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Retailers band against thieves

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Teams of professional shoplifters are targeting Ashburton but retailers are banding together to stop them.

Police say the shoplifters are stealing to order, including televisions, electrical appliances and clothing and retailers need to report every incident or theft.

Community constable Mark Dryland said about 65 people, including many retailers, attended a meeting in Ashburton on Monday to talk about how to stop or limit shoplifting and disorderly be-

haviour in shops.

Retailers and shop assistants who suspected theft should ring 111 if the offenders were still in store; if the theft was discovered on security film later, it should still be reported.

Dryland said shoplifting cost the country $1 billion a year and police had units dedicated to stopping it.

Earlier this month police executed two search warrants at addresses in Aranui, Christchurch, as part of an investigation into an organised shoplifting crime group operating in wider Canterbury, in-

cluding Ashburton.

Four people were arrested and a large number of stolen items were located, as well as an illegal firearm, ammunition and methamphetamine.

Three women and a 15-year-old boy are facing shoplifting and aggravated robbery charges. This will take the number of charges the group is facing to more than 130 between them.

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Policies matter, says Morgan

By Katie todd

Katie.t@theguardian.co.nz

The Opportunities Party Leader brought his roadshow to town this week to make his pitch to the people of Mid Canterbury.

Around 100 district-dwellers took a seat at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on Monday night to hear Gareth Morgan explain why New Zealand is on the wrong path, and why “policy matters”.

Morgan has been travelling around the country speaking about his 13 policies which he said are evidence based, offer radical change and are an alternative to piddling around the edges.

Morgan said he is confident that the key to a better Mid Canterbury and a better New Zealand is rational, best-practice policy that won’t always fit people’s selfinterest, but will help the many Kiwis left behind.

“We’ve had many years of these two establishment parties … they come and go and we’re still seeing terrible statistics in terms of poverty, inequality, suicide, homelessness and mental illness.

“In my opinion neither party is sensitive enough to those needs.”

Morgan said he had noticed problems with youths in areas like Ashburton and right across the country, and spoke about the pertinence to his policies on education, health and justice.

He said he wanted to make “empathy with the reality” a big focus through drug and alcohol reform, and mental health funding.

“A lot of problems stem from alienation with family and it’s hard for kids these days to make the transition from the nest to standing on their own two feet,” he said.

Morgan also addressed his climate action and environment policies, which involve strict reg-

The Opportunities Party Leader Gareth Morgan with Olly Wilson, candidate for Rangitata, at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre last night.

PHOTO KATIE TODD 220817-KT-100 ulations on pollution and irrigation taxes and would put a stop to land intensification.

Morgan is unfazed by concerns that such policies are anti-dairying, explaining that “if it was any other industry I’d have the same view”.

“I don’t think any industry should go helter-skelter by get-

ting a free ride and open slather on the resources.”

He also said he couldn’t see the value of national’s plans to build a four-way highway to Christchurch.

“You’ve got to ask, is that a glorified handout to a particular region so like frogs they gag for it?

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the turn-out and spread of agegroups at the roadshow event.

“We had some great questions and some really good feedback.”

He said the next five weeks are “full campaign mode”, but he is enjoying the journey.

“I’m looking forward to getting to know the people of Ashburton more as we go forwards,” he said.

I can’t see how it’s going to solve inequality,” he said.

Morgan was under fire for a tweet describing Labour leader Jacinda Ardern as “lipstick on a pig”, but also brushed off the critique and affirmed his confidence in reaching 5 per cent polling.

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Bright students qualify for nationals

By Katie todd

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Six young Ashburton brains took on the Canterbury Robocup last week and successfully created robots clever enough to qualify for the nationals.

At the event held in Christchurch’s Burnside High School Aurora Centre last Saturday, groups from Ashburton Intermediate and Ashburton Christian School took on the challenge of creating and programming rescue robots from LEGO Mindstorm sets.

Sebastian Cole, Sean McQuillan and Kyle Dickson represented Ashburton Intermediate in the junior rescue competition against 31 other teams, while Sam Holland, Ben Hooley and Jayden Butler represented Ashburton Christian School in the premier rescue competition, against eight other teams. Both teams claimed second place in their respective categories, which makes them eligible for the National Robocup in Dunedin next month.

The students had to prove that their robots could complete a course and successfully rescue

a tin can representing a person, stuck in a green patch representing a chemical spill.

“Basically we customise and build our own robots from the equipment we’ve got, then we run it all off a programme,” McQuillan said.

“Along the way there were obstacles like a turn and a bump,” explained Cole.

“What we did is we programmed what’s called an ultrasonic sensor to kick the can out of the green area” Dickson said.

For Ashburton Intermediate students tackling the premier rescue, the robot had to locate the can, pick it up and place it in a designated safety area.

“It was a challenge that saw them giving up many lunchtimes to prepare,” Ashburton Christian School teacher Margaret Butler said.

The event is held annually and the Christian School’s Jayden Butler made his way to the nationals and placed third in the country last year.

“It’s a great opportunity for all of them,” Butler said.

Ashburton Intermediate Students Sebastian Cole, Kyle Dickson and Sean McQuillan at the Canterbury Robocup last Friday.

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Retailers band against thieves From P1 Police there worked closely with retailers and crime prevention software developer Auror.

Dryland said in one recent theft in Ashburton, shoplifters had put a 55-inch television on a trolley and pushed it out the store, using “bluff and dare”.

“All retailers are being target-

ed,” Dryland said.

Security footage was useful in any prosecution of offenders, he said. Reporting all theft also helped police identify stolen property later recovered.

“It helps us build a bigger picture.”

Retailers’ spokesman Bob McDonald said retailers would be

looking at Auror and other software to combat the professional shoplifters.

“The software would be in the form of a smartphone app that was able to send alerts and identify shoplifters.

It was the modern version of the telephone tree retailers once used to alert each other shoplift-

ers were in town, he said.

“There are definitely a few organised crime gangs, it’s not just mum and dad and kids collecting stuff for Father’s Day. “They are stealing to order and we want to make sure when they hit Ashburton they are stopped.”

The meeting on Monday also covered disorderly, anti-social

behaviour that was also occurring in Ashburton shops. Shop staff have reported being abused.

Dryland said staff should ring 111 immediately or report the incident later.

Customers who spotted shoplifters in action can also help, if they feel comfortable, by alerting shop staff.

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Water plan taxing farm market

By Colin WillisCroft

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The Mid Canterbury rural real estate market is in relatively good health – but the water tax being floated is causing uncertainty and affecting confidence.

Property Brokers Ashburton rural business development manager Mark Lemon said Mid Canterbury farmland was to a certain extent insulated against the peaks and troughs that were part and parcel of rural real estate in some other parts of the country, as much of it was highly sought after due to its quality.

Lemon said part of that demand was driven by access to irrigation water, which meant land use was quite diverse compared with other regions. “(Irrigation) provides flexibility and it also gives quality assurance,” Lemon said.

Unfortunately, talk of charging for that water was causing uncertainty among farmers, particularly in terms of potential additional onfarm costs, he said.

Property Brokers has been holding a series of breakfast meetings for rural professionals recently and many of those attending have been farmers, who Lemon said were staggered by talk of a water tax.

“It’s almost like they’re saying ‘what else?’

“They’re seeing it as another added cost that’s going to suck money out of the system, on top of new regional council requirements.

“There’s a bit of uncertainty as to where things are going to finish up.”

However, he said some farms in the area would always be attractive to those buying strategically and, as such, should always attract a good price.

“Some will pay good money for certain farms – but it won’t be uniform across the district. Strong sales will be driven by strategic buyers.”

A recent Real Estate Institute of New Zealand report said in terms of sales volume Canterbury outshone other areas of the country, with an extra four sales for the three months ended July compared with a year earlier.

REINZ rural spokesman Brian Peacocke said strong beef prices and a recent increase in the milk payout had bought a quiet sense of relief to the sector.

Lemon agreed that the Mid Canterbury market was looking reasonably buoyant heading into spring, but that optimism was tempered by uncertainty.

Skills shortage seen Christchurch Hospital overloaded across the trades New Zealand businesses continue to face major skills shortages despite an increase in apprenticeship enrolments over the past 12 months, an industry training organisation says.

Competenz says the housing crisis has led to the spotlight being put on the building and construction sector.

“But there is a real and genuine demand from all trades for skilled people,” chief executive Fiona Kingsford said.

In the manufacturing sector, an average of 10,500 jobs would need

Christchurch Hospital’s emergency department is treating up to a dozen patients at a time in corridors, because of an unprecedented number of admissions.

Clinical director Dr David Richards says the department normally has about 250 admissions a day at this time of year, but in the past three weeks it’s been more like 300.

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People with engineering fabrication skills would also be in high demand.

“Employment in the engineering sector grew by 7.7 per cent between 2011 and 2016 and it is anticipated in the next five years there will be an average of 600 jobs needing to be filled each year,” Ms Kingsford said.

“We are also seeing demand in the wood manufacturing sector, driven by an ageing workforce.”

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“Obviously we try to move patients into a cubicle to examine and treat them, but it’s a very unsatisfactory state of affairs.”

Richards says a lot of people have had the flu or viruses, but others have had to wait days to see a GP and ended up needing emergency care.

“GPs are working very hard and seeing record numbers of people in after-hours clinics, but they’re struggling to cope with increased demand,” he said.

Richards says the record numbers of patients are taking their toll and they’re seeing increased sickness in staff.

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Ministry of Health spokesman Michael Hundleby says every year the Government bulk funds DHBs, DHBs then decide how they spend their funding.

“Over the past eight years the Government has injected an additional $331 million into Canterbury DHB through the Population Based Funding Formula and other Vote Health funding.

In 2016/17 total funding was $1.4 billion.

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In brief Car found The car belonging to a missing Twizel man has been found in a nearby canal. David Fountain was last seen leaving the Top Hut Hotel in Twizel around 1am on Sunday after a night out with a group of workmates. His grey Nissan Primera was discovered in the Pukaki Ohau Canal on Monday night, after a dive team arrived from Wellington, police said.

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New fuel regulations New fuel regulations have been announced which the Government says will support the growth of lower emission fuels that are better for people, the environment and cars. Energy Minister Judith Collins says they set out minimum standards for fuel performance, and change incrementally over time to keep up with new technology. The regulations take effect from October 2 this year, apart from the minimum sulphur level which comes in on July 1 next year.

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Monks’ masterpiece

Most of the dogs in the Ashburton District may be pampered pooches like the one above, but Ashburton District Council figures show that the number of misbehaving dogs and dog owners is increasing.

Dog numbers dropping

BY SUE NEWMAN

SUE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Dog numbers might be dropping in the Ashburton District but the number of bad dogs and bad dog owners is rising.

In a summary of dog control activities for the past three years, the Ashburton District Council’s records show that offence numbers rose sharply last year to a high of 79, rising from 44 in 20142015. And that increase in offences was matched by a rise in fines, hitting $21,900 last year.

The total number of registered dogs in the district was 6855 in 2014/2014, rising to 6902 in 2015-2016 but declining sharply to 6530 in the past financial year.

At the same time as the number of dogs fell, the number of dog owners who thumbed their noses at the council’s requirement to register their dogs rose, hitting a high of 53 last year, more than double the number in the previous two years.

The district’s dog control is carried out by MasterGuard. The contractor deals with dog control call-outs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, employing five staff.

In his report to the council environmental monitoring manager, Rick Catchpowle, said the council employed an “exacerbater pays” approach that sees dog and stock owners who failed to control animals effectively being

fined. Fine money is channelled back into animal control activity.

Over the past year the council’s contractor dealt with 1155 complaints about dogs (1201 in 20152016 and 798 in 2014-2015).

The majority of these were wandering dogs (742), with barking dogs making up 182 of the complaints.

Complaints of dog attacks have remained steady over the past three years at 53, as have complaints about rushing or aggressive dogs, 38.

Just one dog owner is shown on council records as currently being disqualified from dog ownership, with four owners on probation.

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Flock loads of birds no longer have to wing it on their own Flock loads of endangered birds have been given a helping hand thanks to predator control work, habitat protection and signage along the Ashburton / Hakatere River.

The Ashburton River is home to a large population of black billed gulls, black fronted terns, and spotted shags. These birds don’t have the easiest life, having to battle flooding, predators, and people.

As part of the predator control programme, 84 hedgehogs, 3 rats, 2 weasels have been caught.

Signage has also been installed to make sure river users take care around nesting sites – this includes keeping dogs under control.

Surveys in the Ashburton River carried out by Forest and Bird, DOC, and volunteers have identified breeding colonies of black billed gulls black fronted terns, spotted shags and other braided river birds. Environment Canterbury provided $26,000 in 2016/17 to fund the work to help protect braided river birds, a key priority of the Ashburton Zone Committee.

There are 49 dogs on the council’s menacing list and eight listed as dangerous.

In the past year the council achieved one prosecution against a local dog owner following an attack by his dog on a neighbour who suffered severe leg injuries.

In October last year, the dog in question jumped a neighbouring fence and attacked the resident of that property who received severe puncture wounds to her leg.

Over the past year 216 dogs have spent time in the council’s pound.

While most were reunited with their owners, 20 were euthanised and 30 rehomed.

Tibetan monks are bringing positive energy to Christchurch, as they create a sand mandala, grain by grain. The sand mandala, which is formed from crushed, marble-coloured sand, is believed to transmit positive energies to the environment and to people who view the fragile work. Six hours a day, for three weeks, the monks will place grains of sand, one after the other, to complete an intricate symbolic design.

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Record migration Record migration is resulting in big money being collected by Immigration New Zealand in visa application fees. Foreign nationals are now paying more than $200 million a year for visas to come to New Zealand. Annual net migration reached 72,400 in the year to July, up 3400 from the same period last year, Statistics New Zealand said. In figures released to the New Zealand Herald, the amount Immigration New Zealand received in visa applications in the last four financial years had risen from $148m in 2014 to $200.6m in the year ended June 2017.

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Peters in kingmaker position?

Winston Peters won’t be finance minister in a Labour government but National haven’t ruled out using the position in a coalition negotiation.

The New Zealand First leader looks set to be kingmaker after September 23, with his party potentially holding the balance of power to decide which of the major parties form the government Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has been researching what has made coalition agreements work in the past but has already confirmed certain bargaining chips are off the table.

“We’ve already said finance stays with Labour, we’ve also said the role of prime minister obviously stays with Labour,” she said yesterday.

It seems other positions though could be an option for other parties in coalition, including the Green Party.

“I’ve looked back on some of the coalition agreements of the past and think probably what has made them work is just the understanding that when you’re around the cabinet table, if you have ministers who are part of cabinet, that you continue to work on a no surprises basis, that you hold collective responsibility, that you

Winston Peters – the man who would be king. operate by the cabinet manual and beyond that you allow your individual parties to operate as individual parties,” she said.

Ardern also hasn’t given up hope on the Green Party, whose support fell to just four per cent

in the last Colmar Brunton poll which would push them out of parliament.

She’s expecting “considerable variation” in polls between now and election day.

National leader Bill English has

declared he doesn’t want Peters near monetary policy but hasn’t ruled out either the finance or economic development roles.

The party favours Steven Joyce remaining in the position if National wins a fourth term, but that’s subject to coalition negotiations, English said.

He told reporters that he wasn’t negotiating cabinet positions before the election, but said voters wouldn’t necessarily be happy with Peters in a finance portfolio.

“I think voters could see it would be a step backwards for the management of our economy just when the economy is really delivering benefits,” he said.

“We’re not ruling in, ruling out, The voters will decide who if anyone has to be party to negotiations,” he said.

English wants to be Peters’ first call when it comes time to talk coalitions.

