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Miley’s show is ‘porn’ Miley Cyrus’ show is porn and the promotion of substance abuse dressed up as pop music, says a New Zealand family advocacy group. Family First NZ’s Bob McCroskrie is urging parents to protect their kids from the 21-yearold singer following an announcement she’ll play an Auckland show in October.

Cyrus’ show features a hotdog and a tongue slide – but there have also been reports of her wearing an outfit covered with pictures of cannabis leaves and of her miming oral sex on a dancer wearing a Bill Clinton mask.

Reviews of the Bangerz tour she’s bringing Down Under showed featured foul language, highly sexualised imagery, and normalised drug use, Mr McCroskrie said.

Tuktuk twosome celebrate end of race Two intrepid Northlanders have completed the adventure of a lifetime – racing 3700km across India in a three-wheeled vehicle described as a glorified lawnmower. Houhora police officer Tracee Knowler, Advocate reporter Kristin Edge and their trusty tuktuk reached the finish line at Kochi, near India’s southern tip, on Thursday. They were the eighth team home of about 60 entries in this year’s Rickshaw Rally. The race started 15 days earlier in Shillong in northern India. Ms Edge said there was no fanfare, confetti or cheering crowd at the finish line, but it wasn’t needed. They celebrated by spraying their tuktuk with Kingfisher beer instead of champagne.

Kidman jumps on ice bandwagon Nicole Kidman has splashed out and taken the ALS ice bucket challenge alongside her Family Fang co-star Jason Bateman.

“I accept the challenge to strike out ALS, the ice bucket challenge,” Kidman said in a video she posted on her Facebook page. “Do I have to say who did it? Faith Hill. Thank you Faith.” The 47-year-old actress said she would also donate money and nominated Bateman, Russell Crowe and Colin Firth to complete the challenge next. Dressed in a T-shirt and short shorts in New York where she is filming the film, Kidman wailed melodramatically as Bateman tipped an Esky of freezing water over her. The Oscar winner returned the favour by pouring a second tub of the icy stuff over her co-star’s head after he challenged Will Arnett, Justin Theroux, and David Cross.

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Back in time Post World War One entertainment was on the agenda and our sense of statehood emerged. This account was published in the Guardian on August 23, 1920: The Lyric Costume Comedy, which opened a two-night season at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, may justly lay claim to be one of the brightest and best combinations of its kind that has ever toured New Zealand, certainly excelling many of the companies which have visited the Dominion under the direction of English and Australian entrepreneurs.

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Brooke Shields coming here Brooke Shields is coming to Mid Canterbury.

Or at least a slab of wood with the same name could be after radio and television personalities, Jono and Ben, created a new, unsanctioned, shield for the “rugby battlers in second/third division of the Heartland Rugby Championship”. They created The Brooke Shield(s) so the Heartland unions had something “to play for like the big boys” and for its inaugural match it has been donated to Mid Canterbury, who according to the shield donors put it on the line against the West Coast in Ashburton today. Jono and Ben may not have a grasp on the Heartland rugby landscape, as just last month Thames Valley and Mid Canterbury both played for the “big boys” Ranfurly Shield, but that didn’t stop their listeners getting in behind the idea with the shield set to arrive in town in time for kick-off today after being transported down from Auckland.

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■ ASHBURTON HOSPITAL

Delayed, but health upgrade still happening

BY TONI WILLIAMS

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The project may be behind schedule but the Canterbury District Health Board is still committed to upgrading healthcare services in Ashburton.

Stalled rebuild work on Ashburton Hospital and on the development of a family health care centre were raising red flags in the community, but Canterbury District Health Board chief executive David Meates has stepped in to allay concerns.

He said the board was committed to “providing the right care in the right place at the right time by the right person for the people of Mid Canterbury”.

“The community can have confidence there are no plans to reduce services.”

On top of the $8.25 million, approved in May 2013 for the redevelopment the project is set to receive an additional $835,000 to ensure required services can be delivered, Mr Meates said.

The additional money followed a further review of the model of care which indicated a need to build an integrated Acute Admitting Unit and Theatre facility to give better “operational efficiency” especially with patient flow and “integration of services,” he said.

Ashburton mayor Angus McKay said he had every confidence that Mr Meates was going to deliver, but through circumstances outside his control the programme had been held up.

Delays were caused by find-

ing asbestos during demolition.

This added $300,000 to the project.

Ashburton was on the DHB’s “list” and services they had promised such as the theatre, acute admissions ward and the ward refurbishment would be delivered, he said.

“He’s not spending this money and then not planning to staff it; staffing is his responsibility,” Mr McKay said.

He said he had been told the CDHB was still investigating the family health care centre.

A consent application for the multi-million dollar building design is expected to be lodged with the Ashburton District Council this month.

Once complete the hospital was expected to have a new theatre and procedure room, an extension to the current Acute Admitting Unit, and earthquake strengthened and refurbished wards.

The project is funded as a joint venture between the DHB ($7.2m) and a group of local charities facilitated by the Advance Ashburton Foundation ($1.5m).

The hospital is still without a general manager after Garth Bateup retired. Mr Meates said the board was still considering the best management structure for rural services, which includes the Chatham Islands.

He said the recruitment and retention of staff in rural areas was always challenging but new methods to get the best health professionals had proved successful.

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The three-year-old was among the children at Ashburton’s Tiddlywinks Preschool

who marked Red Nose Day yesterday by wearing red.

Red Nose Day is a fundraiser for Cure Kids and more than 550 schools around New Zealand yesterday baked, created

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BY CHRIS MORRIS Dunedin City Council jobs could be on the line as the organisation reels from an alleged $1.5 million vehicle fraud.

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The probe had revealed the full extent of the alleged decade-long fraud, which now involved the sale of 152 vehicles and the pocketing of more than $1.5 million in proceeds, Dr Bidrose said.

The company’s full report had been expected to be made public last week, but was withheld until yesterday following advice from police and the Crown Solicitor, Dr Bidrose said.

That was to avoid prejudicing the police investigation that would now commence, she said.

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■ TINWALD TRAFFIC WOES

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Lights hang on traffic tally

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The fate of traffic lights in Tinwald could well hang on the amount of traffic that travelled along State Highway One on August 1.

As part of the Ashburton District Council’s push to have traffic lights installed at an intersection in Tinwald to make accessing the highway easier for local traffic, video cameras were set up at seven key intersections in the area to capture vehicle turning manoeuvres.

The cameras also collected

pedestrian and cycle movements over the same period.

The information has been sent to Canada for analysis.

Over the past two years the council has been pushing the New Zealand Transport Agency to install traffic signals, and while the agency has indicated it is willing to look at some form of traffic flow improvement measures in the area, it has stopped short of committing to the installation of lights.

The council and Tinwald residents, however, see lights

as the ultimate solution to the increasing difficulty motorists have accessing the state highway from feeder roads.

A workshop between NZTA representatives, council officers and stakeholders is planned for September.

The lights project has become caught up in the Government’s changed approach to major roading projects.

A new measured approach has been taken to all state highway projects that sees each move through a seven step process before a business case

can be prepared and the project presented to funders.

Initially the project was based around traffic signals and their location.

Now its title has changed to become the “Tinwald Corridor Project” to ensure all parties keep an open mind to options other than traffic lights.

The earliest any capital works can be undertaken would be as part of the 201518 National Land Transport Programme and they will then need to be prioritised on a national basis.

■ METHVEN

Group gives town its seal of approval Methven has been given the red seal of approval by one of New Zealand’s largest touring groups, the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association.

At a ceremony in Methven yesterday, the ski village became the South Island’s third official motorhome friendly town, confirming that it provides a set of amenities and services that will ensure motor caravanners’ needs are not just met, but exceeded.

Mayor Angus McKay accepted the accreditation and said he hoped it would result in many of the association’s 53,000 members visiting and stopping off in Methven. Achieving accreditation was a good example of local government working with other groups in the community to highlight what the district had to offer to visitors, he said.

The motorhome friendly scheme was introduced into New Zealand in 2010 and is modelled on a similar scheme

Man arrested A man was arrested on Thursday night for using threatening language after a domestic incident.

House full of smoke The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade was called to a Davis Crescent house full of smoke at about 4.30pm yesterday.

Thompsons Track The $1 million of ratepayer money that will be spent upgrading Thompson’s Track this summer will see two sections of the road upgraded. Rebuild work will be carried out on stretch of road between Martins Road to Dromore Hatfield Road and another strip from Braemar Road to SH 77 totalling about 4.5km in length.

Over the past two years the council has carried out more than 700 pothole repairs and received more than 50 complaints about the two pieces of the road. While it was once a quiet rural road, Thompson’s Track now averages 1000 vehicle movements a day, of which 13 per cent are heavy commercial vehicles, said council’s Service Delivery Group Manager Neil McCann.

Parking revenue Fines and fees paid by law breaking motorists continue to be a good source of revenue for the Ashburton District Council $97,640 over the past two months.

In June council parking wardens issued 778 infringement notices with the council earning $31,664 in fines from these. During the same month $11,608 was deposited in parking meters around central Ashburton. In July, 814 infringement notices were issued, earning the council $40,395 with an additional $14,571 paid into parking meters.

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Officially declaring Methven one of New Zealand’s motor home friendly towns, mayor Angus McKay and Experience Mid Canterbury general manager Nigel Birt.

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ven’s doors to a share of the $211 million NZMCA mem-

bers spend annually when they’re on the road.

A large paddock fire broke out near Nelson yesterday. The fire, which took just over two hours to put out, occurred at Hira, just off State Highway 6. When the fire service arrived at 12.45, the blaze was going uphill towards a pine plantation, emergency services said. Seven tankers, four pumps and rural units were needed to put out the fire.

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■ PANPA AWARDS

Three big awards for the Guardian Your local newspaper has been acknowledged as one of the best in its class in a pair of prestigious international awards.

The Ashburton Guardian was highly commended in the Newspaper of the Year Daily Community category of the PANPA Newspaper of the Year Awards on Thursday night.

It was also highly commended in two categories in PANPA’s Advertising and Marketing Awards, also held in Sydney this week.

In the advertising awards, it was highly commended in the Best Single Print Ad category for Up in Smoke, an advertisement designed inhouse for Rothbury Insurance Brokers.

It was also highly commended in the Best Print Supplement category for YOU magazine. In both awards, Mid Canterbury’s daily newspaper was a finalist alongside

some of the best-known and best regarded newspapers in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Guardian was the only independent, locally-owned finalist in its category in the Newspaper of the Year award.

Guardian assistant advertising manager Emma Jaillet-Godin was delighted the talents of advertising consultants Eden Kirk-Williams and Ashleigh Fraser, and of YOU magazine editor Lisa Fenwick, were recognised in such competitive categories.

Editor Stu Oldham said the Newspaper of the Year commendation reinforced the Guardian as a quality local newspaper among industry leaders.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

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■ ASHBURTON INTERMEDIATE

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Collaboration has been signalled as the new way of doing business for local authorities and that could see the Ashburton District Council form a transportation partnership with three southern councils.

A proposal is on the table for Ashburton, Timaru, Mackenzie and Waimate councils to join forces striking a road maintenance deal designed to cut costs and improve service.

The idea was put to the council’s service delivery committee on Thursday and raised more questions than it did enthusiasm for the plan.

Councillors feared a one contract arrangement over four councils could result in a lesser service for Ashburton and could also result in a loss of control.

The proposal was just that at the moment, council contracts manager Brian Fauth said, but it could be developed to allow one contract to be written but with separate sub contacts for each district.

“The guts of the contract would be the same but there could be four contractors working out of the same con-

tract document,” he said.

The proposal related to road maintenance only but long term other collaborative options would open up, Mr Fauth said.

Because greater collaboration between councils was being pushed by the Government, Ashburton had to show a willingness to move in that direction, councillor Stuart Wilson said.

“If we don’t show we’re inclined to do this we might be left on our own and NZTA may not look at us as favourably in the future,” he said.

Mayor Angus McKay put a dollar each way on the deal.

“I do advocate collaboration, we have to have collaboration for things like contracts, but we need to reserve the right to make our own decisions on engaging the contractor for our own work,” he said.

In making decisions around collaboration, the council had to be aware of the super city debate.

If that happened in Canterbury it could involve Christchurch, Selwyn, Waimakariri and even Hurunui and that made a southern collaboration more logical, councillor Darryl Nelson said.

Ashburton Intermediate School’s Kapa Haka Group members perform for their fellow pupils yesterday at a full school assembly.

In traditional costume, the pupils showed the form that earned them a second placing in last week’s Flava Festival at Timaru.

The 20-strong group was made up of 14 girls, led by Sonia Stephans-Tahuri, 13 (above centre), and six boys, led by Jacob Gray, 12.

They were entered in the primary schools’ section against nine other schools.

Under the guidance of new tutor Bernadine Stephans-Tahuri, the group performed with waiata and movement.

They also used te rakau (sticks). It was the first time in 14 years te rakau was used in the competition.

The kapa haka group was made up of mostly Year 7 pupils, which bodes well for next year’s entry.

Kiwi makes second channel swim

BY REBECCA QUILLIAM A New Zealand swimmer has completed a gruelling swim across the English Channel to France - for the second time.

David Coleman of Devonport swam just over 19km from the Channel island of Alderney to France, finishing just before 7am (NZT) yesterday.

Last year he swam from Jersey, a distance of nearly 29km.

He believed he was the first person to swim to France’s coast from two different channel islands. Mr Coleman wore Speedos for the 6 hours and 40 minutes swim and believed he was the first per-

son to swim the Channel from Alderney without a wetsuit.

“It was really really hard work. The toughest swim I’ve ever done,” he said.

“The tides here are ferocious so it was really really hard to get in.”

Mr Coleman decided to do the swim a couple of months ago because he thought it would be “a bit of a buzz”.

“I like the idea of being the first person to swim to France from two different islands. I just had to do it to see if it was possible.”

He was looking forward to a beer but he did not think he would be able to sleep.”

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■ AUCKLAND DISTRICT COURT

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Liu’s eleventh-hour plea change

By RoB Kidd The Chinese businessman at the heart of a political scandal earlier this year has made an eleventh-hour plea change over domestic violence charges.

Donghua Liu, 54, appeared in the Auckland District Court yesterday for sentencing on charges of assault with intent to injure, and male assaults female, but his lawyer Paul Davison QC told the court he would apply to vacate the previous

guilty pleas. Liu admitted at a hearing on April 1 to assaulting his de facto wife, Juan Zhang, with intent to injure, and assaulting her mother, Lunju Wang.

Judge Grant Fraser said the Crown opposed the plea change.

Since pleading guilty, lawyers representing Liu applied to alter the summary of facts in the case, to which Liu had already pleaded guilty.

Now the case will come back

before court for a three-hour disputed-facts hearing in October when the parties will hammer out their differences.

Since his initial guilty plea, Liu has attended a course on stopping violence.

Barrister Todd Simmonds, who previously represented Liu, indicated he would seek a discharge without conviction.

At the start of the month, Liu also pleaded guilty to charges over building works carried out on two properties in

Remuera and Epsom, together worth more than $6 million.

He admitted two breaches of the Resource Management Act. A Herald investigation revealed that Maurice Williamson contacted police about the domestic violence inquiry on Liu’s behalf. Mr Williamson resigned his ministerial portfolios in May. There was further political controversy in June over donations Liu said he had made to the Labour Party.

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A high-level panel has found “no adverse effects” of fluoridation of public water supplies, following a review of scientific evidence. The just-released review, titled Health Effects of Water Fluoridation: a Review of the Scientific Evidence, was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Sir Peter Gluckman and the Royal Society of New Zealand president Sir David Skegg. The review looked at the scientific evidence for and against the efficacy and safety of fluoridation of public water supplies, finding the levels used in New Zealand created no health risks and provided protection against tooth decay.

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■ ALLENTON SCHOOL

A tip-off led police to recover another vehicle connected to fraudster Michael Swann. Police confirmed a Mercedes Benz was recovered from a public place in St Leonards, Dunedin, on Thursday.

Detective Senior Sergeant John Ferguson said police recovered the car after “chasing down” a tip-off about a different vehicle linked to Mr Swann. “While working to establish the whereabouts of this vehicle, we received separate and unrelated information that led us to locate the Mercedes.” - APNZ

Dressing up in a bid to increase reading Superheroes, princesses, animals and more than one Wally were all present yesterday as Allenton School pupils got into the spirit and dressed up as their favourite book character for the day.

Year 1 pupils (right) Wally (Jacob Robinson), Tinkerbell, (Mia Synman) and Snow White (Milla Leadley) listen intently to Cat in the Hat (aka teacher Julie Tayles) read about Schnitzel von Krumm’s latest adventure.

The school got the children to dress up as their favourite character to encourage reading.

In Miss Tayles’ class there was also a Darth Vader, another Snow White, many princesses, a Spiderman, two Batmans and a Lion.

Criminal nuisance A man who allegedly made a hoax call to police that sparked an Armed Offenders Squad callout to a primary school in Aramoho appeared in Whanganui District Court yesterday. Bevan Lee Stoneman, 48, appeared on a charge of criminal nuisance for making a fictitious phone call to 111 to report “an angry man with a gun” walking around Churton School. Stoneman was remanded in custody to next Tuesday, August 26.

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Council looks to purchase Port Hills homes The Christchurch City Council and the Government are looking to buy 16 green-zoned properties on the Port Hills that have been identified as being at risk from landslides.

Fluoride ‘okay’

New council-commissioned GNS Science reports released yesterday show 37 green-zoned homes are in areas where the risk to life from landslide – also known as “mass movement” _ is

considered ‘intolerable’ by the council.

A further 21 homes will undergo remedial work to protect them.

