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■ VIRUS IN MID CANTERBURY

Zika cases confirmed in district

By Caitlin Porter

Caitlin.p@theguardian.Co.nz

Two cases of the Zika virus have been confirmed in Mid Canterbury.

Two women living in Ashburton, aged between 30 and 40 years of age, were confirmed as having the virus this month.

A spokeswoman for the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) confirmed the pair contracted the Zika virus after visiting Samoa.

Zika has been declared a worldwide epidemic by the World Health Organisation and Health

Minister Jonathan Coleman said New Zealanders were only at risk if travelling to areas where Zika was prevalent.

Currently the virus has been confirmed in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Africa.

“The threat within New Zealand is virtually non-existent as we do not have the mosquito species Aedes aegypti which was spreading the disease,” he said.

However, Dr Coleman said until more was known about the virus, pregnant women or women planning to become pregnant should

consider delaying travel to areas with the virus.

Reports from several countries indicate an increase in severe fetal birth defects and poor pregnancy outcomes in babies whose mothers were infected with the virus while pregnant.

“Anyone travelling to Zika infected countries should take appropriate precautions to avoid mosquito bites,” he said.

People wanting more information on Zika can call Healthline on 0800 611 116 or visit the Safe Travel Website at www.safetravel. govt.nz or the Ministry of Health

website www.health.govt.nz.

The incubation period is typically three to 12 days and typically symptoms resolve within four to seven days.

If travelling in Zika-infected areas, travellers should take precautions and wear long-sleeved shirts and pants, and use insect repellants containing DEET, picardin or oil of lemon eucalyptus.

They should also use bed nets as necessary, stay and sleep in screened or air-conditioned rooms, and be particularly vigilant for the two hours before sunrise and the two hours before sunset.

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Students salute their multi-cultural origins Ashburton Borough School students dressed up in traditional costumes for the school’s UNESCO International Mother Language Day yesterday. The event was organised by the school’s UNESCO leaders Jadah Wilson and George Goodes, both 12.

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A former Hawke’s Bay paramedic jailed for sexually assaulting patients in his ambulance has been denied leave to appeal to the country’s highest court.

Christopher Roger King was sentenced in December 2014 to 14 years and six months in prison, with a minimum of eight years before he is eligible for parole.

A jury found the former St John ambulance officer guilty of stupefaction and sexual offences, including making intimate visual recordings, against four female patients requiring medical treatment who travelled in his ambulance.

After his trial, King admitted five other counts of sexual offending, against two females between 2002 and 2006. In December, the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against King’s sentence.

He then sought leave to appeal against that decision to the Supreme Court.

In a judgment yesterday, New Zealand’s highest court dismissed King’s application for leave, noting the lower courts were right not to allow him any discount for previous good character. - NZME

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■ MID CANTERBURY FIRE SEASON

Fire-free run comes to an end

By Erin TaskEr

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

A six week fire-free run for the district’s rural firefighters has come to an end.

There had not been a rural vegetation fire reported in Mid Canterbury since December 29, but it was only a matter of time before rural volunteer firefighters heard the pagers sound again.

This week, the calls came. The first was for 2 hectares of standing wheat crop and a couple hundred metres of trees which went up in smoke on Lismore Mayfield Road on Tuesday, and more have followed.

Ashburton’s principal rural fire officer Don Geddes said Tuesday’s fire at Mayfield was started by a header harvesting the paddock.

It’s the type of fire rural firefighters are used to over the summer months, but this year – going through all of January without a vegetation fire call-out – was highly unusual.

“We got through six weeks or more in January and half of February, which was pretty amazing,” Mr Geddes said.

Much of it was down to the weather. Regular rain falls kept the countryside looking unusually green and meant fire restrictions – which had been put in place prior to Christmas – were lifted, while the rain also hampered farmers’ harvest plans, which delayed the start of stubble burning.

Smoke from stubble fires has been a common sight this week though, and Mr Geddes was aware of one complaint of smoke

Don Geddes in town being made to council.

The complainant had been referred to ECan. ECan’s new rules surrounding stubble burning are now in place, and they include the introduction of a five kilometre buffer zone around the Ashburton township.

Resource consent is required to carry out stubble burn-offs on properties located within the buffer zone.

With the stubble fire season now under way, Mr Geddes said farmers needed to ensure they abided by the rules. He said they should only burn on days where it was appropriate to burn, use common sense, and take factors such as wind strength and direction into account.

Fire restrictions were lifted last month, but Mr Geddes came close to putting them back in place in the Mid Canterbury high country this week, until a decent rainfall alleviated the risk once again.

But, if the countryside does dry out again, fire restrictions will be put back in place.

Ashburton Aviation Museum member Jim Chivers checks out the DC3 which landed yesterday during its 12-day tour around the country.

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Vintage welcome for grand plane By ruBy HarfiEld

ruby.h@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton Airport was transported back in time for a 1950s day to celebrate the arrival of a DC3 plane from Auckland yesterday.

The event was held with the help of the Ashburton Aviation Museum and the Ashburton Vintage Car Club who welcomed the plane and its 23 passengers during Pacific Trailways’ inaugural DC3 12-day tour around New Zealand.

Ashburton Aviation Museum secretary Warren Janett said they

had their own, retired 1944 DC3, out on the runway to meet the Auckland “ZK-DAK”.

A number of other planes were also on display and members of the Ashburton Vintage Car Club brought along 16 vintage cars.

The day had been a great way to celebrate the 1950s and remember air travel of the past, he said.

Pacific Trailways director Steve Reeve said the tour had been brilliant so far and the 23 members were enjoying their time in Ashburton.

“It’s been a wonderful trip so

far.”

Most people on the trip had some sort of affinity to the DC3 plane.

The Auckland DC3 plane was built in Oklahoma City in 1944 as a C-47B by the Douglas Aircraft Company before being converted to a C-47D in 1946.

The plane spent time in wartime and civilian airline roles in Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

She was bought by a group of New Zealand pilots and Warbird members in 1987.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT BIRTHS

In brief

Mums’ ages lower here

By Caitlin Porter

Caitlin.p@theguardian.Co.nz

The average age of women birthing in Ashburton both naturally and via caesarean section remains lower than the rest of the country, despite an ageing population.

Data released by the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) shows the average age of birthing women in Ashburton is 28 years, compared to the national and CDHB average of 30 years.

The average age of women who have undergone a caesarean section is also lower, at 31 compared to 32 years old in the district

health board catchment.

While the number of women having caesarean births increases nationally, in Ashburton the rate is still low.

The rate of C-section births in OECD countries has increased over the past 25 years and Canterbury’s figures reflect this.

CDHB clinical director of obstetrics and gynaecology Dr Mary Olliver said this was due to a number of factors including the increasing age of mothers, diabetes and other medical conditions as well as obesity.

However, just over 26 per cent of women have had a C-section birth in the past financial year,

a lower rate than the rest of the CDHB. In regards to birth rates in the district, so far this year there have been 115 natural births from within the Ashburton District, 41 of which were born at Ashburton Hospital, Dr Olliver said.

Also in the year to date there have been 11 emergency C-sections and 19 elective C-sections.

Caesareans are not performed at Ashburton Hospital, however the hospital does have a birthing unit which provides primary maternity services to women and their babies for uncomplicated pregnancies, labour and birth.

All C-sections both elective

and emergency within the CDHB are performed at Christchurch Women’s Hospital.

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology vice-president Stephen Robson said having emergency or planned caesareans both carry risk.

With a planned caesarean there is very little risk to the baby except when the birth occurs earlier than 38 weeks.

However, women who have more than three caesarean sections are more at risk due to the danger of complications with the placenta growing into the uterine muscle.

■ SOUTH ISLAND MOTOR HOME EXTRAVAGANZA

Motor homes roll in

A story in yesterday’s Guardian stated that dairy consultant Jeremy Savage had slammed dairy farmers for being too slow to respond to the global dairy downturn. The Guardian accepts that the use of the word slammed was inappropriate. Mr Savage was pointing out the impact of dairy farmers’ actions on the current global climate and he did not intend to undermine farmers, as the intro of the story may have made it seem.

Light works If you’re travelling through town down West Street at the moment, don’t be surprised if you see a man with a stop/go sign. Work is being down to the traffic lights at the intersections of West Street and Moore Street, and West Street and Havelock Street, and motorists are being advised the crossings will be controlled by people at times. The work – which involves converting the traffic signals to LEDs – is part of a nationwide upgrade beginning with traffic lights on the country’s state highways.

Sexual abuse A Christchurch man employed as a school caretaker has admitted sexually abusing girls aged between 5 and 12, including some who were mentally disabled, in a shed where he had installed curtains and locks to hide his offending. Robert Selwyn Burrett, 64, admitted 21 charges relating to 12 young victims when he appeared in the High Court at Christchurch yesterday. Christchurch Court News website reported that Burrett installed curtains and a lock in the caretaker’s shed at the school where he worked. He would take the girls there and sexually abuse them. Burrett has admitted abuse including rape, sodomy, forced oral sex, indecent assaults, video-taping of the offending, and watching pornography, Court News reported.

- NZME

Bob (right) and Carole Roberts rolled into the Ashburton Showgrounds yesterday for the annual South Island Motor Home Extravaganza. The Roberts have decided to sell their home of the past six years, and perhaps to scale down to something a little smaller.

More than 200 motorhomes and campers of all shapes and sizes will be on offer over the weekend, along with everything else required for a home on the road, from generators and televisions, solar panels and towing dollies.

The gates will be open from 9am to 4pm, with onsite refreshments available.

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■ QUEENSTOWN INCIDENT

Police catch up with urinating tourists Two tourists photographed urinating out of a moving rental car on a state highway were met by police yesterday when they returned their vehicle.

The men, French nationals studying in Australia and holidaying in New Zealand, are now assisting police with their inquires into the incident, and another where property was allegedly stolen from a South Island lodge.

On Thursday it was reported that Angela and Karaan Chilton were travelling along State Highway 6 in Southland on Monday morning when they noticed the passengers hanging half their bodies out the side windows of the silver car.

The pair were travelling behind the vehicle for about 10

Retraction

minutes between Garston and Athol when the passengers appeared to urinate while several cars drove past.

Mrs Chilton said her husband was driving at 100km/h at the time and they estimated the vehicle in question was travelling a bit faster than them.

The car was a rental owned

by NZ Rent A Car. Owner Marty Oetgen said that the men returned the vehicle just after 1.30pm yesterday.

The police were waiting when they arrived.

“Following the coverage in the media (of the incident) we had a call from the Milford Sounds Lodge,” Mr Oetgen said.

“They were also looking for them. They had allegedly stolen some items from the lodge. We

passed that information on to the police and they were waiting for them when they returned the vehicle.”

When confronted about their filthy behaviour in the rental car the men initially denied it.

“They denied everything, but once the police showed them the photos they said ‘yes, that was us’,” Mr Oetgen said.

He charged the men a cleaning fee of $250 to “decontaminate” the vehicle. It was not clear if any urine was present but Mr Oetgen was not prepared to take the risk.

“They didn’t want to pay it but I think they realised that it was the only way things were going to move forward. And having two police officers standing behind them, they probably decided it was a good idea to just

pay,” he said. “We don’t want to put out a car which has potential contamination.”

Mr Oetgen said the men left with police. They had a few mates with them when they returned the car.

“They are just young idiots.

They’re not hardened criminals or anything silly like that,” he said.

“They’re just stupid and they made some bad choices. They put themselves at risk and they put others at risk. I don’t imagine they will want to come back to New Zealand in a hurry after this.” * Motorists who witness dangerous behaviour by road users can contact either *555 or in an emergency, 111.

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The Prime Minister says he will release a text message from gossip columnist Rachel Glucina about pulling a waitress’ ponytail after being ordered to do so by the Ombudsman. John Key said yesterday he would abide by the Ombudsman’s recommendation in response to an Official Information Act request from the blogger at “No Right Turn”. Mr Key had initially refused to release the text and said he did not agree with the Ombudsman’s finding but would go along with it.

- NZME

Rain blamed for crash Heavy rain and a slippery road are to blame for a crash involving a Range Rover and tourist bus near Queenstown, police say.

Sergeant Mark Gill said the Range Rover braked to avoid a cyclist, slid and overturned on to its roof about 10km west of the resort on the Glenorchy-Queenstown Rd about noon yesterday. A tourist bus with 14 passengers on board had to brake to avoid the overturned vehicle and slid into a bank.

There were no injuries, Mr Gill said.

He attributed the accident to “very slippery” road conditions during a downpour.

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■ MID CANTERBURY SCHOOLS

Teacher shortage continuing

BY RUBY HARFIELD

RUBY.H@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Mid Canterbury’s two colleges have had to temporarily hire retired teachers to help cover a national shortage of staff in mathematics and technology fields.

Retired maths teacher Howard Duncan and retired technology teacher Alan Minnear have temporarily joined the staff at Mount Hutt College.

While former Ashburton College technology teacher Chris Thompson has returned to the college in a fixed-term position until his vacancy is filled.

Mr Howard, who is from Christchurch, will be teaching at Mount Hutt College until April when Michael Prince replaces him in a permanent capacity.

Retired teachers Alan Minnear and Howard Duncan have temporarily stepped into teaching roles at Mount Hutt College.

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Mr Howard taught at Mount Hutt College in the 1980s and said it is a struggle for retired

teachers to come back to the classroom.

Not being in a permanent

position meant that there was not the same relationship with students because they knew he would be leaving soon.

Since he retired from teaching in 2012 there have been a number of new initiatives in education that he was not aware of so it had been difficult to catch up.

However, teaching at Mount Hutt College again was still enjoyable and interesting especially in regards to the amount of changes since he was there in the 1980s.

The roll is much bigger now and there are new classes and buildings, the teaching staff is now predominantly female rather than half-and-half and technology has completely changed with students now bringing their own devices into school.

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“When I was there [in the 1980s] we brought the first computer into the school.”

Mr Minnear, who is based in Geraldine and also retired in 2012, said long-term relieving, which he has been doing for about six months every year since he retired, is much harder than permanent teaching.

This is partly because students often do not realise that the class might not be able to be run without the temporary teachers and can be rude.

However, it is still the best job in the world and the support at Mount Hutt College is really good, he said.

Mr Minnear will be working for the school until the end of Term 2 while a permanent appointment is advertised for.

Actress dies suddenly Auckland’s theatre community is mourning the sudden death of actress Sophia Hawthorne.

The daughter of well-known actors Raymond and Elizabeth Hawthorne, Sophia was found dead early yesterday.

No other details are available, but shocked Auckland Theatre Company staff confirmed her death.

Hawthorne starred in Cabaret, Closer, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it was her roles in movies When Love Comes and Savage Honeymoon, in which she played wild child Leesa Savage, that saw her breakthrough into the big screen.

Hawthorne was twice nominated for Best Actress in a TV Drama for her role in the television show Insiders Guide to Happiness.

She also starred in the TV movie Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield.

Elizabeth Hawthorne is currently starring in TV2’s new multimillion-dollar local drama, Filthy Rich.

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An inside view of war Christchurch war historian Bill Barnes spoke about the origins of World War One at the Ashburton Art Gallery on Tuesday. About one dozen attended.

Mr Barnes is himself a veteran of the Vietnam War, and retired from the New Zealand Defence Force after 33 years of service in 2001. He worked for five years at the University of Canterbury before taking up a full-time writing career. He has had three major works published, including Voices from Vietnam. His talk was part of events being staged in conjunction with the major touring exhibition ANZAC. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 160216-TM-0158

In brief Siren speakers stolen A rural fire brigade no longer has sirens to alert its volunteers and community of an emergency, after they were stolen from the station’s roof. Members believe a new craze – where youngsters are installing large music speakers on their bikes – is the reason behind them going missing. Staff at the Huia Volunteer Fire Brigade, in West Auckland, discovered the siren speakers missing this week. In a post on its Facebook page, the brigade said it was upset that the 30-year-old speakers had seemingly been stolen for a bit of fun.

– NZME

Dunedin hit-and-run Police are investigating a hit-andrun in the Dunedin suburb of St Kilda that injured a motorbike rider. The crash happened on the corner at 8.45am yesterday.

Police said they received a report of an early 90s, dark red Ford Falcon reversing into a stationary motorbike. The motorbike rider suffered bruising as a result of the crash.

– NZME

Beach buy back The man behind the crowdfunded bid to buy a pristine Abel Tasman beach is preparing himself for the decision. A Givealittle campaign to buy the Awaroa Inlet beach by tender was supported by more than 39,000 people who pledged more than $2 million. The closing date for offers for the 7ha property was 4pm on Tuesday – and campaign organiser Duane Major said he hoped to hear whether the bid had been accepted or not within five days.

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Rules loosen for Kiwis in Australia By audRey young Thousands of Kiwis who arrived in Australia after it tightened its immigration rules in 2001 will now be given an easier way to seek Australian citizenship under certain conditions.

If they earned $A53,000 over five consecutive years ($57,000) between 2001 and yesterday, they will eventually be able to apply for permanent residence and eventually apply for citizenship.

It is estimated that the policy will allow up to 70,000 of the 300,000 New Zealanders who have arrived since 2001 to become Australians with full rights of citizenship.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made the announcement in Sydney yesterday after talks with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. Treatment of Kiwis who arrived in Australia after 2001 has been a growing point of contention in an otherwise very close relationship.

The changes in 2001 withdrew several types of benefit for New Zealanders – who enter Australia on a Special Category Visa.

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■ METHVEN SCHOOL

Our Lady school impresses manager

By RuBy HaRfield

Ruby.h@theguaRdian.co.nz

Our Lady of the Snows School is continuing to make positive changes after government intervention was implemented last year, limited statutory manager Virginia Noonan says.

The school has been under limited statutory management since May following a request to the Ministry of Education by the board of trustees to resolve governance issues at the school.

Mrs Noonan said a number of issues were identified last year, including communication problems and a lack of community engagement.

Improvements and goals have been made for each of these and the school is spending this term embedding the changes, Mr Noonan said.

Mrs Noonan will stay at least until the end of Term 1 to ensure the board has confidence to continue moving in a positive direction.

The school is well placed to

move into the rest of the year, she said.

One focus has been for the board to review the school’s strategic plans and goals and they had spent a lot of time making sure these are in line with feedback received last year, she said.

“I’m confident what they have so far aligns with the community and the school.”

Other changes noted in her scoping report, released last year, include putting strategies in place to allow the board and principal to effectively manage personnel issues, strengthening the school’s special character and ensuring the board monitored school assets.

The roll, which reached its lowest point since at least 2009 last year with 37 students, is now stable at 41.

The school has also hired an experienced teacher with connections to the Methven community who is a huge asset, she said.

A man is in a moderate to serious condition after falling off a rideon mower at Dunedin’s Botanic Garden yesterday morning. A St John spokesman said ambulance staff took the man to Dunedin Hospital, and believed he had been working in the gardens when injured. Firefighters from Willowbank station also attended the incident, a spokesman said.

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Where’s the castle?

A deflated bouncy castle’s been found on the road in Clive, in Hawke’s Bay. Matthew Bennett from the Kohupatiki Marae found a large piece of canvas lying on the road, put it in his van and brought it back home. Mr Bennett said it was a windy day and the castle, which may have been for the Art Deco festival, obviously wasn’t tied down properly. He told Hastings police about the find.

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Deportee lashes out A New Zealander deported from Australia had been back in the country less than 24 hours when he lashed out at staff at a central Auckland bar before assaulting a woman. The 28-year-old was with two other men at the 1885 Britomart bar last Friday night when the incident happened, TVNZ reported last night. A woman who was at the bar said the man had earlier been heard saying he was celebrating his return home, after being deported the previous day.

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■ MID CANTERBURY SCHOOLS

Book treat for keen new entrants

BY CAITLIN PORTER

CAITLIN.P@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

School entrants all over Mid Canterbury are now the proud owners of new books, thanks to the Rotary Club of Ashburton.

Last year the club built a house on Braebrook Drive to raise money for its literacy programmes here and in Samoa.

