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Eight-year-old Paige recovered from flu only to be hit with what is believed to be another strain of the virus.

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Battling bugs

By Susan Sandys

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Top guns fight it out

Ashburton schools are combining classes as the perfect storm of a dwindling pool of relieving teachers and winter illnesses takes its toll.

At Dorie School on Friday there was more than one-third of the students away – 30 of the school’s 82 children.

Principal Anthony Doreen said numbers had bounced back yesterday, but last week’s peak had followed two teachers being away with the flu the week before.

The school had not been successful in getting a reliever and Doreen found himself teaching a combined class of the

school’s remaining approximate 50 pupils.

“It’s not uncommon this time of year to have kids away, it’s just the number of kids that’s surprising,” Doreen said.

Some cases had been flu, others included heavy colds or chicken pox.

Ashburton Borough School principal Hilary Boyce said staff had been affected by the flu and in each classroom there were also a number of children off with a variety of bugs, some flu-like.

“It’s a bit of a revolving door, as you would expect with a contagious disease like that.”

Relieving teachers were booked up and the school was having to combine

some classes.

Boyce had herself had two days off last week on doctor’s orders with a chest infection, but was not sure whether she had had a flu virus or not.

She had been among around half of the teachers at Dorie who had taken up the free flu vaccine offered by the school earlier in the year.

Allenton School principal Bruce Tilby said winter illnesses had peaked a couple of weeks ago at 81 students away, but now it was down to the 40s.

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Kiwi tour beckons for opera star Opera star Simon O’Neill has traded his glamorous life on the international performance circuit for a down-to-earth Kiwi road trip, and he could not be happier.

Susan Sandys reports.

Entertaining royalty and celebrities in some of the most magnificent opera houses and theatres in the world is just another day in the life of Simon O’Neill.

Born and bred in Ashburton, the 47-year-old is renowned internationally as the Wagnerian tenor of his generation.

Performing at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden he will regularly look out to see Prince Charles sitting in the royal box, while earlier this month while performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he saw Bradley Cooper in the audience. He knows Stephen Fry is a good opera fan as he sees the English actor regularly at performances, and it was just earlier this year at a dinner function, following a concert in Dallas, that he was seated next to local Ross Perot, a former US presidential candidate.

O’Neill said it was interesting to talk to Perot, but the pair were at odds as to what was the most interesting topic of conversation. Perot wanted to know all about opera, while O’Neill was in awe of his fellow diner’s experience of running for the presidency.

O’Neill has had a busy year already, having been to America six times, not to mention Berlin, London, Barcelona and Vienna.

This winter he was to be on a pre-Olympic cultural tour in Japan, singing the famous aria Nessun dorma in Puccini’s Turandot. However, last year, he contacted the organisers to let them know he could not make it.

“I decided, you know what, I’m going to spend winter in New Zealand with my family,” O’Neill said.

“And instead of singing Nessun dorma in Japan, I’m going to be singing it here for us.”

O’Neill will join with his famous opera singer friend from Scotland, bass baritone Iain Paterson.

“I said ‘Come down, we will watch rugby and sing all our favourite operas and arias’.”

Left – Simon O’Neill.

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Inset above – Simon and wife Carmel and their three children upon the opera star receiving the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit at Government House in 2017.

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They will join with pianist Terence Dennis, to offer an evening of famous arias and duets. There will be operatic selections from Pearl Fishers, Madama Butterfly, Don Carlo, Otello and Tosca, as well as songs of Scotland and Ireland. Be My Love and others of Mario Lanza will feature, alongside some of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatest tunes of the Broadway era.

The principal artists with the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera Nationale de Paris and the Staatsoper of Berlin, Munich and Vienna, will kick off their Kiwi tour in Dunedin on July 2 and have their final performance in Wellington on July 14.

“We are going to all the places that I studied and lived, with a few extras.”

They will be at the Ashburton Trust

Event Centre on July 4, and O’Neill can not wait.

Last time he was to perform in Ashburton was in 2017 at the much-anticipated Night of the Southern Stars at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre. But he could not sing, due to having laryngitis.

The illness had come on the back of a gruelling schedule including the Edinburgh International Festival and The Proms in London.

Being able to take the stage in Ashburton this time round will be fantastic, he said.

In the meantime, O’Neill is enjoying some time with his wife Carmel and their three children at their home in Auckland after flying in from Los Angeles earlier this month. Leading up to the Kiwi tour

he is just another dad out on the netball, football and basketball fields watching 10-year-old twins Tom and Grace and seven-year-old Violet.

“That’s what I regard as work,” he said of his glamorous international performing career.

“What I regard as joy and happiness is being home with family, touring New Zealand, singing my songs.”

He said while he was known best for big German operas, he did not want Mid Cantabrians to think they were in for “10 hours of me yelling at them in German”.

“This concert isn’t that at all, this concert is me singing all my other favourite stuff.”

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Airborne start to book week at Tinwald School Battling

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay

Left – The Skydiving Kiwis performance team high-five their way round the students at Tinwald School after skydiving into (below) the school grounds.

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Book week at Tinwald School got off to a different start for students on Monday, with students looking to the skies instead of pages to start the week.

Students were treated to a skydiving performance from Skydiving Kiwis, who performed above the school before landing in the school field and reading a book to the children.

It was the first of a number of performances the company were donating to the community for free.

Skydiving Kiwis CEO and one half of the performing team, Lee Barraclough, said the idea behind the performances was to give back to the community.

“It is a way for us to practice our routines and to give back to the community,” he said.

“Like today, we have obviously performed and we are going to read a book to the kids, which is cool.

“It can really add a lot of flavour to an event.”

Barraclough said they intended to perform between 10 to 15 times before Christmas, with seven other events already booked in.

“Our goal is to be able to go and do some displays in Timaru, Christchurch and even New Zea-

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land wide,” he said.

Tinwald School principal Peter Livingstone said having the skydivers open the book week was a great way to show the students that reading is a skill for life.

“They (the two skydivers) both spoke to the kids in the hall after and then one of them read to the students,” he said.

“The nice thing about it is it shows them that reading is

something that all people do.

“We want to show them that reading is a skill for life and it is something that is critical for the rest of learning, you have to be able to read before you can write.

“It is about getting the students to be reading independently and looking at it critically long before they get to intermediate and high school.”

The performance kicks-off a week of book-related activities at the school, including visits from authors and a character parade on Friday.

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“It could be some form of flu, an offshoot of that has been a lot of tummy bugs and vomiting.”

Some teachers had been affected and the pool of relievers was growing smaller, with quality relievers having taken up permanent part-time positions at various schools or just not available.

“So far we have managed to get a reliever, just,” he said.

“We are quite concerned that with some of the winter ills it might get worse.”

One Ashburton teacher who did not want to be named said he had to take three days off recently due to having had the flu.

He said initial symptoms were sweating, and then he got a sore chest while playing badminton with his pupils.

“I thought my symptoms were just from doing that,” he said.

But then things got worse, with high temperatures and chills, extreme headaches, aching body and a persistent cough which stopped him from sleeping.

He had contracted the virus despite having been vaccinated, but thought he would continue with the vaccination in future years as he thought it was the right thing for a teacher to do.

Vaccine shortage frustrates mum

By Susan Sandys

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Ashburton mum Karen Smollett said her daughter Paige was so sick with swine flu last year she feared she would die.

What started as a minor dry cough at the beginning of a school day quickly turned into alarmingly high temperatures, and a sleep featuring delirium and hallucinations that was difficult to wake her from.

She also couldn’t eat, drink or go the toilet.

Smollett called the ambulance three times, and Paige was ad-

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mitted to hospital twice, and diagnosed with swine flu. As she recovered she was hit with a follow-up attack, and ended up altogether having six weeks off school.

“I thought she was going to die, she was so sick,” Smollett said.

“My biggest fear was she would stop breathing or have an asthma attack.”

The eight-year-old has been hit again with what may be a flu virus this winter, alongside fellow family members.

Smollett said herself, husband and three of their five children had suffered high temperatures

and chills, while Paige and another of the children had also got chest and throat infections.

Smollett was frustrated at the family not being able to get vaccinated against the flu due to a shortage of vaccines. Her general practice had suggested waiting until a flu clinic for them to come in, but then texted to say they could not be done due to having to prioritise high-risk patients.

Smollett was however grateful that Paige had been able to get the vaccine, due to falling into this high-risk group. Smollett believed that receiving the vaccine, for the first time, had helped

Paige’s symptoms be much less severe this year.

Meanwhile, St John medical director Dr Tony Smith said the best way to stay flu-free was to not only get your flu jab, but also avoid contact with people who were unwell, and wash and dry your hands.

He advised people to look after themselves and others in the community, check on neighbours and family who might be vulnerable during the cold winter months, and seek treatment early to reduce the risk of minor illnesses becoming critical.

“Last year St John responded

to nearly 70,000 incidents during July and August and the priority is always to send emergency ambulances as quickly as possible to those in most urgent need.

To cope with the extra workload, St John puts on additional resources including ambulances, rapid response and transport vehicles,” Smith said.

For the winter months of July and August last year, there were 24 and 28 flu-related call-outs respectively in Mid Canterbury.

There was a spike in cases the previous year (2017), with 38 and 61 call-outs, compared to 30 and 30 in 2016.

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Objectionable material charges denied Bail was refused yesterday for a Mid Canterbury man facing 28 charges related to possessing, making and distributing objectionable material involving children.

The man was granted interim name suppression by Ashburton District Court Judge Joanna Maze, who said a separate hearing will be held on July 1 regarding ongoing suppression.

The man’s lawyer Kathy Besire said not guilty pleas were entered to the charges, which go back several years.

She said she was applying for legal aid money to fund an

expert forensic examination of the material. The expert would review electronic evidence disclosed by police about the uploading of images and their storage – the review is expected to take several months.

The 28 charges include two of burglary and one of doing an indecent act. The charges will be called again on July 22, as part of a case review.

The man asked for a chair to sit in the dock and it was later revealed he had been allegedly assaulted in the court holding cells.

Judge Maze closed the court while she heard an application

for bail. She heard submissions from Besire and from crown prosecutor Helen Bennett and in the end said she was satisfied there was just cause for the man’s continued detention.

An ambulance was seen outside the court prior to the afternoon session and the man was transported for medical assessment.

Police prosecutor sergeant Ian Howard said a 26-year-old man could face a charge of assault.

The man appeared later in the day on other charges; he has been in custody since February.

Right – An ambulance outside the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

Others to appear before Judge Maze included: Tayla Rose Townley was behind the wheel of her car on Melcombe Street when it went into a skid on the grass verge and hit a power pole.

Police said she was driving south and pulled over to let her front seat passenger out. She braked and the car slid sideways, the passenger suffering back injuries when it hit the pole.

Townley pleaded guilty to careless use causing injury and was remanded to July 22 for sentence.

The case was also referred for restorative justice.

Interim name suppression was granted to an Ashburton man who admitted a charge of fraud.

The man found an eftpos card in a money machine at Hornby in November last year and used it to withdraw $1000.

The 78-year-old owner of the card had withdrawn money but walked off without his card. The Ashburton man had been able to use the machine straight away and access the victim’s account.

He told police he made no attempt to find the card’s owner and knew it was wrong to use it. He was broke and needed money before Christmas.

Police said the card owner was refunded the $1000 but the bank was seeking reparation.

The man was remanded to July 22 for sentencing. The case was also referred for restorative justice.

“He deeply regrets the trouble he has caused to the local community on the island,” Bradford said.

Michael Robert Fraser was sentenced to six months’ supervision and 60 hours community work after admitting two charges of driving while disqualified.

He was caught on February 16 and May 29 last year driving to work, after he had been banned from taking the wheel.

A probation report recommended Fraser go to jail but Judge Maze said supervision and community work was more appropriate.

She also disqualified Fraser from driving for another 12 months.

Scott Keith Paton, 21, was fined a total of $600 and disqualified from driving for six months after hooning on a Stewart Island beach after a few beers.

Paton was also disqualified from driving for six months.

The Ashburton man had been holidaying on the island with friends and did not realise the beach was protected because of wildlife that lived there. He also did not know that a beach was technically a road and he could be charged with driving with sustained loss of traction and drink driving, said his lawyer Paul Bradford.

Roland Derek Tipene Edwards admitted drink driving in Ashburton on May 26. He blew 900mcg.

Judge Maze remanded him for sentence to August 12 and inferred he was unlikely to get community work because of a previous response to the sentence.

Steven McManus admitted a charge of threatening behaviour, which carries a maximum term of three months in jail.

He was sentenced to six months supervision and ordered to complete family violence counselling.

The judge said she would also remit fines of $1030 if he did 10 hours voluntary work.

Luke Joshua Roulston, 24, of Tinwald, was sentenced to nine months’ supervision and 75 hours community work on charges of intentional damage, possession of ammunition in a public place and using threatening language.

Judge Maze also ordered him to complete counselling for violence, drug and alcohol issues and to pay $120 reparation for the window smashed in the offending on October 29 last year.

The charges arose after Roulston was asked to leave the ad-

dress where he had spent the previous night. He picked up a mop and hit a coffee table; the top of the mop came off and hit the victim in the face.

After an explicit video of him was posted on Facebook, he returned and smashed a window.

When the victim helped him stop the bleeding, he told her he had intended to harm her.

Judge Maze said he had lost self-control and a significant event of family violence had followed.

A 43-year-old man admitted charges of receiving alcohol stolen in a burglary of the Collegiate Squash Club and fraudulently using a document.

Darryl Leonard Conner was jailed for two months and ordered to make reparation of $400. Conner has been in custody since his arrest on April 13, so has effectively served his time.

who had a partner and young child.

He said Laffey was at risk of being recruited by gangs if he went back to prison and he needed help to rehabilitate.

Judge Maze agreed, noting both assaults had been one punch while Laffey was under the influence of alcohol.

“Imprisonment has done nothing to change the way you view your options in life,” she said.

She imposed a 12-month sentence of intensive supervision, with judicial monitoring.

“You and I will continue to have contact,” she told Laffey, “maybe not in person, but I will receive regular reports of how you are doing and what your attitude is.”

Laffey must also pay his victims $200 each in emotional reparation.

Keagan Douglas Boyes, 22, was fined $400 and sentenced to an alcohol interlock. He had admitted driving drunk in Dunedin in February.

His breath alcohol level was 600mcg when he was tested by police. He had a similar drink drive conviction last year.

Judge Maze said the cost of the alcohol interlock sentence could be up to $3000. The device would be fitted to Boyes’ car for at least six months and be followed by three-year zero alcohol licence.

An impassioned plea by lawyer Paul Bradford kept Tyrone Laffey out of jail.

Laffey was appearing for sentence on two charges of assault and one of breaching release cona to his ditions by failing to report probation officer.

Bradford said another jail term had been recommended by probation officers but it was clear that prison was not helping his client,

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Billion Dollar Bonfire author in town NZME How and why South Canterbury Finance collapsed has been a question perplexing its many investors for years.

The answer lies in the details of Alan Hubbard’s business procedures and beneficent ways, as well as the events following the government wresting control of his affairs.

So says author and financial advisor Chris Lees, who launched his book, The Billion Dollar Bonfire: How Allan Hubbard and the Government Destroyed South Canterbury Finance, in Timaru last month.

Lees will talk about his book in Ashburton tonight at a meet-theauthor event at Paper Plus. It starts at 7pm and tickets are $5.

Key facts in the book include government officials wrongly deciding, after a flying visit to Hubbard’s Timaru headquarters, that the financier had stolen money from Aorangi Securities, an investment scheme he had been running.

And John Key’s cabinet put him, his wife Jean, and Aorangi into statutory management based on this false premise, in June 2010.

That decision was effectively the nail in the coffin for Hubbard’s South Canterbury Finance, which

Financier Allan Hubbard (front) projected honesty and frugality. went into receivership in August 2010 and ended up costing taxpayers almost $1 billion and one group of stranded investors $120 million.

Lee’s portrayal of Hubbard makes no bones that he had deep flaws, including operating the same kind of Ponzi scheme that

brought down famous fraudsters, New Zealand’s own David Ross and New York’s Bernie Madoff, both of whom are still serving lengthy prison sentences.

But Hubbard’s financial empire ran on one crucial difference – whereas Ross and Madoff used new investors’ money to pay off

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existing investors, Hubbard used his own money to make good any losses his investors suffered.

For unlike those fraudsters, Hubbard was no thief, Lees said.

The losses investors suffered occurred after the government had wrested control of his affairs and came at the hands of managers,

Rates rise for Selwyn District #CWC19

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The Selwyn District Council has approved its annual plan which includes $173m in projects over the next 12 months.

The annual plan sets out the council’s financial and operational plans for the next financial year, from July 1 to June 30, 2020 – which included setting the rates.

As the long-term plan (LTP) was adopted in June 2018, and the annual plan is a continuation of that plan, the council opted not to consult on the 2019/20 year as there was no significant change to the levels of rates increase which the council signalled last year.

Included in the capital programme are several major projects including the $22m Te Ara Atea and Rolleston town centre development, the $21m Foster Park indoor courts, $13.8m Selwyn Aquatic Centre extension, $15m Health Hub, $3.2m Pines Resource Recovery Park ‘Reconnect’ project and $3.5m for water quality improvements.