“With peoples’ safety com-

ing first, we are making some tough decisions about land use and development in these areas,” said the council’s chief planning officer Mike Theelen.

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Five people were arrested on charges including drugs, firearms and theft during a Waikato police sting that targeted more than 50 properties in the region. Senior Sergeant Neil Faulkner said 52 properties were visited by police, three search warrants were carried out at properties in Hamilton city while another was conducted at a Morrinsville address.

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Accommodation sales up, but on-premise sales down Accommodation sales were the hero in July for the Ashburton Trust, with sales up 19 per cent on the previous year.

On-premise sales, however, were dragged down by the challenging late night market that is impacted by a double whammy of an over-supply of venues and a challenging regulatory environment, said trust chief executive Giles Beal.

While sales were strong at most venues and sites and several were up on last

year, the impact of declining takings at The Shed meant on-premise sales were down 6 per cent in July.

Over the past month the trust had focused on Braided Rivers, recruiting a new manager and creating new menus.

Off-premise sales were unchanged from the previous year.

Total sales for July were $1.36 million, down 2 per cent overall on July 2013.

For the first four months of the trading year, sales were 1 per cent up.

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Mt Somers Library members (from left) Anne Chapman, Freddy Acland and Pam Annand, with Robbie Martin and Sue Raynor enjoy a coffee and a chat in the Mt Somers Library.

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Heart of the Mt Somers community

By Sue NewmaN

sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

There’s a quiet, genteel spot in Mt Somers that has become the village’s new community heart.

That place is the Mt Somers Library. It’s warm, it’s welcoming and it gives new meaning to book borrowing.

Born about three years ago, the library is unlike many of its ilk, it’s thriving in a world where online books are decimating the ranks of physical book borrowers.

The library was established in the village’s unused post office building, initially as a trial, but that trial was so well received by locals (and visitors) it was clear it was there to stay, said convener Anne Chapman.

It has become the perfect community meeting place, one that encourages users to stop, read, chat and sometimes enjoy a cup of tea and home baking, Mrs Chapman said.

“Anyone can use our library and we even have people who come up from Ashburton because they like the fact that we’re small and user friendly.

We’ve tried to make this like going into someone’s living room.

We’ve tried to create something different so people will keep coming back.”

Not only do users keep coming back, they bring their friends and they bring books to help stock shelves.

The library owns more than

Sue Raynor, relaxing in the Mt Somers Library that has the feel of a well-loved and much-used living room.

2500 volumes, built up through donations by users, cash grants from the Ashburton District Council and by people clearing out homes destroyed in the Christchurch earthquake.

Wherever those books come from, they’re welcomed by the library volunteers. New books mean they can retire some that have seen better days. Retire-

ment means books are placed outside, under the verandah for people to take away.

The only limitation the library has, is space, Mrs Chapman said.

“We’ve got something here for everyone and the council grant means we can buy new releases.”

The tiny library is open twice

a week – officially – but if volunteers have a few spare hours or feel like reading, they often pop down, unlock the door and put the open-for-business sign out on the street.

There’s no membership fee, borrowers just make a donation.

“This has now become a local meeting spot. We have couches, fresh flowers and occasionally

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Since January 455 books have been borrowed from the library and customer demand is so high that an evening opening is under consideration.

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Saturday, August 23, 2014

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Comedy ad star’s big dream

By Erin TaskEr

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By day he’s a teacher at Carew Peel Forest School, but by evening Mike Boon is television’s least informative weatherman.

His weather forecasts include statements like it’s going to be colder than a night in the dog box, but it’s okay, it means you don’t have to put the pig in the freezer, and that there’s going to be some muddy and dusty Hiluxes up north, but some clean ones down south.

Mr Boon is the Toyota Hilux man; one of two faces now familiar to television viewers around the country through a series of entertaining ads for the ute.

But it’s a job which is essentially just a bit of extra pocket money for a man who, to his students, is simply their funny teacher, Mr Boon.

When he first left university in the 1990s with a Bachelor of arts, media studies and communications, Mr Boon was actually dreaming of making a living from comedy and performing – a love he’d only discovered while at university.

But after years of festivals and shows around New Zealand and the United Kingdom, reality set in.

It was hard making a living out of performing.

Mr Boon had met the woman who was to become his wife while in Scotland, and after 10 years of trying to crack the big time he decided it was time to settle down and get a real job, so the couple returned to New Zealand and Mr Boon retrained as a teacher.

He started at Carew Peel Forest School last year after moving from Auckland to be closer to family, and to live somewhere where buying a house was a realistic dream.

The family settled in Geraldine and Mr Boon quickly became one of the town’s most recognisable faces thanks to an opportunity which came out of the blue just prior to the move south.

That’s when he was offered the Toyota ad. He’d given up on performing, but still had the passion for it, so took it on. It was a good fit for a teacher, who, in a past life, was a performer.

Mike Boon is a familiar face on New Zealand television screens, but to the kids of Carew Peel Forest School he’s just Mr Boon.

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“It’s not like I’m advertising alcohol or something like that.

It’s something that doesn’t put me offside with teaching or something,” he said.

He never dreamt a simple advertisement would take him where it did. But the Toyota Hilux ads were popular from the start, after launching with a 60 second ad telling a crazy story of a man driving a Hilux over mountains, through a cyclone, a flood and a landslide, before coming face-to-face with a wild boar with flames coming out of his nostrils and a rocket launcher on his back, and a monkey who wants a hokey-pokey ice cream.

Then, in September last year, Mr Boon received a call asking if he’d make more ads.

He said yes, provided they could be done in the school holidays, and four more were made.

A week before the last school holidays he got another call asking if he’d do more filming.

Again, he said yes, so long as it

was during the holidays, but he had no idea what the latest ads were going to be.

“I didn’t know that it was just going to be me and it was going to be on in the middle of One News every single night in front of hundreds and thousands of people,” Mr Boon said.

Now, every night at about 6.50pm, Mr Boon gets a flurry of tweets on his Twitter account – right around the time he makes his nightly appearance.

“So now I’m even more famous for doing something that I don’t even do anymore. It’s hilarious that the thing I’m most well-known for in my performing life is something that’s happened since I gave up performing,” Mr Boon said.

His character is memorable, and has morphed since that first ad.

“The first time I didn’t think I was as dim as it has developed into. In the second lot he has a lot more dialogue so the idiot in him comes out, if you like,”

Mr Boon said. The weatherman clips are when Mr Boon’s character really comes into his own though.

He was given 12 different scripts, but on the day they came up with more, so they made about 15 in total.

Each is likely to bring a chuckle or a smile from viewers, and they even prompt smiles and the odd comment from One News’ real weather presenter Jim Hickey, who follows Mr Boon with the real weather forecast.

Comedy is part of who Mr Boon is and it’s something that he uses in both of his passions – teaching and performing. But when required, the firm and grumpy Mr Boon does come out in the classroom.

“People think because you’ve been a comedian the class will be about laughing all the time, but like any teacher I get grumpy when they misbehave,” Mr Boon said.

He teaches the Year 5 and 6 class (nine and 10 year olds) at

Carew Peel Forest School and to them, he’s just their teacher and the novelty of him appearing on television regularly has passed.

But he’s often recognised while out and about.

While out for a run in Geraldine recently he received some heckling from a passing motorist who yelled out to him “hang on to your steak and cheese mate” – a line from the first ad.

“In Christchurch Airport a while ago I could tell that everyone was looking at me.

“I went to this conference a couple of weeks ago and you just looked around and people were staring at me.

“They don’t expect to see you in the situation you’re in,” Mr Boon said.

He’s easily recognisable; Mr Boon the teacher has the same hair-cut, sideburns and eyebrows as the character in the ad.

And with more ads possible due to the popularity of those filmed so far, Mr Boon won’t be visiting a barber any time soon.

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lthough we all know about the dangers of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, did you know that you could become addicted to your favourite food? From withdrawal symptoms to changes in brain chemistry, our snacks have surprising ways of keeping us wanting more. Here is our guide to five of the world’s most addictive foods.

Chocolate Many people claim to be chocoholics, but can you really be addicted to chocolate? The answer is: perhaps. One reason many people feel “addicted” to chocolate is that the food’s chemical compounds (ie, theobromine, phenyethylamine, anandamide and tryptophan) actually have pleasure-inducing effects that can mimic the effects of drugs on the brain. Chocolate also contains alkaloids (tetrahydrobeta-carbolines) which are present in alcohol and have been linked to alcoholism.

However – before you go booking yourself into Chocoholics Anonymous – it is important to note that many re-

most addictive foods

searchers have pointed out that the chemicals in chocolate also exist in other foods which most of us do not crave. It has also been suggested that the chemicals in chocolate are not in high enough doses to lead to addiction. Regardless, it is impossible to deny that chocolate is one of the world’s most-craved foods – whether this is because of psychological reasons or down to a physical addiction.

Cheese From pizzas to cheeseburgers, cheese is a staple of many widely-craved junk foods, but there could be more to our cravings than we think.

Various studies have discovered the presence of opiates – including the highly addictive morphine – in cheese.

Although the amounts of morphine in cheese are very small and probably not enough to cause addiction, some researchers are concerned about its levels of casein (the main protein in cheese) which produces morphine-like opiate compounds called casomorphins during digestion.

On top of this, cheese also contains phenylethylamine, a substance with stimulant effects which is thought to give consumers a natural “high”, and which is reputed to have addictive qualities.

suggested: that it is possible to become severely dependent on sugar.

Sugar

Numerous researchers and studies have suggested that fatty, processed junk food such as burgers may actually be addictive. According to Professor David Kessler – an excommissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration and author of The End of Overeating – the combination of fat, salt and sugar in junk food triggers our “bliss point” and leaves us wanting more.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida backed up this theory with a study which found the addictive responses in rats’ brains when fed junk food including fatty meats were the same as in those that consume cocaine or heroin.

Meat – like chocolate, cheese and sugar – also releases opiatelike substances during digestion, which some studies have suggested can leave us craving more.

We all know that sugar is bad for our health, but according to numerous studies it can also be addictive.

Studies suggest that when we eat sugar, chemicals called opioids are released by the brain, which leads to an intense feeling of pleasure. It is this feeling that people may crave in the absence of sugar.

A study by psychologists at Princeton University investigated sugar addiction by studying its effect on rats.

They discovered that after rats were fed a diet high in sugar, they experienced symptoms similar to those produced by drug withdrawal when the sugar was withdrawn, including shaking and changes in brain chemistry.

The study concluded what other researchers have also

Burgers and processed meat

Coffee Many feel that they can’t start the day without a cup of coffee and people often joke about having a caffeine “addiction”.

However, this may not be far from the truth.

Although there has been much debate over the years about whether or not caffeine is genuinely addictive, it is difficult to deny that many of us crave it to the point where we feel we can’t function without it.

One reason that people may crave caffeine so much is because of the fairly severe symptoms of caffeine withdrawal that people often face, ranging from fatigue and headaches to irritability and depression.

However, it may be that, rather than being physically dependent on caffeine, you are actually addicted to the belief that you can’t function without your morning or afternoon cup of coffee.

Whatever the reason, caffeine remains the world’s most popular drug and a staple of many daily routines.

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A life lost too young;

T

he last time Sue Prendergast saw her son alive, he was standing in front of the fridge drinking from a threelitre plastic juice bottle.

It was a day which started like any other, but Michael never made it to work that day.

It was November 1, 2002; the day Michael took his own life.

It’s been almost 12 years, but Michael is still on Sue’s mind every day. He is still very much a part of his family’s life.

He is not hidden. His family remember the good times and the 10 nieces and nephews he never got to meet know they had an Uncle Mike. They know that Uncle Mike would have loved them all to bits.

Michael was just 18 years old when he died. It was a week short of his 19th birthday.

It was an average day. Sue made a comment to him about how much juice he was drinking in front of the fridge; Michael didn’t respond. But that wasn’t unusual; Michael was an 18-yearold boy after all.

Sue headed off to work and Michael, who worked as a panel beater with his father, was due to do the same. But he never made it to work that day.

The moment she was told her son had died will stick in Sue’s mind forever. She worked at Ashburton New World at the time and Michael’s uncle came to tell her.

“I just screamed and screamed.”

It was like her whole world came to a standstill. She didn’t want to believe it. One of her boys – her precious twin boys who had given her so much joy – was gone.

In a matter of hours, life had changed forever. It was completely out of the blue.

The night before, Michael had been on a night out with friends.

He’d won the jackpot on the pokies; pocketing around $900.

He appeared in good spirits, but unbeknown to everyone else, something was terribly wrong in Michael’s head.

Sue doesn’t like the word suicide.

“They don’t die of suicide. I call it cancer of the mind. Some-

Michael McCormick was just 18 when he died.

He took his own life – an act which has had an everlasting impact on his family and friends.

Erin Tasker reports. thing gets inside them and they can’t stop it.”

People were often judgemental after a suicide, saying a person made a choice to end their life, but Sue doesn’t see it like that.

It’s not a selfish act; Michael didn’t have a selfish bone in his body.

“The Michael we knew and loved would not have hurt his family; he wouldn’t have hurt a fly,” Sue said.

“The Michael that died that day was not the Michael we knew and loved.”

The Michael they knew was sick. They just didn’t know it.

Looking back, there were signs.

He’d had “little breakdowns” but Sue puts her son’s death down to one thing. Drugs.

“I know he was smoking a bit of weed and I know that he was one of the unlucky people that it totally messed with his mind.

That played a big part in it.”

Sue thinks he was smoking marijuana regularly, “but as a mother, you never really knew the full extent of what your kids got up to”.

Michael had become distant.

He was a teenage boy though, maybe the answer was as simple as that? Or was it because of the marijuana?

As a mum, Sue knew something was wrong, but never dreamed it would come to what it did. No-one did; no-one could.

His family and friends were numbed by his death. Sue was devastated, Michael’s twin brother Dylan lost the best mate who had been by his side from day one, and four sisters lost a loving brother. For Michael’s dad – who found him the day he died – it was every father’s worst nightmare.

The next few Christmases were hard. Christmas was a time for celebration, but how could a family celebrate when a loved son and brother had been taken so young?

Even after 12 years, the memories of the day Michael died and the days which followed, are still vivid.

“It never goes away. You can be straight back in that moment at any time,” Sue said.

“Time is an amazing healer and you learn to live with it, but you still have moments.”

One thing Sue barely remembers is the funeral, but she recalls there being a lot of people there.

As a parent, you go on to autopilot after losing a child, she said.

Sue went back to work quickly.

For her, she needed to be around people. She’d just lost a son and while life would never be the same, life had to carry on for Michael’s family.

A quiet, caring, fun-loving, gentle young man with a lot of friends, Michael had always thought of others.

Sue still has a letter to Santa he wrote when he was nine. Instead of asking for things for himself, he asked for $1 million for his mum, a Harley for his dad, a .22 for his stepdad Pat, a car each for his sisters Anna and Megan, and a dummy for Dylan, such was his cheeky sense of humour. It’s just the type of kid he was.

When someone takes their own life it is natural to wonder why, and come up with many ‘what ifs’. But hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Nothing can bring Michael back, but Sue hopes that Michael’s story might help others.

Michael was unwell, but noone knew just how unwell until it was too late. He did not speak up or seek help.

For the year ending June 30, 2014, another 529 people around New Zealand committed suicide.

They too, did not seek help.

Their families have been left wondering why; clinging to memories.

Sue knows that feeling all too well and it’s one she wouldn’t wish on anyone.

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a family hurt forever Quiet, caring, fun-loving and gentle Michael McCormick took his own life at the tender age of just 18.

Suicide rate in New Zealand still too high

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he number of people committing suicide in New Zealand remains “stubbornly high”, according to chief coroner Judge Neil MacLean.

He released the provisional annual suicide figures for the year ending June 30, 2014, this week which showed that 529 people had committed suicide in that time.

It was the lowest number by two since the annual coronial figures were first produced for the 2007/08 year. There were 12 fewer suicides compared to last year, and 29 fewer than the 2010/11 year, which was the highest annual number recorded in the past seven years.

The previous lowest total was recorded for 2008/09 with 531 recorded suicide deaths.

Judge MacLean said while it was encouraging to see a slight drop in numbers, the overall rate was still stubbornly high and disappointingly consistent.

“This year’s numbers have moved in the right direction but not by much. In spite of this, it’s important we focus on the positives and there are some we can take from the statistics.”

Youth suicide numbers (those aged under 24 years) were significantly down from last year with 110 suicides compared with 144. It was also the lowest number of suicides in the 15 to 19-year-old cohort in the last seven years with 46, which was down 17 on last year and 34 the year before.

“The drop in teen suicide is good news. These are some of the toughest and most tragic cases coroners deal with,” Judge MacLean said.

“I am aware that a lot of effort both nationally and at community grassroots level

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The drop in teen suicide is good news. These are some of the toughest and most tragic cases coroners deal with

has gone into responding to the challenges posed by youth suicide, and I’d like to think the drop is a result of this.

“This includes the development of a co-operative interagency arrangement whereby Coronial Service staff send a notice in near real-time through a secure link to the Ministry of Health of any suspected suicide.

“This triggers a prompt and informed response, particularly when it involves a youth suicide.

“It may be this, coupled with an extensive growing awareness and interest amongst

local communities seeking information and guidance about the phenomenon of suicide, that is starting to bring the youth suicide numbers down.

But only time will tell.”

Another key observation from this year’s statistics was the rise in suicides among older people. The number of suicides recorded in over-60 year olds went up from 75 in 2012-13 to 97 in 2013-14.

Also of concern was the fact that there were six suicides in the 10-14 year old age group.

In the Canterbury DHB region there were 68 reported suicides for the year.

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Lending a helping hand Each year in New Zealand around 21,000 people are diagnosed with cancer; 9000 will die.

