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Electorate back together again

By Susan Sandys

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Mid Canterbury has been restored as one electorate under proposed boundary changes released by the Representation Commission yesterday.

If confirmed following consultation, the Rangitata electorate will have its northern boundary extended out to the Rakaia River.

This will mean that the towns of Rakaia and Chertsey and the areas of Lauriston, Barrhill, Highbank, Mitcham, Seafield and Pendarves will once again be in the Rangitata electorate.

Residents in those areas were dismayed in 2014 when the Representation Commission sliced off the northern margin of Mid Canterbury and put

it into the Selwyn electorate.

They can now thank population growth in the Selwyn electorate, served

by MP Amy Adams, for returning them to the Rangitata electorate, served by MP Andrew Falloon.

Most residents are happy with the proposal, for which the public has until December 20 to make objections.

Rakaia Community Association chairman Neil Pluck commented it would be “like the good old days” with the town being in the same electorate as the rest of Mid Canterbury.

However, it had not really been a disadvantage to be part of Selwyn, as constituents had been able to call on both the Selwyn and Rangitata MPs and had been well-served by both. And Rakaia businesses served clientele on both sides of the river.

Nevertheless he welcomed the new proposal.

“We see ourselves as part of Mid Canterbury,” he said.

Mayor Neil Brown said the proposed change would make it simpler for people to identify who was their MP and Selwyn constituents on this side of the Rakaia River would no longer have to travel to Templeton to see their local MP, they would instead have to go only as far as Ashburton.

“It makes good commonsense having a river as a boundary other than some lines on a map or roads,” Brown said.

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Storm smashes way into Mid Canty

By Susan Sandys

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Stormy weather made a spectacular entrance into Mid Canterbury yesterday, smashing roofs, toppling trees and leaving the district white in its wake.

“She was pretty intense,” said Hinds Mechanical manager Ian King, where hail smashed through clearlight roofing about 1.45pm, bouncing into the workshop. It also dented a couple of vehicles on site.

“It was noisy,” King added.

As hailstones the size of golf balls were reported from Hinds, the thunderstorm began to arrive in Ashburton. It was just two days after similarly stormy weather on Monday about midday.

Yesterday’s storm was much more furious, and slowed the CBD almost to a standstill as shoppers sheltered from the icy stones pummelling down with deafening force.

Office and retail workers gathered around windows to watch, while lightning interfered with computers and phone lines.

Streets were left white, with the hailstones measuring up to more than two centimetres in diameter.

EA Networks linesmen numbering over one dozen were out in force yesterday afternoon repairing damage to the power network.

Operations manager Myles Connew said lightning had blown up more than one dozen transformers, which needed replacing.

“We are doing our best to try and get them all replaced as soon as possible,” Connew said.

Additionally a tree had been blown over lines in the Mitcham area.

About 200 rural customers lost

Yesterday’s hail arrived hot on the heels of another thunderstorm on Monday.

PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 201119-SS-0051 power, but they were to be restored by last night.

He said there were fewer customers affected than in the electrical storm on Monday, however the damage this time round was more time-consuming to repair.

Meanwhile, it is possible hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage has been sustained by crops in Mid Canterbury.

Hinds farmer Gary Wilson was out late yesterday assessing damage to crops on his property.

He said the “short, sharp violent storm” pummelled hailstones the size of golf balls. A young wheat crop had pickles knocked out, a radish crop looked “a bit like cole-

slaw” and maize also looked “a bit shredded”. He would be putting fungicide on to protect the radish where it had been bruised and broken, and hopefully it would come away again, while he also hoped the other crops would grow out the damage.

“We won’t know for a few days how bad it is,” Wilson said.

United Wheatgrowers chairman Brian Leadley said it appeared damage had been more widespread than in the previous storm.

There had been a couple of insurance claims come in from the Leeston area from hail on Monday.

Panel beaters preparing for hail damage onslaught

By Sue Newman

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Ashburton panel beaters are preparing for a deluge of insurance claims as vehicle owners line up to have hail-damaged vehicles repaired.

The early afternoon hailstorm

that cut a swathe through the Ashburton District yesterday counted hundreds of vehicles among its victims. The extent of that damage is anticipated to be greater than a similar storm eight years ago, said Collisions Plus owner Graeme Brook.

Shortly after the hailstorm, his telephone started ringing with callers having checked their vehicles and lodged claims with insurers. Vehicles were already starting to arrive in his yard.

Yesterday’s storm saw larger, harder hailstones than the storm

eight years ago, and this time round those stones were accompanied by driving wind that was seeing damage on both roofs and sides of vehicles, he said.

“I’m anticipating we’ll be in for a busy time. Basically, most vehicles that were outside, with a storm

like this, will have some damage.”

His advice to vehicle owners was to check their cars carefully from several angles, to lodge a claim with their insurer and make a booking with a panel beater.

“The phones are already going and it’ll be a long haul,” he said.

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Golfers turn duck minders Colin Morgan’s round of golf took an unexpected turn on Tuesday when he had to escape a hailstorm and became a surrogate mother to three ducklings.

Morgan was playing in a veterans’ golf tournament at the Tinwald Golf Course and had just teed off on the 18th hole when he spotted the three baby Paradise ducks.

He looked for the parents, who were nowhere to be seen and then headed off down the fairway after his ball.

When he finally got to the green to putt, he was surprised to see the three ducklings had followed him.

He finished the hole and moved to the next tee, with the ducklings in tow – much to the amusement of his playing partners, which included Ashburton’s Graham Moore and John McArthur.

“I put them in the creek, thinking they would swim away but they hopped out and followed me after I teed off at the 10th and then they waited on the green while I putted.”

Teeing off at the 11th, the golfers suddenly found themselves in a thunder storm, with rain and then hail pounding them.

Morgan put up his umbrella, and the three ducklings made a beeline for shelter at his feet.

They played out the hole, still with their duckling entourage.

With the weather not letting up, the veterans decided to

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Golfer Colin Morgan’s feathered fans. sprint back to the clubhouse from the 12th hole. Morgan thought the ducklings would not keep pace, but to his surprise they followed him into the changing room.

Morgan then took a lunch break in the clubhouse, shutting them out, but when the next golfer entered so too did the

ducklings.

He said the feathered crew was eventually rounded up and the players looked for their parents, who remained absent. Another big-hearted golfer eventually dropped them to the local SPCA, who planned to release them into a wildlife sanctuary.

Morgan said the ducklings

followed him long enough to be named Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Paradise shelducks nest under logs, in holes or in sheds. They lay one clutch of eggs, which the female incubates for about a month.

After the eggs hatch, the male and female share the parenting … not usually with golfers.

District back together again in one electorate From P1 Several Selwyn electorate residents in Mid Canterbury agreed and welcomed the proposed change.

However one Lyndhurst farmer, who did not want to be named, said he would be disappointed.

He had family in Rolleston so identified with the Selwyn electorate. He was also a member of the National Party and had recently been involved in the elec-

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tion of Nicola Grigg as incoming candidate for Selwyn.

Both Falloon and Adams welcomed the proposed change.

“I’ve loved representing the northern-most parts of the Ashburton District over recent years and I will be sorry to see them lost from the electorate but I can also see that it makes sense for all of the Ashburton District to be contained in one single electorate,” Adams said.

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has previously made it clear to the Representation Commission that Ashburton District should be in one electorate.

“There’s still a process to go through, but it’s a sensible change and I’m pleased the Representation Commission agreed to my proposal,” he said.

“It makes much more sense to have all of the Ashburton District in one electorate, and I’d relish the opportunity to represent communities like Rakaia, Chert-

sey, Lauriston, Pendarves and Dorie.”

He has the agreement of his political opponent, Labour List MP Jo Luxton, who will stand against him at next year’s election.

“It certainly makes sense for Rakaia, Chertsey and other areas to return to this electorate. My office regularly works with people in Rakaia and surrounding areas, and we look forward to continuing to do so in order to support our communities,” Luxton said.

An Ashburton woman’s Sunday walk along the river has gone viral after her dog picked up a very unusual chew toy – and the internet can’t get enough.

Lissa Cross was walking along the Ashburton River this past Sunday with her 4-year-old staffie/mastiff cross Huni when the curious canine sniffed out an X-rated plaything ... and just wouldn’t let it go.

“Houston we have a problem,” Cross wrote on Facebook. “The dog found herself a new chew toy at the river and refuses to give it up! How the hell do I make her understand this one and seriously WTF Ashburton.”

Photos show Huni standing proudly with her discovery – a large flesh-coloured sex toy – and video shows her trying to bury it like a bone.

The post has been shared hundreds of times, in New Zealand and overseas, with Facebook users in hysterics over the bizarre doggie treat.

“Nothing like a dog with her bone,” wrote one woman.

“Think your dog just won the Internet today. I can’t stop laughing,” said another.

Cross told NZME that she and her husband “laughed till we cried” after the much-loved pooch found the large sex toy by the riverbank and says she’s “stoked” that so many other people got a giggle out of the experience.

Describing the day as “not your average trip to the river”, Cross said Huni became quite attached to her new toy and wouldn’t relinquish the naughty object for an hour.

“Well, let’s just say an hour later after multiple sticks, branches and stones, the arrival of another car saved the day,” Cross said, adding that “no words could have explained” to any onlookers what her and her husband were doing coaxing the toy “from her vicelike jaws”.

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Keep going, keep breathing

By Sue Newman

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To most people, breathing is something that happens without thought, but for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), every breath can involve thought and effort.

Yesterday was world COPD day and to mark the occasion, members of the Ashburton support group walked the sealed track around Argyle Park. For some, that walk was a slow and laboured event but for all walkers it was an important part of their exercise regime.

The O2Go support group meets weekly for an exercise class and yesterday’s walk provided an opportunity to walk in the fresh air.

But often weather conditions were no friend of people with COPD as cold, wind and heat all added challenges to being able to breathe freely, spokesperson Bruce Leath said.

“We all have varying degrees of fitness, but we fight to be as fit as possible to maintain what lung function we do have,” he said.

While the ex-rugby referee looks fit, COPD is a hidden disease, and he now has just 40 per cent of normal lung function. Many in the group have around 60 per cent and keeping as fit as possible wards off the spectre of declining lung fuction, Leath said.

Learning to live with COPD means you have to listen to your body, recognise what you can and cannot do, but taking things a little easier, keeping active make it possible

Members of Ashburton’s Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) group celebrated world COPD day with a walk around Argyle Park.

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to live a relatively normal life, Leath said.

It was important for COPD sufferers to maintain the lung capacity they had because once this dropped to around 20 per cent, you were likely to be on supplementary oxygen for up to 16 hours per day, he said.

It affects one in seven New Zealanders aged 40 and over and is the fourth leading casue of premature death, illness or impairment.

Having COPD makes it hard to breathe.

There are two main types of the disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Friday nights to be set in lights Ashburton is set to light up with even more Christmas cheer this year, thanks to a bigger and brighter lineup of festive activities in the annual Nights of Lights festival, and it all kicks off with the lighting of the town Christmas tree at Light Up the Night on November 29.

Every Friday evening from the end of November until December 20, the town’s Christmas spirit will come to life in Baring Square East with a series of events – Light Up the Night, two buskers’ nights, a movie night and a festive walk.

Light Up the Night, presented by EA Networks, will feature all of the family fun of previous years, with Christmas carols, food trucks, a special visit from Santa and the countdown to the lighting of the giant Christmas

tree, but this year there’s even more in store.

In addition to a kids’ zone with bouncy castles and face painting, every person who attends Light Up the Night will go into the draw to win exciting Christmas gifts throughout the evening.

The gifts, which include bikes, scooters, barbecues, wireless headphones and even gaming consoles, are being made available thanks to a partnership between the Ashburton District Council and local businesses.

“We are proud to be working with a number of very generous local businesses to help residents share in the spirit of giving this festive season,” Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown said.

“Christmas is about people coming together, and it’s a great

show of community spirit to have our retailers getting behind this for residents to enjoy.”

The event begins at 6.30pm, with the gifts drawn throughout the evening starting at 7pm.

People are encouraged to arrive on time to secure their free tickets and distribute them amongst the three gift categories on offer: kids, teens and adults.

Presents from each category will be drawn every 30 minutes and winners must be in attendance to claim their prize.

The Festive Walk will be launched on the night along East Street, and it is set to be even bigger than last year with trees from Cameron Street to Moore Street all lighting up.

A number of retailers will also extend their opening hours on

the night for people to do their Christmas shopping.

The following Friday, Ashburton’s local talent will perform at the first of two buskers’ nights.

The second buskers’ night will take place on December 20.

A special outdoor screening of the 2003 Christmas classic Elf will take over the square on December 13 at movie night.

Food will be available to help complete the movie experience.

“Christmas is a special time of year to spend with friends and family, and Ashburton Nights of Lights is set to be a fantastic family-friendly festival to bring people together and celebrate the holiday spirit,” Brown said.

For more information about Ashburton Nights of Lights and each of the events, visit nightsoflights.nz

In brief High Country Fete All eyes will be on Methven today as the gates open on this year’s High Country Fete. The big market event is now a regular on the preChristmas calendar and gates open for this year’s event at the Methven Racecourse at 10am. As well as a huge line-up of stalls, there will be plenty of options for dining while you browse. There will also be two incentives to wear your best outfits with best dressed filly and best decorated hat competitions.

The High Country Fete was founded in 2016 by Denise Dixey and Julie Sergeant. The pair wanted to create an event that would celebrate Methven’s unique mountain environment. Now in its fourth year, the fete continues to attract boutique stalls from well known and unique businesses from all over the South Island. Tickets available at the gate, $15.

Fire calls Firefighters only received one weather related call-out during the storm, which was an alarm activation at the Ashburton Hospital. Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer Alan Burgess said the alarm was activated in the old laundry section of the hospital and was believed to have been caused by water getting in to the system. Burgess said the number of call-outs they attended due to weather came down to a number of circumstances. “With things like this it depends on the longevity of the event and if there is a lot of rain afterwards we can get situations where there is flooding, but fortunately in this case that hasn’t happened,” he said.

Pounamu up for sale A man who posted an epic haul of pounamu to social media asking about its potential value has been slammed for his “tragic” attempt to sell the taonga and sparked a fierce debate on the correct way to deal with the sacred stone.

“Greenstone, what’s it worth and where can you sell it? Got it from my grandmother who once did carving,” he wrote, posting a photo showing tubs full of the soughtafter rock. Many people urged him to contact his iwi and criticised him for not following tikanga in his attempt to sell it.

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‘I was just goading police’

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A fleeing driver accused of trying to shoot dead police officers yesterday claimed he was goading police into shooting him dead in a desperate suicide attempt.

Tolu Ma’anaiama, 33, is standing trial for attempting to murder two Christchurch police officers in the city on February 26 this year.

The shootout led to a period where frontline officers were armed.

Ma’anaiama was shot twice in the leg and once in the chest after police returned fire in Eveleyn Couzins Avenue in the Richmond area shortly before 7.30pm that day following a pursuit.

Police officers pursuing Ma’anaiama have claimed that he’d aimed a shotgun directly at them and felt that he was trying to kill them.

Yesterday, Ma’anaiama himself gave evidence to claim that he had never wanted to hurt anyone and that he had actually aimed shots down the centre of the road.

He claimed it was a suicide attempt.

Defence counsel Rupert Glover told the jury: “He shot down the street in the full expectation that the police would shoot back and shoot him and kill him.”

Samoan-born Ma’anaiama told of a troubled upbringing and how he had turned to selling methamphetamine to make a living.

At the time of the shooting, he’d been on a meth binge and had been up for five days, he said.

When police caught up with him in Eveleyn Couzins Avenue, Ma’anaiama said he didn’t want to run anymore.

“It was then I decided I didn’t want to be in this world anymore,” he said.