The plan also includes the proposed Shands/Blakes Road intersection up-

grade ($5 million) which is now under threat after signalled funding changes from NZ Transport Agency, with council staff meeting with the NZTA this week to discuss the changes.

The report on the annual plan from corporate services manager, Greg Bell, stated it is “an ambitious programme and we recognise that not all of the projects will be completed within the financial year”.

Of the main changes to the annual plan from the LTP (outlined below) was the carry over of operating projects of $3.1m and capital projects of $65.6m.

The report on the annual plan stated the financial performance showed a surplus of $31.7m, forecast the equity to be $1.74 billion by June 2020 and the level of borrowing to be $99.5m.

At last week’s meeting the council also approved the rates for the next financial year with an average rates rise of approximately 6 per cent, but would vary for different properties and areas based on services provided and impact of the new district wide rates.

Brian Tamaki attacks Muslims via FB NZME Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has hit out at Islamic immigrants in a Facebook post that other community members have labelled hate speech.

Tamaki had already earlier repeatedly criticised the Islamic community following the Christchurch terror attack.

He earlier claimed plans to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer across the country would turn New Zealand into a Muslim country.

Now Tamaki has further claimed “we can not accept the proliferation of Islam in our

country” in a post on his Facebook page.

“We can not ... think just because you’re tolerant, accepting and inclusive that we won’t end up like Great Britain, South East Asia and most of Europe with violence, loss of the host country’s identity, their values and culture destroyed and Sharia Law enacted,” he said.

Tamaki argued he was only exercising his right to free speech in making the claim.

“There are biblical truths and strong convictions I have about my Christian beliefs, which may not be yours, but I’m free to express them,” he said.

such as former SCF chief executive Sandy Maier, Trustees Executors, receivers McGrath Nichol and inept Treasury officials.

“Hubbard was guilty of many illegalities, but theft of investor money was not one of them, as far as my research has revealed,” Lee writes.

The profile Lee paints of Hubbard, who was born into poverty in Dunedin in 1928 and rose to control a billion dollar empire, only to see it fail catastrophically, doesn’t gloss over Hubbard’s many warts and idiosyncrasies.

Staying true to a higher morality, he projected kindness and frugality, driving a mustard-coloured Volkswagen Beetle he bought in 1973 right up until his death in September 2011.

But Hubbard’s sense that laws were to be obeyed by lesser men extended to refusing to wear a seat belt, as on the day he died in an accident as a passenger in Jean’s Honda.

Lee knew Hubbard for 30 years, both professionally and later as a friend, and his portrayal of the man, as well as the details of Hubbard’s business affairs, honour a notable Kiwi, a flawed and complex eccentric with good intentions and a man who left his stamp for both good and ill on the history of New Zealand business.

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Emergency services busy

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

Emergency services in Rakaia and Methven have been kept busy over the past few days attending a number of car crashes and medical calls.

Late on Sunday evening firefighters from the Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade were called to the Bankside area north of the Rakaia river after a two-car crash at around 9.15pm.

Rakaia fire chief Tyrone Burrowes said they were called to the end of a passing lane on State Highway 1 after a car had attempted to change lanes and struck the front of another vehicle.

“One of the cars had jumped a fence and ended in a ditch and the other has taken out a concrete power pole and ended up on its roof,” he said.

“Luckily there were no serious injuries and everyone was out of the vehicles and walking around.

“When you get to a crash like that and there is a car in a ditch and one that’s taken out a pole and is on its roof you expect there to be some major injuries.”

Burrowes said the highway was closed for several hours as the scene was cleaned up.

A St John spokesman said four patients were treated, two with moderate injuries and two with minor injuries.

One patient with moder-

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A number of call-outs over the past few days have kept emergency services busy.

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ate injuries was taken to the Christchurch Hospital emergency department by road, while the other three were treated at the scene.

On Monday, the brigade were called to two medical call-outs less than 20 minutes apart.

“We had a crew at the first event and luckily we were able to send a couple of guys to the second call,” he said.

Burrowes said while the call-

outs were nothing major and both the patients were able to be treated by ambulance staff, he said that it was important to be prepared if things were to go wrong.

“In the past if we had a call-out out of town and then there was a cardiac arrest in town, we would not have had the proper gear to deal with it,” he said.

“While we might have been able to get a defibrillator there,

we would not have had full medical gear like we do now which is a great asset to the town.”

Also on Monday morning, emergency services were called to a two-car crash in Methven.

The crash occurred at the intersection of Main Street and Forest Drive at around 11.50am.

A St John spokesman said one patient was transported to Ashburton Hospital by road with moderate injuries.

Feds back farm debt mediation laws Federated Farmers supports the Government’s decision to proceed with a Farm Debt Mediation Bill.

The proposed legislation will require creditors to offer mediation to farmers who default on payments before they take enforcement action and it will allow farmers to initiate mediation.

“Federated Farmers is in favour of this,” Federated Farmers vice-president and commerce spokesperson Andrew Hoggard says.

“Farmers are especially vulner-

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able to business downturns as a result of conditions that are often outside their control, such as the weather, market price volatility, pests and diseases like mycoplasma bovis.

“Farmers are also facing a raft of policy changes, including around freshwater management and climate change, and these could apply even further pressure.”

The agricultural sector has nearly $63 billion of debt and the Federated Farmers six-monthly banking surveys have shown that

while most farmers are satisfied with their banks, satisfaction has been slipping and the number feeling under pressure has been rising.

“There is no substitute for good communication and we urge farmers and their banks to keep in close touch and build positive relationships in good times and bad, with or without farm debt mediation,” Hoggard said.

“Although we hope this legislated farm debt mediation won’t have to be used very often, it will

have done its job if it helps banks and farmers find enduring and sustainable solutions before it is too late.”

“Federated Farmers thanks NZ First for introducing a Members Bill on this last year, and now the Government for building on that bill’s intent and transforming it into something which should be fit for purpose.”

Federated Farmers hopes the Bill attracts wide parliamentary support and looks forward to submitting on it at Select Committee.

Police are urging people to be wary with valuables in cars and to report any offending immediately after a number of thefts from vehicles.

On Monday morning at around 5am three males were seen attempting to gain entry to a vehicle on Cameron Street.

Four hours later, a vehicle was stolen from an address on Walker Street.

Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins said anyone who sees any suspicious activity should report it to the police.

“We have had a number of vehicles stolen recently, three between June 10 and 16,” he said.

Jenkins said vehicle owners should consider not leaving valuables inside vehicles, and to ensure that vehicles are locked.

“Please report any vehicle stolen as soon as possible,” he said.

“Stolen vehicles are often used in the commission of additional unrelated offending.”

Police data shows that 75 offenders had been processed at the Ashburton, Methven and Rakaia police stations for motor vehicle theft and related offences between April 30, 2017 and April 30, 2019.

Of those offenders, 33 were strangers to the victims, one was an ex-partner, two were other family, 10 were described as other non-family and 29 were not applicable or not stated/inadequately described.

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Cold-blooded murder left victim unrecognisable

By Chelsea Boyle NZME

Two men have been jailed for life over the gruesome execution-style killing of a Rebels Motorcycle Club gang member.

Both Kasha William Gosset and Cody Derek Martin pointed the finger at each other for carrying out the cold-blooded murder that robbed a Christchurch family of a young dad.

But they were held equally responsible in court after a jury found them guilty of murdering Bradley Lomax.

The pair met Lomax at a cemetery under a guise related to drugs before driving to a secluded area by the Waimakariri River on September 4, 2017.

Gosset later admitted to the police he knew it would be a “one-way trip” for Lomax.

Fuelled by methamphetamine, the pair unleashed a slew of gunfire in a “cruel and callous” attack that left the victim unrecognisable.

“Mr Lomax was shot once in the knee, which caused him to be incapacitated, before likely being

shot in the chest,” Justice Cameron Mander said.

“Neither wound would have killed him instantly.”

While he was lying on the ground incapacitated he was shot in the face twice from close range, he said.

“During this time, he was also wounded in the head as a result of a succession of shots fired from the .22 firearm.”

Lomax’s body was left at the riverbed, his face effectively “obliterated and unrecognisable”.

The 24-year-old’s death caused

incalculable hurt to his family, Justice Mander said.

“His family must live with the loss of their loved one forever,” he said.

“The nature and circumstances of his death have understandably been a particularly difficult burden for them to bear.”

Both Martin and Gosset led criminal lifestyles that were dominated by methamphetamine use, the court heard.

Gosset had already been imprisoned for attempted murder in November 2009.

He had shot someone three times in the chest who was described as lucky to be alive, Justice Mander said.

While Martin had previous convictions that included possession of offensive weapons and firearms, dealing in drugs, violence, and threatening behaviour.

Yesterday Justice Mander jailed both men for life, setting a minimum non-parole term of 17 years and six months for Gosset, and 16 years and six months for Martin.

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Hunt on for blackout cause AP As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout that hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and were tallying the damage from the unforeseen disaster.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri promised a thorough investigation into what he called an “unprecedented” outage, one that raised questions about flaws in South America’s grid, which connects many of the region’s largest countries.

Energy officials said the results of the investigation would be available in 10 to 15 days, and they could not immediately provide details on the economic impact of the outage, which came on a Sunday, and a day before a national holiday in Argentina.

Argentine Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui said the blackout began with a failure in the country’s “interconnection system,” adding that it happens in other countries as well. But he said a chain of events took place later, causing a total disruption.

“This is an extraordinary event that should have never happened,” he told a news conference. “It’s very serious. We can’t leave the whole country all of a sudden without electricity.” He did not discount the possibility of a cyberattack, but said it was

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A pizza maker uses battery powered lamps to illuminate his work space during a blackout inside the delivery-only pizza shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

PHOTO AP unlikely. The collapse began at about 7am Sunday, with Argentina’s population of 44 million and residents of neighboring Uruguay and some areas of Paraguay waking up to Father’s Day in the dark.

Public transportation halted in Buenos Aires, while phone and internet communications were disrupted, water supplies were cut off and shops were forced to close. Patients dependent on home medical equipment were urged to go to hospitals with generators.

Power was fully restored by Sunday night. But the out-

age ignited questions about Argentina’s preparedness and lack of investment in the power system at a time when the country is going through a deep economic crisis with soaring inflation, a tumbling of the local currency and a spike in utility bills fuelled by austerity measures ordered by Macri.

The conservative leader has seen his popularity ratings plunge during a crisis where he has struggled to tame one of the world’s highest inflation rates and poverty has reached about a third of the population.

Argentines are also frustrated with high utility costs and the blackout could trigger more protests against Macri’s government just as he seeks re-election in October.

“The country is already in a weird moment and then you wake up and can’t see anything,” said Julieta Dodda, 27, a saleswoman at a clothing store in downtown Buenos Aires. “Many people were going to meet for lunch to celebrate the day. I saw many online who joked: “Happy Father’s Day from Edesur and Edenor, which are our electricity companies.”

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Belgian dad pleads for help to find son AP An encrypted phone message sent by a missing Belgian tourist could hold a clue to the 18-year-old’s disappearance from an Australian coastal town, his father said yesterday.

Theo Hayez was last seen leaving a Byron Bay nightclub late on May 31. Police say they are baffled by his disappearance.

His father Laurent Hayez flew from Belgium to Australia last week to take part in the search, which now involves homicide detectives.

Hayez yesterday made a public appeal for help to access his son’s encrypted WhatsApp account.

“We know ... that Theo used WhatsApp the night he disappeared. We understand the politics about confidentiality and respect that,” Hayez told reporters at Tweed Heads police station, 60 kilometres north of Bryon Bay. “However, this is a question of providing assistance

Laurent Hayez (centre), father of missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez is joined by JP Hayez, godfather (left), and Lisa Hayez, cousin, during a public appeal for information regarding his son’s disappearance.

PHOTO AP to a person in grave danger.

It is vital that investigators get access to Theo’s WhatsApp account without delay. Every minute counts,” he added.

Police Superintendent Dave Roptell said WhatsApp’s owner Facebook was being asked for access to the missing man’s account.

WhaysApp said in a state-

ment it was assisting police “in accordance with applicable law and our terms of service”.

“WhatsApp cares deeply about the safety of our users and our hearts go out to Theo Hayez and his family,” the statement said.

WhatsApp cannot access encrypted conversations, but end-to-end encrypted plat-

forms have limited information about users that they collect in order to provide their service.

Australia is considering introducing laws modelled on Britain’s Investigatory Powers Act that would force global technology companies such as Facebook and Google to help police by unscrambling encrypted messages sent by extremists and other criminals.

The search for the missing man in one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations is continuing on land, sea and in the air.

Theo Hayez had been preparing to return Belgium after eight months of traveling around Australia.

He was reported missing on June 6 when he failed to return to his hostel and could not be contacted.

His last confirmed sightings were when he was captured on CCTV buying alcohol from a liquor store before he went to the Cheeky Monkey’s nightclub.

To celebrate the second anniversary of her album Melodrama, Lorde has treated fans with confirmation that a third album is currently in the works. The popstar, who has been fairly quiet on social media channels since deleting all but three of her Instagram posts early last year, took to her Instagram stories to give fans a rare life update. She wrote: “Apparently Melodrama came out two years ago today.

Want to say thank you for how you took that record and made it your own. Swells my damn heart thinking about your love for it and your willingness to go there with me and to dance the way we did together.

Geri finally apologises Geri Horner has apologised for quitting the Spice Girls in 1998. The 46-year-old singer left the band in abrupt fashion during their heyday and has apologised for the manner of her exit as the Spice Girls played the last date of their reunion tour at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Speaking to fans and her fellow bandmates, Geri said: “I need to say something I should have said a long time ago ... I’m sorry. I’m sorry I left. I was just being a brat. It is so good to be back with the girls that I love.” The Spice Girls were the biggest, best-known girl band in the world when Geri decided to quit the group.

Bodyguard returning?

Bodyguard – BBC and Netflix’s hit espionage series – may return for a second season. Speaking at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada, the show’s creator Jed Mercurio confirmed he’s “in talks” with the BBC about a second season, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “We’re going through the logistics of it,” he said, adding a disclaimer that the BBC had not yet given a second season the green light. Bodyguard, starring Richard Madden as a protector assigned to the UK’s home secretary (Keeley Hawes), became the BBC’s most-watched new drama in 10 years.

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For the love of a good book R

books that caught my eye.

They were inconspicuous in their nature. A faded red leather cover with gold writing.

Nevertheless, I picked one up and started reading – and I don’t think I put it down until I was finished.

The book, or the series, was The Famous Five, by Enid Blyton. Tales of the adventures of a group of young children – Julian, Dick, Anne and Georgina – and

their dog Timmy. The group challenged themselves and uncovered all sorts of mysteries and crimes – I was hooked.

That was pretty quickly followed by other books of a similar ilk such as The Secret Seven and, for a while there, anything else that Blyton had produced like The Magic Faraway Tree.

That soon transpired to Roald Dahl and then onto other books by writers for children.

I’d spend hours during the day, or late into the night tucked away reading and it was great for the mind.

Nowadays, it’s a little more advanced. I’m a big fan of anything written by Wilbur Smith and have read the Courtenay series multiple times and I’ve also

gained an unhealthy obsession for a good sporting autobiography too.

I worry that the current generation of kids, who are the age I was when I fell in love with books won’t get to experience that now with the advancement of technology. I am, however, grateful that my own son, who is seven next month, has shown a real interest in a books and has a comprehensive selection of a couple of different series stacked in his room.

I see people walking around reading off their Kindle, or through their phone and as much as I try, I just can’t picture myself doing that. Holding a book and reading all the way through it, turning each page

became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.

In 2004, an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia beheaded American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr., 49, posting grisly photographs of his severed head; hours later, Saudi security forces tracked down and killed the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping and murder.

Ten years ago: Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tehran again, joining opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed

in clashes over Iran’s disputed presidential election.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama met with senior lawmakers in the Oval Office for over an hour to discuss options for responding to the crumbling security situation in Iraq. The US Patent and Trademark Office ruled that the Washington Redskins’ name was “disparaging of Native Americans” and should be stripped of trademark protection.

One year ago: President Donald Trump announced that he was directing the Pentagon to create the “Space Force”

as an independent service branch. Troubled rapper-singer XXXTentacion was shot and killed in Florida in what police called an apparent robbery attempt.

Today’s birthdays: Sir Paul McCartney is 77. Actress Constance McCashin is 72.

Actress Linda Thorson is 72.

Rock musician John Evans is 71. Actress Isabella Rossellini is 67. Actress Carol Kane is 67. Actor Brian Benben is 63.

Actress Andrea Evans is 62.

Rock singer Alison Moyet is 58.

Rock musician Dizzy Reed is 56.

Country singer-musician Tim

eading. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it sure can be a great way to pass the

time.

It’s Book Week this week apparently, I didn’t know until a certain primary school teacher who sometimes masquerades as a columnist for this very paper rang me yesterday morning to tell me so.

I like books and I like reading, so automatically my interest was piqued.

I first picked up a decent book to read when I was about seven.

I’m pretty sure I was in trouble so I’d taken to hiding out in my grandparents’ sleep-out which contained a treasure trove of old books from years before and I stumbled across a collection of

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and knowing you are getting closer to the end is one of the best parts of it.

If you are a frequent reader of books, you’ll know exactly what I mean and there’s no point in encouraging you to get involved in Book Week because you already are.

