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Lights, camera, action He could have been any man in any courtroom in the country, facing one of the most common charges on any court list yesterday.

Hollywood was a long way away when Christopher Whitelaw Pine, better known in his role as Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, stood quietly in the dock of Ashburton’s small art deco district courtroom.

He received no special treatment during his appearance or sentencing.

A debate around media coverage took place between Judge Joanna Maze, defence counsel Marilyn Gilchrist and a media representative, taking up much of Pine’s brief appearance on a drink driving matter.

He was entirely remorseful, Ms Gilchrist said.

While drink drivers often claim to be remorseful, Pine’s demeanor indicated it was genuine.

He labelled his actions on March 1, when he chose to drive a short distance after drinking at the Blue Pub, as “foolish”.

The court was told Pine had already made a sizeable donation to the Cure Kids charity and participated in making a promotional video during his recent visit to New Zealand.

Judge Maze disqualified him from driving for six months and ordered reparations of $93. She recognised his charitable donation by declining to fine him.

It was over in a matter of minutes and then he left the courtroom like any ordinary offender.

However, once outside Hollywood made its presence felt again and the actor was confronted by the glare of publicity, with television cameras rolling, and journalists and fans jostling for his attention.

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Pop star Lady Gaga stunned her father when she told him she was broke after pouring her millions into the stage set for her 2009 Monster’s Ball world tour. The singer says she put her $US3 million ($NZ3.51 million) savings into the design to give her fans the best live experience – and to impress a very important promoter. In a new documentary Gaga says, “I was bankrupt during the show. I had $3 million in the bank to my name and I threw it all in to make my stage.” The gamble paid off – Arthur Fogel, the Live Nation mastermind, was impressed with Gaga’s efforts and signed on to manage her next tour, which became one of the most profitable concert treks of all time.

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Lorde: US reporters creeps Singer Lorde has branded US entertainment reporters “creeps” following rumours she and boyfriend James Lowe are engaged. The teen voiced her opinions on Twitter, posting an email her photographer beau received from an E! journalist asking if the pair were engaged after photographs emerged which showed Lorde with a sparkler on her ring finger. “You have officially hit the big time when creeps from e think wearing rings means getting married,” the double Grammy award winner posted alongside a screenshot of the email. Her post has been retweeted by nearly 2000 people.

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A message in a Powerade bottle sent by two young friends sought love from exotic shores. Instead, the handwritten note was found by volunteers cleaning up Tauranga’s Waikareao Estuary about 1km from where it was likely launched. Toby Barach, a pollution prevention officer with Tauranga City Council, found the note so amusing he photographed it and sent it to the Herald. The nine-year-olds woo potential girlfriends by stating that they are best friends and both “so cool”, with Daniel adding that he plays ice hockey. But they also make clear they have high standards, signing off the joint love letter by explaining that its content is “only for hot girls”.

An experimental drug made from snail venom has shown early signs of promise in numbing pain, raising hopes in the hunt for new, non-addictive medications, an Australian researcher says. The drug is judged to be about 100 times more potent than morphine or gabapentin, which are considered the gold standard for chronic nerve pain. The active ingredient, conotoxin, comes from carnivorous cone snails, which are common in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean. The marine animals can reach out and stab prey, injecting a venom that paralyses fish long enough for them to be eaten. A tiny protein derived from the snail’s venom has formed the basis of five new experimental compounds, says lead researcher David Craik.

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■ ROSEBANK RESTHOME

Stomach bug forces lockdown

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Half the residents at Rosebank Residential home have been hit by a gastroenteritis bug that has management locking down the facility until it is under control.

Rosebank Residential Care Services general manager Sue Prowse said the resthome facility did not have Norovirus specifically, but they did have a gastroenteritis bug.

“We have got a vomiting outbreak, (but) we are unsure what the virus is.

“About 50 per cent of the residents are affected but are becoming more well,” she said.

“It seems to be a 24-hour thing.”

Ms Prowse said there was mostly vomiting although there were some minor cases of di-

arrhoea. She said the facility would stay in quarantine until it was deemed clear.

“We have isolated the organisation just to safeguard everybody.”

No other resthomes in town reported any health concerns.

A stomach bug has been doing the rounds of Ashburton over the past few weeks.

The unidentified illness saw a number of people off work and school with vomiting and/or diarrhoea.

It took most people out of action for at least two days.

The exact cause of the bug was not confirmed as most people did not go to a doctor, but there had been at least two people treated for dehydration.

Ashburton GP spokesman Dr John Guthrie said gastroenteri-

tis was around most of the year.

It was mostly inconvenient but it could be life threatening if significant dehydration developed.

“Infants and the elderly are particularly prone to dehydration but this can occasionally happen to fit healthy adults.”

He said the basis of treating gastroenteritis was to replace fluids and salts (electrolytes) lost from vomiting and diarrhoea.

“If vomiting or diarrhoea is very severe and frequent it may be impossible to rehydrate from oral therapy alone and intravenous fluid may be needed.”

Dr Guthrie said there were multiple causes of gastroenteritis but those of a viral nature such as Rotovirus and Norovirus, were very infectious.

They quickly spread through close contacts such as families, schools and resthomes.

“They are the cause of hospital ward closures and lockdowns.

“They are usually short lived but dehydration may still occur.”

Cameron Courts clinical manager Janet Olds said they had a three case policy.

If three people got ill, they quickly worked to make sure the illness was contained.

It included shutting the door to visitors until they were sure things had improved.

Staff and residents would be discouraged from visiting Rosebank until they had given the all-clear.

Mrs Olds said they were strict on general hand washing

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Good food handling techniques – properly prepared, cooked, covered and refrigerated.

Reheated food should be heated right through and unwell food handlers should not prepare food.

Isolation – avoiding sources of infection, and staying isolated if unwell.

hygiene and got people to stay away if they were unwell.

She said they also encouraged staff and residents to get their influenza vaccinations.

■ ST PATRICK’S DAY

Devon the dog joins celebrations

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Devon the Irish wolfhound celebrates St Patrick’s Day yesterday at Kelly’s Café and Bar in Ashburton, with her owners John and Haley Ahern.

The couple decided to dress their pet in green and take the day off from dairy farming at Mayfield in celebration of the patron saint of Ireland.

Mr Ahern is from Ireland, and did not want the fact he had lived in New Zealand for six years to stop him from going all out on his home country’s cultural and religious holiday.

He managed to convince friends and farmer colleagues (from left) Adam Wakelin, Kent Smith, Daniel McAtamney and Hamish Bell to enjoy a pint or two, of Guinness, with him in town.

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■ CHRIS PINE COURT APPEARANCE

Fans, media swamp star

By Myles HuMe

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A calm Chris Pine signed autographs and spoke with fans as he emerged from the Ashburton District Court following his high-profile appearance yesterday.

A large group of local teenage girls – who were lucky enough to be on a teacher-only day – waited outside with a swag of national media to meet Pine as he exited the small courthouse shortly after 11am with a drink driving conviction.

“It’s all good guys, it’s all going to be okay,” he said as fans crowded in on him.

He spent about 30 seconds with fans, local teen Harriet Lane, 16, getting her Star Trek DVD signed by the Hollywood star, before he walked through the media scrum to his get-away vehicle – a BMW 4WD. Questions from the media went unanswered following his conviction and sentence.

Fans screamed as the star, clad in a denim jacket and jeans, was driven away, left to share stories about their experience with the actor.

“That was awesome, I got so many photos of his face, and I touched his beard, that was so exciting,” fan Charlotte Muir, 13, said.

The atmosphere built from 9am as media representatives from across the country converged on the court.

The Ashburton District Court found itself in the unusual position of being in the face of the media glare.

While Pine’s court case is the headline story of the day, the big-name-comes-to-smalltown sideshow added another element to this bizarre case that has gripped media across the world.

Speculation was rife in the hour leading up to the Hollywood actor’s appearance.

Would he really show for a drink-driving charge he received after a night out with Z for Zachariah film crew and cast in Methven on March 1?

The minutes ticked down to 10am – when the Star Trek actor was scheduled to appear.

The waiting swag of camera crews, photographers and reporters were anxious – even multi-award winning Press reporter Martin van Beynen was in attendance – yet there was a feeling of skepticism in the air that Pine may still be in Sydney.

Then, suddenly, two white utes parked directly outside the court’s main entrance departed in unison as if on cue, a quick knock on the back window by a member of Pine’s entourage set the play in motion.

The BMW swept into the park with Pine emerging, the media and fan frenzy not even lasting 60 seconds before he entered the courthouse flanked by two wingmen.

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Lawyer asked judge to discharge actor

By MicHelle NelsoN

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Hollywood star Christopher Whitelaw Pine needed no introduction when he stood in the dock of the Ashburton District Court to admit a charge of drink driving yesterday morning.

On what should have been a regular court list sitting, Judge Joanna Maze, court officials and those scheduled to appear were faced with a barrage of cameras and journalists.

Police prosecutor sergeant Mike Wingfield told the court Pine was caught driving with 113 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in the early hours of March 1 at a checkpoint in Methven.

Pine claimed he had consumed four vodkas.

The legal limit for adult drivers in New Zealand is 80 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

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movie Z for Zachariah, and had just left a party at the Blue Pub in Methven.

Ashburton lawyer Marilyn Gilchrist, who represented Pine, asked for a discharge without conviction.

Despite all the international interest, a conviction would outweigh the gravity of the offence, she said.

She pointed to the difficulties he would have entering Canada, with visa restrictions.

Judge Maze acknowledged Pine had made a considerable donation to Cure Kids, and his previous good record.

“This issue of a visa will be a complication, but you’re no different to other people who may wish to travel to Canada,” Judge Maze said He was convicted and ordered to pay $93 in reparation for the cost of blood tests. He was also disqualified from driving for six months.

No fine was imposed because he had already made a donation of $2000 to Cure Kids which was approximately four times the likely fine.

Before Pine appeared Judge Maze heard applications from media at a special sitting to determine who would be allowed in the courtroom.

Ms Gilchrist argued the overwhelming interest in the matter was salacious and sensational, claiming the public only needed to know the outcome of the hearing.

Up close, personal High school student Paige Valentine reflects on her day chasing Chris Pine.

A glimpse of Chris Pine was all I was wanting from my 5.30am start and a trip from Christchurch. It wasn’t the best of circumstances for him, but for me it was a chance to finally see him after a month of trying.

Access was extremely tight to the film set while he and his other celebrity co-stars were here, I had found out after the two-hour drive. But I had a feeling that today was the day.

I mingled with reporters, photographers and other fans as we all waited for Chris, unsure of whether he was even going to show. When 10am came around and there were no movie stars to be seen, we all started to lose a bit of hope.

Then, a few minutes late, Chris Pine arrived at the Ashburton Courthouse. Then the screams started. The media pushed. He seemed unaffected.

He looked as though he’d walked straight out of Hollywood. I can confirm: Chris Pine is just as dreamy in person. I somehow managed to be right behind him as he entered the courthouse.

Then somehow, I was the only fan in the courtroom; everyone else was probably too scared to get past security.

A few minutes passed before I realised - with a gasp - that he was seated right in front of me. It took great restraint to not reach out and get his attention. The one time we made eye contact, I gave him a thumb’s up which was returned with a quick smile.

At the end of the hearing he gave his lawyer a hug, (where was mine?) and left the courtroom to face a hoard of fans. I’d had almost an hour with him so I stood back and let the others get their moment.

He may have left with a conviction, but he made us fans happy. I got more than a glimpse of the Star Trek star and hopefully a new profile photo.

Paige Valentine takes part in the media scrum outside the Ashburton District Courthouse yesterday.

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■ EDUCATION PERFORMANCE FUNDING

Bizarre plan ‘shocking’ – Leverton

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Schools in disadvantaged areas will miss out the most if education funding is based on performance, Mid Canterbury principals say.

Education Minister Hekia Parata revealed this week she was considering a new funding model for schools to replace the decile system, which she labelled “a blunt instrument”.

She is looking into how a funding system based on school performance would work, with

those achieving highly likely to attract more Government cash.

Netherby School principal Andrew Leverton was shocked by “another bizarre plan by the National Government”, fearing schools like his, which is decile three, may miss out.

“It’s going to be the children who need support the most who miss out . . . I can see how some high decile schools would appreciate it because their achievement levels could be higher due to the fact their children come in with greater

knowledge when they start school,” he said.

Mr Leverton said $26,000 of his school’s $220,000 operations grant was from targeted decile three funding.

“And if you took away $20,000 of the total we would have to make some cut-backs.”

Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president Neil Simons said although he agreed the decile system was flawed in some aspects, he called the performance-funded idea “farcical”.

He feared “ropey” National Standards data would be used to gauge performance.

He said schools would naturally be forced to compete for funding, but he believed schools worked better when they collaborated.

He said Ms Parata should consult with the sector before making such announcements via the media.

“Do I think this will come into fruition?

“No I don’t, because the sector will stand up, it’s counter-

productive to what we are trying to achieve,” Mr Simons said.

Education unions were concerned that schools would put more focus on their best performing pupils to get the best results.

Ms Parata said the Government did not want to fund schools according to their raw results in National Standards or NCEA, but on how much teachers had helped students learn over the course of six months or a year.

■ HINDS ARTIST

Tash has WOW awards finals in her sights

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Hinds glass artist Tash Sim has Wellington’s annual World Of WearableArt (WOW) Awards in her sights.

The former Ashburton College pupil has been working day and night in recent weeks to design and construct the garment she plans to enter, and she is confident it will make it to the awards.

Ms Sim must have photos of her garment to judges by April 1. If she makes it to the next stage she will go to a judging session at Nelson, and if she gets through that, she will be off to the capital city for the annual awards.

“That’s my plan, Wellington,” she said.

It is the first clothing item the former professional glazier has ever made.

She is more accustomed to making leadlight windows, jew-

ellery, lamps and commission art work.

She does not want to give away what the final item will look like, however she said it will include colourful glass, copper leaf shapes, and copper wire.

She has already spent 50 hours on the garment, and thinks she may have another 50 to go.

She said after plaiting copper wire hour after hour, she sometimes wondered if it would all be worth it.

However, she knew what the final costume would look like, and it was a design she believed in.

“I have just got to keep that end vision in my head, and it sort of gets me through it,” Ms Sim said.

Right - Hinds glass artist Tash Sim is preparing to enter the World of WearableArt (WOW) Awards.

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■ ASHBURTON RACE DAY FALL

Injured jockey still unconscious Apprentice jockey Ashley Frye, 18, is still unconscious in Christchurch Hospital, following an accident at Ashburton races on Friday.

Ms Frye was riding Zuleika when about 150 metres out of the starting gates, the three year old filly stumbled and fell, throwing her rider to the ground. An autopsy revealed that Zuleika had suffered a ruptured artery.

Frye was taken to Ashburton Hospital and then airlifted to Christchurch where she was put in an induced coma. By Saturday she was breathing on her own but was still unconscious.

She was due to have scans today and is known to have broken a collar bone and fractured a vertebrae at the top of her neck.

South Island chief steward Nigel McIntyre said he was satisfied that the accident was not racing related and that the horse had been at least 50 metres away from the rest of the field when it fell.

It was always a tough day when someone was hurt during a race and no matter how and when they fell, the outcome would always be uncertain, Mr McIntyre said.

“You watch some falls and you wonder how anyone will get up and you see some and you think ‘they’ll be alright’ and they don’t get up,” he said.

Her family and partner Matt Cropp have been at her bedside since she was admitted to Christchurch Hospital.

Mum fearful for her two daughters

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When jockey Ashley Frye fell and was seriously injured at Ashburton races on Friday, it hammered home to Ashburton mother Robyn McKay the danger her daughters lived with every day of their working lives.

Twenty-three year-olds Ashley and Lisa McKay have been riding race day for four years and their mother says she still worries about their safety every time they’re on the track.

Five weeks ago she was reminded that racing accidents didn’t just happen on race day; that they could happen in the daily routine of track work too.

Lisa McKay was on an early morning training ride for her employer Michael Pitman when her mount

slipped on wet grass and fell. She was airlifted to Dunedin hospital with a fractured pelvis. She is back home, walking and itching to get back in the saddle, her mother said.

“You worry, you always worry, but they know the risk and they know what can happen. Friday’s accident was a freak accident with a horse dropping dead.

Ashley (Frye) was so lucky there were no other horses around, if she’d gone down with a full field around her you shudder to think what would have happened.”

She knows her girls have been lucky. They’ve been riding track work since they were 13, and race day for four years. Lisa’s southern fall was their first major accident.

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Lisa and Ashley McKay

years it does get a little bit easier than it was when they first started out when they were green and they were often riding green horses.”

During their apprenticeship jockeys are well schooled in safety and for the McKay twins, with their father having also been a jockey, Mrs McKay said they were drilled in falling

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A Christchurch woman, who kindled the hearts of romantics worldwide after marrying her wartime sweetheart following 70 years of separation, has died.

Bernie Bluett, 88, moved from Britain to New Zealand during World War Two after her disapproving parents failed to pass on love letters from Bob Humphries, now 90.

They met as children when Mr Humphries’ family, from London, holidayed in Mrs Bluett’s home town in North Devon.

The pair dated in their late teens but Bernie joined the Royal Air Force and Bob was enlisted in the army. The soldier wrote to his sweetheart - but unknown to either of them, Bernie’s parents did not pass on the letters.

