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Ashburton needs to ensure it does not lose its special character businesses as inner town rentals rise in the wake of the Canterbury earthquakes rebuild, an Ashburton businessman warns.

As new retail and office complexes were completed and tenancies let, Grow Mid Canterbury chief executive Rob Brawley said Ashburton’s central business area would become a vastly different place, but he cautioned that the small retailer must not be squeezed out.

“The town centre needs to be affordable for smaller retailers too. They’re the businesses that gives the town its special character, it ensures we’re not just like every other town.”

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New retail and office complexes inevitably meant higher rents and while these would be affordable to national chains, they might not be to the smaller business, he said.

While there might be a steady increase in the number of retail and office options available in Ashburton, Mr Brawley wasn’t concerned supply would outstrip demand. He was concerned, however, that the loss of older buildings meant the loss of options for the small and single trader business.

“Retail is challenging in a smaller town and the big box retailers have made it even harder.

“The smaller retailers have to do everything themselves, including working weekends. It’s a tough road but in saying that, we’ve got some pretty stun-

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While there were one or two gaps in store front occupancy in the town centre, Mr Brawley said the new complexes were unlikely to add to those as most had committed tenants before work began. “The rebuild here is going at a pace I believe we can deal with.”

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Albarn slams selfie generation Pop music no longer challenges the establishment or discusses politics because performers are part of “the selfie generation”, Blur frontman Damon Albarn has said. The outspoken 47-yearold decried the narcissism in modern music during an interview with The Sunday Times’ Culture magazine. He said: “But look at music now. Does it say anything? Young artists talk about themselves, not what’s happening out there.

It’s the selfie generation.

They’re talking platitudes.

What are any of them saying? I don’t hear anything other than: ‘This is how I feel.’ Which is an important part of song-writing, but we’re talking in the context of the election – and they don’t have anything to do with it.”

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Young Australian designers hit Dunedin Emerging fashion designers from Australia are a big feature of this year’s iD Dunedin Fashion Week. The week got under way on Saturday with the iD Designer Sale and other events, and it culminates with iD Dunedin Fashion Show at Dunedin Railway Station this Friday and Saturday. For emerging designers the big night is Thursday when the iD International Emerging Designer Awards are held at the Dunedin Town Hall. Of the 30 finalists announced in January, 17 are from Australian design schools and six are from New Zealand schools.

They also compete against finalists from China, Slovakia, Singapore, India and the US.

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Lady Gaga to play Betty Boop Lady Gaga is to give cartoon character Betty Boop a voice in Simon Cowell’s upcoming movie. The Poker Face singer’s links to the project have been revealed in a leaked Sony email posted on the Wikileaks website this week. In the correspondence, Columbia Pictures executive Lauren Abrahams confirms, “Lady Gaga is attached to voice Betty Boop and (will) do some of the music.” Cowell announced plans to make the first Betty Boop film last year. Abrahams suggests the film will be an “animated live action hybrid” and admits she is not a big fan of the idea, adding, “Not sure really who it’s for in a big mainstream way”, while Columbia Pictures President Doug Belgrad agrees, “It sounds kind of weird to me to be honest. I don’t mind if we don’t chase it.” Lady Gaga’s representatives have yet to comment on the story and a representative for Sony Music has declined to comment on information “stolen in a malicious attack”.

Megadeth ask fans to fund album Heavy rockers Megadeth have turned to their fans to help fund their new album. Just weeks after recruiting new members Kiko Loureiro and Chris Adler, band leader Dave Mustaine is ready to start work on the group’s 15th studio album and he has launched a crowdfunding campaign to get it under way. The PledgeMusic initiative offers fans who donate to the cause the chance to pick up everything from signed CDs to a disposable camera full of photos taken in the studio and a private songwriting session with Mustaine.

Launching the campaign, the band writes, “For the first time, Megadeth is going to bring you into the process and give you a window into the world of Dave Mustaine ... No matter what you order, you will get access to a variety of behind-the-scenes content such as photos and videos from the writing and recording sessions. You’ll get full access to the process in real time.”

The new album will be the band’s follow-up to 2013’s Super Collider.

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‘Idiot’ races 5km wrong way Motorists were forced to evade “an idiot with a death wish” driving the wrong way down an Auckland motorway trying to escape police. A man will appear in court on three charges after he failed to stop his Suzuki Swift when police noticed it speeding and driving erratically on Auckland’s North Shore on Saturday. The man, in his mid-20s, who had two passengers in his car, led police on a 45-minute, high-speed chase that spanned more than 20km across Auckland and required assistance from the Eagle helicopter. Police Northern Communication Centre shift inspector Tony Wakelin said the car entered the wrong side of State Highway 18 at the Greenhithe offramp, forcing police to abandon their pursuit on the ground. “He drove approximately 5km the wrong way down the motorway at high speed, forcing oncoming motorway traffic to take evasive action,” he said.

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Some Mid Canterbury schools have been found wanting when it comes to incorporating Maori culture in the classroom.

The Education Review Office (ERO) completed reports on seven Mid Canterbury schools last year.

While the tone of the reports was primarily positive, there was one consistent issue that continued to crop up. Improvements in the teaching and integration of Maori culture were suggested in five of the seven reports conducted last year.

Schools were advised to strengthen their bicultural programmes and give further attention to celebrating Maori culture.

It’s an issue that has not gone unnoticed by local schools, which are working hard to improve bicultural studies.

Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president Chris Murphy says schools are well aware of the issue.

“Collectively we are working towards increasing that bicultural perspective in our schools,” he said.

“It’s not something that’s re-

ally been traditionally associated with Mid Canterbury.”

Mr Murphy said one of the challenges the district faced was having a place where schools could take children to learn about Maori culture.

The lack of teachers fluent in Te Reo Maori was another challenge.

However it was hoped the opening of the Hakatere Community Marae for school use would break down another barrier for schools wanting to increase cultural awareness.

“It’s a really great asset for the community,” he said.

“The more of those barriers you can remove, the more you’ll see not only the schools embracing, but the wider community as well.”

Mr Murphy said schools with a large number of Pasifika students were also working to incorporate the culture.

Despite the recommendations, most of the ERO reviews showed Mid Canterbury schools are on the right track.

Five of the schools were to be reviewed in three years, while one was to be reviewed in five years. One school required a review in one to two years.

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Ashburton people with an interest in New Zealand’s architectural past have an opportunity to take a heritage tour of Christchurch next month. Historic Places Mid Canterbury is touring the city and hopes to fill a bus with history buffs keen to hear the history of some of the buildings that are part of the city’s past. The tour runs on May 3, leaving Ashburton at 8.30am. Bookings can be made by contacting Julie Luxton on 308-3866 or by emailing jules. glassart@xtra.co.nz

St John Ashburton’s St John ambulance travelled 2574km last week and attended 84 calls. Seventy-six calls were to medical incidents and seven to accidents. Of the 84 calls 29 were urgent.

Building consents issued for the month of March in Methven were the lowest for the month since 2009. Consents to the value of $66,200 were issued, figures to the Methven Community Board showed. This compared to a range of $282,800 to $1.76 million over the last five years, and $13,588 in 2009. “It’s been reasonably quiet,” board chairperson Liz McMillan said, adding consents issued for the year were still on track with previous years. Member Martin Nordqvist commented that residents must be expecting a cold winter, with two consents for installing heating units having been issued in February. The February figure was relatively high at $477,300. It also included repairs to a dwelling, renovation to a dwelling, and construction of a new dwelling. In January there was $1.23 million of consents issued, the highest since January 2009, when $1.95 million of consents were issued.

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Bright red poppies can be seen pinned to the lapels of many Ashburton residents in the lead-up to Anzac Day this weekend.

The majority of poppies were sold on Friday, otherwise known as Poppy Day, which was co-ordinated in Ashburton by the RSA. Organiser and past president of the women’s section Ayleen Beatty said over 8000 had been sold so far in the district. All the money raised from the poppy sales goes to support local veterans, ex-service people and their families in need.

Mrs Beatty said the collectors had received donations anywhere from 20c to $20, but there were a noticeable number of notes handed over this year.

Amidst reports of ill treatment towards poppy sellers around the country, Mrs Beatty said she was not aware of anything similar happening in Mid Canterbury.

“We’ve found ours very nice, we have had nobody complain,” she said.

Poppies are on sale at a number of locations around Ashburton until Anzac Day.

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Right - Ashburton RSA staff member Vivian Hurring with some of the remaining Anzac poppies.

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Help needed to keep teens from ISIS A New Zealand mother is calling for a stronger support network in light of her son’s death after joining Islamic State (ISIS).

Karolina Dam, formerly of Auckland but now living in Denmark, said her 18-year-old son Lukas died in December during an American air strike on a building he was guarding on the Syria-Turkey border.

Ms Dam found out about her son’s death from a Facebook message posted by fellow Islamists celebrating his “martyrdom”. She said more needs

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to be done worldwide to save families from what she is going through.

“I can’t do anything about it now, except to try to prevent it from happening again. And that would be in the spirit of my son. That’s what I need to do,” she told Radio New Zealand.

Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand spokesperson Dr Anwar Ghani said the organisation was putting together a proposal for a de-radicalisation programme and would like government support.

It was also talking to organisations worldwide about com-

bating extremist activities, Dr Ghani said.

The internet was a dangerous tool used by organisations like ISIS to engage young people, he said.

“We don’t have any structured programmes but what is happening is we’re making the community more aware and informing them there are dangers of organisations like ISIS. “New Zealand is a safe and secure place but the influence from outside is what we need to watch out for.”

Prime Minister John Key said he was aware of around 10 families contacting police about

concerns a person was becoming radicalised.

Political scientist Paul Buchanan said a stronger de-radicalisation programme would be useful in New Zealand.

Radicals often worked on separating the young men from their families, in particular their mothers, to convert them, he said.

Shy, introverted young teenagers were often the target group and parents should watch out for signs of their child becoming more withdrawn, less communicative and making friends with a new crowd, he said.

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Police attended two domestic incidents on Saturday, and one on Sunday.

A driver was stopped on Saturday morning and was found to be driving while suspended. The vehicle was impounded.

A burglary was reported at a West Street business. Inquiries are continuing.

Gallery opening Excitement is building towards an Ashburton Art Gallery opening date, with the gallery hoping to announce a date later this week.

Curator Shirin Khosraviani said yesterday that hopefully she would be able to announce the date at the end of the week, and could not comment further. Ashburton District Council commercial manager James Webb said the council was continuing to monitor the performance of the gallery’s air conditioning system. The opening of the gallery in its new Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre building has been delayed due a faulty air conditioning unit which required replacing. This was followed by teething problems with the new system last week.

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Methven residents are good at recycling, but some need to be tidier when it comes to dropping off items at the town’s recycling depot.

That’s the message from Methven Community Board members, who discussed the issue yesterday.

Board members are frustrated that efforts to fill a 10-hour per week supervisor’s position at the depot have so far been unsuccessful. But in the meantime, if people dropping off their recyclables were more responsible, the depot would be tidier.

Board member Martin Nordqvist said two people had given the job some consideration but decided not to take it on.

Ashburton District Council senior policy advisor Fleur Mulligan sought information from the board on where to readvertise the position. It had previously been advertised in the town’s weekly community newspaper. Board members suggested a town noticeboard on Facebook, and re-affirmed Ms Mulligan’s suggestion of community noticeboards at town supermarkets.

“It’s a shame the people using it are not more responsible in the way they are using it,” Mr Nordqvist said.

Member Sarah Lock said some dumping glass did not sort it into correct colours, and Mr Nordqvist added some did not break boxes down, and such behavior was “lazy”.

Chairwoman Liz McMillan said it was important to remember Methvenites were generally good recyclers, and Ms Mulligan was going to draft a positive press release including information on keeping the depot tidy.

Curtain Bank volunteer Helen Mills helps to pre-measure curtains for homes throughout Ashburton.

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Curtains for homes in need

By Caitlin Porter

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Presbyterian Support’s Curtain Bank initiative looks set to have another bumper year.

The initiative was set up to help people throughout Mid Canterbury who had inadequate curtains to keep heat in their homes over winter.

Since November last year 51 homes in the district have been fitted out with warm curtains.

Co-ordinator Dianne Smith

said 18 homes took up the offer in 2013, its first year, and she was pleased to see the numbers growing.

Mrs Smith said anybody who had inadequate curtains was eligible and a range of quality, recycled curtains in a variety of colours and patterns were offered.

“We get clients to say which colour they would prefer and they try very hard to match it,” she said.

People in need of curtains can contact Mrs Smith who organises for their windows to be measured up.

The measurements are then sent off to a Christchurch company who recycles curtains to fit.

They are then transported to Ashburton via a Curtain Bank van.

While Curtain Bank can provide the curtains, Mrs Smith said they are in need of curtain

tracks and are looking for donations.

Presbyterian Support also has a selection of draft stoppers as another way for people to insulate their homes and can help out with window insulation, although there is a cost involved.

Not only does a well-insulated home keep warm, but it can also improve health and prevent condensation, Mrs Smith said.

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Mid Cantabrians will be taken on a trip down memory lane when 100 Years Salute to Anzac is staged this month.

Ashburton musical theatre stalwarts Jenny Beach, Susan Spencer and Margaret Jackson are bringing the wartime era song and dance show to the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on April 24 and 26.

The trio, who perform around the town regularly as the Red Hot Nanas, will be among a cast of 22 women and men and a nine-piece orchestra presenting the show. They presented a similar show three years ago and had to run two performances when the first sold out.

They have brought back a commemorative version of the show this time around and have made sure they are staging two performances, which have both almost sold out already.

The cast will perform a range of songs and dances with their favourites including Paper Doll, Harbour Lights and the St Louis’ Blues march.

There has been plenty of work going on behind the scenes in addition to rehearsing. It includes sourcing military uniforms, which have come from Burnham Military Camp, the Ashburton Aviation Museum and the Ashburton Cadet Unit.

Ashburton army enthusiasts Derek and Trevor Cullimore have been invaluable when it comes to decorating the stage, having sourced army tents, guns, camouflage netting, ammunition boxes and search lights.

Team New Zealand maintains it is “not the end of the road” for an America’s Cup pre-regatta to be held in Auckland, despite an official announcement all races will be held in Bermuda in 2017.

The future of the team looked grim yesterday after the announcement on the cup’s official website led Prime Minister John Key to cast doubt on the sailors receiving any government funding for the bid without the New Zealand event.

