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Four people charged with the manslaughter of Ashburton man AJ Gairns will make their next appearance in the High Court.

Yesterday Desmond Kapi Marshall, 46, Olivia Toby Frances Lucas, 26, Kooly Managki Te Tomo, 26 and Verdun Ashley Perry, 24, appeared separately in front of Judge Joanna Maze in the Timaru District Court yesterday.

They are jointly accused causing Mr Gairns death by manslaughter.

Lucas, Te Tomo and Perry were due to plead to a lesser charge of assault with intent to rob yesterday.

However, that was overridden when the manslaughter charges were laid earlier this week.

Judge Joanna Maze granted defence lawyers’ applications to transfer the charges of assault with intent to rob to the High Court, and to amend the charge so it was recorded as an alternative to the manslaughter charge.

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Marshall had previously pleaded guilty to the assault charge, and was due to be sentenced next week. That appearance was also cancelled in view of the fresh charge, but Marshall will be sentenced on both the manslaughter and the assault charges, should he be found guilty in the High Court.

He was remanded in custody, where he has been held since his arrest in June, without plea on the manslaughter charge.

The remaining three accused were remanded on bail without plea on all matters. All four accused will next appear in the High Court sitting in Christchurch on September 5.

Mr Gairns’ body was found in a drainage run-off area behind commercial premises on West Street on June 1.

A post-mortem established the cause of death was drowning.

Police alleged he was assaulted in the early hours of May 31, shortly before he died.

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Five Tibetan yaks will be making themselves a home at a far lower altitude than they are used to as they settle into life at Christchurch’s Orana Park.

The shaggy beasts arrived at the park on Wednesday and were to be on public display yesterday, head keeper of exotic mammals Rob Clifford said. Yaks were naturally found in the Himalayas and were known as the “vehicles on the roof of the world”.

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The world’s oldest man A 111-year-old retired Japanese educator who enjoys poetry has been recognised as the world’s oldest living man. Sakari Momoi received a certificate from Guinness World Records this week. He succeeds Alexander Imich of New York, who died in June at the age of 111 years, 164 days. The world’s oldest living person is also Japanese: Misao Okawa, a 116-year-old woman from Osaka. Momoi was born February 5, 1903, in Fukushima prefecture, where he became a teacher. At the televised ceremony, Momoi wore a dark suit and silver tie, with his white hair neatly combed. He stood up from his wheelchair and moved to a chair next to it with little assistance.

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The Rakaia community welcomed home its soldiers, and the occasion was reported in the Guardian on August 22, 1919: A social gathering to welcome home Rakaia soldiers was held last night in the town hall, which was gaily decorated with bunting. This was the second function of its kind organised by the Rakaia Soldiers’ Entertainment Committee, and proved in every way successful, being a very large attendance.

Kermit’s fearless ice challenge Kermit the Frog has put his life on the line for the ALS ice bucket challenge. We all know it’s not easy being green, but apparently also being an amphibian presented an extra threat for the Muppets star. “Being an amphibian it turns out that evidently getting drenched by freezing cold water could actually make me go totally dormant and my heart would stop,” he said in the video. But mortal danger couldn’t sway the fearless frog. “Not only am I ready and willing to accept this challenge.

I am to my knowledge the first to do it absolutely naked,” he said. Everyone from Tom Cruise, to Hugh Jackman, to Oprah Winfrey have been trying to raise money and awareness for ALS, known in Australia as motor neuron disease, by dumping icy water over themselves. If challenged, you have 24 hours to donate to the cause, or face the punishment of having a bucket of ice water thrown over you.

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“Regarding this issue with my son Jaycee, I feel very angry and very shocked. As a public figure, I’m very ashamed. As a father, I’m heartbroken,” Chan wrote. Jaycee Chan, 31, and Taiwanese movie star Kai Ko, 23, were detained last Thursday amid one of China’s biggest anti-drug crackdowns in two decades. Police said both actors tested positive for marijuana and admitted using the drug, and that 100 grams of it were taken from Chan’s home. Extending from his fame as an actor and singer, Jackie Chan is a high-profile public figure in mainland China and was named by Beijing as an antidrug ambassador in 2009.

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■ THOMPSONS TRACK UPGRADE

Ratepayers stump up $1m MOST CRASHES ON RURAL ROADS

The days of dodging potholes or road works on Thompsons Track will soon be over with the Ashburton District Council having a $1 million upgrade on its books.

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A $1 million investment of ratepayer money will see the pothole-riddled surface of Thompsons Track upgraded.

Ashburton district councillors voted an extra $1 million into this year’s budget in an effort to boost the standard of the district’s rural roads. The money will not attract a New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) subsidy and will come directly from the public purse.

Councillors signed off the agreement on the back of ongoing dissatisfaction with road maintenance, saying if the Government wouldn’t pay for the work, then the Ashburton District Council had no option but

to foot the bill itself. Chair of the council’s service delivery committee Stuart Wilson said a council workshop looked at four options for spending the $1 million, but Thompsons Track was an obvious winner. By spending local money on one, well used road, the case for NZTA assistance was stronger, he said.

“We have so many people complaining about Thompsons Track; by default it’s become a state highway and there’s almost more traffic on it now than on State Highway 72 (Rakaia-Arundel Road),” he said.

The $1 million investment, however, won’t be a panacea for all of the road’s problems.

“People are saying it’s too narrow and that the dig-outs are not

the only problem. This money will only do four or five kilometres of work,” Mr Wilson said.

Dig out and reseal work had just been completed on two soft sections near Rakaia township but that work wouldn’t be wasted, it will be part of the upgrading, he said.

Mr Wilson believes there is a strong case to have NZTA take over maintenance of Thompsons Track with council staff to make a case for a funding commitment for similar work to be carried out on the remainder of the road over the next few years.

Eastern ward councillor Ken Cutforth said the state of Thompsons Track had rankled locals for years, with people driving on the wrong side of

the road to avoid potholes and to dodge endless roadworks.

“It’s absolutely p…ed people off the length of time this has gone on,” he said.

At the Rakaia end, the road had been dug out over the past two months, refilled and left unsealed. It has now been chip sealed but surplus metal has been left on the road creating one more hazard. There were few speed warning signs in place and it was unclear where restrictions applied, Mr Cutforth said.

“The local constable could have a field day out here.”

The council’s service delivery committee yesterday recommended the council spend the $1 million of unsubsidised money on Thompsons Track.

During the first six months of this year there were 44 accidents on roads around the Ashburton District.

Statistics provided by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) show that 27 of those occurred on rural roads with most attributed to speed and loss of control.

A failure to give way featured high on the contributing factor list, with 11 crashes occurring at intersections controlled by either give way or stop signs/ Two were at intersections with traffic signals.

Rural roads with the worst accident record between January 1 and June 30 were Bremners Road and Seafield Road, Arundel-Rakaia Gorge Road, Pendarves-Rakaia Road, Hatfield-Overdale Road and State Highway One. Walnut Avenue, Racecourse Road, Nelson, Cambridge and West streets topped the urban accident hot spots Using the district’s roads on certain days of the week increases your likelihood of a crash with the most occurring on Friday, 12, followed by Wednesday and Thursday at eight each.

Six crashes occurred on a Saturday, four on Mondays and three each on Tuesdays and Sundays.

Of the 44 crashes, only two involved motorbikes. Conditions were wet for nine with 11 occuring at night.

The crashes resulted in one person receiving serious injuries, several minor injuries with more than half non-injury in nature.

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■ ALLEGED ASHBURTON ABDUCTION

Abduction inquiry called off

By Erin TaskEr

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Police have called off their investigation into a second attempted abduction of a child in Ashburton which was alleged to have occurred over the past few months.

Both investigations have now been abandoned after police carried out extensive investigations but came up with no further reason to continue with their inquiries.

The first alleged abduction

attempt was said to have occurred on Harrison Street in May and involved an eightyear-old girl, while the second on August 3, involved a nineyear-old boy on Saunders Road.

Both incidents were alleged to have involved a man in a green car.

And in the second incident, the boy said the man had offered him lollies.

Pleas for information and calls for witnesses to come forward resulted in little informa-

tion though and both investigations were now considered complete.

Ashburton Police senior sergeant Scott Banfield said the families had been advised by their children that strangers had attempted to entice them into vehicles, and the families had done the right thing by contacting police.

“Police further advise that it is good practise to encourage young children to report any similar incidents to an adult

that they trust and for that adult to contact police for further advice,” Mr Banfield said.

“We are determined to ensure our young and most vulnerable are safe within our community and will continue to investigate all matters similar in nature.”

Earlier in the investigations, police said the alleged incidents were timely reminders for the community and children to be aware of their surroundings, and keeping safe.

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■ MT HUTT COLLEGE

Pool tuition part of sports curriculum

By Toni Williams

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Mt Hutt College students are learning the art of pool with Pools4Schools training as part of their weekly sports programme.

It was designed to get more people active in the sport of pool and gave the students a different sporting option from the more traditional rugby, netball or skiing sessions.

The pupils travel to the Ashburton Club and MSA for their weekly lessons under the guidance of Bruce Argyle and Stephen Kyle.

Between them the men have decades of pool experience to share and as coaches it was a role they enjoyed.

Mr Kyle said it boded well for future members of the pool section and was a sport for either sexes.

The art of sinking a ball, “takes a lot of practice” but once the stance and cueing was right a player was on their way, Mr Kyle said.

Mr Argyle agreed and said once the standing and holding

In brief Breach of bail A 26-year-old Ashburton man was arrested at 12.30pm on Wednesday for breaching his bail conditions.

Fire calls The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade was called to a malfunctioning smoke alarm at a Walnut Avenue address at about 11.15pm on Wednesday night.

Yesterday, the brigade was called to a digger on fire on Tinwald Westerfield Mayfield Road at about 1pm.

Only two for grants There was money in the pot but it seemed no one wanted a share of it when the Ashburton District Council called for applications for biodiversity grants. Just two applications were received and both were granted the money they requested. The Ashburton Community Conservation applied for funds for two projects – building a fence along Shepherd’s Road to protect a remnant of Maori onion and for predator trapping in Maori Lakes to protect the indigenous fauna. The grants were worth $5193 to the group. A second round of grant applications is likely to be advertised later this year.

Concert on skifield If you’re up Mt Hutt tomorrow you’ll be able to enjoy a relaxing afternoon of music from Wanaka based Arma Del Amor. The mountainside concert is part of a nationwide Corona tour, which is visiting the best snow destinations in both the North and South Island.

The weather forecast for tomorrow is clear, so it should be a fine day for a spot of skiing and some good music.

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of the cue was learned, it was just a matter of learning the angles to direct the ball. The “very competitive” game could take players all over the world in competitions.

He said some of the students showed the signs of being good players.

The students were focused on practising skills they have learned and were keen for

weekly sessions. They were due to attend a regional competition at the end of the term where they would play other schools involved in the programme.

The Minister for Police and Corrections, Anne Tolley, will visit Ashburton on Monday. Ms Tolley will visit the Ashburton Police Station and the Ashburton Corrections office during the visit before having lunch with Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew and some Ashburton residents. She’ll then travel to Timaru to visit police and Corrections staff.

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■ ASHBURTON ST JOHN

District misses out on staff boost

By Erin TaskEr

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Mid Canterbury will not benefit from a multi-million dollar boost to St John’s frontline staffing levels in New Zealand.

St John announced yesterday it was increasing frontline staff numbers by 158 paid staff in 35 locations across New Zealand, but none of them were coming to Mid Canterbury.

Christchurch meanwhile, will receive 20 of those new frontline staff.

St John territory manager Grant Dewar said St John was currently reviewing and monitoring its ambulance resourcing, including in Ashburton and Mid Canterbury, but staff were not being allocated to Mid Canterbury at this time.

According to St John the latest boost is patient-focused and aimed at improving service response times, reducing single crewing levels and improving patient and staff safety.

The new positions are being funded by St John (57 positions,

Even though the Ashburton St John ambulance resources are being monitoring there wil be no extra staff locally in the latest funding boost.

$4 million), ACC (82 positions, $5.5 million) and the Ministry of Health (19 positions, $1.3 million).

St John chief executive Peter

Bradley said St John had done detailed analysis to understand how current ambulance resources matched actual patient demand.

“This work led directly to a commitment from St John to fund additional frontline staff and to make a number of staff roster changes,” Mr Bradley

said. “We are now partnering with ACC and the Ministry of Health to build on this commitment - to respond to demand, to deliver a good value, sustainable service and to be able to deliver the best possible patient care.”

He said the new funding model also helped St John deal with organisational priorities while at the same time more confidently prepare for the future.

“It’s another step to achieving our ambition of right care, right time.

“This is also the biggest recruitment of additional ambulance staff in our history.”

The new roles will address full crewing issues in Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Napier, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga, Waimakariri and Pukekohe.

A total of 121 positions have been allocated to centres, while 37 will provide relief cover, including 10 in the South Island.

In Canterbury, Christchurch will get 20 new staff, Rangiora four and Temuka two.

■ ASHBURTON HOSPITAL

Proposed strike action involving 50 healthcare workers at Ashburton Hospital has been called off after progress was made in mediation.

The Public Service Association (PSA) yesterday withdrew notices of industrial action covering 12,000 health workers at District Health Boards (DHBs) across New Zealand and the organisation’s national secretary, Richard Wagstaff, said negotiations had resulted in an improved offer from the DHBs. “This new offer will mean more money in the pocket for our hard-working members, and real progress on some of their other key issues.

“Our members take patient care seriously, so the DHB agreement to increase engagement on learning and development is particularly welcome to improve the standard of care.”

The new offers will now go out for discussion and voting at members meetings across the country, with a recom-

mendation to sign. “As a democratic organisation, our 12,000 DHB members covered by these proposed agreements will get to have the final say over this decision.

“Industrial action was a last resort, and we are pleased sufficient progress has been made that we can take that option off the table,” Mr Wagstaff said.

The healthcare workers at Ashburton Hospital which were to be affected by the strike action were dental therapists, public health nurses, administration/clerical staff, dieticians, laboratory workers, pharmacists, social workers and physical/occupational therapists.

They were among the 1439 staff from the CDHB. The members’ action was to involve a ‘work to rule’ notice from August 25 to September 10, a 10-day overtime ban in early September, and strike action on September 2 (two hours each shift) and September 3 (three hours each shift).

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Yesterday, police said they no longer supported name suppression, but defence lawyer Rupert Glover said his client wanted it continued to protect his family, who still lived in Oamaru.

Judge Joanna Maze continued name suppression, but a separate hearing will

be held to consider that issue on October 7. There will also be a hearing of a bail variation application on October 7.

The man was remanded on bail, with conditions not to go to Oamaru.

His jury trial has been set down to start on October 23.

He faces charges of raft of sex related charges. The sexual offending is alleged to have occurred between 1999 and 2011.

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■ ASHBURTON COLLEGE

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Party plan for college 50th

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Ashburton College is turning 50, and it’s inviting the community to its birthday party.

The college grew out of the amalgamation of Ashburton High School and Ashburton’s Hakatere College, and when the party starts it will be about celebrating those two founding schools as much as it will be about celebrating the college, said principal Grant McMillan.

Unlike most school reunions or milestones, the college event

would not be just for past pupils, it would involve the whole community, he said.

“The whole aim of this is to celebrate with the community.”

A planning committee has prepared a draft plan for the celebrations that will range from a dinner and get together on Friday night, to a Saturday luncheon and decade photos, to a large community concert in the Ashburton Domain on Saturday wrapping up with a tree planting event at the EA Networks Centre on Sunday.

Those plans are still wide open for new ideas Mr McMillan hopes will come from a community meeting on Monday night.

Because the celebration is about the community as much as the school, the Saturday night concert is to feature past students who are now nationally and internationally recognised singers as well as locals and current students. Star performer will be ex-pupil Simon O’Neill.

The district had a proud his-

tory in terms of secondary school education through the two founding schools as well as the college today and that was something the community should have a part in celebrating, Mr McMillan said.

“This is about celebrating our joint history, where we’ve come from.”

The college will celebrate its 50th jubilee over the weekend of March 13-15 next year.

A meeting will be held on Monday in the Ashburton College Auditorium at 7pm.

■ EASTFIELD BUSINESS HUB

Development site a temporary parking lot Inner town parking congestion has been given some temporary relief with a bare block of land off Cass Street reopened to vehicles.

The Eastfield Developments site became a parking lot by default after several buildings were demolished to make way for the new retail and commercial complex but its surface was rutted and riddled with potholes.

Because a rebuild was still a way off, board chair Brian Davidson said a tidy up was needed while the project team worked through plans for the site.

The Eastfield project will be a co-ordinated retail and commercial development involving several land owners. A company has been formed by landowners and an independent board appointed to manage the project.

