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■ SKYDIVING KIWIS

Quick-thinking pilot praised

BY COLIN ENGELBRECHT COLIN.E@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

An Ashburton man is being praised for his quick thinking in landing a plane safely after a customer inadvertently shut off a fuel line.

Pearce Bennett, chief pilot at Skydiving Kiwis, said they had reached around 1400 feet when the engines suddenly stopped.

He said a customer had somehow turned a handle controlling a fuel valve 180° to off while sitting in the aircraft as it gained altitude.

The valve is used to control the flow of fuel between tanks, in case of an imbalance, or to stop the flow in case of an engine fire.

Bennett was able to land the Cessna 185 in a farmer’s paddock about 2km away from the airstrip with no injuries to the passengers.

He said after the engines cut out they had about 45 seconds to get the plane on the ground.

Bennett, who has been flying for 10 years, said pilots receive extensive training on situations like the one he faced.

Before getting their licences, pilots have to go through situations like mid-air engine loss, or engine loss shortly after take-off and explain to their trainer what they would do and where they would land.

The 25-year-old said he’s been receiving a lot of praise from friends and other pilots.

“Everyone keeps telling [me] what a good job I did,” he said.

The plane was later flown out of the paddock and back to the airport.

Bennett said Skydiving Kiwis’ engineer in Timaru is now looking at ways to secure the handle so it can’t be accidentally turned again.

All the customers on the flight have also rebooked with Skydiving Kiwis for another jump.

Allenton School has eight security cameras operating at the school to curb vandalism.

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■ ALLENTON SCHOOL

Farmer admits breaking Allenton to issue trespass notices tails of nearly 50 cows

BY KURT BAYER A stressed out dairy farmer under huge financial pressure despite working 100-hour weeks has admitted breaking the tails of nearly 50 cows.

Jeffrey Antony Wright, 36, was working as manager of a large dairy farm at Queens Flat in North Otago when he failed to control his frustrations with his herd.

As a result of a complaint made by a member of the public, Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) staff and veterinarians turned up at the farm on January 28, 2014, Christchurch District Court heard yesterday.

At the afternoon milking, a vet

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examined the tails of all 1065 cows.

They found several cows with broken tails, including eight that had been fractured in the past fortnight – three of which had compound fractures with either bone protruding through the skin or the skin having been ruptured at the fracture.

The vet concluded the injuries would’ve been “extremely painful” and “quite deliberate”.

Wright was spoken to by MPI officers where he was fully co-operative, admitted his crimes, and “showed insight and remorse”, the court heard.

Wright will be sentenced on November 2.

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Allenton School is about to issue trespass notices to five youths caught on camera trashing the school.

Principal Graham Smith said the youths had been filmed smashing bottles and defacing school property; they had since been identified and would be trespassed from the school for two years.

The youths have been committing minor acts of vandalism, including graffiti, and damaging new outdoor seating with their skateboards.

Smith said they brought alcohol onto the school grounds and smashed bottles on the outdoor

basketball court, meaning school staff had to clean it up before students could use the area.

The school installed eight cameras around the grounds and they had been very successful in recording after-hours activity, he said.

“It cost an arm and a leg but we need to have them.”

Allenton still allows members of the community to use its school grounds in the weekend and after school. Some other schools have been forced to lock their gates after-hours to keep trouble-makers out.

Smith said he wanted Allenton to remain open in the weekend for people to use the playground and courts but locking the gates

may be the only option if people abused that privilege.

“We have some lovely grounds and it is a great place. They need to look after it.

“I am not into locking the gates at this stage but the people using them need to show some respect.”

Smith said a photo taken from the security footage showed one youth in the act of vandalism while the others stood and watched. They were all culpable in his eyes and had blatantly ignored warning signs that security cameras were in operation.

“The cameras are not fake and we want the message out there we are prepared to issue trespass notices.”

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Ashburton hockey’s golden girls

BY MICHELLE NELSON

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As women’s hockey finalists prepared for the final battle on Rio Olympic turf, former Ashburton player Mary Smith reminisces about her team’s victory over the touring Royal Netherlands team 60 years ago.

The details of the event were recorded in black and white, blowby-blow by the Guardian sports reporter of the day.

It was August 3, 1956, when Smith led her team onto what is now the cricket oval in the Ashburton Domain. A large crowd, estimated at about 500, had gathered for the game and she still recalls raucous supporters offering up advice.

It was a tough game, according to Smith and the media commentary, with Marjory Prouting scoring the contest’s one and only goal 25 minutes into play.

“It would be difficult to single out individual Ashburton players as all did their part towards victory,” the reporter noted.

However, he went on to say: “It cannot be said that Ashburton had things all its own way, for it had anxious moments in the face of strong Dutch attacks.”

Smith keeps her memoirs in a designated hockey album in which her long association with the sport she was introduced to as a schoolgirl in the early 1940s unfolds.

She was part of the Ashburton squad which tackled Canada in 1971 and Fiji three years later – matches also played in front of a home crowd. The team also contributed three players to the South Island minors, including Smith, and went on to win the Mills Cup in Timaru in 1959.

At the end of her playing career Smith continued her involvement with local hockey as a coach with various school and representative teams for many years.

Today she remains as keen as ever, watching the competition at Rio unfold from the comfort of her armchair. That said, she had no intention of getting up to watch the Kiwis take on Germany at 3am. And who knows – had the opportunity come along 60 years ago, Smith may even have been in

Above – Mary Smith recalls captaining the hockey team (right) which beat the Royal Netherlands team in Ashburton 60 years ago.

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the line-up.

The team Members of the Ashburton Women’s Hockey Team 1956: Mary Smith (captain), A Philips, Marjory Prouting, Janette Reed, Betty Watson, Ann Dobson (goalie), F. Payne, Aileen Hood, Marge McKay, Jean Guilford, Rona Sides and Margaret McRae, pictured with their Dutch counterparts in the Ashburton Domain.

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Get your teddies ready Ashburton’s Annual Teddy Bears’ Picnic will be held tomorrow at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre from 1.30pm to 3.30pm. There will be prizes for the biggest teddy, the smallest teddy, the oldest teddy and the most interesting teddy.

Harold the giraffe will also be attending the celebration.

Car, truck collide XianYang deputy mayor Madam Li and Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay at the friendship signing ceremony in Ashburton yesterday.

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Madam Li said Fineboon’s ability to develop its plant in Ashburton was appreciated. She hoped Ashburton and XianYang

would be able to work together across industry, trade, education and tourism.

The Chinese city is home to many industries including agriculture, textiles, energy, food

and medical.

The two parties swapped gifts, Ashburton’s included wooden coasters, honey and a book of the Mid Canterbury area.

authorities,” Guthrie said.

Much of the council-supplied drinking water is sourced from secure groundwater, which eliminates most of the risks associated with contamination. To further protect the community, all council operated water supplies are chlorinated.

“We have a number of safety mechanisms in place to ensure residents have access to safe water. We are confident the measures we take are providing residents with clean safe water.”

In Havelock North, around 3000 people have been hit by a gastro illness from campylobac-

ter in the town’s water supply, however the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board says the outbreak is under control and the number of new cases is reducing.

The Coroner’s office has opened an investigation to find out if the campylobacter infection contributed to the death of a Hawke’s Bay woman.

Test results have confirmed an 89-year-old woman, who died at Havelock North on August 13, had contracted campylobacter.

A post-mortem examination revealed she also had other significant underlying health issues.

A two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Graham and Archibald streets caused traffic diversions at 9.30am yesterday morning. A St John ambulance and two fire appliances attended the scene where a car and a truck collided. One female was transported to Ashburton Hospital with moderate injuries.

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Council water supplies safe Ashburton District Council is reassuring residents of the district’s water safety amid national concerns over water quality in other districts.

Council assets manager Andrew Guthrie said council’s water supplies were carefully monitored for contamination, and is confident the water supply is safe for the community.

“Council complies with national legislation to rigorously test our water sources.

“We regularly test our water supplies for E-coli, among a number of other tests, and report these findings to national

Support groups merge The Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group Ashburton met yesterday after recently joining with Brain Injury New Zealand. Sue Kelly, Brain Injury NZ Canterbury liaison officer, said the groups joined forces after the brain injury support group faded out and she saw members had affiliation with the stroke group. Kelly said the group meets at 10.30 on a Wednesday every fortnight at the MSA. She said the group is open to anyone.

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Ashburton and the Chinese city of XianYang, population five million, have become closer following a two-day whirlwind visit.

The XianYang delegation, led by deputy mayor Madam Li, flew in late Thursday night and spent yesterday visiting companies including Midland Apiaries and the goat milk powder canning factory owned by Chinese dairy giant Fineboon at the Ashburton Industrial Park; they heard about Fineboon’s plans to promote goat farming and other developments in the town including the Eastfields precinct in the central business district.

The 11-strong group spent last night in Methven and will today visit South Pacific Seeds and a Pannetts Road farm before taking an adrenalin trip on the Rakaia Gorge by jetboat. They leave Christchurch at 6.30pm.

McKay said he hoped Ashburton and XianYang would be able to work together well in the future for the benefit of both. He and Madam Li signed an official document cementing the relationship.

A delegation of civic and business leaders from the Ashburton District visited Chinese sister city Puyang last November and

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Coroner Peter Ryan said further pathology testing is being carried out to determine the specific cause of death, and what particular strain of campylobacter had been contracted.

Ryan said that, on the information available to date, it is unclear what effect, if any, the campylobacter infection had on this woman’s death.

This will be a focus of his coronial investigation.

The health board confirmed there were 87 confirmed notifications, and 250 probables for a total of 337 cases of the bug that has hit Havelock North.

A Transpower contractor seriously injured after a temporary tower he was on fell to the ground remains stable in hospital. The man, in his 20s, suffered broken bones on Wednesday when the temporary power pylon fell as he and his Electrix team worked at a site in Hamilton. The contractors were moving pylons to make way for the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway.

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‘Aladdin’s cave’ Police have discovered an “Aladdin’s cave” in Auckland stocked full of stolen property worth more than $25,000. A 28-year-old Flat Bush man has been arrested and charged with multiple dishonesty offences after a search of a property early yesterday morning found a stolen dirt bike and more than $25,000 worth of power tools.

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■ HAWKE’S BAY

NI councils rush to reassure residents

BY KIM FULTON Councils around the North Island are assuring residents of the safety of their water supplies following a gastro outbreak in Hawke’s Bay. Water quality has been in the spotlight after about 4100 were struck down with a gastro illness caused by campylobacter from a contaminated Havelock North water supply.

A water tanker filled in Hastings to help deal with the crisis had

a positive indicator of E. coli on Thursday but has since returned a clear test.

Watercare treats Auckland’s water to comply with the Drinkingwater Standards for New Zealand 2005, according to Watercare Services media liaison Pippa Curd.

She said the company had thorough risk management practices in place and quality assurance systems that enabled the company to supply Aa graded water to its customers across the Auckland

region. “This means that there is an extremely low level of risk associated with the operation of the water supply.”

Curd said E. coli was an indicator of faecal matter being present in the water and could be used as a comprehensive indicator of the presence of similar bacteria, including campylobacter, in water.

In the year to the end of June, the company carried out 8917 routine water sample tests for E. coli and it was not detected in any

of the samples. Curd said Watercare used chlorination to prevent the passage of potentially harmful micro-organisms to Auckland’s drinking water.

Hamilton City Council compliance manager Trent Fowles said E. coli didn’t show up in any test results for Hamilton City Council’s water supply last year.

“We have an extensive testing programme which exceeds the NZ drinking-water standards in all areas of the city.”

In all, the council undertook 790 tests for E. coli last year.

Otorohanga District Council chief executive Dave Clibbery said there were no instances of E. coli in Otorohanga’s water supplies last year or in other recent years.

The town supply was tested about twice a week and other small supplies were tested every 10 days. It conducted 325 tests for E. coli per year across all the water supplies in the district. – NZME

■ ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM

Aviation museum’s new addition almost ready

BY COLIN ENGELBRECHT COLIN.E@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

An old Polish war plane is almost ready for a new coat of paint thanks to Ashburton Aviation Museum.

The group has been restoring a MiG 17, formerly in service with the Polish Air Force and then imported to America in the 1990s.

John Hill, workshop manager at the Ashburton Aviation Museum, said the plane was just about ready to be pulled out of the hangar and have its wings attached before being painted.

He said the plane had been left sitting on a runway in Rockford, Illinois in the United States, for 15 years and had deteriorated.

They had to have the aircraft signed off by the Ministry for Primary Industries because of the birds’ nests that had accumulated while it stood outside.

He said all of the original instruments had been converted to US ones when it was imported, so they had to change them back.

Hill went to Poland in June and visited someone who is doing private MiG 17 restorations; they gifted the museum the original instruments, as well as a huge amount of information and an English maintenance manual. The museum was also offered the guns for the aircraft, but had to turn them down.

The MiG 17, or Mikoyan-Gurevich 17 is a subsonic jet plane developed by the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. The aircraft is a longer version of the earlier MiG 15 and features larger airbrakes and an afterburner.

A Polish development of a Soviet version of an English Rolls-Royce engine powers the plane.

MiG 17s were sold to a number of nations and saw action throughout the Vietnam War, where they were operated by the North Vietnamese Air Force.

The fuselage of the MiG 17 in one of the hangers at the Ashburton Aviation Museum.

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■ MID CANTERBURY WORKSHOPS

Helpful skills from arthritis workshop

By Colin EngElBrECht Colin.E@thEguardian.Co.nz

Ashburton residents have hopefully gained some skills to manage their arthritis after attending a workshop on Thursday morning.

Arthritis New Zealand educator Vanessa Stone gave a presentation outlining facts about arthritis.

There are over 140 types of arthritis, with osteoarthritis being the most common and can occur at any age, but is most common over 40.

One in six New Zealanders develope arthritis and sports injuries, and certain occupations like farming can increase the risk of developing osteoarthritis, which has no cure.

However, there are ways someone can manage their arthritis, most often painkillers are recommended to reduce pain and stiffness.

Other ways include exercise and stretches, weight management and surgery, to replace joints or bones, which can last up to 20 years.

On Monday there will be similar workshops in Rakaia, starting from 10am at the St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

From 1pm to 3pm there will be a seminar presented by Shannon

Morris of Aspire Canterbury and Suzanna Croft of Arthritis New Zealand.

The seminar will talk about gadgets and gizmos that can make everyday tasks, like putting

on socks and unlocking a door, easier.

Things like nail clippers with bigger handles, thick tubes that can slide over utensils and stationary, and tooth and hair brush-

es with special handles are some of these gadgets.

If anyone is interested in going to the Rakaia seminars, they should call Arthritis New Zealand on 0800 663-463.

Vanessa Stone, arthritis educator for Arthritis New Zealand takes the group through Thursday morning’s osteoarthritis workshop.

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Annual protection of native braided river wildlife under way soon The 14th consecutive year of an operation to help protect three of New Zealand’s rare and endemic birds, among other native wildlife, will start soon in Ashburton District with the co-operation of landowners.

In late August and September Environment Canterbury will start this season’s control operation targeting animal predators in the lower Ashburton River to help protect wrybill, black-fronted tern and black-billed gull.

The Ashburton River is an important breeding ground for braided river bird species, but before the programme started there was a significant decline in bird populations in the riverbed, especially tern and wrybill.

Environment Canterbury has engaged a local contractor to focus predator control on two sections of the river. The lower Ashburton riverbed site of approximately 920 hectares runs downstream from the State Highway 1 Bridge to a point 9.5 kilometres down the river.

“These operations are not a quick fix, however. It takes many years to allow breeding birds to boost numbers through natural recruitment and encourage other birds back into area where they have been largely absent.

But bird survey results were encouraging.”

Brent says starting work in late August is critical to make sure there are fewer predators on the ground when the birds are nesting in late spring/ early summer.

“Unfortunately we can’t eradicate these predators totally or fund sustained control over larger areas, but by helping to protect these birds when they are most vulnerable we hope to make a difference.”

While the wrybill, black-billed gull and tern are the main species for protection, all birds, invertebrates and lizards in the Ashburton riverbed will benefit from the control work.

Signs will be erected at control locations advising the public of what is taking place. Please keep dogs under tight control in these areas.

The upper site located at Hakatere on the south branch of the Ashburton River between Blowing Point and Buicks Bridge covers about 560 hectares and 7.5 kilometres of riverbed. This site has seen control for over two years, with a large number of predators caught.

Both control areas include adjacent farmland with a large amount of landowner support.

Southern Biosecurity Team Leader Brent Glentworth says expectations of bird recovery are high.

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Daffodil Day countdown

By Linda CLarke

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Seven-week-old Harper Morgan snoozes amongst teddy bears that will be sold on Daffodil Day. PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 190816-AK-009

Bright yellow flowers and cuddly teddy bears will take on cancer next week, with a host of events ending in Daffodil Day on Friday helping raise funds to help those with the disease.

Around 7630 fresh daffodils will be delivered to the Mid Canterbury Cancer Society’s rooms at Mona Square tomorrow, where they will be bunched up and delivered to businesses.

Health promoter Mandy Casey said 141 bunches of 30 and 68 bunches of 50 would be delivered on Monday by volunteers chauffeured in vintage cars.

She said local businesses had stepped up to buy the flowers as their way of supporting the society and its good work in Ashburton. The daffodil delivery is a lead-up to Friday when 15 street stands will pop up around town to act as collection points for volunteers.

Casey said youngsters helping the cause included members of the Cactus group, who were blowing up lots of yellow balloons to fix along East Street for Friday, and Year 6 students from Fairton School, who would be manning one of the stands.

The always popular and competitive ANZ Daffodil Day Quiz on Thursday

will also generate funds, with more than $15,000 raised last year.

Mid Canterbury Cancer Society manager Annie Bonifant said funds raised would stay within the area and help those battling with cancer.

“Mid Canterbury is so supportive and so generous. We really do appreciate it.”

The society helps cancer sufferers and their families in many ways – they give away about $20,000 in petrol vouchers annually, along with grocery vouchers, and provide information, childcare and counselling.

Bonifant said driving services was the biggest component, with an average of 40 trips a month made by volunteer drivers. Petrol vouchers were given to those wanting to travel independently to treatment in Christchurch.

“No-one budgets for a cancer diagnosis and costs can mount up with the average radio therapy every day for four to six weeks. It is a lot of money and there’s parking on top of that.”

Another popular free service provided turbans or beanies for people who had lost their hair during treatment.

The Mona Square base is also a meeting place for a women’s breast cancer group, a men’s prostate group and a Daffodil group open to all.

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Plunket volunteers thanked for hard work

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Yesterday the Plunket rooms on Cameron Street had a thank you morning tea for the past and present Plunket volunteers.

Mid South Canterbury Plunket’s new community services coordinator Sue-Ann Carr said the volunteers are important to Plunket, as they provide services like the multicultural playgroup.

“We had the BNZ ladies come down as well because BNZ is the principal sponsor of Plunket,” she said.

Carr said there is an annual day for the volunteers, but thought, as she is new to the job, she would show her appreciation.

The Plunket Mid South Canterbury area board president, Helen Whiting, said there was a need for more Plunket volunteers in the region.

“The board saw a need and pushed Plunket to get someone who will bring in the volunteers we need,” she said.

Carr said she thinks there are about five people volunteering at the Plunket rooms in Ashburton.

Whiting said the same thing has happened at the Methven Plunket rooms and said she had people asking her if the Methven Plunket rooms were still open.

