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ELLIS RULED OUT

By Sue Newman

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A technicality and a short stretch of road has cost one of Ashburton’s high ranking district councillors his political career.

With two terms behind him, Russell Ellis was seeking a third term around the council table. He lodged his nomination on Thursday, more than 24 hours clear of the official closing time of noon on Friday.

He was nominated by Stuart Wilson and Stuart Cross, the latter having been his nominator for the 2013 and 2016 elections.

Ahead of this year’s election, however, the council undertook a minor redrawing of its boundaries, and neither Ellis nor Cross realised that Cross’ Carters Terrace address was now in the eastern rather than urban ward.

A nominator must live in the ward in which he or she is nominating a candidate for.

Ellis’ nomination was then checked by council staff, accepted and emailed to the Guardian at 12.18pm on August 18.

At 12.45pm on Monday, an email was received by the Guardian containing contact details

for all candidates. There was also a footnote on the email stating “there was an amendment made to Russell Ellis’ nomination paper last week. The second nominator is Gaynor Hurst (not Stuart Cross). That is now showing correct on our web link to the candidate nomination information”.

At that point there was no indication that Ellis’ nomination had become invalid but during the final checking process, once nominations had closed at noon on Friday, it was discovered that one of Ellis’ nominators lived outside the urban ward.

He was notified and a replacement nominator found and initially the council had thought the change could be made retrospectively, council chief executive Hamish Riach said.

“There was work being done in the mistaken belief it could be corrected, but it was only yesterday (Tuesday) morning the electoral officer rang me and alerted me to the issue and in the end, after much debate, he made it clear it couldn’t be corrected retrospectively,” he said.

And that left just one option, Ellis’ nomination had to be

ruled invalid. While the council checked all nominations to ensure they were complete and correct, the ultimate responsibility lay with the candidate to ensure their nominators lived within ward boundaries, council chief executive Hamish Riach said.

It was unfortunate that within electoral legislation there was no opportunity to appeal the decision, he said.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

■■LOCAL BODY ELECTION 2019

Ellis gutted local body career over

By Sue Newman

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For six years the Ashburton District Council meeting table has been Russell Ellis’ second home, but an error on his nomination paper for this year’s local body election has seen the two-term councillor kicked out of contention.

He’s gutted, disappointed and angry.

A slight shift in boundary lines between eastern and urban wards put one of Ellis’ nominators, Stuart Cross, in the eastern ward, making him ineligible to nominate an urban ward candidate.

Cross didn’t pick up the error, neither did Ellis and neither did council staff in their first swoop check of the nomination form. It was ticked off as correct, and Ellis’ name was added to the list of urban candidates.

The oversight was spotted on Friday after nominations had closed and he was advised to find another nominator. He did, completed the paper work and assumed that was the end of the matter.

It wasn’t. He was told on Monday that council believed if he could change his second nominator it would be okay, but on Tuesday morning he was called by electoral officer Andrew Morton and told it was not. His nomination was invalid.

“He told me I’m out. It’s so frus-

Councillor Russell Ellis (right) pictured here with Stuart Wilson. trating. It comes down to one slight bit of human error and yes, I probably have to take some of the blame,” he said.

Ellis said he watched while his nomination was checked and ticked off as correct.

“If I’d made a glaringly stupid

mistake I’d absolutely understand but this is such a pathetic technicality, it wasn’t a major balls up.”

Electoral officer Anthony Morton said the legislation made it clear that a nomination was invalid if not correct at the close of nominations. The law did not

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provide an opportunity after that time, to remedy the situation, he said.

It was unfortunate that the nomination was taken as valid initially and that the error was only picked up when it was rechecked. It was an uncommon situation and one

that was highly regrettable, Morton said.

Over the past two days Ellis has sought legal advice but when it came to having the decision overturned it appeared cut and dried.

There is no recourse, no appeal.

“I’m bitterly disappointed. This is one of the few pieces of legislation in New Zealand where there appears to be no right of appeal.

My solicitor has checked every avenue,” he said.

Solicitor Jane Argyle said she had sought opinions from a law professor at Otago University and from a local government legal specialist in Christchurch and it appeared there were no options.

A High Court injunction could be sought but, Ellis said, the cost of that was prohibitive.

Ellis is questioning why there is a one week lag between nominations closing and being posted as the official list. He believes that period should be available for forms to be thoroughly checked and for candidates to make changes if required.

Knowing that his local body career was at an end was gutting, it had changed the whole focus of his life, he said.

In addition it was a waste of ratepayer money because, after two terms in the job, a councillor was finding their feet and was starting to play a useful role around the council table, Ellis said.

Fellow Ashburton District Councillors support Ellis

By Sue Newman

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The forced withdrawal of Ashburton District councillor Russell Ellis from this year’s local body election candidate line up has shocked several of his fellow councillors.

Ellis’ nomination was declared invalid because one of his nominators lived just outside the redrawn urban boundary lines, a mis-step that was not picked up until after nominations closed at

noon on Friday.

Mayor Donna Favel praised Ellis for his ‘absolute’ commitment to standing for a third term and for the way he had served his community.

“It’s been an absolute privilege having Russell around the council table but, unfortunately, legislation is black and white about what we can do as a council for Russell, and sadly, that’s nothing,” she said.

Reflecting on the lack of appeal

opportunities within the current electoral legislation, Favel said she was motivated to see whether this legislation could be made stronger going forward.

“We can absolutely do our best to get some greater flexibility.”

Councillor Stuart Wilson was Ellis’ other nominator and said he had evolved as a councillor over his two terms.

No local authority could afford to lose a councillor of Ellis’ calibre over a technicality, Wilson said.

“He has the ability to go down the middle when we make a decision. He’s so valuable, he’s one of the best, most conscientious councillors we’ve got.”

The maps showing boundary lines between wards were very complex and very difficult to read and understand, he said.

Deputy mayor and long serving councillor Neil Brown said it was “pretty sad” for the district that it would lose such a strong councillor before the election.

“He’s a councillor who is really good at the job and he’s been removed on a technicality. It’s slipped through and that’s just one of those things,” he said.

In the council’s defence, Brown said letters had been sent out last week to all voters affected by boundary changes.

With Ellis’ nomination now invalid, there will now be nine candidates seeking the five urban seats in the October 12 local body elections.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

■■ SILVER FERN FARMS

Closure a shock for some workers

By Heather Chalmers

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Continued low sheep numbers and a depressed global market for pelts means the proposed closure of the Fairton pelt plant is not surprising, but still a shock for some workers, Meatworkers’ Union Canterbury branch secretary Bill Watt said.

“The cost of running Fairton was exacerbated by it being a big, old plant with one small section still working.

“It was a shock to some of the workers. It’s never a nice thing to happen,” Watt said.

With pelt processing the last main activity at Fairton, following the closure of sheepmeat processing in 2017, Watt said he believed “that will be it,” for the plant.

“The lamb kill in the South Island has dropped dramatically, so you lose that economy of scale.”

A Meatworkers’ Union delegate would assist workers and Silver Fern Farms was also offering support to the 44 people at Fairton and four roles at Pareora affected by the proposed closure.

The meat industry was short of workers, so there were likely to be job opportunities at other nearby plants Anzco Seafield near Ashburton and Alliance Smithfield and SFF Pareora at Timaru.

“A lot of these people have worked in that pelt department for a long time, so it is not only a change of where they work, it is a change of lifestyle,” Watt said.

“Fairton used to be a vibrant part of the Mid Canterbury economy and you walk around now and it is an old empty site and it is really sad.”

At its peak, Fairton had three

chains and more than 700 staff, including management and supervisors, Watt said.

A global downturn in the pelt market was reflected in Light Leathers at Washdyke, Timaru saying last month that up to 35 redundancies were likely as it faced the prospect of phasing out the manufacture of finished deer leather for the luxury export market.

Anzco Foods Canterbury site manager Darryl Mackenzie said it would welcome approaches from meat industry workers interested in jobs.

“We are currently advertising for a range of roles for the new season. We’d encourage anyone interested in roles to get in touch with the site directly or they can register their interest on our careers website careers.anzcofoods.com,” Mackenzie said.

Earlier this month, Anzco Foods was advertising for process workers for its Seafield plant including work on the slaughterboard, further processing departments, as knifehands or packers and in the coldstore and co-products departments.

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers’ meat and wool chairman David Acland said the loss of jobs was disappointing and showed the importance of agriculture in providing downstream processing and servicing jobs.

“It shows how inter-linked we all are and is symptomatic of the decline in livestock numbers.

“It is sad for Fairton to finally come to an end as it has a lot of history for the district and a lot of people have worked there and have connections with the site,” said Acland, of Mount Somers Station.

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Early morning crashes

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

Two car crashes less than two hours apart in the early hours of yesterday morning resulted in the death of a cow and one person sustaining moderate injuries.

Emergency services were first called to a crash on Mayfield Valetta Road at 2.35am.

A police spokesperson said it was a report of a car versus cow crash.

St John spokesman Gerard Campbell said one person sustained moderate injuries and was transported to Ashburton Hospital.

The cow died as a result of the crash and a tow truck was called for the car.

Later that morning, at 4.06am, emergency services were called to Seafield Road, between Stanley and Christys roads, to reports of a car that had crashed into a powerpole.

Campbell said that one patient was assessed and treated at the scene by ambulance staff.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Alan Burgess said the accident was very minor, and had occurred in the carpark of the ANZCO Food Canterbury facility on Seafield Road.

Burgess said crews were also called to the Mayfield Valetta Road crash, but were turned back on arrival.

Ashburton Trust posts healthy end of year profit

By Sue Newman

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After a few years where its bottom line ran in the red, the Ashburton Trust wrapped up the past financial year with a healthy $826,000 profit.

In her annual report, retiring board chair Fay Watson said it had been a very satisfying one for the trust.

“We have a very happy balance sheet; it’s in a happy place, it’s a

balance sheet for the future,” she said.

Over the year the trust distributed $64,000 in community grants and another $50,500 was committed for payment over the next two years. In addition $1.5 million was distributed through its partnership with the Lion Foundation from gaming machine profits.

While the Devon Tavern has been strengthened, property maintenance costs were lower in

the past year, but in the current year they would increase significantly with earthquake strengthening and re-roof of the Tinwald Tavern anticipated to cost in excess of $1 million.

“We’ve ticked off some great things this year,” Watson said.

In its new role as a landlord, with its hospitality businesses now leased, the trust has been able to establish a solid 10-year maintenance programme for its

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properties, she said.

Since it changed its business model, the trust has shown solid improvement.

Looking ahead, Watson said the next big item on the trust’s agenda was its reconstitution as the Braided Rivers Community Trust.

This is expected to be completed in November.

Over coming years, the trust would continue to review and diversify its investment portfo-

lio to maintain fairness between present and future generations by returning grants from income without eroding its capital base, Watson said.

“I know the organisation is strong with investment and growth portfolios we’re putting in place. I know this will last the organisation well in the long term.”

The trust will hold its 70th annual meeting at 5.30pm in the Devon Tavern on August 29.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Repairs ‘a few months’ away

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

Permanent repairs to the Rakaia River Bridge will take several months following a serious crash on the bridge that resulted in a milk tanker coming to rest in the river bed.

The collision occurred about 6.30am on Sunday and it is believed a vehicle slid on ice, hitting the side of the bridge and bouncing off it.

A Fonterra milk tanker heading north attempted to avoid the car in the middle of the road but hit it, and went through the side of the bridge, resulting in the cab plummeting into the riverbed below and causing damage to the concrete railing of the bridge.

NZTA (New Zealand Transport Agency) senior network manager Colin Hey said the structural capacity of the bridge was not compromised by the crash, but that repairs may be a few months away.

“Repairing the concrete side rails will take a few months given the need for specialist concrete works and the need for warmer, drier weather, and the NZTA will assess other damaged side-rail sections to see if they can be repaired at the same time,” he said.

“This work will be done at night to avoid disruption. In

the meantime a temporary side railing is in place to ensure the safety of traffic using the bridge, and the existing wide raised kerbing between the handrail and the traffic lane provides an added safety factor.

“At present there are no other plans to carry out improvements to the bridge.”

Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Tyrone Burrowes said at the time that the crash served as a good reminder for people to watch out for black ice.

“Just drive to the conditions, if it’s frosty, take care,” he said.

Hey said during the winter period NZTA’s contractors kept a close eye on the roading networks for ice.

“During the winter period NZTA’s contractors are constantly monitoring the network for ice, and actively use de-icing compounds and grit as a pre-treatment and to deal with any new areas found while patrolling the network,” he said.

“Known trouble-spots are also well signposted. Occasionally weather conditions change quickly and ice can form without warning. Our advice therefore is to be prepared for winter driving and always drive to the conditions.”

Right – Repairs to the Rakaia River Bridge will take place in a few months, following Sunday’s crash. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Hospital coping with high flu rates Susan Sandys

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Hospital facilities across Canterbury have been put under pressure with high influenza rates this year.

There have been 935 influenza-related hospitalisations in the Canterbury region from May 1 to August 17. Of these, 35 have been to Ashburton Hospital. The average stay has been 4.7 days.

For the same period, 19 patients admitted to a Canterbury

hospital, all with pre-existing conditions, have died from influenza-related complications.

Of these, two have been at Ashburton Hospital.

The hospital has been able to cope with the high number, and no-one has been diverted from the facility to Christchurch due to flu-related admissions.

Medical Officer of Health Dr Ramon Pink said despite high volumes of patients across the Canterbury region, Canterbury

District Health Board’s approach had been to ensure everyone has appropriate care.

“The high prevalence of influenza in our community, after three winters with very little flu, has contributed significantly to these higher volumes which requires our system to work together to meet the needs of everyone,” Dr Pink said.

“Utilising the combined capacity of the hospital, our community partners and our general prac-

tice network allows us to meet the demands of our population.

“At times we have worked together to ensure people flow to the appropriate facility to provide care. This supports people to get to the right care in the right place and allows us to preserve ED for emergencies.

“Our clinical teams across the Canterbury health system are working extremely hard to deliver high quality care regardless of the pressure we are under.”

One-size water rules not good A one-size-fits-all, inflexible and punitive regulatory regime for water quality will not work, says Federated Farmers ahead of the announcement of tighter regulations on the agricultural sector.

Feds environment spokesman and Mid Canterbury farmer Chris Allen said farmers needed to work alongside their communities for practical and affordable catchment-based solutions.

He said everyone wanted good, fresh water, farmers included.

“The question is how you drive water quality improvements.

There’s no doubt there is a place for rules and regulation, but they must take into account the circumstances of each catchment – soil types, land uses and community priorities to name a few,” Allen said.

“We must keep up the momentum with the water quality improvements we are already seeing in many catchments, not cut across this with cumbersome, draconian, one-size-fits-all regulations.”

Regional councils should be required to go through the nutrient limit setting process as per the current National Policy Statement, “with a stick approach to achieve it”, Allen said.

“Some councils haven’t done it, and that’s a problem.”

He said a significant amount of work had already been done by farmers to exclude stock from waterways and add riparian planting.

He said catchment-based improvement programmes should be geared around the values the local community and environment reporting and findings needed to reflect influences resulting from weather events.

Farmers would also like to see consistency in approach across the sectors, and appropriate recognition of where changes that have been made, whether by urban or rural sectors, that are delivering improvements to water quality.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Return to local body politics for Kelvin

By Susan Sandys

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Kelvin Holmes is looking forward to getting back into local body politics now that he will be the newest member of the Methven Community Board.

He is the only non-board member among current nominees, all of whom will not have to go through an election and will instead automatically be declared as elected by the Electoral Officer following the elections in October.

Holmes is originally from Methven and moved back to the town, from the Ashburton area, with his partner about four years ago.

The 64-year-old served as an Ashburton District Councillor for three terms, from 2001 to 2010, and for two of those terms was chairman of the finance and corporate services committee.

“I just think I have got a bit to offer,” he said.

In particular he had heard about frustrations voiced by members about the wheels of council moving slowly, and “the way the system works”.

But he did not believe it always had to be a battle, particularly if

Kelvin Holmes. you knew your way around the cogs of council.

“I know it is a system, but it’s not that hard if you do your work,” he said.

He hoped to build on the good work of current board and community members in promoting the town and raising its profile, as well as helping to improve council services.

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Despite his easy ride onto the board, he was disappointed more had not put their names forward.

“It’s a democratic process, you should not get there by default,” he said.

