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Scenes like this may not happen this year if Mother Nature decides to throw her toys out of the cot and disturb the conditions on the Rakaia River.

Weather may play big role in contest

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Anglers are packing their rods ready for the Rakaia River Salmon Fishing Competition, but are not sure whether they will get to use them.

Rakaia River Fishing Promotions president Ken Lee said about 520 entries have been received for the threeday 36th annual event which kicks off on Friday.

“Sponsors have been really good, they are on board, except Mother Nature might not be again,” Lee said.

Last year Cyclone Gita intervened to call off fishing, and this year rain in the high country leading up to the weekend may see the river come up dirty and not be suitable.

The last competition there was a fishable river was in 2017, when a lot of fish were caught.

“That’s what it’s all about, it’s a fishing contest, you can worry to your heart’s content, but at the end of the day it’s a great family event whether you are fishing or you are not fishing,” Lee said.

Not being able to fish just meant it would be just a big social weekend, and the prizes normally awarded for best catches are drawn instead. The compere is Ashburton radio DJ Phill Hooper.

Lee said the major prize last year of a $14,000 quad bike was re-gifted back to the promotions group by the winner, as he wanted to support members’ work of river improvement.

Entries are slightly down on last year overall, but juniors are up, at more than 120, compared to last year of about 115 and previous years of about 105.

Among those looking forward to the competition is Charles Smith. Aged 29, he grew up in Rakaia and has been entering since the age of four.

Today he lives at Rolleston, but the Rakaia remains his favourite fishing haunt.

He was last there on Waitangi Day, when he caught a six-kilogram salmon in the mid reaches of the river.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

New cemetery space under way

By SuSan SandyS

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A much-needed $1.5 million extension of the Ashburton Cemetery has begun, just as the current cemetery space is reaching full capacity.

Ashburton Contracting Limited is working on behalf of the Ashburton District Council to transform a section of land alongside the original cemetery on Seafield Road.

It has an estimated 2000 new burial plots, being a combination of lawn burial and ash interment plots, and is set to serve the town for another 30 to 40 years.

More land around the new site is earmarked to be used for future expansions, which collectively will provide space for 80 years.

Fewer than 50 burial beams are estimated to remain in the cemetery as it stands at the moment, and with an average of 70 burials a year, the extension’s due completion date by April will be timely.

Councillor Stuart Wilson said in a press release that ratepayers were lucky the council already owned the land adjacent to the current cemetery.

“The proximity of the extension ties in well with the current cemetery and allows people to be able to visit their loved ones from one site, rather than a disjointed facility spread across different areas of town,” Wilson said.

He is chairman of the council’s service delivery committee, a role which involves overseeing 11 of the district’s open cemeteries and five closed ones.

The $1.5 million extension will include a natural burial site, a cremation and ashes scattering area, as well as a traditional grave site.

Earthworks have begun this

ACL contracts engineer Tim Bain, ACL rural contracting manager contracts engineer David Rowlands, Ashburton District Councillor Stuart Wilson and Ashburton District Council open spaces manager David Askin oversee cemetery extension work.

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month, upgrading the existing access off Seafield Road and constructing a new access way into the new extension, complete with entrance gate and walls. The internal roads and car parking will

be sealed, a water reticulation system will be installed, while internal stormwater reticulation soakpits will ensure the site is kept adequately drained. There will be one building as part of the

extensions, that of a toilet block.

Open spaces manager David Askin said in the press release that the design is “quite smart” and allows for some contingency if particular types of remembrance op-

tions go in and out of favour.

“It really is a great asset for the community and a great community project. All of the subcontractors involved are local and the work is going really well,” he said.

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Weather may play big role in fishing contest From P1 He said this season had proved to be a good one, with catches in the six kilogram range. It was not quite harking back to the glory days of the mid1990s, when 10 kilograms plus was not out of the ordinary, however, it compared favourably to the last three to four seasons when salmon were more likely to be in the range of four kilograms.

He was happy to hear junior entries were up this year, as the competition had certainly helped cultivate his love of angling when he was younger.

“As an angler it’s a celebration of the fishery, it brings a lot of fishermen from all over the country.”

Right – Angler Charles Smith has a few Rakaia River catches under his belt, including this six kilogram salmon, as he prepares for the Rakaia River Salmon Fishing Competition this weekend.

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Bridge crash victim top NZ axeman

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

Champion axeman Ray Harraway has been named by police as the man who was killed in a truck accident on Maronan Road last Friday.

Seventy-nine-year-old Harraway was driving a fertiliser spreader truck and trailer that crashed off a bridge spanning the Hinds River after 5pm.

Harraway chopped competitively for well over 50 years, claim-

ing a number of national and world records in his time.

Tributes poured in on the Canterbury Axemen’s Facebook page for the New Zealand Axemen’s Association life member.

“Ray had the pleasure of recently receiving a NZAA life membership award and to witness his grandson being able to compete at the Christchurch Show,” a post on the Facebook page said.

“Ray was a tremendous competitor with still competing to the

South Island’s highest level until recently and representing New Zealand throughout his career.”

Harraway also made a large contribution to the local community through his time with the Ashburton Pakeke Lions Club.

A past president of the club, he joined in 2005 and played a big role in the club, including most recently as the club’s bulletin editor, said current president Ron Patterson.

“He was a very valued member

of our club with a great work ethic and he will be very sadly missed by the club,” he said. “He was your typical big, strong southern man.”

Police confirmed investigations were still ongoing into the crash.

The bridge was the scene of a similar fatal accident in 2015, when a 62-year-old man died after the fertiliser truck he was driving crashed off the bridge.

The single-lane bridge was built in 1963 and spans the Hinds River, which is usually dry.

Ashburton District Council service delivery group manager Neil McCann said council was taking a closer look at the bridge.

“As with all fatal and serious crashes in the district, council staff will perform an inspection of the site and existing crash data (crash reduction study). We use information gathered from these investigations to determine if there are any improvements that can be made to the approaches and the crash site.”

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■ LAKE CLEARWATER

Bioblitz records lake flora, fauna

By SuSan SandyS

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Mt Somers Springburn School pupils disappeared into the hills for a day to record the area’s diverse wildlife.

Working alongside scientists and experts, they discovered black native bees which apparently did not like vibrant colours, dung beetles which looked like ladybirds without spots, as well as fish, eels, skinks, geckos, birds and plants.

Teacher Maureen Keen led the bioblitz, defined as a communal citizen-science effort to record

species in a set location at a set time.

Held on one day last week at Lake Clearwater, also involving a group of Year 10 Mount Hutt College students, it was the first bioblitz in the area.

“It gave the children the opportunity of appreciating the ecology and beauty of the Hakatere Conservation Park, learning through their experience to enjoy and protect our precious environment,” Keen said.

“The recorded results of the survey will also provide a valuable

record for the future of the current state of the local environment.”

Personnel from the Department of Conservation, Fish and Game, Forest and Bird, Canterbury Museum, Landcare Research and the Ashburton District Council also participated.

“So many native bugs, particularly the little black native bees, were aggressive to vibrant colours, like our hi-viz jackets,” said one pupil after the event.

“Dung beetles were just landing on us. They look like a ladybug without spots,” said another.

Mt Somers Springburn School pupils headed up country for the area’s first bioblitz.

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Firefighters welcome wet forecast

By Guardian reporters Local firefighters are so far pleased with how the fire season is going, and forecast wet weather later in the week would be more than welcome.

Rural fire officer Don Geddes said the fire season to date has been what they would expect from a normal year.

“I think we have had four call-outs for stubble fires that have got away on people, we obviously had one today and investigations are under way as to whether the correct procedures were followed in terms of permits,” he said.

“But overall it’s been pretty normal for this time of the year.”

Rain is forecast for later in the week, and while it is not yet certain if it will be effective in soaking in to the soil, firefighters are looking forward to the break from dry conditions.

“A bit of wet weather would be welcome though, things aren’t too dry around the place from what I’m seeing, especially compared

to on the other side of the Rakaia river, but any rain is welcome to just help things out a bit,” he said.

“The big concern will be if we get some southerly wind with this predicted weather that it has the potential to catch some people out, so I guess our message is to be aware that there is potential for a wind change and for people who are lighting burn-offs to be aware of the potential risk there.”

MetService meteorologist Lisa Murray said the district was in line for “useful” rain on Sunday, following some rain on Saturday, and the chance of showers tomorrow and Friday.

However, with the ground being so dry after little rain this month, how much of the weekend’s rain would soak into the soil was yet to be seen.

While Cyclone Oma was in the mix of weather forecasting nationally, it was not likely to have much of an effect on Mid Canterbury.

The biggest influence for this area would instead be the positioning of a low moving across the South Island.

Firefighters responded to a vegetation fire in Eiffelton yesterday afternoon after a stubble burn off became out of control.

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Body in rural area

By GeorGe Block Police are investigating after a body was found in a rural area north of Dunedin, as detectives and forensic scientists examine what appears to be a blood-spattered crime scene at a house in the city.

In a statement yesterday, police said the property in St Clair’s Lock Street was being examined following a missing person case from February 5, but would not say whether the scene was linked to the discovery of the body.

The body was found at a rural property north of Dunedin about 8pm on Monday.

A scene examination was also under way there, as was a formal identification process for the dead person, police said.

A police spokesman could not confirm whether the body was that of a man or a woman, and would not specify the location of the discovery, other than rural and north of Dunedin.

When the Otago Daily Times visited Lock St yesterday, a Housing New Zealand home was cordoned off, as Environmental Science and Research (ESR) forensic scientists flew in from Christchurch, and police examined what several neighbours

understood was a bloody crime scene.

A neighbour, Stephen Voight, said he saw blood sprayed across the walls inside and pooled on the floor when he went inside before police arrived.

He and his friend were at home about 3am on Sunday, watching movies, when they heard a loud banging from nearby followed by the sound of glass breaking, he said.

His friend went to investigate and saw a man kicking a door in on the property. The man then began yelling, “It’s a crime scene ... somebody call the police!”

The man and woman who lived at the property had not been seen for several days, neighbours said.

Voight understood from police the violent incident happened about 14 days ago.

A man was seen loading several blue containers into a car from the house in recent days, he said.

The 44-year-old, who has a criminal history and is serving a home detention sentence, said no-one could have survived whatever happened in that home.

“There’s too much blood.”

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or four weeks, he said.

Other neighbours said police told them a man went missing from the house in suspicious circumstances.

Police told them there was blood inside but would not confirm if they had found a body.

The man and woman who lived there kept to themselves, one neighbour said.

“They hadn’t even been there that long, but so many people come and go from these houses, it’s ridiculous.”

Drug users and mental health patients were increasingly moving into the east side of the street, largely owned by Housing New Zealand, the neighbour said.

“The police are up there every two or three days.

“When we moved in here, these houses were all pensioner flats.

“There were lovely people in them – now the whole neighbourhood has gone to the pack.”

However, at least one pensioner remained on that side of the street.

Marie Dobier (67) has lived in a flat next door to the scene of the crime for decades.

Dobier said she woke up in the early hours of Sunday. “... and next thing a policeman was there.”

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The Sallies fight back After despairing at the predatory tactics of shopping trucks, the Salvation Army has taken matters into its own hands.

The charity yesterday launched its own “ethical” shopping truck, which will sell food, clothes and other items and make small loans without the huge interest rates charged by some rogue lenders.

Known as The Good Shop, the truck will not actually carry physical goods but will allow people to buy essential household items through online shopping on board.

Interest-free loans of up to $1000 will be available through a deal with BNZ bank, and people wanting to buy larger items will be able to get loans of up to $5000 at an interest rate of around 7 per cent.

Ronji Tanielu, from the Salvation Army’s policy and Parliamentary unit, said the initiative was created in response to the hundreds of people who had found themselves in “mountains of debt” because of unscrupulous contracts and predatory lending.

“We were just tired of seeing that, and wondered how we could disrupt a business model that preys on vulnerable people”.

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es were not impulsive, he said: “They won’t be able to just grab a Starter or Nike jacket”.

In one case, his organisation had found that one of the mobile shopping trucks had set up outside a mental health clinic and had been selling goods to people who could not fully understand what they were getting in to.

Tanielu said unethical lending was usually closely tied to poverty or other social problems, and The Good Shop will also help refer people to social services and provide financial advice.

The fringe lending sector has undergone two rounds of reforms in the last four years, but the Salvation Army says it is still a relatively unregulated industry. It was disappointed the latest reforms did not include caps on interest rates and fees.

“We knew we needed to start reform now,” said The Good Shop project manager Jodi Hoare.

“Every day we see people trapped in a cycle of debt by these loans, with no other options open to them and often with limited economic understanding.”

In the worst cases, mobile traders have charged interest rates of up to 800 per cent.

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■ ECOLOGY STUDY

Our flora, fauna in a sad state B

efore the first humans and later waves of pests arrived on our shores, New Zealand’s forests could have been described as a three-dimensional jungle.

Think of thick undergrowth teeming with reptiles, kiwi and weta.

Or a night-and-day cacophony of the rustlings, calls, booms, whistles and hoots of nearly 200 native bird species.

Even in 1769, those aboard Cook’s visiting HMS Endeavour were greeted by a chorus said to be almost deafening.

New Zealand would never be that way again.

Roughly a third of our native bird species have vanished since that day, as have many other endemic plant and invertebrates.

What remains is in a sorry state: 1000 animal, plant and fungi species are now considered threatened.

The rats, mice, possums and stoats that infest our wilderness are responsible for the slaughter of some 26 million native birds every year.

To protect what’s left, scientists have begun a project to create, in unprecedented detail, a virtual picture of our forests to boost efforts to slow the slaughter.

The study will build on 30 years of ecological work on the dynamics of beech forests, which are known to fuel pest booms when their floors become littered with seed during increasingly devastating “masting” events.

Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research scientist Dr Susan Walker said these forests were our coldest and, ecologically, also our simplest.

They were like “fridges” that still stored endemic species such as rifleman, mohua, kaka, kea, and whio.

“New Zealand has learned to prevent catastrophic declines of these birds in cold beech forests by coinciding predator control with rodent and stoat plagues following beech masts.”

Yet those vast forests that are

New Zealand’s forests have been in major decline since Captain Cook visited in 1769.

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Roughly a third of our native bird species have vanished, as have many other endemic plant and invertebrates

comparatively warmer, and which once supported our most diverse bird communities, have fallen silent.

They have been a headache for conservation efforts as they hold more predators, more of the time, and scientists have a poorer understanding of the complex food resources that sustain them.