The announcement stated, “The America’s Cup event format was agreed by competitors and that all racing will take place in Bermuda.”

Team NZ board chair Keith Turner said the America’s Cup Event Authority (ACEA) could not legally make that statement.

The decision was subject to a legal process after the ACEA back-tracked on its decision to hold an Auckland event, he said.

Dr Turner said signed documents between Team New Zealand and ACEA confirmed the Auckland event earlier this year.

It was also announced at a meeting with teams last month, he said.

“We are not at the end of the road,” he said. “They can’t do this, they can’t sign us up to a qualifier and then change their minds suddenly. It is subject to arbitration, we have documentation that’s been signed between us and the ACEA.” - NZME

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The worst drought in a decade has not had a significant impact on Mid Canterbury’s grain harvest, Arable Industry Marketing Initiative (AIMI) statistics reveal.

The news brings some relief in a year when the dairy revenue has fallen sharply.

Federated Farmers grain and seed vicechairman and Mid Canterbury arable farmer David Clark likened the 2015 harvest as a “game of two halves”.

Drought conditions during the growing season reduced yields on dry land, but was balanced by improved yields on irrigated land resulting in total harvest yields being similar to 2014 across all grains.

“The survey shows the large surpluses of unsold grain in the previous 2013 season has well and truly gone, however available stocks of grain are very similar to last season which leaves the New Zealand industry well-placed to provide domestically-grown feed to assist in drought recovery,” Mr Clark said.

Milling wheat yielded a total of 102,000

tonne with 14 per cent or 14,200 tonne unsold compared with 22,000 last year and 49,500 two years ago.

An estimated total of 300,500 tonne of feed wheat was harvested with 16 per cent or 48,000 tonne unsold compared to 65,000 in 2014.

“There is a little more feed barley available, which I’m sure will be snapped up quickly by the droughtaffected farmers,” Mr Clark said.

“To be precise, AIMI estimate a total harvest of 389,000 tonne, slightly up on last year with unsold stocks of 75,000 tonne compared to 45,000 tonne last year. This is way back on the whopping 157,000 tonne that was unsold in 2013.”

The total amount of unsold grain stock as at April 1 was on par with last year, but only 36 per cent of the tonnage that was available to the market in 2013.

Forward contracted grain, pre-sold to end users, matches last year’s tonnages so merchants and processors are well stocked to provide local product for spring feed, Mr Clark said.

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New legislation is driving Kiwi pig farmers out of the industry – leaving the door open for a flood of cheap imported pork.

The national pig herd has dropped more than 100,000 since 2004, when it numbered 388,000.

Imported pork has now reached 50,000 tonnes, equating to 52 per cent of the amount consumed annually.

While much of the imported product is in the form of bacon, ham or manufactured goods, lifting restrictions on importing fresh meat from the US and Europe is the biggest threat to the New Zealand industry, Methven pig farmer Vicki Mee said.

“We’ve always imported more than we can produce but now we are bringing in uncooked meat – which is of huge concern to the industry because of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS),” Mrs Mee said.

PRRS is present in all porkproducing countries except New

Zealand and Australia. North America alone spends $700 million annually on controlling the virus.

Lifestyle farms would be particularly vulnerable to exposing pigs to the virus, by feeding uncooked food scraps containing pork meat. The airborne virus can only be destroyed by cooking at temperatures that can only be achieved using specialist equipment.

“Any truck carrying a pig past our farm could spell the end of our business,” Mrs Mee said.

The Mees, who provide free range pigs to Freedom Farms, have closed their herd and instigated strict biosecurity measures in order to lessen the risk.

The abolition of sow crates by the end of the year is another factor forcing farmers to opt out of the business, rather than invest in building new infrastructure.

The Canterbury Land and Water Management Plan also is set to deliver strict environmental conditions, which will add

Sows and piglets on Hamish and Vicki Mee’s farm near Methven.

another layer of costs to outdoor piggeries.

“If you’ve outdoor sows like we have, more land is needed to meet the (nitrogen leaching) limits, which is uneconomical,” Mrs Mee said.

Farming pigs outdoors is also more labour intensive, pushing production costs even higher.

The fact that animal welfare regulations for New Zealand piggeries are far tighter than most overseas producers face is

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not lost on Mrs Mee. “There are people who carry on about indoor pig farming here, but are prepared to overlook the fact that imported pork is produced with far less regulation,” she said.

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Rakaia awaits new building Georgia Harvey, 11, (above) was jumping for joy at Rakaia School as the new school term kicked off yesterday.

Students across the district braved the cold and gloomy weather as they headed back into the classroom for Term 2.

Rakaia School is one of many around

the district awaiting new classrooms to cope with rapid roll growth.

Principal Mark Ellis said some classes were still being taught in the school library, but architects are hard at work on plans for a new building to accommodate its growing roll.

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Action demanded EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini says the bloc has “no more excuses” and has demanded “immediate” action after 700 migrants drowned in the disaster in the Mediterranean.

“With this latest tragedy ... we have no more excuses, the EU has no more excuses, the member states have no more excuses,” Mogherini said.

“We need immediate action from the EU and the member states,” she said as she arrived for an emergency meeting of foreign and interior ministers following the weekend loss of a ship with some 700 migrants on board.

She said that, just as the Islamist attacks in Paris in January had generated a common response, so this incident should give momentum to finding a common migration policy.

“The main issue here is to build a common sense of European responsibility, knowing that there is no easy solution,” she added.

Mogherini was touching on sensitive ground but she is a former Italian foreign minister and her country has borne the brunt of the latest exodus.

Some 11,000 migrants have been rescued since the middle of last week alone and current trends suggest last year’s total of 170,000 landing in Italy is likely to be exceeded in 2015.

The issue of who handles the migrants - for asylum or repatriation - is hugely sensitive, with Italy complaining its EU partners are not doing enough.

It scaled back its Mare Nostrum search-and-rescue operation at the end of last year in protest at the rising cost and it was replaced by a smaller EUled mission called Triton.

The recent flood of migrants and the loss of life has put that

In brief Japan off to the moon Japan plans to launch an unmanned mission to the moon as a stepping stone to a future visit to Mars. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has unveiled the plan for a moon lander to a council of the cabinet office and the ministry of education, culture, sports science and technology.

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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in the United Kingdom linked to Melbourne terror raids over the weekend. Manchester police arrested the boy in connection with an alleged Islamic Stateinspired plan to attack Anzac Day events in Australia. The boy was arrested in Blackburn on Saturday “on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism and remains in police custody for questioning,” Greater Manchester Police said in a statement. - AAP

Bomb blast kills six At least six UN workers have been killed in Somalia by a huge bomb placed by Shebab militants that destroyed a bus. The head of the United Nations in Somalia, Nick Kay, has condemned the attack in the northeastern town of Garowe and said he was “shocked and appalled by (the) loss of life”. Somalia’s al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack, branding the United Nations a “colonisation force in Somalia”.

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decision in doubt but some EU member states, especially those not directly affected, are reluctant to do more.

The EU foreign and interior ministers will meet later.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos will also attend the talks

since migration is in his portfolio, not the foreign affairs brief.

The foreign ministers on their own had been due to discuss the situation in war-torn Libya, now a major transit point for people from all over Africa and the Middle East

trying to get to Europe.

Exploited by ruthless people smugglers, thousands take to the sea in rickety boats at the mercy of the elements and prone to capsize, sparking a humanitarian crisis on Europe’s southern shores.

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Bishop ‘forever sorry’ over orphanage abuse A retired Catholic bishop says he’ll be “forever sorry” for the way he responded to former residents of an infamous central Queensland orphanage whose shocking stories of abuse were laid bare at a royal commission.

Retired Rockhampton bishop Brian Heenan told the sex abuse royal commission he felt “a terrible sense of shame and disgrace” at what happened to children at the St Joseph’s

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Neerkol orphanage, near Rockhampton.

Former orphanage residents told a public hearing last week of suffering regular sexual abuse by priests, and of frequent sadistic beatings and punishments meted out by nuns.

Bishop Heenan conceded before the commission on Friday that he failed to adequately respond to victims’ allegations when they first emerged in the 1990s.

Yesterday he addressed the

victims directly in a statement outside the Rockhampton court house, where the public hearing is being held.

“I want to apologise again for the harm and the suffering of former St Joseph’s Orphanage residents at the hands of the Catholic Church, priests and sisters and staff,” he said.

“I also apologise for the way in which I responded to these victims. I failed them and for that I’ll be forever sorry.”

Meanwhile, a senior member

of the order of nuns than ran the Neerkol orphanage, told the inquiry she was sorry she didn’t contact an abuse victim who in 1993 published a book about her experiences at Neerkol.

Institute leader of the Sisters of Mercy, Berneice Loch, admitted that she only contacted nuns who had worked at the orphanage and other former residents because she didn’t fully believe the claims.

The public hearing resumes today.

- AAP

The Philippines have voiced alarm about “aggressiveness” in disputed regional waters as it launched giant war games with the United States that were partly aimed at warning China. Philippine military chief General Gregorio Catapang has released what he says are satellite photos of intense recent Chinese construction over seven reefs and shoals in the Spratly archipelago of the flashpoint South China Sea. “We have compelling reasons to raise our voice to tell the whole world the adverse effects of China’s aggressiveness,” Catapang told reporters, describing the reclamation and construction activities as “massive”. - AFP

Quake hits Taiwan One man has died in a fire caused by a powerful quake off Taiwan that also set buildings shaking in the capital Taipei and sparked a short-lived tsunami warning in far southwestern Japan. Japanese forecasters had warned the 6.6 magnitude earthquake could cause a tsunami as high as one metre affecting several islands in the Okinawa chain, but lifted the alert around an hour later, with no abnormal waves recorded. No damage was reported in Japan, but a four-storey apartment building in part of New Taipei City caught ablaze after an electrical box outside the block exploded in the quake. One elderly man who lived in the building “showed no signs of life” at the scene, the fire service said.

- AFP

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mirates Team New Zealand’s ability to attract high-quality sponsors with deep pockets – and even the extent of the support it believes it has for an America’s Cup challenge – will be tested now that it looks to have lost its key to the taxpayers’ purse.

Prime Minister John Key yesterday confirmed the decision not to hold the America’s Cup qualifying regatta in Auckland meant it was probably “the end of the road” for ongoing government funding of the increasingly embattled syndicate.

Any increase on the government’s interim, $5 million support package depended on the regatta being held where the country could get the most exposure – and that was a tall order now that it was set down for far-off Bermuda.

Team New Zealand is in the throes of challenging the America’s Cup Events Authority to ditch Auckland – yes, yet another America’s Cup chapter will be written in court – but it must find more corporate backers to replace the tens of millions of dollars it might now lose.

Sceptics will wonder whether a syndicate that has a habit of needing taxpayer support can get enough private help to foot it with the big-spending big guns. If it has, they will say, perhaps it ought to have secured it before now.

That is fair given how much public money has already been spent on a “private” sports team.

Team New Zealand got $36 million for its last America’s Cup challenge and another $5 million while it decided whether to challenge again.

Notwithstanding estimates suggesting the last challenge generated $87 million for New Zealand’s economy, this was a lot of cash that did not come from the sort of corporate supporters that continue to buoy other campaigns.

Team boss Grant Dalton this month said regardless of the outcome of any hearing “this is not the end of Emirates Team New Zealand” but, after Mr Key acknowledged the public might be less enthusiastic about government support, it might be the end of funding by New Zealand.

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Are you looking forward to the opening of the new EA Networks Centre?

Yes 55%

No 45%

Andrew Hoggard FROM THE FARM

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n the near future when you ask a farmer what their dashboard has on it, they won’t respond by telling you “a speedo and a fuel gauge you idiot”.

Instead they may well talk about their daily production summary, weather forecast, water pressure monitoring, fence power status, vat refrigeration temperature and many other things.

Now you may be wondering why you would want this sort of information on the dashboard of your tractor or ute.

But it’s not a vehicle dashboard we are talking about, but a farm dashboard.

You might ask, what the hell is a farm dashboard? Quite simply it’s all your farm information on a website in real time, along with on/off functions for various devices.

At present, if I want to know what my daily production summary is, I will log in and then click through about three webpages on the Fonterra website to find it.

If I want to know the weather forecast for the coming week, I go to the MetService webpage, then select rural, then my region and then my district.

Want to know what the farm water pressure is? Drive up to the cowshed and check the meter. How full are the water tanks? Drive around them, lift up the lids and look inside.

Want to turn off a section of electric fence? Drive to the relevant switch and turn it off.

So this dashboard will provide all the information in one digital location and no matter where I am – be it the back paddock, or in Wellington – I can look on my ‘phone, tablet or laptop and check into what is happening on farm.

Some of you maybe thinking that all sounds ridiculously far fetched and costly. Well, a number of companies already have tried to create something similar and others are doing so.

I have my own farm website, which has all the manuals, how to guides and various report-

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ing applications.

It started off as me simply deciding that I needed to get down all that info in my head, about how everything works on the farm and all the little solutions I have worked out over the years on how to fix things. Because, if it is only in my head, and I am not on farm, then that’s not very helpful.

I got to a point with my writing, when I realised I had so much information that a paper manual was going to be impractical. Which led to me deciding it had to be digital.

And then I thought, I could include photos and videos, and all sorts of other things, and then the size of it got to the point where the logical conclusion was it needed to be a website all of its own.

At this point you’re probably thinking I had gone and spent thousands on some tech expert to build me a website. Nope. I spent $5 on an e-book on how to build your own website, and Bob’s your uncle.

After that if I thought, ‘wouldn’t it be cool if I could do this or that’ and I went to Google and typed in ‘How to…..’ and Bob’s still your uncle. I felt sure someone would

have solved the problem for you and generally written out the code, which you can just copy and paste.

So here I am. I have all the farm information categorised into various menus, which my staff can just log into from their phones, or at their homes, and get whatever info they need.

On the front page of the website, I want to create that dashboard I talked about. So I have a couple of things on that front page, a box with the weather forecast, a calendar of farm events, and a “tasks” which shows the various jobs to be done. But that’s where I am stuck.

You see a number of the companies we deal with, have decided they want to provide their own dashboard for farmers, where the farmer can see that firm’s info and other firms can also embed the farmers’ info there.

But I get the feeling that all these firms are going to be slightly pedantic and it will be a case of “we will allow everyone else to put their data on our dashboard, but our data is too sensitive to go on anyone else’s dashboard”.

So I can foresee that we farmers will end up with half a dozen different dashboards.

That would be pathetic.