Additionally, it was a waste of resources with the potential additional cost of a by-election looming.

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Tenders out soon for fish fence

By Linda Clarke

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Tender documents will be released early next month to civil contractors interested in helping build a new multi-million dollar fish fence on the Rangitata Diversion Race (RDR).

The RDR management company was granted consent 12 months ago to replace an under-performing bio-acoustic fish fence.

RDR interim chief executive Tony McCormick said civil contractors were needed to build a new section of canal near the Klondyke intake where the mechanical fish fence would operate.

The fish fence has been designed to keep more fish in the Rangitata River and out of the RDR’s canal, which delivers water across the Mid Canterbury plains to irrigation schemes.

McCormick said the fence had been specially designed and ensured that fish that made their way into the intake were returned safely to the river.

The whole project is expected to cost up to $15 million and will be carried out alongside the existing canal, until it is connected and commissioned in spring 2021.

“We can build it all off-line and not have a major impact on the scheme while it is operating.”

The fish screen will be installed by specialists and a contractor for the earthworks should be named before Christmas. Construction would begin the following April.

Consent for the new rotary drum technology fish fence was granted at the same time as a suite of consents for a huge storage pond at Klondyke. The pond project would make use of RDR’s existing take from the Rangitata River and a new one of an additional 10 cumecs.

The project could be affected by an appeal by Ngai Tahu over the taking of the extra 10 cumecs; the appeal is currently before the Environment Court after meditation failed to resolve matters.

The big storage lake, estimated to cost $265 million to build, is about future-proofing water for irrigators, as well as creating the ability to use water for other purposes, like supplementing flows in the Ashburton River and managed aquifer recharge.

Water could also be moved south for irrigation in South Canterbury.

Smiles4Miles trucking ahead for this year

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

The Smiles4Miles event is rolling out to its third year and organisers are expecting another fantastic day.

Organiser Dean Rattray said they were expecting another big day this year at the end of the month.

“It always seems to get great support from the local community and there are people coming from everywhere for it,” he said.

The Smiles4Miles is a community event for anyone with special needs or day-to-day medical issues, giving them the chance to go for a ride in vehicles they might not normally get to

such as fire trucks, stock trucks and vintage cars.

“This is the third year we are holding it and when we first held it three years ago we were absolutely blown away by the response, and this year we don’t think it will be any different,” he said.

Rattray said they were currently unsure of the number of vehicles that would be at the event, but he estimated it would be around the same mark as last year, which was 50.

“There will be an array of trucks,” he said.

“The ambulance will be there again, hopefully the police will have time to come along and there should be a fire

Right – A Rural Fire truck at last years event.

truck there as well.

“The drivers, they bring those trucks along and they are donating their time, and the transport companies are, of course, donating their trucks and the fuel which is just amazing.

“I think the drivers get just as big a kick out of it as the kids, it is something we take for granted and do everyday but for the kids it is something really special.”

The event is being held at the Ryal Bush Transport Ashburton yard at 77 Maronan Road on August 31 from 11am, and the rapid relief team will be on hand providing a free sausage sizzle.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

■■MOSQUE ATTACK

‘Abhorrent’ manifesto being sold – PM NZME Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is “abhorrent and disgusting” that the alleged Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto is being sold online.

But she says there is little New Zealand do about it, as it is being sold in a jurisdiction where New Zealand holds no sway.

Neo-nazis are selling hardcover copies of the accused Christchurch mosque shooter’s hate-filled manifesto online.

A far-right message board on an encrypted instant messaging site is selling the banned racist document for $US4 ($NZ6.23).

“It’s more than a concern,” Ardern said yesterday.

“It’s abhorrent and it’s disgusting, but it is being sold in a jurisdiction over which we have no control.”

The copies are being sold on an online messaging app that was set up two days after the March 15 attacks.

The channel – which has more than 1000 subscribers – appears to be run by an administrator distributing the writings translated into Ukrainian.

New Zealand’s chief censor has classified the manifesto as objectionable, meaning anyone found to be distributing it in this country could face up to 14 years in prison, or a $10,000 fine.

But that didn’t mean the document was banned overseas, Ardern said.

“It wouldn’t be able to happen in New Zealand, but this is, I understand, happening in the Ukraine.

It demonstrates the difficulty we have now in this current environment in dealing with the spread

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of what we in New Zealand would consider really objectionable material.”

She said that didn’t meant the Christchurch Call, the voluntary agreement to stop violent extremism and terrorist content from spreading online, was a waste of time.

“I don’t think we should assume that just because an act doesn’t fix everything that it’s not worthwhile.

The Christchurch Call will make a considerable difference, but it won’t fix everything. It’s not a reason not to keep going.”

The channel features vile white supremacy messages, memes and videos and openly encourages violence against people of colour and Jews.

Its admin said he was inspired by the alleged killer and said he wants to “maximise the manifesto and everything related to it”.

It is pictured alongside images of guns, Hitler, and the former Nazi leader’s own anti-Semitic manifesto Mein Kampf.

On May 15, the administrator

says he’s working on printing out the document for widespread dissemination.

“I do not make money on this. If someone doesn’t have shekels to spare — take the layout and print this out on your own, not a problem,” the channel admin wrote.

“The idea is to give paper versions to everyone in a row, on birthdays, wedding anniversaries and baptisms of children. In the first place, the inhabitants, to open their eyes to our cruel world.”

And on August 10, he boasts of sending eight books to new owners.

Last week, Corrections boss Christine Stevenson apologised for failing to withhold an inappropriate letter from the alleged gunman that was posted online.

Corrections also failed to block two inappropriate letters from Christchurch white supremacist Philip Arps, who is in jail for sharing the mosque shooting video.

Stevenson has put in a number of measures to prevent the mistake happening again.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is disappointed there is still an almost 10 per cent gender pay gap in New Zealand and says the Government still has more work to do to close it.

New figures from Statistics New Zealand showed the pay gap has not changed since 2017 – the year the Government took office.

But, at 9.3 per cent, the gap is the third-smallest gap since Stats NZ began the series.

Speaking to media yesterday, Ardern said she was “of course” disappointed that there is still a gap.

She said there had been some movement in the numbers but it’s “not enough for us”.

She talked up Government policies which aim to reduce the gap, such as a boost to the minimum wage.

“Women are over-represented in the number [of people] earning a minimum wage,” she said and added that the policy would help close the gap.

Recent pay equity settlements for female-dominated professions, such as nurses and teachers, would also help Ardern said.

But she said there would always be a lag between the Government’s action, and what comes through in Stats NZ’s numbers.

Women’s Minister Julie Anne Genter agreed with Ardern and said it was “going to take time” to bring the gender pay gap down.

She said the Government wanted to see a lot more change as “there is a lot more that needs to be done to close it further”.

Stats NZ’s Labour market statistics manager Scott Ussher said although the pay gap has remained flat since 2017, it has been trending down since 1998 when the gap was 16.2 per cent.

The data showed that women’s median hourly earnings from salaries and wages increased $0.75 (3.2 per cent) since the June 2018 quarter, to $24.50 in the June 2019 quarter.

For men, the median increased $0.85 (3.3 per cent) over the same period to reach $27.00.

“The gender pay gap is a useful measure when trying to understand differences in pay between men and women, due to its simplicity. But this measure is limited,” Ussher said.

“It doesn’t account for men and women doing different jobs or working different hours. It also doesn’t account for personal characteristics that can influence pay, such as qualifications and age.”

For example, Ussher said the gender pay gap is smaller for people younger than 30 years.

■■ROTORUA

Rare plant found after tree falls in scenic reserve NZME A fallen ancient tree has unearthed a rare and endangered plant in a scenic reserve near Rotorua.

The rare shrub, called the [ittosporum kirkii, was spotted by the Rotorua Canopy Tours team earlier this week.

Pittosporum kirkii is one of four shrubs endemic to New Zealand and has been listed as at risk by the Department of Conservation since 2012.

A tour guide for Rotorua Canopy Tours was conducting a tour when a tree fell next to the group.

As a trained ecologist her curiosity was piqued by the ancient tree.

At the top of the tree next to a nest of perching lily, was a nest of pittosporum kirkii.

This rare and endangered plant is sometimes parasitic but in this case was using the ancient

tree as a perch.

Ogle said she did not recognise the plant at first and sent a photo of the leaves and seeds to a local ecologist.

He confirmed it was a “very rare” shrub, she said.

The plant was commonly found in the canopies of old-growth forest and was threatened by deforestation and possums.

General manager of Canopy Tours Paul Button said the find reconfirms their ecology strategy.

“There aren’t many recent records of pittosporum kirkii, so it’s exciting to witness their return to this 1000-year-old forest.

“Each sighting of an endangered species in the reserve just confirms that our trapping efforts are making a real difference to the region,” he said.

Canopy Tours use a mix of DOC possum traps, and Goodnature A12 automatic possum traps

across 250ha of the scenic reserve, to help manage the pest’s population in the native bush.

The Department of Conservation’s local Rotorua office were notified and have confirmed it was a rare find.

DOC’s Rotorua community supervisor Caraline Abbott said this was a positive indicator for forest health in the scenic reserve.

“It’s really encouraging to find endangered species like these returning to the forest, it shows that trapping really does work and it massively benefits the native biodiversity of the area.”

Rotorua Canopy Tours will leave the fallen tree after assessing its safety impacts.

“When the tree fell, it knocked down some branches and perching lilies, once we clear those, we’ll leave the tree to rot and return to the forest, it’s all part of the natural cycle,” Ogle said.

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Courts uphold Pell verdict AP An Australian appeals court yesterday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children. The decision brought cheers from scores of abuse survivors and victims’ advocates demonstrating outside court.

The Victoria state Court of Appeal in a 2-1 ruling rejected Pell’s appeal of a unanimous jury verdict in December that Pope Francis’ former finance minister was guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral more than two decades ago.

Pell’s lawyers will examine the judgment and consider an appeal to the High Court, Australia’s final arbiter, his spokeswoman Katrina Lee said in a statement.

He was sentenced to six years in prison in March and is no longer a member of Francis’ Council of Cardinals or a Vatican official. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said soon after the appeal was rejected that Pell would be stripped of his Order of Australia honour.

Pell, 78, showed no emotion when Chief Justice Anne Ferguson read the verdict to a packed courtroom but bowed his head moments later. He wore a cleric’s collar but not his cardinal’s ring. Pell had arrived

Cardinal George Pell at an earlier hearing. at the court in a prison van and was handcuffed as he was led away by a guard.

The Vatican is conducting its own investigation into sex abuse allegations against Pell and is expected to comment on the ruling later Wednesday.

The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, a body representing all the nation’s Catholic bishops, said all Australians must be equal under the law and they accept the court’s verdict.

Clerical sexual abuse and the Catholic Church’s handling of such cases worldwide have thrown Francis’ papacy into turmoil.

Ferguson said she and Pres-

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ident of the Court of Appeal Chris Maxwell “decided that it was open to the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Cardinal Pell was guilty.”

The two judges “accepted the prosecution’s submission that the complainant was a very compelling witness, clearly not a liar, was not a fantasist and was a witness of truth,” Ferguson said.

The dissenting judge, Mark Weinberg, “could not exclude as a reasonable possibility that some of what the complainant said was concocted,” particularly in relation to the charge that Pell had squeezed the boy’s genitals and shoved

him against a cathedral corridor wall as they passed in the midst of the choir moments after a Mass, she said.

An earlier trial had ended with a deadlocked jury, with at least two jurors holding out for conviction or acquittal. While Pell’s lawyers argued in the appeal that the jury must have had reasonable doubt, the prosecutors said contrasting evidence from more than 20 priests, choristers, altar servers and church officials still did not preclude guilty verdicts.

The abuse occurred months after Pell became archbishop of Australia’s second-largest city and had set the world’s first compensation arrangement for victims of clergy sexual abuse.

Pell did not testify at either of his trials. But both juries saw a video of a police interview of him in Rome in 2016 in which Pell rejected the allegations as “absolutely disgraceful rubbish” and a “deranged falsehood.”

Ferguson read a summary of the three judges’ findings. The 325-page ruling was published later Wednesday.

When sentencing Pell to six years in prison in March, the trial judge accused Pell of showing “staggering arrogance” in his crimes. He was ordered to serve a minimum of three years and eight months before he will be eligible for parole.

US ready to resume nuclear talks with North Korea AP The United States is ready to restart nuclear negotiations with North Korea, a senior US diplomat said Wednesday, a day after US and South Korean military ended their regular drills that North Korea calls an invasion rehearsal.

During the 10-day training, North Korea raised tensions with its own missile and other weapons tests. But North Korea’s typical harsh rhetoric over the drills largely focused on South Korea, not the United States, in a suggestion that it’s still interested in resuming nuclear talks with the US.

President Donald Trump said recently he received a “beautiful” three-page letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump said Kim wanted to meet again to restart the talks after the US-South Korean drills ended and that Kim offered him “a small apology” over the weapons tests.

On Wednesday, Trump’s top envoy on North Korea, Stephen Biegun, told reporters in Seoul that “we are prepared to engage as soon as we hear from our counterparts in North Korea.”

Biegun said that Trump assigned his team to restart working-level talks with North Korea, in line with what Trump

and Kim agreed during their third summit in late June. “I am fully committed to this important mission and we will get this done,” Beigun said.

Beigun also denied media speculation that he may be appointed as the new US ambassador in Russia. “I will remain focused on making progress on North Korea,” he said.

Beigun was in Seoul for talks with South Korea. His South Korean counterpart Lee Dohoon said the two discussed how to quickly resume the nuclear negotiations and produce “substantial progress.”

US-led diplomacy on how to rid North Korea of its nu-

clear weapons collapsed after Trump rejected Kim’s demand for sweeping sanctions relief in return for partial disarmament steps during their second summit in Vietnam in February.

During their third meeting at the Korean border village of Panmunjom on June 30, the two leaders agreed to restart the talks but there has been no public meeting between the countries.

Many experts say North Korea’s recent weapons tests were mainly aimed at applying pressure on the United States ahead of a possible resumption of talks, while registering its protest against the military drills.

Honduras’ ex-first lady convicted of fraud AP A Honduran court convicted former first lady Rosa Elena Bonilla on Tuesday of embezzling about $US600,000 in government money between 2010 and 2014, when her husband Porfirio Lobo was president.

Bonilla’s sentence will be announced August 28 and could run between 58 and

87 years in prison. Bonilla’s brother-in-law Mauricio Mora was acquitted.

The case was originally brought forward by the Organisation of American States’ anti-corruption mission, which began its mandate in the country in 2016 after large street protests against graft.

Investigators for the non-governmental National Anti-corruption Council have

told prosecutors that Bonilla deposited $US600,000 in government funds into her personal bank account five days before Lobo ended his fouryear term in January 2014.

Prosecutors said she used the money to buy jewellry and pay credit cards.

Lobo, who is also facing a corruption probe, said, “We do not agree with the verdict, and we will appeal.”

He vowed to take the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights if necessary.

Earlier this month, US federal prosecutors accused Lobo and his successor, current President Juan Orlando Hernández, of receiving campaign contributions from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection.

Lobo has denied the accusation.

Fourth Matrix film on its way A fourth Matrix film is officially on the way, Warner Brothers have confirmed.

Keanu Reeves will reprise his role as computer programmer Neo and CarrieAnne Moss will return as hacker, Trinity.

Lana Wachowski, who directed and wrote all three of the previous Matrix films with her sister, Lilly – The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003) – will also be returning to direct and write the fourth instalment in the franchise. “We could not be more excited to be re-entering The Matrix with Lana,’ Warner Brothers chairman Toby Emmerich said. Filming will reportedly commence in early 2020.

Home and Away star dies Former Home And Away star Ben Unwin has died. Unwin was 41 when his body was found by police on August 14, a day before his 42nd birthday, news.com. au reports. “Police attended Minyon Falls, Whian Whian, responding to a concern for welfare,” NSW Police said in a statement. “The body of a 41-yearold man was located. The death has not been treated as suspicious.” Unwin played Jesse McGregor on the soap onand-off for a decade after landing the role a month after completing year 12, according to his IMDB entry. Unwin first played Jesse in a four-year stint from 1996, then again from 2002 to 2005.

The Chase star opens up Star of The Chase Anne Hegerty, known as The Governess on the show, has opened up about financial struggles prior to the television show. The 61-year-old quiz master told The Sun on Sunday that prior to her major television stardom she found it difficult to make ends meet working as a freelance copy editor. “I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.”

