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M. bovis battle continues

By Linda Clarke

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The Ministry for Primary Industries has admitted it underestimated the impact of its mycoplasma bovis eradication programme on farmers and their communities.

Programme director Geoff Gwyn was in Ashburton on Friday with other top MPI officials to meet with a newly-formed Mid Canterbury group helping farm-

ers affected by the cattle disease.

The Ashburton District is the most affected in the country, followed by Invercargill and Oamaru, because of the number of dairy and beef farmers. As of Friday, there were 49 farms nationally in the process of depopulation; 24 are in the Ashburton District.

Gwyn said MPI had learned lessons from its early response after some brutally honest discussions with local leaders and farmers.

It was trying to get the process right for individual properties and farmers back in business as quickly as possible.

He said the disease had taken a toll on rural communities but MPI remained confident eradication was achievable. “We still have another year of heavy lifting to go, in my view though.”

Nearly 100,000 cattle have been culled in the response so far nationally and more than 1000

claims lodged for compensation.

“We are trying to work out at a local level how we can put the best support around farmers,” Gwyn said. “I don’t think we thought enough about the impact on some communities, that second, third or fourth level of impact. Communities like Ashburton, Invercargill and Oamaru are the ones who are feeling the pain of the eradication programme.”

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Reveley, who leads the local Rural Support Trust, said he had been dealing with mycoplasma bovis on his beef farm.

He was issued a notice of direction, restricting movement of stock from the farm, on April 11.

He was told last Thursday, the notice would be revoked.

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■■ CAMBRIDGE STREET FIRE

■■ ASHBURTON DOMAIN

House fire deliberately lit

Plans for domain of the future out soon

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

Police are continuing to investigate a deliberately lit fire that damaged a house on Cambridge Street on Thursday.

Fire risk management officer Bevan Findlay confirmed the fire was being treated as suspicious, but was unable to disclose any further information due to the ongoing police investigation.

A police spokesperson confirmed the fire was deliberately lit.

“Ashburton police would like to hear from anyone who was in the Cambridge Street and the Wellington Street area between 9.30am and 10am on Thursday May 16 and who may have seen something suspicious or someone acting suspiciously,” the spokesperson said.

Information can be passed onto Ashburton police on 03 307 8400 or anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Firefighters were called to the Cambridge Street address at around 10am on Thursday, with a total of four crews attending the scene.

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By Sue Newman

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Firefighters and police wait outside the scene of a deliberately lit house fire on Cambridge Street on Thursday.

PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 160519-JPM-0006 Wednesday has been deemed non-suspicious, and is believed to have been caused by a fireplace.

Findlay said he had returned to the scene with an insurance fire investigator on Friday and had come to the conclusion that a fireplace in the lounge had been the cause of the fire.

“It was definitely accidental,” he said. “It is a good reminder to people not to keep items to close to the fire and ensure that they get their chimneys cleaned.”

Firefighters were called to the Hatfield Overdale Road property on Wednesday at 2.10pm.

A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said the

house was well ablaze when fire crews arrived.

Crews from Ashburton, Rakaia, Pendarves and Lauriston responded to the fire.

At around 4pm they still had seven crews on scene who had brought the fire under control and were extinguishing the last of the fire, he said.

■■ GUN BUYBACK SCHEME

Local farmers wait for gun buyback details Mid Canterbury farmers are waiting for more details of the Government’s gun buyback and some fear their homes could be raided by police.

The Government announced a ban on military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack.

Federated Farmers is seeking an exemption for farmers who use these sorts of guns in pest control.

Arable farmer Jo Burke told those at Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers’ AGM last week that

she had heard of police turning up unannounced at law-abiding gun owners’ homes.

She said farmers had the right to ask police why they were there and to film proceedings. There was also no public information about how the firearms will be valued for compensation.

A lot of farmers who were law-abiding gun owners were wondering what to do if police turned up, she said.

Federated Farmers national board member Miles Anderson said the organisation was pushing for an exemption for farmers.

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There were already exemptions for Department of Conservation staff and regional council staff.

“We recognise that after the terror attack there had to be a change of the law. It was not appropriate for the laws as they were to continue.

“We have asked for the continued use of semi-automatic firearms for pest control. Inland farmers do use them. These farmers deal with big pest populations, wallabies, deer, goats and rabbits.

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“We are still trying to get exemptions for them. We don’t see why isolated farmers with guns stored away safely would be any more a risk than a contractor driving around on the roads,” Anderson said.

A national gun buyback in Australia after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 when 35 people were killed by a gunman with an assault rifle with a 30-shot magazine and a semi-automatic rifle, ended up melting down more than 650,000 firearms at a cost of $350 million.

The ideas and vision of Mid Canterbury students could play a big role in shaping the development of Ashburton’s domain of the future.

Students recently shared their thoughts on how the domain could be improved with Ashburton’s district councillors during a youth forum and the ideas they came up with will become part of the package of options that will be considered in the final plan, said council service delivery group manager Neil McCann.

At the June service delivery meeting councillors will take their first look at a draft plan for the domain’s redevelopment.

If they are satisfied with the plan’s content, it will be signed off and will go out for community consultation.

As part of that consultation the ideas put forward by students will become part of the round of submissions and deliberations.

“It’s certainly not too late for any of those ideas to be part of the consultation process,” McCann said.

“All ideas will be on the table,” he said.

The council’s plan took a longterm look at development in the domain, taking into account what was there now and how needs of users would change in the future.

All ideas were valuable when it came to planning for the future, he said.

Some of the suggestions made by students had already been included in the draft plan, but among the other ideas put forward at the youth forum, there were some very exciting options that were likely to generate plenty of discussion, McCann said.

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More than 1000 people are expected to walk through the doors of the mobile consulate in Ashburton by the time they shut their doors on Tuesday.

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■■ MOBILE CONSULAR MISSION

Mobile consulate in town

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

More than 1000 members of the Filipino community in the South Island have flooded in to Ashburton over the past four days to make the most of the Philippines Embassy’s mobile consular mission.

The mobile consular mission travels around the country and allows Filipinos who are living in around the country to access consular services they would otherwise have to travel to Wellington for.

First secretary and consul Querobine Deapera Laccay has been overseeing the consular mission, which has been flooded by people due to cancellations of the missions in Queenstown and Dunedin.

“We usually run these missions for five days and expect to provide service for around 1000

people, though we are going to break that here,” she said.

The majority of visitors the mobile consulate were there to renew passports, which unlike New Zealand passports, cannot be renewed online and have to be done face-to-face with a member of staff.

The service is also used for civil registration of birth and marriages, even if they have taken place in New Zealand.

Laccay said the embassy had decided to undertake the consular missions as a way of better supporting their citizens around New Zealand.

“There are savings around airfares, people having to find accommodation and filing for a leave of absence from work and arranging for children to travel as well,” she said.

The five services on offer were passport issuance/renewal/

replacement, civil registration, such as reports of births and marriages, authentication and notarisation of legal documents, NBI fingerprinting and certification and Philippine citizenship retention/reacquisition and administering of the oath of allegiance.

Ashburton District councillor Thelma Bell said having the mobile consular mission in Ashburton was fantastic for the district.

“I have told the ambassador previously that Ashburton is the best place to host this as it is so central,” she said.

Appointments were required for the services, but that did not stop people showing up without an appointment in an attempt to still be served, even showing up at the early hours of the morning.

“There were people lining up at 6.30am (on Saturday) with no

appointment hoping they would be able to get in if there were people that would miss their appointment,” she said.

There are five embassy staff working to process people through the stages, along with a group of local volunteers assisting people with what forms they might require.

Bell said she had been talking to people who had travelled from as far away as Queenstown and Nelson to use the service.

“There have been many people who have made a trip of it and are bringing the whole family and are catching up with friends,” she said.

The service will be operating from 9am till 5pm today, and will be operating tomorrow morning before closing.

The next consular mission is in Auckland from August 15 to August 19.

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He said the process for him and other farmers dealing with the disease in the past six months had improved, though it was acknowledged some earlier farmers had had a bad experience.

The newly-formed support group, which includes the trust, Federated Farmers and the Ashburton District Council, was working hard to settle those farmers’ outstanding claims for compensation and on other areas of concern.

Reveley said he was optimistic about eradicating mycoplasma bovis, based on his experience.

“It is about how we manage people through this and we are getting better.”

Gwyn said the Mid Canterbury group was a pilot helping deliver a response best suited to local needs and he hoped it could be replicated in other areas.

“I don’t think you can be perfect, but we are a lot better than 12 months ago and will be better six months from now.

“We are doing our best to communicate nationally and this group needs regional information to make sure there are no groups we are missing.”

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers’ immediate past president Mike Salvesen politely described past discussions with MPI as “robust” but said progress was being made.

He told farmers at the organisation’s district AGM last week that MPI’s processes, communication and delivery had been found wanting, sometimes seriously, in many instances in the past year. There had been far too many stories of mismanagement and bad communication, and the community had reeled from one disaster to another.

“The way that some families have been treated has been far less than desirable.”

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■■ EDUCATION

Date clash ‘unavoidable’

By Sue Newman

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There has been an unavoidable clash of dates on the Ashburton College calendar, one that will see students with two schoolclosed days later this month.

At the start of the year, principal Ross Preece logged a teacher only day for Friday, May 31. That date was traditionally chosen as a non-teaching day to coincide with Queens Birthday weekend to give families a potential fourday weekend, but last week the chosen date for the long-brewing teachers’ strike was called for May 29.

That puts it just two days before the school’s teacher-only day and that, Preece said, means parents will have two days in one week when they will have to make alternative arrangements for students.

“It’s regrettable but unavoidable. Teacher only days are a very important part of professional development,” he said.

The school has three of these each year, two before the school year begins and one mid year.

This year a top-line speaker had been booked for the May date. She will be talking to staff about collective learning, how assessment will be undertaken in the future and will be deliver-

A clash of dates will see Ashburton College closed for two days later this month. ing a professional development package that staff will build on for the second half of the year, Preece said.

“We booked her in February and we were lucky to get her.

We need this knowledge moving through to the next year because our new innovation stream is going so well we’re likely to need more teachers upskilled to take this through to year 10,” he said.

The strike for both primary and secondary teachers has been

called for May 29 but the government has asked for some form of mediation, Preece is not optimistic about the outcome, however.

“But we’d look like right chumps if we called off our teacher only day, lost our speaker and then the strike was called off.”

He expects the college won’t be the only school caught with two non-teaching days in one week, as using the Friday before Queens Birthday was common

practice for many schools.

“We always publicise this day well and families know they have the option of a four day break.”

On the strike day, there will be some non-union staff at school.

If students turn up they will be taken care of but there will be no lessons, he said.

The strike had been a long time brewing, he said. “It’s really about the run down of education and the salaries of teaching professionals over the past 10 years.”

Successful Wheels Week rolls to a finish Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Organisers of Wheels Week have heralded the smooth organisation of events as a key to another successful year of the event.

The fortnight of wheels-based activities came to an end yesterday with the Wheels Week parade along East Street.

A wide range of vehicles from bicycles and mobility scooters to oversized trucks made their way through town, honking and wav-

Gun pellets found Police are investigating after woman discovered pellets apparently from a firearm at her home in the Dunedin suburb of Belleknowes. The pellets were reported to police about 10.30am yesterday, several hours after the same caller reported damage to the house. A police spokeswoman said the pellets came from a firearm, “imitation or otherwise”.

