

But Bridges said investing in those roads was the most important safety action the government could take.

One of them, the highway north of his Tauranga electorate, was one of the most dangerous highways in New Zealand, he said.

“A four-lane highway would have meant people no longer died.

It was set to start last year, and these guys canned it.

“We would rather see our tax dollars spent on new, high-quality roads that are safe to travel on at 100km/h.”

Noon had some sympathy for

ROAD TO ZERO STRATEGIES ■■ Improving infrastructure of existing roads ■■ Making it easier for councils to change speed limits ■■ Reviewing driver licensing and Warrant of Fitness systems ■■ Setting safety standards for imported cars, and making ABS brakes mandatory for motorbikes over 125cc ■■ Having more police on the roads, with more overt speed cameras.

Bridges, saying the government could follow through with its safety plans as well as invest in the RONS. “Three of those are among the highest-risk roads. They need to be funded, and they’re not funded at the moment.

“There is absolutely a place for four-lane motorways that carry a lot of traffic and freight.”

The Motor Trade Association welcomed the government’s draft strategy and its focus on vehicle safety.

“First-time WoF fails have increased from 35 per cent to 40 per cent in the last five years,” MTA chief executive Craig Pomare said.

“Our research also shows around half of vehicle owners do nothing to check and maintain their vehicle between WOFs. A third don’t know what the minimum safe tyre tread depth is.

“These statistics tell us people are not focused on the safety and maintenance of their cars. However, maintenance is fundamental to road safety.”

New Zealand driver safety advocate and motor sport legend Greg Murphy said that better driver training was crucial to lowering the road toll, which last year was 377.

“Yes people make mistakes, but the consequences of making mistakes in reality can be fatal, if they have been taught what to do when mistakes happen, or better still have training that creates better awareness so mistakes aren’t happening as much, they have a far better chance of survival.

“You can’t gain experience if you are dead.”

The consultation period will run for four weeks, closing on August 14.

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Building collapses in India

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AP Rescuers cleared debris and used sniffer dogs yesterday to find possible survivors under the rubble of a dilapidated building that collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai.

At least 12 people were killed, and several are still feared trapped.

Dozens of rescuers worked overnight at the site where they have pulled out 11 survivors since the four-storey building collapsed Tuesday, fire official Ashok Talpade said early yesterday. The survivors included a child who was treated at a hospital and later allowed to go home. Others remain hospitalised.

A 16-year-old girl trapped under a heavy door was taken out by rescuers who cut through iron beams and cleared debris using hydraulic cutters.

The lane where the collapse occurred is too narrow for rescue vehicles, so equipment was carried by hand. People also formed a human chain to remove debris.

Heavy monsoon rains fall in India from June to September,

Winslet ‘I’m an immigrant’

Rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India. causing severe flooding and collapsing poorly built and dilapidated structures.

At least four other collapses have occurred this month in Mumbai and another western city, Pune, killing at least 31 people. On Sunday, a building

collapse in the northern town of Solan killed 14 people.

Maharashtra state’s top elected official, Devendra Fadanavis, said the building that collapsed Tuesday was nearly 100 years old and 15 families were living there.

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Talpade said the families had stayed after being asked to leave. Waris Pathan, an opposition lawmaker, said the building was a death trap, with authorities saying they had no money to rebuild the structure.

Marshall Islands worse than Chernobyl NZME New research shows a tiny island halfway between Australia and Hawaii has concentrations of nuclear material up to 1000 times higher than at Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Research carried out by Columbia University and published this week shows deadly plutonium levels are far higher than previously thought on the Marshall Islands.

The group of 29 atolls was subject to 67 US nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, with locals forced to flee as the country dropped bomb after bomb in paradise.

The United States entombed nuclear waste under a dome on the island of Runit that some believe is leaking into the Pacific Ocean. However the real impact of the contamination is only now being realised.

Researchers wrote that two atolls, Bikini and Enewetak, “were used as ground zero” and took the brunt of the impact.

On Enewetak, the first-ever hydrogen bomb was tested.

But Bikini was the site of the world’s largest-ever hydrogen bomb test – known as Castle Bravo.

The tests, researchers say, “caused unprecedented envi-

ronmental contamination and, for the indigenous peoples of the islands, long-term adverse health effects”.

Researchers tested levels of radioactive isotopes in soil and food sources and found “a real concern” on Runit where the huge dome was designed to contain radiation but is not working.

“The presence of radioactive isotopes on the Runit Island is a real concern, and residents should be warned against any use of the island,” researchers said.

On Bikini, researchers found concentrations of particular radioactive material “were up

to 15-1000 times higher than in samples from areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters”.

Though residents were banished from the Marshall Islands during the height of the Cold War, many have returned.

The population of the Marshall Islands is around 70,000 people, with local Marshallese people allowed to live and work in the US without a visa as part of the reparations for the nuclear testing that took place.

Over a third have already moved to the US. It is said when you leave the Marshall Islands, you buy a one-way ticket.

Kate Winslet has told of her relief at discovering that her ancestors were peasants, saying she would have been “upset and disgusted” to have come from wealth. The actress contacted the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? programme and asked to be featured because she wanted to know more about her heritage.

She learned that her maternal greatgreat-grandfather came to the UK from Sweden in 1884 to work as a tailor, a fact which “basically means I’m an immigrant”. Winslet said “My roots are socialist, working class and, in a funny way, my parents frowned upon the wealthy.”

GoT, Netflix in Emmys hunt Game of Thrones and Netflix are tipped

by TV industry watchers to dominate Tuesday’s Emmy nominations as Hollywood gears up for awards season.

The Television Academy’s 24,000 members sifted through a record number of entries for this year’s Emmys, the small-screen equivalent of the Oscars.

After nominations are announced finalround voting will begin to pick winners who will be revealed at a glitzy Los Angeles show on September 22. The Emmys only recognise shows that were on in the 12 months to May 31. That means several big hitters are absent, including The Handmaid’s Tale.

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A not-so-well-disguised cocaine story ZME

A photo of the detained man including his toupee.

PHOTO NZME

Drug traffickers have resorted to many crafty, hard-to-detect methods of disguising what they are up to.

This is not one of those stories.

Spanish police Tuesday announced the arrest of a Colombian man whose idea of hiding half a kilogram of cocaine was to put the package, a several centimetres thick, on top of his head and cover it with an oversized toupee.

The man, whose identity was not revealed, was detained last month at Barcelona’s airport after he landed on

a flight from Bogotá. He attracted the attention of airport police officers both because he appeared nervous and because of the size of the bulging hairpiece that he wore under a hat, according to Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

The national police tweeted photos of the suspect, a 65-year-old man, Tuesday.

A large grey lump, apparently wrapped in cellophane, was perched atop his mostly bald head – one image showed him with the toupee balanced precariously over his head, and one without.

The tweet said, “detained in Barcelona with drugs in his

toupee,” but it could not be verified whether the package in the photos was a stand-in for the illicit cargo – which police said had a street value that could exceed 30,000 euros.

Authorities did not immediately comment on the man’s whereabouts or say why the arrest had not been announced earlier.

The Spanish police have long been on the lookout for so-called mules, who are often ordinary people selected by criminal networks to transport cocaine and other illegal products on their behalf, mostly originating from Latin America.

No driving for Whoopi Whoopi Goldberg is unable to drive because her “sight is not good enough”.

The View star – who suffered from pneumonia and sepsis earlier this year – has revealed she has a permanent driver now as she is not allowed behind the wheel. Speaking on the daytime show, she said: “I have a driver. The reason I have a driver is because I am not allowed to drive. My sight is not good enough, people get nervous when I get behind the wheel. So, I am not allowed to really drive.” The 63-year-old actress feels “very, very lucky” to be alive after being hospitalised for almost a month.

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Climate targets will hurt economy

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The only way to meet the Government’s proposed targets for greenhouse gas emissions is by reducing stock numbers, said Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury president David Clark.

And that, he said, would cost the country tens of billions of dollars in lost production, with negative spin-offs for rural districts like Ashburton.

Clark said farmers know they need to play their part in tackling climate change, but want the solutions to be based on sound science with all sectors of society making a fair and equal contribution.

The Government is considering a proposal from the Interim Climate Change Commission for agriculture to come into the Emissions Trading Scheme as opposed to allowing the rural sector to manage its own way into the scheme over the next five years.

Both plans are out now for public consultation.

Clark said the wider Mid Canterbury community would be affected and farmer livelihoods would be affected.

He said methane, a short-life gas emitted by livestock, was a distraction in the discussion as the country continued to rely on fossil fuels to power the transport sector, which had doubled carbon dioxide emissions since 1990.

Clark is also worried the emission-reduction policy, along with new rules around freshwater, land use and banking, are undermining confidence in the agricultural sector.

“Debt levels are high and farmers are struggling to be viable in business.”

He said while farmers were changing practices to reduce methane and other greenhouse gas emissions, others in the community needed to look at their

own households and work out what they were going to do to reduce carbon emissions.

Federated Farmers said the Action on Agricultural Emissions discussion paper released this week for consultation is a positive first step as farmers and the Government hammered out a practical path to reduce livestock greenhouse gas emissions.

“We are agreed that a priority is to find a workable and affordable way that farmers can measure

emissions and sinks at the farm level, and to adopt practices and any new technologies that will help drive down methane and nitrous oxide emissions,” climate change spokesman Andrew Hoggard said.

“Where we differ is that the Government keeps emphasising pricing as the predominant tool. Federated Farmers does not agree with universal pricing of methane. The ETS has failed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

from transport – in fact, transport emissions have near doubled since 1990. Universal pricing of methane will be similarly unsuccessful.

“What Federated Farmers has committed to is working with the Government to design a pricing mechanism where any price is part of a broader framework to support on-farm practice change.

Such pricing would be set at the margin; that is, only applying to methane emissions over the 0.3 per cent per annum reductions that science tells us is enough to ensure methane no longer adds to global warming.”

Hoggard said New Zealand farmers were proud to be among the most efficient producers in the world and, unlike many of their overseas competitors, were largely unsubsidised.

If New Zealand’s milk and meat export volumes reduced as a result of lower on-farm production, the gap would be filled by less efficient producers, he said.

“So any pricing should only be a tool to incentivise farmers into taking up economically viable opportunities to cut methane, just as the Government might use incentives or a nudge to encourage people to switch to an electric vehicle.

New technologies, breeding low-emission animals and selecting low-emission feeds are options being explored, but they are not yet commercially available.

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Prices lift at dairy auction NZME Dairy product prices rose 2.7 per cent at the latest Global Dairy Trade auction after four consecutive declines.

The average price was $US3412 a tonne, compared with $US3302 a tonne two weeks ago.

Some 25,000 tonnes of product was sold, up from 24,711 tonnes two weeks ago.

“This follows four consecutive decreases in the index and was likely linked to tighter global milk supplies with demand at this event firming for milk powder, milk fats and cheese,” NZX dairy analysts Robert Gibson and Amy Castleton said in a note.

“Milk powder prices strengthened in response to stronger demand from Southeast Asian countries and the Middle East.”

Whole milk powder prices – which have the greatest bearing on Fonterra’s farmgate milk price – leapt 3.6 per cent to $US3074 a tonne.

“This was the first lift in average prices for whole milk powder since March,” according to Gibson and Castleton. Price levels lifted across all delivery dates out to December, with stronger increases for November and December delivery dates, up 4.0 per cent and 4.1 per cent respectively, the analysts noted.

Among the other so called “reference” products from which the milk price is calculated, skim milk powder prices rose 3.8 per cent to $US2505.

Butter prices rose 1.7 per cent to $US4406/tonne while anhydrous milkfat rose 1.7 per cent to $US5523/tonne.

The New Zealand dollar traded at US67.01c as of 3.44pm on Tuesday in New York, compared with US67.19c at the previous close in Wellington.

There were 116 winning bidders out of 174 participating at the 13-round auction.

The number of registered bidders was 512, up from 509 at the previous auction.

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OUR VIEW

Road to Zero – is it really enough?

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new strategy and hopefully a much better result.

That’s the best we can hope for from the Road to Zero strategy which was released for consultation yesterday by the government in an effort to reduce the road toll in New Zealand by 40 per cent within the next 10 years.

And while anything that is done to try and limit the amount of tragedy on our roads is a positive step, unfortunately the onus on that very matter often sits a lot closer to home.

Government and agencies can push as much information and resource into a campaign or project as they like but, at the end of the day, they can’t solve the entire

problem unless the mindset around so many of us who use our roads changes significantly.

We can sit back, following a fatal death, and blame any number of factors for being the cause of the problem. Whether it be road conditions, signage or speed limits, but ultimately the responsibility is ours as users of the road.

We might like to claim that we

are good drivers and that we don’t get distracted by what’s happening around us and that we pay full attention to the road when at the steering wheel but the stark and harsh truth is that we don’t.

Our road toll statistics put us up there as some of the worst drivers in the modern world. The number of people killed on our roads each year is horrific and, unless we come to the understanding that the biggest factor in contributing to that grim number is ourselves, then we’re not going to get anywhere.

I could almost guarantee that if I jumped in the car right now and took a drive around the district I’d see at least one example of someone doing something ridic-

ulously stupid that could end up causing an accident and at worst, ending their’s, or someone else’s, life.

And that shouldn’t be able to happen.

There’s no doubt that some comments made by MP Andrew Falloon yesterday in relation to the release of the project have plenty of merit, but again, unless we start looking at things a little more pragmatically than playing the blame game we won’t get anywhere.

I’d love to see our roads become some of the best and safest roads in the world and any steps that can be taken to do that again is a positive step forward, but perhaps the move should be to

put in place stricter rules around driving habits in New Zealand.

That could start with something as simple as harsher fines for speeding, or using a cell phone while driving. It’s not the golden egg that will solve everything, but it would seem to be a good start because anything that can act as a deterrent will create a positive result.

Last year our road toll ended at 377, as of today it sits at 206 with five and a half months remaining in the calendar year. The odds are heavily stacked in favour of seeing the 2018 statistics well and truly surpassed.

Drastic times often call for drastic measures, but is Road to Zero really enough?

In 1986, the world got its first look at the wreckage of the RMS Titanic resting on the ocean floor as videotape of the British luxury liner, which sank in 1912, was released by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

In 1990, Dr Karl Menninger, the dominant figure in American psychiatry for six decades, died in Topeka, Kansas, four days short of his 97th birthday.

In 1994, a bomb hidden in a van destroyed a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85. Tutsi rebels declared an end to Rwanda’s 14-week-old civil war.