Both the Crown and defence have now finished with evidence and they will begin their closing

A Dunedin businessman who allegedly altered invoices to undervalue imported heavy machinery and evaded paying at least $1.4 million in GST at the border has been arrested following a Customs raid.

According to court documents, Paul Lambert Clarke, 43, of Mosgiel appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday facing three charges, including defrauding Customs revenue, offences in relation to declarations and documents that are known to be faulty, and obtaining by deception.

About $6 million of property has also been seized by the Southern police asset recovery unit.

Customs began investigating his business earlier this year after discovering that he had used an altered invoice to significantly undervalue an imported consignment of heavy machinery, Customs said in a statement.

An initial audit of 25 imported consignments by Clarke’s company showed that most of the consignments had been undervalued.

Customs records show the business had imported more than 200 consignments since 2013, and the undervaluations were believed to have spanned the six-year period.

An initial analysis of the imported consignment documents show that at least 90 of them had been undervalued, by a total of $9.6 million, resulting in $1.4 million in GST payments being evaded.

Customs investigators, assisted by police, carried out search warrants in Dunedin and Cromwell yesterday leading to the man’s arrest.

Customs investigations manager Bruce Berry said the accused had deliberately tried to circumvent the border systems in place to collect Government revenue.

“Defrauding Customs of revenue is fraud and a serious crime, with a penalty of up to five years in jail.”

A man is held down by police in Christchurch after the incident. addresses.

Justice Cameron Mander will then give his summing up of the evidence before the jury retires to consider its verdict.

Earlier, police dog handler Constable Kurt Stephenson told how he’d been pursuing a fleeing car when it came to a stop in a Richmond cul-de-sac.

As the driver walked a wide arc with the gun allegedly pointed at Stephenson, he got out of his police car and sought cover behind it, withdrawing his police-issue Glock pistol, racking the slide and chambering a 9mm round from the magazine into the firing chamber.

With the muzzle “pointed directly at me”, the police officer said he “immediately feared for the safety of myself and for members of the public in the area”.

He yelled as loudly as he could, “Armed police, drop the weapon”.

The man did not respond, Stephenson said, and moved

behind the vehicle, emerging on the other side, still pointing the shotgun at him.

Stephenson says a shot was fired directly at him, saying he heard the explosion of the gunshot, following by the noise of shotgun pellets being fired in his direction. He said the “distinctive whistle sounds” were like nothing he’s ever heard before.

He told the jury he believed the shooter was trying to kill him.

Stephenson fired “a number of rounds” from his Glock back at the gunman but didn’t think he hit him.

By then, other police officers had arrived – a total of five police officers in four police vehicles.

As the gunman again aimed the muzzle of his shotgun at Stephenson, the officer fired his Glock at him until he fell down.

Ma’anaiama was arrested at the scene and after receiving first-aid treatment, taken to Christchurch Hospital.

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A police examination of the scene found shotgun pellet dents in the grille of Stephenson’s police car and a shotgun pellet in its radiator. Further shotgun pellets were found down the length of the street.

Officers also found two shotgun shells at the scene.

A total of 35 shots had been fired by police officers.

A local resident filmed part of the incident on his cellphone.

The dramatic footage, featuring multiple loud gunshots and sirens wailing, was twice played to the jury.

The Crown says the clip shows Ma’anaiama taking aim directly at Stephenson and another police officer.

Ma’anaiama faces seven charges, including two of attempted murder, assault with a weapon, two charges of using a firearm against a law enforcement officer, and two alternative charges of using a firearm against a law enforcement officer.

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Israel strikes Iranian targets AP The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria yesterday, carrying out a “wide-scale” strike in response to rocket fire on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the day before. Syrian state media reported that two civilians were killed.

The military said its fighter jets hit multiple targets belonging to Iran’s elite Quds force, including surface-to-air missiles, weapons warehouses and military bases. After the Syrian military fired an air defense missile, the Israeli military said a number of Syrian aerial defence batteries were also destroyed.

Syria’s SANA news agency said the two people were killed by shrapnel when an Israeli missile hit a house in the town of Saasaa, southwest of Damascus.

The report also said several others were wounded in the airstrikes near the capital, Damascus, including a girl in a residential building in the suburb of Qudsaya, west of the Syrian capital. It claimed that Syrian air defences destroyed most of the Israeli missiles before they reached their targets.

The strikes further burst into the open what’s been a long shadow war between Israel and its archenemy Iran.

The two foes have increasingly clashed over what Israel says is Iran’s deeper presence along its borders.

Brian O’Conner to return Paul Walker’s popular character Brian O’Conner could be returning to the high speed Fast and Furious franchise, six years after the actor’s death. Sources close to the film say a body double will stand in for the deceased actor in Fast and Furious 9 and they are currently on the lookout for a suitable candidate.

Walker died in a car crash in Los Angeles in 2013, aged 40, during production of Furious 7. His character was given a send off in the film. The decision to bring him back is sure to be controversial. Fast and Furious 9 is due to be released in May, 2020.

The Israeli military said it has carried out a “wide-scale” strike on Iranian targets in Syria following a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

“Yesterday’s Iranian attack towards Israel is further clear proof of the purpose of the Iranian entrenchment in Syria, which threatens Israeli security, regional stability and the Syrian regime,” the military said in a statement, adding that it would “continue operating firmly and resolutely” against Iran in Syria.

Israel intercepted the four rockets on the Golan Heights on Tuesday, which came amid heightened tensions between

Israel and Iranian proxies along its borders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a series of warnings recently about Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East and has vowed to respond firmly.

“I made it clear: whoever harms us, we will harm them.

That’s what we did tonight,” he said. “We will continue to aggressively protect Israel’s security.”

Israel’s new hard-line de-

fence minister, Naftali Bennett, issued an equally firm statement.

“The rules have changed: whoever fires on Israel during the day will not sleep at night,” he said. “Our message to the leaders of Iran is simple: you are no longer immune. Any place you dispatch your tentacles, we will chop them off.”

The rare rocket fire comes a week after an Israeli airstrike against a top Palestinian militant based in Syria.

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Last campus protesters hold out Hong Kong schools reopened yesterday after a six-day shutdown but students and commuters faced transit disruptions as the last protesters remained holed up on a university campus.

City officials tried to restore a sense of normalcy as primary and secondary classes resumed. Workers began cleaning up debris blocking a major road tunnel, but it was unclear how soon it could be reopened.

A small group of protesters refused to leave Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the remnants of hundreds who took over the campus for several days. They won’t leave because they would face arrest.

Police have set up a cordon around the area to prevent anyone from escaping.

The occupation of Polytechnic capped more than a week of intense protests, the latest flareup in the often violent unrest that has gripped the semi-autonomous Chinese city for more than five months.

Riot police speak to protesters during a demonstration in the financial district in Hong Kong, yesterday.

Since a police siege of the campus began Sunday, more than 1000 people have been arrested and hundreds of injured treated at hospitals, authorities said.

It was unclear how many protesters remained, but they appeared to number less than 100. About two dozen scrounged through supplies in the cafeteria looking for food in the morning.

Trash litters public areas, and a stench permeates the campus.

One protester, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears arrest, remained adamant.

“I think if you go out and surrender, it just shows you agree with what the police and that government are doing or have given up the fight,” he said.

There were scattered incidents of protesters stopping trains by opening emergency doors and blocking traffic yesterday but on a much smaller scale than last week.

Television footage showed long lines at some stations because of train delays. A few stations remained shut because of damage from earlier protests.

A group of protesters, joined by students in uniform, blocked traffic at one intersection. Others in the area argued with them, removing some of the metal barriers that protesters carried into the street.

Even as the latest violence wound down, a fundamental divide suggests the protests in the former British colony are far from over.

Office workers joined protesters at lunchtime in the central business district to show support for the movement, as they have every day since last week. Police kept the crowds on the sidewalks, so they wouldn’t block traffic.

Death threats fly Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta have received death threats from Taylor Swift’s fans. The businessmen and other staff at Big Machine records have reportedly been receiving threats since the Me! hitmaker spoke out last week to accuse the executives of stopping her from performing her old music at the American Music Awards and having it used in a Netflix documentary. According to TMZ, Scooter’s wife, Yael Cohen and their three young children have also been mentioned as targets. The music manager’s office in Nashville had to be closed down last week due to the threats and police have been notified.

Shake-up for The Chase Fans of The Chase prepare yourselves — the smash-hit show is facing a “proper shake-up”. They’re the words of host Bradley Walsh who spoke to the UK’s Radio Times while the quiz phenomenon is on a between-season hiatus. Walsh, a former comedian who has become one of the most popular figures on British TV, said that might extend to multiple new chasers. Walsh told RadioTimes they are “making more and more shows all the time, so we need to recruit more people all the time … we have put our feelers out to find other people that will be suitable … all will be revealed next year.”

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The heartbreak of a hailstorm W

e might be able to control many factors in our lives, but the one we’ll never control is the weather.

This week has been one where the weather gods have thrown it all our way. Sunshine we can deal with, rain is fine and even wind, in moderation, is tolerable. But the destructive power of hail is something else.

And yesterday Ashburton – and a fair slice of the South Island – experienced a hailstorm from hell.

In some parts of the district hailstones the size of golf balls battered homes, vehicles, gardens and farms. Those winddriven stones smashed whatever was in their path but it’s only as the stones melt that the real

depth of damage will be seen.

Smashed windows can be fixed, dented cars can be fixed but gardens and crops cannot.

While many of us will have hail stories to tell, spare a thought for the many farmers who’ll be counting hail damage in thousands of dollars, not stories. For them that 15-minute hammering from hell may well have cost them a season’s income.

Yes, farmers’ fortunes have always run according to the vagaries of the weather, but most often with good planning they can work around whatever is thrown at them. But hail is a bit like fire. When it strikes it destroys.

There will be farmers around our district who, when the hailstorm passed, were afraid to drive out into their paddocks, afraid of what they might find.

And some would have found the worst, that the crops they’d poured money, time and effort into were all but destroyed.

Income gone for the year.

For some that might be the final straw. Many farmers are already walking a pretty fine tight-rope and a natural disaster

such as a hailstorm might be all it takes for them to decide they’ve had enough.

Farming’s a tough business and anyone who’s in that business knows there are never any guarantees, no matter how good you are at what you do.

Technology, science and modern machinery mean farming is a very different business today to what it was 20 years ago. And while that might mean that today’s farmers have many advantages, those advantages usually come with eye-watering debt.

It’s all good while things are running smoothly but toss constantly changing environmental regulations and fluctuating commodity prices into the mix and farming’s a precarious

business.

All that’s needed for that business to crumble is something as random as a hailstorm. And for some farmers, the storm that barrelled through Mid Canterbury yesterday might just have been the one that will make them say they’ve had enough.

Unfortunately, for many who now want out of their lifetime business of farming, it won’t be that simple. There are plenty of gaps in buyer ranks.

Getting a toe-hold on the farming ladder might have been tough, staying there might have been a struggle, but getting out at a decent price might be the hardest move of the lot, today’s highly regulated farming environment has seen to that.

The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance was auctioned off for $350,000 (plus $70,000 in taxes and fees) at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York’s Times Square.

Five years ago: After a three-day onslaught that dumped a historic 7 feet of snow on the Buffalo, New York, area and killed at least 12 people, the sun came out, but so did predictions of flooding caused by rain, temperatures up

to 60 degrees and blocked catch basins.

One year ago: Some of President Donald Trump’s Republican allies in Congress joined in criticising him for refusing to impose harsher penalties on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the death and dismemberment of a US-based columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 85. Actress

Marlo Thomas is 82. Actor Rick Lenz is 80. Actress Juliet Mills is 78. Actress Goldie Hawn is 74.

Rock musician Lonnie Jordan is 71. Singer Livingston Taylor is 69. Actress-singer Lorna Luft is 67. Actress Cherry Jones is 63.

Rock musician Brian Ritchie is 59. Gospel singer Steven Curtis Chapman is 57. Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 56. Singer-actress Bjork is 54. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chauncey Hannibal is 51.

Rock musician Alex James is 51.

Rapper Pretty Lou is 48. Actress

Rain Phoenix is 47. Actress Marina de Tavira is 46. Country singer Kelsi Osborn is 45. Actor Jimmi Simpson is 44. Singer-actress Lindsey Haun is 35. Actress Jena Malone is 35. Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen is 34. Actor-singer Sam Palladio is 32.

Thought for today: “Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”

– Robert Benchley, American humourist (born 1889, died on this date in 1945).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, November 21, the 325th day of 2019. There are 40 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On November 21, 1985, US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested accused of spying for Israel. (Pollard later pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to life in prison; he was released on parole on November 20, 2015.)

On this date: In 1863, British soldiers captured Rangiriri – where more soldiers were killed than in any other battle of the New Zealand Wars, the victory opened the Waikato basin to the imperial forces.

In 1920, the Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.

In 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed.

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act. In 1979, a mob attacked the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.

In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In 1992, a three-day tornado outbreak that struck 13 states began in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern US; 26 people were killed.

In 1995, Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialled a peace plan to end three and a-half years of ethnic fighting in BosniaHerzegovina.

In 2001, Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Connecticut, died of inhalation anthrax; she was the apparent last victim of a series of anthrax attacks carried out through the mail system.

Ten years ago: An explosion at the Xinxing coal mine near Hegang city in China killed 108 miners.

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Supporting the regions T

wo years ago my Labour colleagues and I campaigned fiercely on regional development.

It was clear that our regions were being left behind, despite the best efforts of hard-working Kiwis and their communities.

When the Coalition Government was formed, we agreed to invest significantly each year in big economic development projects right across the country.

We were determined not to let provincial New Zealand become a place for “ghost towns” with few job prospects.

Two years in, we’re really turning things around in the regions.

It’ll be a long-term challenge for New Zealand, but we’re moving in the right direction.

Right here in Mid Canterbury

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we’ve seen investments in local tourism in Methven, immigration policy changes that are set to relieve our tight job market, and initial investments into a second bridge right here in Ashburton through the Provincial Growth Fund.

Unemployment across New Zealand is lower than it’s been in more than a decade, and wages are rising faster than they have in the past 11 years.

Overseas tourist numbers are

going up, and our meat, dairy and grain exports are all rising, too.

And this is on top of our record investments in healthcare and education, which after nine years of neglect include rebuilding our hospitals across the country, and building new classrooms for 100,000 kids. Including here at local Ashburton schools, with our redevelopment of Ashburton College and much needed new classrooms at Allenton School.

All of these things are great for regional New Zealand, great for us here in Mid Canterbury because we know that when our regions thrive, our whole country thrives.

Alongside New Zealand First, we’re doing more in the regions through the Provincial Growth Fund.

Just this week we announced a

package of projects in Otago that will create more than 100 local jobs across engineering, manufacturing, forestry and technology sectors.

I am proud to be working as part of a government that’s looking beyond our big cities.

Over the past decade too many big issues were ignored.

Getting things back on track will take time, but we’ve made a good start.

Jo Luxton is a Labour list MP. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

TVNZ duo comfortably sharp

By Anna Murray

B

e honest.

How many of you thought Jeremy Wells would last approximately six months on Seven Sharp before being given his marching orders?

When the Radio Hauraki broadcaster and former Eating Media Lunch host was announced as Hilary Barry’s co-presenter on TVNZ’s flagship infotainment show last year, I figured it was only a matter of time before he forgot where he was and made one of his signature droll, incredibly funny – but wildly inappropriate – comments live on air.

That hasn’t really proven the case so far, but Wells and Barry certainly racked up their fair share of complaints right out of the gate.

Figures released to media on Sunday last year showed TVNZ received 118 good taste and decency complaints about Seven Sharp during the pair’s first seven months on the show, compared to 37 for previous hosts Toni Street and Mike Hosking.

Yet, here we are, just weeks away from Wells and Barry completing their second year on the job and they’ve never looked more secure on that grey studio couch of theirs.

Oh, they’re still ruffling feathers, don’t worry about that.