Her life turned around in 2010 when she joined ITV’s The Chase, and the career move allowed her to rid herself of debts and pay off her mortgage. “It’s dreadful.

I don’t know where I’d be without The Chase, it changed my life.”

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Inflexibility lets election system down

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he misgivings about a nationwide electoral legal system which doesn’t allow for leniency in good faith has thrown this year’s Ashburton District local government elections a rightwing curve ball and one which no one could have predicted.

And while there’s a fair amount of angst and disappointment around the place about the announcement that current councillor Russell Ellis’ nomination for the Ashburton Ward for this year’s election has been withdrawn, there’s just no moving room in any piece of legislation to see the outcome turned around.

Unless, of course – and this so far-fetched and impossible that it’s not even worth searching the legalities of it being possible – all

of the remaining candidates for the Ashburton Ward withdrew their nominations in protest, forcing a by-election and opening the nomination process up to fill those five vacancies once again.

Perhaps not impossible, but extremely unlikely.

And so the decision most probably must stand – it’s written law and there’s no real chance of it being overturned. But that doesn’t make it right.

Sure, there are problematic issues on both sides of the fence when it comes to ensuring that all information provided is correct and legally viable, but that there is no option for a right of appeal, or a process that can be followed to ensure that mistakes such as this don’t have the ramifications of yesterday’s announcement, is surely the biggest issue of them all.

And the decision doesn’t just impact on Ellis – although he is the most affected party. His omission from the ballot sheets, which are out next month, means the entire district misses out collectively.

We have lost the services of an excellent councillor, an experienced councillor and a councillor who, presuming he was voted

back in, still had plenty to give around the Ashburton District Council table.

And for what? The sake of a few hundred metres of road and/or, a potential flaw in the checking process, both of which hardly seem fitting of the situation that is faced.

Sometimes you just have to check yourself, sit back and think, really?

Is this actually the way it has to be?

Boundary changes are the ultimate problem here. Neither party was aware of the change in wards for the nomination form and took it as gospel that because it had worked for the previous two elections that it would be the same again, but those slight alterations have made all the difference.

And in this case, most likely ended a political career.

Some of the laws and legislation in this country seem so archaic and out of date that they become unfathomable and the only hope is that, from this entire mess, which some professionals in local government have stated as being unlike anything they’ve ever seen before, there is change brought about from it.

There’s no point in pointing the finger at anyone and playing the blame game, mistakes happen in life and, although regrettable, there’s unfortunately nothing that can be done to correct it.

The best thing now is to learn from it, hopefully get things changed and ensure it doesn’t happen again.

In 2003, Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.

In 2004, as shocked spectators watched, armed thieves stole one of four versions of the Edvard Munch masterpiece The Scream and a second Munch painting, Madonna, from the Munch museum in Oslo, Norway. (The paintings, visibly damaged, were recovered in August 2006; three men were convicted in connection with the theft and sentenced to prison.)

Ten years ago: Dozens of wildfires

broke out across Greece, torching olive groves, cutting off villages and sending residents fleeing.

Five years ago: Tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated sharply as Moscow sent more than 130 trucks rolling across the border in what it said was a mission to deliver humanitarian aid.

One year ago: The bull market in US stocks became the longest one on record; it had been 3453 days since the S&P 500 index had seen a drop of 20 per cent or more.

Today’s birthdays: Author Annie Proulx is 84. Actress Valerie Harper is 80. Writer-producer David Chase is 74. Actress Cindy

Williams is 72. Pop musician David Marks is 71. Rock musician Vernon Reid is 61. Country singer Ricky Lynn Gregg is 60. Country singer Collin Raye is 59. Actress Regina Taylor is 59. Rock singer Roland Orzabal is 58. Rock musician Debbi Peterson is 58. Rock musician Gary Lee Conner is 57.

Singer Tori Amos is 56. Country singer Mila Mason is 56. Rhythmand-blues musician James DeBarge is 56. International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander is 55. Actress Brooke Dillman is 53. Rapper GZA/The Genius is 53. Actor Adewale AkinnuoyeAgbaje is 52. Actor Ty Burrell is 52.

Actress Melinda Page Hamilton is

48. Actor Rick Yune is 48. Rock musician Paul Doucette is 47. Rapreggae singer Beenie Man is 46.

Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 46. Comedian-actress Kristen Wiig is 46. Actress Jenna Leigh Green is 45. Rock musician Bo Koster is 45. Rock musician Dean Back is 44. Talk show host James Corden is 41. Rock musician Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan) is 41.

Actor Brandon Adams is 40.

Actress Aya Sumika is 39. Actor Ari Stidham is 27.

Thought for today: “There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.” – Robert Henri, American artist (1865-1929).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, August 22, the 234th day of 2019. There are 131 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On August 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America’s Cup. On this date: In 1429, the Siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War ended as English troops withdrew after being defeated by French forces under Joan of Arc. In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War Two. In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corporation conducted its first experimental television broadcast, using a 30-line mechanical system.

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and vice president Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

In 1969, New Zealand chose its first Young Farmer of the Year. The competition was held in Auckland and was won by Gary Frazer, of Swannanoa, near Christchurch.

The contest is still held annually.

In 1972, President Richard Nixon was nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.

In 1978, President Jomo Kenyatta, a leading figure in Kenya’s struggle for independence, died; Vice President Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as acting president.

In 1989, Black Panthers co-founder Huey P Newton was shot to death in Oakland, California. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.)

In 1992, on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver.

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The changing face of Aotearoa, our land Nick Lindo

EYE ON POLITICS

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emember the tearful angst of Te Ururoa Flavell and Marama Fox on the night of the 2017 election when their Maori Party failed to qualify for a seat of any sort in the new parliament?

Labour had scooped the pool and taken all seven Maori seats. So the tiny Maori Party, for sometime an uneasy, but often vital, coalition partner for National and grateful recipient of any political crumb that occasionally fell from the National table, was no more.

Thus the mission of the two Maori giants of our time who had founded and guided the group, Dame Tariana Turia and her co-leader, the worldly-wise, Sir Pita Sharples, faded into the obscurity of past triumphs.

All seemed lost, with indigenous Maori adrift in a wilderness in their very own land.

Hardly surprising there were tears shed that night.

But it was not long before gloom turned to hope, to expectation, to promise, to a new Maori-dominated landscape and a new dawn, as the wobbly Mixed Member coalition staggered slowly, like a hatching Monarch butterfly, into life.

Frail and fragile it may at first have seemed – even now it tends to totter along on the bones of an arthritic foundation – but it finally emerged, and, what’s more, with a pronounced pro Maori tendency, the like of which Turia, Sharpes, Fox and Flavell could have but distantly dreamed.

Only Winston The Terrible seems to be holding back the tide of Maoridom from complete equality and “partnership” with the Crown, as is seriously, but entirely erroneously, claimed to have been the original outcome of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The latest benefit of this munificent interpretation of history has just been announced.

It is a plan by Labour – and, presumably, a few of the more resolute Greens – to reduce from over 50 per cent the Maori prison population to 15 per cent , thus ensuring it reflects the percentage of

Maoris in New Zealand, and no more than that. It is certainly an effective way of reducing our overall prison numbers, “at a stroke”, but a trifle arbitrary one. Winston must be pondering and wondering whether to put the kibosh on such a scheme.

We have, though, been told he has been unwell lately, so perhaps the news has been kept from him in case he should suffer a relapse.

Under the post-2017 election, the fledgling regime that appeared soon set up a Criminal Justice Summit, attended by two hundred Maori representatives as well as another 400 representing everyone else directly in-

volved in the issue.

Subsequently, Maori made clear they expected to have a Maori-only gathering to discuss the failings of the justice system, as they saw them, to which the craven coalition subserviently, and speedily, agreed.

Thus was held a separate Maori hui on the matter, resulting in a further number of “inadequacies” being identified.

Elsewhere, in coastal Aotearoa, the “foreshore creep” continues, as piece by piece and beach by beach “ownership” passes to iwi elite and the rest of us are asked to pay a fee for access to what used to be the King’s/Queen’s chain, available to all Kiwis for rest and recreation.

However – and meanwhile – deep in the forest, the National Party is on the prowl, seeking whom it may devour (1 Peter 5 v. 8).

In the darkest recesses can just be detected the outline of a figure bearing an uncan-

ny resemblance to the recently-retired CEO of Air New Zealand, Christopher Luxon, said to be a seeker after political selection, even to the very pinnacle of the National Party, and from thence, the final step, across to the ninth floor of the Beehive.

Hobgoblin, Simon Bouncy Bridges, is scurrying along at the Great Man’s side muttering imprecations aimed at Jacinda and all she stands for, but not, we gather, in the same shock, jock tones as those of that well past his use-by date, Aussie, Alan Jones.

No, Bouncy is reminding Luxon that law ‘n’ order has been the lynchpin of National philosophy for as long as the party has existed and that the attempt

by Maori to water it down must be resisted root and branch.

He is also pointing out Kiwis generally do not like being told how they must conform to some kind of political correctness, foisted on them without notice.

They may find any suggestion of the dissolution of prisons hard to swallow even though, presumably, there would be no incarcerated Pakeha either. Such an overnight utopia would be hard for anyone to swallow!

The outcome of the hui also seemed not to put much emphasis on job creation or seeking, with more interest shown in the continuation of Government hand-outs and, thus, the prolongation of inter-generational unemployment into a far -distant future. The nut gets no easier to crack.

So the seeds of next year’s election are sown; germination will, of course, take its time, but I can see a number of issues flowering this time next year just as electioneering reaches fever pitch.

Will Jacinda spend less time as an international icon in the coming 12 months, flying the world, belching clouds of smelly carbon in her wake or will she become exclusively Kiwi-centred, as she attempts to snare another term in office.

Opposing her, perhaps, the formidable Chris Luxon, whose words may be marginally more measured than the impetuous utterances of the present would-be incumbent of the office on the ninth floor.

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Mid Canty growers to set the pace

By Heather Chalmers

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Mid Canterbury growers will be some of the first to trial United States-developed wireless soil sensors which provide continuous and real-time data on nitrate uptake and nutrient leaching.

The Teralytic soil probes are being trialled in New Zealand’s potato growing regions, with 120 arriving in September. This follows a smaller-scale trial last season.

Teralytic founder and chief executive Steve Ridder told the Potatoes NZ Inc conference in Christchurch that the agri-tech firm started three years ago to provide real-time information about what was happening in the soil.

Until now, most soil management was based on modelling, or calendars.

In contrast, the probes provide continual data before and while a crop was being grown, optimising on-farm management as well as providing aggregated data for environmental compliance. “So growers know what is happening beneath the ground and can make real-time decisions.”

The probes, which stand about 1.2 metres tall are simple to install and get started. “Just put the probe in the ground and turn it on.”

Probes wirelessly send a range of surface, soil and air quality measurements back to growers, including nitrogen, phosphate and potassium levels, soil mois-

ture, soil temperature and humidity readings, as well as pH levels.

Each probe, built to remain in the field all season, has a total of 26 sensors placed at depths of 15cm, 45cm and 90cm.

“The first two depths are for on-farm management, while the lowest depth is for compliance, such as measuring any leaching,” Ridder said.

Probes take a sample reading every 15 minutes, sending the information wirelessly to cloud servers where it is analysed.

Farmers receive real-time and predictive information to help in decision making.

Growers pay a subscription of $US500 a sensor a year, with about two a paddock recommended.

Assisting the New Zealand trials was Teralytic director of operations and Australasia Lachlan Turley, the company’s only employee outside of the US and originally from Temuka where his parents are potato growers.

Ridder said Teralytic wanted the probe readings to replicate those of a standard soil laboratory report.

“We are starting to do a lot of modelling to enhance decision-making, so growers can be proactive in getting ahead of nutrient deficiency problems.

“The probes build a picture by the hour, day and month. You can see how nutrients in a paddock change over time, rather

Lachlan Turley demonstrates the Teralytic probe. than possibly just one snapshot a year.”

Consumers also wanted more transparency and were not just looking at the nutrient levels of food, but whether “the healthy food was grown in a healthy environment”.

This compared with the more typical anecdotal approach of growers talking about their sustainability programme, with no

way to link back to the actual crop and how much water and fertiliser was used, Ridder said.

Potatoes NZ chief executive Chris Claridge said that of the 120 probes being trialled, 60 would go to Plant and Food Research at Lincoln to check their accuracy against standard soil testing and under New Zealand conditions.

The other 60 probes will be deployed in the three main potato

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growing regions Pukekohe, the central-lower North Island and Canterbury.

Probe data was owned by potato growers and would not be supplied to regional councils, Claridge said. “We are interested in aggregate data. Individual field data doesn’t tell us a lot. We are looking at the overall regional footprint in terms of nitrate emissions.”

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Waikato sheep milk deal signed

By Andrea Fox

Meanwhile, construction is well under way at the Waikato Innovation Park at Hamilton’s Ruakura of a new processing plant expected to deliver $129 million in sheep milk export products a year.

Growing global demand for sheep milk products has spurred the project, which will rise beside Food Waikato’s existing spray dryer at the business park.

The new dryer will be operational by February.

The Melody Dairies investors are Pamu, formerly Landcorp, with 35 per cent, Nu-Mega Ingredients, a company owned by Australian listed Clover Corporation, also with 35 per cent, Dairy Nutraceuticals with 20 per cent, and Food Waikato with a 10 per cent share.

Pamu is a shareholder in Spring Sheep Milk, the biggest customer of the existing dryer at the park.

Spring Sheep has said the global sheep milk industry was estimated to be worth $US8 billion ($NZ11.6b) at the farm gate and $US30b ($NZ46.86b) at retail.

An ancient milk, it remains popular in Europe, particularly in France, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Sardinia and the Middle East, Spring Sheep said.

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Maui Milk was started to offer alternative milks to people who find cow’s milk hard to digest, a particular issue in Asia, the company said.

Chairman Paul McGilvary said whole milk powder already sold under the Maui brand had been a stepping stone and an expanded product range was always planned.

The company was working on complementary products to sell under its own brand.

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per cent to $417 million, some $7 million more than guidance, of which $132 million was spent on IT systems and $118 million on its mobile network.

It expects to spend about $370 million on capital projects in the 2020 financial year, although that excludes buying spectrum. A key component of that expenditure is building a 5G mobile network, which Hodson said will provide a step-change in the company’s fixed wireless offering.

A major attraction of the upgraded technology is that it allows carriers to offer greater capacity at a lower cost than they can on existing 4G and 4.5G networks.

However, Spark’s plans for an early 5G roll-out suffered a hitch last year when its partner Huawei Technologies was blocked on national security grounds by the Government Communications Security Bureau.

Spark said it’s still working through possible ways to mitigate the intelligence agency’s concerns, but hasn’t decided on whether or when it should put up a new proposal. The telco will use multiple vendors – which is becoming the international norm in adopting

the new technology – and said its plans won’t be affected by whether or not the Chinese company is involved in the network.

The telco’s broadband revenue increased 3 per cent to $685 million, even as it lost a net 5,000 connections, leaving it with 695,000 broadband customers at the end of June. That was largely in copper connections, which dropped 28 per cent to 249,000, while fibre customer numbers rose 29 per cent to 306,000 and its wireless hybrid connections were up 21 per cent at 140,000.

The company ramped up its spending on content rights in the year to support its roll-out of Spark Sport, which it’s showcasing with the lead rights for the Rugby World Cup in October. Spark’s content rights inventory rose to $35 million as at June 30 from $13 million a year earlier.

Spark is still seeking a partner for its earlier foray into online streaming – Lightbox – which needs more investment, especially in content.

The telco’s decline in traditional voice connections continued, down 11 per cent at 417,000, and revenue dropped 16 per cent to $310 million.

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By Paul McBeth Spark New Zealand lifted annual profit 12 per cent as the country’s biggest telecommunications company stripped out costs in its Quantum transformation programme.

Net profit rose to $437 million in the 12 months ended June 30 from $337 million a year earlier, with operating revenue unchanged at $3.53 billion. The telco cut operating spending by 4.3 per cent to $2.44 billion, which helped boost earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and investment income by 11 per cent to $1.09 billion, in line with guidance.

Spark expects to eke out more gains in the current financial year, predicting ebitdai of $1.1-$1.12 billion.