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Scott Base team awaits their first sunrise in four months The first sunrise over Scott Base will be an applauded spectacle following four months of total darkness for Antarctica New Zealand’s winter-over team.

For the past few days, Kiwi filmmaker and support staffer Anthony Powell has captured some stunning photographs of the polar stratospheric nacreous clouds, which became visible at noon this week just below the horizon.

But Mother Nature is flexing her muscles, with a forecast of blowing snow and white-out conditions meaning the Scott Base team of 11 won’t see the sunrise for another few days.

A flight is scheduled for today starting the annual winter flight programme, known as Winfly. The Winfly schedule includes three Airbus and two C17 flights over the next week.

In total, 200 personnel will be heading south, eight of who will be Antarctica New Zealand support staff.

For the first time this year, flights south were scheduled during April, June and July which removed the winter-over isolation, carrying freight and fresh fruit and vegetables.

Antarctica New Zealand logistics manager, Paul Woodgate, a 35-year veteran of the New Zealand Antarctic programme said the usual gear was heading south

Polar stratospheric nacreous clouds. to get the season up and running, including material to support the Hillary Field Centre construction project.

Official season opening events, which include a civic reception, a public opportunity to visit Ant-

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A view from the top Ashburton man Chris Stockdale had his drone airborne recently to capture images of the Baring Square Methodist Church, closed since the 2010 September earthquake.

The 1925 landmark building could be demolished to make way for Ashburton’s new civic centre and library. The site, with the nearby former Ashburton County Council building, is ranked top by consultants Opus, which is looking for feedback on six options over four locations.

Other sites include the Eastfield development and land on the corner of Cameron and Cass streets Submissions can be made online or through paper survey drop box locations at EA Networks Centre, Ashburton Library, the Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre and at the Ashburton District Council offices. Comments and feedback can also be made to yourvoiceashburton@ opus.co.nz, The community consultation stage of the feasibility study closes on September 18.

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By Jamie morton The University of Canterbury (UC) might be about to produce its first astronaut, with post-doctoral fellow Dr Sarah Kessans making it into the top 1 per cent of applicants shortlisted by Nasa.

Dr Kessans applied to be a Nasa astronaut back in February and recently made the next cut for Nasa’s Astronaut Candidate Class of 2017.

She is one of about 120 invited to Houston, Texas, United States, for initial interviews later this month.

From there, 50 applicants will be invited for finalist interviews, after which eight to 14 will be chosen as Nasa’s 22nd Astronaut Candidate Class, reporting for duty in August 2017.

She earned her PhD in 2011 from Arizona State University, where she worked to develop a plant-based vaccine against HIV. Arriving in New Zealand in 2012, she has spent the past few years at the university’s School of Biological Sciences with Renwick Dobson, gaining biochemistry experience in enzyme evolution and characterisation.

Dr Sarah Kessans Last August, she returned to her molecular biology roots, working in a team in Professor Emily Parker’s research group to develop fungal factories for biosynthesis of high value industrial bioproducts for commercial applications.

Outside of the lab, Dr Kessans can be found kayaking down rivers, biking in the mountains, running around ultimate Frisbee pitches, and generally exploring New Zealand’s natural wonders.

Dr Kessans has already had

plenty of adventure in her 33 years on the planet, including spending 16 hours clinging to a capsized rowboat in the Atlantic Ocean during a 3000-mile race in 2006 and then coming back to set a world record for rowing across the Atlantic in 2008.

She answered these questions.

Why did you apply to be a Nasa astronaut?

While I consider myself to be a

scientist/educator first and foremost, exploration, adventure, and team sports have always been huge parts of my life.

I absolutely love my current position and the research that I’m getting to perform here at UC, but becoming a Nasa astronaut would combine all of my many passions into one incredibly fulfilling, inspiring career.

Like many kids, I dreamed of being an astronaut when I was younger, but I never thought it would be an actual, viable career choice for me.

When a friend posted Nasa’s Astronaut Candidate Programme selection announcement on Facebook late last year, I realised that I not only met the minimum requirements (US citizenship, bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, plus three years of professional experience and 20/20 vision), but also possessed many of the traits and experiences that Nasa was looking for in the next astronaut class.

My heart rate jumped up pretty high just contemplating the opportunity of getting to perform cutting edge science while serving my country in one of the most incredible ways possible, so I start-

ed the application right then and there while eating my brekkie.

How do you feel about being invited to Nasa for an interview?

I am completely honoured and humbled to have been invited for the initial interview.

Though, I will admit, once I got off the phone with the Astronaut Selection Office when they invited me for an interview, I did jump around the office with enough passion that the postgrads in the next office over questioned if there had been earthquake.

The whole process thus far has been an incredible journey, from applying and just dreaming of going to space, to making it through to the Highly Qualified pool (top 450 applicants) and rehashing adventures with old team-mates and advisers who had been contacted

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Penguins reveal A new study tracking penguins while they are at sea has proved their remarkable long-distance swimming abilities. The project, led by Niwa seabird ecologist Dr David Thompson, has found the penguins travelled more than 15,000km in six months.

The rockhopper penguin.

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he remarkable long-distance swimming abilities of penguins have impressed Niwa scientists tracking almost 100 birds over winter in the Southern Ocean.

Until now, no one knew where the sub-Antarctic rockhopper and Snares penguins went while they were at sea between April and October each year.

However, an ingenious tagging project, led by Niwa seabird ecologist Dr David Thompson, has found the penguins travelled more than 15,000km in six months.

“If they are constantly moving this averages out at about 100km a day, but you also have to add on to that the distances covered vertically as the birds dive to capture food,” Thompson said.

The tagging programme targeted rockhopper penguins at Campbell Island and Snares crested penguins, endemic to Snares Island.

While the Snares penguin population is relatively stable, rockhoppers at Campbell Island have declined by at least 21 per cent since 1984 leaving just over 33,000 breeding pairs on the island.

The island was once the world’s largest breeding colony of rockhoppers, the smallest of all penguin species, but between 1942 and 1984 the population dropped by about 94 per cent.

It is not known what has caused such a sharp decrease but one theory is that changes in the penguins’ diet may be responsible.

Thompson says they have an extreme lifestyle.

“They come to land to breed and when they finish that, go back out to sea where they feed up for a month. Then they come back to land to sit and moult their feathers. During that period they don’t eat at all,” he says.

“Having basically starved themselves they go back out to sea in poor condition. They’ve grown a whole new set of feathers so their plumage is fantastic but it’s quite demanding so they’re really scrawny.

“We think winter is pretty important and that there is almost certainly something going on in the ocean causing the population to decline.”

The first stage to solving that mystery was a tracking project to find out where the penguins go.

But attaching a tracking tag to a penguin takes a lot of travel, lateral thinking and a fair amount of nimble footwork.

Firstly the tags had to be modified from fitting the long, skinny leg of an albatross to the short, stubby leg of a penguin.

Then Thompson and his team had to time their arrival on Campbell Island, 620km south of Stewart Island, with the end of the moulting season, just as the penguins were ready to leave for the winter.

Then they had to clamber down rock faces and steep cliffs to reach them.

Of the 90 penguins tagged for the project, about 80 returned the following spring when the tags were retrieved and data processing began.

The picture that emerged was a revelation.

The Snares penguin headed exclu-

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swimming talents sively west towards Australia, while the rockhoppers went east and covered a wider section of the ocean.

Several birds covered more than 15,000km over the winter.

The tags were also able to determine when the penguins were stationary, indicating they had stopped to dive for food or rest.

Thompson says this first tracking project has provided only a snapshot but says the work must begin somewhere.

“We don’t know what they’re feeding on when they’re away; we don’t know if the amount of food available was more or less comparable to five or 10 years ago so this is very preliminary.”

He has plans to repeat the project and include other species, such as the erect crested penguin of the Antipodes Islands.

Campbell island penguins.

“The extra species will give us more information on how they relate to each other when they go away.

“It may be that they use different space, or it may be that populations of different islands get together at sea.

“Research like this is important to better understand what’s important for penguins.

“It is possible that particular parts of the ocean may help them get through from one year to the next so we need to be able to identify those places,” Thompson said.

“Prior to this study we didn’t have a clue where rockhoppers went in the winter but the spaces they use in the ocean might be really important – not only for them but for scientists to better understand what is causing the population decline.”

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They come to land to breed and when they finish that, go back out to sea where they feed up for a month. Then they come back to land to sit and moult their feathers. During that period they don’t eat at all.

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Sport Lightning strikes again Usain Bolt has won his eighth Olympic gold medal and is now looking for his ninth in 4x100 relay this weekend.

Usain Bolt, you are a freak.

The Jamaican won gold in the men’s 200m final, beating his rivals with a time of 19.78 seconds.

It’s his third Olympic gold medal in the event, further reinforcing his status as one of the greatest athletes we’ve ever seen.

It’s also his second gold of the Rio Games to go with his victory in the 100m earlier in the week.

Canada’s Andre de Grasse was second, France’s Christophe Lemaitre won bronze.

Despite his incredible feat, Bolt

looked less than impressed after he crossed the line well ahead of his rivals.

That was probably because he wasn’t able to break his own world record of 19.19 seconds - a mark he was hoping to reset here in Brazil.

His anger at not being able to achieve that goal was laid squarely at the feet of his rivals, according to ESPN’s Anthony Becht.

He’s the ultimate showman who’s never been shy of speaking his mind. Bolt had a crack at de

Grasse for pushing him too hard in the 200m semi-final, and now he’s taken aim at his fellow runners again.

Ironically, by his logic, the very reason he was upset with de Grasse was the very thing he desperately craved in the final.

Speaking to Channel 7’s Pat Welsh after the race, Bolt admitted his race was tinged with sadness, knowing it was the last time he’d ever run the event at an Olympics, but was still proud of what he’d accomplished.

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“I have proven to the world over and over again that I am the greatest. That is all I can do,” he said.

“I really wanted to race faster, but I came out here to win and that’s the first thing. I’m happy about that.

“Just coming back form injury and staying focused, I think that’s been the hardest part and I’ve got it done so I’m proud of that.

“I keep telling these young ones, ‘I’ll never let you guys beat me, it’s never going to happen.’

“I’m getting older, I’m slowing

down, that’s why I need to get out of the sport.” The 29-year-old is hoping to pull off the “triple triple”. He won individual gold in the 100m and 200m in Beijing and London, and was a member of Jamaica’s victorious 4x100m relay team at both those Olympics, giving him six golds from two Games.

Gold in the 200m in Rio has kept that dream alive, and with the relay to come on the weekend, we could be bowing down to him yet again before the Games are over.

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In brief Tomic claims big win Bernard Tomic claimed his biggest scalp in five years as he beat world No.7 Kei Nishikori to set up a Cincinnati Masters quarterfinal against two-time Olympic champion Andy Murray. Tomic, who skipped the Olympics and lost first up in Mexico last week, outlasted Rio Games bronze medallist Nishikori 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-5) yesterday in a welcome show of form 11 days out from the US Open. Nishikori was 23-year-old Tomic’s highest-ranked victim since Wimbledon in 2011, when he upset then world No.5 Robin Soderling.

However it’s the second time the Queenslander has beaten Nishikori this year. He also ousted him from the season-opening Brisbane International when the Japanese star was ranked No.8.

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Josh Brinsdon (middle) warming up at the Mid Canterbury Boxing Academy. The academy now has 80 members – exceeding all expectations since opening.

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Punching above its weight

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It is little more than three months since the Mid Canterbury Boxing Academy opened its doors to the district’s budding pugilists and it’s already punching well above its weight.

It now boasts 80 members throughout its fundamentals, junior, adult and senior ranks and is continuing to grow.

At the helm is former national welterweight champion and current Mid Canterbury sportsperson of the year Cornelius Grobler.

Grobler, who is also a 24-7 youth worker at Ashburton Intermediate, has recently decided to put his own in-ring career on hold to invest more time in his students.

“One of the reasons I have given up boxing is to focus on the gym and to see if I can change lives with boxing,” he said.

“I’ve achieved my goals, I don’t feel I have anything else to prove.

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He has even introduced his own version of Graham’s Passport to Success, which promotes responsibility, compassion, consideration, duty, obedience and honesty.

Recent renovations, thanks to the Lions Foundation, have also increased the academy’s appeal as other organisations recognise its potential in improving young

people’s skills in and out of the ring.

“Many members are boys who want to join and be part of the academy,” said academy administrator Lisa Anderson.

“While we also receive referrals from the police, schools and other social agencies – and that’s exactly why we do what we do.”

What started with a light patter of gloves from a modest gym is rapidly increasing in volume, as the Mid Canterbury Boxing Academy continues to exceed even its own expectations.

Black Caps skipper Kane Williamson is under no illusion about the task ahead of his side when they meet South Africa in Durban. The tourists are ranked above their hosts on the ICC Test rankings and South Africa are missing both AB de Villiers and Morne Morkel. But Williamson has rejected the favourites tag ahead of the first of two Tests, at Kingsmead, starting last night.

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Penalties a worry He’s avoided an NRL ban this time but Gold Coast forward Ryan James needs to work on being penalised less in the opinion of coach Neil Henry. The Titans’ forward had a careless tackle charge for his hit on Wests Tigers’ James Tedesco downgraded at the judiciary this week, freeing him to play in today’s clash at Newcastle.

The collision left the NSW State of Origin fullback with a seasonending broken jaw. James has conceded 24 penalties this season.

Henry admits it’s a worry, especially in a tight race for the finals where any indiscretion could prove season-ending. “He knows he needs to be more disciplined about what he does,” Henry said.

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Out to make an impression

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With just 11 players returning from the 2015 season, co-coaches James Jowsey and Craig Dunlea have had to make plenty of additions to the Mid Canterbury ranks for their upcoming Heartland campaign.

With one eye on the future, the duo concocted a group that boasts a strong blend of youth and experience.

Having played throughout the age-groups, Ollie Sapsford is one of the new generation of senior personnel fresh off the Mid Canterbury production line.

Sapsford made his senior debut in last weekend’s pre-season hitout against West Coast.

It wasn’t a bad start, either.

The 20-year-old scored two tries.

“I was definitely nervous before the game, but once I touched the ball I started enjoying it,” he said.

“I scored a couple of tries which was good, but there’s 15 guys out there who all contributed.”

As a product of Mid Canterbury youth rugby, Sapsford is well aware of its importance and showed his support for those that will don the Hammers jersey long after him by attending the recent JAB fundraiser.

JAB rugby in the district continues to thrive, junior numbers are up almost 6 per cent and teenage numbers have increased by 7 per cent.

“Mid Canterbury is really strong coming up through the JAB grades, I feel,” Sapsford said.

“They teach you more than just rugby skills, they teach you life skills and they’re big on enforcing that.”

Sapsford’s first taste of representative rugby followed a fine campaign at senior club level with Southern – which was also his first.

Throughout his youth career, the former Ashburton College student usually plied his trade at second five.

But Southern coach Michael Ellis saw the youngster’s poten-

Mid Canterbury debutant Ollie Sapsford joined guest speaker Grant Nisbett and 230 other guests at the recent JAB fundraiser.

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tial as a wing and Sapsford hasn’t looked back since.

“At the start I wasn’t too keen on the idea,” he said.

“But he (Michael Ellis) put the pressure on this year and now I love it – I wouldn’t want to play anywhere else.”

Sapsford went on to play a key role as Southern shared the Watters Cup with Rakaia following a thrilling final – after which, the Mid Canterbury squad was an-

nounced. He had made a list of goals at the beginning of the season and selection to the Heartland setup was at the top.

“When they announced it after the Watters Cup final I was beyond rapt, you couldn’t get the smile off my face,” he said.

Sapsford is now eager to learn as much as possible from his senior representative counterparts and take the opportunities as they arise.

“The older players bring a lot to the field,” he said.

“They’re always keen to tell you what’s going on and make sure you’re doing your job – you can’t ask anymore, really.”

Aside from his physical attributes, coach Dunlea cited Sapsford’s enthusiasm to learn as playing a key role in his selection.

“He’s very keen to learn, he has a great attitude and he’s strong for a young fella,” Dunlea said.

“He’s come a really long way in a very short space of time.”

Sapsford will now have the chance to shine against the old enemy when the Hammers host South Canterbury at the showgrounds today and there’s not many better opponents to prove your worth against.

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Methven retain premier crown

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Methven are again ACL Premier Grade Netball champions following an emphatic 36-25 final victory over Celtic at the EA Networks Centre stadium on Thursday night.

The two sides had already clashed three times this season, two of which ended in the narrowest of margins.

But Methven weren’t about to allow the final to be a close affair.

Greta Currie’s ladies raced to an 11-5 lead in the opening 10 minutes as Celtic struggled to keep up with the blistering pace set by Methven.

If Methven sent a clear message in the first quarter, the second was the deciding spell of the final.

Goal shoot Leanne Clemens received fine service throughout and repaid the hard work of her team-mates with some clinical finishing under the hoop as the black-and-whites outscored Celtic 13-5 for a 23-10 halftime lead to all but secure their second championship in as many years.

The third quarter was closer than its predecessors, but Celtic were still out-gunned 8-4 on a night that belonged to Methven.

The final 10 minutes were Celtic’s best of the contest.

The Greens rallied in front of

a large contingent of Celtic supporters and put up 11 goals to Methven’s five, but it proved too little too late.

Celtic continued to battle to the very end before the final whistle brought an end to their season and hopes of being crowned the district’s best senior team.

There were some highlights for Celtic. Alice Breading produced a fine display, turning over good ball, and was well supported by Anna Holland as the challengers worked tirelessly to find a way into the tie.

But Celtic coach Ange Leadley believes her side’s lethargic start proved costly in the end.

“Unfortunately we didn’t perform until the last quarter – it took us too long to get into the game – which you can’t do against Methven,” she said.

“They played outstanding [netball], putting us under pressure and they kept that intensity up.”

Meanwhile, Methven coach Currie credited her players for sticking to their game plan to secure the premier crown.

“We’re super stoked, they played at a really high intensity and really took it to them (Celtic),” she said.

“Throughout the court they were great and we stuck to our game plan which was great.”

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Loss of coaches spurs Souths Spurred by the loss of assistant coaches Kurt Wrigley and Wayne Collins, South Sydney’s players are determined to use their last three games to make things right for 2017.

The Rabbitohs announced last week Wrigley and Collins would be replaced and the players concede it inspired them to their 19-point NRL win over the Warriors on Saturday.

Out of finals contention for the first time since 2011, Souths say they don’t have to look far for inspiration ahead of their final three games against Cronulla, Newcastle and Canterbury either.

“We want to go out there and play for our coaching staff who are here now and aren’t going to be here next year,” back-rower Kyle Turner said.

“We just want to put in a good performance for them.”

Wrigley has been at Souths since 2010 and Collins 2012 and they have played formidable roles in turning the Rabbitohs again into a premiership force.

But the club has opted to add the experienced David Furner and Paul Devlin to head coach Michael Maguire’s staff for next year after sinking to nine straight losses and 13th on the ladder.

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Hampstead looking for a three-peat Hampstead will defend their MidSouth Canterbury women’s senior hockey title against Timaru Girls’ High School’s 1st XI in Timaru today.

Should Hampstead down the schoolgirls, they will lift the McLay Champion of Champions Cup for the third successive season.

Hampstead are unbeaten this year and will be heavy favourites heading into the final, which captain Jess McCloy believes heaps pressure on the reigning champions.

“I’m proud of all the girls and what they do out there, they work and train very hard,” she said.