Just last week the presenters tipped some viewers over the edge with a skit they filmed for the return of the Goodnight Kiwi.

Taking turns reading children’s books aloud, each presenter was shown tucked up in bed.

It later transpired they were

Hillary Barry and Jeremy Wells. *gasp* in bed together, with Wells joking (presumably) about being in the nude.

It crossed the line for some.

A viewer named Beryl wrote on the show’s Facebook page: “This was meant to be about children’s bedtime stories! Why the completely inappropriate end – or even any two adults in bed listening to the story! ... This is prime family viewing. ENOUGH.” No doubt she then went to borrow some smelling salts from fellow viewer Barbara, who famously complained about Barry’s “news cleavage” earlier this year.

Well, I’ve got something to say to the pearl-clutching Beryls and Barbaras of the world: Get used to it. Because Hilary Barry and Jeremy Wells are a co-hosting dream team that’s delivered a viewership surge this year.

Clearly comfortable in each other’s company, the hosts’ interactions are natural – and frequently very funny.

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I’ve lost count of the number of times they’ve tried to hold back hoots of laughter on air and I live for the withering look Barry gives Wells when he makes some cheeky remark.

They’re also game for a bit of fun.

Their audition for Les Miserables a few weeks ago was amazing as they attempted to pop out of a grate in the stage floor to sing their two lines. (Side note: Hilary Barry is a fantastic Madame Thénardier should she ever be looking for a new gig.)

Last week, they also enthusiastically tested some of the top toys for Christmas.

In among the twerking llamas and soggy doggies, it was Hilary’s expression and faltering comment when she clocked the size and shape of a large Pictionary pen – and what it reminded her of – that was pure comedy.

And it’s not just me who thinks

these two are helping turn Seven Sharp into appointment viewing.

Average audience ratings from August to October have shown 486,000 Kiwis are tuning in to the show each night – which is an 18 per cent increase on viewership over the same period last year.

It might all yet come crashing down, of course, what with Wells still infamous for skating close to the line and Barry not afraid to tell viewers what she’s really thinking.

But sometimes I think that’s half the appeal, watching two people who don’t care one jot about getting a few noses out of joint.

They’ll certainly be riling each other up in the coming weeks as they once again disagree over Christmas decorations on set.

Their battle over the issue last year was a festive treat, as Barry’s increasingly elaborate decorations took over Wells’ bare half of the news desk.

An evil glint in Barry’s eye last week as they discussed Christmas suggests we might be in for more of the same this year.

Fingers crossed we are.

And fingers crossed for all those fans of Seven Sharp – myself included – that they feel like doing it all again come 2020.

Anna Murray writes about television for the New Zealand Herald.

The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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Dog whistle politics don’t work Craig Hickman

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was less than enthusiastic at the thought of attending National MP Todd Muller’s water meeting in Ashburton last month.

This wasn’t through any fault of Muller, National’s spokesperson for agriculture, but rather his party’s approach to the raft of challenges farmers are currently facing. National’s proxies have been advocating for public protest – both openly on social media and behind closed doors with industry groups.

Protest was a disaster for farmers at the last election and, no matter how good it may have been for the National Party, I still don’t see it as a constructive or useful tool.

Another reason for my antipathy was the recent policy announcement coming from the National Party leaders; the dog whistling has been so loud my labradors are in a constant state of confusion.

Even if there was evidence unvaccinated children of solo mums had caused the measles outbreak in Auckland, and there isn’t, cutting the benefits of those parents still wouldn’t have prevented it.

Of course dog whistle politics isn’t confined to the Nats, at the last election Labour plumbed new depths with their “Chinese-sounding names” housing attack and immigration policies across the spectrum seemed to be a race to see who could be the most xenophobic (the Greens, to their credit, pulled out of that race and Labour won by a nose).

I did attend the meeting though. The fact that Muller had drawn a line in the sand and committed to ending DIRA played almost as big a part in my decision to go as the message from a twitter friend saying they’d be there and were looking forward to meeting me.

I’m glad I went. I was expecting a partisan call to arms and an exhortation to drive my tractor to Parliament in protest at the oncoming new regulations.

Instead I got reason, pragmatism and encouragement to respectfully engage with the process.

It was obvious Muller had been giving it his all, fresh off a North Island tour, he was in Ashburton after speaking in Timaru earlier in the day, and Oxford the day before.

Barely able to speak above a hoarse whisper he regularly sipped from a glass of water, joking at one point that it was a delicious 2.5 per cent nitrate. I couldn’t imagine David Parker getting away with a comment like that, let alone getting a laugh from the 70 or so people that had come to hear him speak.

The meeting wasn’t strictly about water, it was meant to address the many issues facing rural New Zealand today, but if a politician is going to address a crowd of Mid Canterbury farmers there’s little doubt it will become a meeting about water.

Muller set the scene by harking back to Helen Clark’s statement, some 20 years ago, that agriculture was a sunset industry and built on this theme the idea that the current Labour Government does

not like farming and want to see it gone.

Whether that’s accurate or not, it was an idea the crowd was receptive to.

He lamented that the progress made by farmers had not been acknowledged and congratulated the room on the way farmers around the country had engaged on the proposed freshwater regulations in a respectful and informed manner.

This, he said, was the way forward; engaging with facts and science, not pitchforks. Leaning in, he called it.

My friend and I looked at each other when he said this because this was astounding. This is a radical departure from what I had been seeing in public until very recently and it is a philosophy that I could get behind.

National, Muller said, would not be put in a position where they oppose the freshwater proposals simply because of their economic impact.

This would be just as wrong as the situation we currently find ourselves in, where targets are being set with no regard for their social OR economic consequences. A balanced solution must be found that takes everything into account.

He’s right of course, I just hadn’t heard National say it out loud until now. ECan currently have a nitrate target of 6.9mg/ litre, and shifting that target to 1mg has a diminishing positive effect on the environment while the economic and social costs increase exponentially and potentially catastrophically.

I’ve said before that farmers just want to be left alone, but barring that we want certainty which is why a bipartisan agreement on water policy must be reached.

I’m very glad to see National are taking this approach and are there fighting for the economic and mental wellbeing of farming communities.

I look forward to seeing them apply this approach to all communities.

Craig Hickman is a columnist for Dairy Focus, which was published earlier this week.

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Familiar faces back on Ruralco board Aspiring to be the partner of choice for rural New Zealand has seen Ruralco maintain its market share while focusing on developing technology, people and capability within the business.

At the 56th Ruralco annual general meeting on Tuesday night chairman Alister Body congratulated the board and management for enabling the co-operative to remaining competitive, for continuing to develop relationships and better ways of doing business.

He said that effective collaboration between Ruralco’s management and the board enables the co-operative to work together, sharing a commitment to the business model and its future.

“Ruralco is standing proud with positive financial results and many accolades to its name, despite it having been a difficult trading year for the co-operative with the weather affecting irrigation and grain trading, together with uncertainty and farmers’ conservativeness affecting farm spend,” he said.

“These accolades and achievements include: 25th Annual Instore days, group CEO Robert Sharkie named runner-up in the NZ Co-op Business Leader of the Year; Ruralco named winners in the Westpac Business Champion Awards for Workplace Safety; and with the unique position of having four women on the board, Ruralco was recognised as a finalist in the Gender Diverse Organisation of the Year category of the Governance NZ, Women in Governance Awards.”

Body also celebrated the

Alister Body (chairman), Mark Saunders (directors’ remuneration committee), Tony Coltman (board of directors), Jessie Chan-Dorman (board of directors), Rob Sharkie (group CEO).

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co-operative’s new move to offer online voting for its shareholders.

“I am absolutely thrilled with the online voting process. The majority of the votes were cast prior to the AGM and in spite of this we still had a good attendance and participation at the AGM,” he said.

The first-time online voting process, conducted and scrutinised by independent company Electionz.com, saw shareholder

participation rates as high as ever with a five-fold increase (549 per cent) in participation rates from the 2018 election.

With three candidates standing for two seats, directors Jessie Chan-Dorman and Tony Coltman (who had both stood down via rotation) were both re-elected.

A familiar face at the board table and director for the past six years, Chan-Dorman was pleased

to be re-elected.

“I feel humbled to be part of the Ruralco team. Shareholder Mr Lilley summed it up really well last night in his general business address,” she said.

“From the shareholder, to the store person, to the executive, to the board, we are all one team working together for the benefit of our farmers.”

Chan-Dorman acknowledged the challenges ahead for farming,

but she also foresees some great opportunities and is confident Ruralco will be there to support farmers as they make the transition.

Coltman, who joined the board in 2016 said he was honoured to be re-elected.

“It was great to see such high participation rates, and to see the seats contested. This is a healthy position for the board,” he said.

Coltman said he is acutely aware of keeping both the business and its people in a strong position and helping it to evolve in a very competitive market.

A further election of one member to the directors’ remuneration committee saw Mark Saunders successfully elected.

For the second time in a row Ruralco will pay its owners a bonus rebate thanks to revenue growth and careful management of expenses. The $250,000 bonus rebate comes on the back of a strong year for the rural services co-operative, (ATS Ltd Trading as Ruralco), which recorded operating earnings before interest and depreciation (EBITDA) of $1.1 million.

During the last financial year Ruralco continued to increase its shareholders by 53 and its market share while also focusing on efficiencies within the business.

“Looking forward, Ruralco will continue to focus on developing its people, investing in technology and ensuring best workplace practice. It will have a continued pride for working for its shareholders and suppliers to best serve rural New Zealand,” Body said.

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Help for Mycoplasma bovis affected farmers extended The Farmer Assistance Programme (FAP) set up to help dairy farmers under active surveillance from Mycoplasma bovis has been extended to North Canterbury.

The programme has been trialled in Mid Canterbury over the past six weeks, with good results.

It involves farmers working with farmers to help them through the M. bovis process in the early stages. It is funded by the M. bovis programme, which is co-funded by Government, DairyNZ , and Beef + Lamb New Zealand, but under the direction of Federated Farmers.

Only a small percentage of farms under active surveillance go on to be identified as having the cattle disease, but stress levels are high in the group because of the unknown.

Tineka Johnstone is one of five women in the FAP qualified to help answer questions and guide farmers.

“We can answer any questions the farmer may have about active surveillance and the process.

We also have direct lines into MPI so we can follow up testing scheduling or if test results have taken longer than expected.”

Johnstone said team members could also help the farmer get NAIT records in order. They also keep in touch via phone or text during the process (or farm visit if required) until the farmer either comes out clear or moves onto a NOD. Ninety-five per cent of farms under surveillance come out clear.

“If they move onto a NOD we recommend they opt into the Rural Support Trust services and we would do a handover to them.”

She said the group had had a positive response so far to those farmers that they had called in the Mid Canterbury region.

“Over half of them have asked us to follow something up for them or answer questions.

“MPI have been helpful in getting us trained up and working with us in helping the farmer, and at the same time being open to feedback to enable them to improve their systems.”

FAP was a much-needed link in the chain for farmers and provided clarity over the testing process, factual information to make decisions with, and next steps info.

Johnstone is joined on the FAP

by Jodie Loos (Hororata), Emma Bedford (Dorie), Monica Mattushek (Te Pirita) and Katie Flett (Temuka).

To contact the FAP group, the

farmer either needs to opt-in when rung by the Active Surveillance Liaison team or ring Tineka Johnstone on 027 404 6383 or email tineka.johnstone@gmail. com

Farmers under active surveillance for Mycoplasma bovis are finding good support from the Farmer Assistance Programme.

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Livestreaming in BSA sights By: Damien Venuto NZME

The Broadcasting Standards Authority is taking steps to bring internet content under its remit in time for next year’s election.

The most significant change being proposed is to apply the strict standards of the Broadcasting Act to live-streamed content.

Live-streaming via online services have functioned in a grey area until now, but the BSA wants to change that.

In a letter addressed to media owners around New Zealand, BSA chair Judge Bill Hastings and CEO Belinda Moffat explain that they would like to establish an agreed-upon framework in the lead-up to next year’s election.

“We want to ensure that internet broadcasters know what standards apply to election-related materials online, and that the public know who to approach with relevant related complaints,” the letter said.

Live-streaming has been complicated because it exists somewhere between broadcasting and on-demand content.

The Broadcasting Act provides a specific exclusion for on-demand content in that it involves pre-recorded content that’s accessed for personal viewing.

The BSA argues that live-streaming is different to this, comparing it to “switching on a television and selecting the channel”.

The point the BSA makes is that live-streaming isn’t a private transmission for one person alone, but is rather transmitted “to all linear, live-stream or simulcast viewers”.

Should live-streaming fall under the Broadcasting Act, it will have major implications for companies such as Facebook and YouTube.

The Broadcasting Act provides rules specifying what kind of content is allowed to be broadcast in New Zealand This includes rules related to good taste and decency, children’s interests, violent content, accuracy and privacy.

Under the Act, broadcasters are required to ensure that broadcasts on their platforms always comply with these standards.

They are also required to have

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p S&P/NZX 20 index

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p Rises 60 q Falls 61 Top 5 NZX gainers Company

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online broadcasting. This will add to the already-existing radio, freeto-air television and pay television codes.

The BSA plans to start working on this code in January next year but has stressed the importance of acting quickly to ensure rules are evolved to be suitable for technologies that exist now and

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a proper process for dealing with complaints and should refer any complaints to the BSA if complainants are not satisfied with the response to their original complaint.

The BSA says it will work with broadcasters to prepare an internet broadcasting code that will contain guidelines applicable to

may develop in the future.

The BSA is calling on media owners to submit their feedback on the rules by 13 December and hopes to reach an agreement on how the law is applied.

In the event that consensus is not reached, the BSA is willing to take the legal route to establish the framework.

“If legislative interpretations issues prove too much of a barrier, we will consider seeking a declaratory judgment on notice to those who wish to participate in the process to clarify any issues we cannot agree upon,” the letter says.

The issue of live-streaming has proven particularly contentious in New Zealand in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack.

Although the original video was only viewed 200 times while live, it quickly spawned over a million videos containing footage of the bloodshed.

In the aftermath of that, Facebook incorporated a one-strike policy, which temporarily restricts access for users that break the social media site’s rules.

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By Paul McBeth NZME

Alliance Group said it would resume paying a distribution to farmer-shareholders after more than doubling its annual profit as China’s shrinking swine herd boosted meat prices worldwide.

The Invercargill-based co-operative announced a $9 million profit distribution to its 4000 or so farmer-shareholders, having held on to its earnings last year to reinvest back into the business.

It reported an after-tax profit before distributions of $13.9 million in the year ended September 30, from $6.6 million a year earlier. Gross margin widened to 4.5 per cent from 3.5 per cent a year earlier and revenue was largely stable at $1.71 billion.

The red meat exporter has benefited from the outbreak of African swine fever in China, which has wiped out about a third of that nation’s pig herd.

Unmet Chinese demand for animal protein has pushed up prices for alternative meat on the global market and filtered down to higher domestic prices.

Alliance told shareholders that Chinese demand for high-quality sources of red meat grew significantly in the year and that the cooperative expanded its supply of chilled beef to the world’s most populous nation where it can attract a premium over frozen meat.

Chair Murray Taggart said the increased profit reflected the investment the business made in recent years. Alliance’s cash flow state-

ment showed a net cash investment of $49.8 million, about half of which was on buying property, plant and equipment.

That drive for value also included an $18.8 million investment in the Meateor Pet Food joint venture with Scales Corp.

Alliance’s loyalty payments rewarding farmers who supply 100 per cent of their livestock to the co-operative rose to $15.2 million, up from $14.6 million a year earlier.

Taggart and chief executive David Surveyor said Alliance was in the second phase of building a sustainable business model.

They noted increased volatility and disruption in the sector, and said the co-operative’s farmers said their greatest concerns were the significant regulatory change.

Dairy prices increase at global auction

By Pattrick Smellie NZME

Dairy product prices increased at the Global Dairy Trade auction, as whole milk powder climbed to the highest level in nearly three years.