My message to all the firms thinking along this line is that websites aren’t that hard to make.

I am sure that any dashboard you build for me will end up being more expensive and less useful to me, than the one I built myself.

So save your dollars – well my dollars actually – and just have a simple little option with all the relevant boxes that I can just copy and paste the right code; so that like YouTube videos I can just embed what info I want into my dashboard.

The same goes for all the various gadgets out there. To all the makers of the gadgets, if you are going to build something that remotely reports on something on my farm, don’t send that info to a box in my cowshed, or a shed somewhere.

Send it to the net and have the ability for me to embed it into my own website. One location is the goal.

Andrew Hoggard is Federated Farmers Dairy Industry Group chairperson

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Farm buyers wary over dairy payout The reduced dairy payout and the high Kiwi dollar are being carefully assessed by potential farm buyers, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand said.

Dairy farmers this season are faced with a farmgate milk price forecast of $4.70 a kg of milksolids, down from last year’s record price of $8.40. At the same time, the New Zealand dollar has remained firm, trading yesterday a US76c.

“The reduced dairy payout and the high New Zealand dollar are being carefully assessed by prudent purchasers, with the drought conditions in particular having had a negative impact on

some regions in the South Island,” REINZ rural spokesman Brian Peacocke said.

In its latest farm sales report, REINZ said there were 47, or 10 per cent, fewer farm sales for the three months ended March 2015 than for the same three months to March 2014.

Overall, there were 425 farm sales in the three months to the end of March 2015, compared to 464 sales for the three months ended February 2015, an 8.4 per cent reduction, and 472 farm sales for the three months to the end of March 2014.

The number of farms sold in the year to February came to

Guardian Shares & Investments NEW ZEALAND SHARE MARKET

53 276 3603 114 459 302 52 582 580 193 1007 678 825 527 620 224.5 120 130 316.5 131 128.5 1524 192.5 487 188 300 328 116 445 78 1675 118 158.5 420 832 142 410 597 290 294 343 227 371 811 317 169.5 281 3915 2312 507

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654.9 1.7m 11.97 988.6 878.1 1.4m 149.1 150.1 65.27 64.63 22.83 396.9 505.3 168.7 56.89 261.7 450.2 1.1m 267.2 437.2 2.0m 18.21 5.3m 478.2 135.5 731.4 109.9 146.4 2.37 257.2 20.43 1.1m 50.33 14.95 826.0 350.2 1.6m 537.6 4.2m 100.0 273.0 75.71 551.5 4.24 348.8 118.7 40.37 18.26 78.19 94.69

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“The general tone of the market for the three months ended March has been very solid, with demand ensuring quality properties have sold extremely well,” Peacocke, said.

“The impact from the subsequent shortage of supply has resulted in increased focus on a number of properties, which for a variety of reasons including contour and location have been harder to sell,” he said.

In the South Island, there was steady activity on dairy farms and very solid volumes of dry stock properties throughout Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

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Compiled by

Source: NZX

1802, down 2.2 per cent compared with the February 2014 year.

The median price per hectare for all farms sold in the three months to March was $27,957 compared to $22,342 recorded for three months ended March 2014, up 25.1 per cent.

Compared to March 2014 the REINZ All Farm Price Index rose by 5.3 per cent. The index adjusts for differences in farm size, location and farming type.

Three regions recorded increases in sales volume for the three months ended March 2015 compared to the three months ended March 2014.

q NZX 50 index

5,824.28

–37.2

–0.63%

q NZX 20 index

4,370.66 –37.22 –0.84%

q NZX All index

6,231.59

–39.3

–0.63%

p Rises 32 q Falls 68

WORLD MARKETS

q S&P/ASX 200 index

5,833.1

–44.8

–0.76%

At close of trading on Apr 20, 2015

Dow Jones Indust. q

17,826.3 –279.47 –1.54% At close of trading on Apr 17, 2015

q FTSE 100 index

6,994.6

–65.82

Broadcasters battle ISPs New Zealand broadcasters have confirmed they’ve launched legal proceedings against internet service providers who give customers’ access to “global mode”, which allows customers access to offshore online content, claiming it breaches the local content providers’ copyright.

Sky Network Television along with Television New Zealand, Media Works TV and Lightbox, Spark New Zealand’s online streaming service, are taking action against Bypass Network Services, CallPlus Services, Orcon and Flip Services, Sky TV said in a statement. The ISPs offer a service which disguises the customers’ location and

lets them use offshore streaming services, like BBC iplayer or Netflix without being subject to so-called “geo-blocking”, which prevents services being used outside approved jurisdictions.

The broadcasters claim global mode breaches both copyright obligations and the Fair Trading Act, as global mode customers are accessing content, typically popular television shows such as Game of Thrones or House of Cards, which the local broadcasters and content providers have paid to bring to New Zealand.

The action has been opposed by lobby group Internet NZ, with chief executive Jordan

Carter saying “the big four” will be on the wrong side of history after they sent letters to the ISPs earlier this month asking that they stop using Global Mode and declare that they should never have been using Global Mode in the first place.

“Teaming up together and using their considerable influence and resources to try and intimidate smaller players is not an inspiring way to try and win business,” Carter said.

Traditional broadcasters and telecommunications providers are increasingly competitive in online streaming, which has seen viewers turn from TV to computers and laptops. - NZME

–0.93%

At close of trading on Apr 17, 2015

q Nikkei 225 index

19,634.5 –18.39 –0.09% At close of trading on Apr 20, 2015

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

Gold q

1,203.35

London – $US/ounce

–1.00

–0.08%

Silver London – $US/ounce q

16.36

–0.11

–0.67%

p Copper London – $US/tonne

6,081.0

+27.0

+0.45%

NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ

Country

As at 4pm April 20, 2015

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

TT buy

1.0041 0.9592 5.0879 0.7325 1.6166 0.5251 93.84 1.9993 9.4552 25.37 0.7876

TT sell

0.9718 0.9248 4.4702 0.7014 1.5026 0.5073 90.00 1.7122 9.1155 24.19 0.7602

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Hard-to-sell store to close doors The Castlepoint Store is set to close its doors after being on the market for more then five years with no buyer interest.

Devon and Anne Oakly bought the store 13 years ago and say they had intended on keeping it for only five years.

Despite a lengthy attempt to sell the store, the couple have decided to close it down.

“It’s sad that it’s come to this because no one wants to buy it,” said Mr Oakly.

The couple put the business up on Trade Me on Sunday and “want to sell the whole thing”.

The package includes the shop with petrol and diesel pumps, a restaurant/bar, three bedroom accommodation and a two-bedroom flat.

“We’re not asking a hell of a lot, it’s a very big property.

“It would be a good family business and could be expanded a bit.”

The Trade Me ad invites inquires over $600,000.

“I hope someone will buy it and keep it open and carry on.”

Mr Oakly said only a few people had shown any interest.

He was selling his shop “be-

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cause I’m too bloody old”.

The shop is open seven days a week and, at 75, Mr Oakly said he and his wife are ready to retire. “We are looking forward to having a bit of time to ourselves,” he said.

Castlepoint resident Anders Crofoot said it will be a shame to see the store close, but he can see “exactly where [Mr Oakly] is coming from”.

“Rurally, it’s getting harder and harder to survive.”

He said many locals commuted to Masterton on a regular basis.

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An investigation into the cows in this photo, shared thousands of times on Facebook, found no animal welfare breaches had been committed.

Feds: No room for complacency The clearance of a North Canterbury farmer and a trucking company on animal welfare complaints, is no cause for farmers to be complacent about their responsibilities for animal welfare, according to Federated Farmers.

The Ministry of Primary Industries investigation into the transport of a consignment of cull dairy cows across Cook Straight has found no animal welfare breaches against either the farmer or the transport company concerned.

Federated Farmers’ dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard said there were clear messages from this high profile case, which had pictures of the cows shared on Facebook thousands of times, resulting in complaints to MPI. “Even when stock comply with the provisions of the animal species’ and transport welfare codes of practice, there will be some people who will try to portray those stock in a bad light. For whatever reason that is, if they are going to report

it to MPI, it needs to be backed up with facts,” Mr Hoggard said.

“People are quite free to express their opinions, but in my view the only people qualified on an animal welfare linecall are trained veterinarians. If there is a genuine concern, the farmer, industry body or local provincial presidents are available as the first port of call.”

Mr Hoggard also cautioned farmers.

“Farmers can’t be complacent around animal welfare. Just because you don’t get prosecuted or your critics might have ulterior motives doesn’t absolve you from your responsibilities,” he said.

“Farmers must especially exercise care when they are loading stock for transport. They and the truckers both have responsibilities.

“The code says stock must not be transported if they have any injuries, diseases or they are behaving abnormally. If a farmer has any doubt then they should involve a vet for advice.”

FAR celebrates 20 years It is 20 years since the Foundation for Arable Research was set up to undertake practical research for arable farmers.

Since its inception in March 1995, FAR has developed to actively undertake research and extension on a broad range of grain and seed crops in New Zealand and Australia, and, in more recent years, developed a broader systems approach to research.

FAR CEO Nick Pyke has led the organisation since day one. He said it was difficult to single out any particular project or piece of research as the most important, as the organisation’s research focus is so broad and has developed over time.

“Our first achievement was the first referendum that gave us the mandate to proceed and form FAR,” Mr Pyke said.

“Initially our research focused pretty much within the farm gate on things like crop inputs and cultivar selection.

“From there grew one of our key achievements, our involvement in the Cultivar Performance.

“Trials which provide growers with completely independent advice to help them select the appropriate wheat and barley cultivars to meet their production and agronomic needs.

“It has been pleasing in the last 12 months to see the development of a similar programme for the maize industry.”

“Another key focus has been the development of long-term research sites and we are very lucky to have maintained access to our Chertsey and Waikato Arable Research Sites for 12 and eight years respectively.”

for the latest prices, visit www.interest.co.nz/rural current price range Saleyard prices …  LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 52 - 61 Prime 86 - 101  HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 186 - 217  STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 251 - 268 last week Processor prices …  LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 74.41 17.5 kg YX SI 83.36 19.0 kg YX SI 90.58 21.0 kg YX SI 99.55 Local trade (c/kg) SI 540 (16-22kg)  MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 54.19  BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 480 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 337 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 452 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 510 (180-280kg)  VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 306 AP Stag 60kg SI 373 AP Stag 80kg SI 466

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Auction prices …  SI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) 796 796 Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 563 571 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 493 493 Lambs 643 657

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Local market prices …  GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 410 410 415 Wheat, feed 380 380 400 Barley, feed 370 370 380

Source: Midlands Grain 432 452 410 418 445 380 413 445 370

International market prices …  LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index Apr - 15 96.34 101.3 98.83

108.46

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4,812 5,115 5,057 5,739

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4,372 3,165 3,507 4,568

5,393 3,934 4,731 4,918

4,609 3,073 3,137 4,738

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 EXCHANGE RATE (NZ$1.00=) US dollar 0.7680 Euro 0.7105

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Comprehensive data is available from the supplier www.interest.co.nz/rural

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Tight-year tactics for dairy farmers Bank balances for most dairy ing farmers to understand how farmers will be heading south low their own cashflows might over the next few months, pro- go for the 2015-16 season and, ducing some short-term but sig- more significantly, how long nificant cashflow management they might stay there. challenges, an industry spokes“We’ve analysed what it’s like man says. for the average farmer in every DairyNZ chief executive Tim dairying region and plotted Mackle said the 2015-16 season that on a graph. It’s not looking will still probably end up being a pretty. break-even year for most farm“We think that will create a ers, but cashflow will be a ma- lot of discussion and result in jor issue resulting in increased farmers taking some action to term debt in the sector and less manage their way through the spending in the regions. season. We’ll also be running “Farmers are used to having cashflow events this winter.” seasonal cashflow that drops Dr Mackle said while the into the red, but then pops back long-term prospects for the ininto the black at some stage during the summer period,” Mr Mackle said.

“However, our current forecasts indicate that many farmers won’t be in credit for the entire 12 months of next season unless costs are reduced, income is higher than predicted or some of their overdraft is put into their term debt.”

A second series of nationwide farmer events in DairyNZ’s Tactics for Tight Times campaign gets under way next week.

The focus is on giving farmers the wakeup call to assess their own situation given the low forecasts.

Tim Mackle “We will be help-

dustry are still positive, farmers have to remain competitive in a global exporting business where New Zealand’s market share could be eroded by other competitors.

“We’re in a strong position as an industry because we have scale and strength as a competitive producer and exporter of high quality dairy products,” he said.

“There’s still growing demand for our product and the supplydemand equation will eventually improve. But the landscape internationally is also changing with EU quotas coming off and the US steadily gearing up to produce more milk, potentially for export.

“My message to farmers is that resilience is needed to cope effectively with the trough in milk prices after the record payment we had in 2013/14.

“If you haven’t already worked through the numbers, it’s time to think about setting yourself up to manage through another break-even season in 2015/16 and look at what will make your business resilient in the longer term if lower prices stay low for longer.”

A Tactics for Tight Times seminar will be held in the Rakaia Community Hall 12.30-3.30pm on July 2.

Fonterra takes Anzac spirit on the road.

Fonterra’s tankers show Fonterra tankers are wearing the Anzac poppy with pride this month to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli landing.

The iconic red poppies – a symbol of remembrance – will adorn the cabs of more than 500 tankers throughout April in recognition and support for New Zealanders who have served and sacrificed.

Fonterra global operations managing director Robert

Spurway said Anzac Day was an important time for all New Zealanders, particularly those who have served in our armed forces.

“The Returned Services are well represented across Fonterra, with a number of our farmers and staff having served,” Mr Spurway said.

“These poppies recognise their efforts and, indeed, those of all New Zealanders who have represented our nation

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their Anzac spirit loud and proud overseas. It’s been well received by our teams and by many of our farmers whose families formed the backbone of our agricultural industries after returning from war.”

Tanker operators Mike Lang and Brent Hopkins, both ex-servicemen, came up with the idea to fly the poppies on Fonterra tankers across the country to raise awareness of this year’s appeal.

“With the centenary com-

ing up, Brent and I wanted to do something to mark the day which is of such special significance to New Zealanders, a number of our colleagues included,” Mr Lang said.

“I’m immensely proud to drive a tanker bearing this symbol of remembrance and to help support the appeal.”

As part of the campaign, Fonterra Brands is also offering free milk to all 180 RSAs throughout the country.

Donations to the Poppy Appeal are used to support veterans, current and former service people and their families.