In 2013, once the very symbol of American industrial might, Detroit became the biggest US city to file for bankruptcy, its finances ravaged and its neighbourhoods hollowed out by a long, slow decline in population and

auto manufacturing.

Ten years ago: The Taliban posted a video of an American soldier who’d gone missing June 30, 2009 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured; in the recording, the soldier said he was “scared I won’t be able to go home.”

Five years ago: The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting a day after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with the loss of all 298 people on board, demanding that pro-Russia rebels who controlled the eastern Ukraine crash site give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators.

One year ago: The 12 Thai youth soccer teammates and their coach who were trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand for more than two weeks were released

from the hospital.

Today’s birthdays: Skating champion and commentator Dick Button is 90. Movie director Paul Verhoeven is 81. Musician Brian Auger is 80. Singer Dion DiMucci is 80. Actor James Brolin is 79. Singer Martha Reeves is 78.

Pop-rock musician Wally Bryson is 70. Country-rock singer Craig Fuller is 70. Business mogul Richard Branson is 69. Actress Margo Martindale is 68. Singer Ricky Skaggs is 65. Actress Audrey Landers is 63. World Golf Hall of Famer Nick Faldo is 62.

Rock musician Nigel Twist is 61.

Actress Anne-Marie Johnson is 59. Actress Elizabeth McGovern is 58. Rock musician John Hermann is 57. Rock musician Jack Irons is 57. Actor Vin Diesel is 52. Actor Grant Bowler is 51. Bluegrass musician Jesse Brock (The Gibson Brothers) is 47. Alt-country singer

Elizabeth Cook is 47. Actor Eddie Matos is 47. Dance music singersongwriter M.I.A. is 44. Rock musician Daron Malakian is 44.

Actress Elsa Pataky is 43. Rock musician Tony Fagenson is 41.

Movie director Jared Hess is 40.

Actor Jason Weaver is 40. Actress Kristen Bell is 39. Actor Michiel Huisman is 38. Rock singer Ryan Cabrera is 37. Actress Priyanka Chopra is 37. Christian-rock musician Aaron Gillespie is 36.

Actor Chace Crawford is 34. Actor James Norton is 34. Musician Paul Kowert is 33. Actor Travis Milne is 33. Bluegrass musician Joe Dean Jr. (is 30.

Thought for today: “Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?” – William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (born this date in 1811, died 1863).

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Matt Markham

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, July 18, the 199th day of 2019. There are 166 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On July 18, 1969, Sen Edward M Kennedy, left a party on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha’s Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne, 28; some time later, Kennedy’s car went off a bridge into the water. Kennedy was able to escape, but Kopechne drowned.

On this date: In AD 64, the Great Fire of Rome began, consuming most of the city for about a week.

In 1855, New Zealand’s first postage stamps went on sale.

In 1863, during the Civil War, Union troops spearheaded by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of black soldiers, charged Confederate-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island, S.C. The Confederates were able to repel the Northerners, who suffered heavy losses.

In 1918, South African anti-apartheid leader and president Nelson Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo.

In 1940, the Democratic National Convention at Chicago Stadium nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office; earlier in the day, Eleanor Roosevelt spoke to the convention, becoming the first presidential spouse to address such a gathering.

In 1944, Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War Two. American forces in France captured the Normandy town of St. Lo. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed a Presidential Succession Act which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.

In 1984, gunman James Huberty opened fire at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, California, killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.

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believe that all societies should be measured by the way in which they look after the interests of their youngest and oldest citizens.

Our ageing population is a great achievement.

A growing number of older people are healthier, more educated, and more skilled.

These skills, as you’ll well know, don’t just disappear overnight once you turn 65.

Throughout Mid Canterbury there are many older people doing amazing things. Contributing as leaders, volunteers, mentors, caregivers, parents, grandparents, employers, workers, friends and colleagues ... the list goes on!

I had a wonderful visit at Methven House at the beginning of this parliamentary recess two weeks ago.

We didn’t talk politics or legislation or policy, we just chatted

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about this, that and everything in between.

It was wonderful to learn that Mrs Body had the first rotary milking shed in Ashburton!

The coalition government’s Wellbeing Budget delivered a focus of improving the wellbeing of all New Zealanders and their families – and that includes you.

Along with the Winter Energy payment, which started earlier this year, previously we have made doctors’ visits cheaper for around 310,000 superannuitants who have a Community Services Card, and increased

the maximum amount paid to the 42,000 more experienced Kiwis who receive an accommodation supplement.

You will also see benefits from our improvements to the SuperGold Card.

By the end of 2019 we will have improved access to the SuperGold Card, and an easy to use app and website, showing you exactly where the card is accepted.

We are committed to helping seniors on fixed incomes to stretch the dollar further, so you can buy the goods and services you need.

If the thought of an app or website scares you, don’t worry, you’re not alone.

We are aware that our ageing population and increasing technology change means that some older people who no longer work are getting left behind.

That’s why the Wellbeing

Budget is investing in ensuring all senior Kiwis can keep up with their friends and family via digital mediums.

We are doing this by funding more community organisations to help seniors use and keep up with digital technology, and also ensuring that seniors are not at a disadvantage as over-thecounter services are reduced.

These are just some of the ways that this coalition government is looking after the interests of our older people.

We are getting on with the job of doing just that.

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■■WESTLAND DAIRY COMPANY

Creditors call for action on OIO process

By Andrea Fox NZME

An Overseas Investment Office loophole which has allowed Kiwi money to be used to help fund Westland dairy company’s sale to a Chinese conglomerate must be closed, says a group fighting for the release of up to $11 million caught up in the deal.

And Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor agrees the OIO process around the Westland sale “raises a number of questions that need answering”.

Pete Williams, spokesman for a group of former Westland farmers owed share redemption capital and now considered unsecured creditors, said the OIO couldn’t help them get the sale delayed until they got their money, but they won’t give up fighting for an important principle.

“Something needs to be done where the OIO sits relative to this loophole whereby smart lawyers can achieve the use of Kiwi money to essentially fund a foreign acquisition. It’s absolutely wrong,” Williams said.

Westland is a distressed sale.

The $588m deal only now needs a tick from the High Court, having achieved OIO approval and the support of Westland’s 400-or so farmer-owners.

O’Connor said a Government review of the OIO and its processes was under way.

“I, along with thousands of others on the West Coast and across New Zealand share their [the group’s] frustration with the outcome of the Westland sale.”

Williams said the group would approach O’Connor and NZ First to try to escalate their issue, and was considering legal action with an approach to a QC. He said Westland owed about $11m to farmers who had exited the company before the sale. His group had grown to now comprise about two-thirds of the total number of farmers owed share redemption money. Most had left Westland a year or more ago.

Before the shareholder vote earlier this month, the group unsuccessfully asked the OIO to delay or block the sale until they got their money, which is being held by Westland due to its

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constitutional edict that exiting shareholders could wait up to five years for the return of share capital. This was to protect Westland’s balance sheet against a run of share redemption demands.

The Westland board has refused to pay them out despite the sale. Williams said the group had approached Yili and had received a one-line response deferring to the Westland board. He said Westland had not communicated with the group at all during the sale process.

When approached by the Her-

ald, Yili, which owns the Oceania dairy company in South Canterbury, said its managers were unavailable.

Westland chairman Pete Morrison, a major shareholder, said he “didn’t feel the need at all” to communicate with the group.

“I have talked to Pete Williams but only because he rang me. The law is very clear. They are unsecured creditors. Yili has bought the company and all its assets and liabilities and they will pay that liability when it falls due.

“They left the company. They

knew the rules when they left, that they would get their money in five years. That’s still the case.

Nothing has changed.”

Morrison said he didn’t know when Yili would pay the farmers.

“They will pay them when it falls due, I’m sure of that. They are in a better position now as unsecured creditors than they were if we’d continued to stand alone [as a cooperative].”

Williams said the Yili conglomerate, reportedly Chinese stateowned, did not need the farmers’ money.

“The cost to Yili is nothing. It’s fundamentally wrong that they [the dealmakers] are using our money and using the constitution against us. They’re using creditors and five years’ interest free credit to help fund an acquisition.”

Yili offered struggling Westland farmers $3.41 a share. Independent advisor Grant Samuel valued the shares at between 88c and $1.37. Yili will pay shareholders $242m with the rest of the purchase price being assumption of Westland’s liabilities and high debt.

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Warning to Netflix users

By Cameron Smith NZME

An Auckland Netflix customer says he is furious with the streaming giant after they refused him a refund despite being repeatedly charged twice in the same month and is warning other users to check their bank statements.

Mark told the Herald his wife was going over the couple’s Visa statements for the month of May when she first noticed two Netflix charges for the one month.

Both charges were for $18.49, with a rogue payment appearing on May 22 from Netflix New Zealand and the other, the usual monthly one, on May 30 from Netflix Los Gatos.

After contacting Netflix about the problem, Mark said he was credited back the $18.49 and told it wouldn’t happen again.

But when looking over their Visa statement yesterday for the month of June, two charges to Netflix appeared yet again.

In addition to the monthly charge from Netflix Los Gatos for $18.49 on June 30, a second charge from Netflix.com Amsterdam for 550 Philippines peso ($NZ16.23) also appeared on June 26.

Mark told the Herald he contacted Netflix yesterday about the second incident, but this time was told by a customer service representative that they couldn’t refund him as the rogue payment was outside the period of being able to do so.

“Last time this happened they said it wouldn’t happen again, but it has and it now means we don’t trust Netflix and their payment systems. The extra payment was listed on the statement as being a charge from Netflix even though it

was from a different region and in a different currency.

“It’s left a sour taste in our mouths. We like Netflix but are now considering canning it as it is no longer safe to pay the subscription by credit card,” Mark said.

Mark said Netflix users should check their statements regularly.

“If people are paying Netflix by credit card they need to check their statements regularly because somehow double-up charges are occurring or people are able to hack into your account and use your credit card number. Whether they are using it to pay for their own Netflix accounts or just skimming money, we don’t know and Netflix is not forthcoming in giving out any information about what is happening,” Mark said.

Netflix has not responded to the Herald’s request for comment.

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Club news 14 Ashburton Guardian Ashburton Combined Friendship Club July 9 meeting July 16 winter lunch at Stables. Full day trip to the Geraldine area on Tuesday August 20. Cost $25 per person plus lunch. A new member was inducted.

Instead of a mini speaker we had a quiz written by Alister and compered by Errol.

Main speaker Errol learned to fly at the Rangiora Aero Club. His first solo flight was interesting. The windsock indicated nor-east conditions on the ground but at higher altitude the nor-west caused him to overshoot and go around again before he was able to land.

Errol then humorously recounted three dramatic aviation incidents where he was a passenger.

He was with another novice pilot making touch and go circuits when the motor stopped. They landed safely on a shingle bank in the river, but the plane was worse for wear.

When flying from Nelson to Rangiora in a twin engine plane with a more experienced pilot, the weather packed in and the pilot decided to fly at very low altitude under the cloud and over the sea. One motor stopped but the lightly loaded plane was able to fly on.

Years later he was flying to Palmerston North as one of 11 passengers in an Eagle Air Bandeirante, when as they prepared to land, Air Traffic Control noticed a wheel missing and alerted the pilot.

The plane had to burn off fuel before making a perfect wheels up landing.

Errol is now able to humorously relate the reactions of some of his fellow passengers. A business colleague of Errol’s happened to have a bottle of champagne and next day the local paper had a front page photo of Errol and his friend celebrating their good fortune.

Meetings second Tuesday of month, Seniors Centre 206 Cameron St, 9.30am. Visitors welcome. Phone Alister 307 1207. ashcomboclub@gmail. com

Ashburton Creative Fibre Open Day preparations are under way with organising all aspects and anyone who has contributions please contact the president so she can add you to the list.

Ladies will be at the Back to Basics event and anyone who would like to be there in any capacity are welcome so bring your knitting needles or spinning wheel, etc.

Ashburton Electronic Organ and Keyboard July club night Don played us in at the conclusion of a bitterly cold July day, but that didn’t stop us turning out. Well done Don. John welcomed everyone and reminded us of coming dates and practices.

Honestly, some of us, by the time this week comes to a close, have been out with our instruments and voices 3 or 4 times.

The mid-winter dinner was a huge success. The meal was delicious, thanks to Sandy, and the entertaining spot on (all our own too).

Rose is looking for another keyboard.

A small version of the Yamaha 1500 would be nice. Must be USB friendly.

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Audrey’s singing group, no practice for the next two Thursdays.

Our programme for the evening was organised by Teresa O’Connell. First and last for the evening was Barbara’s dance band, who play at the MSA a couple of times a year and they are so good to listen to. Our very own dance band. Thank you, Barbara, Rose, Janet, Irene, and Robin.

Maybe one night we could have a demo with a couple of our dancers in real dance regalia.

Lorrainne Boud then stepped up and rattled away about 20 songs without pausing for a crotchet or quavery breath.

She is an amazing ear player and just uses titles. Well done Lorrainne.

Then Irene and Cushla, on accordion gave us a super bracket of songs in two parts. Gosh it was nice. Tulips from Amsterdam was lovely.

The skiffle group then sang, shook and strummed their hearts out. Gee there’s some nice songs around.

Ann on piano gave us three lovely pieces. Queen’s We are the champions, In the garden, How great Thou art. Then the band completed the night’s entertainment.

Well done Teresa, and congrats to those who took away the super raffle prizes, and thank you to those who served supper.

Ashburton Golf Club Two great finals last Saturday in the Presidents Trophy and Plate.

Vince Carr proved too strong for Paddy, the big lad did his best shooting under his handicap but Vince was on fire shooting a nett 66 and taking it out on the 16th.

Alan White shot a great net 67 while giving Chris Robertson a beating in the plate. Chris was 5 down early but fought back bravely to finally lose on the 17th. Well done to Vince and Allan two very worthy winners.

It’s only a quick column this week and will be nothing next week as I am sulking from defeat and heading over to Aussie to recover.

This Saturday is the rearranged Don Houghton memorial Irish Stableford game. Please come down for a game everyone welcome, come and remember one of our great old members.

Saturday week is club champs qualifying round four, this is when the grades get set for this year’s champs, it’s sure to be a busy day.

Three of us went to meet with the Aorangi board on Tuesday evening to put our proposal to them to host the 2021 Men’s National Interprovincial tournament at the Brandon course.