“I think there’s more pressure, especially being undefeated the

last two seasons – so there’s huge expectations on us.”

Meanwhile, Wakanui Blue will also have a chance to keep the men’s division one title in Mid Canterbury.

Sam Moore’s men managed to string wins together at the right time to book a final place.

They will lock horns with Cambridge for the Walker and Hall Shield in Timaru today.

Right - Gunning for a third successive final triumph with their Hampstead teammates are (from left) Karen McAuley, Jess McCloy and Mel Burrowes.

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Pressure builds trans-Tasman

By GreGor Paul There has been a bit of playground stuff leading up to tonight’s Bledisloe Cup clash as to which team may be feeling more pressure.

The Wallabies say it’s the All Blacks. That having held the Bledisloe since 2003, the onus is on New Zealand to keep it.

The All Blacks don’t disagree they are under pressure, but that’s no different to every other test and the Wallabies may be feeling things more.

“There’s pressure on the All Blacks all the time,” head coach Steve Hansen said. “That’s where we live. Everyone wants to beat us and we want to keep winning.

You’re kidding yourself if you think that any test match there is not pressure on both sides.

“Again, if you look at what’s happened for them recently, I think they’ve lost their last four games.

That’ll create pressure. Haven’t won a Bledisloe for the last 13 years. That’ll create pressure.

Stephen Moore - leading the Wallabies into the fray.

“There’s as much pressure on them as there is us. They’re kidding themselves if they don’t think they’ve got any pressure.”

It’s easy to see why the Wallabies have tried to cast themselves in the role of underdog with nothing to lose and everything to gain.

It’s easy to see why coach Michael Cheika has been telling everyone that the All Blacks don’t respect or rate his side. Cheika is trying to instil within his team a mindset of

the world being against them – of no one rating them, least of all the team they are playing tonight.

And he’s doing that partly to create a siege mentality within his players but also, maybe to create a soft landing should they lose. The reality for Cheika is that another defeat will put him in a place where he’s not so keen to be _ with his own job security likely to be questioned.

If the All Blacks win, it will be the Wallabies’ fifth straight defeat with a trip to Wellington next week. At that point, there would be no confusion as to which team is under the most pressure.

There’s more going on that, though. The test tonight hasn’t sold out and another defeat will leave the Australian Rugby Union concerned about what that might do to ticket sales for the tests against South Africa and Argentina.

It is believed that Cheika, such a powerful and positive influence last year, may not necessar-

ily be universally popular with the players. There are suggestions he clashed with Israel Folau on the team bus this week – telling off the star fullback for joking around.

It’s not, so the grapevine has it, the first time Cheika has harshly rebuked players in front of the team and patience with his style of management may be wearing a little thin.

Of all the players to keep enthused and engaged, Folau is the most important. His influence tonight could potentially be enormous.

He is the player the All Blacks fear the most. He’s the player they will ensure they don’t let have easy opportunities to run at them.

When they kick, they will either avoid him; make him move, or make him contest the ball in the air.

If the All Blacks are inaccurate with their kicking, they know Folau will punish them. He is the most devastating broken field runner in world rugby.

If he’s able to even get five metres of counter-attack running in before he meets the first All Blacks defender, there will be trouble.

And they know that when the Wallabies push the ball wide, they will be looking to use Folau as their strike weapon.

He’ll be used to try to force Malakai Fekitoa into making poor defensive decisions. The young All Blacks centre is an explosive tackler, but he’s prone to occasionally making rash calls about his positioning and timing.

Folau is Australia’s best attacking weapon and the man on whose shoulders so much rests.

That’s the way the Wallabies would like things to transpire this week. But there’s also the chance Folau is shut out of the game by a well-organised All Blacks defence.

He could be left with little or no possession and no chance to impose himself. At which point his feelings about rugby and the Wallabies may have to be reviewed.

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In brief Expensive screw-up Michael Phelps, who is endorsed

by American sportswear franchise Under Armour, has appeared on the newest cover of Sports Illustrated. With a very, very visible Nike logo on his sweatpants. That’s right, a company that’s endorsed one of the world’s most famous athletes since 2010 had to see him wearing its biggest rival’s gear on the cover of a magazine with a weekly readership of 23 million people. Nike is the official sponsor of the US Olympic Committee for 2016, and also the official supplier of Team USA. This title however only gives them exclusive rights to Americans’ uniforms for track and field events, and strictly excludes swimming – which is why Phelps can wear his own branded swimming cap. Despite this condition, all athletes were given Nike sweatpants, jackets and shoes to wear during medal ceremonies and at press conferences. - NZME

Whoops Tom Walsh has become the first New Zealand man in attempts spanning 88 years to earn a medal in an Olympic field event.

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Walsh breaks 88-year drought Shot putter Tom Walsh has become a sporting pioneer at the Rio Games.

The 24-year-old builder from Timaru – a town which sources claim might soon be changing it’s name briefly to Tomaru – is the first New Zealand man to earn a medal in an Olympic field event in attempts spanning 88 years.

Walsh threw 21.36m with his penultimate effort to secure bronze.

American Ryan Crouser won with an Olympic record 22.52m, ahead of compatriot Joe Kovacs who delivered 21.78m.

Despite the wealth of medals earned by Kiwi men on the track, no chap since Stan Lay first threw a javelin at Amsterdam in 1928 has made it to the podium.

The previous best men’s shot put result was Les Mills’ seventh at Tokyo in 1964.

Walsh earned the right to his gong among a dozen men grunting as if shifting pianos up spiral staircases.

He said good riddance to the 7.26kg iron sphere with customary venom and never wilted as the pressure ramped up to mimic that of a hyberbaric chamber.

Walsh was fourth, but level with Franck Elemba from the Republic of Congo until his fifth of six heaves. Elemba was ahead by virtue of his better second throw of 21.00m, a personal best.

Then the Kiwi uncoiled.

“It wasn’t my best work but, shit, you’ve got to take it don’t you,” he

said in the aftermath.

“There was a lot of pressure around but it was a hell of a competition with the Americans throwing that well. I guess I smashed it bro’.

“It’s great to know I’m first [among New Zealand field athletes]. I just thought I was in better nick, it wasn’t quite flowing like normal.”

Walsh beat two-time defending Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski, former world champion David Storl of Germany and Commonwealth Games champion O’Dayne Richards on his way to the prize.

Walsh has built a considerable pedigree since taking bronze at the 2014 world indoor champi-

onships in Poland. He finished fourth at last year’s world championships and won the world indoors this year with a personal best of 21.78m, defeating his competitors by 89cm.

He beat every major international competitor across the 2015 season and became the first New Zealand man to win a Diamond League meet, in Brussels.

During his rise, he has refused to relinquish his tool belt at Mike Greer Homes in Christchurch.

He often refers to getting a good-natured ribbing from his workmates asking why he didn’t throw further. He will no doubt be answering the same questions and shouting drinks upon his return.

- NZME

Silver means more than gold for Team Jolly Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie reckon they sailed better and fought harder in Rio than when winning gold at the London Games.

For that reason, both say Rio silver means more to them.

Women’s 470 defending champions Aleh and Powrie did what they needed to do to hold onto second place on Guanabara Bay yesterday, finishing third to secure the silver medal.

British pair Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark, given a clear run by two disqualifications to the Kiwis in the 10-race fleet series, couldn’t be stopped from claiming gold.

The Kiwis slipped to seventh overall after the second disqualification in race six, leaving them with what appeared little hope of securing any medal. Aleh said to then rattle off two wins, a third and a fourth was testament

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, celebrate at the end of the 470 Women race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. to their tenacity and unity.

“At the moment it means more than the gold four years ago.

We fought for this,” Aleh said.

“Nothing went the way wanted it to really, we just battled and battled. To get back to silver from where we were seemed like an impossibility.”

Aleh said the “Team Jolly” bond was severely tested after race six, when they were penalised for crossing the start line early. It came four days after also receiving maximum points in race one, for an illegal passing manoeuvre.

Aleh said both rulings were

“pretty marginal” and was disappointed appeals failed. She said they couldn’t afford to dwell on the setbacks but admitted they struggled to keep it together a few hours after the second call.

“On the water we were pretty good, but that night we needed some chocolate and needed some hugs,” she said.

The Kiwis won four races to the three of Great Britain, the London silver medallists.

Powrie struggled to remember the same sort of pressure on the pair previously, having felt intense expectations to win backto-back golds.

“It’s been an incredibly tough week. We’ve had not much go our way,” she said. “But just to battle on right through has been incredible. I’m proud we kept fighting well enough to come away with this.”

- NZME

Cedric Dubler had to apologise to nearby photographers after completely botching an attempted javelin throw in the decathlon.

The Aussie lost control of his javelin and threw it sideways instead of straight ahead. As soon as he let go, nearby photographers hit the deck. “He nearly took out some cameramen here, I’m not even joking,” said Olympic gold medallist Steve Hooker.

“That was a dangerous moment and an interesting moment in this competition,” added a Channel 7 commentator. “It didn’t go flat and hard but it did go sideways, and that caused everyone to hit the deck.” Dubler looked distraught after his error.

- NZME

Comments disappoint Megan Rapinoe, one of US women’s most senior soccer players, has criticised Hope Solo’s disparaging comments about Sweden following the Americans’ early departure from the Rio Olympics. Solo called the Swedes “a bunch of cowards” for focusing on defence rather than attacking the US team. Rapinoe said she was “really disappointed” about Solo’s comments. “Let’s inspire, let’s be badass, let’s be fierce, let’s be competitive. But we’re gracious and we’re humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose,” Rapinoe said.

“And we’ve been on the winning side quite a bit, and when we find ourselves on the other side, we need to handle that graciously, and unfortunately that wasn’t the case.”

- NZME

Weightlifting out?

The weightlifting competition at the Rio Olympics played out under a cloud of suspicion and scandal so severe that there are fears the sport may get booted out of future games for doping.

Competitors who finished outside the medals talked openly about their hopes of moving up in the standings once lab results came back for opponents they found suspicious. Four athletes have withdrawn or been disqualified so far after testing positive, including one who was taking small doses of a substance typically used as rat poison.

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Ryan Lochte’s team-mates set to fly home

Molly Meech (right) and Alex Maloney celebrate after winning the 49er FX women’s silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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■ OLYMPICS

Missing out on gold painful The samba beat booming around Flamengo Beach was enough to ease the initial pain of missing out on Olympic gold for Molly Meech and Alex Maloney.

Hours after a dramatic finish to their 49erFX medal race – the last of the sailing regatta – the Kiwi sailors were philosophical about collecting silver.

They finished just two seconds behind Brazilian pair Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze in a nail-biting finish as the Kiwis made ground under full sail in a final-leg drag race.

The Rio-based sailors clung on to win Brazil’s first women’s sailing gold.

It was greeted with an explo-

sion of colour and noise which was still going strong as Maloney reflected on what the result meant.

“We were always out there to win but if anyone else was going to, it was so nice to see the Brazilians do it in their home town,” she said.

“It’s a special moment for them and it’s given the place a real vibe.” It was also a historic moment for Meech and Maloney, who won New Zealand’s 14th medal of the Games, a national record.

Meech’s brother Sam contributed towards the haul with a Laser bronze this week.

“It’s quite cool to think about

it now,” she said. “We definitely weren’t thinking about it at the time but it’s great that sailing has done so well here. Four medals tells you how much has gone into this from everyone.”

The medal race capped a remarkably tight battle from start to finish in the class.

Maloney and Meech began the double-point race one point behind three boats tied for the lead - Brazil, Spain and Denmark.

The former world champions made a slick start and claimed the gold medal position by the first mark, sitting just behind Italy.

Brazil loomed up behind and the race swung on the decision of

the respective crews at the start of the fifth and penultimate leg.

New Zealand went right while Grael and Kunze headed left and it paid off, the locals riding a wind shift into a 10sec lead at the final mark.

Maloney hoped Rio’s fickle winds would do them a favour on the final leg.

“We were getting close, we were getting quite excited. It’s never over until it’s over in Rio,” she said.

“But the Brazilians sailed it out.

They made a ballsy call on the leg before that and good on them.

They had to do it if they were going to catch us and it worked.”

- NZME

Carrington’s medal double gives kayaking a boost Lisa Carrington’s historic double Olympic kayaking medal success will pay a significant dividend for the sport.

Canoe Racing New Zealand boss Mark Weatherall calls it a massive boost for the sport, after her K1 500m bronze yesterday to go with her K1 200m gold 48 hours before.

Weatherall thinks Carrington deserves to sit alongside Olympic giants like Peter Snell, fellow kayakers Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald and swimmer Danyon Loader after her inspiring deeds.

“Lisa’s gold medal in London four years ago created a huge surge in the number of female paddlers in New Zealand and there’s no reason to believe that won’t happen again,” Weatherall said.

“We’re already seeing the fruits of that surge, both at senior level and with our top jun-

New Zealand’s Lisa Carrington paddles for bronze during women’s kayak single 500m final. iors, which makes the next four years heading into Tokyo 2020 incredibly exciting.”

CRNZ set a goal of two medals at Rio, with Carrington singlehandedly achieving that even before the rising New Zealand women’s K4 crew took to the water late last night for their heat.

Making the final would be a huge achievement for the K4, Weatherall says, with team members Caitlin Ryan, Jaimee Lovett, Kayla Imrie and Aimee Fisher all making their Olympic debuts.

“Just having them qualify has been huge, with the experience they’ll gain from competing at

this level. It opens up a range of options for us in future, in terms of individual and crew boats, with anything they achieve from here just a bonus.”

Weatherall had high praise for the outstanding campaign mounted by Carrington, coach Gordon Walker and her High Performance Sport New Zealand team.

“Lisa’s K1 200m dominance has meant that more of her rivals have concentrated on the longer distance, so to perform amid that calibre of field in an Olympic final is an incredible achievement,” he said.

“We’ve seen already at these Olympics how different it is from world championship and world cup level – racing both distances has been a four-year plan from Lisa and Gordon and to come away with a gold and bronze is testament to their focus and desire.”

- NZME

American swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger have checked in for a flight leaving Brazil after testifying about claims they were robbed after a late night of partying.

Police have said the story was a lie and that they and two other US swimmers, including Ryan Lochte, vandalised a gas station.

Associated Press journalists saw Bentz and Conger checking in yesterday for a flight leaving the country. They were whisked through security and did not have to wait in line.

The ordeal has been a blow to Brazilians, who for months endured scrutiny about whether the city could keep athletes and tourists safe given its long history of violence.

“No robbery was committed against these athletes. They were not victims of the crimes they claimed,” Civil Police Chief Fernando Veloso said during a news conference.

The police account came in direct contrast to claims from Lochte’s attorney made earlier in the week. The attorney, Jeff Ostrow, had maintained that the robbery took place and insisted the swimmer had nothing to gain by making the story up. He, as well as Lochte’s father and agent, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

The swimmers could potentially face punishment – probation, suspension, a fine or expulsion – under USA Swimming’s code of conduct, which prohibits dishonesty or fraud. It was not immediately clear if the organisation planned to act.

It was also not clear if the swimmers would face criminal charges, though police said the athletes could be charged with destruction of property, falsely reporting a crime or both.

Veloso said it’s up to the courts, but as far as he’s concerned the athletes should be able to leave the country.

Lochte initially said that he and teammates Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen were held at gunpoint and robbed several hours after the last Olympic swimming races ended. Police said earlier this week that they couldn’t find evidence to substantiate the claim, and a judge ordered the swimmers’ passports held as the investigation continued.

Lochte had already returned to the US but the others stayed, and Conger and Bentz were pulled off a plane at the Rio airport.

While some details in the official account of the story changed – police first said no guns were involved, then backtracked and said two guards pointed weapons in their direction – security video confirmed the athletes vandalised parts of the gas station, leading to an encounter with station employees.

The closed-circuit video shows one of the swimmers pulling a sign off of a wall and dropping it onto the ground. A gas station worker arrives, and other workers inspect the damage. Veloso said the swimmers broke a door, a soap dispenser and a mirror.

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■ OLYMPICS

Kiwi survives day of carnage Kiwi Trent Jones survived a day of BMX crash carnage to qualify for the semifinals at the Rio Olympics.

The 22-year-old finished second in his quarter-final heat to advance to today’s 16-rider semi-finals on a day when a number of the sport’s leading lights were eliminated.

Jones, who posted the 25thfastest time in the seeding run, had two second-place finishes and a third to progress to the next round.

His total of seven points was one point behind Dutchman Jelle van Gorkom who won two of the three runs.

Top qualifier, France’s reigning world champion Joris Daudet, crashed out in Jones’ second run and failed to progress.

He wasn’t the only one to fall by the wayside. Latvia’s two-time defending Olympic champion Maris Strombergs and British former world champ Liam Phillips were also eliminated as windy conditions played havoc.

Jones opted for a safety-first

Riders (front, from right) Trent Jones of New Zealand, Niek Kimmann of the Netherlands, Tory Nyhaug of Canada and Jelle van Gorkom of the Netherlands ride their bicycles during a practice run before the men’s seeding run at the Olympic BMX Center during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PHOTO AP approach. “The finish line is not at the end of the first straight, so I decided to be conservative and back my race craft to pass

riders,” he said.

Australia’s Sam Willoughby, the London bronze medallist, won all three heat runs.

The semi-finals are also raced over three runs with the medal race following it.

-AAP

Synchronised swimming: How do they do that?

Viewers have been left confused and amazed by the incredible feats of the synchronised swimmers as they put on displays of spellbinding uniformity under and above the water today.

It’s a sport that few understand, yet the mystery seems to have added to the spectacle as mil-

lions tuned in to watch the swimmers in the Rio pool. Many have taken to Twitter to marvel at the stunning athletes, while admitting they have little idea what the competition actually entails.

One viewer left with more questions than answers, asked: ‘What is this? What did I just watch? Are

they human? Is this a sport? So many questions!’

Spectators were left scratching their heads as to how the swimmers maintained their impeccable hair and make-up, which looking pristine even as they emerged from the pool.

Some suggested the swimmers,

who spend even more time performing under the water than above it, use gelatine in their hair to maintain the style.

But most simply admired the remarkable swimming skills of the competitors, performing incredible acrobatics in perfect unison - all while under water.

Olympic Games Friday, August 5 to Sunday, August 21 Rank

Company

NOC

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

1

United States

35

33

32

100

2

Great Britain

22

21

13

56

3

China

20

16

22

58

4

Germany

13

8

11

32

Russia

12

15

17

44

6

Japan

12

6

18

36

7

France

8

12

14

34

8

Italy

8

9

6

23

10

Australia

7

10

10

27

11

Korea

7

3

8

18

New Zealand

4

8

3

15

5

16

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Quoted at the games What was said at the Rio Olympics yesterday.

“They competed under gigantic pressure. Let’s give these kids a break. Sometimes you take actions that you later regret. They had fun, they made a mistake, life goes on.” - Rio 2016 spokesman MARIO ANDRADA defends four US swimmers, including gold medallist Ryan Lochte, whose accounts of an armed robbery at the weekend are under question by Brazilian police.

“I am trying to be one of the greatest. Be among (Muhammad) Ali and Pele. I hope to be in that bracket after these Games.”

USAIN BOLT after capturing the 200m crown for the third straight Olympics, the eighth gold medal of his spectacular career.

“I don’t want to call a parent and tell them their child has been robbed, mugged or anything worse.” - Australia’s chef de mission KITTY CHILLER after disciplining swimmers Josh Palmer and Emma McKeon for not returning to the athletes village.