But if you’re a sporadic reader and that novel sitting on the shelf that has been looking down at you for far too long, then why not pick it up and start working your way through it.

A good book can be the best way to get away from normal life for a while and reading is great for the mind.

I’m going to try and dig out those red leather-covered books and dive into another adventure.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2019. There are 196 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On June 18, 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

On this date: In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met defeat at Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.

In 1932, Long-distance walker Esther James reached Bluff.

The Aucklander had left Spirits Bay in the Far North on December 3 to walk the length of the country to promote New Zealand-made goods during the Depression. She had government patronage and support from the Manufacturers’ Federation.

In 1940, during World War Two, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.”

In 1945, William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, was charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He was hanged in January 1946.)

In 1948, Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record in New York.

In 1953, a US Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to each other by telephone as they inaugurated the first transPacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii.

In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride

Hunt is 52. Rock singer-musician Sice is 50. Rhythm and blues singer Nathan Morris is 48.

Actress Mara Hobel is 48. Singersongwriter Ray LaMontagne is 46. Rapper Silkk the Shocker is 44. Actress Alana de la Garza is 43. Country singer Blake Shelton is 43. Rock musician Steven Chen is 41. Actor David Giuntoli is 39.

Drummer Josh Dun is 31. Actress Renee Olstead is 30. Actor Jacob Anderson is 29. Actress Willa Holland is 28.

Thought for today: “Frailty, thy name is no longer woman.”

— Victor Riesel, American labor journalist (1913-1995).

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etting to the heart of the matter is what we at Federated Farmers are about.

Federated Farmers is at the National Agricultural Fieldays this week.

It’s New Zealand’s biggest agricultural show and for me it is always a great chance to have a good chat to farmers from around the country, and sometimes beyond, about what is happening in their patch.

It is also a good opportunity for all farmers to find out a bit more about what is going on in their industry and what issues and opportunities are coming their way.

The Federated Farmers National Board, provincial presidents and myself have been having some in-depth and insightful discussions at Fieldays with many farmers and there are a number of key themes emerging.

Famers are talking to us about the climate change proposals from the Government; the costs of the numerous regulations being foisted on them, such as the Waikato Healthy Rivers PC1 plan change; the rapid increase in corporate forestry buying drystock land in the North Island and numerous other questions and worries.

I had a great chat with a farmer who is being charged by his

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local council more than $3000 in consenting fees to put in a small crossing over a small stream that is only costing $3600 to build and install. He is doing this so he can harvest a small block of forestry.

He is trying to do the right thing and make sure he does not negatively impact the stream with the work, but was aghast by the consenting fees for a tiny crossing which is basically double his cost.

This is the sort of thing that Federated Farmers’ regional teams help members out with and we will be investigating further for him. We are like a rural version of Fair Go. As we are in the Waikato, there have also been plenty of members worried and asking questions about the proposed rules in the Waikato Regional Council’s PC1 proposed plan change.

Some of these rules are onerous on farmers and will not achieve the desired outcomes in an efficient or effective way.

Members were very grateful when I could explain what is

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Excessive consenting fees are causing concern among farmers. being proposed in detail and importantly reassure them Federated Farmers has put huge resources into developing an alternative proposal, which we are currently presenting to the appointed panel during the plan’s hearings.

Federated Farmers is there to represent our members and that is why it’s great for staff and elected farmers to have this valuable face-to-face time with our members.

If you need something or you

have an inkling something isn’t quite right – become a member and let us help you.

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YOUR VIEW Argyle Park dog walking Dear District Council, Would you please give me one valid reason why you wish to curtail our freedom walks in the park.

The people who we walk with are very responsible citizens.

They don’t leave bottles, fast food boxes and drink containers lying in the park – they pick them up and put them in the bins provided.

They are all happy to clean up after us when we do what we have to do.

They pay their rates, they don’t do graffiti – all of my friends and myself are registered, desexed – (well Zoe still has to have that op but she is under control), well behaved, and absolutely adore our morning ramblings and meet-

ups in Argyle.

There is no nicer place anywhere to be meeting up with my friends – and I know they feel the same.

I understand that one of our number had a nasty accident while freedom walking, but that is not our fault – or the council’s.

If we are prepared to freedom walk our carers should make sure we are safe and if an accident does occur take full responsibility.

Perhaps a notice could be erected to that effect – all care no responsibility – would that not cover any problems that may arise?

We can all then get on with our happy times with no fear of having our walks curtailed and a nasty fine issued – all because we are very well behaved dogs enjoying life with our caring people.

Biscuit Moore, c/- Raylene Phillips * * * In their letter to the editor (‘Argyle Park’, Ashburton Guardian, June 17, 2019), Lyn and Trevor Andrew questioned the accuracy of the information provided on the new dog exercise signs installed at Argyle Park, and after assessing the signs again, we can report that the signs are indeed correct.

We note that a story appearing in the June 15 2019 paper (‘Rules spelled out for Argyle Park’, Ashburton Guardian) incorrectly reported that dogs can run offleash on a strip of land adjacent to Farm Road. This should have stated Middle Road, as is shown on the signs. Understandably, the incorrect information has caused confusion to your readers.

Importantly, we’d like to re-

iterate that the council has not changed any rules or imposed new ones regarding where dogs are allowed at Argyle Park.

The new signs that have been installed there are intended to help owners understand where they are allowed to have their dog off-leash and where dogs should not go.

These rules are set out in the Dog Control Bylaw and Policy, which serve to protect the community by minimising the potential for dogs to cause harm, distress or nuisance to people, other pets or wildlife.

We will invite the community to provide their feedback on the Dog Control Bylaw and Policy when they are reviewed again in 2021.

Hamish Riach, Chief Executive, Ashburton District Council

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Just a man and his dog

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Bill Nicholas is never happier than when he’s yarding sheep with his best mate Gem. She’s a six-year-old heading dog who knows her way around the dog trials ring, but when it comes to experience she’s light years away from matching owner Bill. He’s 93 and has lost count of the trials he’s attended, the dogs he’s owned.

He might be one of the sport’s oldies, but Bill is sharp as a tack and as sprightly as a man half his age. And that’s stood him in good stead when it comes to trialling.

This year he and Gem ran the pants off every other competitor at the Methven Collie Club, netting themselves a huge haul of cups, trays and trophies.

“I love going to the trials.

There’s a lot of chaps I’ve known for years and there’s a bit of a social workout comes with it,” he said.

Over the years Bill and his trial dogs have travelled around the South Island. He admits he’s never been a champ, never owned a dog that could call itself a champion either, but some of them have been pretty good.

Last year he attended his first South Island championships. He and Gem didn’t have one of their better days on the course, but Bill wasn’t too concerned. There’s an honour in even qualifying, he said.

He’s had both huntaways and heading dogs in his team, but says at 93 he finds it a bit tough running a huntaway on hill country, plus he doesn’t have the work now to keep those dogs fit.

Gem earns her fitness the genteel way, running alongside Bill’s truck on a country track.

“She looks forward to that,

loves getting out to some new smells.”

He bred Gem and owned her mother. He’s bred a few others over his time, but said it’s hard to get a good pup. When you’ve got one you hang onto it.

Gem’s one of the good ones.

“We have a pretty good connection between us and that’s important,” he said.

But no matter how good your dog, the sheep you’re trying to yard always have a big part to play in your success. If they’ve been well handled and yarded previously things usually go well but, if not, if you get a pen of ‘motorbike sheep’ who make a break when they see a gap, your run can go pretty badly, Bill said.

That Bill took to trialling in the early 1990s is no surprise. He’d spent most of his working life as a high country musterer running a team of five dogs. And, as often happens, those musterers somehow get drawn into the dog trial circuit, he said.

“I did have a go with some of my mustering team but they weren’t very good in the ring, they were pretty rough.”

Those dogs mightn’t have made the cut but Bill got the bug and he was soon the owner of a couple of trial dogs and his calendar was dotted with mustcompete-in events.

Looking back, Bill said, he loved the mustering life. He made it his own as soon as he’d packed away his school books.

“I started just before the end of the war. Left school and took off and mustered in Mid Canterbury and the Mackenzie. I’d have those times all over again if I could,” he said.

He can thank mustering for meeting wife Patricia. He was droving sheep along Blackford

Dog triallist Bill Nicholas and Gem with their trophy haul from last month’s Methven Collie Club championship event.

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Courtship quickly followed that roadside meeting.

Bill and Gem are taking a winter break and Bill’s making no promises about next year’s competitions. He reckons he’s had enough of the two-day trials and an overnight stay in a strange

bed. He and Gem now restrict themselves to one-day events.

He’s Methven’s oldest member and that means there’s a certain satisfaction in taking home the silverware, he said.

Over the years master trialler Hughie Weir has been Bill’s constant companion at trials.

“Between us we don’t do too

badly,” he said.

It’s a different world today for shepherds, with high country tenure closing off a fair slice of grazing land that was once mustered and fewer shepherds around. Dog trials, however, are still attracting new people and some of them are pretty good operators, Bill said.

Wool sale bucks trend NZME Buyers found renewed vigour at last week’s South Island wool sale, especially for lamb’s wool and well-grown, well-prepared new season wool.

After a period of uncertainty on global markets in recent weeks and reports of high stock levels throughout the wool pipeline, the latest sale bucked that trend, PGG Wrightson Wool’s South Island sales team said.

A total of 90 per cent of the 8000-bale offering was cleared. The limited offering of mid-micron and merino also found solid support from a full gallery of buyers.

Wool prices remain historically low but have increased in the past year, partly because of rising fine and mid-micron wool prices. The current high price for fine wool was partially because of lower wool production in Australia, where merinos were the main breed.

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By Guy Trafford Fish and Game have been making headlines yet again with the news that Canterbury has a water quality issue with nitrate levels.

They’re correct, it has.

Everybody, especially those in Canterbury has known this for a long time.

The real issue is what should be done about it. If Dr Mike Joy, among others, is listened to, the average Kiwi would assume that nothing is or has been done.

This couldn’t be further from the truth. Is it enough? Probably not and the problem is likely to get worse before it gets better, but to do what Dr Joy suggests and turn back the clock and get rid of both irrigation and dairying is plainly ridiculous.

It makes about as much sense as suggesting that we should all adopt riding bikes everywhere because cars are polluting the atmosphere.

What would be a lot more helpful would be starting a constructive conversation about how we get ourselves out of this situation. And I say “we” because Canterbury is just the tip (quite a big one) of the iceberg. We could be talking about the Waikato catchment and the quality of water in the Waikato and Waipa rivers, the Bay of Plenty, Manawatu, parts of Hawke’s Bay, Poverty Bay Otago, Southland and so forth.

Not all are caused by dairying and there are other contributors besides other pastoral systems, although in some form or another we do have to recognise that many current and historical farming practices have been the major reason the waterways in New Zealand are in the state they are.

The felling and burning of our native forests were the first steps of getting to where we are now. So, turning back the clock is not going to happen and hopefully we are smart enough to find more constructive solutions.

Looking at the Canterbury situation may be useful to see how we got here, at least the recent history. Many people in the early 2000s were voicing concerns about the water quality in Canterbury and by 2007 several people opposed to the way ECan was conducting business in the allocation of water rights stood for election.

Also, at this time farmer groups were unhappy with ECan, mainly due to the large numbers of unprocessed water consent applications. Total unprocessed resource consent applications peaked in 2007-08 at about 2500 with water making up a large proportion of these.

Due to the general dissatisfaction after the 2008 general elections, the Government set up an investigation (led

by Wyatt Creech) and in 2010 sacked the then elected members and appointed seven commissioners to address the “urgent problems with water management in Canterbury”.

The then Minister for the Environment Dr Smith said efficient water management was crucial to New Zealand’s competitive advantage and “our clean green brand”.

And “Government leadership is needed to address Canterbury’s lack of a proper allocation plan, increasing problems with water quality and the failure to progress opportunities for water storage”.

Nearly 10 years on this makes it sound like it was a ‘take-over’ by government, however, almost all parties would agree that pre-2010 ECan was a dysfunctional organisation and some of the kinder comments were that it was a “rudderless ship”.

Probably what most people in Canterbury have been upset about is the time it has taken to get ECan back to a democratically-elected body as, despite promises these would occur in 2013, it will not be until October this year that elections finally take place.

So, what this is getting at is that the government set in place the body that oversaw the setting up and completion of many irrigation schemes and the rapid rise in dairy cow numbers.

Under the commissioners ECan did not sit back and do nothing regarding water quality.

Ten water zones within the ECan region based upon water catchments, have community-elected zone members overseeing the use and quality of water within their zone.

These zones are based upon existing water quality trends and current land uses.

The first to be set up and the zone that has received the most (negative) publicity is the Selwyn Zone and this arguably has the greatest problems with most catchment water inside of the Rakaia and Waimakariri rivers which form its boundaries ending up in Lake Te Waihora/Ellesmere.

This is (largely) the region that Dr Joy is suggesting all cows and irrigation need to be removed from. The current regulations that came in 2017 are based upon a premise that the catchment overall can sustain a loading of 15kg of nitrogen per hectare. Given that most dairy farms are operating at somewhere between 35-50 (there are outliers at both ends) there is quite a way to move.

However, it should be recognised that not many years ago under (inefficient) flood irrigation techniques there were farms leaching at over 100kgN/ha. The current sprinkler systems are a far more efficient use of water and have reduced leaching due to better control over timing and amounts of water applied.

Within the Selwyn District there is over 100,000 hectares of irrigated land.

A shorten precis’ of the new rules farmers in the zone now need to operate under are: Since 2017, any farm greater than 10 hectares and using irrigation must complete a Farm Environment Plan (FEP) which requires farmers to use best practice and keep nitrogen levels below the baseline set by the 2009-13 average.

Markets Not a lot of shifting from previous weeks.

Small lifts in the schedules which have supported some lifts in the saleyards.

Sheep Both lamb and ewes lifted in price at saleyards and the tops of both classes are around the $220 mark rewarding farmers for holding on to them. However, lighter lambs have eased a little on previous weeks perhaps indicating some uncertainty looking forward several months.

Wool The South Island wool sale had a welcome lift over most classes and prices are starting to get a settled to positive feel about them, at least until the next fall.

Beef Prices steady over most classes. Probably the best that can be expected given the shortish autumn growing period experienced this year.

Venison No change from the last seven weeks.

Dairy Reports are that only 215 farms have locked the new fixed price ($6.75). Given many pundits are predicting a $7 plus payout and banks knocking on the door of many farms to reduce debt it’s possible many farms are feeling they cannot afford to take the lower price.

Especially as there is also a 10c service fee attached.

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Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 112.57 17.5 kg YX SI 127.09 19.0 kg YX SI 137.99 21.0 kg YX SI 152.51 Local trade (c/kg) SI 740 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 112.56 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 483.0 (270-295kg) P Cow SI 368 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 461 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 530 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 444 AP Stag 60kg SI 539 AP Stag 80kg SI 718

Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 421 420 Wheat, feed 421 420 Barley, feed 402 405

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Bank funds used for wine storage

Kerry McDonald was chairman of the BNZ from 1996 to 2008. all the banks but singled out ANZ for its failings and took aim at the Reserve Bank for not acting more decisively over the breach.

He said yesterday’s announcement involving the chief executive of New Zealand’s biggest bank was serious.

“That the head of New Zealand’s biggest bank should have done this really does raise serious issues about governance of the bank,” he said.

“It’s another failure by the bank,” he said.

“I have focused particularly on the chairman [Key] because the chairman leads the board, but I was also very clear that the board overall needs to be refreshed and, to me, that will take at least two additional resignations,” he said.

“Having to dismiss your CEO for behaviour of this nature is a very serious event for a bank,” he said.

McDonald said he initially opposed a New Zealand commission of inquiry into banking here but changed his mind when results of the inquiry were released.

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Dr Seth Laurenson ment ahead before commercialisation.

But the interest from Fieldays visitors, and other tech exhibitors such as business financial software company Xero which want to get involved, suggest the partnership is onto a winner, said a spokesman.

AgResearch and the land-based science sector had gathered a huge amount of data to support farming and research over the years, Laurenson told the Herald.

Due to sensor technology, that information gathering was set to continue at pace. The Hyper Farm concept was born when AgResearch scientists got involved with the water limit-setting process in Canterbury and other parts of the country, he said.

“We noticed the public would be engaged in the whole methodology for setting those settings and for the community outcomes, but really couldn’t grasp the complexity of the science. They couldn’t visualise it and they couldn’t simplify the complexity.

“We thought that if we could visualise what was happening on a farm and we got the ability to change land use or activities on

that farm we’d have a far better understanding than if we were looking at tables.

“We thought pictures are really important in this story. And we thought, who does pictures really well?”

It’s not just individual farmers who want to understand the effects of new limits being imposed on them, Laurenson said.

“When deciding what environment limits we want to place on a catchment, more and more of those decisions are involving the community which is really good.

“We noticed the public would come in (to meetings) and they’d be bamboozled by the information and not understand say, how a nitrogen number or outcome related to a biodiversity outcome.

“It was far too complex – for science as well as the public.

“People would turn up once and never again. We lost that voice of the community.

“They didn’t have a voice at the table that would allow them to express an opinion because they didn’t understand the science.”

Animation Research, founded and owned by Ian Taylor, was excited by the project, Laurenson said.