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LINDA CLARKE

D

affodil Day is the Cancer Society’s way of fundraising to support those Kiwis and their families.

People go out of their way to support the day because they know the society’s services really make a difference.

Almost 10,000 bunches of fresh flowers were sold for the cause nationwide last year, more than half a million fabric daffodils changed hands and around $5 million raised.

In Mid Canterbury, volunteers will be involved in street donations and other activities this Daffodil Day. The ANZ Bank in Ashburton will host what has become an annual quizco in the name of cancer support, at the Hotel Ashburton on August 28.

Teams pay $50 for a chance to prove their brain power against others, as well as bid for items at fun auctions.

While Daffodil Day encourages people to support the Cancer Society on one day a year, the organisation in Mid Canterbury has year-round support from many volunteers and organisations.

Volunteer Jeanette Early became involved 10 years ago.

She didn’t need long to think

Mandy Casey, Health Promoter and Annie Bonifant, Centre Manager, both employed at the Cancer Society.

about her answer when Janice Harrison asked her to help; close friends had just lost their eight-year-old daughter to cancer and Jeanette, a farmer’s wife from Mayfield, knew she could help others in the same situation.

Today she supports cancer sufferers and their families, and drives them to Christchurch for

medical appointments.

“I have met a lot of lovely people through driving. Often they are going through to Christchurch for radiation treatment, not chemotherapy.

We don’t ask questions, but we are there if they want to talk.”

Jeanette also works in the Cancer Society’s rooms, helps out catering, selling raffles and

running Daffodil Day stalls.

People, she says, are generous and many have been affected by cancer, personally or within their family.

Support from volunteers can help make a difficult time just a little easier. “Cancer affects whole families. Often a person has to give up their job and if they are the bread winner, that

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is tough. That is where the Cancer Society comes in and can really help.”

While the days following diagnosis and treatment can be a blur, cancer sufferers need to register with the society if they want help, a lot or a little, dealing with the disease.

Jeanette says the society’s three paid staff in Mid Canterbury are exceptional and the volunteers they co-ordinate an amazing group of people.

“They ring us up and say, this person needs a visit.

We can be a listening ear, or offer practical help.”

Trish Corbett has been a volunteer for five years, since losing her partner to cancer.

She now offers support, after receiving it.

She says the support was invaluable and now finds reward helping others in the same boat. The skills she offers are more practical – she works in the gardens of patients and their families, and does some administration work at the rooms.

Pulling weeds might not seem important, but for some it is just the tonic they need. “There’s nothing more depressing that seeing weeds growing while you’re sick or have no time to tend a garden.

Your day is often consumed by the cancer, the trips to Christchurch, not being able to work.

You wake up thinking about it and you go to sleep thinking about it.”

Trish said people were often too proud to ask for help, but became too tired to cope.

Cancer support was discreet and helpful, words sometimes not even necessary.

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Humour helped Donna Donna Harvey shares the story of her battle with breast cancer.

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LINDA CLARKE

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n her own words, Donna Harvey’s life went a bit tits up last year.

In the shower, after a hard slog in the garden one afternoon in December 2012, she found a lump in her breast.

A month later, she was in surgery to have it removed; and in February she went under the knife again to remove lymph nodes where her breast cancer had spread.

What followed was three months of chemotherapy, during which she lost her hair but not her sense of humour, a 60-day course of radiation and last September she started a five-year course of tamoxifen, a drug designed to deal with any more breast cancer cells that dared invade her body.

Donna says the past 18 months have been a whirlwind, punctuated with emotional highs and lows, despair, hope, numbness, friendship and love.

Her family, she has discovered, has grown to include not only husband Phillip, daughter Louise and son Matthew, but her work family, her medical family and her Cancer Society family.

She is part-way through a journey that is shared by many women; 2800 are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.

Donna was 43 when she discovered the lump.

Days before, she had been

checked over by her doctor at the Rakaia Medical Centre and given the all clear.

Even now, she wonders what caused the cells to go feral; she can’t remember a knock, and lived a reasonably healthy

lifestyle with no obvious history of breast cancer in the family.

She didn’t sleep that night and was off the doctor immediately the next day.

Two days later she had a mammogram and then a core

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through biopsy that confirmed doctors’ suspicions.

Donna doesn’t remember much of that day, just the words cancerous and invasive, followed by “but we can contain it”.

Humour has helped the Harvey family get through the past 18 months. Louise reminds her when she is having “a tits up moment” and Matthew cracked his own jokes to lighten the mood on occasion.

Phillip, who grows onions for vegetable processors Greg and Jo Lovett, was a rock.

Donna says she set a series of mini goals after surgery to keep her looking forward.

They celebrated weddings, birthdays and new arrivals with their extended family.

Much of the time she has felt her brain was scrambled – her body was tired from the surgeries, the chemo and radiation, and now she battles side-effects of the tamoxifen.

She has three-monthly appointments with her surgeon Josie Todd and oncologist Bridget Robinson; she says both women have been compassionate, informative and professional.

She also values her visits from

Ruth Hodges

Annie Bonifant and the team at Cancer Support.

Donna says they have helped her soldier on, providing practical advice, support and an unconditional welcome at their breast cancer support groups.

Donna belongs to two: In one, she is the youngest survivor and hopes to be as funny and noble as the women in their 60s with whom she shares her experiences.

The second group, for women 25-50, has also been a lifeline.

“Annie would ring and say she was coming out. She would explain what was going on, the hair loss after chemo, the loss of taste and smell, and about cooking food.

A couple of times I just wanted to ask different questions.”

Donna says she looks back at 2013 and sees it as a year she would rather forget.

She is concentrating on the next four years, trying to eat well, sleep well and listen to the needs of her healing body.

While she’s had to give up her job because of the tiredness, she hasn’t given up enjoying a glass of wine nor her positive outlook on life.

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The show goes on Mark Cherry found himself learning new lines in his brush with cancer.

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he show goes on for Mark Cherry, despite being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year.

The Ashburton Operatic Society actor, singer and dancer was in the society’s Rock N Pop production this weekend, despite still suffering severe numbness and burning in his feet – a hangover from the chemotherapy needed to treat his aggressive tumour.

The past 12 months have been full despite the cancer, which started in cells that are part of the body’s immune system. Mark has refused to let the disease take hold in his life, defiantly going to work, travelling to shows and going out.

Fit, outwardly healthy, a non-smoker and non-drinker, Mark began experiencing pain in his lower abdomen last September. The pain came and went over three weeks, then he found a lump; appendicitis was suspected.

He was being wheeled into surgery at Christchurch Hospital when his doctor pulled the pin, saying tests

Mark Cherry working away in a client’s garden.

suggested otherwise. A barrage of tests followed, including a colonoscopy and needle biopsy, the results revealing Mark had non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the lump was a tumour, not appendicitis.

Right, Mark said to the specialist, what do you want me

to do next? It would take some time for fact he had cancer to sink in.

Within a week, he had begun chemotherapy, the brutal drugs battering the cancer and his whole body. He decided to take charge of his body before his hair fell out, organising a hair-

shaving party at Braided Rivers after his first session. The place was packed with family, friends and clients, and Mark was overwhelmed. But the show went on.

What followed was 19 weeks of treatment, with chemotherapy every three

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Support too has come from the cancer support group in Ashburton. Kind, caring, helpful and practical.

He also belongs to a young cancer survivors’ support group that meets every couple of months in Christchurch and enjoys the interaction.

The prognosis? Mark says his cancer is treatable, if not curable. He has three-monthly check-ups and blood tests that will alert him if the cancer recurs. While some might struggle with the uncertainty of that, Mark is pretty definite he has pulled the curtain on that scene.

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weeks. With no hair, Mark became the Hat Man, with a variety of colourful and character hats to wear. He put on 10kg, thanks to the steroids he was also taking.

He began to notice how his body was responding to the chemotherapy, and could predict when the nausea and strange taste sensations would overtake him.

The numb and burning feet, and sometimes fingers, and the pain throughout his body, have persisted.

His tonic was to continue as if nothing had happened.

He and partner Tania flew to Auckland to see Cirque du Soleil and Wicked, they went to family events and weddings.

“I made it not about me, it was about getting out there. And if I wanted to do something, I still did it.”

While Mark’s partner Tania was his rock at home, workmates Mitchell Stoddart and Helen Hodge carried Mark’s gardening business when he was too sick to go. And there has been huge support from his clients, the operatic fraternity and the Ashburton community. Mark says that blew him away and he has been

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Green and golds begin Cup defence The Mid Canterbury Hammers kick off their defence of the Meads Cup at the Showgrounds today, when they host West Coast, a team that pushed them in a lastminute semi-final thriller last season.

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Heartland: Who are the contenders?

Mid Canterbury

top try-scorer Chris Talanoa.

Last year: Meads Cup champion.

Mid Canterbury has had a Ranfurly Shield challenge against Counties, a win over Southland and a big win over South Canterbury in pre-season. The Hammers lost only one game in 2013, and the core of that team has returned has been bolstered by Tasman Makos flanker Gary Red-mond, utility back Brenton Connell and North Otago lock Eric Duff – a Heartland XV representative in 2013. Canterburybased Matt Thatcher is the player of origin. Dwayne Burrows comes back from Dunedin as a loan player to join Southbridge duo Peni Manumanuniwila and Willie McGoon in the backline stocks, where Murray Williams will be back at first five.

Former loan player’s halfback Jake Ashby, prop Matt Groom and outside back Andrew Letham are all in the mix as local players. The 2013 Heartland Player of the Year, Jon Dampney, will again lead the side, and will start the season on 94 caps.

West Coast

North Otago Last year: Meads Cup finalist.

The Old Golds have prepared with a three-match tour of Fiji and Tonga. Ten players from 2013 have departed but this has been offset by the arrival of 11 newcomers, including players from Argentina, Canada and England.

Losses include lead points scorer Ed Keohane (England), second five-eighth J’Andre Liebenberg (Hawke’s Bay) and first fives Ratu Vatuinaraki (Fiji) and Ben Patston (Dunedin). The departure of lock Eric Duff (to Mid Canterbury) is a major loss but the side will be built around Ralph Darling, Lemi Masoe, Josh Clark, Simeli Koniferedi and

Last year: Meads Cup semi-finalist.

The Coasters had a fine 2013 season where they lost to Mid Canterbury in the Meads Cup semi-final in injury time. Coast’s strength will revolve around current Heartland XV representatives flanker Alan Monk, hooker Troy Tauwhare and first-five Tim Priest, along with hard-working loose forward Rowan O’Gorman - top try scorer with six last year - and strong locks Josh Manning and Kalave Auali’itia. They also boast front rowers Heroshi Tea and Andrew Williams who both Samoan test players.

Wairarapa-Bush Last year: Meads Cup semi-finalist.

Bush has had some key players depart leaving big holes to be filled. The biggest would be the accurate goal kicker Glen Walters, which has been offset by the arrival of former Canterbury back Sam Monaghan. Prop Kurt Simmonds and lock Andrew McLean have returned, along with winger Paul Tikomainavalu the team’s top try scorer in 2013. The Bush showed their intentions by beating Horowhenua-Kapiti 55-14 followed up by a 71-0 demolition of Poverty Bay earlier this month.

South Canterbury Last year: Lochore Cup champion.

South Canterbury will be without leading scorer Liam Edwards, who has been included in the Hawkes Bay wider squad. Former New Zealand Heartland representative, Jarred Trevathan, returns to the union to take up the fullback spot while

halfback Sekope Maea also returns after missing the 2013 season. They should field a formidable pack led by a front-row of Matt Fetu, Nathan Tubb and Timaru Tafa, and led by captain Andrew Scarlett. Potential season-ending injuries to George Folau and Rupeni Cokanasiga have taken some backline firepower away, as well as the retirement of midfielder Faiatu Tuamoheloa and John Peeters.

Thames Valley Last year: Eighth.

Former All Black centre Frank Bunce has joined Hayden Roe in the coaching team. Bunce’s arrival has attracted 136kg prop Eva Taumalolo, who has played in France. Another big prop Michael Tuiloma, who played for South Canterbury last season, joins Waikato loosehead Kieran Ramage up front. Former Fijian lock Savenaca Tabakanalagi is another big body at 120kg. Utility man David Harrison, with 85 caps and 582 points to his credit, will be a key player.

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Last year: 11th.

After a ‘’what Buller might have Last year: Lochore been’’ season Cup finalist. in last year, Hoping to sustaining six build on an losses by seven points or fewer, encouraging campaign that Horowhenua-Kapiti are hoping for included two wins over Wanganui. some luck to go their way in 2014.

They have former Mid Canterbury New Zealand Heartland XV fullback King Country import James Lash at 10 receiving Michael Tambour will be a key Last year: Ninth. the ball from Heartland XV player along with first five James The Rams won three halfback Andrew Stephens.

So’oialo, a brother of former All of their first four Buller fullback Iliesa Ravudra, Black Rodney So’oialo. They look to games but dropped centres Peni Nabainivalu and Mike bring an inexperienced team into away, losing their Lealava’a, and wing Setefano the campaign but hoped to secure last four last year. Captain and prop the services of loan players from Sauqaqa have size and pace Brian Mansfield is back but missing Wellington – including inside back to burn as well as experienced former Fijian international, William will be prop Ted Tauroa, flanker Adrian Curry who was their top Sam Mason, utility back Kurt Saukuru. The familiar face of scorer with 42 points last year.

Strachan, fullback James Hemera Darfield flanker Blair McIlroy is in and Pehi Te Whare who had played Poverty Bay the forwards where flanker Luke for North Otago and Southland.

Brownlee (134 games), tighthead Last year: 12th.

Whakataki Cunningham is one of prop Phil Beveridge (120 games) First five Tau three Bay of Plenty players in King and lock Logan Muny will be the Country rugby this season. Elusive Moeke, a Meads core of the pack.

Cup winner with winger Dean Church and halfback Wanganui and Ray Simpson are once again Wanganui East Coast, will available. Loose forward Anthony Last year: Lochore be hoping to win Wise - former Fijian and Waikato Cup semi-finalist. his third Heartland Championship representative - brings a 1.94m The Butchers are when he takes on the Poverty Bay frame as does lock Gene Waller. after redemption colours this season, but will need following a poor season where they Ngati Porou East Coast to lift the team from bottom to the missed the Meads Cup playoffs top. The Reds, four times Lochore Last year: 10th. for the first time, and dipped out Cup holders and twice Meads Cup East Coast went in the Lochore Cup semi-finals. semi-finalists, drifted to the bottom Flanker Peter Rowe (89 games) will in as defending of Heartland last year but coach champions but lead the side. The pack includes Mutu Ngarimu, assisted by former won only two experienced front rowers Cole All Black Rico Gear, are determined games last year.

Baldwin and Sean McDonough, to regain some pride this season. while big Fijian loose forward Lasa Key player will Lock Murray Hewson will lead the be 35-year-old Ulukuta is listed as a prop, and side with match centurion Sione they are without Heartland XV lock halfback Charlie Ngatu brings plenty of experience Harrison, who is approaching Nick Cranston. Ace Malo returns as will Moeke, a Heartland XV his century of first-class games. from injury to provide some much representative last year, in the needed experience in the backline. There have been big losses of Tau midfield.

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Hammers the team to beat

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The defending Meads Cup champion Mid Canterbury starts the new Heartland Championship campaign today with one goal in mind.

Back-to-back championship wins.

Mid Canterbury coach Glenn Moore has said that to repeat their effort, they would have to get better than they were last year, and at the early stage of the season he felt the team is ahead of where they were at the same stage.

There is a long way to go to see if they can secure a second cup win, but the early signs point towards the Hammers being the team to beat.

With a Ranfurly Shield challenge against Counties Manukau, a shock win over Southland and a convincing win over Heartland rivals South Canterbury, the team has momentum coming into today’s match with the West Coast.

The addition of several players to the region has created better depth in the 2014 squad, and has also created plenty of competition for spots.

Just what Moore was after.

Of the team that won the Meads Cup final last year, 11 have been named for today’s opening game against the West Coast, while the players to come in offer plenty of experience.

Four of the starting pack from that day have retained their spots in 2014.

Props Tukulua Tolu and Simon Fleetwood, and loose

forwards Tevita Ula and Jon Dampney remain from that final.

Hooker Jon Sharpe is a Heartland debutant having last played for Mid Canterbury under the old NPC format back in 2002.

Tolu will cover hooker with props Matt Groom, a former loan player in 2012, and Dominic Vesesio, who made his debut in the shield challenge, on the bench.

With Grant Polson retired, Kody Nordqvist injured for the season and Andrew Smith unavailable, the middle row sees Logan Bonnington partner new recruit Eric Duff.

Duff makes his Mid Canterbury debut, but played in the Meads Cup final last year in the losing North Otago side.

Joel Hewson provides cover from the bench after a three year absence.

Dynamic Gary Redmond, who produced a stellar performance against South Canterbury a fortnight ago, starts at seven, while the return of Ula has pushed Sam Houston to the bench.

In the backline the outside back trio provides the changes from the Meads Cup win with Brenton Connell making his first appearance in the Heartland championship since 2008 and player of origin, Matt Thatcher, on the wings with Andrew Letham, who was a former player of origin in 2009, in at fullback.

Winger Willie McGoon was the unlucky man of the Mid Canterbury Hammers’ four loan players to

MID CANTERBURY 1 Tukulua Tolu, 2 Jon Sharpe, 3 Simon Fleetwood, 4 Logan Bonnington, 5 Eric Duff, 6 Tevita Ula, 7 Gary Redmond, 8 Jon Dampney, 9 Will Mackenzie, 10 Murray Williams, 11 Matt Thatcher, 12 Peni Manumanuniliwa, 13 Dwayne Burrows, 14 Brenton Connell, 15 Andrew Letham.