The pair have history - in 1992 English seconded a motion to have Peters expelled from the National Party caucus.

“We have been in coalition together in 1996,” he said.

“That proved quite challenging. This is really about the voters’ judgement.”

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Lie costs trawler owner over $173,000 Tyler Stewart Stokes faced Christchurch District Court after lying about his father dying in a car crash to get off a fishing trawler he was working on in December, costing his employer over $173,000.

The 20-year-old Christchurch man was a crew member on a Talley’s Fisheries vessel that left Port Nelson on December 18, and was expected to return to shore just over a month later.

Yesterday the court heard that after two days on board, Stokes lied to the vessel’s captain and told him that his parents were involved in a serious car crash, which killed his father and left his mother in intensive care.

Talley’s Fisheries then called Stokes’ partner, Monique Carlaw, and she confirmed the crash.

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OUR VIEW

When promises are seen as just empty words Matt Markham

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here’s a war of words going on here in Ashburton but it would seem that a good portion of our community don’t care to engage.

We’ve received plenty of comment from farmers around the countryside in reaction to Labour’s proposed water tax policy.

Not much of it has been very nice, either.

Some of our biggest and most respected farmers have shared their opinion.

They’ve taken a shot at David Parker during his visit last week and they’ve stood shoulder to shoulder with David Clark as he put his thoughts, raw emotion and feelings to paper in the compelling letter that ran in yesterday’s edition of the Guardian.

But what is really evident is the urban and rural divide.

While the rural sector is throwing its hands in the air in frustration, a good majority of the urban dwellers of the Ashburton District are carrying on with life.

Call it pre-election boredom if you like, but a lot of people don’t actually care about what comes out of the mouths of politicians during this stage of an election.

There’s a common feeling that most of the time it’s empty promises – said to enhance the chance of a tick on polling day – and often without follow-through in the months and years post that date.

A four-lane highway from Ashburton to Christchurch sounds fantastic. But that’s just it, it sounds fantastic.

Until we can cruise our way through Rolleston four across without disruption and delay, it’s not really going to make an impact on us and chances of it being done in the next 10 or even 20 years seem rather remote.

So, the key to a successful campaign should therefore be convincing people that what they are saying is legitimate.

Tell us something that directly impacts on us.

Something that will show in our everyday lives and not just every time we want to head to the big smoke for a day out.

It’s the little things that matter, especially here in Ashburton.

We love wheelie bins and the thought of having them.

Most of the other stuff is just words mixed into promises that are likely to become unkept.

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Greg The lonely Planet promoting our beautiful foothills ...its brought a lot of tourism..and we got to rediscover just how beautiful it really is Geoff RDR Irrigation and Power Generation project. It has added Millions to the local economy.

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Sir, Peter Smith is clearly part of the pre-election Forest and Bird misinformation campaign designed to change the Government. He may be successful at that but the people of Ashburton don’t deserve to be lied to.

The Ashburton River has minimal water quality issues. It is fed by the Cameron Glacier and other foothill tributaries and its nutrient loading is almost nonexistent.

It has from time to time an issue with E.coli, but the source of that contamination is thought to be nesting seagulls and perhaps pigeons at State Highway 1.

Unfortunately Adrian Meredith, from ECan, has not been able to find enough E.coli in the river this past summer and autumn to verify the source.

He reported this recently to the zone committee. All that is known is that the source of the E.coli is between Digbys Bridge and State Highway 1.

The low flows in the Ashburton River are not because of irrigation abstraction.

Abstraction ceases long before the river drops to the sort of flows that could be considered to create low oxygen levels or induce algal blooms. Sometimes it just doesn’t rain.

The Ashburton River has a history of going dry naturally, which predates any irrigation development in the county.

It seems ironic that in the autumn Forest and Bird were com-

plaining that the flows in the Ashburton River were too high and were putting the black billed seagull colony at risk.

It is also worth pointing out that all that area from the Ashburton to the Rakaia rivers, which has probably the highest percentage of irrigated land use in New Zealand, has no waterways to pollute.

Peter should also know that only one third of the farms in this district are dairy farms; that irrigation on our better soils has allowed broad acre horticulture and a specialised seed industry to compete internationally from this town.

This diversification tends to keep the money spinning round in town, even when some sectors are doing less well.

If David Parker, or Peter, wants to penalise the dairy industry, putting our seeds industry at risk seems a dubious way of doing so.

Anyone who believes that the millions of dollars taken out of our local economy by this proposed tax will be returned to this district is naive to say the least.

Peter challenged me to drink from the Ashburton. I’m more than happy to do so again.

However, my need to drink from the Ashburton is not great as we have a shallow 23m bore on our farm in Eiffelton that supplies out domestic needs with pristine-quality water.

Despite all the hype about this district’s water supply, we are not short of high quality potable water.

Ian Mackenzie

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o, after a good deal of wriggling and writhing, Meteria Turei followed the noble example set by Andrew Little, fell on her sword and left the election field, chased by a howling mob of disastrous polls.

What follows is an adapted version of a column I had completed, a mere half hour before news of her departure was announced.

Being overtaken by events is part of the challenge of writing articles like these!

This is what I said, but with suitable alterations: “By now, all other political parties must realise that by choosing a ‘A Girl with a Gorgeous Grin’ as their new and shiny leader, Labour has stolen a major march on them all.

“Jacinda Ardern is causing poll pandemonium, with diehard opponents melting before her charm and captivating charisma.”

A nine-point rise in the support for the Labour Party in less than a week tells its own sensational story! With Jacinda now levelpegging with Bill English in the preferred prime minister stakes, the message is clear and the writing very much on the wall.

Those “other” parties are now also looking to promote someone of equally attractive voting potential, or certainly should be.

Particularly vulnerable at this pivotal point in the election cycle, the Greens, where Turei had become a road-blocking voting obstacle for her party.

As I wrote about an hour before she did so: “She should therefore resign – with immediate effect – from the co-leadership, then disappear into the mists of the forest where the ghosts of Greenies past gather for green tea and gruesome recollections.”

“Once Turei vacated the scene,” I continued, “a vital vacancy would emerge for a new, graceful, vote-appealing successor, of Jacinda potential and the Greens are in the happy position of having at least two such young, attractive candidates, either of whom are poised ready to step

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Nikki Kaye up to the electoral plate, Chloe Swarbrick and Hayley Holt.”

The former came third in last year’s Auckland mayoralty contest, while the latter is a past snowboarding champion and radio talk-back show hostess.

Hayley is 36 with a past, much discussed, alcohol problem.

Chloe is a mere 23 but, nevertheless, a fully practising politician.

So, what richness of choice the Greens face? After all, the faithful, long-serving Annette King, with her blameless record of long service to the Labour Party, stood aside for the angelic Jacinda; Meteria has finally done the same thing, for the benefit of her floundering party, for which she was directly responsible. The latest poll tells us just how responsible, with support slumping to a mere 4 per cent.

In the end, Turei will, doubtlessly, have noted the stress Andrew Little placed on party loyalty when he, of his own volition, walked the plank to be swallowed instantly by the swirling waters of failed ambition.

Turei, with her chequered past should, I said, immediately, follow suit.

Was it any wonder that two of the Greens’ most senior and responsible MPs – Messrs Graham and Clendon – should wish to distance themselves from their seriously flawed co-leader, who could bring nothing but further uncertainty to the party’s electoral prospects.

Somebody should have reminded Meteria that the raison d’être of the Green Party is the environment and its long-term protection. Anything else is secondary to the Green commitment. And someone may have actually so reminded her. The combined weight of all that at last

Chloe Swarbrick convinced Metiria resignation was her only course. We thought the two defectors would then make a welcome, party-saving return to the fold. That they were rebuffed by James Shaw and others of the dwindling party, defied reason.

As far as a vote-winning replacement for Turei is now concerned, young as she is, Chloe might be a better bet for the starting 15, but with Hayley on the bench, kitted up and ready to come on at a moment’s notice.

James Shaw, if he is wise as well as dapper, should be thinking along these lines. Later news, however, tells us Shaw will do the job on his own between now and September 23. That being the case, I find him less wise than dapper.

“But,” I hear you shouting out, “How are the other parties going to manage this sudden lurch towards political glamour, especially National.”

Well, I have two possible candidates to present there. First there is Nikki Kaye, recently returned from serious illness, now Minister of Education and also 37.

Kaye has twice held the Auckland Central seat since originally defeating Judith Tizard to win it, a sensational result at the time which, at once, marked her out as a future National leader.

Now – health permitting – in my opinion, her hour has come.

Paula Bennett, National’s present deputy, should do the decent thing – following the admirable example set by Annette King last year – and step aside to make way for the vote-winning Nikki.

Then, should Bill English’s unwise late-night texts to Glenys Dickson prove fatal to his future, (and point to certain defeat by Jacinda in September), Nikki will

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Hayley Holt also be poised, seamlessly, to take over the helm.

What a scenario would then prevail. Gentle Jacinda, versus Cool Chloe, versus Neat Nikki!

Talk about spoiled for choice. For Nikki’s running mate I would suggest Todd Barclay, but only if he can be found in time.

If Nikki’s health turns out not to be good enough for her to take on the role of prime minister, I would suggest – admittedly a rank outsider for the job – glamour girl and athletic phenomenon, polevaulter, Eliza McCartney.

Again, she would start on the bench, but be ready at any moment to go on to the field and begin persuading punters to part with their votes. I’m not sure whether she has any political leanings, so one or two of the less-intimidating National representatives might have to take her gently through Practical Politics 101.

So there you have it; a political prospect made in heaven. Elegant young women attempting, under their respective banners, to lead us to a future bright with hope, opportunity and happiness.

After thought If Jacinda’s campaign really is to be “relentlessly positive” she might have to point out to her equally, newly-crowned deputy, Kelvin Davis, that going on television ready and rehearsed to insult as many National Party leaders as he has time for hardly measures up.

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Alleged van killer shot Spanish police have shot dead an Islamist militant who killed 13 people with a van in Barcelona last week, ending a five-day manhunt for the perpetrator of Spain’s deadliest attack in over a decade.

Police tracked 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub to a rural area near Barcelona and shot him after he held up what looked like an explosives belt and shouted “Allahu Akbar”.

Abouyaaqoub had been on the run since he drove into crowds along Barcelona’s most famous avenue, Las Ramblas, killing more than a dozen people including seven-year-old NSW boy Julian Cadman.

The Moroccan-born Abouyaaqoub had been the only one still at large. His mother, Hannou Ghanimi, had appealed for him to surrender, saying she would rather see him in jail than dead.

An employee at a petrol station, along an empty stretch of road between the towns of Subirats and Sant Sadurni

Spanish police surround the van used in last week’s vehicle attack. d’Anoi, spotted a man resembling Abouyaaqoub and called the police.

Police found Abouyaaqoub hiding in vineyards and shot him dead.

The four people arrested so far in connection with the attacks are three Moroccans and a citizen of Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla.

Abouyaaqoub lived in Ripoll, a town in the Pyrenees mountains north of Barcelona close to the French border.

Islamic State also claimed responsibility for a separate deadly assault.

In Cambrils, a car rammed into passersby and its occupants got out and tried to stab people. The five assailants were

shot dead by police, while a Spanish woman died in the attack.

In the roughly seven hours of violence that followed the van’s entry into the central promenade of Las Ramblas attackers killed 15 people – 13 on Las Ramblas, the Cambrils victim and the man in the hijacked car.

Of the 120 injured on Las Ramblas, eight remain in a critical condition in hospital.

It was the deadliest attack in Spain since March 2004, when Islamists planted bombs on commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people, and the latest in a series of vehicular assaults on civilians in European cities claimed by Islamic State.

The van driver, Abouyaaqoub, began showing more religiously conservative behaviour over the past year, said relatives in his native Morocco.

Abouyaaqoub’s brother El Houssaine and first cousins Mohamed and Omar Hychami were among those killed by police in Cambrils.

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Hackers threaten GoT final The hacker group that attacked HBO recently has threatened to release the final episode of the current, seventh season of Game of Thrones early. Although they were offered $US250,000 from the US-based media company in leaked negotiations, the hackers apparently demanded $US6.5 million in Bitcoin as ransom for the stolen content. The latest season of the hit fantasy TV show has been hit by several problems – in addition to the hack attack, HBO itself accidentally leaked the penultimate sixth episode online early and had its social media accounts hacked in a separate attack.

Death after small quake hits Italian island At least one person has been killed and half a dozen others trapped, including children, after an earthquake rattled the Italian resort island of Ischia at the peak of tourist season.

Police said all but one of the people known to be trapped were responding to rescuers and were expected to be extracted alive.

Italy’s national volcanology institute said the quake struck a few minutes before 9pm, just as many people

Fiery words from North Korea over US drills North Korea has fired off its usual threats after the start of annual US-South Korean military drills, which the North claims are an invasion rehearsal.

The North’s military says it will launch an unspecified “merciless retaliation and unsparing punishment” on the United States over the Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills that began Monday.

North Korea has previously issued similar war-like rhetoric whenever US and South Korean troops conducted major joint exercises.

An unprompted direct attack is extremely unlikely because the United States vastly outguns Pyongyang.

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were having dinner.

The hardest-hit area was Casamicciola, on the northern part of the island.

There was great discrepancy in the magnitude reported.

Italy’s national volcanology agency put the initial magnitude at 3.6, though it revised it to a 4.0 sustained magnitude with a shallow depth of five kilometres in the waters just off the island.

The US Geological Survey and the European-Mediter-

ranean Seismological Center gave it a 4.3 magnitude, with a depth of 10 kilometres.

At least one hotel and parts of a hospital were evacuated.

A doctor at the Rizzoli hospital, Roberto Allocca, said that some 26 people were being treated for minor injuries at a makeshift emergency room set up on the hospital grounds.

Salerno confirmed one woman was killed by falling masonry from a church. At least three people were ex-

tracted from the rubble, the civil protection said.

Civil protection crews, already on the island in force to fight the forest fires that have been ravaging southern Italy, were checking the status of the buildings that suffered damage.

Together with the nearby island of Capri, Ischia is a favourite island getaway for the European jet set, famed in particular for its thermal waters.

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Dr Who’s sidekick revealed The first female Doctor Who will have a male sidekick old enough to be her father, it has been revealed. Jodie Whittaker, 35, will be accompanied on her travels through space and time by former Coronation Street star and quizshow host Bradley Walsh, 57. Recent companions have all been played by young women, including Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman and Jenna Coleman.

But, having bravely cast the first ever Time Lady, new show boss Chris Chibnall decided to go one further with Walsh.

The actor and writer go back a long way.

Headless body found in Baltic Sea The headless body of a woman has been found in the Baltic Sea near where a missing Swedish journalist is believed to have died on a privately built submarine.

A female torso without legs, arms or a head was found by a passerby, said the head of the Danish police investigation, Jens Moller Jensen.

“We have recovered the body ...

“It is the torso of a woman,” Jensen told reporters.

“An inquest will be conducted.”

He said it was “too early” to say if the body was that of 30-year-old Swedish reporter Kim Wall, who went missing more than a week ago after a trip on the submarine owned by 46-year-old Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor.

Jensen said the body was discovered hours after Madsen told authorities that Wall had died onboard in an accident, and that he buried her at sea at an unspecified location.

Madsen was arrested in connection with Wall’s disappearance after his submarine sank off Denmark’s eastern coast, an event police suspect the inventor caused on purpose.

He denied any wrongdoing and initially told authorities he had dropped the reporter off on a redeveloped island in Copenhagen’s harbour about three hours into a night-time trip August 10.

Madsen will continue to be held on preliminary manslaughter charges, police said. They declined to provide further details about

the new information he had provided.

Madsen was known for financing his submarine project through crowdfunding. The first launch of his 40-tonne, nearly 18-metrelong UC3 Nautilus in 2008 made international headlines.