“They see a real niche where science and media are coming together to solve a real problem the New Zealand farmer is facing .... how to farm within the boundary conditions of my property? Not within Southland or Waikato but actually on my farm?”

AgResearch with Crown Research Institute collaborators Scion, Landcare Research and Environmental Science and Research, won the supreme site award for best stand at Fieldays.

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Software for environmental change Visual technology that transformed our understanding of the America’s Cup could be coming to a farm near you to help landowners and rural communities grasp the mind-numbing science underpinning enforced agriculture land use changes.

The first technology from a partnership between Animation Research, the Kiwi company that revolutionised sports broadcasting, and AgResearch, drew strong interest at Fieldays at Mystery Creek as farmers got to see the future of their properties with the click of a mouse.

On screen was “Hyper Farm” – designed by AgResearch and using Animation Research’s world-beating visualisation technology.

It showed landholders what their properties would look like under different land uses and how a land use change would affect science metrics such as water quality, carbon sequestration and biodiversity.

And importantly, how their finances would look after a land use change.

AgResearch scientist Dr Seth Laurenson talks about new software farmers can use to show what may happen to their farm with certain changes.

The computer tool is an evolving design by AgResearch scientists Dr Seth Laurenson and Dr Remy Lasseur. It’s part of a $10 million MBIE-funded programme to research New Zealand’s bioeconomy in the digital age in order to enable transformational change to the agriculture sector and supply chains.

It’s very early days for the project, which still has a year of develop-

“Now, with the number of issues around the New Zealand banks, I think it’s getting to the time when the Government needs to very seriously consider a royal commission.

“If the regulators continue, in my view, to be ineffective, that will underline the need for a very substantial inquiry and a royal commission would in my view be justified,” McDonald said.

Sam Stubbs, chief executive of fund manager Simplicity and a former banker, also called for formal commission of inquiry.

He warned that our politicians were at risk of leaving it too long to act.

“The Prime Minister in Australia ended up apologising to the public for the delay in calling a Royal Commission,” said Stubbs, who has also been highly critical of ANZ for its capital breach.

“Jacinda Ardern will have to be looking at this,” Stubbs said.

“The evidence is mounting up.

“You’ve got the chief executive of our biggest bank using shareholder funds for wine storage.

“Really?”

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Kerry McDonald, one of New Zealand’s most experienced company directors, said yesterday’s shock departure of ANZ’s chief executive David Hisco raised questions about governance at the bank and said there needed to be a commission of inquiry into banking here.

McDonald, who was chairman of the Bank of NZ from 1996 to 2008, said New Zealand needed to look closely at banking in much the same way as the Australia’s Royal Commission, which exposed widespread wrongdoing in the sector there, did.

At the end of the inquiry, Australia’s High Court justice and royal commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, said it was time to overhaul the Australian financial services sector.

Hisco’s departure follows ongoing health issues as well as board concern about the “characterisation” of certain transactions following an internal review of personal expenses, the bank said.

“While Mr Hisco does not accept all of the concerns raised by

the board, he accepts accountability given his leadership position and agrees the characterisation of the expenses falls short of the standards required,” the bank said in a statement.

The expenses involved chauffeur costs and wine storage fees.

ANZ New Zealand chairman Sir John Key said Hisco’s departure was the right decision in the circumstances “given the expectations we have of all our people, no matter how senior or junior”.

Early this month, McDonald called on Key and other ANZ directors to resign after the bank was censured by the Reserve Bank for failing to properly calculate its risk.

The Reserve Bank had ordered ANZ to increase how much capital it holds as a safety net to absorb possible losses and said its model for calculating its risk had failed over five years.

In addition, ANZ and the other big banks have staunchly resisted a Reserve Bank proposal for them to lift their minimum capital requirements.

McDonald has been critical of

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A necessity for farmers Recording those everyday events in our lives is one of the things that members of the Ashburton Photographic Society do frequently. On this occasion, Nel Davison was out with her camera while husband Chris was on the farm working hard. This earned the top print in our photojournalism competition.

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Steak and winter pumpkin panzanella 4 x 150g Quality Mark sirloin steaks (about 2.5cm thick) Pumpkin panzanella 750g crown pumpkin, peeled and cut into 2.5cm cubes 1 stalk sage leaves, picked 1 onion, finely sliced 4 slices one-day-old ciabatta bread, cut into large cubes 1 1/2 T red wine vinegar 1/2 T lemon juice 1/4 C olive oil To serve Steamed green vegetables or baby spinach leaves Pumpkin panzanella ■■ Preheat the oven to 200°C. Line a shallow roasting dish with baking paper. Place the pumpkin and sage leaves in a bowl and toss with a dash of oil and season. Tip out into the roasting dish in a single layer. Place in the oven and roast for 30 min-

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Beef ■■ Wipe out the frying pan with kitchen paper, then heat over a high heat. Rub sirloin steaks with a little oil, if necessary, and grind over black pepper. Place in the hot frying pan and cook for 3 minutes on each side for medium-rare steak. Remove from the frying pan, sprinkle with salt, cover and leave to rest.

To serve ■■ Place each steak on a warmed plate. Spoon pumpkin panzanella alongside with steamed green vegetables and drizzle with the red wine vinaigrette.

Recipe courtesy of Beef + Lamb New Zealand

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In praise of June

By Kathleen Stringer

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lthough we haven’t really experienced the bitterly cold conditions of recent winters, for many people June isn’t the most enjoyable month of the year.

Cooler weather and shorter days mean there isn’t much to get excited about this month, but for many cultures June brings a great deal of activity.

Members of our Muslim community have recently celebrated Eid – which signifies the end of the period of Ramadan.

Ramadan is defined by the moon so lasts about 30 days and sees the devout refrain from eating and other activities during daylight, and a focus on prayer, reflection and a closer involvement with one’s community.

Eid sees the end of these restrictions and is a time of feasting, wearing brighter or new clothes, and generally celebrating. Some people exchange gifts.

For those from a Christian background, Ramadan has strong parallels with Lent, leading to Easter, while many paint Eid as a Muslim Christmas, although there is no connection between the two religions festivals.

Traditionalists often celebrate a mid-winter Christmas.

If hot meat and stodgy puddings are your thing, Christmas in New Zealand can be quite an effort.

I can remember my grandmother cooking hot hams and turkeys and insisting we have plum duff, as that is what you did at Christmas.

I admit, the first time my family decided to enjoy a summer barbecue Christmas lunch, I did feel cheated, but realise that it makes for a much more relaxed and comfortable day.

For those of us whose ancestors came from the northern hemisphere, holding a mid-winter Christmas allows us to reconnect with our roots and gain a clearer idea of what the significance of the pine trees and decorations mean when outside all is colourless and bleak.

Even if celebrating isn’t on your agenda, most people look forward to the shortest day, which is always worthy of

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While many cheerlessly observe that the weather gets colder after the shortest day, everyone can at least expect the days to get a little longer.

For those earliest peoples, who relied on the sun as calendar and source of warmth, the shortest day was a particularly special and significant day.

Some cultures lit bonfires, some made sacrifices and most had some form of feasting.

While in part to celebrate making it to the shortest day, most activities were to invoke whatever deity they believed controlled the elements to bring back the sun and provide suitable conditions for their crops to grow.

While this festival is known by many names, the one we are most familiar with is Yule, when feasting occurred and a large Yule log was burnt, often over the course of 12 nights, hence also the 12 days of Christmas.

Matariki While these other celebrations and activities have been around for many, many years, a more recent development has been the widespread celebration of Matariki.

Commonly referred to as Maori New Year, Matariki refers to the appearance of the stars known in English

as the Pleiades.

Maori, like all early peoples, lived in a seasonal cycle and closely monitored the skies for information.

With the arrival of Matariki they knew that winter had turned the corner. It was a time of feasting and being thankful for the food they had gathered during summer.

For many Maori it meant joining together into larger groups, rather than just immediate family, as hapu and iwi would gather, celebrate and weather the cold nights together.

For this reason it was often a time of remembering those who had died the previous year.

Winter may not be everyone’s

favourite season as it brings cold and rain and with it all manner of health problems.

Days are short and the garden looks sad and colourless. It can be a pretty miserable time of year, however there is always something to like about winter.

It may be the opportunity to wear bright hats and scarves, or even indulge in such flavoursome foods as soup or hot chocolate.

For many cultures, it is a time to be with friends or family and eat lots of special foods.

So, do what you can to embrace June and all that it brings, be thankful for another year, and always remember, it soon will be spring!

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1. An unusual object in the Ashburton Museum collection, For those without garaging this lamp promised to keep your car from freezing.

2. . . . although I don’t think it would help this car trapped in snow on the street in Ashburton.

3. Winter gives us the opportunity to eat such wonderful foods as porridge, oh and some play rugby in winter, as featured on this glass Sergeant Dan porridge bowl.

4. While winter isn’t always the best weather to get out and be active, with the right clothes you can still have a good time.

This image is from the Jennings collection.

5. Margaret and Joan Jennings wearing snugly coats.

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Honouring the Fallen During the period of the First World War, 1914 to 1915, many men from the Ashburton District signed up to fight for the Empire against the German army. Many did not return – almost 450 from Ashburton were killed.

The first Ashburton men were killed on April 25, 1915 – the first Anzac Day. Ashburton philanthropist and patriot Frederick Ferriman presented a special flag and a flagpole to the families of those men.

The Ashburton Museum, with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Ashburton, has erected one of the original Ferriman flagpoles in front of the museum, and on the centennial of the death of each Ashburton soldier will fly a replica flag. An original flag is on display in the museum.

After the cessation of hostilities when the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, a number of other soldiers, including some from Ashburton, died from wounds received, from illness and from accident.

Therefore, this week the Ashburton Museum honours:

June 19: John ALLWOOD

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RESULTS ■■ Bowls Allenton Winter Bowls June 14 4th Round Hunt Trophy 1st R. Bennett, D. Cutberlet & J. May 3 wins, 16 ends & 32 points, 2nd J. Ryk, H. Goodall & Judi Ryk 2 wins, 13 ends & 23 points, 3rd M. Anderson, L. & J. Mills 2 wins, 13 ends & 22 points June 15 Kiddey Cup: 1st C. McFarlane & D. Watson 3 wins, 18 ends & 35points, 2nd H. Goodall & L. Spargo 3 wins, 16 ends & 34 points, 3rd G. Bishop & R. Bennett 2 wins, 15 ends & 24 points.

■■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club June 10 B & C Ladder N/S 1st Pauline Scott & Colin Clemens, 2nd Marjorie Hoar & Kathy Dunn, 3rd Lynette Adams & Joyce Johnson. E/W 1st John F Rickard & Paul Leadley, 2nd George Brown & David Fisher, 3rd Debbie Seddon-Sewell & Janine Havis June 11 3 rds, diff ptr ea rd: N/S 1st Perry Jowers & John Fechney, 2nd Mary Buckland & Audrey Rooney, 3rd Maureen Kolkman & Jim Rooney. E/W 1st Annette Blain & Carolyn King, 2nd John McDonald & Pat Jordan, 3rd Alan Wright & John Irwin June 12 Individual Ladder: 1st Perry Jowers & Rosemary McLaughlin, 2nd John Shearer & John Fechney, 3rd Maree Moore & Val Palmer June 13 2 rds diff ptr N/S 1st Trish Downward & Alan Wright, 2nd Rosemary McLaughlin & Rewa Kyle, 3rd Melva Stowell & Peter Downward. E/W 1st Val Palmer & David Greenslade, 2nd John McDonald & Pat Jordan, 3rd Ian Doel & Jan McClelland June 16 Conlands Trophy: N/S 1st John Knight & Mary Buckland, 2nd Ian Doel & Paul Fergus, 3rd Jim Rooney & Audrey Rooney. E/W 1st Peter & Trish Downward, 2nd Anne Reid & Trish Small, 3rd Sue Rosevear & John Fechney

■■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers June 15 Riders - Reasonable Day for Cycling the 16km

DRAWS ■■ Golf Ashburton County Ladies Vets Golf June 21 At Ashburton 9.30am for 10.00am start Food available and please bring prize for raffle

Ashburton Golf Club June 22 The first round of the President’s Trophy match play will be held. For those not in the match play a Par round will be held.

Number 1 Tee 12.00 Vince Carr v George Brown; Ron Carlson v Tufuga Sa 12.06 Alan White v Barry Jury; Royce Jamieson v Brayden Wood 12.12 Ken Clucas v Paddy Bradford; Paul May v Stewart Dunlop 12.18 Robbie Bell v Chris Robertson; Paul Greer v Brent MacGregor.

Starting Times: Morning start at 8.30am; Afternoon report at 11.30am for a 12pm start, Nine hole golfers report at 12.30pm for a 1pm start.

■■ Hockey Mid Canterbury Hockey Association June 21 Small Sticks - Duty Club: Tinwald Kiwi Sticks [Yr 5] 3.45pm Wakanui Blue v Tinwald Bonnington Painting [Turf a] L Ellis Tinwald Mayfield Transport v Rakaia [Turf b] G Tavandale, H Kidd 4.15pm Wakanui Black v Methven White [Mt Hutt] Coaches 4.30pm Allenton V Tinwald Engineering Solutions [Turf a] L Ellis Collegians D & E v Methven Black [Turf b] G Tavandale, H Kidd Kiwi Sticks [Yr 6] 5.15pm Rakaia v Wakanui [Turf a] G Muir, G Oates Tinwald Mayfield v Collegians White [Turf b] R Kidd, S Geeson

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1st Home Merv Grewar CT.35.12. HT. Go. RT. 35m 12s. 2nd Debbie Skinner CT. 36.46. HT. 5.00m. RT. 31m 46s. 3rd Janette Hooper CT.36.47. HT. 5.00m. RT. 31m 47s. 4th Liz Wylie CT.36.47. HT. 5.00m. RT. 31m 47s. 5th Ross Proctor CT. 36.48. HT. 5.00m. RT. 31m 48s. 6th Ethan Titheridge CT.37.18. HT.11.45m.

RT. 25m 33s. 3f/t. 7th Drew Titheridge CT.37.18. HT.10.30m. RT. 26m 48s. 8th Gerard Morrison CT. 37.19. HT. 12.30m. RT, 24m 49s.

F/T. 9th Simon Chapman CT.37.19. HT. 11.45m.

RT.25m 34s. 4f/t. 10th Rob Hooper CT.37.19.

HT. 12.30m. RT. 24m 49s. 2f/t. 11th Paul Macfie CT.37.20. HT. 11.45m. RT. 25m35s. 5f/t.

June 15, Stroke Leading scores in the qualifying round for the RSA Trophy and championships played on Saturday. – 12; Brent Smith 70, Alex Roa 71, Raui Tare 71, Jeff Naish 72 b/l. 13-18; Matt Stoddart 68, Adam Wilson 71, Pete Marshall 71.19 Plus; Dave Allan 67,Doug Osborn 70, Murray Beach 71.

Women; Elizabeth Collins 78, Barb MacGregor 79.

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Paul Hefford. Gluyas Ford # 6; Pete Nolan. House of Travel # 12; Kevin Bishop. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Tetua Tuakeu. G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Tetua Tuakeu.

Twos; Gordon Rennie, Kevin Bishop, Jeff Shanks (2), Tetua Tuakeu, Snow Pierce Net Eagle; # 16 not struck.

■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club June 13 Winners of 9 hole stroke Round 4 Marion Marshall Trophy Men: Tony King and Colin Fleming, both scored 36; Women: Chris Anderson, score 34 June 15 The Radius Care Player of the Day Vince Carr 83 -18=65 Other winning scores: Richard McKernan and Wilson Hii 68; Brent MacGregor, Ken Clucas and Brayden Wood 69; Barry Jury, Stewart Dunlop, Robbie Bell, Sam Clarke and Jason Overend 70; Tufuga Sa and Ron Carlson 71.

Twos: Brent MacGregor, Royce Jamieson, Paul Greer, Ian Rive, Bruce Day and Jason Overend.

Nearest The Pins: Braided Rivers: Charlie Alexander; Rothbury Insurance: Paul Greer; Value Plus Processing: Paul Greer; South Island Seeds: Grant Hastie: Property Brokers #6: Paul Greer; Charming Thai Longest Putt: Wilson Hii; Tinwald Tavern Spot Prize: Ray Lambert.

Birdy Jackpot: #18, Net Eagles Jackpot: #10

Mayfield Golf Club Mid-week stableford competition Andrew Peck 39, James Wright 39, Chris Bell 38.

Nearest Pin No. 5 Bernie Doyle.