She could not provide details of the damage. Police were in Carnarvon Street yesterday, where the incident is understood to have taken place. Residents of the house believed to be the scene declined to comment.

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■■ WHEELS WEEK

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay

In brief

ing to crowds that had gathered along the streets to get a view of the vehicles.

“Every event was fantastic, the organisers did such a good job,” organising committee president Ross Butterick said.

“Carol (Johns) did a great job organising the parade and we have already had a meeting to start planning things for next year.”

Having been on the organising committee for several years, But-

terick said he was amazed that the event continued to gain momentum.

“It is amazing it is still gaining momentum, and it is a real credit to the events, it must’ve brought thousands of people in to the town and it is just a great effort by everyone involved,” he said.

“The weather played a big part, it was really good right through apart from a bit of rain on a Sunday afternoon.”

The week was headlined by the

30th edition of the Ashburton Car Club’s Street Sprints, which were taken out by Glenn Frew, who took out his sixth title.

Mosgiel driver Frew drove a 2.31.431 minute lap in the top two shoot-out at the Riverside Industrial Park last weekend, which was enough to seal him the title, with his final two opponent Jeremy Beaton’s final time being 2.33.114 minutes.

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At least two people have been injured in serious crashes on rural North Island roads. Fire crews near Poukawa south of Hastings are battling to free the driver of a car that rolled into a paddock off Middle Rd just after 4pm. A Fire and Emergency spokesman said firefighters were extricating the injured driver of the upside down vehicle. Meanwhile, firefighters were working to free another injured driver trapped in a milk tanker that rolled on a rural Taranaki road shortly after 1pm.

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Students arrested Two people have been arrested after a group of students trashed a residential hall at Victoria University. The incident, on Thursday night, has left a resident of the accommodation fearing for her safety. The resident said 20 people went on a “rampage” through the hall, destroying property and terrorising residents.

She claimed the group opened doors to people’s rooms, abused residents, and smashed ceiling tiles, plates and ceramics. Police said two males were arrested, one for wilful damage and the other for wilful trespass.

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■■ LITTER-FREE ASHBURTON

Planting mission a success

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

Further work has been carried out to beautify a popular asset of Ashburton through the planting of native plants.

Members of the Mid Canterbury Mountain Bike Club and Litter-Free Ashburton were out in force on Saturday, planting around a thousand plants at the ACL Skills Park on Dobson Street West.

Mountain Bike Club president James Reid said the planting was the next stage in the plan in developing the area that under a $42,000 grant from the Lions Foundation.

“This year’s stage is to make it a better area for people, in particular youth,” he said.

“It was really good, we had upwards of 40 volunteers there, including Litter-Free Ashburton, so there was a good variety of people including kids and families.

“We got just over 1000 plants in the ground.”

It was a shift in usual operations for Litter-Free Ashburton to go from collecting rubbish to planting trees, but member Shirley Falloon said it was an enjoyable project to be a part of.

“We were so busy out the front, I think we would have planted close to 100 grasses and plants, overall I would’ve said they planted hundreds and hundreds,” she said.

“I was there for two and a half hours and we had everything laid out and it looked so much better.

“It looks amazing, it is hard to realise how plants can make such a difference, and it really is a great asset for the town.”

Eden Lake, 6, planting native plants at the Skills Park on Saturday.

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■■ CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

■■ POLITICS

Breaking the cycle of violence

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The Government will spend $320 million on a package of initiatives aimed at preventing family and sexual violence and breaking the cycle of violence.

The pre-Budget announcement is, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern the largest ever Government spend on family and sexual violence and support services.

She said yesterday’s announcement formed the “cornerstone” of the upcoming Wellbeing Budget.

The money will deliver more support services delivered to more New Zealanders, major campaigns aimed at stopping violence occurring and major changes to court process to reduce the trauma victims’ experience.

“Every year about one million New Zealanders are affected by family and sexual violence, including almost 300,000 children,” Ardern said.

“This is something I know New Zealand is ashamed of and the Government is taking a major step forward in fixing on the budget.”

The $320 million has been allocated over four years.

It includes almost $50 million towards preventing family violence and sexual violence and $85 million towards creating a safe, consistent and effective

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. response to family violence in every community.

More than $130 million has been set aside for expanding essential specialist sexual violence services and to moving towards fully funding services.

Almost $40 million has been earmarked for reforming the criminal justice system to better respond to victims of sexual violence.

The family and sexual violence package, which sits across eight portfolios, is the result of the first ever joint Budget bid from multiple government departments.

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Yesterday’s announcement comes as part of the Government’s Wellbeing Budget, to be unveiled in full on May 30.

“Wellbeing means being safe and free from violence,” Ardern said.

“That is why this package is such a significant cornerstone of the Wellbeing budget.”

Ardern said her goal has always been for New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child – “that means supporting parents and communities to ensure children grow up in secure homes free from violence”.

The funding covers one million New Zealanders covered by Integrated Safety Response sites in Christchurch and Waikato.

It also caters for 350,000 people in the Whangaia Nga PaHarakeke and Whiria Te Muka sites in Gisborne, Counties Manukau and Kaitaia.

Jan Logie, Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues), said the funding aims to give providers funding security, while making available significant extra resource to break the cycle of violence and provide more women, men and children they help they need.

“We know this is a long-term project. The package we’re announcing lays the foundations for a violence-free Aotearoa New Zealand.”

The $320 million across four years will be spent on: ■■ Expanding essential specialist sexual violence services: moving towards fully funding services – $131.1 million ■■ Creating a safe, consistent and effective responses to family violence in every community – $84.3 million ■■ Reforming the criminal justice system to better respond to victims of sexual violence – $37.8 million ■■ Strengthening system leadership and supporting new ways of working — $20 million

■■MURDER CASE

New leads after $100k reward in cold case NZME Detectives investigating a brutal 1995 cold-case murder have received new “information of interest” since announcing a $100,000 reward on Saturday.

Angela Blackmoore, a 21-yearold mum who was 10 weeks’ pregnant, was stabbed 39 times in her house on Vancouver Crescent in the Christchurch suburb of Wainoni on the blustery, warm Thursday evening of August 17, 1995.

Her 2-year-old son Dillon was sleeping in his bedroom at the time of her death.

Her partner, Laurie Anderson, discovered her body when he returned home after work at 11.20pm that night.

Police never found her killer, despite interviews with hundreds of people, and the case has remained open for more than two decades.

Police on Saturday launched a new appeal for information offering a record $100,000 reward.

Detective Sergeant Todd Hamilton said yesterday they had received 11 calls through the 0800 number, and others had provided information through social media.

“Certainly there’s some infor-

Laurie Anderson with a photo of him and his partner Angela Blackmoore, who was murdered in 1995 just a week after the photo was taken.

PHOTO NZME “The scum factor, who knows mation of interest that we will be who’s done it, only care for themfollowing up,” Hamilton said.

“We cannot comment on the selves. So now there’s an interest nature of the information pro- for someone to make a gain, [the vided nor its significance to the killer] will be very scared,” the 54-year-old said. inquiry at this stage.

Time has done little to ease An“Police are really pleased with the public’s response to the re- derson’s pain and suffering at losward and we encourage people ing the woman he loved.

“It’s virtually the same as when to continue to come forward with it happened,” he said. information.”

“It’s still raw, you just learn to Anderson was confident the live with it. It’s like a disability – case would finally be solved.

say you lost your arm – you learn to live with your loss.”

Investigations manager Detective Inspector Corrie Parnell said it was a “horrific” crime which took the life of a young mother “with her whole life ahead of her”.

“Since Angela’s murder our focus has been on bringing the person responsible to justice, and although many years have passed that focus has not changed,” Parnell said.

“With the passing of time allegiances may have changed and we’re appealing to anyone with information that might help, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, to contact us,” Parnell said.

The reward money would only be paid out if the tip-off led to the murderer being, firstly identified, and then convicted in a court of law.

The file has been reviewed several times over the past two decades.

More than 100 people have been spoken to during the course of the investigations.

However, there’s never been enough evidence to lay charges.

Today there are fewer than 10 persons of interest remaining who haven’t been ruled out, Parnell says.

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National MP Alfred Ngaro won’t comment on speculation he is planning on splitting off from National to form his own Christian conservative party.

But National Leader Simon Bridges has revealed to the NZ Herald that Ngaro is “considering” the possibility.

“I talked to Alfred a month or two back – people have been talking to him and raising this with him as something he’s considering – I’ve accepted that; I’ve said for him to get back to me,” Bridges said yesterday.

But he said it’s not something that National was involved in.

“It’s something for him to work out, but I think what we’ll do is we’ll give Alfred the space to think that through and work out whether he does it or not.”

Bridges said the prospect of a Christian conservative party was something which could be “very alluring” for some voters.

“The truth is, people who are values-based religious, who have faith at the moment vote for all political parties, so you would expect a Christian values party to be drawing those votes from across the spectrum.”

Speaking to the Herald yesterday, Ngaro would not rule out the prospect of forming a new party, responding to speculation by saying he would comment on the issue when he’s ready.

Asked if he was planning on launching a new party, he repeatedly refused to comment.

“I’m not making any comments – but when I do, you will know,” he told the Herald at the Lower North Island National Party Conference in Wellington.

Ngaro did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

“When I decide to make a comment, I’ll make a comment. But right now, I’m not making any comment,” he said this morning.

On Friday, the Herald reported that talks were under way regarding Ngaro setting up a setting up a new party, focused on socially conservative issues.

Ngaro is a former Cabinet minister and has strong ties to the Christian community. He studied at Bible College and was a pastor before becoming an MP in 2011.

It had been speculated that National could do a deal with Ngaro, whereby it would make it clear it supported Ngaro winning the seat – much like it has done with ACT in Epsom.

A spokeswoman for National leader Simon Bridges said on Friday that there had been “no discussions about deals in seats going on”.

She said there is always a lot of rumour and speculation around coalition partners for National.

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■■AUSTRALIA

Victory for Morrison AP Scott Morrison, Australia’s conservative Prime Minister, scored a surprise victory in federal elections, propelled by a populist wave — the “quiet Australians,” he termed it — resembling the force that has upended politics in the United States, Britain and beyond.

The win stunned Australian election analysts — polls had pointed to a loss for Morrison’s Coalition of the Liberal and National parties for months.

But in the end, the Prime Minister confounded expectations suggesting that the country was ready for a change in course after six years of tumultuous leadership under the conservative political Coalition.

“I have always believed in miracles,” Morrison said at his victory party in Sydney, adding, “Tonight is about every single Australian who depends on their government to put them first. And that is exactly what we are going to do.”

The election had presented Austral-

ia, a vital US ally, with a crucial question: Would it remain on a rightward path and stick with the Coalition that promised economic stability, jobs and cuts to immigration, or choose greater action on climate change and income inequality?

By granting Morrison his first full term, Australians signalled their reluctance to bet on a new leader, choosing to stay the course with a hardworking rugby lover at a time when the economy has not suffered a recession in nearly 28 years.

“Australians are just deeply conservative. Wherever possible, we cling to the status quo,” said Jill Sheppard, a lecturer in politics at the Australian National University. “While we want progress on certain issues, we don’t like major upheavals.”

The triumph by Morrison, an evangelical Christian who has expressed admiration for US President Donald Trump, comes at a time of rising tension in the Asia-Pacific region.

A trade war between the US and China has forced long-time US allies like Austral-

ia to weigh security ties with Washington against trade ties with Beijing.

Morrison’s pitch mixed smiles and scaremongering, warning older voters and rural voters in particular that a government of the left would leave them behind and favour condescending elites.