We are up against two very strong contenders in Timaru and Methven, but we put a very good proposal forward and I hope Bruce can give some good news at the weekend.

Whichever club gets it, I am sure they will put on a great tournament and it will be great to see all the best golfers in the country plying their trade in the Aorangi district.

Sponsors news, Braided Rivers has changed hands from great sponsors of the club Mike and Angela Kelly to Ben Busch.

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So many thanks to Ben and the gang down there, get yourself there for a great feed and a wonderful pint of Murphy’s.

See you in two weeks, good golfing.

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club Up and coming tournaments August: Saturday 3 Canterbury Doubles; Sunday 4 Canterbury Singles.

September: Wednesday 11 Lochlea v us.

Tuesday 24 Interclub Final round.

October: Sunday 6 Piste of Origin.

November: Saturday 9 Chartered Clubs’ Triples.

Sunday 10 Chartered Club Doubles.

Monday 11 Chartered Club Singles.

Saturday/Sunday 23/24 South Island Senior Doubles.

Games start at 9am and we try to finish by 3-3.30pm

Ashburton Musical Club The meeting on Sunday July 14, was arranged by President Janice Allen and featured a variety of music appreciated by a good attendance of members.

Tom and Jack Ellis presented the piano duet Bouncin Boogie and they were followed by Angus and Isaac Tsui with the piano duet Skateboard Boogie, both composed by Martha Mier.

Abigail Jones, accompanied by Pearl Wood, sang two brackets of songs; Coming through the Rye, Londonderry Air, Banks o’ Loch Lomond and A Little Bit of Heaven.

A piano medley performed by Alan Andrews included Wayside Chapel, Sprig of Lilac, Remembrance and Pokarekare among items new and nostalgic to members.

Tiffany Yang, on piano, presented Etude in A minor by Ludwig Schytte.

The Southern Celtic Trio on piano accordion, violin and castanet played a range of music new to the club.

Katie Gluyas on piano concluded the programme with classical renditions of Wedding Day at Troldhaugen by Greig and The Lark by M Balakirev.

A big thank you to all our performers who gave the club a great afternoon of music.

Lynnford Rural Women As has come the custom, prior to the annual general meeting we met for a pot luck lunch and a social get together.

Mona has been in hospital and now living at Terrace View and on a happier note, flowers were presented to Rosaline for her special birthday.

Bev reported that after a recent meeting, the Lynnford Hall Committee has now disbanded and power has been cut off to the hall and it is now up to the Ashburton District Council on the way forward.

To bring the hall up to code would not be an option for the amount of use it gets.

Along with the hall committee, WDFF raised money over the years for painting, curtains and interior maintenance.

A kitchen was added and toilets upgraded.

But time has caught up with it. Once quite a centre of the Lynnford District, it was used by Lynnford Women’s Division when they had their first meeting there on a Saturday in May, 1936 while it was still being used as a school.

Members shared many fond memories of time spent there. It was also used by the district for their mid-winter and New Year get-togethers, but with the older families shifting on and the hall not quite as inviting, these functions are no longer held.

Bev showed us a print of the Whanganui River that was given to her to research its origins which hung in the hall, donated by the Food for Britain Committee.

Regional meeting July 26, 10am at the Ashburton Seniors Centre.

Provincial Meeting August 14 at 2pm.

Ngaire Brown chaired the AGM and it was quite a short meeting.

Bev read her report and in listening to it, we have been a very busy branch with speakers, visits, donations to outside groups and supporting Provincial in their endeavours.

The three officers, President, Bev Bagrie; Secretary Marion Taylor and

Treasurer; Rosalind Moore were elected unopposed.

Mid Canterbury Central Friendship Club Our July Tuesday meeting was well attended despite a spate of winter illness, with 78 present including three new members and two visitors.

After President Russell inducted the new members into the club, Roger Lake reported on a bus trip to Timaru planned for August which will include a visit to a brewery. Full details will be announced next meeting.

Kate Syme was our mini speaker who reminisced about her childhood.

Kate was born in Oamaru and lived 10km south at Taipo Hill where her father managed a Lands and Survey farm.

In 1947 the family shifted to a farm near Methven owned by Archibald Scott, a Christchurch solicitor, which her father managed.

In 1948 she began her schooling at Methven Primary School. Later they moved to a Colgate/Glentunnel farm where Kate, aged 13 years, bused to a sole charge school at Homebush Estate, at which point she concluded her talk.

Following morning tea break Tony Todd was our main speaker who gave us a history of the Todd family. His grandfather, Archie Todd, was born in 1884 in South Dunedin where he got his grounding in the retail trade before moving to Gore.

In 1914 he came up to Ashburton and in 1918 purchased a 25 per cent shareholding in Barretts store.

After this was sold up he opened a new store in 1938 which still exists today after undergoing four facelifts. He died in 1975 aged 91 years.

His three sons followed in his footsteps running the store. Tony was born in 1947 the son of Les Todd, and started his retail career at Todds in 1963, followed by two years at Kirkaldies in Wellington.

He then returned to the Ashburton shop where he remained for 54 years.

He has also had numerous outside interests, including serving on the board of the Ashburton Licensing Trust since 1980.

He retired two years ago, and is currently standing for the Ashburton mayoralty.

He was thanked by Roger Lake for his talk and the meeting closed with the National Anthem.

Netherby WI The July meeting of the Netherby WI started with a soup, savouries and sandwich lunch which was enjoyed by those present.

Before our meeting started we had a musical interlude by the secretary’s granddaughter Madeline Hann playing the piano.

As there were a few members absent Catherine Thomas and Sharon Kelly chaired the meeting.

The Motto of the month “Make the most of today because it won’t return” was read by Barbara Burst.

Wendy Petrie read a very amusing piece called In Cahoots for Golden Threads, Roll Call was a gold coin for Alzheimer’s.

Happy Birthday was sung to Doris Wakelin who will be turning 102 on July 24 and two other members will be turning 80 as well as three other members who have birthdays in July.

Raffle was won by Diane Bradley.

Competition results were read out and the Moylan Trophy was won by Nancy Christey and the Northchurch by Catherine Thomas.

Results for Netherby from the Mid Canterbury Federation Quizco were read out, and we received the following placings: Patsy Huggins 2nd for soup in a thermos and 1 serve of steam pudding.

Nancy Christey 3rd for best bloom from garden.

Barbara Burst 2nd for colouring picture and photo of Winter Hi Jinx.

Catherine Thomas 1st for machine washable soft toy We also did well in the afternoon session: Best name for team: Frigid Didgets which consisted of Valmai Mitchell,

Joan Henderson, Wendy Petrie and by Doris and Winsome Wear.

Best dressed team: Fluffy Flurries which consisted of Patsy Huggins, Barbara Burst, Diane Bradley and Catherine Thomas who were also 2nd= in the quiz.

Following the meeting we spent the rest of the time playing Housie with Joan Campbell as caller. This was enjoyed by everyone with some people being luckier than others.

Afternoon tea completed the meeting with a chocolate cake served and cut

by Doris Wakelin for her forthcoming birthday.

Run and Walk Ashburton Members have continued to keep active over the past two weeks with steady numbers taking part in mid-week events and our Saturday meets which is really pleasing.

Last week Joe Ford said farewell to a terrific young athlete, Ted Yee who has returned to America.

During his year in Ashburton Joe has coached Ted. He was surprised when presented with a wooden fruit bowl made by Ted at woodwork.

A treasured friendship and one I’m sure will continue despite the distance.

The past two weeks members have enjoyed hosted runs on Saturday afternoon, this has been reflected in the numbers attending.

Last week members headed to the country starting from Milton Road. The weather was fresh but settled which saw 11 walkers take in 7.5km of the rural roads, and seven runners 9.5km. An extra seven joined for afternoon tea.

This week was back in town hosted from Allison Street, Allenton. You could have been mistaken for thinking it was early spring with the temperature reaching 17 degrees.

A group of 20 runners and walkers headed up Alford Forest Road, taking right-hand turns weaving in and out of the streets taking them through Lochlea and Racecourse Road before returning for a great afternoon tea which was enjoyed by all.

Next week we have another hosted run to look forward to from Carters Terrace.

Mid-week events will also be happening, check out Facebook or Daily Diary to keep you up to date. Until next time keep moving everyone.

Target Shooting Mid Canterbury A lot has happened this week. As hinted at last week we have had it confirmed that eight of our members have been confirmed as filling fourteen places in the South Island teams to compete against North Island at the end of August.

Shania Harrison-Lee, top qualifier in open, women, and junior teams and named captain of the juniors. Steve McArthur in the men’s team and named captain of the open team, Colin Taylor first time in the veterans’ team, Sandy Bennett is in the open and women’s teams, T.J. Stewart is in the men’s team and is first call in for the open team, Nina McKenzie in the women’s team, Emma Smith in both the women’s and junior teams with Charlotte McKenzie finishing out a very impressive group with inclusion in the junior team.

Closer to home though is the Andrews and Faulkner competition to be held in Oamaru.

This competition is a team match attracting 10-person open teams and five-person junior teams from the 20 associations around the South Island.

Last year at Nelson our teams finished as runners-up and will be looking for a strong entry this year.

Competition will be a bit tougher this year with strong teams from Nelson, Marlborough, Christchurch and Ellesmere. No doubt there will be others up for the challenge as well.

Recent results show that practice for this event is well under way. This week alone Shania (4) Steve (2) Sandy, all with possible 100s, Shania and Sandy with 100.9, and the rest of the team turning in scores in the high 90s.

Club results have also been promising with Gene Moore, Sama Sooiala and Jack McIntosh all with personal bests.

Looking good!

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SBW in doubt for first test NZME Sonny Bill Williams is a serious doubt to play for the All Blacks against Argentina this weekend.

Williams, who has been struggling with injuries this year, is likely to miss the All Blacks’ first test of the year against the Pumas in Buenos Aires.

The 33-year-old travelled with the side to Argentina as he recovers from a tight hamstring he suffered after playing for the Ponsonby club recently, but is unlikely to start this weekend.

Assistant coach Ian Foster, who admitted Williams was a bit cranky with him in training, didn’t rule out the veteran midfielder but said he was doubtful that he would play.

“He’s doubtful, but he is training really well,” Foster said.

“He’s grumpy with me for holding him back a bit today because he’s ready to go. He’s feeling really good, but we just got to make sure we get full strength back into that leg.”

Williams’ lack of fitness could open the door for Ngani Laumape, who will be out to prove he deserves to be on the plane to Japan come September.

The Hurricanes midfielder was dropped from last year’s Rugby Championship squad before returning as injury cover where he made appearances against Australia and Argentina. He also played against Japan and Italy in the northern tour.

With the All Blacks’ midfield being one of the most competitive positional areas as the side gears up for the World Cup, Laumape says he feels like he is getting better and has done what he needs to do to impress selectors.

“I’m just trying to get better every year,” Laumape said. “Obviously there was stuff I needed to work on. Every week in Super I was trying to get better and better.

“I felt like I did what I needed to do.”

The All Blacks take on Argentina on Sunday morning (NZT) in Buenos Aires.

Methven’s Finn McGrath leaves defenders in his wake during the inaugural Foothills Rugby Tournament in Methven at the weekend.

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Foothills tourney a success The inaugural Foothills Rugby Tournament is being hailed as a huge success after a big few days of junior rugby in Methven over the weekend.

More than 300 keen rugby players, making up 19 teams, from across the Canterbury region and further afield took to the Methven Domain for the weekend, playing four different age groups

from Under 10 to Under 13.

Tournament controller, Jon Harmer said it had been a case of only positive feedback in the aftermath of the weekend.

“I haven’t heard a negative comment, it’s all been really good,” he said.

Harmer dreamed up the idea late last year and worked closely with the Methven Rugby Club

to get the tournament off the ground and said that he’ll be looking to get the ball rolling to bring the event back again next year.

“We’ve got a bit of an idea of how it works now and a few things that we can look at to improve it as well, so we’ll have a bit of a debrief and then come up with a plan.

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July 16 – Ladies Division Eenie Meenie; Jan Early 25, Sanae Hydes 30.5, Juliet McLeod 30.5, Ruth Keeley 31. Marilyn Cross 2nd Shot 2&11; 0-29 Sue Graham, 30+ Not Struck.

Sim’s Bakery Closest to Pin No 5; Juliet McLeod, Mr Mann’s Cafe and Bakery No 14; Not Struck

Tinwald Golf Club July 16 – LGU Silver: Christine Kinita 70, Bronze 1: Di Bell 74, Bronze 2: Barb Cochrane 80, 9 Hole: Maureen Colville 38 Stroke Di Bell 74, Sue Gutsell 75.

9 Hole Competition Stableford Maureen Colville 17, Shirley Young 17 Nearest the Pin: Murray Young Property Broker

July 15-16 Coronation: Kevin Hooper 187.2, 183.3, Charlotte McKenzie 193.9, 97.5, Colin Taylor 195.11, 192.8, Sandy Bennett 194.10, 199.13, Emma Smith 193.8, 99.7, Jack Jones 176.1, 91.0,Steve McArthur 196.8, 100.8, Shania Harrison-Lee 199.13, 100.8, Keith Bonnington 186.3,94.2, Michaela Smith 187.5, 93.4, Amelia Swan 176.2, 89.1, Nina McKenzie 195.7, 98.4, Shirley Herridge 95.5, Bryan Hunter 98.6, Phoenix: Gene Moore 96.5, 92.1, Kate McIntosh 73.0, 71.0, Sama Sooiala 88.1, 88.1, Amelia Swan 93.2, 92.1, Jack McIntosh 97.2, 91.2, Sean McQuillan 85.0, 89.2, Eartha Scott 79.0, Katie Ellis 88.0, 82.0, Colin Taylor 97.5, 195.11, Sandy Bennett 99.5, 197.16, Shania Harrison-Lee 100.7, 199.12, Michaela Smith 95.2, Kevin Hooper 92.2, Andrew McKenzie 94.1, 189.10, T.J. Stewart 95.1, 191.6, Keith Bonnington 92.1, 188.4, Bill Rankin 196.11.

“I think it would be great to see it come back again next year.”

Methven had teams in all four grades but they were joined by a host of other clubs including; Mahurangi in Auckland, Celtic and Southern, Allenton, Waihora, New Brighton, Prebbleton, Leeston, Sheffield, Halwswell and Martinborough in the lower North Island.

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■■NETBALL WORLD CUP

Ferns secure semi-finals spot

By Liam Napier NZME

Lock the Silver Ferns into the World Cup semi-finals. One match early, even.