Two’s Andrew Peck x 2 June 15 Stableford round: Winners: Wayne Blair 45, Harley Davies 41, Roger Lake 37, Steve King 36. Nearest Pins: No 2 Aon Insurance: John Sim, No 11 Jon McAuliffe Bayleys: Wayne Blair, No 5 Marilyn Cross Property Brokers: Steve King, No 14 ANZ Bank: Wayne Blair 9&18 second shot: Wayne Blair Twos: Steve King Rosehope Rommey Player of the Day: Wayne Blair 72.9.63

Methven Golf Club June 12 Ladies Division 6.00pm Allenton v Tinwald Smith & Sons [Turf a] R Kidd, G Oates Methven v Tinwald The Tool Shed [Turf b] D Law, S Geeson 1st Grade Women 6.50pm Tinwald v Hampstead [Collegiate, Methven White] 8.00pm Collegiate v Methven White [Tinwald, Hampstead] Connetics SSL Div 1 Boys Draw unknown Nunweek Park 3 Connetics SSL Div 2 Boys 5.50pm Ashburton College 2nd XI v Christchurch Boys’ High School Colts June 22 Small Sticks Duty Club: Tinwald Mini Sticks [Yr 3] 9.30am Tinwald Mayfield Red v Tinwald Mayfield Black [Turf a] Coaches Tinwald The Green Grocer v Wakanui [Turf b] Coaches Rakaia v Methven [Turf c] Coaches Mini Sticks [Yr 4] 9.30am Tinwald Skip2-It Flooring Xtra v Wakanui Blue [Turf d] Coaches 10.10am Allenton Eagles v Allenton Hawks [Turf a] Coaches Collegians v Methven [Turf b] Coaches Hampstead v Rakaia [Turf c] Coaches Tinwald Mayfield v Wakanui Black [Turf d] Coaches Fun Sticks [Yrs 1 & 2] 11.00am Draw made on the day NBS Ashburton Senior Women 2.40pm TGHS 1st XI v Hampstead [K McIntyre, C Hastie] Timaru Senior Men 1.00pm Wakanui v Cambridge Umpires supplied June 23 Timaru TA 2nd Grade Girls 1.40pm Opuke-Hakatere v Roncalli 1st XI Umpires supplied 1st Grade Men 4.00pm Wakanui Black v Wakanui Blue [game deferred] 5.15pm Allenton v Tinwald Lowcliffe [Hampstead, Tinwald Black] 6.30pm Hampstead v Tinwald Black [Allenton, Tinwald Lowcliffe] June 24 Timaru AE 2nd Grade Boys 6.15pm Mackenzie v Allenton Umpires supplied NBS Ashburton 6.15pm Wakanui v MVHS [R Law, J Gray] 1st Grade Women 7.30pm College v Methven Black [R Law, B Gray] June 25

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Woodland wins US Open Gary Woodland denied Brooks Koepka’s bold bid at history with two clutch shots and made US Open memories of his own, starting with that silver trophy in his hands at Pebble Beach.

Woodland finished in style yesterday.

He holed a 30-foot birdie putt for a 2-under 69, giving him the LGU Silver: Jenny Senior 87-14-73, Gayle O’Duffy 89-15-74. Bronze A: Jane Helmore 94-25-69, Lynn Worsfold 96-25-71 Bronze B: Denise Hood 107-32-75 C/B, Wendy Warring 112-37-75 2nd Gwen Cook: Jane Helmore 69, Lynn Worsfold 71 4th Tuis: Jane Helmore 40, Lynn Worsfold 38 Nearest the Pins. #17 Open Methuen Foursquare Lynn Worsfold, #4 Open Methuen Travel Jenny Senior, #6. Br B&Open Methuen Pharmacy Sharon Burrell-Smith, #13 Open Arabica Jenny Senior, #14 2nd shot (Sat Girls) Supervalue Gayle O’Duffy, #6 Sat Girls Cinema Paradise Sally Jones Aqua Japanese Restaurant Best Nett of the Day: Jane Helmore 69 Twos and Nett Eagles: Heather Santy, Sally Jones x2. Wendy Wareing x2, Lynn Worsfold x2 June 14 9 Hole Team Stablefords Hiromi Ikehata 22 Stablefords, Adrienne Goodwin 19, Kevin Thompson 14, Total 55 PGG Wrightson Best Player Hiromi Ikehata Methven Travel 2nd shot Karen Currie Kwik Sticks [Yrs 7 & 8] 3.45pm Wakanui 7s v Methven White [T C, M Wilson] 4.45pm Allenton v Wakanui 8s [L Ellis, H O’Reilly] 5.45pm Tinwald Black v Collegians [H O Reilly, J Cameron] 6.45pm Tinwald Mayfield v Methven Black [A Quigley, Harry] June 26 Connetics SSP Boys Draw unknown [C Watson, J Gray]

■■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby June 23 Town v Country Under 13 – Rakaia 1, 12:00pm Under 11.5- 4 Rakaia 2, 11:45am Under 10 - Rakaia 4, 11:30am Under 9 - Rakaia 3A, 11:30am Under 8 – Rakaia 3B v 11:30am June 18 Methven/Rakaia Combined v Lincoln, Rakaia 1, 7:00pm Nathan Forbes, Geoffrey Barr, Bradley McFarlane June 19 Secondary School Girls: Ashutt v Roncalli, Celtic, 4:30pm Greg Jopson June 22 Luisetti Watters Cup Celtic Darryl Phillips Motor Company v Devon Tavern Hampstead 02:45pm Celtic: 1 Matt Gallagher, Mike Southby, Jeremy Robinson Southern Stu Tarbotton Contracting v Rakaia 02:45pm Mayfield 1 Kalifa Faalogo, Hamish Grant, Ant McGirr Methven Wareings v Bye Senior B Centennial Mug Allenton v Methven R & R Spreading, 2:30pm Gary Clement, Linda Kelsall, Liz Bell Mt Somers v Collegiate, Mtsom1 2:30pm Charlie Kelland Southern Wholesale Seeds v Rakaia Mafield1, 1:00pm Hamish Grant, Ant McGirr, Bradley McFarlane Celtic Kelly’s Café & Bar – Bye Women Senior Championship Marist Albion: Women v Ashburton Celtic RFC: B’s Barber Women 02:45pm Bob De: 1 Combined Colts

lowest 72-hole score in six US Opens at Pebble Beach and a three-shot victory over Koepka, who was going for a third straight US Open.

Koepka had to settle for a footnote in history as the first player with all four rounds in the 60s at the US Open without winning.

■■ Petanque Ashburton MSA Petanque Club June 16 Club Drawn Doubles Winners: Betty King and Richard Browne, Runners-up: Neville Bensdorp and Henry Marriott, Third: Jan Guilford and Adair Jones, Fourth: Wil Nuberg and Mick Little

■■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby

June 12 Ladies Division Connelly Cup – Extra Medal - 1st Eclectic Val Sisson 101 -30 – 71, Marion Wederell 97 – 24 – 73, Teresa Booker 96 – 21 – 75 Railway Hotel 2nd Shot No 3 Tina Pearce, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd Shot No 6 Val Sisson, Val Bell Nearest the Pin No 8 Val Sisson, Chertsey Spraying 2nd Shot No 15 Teresa Booker, S. Quinn 2nd Shot No 17 – Teresa Booker. Twos: Val Sisson

June 15 Max Gilbert Challenge Trophy Methven Wareings 21 Southern Stu Tarbotton Contracting 20; Rakaia 30 Celtic Darryl Phillips Motor Company 14 Devon Tavern Hampstead Bye Senior B Centennial Mug Collegiate 30 Celtic 17 Kelly’s Cafe & Bar Methven R & R Spreading 22 Southern Wholesale Seeds 31 Rakaia 29 Allenton 7 Mt Somers WBD Women Senior Championship University of Canterbury WBD Celtic B’s Barber Women LBD Combined Colts Methven/Rakaia Combined 20 Southern 22 Lincoln: Colts Bales 32 Ashburton Celtic EuroAgri 0 UC Championship: Mid Canterbury Combined 15 St Thomas 40 Under 18 Combined Comp (Semi-final) Mid Canterbury Alps 43 Springston 10 Under 16 Combined Comp Mid Canterbury Rugby Alps 49 Mid Canterbury Plains 21 Under 14.5 Combined Comp West Melton 56 Mid Canterbury ALPS 10 Mid Canterbury Plains 24 Dunsandel/Irwell 51

Southern v Oxford: Oxford Colts 01:00 PM Mayfield2, 1:00pm Phill Everest Celtic EuroAgri v Glenmark Cheviot Rugby: Colts 01:00pm Celtic: 1 Greg Jopson, UC Championship St Andrews v MC Combined, St Andrew College Field 2, 12:00pm Under 18 Combined Comp Finals Mid Canterbury Alps v Prebbleton, Showground Oval 1, 2:00pm Joc O’Connor, George Williams, Jim Henderson Under 16 Combined Comp Saracens: U16 Red v Mid Canterbury Alps TBC Southbridge v Mid Canterbury Rugby Plains 01:00pm Southby: 2 Under 14.5 Combined Comp Mid Canterbury Plains v Mid Canterbury ALPS, Showground Oval 1, 12:45pm George Williams ACL - Under 13 Collegiate Ashburton Crane Hire v Methven White, Coll1, 1:00pm Linda Kelsall Methven Black v Celtic Lysaght Glass, Methv1, 1:15pm Geoffrey Barr Southern/Tinwald Quigley’s v Hampstead, Mayfield 3, 1:00pm Moon Tuilaepa ACL – Under 11.5 Celtic Lysaght Glass Celtic White v Methven, Celtic2, 1:15pm Jeremy Robinson Tinwald/Hampstead v Allenton Smallbones, Hamps1, 1:00pm Liz Bell Southern Howden Ag v Ashburton Online Celtic Green, Mayfield 3, 11.50 Bradley McFarlane Collegiate Morgan Fencing v Bye ACL – Under 10 Methven Black v Celtic Blacklows, Methv4, 12:30pm Methven White v Collegiate Cates Grain & Seed, Methv4, 1:30pm Southern Hayden Mckenzie Contracting v Hampstead, Mayfield 4, 12:15pm Rakaia v Bye ACL – Under 9 Allenton Trembath Construction v Methven Black, All2, 1:15pm Celtic Summerfield Builders White v Tinwald Ace Electrical, Celtic 4, 12:30pm

Methven Red v Methven White, Methv5, 1:15pm Methven/Mt Somers v Collegiate Ross Leadley Building, Mtsomers2, 1:15pm Southern Four Seasons Treecare v Rakaia, Mayfield 4, 1:15pm Celtic Blacklows Green v Bye ACL – Under 8 Allenton Engineering Solutions v Hampstead, Allenton 3, 1:15pm Celtic Summerfield Builders Green v Celtic McCrea Painters White, Celtic4, 1:30pm Collegiate Redpaths v Tinwald NZ Livestock, Collegiate 2, 1:15pm Southern Red Coleman Ag v Methven White Mayfield2, 12:00pm Southern White Riverlea Ag v Rakaia, Mayfield2, 12:00pm Methven Black v Bye ACL – Under 7 Allenton Alpine View v Celtic Finishing Company Green, Allenton1 12:45pm Hampstead v Methven White, Hamps2, 1.00pm Methven Black v Tinwald Gluyas Nissan, Methv 5, 12:30pm Mt Somers v Celtic Summerfield Builders White, Mt Somers 1A, 1:30pm Southern Red James Doyle Contracting v Rakaia, Mayfield4, 11:30pm Southern White Busch Joinery v Tinwald Canvas, Mayfield 1, 12:15 Collegia ACL – Under 6 Allenton Auto Centre Gold v Methven Black, Alltenon1, 1:30mpm Allenton Young Electrical Maroon v Methven White, Allt1b 1:30pm Celtic Anderson Joinery White v Collegiate Red Garador, Celtic2, 12:30pm Mt Somers U6 v Collegiate Gold Groundworks Services, Mt Somers 1, 1:30pm Southern Blue Agspread v Rakaia, Mayfield 1, 11:30am Southern Red Harcourts Ashburton v Tinwald Cranfield Glass, Mayfield1 12:15pm Southern White v Tinwald Stables, Mayfield1, 11:30am Celtic Anderson Joinery Green v Bye

June 15 1st round of Mt Harding Trophy. African Stableford.

Winners: Pete Wood & Jim Lattimore 78pts, 2nd Keith Middleton & Athol McAlpine 56pts, 3rd Phil Johnson & Piers Roulton 55pts 2’s Pete Wood, Jim Lattimore, Piers Roulton Nearest the pins: #4 Aqua Japanese Russel Currie, #6 Hunters Wine Keith Middleton, #13 Ski Time Keith Middleton, #14 Cinema Paradiso John Robinson, # 17 Green Parrot Alister Maxwell Next Week 2nd Round Mt Harding Trophy

Rakaia Golf Club

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Strong finish not enough for MC

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

Their second half was probably the best they’ve played all season, but it wasn’t enough to save Mid Canterbury Combined from another loss in rugby’s UC Championship on Saturday.

They hosted a big and physical St Thomas of Canterbury side at the Ashburton College field on Saturday in the latest round of the Crusaders region secondary schools’ competition and went down 40-15.

Their winless season may have continued, but coaches Brent Middleton, Andrew Morgan and Warren Donald felt their young charges could well and truly hold their heads up high after the match.

St Thomas’ dominated proceedings in the first half, leading 26-3 at half-time, with Mid Canterbury Combined’s only points coming off the boot of Sam Ree. “In the first half we turned over a lot of ball to be honest.

“Our ball retention ... we were pretty disappointed in that,” Middleton said.

But, things changed in the second half.

“They played probably some of the best football they had played in the second half,” Middleton said.

Mid Canterbury Combined scored 12 second half points, to St Thomas’ 14.

“Against a side like St Thomas’, that beat Christchurch Boys, they played really well,” Middleton said.

“As we said to them, if they had held the ball in the first half all of a sudden it would’ve been a totally different game.”

Mid Canterbury Combined crossed for two tries in the match, with one going to Mark Gabriel and the other to Bob McDonald, while Ree added a conversion.

Mid Canterbury Combined’s Cory Adams takes the ball to the St Thomas of Canterbury defence during his side’s loss on Saturday.

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Middleton said the score wasn’t a true reflection of the game.

“If they can play that way for a full 70 minutes you never know what could happen.”

The Mid Canterbury Combined boys have a particularly tough ask in front of them in the next round though, in the form of competition leaders St Andrews,

who they played pre-season in Methven.

St Andrews were the only unbeaten side after seven rounds of this year’s competition, with

Nelson College currently sitting in second after handing Christchurch Boys’ High School their third loss of the season on Saturday.

Highlanders face a huge task

USA upstages Ferns in final

By Steve Hepburn

NZME

The Highlanders will have nothing to lose when they take on the Crusaders in Christchurch on Friday night.

The Highlanders have made the playoffs for the sixth year in a row but it was a very close-run thing.

Others came to the party to get the southern side into some playoff action, as the Highlanders qualified eighth in the bottom spot.

The side is going to be at long odds to come away from the match against the Crusaders with a victory but will throw everything it can into the match on Friday night.

They should have fullback Ben Smith back and has no other injury worries after the last-round victory over the Waratahs in Invercargill on Friday night.

The Highlanders qualified for

the top eight with just six wins – the lowest of any qualifying side since the competition went to having eight playoff teams in 2016.

The team though has clocked up three draws – including one from the abandoned game against the Crusaders in Dunedin on March 16 – and also grabbed six bonus points. They ended on 36 points, one point ahead of the Lions.

The southern side slipped into eighth position in the playoffs after some last-round drama.

The Highlanders did all they could with a 49-12 win over the Waratahs and went into the top eight.

They then needed the Chiefs to score a narrow, low-scoring win against the Rebels in Melbourne but the Chiefs came out and smashed a woeful Rebels outfit 59-8.

The Highlanders then were left

with the Bulls needing to beat the Lions and deny the Lions a bonus point.

The game in Pretoria was a match of real ups and downs.

The Lions scored in the first 20 seconds and opted to go for penalties as the team from Johannesburg searched for at least a bonus point.

The Bulls went ahead but well into the second half, the Lions were still in the game trailing 3127 and, as it stood,with a bonus point.

But the Bulls scored three tries in the final stages to win 48-27 and put the Lions out of the reckoning.

The Highlanders will be firmly focused on the Crusaders.

Two years ago they went to Christchurch for a quarter-final and were well defeated 17-0 in the wet.

It is bound to be damp and chilly again on Friday night.

The Crusaders will be coming off a bye so will be well rested.

The defending champions are likely to have All Black front rowers Codie Taylor and Owen Franks back for the clash.

All rests through agreements with the All Black coaching team have been carried out so all franchises will be looking to put out their best side for the playoffs.

To win the Highlanders are going to have to beat the Crusaders in their own backyard – something no team has managed since 2016.

Super Rugby quarter-finals 1) Crusaders v 8) Highlanders Friday June 21, 7.35pm, Christchurch 4) Hurricanes v 5) Bulls - Saturday June 22, 7.35pm, Wellington 3) Brumbies v 6) Sharks - Saturday June 22, 10.05pm, Canberra 2) Jaguares v 7) Chiefs - Sunday June 23, 10.05am, Buenos Aires

The United States have beaten New Zealand in the final event of the women’s world sevens series in France.

The USA won its first sevens title in Biarritz, beating the Black Ferns Sevens 26-10 in the final.

The Americans led 19-5 at halftime and scored three tries to two.

New Zealand had already clinched the overall series title with the US finishing second overall.

“This is a quality USA team and the few basic errors we made proved very costly.

“I’d be lying if I said it didn’t hurt but we’ve now got to celebrate a World Series win which was the goal of ours from the start,” New Zealand captain Sarah Hirini said.

“It’s been an awesome 12 months.

We’re pretty happy to be bringing home a series title – our fifth one in seven years.”

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Marshall, Johnson re-united

By Michael Burgess

In memory of a good mate Mike Rigarlsford from the Southern Spikers surveys his options during a golden oldies rugby game against a side from Shirley on Sunday. The match was in memory of a former Mt Somers man Alan Dent, who was also a stalwart of the Shirley club in Christchurch.