The GDT price index rose 1.7 per cent from the previous auction two weeks ago. The average price was $US3481 a tonne, compared with $US3446 a tonne two weeks ago. Some 37,968 tonnes of product was sold, down from 38,681 tonnes two weeks ago.

Whole milk powder gained 2.2 per cent to $US3321 a tonne. That is the highest average price since December 2016, NZX dairy analyst Robert Gibson said in a note.

“The NZX Dairy Derivatives market was expecting prices to lift for whole milk power, skim milk powder and anhydrous milk fat,

and butter,” Gibson said.

“However, it is strength in the milk powders that have driven the latest increase, with milk fats easing on the previous event.”

“This is likely due to Northern Hemisphere production being at a seasonally low point in the year, and milk supplies continuing to wane from Southern Hemisphere countries, with New Zealand starting to ease back on the previous year’s supplies too,” Gibson said.

Rennet casein climbed 5.6 per cent to $US7668 a tonne, while skim milk powder rallied 3.3 per cent to $US3017 a tonne.

Cheddar gained 2.5 per cent to $US3701 a tonne, while lactose rose 1.3 per cent to $US775 a tonne.

Meanwhile, anhydrous milk fat declined 1.5 per cent to $US5108

a tonne, while butter slid 1.3 per cent to $US4061 a tonne.

“Leading into this event, there was more milk fat product on offer, with softening prices likely due to some lifts in volumes sold,” according to Gibson.

Butter milk powder was not offered at this event.

For sweet whey powder, no product was offered or sold, and no price has been published for the last three auctions.

The New Zealand dollar last traded at 64.27 US cents as of 1.21pm in New York, compared with 63.98 US cents at the previous close in Wellington.

There were 134 winning bidders out of 187 participating at the 17-round auction. The number of registered bidders was 514, up from 511 at the previous auction.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

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Towering above

TEST YOURSELF

Murray and Susan Mcfaull, who journeyed through Paris in June, took this photo looking up at the Eiffel Tower.

Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 – At what time does the Ashburton Library open on Sundays? a. 10am b. 11am c. 1pm 2 – What name is given to the technique of sucking fat out of the body as a cosmetic treatment? a. Dermabrasion b. Liposuction c. Rhinoplasty 3 – Which nursery rhyme character was scared by a spider? a. Little Jack Horner b. Little Miss Muffet c. Little Johnnie Piper 4 – How many people died in the 1931 Napier earthquake? a. 56 b. 256 c. 556 5 – A vampire bat gets blood by? a. Sucking b. Licking c. Chewing 6 – What do the Latin words ‘cave canem’ mean? a. Beware of the dog b. A collapse c. Spare the cane 7 – What kind of wine is a Beaujolais? a. Sweet white b. Sweet red c. Dry red 8 – The Otematata river feeds which dam? a. Aviemore b. Benmore c. Roxburgh

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Parmesan basil croquettes with pesto aioli 2C cubed pumpkin 3T olive oil 1 1/2 C panko breadcrumbs 1 egg 1C parmesan cheese, grated 1/4 C fresh basil leaves, torn Salt and pepper, to season Cooking oil spray Pesto aioli 2/3 C aioli 2T basil pesto ■■ Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C fan-forced).

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Ashburton Bowling Club Ashburton Bowling Club members’ results and other pertinent matters for the past week, are as follows: On Friday, November 15, our re-arranged (from November 14 due to rain) champion of champions ladies singles match was played in glorious sunshine. Wendy Suttie is now our Ladies Singles Champion of Champions for 2019/2020! Congratulations Wendy! Her opponent was Diana King.

On Saturday November 16 our rollover triples were also played in beautiful sunshine and there was a good turnout. 1st with 3 wins and 10 ends were T Watson, A Blain, D Ross, M Carnachan and 2nd with 1 win and 10 ends were T Blain, R Prendergast, M Patterson, G Lennon.

Just quick reminders – the Ladies Fours Bowman Cup has been re-scheduled for Monday, December 16 at Ashburton and there is our inhouse Quaich Trophy this coming Saturday, November 23, which is now starting at 1.30pm because some players will be returning from Christchurch.

Bowlers are still required for our competitions on December 8 and 15.

Good bowling everyone!

Ashburton 9 Hole Golf 2019 Awards The Ashburton Golf Club 9 Hole Thursday Group held their end of year match luncheon and awards presentation on Thursday 14th November.

The winners of our annual competitions, based on the best 3 out of 5 games are: Jean Drummond Trophy for Putting: Gordon Clinton Marion Marshall Trophy for best Nett Scores: Chris Anderson Heather Smith Trophy for best Stableford scores.

Joint Winners: Laurence Hanrahan and Bev Blair.

Other Awards Opening Day, Daphne Smallbone Trophy (Greensome) Joy Nicholas and Eric Weir Closing Day Trophy (Greensome): Tong King and Gordon Clinton

Right - Chris Anderson (left) receives her trophy from Colin Fleming.

Below - Bev Blair and Laurence Hanrahan with their prizes.

Below right - Joy Nicholas and Eric Weir with their prizes.

Ashburton Combined Friendship Club President Alister welcomed 44 members and there were three apologies.

Christmas lunch, Tuesday December 10, is an out of town bus trip leaving at 10 30am and returning about 4.30pm Details of the “Town and Around” trip for Thursday November 21 in the Newsletter. Time from 4.45pm.

Our mini speaker was Rachel Beever, from Christchurch, an advocate from the Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service. This free service operates independently from all health and disability service providers and agencies to provide an Advocacy Service under the Health and Disabilities Act 1994. The Service works with patients and their families who may have a problem with a health or disability provider and assists in reaching a resolution.

Many of our members did not know this service existed and found the talk very informative. The Advocacy Service can be contacted by free phone 0800 555 050 or website www.advocacy.org.nz or email advocacy@advocacy.org.nz Our main speaker was Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins, officer in charge of the Ashburton Police. He came to Ashburton in 2011 as a detective and lives here.

When the top job became available, he applied because he thought the Senior Sergeant should live in town.

The police are divided into three work groups, Uniform, Highway Patrol, and CIB. The staff now includes six sergeants and nine new graduates from Police College and are rostered so police are on duty 24/7 with a sergeant in charge. NZ police dealt with an average of 200 firearm incidents a month. In the past, Armed Offender’s Squad Members had other jobs in the police and had to be called together to respond to an incident.

The new system being trialled in parts of NZ has the AOS on duty in a vehicle with their equipment doing ordinary police work but able to respond quickly if needed. Gangs have a presence in Ashburton because there is a market for drugs such as meth.

Compliance and H&S have become

much more important in recent years and there can be 3 to 4 hours of computer “paperwork” for each arrest.

Meetings second Tuesday of month, Senior’s Centre 206 Cameron St, 9.30am. Visitors welcome. Phone Alister 307 1207. ashcomboclub@gmail.com

Ashburton Electronic Organ and Keyboard November club night Our final club night of the year went off with a real pre-Christmas bang.

The efforts to show that Ho! Ho! was just around the corner was seen everywhere from sparkly Christmas lights (thanks to Rob, Rose, and Janet) to the various types of hats, jewellery, glasses and noses, to a rather raggle-taggle Mother Christmas.

John welcomed a full house, and thanked Elizabeth for playing us in.

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members have come out every time in support, and enjoyed their efforts. Some have taken it on for the first time, and have been rewarded with a good audience every time.

We sang happy birthday to Dennis, then Audrey and Rose presented their lineup.

The singing group (combined) 11 plus Audrey on the upright. “Jingle coins” “Snowy white snow and jingle bells” were just two of their selection.

Then Michael, who brought along his big Trchnics organ. (The best and last of its kind) took us back to our earlier days, when the big organs were all we played. They bring out the rich tones the keyboards can’t produce, unless you have mega amplification. Good on you Michael.

Nice Christmas selection of songs.

The accordion group then, led by Irene this time. Bernard was conspicuous by his absence, but the sound was sooo different. We now have a ‘half ‘n half group that sound good with a beat and no.

Lorrainne Boud on piano then rattled off about 20 different tunes of varying styles, tempo, and keys, blended together without so much as a musical breath.

Lorrainne doesn’t muck about turning pages. She has none. One piece of paper with song titles. Bravo Lorrainne.

The men’s singing group, 6 plus Audrey on piano (she does find some purlers) “Mistle-toe kiss” “I’m gettin’ nuttin’ for Christmas” were two.

Irene and Cushla then on accordions. I really enjoyed their item. Don’t know if it was intentional, but they played a couple of songs there in two different ways.

The skiffle group rounded off the evening with four Christmas songs, then our second sing-a-long with Michael for a bracket of good old conventional Christmas carols.

Thank you to those who served supper, and congrats to those who took home raffle prizes.

Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers November 6 Wednesday evening McGee Cup & Trophies Series, also Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers Summer Series. 27 Riders 1st. Jake Beeman 25m 36s. 2nd. Cole Beeman 27m 09s. 3rd. Martin Hyde 25m 40s. 4th. Nigel Chatterton 27m 10s. 5th.

Andrew Shepherd 27m 11s. 6th. Ronnie Campbell 24m 42s. 7th. Don Summerfield 24m 47s. 8th. Don Morrison 25m 58s. 9th. De Walt Venter 26m 22s. 10.

Mark Summerfield 25m 28s.

11th. Oliver Davidson 23m 03s F/T., 12th.

Tony Ward 23m 03s 2f/t. 13th. Nick Grijns 25m 31s. 14th. Brad Hudson 23m 06s.

3f/t. 15th. Brent Hudson 30m 03s. 16th.

Gerrard Morrison 24m 02s 4f/t. 17th.

Paul Sinclair 24m 02s. 5f/t. 18th. Tim Craig 25m 33s. 19th. Chris Reid 24m 48s.

20th. Bidget Sheed 28m 35s.

21st. Emma Hudson 30m 36s. 22nd.

Phoebe James 28m 35s. 23rd. Paul Macfie 25m 43s. 24th. Paul Summerfield 25m 43s. 25th. Andy Skinner 31m 12s.

26th. Debbie Skinner 31m 12s. 27th. Paul Hands 35m 03s.

November 13, 30 Riders. 1st. Anna Summerfield 33m 57s. 2nd. Chris Reid 23m 59s. 5f/t. 3rd. Mark Summerfield 23m 59s. 6f/t. 4th. Kevin Opele 23m 59s. 7f/t.

5th. Paul Chapman 24m 53s. 6th. Jake Beeman 24m 53s. 7th. Ross Templeton 25m 44s. 8th. Flynn Beeman 24m 54s.

9th. Martin Hyde 25m 45s. 10th. Tim Craig 24m 56s.

11th. Don Morrison 25m 48s. 12th. Nigel Chatterton 25m 48s. 13th. Nick Grijns 24m 58s. 14th. Mark Smitheram 25m 50s. 15th. Emma Hudson 30m 51s. 16th.

Brent Hudson 30m 57s. 17th. Paul Hands 35m 40s. 18th. Oliver Davidson 23m 08s F/T. 19th. Sam Clement Stewart 24m 13s.

20th. Brad Hudson 23m 09s 2f/t.

21st. Rachel Reid 29m 25s. 22nd. Brian Ellis 29m 26s. 23rd. Tony Ward 23m 11s.

3f/t. 24th Kerry Clough 29m 27s. 25th.

Matthew Clough 24m 19s. 26th. Dave Knight 23m 17s 4f/t. 27th. Gerrard Morrison 24m 24s. 28th. Paul Summerfield 25m 25s. 29th. Cole Beeman 29m 14s.

30th Glenn Beeman 34m 15s.

Rotary Club of Ashburton President Don McLeod welcomed members to a recent meeting and some reports were given. Jim Lischner said that four members had enjoyed attending the Avon-Otakaro Club School Honours Evening. The highlight was the jazz band.

Thanks were extended to Liz Cook and the hosts for the International Dinners held in members’ homes. President Elect Rodger Letham advised that he had attended the senior prize givings at Mt Hutt College and Ashburton College, Rotary were acknowledged for their awards. In his usual style Sergeant Stewart Bennett fined members for their misdemeanours.

The Mini Speaker was Peter Stechman who told of his recent trip to the Chatham Islands. The trip was during the winter on a chartered flight. Power and petrol are expensive, also beer and wine. Cars usually rust out after five years. They have a hospital with two doctors, and two police members. They rely on fishing, agriculture and tourism.

There is great hospitality but a week is long enough!

John Driscoll introduced the guest speaker, Brad Raukawa. Brad is the Youth Justice Worker for Safer Mid Canterbury, based in Community House.

There are three roles to his job — Supervision with Activity, this is to give a chance before going to jail. It is an alternative to custody.

Supported Bail—for those awaiting trial, for young people between 12-16 years who have appeared in the Youth Court to comply with their bail conditions.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

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Tottenham send off Pochettino

Schumacher doco postponed NZME The release of a documentary, believed to contain never-before-seen footage of Michael Schumacher after the tragic skiing accident that left him with catastrophic head trauma six years ago, has been put on hold, reportedly due to the Schumacher family’s fears over the “sensitive material” it contains.

According to the Mirror, the documentary on the seven-time world champion’s life was set to be released next month but has now been postponed.

It was announced in May that Schumacher’s wife, Corinna, had given her full backing for the documentary in which she and Schumacher’s father Rolf are believed to “open up” on camera for the first time since the Formula One legend’s horrific accident in the French Alps in December 2013.

Corinna Schumacher has rarely spoken publicly since but is expected to appear in the documentary, simply titled Schumacher, which was set to be released in next month.

“Due to the very extensive material the directors and the

Michael Schumacher retired from racing in 2012. production want to spend even more time to complete the film,” a spokesperson for the production company B14 Film said yesterday.

Several media reports have, however, indicated the delay is due to fears over sensitive family material.

Rolf Schumacher is also ex-

pected to make an appearance in the film, which filmmakers Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns say will even feature never-before-seen footage belonging to the family.

“It will show him as a remorseless and daring Formula 1 driver, the ambitious sportsman, the accomplished mechanic with a unique technical flair, the reliable team player and the loving family man,” producers said in May. Benjamin Seikel from B14 Film hailed the family’s trust with such a sensitive and ambitious film.

“We’re very happy about the trust that Michael Schumacher’s family and management have shown us. Without their support, this film would not have been possible,” he said.

“It’s time for this film. But of course, we’re very aware of the responsibility that comes with it.”

Schumacher, who retired from racing in 2012, has not been seen in public since the accident that made headlines around the globe.

The 50-year-old German is reportedly being cared for at home in Switzerland.

AP Tottenham have announced they have sacked manager Mauricio Pochettino with the Argentinian being relieved of his duties after five-and-a-half years in charge.

Spurs, who were in the Champions League final only six months ago, have endured a tough start to the season and are currently 14th in the Premier League table.

Chairman Daniel Levy, who appointed Pochettino in June 2014, said: “We were extremely reluctant to make this change and it is not a decision the board have taken lightly, nor in haste.

“Regrettably domestic results at the end of last season and the beginning of this season have been extremely disappointing.

“It falls on the board to make the difficult decisions – this one made more so given the many memorable moments we have had with Mauricio and his coaching staff – but we do so in the club’s best interests.”

Pochettino was at the helm for 293 games.

CLUB NEWS Continued from P14

Community Youth Programme—this is to provide young offenders, and those at risk of offending with positive alternatives.

Brad tries to build a relationship with the young person, to fill a void in their lives. He gave examples of the types of situations that some young people find themselves in and the life they might have had.

Brad has been two years in this role and loves Ashburton and wants it to be a safe place. Jonathan Grant thanked Brad for this talk.

Bevan Rickerby gave the Thought for the Week – “Great things never come from a comfort zone.”

Tinwald Garden Club October 24 The programme for the “Mystery Bus Trip” was affected by bad weather which meant that two garden visits had to be cancelled. Instead, a very enjoyable trip round the local area took place.