Like elsewhere in the country, our response to these pests has been to beat them back using 1080 poison drops, which have

so far yielded short-term gains.

A major drop undertaken in Northland’s Russell Forest last September knocked the resident rat population down to almost nothing, as did another operation at Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands.

But before conservation efforts can properly intervene and sustain our species, scientists have to look at the deeper picture.

In their new study, Walker and colleagues will build on large rodent tracking and management

data-sets gathered from around the country over two decades.

The ship rat is a key predator that has proven immensely difficult to control in the long-term over large warm forest areas.

“These data provide a powerful key to explaining variation in food-resource drivers, predators and birds because ship rat dynamics are tightly coupled with productivity.”

Ship rats not only prey on birds, but also suppress mice, while supporting populations of apex predators like stoats and cats.

“Ultimately we want to be able to forecast predator threats and native forest bird responses to a whole range of different environments, fluctuating food resources, and forest management regimes,” she said.

“We aim to discover the crucial drivers of forest predator and bird productivity and whether

we can develop scalable spatial predictors of them, as well as to identify key processes involved in predator and bird population responses.”

They also seek to understand how climate change will affect our native birds.

“Climate change is already upon us: reports from all over New Zealand tell us that forest plants are flowering earlier, more heavily, and at unusual times,” she said.

“This will certainly complicate our linking of drivers of past rodent dynamics to present phenology.”

Out in the field, new data will be collected from long-term rodent tracking sites around the country.

“Targeted field experiments will help us to understand just how climate limits ship rats, and how refuges and immigration affect population growth,” she said.

“Detailed field measurements of selected forest bird populations, including their dispersal in big forests following reintroduction, will allow us to understand and model their variable recovery potential.

“As anyone in this area knows, there is a lot of tough but rewarding field work ahead, as well as many technical challenges.

“So we view the programme as important step in a long-term national effort for New Zealand – and we will just make as much progress as possible.

“The aspirational goal of our partners is to develop more cost-effective methods to reintroduce and sustain forest birds in warm forests at large scales.”

Being able to better forecast predator threats and bird responses will help innovators target the right interventions to the right places and times to boost recovery of forest birds, as well as to reduce predators.

The study is supported with a $9 million grant from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund.

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OUR VIEW

A shot in the arm for whole district I

sn’t it great, as people, the amount of satisfaction we can get out of seeing something we’re invested in growing and becoming more prosperous with time?

Like only a parent can, we tend to take pride in the things that are near and dear to us and any development or growth is looked upon with a real sense of ownership and excitement.

We want things in our lives to be successful. We want them to grow and flourish.

And right now, I couldn’t be more excited about what the future now holds for something very near and dear to my heart.

Slight disclaimer, I am what

you could safely call a Methven boy. I always have been, and I always will be.

It’s where I grew up, where I went to school, where I made friends and it’s where a good portion of my family live.

I love the place for its ever-changing presence. Spending the best part of a decade living

away from the place only made me appreciate it more and now, being back there, is just perfect.

There aren’t too many places in New Zealand that can go from a hive of activity for one part of the year with people from all over the world travelling into its surroundings, only for it to then, in a matter of weeks, become this peaceful little slice of paradise.

But that’s what Methven is.

Despite that peaceful serenity though, the prospect of my little hometown becoming a tourist hub for 12 months of the year is quite the prospect to think about and the long-awaited development of the thermal hot pools just outside of the town bounda-

ry is truly exciting.

While a great wee town with so much going for it, Methven has always felt a little underdone.

Like it wasn’t living up to its true potential for every month of the year – it becomes a tough place to operate a business when the ski season is over and sometimes becomes too quiet. But, the introduction of a year-round facility that will, hopefully, see a steady stream of people coming into the town at a frequent rate can give renewed hope to everyone.

There’s this wonderful blueprint for, not only Methven but, the entire Ashburton District to become a real tourist hub.

We’ve got all the trimmings, but it’s like we’re just not quite sure how to best put them on the plate to serve up to visitors.

With an increased focus on attracting visitors to our district, we should see a real improvement in maximising our potential, particularly in the little ski town under the hill.

And while it is largely going to be great for the Methven township and all those who reside, and own businesses in it, the result of last week’s announcement of a loan to help kick-start the process is going to be a positive result that is felt district-wide – a great result for everybody, all round.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, February 20, the 51st day of 2019.

There are 314 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On February 20, 2003, a fire sparked by pyrotechnics broke out during a concert by the group Great White at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others.

On this date: In 1905, the US Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, 7-2, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded “idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons” from being admitted to the United States.

In 1914, J.W.H. Scotland flew a Caudron biplane from Invercargill to Gore, completing the first cross-country flight in New Zealand.

In 1938, Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

In 1942, Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare became the US Navy’s first flying ace of World War Two by shooting down five Japanese bombers while defending the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the South Pacific.

In 1954, Eighteen months after winning the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Yvette Williams set a new world record of 20 feet 7 1/2 inches (6.29m) at an athletics meeting in Gisborne.

In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury’s Friendship 7 spacecraft, which circled the globe three times in a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles southeast of Bermuda.

In 1965, America’s Ranger 8

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shburton District undoubtedly has a competitive edge for business, and our ability to attract and retain investment in our district has great flow-on effects for our local economy.

A recent New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) report found that our district is actually the sixth most desired one in New Zealand for business.

We are optimally located along State Highway One; within close proximity to Christchurch; with rail, airport and shipping port facilities all within reach.

As a council, we’re very excited to see our business community thrive. We also play an active part in helping to support its growth.

In fact, one of the council’s main contributions to furthering investment in our district, is the Ashburton Business Estate that we developed and continue to manage on the north-eastern side of Ashburton.

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The business estate offers a wealth of opportunity, not only for companies outside of the district searching for the right place to base themselves, but also for local businesses looking to expand or relocate their operations.

EA Networks, for example moved their operations from the centre of town, to a brand new, purpose-built facility in the Ashburton Business Estate.

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The 80 hectare commercial and industrial development was officially opened in 2011, providing long-term, sustainable property options that support the enormous potential of our fast-growing and progressive district.

Our hardworking commercial and property team are able to work with businesses to find the right solution for their requirements, whether they wish to design and build, or build and lease back.

We can also customise the size and shape of the sites to meet specifications, and to top it off,

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Providing such an attractive development for our business community is a crucial part of promoting economic growth in our district.

We want to see our community continue to progress and enjoy the benefits of a prosperous local economy.

If your business is looking for the next strategic step to expand or relocate, contact the council on 03 307 7700 or email info@ adc.govt.nz Hamish Riach is the Ashburton District Council CEO. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof

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Mexico to close island prison Mexico will close its infamous Isla Marias prison, the last island penal colony in a hemisphere once dotted with remote island jails like the one depicted in the movie Papillon.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Mexico will relocate about twothirds of the 659 remaining inmates and free about 200 others from the islands, 110 kilometres off the Pacific coast of Nayarit.

The four islands – only one of which is inhabited – will be turned into a cultural and environmental education centre.

The prison founded in 1905 on Maria Madre passed through periods of infamous brutality. When Panama closed its Isla Coiba penal colony in 2004, Isla Marias became the last one remaining in the Americas.

Lopez Obrador said the new Islas Marias cultural centre will be named after Jose Revueltas, a novelist who was imprisoned there and wrote the novel Walls of Water.

Far from the bloody reputation of places like Devil’s Island, toward the end the Islas Marias had harboured many lower-risk or well-behaved inmates for whom the prison without walls was viewed as step toward release or rehabilitation.

While the prison kept mass tourism at bay, the islands suffered severe environmental degradation from over a century of use as a penal colony, said Ramon Ojeda Mestre, who served as from 2000 to 2004 as head of the environmental recovery program for the islands.

“It protected the three uninhabited islands, but Maria Madre suffered a lot of environmental deterioration,” said Ojeda Mestre.

Ojeda Mestre’s battled to reforest the is-

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Inmates line up on the pier after arriving at the Islas Marias federal prison island, south of Mazatlan, Mexico.

PHOTO AP land with topical hardwoods, which had been largely cut down to build the penal colony and furnish it. He also battled to rid the uninhabited islands of invasive, non-native feral goats, dogs and cats.

Also at risk due to the penal colony was the yellow-headed Tres Marias parrot found nowhere else. “The inmates captured the parrots to sell them,” he said.

Ojeda Mestre’s battle was part of an early effort to turn the penal colony into a nature reserve, but that plan fell victim in 2005 to what later became known as Mexico’s War on Drugs.

Indeed, the hemisphere began turning its back on the isolated prisons decades ago.

Chile closed its Santa Maria prison island in the late 1980s, Costa Rica’s Isla San Lucas penal colony closed in 1991 and Brazil’s Isla

Grande in 1994. Peru dramatically ended its El Fronton island prison in 1986.

Island penal colonies were used around the world starting in the 1700s as remote, escape-proof places to rehabilitate inmates through hard labour.

Mexico’s federal prisons are nowhere near capacity, making closure of the island prison more palatable. The government said it costs about $150 a day to house each inmate at Isla Marias, far higher than other jails.

The last other such prison in the Americas, Panama’s Coiba Island penal colony, was closed in 2005 and turned into to a nature reserve. The jungle is slowly swallowing the buildings, providing a glimpse of what will happen at the Islas Marias.

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Sixteen US states file lawsuit to sue Trump California and 15 other states have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the US-Mexico border.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released a statement saying the suit alleges the Trump administration’s action violates the Constitution.

“President Trump treats the rule of law with utter contempt,” Becerra said.

“He knows there is no border crisis, he knows his emergency declaration is unwarranted, and he admits that he will likely lose this case in court.”

Joining California in filing the lawsuit are the attorneys general of Colorado,

Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Virginia.

All the states involved in the lawsuit have Democratic attorneys general.

Trump declared a national emergency to fulfil his promise of completing the wall.

The move allows the president to bypass Congress to use money from the Pentagon and other budgets.

The states say diversion of military funding to wall-building will hurt their economies and deprive their military bases of needed upgrades.

They say taking away funds from counter-drug efforts for the wall will also cause damage.

California and New Mexico, the two Mexican border states in the lawsuit, say the wall will harm wildlife.

California has repeatedly challenged Trump in court.

“President Trump is manufacturing a crisis and declaring a made-up ‘national emergency’ in order to seize power and undermine the Constitution,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom in a statement.

“This ‘emergency’ is a national disgrace.”

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Queen will take the stage at the 2019 Oscars. The Academy announced the performance by the band that’s the subject of best picture nominee Bohemian Rhapsody, joined by Adam Lambert on vocals, on Twitter on Monday.

“Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?” the account quoted from the band’s song Bohemian Rhapsody. The announcement included a compilation of clips that showed the band and current lead singer Lambert performing as Queen’s hit We Will Rock You played. Queen also shared the news on its Twitter account, while Lambert posted the same video and tweeted, “We will rock The Oscars.”

Reunion for Jonas Brothers They’re burnin’ up … again! The Jonas Brothers are planning an epic reunion, nearly six years after they announced their split, multiple sources confirmed.

The insiders add that Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas will drop the Brothers from their band name for their upcoming projects and will operate under a single moniker: JONAS. The Sun reports that the brothers recently flew to London to discuss the comeback, which will include new music and a documentary. “After enjoying solo music success and taking time to work on passion projects, they feel that now is the right time to get back together,” a source told the outlet.

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Court throws out film objection A Paris court has thrown out an attempt to block the French release of a film inspired by the real-life battle fought by victims of a paedophile Catholic priest, lawyers say.

Father Bernard Preynat was accused of abusing dozens of boy scouts during the 1980s and early 90s and was removed from his post in the Lyon diocese in 2015.

He has admitted sexual abuse, according to his lawyer, and is due to go on trial this year.

Francois Ozon’s film Grace a Dieu (By the Grace of God), which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize on Saturday at Berlin’s International Film Festival, tackles the story behind France’s most important church child abuse scandal to date.

Preynat’s lawyer said he regretted the court’s decision.

“To portray a man as guilty for two hours when he hasn’t yet been tried is an affront to the presumption of innocence,” lawyer Emmanuel Mercinier said earlier this week.

The judge confirmed that events were presented as fact in the film, Mercinier said, but ruled that a written message at the film’s end indicating that Preynat was innocent until proven guilty was sufficient under French law.

The movie is due to be released on mid week, on the eve of a meeting in Rome between Pope Francis and senior bishops from around the world to discuss the protection of minors.

The Pope has come under fire for his handling on a spreading sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.

The trial last month, however, of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who is accused of failing to act on historic abuse allegations against Preynat, turned the focus back on to European clergy.

The film recounts the true story of a group of sex abuse victims who in 2015 formed an association, La Parole Liberee, (The Freed Word), to shatter the silence around the abuse allegedly committed by Preynat.

Ozon said the film could not prejudice Preynat’s trial as the events had all been reported by the media.

“Everything I talk about in the film has already appeared in the French press,” Ozon told reporters at an advanced screening.

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Abbie Cornish is engaged Abbie Cornish is officially off the market!

The Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actress is set to marry MMA fighter Adel Altamimi, she announced on Valentine’s Day. Sharing a close-up shot of her hand that showed off the gorgeous engagement ring, Cornish, 36, wrote, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” – John Keats. You’ve swept me off my feet my love. I have been waiting for you. The answer is yes! And may God share this light and love with us forever in his arms,” she continued. “Blessed be this day with you. We’ll never forget this anniversary!;) Happy Valentine’s Day to my fiancé.”

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Chicken farmers in labelling fight A Hawke’s Bay family-owned organic chicken business says it is taking legal action over the fictitious characters used by a New Zealand chicken giant in its branding.

Bostock Brothers Organic Free Range Chicken says Brinks is imitating its labelling and is in breach of the Fair Trading Act for misrepresenting consumers.

Three months ago, Brinks, which is a large-scale chicken operation, launched a free-range chicken brand called George and Jo’s.

The branding and packaging include an image of George and Jo. But they are fictitious characters and do not exist.

George Bostock, one of the Bostock Brothers, says Brinks is representing to consumers that George and Jo’s is a small family business, when it is actually a large-scale commercial operation.

“By using the word ‘George’ to represent the fake people, they are causing confusion and deception in the marketplace,”

George said.

That is hurting the Bostock brand and business, he said.

“We have worked really hard to build trust and respect for our

ethical farming practises.

“We are the faces behind our brand and feel it’s really unfair that a large chicken producer is trying to imitate what we do and

ganic apple orchard, where the chickens roam freely among the trees.