The candidate Morrison defeated, Labor leader Bill Shorten, offered an alternative path for Australia: a return to more government intervention on climate change and the economy, and intensified scepticism about the United States and Trump.

Shorten, despite being the face of the political opposition for six years, was not an easy sell to the public. His personal approval ratings never matched Morrison’s, and he relied on the more popular and diverse members of his party to score points with the public.

He conceded defeat and said he would no longer serve as Opposition Leader.

Morrison is a veteran politician who has occasionally sought out a provocative role on hot-button issues.

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Baby named To messages of support and puzzlement, Kim Kardashian West has, seemingly, revealed her newborn’s name: Psalm West. The beauty mogul, reality star, law student and wife of Kanye West took to her social streams to share the first look at their fourth child, born May 9. A photo of the boy nestled in a crib came in the form of a text message screen grab with her husband that called it a “Beautiful Mother’s Day” and said the couple are “blessed beyond measure.”

The baby is their second boy and the second to be born via surrogate because of a potentially life-threatening medical condition that complicated Kardashian West’s two pregnancies.

Another royal wedding at Windsor AP Queen Elizabeth II and other royal family members yesterday gathered at St George’s chapel in Windsor for the wedding of the daughter of the monarch’s first cousin.

Lady Gabriella Windsor’s marriage to Thomas Kingston yesterday marked the third royal wedding at the 15th-century venue in less than a year after the nuptials of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex last May and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in October.

Prince Harry left Meghan at home with newborn son Archie and arrived with his uncle and aunt, Prince Edward and Princess Anne.

The bride’s gown was designed by Luisa Beccaria, while the monarch wore a pink A-line coat, and a lilac and pink silk dress

by Stewart Parvin.

The bride is the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.

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Grumpy Cat – the internet sensation known by millions around the world just from her frown – has died at age seven. The feline with a permanent scowl became a viral sensation in 2012 when a photo of the grouchy looking puss was posted online. The cat’s frown went on to become one of the most famous internet memes and was recognised all around the world. The cat had more than 8.5 million followers on Facebook, 2.4 million followers on Instagram and 1.5 million followers on Twitter. Grumpy Cat’s breed has never been confirmed but her owners put her small size and perpetual scowl to “feline dwarfism.”

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Ping Pong digs up baby buried alive AP A dog is being hailed as a hero after his owner went to see what he was scratching at in the dirt by a field in northern Thailand and found the leg of a baby buried alive poking out.

The baby boy had been buried alive by his teenage mother soon after she gave birth to hide the fact she had been pregnant.

The dog, who has only three legs and is called Ping Pong, was scratching in the dirt by a cassava plantation last week in Ban Nong Kham village in Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province.

Ping Pong’s owner heard his black mutt barking and went to investigate, the Bangkok Post reported.

Usa Nisaikha, a 41-year-old farmer, saw the dog digging up a dirt pile and when he

Ping Pong the three-legged dog found a newborn baby buried alive by its 15-year-old mother. got closer he saw a leg protruding from the soil. The baby was dug up and taken to a hospital where doctors said the 2.3kg infant hadn’t suffered any serious injuries.

Police said the baby survived because he was buried shallowly.

Police arrested the boy’s 15-year-old mother and charged her with child abandonment and attempted murder.

The teenager is undergoing a mental health assessment.

“She regrets what she did and said she acted on impulse without thinking it through,” Lieutenant Colonel Panuwat Puttakam told the Bangkok Post.

The girl confessed she delivered her baby alone and then buried him because she feared her parents who did not know she had been pregnant.

Mr Usa, who got six-year-old Ping Pong as a puppy, praised his dog.

“Ping Pong was hit by a car, so he’s disabled,” Mr Usa said. “But I kept him because he’s so loyal and obedient, and always helps me out when I go into the fields to tend to my cattle. He’s loved by the entire village.”

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Eurovision champion The Netherlands won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv Saturday, with Duncan Laurence’s doleful piano ballad Arcade crowned champion of Europe’s annual music extravaganza. The 25-yearold was tapped as an early front-runner before the Grand Final but was only ranked third after the vote of professional juries from the 41 participating countries, trailing Sweden and North Macedonia.

He surged ahead thanks to the fan vote, securing The Netherlands its fifth win ever in the competition. Italy finished second, followed by Russia, Switzerland and Norway.

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id Canterbury audiences will be rejoicing in the musical power of Sister Act when the Variety Theatre Ashburton production opens at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on May 24. As disco diva Deloris Van Cartier, played by Sharleyne Diamond, hides from her murderer ex-boyfriend Curtis, played

by Matt Williams, an exciting and hilarious storyline unfolds. Here the Guardian profiles some of the leading duo’s fellow cast members.

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What do you like about playing this character?

I’ve really enjoyed getting a very small and brief glimpse as to what it would be like to live this lifestyle as a nun.

Are there any similarities between yourself and this character, and if so,

what are they?

My character learns to love performing with her fellow nuns, which I obviously love to do, so in the end both myself and my character love performing.

What have been the highlights and lowlights, challenges and achievements, of rehearsals so far?

One of the highlights is working with the cast members I get to work with.

The rehearsal space is an easy-going environment with laughter and banter between one another.

When we nail a dance routine or a song we’ve just worked on, it’s great to feel the satisfaction when it finally comes together in the end.

What are you looking forward to most about bringing Sister Act to the stage?

It’s awesome seeing a show grow from the beginning of the process to the final product and we get to show off the great amount of talent that Canterbury has to offer in this hilarious entertaining show. You don’t want to miss out so, buy your tickets and come along for an amazing night.

Challenging yourself as an actress Tenielle Booth Milker on a dairy farm Plays Ensemble Nun What do you like about playing this character?

I like that I get to explore more of the acting side of this role, and test my skills as an actress along with all of the singing and dancing this character does.

Are there any similarities between yourself and this character, and if so, what are they?

My character has an upbeat and bubbly personality. She also loves to sing, which is a lot like myself.

What have been the highlights and lowlights, challenges and achievements, of rehearsals so far?

It’s my first Variety Theatre Ashburton production and I have loved being in a show with adult actors who have so much talent. The choreography has been slightly harder than any other shows I’ve been in, so learning all of the dances has been one of the hardest parts. But it has been so much fun being able to challenge my skills as a performer, and seeing how far I can push myself.

What are you looking forward to most about bringing Sister Act to the stage?

Bringing something new to the Ashburton Trust Event Centre for the community to enjoy!

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ARTS DIARY ■■ May 24 – Variety Theatre Ashburton’s Sister Act opens at Ashburton Trust Event Centre, runs to June 1.

■■ May 30 – New Zealand Country Music Awards 2019 kick off in Gore. The Angelettas, made up of five Year 8 musicians from Mount Hutt College, will be competing.

■■ June 6 – Cancer Society’s Wellbeing and Resilience Presentation at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre by clinical psychologist Julie Zarifeh, 5.30pm.

■■ June 9 - Ashburton Musical Club concert - Chaperones from Christchurch playing Piano trios (6 hands at piano) Sunday 9th June 2pm at Sinclair Centre, Park Street. Visitors welcome $5 at door. Afternoon tea follows concert.

■■ June 15 - Room On the Broom, Ashburton Trust Event Centre, noon to 3pm. CDP presents Tall Stories’ production of Room On the Broom adapted from the book by Julia Donaldson.

■■ To June 18 – In Your Likeness and 2018 Adam Portraiture Award finalist exhibition at Ashburton Art Gallery.

■■ June 22 - Life and Love concert, combined Mid Canterbury Choir and Selwyn Community Choirs, 2pm, Sinclair Centre, Park Street, Ashburton.

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Roll on another Wheels Week I

t is pretty easy to make a good idea for an event do well for a year, it takes a bit of smarts to make one successful over five or 10 years, and it takes something special for an event to stay as long-running and successful as Wheels Week.

The first sign it has been such a successful event is that it has grown out of its own name, running over a fortnight instead of the original seven days, though wheels fortnight does not quite have the same ring to it.

There are of course the high octane parts of the “week” for the true petrolheads out there, able to lap up the smell of tyre smoke and hot engines at the street sprints to the roar of the engines and the flying mud at the speedway, but there is also

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plenty for those who enjoy a quieter pace.

Car shows and classic car rallies give the enthusiasts a bit more time to admire the vehicles on offer, or barter off all sorts of items at a swap meet.

There are also events completely detached from cars or other vehicles as well.

The intense battle over the basketball court in the celebrity wheelchair basketball game gives a great insight into

the world of those who are less reliant on wheels as a source of entertainment and rely on them as a way of life.

There is plenty for all ages, with small children able to be wowed by the wide range of vehicles on display in the street parade, or those who have experienced a few more years to reminisce over classic cars.

The range and diversity of these events is what has made Wheels Week so successful, and I am sure it will be the reason it remains to be successful in to the future.

From the slick organisation from the wider Wheels Week committee to the last person putting the hay bales out after dark ahead of the street sprints, it is the hard work and dedication that puts on a

slick event that attracts plenty of outsiders in the district to boost our economy.

The only bad thing about Wheels Week is it is too infrequent.

I’m sure the organisers are quite happy to only have that kind of workload a few times a year, but the pace of the town does seem to slow outside of the fortnight Wheels Week runs.

We have a big population here in the town and wider communities that deserves to have sizeable events occurring regularly, and it would be fantastic to see a wide variety of larger events happening every weekend in the town.

So roll on next year’s Wheels Week, and maybe another big week of themed events?

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, May 20, the 140th day of 2019. There are 225 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, aboard the Spirit of St Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

On this date: In 1521, Ignatius of Loyola was wounded by a cannonball while defending Pamplona against the French; during his convalescence he turned to religion, becoming a leader of the CounterReformation and the founder of the Jesuits.

In 1873, Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis received a US patent for men’s work pants made with copper rivets.

In 1899, taxi driver Jacob German was pulled over and arrested by a police officer riding a bicycle for speeding down Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue in his electric car at 12 miles an hour at a time when the speed limit was 8 mph; it was the first recorded speeding arrest in US history.

In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. (Because of weather and equipment problems, Earhart set down in Northern Ireland instead of her intended destination, France.)

In 1939, regular trans-Atlantic mail service began as a Pan American Airways plane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from Port Washington, New York, bound for Marseille, France.

In 1948, Chiang Kai-shek was inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

In 1959, nearly 5000 JapaneseAmericans had their US citizenships restored after choosing to renounce them during World War Two. In 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders

in Montgomery, Alabama, prompting the federal government to send in US marshals to restore order.

In 1993, an estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final firstrun episode of the sitcom Cheers on NBC. Ten years ago: In a rare, bipartisan defeat for President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 90-6, to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the

United States. An Indonesian C-130 Hercules military plane carrying troops and their families crashed in East Java province, killing 99 people.

Five years ago: Two car bombs hit a busy bus terminal and a market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing at least 118 people.

One year ago: Venezuelan officials declared socialist leader Nicolas Maduro the easy winner of the country’s presidential election; his leading challenger questioned the legitimacy of a vote marred by irregularities.

Today’s birthdays: Actor-author James McEachin is 89. Actor Anthony Zerbe is 83. Actor David Proval is 77. Singer-actress Cher is 73. Actor-comedian Dave Thomas is 71. Rock musician Warren Cann is 69. Actor Dean Butler is 63. TV-radio personality Ron Reagan is 61. Rock musician Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go’s) is 61. Actor Bronson Pinchot is 60.

