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Hayshed blaze requires massive effort by firefighters

BY KATIE TODD

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It took a dawn to dusk effort for Ashburton volunteer firefighters to put out a blaze in a hayshed on Thursday.

A number of hay bales caught ablaze shortly before 5am on a property on Buckleys Road in Wakanui, and took nearly 17 hours to tackle.

Ashburton Fire and Emergency Chief Officer Alan Burgess said the blaze appeared to have begun simply due to some of the hay bales overheating – and quickly grew into a sizeable operation.

Fire appliances from Ashburton, Rakaia, Pendarves, Willowby and Lauriston converged at the scene, and had to tap into farm irrigation for adequate water supply.

Burgess said the shed was left destroyed.

“Because the shed was made of a metal frame the metal has just become distorted,” he said.

“It will have to be cleared off.”

During the day, volunteer firefighters received a visit from the Salvation Army, who handed out food and ensured the team were adequately hydrated.

Tarbotton Contracting also lent a helping hand – supplying heavy machinery to run over the hay bales and assist in the dampening down process.

It was after 10pm on Thursday night when the last trucks returned to the station after putting out the blaze.

Right – Volunteer firefighters amid a lengthy team effort tackling burning hay bales on Thursday.

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M. bovis results ‘inconclusive’

BY LINDA CLARKE

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Mid Canterbury’s farming community remains on high alert for the cattle disease mycoplasma bovis, despite a negative test from an Ashburton dairy farm.

Authorities will continue to test for the bacteria, which is extremely difficult to detect, and ramp up milk testing on all dairy farms.

The Ashburton farm is under a restricted place notice or quarantine and neighbours have been alerted.

M. bovis would have huge financial repercussions on New Zealand’s dairy industry if it becomes established and MPI is staging its biggest incursion response ever to eradicate it.

“One negative does not mean it is okay,” DairyNZ’s Chris Morley told about 150 people who turned up to a public meeting in Ashbur-

ton on Thursday night to find out more about the disease, first diagnosed on an Oamaru farm owned by the Van Leeuwen Dairy Group earlier this year.

The Ashburton property under suspicion has links to the dairy group through cattle movements.

Morley said M. bovis was tricky to find and could be dormant for weeks or months.

“Some of the Van Leeuwen farms were caught at their third and fourth test. The short answer as of today is the test results are inconclusive, not positive, but it is not a get out of jail card yet.”

The Ashburton meeting drew many working in the district’s dairy sector, as well as Ashburton Mayor Donna Favel and Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon.

Vetlife Ashburton hosted the evening on the back of requests for information following an an-

nouncement by MPI that an Ashburton property was strongly suspected of having the disease.

Morven farmers and veterinarian Merlyn Hay, who have been living, breathing and farming alongside M. bovis in South Canterbury since July, shared what they had learned about how the bacteria spread and what could be done to stop it.

South Canterbury Rural Support Trust’s Sarah Barr said the Ashburton farmer had been proactive in communicating with neighbours; the experience was harrowing and stressful for the family, as it had been for those in Morven.

She said farmers here should not be part of the rumour mill but learn about the disease and what they could do to protect themselves.

M. bovis causes serious and painful mastitis and arthritis in

cattle, and does not respond to antibiotics.

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers’ vice-president David Clark said there was concern in the district, which is one of the highest milk production areas per cow in New Zealand.

Federated Farmers was working to have MPI in Mid Canterbury in the new year to expand on the situation and how they were managing it.

He said the Ashburton farming family was under stress and it was appropriate they remain anonymous.

“But if you have not been spoken to by him then you are not farming next door to him.”

Until July, New Zealand was one of only a few countries to be free of M. bovis. Milk testing shows it is not widespread and authorities are trying to eradicate it.

If established, it could stop sharemilkers moving from farm to farm with their cows, or grazing off-farm. It also affects transport operators, stock agents and could spell the end of communal saleyards like Temuka.

Farmers are being encouraged to implement biosecurity plans for their properties, including boundary fences to prevent nose-to-nose contact and making sure vehicles, equipment and protective clothing that have been on other farms are cleaned and disinfected before coming on to their properties.

These biosecurity precautions would prevent the spread of not only M. bovis, but also salmonella, BVD, rotavirus and pinkeye.

Farmers were also encouraged to update their NAIT records as authorities trace cattle movements from known infected properties.

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Generous donation by Mitre 10 to Birthright

BY KATIE TODD

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Mitre 10 is making a generous donation to Ashburton’s children this Christmas – so generous, it requires a forklift for transport.

A crate full of children’s toys – from pool toys to slides to backyard cricket sets, has been gifted to Birthright Ashburton for distribution to deserving families.

All Mitre 10 stores owned by Simon Lye – that is, the Ashburton, Timaru and Oamaru branches, make a donation each year to a charity of their choice “We’ve got a bit of an affinity in wanting to do something nice,” said Mitre 10 Ashburton Operations Manager Michelle Brown.

“In Ashburton there are families that are in need, sometimes in crisis, and if there’s anything we can do to help then we will do it,” she said.

Birthright helps single parent families, and field officer Christine Muff said it was “amazing” to receive the help from Mitre 10.

“A lot of children will have only received secondhand presents so to get something new will mean a lot,” she said.

“We’re very lucky.”

She said it’s also an opportunity to “give back” to a community which has shown its generous spirit to her.

As Ashburton’s biggest employer, Muff said many Mitre 10 staff know the reality of raising a family themselves.

Right – Birthright’s Christine Muff met with Mitre 10’s Michelle Brown on Thursday to see the company’s generous donation.

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Summer school hits the highs

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Methven’s Summer School’s organisers are ticking off the days until they open for business and this year’s event is likely to be right up there with the best says Sandy Redmond.

The committee chairperson said the school is close to a sell out with nine courses already full and many close to reaching capacity.

The school is in its 25th year and some courses have been running for all of that time but each year new courses are added as new ideas and requests come

forward. One of the additions to this year’s school is home curing and tutor Allenton butcher Paddy Kennedy could be leading a new food trend.

He’s joining with New Zealand Pork in promoting what could be the hottest food trend in 2018, home cured pork.

The curing methods, which are used all over the world are making a comeback, thanks to simple techniques and delicious natural flavour, Kennedy said.

“Home curing is simple, fun and tasty – and with the right technique, is something absolutely anyone can try at home,”

he said. “It’s a great way to preserve meat products using salts, juniper berries, peppers and spices.”

The American-style cooking has been growing in popularity in New Zealand foodies in recent years with more and more Kiwis making their own rubs, sauces and smoke-houses as they do in America’s southern states.

“And New Zealand pork is a fantastic protein for these cooking styles because of its fat content and flavour profile,” Kennedy said.

He believes sustainability and

traceability are other reasons for home-curing’s popularity.

“People are really invested in traceability – they want to know where their food comes from now more than ever before.

Naturally preserving meat in your own home is an easy way to control and monitor what goes into your food.”

He’s keen to see the home cured trend spread in the Ashburton District and is hosting a pork curing course at this year’s Methven Summer School early next month.

Summer school runs from January 5 to 10.

Troublesome youths nabbed Two young offenders have been referred to the Police Youth Aid Section after causing commotion in Methven.

Police received reports that two males had been smashing bottles on the streets, tearing down Christmas decorations, and causing wilful damage around the Methven mall in the early hours of last Sunday morning.

Police arrived on the scene between midnight and 1am, to find the youths near Super Value.

Both were spoken to and taken to their homes before being referred to the Police Youth Aid Section.

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Trucking on for 50 plus years

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At 70, John Gemmell reckons if he doesn’t retire now, he’ll never get round to quitting work.

For more than 50 years he’s been the man behind the wheel of transport vehicles of all sizes as he’s plied the roads of both the South and North Island.

It’s a job he’s loved and while he called time on full time work on Friday, he admits he’ll still be a soft touch if Rural Transport boss Jim Crouchley calls on him to help out.

John can’t recall a time when he wasn’t behind the wheel of a truck. He passed his truck licence at 16 and since then he’s worked for several trucking companies and reckons he pretty much carries a map of the country’s roads in his head.

Back when John joined the team at Ashburton’s McCormicks Transport becoming a truckie required little more than passing the right licence and climbing in the cab.

Locally he worked for both McCormicks and Burnetts and in 1980 moved to the North Island – “my wife had two sisters up there and dragged me up”, he said.

Growing up in the Lowcliffe area, Ashburton remained home for John and he moved back into the district in 2010.

That saw him sign on as the oldest new employee at Rural Transport at an age when most truckies are looking ahead to retirement.

It’s a very different industry today to when John started out. Then there were no driving hours, no log books and truckies basically worked whatever hours were needed to get the job done.

“Back then we’d go for two days non-

stop, have 40 winks on the side of the road and get going again. Now there’s too much red tape and we do a lot of things that we don’t need to do,” he said.

The changes have probably been good for the industry; in the old days you got away with a lot you’d never dare try today, John said.

His first truck was an Austin flat deck and his first stock truck a TK Bedford.

Most of his years have been spent on stock trucks, initially accompanied by his team of dogs. Now the dogs have gone, but the tough work of loading stock has not.

“I can still do the work, but it is pretty tough,” he said.

It’s that hard work, John reckons, that’s kept him fit, healthy and still firing on all cylinders.

His boss, says John could teach younger workers a thing or two about work ethics.

“There has never been an issue with whatever time you asked John to start work. He’d be there. He never ever grizzled and he’d knock off when the job was done He’d do anything, even the rubbish jobs,” Jim said.

He’s keeping his fingers crossed John will stay on his relieving roster.

Having a good attitude to work goes a long way to ensuring a job is enjoyable, John said.