Reserves: 16 Matt Groom, 17 Dominic Vesesio, 18 Joel Hewson, 19 Sam Houston, 20 Seta Koroitamana, 21 Jake Ashby, 22 Richard Catherwood.

Simon Fleetwood goes for a gallop during last year’s semi-final match at the Showgrounds. Mid Canterbury won that game with a last-second try.

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miss out for today’s match with Dwayne Burrows, now a loan player after a season with Dunedin club side Taieri, starting at centre outside fellow loaners Murray Williams and Peni Manumanuniwila.

Will Mackenzie returns from injury to start at halfback.

The versatility in the backs brigade means that Mid Canterbury will only carry two back reserves today in halfback Jake Ashby, a loan player in 2013, and utility Richard Catherwood, who

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Flanker Seta Koroitamana started both those games on the wing and will cover both positions.

The West Coast will offer an ideal test of just where the Hammers are currently at, considering it took over 80 minutes for the Hammers to overcome the coasters in the Meads Cup semi-final last year.

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In brief Makos chase double Rakaia and Crusaders prop Tim Perry has retained the Tasman Makos’ number one jersey for the second round ITM Cup clash with Bay of Plenty tomorrow. Perry packs down in the front row as the Makos look to maintain some promising early form after an impressive 35-15 bonus-point win over the Hawkes Bay Magpies last weekend. Former All Black halfback Jimmy Cowan hasn’t cracked the starting XV yet, on the bench behind Billy Guyton. The Steamers went down to the Southland Stags, who were beaten by Heartland Championship side Mid Canterbury in pre-season, 16-27.

■ RUGBY

ABs on edge - McCaw

BY PATRICK MCKENDRY Richie McCaw has compared the build-up to today’s Bledisloe Cup test to the one which came following the All Blacks’ thrashing at the hands of the Wallabies in Sydney back in 2008.

The All Blacks were beaten 34-19 at ANZ Stadium in July of that year, before rebounding with a 39-10 victory at Eden Park a week later.

McCaw said after yesterday’s captain’s run at the stadium, in which injured first-five Dan Carter took a limited part as he prepares for his return from cracked leg bone, that the feeling was similar because last weekend’s 12-12 draw with the Wallabies felt like a loss.

“I think over the years there’s been occasions where a week apart things change a lot.

“I think back to 2008 when we got put to the sword in Sydney and there was a fair bit of edge that week,” McCaw said.

Stags two-from-two Mark Jackman started on the wing as Southland made it two-from-two in the ITM Cup with a 25-21 win over North Harbour on Thursday night. The Stags key recruit, Highlanders first five Lima Sopoaga kicked 19 points as the Stags continued their strong start to the competition, just weeks after an embarrassing loss to Meads Cup champions Mid Canterbury. North Harbour outscored Southland two tries to one but the boot of Sopoaga got the Stags home.

Savea’s run broken The All Blacks’ test winning streak wasn’t the only run which came to an end last weekend - so did Julian Savea’s try-scoring exploits which date back to October last year. It was the first time in six tests that the blockbusting left wing has failed to cross the opposition’s try line, a run which featured tries against Australia in Dunedin (1 try), England at Twickenham (2), Ireland in Dublin (1), England in Dunedin (1) and England in Hamilton (3). Savea has scored an incredible 23 tries in 23 tests and has never gone more than two tests in a row without scoring. Woe betide Argentina in Napier in a fortnight if he draws another blank at Eden Park tonight.

- APNZ

Try-fest in Hamilton Good luck to those teams that have aspirations of knocking Canterbury off their ITM Cup perch. Canterbury’s 58-27 victory over Waikato in a very open game in Hamilton last night was fashioned on a clinical opening 12 minutes, at which they led 20-0 after three sparkling tries. Their rugby was high-paced, accurate and multi-skilled. To the fore were hooker Codie Taylor, loosies Jed Brown and Matt Todd and No 10 Tyler Bleyendaal, who continues to play with authority at this level. Waikato’s defence was admittedly flimsy, but some of Canterbury’s play was irresistible. Johnny McNicholl set up the first try, to Taylor, after a searing counter-attacking run.

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“I suppose it’s comparable, definitely.”

McCaw said it was up to the All Blacks’ pack to provide a better platform tonight.

“I actually thought in the first quarter of an hour we did all right, but we certainly let the Wallaby pack get back into it.

“Perhaps they had the edge in the second half, so you can imagine telling the big boys that on Monday, they weren’t that happy.

“But it’s all words, it’s about putting it into action tomorrow night.

“We’ve got to supply our backs with better ball than we did last week.”

He added of the need to play within the laws laid down by referee Romain Poite: “We need to focus on what we can and make it as easy as possible for the guy with the whistle.

“If we can do that hopefully we have any excuses.

“The big thing is we have an opportunity to play at a big stadium where the boys love playing at.

“You don’t always get these opportunities to go out and perform.

“The Bledisloe is on the line and if we get the job done that’s a big incentive.”

- APNZ

No Eden Park deja vu for Wallabies

BY JIM MORTON After 14 Auckland failures in the past 28 years, trips to Eden Park have become like Groundhog Day for the Wallabies.

But coach Ewen McKenzie insists there’s a completely different vibe as his team strive to end a drought and keep the Bledisloe series alive this weekend.

McKenzie has brought Australia’s squad over a day later and booked them into a different hotel - not the Crowne Plaza where they’ve stayed since the early 1990s.

“It doesn’t feel like deja vu which it has been for 20 years,” he said at the Pullman Hotel.

“This has been a terrific environment coming in here.

“It just feels like a completely different visit to Auckland.

“We don’t want to be going to Eden Park feeling like it’s deja vu, do we?”

It may only be a change of digs for his team, but McKenzie is a master at thinking outside the square to challenge his team’s mind-

set, and lift their confidence.

“When you play a lot of football, the mental part of the game is significant,” he said.

“Everything that goes on during the week is relevant.

“It doesn’t matter whether it’s mind games in the newspaper - it’s all relevant.”

Those mind games have also had a working over with rival coach Steve Hansen rolling a live grenade into the Australian camp by saying the All Blacks can improve “10 or 12 notches” from last week’s 12-12 draw in Sydney, while doubting how much more the Wallabies could lift.

McKenzie said the unchanged Wallabies just needed to get their basics right - fundamentals like drawing a man properly like Nathan Charles and Israel Folau failed to do when given tryscoring opportunities - to play better.

“We know we can improve a lot on last week so we’ve been focusing on that,” he said.

“We know what we are capable of and we know we

were off the pace at key moments.

“We expect to do better this week.

“We want (New Zealand) to bring their A-game because we are going to bring ours.”

Helping matters is forecast sunshine at the All Blacks’ spiritual home, lifting hopes of a classic Test match spectacle following the dour, tryless draw in the Sydney wet.

Australia tried their best to play running rugby in the difficult conditions and will again attack the All Blacks with the ball in hand.

After kicking away most of their limited possession last week, the hosts also want to do the same, with speedster Cory Jane especially hoping to test makeshift wingers Rob Horne and Pat McCabe.

“We didn’t take too much out of last week because it was a horrible game but, this week, we will see how good the two teams are,” Jane said.

“I would love to get some ball.”

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In brief Premier netball final The Mid Canterbury Netball season comes to a close today with Hampstead taking on Celtic in the premier final. The defending champions, Celtic appear in their fourth straight final looking for a third win, and to be the first team to go back-to-back since United in 2001-2002. Hampstead have reached the final for the first time since 2010, where they lost to College to end a run of five straight finals that netted two titles. If Hampstead are to come out on top they would need to achieve something they haven’t been able to do for over two seasons, and beat Celtic. The two sides go headto-head at 3pm with the other senior grade finals and playoffs under way from midday.

Emma Twigg: Leaving rowing for a year, but still has eyes firmly on the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

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■ ROWING

It’s academic for Twigg

By DaviD Leggat Expect Emma Twigg to be more driven than usual to win her first world rowing title when the championships start in Amsterdam tomorrow night.

She is taking a year out from Rowing New Zealand’s elite programme to turn her full attention on preparing for life after rowing.

So not only does the single sculler want to get to the top of the podium, after two bronze and one silver medal at the last three worlds, for pure personal satisfaction, but it’s about reinforcing a ‘don’t forget about me’ message to RNZ that she is determined to return for the Rio Olympics in 2016.

Twigg, who already has a Bachelor of Communications from Waikato University, has been accepted on the Fifa Master course, endorsed by foot-

ball’s world governing body, and where 32 students from around the world study at three different European universities - Leicester, Milan and Neuchatel in Switzerland - to attain an international masters degree in sports management.

“There’s a mix of people and each place does a different module - humanities in sport, finance and marketing, and sports law,” Twigg said. “It’s a really eclectic bunch of people with different backgrounds, all passionate about sport.”

Former Northern Mystics netball defender Charlotte Kight did the course last year.

That was part of the spur for Twigg.

She will keep training, but academia will be top priority until July. That’s where the risk element comes in.

As she won’t be in New Zealand for the selection trials early

next year for the 2015 season, RNZ have told Twigg she is ineligible to represent New Zealand at the worlds in France, where Olympic qualifying will take place.

That means opening up her single seat to a potential rival.

Twigg, 27, would then be back to train from late next year with the aim of being in Rio. Twigg will continue to press RNZ to change its mind on the worlds, especially if no one has measured up in the single seat while she’s in Europe.

However she also recognises the need to avoid getting stale and have an eye on her future.

“The last nine years of my life have been spent in Cambridge, and I’ve always thought about life after sport,” she said.

“I put my application in over summer last year when I was struggling a bit, particularly for mental freshness.”

Twigg believes knowing what lay ahead has helped her this year, during which she’s won all three World Cup titles, including twice beating Australian hotshot Kim Crow.

“I’m doing it so I’m in the right place, physically and mentally, rather than being stale and going back to the same environment. It’s really important at the Olympics that I have peace of mind regardless of what I’ve done in the last four years that it’s been a success and there’s something else after rowing.”

Next week, however, it’s all about the rowing.

She’s had a good training block in idyllic Bohinj , Slovenia, near Lake Bled, along with the great men’s single sculler Mahe Drysdale, the six years unbeaten men’s pair Eric Murray and Hamish Bond and the women’s double and lightweight double scullers.

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Wakanui Black and Hampstead head south today for their respective finals in the MidSouth Canterbury senior hockey competition. Black are chasing a fourth straight Walker and Hall Shield victory as they again go up against Northern Hearts for the second year in-a-row.

Black won their 2011 title, with a 2-1 win over Hearts in Timaru followed by a finals win over Wakanui Blue in Ashburton before last year’s 3-0 win over Hearts in Timaru. On the other hand Hampstead became the first Mid Canterbury women’s side to qualify for the final since the full competition amalgamation, but know they are up against a formidable foe in St Andrews, reigning champions since 2009. The women’s final is on the Timaru turf at 2pm with the men’s final to follow at 3.30pm.

Stosur makes last four Samantha Stosur has continued her encouraging buildup to the US Open by beating Belgian Kirsten Flipkens to advance to the semi-finals of the Connecticut Open. Stosur won a tight quarter-final 6-3 4-6 6-3 against Flipkens to set up a clash in the last four with No.2 seed Petra Kvitova.

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In brief Dragons sign McGregor St George Illawarra have appointed Paul McGregor as head coach for the next three NRL seasons. McGregor, a former club captain, took over the reins as interim coach in round 12 following the sacking of Steve Price. Chief executive Peter Doust said the board believed McGregor was the right person to lead the Dragons from 2015-17 after undergoing a “very detailed process” with a variety of coaches and scenarios. The club had attempted to lure back former coach Wayne Bennett, who led them to the 2010 NRL premiership, until he decided to sign with Brisbane last month.

- AAP

Brooks’ season over Wests Tigers halfback Luke Brooks appears to have played his last NRL game of 2014 after straining his hamstring in Thursday night’s loss to Canterbury. The club yesterday said Brooks had suffered a grade one strain and will need two to three weeks to recover. With the Tigers no chance of making this year’s finals, they only have two matches of the regular season remaining - against Canberra next Saturday and Cronulla on September 6 - leaving Brooks little time to make a return.

The 19-year-old’s injury came on the back of a superb 90-metre try in the secondhalf of Thursday’s 30-10 defeat at ANZ Stadium. - AAP

Bellamy unhappy Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy wants the NRL to lift its game and says asking his side to play two away matches next week is “not good scheduling”. The Roosters host the Storm on Saturday August 30, five days after Monday night’s Storm-Panthers clash in Penrith. “For preparation for the game, you’d prefer to stay up there,” Bellamy told reporters yesterday. “It’s tough enough just doing a five-day turnaround on away games once, but to have it done twice in five weeks is pretty tough.” With three rounds remaining, the Storm have a 12-9 win-loss record including four victories in their past five games.

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Sonny Bill back?

Sonny Bill Williams is set to return from a thumb injury for the Sydney Roosters’ vital clash against the Warriors in Auckland on Sunday, in what could be the dual international’s final NRL game in New Zealand. Williams hasn’t played since breaking his thumb in the premiers’ upset loss to Newcastle a month ago, but has travelled with the team to the Shaky Isles ahead of the crucial round 24 match-up. Williams’ return would provide a huge boost for the four-placed Roosters as they eye off a top four finish after the regular season.

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Attitude vital for Warriors

By David Skipwith Warriors coach Andrew McFadden is confident his side has the talent and strike-power to bounce back from two below-par performances against the Sydney Roosters at Mt Smart Stadium tomorrow.

A patchy win over Cronulla and a disappointing loss to Newcastle have raised concerns that the Warriors are dropping off at the wrong time of the year, but McFadden is optimistic they can regain some momentum over the last three rounds of the regular season.

“We’re still in the eight [and it’s] still well within our control.

“We’ve just got to perform well and if we perform well, we can turn it around very quickly,” McFadden said. “We still know we’ve got enough strike and talent in this team to do something, we’ve just got to go back to what works for us.

“There’s no mystery in here, there’s some little attitude adjustment and mindset things that we need to work on and I know we can turn things around very fast.”

McFadden went on to explain while he was pleased with his team’s ability to work within defined structures and game plans, he is looking for greater effort and intent.

That could apply to their goforward as well as their defensive work, two areas that have been lacking in the past fortnight.

When the Warriors execute effectively in those departments they invariably dominate the op-

Ben Matulino position, while finding points to win a match is not such an issue as they managed to run in five tries against the Knights.

“It’s more about mindset adjustment, about what’s important for us in a game.

“We’ve worked really hard on a lot of the technical aspects of our game and maybe we’ve just dropped off on those areas that we’ve been good at, which is effort and intent.

“It only takes just to acknowledge it usually to turn it around and the boys are going to be really determined this week.”

Better line speed and tackling in twos and threes remain high on the agenda, while big Ben Matulino’s shift into the front

row should ensure they make some dents in the Roosters’ line.

“Yeah, a bit of [line speed] and a bit of making sure we get more numbers in the tackle, which we’ve just gone off a bit.

“We identified that we probably didn’t bend the line as much as we should have in the middle and Ben certainly gives us that, so he’s been put in there for that reason.”

Matulino’s positional shift also puts him against fellow Kiwis test front row contenders Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Sam Moa, two aggressive characters who need to be contained.

McFadden denied Matulino, who is making his 150th appearance in Warriors colours, had

been tasked with keeping the Roosters’ aggressors in check and insisted it was a 13-man job.

“No, no one specifically.

“I think that’s going to be a collective effort.

“We’re going to really need a team performance this week and I know the boys are going to be really focused on that.”

Matulino admitted he had been keeping a close eye on his rivals’ form, and the need to limit their impact.

“I think Sammy and Jared have been good, especially Jared, last week I watched his game.

“Obviously he’s in that aggressive mood again and that can be really dangerous for us so we’ve got to limit that.”

- NZH

A drug deal too good to refuse

By James MacSmith

label this week as “very serious charges”.

A three-week holiday for taking For the players who have had a banned performance-enhancing the whole drama hanging over drug. their heads for two seasons and Seriously? were faced with huge legal bills No wonder many of Australif they continued to fight the ia’s leading swimmers and track charges, it appears ASADA and and field athletes are up in arms. WADA simply made them an ASADA’s 18-month investiga- offer they couldn’t refuse. tion into Cronulla’s peptides From the outside looking program of 2011 looks to have in, the NRL has done remarkfinally reached a conclusion after ably well to broker a deal with all 10 players still involved in the Australia’s and the world’s antiNRL competition accepted back- doping bodies, especially with dated 12-month bans yesterday the matter involving the AFL which will expire on November and Essendon still well short of 21. any resolution.

The bans effectively mean the But has justice been served in majority of those players will the NRL? miss just three games for being Have the guilty been punished? hit with what former ASADA That might come later down boss Richard Ings continued to the track with ASADA likely to

continue to pursue support staff who implemented the doping program.

Players such as NSW skipper Paul Gallen will now have to live with their reluctant admissions as drug cheats - even if it carries a considerable caveat because the substances were taken unwillingly and without their knowledge.

And the players really had little choice to take the deal now rather than face a far larger suspension further down the track.

A number of Australian Olympians have taken aim at the length of the suspensions.

Olympic swimming gold medallist Melanie Schlanger tweeted that she “felt sad for sport today” due to the abbreviated nature of the bans.

Commonwealth discus champion Benn Harradine wondered whether it is now “possible to refuse a test from asada on the grounds of incompetence”.

Given the lack of concrete evidence ASADA too was backed into a corner.

The “darkest day in Australian sport” has been a thorn in the side of rugby league for two seasons now.

As a result the NRL has streamlined its governance regulations and brought in one of the world’s most stringent testing programs.

Maybe the game will come out the other side the better for it.