Assistance can range from grants and scholarships for those in financial difficulty, to help with practical tasks, supplementing healthcare costs, counselling, providing meals on wheels, home maintenance or simply offering friendship and support in times of need.

Mild conditions continue in the region as do poor pasture growth rates in North Canterbury, where little rain was received from the last cold snap.

Some pasture recovery is evident in areas further south previously affected by the dry, but cow winter feed volumes are well behind the norm and feed planning for this period should have been done by now.

The dairy auction disappointed again, dropping by 3.6 per cent, which will put further pressure on farmer cash flows from winter on and many analysts are now suggesting next year’s payout could begin with a five.

A senior Lincoln University lecturer is urging farmers to look at building their farming systems around the $5/kgms level, and return to a grass-driven system, as this will be the only way to compete globally with higher cost European and US grain-fed production.

Australian dairy farmers are reportedly doing better than their New Zealand counterparts, with more product consumed domestically, and greater processing competition, the reasons given for the present advantage.

Fonterra shares have fallen further to now sit at $5.20, a graphic reflection of the severity of the downturn, but positive environmental news, with scientists trialling a low-cost absorption filter that could prove useful in the removal of nitrates and phosphorus out of tile drains.

Lamb Last week’s small schedule lift has been lost in this week’s falls as the market continues to struggle, burdened by the economic woes of Europe reflected in their ever-

weakening currency and stock corrections in China.

The season is rapidly easing back into its early winter numbers after the early surge and processing numbers are now back to last year’s flow.

Better prices for slipe wool have been balanced by lower skin values, with little prospects for improvements from this by product.

South Island store lamb values lag well behind those in the north as feed suitable for growing winter lambs here has a multitude of earning opportunities from beef and dairy.

Wool No South Island sale this week, but northern prices held firm as wool volumes diminish.

NZ Merino signed another $8 million dollar deal with US firm Smartwool as they continue to be the marketing leader in wool promotion.

Beef More weekly beef schedule lifts as the US market drives demand and an early kill has dried up supply, and numbers of quality prime steers offered at the saleyards is falling.

Strong demand for calves has continued at Canterbury sales as positive prospects for beef and past years’ profits allow farmers to reinvest.

Deer Low prices for shot venison has stopped game buyers purchasing stock in New Zealand, unable to compete with the quality of the farm product and low-value European game. Early weaner sales have realised disappointing results with many breeders deciding to finish their own, in the face of poor live sale returns.

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Mexican beef sliders with jalepeno salsa & avocado cream Patties: 600g Quality Mark lean beef mince 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 medium onion, grated or finely chopped 1 egg, lightly beaten 3/4 C red kidney beans, rinsed and drained 2T tomato paste 1/2 C fresh oregano, chopped (or 3t dried) 2t mild smoked paprika 2t ground cumin 1t ground coriander 1/2 C Parmesan, grated Avocado cream: 1 avocado, mashed 1/2 C sour cream Juice and zest of 1 lime Jalapeno Salsa 1C cucumber ribbons 3/4 C fresh coriander leaves, chopped

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1 red onion, very finely sliced 1/2 C pickled jalapenos, finely chopped To serve: 8-12 sliders (or 4-5 normal sized burger buns), halved 8-12 small bamboo skewers if doing sliders 2-3 cobs sweetcorn, cooked and sliced into shards Tomato relish ■ Patties: Place all the patty ingredients in a bowl, season and combine. Shape into 8-12 small patties (or four large ones). Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes.

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cooked through. If you have four large patties this will take a bit longer.

■ Jalapeno salsa: Combine all ingredients, drizzle with a little oil and lime juice and season as required.

■ Avocado cream: Combine all the ingredients and season as required. You can add more lime juice to taste.

■ To assemble: Spread avocado cream on the bottom bun and place the patty on top. Spread a good amount of the jalapeno salsa on top, followed by the corn, then spread the relish on the top bun. Press down gently and poke in the skewer to secure it. Serve immediately.

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Where have all the peace oaks gone?

By Michael hanrahan

Far left – The Hampstead peace oak in Friedlander Park in May 2012.

N

ovember 11, 1918, saw the end of fighting in World War One, but it did not see a declaration the war was actually over. That had to wait six months for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Throughout those six months negotiations took place at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty, which was signed on June 28, 1919.

The date was chosen because it was exactly five years after the incident that started the war, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

New Zealand saw the declaration of peace as an event worth commemorating. Those who served were being commemorated with memorials, usually of stone or wood, but it was felt something living should mark the peace. Oak trees were chosen and the term “peace oak” was coined.

Plant nurseries advertised that planting trees provided “something for you to affectionately regard for all time, and to say to your children ‘I planted that at peace time’.” Arbor Day in August that year also provided an incentive to plant trees.

“For all time” is a relative term. While many such trees were planted in parks, at schools and on private property, it appears only a few remain.

In Ashburton the ink was hardly dry on the Treaty of Versailles when on July 14 an Ashburton Borough Councillor, Mr Watson, suggested planting a peace oak in the Ashburton Domain. The planting happened on July 21 when mayoress, Mrs Galbraith, planted the peace oak, and Mrs Sutton, who had sent five sons to the war, two of them being killed, planted the victory oak, all in the presence of about 30 people.

Two days earlier Methven had turned on a grander event when the first peace oaks in the district were planted on Saturday, July 19. Following the planting of trees in the school grounds in the morning a “good crowd” turned out to see six trees planted by people with connections to the district and the war.

The first tree was the peace oak, planted in the square in front of the Holmes Reserve by Mrs Carr whose husband was chairman of the Mount Hutt Road Board. She received a silver trowel to mark the occasion.

The crowd then moved into the reserve where three more trees were planted – the British oak, the French oak and Belgian oak. Moving further afield two more trees were planted – the victory oak at the intersection of McKerrow Street and Alford Forest Road (Forest Drive) and the empire oak at the corner of McMillan and Chapman streets.

Left inset – The Hampstead oak in 2015 – only the stump remains.

Below – The peace oak in the Ashburton Domain.

Below inset – The peace oak was planted by the mayoress, Mrs Galbraith.

Above – The victory oak in the Ashburton Domain.

Above inset – The victory oak was planted by Mrs Sutton, the mother of five World War One soldiers, two of whom died in the war.

Country districts planted their trees also, starting with Lauriston School which planted a peace oak and a victory oak on July 21. August 7 was Arbor Day, the day for planting trees, and Tinwald School planted a memorial oak in honour of the 33 men from Tinwald who had fallen in the war.

This was followed a week later with the town of Hampstead planting a peace oak in the grounds of Hampstead School, which today is Friedlander Park.

The tree was planted by two children, Stanley Thompson and Mona Donn, who had both lost brothers in the war. They were

helped by James Childs, who had lost an uncle, and Mr F. Z. D. Ferriman who had a special connection to the school and had been involved in many patriotic activities during the war.

While the Hampstead tree was planted on August 14, 1919, a marble tablet in front of it carried the inscription “Planted in Commemoration of Peace. July 20, 1919.” Why there is a discrepancy in dates is not known.

Next, Lismore and Carew schools combined to plant a tree in the grounds of Lismore School.

A month later, on September 18, a peace oak was planted in

the grounds of Lowcliffe School.

Mayfield School followed on September 19 with three trees being planted to mark the signing of the peace treaty. This followed on from a tradition started at Mayfield in 1902 when three oaks were planted to mark the end of the Boer War. At Hampstead concerts were held to raise funds to pay for the marble tablet and to place an iron picket fence around the tree in the school grounds.

At Hakatere Marae, the former site of Fairton School, are two oaks, one in memory of the fallen soldiers of Fairton and the other marking the peace of

1919. Of the 22 trees mentioned here it would be interesting to know how many have survived to see the centennial events of World War One. At the Ashburton Museum we would like to hear from people who know of other peace/victory oaks or can tell us about those that have survived.

This month a book, New Zealand’s First World War Heritage is to be published by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. It contains a section about honouring and remembering those who fought. That section includes photos and a mention of some of Ashburton’s peace oaks.

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RESULTS ■ Basketball NBA playoffs Collated results from the National Basketball Association opening-round playoffs yesterday (all series best-of-seven): Eastern Conference at Cleveland: Cleveland Cavaliers 113 Boston Celtics 100 (Cleveland Cavaliers leads series 1-0) At Atlanta: Atlanta Hawks 99 Brooklyn Nets 92 (Atlanta Hawks leads series 1-0) Western Conference at Memphis: Memphis Grizzlies 100 Portland Trail Blazers 86 (Memphis Grizzlies leads series 1-0) At Los Angeles: LA Clippers 107 San Antonio Spurs 92 (LA Clippers leads series 1-0)

■ Bowls Bowls Mid Canterbury Champion of Champion Singles Men’s Singles: Graham Bishop beat Mike Quinn 21-20; Women’s Singles: Shirley Pagey beat Wendy Herriott 21-12 Jun Men: Rob Fensom beat Larry Neal 21-17; Jun Women: Judy Moore beat Pip Kiddey 21-10. Men’s Colts: Rod Jenner beat Aaron Allred 22-16. Sub Centre Junior Singles Rob Fensom beat Richard Kane 21-14

■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club April 17 Monday Evening – B and C Ladder N/S 1 D Wilkinson and L Leadley, 2 H Blee and G Brown, 3 A van Dyk and B Leighton E/W1 O and J Hooper, 2 M Francis and K Kingsland, 3 B Blair and M Bruce Tuesday Evening – 2 round duplicate N/S 1 M Stowell and S Rosevear, 2 J Edmond and M Buckland, 3 M Moore and M Holmes. E/W 1 Pauline Fergus and A Maude, 2 J Rooney and M de Jong, 3 E Taylor and T Coulter Wednesday Afternoon – 3 rnds. Duplicate 1 K Robb and E Segers 2 M Moorre and J Edmond, 3 R Mc Laughlin and B Smith, 4 S Harris and R Brownlie.

Thursday Evening – Mary Mulligan Trophy N/S 1 M Buckland and J Knight, 2 M de Jong and R McLaughlin, 3 I Taylor and M Moore.

E/W 1 Pauliine Fergus and K Robb, 2 J Rooney and M Kolkman, 3 B McIlraith and J Wright

■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers April 17 20 riders. 16km Handicap Fords Road 1st Jamie Smitheram CT. 37m 15.69s. HT. 10.10m. RT. 27min 05.69sec. 2nd Roger Wilson CT. 37m 18.41s. HT. 9.40m. RT. 27min 38.41sec. 3rd Luke Skinner CT. 37m 18.95s. HT. 7.30m. RT. 29 min 48.95sec. 4th Andy Skinner CT. 37m 19.58s. HT. 7.30m.

RT. 29min 49.58sec. 5th Liz Wylie CT. 37m 20.08s. HT. 7.30m. RT. 29min 50.08sec. 6th.

Dean Rattray CT. 37m 21.04s. HT. 10.10m.

RT. 27min 11.04sec. 7th Don Sutton CT. 37m 21.56s. HT. 9.40m. RT. 27min 41.56sec. 8th Shane Gerken CT. 37m 21.96s. HT. 9.40m.

RT.27min 41.96sec. 9th Brian Ellis CT. 37m 22.51s. HT. 9.40m. RT. 27min 42.51sec. 10th Dave Shurrock CT. 37m 23.47s. HT. 10.10m.

RT. 27min 13.47sec.

■ Football Mid Canterbury United Football Club April 18, Mainland Football Competition MCUFC 12th Grade 1 Ferrymead Bays Blue 7; MCUFC 13th Grade 10 Christchurch United Rams 3; MCUFC 14th Grade 5 WaimakB 1; MCUFC 15th Grade 3 CTFC 15thB 5; MCUFC 16th Grade 0 FC Twenty11A 9; MCUFC 18th Grade 11 Papanui Redwood Pythons 0; MCUFC Eastern Senior Mens 5 Burnham 1

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■ Golf Aorangi South Canterbury Golf Club April 19, Women’s Weekend Pennants South Zone: Gleniti 2 8.5 North Otago 3.5, Maungati 12 Pleasant Point 2 0, Fairlie 9 St Andrews 3, Waimate Bye North Zone: Gleniti 1 12 Pleasant Point 1 0, Geraldine 8 Timaru 4, Ashburton 6 Tinwald 6, Temuka 7.5 Methven 4.5

Ashburton County Ladies Vets Golf Club April 17m June Withell Trophy at Ashburton 1st Phyllis Bishop net 65: 2nd. Judith Webb net 71 on C/B from Judith Smith 71: 4th Lyn Bird 76 on C/B from Kath Read 76 Neartest the Pins: No. 8 Joan Undy: No14 2nd Shot Lyn Bird. Twos: Ruth Kinvig

Ashburton Golf Club April 18 The winners of the championship semi-final matches played on Saturday were: Senior Robbie Bell and Daniel Green. Intermediate Grant Smith and Gordon Crawford. Junior A Ken Clucas and Dave Hewitt.

Junior B Chris Robertson and Mike Holmes.

Plate winners were: Senior Adrian Hopwood and Paul May. Intermediate Chris Lovelock and Don Houghton. Junior A Bryan Donaldson and Kevin Smith. Junior B Bruce Ferriman and Derek Shaw.

In the Par round played winning scores were Noel Sutton +4; Grant Russell and Ron Carlson +3; Troi Kingsford +2; Terry O’Reilly, Murray Anderson and Ken Clucas +1 by c/b.