“Why say no to something if you don’t have to. Some of the young guys need a real push to get them going. If the job’s there to be done I’ll do it. I’ve never been late for work in my life and I haven’t had a sick day since I’ve been here.”

Retirement may eventually mean a move to Nelson but John’s in no hurry to leave town.

John Gemmell, officially retiring from a truck driving career that spans more than 50 years.

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Everything’s all set for the biggest lunch in town

By Sue NewmaN

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It’ll be the biggest Christmas lunch in town when more than 100 strangers become one another’s family for the day at this year’s Ashburton Community Christmas dinner.

Organiser Ann Allott and her team spent yesterday writing name tags for diners, compiling pick up lists for those who needed transport and ticking off dozens of items on their to do list.

With four years leading the organising team for an event that has run over many years, Allott said the Christmas lunch now runs to a tried and tested formula.

This year’s lunch has changed to a new venue, the Tinwald Hall, and Allot is counting her good fortune in being able to set up tables earlier in the week to lessen the workload on Christmas Eve. As it did every year, the com-

selection of vegetables and a full array of desserts.

Chef for the day is Danny Lysaght who’s been running the kitchen for several years. For him the day is a double celebration – Christmas and his birthday.

People come to the community lunch for a range of reasons, Allott said.

Some may be alone, others may be families who want to share lunch with other families and some may be newcomers to

town. “It’s not just an event for the old or those who’re alone. It’s good for the older people to have families with children around and it seems we have more children coming this year.”

While it’s good to let organisers know if you want to attend, people can also turn up on the day.

“It’s nice to know they’re coming so we can make them a name tag, but no one is ever turned away,” Allott said.

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When you can look back further than you can expect to look forward, you see that there’s a pattern to the way Christmas is celebrated; how you do it depends where you are in the festive cycle.

The first stage of Christmas is childhood.

Christmas is filled with wonder, excitement and a build up that never seems to end. The simple joy of unwrapping a parcel, the reunion with cousins and rarely seen family, the excitement of running free with kin while the mums, dads and grandparents talk, eat and share family lore. It’s pure magic.

Stage one can last from birth to early teens.

That stage gradually morphs into stage two, a cluster of years where family gatherings are stifling, presents often disappointing and, while there are plenty of bright spots, they juggle with embarrassment at the antics of the olds, at hearing family stories you’d rather not hear and seeing family dynamics in all their raw and often ugly glory.

Stage two can last from early to late teens.

And then there are the years where you manage to escape the filial commitment to make it home for Christmas, the years when you’re busy getting over the night before, ready to tackle the night ahead.

Christmas is an obligatory phone call home, duty done for the day. It could be distance, it could be work, or it could be simply a desire to cast aside the traditions, but those are the freedom years where Christmas is celebrated – if at all – your way.

Stage three can last from late teens as long as you have the courage and desire to run free.

Love or the nesting instinct drives the transition into the responsible years where you start the Christmas cycle over again.

You watch your own children enjoy the wonder stage, you carefully buy gifts, you’re filled with anticipation and celebrations once again take on a huge sense of joy. You relive the Christmases of your youth through your children’s eyes.

Stage four runs until your kids hit their teens Unwittingly, you’re part of the great Christmas cycle. You have become the family embarrassment. Your kids are half grown, your oldies are really old and you’re left in the middle holding the family to-

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This fifth age of Christmas seems endless.

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During the I’M IN CHARGE stage there is no wrong way to do Christmas.

Stage six lasts until grandchildren arrive.

Suddenly you realise that being selfish is over-rated. You willingly turn back the clock – again – to the first age of Christmas, happily sharing the event with children and grandchildren.

This is the best stage of all, you get all of the pleasure, as much of the hard work as you want and, if you play it right, the post-Christmas mess is left at someone else’s home.

One of the joys of your third crack at stage one is knowing that you will never again be in the position of trying to please everyone except yourself.

Christmas from a grandparent’s perspective is as good as it gets – the grandkids love you, your own kids think you’re pretty okay – most of the time – and when you’ve had enough you get in the car and go home.

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Christmas elderly wishes 2017 Wish granted; favour returned Bev’s special wish delivered to her from afar

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When Janice Duggan’s Christmas Wish volunteer came knocking at her Hampstead door, he had a familiar face which she couldn’t quite place.

“And I knew I’d come to her house before, but couldn’t figure out when,” said volunteer Steve Stratford.

He had in fact been to Janice’s house some years ago to collect his dog, after it ran away and Janice kindly looked after it and contacted him.

But last Saturday it was Steve’s time to give back and help out Janice, by cleaning the windows around her property.

Janice is awaiting surgery on her left foot and has also hurt her right knee, making it difficult to be mobile. “It’s hard to cope with some things.”

“I spend a lot of time inside because of I can’t really get around … but I think it’s been about three years since I was last able to clean the windows … and I like being able to look out and see the birds,” she said.

As someone who did a lot of volunteer work herself, Janice

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said it was nice to be helped out.

“Steve’s done a great job.”

She said Steve had also gone

above and beyond and helped her to drain her pool. “I’m very happy.”

Bev Anderson wasn’t having the greatest day on Wednesday.

“Things were just all over the place – I wasn’t in the best way,” said the Rosebank resident.

But then along came a big surprise to put a big smile on her face – a box of homemade shortbread and a bag of Christmas cherries, delivered by volunteer Lucy Clough.

Bev was delighted to learn that her daughter in Australia had nominated her for a Christmas wish, and organised delivery of her favourite festive treats.

“I just burst into tears,” said Bev. “It was a big surprise.”

With trouble using her hands, Bev said she is unable to get around in the kitchen like she could six years ago.

“I used to do a lot of cooking and baking. I loved it,” she said.

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February 2017 At the end of each year, Guardian staff choose the best of the year’s photos to share with you all and reminisce.

Above – Greg Roadley was preparing for a gruelling eight-day foot race in the arctic circle.

Right – Former building foreman, Dick Hansen was on hand to watch the Community Pool be demolished.

Above – The perfect mix between young and old when Judy Matthews and Charlotte Gosling caught up at Radius Millstream.

Right – Planes and their owners from all of New Zealand flew into Ashburton for the Great Plains Fly In.

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Above – Ashburton Intermediate students were given the opportunity to learn to sail on the waters of Lake Hood.

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Above – Brian Glassey and one of his prized hens ahead of the premier of the movie, Pecking Order.

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The demand on mental health services in Canterbury is growing and to keep pace with that need there needs to be a radical rethink in where help is targeted and how that help is funded, says Canterbury District Health Board clinical director of child, adolescent and family mental health Dr Harith Swadi. He talks to reporter Sue Newman.

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sk Dr Harith Swadi how he thinks Canterbury fares when it comes to delivering the mental health services that are needed and he’ll tell you we’re not doing as well as we could.

Funding shortfalls, understaffing and a lack of services for younger children are all impacting on the region’s overall mental health.

The CDHB’s director of child, adolescent and family mental health says funding and the way services are provided has to change. In particularly, money needs to be directed into providing services for younger children to ensure challenging behaviours are dealt with before those behaviours become mental health issues.

It’s an ambulance at the top of the cliff approach that Swadi says will benefit the community as a whole.

In the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes the region’s mental health service was given a share of the earthquake response funding from central government that equated to three fulltime

equivalent staff members for 18 months.

That’s funding he’s grateful for, but says it only goes part way towards providing the depth of service that’s needed for young people of all ages. Addressing distress earlier rather than waiting until it manifests itself as significant mental health issues in older children is imperative, Swadi says.

“They seemed to think the earthquake would cause a bit of a problem for one-and-a-half years and then it would be back to normal. We said the problems will only be starting after 18 months and we were right, we had the increase in demand after 18 months because initially natural resilience and community support helped people cope.”

He persuaded the Ministry of Health to continue funding the additional staff members and the School Based Mental Health Team was established to support schools and help them support their young people.

That team works in schools with

staff to create frontline awareness around how to react when students were exhibiting signs of mental health issues such as bullying, self-harming or anxiety.

Currently his seven full and part-time staff are looking after 147 schools, providing whatever support a school needs.

“We don’t have a programme we roll out. Our service is to provide according to what a school needs, what its problems are. It could be disruptive behaviour, cutting, self harming. It varies from one school to another and because it’s tailor made that’s why it’s been so successful,” Swadi said.

The team’s objective is simple – increasing a school’s ability to support its students.

The support service covers schools from Kaikoura to Ashburton and each school has a key contact person.

Schools are carefully monitored, with staff attending pastoral care meetings and staying in close contact with teachers.

“At any time we may also talk

about individual kids and if the schools are seeing any major mental health problems then these are referred on to the mental health service.”

Swadi said the school service was about working upstream, providing intervention early enough in the process before a problem became significant.

“We talk about resilience, what can schools do to build a kid’s resilience. If we can prevent things from happening by making sure their environment is not too stressful. Adversity is not a bad thing as long as we learn from it, resilience is about learning from experiences.”

Developing resilience meant young people were better able to deal with stresses in life such as the break up of a relationship that could become the precursor to suicide.

“It’s about being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel, about feeling connected. These are the sorts of things we try to encourage kids and schools to

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help earlier deal with. That’s the important thing about school-based mental health.”

His service was connected with virtually every school in the Ashburton District and held clinics every day of the week in the district, Swadi said.

The amount of time spent with an individual school varied according to need, but the demand in Ashburton was now higher than it had ever been, he said.

“That’s expected though because of your increasing population and the fact you have more diversity now. With the expansion of a town, the social issues and social differences become different and that’s when we usually see an increase in demand.”

In the past the service visited Ashburton one day a week; now it is every day. Young people are normally seen within three weeks of referral for their first appointment, if the need is urgent, within a week, but in an emergency an appointment can be made for that day, Swadi said.