Wall’s family earlier told The Associated Press that she had worked in many dangerous places as a journalist and it was unimaginable “something could happen ... just a few miles from the childhood home”.

Before his arrest, Madsen appeared on Danish television to discuss the submarine’s sinking and his rescue.

It was the journalist’s boyfriend who alerted authorities that the sub had not returned from a test run, police said.

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Coro Street spoiler alert Coronation Street fans’ jaws hit the floor when it was revealed that Andy Carver was still alive. The last time viewers saw him, he’d been bashed over the head with a laptop by the Cobbles’ resident baddie, Pat Phelan, who then wrapped his seemingly lifeless body up in a rug.

But it turns out that instead of bumping the Bistro worker off, Phelan’s been keeping him captive in the basement of a derelict house for the past nine months.

And while the shock revelation was a mind-blower, it turns out Corrie bosses have been drip-feeding fans with clues since May 15!

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Pledge to improve NZ’s waterways

Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer Bruce Wills (front left), and Federated Farmers president Katie Milne and other farming leaders have promised to improve New Zealand’s rivers.

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Dorian Devers has been appointed chief financial officer at Westland Milk Products.

PHOTO SUPPLIED first year, she said.

Devers is the third new senior manager Brendish, who began her role in September last year, has appointed, joining a new general manager China (Gary Yu) and a new chief operations officer (Craig Betty) on the senior management team.

“Westland’s drive to improve its financial performance, and seek constructive, mutually beneficial financial, technical and innovative relationships with key customers will be well supported by Dorian’s experience,” Brendish said.

He will be based at Westland’s Rolleston office.

Fairfax NZ renamed Stuff, new CEO Fairfax Media’s New Zealand division yesterday announced it is renaming as Stuff and appointed Sinead Boucher as chief executive.

Fairfax chief executive Greg Hywood said the renaming recognises Stuff’s local brand strength.

Boucher was previously Fairfax’s group executive editor for four years and prior to that was part of them team which developed the Stuff website.

“Sinead has established herself as an impressive force in modern

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“Sinead has done an outstanding job leading our journalism in New Zealand over the past decade,” Hywood said.

“She has been a driving force in lifting the digital skills, capability and focus of our newsrooms, as well as turbocharging digital, which is going from strength to strength.”

Sinead Boucher takes over from Simon Tong who resigned a week before the final decision on the proposed merger between NZME and Fairfax New Zealand which the Commerce Commission declined.

Both companies are now challenging its ruling in the High Court.

Tong joined Fairfax in 2013 and took up an executive role with ASB following his resignation.

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Westland Milk Products has appointed a new chief financial officer.

Westland chief executive Toni Brendish said British-born Dorian Devers had about 20 years’ international business finance experience and she was excited about the potential he would bring to the job.

“He has worked in the finance field for the Linde Group (formerly the BOC Group) since 1997,” Brendish said.

“He comes to us from his current role of financial director – Africa, UK and Ireland/group CFO for Afrox within the Linde Group.

“That role involved leading all aspects of finance for this huge region covering more than 20 countries, more than 400,000 customers and revenue of 1.5 billion Euro.

“Dorian also comes with New Zealand experience; he was head of finance for BOC New Zealand in 2003/04.”

Devers’ success at Afrox includes his contribution to delivering about 30 million Euro in cost savings and more than a 50 per cent increase in share price in his

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chair of Apiculture NZ and on the boards of Horticulture NZ, Ravensdown and the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge said scientific advances were enabling changes that would not have been foreseen in the last couple of gen-

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“It’s not very clear how big the challenge will be – it’s an ongoing journey and about learning new things, but we are committed to do the right thing.”

Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer Bruce Wills, who was also

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we haven’t always got this right.

More work is required and we will play our part.

“There’s a lot of good work being done by catchment groups in the regions already who are funding mitigation themselves.

erations. Such science also meant it was possible to achieve environmental gains, but not at the expense of the bottom line.

“With good management and good science you can achieve economic profit with minimal impact on the environment.

“We are going to solve the problem, the science around managing nutrient losses is very exciting – it will take a little time but we will get there.”

Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons said that although there were legitimate concerns about water quality, from a global perspective New Zealand was not doing too badly.

“New Zealand’s water quality is up with some of the best in the world – these are global challenges and this is an opportunity for New Zealand to lead the world and to share our innovations.”

Along with Milne, Wills and Mr Parsons, the other group members were Dairy NZ chairman Michael Spaans, Meat Industry Association chair John Loughlin, Central Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer Mike Petersen, and Fonterra chair John Wilson.

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Developments in science will help prevent and mitigate the country’s freshwater quality issues, say farming leaders who have formed a group to address the degradation of the country’s rivers.

For the first time in this country, a group of pastoral farming leaders have joined forces and committed to working towards making New Zealand’s rivers swimmable for future generations.

Heading organisations such as Dairy NZ, Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb NZ, the Farming Leaders Group, made up of seven members said to represent 80 per cent of the country’s pastoral farmed land, formed in May this year to work on issues of importance to the sector.

One of those issues, and a hot button election topic this year, was water quality, and gathered on the edge of the Ngaruroro River in Hawke’s Bay yesterday, the group explained that more needed to be done, and done faster.

Group spokesperson and Federated Farmers president Katie Milne, a West Coast dairy farmer, said many of the country’s rivers were not in the condition everyone wanted them to be.

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Give eggs a chance to shine E

Baked cauliflower

ggs are little power houses of goodness that are happily at home alone or combined with just about any ingredient.

While they’re most often thought of as a breakfast food, eggs are also great as part of a main course dinner dish.

Meat doesn’t have to be the start on the dinner table, why not give eggs a chance to shine.

1 small cauliflower 3T olive oil 1t ground cumin 1t ground paprika 1/2 t ground coriander 1/4 t cayenne pepper 7 eggs 1/2 C cream 1/2 C grated parmesan cheese 1/2 C grated tasty cheddar cheese 1 red onion, sliced into thin rings 1C cooked long grain white rice

Eggy leek and potato pie 50g butter 3 leeks, finely sliced Salt and freshly ground black pepper 6 eggs 1C (250ml) cream 1t seed mustard Salt and freshly ground black pepper 600g potatoes, scrubbed 150g thick sliced ham, chopped into 2cm sized pieces 1C grated cheese ■ Preheat the oven to 180°C. ■ Grease a 20 x 30cm lasagne dish with butter.

■ Melt the remaining butter in a large frying pan and gently cook the leeks until tender.

■ Season with salt and pepper.

■ Whisk together the eggs, cream and mustard. Season with salt and pepper.

■ Slice the potatoes thinly.

■ Line the base of the dish with the potatoes and layer with the ham, leeks, half the cheese and remaining potatoes.

■ Pour over the egg mixture and remaining cheese.

■ Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour or until potatoes are tender.

■ Turn the oven setting to grill, remove the foil and grill until the top is golden.

■ Preheat the oven to 200°C. ■ Grease a 20 x 28cm baking dish.

■ Divide the cauliflower into florets and arrange in a roasting dish.

■ Drizzle with oil, season with salt, cumin, paprika, coriander and cayenne.

■ Bake for 15 minutes until the cauliflower is starting to colour.

■ Whisk the eggs together with the cream in a large bowl and stir through the cheeses.

■ Arrange the cauliflower and onion in the baking dish and scatter over the rice.

■ Pour over the egg and cheese mixture.

■ Bake for 20 minutes or until the egg is just set.

■ Allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving.

■ Add the harissa, tomato paste, red peppers, garlic, cumin and 1/2 t salt.

■ Saute for about 10 minutes, until the peppers soften.

■ Add the tomatoes, bring to a simmer.

■ Cook for another 10 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened.

■ Make a half-dozen little indentations in the sauce and then crack an egg into each.

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In brief Wallabies drop a spot The Wallabies have slipped a spot down the World Rugby rankings following Saturday’s 54-34 thrashing to the All Blacks.

Australia have moved down to fifth in the world rankings with the Springboks leapfrogging the Wallabies into fourth. Argentina also fell one place from ninth to 10 place after opening the Rugby Championship with a 37-15 defeat to South Africa. The Pumas were as high as fourth two years after making the semi-finals at the World Cup. The top three remains unchanged with the All Blacks solidifying their position at number one while England and Ireland, second and third place respectively, don’t play again until the end of the year.

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Titans blasted

The team of eight swimmers from the Jennian Homes Ashburton Swim Team that will travel to Blenheim to contest the South Island championships. Back row (from left): Jared Scammell, Bailey Tait, Blake Farr and Bree Middleton. Front row: Andrew Peel, Brea Roderick, Courtney Elliott and Leigh Harrison.

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■ SWIMMING

Stepping up to nationals The Jennian Homes Ashburton Swim Team are stepping up their competition ahead of nationals.

The team will be sending eight swimmers to attend the South Island championships this weekend, running from Friday

to Sunday. The swimmers will travel to Blenheim for the event, competing in two sessions a day, with the prelims in the mornings and the finals in the evenings.

More than 215 competitors hit the qualifying times needed to

attend the event, so competition is expected to be tough.

Not only will they be representing Ashburton, Bree Middleton, 14, and Bailey Tait, 16, have also made the Canterbury regional relay teams, and will both

be competing in the 400 medley and 400 freestyle relays.

The meet is a small taster for what the swimmers can expect when the national short course championships are held in Auckland this October.

■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Pay spat unresolved; boycott threat remains The Rugby League Players’ Association is confident a pay deal can be reached within weeks, but warn strike action is still on the cards if no resolution is struck.

Almost 300 players met in person and via video conference to be presented with the NRL’s latest Collective Bargaining Agreement offer in Sydney on Monday night.

Negotiations have dragged on for 14 months with an October 31 deadline in mind, and the RLPA warns boycotts could begin by skipping commercial activities through next month’s finals series, including the captain’s call and the Dally M awards ceremony.

Players didn’t directly discuss the end-of-season World Cup on Monday, but skipping the tournament is still a possibility, as is challenging the league’s salary cap through the courts.

“We think that by locking ourselves away we can get this deal

Cronulla five-eighth and RLPA board member James Maloney. done. But having said that we can’t rule out further action,” RLPA chief executive Ian Prendergast said.

“The players have been extremely committed to getting a fair deal, and they will stand up and fight for what’s fair.”

Prendergast claimed the negotiations had moved a long way

since his NRL boss Todd Greenberg entered discussions.

While the two parties have found common ground on the $9.4 million salary cap for next season, there remains a number of key sticking points in the deal, including the RLPA’s push for a shared revenue stream.

So far the NRL has come part

way on the matter, but there is debate on what streams should and shouldn’t be included.Other issues include player retirement funds, insurance schemes and integrity matters.

A serious concern for the players is the suggestion they could be forced to hand over bank statements and phone records as part of new integrity protocols.

“I don’t think it’s necessary,” Cronulla five-eighth and RLPA board member James Maloney said.”Would you hand over your records to your boss? It seems unreasonable.

“There’s not too many other people who need to hand over their bank records to their boss.”

The players’ stance comes after club bosses last week left an NRL meeting confident the players would agree to the revised offer, which included a 52 per cent pay rise across the five years of the CBA. - NZME

Former Gold Coast football manager Scott Sattler has criticised the playing group’s leadership and called for an overhaul of the Titans’ football department in the wake of coach Neil Henry’s “humiliating” axing.

The Gold Coast junior and veteran of 203 first grade games blamed Henry’s sacking on the senior players’ inability to set a disciplinary standard at the start of the season.

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Going out with a bang Hawthorn can’t make the AFL finals this season, but don’t try to tell them they’ve got nothing to play for when they face the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium. Friday night’s clash will be premiership captain Luke Hodge’s last match, with injured defender Josh Gibson also bringing his decorated career to a close. Hawks vice-captain Isaac Smith says his side is desperate to send the pair out on a high and snuff out the Bulldogs’ faint finals hopes with a win.

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Tedesco ‘a threat’ As fitness tests go, running at Cronulla juggernaut Andrew Fifita was hard to beat for recovering North Queensland playmaker Te Maire Martin. “I think I would rather run at a bus,” Martin said. But the Cowboys five-eighth believes the true test for his troublesome knee awaits in Friday night’s must win NRL clash with Wests Tigers – former teammate James Tedesco.

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Roosters face hoodoo Sydney Roosters co-captain Boyd Cordner has embraced the challenge of breaking their NRL hoodoo against Cronulla in their clash on Saturday. In what looms as taste of the upcoming finals series, the third-placed Roosters will aim to end a six-game losing streak against the Sharks and clinch a top-four finish. A win will also avenge a 44-12 loss in Gosford last month – their biggest defeat of the year. “I didn’t play that game but I was at the Central Coast. The Sharks played really well and it’s always a tough game against Cronulla,” Cordner said yesterday. “They always seem to turn up to play well against us, especially at Shark Park. Coming at this stage of the season, it’s a good test for us.”

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Hayden Paddon will drive the Hyundai NZ i20 AP4+ at Rally Coromandel.

■ MOTORSPORT

Big field for Rally Coromandel A record field of 56 teams will assemble for round four of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, the Mahindra Goldrush Rally Coromandel.

Based from the Coromandel holiday town of Whitianga crews will tackle seven special stages and 140 kilometres of competitive action over one leg on Saturday.

The field will be headed by New Zealand’s own World Rally Championship star Hayden Paddon, who will reunite with long term co-driver John Kennard for the event. The pair will compete in a Hyundai i20 AP4+ car and are expected to have a trans-Tasman battle with second seed Australian pairing of Brendan Reeves and Ben Searcy.

Reeves, the defending winner of the Cormandel Rally, returns to join the Force Motorsport Team and drive an all new Mazda 2 AP4.

Current championship lead-

ers Matt and Nicole Summerfield are third seeds in their Subaru Impreza. The Rangiora brother and sister team hold a 10-point championship lead after victory at the previous two NZRC rounds.

Closest rivals after a consistent opening half to the championship is Balclutha’s Rhys Garnder and Alex Ramsay who will make their first apperance at Coromandel while third in the championship is Auckland’s Andrew Hawkeswood/Jeff Cress in their Mazda 2 AP4+.

Hawkeswood has been one of the pacesetters but had his run dogged by niggling issues.

With Coromandel marking the start of the second half of the championship race, all drivers will need to temper speed with finishing to score vital points in the remaining three rounds.

The two-car Holden Barina team of Christchurch’s Josh Marston/Andrew Graves and former Bathurst winner Greg

Murphy, who teams up with Mark Leonard, will also take to the Cormandel Peninsula roads.

The NZRC two-wheel drive field is led by Dylan Thomson/ Amy Hudson, who will be chasing class leaders Max Tregilgas/Glenn Goldring. The duo, both driving Ford Fiestas, will have competition from Nathan Tough/Samantha Gray (Honda CRX) and brother/sister team Robbie and Amy Stokes in their Toyota Levin.

Competition will also be fierce in the open two-wheeldrive with their biggest field of the season to date.

Series leaders Anthony Jones/ Tanya Gwynne (Ford Escort) and crowd favourites Marcus van Klink/Dave Neill (Mazda RX-8) head the field but will face opposition from Brent Taylor/Chris Ramsay (Toyota FT86), Wayne Pittams/Noel Moloney (Ford Escort) and Jeff Ward/Murray O’Neill (Hillman Hunter V8). The class also fea-

tures young guns Jack Williamson/Brenda Williamson (Suzuki Swift) and Jack Hawkeswood/ Mark Tapper in their Mazda RX7.