After two years of silence, Bernie married a Kiwi RAF pilot, Roy Bluett, who she had cared for as a military nurse. She and her husband then moved to Christchurch, where they had three children.

Bernie’s husband died 12 years ago and Bob’s wife, Beryl, died in 2012. The pair reunited after Bernie’s daughter Robin put them in touch.

Bernie then moved back to Britain to marry her sweetheart last year at St John the Baptist Church in Pawlett, Somerset.

“Needless to say, he is a hopeless romantic and so am I,” she said of their reunion.

Her son-in-law Paul Hudson said Bernie suffered a heart attack earlier this month. Her funeral is set for Tuesday, UK time.

Her three children – Robin, who lives in Christchurch, Mark from Sydney, and Graham, from the UK – would all be at the funeral.

“Mark’s been staying with her new husband Bob – they’re both military people,” Mr Hudson said. Bernie had been living on borrowed time, he said. “She told me that if she had six months of happiness with Bob that would be really good. She ended up having 10.” - APNZ

safely and protecting their heads.

“Unfortunately when you fall, you’re going so fast you can’t always think what you have to do, but many jockeys go through their careers without a major accident.

They know the risks they’re taking every day and I have to accept this, it’s their dream to do this.”

In brief Power box fires A power box fully involved in flames prompted a member of the public to call the Methven Volunteer Fire Brigade about 2.45pm yesterday. The metre-high box on Racecourse Avenue was severely damaged from the fire after volunteer firefighters called in electricity experts to turn off the power before they extinguished the blaze. Chief Fire Officer Selwyn Allred said no one was in danger from the fire, but it could be heard making loud noises.

Vicious assault Police hope to speak to a sex worker who was viciously assaulted in an Auckland cemetery within the next couple of days.

The 34-year-old woman suffered injuries to her entire body during the prolonged attack which happened about 5.30am on Saturday. So far, police have only been able to speak to the woman between medical procedures. They hope to take her full statement in the next two days.

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Missing boatie A Navy ship was attempting yesterday to close in on the last known location of a boat belonging to a missing Marlborough man. Kerry Blair, 55, has been missing since March 8 when he launched his ninemetre aluminium boat Erie in the Marlborough Sounds. His boat was discovered around 200km off the coast of Taranaki by a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion on Friday evening. Attempts to secure it and bring it to shore were abandoned over the weekend due to rough seas and stormy weather. - APNZ

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

In brief

Quinton callover canned Christopher Esme Quinton’s callover appearance in the Ashburton District Court yesterday did not eventuate.

Shortly before he was due to appear in the dock, Quinton could be heard in the court cells swearing and bashing a door.

While attempting to bring

him into the courtroom a scuffle broke out between him and police officers.

Judge Joanna Maze declined to deal the matter in the presence of the offender, saying security provisions in the Ashburton courthouse were not adequate to deal with Quinton’s behaviour.

He was returned to prison without plea.

Quinton has been in custody for three weeks, after evading arrest for a fortnight.

Quinton is accused of breaching a protection order, breaching a restraining order, threatening to kill a woman, possessing a knife, showing in-

Wilful damage Cody Nathan John Tihema, 23, of Hampstead admitted a charge of wilful damage – he was remanded on bail for sentencing on April 19, to enable a restorative justice conference to take place.

tention to use it to commit an offence.

The charges related to offending in June and December last year.

Yesterday three new charges of child assault, one of intentional damage and one of possessing drug paraphernalia were added to the list.

Convicted, discharged Michael Peter Humphreys, 42, of Netherby, admitted a charge of wilful damage, however as he had already paid in full for the damage he caused to his on-again off-again partner’s vehicle he was convicted and discharged.

Work sentence handed Home detention sentence on down for receiving, driving, burglary charges arson charge A young man who paid $500 for a Toyota Prado, offered on Facebook faced the music yesterday.

Richard Parore, 19, of Hampstead, admitted charges of receiving a stolen motor vehicle, driving while forbidden and burglary when he appeared in before Judge Joanna Maze in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

The court was told when the complainant in the receiving matter discovered his vehicle missing from outside his home on Christmas morning, he and a friend went looking for it.

They saw Parore drive past, and twice accosted him, trying to block him. On the first occasion the defendant escaped by driving onto the footpath.

The second time he tried the same trick but crashed into a fence.

When spoken to by the police he said purchased the vehicle for $500 via Face-

book, from an unknown woman. It was subsequently valued as worth between $10,000 and $15,000 by a car dealer.

Parore accepted he knew the 4WD was “too cheap”, but couldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, his lawyer Paul Bradford said.

The burglary charge came about after Parore and some associates stole power tools after breaking the window of a local business.

All but one of the tools was eventually recovered.

Mr Bradford said his client now had a job, and had settled down.

Judge Maze convicted Parore and handed down a 100 hour community work sentence and ordered reparations of $525 to be paid at $25 a week.

She also remitted $1086 worth of outstanding fines for a further 40 hours community work.

Drugs charges Michaela Anne Sullivan, 20, of Ashburton, admitted allowing cannabis to be smoked in her home. Police were alerted to the offending while paying a visit on an unrelated matter. Two bongs were also discovered at the property. She was convicted, fined $200 and ordered to pay court costs of $130.

An Ashburton youth who set fire to a high country hayshed has been sentenced on an arson charge.

Kurt Charles Brown, 19, of Hampstead, will serve seven months on home detention, and must pay $6225 in reparations at $50 a week.

In October Brown and two others drove up the Ashburton Gorge, on the way back Brown stopped near a four-berth hayshed on Arrowsmith Station, which he set alight.

Damage totaling tens of thousands of dollars was caused, and nearby property was put at risk.

Brown’s lawyer Roz Burnside said his decision making had been impacted personal health crisis’s which had now been addressed.

He was deemed at low risk of reoffending in the sentencing report.

Judge Maze said offending was deliberated but allowed for a degree of diminished responsibility, owing to Brown’s mental state at the time.

Sentencing delayed An Ashburton teenager’s sentencing was delayed to allow time to assess whether he can join a residential drug and alcohol treatment programme while on an electronically monitored sentence.

Ryan Thomas Lynch, 17, of Ashburton admitted charges of theft of a car, arson, two charges of burglary, three of driving while suspended, two of possessing cannabis and one of possessing drug paraphernalia last month.

Yesterday the court was told Lynch’s use of legal highs and cannabis was causing him serious problems. He was remanded on bail for an alcohol and drug assessment to be done before he reappears for sentencing on April 11 in Timaru.

Damaging police car one of a multitude of charges HOT Viliami Robert Veatupa paid for damaging a police car, resisting arrest, disorderly behaviour and fighting in public, when he appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

Police prosecutor sergeant Mike Wingfield told the court police were alerted to a disturbance at the Hampstead Rugby Club grounds in the early hours of New Year’s Day. On arrival they found Veatupa and associates outside the clubrooms.

Veatupa was aggravated by questions about a broken window, and was eventually handcuffed, and seated in the patrol car.

Meanwhile his associate Maka Tuakoi was pepper sprayed and arrested.

While police attention was diverted, Veatupa managed to manoeuvre himself between the seats of the patrol car and kick out the windscreen.

The fighting charge came about after police responded to reports of people brandishing bottles and fighting on Somerset Grove.

Veatupa was ordered to go home, however around 3am police found him shaping up to fight with the same person in a fast food car park.

He was “highly intoxicated”.

Veatapu, who represented himself, could offer no explanation for his behaviour.

But Judge Joanna Maze left him in little doubt it was the result of his excessive drinking.

He was fined $600 on all matters and ordered to make reparation of $489.

His associate, Tuakoi, 20, of Pendarves, also appeared for sentencing on two charges of resisting arrest, drink driving (EBA 724mcg/l) and driving while disqualified.

He was disqualified for 12 months, effective from April 15, after which he must obtain and use a zero alcohol licence for three years.

He was sentenced to 160 hours of community work, ordered to undertake alcohol and drug assessment and his vehicle was confiscated.

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■■Ashburton District court

In brief

Woman stole from her boss Thieving from her employer cost Krystal Leigh Durey her job, and earned her an appointment in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

The 21-year-old used a com-

puter at her work to gain access to a customer’s account number.

She then sent it to an accomplice, who booked items valued at $1263 to the account.

When confronted she denied all knowledge of the offending, and claimed not to know her co-offender.

Judge Joanna Maze convicted Durey of using a computer

to gain property. She was sentenced to six months supervision to include vocational training and budget advice, and ordered to make reparations of $631 at $15 per week.

Home detention for unprovoked assault A 23-year-old Ashburton man will serve six months on home detention for an unprovoked attack which broke his victim’s jaw in two places.

David Peter Morrison appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Ashburton Dis-

trict Court yesterday, to be sentenced on a charge of injury with intent to injure.

Morrison landed a single punch with such force he broke his victim’s jaw in two places, knocked teeth out, and left him with nerve damage and emo-

tionally traumatised. In the process Morrison broke his own thumb.

Judge Maze said the victim had done nothing to provoke the assault.

Sentencing had been delayed to allow a restorative justice

■■timaru high court

conference. As a result lawyer Paul Bradford said Morrison had gained insight into his offending, and made a sizeable payment to his victim.

He said his client was extremely remorseful, and the offending was out of character.

Contempt of court

By Brendan Manning

Failed South Canterbury Finance’s head office in Timaru after the firm’s receivership last August.

Judge rejects defence application The judge in the South Canterbury Finance fraud trial has declined an application by the defence to stand down.

Justice Paul Heath is the sitting judge in the High Court trial of former SCF chief executive Lachie McLeod, 50, and two of the company’s former directors, lawyer Edward Sullivan, 72, and accountant Robert White, 70.

Yesterday’s hearing was held after the head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) told a conference prior to the trial beginning that they were lucky to have Justice Heath as the trial judge.

Justice Heath this afternoon told the Timaru court he had considered all the evidence and had decided to dismiss the application, and the trial would now continue.

In what has been described as New Zealand’s biggest ever

fraud trial, McLeod, Sullivan and White have all denied a $1.6 billion fraud.

The trial before Justice Heath alone is set down for 3-4 months and is a document heavy case, with the Crown relying heavily on the evidence of paperwork.

A total of 40 Crown witnesses, including former SCF employees, people involved in transactions with various companies, and forensic or expert witnesses, are expected to be called.

The start of the trial was delayed for an hour last Wednesday morning over concerns that a comment made the previous week by the boss of the SFO could have led to a perception that Justice Heath was biased towards the Crown.

SFO director Julie Read referred to Justice Heath as “our judge” while speaking at the

13th Annual Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Conference in Auckland.

Lawyers for the three accused, Pip Hall QC, Bruce Squire QC, and Jonathan Eaton QC wanted a delay to the start of the trial in order to look more closely at the issue and to see if the judge should consider stepping down from presiding over the trial.

Justice Heath said it was “extraordinary” to think anyone would possibly think he would be anything other than impartial.

He declined to recuse himself, saying proceedings should continue, and if defence counsel wished, they would be given time to formally pursue the matter further, which is what occurred today.

- Additional reporting by Kurt Bayer of APNZ - apnz

The directors of a Canterbury farm have been found in contempt of court after allowing fertiliser to be spread on land covered in native bush and protected by covenants.

A judgement released by the High Court at Christchurch late last month found Roelof and Diederika Wobben breached the statutory conservation covenants created under the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Act. The covenants are designed to protect native flora and fauna and bind the land owner for perpetuity.

Representatives of the trust alleged the Wobbens breached the covenants when areas of protected kanuka vegetation were cleared off land near Eyrewell.

The Wobbens purchased the land in December 2012 and did not dispute that areas of the protected kanuka vegetation were cleared off the land in order to facilitate irrigation work, the judgement stated.

A representative of the trust, Miles Giller, discovered in early June last year that the vegetation clearance had occurred, and obtained written undertakings from the Wobbens that no further harm would come to the areas.

However, in November 2013 the trust lodged an application for an interim injunction, alleging three breaches.

Justice Rachel Dunningham found the Wobbens in contempt of court due to repeated and deliberate breaches of the injunction order.

A penalty decision was deferred to a later date, however Justice Dunningham warned Mr Wobben that imprisonment was possible. - APNZ

Intentional damage Shaun Nathan Hurst, 20, of Ashburton, admitted illegally entering a yard and intentional damage. He was convicted, sentenced to 50 hours of community work and ordered to make reparations of $100 within three months.

Theft from employer Timothy James Nevin, 34, of Ashburton was sentenced to six months community detention for three counts of theft from his employer. His offending occurred between July and September last year, while he was subject to another sentence. He was ordered to pay reparations of $650, and an existing community work sentence was cancelled.

Wilful damage Mason Daniel Rudolf, 31, of Allenton was convicted and ordered to come before the courts if called with in nine months on a charge of wilful damage. Rudolf had paid for the damage and apologised for his behaviour soon after the offending.

Warrant to arrest A warrant was issued for the arrest of Matthew Ranson, 19, of Pendarves.

Drink driving William Uhilamoelangi Tuitavake, 21, of Hororata admitted drink driving with an excess alcohol limit of 706 micrograms per litre of breath (EBA 706mcg/l), when the legal limit is 400mcg/l. He was disqualified from driving for six months, fined $600 and ordered to pay $130 court costs. The court was told when Tuitavake noticed police following him he drove onto a property to evade detection.

Drink driving Frazer Charles Skene, 25, of Ashburton, admitted a drink driving charge (EBA 536mcg/l).

He was disqualified for six months, fined $400 and ordered to pay court costs of $130.

Drink driving Hayden Roper, 17, of Ashburton, admitted drink driving as a person under 20. (EBA 269mcg/l)and driving while his licence was suspended. He was disqualified from driving for six months from April 2, when his current disqualification ends, and fined $200. Roper was also ordered to start making inroads into some $4500 of outstanding fines at $50 per week.

Disqualified 3 months Monyke Jayne Rolton, 18, of Ashburton, was a youth limit drink driving matter (EBA 243mcg/l).

She was convicted, disqualified from driving for three months, fined $200 and ordered to pay court costs of $130.

Licence suspended Rikki May Garthwaite-Smith, of Ashburton, was convicted of driving while her licence was suspended. She was disqualified from driving for six months, fined $200 and ordered to pay court costs of $130.

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■ SECOND ASHBURTON BRIDGE

In brief

Commissioners hold key Ashburton’s Bridge Action group members say they’ve put their case and now the hard part, the waiting begins while commissioners John Milligan and Andy Carr decide whether Ashburton’s second river bridge is in the right place or not.

On Thursday a marathon four-day hearing of submissions on the Ashburton Dis-

trict Council’s application to have land designated for the second bridge wrapped up.

Over those four days the council’s solicitor Cedric Carranceja and his team of experts put the case in support of the council’s application to have land designated for the bridge.

The bridge will connect Chalmers Avenue with Grahams Road via a new route that

will cut through rural/urban land in Tinwald.

Opposing the application, many members of the Bridge Action group spoke, outlining the ways in which they believed both the route and the council’s consultation process were flawed.

Ashburton Citizens Association chair and member of the bridge action group Diane

Rawlinson said she believed the hearing commissioner and the council’s legal team had learned a lot about the process the council had gone through to reach the land designation process.

“It’s now just a case of wait and see for us now but we’re certainly happy with the way the hearings went,” Ms Rawlinson said.

■ TOKOROA

‘Positive steps’ in Taiaroa murder case Nearly one year on since road worker George Taiaroa was gunned down, police say they have made “positive steps” despite not yet making any arrests.

The grandfather was fatally shot as he operated a stop-go sign at roadworks in Atiamuri, near Tokoroa, leading police on a search for a blue Jeep Cherokee seen speeding away.

Police yesterday said an investigation had made “positive steps” in the last 12 months and belief in the theory behind the murder has not wavered.

Although police have not named their prime suspect, it has been widely reported their focus is on Whangamomona man Quinton Winders.

Mr Winders rejected the allegations when approached by a Sunday newspaper last month, reportedly saying: “What they [police] are doing is this big fabrication.:” Bay of Plenty Police District Crime Manager, Detective Inspector Tim Anderson said it had been “important for the

George Taiaroa

integrity of the investigation from the outset to be patient, thorough, and methodical, and to explore every avenue”.

“We continue to do that and every avenue we have taken has reinforced our belief about what happened that day and why George was murdered.

“We still believe that the

blue Jeep Cherokee vehicle we seized in the weeks following the murder was involved.

“We still have that vehicle and we are continuing to carry out work with that vehicle as part of the investigation.

“Although I am still not prepared to discuss the motive for the murder; our position on

that, and the fact that it would appal any reasonable person, has not changed.

“My position also remains the same when it comes to not making comment on individuals; but we still have one prime suspect.”

Police wanted to make clear to the public, the person responsible and anyone else who knows or suspects who was involved, that the investigation is still very much active.

“The last year has not been easy for George’s family and this week will no doubt be particularly difficult.

“He was a doting family man and the impact of his loss is never far from our minds; it drives us forward and makes us all the more determined.

“As the Taiaroa family has its own private reflection, we ask that the public also reflect on this case and contact us with any information they might have. It doesn’t matter how much time has passed or how irrelevant it may seem, it may be important.”

- APNZ

■ HAMILTON DISTRICT COURT

ceived public attention after a bystander put footage of the boy, seemingly drunk, at Fairfield Park in January on You Tube.

The boy’s father had earlier welcomed the charges being laid against the trio by Hamilton police.

Judge David Ruth ordered them to appear on 12 June for a hearing, set-out for a day.