Not so ASADA. Their methods, or lack of, justify the touted Senate or judicial inquiry.

- AAP

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■ MOTOR RACING

In brief

V8s ‘down to the wire’

BY ROJE ADAIMY Defending V8 Supercars champion Jamie Whincup is in no doubt the fight for this year’s title will come down to the season finale in Sydney.

He’s just not entirely certain he’ll still be in contention come December.

The Holden star holds a narrow 15-point advantage on the overall standings ahead of this weekend’s round at Sydney Motorsport Park, the first of two in the harbour city.

Having overtaken Ford rival Mark Winterbottom in Ipswich earlier this month, it is the first time Whincup, chasing a record sixth crown, has led the championship since February.

“We weren’t competitive; we’ve only now become competitive,” the Red Bull Racing driver told AAP. “But we’ve just got to keep doing what we do to make sure we’re still there and competitive at the end of the year when the championship’s up for grabs.”

Whincup had to wait until the last round of 2013 at Sydney Olympic Park to clinch championship No.5, having spent most of the season fending off teammate Craig Lowndes, Winterbottom and fellow Ford pilot Will Davison.

And he’s expecting nothing different in 2014.

“The championship’s as tight as it’s ever been and I’ve got no doubt it’ll come down to Home-

Jamie Whincup: Knows that Ford will still be there at the business end of the competition.

bush,” he said. “Hopefully I’m in with a shot.”

Despite their fierce rivalry, Whincup said he had “nothing but respect” for Winterbottom, who led the championship for more than three months with four wins.

Ford Performance Racing’s leading pilot, however, hasn’t finished inside the top seven in any of the past six races.

“They were 200 points up

the road at one stage and you don’t get there from doing bad things.

“They’ve done a bloody good job,” he said.

“They’ll be there at the end, like they have been the last three or four years, and they’re going to be hard to beat.

“We’ve got to be on our Agame.

“So there’s no cockiness at all, from my end.”

Unlike most championship rounds, this weekend’s event will see all practice, qualifying and racing action packed into two days.

It all begins today, when Whincup expects things to get “hectic”.

“It’s going to be a serious challenge,” he said.

“I think the key’s going to be about being on the right tyre at the right time.”

- AAP

All Blacks will atone for Sydney debacle

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Comparison ‘unfair’ Four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel says it’s unfair to compare his results this season with Australian team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who he believes has had a “smoother year”.

Ricciardo has enjoyed two wins plus three podium finishes from 11 races in 2014, while Vettel has only had two thirdplace finishes. The Red Bull pair are separated by 43 points on the drivers’ standings, with Ricciardo sitting third overall behind dominant Mercedes duo Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.

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Power and the glory

■ OPINION

ast week the All Blacks produced their most lacklustre effort of recent seasons, to blow their chances of knocking off the world record for consecutive test wins.

At halftime folks in front of television sets all over the country were collectively shaking their heads, wondering when the match was going to begin.

Except for a flash of action about 10 minutes into the second half - it didn’t.

The funniest part of the whole show was the three talking heads on the telly postmatch, all desperately grasping at straws as they searched for something meaningful to say about the impasse, and failing miserably.

Mehrts was reduced to making funny faces at the camera, Wilson was doing his I’m-asearnest-as-John-Campbell act

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but not coming up with the words to match, while Justin Marshall was dipping into his favourite bag of cliches - in one single sentence he somehow managed to squeeze in six wellworn and over-tired favourites, only leaving out ‘a game of two halves’ and ‘yeah, definitely’.

To be fair, it was hard work for them, and the cameraedit guy’s job was even harder; trying to cobble together a batch of highlights to play 10 minutes after the match, when, well, there weren’t any.

Maybe that try-saving tackle from Ryan Crotty and Julian Savea on Pat MacCabe qualifies, but as for sweeping, lengthof-the-field attacking forays, breaking tackles with sheer power or sparkling finesse sorry, not today.

The weather wasn’t too hot, but you don’t have to look far back in history to find All

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Blacks teams turning in champagne performances in the rain; the ref wasn’t too hot either, but I’m pretty sure you have to adapt - quickly - to a bad ref or you’re going to lose.

Harsher critics point to repeated dropped ball, sloppy offside play and poor discipline as a mark of an All Blacks team in disarray, with a skipper who’s lost his magic touch and the mana to lift his troops off the floor, a team on the slippery slope and doomed to give up another slice of history by losing at Eden Park for the first time in several centuries,

but I don’t think that’s quite the case.

In recent years England, France and Ireland have all made the All Blacks wobble dangerously early in a test series, only to see the men in black come charging back, like the world champions they are.

There’s a repeat scenario brewing right here, and while Ewen McKenzie is a master tactician and probably just as good a coach as Steve Hansen, he still doesn’t quite have the raw materials his Kiwi counterpart has to work with, and instead of a stuttering ‘65 Skoda, on Saturday the All Blacks will instead wheel out the RollsRoyce, and the Bledisloe Cup will be back in the cabinet, safe for another year.

Yes, the Wallabies have a couple of superstars who can break games open.

We have more.

Australia’s Will Power will aim to solidify his IndyCar championship hopes at one of his favourite circuits this weekend. Power goes into this year’s penultimate race at the Sonoma Raceway in California holding a 39-point championship lead after his victory in Milwaukee last weekend. For the three-time championship runner-up, there couldn’t be a better place to all but sew up the title than this weekend’s venue. In the past four years, Power has claimed three victories and three pole position starts.

Cazorla wants goals Santi Cazorla wants to return to his scoring consistency of two seasons ago and strengthen Arsenal’s challenge for honours this season. The Spain midfielder struck seven goals last season and will hope to open his Premier League account this term when Arsene Wenger’s side face Everton at Goodison Park tomorrow.

His goal return in the 2013-14 campaign was down on the 12 goals he scored during his first season at the club and, while Cazorla missed out in the narrow opening day win over Crystal Palace, he provided a reminder of his threat with Arsenal’s first goal in the Community Shield win over Manchester City.

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Nerves for Man U Manchester United will go in search of their first Premier League win under manager Louis van Gaal when they travel to Sunderland on Sunday. If there was any doubt about the scale of the task facing the Dutchman, it was demonstrated by last weekend’s 2-1 opening day defeat at home to Swansea.

Sunderland, who started the season with a 2-2 draw at West Brom, will fancy their chances at the Stadium of Light despite the fact United signed Argentina World Cup defender Marcos Rojo from Sporting Lisbon. But with United having finished a lowly seventh in the table last season, former Old Trafford favourite Paul Scholes believes it will take more than one big-name signing to revive their fortunes. The situation now has become ever more desperate for my former club,” Scholes wrote in his column for the Independent.

- AAP

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A fine line to tread Stu Oldham EDITOR

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plan to limit where legal highs can be sold in Ashburton treads a fine line between community feeling and what is required by law.

Many will say the generally accepted community feeling is that the only plan should be for psychoactive substances to never be sold in the district.

However, the law says that councils should decide where they can be sold – ready for whenever, if ever, such substances are again legally available.

It follows that the district council has developed a Locally Approved Products Policy. It has done so educated by workshops, consultation, submissions and hearings.

It started with a proposal that would have allowed such products to be sold in an area bounded by West, Moore, Cass and Wills streets. There would have been no less than 100m between shops that sold them and a buffer zone of 50 metres between them and sensitive sites.

This was kicked about in public consultation and by submitters – of whom some asked for a bigger buffer zone – in July.

And this week, it changed when councillors decided the buffer zone should stay as it was and that the distance between shops should drop to 50m.

They also decided to have the sales area bounded by East, Moore, Cass and Havelock streets.

Councillor Rod Beavan worried this ran counter to submissions. Only one of nine submitters disagreed about the sale area boundaries and yet the council changed the boundaries in that submitter’s favour.

That was bold, he said, when 90 per cent of submitters were against such a change.

That the lone submitter was a school – Borough School – is worth considering. That there were only nine submissions is also worth noting. This was some way from being anything close to being a binding referendum.

There comes a time when the people who are elected to make decisions should make decisions based on open minds and good judgement.

The lack of submissions – notwithstanding the fact many were from key community stakeholders – suggests this was one of those times.

YOUR VIEW Not so social media It was good to read school principals tell parents not to use Facebook and other sites to criticise schoolkids (Think before you rant online, Ashburton Guardian, August 21).

I am related to a boy who was criticised for hurting another boy in a playground [at an Ashburton school].

The parent of the boy who was hurt did not check her boy’s story with the school, but still went on Facebook to say [our boy] was to blame.

This hurts kids and parents and looks bad for schools.

We should all have the chance to check things out and make things right instead of finding

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out about things from people we do not know on the internet.

Please think before you rant online and please make sure your school knows when there is a problem.

(Name and address withheld by request)

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Parents need to play Phill Hooper has hit the nail on the head (Are our kids missing out on fun? Ashburton Guardian, August 22).

Get out with the kids and have fun.

They used to say we would get square eyes watching TV – but it was turned off and we got outside and played.

L. Clarkson

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That’s a funny looking sheep Hanne Nielsen

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s far as mountain ranges go, the Kaikoura ranges do not really compare to the massive Andes of South America when it comes to height or scale.

When it comes to longnecked furry mammals though, it is another story. Last weekend we headed north to explore the coast and to experience the new tourist phenomenon that is llama trekking.

First up, a clarification: ‘You Do Not Ride Llama!’ as the brochure loudly exclaims.

Instead, you walk alongside the animal, gazing into its large black eyes and hoping that it doesn’t decide to spit in your general direction.

First, though, you need to pen the creatures so they can be haltered up.

That was an interesting way to start the morning, chasing llamas round a muddy paddock.

Hanne gets up close and personal with a lama.

Since moving down here I have invested in a pair of good quality gumboots, and in this situation they really came into their own.

Next it was time to get to know our charges, and for them to get to know us. Each llama has a distinct personality, which was evident from the outset.

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Just like the seven dwarves, there was the slow one, the grumpy one, the eager one.

Carlos and Rocky were the best of friends, so naturally they had to walk side by side. We took them by the halter, and headed off for the grassy verge of the highway, into the late morning light.

Being llama novices, we opted for a flat and easy hour-long taster rather than a half-day trek or an overnight mission.

As it turned out, they were very pleasant exercise companions, stopping for a chomp of grass every now and then, but otherwise peering quite happily over our shoulders at the mountainous terrain and posing for the obligatory llama selfies. While riding is out, you can put any important documents in the satchel bags on the animals’ flanks to get ‘llaminated’ (this is a great activity for families, because the opportunities for ‘dad jokes’ are endless).

Llamas in Auckland are about as rare as lapdogs at the Brown Pub, so the opportunity to make friends with what looks like a long-necked sheep was rather novel, and not to be passed up.

In fact it was a friend from the city who tipped me off the activity in the first place. Of course I booked right away.

In short, we paid good money to take someone else’s llamas for their daily exercise. And we had a lovely time.

Declutter the junk from your minds I n a couple of weeks spring will be here. With spring comes spring cleaning for some people.

It’s not only our cupboards, wardrobes, boxes and garages that need to be cleaned out.

Several weeks ago my colleague Rev David Brown preached a sermon called Time To Remove The Junk and many of you will have heard about that sermon.

David told me that in the weeks following that sermon being preached, many people he met who hadn’t been in church that Sunday were saying “I felt really guilty after hearing about your sermon on Sunday so I have begun to clean out the garage”.

I think in the weeks following that sermon, the rubbish bags and recycling bins would have been overflowing and piles of things would have been stacked to give to fairs, recycling or charity shops. And this is all good, we all need to declutter

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our homes every now and again.

But David’s message wasn’t about physically decluttering, it wasn’t a dig at people to clean out the garage.

He was talking about removing the junk in our lives, in our minds and our spirituality.

To declutter the non-physical kind of things is to take a look at what occupies your mind and thoughts.

Is it inspiring? Is it affirming? Is it positive? If not get rid of it.

Our thoughts are what our life makes us, some great thinker once said, and that is so true.

If we think negatively, if we are pessimistic, if we only see the bad in people and situations, if the glass is always half empty, then life is going to be less than it could be.

We need to declutter from our lives those things that weigh us down and hold us back. Jesus said “I have come that you may have life and life in all its fullness.”

So often, like we hold on to physical things in case we need them one day, we hold on to worn-out ideas, grudges from years ago, hurts and mistakes from the past.

Instead of holding on to them we need to declutter them from our lives, so we can take on new ways of being the people God created us to be.

We need to declutter, so we can be open to new ideas, new opportunities and new possibilities.

It is also helpful to declutter from our minds outdated views and understandings on things.

Many people today say they don’t need faith, religion, spirituality or the church, and why is this? Because they remember the church of their childhood with views of life, faith and the

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world that don’t seem relative to their life and the world today.

My church focuses on helping people cope with life, life with its ups and downs, life with all it challenges and opportunities, life with all its realities.

Our church still believes and lives by the faith and words contained in Scripture, but it is not tied to creeds and doctrines written well before our time, for people in a different era and culture, who understood and practised things somewhat differently from our world today.

So we need to declutter views and understandings that are no longer relevant and replace them with an understanding and faith for people in the 21st century, trying to learn how their faith can declutter their lives and also how they cope with life as they know and experience it.

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aking on a new employee is a big commitment, especially for a small to medium sized business.

When filling a position you don’t always need to hire a new employee. Some roles don’t need to be based inside your organisation or require full time commitment.

Outsourcing work or bringing in contractors is an excellent way to provide the resource required to meet your business needs.

You wouldn’t consider outsourcing services that are core to your business but it is extremely effective when looking to access specific expertise for short periods.

Outsourcing can be an effective cost saving measure if used properly. A business can more accurately budget and you don’t have to deal with additional overheads such as office equipment, sick pay or holidays.

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successfully applied by professional services for years. Businesses often pull in staff with an in-depth understanding of local regulation, accounting standards and financial processes to assist the internal staff during busy periods.

It is also a great solution for projects with strict deadlines, with outsourced staff often available on weekends and outside office hours.

Contractors often work for a wide range of businesses and can often use their varied experiences to your best advantage.

There are some issues you have to consider. With your own employees you can influ-

ence workplace behaviour and get a deeper level of commitment.

Occasionally it can be difficult to secure contractors at the times that suit your businesses and have to work in with their other clients.

Your aim is to deliver value in terms of flexibility, knowledge and cost. Work with your trusted advisor to develop an outsourcing strategy that aligns with your business goals.

You should start by completing an internal audit to accurately assess your requirements.

Identify the key areas where outsourcing non-core services can help your business.

It is important to take a strategic approach and weigh up all the pros and cons. It is a logical business decision that, if implemented correctly, can benefit a business for years.

Matt Hannah is a director of KPMG Private Enterprise

Infracon staff are reeling after being told on Thursday liquidators would be called in to the company.

The interim directors of the company, including Tararua District Mayor Roly Ellis, made the decision to place the company into liquidation, admitting the more than 210 staff, in Dannevirke, Woodville, Hastings, Waipukurau and Palmerston North, were facing “uncertain futures”.

“With five years of losses and with the long-term prospects extremely difficult, including continuing losses for the next two years, when we

received a letter from the company’s bank withdrawing financial support from Infracon we were left with no alternative,” Mr Ellis said.

The company is 66 per cent owned by the Tararua District Council, with the Central Hawke’s Bay District Council owning 34 per cent.

The letter from the bank came as a shock ... we’ve certainly given it our all behind the scenes trying to put together some sort of deal. But we have to be prudent, Mr Ellis said.

The board of directors had been working hard to try and sell the company, rather than call in the liquidators. - APNZ

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per cent. Adjusted ebitda was down 4 per cent.

The company’s mobile connections jumped by 191,000 over the year.

Spark gained 20,000 broadband customers over the period, with 669,000 as at June 30.

It had 5565 employees as at June 30, down from 5902 at the same time the year before.

Spark said yesterday that the results showed the company’s strategy was “gathering pace”.

“Two years ago, we made

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Simon Moutter

the decision that we needed to become significantly more relevant and competitive,” Spark chairman Mark Verbiest said.

“Since then, our business has been rapidly changing. At the core of that change has been a focus on listening to our customers, understanding what drives them, what matters to them, what they value, and what digital services they need to help them do amazing things.

“That is now showing through in our financial results, with an improving performance in the second half of the year indicating a potential to return to net earnings growth in FY15.”

Spark’s managing director Simon Moutter said a “relentless focus on the customer was driving Spark forward”.

“Over the last year we’ve continued to improve the experience for our customers, lower our prices and introduce some exciting new digital services.

- APNZ

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Spark, the company formerly known as Telecom, now has more than two million mobile customers and says its strategy to turn its business around “is gathering pace”.

The company reported profit from ordinary activities, excluding discontinued operations, was up 19.8 per cent to $321 million for year to June 30 but when the impact of a one-off restructuring charge is removed from 2013 numbers, this year’s net earnings from ongoing operations were down 7.7 per cent.

Spark reported a net profit of $458 million, up 94.1 per cent for the 12 months to June 30, when taking into account AAPT, the business it sold across the Tasman earlier this year.

Spark’s operating revenue, from continuing operations, was down 2.6 per cent to $3.64 billion for the year.

Earnings before interest tax, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda) was $936 million, up 7.1

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 Dow Jones Indust.

17,039.49 +60.36 +0.36%

At close of trading on August 21, 2014

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6,777.66 +22.18 +0.33% At close of trading on August 21, 2014

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In brief Troops ordered out Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday ordered the state National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest have erupted since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old nearly two weeks ago.

Since the guard’s arrival Monday, protests in the small section of town that had been the centre of nightly unrest have begun to subside. “The last two nights have been really good. I feel we’re making progress,” Nixon said, noting that a state of emergency remained in effect in Ferguson.