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■■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Ashburton Barbarians not far off the mark

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

They may have lost to Marist Saints on Saturday 24-20, but Ashburton Barbarians coach Steve Gamble was confident his side was headed in the right direction.

Marist had proven to be the team to beat in this year’s Canterbury Rugby League division one competition, and although they claimed another win on Saturday, they didn’t have it all

their own way against a determined Ashburton side that had stepped it up a notch since the last time the two sides met.

“I think the pleasing thing was we played for 80 minutes. We just had a couple of lapses in defence which gave them those points to get ahead,” Gamble said.

They had people away, people out of position, a couple of new players in the mix, and they’d had the two weeks leading into

the game off due to the bye and the Shirley Hawks defaulting to them and pulling out of the competition.

The week before that, the Barbarians romped home in a one-sided affair against the Halswell Hornets.

A game like that followed by two weeks off wasn’t ideal leading into two weeks where they’d play the two top teams in the competition, but Gamble said his side was full of belief at the

moment and knew what they had to do going forward.

“It would’ve been ideal to bring that W home, but it didn’t happen,” Gamble said.

“But we are not far off the mark. We played for 80 minutes, we just didn’t play well enough for 80 minutes.”

This weekend the Barbarians will head to Burnham to take on a defending champion Burnham Chevaliers side coming off the bye.

Get ready for a double dose of magic.

Kiwis fans will have a unique chance to see Shaun Johnson and Benji Marshall together in the same team on Saturday against Tonga.

They are two of the most exciting attacking talents New Zealand has ever produced, and the prospect of the duo combining will garner even more interest in the test.

Kieran Foran is also in the equation in the halves, but coach Michael Maguire hinted at his thinking on Sunday night.

“I’ve got a few decisions I can make there,” said Maguire.

“With Shaun and Benji together I’m looking forward to seeing how those boys perform throughout the week. Kieran Foran comes into the fold as well.”

Marshall and Johnson have only previously played one international together, in the 2012 Anzac test at Eden Park.

That match – memorable for a long range intercept try by the former Warriors favourite – was Johnson’s Kiwis debut.

Marshall played his last game for the Kiwis later that year.

The 34-year-old Marshall has evolved his game over the years, and isn’t the hot stepping dynamo he once was, but he retains a flair for the unexpected.

Maguire said the recall of veterans Foran and Marshall was a reward for performance and persistence, though Kodi Nikorima’s absence through injury has also freed up a spot.

“They have earned it and they definitely deserve it by the way they have played,” said Maguire.

“One thing I want to show is that at any time you can wear that Kiwis jersey, if you are playing and performing at the highest level.”

Taupau joins the ranks of league deserters

By Chris Rattue

T

his is why most people regard international rugby league as a joke.

Just when you thought it was safe to go and watch a league test, it falls in the gutter again.

Following the announcement of the Kiwi team on Thursday night, big bad Marty Taupau rang coach Michael Maguire to let him know he had switched to Samoa.

And test league lets this sort of rubbish go on and on and on.

“Taupau turns down Kiwis” screamed one headline.

No he didn’t.

The Manly Monster dumped on

the Kiwis, by pulling out AFTER the squad was named.

How can you take an international sport seriously when blokes are switching sides a mere eight days out from the game?

It’s actually a form of sabotage.

On a personal level, a player who was one of my favourite Kiwis can go take a running jump.

I’m disgusted in Taupau’s actions.

“I had to make a tough call,” bleated Taupau, with Maguire left to find a replacement against Tonga on Saturday night.

No. Tough calls are made by people who live in slums and don’t have enough food to eat.

Having the courtesy to tell the fans you have represented that you will play for another country well BEFORE the team is named is very easy to do, if you have to do it at all.

In all the ups and downs of the Kiwis, I thought Taupau was one of the people we could rely on.

Stupid me.

Who the heck are we supposed to trust anymore? Probably noone.

So who’s next?

We’re not talking about a fringe selection. Taupau has played 24 tests for the Kiwis, TWENTY FOUR TESTS. He was born in Auckland, and

was a Junior Kiwis captain for goodness sake.

We all understand the divided loyalties some Polynesian players feel. We all know that Tonga, Samoa etc etc have not always been treated with respect.

But the Kiwis have always treated Taupau with respect.

Similar nonsense has gone on with the likes of James Tamou, Jason Taumalolo, Agnatius Paasi and others in recent times.

Representative football only works if you have some sort of dividing line, a respect for borders.

Otherwise it’s just a playground shambles.

Fans deserve better than con-

tinually anticipating test matches under false pretences.

Selectors should know who is available in advance so they can get the team composition right.

It’s not a lot to ask.

Test league has its moments.

But it’s a silly bouncy castle compared to the majesty of real international sport.

Only the European players appear united in respecting team identities, the cornerstone of representative sport.

In this part of the world, league almost celebrates these embarrassing 11th hour switcharoos, while wondering why it is stuck in the backyard.

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The Midlands squash team following their efforts at the quadrangular tournament in Dunedin at the weekend.

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■■ SQUASH

Strong finish for Midlands After some great battles on court in Dunedin at the weekend, the Midlands Squash team finished third at the South Island teams quadrangular tournament.

The team – which featured four women from the Ashburton Squash Club – started with a 10-6 loss to Canterbury on Saturday and then went down to Southland in their semi-final 9-7, with the result coming down to the final match of the tie.

It was a result which could have been different had Midlands not had to sit two of their top players out due to injury.

That put Midlands into a playoff for third in which they took on Otago, and Midlands came out of that one with a comprehensive 13-3 win to their names.

In the main play-off, Canterbury beat Southland 9-7 to claim the trophy.

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ber and Midlands senior women’s number one Katrina Palmer said it was close all weekend, with the junior, senior and masters teams individually each finishing close second, and the senior team beating Canterbury.

Palmer herself had a top weekend, winning all three of her matches and only dropping two sets all weekend.

She beat three A grade players – Tanya Colyer (Southland), Grace

Hymers (Canterbury) and Tracey Flux (Otago) and said it was a good warm-up for the senior individual nationals which were starting in Auckland next week.

Ashburton’s Karlie McQueen (B2) also produced an excellent win against her more experienced Canterbury opponent, Judy Smith, a B1, before going down to Southland’s top B1 Deb Shirley in three sets and Otago’s B1 Karen Mitchell in a close four-set battle.

Ashburton’s two junior players, Brooke Cornish-Madden and Darnell Lima, played well all weekend too, and it was a great tournament for them in terms of development. Both were only aged 14 and playing junior players up to four years their senior.

Palmer said the entire Midlands junior team was very young, which boded very well for an even stronger Midlands team in the years to come.

■■FOOTBALL

Successful day out for top football teams It was a successful weekend for footballing sides across Mid Canterbury, with only one side not heading home with a victory.

In division one, Mid Canterbury United defeated Selwyn United 3-1 at the Ashburton Domain, getting one back over the side they had drawn with earlier in the season.

A quick start saw Nick Campbell open the scoring with a well timed run into the penalty area to nudge the squared ball past Selwyn’s keeper.

With a stronger pairing in the midfield of Eddie Kettle and Jamie Smitheram dominating possession, better distribution to the attackers followed along with plenty of attacking opportunities.

Luke Martin capitalised, smashing a second goal past the keeper in the 24th minute.

Selwyn were forced to play long as MCUFC’s defence made

opportunities few and far between, apart from a corner that was headed off the line by Bernie Martin, who had a strong performance at left back and claimed man-of-the-match.

After half-time MCUFC maintained its dominance for around 10 minutes, but with the clock ticking Selwyn launched an allout attack, with yet another corner and a free header going wide for the visitors.

Goalkeeper and coach Martin Fitzgerald made several changes in the backline and midfield to slow down the attacks, but with yet another corner, Selwyn were able to get a strike on goal that was parried away by Fitzgerald.

A slip on a clearing kick gifted the ball to Selwyn who finished with a half-volley to give themselves a glimmer of hope.

With time almost up MCUFC’s Luciano Drudi scored with an in-

dividual effort, helping the home side to take the victory 3-1.

In Christchurch, Methven had an awkward start to their division three clash with the University AFC Gold Diggers, after the kitman forgot the team kits.

Methven also forgot how to play their usual attractive game, with a scrappy first half playing out on a boggy pitch, with very few attempts at goal.

It took a 30 minute substitution of the returning Gareth Saltmer to shift the Mountaineers into the right gear and with that the game was turned on its head.

Liam Hett did well to follow up a keeper parry to slot home, and in no time it was two with Saltmer grabbing a goal with a fine finish to the keeper’s left.

He continued to pull the strings, cutting in from the right wing and squaring his pass to John Peneycad in the box.

A dummy opened the door for Jan Luccini to unleash a shot to make it 0-3 at half-time.

After the break Methven continued their fine display and were awarded a penalty after Josh Burrows was felled in the box. Up stepped Liam Hett to hammer home and make it 0-4.

The visitors stepped off the gas and allowed the home side a chance to dig themselves out of trouble, when a penalty was awarded after a clumsy challenge from Darcey Taylor, the only blemish in an outstanding performance.

Veteran keeper James Wasley rolled back the years with a superb dive to his right, pushing the ball onto the post, but the ball rebounded back into the path of the striker who gratefully finished, putting the score at 4-1.

Unfortunately, there was nothing Wasley could have done about

the second as the Diggers struck gold. A flukey shot smashed the underside of the bar and the strong wind did the rest to bounce the ball over the line, 2-4.

Methven then took control and Hett sealed his hat-trick from the spot to make it 5-2.

In division six, the Methven Reserves side got a week off after Banks Peninsula defaulted at the eleventh hour.

In division five the recently promoted Mid Canterbury United second team suffered their second loss of the season, going down 4-3 to the Nomads United Pressies at the Ashburton Domain.

Trailing for most of the match, the home side were able to take the lead 3-2 with around 15 minutes to go, but were unable to hold on, conceding two goals to take the edge off promotion celebrations.

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In brief

Rising star gets a spell

By Jonny Turner Trainer-driver Kirstin Barclay called on U May Cullect’s grit and determination for the first time and he answered to win Uncut Gems Classic in a thrilling finish at Addington on Friday night.

Barclay, who trains the boom 5yr-old in partnership with Paul ‘Tank’ Ellis was forced to get urgent in the sulky after U May Cullect gave his legion of fans a reminder he is just a baby in racing terms by racing greenly in the run home.

The trainer-driver said her seven start freak show “got lost” and raced greenly when taking the passing lane in the listed $40,000 feature.

Barclay attributed that to the horse not having taken a passing lane before or having been in a tight finish among other runners.

The scenario set U May Cullect

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Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club at Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 18 Jun 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 3.12pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C0, 295m 1 88523 Honey Dew Jewel nwtd.................C Roberts 2 F4332 Smash Out nwtd.............................. M Grant 3 66723 Caramel Rose nwtd................... M Dempsey 4 Neo Nate nwtd H &..............................Taylor 5 4 Azkadellia nwtd..................................J Dunn 6 71 Andrea Said 18.14 J M.................... McCook 7 67 Goldstar Hadlee nwtd S &................B Evans 8 x6538 Dreaming Abbie nwtd...................G Kingston 9 68473 Smash Burton nwtd......................... M Grant 10 87866 Mr. Hardwick nwtd H &.........................Taylor 2 3.32pm KOLORFUL KANVAS STAKES C0, 520m 1 Opawa Vinny nwtd...........................R Wales 2 Goldstar Yankee nwtd S &................B Evans 3 2422x Our Nala nwtd..................................R Wales 4 52 Goldstar Perrie nwtd S &.................B Evans 5 23332 Neptune Allen nwtd.......................C Roberts 6 36575 Shermo Bale nwtd........................C Roberts 7 Punters Last nwtd............................R Wales 8 65545 Smash Story nwtd............................ M Grant 9 Our Pat nwtd....................................R Wales 10 687 Goldstar Malone nwtd S &...............B Evans 3 3.49 DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 295m 1 17147 Eternal Debt 17.29..........................G Cleeve 2 27775 Nippa Eel 17.33.........................J McInerney

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Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 18 Jun 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 12.20pm (NZT) WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS. CO.NZ C0, 390m 1 1 Sozin’s Symphony nwtd.............J McInerney 2 2231 Khatia nwtd................................J McInerney 3 26 Homebush Reed nwtd...............J McInerney 4 Southern Max nwtd......................R Hamilton 5 Sozin’s Azure nwtd.....................J McInerney 6 44842 Homebush Jennia nwtd.............J McInerney 7 Sozin’s Melody nwtd..................J McInerney 8 73374 Opal Hunter nwtd.......................J McInerney 9 87 Opal Nora nwtd..........................J McInerney 2 12.37pm SOUTHLAND OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C0, 457m 1 88465 Homebush Erin nwtd..................J McInerney 2 775 Lakota Tonka nwtd.......................... H Cairns 3 F8885 Homebush Combat nwtd...........J McInerney 4 Sozin’s Empire nwtd...................J McInerney 5 688 Homebush Gina nwtd................J McInerney 6 Homebush Surgeon nwtd..........J McInerney 7 55647 Cadillac Mack nwtd....................J McInerney 8 77786 Mick The Mouse nwtd................J McInerney 3 12.54 FIND US ON TWITTER@SGRCINFO C1, 457m 1 57648 Storming Mack 26.13..................... B Conner 2 45331 Happy Days nwtd...........................R Adcock 3 25866 Chunk 26.28...............................J McInerney 4 38446 Zipping Jen nwtd............................ B Conner 5 57625 Trajan 26.14...............................J McInerney 6 84F46 Opawa Al 26.55...............................R Wales 7 45538 Bruiser’s Day 26.37........................ B Conner 8 78755 Black Dan 26.48.........................J McInerney 9 77678 Chat Ya Later 26.68 S &...................B Evans 10 87868 Homebush Izzy 26.84................J McInerney

a bigger task than he should have faced after getting a favourable run in the trail, behind Classie Brigade.

By the time the post came up, U May Cullect again showed he had not yet faced a harness racing hurdle he could not overcome by scoring by a nose in a driving finish.

“He got lost up the back, so I had to pull the plugs, then he wanted to get going,” Barclay said.

“After that he started switching off, I think it was just inexperience.”

U May Cullect’s victory looks to have made two significant marks on his career.

The win meant Barclay and Ellis could officially sign off the pacer’s incredible first racing preparation and send him for a short spell.

That time out will serve as

Kirstin Barclay the break the formerly injury plagued pacer needs before he starts on a path towards the New Zealand Cup. “He will have at least three weeks, we don’t want to give him a big spell while his legs are so good.”

Marsh’s winter base Crown Prosecutor will spearhead a squad being sent north by Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh to be temporarily based at Ruakaka. “I’ll be sending horses up there at the start of July to get through the winter,” Marsh said.

“Crown Prosecutor and Santa Catarina will be two of them. I’ll also send up some unraced horses to get ready for the early two-yearold races. In Crown Prosecutor’s case, it’ll be to get him going and hopefully have him on trial for Melbourne.”

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“He will have just enough to have a bit of a freshen.”

Barclay and Ellis will aim U May Cullect at standing start events when he returns to racing in an attempt to further their inexperienced pacer’s racing ringcraft.

“He is great behind the gate, but he has just been getting a bit racey,” Barclay said.

“So, we will just put him in stands to settle him down and let him learn to relax a bit more.”

U May Cullect’s victory made a second significant mark, by effectively sealing his claim to be crowned Southland harness horse of the year.

His Uncut Gems Classic win provided the 5yr-old with his first listed or group race victory.

Only one other horse trained in Southland – Get Lucky – has claimed a black type win this season.

Famous colours return Watching the familiar colours being carried to victory by Who Can Tell at Awapuni last Saturday was a reminder of the once powerhouse of jumps racing in New Zealand.