“Completely over the top punishment for @emma_mckeon.

This girl would avoid getting involved in a pillow fight. Too harsh for a small mistake,” Tweet from Melanie Wright, a member of Australia’s 2012 gold medal winning 4x100m freestyle relay team. Wright has since launched a petition calling for McKeon to be allowed to walk in the closing ceremony after team officials banned her from attending.

“I was worried about the water quality.” - Sailor MAT BELCHER jokes about his instinctive action to pull crew mate Will Ryan back in the boat on their way to a silver medal in the men’s 470.

“After that... we learned how to play tough-man basketball and that’s definitely going to help us in this next game.” - Australia taught Serbia a lesson the first time they met at the Rio Olympics, but tattooed big man MIROSLAV RADULJICA insists they won’t be playing student again in the semifinals.

“I’m so thankful he laid down the bet because I was dumb enough to try.” - What started as a dumb bet between mates over a few beers back in 2010 has ended in an Olympic bronze medal for Australian sprint kayaker LACHLAN TAME. “Maybe in four years, he’ll be older, slower and greyer.” - British triathlete JONNY BROWNLEE is confident of beating his brother Alistair at the Tokyo 2020 Games after he stormed to a record second Olympic gold medal, relegating Jonny to silver.

“On the finish line each athlete wants to put the nose of the boat as far as possible to maximise the chance of being first. My body weight got to the back of the boat and I capsized. It was a golden trick.” - Ukraine’s men’s canoe 1000m gold medallist IURII CHEBAN on why he capsized at the finish line.

“We worked with an Aboriginal elder - he taught us how to move like an emu.” - Australian synchronised swimmer BIANCA HAMMETT says her Australian team will channel native fauna in their free routine.

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■ ITM INTERPROVINCIAL

Wood trio return for New Plymouth Cambridge trainer Chris Wood will represent the pride of Mooloo country when he saddles Pacorus in today’s ITM New Plymouth Building Supplies Interprovincial 1600.

“Fingers crossed. I’ve been a Waikato boy for a long time now so it would be nice to do,” Wood said.

However, Wood wasn’t predicting a Waikato win, suggesting the Tavistock five-year-old would need the run as he embarks on a spring campaign targeting the Gr.3 Christchurch Casino New Zealand Cup (3200m) at Riccarton in November.

“While he’s placed at 1400m and 1600m, he’s never won below 1800m, so the 1600m on Saturday will probably be a bit sharp for him,” Wood said.

“He’s not screwed down for this. He’s got bigger fish to fry.

Whatever he does, he’ll improve on going forward, but he won’t go a bad race.”

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Pacorus has won four of his 18 starts and looks an exciting staying talent.

“We took him to the Waipa jumpouts last week and he went well. He’s progressing nicely.

The long-term aim is the New Zealand Cup and we’ll work out his programme towards that after this weekend.”

Pacorus is one of several runners from the Cambridge area in action in the Interprovincial.

The Stephen Marsh-trained El Duque will represent Auckland, the Graeme Thomas and Nick Smith-trained Mangaroa Flo Jo will run for Thames Valley, the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Arzak will go around in Hawke’s Bay colours, while the Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie-trained Meritaggio is the Bay Of Plenty representative.

Meanwhile, Wood will also have unbeaten galloper Wooden Edge and Roc de Bank in action

at New Plymouth.

Wooden Edge will chase his third straight win in the ITM Golden Bay Cement Special Conditions Maiden (1400m), with Pacorus’ jockey Viktoria Gatu again engaged.

“Tina Egan’s horse [Such A One] won by 9½ lengths last start and that looks the hardest to beat, but our bloke has worked well and has done everything right,” Wood said.

“I haven’t really got to the bottom of him yet. Everything he’s done so far, he’s done on his ear.”

Like Pacorus and Wooden Edge, Roc de Bank goes into his weekend assignment freshened since his last start but he has pleased Wood with his leadup training.

“All three of mine had a bit of a break at Gary Edge’s and all three went to the Waipa jumpouts to bring them along. They should all go well.” - NZ Racing

Pacorus will represent Waikato in the ITM Interprovincial.

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Wanganui Jockey Club Venue: Wanganui Meeting Date: $20,000, RST OPN HDL, 3000m 21 August 2016 NZ Meeting number: 6. Doubles: 2 and 1 23157 Thatz David mh (2) 68 ..................A Browne 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 2 3L428 Just Ishi td (6) 65.5 .........................G Walsh 3 41300 Viceroy tdmh (8) 65 ......................... C Studd 6; 7, 8 and 9 4 04134 Justa Charlie dm (1) 65............K Walters (3) 1 12.00pm (NZT) LOWE SCHOLLUM & JONES MDN 5 P174x Zardetto m (7) 65 .............................. A Kuru 6 7Fx65 Le Bon Fin m (5) 65 .....................R Cole (3) HDL 3000 $10,000, MDN HDL, 3000m 7 4x009 Sir Manawa dmh (3) 65 .................. S Fannin 1 44726 Willy Duggan mh (2) 68 8 93696 Share The Blame tdm (9) 65 ...... S Karnicnik 2 6x684 Chocolate Fish (9) 68...............K Walters (3) 9 985FF Puddle Alley (4) 65............. E Goodinson (3) 3 9700P Her Son (3) 68 ................... E Goodinson (3) 4 20490 Landlord m (10) 68......................... C Perrett 4 1.30pm JOLT COFFEE HOUSE WANGANUI STEE5 246P1 Perry Mason m (7) 68 ....................... A Kuru PLECHASE 4100 $20,000, RST OPN STP SWP, 4100m 1 151PP Billy Elliot mh (11) 71 ...............K Walters (3) 6 F8B66 Red Mafia m (1) 68............ E Farr (a) 2 x581P McCulley mh (7) 68 .........................M Gillies 7 x77x0 Sontana h (6) 68 ............................ S Fannin 3 66151 Twentythirtyfour mh (8) 68 ............. S Fannin 8 08016 Windermere Lad m (4) 68 ............... C Studd 4 424P5 The Fox m (2) 66.5............. E Goodinson (3) 9 00360 Our Debutante m (5) 66 ..................G Walsh 5 46422 Kina Win (12) 65 ............................... A Kuru 10 90639 Red Sunset (8) 66 ...................W Gordon (3) 6 7622P Mendoza t (10) 65 ...................... S Karnicnik 11 06677 Unreel (11) 66 ............................ S Karnicnik 2 12.30pm INFUSION CATERING MDN HDL 3000 7 48x96 Sinista (5) 65 ................................... C Studd 8 P60P7 And Thatz Scotty h (6) 65 .............A Browne $10,000, MDN HDL, 3000m 9 000 Cantdowithoutit 65 ....................... Scratched 1 53222 Kipkeino mb (10) 68 .......................... A Kuru 10 880L Doctor Hook (3) 65..................W Gordon (3) 2 15451 Selwyn tmh (3) 68 .......................... S Fannin 11 LP9PP Hard Shot (4) 65 ..............R Cole (3) 3 07549 Kingiesstar (6) 68 ............... E Goodinson (3) 4 26675 Platinum Song (1) 68 ......................M Cropp 12 89475 Kings Kite (13) 65 ...........................G Walsh 5 0F. Kangaroo h (8) 68...............K Walters (3) 13 42x33 Shamal tm (1) 65 ............................M Cropp 6 4100P No Deal (4) 68............................ S Karnicnik 14 63160 Wheeler Fortune (9) 65 .................. C Perrett 7 7P. Red Moss h (7) 68 ..........................M Gillies 5 2.00pm WANGANUI RACEHORSE OWNERS ASSO8 77257 The Grubbyduck (11) 68 .........W Gordon (3) CIATION MDN 1360 $7000, MDN, 1360m 1 3x83x Woody Strode (3) 58.5 ................... J Parkes 9 86P25 Good Risk m (5) 66 ........................ C Perrett 2 3 Valentia (12) 58.5 ............................D Turner 10 71607 Honey Queen m (9) 66 ................R Cole (3) 3 74x58 Brother One (4) 58.5 ............ T Johnson (a3) 11 0P089 One Kay m (2) 66 ............................G Walsh 3 1.00pm OFFICE SMARTS RST OPN HDL 3000 4 495x8 Rocfive (10) 58.5.............................J Riddell

M3 Auckland Greyhound Racing Club. Venue: Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 21 August, 2016 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13

5 76. McCullum McCaw (15) 58.5 ..... K McCulloch 6 307x2 Devi (1) 56.5.............................. D Hirini (a2) 7 5773. Amorata (8) 56.5 .............................R Myers 8 8x4 Duchess Of Lincoln (5) 56.5 .........M Tanaka 9 05 Itsa Keepa (2) 56.5...................... R Hannam 10 00 Baboonski (9) 56.5 .................J Fawcett (a4) 11 4 Tabard h (7) 56 12 2 Belladita (14) 54 .........................L Hemi (a1) 13 6 Callidora (6) 54 .......................B Hutton (a1) 14 Whitney (13) 54.............................L Allpress 15 097 Artemis Rising (11) 56.5 Emergency: Artemis Rising 6 2.35pm THE PROPERTY BROKERS COMPLIANCE LIMITED R65 1360 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1360m 1 91056 Hundyamonth tmh (5) 60 ...... H Andrew (a3) 2 520x5 Flying Fletch h (9) 59.5 ...................J Riddell 3 08401 Hidden Agenda m (1) 59.5 4 1 Methanol m (12) 59.5 ..................... J Parkes 5 x2347 Off Roading tdm (7) 59.5 .................K Smith 6 414 Play The Game tmh (11) 59.5 ....L Hemi (a1) 7 1x0 Garfunkel h (6) 58.5 ................... Z Moki (a3) 8 x6627 Cuzzie Charlie bh (2) 56.5 .......M Singh (a3) 9 04476 Acutelygold m (4) 56 ................... R Hannam 10 0208x Charlie Chine m (10) 56 ........... K McCulloch 11 98045 Mr Darcee’s Gold m (8) 56 ......B Hutton (a1) 12 886x9 Waipatiki Girl m (3) 54...................M Tanaka 7 3.15pm G BRISTOL & SONS MDN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 075x5 Get Lucky (10) 58.5 ................. K McCulloch 2 23. Magicella (6) 56.5 .........................L Allpress 3 8x Avastin (4) 56.5 .............................. J Parkes

4 96x00 El Kayo (2) 56.5 ............................D Bradley 5 Clermont (5) 56 ..................... H Andrew (a3) 6 Durham (8) 56 .................................R Myers 7 2x53. Galaxy (3) 54 .............................. R Hannam 8 33 Ave Maria h (7) 54 9 Call Me Kate (9) 54 ................... D Hirini (a2) 10 7 Duchess Darci (1) 54 ..............B Hutton (a1) 8 3.55pm PRO POWDER COATING R65 2060 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2060m 1 54225 Nom du Beel (6) 60 ........................H Tinsley 2 9x922 Hamiltonian tdbh (3) 59.5..............L Allpress 3 x9000 Anotherchancetaken m (7) 59.. T Baker (a3) 4 24002 Bang td (11) 58.5 ...................... D Hirini (a2) 5 63x09 King Of Rock (4) 58.5 .......R Goldsbury (a2) 6 74404 Willybe (15) 58 ..............................M Tanaka 7 80F80 Cullister tm (14) 57.5...................... J Parkes 8 03060 Bad Boy Brown t (12) 57.5 ....... K McCulloch 9 66046 Chonney (9) 56 ..........................L Hemi (a1) 10 41738 Dignify m (5) 56.......................B Hutton (a1) 11 65532 In A Trance m (2) 55.5.....................R Myers 12 x5604 Beau Zed m (1) 55.5 .......................D Turner 13 0x008 Paddy Jo m (8) 55.5 ............. T Johnson (a3) 14 9x998 Pentime m (13) 55.5.................... R Hannam 15 321. King Oberon tdmh (10) 59 Emergency: King Oberon 9 4.35pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION MDN 2060 $7000, MDN, 2060m 1 063x2 Any Stream Will Do (8) 58.5............D Turner 2 84293 Street Fighter h (13) 58.5 ............... J Parkes 3 x0639 Havataste b (11) 58.5.................. E Farr (a3) 4 45 Des De Jeu h (3) 58.5 ................L Hemi (a1) 5 x59x9 Make Big (5) 58.5..........................M Tanaka

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Pukeake Sam h (2) 58.5 ........ S Wahab (a4) 70x32 Cartagena (6) 56.5............R Goldsbury (a2) x3073 Ma Belle Kate (12) 56.5 ................L Allpress x09x3 She’s Half Irish (9) 56.5.................. C Perrett 6457 Kit h (4) 56.5 .............................. Z Moki (a3) 8x046 Thirtylove (10) 56.5 .......................D Bradley 96 Let Her Go h (14) 56.5 .............. D Hirini (a2) 4900 Entreat h (7) 56.5 ............................R Myers 098 Sophia Grace (1) 56.5 -

Blinkers on : Belladita (R5), Ma Belle Kate (R9) Blinkers off : Cullister (R8) Winkers on : Brother One (R5) Winkers off : Ma Belle Kate (R9) SELECTIONS: Race 1: Red Sunset, Landlord, Willy Duggan, Our Debutante, Perry Mason Race 2: Kipkeino, Selwyn, Good Risk, Platinum Song, Kingiesstar Race 3: Justa Charlie, Viceroy, Just Ishi, Thatz David, Sir Manawa Race 4: Twentythirtyfour, Kina Win, Shamal, Wheeler Fortune, McCulley Race 5: Amorata, Valentia, Tabard, Devi, Woody Strode Race 6: Methanol, Play The Game, Off Roading, Flying Fletch, Hundyamonth Race 7: Ave Maria, Magicella, Galaxy, Durham, Get Lucky Race 8: In A Trance, Dignify, Willybe, Bang, Hamiltonian Race 9: Cartagena, Any Stream Will Do, Street Fighter, Havataste, Des De Jeu

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

3 65432 Gold Class 30.43 .......................D Schofield 4 55555 Thrilling Carter 30.60 U & .................Cottam 5 22343 Jinja Mia nwtd W &..........................T Steele 6 21152 Missing Allegro nwtd ........................L Ahern 7 44684 Opawa Paul nwtd W & ....................T Steele 8 37755 Montana 30.60 ................................P Green 1 1.53pm (NZT) AGRC REWARDS SPRINT C0, 318m 9 85668 Bloo Bloomers 30.67.....................K Herbert 1 35 Blame The Clown nwtd ...................T Patton 10 58578 Madstone nwtd U &...........................Cottam 2 632 Girl Cina nwtd .............................. M J Lozell 4 2.44pm DELI’S SPORTS SPORTS BAR CLENDON 3 8 Wong Way nwtd U & .........................Cottam INN SERIES HEAT C1q, 527m 1 22611 Opawa Harry nwtd B & ...................... Steele 4 Tuff Star nwtd U & .............................Cottam 2 57268 Opawa Richie nwtd ...........................C Hore 5 2 Barn Door Billy nwtd .................... H Mullane 3 45547 Opawa Leanna nwtd B & ................... Steele 6 75876 Hanao nwtd ...................................A Cleaver 4 36884 Mr. Fuss Pot nwtd........................B Littlejohn 7 46655 Ziggy Attack nwtd......................... M J Lozell 5 64742 April’s My Mum 30.57...................... T Green 8 37327 Miss Shellac nwtd U & ..........................Bliek 6 33555 Scott The Looks nwtd U &.................Cottam 9 36x66 Mid Collison nwtd ............................ T Green 7 88873 Jelly Gem 30.73 U & .........................Cottam 10 677 Bouncie Al nwtd .............................. T Green 8 54676 Podium Bonus 31.36 W & ...............T Steele 2 2.09pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN SPRINT C4, 9 27887 Tron Bradman nwtd G H & ...... PC Ferguson 318m 1 14217 Lovely Rita 18.50 .......................D Schofield 10 66878 Jump On It nwtd ........................... H Mullane 2 76711 Idol Gee 18.68 B &............................. Steele 5 3.03pm GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT 3 12216 Fabrelee 18.54 ..................................S Ross C1, 318m 1 37454 Sacred Can You 18.54 R & .........N O’Regan 4 41362 Wobourn Abbey 18.53 ....................P Green 2 45241 Little Kiwi 18.88 B & ........................... Steele 5 67447 Hallo Star 18.23 ................................B Bond 3 68572 Electric Dee Eye 18.86 ...................P Green 6 7678x Up High 18.47 ................................ P Lowen 4 72466 Lord De Air 18.52 .............................M Black 7 65112 Ekali 18.42 ..................................... G Farrell 5 73454 Uno Nathan 18.99 B & ....................... Steele 8 17783 Melman 18.49 ..............................R K Roper 6 F8537 Gimme Hot Chips 18.98 U &.............Cottam 9 34716 Let’s Go Sprite nwtd .........................L Ahern 7 22516 Shot Gun Harry nwtd ................... H Mullane 10 75624 Baymax 18.50 ...................................B Craik 8 25227 Cawbourne Eden nwtd.................R McPhee 3 2.26pm DELI’S SPORTS SPORTS BAR CLENDON 9 37867 Opawa Uno 18.64 W & ...................T Steele INN SERIES HEAT C1q, 527m 1 52645 Opawa Libby nwtd B & ....................... Steele 10 75687 Rocky McAwesome 18.84 U &..........Cottam 2 16667 Cawbourne Wales 30.57 ..............R McPhee 6 3.23pm TROPHIES PLUS STAKES C3, 527m

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1322F Cosmic Boss nwtd ...........................L Ahern 73412 Opawa Kuru 30.59 W &...................T Steele 63715 Our Sambo 30.87......................... M J Lozell 16132 Zipping Link 30.53......................D Schofield 21111 Lochinvar Brogue 30.45 .............D Schofield 53731 Miss Velocette 30.36 ...................L Laagland 46733 Sharella 30.45 ...................................B Craik 37325 Multicam Ranger 30.80 ..............D Schofield 73277 Instant Success 30.92................D Schofield 18884 Fantastic Ava 30.67....................D Schofield 7 3.48pm STITICHES UPOLSTERY SPRINT C1/2, 318m 1 24233 Tee Kay Yapper 18.29 ...................... S Clark 2 27F62 Umaga Rama 18.61 B & .................... Steele 3 67877 Eva Kaneva 18.62 ............................ S Clark 4 73664 Skyler White 18.60 ............................B Craik 5 65174 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver 6 F2611 Unileven 18.64 ...........................D Schofield 7 48x63 Nippo 18.57..................................... L Martin 8 72112 Scott Tied Up 18.73 U & ...................Cottam 9 25788 Tyrion nwtd ......................................P Green 10 6848x Tepirita Amber 18.58 R & ............N O’Regan 8 4.14pm PUMP AND ENGINEERING STAKES C2/3, 527m 1 46825 Idol Leanne nwtd B & ......................... Steele 2 65666 Spud Missile 30.17........................... S Clark 3 18884 Fantastic Ava 30.67....................D Schofield 4 74521 Mr. Mumbles 30.92 R &...............N O’Regan 5 7x741 Zipping Kasey nwtd....................D Schofield 6 82743 Crying In Vegas 30.79 ...................... S Clark 7 16457 Thrilling Riot 30.97 U & .....................Cottam 8 73277 Instant Success 30.92................D Schofield 9 22458 Fortis Flier 30.74 U & ........................Cottam