When completed the project will see a 9000 square metre business and retail centre built on land that is bounded by the Ashburton Arcade and Burnett, Cass and Tancred streets.

Block house sold The winning house from the first series of The Block NZ has sold for $1.1 million, an increase of $139,000 on its initial sale at televised auction. The three-bedroom Takapuna house was rebuilt on the 2012 series by brother and sister team Ben and Libby Crawford, and was sold at auction on Wednesday at Bayleys Takapuna. A Bayleys spokesman said the buyers were a couple in their late 20s who had been renting in Takapuna within walking distance of their new home. They had bought the house with their future family in mind.

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Swann’s car auction A Rolls-Royce linked to convicted fraudster Michael Swann is going to auction. A 1922 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was discovered following an attempt to remove a container at Port Otago’s Dunedin container yard last year. A police investigation linked the vehicle to Michael Swann, who in 2004 paid $160,000 to a Christchurch man for the vehicle, which had never been warranted or registered in New Zealand. This week, the vehicle was listed for sale with Turners Auction on the North Shore. The auction estimate is between $60,000 and $80,000.

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Pike decision delayed The Solid Energy board will not be considering the Pike River Mine reentry project next week, the Stateowned enterprise said yesterday.

In a statement, it said it would not be considered on Tuesday due to the nature of the residual risks and other outstanding matters that needed to be addressed prior to the board considering the proposal.

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Wrong greeting Smooth and ready for parking, the site of Ashburton’s Eastfield business hub has been given a temporary makeover for its temporary life as an inner town parking space.

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It will not include all sites in this block as some were not demolished while other landowners have already rebuilt.

The land is held in about 18 titles.

The rebuild project was announced in April and since

then Mr Davidson said, he had received positive feedback from the community and good support from the Ashburton District Council.

“The project has the potential to be, not only a landmark for the continuing develop-

ment of Ashburton, but also a fantastic example of how well the business sector, the council and the community can work together to support the vision of Ashburton as a vibrant destination for central Canterbury,” he said.

A Whangarei teenager has quit her first job after being ticked off for welcoming customers into a city centre store with the words “kia ora” instead of saying “hello”.

Monet-Mei Clarke, 17, resigned from the KiwiYo frozen yoghurt store on Cameron St this week because she was uncomfortable over franchise owner Margaret Lang instructing her not to say “kia ora” as company policy was to say “hello”.

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Sharpening productivity of local business Business courses at Aoraki Polytechnic are upskilling employees and sharpening the productivity of local businesses.

“We work with businesses and offer flexibility when it comes to workshops and courses.’’

The polytechnic runs a range of courses specifically tailored to meet the training needs of industry.

Nick comes armed with years of business experience, and is a business director and shareholder. He shares his time working in his own business and tutoring at the polytechnic.

The initiative has been embraced by local employers who are sending key staff back to the classroom to learn new skills.

All of the business courses at Aoraki provide leadership skills and management techniques in a range of key areas, while the National Certificate in Project Management hones the skills of team leaders.

Aoraki business tutor Nick Light said upskilling staff is a fundamental strategy for success. The programmes gave employees knowledge they could take back to their workplace and apply to their jobs.

The polytechnic also offered training programmes specifically tailored for individual business, and provided work-based solutions.

Nick said it was important he worked closely with the local business community to ensure the courses delivered met their needs.

“Every company I have spoken to realises that these courses will add value to their business. Each can identify people within their organisation who could benefit from the programmes.’’

As the adage goes, it’s no longer just okay to just work in your business you have to work on it as well.

A testament to the success of the business courses is that many business owners have put several staff through the programmes, Nick said.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

‘We didn’t get LAPP plan right’

By Sue NewmaN

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His fellow councillors didn’t get it right when they decided to reduce the area of Ashburton where psychoactive substances could be sold, said Rod Beavan.

The Ashburton District Council developed its Locally Approved Products Policy (LAPP) through workshops, consultation, submissions and hearings and it came up with a result that flew in the face of council pro-

cess and ignored what submitters were saying, he said.

The council’s original policy would have allowed products such as synthetic cannabis to be sold in an area bounded by West, Moore, Cass and Wills streets and it stipulated there should be 100 metres between shops selling the product.

It’s amended policy reduced sales to within East, Moore, Cass and Havelock Streets and reduced the distance between shops to 50 metres.

That change annoyed Mr Beavan.

“Eight submitters agreed with the total sale area and only one disagreed and yet we changed the defined area.

“That’s a pretty bold statement when you have 90 per cent against change,” he said.

And it was the same when it came to reducing the distance between shops; six agreed with the 100 metre separation yet the council opted to reduce this, Mr Beavan said.

“I believe we haven’t followed this correctly and we’re opening ourselves to a challenge of some kind,” he said.

Councillor Stuart Wilson said that making decisions was not a numbers game.

“We heard verbal submissions and read written submissions and we made up our minds on those.

“If we go by numbers it becomes a referendum.

“This wasn’t a referendum.

You can have minority numbers

with a persuasive argument,” he said.

The council had followed a robust process when it revised its policy, mayor Angus McKay said.

“We’ve listened closely to what people have said. Yes, we made changes but it shows that this council operates democratically and it has taken on board what people have to say.”

The council’s environmental service recommended the council adopt the rewritten LAPP.

■ RANGITATA ELECTORATE

National nabs prime spot for its election hoarding Whether it’s a red or blue, flag flying in central Ashburton has nothing to do with party politics and everything to do with speed.

This week Rangitata’s National Party candidate Jo Goodhew snaffled the electorate’s prime hoarding spot, hoisting her blue banner across the centre of East Street. It’s the only spot of its kind and is rented out by the Ashburton Business Association.

The Ashburton district is a National stronghold, generating the bulk of the party’s votes for the Rangitata electorate, whereas the Labour Party has been traditionally favoured by voters in the electorate’s southern reaches.

It’s a spot that’s in hot demand, said group spokesperson Carol Johns.

It was used by Ashburton mayor Angus McKay ahead of last year’s local body elections and it’s been booked by Mrs Goodhew for this year’s election since she was sworn in as the electorate’s MP in 2011.

“It’s pretty popular and it’s

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Pride of place: Jo Goodhew’s election banner stands proud across East Street.

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booked for most of the year,” Ms Johns said.

Securing the central town banner space is as simple as applying and if it’s vacant, it’s yours. And at $65 a week, it’s probably the cheapest, high profile promotional slot in town.

Rangitata’s rookie Labour

bour government – that trend has been proven worldwide.

“The fate of the Rangitata electorate is not a foregone conclusion.”

While not threatened by the banner, Mr Gibson did question whether it was above board to buy or hire space for hoardings.

Party candidate Steve Gibson is not concerned about Mrs Goodhew hogging the prime spot to entice votes. In fact he says it may be proof that he’s rattling National’s cage.

“The amount of signs they (National) have going up possibly indicates they see me as a

credible candidate,” he said.

“So far there are only two of us on the ballot sheet, and there are a lot of undecided voters out there.

“I’m concentrating on getting people to get out and vote – the more people that vote, the more chance we have of getting a La-

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■ ASHBURTON HOUSE FIRE

Leeston St fire investigation still ongoing Police are continuing to treat a house fire on Leeston Street last week as suspicious.

Ashburton Police detective constable Scott Genet said police were continuing to investigate the circumstances around the fire and anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 307-8400.

The fire left two men – Dan Fraser and Paul Leary – with no home and virtually no belongings. The pair were renting the house.

It’s understood the fire started in the lounge area of the house and it quickly spread throughout. The front living area of the house was badly damaged by fire while the rest of the house sustained a mixture of fire, smoke and heat damage.

Ashburton Bird Club member Valerie Snook checks out the birds in her aviary ahead of the club’s annual bird and accessory sale.

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■ ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB Mr Fraser told the Guardian he’d popped out to go to The Warehouse, and to visit a friend, when the fire broke out and Mr Leary was on holiday in Australia.

Neighbours called 111 after seeing the flames and the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade was quickly on the scene but could do nothing to save the house.

Club’s annual bird sale on again The Ashburton Bird Club members will hold their annual bird and accessory sale this weekend.

It was a chance for club members to sell any birds, or unwanted accessories.

Club publicity officer Valerie Snook planned to sell some

Zebra Finches and Chinese Painted Quail.

She expected a variety of birds would be on sale but “you never know from one year to the next what’s going to turn up”.

The members who had any items to sell, just brought

them along, she said.

The sale was open to anyone to attend and there would also be bird seed available for purchase, which would go towards the club’s fundraising.

The sale will be at 67 South Street, on Saturday from 9am to 2pm.

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A one-man craft beer operation in Nelson has been declared New Zealand’s top brewery.

Townshend Brewery beat 83 others to be named champion at the eighth annual Brewers’ Guild of New Zealand Beer Awards in Wellington last night.

The win could be a boon for the small brewery, with New Zealand exports of craft beer set to triple over the next decade, according to research from ANZ. The award ceremony was held on the eve of the two-day Beervana festival in Wellington, where punters will be able to try some 200 different craft beers.

Martin Townshend founded the winning brewery at his family home in Rosedale, near Nelson, in 2005. It remains a one-man operation, producing 50,000 litres of beer a year.

Mr Townshend said the award was a massive accolade, and the icing on the cake of a couple of excellent years.

“It seems like only yesterday that I created my first brew in the shed.”

The secret to his success was passion, hard work and dedication to the task, he said. “I still enjoy brewing now as much as I ever have and I think most brewers will tell you the same.”

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Friday, August 22, 2014

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OUR VIEW

Our town as safe as we make it Stu Oldham

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shburton feels a safer place with news that police have called off their search for a man they were told tried to abduct a boy in Allenton.

Certainly, Ashburton felt a safer place in May when police called off their search for a man they were told tried to abduct a girl in Allenton.

Both times, police investigated stories rich in detail and striking in their drama. And all the while, stunned locals said “oh, dear – this sort of thing doesn’t happen in Ashburton”.

In one of the stories, a child broke free from a man who fled the scene in a green car. In the other, a child broke free from a man who fled the scene in a green car.

Both times, after repeated calls for witnesses, police called off their investigations.

The first was called off when police received “no significant information”. The other was called off when police found “no further reason to continue with the enquiries”.

And with each announcement, many of us breathed a sigh of relief and said “thank goodness – this sort of thing doesn’t happen in Ashburton”.

Police were careful to encourage children to report any similar incidents to a trusted adult, who could contact police for advice. No matter what, they would investigate.

Their commitment mirrored that of worried parents, who used the incidents to educate their children about keeping themselves safe around strangers.

They were told that not all people are nice and that they should never blindly follow someone they do not know. Accept sweets only from friends and accept car rides only from family.

Fear and uncertainty should not be the legacy of these stories of alleged abduction.

The legacy should be a resolve to keep an eye on our kids.

Our town is as safe as we make it. After all, we would all rather that his sort of thing did not happen in Ashburton.

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Are our kids missing out on fun?

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o our kids need a 1970s/80s experience?

Are the kids of today missing out on a whole lot of fun these days?

Surely sitting in front of a so-called smart device can’t be as much fun as a day outside?

I remember living in the Hampstead area when I was a wee fella, we had “Hooper’s Hut” down Trevors Road not far away from the river.

In truth it was an uprooted tree stump, but it was a fortress to us. A place we spent hours on end at, creating booby traps to capture anyone trying to take over OUR hut when we weren’t there. I’m sure we only went home when we got thirsty, hungry or it started getting dark.

We moved to the Allenton area when I was a bit bigger, not too far away from the domain – another location for hours of fun and adventures.

In fact my brothers and I joined forces with two kids from over the back fence to form a detective agency, the

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imaginary crime rate between Oak Grove and the domain was horrendous in those days.

We made backyard forts out of corrugated iron and whatever else we could find and then slept the night in them.

Maybe I’ve got it wrong, but surely spending hours on the couch staring at the screen playing Clash of the Titans, texting or facebooking, can’t be as much fun as what we got up to?

So here’s my 70s/80s experience for kids of today: ■

Make them play outside, all day. Worried about them getting too hot on a summer’s day? You may want to sit down for this – Make them drink from the hose and get them to run through the sprinklers.

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Let them spend three nights in a row at a friend’s place.

Don’t call or text every hour to make sure they are okay.

Have them make a fort, out of whatever they can find, do not assist in any way and let them sleep out in it if they want.

Have them put on a talent show. No theme, no requirements, no directions, no anything from you. Just their talent and (still got that seat handy?) IMAGINATION. Have them make a bird catcher, from a box, a stick, some string and some bread.

Go to the library, hang out there and read some books.

Get them to help you plant a vege garden and look after it.

Statistics show they are much more likely to eat veges they have grown themselves.

Get them to set up a stall on the footpath outside your house.

Teach them to play marbles and knucklebones.

Play spotlight at night.

They all sound more fun than screen staring to me!

This week’s cutting edge

lingo to drop around your place especially to wind up teenagers.

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Cryptofinance – The use of cryptography and privacy techniques to enable financial transactions that are secret and anonymous. It’s important enough nowadays to become the subject of university courses.

Loom bands – The latest craze for many, these are colourful rubber bands woven together into bracelets.

Shops now sell kits to make them, which are increasingly being used to make other items, from necklaces and key rings to phone cases and even bikinis.

Virtual mobbing – Using online media and technologies to attack or gang up on a particular person or thing.

Police brutality, for instance.

Till next week.

Hoo roo

Phill Hooper is the breakfast host of Ashburton’s Hokonui radio station. The views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect the opinion of his employer or the Ashburton Guardian

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In brief

■ JAPAN

Wall of mud claims 39 Thousands of rescuers have combed through the wreckage of homes engulfed by landslides in western Japan in the slim hope of finding survivors, a day after a wall of mud claimed at least 39 lives.

Police officers, firefighters and soldiers worked through the night and into yesterday in a desperate bid to find seven people still unaccounted for among the sludge and rubble.

Dozens of houses were buried when hillsides collapsed after torrential downpours in Hiroshima that saw more than a month’s rainfall in just three hours.

Throughout Wednesday there were moments of hope, with survivors who had sought refuge on the upper floors of their homes airlifted to safety, but there were also bodies carried away from the devastation wrapped in blankets or plastic sheeting.

Members of a local highschool baseball team were among teenagers who kept up an all-night vigil for one of their number, whose half submerged house was the focus of floodlight efforts.

“I saw tweets (saying he was missing),” one youngster told Fuji Television.

“We went to the same junior high school. I want him to be found as soon as possible because he must be in pain,” the boy said.

The network said the search at what remained of the stricken property continued into yesterday morning but neither the boy, nor his father, had been found.

Aerial footage showed military personnel operating heavy machinery to clear debris and police officers pulling at trees that had smashed into houses.

Trained search dogs were

Bangladesh authorities have suspended the head teacher of a girls’ primary school after she caned a group of pupils so brutally that 15 of them needed hospital treatment. The girls aged between 10 and 12 were all thrashed by the principal, Akter Jahan, as a punishment for ignoring her orders to clean up a class room, government administrator Kamrul Hasan said. The mass circulation Bengali daily Kaler Kantha said angry parents had besieged the 44-year-old Jahan’s home in the western town of Baliakandi after they had seen their daughters’ injuries.

- AFP

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Japan Ground Self Defense Force personnel search for missing residents in a mud-ridden residential area following a massive landslide in Hiroshima.

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also being taken over the muddy ground.

Among the 39 known victims were two brothers, aged two and 11, who were confirmed dead after being pulled out of their inundated home.

A neighbour who took part in the search told the Fuji network that the ground floor of the house was almost completely filled with mud.

“We collected shovels from the neighbourhood. The parents just had to believe the boys could hear them.

“They kept saying: ‘Breathe!’ and ‘Reply!’

“The mother stood on the mud and just kept shouting,” he said.

It emerged yesterday that the

53-year-old rescuer who was killed in a secondary landslide on Wednesday had died with a toddler in his arms.

Noriyoshi Masaoka, a firefighter with 35 years’ experience, had battled through the slurry of the initial mountain collapse to rescue five people before going back to help more.

The Tokyo Shimbun said a man and his three-year-old son were among eight people he was trying to rescue.

A witness told the paper the father had thrown his son into Masaoka’s arms as he saw the second wave of mud and rocks beginning to cascade down the hillside and had watched helplessly as it swallowed them both.

The bystander said the griefstricken father remained where he was, just shouting his son’s name.

Rescuers were racing against the possibility of further dire weather, which threatened to dislodge more of the waterlogged mountain.

Unseasonally heavy rains have pummelled Japan in recent weeks, sparking landslides and floods in numerous parts of the mountainous and densely populated country.

In one of the districts hit by the tragedy, a record 217 millimetres of rain fell in the three hours to 4am Wednesday, far more than the 143 millimetres that on average fall in August.