Under the charge they face they can only be fined and not serve a term of imprisonment.

- APNZ

Still for sale Ashburton’s Tuarangi Home is still on market and looking for new owners. The historic property, built early last century to house men in the Ashburton District who were old, poor and homeless, has been privately owned for the past 20 years. The property went under the auctioneer’s hammer on March 6. However, Bayleys sales agent Debbie Boon said that in spite of indications of interest from around New Zealand, the property did not attract any bids on auction day.

She is now working with some of those potential buyers to secure a sale.

Blood pressure checks More than 260 people in Ashburton got their blood pressure checked last week in the Arcade during the national Kidney Awareness Week campaign.

Kidney disease was described as a silent illness, with no major symptoms displayed before the kidneys failed. As one of the easiest and earliest ways of detection was a blood pressure check. The Ashburton Kidney Society had nine registered nurses volunteer their time to carry out about 264 free blood pressure checks. They were done in the Arcade and also at businesses around town. “We are very happy, it was a great response” said committee member Lesley Glassey.

There are 50 families in Mid Canterbury that have members suffering from kidney failure.

Hearing aid funding Mid Cantabrians with projects or activities that promote hearing and hearing loss, or improve the lives of hearing impaired people can apply for funding through The Oticon Foundation. Last year, the foundation backed the development of an e-collection of New Zealand Sign Language education resources, research into prosody perception of children who wear hearing aids or cochlear implants, and the development of an information poster. Grant applications close on March 31, 2014. More information can be found at www.oticon.org.nz/ grantAppli.htm

Tyre bursts on landing Wellington airport was closed briefly yesterday morning as an air force Hercules burst a tyre on landing. Airport spokesperson Greg Thomas says the runway was closed so ground staff could inspect for damage from the Hercules, NewstalkZB reported.

The debris was soon removed and the airport was open within five minutes with everything fully operational again.

- APNZ

Trio plead not guilty to giving alcohol to child Two men and a woman have pleaded not guilty for giving alcohol to a nine-year-old who appeared drunk at a Hamilton skate park.

Michael King, Lucy Snowden and Kali Tiloi were excused from appearing in person at Hamilton District Court yesterday each charged with supplying alcohol to a nine-year-old.

Their lawyers confirmed they had earlier entered not guilty pleas.

The trio, whose names have not been published before, re-

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Body found

Three adults allegedly gave the boy eight RTDs and two shots of liquor.

The body of a man was found in Nelson overnight yesterday. The man was discovered on Whakatu Drive around 12.10am. He was described as aged between 18 and 30, Caucasian, of slim build and 172cm tall. He had short brown hair with a ginger tinge, a silver stud ear ring in his left ear and was wearing a red checkered shirt and black Adidas track pants, police said. He was not wearing any footwear and police have asked for help in identifying him.

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OUR VIEW

Media circus leaves town Coen Lammers EDITOR

T

he circus has just left town. Hollywood star Chris Pine’s court appearance in Ashburton District Court yesterday was the biggest media extravaganza this district is likely to see for years to come.

The appearance of a murder accused last year received significantly less attention from out-of-town journalists, while in comparison Mr Pine was only facing a drink-driving charge.

Even Judge Joanna Maze commented on the media interest when she denied a request for a photographer and camera in the courtroom.

The Ashburton media frenzy was a classic example of the modern celebrity culture we live in these days where the appearance of an actor who is still a fair bit from the Hollywood A-list, draws such a crowd in a small country town.

And it wasn’t just the media waiting for Mr Pine to show up. Cameras and reporters were outnumbered by fans and other interested locals lurking around the courthouse, hoping for a glimpse, an autograph or a ‘selfie’.

The standard comment by national media representatives this week was that this court case was the biggest thing ever to happen in Ashburton, which was ignorant and slightly patronising towards the amazing events and people the Guardian reports on daily.

The fact that certain newsrooms only show an interest in a minor celebrity while ignoring many of the genuine big stories in Mid Canterbury, says more about those media than Mid Canterbury.

Granted, the Guardian was represented at the court, as we do at every court session, but the real interest to the locals was the spectacle as much as the Hollywood star.

Watching him in the middle of the media/fan scrums, you had to feel a bit sorry for the actor, who has to endure this kind of attention every time he moves, or steps out of line.

Sadly, the celebrity obsession by the public, and therefore media, catapults these actors to fame and wealth, so you have to argue that they may have to put up with the flipside when they decide to drive after a few vodkas.

YOUR VIEW Council hearings Having sat in on some of the bridge hearings at council this week, I find it all pretty disgusting.

Nobody was against a second bridge, more that the choice of where it would go was so wrong.

The way the previous council and staff have treated these people involved is again, disgusting.

All decided behind closed doors then feeding it out to the ones concerned in a way they felt they still had a choice. Lies, lies, lies. Nobody is against a second bridge.

If the Chalmers Avenue choice was the right one we would all be behind it.

Then to hear that the council, within five to 10 years of this bridge’s completion, will then still have to build a third bridge (a bypass).

Do it once and do it right.

Listen to the folk who have lived here all their lives.

They don’t have the so-called

CRUMB

papers behind their names, but they sure as hell have the right knowledge. Come on Ashburton, wake up.

The upgraded road buzzing 24/7 with all the heavy trucks using the bridge built to handle the new agreed weight of these trucks. This is the main reason council is wanting it. Not mentioning the PM 10 – diesel fumes that kill people.

This was mentioned several times as causing cancer, heart disease, asthma and many more, proving to be more toxic than asbestos. In the past we were ignorant of this, but there is no excuse now, it is all scientifically proven.

When the second bridge was first talked about the council said to us all it was for the townspeople only.

They are now saying trucks will be using this bridge as it will be a quicker route. What right do a handful of councillors have to treat our Ashburton folk this way.

Especially those folk who thought they were now, after

by David Fletcher

a lifetime of hard work, living their dream.

To hear how they have been treated is once again disgusting.

Their lives that should have been happy and finally doing what they had worked hard for have been shattered.

Their health has suffered; their dreams have gone they are worn down.

Shame on you few councillors with your big ego trip. Destroying these people’s lives. All for wanting your name on some of these new roads etc. What a way to go about having your name go down in history. You at the end of the day just walk away.

I did notice one of the two ex-councillors in particular hang his head when his name kept being brought up time after time and hearing how it was going to be his way.

The other sat there smiling away as if she was their longlost friend. The two sat there shamelessly the days I was there.

I hope their conscience catch-

es up with them in the end.

The money, time and unnecessary stress this has caused so many people and the rates we will all have to face is just, once again, disgusting.

Maree Claire Jacobs (edited)

The Plains Dames The local Red Hat group, The Plains Dames, wishes to thank and acknowledge publicly the generosity of Braided Rivers and Somerset Grocer, who have recently supported us with donated goods for our raffle, to raise funds for the national convention, to be held in Ashburton in October this year. We are privileged to have had their support.

We also wish to acknowledge all of you who purchased a ticket. We appreciate your kindness – thank you all!

The raffle has now been drawn. Congratulations to all those who have won prizes.

Gabrielle Jones “The Mad Hatter”

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Do you think Ashburton needs wheelie bins?

Yes 80%

Willy Leferink WILLYLEAKS

W

hat would happen if Federated Farmers put out a survey asking respondents to agree or disagree with broad-sweeping statements.

I’m thinking along the lines of, ‘do you feel introduced fish species should enjoy significantly more legal protection over native fish?’ What about, ‘should the trout licence fee ($121 for an adult) be abolished, with trout and salmon rules aligned with those for saltwater recreational fishing?’

Something tells me one organisation would cry blue murder before exploding in a rage of apoplexy. So guess what, I am not going down that line.

Instead, I am going to respond to what I heard Bernard Hickey and RadioLIVE’s Marcus Lush recently say on radio. Lush said: “We’re becoming more dairy intensive with these great irrigation projects in Canterbury and to a lesser extent Hawke’s Bay … they are all geared for more people going into dairy.”

Funny then that the sheep and beef guys in Central Hawke’s Bay are going to use Ruataniwha to part irrigate their farms, just like Federated Farmers’ Mid Canterbury provincial president Chris Allen.

Sure there’ll be some dairy, but I bet there’ll be arable cropping, horticulture plus sheep and beef.

To be a dairy farmer you need more than just irrigation. For a start you need to like cows and you also need skills that aren’t easy to obtain.

You cannot be a plumber one day and a doctor the next, it is all specialised just like farming is.

That Hawke’s Bay water storage scheme Lush mentioned has a nitrogen loss cap but, here’s the kicker, nitrogen isn’t the big issue with the Tukituki River; phosphorus is.

In summer phosphorus mostly comes from the towns so cue a collective ick.

It’s also on the road to being fixed, but that takes money and the way to get that money is to

No 20%

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Nitrogen isn’t the big issue with the Tukituki River, phosphorus is.

grow the Central Hawke’s Bay economy. The answer is “just add water”.

It is why you see people from the East Coast and Wairarapa passing through Canterbury to see how we do things.

But there was more from that radio conversation.

Hickey responded to Lush’s question saying: “We don’t have a response from the farming community or Fonterra about, ‘here’s what we’re going to do to mitigate those impacts’…”

Getting the media to consistently report success or positive environmental steps outside of our farming press or the business pages is like pulling teeth while listening to someone scratch a blackboard with fingernails.

So fellas here is just some of what we’re doing.

First up, Fonterra farmers have fenced 22,000 kilometres of waterways and that’s GPS mapped. Depending on how much riparian planting and maintenance is included, that’s $100-200 million right there.

That sum is dwarfed by irrigation infrastructure which is an environmental good

because it is efficient water use.

Then you’ve got farm effluent systems recycling cow wee and poo as liquid fertiliser.

Those two items would represent billions over the past 10-15 years as the average effluent system is about the same cost as a house in Otago.

Oh and we do pay tax; a whopping half billion dollar’s worth each year. The average annual tax paid by dairy farmers over the last decade was $28,225 per farm business or over $330m each year.

Then we’ve got the $174m we pay in local rates and we don’t even get a recycling bin!

Farm managers form part of the top 28 per cent of taxpayers and collectively those wealthy misers only contribute 74 per cent of all PAYE tax revenue.

The National Policy Statement (Freshwater) and the National Objectives Framework also answers everything Bernard Hickey and Marcus Lush discussed.

As Chris Allen told The Press, the change in farming these policies represent could replicate 1980’s Rogernomics, when nearly a third of Mid

Canterbury farmers left the land.

It is that massive and the media do themselves a disservice by not being aware of its implications, or existence.

That aside there’s impressive results coming through.

Lake Rotorua suffered from decades of human, animal and industrial flows and “the model” said it would take decades but it took less than one.

Not just that, but the first New Zealand River Awards last year recognised plenty of improving rivers thanks to farmer involvement.

We’ve also got that underreported 2013 water quality report by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), which shows water quality stable to improving. Amazingly, these actual testing results over a decade remain almost nonreported.

It’s why Hickey and Lush are on my “to visit list” as we try to get traction one reporter at a time.

If you guys are serious we’ll show you what real farmers are made of.

Willy Leferink is Federated Farmers Dairy chairperson

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■ MALAYSIA

In brief

Hunt for jet focuses on crew An investigation into the pilots of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has intensified after officials confirmed that the last words spoken from the cockpit came after a key signalling system was manually disabled.

Australia has also committed to join the search which has now moved to take in the far southern Indian Ocean.

US intelligence efforts were also focusing on Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid, according to a senior US lawmaker.

“I think from all the information I’ve been briefed on from, you know, high levels within Homeland Security, national counterterrorism centre, intelligence community, that something was going on with the pilot,” said Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee.

“I think this all leads towards the cockpit, with the pilot himself, and co-pilot,” McCaul said on Fox News.

Malaysia’s transport minister confirmed that an apparently relaxed final voice communication from the cockpit - “All right, good night” - came after the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) had been deliberately shut down.

The ACARS transmits to the ground key information on a plane’s condition.

It has not been confirmed who gave that final voice message. But the assumption is the

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has shaken Chile’s northern Pacific shore just hours after a stronger 6.7-magnitude quake hit the same region. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued no tsunami warning. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred offshore at a depth of 10.6km. Its epicenter was 46 miles northwest of Iquique, Chile. The region has had a series of strong shocks since the quake earlier Sunday, registering between 4.9 and 5.2 magnitude. The earlier quake caused more than 100,000 people to briefly evacuate some coastal areas as a precaution. Minor damage was reported.

- AP

UK’s filthy rich

US Navy crew members on board an aircraft P-8A Poseidon assist in search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean.

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person would have known the ACARS system had been disabled.

The plane’s transponder which relays radar information on the plane’s location - was switched off 14 minutes after the ACARS went down.

Shortly afterwards the plane disappeared from civilian radar, but Malaysia has since confirmed that the air force tracked it for hours on military radar without taking action.

The plane went missing ear-

ly in the morning of March 8 with 239 passengers and crew aboard, spawning a massive international search across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean that has turned up no trace of wreckage.

Two-thirds of the passengers on board the flight were Chinese, and state media in China attacked Malaysia anew on Monday over its handling of the crisis.

“The contradictory and piecemeal information Malay-

sia Airlines and its government have provided has made search efforts difficult and the entire incident even more mysterious,” the China Daily newspaper wrote in an editorial.

“What else is known that has not been shared with the world?” it asked.

For relatives of those on board, the indications that the plane was taken over in some way provides a slim hope that it might have landed undetected somewhere.

- AP

■ AUSTRALIA

■ UKRAINE

Police dig for babies

Kiev loses vote, but wins game

A rural Queensland property being dug up in the search for the bodies of babies has been linked to one family.

Police believe several children were born in secret at the address near Gin Gin, in the state’s southeast, during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Part of the property, west of Bundaberg, is being excavated in the next three days, with homicide detectives and forensic specialists from Brisbane among those arriving at the scene yesterday.

Detective Inspector Mick Dowie of the Cold Case Homicide Unit says a family that previously lived at the address is under investigation.

“There’s one family involved,” he said. “We’re conducting an investigation into information we’ve received.”

- AAP

6.2 quake hits Chile

Kiev may have been left smarting after Crimea voted overwhelmingly to split from Ukraine, but the capital was offered a brief moment of solace when its football team scored a victory against the side from the separatist peninsula.

The symbolic match, held as Crimeans voted to join Russia, was overshadowed by tensions in the splintered exSoviet nation, with posters in support of Ukrainian unity and soldiers at the venue.

The final score was 2-1 for Dynamo Kiev, a regular in Champions League or UEFA League games against Crimean side Tavriya Simferopol, whose European appearances have been almost non-existent.

The two sides faced-off in front of a crowd of 11,000 at Dynamo’s 68,000-seat home

Britain’s five richest families are more wealthy than the poorest 20 per cent of the population, a leading charity has revealed.

A report by Oxfam showed that at $52.62 billion, the combined wealth of the top five billionaires and their families is more than the that of the 12.6 million people who are society’s poorest, the Guardian said. The most affluent family in Britain, the Grosvenors, headed by the Duke of Westminster, has a fortune of around $16b, largely derived from owning 190 acres of real estate in London’s Belgravia, near Buckingham Palace, according to Forbes rich list. - AP

Fertility clock Australians are losing track of their biological clock, thanks largely to the high-profile pregnancies of ageing celebrities. Many people believe it is usual and easy to become pregnant in their forties, says Louise Johnson, a spokeswoman for a coalition of health and science groups. They want to get the message across that a woman’s fertility starts to decline in her early thirties. A 40-year-old woman has five per cent chance of conceiving in any given month, she said.

- AP

Ex-guerrilla wins

Pro-Russian people celebrate the referendum result.

Photo AP

Olympic stadium, but the game was not necessarily the first thing on fans’ minds.

Originally scheduled to take place in Crimea’s capital Simferopol on Saturday, the game was transferred to Kiev for security reasons after Tavriya asked for a move.

“Tavriya’s arrival means they do not agree with the illegal referendum. Politics

should not affect the sport,” a Dynamo Kiev fan Vasyl said before the game kicked-off.

The strategic southern region of Crimea has come under de facto control by Russian troops with the help of pro-Kremlin militias over the past two weeks, in response to the ousting last month of the pro-Moscow government in Kiev.

A handful of Crimean fans who travelled to Kiev said they wanted no part in the referendum, if only out of loyalty for their team.

“I do not recognise a referendum in Crimea as legitimate,” said Igor, who came from Simferopol to support Tavriya.

“Secession of Crimea may lead to the disappearing of football there, we have no one to play with,” he said.

- APNZ

El Salvador’s election officials have declared ex-leftist guerilla commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren the winner of a March 9 presidential election, after rejecting the opposition’s last challenges to the results.

Eugenio Chicas, the president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal confirmed a razor-thin election win

by Sanchez Ceren over Norman Quijano of the conservative ARENA party who had challenged the results.

- AP

Cairo crackdown Egypt’s crackdown on Islamists has jailed 16,000 people over the past eight months in the country’s biggest round-up in nearly two decades, according to previously unreleased figures from security officials. Rights activists say reports of abuses in prisons are mounting, with prisoners describing systematic beatings and miserable conditions for dozens packed into tiny cells.

The Egyptian government has not released official numbers for those arrested in the sweeps since the military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July. But officials said 16,000.

- AP

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A Tauranga woman has been awarded more than $17,000 in compensation after it was found she was dismissed unjustifiably.