Now the real tests arrive, first in the form of defending champions Australia.

Five comfortable wins across five days in Liverpool, the latest a 77-28 victory over eighth-ranked Northern Ireland, ensures Noeline Taurua’s side will progress to the knockout stages this weekend, regardless of the result from their final group game against the seemingly ominous Australians.

Given New Zealand’s smallest margin of victory – 19 goals – came in the opening match against Malawi, the Silver Ferns were always expected to reach the final four.

But after last year’s Commonwealth Games, where New Zealand lost to Malawi and failed to gain a medal for the first time, netball fans have learned to take nothing for granted.

Thus far, this Ferns side looks a different beast, though victories over Malawi (64-45), Barbados (78-25), Singapore (89-21), Zimbabwe (79-36) and Northern Ireland makes gauging progress difficult.

Australia, England and Norma Plummer’s South Africa, who seem set to reach the semi-finals after stunning Jamaica, are completely different prospects.

“I’ve had enough, I suppose.

I’m looking forward to playing these big teams. This is what it’s all about,” Taurua said. “In three games, probably two to be honest, we’ll know where we are at but I’m really excited, I can’t wait.

“Every game we have been building, not only to Australia, but the big teams in England and

probably South Africa now.

“We’ve got varied strategies and we’re not one dimensional so depending on the opposition we don’t have to change too much – we’ve been working on a few things. Every day is about incremental improvements.”

New Zealand’s final group showdown with Australia tonight (NZT) will now determine who tops their pool, and secures the potentially easier semi-final match-up.

England’s last pool game against South Africa on Friday morning (NZT) will also be pivotal in deciding semi-final opponents.

The seventh meeting between New Zealand and Northern Ireland followed another predicable script.

The Ferns didn’t match their dominance from the last meeting, the 92-25 victory at the 1999 World Cup in Christchurch, but were never threatened after scoring the first six goals to start on a slick note.

Katrina Rore was handed the wing defence bib, and Taurua maintained her strong starting seven until halftime, by which point the Ferns established a commanding 44-11 buffer after scoring 22 goals in each quarter.

The defensive end of Casey Kopua and Jane Watson were again hugely influential, both in snaffling intercepts and in transition.

Taurua made a raft of changes in the second spell which stunted momentum – the Ferns winning the third quarter 17-6 and edging the final period by five goals.

All 12 squad members were again handed court time against Northern Ireland.

This rotation policy has been

The Silver Ferns are guaranteed a semi-final spot after beating Ireland yesterday, but are facing the Aussies tonight. necessary to manage players after such a ruthless workload to start this tournament.

“I only make changes if I need to,” Taurua said. “Today was the last in terms of managing players and knowing how many quarters each can have. When we play Australia it will be boots and all basically.”

Ferns captain Laura Langman was savouring the prospect of her side’s first rest day, before returning to take on Australia, who thrashed Malawi 74-25 yesterday after leading 41-5 at halftime and then making mass changes.

“I’m relieved we got through the five days,” Langman said.

“Body wise we’re feeling pretty

good which is a different story to four years ago.

“Our strength is going to lie in having 12 ready to go on Thursday. Aussie are playing very clinical. They get ball, they create ball, so we’re going to have to focus on ball retention and not taking the pedal off the metal when momentum is going our way.”

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Stokes urged umpires to overturn overthrows decision NZME Ben Stokes created arguably the most pivotal moment in ODI history during the Cricket World Cup final.

And it’s now been revealed that England’s World Cup hero had asked the umpires to overturn the decision that ultimately led to England’s win over New Zealand.

With England needing nine off the final three balls of the final at Lord’s, Christchurch-born Stokes was running back for a second run when a throw from Martin Guptill hit his bat and deflected to the boundary for four.

It meant six was recorded off the ball instead of two and Stokes eventually got two singles off the final two balls to force a tie and a Super Over.

Stokes’ test teammate for the upcoming Ashes series, Jimmy Anderson revealed that Stokes had appealed to the umpires to overturn their decision which could have seen the match never reach a tie.

“The etiquette in cricket is if the ball is thrown at the stumps and it hits you and

goes into a gap in the field you don’t run,” Anderson told the BBC’s Tailenders podcast.

“But if it goes to the boundary, in the rules it’s four and you can’t do anything about it.

“I think, talking to Michael Vaughan who saw him after the game, Ben Stokes actually went to the umpires and said, ‘Can you take that four runs off. We don’t want it’.

“But it’s in the rules and that’s the way it is.

“It’s been talked about for a while among the players, potentially that being a dead ball if it does hit the batsman and veer off somewhere.”

Stokes was quick to apologise to the Black Caps on the field and continued that after the match, suggesting he might have to say sorry “for the rest of my life” for the extra runs which he labelled “fluke”.

“Playing against New Zealand is always a good event, they are good lads. I will be apologising to Kane for the rest of my life … It was written in the stars to happen for us,” he said.

It’s been revealed that Ben Stokes had asked the umpires to overturn a crucial decision.

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Mixed results for Methven FC There was a mixed bag of results for Methven’s two football sides at the weekend with the senior team keeping their standout season rolling while the reserves side suffered another defeat.

Playing away to University, the Division Three seniors side endured one of their toughest encounters of the season and had to pull everything out of the bag to claim a 2-1 victory after trailing 0-1 with little time on the clock.

Methven were quick to get into their stride in the first 10 minutes and were unlucky not to take the lead through either Liam Hett or Nick Eden. As the half played out, however, the chances became more fleeting and there was definitely an issue with the midfield becoming disbanded from the attack.

University, on the other hand, didn’t pose much of a threat at the other end, mainly chancing their luck with long balls to no avail.

The second half began with a sense that one goal would probably be enough to win it for either side and it came from University.

With quick thinking, a delightful lifted ball floated over the flat-footed Methven defence and into the path of the running striker saw the ball slide past the keeper to make it 1-0.

With time running out, spectators were witness to an aspect of Methven they hadn’t seen for

most of the season as they were forced to dig deep.

Jan Luccini moved further forward, leaving John Peneycad to cover his place as well as the centre of the midfield and it paid off as more and more chances were created.

A long ball from Liam Sheppard finally unlocked the home side’s resilient defence and from a tight angle Nick Eden beat the keeper to make it 1-all.

Methven didn’t ease up there, they continued their onslaught and when Luccini recycled his corner into the goalmouth mixer there was only going to be one outcome.

The keeper was committed and out of his goal, whilst the danger man Gareth Saltimer had the ball at his feet, six metres from goal.

With total calmness he slotted home to give his side the lead.

That sealed the victory for Methven and gained them a valuable three points.

Next week they square off with Selwyn in what promises to be a fierce encounter.

Meanwhile, back on Methven turf the reserves suffered another defeat, but there were good signs of progression within the camp and they are certainly looking a much tougher beast to contend with.

Selwyn managed to vanquish their opponents by the most slender of margins, running out 1-2 victors.

Matthew Hydes powers forward up the right-hand side of the field in the Methven FC reserve’s clash with Selwyn United on Saturday.

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Transgender rule ‘outdated’: Researchers demand change NZME Otago University researchers are calling for gender binary divisions in elite sports to be scrapped, after finding it unfair for transwomen to compete against other women.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines that allow male-to-female transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category at the elite level has raised significant debate since being introduced in 2015.

A recent case of New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard (right), a transwoman competing in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, has polarised opinions about the inclusion of transwomen in women’s sport.

But after discussing the topic in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics with Professor Alison Heather and Dr Taryn Knox, Associate Professor Lynley Anderson said gender binary in sport has had its day.

“To be simultaneously inclusive and fair at the elite level some innovative thinking is required, rather than attempting to shoehorn people into either ‘male’ or ‘female’,” she said.

“Perhaps the male/female binary should be reconsidered in favour of something more nuanced and

useful?”

Pointing out that the IOC testosterone level guidelines which allow transwomen to compete in the women’s division were significantly higher than that of cis-women, Heather called for a radical change to “the outdated structure of the gender division currently used in elite sport”.

“Science demonstrates that high adult levels of testosterone, as well as permanent testosterone effects on male physiology during in utero and early development, provides a performance advantage in sport,” Heather said. “That much of this male physiology is not mitigated

by the transition to a transwoman.”

Potential solutions in their research include excluding transwomen from competing in the women’s division, creating a third division for transwomen and intersex women and calculating a handicap for transwomen based on their testosterone levels – similar to that used in golf.

Their preferred option was an extension of this with a proposed algorithm that could account for a range of parameters, both physical and social, including pyshiological parameters, gender identity and could include socio-economic status.

Rugby’s bad boy is back NZME Supporters of Israel Folau will have something new to sink their teeth into when it comes to Rugby Australia.

The news has broken that rugby bad boy James O’Connor has signed a new contract with Super Rugby franchise the Queensland Reds and is eligible for Wallabies selection.

O’Connor of course has been involved a litany of off-field incidents in the past that have attracted the wrong sort of attention including being thrown out of Perth airport in 2013 for being intoxicated, and being arrested for possession of cocaine in Paris, in 2017.

One of the key gripes of some of Folau’s supporters in his battle against Rugby Australia has been that while other stars have engaged in less than savoury behaviour he was booted for expressing fundamental religious views.

O’Connor, from all reports, is a reformed man and his Wallabies’ career may get a reboot as soon as this weekend with the star utility now available to play South Africa after signing a Super Rugby deal with Queensland.

O’Connor joined the Wallabies in Johannesburg to train this week but was not eligible for selection for Saturday’s Rugby Championship clash without

the deal. The 29-year-old signed a two-and-a-half year deal with the Reds so is now available to add to his 44-test career.

O’Connor became the youngest ever Super Rugby debutant at age 17 and the second youngest Wallaby in Australian rugby history at age 18, but his promising career went off track through a number of off-field incidents.

His last test was in 2013 and he last played in Australia in 2015, when he spent a season with the Reds, before being released to shift his career to the UK. In his last two seasons with Sale Sharks. O’Connor has impressed both on the field and off with Queensland midfield ace Samu Kerevi signing to play in Japan after this year’s World Cup, O’Connor is the perfect replacement in the young backline.

O’Connor said he was grateful for another chance in Australian rugby.

“There’s been a lot of work put in behind the scenes and a lot of guys have shown faith in me so all I’m focusing on right now is putting my best foot forward,” O’Connor said.

“I have a bigger ‘why’ now and that is what fuels me.”

O’Connor admitted his last stint with the Reds was unsatisfactory and felt he owed his home state.

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Owner sad to see star filly go HRNZ Selling was never part of the plan for Wendy Nordqvist.

But when she was made an offer of “very good money” to buy her classy juvenile filly Tiffany Rose, she relented.

“It was only common sense that made me agree to sell,” the Ashburton owner said.

“When the money was in the bank I thought, ‘what did I do this for’?

“But it was the right thing to do.”

Tiffany Rose, who ran fourth in the 2YO Diamond at the Harness Jewels at her most recent start, was twice Group 1-placed this season for trainer Robert Dunn and his son, John.

She had been sent for a spell after the Jewels and selling was the furthest thing from Nordqvist’s mind. Then the phone started ringing.

“I had a few offers in the week before the deal was done.

“The first one was very good but I flatly turned it down and said unless they came back a lot higher, I wouldn’t even consider it.”

As is often the case in big-money deals, Perth trainer Mike Reed was behind the purchase.

“He has been very nice and is encouraging me to come over to Perth when she starts racing in the Group 1s over there next

Wendy Nordqvist and exciting filly, Tiffany Rose who has been sold to Australia.

PHOTO SUPPLIED year. “I’m not much of a traveller – just going to Auckland to watch Tiffany Rose on my own was very difficult – so that’s something I will have to get over.”

There is also a contingency in the deal should Tiffany Rose win a Group 1, giving Nordqvist further incentive to travel over.

The only downside, she says, is not having a race photo on her wall of the filly she named after her daughter.

The daughter of Somebeachsomewhere started eight times for seven placings, including two at Group 1 level, but a win eluded her.

“I’ve got some nice photos on my phone of her which I’ll make into a block; that’s the best I can do.”

Making the decision a little bit easier is the fact that Nordqvist co-owns Tiffany Rose’s rising two-year-old half-sister, Shanika, by Bettor’s Delight.

“She’s really lovely and Johnny tells me she’s showing a lot of potential.

“I’m actually going up there this weekend to watch her run around.

“She’s probably a nicer type at the same stage and having her to go on with was probably the only reason I agreed to sell Tiffany Rose.

“It’s been a tough week, though.

“Yesterday I got a picture on Facebook of her with Mike Reed and the tears started flowing.”

Nordqvist also has bonny pacer Spot On to keep her interest up next season and the threeyear-old dipped his toes in the water with a few country cups runs at the back end of this season.

“I don’t think I’ll ever sell him now; it’s going to be a lot of fun having a horse to race on the grass in the country cups next season.

“Going to those meetings is what racing is all about for me.

“It’s certainly a lot less stressful than travelling and racing in Group 1s.

“I also have Spot’s younger brother which I bought at the sales, too.”

The sale money won’t sit idly for too long in the bank though.

“I think I’ll have to go back to the yearling sales and buy a nice filly to replace Tiffany next year.”

Locals get in quickly on first owning win HRNZ Most people go months and even years before getting their first runner at the races, let alone their first winner.

But when Never Mind scored at Ashburton on Sunday, four first-time owners got the spoils with their very first starter.

And, what’s more, they only had to wait a matter of weeks to do it.

The rising six-year-old son of Muscle Mass showed a real turn of foot to reel in Sierra Gold right on the line in what his first start for a new ownership group and

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new trainer, Trent Yesberg.

Rolleston’s Peter McDermott, along with Yesberg, was the one behind the sale and their partners, Nikki Chalmers and Sarah Yesberg, are two of the first-time owners.

“I actually work mornings on the farm for James Geddes, who used to own and train the horse,” said McDermott.

“He’d done a good job with it but was looking to move it on and I thought that he might be a nice one to race on, being a maiden.

“Trent and I crossed paths when we worked at Wai Eyre

Farm years ago and I’d been keen to get into a horse with him since he started training.

“He’s been going really well and his strike-rate is excellent.

“So, I told him it would be a good one to buy and that I’d take whatever he couldn’t syndicate amongst his other owners.”

Yesberg drafted in some clients, including first-timers Jaron and Ryan Chamberlain from Geraldine, and his wife Sarah, and stable newcomers Brian and Trish Cross, and McDermott took the rest.