Spark’s three-year Quantum programme introduced the flatter, more autonomous decision-making structure known as Agile. It also aims to simplify services, boost automation and digitisation to cut costs, use the company’s suite of brands more effectively, and sell more higher-margin services to customers. The end goal is to lift ebitdai margin to at least 31 per cent, which it almost reached in the latest year, at 30.9 per cent.

The company’s total mobile revenue grew 2.7 per cent to $1.27 billion, with a 2.4 per cent increase in connections to 2.49 million. Average revenue per user increased 0.6 per cent to $27.41 a month, as gains in pre-paid services offset a contraction in monthly plans.

Chief executive Jolie Hodson, who took over the reins on July 1, said the company outperformed its rivals in mobile, grabbing 60 per cent of the market’s growth in the 2019 financial year.

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Gatley said there is interest from sheep and beef farmers around Taupo, Rotorua and the King Country – but mostly from Waikato dairy cow farmers.

Gatley said the company can supply pregnant ewes during winter so a farm can dry off the cows in autumn and be milking sheep in spring.

Nutricia’s Hoare said his company also aims to engage farmers in the greater Waikato region to help meet demand.

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sumers for toddler formulas based on alternative sources of milk such as sheep and goat milk.

With the planned launch of a full sheep milk product range next year, the search has started for more dairy sheep farmers in the greater Waikato.

Maui Milk, formed five years ago, is seeking new supply within two hours of Hamilton, where its sheep milk is processed at the Waikato Innovation Park.

Maui general manager Peter

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New Zealand’s emerging sheep dairy industry has graduated to the big league with the launch of a sheep milk toddler formula by global food giant Danone.

Nutricia Karicare toddler sheep milk powder will be 100 per cent New Zealand sheep milk from Maui Milk, which operates two farms on the western shores of Lake Taupo.

And Danone plans to launch a full sheep milk formula range next year under the Nutricia brand.

The new toddler formula is currently available only in Australia because of the limited milk supply from the Maui supplier, the company said. Hopefully it would be on New Zealand shelves next year after the full range was launched.

The breakthrough for the Waikato sheep milk processing industry also signals possible significant conversions to sheep milking by dairy farmers, as Maui Milk and Nutricia start a hunt for more supply.

Nutricia ANZ sales director John Hoare said the new offer is a response to growing demand among Australian and New Zealand con-

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Age Concern Ashburton Age Concern’s Committee were delighted to host their many volunteers at a luncheon on Friday August 16, where three retiring 206 Club cooks and helpers were acknowledged. Held at the Seniors Centre this annual event is always a very pleasant and enjoyable occasion.

Our Confident Driving Course to be held on Friday August 23 is fully subscribed and we have a waiting list.

We look forward to welcoming our facilitator, Yvonne Palmer, from Age Concern Canterbury, as well as all attendees.

Yvonne will also be presenting a Home & Personal Safety Course on October 18 at the Seniors Centre. For all enquiries and registrations pertaining to this, please phone Age Concern’s office on 308 6817, or call into 206 Cameron Street.

For all Age Concern’s services – 206 Club, Ladies Exercise Class, Hip Hop for Seniors, Steady as you Go Falls prevention classes, 50 Plus, Courtesy Drivers, Hospital Visiting for out of town patients, Total Mobility cards and assessment, Elder Abuse concerns, your enquiries are welcomed at the office 308 6817.

Ashburton Combined Friendship Club Meeting August 13 President Alister called for a moment’s silence to remember former members Vic Chambers and Evan Voyce who passed away recently.

Our mini speaker was Bill Grant who told us about his farming career in Southland and his later experiences in tourism.

He farmed on his own account with Sandra and became involved in community affairs. He was a very keen stud sheep breeder and was President of the Southland A&P when a Royal Show was held in Invercargill.

They went to a larger farm in the Te Anau district and moved to Queenstown when they retired. Here Bill was driving upper end tourists and VIPs. He met many well-known and important people including senior NZ politicians, well known overseas politicians and the CEOs of world renowned companies.

While Bill did relate one or two anecdotes most of what happened on tour stayed on tour.

Our main speaker was retired St John Ambulance Officer Alan Dick. Alan first joined St John as a ten-year-old in Dunedin and has received his 50 Year award.

He said in the past the prime function of ambulances was to transport the patient as quickly as possible to the nearest hospital or doctor for treatment.

These days ambulances are very well equipped mobile emergency rooms and with profession paramedics can offer the patient a high level of medical treatment immediately.

Alan explained the signs that indicate a heart attack or a stroke and with the aid of a whiteboard explained what might be occurring with the sick person. His best advice was to call 111 promptly to get the specialist equipment of the ambulance and the skill of the paramedic to the sick person quickly.

Meetings second Tuesday of month, Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron St, 9.30am. Visitors welcome.

Phone Alister 307 1207. ashcomboclub@gmail.com

Ashburton Electronic Organ and Keyboard Club August club night Don’s programme was a real crowd pleaser, from Marg (T) playing in, to the ever popular accordion group.

The only trouble was, he was not there to hear it. Hope you are better Don. Also Elizabeth McCormick who was on the programme couldn’t make it, hence the double dip from the accordion group.

We stood in silence for the passing of one of our members, welcomed Alison Shearer as a new member, and a request from Michael who is looking for a keyboard for someone else. Phone 308 8017.

John presented the programme for Don, and Alan Andrews played 3 songs on piano. Tenderly he watches, Moon

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Ashburton Bridge Club Here is a deal that presents a very real challenge for the East West partnership.

Because of the extreme distribution they can make 6 Hearts very nicely, but how are they going to bid it with West’s 8 high card points, and East’s 13?

North South will undoubtedly compete in Spades – South may even make a pre-emptive 3 Spade bid over dealer, East’s 1 Heart opening bid.

Now West needs to revalue his hand with 2 singletons and 6 card support for partner’s Hearts.

Should North South bid on to 4 Spades and be doubled for penalties it is nothing like the score East West would have had if they had pressed on in Hearts to either 5 or perhaps 6.

South, with the opening lead, will, of course, lead the Spade Ace. But if for some unexplained reason a Spade is not led, look what will happen!

East will pitch his one and only losing Spade on the Diamond Ace and actually make 7 Hearts – 13 tricks in total.

What a result that would be! river and Now is the hour which according to the score he played from is not a New Zealand song as many believe.

It was written by someone in Australia.

The accordion group then played their usual rollicking numbers. Our newest member was thrown in there I see. (Alison plays piano also).

We don’t waste any talent at our place.

Honestly, you could take this lot anywhere and you’d love them.

Then Alison and Irene popped out of the accordion group and gave us a selection on piano and accordion. Well done ladies.

Owen Guy, Bev French, Alan Andrews, and Jill Ward took the raffles home.

Bev and her jokes. Be careful when you purchase a parrot (or two).

Rose and Audrey, back at the piano again after a brief spell away. Good as ever. Four hands and twenty digits gave us Playful Rondo Hungarian Dance No6 and Trepak.

The accordion group rounded the evening off. Well done Don. Thank you John Metcalf, Grahame Stevens, and Morris for serving supper.

Ashburton Golf Club Winter hit hard the last two weekends down at the Brandon.

A fortnight ago six players braved the morning rain and 10 players set off in the afternoon.

Sixteen players constitutes a game, so the Brandon cup second round took place. Sean Strange shot a great 79 gross for a wonderful 42 points, playing through the wind and rain in shorts and a singlet, the young lad comes from tough stock.

That round gave him 80 points after 2 rounds and a whopping 9 point lead over his nearest rivals. I think the third round would have been a formality, but alas, the rain gods flooded the course.

We had to look into it, and a seldom used rule where the best looking player to play in both rounds was invoked, and another trophy now sits on my shelf.

Better luck next year Sean.

This Saturday we have the final qualifying round for club champs, stroke round off the blue tees. With three of the four grades oversubscribed, this is your last chance to get into the top 16 or bump yourself up the rankings for when the match play games start in two weeks’ time.

Matt has got all the previous scores, if you are unsure where you sit in the pecking order. Again, if you cannot make yourself available for all the club champs dates, please let Matt know so you do not get put in the draw.

Saturday week it’s one of Matt’s Pro shop days and we are again going to attempt to play the Don Houghton Trophy, this will be the third time of asking to get this played, due to bad weather, so please come down next Saturday to support Matt and celebrate one of our great club legends.

On the sponsors front, many thanks go to Rothbury Insurance for their continued support, for our nearest the Pin prizes. They have sponsored this for as long as I can remember, it’s wonderful to see such great backing for our club. Give the lovely girls and boys at Rothbury a shout for all your insurance needs.

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Brian touched on some of the comical incidents he encountered as well as the grimmer side of the job, including the We started this month looking at sharpsometimes life threatening. ness and composition. Having this right After tea break our main speaker was Dawill enable us to take better photovid Clarke, President of Mid Canterbury graphs.

Federated Farmers. David came from Members also headed off to Akaroa for a farming background, his grandfather a fieldtrip, stopping at several locations running a dairy and honey farm in the those that attended reporting having early 1900s. a very enjoyable time, apart from the He was raised on their South Auckland weather of course. farm where he took up contract fencing We also have the results for the Second and hay making. In 1994 the farm was Open A Grade Digital Acceptance sold and they moved to the South Island Bill Cabout “Dawn over Molesworth” and and purchased the remnants of the Val“Wood Pigeon”, Carol Efford “Blaketown etta Estate where he took up cropping Sunset”, David Oakley “Jacks Point lightand sheep. house” and “Thinking in the Fog”, Haley Over the past 50 years he has seen exFisher “Echium Vulgare”, Lester Hurst ponential changes, especially in ma“Light Painting” and “Orangutan”, Maria chinery and technology. In 2010 he reChamberlain “Open Wide”, Nel Davison moved shelter belts and switched from “In the Moment”, “Monty!!” and “Oh ... rota-rainer irrigation to pivot.

That’s Wet!” With increased production he then had A Grade Digital Honours to improve his farm technology and beCindy Lovett “Floating Water Vessel”, gan this in 2008 with an imported Case Haley Fisher “Watching the Sunset”, header.

Megan Ellis “Best Friends” He has continued upgrading his gear B Grade Digital Acceptance since, and combined with GPS has vastly Anita Badger “Lady Elizabeth” and “Sailincreased his farm efficiency and capacboats”, Anna McGregor “Morning Glory”, ity as well as better environmental susAnnette Whyte “Do You Think She Spottainability. ted Us?”, Dale Abbott “Punakaiki StarIn the future he sees further exponenfish” and “Shockwave”, Maddison Whyte tial change in technology which he em“Neon HulaHoop”, Malcolm Whyte braces. His main worry is anti-farming “Frangipani Portrait” and “Mission To overseas internationals threatening our Paradise”, Michelle Walker “Cascade” industry with forestry conversions and and “Hot Spring Jewel” spreading mis-information about the B Grade Digital Honours environmental effects of conventional Annette Whyte “On Watch”, Maree farming.

Hunter “Bright White” Questions followed and Barry Quantock A Grade Print Acceptance thanked our speaker.

David Oakley “Snowed Over”, Gaynor Hurst “Pure Bliss”, Haley Fisher Mid Canterbury Ladies “Busy Bumblebee” and “Embracing the Friendship Club Evening Autumn Light”, Jess ChamberThe August meeting of the Mid Canterlain “Irishman Creek Roadman’s Hut”, bury Ladies Friendship Club was held Maria Chamberlain “Tunnel Beach, recently. President Avis Kingsland welDunedin”, Nel Davison “Alaskan Eagle” comed members, the National Anthem A Grade Print Honours was sung, and birthdays and anniversaCindy Lovett “Ripping up the Paddock”, ries were celebrated.

Megan Ellis ”Fighting for the Same Food“ Members stood as a mark of respect for B Grade Print Acceptance Lorraine Pringle who had passed away Lori Rusbatch “A Long Walk” recently. Almoner Ann McKay gave a reWell done to all members and apologies port. Christmas Lunch was discussed to for the delay in printing these results. be at Sheffield this year.

The mid-winter lunch was being held at Mid Canterbury Central Geraldine after the meeting, so the proFriendship Club gramme consisted of Show and Tell by President Russell welcomed 72 memmembers. bers to our August meeting and inductSo many members are talented. Val ed two new members. The bus trip to showed her dolls, embroidery, cross Timaru Brewery is going ahead and will stitch and painting. Margaret displayed leave from Ashburton Hotel car park at a quilt and a Russian craft cushion done 10.30am on August 27. in cross stitch. Ann showed a jersey croBrian Goodwin was our mini speaker. Bricheted in 1992. Susan loves colouring in an was raised on a family farm at Oakuand showed some of the results. Marion ra in Taranaki where his father supplied had done a rat’s tail. Margaret displayed cream to the local dairy factory. paper tole and cards. Val showed emHe spent a happy childhood there, ocbroidery, tatting and tapestry, Julie had cupied with fishing, hunting, sport and been knitting rugs and Dot book binding. schooling up to School Cert.

The raffle was drawn, Avis gave a readAfter leaving school he worked on the ing, there was morning tea before the farm until in 1969 aged 21 he joined the bus arrived. The thought for the month police force in New Plymouth. He was was “gratitude is a powerful catalyst for then posted to Christchurch and after happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire two years on the beat he trained for the of joy in your soul” by Amy Collette.

CIB. In 1974 he qualified as a detective while MSA Outdoor Bowling at the same time playing basketball at Club rep level. He married an Ashburton girl at Another successful winter bowls season Tinwald in 1978. is coming to an end with Closing Day set He was transferred to Hawera in Taranaki down for Wednesday, August 28 with the in 1979 where he remained for 7 years. mats being lifted on Thursday August 29.

In 1986 he was promoted to Senior SerThroughout the winter good numbers of geant and moved to Ashburton.

Ashburton Guardian 13 players have supported the Wednesday and Saturday competitions.

Competition winners have been Kennedy Trophy R. Petrie, J. Argyle, J. Moffatt.

Whittakers Trophy best bowler August 7 Terry Caldwell.

We had Richmond Club visit and played the first round of our annual Williams Rosebowl Tournament which sees Richmond leading 5 games to 4, 37 ends to 36 with Ashburton leading the points 74 to 67.

The next round will be in Christchurch Sunday August 25.

Opening day for the summer season has been set for Saturday September 14, 1pm whites to be worn and a plate for afternoon tea. Games will be played weather permitting.

Members are urged to attend and bring a friend. Green keeper Tony Inwood has done a great job on the green over the winter preparing the green which will be busy early in the season with Friday Triples.

September September 20, in house Ted Peck Trophy Saturday September 21, and our annual Open. Peters Cup Tournament SundaySeptember 22.

Anyone wanting to have a go at bowls warmly welcomed at Racecourse Road.

Good Bowling.

Netherby Women’s Institute Trevor Gamblin was the guest speaker at our August meeting attended by 25 members.

It was a very interesting and informative talk and demonstration on how to take cuttings from plants and propagate them using the right products.

Although fuchsia are his passion – he is now Patron of the NZ Fuchsia Society – he was only too happy to share his knowledge of plants with us.

He very kindly donated some cuttings for our Sales Table as well as the Raffle.

Our meeting started with the Aspirations being recited together.

Roll Call was Coins for Friendship.

Golden Threads was read by a member who told us some blonde jokes.

Happy Birthday was sung to three members, one of which was turning 80.

Raffle was won by Glenda Monk and the plants by Valmai Mitchell.

Competitions were well supported with the Moylan Trophy being won by Valmai Mitchell and the Northchurch by Catherine Thomas.

Several activities are happening in the next few weeks. The Mid Canterbury Federation’s annual bowls prelims on Friday August 30 as well as the Half Yearly meeting at Rakaia on Friday September 27.

The highlight for us is our annual Home Industries Show on September 9 at the Seniors Centre.

Members from other Institutes in the area have been invited.

The Lions Club of Ashburton August 2019 Following the rather hectic schedule involved in the Big Smoke v Rural Folk Team Challenge and Auction which raised over $30,000, it has been a relatively quiet period in terms of club activity. On the immediate radar, are the Vintage Car Club Rallies catering, the Truck Show catering and gate keeping, and raffle selling for the very popular playhouse.

Planning for the South Island Motorhome Show under the direction of Convenor Brendan Quinn, is already underway. The event will be held over the weekend of February 29 - March 1, 2020.