Singer Susan Cowsill is 60. Actor John Billingsley is 59. Actor Tony Goldwyn is 59. Singer Nick Heyward is 58. TV personality Ted Allen is 54. Actress Mindy

Cohn is 53. Rock musician Tom Gorman (Belly) is 53. Actress Gina Ravera is 53. Actor Timothy Olyphant is 51. Former race car driver Tony Stewart is 48. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 47. Actress Daya Vaidya is 46. Rock musician Ryan Martinie is 44. Actress Angela Goethals is 42. Actress-singer Naturi Naughton is 35. Country singer Jon Pardi is 34.

Thought for today: “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” — Moshe Dayan (19151981).

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The Government currently covers around three quarters of the cost of the St John Ambulance service, or around $160 million a year, leaving a shortfall of around $70 million.

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t’s been a few years since I last helped write a Budget. I was working for a previous finance minister and found myself inundated daily with calls from interested parties seeking a slice of the action.

For that reason I have some sympathy for the current Finance Minister Grant Robertson.

I recall doing an exercise tallying up all the requests we had for funding and comparing it to the money we had available.

We could literally have spent every new dollar nine times over, and still not satisfied everyone.

Being in Government is a series of choices, and often, particularly during lean times like the Global Financial Crisis and the rebuild of Christchurch, you don’t get to make very many.

But to assist Grant Robertson as he sets out to deliver his second Budget next week, I’ve helpfully compiled a list of things I think are worthy of consideration.

New suicide prevention programmes In the 2016/17 year 606 New Zealanders took their own lives.

In the last year we’ve seen a 10 per cent increase, to 668.

What we’re doing now clearly isn’t working for too many Kiwis,

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particularly our young people.

In 2017 $100 million was allocated for new programmes to turn around our appalling suicide statistics, but unfortunately it was scrapped not long after Labour came into Government.

Scotland are seeing some positive results from early intervention programmes, and they could be trialled here if that money was available.

Fully fund St John Ambulance At present the Government covers around three quarters of the cost of the St John Ambulance service, or around $160 million a year.

It leaves a shortfall of around $70 million, which St John have to cover through charges and fundraising.

The previous National Government provided new funding for double crewing of all ambulances, but with a little bit more money the Government could go further and fully fund our

A growing local economy and increased tourist numbers have seen traffic volumes on State Highway One double since 1998.

It’s had a cost.

The road between Ashburton and Christchurch is now the second most dangerous stretch of highway in the country for fatalities and serious injuries.

The Government’s response has been to axe the proposed four lane highway to Christchurch, and to cut $5 billion from the state highway network making other important projects like a second bridge over the Ashburton River less likely.

A fair settlement for teachers On the eve of the Budget 50,000 primary and secondary teachers right across New Zealand will again go on strike.

In recent years teacher salaries have kept pace with inflation, but haven’t had much in the way of real increases.

In part that’s an unfortunate effect of the Global Financial Crisis and the Christchurch rebuild and we were running serious deficits to pay for everything.

That’s no longer the case, the books are now well and truly back in the black with healthy surpluses available.

But the settlement Education Minister Chris Hipkins has offered teachers doesn’t reflect that. Hipkins claims there’s no more money.

He’s wrong. As a result of Labour’s tax changes, the Government will take in an extra $17.7 billion in taxes between now and 2022.

By contrast, giving teachers an extra $10,000 a year over and above what Hipkins has offered would cost just $700 million.

Tallied up, what I’ve proposed amounts to an extra $1.17 billion a year over a typical four year Budget period.

That’s roughly equivalent to what Shane Jones is handing out each year, except it’s mainly his home region of Northland that’s benefiting.

Government is a series of choices, and every choice has a cost.

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‘Big Boy’ fires up the crowds I

t’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain.

The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne recently for a big debut after five years of restoration.

It then headed toward Utah as part of a year-long tour to commemorate the Transcontinental Railroad’s 150th anniversary.

Big Boys hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s. Of the 25 built by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York, from 1941 to 1944, eight remain. Only No. 4014 will be operational.

Engineered for steep mountain grades, each Big Boy had not one but two huge engines beneath a 227-tonne boiler able to hold enough water to cover an area the size of a basketball court to the depth of a high-top shoe.

The locomotives are not only big, they’re so complex that steam train buffs long considered restoring one to a fully operational state all but impossible, said Jim Wrinn, editor of Trains magazine.

They were the “pinnacle of steam locomotive design” in the years before diesel engines took over as the less expensive, more efficient standard for US railroads, Wrinn said.

“It’s a pretty big deal,” said Wrinn. “Nobody ever thought that a Big Boy would be restored to operation. Ever.”

Union Pacific hasn’t said how much the restoration cost, but Wrinn estimated at least $4 million based on similar restorations. The result will be one of just six to eight steam engines still operational on mainline US railroad tracks.

The last steam locomotive delivered to Union Pacific, the “Living Legend” Northern No. 844, has remained in service since 1944. Big Boy No. 4014 will join in No. 844’s publicity work as a railroad version of the Goodyear Blimp, Wrinn said.

The locomotives will tour the

The Big Boy No. 4014 rolls out of a Union Pacific restoration shop at the Cheyenne Depot Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

PHOTO AP Union Pacific system throughout 2019 in honor of the Transcontinental Railroad’s 1869 completion. They were in Ogden, Utah, recently for an event featuring UP and Utah officials and a descendant of one of the Chinese workers who helped build the railroad.

Few train engineers these days know what it’s like to drive a steam locomotive, though retired Union Pacific engineer Mickey Cox once got a brief turn driving No. 844.

The cab had no air conditioning behind the big coal-fired boiler and got dirty, Cox recalled of his jaunt that included driving through a tunnel between Cheyenne and Laramie.

“Everybody in the cab is, you know, covered with soot by the time you go through the tunnel on those things. And it gets very hot. By the time you get out to the end of the tunnel, you’re welcome to see daylight,” said Cox, whose father and grandfather worked in the rail industry

in Wyoming.

“It would’ve been a tough job back in the day, I’m sure.”

Converted to burn fuel oil instead of coal, Big Boy No. 4014 will be less filthy, but even fewer people alive today know the experience of driving it. Big Boy No. 4014 was retired in late 1961, and no Big Boy engine has run since 1962.

One retired Union Pacific employee, Jim Ehernberger, remembers the Big Boys well. He joined the railroad at age 16 in 1953.

“You could sure tell when a Big Boy left town. The ground kind of vibrated a little more than it did with the other types of locomotives. They were very, very powerful,” Ehernberger said.

Union Pacific towed Big Boy No. 4014 to Cheyenne in 2014 after acquiring it from a museum in Pomona, California.

“They had to basically completely disassemble the locomotive down to just the frame and the shell,” Wrinn said. “It was an immense undertaking.”

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Green, Curry too hot for Blazers AP Draymond Green had 20 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Portland Trail Blazers 110-99 yesterday for a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.

Green had his seventh career postseason triple-double and Stephen Curry scored 36 points for Golden State, which moved a win away from a fifth straight trip to the NBA finals with Game 4 set for tomorrow.

CJ McCollum had 23 points for the Trail Blazers, who led by 18 points in the second quarter.

Damian Lillard added 19 points, but Portland was hurt at the line, making just 20 of 33 attempts.

After trailing 66-53 at the half, the Warriors mounted a third-quarter comeback to lead 82-79 going into the fourth.

Jonas Jerebko’s jumper pushed the lead to 90-82 with 7:26 left.

Curry’s 3-pointer made it 98-87 with just under five minutes to go, and Portland struggled to catch up – similar to their fourth-quarter fade in Game 2.

Game 3 was the first conference finals game in Portland since 2000.

The Blazers lost that series to the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers in seven games.

No team has ever come back from an 0-3 deficit to win in the playoffs. Only three series have gone to a seventh game after one team opened with a 3-0 lead.

On Thursday, the Blazers were up 15 at halftime and led by eight with 4½ minutes left before the Warriors rallied – boosted by Kevon Looney’s dunk with less than a minute left, and a game-sealing steal from Andre Iguodala – for a 114-111 Game 2 victory.

Both teams switched up their lineups for Game 3, with Portland’s Meyers Leonard making his first start of the playoffs at centre.

Enes Kanter, despite sustaining a separated shoulder in the firstround series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, started in all the previous games.

Leonard provided a spark and finished with a career playoff-high 16 points.

Golden State’s Stephen Curry, right, is fouled by Portland Trail Blazers forward Zach Collins during yesterday’s game.

PHOTO AP Warriors coach Steve Kerr started Damian Jones, who hadn’t started since December and had made just two previous appearances in the playoffs.

Jones, who played in just 24 games in the regular season because of a torn pectoral muscle,

collected three fouls in the game’s opening three minutes and headed to the bench.

The Warriors remained without Kevin Durant, and it’s unlikely he’ll return during the conference finals.

The two-time NBA Finals MVP

is still out with a right calf injury and isn’t set to be re-examined until next week. Durant averaged 34.2 points in the playoffs before he was injured in Golden State’s Game 5 victory over Houston.

Portland was boosted by the home crowd at the start, going up

by 10 points in the first quarter.

Seth Curry’s jumper made it 6042 with 2:28 left until halftime.

The Warriors roared back, closing within 76-75 on Alfonzo McKinnie’s basket and pulling ahead on Looney’s layup to cap a 10-0 run.

Wilder comes out blasting - Breazeale bites the dust NZME WBC champion Deontay Wilder has taken down challenger Dominic Breazeale inside one round at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Heavyweight superstar Breaz-

eale carried a strong weight advantage into his grudge match but couldn’t upset the nimble Bronze Bomber – who continued his undefeated record in his 42nd professional fight.

Breazeale tipped the scales at

255 pounds (115.77kg) on Saturday, while Wilder weighed in almost 15 kegs lighter (101kg). The bombastic 33-year-old came out in a typically menacing outfit – a chain-linked mask with a matching space-age suit of armour.

From there it was curtains for Breazeale, who ate a brutal left glove before going down to Wilder’s signature right.

“Everything just came out of me tonight, a lot of animosity, a lot of chaos and hatred against

each other – and it just came out tonight,” Wilder said after the short-lived match. “This is what makes boxing so great, when you can have so much inside ... there’s been many of times when my body has been hurting.”

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Hampstead’s Sharn Gerard moves the ball up the turf during her side’s loss to Geraldine on Saturday.

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■■ HOCKEY

Wakanui men remain unbeaten

By Erin Tasker

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Wakanui have finished round one of the South Canterbury men’s division one hockey competition at the top of the pile as the only unbeaten team.

Their latest win came on Saturday, 3-1 over Temuka in Ashburton, and put them well out in front on the competition leaderboard on 18 points, with Northern Hearts second on 13.

Getting that latest win wasn’t easy though, with the Temuka Magpies coming to town with a very young team that played a vastly different style to that of the more experienced Wakanui side.

Wakanui knew that fitness was not going to be a problem for the opposition and the visitors started the game well with lots of early possession and spending good amounts of time in the Wakanui half.

They had an early one-on-one with Wakanui keeper Jacob Gray,

who had to come to the top of the circle to deal successfully with the attacking player, and Wakanui continued having to play a heavily defensive quarter, unable to capitalise on the two or three times they did get into the circle.

Late in the quarter though, Wakanui did earn a penalty corner and with some cleverly worked passes, the ball ended up with Sam Bennett who put Wakanui up 1-0.

The second quarter started in much the same way as the first with Temuka dominating early and this time making it count, after some good work in the circle to make it 1-1.