The biggest hand brake on the service was the failure to match increased demand with increased funding, he said.

Demand had increased 98 per cent since the Canterbury earthquakes; funding had barely moved.

“The earthquake is now part of the fabric of life, it is there and at some point it seems to have been decided that this is the new norm.”

Added to earthquake-related issues was the greater acceptance around seeking assistance for mental health issues whereas in the past there was a stigma and shame and this was also increasing demand for the service, Swadi said.

While the school-based service is working well, he believes intervention is not coming early enough in the school system, before disruptive behaviours had an opportunity to become mental health issues. The most significant growth area was in children under 12 or 13, he said.

“A lot of this is about anxiety.”

Swadi wants greater investment

in dealing with young people’s issues, providing help before they hit their teens, at the primary health care level.

“At the moment if a GP sees an under 13-year-old with disruptive behaviour or anxiety they don’t know what to do with them so they send them to us, but these kids don’t really have moderate to serious psychiatric problems, they have behaviour problems.

“There is a big area of deficit in kids who have problems early in life.”

If the systems were in place and funded to provide early intervention those problems would be dealt with before they became deeper teenage psychiatric issues, Swadi said.

“I’d rather these things were dealt with early and taken care of instead of waiting until they become severe and then need to come to specialist services.

“There’s a real problem because we wouldn’t need to see these kids if the right systems were in place.

All it would take is for someone to

identify their problems and work with them so they learn how to manage their issues.”

Swadi has been pushing the case for increased services for children for a long time but said increased services would need to be matched by an increased workforce in mental health.

“This workforce is not well paid and people don’t want to go into it because it’s a very stressful job that has no financial incentive.”

He trained in the United Kingdom and has worked in New Zealand for 17 years.

“There you could retire at 55 with full benefits in recognition of the stressfulness of the job.

Here we need to do something to increase the training places for people and we need to pay them better.”

While mental health services might not be in crisis, they were certainly close to being overwhelmed by client demand and some of that could be alleviated by a greater focus on younger children’s needs, he said.

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■ ERIC WATSON

IRD targets bitcoin

Shares skyrocket 500pc subsequently renamed Long Island Brand Beverages.

The decision to now change the name to Long Blockchain has delivered an almost-immediate market response, with shares in the business rising six-fold, or 500 per cent.

This is the latest in a neardaily phenomenon sweeping the stock market, where obscure microcap companies reorient to focus on some aspect of the mania sparked by bitcoin’s 1600 per cent rally this year.

According to the Telegraph, the company says it will change its name to Long Blockchain Corp because its parent company, Cullen Holdings, is shifting its corporate focus towards the “exploration of and investment in opportunities that leverage the benefits of blockchain technology”.

The company, which will ask Nasdaq to change its trading symbol in connection with the name change, said it will continue to focus on the ready-to-

Eric Watson drink segment of the beverage industry.

It has also registered the new web domain www.longblockchain.com.

Long Blockchain so far has little to show for its aspirations.

It has no agreements with any blockchain firms, and says “there is no assurance that a definitive agreement with these, or any other entity, will be entered into or ultimately consummated”.

It follows a similar move by a British company in October, when On-line Plc announced plans to change its name to Online Blockchain Plc, sending its share price soaring 394 per cent – the biggest one-day gain for the small-cap company since its first listing in 1996.

At the time, the company said: “Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are a new and exciting area we have been working on for some time.

“We feel the time is right to re-name the company to reflect these developments, where we believe the future growth will be in our sector.”

On-line’s share price has continued to climb since its namechange, from around 15p in October to a high of 134p this week.

Shares in Colorado-based Bioptix Inc also flew in the days leading up to its name change to Riot Blockchain Inc, nearly doubling in value, according to Bloomberg.

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Don’t sack by text Businessman Paul Davys, best known for his offer to buy the Warriors, has been ordered to pay his former nanny $15,500 for sacking her in a text message. The Employment Relations Authority found that Kelly Randall was Davys’ employee, not a contractor as he claimed, and that she was unjustifiably dismissed. Randall was paid $625 for a 25-hour working week and provided with a credit card for work-related approved expenses, a mobile phone and use of a car during work hours.

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Those between the ages of 45 and 49 now earn $1307 per week, down from $1323.

Rogers said he was surprised to see the earnings drop for those in their early 40s.

“Typically when someone moves through their 40s, that is when they start to get recognised more,” he said.

Strategic Pay chief executive John McGill said the decline in higher-paid roles was difficult to understand, but could reflect tight salary policies from the previous government influencing overall figures.

“This is the age cohort where we find a lot of senior technical, managerial, professional roles and generally the demand is strong for this group,” McGill said.

“At this stage, I would see the data as a blip in a longer term positive trend, a very small correction perhaps.”

Teens, aged between 15 and 19, unsurprisingly earn the lowest weekly income, recorded at $356 per week – unchanged from earlier in the year.

Data shows those aged between 30 and 34 earn an average of $1145 per week and $1242 for those aged 35 to 39.

Those between ages of 50 and 54 earn $1279 per week and a weekly average of $1308 is earned by those between the ages of 55 and 59.

Once you hit 60, however, data reveals that earnings decrease with the average weekly income dropping to $1133 and a further decline of $214 for those 65 and over.

McGill said he expected to see large movements at lower paid levels next year.

“The Minister of Finance will have to deal with a lot of raised expectations around pay and this will be a careful path he will have to traverse,” he said.

“What will be the effect of these overall trends on the age-related data?

“Possibly larger movements across the board, more so in the lower pay groups, less so for the oldest cohorts would be my assessment.”

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Millennials do best in wage stakes Millennials are the big winners in this year’s pay stakes by generation, with workers in their 20s now earning $33 more per week than they were earlier in the year.

Millennials – those in their 20s – saw an average weekly earnings increase of $33, recorded at $864 per week before tax, compared to $831 in April this year.

Data from Statistics New Zealand reveals those aged between 20 and 24 now earn $701 per week, up from $691 and those aged between 25 and 29 cash in $1027 per week, up from $970 – an increase of $57.

Roman Rogers, regional general manager of New Zealand for recruitment firm Hudson, said the pay rise for millennial workers was no surprise.

“Particularly in some areas now there are some skill shortages and organisations do need to pay more to get talent,” Rogers said.

Particular roles, especially those relating to technology jobs, were seeing increasing demand.

The rise could also be down to more young people choosing to go into apprenticeships for trades where they could earn more earlier in their career, he said.

“There is a shortage in highly skilled tradespeople.”

The 40s is still the golden age for earners – the time when most people earn the most throughout their careers.

Those aged between 40 and 44 earn the highest amount compared with all other age brackets - a weekly average of $1318 before tax, down $7 from earlier in the year, recorded at $1325.

The Inland Revenue Department is working on guidelines for the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies and may regard it as similar to the proceeds of gold bullion sales that had been held for profit. An IRD spokesman said preparatory work “is under way on issuing public guidance regarding the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies”.

The department declined to comment on the implications for creditors of Bitcoinica, the Aucklandbased currency trader put into liquidation in 2012, with the spokesman saying it was unable to comment because the liquidation of the offshore company that held much of its assets is ongoing.

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Long Island Iced Tea Group, a business part-owned by expatriate New Zealand businessman Eric Watson, has tapped into the cryptocurrency craze by changing its name to Long Blockchain Group.

Blockchain is the technology behind the Bitcoin phenomenon, enabling any type of encrypted data – from electronic money to medical records – to be shared between members of a closed network.

Watson filed the name change with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on December 6 under Cullen Holdings, the parent company of the business.

Watson, whose fortune was estimated at $420 million in the National Business Review Rich List this year, entered into an agreement in early 2015 to merge his United States dairy farming venture Cullen Agricultural with the Long Island Iced Tea Corp.

The combined business was

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It’s a time to start some new traditions Matt Markham

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hristmas is so often about traditions and this year we get to make a new one here in the Ashburton District.

For as long as any of us probably care to remember we’ve been dragging ourselves out to the Ashburton Racecourse on Boxing Day to enjoy the fun of the Boxing Day races.

Anyone who does that this year is in for a bit of a shock though, because there will be nothing there.

A change in date will see the meeting held tomorrow, on Christmas Eve with a 1pm start and in wanting to start new traditions while still paying homage to the old ones, it should be a great family day out.

While it’s a shame that we no longer have that iconic Boxing Day date, at least we still get the chance to get out to the races and enjoy a day out and to relax before the hustle and bustle of the following day.

So, if you have nothing to do on Christmas Eve, head on out to the track – there’s a gold coin donation for entry and it’s all going to the Ashburton Branch of the Cancer Society and I can guarantee you won’t be bored with plenty of action both on and off the track.

Today also marks the last day that we print before Christmas and we don’t print on Christmas Day. So, I want to take the opportunity to wish all of our readers a really awesome, simply Kiwi and happy Christmas on Monday. Enjoy the day with your loved ones, eat far too much and don’t be afraid to have a cold one if the weather is going to be as warm as what they are suggesting.

But most of all, please be safe out there.

Don’t get in the car if you’ve had a few and be cautious if you’re out on the water.

It would be the best gift ever to get through these next couple of weeks without losing one of our own to some form of tragedy. It’s a story we don’t want to write and a story I’m sure you don’t want to have to tell.

Feliz Navidad.

The major moments of 2017

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he Political Oscar of the Year goes, entirely unopposed, to Andrew Little.

He, you will recall, put party and country firmly before personal ambition.

On August 1, with the Labour Party showing a meagre 26 per cent in the polls, he knew he was not destined to become Prime Minister of Aotearoa, New Zealand, and the Labour Party was facing a fourth, successive, humiliating defeat.