Van Den Brink Group representative Michael Sheridan told Seven Sharp the Brinks brand was not misleading anyone and the people on the package were a representation of its farmers.

“The reality is the farms do exists - they are just a representation of real people and real farmers,” Sheridan said.

In a statement from Brinks it said: “We have told customers that George and Jo represent the actual farmers through advertising and on the website and the chickens used are all free range and antibiotic free.”

Ben Bostock says he welcomes competition but Brinks should use the names of its farmers on its branding.

They plan to take legal action, which Sheridan said Brinks felt comfortable it could fight.

“We have taken legal advice on this and we think we are well within our right.”

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mislead consumers.”

George and Ben set up their business five years ago. The brothers raise the chickens themselves in small chalets on an or-

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Hallenstein Glasson’s CEO resigns Clothing retailer Hallenstein Glasson Holdings is seeking a group chief executive for the second time in two years.

Mark Goddard, who joined the firm in April 2017, resigned on Tuesday in order to spend more time with his family. He previously ran Toys R Us in Japan, and before that held roles in Spotlight and Kmart in Australia.

The company said it would start seeking a replacement but didn’t give a timetable for Goddard’s departure.

Chair Warren Bell said the board accepted the resignation with “sincere regret” given the passion and

commitment Goddard has for retailing and had shown for the business.

“Under Mark’s leadership, the group has made many notable strategic achievements which are reflected in the group’s current position and its performance during his tenure. He leaves an exceptionally talented team in place and the business in an excellent position for its continued growth.”

The company’s shares fell 1.6 per cent to $4.30, taking their loss the past year to 6.5 per cent.

At the end of August, the company had 112 outlets, including 30 Glasson womenswear stores

in Australia and three Hallenstein menswear outlets there.

Last week, the company said first-half sales were up 3.1 per cent on the prior year and it may deliver a 6 per cent increase in net profit for the six months to Feb. 1.

It had earlier expected tough trading conditions on both sides of the Tasman.

Goddard replaced Graeme Popplewell who retired at the end of 2016.

Popplewell had been chief executive since 2011 and an executive director of the business since 1985 and remains on the board.

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imum level of growth imposed on DHBs’ population-based funding to smooth out funding increases was removed at the last Budget and would not be in place in the 2019 Budget either.

Stats NZ senior demographer Kim Dunstan said he was confident population projections were accurate.

Data such as births, deaths and migration data was incorporated into DHB updates each year.

Population estimates were also higher than the Census count because adjustments were made for a portion of the resident population that may not have been counted during the Census, such as those who were out of the country, Dunstan said.

But he acknowledged there was always a degree of uncertainty in any population, which is why a Census was run every five years.

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is comfortable using the projections based on the 2013 Census. When new data from the 2018 census is available it will be included in the funding formula,” the spokesperson said.

DHBs are bulk funded and their share of funding is allocated based on population.

The release of the 2018 Census has been delayed a number of times because of gaps in the information due to a low response rate.

Health Minister David Clark said yesterday he had been told the 2013 Census data was reliable.

Clark said there were challenges with using older data but “I’m yet to meet a DHB who thinks it has the benefit of statistics that are in its advantage. All DHBs work within their limits. Most of them think they would like a little more funding if at all possible”.

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District health boards around the country facing financial uncertainty nearly eight months into the financial year have a fresh problem after the Ministry of Health confirmed it was calculating their funding based on population data that is six years old.

The ministry is using population figures from the 2013 Census to work out funding for the cashstrapped DHBs because 2018 Census data is not yet available.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health said the population projections used to work out DHBs’ share of funding were updated annually

by Statistics NZ, incorporating other data as well.

“This approach will apply to all DHBs as part of the usual population-based funding formula model for calculating the funding envelope. Given that we cannot yet use the 2018 census data, the ministry

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Tasty salads to beat the heat L

ong hot summer days make the kitchen a far-from-appealing place and the less time you need to spend in there the better.

Appetites are also jaded in the heat and often a substantial salad is all that’s called for when dinner rolls around. In today’s culinary world, salads are a far cry from the lettuce, tomato and cucumber creations of our grandmothers’ days.

Mediterranean pasta salad 375g penne pasta 1/4C and 2T olive oil 2t basil chopped 100g cherry tomatoes, halved 2 spring onions, sliced 100g baby rocket 100g roasted yellow capsicum, thinly sliced 60g pitted black olives 30g sundried tomatoes, diced 1T tomato paste 1½t white wine vinegar 2 cloves crushed garlic 1T chopped oregano

and sliced baby carrots blanched, and cut lengthways 2 handfuls spinach 1C fresh coriander, roughly torn 1C fresh mint, roughly torn 1/4C toasted sesame seeds

Vinaigrette: ¼C oil 2T red or white wine vinegar 1 clove garlic, crushed 1C basil leaves, very finely chopped

■ In a small bowl mix the soy, fish and oyster sauces, sesame oil, brown sugar, 2T water, chillies, ginger and lemon zest and juice.

■ Into a larger bowl, place the sliced beef, and add half the above mixture, reserving the other half as dressing.

■ Marinate for at least 20 minutes to allow the favours to infuse.

■ Combine the red onion, asparagus, carrots, spinach and herbs.

■ Heat a frying pan to high heat and fry the steak in 2 or 3 batches for 2-3 minutes.

■ Place on a plate to rest for 5 minutes.

■ Combine the dressing with the vegetables, add the meat, and mix gently.

■ Serve on a large platter, and sprinkle with sesame seeds, or in individual bowls.

■ Preheat the oven to 210°C. ■ Add all the glaze ingredients to a small saucepan and simmer to reduce.

■ Set aside to cool down and slightly thicken.

■ Pat the lamb rumps dry, rub with a little oil and season.

■ Heat a frying pan or BBQ over a high heat and sear the lamb for a couple of minutes to brown all over.

■ Place the lamb on a plate and coat all over with the balsamic glaze.

■ Transfer to an oven dish lined with tinfoil, spoon a little more balsamic glaze over top.

■ Finish cooking in the oven for 1215 minutes.

■ Remove from the oven, spoon a little more glaze over top.

■ Cover loosely with foil and rest for 10-15 minutes before slicing thinly across the grain.

■ Add a dash of oil to a frying pan and bring to a high heat.

■ Fry the cooked kumara pieces for a few minutes until golden.

■ Set aside, add the asparagus to the pan with another dash of oil and a squeeze of lemon juice, and cook until tender. Season as required.

■ Just before serving, cook the haloumi in the pan.

■ Brush the slices with a little oil and fry over medium-high heat for a minute or two each side until crispy and golden.

■ Whisk the ingredients together until combined. Season as required.

■ Toss the lamb with the baby spinach, asparagus, red onion, kumara, tomatoes and half the nuts in a bowl with half the vinaigrette.

■ Arrange on plates or a platter and add the haloumi.

■ Sprinkle with toasted nuts, drizzle with a little more vinaigrette or balsamic glaze.

■ Season with salt and pepper before serving.

Mexican chicken salad

■ Boil penne pasta in a large saucepan of boiling salted water following packet directions al dente. Drain, cool and place in large bowl.

■ Add 2T olive oil, basil and oregano to cooled pasta. Toss to coat.

■ Add cherry tomatoes, spring onions, baby rocket, capsicum and olives. Toss to combine.

■ For dressing, whisk together sundried tomatoes, tomato paste, white wine vinegar, 1/4 cup olive oil and garlic.

■ Toss through salad and serve.

4 large corn cobs 1T oil 300g smoked chicken breast 2 large handfuls rocket 1 red onion, finely sliced 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered 2 avocados, chopped 1C coriander leaves 1/4C extra virgin olive oil Juice from 1 lime Salt and freshly ground Pams black pepper ■ Strip husks from the corn, brush with oil.

■ Barbecue or cook on a hot plate until the corn starts to colour and get dark brown flecks.

■ Remove the corn from the heat and when cool enough to handle scrape the kernels from the cob.

■ Slice the chicken into bite size pieces and then combine on a large platter with the rocket, onion, tomatoes, corn, avocado and coriander.

■ Drizzle with combined oil, lime juice and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper

Thai beef salad 2T light soy sauce 2t dark soy sauce 1T oyster sauce 1t fish sauce 1/2t sesame oil 2t brown sugar 2 red chillies, chopped finely 2cm piece ginger, sliced finely 1 zest and juice of 1 lemon sirloin beef, sliced thinly 1T oil 1 red onion, sliced thinly 2 bunches asparagus, blanched

Balsamic lamb salad 3 lamb rumps Glaze: 1C balsamic vinegar 2 cloves garlic, crushed 2t brown sugar 1 stick fresh rosemary leaves, roughly chopped ½t salt Salad:

3C baby spinach leaves 1 bunch asparagus, ends snapped off and chopped into thirds 1 red onion, thinly sliced 3 large orange kumara, peeled, chopped and steamed or roasted 200g haloumi cheese, sliced then cut into triangles 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved ¾C pine nuts and/or pistachios lightly toasted

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 - In which film does Dooley Wilson sing As Time Goes By? a. The African Queen b. Casablanca c. The Maltese Falcon 2 - What name is given to the top universities in the USA? a. Super League b. Laurel League c. Ivy League 3 - Which country’s flag features a bird of paradise? a. Barbados b. Papua New Guinea c. Thailand 4 - What is a yashmak? a. Veil b. Bracelet c. Hat 5 - What might be divided into stanzas? a. Land b. Poetry c. Time 6 - Which TV series featured Bill Oddie, Graham Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor? a. Monty Python’s Flying Circus b. The Goodies c. The Young Ones 7 - Which city gives its name to the French national anthem? a. Marseilles b. Paris c. Lyon 8 - When eaten, what part of a cow is known as tripe? a. Tongue b. Stomach lining c. Hooves

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4 x 180g white fish fillets Salt and freshly ground black pepper ½C rice flour 3 egg whites, beaten with 1T water 2C shredded coconut ½ telegraph cucumber, deseeded and diced 1C cherry tomatoes, halved ¼C fresh mint leaves, chopped juice of 1 lime 3T extra virgin olive oil ¼C butter, melted 2 lemons, halved width-wise extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling

1 8 medium-sized bowl and toss together. Dress with lime juice and olive oil and season to taste. Set aside.

■ Place frying-pan onto a medium heat, add the melted butter and pan fry the fish until golden, turning once. Add the lemon halves to the frying pan cut side

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■ Place a mound of salad onto each plate. Place the coconut crusted fish on top of the salad, drizzle with olive oil, and garnish with caramelised lemons.

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■ OPINION

Extending the boundaries W

hen India rolled in to town to play cricket, it was always something a little bit special.

Wherever they went the Indian team drew a huge crowd of passionate fans who would come out in force to watch cricketing legends like MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli in the flesh, and at many of the games on their recent tour of New Zealand they outdid the home crowd when it came to both numbers and sheer noise.

Now, the Bangladeshis have picked up where the Indians left off.

Their team may not be producing anything too much worth writing home about on the field so far, but off the field the Bangladeshis are in full voice and full colour, cheering their side on.

That, when it came to teams touring from the sub-continent, isn’t unusual.

They are an extremely passionate bunch when it comes to their cricket, but this summer’s tours have provided something just a little unusual which has

been a winner in my eyes.

It was something that came on the Indian tour, and I think it did so much for the game of cricket in this country.

It opened up the eyes of so many people to the fact that there was actually some incredibly talented women’s cricketers out there who could put on a game which was just as exciting, if not more exciting, than the men’s game.

The recent tour wasn’t just the Indian men’s team, the Indian women’s team was here too, and their games were seen by a whole lot more people than usual.

The men’s and women’s one-dayers were played on the same ground on consecutive days, and the sides played their three-match T20 series on the same ground, on the same day.

It meant that not only did they get a few more spectators at the ground than usual, they also no doubt had more people watching them through the television.

I was a prime example.

If you’d asked me before when the New Zealand women’s team

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were playing next I wouldn’t have been able to tell you, but in this series I knew exactly when the games were on and even watched some of them.

And I’m sure I wasn’t alone.

From what I’ve heard, people loved the games and the opportunity to see top women in action, and the fact that a couple of the games were final-ball thrillers was just the icing on the cake.

As well as talking about the usual highlights – like the big hitting of the Colin Munros, the Tim Seiferts and the Colin de Grandhommes – people were talking about the impressive batting of Indian opener Smitri Mandhana, whose style some have likened to Kohli, and a stunning bowling display from

Black Cap Lea Tahuhu which turned almost certain defeat into victory.

It wasn’t just on the international stage that women’s cricket had been given a boost this season, either.

Double-headers had also been a feature of the domestic T20 competition, and like the international games, they drew good crowds.

All in all, it was a big step in the right direction by New Zealand Cricket when it came to growing the game.

I heard a man on the radio after one of the Indian matches say his daughter had said to him, ‘I didn’t know girls could play cricket’, after seeing the game on television.

Well, girls do play cricket and they are capable of playing pretty darn good cricket, and hopefully there will now be a few more young girls out there who realised that.

Hopefully they are now picking up a cricket bat, or a cricket ball, and dreaming of becoming New Zealand’s next Sophie Devine or Suzie Bates.

■ RUGBY

Ex-ABs ‘under-delivering’ Former All Black Julian Savea is just one of many Kiwi rugby stars under-delivering while playing in Europe, according to Talksport UK correspondent Russell Hargreaves.

Savea was told he was not welcome at French club Toulon on Monday despite having a year left on his contract, with owner Mourad Boudjellal making explosive comments over the former All Black winger’s performance.

The 28-year-old’s shock sacking comes less than a month after French club Montpellier boss Mohed Altrad revealed that former All Black Aaron Cruden wasn’t what the team expected and Lima Sopoaga’s lack of notable performance since signing with English club Wasps.

Hargreaves said he felt underwhelmed by the current Kiwi stars playing in Europe.

“The current crop are probably under-delivering and one or two of the new ones that have been signed for next season, I’m not entirely sure are going to be an awful lot better,” Hargreaves said.

“I just wonder with the consistency, the application, the fitness, the mental stimulation of being over here, are some of those guys making the most of it? I’m not entirely sure.

“You just want quality overseas players that come, give it their best, reflect well on those that play around them, galvanise the crowd and get that right balance for a couple of seasons before they go home or retire.”

Savea, who scored 46 tries in 54

In brief Squire off to Japan All Blacks loose forward Liam Squire has confirmed he will depart New Zealand after the 2019 Rugby World Cup, having signed a two-year deal with Japanese club NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes. “It seems like the right time to go. I have really loved my time in New Zealand with the Tasman Mako and in particular down here with the Highlanders,” said Squire. “It’s a club that gave me a chance and I appreciate the support I have had in the South. I am certainly keen to have a really good last season with the guys.”