The next 10 minutes were fairly messy, before Wakanui finally strung some passes together and in a goalmouth melee Nick Sinclair put the final touch on Wakanui’s second goal.

Not to be outdone, the ball then found the other Sinclair, Hayden, who worked his magic to put in

his side’s third to make it 3-1 at half time.

The third quarter was end-toend and both sides had penalty corner opportunities that were defended or squandered, and after an eerily similar final quarter, there was no change to the score and Wakanui had their fourth win from four outings this season.

Wakanui player/coach Sam Moore said he was disappointed not to have picked up a bonus point (for four goals) from the match, but overall he was happy with where his side was at.

“We’re unbeaten after one round, and we haven’t done that for a while,” Moore said.

“Last year it took us a while to get going, and this year we haven’t exactly hit the ground running, we have had more of a continuous forward roll.

There was still plenty to work on; on Saturday there were at a lot of possession changes, with Wakanui’s usual consistent and

reliable passing game just not there.

“We were able to turn the ball over from them pretty well, but we would effectively give it straight back to them,” Moore said.

Wakanui put themselves under unnecessary pressure.

“Because our basic skills weren’t that flash, and we let a few opportunities go begging in front of the goal,” he said.

And that was something they would be looking to rectify when they headed to Oamaru to begin round two against Tainui this weekend.

Meanwhile, Mid Canterbury’s only team in the South Canterbury senior women’s competition – Hampstead – will be hoping round two brings them better fortune.

Hannah Mowat scored her side’s sole goal in their 3-1 loss to Geraldine in Ashburton on Saturday, which left them second from the bottom of the table with

just the one win to their names at the end of round one.

But coach Nicky Foden said her side had potential and it was starting to shine through.

“Saturday was the first time I felt they have really gelled as a team,” Foden said.

Hampstead had traditionally been a strong contender in the competition, but with a number of new players in the mix this season, the team had taken time to settle and work out combinations and things were finally starting to come together.

“The girls didn’t have a win, but the game that they played was excellent,” Foden said.

“The competition, from what I understand, has got a bit stronger this year so our girls are having to work hard.”

Hampstead will start round two against Craighead’s 1st XI in Timaru this weekend, and Foden said from now on she wanted to see results.

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Southern’s Hamish McCulloch crashes over the line for a try which sealed his side a late win in their quarter-final against Darfield on Saturday.

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■■ RUGBY

Southern storm into semis

By Erin Tasker

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A determined second half fightback from Darfield wasn’t enough to stop Southern from storming into the semi-finals of rugby’s Combined Country Cup competition on Saturday.

Southern took the win 34-25 to set up a semi-final date with Lincoln in Hinds this weekend, but it was far from smooth sailing for the Andrew Carr-coached side.

For the second time this season against Darfield, Southern let a pretty handy lead slip.

In pool play, Darfield’s comeback was successful and they handed Southern what ended up being their only loss in the competition so far this season, but this time around with a spot in the semi-finals on the line, Southern were not going down without a fight.

It was a win that really was set up in the first half. After a nervous start where they put the kick off out on the full and conceded an early penalty to give the visitors a 3-0 lead at the Hinds Domain, Southern soon hit their stride.

They backed themselves with ball in hand, unlike Darfield turning down a shot at goal when awarded an early penalty, and instead opting for a scrum – a scrum which would go on to cause problems for the visitors all afternoon.

From that scrum first-five Richard Fridd crossed for the game’s opening try, and that was followed soon after by one to Jon Dampney, who added a conversion to put his side out to 12-3.

Southern’s defence was found wanting out wide shortly after, with John Jebson crossing for Darfield’s first try of the day, but the home side hit back within a couple of minutes when flying winger Atu Takubu made a break down the right flank which he finished off with a stylish dive over the try line.

Not to be outdone, Southern’s American on the other wing – Bryan Hazel – got in on the action barely a couple of minutes after that, making a great individual run up the left hand side to score Southern’s fourth, and all of a sudden it was 24-10 at half time.

Southern had finished the first half strong, so Darfield needed to strike early in the second half if they were to have a shot at coming back, and they did just that with an early try under the posts before missing a penalty attempt which would have narrowed the gap to just four.

Five minutes later though they were back within two points, when wing Alister Collins went in for a try, with the last pass coming courtesy of former Methven and Mid Canterbury player Richard Catherwood, who was influential in the second 40 for Darfield.

With barely 10 minutes to go, a successful penalty shot put Darfield in the front, and many a Southern fan was no doubt having flashbacks to that loss in Darfield just a few short weeks ago.

Southern needed to dig deep, and this time, they did.

From another strong attacking scrum, the second pass went to second-five Hamish McCulloch who crashed over for what would be a decisive try.

A conversion to Dampney

made it 31-25, and he added a penalty on the final whistle to put it well beyond doubt, 34-25.

Southern coach Andrew Carr put the win down to his side’s fitness and the added enthusiasm they were able to bring in off the bench late in the game.

He said it was like his side fell asleep for a while at the start of the second half, but he always had faith they’d come back.

Now they were turning their attention to a Lincoln side that they knew little about, having played in separate pools so far this season.

“We just need to focus on what we have been doing, and do it better,” Carr said.

Lincoln booked their semi-finals berth against Southern with a narrow win over Prebbleton on Saturday, 18-17, while Glenmark-Cheviot were dominant in their quarter-final win over Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell, taking it out 52-13 to set up a semi-final showdown with a Springston side that downed the defending champions Waihora 18-7 on Saturday.

Meanwhile in the Canterbury Rugby Supporters Club Trophy (ninth to 12th) play-offs, Rakaia lost to Southbridge for the second time in two weeks, this time going down 36-24, while Saracens beat Celtic 28-14.

The fact they both lost meant that Rakaia and Celtic would now play each other this weekend, while Southbridge and Saracens played off for ninth.

In the NCRSU Plate (13th to 16th) play-offs Methven picked up a big win, 53-36 over Oxford at the Methven Domain, while Hampstead hosted Kaiapoi and went down 38-10.

That meant that this weekend Methven will be playing Kaiapoi in the battle for 13th place, while Hampstead will clash with Oxford.

For the first time in many seasons, no Mid Canterbury sides featured in the plaque section for the bottom six teams.

Wins in the plaque section on Saturday went the way of Ohoka 29-19 over West Melton, Hurunui 38-17 over Ashley, and Rolleston over Hornby 35-27.

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■■RUGBY

Welcome return for Sam Cane NZME

Ashburton’s Michael Lawson (top right) and the successful Mat Blacks side after their trans-Tasman clash against Australia.

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■■ INDOOR BOWLS

Thriller on the mats After a titanic struggle, Ashburton’s Michael Lawson and his New Zealand Mat Blacks indoor bowls team-mates have come through to beat Australia and retain the Henselite Trophy by the narrowest of margins.

The Mat Blacks won by just one game, 34-32 at the Southland Indoor Bowls Stadium in Invercargill on Saturday, after a hard-fought international which was played over three days, where both teams gave their utmost for their countries.

Australia made the best start but New Zealand fought back to finally clinch the victory in the final session.

At the end of the first day the scores were locked together at 11-11, and the second day saw Australia go ahead to lead 24-20,

which meant the Mat Blacks had a job to do on the final day.

In the morning session New Zealand levelled the scores to 27 -27 and in the final session won three games to Australia’s two, with one draw to see it finish 3432.

In a tense final session, two close games swung the result in New Zealand’s favour.

The men’s triples of Simon Thomas (skip), Daniel French and Ashburton’s Lawson snatched victory, while the mixed (8-bowl) pairs of Paul Smith (skip) and Fiona Keegan fought out an incredible 13-all draw against which tipped the scales in New Zealand’s favour.

Eleven Australasian medals were on the line and New Zealand won seven – the women’s

singles, men’s fours (on a count back 55 shots to 48), women’s fours, men’s pairs, mixed 8-bowl pairs, men’s triples and women’s triples.

Australia won four – the men’s singles, mixed fours, women’s pairs and mixed 6-bowl pairs.

In the women’s singles earlier in the day, Kiwi Teri Anderson was relentless in her quest for the medal and cruised home 3116, while the men’s singles was won by Australia’s Ian Ogilvie over Mat Black Gary Low. In the mixed fours Grant l’Ami reversed the results of his defeat Darren Voss of Australia 19-12, while the New Zealand women’s fours team secured their Australasian medal with a resounding 21-12 victory to remain unbeaten for the week.

The men’s fours produced the match of the final morning though, with both teams having a realistic chance of taking the medals.

Simon Thomas’s team again got off to a promising start but nine shots in four ends turned the game in favour of Kyle French’s Australian team.

Thomas bounced back with two threes which was then countered by four shots by French and the Australians led by three shots going into the last end.

The jack was moved to the back of the mat and Thomas, with his first bowl, failed to remove the nearest Australian bowl. But with his last he played a precision bowl to remove the bowl and sit three shots for a 17all draw.

Referee Glen Jackson probably spoke for supporters of the game everywhere when he turned to Sam Cane before a lineout during the Blues v Chiefs match at Eden Park and said simply: “Welcome back”.

It would have been a long and difficult road for Cane, 27, to negotiate in returning from a broken neck suffered while playing for the All Blacks in Pretoria last October.

He would have feared at different stages of his recovery that the game for him was over but his perseverance and the support he has received paid off on Saturday when he replaced Mitch Karpik as a temporary blood substitute in the first half of the Blues’ 23-8 victory.

He returned as a fulltime replacement for the final 26 minutes.

Cane’s game is about confrontational defence – especially front on – so for him to return seven months after his injury and immediately set about the Blues’ ball carriers is extremely good news for himself and also the All Blacks selectors.

Cane has an important leadership role with the All Blacks and he and Ardie Savea are set to provide a potentially devastating partnership at the World Cup in four months.

“We tried to really manage Sam and the good thing is he got game time and he’s looking good for the country.

“The Chiefs and the country,” Chiefs coach Colin Cooper said.

“We saw a couple of big hits and he didn’t shy off anything.

“It’s good to see him back.”

Cane’s return was one of the few positives for Cooper and the Chiefs, who saw their playoffs hopes all but disappear at the final whistle.

And it might have been a case of mixed emotions for the All Blacks selectors too once they found out All Blacks skipper Kieran Read was a late withdrawal from his side’s 19-all draw with the Stormers at Newlands due to a shoulder/neck injury.

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Crusaders’ discipline again an issue in yet another draw NZME A dramatic draw, their second in three weeks, is not how the Crusaders envisioned the final leg of their South African sojourn panning out.

In the end, having scored three tries and 19 unanswered points to fightback to a position of control after a sloppy start, victory slipped from the Crusaders’ grasp.

In the wash-up from this tense match in Cape Town there will be plenty of talking points – not least the controversial decision from South African TMO Marius Jonker to scrub out a brilliant 75th minute Sevu Reece try.

Well contained earlier in the match, Reece looked to have further enhanced his All Blacks’ credentials with a 45 metre chip and chase, only for Jonker to in-

tervene and suggest there was a “clear and obvious” forward pass, despite the ball going backwards out of the hands.

The Crusaders, ahead by three points at that late stage, then survived Stormers fullback Damian Willemse bombing a try as he lost the ball over the line while attempting to re-gather a grubber in the 79th minute.

But replacement first-five Jean-

Luc du Plessis made no mistake in drawing level, after deliberation about whether to kick to the corner, following a penalty against replacement Crusaders prop Oliver Jager for a high shot on a slipping attacker.