- AFP

■ GAZA

Air strike kills three Hamas commanders The armed wing of Hamas has announced that three of its senior commanders were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike in southern Gaza that medics say killed seven people.

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades yesterday identified the three as Mohammed Abu Shamala, Raed al-Atar and Mohammed Barhum.

Witnesses said the strike,

Caning hospitalises 15

which took place in the southern city of Rafah on the Egyptian border, levelled a four-storey family home in Rafah.

The deadly raid strike came after the wife and infant son of the Brigades’ top military leader, Mohammed Deif, were killed in an Israeli strike on a multi-storey building in Gaza City late Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the Brigades said Deif had escaped the attack and warned foreign airlines to halt all flights into Tel Aviv airport, vowing there would be no let up in its sixweek war with Israel.

Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said eight Palestinians were killed in pre-dawn air strikes yesterday - seven in Rafah and anoth-

er in Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

It was not immediately clear if the three dead commanders were among, or in addition to, the seven dead recorded by medics.

At least 2058 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side have now been killed since the conflict began on July 8.

- AFP

Tony Abbott has warned Australia cannot let down its guard against homegrown terrorism or risk “truly sickening” acts of barbarity like those in Iraq playing out at home.

The prime minister has discussed a proposed raft of new counterterrorism laws with Islamic groups as global outrage mounts over the beheading of American journalist James Foley in Iraq. Mr Abbott said the “hideous” act committed by an allegedly British terrorist highlighted the unique threat posed by homegrown jihadism.

“This is not just something that happens elsewhere,” he told reporters in Melbourne yesterday. “It could happen in countries like Australia if we relax our vigilance against terrorism and potential terrorism here on our shores.”

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Bush on ice Former president George W. Bush has taken the so-called Ice Bucket Challenge in support of Lou Gehrig’s disease research, and challenged his Democratic predecessor Bill Clinton to do the same. “To you all that challenged me, I do not think it’s presidential for me to be splashed with ice water,” Bush says while sitting on a sunny porch dressed in a T-shirt.

“So I’m simply gonna write you a cheque,” he adds in a video posted on YouTube yesterday.

His wife Laura then appears and douses Bush in icy cold water.

The former president, who served from 2001 to 2009, lets out a loud “oww” in shock and pain. “That cheque is from me, I don’t wanna ruin my hairstyle,” Laura Bush says, bucket in hand.

- AFP

Botox a cancer fix?

Botox has effectively frozen the faces of countless Hollywood stars, and international researchers say the toxic injections might also be able to stop cancer in its tracks, at least temporarily. The findings in the journal Science Translational Medicine are based on studies of mice with stomach cancer.

Researchers found that Botox could block signals from the vagal nerve - which extends from the brain stem to the abdomen - slowing the growth of tumours as much as surgery would. “We found that by removing the effect of the nerve, the stem cells in the cancer tumour are suppressed, leading to cancer treatment and prevention,” said co-author Duan Chen, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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■ UNITED FORESTRY GROUP

Small forests get a helping hand

By Brian Fallow

An estimated 40 per cent of New Zealand forestry exports are generated from 14,000 individually owned forests.

and has been operating in New Zealand for 15 years, and a Chinese conglomerate, Xiangyu Group.

United Forestry’s chairman is Wellington lawyer and former National Party president Geoff Thompson and the other New Zealand directors are Hamish

Levack and Kelly Coghlan.

Pentarch’s chairman, Malcolm McComb, is acting managing director.

New Zealand is already a major exporter of softwood, mostly to China and Asia, where it has to compete with supply from the vast forests of Russia, Bra-

zil, Chile and North America.

McComb said New Zealand’s situation was unique, with an estimated 40 per cent of forestry exports about to be generated from 14,000 individuallyowned forests.

“None of New Zealand’s competitors in the international

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Reasons for the downward revisions included lower than expected tax income and falling commodity prices.

Dairy product prices fell again this week in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, however, the drop was much smaller than the last two auctions and gave markets hope that prices are stabilising.

In addition, the average price for whole milk powder rose 3.4 per cent which is a positive for New Zealand dairy farmers.

The New Zealand dollar continued its recent tumble following the release of the Global Dairy auction as well as the lower growth forecast.

The Australasian reporting season has shifted into high gear in its penultimate week with Wednesday being a particularly busy day for both New Zealand and Australian markets.

Mighty River Power, one of the energy companies involved in the government’s asset sales

Jeremy Flood works for Craigs Investment Partners.

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programme, saw results jump well above IPO forecasts. The company announced an annual net profit of $212 million, 84 per cent higher than last year.

Contributing to the result were lower interest costs, lower capital spending and a lower tax bill. The dividend was also raised to 8.3 cents per share, bringing annual distributions to shareholders to 13.5 cents per share, a 13 per cent increase on last year.

In Australia, BHP Billiton said that it would be spinning off several assets in an effort to focus on its core operations.

The divestment is worth an estimated US$16 billion and will leave the company with its iron ore, copper, coal, petroleum and potash segments. The announcement of the demerger didn’t come as a surprise to the market, however, many investors expected the company to announce a share buyback. This came as a disappointment and saw shares drop nearly 5 per cent.

Next week look forward to earnings reports from Metlifecare, Air New Zealand and Genesis Energy from New Zealand and Spark Infrastructure, Adelaide Brighton and Ramsay Healthcare in Australia.

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Markets surge, recover losses his week markets have surged ahead, making up for the losses seen over the past month, as tensions between Russia and the Ukraine ease.

Foreign Ministers from both countries met and came to an agreement that Russia could send in a convoy with humanitarian aid, seen as a large step towards a more permanent solution. Adding to the relief, government troops and Kurdish forces recaptured Mosul Dam from Islamist militants with the help of US airstrikes.

Positive economic data released during the week has driven US markets higher. The commerce commission announced that construction on new homes rose 15.7 per cent for July, well above forecasts.

The Labor Department also released the July consumer price index which showed a rise in prices of 0.1 per cent, in line with expectations and signalling inflation isn’t flaring up.

The Nasdaq rose to a 14 year high, spurred on by the positive data and earnings news.

The index also benefitted from a strong run in Apple shares which reached an all-time high this week. The rise came as markets looked forward to impending product releases in early September, rumoured to include a larger screened iPhone 6 and a watch.

Locally, the National government released its pre-election economic and fiscal update this

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A company offering small forest owners less risky options for realising their investment was launched in Wellington yesterday.

United Forestry Group’s business model is to consolidate the output of a number of forests in an area to effectively create one large forest which can be harvested over time.

Such consolidation, it says, provides advantages for the supply of logs to local mills and enables longer-term contracts for harvesting, transport and marketing.

Growers would have a range of options: selling only their trees or both land and trees, for cash or shares in the company, or both.

Its cornerstone (60 per cent) shareholder is a joint venture between international timber marketer Pentarch, which is headquartered in Melbourne

market is sourcing logs from thousands and thousands of small individually-owned forests with resulting high costs, inefficiencies and an inevitably weak negotiating position.”

“The high harvesting and transport costs faced by the owners of single small forests, and their weak negotiating position with buyers, means the potential value of these forests may not be achieved and the final return to their owners may be disappointing.”

They might try to organise a contractor to do the felling, arrange transport to a port or sawmill themselves, and try to negotiate a price through an agent, McComb said.

“However, failure to manage the significant costs that go with felling and getting it on board a ship, coupled with a weak negotiating position with purchasers, can have a huge adverse impact on the hoped-for return.”

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Apple stocks hit new high

Google’s big picture Google’s IPO, a decade ago this week, launched the company on a trajectory that continues to reshape its business and much of the world in its orbit. And CEO Larry Page is determined to push even further. Page’s vision is that Google’s products and services will become the control centre of people’s lives: The company’s driverless cars will chauffeur people around safer roads and deliver goods within hours of an online order.

People won’t even have to bother leaving their homes, which will be made more comfortable and enjoyable through the use of smart appliances. Robots will handle tedious chores and other jobs, freeing up time for people to enjoy lives prolonged by health-management tools and disease-fighting breakthroughs engineered by Google.

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Widening the wealth gap

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, (left) gestures as China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua smiles during a promotional event in China.

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ing hopes that Apple is poised to create a new product category for the first time since the iPad’s release four years ago.

“We’ve got some great things that we’re working on that I’m very, very proud of and very, very excited about,” he told analysts in April.

Anticipation for the next iPhone already is running even higher than the usual frenetic buildup.

The device is expected to feature a display screen of at least 4.7 inches, an upgrade likely to spur many Apple fans to scrap their old models for a more spacious version.

Apple’s stock hit its previous high the last time the company increased the iPhone’s screen size in 2012, going from 3.5 inches to 4 inches that time.

Analysts are also enthused about Apple’s efforts to immerse its devices and services even more deeply into people’s lives by creating a system that

syncs the iPhone with display screens in autos and implanting a health-tracking system in the next version of its mobile software due out this fall.

The new software, called iOS 8, could also work with a smartwatch, if Apple does release one.

Apple’s stock has bounced back with the help of some financial engineering, too. The company’s board voted in April to spend an additional $30 billion buying back Apple’s stock and approved an unusual 7-for1 stock split.

The split, completed last month, was Apple’s first in nine years. Although a split doesn’t change a company’s market value, it often helps lift a stock’s price by making the shares appear more affordable to a larger pool of potential investors.

In Apple’s case, the split caused the stock price to fall from about $645 to $92 to adjust for the issuance of more

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Apple’s stock has risen 35 per cent since the split was announced in April.

The rally is a vindication of sorts for Cook, whose every move is viewed through the prism of what Jobs might have done if he were still alive and running Apple.

Jobs groomed Cook as his successor before he died in October 2011 after a long battle with cancer.

Apple’s stock has nearly doubled since Cook became CEO, outpacing the roughly 70 per cent gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500 during the same stretch.

Cook has done some things that most analysts doubt Jobs would have done, including buying headphone maker and music-streaming service provider Beats Electronics for $3 billion and funneling so much of Apple’s cash into buying back its own stock.

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Google’s IPO turned most of the company’s roughly 2500 employees at the time of the IPO into millionaires, including its head chef and masseuse. Even more wealth has been created as Google helped turn the Internet and mobile devices into gold mines for workers with programming skills and ingenuity.

But the high-tech boom has also created an ever-widening gap in the San Francisco Bay area between people employed in the industry and a sizeable population of locals who increasingly have trouble making ends meet as the region’s cost of living steadily escalates. “If you already own a home here, you are golden,” says Michael Kasperzak, a city councilman in Google’s hometown of Mountain View. “If you don’t, you are in a world of hurt.”

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The milestone represents a dramatic turnaround in sentiment since Apple’s shares reached its previous split-adjusted peak of $100.72 in September 2012.

After hitting $101.09 late Wednesday, shares slipped back to $100.87, still up by 34 cents for the session. That gave Apple a market value of $604 billion by far more than any other publicly held company.

Apple’s stock had fallen to a split-adjusted $55.01 in April 2013 to wipe out about $300 billion in shareholder wealth amid worries that the Cupertino, California, company had run out of ideas without Jobs as its mastermind.

The anxiety escalated as sales of iPhones and iPads slowed amid the growing popularity of less expensive smartphones and tablet computers made by Samsung Electronics and other rivals relying on Google’s free Android software.

Now, there are signs that Samsung’s devices are losing momentum while Apple prepares to release the next version of its iPhone this fall, and investors wait for Cook to deliver on his promise to introduce a product that will open up new opportunities.

The breakthrough is widely expected to be a smartwatch that will include sensors to help people monitor their health.

Hewing to its secretive ways, Apple hasn’t provided details about its upcoming products.

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In brief Frosty still hungry For Mark Winterbottom, there was nothing worse than seeing the boss of his rival Holden team smile after losing the V8 Supercars championship lead last round. But the Ford Performance Racing star says it’s only made him hungrier for a win at this weekend’s event at Sydney Motorsport Park. Winterbottom spent more than three months on top of the overall standings until Jamie Whincup snatched it off him at Ipswich earlier this month. The Red Bull Racing driver and five-time defending champion has won six of the past nine races to be in front for the first time since February by 15 points. “Yeah, it hurts to lose the lead,” Winterbottom said. “But it might’ve been the motivator that I needed just to kick me in the backside a little bit.

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Stewart still out Tony Stewart will sit out Saturday’s NASCAR race in Bristol, Tennessee, the third Sprint Cup race he’s missed since his car struck and killed a fellow driver in a dirt-track race. Kevin Ward Jr was killed during a lower-level dirt track race in New York state. Ward had exited his damaged vehicle and was walking on the track when Stewart’s car hit and killed him. The cars of both drivers had tangled on a prior lap, with Ward hitting the wall. Police said in the days after the incident they had found “no criminal behaviour” on the part of Stewart, but an investigation into the crash is ongoing.

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Starting easier - Crotty It will be his first test start, but Ryan Crotty believes preparing to wear the No12 jersey in tomorrow’s high-stakes Bledisloe Cup match will be slightly easier than coming off the bench. All of Crotty’s seven previous tests have come as a replacement. While he has done well in that role - the most obvious example of his adding value being in Dublin last year when he scored that crucial try against Ireland after the final siren - his greater experience as a starting midfielder for Canterbury and the Crusaders means he won’t be overawed by the task.

“It’s a little bit easier than coming off the bench,” Crotty said. “To know when you’re going to be out there, having in time in the saddle learning all the moves, it probably makes it a little bit easier.” - APNZ

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Coasters fired up

By Jonathan Leask

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The last time the West Coast were at the Ashburton Showgrounds in the Heartland Rugby Championship, Willie McGoon scored an injury time try to send them back across the Alps stunned by the last-minute turnaround.

West Coast had taken the lead in the 78th minute of the Meads Cup semi-final but any thoughts of a final appearance were dashed when the Hammers conjured up a match winner, with time up on the clock, putting McGoon in for his second try of the afternoon.

The Hammers went on to lift the Meads Cup a week later, and begin their quest to defend it tomorrow.

Their opening round opponents come in with that lastgasp loss still burning in their memory, but McGoon isn’t looming large this weekend as he is still to return to the fray for the Hammers after missing all four pre-season hit-outs.

After a strong win over Ellesmere, the Hammers recorded the best Ranfurly Shield challenge of any Heartland side in the past 14 years holding Counties Manukau to 46-10, tipped over Southland and comfortably accounted for South Canterbury to come into the season with plenty of momentum.

“Momentum is important, but getting the structures right and the combinations going was more important,” Mid Canterbury coach Glenn Moore said.

“Every week is about winning so nothing changes.”

“We’ve prepared well despite some injuries to deal with, but our depth is stronger and some good players have missed out this week.”

McGoon, his Southbridge team-mate Peni Manumanuniwila and Dwayne Burrows are in the squeeze to fill the remaining two loan spots in the match day 22 with Murray Williams a sure-fire bet to don the 10 jersey every week.

This week McGoon misses out as Manumanuniwila and Burrows will resume their midfield combination with player of origin Matt Thatcher pairing up with his former Methven team-mate Brenton Connell on the wings and Andrew Letham at fullback.

Halfback has seen some real competition with four in the squad of 32 – Davey Maw, Jake Ashby and Cawte Whiting all having time in pre-season while Will Mackenzie has been out injured after a strong display against the Steelers.

Mackenzie, the incumbent and a Heartland XV representative, will be given the nod tomorrow with Ashby on the bench leaving the other two – and the rest of the unrequired members of the squad, to have a run with Mid Canterbury A. In the forwards the props have been rotated around during the preseason, but Fleetwood has won the tighthead spot with Jon Sharpe set at hooker, after James Carr was ruled out for the season with a shoulder injury.

The Hammers are light on locks with Kody Nordqvist also

Skipper Jon Dampney and coach Glenn Moore discuss tactics for the Hammers’ first Meads Cup match of the season.

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out injured and Andrew Smith unavailable tomorrow.

Logan Bonnington will be partnering debutant and former North Otago and Heartland

XV representative, Eric Duff.

Captain Jon Dampney and the dynamic Gary Redmond will be joined by Tevita Ula in the loose forward trio.

Public ‘scared McCaw will fail’ - Hansen

Hogg back for Big Bash

By Patrick Mckendry

Ageless spinner Brad Hogg will step out for another Big Bash League season with the Perth Scorchers at the age of 43. Hogg retired in 2008, having claimed 156 one-day international wickets and won two World Cups. The popular tongue-out wrist-spinner never came to terms with life after cricket, signing up with the Scorchers for the inaugural BBL season in 2011. Perth announced yesterday he would be back for a fourth BBL campaign. Should the Scorchers again progress to the final, Hogg will be rolling the arm over some nine days short of his 44th birthday. Along the way he has twice been called up to the national Twenty20 side, this year becoming the oldest man to play cricket for Australia since Clarrie Grimmett in 1936.