Nearest pins: Robbies: Sharon Carlson, Braided Rivers: S Simpson, Rothburys Insurance: Pieter vanVollenhoven, Netherby Meats: Hamish Niles, Charming Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) Gerald O’Sullivan. Twos: Grant Smith. Nett Eagles: # 7; Birdies # 15

Mayfield Golf Club April 16, 9 Hole division Stroke: Ladies 1st T Gallagher 55:18:37, 2nd J Cook 61:21:40 Men 1st G Jacobson 61:27:34, 2nd R Thompson 54:17:37 Putting - 1st R Thompson 15, 2nd J Cook 16 Nearest Pins: Greg Sim Builders and Excavators 2nd Shot No.2 – J Greenslade, Mayfield Transport Ltd No.5 – R Thompson

Methven Golf Club April 15, Ladies Division LGU. 3rd Tuis Trophy, Currie Button Silver Jenny Senior 88 -11 – 77 Sara Gallagher 94 -15 -79. Bronze A Sharryn Bree 95 – 22 – 73 Heather Santy 99 -24 -75 Bronze B Erna Smith 102 – 29 – 73 Alison Muckle 107 – 32 – 75 Sandra Marr 103 – 28 – 75 Tuis Stableford Sharryn Bree 36 Erna Smith 36 Alison Muckle 35 Sandra Marr 35 Cinema Paradiso Best Nett Erna Smith 73 on c/b from Sharryn Bree Currie Button Erna Smith on c/b from Sharryn Bree Nearest Pin Silver No 6 Methven Pharmacy Jenny Senior Bronze A No 17 Arabica Jane Helmore Bronze B 2nd shot No 4 Supervalue Alison Muckle Open No 13 Methven Foursquare Jenny Senior Twos and Nett Eagles Jenny Senior, Alison Muckle (2) & Dorothy Gray April 18 Men’s Division 2nd Round Duff Trophy & Stroke round Senior: Ben Rutter 79-11-68; Intermediate: Mark Gazzard 87-17-70 by lot; Junior A: Ian Lucas 93-21-72 by lot; Junior B: Alan Lock 96-25-71 Other Good Scores: 70 Phil Elliot. 71 Dale Lucas, Simon Wareing. 72 Graham Gunn, Tony Worsfold, James Anderson, Mark Gorman. 73 Alistair Maxwell, Keith Middleton.

74 John Eddington. 75 Martin Hickman.

Twos: Bud Lister, Dale Lucas, Alistair Maxwell.

Aqua Japanese – Best Nett: Ben Rutter 68; Topnotch Four Square Supermarket- 2nd Nett: Phil Elliot 70; Methven Travel - Best Gross: Dale Lucas 77.

Closest to Pins: Arabica Cafe No 4 Tony Worsfold; Hunters Wines No 6: Bud Lister; Ski Time No 13: Dale Lucas; Green Parrot No

Methven’s Issac Huddleston avoids an ankle tap on the way to the tryline against Allenton during the under 14.5 mini-tournament in Methven on Saturday.

PHOTO JOSEPH JOHNSON 180415-JJ-018 17: Richard Leith; Dubliner 2nd Shot – No 14: Mark Gorman Next Week: Tri Nations Stableford Round, Official ANZAC Day 1.00pm start.

Rakaia Golf Club April 15, Ladies Division Thomas Trophy, stableford and Harrison Trophy.

Sue Martin, 32 stablefords, Sandra Quinn 31 stablefords, Sally Smith 30 stablefords Railway Tavern 2nd shot no 3: Fiona Rushton; Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd shot no 6: Marion Wederell; V Bell Nearest Pin no 8: Jean Evans; Chertsey Spraying 2nd shot no 15: Sandra Quinn; S. Quinn 2nd shot no 17: Robyn Copland April 16, Women’s Golf Open Tournament Grade 1: 0-20.1: Best Gross and Roseville Senior Trophy Judy Webb 87 (Mayfield), Best Nett Sandra Quinn 71, R/up Nett Teresa Booker 73, Best Stableford Sisi Silcock (Denfield) 30 by lot from Heather Tarrant (Temuka), 3rd Stableford Jo Peacock (Tinwald) 29, 2nd shot on fairway Heather McKimmie (Ellesmere), 2nd shot on green Judy Webb Grade 2: 20.2-25.5: Best Gross and Roseville Junior Trophy Sally Smith 94, Best Nett Lynn Worsfold (Methven) 74, R/up Nett Hilary Ward (Ashburton) 75, Best Stableford Helen May (Denfield) 30 by lot from Raylene Adler (Templeton), 3rd Stableford Bev Sutherland 28, 2nd shot on fairway Hilary Ward, 2nd shot on green Helen May Grade 3: 25.6-40.4 Best Gross Francie Edge (Fairlie) 101, Best Nett and Sanford Trophy Judith Garret Brown (Motueka) 71, R/up net Mandy Hurst 74, Best Stableford Robyn Copland 34, 2nd Stableford Alison Vessey (Mayfield) 32, 3rd Stableford Sally Washington (Pleasant Point) 31, 2nd shot on fairway Robyn Copland, 2nd shot on green Robyn Copland Nearest Pin over the field: Mandy Hurst Two’s: Judy Webb, Heather McKimmie and Mandy Hurst.

■ Motor racing Bahrain Grand Prix Results from the Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday (57 laps): 1. Lewis Hamilton (MER) 1hr 35min 5.8sec 2. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/FER) +3.380 3. Nico Rosberg (GER/MER) 6.033 4. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/WIL) 42.957 5. Sebastian Vettel (GER/FER) 43.989 6. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/RBR) 1min 1.751 7. Romain Grosjean (LOT) 1min 24.7 8. Sergio Perez (MEX/FOR) 1 lap 9. Daniil Kvyat (RUS/RBR) 1 lap 10. Felipe Massa (BRA/WIL) 1 lap

11. Fernando Alonso (ESP/MLA) 12. Felipe Nasr (BRA/SAU) 13. Nico Hulkenberg (GER/FOR) 14. Marcus Ericsson (SWE/SAU) 15. Pastor Maldonado (VEN/LOT) 16. Will Stevens (ENG/MAR) 17. Roberto Merhi (ESP/MAR) Not classified: Max Verstappen (TOR) Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP/TOR) Jenson Button (ENG/MLA)

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■ Netball Mid Canterbury Netball April 18 Senior B: Ashburton College U18 19 v Ashburton College Y9A 24; Celtic Green 29 v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U18 21; United KFC B18 v Ashburton College Y10A 40 Senior Reserve A: Allenton C 8 v Celtic C 49; Ashburton College Y10B 12 v Allenton B 33; Methven R&R Haulage U18A 17 v Ashburton College Y9B10 Senior Reserve B: Celtic U18 20 v Ashburton College U17 19; Celtic D 29 v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton Hotties 20; Methven U15A 18 v Southern Livestock Exchange 11 2nd Grade: Allenton D 17 v College Y9 U14 4; College Y9 U15 21 v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U17 20; Hampstead Hotel Ashburton Blue 16 v Methven U15B 8

■ Pigeon racing Ashburton Racing Pigeon Club April 18, Kaikoura Flock 165 birds released - 6 flyers Winners Flying Time - 3 hours, 31 minutes, 7 seconds. 1st L. Quinn 1076.958 m.p.m ,2nd T. Drummond 1074.783 m.p.m 3rd L. Davidson 1068.872 m.p.m , 4th M. Davidson 1068.705 m.p.m 5th R. Cornwall 1068.193 m.p.m 6th N. Martin 1053.005 m.p.m

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby April 18 Senior Division 1 – Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Section One: Lincoln 34 v West Melton 26, Glenmark 7 v Southbridge 28, Max Gilbert Trophy - Darryl Phillips Motors Celtic 11 v REL Rakaia 15, Hornby 17 v Prebbleton 32, Kaiapoi 23 v Oxford 27, Section Two: Saracens 14 v Burn/Duns/Irw 20, Ashley 34 v Ohoka 10, PWL Methven 32 v Darfield 13, Claas Harvest Centre Southern 18 v Waihora 36, Rolleston 17 v Devon Tavern Hampstead 36, Senior B - Michael Duff Memorial Trophy

– Round 4: Celtic Kelly’s Cafe & Bar 17 v Rakaia Murray Hood Baling 5, Methven R&R Haulage 30 v Collegiate Eclipse Services 0, Southern Tinwald Tavern 18 v Hampstead KFC 12, Tinwald Senior B 66 v Allenton 7, Bye: Mt Somers Combined Competition – Colts Banks Peninsula 0 v Springston 21, Lincoln Black v Celtic, Celtic win by default, West Melton 52 v Waihora 7, Lincoln Red v Kirwee – being played 22 April, Prebbleton 34 v Darfield 24, Bye: Burn/Duns/Irw Combined Competition - Under 18 Methven/Rakaia 22 v Rangiora High School 22, Lincoln 15 v Malvern Comb 22, Kaiapoi v West Melton/Rolleston, NSR Hurunui 34 v Waihora 36, Celtic Hanham Concrete 40 v Ashley/Oxford 17, Combined Competition - Under 16 Section One: Hampstead 24 v Prebbleton 22, Kaiapoi 17 v Celtic 40, Rolleston 41 v Oxford 0, Bye: West Melton/Southbridge Section Two: Hurunui 5 v Saracens 26, Lincoln 19 v Waihora 35, Methven 7 v Malvern 62, Bye: Ashley/Amberley MCRU Competition – Under 14.5 Mini Tournament: Allenton 5 Southern/Tinwald 0, Hampstead Lemacon 12 Methven Seed Cleaning 21, Southern/Tinwald 0 Hampstead Lemacon 12, Methven Seed Cleaning 19 Allenton 7, Allenton 0 Hampstead Lemacon 14, Southern/Tinwald Methven Seed Cleaning MCRU Competition – Under 13 – (Murray Roulston Centurion Shield) Celtic Lysaght Glass 12 Rakaia Synlait 53, Methven Snowfed Builders 72 Allenton 19, Tinwald RDI Petroleum 57 Southern Allfarm Engineering 17, Bye: Hampstead Lifestyle Homes MCRU Competition – Under 11.5 – (John Smitheram Shield): Celtic Ashburton Online 58 Rakaia Synlait 17, Methven Purple Pear 45 Collegiate Cranfield Glass 0, Southern Hyde Bros Spraying 22 Allenton 43, Tinwald Geoff Frew 55 Hampstead Subway 38,

Super Rugby Round 10 CHIEFS 26 (Leitch, Lowe, Squire tries Horrell con Cruden, Horrell, Nanai-Williams pens) bt CRUSADERS 9 (Daniel Carter 3 pens) at Christchurch Stadium. Referee: Nick Briant.

NSW WARATAHS 29 (Betham 2, Folau, Skelton tries Foley 3 cons pen) bt HURRICANES 24 (Barrett, Perenara, Shields, Conrad Smith tries Barrett 2 cons) at Westpac.

HIGHLANDERS 30 (Malakai Fekitoa 2, Waisake Naholo tries Lima Sopoaga 3 cons 3 pens) bt BLUES 24 (Keven Mealamu 2, George Moala, Patrick Tuipulotu tries Daniel Bowden, Ihaia West cons) at Forsyth Barr.

REBELS 13 (Naivalu try Harris con 2 pens) bt BRUMBIES 8 (Speight try Leali’ifano pen) at GIO Stadium. Referee: Angus Gardner.

STORMERS 13 (1 penalty try) (Demetri Catrakilis con Catrakilis, Kurt Coleman pens) bt FORCE 6 (Luke Burton 2 pens) at nib Stadium. Referee: Mike Fraser. Crowd: 10,823.

BULLS 17 (Hougaard try Pollard 4 pens) bt SHARKS 10 (Coetzee try Zeilinga con pen) at Kings Park Stadium.

QUEENSLAND REDS 18 (Kerevi, Korczyk tries O’Connor con pen Frisby drop goal) bt CHEETAHS 17 (Ryno Benjamin, Boom Prinsloo tries Joe Pietersen 2 cons pen) at Vodacom Park. Referee: Jaco van Heerden.

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PW 8 7 9 7 8 6 9 4 9 1

D 0 0 0 0 0

L 1 2 2 5 8

PF 216 224 193 243 158

PA PD BP Pts 131 85 5 33 154 70 4 32 160 33 4 28 192 51 4 20 208 -50 7 11

■ Shooting Canterbury Champion of Champions April 19 Malvern range at Coalgate A grade, John Snowden, 50.8, 50.8, 50.7, 150.23, Alan White, 50.5, 50.7, 49.4, 149.16, Chris Kershaw 48.4, 50.8, 47.3, 145.15.

B grade, Charlie Ledbrook, 48.3, 50.7, 48.3, 146.13, Coby Snowden, 47.3, 49.3, 49.6, 145.12, John Fleming 47.1, 50.6, 45.1, 142.8. F class, Darren Swaney, 58.2, 59.7, 57.3, 174.13, Daniel Alexander, 52.1, 59.4, 57.3, 168.8.

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In brief Caitlin in top form Ashburton swimmer Caitlin Johnstone secured two new personal bests at the New Zealand Open Championships that finished in Auckland this week. Her best result was the 50m breaststroke where she went from a PB of 34:10 seconds to a new mark of 33:84 and was placed fourth overall and just 0.13s off a medal. In the 100m breaststroke Johnstone was nearly a second faster than her previous best to finish 11th and was also 14th in the 400 IM. Johnstone was the lone Jennian Homes Ashburton Swim Team member at the open nationals but will have company at the Age Group Nationals in Wellington in May.

Interclub squash begins

Braden Currie during what was a race-winning mountain bike leg in the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship race in Australia.

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Currie eyes world title Braden Currie dominated the Xterra Asia-Pacific Championship race to claim the biggest international victory of his career at the weekend.

A week after winning the New Zealand title, Currie finished the off-road triathlon in Australia in 2:23:36 - well ahead

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club April 25 Being ANZAC Day there will be no morning golf. A Stroke round will be played in the afternoon. Starting Time: Afternoon Report at 11.30 for an 12noon start. Saturday starters: Afternoon P Bradford and R Bell. Results Match Committee April 27 The annual match between the men and women for the Baker Trophy will be held.

This is an individual stableford round with the scores being averaged to find the winning sex.

Report at 11.30am for a 12noon start.

■ Netball Mid Canterbury Netball, April 22 Social Competition, Round 1 6.30pm: Ct1: Hampstead Hotel Ashburton Social Gold v Methven Brown Pub White, Shelley Donnelly and Kaye Whiting; Ct3: United KFC Colonels Chicks v Rakaia B, Emily Hickman (Ash Col) and Georgina Kelly (Ash Col), Ct9: Mt Somers Social v Tinwald South, Tracey Wylie and Sharon Dunstan 7.30pm: Ct 1: United KFC Zinger Chicks v Celtic Social, Laura Trudgeon and Brans Surridge; Ct3: Collegiate Social v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton Social Blue, United Umpire and Kari Graham; Ct9: Rakaia C v Southern Mayfield Service Centre Social, Tracey Wylie and Carmeena Heeny ACL Premier and Senior A Competition, Round 1 April 24 6.30pm: Ct 1: Wilson Bulk Transport Allenton A v Rakaia A, Eartha Scott and Kari Graham; Ct 3: Hampstead Hotel Ashburton A v Collegiate A, Wendy Hopwood and Vicki McAr-

of some of the biggest names in multisport - to cement his place as a title contender ahead of the World Xterra Championships in October.