9 4.42pm MCGHIE PLUMBING SPRINT C1/2, 318m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

27864 Opawa Poppy 18.51 B & .................... Steele 22213 Go Andwyn 18.63 ............................ S Clark 86716 Indefinite Order nwtd..........................L Hunt 68855 Thrilling Galaxy 18.49 U & ................Cottam 32121 Allegro Lass nwtd.............................L Ahern 57546 Asta 18.74 .....................................A Cleaver 17753 Frankincense 18.59.......................H R Scott 41661 Gee Thunder 18.50 ......................R K Roper 25788 Tyrion nwtd ......................................P Green 55548 Botany Hot Shot 18.59 ....................P Green 10 4.59pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL STAKES C4/5, 527m 1 58443 Sheer Miss nwtd ..............................L Ahern 2 34625 Joe Joe 30.13 B &.............................. Steele 3 32161 Kimetto 30.55 ..............................L Laagland 4 16178 Yap’s Me Mum 30.26 ..................D Schofield 5 12773 Global Conquest 30.60 W &............T Steele 6 62416 Percentage Girl 30.67 .................L Laagland 7 48851 Prophecy 30.09 .............................. G Farrell 8 53122 Belcroft Banker 30.64 ................H Laagland 9 74365 Lucky Man 30.53...............................B Craik 10 36544 Absinthe Minded nwtd......................L Ahern 11 5.17pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C3, 318m 1 32411 Locha Knocka 18.68 ....................... T Green 2 83211 Myrniong Girl 18.62 ........................ T Green 3 85612 Who Rocks nwtd .......................... H Mullane 4 88237 Simply Sam 18.38 ......................D Schofield 5 58426 Atoonga Air 18.45 ........................... T Green 6 31321 Fantastic Lucy 18.41 ..................D Schofield 7 85778 Wheelie Rascal nwtd ..................... P Lowen 8 32833 Rockin’ Fancy 18.57 ...................D Schofield

9 83334 Need Magic 18.54 ...........................P Green 10 55335 Pat Not Plait nwtd...........................P Henley 12 5.36pm PLASTERBOARD LTD SPRINT C4/5, 318m 1 11222 Subic Bay 17.99 ...............................L Ahern 2 72511 Jump Up 18.34............................. H Mullane 3 12733 Bright Star 18.05 ...............................B Bond 4 71717 Looks All Good 18.41 W & ..............T Steele 5 73614 Thunderation 18.66 ..........................L Ahern 6 38247 Macjam 18.33 ............................D Schofield 7 65176 Britney Star 18.50 U & ..........................Bliek 8 24531 Diva Pose 18.64 M & ....................... J Smith 9 35385 Effective Power 18.45 ......................L Ahern 10 882x8 Rock Lass nwtd..........................D Schofield 13 5.58pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 31718 Hows Your Mum 19.04 ......................B Bond 2 168F3 Tiny Grey 18.64...............................P Green 3 43647 Atomic Rush 18.73........................K Herbert 4 46758 Miss Bunnythorpe 18.83 U & ............Cottam 5 67347 Agent Schrader 18.56 .......................B Craik 6 64842 Le Roi nwtd B & ................................. Steele 7 83888 Kapai Lana 18.86 U & ...........................Bliek 8 34852 Snigglepuss 18.73 ....................... H Mullane 9 85647 Rotovegas Sparky 18.55 ..............R McPhee 10 6787x Nadzeya nwtd R & ......................N O’Regan LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Saturday, August 20, 2016

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Please, give generously Linda Clarke

SENIOR REPORTER

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ancer is not fussy. It touches and takes who it wants without regard for age, gender and a track record of good deeds.

So next week, when you see daffodils around the place, take your seat at the ANZ’s quiz night, or if you come across an official street collector, be generous with your cash if you can.

The bright yellow daffodil represents hope to the 60 New Zealanders who every day hear the words “you have cancer”.

With numbers like that it’s no wonder demand for the Cancer Society’s free services is on the rise.

Mid Canterbury Cancer Society manager Annie Bonifant says no-one budgets for cancer and costs mount for practical things, like petrol and food.

The society also helps out with accommodation if you have to stay away for treatment, it provides people to drive you to appointments, and has stacks of information and advice.

Information is important because it is also empowering, at least it was for me.

I read about melanoma a lot 20 years ago when a fat, pink mole cut from my left leg turned out to be very nasty. A large Z-shaped scar that runs the length of my thigh reminds me of my encounter and I don’t leave the house without sunscreen on, ever.

No-one knows how they’ll react to a cancer diagnosis. At some point your brain stops taking notes so you need people around you to accurately recall what was said or pull you out of a dark, deep hole.

So family, friends and the good people at the Cancer Society are who you turn to for help.

In Mid Canterbury, the society has paid staff who are supported by a volunteer network, who are in turn supported by our generous and caring community.

The Cancer Society says having cancer is hard, but finding help need not be.

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Cabinet under fire

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ewshub tells me Mr Little has found a novel way of getting his Labour/Green Party (MOU) fully noticed by the voting public; call for the sacking of all the current members of the Cabinet, one by one, by the time next year’s election comes around.

Apparently, Nick Smith, for his failure to sort out the housing “crisis”, the existence which he still vehemently denies, is the latest in the cross-hairs of Mr Little’s blunderbuss.

Various other ministers have been similarly threatened over recent months, though they seem to have resisted the temptation to cut and run.

Thus, it sounds like business as usual with Labour/Green trying to get a foothold – or, for them, preferably, a stranglehold – on their endlessly more popular National opposition.

However, Paddy Gower seems to be suggesting Labour has found a potential vote winner via this same housing crisis – real or imagined – which may see the start of the unravelling of Na-

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EYE ON POLITICS

tional’s long-held supremacy.

There now seem to have been a number of hurried Government initiatives to provide a tourniquet on the “blood loss” from the adverse publicity of the lack of “affordable housing”, which have smacked of panic rather than planning.

Mrs Bennett has noticeably been less than her usual cheerful, unruffled self.

I also read of Mr Key telling the ubiquitous Paul Henry that he doesn’t want to get complacent about his prospects for a fourth term by falling at an earlier hurdle as did, he reminded Mr Henry, the All Blacks in the 1999 World Cup when they lost to France in the semis so never made it to the last fence ... an

interesting mixed metaphor if nothing else.

Continuing that metaphor, with the NZ Sevens team having come a cropper in Rio in the quarterfinals of a competition they were supposed to be a shoe in for the gold medal, perhaps we can see what “Jockey” Key is getting at. But then a week is a long time in politics, let alone a year.

Here in Britain, the nation has more or less closed down for the summer holidays.

That is a tradition broken only for a cataclysmic event, or a “one in 500”. Thus new PM, Mrs May, is tramping in the Swiss mountains with her husband, where she has “always found peace and quiet”.

This time, though, with her status seriously elevated, she may find it less serene as she will be surrounded by a posse of secret service agents, none of them, at any time, more than 15 yards from her.

So the hills may no longer be alive with the sound of music, but something rather less harmonious. But that, surely, is a minor

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consideration for someone who, suddenly, has had “greatness thrust upon her”, as the old adage puts it.

Brexit can now be conveniently assigned to the “too hard” basket, where it will probably remain until well after the holidays are over and winter has fallen upon the land.

And it really is a “hard basket”; no-one seems to have much of a handle on it, the ramifications being so immense and so very unexpected. There are still many in high places who would like to believe it never happened.

Finally, the richest man in England, the sixth Duke of Westminster, died of a heart attack recently, aged 64, leaving his 25-year-old bachelor son to become the seventh.

Thus, he suddenly finds himself owning large chunks of fashionable London, a huge estate in Cheshire and a castle in Spain, among other properties elsewhere around the world.

Hardly surprising that, overnight, he has become Britain’s most eligible bachelor!

Where does the help come from? From the Lord

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eflection on Psalm 121: You are pilgrims. I am a pilgrim. This is our song: “I lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?”

Like all pilgrims, I’m on a journey. It’s a very important trip. It’s not just a quickie weekend jaunt, in and out of a motel. I’m on a journey every day of my life; life is that kind of trip.

The trip is sometimes a fearful and anxious one. I lift my eyes to find help somewhere in those hills. The hills are gorgeous and alluring. But they don’t make me feel any better; they don’t answer my cry for help.

I run headlong through the valleys between the hills until it hits me. What’s behind those hills? Is there anything or anyone beyond that horizon? I never thought to look there before.

The hills are so impressive and so overwhelming I forgot there might be something else. After all, this is the 20th century. The earth isn’t flat. I won’t fall off the edge if I climb over the hills and take a peek. It’s worth a look anyway; I can’t lose anything.

“Help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.” Oh! So this is what I find on the other side of the hills – God. It’s been a long time. I remember hearing about God in the Sunday school stories.

Funny thing about those days.

Rev Joan Clark

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

Life was fun. I really didn’t have too many cares at all. But you have to grow up sometime and I guess I left that God-stuff behind back there.

“May he not suffer your foot to slip, may he who keeps you not slumber! Behold, he who keeps Israel does neither slumber nor sleep.”

Now, that’s the kind of God I would like: somebody who doesn’t go to sleep on me. My friends keep letting me down; they go to sleep after making such big promises to me. I need help. I need a God who won’t go to sleep on me. I really need a God who will stay with me without getting tired or frustrated or losing their patience.

“The Lord is your keeper and shade; he defends your right hand. The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.”

It does get awfully hot on this trip.

There are pressures, so many pressures bearing down. And I get guilty. I get scared. I run from hill to hill and the lights go off, and its cold outside. And I keep running, looking for help, looking

for some protection, some way to cope with the heat and the cold. Some way out or some way in, anything to find some rest, some peace, some meaning in my pilgrim chase.

“The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.”

Oh boy, I need some assurance, some confidence he is really looking out for me. That someone bigger really cares, that someone has his hands around my life.

I don’t know how much longer I can keep up this chase, this frantic search for some satisfaction, some little ounce of joy. And a God to keep me from evil, a God to take this load of guilt off my back. I can’t carry it too many more miles; it eats at me.

“He will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.”

This is fantastic! Just fantastic!

To be able to know that God is going to watch and protect my every step today, tomorrow and forever.

Wait a minute. I thought I had covered all the hills, but look over there. The dark fog is lifting.

I walk slowly to the foot of this ominous hill, and I find three crosses. But everyone’s attention is glued on the centre cross. I see a sign, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”.

And look at the people gathered here. I remember these guys from Sunday school.

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There’s Peter – boy, he sure doesn’t deserve to be here. I remember how he denied even knowing Jesus; then like a scared rabbit he took off.

Funny how this stuff all comes back to me. Didn’t seem to mean too much then, but maybe it means more than I thought. And look how Jesus is accepting these guys. Well, if he can take them in, why not me? I’m no worse than they were.

“Anyone who does not enter the kingdom of God just like a little child cannot get in?”

God, you mean it’s just that simple – the simple uncomplicated faith of a youngster?

I just take you at your Word and leave the driving to you? Lord, I’ve been chasing all over these hills and I haven’t found my answer – I just keep running. But I never did really see this last hill. I never did know what was beyond all those other hills. Oh, God, I do believe, I want to believe, and please help the part of me that doesn’t want to believe.

Fellow pilgrims, this is our song: “I lift up my eyes to the hills.

Where does my help come from?

Help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.”

Alleluia! Amen.

Rev Joan Clark Transitional priest in charge Anglican Parish of Ashburton

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Hellish heatwave in Middle East The Middle East is currently facing one of its most extreme heatwaves ever, with experts warning temperatures are getting almost too hot for human survival.

Climate scientists say it’s evidence that the planet needs to cut down on its greenhouse gas emissions, especially given heatwaves can be fatal.

How hot is the Middle East right now?

Over the past month, temperatures in Kuwait and Iraq have soared to 54 degrees, while Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, has seen temperatures of 43C and higher nearly every day for almost two straight months.

Meanwhile, parts of the United Arab Emirates and Iran were dealt a historic heat index of 60C. To put that into perspective, the hottest single day on record for the whole of Australia was 40.3C, back in January 2013.

Zainab Guman, a 26-yearold university student from Basra, told The Washington Post it felt like “walking into a fire” when she left the house.

“It’s like everything on your body - your skin, your eyes, your nose - starts to burn,” she said.

For the past couple of months, she’s barely left home.

A study by climate scientists released last year predicted that extreme heatwaves could push the Gulf in the Middle East beyond human endurance if nothing was done

Temperatures of over 60°C have been felt in Iran as the Middle East suffers an extreme heatwave.

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about climate change.

It predicted that extreme heatwaves, more intense than anything the planet has ever felt will kick in just after 2070, and our most scorching days of today would be near-daily by that stage.

According to a UN report, the combined population of 22 Arab countries is expected to grow from 400 million to about 600 million by 2050.

By that time, the world’s overall population is expected to reach 9.7 billion.

Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a research fellow at UNSW’s Climate Change Research Centre, told news.com.au that many people don’t seem to realise that heatwaves have killed more people than any

other natural disaster, so much so that it’s been dubbed the “silent killer”.

She said that, while the Middle East is no stranger to heatwaves historically, the key fact here is that they’re getting increasingly more frequent.

“People in the Middle East are used to the heat,” she said. “It’s part of their culture.

They’ve experienced high temperatures before. But it’s getting more frequent, and people of a certain status are going to suffer a lot more.

“If you work outside in these conditions you will not survive.

These are the people who can’t afford clean drinking water or to sit in the shade - they’re typically of a lower socio-economic status.”

Earlier this year, temperatures in parts of India soared to 51C, the highest in the country’s recorded history.

The impact of the heat was devastating, and increasingly deadly, particularly for the hundreds of people dying of starvation due to withering crops in their remote fields.

Pakistan had a similar crisis midway through last year, when temperatures of up to 45C struck various provinces in the country. A Pakistani health official said the death toll from the heatwave alone hit roughly 700.

It’s not just the death toll that’s a concern. Heatwaves can have a significant impact on a country’s overall ability to function.

An Iraqi economist said the country’s gross domestic product had contracted between 10 and 20 per cent during the heatwave.

“There’s a similar relationship between heat and a country’s economy in Australia,” said Dr Kirkpatrick.

She also warned that over time, this could eventually lead to a mass migration, which would hold implications for the rest of the world.

So, what should government to do? Dr Kirkpatrick said, quite simply, that while governments can help people be more adaptive to changing weather patterns in the shortterm, the only real solution was taking effort to reduce carbon emissions.

-News.com.au

■ INDIA

■ UNITED STATES

Flying in India a risk

Missing toddler’s stepfather arrested

It’s getting increasingly unsafe to fly in the world’s fastest growing aviation market.

Air safety incidents that prompted regulatory action reached 280 this year, beating the 275 all of last year, data from India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation showed.

At this pace, the number may rise to more than 400 by the end of 2016, making it the worst in three years for aviation safety, according to New Delhi-based DGCA. The DGCA is cracking down on safety violations by airlines in recent months, including a slew of offenses such as aircraft getting too close to each other, overworked staff and inebriated pilots and crew.

In the latest incident, the DGCA ordered Jet Airways India and state-owned Air India to file police complaints against pilots who were found drunk, seeking legal action for the first time ever in such cases.

The Indian aviation market, which saw air traffic grow 20 per cent last year, is struggling to find enough officials to ensure safety of flights.

That was one of the reasons why the US Federal Aviation Administration downgraded India’s

aviation safety rating in 2014, before restoring it a year later following some corrective measures.

This month, two commandeers from Jet Airways and Air India were found drunk minutes after they both piloted international flights, although without any incident.

The regulator also asked Air India to initiate police action against a crew member for the same offense. If found guilty by a court, all three of them face a year in jail, or a fine or both. Their licenses remain suspended for four years.

Incidents at Jet Airways jumped to 55 in the first half of this year, compared with 78 in 2015, while Air India saw incidents fall to 26 from 62 last year, the data showed.

Market leader Indigo had 25 incidents, compared with 51.

Indonesia, an aviation market with one of the world’s worst safety records, said it had its air-safety rating upgraded by the US Federal Aviation Administration following an assessment in March. In 2007, the FAA had cut the country’s rating to Category 2, citing serious concerns about the local civil-aviation regulator’s safety oversight and operational control systems.

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Twenty-two hours before William Joseph McCullen was arrested Monday, his breathless voice on the phone sounded panicked.

“My oldest daughter, I was taking a nap, I just woke up and I can’t find her anywhere,” he said.

For nearly 19 hours, law enforcement in helicopters and hundreds of community members with flashlights searched for the missing toddler.

They combed the woods near the family home in Bessemer City hoping for signs of the girl.

Amid the desperate search, McCullen told a WSOC-TV reporter it all felt “like a bad dream.”

On Monday morning, Gaston County Police shut down the search.

Jordyn’s body had been found about 500 yards from her home. It was wrapped in a sheet.

Two hours later, McCullen was arrested in connection with the child’s death.

At a news conference later that day, Gaston County Police Chief Joseph Ramey said McCullen faces a charge of first-degree murder. The chief would not say precisely where Jordyn was found, whether her body was buried or how she died. He did, however, say that authorities think she’d been dead for 24 to 36 hours - and that her body had been moved to the woods after she was killed.

Ramey would not reveal what evidence led authorities to arrest McCullen, only that there is information they believe proves “he is the cause of her death.”

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family in this difficult time,” Ramey said.

Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil for the slain girl, known in her neighbourhood as happy and playful.

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Charities get settlement Amber Heard is donating her entire divorce settlement to charity. The actress will receive US$7 million (NZ$9.6m) from estranged husband Johnny Depp who she split from in May after indicating earlier this week she would be donating a portion of the money to good causes.

It has now emerged she will split it between a children’s hospital and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to help victims of domestic violence. Amber said in a statement: “As described in the divorce settlement, money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in doing so, hopefully help those less able to defend themselves.

Metallica release album Metal fans prepare thy selves. Metallica are unleashing a new record in November. And it’s a monster. Titled Hardwired... To Self-Destruct the double album contains 12 new songs and runs almost 80 minutes - which must come pretty close to exceeding all daily recommended Metallica intakes - and will be available on CD, digital download and vinyl formats. But for the hardwired hardcore hanging out for more Metallica there’s also a ‘deluxe edition’, which adds a third disc of bonus songs and ‘riff origins’ tracks. The album was produced

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Trump statue protest A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with bulging belly and elaborate yellow hair, caused laughter and merriment in New York today until it was demolished by park wardens. Hands clasped across ample belly the sculpture was unveiled in Union Square, gazing out across a busy street with an engraved plaque saying The Emperor Has No Balls, witnesses said. Park wardens ripped the statue from its base. “NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small,” a spokesperson said in an email.

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Burkini bans hypocrisy?

Male officials are dictating what women can wear on French beaches and people across a wide swath of French society say that’s a good thing.

Decrees issued by several mayors this month ban the body-encompassing burkini swimsuit, which France’s secular political class says subjugates women and is incompatible with a country whose motto celebrates equality and freedom.

To many Muslim women, that’s pure hypocrisy. They see the burkini bans themselves as sexist, not to mention racist and a reactionary backlash to terrorism fears.

Even though it’s only worn by a tiny minority, the burkini has prompted a national discussion about Islam and women’s bodies. At least five towns have banned them this summer, and others are threatening to follow suit.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the swimsuit reflects a world view based on the enslavement of women. In an interview in the La Provence newspaper, he said the belief that women are impure and that they should therefore be totally covered was part of an archaic vision.

Much of the French political class, from the left to the far right, agrees including the government’s proudly feminist women’s affairs minister.