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Beale ‘prefers centre’ Kurtley Beale would like to reclaim the NSW Waratahs’ inside centre role in Super Rugby but recognises he face stiff competition from Karmichael Hunt. Off-season recruit Hunt impressed in that position in the Waratahs’ seasonopening loss to the Hurricanes on Saturday while Beale was rested.

Beale said his preference was to return at inside centre but he also mentioned fullback as an option and said he’d be happy to play wherever coach Daryl Gibson wanted him.

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Worcester sign Nanai Blues winger Melani Nanai will end his five-season stint with the Kiwi Super Rugby franchise to join England Premiership club Worcester. Samoan-born Nanai has scored 16 tries in 49 Blues appearances and is set to raise his half-century against the Sharks in Durban this weekend. Recently married and with a first child on the way, the 25-year-old has decided the time is right to change the emphasis of his career and will depart at the end of the Super Rugby season.

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Big threats to All Blacks Former New Zealand captain Sean Fitzpatrick believes England and Ireland possess the greatest threat to ending the All Blacks’ hegemony at this year’s Rugby World Cup. New Zealand are overwhelming favourites to clinch a third successive crown in Japan later this year but the natural order was disturbed by Ireland clinching a famous win over the Kiwis in Dublin last November. Fitzpatrick expects both northern hemisphere sides as well as Wales – who are currently on an 11-match winning sequence – to shine on the global stage. But he thinks no toptier nation can be ruled out of contention at a tournament where none of them can boast home advantage.

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No rush for Pocock Aaron Cruden “not what the team expected” when he played for Montpellier. tests for the All Blacks, has since responded to damning criticism from the owner of his French rugby club on social media.

“Heading into this week with a positive attitude, whether I am welcomed or not I am still contracted to my team and I will continue to train week in and week out with my brothers #endofstory #letsmoveon,” the winger posted. Putting all the negativity behind me and heading into this week with a positive attitude

whether I am welcomed or not I am still contracted to my team and I will continue to train week in and week out with my brothers #endofstory #letsmoveon Savea’s brother and fellow All Black, Ardie, retweeted the post in support.

Savea signed a four-year deal with New Zealand Rugby in May 2015 that made him one of the highest paid players in New Zealand history, earning an estimated $800,000 a year.

He was released from that deal last year following the Super Rugby season after agreeing on a two-year deal with Toulon.

However, Savea has scored just one try in 10 matches since joining the club.

Toulon currently sit a dismal 11th on the table.

Former Hurricanes team-mate Nehe Milner-Skudder looks set to replace him at Toulon next season having signed a three-year deal.

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The Brumbies will take a cautious approach with star Wallabies forward David Pocock as he recovers from a second concussion in three months. The John Eales medallist lasted just five minutes in the Brumbies’ season-opening Super Rugby loss to the Melbourne Rebels on Friday night after suffering a bad head knock. “(Pocock’s) not affected by any symptoms but we’ve just got to take the right measures there and make sure his health is the priority as well,” Brumbies prop Scott Sio told reporters at training yesterday.

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■ GOLF

Tiger-mania in Mexico

Trainwreck on the greens Paul Greer lines up a putt during the Ashburton Golf Club’s Pro Shop Trainwreck Stableford tournament on Saturday. The competition was taken out by Josh Cochrane on 45 points, with Don O’Reilly just one point back on 44. It’ll be all action on the greens and fairways of the Ashburton club again this weekend, when the Harvey Norman Classic two-day tournament gets under way.

The mixed tournament will start on Saturday morning and run through until Sunday afternoon.

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RESULTS ■ Golf Ashburton County Vets Golf February 15 Stroke and Putting round played at Ashburton Stoke June Bruhns 72, Ellenor Sullivan 72 on c/b, Daphne McDonnell 73 on c/b.

Putting Sally lane 27, Mary-Lou Watson 28.

Nearest the pins #4 Sue Graham, #8 Joan Undy, #12 Helen Hawksby, #14 June Bruhns.

9 holes Stroke Helen Hawksby. Putting Janice Dunlop.

Ashburton Golf Club February 16 and 19 Round 1, Bonnington Cup Maxine Carter 68 Round 1 Longbeach Cup Jenny Stoddart 67, Mary-Lou Watson 70, Wendy Parr 72 Nearest the Pins: No 4 Gabites Joyce VanderHeide, No 8 House of Travel Vicki Moore, No 12 Lynn’s small Salon Wendy Parr, No 14 Todds of Ashburton Vicki Moore, No 4 Somerset Grocer 2nd shot Brenda Whittacker, No 18 2nd Shot to Green Janice Dunlop Nine Hole February 14 Greensome Kath Read & John Matsinger 31, Val Ferrier & Laurence Hanrahan 31.5, Jude Stoddart & Peter Woods 33.5 (ny lot from Sue Lamb and Bruce Sim)

Vets Golf February 18

2nd Round Heartland Bank played at Tinwald 1st John McArthur 42, 2nd Brent McGregor 41, 3rd equal Pete Kiddey and Ray Suttie 40, 4th Ian Beach, Charlie Alexander and Jim Lattimore 39, 5th Bill Mason, Graeme McIvoy, Greg Sparrow, Trevor Kerr and Graeme Munro 38 Next Game Methven March 4

Start 9:00am - Location Hampstead bowling green Skips: R. McGarry, B. Marsh, R. Bennett, B. Mayson, M. Skilling, G. Bishop, M. Behrns, M. Grice, T. Inwood, M. Anderson, G. Eder, S. Keith, B. White We are still looking for teams contact Malcom Berhns on 0274344751

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February 16 Murray Cook, 558, Carl Nordqvist 583, John Fleming 570.

February 17 Ashburton District Rifle Club, Fullbore, club day at 300 yards TR, Allan White 35.5, 35.5, 70.10, John Fleming 34.1, 35.6, 69.7, Brian Hawksby 34.2, 35.1, 69.3, Carl Nordqvist 30.2, 35.4, 65.6, John Miller 32.2, 32.0, 64.2, Coby Snowden 30.1.

FTR, Murray Cook 39.2, 42.1, 81.5, Mark Alexander 39.3, Brian Graystone 37.2, Coby Snowden 37.1.

FO, Mike Chui 41.3, 41.2, 82.5.

DRAWS ■ Bowls Hampstead All Sport Club February 24 Bowling section Sandy Keith

February 23 and 24 Harvey Norman Classic This is the draw for Saturday, Sundays draw will be posted in the clubhouse Times may vary a little so please report to starter at least 30 minutes before start time.

February 23 1St Tee 8.00am S Lemon, P Wright, B Turton, P Turton: 8.07, S Carlson, R Carlson, M Walker, P Walker: 8.15, H Ward, C Robertson, B Whittaker, R Day: 8.22, B Kirdy, B Kirdy, TBA, TBA: 8.30, L Wackrow, M Wackrow, B Collins, J Peacock: 8.37, A Tindall, G Douglas, M Fine, M Douglas: 8.45, A MacGregor, K MacRae, S Bradford, R Gallagher: 8.52 T Shepherd, G Lee, J Ackerley, D Busch: 9.00, J Overend, B Smith, D Hewitt, J Hewitt: 9.07, M Watson, T Newton, A Anderson, D McDonnell: 9.15, S Stratford, B Henderson, T Tuakeu, M Timote: 9.22 K Schmanski, N Knight, L Small, J Stoddart: 9.30, W Hopwood, C Anderson, T Hurley, J Nicholas: 11.45 P Bradford, B Walsh, T Kingsbury, J Hurst: 11.52, M Holmes, R Jamieson, C Alexander, B Nuttall: 12.00, P May, K Clucas, G Sparrow, N Sutton: 12.07, B Wilson, C Flannery, G Johnston, A Jolly:

12.15, B Day, G Austin, S Anderson, B Peddie: 12.22, S Restieaux, C Helem, I Rive, R Lambert: 12.30, B MacGregor, H Niles, B Clarke, M Issaccs: 12.37, P Greer, S Kircher, G Greer, R Greer: 12.45, N Preston, L Dons, A Preston, H Preston: 12.52, B Quinn, T Hurst, S Luscombe, L McGee: 1.00, R McKernan, A Coffin, A Barrie, R Simms: 1.07 T Booker, M Wedderal, C Collins, D Black.

10th Tee 8.00am P Morrison, P Morrison, B Davidson, M Davidson: 8.07, D Morrison, N Wilson, S Beavan, G Crawford: 8.15, R Duncan, J Small, B Dempsey, B Mackey: 8.22, J MacFarlane, T Blacklow, J Bird, M Tait: 8.30, C Bain, J Cochrane, G Hubbard, B Jones: 8.37, E Porter, C Trott, M Carter, K Fox: 8.45, B Fechney, J Fechney, A Laidlaw, K Vailiau: 8.52, L Cabout, J Power, W Parr, E Parr: 9.00, S Patrick, K Kelly, S Graham, A Vessey: 9.07, P Paraia, R Taro, R Stoddart, D Stoddart: 9.15, P Lane, K Venmore, W Hii, P Radford: 9.22 B Crequer, P Lee, E Silver, K Lowe: 9.30, F Williamson, J Williamson, N Wilson, M Ness.

11.45, V Moore, D Hinton, S Quinn, S Smith: 11.52, C Knight, C Ross, T Cates, J Beardsley: 12.00, P Bell, J Senior, N Webb, J Webb: 12.07, M Gorman, P Elliot, D Thoms, J Beckingham: 12.15, T Sa, C Yates, B Chinn, W Bruce: 12.22, N Conelley, C Ginida, S Davidson, P Davidson: 12.30, P Stoddart, B Jury, K Smith, A Smith: 12.37, P Hunt, G Jansen, A Hopwood, B Hawksby: 12.45, M Glasson, M Marsh, B Simkin, L Gunatunga: 12.52, T Bain, J Durham, W Smith, B Smith: 1.00, B Franklin, S Vivian, R Bell, G Gunn: 1.07 G Rhodes, A Teale, M Beach, D Allan: 1.15 P Woods, G Clinton, S Prince, R Hansen.

In-form Australian Marc Leishman is bracing for fan hysteria at this week’s World Golf Championship event with Tiger Woods to play his first pro tournament in Mexico.

Woods, the winner of a record 18 WGC titles, confirmed last week that he would tee up in the elite 72-player tournament in Mexico City.

The WGC-Mexico – which has a field featuring 46 of the world’s top 50 golfers – was first held in Mexico City in 2017 after shedding its old identity as the WGC-Cadillac Championship in Florida.

Bumper crowds flocked to host course Club de Golf Chapultepec to get a glimpse of stars such as Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy.

But with 14-time major winner Woods present this week, Leishman expects the atmosphere to be electric.

“It’s going to be crazy; that’s the only way you can put it,” Leishman said. “It was crazy for us last year, and no-one really knew who I was. I just had golf clothes on and people were asking me for my autograph.

“With Tiger, it’s going to be off the charts and it’s a great thing for the event.”

Club de Golf Chapultepec provides an added challenge of altitude with the course sitting 7800 feet above sea level.

Experts and players estimate the golf ball travels 20 per cent further due to the decreased air density.

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Tinwald Golf Club February 26 Women’s Division 3rd Burrows Cup 3rd Maree Moore No 1 9.00 K. McAuliffe S. Gutsell L. Bird No10 9.00 C. Linney V. Prendergast J. Bruhns; 9.05 J. Undy M. Kennedy I. Divers No 13 9.00 B. Harris B. Cochrane D. Bell 9 holes 2nd 2 J’s Cup Stroke & Putting No 1 9.05 B. O’Neill J. Smith 9.10 J. Fitzgerald D. Wellman C. Shanks Starters B. Harris J. Fitzgerald, Cards M. Kennedy C. Linney, Kitchen M. Smith, Draw steward J. Bruhns

■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis February 23 Round 5 All games to start at 9am sharp Junior A Grade – Methven Silver v Dorie Jnr A at ATTC; Southern Sharps v Allenton Hawks at ATTC; Allenton Eagles v Hampstead Jnr A at Hampstead; Methven Gold v Methven Bronze at ATTC. Junior B Grade Pool 1 – Southern Steel v Methven White at ATTC; Methven Black v Southern Slammers at ATTC. Pool 2 – Allenton Falcons v Allenton Keas at Allenton; Tinwald Jnr B v Dorie Jnr B at ATTC; BYE – Dorie Hampstead.

Junior C - Duty Team Allenton Tuis Hampstead Jnr C v Southern Stars at Hampstead; Methven Yellow v Methven Blue at Methven Domain; Allenton Tuis v Tinwald Jnr C at ATTC; Methven Red v Allenton Kiwis at ATTC. Please phone any defaults through to Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis 308 3020 as soon as possible.

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Don Morrison rounds a bend on Sunday, during the Tinwald Cycling Club’s race in which he finished second.

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Backlash at Navratilova

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Kircher holds off old stagers It was a case of the elder statesmen of the Tinwald Cycling Club fighting out the finish in the club’s weekly race on Sunday.

But in the Davidson Refrigeration and Electrical 47km handicap event around the Grahams Road block, it was the young pup of the group, Brent Kircher, who had the final say in the charge to the line.

Turning back the clock, Kircher timed his sprint to perfection to claim the victory and lift the McElhinney Trophy, while Don Morrison produced his trade-

mark gutsy ride to secure the second place spoils.

The evergreen Dave Shurrock was also in the thick of the finish to claim the final podium position, while Lucy Kirwan dug deep, finding the line strongly to secure fourth place.

Brent Cowie and Gary Weston stormed home to round out the top six.

Scratch marker Brad Hudson recorded the fastest time honours, riding the course in 68.49 minutes, and co-markers Oliver Davidson and Tony Ward se-

cured second and third best time respectively.

The juniors and division two contested a 16km handicap event and it was also a tight finish in the juniors’ event, with Zoe Spillane getting home in the last push of the pedals to take the win.

Penny Marriott was brave in defeat, securing the second place honours, while Jack Templeton produced plenty of zip to take the third place spoils, and Zach Brookland took out fourth place.

His brother Mitch, riding off the back mark, took fifth place and fastest time honours, covering the distance in 29.45 minutes.

Division two honours went to Janette Hooper, making it backto-back wins for her, while Brian Ellis took second place with Andy Skinner coming in third.

Rachel Reid, fresh off completing the Coast to Coast, secured fastest time honours.