“This season has started so strongly for me, winning my third consecutive Coast to Coast in February and then the thur; Ct 9: Methven Wareings A v Celtic A, Jan Lee and Claire Tappin 7.30pm; Ct 1: Hampstead Hotel Ashburton B v Methven Euro Agri B, Brooke Williams and Barbara Adam; Ct 3: United KFC A v Ashburton College Finesse Fitness A, Wendy Hopwood and Vicki McArthur; Ct 9: Celtic B v Ashburton College B, Livvie Kennedy and Aimee Elliott.

Senior B – 2nd Grade April 25 Round 2 1.30pm: Ct 4: Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U17 v Methven U15B, Courtney McClintock and Tori Kelland; Ct 9: Celtic C v Methven R & R Haulage U18A, Meg Ashworth and Meg Witterick 2.30pm: Ct 1: Ashburton College Y10A v Ashburton College U18, Vicki McArthur and Steph Poulson; Ct 3: Southern Livestock Exchange v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton Hotties, Renee McCleod and Vicki Pluck; Ct 9: Allenton C v Ashburton College Y10B, Jemma Rotch and Emma McDowell 3.30pm: Ct 1: Ashburton College Y9A v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U18, Caitlin Ward and Eartha Scott; Ct 3: Ashburton College U17 v Methven U15A, Alison Rutten and Tegan Barry; Ct 4: Ashburton College Y10 U16 v Ashburton College Y9 U15, Allenton Regular Club Umpire, Methven Regular Club Umpire; Ct 9: Ashburton College Y9B v Allenton B, Sophie Beveridge and Phillipa Brooks 4.30pm: Ct 1: United KFC B v Celtic Green, Brooke Williams and Gina Taylor; Ct 3: Celtic U18 v Celtic D, Zoe Diedricks and Louise Opele; Ct 4: College Y9 U14 v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton Blue, Jemma Donnelly and Charlotte Waddell Duty Manager: Sally Williams, Umpire Manager: Leonie Donald, Canteen: Barry Marrett, Club Duty: Ashburton College

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby April 23 Senior Division 1 – Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition

New Zealand Xterra in Rotorua last Saturday,” Currie said.

“I’m feeling pumped about what is still to come later in the year.”

Saturday’s win was one to remember as Currie beat home two-time Australian Olympian Courtney Atkinson by almost two minutes, while in third was Section Two Burn/Duns/Irw v PWL Methven, Dunsandel 1, 7pm, J Shalfoon, G Peddie, C Love April 24 Senior Division 1 – Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Section One: Oxford v Lincoln, Oxford 4, 7pm, M Gameson April 25 Senior Division 1 – Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Section One: Glenmark v Darryl Phillips Celtic, Omihi 1, 2.45pm, S Laird, C Rowe, D Brooker; Southbridge v Prebbleton, Southbridge 1, 2.45pm, A Brosnahan, S Prendergast, C Love; Kaiapoi v REL Rakaia, Kaiapoi Oval, 2.45pm, K Hancox, A Stead, B Egerton; West Melton v Hornby, West Melt 1, 2.45pm, K Pottinger, P Hudson, K Jones Section Two Darfield v Saracens, Darfield 1, 2.45pm, K Opele, A Hotop, H Cook; Waihora v Ashley, Tai Tapu 1, 2.45pm, K Fitzgerald, G Robinson, S McLean; Claas Harvest Centre Southern v Devon Tavern Hampstead, May 1, 2.45pm, M Gallagher, Club TJ’s; Ohoka v Rolleston, Mand 1, 2.45pm, G Peddie, G Dunseath, R Brine Senior B- Michael Duff Memorial Trophy – Round 5 Allenton v Hampstead KFC, Allen 1, 2.30pm, G Clement; Collegiate Eclipse Services v Southern Tinwald Tavern, Coll 1, 3pm, G Shaw; Mt Somers v Celtic Kelly’s Cafe & Bar, Mt Som 1, 2.30pm, D McKibbin; Tinwald Senior B v Methven R&R Haulage, Tin 1, 2.30pm, P McKnight; Bye: Rakaia Murray Hood Baling UC Championship Ashburton College v Burnside High School, Ash Showgrounds, 1.15pm, M Bell, G Shaw, P Hunt Combined Competition - Colts Burn/Duns/Irw v Lincoln Black – (29th April – Duns 1, 7pm), G Robinson; Waihora v Banks Peninsula, Thursday 23 April, Tai Tapu 1, 7.15pm, G Robinson; Celtic v Lincoln Red, Celt 1, 2.30pm, A McGirr; Darfield v West Melton, Dar 2, 1pm, H Cook, B Campbell, C Banks; Kirwee v Prebbleton, Kirwee 1, 1pm,

15-year-veteran of the sport and seven-time world champ Conrad Stoltz from South Africa.

His next stop will be running in the Wings for Life world run in Santiago, Chile before a series of races in North America in the lead up to the world championship race.

M Quinlivan; Bye: Springston Combined Competition - Under 18 Ashley/Oxford v Lincoln, Lon Lwr1, 2.30pm, J Le Gros; Malvern Comb v Rangiora High School, Sheff 1, 2.30pm, S Lamont; Waihora v Celtic, Tai Tapu 2, 1pm, S McLean; Kaiapoi v Methven/Rakaia, Kai 1, 2.30pm, D Chinnery; Hurunui v West Melton/Rolleston, Cul 2, 2pm, G Elder Combined Competition - Under 16 Section One Celtic v West Melton/Southbridge, Celt 2, 2.15pm, Club Referee; Kaiapoi/Woodend v Rolleston, Kai 1, 1pm, D Taylor; Oxford v Prebbleton, Ox Oval, 1pm, A Stokes Bye: Hampstead Section Two Lincoln v Methven, Linc 2, 1pm, R Busch; Malvern v Saracens, Sheff 1, 1pm, M Talbot; Waihora v Ashley/Amberley, Tai Tapu 3, 1pm, S O’Reilly; Bye: Hurunui MCRU Competition – Under 14.5 Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Methven Seed Cleaning, Allenton 1, 1.15pm; Southern*/Tinwald v Hampstead Lemacon, May 1, 1.30pm: G Brown MCRU Competition – Under 13 Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Celtic Lysaght Glass, Allen 4, 1.15pm: S Bennett; Southern Allfarm Engineering v Hampstead Lifestyle Homes, May 2, 2pm; Tinwald RDI Petroleum v Methven Snowfed Builders, Tin 1, 1.15pm; Bye: Rakaia Synlait MCRU Competition – Under 11.5 Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Celtic Ashburton Online, Allen 5, 1.15pm; Collegiate Cranfield Glass v Rakaia Synlait, Coll 1, 1.55pm; Southern Hyde Bros Spraying v Hampstead Subway, May 3, 2pm; Tinwald Geoff Frew v Methven Purple Pear, Tin 2, 1.15pm MCRU Non-Competition – Under 10 Associate Referee Required Allenton M v Celtic Blacklows, Allen 2, 1.30pm; Collegiate/Hampstead v Southern Latitude, Coll 2, 2.15pm; Southern/Tinwald Moore Mechanical v Methven Mt Hutt Station, Tin 3, 2pm; Bye: Allenton G

The Mid Canterbury Squash interclub competition kicks off tonight, in club courts from Rakaia to Fairlie. Widely recognised New Zealand-wide as a superb competition, teams from every club in the Mid Canterbury Squash catchment do battle across four grades, in a hard-fought rivalry that runs right through to the finals night in August.

Dank confirms appeal The sports scientist at the centre of Australia Football League team Essendon’s 2012 supplements scandal will appeal guilty findings made against him by the AFL anti-doping tribunal. Stephen Dank was found guilty of 10 breaches of the AFL anti-doping code. Dank made clear his intention to appeal the decision, handed down last Friday, to the AFL yesterday.

- AAP

MCRU Non-Competition – Under 9 Associate Referee Required Allenton v Rakaia Synlait, Allen 3, 2.15pm; Celtic Blacklows v Celtic McCrea Painters & Decorators, Celt 1, 1.30pm; Collegiate Ashburton Painters & Decorators v Methven Black, Coll 2, 1.15pm; Southern Riverlea v Hampstead, May 4, 2.15pm; Tinwald Skip 2 It Flooring v Methven Mt Hutt Station, Tin 4, 2pm MCRU Non-Competition – Under 8 Associate Referee Required Allenton v Rakaia Synlait, Allen 3, 1.15pm; Celtic The Finishing Company v Hampstead, Celt 2, 1.15pm; Collegiate Drummond & Etheridge v Methven Professionals, Coll 3, 2pm; Southern Agspread v Celtic Summerfield Builders, May 4, 1.15pm MCRU Non-Competition – Under 7 Associate Referee Required Allenton G v Rakaia Synlait Farms, Allen 6, 1.15pm; Allenton M v Celtic Summerfield Builders, Allen 6, 2pm; Collegiate Countdown v Collegiate Regent Cinema, Coll 3, 1.15pm; Southern Coleman Ag v Hampstead Spark, May 3, 1.15pm; Tinwald Canvas v Methven The Laundry, Tin 3, 1.15pm MCRU Non-Competition – Under 6 Associate Referee Required Allenton G v Rakaia Synlait, Allen 7, 1.15pm; Allenton M v Celtic Anderson Joinery W, Allen 7, 2pm; Collegiate Cates Grain & Seed v Methven Black & White, Coll 1, 1.10pm; Collegiate Redpaths v Methven MC Freight, Coll 1, 1.10pm; Southern H Mackenzie Contracting v Hampstead, May 2, 1.15pm; Southern Progressive Livestock v Celtic Anderson Joinery G, May 2, 1.15pm; Tinwald AIS v Methven The Laundry, Tin 4, 1.15pm April 28 Senior B - Michael Duff Memorial Trophy – Round 6 Celtic Kellys Cafe & Bar v Allenton, Celt 1, 7pm: C Kelland; Hampstead KFC v Collegiate Eclipse Services, Hamp 1, 7pm: K Opele; Rakaia Murray Hood Baling v Mt Somers, Rak 1, 7.30pm: M Gallagher; Southern Tinwald Tavern v Tinwald Senior B, Hinds 1, 7.30pm: M Bell; Bye: Methven R&R Haulage

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In brief Bowlers in contention Allenton’s Cait Bassett and pairs partner Katelyn Inch came out blazing at the National Club Championships in Tauranga. The 19-year-old Canterbury champions secured a strong 19-11 win first up. In round two they went down 9-19 to Tauranga’s Marilyn McLeod and Margaret Reed, however the youngsters bounced back with a resounding 30-6 win to remain in contention. The final two rounds will be completed at Tauranga South Bowling Club.

Big finish to season Ashburton rower Veronica Wall finished the season on a high taking out the under 18 single in the North v South regatta at Lake Ruataniwha. The 15-year-old was a comfortable five boat lengths clear in the single. Wall also had a seat in the under 18 coxed quad that came runners-up to their North Island rivals in both races.

Good win for Baabaas The Ashburton Barbarians registered their first win of the season beating the Papanui Tigers 26-18 on Saturday. A week after an undermanned side opened the season on the end of a 12-56 defeat, the Barbarians fielded a full 17-man squad and produced a solid win. Coach Steve Gamble said the win was built around a strong goal-line defence while at the other end of the field halfback Devaun Thomson scored a double.

The Barbarians are at home - at Collegiate South - for the first time when they take on the Marist Saints in round three this Saturday.

Storm ‘moving on’ It’s one of two defeats Melbourne have suffered this NRL season and represents Manly’s only triumph of the year. But a 24-22 loss to the Sea Eagles in round two will be the last thing on Storm skipper Cameron Smith’s mind, when he leads the side onto AAMI Park on Saturday. “We were disappointed to lose at Brookvale, but we’ve moved on from that,” Smith said.

“We’re in pretty good form, so we just need to keep building.” - AAP

Happy on the bench Rather than sulk, Sam Thaiday says being relegated to the bench helped him find the form that looks set to not only earn him another Broncos contract but a Kangaroos nod. Thaiday’s 12-year Brisbane career appeared on the line when returning coach Wayne Bennett refused to re-sign the burly back-rower at the start of 2015, instead challenging him to show he was worthy of a new deal. Thaiday responded with career-best form that has him in line to retain his Kangaroos spot for the trans-Tasman Test in Brisbane on May 1.

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No backflip for Foran It’s been a month since Kieran Foran ended speculation about his future by announcing he’ll sign with Parramatta in 2016 and the Manly five-eighth has no intention of going back on his word. The Kiwi playmaker admits walking away from the club he’s been assoc-iated with since his mid-teens was the toughest call he’s had to make but one he’s happy with.

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■ BOWLS

First trophy of new season The first championship for the new indoor bowls season was taken out by the trio of Michael Lawson, Matt Markham and Alec Crawford on Sunday.

The trio was defending champion having won last year – a victory which gave Crawford his gold star for winning five Ashburton championship titles.

They squared off on Sunday with Russell Ellis and his two sons, Cameron and David, in the final. After jumping out to a 5-0 early lead, Lawson’s side then had to fend off the comeback of the Ellis trio who managed to get themselves back to within one shot heading into the final of nine ends.

A near-perfect attacking bowl from Cameron left the trailers holding a draw, but a clutch draw bowl from Lawson to claim shot turned the tables and Russell was unable to alter the scoreline with his last bowl.

Lawson’s side qualified for post section play with three wins and a draw from their four games and secured a bye in the first round of post section.

Ellis played off against Geoff Laird’s trio and was victorious in one quarter-final while Ken McKenzie’s side proved too strong for the Rosemary Bennett skipped side.

Lawson was able to beat McKenzie in one semi-final while Ellis eliminated Mark Sheard’s side to advance to the final.

The next championship in the Ashburton region isn’t until next month when players will try their hands in the popular Jim Patterson singles.

Joan Hardy reacts to the progress of her bowl during the Ashburton Indoor Bowls Championship Triples on Sunday.

PHOTO JOSEPH JOHNSON 190415-JJ-027

Keith adds another national title to collection

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@thguardian.co.nz

Forced to play across three greens and a 210km round trip didn’t stop Sandra Keith collecting another national singles bowls title on Sunday.

Keith won the national women’s club bowls singles final in an eventful tournament in Tauranga.

The round robin tournament started at 8.30am on the grass Tauranga South Bowling Club until the rain closed in and they moved from the grass to a nearby artificial green.

Keith was fortunate enough to win her first round match

comfortably and quickly 25-4 while the other match continued in the rain.