“The burkini is a particular vision of the place of the woman,” Laurence Rossignol said on Europe-1 radio.

But Rim-Sarah Alouane, a religious freedom expert at the University of Toulouse, says the

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In brief Kurdish militants strike A car bomb in Turkey’s eastern province of Elazig has killed three police officers and wounded 217 people, including 85 police, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, adding that Kurdish militants were responsible for the attack. The bombing was the second in less than 24 hours targeting police in eastern Turkey. Three people were killed and 40 were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a police station in the eastern province of Van on earlier in the week.

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Pistorius appeal

A muslim woman goes into the sea wearing a burkini, in Marseille, southern France. anti-burkini brigade is relying on outdated ideas about Islam to stigmatise France’s No. 2 religion.

“Women’s rights imply the right for a woman to cover up,” said Alouane, a Muslim who was born and raised in France.

“What is more French than sitting on a beach in the sand? We are telling Muslims that no matter what you do ... we don’t want you here,” she said.

Local mayors cite multiple reasons for their burkini bans, including the difficulty of rescuing bathers in copious clothing.

But their main justification is security concerns after a season marred by deadly Islamic extremist attacks.

Critics warn the bans could enflame religious and social tensions in a country already on

edge.

Before the brouhaha over burkinis, French laws banning face-covering veils in public and headscarves in schools also based on view that they violate French secularism and oppress women had alienated many among France’s five million Muslims.

Violent extremists also have cited the earlier bans as one of their justifications for targeting France.

The bans, which carry small fines for violators, reflect an unusually fierce attachment to secularism in this country, and have perplexed people outside France.

“Politicians talk constantly about integration and inclusion, and then proceed to kick out to the fringes the very women they

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claim are oppressed and excluded from society,” Remona Aly of the Exploring Islam Foundation wrote in The Guardian this week.

In other European countries, burkinis are rare, though some public pools restrict them, like baggy men’s swim trunks, for reasons of hygiene.

France’s prime minister said that while he supports local bans he is not in favour of a national law against burkinis.

Valls called for calm, especially in Corsica, where a clash broke out over the weekend between local residents and bathers of North African origin.

Some reports said it started because a young man took a photo of a woman in a burkini, though the exact circumstances of the incident remain unclear.

-AP

Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers will argue that “enough is enough” when his case resumes in court on August 26 to hear an appeal by state prosecutors against his six-year murder sentence on the grounds it is too lenient. In court papers filed by Pistorius’ lawyers on August 11 and seen by Reuters on Thursday, his defence team says it will argue “a continuation of this matter is inimical to the interests of justice, patently unfair and that enough is enough.” The track star was treated in hospital for wrist injuries earlier this month, but prison officials said Pistorius denied trying to kill himself.

-Reuters

Taser death probe Two police officers in England are under criminal investigation following the death of former Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson after he was tasered.

The 48-year-old died 90 minutes after a West Mercia officer shot him with the stun gun in the street where he grew up in Telford, Shropshire, in the early hours of Monday. The retired striker’s death is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which said it would carry out “a full and thorough” inquiry.

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Zika at Miami Beach

■■AUSTRALIA

Australia urged to triple refugee intake Australia needs to lift its game and triple the refugee intake gradually to 42,000 by 2020.

That’s the verdict of aid agency Oxfam which has crunched the numbers and compared Australia’s efforts to relieve the global humanitarian migration crisis with that of other nations.

Australia’s refugee intake is 13,750 this financial year, rising to 18,750 in two years.

There is also a one-off special intake of 12,000 Syrians even though fewer than 2000 actually arrived.

Oxfam chief executive Helen Szoke says Australia is the 12th richest nation on earth, yet hosted a shameful 0.2 per cent of the world’s refugees and asylum seekers.

In comparison, the US takes 2.4 per cent of the world’s asylum seekers and refugees, China 1.3

per cent, Germany 3 per cent, France 1.4 per cent, the UK and Canada 0.7 per cent “We’re asking Australia to take 42,000 people, which is 0.18 per cent of our population,” Dr Szoke said.

The Oxfam analysis found the world’s top six wealthiest countries, which had almost twothirds of global gross domestic product, hosted less than 9 per cent of the world’s refugees.

This compared to the six countries and territories hosting half the world’s refugees and asylum seekers which represented just 1.9 per cent of global GDP. Dr Szoke also called for Australian aid to countries like Jordan and Lebanon, which are doing the heavy lifting on Syrian refugees, to be boosted because they are stretched beyond their limits.

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Envoy bemoans lack of Syrian aid No aid convoys have reached civilians trapped in besieged areas of Syria this month and a humanitarian task force has been suspended as a warning to big powers to double down on securing a ceasefire, the UN peace envoy for Syria said.

Staffan de Mistura said a 48hour pause in fighting in the northern city of Aleppo was the main goal for a meeting later in the day of major and regional powers tasked with resurrecting a collapsed cessation of hostilities accord.

“I again insist on behalf of the Secretary General of the UN and of all the Syrian people (on having) a 48-hour pause in Aleppo to start with,” he told reporters in Geneva.

Aleppo, split into rebel and government controlled areas,has become the focus of fighting in Syria’s five-year-old civil war. Up to two million people on both

sides lack access to clean water after infrastructure was damaged in bombing.

Escalating violence in what was Syria’s most populous prewar city and biggest commercial hub has caused Geneva peace talks overseen by De Mistura to break down.

The Syrian opposition has said it wants to see a credible pause in violence there, as well as improved humanitarian aid access, before peace talks can resume.

Some 590,200 people are now living in besieged areas of Syria, according to UN figures.

Aid convoys have ground to a halt during the month of August, and the only supplies being delivered are by air drops to Deir alZor, the government-controlled city of 200,000 in the east under siege by Islamic State, de Mistura said.

Friday was annual World Humanitarian Day, he noted.

-AP

The Zika virus has been identified in Miami Beach, one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, the Miami Herald reports, citing people familiar with discussions between state and local health officials. The discovery opens a new front in the battle against the mosquito-borne virus, which has spread to more than 50 countries and territories since an outbreak began last year in Brazil. Miami Beach public works officials and code compliance officers spread out to inspect neighbourhoods for mosquito breeding sites. As of August 17 there were 33 cases of non-travel-related infections in the state.

-AP

Great apes great tunes His kind may be better known for primal calls than soft jazz, but one orangutan at Adelaide Zoo has composed a song proving he can make a piano sing. The zoo has released a single made by orangutan Kluet, with help from his keeper and a phone app that lets users play a range of musical instruments. The jazz-like tune, Give me a Klue, is being sold on the zoo’s website to mark World Orangutan Day and raise money for their three sumatran orangutans.

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New life for Somerset Bar The Somerset Bar is back.

The back room at the old Somerset Hotel was legendary on Ashburton’s hospitality scene and has been reborn as part of The Somerset Grocer café.

Owners Nicky and Mark Milmine said the new bar would be open until 10pm and operate on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

It was designed to be a quiet

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+0.14%

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19.78

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+1.07%

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4,802.50

+47.0

+0.99%

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and relaxed spot offering good wine, boutique beer and cocktails, along with platters and full meal options.

The bar area has been stripped out, painted, wallpapered and refurnished over a short time-frame this week and was packed on Thursday night as it was opened to the public and invited guests for the first time.

Market returns positive Equity markets Reviewing equity market returns over the quarter, the fall-out from the UK Brexit referendum showed up in NZD returns for European and UK equities. Market returns were generally positive, but the relative strength in the NZD resulted in more muted underlying returns in New Zealand currency.

Greater uncertainty and lowered economic growth outlooks were largely ignored by equity markets, with the sell-off following the Brexit vote short-lived.

New Zealand equities delivered the strongest return, driven by larger capitalisation companies.

Mid-capitalisation companies also performed well, but delivered returns around half those of the larger caps.

This suggests foreign fund flows continue to drive the market, although Australians seem to have become marginal buyers in recent months.

Australian equities performed relatively strongly during the quarter, with all sectors of the market, except Energy, posting positive returns.

Defensive sectors including Utilities and Healthcare were the stand-outs, along with Consumer Discretionary companies.

However, with the Australian Federal Election, the prospect of little reform and a deteriorating fiscal deficit, meant that the AUD weakened, reducing NZD returns.

US equities were strongly supported by the still expansionary economic outlook.

However, the USD weakened toward the end of the period, as June quarter economic growth came in lower than anticipated.

Fixed interest markets “Risk-off” post the unexpected support for Brexit meant bond yields fell again over the quarter, with “lower for longer” interest rates again reinforced. Long-term bond yields are now more than 100 basis points lower than a year ago and at record lows.

The change in outlook for glob-

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al interest rates has also changed expectations toward the direction of New Zealand’s monetary policy settings.

Expectations have shifted firmly towards the Reserve Bank of New Zealand easing monetary policy.

The strength in the NZD further reinforces this prospect.

Even before the uncertainty created by the UK referendum, the negative interest rate policies in Europe and Japan had seen unusual investment behaviour and enabled the Republic of Ireland to issue a 100-year bond at an interest rate of 2.35 per cent (now yielding 1.73 per cent to maturity).

Mexico has followed with its own Millennium Bond, while the

Spanish have been able to issue 50-year bonds despite Spain defaulting on its obligations, on average every 26 years.

The European Central Bank’s expansion of its mandate to allow the purchase of corporate debt (as part of their securities purchase plan) caused corporate bond rates to fall.

In New Zealand, this has prompted an increase in corporate issuance, but means corporate credit spreads have not enjoyed the same recovery as internationally.

Accordingly corporate bond returns have lagged those of government stock. Issuance however has allowed investors to be more selective, improving the overall quality of portfolios.

Selwyn Sloan and Michael Coleman are investment advisors with Forsyth Barr Limited in Ashburton and are authorised financial advisers. This column is general in nature and should not be regarded as personalised investment advice.

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

FOR EVERYTHING RV

BUILD. REFURB. REPAIR.

• Solar panels & batteries • LED lighting • Satellite dish & TV’s • Design & build consultation • Plumbing & tanks • Joinery - build, refurb, repair • Insurance work • Seat & seat belt installs • Gas & diesel heaters

New Pure Water System

• Certification: gas, electrical & self-containment • Camec parts & accessories shop • TV & audio • Joinery • Upholstery • Electrical & lighting • Plumbing • Engineering

Enjoy spot and streak free windows!

Book your high windows in today

Contact Lifestyle Motorhomes for all your RV requirements. All work is carried out on site by our own qualified tradesmen.

199 Dobson St, Ashburton 0800 287 284 I www.life-style.co.nz

“we clean to a standard, not a price”

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

OCAL 100% L

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

03 307 2656 | www.ashburtoncleaning.co.nz

For all your Scaffolding and Edge Protection Requirements

For all your S

Locally owned and operated

For all your Scaffolding and Edge Protection Requirements Locally owned and operated

Contact Scott 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126 | elitescaffolding@clear.net.nz

WE OFFER: • H Frames • Aluminium Scaffold Towers • Full Edge Protection • Tube & Clip Scaffolds • Proping

Contact Mark 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126| admin@elitescaffolding.net.nz

Now Stockist of BioGuard products Summer’s nearly here.

Call us for all your servicing needs for pools, pumps, spas and accessories.

Phone • 03 308 2245 27 Gordons Road, Ashburton www.poolandpumpworld.co.nz

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Contact Scott 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126 WE OFFER: | elitescaffolding@clear.net.nz Tube & clip scaffolds H frames Propping Aluminium scaffold towers Safety nets Full edge protection

WE OFFER: • H Frames • Aluminium Sca • Full Edge Prote • Tube & Clip Sca • Proping

Contact Mark 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126| admin@elitescaffolding.net.nz

4WD Diesel Diesel &&Electric 4WD ElectricScissorlifts Scissorlifts

Rough and electric lifts available 403 West Street, Rough terrain terrain and

403 West7740 Street, Rough terrain and PO Box 60, Ashburton Slab lifts available PO Box 60, Ashburton 7740 Onavailable site collection or delivery available Slab lifts Phone: 03 308 8155

On site collection or

Phone: 03529 308909 8155 Mobile: 0273

On site403 collection Mobile: 0273 529 909 Email: sales@nee.kiwi.nz Westor Street delivery available Email: sales@nee.kiwi.nz deliveryPO available Box 60, Ashburton 7740 Phone: 03 308 8155 Mobile: 0273 529 909 Email: sales@nee.kiwi.nz

Do you feel secure in your home?

To advertise here contact Deidre on 021 272 2399 or 307 7927

Security doors made for your house.

For a free measure and quote phone 308 2966 Custom made for your home PHONE 308 2966 51 Robinson Street, Ashburton www.lysaghtltd.co.nz

Deidre Nuttall

Happy Birthday

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

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

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

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Lifestyle

CONNECTIONS

Your Rieker Destination Store

WINTER SAL E NOW ON

FATHERS’ DAY ALERT

4th September

EASY CARE

www.comfyshoes.co.nz 49 Main Road, Pleasant Point Phone: 03 614 8750 - A/H 0508 RIEKER 743537

Hours: 11am - 4pm Tuesday to Saturday

East Street, Ashburton - Phone 308 5771 - www.sparrows.co.nz

Open Mon - Thu 9am - 5.30pm Fri 9am - 6pm Sat 10am – 2pm Sun 11am – 2pm

Plants for all projects.

- Landscaping Plants - Ornamental & Specimen trees - Native plants for all purposes - Hedging plants & Topiaries - Fruit & Nut plants.

SOUTHERN

WOODS PLANT NURSERY

1133 Main South Road - Call 0800 800 352 - www.southernwoods.co.nz

House of Hearing

Experience. The Difference

100% NZ Owned & Operated

Daily Events Saturday 9.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Community Garden, Thomson Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY HIRE. Open for toy hire. Methodist Church Baring Square.

10am

Sunday 8am ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS. Open to all level of swimmers over 20 years followed by coffee and chat. E A Stadium. E A Stadium.

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

9am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street, Allenton.

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

Monday 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road.

9.45am PLAINS LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting and birthday

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

Main Street, Methven.

10am - 11.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Pre-loved clothing sale, bargains and cuppa. St Andrew’s Church Hall, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street.

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

10am - 1pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

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

1pm MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. Registration at 1pm, race start 1.30pm sharp. Fords Road, Tinwald.

5pm ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS. Open to all level of swimmers over 20 years followed by coffee and chat. E A Stadium.

6pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

Street, Tinwald.

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

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

Baring Square East.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Holy Communion, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street 10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

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

11am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Combined service at St James, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

11am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Combined service at St James, Thomson Street, Tinwald.(note not service at St Paul’s).

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

2pm - 5pm MID CANTERBURY COUNTRY MUSIC

CLUB. All welcome, no cover charge, M.S.A. Havelock Street.

4.30pm - 6.30pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Youth group meet in the youth room.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

5pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Pot Luck Tea, Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

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

luncheon. Meet at Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

12noon - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH.

Free lunch every Monday. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets, entry off Cass Street.

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

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY

HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in the hall.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC PARISH CENTRE.

Euchre, all welcome. (not public holidays). Cnr Burnett and Winter Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Monthly meeting followed by A.G.M. Sports pavillion, Walnut Avenue.

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SITUATIONS VACANT

Trainee Funeral Director Paterson’s Funeral Services has been caring for the needs of Canterbury families for over 35 years. Now in association with Lamb & Hayward, the funeral home remains Canterbury owned, and locally operated.

We are currently looking to employ a Trainee Funeral Director. This is a full-time position that offers varied duties, which include driving, general mortuary and crematorium duties, manufacturing of caskets, assisting at funeral services including some audio visual responsibilities.

If you fit the above criteria please send your application including resume to:

Saturday (September 2016 -February 2017)

ASHBURTON COLLEGE ‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Applications close 3:30pm, Tuesday 23 August 2016.

Enquiries/applications to: Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator, Ashburton College, P O Box 204, Ashburton 7740 Email: ts@ashcoll.school.nz Phone: 308 4193, ext 812; 027 247 8003.

ASHBURTON COLLEGE ‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER

Thursday, Friday, Saturday (September 2016 -January 2017)

These positions are to cover a busy seasonal period in our Garden departments and Outdoor Furniture department.

Applications close Friday, September 2.

To assist in Mainstream Classes – two people required.

These are fixed-term positions through until the end of the 2016 College year (Wednesday 14 December).

Commencement as soon as is practicable but start date negotiable with successful applicants.

Hours: 10 hours per week, Monday to Friday, two concurrent hours/day.

Employment is under the Support Staff in Schools’ Collective Agreement, Grade B. Initial payment step commensurate with experience.

Outdoor Furniture – 24 hours Power Garden – 8 hours

The Funeral Manager Barry@patersonsfunerals.co.nz

Japanese Chef wanted in a Japanese restaurant in Ashburton.

Must have 5 years + experience cooking Japanese food in a Japanese restaurant.

Please send C.V. to miyabiashburton@ hotmail.com

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline 0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

Service Engineer

Power Garden – 32 hours Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday (September 2016 -January 2017)

The suitable applicants will need the following attributes: • Excellent customer service • Reliable • Fit and able to lift • Have a passion for Gardening or the Outdoors • Ability to work unsupervised.

If you think you have the necessary skills for either of these positions, please send a covering letter stating which position you are applying for with your c.v. to: HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Lyn Church, Human Resources Manager, Mitre 10 MEGA Ashburton, P.O. Box 35, Ashburton 7740 Applications close on Monday, August 22, 2016.

Dairy Farm Assistant This is a full time position working in a Barn system milking all year round.

• 12 months Dairy experience preferred • Barn experience an advantage • Agricultural qualification will be an advantage • Must be able to work evenings • Full driver’s license/clean criminal history

Here at Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Ltd we believe the success of our company depends on the strength of our team! We work hard, have fun and challenge one another to push beyond what’s expected!

We require a Service Engineer to be based at our new workshop.

You will be responsible for day to day repairs and preventative maintenance on a large range of earthmoving and construction equipment.

This role Includes but is not limited to: • Daily maintenance of all equipment and machinery including servicing • Ensuring fleet is maintained to a reliable and competent standard at all times • Field service will be required • After hours and emergency repairs may be required from time to time, • All paperwork is recorded and kept up to date • General engineering Experience with various earthmoving machinery would be an advantage as Stuart Tarbotton Contractors fleet comprises of 1.5ton – 30ton excavators, bulldozers, graders, rollers, Moxy dump trucks, loaders, trucks and trailers, scrapers, screening plant and crusher.

The successful applicant must have • Experience with heavy earthmoving machinery • Good time management • The ability to work unsupervised • Demonstrate excellent communication skills • Be self-motivated and have a positive attitude • Full car licence • Ht licence class 5 preferred For further details, please contact: Paul on 027 433 2298 or email workshop@tarbotton.co.nz.

All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Guardian Situations Vacant

To apply please send covering letter and C.V. to: dairy@quigleyfarming.co.nz

To work in the College’s Student Learning Support Unit.

This is a part-time (5 hours/one day a week) position, initially fixed-term to the end of the College 2016 year (14 December).

Wednesdays preferred, but day may be negotiated with successful applicant.

Ability to teach all subjects at Levels 1-3 of the New Zealand Curriculum required.

Commencement as soon as is practicable.

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Applications close 3:30pm Monday 29 August 2016.

Enquiries/applications to: Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator, Phone: (03) 308 4193, ext 812.

Cell: 027 247 8003.

Email: ts@ashcoll.school.nz, Ashburton College, P O Box 204, Ashburton.