Upcoming events include a planned partner’s night at our September meeting, Wednesday September 4, at Hotel Ashburton. Our club is looking into interest to attend the Simon O’Neill/Woolston Brass Band concert on Sunday November 10. Numbers interested will be sought at the next Lions meeting. Interest into another excursion to Dot’s Castle, Oamaru will also be discussed. Boulevard Day Monday September 23, Lions will be in attendance to sell the Playhouse Raffle and cater with the Club’s Food trailer.

Our annual Golf Tournament is on Thursday October 17, at the Ashburton Golf Course.

Short report this month but there is a lot going on behind the scenes and a lot coming up.

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RESULTS ■■ Golf Ashburton Rifle Club August 19 Abbey Calder 72.1, Allan Mitchell 96.4, Garth Wright 82.0, James Storey 93.4, Lachlan Storey 73.0, Leo Wildey 90.1, Murray Cook 94.2, 91.3, Paul Fletcher 92.2, Sam Lovett 95.3, Zoe Sargent 73.0, Taylah Geddes 81.0, Quinn Geddes 81.0.

Mayfield Ladies Golf August 20 Town verse Country Stableford Teams Close Battle, Country won 28.8 , Town 28.5 Marilyn Cross 2nd Shot 2&11 Grade 0-29 Lal Mulligan 30+ Alison Vessey. Sims Bakery No 5 Nearest the Pin Christine Ross. Mr Manns Bakery And Café No14 Not Struck

Tinwald Golf Club August 20 Stroke Mara Kennedy 76, Maree Moore 77 c/b, Barb Cochrane 77 9 Hole Competition Stablefored Teresa O’Connell 16 Nearest the Pin: Murray Young Property Broker (2nd Shot) #2 Judith Smith, Sims Bakery #6 Sue Gutsell, Mac & Maggie #12 Not Struck, Outdoor Adventure (2nd Shot) #16 Kirsty McAuliffe.

Hardy souls brave the testing elements A few hardy souls from Run and Walk Ashburton braved the conditions and headed up the road to race the 58th annual Governors Bay to Lyttelton 10km road race on Saturday. Those taking part, and the times they finished in, were (from left) Ian Broadbelt in 47.29 minutes, Jeremy Hayes in 40.48 minutes, Joe Ford in 40.25 minutes, Ben Ford in 38.44 minutes, and Alison Conway in 55.14 minutes.

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After his fight at UFC 234 in February, Kiwi flyweight Kai Kara-France was unsure where his future lay in the UFC. The division appeared to be at a crossroads; the roster size was dwindling and the flyweight champion, Henry Cejudo, had his sights set on the bantamweight division (61.2kg).

After winning his first two bouts since signing with the UFC last year, Kara-France was preparing to follow Cejudo into the bantamweight realm. But while rehabilitating a wrist injury, he got the call; the flyweight divi-

sion (56.6kg) was alive and well, and he would be fighting Mark de la Rosa in China on August 31.

“For a little while we weren’t sure if I’d have to move up to bantamweight so I was hitting the weights hard and eating all my meals,” Kara-France explained. “But as soon as I got the call I had to stop all of that straight away and start making that cut.”

The 26-year-old is no stranger to the Chinese stage, having fought there plenty of times during his 27-fight professional career. He heads into the bout after a six-month lay-off in which he focused on letting his wrist heal

as best as it could.

The injury limited him in his February bout against Raulian Paiva after he aggravated it after a stroke inside the opening minutes of the fight and was forced to adjust.

Known for his ability to knock opponents out, Kara-France was hoping to make a statement against de la Rosa after going the distance in his first two UFC bouts.

De la Rosa is 2-2 in the UFC and comes into the bout in China on the back of a loss. He’s proven to be a dangerous opponent, particularly if the fight goes to the mat, with six of his

■■RUGBY LEAGUE

Cowboys great Matt Scott suffered stroke after game NZME Retiring North Queensland Cowboys forward Matt Scott has been hospitalised after suffering a stroke on Sunday.

The team confirmed the news with a statement on their website with Scott still in hospital recovering.

“North Queensland Toyota Cowboys prop Matt Scott suffered a mild stroke on Sunday,” the statement read.

“Doctors are confident the stroke was unrelated to football and he is expected to make a full recovery.

“The retiring Cowboys legend remains in hospital in Brisbane and a Townsville re-

turn date remains unclear.

“The Cowboys will continue to provide Matt and his family all possible support and the club would ask media to respect the privacy of the Scott family during this time.”

Scott, 34, announced his NRL career would come to an end following the 2019 season. He has spent his entire 16 seasons as a member of the Cowboys after making his debut in round 19, 2004.

The Cowboys take on the Penrith Panthers on Friday night before finishing their home and away season with games against the Canterbury Bulldogs and Melbourne Storm.

Ashburton Golf Club August 24 Weekend ladies Rnd 3 Truman Trophy, Rnd 2 Tucker Salver Report 8.15am for 8.45 start Convenor S Bradford 0211590983 August 27 Mid-Week ladies Rnd 3 Truman Trophy, Rnd 2 Tucker Salver Report 9.30am for 10.00 start Starters M Watson, D Hinton August 29 Nine hole Men and Women Rnd 5 Medal - Stroke Secretary M Morgan 0279645380 Club Captain S Lemon 0274054910

11 career wins coming by way of submission.

“I’m not going to rush anything,” Kara-France said. “I’m just going to feel it out and see what Mark wants to do and go from there. I’m ready to go wherever this fight goes. My cardio’s where it should be so once I see an opening I’m going to keep the pressure on until I break him.

“I know the style of fights the Chinese people like. It’s that stand up, high intensity, action packed style and if you see my track record, that’s my style.

“I feel like I’m going to bring the best Kai that the UFC have seen yet.”

Tinwald Golf Club August 27 Women’s Division Bisque par 9 holes bisque par Starters J. Bruhns C. Shanks Cards M Kennedy K. McAuliffe Draw steward J. Bruhns

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

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■■CRICKET

‘No-brainer’: Steve Smith ruled out of Ashes test NZME

Mid Canterbury swimmers in action at the weekend were (back, from left): Logan Scammell, Bailey Tait, Blake Farr, Bree Middleton, Mitchell Veix and (front) Hannah King.

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■■ SWIMMING

Small team makes big swims Six Mid Canterbury swimmers have returned from a weekend in Dunedin where they were busy battling it out for South Island titles.

It was a relatively small contingent from the Ashburton Swim Team, but they produced some big swims at the South Island Championships at Moana Pool.

Bree Middleton came home

with an impressive haul of medals, coming in first in the 400m freestyle and taking the open title, as well as taking out the 800m freestye and 1500m freestyle, and finishing third in the 50m freestyle.

Hannah King won a medal of each colour, taking out the 800m freestyle, coming second in the 400m individual medley and third in the 200m breaststroke,

and it was a similar story for Mitchell Veix.

Veix took a first, second and two thirds, winning gold in the 200m butterfly, silver in the 100m butterfly, and bronze in the 400m freestyle and 50m butterfly.

Blake Farr rounded out the podium finishes, taking bronze in the 200m freestyle.

The South Island Champion-

ships attracted more than 250 swimmers from clubs across the South Island, all looking to reign supreme, and they competed over six sessions from Friday through to Sunday.

For many of the swimmers, the South Island Championships were a vital part of their build-up to the short course nationals which are being held in Auckland in early October.

Australia will be without batsman Steve Smith for the third Ashes test against England because of a concussion.

On the fourth day of the second test on Saturday, Smith had to leave the field after being hit on the neck by a fast, sharply rising delivery from Jofra Archer.

Tests were conducted before Smith was allowed to return to complete his innings.

Smith complained of headaches later Saturday and was ruled out of the remainder of the match after displaying concussion symptoms.

Australia coach Justin Langer says Smith “felt a bit better yesterday but he is not going to have time enough to tick off everything he needs to do to be ready to play.”

“He was probably a couple of days off being fit,” Langer said.

“It was really a no-brainer.

“Like all players, he wants to play – but he understands as well he’s not 100 per cent yet.”

Langer likened Smith’s omission to England paceman Jimmy Anderson’s calf injury but backed his charges to “fill what is almost unfillable shoes”.

Australia leads the series 1-0.

Steve Smith

■■RUGBY

World Cup warning: All Blacks’ rivals go to extreme lengths NZME While the All Blacks brave New Zealand’s wet weather, their top opponents are getting a head start in the heat to prepare for the Rugby World Cup. Japan’s climate is set to provide unique challenges for players at this year’s pinnacle event, with stifling, sweaty conditions expected throughout.

With this in mind, Wales have continued their preparations with a gruelling training camp in Turkey as they aim to get into peak condition for the global showpiece.

The squad, who have recent-

ly risen to the top of the world rankings, are being put through their paces up to three times a day in temperatures reaching 40 degrees.

Wales head coach Warren Gatland said it was all part the plan to ensure his side were prepared for the gruelling heat which awaits.

“Our second camp is our warm-weather camp, we will be based over in Turkey, putting the players through heat stress, preparing them for the conditions in Japan,” he said.

Ireland have been put through a similar training camp in Portugal, where temperatures have

reached 30 degrees in recent days, with players even training in plastic vests to increase the amount they sweat.

Head coach Joe Schmidt didn’t take the squad on a warm-weather camp before the last World Cup but believed the climate will play more of a role at this tournament.

Ireland captain Rory Best agreed the camp would be an important piece in their preparation and told the Independent it was a good way to eliminate distractions.

“It’s a good opportunity to work hard in some fairly hot conditions,” he said. “The down

days are brilliant, to get away.

Some boys will go to the beach and some will play golf. Some will just hang around somewhere.”

Meanwhile, the All Blacks will be forced to endure the cold for a little while longer with their final pre-World Cup test against Tonga in Hamilton.

The side will then have just two weeks before they kick off their World Cup campaign against the Springboks.

According to Tokyo-based dermatologist Tomoko Fujimoto, it could be to their disadvantage.

“Athletes, especially those coming from overseas to this

high temperature, high humidity environment, need to train one to two months in advance to avoid experiencing heatstroke,” Fujimoto told Reuters.

“So, it makes sense that they come early to get used to the environment.

“It is a burden for your body if you move to a location where there is a very different average temperature.

“It is possible that unless you are prepared enough, the (sweat) glands will not be working properly by the time of a match.”

The All Blacks will face Tonga on September 7 before departing for Japan.

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■■FOOTBALL

MCUFC in with a chance at title The Mid Canterbury United Football Club seniors will play a rare mid-week game tonight in a bid to secure the Division 1 title.

Once the working day is done for most of the players they will pack up their kitbags and head up State Highway 1 to Rolleston’s Foster Park to play against Nomads United AFC. The game was deferred to tonight after heavy rain forced the postponement of their game several weeks ago.

The goal for Mid Canterbury will be a simple one if they want to lift the Division 1 title, needing a victory by any margin.

They currently sit tied on points and goal difference with the Halswell United 1964s, but have this game in hand to put themselves ahead.

Mid Canterbury come in to the game off the back of a dominant victory on Saturday, completely obliterating the Burnham Football Club Bobcats 13-0 in Burnham.

Luke Martin was on target, scoring seven of those goals, while Jamie Smitheram also produced a solid performance and nabbed a brace.

At centre half Stan Poki Poki got two goals, while Millar McLauchlan and Nick Campbell added one each.

The game kicks off at 7.30pm at Foster Park in Rolleston.

Right – The Mid Canterbury United Football Club seniors will be hoping that striker Luke Martin can carry his strong goal scoring form over to their title deciding clash tonight after he bagged seven goals on Saturday.

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■■SHOOTING

Successful trip north for Mid Canty target shooters Eight members of the Target Shooting Mid Canterbury team made the most of a trip over the Cook Strait, bringing home a set of excellent results for the North vs South Shoot in Petone.

Record scores were posted both by individuals and from team results.

The South Island managed to take a hard fought win in the veterans’ match, but were narrowly beaten in the juniors.

The North Island also took honours in the women’s (with record scores), inaugural men’s match and in the open match.

Emma Smith (394.19) set the pace and acquitted herself brilliantly in the junior match, shooting two possibles (100s) to receive New Zealand honours for the first time.

She backed this up with a good performance in the New Zealand match (293) on Sunday, and she also scored creditably in the women’s match on Saturday.

Colin Taylor, in his first appearance at this level of competition, held his nerve and put all his excellent preparation to good use, finishing with 389.14 and earning himself a Silver Fern.

He was also part of the only South Island team to take honours over the North for the weekend.

TJ Stewart (SI Men) showed patches of what he is capable of and Nina McKenzie (SI Women) was steady but with a slightly widened group, neither quite achieved what they were after.

Steve McArthur (SI Men and SI Open Captain), who has had a rugged campaign with broken gear that necessitated major changes six weeks out, shot brilliantly in the men’s match to top score for the South (396.26) and book his spot in the New Zealand Men’s

team, where he performed well (293).

Sandy Bennett (SI Women and SI Open) shot creditably in both matches, with a pair of 391s and was just shy of NZ team qualification in both matches.

Charlotte McKenzie (SI Juniors) in her first appearance at this level, showed real steel on the mound and pushed hard for NZ inclusion, finishing 13th for a 12 person NZ Junior (U21) team.

Shania Harrison-Lee (SI Junior Captain, SI Women and SI Open) had a stellar weekend.

She top scored in the Inter-Island Junior match (396.24) and again as captain of the NZ Junior team (299).

In the women’s match (397.27) she top scored for the SI Women, and was second top performer in the NZ Women’s match (299), for the Inter-Island Open match (399.27).

She top scored again, to claim the honour of being named the NZ Open Team Captain on Sunday.

Over the course of the weekend, she completed 22 targets and finished with 2184/2200, meaning her average for the weekend was 99.27.

The team are now looking forward to completing their NDC (National District Championship) final against Auckland next week; completing the Candyman Cup match (Top NI Association team vs Top SI Island Association team).

The Ashburton College’s NZ Secondary Schools’ Championship team will consist of members from the Target Shooting Mid Canterbury team as well as others who will travel to Wellington at the end of September, where they will be among the favourites for national secondary honours.

Shania Harrison-Lee with her trophy haul from the North vs South Shoot in the Hutt Valley over the weekend.

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■■GOLF

Honeymoon over for Ryan Fox

By Matt Brown NZME

Top Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox jets off to London tonight with two major goals between now and the end of the European Tour season.

A month long break in New Zealand has the 32-year-old optimistic he can secure his place in the Race to Dubai season finale and a captain’s pick in Ernie Els’ team for the President’s Cup at Royal Melbourne in December.

Fox finished tied for 16th at the British Open last month, his best result in a major. It rejuvenated him after a lean period following his honeymoon in March where he had missed seven straight cuts after the Malaysian Open including the US Open and PGA Championship.

“It was certainly nice to come home on a high,” Fox said. “I was always planning on having a break after the Open and not playing as poorly as I did in the lead up. It felt like it was a reset after that, I could come home, play some golf and be ready for the rest of the season.”

That rest of the season includes a handful of lucrative Rolex Series events, and if he plays well enough to boost his ranking (currently 104), a spot at the WGC-HSBC Champions tournament in China.

Fox took six weeks off early in the season soon after winning his first European Tour title in Perth where he got married and honeymooned in South Africa. The extended break impacted on his form when he returned. So he changed things up after returning home following his success at

Ryan Fox plays the 15th hole during a practice round for the 2019 US Open. the British Open.

“I took the first week off after the Open. But the theory after the honeymoon that I would take a lot of time off and cram the last couple of weeks didn’t work as well as I had hoped, so I have sort of done more little and often this time, gone out and played every day for the last three weeks or at least three or four times a week and I spent a lot time with Marcus (Wheelhouse his coach).

“I wouldn’t say I’ve done a massive amount of practice but that is more weather based than anything else. The golf game feels in pretty good shape and I still have a few days in London where the weather forecast is great and then a few days in Switzerland before the European Masters next week.”

Fox is 54th in the European Tour standings with the top 50 at the end of the season qualifying

for the lucrative Tour finale in Dubai. “So I have a little bit of work to do. One of the major goals is to win again and if I do that I will certainly take care of that final series. Everything needs a little bit of improvement, you are always looking at the little one percenters. I have been working on my short game with Marcus back here, my putting has been letting me down a little bit.”

The eight automatic picks were

confirmed this week for the international team for December’s President’s Cup in Melbourne.

Captain Ernie Els has four captain’s picks and is sure to hand one of those to Australian former world number one Jason Day. So with three spots up for grabs does Fox still have a chance?