So, for the sake of that party, for which he has worked all his life, he decided his resignation was required and someone else appointed, who might have more rapport with the electorate.

Thus, the appearance on the scene of “the girl with the winning smile” and the twinkling teeth, the melter of the hardest of hearts, – perhaps, even, a latter day, “Queen of Hearts” – Jacinda Ardern. Within hours, Jacindamania was breaking out all over the country; people were falling over themselves to contribute to the party and, in a matter of six short weeks, Jacinda was our youngest, bestlooking Prime Minister in the nation’s history.

All the work of the selfless Andrew Little, who should clearly receive a knighthood for his noble gesture, and quickly, before the-party-he-loves abolishes such baubles.

The Political Cold Porridge Oscar, meanwhile, goes, just as certainly, to Winston Peters Having, by dint of his party’s

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puny percentage of the vote, found himself on September 23, or thereabouts, holding the balance of power – a position he had coveted with unashamed greed since the last election – Winston, supposedly, went into negotiation with Labour and National as to which of those supine supplicants he would bless with his support.

The playing field was said to be level and it was simply a question of which of the suitors could generate sufficient flattery to win him over.

But (genuine “shock”, “horror”) it turns out that the legendary playing field was not level at all. Two days before we all went to the polling booths, (and entirely unbeknownst to us) Winston had brought charges against various senior members of the National Party, whom he accused of leaking to the media details of the irregularities of his pension, a state of affairs that, apparently, had existed for sometime.

Thus the chances of his dealing objectively with the negotiating representations of National were nil from the start.

When this information came,

at last, to light, after Peters had finally descended from his mountain and made plain his decision to go with Labour, the media at once described it as Winston’s “Utu” on the National Party.

From the start of these artificially prolonged discussions (by Winston, of course, while he supposedly wrestled with his conscience and the longterm good of the nation) there was only ever going to be one outcome.

It was, in fact, an exercise in sustained and deliberate deception by a cynical politician on the make. His reward, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and all this for a man who once, famously, claimed to be strongly opposed to the baubles of office.

Yeah right, Winston. We believe you; we really do.

So cold porridge seems a suitable reminder of his duplicity though some might feel boiling oil likely to be more effective.

The Flawed System Oscar goes once more to the Kiwi version of MMP, Mixed Member Proportional. Again it was tried and, as ever, found wanting.

If a party with the highest percentage of the vote and the most numerous group of MPs does not qualify, in its own right to be at least, and automatically, offered the chance to form a government, then “transparent” – which we are constantly urged to be in these days of rabid political correctness – democracy is the big loser. It is, in fact,

more than that; it is a travesty.

Finally – though we could all name our own choices in this year-end summary – there is an Oscar for the most promising, emerging Member/Minister.

In my opinion, she has to be American-born, New Zealandassimilated, Julie-Anne Genter.

As associate Minister of Transport she has already shown a hard-nosed approach, delivered with a heart-warming smile and an alluring United States twang, which augurs well for her time on the stage of Kiwi politics.

It is my guess she will be a force for good, common sense and well aware of the art of the possible, the essence of all good politics.

So there we have it. Our parliamentary representatives are currently about to enjoy their Yuletide rest and recreation. But not for long. Soon the Beehive will once again echo to the sounds of raised voices and passionate perorations while our new Speaker, the breathtakingly ill-qualified Trevor Mallard, struggles to keep order.

He may find it easier to order his own exit from the House.

After all, he is very used to it.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

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Watch out for Santa, he could give you a fright!

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was the night before Christmas and all things were quiet, apart from Uncle Henry who was obliterating his diet.

As he stood in the kitchen with the fridge door open, he drooled at the pavlova secretly hoping, that no one would notice if he took a bite, along with seven slices of ham for a snack that night.

Then came the sound of some gumboots on the floor, and the turn of a key in the old back door.

Who should walk in on this hot summer Christmas night, but Santa himself giving poor Uncle Henry a fright.

He dropped the pav which crashed to the floor, and reached out to get a grip on the open fridge door.

Instead he pulled it too hard as he went down, causing it to topple onto the ’70’s lino so dirty and brown.

On top of the fridge was a bottle of scotch and an old weetbix tin, with the ashes of Aunt Bertha contained within.

They flew through the air like a North Korean missile and landed on top of the partially blind worm infested cat called Frizzle.

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Who howled in pain then took off going the clappers, and bowled headlong straight into poor Santa’s knackers!

He grunted in pain, it was almost mute, then keeled over and lost his left gumboot.

It flew out the door and whistled past the leaky garden hose, only to land on Rudolph’s over sensitive reindeer nose.

The boot bounced off and flew through the night, smashing Uncle Henry’s one and only outdoor solar light.

Now Rudolph was strong and big but his nose was his archilles heel, the weight of Santa’s boot he could certainly feel.

It caused him to kick and jump faster and faster, which set off the nervous twins, Dancer and Prancer.

This jostled the sleigh and caused it to slide and break loose, down the driveway like a

maniacal Mother Goose.

As Rudolph settled down and tried to calm his best friend Dancer, the overloaded sleigh slammed into Uncle Henry’s 1979 Mitsubishi Lancer.

With the handbrake off and not being an auto, the Lancer set off backwards in the moonlight glow.

It rolled down the drive and across the road, onto Widow Ramsbottom’s garden, crushing her gnomes.

She heard the kerfuffle and wobbled out the door, to be confronted by her favourite gnome whose head was no more.

Upset and indignant she phoned the cops, who were down at the all-night dairy buying Fru Ju Iceblocks.

They arrived at the scene to begin their investigation, just as Santa walked out with only one boot and a face of consternation.

He needed something cold to cool the heat down below, spied the Fru Jus and thought he’d give them a go.

With a flick of the wrist he shoved them into his sparkly red suit, and turned around to look for his boot.

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Fru Ju to make an icepack nappy.

He went for the taser but missed completely with his 50,000 volts, instead striking Widow Ramsbottom with the equivalent of a year’s worth of lightning bolts.

She lit up brighter than her neighbours’ Warehouse Christmas tree, and toppled over sideways on her artificial knee.

And that’s the scene that greeted the paramedics on Hayworth Street, a fried out granny, off her feet.

A Santa with swollen knackers like ripe golden grapefruit, mumbling something about a missing gumboot.

A dazed Uncle Henry looking for his Lancer normally parked near the climbing rose, and a Eurasian Tundra Reindeer with a shiny red nose.

So if you should feel hungry in the middle of the night, watch out for Santa, he could give you a fright!

Peter Livingstone is the principal of Tinwald School. The views expressed in this column are his and do not represent the views of his school, the Ashburton Guardian or the Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association.

Babies – tiny, but life changing B

abies, most of us love them, they are cute and adorable, who wouldn’t want to pick them up and cuddle them.

Babies have been very much part of my life this year. Three families that I am close to have welcomed a baby into their life.

And as I held each of these children in my arms I looked into their eyes and thought “Oh little child what does the future hold for you, who are you destined to be”.

You see each child is a gift of God. A precious parcel of potential and love given to us to love and nurture. Sadly, not every child is fortunate to live in an environment that sees them nurtured, loved and helped to reach their full potential.

With Christmas upon us I was thinking back over the past few months as I have watched these little ones grow and start

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to show signs of their personality and I wondered what Jesus’ parents thought as they held him for the first time.

Did they hope he would grow up to be a loving and kind person, did they hope he would make a difference in the world, did they pray he would live a good long life, being a model citizen and giving them grandchildren?

Possibly they did, as that is what most parents hope for.

We can tick the boxes to say that he was kind and loving, made a difference in the world and continued to down the centuries and he was a model citizen.

While his life was not particu-

larly long, especially in today’s terms. and he didn’t give them grandchildren, yet through his life and teachings we have the most thrilling message humankind as ever heard.

That first Christmas a tiny fragile little baby was born that would change the world. Martin Luther recalled that when he went into his classroom his teacher bowed to the students and when asked “why?” he replied, “I am bowing to the future leaders of this community” and they were just young children.

As long as there are babies in the world, there is a great hope for the world.

So, this Christmas as you remember the birth of Jesus may you be reminded of the potential that lies in every baby and the life they are nurtured to live.

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■ ENGLAND

Paedo ringleader jailed The head of a paedophile ring whose members live-streamed each other while subjecting young children to sickening abuse has been handed nine life sentences.

Michael Emerton, who went by the name Ginger Beak on dating app Grindr, also used Skype and TruNude to establish the depraved network with five other men, who would then transmit the sexual images to each other by videolink.

On several occasions 33-year-old Emerton arranged to meet his accomplices to take part in sex acts in front of children, the Daily Mail reports.

He was arrested in November 2016 after Hertfordshire Police had been tipped-off by another force.

He admitted 20 offences earlier this year, including four counts of rape of a child and three of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and was given seven life sentences as a result.

Emerton, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, later admitted further offences including conspiring with the other defendants in order to rape, commit sexual activity with a child or engage in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

He was given a further two life sentences.

The judge said he had caused psychological trauma to the children who will face a “lifetime of difficulties”.

Other members of the gang included Matthew Webby, 30, from Hemel Hempstead, Robert Lindsay, 39, from Markyate, Paul Stevens, 54, from Northchurch, Simon Wintle, 44, from Hemel Hempstead and Thomas Perry, 28, from Northchurch.

Stevens was sentenced to 10 years with a five year licence extension, Webby was sentenced to nine years with a five year licence extension, Lindsay was sentenced to five years three months with a three year licence extension, Wintle was sentenced to two years six months.

Perry will be sentenced on January 24.

Judge Michael Kay QC told

Paedophile ringleader Michael Emerton. the perverts their crimes were so shocking they undermined his faith in humanity.