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Building –

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Three Seasonal positions Fixed Term

This role is ideally suited to those who are part of the Mid Canterbury community, with a high degree of empathy, who are ethical, trustworthy, able to work rostered hours including weekends and public holidays. You must have NZ residency and hold a full clean drivers licence.

Learning Support Assistant Positions (two)

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PUBLIC NOTICES

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

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

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

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FURTHER NOTICE OF ELECTION Nominations have now closed for the 2016 triennial local authority elections. Below are details of the confirmed candidates for elections within the Ashburton District Council area.

Where elections are required they will be conducted by postal voting on Saturday 8 October 2016. Voting will open on Friday 16 September 2016 and will close at 12 noon on Saturday 8 October 2016.

Ashburton District Council

Ashburton Licensing Trust

(First Past the Post Electoral System)

(First Past the Post Electoral System)

Mayor (1 required)

Members – Elected at Large (6 required)

FAVEL MCKAY

BREAKWELL GOURDIE HARNETT HICKMAN JOHNS LISCHNER MASLIN PATERSON ROBERTSON WALLIS WATSON

Ashburton Ward (7 required) BARTLETT BELL BRAAM BROWN ELLIS FAVEL GATES HIBBERT PRICE RAWLINSON SAMPSON SHAH URQUHART

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RURAL TRADING POST

..GRAZING WANTED..

Good Quality required GrazingGrazing wanted for 300late In Calf Heifers until November From / mid for 2early year oldFebruary Bulls.

Donna Angus Marion Thelma Leen Neil Russell Donna Edward Marie Selwyn Diane Richard Ash Alasdair

(Committed to Ashburton - NZ)

(Independent)

Anthony Morton (Working for community putting people first)

Until 1st May 2016.

Please Contact Contact Dave Marsh 4929555 0875 Phil Cushnie–- 027 027 439

Electoral Officer – Ashburton Licensing Trust PO Box 217, Ashburton 7740 ashburtondc@electionz.com

Eastern Ward (3 required) HARRISON LOVETT MALCOLM WILSON

Kieran Carl Robert David John Carol Jim Warren Roger John Chris Brad Fay

Peter Keith Lynette Marjorie Mark Stuart

0800 666 920

www.ashtrust.co.nz

Western Ward (2 required)

www.carrfields.co.nz www.carrfields.co.nz

DICKSON MCMILLAN REVELEY

REAL ESTATE

Tammy Liz Peter

Methven Community Board (5 required)

Cameron Courts Retirement Villas

Two 1 bedroom Villas NOW AVAILABLE Affordable in today’s market. Price range from $125k-$155k

CURRIE DICKSON GILPIN LOCK MCALPINE MCLAUGHLIN SMITH

Russell Tammy Hamish Sarah Sonia Dan Ron

(Committed to Community)

For more information, please contact

Cameron Courts 308 8534 or Ashwin Mani 021 527 433

SPORTING NOTICES

WINTER SPORTS EXCHANGE WAITAKI BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL Wednesday 24 August 2016, in Timaru Timaru/Waitaki Day Assembly, Hogben Hall 8.45am Golf Gleniti Golf Course 9.00am Badminton TBHS Gym 9.30am Squash TBHS Squash Court 9.30am Trapshooting Timaru Airport 9.30am Chess TBHS Library 11.00am Archery TBHS Hogben Hall 11.00am Smallbore Shooting Craigie Avenue 11.00am Debating Memorial Library 11.30am Basketball Senior TBHS Gym 11.00am Basketball Junior TBHS Gym 12.15pm Hockey 1st XI Timaru Turf 12.30pm Football 1st XI School Park 12.30pm Football Junior School Park 11.00am Rugby 1st XV Alpine Energy 1.30pm Rugby 2nd XV Alpine Energy 11.30am Rugby U16 School Park 11.00am Rugby Colts School Park 12.00pm Rugby 14A School Park 11.00am

The traditional Old Boys’ Waitaki Day Function will be held in the Memorial Library from 3.30pm

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Anthony Morton Electoral Officer – Ashburton District Council PO Box 94, Ashburton 7740 ashburtondc@electionz.com 0800 666 920 www.adc.govt.nz

Enrolment and Special Voting Arrangements Ashburton District Council residents who are not listed on the final electoral roll for these elections can enrol by calling 0800 ENROL NOW (0800 36 76 56), visiting the Elections website (www.elections.org.nz) or obtaining enrolment forms at postshops Ashburton Public Library or Ashburton District Council offices up to 4pm on Friday 7 October 2016.

Ashburton District Council ratepayers who are not listed on the final electoral roll for these elections can obtain enrolment forms at Ashburton District Council libraries or offices up to 4pm on Friday 7 October 2016.

Special voting facilities for the above elections will be available at the Ashburton District Council Office, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton during normal office hours between Friday 16 September and Friday 7 October 2016 and from 9am to 12 noon on Saturday 8 October 2016.

Birthday Greetings Henry Hanrahan Happy 9th Birthday Henry for tomorrow. Have an awesome day! Best wishes and love from Mum, Dad, Scarlett, Freddie and Fergus. xo Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

YOUR LOCAL

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

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PLANTS, PRODUCE

MEETINGS, EVENTS

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Pumpkin .99c ea Australian strawberries (punnet) $3.99 ea Oranges 1.5kg $1.99 bag Nadine 2.5kg $2.99 bag Kiwifruit 1kg $1.79 bag

New Zealand vs Australia

Specials available from 16/08 - 22/08

Saturday, August 27, 2016

OPEN 7 DAYS The Green Grocer Fresh Fruit & Vege

WANTED WANTED TO BUY - Gold and silver (licenced dealer).

Old gold, silver, jewellery and coins. Best prices paid. Also stamps, postcards and antique items. Arrange and confidential visit today. Phone 027 254 5444.

TRADES, SERVICES COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

For prompt reliable service contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Phone 308 8989.

30 years local service. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed.

HOME handyman available.

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

RURAL TRADING POST

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

RURAL TRADING POST MEETINGS, EVENTS

YOGA with Annie - Starting August 15. Monday 9.15am mixed level. 6pm beginners / foundation. Wednesday 6pm mixed level. Sinclair Centre.

Phone 027 480 5662 to reserve a place or check out MAIZE grain locally grown facebook page Yoga with P.O.A. Good quality baleage. Annie.

Phone 027 227 3661.

LUCERNE hay. Good quality conventional small bales, shed stored. $13, phone 027 469 7559.

Bledisloe Cup action returns to Westpac Stadium in what could be 2016’s decisive battle for Trans-Tasman rugby supremacy. We will be showing it live on the projectors in the main restaurant.

BALAGE for sale. Peas and qats tube wrapped. Round bales, Approx. 50 available. $65 + GST per bale. Phone WHEEL alignments at great 027 3155 942. prices. Maximise the life CONVENTIONAL hay and of your tyres with an baleage for sale good quality alignment from Neumanns from $8 delivered. Phone 027 Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

390 0002.

ACCOMMODATION

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

$40 per person - 2 course Spit Roast @ 6.30pm

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

DUTY DOCTORS

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

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Sealy Street Medical, Sealy Street, will be the duty doctor for Saturday and Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm both days. Please phone 308 1212 for an appointment from 9.30am.

Phone 302 6064 or book online at www.lakehouselakehood.co.nz info@lakehouselakehood.co.nz

HIRE

FOR SALE

GENERAL hire.

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

All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire.

588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 9.00am 2.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

CB RADION GMETX2600, 40 channels, includes mounting bracket for radio, aerial and coax - $75. Phone 308 3236. SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and FIREWOOD dry old man pine wheel chairs. Call Fred $200. 3.6m³. Phone Shane Reddecliffe at Electric James Firewood. Phone 303 Mobility Ashburton today.

7063.

Phone 308-3602

FOR SALE

FIREWOOD for sale. $170 per cord (3.6 m³). Seasoned dry pine, delivered. Phone or GARAGE sale. Saturday, text Sue 0211 624 102.

August 20. Lane Street from 9am till 1pm. Sign will be put out at 9am. Downsizing. FOR sale - Carpets 2 rooms, Office furniture, assortment of 3.7m x 3.5m and 3.25m x goods and chattels, cot, 3.25m. Mushroom colour. pictures, paintings, tools, Very good condition. Phone agee jars etc.

308 7818.

GARAGE SALES

PHARMACIES

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

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

Paul Annear physiotherapist is available at Body Treats 256 Moore Street on Mondays and Thursdays.

ACC accredited, no referral needed.

Specialist treatment for spinal and sports injuries.

Former All Black physio.

Paul Annear 307 0560

10 Huntingdon Avenue, Lake Hood

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

Physiotherapy

We’ll be roasting some Kangaroo meat while roasting the Wallabies, just cos we can... plus 2 other meats, salad, veg and a buffet of desserts including an all black cheesecake with scorched almond rugby balls ala chef Brent. For catering purposes please book

LIVESTOCK, PETS

MEADOW hay for sale. top of unwanted quality $8 per bale. Phone BUYER animals. Cattle, bobby calves, 027 3155 942. horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call PLANTS, PRODUCE Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

GOOD quality weed, free conventional bales of pea straw. $6 delivered. Phone LET OR LEASE 027 390 0002.

STORAGE units available.

Several sizes up to 3mx11m.

May suit large caravan or MOTORING boat. Phone 0274 491 871.

TOYOTA Corolla, 2004, NZ new, red, 77,000 kms. One owner. $6500.00. Phone 027 HOLIDAY 416 0715 or 308 3705.

BUSINESS NOTICES

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

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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

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

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

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

63 Princes Street All welcome Rev. David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

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10.30am Worship Every Sunday

ANGEL tall, busty, attractive lady. In/out calls. Discreet ACCOMMODATION, and private premises. Call RENTAL anytime 021 0283 1426.

NEW four bedroom house for ASIAN, beautiful, hot, sexy, rent. Ensuite, heat pump, busty DD, playful, friendly. three car garaging. $400 per Really good massage. Phone week. Phone 307 2503.

020 4068 7352.

THREE bedroom near new rental available. Small easy ACCOMMODATION, care section in Tinwald.

Prefer no pets. $350 per BUSINESS RENTAL week. References required.

LARGE four bedroom family Please call 027 334 5688.

WANTED/SELL home with extensive gardens.

Seven kilometres from Mt Somers. Separate large studio and double garaging.

CASH FLOW hobby, making Long term rent preferred. wooden toys $4.950.00 Must have good references. www.gandatoys.com. Phone $400.00 per week. Phone 03 386 2633.

0274 532 087.

Weekends 1pm - 4pm. Research facilities weekday afternoons.

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ANIMAL SERVICES DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24h/sce.

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

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 POST DELIVERY CENTRES 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES INFORMATION CENTRES COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until Saturday and Sunday doctor and emergency unrestricted visiting.

OMMUNITY ERVICES 2pm. Phone 308-1050. details, please telephone the Methven Medical METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public ART GALLERY EMERGENCY DENTIST Centre, ph 302 8105.

Holidays 10am until 3pm.

327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

If you do not have or cannot contact your Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 provide an accident and emergency service. for the name of the rostered weekend dentist ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY BUS DEPARTURES Except in cases of emergency, persons requiring in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. medical attention must consult their own or the Sundays and Public Holidays.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must ASHBURTON MUSEUM ELPLINE ERVICES Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm. have a general practitioners note of referral.

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890.

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

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact - President 021 1356 969.

VETERINARIANS VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am 12 noon. 24-hour emergencies: Large: Neroli Wall, Nathan Back, Georgie Vollus. Small: Ref Vetlife.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Juan Gray.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Ciprian Verdes, Matt Hart, Rajiv Balbharan.

Small: Havelock Street after hours clinic.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 999, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Lucie Stanley. Full emergency service all weekend.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 Learning on the Land.

0 7am Rural Delivery 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 Saturday Kitchen 10:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 12:55 N NZ On A Plate 0 1:25 Miguel’s Feasts 2pm F The New Zealand Home 3 0 3pm Border Security International PGR 3 0 3:30 Code – 1 PGR 3 0 4pm The Best Of New Zealand With Nick Honeyman Waikato.

4:30 More Tales From Northumberland With Robson Green 5pm The Fishing Show 0 6pm One News 0

6am Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:15 Little Monstar 3 0 6:20 Blaze And The Monster Machines 3 0 6:40 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:45 Paw Patrol 3 0 7:10 The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue!

3 0 7:35 Nexo Knights 3 7:55 Ninjago – Masters Of Spinjitz 0 8:20 Hulk And The Agents Of Smash 0 8:45 Marvel’s Avengers Assemble 0 9:10 F Clarence 0 9:35 Lab Rats 0 10am Fresh 10:30 Family Matters 3 11am Full House 0 11:30 According To Jim 0 Noon Switched At Birth PGR 0 1pm The 100 PGR 0 1:55 Once Upon A Time PGR 0 2:55 Melissa And Joey PGR 0 3:25 Young And Hungry PGR 3:55 The Amazing Race 0 4:55 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:20 M Mulan 1998 Animated Adventure. 0

7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Tonight At The London Palladium 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Tonight At The London Palladium 0 8:30 N Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America PGR 0 9:30 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:35 M Moneyball PGR 2011 Drama.

7pm M Green Lantern PGR 2011 Action.

Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively. 0 9:05 M Monster-In-Law AO 2005 Comedy. When a woman finally finds the man of her dreams, she discovers his mother is the woman of her nightmares.

Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda. 0

1:05 Dallas AO 3 0 2am Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:55 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

11pm M Cop Out AO 2010 Comedy. Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan.

0 12:55 M I Love You Phillip Morris AO Biography Comedy.

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor. 0 2:45 M The Dirty Teacher AO 2013 Mystery Thriller. Josie Davis.

4:15 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across The Adjustment Bureau America, 8:30pm on One 9:05pm on Three

BRAVO 9am Dance Moms 3 9:55 Top Chef 3 10:45 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 3 11:40 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 12:35 Flipping Out 3 1:30 Vanderpump Rules 3 2:30 Made In Chelsea 3 3:35 Dance Moms 3 4:30 Dance Moms 3 5:30 Dance Moms 3 6:30 Top Chef 7:30 Millionaire Matchmaker AO Patti plays Cupid for a divorcée thinking of dating women.

8:30 Southern Charm The crew goes to Shep’s family plantation for a pig hunt followed by a pig roast.

9:30 N Shahs Of Sunset Reza attempts to introduce his new friend Lilly to the group, but things do not go well.

10:30 Kourtney & Kim Take Miami 11:30 Snapped PGR 12:20 Infomercials 3

THE BOX 6am Matador MVLS 6:50 Appalachian Outlaws M 7:40 Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters MVL 8:30 Modern Family PGL 8:55 Branson Taxi PGL 9:20 Counting Cars PG 9:45 CSI MV 10:35 NCIS PGV 11:25 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpsons episodes. 2:25 Branson Taxi PGL 2:50 Law And Order – UK MV 3:40 Elementary MV 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 Modern Family PGL 8pm Branson Taxi PGL 8:30 Counting Cars PG 9pm Tornado Hunters PG 9:30 Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters MVL 10:30 Smackdown MV

SUNDAY

12:15 Raw MV 2:40 Piha Rescue PG 3:05 Piha Rescue PG 3:30 Piha Rescue PG 3:55 Modern Family PGL 4:20 Counting Cars PG 4:45 Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters MVL 5:35 Tornado Hunters PG

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6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Pukana 2 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 Survivor – Brawn v Brains v Beauty 3 11:25 Wild Weather With Richard Hammond (Starting Today) 3 0 12:30 Grand Designs 3 0 1:25 Hidden India 2:30 F The Block NZ – Girls v Boys PGR 3 0 4:05 M Ice Age – Dawn Of The Dinosaurs PGR 3 2009 Animation.

When Sid’s attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their mother to an underground lost world, his friends must rescue him. Voices of Ray Romano, John Leguziamo, Denis Leary. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

MAORI

CHOICE

6am Good Morning Rio The latest updates from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. 0 6:05 Rio Olympics – BMX The women’s and men’s semi-final and finals from the Olympic BMX Centre.

8am Rio Olympics – Women’s Golf 9:30 Rio On Prime 10am Rio – 2016 Olympics 10:30 Rio Olympics – Women’s Hockey 12:30 Rio – 2016 Olympics 1:30 Rio Olympics – Athletics 2:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Northland v Manawatu.

4:30 Rio 2016 (HLS) Highlights from recent events.

5:30 Prime News 6pm Rio 2016 – Kiwi Highlights 0

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Avatar 7:30 Tribe 8am Fitness In The Whare 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Playlist 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am KTK – Next Level 10:30 Whanau Bake Off 3 11am Kawe Korero – Reporters 1:30 The Big Hit 2pm Home Krew 3 2:30 Survive Aotearoa PGR 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 M Coraline PGR 2009 Animated Adventure. When Coraline finds a magical alternate version of her life through a secret door in her new home, she discovers it is a trap. Voice of Dakota Fanning.

7pm M Night At The 8:20 Iti Pounamu 7pm Storage Wars – Texas Museum – Battle Of The 7:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries 8:30 M Shopping AO Smithsonian PGR 3 2009 2013 Drama. Kevin Paulo, PGR 3 Adventure Comedy. Night Julian Dennison, When a member of the has fallen on the Smithsonian Jacek Koman.

Brokenwood Theatre Society Institution in Washington, DC, 10:20 Te Kaea 3 2 collapses and dies on stage, but something is stirring as 10:50 Closedown DSS Mike Shepherd doubts a former night guard is lured the initial assumption that it into his biggest adventure was of natural causes. 0 yet. 0 9:30 Top Gear USA PGR 9:05 M The Adjustment 10:30 Rio 2016 (HLS) Bureau AO 3 2010 Thriller. 0

11:10 Motive AO 3 As Flynn and Vega investigate the drowning death of a socialite, an unlikely person becomes a suspect.

0 12:10 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:30 Rugby – Bledisloe Cup Wallabies v All Blacks.

At Sydney’s ANZ stadium.

1:30 Rio Olympics – Canoe Sprint From Lagoa Stadium.

4am Rio Olympics – Women’s Triathlon On a course consisting of a 1.5km swim, a 40km cycle, and a 10km run.

7pm Pete And Pio’s Kai Safari 7:30 Barter Kings Series focusing on the thriving subculture of cashless trading.

8:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 9:30 Auction Hunters 10pm Fashion Fund

11pm Holmes Makes It Right Midnight Buying The Bayou 12:30 Auction Hunters 1am Bondi Vet 2am The Water Brothers 2:30 Pete And Pio’s Kai Safari 3am Barter Kings 4am Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 5am The Wild West With Ray Mears 5:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

7:15 The Making Of Spectre – Just Getting Started PG 7:30 Sleeping With Other People 16VLSC 2015 Comedy Drama. Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie. 9:10 Everest MC 2015 Drama. Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin. 11:10 The Final Girls MVLS 2015 Comedy.

Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman.

12:40 The Gunman 16VL 2015 Action. Sean Penn, Idris Elba.

2:35 See No Evil 2 16VSC 2014 Horror. Glenn ‘Kane’ Jacobs, Danielle Harris. 4:10 The Forger MVL 2014 Drama. John Travolta, Christopher Plummer.

5:45 Interstellar ML 2014 Sci-fi. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway.

8:30 Mad Max – Fury Road 16VC 2015 Action. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron.

10:35 Sicario 16VC 2015 Crime. Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro.