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Steve Hansen has a theory about some of the public’s negativity surrounding his captain Richie McCaw following the Crusaders’ Super Rugby final defeat and which, in some quarters, will have gathered pace following the All Blacks’ poor performance against the Wallabies in Sydney.

Saying McCaw, 33, is over the hill, conceding too many penalties, not as good as Michael Hooper ... all of it is based on fear, Hansen reckons.

Fear that McCaw will fail, that the team will fail.

It is a form of self-protection, he thinks, but it is, in his opinion, entirely unnecessary.

McCaw’s defensive effort in

Sydney was outstanding, and it needed to be. He made 20 tackles, the highest number for an individual in the Rugby Championship last weekend, and missed zero, as the All Blacks clung on with a man short in the final minutes and with the Wallabies high on confidence and even higher on possession levels.

Yes, he was penalised three times, but it seems referees are beginning to have pre-conceived ideas about McCaw, for often he is penalised wrongly.

Craig Joubert’s penalty in the final minutes of the Super Rugby final is a case in point.

McCaw was entitled to put his hands on the ball for there was no tackle, therefore no offside line applied.

Often, it seems, the skipper has

AB skipper Richie McCaw

a greater knowledge of the rules - and spatial awareness in an often chaotic breakdown environment - than the officials, but that is another matter entirely.

“I’m not sure they want him to fail, I think they’re scared he will fail,” Hansen replied when asked about the public backlash

aimed at his skipper before the draw at ANZ Stadium.

“I think that’s the actual case of the matter. They’re worried that here is this icon, probably the greatest player we’ve ever had, [we’ve] been hugely successful with him in the team what if he does fail? What happens to the team?

“I think it’s more that than the other. The selectors haven’t got that fear at present. He’s playing really well. We’re probably in the situation where people just need to relax a bit.

“He’s not superhuman, he does make the odd mistake. But his rugby career stands for itself.

He as a bloke stands for himself.

I think people just need to have faith in him and have faith in what we’re doing.”

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M C ameron 4 3 2584 Kilmarnoch (5) 58.5 LStewart 1 R Black (a2) 4 0005X Chaparral’s Jet (9) 58.5 LLatta R Hannam 5 46950. Sergios (3) 58.5 Champion/Murphy R Myers 1 6 0X403 Love (6) 56.5 MMcCann S Muniandy 7 90526 Spid er Lily (4) 56.5 LStewart 1 D Walsh 8 4X0X Oh So Famous (1) 56.5 T&MStokes KWilliams 9 0488X Forfeiture (10) 56.5 CSpittl es C Johnson 10 007 Tobette (2) 56.5 KThomson R Bishop

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Lane&Wales J McInerney J McInerney C Roberts C Roberts J McInerney

1:32 pm

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GARDEN CITY CHEM-DRY DASH $1400, c2, 295m

1 62118 Smoking Marley 17.38 2 A Bradshaw 4 2 33745 Hyperparad ise nwtd S&B Evans 1 3 43124 Go Tommo 17.29 D Stapleton 4 37521 Home Truth 17.32 G C leeve 3 5 42783 Phat Pants 17.66 McC ook&Jopson SHIRLEY VET CLINIC DISTANCE 12:57 pm C asey&Fagan $2100, c0d , 645m 6 63438 Mamalulu 17.65 J McInerney 1 57667 Homebush Spook nwtd J McInerney 7 68512 Tai Baxter nwtd M Flipp 3 2 36863 Cabarita nwtd M Grant 8 21475 Abogad o 17.32 J McInerney 3 5778X Homebush Rowd y nwtd J McInerney 9 67665 Another Another nwtd P Scott 4 PX678 Homebush Faline nwtd J McInerney 10 88X66 Mum’s Prod igy 17.58 4 5 53 Inspector Spot nwtd A Bradshaw THE TURF BAR MAIDEN SPRINT HEAT 4 6 7485 Homebush Bounce nwtd J McInerney 1:49 pm $1100, c0q, 295m 1 7 32224 Darcy Brasco nwtd S Hindson 3 1 36784 Homebush Zane nwtd J McInerney 2 8 63 Cawbourne Steve nwtd C Roberts 1 2 32 Norman Jewel nwtd C Roberts 9 788X6 Ohoka Natasha nwtd L Waretini 3 56555 Smash Who nwtd M Grant 4 48667 Bita Banta nwtd R C ockburn THE TURF BAR MAIDEN SPRINT HEAT 3 1:14 pm 2 5 3224 Angel D’Or nwtd B Dann $1100, c0q, 295m 4 6 7 Homebush Dobby nwtd J McInerney 1 68676 Ganache nwtd M Flipp 7 77686 Homebush Lucifer nwtd J McInerney 2 2 343 Verbatim nwtd B Dann 8 47576 Sacajawea nwtd D Stapleton 3 78275 Sally West nwtd M K Dempsey L Waretini 3 4 F4251 Homebush Ramona nwtd J McInerney 9 788X6 Ohoka Natasha nwtd 1 5 38227 Homebush Rocky nwtd AMBER CLEANING SERVICES STAKES J McInerney 2:07 pm 6 54676 Homebush Ted nwtd $1800, c0, 520m J McInerney 4 7 7 Vincent Gallo nwtd 2 1 34 Homebush Stew nwtd R Blackburn J McInerney 8 48555 Homebush Buck nwtd 3 2 4633 Opawa Rob nwtd J McInerney Lane&Wales 9 788X6 Ohoka Natasha nwtd L Waretini 3 447 Opawa Uno nwtd Lane&Wales

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84162 Opawa Hally nwtd 55222 Miss Selfies nwtd 21486 Homebush Violet nwtd 18887 Cawbourne Muscle nwtd 76376 Tod d y’s A Flyer nwtd 72283 Cawbourne Philip nwtd

Today at Washdyke

CENTRAL SI OWNERS & TRAINERS MAIDEN $7000, md n, 1600m

PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer

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SPEIGHTS MILE RATING 65

$7000, R65 benchmark*, 1600m

6 7946X Shaylee Wild e (8) 54.5 T&MStokes

M C ameron 3 7 83635 Slick Nickel (1) 54.5 SLaming L C allaway 8 02036 Belt Up (2) 54 DCrozier S Wynne (a1) 9 70X09 Kashin Girl (5) 54 BIngl is T Moseley

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ONCEUPONATIME & PATAPAN R75

$8000, R75 benchmark, 1600m

1 18639 Ad d itup (8) 61.5 BIngl is J Lowry (a4) 4 2 69816 Wind whistle (1) 61 M&WCol es M Haruki (a3) 3 9X320. Pennys From Heaven (6) 59.5 GTrusttum

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R Black (a2) 00X84 Red Ripper (5) 58.5 K&LRae J Bates 22546 El Bee Dee (9) 57 RMcKay K Williams 55932 Davone Cod e (4) 56.5 SWoodsford R Hannam 16651 Command er Cod y (7) 56.5 Hay/Carston R C uneen (a3) 60X07 Locket (3) 55.5 J&KParsons C Johnson 12343 My Chino (2) 55.5 J&KParsons S Wynne (a1)

1 93206 Percy Possum (6) 59 NRidl ey R C uneen (a3) 2 PORT FM MAIDEN 4 2 14337 Chipmunk (4) 58 M&WCol es 1 R Black (a2) 2:15 pm $7000, md n, 1200m 1 3 19X74 Connor John (7) 57.5 JMorel l R Myers opt 614 4 6169X Sir Daniel (3) 56 RMcKay A McKay (a3) 3 1 33X3X Mitcham (10) 58.5 NCoul beck S Wynne (a1) 5 00X41 Angel Falls (9) 55.5 Champion/Murphy 2 302X5 Ontario (3) 58.5 DFrye D Walsh 3 Zabbadak SC RATC HED

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August 22, 2014

4 0440X Owe The Ransom (11) 58.5 J&KParsons

C Johnson

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$1400, c2q, 305m PX # REC Greyhound Fastest time Trainer

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23118 Homebush Sarah 17.86 11211 Allegro Master 17.70 28553 Mariah 18.12 76155 Miss Sara 17.86 63884 Homebush Envy 17.81 26684 Rebel Kahn nwtd 37672 Azure Dreams 17.75 68215 Our Jack Attack 18.0 8 85785 Miss Jolt 18.0 2 67868 Hey You 17.46

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HARRISON HIRE MASTER C2 HT2 $1400, c2q, 305m

63734 Bigtime Chip 17.68 64614 Uno Flash 17.71 21111 Kilchurn nwtd 26854 Flirt With Me 18.0 2 21742 Trend y Boy nwtd 64854 Newton Willow nwtd 38168 Riba Lord a 17.73 46376 Run Mischief Run 18.13 57648 Homebush Verona 17.99 67868 Hey You 17.46

5:39 pm

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R Murray S Maher G Hodgson T McC racken L Ahern G&J C larke G&J C larke T Agent J McInerney W Kite

J P PRINT (PETONE) C2 HT3 $1400, c2q, 305m

F1413 Legerd emain 17.76 36456 Thrilling Might 17.79

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L Ahern G&J C larke

3 37227 Cosmic Rascal 17.90 2 3 4 87472 Zamad d is Lass 18.24 5 X7788 Legend Bee 17.73 6 4478X Seven Iron nwtd 7 36264 Daisy’s Boi 17.84 8 13778 Carly Rae Rama 17.94 9 57648 Homebush Verona 17.99 10 67868 Hey You 17.46

T McC racken T Downey J Woolston-Bell T Agent P Lowen Poutama&Doody J McInerney W Kite

August 22, 2014

9 6X876 Homebush Hell’s 17.63 10 36888 Thrilling Daze 17.61 6:57 pm

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C C lark S Gommans

CHRISTMAS AT THE RACES 5,1 2&1 9TH DECEMBER C2 $2200, c2, 520m

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9 South Coaster (10) BMowbray R May MAXWELLS DRYCLEANING MOBILE PACE 10 6:15 pm Mr Melsu SC RATC HED $11,000, 3yo+ c1, 1950m 11 opt 811 1 12 0222 Command er Paris (11) KFairbairn J Dunn PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver 13 X0849 Winsome Luck (12) KCameron K C ameron 1 1 45322 Betty Golightly (1) AGarters C DeFilippi 14 Star C ommando SC RATC HED 2 709X6 Perissa (2) AStuart R May 15 09993 Shay Scott (u1) BHeron R C lose (J) 2 3 74516 No Way Else (3) T&GChmiel T C hmiel NOVUS GLASS RESTORATION MOB PACE 4 X7024 Boltmaro (4) RAustin J C urtin 7:05 pm $9000, 3yo+, c0 cond , 1950m 3 5 12465 Stingray (5) D&CButt B Butt opt 813 1 Better Scoot (1) KBarron B Orange 6 02359 That’s Hunting Pink (6) DTayl or G O'Reilly 1 2 2 Gracious Star (2) PBurrows G Smith 7 X24X8 Daughtry Bromac (7) JHay I Lee (J) 3 05X28 Four Starzzz Shiraz (3) KChapman J Dunn 8 6517 No Excuse Maravu (8) KBarron B Orange

Montenegro (9) BHutton B Hutton 4 0X Wiliam The Conqueror (4) DTayl or K C ox (J) 9 78786 Barrier 3 5 6X003 Mid night Prowler (5) DThompson S Thompson Kilkenny Turk (6) SDol an M Williamson 10 70280 Playaway (21) PRobertson C D Thornley 6 4 7 Uaintseennothinyet (7) CDal gety A Butt 11 21449 Betabcool (22) T&GChmiel A Veint (J) 2

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D Dunn 4 12 73524 Wood lea DJ (23) TTwidl e K C ox (J)

Barrier 13 98X54 The Pacman (u1) RDunn S Ottley

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1 51122 Maid en Rome (1) G&NHope S Golding (J) 2 05721 Lumos (2) RDunn J Dunn 3 Franco Revel SC RATC HED 2 4 1221X Locharburn (1) KChapman B Orange 4 5 5660X Four Starzzz Flash (1) KChapman MWilliamson 3 6 4223X Jimmy Johnstone (2) JHay J Hay 1 7 2221X Christen Me (1) CDal gety D Dunn opt

TRADESTAFF HANDICAP TROT

1 X2542 Sunoflind enny (u1) MJones B Orange 2

Valmagne SC RATC HED 3 3 31872 Another Love (1) CMiddl eton C Middleton 1 4 24X32 Donald son (2) G&NHope S Golding (J) 5 X5186 Galleons Triumph (u1) PWil l iamson MWilliamson 6 57899 Whata Gamble (1) FFl etcher S Smolenski BEDWORLD NZ LTD YOUNG @ HEART 7:36 pm 2 7 26974 Quality Invasion (u1) BGraham J W C ox ROBBIES BAR & BISTRO TROT opt 814 6:40 pm SERIES HT MBL $7000, c1 -c4 cond, 1 950m 4 8 9406X Uncas (u2) BHeron R May opt 812 $9000, 3yo+ c0, 2600m 1 0X087 Natural Courage (1) MEdmonds S McNally 9 5217X King Of Strathfield (1) GDunn G O'Reilly 4 1 07903 Waihemo Angus (1) Hannah/Chappel l C DThornley 2 07406 Franco Hepburn (2) PAnderson M Jones YOUR SHOUT LINWOOD MOBILE PACE 1 3 DX11 New Years Jay (3) Cox/Hoffman J W C ox 8:54 pm 2 Saltwater Gold (2) MEdmonds J Anderson (J) $9000, 4yo+ c2-c4 jun.d , 1950m 3 0X705 Sun King (3) BBorcoskie P Borcoskie 4 39656 Gino D’Acampo (4) DPaterson T Bagrie (J) opt 817 4 0X40 Ethelsville (4) LO'Reil l y R May 1 26186 Nicky’s Dynamic (1) BMowbray S Golding (J) L O'Reilly 5 70098 Ard en’s Attack (5) BMowbray K Butt (J) 5 06 Gael Lud low (5) BCrothers M Williamson 2 71410 Franco Harrington (2) TButt B C rothers 6 54280 Elusive Flight (6) SAl l en 2 3 15217 Florin (3) RDunn 3 7 65144 All Delight (7) SMcRae M Purvis (J) 6 00X08 Little Miss (6) TJel l yman C D Thornley G O'Reilly 3 7 050X3 Davey’s Gift (7) PWil l iamson M Williamson 2 8 15642 Smoken Roman (8) P&LJones C DeFilippi 4 04474 Machs A Flyin (4) MJones J Harrington (J) 9 34371 Alta Capone (9) NEdge 2 8 63372 Strathfield Sun (8) C&JDeFil ippi C DeFilippi 4 B Orange 5 70706 Givethejobtobarnsy (5) JVersteeg A Veint (J) Barrier 3 6 95442 Wood lea Legend (6) TTwidl e 9 56370 Died rez Pearl (9) FFl etcher S Smolenski K C ox (J)

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36115 Dee 17.31 15226 Know Magic 17.38 67665 Another Another nwtd 67477 Ad vanced Ped ro 17.53

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CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES $2200, c2, 520m

1 42451 Opawa Rocky 30 .55 4 J&D Fahey 1 2 32341 Opawa Amy 30 .30 J&D Fahey OPAWA BOWL & JACK TAVERN SPRINT 3 3 42113 Flying Amelia 30 .29 C Weir 2:24 pm $1400, c2, 295m 4 54345 Mr. Johnny 31.0 0 J Goode 3 1 74224 Not So Cute 17.58 D Stapleton 5 34737 Wagon Wheel 30 .58 McC ook&Jopson 2 2 46475 Wonkey Donkey 17.33 A Bradshaw 6 34313 Gold Vipa 31.0 0 S&B Evans 3 13853 Que Tee Pix 17.54 McC ook&Jopson 7 12383 Flip Flippa 30 .80 Lane&Wales 4 4 31148 Smash Easy 17.46 M Grant 2 8 13252 Jessie Surfs 30 .35 C Roberts 5 44545 Rattle Ya Dags 17.29 R C ockburn 9 31456 Opawa Kend al 30 .46 Lane&Wales 6 51567 Momma Rae 17.24 M Flipp 7 22167 Gold star Chyna 17.30 S&B Evans SNOW-E MUSCLE, ENERGY & 1 8 117X1 Opawa Tom 17.37 J&D Fahey 3:17 pm FERTILITY DASH $1400, c2, 295m 9 67665 Another Another nwtd J McInerney 2 1 65278 Gold star Rosie nwtd S&B Evans 10 86884 Hilton Frid ay 17.55 J McInerney 2 53271 Red Eye Max 17.78 R C ockburn 1 3 15116 Porky Pig 17.33 C.T.V. SPRINT A Bradshaw 2:41 pm 3 4 71282 Wand y Feather 17.39 $1400, c2, 295m M Grant 1 1 45542 Opawa Id ol 17.35 A Joyce Lane&Wales 5 83188 Rule Jud ge Jud y 17.47 2 24773 Gold star Mario 17.52 G C leeve S&B Evans 6 56786 Jed Norton 17.36 3 71875 Jet To Mars 17.70 Mitchell&Smith 7 32858 Gypsy Hunter 17.56 D Stapleton 4 8 61774 Look At Lucy 17.56 4 4 8F213 Mighty Twist 17.62 Mitchell&Smith C Weir 5 68878 My Foolish Heart 17.52 J McInerney A Joyce 9 67665 Another Another nwtd 6 76313 Homebush Tiare 17.37 J McInerney J McInerney 10 86884 Hilton Frid ay 17.55