The Employment Relations Authority has ordered Tauranga company Tile Trends Ltd to pay Jan Mazzola $10,000 in compensation for humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to feelings she suffered. Tile Trends was also ordered to pay Ms Mazzola $7280 as reimbursement of lost wages.

The company imports, distributes and retails tiles and associated products.

- APNZ

Pinot noir gold A pinot noir drop produced from Wairarapa-grown grapes

by Hawkes Bay vineyard Craggy Range has been awarded a gold medal in one of the world’s top wine competitions. New Zealand wines took home 25 medals from 27 wines entered - the highest proportion out of 16 countries in the Global Pinot Noir Masters competition, run by the United Kingdom trade magazine The Drinks Business. The Craggy Range 2011 vintage Prestige Collection Aroha from the Te Muna Road vineyard in Martinborough, entered in the “oaked 30” ($58.50-plus) category, was the only New Zealand gold medal. Also in that category, Tarras Vineyards of Central Otago received a silver medal for The Canyon 2009.

Consumers happy New Zealand consumer confidence rose to a nine-year high in the first quarter of this year with optimism about the economy in the year ahead approaching record levels.

The Westpac McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence Index rose to 121.7 in March, up from 120.1 in the December survey, to the highest level since the creditfuelled boom times of 2005.

A reading above 100 indicates more optimists than pessimists.

A net 35 per cent of those polled expect good times for the economy over the year ahead, up from a net 27.8 per cent in the December quarter and the thirdhighest reading in the survey’s history. “Consumers’ economic optimism, their assessment of their financial situation and their reported attitudes to spending have all continued to pick up,” said Westpac senior economist Felix Delbruck.

- APNZ

The New Zealand share market may get a new addition in the form of the country’s biggest equipment rental company, Hirepool, in the first half of this year, a well-placed financial market source said.

The source, in confirming a report published in the Australian Financial Review, said the new listing would have a market capitalisation of around $300 million.

Hirepool, which is owned by mid-sized Sydney-based private equity company Next Capital, has hired Deutsche Bank/ Craigs Investment Partners, Macquarie Capital and UBS to manage an initial public offer and NZX listing, he said. Another market source said much would depend on the quantity of shares Next Capital was willing to sell down.

Next Capital’s subsidiary, the New Zealand Rental Group which owns Hirepool - bought rival company Hirequip and

merged the two last year.

HireQuip, which has had several different owners over the last few years and which had a brief stint as an NZX-listed stock in 2005-06, went into receivership in July 2012.

The company had a strong South Island presence - particularly in Christchurch, where demand for hired equipment has been strong since the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.

Next Capital, which has about $600 million in funds under management, also owns Onsite, Australia’s second-biggest hire equipment company. The private equity company specialises in providing buy-out funding

for small to medium growth businesses, typically valued between $50m and $200m, according to its website.

There were 10 new listings on the NZX last year, among them being Mighty River Power, Synlait Milk, and Z Energy.

This year, the market is preparing for the float of the Genesis Energy, which is expected to list on April 17. Several more new listings are expected this year if market conditions remain buoyant.

According to one industry insider, the equipment hire sector is highly cyclical and still in need of consolidation in New Zealand. The Australian family-owned equipment hire

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Customers change settings once again Thousands of Xtra customers had to change their security settings yesterday, in order to continue accessing their accounts though third-party software.

An additional layer of security was rolled out across the Xtra email system by Telecom and Yahoo, following a spate of security issues.

Customers had been contacted via email, phone, or text message since February and the security settings came into effect at 3pm yesterday.

Users who did not update their settings by the 3pm deadline may find themselves locked out when trying to access their email through third party software such as Microsoft Outlook or through Android devices.

Around 140,000 users - a third of Xtra’s customer base - had accessed their emails through such software in the past 90 days, a Telecom spokeswoman said.

It was currently unknown how many had changed their settings before the 3pm deadline.

All customers were still able to access their accounts using webmail at xtramail.co.nz.

“We have had a really good response from customers over the weekend changing their settings,” the spokeswoman

company, Kennards expanded by acquiring the business of Auckland’s McEntee Hire in 2012.

In Australia, the sector has been affected by the mining downturn and economic slowdown, with a handful of big hire companies having to enter refinancing agreements last year.

In contrast, the New Zealand construction market has been robust. Canterbury earthquakerelated building consents have totalled almost $1.5 billion since the first earthquake shook the province in 2010.

In January, the trend for new dwellings, including apartments, was at its highest level since September 2007. The trend for new dwellings, excluding apartments, was at its highest level since January 2008, and is 79 percent higher than the most-recent low point in March 2011, according to Statistics NZ. - APNZ

said.

“It only takes about five minutes and there are really clear instructions on our website.

However, customers will need to be aware that they’ll have to do it for all of their devices.”

Users who have already changed their settings to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or who use their account via webmail or Yahoo mobile applications do not need to change.

The added encryption is designed to make the email service more secure, particularly on public wifi connections.

Xtra was plagued by spammers last year, with more than 60,000 users sent malicious spam in one attack. Another attack forced some email accounts to be locked until users changed their password.

- APNZ

NEW ZEALAND SHARE MARKET

Source: NZX

NZX 50 constituents Company CODE

Buy price

Sell price

At close of trading on Monday, March 17, 2014

Last Daily Volume sale move ’000s

A2 Corp ATM 90 92 92 – 1,700.0 186 187 187 +1 5,269.9 Air NZ AIR 3390 3500 3400 +18 6.952 ANZ Banking Gr ANZ 90.5 91.5 91.5 +0.5 1,297.2 Argosy Prop Tr ARG 390 392 392 +2 2,793.8 Auckland Intl Apt AIA 168 168.5 168 +0.5 1,757.7 Chorus CNU 521 522 522 – 266.93 Contact Energy CEN –5 40.35 Diligent BM Services DIL 450 455 455 152.5 153 152.5 –0.5 142.79 DNZ Prop Fund DNZ 1004 1008 1008 –3 28.27 Ebos Gr EBO 421 423 421 –7 619.43 F&P Healthcare FPH 960 965 960 +2 749.56 Fletcher Building FBU –1 582.21 Fonterra Sh’ders Fund FSF 587 589 587 489 496 489 –1 43.1 Freightways FRE 96 96.5 96 –0.5 1,878.5 Goodman Prop Tr GMT 68 69 68 – 467.54 Guinness Peat Gr GPG 307 314 314 – 18.94 Hallenstein Glasson HLG 87 88 87 –1 130.9 Heartland NZ HNZ 224.5 225 225 – 329.38 Infratil IFT 346 352 351 –1 26.67 Kathmandu Hldgs KMD 114 114.5 114.5 +1 203.12 Kiwi Prop Tr KIP 1330 1335 1335 – 316.98 Mainfreight MFT Meridian Energy MELCA 107.5 108 107.5 –0.5 5,395.5 406 413 409 –4 452.78 Metlifecare MET 135 136 136 – 182.93 Michael Hill Intl MHI –2 1,261.1 Mighty River Power MRP 200 201 200.5 337 338 337 –2 85.61 Nuplex Ind NPX 80 81 80.5 –0.5 541.52 NZ Oil & Gas NZO 126 127 126 – 64.4 NZX NZX 325 328 325 +32 433.05 Oceana Gold OGC 1366 1370 1370 – 13.18 Port Tauranga POT Precinct Properties PCT 101.5 102 102 +0.5 1,854.0 128 128.5 128.5 +0.5 64.04 Prop For Ind PFI 291 292 292 –1 87.21 Restaurant Brands RBD 842 849 845 +7 1,273.3 Ryman Healthcare RYM 177 182 177 –6 12.6 Skellerup SKL 622 625 625 –3 536.52 Sky Network TV SKT 390 391 390 –4 527.86 Sky City SKC 306 308 308 +8 28.24 Steel & Tube STU +1 406.41 Summerset Gr Hldgs SUM 344 347 346 247.5 249 248 +3 14109 Telecom NZ TEL 158.5 159 159 +1 37.16 Tower TWR 368 370 368 +1 938.3 Trade Me TME 650 659 650 – 7.567 TrustPower TPW 249 250 249 +1 298.59 Vector VCT 128.5 129 129 – 89.27 Vital Hlth Prop Tr VHP 322 327 327 +5 387.97 Warehouse Gr WHS 3550 3560 3550 –16 113.79 Westpac Banking WBC 4205 4220 4205 +11 204.89 Xero XRO 392 394 394 +4 135.18 Z Energy ZEL

NZX 50 index last 4 weeks 5140 5086 5032 4978 4924 4870

14/3 17/3

Unfair dismissal

Hirepool ready to hit NZX

7/3

The German owners of the container ship Liloa which spilled 1000 litres of heavy fuel oil into Tauranga Harbour last year while the vessel was refuelling have been fined $30,000. MS “Jule” Schiffahrtsgesellschart GMBH & Co. KG were sentenced in the Environment Court at Tauranga yesterday after earlier admitting a charge that a harmful substance was discharged into water in a costal marine area. The oil overflowed during bunkering on July 3 last year due to confusion between the chief engineer and the second engineer as to which tanks were to be filled. The second engineer mistakenly directed the heavy fuel oil to go into the number two tank which had limited capacity at the time.

- APNZ

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In brief

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

 NZX 50 index

5,088.03

+8.71

+0.17%

 NZX 20 index

3,984.21

+4.51

+0.11%

 NZX All index

5,442.01

+4.93

 Rises 37

+0.09%

 Falls 50

WORLD MARKETS

 S&P/ASX 200 index

5,317.6

–11.8

–0.22%

At close of trading on March 17, 2014

 Dow Jones Indust.

16,065.67 –43.22 –0.27%

At close of trading on March 14, 2014

 FTSE 100 index

6,527.89

–25.89

–0.4%

At close of trading on March 14, 2014

 Nikkei 225 index

14,277.67 –49.99 –0.35%

At close of trading on March 17, 2014

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

 Gold

London – $US/ounce

 Silver

London – $US/ounce

1,385.0 21.36

+16.25

+1.19%

+0.12

+0.56%

–5.0

–0.08%

 Copper London – $US/tonne

6,490.0

NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ As at 4pm March 17, 2014

Country

Australia Canada China Euro Fiji Great Britain Japan Samoa South Africa Thailand United States

TT buy

0.9579 0.9617 5.5867 0.6261 1.635 0.5217 88.42 2.055 9.3094 27.99 0.8678

TT sell

0.9311 0.9311 4.9125 0.6031 1.5185 0.5055 85.02 1.776 8.9776 26.70 0.8419

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■ METHVEN A&P SHOW

Gift calves attract plenty of attention Michelle NelsoN

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Gift calves sold well at the Methven A&P Association Show on Saturday.

The event, now in its second year, is staged as a fundraiser for the association and supports three charities.

This year 50 calves were offered, up eight on last year’s

total, donated and raised by 45 farmers. Gift calf convener Ben McIntosh said the animals, predominately dairy-cross bull calves, were in great condition.

“All proceeds go to the running of the show, apart from the money given to the Ashburton Aquatic Centre, the Heart Foundation and Ronald McDonald House,” he said.

“It’s very generous of the farmers to support us and we appreciate it.”

Auctioneers from five local firms conducted the sale in front of a strong gallery.

Pete Smith won the trophy and prize package for the top calf which weighed in at 365kg.

The calves averaged around the $400 mark.

Above – The gift calf auction attracted attention at the Methven A&P

Left – Auctioneers George Mannering and Marty Amos look over the s

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MARKET REPORT LAMB

As NZ lamb makes its way to the Northern Hemisphere for Easter, the longer-term outlook continues to improve. There is a more buoyant feel to lamb markets at the moment with steady demand from China and European markets. Exports to traditional EU markets were up 11 per cent in February, and were the largest February volume to this market since 2010. Easter retail trade is an important brand building period for NZ lamb, with a heavy presence at the retail level in supermarkets, often combined with attractive specials and pricing for UK consumers. Exports of lamb to the Middle East were back 20 per cent during February due to a period in which Australian sourced product surged ahead. Demand for NZ lamb in this region has picked up recently, with better returns also reported.

BEEF

The US manufacturing beef market remains the better performer of NZ’s major beef markets. Although it lost some momentum late last week due to the volume of product being offered out of NZ, prices for imported 90CL cow are now at the highest level ever recorded

by Agrifax. The increase in offerings is due to the dry conditions in the North Island which have pushed farmers to cull cows earlier this season. Although throughput is still below last year’s record levels, about twice as many cows than the norm are being processed in the North Island each week. Outside the US, pricing into China and South Korea has been slightly weaker since the Lunar New Year, and demand from Indonesia has eased due to oversupply, particularly from Australia.

DAIRY

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Dairy commodity prices dipped slightly this week. The Agrifax price for anhydrous milkfat (AMF) fell by 4 per cent while cheese and SMP eased by 1 per cent from last week. All other commodities had little to no changes in price in the Agrifax series.

Fonterra has released the volumes to be offered at the GlobalDairyTrade auction next week. The volumes on offer for the next auction are unchanged from the previous forecast. However AMF and skim milk powder (SMP) volumes have been raised for the auctions scheduled for April and May. Whole milk powder (WMP) forecast volumes for the April and May auctions have been revised downwards.

Last auction featured a hike in volumes offered by Fonterra, followed by a dip in prices. Given that volumes for the next auction are unchanged from the previous forecast and the underlying market fundamentals are the same we may see prices stabilise at the auction.

However the NZX Dairy Futures market tells a slightly different story. Prices are down from a week ago. The WMP nearby contract prices has only eased a tad but prices of the later contract months have fallen by much more with the April 2014 to August 2014 contracts now priced near the US$4500/tonne level.

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■ MID CANTERBURY IRRIGATION

Irrigo Centre makes a move Market Price Trends Week beginning March 17, 2014

l A M B ($) including 1 kg shorn Pelt this week 13.0kg YL SI 13.5kg YM SI 15.0kg YM SI 15.0kg YM NI 15.0kg YM Market Indicator 17.5kg YX SI 19.0kg YX SI 19.0kg YX NI 21.0kg YX SI 21.0kg YX NI 23.0kg YX SI

last 4 weeks 3 months week ago ago

1 year ago

2013/14 Low High

2012/13 ave

40.42 48.89 60.60 69.41 76.93 88.66 78.95 * 92.79 60.35 64.68 92.02 102.67 99.17 110.70 100.75 * 117.98 108.70 121.41 111.41 * 130.45 109.02 124.02

37.30 56.79 74.59 74.56 59.57 86.29 92.93 94.72 101.79 104.75 105.47

41.43 61.35 77.82 78.95 64.12 92.39 99.58 100.75 109.16 111.41 110.65 41.43

41.43 61.35 77.82 79.45 63.77 92.39 99.58 101.38 109.16 112.11 110.65 41.43

41.09 61.09 79.56 82.48 62.74 94.40 101.75 105.53 111.56 116.69 111.34 41.43

41.77 62.01 80.44 84.22 61.33 93.08 100.29 107.13 109.90 118.46 111.41 41.43

29.55 48.24 65.20 63.31 57.60 75.39 81.13 80.34 88.78 88.85 97.02 41.43

6.72

6.72

6.72

6.72

6.72

1 Kg Shorn Pelt SI

6.72 *

6.72 *

6.74

M U T T O N ($) Including 0.5kg pelt 21kg MX1

SI

67.88

67.88

68.32

68.29

52.43

P2 Steer SI (296-320kg) NI P2 Steer Market Indicator

384 392 399

386 398 399

394 412 399

401 426 397

351 353 383

M Cow SI (160-195kg) NI M Cow Market Indicator

245 267 328

247 276 324

257 292 309

265 304 309

Bull SI (296-320kg) NI Bull Market Indicator

376 369 403

379 373 399

389 385 379

396 395 376

66.10

70.49

57.68

B E E F (c/ kg) 416 437 414 * 270 311 328 **

382 395 388

232 236 301

384 * 392 * 397 * 245 * 267 * 294 *

341 343 388

376 * 369 * 372

406 401 403 *

372 388 381

260 292 299

Based on announced schedules with levies & charges deducted and published premiums included. For a valid comparison between the Islands, add $1.20 in Lamb and 7c/kg in Beef to the North Is values, because North Is Cos pay freight.

V E N I S O N ($/kg - gross) AP Hind 50kg AP Stag 60kg AP Stag 80kg

6.11 6.20 5.81

6.11 6.20 5.81

6.13 6.23 5.83

6.56 6.65 6.26

6.38 6.48 6.08

6.11 * 6.20 * 5.81 *

7.43 7.53 7.13

6.86 6.95 6.56

1380 865 780 710 490 485 485 480 510

1380 890 765 710 485 478 485 470 520

1380 970 780 705 485 450 450 470 530

1500 1075 870 740 455 410 395 395 515

1285 865 * 765 670 478 450 450 450 490

1500 1010 850 740 630 625 625 600 534

1475 1047 848 714 440 399 386 372 501

424.33 405.03 421.25 422.5

391 420

433 415

275 408

473 443

414 422

5030 5860 6190 5820 13580

4870 4680 5280 5050 12230

4630 5800 5370 6270 5680 * 6570 5240 6390 13190 14550

4258 4446 4502 4926 11572

W O O L Data: WSI Fine (21 microns) Medium (25 microns) Medium (27 microns) Medium (29 microns) Coarse (35 microns) Coarse (37 microns) Coarse (39 microns) 2nd Shear (37 microns-85mm) Lamb (31 micron-75mm)

W H E A T ($NZ/Tonne) ASW (Aus standard White) NZ Free (12.5% protein)

DAIRY PRODUCT PRICES Butter (NZ$/tonne) Skim Milk powder Whole Milk Powder Cheddar Cheese Casein

5680 5850 5680 5970 13290

5690 6050 6110 6230 13890

Prices are indicative only. They are compiled from an assessment of sales made worldwide on one-off basis in US $.