- AP

Debate over ransoms

This convoy of white trucks with humanitarian aid has crossed into Ukraine despite not having permission to do so.

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Aid convoy enters Ukraine A Russian aid convoy held up on the Ukrainian border for days is on the move after Russia angrily accused Ukraine of “intolerable” obstructions.

Russia’s foreign ministry accused Ukraine of delaying the convoy in order to pursue war against rebels in Luhansk, where the aid is destined.

“Our humanitarian aid convoy is starting to move towards Luhansk,” it said in a statement.

Reports suggest the lorries are being escorted by rebel fighters.

The Russian foreign ministry said that the International

Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was “ready” to take to escort [the convoy] and distribute the aid”.

There was no immediate comment from the ICRC, which has been in talks about the delivery but the Russian branch of the Red Cross said it was ready to take part.

Ukraine fears that the aid convoy of about 280 lorries, which arrived at the border more than a week ago, is part of a broader Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine.

Russia denies accusations that it arms and trains the rebels in the rebellion in Luhansk

and the neighbouring region of Donetsk, where four months of fighting have left more than 2000 people dead and has caused more than 330,000 people to flee their homes.

The rebel-held city of Luhansk has been without running water, power and phone communications for 20 days as government forces hold it under siege.

As many as 70 lorries have entered Ukrainian territory, moving out of the no-man’s land between the Russian and Ukrainian border posts.

Reporters at the scene saw rebel fighters in front of the

convoy as it passed over the border, in a rebel-held sector near the Russian town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.

It is normally a drive of about two hours from the lorries’ camp to the city of Luhansk.

However, it is unclear if the convoy will be able to use the motorway there because of continuing combat between rebels and government forces.

The head of the Russian Red Cross, Raisa Lukuttsova, told Russian news agency: “We are ready to take part. I will now get in touch with the ICRC.” - BBC

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American Ebola doctor ‘thrilled to be alive’ An American doctor infected with Ebola left his isolation unit and warmly hugged his doctors and nurses, showing the world that he poses no public health threat one month after getting sick with the virus.

Dr. Kent Brantly said it was a “miraculous day.”

Brantly and his fellow medical missionary, Nancy Writebol, who was quietly discharged two days earlier, are still weak but should recover completely, and no one need fear being in contact with them, said Dr Bruce Ribner, who runs the infectious disease unit at Emory University Hospital.

Brantly’s reappearance was festive and celebratory, a stark contrast to his arrival in an ambulance under police escort three weeks earlier, when he

Ebola victim Dr Kent Brantly (left) embraces Dr Bruce Ribner, medical director of Emory’s Infectious Disease Unit, after being released from Emory University Hospital.

shuffled into the hospital wearing a bulky white hazardous materials suit.

“I am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited

with my family,” Brantly said, choking up as he read a written statement.

Then he and his wife turned and hugged a parade of doc-

tors and nurses, hugging or shaking hands with each one.

For some, it was their first direct contact without protective gear.

After Brantly, 33, and Writebol, 59, were infected while working with Ebola victims in Liberia, their charity organisations, Samaritan’s Purse and SIM, reached out to top infectious disease experts for help.

Writebol’s son, Jeremy Writebol, spent two weeks at the hospital with her but left Tuesday morning.

“I haven’t given her a hug yet, I am anxious to do that, but we are waiting for the right time and for her to be able to be with us,” he said in a telephone interview. He said his mother is able to move around, eat and drink normally.

- AP

The beheading of freelance journalist James Foley has forced a new debate between the longtime US and British refusal to negotiate with terrorists, and Europe and the Persian Gulf’s increasing willingness to pay ransoms in a desperate attempt to free citizens.

The dilemma: How to save the lives of captives without financing terror groups and encouraging more kidnappings. Foley’s captors, the Islamic State militants, had for months demanded $132.5 million (100 million euros) from his parents and political concessions from Washington. They got neither, and the 40-year-old freelance journalist was savagely beheaded within the last week inside Syria, where he had been held since his disappearance in November 2012.

- AP

Activist taken to clinic A frail Indian activist who has been on a hunger strike for nearly 14 years to protest alleged military brutality scuffled with police as they took her back to the same government hospital where she had been force-fed. Irom Sharmila, 42, vowed to continue the hunger strike that landed her in prison for the past 14 years. She walked free on Wednesday after a court threw out the charges of attempted suicide against her. Attempted suicide is a crime in India. Sharmila has not eaten voluntarily since November 2000, but the court ruled Tuesday that she was not fasting to kill herself but to protest the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which gives security forces wide powers in quelling insurgencies.

- AP

Hamas kills informers A Gaza security official says Hamas has killed 11 suspected informers for Israel. The killings came a day after Israel killed three top Hamas military commanders in an airstrike on a house in southern Gaza Strip.

Hamas has vowed revenge for the targeting of its leaders. The security official says the 11 suspected informers were killed at the Gaza police headquarters.

- AP

Quake hits Greece Seismologists say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 has struck the northern Greek region of Halkidiki, rattling the area but causing no damage or injuries.

The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck 89 kilometres south of the country’s secondlargest city of Thessaloniki, and 271 kilometres north of Athens.

- AP

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Coming into high season and the movement of staff, our Ashburton operation is experiencing continued growing demand and so has several opportunities available. Whether you are wanting permanent, fixed term or casual work, be a part of this dynamic site! We are looking for experienced and/or trainee stockfeed mill operators and mill hands. If you are a team player, have a passion for excellence and strong belief in the health and safety of yourself, your team and the environment, this may be the career path for you.

As Mill Operator you will report directly to the team leader and will be responsible for: • Ensuring that production/plant utilisation is maximised • Operating the mill software programme • Giving guidance and advice to mill hands during manufacturing operations

Due to an increasing workload at Paul Smith Earthmoving we require experienced dozer and excavator operators in our civil and rural earthworks divisions: To be considered for these positions you must: • Be experienced with good references • Have the appropriate and current licences • Be flexible and prepared to work both on the ground and on the machine • Have a good work ethic, keen attitude and take pride in your work • Be punctual and reliable • Be capable of following instructions and to work in either a team environment or autonomous role • Follow safe workplace practices • Provide a pre-employment drug free test • Undertake random drug screening To apply please send CV to: admin@paulsmithearthmoving.co.nz or to; Dozer - Excavator Operators Paul Smith Earthmoving 2002 Limited PO Box 2103 Washdyke 7941

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Office Administrator Ashford Handicrafts is a leading, world-wide export company, based in Ashburton.

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Please apply in writing if you have: • Significant experience in office procedures, book keeping, and accounting practice.

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A vacancy has become available at our busy Café/ Bakery for a Cafe Assistant position. The position covers cafe work with a lot of variety. Food prep, working with customers and general cafe duties.

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Due to continual business growth Masterguard requires additional experienced alarm technicians based in Ashburton.

Applicants will: • Have industry experience • Be a team player • Be willing to go the extra mile to keep or clients happy In return Masterguard offer: • A competitive remuneration package • Ongoing training • Job variety • An exceptional team environment Applications close September 3, 2014.

Send letter of application & CV to: The Manager Masterguard Fire & Security PO Box 37, ASHBURTON

Your responsibilities include, but will not be limited to: • Deliver high quality service and maintenance of contracting equipment • Carry out servicing, inspection and repairs on hydraulic equipment • General maintenance and servicing of vehicles • Preventative maintenance on all equipment Key attributes:• Top communication skills • Excellent troubleshooting and service skills • Strong organisational skills, flexibility and the ability to work on your own • Meet high standards on all service and maintenance duties • Current valid driving licence The company has a fun and rewarding culture where you will feel part of the team and enjoy excellent working conditions. In addition to this the role offers the following: • Competitive remuneration package • Ongoing training to develop your skills • A supportive and friendly work environment • The potential for career development

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Experience preferred but not necessary as full training will be given.

Due to increased work load we require another driver

Alarm Technicians

Mechanic

We are looking for a mechanic to join our team. Quigley Contracting Ltd is an agricultural contracting business incorporating silage baling, chopping, transport, cultivation and drilling operations. Due to our continued growth a great opportunity exists to join the Quigley Team.

Applications close September 8, 2014, please email your C.V., along with a covering letter, to:-

New Zealand’s oldest Building Society, established in 1862, is looking to appoint a Casual Customer Service Officer in Ashburton.

As a first point of contact, our Customer Service Officer’s efficiently meet our customer’s transactional requirements and identify proactive solutions to their broader banking needs.

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Administration Officer Hinds School is looking for an efficient, loyal, organised, personable Administration Officer to fulfil the many needs of a modern Primary School.

This is a part time permanent position that requires excellent self-management, computer, spoken and writing skills.

Please visit the ‘Vacancies’ section of our school webpage at www.hinds.school.nz for more details.

Further information can be gained by ringing the Principal 03 30 37208 during business hours.

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Full time Concrete Truck Driver Firth is New Zealand’s’ only National Supplier of concrete and Masonry products. It’s reputation for leadership, innovation, consistent product quality, superior customer service and a commitment to excellence, is based on providing a reliable service to the construction market.

You’ll be responsible for delivering concrete to specification in order to meet loading schedules, and for providing excellent customer service at the delivery site.

This role requires that you hold the appropriate licences, be capable of handling heavy vehicles in a safe manner, have a thorough understanding of road transport regulations relating to heavy trade, and possess an ability to comprehend technical and mechanical issues.

You’ll demonstrate the ability to set high standards, be physically able, self motivated and well organised. Well developed time management and planning skills are required and good interpersonal and communication skills will be vital to liaise with internal and external customers.

Please write to Firth Industries,P.O.Box 281 Ashburton or email your CV to Bernie.guile@firth.co.nz. Applications close on Friday 29th August 2014

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Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

PHARMACIES

Searles Allenton Pharmacy, the Mall , HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring Harrison Street, Ashburton, will be open 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice. from 9.30am - 12noon Saturday, from 10.30am - 12noon Sunday and from 6pm DUTY DOCTORS 7pm both evenings.

This service is for emergency medical Methven Pharmacy, Main Street, Methven, care only. Please remember your will be open from 4pm - 6pm Saturday and Community Services Card.

Sunday. Phone 302 8103.

Sealy Street Medical Centre, Sealy Street, Ashburton, will be the duty doctor for Saturday HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS until 8am Sunday. They will hold surgery from ASHBURTON HOSPITAL 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm.

WARD 1 - DAILY, 10am - 11.30am and 2pm - 7.30pm.

No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment Tinwald Medical Centre, Archibald Street, & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. Ashburton, will be the duty doctor for Sunday MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm. until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from -Husbands and patient’s own children may 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, 6565.

-unrestricted visiting.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

For weekend doctor and emergency details - please telephone the Methven Medical Centre, ph 302 8105.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner.

Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners note of referral.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES

COLDSTREAM HOUSE - DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

CAMERON COURTS - DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

PRINCES COURT - DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

EMERGENCY DENTIST

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

HELPLINE SERVICES ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.nz for more information.

COMMUNITY POOL

WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm MENTAL HEALTH Call free on 0800 POST DELIVERY CENTRES 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. INFORMATION CENTRES ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am Call us free on (0800 787 797). until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

COMMUNITY SERVICES ART GALLERY

Due to relocation, the Art Gallery is closed until further notice.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10:00am - 1:00pm Sunday 1:00pm - 4:00pm

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

Due to relocation, the Ashburton Museum is closed until further notice.

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021

1356 969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Tammy Wiilson, Andrew Robinson and Phil Stoakes. Small: Ref Vet Life.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 111, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Jo Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Rd, Methven.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Errol Harvey.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies - Large: Erin Caswell and Olivia Sutton. Small: Laura Mulshine.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint afterhours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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Email us your advertisement with the photo and payment details to classifieds@theguardian.co.nz or call into our office, third floor, 161 Burnett Street.

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FOR SALE

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MOUNTAIN alloy frame, bike - size M, double wall with quick rims disc brakes release hubs, , new chain cassette, Mint condit and Phone 1234-5 ion.

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TRADES, SERVICES

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

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

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

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

308 3422 TREES WANTED - Mid Canterbury area for milling and firewood. shelter belts are speciality. No obligation quote. Phone 021 935 628.

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SPORTING NOTICES

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SPORT

Congratulations to our Super 15 competition winners

• Business Winner: Darryl and Kevin Burrowes of Allens Ashburton • Reader Winner: John Drayton Our winners will get to enjoy a VIP experience at the Show Day races in Christchurch along with a nights accommodation on us!

We look forward to the competition heating up again next year

Enjoy your prize!

Allenton Netball Club Twilight Netball Starts Tuesday, Sept 9, 2014 Runs for 6 weeks $70 per team Phone/text Amy Finn 027 518 1000 Limited teams - Register now • Up to 3 males on court at any time.

• Each team must have an umpire for own game.

• Prize money for winners.

WANTED WANTED to buy. Old Volkswagen beetle, any condition considered. Phone Ryan on 027 915 2879 or 03 307 2296 after 6pm.

TRADES, SERVICES HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

SITUATIONS WANTED CASUAL work wanted.

Hinds/Willowby area., anything considered. Phone 302 6113.

Daily Events Saturday

ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Large variety of toys for hire. Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

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

Street, Methven.

10.00am - 12.00noon ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY

GROUP. Open for research, all welcome. Upstairs 254 Cameron Street.

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

Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

Sunday

9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 8.00am Morning worship with Rev J Bilverstone, all ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am 8.30am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Mass, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main 9.30am Street, Methven.

ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. 10.00am Morning worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Church lounge, Baring Square East.

Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather 9.30am permitting. Lovett’s Road, Maronan Road.

ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. 10.00am Worship service led by Peter and Sandy ASHBURTON M.S.A. Renew, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

QUOITS. All welcome to have a throw.

Racecourse Road M.S.A. Sports ground.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

10.00am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives.

63 Princes Street, Netherby.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome. Racecourse Road.

2.00pm ASHBURTON CIVIC MUSIC COUNCIL. Festival Concert, adults $5, children free, all welcome. St Andrews Church, Havelock Street.

7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Service with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

Monday

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting, all welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip Street.

6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Real women circuit training in the hall, St Andrews Church, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens

Road.

7.30pm TINWALD INDOOR BOWLS CLUB. All welcome to come and have a bowl.

Tinwald Hall, entry off McMurdo Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE (inc).

Annual General Meeting, all welcome.

Methodist Church hall, Baring Square West.

7.30pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Monthly meeting in the Rover Den, Maniao-roto Park, Chalmers Avenue.

7.30pm ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Decorative “Heralds of Spring”. A.G.M and prize giving. Sports Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

9.00am - 2.00pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Annual bird and accessories sales. 67 South Street.

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH

TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. 9.00am New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Methven.

Road.

1.00pm - 3.00pm 9.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY Classic aircraft on display including DC3.

SERVICE INC. Seafield Road.

For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street.

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Saturday, August 23, 2014

PUBLIC NOTICES

Proposal to Close a Road to Vehicular Traffic – Ashburton A&P Show

Ashburton District Council gives public notice of a proposal to temporarily close a road to ordinary vehicle traffic to enable holding of the Ashburton A&P Show.

Road proposed to be closed is: SEAFIELD ROAD, from Bremners Road to Bridge Street

S TOYS OUR S S O B

Period of closure: From 8.00 am until 6.00 pm, Saturday 1 November 2014 This proposed closure is made under the Transport (Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1965.

Any person objecting to the proposal should lodge notice of their objection and the grounds for their objection in writing by post or email to the Council, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton 7700 by 4.00PM, 27 August 2014.

NEIL MCCANN Group Manager Service Delivery

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

A&P

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Mt Cook Luxury Coach Trip

Ashburton

Show

PROPOSAL TO CLOSE ROAD TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC Pursuant to the Transport (Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1965, notice is hereby given that the Ashburton District Council, for the purpose of allowing Ashburton A & P Association to hold the Ashburton A & P Show, proposes to close the following road to ordinary vehicular traffic for the period indicated hereunder.

Road proposed to be closed: • SEAFIELD ROAD, from Bremners Road to Bridge Street Period of Closure: From 8.00am until 6.00pm on Saturday, November 1, 2014.

Any person objecting to the proposal is called upon to lodge notice of their objection and grounds thereof in writing or email to Council by 4.00 pm on 27 August 2014.

N MCCANN Group Manager Service Delivery Group

NOTICE OF MEETING

A meeting of the Canterbury Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Joint Committee will be held on Friday 29 August 2014 at 12.30 pm in the Function Room, level 1, Christchurch City Council, 53 Hereford Street, Christchurch.

Members of the public are welcome to attend this meeting, and copies of the agenda will be available at the meeting.

The agenda will be also available online at www.ecan.govt.nz/news-and-notices/ minutes/Pages/default.aspx two days prior to the meeting.

SITUATIONS WANTED 34 YEAR old experienced tractor driver seeking part time/casual tractor driving/ machinery operating work.

Has licences 1,2,4L,T,W. Phone 027 590 5080 or leave a message.

RURAL TRADING POST

PUBLIC NOTICES MCRDA 40th Anniversary Celebrations Friday, Sept 5, 6pm: Official opening and reminiscing Ashburton Racecourse.

Sat, Sept 6, 10am: Memorial Stone Unveiling Open day public, 11.30am-2pm.

Registration and information at Community House, 122 Tancred Street. (behind Westpac) or phone 308 1237

LUCERNE Chaff, top quality.

Please phone 308 3807.

PLANTS, PRODUCE

PEA VINE - Great for garden much. 480kg medium square bales $50ea. Please phone David on 027 435 7779.

TWO BEDROOM wooden bungalow for removal in Ashburton.

Please phone 308 1249.

Saturday September 13 $40pp return Phone Reid Tours 03 3597 668

Email reidtours@xtra.co.nz

MOTORING

FOR SALE: 2000 Subaru Legacy TS-R. 102,000km.