The Historic class will see the continuation of a season long battle between between the Ford Escort RS1800 of Tony Gosling/Blair Read and the Mazda RX-7 Grp B of John Silcock/ Richard Atkinson. However if either stumbles, they will have to fight off Graeme Coey/Tony Witheridge in their Mitsubishi Lancer, Paul Fraser/Dan Reichenbach (Ford Escort RS1800) and Mike and Helen Cameron (Mitsubishi Lancer).

This year’s Rally Coromandel sees crews leave the Mercury Bay Sports park from 7am on Saturday, August 26. They will cover just under 140 kilometres of special stages across the Coromandel Peninsula before the finish from 4.30pm at Blacksmith Lane in Whitianga.

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Cassidy optimistic for Japan’s Bathurst Nick Cassidy goes into this weekend’s Suzuka 1000 kms, looking for a podium position in his Lexus LC 500 and the opportunity to continue his front running form in the SUPER GT Championship.

With co-driver Ryo Hirakawa, the Aucklander currently lies third in the series, only two points behind leader James Rossiter and just one point off second place.

The Suzuka 1000 kms is the longest and most important race in the SUPER GT series – Japan’s equivalent of the Bathurst 1000 kms. Cassidy finished runner-up in the race last year in his debut season. A Crowd of 120,000 peo-

ple is expected on race day.

Cassidy and Hirakawa won the opening round of this year’s championship back in April and a string of consistent results have kept them in contention for the title.

“From the championship point of view, I think we are in a reasonable position,” said Cassidy.

At Suzuka, cars must make at least five pit stops to change drivers, tyres and refuel, but they are not allowed to pit during any safety car periods.

“I’m not a fan of it,” admitted Cassidy. “If you pit just before a safety car period you can usually

get an advantage. It means the races are sometimes a bit more about the luck of the draw, rather than team and driver strategy.”

Cassidy warmed up for Suzuka by finishing fifth in the latest round of the SUPER FORMULA series at Motegi last Sunday in a race dominated by tyre strategy.

He qualified fifth only 0.141 seconds away from pole position.

Electing to start on medium compound tyres he slipped back to eighth as drivers on soft tyres took advantage of their greater grip.

“I was really rapt with the weekend,” said Cassidy. “The competition is very close and the Kondo

team I am driving for has never been this competitive. If I can improve my starts we should be able to do even better.”

Once everybody had pitted and changed to the opposite tyre from that used at the start of the race, as the rules required, Cassidy improved to fourth with the greater grip he had from his soft tyres.

He lost one place in the closing laps to a driver who had pitted much later in the race and had fresher soft tyres.

Cassidy lies ninth in the series and third in the championship in his debut season in Japan’s top single seater cars.

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Greg Murphy and Josh Marston each tackle Rally Coromandel for the first time this weekend. The Penny Homes Holden Rally Team drivers are looking forward to piloting their Holden Barina AP4+ cars through the one-day rally on 26 August.

For Christchurch-based Marston and the team’s cars and crew, it’s a long trek north for the fourth round of the 2017 New Zealand Rally Championship based in Whitianga.

“I’ve heard a lot about the Coromandel rally and the roads sound like they are top notch so I’m really looking forward to getting up there,” Marston says. “From the in-car footage I’ve seen, it looks to be similar to Whangarei if a little slower but generally good gravel public roads, flowing with cambers. With all the stages being run in a different direction this year, that will be a bit of a leveller as they’ll be new to everyone – that helps us a bit having not done this rally before.”

Since the previous round in Canterbury, there’s been a raft of minor development work and general maintenance on the newthis-season Barina rally cars at RDL Performance, the motorsport fabrication and race/rally car preparation operation run by Marston’s family in Christchurch.

Marston says: “We are confident that the setup changes we are making will move us in a positive direction.”

Marston and Murphy have straightforward goals for Rally Coromandel – Marston to find a good rhythm and feeling in the car, and Murphy to keep building his rallying experience by completing as many competitive kilometres as possible.

“I don’t have too many expectations in terms of outright performance,” Murphy says. “I’m just excited to be back in the car again, it seems like an eternity since Canterbury. Hopefully we get some decent weather compared to the last two events and allow the MRF tyres to bite into some dry roads instead.”

Murphy’s been working on his own knowledge. “I’ve spent a fair bit of time looking at in-car video from Canterbury, focusing on the pace notes. I’ve had a Motion Force 1 Simulator at home over the past few weeks which has Dirt Rally loaded into it. Even though it is a simulated video game, it is incredibly tough and requires intense concentration to get through the stages and the pace notes make a huge difference to your performance, so hopefully the brain is getting a bit more used to having instructions delivered in that format.”

Marston adds: “Sounds like a bit of a lottery up there as the long range forecast is for rain, surely we can’t have three rallies in a row where it is wet! Apparently, the roads are quite hard on tyres if the weather is dry, but can also be quite slippery if wet so makes it tricky from that aspect.” - NZME

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The New Zealand U21 Waterski team that competed at the U21 World Waterski Championships in Dnipro, Ukraine, last month.

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Mid Canty big part of team

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

For last month’s U21 World Waterski Championships, Mid Canterbury made up a fair chunk of the New Zealand team.

Hannah Wright was part of the five-person team that travelled

to the competition, held in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, along with dad Geoff, who was the manager of the team.

“The team came in 11th which is about where they normally place,” he said. “There was no PBs but some pretty good performances.”

It was Hannah’s first time in competitive water skiing in two years, he said, and she performed well considering.

“The weather was good, the hospitality was good, and the facilities were good.

“We flew to Kiev and then on

to Dnipro so we didn’t get to see much of the countryside,” he said.

“There were good solid performances and it was a great experience for some of the skiers who wouldn’t normally get the chance to compete at a world championships.”

■ RUGBY

All Blacks vow to fix second-half fade The All Blacks are determined there will be no late face-saving opportunity for the Wallabies if they can build another big lead in Saturday’s second Bledisloe Cup Test.

Eyeing the chance to lock away the prized trophy for yet another year at Dunedin’s roofed stadium, the All Blacks have been focusing on their failings in the last half hour of last weekend’s of 54-34 win in Sydney.

When wing Ben Smith scored New Zealand’s eighth try on 47

minutes, a huge blow-out had been on the cards.

But the Wallabies, down 546, roared back with four unanswered tries in 17 minutes.

All Blacks assistant coach Ian Foster says it’s obvious what went wrong.

“We knocked off and lost a real mental edge about how we executed and how we need to execute and the fact is that it showed in both parts of our game,” Foster said.

“We let in four tries, but some

of that was just poor attack – poor decisions in attack rather than anything else.”

“It’s an 80-minute game. We’ve always taken a lot of pride in doing that and we didn’t do it in Sydney.” Foster noted that it was something that also happened in the British and Irish Lions series this year.

The All Blacks won the first Test against the Lions, but then dropped late leads in losing the second test and in drawing the decider.

“When you look through our games, I don’t think we’ve won the won the last quarter for the last two to three tests,” he said.

He was reluctant to lay blame with the bench players, saying it was about the whole team that was on the pitch during the last quarter. “In Sydney, we were seeing execution mistakes from some players that had been on the field the whole time,” he said.

“It’s not just a matter of looking at the guys who are running off.”

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Wallabies’ skills are coming, says Byrne Wallabies assistant Mick Byrne has urged patience, convinced his skills revolution is on the right track, even if angry supporters can’t see evidence on match day.

Byrne has spent the last 12 months on Michael Cheika’s coaching staff after working with the All Blacks in a similar skillsfocused role through three World Cup campaigns.

On face-value evidence of Saturday’s 54-34 Bledisloe Cup thumping, the former AFL ruckman has had little impact.

But he says it is only a matter of time as he’s seeing huge improvement on the training paddock and persistence will inevitably bring that out in matches.

Byrne pointed out that two years into his stint with New Zealand came the country’s

worst-ever finish at a World Cup in 2007, when they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by France. They emerged from the fallout and recriminations from that tournament as the slick, well-drilled outfit they are today, winning the next two World Cups and carving out an aura of near invincibility.

“If you go back, 2007 wasn’t a flash year for us trying to get

things right,” Byrne said.

“But certainly when it clicks into gear, it happens, and when you turn the corner, you turn it pretty quickly.”

Byrne admitted Australia’s passing and tackling skills weren’t up to scratch in Saturday’s Bledisloe Cup opener and said he felt sympathy for fans demanding quick progress in that department.

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Assistant coach Ian Foster says midfielder Ryan Crotty’s attacking abilities should be given the recognition they deserve after an “outstanding” performance against the Wallabies.

Crotty has endured his share of disappointments this season – most obviously a torn hamstring in the first test against the British and Irish Lions which ruled him out of the next two - but he must be considered ahead on the ledger after winning his maiden Super Rugby title and helping the All Blacks carve up the Wallabies in Sydney last weekend.

The 28-year-old’s ability has long been appreciated by Crusaders supporters and now his consistency and sharpness on attack and defence are gaining the respect of a wider audience.

His partnership with Sonny Bill Williams in the midfield - first made in 2010 when Williams arrived at Canterbury from Toulon works so well because the pair are so different and yet compliment each other so well.

“I thought his game on the weekend was outstanding,” Foster said of Crotty, who has played 28 tests since making his debut in 2013.

“He gets labelled the ‘Steady Eddie’, doesn’t he, in some ways because he doesn’t make many mistakes, but then you look at his gain-line carries - one of the highest in the team - line breaks and offloads, so there is a lot more to his game than perhaps he is given credit for.

“And yes he’s a calming influence and a really good reader defensively, but he’s also a pretty significant contributor on attack in probably a less flamboyant way but in a very effective way.”

In beating six defenders during his 49 minutes on the ANZ Stadium pitch, Crotty was the most elusive player of not only the match but of the opening weekend of the Rugby Championship.

His departure coincided with the Wallabies’ comeback and while it would be dangerous to connect the two things too closely, the All Blacks, or Crusaders for that matter, just seem to be able to keep a better shape when Crotty is on the field.

His timing when running on to passes – the second straight from a scrum – helped him to two firsthalf tries against the Wallabies last weekend and he and Williams appear set to be the current team’s answer to the long-serving former midfield of Ma’a Nonu and Conrad Smith.

The return Bledisloe Cup test will focus attention on how the Wallabies can tighten a defence which leaked eight tries, but there will be interest too in whether the All Blacks can sustain their efforts for the full 80 minutes.

Crotty’s accuracy will again be important.

“Our attention got a little diverted one way or another and we let them back into the game,” Crotty said.

“We saw when we did execute with the ball and without it, it limited the opportunities we gave them.”

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Barnes’ moment of madness

By GreGor Paul

Mid Canterbury co-coach Craig Dunlea lectures his troops ahead of the upcoming Heartland Championship.

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■ RUGBY

Hammers’ focus: Good footy

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

With pre-season now firmly in the rear-view mirror, Mid Canterbury coaches James Jowsey and Craig Dunlea have their sights set on the Heartland Championship ahead.

After back-to-back Meads Cup successes in 2013 and 2014, a semifinal exit in the Meads and Lochore cups followed in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

On top of that, Mid Canterbury also lost possession of the Hanan Shield last year, and will be firmly in the sights of the Hammers this year.

Looking back on the pre-season, co-coach Craig Dunlea said there were a lot of positives to take from it.

“Realistically, we got to have a look at two top division sides and boys got to see what it is like

at that level they want to be at,” he said.

“We got together a bit later than what we would’ve liked, but that is just what we have got to work with and we just had to keep on trucking.”

When it comes to goals for the Heartland Championship, two things top the list.“We want the boys to be out there playing good footy and we want to get into the top four and in contention (for the Meads Cup),” he said.

“We just need to get things all sorted, having all the boys fit and available and in really good nick.”

With a strong mix of youth, experience and experienced youth, the balance and make-up of the squad has Dunlea happy.

“It brings energy and excitement to the team and it keeps

the older boys honest,” he said.

“We want these guys to develop and we don’t just want to throw them in at the deep end.

We want to mentor them and make them the best players they can be.”

Mid Canterbury’s draw for the upcoming season could be considered daunting, boasting the entirety of the top eight from last season, but Dunlea is excited to see what challenges it brings.

“It is really exciting actually, there are good benefits to be playing tough games week in and week out,” he said. “You can sometimes get a false sense of security if you put a whole bunch of points on a team one week.”

With the back-to-back Meads Cup titles and regular top four appearances, Dunlea said there is the idea that as a union, Mid

to S Gibson 1 dn, T Booker lost to C Rowland 4/6, M Wederell squared with M Hore, S Martin bt J Watson 5/4, F Bierema squared with R Sutherland, F Rushton bt D McKenzie 4/3, Quinn and Booker lost to Gibson and Rowland 2 dn, Wederall and Martin bt Hore and Watson 1 up, Bierema and Rushton bt Sutherland and McKenzie 5/4)

drew Barrie. Gluyas Ford # 6; Jeff Hewitt.

Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill#12; Gordie Kenton. Ace Auto Electrical # 16. Dave Allan. G& R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Steve Anderson. Two’s; Jeff Hewitt, Wayne Ross, Gordie Kenton, Dave Allan, Gordon Rennie, Andrew Barrie. Eagle; Nigel Heney # 3.Net eagle; # 8 not struck

Canterbury punches above its weight.

“We have always been there or thereabouts despite our size and amount of players to pull from and as a region the players always strive to be the best,” he said.

With more former All Blacks slowly finding their way into Heartland sides, such as Mid Canterbury’s Regan King, and Corey Flynn who featured against Mid Canterbury on Saturday for the West Coast, Dunlea believes the level is improving.

“From playing here 10 years ago to coaching now you can see the different levels,” he said.

“There are some bloody good players and some bloody good coaches. You can now see the guys moving on to the ITM Cup and to Super Rugby contracts from Heartland.”

SPORTS RESULTS RESULTS ■ Golf Aorangi Golf Club August 21 Women’s Open Pennant Semi Finals at Timaru: Temuka 5 beat Mayfield 4 (W Powell bt J Clucas 1 up, J Davenport lost to J Webb 3/4, P Taylor lost to L Mulligan 2 dn, E Marryatt bt H Rapsey 4/2, H Tarrant bt J Lake 4/2, A McSweeney lost to M Read 1 dn, Powell and Davenport squared with Clucas and Webb, Taylor and Marryatt squared with Mulligan and Rapsey, Tarrant and McSweeney bt Lake and Read 3/2) Rakaia 5 beat Tokarahi 4 (S Quinn lost

Tinwald Golf Club August 19 Stroke Leading scores in the medal and championship qualifying round: Senior; -12: Terry Reynolds 69, Dave King 70, Jeff Hewitt 70. Intermediate; 13-18: Richard Thompson 70, Andrew Barrie 71, Kevin Bishop 71, Cameron Miller 71. Junior; 19 Plus; Lindsay Jackson 66, Ben Hobson 68, Trevor Emery 69. Women; Barb MacGregor 73, Christine Kinita 76. Nearest the pin; Tinwald Liquorland: #2; An-

■ Shooting Ashburton Rifle Club August 14 Bruce Dellow 90.0, Greg Menzies 97.7, Allan Mitchell 91.1, 95.3, Murray Cook 94.4, 97.2, Rodney McDowell 97.3, Abby Calder 85.1, Klara Harrison 80.0, L Storey 69.0.

21 August Abby Calder 68.0, Bruce Dellow 79.0, Murray Cook 94.1, 94.1, 98.2, Grant glassey 90.1, Allan Mitchell 95.2, Garth

wright 85.0, Klara Harrison 85.0.

Mt Somers Rifle Club Lachlan Rooney 64.0, 80.0, Archie Rooney 82.0, 75.0, Jess Heaven 81.0, 89.2, Jack Keane 60.0, 60.0, Josh Jones 71.0, Jeremy Jones 91.1, Harry Redman 93.3, 86.1, Mark Smith 92.1, 93.2, 96.3, Sid Stewart 96.3, 95.5, Andy Oram 97.3, Kevin Fews 91.2, 79, Brent Frame 94.2, 97.6, Eddie Millichamp 92.1, 89.1, Stephen Millichamp 95.1, 97.6, David Millichamp 95.3, 94.2, Joe McAdam 98.6, 99.8, Wayne Tubb 93.2.