Quota market sales and contracts are excluded. The prices are then converted to $NZ/t FOB at current exchange rates.

OVERSEAS

MEAT

UK PM Lamb (p/kg) CIF US Bull (USc/lb) CIF US Cow (USc/lb) CIF Venison Bone-in leg (E/Kg)

PRICES 460 225 214 6.40

435 208 201 6.40

0.854 0.514 0.616 3.98

0.835 0.501 0.611 3.86

430 208 202 6.40

350 220 201 6.40

395 202 192 6.40 *

460 225 214 6.40

* * * *

355 209 194 6.43

FINANCE US Dollar UK Pound Euro 2 Year Wholesale Rate (%)

PROCESSING

D A T A (000)

Lamb SI Mutton SI Beef SI information provided by NZX Agrifax

246 144 15.0

0.818 0.831 0.500 0.548 0.599 0.644 3.85 2.91 (Estimates only) 22 151 342 24 11 106 0.0 7.2 14.5

0.776 0.497 0.586 2.76 22 9 0.0

0.863 0.561 0.659 3.85 365 163 15.0 *

Note: * denotes a new low/high for season.

0.809 0.511 0.630 2.74

In a unique spirit of co-operation, more of the district’s irrigation schemes are now working together from a more central Ashburton location.

Irrigo Centre has moved premises from Alford Forest Road to 18 Kermode Street. The new premises were unofficially opened on Thursday evening.

Irrigation scheme board representatives were on hand to hear chairman John Nicholls speak about Irrigo Centre’s future plans.

Mr Nicholls said the new premises were outstanding.

“It’s just what we need for Mid Canterbury irrigators to come together as one,” he said.

“The landlord has been supportive in getting the building in order.”

Irrigo Centre was formed by five irrigation schemes in 2011 to provide a co-

ordinated administration service for its members.

Formerly known as Irrigation House, the collective of irrigation schemes serviced by the company includes Acton Farmers Irrigation, Ashburton Lyndhurst Irrigation, BCI Scheme, Mayfield Hinds Irrigation and Valetta Irrigation.

Recently the BCI Scheme re-located its head office to Irrigo Centre joining Ashburton Lyndhurst Irrigation and Mayfield Hinds Irrigation. Working alongside them within the new premises are staff from Rubicon Global Ltd who provide water metering and database services to Irrigo Centre shareholders.

Irrigo Centre services are available to other irrigation companies or water user groups in the district requiring support and board room facilities are available for hire to the wider community.

■ TWO-TOOTH EWE FLOCK COMPETITION

Merinos under the spotlight

By Michelle NelsoN michelle.n@theguardian.co.nz

Merino sheep will come under scrutiny later this month, when the Canterbury Merino Association’s (CMA) biennial two-tooth ewe flock competition kicks off.

The competition starts the Amuri basin on March 27, before judges Andrew Calvert, from Tasmania, and Tim Wadsworth of Marlborough head for the Rakaia and Ashburton gorges the following day.

In all 13 flocks will be under the spotlight, with the judges looking at conformation, constitution, wool quality and quantity and uniformity to the type of sheep, and freedom from fault, looking at the whole sheep. Productivity in terms of wool growth and lambing percentages will also be considered.

Flocks from Glenaan, Lake Coleridge, Big Ben and Redcliffe stations will represent Mid Canterbury in the competition.

CMA secretary Paul Ensor, who farms about 4000 merinos on Glenaan station in the Rakaia Gorge, said the breed specifications had changed in recent years.

Once considered a high country wool sheep, merino farmers were now looking for dual purpose animals with the market

for their meat growing both in domestic and international markets. “We once got 70 per cent of our income from wool and the remainder was meat, now we are probably only 45 per cent wool and the remainder is meat,” Mr Ensor said.

“There’s been a lot more marketing put around it – the merino company has got their Silere Alpine Origin Merino which is widely available in restaurants around New Zealand.

“They are starting to export it into a couple of markets, one in the US and one in China.”

Title defenders Robin and Phillipa Jamison from Hurinui Plains run their flock under centre pivot irrigation, reflecting yet another modernisation of a breed traditionally considered best suited to high country and dryland farming systems.

Mr Ensor said with good selection and gene marker testing farmers have made real progress in managing foot rot.

The Ensor’s have been involved with the competition since its inception in 2012 and will also be contenders this year.

The farmers involved will accompany the judges during the two-day judging, which will conclude in Methven with an awards dinner.

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1/2 cauliflower, cut into florets, blanched 3 potatoes, diced and par-boiled 1T oil 1 onion, diced 2 garlic cloves 3cm knob ginger salt to taste 2t cumin powder 2t coriander powder 2t ground chilli 1t garam masala 1/4 C fresh coriander 1/2 t turmeric ■ Heat oil in a large fry pan and add onions and gently fry until translucent.

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Making something black to get it clean

By Kathleen Stringer

understood it was my grandmother, she could get he house I grew up in the fire roaring while was an old villa, and others in our family once we got an inside would struggle and toilet, it had all the mod-cons. think there must be a We had power and all the better way to heat the gadgets – like a washing mawater. chine and an oven, but we also As a form of reward had a coal range. for the many services The coal range was a muchthe coal range provided loved member of our family – she would clean it using full of all the quirky eccentricibrushes like the ones ties that you’d expect from an pictured. Each brush older relation. dealt to a particular area It often wouldn’t ‘draw’ of the range. It was quite properly and you would have a process as it was best to clean it out with a long im- A metal advertising sign for Zebra to clean it while cold, but plement that went into its flue grate polish. The New Zealand version warm would do. There like a vet cleaning the teeth of was known as Zebo. were a number of prodsome large monster. ucts on the market but she water cylinder would be throbThen there was the chore of preferred Neil’s which was chopping the kindling, emptying bing with boiling water and we a liquid, black as night. Earlier would either have to have extra the ashes and getting it going versions included a nugget-like baths or pour it down the sink every morning. substance which was extremely It was a bother, but we needed (what a waste). messy. I’m not sure what Neil’s The range kept us warm, to do it, as it was equipped with black was made of, but it smelt heated our water and was a a wetback and our only means like a mixture of tar and soot good way to dispose of rubbish. of heating the water. In sumto me.

People arriving late for dinner mer, we would be sweltering, It always seemed odd that my would find their meal arranged but the range had to be kept grandmother spent a lot of time going as we needed baths or had in pots on the coal range, it even making something blacker, but had a rack which allowed us to washing to do. In the winter, she took great pride in having dry or warm our clothes. the fire supplied much-needed it gleaming, only to get it dirty It asked for very little in heat in our large kitchen, but again. return really for all that it gave with it going so long we had When my mother and I moved us. The only person who fully water to burn. Sometimes the into our new house it took a

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Cans of Zebo grate and stove polish from the Ashburton Museum collection.

while for us to get out of the habit of going to the cylinder to feel how hot the water was so we could have a bath. For the first few weeks it was novel for us to decide and not the coal range when we felt like washing.

The coal range seems to be making a comeback, modern couples are experimenting with the multipurpose of a coal range and in times of high power prices it may be that the coal range and all their gadgets return.

There is something nostalgic and romantic about them. I have a good friend who has no power and she adores her range. She has her wood pile divided into what type of heat she requires, quick (for a cuppa when visitors call), slow and steady for stews or wintery nights, or hot and fast for frying.

It’s quite an art really and like my grandmother, she enjoys the vision of a clean and blacked coal range.

Brushes are often seen in well-used conditions – battered, with quite a few bristles missing and generally not something you’d put on show as a treasure.

However, they are important souvenirs of the days before microwaves and slow cookers and deserve to be kept.

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■ RUGBY

In brief

Fruean sidelined again by heart The yo-yo career of Robbie Fruean took another dip yesterday when he was pulled from the Chiefs’ squad for the tour of Australia and South Africa due to his resurfacing arrhythmia, or rapid heart-rate.

The news must come as a blow to the bruising 25-year-old centre, especially as he appeared to have a clean bill of health before Super Rugby kickoff and was then a menace on opening night for the New Zealand teams on February 21, when he scored a bullocking try against his old Crusaders team. His statistics of 101 metres from 12 carries with four defenders beaten over 169 minutes compare favourably with Hurricanes captain

Conrad Smith. Fruean was replaced, after coming on himself as a sub last Friday against the Stormers, due to a head knock and a racing heart, which also troubled him during the Highlanders game.

He will now have a procedure known as an ablation, which will rule him out of play for four to eight weeks, though crucially he can continue to train, if not with full contact.

Last year, Fruean underwent his second openheart surgery and was picked up by the Chiefs after the Crusaders only of-

fered him a wider training group contract.

The good news is Fruean should make a full return, and indeed the likes of Justin Collins (rugby) and Rob Waddell (rowing) have done so after the ablation procedure.

Chiefs’ coach Dave Rennie, trying not to sound like a heart specialist, said there was a low risk of complications. “There’s a few confused signals in the heart.”

Robbie Fruean

Watching the latest Super Rugby round offered a graph stretching from exhilarating to turgid. The problem was they were successive matches.

It had started so well with the Chiefs showing the best way to beat the Stormers was to use skill and pace to get round them, rather than trying to batter through their core.

Fresh faces have donned the Chiefs’ altruistic cloak and suggest they are in for the long haul once more. They knew their business and delivered on a smart plan laid down.

That delight was flattened soon after as the Crusaders graunched through their work

Aaron Cruden

in Melbourne.

This match was a perfect example of why crowd numbers are dipping and television numbers are rising. For most people, subscribing to Sky TV and attending matches is prohibitive and impractical.

A family of four who decide to go to Eden Park for a match, face a minimum payment of $60 for their seats and probably an outlay of about $20 for food and drinks. Public transport is free but the exercise will cut about five hours out of their night. A basic Sky subscription with access to all sport costs $74 for a month.

Then you can hit the off button, change channel, read a book or entertain instead of sitting through the sort of numbing, stop-start match like that involving the Crusaders.

The complex rules don’t help, while mistake-filled sides and the uncertain judgments of referees also frame tedious encounters.

At the opposite end of the showbiz scale was the work of the Hurricanes and Cheetahs as they went through a “you-score, we-score” routine until Willie Le Roux was sent to the sinbin for an innocuous infringement and victory enveloped the Canes.

Aaron Cruden was outstanding for the Chiefs in their continued front-running, while newer men such as Liam Squire at No8 and James Lowe on the wing are showing what talent, astute recruitment and coaching can produce.

The Highlanders messed up their two extra men advantages, while an erratic production beamed in from Johannesburg and the Blues.

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■ NETBALL

New-look Magic still a force

By Dana Johannsen The Magic have assumed the unlikely position atop the ANZ Championship ladder after surviving their first real test of the season against the Southern Steel in Hamilton last night.

New Zealand’s most successful franchise over the first six years of the trans-Tasman competition, the Magic were tipped to take a steep slide this year after losing 75 per cent of their playing roster from last season - including supershooter Irene van Dyk and ever-reliable midcourter Laura Langman. But new coach Julie Fitzgerald has done a remarkable job of moulding the newlook group into a cohesive and feisty unit.

After two big wins in the opening rounds, the Magic were put under pressure for the first time this season, forced to come from behind to topple the free-scoring Steel side 61-57 at Claudelands Arena.

The next big test for the Magic is will their gameplan hold up to the scrutiny of the Australian sides, with the Waikato-Bay of Plenty side set to face the Melbourne Vixens and Norma Plummer’s West Coast Fever side in the coming rounds.

Over the past couple of seasons the Steel have established themselves as the Magic’s bogey side, having recorded a couple of unlikely wins against their star-studded rivals. This year the two sides looked more evenly matched on paper, al-

Michael Clarke’s pivotal century in the third Test against South Africa will go down as one of the most courageous in history, after scans revealed the Australian skipper batted most of his innings with a fractured shoulder. Before the summer’s Ashes series, Clarke was struggling to shake a perception he wasn’t as tough a presence on the field as his forebears. However, Clarke’s testy, expletive-laden exchange with England’s James Anderson in Brisbane, and now his stoic innings in Cape Town have helped the skipper well and truly transform from pretty boy to warrior. The ball that caused the broken shoulder was a brutal bouncer from Proteas fast bowler Morne Morkel that deflected up and smashed Clarke on the side of his head, under his helmet.

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Ricciardo stripped

Channel-surfing for perfect game

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Courageous Clarke

though form over the opening rounds of the competition suggested the Waikato-Bay of Plenty side were once again the favourites.

But after opening the season with two sluggish performances, the Steel sprung to life at just the wrong time for the Magic.

With Jamaican import and key shooter Jhaniele FowlerReid still overcoming a flare-up of a heart condition in the preseason, it was always thought the Steel would take some time to warm into the season as they rediscover how to get the best out of their 1.98m shooting weapon, and the southerners made big strides in this area tonight.

Given their gameplan is high-

ly geared around Fowler-Reid, the Steel possess the ability to score at will when they get on a roll. Playing the Steel can be a battle in overcoming a side’s own frustration as much as it is the players in blue. There were times last night where the Magic seemed to drop their heads, having battled hard to work the ball into their shooters only to watch the Steel fire the ball into Fowler-Reid with comparative ease on the next possession.

After holding a narrow 17-16 lead at the first break, the Magic lost their way late in the second quarter as bodies tired and the marking got looser, allowing the Steel to get on a handy roll and take a five-goal lead at the long break.

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Daniel Ricciardo says his disqualification doesn’t dent the pride he feels after his career-first appearance on a Formula One race podium. The 24-year-old West Australian driver was stripped of his second placing more than five hours after Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix when stewards declared his Red Bull team breached the rules, using too much fuel during his race. While Red Bull will appeal the outcome, yesterday Ricciardo was trying not to let his first F1 disqualification cloud his best result in the sport in his debut for his new team. “I still feel obviously really good about what I did. It doesn’t change much,” said Ricciardo. “But obviously it would be nice to get the 18 points. I still stood there (on the podium) and that was a great feeling.”

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Djokovic triumphs World No.2 Novak Djokovic rallied to beat Roger Federer in a threeset thriller yesterday to win the Indian Wells ATP Masters title for the third time. In the women’s event, Italy’s Flavia Pennetta routed world No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2 6-1 in the final.

Djokovic defeated Federer 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3) to add another title to those he captured in the California desert in 2008 and 2011. Having gained an early break for a 2-1 lead in the third, Djokovic served for the match at 5-4 but was broken.

From there they went to a tiebreaker that Djokovic dominated.

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Senden wins on PGA John Senden earned a return to the Masters, banked more than $1 million and buried some troublesome demons with a drought-breaking victory in the US PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship.

The 42-year-old from Brisbane claimed just his second title in more than 12 seasons on the tour - almost eight years after the first - when he birdied two of the last three holes of the difficult Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Golf Resort in Florida on Sunday.

The run included a “magic” chip-in for birdie on the 16th for birdie and was enough for a one-stroke win from American Kevin Na as he posted a closing one-under par 70 to finish at seven-under 271.

Most importantly it boosted his belief.

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■ FOOTBALL

Best on show for World Cup?

Arsenal have stomach for fight Arsene Wenger insists Arsenal’s hard-fought 1-0 win over north London rivals Tottenham proves they won’t crack under the strain of the Premier League title race.

Wenger’s side have often been accused of lacking the mental strength and physical power to survive the gruelling battle for supremacy at the top of the table.

There has never been any questioning the Gunners’ technical ability and that class was clear for all to see as Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky took just 72 seconds to open the scoring at White Hart Lane yesterday with a sublime half-volley from an acute angle.

But Wenger’s players spent the remaining 88 minutes engaged in the kind of trench warfare from which they rarely seem to emerge unscathed.

This time it was different.

Arsenal centre-backs Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker subdued fired-up former Gunners striker Emmanuel Adebayor, while the rest of their teammates threw themselves into the fray.

“The two centre-backs were exceptional. I think they are one of the best partnerships in the country,” Wenger said.

“Today we had to be tough because Adebayor was sharp like he always is against us. We needed a good defensive per-

Arsenal’s Tomas Rosicky (second right) celebrates scoring with his teammates during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal at White Hart Lane stadium.

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formance and we got it from Mertesacker and Koscielny.

“Mentally in the last three games against Everton, Bayern and Tottenham, we have had to be absolutely focused and that is where our defenders have done very well. They kept their focus for 90 minutes.

“In the dressing room now you can see it means a lot.

We had a disappointing result

against Stoke and that was still in our minds. To stay in the race it was vital to win here.”

By the time the dust had settled on the 999th match of Wenger’s Arsenal reign, the Gunners were firmly back in the title shake-up.

They trail leaders Chelsea by just four points, with a game in hand, and a titanic showdown with Jose Mourinho’s men

looms at Stamford Bridge next weekend.

And Wenger acknowledged Rosicky’s brilliant strike had set the stage for one of the most important games of the season. “It will go in my collection of great goals, I told Tomas that,” Wenger said. “It gets us a bit closer to Chelsea and makes the game next week even more interesting. - AFP

Young Football Ferns earn cup points The Young Football Ferns ended a six-match Fifa U-17 Women’s World Cup losing streak yesterday, recording a 1-1 draw with Paraguay in their opening match of 2014 tournament in Costa Rica.