“I ended up with 40 per cent, but then I realised Nikki’s birth-

day was coming up and I hate shopping. So, I gave her a share as a birthday present.”

Chalmers, who is from Ashburton, didn’t have to wait long for that gift to yield a return – less than three weeks.

And she was on course for the win.

McDermott says he was surprised at the speed shown by Never Mind in the run to the line.

“It was actually his toughness that made me like him; he hadn’t actually shown a lot of speed before.

“So full credit to Trent for harnessing that.”

Jumping star retired NZ Racing News Top jumper Jackfrost’s racing career has come to an abrupt end after suffering an injury in Australia.

The Brian and Shane Anderton-trained gelding was preparing for an Australian jumps campaign, but will now return home to undergo rehabilitation in preparation for an alternative career.

“He’s done his suspensory,” Brian Anderton said. “The vet said he would want 12 months and he didn’t think he would come back as a jumper.

“The boys (owners) are doing the right thing by him. They are going to bring him home, he is going to go to Coaster Howes, then we’ll put him up on the farm for six months and then it is up to the boys to make up their mind what they want to do with him.

“He could be a clerk of the course, a show horse, or whatever.”

Jackfrost has come to mean a lot to Anderton, with the son of Gallant Guru winning the Great Northern Hurdle (4200m) last year, a race that had eluded his trainer.

“It was great for Shane, but it was always one of my ambitions to win a Northern,” Anderton said.

“I got placed in steeples and hurdles, but I couldn’t win one.

But he bagged that for us, so that was a hell of an achievement for me at my twilight.”

Jackfrost won six of his 43 starts on the flat, but it was over hurdles that he showed his true talents.

He won five of his nine starts over hurdles and was runner-up in his four other races. His biggest wins included the Great North Hurdle and the Grand National Hurdles (4200m).

While Anderton is disappointed in losing one of his stable stars, he is looking forward to Oamaru on Sunday where Raise You Ten will compete in the Crombie and Price Ltd Oamaru Cup (1600m).

“He’s very well. I would just like to see him settle a bit more in his races. We put the blinkers on him because we felt that he was too switched off,” Anderton said.

Forbury Park harness Today at Forbury Park

Forbury Park Trotting Club Inc Venue: Forbury Park Meeting Date: 18 July 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles : 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 5.41pm (NZT) PAT HANSON/LANCE JOYCE MEMORIAL TROT $7500, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2700m 1 55337 Be Bee Lass (1) fr.......................... C Buchan 2 Solsbury Hill (2) fr..........................M Heenan 3 688 The Night Sweats (3) fr........... G Thornley (J) 4 7 Its Alf (4) fr......................................B Orange 5 68075 Ken’s Dream (5) fr.............................L Dobbs 6 76466 Whangamata (6) fr....................... B McLellan 7 28374 Cosmic Sun (7) fr.......................B Williamson 8 308x6 Clyde (U1) fr............................. C D Thornley 9 04 Dem Bones Dem Bones (U2) fr...R McIlwrick 10 82449 Majicion (U3) fr..............................T Williams 11 30043 Majestic Rose (U4) fr................M Williamson 2 6.06pm LETTY FERGUSON F&M MEMORIAL MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ f&m r40-r55., mobile, 2200m 1 37537 Ellnbac (1) fr................................ B McLellan 2 14079 Iwanadancewitsumbody (2) fr...M Williamson 3 409x7 Sadhana (3) fr............................ M Hurrell (J) 4 50407 Melt Down (4) fr....................... J Morrison (J) 5 66249 Classie Margaret (5) fr.................... K Butt (J) 6 41050 Lydia (6) fr...............................B Laughton (J) 7 21 Miss Paddy Wagon (7) fr............B Williamson 8 21092 Betterthanbrie (8) fr........................K Barclay 3 6.31pm COLIN KEEN/BOB HOLMES MEMORIAL

MOBILE PACE $7500, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 0965 Play By Ear (1) fr...................... N Williamson 2 00 Clifton Jessie (2) fr..................... M Hurrell (J) 3 83x88 Mach O’Melley (3) fr....................R McIlwrick 4 60806 Jamies Bad Boy (4) fr................B Williamson 5 x8832 The Naenae Express (5) fr............T Williams 6 070x4 All Money (6) fr...............................B Orange 7 86456 Iron Woman (7) fr..................... J Morrison (J) 8 68747 Sunset Red (8) fr................................. G Lee 9 00573 Extreme Robyn (21) fr..............M Williamson 10 44250 Ideal Asset (22) fr........................C Ferguson 11 57367 Molly Dooker (23) fr.......................... S Ottley 12 7528 Wecandream (24) fr.................. C D Thornley 13 0x739 Smokin Annie (25) fr.......................B Barclay 14 82272 Lei Miss (26) fr.................................T Chmiel 15 Leap Of Faith (27) fr 16 05053 Old Luke (U1) fr........................... B McLellan Emergencies: Clifton Jessie, Leap Of Faith 4 6.56pm RODNEY MOORE MEMORIAL HANDICAP PACE $8000, r40-r60 spechcp, stand, 2700m 1 82455 Matinee Idol (1) fr......................M Williamson 2 x7009 His Royal Harness (2) fr................... S Ottley 3 00827 Pocket Call (3) fr........................B Williamson 4 99009 Billy Klondike (4) fr.........................T Williams 5 36010 Dreaminsover (5) fr......................R McIlwrick 6 00016 G T Reactor (6) fr.............................T Chmiel 7 34547 Tetrick (7) fr.................................. B McLellan

8 80013 Delight Of Texas (8) fr.....................B Orange 9 04742 Mr Handleman (9) fr.................. N Williamson 5 7.21pm COWELLS PAVLOVA PACE $7500, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2200m 1 46544 Loissonya (1) fr......................... N Williamson 2 9x050 Supreme Lincoln (2) fr.................... K Butt (J) 3 50350 Mysistersapoledancer (3) fr....B Laughton (J) 4 00927 Absolut Russian (4) fr...............M Williamson 5 28478 Tact Denzel (5) fr.........................R McIlwrick 6 8x077 Shezdawon (6) fr...........................T Williams 7 5 My Design (7) fr................................ S Ottley 8 Crosso’s Cullect fr.......................... Scratched 9 x0930 Phoebe’s Delight (8) fr................. B McLellan 10 94000 Baldoon (9) fr..................................B Orange 11 80590 Indulgence (10) fr.......................B Williamson 12 06765 Bub’s VC (11) fr............................C Ferguson 13 Leap Of Faith (12) fr.................. C D Thornley 14 46444 Jacks Anne (13) fr.................... J Morrison (J) 15 9x730 Winsomechange (U1) fr..................B Barclay Emergency: Leap Of Faith 6 7.46pm LORRAINE & FERGUS MATHIESON MEMORIAL HCP TROT $8000, r40+ discrhcp, stand, 2200m 1 43291 Ayutthaya (1) fr........................... L McKay (J) 2 08600 Best Of The Bunch (2) fr..............R McIlwrick 3 22506 Anothersuperstar (3) fr............B Laughton (J) 4 50044 Bono Hest (4) fr....................... J Morrison (J) 5 40x45 Miss Bamboocha (5) fr............... M Hurrell (J) 6 48303 Dusky Eyre (1) 10M..................M Williamson

7 5x877 Amabede 20M............................... Scratched 8 57352 Spotlight The Valley (1) 20M...........B Orange 9 77175 Clifden Clowers (1) 30M................... S Ottley 10 42478 That’s The Story (2) 30M...........B Williamson 11 2563D King Cassidy (U1) 30M..................T Williams 7 8.11pm VIV ANNGOW MEMORIAL MOBILE PACE $9000, r48-r66., mobile, 2200m 1 x5040 Pete’s Dash (1) fr...................... N Williamson 2 78125 Alexy (2) fr.......................................T Chmiel 3 40891 Cruisin Reuben (3) fr.....................T Williams 4 86413 Kansas City Jim (4) fr..................R McIlwrick 5 15660 Paul’s Verdict (5) fr............................ S Ottley 6 31122 Honour The Bet (6) fr......................B Orange 7 81515 No More Change (7) fr.................C Ferguson 8 39174 Aveross Rustler (8) fr............... J Morrison (J) 9 55538 Four Starzzz Shiraz (21) fr..........D O’Connell 10 54953 Kotare Elite (22) fr...........................B Barclay 11 83133 Flaming Jim (U1) fr...................M Williamson 8 8.36pm DON CUTTANCE MEMORIAL MOBILE PACE $8500, 3yo+ r40-r47., mobile, 2200m 1 88700 Dismara (1) fr............................. M Hurrell (J) 2 45050 Thaboyz Toy (2) fr..........................T Williams 3 49093 Shindal (3) fr................................R McIlwrick 4 09000 Clifton Tactic (4) fr....................... L McKay (J) 5 04944 Glacier Coaster (5) fr......................B Barclay 6 36202 The Red Robber (6) fr.....................B Orange 7 x0088 Carlo Gambino (7) fr.................... B McLellan 8 84278 First Son fr..................................... Scratched

9 61760 Rebel With A Grin (21) fr.......... N Williamson 10 26970 Omar Sharif (22) fr.....................B Williamson 11 84036 Vigoroso (23) fr.............................D Simpson 12 0x089 Martin McGuinness (24) fr........M Williamson LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS: Race 1: Clyde, Dem Bones Dem Bones, Majestic Rose, Cosmic Sun Race 2: Betterthanbrie, Classie Margaret, Sadhana, Iwanadancewitsumbody Race 3: All Money, The Naenae Express, Lei Miss, Old Luke Race 4: Mr Handleman, Pocket Call, Delight Of Texas, Matinee Idol Race 5: Indulgence, Loissonya, Absolut Russian, My Design Race 6: Spotlight The Valley, King Cassidy, Clifden Clowers, Dusky Eyre Race 7: Flaming Jim, Honour The Bet, Aveross Rustler, No More Change Race 8: Thaboyz Toy, The Red Robber, Glacier Coaster, Omar Sharif

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M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 18 July 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 4.16pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C3, 295m 1 28152 Cosmic Jase 17.42...................J McInerney 2 84211 Mulberry Minx 17.34.................... K Cassidy 3 51231 Homebush Velma 17.46...........J McInerney 4 33181 Smash Rebel 17.46.........................M Grant 5 63658 Goldstar Dodge 17.26 S &............. B Evans 6 64223 Jaded Affair 17.35........................L Waretini 7 58467 Black Tori 17.35........................ A Bradshaw 8 21235 Feral Kaiaka 17.58......................... M Butler 9 55842 Come A Guster 17.30......................M Grant 10 74726 Homebush Finn 17.21..............J McInerney 2 4.36pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENISE BARRON DASH C4, 295m 1 8x451 Hilton Hangover 17.15......................B Dann 2 81116 Fleur Dior 17.27........................ R Blackburn 3 36425 High Dreamer 17.24........................M Grant 4 34733 Lisa’s Boy 17.24.............................R Casey 5 13636 Mitcham Reado 17.24..............J McInerney 6 21243 Inside Affair 17.16............................ J Dunn 7 82272 Nozzno Fear 17.10................... A Bradshaw 8 48671 Dyna Kushida 17.00.................... C Roberts 9 81666 Homebush Hundy nwtd............J McInerney 10 75682 Goldstar Spotty 17.31 S &.............. B Evans 3 4.53pm AMAZING CHASE DINING PH 0274310117 SPRINT C3, 295m 1 13572 Kalonga 17.36 S &......................... B Evans 2 51434 Broken Penniless 17.40.................G Cleeve 3 51663 Cathy Maree 17.17..........................M Grant

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Ashburton Guardian 19

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 4 83113 Colbert 17.37............................ R Blackburn 5 66541 Yi Feng 17.28...........................J McInerney 6 31527 Nikko Baxter 17.32...................J McInerney 7 23162 Smash Grenade 17.38....................M Grant 8 41534 Goldstar Galaxie 17.40 S &............ B Evans 9 52655 Homebush Boden 17.46...........J McInerney 10 64853 King Kali 17.19................................M Grant 4 5.14pm AMAZING CHASE SUNDAY 28 JULY SPRINT C4, 295m 1 12217 Opawa Lacy 17.04 J &................... D Fahey 2 44532 Treville 17.27............................ R Blackburn 3 34528 Smash Attack 17.22........................M Grant 4 73471 Justin Ryan 17.27 S &.................... B Evans 5 32667 Flora Dora 17.06.......................... R Adcock 6 61746 Martha Magic 17.33 H &.................... Taylor 7 62618 Debbie Baxter 17.11.................J McInerney 8 81867 Pita Ramos 17.16............................. J Dunn 9 81666 Homebush Hundy nwtd............J McInerney 10 47374 Loco Lola 17.18........................ A Bradshaw 5 5.31pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C5, 295m 1 72364 Goldstar Trooper 17.01 S &............ B Evans 2 36641 Randy Raccoon 17.08.......................C Weir 3 62224 Business Ethics 16.99...................... J Dunn 4 67114 Beck Eleven 17.41........................L Waretini 5 83612 Nippa Martino 17.22.................J McInerney 6 64125 Cawbourne Britty 17.22............... C Roberts 7 21211 Our Dazzel 17.00........................... R Wales 8 28152 Country Gent 17.28.................. A Bradshaw 9 33473 Wildebeest 17.20...................... A Bradshaw 10 16184 Ketchikan Kim 17.25........................ J Dunn 6 5.58pm KOLORFUL KANVAS GARDEN CITY CLASSIC HEAT 1 R/Aq, 520m 1 153 Go Diego 30.46 J &........................ D Fahey