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2-3, 4-5, 6-7 1-2-3, 5-6-7 4-5-6-7 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 2-3-4-5-6-7

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1 41342 Girl Prid e 30 .40 1 D Edlin 3 2 33423 All About Amy 30 .52 A&J.Hall 3 76616 Opawa Cud d les 31.0 0 S Maher 4 65418 That’s King 30 .50 B Hodgson WWW.RACINGTIPS.CO.NZ C3 4 5 64564 Alpinad or 30 .55 D Edlin 5:59 pm $1700, c3, 305m 6 64373 Pad d y Baxter 30 .26 J McInerney 2 1 33236 Kinetic Rio 17.52 Kettlewell&Phillips 2 7 32571 Opawa Jen 30 .36 S Maher 2 63257 Jill Sprite 17.71 N Udy 8 18324 Curious Life nwtd M Olden 3 72435 Smart Cookie 17.87 J McArthur 9 34645 I’m A Catch 30 .46 Lammas&Morris 4 74566 Botany Dave 17.62 J McInerney 10 75285 Thrilling Ava 30 .22 B Marsh 1 5 63341 Vinny Doon 17.83 G M Atwood LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C5 4 6 75485 Ate Pizza 17.41 S Gommans 7:23 pm $2400, c5, 305m 3 7 86252 Flying Blake 17.72 L Bell 1 1 34422 Call Me Ralph 17.38 G&J C larke 8 12486 Hannibal Lecter 17.71 L Ahern 2 2 72847 Lead foot Lenny 17.44 L Udy 9 57766 Cawbourne Onyx 17.85 M Roberts M Olden 10 78657 Starburst Blanch 17.90 S Gommans 3 12731 Cid er Drinka 17.73 4 17817 Blue Senior 17.65 N Udy PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION 5 72675 Sweet Lies 17.50 Freeman&Turnwald 6:27 pm C3 $1700, c3, 305m 3 6 52436 Enazuma 17.39 Goldsack&Denby 1 1 86464 Just A Mate 17.55 J McInerney 4 7 33545 Embee Dee 17.53 J McInerney 2 81767 Opawa Gift 17.79 B Johnston 8 38558 Bee Rabbit 17.38 L Ahern 3 24637 Just You Wait 17.81 J McArthur 9 82786 Belkara 17.55 M Olden 4 67734 Another Colt nwtd J McInerney 10 13888 Ever So Hopeful 17.75 Goldsack&Denby 5 48177 Tongariro 17.69 G&J C larke CROMBIE LOCKWOOD (NZ) LTD C5 2 6 45837 Cawbourne Bully 17.44 M Roberts 7:49 pm $2400, c5, 305m 4 7 1212X Gogo Rioli 17.69 A Speight 2 1 21251 Boston Blaze 17.49 Freeman&Turnwald 3 8 11174 Miss Allegro 17.78 L Ahern

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Today at Hatrick Raceway

ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C2 HT1

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1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 7-8-9-10-11-12

5 37X0X Gee Wiz Gerry (2) 58.5 TRae R C uneen (a3) 6 5X Southerly Change (14) 58.5 K& P Hughes 6 21387 Coffee (2) 55.5 Michael & Matthew Pitman

M Haruki (a3) D Walsh 7 Mr Moonlight (4) 58.5 MTapper L C allaway 7 114X3 Coup Caprio (8) 55.5 Champion/Murphy 2 8 58X23 Whiskey Bolero (12) 56.5 N&R Ll oyd RBishop 3

R Bishop 9 3460X Carolina Island (6) 56.5 T&MStokes 8 62316. El Dorad o Sun (7) 55.5 KThomson R Myers

M C ameron 1 10 2 Wand erin Star (15) 56.5 RBeckett T Moseley 9 X6941 Resplend ent (4) 54 PRichards R Hannam D’CASH DASH RATING 65 4 11 King Kahuna (13) 56 LDidham J Bates 3:26 pm 12 5 Silver Hiho (9) 56 LLatta R Hannam opt 616 $7000, R65 benchmark*, 1200m 13 My Silver Lining (1) 56 CSpittl es K Williams 1 Silhouette Noire SC RATC HED 14

Supremo SC RATC HED 2 2 0X30X Coup Flyer (1) 59 TRae R C uneen (a3) A 15 0 Saigon Prince (8) 56 RMcKay A McKay (a3) 3 415X Gartartan Lad (14) 59 CTrembath A McKay (a3) B 16 60. Galatoire (5) 56.5 J&KParsons 4 380X1 Manuia (15) 58 MMcCann C Barnes (a1) C 17 060X Wand erin Along (7) 58.5 RBeckett 5 X9756. Red Dirt Girl (3) 58 MMcCann S Muniandy

6 X1584 Amarok (6) 58 PRichards C Johnson POINT LUMBER SPRINT RATING 75 2:50 pm 1 7 1676X The Right Answer (2) 58 RBeckett T Moseley $8000, R75 benchmark, 1200m opt 615 3 8 2X039 Turquoise (13) 57.5 LLatta R Hannam 1 7X97X Record ing (1) 59 SPrince M Haruki (a3) C Johnson 9 X1278 Allstars (11) 57 NRidl ey 4 2 42359 Miss El Bee Dee (6) 58 RMcKay A McKay (a3) 4 10 84103 Crafty Love (16) 57 KThomson R Myers 1 3 86X17. Gunnad oo (5) 58 T&MStokes M C ameron 11 4310 Springwater (12) 57 SWoodsford R Black (a2) 2 4 01952 Snow Line (9) 57 LLatta K Williams 12 24647 Sand ’ior (9) 56.5 Hay/Carston D Walsh 5 81340 Dowra (3) 56 NRidl ey K Williams S Wynne (a1) 13 7510 Skeet (7) 56.5 EWinsl oe

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DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIE FIRST 4 PLACE 6

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DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIE FIRST 4 PLACE 6

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1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 7-8-9-10-11-12

13658 Shaga Banga Bang 17.58 Goldsack&Denby 36273 Deathstar 17.60 A Speight 11111 Exponential Lily 17.34 L Ahern 38563 Vicki’s Quest 17.65 L Udy 88434 Opawa Sister 17.52 N Udy 61352 Wild As Angels 17.43 M Olden 13524 Ngauruhoe 17.62 G&J C larke 82786 Belkara 17.55 M Olden 13888 Ever So Hopeful 17.75 Goldsack&Denby

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Slow; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1800m; Straight: 400m; Rail: True; Weather: Partly cloudy

14 42060 Guard ian (4) 56 Michael & Matthew Pitman

M C ameron

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15 0X207. No Surrend a (10) 56 NCoul beck S Wynne (a1) A B 16 X800X Legal Aid (5) 55 Michael & Matthew Pitman C 17 6X65X Force Majeure (8) 54.5 CTrembath 4:01 pm 617

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1 X1382 Heza Bachelor (3) 59 KTyl er R Black (a2) 1 4 2 00372 Braehill (7) 57 MDal y 1 C Barnes (a1) 3 64914. Howlongd owewait (2) 57 EWinsl oe

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K Williams 05165 Desert Girl (10) 56 MDal y 1 L C allaway 58892 Seeking Red emption (6) 56 J&KParsons C Johnson 60X40 Slam Dunk (11) 55.5 DCrozier R Myers 85364 Hughes That Girl (5) 55 AHoffman J Bates X8361 It’s Happen’en (1) 55 KBrosnahan 1 T Moseley 27541 Smuckers (4) 55 K&P Hughes M Haruki (a3) 07583 Hyd raulic (8) 55 KJames S Muniandy 60X97 Lord Yarborough (9) 54.5 FHurst 1 D Walsh

Track Information Weather: Few showers

5 23126 Bev’s Viewpoint nwtd 6 11161 Magic Arrow 30 .52 7 27X76 Speed Legend 29.46 3 8 31286 Royal Runner 29.96 9 22261 Tifino 30 .0 4 10 47522 Wallace Lad 30 .28 9:08 pm

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THE ROCK 95.2FM C4 $2000, c4, 305m

1 77556 Cawbourne Burn 17.71 1 M Roberts 2 2 24447 Dolly Peg 17.57 Freeman&Turnwald 3 3 54234 Lost in Light 17.60 L Ahern 4 4 56487 Glenad d is 17.62 Goldsack&Denby J McInerney WANGANUI SECURITY C5 5 31466 Cosmic Choice 17.71 8:18 pm J McInerney $2400, c5, 305m 6 56578 Isabelle Domain 17.76 A Duganzich 2 1 12127 Stellar Force 17.49 S Gommans 7 52852 Bit Coin 17.76 J Woolston-Bell 2 13871 Stevie’s Magic 17.72 W Kite 8 3548X Agent Jorge 17.71 T McC racken 3 31762 Almost Got It 17.46 N Udy 9 88777 Miss McFly 17.71 Udy&C ottam 4 46178 Bad Week 18.0 7 J McInerney 10 77888 Run Stacey Run 17.46 4 5 21351 Ruapehu 17.44 G&J C larke BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK C4 1 6 12245 Run Lacey Run 17.33 Freeman&Turnwald 9:33 pm $2000, c4, 305m 7 1374F Winfield Black nwtd M Roberts 2 1 32445 Sheik ’Em Up 17.63 N Udy 3 8 15368 Figlia 17.58 G&S Ross 3 2 31231 All The Milk 17.75 G&J C larke 9 82786 Belkara 17.55 M Olden 3 24864 Super Rooster 17.57 Freeman&Turnwald 10 13888 Ever So Hopeful 17.75 Goldsack&Denby 1 4 15265 Cawbourne Flow 17.78 M Roberts B Hodgson KEENAN CONCRETE C4/5 5 78523 Crystal Wave 17.65 8:43 pm J McInerney $3600, c4/5, 520m 6 26754 Homebush Crash 17.36 4 7 3113F Rock On Sprite 17.72 Goldsack&Denby 1 1 36164 Ritza Danny 29.81 L Ahern D Edlin 2 2 47324 Always Welcome 30 .0 4 L Ahern 8 55784 Kazillion 17.68 3 51367 Cawbourne War nwtd M Roberts C Roberts 9 77787 El Jetta nwtd 4 4 74421 Mammy Brown 29.98 Udy&C ottam L Ahern 10 77888 Run Stacey Run 17.46

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1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 7-8-9-10 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 5-6-7-8-9-10 5-10 $75,000

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1193m; Weather: Drizzle patches

3 22584 Donsmed ad (3) MAustin R May 3 4 6X314 Sungait Sally (4) DBennett S Ottley 5 84005 Gin Rummy (5) ICameron I C ameron 1 6 10502 The Silver Fox (6) PWil l iamson BWilliamson(J) 7 47720 Cullen’s Mercy (7) RReekie B Williamson (J) 7 50130 Armed Force (7) PAnderson M Jones 8 90565 Fair Dinkum Bromac (8) MJones MNeilson(J) 8 82408 Pammys Boy (8) MEdmonds S McNally 4

9 34205 Captain Peacock (9) D Tayl o r C Ferguson (J) 9 86067 Trip’s On Me (9) T&GChmiel T C hmiel

Barrier Barrier 10 112P7 Lewy Risk (21) LDriver M Anderson (J) 10 34573 All Lit Up (21) L&JSmith J Smith 1 11 13111 Dalton Bromac (22) BHil l R C lose (J) 11 17415 Gogirl Bromac (22) MHouse C DeFilippi 12 406X0 Hairy Maclary (u1) PHol mes J Anderson (J) 4 12 77331 Shell Seeker (23) KTownl ey D Dunn 2 13 63523 Monty Python (24) PWil l iamson M Williamson HUBBERS FURNISHING HCP PACE $7000, 9:19 pm

14 X0043 Gunsight Pass (u1) J Ramsay

M Anderson (J) opt 818 4yo+ c1-c2 spechcp, 2600m 3 1 42822 Billy Jack (1) D&CButt B Butt 10:10 pm NATURAL LIVING HOMES MOBILE 2 8759X K C Monet (2) RDunn J Dunn opt 820 PACE $7000, 4yo+ c0, 2600m 3 78800 Ireby Betty (3) GCourt R C lose (J) 3 1 03265 Oasis Dream (1) GPayne G R Payne 4 40X60 True Legend (4) DJones G O'Reilly G A Payne 5 82895 Thatshowie Roll (5) DPaterson T Bagrie (J) 2 94365 Big Desire (2) GPayne M Jones 6 66763 Sound s Like Us (6) MNyhan S Golding (J) 2 3 44325 Millwood Faith (3) MFul l er D Dunn 7 30880 Remiss (7) P&LJones C DeFilippi 4 68208 My Lifesign (4) KWil l iams 1 5 92 Caesar’s Empire (5) KBarron B Orange 4 8 35341 Franco Tyrone (1) DReardon L Lester (J) 9 95956 Cannd ew (2) MNyhan 6 P Davis Swimbetweentheflags SC RATC HED 1 10 12043 J C Skipper (3) P&LJones M Jones 7 38743 Zena Mac (6) GSmith G Smith 2 11 55663 Id eal Ard en (4) BHutton J Anderson (J) 8 06X39 Gyrate (7) T&GChmiel T C hmiel Kowhai King (8) LMosel y L O'Reilly SIGN BIZ MOBILE TROT 9:45 pm 9 0 Barrier

$11,000, c1-c2, 1950m opt 819 4 10 52848 Lavros Cash (21) RKennedy S Ottley 1 8X686 James Castleton (1) KBarron B Orange C DeFilippi 2 80900 Cherry Lind enny (2) KJames J C urtin 11 58XL5 Franco Tyson (22) P&LJones

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Pakuranga Hunt Races

Tomorrow at Ellerslie

9 810X8 Araki (2) 67.5 S&RMcGlade D Frye (am) J Reid (am) $10,000, mdn hdl, 2760m 10 70751 Henry Tudor (3) 67.5 PRanui

11 0X504 Top Choice (8) 66.6 S Clotworthy

N Jamieson (am) PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer Jockey 12

King Of Rock SCRATCHED 1 85852 Brave Buccaneer (10) 68 BAutridge N Quinn (3) 13 19096 Carnelian Lights (10) 66.5 JGillies 1 2 38221 Noah Jon (8) 68 GFalconer M Mitchell R Goldsbury (am) 2 3 64723 Wai Not (7) 68 JWheeler I Lupton 14 Mr Chez SCRATCHED 4 9X000 Cash Kingdom (9) 68 BRitchie E Farr (3) 15 45304 Ngatira Gold (11) 66.5 D&DLogan 5 53273 Fast Profit (4) 68 CThornton C Thornton H Cushing (am) 6 Fern Avenue (1) 68 HVoss H Voss (3) 16 22434 Thatz Louie (1) 66.5 ADavies M Simons (am) 7

Field Daze SCRATCHED A 17 52625 Chloe Keeper (6) 66.5 RCave M Gibbs-Manssen 4 8 00398 Lucky Tonight (11) 68 Houston/Ropiha R Eynon 18 Mailly SCRATCHED 9 49077 Magna Carta (2) 68 SLogan A Kuru PM BUILDING ELEMENTS MDN STEEPLECHASE 1:02 3 10 285R4 Zankuro (3) 68 Baker/Forsman S Fannin (3) $10,000, mdn stp, 4150m 11 85047 Ballroom (5) 66 TCorric A Browne OPT 203 M Mitchell 12 X9007 Ballypiper (6) 66 PBrosnan D Miller (a1.5) 1 1 94FP2 Athenry (3) 68 JWheeler 3 2 27972 McCulley (9) 68 KMyers S Fannin (3) CARTERS TYRES R65 & JUMPERS 3 06P83 Bold Ransom (2) 68 MLawlor D Miller (a1.5) 12:27 PM OPT 202 $15,000, R65&jmps bmk*, 2200m 4 4 0633P Xalted (4) 68 Moroney/Ormsby C Studd 1 1 13032 Stagehand (14) 73 SClotworthy S Wenn (am) 5 X4094 Potter (5) 68 SNickalls C Singer 2 2 36441 Stormin Norman (4) 71.5 JWheeler 6 647P5 Goginga (8) 68 GAlton S Phelan