Rotary Club president Alison Driscoll said locally the proceeds from the project went towards funding the club’s Books for New Entrants programme for two years.

Books for New Entrants delivers a New Zealand authored book to every five-year-old starting school in the Ashburton District.

Mrs Driscoll said this was the third year the club had distributed books to new entrants and around 650 books are set to be given away.

The schools distribute the books as they see fit and were very grateful, Mrs Driscoll said, and the kids seemed to love them and the feedback was positive.

Sourced direct from a distributor, books were selected from a range of New Zealand authors.

Ashburton Borough School new entrants were presented with brand new books earlier this week (from left) Rotary representative Ted Wood, students Jamilia Kravchenko, Grace Levy, Lily Woods and Rotary Club president Alison Driscoll.

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$1000 boost for law student Former Ashburton College student Sally Cunneen will begin her tertiary studies with an extra $1000 in her bank account, thanks to the Ashburton’s Justices of the Peace Association and Law Practitioners’ Society.

The two groups offer the annual Jubilee Scholarship to an A level student who intends to pursue a career in law, to put toward course-related costs.

This year Sally met the criteria, having passed her NCEA exams in English, maths, history, graphics and New Zealand law. She plans to study law and criminal justice at the University of Canterbury.

Left – Ashburton Justices of the Peace Jan Butterick and Maria Hibbert with this year’s Jubilee Scholarship winner Sally Cunneen (centre).

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New effort to slash child obesity The Government has launched a new campaign to slash obesity and boost learning among Kiwi kids.

Bringing together a team of 75 researchers from several universities, the programme is the second to last of New Zealand’s 11 big-issue National Science Challenges to get off the ground.

The core mission of this project, dubbed A Better Start, was to find better ways to tackle obesity, learning and mental health problems in children and teenagers.

According to official statistics, one in three New Zealand children is overweight or obese, one in three children is not meeting the National Standard for reading in their first year at school, and one in three young people will have had a significant mental health problem by the age of 18.

The researcher leading the challenge, Professor Wayne Cutfield of the Auckland Universitybased Liggins Institute, said a healthy weight, good learning skills and sound mental health were key to a child’s health and success.

The strategy was a first for New Zealand because it would target those children most in need, involve their families and communities and draw together a range of experts.

They include scientists specialising in paediatrics, educa-

tion, psychiatry and psychology, along with health and education experts, epidemiologists, data analysts, software designers and economists.

Professor Cutfield and his colleagues would use state-of-theart “big data” tools to understand problems, identify risk factors, test solutions and quantify their costs and benefits over a child’s lifetime.

“Our children are our future and our job is to make science work for them,” he said.

“Some of the biggest difficulties they can face are with obesity, learning and mental health.

There is a big overlap among those at risk in each area, and each can influence the others.”

Problems that began in childhood often became worse in adolescence and could get ingrained in adulthood, he said.

The obesity-focused work would involve developing tools, using sociodemographic and research data, body measurements and biological samples, that could predict which infants were at risk by the age of five.

The research would also include investigating environmental factors such as food, activity, sleep and gut microbiome, as well as genetic inheritance and epigenetics – the way the environment can change the behaviour of a child’s genes. – NZME

Stolen cricket sprinker returned

By RuBy HaRfield

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Ashburton College’s cricket teams’ pitches have now been well and truly watered after their stolen sprinkler system was returned on Tuesday.

The soaker hose system was stolen from the school’s 1st XI pitch at the Ashburton Domain on Saturday evening.

Pitch volunteer Mick Buchanan said the sprinkler, which cost nearly $500, had actually been found dumped on an Ashburton street on Sunday by a man on his way to the gym.

The man wrapped it up, put it in his truck and planned to take it to the Ashburton District Council on Monday, but forgot about it until Tuesday.

It was returned to Mr Buchanan on Tuesday night and was tested for damage on Wednesday with no problems.

Prior to the sprinkler system being found Bayleys Real Estate Ashburton had generously offered to buy a new one for the teams, Mr Buchanan said.

The pitches are looked after by five volunteers.

Ashburton College’s cricket teams have had their stolen sprinkler returned.

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Selfie accident appeal rejected

By Vaimoana Tapaleao A Palmerston North man who accidentally killed his brother while posing for a photo with a gun has had his appeal for a shorter sentence dismissed.

Alex Gideon, now 21, was sentenced last September to two years and nine months in prison for the manslaughter of his brother, Tyrone, who died last

May, aged 21. The pair were posing for photos with a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun when the accident happened.

The gun, and the cartridges the brothers used to load the weapon before taking the pictures, belonged to a friend.

Alex Gideon appealed against the length of the jail term imposed in the High Court at Palmerston North by Justice David

Collins, who said at the time: “Regardless of whether Tyrone knew the gun was loaded, he bears no responsibility for your actions when pointing the loaded gun at him with your fingers on the trigger. Whilst you have learned a very harsh lesson, the community as a whole needs to be aware that the reckless use of firearms is something that society and the courts must condemn.” – NZME

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raham Tappin feels like he’s come home. At 82, he’s packed up a lifetime’s worth of belongings and left the town he called home in England, and moved to Ashburton.

It’s a huge move for anyone, let alone someone in his 80s, but it’s one that Mr Tappin doesn’t regret.

He loves New Zealand, and has visited many times in recent years. His daughter Claire – a teacher at Ashburton College – moved to New Zealand in 1999 and her dad has visited her pretty much every year since.

Having had such regular visits, he’s already got plenty of friends in his new home country – his windowsill is testament to that. It’s lined with cards welcoming him to his new home. Some are from friends left behind in the United Kingdom, but many are from his Kiwi friends.

He’s been inundated with home baking, some even delivered in a Jaguar on his first morning waking up in his new villa at Lochlea Lifestyle Resort. That baking was courtesy of the resort’s owners.

Mr Tappin counts himself lucky. He knows he’s just made one

At 82, Graham Tappin has packed up and moved halfway across the world. He spoke to Erin Tasker about what brought him to New Zealand, from England, later in life. of the biggest moves one can make in life – halfway around the world – but he’s done so with plenty of support from both his old home, and his new one.

Mr Tappin is from Dartmouth in Kent, which is about halfway between London and the coast. It’s the size of Christchurch, and it’s a place where Mr Tappin made a name for himself on many sporting fields.

As a footballer he played to a semiprofessional level, and he was also a handy cricketer, who eventually found his niche as coach.

He was on the coaching staff for the English women’s team for a while, and was a coach to the coaches.

“I had the chance to go on the pro list (for football) but I didn’t think I would ever be good enough to reach that standard, I just preferred to be happy and enjoy my sport at the lower level,” he said.

Sport has always played a huge part in his life, but after he left school he took on an apprenticeship in office machinery. That was until someone suggested he take up teaching.

So in his 30s, Mr Tappin embarked on teaching training. He enrolled at university, surprising himself by what he achieved, and soon began his new career as a PE teacher. He went on to spend 30 years as a head of PE. When you’re a PE teacher, it’s important to practise

what you preach, Mr Tappin said. So he’s always lived an active life.

“I always felt if you were selling PE in terms of what people should be doing, you really had to be in shape yourself,” he said.

It’s something he maintains to this day, still doing daily exercises.

At the time he left England, he was a member of an over 80s cricket team which played in a competition which, in New Zealand, would involve the likes of Canterbury playing Otago.

“I hasten to add there are no quick bowlers put it that way, there are a lot of trundlers that tend to be very cagey,” he said.

Back in his early cricketing days Mr Tappin was a keeper and batsman, but did later turn his hand to bowling.

He completed the first of four London marathons when he was 40, and just a few years ago – when he was in his late 70s, he competed in Christchurch’s City to Surf.

He hasn’t got any marathon plans for now though, instead, he’s busy learning a new sport – petanque. It’s just one of the many opportunities open to him at Lochlea, including bowls, which he’s making the most of.

Mr Tappin said pretty much any sport that involved a ball, was right up his alley.

Claire followed in his sporting footsteps as a top netballer, and as a teacher, and on his many visits to New Zealand over the years she’s brought her dad in to speak to her classes about his sporting exploits.

They never knew what to call him, so to many of Miss Tappin’s students, Mr Tappin also became known as dad.

He’s become a part of the wider Ashburton College PE department family over the years and has been known to lend a helping hand at events like sports days.

Now he’s here for good, he’s likely to make even more appearances.

He may not be the last Tappin to make the move to New Zealand either.

They’re now trying to talk son and brother Ian into making the shift too.

Ian lives in Essex and is a police of-

ficer. So seeing either of his children meant travel for Mr Tappin when he still lived in England.

“I felt like I was neither close to one, nor the other, so Claire made the suggestion that I might like to come and live here and I thought, why not,” Mr Tappin said.

“I don’t think, in a way, you could get two countries more similar than the UK and New Zealand.”

After about eight years of thinking about it, they applied for residency for him, and in September it came through. Mr Tappin – whose wife died in a car crash in 1997 was eligible due to Claire being one half of his remaining family, and her acting as his sponsor.

With residency confirmed, the decision was made. When school broke up for the year in 2015, Claire prepared to jump on a plane back to the UK and spend her six-week holiday break helping pack up her dad’s life, and bringing him to his new home.

“It was a bit of a wrench I must admit. I had a few farewells, which weren’t always to my knowledge,” he said.

“But I think I’ve been fortunate that I know people over here and I’ve found them to be really helpful and supportive.”

He arrived with his clothes and a few belongings in tow, but has to wait for his furniture to arrive. Ian was left in charge of making sure that got shipped away safely.

It’s due to arrive in the country early next month and Mr Tappin is looking forward to filling his new villa with his own belongings and putting his own touch on it.

He’s settling into life in the welcoming Lochlea community, and can’t wait to get involved in the many outings and opportunities on offer. That includes probably spending a fair bit of time on the resort’s bowling green.

It’s through sport that Mr Tappin reckons he made 99.9 per cent of his friends in life, and while it had been hard to leave those friends behind, he knows they’re only a phone call away – at 7am in the morning for them, thanks to the time difference.

Claire, on the other hand, is looking forward to phone calls during more acceptable hours now her dad’s on the same side of the world as her.

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Anglican vicarage joins The Canterbury earthquakes are continuing to take their toll on Mid Canterbury’s historic buildings five years on. Among those tagged for demolition is the former St Stephen’s Anglican Church vicarage on Burnett Street. Guardian reporter Susan Sandys finds the prominent double-brick structure has an interesting early history, involving a smiling vicar who did not survive long after World War One.

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here is a grand old two-storey building on Burnett Street which would have many a story to tell of the families which have occupied it over the years, if only its walls could speak.

Those walls are today cracked and broken, not just by the weight of time, but from the ravages of the Canterbury earthquakes.

The former Anglican vicarage today sits unoccupied, awaiting demolition.

Built in 1913, the parish’s second vicarage soon had its first occupant move in, the Reverend J. R. Burgin from Auckland.

A book on the history of the parish documented that Mr Burgin had not been the parish’s choice when he first arrived in the town in 1912. Rather 346 parishioners had previously sent a petition in favour of installing a Reverend J V Wilson to the diocesan nominators, who rejected it.

“This caused some indignation at the annual meeting in 1912, and the meeting unanimously expressed its opinion that the statutes governing the appointment of vicars to parishes should be amended so that the people should be given a voice in the appointments,” the book said.

But Mr Burgin soon found his way into the hearts of parishioners, as a Papers Past article on his farewell in 1915 suggested.

Mr Burgin off to World War One, to be an Anglican chaplain to the third and fourth battalions of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade at the Rangiotu camp, with the rank of captain, and would sail for the front with them in due course.

At the large gathering of parishioners and friends attending the farewell, a Mr C W Nicoll referred to Mr Burgin’s ever-smiling and optimistic face.

“He contended that it was preferable for a man to be always smiling than to go about with a scowl upon his countenance,” the Guardian article of December 15, 1915, said.

Ashburton’s smiling vicar, Reverend J R Burgin, was proud to go off to serve in World War One. PHOTO SUPPLIED COURTESY OF THE ASHBURTON MUSEUM

“A man with a smiling countenance brought a ray of sunshine into someone else’s life. Mr Burgin had done this, and had also reached their hearts by his sympathy. Many of his congregation had been brought closer in touch with the spiritual life by help received from Mr Burgin. Mrs Burgin was also greatly loved by the congregation. The speaker hoped that her husband would be spared to carry out the good work he had voluntarily undertaken.”

Mr Burgin had been among many New Zealand chaplains volunteering for war service, and initially he had not been required, but he was now glad to be able to go, particularly as those fighting in Gallipoli were without a single Anglican minister.

“The Anglicans thought that this should not be allowed to go on, as the lads were in need of spiritual help when they were giving their all and were willing to sacrifice their lives for their country,” the Guardian article continued.

A later Guardian article, in 1920, provided a record of Mr Burgin’s passing. It recounted that the vicar served in Egypt and France, and he was gassed on the Somme.

He returned to work as a minister in Auckland. The article told of him going home after a confirmation service at his parish in his usual health, before a doctor was called at 1am to his home, and then him dying at 3.30am.

Following housing many a vicar for St Stephen’s, the grand old twostorey building on Burnett Street was sold to its first non-church residents Paul and Pauline Rose in about 1977.

The couple renovated the home while at the same time using it as Mr Rose’s chiropractic practice.

The couple said in a Guardian article of 1987 that it had been a case of love at first sight when they viewed the large double-brick home as potential purchasers.

“Unfortunately they found they

The St Stephen’s vicarage, with the former church in the background, was built in 1913.

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quake casualties had to field some ill feeling from church members who believed the vicarage should never have left the church’s possession,” the Guardian article said.

The Roses had filled the home with four children, and undertaken renovations including converting the vicar’s office into a surgery and waiting room, and parish office into a sunroom/playroom.

As beautiful as the building may have been, however, it proved no match for the Canterbury earthquakes.

On September 4, 2010, its three grand chimneys came crashing down in the 7.1 magnitude shake, through the ceiling. Large cracks also appeared in the unreinforced masonry structure.

The building’s former owners Derek and Helen Middlemiss were granted a resource consent for demolition of the locally listed Group B heritage building last year. A report in the consent application claimed the building was uneconomical to repair. ACB Developments Limited bought the property early this year. An Ashburton-based shareholder contacted by the Guardian this

week did not want to comment on what was planned for the site.

Historic Places Mid Canterbury spokeswoman Julie Luxton said loss of the vicarage would add to the significant loss of Mid Canterbury’s historic buildings since the earthquakes. The organisation had opposed the demolition.

“It’s very sad,” she said.

“It’s quite a prominent building on the streetscape, it’s a great example of the arts and crafts era and it has a lot of social history tied back into the church,” Mrs Luxton said.

Prominent historic buildings already gone from Mid Canterbury’s streetscape following earthquake damage include the large Friedlander building on Burnett Street, Nicoll Bros building on Burnett Street, Westburn Courts on West Street, A G Wells building on East Street, the Methven Public Library, Methven Historical Society and Steelworx.

Right – The former Anglican vicarage is tagged for demolition.

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George and Hugh Donaldson were the highest placed under-17 Kiwis at the Australia v New Zealand Championships.

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Donaldson duo in the medals

By James Ford

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Ashburton water-skiers Hugh and George Donaldson were in fine form at the recent Australia v New Zealand Championships at Piarere Water Ski Club on Lake Karapiro.

The Donaldson duo were two of a team of six representing New Zealand against the old enemy in the under-17 age group.

It was Hugh’s first competitive

outing since crashing at the annual Aquafest tournament at Lake Hood last month, but he bounced back in style to take out a gold medal in the jump section.

Following a good jump in round one, Hugh needed another strong performance in the second round.

But the 16-year-old passed up his first attempt and crashed on his second, heaping the pressure on for his third, but, true to form,

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pulled off a personal best of 45.7 metres to snatch the gold.

Twin brother George was also amongst the medals, winning a silver in the trick section.

George was top seed having been in excellent form following recent ski sessions with world tricks coach Cory Pickos, but got off to a poor start, falling in the first round.

Undeterred, the younger twin produced a fine display in the sec-

ond with a score of 4160 to claim the silver medal, while Hugh picked up the bronze.

In slalom, the twins managed fourth and fifth, for an overall placing of third for Hugh, followed

by George in fourth.

Not to be outdone, the Australian contingent also made the most of the fine conditions.

Jack Christie broke the New Zealand all-comers under-17 boys’ slalom record with 2.5 at

11m, 25-58k, while junior world jump silver medallist Josh Wallent flew over the Pairere with a jump of 61.7m.

Event judge Janeen Donaldson said both teams produced fine performances in perfect conditions for water-skiing.

“The event was stunning, calm all week, good skiing from the Australians and the New Zealanders with plenty of personal bests,” she said.

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The Ashburton College team of Harriet Stock, Jaimee Bird, Brittany Fowler and Jayden Bird.

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Bird sets pace for College The forecast was not promising, but the Canterbury Schools’ Show Jumping event enjoyed a warm day without the strong winds and rain forecast in Christchurch on Wednesday.

Twenty-one schools from Christchurch to Timaru participated, with 32 teams competing for the Mitavite Teams Trophy.

Ashburton College had a com-

petitive team and were in seventh position at the end of the first round.

At the completion of the event, College were in a three-way tie for fourth place, but fell to sixth on a countback of clear rounds.

Jayden Bird jumped cleanly in the first round to finish ninth overall, while Harriet Stock completed a double clear, but was

out of the placings.

Brittany Fowler was clear in the first round but took a rail in the jump-off, while Jamiee Bird set a blistering pace and was double clear to take second second place.

In the second round of competition, Jayden Bird set the pace to finish third overall, while Harriet Stock took out the first fence and

Brittany Fowler’s feisty mare had some issues between jumps and incurred time faults.

Jamiee Bird’s good form continued to complete a double clear to finish fourth.

The event was won by Rangi Ruru and Lincoln High School with ex-Ashburton College student Megan Harrison taking third place.

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Strong winds affecting NZ championships

By James Ford

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Veronica Wall

Ashburton rowers were battling against New Zealand’s finest and blustery weather at the Bankstream NZ Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro yesterday.

The action was postponed on Thursday due to wind, and the challenging weather continued yesterday.

Veronica Wall placed third in heat two of the women’s under-20 single sculls with a time of 7.58.40, but went one better in the semi-final with a second place finish in 8.21.47, behind Luka Ellery, on Thursday.

Wall could only manage a fifth place finish in the final

yesterday, behind a Waikato trio of Georgia Allen, Luca Ellery and Samantha Voss, while Auckland’s Lexi Kerr placed fourth.

Wall was also in fine form in the women’s under-22 single sculls, placing third (8.33.94) in heat one, but was just outside the medals in the final with a fourth place (10.27.12) finish behind Hannah Osborne (9.40.02), Amy Mills (10.10.87) ad Kelsi Parker (10.16.77) yesterday.

On Thursday, Wall and Charlotte Cox battled for a second place finish (7.54.25) in the women’s club double sculls behind Rotorua pair Alie Henderson-Corporaal and Rosemary van der Velden

(7.51.56), but could only muster sixth place in the semifinal.

In the men’s club single sculls, Matthew Rae (8.09.72) finished second in heat three behind Invercargill’s Max Dawson (8.09.27), but finished seventh in his semi-final.

Rae then placed fifth in heat two of the men’s senior single sculls before winning his repechage to qualify for the semifinals, but could only manage seventh.

In the B-final Rae fell to fourth place, six seconds out of the medals behind Aucklander Ayden Lamont in third and Tristan Gregory-Hunt and Kyle Malone in first and second respectively.

All Blacks enforcer Jerome Kaino could miss the Blues’ opening Super Rugby match against the defending champion Highlanders at Eden Park next Friday night after he was sent off for punching in last night’s final pre-season trial against the Chiefs in Pukekohe.

Blues captain Kaino was redcarded 10 minutes into the second half, although Tana Umaga’s side overcame the setback to post a 24-12 victory over the Chiefs who had Aaron Cruden back in their line-up for the first time since the All Blacks first five ruptured his left knee last April.