Mayfield Rifle Club Martin Fleming 99.7, Sonya Spencer 63.0, Robert Spencer Jnr 88.0, Nicholas McDowell 91.2, Daniel Gould 90.0, Ben Nordqvist 89.0, Andrew Donaldson 96.4, Carl Nordqvist 93.2, Fernando Torres 92.0, Alan Wakelin 97.4, John Fleming 99.2, 97.4.

It’s with a heavy heart and a sense of dread to have to be writing about Wayne Barnes. Again. But then he’s made it that way.

He’s a good referee. One of the best probably and he had, mostly, a good game in Sydney where he was in charge of the first Bledisloe Cup test of the year. He was clear, he was decisive and he was consistent. All good, nice job Wayne.

But then he had one moment of madness. One brain failure that really was alarming, not just because of the incident itself but because it was the third time while refereeing the All Blacks that he failed to correctly determine an obviously forward pass.

The incident in question came in the build up to the try scored

by Israel Folau midway through the second half. Wallabies first-five Bernard Foley tried to fling the ball wide quickly to exploit the space on the outside.

But in trying to make the long pass, his skill execution let him down and he threw the ball forward.

A long way forward. It started in a forward direction and drifted further on the wind. It was a clear and obvious forward pass. It couldn’t have been more obviously a forward pass and yet the bigger concern, the only concern in fact, for the match officials was whether once the ball had landed it had bounced off Tevita Kuridrani making Folau offside.

But what is this nonsense about hands going backwards that now dominates referee’s thinking around forward passes? Back in the day, it was simple. No one cared if the passer’s hands were pointing whatever way. No one looked to over analyse the flight path of the ball in micro detail.

If it ended up ahead of where it was thrown it was a forward pass and no one once ever complained about that.

Surely such common sense has to once again prevail and if the ball goes forward in the air it’s a forward pass? Why over complicate matters? If it looks and feels like a forward pass, then it probably is.

Blow the whistle, give the scrum and be done with it.

Barnes is by no means the first official to have a shocker in this specific regard but his propensity to stuff up that one business of adjudicating forward passes when the All Blacks are involved is now feeling like a pattern. A problem even.

It’s inexplicable that he can be such a good referee but for that one continued failing against that one specific team. He obviously made a terrible mistake at the 2007 World Cup quarter-final when he was young and inexperienced.

That night he simply failed to see what millions around the world could, which is that the French threw the ball almost two metres forward in the build-up to their crucial match-winning try. - NZME

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Encouraged by Te Rapa effort Rangipo only beat four runners home in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate, but that didn’t accurately reflect his performance on an unsuitably heavy Te Rapa track.

Tony Pike left the course a satisfied trainer with his Group One winner’s resuming effort on Saturday and looking forward to the Hawke’s Bay carnival.

“It was a super run. He travelled well and Leith (Innes) had to grab another hold of him with 600m to run,” he said.

“He couldn’t get out to the better part of the track and he was held up a couple of times.”

Pike has also been delighted with Rangipo’s progress since the Te Rapa race.

“He came through it really well,” he said.

“It was more like a barrier trial for him and the step up to 1400 metres at Hastings will suit him even better.”

Rangipo will make his next appearance in the Gr.1 Tarzino

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Trophy on Saturday and he holds nominations for the final two legs of the Triple Crown series, the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate and the Gr.1 Livamol Classic.

Pike also reported his impressive three-year-old winner Felton Road had come through Saturday’s outing in fine shape.

The son of Pins resumed over 1100 metres and once he saw clear air late in the straight he was smartly through the gap.

“It was good to see him come back so well,” Pike said.

“He relaxed nicely and it was good to see him sprint so well on such a wet track.”

Felton Road will make his next appearance in the Listed Tavistock Northland Breeders’ Stakes on September 16.

– NZ Racing Desk Right – Rangipo’s progress since the Te Rapa race has impressed his trainer Tony Pike.

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway 1 6 Ahuroa Magic nwtd ...........................R Murray Meeting Date: 23 August 2017 NZ Meeting number: 3 Dou- 2 28543 Jet Pack nwtd U & ................................Cottam bles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 3 37438 Last Man Alive nwtd ...........................M Olden 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 4 7 Cool Wolf nwtd ................................. D Donlon 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 5 38 Subway Kay nwtd .......................... B Goldsack 1 12.09pm (NZT) ABSOLUTLEY ELECTRICAL C0 C0, 6 83476 Star Secret nwtd..............................K Williams 305m 7 37222 Just Like Ma nwtd J & ............................D Bell 1 7x43 Bigtime Swift nwtd .....................G Fredrickson 8 57387 Cawbourne Jeff nwtd ............................ J Hunt 2 68 Ace Star nwtd ................................ B Goldsack 9 67885 Cawbourne Broady nwtd .................... L Doody 3 26585 Paris Global nwtd ......................J T McInerney 10 75868 Homebush Bow nwtd ................J T McInerney 4 68 Ponder Rosa nwtd ......................... B Goldsack 5 1.19pm J P PRINT PETONE C1 C1, 520m 1 64753 Wood He 30.82 ..............................A Turnwald 5 88644 Loco Amigo nwtd S & ...................C Blackburn 2 48664 Rally Sarious nwtd ....................J T McInerney 6 Little Scamp nwtd ........................D W Denbee 3 62425 Wong Full Arrest 30.75....................C J Morris 7 24675 Kinetic Shadow nwtd .............................. L Bell 4 75656 Opawa Bucks nwtd..............................R Waite 8 53548 Ms Rubble Double nwtd ......................R Waite 5 24356 Fast Rigby 30.12 ............................... T Pilcher 9 67885 Cawbourne Broady nwtd .................... L Doody 6 22521 Bigtime Eve 30.56 ................................. L Cole 10 27688 Homebush Gracie nwtd............... K Gommans 2 12.26pm WANGANUI CHRONICLE C0 C0, 520m 7 16343 Cawbourne Kai 30.72......................M Roberts 1 Cawbourne Johno nwtd J & ...................D Bell 8 5F567 Ivanhov 30.39 K & ................................ Phillips 2 Cawbourne Bettsy nwtd J & ...................D Bell 9 88478 Forever And Ever 30.88 .............. K Gommans 3 3 Bigtime Sandy nwtd .............................. L Cole 10 56778 Scodelario 30.93 ................................ L Doody 4 Pinky Winky nwtd ...........................A Turnwald 6 1.36pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C0 C0, 305m 1 58776 African Violet nwtd.....................J T McInerney 5 62655 Howlin’ Ace nwtd ................................S Codlin 2 85665 Pickering nwtd ....................................... J Hunt 6 2 Bigtime Brucie nwtd .............................. L Cole 3 57457 Stole Me Keys nwtd..................... K Gommans 7 22648 Waterloo Blue nwtd ...............................W Kite 4 3 Eye Kno nwtd ....................................... I Howe 8 Bigtime Red nwtd .................................. L Cole 5 Bacon My Heart nwtd............................ L Cole 9 5 Bigtime Riley nwtd................................. L Cole 6 23 Cash Person nwtd .......................... P C Morris 10 6 Fancy Fifita nwtd ............................ P C Morris 3 12.44pm METEOR OPD WANGANUI C0 FINAL C0f, 7 26344 Miss Muffet nwtd ............................J McArthur 305m 8 6 Shark And Tayty nwtd.................... B Goldsack 1 1 Bigtime Jonty 17.98............................... L Cole 9 67885 Cawbourne Broady nwtd .................... L Doody 2 2 White Comet nwtd ............................ D Donlon 10 88622 Warrior Tony nwtd U &..........................Cottam 3 43322 Carefree Highway nwtd ...................K Williams 7 1.54pm AON CPF C1 C1, 520m 1 55853 Ef Ay Zarr 30.67 U & ............................Cottam 4 87331 Zoya Bale 17.61 ..............................M Roberts 2 12256 Cawbourne Skeeta nwtd J & ..................D Bell 5 1 Paws For Concern 18.05....................... L Cole 3 57558 Chase Me Apatche 31.15.................G Atwood 6 82272 Lace nwtd ......................................... M Gowan 4 152x3 Bigtime Ottey nwtd ................................ L Cole 7 32351 Tiger Uppercut 18.21 ............................. L Bell 5 33427 Forkner Bale nwtd ...........................M Roberts 8 84582 Carrick nwtd I C & .............................J Lenden 6 64446 Totes nwtd .................................J T McInerney 9 3 Trendy Val nwtd .........................G Fredrickson 7 15685 Niamh’s Way nwtd ........................... P Blanche 10 3 Eye Kno nwtd ....................................... I Howe 4 1.01pm ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS WANGANUI C0 C0, 8 73784 Bonus Lotto nwtd ............................... L Doody 305m 9 88478 Forever And Ever 30.88 .............. K Gommans

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10 86886 Banshee Reel 30.84............................R Waite 2.11pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C1 C1, 305m 1 34446 Baduzzi 18.20 ...........................J T McInerney 2 18344 Jamaica Mistaica 18.05 K & ................. Phillips 3 23264 Cawbourne Mack nwtd J & ....................D Bell 4 11474 Culvie Den 17.80.................................... L Bell 5 35723 Sozin’s Galaxy 18.18.................J T McInerney 6 18 Avedon Film 18.05 ...............................M Flipp 7 38674 Ndora 17.86 .........................................D Edlin 8 47858 Bigtime Racer 17.78..................G Fredrickson 9 26428 Set The Limit 17.72 ............................S Maher 10 67186 Buzzy Gem 17.96.................................. J Hunt 9 2.29pm FIRST SECURITY C1 C1, 520m 1 14345 Thrilling Stan 30.40 ..............................D Edlin 2 37556 Cawbourne Lick 30.38 J & .....................D Bell 3 52848 Sedgebrook Angel nwtd ......................... F Kite 4 42527 Golden Pixel 30.52 ........................ G Hodgson 5 81 Bigtime Trev nwtd .................................. L Cole 6 42322 Hezaman 30.33 U & .............................Cottam 7 25527 Pacific Sunrise 30.56 ...........................M Flipp 8 62552 Making It Up nwtd ...........................C J Morris 9 88478 Forever And Ever 30.88 .............. K Gommans 10 88658 Lucky Sunday nwtd ...................J T McInerney 10 2.47pm WANGANUI TOYOTA C1 C1, 305m 1 27228 Cawbourne Murf nwtd J & ......................D Bell 2 11317 Harry Brown 17.78 ................................ L Cole 3 81768 Snow Ball Chance 17.72 ............. E Duganzich 4 36F86 Thunder Storm 17.72 ................J T McInerney 5 7354F Opawa Janet nwtd................................M Flipp 6 78636 Roketto 17.90 .......................................D Edlin 7 67274 Sweet Lovin’ nwtd......................G Fredrickson 8 81288 Crazy Sunday 18.07 ..................J T McInerney 9 84447 Sky Delight 18.00 U & ..........................Cottam 10 56736 Jandel Man 17.81........................ K Gommans 11 3.04pm LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C1 C1, 520m 1 65686 Lissadell Marcus nwtd ...................... D Donlon 2 33564 Classy Delta nwtd ...........................C J Morris 3 43472 Steel The Gold 30.53 ..................... P C Morris 4 72744 Opawa Shiloh 30.41 ........................... B Marsh 5 73878 Zarzuella nwtd ....................................S Codlin 6 28356 Cawbourne Westy 30.54 ............. K Gommans

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27671 Gunnar Blueblood 30.18 ...........J T McInerney 65843 Whata Shemozzel nwtd ....................R Murray 88478 Forever And Ever 30.88 .............. K Gommans 47778 She’s Mustard 30.61 ...........................R Waite 12 3.21pm BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK C1 C1, 305m 1 65868 Scott To Go 18.23..................................L Hunt 2 87137 Hungry Machine nwtd S &.................. B Evans 3 72434 Homebush Lucifer 17.53 ...........J T McInerney 4 72226 Wellington Wind 18.02 K &................... Phillips 5 15774 Little Moo 17.72 U &.............................Cottam 6 51223 Bigtime Champ 17.89............................ L Cole 7 45752 If It Fitz 17.74 .......................................M Flipp 8 86844 Cawbourne Patty nwtd J & .....................D Bell 9 42657 Smash Fire nwtd ................................... N Udy 10 25474 Adrenalin Kick 18.19 .................J T McInerney 13 3.38pm HATRICK DASH C1 C1, 305m 1 58136 Guru’s Choice 17.95........................K Williams 2 22333 Devil’s Tongue 18.01 ...........................S Stone 3 53735 Mahala Bay 18.24 ................................ I Howe 4 85347 Lip It Up 18.04 ...........................J T McInerney 5 34353 Take Action 17.92............................M Goodier 6 71253 PikoPiko Connor 18.28....................... C Brider 7 82538 Cawbourne Spree 17.66 J & ..................D Bell 8 33864 Opawa Ash nwtd U & ...........................Cottam 9 12657 Cala D’Or nwtd .....................................M Flipp 10 86276 Idol Billie nwtd ............................. S Gommans 14 3.56pm MAX REFRIGERATION C1 C1, 305m 1 46667 Pacific Vibe 17.77 ......................J T McInerney 2 314 Clover Victoria nwtd .......................A Turnwald 3 65786 Opawa Poppy 17.53 .............................M Flipp 4 12542 Nippa Joy 18.14 ........................J T McInerney 5 37463 Uno Again 17.74 ................................... N Udy 6 7123 Bigtime Buster 18.08 ............................. L Cole 7 48235 Five Starlass 17.97 .....................D W Denbee 8 62871 Judge’s Call 17.88 J &............................D Bell 9 78x44 Cawbourne Jazzy nwtd J & ....................D Bell 10 37752 Rapper Tilly 17.76 ..................................S Kite 15 4.17pm LASER PLUMBING WANGANUI C1 C1, 305m 1 34515 Watch Your Back 17.96 .........................W Kite 2 1354 Bigtime Mark 17.89 ............................... L Cole

3 77326 Cawbourne Dora 17.76 J & ....................D Bell 4 33764 Ebony Haze 17.93...............................S Stone 5 36577 Air Express 17.94 ......................J T McInerney 6 43277 Sioux Baxter 17.90 ....................J T McInerney 7 3647x Making Time 17.65 .................................S Kite 8 51878 Unawares 18.21 .............................A Turnwald 9 86257 To Much Andre 18.04 ......................K Williams 10 67527 Opawa Smoke 17.59 ............................M Flipp 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: Bigtime Swift, Ms Rubble Double, Little Scamp, Kinetic Shadow, Paris Global Race 2: Bigtime Sandy, Bigtime Brucie, Bigtime Red, Cawbourne Bettsy, Cawbourne Johno Race 3: Zoya Bale, Bigtime Jonty, Paws For Concern, White Comet, Carefree Highway Race 4: Just Like Ma, Subway Kay, Last Man Alive, Jet Pack, Star Secret Race 5: Bigtime Eve, Fast Rigby, Cawbourne Kai, Wong Full Arrest, Wood He Race 6: Bacon My Heart, Cash Person, African Violet, Miss Muffet, Stole Me Keys Race 7: Bigtime Ottey, Cawbourne Skeeta, Forkner Bale, Ef Ay Zarr, Bonus Lotto Race 8: Sozin’s Galaxy, Ndora, Bigtime Racer, Culvie Den, Baduzzi Race 9: Hezaman, Bigtime Trev, Golden Pixel, Thrilling Stan, Making It Up Race 10: Harry Brown, Roketto, Cawbourne Murf, Sweet Lovin’, Snow Ball Chance Race 11: Gunnar Blueblood, Steel The Gold, Classy Delta, Opawa Shiloh, Lissadell Marcus Race 12: Little Moo, Bigtime Champ, If It Fitz, Hungry Machine, Homebush Lucifer Race 13: Guru’s Choice, Devil’s Tongue, Cawbourne Spree, Take Action, Mahala Bay Race 14: Clover Victoria, Nippa Joy, Bigtime Buster, Judge’s Call, Pacific Vibe Race 15: Bigtime Mark, Unawares, Watch Your Back, Making Time, Cawbourne Dora