The rain got that bad that even on the artificial they stopped play from time to time and eventually they tournament was moved again – this time to an indoor venue in Hamilton.

“I had mates that had come all the way from Hamilton to watch and they ended up giving me ride back to Hamilton and take me back to Tauranga again.”

The first round finally came to an end at 5.30pm in Hamilton, 10 hours after it began.

The second and third rounds were shortened slightly with

play completed by 11pm for the trip back to Tauranga.

“It was a trying day but it was the fairest way to do it. It was the same for everyone and it meant they could complete all the rounds.”

To add to the spectacle, Keith had gone so well on the opening day that her 25-17 win over Taieri’s Sue Hodges was enough to end the competition a round early.

It was Keith’s second national title of the season after winning the national Intercentre title with the Canterbury women playing as skip in the fours last month - which also earned her a Silver

Star as her fifth national title.

When she won the New Zealand singles title in 2011 Keith went on to win the World Champion of Champion Singles title in Cyprus, and this time she has won the right to represent New Zealand at the Mederka competition in Malaysia later this year.

The big win brought an end to her successful New Zealand summer – where she was also recalled to the Blackjacks - but Keith will be back in action in June set to contest the Australian Open.

“I’m looking forward to a break.”

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In brief

■ TIME CALLED ON TOP CAREER

Bosson breaks rib

Fritz enjoying retirement Group One winner Fritzy Boy is remaining active in his retirement in the South Island.

Opaki trainer and part-owner Alby MacGregor decided to call time on the veteran’s lengthy career following a brief spring and summer campaign that netted him a minor placing at Riccarton.

“He was a great horse and I still think about him every day,” he said. “They don’t come along like him very often and he’s now with Jess Land at Rangiora and doing a bit of show jumping and dressage and she absolutely loves him.”

The best son of the Thunder Gulch stallion Brilliance, Fritzy Boy retired as the winner of 15 races with stake earnings of more than $840,000 for MacGregor and his co-owner and breeder John Jury.

The gelding was a debut winner at three and at his second appearance he won the Listed Wanganui Guineas before a southern trip that saw him make a clean Listed sweep of the Gore, Dunedin and Southland Guineas.

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Opie Bosson will not be riding this weekend after an x-ray yesterday confirmed that he had fractured a rib. The champion jockey was kicked by a horse he was breaking in last week and he was forced to forego his mounts at Ellerslie on Saturday after riding in the opening event. He will be reassessing his fitness early next week.

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Breeding career A tendon tear has forced the premature retirement of the leading South Island mare Include. She was scratched from Saturday’s Gr.3 Canterbury Gold Cup after suffering the injury during her final gallop. Trained by Brian and Shane Anderton, Include won 10 of her 16 starts with Listed successes in the South Island Breeders’ Stakes and the Southland and Dunedin Guineas.

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Stakes targeted Fascination Street is likely to make one further appearance before a winter break. The Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott-trained fouryear-old has been ultra-consistent this season with two wins, the latest at Ellerslie on Saturday, and five minors from seven outings. Fascination Street has placings in the Ryder Stakes, Gold Trail Stakes and the Hawke’s Bay Guineas on her record and has been set for the Listed Windsor Park Stud Rotorua Stakes at Arawa Park on May 9.

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Two veteran champions: Fritzy Boy, with Noel Harris in the saddle, on track at Hawke’s Bay. PHOTO RACE IMAGES

Fritzy Boy showed his class and toughness to later finish third in the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby and in his four-year-old return he won the Gr.1 Mudgway Partsworld Stakes.

He subsequently collected Hawke’s Bay spring carnival placings in the Mudgway (and when renamed the Makfi Challenge Stakes) and the Stoney Bridge Stakes (twice).

“We were just so very lucky to have had a horse like old Fritzy, he gave us so much fun and enjoyment in racing him,” MacGregor said yesterday.

- NZME

Invercargill harness Today at Ascot Park Raceway

Invercargill Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 21 Apr 2015 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 1.02pm (NZT) MORE FM HANDICAP TROT $5000, 3yo+ c1 to c2 spechcp trot, stand, 2200m 1 490x6 Johns Anne (1) fr .......................... B Barclay 2 33384 Starlight Starbright (2) fr 3 04700 Lady Hest (3) fr 4 40966 Scarlett Lane (4) fr ............... C Ferguson (J) 5 02040 Filigree Sheree (5) fr ..................... K Barclay 6 58x99 City Courage (6) fr ........................ A Armour 7 x6090 Kiwi Kex (7) fr .................................. E Swain 8 x0097 Apollo Mission (U1) fr....................... D Dunn 9 46052 Sin Bin (U2) fr ......................... N Williamson 10 06790 Cheeky Pat (U3) fr ................R McIlwrick (J) 11 83865 Moon Countess (1) 20 ........................G Lee 12 53159 Chiola Belle (U1) 20 13 22676 Mokosun (U2) 20 ............... B Williamson (J) 2 1.32pm BEAUTY & BEYOND F&M MOBILE PACE $5000, 2yo+ f&m c0 mob. pace, mobile, 1700m 1 24540 Paula’s On Fire (1) fr ..................... K Barclay 2 Girl Courage (2) fr ...........................B Morris 3 34P57 Leolas Delight (3) fr 4 2x009 Kennington Kandee (4) fr ................. A Milne

5 6660 Up The Creek (5) fr ........................B Shirley 6 08 Cullens Atom (6) fr ............................A Beck 7 x700x Star Singer (7) fr ............................C Barron 8 7 Dundee’s Desire (8) fr ....................K Larsen 9 98546 Bullys Princess (21) fr .........................G Lee 10 44349 Mahinerangi Road (22) fr ....... S Walkinshaw 11 62353 Thinking Smart (23) fr ...................... D Dunn 12 06580 Annie Fitz (U1) fr .................. C Ferguson (J) 3 2.02pm AMTEC ELECTRICAL MOBILE PACE $5000, claimers c0 with cond. +claimers pace, mobile, 2200m 1 6x009 Docey Doe (1) fr 2 00085 Landloch (2) fr ............................... A Armour 3 30000 Rightaround (3) fr .................... M Williamson 4 96517 Northview Hanover (4) fr .................. D Dunn 5 70 Hunter Fernco (5) fr ............... S Walkinshaw 6 36956 Jaclyn Smith (6) fr ......................... B Barclay 7 06382 My Mate Ozz (7) fr 8 1111P Booster (8) fr 9 90290 Cayenne El (21) fr ..........................K Larsen 10 0x989 C J’s Delight (22) fr .............. C Ferguson (J) 11 03300 Newmans Jet (23) fr ....................... P Hunter 4 2.32pm INVERCARGILL WORKOUTS COMMITTEE TROT $5000, 3yo+ c0 trot, stand, 2200m 1 5960P Belmont Invasion (1) fr ..........R McIlwrick (J) 2 33580 Denn Nee Nose Best (2) fr.............. E Swain

3 00524 Duchesse de l’Amour (U1) fr... M Williamson 4 0 Strathspey Boy (U2) fr........................ A Kyle 5 0 Grace O’Malley (U3) fr ...................B Shirley 6 0x70x Conall Cernach (U4) fr 7 97900 Snoop Dog (U5) fr ............................ A Milne 8 Extreme Force (U6) fr ....................C Barron 9 60360 Blink (U7) fr 5 3.07pm FARRY’S FASHIONS MOBILE PACE $5000, c1 & others with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 57057 Pegasus Kommander (1) fr .............. D Dunn 2 65598 Popular (2) fr ........................ C Ferguson (J) 3 0x005 Beaudiene Cheekychic (3) fr... N Williamson 4 10627 Johan’s Jet (4) fr ...................R McIlwrick (J) 5 64997 King Louie (5) fr ............................ B Barclay 6 59070 Rocky Road (6) fr .................... M Williamson 7 37350 Afellas Boy (7) fr 8 25600 Jennalee (8) fr ........................ S Walkinshaw 9 06894 Three Tricks (21) fr .........................C Barron 10 00668 Vega Sicilia (22) fr .......................B McLellan 11 00000 Bite The Dust (23) fr 6 3.42pm NEXT MEETING SATURDAY 16TH MAY PACE $5000, 3yo+ c0 pace, stand, 2200m 1 59xL7 Russet Norkotah (1) fr................... A Russell 2 0598 Lawless (2) fr ................................... D Dunn 3 30597 Speechless (3) fr .................... S Walkinshaw

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4 x0864 Matai Katie (4) fr .............................. A Milne 5 Snow Raker (5) fr .................... M Williamson 6 09378 Tinted Light (6) fr 7 Cullens Chance (7) fr 8 03765 Kilkenny Turk (8) fr ............................M Love 9 70270 Steen (9) fr .................................... K Barclay 10 06772 Spinyback (10) fr ...............................A Beck 11 Samantha Chloe (11) fr........... N Williamson 7 4.16pm COUNTRY JEWEL WINTON MOBILE PACE $5000, c1 to c2 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 69333 Scanreco Bay (1) fr ....................... B Barclay 2 60986 Star Of Courage (2) fr 3 75138 Percius (3) fr..................................... D Dunn 4 0990P Matai Vision (4) fr .................... M Williamson 5 43819 Big Bad John (5) fr ........................ A Armour 6 09x47 Pennyana (6) fr......................R McIlwrick (J) 7 09498 The Flying Scotsman (7) fr 8 40850 Strategic Miss (8) fr ........................C Barron 9 617x4 Bleach (21) fr ....................................M Love 10 0x100 Switch Me On (22) fr .........................A Beck 11 61x00 Wozniacki (23) fr 8 4.51pm DIAMONDS DAY BACK NEXT YEAR MOBILE PACE $5000, 3yo+, c0 with cond. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 5330x Devi Andare (1) fr ...........................K Larsen 2 44062 My Rona Gold (2) fr ................ M Williamson 3 One Direction (3) fr ........................C Barron

4 26867 Dissolution (4) fr ...............................J H Cox 5 x5803 Fuzzy Muzza (5) fr ..............................G Lee 6 0 Lite Jazz (6) fr .................................. D Dunn 7 Disco Stu (7) fr 8 Black Athena (8) fr 9 82007 Holy Harry (21) fr 10 4800x Live At Speed (22) fr .........................A Beck 11 02 Northview Dave (23) fr .................. A Armour 12 36865 Lis Is Fine (24) fr ..................... N Williamson 13 008x0 Tank Commander (25) fr 14 0030 Themailman (26) fr........................ B Barclay Pacifiers on : Hunter Fernco (R3), Conall Cernach (R4) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS Race 1: Mokosun, Sin Bin, Chiola Belle, Filigree Sheree Race 2: Leolas Delight, Paula’s On Fire, Bullys Princess Race 3: Booster, My Mate Ozz, Northview Hanover, Landloch Race 4: Grace O’Malley, Denn Nee Nose Best, Blink Race 5: Beaudiene Cheekychic, Rocky Road, Vega Sicilia Race 6: Speechless, Samantha Chloe, Spinyback, Lawless Race 7: The Flying Scotsman, Scanreco Bay, Pennyana Race 8: Northview Dave, Themailman, Lis Is Fine

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1 51525 Briseur De Reves nwtd ............. A Bradshaw Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park 3 12.47pm SGRC $26 FIVE WIRE MUZZLE STAKES 6 12141 Willis 26.45....................................R Adcock 2 58237 Memory Lapse nwtd..................J McInerney Raceway Meeting Date: 21 Apr 2015 NZ Meeting num- C1, 390m 7 21121 Dyna Vikkers 26.04 ......................C Roberts 3 14355 Om Nom Nom nwtd ..................J McInerney ber: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 1 66187 Homebush Slinky 23.31 ............J McInerney 8 61547 Opawa Diesel 26.18 J &..................D Fahey 4 18532 Zipping Jacob nwtd ............................C Weir 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 2 32813 Stenson nwtd .................................. M Grant 9 21F38 Country Crossing 26.36 J & ............D Fahey 9; 10, 11 and 12 3 2625x Berridale King nwtd ......................C Roberts 6 2.17pm BRUCE STIRLING MEMORIAL STAYERS 5 33437 Lagoon Victory nwtd ....................C Roberts 6 57141 Know Laughing nwtd..................... G Cleeve 1 12.07pm SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ WEL- 4 12355 Fresco Star nwtd J & .......................D Fahey RUN FINAL SPECAdf, 630m 7 72344 Miss Valley Inn nwtd .....................C Roberts 5 7T6F1 Zippora Blaze nwtd M & ....................Jopson COME C0, 390m 1 21445 Know Ambition nwtd ..................... G Cleeve 8 32323 Bruiser Bale nwtd ......................J McInerney 6 34373 Token Jump nwtd L & ......................... Wales 1 68243 Another Cruise nwtd .................J McInerney 2 11456 Blushing Belle nwtd L & ..................... Wales 9 55526 Thrilling Hunt 26.48 ..................... B I Conner 7 45633 Millie’s Boy 23.16 ........................R Hamilton 2 838 Lachie Jewel nwtd ........................C Roberts 3 26567 Thrilling Marty nwtd..................... B I Conner 8 44233 Smoking Marley nwtd................ A Bradshaw 3 72686 Infernal Majesty nwtd M &.................Jopson 4 45641 Botany Kevin nwtd.....................J McInerney 10 67626 Wairio Dee Jay nwtd ................... B I Conner 9 63765 Homebush Ninja 23.08 .............J McInerney 4 65234 Smash Who nwtd ........................R Hamilton 5 55315 Opawa No Ear 37.12 L & ................... Wales 9 3.57pm BRENDON BURKE@RAY WHITE C4, 390m 1 36114 Mickey Tee 22.77 ..........................R Adcock 5 83547 Kirkham Harvey nwtd ...................C Roberts 10 84677 Opawa Natty nwtd L & ....................... Wales 6 14724 Know Security nwtd ...................... G Cleeve 2 61313 Know Mayhem nwtd ...................... G Cleeve 6 54 Tepirita Funkita nwtd M &..................Jopson 4 1.17pm SOUTHLAND OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C4, 390m 7 33316 Know Attempt nwtd ....................... G Cleeve 3 44816 Starburst Terry 22.67....................... M Grant 7 21 Air Express nwtd .......................J McInerney 8 66766 Court The Belle nwtd L & ................... Wales 1 24472 Barnicle Bullet nwtd ........................ M Grant 4 21363 Wheelchair Norm nwtd..............J McInerney 8 Opawa Express nwtd .................. B I Conner Emergencies: 2 42644 Cawbourne Jelly nwtd ........................C Weir 5 77521 Zorba The Greek nwtd .................... M Grant 9 74551 Cawbourne Kenny nwtd ...............C Roberts 9 84378 Chill Out Ralph 37.55 L & ..................