“Obviously I missed the boat there and had a lot of big events to try to get in the top eight and I have only myself to blame there.

But it still remains a big goal and would be something pretty special at the end of the year with at least a win and some decent results to make a push. Having played Royal Melbourne a lot might count a little bit but I would still have to be in red hot form to warrant a pick from Ernie.”

Next week’s European Masters in Switzerland marks the start of a huge few months fore the Kiwi number one. And if nothing else he feels mentally and physically in a much better space than he was in this time last year.

“The goal this year was to make sure I didn’t crash and burn at the end of the season and I certainly feel better than I did last season.

It’s certainly nice to have two decent breaks during the year and hopefully I come back from this break a little better than I did the last one and make a big push towards the Presidents Cup and the top 50 in the world.”

Fox intends on playing all the big events and some smaller tournaments in between with the view to play two weeks on and one off through to the end of the season.

■■RUGBY

Why Wales deserve No. 1 spot over All Blacks NZME Give Warren Gatland his due for lifting Welsh rugby out of a hole.

That’s the message from WalesOnline rugby writer Simon Thomas after Gatland’s side supplanted the All Blacks at No. 1 in the world rugby rankings.

Thomas also expressed a cautious optimism about Wales’ World Cup prospects in Japan under their longtime New Zealand coach, saying a triumph was “not impossible”.

Gatland had taken the new world ranking with a “pinch of salt,” Thomas told the Radio Sport Breakfast.

“Often being No. 1 doesn’t mean you are going to win the World Cup. He knows there are massive challenges ahead, there’s still work to do to challenge for the trophy,” Thomas said.

“But considering Wales were No. 10 when Warren Gatland took over in 2008, it’s a pretty massive achievement.

“We may have not beaten New

Warren Gatland Zealand since 1953, but we’re finally ahead of you in something in rugby.”

The proud moment for Wales has been tempered by bad news on the injury front, with first fiveeighths Gareth Anscombe and No. 8 Taulupe Faletau ruled out

of the World Cup, which starts in four weeks’ time.

“A lot of people have got issues with the world rankings. It looks a bit odd … how can New Zealand drop in the week they beat Australia 36 – 0?,” Thomas said.

“But it’s not about one day, it’s

an accumulation of results. Wales have won 15 of the last 16 games they played. In that time they’ve beaten South Africa and Australia which New Zealand hasn’t done on every occasion. It’s a reward for excellence.”

Wales will be expected to emerge from their World Cup group, which includes Australia, Georgia, Fiji and Uruguay. But their record is very disappointing since finishing third in the inaugural tournament, in 1987.

Thomas said a lack of depth was often Wales’ undoing in the World Cup, and Gatland had addressed that situation by building depth in every position.

But certain players including captain Alun Wyn Jones and No. 10 Dan Biggar were almost irreplaceable.

Biggar and Anscombe had been used as a tag team, with the Kiwi providing the early thrust and Biggar guiding Wales home in games.

Wales were now very thin at No. 10 because of Anscombe’s injury,

and he was also set to figure at fullback in the tournament.

The injury situation meant the two remaining warm-up games against Ireland were a double edge sword.

“There is now a lot of burden and responsibility on Biggar but the one thing you would say about him is he is the ultimate competitor, hugely resilient, hugely brave, and makes the absolute most of his ability,” Thomas said.

“Every extra game is an injury risk … but traditionally Wales are slow starters in campaigns.

They are a team that builds so the warm ups are very beneficial so long as we stay injury free.

“A week later they were a very different side (in the second game against England) with greater physical intensity, the work at the breakdown, ability to slow the ball down.

“England had a monstrous pack, one of the biggest I’ve seen come to Cardiff … but they really got on top of England in that game.”

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Battle on for Group One Glory

By Michael Guerin Travelling 2624kms is a long way to go to drag race your stablemate up a short straight in search of group one glory.

But that is the unusual situation Zeuss Bromac and Perfect Stride find themselves in in the $A300,000 Breeders Crown juvenile boy’s final at Melton on Saturday night.

Of course Zeuss Bromac and Perfect Stride aren’t technically stablemates. The former is the first horse trained by young gun driver Zac Butcher while Perfect Stride is trained by Ray Green.

But Butcher actually works for Green and his Lincoln Farm’s bosses so Zeuss Bromac is trained at the same stable, eats the same food and basically lives the same stable life. Butcher, as the stable driver, has even driven Perfect Stride in his ealry races.

And yet here they are two unlikely favourites in one of the richest juvenile pacing races in the world.

Perfect Stride only ended up at the Crown after a mid-season lull that saw him left with petrol in the tank to race into August and is owned by huge-spending NSW couple Emilio and Mary Rosati, who are never scared to travel their horses to the best races.

Zeuss Bromac is an even more unlikely Crown story, being a maiden in June and Butcher’s first horse.

But since arriving in Australia, together naturally, they have both been very good in their heats and semi finals of the Crown and then their chances got massive boosts at Saturday night’s barrier draw where Perfect Stride drew the ace and Zeuss Bromac barrier four.

Zachary Butcher and Zeuss Bromac will shoot for Breeders Crown glory this weekend.

That suits both as Perfect Stride, even though he led to win his semi final, is a better follower and Zeuss Bromac is the stronger horse better suited to leading and rolling.

So there is a very real chance the two South Auckland babies could end up lead-trail in the group one and while they will still have to stave off high-class local Be Happy Mach, he has the handicap of starting from the outside

of the second line.

“I think if they lead and trail, which would probably be ideal, then they are going to give the locals a good go,” said Green, who won the Crown two years ago with King Of Swing.

“I’d love to win it again and it would be great for Emilio and Mary because they put so much money into the game.

“But I honestly think our best chance is trailing because he

loafs a bit when he leads but he sprints very sharply coming off another horse’s back.

“Would we beat Zac’s horse coming off his back up the sprint lane at Melton? I think we would go close. I’d love to think so.

“But if we had to get beat, and I don’t want to, there is nobody I’d rather lose to,” laughs Green.

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came more evident and while Be Happy Mach is enormously better performed than the Kiwis, Breeders Crown are notoriously hard to win sitting parked when the other favourites lead and trail.

So the two South Auckland unofficial stablemates could be each others greatest ally on Saturday night. Right up until they become each others greatest rival.

Promising dawn to new season for Ritchie NZ Racing Desk Promising galloper Dawn Patrol made a pleasing start to the new season for trainer Frank Ritchie, deadheating his 880m trial with Magnum at Te Rapa on Tuesday.

“I was happy with that,” Ritchie said. “He is a bit burly and the track was hard work, he had a real blow afterwards too. I am pleased with him, he will improve a lot obviously.”

Dawn Patrol won two of his six starts last season and placed in three stakes races, including a runner-up performance in the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

However, the son of Dawn Approach rounded-out his season on a sour note after finishing eighth over 1400m at Te Aroha, his only unplaced run of the season.

“He didn’t pull up well after that run,” he said. “We couldn’t get him to recover enough, so we just gave him a long spell, and he came out of that alright. Hopefully we can turn the page.”

Ritchie is also hoping that early signs of mental maturity will transfer to the track on race day.

“One of his other problems is

Dawn Patrol shortly before his trial at Te Rapa on Tuesday. that he is a bit aggressive,” Ritchie said. “Sometimes he wants to overdo it, even with a race with pace, he can get on the bit.

“He’s a bit older this time and

even in his track work he seems to be a little more mellow. That will have a huge impact on his ability to perform better if he just waits for the call to go rather than go at

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will.” Ritchie is looking forward to his first-up run next month, but said he will wait to find out his ideal distance before making any stakes plans.

“He will be starting at Auckland on the 7th (of September) in the (rating) 82 1200m. We will plan from there.

“Because he didn’t finish his season off I didn’t get a chance to see what his most appropriate distance was.

“It would be nice if he could get a mile. He ran second in the 2000 Guineas, but that would probably be his maximum trip anyway.”

Ritchie also lined-up Group Three winner Fiscal Fantasy who also dead-heated her 1100m heat with the Richard Collett-trained Sweet Clementine.

“She trialled terrific,” he said.

“She is a little sweetheart, she does everything right. It was a lovely trial. She will also run at Auckland on the 7th over 1600m.”

A Group One tilt could be next for the daughter of Skilled, however, Ritchie said there would need to be a significant attrition rate for Fiscal Fantasy to head to Hastings for the Livamol Classic (2040m).

“She is in the Livamol, but there would probably need to be some misfortune for a couple of the hot shots,” he said.

“There are races suitable for her throughout the summer.”

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NZ Metro harness Today at Addington Raceway

NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club Inc Venue: Addington Meeting Date: 22 August 2019 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 5.10pm (NZT) THANKS FOR 10 YEARS MARK MCNAMARA MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ r40-r52, up-r69 +claimer., mobile, 1980m 1 37670 Zulu Courage (1) fr.........................R Reekie 2 20638 Koromiko Eyre (2) fr...................... B Wilmott 3 x4453 Barkley (3) fr....................................N Munro 4 18537 Bettor Rock Again (4) fr................ R Sissons 5 56433 Kruizr (5) fr........................................S Wigg 6 66000 Den’s Legacy (6) fr......................M Stratford 7 12570 Alexy (7) fr...................................M Maynard 8 81868 Aveross Ferrari (8) fr.........................C Wigg 9 48505 Paul’s Verdict (9) fr............................ W Low 10 62222 Russian Express (21) fr.....................A Edge 2 5.40pm HIGHVIEW TOMMY - OUTSTANDING VALUE AT $1500 PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2600m 1 09708 I Can Remember (1) fr............... K Cameron 2 4974x Lucy’s Badboy (2) fr...................K O’Connor 3 Prodigal Guinness (3) fr.................... J Dunn 4 Good Day Sunshine (4) fr 5 9x053 It’s Me (5) fr........................................ R May 6 Lennox Bromac (6) fr 7 32642 Reflectionsofmylife (7) fr................. T Chmiel 8 Mighty Reactor (8) fr............... M Williamson 9 34x3 Ascalabus (9) fr.................................J Keast 10 44x47 Duke (10) fr................................... B Orange 11 Conquer Me (11) fr........................R Holmes 12 6 Street Appeal (12) fr........................ G Smith 13 Emmersyn Lee (13) fr......................J Curtin 14 5 Pocket Watch (14) fr.................. M Anderson 15 45000 Tiger Moth (U1) fr................... J Morrison (J)

M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 22 August, 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 4.18pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C3, 295m 1 12555 Broken Penniless 17.40.................... G Cleeve 2 21188 Mulberry Minx 17.34........................K Cassidy 3 27756 Goldstar Spotty 17.31 S &..................B Evans 4 14386 Homebush Rehaina nwtd............ J McInerney 5 34581 King Kali 17.19................................... M Grant 6 11764 Regal Jock nwtd.......................... J McInerney 7 45613 Call Me Joe 17.31.......................A Botherway 8 24861 Hear This 17.30.................................. M Grant 9 17487 Hilton Hangover 17.15.........................B Dann 10 78776 Reign Of Fire 17.36..................... J McInerney 2 4.38pm KAISA EARTHWORKS PH.0272073323 DASH C3/4, 295m 1 64113 Black Tori 17.35............................A Bradshaw 2 82438 Smash Damage 17.17........................ M Grant 3 62118 Homebush Boots 17.41............... J McInerney 4 18232 Dyna Lenny 17.17...........................C Roberts 5 31766 Chasing Fame nwtd.........................M B Fuller 6 73785 Nippa Martino 17.22.................... J McInerney 7 34727 Loco Lola 17.18............................A Bradshaw 8 84553 Disobedience 17.19 S &.....................B Evans 9 78185 Kalonga 17.36 S &.............................B Evans 10 17487 Hilton Hangover 17.15.........................B Dann 3 4.54pm MURRAY & HANNAH@RAY WHITE CASHMERE DASH C3, 295m 1 41235 Billy Frost 17.44.................................. M Grant 2 23146 Smash Achiever 17.16....................... M Grant 3 25221 Eternal Debt 17.29........................... G Cleeve

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 22 August 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.09pm (NZT) YVETTE BODIAM PHOTOGRAPHY SPRINT C0, 375m 1 46874 Xena Poppy nwtd R &.............................L Udy 2 88 Mr Felix nwtd....................................... M Black 3 2774x Irinka Jacob nwtd................................ S Lozell 4 25 Little Teegs nwtd............................ A Lawrence 5 Thrilling Morris nwtd............................K Walsh 6 Shaynee nwtd.................................... C Henley 7 78 Forego nwtd M &..................................J Smith 8 2 Sir Yens nwtd........................................ S Clark 9 67488 Chong Lai nwtd............................... R McPhee 2 12.27pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY WENDY TOOMATH C1, 375m 1 58565 Smash Rock nwtd..............................L A Hunt 2 12253 Fancy 21.71......................................H Mullane 3 74567 Just Maddie 21.72............................... M Black 4 48665 Botany Esmay 21.58...........................P Green 5 7555F Talkabout Izzy 21.33.............................. D Ray 6 43253 Hi Ho Tonto nwtd.....................................A Lee 7 41638 Mad Jack nwtd....................................T Green 8 5F272 Shozip Boomer 21.35..........................T Patton 9 77658 Unconscionable 21.45 R &......................L Udy 10 46888 Finkle Foot Hero 21.52........................... D Ray 3 12.44pm PIGGY BACK SPRINT C4, 375m

3 6.11pm DOWNBYTHESEASIDE - FRESH, FERTILE, FAST MBL PACE $10,000, r40-r48., mobile, 1980m 1 298x6 Beau Vista (1) fr........................... A Lethaby 2 50463 Opawa Mach (2) fr..................... K Cameron 3 400x7 Every Option (3) fr 4 38282 All Nuts N Bolts (4) fr..................... B Orange 5 x5665 Thats Bettor (5) fr..........................R Holmes 6 09043 Frankie D (6) fr................................ J W Cox 7 0x078 Night School (7) fr.......................C DeFilippi 8 3098x Dark Rage (8) fr................................. R May 9 363D1 Rocknroll King (9) fr.......................... J Dunn 10 70095 Martin John (21) fr....................... J Alford (J) 11 60880 Billie Jean (22) fr.......................... S McNally 12 28343 Lets Hustle (23) fr.............................R Close 13 63206 Frosty Reception (24) fr 4 6.41pm DUNSTAN HORSE FEEDS MET MEGA SERIES TROT $10,000, non-winners, stand, 2600m 1 8x543 Maranatha Atlas (1) fr........................ R May 2 08x0x Tiptoe Trouble (2) fr................. S O’Reilly (J) 3 7 Sally Lindenny (3) fr..................... G O’Reilly 4 860x9 Kowhai Sundown (4) fr.....................S Ottley 5 53473 Midnight Memories (5) fr........... M Edmonds 6 9 The Eye Of The Tiger (6) fr........... B Orange 7 004x2 Palisade (U1) fr.......................... C Jones (J) 8 07558 Break Free (U2) fr........................K Hadfield 9 x332x The Player (U3) fr.............................. J Dunn 5 7.11pm AMERICAN IDEAL-DOMINANT DUAL HEMISPHERE MBLPACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 1980m 1 73908 Nicole (1) fr..................................D Keast (J) 2 56495 Held To Ransom (2) fr 3 58 Skreemr (3) fr.......................... M Williamson 4 600x4 Refine (4) fr..........................K Tomlinson (J) 5 8 Silent Rapture (5) fr.....................C DeFilippi 6 805 Carita (6) fr.............................. C D Thornley