Kaino punched Chiefs front rower Pauliasi Manu during a maul and the referee wasn’t wearing his claim that “I was trying to get my arm free” and marched him.

The veteran backrower will face a NZRU judiciary hearing rather than a Sanzar tribunal in coming days and might enjoy more luck as a result.

It was a better night for Cruden who showed some nice touches in his comeback including setting up the game’s first try with a perfectly executed cut-out pass in the ninth minute which sent Charlie Ngatai across the line.

The Blues were behind 12-5 at the break after a Patrick Tuipulotu touchdown and a fumbling first half display but tries to halfback Byrn Hall and fullback Lolagi Visinia in a more polished second half effort eventually got them home with former Melbourne Storm league winger Matt Duffie completing a slick long range strike right on fulltime.

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Ashburton cyclist Hayden Roulston: No regrets about quitting the European road circuit to concentrate on Rio. PHOTO JOSEPH JOHNSON

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Bump in the road to Rio

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Missing out on the New Zealand track team for the world champs was a shock, but one that Hayden Roulston is simply viewing as a bump in the road to Rio. Roulston – who grew up in Ashburton and spent the bulk of his cycling career riding the road as a professional in Europe – quit road cycling last year in order to focus on one last shot at Olympic glory in Rio later this year and it’s a decision he doesn’t regret.

He’s got his eyes firmly set on riding in the team pursuit and individual pursuit come Rio, and knows what he has to do to get there.

His omission from the New Zealand track team for worlds came at the end of a track nationals where Roulston knew he could have done better.

“Track nationals didn’t go how I was hoping.

“I still got a silver and a gold, but I wasn’t happy in the two weeks leading into nationals in terms of the training and that showed once the racing started.

“I just had a few issues with my new position on the bike and I didn’t feel like I could get the power down and be relaxed at the same time.

“To be honest, after the individual pursuit I could have packed up and headed home.

“

When I feel good on the pursuit bike, I will deliver whatever is required to make the team go fast.

“I felt so low, so disappointed.

“But I knew I couldn’t.

“I had to get back on the bike and try and make something out of what was left of track nationals.

“In the end I felt quite proud to leave that disappointment behind and go on and do some really powerful performances, but still, it wasn’t a super nationals.”

Missing out on the team for the worlds was disappointing, and initially he was shocked.

“It could actually be a blessing in disguise though.

“I’m looking at it in a different light now, a simple bump in the long road to Rio. “Ideally I would have liked to be selected but I knew I wasn’t super and some of the others that had stepped up and delivered were.”

He knows only small gains stand between him and Rio. “For me it’s all about feel.

“When I feel good on the pur-

suit bike, I will deliver whatever is required to make the team go fast.

“I don’t need to be the most aero in a wind tunnel, I just have to feel powerful.”

Coming back to the track hadn’t been easy – where he’s medalled for New Zealand at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games before – but he didn’t expect it to be.

“It’s been how I expected - up and down, good days bad bays, but there’s something deep inside me that knows I’ve seen enough, I’ve felt enough, to be sure that when it all clicks something pretty magical will happen.

“I have to keep faith, no matter what happens.”

Now firmly in his mid-30s, Hayden is at times called a veteran of New Zealand cycling.

“Experience counts for nothing if you don’t have the legs to deliver.

“Look, the media love labelling.

One minute its ‘youngsters deal to veteran’ but in a few months’ time if we ride to our potential it could be ‘veteran leads young boys to gold’.

“In our team there is no ages.

“The young boys all look to me for leadership that’s for sure, and they know with me it’s all about the team.

“Once you go into the elite age group, then age is out the window.

“At the Olympics I’ll be 35 years old, and I think our youngest will be 21/22, but that does not matter because there’s no age group Olympics.

“He’s required to go as fast as me and I’m required to go as fast as him.

“A team is a team and age doesn’t matter.

“It only matters in the media, they love it.”

He’s happy with the decisions he’s made, but does miss the team environment of riding road in Europe.

“I miss preparing for the Classics right now in Europe, but I don’t have any regrets.

“I was the one that called time on my road career and I’ll be the one that calls time on my track career too.

“Even though I failed in the worlds selection I still don’t see that as a big deal.

“It’s just a bump in the road.”

A brutal fortnight lies ahead for Canterbury triathlete Gina Crawford.

The 35-year-old will attempt to win her seventh Challenge Wanaka iron distance title today, before racing Ironman New Zealand in Taupo on the March 5.

The 2009 Ironman New Zealand champion isn’t looking too far ahead.

Crawford, who has more iron distance wins that any other New Zealand female, says she’s simply focusing on having a good race in Wanaka and isn’t worrying about Taupo too much yet.

She says her goal is to manage the fortnight between the races better than she did last year.

Challenge Wanaka men’s defending champion Dylan McNeice is also backing up at Ironman New Zealand where he finished third on debut last year.

Challenge Wanaka is a nondrafting race meaning riders on the 180 cycle leg need to maintain a 12-metre gap between each other and have a limited time to complete overtaking manoeuvres.

Crawford says thankfully draft-busters police the southern hemisphere races much harder.

She says the bigger fields in European races mean it’s easier for some to bend the rules, so the New Zealand races are much tougher for the off-shore visitors.

Dutch veteran Yvonne Van Vlerken is seen as Crawford’s biggest threat.

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Umpire loves the game Passionate netballer and up-and-coming umpire Sophie Beveridge chats to the Guardian’s Caitlin Porter about the fast-approaching netball season.

A

t only fifteen years old Sophie Beveridge is already making a name for herself on the local sporting scene, not only as a netballer but an umpire too.

Having been on the netball court since she was at primary school, Beveridge began umpiring when she was in Year 8 and has slowly been working her way up.

Starting off umpiring the tiny tots in junior netball she made her way through the grades and last year was asked to step up to Premier level.

However, due to a conflicting schedule Beveridge was only able to attend one Premier match and had to instead umpire her own grade – Senior B – on Saturday afternoons.

Daunting at first, Beveridge soon felt more comfortable on court.

“It is hard at the start but once you get used to it you feel more confident,” she said.

Her hard work has paid off.

“At the end of last season she was awarded the Leath Cup for Junior Umpire which is given to the umpire who has achieved Netball New Zealand Centre Level and is committed to umpiring.

This year though, her umpiring and her netball looks set to leap up a few grades.

Playing for the Ashburton College Year 10 A team last year, this season Beveridge has been named in the Ashburton College A side, a formidable Premierlevel team.

Last year the team were close to clinching a win in the Premier final, playing exceptionally strong netball all season.

However they narrowly missed on the victory, going down to Methven A. Due to a change in grades and her schedule as a result, Beveridge said it was likely she would be not only be playing but also umpiring the Premier grade this season.

Rather than stressing about the changes, Beveridge is excited and said umpiring top grade netball was one of her favourite things, it was challenging yet rewarding.

Not only does she enjoy it, but it has a positive effect on her own netball.

“It really helps when you’re a player [and you umpire] because you know all the rules,” she said.

“It’s so much easier to play the game you love when you know how to play it properly.”

A former basketballer, Beveridge made the decision this year to stick to netball but also

Umpiring a sport in itself Anne Marie Leech has been an umpire coach for Netball New Zealand for many years and is keen to see more youngsters jump on the umpiring bandwagon.

A sport in itself, Leech said it has a pathway like anything else, the same as for a player or a coach.

“There is practical coaching, fitness testing, sports science, nutrition and training available, all tailored for the umpire,” she said.

Further on from umpiring regional netball, those who are dedicated can be in the running to attend zone and Netball New Zealand events.

There is more support than ever for netball umpires, who often work closely with players and coaches which makes the job even easier and more enjoyable.

Depending on an umpire’s commitment and ability, their career trajectory could move very quickly and see them become an international umpire which has perks in itself, Leech said.

To umpire internationally means getting the opportunity to travel to fixtures all over the world and even officiate at the Commonwealth Games.

Not all umpires will reach this top status, just as not all players will become Silver Ferns but there is a satisfaction in knowing you can umpire a game of netball to the best of your ability, she said.

“The bottom line is people should just umpire because they enjoy it.”

T-birds sign up Clarke

Sophie Beveridge is a keen netball umpire and is encouraging others to pick up a whistle.

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kept some time in her schedule for other hobbies including jazz dancing.

School also keeps the young talent busy.

She enjoys geography and graphics and said she could potentially see a future in the tourism industry but that was a long way off yet.

A modest teen, Beveridge said she was not sure where netball

will take her but hoped to continue playing for years to come.

“I’m just someone who likes to play sports,” she said.

Her focus right now is on the upcoming season which officially begins on April 2, and with an umpire shortage hitting Mid Canterbury Beveridge is encouraging other youngsters to jump on the umpiring bandwagon.

Not only was it fun and meant your own netball game could improve, it helped ensure netball could continue to prosper in the Mid Canterbury district.

“At the start it might be hard but the more you do it becomes easier,” Beveridge said.

“And I think you learn a lot from it, especially when you play netball.”

England netball captain Jade Clarke will play for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the looming trans-Tasman championship.

Clarke, who has played 126 Tests for England, has switched from the NSW Swifts who she played for last season.

“We are ecstatic that we have secured the services of a player of the calibre of Jade,” Adelaide Thunderbirds coach Michelle den Dekker said yesterday.

Clarke has signed with Adelaide as a replacement for Renae Ingles, who recently announced her pregnancy with twins.

“I’m very excited to join the Adelaide Thunderbirds, a team with such a successful legacy,” Clarke said.

“From my experience it is always very tough playing against the Thunderbirds.”

Clarke will arrive early next month and play in the pre-season shootout in Auckland from March 18.

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In brief

Shortage of whistleblowers

By Caitlin Porter

Caitlin.p@theguardian.Co.nz

Mid Canterbury Netball is in the midst of an umpire shortage.

Last season umpires had to be drafted in from Christchurch and Timaru to umpire Premier grade and it is highly likely the same will happen this year if things don’t change.

Mid Canterbury Netball administrator Aimee Rickard said often people moved up through the umpire ranks but then left the district to pursue further education or training, leaving a gap in the umpiring cohort.

As a result experienced Premier and mid-level umpires are lacking.

It’s a nationwide issue, and Rickard said if the quality of netball cannot be matched with the quality of umpiring then the only thing to do was call in outside umpires, she said.

However, this was not a longterm solution and if the shortage continued there was the possibility the quality of umpiring

would begin to decrease.

Lower grade umpiring was often covered by clubs, who had to abide by rules in regards to supplying umpires.

One umpire is required per three teams and for players in the top three grades (Premier 1, Premier 2 and Senior A) umpiring was mandatory.

Now, Mid Canterbury Netball is on the hunt for keen umpires.

An enjoyable aspect of the game, Rickard said it was also a good option for keen netballers who cannot cope with the physicality of the game.

“It can be challenging as you work your way up through the levels of umpiring [but] it is a great way to improve fitness [and] you get to work with a great team,” Rickard said.

Rickard said “the more the merrier” applied when it came to umpires and she was happy to chat with anyone interested.

For more information contact Mid Canterbury netball could suffer if more umpires are not her at info@mcnetball.co.nz found.

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Breakers go one up in semis Blowing big leads hardly seems an ideal ingredient for playoff success but, then again, these Breakers know more about that particular recipe than anyone else.

The four-time champions on Thurdsay night showed exactly how they built a basketball dynasty, overcoming a couple of major scares to take game one of their semi-final series against Melbourne United 91-82.

The Breakers ran hot and cold at Hisense Arena, establishing double-digit advantages in the first and fourth quarters but leaving it until the final minute to clinch the contest and seal a 10th straight playoff victory.

It was, inevitably, a combination of level heads and dominant defence that helped the Kiwi club seize a 1-0 lead in the series, giving themselves a chance to advance to the grand final at Vector Arena on Saturday night.

Those two winning attributes have already seen this Breakers group claim a combined 21 championship rings, 21 more than their callow opponents.

All of those spoils, though, were secured with the benefit of home advantage, a luxury they didn’t enjoy against the minor premiers on Thursday night.

But the Breakers were unfazed by a 10,000 strong opposing crowd and they were similarly undaunted after squandering a 17-point lead in the first, once more proving calm and col-

Cavs beat Spurs Matthew Dellavedova scored a win, but the news was not so good for fellow Australians Patty Mills and Joe Ingles in their first games after the NBA All-Star break. Dellavedova, after missing five games for the Cleveland Cavaliers with a hamstring strain, scored seven points in a 106-95 home victory over the Chicago Bulls yesterday.

Cavs’ leader LeBron James fell just short of a triple-double with 25 points, nine rebounds and nine assists. Mills’ San Antonio Spurs had a lacklustre outing against Western Conference rivals the Los Angeles Clippers, going down 10586.

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Licence extended Newcastle have seen Wellington’s warning signs, but captain Nigel Boogaard still reckons the Phoenix might be over-confident heading to Hunter Stadium. It’s been a good news week for the Phoenix, who shocked high-flying Western Sydney last Sunday and were yesterday granted their long-desired 10-year A-League licence extension by Football Federation Australia. Ernie Merrick’s Blake Powellinspired squad will ride the momentum all the way to the Jets’ home ground today, looking to build on their victory.

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lected while almost doing likewise with a 12-point advantage in the fourth.

Whenever Melbourne were threatening to land a gamechanging blow, the Breakers leaned on their veterans and hit back with equal force.

Cedric Jackson, naturally, was the chief aggressor, scoring nine of his team-high 20 points in the final period to illustrate why his tenure with the Breakers always ends in glory.

The two other keys in the offensive triumvirate, Tom Abercrombie and Corey Webster, combined for 30 points as the Breakers continued to share the ball well. Alex Pledger had eight points and 11 rebounds while Mika Vukona was inspirational as always, setting the tone with

intensity and effort to record 11 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and four steals.

The efforts of the starting five helped nullify 24 points from NBA veteran Hakim Warrick and 23 from MVP runner-up Chris Goulding, seeing the Breakers survive a pair of speed bumps that would have derailed lesser sides.

The first came in the second quarter when, after an almost flawless start in all facets saw the Breakers lead by 11 at the opening break, Warrick began to take control.

The big man stepped off the bench to score 15 points in the opening half, running roughshod over the Breakers to help his side on a 16-1 run.

Warrick was equally effective on defence, blocking shots and pulling down rebounds as the Breakers went

ice-cold offensively to score just six points in eight second-quarter minutes.

But, if the playoff rookies were unbowed by initially falling into such a big hole, the four-time champs were never about to panic when facing their own slump.

Vukona’s seven quick points led them back into battle in the third and, after the defensive clamps were applied in typical fashion, Reuben Te Rangi’s big three at the end of the period saw his side lead by four heading to the last.

The Breakers, who had enjoyed rebounding ascendancy all night, soon assumed complete control of the offensive glass to embark on a timely 10-0 run.

And, although Melbourne pulled back within two possessions as the clock wound down, the composed defending champs wouldn’t be denied.

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World soccer’s chief ethics investigator has recommended life bans for the former presidents of the Colombian and Chilean football federations after finding cases of misconduct under FIFA rules, including bribery and corruption. Colombia’s Luis Bedoya, an ex-FIFA executive committee member, and Chile’s Sergio Jadue have already pleaded guilty in the United States to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy, according to the US Department of Justice. They are among more than three dozen officials who have been indicted in a graft scandal which has plunged soccer’s governing body FIFA into the worst crisis in its 111-year history. - Reuters

Tennis tops dodgy list Tennis accounted for nearly three quarters of all the suspicious betting alerts issued last year, according to a report from the European Sport Security Association. The organisation, established by regulated bookmakers to monitor suspicious betting patterns and guard against match fixing in sport, said 73 of the 100 events that raised concern involved tennis.

A top global bookmaker had suspended betting on a suspicious match at the Australian Open. - AAP

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Key moments ‘vital’

By DaviD Leggat Brendon McCullum wants his New Zealand team to get back to what has worked for them in his time in charge.

On the eve of his final match for his country, McCullum reflected on a performance at the Basin Reserve in the first test against Australia which was not the type what he wanted to see.

New Zealand had been a bit too keen, bit too anxious and got bitten to the tune of an innings and 52-run defeat. ‘’We’ve talked among the group and thought we were a bit too keen in the last test.

“The focus is to get back to what’s worked for us in the last three years, play with a lot of enthusiasm, play with a smile on the face and try and seize the key moments when they arrive.

“And try not to put too much pressure on ourselves,” he added.

McCullum confirmed in-form Canterbury seamer Matt Henry will replace the injured Doug Bracewell and a decision had yet to be made on whether to retain offspinner Mark Craig, who has been dealt to severely by Australia in the last four test clashes this summer, or bring in bustling left armer Neil Wagner.

On the eve of his 101st and final test, McCullum wasn’t of a mind to reflect on how his career has played out.

“The time for that will be posttest.

“At the moment I’m just focusing on enjoying my last test with the boys and make sure we play in a manner in which we’ve been able to perform in the last three years.

“It’s going to be special playing in Christchurch (where he lives) and against a very good Australian team.

“There’s a lot to look forward to.”

McCullum acknowledged the fact his final appearance will be in the city which has become home is special, plus the earthquake effect.

“To be able to do it in the home town, there’s element of romance as well.

“Hopefully we get the right result then go down to the local pub for a few beers.”

Thursday night’s mild aftershock was a reminder, not that it was needed, of the problems which have faced the people of Christchurch, and McCullum is cognisant of that.

“We had just a little reminder of what Christchurch can serve up from an earthquake point of view in the past week.

“That’s the beauty of sport sometimes, you give the people of Christchurch the ability to get out and support their team and enjoy the occasion rather than worrying too much about things rocking and rolling.”

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Matt Henry changes from coloured clothes to the whites for today’s first day of the second test at Hagley Oval. PHOTO AP

McCullum the master blaster For many cricket fans, a wellstruck six is the greatest thrill. Few have provided more than Brendon McCullum. Dylan Cleaver reports.

Brendon McCullum will finish his career with 91 T20 international sixes and 200 One Day International sixes.

He enters his final test on 100 sixes, a joint world record. To date he has scored 2346 runs over the rope in international cricket.

To give you some idea of the scale of that achievement, Ross Taylor, a magnificent ball-striker and prolific six-hitter, has little more than half the total of runs hit from sixes.

As the light dims on his international career, McCullum has taken increasing pride in his ability to clear the ropes.

After bringing up his 200th ODI maximum, in his final ODI innings, against Australia at Seddon Park, he admitted knowing exactly how many sixes he needed to get there.

But his test record is more impressive.

“It’s the only record I care about, and the only one Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor aren’t going to break,” said McCullum

when he got to 100, a total that ties him with Adam Gilchrist.

It might pain him to know that his record is likely to be surpassed by a New Zealander, but not one that will go down in the annals as a great, or even average batsman.

With 55 sixes to his name in just 46 tests, as long as he stays fit, Tim Southee will climb past his total.

But unless the 36-year-old Chris Gayle (98 sixes), makes a dramatic return to the test fold, McCullum’s record will stand for some time.

Ted Williams, the legendary Boston Red Sox slugger, once said: “Without question the hardest single thing to do in sport is to hit a baseball.”

Without wanting to cast aspersions on the Splendid Splinter, his was a fairly narrow view of sport, but hitting a baseball safely is a difficult task with a rounded bat against pitchers who stand on a raised mound about 18.5 metres from home plate and can throw close to 160km/h.

Cricketers have the huge advantage that they can defend without any compunction to get to the other end, or first base in baseball’s lexicon.

But they also stand closer, the ball is heavier and they must contend not only with movement in the air, but variation off the wicket.

To stay balanced while generating the torque and leverage to power the ball over the boundary rope requires technique, power and, in a lot of cases, an absence of fear.

Fear is something McCullum either hasn’t recognised, or hid well.

25 per cent of his sixes have been to midwicket, sometimes known as Cow Corner.

His next most prolific area is square, where he has hit 17 per cent of his sixes, followed by long-off (15 per cent), straight (13 per cent) and long-on (12 per cent).

He has hit 10 sixes over cover.

He hit a staggering 22 per cent of his sixes in two back-to-back tests, recording 11 each against Pakistan in Sharjah and Sri Lanka in Christchurch in 2014.