A visit to the Art Gallery on Alford Forest Road surprised many and the displays of art and handmade jewellery and a demonstration of painting by means of drawing threads across thick paint to form patterns was very interesting.

A journey to Lake Hood followed where we were taken on a guided tour by one of the foundation Trustees who told us of the impressive new developments planned for the area and the planned Wounded Warriors Academy to be built on site.

This was quite amazing and most informative.

After a catered lunch at the home of a member an extensive display of jewellery, homemade pickles, jams, chutneys and Christmas cakes by Lynne Searle was inspected by everyone, with opportunities to purchase.

Not quite the planned day, but still very enjoyable, thanks to the Organisers.

Club Bus Trip, November 4-6 A two night bus trip to Cromwell and the Wanaka area was enjoyed by nine members travelling in a mini-bus. Accommodation was at the Colonial Manor Motel in Cromwell and very satisfactory.

On our trip we took frequent breaks to inspect the Art Gallery in Fairlie, tourist shops and cafes in Fairlie, Omarama, and Tarras, the Hoglund Glass Gallery, the Lavender Farm near Lake Dunstan, an unscheduled visit to the Peony and Christmas Tree Nursery on the shore of the Lake where the owner gave us an extensive tour of the area and much valuable advice on growing and nurturing peonies and how to pick and display them, Nicholls cafe and Garden Centre in Cromwell and the quaint buildings in Old Cromwell.

Two very different gardens were visited in Wanaka, one belonging to Kate and John Coe, the other to Annabel Spier.

We were quite dismayed by the huge growth in housing around the Wanaka area and the crowds everywhere. Our two evening meals were taken first at the Five Stags Restaurant and second at the Stoaker Room, both in Cromwell.

It was a most enjoyable trip, we were sorry when it came to an end, and we thank our President, Pam Tait, for all the excellent planning and organising and driving she did.

Ashburton Golf Club The lovely weather on show weekend brought a good crowd down to the Brandon to play for the AM Sutherland trophy. Combined pairs stableford was the game of the day and the man in form Jamie Stone teamed up with Paul MacFie to shoot a superb 81 points. Just pipping Tom Blacklow and Matt Tait by a single point, with Fiona and Jeff Williamson a further point behind in third. A wonderful day was had by all and it was a great prelude to all the mixed Saturdays we have coming up over the summer season.

Attention this Saturday turns to the Santa Marie trophy and the RMF Silva Cup final. The Santa Marie is a great trophy in its own right and a stroke round always gets the blood pumping. Then chuck in the final of the season long RMF Silva cup with a club sub up for grabs and the tension will be brilliant.

We would love to top 20 finalists to make themselves available for afternoon golf if possible this week, so we can play them altogether in seeded groups to add a bit of spice to the proceedings.

Please make every effort to do this.

Looking at the leaderboard Dylan Stoddart currently sits on the top of the pile, but any of the top 9 can topple him with an outright win this Saturday. You will receive 30 points for top score with second place picking up 14 points, so it really is a case of winner takes all.

Even the poor old injured donkey in 20th place can pick up the title with an outright win and many other results falling his way, its an outside chance, but still feasible. Remember young Sam Clarke fly in from out of the clouds in 12th place last year to pick up the title.

It really should be a great day, we have got a brand new golf bag courtesy of Matt Davis for second place and a couple of vouchers for third and fourth.

See you down there and don’t forget to bring your A game.

Presentation night 30th November, tickets available

from board members or behind the bar, its always a great fun night.

If you have not already done so then get your name down to play in pennants next season, teams need to be in soon and we are looking at putting an extra team in the lower handicap grades. Till next time good golfing.

Mid Canterbury Central Friendship Club Over 70 members were welcomed by President Russell Small to our 19th November meeting. Roger Lake thanked members for their bus trip suggestions and added that a visit to a new apple orchard and a dairy farm is being planned for March next year.

Our Mini Speaker was Don Smyth. Don’s father emigrated from Northern Ireland in 1925 and worked on farms in the Longbeach area before acquiring a farm at Lowcliffe. Don was born in 1943 and after schooling at Lowcliffe and Ashburton, left at 15 years to work on the family farm.

Three years later he leased a block of the farm, continuing cropping and sheep. Periodic droughts were

a problem until he invested in irrigation, initially border dyke, and later spray. In the mid 1980s he diversified into deer farming, at one stage running 2500 head, but later scaled this down as prices declined.

Now retired, his son has continued on the farm.

Our Main Speaker was Leigh Jenkins, Senior Sergeant with Ashburton Police. Leigh hailed from a dairy farm in Waikato and was a late entrant to policing, joining the force aged 27 years. He served in various places, including Auckland, Otago and in Christchurch from 2003.

After the 2011 earthquakes he and family moved to Ashburton where he was posted as a Detective Sergeant until promotion to Senior Sergeant six months ago. With a total staff of 27 Ashburton station is also supported by Christchurch and Timaru.

Leigh described the areas of crime covered in Ashburton and fielded questions from the audience.

He was able to answer members various concerns around local crime ranging from gangs and drugs to boy racers.

Barry Quantock thanked our Guest Speaker and members were reminded our final meeting for the year is on 17th December with a christmas theme.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

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Rennie: ABs interest came too late NZME For new Wallabies coach Dave Rennie, timing was everything in deciding his future.

The former Chiefs coach had long been linked to the Australian job, but after New Zealand Rugby announced they had invited 26 candidates to apply for their coaching ranks, many suggested Rennie was a strong contender.

Speaking after being officially unveiled as the new Wallabies head coach, Rennie told rugby.

com.au there had been interest from this side of the Tasman but not until after his mind was all but made up.

“I’m a proud Kiwi but the big thing is I’ve been talking to Australia for a lot of months and the All Blacks interest came in late in the piece and by that stage ... we were really excited about the opportunity to go to Australia,” Rennie said.

The deal will keep Rennie in charge of the Wallabies until the 2023 World Cup in France.

Rennie coached the Chiefs to back-to-back titles in his first two years at the helm of the Super Rugby franchise, becoming the first first-year coach to win a title.

After six seasons in charge of the club, Rennie moved on to take the reins with the Glasgow Warriors on a three-year deal.

He will honour the remainder of his contract before joining the Wallabies in July next year.

Rennie will become the second Kiwi to coach the Wallabies, after Robbie Deans held the reins from

2008-2013, and admitted his appointment might not be the most popular choice right now.

“I think Australians want their national team coached by an Australian and I’m okay with that,” he said. “Hopefully, they’re feeling that way because they care about Aussie rugby and all I can say is everywhere I’ve gone I’ve immersed myself in the community and the culture.

“I guess we’ll be judged by what we do as opposed to what I say now but I can assure you that I

care about the future of Australian rugby, going to work really hard to get a strong connection with the Super Rugby coaches and national age-grade coaches to ensure we’ve got good young talent through and good pathways for them.”

Rugby Australia Chief Executive, Raelene Castle said: “This is a massive coup for Australian Rugby, Dave Rennie was the clear standout candidate for the job, and we’re thrilled to have secured his services.”

Pivac snaps up Kiwi pair for Wales NZME

Local knowledge leads to success Hampstead’s Daniel Hopkins led his side to success in the Histen Cup Triples tournament on their home green on Saturday, ending the day as the only one to win all their matches. Hopkins, who was joined on the greens by Malcolm Berhns and Manu Otene, finished up in the annual tournament with four wins and were well clear of their closest rivals, John Drayton, Mike Quinn and Murray Smallbridge, who finished with three wins and one draw from their four games while the trio of Brent Mayson, Jeff Nowell and Millie Foggo rounded out the placings in third with three wins for the day.

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Nadal fronts Spanish win in Davis Cup finals AP Rafael Nadal kept Spain’s hopes alive, then Marcel Granollers and Feliciano López completed the comeback in the decisive doubles match to give the hosts a 2-1 win over Russia in the inaugural Davis Cup Finals.

Granollers and López defeated Karen Khachanov and Andrey

Rublev 6-4, 7-6 (5) to seal the victory for Spain in a marathon series that ended close to 2am local time yesterday.

The top-ranked Nadal earlier defeated Khachanov 6-3, 7-6 (7) to level the series 1-1 after Rublev had rallied to beat Roberto Bautista-Agut 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (0) in the first match.

“It was a difficult situation for

us,” López said. “We needed this win, otherwise we could be close to being out of the tournament.

Now we are in a good position to advance.”

Although only one of the matches reached three sets, it took nearly eight hours to complete the series at the Caja Mágica (Magic Box) centre court.

Spain will be back in action

against defending champion Croatia. Russia beat Croatia on Monday.

In the revamped Davis Cup format debuting this year, teams play only two singles and a doubles in each tie, with the group winners advancing to the knockout stage along with the two best second-place finishers in the six groups.

Wayne Pivac has wasted no time doubling the presence of New Zealanders in the Welsh squad.

Naming his first Wales squad to face Warren Gatland’s Barbarians in Cardiff next week, Pivac immediately called up Auckland-born Willis Halaholo, who previously played for Southland, Waikato and the Hurricanes, and former Crusaders outside back Johnny McNicholl.

In recent times Wales have welcomed other Kiwis in the form of former Blues and Chiefs playmaker Gareth Anscombe, who qualifies through his mother, and midfielder Hadleigh Parkes.

Halaholo qualified on residency grounds last month having been at the Cardiff Blues since 2016 while McNicholl, who plays for Scarlets, became available for Wales on November 3 after completing the controversial threeyear conversion period.

The pair, both 29, will be some of the last players to sneak in under this criterion – often dubbed the project player rule – before it is extended to five-years from 2020.

McNicholl and Halaholo are among five uncapped players joining 22 members of the Welsh World Cup squad who finished fourth in lining up against the Barbarians next weekend.

“I personally know a lot about Johnny and I had Willis in the Auckland age groups when I was coaching there, so I know his background,” Pivac said. “They’re both exciting attacking players. It’s an opportunity for us to get Willis in for a week and have a look at him.

“We spoke to him earlier in the season about parts of his game we like and parts we think he can work on.

“It will be an interesting week to see how some players step up into a new environment and he’s one of those players.”

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Croquet players in top form Local croquet players from the Waireka Croquet Club have been busy over recent weeks mixing it with some of the best players in Canterbury and walking away with some outstanding results.

With the croquet season in full swing, it’s been busy times for the strong contingent of local players including appearances at the South Canterbury Golf Croquet handicap doubles tournament, the Fendalton Doubles Handicap Tournament and the South Canterbury Golf Croquet 10-16 Tournament over the past few weeks.

At the West End club, the South Canterbury handicap doubles tournament saw 12 local players from the Waireka Club in action playing 17 games over two days of play in very hot weather.

In a field of 32, comprising of players from Oamaru, Waimate, Timaru, Geraldine and Ashburton, Bev Blair and Audrey Leath produced an solid result claiming second place to a strong pairing of Jack Ellery and Christina Miller of Geraldine.

At the Fendalton tournament, six players from the Waireka club were in action, again in a field of 32 players from Nelson, Christchurch and Akaroa, and Bruce Leath and Colin Lamb finished in the runner-up position.

Lamb managed to go one better at the South Canterbury Golf Croquet’s 10-16 Handicap tournament though and in a field of 16 players, including four others from his club, Lamb was the overall winner picking up the coveted Mathieson Tray for this efforts.

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Black Caps won’t risk Ferguson against England NZME

Colin Lamb receives the Mathieson Tray for winning the South Canterbury Golf Croquest 10-16 Handicap tournament recently.

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Supercars legend rates Kiwi’s talents NZME An Australian Supercars legend says Kiwi Scott McLaughlin is “even better than me” and reckons he has the data to prove it.

McLaughlin has already claimed his second consecutive Supercars title before the 2019 finale in Newcastle, after a controversy hit year in which he won Bathurst and crushed all comers.

Some opponents have questioned the legitimacy of McLaughlin’s Ford Mustang and suggested his victory is more about the car than driver.

But his DJR Team Penske co-owner Dick Johnson has told the Daily Telegraph that McLaughlin is “already a great”.

The 74-year-old Johnson is sometimes described as touring cars’ greatest living driver – he was champion five times and won three Bathurst 1000s.

And Johnson says confidential race data from a test session in Queensland showed him why McLaughlin was so exceptional.

“He was getting on the throttle way earlier than anyone else and getting drive out of the middle of the corner that should not be

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Kiwi Scott McLaughlin is exceptional, says Aussie great Dick Johnson. PHOTO SUPPLIED possible,” Johnson said.

He said McLaughlin should already be ranked alongside Jamie Whincup, who has seven titles, and Craig Lowndes, with three, as a modern day greats.

Johnson said: “Without a doubt he is already up there. I don’t

think he will just challenge them, I think he will surpass them. He is still young, only 26, and he has a lot in front of him.

“I think he is better than me already.

“It is hard to compare against eras, but I reckon he has me. I

couldn’t do some of the things that he is doing.

“He has extraordinary talent.

He will break all the record if that is what he wants to do.’’

Johnson said the Queensland Raceway tests this year showed how good McLaughlin really was.

“He could get it out and get speed from the middle of the corner, which few can do. He can just make the car dance to his tune,” said Johnson.

“He has so much talent. The talent that he has, he is one of these guys that can just get so much extra out of a car.

“He has also surprised a few with what he can do on a simulator.’’

McLaughlin’s celebrations have been muted and Johnson said that was a result of the controversial reaction to his dominant year.

“Only we know how much work he has put into this and what it really means to him,” Johnson said. “I think he was a little disappointed with the external shit.

I think it has made him a little disappointed and he really didn’t celebrate that one like he should have.’’

Lockie Ferguson will wait at least another week for his test debut, with the Black Caps opting to keep faith in their experienced seam trio for the first test against England.

Trent Boult, Tim Southee and Neil Wagner have got the nod to start at Mount Maunganui today, with Colin de Grandhomme and Mitchell Santner making up the remainder of the bowling attack.

Ferguson, whose performances during the Cricket World Cup sparked calls for him to be unleashed on England in the test arena, has been released to domestic one-day cricket, as has Todd Astle, who lost the spin-bowling battle to the more restrictive option in Santner. Matt Henry will stay with the team as bowling cover.

Black Caps captain Kane Williamson acknowledged it was a tough decision to leave out Ferguson’s 150km/h offerings.

“It was tough, we know what he can bring – he’s certainly not far away and he’s an exciting prospect. We know he brings something a little different which is really exciting, no doubt he’s raring to go if and when that opportunity comes. His name will always be discussed.”

Williamson, who gave himself a clean bill of health after missing the Twenty20 series with a hip injury, said it was hard to go past the experienced trio of Boult, Southee and Wagner, who have claimed 679 test wickets between them.

“The three that we’ve gone with are guys that have been in the group for a long period of time and performed really well for us, so I know they’re looking forward to getting back into test cricket.

“It’s great to have so many guys in the environment who are very much raring to go and all offering different things.”

The New Zealand bowling attack could have their work cut out for them against an England side which bats deep, and is set to have a renewed emphasis on batting for long periods of time and wearing down the opposition.

England opener Dom Sibley will make his test debut today, and comes with a reputation for occupying time at the crease – having faced over 1000 balls more than the next-most resolute batsman in the most recent county cricket season.

England captain Joe Root says that mentality is something his side will be looking to emulate on a wicket that could offer more to batsmen than the surfaces England usually receive at home.

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Knockawarwon (outside) winning at the Ashburton trials on Tuesday.

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Shartin’s brother inherits speed HRNZ

and he is faster,” Crabbe said.

“He has always been able to run a half [800m] around my track in a second to half a second faster than Shartin.”

Shartin qualified in 3.05.1 for 2400m from behind the mobile, four years and four days prior to Knockawarwon qualifying in 3.03.7.

Baby brother showed off his speed by dashing his last 400m in 26.2sec on Tuesday.

The impressive display came in the horse’s first public appearance.