L Wheeler (am) 2 7 54373 Crash Bandicoot (6) 68 KMyers M Gillies 3 19255 Krase (9) 71 KMyers C Myers (am) 8 X065P Mangaroa Hustler (7) 68 ABrowne N Quinn (3) 4 4 712 Tallyho Twinkletoe (13) 70.5 JRathbone 9 0X766 Just Gorgeous (1) 66 KFoster R Eynon

S MacNab (am) THE TRACTOR CENTRE OPEN HURDLE 5 60622 Joking (5) 70 MBrooks M Northcott (am) 1:37 PM $50,000, opn hdl, 3350m 3 6 51. Highly Likely (7) 69 JBridgman J Richards (am) OPT 204 7 53331 Bach (12) 68.5 GThomas M Roustoby (am) 1 X8056 Harvest The Gold (9) 70 MOulaghan D Miller (a) 8 12368. I’ve Got This (15) 68.5 KMyers L Kennedy (am) 3 2 02122 Zenocoin (4) 68 G&DRogerson M Mitchell 11:52 AM OPT 201

CENTRAL SITE WORKS MAIDEN HURDLE

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1 10X06. Royal Haze (9) 59 TEgan J Oliver (a3) 2 43305 Wiggle (6) 58.5 TRiddell J Riddell 3 4800X Yardstick (8) 58 JWheeler 1 R Hutchings (a) 4 4 X2734 Pasha Sumore (7) 57 CDravitzki D Bradley 3 5 46632 Keyora (3) 57 PMoseley K Chiong (a3) 2 6 22321 Stella Bella (1) 56 LLatta R Hannam 1 7 5180X Percy (2) 56 SRainford 1 M Dravitzki (a1) 8 54313 Brecon Belle (4) 55 TKeegan M Du Plessis 9 41000 La Stellina (10) 54.5 JMillar 1 R Myers 10 X0118. Wow Whata Princess (5) 54.5 FAuret

1:19 PM OPT 403

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Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Heavy; Direction: Right-handed; Length: 1876m; Straight: 382m; Rail: Out 12m; Weather: Fine

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9 10 2 11 ITM/WINSTONES WALLBOARDS R75 $20,000, R75 benchmark, 2000m 12

632 Shuthegate (5) 57 ASharrock 1 K Chiong (a3) 22431 Perfect Mix (4) 56 SBrown A Taylor (a2) 551 On Parole (6) 56 BMcKeagg J Oliver (a3) 75569 Miss Moore (7) 55 TDravitzki

2:37 PM OPT 405

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ITM/PINK BATTS R65 $20,000, R65

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIE FIRST 4 PLACE 6 3:07 PM OPT 406

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1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 2-3-4, 6-7-8 5-6-7-8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 3-4-5-6-7-8 ITM/PSP INTERPROVINCIAL CONSOLATION R85 $25,000, R85 bmk, 1600m

1 10004 Willy Duggan (7) 61 KMyers T Kahlon (a4) 4 benchmark*, 1600m 2 2 0X711. Josephine (1) 60.5 PMcKenzie C O'Beirne (a4)

Our Alchemist (8) 58 KMyers M Dee (a1) 1 1 X7275 Teddytwinkletoes (5) 59 JRathbone R Myers 3 34 49403 32354 St Ransom (2) 54.5 GVile R Hannam 2 91098 Power Trip (2) 58.5 PPascoe B Lammas 5 X9207 Ishiarose (10) 54 KZimmerman M Du Plessis 4 3 5X185 Jed Clampett (6) 57 SLennox S Doyle 6 Kentucky Son SCRATCHED 4 41047 Vega (1) 57 PKeegan H Tinsley 7 X5023 Mr Mendelssohn (9) 54 KMcQuade C Grylls 5 X0056 Lustre (14) 56 JWheeler 1 R Hutchings (a) 8 29XL2 Darby Shaw (6) 54 BThurlow R Myers 2 6 82138 Mischievous Mis (11) 56 NMarshall D Walker 1 9 12261 The Graduate (5) 54 IAdams 1 K Chiong (a3)

D Johnson 7 X0740. Beguiling (10) 55.5 D&CBothwell N Teeluck (a3) 10 50425 Ishidanzin (4) 54 PRudkin 8 X5420 Hostage (9) 55.5 TEgan D Johnson 11 69469 Kalgoorlie Bomber (3) 54 FStammers ITM/MARLEY R65 $20,000, R65 12:44 PM M Dravitzki (a1) OPT 402 benchmark*, 1200m 1:57 PM ITM/PASLODE SC 1800 9 90008 Jacksun (15) 55.5 PFleming 1 J Shackleton 2 1 3642X Bomber Jet (2) 59 GAlton M Coleman OPT 404 3 10 38103 Single Mission (18) 55 PBelsham K Smith 3:42 PM $25,000, sp cond, 1800m ITM/NEW PLYMOUTH BUILDING SUPPLIES 3 2 3335X Iffwedance (9) 58 TRiddell 1 1 54413 Empathy (10) 58 SLennox R Hutchings (a) 11 10X00 Paddy Jo (8) 55 JBliss 1 C O'Beirne (a4) OPT 407 J Riddell INTERPROV R85 $50,000, R85 bmk, 1600m 3 30220. Hi Yo Soo (8) 56.5 JMillar 1 4 2 X7413 Itsallbelt (12) 58 KGray R Myers R Myers 12 03394 Raisedinasandpit (16) 54.5 GThomas C Grylls 2 1 21382 Joey Jonz (17) 56.5 RLiefting R Hutchings (a) 4 40447 Offangone (4) 56.5 RPatel M Du Plessis 3 03351 Sneddon (1) 58 CLupton J Riddell 13 X7074 Floozie Cat (3) 54 ASharrock 1 K Chiong (a3) 1 2 45162 Swiper The Fox (5) 58.5 LMolloy R Myers 1 5 1 Sealed By A Dance (6) 56 KMyers D Walker 3 4 X6213 St D’Ore (11) 58 SClotworthy D Johnson 14 87706 Mailly (7) 54 KMyers M Dee (a1) 3 46181. Sir Elmo (15) 57 KFursdon C Grylls 4 6 214 Gypsy Fair (1) 56 ASharrock 1 R Hutchings (a) 5 20414 Hold The Dream (3) 58 KMyers M Dee (a1) 15 90X67 Riverman Jack (12) 54 TEgan V Johnston 4 0X001 The Shackler (2) 56.5 MDromgool B Lammas 7 38001 Anaheim (3) 55.5 SClotworthy D Johnson 6 522 Heistheone (8) 57 MLupton M Du Plessis A 16 X9808. Torrado (4) 54 PFleming 1 5 83976 Khemosabi (1) 60 PGordon D Walker 8 33506 Fashion Guru (11) 55 KGray J Oliver (a3) 7 08242 Same As (9) 57 RSherwin B 17 0X089. Time To Sparc (13) 54 TDravitzki C Grylls 3 6 81135 Mistaar (12) 54.5 Baker/Forsman D Johnson 9 01890. Annieitiz (10) 54 BRevell 1 K Chiong (a3) 8 220X5 Earl Spencer (2) 57 RConnors D Walker C 18 0X504 Top Choice (17) 55.5 SClotworthy 7 73401. Cool Moon (11) 56 AClement V Johnston

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Gore Harness

Sunday at Gore Raceway

7 40678 City Courage (7) GWoodhouse J W Cox 8 5P409 Mr Mayfly (8) RWilson M Williamson 9 60807 Miri (9) DO'Connell D O'Connell FOOD AFFAIR/NEW WORLD GORE PACE 2 10 73955 Sixty Plus (1) HHunter H Hunter 1 69X69 Pat’s Success (1) NEdge K Barclay 1:32 PM $7000, c0, 2200m 11 70006 Suncrusher (u1) BMcLellan B McLellan 4 2 4429X Ari Gold (2) TBarron N Williamson 1 1 726P2 Nothingforthemedia (1) DMcLachlan 1 12 4P301 Nickelson (u1) NWilliamson N Williamson 3 Makarewa Monarch (3) CBarron C Barron N Williamson 2 4 396X2 Springfield Eyre (4) BNorman B Norman 2 HOKONUI RURAL TRANSPORT MOB PACE Washingtons Chance (2) AMilne A Milne 2:22 PM 5 6P Strathmores Charm (5) BHeads 1 J Dunn 3 960 Ohcee (3) RDunn $7000, 3yo+ c,g&e c0, 2200m J Dunn 1 6 98034 Zachary Smith (6) RAllen R Allen 4 4 03377 Exceptional Man (4) ICourt C Barron 1 0X949 Cream It Cullen (1) Cox/Hoffman J W Cox C Barron 7 9 Pyramid Magic (7) PWilliamson M Williamson 3 5 P2262 Spencer Gore (5) BHeads 1 M Williamson 2 2 046X3 Three Tricks (2) APaisley A Milne 8 48670 Hope And Pray (8) SLock S Lock 6 45408 Run To Hide (6) ABeck A Beck 3 85582 Matai Bryan (3) AMilne 4 76297 Forgotten Runner (4) AMilne N Williamson 9 0X Conarina (u1) PWilliamson B Williamson (J) 7 76076 Newmans Jet (7) SLock R McIlwrick (J) 4 5 39266 Aveross Brachole (5) ABlack 10 A Beck Eddie Boy SCRATCHED 8 87 Matai Vision (8) AMilne R Norman 3 6 53 Pegasus Kommander (6) DMitchell 11 0078 Indefinite (u2) Cox/Hoffman J W Cox 9 Opal Tom (9) BNorman B Norman S Walkinshaw 3 12 70684 Euromaxx (u3) KMcRae R Swain 2 10 722X4 Franco Santiago (10) AArmour A Armour 7 Prince Of Persia SCRATCHED

WASHINGTON VC F&M MOBILE PACE 11 09545 Kazzacan (11) HHunter H Hunter 1 Pulp Fiction (7) TStratford J Dunn 1:07 PM 8 4338X Barrier $7000, 3yo+ f&m c0, 2200m 12 Goldcrest (12) RWilson B Williamson (J) 1 7X509 Tinted Light (1) LBond L Bond 13 7009X Floreta (13) Cox/Hoffman J W Cox 9 47078 Just A Marvel (21) G&JKnight M Williamson 2 20705 Matai Katie (2) AMilne A Milne 10 470X8 First Flight In (u1) PDevery A Armour BRENDAN FRANKS FARRIER HCP TROT 3 4 Springfield Cal Neva (3) KFranks 1 K Franks 1:57 PM AON/FIBER FRESH MOBILE PACE $7500, c1-c5 spechcp, 2700m 2:58 PM 2 4 0672X Neat N Petite (4) DMcLachlan S Walkinshaw $7000, c1 with cond., 2200m 4 1 19826 Snow Boy (1) SLock R McIlwrick (J) 5 77 Fantasy Dream Girl (5) NWilliamson N Williamson A Faulks 1 78750 Leo (1) NWilliamson

N Williamson 2 09084 Ngaire Margaret (2) AFaulks 4

2 37628 Taieri Wings (2) CGerken A Armour K Barclay 1 6 60X22 Tisbury Hardlife (6) KBarclay K Barclay 3 29007 The Earth Moved (3) NEdge 3 3 17804 Data Base (3) HHunter P Hunter A Beck 7 8 Real South (7) NEdge J Dunn 4 5607X Florrie Bendix (4) DGregory 3 5 01 Kylie Castleton (5) PWilliamson B Williamson (J) 4 0X369 Between The Lines (4) Cox/Hoffman J W Cox

Miss Stella (8) KDance J W Cox 8

Barrier 6 2409X Royal Squeeze (6) TStratford R Swain J Dunn 5 89PX0 Heretic Franco (5) KMcRae 12:42 PM

OSBORNE CONTRACTING GORE TROT

$6000, c0, 2200m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver

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August 24, 2014

39433 Fern Fever (21) DHeffernan B Williamson (J) 53 Tuapeka Art (22) G&JKnight M Williamson

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Sunday at Manukau Stadium

4 36512 Addicted 18.81 4 Black&Steele 2:31 PM 1 5 62312 Rotovegas Sparky 18.55 S Payne $2400, c2, 527m

6 25386 Fancy My Luck nwtd D Schofield PX # REC Greyhound Fastest time Trainer 7 4416F Zipping Will nwtd D Schofield 1 76558 Ostapchuk nwtd Black&Steele 2 8 67162 Little Dreams 18.77 G Farrell 2 27588 Zamdato 30.93 R&N O'Regan B Craik 1 3 11116 Moore Park Miss 30.47 S Clark 9 31865 Snapchat 18.72 R&N O'Regan 4 4 13337 King’s Legacy 30.81 Black&Steele 10 68447 Aqua Wolf 18.52 5 88X78 Chevy Volt nwtd R&N O'Regan GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT 6 85423 Bloo Bloomers 30.87 S Clark 3:25 PM $2000, c4, 318m 2 7 73271 Joker Man 30.95 B Craik 1 46843 Don’t Talk 18.50 C Hore 3 8 67822 Boss Appeal nwtd M Mann 4 2 42534 Where’s Carlos 18.62 R&N O'Regan 9 4745 Three Rivers nwtd T Green 3 72288 Cosmic Pearl 18.25 D Schofield 10 37456 Ramah Reason 30.90 T Green 4 81287 Hot King Cole 18.57 R&N O'Regan H Laagland RACING GREYHOUND BREEDERS (NZ) LTD 5 86427 D’Or Fille 18.67 2:49 PM 3 6 76315 Junior What 18.58 G Pomeroy STAKES $1800, c0, 527m 1 7 65822 Pink Bouquet nwtd D Schofield 1 2 Thrilling Shrimp nwtd K Walsh 2 8 66712 Looks All Good 18.52 C Steele 2 62755 Summit Rock nwtd S Ross P Green 1 3 23332 Ligeiro nwtd G Farrell 9 47355 Cocky Appeal 18.42 Black&Steele 2 4 432F Montana Lee nwtd T Green 10 48864 Eruza nwtd 3 5 33256 Dark Garnah nwtd P&J Cleaver SEL’S TAB MANGERE STAKES 6 54375 Bigtime Flo nwtd Black&Steele 3:43 PM $1900, c1, 527m 7 45637 Boss Wave nwtd H Laagland 1 22474 Cawbourne Alpha 30.88 C Hore 4 8 535 Daisy nwtd B Bond 2 67264 Opawa Crusher nwtd M Mann 9 53554 Hinuera Girl nwtd G Parker 4 3 32318 Kitty’s Shiraz 30.88 H&L Laagland 10 65676 Bella Forza nwtd M O'Bryan 1 4 111 Thrilling Dynamo 30.54 K Walsh GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT 5 52732 Opawa Marg nwtd B Bond 3:07 PM $1700, c3, 318m 6 38643 Cosmic Warra 31.34 W&T Steele 1 26688 Run Kayla Run 18.64 T Agent 2 7 21321 Atom Bomb 30.24 S Clark 2 61167 Biscuit Bant nwtd 3 8 16 Let’s Go Lettie nwtd B Bond H Mullane 3 3 73445 Call Me Blue 18.57 K R Toomer 9 37347 Honey Queen nwtd S Ross CAROL’S TABS STAKES

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87566 Senorita Chang nwtd

4:01 PM

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TROPHIES PLUS SERIES FINAL $1400, c1f, 318m

1 42435 Procrastination nwtd 3 4 2 14 Maramarua Jack 18.41 2 3 78211 Winfield Winter 18.59 4 15134 Vicariously nwtd 5 41824 Miss Veyron nwtd 6 1412 What’s Up Watto nwtd 1 7 11222 Got Air nwtd 8 6X281 Renroy 18.69 9 86735 Calm Nuska 18.80 10 32557 Our Crown Jewel nwtd 4:19 PM

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$30,000 PICK6 STAKES

31237 Miss Velocette 30.69 11147 Method Man 30.21 66715 Your Say nwtd 85753 Cold Turkey nwtd 75572 Fancy Tip 30.34 55248 You’re Lucky 30.60 66231 Uncle Romilly 30.92 61751 Rushin Doll 30.57 83745 Thrilling Rebel 30.78 52466 Jinja Jam 30.78

4:37 PM

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Udy/Bliek S Clark C Hore Black&Steele P&J Cleaver W&T Steele T Green C Hore M Mathews T Agent

$2600, c3, 527m

L Laagland B Craik C Hore Black&Steele D Schofield B Craik B Craik S Clark T Green B Littlejohn

PLASTERBOARD LTD STAKES

1 24F42 My Beauty 30.88 2 X8845 Larto 30.87 3 16273 It’s The Dream 31.08

$1900, c1, 527m

M J Lozell A Cleaver Black&Steele

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIE FIRST 4 PLACE 6

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9

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DUNEDIN CASINO MOBILE PACE $8000, c2, 2200m