He said: “It is a sad feature of life as a judge in the criminal court, and for others involved in the criminal justice system such as the police, the lawyers and the probation officers, that one has time and again to read about and sift through the evidence and detail of sexual depravity, very often involving children.

“Even within this field of appalling and sickening abuse, there is from time to time a case which is so shocking that it undermines one’s faith in humanity.

“This is one such case.

“Never before have I read a police summary of a case

which begins with a warning that the reader should be very wary of the content due to the abhorrent nature of the offending.”

The police investigation, codenamed Operation Pendent, was the largest ever conducted by the Hertfordshire Child Online Safeguarding Team (COST).

Chief Inspector Dee Perkins said after the sentencing: “This was an extensive inquiry which resulted in the sharing of intelligence with more than 50 other law enforcement agencies.

“Emerton, the paedophile at the centre of this investigation, mercilessly exploited children for his own sexual gratification and for those other men who he met online.

“The nine life sentences he has received reflect the disturbing nature of his actions.

Work is ongoing to support the victims and make sure they have the best possible chance of a normal life ahead.

“Not only was this a large and complex investigation but also one that involved working through a large amount of video evidence in which this group had documented their own horrific crimes.

“Our reward is to see these men behind bars today and for many years ahead.”

Helena Burman, Senior Crown Prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service said: “This case involved the serious and sustained sexual abuse of vulnerable young children by a ring of active paedophiles.

“The young age of the victims greatly increases the seriousness of the offences. As a result of the hard work and diligence of the prosecution team, and the strength of the evidence, four of the defendants pleaded guilty and the fifth was found guilty after trial.

“It is only due to the great courage of the victims that this abuse was brought to light, and the full extent of the despicable and lawless behaviour of these people revealed.

“I know that nothing can undo what happened to the victims, but I hope that the convictions and today’s sentences will give them, with the passage of time and appropriate support, at least a small sense that justice has been done.

“My thoughts are very much with them at this time.”

A spokesman for Hertfordshire Police said: “In one instance, intelligence was shared via the National Crime Agency with the Department of Homeland Securities about a potential offender in the USA. “The intelligence suggested there was an immediate risk of harm to a potential victim.

The suspect was detained in custody by American authorities within 48 hours of the evidence of offending being discovered in the UK.” - PA

Equal pay an issue In her tear-filled final goodbye, Catt Sadler spoke about what had been the peak of her two-decade career: a live entertainment news show called Daily Pop. “This experience for me at this table has been an absolute dream come true,” she said.

But her farewell left one pivotal question dangling: Why was she leaving her dream job so soon after reaching the top? The answer came a short time later in a post on Sadler’s personal blog that thrust the broadcaster into the ongoing debate about gender pay inequality in America.

An executive at the company informed her that her co-host was making nearly double what she made, even though they started at the network in the same year and were doing basically the same job.

Surprise in Hef’s will Hugh Hefner’s widow and children must stay away from drugs and spend responsibly if they want to inherit his fortune, new documents have revealed. The Playboy founder – who died in September aged 91 – stipulated in the trust document that if the beneficiaries to his estate frequently use illegal substances or become dependent on alcohol or any drugs, they will be suspended from the trust.

Beneficiaries listed are his wife Crystal and his children, Christie A Hefner, David Hefner, Marston Hefner and Cooper Hefner, according to the Daily Mail.

■ AUSTRALIA

Melbourne incident ‘a deliberate act’ Horrifying CCTV footage has captured the moment a man drove an SUV into a crowd of people at a busy Melbourne intersection.

At least 19 people – including one New Zealander – were injured when a white SUV driven by a 32-year-old with a history of drug use mounted a tram track and accelerated into pedestrians outside bustling Flinders St Station.

Video captured by nearby security cameras shows the Suzuki Grand Vitara pull out from a street park and head towards a large crowd of people crossing the street.

The car appears to accelerate as it approaches the crossing pedestrians and continues to charge through the crowds striking innocent people in its path.

The crowd can be seen to

disperse as bodies are flung onto the road after apparently being hit by the vehicle.

Witnesses at the scene described seeing bodies flying “like dolls” after being hit.

Police are treating the shocking incident as a “deliberate act”.

The driver, named by the Herald Sun as Saeed Noori, 32, has been revealed as having a history of mental illness and

drug use, and was on a mental health plan.

Speaking yesterday morning, Victoria Police acting chief commissioner Shane Patton said the man had a medical appointment booked on Thursday.

“He is on a mental health plan and he was due for an appointment yesterday, which he missed,” Mr Patton said in an interview.

- AAP

Pageant emails ‘appalling’ Dick Clark Productions says it has cut ties with the Miss America Organisation over internal emails by pageant senior leadership that ridiculed past winners’ appearance, intelligence and sex lives.

The Huffington Post reported yesterday that the Miss America Organisation’s CEO, Sam Haskell, exchanged emails with a writer for the televised pageant and others that included harsh and sometimes defamatory comments about past winners. Dick Clark Productions, which produces the nationally televised pageant broadcasts, tells The Associated Press it has cut ties with the pageant over the emails, calling them “appalling”.

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North Island hoop, Alysha Collett returns to scale at yesterday’s Ashburton Racing Club meeting with the impressive Riding Shotgun. The former black-type placed galloper was given a dream run off the speed by Collett through the feature race of the day and she joined in at the top of the straight and unwound stylishly to claim a comprehensive win. Riding Shotgun was one half of a training and riding double for Collett and Riccarton Park trainer, Terri Rae. They won earlier in the day with Shangold who was victorious in the first of the day. Apprentice jockey Tanya Jonker also claimed a riding double when she won on Windemere Lass and Bonaparte.

Results from yesterday’s Ashburton races The weather was fine and the track dead4 for the Ashburton Races at Ashburton yesterday.

RACE 1 - MOLLOY AGRICULTURE LIMITED MAIDEN 2100M, $10,000, 2100m 1-1 Shangold (2) A Collett 1 11-11 Bal Harbour (5) T Moseley 2 4-4 Painted Angel (1) G Jogoo 3 Scratched: El Bee Dancer, Nancy.

Also (in finishing order): 5-5 Dowry Duty, 1313 Fivewayeight, 6-6 Sulcifera, 14-14 Ticky Tu, 10-10 Jewell Of Jumeriah, 2-2 Louvres, 8-8 Bannock, 9-9 Oh Nova, 3-3 Oreo, 7-7 Beaver Las Vegas, 12-12 Molly Pond.

4L, Hd, 3-1/2L. Time: 2:11.59. Win: $1.90. Places: $1.30, $7.00, $3.50. Q: $41.50. Trifecta: $384.00 (2,5,1). First4: $3141.40 (2,5,1,9).

Trainer: Terri Rae, Riccarton. Breeding: 4 g Rip Van Winkle (IRE)-Lady Pay. RACE 2 - MCCORMICK SPRAYING MAIDEN 1400M, $10,000, 1400m 2-2 Dark Poppy (13) S Wynne 1 3-3 Zah Wanted (6) T Moseley 2 13-13 Mr Tool (5) B Hong 3 Scratched: Pinup Coup, Roullette, Troy Boy,

Epee, Galisini, Swiss Dream.

Also (in finishing order): 4-4 Mowenna, 1-1 Jin Lu, 8-7 Linedanceking, 11-11 Justrush, 6-6 Strad, 5-5 Platinum Raider, 9-10 Ferocious, 12-12 Ancient, 10-9 Zante, 7-8 Dale, 14-14 Skedaddle Skedoo.

Lg nk, 2L, 1/2L. Time: 1:24.58. Win: $5.30.

Places: $2.10, $2.40, $11.60. Quinella: $12.30.

Trifecta: $857.40 (13,6,5). First4: $4254.60 (13,6,5,11).

Tr: Champion/Murphy, Riccarton. Breeding: 3 f Burgundy-Gimmick.

RACE 3 - RITCHIE MCCREA PAINTERS AND DECORATORS O, $15000, 1400m 2-1 Riding Shotgun (1) A Collett 1 1-2 The Real Deal (5) B Hong 2 4-4 Maid Of Steel (2) M Cameron3 All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 5-5 Clara Jane, 3-3 Volcano.

1/2 nk, 4L, 2-3/4L. Time: 1:23.11. Win: $2.70.

Places: $1.30, $1.70. Quinella: $2.20. Trifecta: $15.10 (1,5,2). First4: $48.20 (1,5,2,4). Double: $13.90 (13/1), $4.70 (13/5+).

Trainer: Terri Rae, Riccarton. Breeding: 6 g Iffraaj (GB)-Exquisitely (AUS).

RACE 4 - R D PETROLEUM RATING 65 1400M, $10,000, 1400m 8-8 Windermere Lass (14) T Jonker 1 11-11 Minutes To Midnite (12) P Shaik 2 6-6 Masabio (3) K Mudhoo 3 Scratched: Whackomaco.

Also (in finishing order): 1-1 Ruby Row, 7-7 Zayzay, 2-2 Cinderella, 12-12 Kowhai Kerry, 10-9 Abraxos, 4-5 Tuilana, 5-4 Stitch, 13-13 Lady Em, 3-3 Lay Off, 9-10 Tenfold.

Nse, 1L, Hd. Time: 1:23.93. Win: $16.50. Places: $4.60, $10.40, $3.60. Quinella: $192.10.

Trifecta: $5177.70 (14,12,3). First4: $4813.40 (14,12,3,2). Quaddie: $705.60 (2+/13/1/14).

Treble: $423.00 (13/1/14).

Trainer: John Blackadder, Rangiora. Breeding: 6 m Alamosa-Windy City.

RACE 5 - NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE F&M MAID, $12,000, 1200m 5-5 Vendima (4) H Bennet 1 3-3 Khorabella (3) M Cameron 2 13-13 Three Shots (16) T Jonker 3

Scratched: Miacoca, Buffalo Rose, Known To Flirt, Firestarter, Hand Of Aces.