“First time in a race cart, first time in a race saddle and first time on a race track,” Crabbe said.

“He is a very sensible horse, he relaxes, he is one of those ones you’re lucky to have around.”

“He has got great manners and he is a stunningly-gaited horse.”

Shartin’s baby brother showed he has his share of his family’s ability when speeding to an impressive qualifying win at the Ashburton trials on Tuesday.

The Tintin In America pacer from Live Or Die mare Bagdarin, named Knockawarwon, has big shoes to fill considering his sister already has her name etched in harness racing history as the world’s fastest ever mare.

The 3yr-old, bred and trained

by Shartin’s breeder Grant Crabbe, has not only revealed he has the ability to make some kind of name for himself in the sport with his trial win.

He has shown he is doing even better than his star sister at the same stage of their careers.

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Kylie came in to the ownership of the horse after Crabbe injured his neck and could have been left unable to do any work with Knockawarwon.

Mumm’s friends and family, who are from the Ngakawau region, subsequently joined the horse’s ownership.

The group had only had one serious offer, which totalled over six figures, before Tuesday’s trials.

Crabbe said they declined that proposal and were likely to decline subsequent offers unless they were sizeable.

“The guys on the coast said they want to race him – unless the money was reasonable – it is hard to get a nice horse.

“Despite all of the publicity he has had through Shartin, we have only had one phone call from people offering to buy him.”

Crabbe has not yet broken in the next foal from Bagdarin, a yearling by A Rocknroll Dance named Done Rockn.

The horse is to be gelded this week after displaying coltish tendencies.

“He is a roaring, very mature type of horse.

“He is a stunning horse, he is probably the pick of the family on looks. He looks like he could go as a 2yr-old.”

Bagdarin was served by Gold Ace last season and is due to give birth to a foal by the sire in the coming weeks.

Crabbe also plans to put the mare back in foal to Gold Ace. Part of the inspiration for that decision is because he has a 2yrold by the sire from another of his broodmare’s in Cassie’s Medley, which he rates very highly.

1 7725x Brooke’s Image (1) fr...................P Ferguson 2 00642 The Lone Ranger (2) fr..................B Butcher 3 Px334 Milner (3) fr......................................S Phelan 4 391P8 Payment Plan (4) fr...........................J Curtin 5 00610 Red Terror (5) fr............................. D Butcher 6 398x7 Sheikh Yabooty (6) fr..................... B Mangos 7 79442 Matai Minky (7) fr...........................Z Butcher 8 41750 A Cracker Knight (21) fr.................T Mitchell 9 706x1 Play Ball (22) fr..............................B Orange 8 7.56pm DANIEL & SIAN FAREWELL MOBILE PACE $9000, r54-r62., mobile, 2500m 1 736x1 Mister Harris (1) fr................. D Ferguson (J) 2 6x239 Ideal Tiger (2) fr...............................S Phelan 3 x0725 The Kapiti Express (3) fr............ J Abernethy 4 x0441 Onedin Punter (4) fr....................P Ferguson 5 9x213 Voodoo Prince (5) fr.......................B Orange 6 75977 Shillelagh (6) fr..................................J Curtin 7 01002 Frankie Jones (7) fr....................... D Butcher 8 63471 Rake (21) fr....................................T Mitchell 9 732x8 The Bandit Queen (22) fr...............Z Butcher 9 8.21pm AUSTRALIASIAN JUN DRVRS CHAMPS 10&12 DEC MBL PCE $9000, 3yo+ r51-r56., mobile, 2500m 1 5xL56 Sweet Maggie Ryan (1) fr..........S Abernethy 2 7x219 Jessie Kelly (2) fr............................B Orange 3 x8370 Lincoln Moment (3) fr..................P Ferguson

4 55x1 Claytons Bettor (4) fr..................... B Mangos 5 216P4 Jingles Bromac (5) fr..................... D Butcher 6 9x440 Burst Out Laughing (6) fr...............T Mitchell 7 31864 American Me (7) fr..................... J Abernethy 8 00251 Chromozone (21) fr...........................J Curtin 9 837x1 Wildestdreams (22) fr......................S Phelan LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated SELECTIONS Race 1: Kash Valley, Thatgirltrouble, Majestic One, Mekong Princess Race 2: Benjamin Button, Sabreur, Maria Kirilenko, Arty Pharty Race 3: Major Mac, Jetson Hunter, Absolut Russian, Carse O Fern Cully Race 4: Masada, Dragon Tattoo, Drum Beat, All Money Race 5: Typhoon Banner, Reckon Im Smart, Lavazza, Harvey Specter Race 6: Lynton Creek, Den’s Legacy, Amaro, Magic Blaze Race 7: The Lone Ranger, Matai Minky, Milner, Play Ball Race 8: Shillelagh, Voodoo Prince, Ideal Tiger, Onedin Punter Race 9: American Me, Wildestdreams, Chromozone, Jingles Bromac

Knockawarwon will not be seen at the races in the coming weeks, with his breeder-trainer opting to take a patient approach with the promising pacer.

“I am going to turn him out for six weeks, because he has only really just turned three – being a late November foal.”

“I thought he is such a nice horse and he has everything right, so if I give him a nice spell now for six weeks, or so, he will be right for racing around February or March.”

Knockawarwon’s name was developed from what could be considered a phonetic or mangled spelling of Ngakawau – a region on the West Coast of the South Island.

The 3yr-old is partly raced by Crabbe’s daughter, Kylie, and her partner, Michael Mumm.

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Today at Manawatu Racecourse

Manawatu Harness Racing Club’s meeting at Manawatu Raceway on November 21. NZ Meeting number: 7. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9.

1 5.00pm (NZT) HARRIS HOPKINSON FAMILY HANDICAP TROT $9000, non-winners & up-r65 w/c spechcp, stand, 2500m 1 Hurry Up (1) fr...................................J Curtin 2 6Px93 Buller Whitebait (2) fr..................P Ferguson 3 50839 Danke (1) 30M................................ G Martin 4 8x2D7 Leesa Castleton (2) 30M.................S Phelan 5 85126 The Rev (U1) 40M.........................Z Butcher 6 410x8 Caitlin’s Surprise (1) 50M.............. P Fleming 7 46916 Fira (2) 50M............................ A Harrison (J) 8 110x1 Kash Valley (3) 50M...................... D Butcher 9 65975 Mekong Princess (U1) 50M...........B Orange 10 016x2 Thatgirltrouble (1) 60M.......... D Ferguson (J) 11 07644 Majestic One (2) 60M.................S Abernethy 2 5.20pm CAFE JACKO MOBILE PACE $9000, r40-r49., mobile, 2000m 1 480x7 Our Wicklow (1) fr......................... B Mangos 2 x5665 Maria Kirilenko (2) fr................... J Abernethy 3 72513 Sabreur (3) fr...................................S Phelan 4 00x57 Iamthedream (4) fr.........................T Mitchell 5 48x76 Mr Billiards (5) fr.................... D Ferguson (J) 6 8137P Benjamin Button (6) fr................S Abernethy

7 70x39 Arty Pharty (7) fr...............................J Curtin 8 00324 Artfilly Crafted (21) fr......................B Orange 9 94865 Beaudiene Emerald (22) fr.............Z Butcher 10 50x06 Dana Dawn (23) fr.......................P Ferguson 11 480x9 Lincoln Lovely (24) fr......................B Butcher 3 5.49pm HUGHES JOINERY MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2500m 1 36677 Milliethepiper (1) fr.....................S Abernethy 2 2x573 Jetson Hunter (2) fr....................... B Mangos 3 44776 Hey Good Lookin (3) fr.................. D Butcher 4 04984 Razcal Alley (4) fr...........................T Mitchell 5 0 Major Mac (5) fr..............................B Butcher 6 9x067 He’s Gratis (6) fr................................B Taylor 7 6x844 Speciale Uno (7) fr......................P Ferguson 8 86322 Absolut Russian (21) fr..................B Orange 9 98337 Carse O Fern Cully (22) fr..... D Ferguson (J) 10 7374x Lady Ameera (23) fr................... J Abernethy 4 6.14pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2000m 1 6x705 Shan One (1) fr.................................J Curtin 2 06 Drum Beat (2) fr.............................Z Butcher 3 00x00 Dametoro (3) fr.............................. D Butcher 4 0703 Masada (4) fr..................................B Orange 5 942 Dragon Tattoo (5) fr....................... B Mangos 6 96x Sonny Reactor (6) fr.............. D Ferguson (J) 7 9P3x7 Nicky Jay (7) fr............................P Ferguson

8 03278 All Money (21) fr.............................T Mitchell 9 5988 Tactful Reaction (22) fr............... J Abernethy 5 6.39pm WAIMANAWA AGISTMENT MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2000m 1 x3565 Harvey Specter (1) fr.................. J Abernethy 2 7 Typhoon Banner (2) fr................... B Mangos 3 0x094 Aurelia Cotta (3) fr..........................B Orange 4 885x0 Zip Code (4) fr............................S Abernethy 5 6670x Downtown Babe (5) fr........... D Ferguson (J) 6 5x763 Lavazza (6) fr.................................Z Butcher 7 055 Emmi Rose (7) fr.............................S Phelan 8 xP692 Reckon Im Smart (21) fr................ D Butcher 9 3960x Trooper Cooper (22) fr......................J Curtin 10 69x9 Fleetmaster (23) fr.........................T Mitchell 6 7.05pm WHITEHORSE INN MOBILE PACE $9000, r40-r50., mobile, 2500m 1 0x888 Red River Dash (1) fr.................S Abernethy 2 89x75 Amaro (2) fr........................... D Ferguson (J) 3 09758 Martin McGuinness (3) fr............P Ferguson 4 68432 Den’s Legacy (4) fr.........................B Orange 5 47752 Magic Blaze (5) fr...........................T Mitchell 6 39664 Molly Dooker (6) fr.........................Z Butcher 7 40753 Lynton Creek (7) fr........................ D Butcher 8 x0066 Simply Dreaming (U1) fr................B Butcher 7 7.31pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION MOBILE PACE $9000, r49-r53., mobile, 2500m

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M3 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 21 November 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.03pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C3/4, 295m 1 11766 Hilton Hangover 17.15...................... B Dann 2 24442 Platinum Marshal 17.00................C Roberts 3 17763 Pita Ramos 17.14..............................J Dunn 4 27174 Reign Of Fire 17.36....................J McInerney 5 54771 Smash Grenade 17.38..................... M Grant 6 18258 Goldstar Avalon 17.31 S &...............B Evans 7 x7338 Nangar Warrior 17.01..........................C Weir 8 76651 Elodea 17.39..............................R Blackburn 9 78787 Raptor Attack 17.18................... A Bradshaw 10 38676 Go Gunna 17.25..............................R Wales 2 12.21pm KAISA EARTHWORKS PH 0272073323 DASH C3, 295m 1 45261 Dizzy Banjo 17.12 S &.....................B Evans 2 34622 Mitcham Reado 17.24................J McInerney 3 25273 Starr Blueblood 17.61................J McInerney 4 45675 Know Shame nwtd..........................G Cleeve 5 85721 Just Izzy 17.35.................................. B Dann 6 37466 Call Me Flo 17.16...................... A Botherway 7 11111 Archie John Hill 17.44 J &................D Fahey 8 21247 Goldstar Liberty 17.32 J M............... McCook 9 38676 Go Gunna 17.25..............................R Wales 10 68885 Princely Gold 17.15....................J McInerney 3 12.38pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENEE SMITH DASH C3, 295m 1 x6246 Ohana Lad nwtd..................................C Weir 2 32563 Enchantee 17.51........................R Blackburn 3 21788 Homebush Tesan 17.28.............J McInerney

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

4 65867 Cawbourne Britty 17.22................C Roberts 5 51467 Goldstar Halsey 17.41 S &...............B Evans 6 21446 Smash Over 17.32........................... M Grant 7 16587 Amuri Liv 17.28..........................J McInerney 8 15158 Mitcham Becky 17.34 J M................ McCook 9 38676 Go Gunna 17.25..............................R Wales 10 68885 Princely Gold 17.15....................J McInerney 4 12.56pm BEACH CAFE & WINE BAR SPRINT C3, 520m 1 11325 Max Dancer 30.13 J &.....................D Fahey 2 11722 Mighty Muscle 30.20 J &..................D Fahey 3 22338 Barrel Runner nwtd....................A Bradshaw 4 13142 Rivalries 30.16 J &...........................D Fahey 5 52128 Our Anna 30.38................................R Wales 6 58456 Opawa May 30.21............................R Wales 7 22638 Opawa Sweet 30.23.........................R Wales 8 12614 Goldstar Yankee 30.54 S &..............B Evans 5 1.13pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C3, 295m 1 63736 Black Eye Bill 17.47................... M Dempsey 2 47362 Cash A Roo 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 3 88764 Mulberry Minx 17.34..................... K Cassidy 4 72888 Black Tori 17.35.......................... A Bradshaw 5 11258 Opawa Oscar 17.24.........................R Wales 6 51282 Know Scrutiny 17.24.......................G Cleeve 7 81855 Feral Kaiaka 17.45...........................M Butler 8 27244 Sozin’s Empire 17.56.................J McInerney 9 38676 Go Gunna 17.25..............................R Wales 10 68885 Princely Gold 17.15....................J McInerney 6 1.31pm ANGLER’S ARMS TAVERN SPRINT C3/4, 295m 1 24686 Goldstar Dodge 17.26 S &...............B Evans 2 66755 Wildebeest 17.20....................... A Bradshaw 3 57252 Inside Affair 17.16..............................J Dunn 4 158x8 Rocket Raccoon 17.01........................C Weir

5 F2356 Man Of Letters 17.38...........................A Lee 6 16368 Dyna Elliot 17.31...........................C Roberts 7 73537 Taieri Terra 17.34.............................R Casey 8 18457 Opawa Lacy 17.04 J &.....................D Fahey 9 78787 Raptor Attack 17.18................... A Bradshaw 10 68885 Princely Gold 17.15....................J McInerney 7 1.48pm GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND SPRINT C3, 295m 1 64134 Mitcham Trudy 17.31..................J McInerney 2 51151 King Toliman 17.32........................C Roberts 3 15336 Know Sweat 17.26..........................G Cleeve 4 45412 Special Affair 17.30....................R Blackburn 5 47567 Joe Bonanza nwtd.....................J McInerney 6 41444 Chitina Tin 17.15..................................A Lee 7 43858 Smash Damage 17.17..................... M Grant 8 34575 Goldstar Jay Jay 17.24 S &..............B Evans 9 38676 Go Gunna 17.25..............................R Wales 10 18787 Know Cause 17.29..........................G Cleeve 8 2.09pm I PAVE CONCRETE DASH C3, 295m 1 52336 Jax Jewel 17.37............................D Roberts 2 23243 Little Krakatoa 17.24.................. A Bradshaw 3 58152 King Kali 17.19................................. M Grant 4 15858 Goldstar Spotty 17.31 S &...............B Evans 5 46114 Punch On Jessie nwtd...............J McInerney 6 36314 Broken Penniless 17.40..................G Cleeve 7 13156 Homebush Aimee 17.55............J McInerney 8 65864 Golden Bay 17.13 J M..................... McCook 9 38676 Go Gunna 17.25..............................R Wales 10 18787 Know Cause 17.29..........................G Cleeve 9 2.24pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C5, 295m 1 24534 Hankenstein 17.19..................... A Bradshaw 2 12117 Select Trick 17.10................................C Weir 3 81262 Ketchikan Kim 17.25..........................J Dunn