Privately the Crusaders may grumble with the officiating but they will also know this was far from their best performance – and a world away from where

they were last week in Pretoria.

Again discipline was an issue.

They lacked organisation and were disjointed and panicked on attack.

In their quest to push the tempo the Crusaders were guilty at times of being overly ambitious under their sticks.

More often than not those tactics come off.

This was not one of those days.

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■■ SQUASH

Barker claims another title Ashburton’s Lee Barker has added another squash crown to his collection.

He went into the weekend’s Ashburton Celtic Squash Club Ray McBeth Memorial tournament as the top seed in the open grade section and lived up to that billing, beating fellow local Steve Leckie in the final 3-0.

It was a repeat of the main final at last tournament on the Midlands Squash circuit which was hosted by a Mid Canterbury club - Hinds - just a few short weeks ago. It was Barker who came out on top on that occasion, too.

Lily Rae, who won the women’s division one title last year at Celtic, moved up to the mixed division one grade this season and made the final at the weekend, but lost to Isaac Bazley.

In this year’s women’s A grade, top seed Christina Lima took out the final against Brooke Cornish-Madden, while Karlie McQueen won the mixed division two title, beating Peter Blacklow in the final.

Julie Copland took out the division three mixed title, beating the tournament’s main sponsor Ian Dolden in the final, while men’s division four was won by MacGregor Rae, who beat Greg Marshall in the final.

The next Mid Canterbury club to host their open championship tournament would be Methven on June 7 and 8, followed by Rakaia on June 14 and 15, and Collegiate on July 5 and 6.

Right - Hamish Trott prepares to serve during the weekend’s Celtic Squash Open.

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In brief

■■FOOTBALL

City confirms complete domination NZME This was history after all, the completion of the first domestic treble in English football, and yet something else felt even more significant: that even an FA Cup final with all its supposed magical imponderables can fall so utterly under the dominance of Pep Guardiola’s team.

It was not a Cup final in anything but the name, barely a moment of it ever imbued with uncertainty or risk as far as Manchester City were concerned, rather it was just like any routine home win at the Etihad Stadium over the course of this season.

One in which the away team dig in valiantly, do their best to execute a sensible plan of containment while accepting that this is only really a way of delaying the inevitable outcome.

The 6-0 scoreline equalled the record for the biggest margin of victory in an FA Cup final that has stood since 1903 when Bury beat Derby County by the same score

at the old Crystal Pace stadium, when Edward VII was on the throne, and the Wright brothers first got a plane in the sky.

This was the 51st domestic fixture or cup tie for City, and of those they have lost just four, the last at St James’ Park on January 29.

It is a remarkable run.

Watford were never the lead candidates to beat them in an FA Cup final, although you might have been able to kid yourself as the crowds thronged Wembley Way that such an outcome was not implausible.

Then the game started and it was evident that the difference in what both teams was capable of doing, even on a day like this, was simply enormous.

Perhaps the idea of City, a team that is so hard to disrupt, has occupied the minds of their opponents this season to the extent that they dare not do anything but defend deep and counter-attack quickly.

Watford did that and it worked

for a period and then after that they conceded six goals.

In Copenhagen, readying himself for a concert that was impossible to cancel, Elton John will have been grateful for the small mercy of his own unavailability.

There was a hat-trick for Raheem Sterling, in his first FA Cup final a mile from where he grew up, but even that felt like it came second to the jaw-dropping one-sidedness of a match that stood as a monument for the season.

In English football at least, City were unstoppable.

They had done everything right, or at least everything one can expect to do right when possession is down to 27 per cent and you are trying to stop the great threshing machine of English football from winning their third trophy of the season.

For the first 35 minutes, Javi Gracia’s team stayed in the classic edge-of-the-area cluster, a low-block that just about engaged City when they got into

shooting range.

Watford’s midfield only really stepped up to meet City once they got within distance and mostly they showed Guardiola’s side down the right wing where Riyad Mahrez had a lot more of the ball than his counterpart on the left, Raheem Sterling.

Watford clearly felt that they could deal with Mahrez’s general lack of pace.

Most of the time, Mahrez opted to cross and Watford were quite happy to deal with that.

Kevin De Bruyne came on for a disconsolate Mahrez before the hour and from then on it became a humiliation for Watford.

The Belgian scored the third when Sterling and Jesus combined, De Bruyne sitting Gomes down before going past him and finishing.

De Bruyne created one for Jesus on 68 minutes and the floodgates opened.

Sterling plundered two more in the last ten minutes as Watford cracked.

Warriors set a standard The Warriors’ convincing win over the Panthers could be a turning point for their campaign, according to utility forward Jazz Tevaga. The visitors thumped Penrith 30-10 to record their first victory at the foot of the Blue Mountains since 2012.

The struggling Sydney team made a series of awful errors during the match, including some that belonged in a bloopers reel. But as bad as last-placed Penrith were, they were also frustrated by a relentless Warriors defence which kept their line intact for 70 minutes. “It’s a turning point for our season,” said Tevaga. “It’s back-to-back wins now and we have set the standard of how we should perform.” - NZME

Armbands for Pongia Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart was gutted his team couldn’t put together a win for his late comrade Quentin Pongia, who died of cancer last week. But the green machine did run the high-flying South Sydney close, only losing 16-12, and Stuart said he was proud of the performance his young charges put out on the park. “It’s a very sad day for us, he wouldn’t have wanted us to be upset about his passing away,” Stuart said.

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In brief

Hinerangi grabs Gold Cup NZME Promising mare Hinerangi added another stakes victory to the record haul of trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman when she took out the Listed James Bull Rangitikei Gold Cup (1600m) at Awapuni on Saturday.

Raced in the colours of her breeder Christopher Grace, who owns the Fastnet Rock mare with wife Susanna, Hinerangi dominated the contest from outside the pace set up by local runner Prosecco.

Placed under pressure when the well-fancied Red Sierra swooped to the lead on the point of the home corner, rider Robbie Hannam didn’t panic as he balanced his charge up before asking for a serious effort in the final 200m.

Hinerangi never flinched as she gained the upper-hand close to the post to score a valuable first win at black-type level at her 20th career start.

Having his first ride aboard the five-year-old mare, Hannam was delighted with the result as he joked about the imposing physical presence of his mount.

“She’s a monster isn’t she,” he said.

“She races on pace and grinds really good and she only had 53kg on her back today.

“What I didn’t want to do was sit and sprint as I wanted to make it more of a staying mile.

“That’s what happened as there was only two of us in it at the end and she just out-toughed the other horse.”

Grace was also full of smiles with the victory in a major race at his home track.

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MONDAY C0 C0, 410m 1 57 Blazing Diamond nwtd...................B Mitchell 2 43245 Zipping Romeo nwtd....................A Turnwald 3 7877x Cawbourne Skid nwtd............... K Gommans 4 5 Thrilling Audrey nwtd....................... K Walsh 5 45332 Stormin’ Home nwtd S &............C Blackburn 6 53884 Ariana Sunset nwtd.....................B Goldsack 7 42245 Hopcorn nwtd...................................... N Udy 8 755x8 Viking Joop nwtd............................. L A Hunt 9 7845x Ostapenko nwtd.............................. L A Hunt 10 83883 Duke Bruce nwtd................................. N Udy 2 12.30pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS C1 C1, 457m 1 21311 Thrilling Uma nwtd........................... K Walsh 2 4528F Tuff Mr. Tee 26.55...........................B Mitchell 3 57584 Bill’s Barker 26.58............................S Maher 4 7x546 Rumors 26.29.....................................L Cole 5 78454 Tiddy Cash nwtd........................J McInerney 6 86876 Bigtime Bret nwtd................................L Cole

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Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incorporated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 20 May 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 4 and 5 Trebles: 3, 4 and 5 1 3.11pm (NZT) DOUG BRADLEY PAINTERS C3/C4 C3/4, 410m 1 83768 It’s Complicated 23.52.........................L Cole 2 33558 Bigtime Minnie nwtd............................L Cole 3 24175 Bigtime Ziggy 23.86............................L Cole 4 72762 Token Vikkers nwtd............................. N Udy 5 15116 Coco Bango nwtd...................... K Gommans 6 14142 Bigtime Brody 23.52............................L Cole 7 22312 Cawbourne Ridge 23.56 J &................D Bell

Topweight Tai Ho gave his rivals weight and a beating when he took out the time-honoured DT Kings Transport Ltd 112th Great Western Steeplechase (3900m) at Riverton yesterday. The Ellis Winsloetrained eight-year-old has been one of the most consistent jumpers in the southern region for the last few seasons and numbers a runner-up finish in the 2018 Grand National Steeplechase (5600m) at Riccarton amongst his best career performances. Winsloe had made no secret of his desire to win the Great Western and was rewarded when Tai Ho and rider Stuart Higgins delivered the trophy with a picture-perfect effort.

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Options wide open As far as dress rehearsals go, you don’t get much better than the performance free-going stayer Big Mike put on at Te Rapa on Saturday. Last years Listed Pakenham Cup (2500m) winner was on trial for another trip across the Tasman for trainers Craig and Shaun Phelan and he passed with flying colours as he led all the way to record a hollow victory over 2100m in the opening race on the day.

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Shamal takes Steeple

Robbie Hannam knows he has a lot of horse under him as he heads for the winning post.

“It’s a wonderful thrill to win a race on your home track,” he said.

“And to be lucky enough to win our neighbours sponsored race, as the Bull family have done a wonderful job over the years and put a lot into it (racing).

“The mare will be going out (for a spell) now, she’s got a bit

of black-type and that’s what we want.”

Hinerangi is the daughter of Elusive City mare, Hinemoa who win four races in a limited career including the Listed Ag and Turf Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa.

She hails from an extended family that includes Gr.2 Wellington Cup (3200m) winner Graphic

and brilliant sprinter Morar who took out the 1992 Gr.1 Telegraph Handicap (1200m).

The victory was the 24th New Zealand Group or Listed win for trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman this season, with the pair leading the National Trainer’s Premiership with 103 wins to date.

Topweight and race favourite Shamal added a second prestige steeplechase victory to his career record when he prevailed in a nail-biting finish to the Signature Homes Waikato Steeplechase (3900m) at Te Rapa. The 2018 Grand National Steeplechase winner had cemented his favouritism for Saturday’s contest when successful in the Ken and Roger Browne Memorial Steeplechase, the traditional leadup event at Te Rapa, a fortnight ago on a similar track conditions to the Dead5 rating for Saturday’s meeting. Shamal dredged up every last ounce to put his head in front where it mattered.