Also (in finishing order): 9-9 To Love You, 7-7 Sammi Lou, 1-1 Madam Swiss, 6-6 Rockapan, 4-4 Lake Chalice, 2-2 Anzac Coup, 11-12 Miss Diorella, 8-8 Mahana, 10-10 Our Nina, 12-11 Mystical Eyes.

1/2L, 1/2L, 3/4L. Time: 1:12.0. Win: $11.80.

Places: $3.50, $2.40, $11.50. Quinella: $34.70.

Trifecta: $2893.80 (4,3,16). First4: $28894.50 (4,3,16,8). Double: $151.30 (14/4), $40.30 (14/3).

Trainer: Neill Ridley, Riccarton. Breeding: 4 m Sebring (AUS)-Crystal Fairy (AUS).

RACE 6 - HINDS RIDGE FARM, STACKHOUSE FARMING CO, $11,000, 1200m 1-1 Bonaparte (3) T Jonker 1 9-9 Elusive Boxers (8) T Moseley 2 8-8 Flytime (5) K Mudhoo 3 Scratched: Sacred Desire.

Also (in finishing order): 3-3 Fully Charged, 2-2 Mr Conductor, 6-6 Hot Tempo, 4-5 Twinkles, 7-7 El Bee Darci, 5-4 Mulberry.

2L, Hd, 1L. Time: 1:10.5. Win: $3.50. Places:

$1.60, $6.50, $4.00. Q: $52.00. Tri: $817.60 (3,8,5). First4: $6254.90 (3,8,5,10).

Trainer: K & P Hughes, Riccarton. Breeding: 5 g Showcasing (GB)-Normandy Lass.

RACE 7 - BEVAN, GILBERT AND NORM RATING 65 2100M, $10,000, 2100m 4-4 Larrikin (1) K Williams 1 3-1 Pickup (5) C Johnson 2 9-9 Sunset Girl (8) T Jonker `3 Scratched: Nancy.

Also (in finishing order): 5-5 Opihi Jade, 1010 Hell Bound, 1-2 Taxihome, 2-3 Suzerain, 6-7 Precious Percy, 14-14 Feral Ice, 7-6 Royal Road, 12-11 Fergie, 11-12 Mystery Man, 8-8 Lookherepal, 13-13 Bahhare Babe.

Lg nk, 2L, 1/2L. Time: 2:10.36. Win: $8.20.

Places: $2.60, $2.00, $5.70. Quinella: $31.10.

Trifecta: $1330.50 (1,5,8). First4: $8023.40 (1,5,8,4). Quaddie: $11297.20 (14/4/3+/1).

Place6: $4628.80 (5,6,13/1,5+/3,12,14/3,4,16 /3+,5,8/1,5,8). Double: $25.90 (3+/1), $9.00 (3+/5). Treble: $425.70 (4/3+/1).

Trainer: Robyn Mauger, Rangiora. Breeding: 5 g Raise The Flag (GB)-Wunderfein.

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Saturday, December 23, 2017 Left – Amelia McKeown is all concentration on her way to winning the 12-year-old girls’ singles title at the age group championships.

February 2017 At the end of each year, Guardian staff choose the best of the year’s photos to share with you all and reminisce.

Above – The Mid Canterbury Tennis side claimed its fourth consecutive Browning Shield.

Right – Gerard O’Reilly returns at the head of the pack after winning the time-honoured Sapling Stakes with Cole Porter.

Above – Huge numbers turned out to compete in the annual Mt Somers Mountain Bike Challenge.

Bob Riseley blows out the candles on his 90th birthday cake ahead of his usual Saturday afternoon tennis match.

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Weekend Sports Box A look ahead to the sporting weekend, with a glance back over the shoulder at the week that was.

On the couch . . .

The Black Caps were in cruise control on Wednesday against the West Indies, but for entertainment’s sake let’s hope it is not the same today when they clash at the Hagley Oval. Without Williamson and Southee the teams look slightly more even, and it should be worth parking up on the couch for a watch.

Out and about …

It might not be the same old Boxing Day races, but Sunday’s meeting at the Ashburton Racecourse should be an entertaining day out, and with it being angled as one for the kids, should be a lot of fun.

The punt . . .

Colin Munro let the gang down on Wednesday, finishing up as the second highest run-scorer, so this week we are

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Pic of the week . . .

The All Blacks released this delightful infographic for all the stats nerds out there earlier in the week, summing up the year that has been. However, it doesn’t take an eagle eyed reader to question who Sam Kane (Cane) is racking up all those tackles, or why they played a game in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (against Whales maybe?)

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Fight deal ‘close’ Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn says the Joseph Parker v Anthony Joshua fight will likely be signed after Christmas.

Speaking overnight, Hearn said the deal for a world heavyweight unification bout was close for next year but not quite done yet.

“Will we get an announcement before the turn of the year? I’d like one,” Hearn told IFL TV. “We’re close with Joseph Parker, the deal’s not done yet. We’re drafting paper work, it’s a very long process, it’s very complicated.

“We have had good conversations … with David Higgins.

“He’s done a great job in pushing this fight and I believe he’s got a great deal for his fighter as well.”

The Herald understands Parker’s promoter Higgins has agreed a $12 million purse for the 25-year-old.

It will probably be held in Cardiff on March 31.

“This is the fight we want,” Hearn added.

“This is the only fight where someone is being remotely realistic. And why? Because Joseph Parker wants the scalp of Anthony Joshua.

“Others talk about it.

“Joseph Parker wants this fight because he believes he can beat Anthony Joshua and he knows if he wins this fight he be-

Joseph Parker comes the biggest star in the sport.

“That’s why he’s taking this fight and by the way he’s going to get a fortune for it as well.”

Hearn added of Joshua: “People talk about ‘oh he’s got a weak chin’, and he’s vulnerable, yeah – I’ll tell you what, you get in the ring with this monster.

“He’s a beast and he’s improving every day and he’s hungrier than ever to take these guys out.

“And he wants to take Joseph Parker and Deontay Wilder out of the game.” - NZME

Christmas Eve Sunday, December 24 Ashburton Racecourse First race 1.02 pm going to have a wee crack at a horse running around on Sunday at Ashburton.

James Dean has had two back to back second place finishes and ran well in both, so we fancy him to take home the Ashburton Cup in race six, with a nice little $5 each way to see him home for a return.

Pool: $45

The gambler . . . $100 NBA Multi wins $17,518.00 A big comeback from the Indiana Pacers helped this punter collect almost $20K from their NBA Multi.

Sacramento v Toronto - Winning Team & Margin: Toronto 11 & Over @ $2.20

Quote of the week . . .

Time to take a little look back over the sporting year that has been in the terms of sporting quotes, and we turn to Australian tennis brat Nick Kyrgios. “He probably deserves a player that is probably more dedicated to the game than I am. I’m not dedicated to the game at all,” Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios on his relationship with coach Sebastien Grosjean.

Family Fun day at the Races. Admission gold coin donation with proceeds to local branch of Cancer Society.

Free race book, live music and plenty of activities for the kids.

Question of the week …

What finger did young NRL player Angus Crichton have amputated so that he would be able to play at the start of next season?

Answer: The middle finger on his left hand.

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Ashburton Trotting Club Inc Venue: Ashburton Raceway Meeting Date: 24 Dec 2017 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 1.02pm GARY MCCORMICK TRANSPORT MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ mob. pace, 2400m 1 04 Lilac Star (1) fr ........................ M Williamson 2 0 Chain Reaction (2) fr ...................T McMillan 3 00x0 Katies Nightmare (3) fr 4 47764 Awayovernight (4) fr .............M Anderson (J) 5 63P7x Nicky Anew (5) fr .................... J Morrison (J) 6 x5502 One Off (6) fr ...................................J W Cox 7 20 To Ri Elsie (7) fr .................................R May 8 900 Westburn Bliss (8) fr......................R Holmes 9 00 Lei Miss (9) fr ............................... S McNally 10 Prestonpans (21) fr .............................B Butt 11 Anytime (22) fr ..................................J Dunn 12 x2725 Betterthanspraying (23) fr ..............T Chmiel 13 336 Direct Control (24) fr .....................B Orange 14 3 That Alexander Guy (25) fr..........C DeFilippi 15 Officialdon (26) fr ............................. D Dunn Emergency: Katies Nightmare 2 1.37 PAVILIONS HOTEL MEMORY OF JOHN ROLLINSON PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ pace, 2400m 1 64055 Magical Matty (1) fr ...................... A Lethaby 2 02329 Like Ya More (2) fr ................... L McCormick 3 76766 Awaytocullect (3) fr ................ O Thornley (J) 4 9 Gotta Future (4) fr ............................ D Dunn 5 08x45 Spinatale (5) fr ..............................L O’Reilly 6 Px Social Media (6) fr ................... S O’Reilly (J) 7 Yankee Xmas (7) fr....................... S McNally 8 6x6 Homebush Lad (8) fr ...........................B Butt 9 6 Morven Lass (9) fr ...........................J W Cox 10 359 Megagem (10) fr ...........................B Orange 11 50300 Mega Watt (11) fr ........................C DeFilippi 12 Art Collector (12) fr ...................... G O’Reilly 13 3 Immortal Change (13) fr...................S Ottley 14 To Ri Caitlin (14) fr .............................R May 15 56000 I’m Sick Of Excuses (15) fr..............R Curtin