Next week the club travels to Hinds to contest a 50km handicap event.

Top cyclist struggling to return to elite level She may be Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian but Laura Kenny admits she had to overcome a confidence crisis upon her return to major competition after giving birth.

The 26-year-old four-time gold medallist will have 18-month-old son Albie at trackside when she competes alongside husband Jason at the World Track Cycling

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Championships in Poland next week.

Kenny endured a mixed return at the European Championships in Glasgow last year and admitted she took some time to adjust to the fact that she still belonged in elite company.

“The standard moves on all the time and when I left the sport after Rio it continued to grow and

move on,” Kenny told Press Association Sport.

“It meant I basically had to re-learn the whole thing. When I returned at the World Cup in Canada I felt a little bit out of my comfort zone with everything happening at full speed ahead.

“But it just takes a few events to get used to it. I was pretty average in Glasgow and that was a learn-

ing curve and a wake-up call. I’ve re-learned and moved on and I feel much stronger going to Poland.”

Kenny will compete in the team pursuit and the omnium as she continues to build towards next year’s Olympics in Tokyo, where the plan is for her young son Albie to make his own Olympic bow.

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Trans sportswomen have hit back at Martina Navratilova, after the tennis champion said “its insane and it’s cheating” for transgender women to be allowed to compete in women’s sport. “A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires,” she wrote. Navratilova’s comments are “disturbing, upsetting, and deeply transphobic,” said Rachel McKinnon, who in 2018 became the first transgender woman to win a world track cycling title, reigniting a debate over whether trans women have unfair physical advantages in sport.

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Lightsabre duelling France’s fencing federation have officially recognised lightsabre duelling as a competitive sport, granting the famed weapon from the Star Wars saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre.

The LED-lit, rigid polycarbonate lightsabre replicas look and even sound remarkably like the silver screen blades that Yoda and other characters wield in George Lucas’s blockbuster movies. The more expensive sabres are equipped with a chip in their hilt that emits a throaty electric rumble. Like virtuous Jedi knights, the French federation sees itself as combating a Dark Side: The sedentary habits of 21st-century life that are affecting the health of evergrowing numbers of children. - PA

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■ CRICKET

Changes in the wind

By Niall aNdersoN With a series win over Bangladesh already in the bag, changes in both personnel and strategy are expected for the Black Caps as they play their final ODI before the Cricket World Cup. One major change is already confirmed – captain Kane Williamson will be rested for today’s third ODI in Dunedin, with Colin Munro coming into the side to take his place.

After having to deal with the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami in the Indian series, a chance to face the far-less-threatening Bangladesh seam attack at the top of the order could help Munro’s confidence.

The powerful hitter is still likely to be part of the Black Caps’ World Cup equation, and will likely open the batting today, with Henry Nicholls taking Williamson’s spot at number three.

It would make sense, if the toss allows, for the Black Caps to bat first as well, given what has transpired in the first two ODIs, where they had easy targets to chase down.

After failing to set a truly competitive target in any of their five ODIs against India, a chance to do so, in aggressive fashion, would be handy practice before the World Cup begins.

So far in this series, only Martin Guptill, Nicholls, Williamson and Ross Taylor have even got a chance to bat, and batting first could maximise the opportunity that the likes of Tom Latham, Colin de Grandhomme and Jimmy Neesham have to get

In brief Big deal for Kearney Stephen Kearney is close to signing a three-year extension that will make him the equal-longest serving coach in the Warriors’ NRL history. Chief executive Cameron George confirmed negotiations with Kearney are nearing an end and the 46-year-old is poised to be retained until the end of 2022.

Kearney, who is about to embark on the final leg of a three-season deal, would join Ivan Cleary as the only six-year coach in the club’s history dating back to 1995.

George wants to build success on a stable off-field core and said retaining Kearney is vital if they are to improve last year’s result, when they ended a seven-season playoff drought.

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If the jersey fits . . .

The North Queensland top literally didn’t fit when Jordan Kahu completed his whirlwind preseason move from Brisbane this week. But the likely replacement for the sacked Ben Barba at fullback says he’s quickly settling in and intent on making the most of his one-season deal at the NRL club. So late was Kahu’s arrival that only XXL uniforms remained in the kit bag, leaving the newcomer swimming in his new colours on arrival.

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Drinkwater in for Slater Martin Guptill has been in scintillating form for the Black Caps. somevaluable runs under their belt.

Black Caps stand-in batting coach Heinrich Malan said batting first is an option the side would like to explore.

“It’s something we’ve spoken about, trying to get the boys into a situation where we bat first,” he said.

“Hopefully we can build on

how we’ve gone in the last few games – there’s obviously a big focus on playing the way we want to play, and sticking to that blueprint.”

With the ball, logic would dictate today is a good time for Tim Southee to return to the side after being left running the drinks for six consecutive ODIs, even if the change is largely made for

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the added benefit of giving Black Caps spearhead Trent Boult a rest.

Similarly, Todd Astle will likely get his last chance to impress before the World Cup squad is named in April, with the legspinner believed to be in a race with Ish Sodhi for the second spinning spot, complementing Mitchell Santner.

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Windies on the long road back Former West Indies bowler Ian Bishop takes pride in his former team’s recent test series win over England, believing the current crop is “filled with possibilities” and can climb up the rankings.

Despite the 2-1 series victory, the Windies remain eighth in the ICC rankings.

The West Indies have fast bowling depth, but Bishop says two deficiencies must be fixed.

“They are looking for a spinner to be developed and want more consistency for the top-order batting.”

The Windies played the England tests without a specialist spinner, although allrounder Roston Chase took eight wickets in the opening match, which they won by 381 runs.

They followed with a 10-wicket second test win.

Openers John Campbell and Kraigg Brathwaite provided decent starts with partnerships above 50 in all but one innings, but the rest of the top order proved brittle and inconsistent.

Shai Hope was out cheaply three times in five innings.

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Scott Drinkwater has been rewarded for a huge off-season with first crack at Billy Slater’s vacant Melbourne Storm fullback jersey. Drinkwater will start at No.1 in the Storm’s first pre-season trial against the Warriors in Geelong on Friday night, beating off challenges from Jahrome Hughes and Ryan Papenhuyzen.

The 21-year-old got a taste of NRL action late last year and decided he would go all-out to replace the retired superstar.

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Cleary brings ball back Ivan Cleary has put the ball back in Penrith’s NRL pre-season with players noticing a shift from Anthony Griffin’s long running sessions to a more game-focused approach. Three months after he left the Wests Tigers, Cleary will coach Penrith in a match for the first time in three years in Saturday’s NRL trial against South Sydney at Redfern. Besides swapping halves Nathan Cleary and James Maloney to opposite sides of the field, the coach’s most notable pre-season impact has been longer and harder-hitting skills sessions.

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Centre stage for Bird

Captains Joe Root and Jason Holder have a friendly on-field discussion.

His consecutive centuries at Leeds in 2017 are a distant memory, but Bishop says he is a phenomenal talent.

“He is getting beaten on the outside of the bat and inside of the bat. He has to decide how best he can position himself at the crease and allow the ball to come to him, because he is reaching for

the ball. He will overcome it ... I think he’s an investment.”

Left-hander Darren Bravo, back from a two-year absence after a dispute with administrators, also failed in four of his five innings but, with a batting average of more than 38, Bishop said he only needed time to integrate himself back into test cricket.

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Bishop thinks the West Indies could rise in the test rankings, particularly with Jason Holder at the helm, but the days of the team that dominated the 1970s and early 1980s were over.

“Jason Holder is very important to the team as a player and a leader,” Bishop said. “He has a leadership aura about him.” - PA

Jack Bird will line up in the centres as he takes the first steps in his return to the NRL in Brisbane’s trial game against Queensland Cup side Wynnum Manly. Bird battled fitness and injury issues in his debut season at the Broncos last year but he will start in the centres alongside Kotoni Staggs at Kougari Oval on Saturday. Young gun Sean O’Sullivan will start at five-eighth with Alex Glenn, David Fifita and Tevita Pangai forming a strong back-row for the preseason clash. It will be Bird’s first game for the Broncos since round 10 last year, after the Cronulla recruit’s debut season in Brisbane was marred by shoulder and sternum injuries.

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In brief Madison Sydney-bound

Sensei primed for Oakleigh Riccarton trainer Michael Pitman has never been afraid to travel his horses in search of lucrative prizemoney and the right conditions.

Pitman, who trains in partnership with his son Matthew, is looking forward to another adventure this weekend when smart sprinter Sensei will represent the stable in the Gr.1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield and take on some of Australia’s best sprinters.

The Christchurch horseman has made no secret of the fact he rates the last-start Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m) placegetter as superior to his stablemate and winner of that race, Enzo’s Lad. “Everything’s gone to plan,” Pitman said.

“We have travelled up north and stayed at Graeme Rogerson’s place just out of Hamilton, and he will fly to Melbourne on Tuesday night.

“I have no doubt he should

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have won the Telegraph. Had he got the draw that Enzo’s Lad got, he would have won the race for sure.

“He’s the best sprinter I’ve ever had. Coup Align was an outstanding sprinter, but this horse is just that little bit better.

“He’s a very fast horse but we’ve had to treat him with kid gloves a bit because of his tendency to over-race.”

Pitman knows the challenge that awaits his four-year-old entire, who will take on the likes of Group One winners Shoals, Viddora and emerging star Nature Strip.

“We know it’s not going to be easy, but I’m really looking forward to running him in a race with good speed in it.

“Nature Strip goes hard so hopefully we can get a draw and just follow him.”

With a 96 rating, Sensei will carry 52kgs in the Oakleigh Plate

Michael Pitman and Pitman has secured lightweight rider Dean Holland.

The trainer is comfortable with more than a month between runs, having finished third at Trentham on January 19.

“What we find is that if we space his races he actually races more relaxed which is the opposite of what you’d think,” Pitman said.

Dual Group One-winning threeyear-old Madison County will head to Sydney in preparation for an autumn campaign after his sale to Hong Kong fell through. The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsmantrained gelding won the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton in November followed by the Levin Classic at Trentham before finishing a gallant third behind Long Leaf in the rich Karaka Million 3YO (1600m) at Ellerslie in January.

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The trip to Melbourne is very much a chance for Sensei to dip his toe in the water with a view to returning later in the year.

Pitman has endured a well-documented battle with bowel cancer but said his health was on the improve.

“I’m good. The pain has gone from eight or nine (out of ten) six weeks’ ago to one or two. I’m taking 30-odd pills a day but I’m getting there,” he said.

The leading South Island conditioner said more travel is on the horizon on both a personal and business front.

“We’re booked to go on a cruise to Singapore on Sunday morning,” he said.

“I’ve also been told that Enzo’s Lad is a probable to get a trip to Hong Kong for the Chairman’s Sprint Prize in April, so it would be nice to represent New Zealand with a multiple Group One winner.”

- NZME

Weaponry still firing Last-start Listed Southland Guineas (1600m) winner Weaponry is being set to add another Guineas scalp to his record. The Jamie Richards-trained runner will head for a light freshen-up before lining up in the Gr.2 Wellington Guineas at Trentham next month. “He might have a little freshen-up now and if we are pleased with him he could well be aimed at the Wellington Guineas on the way back to Te Akau,” he said. Weaponry had a three start southern campaign that included a placing in the Listed Gore Guineas.

- NZME

Avondale gallops Today at Avondale Raceway

Avondale JC Venue: Avondale Meeting Date: 20 Feb 2019 NZ 72 Benchmark, 1200m 6 x5x44 Arrivo (6) 56.5 .............................T Thornton Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 1 8064x Spider d (1) 64 .........................N Bakar (a3) 7 00843 Honora (1) 56.5 ....................T Newman (a3) 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 2 0x852 Hammer King d (4) 60.5................O Bosson 8 Nothinbraxlykahart (10) 56.5..........V Colgan 9 677x Bella Pronto (9) 56 .......................... S Spratt 1 12.10pm (NZT) MAGNESS THE MIGHTY STREAM 3 51025 Stand Tall td (2) 58 4 0x396 Ruby Bloom d (5) 57 .......................S Collett 10 Slinky Linky (8) 56.......................... J Bayliss TRAIN MAIDEN 2100 $10,000, MDN, 2100m 5 83021 Sistabeel td (6) 55.5 ....................C Lammas 6 3.15pm AJC MEMBERS MAIDEN 1400 $10,000, 1 00x0 Luckyismyname (5) 58.5 ............... R Norvall 6 00997 Felix Faure (3) 54 ........................... S McKay MDN, 1400m 2 x9x78 Our Legacy (9) 58.5 ............................C Dell 3 70x78 Roc ‘N’ Gold (4) 58.5 ...................C Lammas 4 1.55 NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE MAID- 1 7 Mighty Aslan (6) 58.5 ...................... S Spratt 4 97 Playwrite (7) 58 .............................M McNab EN 1400 $10,000, MDN 3YOF, 1400m 2 4090x Signor Dal (4) 58.5 ..............................C Dell 5 93233 Rusalka (2) 56.5.............................. S Spratt 3 2 On The Nighttrain (3) 58 ...............O Bosson 1 39422 Grande Amici b (1) 56.5 .................. R Jones 6 0072x Acacia (10) 56.5 ..........................D Mansour 4 5 Super Vino (5) 58 ............................S Collett 2 37336 Power Of Strength (8) 56.5 .........T Thornton 7 x3444 Secretaria (6) 56.5 .........................V Colgan 5 7 Five Stars (8) 58..........................D Mansour 3 45 Decadence (2) 56.5 ........................ C Grylls 8 90646 Fine And Dandee (8) 56.5.......... L Satherley 6 x5x44 Arrivo (2) 56.5 4 4837 Western Girl (3) 56.5..................M Cameron 9 72322 Spring Delight b (3) 56 ...............M Cameron 7 0x308 Miss Anonymous (7) 56.5 .............. J Bayliss 5 35756 Markle (7) 56.5 ................................ S Spratt 10 0P90 Ostreidae (1) 56 ..........................T Thornton 8 09x88 Rumour Has It (1) 56.5 ................... C Grylls 6 x6476 Scorch (5) 56.5 .............................. J Bayliss 2 12.45 NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE 1600 7 0x Amared Rose (4) 56.5...................M McNab 9 590 Six Schillings (9) 56.5 .............. D Danis (a2) $10,000, R65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1600m 8 7 Intrigue (6) 56.5..............................V Colgan 7 3.50pm WEST BROOK CELLAR DOOR WAIMAUKU 1 52134 Pullyoursocksup (2) 61.5.......... D Danis (a2) 5 2.35pm THE CATO BOLAM MAIDEN 1200 $10,000, MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1600m 2 0x145 Excelsior Island (1) 59 ................... J Bayliss MDN, 1200m 1 22x42 Harbourside b (5) 57.5 ..................M McNab 3 B4521 Tantalising d (3) 59 ..............S Collett 2 x6344 Marbuzet (10) 57.5 ......................T Thornton 1 0 Outlander (2) 58.5 ...........................J Riddell 4 1 Vis Ta Vie (4) 58.5 ........................... C Grylls 3 0604 Germanicus (16) 57.5 ...................O Bosson 2 7x336 Flying Flame (3) 58 .......................O Bosson 5 02940 Bet She Is 57.5 ............................ Scratched 4 5 Foodie King (4) 57.5....................... J Bayliss 3 Upset (5) 58 ....................................S Collett 6 14900 Top Actress (5) 57 .......................C Lammas 5 6559L Etch (8) 57.5 ...................................J Riddell 4 Johnnie Redmond (4) 58 3 1.20pm AUCKLAND ALARMS 1200 $11,000, Rating 5 70 Whatsitallabout (7) 58 ..............N Bakar (a3) 6 800 Bruno Magile (2) 57.5 ..................... S Spratt