2 52345 Boss Cobra 30.28 J &.................... D Fahey 3 Box Vacant 3 4 11111 Opawa Deal 30.28 J &................... D Fahey 5 43812 Opawa Roy 31.28........................... R Wales 6 Box Vacant 6 7 12256 Meka 30.19 J &.............................. D Fahey 8 63643 Double Speed 30.11..................... R Adcock 7 6.21pm KOLORFUL KANVAS GARDEN CITY CLASSIC HEAT 2 R/Aq, 520m 1 211 Punters A Hero 30.42 J &............... D Fahey 2 31516 Eddie Hemi 30.25........................... R Wales 3 24863 Sausage 30.16 J &......................... D Fahey 4 21322 Go Vegas 30.41 J &........................ D Fahey 5 Box Vacant 6 41245 Joe Bonanza 30.39..................J McInerney 7 11125 Opawa Vinny 30.53 J &.................. D Fahey 8 51728 Boyka nwtd J &............................... D Fahey 8 6.46pm PH 0274310117 AMAZING CHASE DINING STAKES C3/4, 520m 1 x1114 Our Jolene 30.65............................ R Wales 2 55221 Thrilling Watch 30.60................... D Roberts 3 44151 Go Glow 30.24 J &......................... D Fahey 4 34734 Egomaniacal 30.08...................... D Roberts 5 52374 Mr. Matt 30.11 J &.......................... D Fahey 6 11116 Max Dancer 30.13 J &.................... D Fahey 7 26431 No Kissy Missy nwtd................ A Bradshaw 8 11113 Perfect Result 30.15..................... R Adcock 9 77663 Dyna Monty 29.94....................... C Roberts 9 7.12pm NZ NATIONALS MIDDLE DISTANCE SEMI FINAL C5, 520m 1 41584 Bahama Queen 30.17...................... J Dunn 2 17112 Must Be Rusty 30.24................J McInerney 3 57678 Malaga Molly 30.35..................J McInerney 4 14462 Sailor Allen 30.07........................ C Roberts

5 55523 David’s Legacy 30.07............... M Robinson 6 41152 Know Refusal 30.35......................G Cleeve 7 11211 Dyna Dave 29.73......................... C Roberts 8 56764 Know Threat 30.21........................G Cleeve 9 74751 Go Brat 30.14 J &........................... D Fahey 10 11116 Max Dancer 30.13 J &.................... D Fahey 10 7.37pm NZ NATIONALS DISTANCE SEMI FINAL C2d, 732m 1 11121 Dyna Weslyn 42.65..................... C Roberts 2 26F21 Von Strass nwtd J &....................... D Fahey 3 34225 Opawa Hilary nwtd J &................... D Fahey 4 43623 Goldstar Sydney nwtd S &............. B Evans 5 17554 Opawa Tab nwtd............................. R Wales 6 44444 Know Anxiety nwtd........................G Cleeve 7 87787 Opawa Hope nwtd.......................... R Wales 8 65478 Opawa Silver nwtd.......................... R Wales 11 8.02pm AMAZINGCHASE.CO.NZ DASH C5, 295m 1 11111 Sheza Rippa 16.91 J &................... D Fahey 2 21713 Man Of Letters 17.38.......................... A Lee 3 22225 Disobedience 17.19 S &................. B Evans 4 11618 Platinum Paisley 17.08..................... J Dunn 5 53145 Jinja Ellie 17.26...............................A Joyce 6 64241 Nelso Allen 16.89........................ C Roberts 7 55173 Ezra Blueblood 17.33...............J McInerney 8 42185 Princely Gold 17.15..................J McInerney 9 37127 Raptor Attack 17.18.................. A Bradshaw 10 26155 Goldstar Major 17.26 S &............... B Evans 12 8.26pm RE-ENERGIZE SPRINT C4, 295m 1 57125 Bookie Monster 17.19...................... J Dunn 2 51174 Golden Bay 17.13 J M.................... McCook 3 25235 Neelix 17.34............................. R Blackburn 4 16557 Torpedo Tuck 17.21.................. A Bradshaw 5 71558 Know Sweat 17.26........................G Cleeve

6 21235 Versailles 17.07................................ J Dunn 7 13527 Dahteste 17.24................................... A Lee 8 375x1 Chanyaka 17.34...............................B Dann 9 81666 Homebush Hundy nwtd............J McInerney 10 53678 Homebush Tesan 17.28............J McInerney LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Homebush Velma, Cosmic Jase, Mulberry Minx, Jaded Affair, Come A Guster Race 2: Hilton Hangover, Dyna Kushida, Fleur Dior, Inside Affair, Nozzno Fear Race 3: Colbert, Yi Feng, Kalonga, Goldstar Galaxie, Nikko Baxter Race 4: Opawa Lacy, Treville, Flora Dora, Pita Ramos, Justin Ryan Race 5: Our Dazzel, Randy Raccoon, Goldstar Trooper, Business Ethics, Country Gent Race 6: Opawa Deal, Boss Cobra, Double Speed, Go Diego, Meka Race 7: Punters A Hero, Go Vegas, Sausage, Joe Bonanza, Opawa Vinny Race 8: Max Dancer, Go Glow, Egomaniacal, Perfect Result, Mr. Matt Race 9: Dyna Dave, Sailor Allen, Bahama Queen, Must Be Rusty, Go Brat Race 10: Dyna Weslyn, Von Strass, Opawa Hilary, Goldstar Sydney, Know Anxiety Race 11: Sheza Rippa, Platinum Paisley, Nelso Allen, Man Of Letters, Ezra Blueblood Race 12: Versailles, Bookie Monster, Golden Bay, Chanyaka, Neelix

14 598x9 Galapagos h (6) 58.5 Emergencies: Makoura Lodge, Heavenly Echo, Maipe, Galapagos 9 3.52pm ROSS DYER LIVESTOCK 1650 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1650m 1 00x67 Lord Turbo tdm (10) 60........C O’Beirne (a3) 2 x6164 Mister Geronimo td (12) 58.5.........D Turner 3 0x092 Big Ben m (1) 58........................ C Johnson 4 108x7 Handyman (6) 57.5............... H Andrew (a1) 5 5x187 Never Back Down (5) 57.5..............C Grylls 6 24939 Skaaboom (9) 56.5...........................L Innes 7 80400 Thee Old Cougar m (3) 56.5.......... R Myers 8 1x665 Fantasy Flight (7) 56...................R Elliot (a) 9 0x004 Zedabel Lass m (2) 54............B Ansell (a4) 10 70208 Tipperary Mary (8) 54...................L Allpress 11 x0770 Dance For Money (4) 54 12 6x606 Toodaloo m (11) 55 Emergencies: Dance For Money, Toodaloo 10 4.22pm FARMERS TRANSPORT 1650 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1650m 1 x079x Nunchucks (9) 59.5........................ R Myers 2 60x43 Ruffy Rahtwo m (5) 59.5..............L Allpress 3 2x710 Super Hoof b (3) 58.5.............. D Danis (a2) 4 23108 Beau Geste (7) 57.5........................C Grylls 5 00x07 Top Ofthe Straight (11) 57.5....... C Johnson 6 0x050 Chartwell (8) 57.......................... R Hannam 7 12508 Cabochon (10) 56.5....................... S McKay 8 9x647 Veracious tm (4) 56.5..........T Yanagida (a2) 9 5950x Red Rascal m (12) 56.5......C O’Beirne (a3) 10 37918 Lady Verawood (1) 56.......... H Andrew (a1) 11 x0770 Dance For Money (2) 54 12 6x606 Toodaloo m (6) 55 Emergencies: Dance For Money, Toodaloo Blinkers on : Belle Of Georgia (R3), Eastern Warrior (R4), Miss Yelracm (R6), Jonny Russ, Mi Jakky (R7), Francesca Kate (R8), Thee Old Cougar (R9), Super Hoof (R10) Blinkers off : One Way Street (R2), Keepin Harmonee, Daisy Dukes (R6) Winkers on : Blue Rata Anna (R6) Winkers off : The White Queen (R2), Beltoy (R4), Jonny Russ (R7), Thee Old Cougar (R9)

Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances

Hawke’s Bay gallops Today at Hastings

Hawkes Bay Racing Incorporated Venue: Hastings Meeting Date: 18 July 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 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 11.22am (NZT) NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE $10,000, MDN 2YO, 800m 1 733x Regal Reward (1) 57.5................... M Singh 2 8x5 Hasler Lad (11) 57.5................... R Hannam 3 Atlantic Flyer (8) 57.5.....................D Turner 4 Callsign Mav h (6) 57.5...................C Grylls 5 Red Sharp Prince (2) 57.5...........L Allpress 6 64x La Joya (7) 55.5............................. R Myers 7 7x O’Ceirin’s Calling (10) 55.5..M Hudson (a3) 8 Petite Rose (4) 55.5............T Yanagida (a2) 9 Power Of Hope (5) 55.5.............. C Lammas 10 Riva Capri h (3) 55.5......................S Collett 11 59x9 Keano Reeves (9) 57.5 Emergency: Keano Reeves 2 11.52am CARRFIELDS PRIMARY WOOL/CARRFIELDS LIVESTOCK $10,000, MDN 2YO&UP, 1200m 1 0x729 Blue Arrow (10) 58.5....................L Allpress 2 New York Jazz (2) 58.5........T Yanagida (a2) 3 008x8 Bucky h (6) 58.5......................... C Johnson 4 9 Empower (7) 58.5................. H Andrew (a1) 5 70x0 Hear My Voice (9) 58.5.................. S McKay 6 225x4 The White Queen (8) 56.5.............. R Myers 7 649x3 Chosen Peak (1) 56.5.................R Elliot (a) 8 45380 One Way Street (11) 56.5................C Grylls 9 Petrachor (12) 56.5..................... C Lammas 10 Irish Prayer (5) 56.5........................S Collett 11 Vroom h (4) 56.5............................D Turner 12 Ocean Spirit (13) 55.5 13 x09x0 Kate Louise (3) 56.5 Emergency: Kate Louise 3 12.22pm STOCK CO 1200 $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 3344x Mannering (6) 57.5.......................L Allpress 2 0460x After You (4) 57.5..............................L Innes 3 Bumrah (13) 57.5........................... R Myers 4 7x32 Trendy Belt (2) 55.5.............. H Andrew (a1) 5 27x9x Quintana (3) 55.5................ R Beemud (a4) 6 77x4 Sassenach (14) 55.5......................D Turner 7 75 Breath Of Fire (12) 55.5......C O’Beirne (a3) 8 Lily d’Or (11) 55.5 -

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 18 July 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 12.13pm (NZT) FARMLANDS COPRICE SERIES FINAL C0f, 375m 1 78 Prairie Seneca nwtd...........................B Craik 2 2211 Enjoy The Perks 21.55....................P Henley 3 57757 Xena Poppy nwtd R &..........................L Udy 4 56823 Mrs. Presley nwtd............................ S O’Neill 5 54332 Sovereign Pride nwtd.........................S Ross 6 53225 Hot Chilli nwtd...................................S Lozell 7 33676 Aleng nwtd......................................S E Hunt 8 4 Tango Miss nwtd.............................. T Green 9 67884 Mad Jack nwtd................................. T Green 2 12.31pm VETORA CAMBRIDGE SPRINT C1, 375m 1 41478 Yella Ella 21.54 R &.............................L Udy 2 14647 Artic Miss nwtd............................ G Pomeroy 3 53785 Snoopy’s Bro nwtd.............................. D Ray 4 86684 Crackle 21.69.................................. L A Hunt 5 24732 Fancy nwtd.................................... H Mullane 6 5525F Shozip Boomer 21.35......................T Patton 7 33638 Grouch Pawset 21.57.......................P Green 8 45654 Don Morocco 21.33 P &................. J Cleaver 9 26477 Hallo Star 21.08 R &............................L Udy 3 12.48pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C5, 375m 1 11161 Sparta 20.81.................................... K Walsh 2 51434 Fancy Fox 21.21..............................C Henley 3 75127 Mobility Scooter 21.20......................M Black

9 0 Burglar (9) 55.5.............................. M Singh 10 08x9 Carazzi (10) 55.5.........................R Elliot (a) 11 Minnie Mouse (1) 55.5..................... J Baillie 12 0 Special Girl (8) 55.5........................C Grylls 13 704 Belle Of Georgia (5) 55.5 14 New York Jazz (7) 57.5 Emergencies: Belle Of Georgia, New York Jazz 4 12.57pm KEN BROWNE LIVESTOCK 1200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 66x21 Aero De Paris tm (8) 59.5................C Grylls 2 86545 Ottavio m (7) 59.5........................R Elliot (a) 3 91 Not Usual Delight m (1) 59............. R Myers 4 8418x Five Stars (5) 58.5......................D Mansour 5 197x2 Tiny Terror b (2) 58.5.................. C Lammas 6 49x31 Porshabelle (6) 57................M Kareem (a4) 7 6x296 Beltoy m (4) 56.5............................ M Singh 8 23662 Pincanto (11) 56.5..................E McCall (a3) 9 0459x Eastern Warrior tmh (10) 56...........D Turner 10 41000 Rekohu Diva dh (3) 55............... C Johnson 11 90798 Bella Padoza d (9) 54.5...........B Ansell (a4) 5 1.32pm WAIROA WANDERERS 1200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 x6435 Cameahotfriday tdm (8) 59.5.T Yanagida (a2) 2 x7506 Mediterranean Star td (2) 59.5.......S Collett 3 L4915 Tuscan Whistler t (7) 59....R Elliot (a) 4 09x10 Get Up m (1) 58.5................ R Beemud (a4) 5 10x02 Toro Rosso (9) 58.5........................ R Myers 6 37277 Mehrtens (10) 57.5..................... C Lammas 7 1 One Madison dm (3) 57...................C Grylls 8 41 Showmeware dm (6) 57...............L Allpress 9 12885 Floral Belt (12) 56.5.............. H Andrew (a1) 10 17x56 Spring Bouquet (4) 56.5...................L Innes 11 x54x5 Goodnight Irene m (5) 55....T Newman (a3) 12 x4487 Zappeur (11) 54.5....................... R Hannam 6 2.07pm JIMMY RURAL 1400 $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 262 Lincoln Town (17) 58.5............... R Hannam 2 824 Beauty Star b (7) 58.5................D Mansour 3 235x0 Keepin Harmonee (1) 58.5...........L Allpress 4 8360x War Hero 58.5............................. Scratched 5 Overstayer h (11) 58.5....................S Collett 6 30434 Blue Rata Anna (15) 56.5...............D Turner 7 6x203 Veuve Clicquot h (13) 56.5... H Andrew (a1) 8 539 Flautino (10) 56.5........................R Elliot (a) 9 5 Missandei (9) 56.5...........................C Grylls