7 886 Woodlea Diego (7) fr...........................K Cox 8 9 Fabrizio (8) fr............................. M Anderson 9 x5727 Noosa Beach (9) fr........................ B Orange 10 Ashes To Ashes (21) fr 11 5467x Marianna Bromac (22) fr.................... R May 12 57880 Night Lights (23) fr...................... J Anderson 13 634 Manly Olsen (24) fr............................ J Dunn 14 70805 Tactical Change (25) fr.....................J Curtin 6 7.40pm WHAT THE HILL-FRESH SON OF MUSCLE HILL HCP TROT $13,500, r56+ discrhcp, stand, 2600m 1 35551 Bright Glow (1) fr..........................I Cameron 2 210D6 Easy Pickings (2) fr..................... B Hope (J) 3 159Px In Sequence (U1) fr....................... B Orange 4 P931x Mekong Princess (U2) fr.................... R May 5 52627 Trick Star (1) 10M......................... S McNally 6 11x8P Zeddie Marit (2) 10M......................... J Dunn 7 64115 Madeleine Stowe (3) 10M 7 8.10pm BETTOR’S DELIGHT - HARNESS RACING’S KING MBL PCE $10,000, r57-r63., mobile, 1980m 1 57102 Uptown Lady (1) fr............................S Ottley 2 32152 Glenthorne (2) fr...................S Tomlinson (J) 3 82615 Naiya Franco (3) fr............................. R May 4 17508 The Golden Boy (4) fr....................R Holmes 5 48362 The Maroon Marauder (5) fr.... M Williamson 6 69188 Sounds Lika Gem (6) fr................. L O’Reilly 7 96927 God Only Knows (7) fr..................... G Smith 8 148x1 Melton Reactor (8) fr 9 9079x Mucho Macho Man (9) fr............... B Orange 8 8.42pm SWEET LOU - FULL AND CLOSED HANDICAP PACE $10,000, r50-r69,r70-r72 w/c spechcp, stand, 2600m 1 86714 Smoke N Reactor (1) fr....................S Ottley 2 58438 Royal Jester (2) fr........................D Keast (J)

3 82218 King Of Heroes (3) fr...................C DeFilippi 4 7x457 Woodlea Explorer (4) fr........... M Williamson 5 411 Only In America (1) 10M........ J Morrison (J) 6 96927 God Only Knows (2) 10M................ G Smith 7 101x3 Rollova (3) 10M.......................... C Jones (J) 8 33363 Santanna Mach (4) 10M................ B Orange 9 31425 Secret Bet (5) 10M......................... T Chmiel 10 08761 Copperhead Rose (1) 20M 11 74026 Aveross Rustler (U1) 20M................R Close 12 25485 Pay Me Visa (1) 30M J Alford (J,..............Cl) 9 9.11pm PEGASUS SPUR - ELITE TROTTING SIRE MOBILE TROT $10,000, r40-r55., mobile, 1980m 1 04427 Unique Rose (1) fr 2 80666 Chivasion (2) fr.......................... M Edmonds 3 52202 Crusher Collins (3) fr................N Williamson 4 x1543 Shpeedy (4) fr................................... J Dunn 5 0824x Monrika (5) fr.................................. T Chmiel 6 3P1P2 Quaestor (6) fr.....................................K Butt 7 312P7 Unique Marshall (7) fr 8 13217 Diana Harbour (8) fr........................... R May 9 13636 Sugar Cane (9) fr................ D D McCormick 10 63133 Don’t Look Back (21) fr........... M Williamson 11 x8195 Chasing Great (22) fr.......................S Ottley 12 08008 Dolly Jones (U1) fr...............K Tomlinson (J) 13 95753 One Night Out (U2) fr.................... B Weaver 14 x823x Jaw D Nancy (U3) fr..................... S McNally 10 9.41pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO MOBILE PACE $10,000, r49-r56., mobile, 1980m 1 77842 Motoring Major (1) fr........................J Curtin 2 12243 Invisible Girl (2) fr........................C DeFilippi 3 31596 That Alexander Guy (3) fr.................R Close 4 99x16 Matthew Eyre (4) fr...........................S Ottley 5 83474 Good On Ya Kiwi (5) fr...................R Holmes 6 852P4 The Dude (6) fr........................... C Jones (J) 7 5137 Corona (7) fr.................................. B Orange

8 51232 Rake (8) fr.......................................... R May 9 10x56 Queen Of Glory (9) fr....................... J Young 10 53542 Sweet Loress (21) fr............................K Butt 11 65594 Bakari (22) fr................................... G Smith Pacifiers on : Woodlea Explorer (R8) Pacifiers off : Billie Jean (R3), Night Lights (R5), Dolly Jones (R9) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS: Race 1: Kruizr, Russian Express, Barkley, Koromiko Eyre Race 2: Ascalabus, Lennox Bromac, Reflectionsofmylife, Prodigal Guinness Race 3: Rocknroll King, All Nuts N Bolts, Lets Hustle, Dark Rage Race 4: Palisade, The Player, The Eye Of The Tiger, Midnight Memories Race 5: Fabrizio, Marianna Bromac, Skreemr, Noosa Beach Race 6: In Sequence, Madeleine Stowe, Zeddie Marit, Bright Glow Race 7: Glenthorne, Uptown Lady, Mucho Macho Man, The Maroon Marauder Race 8: Rollova, Copperhead Rose, Only In America, Pay Me Visa Race 9: Diana Harbour, Quaestor, Monrika, Crusher Collins Race 10: Matthew Eyre, The Dude, Invisible Girl, Good On Ya Kiwi

4 46617 Know Threat 30.21........................... G Cleeve 5 11461 Opawa Nat 30.28 J &.........................D Fahey 6 34441 Goldstar Sydney 30.14 S &................B Evans 7 71732 Sefton Joy 30.38.................................R Wales 8 577x2 Opawa Plum 30.45.............................R Wales 9 26723 Goldstar Whitey 30.35 S &.................B Evans 10 21134 Opawa Vinny 30.20 J &......................D Fahey 10 8.25pm MY BRO FABIO DISTANCE C2d, 645m 1 42425 Goldstar Alaska nwtd S &...................B Evans 2 48662 Opawa Tab 37.83................................R Wales 3 13F74 Know Pudding nwtd.......................... G Cleeve 4 12115 Dyna Weslyn 37.68.........................C Roberts 5 44531 Opawa Silver nwtd..............................R Wales 6 56776 Opawa Hope 38.37.............................R Wales 7 88868 Dave’s Dot 38.31......................... J McInerney 8 48x47 Opawa Abbie Joy 38.34.....................R Wales 9 78334 Know Anxiety nwtd........................... G Cleeve 11 8.56pm I PAVE CONCRETE SPRINT C5, 295m 1 31314 Colbert 17.25............................... R Blackburn 2 22321 Our Dazzel 17.00...............................R Wales 3 61651 Fleur Dior 17.27........................... R Blackburn 4 52271 Martha Magic 17.33 H &........................Taylor 5 41122 Sheza Rippa 16.91 J &.......................D Fahey 6 14434 Jinja Ellie 17.25.................................. A Joyce 7 47112 Goldstar Dodge 17.26 S &.................B Evans 8 27532 Nelso Allen 16.89............................C Roberts 9 53683 Busy Rocca 17.29.............................. M Grant 10 66157 Mohican Run 17.13......................A Bradshaw 12 9.26pm RE-ENERGIZE SPRINT C3/4, 295m 1 25335 Nozzno Fear 17.10.......................A Bradshaw 2 51685 Neelix 17.29................................ R Blackburn 3 52774 Cawbourne Britty 17.22...................C Roberts 4 51346 Smash Grenade 17.38....................... M Grant 5 65524 Goldstar Major 17.26 S &...................B Evans

6 34564 Little Krakatoa 17.24....................A Bradshaw 7 11677 Homebush Finn 17.21................. J McInerney 8 31367 Special As 17.30 J M..........................McCook 9 78185 Kalonga 17.36 S &.............................B Evans 10 17487 Hilton Hangover 17.15.........................B Dann LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Hear This, Broken Penniless, King Kali, Goldstar Spotty, Hilton Hangover Race 2: Loco Lola, Black Tori, Smash Damage, Dyna Lenny, Homebush Boots Race 3: Smash Achiever, Culvie Ness, Eternal Debt, Mitcham Reado, Billy Frost Race 4: Call Me Flo, Debbie Baxter, Major Storm, Taieri Terra, Come A Guster Race 5: Bender Truth, Go Gunna, Ezra Blueblood, Memoir, Goldstar Liberty Race 6: Jinja Sneak, Mitcham Quinn, Know Sweat, Homebush Hundy, Fickle Mistress Race 7: Opawa Lacy, Platinum Marshal, Eyrewell Ebony, Ohoka Clare, Goldstar Trooper Race 8: Sailor Allen, Know Conclusion, Bashful Buffy, Joe Bonanza, Dyna Elliot Race 9: Opawa Nat, Know Threat, Know Denying, Punters Bolt, Opawa Rooster Race 10: Dyna Weslyn, Know Pudding, Opawa Abbie Joy, Opawa Tab, Goldstar Alaska Race 11: Our Dazzel, Sheza Rippa, Nelso Allen, Colbert, Fleur Dior Race 12: Neelix, Nozzno Fear, Cawbourne Britty, Little Krakatoa, Goldstar Major

8 2.12pm THRILLING ELLA STAKES C1, 457m

5 43121 Fidgety Feet nwtd....................................A Lee 6 63682 Afridi nwtd W &....................................T Steele 7 41721 Zoro 25.85..................................... A Lawrence 8 22521 Tuff’s My Mum 25.93............................ S Ross LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Thrilling Morris, Sir Yens, Little Teegs, Shaynee, Irinka Jacob Race 2: Shozip Boomer, Fancy, Botany Esmay, Hi Ho Tonto, Smash Rock Race 3: Sophia Noir, Classy Impact, Raging Demon, Mobility Scooter, Odnoc Ankie Race 4: El Narco, Gain Capital, Monsoon Malabar, Secret Babe, Talkabout Sophie Race 5: Barossa, C’est L’Amour, Native Scout, Nangar Dream, I’m A Leo Race 6: Jinja Ted, Grouch Pawset, Thrilling Arnold, On Demand, Tribal Conquest Race 7: Captain Kev, Elouera Mist, Victini, Luke Skywalker, Our Simba Race 8: Massimo Osti, Stefano, Salvarotti, Maybe Right, Jinja Twist Race 9: Sparta, Athenais, Kiwi Boy, Call Me Leo, Zipping Buddy Race 10: Billy Bright, Smoochie, Zoro, Tuff’s My Mum, Jinja Shake

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 4 11182 Culvie Ness 17.31 H &...........................Taylor 5 22852 Mitcham Reado 17.24................. J McInerney 6 67344 Cosmic Jase 17.42...................... J McInerney 7 16662 Justin Ryan 17.27 S &........................B Evans 8 23534 Feral Kaiaka 17.58.............................M Butler 9 17487 Hilton Hangover 17.15.........................B Dann 10 78776 Reign Of Fire 17.36..................... J McInerney 4 5.24pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH C3, 295m 1 32221 Call Me Flo 17.16........................A Botherway 2 88641 Debbie Baxter 17.11.................... J McInerney 3 21681 Taieri Terra 17.34............................... R Casey 4 23543 Come A Guster 17.30......................... M Grant 5 21211 Major Storm 17.39...........................C Roberts 6 F5635 Know Hassle 17.29.......................... G Cleeve 7 67737 Ma Chere 17.31............................A Bradshaw 8 23446 Smash Attack 17.22........................... M Grant 9 17487 Hilton Hangover 17.15.........................B Dann 10 78776 Reign Of Fire 17.36..................... J McInerney 5 5.55pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C3/4, 295m 1 x3313 Go Gunna 17.25.................................R Wales 2 78366 Goldstar Liberty 17.32 J M.................McCook 3 58566 Ezra Blueblood 17.33.................. J McInerney 4 18523 Bender Truth 17.11.......................A Bradshaw 5 45118 Replica Casino 17.80....................... B Pringle 6 54766 Elodea 17.39............................... R Blackburn 7 83412 Memoir 17.39 H &..................................Taylor 8 27518 Cawbourne Cruz 17.57...................D Roberts 9 78185 Kalonga 17.36 S &.............................B Evans 10 17487 Hilton Hangover 17.15.........................B Dann 6 6.26pm GARRARD’S HORSE & HOUND DASH C3, 295m 1 12123 Jinja Sneak 17.36............................... A Joyce 2 88415 Homebush Hundy 17.36.............. J McInerney

3 87168 Fickle Mistress 17.47 H &.......................Taylor 4 25856 High Dreamer 17.24........................... M Grant 5 55125 Goldstar Diesel 17.37 S &..................B Evans 6 55316 Know Logic 17.21............................. G Cleeve 7 33744 Know Sweat 17.26........................... G Cleeve 8 48248 Mitcham Quinn 17.15...................A Bradshaw 9 17487 Hilton Hangover 17.15.........................B Dann 10 78776 Reign Of Fire 17.36..................... J McInerney 7 6.56pm KOLORFUL KANVAS SPRINT C5, 295m 1 14211 Opawa Lacy 17.04 J &.......................D Fahey 2 22112 Ohoka Clare 17.17.......................... L Waretini 3 12211 Eyrewell Ebony 17.31........................H Cairns 4 22435 Goldstar Trooper 17.01 S &................B Evans 5 32241 Treville 17.27............................... R Blackburn 6 33617 Lisa’s Boy 17.24................................ R Casey 7 58263 Smash Wild 17.07.............................. M Grant 8 11113 Platinum Marshal 17.00...................C Roberts 9 35356 Wildebeest 17.20..........................A Bradshaw 10 72378 Fired Up Jed 17.23..............................B Dann 8 7.26pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C3/4, 520m 1 37384 Cosmic Stu 30.52........................ J McInerney 2 35685 Bashful Buffy 30.55..................... J McInerney 3 15254 Dyna Elliot 30.80.............................C Roberts 4 17875 Know Leave 30.71............................ G Cleeve 5 27245 Sailor Allen 30.07............................C Roberts 6 77888 Malaga Molly 30.35..................... J McInerney 7 83415 Know Conclusion 30.31.................... G Cleeve 8 54756 Joe Bonanza 30.39..................... J McInerney 9 7.55pm NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION FINAL NZRSf, 520m 1 53x63 Opawa Rooster 29.99.........................R Wales 2 23233 Know Denying 30.37........................ G Cleeve 3 54132 Punters Bolt 30.67..............................R Wales

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 1 64246 Odnoc Ankie nwtd......................... P Ferguson 2 31224 Raging Demon 20.99 R &.......................L Udy 3 45118 Bigtime Hunter 21.34.......................H Mullane 4 512F8 Party Every Day 21.50 R &.....................L Udy 5 34453 Classy Impact 21.13............................T Green 6 84622 Mobility Scooter 21.20......................... M Black 7 11111 Sophia Noir 21.30......................... A Lawrence 8 38385 Noah Who 21.03............................M Prangley 9 73357 Zipping Ringo 21.31............................... D Ray 10 36F67 Gao Gao 21.50................................... G Farrell 4 1.02pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMIE PRUDEN C1, 375m 1 14877 Gain Capital 21.54............................... B Craik 2 27665 Little Trilise 21.57........................... A Lawrence 3 2218x Hua Hua nwtd................................. R McPhee 4 44842 Talkabout Sophie nwtd........................ M Black 5 86432 El Narco 21.67....................................P Green 6 56474 Monsoon Malabar 21.54 U &............... Cottam 7 88337 Secret Babe nwtd........................... J T Pruden 8 74265 In Focus 21.66.................................. P Cleaver 9 77658 Unconscionable 21.45 R &......................L Udy 10 46888 Finkle Foot Hero 21.52........................... D Ray 5 1.19pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR SPRINT C3, 375m 1 53727 C’est L’Amour 21.44............................. B Craik 2 78534 I’m A Leo nwtd W &.............................T Steele 3 46825 Nangar Dream 21.16.......................... G Farrell 4 28742 Barossa 21.38............................... A Lawrence 5 21363 Native Scout 21.34..............................P Green

6 65846 Stay Rich 21.52 M &.............................J Smith 7 45667 Go All Lin nwtd...................................S O’Neill 8 24734 Finkle Foot Fred 21.14........................... D Ray 9 77856 Bigtime Jacob 21.24.........................H Mullane 10 25847 Paddy’s Passion 21.49........................T Green 6 1.37pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA STEELE C1, 375m 1 6x775 Wairoa Angel 21.41........................M Prangley 2 17867 Stellar Babe 22.10............................ P Cleaver 3 27243 Tribal Conquest nwtd R &........................L Udy 4 43344 Thrilling Arnold 21.48......................... S Codlin 5 55756 Extroverted nwtd................................S O’Neill 6 85465 On Demand nwtd................................ M Black 7 52527 Jinja Ted nwtd...................................... S Lozell 8 88536 Grouch Pawset 21.57..........................P Green 9 46888 Finkle Foot Hero 21.52........................... D Ray 10 77658 Unconscionable 21.45 R &......................L Udy 7 1.54pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKE HORE C2, 375m 1 85124 Elouera Mist 21.33......................... J T Pruden 2 27787 Luke Skywalker nwtd..........................L A Hunt 3 17683 Bigtime Zack nwtd............................H Mullane 4 31663 Our Simba nwtd................................. G Farrell 5 64451 Smash Charger nwtd.........................L A Hunt 6 74761 Yella Ella 21.54 R &.................................L Udy 7 11112 Captain Kev 21.23 W &.......................T Steele 8 26172 Victini 21.54....................................... C Henley 9 83415 Say Cheese nwtd....................................A Lee 10 45176 Jinja Liv 21.44 U &............................... Cottam

1 23313 Stefano 25.83................................ A Lawrence 2 52143 Maybe Right nwtd....................................A Lee 3 55488 Jinja Twist nwtd W &............................T Steele 4 28x21 Massimo Osti 25.89...................... P Ferguson 5 76264 Salvarotti 25.75.................................... B Craik 6 77687 Dignity Dented nwtd............................T Green 7 88385 Bigtime Ollie nwtd..........................M Prangley 8 47285 Flying Dewy nwtd R &.............................L Udy 9 85787 Snoopy’s Bro 25.91................................ D Ray 9 2.31pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C4/5, 375m 1 22611 Call Me Leo 21.28...............................T Green 2 14335 Your Valentine 21.40............................. B Craik 3 13183 Sparta 20.81.......................................K Walsh 4 23165 Thrilling Billy 20.96........................ P Ferguson 5 21215 Kiwi Boy nwtd U &................................ Cottam 6 14722 Athenais 21.19..................................... S Ross 7 54172 Zipping Buddy 21.30............................ B Craik 8 11386 Tres Vite 21.37....................................T Patton 9 83887 Powerful Lomar 21.29.......................... B Craik 10 73357 Zipping Ringo 21.31............................... D Ray 10 2.49pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C2/3, 457m 1 31858 Billy Bright 26.10........................... P Ferguson 2 18187 Kapai Tahi nwtd R &................................L Udy 3 47185 Smoochie 25.85............................ A Lawrence 4 35563 Jinja Shake nwtd...................................E Potts

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

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9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB DAY TIME SECTION. New members very welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings

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The AC/DC Story

This year audiences have the chance to witness World Champion Irish Dancers direct from the West End’s Lord of the Dance. This world class show will transport you to a time and place where tunes, taps and tradition showcase the essence of Irish spirit.