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11 8068 Saltire 58 ...................................... Scratched 12 70447 O’Sugar (9) 56.5 ............................. S Spratt 13 4x487 Spirited (8) 56.5 .........................M Cameron 14 x0638 O’Dahlia 56 .................................. Scratched 15 006 Thousand Stars (5) 56 ................C Lammas 16 507 Flomiline (10) 56 ............................V Colgan 17 09x88 Rumour Has It 56.5 ...................... Scratched 18 4090x Signor Dal 58.5 ............................ Scratched Emergencies: Rumour Has It, Signor Dal Blinkers on: Spring Delight (R1), Ruby Bloom (R3), Scorch, Amared Rose, Intrigue (R4), Flying Flame (R5), Rumour Has It (R6), Southern Queen (R7) Blinkers off: Felix Faure (R3), Arrivo (R5), Signor Dal, Five Stars, Arrivo, Six Schillings (R6), Spirited (R8) Winkers on: Ostreidae (R1), Miss Anonymous (R6) Pacifiers off: Whatsitallabout (R5) SELECTIONS

7 1.46pm LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C1 C1, 305m

1 56743 Bigtime Boy 17.76 ....................... P B Briggs 2 58623 Arthur’s Crown 18.17 .......................R Waite 3 38577 Zara Daiken 18.00.............................. N Udy 4 2318 Bigtime Banjo 17.88 ...........................L Cole 5 45468 Homebush Kazzy 17.85 ............J McInerney 6 83767 Cawbourne Looks 17.75 .......... K Gommans 7 86477 Rocky Top 18.08 ..............................P Taylor 8 55854 Hotdog Shannon 17.98 ...................C Morris Emergencies: 9 87888 Lissadell Babe 17.99..................... D Donlon 10 87888 No Mug 17.90 .................................C Morris 10 2.42pm PRESIDENT STAKES C1 C1, 305m 1 F358x Night Howler 18.25 ..................E Duganzich 2 57848 Shamrock Green 17.88 ..............B Goldsack 3 47374 Cassia 18.03 ............................ S Gommans 4 68578 Sozin’s Angel nwtd ....................J McInerney 5 43245 Bigtime Hannah 17.88 ............... D P Symes 6 51645 Bigtime Elvis 18.11 ............................L Cole 7 55775 Empty Pocket 18.28 ........................... N Udy 8 63577 Culvie Den 17.80 ................................ L Bell 9 67678 Dyna Bart nwtd ........................ K Gommans 10 87888 No Mug 17.90 .................................C Morris

Race 1: Spring Delight, Rusalka, Secretaria, Playwrite, Acacia Race 2: Pullyoursocksup, Excelsior Island, Tantalising Race 3: Sistabeel, Hammer King, Spider, Stand Tall, Ruby Bloom Race 4: Grande Amici, Scorch, Power Of Strength, Markle Race 5: Upset, Honora, Flying Flame, Arrivo, Bella Pronto Race 6: On The Nighttrain, Mighty Aslan, Arrivo, Miss Anonymous Race 7: Harbourside, Ambitious Showgirl, Oratia, Marbuzet Race 8: Nordic, Highland Dancer, Spirited

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway 9 72778 Bigtime Sheer nwtd ............................L Cole Meeting Date: 20 Feb 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 10 88876 Ahuroa Magic nwtd ........................R Murray 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles 1, 2 and 3 12.36pm AON CPF HT 1 C0 C0q, 520m 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 67748 That’s Frank nwtd ......................J McInerney 1 12.02pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL CO C0, 305m 2 Bigtime Bruno nwtd ............................L Cole 1 23347 Just Like Harry nwtd .......................... N Udy 3 Bigtime Bret nwtd ...............................L Cole 2 Ahuroa Whizz nwtd ........................R Murray 4 5 Shozip Ruby nwtd ...........................T Patton 3 Bigtime Gal nwtd ................................L Cole 5 67568 Lizzy O’Shea nwtd ......................B Hodgson 4 75563 Rockoneva nwtd ..........................B Hodgson 6 73436 Bigtime Homie nwtd ...........................L Cole 5 Rattle The Jug nwtd ...................B Goldsack 7 24 Bigtime Thor nwtd ..............................L Cole 6 4533 Bigtime Jamie nwtd ............................L Cole 8 23776 Opawa Marcie nwtd ..........................M Flipp 7 77663 Sedgebrook Saint nwtd .......................F Kite 9 27776 Stormin’ Home nwtd S & ...........C Blackburn 8 25783 Sefton Brew nwtd ............................... N Udy 10 68887 It’s Timmy nwtd .........................J McInerney 9 23876 Yee Coo Coo nwtd ....................J McInerney 4 12.54pm PALMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION 10 75587 Blue Whizz nwtd.........................B Goldsack HT 2 C0 C0q, 520m 2 12.19pm WHANGANUI CHRONICLE CO C0, 305m 1 22545 Sahara Pippa nwtd............................M Flipp 1 Bigtime Ava nwtd ...............................L Cole 2 876 Bigtime Otis nwtd ...............................L Cole 2 84854 Mister Booze nwtd ......................J McArthur 3 25573 Race Me Home nwtd ..................B Hodgson 3 Bigtime Mila nwtd ...............................L Cole 4 2 Bigtime Shadow nwtd ........................L Cole 4 Ball Chants nwtd ...............................M Flipp 5 34454 Hopcorn nwtd ..................................... N Udy 5 65 Ariana Sunset nwtd ....................B Goldsack 6 44641 Bigtime Benji nwtd .............................L Cole 6 44245 Final Straw nwtd................................. N Udy 7 55 Bigtime Jasper nwtd ...........................L Cole 7 84 Two Percenta nwtd J &........................D Bell 8 63778 Tuff An’ Spicy nwtd ........................B Mitchell 8 3 Burning Rain nwtd...........................T Patton 9 55868 Hurricane Ayla nwtd ...................... D Donlon

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7 Clearly Now (6) 57.5 8 8068 Saltire 57.5 ................................... Scratched 9 0 Stratius (15) 57.5 10 90563 Ambitious Showgirl b (13) 55.5 ...... A Calder 11 9230 Southern Queen (14) 55.5 ..............S Collett 12 4637 Dance Card (9) 55.5 ...................C Lammas 13 x0638 O’Dahlia (7) 55.5 14 64 Oratia (1) 55.5 ................................. C Grylls 15 8007 Bingwa (11) 55.5 .............................R Smyth 16 0006 Ekraar Lass (12) 55.5 .................D Mansour 17 006 Thousand Stars (3) 55.5 18 7 Intrigue 55.5 ................................. Scratched 8 4.25 WEST BROOK WINES MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 25x52 Inigo Montoya 58.5....................... Scratched 2 0x620 Highland Dancer (7) 58.5 ............... A Calder 3 00x95 Alberation (6) 58.5 ......................T Thornton 4 369x7 Heremon (3) 58.5 ........................... J Bayliss 5 0x0 Impeccable One 58.5 ................... Scratched 6 907 Magnify 58.5 ................................ Scratched 7 22x42 Harbourside 58 ............................ Scratched 8 22 Nordic b (1) 58 ................................J Riddell 9 06374 Mont Ventoux (4) 58 ....................... S McKay 10 Clearly Now (2) 58 .................J Fawcett (a1)

10 68887 It’s Timmy nwtd .........................J McInerney

5 1.11pm J P PRINT PETONE C0 FINAL C0f, 305m

1 31 Bigtime Luna 18.03 ............................L Cole 2 8782 Clansman Douglas nwtd ............B Goldsack 3 1 Shrewdy 18.14 ...................... L E Dunkerton 4 67218 Bigtime Dexter 17.89..........................L Cole 5 66682 Leslie Albert nwtd ......................B Goldsack 6 52 Bigtime Cutie nwtd .............................L Cole 7 42721 Dino The Fox 17.75 ......................M Roberts 8 33327 Bigtime Baxter nwtd ...........................L Cole Emergencies: 9 4533 Bigtime Jamie nwtd ............................L Cole 10 75563 Rockoneva nwtd ..........................B Hodgson 6 1.29pm WANGANUI TOYOTA C1 C1, 305m 1 41125 Bigtime Ziggy 17.82 ...........................L Cole 2 38664 Cawbourne Zayne nwtd J & ................D Bell 3 64554 Zoe Jean 17.83 .................................M Flipp 4 37568 Homebush Shea 17.91 ............ K Gommans 5 87566 Mitcham Moody 18.16...............J McInerney 6 24236 Viking Ash 18.16 ................................ N Udy 7 76677 Little Tornado 18.16..........................R Waite 8 7114x Dee Bee Gee 18.07 ................... G Hodgson 9 87888 No Mug 17.90 .................................C Morris 10 28876 Zip Zap Zoe nwtd ......................J McInerney

1 76532 Bigtime Kylie 17.82 .................... D P Symes 2 24423 Kinetic Shadow 17.84 ......................... L Bell 3 64366 Opehu Express 18.03 ......................R Waite 4 67766 Mini Mansion 17.86 ...........................M Flipp 5 68887 Bigtime Kaea 18.01 J & ......................D Bell 6 1512 Bigtime Lizzy 17.75 ............................L Cole 7 66265 Sozin’s Treasure nwtd ...............J McInerney 8 86577 Alf Tupper 17.97 ............................. L A Hunt Emergencies: 9 67678 Dyna Bart nwtd ........................ K Gommans 10 87888 No Mug 17.90 .................................C Morris 8 2.07pm HATRICK STAKES C1 C1, 520m 1 25344 True Testament 30.74..................B Hodgson 2 44665 Jax Jewel nwtd .............................M Roberts 3 P5773 Go Show 31.45 .................................. N Udy 4 76365 Slam It nwtd ..............................J McInerney 5 12334 Lady Jellybean 30.51 ...................M Goodier 6 63746 Diamond Geezer 30.88 ................M Goodier 7 45356 Pat Patterson 30.38 ..........................M Flipp 8 136 Bigtime Brody 30.48...........................L Cole 9 44755 Kaytee Gibbs nwtd ............................M Flipp 10 88537 Flying Huey 30.75 .................... K Gommans 9 2.23pm THE ROCK 95.2FM CI C1, 305m

LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Race- 9 74647 Dream On Dreamer 31.14 ..............M Olden 10 87888 No Mug 17.90 .................................C Morris way Meeting Date: 20 Feb 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 10 88564 Idol Little Girl 30.99 ...........................M Flipp 3 3.41pm LASER PLUMBING C1 C1, 305m Doubles: 1 and 2; 4 and 5 Trebles: 3, 4 and 5 2 3.23 BOOK YOUR FUNCTION@HATRICK C1, 305m 1 x5545 Tiger Uppercut 17.89 .......................... L Bell 1 2.57pm (NZT) FIRST SECURITY C1 C1, 520m 1 55222 Clover Fantasy 17.98 ............... K Gommans 2 88177 Killer Frost 18.19 ..............................P Taylor 1 22352 Bigtime Alfie nwtd ..............................L Cole 2 37146 Epic Spark 18.00............................... B Hunt 3 77686 Choice Lass 17.94 ..........................C Morris 2 64423 Take Action 30.84.........................M Goodier 3 65682 Bigtime Lovie 17.68 ...........................L Cole 4 78487 Lucha 17.82 ......................................D Edlin 3 44753 Cawbourne Assist 30.40 ..............M Roberts 4 23878 Sedgebrook Pride 17.95 .....................F Kite 5 82322 Secret Indy 18.11 ..............................M Flipp 4 16x24 Sahara Penny nwtd ...........................M Flipp 5 88338 Magnetude Eight 18.11 ............ S Gommans 6 73864 Cawbourne Chezzy 17.74.................. N Udy 5 4177x Go Ring 30.71 ...................................M Flipp 6 58267 Jay Wendy 18.04................................ N Udy 7 46755 Light Cruiser 18.07........................G Atwood 6 21635 Arm Turner nwtd........................J McInerney 7 86777 Queen Kong nwtd .....................J McInerney 8 41517 Sacha Allen 18.06 ........................M Roberts 7 11775 Opawa Henry 30.53 J & ......................D Bell 8 54576 Accra 17.87 ............................... K B Benson 9 28876 Zip Zap Zoe nwtd ......................J McInerney 8 55376 Jay Mike 30.43 ................................... N Udy 9 87888 Lissadell Babe 17.99..................... D Donlon 10 67678 Dyna Bart nwtd ........................ K Gommans

4 3.59pm MAX REFRIGERATION C1 C1, 305m

1 877x7 Blackish 18.24..................................P Taylor 2 87617 Ahuroa Flyer 18.13 ........................R Murray 3 27853 Shadow Girl 17.75 ..........................C Morris 4 83678 Crackle 17.94 .................................... B Hunt 5 85365 Prettiest Eyes 18.08 ........................M Olden 6 56222 Zara Cheebee nwtd ..........................M Flipp 7 63687 Mr. Postman 17.85 ............................. N Udy 8 63474 Manimal 17.77 .............................M Roberts 9 28876 Zip Zap Zoe nwtd ......................J McInerney 10 87888 No Mug 17.90 .................................C Morris 5 4.16pm ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS C2 C2, 305m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

44442 Cawbourne Cruz 17.56 ................M Roberts 61854 Homebush Flutey 17.90 ............J McInerney 82561 Bacon My Heart 17.79 ....................... N Udy 38751 Jinja Rules 17.95 ......................J McInerney 17365 Making It Up 17.79 ..........................C Morris 62164 Watch Your Back 17.86 ......................W Kite 61232 Sozin’s Fortune 17.93 ...............J McInerney 13687 De Blonde 17.78 ............................... B Hunt 67618 Indy’s Boy 17.95 .................................W Kite 88714 Lightning Lu 17.83 S &..............C Blackburn

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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Sebastian Vettel in action at the Circuit de Catalunya yesterday.