10 006 Daisy Dukes (14) 56.5.........T Yanagida (a2) 11 7 Mamarella (4) 56.5...........................L Innes 12 6 Miss Yelracm (5) 56.5..................... R Myers 13 Hey Soul Sister (16) 56.5 14 0x Hurricane Maggie (12) 56.5 15 6589x King Kaide (3) 58.5 16 689 Cardinal O’Ceirin (6) 58.5 17 98898 St Theresa (8) 56.5 18 0x080 Overthemark (2) 58.5 Emergencies: Hey Soul Sister, Hurricane Maggie, King Kaide, Cardinal O’Ceirin, St Theresa, Overthemark 7 2.42pm BEN ALLEN TRANSPORT 1650 $10,000, MDN, 1650m 1 87553 Yeah Right (10) 58.5................... R Hannam 2 94 Alfa Rosso (9) 58.5........................ S McKay 3 78x45 Mr Jimmy Pocket (14) 58.5... H Andrew (a1) 4 80x65 Man Power (5) 58.5.............T Yanagida (a2) 5 805x0 Jonny Russ h (1) 58.5.....................C Grylls 6 x3x80 Passing Glance (13) 56.5............R Elliot (a) 7 0x475 Sheza Beach Babe (11) 56.5.......L Allpress 8 0 Mi Jakky h (12) 56.5 9 278x6 Reflection (4) 56.5..........................S Collett 10 Rox (3) 56.5................................ C Johnson 11 77x97 Makoura Lodge (8) 58.5 12 08x88 Heavenly Echo (2) 58.5 13 52780 Maipe (7) 56.5 14 598x9 Galapagos h (6) 58.5 Emergencies: Makoura Lodge, Heavenly Echo, Maipe, Galapagos 8 3.17pm PGG WRIGHTSON LIVESTOCK 1650 $10,000, MDN, 1650m 1 47x44 Touch The Clouds (5) 58.5...........L Allpress 2 0x7 Here’s Trouble (4) 58.5................R Elliot (a) 3 7x86 Whiteout (10) 58.5......................... S McKay 4 980x6 Ajay Lincoln (2) 58.5................... R Hannam 5 0x569 Double Act b (3) 58.5................. C Johnson 6 5x347 Francesca Kate (7) 56.5................. R Myers 7 94900 Valhexa (9) 56.5..................T Yanagida (a2) 8 0x858 Midnight Shocka (8) 56.5...............S Collett 9 856 O’Becky (1) 56.5......................... C Lammas 10 Wicked Sister (11) 56.5........C McLean (a4) 11 77x97 Makoura Lodge (12) 58.5 12 08x88 Heavenly Echo (13) 58.5 13 52780 Maipe (14) 56.5 -

LEGEND:

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Riva Capri, Petite Rose, La Joya, Regal Reward, Hasler Lad Race 2: The White Queen, Blue Arrow, New York Jazz, Chosen Peak, One Way Street Race 3: Trendy Belt, Lily d’Or, Mannering, Bumrah, Belle Of Georgia Race 4: Aero De Paris, Tiny Terror, Porshabelle, Pincanto, Not Usual Delight Race 5: One Madison, Spring Bouquet, Tuscan Whistler, Toro Rosso, Floral Belt Race 6: Beauty Star, Lincoln Town, Missandei, Overstayer, Mamarella Race 7: Alfa Rosso, Yeah Right, Man Power, Reflection, Mr Jimmy Pocket Race 8: Whiteout, Touch The Clouds, Midnight Shocka, Double Act, Ajay Lincoln Race 9: Big Ben, Mister Geronimo, Fantasy Flight, Never Back Down, Skaaboom Race 10: Ruffy Rahtwo, Super Hoof, Cabochon, Chartwell, Top Ofthe Straight

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 4 11211 Suspicious Minds 20.89.....................B Craik 5 32183 Powerful Lomar 21.29........................B Craik 6 11134 Buddy Boom 21.03 U &.....................Cottam 7 66336 Your Valentine 21.43..........................B Craik 8 16255 Zugzwang nwtd............................... S O’Neill 9 23387 Typical 21.25......................................S Ross 10 52858 Chitina Tin nwtd...............................P Green 4 1.06pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C3, 375m 1 24582 Party Every Day 21.50 R &..................L Udy 2 68277 Luke Skywalker nwtd...................... L A Hunt 3 x8744 Trevor Gibbs nwtd W &.....................T Steele 4 74x57 Zipping Gabby nwtd....................P Ferguson 5 27856 Botany Esmay 21.58........................P Green 6 65853 Pat Tama 21.35................................. S Clark 7 72636 Raging Demon 20.99 R &....................L Udy 8 431F3 Bigtime Hunter 22.08.................... H Mullane 5 1.23pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR STAKES C1, 457m 1 54252 Jinja Ted nwtd...................................S Lozell 2 26132 Stefano 25.83............................. A Lawrence 3 62123 Looby’s Story nwtd..................... A Lawrence 4 42164 Tuff’s My Mum 25.93..........................S Ross 5 67735 Thrilling Arnold nwtd........................S Codlin 6 78x17 Stellar Babe nwtd P &.................... J Cleaver 7 31214 Thrilling Roar 26.41.......................... K Walsh 8 15x Thrilling Winter nwtd........................ K Walsh 9 22766 Little Trilise nwtd......................... A Lawrence 10 345F4 Salvarotti 25.75..................................B Craik 6 1.40pm HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY BLAKE LOZELL C1, 375m

1 27247 Smoochie 21.37......................... A Lawrence 2 34444 Native Scout nwtd............................P Green 3 5x686 Double Change nwtd U &..................Cottam 4 71445 In Focus 21.66 P &........................ J Cleaver 5 55527 Talkabout Sophie nwtd......................M Black 6 24317 Prerogative 21.39............................P Henley 7 46232 Flying Dewy 21.87 R &........................L Udy 8 86368 Bigtime Ollie 21.68...................... M Prangley 9 26477 Hallo Star 21.08 R &............................L Udy 7 1.57pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C1, 375m 1 71221 Sophia Noir 21.54...................... A Lawrence 2 68825 Smash Rock nwtd........................... L A Hunt 3 78674 Audrette nwtd...................................S Codlin 4 24767 Tilly’s Silly 21.55 R &............................L Udy 5 65473 Platinum Tears 21.49.......................R Roper 6 45464 Kapai Tahi nwtd R &.............................L Udy 7 77646 Just Maddie 21.72.............................M Black 8 56377 Jinja Liv 21.44 U &.............................Cottam 9 26477 Hallo Star 21.08 R &............................L Udy 8 2.16pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C2, 375m 1 75552 Oskitz nwtd......................................S Codlin 2 26341 On Demand nwtd..............................M Black 3 28173 Extroverted nwtd............................. S O’Neill 4 85356 Always Dreaming 21.40.................. G Farrell 5 33158 Secret Babe nwtd.........................J T Pruden 6 76318 Jinja Jake 21.62 W &.......................T Steele 7 85168 Bold Diesel nwtd.............................. T Green 8 51463 Out Of Paper 21.43..................... G Pomeroy 9 5x786 Smash Charger nwtd...................... L A Hunt 10 446x7 Wairoa Angel 21.41..................... M Prangley

9 2.35pm FARMLANDS VIRKON STAKES C2/3, 457m

1 24838 Billy Bright 26.10.........................P Ferguson 2 78547 Amy Amy nwtd................................ G Farrell 3 17228 Dig Dig Dig nwtd............................. S O’Neill 4 55632 Waiterimu Ripper 25.94 R &................L Udy 5 13321 Thrilling Audrey 25.68...................... K Walsh 6 38186 Bigtime Jason 26.01..................... H Mullane 7 53137 Sheyna nwtd.....................................S Lozell 8 61141 Zoro 25.85.................................. A Lawrence 9 52712 Pam Arising nwtd............................ S O’Neill 10 26172 Victini 25.91....................................C Henley 10 2.51pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SPRINT C4, 375m 1 14667 Zipping Ringo 21.31............................ D Ray 2 54714 Go All Lin nwtd................................ S O’Neill 3 15242 Paddy’s Passion 21.49..................... T Green 4 62614 Nangar Dream 21.16...................... G Farrell 5 31213 Athenais 21.32...................................S Ross 6 16751 Stay Rich 21.52 M &......................... J Smith 7 38646 Blitz ‘Em Rene nwtd U &....................Cottam 8 73442 Thrilling Katie 21.23...........................E Potts 9 68727 Botany Wayne 21.24........................P Green 10 32134 Call Me Leo 21.28............................ T Green 11 3.08pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 42537 Thrilling Carly 25.83......................... K Walsh 2 22732 Thrilling Billy 25.48......................P Ferguson 3 18414 Damaging Lomar 25.53.....................B Craik 4 11417 Too The Nail 25.54.............................E Potts 5 26651 Thrilling Vice 25.48.......................... K Walsh 6 F6741 Keysile 25.56...............................P Ferguson

7 23112 Thrilling Talk 25.42........................... K Walsh 8 F1323 Our Rick 25.62...................................E Potts 9 21166 Odnoc Ankie 25.85.....................P Ferguson 10 53341 Frosty Blaze 26.16........................... T Green LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Enjoy The Perks, Sovereign Pride, Mrs. Presley, Hot Chilli, Prairie Seneca Race 2: Fancy, Shozip Boomer, Grouch Pawset, Crackle, Don Morocco Race 3: Sparta, Suspicious Minds, Buddy Boom, Fancy Fox, Mobility Scooter Race 4: Party Every Day, Pat Tama, Trevor Gibbs, Luke Skywalker, Bigtime Hunter Race 5: Thrilling Roar, Stefano, Thrilling Winter, Jinja Ted, Looby’s Story Race 6: Prerogative, Smoochie, Flying Dewy, Talkabout Sophie, Native Scout Race 7: Sophia Noir, Audrette, Platinum Tears, Kapai Tahi, Smash Rock Race 8: Oskitz, Out Of Paper, Extroverted, On Demand, Always Dreaming Race 9: Zoro, Thrilling Audrey, Billy Bright, Waiterimu Ripper, Dig Dig Dig Race 10: Athenais, Thrilling Katie, Paddy’s Passion, Blitz ‘Em Rene, Zipping Ringo Race 11: Thrilling Talk, Thrilling Vice, Thrilling Carly, Too The Nail, Keysile

BOXING DAY RACES “It’s an institution”

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$10 entry, under 18 FREE First race starts at 12.30pm

Pack a picnic for a fantastic day out at the Boxing Day Races

Fun and games for the kids and music by Nyree

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MEETINGS, EVENTS

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Footnote Dance Company

– Arts On Tour NZ Four of Auckland’s brightest musicians combined to bring you what can only be described as Mexican Fantasy Music. With great reviews this open hat night will have some serious instrument playing going on!

Emerging from the creative brilliance of choreographer Ross McCormack The Clearing is a full length work performed by renowned national Footnote Dance Company. Be delighted and challenged by the longest running contemporary dance company.

Adult $35* Child, concession $25 Door sales available

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TRADES, SERVICES

COMPUTER PROBLEMS??

For professional computer servicing and laser engraving, see Kelvin at KJB Systems, 4 Ascot Place. Phone 308 8989. Locally owned and serving Ashburton for 30 years. Same day service if possible.

Supergold discount card welcomed.

MUSICAL

Beckley Coachlines Programme ◊ THE FATHER Saturday, August 17 at 2pm, Court Theatre, Christchurch. ◊ DISNEY ON ICE Sunday, August 18 at 1.30pm, Horncastle Arena, Christchurch. ◊ MISS SAIGON Sunday, September 29 at 4pm, Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch.

For bookings phone 308 7646

New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour features award winning films from around New Zealand. They aim to inspire people to dream big and take on new challenges suitable to their physical ability. All proceeds from the Film Festival will help support Ashburton Youth Council.

PUBLIC NOTICES

ACTION ON AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS HAVE YOUR SAY!

Want to help the Government decide how we should reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture?

We’re holding a consultation on proposed options to tackle these emissions from 16 July to 13 August.

Adult $25 Children 14 + under $10

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Thu, 7.30pm

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A Taste Of Ireland

NZ Mountain Film Festival CERAMIC tiles - tile quality guaranteed - Tile Warehouse selection available at Redmonds Furnishing and Flooring, Burnett Street.

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This year audiences have the chance to witness World Champion Irish Dancers direct from the West End’s Lord of the Dance. This world class show will transport you to a time and place where tunes, taps and tradition showcase the essence of Irish spirit.

Tickets: Adult$74.90* / Concession $67.90* / Child $59.90* / Groups 8+ $67.90*

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The proposals are outlined on our consultation page at CELESTE, attractive, busty, www.mfe.govt.nz/consultation/action-agricultural-emissions lots of fun. Phone for your appointment.

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Daily Events THURSDAY 9.30am AGE CONCERN EXERCISE CLASS. Weekly classes. Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Join our friendly group for fun exercise during term time. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB DAY TIME SECTION. New members very welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings

FRIDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road.

10am

for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

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

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

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10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP.

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10.15am MSA TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for arthritis. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm

Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

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ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome.

Boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St Peters Church, Allenton.

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong. Newcomers welcome. $4.

Tuition available for new players.

Waireka Croquet Club. The domain, Philip Street.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

96.25mm x 96.25mm 308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE CLUB. Social play, newcomers welcome. 115 Racecourse Road.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

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Cryptic crossword

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

ACROSS 1. Favourite, if one is in the red, to get terribly frightened (9) 5. Vehicle returned from motorists’ club (3) 7. Grammatical word showing sister to have swallowed nothing (4) 8. Giving rise to a chessman, sing about it (8) 10. Locks away one with a thousand oncers (8) 11. It is brand-new, and it’s a flavoursome thing (4) 13. Eat too fast to talk turkey! (6) 15. The nearer one gets to it, the meaner it is (6) 18. Put up for hire: there’s nothing in that, as a game manoeuvre (4) 19. Somehow saw, in child’s bed, a part of the wall (8) 22. Amuses oneself with the dross pit can supply (8) 23. How to draw an arm or a leg, one is told (4) 24. Finish making entry in the kitchen department (3) 25. It could be argued that it could beat blade to it (9) DOWN 1. Running one through as the engine is knocking (7) 2. Both umpires needed to show such a blow (5) 3. I am having deep trouble and get in the way (6) 4. It will begin to be understood by one at first light (4) 5. They give the papers notice of their theatre attendance (7) 6. On the one hand, this is one’s entitlement (5) 9. It will tarnish lily one had left after giving us up (5) 12. A flat surface that, in short, takes to the air (5) 14. Spent time with books and quarrels when in bed (7) 16. The Sappers could unite with a train of attendants (7) 17. Is able to get cricketer up from Cambridge shortly (6) 18. Franco’s father may be a chaplain in the army (5) 20. Move up, or do so down to humble oneself (5) 21. The cowl used by brick-carrier has nothing in it (4)

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You may feel pressure in the fact that someone is coming to you for answers, but you can relax about this. You don’t have to know anything special. The best you can do is hold up a mirror.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Minding your own business may sound like a bossy directive, but it’s actually a path to freedom. If you don’t make things about you that needn’t be, you’ll have more energy for your own enjoyment.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Maybe, on a planet hurtling through space, control is largely an illusion.