Right-arm pace bowlers have accounted for 42 per cent of his sixes. Perhaps surprisingly, given his trouble with this type of bowling over the years, he punished left-arm orthodox bowlers to the

tune of 29 per cent.

Left-arm pacemen have proven difficult to get away, with just 8 per cent of sixes coming from this type of bowling.

Wellington’s Basin Reserve has been his happiest hitting ground with 12 per cent. His home ground of University Oval in Dunedin is not far behind with 11 per cent, the same as Christchurch’s Hagley Oval and Sharjah Cricket Stadium in the UAE. Monty Panesar and Zulfiqar Babar have found the middle of his bat most often, each conceding six sixes. Stuart Broad, Ravi Jadeja and Rangana Herath conceded five each.

McCullum has been far more successful in his team’s first innings, hitting 66 per cent of his sixes then.

It took McCullum seven tests to register his first six, the longest wait of his career. McCullum also went six tests without hitting a six between hooking Morne Morkel for six at Seddon Park in Hamilton in 2012 and sweeping Suraj Randiv for six in Galle, Sri Lanka, later that year.

He has hit a six batting in every position from No 1 to No 8, except No 4.

Conduct crackdown concerns Johnson Cricket fans have long enjoyed an onfield meltdown or heated exchange between batsman and bowler or fielder.

But retired test quick Mitchell Johnson is worried the game could soon be bereft of passion if proposed new rules to penalise onfield misbehaviour, including yellow cards resulting in a 10-minute sin-binning, are rolled out.

Under the proposals, bowlers who hurl the ball back at opposition batsmen could be penalised five runs, while players showing serious dissent towards officials and those caught swearing at the opposition would also earn a five-run penalty.

“I think it’s a bad idea,” Johnson said.

“It will probably prevent people from being interesting characters out in the middle.”

The MCC is asking leagues in England to trial the laws this year in an effort to clamp down on apparent declining behavioural standards.

It’s proposed players be sent off for threatening umpires, any act of violence or language that is deemed to seriously offend another person based on discrimination, while each send off or sin bin offence would also result in a five-run penalty.

Johnson has warned against over-policing players, saying he found the game less enjoyable when umpires were too hasty to get involved in situations.

“As soon as I stared at a batsman the umpires would come rushing in,” he said.

“People want to see a bit of fire in the belly as long as it doesn’t go overboard. It’s always been part of the game - it was part of Dennis Lillee’s game and it worked pretty well for him.”

The left-arm paceman has also hit out at the “annoying” failure to use technology to adjudicate no-balls after Australian batsman Adam Voges’s double century in the first Test against New Zealand.

Voges was bowled on seven by Kiwi seamer Doug Bracewell but was given not out after the delivery was apparently incorrectly ruled a no-ball.

“Bowlers are checked for a noball almost every time they take a wicket, so it’s a bit strange that it can’t work the other way,” Johnson said.

“Surely the third umpire could intervene.”

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

2 x5603 Shez Wicked (2) fr ................ C Ferguson (J) 3 07054 Lyin Eyes (3) fr .................................P Davis 4 x6078 Ducks Deluxe (4) fr .......................R Holmes 5 000 Farm Fire (5) fr ........................... J Anderson 6 40002 Anika Lindenny (6) fr .......................M Jones 7 977 Bontz (7) fr ....................................J Geddes 8 0x244 Mighty Impact (8) fr .......................B Orange 9 4 Rock N Roll Delight (9) fr ................ G Smith 10 5253 Major Four (21) fr .............................J Curtin 11 9 Thats Fine Julius (22) fr ..............D Reardon 12 66568 Green Fingers (23) fr ..................C DeFilippi 13 0050P Shelly Ann (24) fr ........................J Young (J) 7 3.20pm PGG WRIGHTSON MOBILE PACE $8500, 3yo+ c2, c3 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 1 01754 New York Town (1) fr................ S Golding (J) 2 20859 Igottastar (2) fr ........................ M Williamson 3 83073 Fulham Royale (3) fr .....................R Holmes 4 89902 Mysistersastar (4) fr .........................R Close 5 45019 Marquis Eyre (5) fr ........................L O’Reilly 6 9080x Classiebee (6) fr........................ M Edmonds 7 32511 Callenberg (7) fr ................................. R May 8 111 Alpha Rock (8) fr .............................. D Dunn 9 00453 Pay Me Visa (9) fr..........................B Orange 10 60247 Motu Lightning Lass (21) fr ..............S Ottley 11 08x00 Firebreak (22) fr ...................... C D Thornley 12 10x7x Algrancobowjoel (23) fr ................... G Smith 13 21112 Kotare Yael (24) fr.........................T Williams 14 72634 Marshal Star (25) fr .....................C DeFilippi 8 3.55pm IRON BRIDGE PROPERTY GROUP HORORATA CUP HCP PACE $14,999, 4yo+ c3 to oc spechcp pace, stand, 3000m 1 24311 Graduate Under Fire (1) fr ........ M Purvis (J) 2 32511 Callenberg fr ................................ Scratched 3 82304 Johnny Eyre (2) fr ......................... K Cox (J) 4 97209 Here We Go Again (U1) fr ....... C D Thornley 5 51858 Western Art (1) 10 ............................. R May 6 61107 Lightning Mach (2) 10 ...................... D Dunn 7 00380 Jack Hammer (3) 10.........................J Curtin 8 57713 The Friendlyassassin (4) 10 ......... G O’Reilly 9 7x522 Hug The Wind (1) 20 ....................T Williams 10 10556 Mach Cruiser (2) 20 ........................ G Smith 11 14124 Maverick (1) 30 ...........................N McGrath 9 4.30 ZELAM PACE $7500, 3yo+ c1 pace, stand, 2400m 1 82760 Sounds Swift (1) fr ........................K O’Reilly 2 90803 Midfrew Tarpediem (2) fr .............. G O’Reilly Em: Kerryn Kylie, Explosive Star, Momentous, Glenis Marie 3 31327 Joemaro (3) fr .................................. D Dunn 6 2.45pm NUFARM F&M MOBILE PACE $7000, 3yo+ 4 18 Many Options (4) fr .......................R Holmes f&m c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 5 16301 Mr Midnight (5) fr................ B Williamson (J) 1 Crackared (1) fr .................................. R May 6 21630 Alice Springs (6) fr ...........................J Curtin

5 78x66 Magical Murf (5) fr ...................... T Quate (J) 6 3223x Uralla Sue (6) fr...........................D Reardon 7 7203 Handsome Hero (7) fr .................. G O’Reilly 8 52630 Extreme Guest (8) fr ...................C DeFilippi 9 x9790 Automatic (9) fr................................... R May 10 5 Guna (10) fr......................................J Curtin 11 6706 Stonebridge Lad (11) fr ................M Heenan 12 95x06 Texas Ruler (12) fr.......................... B Hutton 13 2 Playboy (13) fr ........................... R Houghton 14 834 Caitlin Franco (14) fr .....................L O’Reilly 15 5 Well Armed (15) fr ..............................A Ford 16 0009x Dios Del Fuego (16) fr......................S Ottley 17 x3488 Volatile Lavra (U1) fr ............... C D Thornley Emergencies: Magical Murf, Extreme Guest 4 1.37pm NEVELE R FILLIES SERIES (HEAT 3) MOBILE PACE $20,000, 3yo fillies pace, mobile, 1609m 1 32082 Amazon Lily (1) fr ..........................B Orange 2 20478 Scarlett Banner (2) fr....................... G Smith 3 21262 Piccadilly Princess (3) fr.......M Anderson (J) 4 21231 Luisanabelle Midfrew (4) fr ...... M Williamson 5 15116 Emily Blunt (5) fr ................................ R May 6 11709 Real Courage (6) fr ..........................R Close 7 51211 Double Shot (7) fr............................. D Dunn 8 x1111 Golden Goddess (8) fr .................T Williams 5 2.12pm ETEC CROP SOLUTIONS TROT $7500, 3yo+ c1 trot, stand, 2400m 1 00838 Unyielding Spirit (1) fr ............. S Golding (J) 2 45808 Kerryn Kylie (2) fr .................S Tomlinson (J) 3 47433 Missie Castleton (3) fr ........................ R May 4 35310 Lynette The Vet (4) fr ................. M Edmonds 5 66946 Yankee Commando (5) fr ..............L O’Reilly 6 02000 Explosive Star (6) fr...................... G O’Reilly 7 04621 Stellar Success (7) fr....................M Heenan 8 40970 Momentous (8) fr.........................C DeFilippi 9 75573 Shadow Galleon (9) fr ...............J Smolenski 10 83787 BK Dawn (10) fr ........................... P Wakelin 11 78904 Total Exposure (11) fr..................... D Nyhan 12 87467 Sarah Palin (12) fr ............................P Davis 13 23396 Tehoro Ruby (13) fr .......................R Holmes 14 19060 Glenis Marie (14) fr ................... R Anderson 15 x2105 Cocktail Waiter fr .......................... Scratched 16 42821 Lavros Texas (15) fr...................... A Lethaby 17 162 We’ll Meet Again (16) fr.................... J Smith 18 82316 Solar Storm (U1) fr ...........................J Curtin 19 33210 Merlot (U2) fr ................................. L Newton

Emergency: Buzkil

10 5.05pm BAYER NEW ZEALAND HANDICAP TROT

Gavin Smith takes the reins behind Mach Cruiser in the Hororata Cup at the Mt Harding Racecourse tomorrow.

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23592 Romanite (7) fr ................................... R May 02321 Julia Lady (8) fr ................................S Ottley 00000 Hestia Franco (9) fr ................ J Morrison (J) 22541 Sandoval (10) fr.............................B Orange 63203 Gee Jay Easter (11) fr ......................R Close 67305 Buzkil fr ........................................ Scratched 84270 Sonnetsson (12) fr ...........................P Davis 01046 Kotare Kasai (13) fr ......................T Williams 54255 Shadow Rider (14) fr ...................C DeFilippi 00505 Going To California (15) fr ....... M Williamson

$9000, 4yo+ c2 to c6, c7 with cond. spechcp trot, stand, 2400m 1 24504 Soney Beatt (1) fr .................S Tomlinson (J) 2 20519 Young Stranger (2) fr ........................ T Grant 3 42313 Dream Big (3) fr ...............................S Ottley 4 12907 Star Commando (4) fr ......................J Curtin 5 10540 Galleons Royale (5) fr .................C DeFilippi 6 90000 Free Bird (U1) fr ...................... M Williamson 7 51300 Never Fear (1) 10 ..........................P O’Reilly 8 01140 Mon Richie (2) 10..........................L O’Reilly 9 90932 Sunny Ruby (U1) 10........................ G Smith 10 33612 Eyre I Come (U2) 10 .....................B Orange 11 12x27 Give Me Strength (1) 20 ................... D Dunn 12 x5455 Trouble Rieu (2) 20....................... S McNally 13 149x0 Any Old Way (1) 30 .......................... P Nairn 14 25125 The Earth Moved (2) 30 ..................... R May 15 55060 Zachary Binx (1) 40...................A Tomlinson 11 5.40pm PHILIP WAREING LTD MOBILE PACE $7500, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 1 19820 Ashes To Wings (1) fr ....................... D Dunn 2 67331 Star In The Future (2) fr ............ R Anderson 3 0x240 Boundary Row (3) fr ........................ G Smith 4 2363P Gunpowder (4) fr ..............................J Curtin 5 P4674 Shantahlia Romeo (5) fr ....................J Dunn 6 07019 Best Laid Plans (6) fr ................... S McNally 7 83067 Pepe Bromac (7) fr ............................. R May 8 6x034 Young Mister Grace (8) fr .............. K Cox (J) 9 0x0x0 Alan Golightly (9) fr .....................C DeFilippi 10 706P8 Wozniacki (21) fr .................. C Ferguson (J) 11 42789 Paddy McCole (22) fr .............. C D Thornley 12 P5586 Canndew (23) fr ...............................P Davis 13 76476 It’s All Over Now (24) fr ........... M Williamson 14 55310 Marat Saf Finn (25) fr ..................J Young (J) 15 90x61 Banzie (U1) fr ............................... A Lethaby Emergency: Ashes To Wings

SELECTIONS

Race 1: Sands Of Time, Markim, Missmatch, Midnight Flyer Race 2: Motu Great Sensation, Zsa Zara, Brylin Rose Race 3: Playboy, Well Armed, Handsome Hero, Sioux West Race 4: Golden Goddess, Luisanabelle Midfrew, Emily Blunt Race 5: We’ll Meet Again, Shadow Galleon, Stellar Success Race 6: Anika Lindenny, Major Four, Mighty Impact, Crackared Race 7: Callenberg, Kotare Yael, Algrancobowjoel Race 8: Hug The Wind, The Friendlyassassin, Johnny Eyre Race 9: Romanite, Many Options, Sandoval, Alice Springs Race 10: Eyre I Come, The Earth Moved, Sunny Ruby Race 11: Pepe Bromac, Boundary Row, Marat Saf Finn

Auckland gallops Today at Ellerslie Raceway

Auckland RC Venue: Ellerslie Meeting Date: 20 Feb 2016 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.32pm MACULAR DEGENERATION NZ 1500 OPEN HANDICAP $30,000, OPN HCP, 1500m 1 0x640 Fast Dragon t (2) 60 ...................G Cooksley 2 88100 King Krovanh t (3) 59 ........................L Innes 3 11442 Consensus t (1) 58..........................A Collett 4 13117 Saint Emilion (5) 56.5....................O Bosson 5 1x121 Snapshot t (4) 54.5 ......................... C Grylls 2 1.07 HAMILTON EYE CLINIC 1600 RATING 65 $25,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1600m 1 x4132 What A Diva (7) 60 ...................... D Johnson 2 20093 High Class (10) 59 ..........................R Myers 3 60x01 Capriella d (8) 59 ..............................L Innes 4 140x3 Tiffany’s t (3) 59.............................O Bosson 5 15 Honour Princess (6) 58.5 ................ S Spratt 6 7x51 Thatsforsure t (5) 58.5................M Coleman 7 246x1 Elfee t (13) 58.5...........................C Lammas 8 4163 Doubtless Princess b (11) 58 Magorrian (a1) 9 88303 Lustrous (2) 58 ..............................L Allpress 10 21637 Stacey Ann t (12) 58 ...................T Thornton 11 185x0 She Is Stryking m (1) 57.5 ..............A Collett 12 19786 Keandra m (9) 55.5 ....................... R Norvall 13 79097 Lola Brigida (4) 54......................R Elliot (a3) 3 1.42pm ESSILOR 1200 RATING 85 $25,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1200m 1 36228 Cartell td (1) 61 .......................... Z Moki (a3) 2 39020 Smartly td (5) 59.5 ............ U Holmquist (a2) 3 81605 Forefront tdm (8) 59.5 .................T Thornton

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52119 Fully Funded td (12) 59.5 ..............M McNab 93640 Riding Shotgun t (3) 59.5 ................A Collett 22532 Biggin Hill td (11) 58.5 x1251 Smashing d (9) 56.......................C Lammas x640x Marky Mark td (4) 55.5 ......................L Innes 3x300 Charmont (10) 55 ..........................O Bosson 122x3 Kinagat d (7) 54 .......................... C Johnson 23171 Rock My Soul d (6) 54 3x94x Saoirse d (2) 54 ............................L Allpress 4 2.17pm RETINA SPECIALISTS 1200 RATING 65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 1x702 Ina Canta (3) 60 .............................. C Grylls 2 154 Straight Sets b (7) 60 .........L Magorrian (a1) 3 716 Go Nicholas td (8) 60 ....................O Bosson 4 459x3 Goodspeed (1) 59.5 ................... Z Moki (a3) 5 3318x Lord Bentley (9) 59.5 ......................J Riddell 6 03612 Sleek Secret d (5) 58.5 ...................R Myers 7 57x14 Ruby Bloom 58.5 ......................... Scratched 8 x0007 Scusa td (6) 58.5...........................L Allpress 9 216x Eight Points db (4) 58.....................V Colgan 10 1203x Sheradream mb (2) 58 ...............R Elliot (a3) 11 740x2 Parisdotcon dm (10) 56.5 ............ D Johnson 5 2.52pm MACULAR DEGENERATION NZ 1600 RATING 75 $22,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 14012 Maid Of Steel td (4) 60 ...............R Elliot (a3) 2 166x0 Altius td (12) 59 ..................L Magorrian (a1) 3 x2786 Bulldozer dm (7) 58.5...................... D Nolan 4 0x063 The Rich Lister (9) 58.5 ..............C Lammas 5 98933 Our Pink Diamond td (5) 58 ....... L Satherley 6 x042x Zeldara b (1) 57 ............................O Bosson

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x5215 Marciano (6) 57 ............................... S Spratt x1107 Douro t (14) 56.5 ...............................L Innes 70495 Light Shadow t (2) 56.5 ...............T Thornton 72325 Waipipi Lad dm (11) 56.5 ..............L Allpress 94172 Downton Abbey d (3) 56 ................V Colgan 11005 Dragon Dancer t (13) 56 78696 Dalezinga td (10) 55.5................M Coleman 23205 Palace Rock d (8) 54................... D Johnson 6 3.28pm GO RACING SYNDICATIONS AVONDALE CUP GROUP II $100,000, OPN HCP, 2400m 1 25436 Benzini t (14) 59 ..............................R Myers 2 13116 Jimmy Mac mb (10) 57.5 ..............L Allpress 3 60313 Decorah tdm (15) 57 .....................O Bosson 4 52774 Farm Boy tdb (12) 56.5 ..................V Colgan 5 00818 Pondarosa Miss tb (6) 55 ............T Thornton 6 64239 King Kamada d (2) 54.5 .............. D Johnson 7 55501 Mister Impatience (5) 54 ................. S Spratt 8 27530 Show The World t (13) 53 ..........M Coleman 9 54621 Rose Of Virginia t (1) 52..............C Lammas 10 35122 Seventeen Seventy t (9) 52 . U Holmquist (a) 11 18161 Sacred Master t (3) 52 ..................M McNab 12 27099 Smedley tm (11) 52 ......................R Elliot (a) 13 60222 Apache Fireworks t (7) 52 ...............A Collett 14 63615 Cheeky Boy t (8) 52 15 41335 El Pistola (16) 52........................ L Satherley 16 00655 Arite Guru (4) 52 ...................A Schwerin (a) 7 4.03pm AUCKLAND EYE AVONDALE GUINEAS GROUP II $100,000, 3YO SW, 2100m 1 14231 Dukedom (17) 56.5 .......................L Allpress 2 14131 Rangipo t (11) 56.5 ........................V Colgan

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61121 Son Of Maher (16) 56.5 .............. C Johnson 03212 Raghu t (18) 56.5 ..........................M McNab 2x223 Get That Jive m (12) 56.5 .............O Bosson 16028 It’s Ben Again (14) 56.5 121 Predator (10) 56.5 ...........................J Riddell 71059 Thunder Down Under td (21) 56.5 ..............................L Magorrian (a) 9 05336 Zacada (15) 56.5............................. C Grylls 10 34816 Brighton t (8) 56.5 ..............................L Tiley 11 48565 Ali Baba (9) 56.5 ......................... D Johnson 12 11005 Dragon Dancer t (13) 56.5 ..........C Lammas 13 65171 The Hassler dm (2) 56.5 ............M Coleman 14 50150 Gravano tm (6) 56.5 ........................ S Spratt 15 141 Provocative td (20) 54.5 ....................L Innes 16 42235 His Majesty (1) 56.5 17 23262 Splendido (7) 56.5......................G Cooksley 18 22137 Bamurru t (5) 56.5 19 15674 What’s The Story b (3) 56.5 20 5x213 Zambezi Warrior (4) 56.5 21 04x71 Gobstopper (19) 56.5 Emergencies: His Majesty, Splendido, Bamurru, What’s The Story, Zambezi Warrior, Gobstopper 8 4.38 RUTHERFORD REDE 2100 RATING 65 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 x6079 Chipandchase td (6) 60............... D Johnson 2 42235 His Majesty (13) 59.5 ....................O Bosson 3 23262 Splendido (8) 59.5......................G Cooksley 4 22137 Bamurru t (7) 59 ..............................R Myers 5 04x71 Gobstopper (3) 58.5 ......................L Allpress 6 15674 What’s The Story b (2) 58.5 ............ S Spratt