After a scoreless first half

at the Ricardo Saprissa Ayma Stadium in Tibas, Daisy Cleverley broke the deadlock with a fierce left-footed drive from just outside the Paraguay area after beating two players in the 69th minute.

But with just six minutes to

go, Paraguay pulled level at 1-1 via Sheryl Barrios’ headed finish from a corner.

Having dropped all three matches at the previous two tournaments, held every two years, in Azerbaijan and Trinadad and Tobago, the draw

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earned New Zealand’s first point at the tournament since a 3-1 win over Columbia in Wellington in 2008 in the inaugural event.

Goalkeeper Emma Fulbrook also kept out two major threats on the Kiwis’ goal.

- APNZ

Fifa officials are confident the best young players will be at next year’s Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, despite the ever-increasing power of the European clubs.

The 20th edition of the tournament will kick off on these shores in May and the event is being touted as an opportunity for Kiwis to see the next Lionel Messi or Diego Maradona.

The tournament has been a great showcase for future stars; apart from the Argentinian duo, others such as Andres Iniesta, Michael Owen, Roberto Carlos, Luis Figo and Sergio Aguero have stamped their mark at that level.

However, in recent times some of the most precocious talents have been unavailable. Many of the best teenagers are already signed for European clubs, who often refuse to release them.

Brazilians Neymar and Lucas missed the 2011 edition, while Jack Wilshere, Phil Jones and Danny Welbeck were recent high-profile absentees for England. Closer to home, Chris Wood was missed by the Junior All Whites three years ago, opting instead for pre-season training at West Brom.

“We don’t have mandatory release of the players, which means there are a number of players who won’t be released by their clubs,” England coach Brian Eastick said before the 2011 tournament. “So we accept that. Even if we did have mandatory release, we would still have to be sympathetic to some players who are playing firstteam football at the top level.”

Fifa acknowledge the issue: “We cannot force anyone to come - that is not possible,” said Marion Mayer-Vorfelder, Fifa’s head of the Under-20 World Cup. - APNZ

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Brooker 2 wins 15 ends 22 points.

Raffle results 1st J. A.L 2nd D. J Isherwood 3rd J.A.L

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■ Basketball

March 21 Oxford Street - Opening Duty – Verkerks Bulls, please pick up key from 132 Victoria Street and have stadium open by 3.30pm 3.45 Verkerk Bulls v Borough Breakers, Fletcher Arnold, Scott Kelland; 4.30 St Joes Titans v St Joes Storm, Phill Hill, Tyra Patterson; 5.15 Mt Hutt Girls v Sky Rebels, Ella Hurley, Scott Kelland; 6.00 Longbeach Heat v St Joes Diamonds, Ali Henderson, Kaleb Small; 6.45 Longbeach Lakers v St Joes Jazz, Ali Henderson, Hannah Roulston; 7.30 Chloe and the Gang v Chilli Hot Shots, Tania Rule, Hayden Adams; Bye Samashed Closing Duty Chilli Hot Shots – please lock match balls away, make sure all lights are off, toilet area is tidy and return key to 132 Victoria Street the same night.

Sports Hall Opening Duty – TFC Boys 3.45 TFC Boys v Cavaliers, Jayden Reid, George Chapman; 4.30 ACS Ripcurls v Vipers, NIc Thomassen, Eiman DeOcampo; 5.15 Thunder v Mt Hutt Boys, Justus Frank, Gary Chamberlain; 6.00 Pink Unicorns v Tinwald Breakers, Bailey O’Donnell, Jock O’Connor Closing Duty Pink Unicorns – please make sure match balls and score sheets are put away and key is returned to 132 Victoria Street the same night

■ Bowls

MSA Half Day Triples Held 14-3-14 1st J. Ryk, M. Anderson, D. Kinvig 3 wins 16 ends 37 points 2nd C. L eech, M. Quinn, D. Prendergast 2.5 wins 14 ends 23 points 3rd A. Hill, M. Middleton, G.

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Toyota Friday Triples, March 21 The following skips have entered teams:R Anstiss, N Atkinson, T Blain, B Brasell, R Cockburn, L Connell, G Crack, J Dennis, G Eder, M Eder, D Gutberlet, B Harrison, G Hawkins, B Harper, R Herriott, S Holdom,T Johnson, C Leech, M Smallridge, A MacKenzie, J Martin, E Maw, B Neilson, J Ryk, S Scott, N Sharplin, A Smith, G Taylor, A Waddell, T Watson, W Watts, B Williams.

12:30pm Start (whites to be worn) Inquiries to J Ryk Phone 3087907.

■ Golf

Ashburton Golf Club March 22 The final round of qualifying for the Club Championships will be played from the Blue Tees. Starting Time: Morning 8.00am; Afternoon Report at 11.30 for an 12noon start.

Saturday Starters: Morning Stewart Dunlop; Afternoon Greig Sparrow and Derek Prebble Results Brian Nuttall and Peter MacAulay.

Results

■ Bridge

Ashburton Bridge Club March 14 Monday Evening – B and C Ladder N/S 1 A van Dyk and B Leighton, 2 D Rickard and H Ritchie , 3 K Dunn and M Hoar E/W 1 R Logan and F Williamson, 2 A and G Gilbert, 3 M Francis and K Kingsland

Tuesday Evening – A Ladder N/S 1 L Baker and D Warring, 2 P and T Downward, 3 J Knight and B Smith. E/W 1 I Doel and J Irwin, 2 M Holmes and R Kyle, 3 T and M Small Wednesday Afternoon - Valetta Trophy 1 B Smith and M Buckland, 2 R Kyle and T Downward, 3 S Rosevear and M Stowell, 4 P Downward and K Robb Thursday Evening – Mary Mulligan Trophy N/S 1 B Smith and M Stowell, 2 M Buckland and J Knight, 3 J Wright and B McIlraith E/W 1 B Haawthorne and M Shearer, 2 M Holdaway and J Fechney, 3 P Fergus and K Robb

■ Croquet

Croquet South Canterbury Silver Badge Competitions Association Croquet A Grade: 1 B Monckton (Awamoa Gardens) Intermediate Grade: 1 J Mill (Ashbury) B Grade: 1 L McCorkindale (Waireka) C Grade: 1 C Fordyce (Waireka) Golf Croquet: Premier Grade 1 B Cleveland (Geraldine) Intermediate Grade: 1 J Ellery (Geraldine) Primary Grade: Z Taylor (Awamoa Gardens)

■ Cycling

Tinwald Cycling Club March 16 Race Day “Calder Stewart” 60km Handicap for the Eddie Ward Shields & Ribbons 1st. Alan Johns 117m 37s. 2nd. Roger Wilson 117m 37s. 3rd Lucy Kirwan 117m 44s. 4th Myles O’Donnell 102m 52s. 5th. John Uden 102m 52s. 6th Martin Hyde 102m 53s. 7th Rachel Thow 103m 00s. 8th. Ross Templeton 101m 41s. 9th Richard Kirwan 101m 41s. 10th. Neil Wylie 101m 45s. 11th Michelle Davidson 110m 30s. 12th Ross Avis 101m 46s. 13th Dave Shur-

rock 110m 31s. 14th Michael Templeton 93m 28s F/T 15th Tony Ward 93m 30s. 2f/t. 16th Nigel Douglas 93m 31s. 3f/t. 17th Brad Hudson 93m 33s. B. Grade U17. 1st. Abe O’Donnell 29m 55s. 3f/t. 2nd Bailey O’Donnell 26m 54s.

F/T. 3rd Caitlin Titheridge 27m 08s 2f/t. Div 2. 1st Drew Titheridge 27m 12s. F/T.

■ Golf

Ashburton Golf Club Nelson Building Society Friday night teams Final Night March 14 Top Team Over the Field: 1st: Mayfield Lassies 654.5, 2nd Roaring Pride 647.5, 3rd Fairlie Flyers 640.5 Ladies Over the Field: 1st Mayfield Magic 639, 2nd Lovely Ladies 635.5 Men Over the Field: 1st X-Cockies 631.5, 2nd Pakeke Pros 628, Hit-n-Hope 624 by lot, 4th The Big Test Icicles 624 Mixed Over the Field: 1st Ingold Builders 636, Hit-N-Miss 616, 3rd Hoppy’s Hopefulls 614.5. The Most Consistently Participating but Continuously Unsuccessful team: Men’s: Phil-2-It. Mixed: Maccas Ladies: Mrs B’s Girls March 15 - In the championship qualifying stroke round held on Saturday the winning scores were: Senior Brian Nuttall 74-8=66; Intermediate Miti Daniel 88-15=73; Junior A Bill Doak 91-20=71 by c/b; Junior B Bruce Ferriman 94-24=70. Other winning scores were: George Brown and Gaby Jansen 71; Andrew Tindall, Paul Tuakeu, Paul May and Kevin Turner all 72; Adrian Hopwood and Jeff Williamson 73 by c/b from several.

Nearest The Pins: Robbies Bar & Bistro: Bruce Day, Braided Rivers: Tony Gimblett, Rothburys Insurance: Paul Tuakeu, Netherby Meats: Brian Nuttall, Charming Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) Evan Waters.

Twos: Paul Tuakeu(2), Geoff Kean, Tony

Gimblett, Steve Stratford, Robbie Bell, Geoff d’Auvergne, David Fisher and Grant Russell Birdy Jackpot: #8; Nett Eagles #3

Ashburton Ladies Veteran Golf Club 23 Ladies went on the Mystery Bus Trip to Lincoln Golf Club Everyone made very welcome and had a good day, played Stableford Trophy Winner: Phyllis Bishop 44 pts, 2nd: Val Fleming 43 pts, 3rd: Erna Smith 40 pts, 4th: Anne Dwan 37 pts, 5th: Helen Hawksby 36 pts. 2nd Shot 28+: Val Fleming, Nearest Pin 0-27: Helen Hawksby. 2’s: Judith Webb and Mara Kennedy

Mayfield Golf Club March 15 1st round of Ruapuna Singles Knockout Winners: Ian Hopping, Mike Salveson, Logan Tasker, Terry Kingsbury, Steve Cross, Andrew Lake, Alan Dixon, Kerry Read, Arnold Rushton, Donald Lake, Peter McLauchlan and Wayne Blair. Andrew Bryant 84-12-72 Nearest Pins: Aon Insurance Brokers No 2: Kerry Read; John McAuliffe Bayleys Real Estate No 11: Ian Hopping; Marilyn Cross Property Brokers No 5: Alan Dixon; ANZ Bank No 14: John Sim; ATS 2nd Shot No 9 and No 18: Steve Cross. Two’s: Andrew Lake, Wayne Blair. Nett Eagle: No 15 - not struck.

Next Week: 2nd Handicap – 2nd Kerr

Methven Golf Club Stroke Round, March 15 Senior Martin Hickman 78-9-69; Intermediate Doug Hamilton 84-15-69; Junior A Gavin Santy 90-22-68; Junior B Jim Rooney 10132-69 Other good scores 69, Athol McAlpine, Phil Lalor, 70 Andy Gorman, Ian Sawers, 71 Gary Schott, Phil Elliott, Bruce Dickson, K J Mc-

Waikouaiti harness Today at Courage Under Fire Raceway

Waikouaiti Trotting Club’s meeting at Courage Under Fire Raceway on March 18. NZ Meeting number: 8.

Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9.

1 12.10pm (NZT) NORA O’CONNELL/DAPH BUNGARD MEMORIAL MOBILE PACE $5000, 3yo+ f&m c0 mob. pace, mobile, 1800m 1 2283 Delightful Dash (1) fr ........................ D Dunn 2 77 San Fernando (2) fr..........................R Alfeld 3 75544 Highland Reign (3) fr ......................T Herlihy 4 06283 Sage fr ......................................... Scratched 5 06723 Vedika (4) fr 6 3x7 Cleos A Badgirl (5) fr.........................J Dunn 7 67000 Rylin Summer (6) fr .............. C Ferguson (J) 8 0 Smiles For Miles (7) fr .....................J W Cox 9 40440 Verdun (21) fr ................................. L Justice 2 12.35pm RICOH NZ/W J (BILL) PUDDY MEMORIAL TROT $5000, 2yo+ c0 trot, stand, 1900m 1 44 Springbank Eden (1) fr ....... B Williamson (J) 2 53692 Phat Freddy’s Drop (2) fr ...................J Dunn 3 6x390 Pegasus Dream (3) fr ......................... R May 4 404 Lima Lad (4) fr.................................J W Cox 5 Illustrious Queen (5) fr ...................C McKay 6 20858 Star Filly (6) fr .............................T McMillan 7 05695 Starview Soul (7) fr ..........................J Curtin 8 x8064 John The Fib (U1) fr ................ M Williamson 9 82898 Blink (U2) fr ...................................... D Dunn 10 8079 Big Ears (U3) fr .............................. L Justice 11 00737 Hazel Alice (U4) fr .........................C Buchan 3 1.05pm EDDIE TODD SADDLERY/BRUCE NEGUS

M9 Southland Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Ascot Park Raceway on March 18. 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 12.02pm (NZT) CENTRAL WATER CARRIERS C0, 390m 1 Little Arthur nwtd ........................D Stapleton 2 Toast Time nwtd .........................D Stapleton 3 85867 Another Plane nwtd...................J McInerney 4 Ebony Star nwtd..........................R Hamilton 5 3353 Archie Bear nwtd........................D Stapleton 6 44263 Finance Tommo nwtd L &................... Wales 7 75837 Master At Arms nwtd......................J Guthrie 8 54648 Misty As nwtd P & ......................... B Conner 9 75787 Hammock nwtd ..............................J Guthrie 10 26687 Archie’s Indy nwtd ......................D Stapleton 2 12.22pm WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS. CO.NZ C0, 390m 1 2222 Not So Cute nwtd .......................D Stapleton 2 Homebush Jagger nwtd ............J McInerney 3 44 Celtic Hound nwtd .......................R Hamilton 4 6655 Admiral Adam nwtd P & ................ B Conner 5 47338 Shez Keen nwtd ................................S Keen 6 Blazing Hot nwtd ........................D Stapleton 7 Mr. November nwtd ....................D Stapleton 8 8685 I’m A Chook nwtd P & ................... B Conner 9 26687 Archie’s Indy nwtd ......................D Stapleton 10 75787 Hammock nwtd ..............................J Guthrie

MOBILE PACE $5000, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace inv.d, mobile, 1800m 1 22271 Tartan Trilogy (1) fr ...........................J Curtin 2 006x8 Dalness (2) fr .......................... N Williamson 3 87085 Incomparable (3) fr ............................. R May 4 67x16 Tachma (4) fr ..................................T Herlihy 5 24107 The Highlight (5) fr ....................... A Turnbull 6 10408 Narissa Franco (6) fr .................. S Ottley (J) 7 689x0 Party Girl Deb (7) fr 8 060x6 Lady Godiva (8) fr ................ C Ferguson (J) 9 35172 Goshawk (21) fr ................................A Beck 10 61x95 Sunnivue Bay Boy (22) fr ......... M McKendry 11 43709 Perissa fr ...................................... Scratched 12 097x4 Veecewah (23) fr .............................. D Dunn 13 90795 Del Sur (24) fr ......................... M Williamson 14 79099 Jaspers Blue Jean (25) fr 15 02432 Vincennes (26) fr............................ L Justice Emergencies: Party Girl Deb, Del Sur, Jaspers Blue Jean 4 1.30pm GOLDEN FLEECE HOTEL-MOTEL PACE $5000, 4yo+ c0 pace inv.d, stand, 1900m 1 From The Art (1) fr ......................... L Justice 2 9x00 Bobbi (2) fr .............................. M Williamson 3 09077 Manchester Tom (3) fr 4 49654 The Ultimate Storm (4) fr ...............T Herlihy 5 06723 Vedika (5) fr ................................ S Ottley (J) 6 68092 Bryleigh Jewel (6) fr ......................... D Dunn 7 62360 Waihemo Art (7) fr........................ A Turnbull 8 98080 Maybe Foxy (8) fr ..............................A Beck 9 006P7 Be Me (9) fr 10 8x86 Karanga Sweet P (10) fr 11 33427 Royal Cynic (11) fr ...........................J Curtin

12 28337 Scanreco Bay (12) fr .......................... R May 13 67746 Limitation (13) fr ................... C Ferguson (J) 14 83253 Sterns Arising (14) fr ................ M McKendry 15 02093 Bianca (15) fr .......................... N Williamson Emergencies: Manchester Tom, Be Me, Karanga Sweet P 5 2.00pm ROBINSON CONTRACTING HANDICAP TROT $5000, 4yo+ c1 & faster discrhcp trot inv.d, stand, 2600m 1 02467 Maldarna (1) fr ............................... L Justice 2 8P00x Forrest Heights (2) fr 3 95394 Miri (3) fr.................................. M Williamson 4 x3600 The Wonkey Donkey (4) fr.... C Ferguson (J) 5 88967 City Courage (5) fr 6 90908 Spin Doctor (U1) fr 7 89502 Valmagne (U2) fr ...................... M McKendry 8 42016 Waitoto Express (1) 10.....................J Curtin 9 x7713 French Desire (2) 10 .................. S Ottley (J) 10 25082 Merilane (3) 10 ........................ N Williamson 11 68900 Joltin Joe Demagio (4) 10 .................. R May 12 16530 All Shook Up (5) 10 ...........................A Beck 13 D7P48 Danny Cool (6) 10 ............ A Turnbull 14 03331 Chiola Belle (U1) 10 .......................T Herlihy 15 99510 Given (U1) 20 ................................... D Dunn Emergencies: Forrest Heights, City Courage, Spin Doctor 6 2.25pm TIPPLERS BAR & CAFE DUNEDIN HANDICAP PACE $5000, 4yo+ c1 & faster discrhcp pace inv.d, stand, 2600m 1 Px9P7 Rome (1) fr 2 35213 Vera’s Delight (2) fr...........................J Curtin