6:40 Van Wilder 16LSC 2002 Comedy. Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid. 8:15 The Lord Of The Rings – The Return Of The King MV 2003 Fantasy.

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler.

11:30 The Watcher 16VL 2000 Thriller. Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves, James Spader.

1:05 Revolutionary Road 16VLS 2008 Drama.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. 3:05 Whip It MLS 2009 Drama. Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig.

4:55 The Switch MS 2010 Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman.

6:35 Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead 16VLSC 2007 Crime Drama.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney.

8:30 The Other Guys MVLS 2010 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg.

10:20 The Italian Job MVL 2003 Action. Charlize Theron, Mark Wahlberg, Donald Sutherland.

6am Cricket – International (HLS) South Africa v Blackcaps – First Test, Day One. 7am L Golf – US PGA Tour Wyndham Championship – Round Two. From Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina.

11am Darts – Sydney Masters (RPL) Day Two. From Star Event Centre in New South Wales.

2:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Bay of Plenty v Taranaki.

From Tauranga Domain, Tauranga.

4:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Northland v Manawatu.

From Toll Stadium, Whangarei.

5pm Sport TBC 5:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Hawke’s Bay v Wellington.

From McLean Park, Napier.

7:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Canterbury v Auckland.

From AMI Stadium, Christchurch.

9:20 L Rugby – Championship Wallabies v All Blacks.

From ANZ Stadium in Sydney.

6am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Panthers v Tigers.

From Pepper Stadium, Penrith.

6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Super 8s – Wigan Warriors v St Helens.

9:30 Cricket – International (HLS) South Africa v Blackcaps – First Test, Day One. 10:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Northland v Manawatu.

From Toll Stadium, Whangarei.

11am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Panthers v Tigers.

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Motorsport – WRC Germany (HLS) Day One. 12:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Knights U20 v Titans U20.

2:30 L Rugby League – NSW Cup Newcastle v Wyong.

4:30 L Rugby League – NRL Knights v Titans.

7pm L Rugby League – NRL Sea Eagles v Storm.

From Brookvale Oval.

9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Cowboys v Warriors.

From 1300 Smiles Stadium, Townsville.

12:10 Liar, Liar M 1997 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper.

1:35 Directors – Jay Roach PG 2:05 Whip It MLS 2009 Drama.

Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig. 3:55 The Other Guys MVLS 2010 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg.

5:40 Directors – Jay Roach PG

12:25 Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Cowboys v Warriors.

2:25 Rugby – Championship (HLS) Wallabies v All Blacks.

2:55 L Rugby – Championship South Africa v Argentina.

5am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Cowboys v Warriors.

5:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Round 24 – Saturday.

Midnight L Motorcycling – MotoGP Czech Grand Prix.

1am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Saturday.

1:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Saturday.

2am L Rugby League – UK Super League 4am World Rugby 4:20 L Cycling – La Vuelta Stage One.

SUNDAY

12:35 The Wedding Bros 16LS 2008 Comedy.

Dan Fogler, Brendan Sexton III. 1:55 Interstellar ML 2014 Sci-fi. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway. 4:40 The Making Of Spectre – Just Getting Started PG 4:55 The Forger MVL 2014 Drama. John Travolta, Christopher Plummer.

SUNDAY

SKY SPORT 1

6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 Roar Of The Wild 8am The Wild West With Ray Mears 8:30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 9:30 Iron Chef America 10:30 Unplugged Nation 11:30 The Liquidator 1pm Gardeners’ World 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Fashion Fund 4pm Holmes Makes It Right Mike Holmes plans to expand the meaning of ‘make it right’ by sharing stories that are not just about typical renovation rip-offs, but about people moments, too.

5pm Hugh’s Three Good Things 5:30 Bondi Vet 6:30 The Water Brothers

SUNDAY

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

SKY SPORT 2

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DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters PG Win Lose or Joust.

6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 MythBusters PG The Busters of the Lost Myths.

8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:25 Bad Blood M 9:50 Bad Blood M 10:20 Dual Survival M 11:15 Treehouse Masters PG View from Above III. 12:10 Bering Sea Gold PG Teamwork. 1:05 Naked And Afraid M Bad Blood.

2pm Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman PG Is There A Superior Race?

2:55 Mighty Cruise Ships PG 3:50 Moonshiners M Still Regretting. 4:45 Alaskan Bush People Special M 5:40 You Have Been Warned M 6:35 Bering Sea Gold PG Teamwork.

7:30 Treehouse Masters PG Pete Nelson and his team design private escapes for those keen to reconnect with nature and awaken their inner child.

8:30 Diesel Brothers PG 9:30 Moonshiners M Still Regretting.

10:30 Auction Hunters PG Space Cowboys.

SUNDAY

Midnight Dual Survival M 12:55 Murder Comes To Town M 1:50 Dirty Jobs PG 2:45 Auction Hunters 3:15 Treehouse Masters PG 4:10 Dirty Jobs PG 5:05 MythBusters PG

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6am Rural Delivery 0 6:25 The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 6:50 Sunday 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae PGR 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 The Supervet 0 12:55 Four Rooms 1:55 Location, Location, Location 3 0 2:55 Descent From Disaster 0 3:55 Monster Fish 0 4:55 Nature’s Weirdest Events Why would whales and dolphins forge a friendship? How are trees oozing red blood? What is behind alien-like sounds from the sky? In nature, fact is often weirder than fiction. 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm Karena And Kasey’s Kitchen Diplomacy Karena and Kasey are in Vietnam, ending up in the lantern town of Hoi An to prepare for their challenge. 0 8:30 N Hillary PGR Story of the life of Sir Edmund Hillary. 0 9:30 In The Club PGR 0 10:45 Love Child AO 3 0

6am Sooty 3 0 6:20 Little Monstar 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:50 My Little Pony 3 0 7:10 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 0 7:35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles 0 8am What Now 10am Dog With A Blog 0 10:25 The Bachelor PGR 0 Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 0 3pm N Kevin From Work PGR 3:30 M The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants PGR 2005 Drama.

Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel. 0 6pm Black-Ish PGR When Jack disobeys Dre and Rainbow, the children become afraid their parents might go back on their word not to spank them any more. 0 6:30 The Middle 0

11:45 Q+A 3 Local political-affairs programme. 0 12:50 Attitude 3 0 1:20 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:20 Infomercials

11pm M V/H/S AO 2012 Horror Thriller. Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard.

1am Gotham AO 3 0 2:55 The Bogan Hunters AO 3 0 3:45 Infomercials 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Secret Life Of The American Teenager PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

Weekend Murders – Lewis 8:30pm on Prime

BRAVO 6am Hoarders 3 6:45 Hoarders 3 7:35 Flipping Out 3 8:25 Flipping Out 3 9:15 Top Chef 3 10am Millionaire Matchmaker 3 10:50 Below Deck Mediterranean AO 3 11:40 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills 3 12:35 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills 3 1:30 Southern Charm PGR 3 2:30 Shahs Of Sunset 3 3:30 Flipping Out 3 4:30 Flipping Out 3 5:30 Flipping Out 3 6:30 F Top Chef 7:30 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR Patti must set up romantic matches for a tattooed divorce lawyer and a Wall Street worker looking for love in all the wrong places.

8:30 Dance Moms 9:30 Botched 10:30 I Am Cait AO 11:30 Snapped PGR 12:20 Infomercials 3

7pm N You’re Back In The Room New Zealand Jason Gunn hosts a show where four Kiwis play simple games for money while hypnotised. 0 8:30 M Man Of Steel AO 2013 Action. 0

THREE

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6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am UCKG 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 The Hui 0 10am The Nation 0 11:05 The Embassy PGR 3 0 11:35 Both Worlds 0 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend 1pm Jetsprinting – World Championships (HLS) 2pm Motorsport – Aussie V8 Utes (HLS) 3pm Motorsport – Monster Jam 15 4pm Motorsport – MotoGP (HLS) From Austria.

5pm Big Angry Fish The Tuhua reef is known for its big fish, but also for its dangerous waves, and Milan and Nathan face both as they get close to the reef structure.

6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M The Maze Runner PGR 2014 Action Adventure.

Dylan O’Brien, Aml Ameen. 0 9:10 M The Thing AO 3 2011 Sci-fi Horror. At a research site in Antarctica, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between a graduate student and a scientist.

Joel Edgerton, Mary Winstead, Jonathan Walker. 0 11:20 M The Hopes And Dreams Of Gazza Snell AO 3 2009 Drama. An ordinary, infuriating, charming, obsessive, suburban father finally grows up. William McInnes, Robyn Malcolm, Joel Tobeck. 0 12:50 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

6am Buying Alaska 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Love Nature – World’s Wildest City 7:30 Holmes Makes It Right 8:30 Auction Hunters 9am Buying The Bayou 9:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 10am Barter Kings 11am Fashion Fund Noon Pete And Pio’s Kai Safari 12:30 Bondi Vet 1:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 2:30 Sophie Grigson In Thailand 3pm Getaway 3:30 Ben And James Versus The Arabian Desert PGR 4:30 Jamie’s Food Escapes 5:30 Tiny House Nation 6:30 The Living Room

7pm Storage Wars PGR 7:30 Prime Planet – Natural Born Hustlers PGR A look at a world where a friend can be an enemy, and even an innocent looking flower can be lethal.

8:30 Weekend Murders – Lewis PGR 0 10:30 Qi AO

7pm Pukuhohe 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v Cowboys.

8:30 M Love Is All You Need AO 2012 Romantic Comedy. Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind.

10:40 Te Kaea 3 2

7:30 Heritage Rescue A look through New Zealand museums that will be part of a factual television series focused on helping revitalise historical sites and museums.

8:30 Jack Irish – Dead Point AO 10:30 Sophie Grigson In Thailand

11:10 Rio Olympics 2016 (HLS) 12:10 Ready For Rio A look forward to the day’s key events.

12:40 Rio Olympics The latest from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

1am Rio Olympics – Athletics 4am Rio Olympics – Rhythmic Gymnastics

11:10 Koroua 3 George Hori Thrupp, 87, is connected through his mother to Ngai Tuhoe.

On his father’s side, he descends from the Von Thrupp family, who migrated from Germany and worked on sailing ships.

11:40 Closedown

11pm Getaway 11:30 Ben And James Versus The Arabian Desert PGR 12:30 The Liquidator 1am Jamie’s Food Escapes 2am Jack Irish – Dead Point AO 4am Heritage Rescue 5am Tiny House Nation

MOVIES GREATS

6am Piha Rescue PG 6:25 Piha Rescue PG 6:50 Piha Rescue PG 7:15 Border Security M 7:40 Helicopter Heroes – Down Under PG 8:10 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG 10:45 Tornado Hunters PG 11:10 Border Security M 11:35 Helicopter Heroes – Down Under PG 12:05 American Grit PG 1:05 Raw MV 3:50 Main Event MV 4:45 Smackdown MV 6:30 American Grit PG 7:30 Scorpion MV 8:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 10:30 Main Event MV 11:30 Scorpion MV

6:30 Mad Max – Fury Road 16VC 2015 Action. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron.

8:30 Sicario 16VC 2015 Crime.

Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro.

10:30 The Wedding Bros 16LS 2008 Comedy. Dan Fogler, Brendan Sexton III. 11:55 Interstellar ML 2014 Sci-fi. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway.

2:40 The Water Diviner MV 2014 Drama. Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko.

4:30 Let’s Be Cops MLSC 2014 Comedy. Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans jr.

6:15 Furious 7 MV 2015 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

8:30 The Intern ML 2015 Comedy. A retired widower is hired as a senior intern for an online store, where his worldly wisdom sheds new light on the lives of his younger co-workers. Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro.

10:35 Demonic 16VC 2015 Horror. Frank Grillo, Maria Bello.

12:30 Graceland MVLC 1:20 Piha Rescue PG 1:45 Piha Rescue PG 2:10 Piha Rescue PG 2:35 Border Security M 3am Helicopter Heroes – Down Under PG 3:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 4:20 Criminal Minds 16VS 5:10 Scorpion MV

Midnight John Wick 16VL 2014 Action. Keanu Reeves, Adrianne Palicki. 1:40 The Intern ML 2015 Comedy.

Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro. 3:40 Close Up – Harrison Ford PG 4:10 Furious 7 MV 2015 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

6:10 The Switch MS 2010 Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman.

7:55 Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead 16VLSC 2007 Crime Drama.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney.

9:50 The Italian Job MVL 2003 Action. Charlize Theron, Mark Wahlberg, Donald Sutherland.

11:40 Liar, Liar M 1997 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper.

1:05 The Other Guys MVLS 2010 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg.

2:50 Hellboy MV 2004 Action Fantasy. Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair.

4:50 Anchorman – The Legend Of Ron Burgundy MS 2004 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate. 6:25 The Day After Tomorrow M 2004 Action. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal. 8:30 The Three Musketeers MV 2011 Adventure. Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen.

10:20 Role Models 16LS 2008 Comedy. Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd.

7:30pm on Choice

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MONDAY

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CHOICE

10am He Kura He Tangata 2015 Roopu comprised of iwi kaumatua perform kapa haka the way it was before competitions, before judges.

10:30 Aotearoa 3 Documentary series showcasing Aotearoa’s beauty from the sky.

11am Native Affairs 3 11:30 Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 12:30 Play PGR 1:30 Te Araroa – Tales From The Trails 3 2:30 Marae DIY 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Huia Rau Documentary series providing a fresh look at the Maori language.

MOVIES PREMIERE

Heritage Rescue

MAORI

6am Good Morning Rio The latest updates from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. 0 6:05 Rio Olympics – Women’s Mountain Biking 8am Rio Olympics – Women’s Golf Round four of the women’s competition.

9:30 Rio On Prime Daytime coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games continues.

10am Rio Olympics – Rhythmic Gymnastics 12:30 Rio Olympics – Athletics 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Rugby Nation 4:30 Rio Olympics 2016 (HLS) 5:30 Prime News 6pm Rio Olympics – Kiwi Highlights 0

Midnight The Time Traveller’s Wife MV 2009 Drama. 1:45 Hellboy MV 2004 Action Fantasy.

3:45 Biography – Anthony Hopkins PG 4:35 Anchorman – The Legend Of Ron Burgundy MS 2004 Comedy.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Cricket – International (HLS) South Africa v Blackcaps – First Test, Day Two. 7am L Golf – US PGA Tour Wyndham Championship – Round Three.

From Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina.

10am Golf – European PGA Tour Czech Masters – Round Three.

From Albatross Golf Resort in Prague, Czech Republic.

2pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Saturday.

2:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Southland v Otago.

From Rugby Park, Invercargill.

4:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Tasman v Waikato.

6:30 Rugby Nation 7:30 L Cricket – International South Africa v Blackcaps – First test, Day Three.

Coverage of the morning session.

10:05 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Sunday.

10:35 L Cricket – International South Africa v Blackcaps – First test, Day Three.

Coverage of the afternoon session.

MONDAY

3:30 Rugby Nation 4:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Sunday.

5am L Golf – US PGA Tour Wyndham Championship – Round Four.

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

SKY SPORT 2

DISCOVERY

6:30 Darts – World Masters (RPL) Day Three.

From Sydney.

10am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Cowboys v Warriors.

10:30 Rugby – Championship (HLS) South Africa v Argentina.

11am Rugby – Championship (HLS) Wallabies v All Blacks.

11:30 Cycling – La Vuelta (HLS) Stage One. Noon Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Cowboys v Warriors.

12:30 Motorsport – WRC (HLS) Germany – Day Two. 1pm Sunday Footy Show 3pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Round 24 – Saturday.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FUNERAL KEENAN, David Francis FURNISHERS (JACK) –

REDDECLIFFE, Anthony Noel (Tony) – Mona, Judy, Kay and families wish to express their heartfelt thanks to everyone for their support and kindness shown to us by the many visits, floral tributes, cards and baking we received at the time of Tony’s passing. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgement.

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Ann, Lisa and Tony, Tiffany and Wolfe, Chantal, Mea and Zamarleigh would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone for their kindness, support, many visitors, baking, cards and flowers we received at the sad loss of our dearly loved husband, father, granddad, brother, and uncle. Special thanks to Ward One Ashburton Hospital.

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20/8 ALL PUZZLES © THE PUZZLE COMPANY

YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Improvement is in your nature. In fact, the only problem in sight today is that you’ve already improved to such a high level that you’re not sure where to go next.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’re not going to switch jobs today or tomorrow but you can see a dot on that employment horizon, growing as it nears you. Change is coming. Question: If money were no issue, where do you think you might like to fit in?

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Is the moment lush with silence, or awkward with the tension of not knowing what to say? Luckily you don’t have to be the judge.

Time will bring the truest verdict. Shrug it off.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Excitement burbles up from new developments in your personal life. It’s too soon to predict how this relationship will grow, but decide to have a good time no matter what and it will all work in your favour.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Fearlessness is artless and boring. Your fear is beautiful! Claim it. Then use it with grace. Like a gymnast, thrust your heart over the bar and the rest of you will follow.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’re trying to relate to the other person, not outdo the other person. With this in mind, you’ll probably hold back a few of your stories. Anyway, you’ll learn more and love better through listening than you will through talking.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Those trying to help you will do just that – after they put you through some paces. This exchange won’t be so straightforward.

The roads will wind and cross. Be patient.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Remember when you concerned yourself with being good? You’d be hard pressed to say if it made a positive difference.

Anyway, tonight, a little bit of wickedness is the spice that lights up the whole dinner.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It takes quite a lot of energy to control the scene, and the planning will just drag on. Another way is to leave the others on their own and see what they come up with.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You enjoy a spritz of kookiness now and then, and you’ll get a whole luxurious spoonful of it with the interesting cast of characters who surround you today.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Anticipation is a certain brand of joy. What comes before the exciting part will be the real exciting part. There’s no anticipation without that future event. Set it up if you haven’t yet.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You feel the one who wronged you still hasn’t been adequately punished.

It’s a seductive problem, but to focus your energy there would only rob you of this beautiful weekend.

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167 McMurdo Street, Tinwald

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116 Belt Road, Ashburton

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Be In For Spring Here we have a very solid 1960’s brick home. A sound and sturdy property here!

Offering three bedrooms with wardrobes, it’s surprisingly a lot bigger than you think! The separate bathroom, laundry and toilet are also of a good size, a heat pump for heating and large windows for natural heat and light. A large deck to capture the end of the day sun, this is the sort of property and especially its location that will pay off. A fully fenced section is a must have for those with kids and pets.

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11 Manchester Street, Tinwald

73 McMurdo Street, Tinwald

13 Manse Street, Ashburton

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This two bedroomed Bradford - built 1990’s Townhouse sits in among nine other similar owned homes in a relaxed highly sought after “Cox Mews development”. Features, Open plan kitchen, dining and living enjoys both sunshine and access to a pretty garden and private courtyard.

- Good size Kitchen/Dining area

What a great way to start home ownership with this warm inviting home complimented with new carpet and freshly painted, this is a great home.

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- Good Bathroom area

- Lovely open plan living. Good area to the front of the home with a perfect area to entertain on those sunny evenings.

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- 3 bedrooms plus office

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- Separate lounge

- Insulation, heat pump and non compliant yunca

This 2 bedroom unit has just had a fresh coat of paint through it, so handy to the town centre you wont even need to use your car. Investors please have a close look, very low care maintenance.

- Heat Pump, partly doubleglazed & well positioned for Sun

- Double glazing - log fire & heat pump

- Single garage, off street parking, sheds and hobbie room

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