7 5x213 Zambezi Warrior (4) 58.5 ..............M McNab 8 57323 Laddie Of Oakview (18) 58.5 ............L Innes 9 x1571 Geppetto’s Girl 60 ........................ Scratched 10 94245 Soul Sista (11) 58 ...........................J Riddell 11 10402 Bishop Rock b (10) 58 ................C Lammas 12 34251 Prodigal Son d (16) 58 .......L Magorrian (a1) 13 74x51 Zastella (1) 57 ................................V Colgan 14 54391 Neala t (9) 56.5 ............................. R Norvall 15 84238 Irish (5) 56.5 .................................... R Jones 16 0x205 Lady Kalimara (20) 56.5.............M Coleman 17 33009 Raaj (19) 57.5 18 83450 Team Pete t (14) 57 19 54276 Emmuska d (15) 55 20 x0860 Castle Ridge (17) 56 21 60099 Saved By The Bell tdm (12) 55 Blinkers on: Marky Mark, Charmont (R3), Waipipi Lad (R5), Benzini (R6), Provocative (R7), Bishop Rock (R8) Blinkers off: Stacey Ann (R2), Brighton, Gravano, His Majesty, Gobstopper (R7), His Majesty, Gobstopper (R8) Winkers on: Ali Baba, Gravano (R7) Winkers off: Benzini (R6), Provocative (R7) SELECTIONS Race 1: Consensus, Snapshot, King Krovanh, Fast Dragon Race 2: What A Diva, Tiffany’s, Capriella, Thatsforsure Race 3: Riding Shotgun, Marky Mark, Smashing, Biggin Hill Race 4: Sleek Secret, Eight Points, Ina Canta, Straight Sets Race 5: Downton Abbey, Maid Of Steel, Douro, Marciano Race 6: Sacred Master, Farm Boy, Decorah, King Kamada Race 7: Provocative, Get That Jive, Rangipo, Predator, Raghu Race 8: Zastella, What’s The Story, His Majesty, Soul Sista

2 11161 Opawa Knocka 30.52 J &................D Fahey 3 25328 Jinja Roman 30.59 J & ....................D Fahey 4 42225 Miss Valley Inn 30.10 ...................C Roberts 5 58352 Opawa Zena 30.27 L & ...................... Wales 6 74814 Homebush Buck 30.60 ...........J T McInerney 7 13787 Lagoon Mytye 30.29 ....................C Roberts 8 F1517 Fekitoa 30.10 ................................R Adcock 9 7358x Opawa Grunter 30.38 L & .................. Wales 10 18877 Goldstar Junior 30.58 S & ...............B Evans 9 9.14 OPAWA BOWL & JACK TAVERN DASH C2, 295m 1 31475 Ohoka Coby 17.13 ....................... L Waretini 2 55742 Goldstar Bomber 17.35 S & ............B Evans 3 75x83 May May Last 17.22 ........................J Tanner 4 14153 Apollo Baxter nwtd .................J T McInerney 5 17838 Thrilling Echo 17.55 M & ...................Jopson 6 55633 Homebush Slinky 17.42 .........J T McInerney 7 33154 Mighty Mac 17.48...............................C Weir 8 34175 Glory Hog 17.55 .....................J T McInerney 9 46867 Hello Blondie 17.36 .......................R Adcock 10 87888 Homebush Fine 17.62............J T McInerney 10 9.36pm LIVAMOL STAKES HEAT 2 C2q, 520m 1 21238 Lagoon Twist 30.33 ......................C Roberts 2 88788 Botany Richie 30.30 ...............J T McInerney 3 58453 Cawbourne Kenny 30.67..............C Roberts 4 14525 All About Echo 30.36 ........................J Dunn 5 61462 Opawa Paul 30.64 L & ....................... Wales 6 67613 Thrilling Luke 30.47 M & ...................Jopson 7 31124 Opawa Cookie 30.22 J & ................D Fahey

8 x5216 Paua Shot 30.52 J & .......................D Fahey 9 7358x Opawa Grunter 30.38 L & .................. Wales 10 86767 Punch On Jaime 30.69 ..........J T McInerney 11 9.54pm CHRISTCHURCHGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ DASH C3, 295m 1 56152 Om Nom Nom 17.22 ..............J T McInerney 2 33111 Grifinator 17.40 C & ........................... Fagan 3 78161 Terra Alert 17.31 C & ......................... Fagan 4 63215 Greet The Judge 17.35 H & ................Taylor 5 11733 Struggle Is Real 17.61 H & .................Taylor 6 82272 Wine Time nwtd .....................J T McInerney 7 54211 Royal Action 17.37 S & ...................B Evans 8 32443 Tell The Boys 17.27 ................J T McInerney 9 44343 Candyboy 17.48 C & .......................... Fagan 10 52652 Another Fan 17.38 .................J T McInerney 12 10.15pm THE TURF BAR SPRINT C2, 295m 1 32343 Tepirita Hendrix 17.16 ............J T McInerney 2 53787 Botany Zenvo 17.33 ...............J T McInerney 3 41362 Tilt nwtd.........................................R Adcock 4 66331 Unreliable Andy 17.35...............A Bradshaw 5 35565 Will Excite 17.28 .......................... L Waretini 6 67861 Look At Lucy 17.21 M & ...................... Smith 7 63518 That’s A Wrap 17.45 H &.....................Taylor 8 33642 Bellwave 17.20 ................................J Tanner 9 36677 Bad Week 17.33.....................J T McInerney 10 87888 Homebush Fine 17.62............J T McInerney

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington 1 22756 Barcia Express nwtd ....................... M Grant 7 Gina McBell nwtd ...................J T McInerney Raceway Meeting Date: 20 Feb 2016 NZ Meeting num- 2 34582 Ekali nwtd J & .................................D Fahey 8 48243 Reality nwtd ..................................... B Dann ber: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 3 73536 King Caesar nwtd.........................M Roberts 9 2FT88 Promises Maid nwtd..................... K Cassidy 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 4 355 Jinja Brian nwtd............................A Waretini 10 8xF48 Gordons My Mate nwtd .............. D T Barnes 10, 11 and 12 5 843 Totes nwtd ..............................J T McInerney 6 8.19pm ISLINGTON TAVERN DASH C2, 295m 6 24325 Opawa Whisper nwtd L &................... Wales 1 6.30pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C0, 295m 1 87647 In The Boot nwtd S & ......................B Evans 7 66473 Big Catch nwtd .............................C Roberts 1 3 Zircon nwtd ............................J T McInerney 2 53317 Ebony Fancy 17.33 ......................... M Grant 8 55548 Culvie Den nwtd H & ...........................Taylor 2 37637 Kelly’s Boy nwtd ............................... S Whall 3 76782 Mulberry Brook 17.45................... K Cassidy 9 2FT88 Promises Maid nwtd..................... K Cassidy 3 534 Fancy Nomikai nwtd ......................... B Dann 4 42311 Smoking Marley 17.38 ..............A Bradshaw 4 2664 Southern Blue nwtd............................C Weir 10 77x8x Feral Poutini nwtd.........................M A Butler 5 87254 Harden Faster 17.38 M & ..................Jopson 5 Chill Out Rach nwtd M & ...................Jopson 4 7.30pm HAMPDEN TAVERN STAKES C0, 520m 6 37658 Homebush Riley 17.42 ...........J T McInerney 1 Opawa Gail nwtd L & ......................... Wales 6 45525 Belfast Barry nwtd H & ........................Taylor 7 38555 Maudie’s Babe 17.18 C & .................. Fagan 2 2754T Opawa Janet nwtd L & ....................... Wales 7 Machine Man nwtd ......................D Kingston 8 55255 Baduzzi 17.48 ........................J T McInerney 3 43223 Opawa Faith nwtd L & ........................ Wales 8 8 King Simba nwtd ..........................M Roberts 9 36677 Bad Week 17.33.....................J T McInerney 4 1 Jaybe Albie nwtd J & .......................D Fahey 10 7x778 Thumb Print Tony nwtd ..........J T McInerney 9 2FT88 Promises Maid nwtd..................... K Cassidy 5 365 Opawa Diva nwtd L &......................... Wales 7 8.36pm MAC DEVELOPMENTS SPRINT C2, 295m 10 34878 Jinga Snag nwtd ..............................A Joyce 6 Goldstar Scooter nwtd S &..............B Evans 2 6.50pm BARRONS SUPPLIES DASH C1, 295m 1 28366 Giganaire 17.41 S &........................B Evans 7 56 Goldstar Dallas nwtd S & ................B Evans 1 68845 Mr. November 17.48 ...............J T McInerney 2 27684 Kingman 17.39 ................................ M Grant 8 26332 Opawa Libby nwtd L & .......................

Wales 2 54875 Another Zircon 17.45 .............J T McInerney 3 34668 Thunder Storm 17.42 .............J T McInerney 9 78 Opawa Bucks nwtd L & ......................

Wales 3 32214 Alex Rumble 17.43 .................J T McInerney 4 F2213 Rapaki Kath 17.44 H & .......................Taylor 4 58756 Crystall McBell nwtd...............J T McInerney 10 68875 Some Excitment nwtd .................D Kingston 5 65651 Homebush Gru 17.41.............J T McInerney 5 3622F Uno James nwtd L & .......................... Wales 5 7.58pm GARDEN CITY CHEM DRY SPRINT C0, 295m 6 13238 Cawbourne Teash nwtd...................J Tanner 1 48 Sahara Sam nwtd H & ........................Taylor 6 57837 Homebush Bruno 17.34 .........J T McInerney 7 23416 Big Muddy 17.29 M &.......................... Smith 2 28825 Another Relm nwtd ................J T McInerney 7 52112 Royal Bash 17.35 ............................. B Dann 8 86418 Another Belle nwtd .................J T McInerney 3 Smash Fire nwtd ............................. M Grant 8 48767 Lil Danny Rascal 17.29 ..........J T McInerney 9 46867 Hello Blondie 17.36 .......................R Adcock 4 42256 Chile Mustard nwtd ......................A Waretini 10 7x778 Thumb Print Tony nwtd ..........J T McInerney 9 47786 Another Vespa nwtd ...............J T McInerney 5 8 Flash The Cash nwtd ...................A Williams 8 8.56pm LIVAMOL STAKES HEAT 1 C2q, 520m 10 88887 Piece 17.75 ............................J T McInerney 6 7 You’re The Best nwtd .........................C Weir 3 7.10pm COALGATE TAVERN DASH C0, 295m 1 18553 Thoracic 30.49 .......................J T McInerney

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 February 20, 2016

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In brief Puccini back on track Multiple New Zealand Group One winner Puccini makes a fresh start at Flemington today. Raced by his Cambridge breeders Paul and Cushla Smithies, the five-year-old will be ridden by Mark Zahra in the Ascot Racecourse Trophy over 1400 metres. Puccini won the New Zealand Derby and the Thorndon Mile before he joined Darren Weir’s stable last spring. He ran second in the Gr.3 Eclipse Stakes and was spelled after an unplaced run in the Gr.2 Villiers Stakes in December.

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Memorable home win Emma Glasgow has matching riding and training records after sending out her first winner on her home track at Wanganui. The 28-yearold celebrated on Thursday when Kenya was successful at his third race day appearance under Rosie Myers. “He’s always been pretty professional in his work,” Glasgow said. “He’s going to like a bit more ground as well.” Glasgow holds an amateur rider’s licence and posted her first winner when successful aboard Grey Guru last winter.- NZME

Savaria eyes cup

The brains trust of the World Cup-winning All Blacks side on the podium at the Halberg Awards on Thursday night.

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■ HALBERG AWARDS

Halberg hat-trick Richie McCaw seemed genuinely thrilled. Kane Williamson was genuinely surprised.

And Steve Hansen was as genuine as ever.

The 53rd Halberg Awards unfolded with some predictable results on Thursday night, but that didn’t detract from the emotion.

The All Blacks took out the team of the year - beating Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, Hamish Bond and Eric Murray and the Black Caps - and then won the Halberg Supreme Award.

Williamson was crowned sportsman of the year, Hansen picked up the coaching gong for the second time and Lydia Ko won her third consecutive sportswoman award.

McCaw has won numerous honours in an incredible career but was obviously touched by the accolade, which was presented

by Willie Apiata and Valerie Adams.

“It doesn’t get any better than that in New Zealand sport,” said McCaw. “[But] a night like tonight is not about making one win better than the other.

“The calibre of the men and women in the room tonight was pretty awesome.

“Just to be able to celebrate that, but also to take a moment to reflect, which as sportsmen we don’t do that that well, the suc-

cess that you have had, all of the hard work has paid off.”

It marked the third time the All Blacks have won the supreme award, after their wins in 1987 and 2011, also following World Cup success.

Rob Waddell and Valerie Adams are the only others to achieve a hat-trick of Supreme awards.

Williamson ended 2015 ranked as the world’s No. 1 batsman, after a calendar year where he scored five test centuries in a haul of more than 1100 test runs.

His stellar year also boasted a test average of 90.15 from 16 innings and a career best score of 242 not out.

“I was definitely surprised, shocked,” said the modest Williamson.

“To get this award, looking at the nominees in the category, guys who have achieved so much.

I don’t know how they choose one but I am truly humbled to win this award.

“I’ve never been before so even to be invited to the awards is a pretty special thing.”

Hansen spent most of the night either on stage, or facing the media.

“I’m very lucky to be well supported by my family, some great staff and some extraordinary players,” said Hansen after receiving the coach of the year again, after winning it in 2012.

Hansen has masterminded an extraordinary run with the All Blacks - which culminated with the win at Twickenham last year - but said the most important focus now was to “put a full stop on what has been achieved”.

“We have got five great All Blacks who have just finished so people will see us a a bit vulnerable,” Hansen said.

“But it’s a great challenge to show people that we are not and that challenge will be the one that ignites us this year.”

Ko - who is competing in Adelaide - expressed her gratitude via video link, as did Sophie Pascoe, who took the disabled sportsperson award for the fourth time, after winning six medals (including three golds) at the IPC Swimming World Championships.

Ko was the favourite in a strong female category, after finishing the year ranked the world’s number one female golfer, winning five LPGA titles and becoming the youngest ever winner of a women’s major.

Grant Elliott’s unforgettable six to win the Cricket World Cup was voted the sporting moment of the year while Elliott’s retiring captain Brendon McCullum won the Sport New Zealand Leadership award.

Pole vaulter Eliza McCartney, who broke a world junior record in December, won the emerging

talent award, ahead of track cyclist Campbell Stewart, basketball player Tai Wynyard and trampolinist Dylan Schmidt.

Lance O’Sullivan (horse racing), Sir Don Rowlands (rowing), Lesley Rumball (netball) and Mark Sorenson (softball) were all inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame and Ashley Taylor was recognised with the Lifetime Achievement Award for services to athletics.

THE WINNERS Halberg Award: All Blacks (rugby) Team of the Year: All Blacks (rugby) Sportsman of the Year: Kane Williamson (cricket) Sportswoman of the Year: Lydia Ko (golf) Disabled Sportsperson of the Year: Sophie Pascoe (para-swimming) Emerging Talent: Eliza McCartney (athletics) Coach of the Year: Steve Hansen (rugby) Sport New Zealand Leadership Award: Brendon McCullum New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame induction: Lance O’Sullivan (horse racing), Sir Don Rowlands (rowing), Lesley Rumball (netball) and Mark Sorenson (softball) Lifetime Achievement Award: Ashley Taylor (athletics)

Last year’s New Zealand Oaks winner Savaria will be back in familiar territory when she tackles the Gr.3 Platinum Homes Taranaki Cup today. The Roydon Bergersontrained mare finished second to Thee Auld Floozie in the Oaks Prelude at the same meeting last year, which was a stepping stone to success in the Lowland Stakes and the Oaks. “It worked well last year and I just hope the pace is on and she will run home well,” Bergerson said. “Looking ahead, I thought the Bonecrusher might be a nice target and a bit lighter on quality – obviously no Soriano and hopefully no Kawi.”

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New standard set Lucrative incentives for owners and trainers has seen the Poverty Bay Turf Club rewarded with full fields for tomorrow. The Gisborne-based club has attracted 109 runners this year, a massive increase from the 53 horses that greeted the starter last year.

Incentives included travel subsidies of $500 for horses trained north of Gisborne and $400 for those from the south; the $161 jockeys’ fee is paid for by the club for all starters; and using a points based system, the trainer accumulating the most points on the day will take home a $10,000 prize.

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Benzini to improve Rosie Myers knows when she wants Benzini to shine brightest - in the Gr.1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup at Ellerslie on March 12 - but she still wants the assurance of knowing he is on track when he tackles today’s Avondale Cup at the same course. The Palmerston North rider has formed a close assocation with Benzini, having ridden him 20 times for five wins, as well as a relegated second during Auckland Cup week two years ago. The combination was sent out as second favourite in last year’s Auckland Cup after wins in the Wairarapa Cup, Listed Kaimai Stakes and Nathans Memorial in Benzini’s three leadup races, eventually finishing sixth to favourite Rock Diva.

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Investment markets update Global Environment

Fixed Interest Market

In terms of growth, the United States continues to lead the developed economies, driven by increasing wage inflation and lower unemployment. This is supporting the consumer sectors of the economy and boosting household spending.

Lower oil prices have also helped household disposable incomes in developed economies.

On the other side, the lower earnings from oil production affecting a number of emerging economies have led to concerns of a negative economic impact. Concerns around Chinese growth also remain, particularly in relation to China’s weaker industrial production. While this ignores their growing services sector, the likely overall outcome is for global growth forecasts to continue to ease back.

Interest rates were slightly lower over the last three months. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) cut the Official Cash Rate in December, but commentary at the time (and subsequently) suggests that the RBNZ is reluctant to make further cuts. Commentary noting that the NZD/USD exchange rate was “unhelpful” does however imply that an easing bias remains and that another move lower cannot be ruled out.

Longer-term interest rates also moved lower, but the higher default risk emerging globally has led to higher corporate credit margin spreads (the interest rate differential between corporate and wholesale bond rates). New Zealand spreads had been lagging international trends, but with some increase in issuance, investors have been able to be more discerning, influencing the yields on offer.

Australian and NZ Equity Markets Many equity markets declined over the last three months, as investors reduced equity exposures in response to weaker global growth. Rising credit spreads (corporate versus wholesale interest rates) indicated corporate default risks had increased.

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terms, the New Zealand and Australian equity markets managed positive returns over the quarter. The Australian market was boosted by the performance of its more defensive sectors, in particular the Healthcare and Telecommunication sectors. The resource sectors continued to weaken as a direct reflection of lower commodity prices.

Global Equity Markets Reviewing the international equity markets we monitor, United States and Japanese equities were the best of the major markets.

United States equities were generally more resilient and benefited from an improving consumer sector. Japanese equities meanwhile gave up most of the gains that were created by the Bank of Japan’s stock-buying plan, but unhedged New Zealand investors benefited from the stronger Yen. European and Hong Kong equities were the worst performers.

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

$136.5 million, with its hotel operations posting a 3.6 per cent gain to $86.1 million. The hotels lifted their occupancy rate to 77.1 percent in the year from 73.7 per cent in 2014.

“This increased dividend reflects the increased operational profitability in 2015 as well as the board’s confidence in the future consistent profitability from MCK’s core operations,” the company said.

Millennium anticipates generating higher returns from a series of hotel refurbishments, and said it will also benefit from New Zealand’s growth in tourism.

The company’s $40 million upgrade of the Copthorne Hotel Auckland Harbourcity is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2017.

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evidence before me, although the focus of the decision paper on the exchange came perilously close to risking the wrong legal test being applied to the revocation decision, I consider the directorgeneral did satisfy himself of what was required.”