54345 Chief Kapai (23) APaisley

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIE FIRST 4 PLACE 6 PICK 6

A Armour A Beck

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 7-8-9-10-11-12 7-12 $30,000

4 214X4 Thrilling Mayhem nwtd 2 1 5 42411 Who You 30.99 6 27622 Temperate King nwtd 4 7 54631 Versatile Richie 31.60 3 8 65313 Atoonga Air nwtd 9 4X8X6 Thrilling Tricks nwtd 10 5515F Homebush Titan nwtd

4:32 PM 209

OPT

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$17,500, R75 benchmark, 1600m

1 85984 Cornelius (14) 60 BFoote 2 1 2 X9511 Alfonze (6) 59.5 SRalph K Leung (a2) 3 35148 Riot Act (13) 59.5 GBlundell N Harris 4 970X5 Dragonkeeper (2) 57 NBishara U Holmquist (a3) 4 5 30253 Rocket Queen (8) 55 ATeague M Wenn 6 86839 Nothing (7) 55 K&GOpie J Wong (a3) 7 90042 Swap For Kash (12) 55 PLock R Jones 3 8 10366 Nottoobad (1) 54.5 RCook L Innes 9 18138 Rocknrolla (5) 54 D&DLogan L Magorrian (a3) 10 04X04 Bassaleg (9) 54 NTanner S McKay (a4) 11 157X0 Wairaka (3) 54 GRichardson K Myers 12 58188 Edward The Eighth (11) 54 LMcGregor M Sweeney 30073 Prickley Princess (10) 54 DHollinshead

T Thornton 14 70L63 Cool One (4) 54 JRuddell C Dell (a1)

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8 71621 The Bouncer (9) 55.5 BRevell 1 M Du Plessis 4 9 10X03 Bonny Heights (6) 54 FAuret M Dee (a) 10 23533 Aldebaran Star (10) 58.5 TRiddell J Riddell 11 72111 Aplomb (16) 54 KZimmerman N Teeluck (a) 12 74615. Share The Blame (13) 58 GInnes H Tinsley 13 21306. Get The Message (14) 58.5 HMathews M Dravitzki (a)

14 41331. Biologist (7) 57 GAlton M Coleman 15 X4991. Go Thunder (8) 57 TBliss 1 D Bradley A 16 32354 St Ransom (4) 54.5 GVile B 17 X5023 Mr Mendelssohn (3) 54 KMcQuade 4:17 PM 408

OPT

& ECHOES OF HEAVEN @ LINWOOD PARK SC 8 EKRAAR $25,000, sp cond, 1400m

1 0X981 La Punta (7) 58 MLKCampbell J Oliver (a3) 4 2 426X3 Kindaleica (4) 57 KMcQuade C Grylls 3 534X3 Blame de Angels (11) 57 GInnes N Teeluck (a3) 4 0X072 Finkbig (10) 57 PFleming 1 C O'Beirne (a4) 5 75824 Flash Forward (5) 57 JCollett M Du Plessis 6 307X Danasonic (6) 57 PFleming 1 M Dravitzki (a1) 3 7 83521 Luck At Last (3) 56 E&JJRayner R Hutchings (a) 1 8 214 Gypsy Fair (9) 56 ASharrock 1 K Chiong (a3) 9 2 Ima Tui Girl (8) 55 JBoon R Hannam 10 79906 Kahui Lass (1) 55 JFleming 1 V Johnston 2 11 1 Caramac (2) 54 KMyers R Myers

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1 2547X Brindy (1) WAdams C Ferguson (J) 2 77345 Elbeau (2) DMitchell S Walkinshaw 3 Memorable SCRATCHED 4 30554 Minstrel Boy (3) HHunter H Hunter 1 5 21262 Alta Jerome (4) PKerr M Kerr 6 X8973 Speedy Ideal (5) Cox/Hoffman J W Cox 7 71305 Westburn Warrior (6) ICourt J Dunn 4 Vincennes (7) G&JKnight M Williamson 8 46001 Barrier

3 9 74123 Jerry Fitz (21) G&JKnight B Williamson (J) 10 15682 Beaudiene Clemintyne (22) MGBrown

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1000m; Weather: Cloudy

6 094X9 Aveross Picasso (6) AFaulks A Faulks 7 7X008 One Dot Domino (7) DSimpson D Simpson 1 King Cyril (8) GAnderson B McLellan 8 445X9 Barrier

9 08678 Go The Stags (21) KBarclay K Barclay 2 10 05773 Attack Mac (22) DMcLachlan S Walkinshaw 11 25674 Rock Till You Drop (23) Cox/Hoffman B Barclay 12 46380 Smiling Armada (24) HHunter H Hunter 13 479X6 Rosie Lindenny (u1) TStratford J Dunn 3:34 PM

00794 Maximum Height (1) 55 Houston/Ropiha U Holmquist (a) 3 09850 Matost (8) 54.5 MPhillips M Wenn 3 4 0X062. Rafa (5) 54.5 JWadham M Sweeney 5 40X53 Worthing (6) 54.5 GAlton M Cameron 4 6 0X585 Sarsarun (3) 54 RCollett K Myers 7 60015 Chill Bill (7) 54 Baker/Forsman L Innes 8 85984 Cornelius (4) 54 BFoote R Jones

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22856 D’Llaro (8) 59 GLord R Hutchings (a) 60141 Tizza Secret (4) 56.5 BThurlow H Tinsley 55090 Abstain (2) 56 D&CBothwell R Myers 62456 Perfect Symbol (7) 55.5 RBergerson

M Du Plessis 4 5 21431 Mr Cool Boy (10) 55.5 GMcKay B Lammas 3 6 52353 Katie McKeen (5) 55 GMcBeth 1 R Hannam 7 23086 Il Poverino (6) 55 KMyers 1 8 43114 Ethical (3) 54.5 GThomas C Grylls 2 9 296X1. Silk Chardonnay (1) 54 KFursdon M Coleman 10 X5104 Vicki Anne (9) 54 FAuret D Johnson

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C Singer R Eynon A Browne S Phelan I Lupton M Gillies S Fannin E Farr

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9

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Tomorrow at New Plymouth

10 7X167 Patience (7) 54 PMcKenzie $20,000, R75 benchmark, 1400m 11 80023 Salute Me (5) 54 AClement

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25315 Just Got Home (5) 67 RLiefting 55890 Waitoki Ahi (2) 66.5 SCullen 77215 Thatz David (7) 66 ADavies 11242 Real Treasure (12) 65 ABrowne 5144L Supercharged (1) 65 WHillis 93388 Big Brownie (8) 65 ABrowne 71751 Thenamesbond (11) 65 SRalph 65396 Arose (10) 65 RGavin 38171 Back In Black (3) 65 JSteffert P7741 Maharishi (6) 65 PStewart

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The Tisbury Terror (8) KBarclay N Williamson 8 35247 Barrier

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DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT $2400, c5, 318m

1 33172 Harvey Nichols 18.32 4 B Craik 3 2 71741 Rotovegas Boss 18.26 S Payne 3 24114 Double Magic 18.21 P Green 1 4 15121 Bright Star 18.05 B Bond LOCHINVAR MARLOW STAKES 4:56 PM P Green $3200, c4, 527m 5 66142 Botany Downs 18.31 6 35231 Josh Hart 18.50 B Craik 3 1 78141 Jelly Gem 30.92 Udy&Cottam 2 7 73131 Blue Cosmic 18.46 C Hore 4 2 34435 Carat’s Prince nwtd W&T Steele 8 26433 Little Rascal 18.51 R&N O'Regan 1 3 34112 Sharella 30.81 B Craik 9 11415 Rasso 18.33 B Craik 4 82513 This Time Pedro 30.90 Udy&Cottam 10 461X8 Secret Star 18.38 T Agent 5 78472 Kissen Run 30.55 M/Smith JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT 2 6 13131 Thrilling Style nwtd K Walsh 5:56 PM $1400, c2, 318m 7 75837 Aunty Merl 30.49 C Hore G Pomeroy 8 46465 Threat 30.44 W&T Steele 1 54385 Utah Bolt 18.73 M J Lozell 9 36264 Jay Cee Hurt 30.50 G Calverley 2 7FX74 Heza Carlos 18.66 2 3 11735 Bon Vogue 18.82 A Cleaver 10 PX556 Harajuku Baby 30.64 B Craik 1 4 81125 Chevy Impala 18.68 R&N O'Regan CONGRATULATIONS PETER EARLEY MEDIA 5 46376 Run Mischief Run 18.69 T Agent 5:13 PM AWARD STAKES $3600, c4/5, 527m 6 822F8 Gem’s Conquest 18.84 Udy/Bliek 1 78781 Fancy Amigo 30.79 D Schofield 4 7 64346 Creme Da Genes 18.81 R&N O'Regan 1 2 12112 Multicam Lad 30.61 D Schofield 3 8 84783 English Honey nwtd R&N O'Regan 4 3 13574 Kiki Rhode 30.25 W&T Steele 9 26684 Rebel Kahn 18.53 T Agent 4 31585 Feel The Vibe 30.56 D Schofield 10 46488 Pure Theatre 18.79 G Calverley

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CAR WANTED for farm hack, rust no worry but must be in going order and have tow bar.

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TRADES, SERVICES

STORAGE AVAILABLE Easy access, secure, rainbow storage. 131 Alford Forest Rd. Ph 03 307 0401 or 021 224 4214.

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING - Professional window tinting for cars, homes & offices. Quality films for privacy, UV (fading), heat, safety & security. Phone Craig Rogers your ONLY local applicator 307 6347 or 0800TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

EXCELLENT fundraising opportunity - free to hire.

Community fundraising BBQ situated at Mitre 10 Mega.

Visit our customer service counter today to book and for details. – Phone 308-5119.

RURAL TRADING POST

Titles on the line

BY JONATHAN LEASK

JONATHAN.L@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

One Mid Canterbury team is after a fourth straight men’s title, while another is the first women’s team to appear in the Mid-South Canterbury hockey finals in Timaru tomorrow.

Wakanui Black look to lift the Walker and Hall Shield for the fourth straight year, while in the women’s competition Hampstead appear in their first title against perennial champions St Andrews - the competition champions every year since 2009.

The two women’s sides met a fortnight ago in the major semi-final, where a penalty stroke in the second half was enough for St Andrews to advance.

Hampstead then had to get past Geraldine in sudden death penalty strokes after the preliminary final finished 2-2 after regulation time,

BARLEY straw available.

Large round bails, $50 ea.

Please phone 021 147 3388.

REAL ESTATE

Hampstead’s Rachel Curd and Andrew Moore from Wakanui Black gear up for their big games tomorrow.

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taking the strokes 6-5 for a second shot at St Andrews.

“We peaked pretty early in the season, but we have found some form in recent weeks,” Hampstead captain Rachel Curd said. “In that last game against St Andrews we probably played one of our better games of the season, but the luck just went their way in what was a really tight game. “We are ready and prepared with a game plan that we think can get us the result.”

Hampstead started the season with an historic 4-2 win over St Andrews, the first time in several seasons a Mid Canterbury side had toppled the perennial title holders.

Round two was a 4-4 draw followed by a St Andrews 2-1 win before the major semi-final also went the way of St Andrews.

A Mid Canterbury women’s side hasn’t featured in the final since the competition format changed to a

permanent Mid-South Canterbury competition, one that has been dominated by St Andrews.

The men’s competition has been dominated by Wakanui Black in recent seasons and, following the women’s final, the defending champions meet Northern Hearts for the second year running, and third time in four years.

Both men’s finalists had to come from behind and win on strokes in their semi-finals last weekend.

“We were a bit lucky last week, and certainly weren’t at our best,” Black’s Mark Bennett said.

“One good thing has been that every time we have had bad game we have played well after it.”

Of concern for Wakanui Black was former Black Stick Hugh Copland limping off the turf early in the semi-final with a strained calf, but he is expected to suit up tomorrow in Timaru.

The NBS Ashburton Hockey Turf may be quiet on Saturday afternoon, but will host top level hockey on Sunday.

The Canterbury national hockey league teams, the Cavaliers and the Cats, will host a coaching clinic in Ashburton before playing some warm-up matches ahead of the NHL. The coaching clinics are open to children from all schools with registrations required by tomorrow.

Girls will be from 9am to 10am, the boys get their turn until 11am and the schools involved with the Small Sticks programme have a free season from 11am.

After the coaching clinics, the two teams will play warm-up games as they prepare for the National Hockey League, with the Cats against the Canterbury senior women at 11.30am and then the Cavaliers play the Canterbury senior men at 1.30pm.

Daily Events Scott to play Open Friday

Adam Scott confirmed he will contest the Australian Open in November, and try to expunge the memory of letting slip victory to Rory McIlroy last year in Sydney.

Scott was the reigning Masters champion when he teed it up at Royal Sydney last December.

He had captured the Australian PGA and Australian Masters titles, and was looking to become only the second player behind fellow Australian Robert Allenby to capture the ‘Big Three’ of Australian golf.

Scott contested the final round alongside McIlroy and was a shot clear coming up the last hole when he sent his second shot horribly over the back of the green.

Scott - to the dismay of the patriotically partisan crowd - took three shots to get down for a bogey while McIlroy holed out for a birdie to win by a stroke and post his first and only victory of 2013.

McIlroy had already confirmed he would defend his title at The Australian Club on November 27-30, and world No.2 Scott indicated he felt he had a score to settle.

- AFP

9.00am - 12noon HAKATERE MARAE HEALTH CLINIC. Weekly clinic, no appointments needed, Koha. At the Marae, State Highway 1, Fairton.

9.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD Cuppa, activities and laughter. St Andrews hall, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street, Tinwald.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. 9.00am - 2.00pm Large variety of toys for hire. Methodist ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Church hall, Baring Square East.

Annual bird and accessories sales. 67 South 10.00am Street.

METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. 9.30am New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main TINWALD. Street, Methven.

Community garden working bee and 10.00am - 12.00noon fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Church, 157 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

BUYING OR SELLING Property this spring? Contact SUE PRENDERGAST urban consultant, Real Estate New Zealand - Ashburton. REAA 2008 MREINZ. Ph 027 322 8422.

PUBLIC NOTICES

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL

A.G.M. The annual meeting of the Holy Name Conference of St Vincent De Paul Society, Ashburton will be held in the Parish Centre on Monday, September 1 at 7pm.

All welcome.

Guardian Classifieds

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Classic aircraft on display. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, all welcome. Upstairs in the Old Polytech building, 254 Cameron Street.

1.30pm R.S.A. CARD SECTION. Euchre, Ashburton R.S.A. Cox Street.

Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, all welcome. Upstairs 254 Cameron Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATON MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3.

Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

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Friday, August 22, 2014

MEETINGS, EVENTS

MID CANTERBURY RUGBY

Saturday, August 23, 2014 ASHBURTON SHOWGROUNDS HEARTLAND CHAMPIONSHIP The Trust Ashburton Mid Canterbury v West Coast, 2.30pm CURTAINRAISER – HANAN CUP Mid Canterbury A vs North Otago A, 12.50pm ADMISSION – ADULT $10 – UNDER 17 FREE

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SITUATIONS VACANT

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To succeed in this incredibly rewarding industry you will need enthusiasm, drive, determination and a will to succeed. If you are already honest, reliable, hard working, punctual, positive and have some selling experience, then you’re the person we’re looking for.

In return we will offer you the opportunity to work with our team specialising in residential sales.

Plus the full ‘Harcourts Way’ training program, referrals from over 180 Harcourts offices nationwide, full management support and of course the Harcourts name and everything it represents in real estate sales.

The harder and smarter you work the more you earn, it’s up to you.

Please apply, enclosing your current C.V and references by Friday 29th August to: phillip.kenny@harcourts.co.nz or PO Box 64, Ashburton 7740

Tyre Person We are looking for a full-time employee to carry out tyre and general yard duties.

The person we seek will need to be self motivated, physically fit, have good people skills and be a team player. Mechanical knowledge an advantage.

Applications close for this position on Thursday 28th August. Please apply in your own handwriting with CV and deliver to: The Manager Rosco Auto Dismantlers 40 Robinson Street ASHBURTON

TRADES, SERVICES

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

FOR SALE PLANTS, PRODUCE

GARAGE SALES

PEA VINE - Great for garden much. 480kg medium square GARAGE SALE - 10 King St, bales $50ea. Please phone Sat 8-11 and Sun 8-11.

David on 027 435 7779.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

GARAGE SALE - Sat 23rd, Wellington Street. Sign at BUYER of unwanted gate at 8.30am. Household animals. Cattle, bobby calves, items including washing horse and all farm animals. machine.

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

GARAGE SALES ASHBURTON Cadet Unit.

Monster garage sale, Sat, August 23, 8am - 3pm.