4 61152 Lisa’s Boy 17.24...............................R Casey 5 11428 Smash Wild 17.07............................ M Grant 6 21838 Fired Up Jed 17.21........................... B Dann 7 37733 Treville 17.27......................................J Dunn 8 24145 Fickle Mistress 17.36 H &....................Taylor 9 17438 Memoir 17.39 H &................................Taylor 10 17873 Nippa Martino 17.22..................J McInerney 10 2.43pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C4, 520m 1 52334 Opawa Nat 30.28 J &.......................D Fahey 2 2x354 Gem 30.21 J &.................................D Fahey 3 38556 Ringside 29.84...............................R Adcock 4 28458 Dyna Elwyn 29.67.........................C Roberts 5 462x8 Ophelia Allen 30.09.......................D Roberts 6 54721 Our Jolene 30.32.............................R Wales 7 25472 Goldstar Sydney 30.14 S &..............B Evans 8 11888 Replica Casino 30.37......................B Pringle 9 87x87 Viktoria Vikkers 30.19...................C Roberts 11 2.59pm A2C ASPHALT 2 CONCRETE PH 0800222583 SPRINT C5, 295m 1 83246 Homebush Boots 17.38.............J McInerney 2 26433 Jinja Ellie 17.24.................................A Joyce 3 12314 Versailles 17.07..................................J Dunn 4 56328 Chanyaka 17.23................................ B Dann 5 27335 Busy Rocca 17.29............................ M Grant 6 43365 Fleur Dior 17.27.................................J Dunn 7 14126 Culvie Ness 17.28 H &.........................Taylor 8 18255 Beck Eleven 17.09........................ L Waretini 9 77256 Platinum Paisley 17.08.......................J Dunn 10 17828 Hilton Forabet 17.16......................... B Dann 12 3.18pm PROTEXIN DASH C3/4, 295m 1 53257 Billy Frost 17.37............................... M Grant 2 61165 Homebush Sayer 17.54.............J McInerney 3 74238 Neelix 17.29...............................R Blackburn

4 21285 Dyna Quark 17.52.........................C Roberts 5 16265 Fidgety Feet 17.21...............................A Lee 6 21733 Forehand Raid 17.19.........................J Dunn 7 7781F Special As 17.30 J M....................... McCook 8 88785 Black Rounder 17.22.........................J Dunn 9 78787 Raptor Attack 17.18...................A Bradshaw 10 18787 Know Cause 17.29..........................G Cleeve LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance SELECTIONS: Race 1: Platinum Marshal, Nangar Warrior, Pita Ramos, Hilton Hangover, Raptor Attack Race 2: Archie John Hill, Dizzy Banjo, Mitcham Reado, Know Shame, Goldstar Liberty Race 3: Ohana Lad, Enchantee, Amuri Liv, Cawbourne Britty, Mitcham Becky Race 4: Max Dancer, Mighty Muscle, Rivalries, Barrel Runner, Opawa May Race 5: Sozin’s Empire, Opawa Oscar, Cash A Roo, Know Scrutiny, Black Eye Bill Race 6: Opawa Lacy, Rocket Raccoon, Wildebeest, Goldstar Dodge, Inside Affair Race 7: Mitcham Trudy, King Toliman, Chitina Tin, Know Sweat, Goldstar Jay Jay Race 8: Little Krakatoa, Jax Jewel, Golden Bay, King Kali, Punch On Jessie Race 9: Select Trick, Hankenstein, Ketchikan Kim, Fickle Mistress, Treville Race 10: Opawa Nat, Ringside, Gem, Ophelia Allen, Dyna Elwyn Race 11: Versailles, Jinja Ellie, Homebush Boots, Culvie Ness, Chanyaka Race 12: Forehand Raid, Black Rounder, Neelix, Homebush Sayer, Billy Frost

Left – Veteran jockey Chris Johnson will have seven rides today at Southland.

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Southland Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Meeting Date: 21 November 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.47pm (NZT) NOT LONG TO GO NOW UNTIL $10,000, MDN, 2200m 1 x3046 Our Boy Ritchie b (2) 58.5....... K Asano (a3) 2 6x030 Rock Master h (7) 58.5.................T Moseley 3 L47 My Cashier (1) 58.5...........D Bothamley 4 88 Goa Head Caller h (3) 58.5... R Mudhoo (a3) 5 08x09 Picture This (5) 58.5.........................J Laking 6 64097 Tricky Mickey (6) 58.5.................. C Johnson 7 04503 Secretaria (4) 56.5........................K Williams 2 1.22pm THE BIGGEST SOCIAL RACE DAY THAT $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2200m 1 57535 Midnite Kaos m (7) 59.5................T Moseley 2 x9025 Beam Me Up Scotty tm (9) 58.5....R Mudhoo (a3) 3 x7614 Mr Intelligence dm (1) 58.5...............J Lowry 4 92521 Sounds Promising m (2) 58.5........ C Barnes 5 37x56 Pableau (3) 58............................B Hong (a3) 6 216x0 Colour Me Red tm (6) 57.5..............J Laking 7 18003 Karm ‘N’ Easy dm (8) 57..............L Callaway 8 05042 Olaf h (13) 57............................... C Johnson 9 40109 Feel The Rush m (10) 55.5...... K Asano (a3) 10 27038 Molly Polly mb (4) 55.5... K Chowdhoory (a2) 11 34977 Our Boy Baz t (11) 55..................K Kwo (a3) 12 88500 Stellacanto m (12) 54..............T Comignaghi 13 40081 Madam De Soir tdm (5) 56.5 Emergency: Madam De Soir 3 1.57pm SOUTHLAND EVER EXPERIENCES $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 70x4 Beeslaststing (8) 58.5.......................J Lowry 2 3006 The Buffer (4) 57..........................L Callaway 3 52 Love To Dream h (5) 56.5........T Comignaghi 4 6x Lugano’s Ace (6) 56.5.................... C Barnes 5 G’day Gorgeous h (1) 56.5...............J Laking 6 90x I Remember You (2) 56.5......A Bohorun (a3) 7 9668x Secret Dreams h (3) 56.5..............K Williams 8 3 Heidi Hi (7) 55.............................. C Johnson 9 87x67 Sandy Cool h (9) 55....... K Chowdhoory (a2) 4 2.32pm CHRISTMAS AT THE RACES @ ASCOT PARK DEC 14 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m

1 10x92 Milano dh (6) 59...............................J Laking 2 09x71 So Natural dmh (7) 59...............D Bothamley 3 74414 To Sir With Love dm (11) 59.. A Bohorun (a3) 4 53x36 Free And Easy dmb (10) 57.5...........J Lowry 5 66x92 Non Blonde tdh (2) 57...................T Moseley 6 48147 Rosie Glow dm (8) 57.............. K Asano (a3) 7 06590 Tickets On Her td (5) 57..........T Comignaghi 8 90273 Drumstorm dm (9) 57................... C Johnson 9 46045 Arnage dmb (3) 56.......................L Callaway 10 20x20 Below Zero d (13) 56..... K Chowdhoory (a2) 11 6109x Tap Tap td (14) 56................. R Mudhoo (a3) 12 79628 Little Flick tdh (12) 55...................K Kwo (a3) 13 9597x Fox In Socks h (1) 55 14 58895 Knutquacker d (4) 54.5 Emergencies: Fox In Socks, Knutquacker 5 3.07pm 23 DAYS TO GO - THINGS TO REMEMBER $12,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 12320 Irish Excuse tdm (5) 63................K Kwo (a3) 2 8975x Shaara tdmh (3) 58............... R Mudhoo (a3) 3 1343x Kilowatt t (1) 56.5..................... K Asano (a3) 4 5004x Shakti tmh (9) 56.5..........................K Selvan 5 906x4 Accidental Offside tdm (11) 56......T Moseley 6 50204 Darci Mac dm (4) 56...............T Comignaghi 7 10012 The Bumper tdm (6) 56.................. C Barnes 8 5026x Taniwha th (8) 54.5......................L Callaway 9 3029x Passito td (2) 54............................K Williams 10 81x05 Moss Jazz tdm (10) 54..........A Bohorun (a3) 11 844x6 Friar Tuck td (7) 54......... K Chowdhoory (a2) 6 3.42pm T-REX RACE REGISTRATION CLOSES NOV 30 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 x0303 Renounce (6) 58.5.......................L Callaway 2 505x5 Port Stephens h (7) 58.5.............. C Johnson 3 8x0 Hillbillycharlie (4) 58.5...........A Bohorun (a3) 4 800x Mr Fahrenheit (2) 58.5... K Chowdhoory (a2) 5 Ophir Gold (11) 58.5.........................J Lowry 6 62x05 Scandalous (3) 56.5.........................J Laking 7 L0x24 Zedaam (5) 56.5.................T Moseley 8 47 Rosie Mae h (9) 56.5............ R Mudhoo (a3) 9 0x0 Clutha Queen (8) 56.5................... C Barnes 10 760x8 Dontputyafootinit (12) 56.5....... K Asano (a3) 11 00x0 She Is Gold (10) 56.5...................K Kwo (a3) 12 0 Teeny Weeny (1) 55...................B Hong (a3) 7 4.17pm MASSIVE FASHIONS ON THE FIELD

M9 Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 21 November 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 4.02pm (NZT) SPEEDMAPS @FORMPRO RATINGS SPRINT C0, 318m 1 42733 Bailey And Cream nwtd R &................L Udy 2 28664 Donny nwtd U &.................................Cottam 3 Paddy Fast nwtd M &........................ J Smith 4 66456 Xena Poppy nwtd R &..........................L Udy 5 55 Cambodian King nwtd R &...........N O’Regan 6 52 Botany Thommo nwtd......................P Green 7 Little Leaf nwtd...................................E Potts 8 42233 Shaynee nwtd...................................S Lozell 9 76586 Riccitelli nwtd....................................M Black 10 8777x Magic Eight Ball nwtd R &............N O’Regan 2 4.27pm $5,000 BONUS EARLY QUADDIE SPRINT C1, 318m 1 17374 Smash Burton 19.33 R &.....................L Udy 2 78222 Thrilling Arnold 18.70.......................S Codlin 3 57768 Miss Dupre nwtd.............................S E Hunt 4 48F75 Tilly’s Silly 18.95 R &............................L Udy 5 F5475 Sweet Clover 18.82.....................K T Herbert 6 46522 Bigtime Gal nwtd R &...................N O’Regan 7 74873 Wairoa Angel 19.22..................... M Prangley 8 44627 Agbeze 18.98....................................M Black 9 51657 Just Maddie nwtd..............................M Black 10 4678x Platinum Spirit nwtd.......................... S Clark 3 4.49pm TROPHIES PLUS SERIES HEAT 1 C2q,

2 4463x Perfecto tdh (6) 59....................D Bothamley 3 51x33 Tobilicious m (12) 59................ K Asano (a3) 4 39840 Opio Rose tdm (8) 57.5.........A Bohorun (a3) 5 8x0x7 Fazioli h (14) 57.5............................J Laking 6 444x0 Field Of Fire d (2) 57.5... K Chowdhoory (a2) 7 5P019 Fine Bouquet dm (13) 56.5...........T Moseley 8 95128 Garment dm (3) 56.5................... C Johnson 9 36491 Heaven Knows m (10) 56.5... R Mudhoo (a3) 10 4160x Chookie’s Girl m (4) 56.................. C Barnes 11 2x800 He’s Got Power (5) 55.5...............K Kwo (a3) 12 0x70x She’s Fun h (9) 55...................T Comignaghi 13 8x255 Expedition d (7) 54.5....................L Callaway 14 054x0 Gemstone Jewels h (1) 54.5......B Hong (a3) Blinkers on: Hillbillycharlie, Scandalous (R6), Field Of Fire, She’s Fun (R9). Blinkers off : Stellacanto (R2), Moss Jazz (R5). Winkers on: Moss Jazz (R5), Trickle Treat (R8) Winkers off: Field Of Fire, She’s Fun (R9) SELECTIONS: Race 1: Secretaria, Our Boy Ritchie, My Cashier, Rock Master, Tricky Mickey Race 2: Pableau, Midnite Kaos, Karm ‘N’ Easy, Olaf, Molly Polly Race 3: Love To Dream, Beeslaststing, Heidi Hi, The Buffer, Lugano’s Ace $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1400m Race 4: Non Blonde, Arnage, Drumstorm, To Sir With 1 1444x Jim’s Gift bh (1) 59........................T Moseley 1 22463 Gerry Joyce h (3) 58.5........................T Moseley Love, Free And Easy 2 47x54 He Ain’t Heavy tm (8) 59..............L Callaway 2 x0x23 Trickle Treat h (5) 58.5.............T Comignaghi Race 5: The Bumper, Darci Mac, Accidental Offside, Irish 3 03315 Fly Without Wings tm (4) 58.5.A Bohorun (a3) 3 049x3 Marmaduke (7) 58.5..................D Bothamley Excuse, Shaara 4 10x00 Belle Hope m (7) 56.5......................J Laking 4 68x89 Dal Lad (2) 58.5...........................L Callaway Race 6: Renounce, Port Stephens, Scandalous, 5 120x0 Sweet Oak th (2) 56.5........... R Mudhoo (a3) 5 Henley (1) 58.5.................................J Lowry Zedaam, Rosie Mae 6 0x310 Times Time tm (3) 56.5............ K Asano (a3) 6 9 Poniard (4) 57..................................J Laking Race 7: Promising, He Ain’t Heavy, Jim’s Gift, Times 7 54426 Promising tm (6) 54......................K Kwo (a3) 7 33062 Belle South h (8) 56.5........... R Mudhoo (a3) Time, Fly Without Wings 8 0x080 Haywood mh (5) 54...................... C Johnson 8 0x7 The Mole (6) 56.5........................... C Barnes Race 8: Trickle Treat, Gerry Joyce, Belle South, Marma 9 6468x Kate The Great 54......................... Scratched 9 5.24pm SEE YA THERE - DON’T BE LATE $10,000, duke, Henley 8 4.52pm GREAT LIVE BANDS & AMAZING DJ’S Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m Race 9: Heaven Knows, Garment, Tobilicious, Son Of $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 8x938 Son Of Surf tdh (11) 59.5 Surf, Expedition

Auckland dogs Today at Manukau Stadium

318m 1 56117 Just Nia 18.89...................................M Black 2 84482 I’m A Leo 18.46 W &........................T Steele 3 868F4 Blocker 18.52 R &........................N O’Regan 4 51235 Botany Esmay 18.69........................P Green 5 65466 Asserting Power 18.77.................... S O’Neill 6 76723 Sir Kinloch nwtd...............................S Codlin 7 52265 Always Dreaming 18.58.................. G Farrell 8 33221 Fancy 19.00.................................. H Mullane 9 4x7x7 Cawbourne Cool 18.68...............K T Herbert 10 4548x Thrilling Dexter 18.67........................S Lozell 4 5.08pm TROPHIES PLUS SERIES HEAT 2 C2q, 318m 1 67341 Stay Rich 18.55 M &......................... J Smith 2 76177 React Respond 19.04......................R Roper 3 15324 Choo Choo 18.81............................ G Farrell 4 64145 Bigtime Jacob nwtd............................B Craik 5 64464 Oskitz 18.52.....................................S Codlin 6 76613 Waiterimu Ripper 18.51 R &................L Udy 7 52467 Express Emporium 18.72 W &.........T Steele 8 64343 Waerenga Star 18.63 U &..................Cottam 9 4x7x7 Cawbourne Cool 18.68...............K T Herbert 10 4548x Thrilling Dexter 18.67........................S Lozell 5 5.38pm QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C4, 318m 1 732F3 Alex Attack 18.38 U &........................Cottam 2 55237 Does He Exist 18.53........................R Roper 3 26441 Kelly’s Girl 18.44......................... G Pomeroy 4 16624 Platinum Earner 18.48...................... S Clark