The judge agreed with Forest & Bird that “two distinct decisions” are needed to exchange conservation land for other land, but disagreed with the lobby’s argument that a land-swap was irrelevant to the decision to revoke conservation status.

“Enhancing the conservation values of land managed by DoC (Department of Conservation) is

not the test for the revocation decision, which involves a broader conception of conservation purposes than only reference to what happens on land managed by Doc,” the judge said. “In making the revocation decision, the decision-maker must satisfy himself or herself that there is a good and proper basis, founded in conservation purposes.”

The judge found the directorgeneral satisfied himself that there was a good and proper basis, founded on conservation purposes, to revoke the land’s status and allow the swap, while acknowledging “the basis on which the decision was made is harder to establish.”

Justice Palmer didn’t award costs, saying “because Forest & Bird has competently and responsibly advanced legitimate arguments in the public interest I would be reluctant to award costs against them, but would consider submissions from the parties on that matter if they wish me to do so.”

In a statement, Forest & Bird said it was considering the judgment and may appeal the ruling.

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Millenium & Copthorne Hotels New Zealand, the hotel operator and property developer, raised its annual dividend payment as increased occupancy helped deliver a boost in underlying earnings.

The Auckland-based company will pay a dividend of 2.8 cents per share on May 20, up from 2.4 cents a year earlier, after its hotel operations delivered a better performance and its property development unit lifted land sales. Net profit after minorities fell to $21.7 million, or 13.7 cents per share, in calendar 2015, from $30.2 million, or 9.54 cents, a year earlier, when it recorded a one-off $17.6 million gain from the distribution of its shareholding in Chinese property developer First Sponsor Group.

Revenue rose 4.9 per cent to

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The High Court has rejected a bid by the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society to overturn a land swap letting 22 hectares of Ruahine Forest Park be flooded as part of the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme.

The environmental lobby sought to block the director-general of conservation’s decision revoking the conservation status of the land that lay within the footprint of the proposed reservoir.

The land exchange was preferred over Hawke’s Bay Regional Investment Co seeking a concession application which was unlikely to be in line with the Conservation Act. In a judgment released yesterday, Justice Matthew Palmer agreed with some of Forest & Bird’s submissions on the law, but rejected its challenge to the decision. He also dismissed two other challenges, one which didn’t apply, and the other because it was premature.

“It would be artificial and inimical to good public administration for the public submissions and the decision on revocation to be prevented by law from taking into account the proposed land exchange,” the judgment. “On the

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Do you know the road rules?

Erin Tasker

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ummy, you’re a crazy driver, I know cos daddy told me you are.”

Words of wisdom from the threeyear-old in the back seat of the car on a stinking hot Monday afternoon, stuck in traffic on Blenheim Road in Christchurch.

There are crazy drivers in this world, but I don’t think I’m one of them, although my husband apparently disagrees.

But sitting there waiting for the lights to change, it did make me think about driving and the challenges we face on a daily basis on the roads. There are the people who still don’t get the “new” give way rule, which has now been in place for a few years, or people who don’t indicate – or indicate incorrectly – at roundabouts.

Every town probably has its special quirks when it comes to roads and driving, and to me, one of Ashburton’s is Chalmers Avenue; in particular turning off Chalmers Avenue.

If there are no other cars, no worries, but how many people have found themselves sitting at a Chalmers Avenue intersection with all of the controlled stops full, with drivers sitting there looking at each other wondering who has the right of way? Vehicles inch forward, then stop, inch forward, then stop, until someone waves someone through to get things moving. Ringing any bells with anyone? It’s certainly not your average, simple intersection.

Many years ago, I asked a road safety official if we could do a story on the intersections and who exactly had the right of way. But it was put in the too hard basket and never happened.

Every time I hear there’s been an accident on Chalmers Avenue, I wonder if confusion over who was in the right, was to blame.

Roads will be safe so long as everyone sticks to the rules, but when the rules are confusing, that’s where there’s trouble.

It’s like when traffic lights are out; it takes people a minute to work out who’s doing what. Fortunately scheduled upgrade work to the two sets of lights on West Street over the coming days will include stop/go men to control traffic.

We all probably think our Road Code knowledge is good, but it could be interesting if everyone had to re-sit their licence every few years, to see how well we actually know the rules.

Fortunately in Ashburton things are pretty cut and dried in most places. We don’t have multi-laned highways, and our speed limit across town is the same.

But there will always be challenges on our road; crazy drivers included.

YOUR VIEW Three strikes It is hard to imagine why David Seymour would be surprised that on 100 per cent of occasions where it applied, judges have used an out in the three strikes law to avoid applying it.

It was wishful thinking to ever think any different.

At the time it was passed the ACT party made a great to-do about having secured the law, but analysis at the time showed that it had been diluted to such an extent that it bore little resemblance to what ACT actually proposed and, in fact, was almost identical to the National Party’s going-in position on the law.

Here is a clue; if you are disturbed about judicial activism and desire to remove judicial discretion in certain circumstances then it is good idea not to pass a law that specifically enshrines the behaviour you are troubled about.

If the proponents of the law had been more concerned about actually effecting change and less about chalking up a win, we might have had a different result this week.

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Trump ‘not Christian’ Thrusting himself into the heated American presidential campaign, Pope Francis declared yesterday that Donald Trump is “not Christian” if he wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Trump fired back ferociously, saying it was “disgraceful” for a religious leader to question a person’s faith.

The rare back-and-forth between pontiff and presidential candidate was the latest astonishing development in an American election already roiled by Trump’s free-wheeling rhetoric and controversial policy proposals, particularly on immigration.

It also underscored the popular pope’s willingness to needle US politicians on hotbutton issues.

Francis’ comments came hours after he concluded a visit to Mexico, where he prayed at the border for people who died trying to reach the US. While speaking to reporters on the papal plane, he was asked what he thought of Trump’s campaign pledge to build a wall along the entire length of the border and expel millions of people in the US illegally.

“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” he said. While Francis said he would “give the benefit of the doubt” because he had not heard Trump’s border plans independently, he added, “I

Mice thwart traffic chaos fix As if the European Union does not have crises enough, now traffic chaos in its congested capital Brussels is being blamed on ... hungry mice. EU leaders at a recent conference found a city struggling to cope with repeated closures of key road tunnels caused by crumbling concrete and years of decay. Now the Belgian capital’s regional parliament has been told that repairs are being held up because original construction plans have been destroyed – apparently eaten by rodents. The tunnels provide vital arteries across what is often described as Europe’s most traffic-congested city. But for decades the plans for their construction were stored in the pillars under a motorway bridge, for want of space elsewhere. “They may have been eaten by mice,” the former head of the city’s infrastructure agency said.

Pope Francis has declared Donald Trump is “not Christian” if he wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

PHOTO AP say only that this man is not a Christian if he has said things like that.”

Trump, a Presbyterian and the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, responded within minutes.

“For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,” he said at a campaign stop in South Carolina, which holds a key primary on Saturday. “I am proud to be a Christian, and as president I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened.”

Trump also raised the prospect of the Islamic State ex-

tremist group attacking the Vatican, saying that if that happened, “the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened.”

Francis, the first pope from Latin America, urged Congress during his visit to Washington last year to respond to immigrants “in a way which is always humane, just and fraternal.” He irked Republicans on the same trip with his forceful call for international action to address climate change.

Cruz said he was steering

clear of the dispute. “That’s between Donald and the pope,” he said. “I’m not going to get in the middle of them.”

The long-distance exchange between the pope and Trump came two days before the voting in South Carolina, a state where 78 per cent of adults identify as Christian, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2014 US Religious Landscape Study. Of that group, 35 per cent identify as evangelical and 10 per cent as Catholic, the survey found.

It’s unclear what impact, if any, the pope’s rhetoric will have, here or in other states.

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Butt double used in Shades It has been revealed US actress Dakota Johnson had a butt double for sex scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey, because the film’s cinematographer didn’t like her tattoo. As filming on the film’s sequel gets under way, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has told the The New York Times he had to find a double for the 26-year-old actress because Johnson’s rear-end ink was so visible – and her character didn’t have any skin art.

“I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed,” Johnson previously told Porter magazine, “but now I’ve outgrown them mostly. “I always have to cover them for jobs.

God, they’re annoying.”

‘I could feel my intestines outside my body’ Nearly a year has passed since Michele Wilkins had her unborn child “removed” from her womb during a heinous attack that occurred after she responded to a Craigslist ad offering free maternity clothes.

This week, in a courtroom in Boulder, Colorado, the 27-year-old quietly and tearfully recounted that harrowing experience for jurors on the first day of her alleged attacker’s trial.

The attack began unexpectedly, Wilkins said, when she found herself in a life-or-death struggle with the woman who stands accused of cutting the 7-month-old foetus out of Wilkins’ abdomen using two kitchen knives.

It ended with Wilkins lying on a basement floor, bloodied and barely conscious, but with enough wherewithal to pick up her cellphone and dial 911.

As Wilkins recalled the episode in grisly detail, her alleged attacker – 35-year-old Dynel Lane – sat stoically nearby.

Minogue engaged?

The accused, Dynel Lane.

The victim, Michele Wilkins.

Wilkins acknowledged Lane briefly, the Associated Press reported, when she was asked her to identify her attacker.

“I just kept saying, ‘Why, why are you doing this?’”

Wilkins recalled telling Lane during the violent assault last March. “I just remember this one point where I was holding my hand over my head and I said, ‘I don’t know why you’re doing this. I love you.’”

“She said, ‘If you love me, you’ll let me do this,” before

using a broken bottle to stab Wilkins in the neck.

Lane, a former nurse’s aide, has pleaded not guilty to six felony counts, including unlawful termination of a pregnancy and attempted murder.

Though he charged Lane with attempted first-degree murder, Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett did not file murder charges against her because the coroner found no evidence the baby lived outside the womb,

the AP reported.

That controversial decision led Colorado Republicans to introduce legislation that would have made it possible for prosecutors to file murder charges against someone responsible for killing a foetus, according to the AP. The proposal was rejected

by Democratic lawmakers in the state.

Lane’s nine-day trial continues. She remains in custody on a $2 million bond.

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Kylie Minogue has been spotted wearing a huge diamond ring, fuelling engagement rumours. The Australian singer was seen wearing the dazzling square-shaped diamond on her left ring finger while attending the NME music awards on Wednesday. Minogue, 47, further fuelled speculation this week, when she was photographed by paparazzi concealing her left hand while walking in London. Not usually camera shy, the singer walked with her left hand in her jacket pocket. Minogue confirmed her romance with British actor Joshua Sasse in November last year.

According to British newspaper The Sun, Sasse, 19 years Minogue’s junior, popped the question during the Christmas holiday period. Neither Minogue or Sasse’s management have confirmed the engagement.

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Walesa ‘a paid communist informer’

Turkish soldiers carry the national flag-draped coffin of Sergeant First Class Feyyaz Ilhan, killed in Ankara’s explosion, during his funeral in Bursa, northeastern Turkey.

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Kurd rebels blamed Turkey has blamed Kurdish militants at home and in neighbouring Syria for a deadly bombing in Ankara and it stepped up pressure on the US to sever ties with the Syrian Kurdish militia that has been a key force against the Islamic State group in the complex Syrian conflict.

The blast at rush hour killed 28 people and wounded dozens more in a car bombing that targeted buses of military personnel.

Ankara’s second bombing in four months came as Turkey grappled with an array of serious issues, including renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels, threats from Islamic State militants and the Syria refugee crisis.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a Syrian national with links to Syrian Kurdish militias

carried out the attack in concert with Turkey’s own outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency. He also blamed the government of President Bashar Assad for allegedly supporting the Syrian Kurdish militia.

Turkish leaders vowed to retaliate for the Ankara attack, and the military said its warplanes conducted cross-border raids within hours against PKK positions in the Haftanin region of northern Iraq, striking about 60-70 rebels, including senior leaders. The report could not be independently verified.

Turkey had been pressing the US in recent weeks to cut off its support to the Kurdish Syrian militias that Ankara regards as ter-

rorists because of their affiliation with the PKK. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Washington to choose between Turkey and the Syrian Kurdish group as its partner.

Erdogan said the bombing would serve to make Turkey’s friends “better understand how strong are the links between PYD and YPG in Syria’s north with the PKK in Turkey.”

The ambassadors of the US, Russia, Britain, China and France — the five permanent UN Security Council members — were invited separately to Turkey’s Foreign Ministry and briefed on the Ankara bombing, a ministry official said. Ambassadors to Germany and the Netherlands, as well as the head of the European Union delegation, also were invited. - AP

Lech Walesa, the legendary anti-communist leader who played a historic role in bringing down communism in Poland and across Eastern Europe, had served as a paid informant in the 1970s for the same communist regime that he later fought, according to documents revealed publicly yesterday.

It is not yet clear how damaging the revelations will be to Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his defiant opposition to the communists and who became Poland’s first democraticallyelected president after the 1989 fall of communism.

Walesa, now 72, has long admitted that he signed a document in the 1970s agreeing to provide information to the generally-hated communist secret police, although he insisted he never informed on anyone and never took any money.

In 2000, he was cleared by a court, which said it found no evidence of collaboration.

Yesterday, Walesa suggested that the newly uncovered papers were fake and vowed to fight to clear his name.

“There can exist no documents coming from me,” Walesa said in a written message from Venezuela, where he is travelling. “I will prove that in court.”

Communism and strong controls by Moscow were imposed on Poland and other Eastern European nations after World War Two – measures despised and opposed by most people in the region.

The secret service was the regime’s harshest tool for keeping people under its control, using personal information to blackmail and discredit opponents and dissidents. - AP

In brief Penis transplant Johns Hopkins University has selected a wounded soldier as a patient for the country’s first penis transplant, Reuters reported. The university announced its intention, in December, to perform the first surgery of this kind in the United States, and surgeons there have been practising the 12-hour procedure on cadavers to prepare for their patients. The surgery could take place within the next few weeks, pending the selection of a donor of the right age and skin colour and permission of their next of kin. The first successful penis transplant was performed last year in South Africa, and has resulted in a child for the recipient.

- AP

‘Battling for Britain’ Prime Minister David Cameron has faced off against the 27 other European Union leaders, telling them to grant his country a new deal to settle the festering issue of their relationship or face a possible divorce as soon as this summer.

Cameron said he was “battling for Britain” at a Brussels summit — and for a less intrusive EU that would benefit other countries, too. But French President Francois Hollande struck a cautionary note, warning that no individual leader should be allowed to stop closer European co-operation. “It’s the EU in question, not just one country in the EU,” Hollande said .

- AP

Migration summit The European Union has called an extraordinary summit with Turkey for early March to coordinate efforts to stem the flow of migrants across the Aegean into Greece. EU Council President Donald Tusk said that the EU’s “joint action plan with Turkey remains a priority and we must do all we can to succeed.” A precise date has not been set for the summit as the meeting still has not been discussed with Turkey but it is likely to take place in the first week of March.

- AP

Condoms rejected

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Dolphin left for dead following selfies A young dolphin has died of suspected dehydration after being paraded around like a trophy and stroked by a crowd of sunbathers who then abandoned it on the sand.

The group of people huddled around the mammal taking selfies after it was found on the Argentine beach resort of Santa Teresita in the north-eastern Buenos Aires Province.

Dozens of people crowded round to look at the squirming calf as they strained to touch it, and have their photos taken with it.

The La Plata dolphin - also known as the Franciscana dolphin can live to be twenty years old.

The last tragic images show the body, abandoned on the sand, as people continue to take pictures.

The episode has caused the

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Scores of people crowd round to stroke the dolphin on a beach in Argentina. The dolphin died from dehydration after it was dumped on the sand afterwards.

Wildlife Foundation in Argentina to emit a public reminder about the vulnerable species, which only present off the coast of Ar-

gentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

“The Franciscana, like other species, cannot remain for much time outside of the water, it has

thick fatty skin which gives it heat and means that taking it out of the water rapidly causes it to dehydrate and die,” they said.

“This occasion serves to inform the public about the urgent necessity to return these dolphins to the sea as soon as possible if they find them on the shore. It is fundamental that people help to rescue these animals, because every Franciscana counts now.”

The Franciscana dolphin is listed as Vulnerable in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) Red List of Threatened Species.

However, the Franciscana is of particular conservation concern because of its restricted distribution and vulnerability to incidental capture in fishing gear.

There are only around 30,000 examples thought to be left in the world.

- Daily Mail

California officials in charge of workplace safety voted down a proposal yesterday that would have put condoms on porn actors, heeding the call of scores of industry officials who said doing so would force them to make films nobody would watch. The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s Standards Board voted the measure down when only three members supported it, Cal/Osha spokeswoman Julia Bernstein said.

- AP

Comic sells for $454,100 A Dallas-based auction house says a rare copy of a comic book featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man has sold for $454,100.

The comic book was purchased by an anonymous collector, and Heritage Auctions says the sale is a record for a public auction price for any Spider-Man comic book. The 1962 edition of Amazing Fantasy No. 15 was graded as nearmint, with a score of 9.4 on a scale of 1-to-10. Walter Yakoboski, of Long Island, New York, had bought the comic book in 1980 for $1200.

- AP

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Sunday from 9am. Allenton Rugby Club grounds.

9am - 12.30pm Public welcome.

ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, coffee and hot food. 9.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Northern end West St Car Park.

Community Garden, Thomson Street.

9am - 12pm 9.30am CRAFT MARKET. Good variety of crafts. West Street Car ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Community Garden, Thomson Street.

Park.

9.30am - 12.30pm 9am - approx. 3pm ASHBURTON TOY HIRE. ASHBURTON KENNEL ASSOCIATION. All Breeds Dog Shows - over 100 different Open for toy hire. Methodist Church Baring Square. dog breeds on show! Saturday and

10am 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 1pm, races start 1.30pm sharp. Fords Road.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and golf croquet, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street, Allenton.

1.15pm GOLF CROQUET WAIREKA. Golf croquet doubles. Waireka Philip Street.

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

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Allenton Rugby Club Grounds, Melrose 8am Road (off Alford Forest Road).

ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. 9.30am Holy Communion, Park Street.

ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 8.30am Morning worship, combined service, HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. led by Rev John Coutts, all welcome. 65 Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Oxford Street.

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9.30am 9am ST ANDRREW’S PRESBYTERIAN ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street, Combined service at St Paul’s Presbyterian Allenton.

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9am - 3pm (approx) 9.30am ASHBURTON KENNEL ASSOCIATION. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. All breeds dog show, over 100 different Worship service led by Rev Henry

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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 - 4pm

THE PLAINS RAILWAY. Railcar rides operating. Museum Village open. Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road, Tinwald.

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

1.15pm GOLF CROQUET WAIREKA. Golf croquet casual. Waireka, Philip Street.

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

Monday

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.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and golf croquet. New members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street, Allenton.

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. Annual garden competition presentation of trophies. Sports Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

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

9.45am THE PLAINS LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting, 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.

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CanInspire Charitable Trust Coordinator The CanInspire Charitable Trust was founded in 2010 with the intention of providing workshops for those affected by illness, trauma or loss. The workshops consist of jewellery making (CanBead) and fly fishing (CanTackle) and provide a distraction, a sense of purpose and of accomplishment in a supportive and caring environment. The Trust employs workshop tutors and also relies heavily on a large number of dedicated volunteers. Due to our growth we are now seeking to employ a Coordinator to oversee the day to day work of the Trust, its Tutors and Volunteers.

We are seeking applicants who have the following attributes: □ Ability to build an excellent public profile □ Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels □ Excellent verbal and written communication skills □ An interest, passion and commitment to supporting people in need □ Ability to develop project plans and give effect to those plans □ An ability to seek funding and sponsorship □ Ability to recruit, train and support volunteers □ Excellent organisational and time management skills □ An ability to work in a flexible manner □ Experience in NGO sector is preferred, but not necessary Based in Ashburton, your role would be to grow, promote and coordinate the activities of CanInspire, organising and liaising with Tutors and Volunteers across New Zealand and developing new partnerships and opportunities to support this work. This role is multi-faceted and will involve administrative duties through to oversight of our work Nationally.