When Who Can Tell scored a dour win in the IPL Plywood Maiden Steeplechase in the hands of Toni Moki, the Sakhee’s Secret sevenyear-old sported the brown with the red armbands and cap, colours made famous on the New Zealand jumping scene by the late Ken Browne and his wife, Ann. - NZME

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway 3 43783 Say Cheese 17.45...............................A Lee 4 27134 Smash Surprise 17.70..................... M Grant 5 45686 Okuku Mistress 17.85......................R Casey 6 36765 Jingili Jill 17.55 M &............................. Smith 7 36833 Just James 17.43........................H Anderton 8 57845 Heated Threat nwtd....................... L Waretini 9 66886 Epic Mate 17.41 J M........................ McCook 10 85788 Leanne’s Way 17.70 J M.................. McCook 4 4.06 KAISA EARTHWORKS 0272073323 SPRINT C1, 295m 1 32521 Goldstar Shiloah 17.42 S &..............B Evans 2 36555 Fiery Fagan 17.29............................R Casey 3 74656 Jitterbug Jewel 17.36....................C Roberts 4 74264 Tonkawa 17.62 M &.............................. Smith 5 86648 Goldstar Hurley nwtd.................... L Waretini 6 28453 Elton Blueblood nwtd.................J McInerney 7 52641 Belfast Demo 17.60 H &......................Taylor 8 66165 Knows No Better 17.48.............. M Dempsey 9 66886 Epic Mate 17.41 J M........................ McCook 10 85788 Leanne’s Way 17.70 J M.................. McCook 5 4.24 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MURRAY WIGLEY SPRINT C1, 295m 1 34586 Smash Calling 17.34........................ M Grant 2 7x522 Every Minute 17.51..............................A Lee 3 3235F Cosmic Marty 17.65...................J McInerney 4 58752 Goldstar Bryton 17.74 S &...............B Evans 5 85476 Dapper Danny 17.56.................... J McMillan 6 74234 Heidi Hates Rap 18.06..................S Hindson 7 74677 Sass ‘Em Up 17.31 J M.................... McCook 8 x1778 Know Legend nwtd.........................G Cleeve

9 66886 Epic Mate 17.41 J M........................ McCook 10 85788 Leanne’s Way 17.70 J M.................. McCook 6 4.41pm GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND DASH C1, 295m 1 56323 Culvie Jay Dee 17.40 H &....................Taylor 2 21485 Smash Over 17.57........................... M Grant 3 54473 Right On Time 17.54...................H Anderton 4 65422 Platonic Affair 17.47...................... L Waretini 5 32813 Inky Dinky Jewel 17.71.................C Roberts 6 28184 Know Cause 17.29..........................G Cleeve 7 3F555 Hey Jude 18.04..........................J McInerney 8 64546 Okuku Terra 17.59............................R Casey 9 66886 Epic Mate 17.41 J M........................ McCook 10 85788 Leanne’s Way 17.70 J M.................. McCook 7 4.59pm A2C ASPHALT 2 CONCRETE 0800222583 DASH C1, 295m 1 33733 Smash Rebel 17.59......................... M Grant 2 23444 Native Scout 17.39...............................A Lee 3 54864 Ohoka Pheobe 17.43.................... L Waretini 4 43F77 Cannonball Bolt 17.45......................R Casey 5 14728 Nippa Credit 17.64.....................J McInerney 6 28x77 Gorm The Great 17.62.................D Kingston 7 83657 Dagny 17.38 J M.............................. McCook 8 23325 Know Approval 17.32......................G Cleeve 9 66886 Epic Mate 17.41 J M........................ McCook 10 85788 Leanne’s Way 17.70 J M.................. McCook 8 5.16pm CHRIS & LISA EARL SPRINT C1, 295m 1 67736 Mamma Rose 17.73.........................R Casey 2 78377 Vik Vikkers 17.47..........................C Roberts 3 8866x Go Shirly Go 17.57............................J Dunn

4 21136 Citizen Aguero 17.69.................J McInerney 5 36232 Black Eye Bill 17.68................... M Dempsey 6 54465 Little Lottie 17.47 M &.......................... Smith 7 153 Mitcham Shemon 17.61............. A Bradshaw 8 74732 Culvie Ness 17.51 H &.........................Taylor 9 66886 Epic Mate 17.41 J M........................ McCook 10 85788 Leanne’s Way 17.70 J M.................. McCook 9 5.34pm THE TURF BAR STAKES HEAT 1 C1q, 520m 1 5643x Our Jolene 30.68.............................R Wales 2 45575 Sefton Jill 30.73...............................R Wales 3 42274 M’Lady Sadie nwtd..................... A Bradshaw 4 86542 Eddie Hemi 30.25............................R Wales 5 37272 Ohoka Carsen 30.88..................... L Waretini 6 2172x Go Ladybird nwtd.............................R Wales 7 28774 Jay Spencer nwtd.......................... L Waretini 8 75654 Goldstar Montana 30.34 S &............B Evans 10 5.52 THE TURF BAR STAKES HEAT 2 C1q, 520m 1 38828 Raquel Allen nwtd.........................C Roberts 2 38877 Forbury Flyer nwtd.....................J McInerney 3 7778x Go Mufasa 30.84.............................R Wales 4 76333 Little Secret 30.44......................... L Waretini 5 Box Vacant 6 1x87x Jay Shirley 31.20..............................R Wales 7 75757 Opawa Pam 31.39...........................R Wales 8 84573 Know Conclusion 30.31..................G Cleeve 11 6.10 THE TURF BAR STAKES HEAT 3 C1q, 520m 1 57887 Homebush Austin nwtd..............J McInerney 2 65676 Bossy Affair 30.29......................... L Waretini 3 63681 Sefton Joy 30.70..............................R Wales 4 64565 Tikao Jackie nwtd M &......................... Smith

5 87564 Opawa Roy 31.28............................R Wales 6 7474x Dream Kay 30.29.............................R Wales 7 86746 Opawa Queen 30.67........................R Wales 8 5351 Jinja Babe 30.59 J &........................D Fahey 12 6.26pm PROTEXIN DASH C1, 295m 1 54587 Elsa Blueblood nwtd..................J McInerney 2 84543 Pacemaker 17.58....................... A Bradshaw 3 33434 Goldstar Diesel 17.46 S &................B Evans 4 58524 Jealous Affair 18.13...................... L Waretini 5 77875 Know Burden 17.60........................G Cleeve 6 24861 Nuclear Jewel 17.58.....................C Roberts 7 83768 Batty Who 17.73 M &........................... Smith 8 74772 Smash Ocean 17.50....................D Kingston 9 66886 Epic Mate 17.41 J M........................ McCook 10 85788 Leanne’s Way 17.70 J M.................. McCook SELECTIONS

11 3.24 CONGRATULATIONS JUSTIN BEAVER C2, 390m

3 78556 Half Silver Fern 22.74................J McInerney 4 72866 My Girl Sofia nwtd...........................B Healey 5 47585 Homebush Sloan 22.50.............J McInerney 6 32365 Cosmic Ryder 22.97..................J McInerney 7 61785 Zip Zap Zoe 22.69......................J McInerney 8 17 Homebush Rehaina nwtd...........J McInerney 9 87868 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 10 68F87 Glass Harpoon nwtd.......................J Guthrie 15 4.32pm RACING AGAIN 2ND JULY C1, 390m 1 68756 Magic Jean Lass nwtd....................C Healey 2 78537 Astro Tipple 22.97...................D J MacMillan 3 F6177 Punch On Rex 22.80..................J McInerney 4 4x785 Pretty Keen nwtd................................S Keen 5 17747 Flying Canary nwtd....................J McInerney 6 48378 Lucy Lingers nwtd......................J McInerney 7 76522 Homebush Tasha 23.09.............J McInerney 8 43474 Jealous Much 22.57...................J McInerney 9 87868 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 10 68F87 Glass Harpoon nwtd.......................J Guthrie SELECTIONS

Race 1: Smash Out, Honey Dew Jewel, Andrea Said, Azkadellia Race 2: Neptune Allen, Opawa Vinny, Goldstar Yankee Race 3: Eternal Debt, Nippa Eel, Just James, Say Cheese Race 4: Goldstar Shiloah, Jitterbug Jewel, Knows No Better Race 5: Every Minute, Heidi Hates Rap, Goldstar Bryton Race 6: Culvie Jay Dee, Okuku Terra, Platonic Affair Race 7: Know Approval, Ohoka Pheobe, Nippa Credit Race 8: Culvie Ness, Go Shirly Go, Mitcham Shemon, Vik Vikkers Race 9: Eddie Hemi, Our Jolene, Go Ladybird, M’Lady Sadie Race 10: Little Secret, Raquel Allen, Go Mufasa, Jay Shirley Race 11: Jinja Babe, Sefton Joy, Opawa Queen, Opawa Roy Race 12: Pacemaker, Nuclear Jewel, Jealous Affair, Smash Ocean LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway 4 1.11pm ASCOT PARK RUN C1/2, 457m

1 11434 Bartholomew Cub 26.54....................B Eade 2 78767 Eyrewell Bentley nwtd..................... H Cairns 3 87577 Lozza The Rascal nwtd..............J McInerney 4 85341 Blazing Banjo 26.53...................J McInerney 5 38678 Dave’s Dot 26.15........................J McInerney 6 23127 Canya Sniper 26.98 J &...................D Fahey 7 81111 Opawa Hypo 26.27..........................R Wales 8 44211 Eyrewell Ebony 26.28..................... H Cairns 9 77678 Chat Ya Later 26.68 S &...................B Evans 10 87868 Homebush Izzy 26.84................J McInerney 5 1.28pm TURNER PAINTER PH021737111 C3, 390m 1 17144 Gracie Lee 23.28.......................J McInerney 2 85516 Opawa Waihemo 22.66....................R Wales 3 53785 Nippa Martino 22.66..................J McInerney 4 68638 Bashful Buffy nwtd.....................J McInerney 5 43543 Shift The Blame 23.04................J McInerney 6 51357 Goldstar Renee 23.05 S &...............B Evans 7 14681 Dream Stone Jade 22.83...................S Keen 8 86444 Homebush Boden 22.38............J McInerney 9 67475 Shanly Star 22.61......................J McInerney 10 38576 Debbie Baxter 22.57..................J McInerney 6 1.45pm TONI@BODYAUDITSOUTH 021657001 C4/5, 457m 1 24312 Goldstar Ashton nwtd S &................B Evans 2 22657 Cosmic Ruben 26.50.................J McInerney 3 22457 Must Be Rusty 25.85..................J McInerney 4 31134 Galifianakis 26.16..............................B Eade 5 7637F Zefside nwtd...............................J McInerney 6 73111 Ketchikan Blue 25.84.........................B Eade 7 36857 Eyrewell Turbo 26.16....................... H Cairns 8 85286 Shaw Lee nwtd J M.......................... McCook 7 2.02 ADDED ENERGY MAIDEN FINAL 1 C0f, 457m 1 11 Opawa Deal 26.15 J &.....................D Fahey 2 3x211 Meka nwtd J &.................................D Fahey 3 3 Goldstar Vale nwtd S &....................B Evans 4 485 Lakota Kohana nwtd....................... H Cairns

5 2762 Lakota Micco nwtd.......................... H Cairns 6 155 Opawa Nat 26.41.............................R Wales 7 41 Goldstar Halsey nwtd S &................B Evans 8 63464 Haze Adams nwtd J M..................... McCook 9 775 Lakota Tonka nwtd.......................... H Cairns 8 2.24pm ORETI BEACH RUN C1, 457m 1 43575 Homebush Carl nwtd.................J McInerney 2 24655 Melting World nwtd..........................J Guthrie 3 55324 Homebush Indi nwtd..................J McInerney 4 16768 Homebush Maycee nwtd............J McInerney 5 7112 Homebush Hotshot nwtd............J McInerney 6 17782 Homebush Flynn nwtd...............J McInerney 7 34667 Koputai nwtd...................................J Guthrie 8 62473 Mr Black Magic nwtd.......................J M Lane 9 64788 Homebush Hazel nwtd...............J McInerney 10 87577 Lozza The Rascal nwtd..............J McInerney 9 2.44pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C4/5, 390m 1 18187 Magic Jess Lass 22.62...................C Healey 2 617F5 Goldstar Trooper 22.25 S &..............B Evans 3 22412 Goldstar Major nwtd S &..................B Evans 4 12131 Chasing Fame 22.37..........................S Keen 5 76135 Reign Of Fire 22.49....................J McInerney 6 35723 Lord Louie 22.46............................R Adcock 7 22361 Tee An’ Cee 22.50.......................... B Conner 8 53324 Hands Of Steel nwtd......................R Adcock 9 11822 Ezra Blueblood 22.72.................J McInerney 10 63145 Homebush Finn 22.58................J McInerney 10 3.04 ADDED ENERGY MAIDEN FINAL 2 C0f, 457m 1 72424 Opawa Slick nwtd.............................R Wales 2 76762 Kowloon Lights nwtd.......................J Guthrie 3 38656 Three Gold Stars nwtd....................C Healey 4 Goldstar Flora nwtd S &...................B Evans 5 68756 Our Bonnie nwtd..............................R Wales 6 557 Lakota Scout nwtd.......................... H Cairns 7 Goldstar Rebel nwtd S &..................B Evans 8 23421 Machine Gunn nwtd.......................R Adcock 9 775 Lakota Tonka nwtd.......................... H Cairns

1 23718 Avalanch City 22.66...................J McInerney 2 65533 Crushington nwtd.......................J McInerney 3 4F343 Shaw Winner nwtd J M.................... McCook 4 64561 Homebush Comet nwtd.............J McInerney 5 25368 Lonely Baxter 23.05...................J McInerney 6 74461 Chasing Great 23.15..........................S Keen 7 56723 Nikko Baxter 22.88.....................J McInerney 8 37344 Sefton Jay 23.13........................J McInerney 9 73664 Eyrewell Tango nwtd....................... H Cairns 10 53774 Cosmic Jase 22.65....................J McInerney 12 3.40pm SOUTHERN LIGHTS AT STUD C3, 390m 1 37724 Kiwi Gunn 22.58.............................R Adcock 2 27516 Cosmic Stu nwtd........................J McInerney 3 67411 Homebush Hundy 22.87............J McInerney 4 31146 Black Bobby 22.53......................... B Conner 5 26672 Kia Tere nwtd S &.............................B Evans 6 74226 Sozin’s Blue 22.68.....................J McInerney 7 86835 Mitcham Faye 23.02...................J McInerney 8 72287 Homebush Tesan 22.54.............J McInerney 9 67475 Shanly Star 22.61......................J McInerney 10 38576 Debbie Baxter 22.57..................J McInerney 13 3.57 BODYAUDITSOUTH@GMAIL.COM C1, 390m 1 64763 Homebush Pierce 22.88............J McInerney 2 16741 Regal Jock nwtd.........................J McInerney 3 16544 Dream Runner nwtd J M.................. McCook 4 75857 Gotcha Zena 22.86....................J McInerney 5 37174 Nippa Enough nwtd....................J McInerney 6 66758 Pukeko Rustler nwtd.......................B Healey 7 37836 Mitcham Becky nwtd..................J McInerney 8 34214 Baldrick nwtd..............................J McInerney 9 87868 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 10 68F87 Glass Harpoon nwtd.......................J Guthrie 14 4.16 DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 390m 1 35766 Rocky Vincitore nwtd...............D J MacMillan 2 78282 Taramakau 23.04.......................J McInerney

Race 1: Sozin’s Symphony, Homebush Reed, Sozin’s Azure Race 2: Sozin’s Empire, Homebush Erin, Cadillac Mack Race 3: Happy Days, Trajan, Storming Mack, Opawa Al, Chunk Race 4: Opawa Hypo, Canya Sniper, Eyrewell Ebony, Dave’s Dot Race 5: Opawa Waihemo, Homebush Boden, Dream Stone Jade Race 6: Ketchikan Blue, Must Be Rusty, Goldstar Ashton Race 7: Opawa Deal, Meka, Opawa Nat, Goldstar Vale Race 8: Homebush Hotshot, Homebush Carl, Homebush Maycee Race 9: Goldstar Trooper, Lord Louie, Hands Of Steel, Tee An’ Cee Race 10: Goldstar Flora, Goldstar Rebel, Kowloon Lights Race 11: Avalanch City, Chasing Great, Homebush Comet Race 12: Kiwi Gunn, Kia Tere, Sozin’s Blue, Homebush Tesan Race 13: Regal Jock, Dream Runner, Gotcha Zena, Baldrick Race 14: Zip Zap Zoe, Homebush Rehaina, My Girl Sofia Race 15: Punch On Rex, Astro Tipple, Flying Canary LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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By Niall Anderson Their Cricket World Cup history hardly provides proof, but South Africa are already claiming the mental edge ahead of their showdown with the Black Caps.

At least, that’s the verdict from Proteas all-rounder Andile Phehlukwayo, who made the bold call ahead of their meeting in Birmingham tomorrow.

New Zealand have won their last four World Cup clashes against South Africa, the most famous of all coming four years ago, when Grant Elliott’s match-winning six broke South African hearts in the semi-final at Eden Park.

That extended South Africa’s underwhelming World Cup record, having never managed to progress past the semi-finals – a run which looks likely to continue with the Proteas having won just one of their first five

games at the 2019 edition.

However, when it comes to playing New Zealand, Phehlukwayo would rather look at performances more recent than that 2015 World Cup disappointment.

Five months after that extraordinary day in Auckland, South Africa claimed a 2-1 ODI series win over the Black Caps in South Africa, before taking a 3-2 series triumph in New Zealand in 2017 – victories that Phehlukwayo believes give South Africa an edge.

“We’ve played against New Zealand a couple of times, and I think the last time we were there we won, [and] against them at home, so I think mentally we already have that upper hand,” Phehlukwayo claimed after South Africa’s win over Afghanistan.

Whether that’s true or not, what is indisputable is South Africa’s desperate need for another victory.

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Having lost to England, Bangladesh and India, a rained out match against the West Indies left South Africa needing to win all of their remaining games to have a hope of making the semi-finals.

They started that process in fine style, destroying Afghanistan by nine wickets, and the team believes that the dominant nature of the victory is a turning point for their campaign and one that makes them a more potent opponent for the Black Caps.

“The first three games we didn’t play like we did today,”

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analysed South African captain Faf du Plessis after the Afghanistan win.

“Forget the opposition. It’s the stuff that you can control yourself, and there was energy in the bowlers. There was energy in the fielders. Batters were clear in what they needed to do.

“So hopefully this is a real confidence booster for everyone on the team. And there’s a little bit of weight that you feel that’s off your shoulders now we know what’s lying ahead; we need to win every game that we play. Today was a really good step in the right direction.”