Ashburton Intermediate School Hall. 10+ stalls.

BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT Silver photo frames from Waterford Wedgewood and Simply Italian at The China Shop. There is a brillant selection of styles and sizes.

We are in The Arcade.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT A NEW Asian. Young beauty, busty, sexy, slim, good massage. Full serve phone Honey 021 0264 7179.

FOR SALE FUN AND FUNKY luggage tags back in stock at The China Shop. These make excellent gifts and they are nice and easy to post. At a great price of $19.00. You will find us in The Arcade.

IN-LINE VALCO VEEBEE double pram. Used, but good condition. Comes with UV and rain covers. Both seats recline, up to 18kg in each chair. $200. 03 308 2570 or 021 023 55 600.

CONTAINERS for sale or hire, ex shipping: general and insulated. Sidelifter available for delivery.

Wilson Bulk Transport, Phone KITCHEN KAPERS stock 308-7772.

The Village Press Extra Virgin Olive Oils. Made in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

DEADLINES - Ashburton Only $9.99 each, or $29.99 Guardian Classifieds close for a beautiful gift boxed pack at 5.00pm every week day, of three these are a great gift the day prior to insertion. idea for someone who has Phone 03 307 7965. everything.

FIREWOOD - Macro $280, Blue Gum $290, Oak $310.

All dry, delivered in 3m3 loads. Phone RJ McLaren on 03 303 7283 or 0274 374 399.

PASSPORT PHOTOS $18.00. Professional images taken and processed while you wait by the friendly staff at The Photo Shop. Find us in the Center of the Arcade. Ph: 307 7595.

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The opportun 12,000ft m o fr s s o b R U O Y Toss iwis!

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Our general manager Desme, and Hoops on Hokonui will be manning up and doing their own tandem skydive at 1pm next Wednesday 27 August to kick start this promotion.

Come along to watch and find out who will scream louder - Hoops or Desme?

Keep an eye in the paper, on our Facebook page and listen to Hoops in the morning to find out how you can nominate YOUR boss to be TOSSED too! We’re glad we did!

Puzzles Friday, August 22, 2014

www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Roll the Robinson family that’s brought to book? (5) 4. Let troops break up disc endlessly, but fail to make connection (7) 8. Reasonable to follow a Hitchcock film? It’s all in the mind! (13) 10. Time follows musical work with something like Lohengrin (5) 11. Singer: it takes some pluck, having a double-first (4) 12. Sort of type that isn’t bashful (4) 16. Non-paying affair, murder, for argument’s sake? (5) 17. Writer has sex appeal at, I have concluded, being dictatorial (13) 19. Horse-trappings gave rise to being brought to the ground (7) 20. Leave the wife: tell on one’s schoolfriends (5) DOWN 1. The wrong purse, and plenty of it: more than that!

(13) 2. Inland canal yachtsmen, leaders of whom are very cool (3) 3. Teach a lot of fish, perhaps (6)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Working to find a balance between work and play is the price you have to pay for being able to have it all. This is the kind of problem you want.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) The fact that none of today’s priorities are less important than the other and there are opportunities on all fronts makes time management essential.

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LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) During the last full day of your birthday month keep your eyes open and your head out of the sand, ready to start taking your power back.

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Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

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Cloudy periods with a few early showers north of Ashburton then fine spells increasing everywhere. Cloud increasing and drizzle developing in the north during the evening.

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Cloudy areas, mainly in the north.

Wind at 1000m: S dying.

Wind at 2000m: S 60 km/h in the north and 40 km/h in the south, easing.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 7.7 8.5 Max to 4pm -1.7 Minimum -6.9 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.2 16hr to 4pm August to date 30.4 Avg Aug to date 41 2014 to date 539.8 442 Avg year to date Wind km/h S 33 At 4pm Strongest gust S 69 Time of gust 10:15am

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6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am The Chase 3 0 11am Peter Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover Peter Andre, designer John Amabile, and the team visit Blackpool to help Lorraine surprise her twin sister with a home transformation. 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Kerry feels guilty; Ali and Ruby are surprised; Nicola apologises. 0 1pm Coronation Street 3 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 2pm Four Weddings PGR 3 0 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Coronation Street PGR Tommy looks for Kirsty; Rob takes action to woo Stella; Owen apologises to Anna. 0 9:30 Miranda AO 3 Penny embarrasses Miranda by running for the local council with Tilly as her wing man. 0 10:05 Citizen Khan PGR 3 0 10:40 One News Tonight 0 11:10 The Late Night Big Breakfast 3 0 11:40 The Vicar Of Dibley 3 0 12:30 Alan Carr – Chatty Man AO 3 0 1:25 Te Karere 3 2 0 2am Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 River Cottage Forever 7am Sophie In The Orient 7:30 Meat Men 8am Oddities PGR 8:30 Bill’s Kitchen – Notting Hill 9am Secret Meat Business 9:30 The Great British Garden Revival 10:30 Catch And Cook – US 11am Yard Crashers 11:30 Lost And Sold Noon Paul And Nick’s Big Food Trip 12:35 Cheese Slices 1:10 Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers 1:50 River Cottage Forever 2:30 Sophie In The Orient 3pm New Zealand Food Culture 3:30 Oddities PGR 4pm Rachel Allen’s Cake Diaries 4:30 Trish’s Mediterranean Kitchen 5pm Design Star 6pm Catch And Cook – US 6:30 Bath Crashers 7pm The Liquidator 7:30 Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 8:30 Better Homes And Gardens 10pm Love Your Garden 11:10 Design Star

SATURDAY

Midnight Bath Crashers 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am New Zealand Food Culture 1:30 Oddities PGR 2am Rachel Allen’s Cake Diaries 2:30 Trish’s Mediterranean Kitchen 3am Nigel Marven’s Venom Hunters 4am The Liquidator 4:30 Better Homes And Gardens

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 6:55 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 7am Gravity Falls 3 0 7:25 Back At The Barnyard 3 0 7:50 The League Of Super Evil 3 0 8:15 Dinosaur Train 3 0 8:30 Fireman Sam 3 0 8:40 Mike The Knight 3 0 8:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 9am Infomercials 11am Neighbours 3 0 11:30 Home And Away 3 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:30 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 1pm Jeremy Kyle PGR 2pm Jeremy Kyle USA PGR 3pm According To Jim 3 0 3:28 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 3:30 Monsters v Aliens 0 4pm Liv And Maddie 0 4:30 The 4:30 Show 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR Vinnie must find his role within the family; Evan makes an extra-special delivery. 0 7:30 The Voice Kids Australia 0 9pm M The Green Hornet AO 2011 Action.

The exploits of a newspaper publisher whose secret identity is the Green Hornet, a crime fighter dedicated to protecting the city’s citizens.

Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz. 0 11:20 The Bachelor PGR 0 1:15 Mr T’s World’s Craziest Fools PGR 3 0 1:45 Infomercials 2:50 Primeval AO 3 3:35 Revolution AO 3 0 4:20 Nikita AO 3 0 5am Posh Nosh 3 0 5:10 Neighbours 3 0 5:35 I’m In The Band 3 0

TV THREE

FOUR

6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 11:25 The Nanny PGR 3 0 Noon 3 News 12:30 Dr Phil AO A couple about to marry seek relationship advice after problems with money create friction between them.

1:30 The Dr Oz Show PGR Dr Oz exposes the three most common health conspiracy theories.

2:30 Rachael Ray Rachael prepares slow-roasted leg of lamb and mint sauce; Elisabeth Hasselbeck makes lemon-poppy trifle.

3:30 The Queen Latifah Show 3 4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:25 Million Dollar Minute 6pm 3 News 7pm Campbell Live 7:30 The X Factor Australia Following Boot Camp, the top 24 travel overseas for their last attempt at making it to live shows. 0 9:30 7 Days Red Nose Day 2014 Special AO Dedicated to raising money for Cure Kids, 7 Days concludes its current series with the 7 Days Red Nose Day Special.

10:30 The Paul Henry Show

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 The Winx Club 3 7:55 The Wild Thornberrys 3 0 8:25 Chuggington Badge Quest 3 8:35 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 8:45 Peppa Pig 3 8:55 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Bob The Builder 3 9:10 Thomas And Friends 3 9:20 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 9:35 Barney And Friends 3 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:30 Smash!

6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 0 6:30 Just Shoot Me! 3 0 7pm The Simpsons 3 0 7:30 American Ninja Warrior Thirty contestants compete in the Venice finals, on a course featuring obstacles such as the Salmon Ladder, the Rope Maze and the Spider Climb.

8:30 M The Darkest Hour AO 2011 Action.

Five young people stranded in Moscow must strive to survive after an alien attack.

Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby.

10:25 The Glades AO 11:20 Entertainment Tonight 11pm Harry AO 3 The investigation continues, with the 11:45 Infomercials distributors who supplied the cook the Contact NT leading the police to the importers. 0 Midnight Touch AO 3 1am Lights Out AO 1:55 Infomercials

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7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Best of Man v Wild PGR 3 After rappelling into the Borneo jungle, Bear Grylls must descend wet cliffs, face snakes and leeches, and deal with torrential rain to survive.

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8pm L Rugby – ITM Cup Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki.

From McLean Park, Napier.

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10:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Waikato v Canterbury.

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11:25 The Late Show With David Letterman A late-night comedy and talk show.

12:20 Home Shopping 1:20 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

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6am Auction Kings PG Vintage Lie Detector: Old Hollywood Collection.

6:30 Deadliest Catch PG Friends and Rivals. 7:30 Man v Wild PG New Zealand South Island.

8:30 MythBusters PG Spy Car Escape.

9:30 Dual Survival PG Glacial Downfall.

10:30 Clash Of The Ozarks M Blood Land.

11:30 Blood Relatives M 12:30 Disappeared M 1:30 Nightmare Next Door M 2:30 Alaskan Steel Men PG 3:30 Naked And Afraid M 4:30 Gold Rush PG 5:30 MythBusters PG 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 Bear Grylls – Escape From Hell M 8:30 Deadliest Catch – The Bait PG 9:30 Deadliest Catch PG 10:30 Savage Family Diggers PG 11pm Zombie Apocalypse M

12:30 Survivor – Thailand PG 1:20 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 1:45 Law And Order MV 2:35 SVU MV 3:25 CSI MV 4:15 Transporter – The Series MVL 5:10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 5:35 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG

Midnight Crimes That Shook The World M 1am Southern Fried Homicide M 2am Deadliest Catch PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Deadliest Catch PG 5am MythBusters PG

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6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm The Test PGR Celebrities and viewers answer moral questions.

2pm Bondi Rescue PGR 3 2:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 3pm Harry’s Practice 3 3:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 4pm The Late Show With David Letterman 3 5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm Escape To The Country British couples and families, fed up with city life, search for the perfect country home while exploring the surroundings of each location.

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 11am Toku Reo 3 Noon Korero Mai 3 1pm Toku Reo 3 2pm Korero Mai 3 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Dora Matatoa 2 4pm SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 4:30 Waka Ama 2013 3 5pm Toi Whakaari 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga o

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MOVIES PREMIERE 7:50 Man Of Steel MV 2013 Action.

Henry Cavill, Amy Adams.

10:10 A Stranger In Paradise 16VLS 2013 Thriller. Colin Egglesfield, Stuart Townsend.

11:35 Save Your Legs ML 2012 Comedy. Stephen Curry, Brendan Cowell.

1:05 Red Lights MVL 2012 Thriller.

Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro.

3pm Man Of Steel MV 2013 Action.

Henry Cavill, Amy Adams.

5:20 Tell Tale 16VLS 2011 Thriller.

Josh Lucas, Lena Headey.

6:55 A Beginner’s Guide To Endings MLS 2012 Comedy.

Harvey Keitel, Scott Caan.

8:30 Jack Reacher MVL 2012 Action. Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike.

10:40 Oblivion MVS 2013 Sci-fi.

Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman.

SATURDAY

12:45 Deadliest Sea PGL 2009 Action. Sebastian Pigott, Greg Bryk.

2:10 Tell Tale 16VLS 2011 Thriller.

Josh Lucas, Lena Headey.

3:40 A Beginner’s Guide To Endings MLS 2012 Comedy.

Harvey Keitel, Scott Caan.

5:10 Oblivion MVS 2013 Sci-fi.

Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman.

6am The Crowd Goes Wild An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

6:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) North Harbour v Southland. From QBE Stadium, North Harbour.

7am L Golf – LPGA Tour Canadian Pacific Women’s Open – Round One. From London Hunt and Country Club in Ontario, Canada.

The Darkest Hour 10am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) 8:30pm on FOUR North Harbour v Southland. From QBE Stadium, North Harbour.

Noon NRL Footy Show MOVIES GREATS 2pm Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 7:30 My Best Friend’s Wedding Bulldogs v Tigers. From ANZ Stadium ML 1997 Romance. Julia Roberts, in Sydney.

Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz.

4pm Swimming – Pan Pacific 9:15 No Country For Old Men 16V 2007 Crime. Tommy Lee Jones, Championships (Replay) Day One. Javier Bardem.

From the Gold Coast in Australia.

11:15 Hairspray PGS 2007 Comedy 6pm Rugby League – NRL Musical. Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta. (Highlights) Bulldogs v Tigers. From 1:10 Chocolat MVS 2000 Drama.

ANZ Stadium in Sydney.

Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche.

6:30 NRL – Sterlo Peter Sterling 3:10 Payback 18V 1999 Action. hosts a comprehensive, in-depth Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry.

4:50 Drop Dead Gorgeous ML 1999 look at each of the NRL Premiership Comedy. Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, rugby league games from the weekend.

Kirstie Alley.

7:30 NRL Footy Show 6:30 The Exorcism Of Emily Rose MC 2005 Horror. Laura Linney, 9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott.

Eels v Sea Eagles. From Pirtek 8:30 Nights In Rodanthe PGL 2008 Stadium in Parramatta.

Drama. Richard Gere, Diane Lane.

SATURDAY 10:10 Step Brothers 16LS 2008 Midnight Rugby League – NRL Comedy. Will Ferrell, John C Reilly.

11:45 There Will Be Blood MV 2007 (Replay) Eels v Sea Eagles. From Pirtek Stadium in Parramatta.

Drama. Daniel Day-Lewis.

2:30 Legends Of F1 – Tony SATURDAY Brooks 2:20 Payback 18V 1999 Action.

3:30 Motorsport – WRC Preview Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry.

4am Nights In Rodanthe PGL 2008 Rally Germany.

4am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Drama. Richard Gere, Diane Lane.

Eels v Sea Eagles. From Pirtek 5:35 Chocolat MVS 2000 Drama.

Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche.

Stadium in Parramatta.

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Final showdown Celtic captain Hayley Murphy and Hampstead captain Nerida Jemmett are set to face off in in the premier netball final on Saturday.

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Defending champions Celtic meet Hampstead in the 2014 premier netball final tomorrow.

In what has been the closest premier race in years, both sides had to work hard to make the final, with Hampstead needing extra time to get past Methven – a side that had staved off relegation twice during the season, but went within one goal of meeting Celtic for a fourth straight season.

Hampstead hasn’t been to the big show since 2010, where they lost to College A, the last finals

appearance in a run of five that netted two premier titles.

Hampstead captain Nerida Jemmett played in “at least one of the winning ones”, but to add another premier title her team will need to achieve something they haven’t in over two seasons. Beat Celtic.

“Celtic are pretty good at holding on to the ball, so we’ll have to be as well and make the most of any opportunities we get,” Jemmett said. “To be honest we’re surprised to be here, but I guess we have built nicely as the season’s gone on and now we have a chance to play in the final.”

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Celtic enter their fourth straight final with a two-fromthree hit rate in the previous three - all against Methven.

The defending champions started the season, played under the new format, with a convincing 35-18 over Hampstead as they carried their win streak through to 20 before their loss to College A, which was followed up by a 29-24 victory over Hampstead and then most recently a 24-21 win.

The margin has narrowed with each encounter, but even if it’s by one goal Celtic captain Hayley Murphy will take it.

“One’s enough for the win, but hopefully it will be a little bit more than that,” Murphy said.

Murphy was part of the successful Celtic team last year, a comfortable 25-19 win over Methven, which completed an unbeaten season.

Celtic has only lost twice this season, and Murphy hopes there isn’t a third trip at the final hurdle and Celtic can defend the title.

However, no side has lifted the premier trophy back-to-back since United in 2001 and 2002.

The premier final starts at 3pm.

CURTAIN RAISER In the curtain raiser Rakaia A meets College Y10A in the Senior A final.

Rakaia advanced to the final with a 32-29 win over Methven B, who had claimed the win in the matchup a week earlier, while College Y10A outclassed College B, who started the season in premier, 43-35 in the other semi-final.

The senior B final has Methven White against Celtic B in the opening game on the main court at 12 noon.

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