Good condition. Current WOF and Reg. Cambelt replaced. $6,000. Enquiries welcome phone 027 622 7748.

VEHICLE GROOMING, Cars, RV/SUV, Utes, Campervans, Buses, Caravans Interior, exterior, cut and polish, we can pick up and deliver, same day service, quality assured, Robinson Street Auto Groomers, 13 Robinson St, Riverside Industrial Estate, phone Paul 027 887 4786.

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N O O S G N I M CO ity to

The opportun 0ft 0 ,0 2 1 m o fr s s o b Toss YOUR iwis! with Skydiving K

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

LOST, FOUND

LOST: Toyota car key with family crest attached.

Reward. Phone 308 3898.

TAKEN from Winchester four weeks ago, 1986 white Nissan Laurel, licence plate RW9165. If anyone can help with information please phone 03 693 9438.

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

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

LIVESTOCK, PETS

BULL calves and white faces for sale. Please phone Mondy 302 4606 or 027 299 7984.

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

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

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

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

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Saturday, August 23, 2014

PLANTS, PRODUCE

FOR SALE

Navel Oranges .99c kg Green Kiwifruit Kumara 1kg Fresh Lettuce Strawberries

.99c kg $2.99 bag $2.99 ea $3.99 ea

Specials available from 19/08 - 26/08

OPEN 7 DAYS The Green Grocer Fresh Fruit & Vege

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

SALE SALE All Stock Reduced Open Saturday 9am – 4pm Call: 308 8498 130 Moore St, Ashburton

ENTERTAINMENT

Beckley Coachlines Programme

Macrocraft Furniture Factory direct manufacturers & importers

HUGE SALE NOW ON

Open Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm Be in quick!

103 South Street, Ashburton Phone 308 0417 www.macrocraftfurniture.co.nz

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

307 7900

HIRE

GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / contracting work, Call and see U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street.

Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: 308 8061 A/h: 308 7460 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

Church Services PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES (Ashburton) St Andrew’s St James Combined Service at

St Paul’s Oxford St. 9.30am

For bookings phone

308 7646

St Andrew’s 7pm

FOR SALE

FREE brick offcuts Loads of them to grab!

Pick up in town required Phone 021 662 884 GRAZING LAMB GRAZING wanted.

Any feed considered, 10ha plus. Phone 03 302 1877.

QUALITY Grazing available short term for 400-600 yearling dairy heifers or similar. Phone John at Graz4u Limited No. 027 227 6075.

FOR SALE

1995 TOYOTA Carib 4WD, manual, WOF, tow bar, 164,000 kms, one NZ owner, well maintained $3,200.

Phone 308 8333 or 021 450 854.

Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays @10.00am Including Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 Children’s church Website www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz Everyone is welcome.

See you at Cnr Cass & 10.00am Morning Service Cameron St’s and Communion Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062 Speaker: Roy Warren

LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church)

Creche Available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday All Welcome

You will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that you be not troubled

0800 LASER 4 U (0800 527 374) www.laserelectrical.co.nz

Guardian Motoring

307 7900

10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

131 Thomson Street

We hope to see you this Sunday!

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

CAR SEAT in excellent condition. Suit 0 to 6 months IN-LINE VALCO VEEBEE $70.00. Phone 308 5284. double pram. Used, but good FIREWOOD - Dry Blue gum condition. Comes with UV $250, Green Blue gum $150 and rain covers. Both seats all per 3 cubic meters. Ph Tim recline, up to 18kg in each Boyd, Elite Firewood Ltd 303 chair. $200. 03 308 2570 or 021 023 55 600.

6280.

Mon-Fri 8am – 5.30pm Sat 10am – 1pm

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting

206 Cameron Street (Tinwald School Hall) Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Sunday Morning 10.30am Ph 308 7511 Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm

FOR SALE

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

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

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CHURCH SERVICES

◊ “EUROPEAN ROMANCE” Operatunity Concert 28th August Timaru @ 11am ◊ “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” NZ Royal Ballet 22nd November Isaac Theatre Royal @ 1.30pm ◊ THE SEEKERS 23rd November, Horncastle Arena Christchurch

ASHBURTON

FIREARMS & SPORTS

Ashburton Guardian

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT SUE - Naughty fortes. No texting, no blocked numbers.

Available all weekend and next week. Phone 021 0233 9259.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

ROOM for rent in Tinwald.

Sharing with two working males. $130 per week including power. Enquiries to 027 740 1281 after hours or PASSPORT PHOTOS text anytime. $18.00. Professional images taken and processed while WANTED to rent, country you wait by the friendly staff cottage for older couple with at The Photo Shop. Find us in one dog. Please phone John the Center of the Arcade. Ph: 027 319 4753.

307 7595.

FIREWOOD - old man pine dry and under cover. SCOOTER’S - new and Delivered in 4 and 6 metre secondhand three and four loads. Phone 027 465 2122. wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT A NEW Asian. Young beauty, FREE brick off-cuts. Loads of busty, sexy, slim, good them! Pick-up in town massage. Full service, phone required. Phone 021 662 884. Honey 021 0264 7179.

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline 0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

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Saturday, August 23, 2014 TV ONE

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TV TWO

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Come Dine With Me Omnibus 3 11:30 Tagata Pasifika Noon MasterChef – The Professionals: Australia 3 0 1:55 Star Treatment 2:55 Is Modern Medicine Killing You? 3 0 3:25 Code: 1 3 0 3:55 Intrepid Journeys 3 0 5pm The Fishing Show Matt reunites his original crew to visit a favourite old spot where the fishing is even better than it was over a decade ago. 0 6pm One News 0

6am Fireman Sam 3 0 6:10 Poppet Stars 0 6:15 Paw Patrol 0 6:40 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 7am The Tom And Jerry Show 3 0 7:25 Robot And Monster 3 0 7:50 Randy Cunningham – 9th Grade Ninja 3 0 8:15 Generator Rex 3 0 8:40 Beware The Batman PGR 0 9:05 Regular Show PGR 3 0 9:30 Operation Hero PGR 3 0 10am 2Kaha 10:30 Rodney 3 0 11am The Amazing Race – Australia v New Zealand PGR 0 12:05 The Bachelor PGR 3 0 2pm Switched At Birth PGR 3 0 3pm Fear Factor PGR 3 0 4pm Step By Step 3 0 4:30 Full House 3 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 According To Jim 3 0 6pm 72 Hours 0 7pm M The Animal PGR 2001 7pm Country Calendar 0 Comedy. Edward Asner, Rob 7:30 Vote 2014 0 Schneider. 0 8:30 Undercover Boss USA PGR 0 8pm L Lotto 9:30 M Defiance AO 2008 This week’s Lotto draw.

Drama. Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe 8:05 The Animal PGR Continued.

0 escape into the Belarussian 8:40 M The Replacements M forests, where they join 2000 Comedy. Keanu Reeves, Russian resistance fighters.

Gene Hackman. 0 Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell. 0

12:10 M Carnage AO 2011 Comedy Drama. Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz.

1:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:50 Neighbourhood 3 0 4:20 L English Premier League Arsenal v Everton.

CHOICE TV 6am What’s Really In Our Food?

6:30 Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown Property and style queen Kirstie Allsopp is out to win prizes as she learns new crafting skills and competes against Britain’s handmade experts.

7:30 New Zealand Food Culture 8am Oddities PGR The weird world of strange and extraordinary science artifacts.

8:30 Rachel Allen’s Cake Diaries 9am Trish’s Mediterranean Kitchen 9:30 Design Star 10:30 Catch And Cook – US 11am The Liquidator 11:30 Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 12:30 Love Your Garden 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Barter Kings 4pm Fantasy Homes By The Sea With Jenni Falconer.

5pm Heaven’s Kitchen 6pm Dream Build 6:30 The Magicians 7:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 8:30 Small Island AO (Mini-series) A young ambitious Jamaican woman relocates into the grit of 1940s postwar London.

10:30 Cardinal Burns AO 11pm Fantasy Homes By The Sea With Jenni Falconer.

SUNDAY

Midnight Barter Kings 1am Heaven’s Kitchen 2am Dream Build 2:30 Small Island AO (Mini-series) 4:30 Cardinal Burns AO 5am The Magicians

11:05 M Blitz AO 2011 Action Crime Thriller. Jason Statham. 0 12:55 M Ondine PGR 2009 Romantic Drama. Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda. 0 3am The Celebrity Apprentice PGR 3 4:35 Partners PGR 3 4:55 Posh Nosh 3 0 5:05 2Kaha 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

TV THREE 6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 Smokefree Rockquest 2013 3 11am F Survivor – One World 11:50 Million Dollar Listing 12:50 Epic 1:50 F New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker 3 2:50 F Hamish And Andy’s Gap Year – Asia PGR 3 0 3:55 Would I Lie To You? UK AO 3 4:30 F Testing The Menu 3 5pm Outdoors With Geoff Geoff Thomas showcases the outdoors in New Zealand and abroad.

5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm 3 News

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 8:30 The Wild Thornberrys 3 0 8:55 Rocket Power 9:25 Fanboy And Chum Chum 9:50 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm iCarly The adventures of a teen who produces popular webcasts for kids and becomes an online celebrity.

5:30 Big Time Rush 3 6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 0 6:30 M Dr Seuss’s The Cat In The Hat PGR 3 2003 Family. Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin. 0

8:10 M Wayne’s World 2 AO 7pm Destroyed in Seconds 3 0 3 1993 Comedy. As Wayne 7:30 Ice Road Truckers PGR 0 tries to organise a rock festival 8:30 SVU AO 0 with help from his friend and 9:30 Blue Bloods AO 0 the spirit of Jim Morrison, 10:25 M The Rum Diary AO his girlfriend’s manager tries 2011 Comedy Drama. Based to woo her away from him. on Hunter S Thompson’s Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tia debut novel, the story of an Carrere, Christopher Walken, itinerant journalist who must Kim Basinger. choose whether to use his words for the financial benefit 10:15 N It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia AO of the wealthy, or to take them down. Johnny Depp. 0 10:45 Excused AO 3 1am Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:10 NZOwn PGR Hosted by Angelina Boyd, the latest news and views on New Zealand music.

11:45 Infomercials

PRIME

7pm Storage Wars PGR 3 In Montebello, California, Jarrod and Brandi leave the auction wishing they had never come.

7:30 New Zealand from Above 3 8:30 Rugby – Bledisloe Cup (Delayed) All Blacks v Wallabies. From Eden Park, Auckland.

11pm Psych PGR After a former police chief is killed, details emerge indicating he was involved in criminal activity, and Shawn and Gus join two retired detectives to solve his murder.

Midnight Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Toku Reo 3 2pm The Big Hit 3 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Playoffs 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Journey To The West 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 M Babe – Pig In The City 1998 Family Adventure. Babe the pig must travel to the city to save the farm. James Cromwell, Mickey Rooney, E Daily.

THE BOX

6am L Golf – US PGA Tour The Barclays – Round Two. From Ridgewood Country Club, in New Jersey. 10am Golf Central 10:30 Golf – European Tour (Highlights) 11am #SkyRugby – Engage 11:30 Grassroots Rugby 12:30 Total Rugby 1pm #SkyRugby – Breakdown 1:30 #SkyRugby – Engage 2pm Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Featuring Waikato v Canterbury, Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki.

2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Northland v Wellington. From Toll Stadium, Whangarei.

4:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Counties Manukau v Otago.

6:30 L Rugby – International All Blacks v Wallabies. From Eden Park in Auckland.

9:30 #SkyRugby – Breakdown Jeff Wilson discusses the weekend’s rugby with a panel of former top players and experts.

10pm L Cricket – Twenty20 Blast Semi-final One – Surrey v Warwickshire.

From Birmingham, UK.

1:30 L Cricket – Twenty20 Blast Semi-final Two – Hampshire v Lancashire.

5am L Cycling – La Vuelta Stage One. A time-trial covering 12.6 kms over Jerez de la Frontera.

SKY SPORT 2 9:30 M The Guard AO 3 2011 Comedy Crime. An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong.

11:10 Te Kaea 3 2 11:40 Closedown

DISCOVERY

6am Auction Kings PG 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Dukes Of Haggle PG 10am Auction Kings PG 10:30 Bear Grylls – Escape From Hell PG 11:30 River Monsters – Lair Of Giants PG 12:30 Dual Survival PG 1:30 MythBusters PG 2:30 Auction Hunters PG 3pm Auction Hunters PG 3:30 Clash Of The Ozarks M 4:30 What Happened Next? PG 5pm The Mind Control Freaks M 5:30 Deadliest Catch PG 6:30 Kodiak M 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 King Of Thrones PG 9:30 Fat N’ Furious PG 10:30 Clash Of The Ozarks M SUNDAY Midnight Spartacus – War Of The 11:30 Boss Hog M Damned 18VLS SUNDAY 1am Survivor Marathon PG Midnight Nightmare Next Door M 3:30 Hooters Dream Girl M 1am Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets 4:20 Hatfields And McCoys – M 1:30 Stolen Voices, Buried White Lightning PG Secrets M 2am Jungle Gold M 5:10 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 3am Jungle Gold M 4am Jungle 5:35 The Simpsons PG Gold M 5am MythBusters PG

6am Mountain Men PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 No Man’s Land M 8:05 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 10:10 Raw MC 1:05 Survivor Marathon PG 3:40 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 0 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7pm The Simpsons PG 7:30 Modern Family PGL 8pm Duck Commander ML 8:30 Hatfields And McCoys – White Lightning PG 9:30 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 10pm Mountain Men PG 11pm No Man’s Land M

SKY SPORT 1

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 Noon Rugby League – NRL Fulltime Round 23 of the NRL Premiership.

12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 3pm Bondi Rescue PGR 3:30 Rugby – ITM Cup Waikato v Canterbury. From Waikato Stadium, Hamilton.

5:30 Prime News 6pm Donna Hay – Fast, Fresh, Simple 3 6:30 Lorraine Pascale – Baking Made Easy Lorraine offers stress-free tips and tricks for entertaining with recipes for mascarpone and ginger creme brulee, and salt-and-pepper breadsticks.

The Rum Diary

10:25pm on TV3

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:15 Deadliest Sea PGL 2009 Action. Sebastian Pigott, Greg Bryk.

8:40 Jack Reacher MVL 2012 Action. Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike.

10:50 A Beginner’s Guide To Endings MLS 2012 Comedy.

Harvey Keitel, Scott Caan.

12:20 Oblivion MVS 2013 Sci-fi.

Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman.

2:25 Cloud Atlas 16VLS 2012 Adventure. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry.

5:15 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone MVS 2013 Comedy.

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi.

6:55 Taken 2 MV 2012 Action.

Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace.

8:30 After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi.

Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

10:15 Don Jon 16LS 2013 Comedy.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

11:45 Killer Joe 18VLS 2011 Crime. Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch. SUNDAY 1:25 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone MVS 2013 Comedy.

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi. 3:05 After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi. 4:45 Don Jon 16LS 2013 Comedy.

6am Sky Sport – What’s On 6:30 Golf – LPGA Tour (Highlights) Canadian Pacific Women’s Open – Round One. 7am L Golf – LPGA Tour Canadian Pacific Women’s Open – Round Two. From London Hunt and Country Club in Ontario, Canada. 10am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Waikato v Canterbury.

Lorraine Pascale – Baking Made Noon Athletics – IAAF Diamond League (Highlights) Stockholm.

Easy, 6:30pm on Prime 12:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Eels v Sea Eagles.

1pm Rugby League – NRL (Replay) MOVIES GREATS Bulldogs v Tigers.

7:35 Drop Dead Gorgeous ML 3pm L Rugby League – NSW 1999 Comedy. Kirsten Dunst, Cup Mounties v Penrith. From Ellen Barkin, Kirstie Alley. 9:10 The Leichhardt Oval, NSW. Exorcism Of Emily Rose MC 2005 5pm L Rugby League – Horror. Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Holden Cup Broncos v Knights.

Campbell Scott.

From Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.

11:10 Step Brothers 16LS 2008 7pm L Rugby League – NRL Comedy. Will Ferrell, John C Reilly.

Broncos v Knights.

12:45 Nights In Rodanthe 9:30 L Rugby League – NRL PGL 2008 Drama. Richard Gere, Rabbitohs v Cowboys.

Diane Lane.

11:30 Sky Sport – What’s On 2:20 Pride And Prejudice PGR 11:55 L Motorsport – FIA 2005 Drama. Keira Knightley, Formula One Championship Matthew Macfadyen, Belgian Grand Prix Qualifying.

Donald Sutherland.

SUNDAY 4:25 Confessions Of A Shopaholic 1:35 L Motorsport – GP2 PGL 2009 Romantic Comedy.

Series Coverage of race one from 6:10 Spider-Man 3 MV 2007 Action. Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 8:30 You, Me And Dupree MLS in Belgium. 2:45 Rugby – 2006 Comedy.

International (Highlights) 3:15 10:20 Something Borrowed MLS L Motorsport – GP3 Series 2011 Romantic Comedy.

Coverage of race one from Circuit SUNDAY de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

12:15 The Rock AO 1996 Action.

4:30 Golf – LPGA Tour (Highlights) 2:30 Pride And Prejudice PGR 2005 5am Motorsport – V8 Supercars Drama. 4:35 Confessions Of A Championship (Highlights) 5:30 Shopaholic PGL 2009 Romantic Motorsport – V8 Supercars Comedy.