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05310 Kiwi On Show (3) fr .......................R Holmes 84474 Highland Reign (4) fr ........................ D Dunn 49411 Black Regal Princess (5) fr ..............R Close 54404 Amazon Lily (6) fr ..........................B Orange 33118 Lovetodream (7) fr.............................J Dunn x1651 Delishka (8) fr.......................... M Williamson 3110x Nek Time (9) fr ...............................T Chmiel 10 6.04pm PAPER PLUS ASHBURTON PACE $8500, 3yo+ up to & including r55 pace, stand, 2400m 1 6350x Handsome Hero (1) fr .................. G O’Reilly 2 100x Courageous Becqui (2) fr ................ G Smith 3 15094 Liberal Arden (3) fr .........................T Chmiel 4 04408 Earthbound (4) fr...........................L O’Reilly 5 50210 Vinny Gambini (5) fr ......................... D Dunn 6 8501x Dodge Phoenix (6) fr ...................T McMillan 7 96647 Bound To Impress (7) fr................J Versteeg 8 88725 Zahara Zuri (8) fr ...........................B Orange 9 90x36 Franco Lamar (9) fr ............................R May 10 40475 Lauragrace (10) fr ..................... L McKay (J) 11 77010 Just N Awe (11) fr .......................C DeFilippi 12 0x1x3 Motu Hot Topic (12) fr.......................... J Hay 13 0x170 Summer Wealth (13) fr ......................J Dunn Colin deFilippi is down to drive Pi- Pacifiers on : Shardan Suzie (R5), The Dominator (R8) rate Bay in the Ashburton Guardian/ LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - UnAshburton App Pace tomorrow. ruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down 14 0376x Bonnie Highlander (14) fr ..................J Dunn NZME SELECTIONS 15 08079 Don’t Look Back fr........................ Scratched 16 x5067 Kai Time (15) fr ......................... M Edmonds Race 1: Prestonpans, One Off, Anytime, Lilac Star 17 32286 Ruthless Kayla (1) 10 .......................S Ottley Race 2: Like Ya More, Homebush Lad, Immortal Change 18 D8030 Soney Beatt (2) 10 ...S Tomlinson (J) Race 3: Lightning Strike, Matai Minky, Heisenberg, Rollova 19 22099 The Dominator (U1) 10 ................ S McNally Race 4: Show Of Faith, Mystical Star, Regal Aspirant, Ed Wood Race 5: Belle Of Brooklyn, Santanna Mach, Gore Bay Em: Rocknpop, Don’t Look Back, Ruthless Kayla 9 5.31 PLAYTIME PROMOTIONS/PRODIGAL SEEL- Race 6: Mongolian Hero, James Dean, Raukapuka Ruler STER MBL PACE $12,000, 4yo+ mares up to & includ- Race 7: Mac Almighty, Pirate Bay, Ace High, Cole Porter Race 8: Rebel Kibbybones, Time For Diamonds, Eden Creek ing r90 mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 0x827 Going To California (1) fr ............... K Butt (J) Race 9: Lovetodream, Delishka, Nek Time, Kiwi On Show 2 0x853 Bird Of Paradise (2) fr ..................... G Smith Race 10: Vinny Gambini, Motu Hot Topic, Courageous Becqui

Tomorrow at Cambridge Raceway

Waikato Bay Of Plenty Harness Inc Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 24 Dec 2017 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11

1 2.21pm (GRASS TRACK RACING @ THAMES 13TH JAN MOBILE PACE $9000, 4yo+ r40 to r60 mob. pace jun.d, mobile, 2700m 1 39596 Marquis Eyre (1) fr .................M Johnson (J) 2 87994 Valmara (2) fr ......................... A Harrison (J) 3 85705 Flash Boy (3) fr.........................N Purdon (J) 4 46230 Waingaro Mara (4) fr ............ D Ferguson (J) 5 9x068 R Gee Three (5) fr ....................J Wallace (J) 6 26185 Stand Sure (6) fr ................... T Cameron (J) 7 33283 Kaitlyn (7) fr............................. T Fensom (J) 8 932x6 Hezaluckygrinner (8) fr............... A Drake (J) 9 x6038 Jamieson Shard (21) fr ...... J MacKinnon (J) 10 x5624 Vanhalem (22) fr ...................... N Delany (J) 11 71545 Brookies Prince (23) fr .....F Schumacher (J) 12 18475 Ardent Lustre (24) fr ................ B Butcher (J) 13 x8800 Johnny Podres (U1) fr ................R Argue (J) 2 2.56pm ALFRESCO BITES AT CAMBRIDGE RACEWAY MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r59 to r77 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 21328 Italian Delight (1) fr.........................T Herlihy 2 23481 Glenferrie Duster (2) fr ...................S Phelan 3 9x043 New York Rain (3) fr .......................J I Dickie 4 57735 Count Landeck (4) fr ................ M McKendry 5 4x6P4 Spare Change (5) fr ......................P Butcher 6 187x7 Lockyer (6) fr ............................. S E Butcher 7 18161 Emily Blunt (7) fr ...........................T Mitchell 8 9x217 Culpeka (8) fr ............................... B Mangos 9 511x Parker (21) fr .................................Z Butcher 10 51261 Black Chevron (22) fr ................ J Abernethy 11 14156 Dance Time (23) fr ....................... D Butcher 12 71266 Delightful Zen (24) fr ............... B Butcher (J) 13 44219 Red Magic (25) fr .....................N Purdon (J) 3 3.29 GRASS TRACK RACING@TE AWAMUTU 20 JAN TROT $9500, non-winners 3yo+ trot, stand, 2200m

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3 2.12pm SPRAYMARKS GROUP 2YO MOBILE PACE CUP HANDICAP PACE $22,000, r85 & faster discrhcp pace, stand, 3200m $10,000, 2yo mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 27x83 Eamon Maguire (1) fr ......................J W Cox 1 Matai Minky (1) fr ........................C DeFilippi 2 44x06 Raukapuka Ruler (2) fr..................... D Dunn 2 Rollova (2) fr.........................M Anderson (J) 3 P1434 Mongolian Hero (3) fr ....................B Orange 3 Heisenberg (3) fr ...............................J Dunn 4 18214 Micky Gee (4) fr ...............................S Ottley 4 Spot On (4) fr ................................... D Dunn 5 53622 James Dean (5) fr .........................L O’Reilly 5 McCarron Knight (5) fr ....................M Jones 6 72073 Robbie Burns (U1) fr .........................J Dunn 6 Lightning Strike (6) fr.....................B Orange 7 x6761 Art Union (1) 10 .................................. J Hay 7 Shamrock Bromac (7) fr ............... G O’Reilly 8 Ragnarr (8) fr ......................................B Butt 8 16934 Maverick (2) 10 ...........................N McGrath 4 2.47pm T.F. PEARSON MEMORIAL TROT $8000, 9 3L888 Seel The Deal (3) 10 ..........................R May 7 4.25 ASHBURTON GUARDIAN/ASHBURTON APP non-winners 3yo+ trot, stand, 2400m 1 38x Beat The Heat (1) fr ........................J W Cox MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r57 to r70 mob. pace, 2 7P Regal Aspirant (2) fr ...........................R May mobile, 2400m 1 13077 Zimfandel (1) fr ........................ S O’Reilly (J) 3 88583 Mystical Star (3) fr ..........................M House 2 02350 Clive (2) fr................................ C R Thornley 4 0 Midnight Memories (4) fr ........... M Edmonds 3 95524 Pirate Bay (3) fr ...........................C DeFilippi 5 50 Peggy Nova (5) fr ......................... J Wheeler 4 6x454 Distinctive Del (4) fr ...................... S McNally 6 060 Aldebaran Bonny (6) fr ................C DeFilippi 5 00x26 Havinaravup (5) fr ................S Tomlinson (J) 7 07077 Thank U George (7) fr .................. P Wakelin 6 x3302 Mac Almighty (6) fr ........................ K Butt (J) 8 76072 Show Of Faith (8) fr ...........................G Hunt 7 20717 Cole Porter (7) fr .......................... G O’Reilly 9 70684 Ed Wood (9) fr ......................... L McCormick 8 1221x Ace High (8) fr .................................. D Dunn 10 00500 Red Harbour (U1) fr ....................... K James 9 77686 Christopher Banner (9) fr ...................R May 11 89xP0 Always Away (U2) fr .........................R Close 12 70908 Muscle Pat (U3) fr ........................ S McNally 10 1990x Cable Beach (21) fr .......................B Orange 4.58pm W.J. DOYLE MEMORIAL HANDICAP TROT 5 3.21pm HANLEY FORMULA MOBILE PACE $8500, 8$9000, r40 to r59 spechcp trot, stand, 2400m 3yo+ r50 to r56 mob. pace, mobile, 2400m 1 00850 Princess Harbour (1) fr................C DeFilippi 1 950x0 Sacred Angel (1) fr .................... R Houghton 2 52154 Rebel Kibbybones (2) fr ...................... J Hay 2 88500 Sicilian Secret (2) fr....................I Schwamm 3 08220 Sea Rover (3) fr...........................T McMillan 3 61447 Belle Of Brooklyn (3) fr.....................S Ottley 4 5x380 Wot Up (4) fr..................................B Orange 4 13x29 Some Legend (4) fr .......................... D Dunn 5 00030 Highland Star (5) fr.................. M Williamson 5 41x0x Casino King (5) fr ......................... G O’Reilly 6 05784 Rusty I Am (6) fr ........................... P Wakelin 6 55127 Gore Bay (6) fr ............................N McGrath 7 34072 Time For Diamonds (7) fr ................... J Ford 7 614x6 Kotare Elite (7) fr ...........................R Holmes 8 73873 Eden Creek (8) fr ...........................T Chmiel 8 55188 Dibaba (8) fr ...................................T Chmiel 9 8360x Justamollyarcher (9) fr ..................R Jenkins 9 92172 Santanna Mach (9) fr ....................B Orange 10 42917 Didjabringthebeers (10) fr ...............J W Cox 10 20x00 Sails (U1) fr ..................................... G Smith 11 80050 Rocknpop (11) fr ............................... C Ford 11 0400x Shardan Suzie (U2) fr ............... C McDowell 12 35935 No Fears (12) fr ............................ G O’Reilly 6 3.52pm ROBBIES BAR & BISTRO ASHBURTON 13 77015 Paradise Spur (13) fr ............... C D Thornley