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■ MOTOR RACING

Solid start for Vettel Ferrari have made a strong start to the first day of Formula One testing with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel top of the timesheets at lunchtime with 72 laps completed.

The Italian team won six of the 21 races last year, finishing overall runners-up, and are hoping the new SF90 car can end Mercedes’ five-year stranglehold on both championships.

Vettel’s fastest lap of one minute 18.161 seconds, on a sunny morning at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, was already quicker than anything set during the weather-hit first four-day test of 2018.

The German was also nearly two seconds faster than the best of the rest.

Racing Point’s Mexican Sergio Perez was next on the timesheets, with a 1.19.944, on

a day when mileage mattered more than outright speed as teams get to grips with their new cars for the first time and focus on getting in plenty of laps.

Reigning champions Mercedes, with Valtteri Bottas first behind the wheel of the silver W10, completed the second most laps – three fewer than Ferrari – with Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg doing 65.

Five-times world champion Lewis Hamilton was set to take over from Bottas, who was third fastest, in the afternoon.

Former champions McLaren also made a solid start with Spaniard Carlos Sainz, stepping into the shoes of departed compatriot Fernando Alonso, completing 56 laps with the sixth fastest time.

Red Bull, now powered by Honda after their split from Renault, managed 52 laps

with Dutch driver Max Verstappen in action.

Alfa Romeo, the renamed former Sauber team, had 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen in new overalls after leaving Ferrari and completing 46 laps after an early trip into the gravel that brought out the first red flag of 2019.

The Finn was fourth fastest at the lunch break.

Russian Daniil Kvyat was slowest in the Honda-powered Toro Rosso but did more laps than Romain Grosjean, who did only 18 for Haas, while Perez took Racing Point’s tally to 20.

Only nine of the 10 teams appeared on track, with struggling Williams failing to get their car ready on time and not expecting to test until today at the earliest.

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■ FOOTBALL

Sarri says Chelsea ‘unlucky’ Maurizio Sarri claimed Chelsea had been unlucky to lose to Manchester United and insisted he is worried only about results after the club’s fans turned against him as they were eliminated from the FA Cup. The Blues lost for the third time in five matches, and the 2-0 scoreline at Stamford Bridge flattered their performance.

After a promising start they were outclassed by United, who impressively responded to their first defeat under interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to progress to the quarter-finals where they will visit Wolves.

The visitors built their lead through firsthalf headers from Ander Herrera and then Paul Pogba as Chelsea’s supporters turned on their manager by chanting “f*** Sarri-ball”.

“I can understand the situation and our

fans, because the result wasn’t really good.

“We are out of the FA Cup, so I can understand. But I am worried about our results,” said the 60-year-old.

“In the first half we played better than the opponent and, at the end of the first half, it was 2-0 to them.

“So we played confused football in the second half. But, in the first half, we played well.

“If we are able to win three or four matches in a row, it will be really very easy (to change the negative mood).

“I was really very worried when I was in League Two in Italy. Not now.”

United had last week struggled when losing 2-0 at home in the Champions League to Paris Saint-Germain, when the impressive Pogba struggled to exert the same influence.

“(Pogba) had a tough game against PSG, but he was probably our best player then. (This) was a great response, playing against one of the best defensive midfielders in the world with (N’Golo) Kante next to him,” said Solskjaer.

“The cross for Ander’s goal was fantastic.

“Then the way he plays the ball out to Marcus and gets into the box for the second was fantastic, too.

“We’ve got to build on the positives. We play Liverpool next week, but Chelsea, Arsenal and us will fight for that fourth position (in the Premier League). This was about getting through to the next round.”

“We lost the (FA Cup) final to Chelsea last year. My last game was a loss to Chelsea in the (2007) FA Cup final. We want to get to the final. It’ll be a tough away game against Wolves.”

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Wednesday, March 6 7.30pm 40 Farm Road, Ashburton All Welcome

14 hours per week Experience with high needs learning support preferable.

Expressions of interest and names of two referees in writing to: Rebekah Clement Principal principal@wakanui.school.nz

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals.

Cattle, bobby calves, horses and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

FOR SALE

PUBLIC NOTICES

ASHBURTON Society of Arts Summer Show on now. Short Street Studio. Guests - John and Carol Bromley, plus 15 local members. Open Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 3pm.

CONTAINERS for sale or hire, ex shipping: general and insulated. Sidelifter available for delivery. Wilson Bulk Transport. Phone 308 7772.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ANNA and Lucy. Two Asian ladies available. Professional massage. Good service.

In/out calls 021 046 4314.

GARDENING

MUSHROOM Compost at SUN CONTROL WINDOW Westside Hire, 171 Alford TINTING - Vehicles-homes- Forest Road. $22 per scoop.

SAWMILL TABLE HAND offices. Phone Craig Rogers Call now on 308 0006, 73St, Burnett Ashburton Members I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet Ltd. LevelSt, 2, 73 Burnett St,|Ashburton |of Members of I.B.A.N.Z & NZ Brokernet NZ Ltd. Level 2, 73 Level Burnett Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z & NZBrokers 6347 - I.B.A.N.Z 027 258 0884 This position requires an Level above average level of 2, 73 Burnett St,2, Ashburton |307 Members of & Brokernet NZ Ltd. and premix chip too. Pickor 0800 TINTER. Member up and delivery options, fitness as it entails sorting, grading and stacking of Level 2, 73 Burnett St, Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd. of Master Tinters NZ. You can even hire a trailer! sawn timber of varying sizes.

No experience necessary as full training provided GARAGE SALES but an understanding of timber uses can be an MOTORING market and advantage to yourself in the learning process.

2012 NISSAN LEAF - All CHARITY garage sale. Pakeke Lions electric vehicle.

One NZ owner.

As you will be part of a team, a good level of 17,000 kilometres. Pearl raising funds for Ashburton attendance is expected. This is a full time position white. $12,900 ONO. Phone community. Cash or Eftpos 45hrs per week.

308 7700 or 027 221 3930. on sale day. From 9am Saturday, March 2, 2019, Please apply in person to: Racecourse.

WHEEL alignments at Ashburton Adams Sawmilling Co Ltd. Enquiries call Dave 307 4349. great prices.

Maximise the 24 Malcolm McDowell Road Ashburton life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Adams Sawmilling Co Ltd Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308 6737.

73 Burnett St, Ashburton

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Daily Events WEDNESDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall.

48 Allens Road. Allenton.

8.30am - 1pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join “fellow sheddies” for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

9.30am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St David’s Church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady as you go exercise group, 48

THURSDAY 8.30am - 1pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join “fellow sheddies” for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

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

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. No Class this week.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY.

Feb 20 & 21, 2019 Allens Road.

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

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For more information ring Age Concern 308 6817. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

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

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.co.nz or phone 027 640 4094. Racecourse Road.

10.30am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome, Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street. (not school holidays).

10.45am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet club days, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club,

Cavendish Street.

11.00am MID CANTERBURY LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Movies Regent Cinema, Wills Street.

11.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid Week Service, Communion and lunch, 48 Allens Road.

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

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

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association club days, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.30pm

AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308-6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

7pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing, all welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Corner Queens Drive and Creek Road.

7pm THE MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to dance (7pm) Beginner/ Intermediate (8pm-9pm). Instructor Annette Fyfe. Phone 307 7138 a/h , Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON TRAVEL CLUB. Speaker Laurel Haugh. Subject Canada.

St David’s Church Lounge, Allens Road.

Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Road.

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

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

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.co.nz or phone 027 640 4094. Racecourse Road.

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

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities.

MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street. (not school holidays).

11am

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

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

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern

308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

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

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

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

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Cryptic crossword

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars

ACROSS 1. Fob shows there’s no charge for transport to the docks (4,2,5) 8. Energy departed, but it will puff one up (5) 9. Book of cardinals, say (7) 10. Slip end out of pin on which thread is spun (7) 11. No youngster returns to it when it’s full of lumps (5) 12. After a month jury loses its head, which is a sign (6) 14. Tom gives his favourite tip for a bit of shut-eye (6) 18. About a half-quart of colour (5) 19. Like the chest of a youngster called Lofty? (7) 21. Not in any place but at present in this place (7) 23. Is involved in one sort of racket (5) 24. How man may take handkerchief and be poorer by the deal (3,2,6) DOWN 1. A reef is set out for a flower (7) 2. Anger is wrong if one’s wiping it out (7) 3. A mountain nymph with nothing to peruse (5) 4. One who doesn’t want the bomb may carry it on demo (6) 5. The country air: mean to change it! (7) 6. Starts decrying your every stain (3) 7. Fibre is present in the pharmacist’s salt (3) 13. Stand another round, and fall back (7) 15. 8 or 9 iron makes one blink when about a hundred (7) 16. May ten-p be enough for discharge of a debt? (7) 17. Is felt to be it, emphatically (6) 18. Fear of putting a sylvan god in charge (5) 20. It’s the language of fish, and nothing more (5) 22. What person works out how? (3)

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): There are dynamics at play that raise the stakes for key interactions. Do a practice run in the mirror, in your head, on paper... whatever it takes to work it out and get you ready and confident for the real thing.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Pick a target you can stick with then aim and shoot. Success does not depend on getting it right the first time (or ever, actually): Success depends on repeated efforts toward the same goal.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You’re a different person than you were last week. When you revisit work you did then, you can see the problems. So put today’s results in a drawer and come back to it a week from now.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Your friends just want to let loose, and prefer your brand of fun. But just because they call on you doesn’t mean your agenda becomes less important. Keep original plans, especially if they involve only you.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You know what it feels like to be a little too afraid to go with the flow, and this isn’t that. The flow is wrong. Resistance may be difficult but it’s your only option. What matters to you most is doing the right thing.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Pay attention to how you use that powerful tool called your voice.

Also, there’s much to learn in the voices of others (though much of it is animal-level information that can’t be put into words.)

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): As a rule, you see incuriousness as a fault, as it signals self-centredness and possible intellectual stunting. However, today brings an occasion in which you’ll be happy not to bothered by curious minds.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): The importance of your position makes you the object of attention you shouldn’t take personally. Recognise that it’s the nature of the position and not your own nature that engenders certain scenarios.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): There is no objective way to prove the value of today’s interaction.

It’s all what you make of it. Even if it doesn’t lead to the outcome you were going for, you could be better off for the miss.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Those contributing to something often show up differently than people who are asking for something. That’s a gap that the smoothest operators close.

Show up the same either way.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You have been known to take part in such antics as presenting a cheerful mood for no reason and supporting small achievements with high enthusiasm.

Today will be a case in point.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Squabbling children cry “no fair,” believing in a just world. Adults cry “no fair,” knowing that justice is human construct that has to be conceived, fought for and enforced. Justice is rare but worth the fight.

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Previous solution: bacon, ban, banco, boa, cab, can, cob, con, nab, nob, oca

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HARRAWAY, Raymond Please note all late death Douglas (Grandad, Ray notices or notices sent Harraway) – outside ordinary office Our much loved, majestical, powerful and legendary hours must be emailed to: Grandad. There will never be deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication. enough words to describe what you mean to all of us.

To place a notice during Your liveliness, spirit, office hours please contact cheekiness and humour is us on 03 307 7900 for more captured in all of your information. grandchildren and we Any queries please treasure one another for it. contact 0800 We had the greatest role ASHBURTON model in you; hard working, (0800-274-287) diligent, caring, sensitive, clever and talented with the greatest capacity for joy and love. You will be deeply and profoundly missed. All of our love, Rebecca and Lee, Brigette and Matty, Ethan and Ness, Jake and Laura, Scott, Hamish and Max, Alex and of Canterbury owned, locally operated course - Blough, Linon, Jack, Doug, Molly, Fish, Boots, Patersons Dansey, Macy, Kobe, Zeko, Clint, Haggis, Turts, Spud, Funeral Services Buck Shelford, Captain Jack, and Ashburton Ruby and Ratter.

HARRAWAY, Raymond Douglas (Ray, Grandad) – On February 15, 2019, following a tragic accident at Ashburton. In his 80th year.

Cherished soulmate and deeply loved husband of Colleen. Most precious and deeply respected father and father-in-law of Paulette, Tracey and Gerard Watson, Natalie and Chris Bateman.

Beloved Grandad of Rebecca, Brigette, Ethan, and Jacob; Scott, Hamish, Max; and Alex. Messages to the Harraway family, c/- PO Box 233, Ashburton 7740.

Donations to the Friends of the Heart Foundation Ashburton in memory of Ray would be much appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Ray’s life will be held at Our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton TOMORROW Thursday, February 21, commencing at 1.30pm. Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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Ph 307 7433 SPICER, Noel Kenneth – On February 13, 2019 at Ashburton. Peacefully after a short illness. Aged 89 years.

Dearly loved husband of the late Nola. Much loved father and father-in-law of Ken and Anne-Marie, the late Brent, and Judy (Wellington), and the late Neil. Much loved and admired Pop of Sally, and Will; Matt and Abbey, and Anna and great grandpop of Ruby. Messages to the Spicer family, c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A special thank you to the staff at Coldstream Life care for their special care of Noel. A service for Noel will be held at Our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, February 22 commencing at 1.30pm.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

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About the divide, rain, possibly heavy, easing to showers in the morning. Further east, a few showers developing, clearing in the evening. Wind at 1000m: NW gale 80 km/h, easing to 60 km/h in the morning and to 40 km/h in the afternoon. Wind at 2000m: Severe gale NW 90 km/h, easing to gale 65 km/h, and to 30 km/h in the afternoon.

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ATKINSON, Richard Charles – On February 19, 2019. Aged 38 years. Loved husband of Catherine and loved special Dad of Danielle. Loved second son of Cheryl and Neil and brother to Mark, Michael, Christopher, David, Susan and their families.