Championship (Highlights)

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6am Pajanimals 3 0 6:10 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:15 Fireman Sam 3 0 6:25 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 30 6:50 Henry Hugglemonster 3 0 7:15 SpongeBob SquarePants 30 7:35 Sanjay And Craig 0 8am What Now? 10am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:30 Pretty Little Liars 3 0 1:30 The 100 PGR 0 2:30 Once Upon A Time In Wonderland PGR 0 3:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Hart Of Dixie Lemon persuades George to help her with a business venture; Brick sees an opportunity to become BlueBell’s Man of the Year, but discovers he has tough competition. 0 7pm Sunday 0 7pm The Big Bang Theory PGR 3 7:30 N My Kitchen Rules 0 New Zealand 0 7:30 The Middle 0 8:35 N Call the Midwife 8pm The Neighbors 0 PGR Nonnatus House and the 8:30 M The Hunger Games surrounding area are evacuated AO 2012 Action. Sixteenwhen an unexploded bomb is year-old Katniss Everdeen found nearby. 0 volunteers to take her 9:35 N A Place to Call Home younger sister’s place in the AO The Bligh family face more televised fight to the death, challenges as secrets are the Hunger Games. Jennifer revealed. 0 Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 0 10:35 Secret State AO

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 9am Re-Think 9:30 Three60 10am The Nation 0 11am The Best Of Campbell Live 11:35 3rd Degree 3 0 12:30 Crime Exposed PGR 3 0 1pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 2pm Motorsport – Monster Jam 2:30 Motorsport – Otago Classic Rally 3pm Motorsport – NHRA The Mello Yello teams head into the Rocky Mountains to begin the traditional three-week Western Swing. 4:10 Motorsport – MotoGP Round 11 from the Czech Republic. 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Big Angry Fish 6pm 3 News 7pm The X Factor Australia 0 9:30 M Superbad AO 2007 Comedy. Two high-school guys want to hook up with girls before they graduate, but overcoming their separation anxiety becomes a greater challenge than getting the girls. Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogan, Emma Stone. 0

11:30 Q+A Local political affairs programme. 0 12:35 Attitude 3 0 1:05 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Marae Maori current affairs show. 2 3:35 Infomercials

11:55 Hounds AO (Starting Today) 11:45 Infomercials 3 12:25 The Radio AO (Starting Today) 3 1am Brown Bruthas AO (Starting Today) 3 1:30 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV

6:45 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Marae 2 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Fire Scene Investigation 30 11:55 River Monsters With Jeremy Wade 3 0 12:55 Secret Location 0 1:55 F The Force PGR 3 0 2:25 F Dog Squad 3 0 2:55 F Restoration Man PGR 0 3:55 Fair Go 3 0 4:25 F Animal House 3 0 4:55 F Penguins – Spy In The Huddle 0 6pm One News 0

CHOICE TV 6am Dream Build 6:30 Christ Embassy 7am Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 8am Fantasy Homes By The Sea 9am Heaven’s Kitchen 10am Barter Kings 11am The Magicians Noon Early Edition 1pm Extreme Fishing With Robson Green PGR 2pm Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 3pm The Hook And The Cook 3:30 Monty Halls’ Great Escapes – Beachcomber Cottage 4:50 Return To River Cottage PG 5:30 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 6:30 Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever 7pm Great Escapes Showcasing the best destinations across Asia and the Pacific.

7:30 The Jonathan Ross Show PGR 8:30 The Prisoner AO (Mini-series) 9:30 Walking Through History With Tony Robinson 10:30 School Of Comedy AO 11pm Monty Halls’ Great Escapes – Beachcomber Cottage

MONDAY

12:20 Return To River Cottage PG 1am The Hook And The Cook 1:30 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 2:30 School Of Comedy AO 3am The Jonathan Ross Show PGR 4am The Prisoner AO (Mini-series) 5am Great Escapes 5:30 Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever

11:20 M The Crazies AO 2010 Horror. Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell. 0 1:15 The River AO 2am Robotomy PGR 3 2:10 Infomercials 2:45 20/20 3 0 3:35 Jeremy Kyle USA AO 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 The Amazing Race 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Monsuno 3 7:25 Max Steel 3 7:45 Grojband 3 8:10 The Wild Thornberrys 3 8:40 Rocket Power 9am Fanboy And Chum Chum 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm iCarly The adventures of a teen who produces popular webcasts for kids and becomes an online celebrity.

5:30 Big Time Rush 6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 6:30 Top Chef 7:30 Glee PGR As the glee club prepares for Regionals, an event puts things into perspective.

8:30 How I Met Your Mother PGR 0 9pm New Girl PGR 9:30 Witches of East End AO 10:25 Unsupervised AO 10:50 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

PRIME

7:30 L Rugby – International Argentina v South Africa. From Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearena, Salta.

9:30 Rugby – International (Replay) All Blacks v Wallabies. From Eden Park, Auckland.

11:30 Golf – European Tour (Highlights) Czech Masters – Round Three.

Noon L Rugby – Women’s Provincial Manawatu v Wellington.

2pm Golf Central 2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Manawatu v Auckland. From FMG Stadium, Palmerston North.

4:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Bay of Plenty v Tasman. From Mt Maunganui.

6:30 Rugby – International (Highlights) All Blacks v Wallabies.

From Eden Park, Auckland.

7pm Fox Sports News 8pm Golf – LPGA Tour (Highlights) Canadian Pacific Women’s Open – Round Three. From London Hunt and Country Club in Ontario, Canada.

8:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Featuring Manawatu v Auckland and Bay of Plenty v Tasman.

9pm Football – Arsenal TV Everton v Arsenal.

11:45 Wild Boys PGR 3 When the Butlers target Old George he seeks help from the Wild Boys.

12:45 Home Shopping

Midnight UFC Fight Night (Replay) Henderson v Dos Anjos.

2am L Cycling – La Vuelta Stage Two. From Algeciras to San Fernando.

4am L Golf – US PGA Tour The Barclays – Round Four. From Ridgewood CC, in New Jersey.

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 1:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Play-offs – Teams TBC. 3:30 Rugby League – UK Super League Challenge Cup – Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Kai Time On The Road 6:30 Kuia (Part 2) 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Roosters.

THE BOX 6am Survivor Marathon PG 8:30 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 9:10 No Man’s Land M 10am The Simpsons Marathon PG 12:05 Modern Family PGL 12:30 Mountain Men PG 1:20 Duck Commander ML 1:45 Hatfields And McCoys – White Lightning PG 2:35 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 3pm Raw MC 5:50 WWE Main Event MC 6:45 SmackDown! MC 8:30 CSI MV 9:30 CSI MV 10:30 Crossing Lines MV 11:30 Deadliest Warrior MV

MONDAY

12:30 WWE Main Event MC 1:25 Hooters Dream Girl M 2:15 CSI MV 3:05 CSI MV 3:55 Deadliest Warrior MV 4:45 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 5:10 Modern Family PGL 5:35 Duck Commander ML

SKY SPORT 1

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world, highlighting sport for young New Zealand fans.

Noon Secret Millionaire USA 3 Hilary DeCesare, the silent founder of a moderated social network for young people, visits the homeless youth of Long Beach, California.

12:55 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 1:25 Grassroots Rugby 2:25 Rugby – International (Replay) Bledisloe Cup – All Blacks v Wallabies. From Eden Park.

4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm MasterChef USA In a mysterybox challenge with a twist, one contestant gets a taste of power, while another succumbs to it.

7pm Storage Wars PGR 3 7:30 F Antiques Roadshow The team visits Newstead Abbey, where items include a medal for bravery awarded to a pigeon in the Second World War, and the bugle used to sound the Charge of the Light Brigade.

8:30 Weekend Murders – Poirot AO 10:30 Who Do You Think You Are? UK PGR

SKY SPORT 2 9:30 M What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted AO 1999 Drama.

Sequel to Once Were Warriors, in which Jake ‘The Muss’ Heke must save his son Sonny from a gangster lifestyle after the death of his eldest son Nig. Temuera Morrison, Rudolph Alford, Julian Arahanga.

11:25 Te Kaea 3 2 11:55 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Kings PG Redneck Chariot; Japanese Antique Daggers.

6:30 MythBusters PG Bottle Bash.

7:30 MythBusters PG Duct-Tape Island. 8:30 What Happened Next? PG 9am The Mind Control Freaks M 9:30 King Of Thrones PG 10:30 Deadliest Catch PG 11:30 Fat N’ Furious PG 12:30 Under Siege M 1:30 Ultimate Treehouses PG 2:30 Treehouse Masters PG 3:30 Treehouse Masters PG 4:30 Treehouse Masters PG 5:30 Treehouse Masters PG 6:30 Treehouse Masters PG 7:30 America’s Most Secret PG 8:30 Naked And Afraid M 9:30 Dual Survival PG 10:30 Treehouse Masters PG 11:30 Dukes Of Haggle PG

MONDAY

Midnight Beauty Queen Murders M 1am River Monsters – Lair Of Giants PG 2am Dirty Jobs PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Jungle Gold M 5am Dirty Jobs PG

6am L Golf – LPGA Tour Canadian Pacific Women’s Open – Round Three. From London Hunt and Country Club in Ontario, Canada.

9am Golf – European Tour (Delayed) Czech Masters – Round Three.

11am Sky Sport – What’s On 11:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Warriors v Roosters.

From Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland.

Call the Midwife A Place to Call Home 1:30 L Rugby League – NRL 8:35pm on TV One 9:35pm on TV One Warriors v Roosters. From Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland.

4pm L Rugby League – NRL MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS 6:20 Spider-Man 3 MV 2007 Action. Sharks v Raiders. From Remondis 6:15 Cloud Atlas 16VLS 2012 Stadium in Cronulla.

Adventure. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst.

6pm Fishing And Adventure 8:35 You, Me And Dupree MLS 9:05 The Incredible Burt 6:30 Golf – European Tour 2006 Comedy. Owen Wilson, Wonderstone MVS 2013 Comedy.

(Highlights) Czech Masters – Round Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon.

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi.

Three. From Albatross Golf Resort, 10:25 Something Borrowed 10:45 Taken 2 MV 2012 Action.

Prague.

MLS 2011 Romantic Comedy.

Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace.

7pm Golf – US PGA Tour Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson.

12:20 After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi.

(Highlights) The Barclays – Round 12:20 The Rock AO 1996 Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

Three. From Ridgewood CC, in New Action. Sean Connery, Ed Harris, 2pm The Last Stand 16VL 2013 Jersey.

Nicolas Cage.

Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 7:30 Rugby Nation 2:35 The Break-Up MS 2006 Forest Whitaker.

8:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 3:45 The Hobbit – An Unexpected Romantic Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Warriors v Roosters.

Vince Vaughn.

Journey MV 2012 Adventure.

10:30 Rugby League – NRL 4:20 Miami Vice 16V 2006 Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman.

(Highlights) Featuring Sharks v Action. Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, 6:35 Gangster Squad 16VLS 2012 Raiders and Dragons v Titans.

Naomie Harris.

Crime. Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling.

11pm Fox Sports News 8:30 We’re The Millers 16VLS 2013 6:30 There’s Something About 11:30 Sky Sport – What’s On Mary 16LS 1998 Romantic Comedy. 11:55 L Motorsport – FIA Comedy.

8:30 Taking Lives 16VLS 2004 Crime Formula One Championship 10:25 A Resurrection 16VL 2013 Thriller. 11:55 The Last Stand 16VL Drama.

Belgian Grand Prix. From Circuit de 10:15 Hustle And Flow 16VLS 2005 Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

2013 Action.

Drama.

MONDAY MONDAY 1:40 Gangster Squad 16VLS 2012 MONDAY 2:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Crime. 3:35 The Making Of Fast 12:10 Backdraft PGL 1991 Thriller.

Championship (Highlights) Sydney And Furious 6 PG 3:50 We’re The 2:25 Miami Vice 16V 2006 Action.

Motorsport 400.

Millers 16VLS 2013 Comedy. 5:40 A 4:35 There’s Something About 3am Football – Chelsea TV Resurrection 16VL 2013 Thriller.

Mary 16LS 1998 Romantic Comedy. Chelsea v Leicester City.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BULLOCK, William Herbert (Bill) – Linda and family wish to thank everyone for their love and support during the past 18 months. The beautiful flowers, lovely food, visits, cards and phone calls have given us much comfort.

Thank you to Rev David Brown and St David’s Church for the wonderful service to celebrate Bill’s life and many thanks to everyone who attended. We feel very humbled at your kindness. A special thanks to the doctors and nurses at the Christchurch Bone Marrow Unit, Ranui House, Penny Holdaway and the Ashburton District Nurses for their care and support. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgement of our sincere thanks and deep appreciation.

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WALLACE - KING – Tim and Barbie Wallace of Wainuioru, Masterton have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their daughter Georgina Elizabeth, to David John, younger son of Arch and Norma King, of Carew, Ashburton.

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DALY, Josephine Frances (Jo) – June 16, 2014.

John, Tania and Jason, Lisa and Steve and families wish to thank everyone for their prayers, love and support at the sad passing of Jo. thank you all for the gifts of flowers, food, cards, phone calls and visits. Please accept his as personal acknowledgment of our gratitude and thanks.

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Cloudy periods. Light winds.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 13.8 13.8 Max to 4pm -2.5 Minimum -8.4 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm August to date 30.4 Avg Aug to date 43 2014 to date 539.8 444 Avg year to date Wind km/h S6 At 4pm Strongest gust NW 20 Time of gust 9:13am

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WEDNESDAY

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Areas of low cloud and fog morning and night, but mainly fine during the afternoon.

Light winds, southwest about the tops.

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Cloudy, with patchy morning drizzle about the foothills. Areas of low cloud or fog elsewhere. Wind at 1000m: SW dying.

Wind at 2000m: S 50 km/h easing.

Mostly cloudy. Light winds.

Saturday, 23 August 2014

A high over the Tasman Sea extends a ridge over the South Island during the period, directing a weakening southerly flow onto the North Island. A weak front brushes the east of the South Island on Wednesday.

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WIERING, Joyce May – On August 21 2014 peacefully at Christchurch Hospital. surrounded by her loving family, dearly loved wife of Jan (John) for 59 years. Dearly loved mother and mother in law of Geke and Gerard Smith, Suzanne and Alan Tinkler, David and Gwenda, and loving Gran of Mathew and Rebecca Clucas, Emma Clucas and Tim, Amee, Scott, Cameron and Mary, Hanna and Will, loved Beppe and great-gran of Haley, Harry, Hamish, Bello, Willow.

Treasured Memories Special thanks to the caring staff of ward 24 Christchurch Hospital and the Access Home Health Team.

Messages 866 Hoskyns Road No. 1 RD Christchurch 7671. A Celebration of Joyce's life will be held in the Harewood Crematorium Chapel, 507 Johns Road on TUESDAY, August 26 2014 at 11.30am.

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LILLEY, Margaret Elizabeth – We Margaret’s family wish to thank everyone for the love and support received LAWSON – particularly over the last few MID CANTERBURY FUNERAL SERVICES Michael and Nicole are months and Mothers passing. pleased to announce the safe Special thanks to Rosebank arrival of Ashton George Galbraith’s provide choice! Rest Home Ashburton and Galbraith’s We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors andBallarat Desmond, Jaxson Paul Care Home celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, Neville and Zac Michael Rangiora. Please accept provide choice! and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering.

John. Little brothers to Kalani, We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs tothese words as a personal reflect their individualityCall - ask us howus we can be of assistance to you and on Shania and Zara. The family expression of our sincere your family. would like to thank the thanks and gratitude. Brian, Call us on 308 3980 308 3980 amazing staff at Christchurchor call in and visit our new premises at Lesley, Maxine and families. or246 callHavelock in andStreet visit MACKAY, Neville George – Women’s. our new premises at Jean, Jill, Ian, Alison and DEATHS Susan and their families wish Eion McKinnon Rob Cope-Williams 246 Havelock to say thank you to everyone PRATT, Thelma – Street who offered their love and On August 22, 2014 at support during the recent sad Rosebank Resthome, loss of Nev. Those who paid Ashburton. In her 90th year.

Official Opening 18 Feb - 9am til 4pm their respects at dad’s Dearly loved wife of the late service, sent cards, flowers, Owen. Much loved mother visited, brought food, phoned, and mother in law of the late a big thank you. Special Janice Matthews, Heather appreciation to the caring and Colin Maloney staff at Rosebank.

(Pukekohe), Marlene and Canterbury owned, Cyril Thorne (Australia) and locally operated loved grandma of her grandchildren, great Patersons grandchildren and great great grandchild. Loved sister and Funeral Services NELSON, Doris Elma sister in law of Joyce Grieve and Ashburton (Dorrie) – (Methven), Marjorie and the late Harry Greenaway, the Crematorium Ltd Russell, Murray, Darryl, Marilyn and their families late Pat Hannan, John and Margaret Hannan Office and Chapel wish to thank everyone who (Wellington) and loved aunty Corner East & Cox attended the funeral, sent of all her nieces and Streets, Ashburton cards, flowers and baking, phoned and visited following nephews. Messages to P O the loss of a loved mother, Box 420 Pukekohe 2340. A mother-in-law, gran and great special thanks to the Staff at gran. Please accept this as a Rosebank and Ashburton IN MEMORIAM personal acknowledgement.

Hospital for their loving care of Thelma. A service to celebrate Thelma’s life will be FUNERAL held at Our Chapel Cnr. East and Cox Streets, Ashburton FURNISHERS on MONDAY, August 25, MASTER commencing at 1.30pm.

MONUMENTAL MASON Followed by private cremation DEANS, Shane – Some day we hope to at the Ashburton E.B. CARTER LTD meet you again, Crematorium. A memorial For all your memorial service for Thelma will be Some day we know not when, requirements To clasp your hand in a held at Franklin Baptist New headstones and designs better land, Church, 52 Victoria Street, Renovations, Never to part again.

Pukekohe, on MONDAY, Additional inscriptions, September 1, commencing at Four years have gone and Cleaning and Concrete work the loss still the same. Love 2.00pm.

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