But it’s a sorely needed one. Create it for another person today and you’ll experience ease and gratitude.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You don’t need to know everything about the subject at hand because you’re going to specialise and get really terrific at one part of the puzzle. Narrow your focus. You’ll learn best when you learn less.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Invite that highest iteration of your mental process to take charge and you’ll receive a vision. The vision is of you living your best life – or at least this is one possible version of it.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Can you improve things by transferring responsibility to someone more capable, knowledgeable or lucky? Not today, anyway. It’s costly and possibly lazy, whereas a DIY approach will bring you good fortune.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): The “why” question is most helpfully directed from you to you. It is not a good question to ask of the people on your team because it’s usually an accusation.

Move on to the “how” and “what” questions.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): In every relationship there comes a time when one or both parties needs to recalibrate. If you’re paying attention and making small adjustments along the way, this shouldn’t be too big of a deal.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Someone behind the scenes has the power to implement or block your plan. This person may not be directly or officially the authority but possesses influence that outsizes his or her role.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Your self-esteem is a fickle metric. Just remember that it is just an opinion. Even so, if being around a person seems to have a consistently negative influence on your self-esteem, just leave.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Point everyone toward solving your problem, and then you won’t be working on it alone. The people around you may not exactly jump into helping mode, but the mental wheels will turn. This is a start.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You want to agree to something, but agreement isn’t just saying yes. Agreement becomes action and then habit, and before you know it, the agreement is a lifestyle. Think it over and through.

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How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed.

There’s at least one five-letter word.

Good Verywords Good of 14 three Excellent 16 How 11 many or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed.

There’s at least one five-letter word. fist, fit, fits, Previous solution: Good 11 Very Good fish, 14 Excellent 16 his, hist, hit, hits, ifs, its, shift, sift, sit, this

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Previous solution: fish, fist, fit, fits, his, hist, hit, hits, ifs, its, shift, sift, sit, this

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DEATHS

DEATHS MITCHELL, Valerie Ann (Val) – On July 14, 2019, suddenly but peacefully at Ashburton Hospital aged 66 years.

Dearly loved wife of Melvie and much loved Mother and mother-in-law of Paula, and Grant and Lisa. Treasured Nana to Daniel, Ashleigh, Hannah and Ella. Messages to the Mitchell family, c/o 19 London Street, Richmond, Christchurch 8013. Special thanks to the team at the Rakaia Medical Centre for their love and care of Val. A celebration of Val’s life will be held at the Rakaia Community Centre, Elizabeth Avenue, Rakaia, TOMORROW Friday, July 19, at 1.30pm, followed by private cremation.

Please note all late death notices or notices sent outside ordinary office hours must be emailed to: deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz

to ensure publication.

To place a notice during office hours please contact us on 03 307 7900 for more information.

Any queries please contact 0800 ASHBURTON (0800-274-287)

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BROOKER, Noel Leonard – Formally of Friendship Lane, Ashburton. Passed away on July 12, 2019 at Tuarangi Home, Ashburton. Sadly missed by his loving daughter Wendy, son-in-law Ken and grandchildren Leon, Nathan and Arahina. Messages to the Brooker family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to celebrate Noel’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton TOMORROW Friday, July 19, commencing at 2.00pm. Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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Fine and frosty, with increasing high cloud.

However, periods of rain about the divide from afternoon, falling as snow to about 1200 metres.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: NW 40 km/h.

Fine and frosty, with increasing high cloud then patchy evening rain Northeasterlies developing in the morning.

TOMORROW Rain developing in the morning as northeasterlies change southwest.

TOMORROW

Occasional rain, more persistent in the south. Southwesterlies.

Cloudy with scattered rain. Southwesterlies.

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Canterbury Readings

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Snow to about 1000 metres in the south.

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Cloudy with scattered rain, clearing. Snow possible to about 1200 metres. Southerlies dying out.

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TODAY

Thursday, 18 July 2019

A west to southwest flow over the North Island turns northwest ahead of a band of approaching fronts. A warm front approaches the west coast of the South Island this morning and lies east of Banks Peninsula by late evening. A broad, active trough over the Tasman Sea crosses New Zealand tomorrow.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 Ellen is joined by Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. 0 10am Tipping Point 3 11am The Chase 3 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Robert believes the scam will be finalised soon; Dawn’s first day at the factory has not lasted long; Jacob and Liv are friends again. 0 1pm Coronation Street Catch-Up PGR 3 0 2pm Location, Location, Location 3 0 3pm Tipping Point Lucky Stars 0 4pm Te Karere 2 0 4:30 Funny You Should Ask 0 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Design Junkies Kiwi designer Shane Hansen mentors six contestants through a series of design challenges, as they compete for a trip to the London Design Fair. 0 8:30 Doctor Doctor AO 0 9:25 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:25 1 News Tonight 0 10:55 20/20 AO 0 11:55 The Week The Landlords Moved In 3 Marc, Peter, Paul, and Prea face some home truths. 0 1:05 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 1:30 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2

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8:30 Below Deck – Mediterranean AO Chef Mila continues to struggle in the galley, leading Captain Sandy to make a temporary adjustment; Hannah takes on double duty to please unhappy charter guests.

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6:30 Peppa Pig 0 6:40 PJ Masks 3 0 7am Monchhichi Tribe 3 0 7:25 Mysticons 3 0 7:50 The Tom And Jerry Show 0 8:15 Doc McStuffins – Toy Hospital 3 0 8:35 Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 9:05 Infomercials 10:05 The Middle 3 0 10:35 Neighbours 3 0 11:05 Bride And Prejudice UK PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 Noon Judge Rinder PGR 3 2pm Will And Grace PGR 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:35 Peppa Pig 0 3:40 Pokemon XYZ 3 0 4pm Fanimals Programme for children who love animals. 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

6am The AM Show 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:30 DailyMailTV PGR Noon Face The Truth PGR William says he worries about his 250-kg best friend, James, who constantly overeats. James says he knows he needs to eat right and exercise, but diet plans do not work for him.

12:30 Dr Phil PGR 1:25 The Block NZ – Firehouse PGR 3 0 2:30 Vet On The Hill 3 3:30 DailyMailTV PGR 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm 4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm Love Island UK 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Police Ten 7 PGR 0 8pm Motorway Patrol PGR A hit-and-run; a clueless speeding driver; a bright spark under the chassis but not behind the wheel. 0 8:30 Wife Swap NZ 0 9:30 F Take Me Out PGR 0 10:30 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 11pm Police Ten 7 AO 3 0 11:30 Marvel’s Cloak And Dagger AO 12:15 F iZombie AO 3 0 1am The Middle 3 1:20 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:50 Infomercials 2:50 Army Wives PGR 3 0 3:35 Bachelor In Paradise PGR 3 0 4:20 Love Connection PGR 3 0 5:05 Neighbours PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

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11:10 NCIS AO 3 When Gibbs sees the brother of an NCIS Most Wanted suspect, he assumes his former alias and goes undercover with the antigovernment militia. 0 12:05 Infomercials

11pm Rugby – First XV Revision (HLS) Highlights and analysis of New Zealand’s premier school rugby competition.

11:30 Kick-Off 12:05 Netball – World Cup Australia v Silver Ferns.

1:45 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 2:45 Closedown

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6:15 Burying Yasmeen MVLC 2019 Comedy. Jason Lott, Mike Langer. 7:30 Mark Felt – The Man Who Brought Down The White House ML 2017 Drama. Liam Neeson, Diane Lane. 9:15 Nothing But Trailers M 9:30 Only The Brave ML 2017 Drama.

Josh Brolin, Miles Teller.

11:40 Tulip Fever MVS 2017 Drama. Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz.

1:25 Burying Yasmeen MVLC 2019 Comedy. Jason Lott, Mike Langer. 2:40 Mark Felt – The Man Who Brought Down The White House ML 2017 Drama. Liam Neeson, Diane Lane. 4:25 Every Day PGL 2018 Drama.

Angourie Rice, Colin Ford.

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Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell. 8pm Venom MVL 2018 Action. A failed reporter becomes the host for the alien symbiote, Venom. Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams.

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11:30 The Amityville Murders 16VLSC 2018 Horror.

Paul Ben-Victor, John Robinson.

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Angourie Rice, Colin Ford.

2:40 Roman J Israel, Esq. MVL 2017 Drama.

Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell. 4:40 Venom MVL 2018 Action. Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams.

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Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo.

1:40 Bringing Down The House MV 2003 Comedy.

Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Joan Plowright, Eugene Levy.

3:25 The Help MC 2011 Drama. Emma Stone, Viola Davis.

5:50 Fast Five MVL 2011 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

8pm We Bought A Zoo PGL 2011 Drama. Based on a true story about a single father who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to a zoo. Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson.

10:05 Prometheus 16V 2012 Sci-fi Mystery. Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba.

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6:30 Takoha 6:40 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 7:10 Kia Mau 3 7:20 E Kori 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Huhu 3 7:50 Smooth 3 8am Pukana 3 2 8:50 Paia 3 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 Easy Eats 3 10am F Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 Paki Vault 3 11am Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 Noon Hoiho 3 12:30 F Billy T James AO 3 1pm Toa – Toa O Aotearoa PGR 3 1:30 Both Worlds 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 3:40 Kia Mau 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Huhu 3 4:20 Smooth 3 4:30 Te Iti Kahurangi 3 5pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 5:30 Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Kai With Anne Thorp 3 8pm Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9pm The Koi Boys AO 9:30 F The Ring Inz AO 3 10pm The Hui – Kaupeka Wha 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

11pm Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 Ruatoki – Mataatua.

11:30 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

6:30 SkySpeed A review of recent motorsport highlights and the progress of New Zealanders on the world stage.

7am The Back Page The latest sports news.

8am L Golf – LPGA Tour Great Lakes Bay Invitational – First Round.

From Midland Michigan.

10am Golf – Staysure Tour (HLS) 11am Live From The Open Detailed discussions and analysis of the players and the course.

1pm The Back Page The latest sports news.

2pm Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Great Lakes Bay Invitational – First Round.

2:30 World Surf League (HLS) 3:30 Live From The Open Detailed discussions and analysis of the players and the course.

5:30 L Golf – The Open Championship Day One. From Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland.

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6am Paul Hollywood City Bakes 6:30 Heston’s Feast 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Bondi Vet 9am Shed And Buried 9:30 Location, Location, Location 11:30 Walking The Nile 12:30 Doctor In The House 1:30 Selling Houses With Amanda Lamb 2:30 Location, Location, Location 3:30 Into The Wild – India One of the most famous animals in the world lives in the jungles of India – the Bengal tiger. Over the course of a day, a look at the fortunes of one mother and her three cubs.

4:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food The Hairy Bikers cook some of their favourite comfort food.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Jade Fever The Bunce family’s jademining operation employs most of the town’s residents, and they aim to turn various claims into million-dollar jackpots.

8:30 Discovering Susan Sarandon.

9:30 Paranormal Survivor AO 10:30 American Pickers 11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes 1am The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food 2am Selling Houses With Amanda Lamb 3am Into The Wild – India 4am Paranormal Survivor AO 5am Mysteries At The Museum

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4pm Fight Night 6pm The Back Page 7pm NZ Press Box 7:30 Keeping The Faith Documentary about the history of the New Zealand’s only professional rugby league franchise, the Warriors.

8:30 The Kiwi League Show 9pm L Rugby League – NRL Broncos v Bulldogs.

From the Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

11:45 The Late Show With Matty Johns

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5am Golf – Staysure Tour (HLS) 18Jul19

DISCOVERY 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How It’s Made PG 7:30 Weather Gone Viral PG Hazards of the Job. 8:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG 9:10 Deadliest Catch PG 10am Aussie Salvage Squad PG The Tide is King. 10:50 Outback Opal Hunters PG 11:40 Web Of Lies M 12:30 The Perfect Murder M A Motive Most Bizarre. 1:20 Murder Calls M Seeing Red. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG Of Monsters and Men. 4:45 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG 5:40 Outback Opal Hunters PG 6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 8:30 Gold Rush – White Water PG The Dakotas Strike Back.

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11:55 Weather Gone Viral M Freak Phenomena.

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Wilson hits top form

By Matt Markham

matt.m@theguardian.co.nz

Leading Ashburton indoor bowler, Grant Wilson will be looking to turn back the clock six years later this season when he heads to the New Zealand final of the Henselite Singles.

Wilson won the event in 2013 and is the only Ashburton player to have done so, and earned the right to head back to one of the sport’s biggest stages at the end of September by winning the Ashburton play-off on Sunday at the McNally Street Stadium.

A former South Island member, Wilson emerged on top of a strong field of players, which featured current former South Island representatives and a New Zealand representative, to win the title.

Twelve players took to the mats at the tournament with only four players gaining the necessary wins to qualify for the knockout stage of the competition.

Wilson was joined in one semi-final

by Colin Gilbert while Ken Mackenzie and Mat Bassett squared off in the other.

Wilson manged to get past Gilbert 13-8 while Mackenzie was too good for Willowby team-mate Bassett, winning 12-7.

The final was a closely fought affair between two of Ashburton’s best players but it was Wilson who did the necessary to get the win, claiming a 10-7 margin at the end of the match.

Wilson’s good form will have him in a good head space ahead of this weekend where he will be a key member of the Ashburton side heading to Collingwood to compete for the Paterson Trophy.

New Zealand’s regional bowls competition, the Paterson Trophy is played for over six different zones throughout New Zealand with individual zone-winning sides heading on to compete for the Welch Trophy later in the season.

Ashburton won last year’s event and finished third at the Welch so will be out to solidify their spot there this year and push for higher honours.

Wilson will this year play three to Michael Lawson in one side with Russell Ellis and Murray Bassett off the front while Mat Bassett, Ken Mackenzie, Graeme Chapman and Maurice Sunbeam make up the remainder of the side.

Play begins on Friday night with the first session before three more rounds on Saturday and then a final round on Sunday morning.

Ashburton will face teams from Canterbury, West Coast, Marlborough, Nelson and Golden Bay and Motueka.

Right – Grant Wilson was in hot form at the weekend winning the Henselite Singles and will be hoping to carry that form to the Paterson Trophy this weekend.

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Silver Ferns secure world cup semi-finals berth

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