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Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

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2 43323 Zara Jinx nwtd..................................... N Udy 3 48687 Norton Baxter nwtd....................J McInerney 4 34375 Bigtime Benji 26.56.............................L Cole 5 58847 Bigtime Rosie 26.24 G &......... S Fredrickson 6 36473 Toki Girl 26.45............................... D Denbee 7 714x2 Triple What nwtd..........................A Turnwald 8 65875 Smash Rock nwtd........................... L A Hunt 4 1.05pm USE PETRAVELLER.COM.AU C2 C2, 457m 1 85283 Bigtime Leads 26.03...........................L Cole 2 73462 Plan Stan nwtd................................ L Pearce 3 47174 Bigtime Lilah 26.05.............................L Cole 4 22376 Pick A Pascal nwtd G &.......... S Fredrickson 5 26118 Bigtime Mike 26.18.............................L Cole 6 67154 Bigtime Lonestar 27.28 G &.... S Fredrickson 7 52343 Zipping Cobra 26.01...........................L Cole 8 34441 Gunnar Blueblood 26.34............J McInerney 9 77837 Thrilling Eddie nwtd J &.......................D Bell 10 47766 Lady Jellybean nwtd.....................M Goodier 5 1.22pm CREATIVE CATERING C2/C3 C2/3, 457m

1 51275 Bigtime Alfie 26.52..............................L Cole 2 58642 Bigtime Forest 25.97...........................L Cole 3 42845 Luke Skywalker 26.24..................... L A Hunt 4 12848 Bigtime Caleb 25.99............................L Cole 5 65761 Bigtime Chris 26.27 G &......... S Fredrickson 6 436F3 Bigtime Acacia 26.09..........................L Cole 7 21535 Bigtime Fred 26.04..............................L Cole 8 14132 Funky Facts nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 9 77837 Thrilling Eddie nwtd J &.......................D Bell 10 47766 Lady Jellybean nwtd.....................M Goodier 6 1.40pm J P PRINT, PETONE C4/C5 C4/5, 410m 1 17111 Bigtime Pete 23.15..............................L Cole 2 67344 Bigtime Emjay 23.56 G &........ S Fredrickson 3 82881 Bigtime Jetty 23.62.............................L Cole 4 34277 Dynamite Danger nwtd G &.... S Fredrickson 5 32442 Bigtime Blackie nwtd...........................L Cole 6 12814 Bigtime Banjo 23.58............................L Cole 7 51236 Bigtime Shine 23.28............................L Cole 8 11136 Queen Big League 23.18 G &.S Fredrickson 9 67368 Reality Check nwtd................... K Gommans 10 34346 Cawbourne Liz nwtd.....................M Roberts 7 1.56 RED SNAPPER SEAFOODS, CHRISTCHURCH C4/C5 C4/5, 457m

1 68183 Sub Eighteen 26.48............................L Cole 2 47185 Bigtime Kiss 26.14..............................L Cole 3 67616 Fusion Cronulla 25.81..................A Turnwald 4 12614 Don’t Knocka Gee 26.15.....................L Cole 5 28828 Bigtime Mia 25.95...............................L Cole 6 55842 Bigtime Rocco 26.05...........................L Cole 7 23385 Awesome Quality nwtd........................L Cole 8 11883 Fare Dodger 26.03........................M Goodier 9 33567 Gazza’s Girl nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 10 66877 All Black Star 26.10........................M Gowan 8 2.14pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL C4/5, 457m 1 57212 Thrilling Amigo 25.84....................... K Walsh 2 25551 Arden Emgrand 26.07..................A Turnwald 3 11113 Bigtime Cooper nwtd...........................L Cole 4 66111 Bigtime Levi 25.75..............................L Cole 5 61231 Bigtime Annie 26.24............................L Cole 6 26823 Diddilee 25.92..............................A Turnwald 7 52374 Hey Fernando nwtd G &......... S Fredrickson 8 11211 Thrilling Talk 25.79........................... K Walsh Emergencies: 9 16816 Turanza’s Terror 25.98..................A Turnwald 10 66877 All Black Star 26.10........................M Gowan 9 2.36pm OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY C4, 457m

1 25246 Cheese And Chalk nwtd.....................L Cole 2 55111 Bigtime Archie 26.36...........................L Cole 3 12123 Bigtime Rod 26.04..............................L Cole 4 12745 You Can Be 26.01...............................L Cole 5 42627 Bigtime Tank 26.37..............................L Cole 6 17334 Tommy The Jett 26.17..................A Turnwald 7 13252 Bigtime Homie 26.08...........................L Cole 8 57444 All About Space 25.75........................L Cole Emergencies: 9 16816 Turanza’s Terror 25.98..................A Turnwald 10 33567 Gazza’s Girl nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 10 2.51pm DUKE OF EDINBURGH SILVER COLLAR HEATS 2 JUNE C2 C2d, 720m 1 63775 Cawbourne Zulu nwtd...................M Roberts 2 23233 Cawbourne Taylor nwtd.................M Roberts 3 Box Vacant Three.......................... Scratched 4 xT572 Rippin’ Sam nwtd..............A Turnwald 5 Box Vacant Five............................ Scratched 6 15561 Ebby Ripper nwtd.........................A Turnwald 7 Box Vacant Seven......................... Scratched 8 46877 Bigtime Chloe nwtd.......................M Goodier

10 28843 Blackjack Man nwtd....................B Goldsack 4 4.08pm MONSTER FISH AT STUD C2 C2, 410m 1 2631F Bigtime Shadow nwtd.........................L Cole 2 55124 Jax Jewel 23.83............................M Roberts 3 41266 Thrilling Stan 23.49............................D Edlin 4 13641 Slam It 23.93..............................J McInerney 5 54545 Bigtime Lizzy 23.60.............................L Cole 6 52312 Flying Huey nwtd...................... K Gommans 7 44736 Born Fab 23.84................................S Maher 8 32565 Zara Zoe nwtd..................................... N Udy 9 35765 Retail Mayhem nwtd....................... L Pearce 10 65874 Jinja Flash nwtd.................................D Edlin 5 4.25pm TOTAL BODYSHOP SUPPLIES C2/C3 C2/3,

410m 1 88125 Millie Prince 23.29 J &.........................D Bell 2 13312 Cawbourne Moss 23.75................M Roberts 3 8168x Cawbourne Johno nwtd............ K Gommans 4 45377 Little Scamp 23.69........................ D Denbee 5 76357 Cawbourne Assist 23.84 J &................D Bell 6 85477 Bigtime Jasmine 23.92........................L Cole 7 66253 Bigtime Honey 24.01...........................L Cole 8 32287 Bigtime Marley nwtd............................L Cole 9 78748 Hard Merch nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 10 78547 Bigtime Bee nwtd................................L Cole

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

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway 8 43647 Opawa Lyon nwtd............................... N Udy 9 34346 Cawbourne Liz nwtd.....................M Roberts 10 78748 Hard Merch nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 2 3.27pm KAMADA PARK C1 C1, 410m 1 84714 Tuff Temptress 23.97......................B Mitchell 2 12447 Magic Flynn 24.22...............................L Cole 3 2764x Cawbourne Chops 23.55.......... K Gommans 4 12311 Bigtime Puma 23.83............................L Cole 5 51475 Bigtime Sam 23.91 G &.......... S Fredrickson 6 64253 Hashtag Blessed 23.63.................M Roberts 7 34187 Bigtime Kaea nwtd............................. B Hunt 8 33651 Idol Duke nwtd...................................M Flipp Emergencies:

9 68642 Naharis nwtd......................................D Edlin 10 87624 Here’s Hemi nwtd.......................J McInerney 3 3.46pm STEVE ‘THE AUCTIONEER’ DAVIS C1 C1, 410m 1 62811 Bigtime Thor nwtd...............................L Cole 2 47865 Jay Wendy nwtd.................................. N Udy 3 64446 Kushka nwtd J &..................................D Bell 4 66751 Tuff An’ Spicy 24.36 S &.............C Blackburn 5 84534 Goldstar Sawyer 23.85.....................S Stone 6 46636 Bigtime Ronnie nwtd G &........ S Fredrickson 7 41785 Flying Dewy 24.27.......................A Turnwald 8 32235 Cawbourne Cruz nwtd..................M Roberts 9 47663 Arm Turner nwtd.........................J McInerney

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

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DIVERSIONAL THERAPIST Elizabeth Street Day Centre provides a day activity programme for its elderly members who have age-related disabilities. It offers a range of services including socialisation, craft and handwork, and assistance with skills for daily living.

This is a permanent role working 28hrs per week (9.15am - 3.15pm, five days a week).

In this role, you will be responsible for: • assisting in implementing activities based on group and individual needs • planning, facilitating, leading and supporting members in diversional activities.

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TUESDAY 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group meets outside church.

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

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.

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12pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Weekly lunch, available at Baptist Church, foyer entrance off Cass Street.

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting, come and enjoy friendship and afternoon tea. $4.

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1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

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Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

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GREY POWER. AGM, speaker Julia Saulsbury, Glaucoma presentation. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

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7.30pm ASHBURTON ELECTRONIC ORGAN AND KEYBOARD CLUB. Club night concert, visitors welcome.

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FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Monthly meeting, mini and main speaker. Seniors Centre, Cameron St. 10am NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. Weekly coffee morning, any enquiries to Merrill 307 6363. Nosh Cafe, West Street.

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1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Presbyterian Church, Rakaia.

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

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Meet Walnut Avenue Pavilion.

7pm - 9pm MID CANTERUBRY BADMINTON CLUB. Night time section, all welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace, Ashburton.

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BEST, Maureen May: (Mo) (nee Dickie) – 19-9-1934 – 17- 5-2019 Passed away at Radius Millstream, Ashburton.

Peacefully after a short illness, surrounded by her loving family. Much loved wife of the late Geordie (Dennis) and much loved daughter of the late Alex and Eva Dickie. Very much loved mother and mother-in-law of Anna, (Cambridge) Jan and David Dynes, (Methven) Helen, (Waitora) and the twins Catherine and Robbie Price and David and Jean.

Much loved Nanna of Phillip, Jennifer, Victoria, and Richard and Alex; Ryan and Kimberley, Kayla, Erica and Ryan, and Lucy; Sam and Claire, and Roy and Kylee; Travis, Olivia and John, Logan and Amy, Mitchell and Abby; Melissa, and Adam. Loved Great Nan of Maddison, Hailee, and Lacey; Jordy; Hunter; Bradley, Lucas, Mila and new baby due in September. Dearly loved sister of Jean and Bob Walker (Rolleston) and loved by her nieces and nephews.

Thanks to Dr Chris Ryan, and the staff at Moore Street Medical Centre, Lois Ranson, John Tyrrell, Cliff Dynes, and the staff at Radius Millstream Care, Ashburton. Messages to the Best family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. No flowers by request. Donations to Ashburton St John would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Mo’s life will be held at St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald on Wednesday May 22, commencing at 1pm. Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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Fine with some high cloud.

Northerly breezes.

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McKENZIE, Jason Sinclair– Forever in our hearts.

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A strong southwest flow over the country is easing as a high spreads out over the central Tasman Sea. This high pushes a strong ridge of high pressure across much of New Zealand by tonight. The ridge lies over the country from tomorrow through Friday. However, a weakening front moves over the South Island on Wednesday.

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7pm The Project 7:30 Dancing With The Stars NZ The stars continue to rock on the dance floor before a dance-off means one pair must leave the competition.

8:30 The Rookie AO 0 9:25 SVU AO 10:20 NewsHub Late 10:50 The Hui 3 0

11:05 Love Is… AO 11:50 First Dates UK AO 0 12:45 Baby Daddy PGR 3 1:05 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:30 Infomercials 2:40 How To Get Away With Murder AO 3 0 3:25 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 4:15 Judge Rinder 5:05 Neighbours PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:25 NewsHub Nation 3 An in-depth weekly current-affairs show hosted by Simon Shepherd and Emma Jolliff. 0 12:30 Infomercials 5:30 City Impact Church

Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled, 10pm on Choice

SKY 5 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Last Man Standing PG 7:40 Last Man Standing PG 8:05 The Force MC 8:30 The Flash MVS 9:15 Parking Wars PGL 9:40 NCIS – LA MV 10:25 CSI – Miami MV 11:10 Nightwatch M Noon Jeopardy! PG 12:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:50 NCIS MV 1:40 NCIS MV 2:25 NCIS LA MV 3:15 Nightwatch M 4:05 The Simpsons PG 4:30 Jeopardy!

PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Parking Wars PGL 6pm The Flash MVS 7pm The Force MC 7:30 NCIS – LA MV 8:30 Border Security M 9pm RBT MC 9:30 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away Specials MVL 10:30 CSI – Miami MV 11:20 The Flash MVS

Tuesday

12:05 Nightwatch M 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 The Force MC 2:05 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! MVL 2:50 RBT MC 3:15 Border Security PG 3:40 CSI – Miami MV 4:25 Parking Wars PGL 4:50 NCIS – LA MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

MAORI

6am Nella The Princess Knight 3 0 6:25 Legion Of Super Heroes 6:50 The Powerpuff Girls 0 7:15 The Loud House 3 7:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 8:05 League Of Super Evil 3 0 8:30 The Thundermans 3 0 8:55 Tiki Tour 3 0 9:20 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Show 3 12:40 Instinct PGR 3 0 1:35 Married With Children PGR 2:05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm The Chase Australia 0 5pm Everybody Loves Raymond 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Million Dollar Minute 6:30 Pawn Stars 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 American Pickers 8:30 FBI PGR A serial bomber seems to be targeting Wall Street’s elite; Maggie and OA search for a suspect who seems set on revenge; Dana deals with a cocky profiler brought in to consult on the case. 0 9:30 F Game Of Thrones AO 11:10 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:10 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:20 Night School MLSC 2018 Comedy. Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish. 8:10 The Leisure Seeker MVLSC 2018 Adventure. Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland.

10am Mom And Dad 16VLSC 2017 Horror. Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair. 11:25 Beirut MVL 2018 Action.

Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike.

1:15 Night School MLSC 2018 Comedy. Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish. 3:05 The Leisure Seeker MVLSC 2018 Adventure. Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland.

4:55 Affairs Of State 16VLSC 2018 Drama.

David Corenswet, Thora Birch.

6:30 Thoroughbreds 16VLC 2018 Comedy. Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy. 8pm Lady Bird 16VLSC 2017 Drama. A coming-of-age story following a girl as she navigates a turbulent relationship with her mother, and deals with her final year of high school.

Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf.

9:40 Overboard MLS 2018 Comedy. Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris.

11:30 High Moon 16VL 2018 Action. Sean Partick Flanery, Chelsea Edmundson.

Tuesday 1am Affairs Of State 16VLSC 2018 Drama. David Corenswet, Thora Birch. 2:35 The Directors – Jon Favreau PG 3:05 Thoroughbreds 16VLC 2018 Comedy. Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy. 4:35 Lady Bird 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

7:30 Charlie’s Angels MV 2000 Action. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu. 9:10 Charlie’s Angels – Full Throttle MV 2003 Action Adventure. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu. 10:55 2 Guns 16VL 2013 Action. Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg. 12:45 Step Brothers 16LSC 2008 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, John C Reilly.

2:25 Darkness Falls MVL 2003 Horror. Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield. 3:50 J. Edgar MVL 2011 Drama.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer. 6:05 There’s Something About Mary 16LS 1998 Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller.

8pm Body Of Lies 16VL 2008 Action. When an idealistic CIA agent is stationed in Jordan to stop attacks by Al Qaeda, he plants suspicion among terrorists that their leaders are collaborating with the Americans. Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe.

10:10 The Purge 16VL 2013 Thriller. Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey.

11:35 Larry Crowne ML 2011 Comedy. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts. Tuesday 1:15 Close Up – Christoph Waltz PG 1:50 Darkness Falls MVL 2003 Horror.

Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield.

3:15 J. Edgar MVL 2011 Drama. Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer. 5:30 There’s Something About Mary 16LS 1998 Comedy.

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Avatar 3 7:10 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:20 Potae Pai 3 7:30 Pipi Ma 3 7:40 Darwin + Newts 7:50 Paia 3 8am Pukana 3 2 8:50 Kete Korero 3 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 Cam’s Kai 3 10am Marae Kai Masters Special 3 10:30 My Party Song 3 11am Matangi Rau 3 Noon Get Your Fish On 3 12:30 Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm Haka Life PGR 3 1:30 Shear Bro PGR 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Waiata Mai 3 3:10 Avatar 3 3:40 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 3:50 Potae Pai 3 4pm Pipi Ma 3 4:10 Darwin + Newts 3 4:20 Paia 3 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Globe 5:30 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 6pm Waka Huia 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Carluccio’s 6 Seasons 8pm Marae PGR 2 8:30 The Mask You Live In AO 10:10 Waka Huia 10:40 Te Ao – Maori News 3

11:10 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 11:40 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 7am Rugby Nation 8am Cycling – Giro D’Italia (RPL) Stage Nine.

10am Motorsport – Indy 500 (RPL) Race for Pole.

1pm Super Rugby (HLS) Blues v Chiefs.

1:30 Super Rugby (HLS) Hurricanes v Jaguares.

2pm Super Rugby (HLS) Rebels v Bulls. 2:30 Super Rugby (HLS) Reds v Waratahs.

3pm Super Rugby (HLS) Lions v Highlanders. 3:30 Super Rugby (HLS) Stormers v Crusaders. 4pm Super Rugby (RPL) Blues v Chiefs.

6pm Rugby Nation 7pm Netball – ANZ Premiership (HLS) Tactix v Magic.

From Christchurch.

7:30 L Netball – ANZ Premiership Mystics v Pulse.

From The Trusts Arena, Auckland.

9:30 Super Rugby Wrap 10:30 Rugby – Gallagher Premiership (HLS) Round 22.

11:30 Pro14 Weekly Highlights Tuesday 12:30 Rugby Nation 1:30 Super Rugby (HLS) Blues v Chiefs.

2am Super Rugby (HLS) Hurricanes v Jaguares.

2:30 Super Rugby (HLS) Rebels v Bulls. 3am Super Rugby (HLS) Reds v Waratahs.

3:30 Super Rugby (HLS) Lions v Highlanders. 4am Super Rugby (HLS) Stormers v Crusaders. 4:30 Super Rugby Wrap 5:30 Super Rugby (HLS) Blues v Chiefs.

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6am Nigel Slater – Eating Together 6:30 Baby Animals – In Our World 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Bondi Vet 9am Baggage Battles 9:30 Bondi Vet 11:30 Vintage Hunter 12:30 Expedition Unknown 1:30 Hurricane Man PGR 2:30 Mysteries At The Museum 3:30 Love Nature – Hope For Wildlife 4:30 River Cottage – Winter’s On The Way With winter on the way, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is making the most of local and seasonal fare.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum Don Wildman unearths relics from the world’s greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past, examining each artefact to illuminate the hidden treasures.

6pm American Pickers 7pm American Idol 9:55 American Idol After Show 10pm Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled Lonely Planet writer Katharina Kane travels through Ethiopia, a country more well-known for its droughts and desolation than its tourist attractions.

11pm River Cottage – Winter’s On The Way With winter on the way, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is making the most of local and seasonal fare.

12:30 Mysteries At The Museum 1am Primal Survivor AO 2am Fishy Business 3am Bondi Vet 4am You Should Really See A Doctor 5am Secrets Of Great British Castles

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Sunday Night With Matty Johns 7:30 Controversy Corner 8am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Dragons v Knights.

10am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Sharks v Sea Eagles.

Noon Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Panthers v Warriors.

12:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Broncos v Roosters.

1pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Raiders v Rabbitohs.

1:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sunday. 2pm Sunday Night With Matty Johns 3pm Golf – PGA Championship (HLS) Round Four. 4pm Live From The PGA Championship (RPL) 5:30 Athletics – IAAF Diamond League (HLS) Shanghai.

6:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Panthers v Warriors.

7pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Broncos v Roosters.

7:30 Keeping The Faith 8:30 Sunday Night With Matty Johns 9:30 NRL 360 10:30 Big League Wrap 11:30 Golf – PGA Championship (HLS) Round Four.

Tuesday 12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 1am Fox Sports News 1:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sunday.

2am Rugby League – Queensland Cup (RPL) Blackhawks v Falcons.

4am Rugby League – NSW Cup (RPL) Panthers v Warriors.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How It’s Made PG 7:30 Weather Gone Viral PG Weather Wipeouts. 8:20 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail PG Lethal Landslide. 9:10 Weather Gone Viral PG Weather Wipeouts. 10am Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10:50 Railroad Australia PG 11:40 A Crime To Remember M Comedy of Terrors. 12:30 Blood Relatives M Wasted Away.

1:20 Killer Instinct With Chris Hansen M Murder in Boulder. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG 5:40 Railroad Australia PG 6:35 American Chopper M You’re My Dog….

7:30 American Chopper M 8:30 Jay Leno’s Garage PG Going the Distance.

9:25 Build To Mega Race PG Fourth Gear.

10:15 Car Crash TV – How Not To Drive PG 10:40 Car Crash TV – How Not To Drive PG 11:05 Naked And Afraid M Fear the Unknown.

11:55 Weather Gone Viral PG Tuesday 12:45 Killer Instinct With Chris Hansen M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Treehouse Masters PG 3:15 Bering Sea Gold PG 4:05 The Pool Master PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Gold Rush PG

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Warriors go three straight

Champs on court at Celtic

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Celtic’s women’s team went down 57-0 to Kaiapoi at Keenans Road on Saturday.

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First win still eluding Celtic

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

Season one was always going to be tough for Ashburton Celtic’s women’s rugby team.

A new team featuring a number of first-time players, Celtic were yet to notch up a win after five rounds in the Canterbury Metro women’s championship

rugby competition, with their latest loss being a 57-0 one at the hands of Kaiapoi at Celtic on Saturday.

The side’s coach Willie Tahuri said it had been a tough season so far, as they always expected it to be, but the thing he was proudest of was that his players had not once let their heads drop.

Each week they were fronting up against teams full of experienced players and although they’d been dealt some reasonable losses, and suffered more than their fair share of injuries, they’d never given up.

“Despite the losses we have had, the girls are still in good spirits,” Tahuri said.

“They are improving, and that’s the most positive thing that we can get out of all of our games.”

This season was all about building a platform, Tahuri said.

It was about giving girls a place to continue on with their rugby when they left school, and each year they would grow and learn, and become a better side.

“We try hard every weekend and they are still loving every minute of it,” Tahuri said.

The team had a goal, and that was to win at least one game by the time the rugby season came to an end, and when it finally happened it would no doubt be followed by one heck of a Celtic celebration.

Focus on referees’ calls after Super Rugby controversies NZME Kiwi Super Rugby coaches have taken aim at the competition’s officials after some contentious calls during the latest round of the competition.

The Highlanders copped the

brunt of the refereeing woes during the round, with South African referee Rasta Rasivhenge doling out a 12-3 penalty count in favour of the Lions during their match in Johannesburg.

Aaron Mauger hit out at the officiating after the match, saying

there will be things Rasivhenge will want to tidy up when he reviews his performance, and suggesting Sanzaar would take a good look at it as well.

Chiefs coach Colin Cooper also questioned the competition’s officiating after some questionable

decisions in his side’s loss to the Blues in Auckland.

Blues prop Ofa Tuungafasi was awarded a try in the second half, with the Chiefs’ cries for a knock on in the grounding going unheard, while Chiefs flanker Pita Gus Sowakula had a late try

awarded, then overturned by the TMO. The Crusaders were forced to settle for a draw against the Stormers after TMO Marius Jonker called back play when it appeared Sevu Reece had scored a spectacular match-winning try.

Southern storm into semis of combined competition

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