3 24313 Special Delight (3) fr ......................T Herlihy 4 75415 Still Shakin (4) fr........................... A Turnbull 5 68606 Tricky Girl (5) fr................................... R May 6 33944 Tango Lady (6) fr ...................... M McKendry 7 71080 Majestic Bardon (7) fr.............. M Williamson 8 4x709 Aveross Picasso (8) fr 9 39x71 She’s Got It (9) fr ..................... N Williamson 10 33107 San Antonio Rose (10) fr ................. D Dunn 11 11 Karanga Red Fantasy (1) 10 C Ferguson (J) 12 23792 Christy Breanna (2) 10 ............... S Ottley (J) 13 47744 Hudson Sully (3) 10 ....................... L Justice 14 035x2 Run Fatboy Run (1) 30 ......................A Beck Emergencies: Rome, Aveross Picasso 7 2.55pm LONE STAR RICCARTON HANDICAP TROT $5000, 4yo+ c1 & faster discrhcp trot inv.d, stand, 2600m 1 88967 City Courage (1) fr 2 70009 Whendaboysliteup (2) fr ................. L Justice 3 2183 Queen Kenny (3) fr................... M McKendry 4 44271 Maidofdiamonds (4) fr ............. N Williamson 5 8P00x Forrest Heights (5) fr 6 0x087 Martini (6) fr ............................ M Williamson 7 00002 Sure Sign (U1) fr ................................ R May 8 90908 Spin Doctor (U2) fr 9 26631 Goodboy Tiger (1) 10 ................. S Ottley (J) 10 70540 Ngaire Margaret (2) 10...................T Herlihy 11 16023 Mr Mayfly (3) 10 ............................... D Dunn 12 015P7 Trade Me Now (4) 10.........................A Beck 13 PP099 Anothersuperstar (5) 10 ...................J Curtin 14 93011 Easy Option (U1) 20 ............ C Ferguson (J) 15 87258 Monnay (1) 40 .............................. A Turnbull Emergencies: City Courage, Forrest Heights, Spin Doc-

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3.30pm BETTTERTHANCHEDDAR @ ALABAR STUD HANDICAP PACE $6000, 4yo+ c2 & faster discrhcp pace, stand, 2600m 1 4x709 Aveross Picasso (1) fr .............. M McKendry 2 47744 Hudson Sully (2) fr ....................... A Turnbull 3 61353 Fastroundtown (3) fr ..........................J Dunn 4 23013 Harry Mac (4) fr ....................... N Williamson 5 09663 Aveross Rustler (U1) fr..................... D Dunn 6 17918 Here’s Shifty (1) 10 ...................... C Kennett 7 21167 Sharpenuff (2) 10 ............................J W Cox 8 61330 Expressionist (3) 10 ................ M Williamson 9 05696 The Burning Question (U1) 10 ........ G Smith 10 49665 Fair Dinkum Bromac (1) 20 ............... R Todd 11 06667 Motu Speedy Star (1) 35 ................T Herlihy 12 P2003 Better To Be Bad (U1) 45 ............... L Justice 9 3.59pm BISHOPDALE-BUSH INN TAB&TAVERN HAREWOOD MBL PACE $5000, 4yo+ c0 to c2 mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 0x980 Extreme Force (1) fr ........................S Moore 2 50085 Selester (2) fr ...................................S Blake 3 x780x Suzali Queen (3) fr ........................... R Earle 4 57700 Alexy (4) fr .......................................B Negus 5 84090 Tapestry Franco (5) fr ................. M Maynard 6 08030 Redmaro (6) fr.................................. G Cook 7 00950 Benihana (7) fr .............................J Reardon 8 45951 Hadrian (8) fr ............................. G Anderson 9 04921 Machinegun Kelly (9) fr ....................A White 10 09100 Supreme Estella (21) fr ...............M Stratford 11 30956 Superior Desire (22) fr .....................B White

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Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway 3 12.42pm ADDED ENERGY STAKES C1, 390m

1 17833 Bowman 23.51 ...........................D Stapleton 2 34138 Oche 23.14 ................................D Stapleton 3 62372 Wunzee nwtd ............................J McInerney 4 25148 Cawbourne Impact 23.25 ...........D Stapleton 5 32126 Opawa Lean Meat nwtd L & ............... Wales 6 46154 Judith Mary nwtd ..........................M Roberts 7 16138 Cawbourne Cruze 23.02 ................. M Grant 8 81458 Homebush Zelda nwtd ..............J McInerney 9 54258 Hill of Grace 22.72 .......................... M Grant 10 63765 Tanto’s Whisper 22.97 ....................J Guthrie 4 12.59pm SGRC $26 FIVE WIRE MUZZLE STAKES C1, 390m 1 16458 Homebush Kelso nwtd ..............J McInerney 2 67615 Sailors Collar 23.20........................J Guthrie 3 4x743 Cawbourne Floyd nwtd ................... M Grant 4 53581 Zulu Deb 23.28 ..........................D Stapleton 5 25468 Speedy Swede nwtd L & .................... Wales 6 31836 Charles Fredrick 23.02 ...............D Stapleton 7 56535 Cawbourne Tip nwtd ....................C Roberts 8 22211 Rattle Ya Dags 23.04.........................J Dunn 9 64737 Bigtime Tip nwtd.............................. R Breen 10 74386 Zulu Bro 23.40 ...........................D Stapleton 5 1.18pm BRENDON BURKE @ FIRST NATIONAL C1/2, 390m 1 42117 Gypsy Hunter 22.93 ...................D Stapleton 2 41152 Opawa Idol 22.84 L &......................... Wales 3 88435 Just A Mate 22.75 .....................J McInerney 4 86166 Sheeza Flower 22.68 .................D Stapleton

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31834 Son of Grace nwtd .....................D Stapleton 34823 Sam’s Flyin Norm 22.93 .............D Stapleton 74817 Joey’s Secret 22.96....................D Stapleton 24246 Opawa Bart 23.19 .............................B Eade 68674 Smash Amego 22.73 ...................... M Grant 28248 Business Boss nwtd ..........................S Keen 6 1.37pm SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C1, 457m 1 12463 Grunt Rodgers 26.97 ................J McInerney 2 34527 Opawa Laz nwtd J & .......................D Fahey 3 2211 Chokehold nwtd .........................D Stapleton 4 23432 Cawbourne Aries nwtd .................C Roberts 5 163 Fancy Kiwi 26.12 P & .................... B Conner 6 16321 Opawa Albie 26.04 .......................C Roberts 7 47214 Cover To Cover 26.60.................D Stapleton 8 16551 Opawa Dosh 26.90 L & ...................... Wales 9 56246 Opawa Shaiden 26.54 L & ................. Wales 10 65367 Flip Flippa nwtd L & ........................... Wales 7 1.54pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAWN MCLEOD C1/2, 457m 1 85757 Opawa Bomb 26.23 L & ..................... Wales 2 76648 Smash Amy nwtd ............................ M Grant 3 36546 Rocky Baxter 26.34...................J McInerney 4 25187 Homebush Coral nwtd...............J McInerney 5 35837 Cawbourne Abbi nwtd ..................C Roberts 6 66556 Cawbourne Crazy nwtd................C Roberts 7 32223 Carat’s Prince 26.52 J & .................D Fahey 8 22587 Opawa Hog 26.51 L & ........................ Wales 9 68674 Smash Amego nwtd ........................ M Grant

10 43758 No More Beersies 27.03 P & ........ B Conner

8 2.13pm ASCOT PARK HOTEL C3/4, 457m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

67314 Cawbourne War 27.00 .................C Roberts 16765 Opawa Style 26.46 L & ...................... Wales 31818 Punch On Jaime 26.50 .............J McInerney 87757 Starburst Clemmy 26.47 ................. M Grant 37767 Opawa Bro 26.50 L & ......................... Wales 62514 Bone Nerd 26.00 ........................D Stapleton 13561 Hustler Ambition 26.40.................M Roberts 43443 What I Like 26.51 ......................J McInerney 64215 Opawa Zara nwtd J &......................D Fahey 32871 Jibbajabba Jewel 26.84................C Roberts 9 2.32pm ADVANCED RACING SERIES FINAL NZRSf, 457m 1 26222 Botany Kevin 26.69 ...................J McInerney 2 11251 Homebush Chopper 26.03 ........J McInerney 3 53175 Another Colt 26.05 ....................J McInerney 4 53731 Thrilling Marty 25.99 P & .............. B Conner 5 72138 Harlem Haka 26.23 ...................J McInerney 6 11624 Botany Prancer nwtd .................J McInerney 7 37633 Opawa Swede 26.23 J &.................D Fahey 8 25538 Opawa Casper 26.23 L & ................... Wales 9 33314 Opawa Webby 26.25 L & ................... Wales 10 42845 Homebush Edith 26.18 .............J McInerney 10 2.49pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C3, 390m 1 32335 Sosan 22.71 .................................C Roberts 2 64516 Bad Week nwtd .........................J McInerney 3 78228 Waimak Dave 22.88 ..................J McInerney

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48164 Yaldhurst Edward 23.00 ............J McInerney 73418 Cawbourne Merc 22.68................... M Grant 55264 Starburst Benny 22.96 .................... M Grant 82274 Another Jewel 22.86 .................J McInerney 81635 Primitive 22.81 ...........................D Stapleton 78426 Cawbourne Chief 22.95 .................. M Grant 32658 Stock Taker 22.90............................ R Breen 11 3.06pm SGRC $50 LEATHER LEADS C3/4, 390m 1 47175 Botany Pete 22.85.....................J McInerney 2 18635 Joyville 23.00 ............................J McInerney 3 54611 As Far As nwtd ...........................D Stapleton 4 15411 Sandi Claws nwtd .............................S Keen 5 63466 Isabelle Domain 22.78 ..............J McInerney 6 26223 Smash Rumour 22.77 ..................... M Grant 7 72413 Cawbourne Polly nwtd .................... M Grant 8 57252 Jumpin’ Julia 22.52....................J McInerney 9 78885 Deanne’s Magic nwtd .................D Stapleton 10 32658 Stock Taker 22.90............................ R Breen 12 3.24pm JUSTRACING.COM.AU C5, 390m 1 54115 Charlie’s Choice 22.52 ..................R Adcock 2 77317 Indi’s Grace nwtd ............................ M Grant 3 42845 Homebush Edith 22.68 .............J McInerney 4 22827 Little Midnight 22.28 ...................D Stapleton 5 82141 Hetfield 22.77 ...............................C Roberts 6 15111 Opawa Legs 22.53 .....................D Stapleton 7 43188 Bellwave nwtd ............................D Stapleton 8 11111 Sozin’s Comet 22.54 .................J McInerney 9 52845 Sting Me 22.74 ................................ M Grant 10 61588 Admire 22.29..............................D Stapleton

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SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS Cloy, 72 C J Middleton, Ian Davis, Stu Wilson Michael Kemp, Dave Puckett, Ross Breach, Micky Marr.

Twos; Ross Breach, Ian Davis, Stu Wilson, Michael Kemp, Piers Rolton, Martin Hickman (2) Dave Puckett. Topnotch 4 square supermarket Best nett Gavin Santy 68; Aribica Café 2nd nett Martin Hickman 69 by lot. Club Voucher Best Gross Matt Davis 76. Closest Pins Aqua Restaurant # 4 Martin Hickman; Hunters Wines #6 Dave Puckett; Ski Time #13 Stu Wilson; The Green Parrot #17 Keith Middleton; Methven Travel 2nd shot #14 Bo Houston Next Saturday; Duff Qualifying round Next Sunday; Fairclough Cleek & Hampton Trophy 12-30pm start.

Isherwood trophy (rained out new date TBA).

Tinwald Golf Club Twilight - March 13 Stableford: 0-6: Pete Trembath 20, Paul Boon 20, Duncan Lye 20, Brent Smith 20, Pete Marshall 19, Snow Pierce 19 b/l.. 7-10: Ben Busch 25, Steve McCloy 24, Richard Hewson 23, Richie Watson 23, Chris Bell 21. 11 plus: Graham McCormick 23, John Harris 22, Andrew Barrie 21, Greg Prendergast 21 b/l. Women 0-16: Maree Moore 21, Mara Kennedy 20, Amanda Gray 18, Sally Lane 18, Carol Shanks 18. 17 plus: Verna Hampton 17, Eleanor Langford 17.

Bayley’s nearest the pin; # 6 Roger Bruce. # 16 Brent Green. Two’s: Ben Busch, Brent Green, Paul Boon. Classic Hits longest drive: Richard Hewson.

March 15, Stroke - Medal Senior: Tony Clarke 70, Michael Thomas 70, Steve Kennedy 72. Intermediate: Phillip Roulston 69, Terry Reynolds 69, Cameron Miller 70, Brian Rouse 70, Neil Rayner 70 b/l. Junior: Lindsay Jackson 69, Allen Moore 71, Tony McAndrew 71, Des Green 72. Women stroke: Maxine Whiting 74. Nancy McCormick 36 hole foursomes: Elizabeth Collins and Belinda Kirdy 152.

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liqourland # 2;

Elizabeth Collins. Gluyas Ford # 6; Dave Busch. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; John Rooney. Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16; Lindsay Jackson. Two’s: Dave Busch, Colin Johnstone, Stev Johnson, Lindsay Jackson. Net Eagle; # 11 Not struck

■ Rugby Super Rugby, Round 5 CHIEFS 36 (Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Tevita Koloamatangi, Tanerau Latimer, James Lowe, Tom Marshall tries Aaron Cruden 4 cons pen) bt STORMERS 20 (Aplon, Carr tries Grant 2 cons Catrakilis 2 pens) at Waikato Stadium. Referee: Craig Joubert.

CRUSADERS 25 (Ben Funnell try Tom Taylor con 6 pens) bt MELBOURNE REBELS 19 (Scott Fuglistaller try Bryce Hegarty con Jason Woodward 3, Hegarty pens) at AAMI Park. Ref: James Leckie.

HURRICANES 60 (Beauden Barrett 2, Dane Coles, Alapati Leiua, James Marshall, Matt Proctor, Conrad Smith, Chris Smylie, Jeremy Thrush tries Barrett 5, Marty Banks cons Barrett pen) bt CHEETAHS 27 (Le Roux, Uys, van der Walt tries Johan Goosen 3 cons 2 pens) at Westpac Stadium.

WESTERN FORCE 31 (Charles, Ebersohn, McCalman, Rasolea tries Ebersohn 4 cons pen) bt HIGHLANDERS 29 (Malakai Fekitoa, Parker, Treeby tries Lima Sopoaga con 4 pens) at Forsyth Barr Stadium.

BRUMBIES 28 (Kuridrani, Mogg, White tries White 2 cons 3 pens) bt NSW WARATAHS 23 (Folau, Hooper tries Bernard Foley 2 cons 3 pens) at GIO Stadium.

LIONS 39 (Faf de Klerk, Courtnall Skosan, Coenie van Wyk tries Marnitz Boshoff 3 cons 4 pens 2 drop goals) bt BLUES 36 (Frank Halai, Bryn Hall, Benji Marshall, George Moala, Charles Piutau tries Simon Hickey 2, Chris Noakes 2 cons Noakes pen) at Ellis Park. Referee: Stuart Berry.

SHARKS 35 (Alberts, Chadwick tries Lambie 2 cons Lambie 5, Francois Steyn 2 pens) bt QUEENSLAND REDS 20 (Will

Genia, Michael Harris tries Quade Cooper 2 cons 2 pens) at Kings Park Stadium.

Bye-Bulls

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Mid Canterbury Tennis Twilight Competition March 12 Division 1: Spare Parts 18 v Misfits 0; Electric Donkey Bottom Biters 16 v Famous Grouse 17; Tridents 21 v Council Crew 12; Property Brokers 16 v High Raters 17; ACA’s Hackers 19 v 5 Shades 14; Wacky Wackers 16 v What’s the Score 17.

Division 2: Just Hit It 14 v Robs Mob 19; Rusty Parts 15 v Ashburton Milking 18; The Smackers 15 v Tiddlywinks 18; Baseline Bandits 17 v Reid Family 16.

March 15 Gold lost to Blue 4 matches to 2: Willie

Christie & Terry Molloy lost to David Fisher & Ross Warring 3-9; Adrienne Hodson & Iris Taylor beat Graham Esker & Pauline Scott 9-8; Willie Christie & Iris Taylor lost to David Fisher & Pauline Scott 4-9; Terry Molloy & Adrienne Hodson beat Ross Warring & Graham Esker 9-8; Willie Christie & Adrienne Hodson lost to David Fisher & Graham Esker 8-9; Terry Molloy & Iris Taylor lost to Ross Warring & Pauline Scott 1-9.