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10am 1pm MSA TAI CHI. AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Weekly exercises and Tai Chi for arthritis. Meet MSA Social Supportive fall prevention Hall, Havelock Street (excludes group, all abilities welcome. school holidays).

Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

Presbyterian Church, Rakaia.

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION Join us for a fun day filled MUSEUM. with activities for the over 60 years. For more information A great selection of many ring Age Concern 308 6817. aircraft from the past to the Seniors Centre, Cameron future, Seafield Road.

Street.

1.30pm

96.25mm x 96.25m ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE CLUB. Social day. Come and join us.

115 Racecourse Road.

6pm sharp RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Winter Series 3km or 6km.

Group run or walk around the perimeter of the domain under lights. All abilities and fitness levels, all welcome, no charge. Meet Walnut Avenue Pavilion.

7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Night time section, all welcome, rackets available.

EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace, Ashburton.

7.30pm ASHBURTON TABLE TENNIS. Everyone welcome, every Tuesday, Tennis bats available.

MSA Havelock Street.

Croquet lawn.

Seated exercises suitable for Methven. people with limited mobility.

10am 7pm MSA Social Hall, Havelock ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Street (not school holidays).

CHURCH. Sequence dancing, all Holy Communion. Park Street. 11.30am welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Corner Queens Drive and ST DAVID’S UNION 10am - 3pm Creek Road.

CHURCH. 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Midweek service and lunch.

Join us for a fun day filled 7pm 48 Allens Road. with activities for the over 60 THE MID CANTERBURY years. For more information LINE DANCERS. 1pm - 4pm ring Age Concern 308 6817.GUARDIAN Learn to dance (7pm), ASHBURTON DISTRICT - Column Filler Adverts 2 Seniors Centre, Cameron Beginner/Intermediate (8pmFAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Street.

9pm), Instructor Annette Fyfe.

Open for research, visitors CAREFULLY ANDHeritage ADVISE ANY Phone CHANGES A RETURN EMAIL OR PHONE CA 307IN7138 a/h, Tinwald welcome.

Ashburton 10am - 4pm PLEASE CHECK ALL DETAILS REQUIRED. COLOUR PROOFS AREHall, APPROXIMATE COLOUR ONLY, COLOUR MAY Graham Street.

Centre, West Street.

Closed HOSPICE MIDAND ANY OTHER CHANGES most publicAND holidays.

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Weekly fitness, fun and Euchre $4. Newcomers friendship. Contact Elizabeth welcome we are friendly.

10.30am 308 5437. Buffalo Hall, 20 Cox Waireka Croquet Club, the AGE CONCERN STEADY AS Street. domain, Philip Street.

YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention 7.30pm 1.30pm group, all abilities welcome.

ALLENTON INDOOR AGE CONCERN STEADY AS Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

BOWLS. YOU GO. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox All welcome to come and play Supportive fall prevention Street. indoor bowls at the Indoor group, all abilities welcome.

Bowls Stadium, McNally Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

10.30am - 12pm Street, in the Riverside ASHBURTON OPEN COFFEE Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox industrial area.

Street.

MORNINGS. Every Wednesday, come for a 7.30pm 5pm (sharp) coffee and chat, child friendly ASHBURTON TRAVEL RUN AND WALK location, all welcome. Phone CLUB. ASHBURTON. Adi 027 220 8791 or Sue-ann Meeting with speaker - the Wednesday walks, 5km town 021 679 348.

Todd’s on Vietnam. St David’s circuit for all walking abilities Union Church lounge, 48 and fitness levels. Meet 10.45am Allens Road. on Philip Street beside the MSA TAI CHI.

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Cryptic crossword

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): The trick to getting important things handled is very simple. Schedule them and stick to the schedule. You won’t want to do the thing when it comes up on the calendar. Do it anyway.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): There are uncontrollable things happening. There are storms inside us that ripple out, and events miles away that resonate at our core. It’s a day to respect the wilderness and control what we can.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You can think a thing, fashion it into a social media post and push the idea to the ends of the globe in a matter of seconds. Just make sure that what you’re putting out is part of the signal, not the noise.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Some will say you’re changing, but that’s just because they don’t realise that this isn’t a change. Each day, you are becoming more like yourself. Growing in power is the natural progression.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The work goes by fast and is very interesting – so long as it’s not the work you’re supposed to be doing. Such is life!

Almost any work seems better than what you’re duty-bound to.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Your approach will make a big difference. You wisely realise that some things are best approached as art, and other things are best approached scientifically.

Which way serves everyone better?

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Enthusiasm helps you climb the hill. However, if you want to move the mountain, then you’ll need something more.

You’ll need passion, tenacity and grit. You’ll need other people. You’ll need dynamite.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): “You’re the best!” they’ll say, which feels good but is a short-lived and hollow victory. Hyperbole is easy. Specific, heartfelt noticing means more. Strive to give it and cherish it when received.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Playful people inspire you. Hours of carefree leisure always point to a wealth of joy, time, mental freedom and maybe also a wealth of money. Playful people make you wonder, “Can I afford to play now, too?”

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Watch out for misinformation today, as it will be everywhere. Learning the wrong things makes a person know less than they did before getting “educated.”

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Your mental vision is strong. You’ll have vivid dreams. It’s most fun when you can direct these dreams as a film director would, creating a picture of your deepest desire.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): There’s a difference between recklessness and bravery, though it can be hard to tell which force is at work. Bravery is action. Recklessness is reaction. Only bravery will serve your purposes today.

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Previous solution: alms, calm, calms, cam, cams, clam, clams, lac, lacs, lam, lams, mac, macs, sac, sal, scam, slam

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CORNISH, Margaret Jean (nee Drummond) – passed away peacefully on Friday, June 14 at Auckland.

Dearly loved wife of John.

Mother and mother-in-law of Joanne and Denis King, Mary and John Becca, Robert (deceased). Much loved sister and sister-in-law of Bert (deceased) and Jean, Ian and Jean, Janetta (deceased) and Noel Watson, Alistair and Margaret. A memorial in celebration of Margaret's life will be held at Romaleigh, 31 Ocean View Road, Northcote on MONDAY, June 24, 2019 at 1.30pm.

GLASSEY, Grant Norman – 01/01/1970 – 16/06/2019 Sadly taken from us in his 50th year, very much loved and appreciated soul mate, best friend, Hun, and Grantie of Della. Very loved and respected father of Courtney and Shari, Tayla, and Jaykob.

Grant you touched our lives so very much in so many ways. We will miss your banter, dry jokes, crazy dance moves and questionable singing. And as you always said 'But that’s OK'.

You exceeded the limits of love and loyalty and went above and beyond for everyone with your contagious smile.

You are the sun in our sky and we weren’t ready for it to set. Our hearts are broken.

See you on the dark side of the moon.

– Pink Floyd (Grants favourite band).

Donations to the New Zealand Liver Foundation would be appreciated and may be left at the service.

Messages to: the Glassey family, c/- PO Box 6035, Ashburton 7742. We would like you all to come and help us celebrate Grantie's life at the Tinwald Rugby Clubrooms, Maronan Road, Ashburton on THURSDAY, June 20 at 1.30pm followed by interment at the Ashburton Cemetery.

GLASSEY, Grant Norman – Dearly loved son of Lesley and the late Graham, loved brother and friend of Deanna and Wayne, Uncle of Clara, and Anthony Watson. We wish to acknowledge all members of Lions Clubs throughout New Zealand, your generosity in providing the Liver Transplant Unit at Auckland Hospital, enabled Grant to have another 19 1/2 years of life! This we sincerely appreciate.

Messages to: 9A Buckley’s Terrace, Ashburton 7700.

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Wednesday

12:05 Last Man Standing PG 12:30 Last Man Standing PG 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy!

PG 1:40 The Force MC 2:05 Extreme Salvage Squad ML 2:50 Trucking Hell M 3:40 CSI – Miami MV 4:25 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 4:50 NCIS – LA MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

Wednesday

12:30 Lethal Soccer Mom MV 2016 Thriller. Christina Cox, Sarah Grey. 1:55 Destination Wedding MLS 2018 Comedy.

Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder.

3:20 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 3:35 Eloise 16VLC 2016 Horror. Chace Crawford, Eliza Dushku. 5:05 6 Days 16VL 2017 Action. Jamie Bell, Mark Strong.

MAORI

6am Codename – Kids Next Door 3 6:25 Batman – Brave And The Bold 3 0 6:50 The Fairly OddParents 3 7:15 Kid v Kat 3 7:40 Henry Danger 8:05 Ben 10 – Omniverse 0 8:30 Game Shakers 8:55 Tiki Tour 3 0 9:20 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Roadshow 12:40 Ed PGR 3 1:35 Married With Children PGR 2:05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm The Chase Australia 0 5pm Football – Fifa Women’s World Cup (HLS) 5:30 Prime News 6pm Cricket – World Cup (HLS) Bangladesh v The West Indies.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 7:30 A Very British Country House 0 8:35 Queen – Rock The World PGR 3 0 9:50 The Neighbourhood PGR 10:20 Happy Together PGR 10:50 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR

11:50 The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

12:20 Closedown

MOVIES GREATS 6:15 Michael Clayton MVL 2007 Drama. George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson. 8:15 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 8:30 Chef ML 2014 Comedy Drama.

Robert Downey jr, Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara. 10:25 Safe House MVL 2012 Action.

Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds. 12:20 Frida 16VLS 2002 Biography.

Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Antonio Banderas.

2:20 Underworld – Evolution 16VLS 2006 Action. Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman. 4:05 300 16V 2006 Action. Gerard Butler, Lena Headey. 6pm Wedding Crashers MVLS 2005 Comedy.

Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn.

8pm The Lincoln Lawyer MVLS 2011 Thriller. A sleazy defence attorney has a crisis of conscience when he represents a wealthy client who has a foolproof plan to beat the system.

Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei.

10pm The Duchess MS 2008 Drama.

Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper.

11:50 Independence Day MV 1996 Action Scifi. Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Randy Quaid.

Wednesday

2:10 People Interview – Chris Pratt 2016 Featurette.

2:40 Underworld – Evolution 16VLS 2006 Action.

4:25 300 16V 2006 Action.

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6:30 Takoha 3 6:40 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 7:10 Kia Mau 3 7:20 E Kori 7:25 Tuatangata Levi 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Huhu 3 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Pukana 3 2 8:50 Kete Korero 3 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 Cam’s Kai 3 10am Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 My Reggae Song 3 11am Wairua 11:30 Taha Tauiwi 3 Noon Pukuhohe 3 12:30 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 Tuatangata Levi 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Huhu 3 4:20 Huritua 3 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 5:30 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 6pm Pukuhohe 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Tiny House Hunting 6:30 River Cottage Every Day 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Hope For Wildlife 9am Sold! 9:30 Selling Houses With Amanda Lamb 11:30 Flying Across Britain With Arthur Williams 12:30 Expedition Unknown 1:30 Joanna Lumley’s India 2:30 Britain’s Ancient Tracks With Tony Robinson 3:30 Hope For Wildlife 4:30 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals Jamie Oliver makes rogan josh curry with fluffy rice, carrot salad, poppadoms, and flatbread.

5pm Italian Food Safari 5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Easy Eats Oysters three ways; coconut curry seafood chowder; slowroasted brisket; quick-andeasy tiramisu.

8pm Te Ao With Moana 8:30 Off The Grid PGR 9pm Hunting With Tui PGR 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 3 10pm Whawhai 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 11pm Te Matatini Ki Te Ao Highlights from 2019 Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival, held at Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

11:30 Closedown

7:30 Inside Out Homes Zac sets out to prove that concrete is the perfect material for inside-out living as he and Monty test how to get a piece of the South Bank in West London.

8:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 9:30 Building The Dream 10:30 American Pickers

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 L Motorsport – SGB Premiership 8:30 AFL – On The Couch 9:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 10am Fox Sports News 10:30 Cricket – World Cup (HLS) Bangledesh v West Indies.

11:30 Rugby – Women’s Sevens (HLS) 1pm Motorcycling – MotoGP (HLS) Grand Premi Monster Energy De Catalunya.

1:30 Motorcycling – TrialGP (HLS) 2pm AFL 360 3pm Golf Central 4pm Football – Fifa Women’s World Cup (HLS) 4:30 Football – Fifa U20 World Cup (HLS) Italy v Ecuador.

From Poland.

5pm Football – Fifa U20 World Cup (HLS) Final – Ukraine v Korea. From Poland.

5:30 Rugby – Woman’s Sevens (HLS) 7pm Super Rugby Wrap 8pm The 1014 Rugby Show 8:30 The Breakdown 9:30 The Back Page 10:30 The New Golf Show 11pm Golf – US Open (HLS) Round Four.

Wednesday

Midnight Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Meijer LPGA Classic – Round Four. 12:30 AFL 360 1:30 The 1014 Rugby Show 2am The Breakdown 3am AFL 360 4am Super Rugby (RPL) Bulls v Lions.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Tiny House Hunting 1am Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 1:30 Italian Food Safari 2am Building The Dream 3am Hope For Wildlife 4am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Cricket – World Cup (RPL) Bangledesh v West Indies.

Last two hours of play from The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.

8:30 Cricket – World Cup (HLS) India v Pakistan.

From Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester.

9:30 Cricket – World Cup (RPL) Bangledesh v West Indies – First Innings.

From The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.

2:05 Cricket – World Cup (RPL) Bangledesh v West Indies – Second Innings.

From The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.

6pm Cricket – World Cup (HLS) Sri Lanka v Australia.

From The Oval, London.

7pm Cricket – World Cup (HLS) India v Pakistan.

8pm Cricket – World Cup (HLS) Bangledesh v West Indies.

From The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.

9pm L Cricket – World Cup England v Afghanistan – First Innings.

From Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester.

Wednesday

1:35 L Cricket – World Cup England v Afghanistan – Second Innings.

From Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester.

5:30 Cricket – World Cup (HLS) South Africa v Afghanistan.

From Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How It’s Made PG 7:30 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 7:55 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 8:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Cutlass Lowrider 2/2.

9:10 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Tune It Up. 10am Garage Rehab PG Northrich Collision.

10:50 Abalone Wars PG 11:40 Swamp Murders M Misty River. 12:30 The Perfect Murder M Horror in Harlem. 1:20 The Coroner – I Speak For The Dead M The Wax Bags. 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 Double Trouble.

4:45 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Big Red Caddy 1/2. 5:40 Abalone Wars PG 6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 BattleBots PG Gr8 Expectations – The Quarter-finals. 8:30 What On Earth? PG 10:15 Strange Evidence PG Wrath of Thor. 11:05 Naked And Afraid M Rain of Terror.

11:55 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG Wednesday 12:20 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 12:45 The Coroner – I Speak For The Dead M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Moonshiners M 3:15 Gold Rush PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Gold Rush PG

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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Sport

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Combined side makes progress

Benji back in black

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Eventual winner Evan Williams awaits the outcome of a shot from number three seed Joe Williams during the Rakaia Squash Open.

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Williams lives up to top billing

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

He’s the country’s top ranked player at the moment, and Wellington’s Evan Williams showed just why at the weekend’s Rakaia Squash Open.

Williams headlined a top field at the annual tournament, all lured to the small Mid Canterbury town by the prospect of $1000 prize money for the person who could take out the men’s open title, as well as the opportunity to play some top squash with the nationals just around the corner.

It was a big weekend of squash, with more than 100 games over nine grades played across Friday night and Saturday, culminating

in a massive final on Saturday night where Williams took on another of the country’s top players.

Christchurch’s Oliver Johnston, the number two seed, was his opposition and while Williams’ road to the final was relatively smooth, Johnston’s had a few more speedbumps in it, and it showed on court in the final with Williams taking it out in straight sets, after earlier beating Agustin Maunier and Joseph Williams without dropping a set.

The top seed also took out the women’s A grade, and the $500 prize money that went with it, with Kelsey Carrick from Christchurch beating her sister and second seed Katie Carrick in the final.

Katie Carrick had a fight on her hands to even get to the final though with the woman who took out the Methven Squash Open title the weekend before, Amelia Wadsworth, giving her a run for her money despite only being a last minute addition to the field following the withdrawal of Ashburton’s top hope, Aleisha Stoddart, due to injury.

The seedings may have been spot on in the top two grades, but in the women’s A grade it was a different story, with Methven’s Steph Sim defying her seeding of seventh out of eight to claim that title.

Meanwhile, the men’s A grade title was won by Christchurch’s

Alan Dallas, and the men’s B grade title was also won by a Christchurch player, Oscar Cunningham.

Rakaia’s Blake Gordon was seeded at three in the men’s C grade, but he fought hard and took the title out, while Methven’s Hamish Woolsey won the men’s D grade.

Rakaia players won both of the two bottom grades, with Ben McNally winning the E grade and Ashley Parkes winning the F grade.

Rakaia club captain Matt Parsons said it was a great weekend with some top squash played, and a lot of people turning out to watch.

Winning weekend for local football sides

Bringing the country’s top players to Rakaia was something he’d been wanting to do for some time and this year all of the stars aligned.

“We’ve already had a good response from people keen to come back next year, especially the top guys,” Parsons said.

“They were really supportive and they said it was awesome and they will definitely be coming back next year, and that was without me even talking about prize money.”

So once next weekend’s Rakaia Squash Club club championships were out of the way, planning will start for the next Rakaia Open.

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