1 31218 Az Given tdm (2) 60.5 ......S Weatherley (a1) 2 3112x Malfarious mb (4) 59 ..................R Elliot (a1) 3 08940 Conrwin tdm (5) 58.5 .............J Fawcett (a3) 4 68672 Tranky Doo dm (1) 57.5 ..................A Collett 5 45193 Lady Pinot dm (8) 57............T Newman (a4) 6 80x57 Summer Dale tdm (9) 57................... T Allan 7 12523 Swiss Military mb (7) 57 .................. T Harris 8 22020 Salted Caramel dm (3) 54 ..........A Sims (a3) 9 03978 Bewitched (6) 54 ........................ L Satherley Blinkers on : Esprit De Corps (R6), Conrwin, Salted Caramel (R7) Blinkers off : Clairetheway, Irish Missile (R3), Dudewithattitude (R4), Fort Knox, Irish Missile (R5) Winkers on : Fort Knox, Verdant (R5) LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age

and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances SELECTIONS: Race 1: Century Miss, Four Day High, Suffice To Say, Belle Volant, God Of Herbs Race 2: Mongolian Beauty, New Laws, Van Diamond, Notabadcraftsman, Finvara Race 3: Silver Cloud, Stevie’s Surprise, Clairetheway, Epic Tale, Mount Midoriyama Race 4: Kool Connection, Royal Rebel, Diehard, Red John, Florence Ivy Race 5: Ticket To Ride, Moet Molly, Irish Missile, Sufficient Funds, Von Zipp Race 6: I’m Bronson, Classic Warrior, Hay Tiger, Shellez Ace, Thistledonicely Race 7: Az Given, Malfarious, Tranky Doo, Swiss Military, Salted Caramel

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Tauranga gallops Today at Tauranga raceway

Racing Tauranga Venue: Tauranga Meeting Date: 23 August 2017 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 12.00pm (NZT) MILLS REEF 2160 $10,000, MDN, 2160m 1 8P443 Suffice To Say (5) 58.5 ...............R Elliot (a1) 2 735 God Of Herbs (6) 58.5 ......................L Innes 3 78446 Here To Stay b (3) 58.5 ...................A Collett 4 86657 Hallavaboy (4) 58.5 .....................T Thornton 5 622 Century Miss (2) 56.5...............J Nason (a2) 6 62356 Four Day High (7) 56.5...............M Cameron 7 86328 Belle Volant (1) 56.5 ........................ S Spratt 2 12.35pm STE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL 1200 $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 New Laws (5) 57.5 .....................R Elliot (a1) 2 Notabadcraftsman (4) 57.5 ...........J Waddell 3 Van Diamond (1) 57.5 ..................... T Harris 4 Finvara (6) 57.5 ...........................T Thornton 5 Franklin (8) 57.5 ..............................J Riddell 6 222x Mongolian Beauty b (7) 55.5 ......M Cameron 7 9. Ferrari (2) 55.5 .................S Weatherley (a1) 8 8. Fastellie h (3) 55.5 .............................M Hills 3 1.10pm TAB 501 CAMERON ROAD 1200 $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 9x773 Stevie’s Surprise (2) 58.5 ................A Collett 2 7357x Epic Tale (5) 58.5 ..........................M McNab

3 Mount Midoriyama (10) 58.5 ...........S Collett 4 8x90x Goldchi (3) 58.5 ........................S McKay (a) 5 64977 The Bumper (9) 58.5 .............H Marzuki (a3) 6 7x352 Silver Cloud (8) 56.5 .......................J Riddell 7 x666x Clairetheway (1) 56.5 ........................L Innes 8 6358x Irish Missile (4) 56.5 .................. M D Plessis 9 7x030 Lowrider (7) 56.5 .................................C Dell 10 0x Just Twiggy (6) 56.5 ...........G Saejorhor (a4) 4 1.45pm GARTSHORE 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 7x2 Diehard (2) 58.5 .........................M Cameron 2 0x442 Royal Rebel (12) 58.5 ......S Weatherley (a1) 3 3 Red John h (5) 58.5 ....................C Lammas 4 54 Country Bumpkin (11) 58.5 .............J Riddell 5 90x4 Grandiscoccymelums (10) 58.5 .................B Morgenrood 6 4x306 Dudewithattitude h (7) 58.5 .............A Collett 7 0x847 Taazman (4) 58.5 ............................ R Jones 8 758x7 Rocking Good Time (3) 58.5 ..........V Colgan 9 26243 Kool Connection b (8) 56.5 ...........M McNab 10 x4095 Florence Ivy (9) 56.5 ................. M D Plessis 11 069x4 Arctic Miss (1) 56.5 ................J Fawcett (a3) 12 737 I’manood Lass (6) 56.5 .........H Marzuki (a3) 5 2.20pm FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE 1400 $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 59543 Sufficient Funds (4) 58.5 ........... T Miles (a4) 2 90 Castle Black (9) 58.5...................C Lammas

3 27x09 Fort Knox (1) 58.5 ............................. D Hain 4 Von Zipp (8) 58.5.............................J Riddell 5 73622 Moet Molly (5) 56.5 ....................R Elliot (a1) 6 32322 Ticket To Ride (7) 56.5 ..................M McNab 7 060x3 Bullet Mist (6) 56.5 .......................... S Spratt 8 6358x Irish Missile (2) 56.5 .................. M D Plessis 9 0x Verdant (3) 56.5 ...............S Weatherley (a1) 6 2.54pm BOSSON DEVELOPMENTS 1400 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 9x221 I’m Bronson dm (7) 59.5 ...............O Bosson 2 x0080 El Duque tdm (8) 59 ..............H Marzuki (a3) 3 68666 Cameahotfriday tdm (3) 58.5 .........V Colgan 4 98742 Classic Warrior dm (14) 58.5 ..........J Riddell 5 7x13 Hay Tiger m (11) 58.5 ..................... R Jones 6 65772 Acrylic m (13) 57.5 ...........S Weatherley (a1) 7 39312 Shellez Ace dm (1) 57 8 22300 Esprit De Corps dm (6) 57 ..........C Lammas 9 7467x Model Aye (10) 56.5 .................. M D Plessis 10 090x4 Thistledonicely d (9) 55.5 ...................M Hills 11 90x02 Lupelani (4) 55 ................................A Collett 12 x8408 Duke Of Millfield m (2) 55..........S McKay (a) 13 8x958 Wawrinka (5) 55 .........................R Elliot (a1) 14 8000x Rodmar (12) 55 Emergency: Rodmar 7 3.29pm STELLA ARTOIS 1200 $11,000, Rating 70 Benchmark, 1200m

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Service Sector Course

Truck Driver Canterbury Woodchip source and supply wood products to the wider Canterbury area (mostly between Timaru and Christchurch) from multiple sites across the same region. You will be involved in both yard and skid site based operations with typically no two days being the same.

We have a fantastic, hard-working, supportive team and have experienced significant business growth as a result of our hard work over the last couple of years.

What’s the job?

• Transporting wood products from yard based or paddock based chipping operations • No shift work, no rosters – plenty of hours available • Work as part of a small team rather than solo.

What do you need?

• Class 5 full drivers licence • A practical skill base • A willingness to help other team members when operating as part of a chipping team • Be self-motivated • Attention to detail If you’re looking for variety in a truck driving position then please get in touch.

Enquires/Questions are welcome on 027 562 3048 (Laura) or by email To apply please send a copy of your CV (or previous employment information) to: laura@ghe.co.nz

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Relief Tutor Canterbury Woodchip Supplies Ltd have an exciting opportunity for a Truck Driver to drive one of their small fleet of chip liners.

Ashburton Guardian

The Salvation Army Education & Employment is seeking a Relief Tutor to support our Service Sector for Youth programme on a casual basis as and when required. The successful candidate will be working in a teaching environment which is very rewarding if you have a passion for helping youth to succeed.

We are looking for a person who has the following attributes: • Tutoring/facilitator experience and/or qualifications within the Service Sector • Basic computing skills, and good literacy and numeracy skills • Excellent planning and organisational skills This unique opportunity requires the person to help our students, who are aged 16 to 19 years, achieve required education outcomes at levels one and two - e.g. NCEA Level 2.

Police vetting is required.

If you have the relevant qualifications and/or experience, please post or email us an up-to-date CV by 5pm on Wednesday, 30 August 2017.

Sandra Biedermann, PO Box 6015, Wellington 6011 or email your CV to Sandra_Biedermann@nzf.salvationarmy.org

The Salvation Army is a worldwide evangelical Christian church and human service provider. It is committed to caring for people, transforming lives and reforming society – all through the love of God shown in Jesus.

The successful applicant should therefore show an ability to identify with the mission and values of The Salvation Army.

Family/Whanau Worker Ashburton and Timaru

Presbyterian Support is the leading social services provider in South Canterbury. As one of the region's largest local employers, we employ over 400 staff across multiple sites in Aged Care, Community Services and Family services.

Family Works supports children, young people and their families to be safe, strong and connected.

Family Start is a home-visiting programme working alongside parents/caregivers to enhance health, education and social outcomes for children in the first five years of life. This is an exciting new service for the South and Mid Canterbury communities.

Family/Whānau workers are at the heart of the Family Start programme, working alongside families in their own homes.

You will need to demonstrate the following: An appropriate degree level qualification in social work, health or education (or be studying towards this).

Membership of or willingness to join an appropriate professional association.

Working knowledge of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 and other relevant NZ legislation.

Experience in working with children and whānau to promote change.

Experience and skills in engagement, comprehensive assessments and co-creation of plans/goals.

The ability to maintain accurate records and reporting Excellent communication skills that enable building and maintaining positive relationships.

The ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with referring agencies and local service providers.

High levels of self-motivation, energy , resourcefulness, decision making, and the ability to manage deadlines and priorities.

Excellent computer skills.

A commitment to providing services in the spirit of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Positions available 1.5 FTE in based Timaru and 1 FTE based in Ashburton.

Applicants will need to be flexible in their working hours and have a current full driver's licence.

Enquiries to Catherine-Joye Truman, Ph: (03) 688 5029 or email: catherine-joye.truman@pssc.co.nz Applications close 1st September 2017 at 5.00pm

Bakery Assistant Customer Service Assistant

Apply on line today - www.pssc.org.nz/jobs OR request an application form and position description from Family Works Ph: (03) 688 5029 or Ph: PSSC (03) 687 1123 email:karen.mckenzie@pssc.co.nz

Yardman

Our busy bakery is looking for a hard working bakery assistant to work as part of our passionate team.

Canterbury Woodchip Supplies Ltd are looking for a Yard Person to be the key driver behind their yard based processes.

The successful applicant will bring with them a positive attitude, proven customer services skills and the ability to make great coffee.

Canterbury Woodchip supply wood products all around the wider Canterbury area from our yard in Arundel. We have a fantastic, hardworking, supportive team and have experienced significant business growth as a result of our hard work over the last couple of years.

40 hours per week, Tuesday to Saturday

What’s the job?

• Operate various machinery to chip, screen and dry the woodchip • Load trucks • Carry out general yard maintenance duties • Ensure that our process runs as smoothly as possible within the yard.

• This is a full time permanent position with some Saturday’s when required

Apply in writing to harveysbakehouse@xtra.co.nz Applications close by 31st August

Agriculture Machinery Operator

Cameron Courts Rest Home

Hewson Farms, Mid Canterbury are seeking an experienced, competent and motivated applicant for a permanent Agriculture Machinery Operator position.

Full Time Junior Health Assistant

The applicant must have experience in operating agricultural machinery with minimal supervision this includes combine harvesting, drilling, cultivation, fertilizer spreading. Holding a class 5 license is an advantage.

Applications for this position should have NZ residency or a valid work visa.

If this sounds like you please contact: Ross Hewson 027 221 0995 or email r.hewson@xtra.co.nz

Looking for

who must be able to work weekends and night shifts.

Applications close August 25, 2017.

Please phone 308 8534 Mon - Fri 9am – 2pm.

Call David Rush today 03 307 1990| for expert Level 2,on 73 Burnett St, Ashburton Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd. advice and a free no obligation assessment.

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What do you need?

• Practical skill base • Experience operating machinery but training will be provided as required • A high level of self-motivation • Attention to detail If you think this is what you’re looking for then please get in touch.

Enquires/Questions are welcome on 027 562 3048 (Laura) or by email To apply please send a copy of your CV (or previous employment information) to: laura@ghe.co.nz

Mechanical Engineer Hewson Farms, Mid Canterbury are seeking a competent and motivated applicant to work alongside another mechanical engineer.

The successful applicant will be required to help, service and maintain a modern fleet of agriculture machinery, farm machinery and vehicles, complete a considerable variety of general engineering and modification of implements and fabrication of new plant items.

We’ve built a reputation of being solid and reliable, just like the buildings we construct.

Applications for this position should have NZ residency or a valid work visa.

Bulk & Fertiliser Dispatch Manager Are you ready for the next step in your transport career or have the skill set to suit this position?

Due to an internal restructure Wilson Bulk Transport Ltd are looking for a highly motivated Bulk & Fertiliser Dispatcher to run our modern fleet of vehicles.

This busy role could be rewarding to the right applicant who wants to make the job their own.

Experience in the transport industry would be preferred and local knowledge would be an advantage.

Applicants should have the following attributes: • An attitude that customer service is paramount • A can do attitude under pressure • The ability to work with other personnel within the company • Excellent time management and organisational skills • Be computer literate • Proven staff management skills • Class 5 licence preferred Wilson Bulk Transport offer: • A permanent position • A pay rate dependent on experience • A team of people to work with who are committed to providing excellent service to our clients • Company vehicle supplied If you would like to learn more about this exciting role please contact the General Manager to discuss or email your CV to: jonathan@wilsonbulktransport.co.nz.

Jonathan Ward - 027 435 1929

Needing a new staff member?

If this sounds like you please contact: Ross Hewson 027 221 0995 or email r.hewson@xtra.co.nz

Caring — Enabling —Supporting

211 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton (03) 307 6130 www.calderstewart.co.nz

Call the Guardian today for your situation vacant advertising requirements.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

SITUATIONS VACANT

TRADES, SERVICES

Transporter Operator ACL has established itself as a leading company in civil contracting with a workforce in excess of 115 staff and has proven itself in a dynamic and challenging market through performance and quality.

As a result of our current operator leaving we are looking for a new Transporter Operator to drive our Kenworth T404 and 3m 4 axle transporter. If you are an experienced Transporter Operator or heavy truck driver and are seeking a new challenge, we are keen to talk with you.

Minimum requirements: • Class 5 license plus W,T,R and capable of driving a variety of plant • Experience in driving a transporter or heavy truck/trailer • BESS (Bridge Engineering Self Supervision) although not absolutely essential.

Key attributes: • Focused on safety and delivering high quality work • Good communication skills particularly with customers and other staff • An ability to plan and self-manage day to day activities.

We offer a competitive remuneration package along with training support where required.

The successful applicant will be required to complete a pre-employment drug screen.