Red beat Orange 44 games to 40: Cynthia Christie & Rose Wilson beat Bob Riseley & Brian Sivier 9-3; Denys Patterson & Reg Donaldson lost to June Doig & Patsy Huggins 6-9; Cynthia Christie & Reg Donaldson beat Bob Riseley & Patsy Huggins 9-2; Rose Wilson & Denys Patterson lost to Brian Sivier & June Doig 7-9; Cynthia Christie & Denys Patterson lost to Bob Riseley & June Doig 4-9; Rose Wilson & Reg Donaldson beat Brian Sivier & Patsy Huggins 9-8 (10-8).

Canterbury Tennis Girls Challenger 2, March 14 Mid Canterbury Court Smashers lost to

Bishopdale 48 games to 54 Doubles: Larissa Allan & Tessa McCann beat Maddie Abell & Megan Lord 6-3, 6-4; Jade Brosnahan & Maisie Looij lost to Grace Tasker & Laura Taylor 3-6, 6-2, 0-1 (5-10).

Singles: Larissa Allan beat Maddie Abell 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-6); Tessa McCann beat Megan Lord 6-1, 6-4; Jade Brosnahan lost to Grace Tasker 1-6, 2-6; Maisie Looij lost to Laura Taylor 2-6, 2-6.

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Canterbury Tennis Boys Challenger 1, March 14 Mid Canterbury lost to Burnside Red 6 matches to 0 Doubles: Flynn Ness & Connor Bros-

nahan lost to Taylor Nelson & Dylan Heap 3-6, 2-6; Edwin Dargue & Aidan Mitchell lost to Jordan Winchester & Ed Batt 1-6, 1-6.

Singles: Flynn Ness lost to Taylor Nelson 1-6, 4-6; Edwin Dargue lost to Ed Batt 0-6, 0-6; Aidan Mitchell lost to Dylan Heap 1-6, 0-6; Connor Brosnahan lost to Jordan Winchester 6-7, 6-2, 0-1 (6-10).

■ Squash Celtic Squash Club Results from last week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s summer league competition: Brendan Clarke beat Scott vandenBemd 3-0, Aaron Leckenby beat Ian Dolden 3-1, James McCloy drew with Pat Summerfield 2-2; Rebecca Abernethy beat Nathan Forbes 2-1, Paul Cousins beat Billy Nolan 2-1.

Lawrence McCormick beat Ron Carlson 2-1, Nik Millichamp lost to Jenni Ryk 1-4, Cath Blacklow lost to Di Ness 1-2, Sam Harrison lost to Lawrence McCormick 0-3, Pete Blacklow beat Craig Campbell 2-1.

Jock O’Connor lost to Chris O’Reilly 1-3, Jess Dargue beat Scott vandenbemd 2-1, Mick Hooper lost to Ed Harrison 0-3.

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Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 Public notice of application for on-licence, off-licence, or club licence (or application for variation of conditions of onlicence, off-licence, or club licence Methven Pubs Ltd, 137 Main Street, Methven, has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Ashburton for the issue (or renewal or variation of conditions) of an off licence in respect of the premises situated at 137 Main Street, Methven, known as the Brown Pub. The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is: Hotel/Bottle Store The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: Across the bar: 8am - 1am Monday to Sunday, except on the Thursday before Good Friday, on Easter Saturday, and on Christmas Eve, and on the day before Anzac Day, may only be sold between 7am - 12 midnight.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Committee at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

No objection to the renewal of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the first publication of this notice.

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Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 Public notice of application for on-licence, off-licence, or club licence (or application for variation of conditions of onlicence, off-licence, or club licence Methven Pubs Ltd, 2 Barkers Road, Methven, has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Ashburton for the issue (or renewal or variation of conditions) of an on licence in respect of the premises situated at 2 Barkers Road, Methven, known as the Blue Pub. The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is: Hotel/Accommodation.

The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: 8am - 3am Monday to Sunday, except on the Thursday before Good Friday, on Easter Saturday, and on Christmas Eve, and on the day before Anzac Day, may only be sold between 7am - 12 midnight.

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 Public notice of application for on-licence, off-licence, or club licence (or application for variation of conditions of onlicence, off-licence, or club licence Methven Pubs Ltd, 137 Main Street, Methven, has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Ashburton for the issue (or renewal or variation of conditions) of an on licence in respect of the premises situated at 137 Main Street, Methven, known as the Brown Pub. The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is: Hotel/Accommodation The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: 8am - 3am Monday to Sunday, except on the Thursday before Good Friday, on Easter Saturday, and on Christmas Eve, and on the day before Anzac Day, may only be sold between 7am - 12 midnight.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Committee at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

No objection to the renewal of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Committee at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

No objection to the renewal of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

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Daily Events Tuesday 9.30am ST DAVID’S WALKING GROUP. Meet outside church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Exercises for all abilities. Social hall, M.S.A. Havelock Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Goodwill shop open for the sale of preloved clothing. Tinwald Methodist Church, Cnr Archibald and Jane Streets, Tinwald.

9.40am MID CANTERBURY MENS PROBUS CLUB.

Wednesday 9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time round op shop.

Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Sts. 10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am MID CANTERBURY LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Coffee morning, Robert Harris, 361 West Street.

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A.G.M. followed by a main speaker. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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

10.00am WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet singles. The Domain, Philip Street.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Tai Chi maintenance class. Social hall, M.S.A. Havelock Street.

12.00noon - 3.00pm ASHBURTON JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ASSOCIATION (INC). -

Signing centre in Community House, at the rear of Westpac Bank, 122 Tancred Street.

12.50pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome. M.S.A. Sports, Racecourse Road.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm WESTPARK W.I. Monthly meeting with speaker Rona Russell. St Paul’s Church lounge, 65 Oxford Street.

1.30pm R.S.A. CARD SECTION. 500, Ashburton R.S.A. Cox Street.

6.00pm ASHBURTON ATHLETICS. 5km fun run/walk series (14 January - 1 April) $2 per entry, students free, Meet Walnut Avenue Pavilion.

6.30pm ASHBURTON DAHLIA CIRCLE. 3rd Table show. Tinwald Memorial Hall.

7.30pm - 9.30pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON. Great fun, everyone welcome.

Racquets can be hired. Sports hall, Tancred Street.

10.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, upstairs. All welcome. 254 Cameron Street.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises, ideal for users of mobility aids. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

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

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet doubles, The Domain, Philip Street.

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

7.00pm - 9.30pm MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance 7pm, beginner/intermediate (8pm - 9pm). Instructor Annette 3077138a/h. Tinwald hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women walking group. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Dancing, music, fitness and fun.

Buffalo Lodge Hall, Cox Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON TRAVEL CLUB. Penny Shearer speaking on her African Safari, all welcome. St David’s Union Church Lounge, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

Puzzles Tuesday, March 18, 2014

www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Party leader will ennoble one with commendation (6) 4. A picnic basket may get in one’s way (6) 9. Did one a favour: had to! (7) 10. It may support arm David used as a weapon (5) 11. Intelligence from all four corners of the world (4) 12. To replenish one’s as much as one can eat (4) 13. Set of parts for clothing (3) 15. One needn’t go on with a small quantity of drink (4) 16. Collar fastener in glamorous Tudor style (4) 19. Some of the precious diamonds put back (3) 21. A twelve-inch iambus (4) 22. Some ground for altercation put back in part (4) 24. Excuse for failure among several I bid for (5) 25. Stipulate how to get supplies (7) 26. Something that exists with tin, yet is crooked (6) 27. Remove top if he has a following in bed (6)

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DOWN 2. Badly used (3-7) 3. Pleasantly sharp-tasting (4) 4. Dies down (6) 5. Stopped (6) 6. Catastrophe (8) 7. Implores (4) 11. High spirits, energy (10) 13. Signed up (8) 16. Additional items (6) 17. Local dialect (6) 18. Wading bird (4) 20. Deliberately misled (4)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) A mix of intellectual savvy and intuition influences your inner thoughts today, just days before your new solar year is set to begin.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) There is a sea change on the professional front today, away from keeping your head in the game onto trusting your heart and instincts.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) A lot has transpired since the Sun and Mercury met up in your career sector last month, with a chance today to get your head back in the game.

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Family Notices 26 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

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FAGAN, David Joseph – On March 15, 2014.

Peacefully at Ashburton Hospital.

Much loved husband of the late Faye.

Dearly loved father of Nicola, and Suzanne, and treasured grandad of Caitlin, Oliver, and William; Max, Molly, Charlie, and Harry. Messages to P.O. Box 472, Ashburton 7740.

Donations to the Ashburton Cancer Society would be much appreciated and may Please note all late death be left at the service. A notices or notices sent outRequiem Mass to celebrate side ordinary office hours David’s life will be held at St must be emailed to: Ita’s, Rakaia TODAY, deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz TUESDAY, commencing at to ensure publication.

11.00am.

Followed by interment at the Rakaia During office hours notices may also be sent to: cemetery. classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

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

IN MEMORIAM

PATERSON, Rebecca Isobel – In loving memory of a beloved wife and mate who passed away May 18, 2010.

In our hearts you will always stay, FAGAN, David Joseph – Loved and remembered Peacefully at Ashburton on every day.

March 15, 2014. Treasured Love you always, Bill and brother of Judith and Lyndsay Bron.

Smith and loved uncle of Andrea, Lynette, Michelle and Guardian Classifieds Martin and families.

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Wind at 2000m: NW rising to 45 km/h.

Morning cloud, then fine. Northeast breezes.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

A weak ridge lies over much of New Zealand tomorrow while a front moves onto the southwest of the South Island in the evening. This front weakens as it moves north on Thursday, followed by another broad ridge which should direct a southeast flow onto the North Island.

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DEATHS

FAGAN, David – Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade are very sad to announce the passing of a much loved and respected Ex Senior Fire Fighter, Gold Star recipient and Honorary Life member. The members of the Brigade extend their sympathy to David’s family and acknowledge the contribution he made to the Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade.

FAGAN. David Joseph – Loved dad, grandad, and special friend of Suzanne, Max, Molly, Charlie, and Harry. May you rest in peace and enjoy the next step of your journey with Gran in God’s perfect garden.

“Back together forever”

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6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm The Test PGR Celebrities and viewers answer moral questions.

2pm MasterChef USA PGR 3 3pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:30 Father Ted 3 4pm The Late Show With David Letterman 3 5pm Deal Or No Deal 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal Game show hosted by Andrew O’Keefe that gives contestants the opportunity to win up to $200,000 each night.

6:30 Millionaire – Hot Seat 3 Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6am Golf Focus 7am The Netball Zone 7:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic v Southern Steel.

9am Football – Arsenal TV Noon Cycling – Paris-Nice (Highlights) 12:30 Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series (Highlights) 1:30 Motorsport – Nascar Nationwide Series (Highlights) 2:30 Motorsport – FIA Formula One Championship (Highlights) 3pm The Fishing Show 3:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (Highlights) 4:30 Golf – European Tour (Highlights) 5:30 Cricket – ICC World Twenty20 (Highlights) 6:30 Cricket – ICC World Twenty20 (Highlights)

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Surveillance Oz 0 8pm Australia’s Deadliest 0 8:30 24 Hours in A&E In a random act of violence, a woman is knocked to the ground after being punched in the face by a stranger. 0 9:30 Born to Kill AO 0 10:35 One News Tonight 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR Rachel’s personal crusade may be her undoing; Evan becomes utilitarian; Dallas runs interference. 0 7:30 Nabbed 0 8pm Neighbours at War PGR 0 8:30 Step Dave AO 0 9:30 Revenge AO 0 10:30 Scandal AO 0

7pm Campbell Live 7:30 Grand Designs PGR 0 8:30 NCIS AO Complications arise when it is discovered there is a link between a murder victim and the current boyfriend of Gibbs’s former wife. 0 9:30 NCIS – LA AO 0 10:30 The Paul Henry Show

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Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend’s seven evil former partners in order to win her heart. Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

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A group of young people wage a guerrilla war against foreign invaders.

Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell.

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7:30 Golf Focus 8:30 Road to the 2014 Fifa World Cup 9pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Bulldogs v Sharks.

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11:05 Major Crimes 3 0 12:05 Sam And Evan – From Girls To Men 3 1:15 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 0 1:40 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 0

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11:20 The Late Show With David Letterman A late-night comedy and talk show.

12:20 Home Shopping 1:50 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2:20 Home Shopping

11pm Monday Night With Matty Johns Midnight Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Lions v Blues.

2am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Warriors v Dragons.

4am Rugby League – NSW Cup (Replay) Warriors v Illawarra.

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Simply Italian 7am Lonely Planet – Six Degrees Of China 8am Travel Wild 8:30 Cash And Cari 9am Walking Through History With Tony Robinson 10am House Wreck Rescue 11am Deals From The Dark Side 11:30 Galleons Of Spice Noon Bath Crashers 12:30 Lonely Planet – Six Degrees China 1:30 Days Of Our Lives PGR 2:20 Treasures Of African, Indian And Australian Art 3:30 Cash And Cari 4pm Cheese Slices 4:30 Escape To River Cottage 5pm Better Homes And Gardens 6pm Travel Wild 6:30 House Crashers 7pm Auction Hunters 7:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 8:30 My Dream Derelict Home 9:30 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 10:30 Web Therapy PGR 11pm Auction Hunters 11:30 She’s Got The Look

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 11am Toku Reo 3 Noon Korero Mai 3 1pm Toku Reo 3 2pm Ako 3 2 3pm Joe’s World On A Plate 3 3:30 The Backyardigans 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga o te Motu 3

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10:10 Whare Taonga 3 10:40 Tagata Pasifika 11:10 Te Kaea 3 2 11:40 Closedown 3

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11:05 Cloud Atlas 16VLS 2012 Adventure. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry.

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3:45 One In The Gun 16 2010 Thriller. Steven Man, Katherine Randolph.

5:20 One Angry Juror PG 2010 Drama. Jessica Capshaw.

6:50 Wrath Of The Titans MV 2012 Action. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson.

8:30 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone MVS 2013 Comedy.

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi.

10:15 The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey MV 2012 Adventure. Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman.

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Red Dawn

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3:45 Gangs Of New York 16VLS 2002 Historical Drama.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel DayLewis, Cameron Diaz.

6:30 Michael Clayton MVL 2007 Crime Drama.

George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson.

8:30 Commando MVL 1985 Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong.

10pm Proof Of Life MVL 2000 Action. Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe.

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12:15 The Invention Of Lying MS 2009 Comedy. Ricky Gervais. 1:55 1:05 Husk 18V 2011 Horror. 2:30 Gangs Of New York 16VLS 2002 One Angry Juror PG 2010 Drama.

4am The Hobbit – An Unexpected Historical Drama. 4:35 Proof Of Life MVL 2000 Action.

Journey MV 2012 Adventure.

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9am #SkyRugby 9:30 Cycling – Tirreno-Adriatico (Highlights) Stage Six. The race follows a route between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts of Italy.

10am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Titans v Wests Tigers.

Noon Golf Focus Brendan Telfer, Phil Tataurangi and guests provide analysis and highlights from the world’s greatest golf tournaments.

1pm College Netball (Replay) Baradene College v Auckland Girls Grammar School. From The Trusts Arena in Auckland.

2pm Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) West Coast Fever v Mainland Tactix. From Challenge Stadium in Perth.

3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) Adelaide Thunderbirds v NSW Swifts. From Netball SA Stadium in Adelaide.

5pm The Netball Zone 5:30 Football – Spurs TV Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal.

8:30 Fight Night Tommaso Adamela v Vyacheslav Glazkov.

10:30 Arena Access 11pm Football – A-League Highlights Show 11:30 Football League Show

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Midnight Fight Night Tommaso Adamela v Vyacheslav Glazkov.

2am Football – A-League (Replay) Perth Glory v Melbourne Victory.

4am Football – A-League (Replay) Central Coast Mariners v Newcastle Jets.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Sport

Bailey O’Donnell, 13, and Caitlin Titheridge, 11, push off in the Tinwald Cycling Club’s latest round on Frasers Road on Sunday.

PHOTO DONNA WYLIE 160314-DW-039

Hardy bunch brave weather

BY MYLES HUME

MYLES.H@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The results sheet says they finished at the same time, but it was Alan Johns who crossed the line first by an inch at the Tinwald Cycling Club’s 60km handicap race on Sunday.

Miserable conditions meant it was a reduced field for the 17

top division riders, three under 17 cyclists and one division 2 competitor, starting on Frasers Road as they competed for the Eddie Ward Shields and Ribbons.

Johns won the race with a time of 117 minutes and 37 seconds, a time identical to second placegetter Roger Wilson.

“There was only an inch in it,

it was a great sprint in the last 50 metres to the finish,” Tinwald Cycling Club development officer Don Kirdy said.

“Alan Johns hasn’t had a win in a long time since he had a crash, but he started to come right in the Ride the Rakaia and showed on the day how good he is.”

Lucy Kirwan finished third with a 117min 44sec time in the

Heart rules Fruean out P20

race that saw riders race towards Mayfield and back on a circuit.

Myles O’Donnell and John Uden claimed fourth and fifth respectively, both with handicaps of 17min and 45secs.

In the U17 grade, Abe O’Donnell won the 16km race with a 29min 55sec time, followed by the only other two riders in the grade in the form of

brother Bailey O’Donnell and Caitlin Titheridge.

Drew Titheridge was the only rider brave enough in the division 2 category.

The club will be racing over its Blackbridge course next week, before going on to hold the annual Mid Canterbury Cycling Championships in the Wakanui area.

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