Tickets: Adult$74.90* / Concession $67.90* / Child $59.90* / Groups 8+ $67.90*

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August 22 & 23, 2019 for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

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

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz for preschoolers and caregivers.

48 Allens Road.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP.

Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

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

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

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern

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1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome.

Boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

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

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong. Newcomers welcome. $4.

Tuition available for new players.

Waireka Croquet Club. The domain, Philip Street.

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Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

2pm RSA WOMENS SECTION. Housie with cake stall, bring and buy, bring a friend. RSA Cox Street.

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

Zumba, 48 Allens Road.

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

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1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a

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

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): If you’re in the mood for a challenge, run from an active fear. It will surely take chase. And if you’re not in the mood for a challenge and you simply want to start fresh, back away slowly.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): It’s easier to be disciplined in front of other people. That’s why going to the gym will make you work harder than in a home gym, and why an office brings out things that working from home couldn’t.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): There’s no need to selfscrutinise every move you make – maybe just the repeated ones. Repeated behaviours have interesting stories to tell that are deep enough for you to interpret and reinterpret.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): As arbitrary as the initial move may be, it becomes an anchor for every move after. Remember this before you give something a name, decide on a price or introduce yourself.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’ll work harder for something you believe in than you would for a payday or a prize. To work for what you believe in is to make your version of the ideal future more probable.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’re coming into some power. It may start in the form of money, but of course, money isn’t power, strictly speaking. How it’s used is what matters most.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Principles of marketing don’t just work; they may be necessary to enjoy an experience. People often don’t know what they want until they see someone else enjoying it. Use this to your advantage today.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): To remain firmly and faithfully on course requires more than just the best navigation system. It also requires checks and balances. Adapt to the weather. Keep checking your position. Adjust accordingly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): With emotional flexibility comes resilience. Resilience allows you to adapt to adverse conditions but also to do the more difficult work of adapting to conditions that are favourable.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Sometimes the things that are subpar are not worth mentioning.

Not everything needs improvement at all times. You can come up with better uses of your energy.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You’re growing into a new role, and you already embody several aspects of it. You’re starting to feel as though you own a thing before you actually do. This will make the transition easier.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Many people don’t want to learn. They want you to do it for them.

It’s fine if you’re getting paid. The best arrangements, and the only ones that last, feature a mutually beneficial exchange.

ACROSS 1. Light colour? No: very dark indeed! (4-5) 5. A cat’s is light where wind is concerned (3) 7. From which one may get the flavour of money-making (4) 8. With food, wire can be fashioned into a log (8) 10. It may be hardened by its being softened (8) 11. To start with, writer must begin with nothing (4) 13. No bright person would get ruffed like this (6) 15. Junior scout holds the lady, dear little chap! (6) 18. Put to sea for Genoa, for example (4) 19. It made a comeback in the not-long-ago, having little to say (8) 22. Backs fan, since turning to it (8) 23. A cereal it is right to freeze (4) 24. Half rate one for being a silly fellow (3) 25. Can hold breath somehow, or put the parson’s corn in it (5-4) DOWN 1. Is restricted to following company in many cases (7) 2. A note a pharmacist might drop (5) 3. It has come about when it is near destruction (6) 4. Something capped when Pat and Ella get together (4) 5. One will do very well, being decent about sulphur (7) 6. New upturn I’d included in order to broaden it (5) 9. To yield to another’s opinion may be off-putting (5) 12. Its links form 66 feet (5) 14. The people one likes who are Quakers? (7) 16. Go thus and be an intermediary (7) 17. Don’t accept that in France I could make cert of it (6) 18. A capital padded seat one is in (5) 20. Plant a mixture with 23 (5) 21. A bird like a snipe may get in a tangle (4)

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ACROSS 7. Disclose (6) 8. Highest point (6) 10. Staggered (7) 11. African animal (5) 12. Looked at (4) 13. Centre (5) 17. Expenses (5) 18. Tie up (4) 22. Small hill (5) 23. Austere (7) 24. Temper tantrum (colloq) (6) 25. Trial before the real thing (3,3)

DOWN 1. Interrogated (7) 2. Supervise (7) 3. Tracks (5) 4. Gentle breezes (7) 5. Impudent, verbally (5) 6. Hurl (5) 9. Make known (9) 14. Sophisticated (7) 15. Fashion (7) 16. Cutting back (7) 19. Distorts (5) 20. Pastime (5) 21. Deflect (5)

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Across: 1. Digger 4. Scream 9. Adamant 10. Exits 11. Lout 12. Fret 13. Tie 15. Look 16. Loop 19. Urn 21. Sate 22. Gown 24. Groom 25. Bandeau2 26. Swears 27. States 6 Down: 1. Dead languages 2. Gradual 3. Exam 5. Creation 6 1 6. Exist 7. Misdemeanours 8. Storm 14. Gossamer 4 Gnat 3 17. Protest 18. Stubs 20. Noose 23.

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DEATHS

DEATHS

O'SHEA, Edward (Eddie) – Please note all late death Passed away peacefully on notices or notices sent Saturday, August 10, 2019, outside ordinary office aged 82. Dearly loved husband of Sandra, and the hours must be emailed to: late Juene. Loved dad and deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication. father-in-law of Tom, Jim and Shirley, Kate, Shane, and To place a notice during Tim. Loved grandad of office hours please contact Anastasia, Sommer, and us on 03 307 7900 for more Gemma, and a loved brother, information. uncle, cousin and friend of Any queries please many. Messages to 32 Bonar contact 0800 Street, Ross 7812.

ASHBURTON A remembrance to celebrate (0800-274-287) Eddie's life will be held at 2939 Methven Highway, Methven on SATURDAY, August 24 commencing at FUNERAL 2pm.

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 158.4 Nth Ashburton at 4:00 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 3:30 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:03 pm, yesterday

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Becoming fine in the morning. Increasing cloud with scattered rain developing about the divide later, snow to 1200m. Winds turning NW and strengthening, to gale about high ground.

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Patchy early rain clearing to fine with high cloud in the E. Showers, possibly with hail, persisting about the divide with snow to about 1100m there. Wind at 1000m: NW 40 km/h, but 65 km/h at times N of Mt Hutt.

Wind at 2000m: NW gale 65 km/h.

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MORIARTY, Leslie Evan Robert (Evan) – On August 20, 2019, peacefully at Holmwood Rest Home, Christchurch. Dearly loved husband and soulmate of Elsie. Much loved father and father-in-law of Richard and Janet, Shelly and Tom, Jock and Cheryl, Greg and Danette, Andy and Jo, Tim and Wendy, much loved Poppy of Jemma, Beau, Tayla; Ryan, Amy; Conor, Sascha, the late Regan; Grace, Sean; Sam, and Kiaran; and Poppy to his great-grandchildren Macey; and Lucy. Many thanks to everyone at Holmwood for their loving care of Evan and the family. Messages may be addressed to the family of the late Evan Moriarty, c/- PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545. A celebration of Evan’s life will be held in our Rangiora Chapel, Wai-mana, 92 Kippenberger Avenue, Rangiora, on MONDAY, August 26, at 2.00pm. Private cremation thereafter.

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Map for today

Ashburton Forecast

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 12.8 13.0 Max to 4pm 7.0 Minimum 6.3 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 1.8 16hr to 4pm August to date 46.6 Avg Aug to date 41 2019 to date 504.4 442 Avg year to date Wind km/h E 19 At 4pm Strongest gust NE 28 Time of gust 3:50pm

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6am Travel Man – 48 Hours In 6:30 Nigella Bites 7am How To Cook Like Heston 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Bondi Vet 9am Brent Owens – Extreme, Authentic, And Unwrapped 9:30 Trashformers 11:30 Astronauts – Toughest Job In The Universe 12:30 The Great Interior Design Challenge 1:30 Cold Water Cowboys 2:30 Walking The Himalayas 3:30 Into The Wild – India 4:30 Hairy Bikers’ Mediterranean Adventure The Corsican ‘trinity’ of meat, chestnuts, and cheese forms the basis of the bikers’ exploration, but it is the independent spirit of the people that shines through.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Easy Eats 3 8pm Aroha Bridge PGR 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9pm Rere Te Whiu AO 9:30 The Ring Inz AO 3 10pm The Hui – Kaupeka Wha 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

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

8:30 Discovering… Tina Turner Music legend Tina Turner.

9:30 Haunting Australia AO 10:30 American Pickers

11pm Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 Motai Tangata Rau – Tainui.

11:30 Closedown

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Travel Man – 48 Hours In 1am Hairy Bikers’ Mediterranean Adventure 2am Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 3am Into The Wild – India 4am Haunting Australia AO 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 1 6am On The Grill With Marshy Brendon McCullum.

6:30 Wednesday Wind Back (RPL) Six Nations – Ireland v England. 8:30 Rugby – Wales v England (RPL) 10:30 Rugby – Italy v Russia (RPL) 12:30 Rugby – France v Scotland (RPL) 2:30 Rugby Nation 3:30 Rugby – The Championship (HLS) South Africa v Argentina.

4pm Rugby – Women’s International (HLS) Black Ferns v Australia.

4:30 Rugby – Bledisloe Cup (HLS) All Blacks v Australia.

5pm The Breakdown 6pm Grassroots Rugby 7pm First XV Rugby Revision 7:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Hawke’s Bay v Otago.

From McLean Park, Napier.

9:15 Kick-Off 10pm Grassroots Rugby 11pm First XV Rugby Revision 11:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Hawke’s Bay v Otago.

Friday 1:30 Kick-Off 2am Grassroots Rugby 3am First XV Rugby Revision 3:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Hawke’s Bay v Otago.

4am Kick-Off 4:30 Rugby – Women’s International (HLS) Black Ferns v Australia.

5am Rugby – Bledisloe Cup (HLS) All Blacks v Australia. 5:30 Rugby – The Championship (HLS) South Africa v Argentina.

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SKY SPORT 2 8:30 Cricket – Women’s Super League Lancashire Thunder v Loughborough Lightning. 9am Cricket – The Ashes England v Australia – Second Test, Day Five. 10am Cricket – Sri Lanka v Blackcaps First Test – Day Five. 11am Cricket – Women’s Super League Lancashire Thunder v Loughborough Lightning.

11:30 Cricket – Women’s Super League Southern Vipers v Yorkshire Diamonds.

2:15 Cricket – The Ashes England v Australia – Second Test, Day Five. 3:15 Cricket – Sri Lanka v Blackcaps First Test – Day Five. 4:15 L Cricket – Sri Lanka v Blackcaps Second Test – Day One, Morning Session.

From Galle International Stadium. 6:35 Cricket – Women’s Super League Southern Vipers v Yorkshire Diamonds. 7:05 L Cricket – Sri Lanka v Blackcaps Second Test – Day One, Afternoon Session. From Galle International Stadium.

Friday 12:20 Cricket – West Indies v India 1:20 L Cricket – West Indies v India First Test – Day One, Morning Session.

From Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua.

3:35 Cricket – T20 Blast 4:05 L Cricket – West Indies v India First Test – Day One, Afternoon Session.

From Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Ferrari Fix. 7:30 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 7:55 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 8:20 Deadliest Catch PG Winter is Here. 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11:40 Web Of Lies M Love Goes South.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M The Message in Red. 1:20 Murder Calls M Death Comes Knocking.

2:10 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 2:35 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 3pm Alaskan Bush People PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Ford Galaxie. 1/2.

5:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 8:30 Gold Rush – White Water PG McKinley, We Have a Problem.

9:25 Aussie Lobster Men PG Money Fish.

10:15 Deadliest Catch PG Winter is Here.

11:55 How It’s Made PG Friday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 1:10 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 1:35 Gold Rush PG 2:25 Bering Sea Gold PG 3:15 Alaskan Bush People PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Gold Rush PG

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Sport

24 Ashburton Guardian

Shooters on target

Fox in the rough

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Celtic’s Cam Butler has just returned from a North Island tour with the New Zealand Marist Under-23 team.

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Benefits from Marist tour

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

Four games of rugby in the space of eight days and starting in all of them.

It doesn’t sound easy, and it’s not, but that’s exactly what Cam Butler did last week. And he loved it.

Butler – a member of the Ashburton Celtic seniors’ backline – was a member of this year’s New Zealand Marist Under-23 side that went on a four-match tour based around the Hawke’s Bay. They came together not knowing each other, but after just one training session together took to the field against Poverty Bay De-

velopment for their first game and won 79-21, with Butler starting on the wing and scoring two tries.

“We didn’t know what to expect, but you could tell after the first training it was going to be a good team,” Butler said.

From there, the team just kept getting better. Butler said they won their second game by 25 or 30 points, and it was a similar story in their third game.

Their fourth and final game was a big one. They took on Hawke’s Bay Under-23 in what was the curtain raiser to Hawke’s Bay’s Mitre 10 Cup game against the Wellington Lions at McLean Park, and again, they won.

The 42-10 win was a memorable way to cap off a big few days, which as well as training and games, also included a lot of visits to Catholic schools in the region, performing haka and talking to kids about their school’s values and how they related to the team environment.

There were 30 Marist rugby clubs around New Zealand, and to make the New Zealand Marist Under-23s players had to be put forward by their clubs.

Each player could only make the team once and Butler, 20, was first nominated last season, but it coincided with a pre-planned family holiday to Fiji which count-

ed him out. One of his Celtic team mates – Kody Stuthridge – ended up making the Marist Under-23s last year for their tour to Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill.

This year, Butler and his crew got to go a little further afield, and he said it was a great experience, getting insight from new coaches and playing alongside different players.

He started all four games on the wing, having played most of his rugby for Celtic at fullback or firstfive, although he missed a large chunk of the 2019 season due to injury.

Butler injured the ligaments in his ankle in the first 10 minutes

Local team produce some big swims at SI champs

of Celtic’s season-opener, but finished the season strong and then had to keep his fitness up once Celtic’s season ended, to ensure he was ready to hit the ground running for the Marist tour.

And he did. Bar about 20 minutes in the first game, he started and played every minute on the tour, and while he was feeling the effects of it this week, it had been worth it.

He’d learnt a lot, and made a lot of new friends.

“No one knew each other at all and by the end of it you’re mates with a whole new bunch of boys, it was a really great experience,” he said.

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