If this opportunity sounds like you please give Maurice a call on 027 484 1115 Email applications and CV’s to: Healthsafety@ashcon.co.nz Ashburton Contracting Ltd PO Box 264, Ashburton 7740

Precision Animal Supplements 6 McGregor Lane, Ashburton The above company requires a factory worker to assist in the making of Dairy stockfood.

Forklift experience required.

Please apply by phoning 308 8212 or 027 436 3810 or email chris.pas@xtra.co.nz

For all subscriber enquiries, missed deliveries, new subscriptions, temporary stops – text, call or email:

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

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

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

PUBLIC NOTICES STATE HIGHWAY VEGETATION CONTROL The NZ Transport Agency wish to advise the terms of Resource Consent No. 084848 which permits the discharge of herbicides onto land and into water adjacent to State Highways in Mid and South Canterbury (between the Rakaia River and Waitaki River).

Spraying will commence August 28, 2017 and be completed by May 28, 2018.

The work will include spraying around sign posts, guardrails, marker pegs as well as spraying plant pests and scrub weeds.

For further information regarding this activity please contact Grounds & Services Ltd (Registered Chemical Applicators) on (03) 349 0634.

TRADES, SERVICES DENTURES. Dr Peter Rumping, retired dentist, continues to provide full dentures. Repairs to existing dentures also available.

Phone 027 220 9997.

REAL ESTATE

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING. Quality window films for privacy, UV (fading), heat, safety and security. For cars, homes and offices.

Three bedroom Phone Craig Rogers 307 Bach on the 6347 or 0800 TINTER. north sideSYNTHETIC of the Member of Master Tinters AMSOIL - All oils, NZ. Check us out on LUBRICANTS Rangitata River. greases, fuel additives, filters, FACEBOOK. antifreeze, polish, V&L Offerscar over $90K. cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust Contact Linda engine on bust, rain clear, cleaner and240 more.

Call local 027 8897. distributor: Veehof phone 302 2911.

Bach For Sale

RURAL TRADING POST

Text RURAL TRADING POST 021 271 3399 AMSOIL SYNTHETIC Phone LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, 0800 274 287 antifreeze, car polish, V & L cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust Email bust, rain clear, engine cleaner and more. Call local circulation@ distributor: Veehof phone 302 theguardian.co.nz 2911.

6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady as you go exercise group. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. “Second time around” good clean clothing for sale. Ashburton Baptist Church, cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

Thursday 9.30am ASHBURTON AGE CONCERN. Ladies low impact exercise classes held weekly. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady as you go exercise group. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Join fun exercise with friendly group during term time. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Daytime session, new players most welcome. E A Network Stadium, River Terrace.

Annual General Meeting Thursday, August 24, 7.30pm Senior Citizens’ Rooms Cameron Street Guest Speakers: • Christine Harrison Diabetes Nurse Specialist • Sarah Kent Recently sponsored to attend a Diabetes Workshop in Auckland It is proposed to pass a resolution to dissolve our Branch due to the lack of interest from local members.

Please attend to give us your thoughts on this.

Supper will be provided.

Please bring a donation for the Food Bank.

Contact: Denise Wells, Chairperson - 308 7499

GRAZING

FEED for sale: Wheat straw $50/bale.

Barley straw $55/bale.

Rye grass straw $75/bale.

Square balage $90/bale.

Round balage $80/bale.

Ring/text Bruce 027 553 3085.

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

FEED for sale: Wheat straw $50/bale.

Barley straw $55/bale.

Rye grass straw $75/bale.

Square balage $90/bale.

Round balage $80/bale.

10am 1pm - 3pm Ring/text Bruce 027ANDREW’S 553 3085.

ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. ST ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Daily Events Wednesday

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Holy Communion. Park Street.

10am - 7pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD EXHIBITION. “The Joy of Stitching” runs daily from 5 August - 3 September , Late night Wednesday. Ashburton Art Gallery, West Street.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

Drop in and pre loved clothing shop. Cnr Thomson and Jane Streets, Tinwald.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research. Heritage Centre, West Street.

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Euchre - come and join us. Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Thursday and Saturday. Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. Good clean Second Time Around clothing for sale. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit kidz for 0 - 5 years old and caregivers.

48 Allens Road.

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD EXHIBITION. “The Joy of Stitching” runs daily from 5 August - 3 September , Late night Wednesday. Ashburton Art Gallery, West Street.

10.15am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for Arthritis. M.S.A, Social hall, Havelock Street.

10.45am M.S.A.TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities.

M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

11am AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. Salvation Army Rooms, Cass Street.

ADULT

GRAZING wanted for store ENTERTAINMENT lambs. Phone Mitch 027 313 ASIAN, attractive, pretty, B RURAL TRADING POST 1320. cup, hot sexy lady, playful, FOR SALE - Large farm hay GRAZING wanted for store great massage. Phone 020 trailers plus hay covers lambs. Phone Steve 027 321 4068 7352. suitable for medium square 6060.

NEW, 26 year old, Singapore bales. Rural livestock clearing lady, size 10, 34C busty. sale, Reynolds Road, Good service. Phone 021 831 Methven, Friday, August 25 FOR SALE 682. at 1pm.

ASHBURTON Society of HAY for sale, Conventional Arts. Early spring show on ACCOMMODATION, bales $4. Phone 021 162 now at Short Street Studio.

4102.

Guest Quilliam Collister. RENTAL Open Saturday, Sunday, SUNNY two bedroom flat Monday and Wednesday with heat pump, garage MOTORING 10am - 3pm when sign out. and parking.

Available immediately. $285 per week.

WHEEL alignments at great Enquiries phone 308 4533. prices. Maximise the life CONTAINERS for sale or Phone Joe 021 324 529. of your tyres with an hire, ex shipping: general and alignment from Neumanns insulated. Sidelifter available Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills for delivery. Wilson Bulk Street. Phone 308-6737.

Main South Road, Transport, Phone 308-7772.

Tinwald, Ashburton SMELLY car? Woodwick Car 03 307 9028 LIVESTOCK, PETS Fresheners. Simply clip to BUYER of unwanted your car air vent to enjoy long www.smallbones.co.nz animals. Cattle, bobby calves, lasting fragrance. Treat horse and all farm animals. yourself. Only $15. The China We also sell pet food. Call Shop in The Ashburton Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 Arcade.

621, A/H 03 348 9439.

August 23 & 24, 2017 2pm ASHBURTON OSTOMY SOCIETY INC. Bi monthly meeting with report on National A.G.M. Savage Club rooms, Cnr William and Cox Street.

7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance (7pm), beginner/ intermediate (8pm - 9pm). Instructor Annette phone 307-7138 a/h. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Dancing, Music, Fitness and Fun, Buffalo Hall, Cox Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC. Results of Natural History. Entris for Portraits. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. St Peters Church, Harrison Street, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention exercises to strengthen muscles and improve balance. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

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

1pm - 4pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mah Jong Social at the Waireka Croquet Club rooms, Philip Street.

1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Social afternoon, you are welcome to have a go. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

2pm R.S.A. WOMENS SECTION. Bring and buy cake stall and housie.

R.S.A. Cox Street.

7pm ASHBURTON R.S.A. DARTS SECTION. Club night for all new and returning players, Doris Linton Lounge, Cox Street.

Puzzles

Puzzles and horoscopes www.guardianonline.co.nz Cryptic crossword

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Most days you get somewhere by doing the hard things first, while your energy is fresh. Today it’s the opposite. You’ll need to coax yourself along. Ease yourself into it by taking on the next small step.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Know many things; teach one thing. Your editing skills will be as important as – if not more important than – your ability to get one message across. You’ll be a godsend to an eager student.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You’ve access to many creative people. Let them inspire you but don’t hand the work over to them. Trust your creative instincts and skills. You’ll enjoy the outcome better when it’s entwined in your own learning.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Your mind can be an unreliable ally. Instead of jumping to your defence, it sometimes trips you up instead. That’s OK. Minds can be trained, and it’s easy to do so because your heart is the right place.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’ve been known to write things down, keep receipts, refer to a calendar and more – habits that could use some tuning.

These systems allow you to free your brain up for what you really need it to do.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You aim to spend less time on mundane things so you can spend time more creatively. Oddly, the mundane things may bring all the inspiration and rewards you were missing. The approach matters, not the task.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): A large number of the things you’ve ever thought or experienced are still in your memory banks or have been moved to an ancillary storage space. It will be useful to trust that you know what you know.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You are on an adventure, a true co-creation, and the options multiply with each person you add to the team. Just make sure that everyone has a defined role and something key to do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Brilliant circumstances won’t be designed out of wishes and built out of expert plans. They will be discovered through trial and error or settled upon because they work well toward a desired end.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): There will be much meandering before the idea. Even then it may not be good. It will need to be tested. So be patient. Listen to people. Take the time to relate. Don’t be in a hurry to get anywhere.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Hesitation projects the wrong image. The good news is that you don’t have to worry so much about making the wrong decision; most of your inclinations will work. Just make any decision, quickly.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): In all things there’s a kind of cost-benefit analysis that’s at the heart of finding satisfaction. Work until it’s more or less good enough, reaching a kind of equilibrium between effort and benefit.

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ASHBURTON Ra Patricia – ka On August 19, 2017 ia 15 Northerlies picking up. at Rosebank Resthome, MAX 17 OVERNIGHT MIN 7 Ashburton. Aged 85 years.

Ash bur to Dearly loved wife of the MID CANTERBURY Geraldine n FUNERAL SERVICES Midnight Tonight late Patrick (Pat). Loved mother and mother in law Ra n Galbraith’s provide choice! of Wayne (Blenheim), Patrick gitata We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors and Galbraith’s and Rhonda (Perth), Gail celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering.

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We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs to Sandra and Jeff Ward TIMARU reflect their individuality - ask us how we can be of assistance to you and Call us on (Brisbane), Jacqui and David your family.

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Ashburton, on MONDAY, thunder flurries E.B. CARTER LTD August 28, commencing at For all your memorial 11.00am.

Followed by overnight requirements Paterson’s Funeral Services interment at the Ashburton Canterbury Plains NZ Today Canterbury High Country max low New headstones and designs New Lawn Cemetery. A FDANZ Ashburton Auckland fi ne 15 7 Renovations, TODAY TODAY FZL: About 1400m recitation of the Rosary for Ph 307 7433 Additional inscriptions, Nancy will be held at the Areas of morning fog and frosts, otherwise Fine, with morning frosts. Winds mainly Hamilton fine 15 1 Cleaning and Concrete work FOWKE, Colin Charles – Church on Sunday evening Carried out by qualified light, with northerly breezes about the coast. fine.

Loved brother in law of commencing at 7.00pm.

Napier fine 14 1 Winds at 1000m and 2000m: Light winds. tradesmen.

Gertrude and Mick O’Reilly, Resting in peace now.

620 East Street Ashburton James and Phyllis Nordqvist, Paterson’s Funeral Services TOMORROW TOMORROW FZL: 1800m Palmerston North fine 14 2 Ph/Fax 308 5369 Winifred and Gordon FDANZ Ashburton Fine with morning frosts. Winds mainly light, Mainly fine, a few showers developing about or 0274 357 974 Middleton (all deceased), Ph 307 7433 fine 12 8 ebcarter@xtra.co.nz Molly and the late Clarence but northerly breezes about the coast. the divide with snow flurries down to 1500m. Wellington NZMMMA Member Middleton (Christchurch) and Wind at 1000m: NW 50 km/h developing.

Please note all late death Nelson fine 13 3 Murray and Barbara FRIDAY notices or notices sent Wind at 2000m: NW 50 km/h developing.

Nordqvist (Ashburton) and a outside ordinary office hours Blenheim fi ne 16 1 Mainly fine, with some high cloud. much loved uncle.

FRIDAY must be emailed to: Northerlies. fine 13 6 deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz High cloud at times, a few showers about the Greymouth HARNETT, Vincent to ensure publication.

(Vinny) – divide with snow fl urries down to 1500m.

SATURDAY Christchurch fine 14 1 Suddenly but peacefully at To place a notice during Northwesterlies strengthening.

Ashburton Hospital, on office hours please contact High cloud increasing. Northerlies Timaru fine 14 1 Sunday, August 20, 2017.

SATURDAY us on 03 307 7900 freshening.

Dearly loved husband of for more information Rain developing about the divide with heavy Queenstown fine 13 2 Sandra, much loved father SUNDAY falls possible, and scattered rain spreading Any queries and grandfather of Kirsten Dunedin fine 15 6 please contact and Pete, Lucy, Isaac, Becoming cloudy, scattered rain developing. further E. Snow down to 1500m. NW rising 0800 Maggie, and Brigid; Nicola to gale.

Invercargill fine 15 6 ASHBURTON Phone Eddie anytime Northerlies dying out. and Nathan, Ayla, Lily, and (0800-274-287) Rosie; Kelly and Eoin, and 308 9051 or Saoirse; Matthew and Zoe Forecasts for today River Levels cumecs World Weather and expected baby.

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At 4pm 11.8 10.3 11.4 11.1 2 Paterson’s Funeral Services 12.7 11.3 12.9 13.4 Max to 4pm 1 FDANZ Ashburton -1.7 -0.5 -2.8 -1.3 Minimum Ph 307 7433 IN MEMORIAM -4.0 – -6.9 – Grass minimum 0 4:28 10:40 4:56 11:07 5:18 11:31 5:44 11:57 6:09 12:21 6:33 Rainfall mm The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 4 minutes.

0.2 – 0.2 0.0 16hr to 4pm August to date 92.0 – 77.0 21.8 Rise 7:16 am Rise 7:14 am Rise 7:13 am Set 5:56 pm Set 5:57 pm Set 5:58 pm Avg Aug to date 43 47 30 – Bad Bad Bad 2017 to date 728.4 – 625.6 422.8 Bad fishing Bad fishing Bad fishing 444 423 316 – Avg year to date BRAY, Merle – Rise 8:02 am Rise 8:34 am Rise 9:03 am Wind km/h Set 7:29 pm Set 8:36 pm Set 9:41 pm With treasured memories of E 11 E 11 NE 17 E9 At 4pm our Mum, mother-in-law, First quarter Full moon Last quarter Strongest gust E 17 – NE 20 E 17 29 Aug 8:15 pm 6 Sep 7:04 pm 13 Sep 6:26 pm nana and nana Merle who Time of gust 3:14pm – 3:50pm 3:20pm passed away one year ago ©Copyright OceanFun Publishing Ltd. www.ofu.co.nz Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa today, August 23, 2016.

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CHOICE 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Money For Nothing 7:30 Love Nature – Extreme Animal Babies 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes 10:30 Salvage Hunters 11:30 Food Safari – Fire Noon Location, Location, Location 1pm Building The Dream 2pm Money For Nothing 3pm Poh’s Kitchen 3:30 Love Nature – Wild Britain With Ray Mears 4pm Love Nature – Walking With The Great Apes 4:30 The Paleo Way With Pete Evans 5pm Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Melbourne 5:30 The French Collection 6:30 Auction Hunters

6am Breakfast The Breakfast team presents news, interviews, weather, and information.

9am Dickinson’s Real Deal 10am Tipping Point 11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Red Rock PGR 1:55 Instant Gardener 0 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Four In A Bed The third visit is to Castley Camp in Otley, Yorkshire, owned by single mother Jo Stevenson and her son Louis, where Ken and Sharon are upset by stains on their bedding and dust in the room.