Wales 3 37275 Opawa Bart 22.96 .............................B Eade 6 63382 Porky Pig nwtd .......................... A Bradshaw 10 77688 Another Prince nwtd..................J McInerney 4 53624 Know Magic nwtd .......................... G Cleeve 10 58237 Memory Lapse nwtd..................J McInerney 7 25764 Homebush Chopper 22.38 ........J McInerney 2 12.27pm WWW.GREYHOUNDASPETS.ORG.NZ C1, 5 25321 Camside Gold 22.55 J & .................D Fahey 7 2.47pm ADDED ENERGY STAKES C0, 457m 8 74375 Cawbourne Buttsy 23.10..............C Roberts 6 65265 Homebush Errol 22.79 ..............J McInerney 390m 1 456x Opawa Darcee nwtd L & .................... Wales 7 15846 Sandi Claws 22.78 ............................S Keen 1 16F48 Wrinkles 22.80 ..........................J McInerney 2 Know Style nwtd ........................... G Cleeve Emergencies: 9 77388 Opawa Casper nwtd L & .................... Wales 8 66457 Botany Win nwtd .......................J McInerney 2 73613 Lil Danny Rascal 23.30 M &..............Jopson 3 35545 Susan Jewel nwtd ........................C Roberts 9 78373 On The Level 22.64 ......................C Roberts 3 22537 Cawbourne Pirate 22.53 ....................C Weir 4 Opawa Bucks Eye nwtd L & ............... Wales 10 88878 Another Colt 22.54 ....................J McInerney 4 T8216 El Sid 22.76 .......................R Adcock 10 58787 Game Girl 22.93............................R Adcock 5 F4436 Cawbourne Roman nwtd ...................C Weir 10 4.32pm DUAL CODE STAKES C2, 390m 1 33234 Expect Delay 22.87 ......................... M Grant 5 28151 Gossip Queen nwtd .................. A Bradshaw 5 1.47pm LES MCLEOD MEMORIAL FEATURE R/A, 457m 6 24553 Opawa Top nwtd L & .......................... Wales 2 85322 Know Fault nwtd............................ G Cleeve 6 5261 Glory Hog nwtd .........................J McInerney 7 222 La Kinks nwtd.................................. M Grant 1 15111 Ugo Flash nwtd J & .........................D Fahey 3 86615 Fancy Kiwi nwtd .......................... B I Conner 7 21128 Kingman 22.79 ................................ M Grant 8 5623 Jinja Billy nwtd J & ..........................D Fahey 2 15x85 Fantastic Pete nwtd ......................C Roberts 4 12777 Sheza Gamble nwtd M & ..................Jopson 8 54638 Opawa Laz 22.66 L &......................... Wales 9 8x7 Uno Marguerite nwtd L & ...................

Wales 3 75726 Jessie Surfs 26.50 .......................C Roberts 5 x6271 Flying Amelia nwtd .............................C Weir 9 63884 Tepirita Hendrix nwtd M & .................Jopson 4 15718 Bound To Erupt 26.15 ..................... M Grant 10 74551 Cawbourne Kenny nwtd ...............C Roberts 6 53331 Token Ray 23.14 L & .......................... Wales 10 53778 Homebush Gru nwtd .................J McInerney 5 47444 Botany Blake 26.14 ...................J McInerney 8 3.22pm ASCOT PARK HOTEL C1, 457m

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45151 Eye Adam nwtd .........................J McInerney 77242 Jinja Loch nwtd ......................... A Bradshaw 18458 Premier Prince 23.04 ...................C Roberts 61467 Lots Of Beersies 23.12 ............... B I Conner 11 5.06pm SGRC $50 LEATHER LEADS C3, 390m 1 73166 Glenn Is Goodesy 22.90 ................. M Grant 2 1675F Cawbourne Danial 22.85 ...................C Weir 3 31283 Homebush Riley nwtd ...............J McInerney 4 72247 Matty Hooky 22.77 ....................J McInerney 5 x3338 Thrilling James 22.83 .................. B I Conner 6 21242 Mojo Burst 22.67 ............................. M Grant 7 47534 Chaimbo nwtd ...........................J McInerney 8 73611 Homebush Flyte 23.24 ..............J McInerney Emergencies: 9 78256 No More Beersies 22.73 ............. B I Conner 10 36657 Increasing 22.51 ............................. M Grant 12 5.25pm JUSTRACING.COM.AU C4/5, 390m 1 36523 Opawa Colin 22.46 L & ...................... Wales 2 22712 Wunzee nwtd ............................J McInerney 3 53641 Rambunctious 23.07 ................. A Bradshaw 4 43143 No Leaf Clover 22.43 .........................C Weir 5 36857 Smash Rumour 22.42 ..................... M Grant 6 12112 Robbie nwtd ..................................R Adcock 7 61876 Whitey’s Gone 22.72 .................J McInerney 8 28815 Homebush Rocky 23.23 ............J McInerney 9 73678 Question Bale 22.69 .................J McInerney 10 78373 On The Level 22.64 ......................C Roberts 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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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 TRAVEL

■ MOTOR RACING

Dixon takes GP Scott Dixon passed Helio Castroneves during a mid-race pit stop and dominated the rest of the way yesterday to win the Grand Prix of Long Beach for the first time.

A three-time IndyCar Series champion, Dixon has not had much luck on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit, finishing fourth in 2010 for his only previous top 10 at Long Beach.

The New Zealander started in third, quickly passed series leader Juan Pablo Montoya and took the lead after Castroneves nearly collided with another car in the pits on lap 33.

Dixon turned back one challenge from Castroneves during the remainder of the 80-lap race and passed Bobby Unser for fifth place on the career victory list with 36.

Castroneves finished second, Montoya third and Simon Pagenaud fourth to give Team Penske another strong finish.

Montoya won the opener at St. Petersburg, where Team Penske had four of the top five. James Hinchcliffe of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports won at Louisiana last week, but Penske had three of the top seven in that race.

Team Penske entered Long Beach with the top three in the series standings and had three of the top five qualifiers, including the front row with Castroneves and Montoya.

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Scott Dixon: First win at Long Beach.

Castroneves set track record in qualifying, earning his first pole at Long Beach since winning the 2001 race.

The Brazilian driver was strong at the start of the race and led the first 29 laps - his first laps led at Long Beach since 2009 - before a near collision in the pits cost him the top spot.

Castroneves had a good stop and was in position to beat Dixon out of the pits, but had to brake after nearly hitting Tony Kanaan’s car while trying to pull out of his stall.

The hesitation was just enough to allow Dixon.

In the lead for the first time this season, Dixon beat Castroneves out of the final pit stop and turned back his pass attempt with 24 laps left before cruising the rest of the way.

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his Ferrari finishing second.

“It was a shame for Nico because he was having a great race and did some great overtaking,” added Wolff. “We need to analyse the overheating problem.

“And looking at the result, Ferrari are catching up ... We need to do everything we can to continue to beat them.”

As Wolff lamented Mercedes’ relative loss of superior performance against Ferrari, the Italian team were uncertain if they should laugh or cry - Raikkonen saying he was disappointed not to win the race and four-time champion German Sebastian Vettel lamenting his own performance after finishing fourth.

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Sevens girls off to Rio New Zealand has won its fourth straight title on the women’s sevens circuit.

New Zealand has beaten Russia 29-10 in the final in Canada, taking their winning streak to 36 matches.

It secures their place at next year’s Rio Olympics, with a top four spot overall now guaranteed.

Captain Sarah Goss says they’re able to execute coach Sean Horan’s instructions.

“We came out with a goal for the series, and we’re learning each tournament and doing everything that we want to do.

“I’m just really happy for the girls who were really amazing, just looking forward to the next two.”

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Ferrari ‘major threat’ Daily Events Mercedes Formula One team chief Toto Wolff sighed with relief yesterday after seeing both of his team’s cars complete the Bahrain Grand Prix, with world champion Lewis Hamilton claiming his third victory in four races this year.

Hamilton’s team-mate Nico Rosberg finished third, after losing his brakes on the second last lap, while Hamilton had to hang on as he completed the contest after his brakes failed due to overheating as he headed towards the chequered flag.

“It was a huge relief as both cars lost brake power,” said Wolff, hiding his disappointment at losing a one-two finish with Finn Kimi Raikkonen in

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www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Some protection the French get from holy writ (5) 4. Initial encouragement I’m to get with favourite American (7) 8. With nothing up front, wickedness is backed by oil-producer (5) 9. Rugby player is fifty per cent shrewd to start with (3-4) 10. Funny line will stop one saying anything (3) 11. Scold for a time at school: again it seems I left, twice (9) 12. End of engagement: pop the question – just the job! (4) 13. Get ready to sail to Aran with craft it would produce (4) 18. Cast Rosie, otherwise one will not admit her to society (9) 20. It was once punishingly applied to the jazz enthusiast (3) 21. There’s nothing to apportion out but a speech (7) 22. Haul around Gateshead somehow to show amusement (5) 23. Know three ways of including Left for accommodating dogs (7) 24. Greatly dislikes what Les heads off (5)

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TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) It’s not often the start of a new solar year is as clear cut as now, with nothing holding you back and the future claiming your attention.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) With one eye on the road ahead and the other on the rear view mirror you’re getting a sense of where you’ve been and where you’re going.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) With communication lines open and the laws of synchronicity in effect, the solar spotlight reveals how much progress has been made recently.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) It’s during the Sun’s first full day in your career sector that an alliance between work and career forces reveals how many options you have.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) The planets are not only managing to squeeze in an opportunity to embrace a sense of adventure, they’re going all out to make it a reality.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) During the Sun’s first full day in your financial sector and of your annual financial review the support and conditions couldn’t be better.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Your fighting spirit is engaged today and has the support to trigger a communication and/or relationship breakthrough.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) You have your finger on the pulse and ear to the ground and your passions and fighting spirit engaged, making it clear from the get go you’re in control.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) The Sun’s first full day in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart brings a chance to make matters of the heart a priority.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) While there has been a lot of focus on home and family matters for several weeks you are now in a position to see what you’re dealing with.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) With the communication lines either already open or on the road to being open, this allows the Sun to focus on bringing a new level of authenticity.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

MCASLAN, Gerald Stewart – On April 20, 2015 passed away peacefully at home.

Aged 79 years. Treasured husband and friend of Louisa.

Dearly loved father and father in law of Sylvia (Pidgeon Bay), Andy and Ann (The Grove, Marlborough Sounds), Janet and Ron Cross (Mayfield), and treasured granddad of Hamish, Jessie, and Louise Cross. Loved son of the late Vernon and Sylvia and stepson of the late Lexie, and Beatrice (Cameron Courts), and loved brother and brother in law of the late Dave, and Mavis and Richard and Lois. Son in law of the late Bill and Dora Crean, and brother in law of Frances and Bet, Ivan and Isobel, the late Trevor, and Merle, Max and the late Shirley, Alistter, Robert and the late Elizabeth, and David and Janice, and a loved uncle of all his nieces and nephews. Messages to the McAslan family, C/- P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740.

Donations to the Ashburton Cancer Society would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Gerald’s life will be held at Our Chapel, Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on THURSDAY, April 23, commencing at 11.00am followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

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Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller.

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Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz.

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7am Monday Night With Matty Johns 8am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round Seven Friday. 8:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Cowboys v Warriors. 9am The After Match 9:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) Firebirds v Magic. 11am Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) Swifts v Mystics. 12:30 Netball Zone 1pm Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Firebirds v Magic. 1:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Tactix v Thunderbirds. 2pm Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Sharks v Rabbitohs. 4pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Cowboys v Warriors. 4:30 The After Match 5pm Rugby Nation 6pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Sharks v Rabbitohs.

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Champions on the greens Allenton’s Graeme Bishop and Methven’s Rob Fensom with the spoils of victory from the Champion of Champion Singles played at the Ashburton MSA Bowling Club on Sunday.

Bishop claimed the senior

men’s title with a narrow 21-20 over Ashburton’s Mike Quinn, adding to his fours title earlier in the summer.

The women’s singles was won

by Methven’s Shirley Pagey, who came out on top of Ashbur-

ton’s Wendy Herriott 21-12.

In the junior men Fensom beat MSA’s Larry Neal 21-17 while Rakaia’s Judy Moore beat Ashburton’s Pip Kiddey 21-10 in the junior women.

Allenton’s Rod Jenner beat

Methven’s Aaron Allred 22-16 in the men’s colts final.

A day earlier Fensom collected the win in the junior singles, beating Richard Kane 21-14 in the final, to conclude a superb season where he also won the

junior champion of champion triples and fours.

Of the 17 champion titles, the Methven club is home to a whopping nine, with Allenton three, Rakaia and the MSA two each and one for Ashburton.

Rugby gods deliver Cruden another cruel blow

BY KRIS SHANNON Four years after suffering heartbreak at the final hurdle, Aaron Cruden’s World Cup hopes have been dashed in equally unfortunate fashion.

Cruden was yesterday ruled out of rugby for six months after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, leaving the All Blacks without one of their key attacking weap-

ons and leaving Cruden to contemplate a cruel twist of fate.

The 26-year-old had sat down at the start of the season to map out his goals ahead of the most pivotal year in his young career.

One of those goals was playing an important part in the All Blacks defending the World Cup and, considering what he went through at the previous tournament, Cruden would have been more motivated than most.

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Injuries to others at the 2011 edition saw Cruden emerge as an unlikely option to start the final against France in the No10 jersey. But, after hyper-extending his right knee, the first five was forced to refocus on the 2015 tournament in England.

But now the opposite joint has undone four years of hard work, with the worst injury of Cruden’s career arriving at the worst possible time.

“I’m extremely disappointed and quite frustrated,” he said.

“This year I had a lot of goals and a couple of them were winning the Super Rugby title with the Chiefs, then there’s a big World Cup later in the year.”

While the All Blacks’ chances of winning that World Cup took a hit when Cruden went down without contact in the Chiefs’ win over the Crusaders on Friday night, the presence of Dan

Carter, Beauden Barrett and Colin Slade ensured few sleepless nights for Steve Hansen.

“It’s obviously hugely disappointing for Crudes - he has developed into a very good test All Black and is a key member of our team,” Hansen said. “But, as we know there are always going to be injuries, and as selectors we plan for these unfortunate events and are constantly looking to build depth.”

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