This position is for 16 hours per week and will primarily be based at Community House Mid Canterbury.

For an application pack please contact Kevin Clifford at: 143 Tancred Street, Ashburton, Ph: 03 308 1395 kevin@caninspire.org.nz www.caninspire.org.nz Applications close Friday, March 4, at 4:00pm

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Summer Sale

Ashburton District Water Supplies – Water Restrictions

Huge savings on bed linen, furniture, cushion covers, scarves and handbags

In summer, exceptional demand for water can sometimes limit the ability of our schemes to consistently deliver water to all properties at the required pressure.

Water conservation measures through our water restriction policy are used to even out demand and enable residents to continue to enjoy reasonable use of water for gardening and non-essential purposes.

Ashburton District Council advises residents connected to the following Council water schemes, that in accordance with Council’s water restriction policy the following restrictions are in place effective immediately until further notice.

Properties on the east side of Maldon Street and all properties east of Maldon Street - even dates All other properties - odd dates Properties on Waymouth Street and Deans Street - even dates All other properties - odd dates Properties east of the railway line - even dates Properties west of the railway line - odd dates Properties on Pattons Road - even dates All other properties - odd dates

Fairton Hinds Mt Somers

Level 3 - Hand held hosing Schemes Restriction: Alternate days (as indicated below) hosing is only permitted between the hours of 6.00pm and midnight and may only be carried out by hand.

Note: the following is not permitted: irrigation using micro-spray and automatic systems, washing vehicles, building exteriors and paved areas using hoses.

Mayfield Properties on the east side of Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road and all other properties east of Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road - even dates All other properties - odd dates Permanent water conservation measures Schemes Dromore Permanent water conservation measures are in place. No use of water Methven / Springfield from a hose connected to the Council water supply is permitted.

Montalto Water restriction measures apply to any use of water from a hose connected to a Council water supply, including garden irrigation systems.

Ashburton District Council would also like to take this opportunity to remind residents of the SMART Watering campaign which teaches home gardeners and community irrigation projects how to apply water efficiently.

Further information on Council’s water conservation approach, SMART Watering campaign and tips on how to conserve water are available from ashburtondc.govt.nz Neil McCann Group Manager Service Delivery ashburtondc.govt.nz

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Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

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Level 1 - Alternate days hosing Schemes Restriction (Days you may hose) Hakatere Even numbered properties - even dates Methven Odd numbered properties - odd dates Rakaia Chertsey

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Ashburton - Lyndhurst Groundwater Allocation For Sale We invite expressions of interest from farmers to purchase a groundwater allocation in the Ashburton Lyndhurst Groundwater Allocation Zone. The allocation has a seasonal volume of about 600,000 cubic metres per year.

Contact Irricon Resource Solutions to register your interest or to investigate whether you will be able to use this allocation on your farm.

Gary Rae Phone 027 314 2254 or (03) 308 8587 ext 1 email gary@irricon.co.nz

Birthday Greetings Katelyn Adams Happy Birthday Princess for Sunday.

9 years old already.

Lots of love Nana, Pop and Uncle Dean.

Kody Booth Happy 4th Birthday.

Have a great day.

Lots of love from Nanny, Poppa and Uncle Cameron. xxx Liam Nolan Happy 4th Birthday.

Have a fun day.

Lots of love Mum, Dad, Hayley and Madeline. xxx

We Help Save Lives We help save lives every day through the research and development of improved diagnosis, be er prediction and treatment of heart disease in our hospital and community.

Find out how you can help by visiting: www.otago. ac.nz/chchheart

Oliver Bellew 6 years old today.

Have a wonderful day.

Love Mum, Dad and Josh.

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.

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PLANTS, PRODUCE

WANTED

Tomatoes 1kg $1.99 bag Pears 1kg Nectarines 1kg Sauce Tomatoes 10kg Plums 1kg

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

PLANTS, PRODUCE

KAKARIKI FLOWERS - Your local rose grower. Open to the public. Phone 307 2457.

45 Hollands Road, Tinwald.

MOTORING

308-1095

LIVESTOCK, PETS

FOR SALE - 1999 AU Falcon Fairmont, 123,000km. In very GIVEAWAY - Pig dog pups, good order - $3,750.00. lab/greyhound cross Phone 302 6884. bulldog/beardy. 5 months old, would also make good pets.

WHEEL alignments at great Also old dog has caught PERSONAL prices. Maximise the life hundreds of pigs. Great MAKE LOVE HAPPEN of your tyres with an nature, ideal pet, light alignment from Neumanns hunting. Phone 0210 880 There is no need to be Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills 6404. alone when there are so Street. Phone 308-6737.

many others who also seek one safe, special MEETINGS, EVENTS partner.

ART LESSONS in and oils by tutor Whether you live in town watercolours Debbie Lambert. Afternoon or on the land, our and/or evening class options. experienced matchmakers Enquiries 022 600 9263. can put you in touch with someone wonderful as WEEKEND art workshop at Mesopotamia Station soon as today.

February 26 and 28. Tutor Ph 0800 856 640 till 8pm Debbie Lambert, oils and Sue Simpson, watercolours.

All areas. All ages.

Enquiries to Debbie 022 600 9263.

Seniors welcome.

www.lovesuccess.co.nz

Motoring 307 7900

Autumn born, 4 day old Friesian and Friesian Bull Calves

WINTER GRAZING

$1.99 bag $3.99 bag $12 box $2.99 bag

Specials available from 16/02 - 23/02

Guardian

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

GRAZING

LIVESTOCK, PETS

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

LET OR LEASE

Winter grazing available for 1000 Cows in the Rakaia / Barrhill area

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

HIRE

FOR SALE

GENERAL hire.

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

All your DIY / contracting work, Call and see U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street.

Open Mon-Fri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8am - 5.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co. nz

HAY - small bales, good quality, new seasons. Ph 308 0137 or 027 247 4262.

GARAGE SALES

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

GARAGE sale - Miller Ave. Moving house. Kitchenware, furniture, books, catering platters, crockery. Something for everyone. Sign will be out at gate 8am onwards.

OFFICE available for rent.

ParkING, 24 hour access, GARAGE Sale: Sunday, nightly security. Minutes from February 21. Starting 9am.

Leeston Street, Hampstead.

CBD. Ph 021 554 570.

Signposted from 9am on the day.

STORAGE units available.

Various sizes. Rainbow GARAGE sale - Willow Street, 9am - 1pm, Saturday.

Storage. Ph 307 0401.

Sign outside at 9am. White ware, household items, HOLIDAY books, kitchenware, clothes, garden tools, etc.

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.

FOR SALE FIREWOOD - Green old man pine $140, semi $170, semi blue gum $200, green blue gum $160 per 3.6m³. Phone Shane James Firewood 303 7063.

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 Centre, Sealy Street will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am Sunday. They will hold surgery from 10am to 12 noon and from 6pm to 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212.

Moore Street Medical Practice, 254 Moore Street will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am to 12 noon and from 6pm to 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 3066.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

Saturday and Sunday doctor and emergency details, please telephone the Rakaia Medical Centre, ph 303 5002.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency, persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the

duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners note of referral.

PHARMACIES

Church Services 10.30am Worship Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All welcome Rev. David Bayne Ph 307 7355

OPEN HOME

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

Lifestyle block Rakaia 2 acres with a refurbished house.

Plenty of out buildings.

Sat and Sun 10am-12noon.

10 Mainwarings Road, Overdale, Rakaia Ph 0279 690 007.

TO RENT - Two bedroom house, Hampstead area, heat pump, fully fenced warm house $280 per week, no FIRST time in town pets, references essential.

Cambodian Thai, real busty Phone 308 1102.

42 DD, sexy body. You won’t regret. Phone 021 086 86258 WANTED one-two bedroom Marissa. house or unit. By working couple. References available.

No pets, non-smoking. ASAP. NEW to town, gorgeous Phone 0272 069 366.

Asian, sexy, busty, hot lingerie and really good massage. Phone 022 321 0270.

Guardian Classifieds

TWO beautiful ladies, naughty Asians, very busty, sexy.

You won’t be disappointed. phone 0210 246 6770.

RENZ ashburton Trevor Hurley Real Estate Limited REAA 2008

Real Estate

Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

307 7900

Have you lost your way in Life?

Join us this Sunday to discover HOPE for 2016.

Including Children’s church See you at cnr Cass & Cameron St’s Sundays @10.00am Everyone is welcome Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday

Situations Vacant

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

Creche available Refreshments to follow 6pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

Motoring

307 7900

20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service.

TINWALD POOL

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

Saturday & Sunday: 12noon - 7pm

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

C

HELPLINE SERVICES

Life 2 da Max (Kids Church)

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL

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).

INFORMATION CENTRES Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until ASHBURTON REST HOMES 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

OMMUNITY ERVICES METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS ART GALLERY Holidays 10am until 3pm. and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, 327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com unrestricted visiting.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison

The way of the transgressor is hard but Jesus came that you might have abundant life.

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

EMERGENCY DENTIST

10am Morning Service

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team. from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 6pm - 8pm both evenings.

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 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.

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

All welcome

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Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

FOR RENT - Three bedroom brick house, log fire, double garage, in Allenton. Easycare section. No animals.

References required. $350 per week. Phone 0276 971 861.

For further information: Brad Turner • 021 027 20303 PW&A Office • 03 687 4440

FURNITURE/HOUSEHOLD appliances. 17 Hanrahan Street, 9am to 12pm.

FEMALE flatmate wanted, 5 minutes’ walk from town centre. Share with female 38 years old and two cats.

Double bedroom inbuilt wardrobes. Larges warm house. $175 a week plus expenses. Ph 0210 840 3750.

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ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

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

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890.

Weekends 1pm - 4pm. Research facilities

weekday afternoons.

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

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

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Reon McMurtrie. Small: Ref Vet Ent. VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Peter Crawford. Small: Catherine Haywood.

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

Mid Ca nterbury Sports Awards 2016 Act now to acknowledge our local outstanding achievers in sport

Nominations ARE

now open!

• To be held Friday, May 13, 2016 at the Hotel Ashburton.

• Nominations close Friday, April 15, 2016.

Nomination forms are available from • Sport Canterbury MID CANTERBURY on 03 307 0475 or • Can be picked up from the Ashburton Guardian, 161 Burnett St, Ashburton

The success of this event requires your support with nominations, so act now.

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Saturday, February 20, 2016 TV ONE

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Mucking In 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 Taste Of A Traveller 3 0 10am Come Dine With Me PGR Noon Saturday Kitchen 12:55 Gino’s Italian Escape 1:25 Tales From Northumberland With Robson Green 3 0 1:55 Location, Location, Location 30 2:55 Border Security PGR 3 0 3:25 Coastwatch PGR 3 0 3:55 River Monsters 0 4:55 The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 6pm One News 0

7pm MasterChef Australia 0 8pm L Lotto This week’s Lotto draw.

8:05 Posh Pawn PGR Reformed 1980s cat burglar Sid hopes to raise funds with help from his family and their jewellery. 0 9:10 Coronation Street 0 10:10 Crimson Field AO 0

12:15 Happy Hour PGR 3 Keisha Castle-Hughes and Temuera Morrison present a variety show.

0 1:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Neighbourhood 3 0 3:35 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

CHOICE TV 6am Restoration Man 7am Selling New York 7:30 Extreme Collectors 8am The Liquidator 8:30 World’s Wildest City 9am Monkey Thieves 9:30 Shane Delia’s Moorish Spice Journey 10am The Lazy Chef 10:30 Million Dollar Contractor 11am Yard Crashers 11:30 Auction Kings Noon Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare 1pm Gardeners’ World 1:30 Restoration Man 2:30 Selling New York 3pm The Liquidator 3:30 Sophie In The Souk 4pm This Old Thing 5pm Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren 6pm Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 6:30 Baby Animals In The Wild 7:30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan Dominic is in New Zealand to find one of the largest and heaviest insects on earth, the very rare giant wetapunga.

8:30 The Jonathan Ross Show 9:30 Auction Hunters 10:30 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 11pm NZ Hunter Adventures PGR

SUNDAY

Midnight The Jonathan Ross Show 1am Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 1:30 Monkey Thieves 2am Baby Animals In The Wild 3am Auction Hunters 4am Sophie In The Souk 4:30 Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren 5:30 The Liquidator

TV TWO

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TV THREE

FOUR

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Tiki Tour 3 0 6:25 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:35 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:40 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 7:05 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:25 Gravity Falls 3 0 7:50 Pokemon XY 0 8:15 Hulk And The Agents Of Smash PGR 0 8:45 Adventure Time 3 0 9:10 F Over The Garden Wall 0 9:35 Mighty Med 10am Fresh 10:30 Step By Step 3 0 11am Full House 3 0 11:30 Young And Hungry PGR 0 Noon N The Fosters PGR 1pm Pretty Little Liars PGR 0 2pm The Flash PGR 0 3pm Supergirl PGR 0 4pm The Amazing Race 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 6pm F Food Fighters 0 7pm M The Golden Compass PGR 2007 Drama. Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards. 0 9:15 M American Hustle AO 2013 Drama. An ambitious FBI agent drags a small-time con man and his mistress into an elaborate sting operation.

Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 American Dream Builders 30 10:30 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 30 11am Million Dollar Listing – NY PGR 3 Noon The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 3 1pm America’s Next Top Model – Guys And Girls PGR 3 0 2pm Save With Jamie 3 3pm F The House That £100k Built 3 0 4pm Grand Designs Australia 3 0 5pm Outdoors With Geoff 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom PGR 3 1984 Action.

Indiana Jones escapes from a Shanghai nightclub brawl by catching a plane to India, where he discovers a scheme involving the Thuggee cult.

Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri. 0 9:25 M US Marshals AO 1998 Action. 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 7:10 Digimon Fusion 3 7:35 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 8:25 Sidekick 3 8:50 Beyblade – Metal Fury 3 9:15 Power Rangers – Dino Charge 9:40 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 5pm Drake And Josh 3 5:30 Mr Young 3 6pm Victorious 3 6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 7pm Bullseye 3 The contestants must knock out all the bullseyes in the shortest amount of time. 0 8pm The Biggest Loser Australia 3 The final chance training heats up, particularly for the teams who now carry a halfkilo penalty into the weigh-in.

9:50 Super City AO 3 10:15 Just Shoot Me! PGR 3 0 10:45 Punk’d AO 3

6am Home Shopping Noon The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 2:30 The Taste 3 The contestants must create comfort dishes.

3:30 The Animal Files PGR 3 The vets of Massey University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital work to save all manner of animal, both domestic and wild.

4pm Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Wars 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Animal Airport 6:30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities David Attenborough encounters two examples where curious bodies and extreme lifestyles may unlock the secrets of the ageing process and longevity.

7pm University Challenge The second semi-final. 0 7:35 Grantchester PGR 3 8:40 F Silent Witness AO When Helen Ferguson replaces Jack after a conflict of interest arises in the murder case of a girl, Jack secretly works on the case, placing a wedge between him and the rest of the team.

10:55 The Hunters Club PGR

6am Hurricanes Pre-Season 6:30 The Cricket Show 7am Golf – PGA European Tour (Highlights) Maybank Championship, Round Two. 7:30 Rugby – Super Rugby PreSeason (Replay) Chiefs v Blues.

9:30 The Cricket Show 10am L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day One. 12:35 Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Semi-final Two, Game One – Perth Wildcats v Illawarra Hawks.

1:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day One. 6pm The Cricket Show 6:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) St Helens v Sydney Roosters.

7pm Hurricanes Pre-Season 7:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) 8pm The Cricket Show 8:30 Pro Kabaddi League (Highlights) 9:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) 10:20 L Hockey – Indian League Semi-final One – Punjab Warriors v Delhi Waveriders.

Midnight M At Any Price AO 2012 Drama Thriller. Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron. 0 1:55 M The Book Of Eli AO 2010 Action.

Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman.

0 4am Jeremy Kyle AO 3 4:55 Regular Show PGR 3 0 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

Midnight Blue Bloods AO A girl’s kidnapping takes an unusual twist when her parents deny she was abducted. 0 12:55 Supersized: Got Thin – Got Fat Again AO 3 0 1:50 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:10 Infomercials

11:50 Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day One. 12:25 Home Shopping

12:30 The Cricket Show 12:50 L Hockey – Indian League Semi-final Two – Ranchi Rays v Kalinga Lancers.

3am Basketball – NBL (Replay) 5am Youth Olympic Games (Highlights)

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Dora Matatoa 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 8am Pukana 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Pumanawa – Celebrating Maori In Business 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 10:30 Toku Reo 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Te Po Mekemeke 3 2:30 Friday Night Lights PGR 3 3:30 The Rugby Show Gisborne College v Onehunga High. 5pm The

THE BOX

SKY SPORT 2 Prophets 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 3 6:30 Patapatai 7pm The Zoo 7:30 M Matilda 1996 Comedy.

Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman.

9:15 M Tess PGR 1997 Romantic Drama. Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson.

SUNDAY

12:35 Te Kaea 3 2 1:05 Closedown

DISCOVERY

6am The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes. 8:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 8:55 Pawn Stars PG 9:20 Survivor – Heroes v Villains Marathon PG 1:30 RBT MC 2pm Crash Investigation Unit M 2:25 Hardcore Pawn PGL 2:50 Parking Wars PGL 3:40 Law And Order – LA MV 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

7:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 8pm Pawn Stars PG 8:30 Hardcore Pawn PGL 9pm Duck Commander ML 9:30 The Woodsmen PG 10:30 RBT MC 11pm Crash Investigation Unit M 11:30 Chosen MVL

6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 MythBusters PG Baseball Myths. 7:30 MythBusters PG Viewer Special. 8:30 Tribe Alive! PG The Hunt and the Feast.

9:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 10:20 Men, Women, Wild M Special. 11:15 Treehouse Masters PG 12:10 Gold Rush PG 1:05 Dual Survival M 2pm Mega Moves PG Floating Fortress. 2:55 Close Encounters PG 3:20 Close Encounters PG 3:50 Railroad Alaska PG 4:45 Auction Hunters PG 5:10 Auction Hunters PG 5:40 How The Universe Works PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Redwood Kings PG 10:30 Auction Hunters PG 11pm Pandamonium PG

12:25 Raw MC 3:10 Chosen MVL 4am Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 4:25 Pawn Stars PG 4:50 Hardcore Pawn PGL 5:15 Survivor – Heroes v Villains Marathon PG

Midnight Men, Women, Wild M 12:55 Aeroplane Repo PG 1:50 Ice Cold Gold PG 2:45 Auction Hunters PG 3:15 Dirty Jobs PG 4:10 Ice Cold Gold PG 5:05 MythBusters PG

SUNDAY

SUNDAY

American Hustle 9:15pm on TV2

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:05 Million Dollar Arm PGL 2014 Drama. Jon Hamm, Pitobash Tripathy.

8:05 Divergent MV 2014 Action.

Shailene Woodley, Theo James.

10:20 The Broken Shore 16VLSC 2013 Thriller. Don Hany, Claudia Karvan. 12:05 Let’s Be Cops MLSC 2014 Comedy. Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans jr. 1:50 The November Man 16VLSC 2014 Action.

Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko.

3:35 Get Hard 16VLS 2015 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart. 5:15 John Wick 16VL 2014 Action. Keanu Reeves, Adrianne Palicki. 6:55 Walk Of Shame MLS 2014 Comedy.

Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden.

8:30 Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes MVL 2014 Action. Jason Clarke, Andy Serkis. 10:40 The Gambler 16VL 2015 Drama. Mark Wahlberg, Brie Larson.

SUNDAY

12:30 Wild Card 18VLS 2014 Drama.

Jason Statham, Michael Angarano.

2am Get Hard 16VLS 2015 Comedy.

3:40 John Wick 16VL 2014 Action.

5:20 Wild Card 18VLS 2014 Drama.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , 7pm on TV3

MOVIES GREATS 6:55 Get Smart PGV 2008 Comedy.

Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway.

8:45 Exorcist – The Beginning 16VLC 2004 Horror. Stellan Skarsgaard, Izabella Scorupco. 10:35 Black Hawk Down 16V 2001 Action.

Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett.

12:55 Insomnia MVL 2002 Crime.

Al Pacino, Hilary Swank. 2:50 The Day The Earth Stood Still MV 2008 Sci-fi. Keanu Reeves. 4:35 I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry MLS 2007 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel.

6:30 Hellboy MV 2004 Action Fantasy.

Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair.

8:30 Being John Malkovich MLS 1999 Comedy. John Malkovich, John Cusack.

10:25 American Gangster 16VLSC 2007 Crime. Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe.

SUNDAY

1:20 The Bourne Identity MVL 2002 Thriller. 3:15 The Making Of Atonement PG 3:30 The Day The Earth Stood Still MV 2008 Sci-fi.

5:10 I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry MLS 2007 Comedy.

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

20Feb16

6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Halberg Awards (Highlights) 8am Football – OFC Futsal Champs (Highlights) 8:30 L Rugby League – World Club Series St Helens v Sydney Roosters.

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Sky Sport News 12:30 The Cricket Show 1pm Hurricanes Pre-Season 1:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) St Helens v Sydney Roosters. 2pm Pro Kabaddi League (Highlights) 2:30 Golf – PGA European Tour (Highlights) Maybank Championship Malaysia. 3pm Motorsport – Toyota Racing Series (Highlights) Round Five. 4pm Motorsport – Toyota Championship (Highlights) Round Five. 5pm Halberg Awards (Highlights) 6:30 Golf Central 7pm Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Semi-final Two, Game One – Perth Wildcats v Illawarra Hawks.

7:30 L Basketball – NBL Semifinal One, Game Two – New Zealand Breakers v Melbourne United.

9:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Replay) St Helens v Sydney Roosters. 11:30 Pro Kabaddi League (Highlights)

SUNDAY

Midnight Youth Olympic Games (Highlights) Day Eight.

1am Basketball – NBL (Highlights) 1:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) 2am Youth Olympic Games (Highlights) 3am World Rugby 3:30 Fox Sports News 4am Basketball – NBL (Highlights) 4:30 Basketball – NBL (Highlights) 5am Cricket – International (Highlights) 5:30 Hurricanes Pre-Season

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TV THREE

6am Wonder Dogs 3 0 6:25 The Fishing Show 3 0 7:10 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 3 0 9am How To Look At A Painting 30 9:30 Going Going Gone 3 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae PGR 2 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Unsung Heroes 3 0 11:55 The Great Bear Stakeout 0 1pm Undercover Boss USA 3 0 2pm The Restoration Man 3 0 3pm Dynamo – Magician Impossible PGR 3 0 3:55 Piha Rescue 3 0 4:25 N Fishy Business Adam Clancey leads a team of anglers and divers on fishing adventures all around New Zealand and the world. 0 4:55 Inside The Animal Mind 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 7:30 Our First Home As the families begin their renovations, one team finds a gem, and another is faced with a disaster, and it does not take long for the cracks to emerge. 0 8:30 Blindspot AO 0 9:25 Cuffs AO 0 10:40 Indian Summers AO 3 0

6am Tiki Tour 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:50 The Octonauts 3 0 7:10 The Tom And Jerry Show 3 0 7:35 Get Ace 3 0 8am What Now Behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil; the first Springfree Trampoline winner.

10am Jessie 3 0 10:25 The Middle 3 Sue’s excitement about moving into her dorm turns to dread when she is made to cut her hair. 0 Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 Kylie backs Norelle; Jimmy feels overlooked; Mo’s true feelings are revealed. 0 2:30 A To Z PGR 0 3pm Hot In Cleveland PGR 3 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 30 6pm Thunderbirds Are Go 0 6:30 The Barefoot Bandits 0 7pm The Simpsons PGR 0 7:30 Tricked PGR 0 8:30 M The House Bunny AO 2008 Comedy. Thrown out of the Playboy Mansion, a Playboy bunny joins the sorority Zeta Alpha Zeta, which stands to lose its house unless its members can learn what only she can teach them. Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone. 0 10:25 Filthy Rich AO 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am Both Worlds 3 0 9:25 Re-Think 9:55 Inside Story 0 10:20 Helen Clark – Hard Labour PGR 3 0 11:10 On The Grill PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 11:35 Reality Trip PGR 3 0 12:30 Missing Pieces PGR 3 0 1pm N World Jet Boat Expeditions – Rivers Of Oz 2pm Motorsport – World Rally Championship Round Two, Sweden.

3pm Motorsport – TR86 Championship 4pm Motorsport – TRS 5pm Ice Road Truckers 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

11:40 Cilla PGR 3 The re-emergence of Brian Epstein propels Cilla’s career to new heights, but this is soon followed by an all-time low when her first record fails to chart. 0 12:40 Attitude 3 0 1:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Infomercials

12:25 Arrow AO 3 0 2am Ten 7 Summer PGR 3 2:25 Infomercials 3am Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 3:55 Surviving Jack PGR 3 0 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Secret Life Of The American Teenager PGR 3 5:30 Infomercials

11:20 M Adopting Terror AO 2012 Thriller. A couple are excited to adopt a baby girl at last, but then the baby’s biological father starts stalking them. Sean Astin, Samaire Armstrong, Brendan Fehr. 0 1:20 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

CHOICE TV 6am IFish 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 8am Sophie In The Souk 8:30 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 9am The Liquidator 9:30 Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren 10:30 This Old Thing 11:30 Baby Animals In The Wild 12:30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 1:30 The Jonathan Ross Show 2:30 Locomotion – Dan Snow’s History Of Railways 3:30 Empire 5pm Beyond River Cottage 5:30 Kylie Kwong – My China 6pm Garage Gold 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 Final Offer Four shrewd antique dealers battle to buy some of the most desired items.

8:30 M Emperor AO 2012 Historical Drama. As the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal.

Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune.

10:30 The Time Of Our Lives AO 11:30 Monkey Thieves

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Midnight M New In Town PGR 2009 Comedy. Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick jr.

2am Final Offer 3am Locomotion – Dan Snow’s History Of Railways 4am Empire 5:30 Kylie Kwong – My China

7pm House Rules PGR It is judgment day in the final round of the exterior renovations. 0 8:30 M Skyfall AO 2012 Action. James Bond’s loyalty to M is tested when her past returns to haunt her. While MI6 comes under attack, 007 must find and destroy the threat, no matter what the personal cost. Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes. 0

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After a woman arrives in Miami hoping to become a professional dancer, she meets the leader of a dance crew whose neighbourhood is threatened by her father’s development plans. 0 10:30 Entertainment Tonight Weekend 0 11:25 Infomercials

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world.

Noon MythBusters PGR 3 The team tackles four trafficcongestion questions that could hold the key to unlocking gridlock.

1pm F The Odd Couple PGR 3 Felix offers to mediate between Oscar and his former wife when they are audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

1:35 MasterChef Junior USA 3 2:30 Wild Coasts 3 3:30 Danger Beach PGR 3 4pm Deal Or No Deal 3 4:30 Yellowstone 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Life 3 7pm Storage Wars PGR 7:30 Antiques Roadshow 0 8:30 Unforgotten AO Having identified the body in the cellar as Jimmy Sullivan, the search for his murderer begins with identifying the people in his diary, two of whom deny ever having known Jimmy. 0 9:35 Elementary PGR 0 10:30 Limitless PGR 3 0 11:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day Two. Midnight What Remains AO 3 1:15 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am The Journey To Success 3 10:30 Te Mana O Te Moana 3 11:30 Waka Huia 3 12:30 Taniwha Rau 3 1:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 2:30 Poitukohu – Basketball AA Girls’ Semi-final – Hamilton Girls’ v St Peter’s Cambridge.

3:30 Rugby – French Top 14 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Karanga – The First Voice 3 6:30 Poutiriao PGR 2 7pm Moko Aotearoa 3

THE BOX 9:25 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

11:55 Raw MC 2:40 WWE Main Event MC 3:40 SmackDown! MC 5:25 RBT MC 5:55 Crash Investigation Unit M 6:20 Duck Commander ML 6:45 The Woodsmen PG 7:35 Covert Affairs MV When proprietary American technology is found in an Iranian missile, Annie is sent to Israel in an effort to find out who leaked the technology.

8:30 NCIS MV Gibbs and the team must work with the shady Trent Kort to put away one of NCIS’s most wanted.

9:30 NCIS MV 10:30 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 11:30 Covert Affairs MV

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12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:10 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 3:05 NCIS MV 3:55 NCIS MV 4:45 Duck Commander ML 5:10 Covert Affairs MV

6am Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day One. 6:30 Golf – PGA European Tour (Highlights) Maybank Championship, Round Three.

7am Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Semi-final One, Game Two – New Zealand Breakers v Melbourne United. 7:30 Youth Olympic Games (Highlights) Day Nine.

8am Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day One. 10am L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day Two. 12:35 The Cricket Show 1:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day Two. 6pm Golf Central 7pm The Cricket Show 7:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day Two. From Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

8pm Youth Olympic Games (Highlights) Day Nine.

9pm Hurricanes Pre-Season 9:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Australia – Second Test, Day Two. 11:30 The Cricket Show Midnight Pro Kabaddi League (Highlights) 2:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) 1am Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) 1:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay) 3:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) 4am Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) 4:30 Champions League Weekly 5am Football – A-League (Highlights) 5:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay)

SKY SPORT 2 7:30 The Big Sing Tawa College v Wellington East Girls’ College.

8pm Find Me A Maori Bride 3 8:30 M Much Ado About Nothing AO 2012 Romantic Comedy. Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz.

10:30 Te Kaea 3 2 11pm Karanga – The First Voice 3 11:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 MythBusters PG Red Flag to a Bull. 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 Gold Rush PG 9:25 Treehouse Masters PG 10:20 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 11:15 Rebel Gold PG 12:10 Alaska – Battle On The Bay PG 1:05 Inventions That Rocked The World PG 2pm Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 2:55 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 3:50 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 4:45 Redwood Kings PG 6:35 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 7:30 Inventions That Rocked The World PG 8:30 Close Encounters PG 9pm Close Encounters PG 9:30 Mega Moves PG 10:30 Tribe Alive! PG 11:30 Wondernesia PG

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Midnight Auction Hunters PG 12:30 MythBusters PG 1:25 Ice Cold Gold PG 2:20 Auction Hunters PG 2:45 Destroyed In Seconds PG 3:15 Ice Cold Gold PG 4:10 Dirty Jobs PG 5:05 MythBusters PG

The House Bunny 8:30pm on TV2

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:50 Walk Of Shame MLS 2014 Comedy. Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden. 8:25 The Gambler 16VL 2015 Drama. Mark Wahlberg, Brie Larson. 10:15 Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes MVL 2014 Action. Jason Clarke, Andy Serkis.

12:25 Get Hard 16VLS 2015 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart.

2:05 John Wick 16VL 2014 Action.

Keanu Reeves, Adrianne Palicki.

3:45 Last Call 16VLS 2012 Comedy.

Travis Van Winkle, Tara Reid.

5:10 Project Almanac MLS 2015 Sci-fi. Jonny Weston, Sofia BlackD’Elia. 6:55 Inbetweeners 2 16LS 2014 Comedy. James Buckley, Joe Thomas. 8:30 Furious 7 AO 2015 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

10:50 The Lazarus Effect MVC 2014 Horror. Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass.

MONDAY

12:15 Santorini Blue MLS 2011 Drama. Ice-T, Richard Belzer, Coco Austin. 1:55 Last Call 16VLS 2012 Comedy. 3:20 Furious 7 AO 2015 Action. 5:35 The Lazarus Effect MVC 2014 Horror.

Ice Road Truckers 5pm on TV3

MOVIES GREATS 7:05 Hellboy MV 2004 Action Fantasy. Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair. 9:05 Being John Malkovich MLS 1999 Comedy.

John Malkovich, John Cusack.

10:55 American Gangster 16VLSC 2007 Crime. Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe. 1:45 The Bourne Identity MVL 2002 Thriller.

Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen.

3:45 Paul Blart – Mall Cop PGV 2009 Comedy. Kevin James.

5:15 Fantastic Four – Rise Of The Silver Surfer PGV 2007 Action. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis.

6:50 Starsky And Hutch MVL 2004 Comedy. 8:30 Hulk MV 2003 Adventure. 10:50 Panic Room 16V 2002 Thriller.

6am Fox Sports News 8am Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) St Helens v Sydney Roosters. 8:30 L Rugby League – World Club Series Wigan Warriors v Brisbane Broncos. 11am Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Semi-final One, Game Two – New Zealand Breakers v Melbourne United.

11:30 Pro Kabaddi League (Highlights) Noon Youth Olympic Games (Highlights) Day Nine. 12:30 Football – A-League (Highlights) Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix.

1pm Champions League Weekly 1:30 Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) Wigan Warriors v Brisbane Broncos.

2pm Rugby League – World Club Series (Highlights) St Helens v Sydney Roosters. 2:30 Sky Sports UK News 3pm Youth Olympic Games (Highlights) Day Nine. 4pm Basketball – NBL (Highlights) 5pm L Basketball – NBL Semi-final Two, Game Two – Illawarra Hawks v Perth Wildcats.

7pm Rugby League – World Club Series (Replay) 9pm Basketball – NBL (Highlights) 9:30 Sailing – 49er World Champs (Highlights) 11:30 Basketball – NBL (Highlights)

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Midnight Cricket – International MONDAY (Highlights) 12:30 Motorsport 12:40 The Jackal 16VL 1997 Action – Toyota Racing Series Thriller. 2:40 Paul Blart – Mall Cop 1:30 Motorsport – Toyota PGV 2009 Comedy. 4:10 Fantastic Championship 2:30 Cricket – Four – Rise Of The Silver Surfer International 4:30 Pro Kabaddi PGV 2007 Action. 5:40 The Jackal League (Highlights) 5am Youth 16VL 1997 Action Thriller.

Olympic Games (Highlights)

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Cloud increasing and rain spreading north about the divide during the day. High cloud thickening further east, with a few spots of rain from afternoon.

Wind at 1000m: W 60 km/h, changing SW 40 km/h from afternoon.

Wind at 2000m: W gale 70 km/h, changing SW 50 km/h in the evening.

TOMORROW Mostly cloudy with a few showers, but afternoon fine breaks, Light winds.

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Morning cloud and patchy drizzle, then fine.

Becoming cloudy again in the evening. Light winds.

FZL: Above 3000m

Often cloudy, with a few showers. Light winds.

Mostly cloudy with a few showers, but afternoon fine breaks.

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Light winds, southwesterlies about the tops turning northwest.

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Fine, with increasing high cloud. Northerlies developing.

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You don’t need to travel the world to know the value of what’s at home.

Outside influences only enhance your knowledge and appreciation.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The way to security is through insecurity. Insecurity means you’re doing things that help you seek the emotional tools you need to succeed in different arenas.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The conditions around you are dominated by the dominant and most assertive character in the group. If it doesn’t suit you, it’s time to consider a coup.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Praise does something to your spirit to help you grow into the form you’d like to take in this world. As you soak up the high praise you’ll also learn how to give such a gift to others.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Is wishing foolish? Only if you leave it at that. Once a wish crosses your mental screen, part of you begins unravelling the mystery and figuring out what it takes to bring it to fruition.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Your love of the truth is what makes you funny today. You’re not trying to make anyone laugh; it’s just the pleasant byproduct of your attempt to get to what’s real.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You’re not seeing eye-toeye with a loved one, but this might be the blessing that keeps you from arguing with one another. “For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree!” — Charles Baudelaire SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You won’t be able to do exactly as you like, but this will keep you on a good path, the one that draws up your highest and best. You’ll be surprised how much fun you can wring out of this.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Whatever the popular opinion is, you can bet that it’s not wellfounded, and there’s a variety of other reasons that make it a dangerous thing to join into today.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): In order to take advantage of the opportunity at hand, you might need funds, you might not. Stay open minded about this. Be ready for either way. If you don’t have the money, start thinking of how you might get it.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Figuring out what you really want will take time, but it will be worth your while to consider, point by point, the things that make you happy. You’ll get much from your list.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’ve given much to someone who may, at this time, be incapable of returning the energy. The boomerang of karma sometimes comes back from a different direction than the one in which it was tossed.

OPEN HOMES SATURDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 69 Racecourse Avenue, Methven

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10 Charlesworth Drive, Ashburton

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81 Harland Street, Tinwald

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19 Russell Avenue, Ashburton

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19 Coniston Drive, Ashburton

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11 Sudbury Street, Ashburton

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108 Smithfield Road, Ashburton

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73B Spaxton Street, Methven

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2 Avalon Grove, Ashburton

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42 Charlesworth Drive, Ashburton

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6 Catherine Street, Tinwald

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54 Davis Crescent, Ashburton

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92 Belt Road, Ashburton

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7 Millstream Lane, Ashburton

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15 Hefford Place, Ashburton

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27 Allison Street, Ashburton

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18 Tuarangi Road, Ashburton 5 Cherry Lane, Tinwald

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2 Westpark Close, Ashburton

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127 Cameron Street, Ashburton

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101 McMurdo Street, Tinwald

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10 Mason Place, Ashburton

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954 Longbeach Road, Ashburton

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103 Elizabeth Avenue, Rakaia

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SUNDAY 21ST FEBRUARY 42 Mackie Street, Rakaia

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132 Micheal Street, Rakaia

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18 Tuarangi Road, Ashburton

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2 Chambers Lane, Methven

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4 Trent Place, Lake Hood

6 Catherine Street, Tinwald * Three bedrooms * Open plan living & dining * En suite bathroom * Large double garage

19 Russell Avenue, Ashburton

**OPEN HOME CANCELLED**

54 Davis Crescent, Ashburton

* 3 - 4 bedrooms * Master bedroom with WIR & tiled ensuite * Large family bathroom complete with spa bath * Entertainers kitchen with AMAZING scullery (extra sink & wastemaster) * Separated living spaces for easy living * Ducted heat pump & underfloor heating in bathrooms * HD wiring throughout * Tasteful decor in a well thought out plan * Oamaru block & cedar exterior Designed & positioned so as to capture the best that is on offer-sunshine, privacy & lush vistas.

7 Millstream Lane, Ashburton

For Sale $579,000 Saturday 10:45am - 11:15am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21070 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

15 Hefford Place, Ashburton

Set date of sale closing 14th March at 2pm

* 4 double bedrooms with good storage * separate office * sizable family bathroom * open plan kitchen dining area opening to entertainers outdoor area overlooking the park For Sale $399,000

Deadline sale closing 25th February 2016

* 3 Large bedrooms * Open and spacious living area * Great indoor/outdoor flow * Fully fenced * Triple garaging Offers over $350,000

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2 Westpark Close, Ashburton

127 Cameron Street, Ashburton

* Private beautifully presented section

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21123

27 Allison Street, Ashburton

The heart of Allenton is the location for this perfect first home or investment property. Permanent material Brick/ Roughcast and featuring 3 double bedrooms, Open plan Kitchen and Living, plus large combined lounge.

Offers Over $299,000 Open Home Saturday 12:15am - 12:45am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21004

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21017

* 4 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms * Very generous open plan kitch/din/liv flowing into second lounge - all with access to outdoors * Consented log fire, heatpump, Solar heating * Inground pool For Sale POA Open Home Saturday 1:00pm - 1:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21041

* A stylish, country feel kitchen that embraces entertaining * Large open plan living with several seating areas * 4 double bedrooms, master with walk in robe and en suite * Open plan living * Office

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21053

Undoubtedly one of Ashburton’s more admired homes.

Only a short stroll to the Domain, cafes and restaurants.

Resonating character and charm this picturesque home is embraced within it’s beautiful garden. Acquiring this home really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Offers over $560,000 Open Home Saturday 1:00pm - 1:30pm rwashburton.co.nzAHB21119

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21057

954 Longbeach Road, Ashburton * Modernised throughout * 3 bedrooms * Open plan kitchen/dining/living * Heat pump + HRV system + Coal Range Offers over $380,000 Open Home Saturday 2:00pm - 2:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21081