4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Peppa Pig 0 7am Littlest Pet Shop 3 0 7:25 Blazing Team 3 7:50 The Day My Butt Went Psycho 3 0 8:15 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 0 8:35 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Hoarding – Buried Alive PGR 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 2pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Leon 0 3:35 The Adam And Eve Show 0 4:05 N Best Friends Whenever 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 N Homemade The team responds to a family of four on one income, in a tiny house, and with no money, keen for any improvements. 0 8pm N Rachel Hunter’s Tour Of Beauty 0 8:30 Offspring AO 0 9:30 20/20 0 10:30 1 News Tonight 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Kevin Can Wait Sibling rivalry erupts when Kevin brags about saving a man from choking after hearing how much attention his brother is receiving for saving a cat. 0 8:30 The Big Bang Theory PGR 3 0 9pm 2 Broke Girls AO 0 9:30 Love Island AO 0 10:30 2 Broke Girls PGR 3 0

The Project The Block NZ PGR 0 NCIS – LA AO 0 Hawaii Five-0 AO A professional boxer’s brother is murdered, leading the investigation to an outspoken reigning championship opponent; Adam prepares to serve his sentence. 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:55 Chicago Med AO 3 0

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Border Security – America’s Frontline PGR In New York, a traveller carries a questionable past on his back; at JFK Airport, officers inspect high-maintenance passengers; a fugitive arrives at the Peace Arch crossing. 0 8pm Best Of Piha Rescue PGR 0 8:30 Diana – Her Story PGR 0 10:20 Back Benches PGR

Kawe Korero – Reporters Whanau Bake-Off On The Ladder Marae DIY Voices Of Our Future – VOOF 10pm Hakanation 3 10:30 Te Kaea 3 2

7pm American Restoration 7:30 Alone Among Grizzlies Filmmaker Richard Terry has a harsh introduction to the Alaskan wilderness, following Swiss biologist David Bittner to where Timothy Treadwell was mauled to death by a bear.

8:30 Speed With Guy Martin 9:30 Cold Water Cowboys PGR 10:30 Auction Hunters

11pm Cold Feet AO 3 Jenny reacts when an old flame turns up at work wanting to right the wrongs of the past, but his arrival opens a can of worms. 0 Midnight Nashville AO 3 0 12:50 Te Karere 3 2 1:15 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

11pm Cougar Town PGR 3 0 11:30 F Undateable PGR 0 Midnight Benched PGR 3 0 12:25 iZombie 0 1:10 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:35 Infomercials 2:40 Switched At Birth PGR 3 0 3:25 The Real PGR 3 4:15 Full House 3 0 4:40 The Adam And Eve Show 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:50 The Project News and entertainment show hosted by Jesse Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd, and Josh Thomson.

12:20 Infomercials

11:20 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR A celebrity chat show.

12:20 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

12:50 Closedown

11pm Kawe Korero – Reporters News reporters dissect and discuss the day’s news and events.

11:30 Closedown

11pm American Restoration 11:30 The Paleo Way With Pete Evans Midnight Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Melbourne 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Backroad Bounty 2am Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 3am Salvage Hunters 4am Cold Water Cowboys 5am Speed With Guy Martin

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10am Top Chef (Starting Today) 3 10:55 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:20 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:50 Snapped – Killer Couples PGR 3 12:45 The Real Housewives Of Orange County PGR 1:40 Below Deck – Mediterranean AO 3 2:45 The Real Housewives Of New York City AO 3 3:40 Hoarders 3 4:35 Dance Moms 3 5:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 6:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 7pm Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta Holly is eager to please, especially her opinionated future sister-in-law Olivia but, when Olivia wants to sabotage the appointment, Holly must stand up for what she wants.

7:30 Hoarders 3 8:30 The Real Housewives Of Orange County 9:30 Botched AO 3 10:30 Snapped – Killer Couples AO 3 11:30 Hoarders 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 Jeopardy PG 6:50 Covert Affairs MV 7:40 Heroes MV 8:30 The Simpsons PG 8:55 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:45 Outsiders M 10:40 Kingdom M 11:35 Jeopardy PG Noon Smackdown Live MV 2:10 CSI – Miami MV 3:05 Heroes MV 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5pm Jeopardy PG 5:30 Covert Affairs MV 6:30 Piha Rescue PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away PG 9:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 10:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 11:25 CSI – Miami MV

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12:15 Smackdown MV 1:50 Criminal Minds 16VS 2:40 Pawn Stars PG 3:05 Supernatural 16V 3:55 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away PG 4:45 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 5:35 Piha Rescue PG

6am The AM Show Duncan Garner, Amanda Gillies, and Mark Richardson present news, interviews, and humour to start the day.

9am The Café Mike Puru and Mel Homer present a lifestyle and entertainment show.

10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud 3 Game show played by two competing teams, each consisting of four family members. 0 Noon Dr Phil PGR 12:55 The Block NZ PGR 3 0 1:55 Minute To Win It 3 2:55 Entertainment Tonight 3:20 Sticky TV 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm 4:25 Wipeout 0 5:25 Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

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6am The Legend Of Korra 6:25 Henry Danger 3 6:50 Kid v Kat 3 7:15 Grojband 7:40 League Of Super Evil 3 8:05 Johnny Test 3 8:30 Sanjay And Craig 3 8:55 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:25 Wheel Of Fortune 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 12:40 Escape To The Country 3 1:35 Top Gear PGR 3 2:35 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:05 Escape To The Country 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 0 5pm Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Prime News 6pm Jeopardy 6:30 Pawn Stars

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MOVIES GREATS

6:40 Arrival ML 2016 Drama.

Amy Adams,Jeremy Renner.

8:35 Good Kids 16LSC 2016 Comedy. 10:05 The Hunger Games – Mockingjay Part 2 MVC 2015 Adventure.

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson.

12:20 Skiptrace MVC 2016 Comedy. Jackie Chan, Johnny Knoxville.

2:05 Arrival ML 2016 Drama.

Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner.

4pm Daughter Of God 16VLS 2015 Crime.

Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Christopher McDonald.

5:40 Lucky Number 16VLSC 2015 Comedy. Tom Pelphrey, Natalie Hall. 7pm The Lennon Report MVLC 2016 Drama. In the hours after John Lennon was shot, a journalist finds himself in the same hospital as the star, poised to break the biggest story of the year. Richard Kind, David Zayas.

8:30 Divergent – Allegiant Part 1 MV 2016 Adventure.

Tris and Four go beyond the wall and discover an unknown world more dangerous than what they are used to.

Shailene Woodley, Theo James.

10:35 The Conjuring 2 16VC 2016 Horror. Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe.

6:05 Babylon AD MVL 2008 Action. Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh.

7:45 What Just Happened MVLS 2008 Comedy.

Robert De Niro, Sean Penn.

9:30 Accepted MLS 2006 Comedy. Justin Long, Jonah Hill.

11:05 Minority Report MVLS 2002 Sci-fi Thriller.

Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton.

1:25 Pain And Gain 18VLS 2013 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson.

3:35 Chocolat MVS 2000 Comedy Drama. Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche.

5:35 American Gangster 16VLSC 2007 Crime Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe.

8:30 In Bruges 16VLC 2008 Thriller. Two hit men are sent to Bruges to lie low, but it does not take them long to find their own kind of trouble.

Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson.

10:20 A Nightmare On Elm Street 16VLS 2010 Horror.

Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner.

11:55 The World’s Fastest Indian PGL 2006 Drama.

Anthony Hopkins.

12:45 Magellan PG 2017 Scifi. 2:30 Lucky Number 16VLSC 2015 Comedy. 3:50 The Lennon Report MVLC 2016 Drama. 5:20 Divergent – Allegiant Part 1 MV 2016 Adventure.

2am American Gangster 16VLSC 2007 Crime.

Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe. 4:50 Chocolat MVS 2000 Comedy Drama.

Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche.

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

6:40 Nga Papara Kapi 7am Penguins Of Madagascar 3 7:30 Pukana (HLS) 2 7:50 Cube 8am Morena 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Ako 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 Nga Papara Kapi 3 3:30 Penguins Of Madagascar 3 4pm Pukana 3 4:20 Cube 3 4:30 Tangaroa With Pio 5pm Marae PGR 2 5:30 Hakanation 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 6:30 Te Kaea 2 7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30 9:30

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:35 L Rugby – Women’s World Cup Semi-final Two – England v France.

9am Fox Sports News 9:30 L Cricket – Caribbean Premier League Amazon Warriors v Stars.

1:30 Cricket – Caribbean Premier League (HLS) Patriots v Tallawahs.

2:30 Rugby – Women’s World Cup (RPL) Semi-final Two – England v France.

4:30 Rugby – Women’s World Cup (RPL) Semi-final One – Black Ferns v USA. From Kingspan Stadium, Belfast.

6:30 Rugby Nation 7:30 First XV Rugby Revision 8pm The Breakdown 8:30 Inside Supercars 9:30 #SkySpeed 10pm Rugby – Women’s World Cup (HLS) New Zealand Playoff.

Venue and opponent TBC. 10:30 Super Rugby Kick And Chase 11:30 #SkySpeed

THURSDAY

Midnight Motorsport – British Superbikes (HLS) 1am Inside Supercars 2am Super Rugby Kick And Chase 3am Rugby – Women’s World Cup (RPL) Semi-final One – Black Ferns v USA. 5am Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Quarter-final One – Derbyshire v Hampshire.

5:28 L Cricket – T20 Blast Quarter-final Two – Glamorgan v Leicestershire.

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SKY SPORT 2 6am L Football – UEFA Champions League Playoff Round, Second Leg. Napoli v Nice. 9:30 Football – UEFA Champions League (RPL) Playoff Round, Second Leg. Rijake v Olympiacos.

11:30 Golf – PGA Champions Tour Dick’s Sporting Goods Open.

12:30 Cycling – La Vuelta (HLS) Stage Four. 1pm NRL 360 2pm On The Couch With Sterlo 3pm Back Page 4pm Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Quarter-final One – Derbyshire v Hampshire.

4:30 ICC Cricket 360 5pm Cricket – International (HLS) West Indies v England, First Test, Day Three.

5:30 Motorsport – Supercars (HLS) Race 18.

6pm NRL Fulltime 6:30 Back Page 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Round 24, Saturday.

8pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Round 24, Sunday.

8:30 NRL 360 9:30 League Life 10pm Queenslanders Only 10:30 Fight Night (RPL) Mayweather v Hatton 2007.

11:30 Fight Night (RPL) McGregor v Diaz II. THURSDAY 12:30 First XV Revision 1am NRL 360 2am League Life 2:30 Queenslanders Only 3am NRL Fulltime 3:30 Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Cowboys v Sharks.

5:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Rabbitohs v Warriors.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Gold Rush PG 8:20 China’s Amazing Super Herbs PG 8:45 China’s Amazing Super Herbs PG 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Spring Has Sprung.

10am Dr Karl’s Outrageous Acts Of Science PG 10:50 Shark Tank 11:40 Evil Lives Here M In Love with the Devil. 12:30 Your Worst Nightmare M Neighbour from Hell. 1:20 The Vanishing Women M Find Our Daughters. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 Auction Hunters 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Yukon Men M Boiling Point. 5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Deadliest Catch M Back to the Killing Season.

7:30 Deadliest Catch M Hurricane Alley. 8:30 Yukon Men M Less Than Zero.

9:25 John Eales Reveals – The Haka PG 10:15 Edge Of Alaska PG No Surrender.

11:05 The Vanishing Women M Find Our Daughters.

11:55 Your Worst Nightmare M Neighbour from Hell.

THURSDAY 12:45 Gold Rush PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am Auction Hunters 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How Do They Do It? PG 5:20 Auction Hunters 5:45 Edge Of Alaska M

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Sport Head knock inquiry Sanzaar are investigating how All Blacks star Sonny Bill Williams suffered an apparent head knock in the opening Bledisloe Cup match and stayed on the field without being checked for concussion. Footage of Williams suffering an apparent head knock in the 2nd minute has circulated on social media since the game. Williams appeared unsteady on his feet when he got up and slowly made his way back to the Kiwi line. A Sanzaar spokesman confirmed they were looking into the matter after being made aware of footage via social media.

Wild Bunch shooters (from left) Bobby Steel (Robert Lavery), Witch Doctor (Bob McDonald) and Miss Kitty (Jane Lavery) will be in action in Ashburton this weekend.

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Wild West to hit town

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The Wild West is coming to Ashburton this weekend.

The town is hosting the national Wild Bunch pistol shooting competition at the Beckley Range on Cochranes Road and the event features eight local shooters.

The Wild Bunch contest is an offshoot of the Cowboy Action

Shooting Championships and spokesman Bob McDonald said it was a fun event for both contestants and spectators.

Contestants are known by their Wild West names so McDonald, who owns Health2000, is the Witch Doctor.

Other Ashburton competitors are Bumble (Bede Prendergast), Blacksmith (Ian Knight), Bobby Steel (Robert Lavery), Miss Kit-

ty (Jane Lavery), Two-finger Al (Alister Sprott), Renegade (Alex Read) and Shanksy (Logan Halliday).

The Wild Bunch event also takes its name from a movie of the same name in which a gang of ageing outlaws plans one final robbery to see out their retirement.

McDonald said the contestants would be shooting a variety of

pistols, rifles and shotguns, and would be dressed in costumes of the early 1900s.

The shooting is serious business though.

“There is an overall trophy and national titles to be won.”

McDonald said spectators were welcome and could watch safety from the roadside.

The action begins Friday afternoon and concludes on Sunday.

Wood signs on New Zealand football striker Chris Wood is heading to English Premier League club Burnley, having signed a record deal to transfer from Leeds United. Burnley have signed Wood for a club record fee for four years, making the 25 year old their sixth new signing of the transfer window.

Wood was the leading scorer in the championship last season, having scored 27 goals for Leeds United.

Burnley didn’t announce the fee for Wood’s transfer, but reports suggested it would be about 35,000 pounds a week, which works out to around $NZ3.2m a year.

Creamer, Kang to play in NZ Women’s Open Two major winners have been added to an increasingly starstudded field for the New Zealand Women’s Open.

American golfers Paula Creamer and Danielle Kang have both signed on to play at the first LPGA tournament to be held in New Zealand.

The $NZ1.85 million event will be staged at the new Windross Farm golf course in Auckland, and is shaping up to be a hotly contested field.

Kang will be one of the favourites, with the world number 20 coming off a break-

through season where she won her first major at the Women’s PGA Championship.

She most recently played her part in the USA beating Europe in the Solheim Cup yesterday, as did Creamer, with the pair both winning three of their four matches.

Creamer will lend name recognition to the event, as one of the most famous and long-tenured female golfers.

Creamer has spent 13 years on the LPGA Tour, winning 10 titles and sitting 10th all-time in career earnings with over

$NZ16 million. While in decent form of late, Creamer hasn’t won on Tour since 2014, and has dropped to 112th in the world.

Tournament director Michael Goldstein is pleased to have locked in the two high profile players.

“Paula is one of the superstars of women’s golf and it is wonderful that she is coming to New Zealand. As well as being a golfer of the highest level, she is such a respected figure in the sport,” said Goldstein.

“Danielle is one of the excit-

ing new wave of young players on the LPGA who is on top of her game after winning the PGA Championship a few weeks ago.”

With the additions of Kang and Creamer, the Open will now boast a field with 16 major championships won between them. Yani Tseng (5), Lydia Ko (2) and Brittany Lincicome (2) are all multi-major winners, while Brooke Henderson, Catriona Matthew, Na Yeon Choi, Eun-Hee Ji and Hyo Joo Kim have all also raised a major trophy.

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Johnson back early Shaun Johnson is back - but is it a risk? The Warriors halfback has been named to return for Sunday’s match against Manly, ahead of schedule after being sidelined with a knee injury. It’s been 40 days since he tore his posterior cruciate ligament, and at the time it seemed unlikely he would feature again this season.

“He has progressed really well and worked really hard,” Coach Stephen Kearneysaid yesterday. “It’s a real credit to him and the medical staff.”

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