5 6F214 Pat Tama 18.70................................. S Clark 6 51F45 Your Valentine 18.57..........................B Craik 7 81884 Bigtime Hearty 18.61.........................B Craik 8 31754 Thank You Next 18.63........................B Craik 9 38786 Too The Nail 18.36.............................E Potts 10 73677 Thrilling Katie 18.40...........................E Potts 6 5.59pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C1, 318m 1 5x318 Pliskova 18.99................................... S Clark 2 66427 Clover Victoria 18.65........................S Codlin 3 57458 Tango Miss nwtd.............................. T Green 4 43561 Ford Man 18.90 R &.............................L Udy 5 17375 Coober Pedy 18.99 R &...............N O’Regan 6 55386 Bigtime Zack 18.72............................B Craik 7 42646 Mr Felix 19.01...................................M Black 8 61663 Noise Maker 19.20...........................P Green 9 5787x Mighty Mezz 18.87 R &................N O’Regan 10 38888 Kapai Lana 18.57 R &..........................L Udy 7 6.25pm SPORTS BOWL FUNCTION CENTRE STAKES C1, 527m 1 34124 Opawa Delight nwtd...........................B Craik 2 47416 Billy’s Bake nwtd..............................P Green 3 1x35 Jinja Jay nwtd W &...........................T Steele 4 68716 Happy Medium nwtd R &.............N O’Regan 5 87858 Our Scarlett nwtd............................ G Farrell 6 58867 Zipping Memphis 31.07 R &.........N O’Regan 7 64346 Looking Snatched 31.10....................B Craik 8 44346 Jinja Babe 31.03................................E Potts 9 1668x Shambi’s Girl nwtd......................K T Herbert 10 86578 Kapai Tahi 31.00 R &...........................L Udy

8 6.49pm PINNY MACK STAKES C3/4, 527m

1 811F2 Spring Mechanic 31.15 R &.................L Udy 2 51135 Our Hemi nwtd U &............................Cottam 3 24277 Jinja Bailey 30.36 U &........................Cottam 4 75713 Jinja Might 30.42 U &.........................Cottam 5 57621 Gao Gao 30.53............................... G Farrell 6 1F116 Glow Up 31.02...................................B Craik 7 61566 Our Rick 30.53...................................E Potts 8 11832 Charlow 31.01 R &.......................N O’Regan 9 35848 Go Angel 30.70............................... G Farrell 9 7.16pm GREYHOUNDS NORTH MAIDEN DISTANCE C0d, 603m 1 28553 Little Apple nwtd W &.......................T Steele 2 46333 Crackling Gal nwtd U &......................Cottam 3 24312 Sefton Stan nwtd...............................S Lozell 4 38344 Monsoon Malabar nwtd U &...............Cottam 5 74526 Opawa Big nwtd.............................. G Farrell 6 31287 Frosty Blaze nwtd............................. T Green 7 11364 Kai Nan nwtd................................... G Farrell 8 47432 Rich Lister nwtd................................S Lozell 9 76257 Indi Shae nwtd................................ S O’Neill 10 7 Fear The Fur nwtd........................... S O’Neill 10 7.39pm BUDDY BOOM SPRINT C4/5, 318m 1 25521 Classy Impact 18.35........................ T Green 2 21888 One Cool Chap 18.47 W &...............T Steele 3 74755 Native Scout 18.68...........................P Green 4 24172 Miss Claude 18.54 U &......................Cottam 5 21348 Ti Amo 18.53......................................B Craik 6 17535 Relevance 18.35 R &...........................L Udy

7 36416 Paddy’s Passion 18.33..................... T Green 8 55324 Call Me Leo 18.69............................ T Green 9 38786 Too The Nail 18.36.............................E Potts 10 73677 Thrilling Katie 18.40...........................E Potts LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Bailey And Cream, Little Leaf, Botany Thommo, Paddy Fast, Shaynee Race 2: Bigtime Gal, Thrilling Arnold, Smash Burton, Agbeze, Wairoa Angel Race 3: I’m A Leo, Blocker, Botany Esmay, Fancy, Sir Kinloch Race 4: Stay Rich, Waiterimu Ripper, Express Emporium, Waerenga Star, Choo Choo Race 5: Does He Exist, Alex Attack, Your Valentine, Bigtime Hearty, Platinum Earner Race 6: Noise Maker, Pliskova, Clover Victoria, Ford Man, Bigtime Zack Race 7: Billy’s Bake, Happy Medium, Opawa Delight, Jinja Jay, Looking Snatched Race 8: Spring Mechanic, Jinja Might, Our Hemi, Gao Gao, Charlow Race 9: Frosty Blaze, Crackling Gal, Little Apple, Monsoon Malabar, Rich Lister Race 10: Classy Impact, Miss Claude, Call Me Leo, Paddy’s Passion, Ti Amo

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November 21 & 22, 2019 Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

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

9.30am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

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

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH.

Fit Kidz for preschoolers and caregivers. 48 Allens Road.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

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

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street. (not school holidays).

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO.

Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome, Phone Age Concern 308-6817.

Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome. Boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

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

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

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIORNET. Bring any queries, problems, concerns or would like some advice. $2. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

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

Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

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

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10.30am ST STEPHEN’S PARISH CENTRE. Seniors’ Coffee Club, all welcome. Park Street.

10.30am - 11.30am.

WALKING NETBALL. $2. E A Networks Centre, River Terrace.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and

Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

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

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street.

Closed most public holidays.

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Cryptic crossword

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Instead of showing everyone what you can do, you’ll read the room and adapt, guessing at your most effective action and curtailing unnecessary expenditures of time and energy.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You can’t be sure where the limits lie until you push past them. It’s worth it to learn the boundary lines. Then you can set up margins that allow you and everyone you deal with to stay within the zone.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): People’s perception will matter more than usual to the future of a relationship. Whatever the task, finishing well will be more important than starting well, and almost no one will remember the middle.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): On the scale of life, comfort is balanced against glory. The more comfort one has, the less glory is possible and vice versa. One side is not better than the other; it’s a matter of personal choice.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The best leaders assemble teams of challengers and informers instead of deferential yes men. Surround yourself with smart contenders. It’s a confident look.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’re curious without being nosey, interested and not intrusive, involved but not overbearing. The more people learn what it’s like to deal with you, the more they’ll want to.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): If you let them move naturally without trying to fight the flow, then relationships will shift gently into new shapes that you’ll eventually find comfortable, pleasing and beautiful.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): While it’s very efficient to think about the result first and then work backward, it does you no good unless it’s a worthy result. Take your time shopping around and mentally trying things on.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): The useful talent you’ll employ today is your ability to be egoless and without personal agenda. To wear another person’s shoes, you must first take off your own.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): When your unspoken hunch aligns with the reality of events, you can’t help but feel the delicious tug of smug satisfaction that comes with knowing you were right.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): To be excellent at small things takes the same amount of effort as being excellent at big things. Although, the latter is a much longer game made possible through planning and consistent effort in one direction over time.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): It turns out that isolation is among the biggest threats to happiness that the modern world has to offer. Interacting with strangers is more essential to well-being than you think. Make it happen today.

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Happy 90th Birthday

Bert Ellis Best wishes Dad on your special day.

With love from Maree, Lynne and Nick and all your grandchildren and great grandchildren.xxx

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Isolated showers clearing later.

Northeasterlies.

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fine cloudy fine drizzle fine fine cloudy fine fine thunder thunder fog drizzle rain cloudy

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Fine apart from some high cloud. Rain developing about the divide in the evening.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to gale 65 km/h in the morning, easing to 50 km/h at night.

Wind at 2000m: Rising to NW gale 75 km/h but severe gale 95 km/h in the S in the morning.

fine

Greymouth

fine

Christchurch

fine

Timaru

fine

Queenstown

fine

SATURDAY

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fine

Invercargill

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Rise 5:52 am Set 8:45 pm

Good fishing Rise 3:10 am Set 1:57 pm

New moon

Rise 5:51 am Set 8:47 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 3:41 am Set 3:12 pm

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7:59 pm

Rise 5:51 am Set 8:48 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 4:09 am Set 4:27 pm

Full moon 12 Dec 6:14 pm

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:03 pm, yesterday

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Canterbury Readings

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Fine apart from some high cloud.

Northwesterlies.

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Fine with some high cloud.

Wind at 1000m: W 30 km/h developing in the morning, gradually rising to NW 50 km/h toward evening.

Wind at 2000m: Turning W 45 km/h in the morning, gradually rising to W gale 70 km/h at night south of Lake Coleridge.

Fine apart from some high cloud. Light winds, but northeast breezes from afternoon.

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Fine weather develops for most as a ridge affects the country, although a front moves over the far south tomorrow and becomes slow moving during Saturday.

On Sunday this front moves northwards and weakens over the South Island. A ridge strengthens on Monday.

mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers

Fine, apart from a few showers inland.

Northeast breezes.

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5:30 Storage Wars – Texas PG 10:30 Time Out MS 2018 6pm Ice Road Truckers PG Comedy. Tessa Thompson, 7pm Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 7:30 CSI Melissa Leo. 11:53 Apartment MV 8:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 212 16VLC 2017 Horror.

9:30 Valor MV 10:30 SVU MV Penelope Mitchell, 11:15 Ice Road Truckers PG Sally Kirkland.

Friday 12:05 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away MVL 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 2:05 Valor MV 2:55 Hawaii Five-0 MV 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Storage Wars – Texas PG 4:50 CSI MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

Friday

1:28 Country Crush PG 2016 Drama. Jana Kramer, Munro Chambers.

3:01 Hurricane MVLSC 2018 War. Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson.

4:51 The Favourite 16LSC 2019 Drama. Olivia Colman, Emma Stone.

MOVIES GREATS 7:01 Nothing But Trailers M 7:31 SemiPro MLS 2008 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson.

9:06 The Lincoln Lawyer MVLS 2011 Thriller.

Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei. 11:06 Donnie Brasco 16VL 1997 Drama.

Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen. 1:11 Good Night And Good Luck MC 2005 Historical Drama. David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson. 2:42 8MM 18VLS 1999 Thriller.

Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix.

4:42 Knocked Up 16LS 2007 Comedy.

Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogan.

6:47 10 Cloverfield Lane MVC 2016 Thriller Horror. John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher jr.

8:30 This Is 40 16LSC 2012 Comedy. On the verge of turning 40, a couple must face financial and family problems, and their crippling relationship.

Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann.

10:45 The World’s Fastest Indian PGL 2006 Drama.

Anthony Hopkins.

Friday 12:48 8MM 18VLS 1999 Thriller.

Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix.

2:48 Knocked Up 16LS 2007 Comedy. Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogan. 4:53 10 Cloverfield Lane MVC 2016 Thriller Horror.

11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:30 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games 7:55 Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games (RPL) Otago v Southland.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

9:30 Oceania Women’s Rugby (HLS) 10am GrassRoots Rugby 11:20 L Brazil v Barbarians From Estadio Cicero Pompeu de Toledo, Sao Paulo.

1:30 Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games (HLS) 3:30 Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games (RPL) Otago v Waikato.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

5:30 Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games (RPL) Otago v Canterbury.

From Forsyth Barr Stadium.

7:30 Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games (RPL) Canterbury v North Harbour.

9:30 The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School.

10pm Getting Grilled With Marshy Ian Botham.

British cricket commentator and former cricketer.

10:30 Wind Back

Friday

12:30 Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games (RPL) Otago v Canterbury.

2:30 Mitre 10 Cup Shield Games (RPL) Canterbury v North Harbour.

4:30 French Top 14 (HLS) 5am Gallagher Premiership Highlights Show (HLS) Round Four.

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

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6am Baby Animals 6:30 Fishy Business 7am Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Home Cooking 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Secret Life Of The Wombat 9am Gardeners’ World 9:30 Astronauts – Toughest Job In The Universe 11:30 Mysteries At The Monument PGR 12:30 American Pickers 1:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 2:30 Mine Hunters 3:30 Orang-utan Jungle School 4:30 Ainsley Eats The Streets Avoiding the tourist traps while travelling is becoming increasingly difficult for Ainsley Harriott but, in an effort to remain fresh and original, he looks at street food for inspiration.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Jade Fever The Bunce family’s jademining operation employs most of the town’s residents, and they aim to turn various claims into million-dollar jackpots.

8:30 Discovering… Coldplay PGR 9:30 Paranormal Survivor AO 10:30 American Pickers 11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Gardeners’ World 1am Ainsley Eats The Streets 2am Gardeners’ World 3am Orang-utan Jungle School 4am Paranormal Survivor AO 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 2 6am England v Blackcaps 2015 (HLS) Second Test, Day One. 6:30 England v Blackcaps 2015 (HLS) Second Test, Day Two. 7am England v Blackcaps 2015 (HLS) Second Test, Day Three. 7:30 England v Blackcaps 2015 (HLS) Second Test, Day Four. 8am England v Blackcaps 2015 (HLS) Second Test, Day Five.

8:30 Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) First Test, Day Five.

9:30 Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) Second Test, Day Five. 10:30 L Blackcaps v England First Test, Day One. From Bay Oval, Tauranga.

6:30 Blackcaps v England (RPL) First Test, Day One – Last Two Hours.

8:30 Blackcaps v England (HLS) First Test, Day One. 9:30 ICC Cricket 360 10pm Blackcaps v England (HLS) First Test, Day One. 11pm Australia v Pakistan (HLS) First Test, Day One.

Friday

Midnight Women’s Big Bash (HLS) Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Renegades.

12:30 ICC Cricket 360 1am Blackcaps v England (HLS) First Test, Day One. 2am Australia v Pakistan (HLS) First Test, Day One. 3am ICC Cricket 360 3:30 Women’s Big Bash (HLS) Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Renegades. 4am Blackcaps v England (HLS) First Test, Day One. 5am Australia v Pakistan (HLS) First Test, Day One. 21Nov19

DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Frustrated with a ’32 Ford/ Return to Pike’s Peak 1/2.

7:30 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 7:55 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 8:20 Deadliest Catch PG Time and Tide Wait for No Man. 9:10 Aussie Lobster Men PG 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Abalone Wars PG 11:40 Swamp Murders M Quilbillies. 12:30 Blood Relatives M Duct Tape Divorcee. 1:20 Murder Calls M The Devil’s Voice.

2:10 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 2:35 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 3pm Alaskan Bush People PG Head Above Water. 3:50 Gold Rush – White Water PG The Dakotas Strike Back. 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG 5:40 Abalone Wars PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Gold Rush PG 8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Aussie Lobster Men PG 10:15 Deadliest Catch PG 11:05 Naked And Afraid M 11:55 How It’s Made PG Friday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 1:10 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 1:35 Gold Rush – White Water PG 2:25 Moonshiners M 3:15 Alaskan Bush People PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Gold Rush – White Water PG

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Sport

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Mia attracts national attention Up and coming Mid Canterbury netball player Mia Pearson has gained the attention of Netball New Zealand’s emerging talent selectors.

Ashburton College student Pearson has been named in a 50-strong squad of players to attend a development camp in Auckland early next year where she will get the opportunity to learn and be guided by some of the best players in the land.

The group of athletes will be split into five teams to be coached by Pathway to Podium coaches Irene van Dyk, Jo Morrison, Temepara Bailey, Sandra Edge and Anna Galvan.

The head coaches will be joined by five apprentice coaches in the Performance Coach Qualification pathway while umpires and umpire coaches have also been invited to attend the four-day camp.

Pearson is the only local player to have been included in the squad and one of only nine players from the Mainland Netball Zone which covers most of Canterbury.

Netball New Zealand Head of High Performance Keir Hansen said the National Development Camp would give the athletes an insight into the Netball New Zealand pathway.

“For many, this is their first step into that elite environment and an opportunity for us to inspire our developing players building towards their future,” he said.

Athletes will undergo a series of movement competency screenings to assess their readiness for performance.

The group will be observed on their performance under pressure with a highly competitive short tournament structure to be employed during the camp.

“This is a best on best environment where our Emerging Talent Selectors will be able to continue profiling our future pathway athletes,” Hansen said.

Selection into the camp was based on identification, observation and tracking from the selectors through various national and regional age-group tournaments, along with feedback from Zone Performance staff.

Left – Defender Mia Pearson has been named in a Netball New Zealand emerging talent squad.

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