Messages to the Atkinson family, c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service for Richard will be held at Our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton TOMORROW Thursday, February 21, commencing at 10.30am. Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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BRAVO 10am Beverly Hills Pawn 3 10:28 The Dish PGR 3 10:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 11:30 Snapped PGR 3 12:28 The Dish PGR 3 12:30 The Real Housewives Of Cheshire 1:30 Made In Chelsea 2:28 The Dish PGR 3 2:30 Raising Tourette’s PGR 3 3:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 4pm Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 4:30 Dance Moms 3 5:30 Top Chef PGR 3 6:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 7:30 Below Deck PGR The crew welcomes aboard the largest group of charter guests yet, including two young children, posing new challenges for everyone.

8:30 Bachelor Australia 9:30 The Real Housewives Of Orange County AO 10:28 The Dish PGR 3 10:30 Snapped PGR 3 11:30 Intervention Canada AO 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

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6am Infomercials 6:30 Thomas And Friends 0 6:40 Masha And The Bear 3 0 6:50 Peppa Pig 0 7am My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic 3 0 7:25 Zak Storm 3 0 7:50 The Legendaries 3 0 8:15 The Lion Guard 3 0 8:35 Goldie And Bear 3 0 9am Infomercials 10am The Middle 3 0 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Changing Rooms Australia 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle PGR 0 1pm Judge Rinder 2pm American Housewife 3 0 2:30 Will And Grace 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Peppa Pig 0 3:35 Lab Rats 0 4pm Fanimals 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 0 5:30 The Middle 3 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30

Shortland Street PGR 0 Young Sheldon 0 The Big Bang Theory 0 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 0 9:45 Heartbreak Island Twelve players are now six couples. Is love already in the air. 0 10:25 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 10:55 2 Broke Girls AO 0 11:25 Gotham AO 0 12:15 Love Island UK 3 1am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:30 Mike Tyson Mysteries 2:40 Desperate Housewives AO 0 3:25 Jeremy Kyle 4:15 Judge Rinder 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

Bad Mothers

8:30pm on TVNZ 1

SKY 5 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Face Off M 8:05 Pawn Stars PG 8:30 Storage Wars PG 9:20 Parking Wars PGL 9:45 NCIS – Los Angeles MV 10:30 CSI – Miami MV 11:15 Face Off M Noon Jeopardy! PG 12:25 Prison First And Last 24 Hours MVLC 1:15 Forensics NZ MVC 2pm SmackDown Live MVC 4:05 The Simpsons PG 4:35 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Parking Wars PGL 6pm Storage Wars PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 NCIS – Los Angeles MV 8:30 The Force MC 9pm Surveillance Oz PGV 9:30 World’s Wildest Weather PGV 10:30 Storage Wars PG 11:25 CSI – Miami MV

THURSDAY

12:10 Face Off M 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy!

PG 1:40 Pawn Stars PG 2am World’s Wildest Weather PGV 2:50 Surveillance Oz PGV 3:15 The Force MC 3:40 CSI – Miami MV 4:25 Parking Wars PGL 4:50 NCIS – Los Angeles MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

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6am The AM Show 9am The Block Australia PGR 3 The Block is officially complete as the teams hand over their final rooms of the challenge apartment. 0 10:20 Infomercials Noon Face The Truth PGR 12:30 Dr Phil AO Alex has had numerous arrests, including one for assaulting her sister with a butcher’s knife, but says her family needs to stop harping on old news.

1:30 Married At First Sight Australia PGR 3 0 3pm Celebrity Name Game PGR 3 3:30 DailyMailTV PGR 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm 4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm Family Feud Australia 5:30 Modern Family 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm The Project 7:30 Married At First Sight Australia PGR 0 9:05 Talking Married AO 0 10:05 NewsHub Late 10:35 SVU AO 3 0

6am Nella The Princess Knight 0 6:25 Codename – Kids Next Door 3 6:50 The Fairly Odd Parents 3 7:15 Danny Phantom 7:40 Ben 10 – Ultimate Alien 3 0 8:05 The Legend Of Korra 3 8:30 100 Things To Do Before High School 8:55 The Moe Show 3 0 9:20 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 Mad About You PGR 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 3 12:35 Robot Wars PGR 1:35 Married With Children PGR 2:05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 0 5pm Frasier 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Million Dollar Minute 6:30 Pawn Stars 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Fishing Impossible PGR 0 8:30 Demolition NZ AO 0 9pm Call The Cleaners PGR 0 9:30 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away AO 0 10:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR

6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Avatar 3 7:10 Kia Mau 3 7:20 Potae Pai 3 7:30 Pipi Ma 3 7:40 Cube 3 7:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 8am Pukana 2 9am Te Kaea 3 2 9:30 Cam’s Kai 3 10am Kai Ora 3 10:30 Waiata 3 11am What Are We Going To Do About Mum? PGR 3 Noon F Game Of Bros PGR 3 12:30 Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm What’s Up With The Tumoanas? PGR 1:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Waiata Mai 3 3:10 Avatar 3 3:40 Kia Mau 3 3:50 Potae Pai 3 4pm Pipi Ma 3 4:10 Cube 3 4:20 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua 3 7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 8pm Kapa Haka Whanau 3 8:30 Haka Life PGR 3 9pm Voices Of Our Future 9:30 School Of Hard Knocks AO 10pm HakaNation 10:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3

11:30 Entertainment Tonight 11:50 Infomercials

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

Midnight Cricket – Blackcaps v Bangladesh (HLS) Final ODI. From the University of Otago Oval in Dunedin.

12:30 Closedown

11pm Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:30 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:20 Lila And Eve 16VL 2015 Crime. Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis. 7:55 Undercover Angel MLC 2017 Drama. Shawn Roberts, Katharine Isabelle. 9:25 The Strangers – Prey At Night 16VLC 2017 Horror.

Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson.

10:50 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 11:05 My Cousin Rachel PGVL 2017 Drama.

Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin.

12:50 A Swingers’ Weekend 16LSC 2017 Comedy.

Randal Edwards, Erin Karpluk.

2:20 Lila And Eve 16VL 2015 Crime. Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis. 3:55 Undercover Angel MLC 2017 Drama.

5:25 The Ticket MLSC 2016 Drama. 7:05 Love On The Air PG 2015 Romantic Comedy. Competing radio personalities in Chicago find common ground when they must work together.

8:30 Detroit 16VLC 2017 Crime. During one of the most famous Detroit race riots, a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with vengeance, rather than justice, on their agenda.

10:55 Jurassic World – Fallen Kingdom MV 2018 Action.

7:20 Veronica Guerin MVL 2003 Drama. Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds.

9am The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring PGV 2001 Fantasy.

Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom.

11:55 Man Of The Year ML 2006 Comedy. Robin Williams, Christopher Walken.

1:50 The Change-Up 16LSC 2011 Comedy. Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Olivia Wilde.

3:40 Veronica Guerin MVL 2003 Drama. Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds.

5:20 Underworld – Rise Of The Lycans 16V 2009 Action.

Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy.

6:50 Step Up 4 – Miami Heat PGVL 2012 Drama.

Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman.

8:30 Paul MVLS 2011 Comedy. Two British comicbook geeks travelling across America encounter an alien outside Area 51. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost.

10:20 Lawless 18VL 2012 Crime Drama. Shia LeBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman.

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1am Lethal Soccer Mom MV 2016 Thriller. 2:25 The Ticket MLSC 2016 Drama. 4:05 Love On The Air PG 2015 Romantic Comedy. 5:30 Detroit 16VLC 2017 Crime.

THURSDAY

12:15 Tears Of The Sun 16VL 2003 Drama. Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci. 2:15 Step Up 4 – Miami Heat PGVL 2012 Drama. Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman. 3:55 Paul MVLS 2011 Comedy. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost. 5:45 Lawless 18VL 2012 Crime Drama.

Shia LeBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman.

SKY SPORT 1 6am The 1014 Rugby Show 6:30 The Breakdown 7:30 Golf – European PGA Tour (HLS) ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth. 8am Cricket – US PGA Tour (HLS) The Genesis Open. 9am Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Grand Final – Stags v Knights. 9:30 The Cricket Show 10am Cricket – Blackcaps v Bangladesh (HLS) 10:30 L Cricket – Blackcaps v Bangladesh Third ODI – First Innings.

From the University of Otago Oval, Dunedin. 2:35 Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Grand Final – Stags v Knights.

3:05 L Cricket – Blackcaps v Bangladesh Third ODI – Second Innings.

From the University of Otago Oval, Dunedin. 7pm Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Grand Final – Renegades v Stars.

7:30 The Cricket Show 8pm Golf – One On One With Cambo 8:30 Cricket – Blackcaps v Bangladesh (HLS) Third ODI. 9pm Fox Sports News 9:30 NBL Magazine Show 10pm Rugby League – NRL All Stars (RPL) NZ Maori v Australian Indigenous All Stars.

THURSDAY

Midnight Rugby League – Women’s All Stars (RPL) 2am Rugby League – World Club Challenge (RPL) Wigan Warriors v Sydney Roosters.

4am Rugby – Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Bristol Bears v The Wasps.

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6am America The Wild 7am Made From America 7:30 Four Rooms 8:30 Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 9am Food Safari – Earth 9:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 10:30 The Living Room 11:30 Secrets Of Great British Castles 12:30 Mysteries At The Museum 1:30 My Dream Home 2:30 Building The Dream 3:30 Bondi Vet 4:30 Heston’s Great British Food Heston reveals the stories and discovers the origins of British food, fish and chips, and serves a magical fish-and-chip supper to the people who have made them possible.

5:30 Strippers – Cars For Cash 6:30 Flipping Bangers 7:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 8:30 WWII Great Escapes – The Freedom Trails 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa PGR Pete hunts for peafowl, goat, and fallow deer in the Manawatu-Whanganui region with bow-hunting experts Adam and Chris.

10pm Alone PGR 11pm World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides Midnight Luxury Uncovered 12:30 Tiny House Hunting 1am The Living Room 2am Bondi Vet 3am Money For Nothing 4am Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 5am Great Continental Railway Journeys

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6am A-League Hour 7am Football Shootout 7:55 The Crowd Goes Wild 8:25 Fox Sports News 8:55 L Football – UEFA Champions League Liverpool FC v Bayern Munich.

From Anfield, England.

11am Super League Fulltime 11:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) 12:30 Golf – Champions Tour (HLS) 1:30 Rugby League – Women’s NRL All Stars (HLS) 2pm Rugby League – NRL All Stars (HLS) NZ Maori v Australian Indigenous All Stars.

2:30 Super League Fulltime 3pm UCL Magazine Show 3:30 Football – UEFA Champions League (RPL) Barcelona v Lyon.

5:30 Football – UEFA Champions League (RPL) Liverpool FC v Bayern Munich.

7:30 The Kiwi Football Show 8pm Serie A Highlights Show 9pm Football – FA Cup (HLS) Round Five.

9:30 Football – A-League (HLS) Phoenix v Victory.

10pm A-League Hour 11pm Football Shootout

6:35 Deadliest Catch PG Million-Dollar-Bet. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Alaskan Bush People M 9:10 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Monkey Business Dragster.

10am Expedition Unknown 10:50 What On Earth?

PG 11:40 Swamp Murders M While She Lay Sleeping.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M Tragedy Comes in Pairs. 1:20 American Monster M The Last Broadcast.

2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG 100% Injury Rate. 4:45 Air Rescue PG 5:15 Air Rescue PG 5:40 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Double Trouble Galaxie. 6:35 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 7:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 8:30 Air Rescue PG 9pm Air Rescue PG 9:25 Ed Stafford – First Man Out PG Mongolia.

10:15 Outback Opal Hunters PG 11:05 Naked And Afraid M 23 Days. 11:55 American Monster M The Last Broadcast.

Midnight The Kiwi Football Show 12:30 Serie A Highlights Show 1:30 Football – A-League (RPL) Phoenix v Victory.

3:30 Football – ISPS Handa Premiership (RPL) Auckland City FC v Hamilton Wanderers.

5:30 Football – FA Cup (HLS) Round Five.

12:45 Murder Comes To Town M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Treehouse Masters PG

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DUATHLON

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The Ashburton Duathlon Series has had its final running at the Ashburton A&P Showgrounds. This year it will be known as the Canterbury Duathlon Series and run in Rolleston.

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BY ERIN TASKER

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Those behind the long-running Ashburton Duathlon Series have announced they are moving the event to Rolleston and rebranding it as the Canterbury Duathlon Series.

Organised by CJM’S Events, the Ashburton Duathlon Series began 13 years ago and was most recently based around the Ashburton A&P Showgrounds, but this year it will run at Rolleston’s Brookside Park.

CJM’S Events’ John Moore said he and wife Carol no longer lived in the Ashburton District, so that had been part of the decision to move the event.

But rebranding it as the Canterbury Duathlon Series also meant the event could run from any location around Canterbury.

Moore said while the event would take place in Rolleston this year, that didn’t mean it would be there again next year.

“We could be back in Ashburton, just like that,” Moore said.

The duathlon series is the second event run by CJM’S Events that has been moved out of the Ashburton District in the past few months.

It is also the company behind the Muddy Good Run at Rakaia, which was last year moved from the Rakaia Domain to Rangiora.

At the time Moore said after five

years at Rakaia, it had simply been time for a change.

Another of their events, the South Island Half Marathon at Lake Hood, was going nowhere though, Moore said. Last year it attracted almost 800 athletes.

The events were among the 20 CJM’S had on their calendar each year now, but the Ashburton Duathlon Series was where it all began.

“It was our first event we did and it’s run for 13 years now, and we’ve seen all sorts come through, from wee kids to world class athletes,” Moore said.

“I’m sure it will continue to be just as good.”

Moore said the Canterbury

Duathlon Series would have the same relaxed family feel to it that the Ashburton Duathlon did.

The course would be based at Brookside Park in Rolleston and would see competitors race over what Moore described as a flat, fast course.

The change in name and venue would also see the series revert back to the three-race series concept, where the top 10 competitors would receive points towards their series tally. At the completion of the three races the competitors with the most points would be the winner of their category.

There would be short and long course options, with the short course made up of a 2.5km run/

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walk, a 14km bike and a 1.25km run/walk to finish, and the long course being a 5km run, a 28km bike and a 2.5km run.

Moore said the short course was a great event for first time competitors, younger competitors or those who just found running too much but wanted to keep active, while the long course was an event for the budding athlete who wanted to have a crack, or for those after some serious training.

Race one of the Canterbury Duathlon Series will take place on June 9, with race two to follow on June 30, and race three on July 28.

People can enter via the event’s new website, www.canterburyduathlon.co.nz.

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