1 0 Peggy Spur (1) fr ....................... S E Butcher 2 P3452 Swinging (2) fr ................................T Herlihy 3 7x468 Amabede (3) fr ........................ B Butcher (J) 4 221x2 Star Of Olesya (4) fr .......................J I Dickie 5 29599 Sequoia (5) fr .............................. K Marshall 6 5636x Phoebe Gem (6) fr ................... N Delany (J) 7 08 Georgias Crown (7) fr ......F Schumacher (J) 8 Miss Blissful (8) fr..........................P Butcher 9 34Fx Just Anything (U1) fr ............... T Macfarlane 10 24920 Secretofthesea Smile (U2) fr.........T Mitchell 11 90 John Luke Jones (U3) fr............... D Butcher 12 86363 Commando One (U4) fr ..............A Poutama 13 70663 Jewel Of Shebar (U5) fr ...............T Williams 4 4.02 P&M QUALITY PAINTERS MOBILE PACE $9500, non-winners 3yo+ f&m mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 x2068 Shenandoah (1) fr 2 80x29 A Lister (2) fr 3 50 Kundana Gold (3) fr.......................N Chilcott 4 47 Pocket Miss (4) fr ......................... W Fausett 5 76x09 Delightful Dani (5) fr ...................R Argue (J) 6 Yasmine Bromac (6) fr.................. D Butcher 7 0484 The Peacemaker (7) fr ..................P Butcher 8 x4225 Lerato fr........................................ Scratched 9 9x Western Zephyr (21) fr .......................L Neal 10 90 Magical Miss (22) fr........................S Phelan 11 36422 CD Express (23) fr ......................A Poutama 12 0275 Super Change (24) fr ....................Z Butcher 13 Encryption (25) fr 5 4.35 GRASS TRACK RACING TAURANGA 28 JAN HCPTROT $10,000, r56 to r67 spechcp, stand, 2200m 1 9x891 Pretorius (1) fr ........................... J Abernethy 2 41255 Mortician (2) fr.............................. B Mangos 3 38127 Sir Henry Castleton (3) fr ....... A Harrison (J) 4 07640 Monseigneur (4) fr............F Schumacher (J) 5 59288 The Last Gamble (U1) fr ...............N Chilcott 6 28007 Grey Stoke (U2) fr ......................P Ferguson 7 22289 Tereskova (1) 10 ................................L Chin 8 45713 Danke (2) 10 ............................... K Marshall 9 4442P George (3) 10.......................... T Macfarlane

6 5.08 RELAY FOR LIFE CAMBRIDGE MOBILE PACE $9500, non-winners 3yo+ mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 6x582 Shadow Maker (1) fr......................T Mitchell 2 The Ancient One (2) fr 3 64388 Marrera (3) fr 4 77233 Spirit Of Anzac (4) fr .....................P Butcher 5 x4533 Toro Delago (5) fr .......................P Ferguson 6 Yankee Lincoln (6) fr .....................Z Butcher 7 Boston Bay (7) fr 8 Erik (8) fr 9 8 Cullen’s Caviar (21) fr .................. D Butcher 10 97843 Hunter Red (22) fr .......................A Poutama 11 6x6 Happy Place (23) fr ........................T Herlihy 12 69x9x Lite Giovani (24) fr.......................M Nicholas 13 88604 Inforthefight (25) fr .................. T Macfarlane 14 46959 Rainbow Wiri (U1) fr .................. J Abernethy

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7 5.41pm DUNSTAN MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r53 to r56 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 53445 Whale Rider (1) fr...........................S Phelan 2 11708 Jude’s Gem (2) fr .......................A Matthews Zac Butcher drives Super Change 3 x6641 Sheer Bliss (3) fr ......................... K Marshall at Cambridge tomorrow.

4 5091 Linc’s Grace (4) fr........................A Poutama 5 30598 Destiny Jones (5) fr ....................P Ferguson 5 33816 Kiwi Tintin (5) fr ............................ D Butcher 6 25223 The Almighty Johnson (6) fr ...........T Herlihy 6 3242x Somewhereinbrooklyn (6) fr ..... M McKendry 7 38150 Djokovic (7) fr .....................................L Chin 7 5x510 Diamond Prince (7) fr .....................J I Dickie 8 x1140 Bordeaux (8) fr ............................. D Butcher 8 76047 Gotta Keepasecret fr .................... Scratched 9 11227 The Foot Tapper (21) fr .................Z Butcher 9 31x75 Matai Valour (21) fr.....................P Ferguson 10 8280x Sunny Ruby fr .............................. Scratched 10 66x30 Purest Silk (22) fr ......................... B Mangos 11 69x04 Aurora Bromac (23) fr ...................Z Butcher 9 6.44pm JLT FUTURITY STAKES (MOBILE PACE) 12 21362 Ivana Flybye (24) fr ................. B Butcher (J) $50,000, 4-5yo mob. pace, mobile, 2700m 13 83158 Edamfast (25) fr ........................ J Abernethy 1 25436 Max Phactor (1) fr .........................P Butcher 14 3589x Loud An Proud fr .......................... Scratched 2 31664 Northview Hustler (2) fr ................ D Butcher 8 6.14 GROUP 1 TURF BAR TROTTERS FLYING MILE 3 66629 Eldolar (3) fr ...........................M Johnson (J) 4 11x11 Star Galleria (4) fr ..........................T Herlihy (MOBILE) $50,000, ffa mob. trot, mobile, 1609m 5 111x1 Vincent (5) fr 1 36001 Benchmark (1) fr 6 13x41 Partyon (6) fr 2 221x2 Speeding Spur (2) fr.......................J I Dickie 3 55741 Charlemagne (3) fr ...................... K Marshall 10 7.14 PIRONGIA BOXING DAY RACES MOBILE 4 57136 Kyvalley Blur (4) fr ........................T Williams PACE $9000, 3yo+ r40 to r52 mob. pace, 2200m

46097 McDaknife (1) fr..........................P Ferguson 83457 R Gee Bee (2) fr........................ J Abernethy 79037 Itsokbeingbetter (3) fr .................. K Marshall 24098 P Tomado fr .................................. Scratched 76047 Gotta Keepasecret (4) fr.............R Argue (J) 25556 Bubbles O’Leary (5) fr ...................P Butcher 38958 Jack Bates (6) fr ..........................A Poutama 60339 Rory McIlroy (7) fr ..........................S Phelan 06086 Mychristian (21) fr ........................R Fensom 79342 Trinity Bromac (22) fr.....................T Mitchell 43435 Idealistic (23) fr ...........................J Stormont 90898 Alta Shangri La fr ......................... Scratched 18019 Willedu (24) fr........................... N Delany (J) 37645 Christanna (25) fr ......................... D Butcher 11 7.39pm MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM CAMBRIDGE RACEWAY TROT $9000, r40 to r55 trot, stand, 2200m 1 81746 Itsnowornever (1) fr ....................P Ferguson 2 55907 Oto Invasion (2) fr ................ D Ferguson (J) 3 18442 Burt Munro (3) fr ............................S Branch 4 26306 Hot N Fast (4) fr ............................N Chilcott 5 31874 Xtra Time (5) fr ...............................S Phelan 6 05880 Mon Archie Way (6) fr ................R Argue (J) 7 41070 Majestic Stride (U1) fr ................. K Marshall 8 70347 Little Bro (U2) fr...............................H Cullen 9 24435 Te Kouka Breeze (U3) fr..............M Nicholas 10 04375 Shardon’s Pearl (U4) fr..................T Mitchell SELECTIONS Race 1: Kaitlyn, Jamieson Shard, Vanhalem, Ardent Lustre Race 2: Culpeka, New York Rain, Dance Time, Parker Race 3: Star Of Olesya, Swinging, Secretofthesea Smile Race 4: Shenandoah, A Lister, Super Change, Magical Miss Race 5: George, Tereskova, Danke, Sir Henry Castleton Race 6: Spirit Of Anzac, Shadow Maker, Yankee Lincoln Race 7: Purest Silk, Ivana Flybye, Somewhereinbrooklyn Race 8: Speeding Spur, Kyvalley Blur, Benchmark, Bordeaux Race 9: Vincent, Star Galleria, Partyon, Northview Hustler Race 10: Bubbles O’Leary, Trinity Bromac, Idealistic Race 11: Shardon’s Pearl, Hot N Fast, Burt Munro, Little Bro

Tapanui gallops

Tomorrow at Gore Raceway

Tapanui RC Venue: Gore Meeting Date: 24 Dec 2017 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 11.35am HARLIWICH CONTRACTING R75 $11,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 93585 What’s Up Alf dm (8) 59.5 .. C Campbell (a3) 2 066x4 Accidental Offside tdmh (4) 58....K Kwo (a3) 3 67559 Flicka Of Gold dm (1) 56.5 .. R Firdhaus (a2) 4 x3219 Robin Charles (7) 56 ..................... C Barnes 5 x1173 Nightcap td (2) 54.5 ................K Kalychurun 6 0x190 Mia Mamma d (9) 54 ...........R Beeharry (a4) 7 1x950 Irish Express mh (6) 54 ............... C Johnson 8 800x9 Our Charlie dm (5) 54 ..................T Moseley 9 x090x Pacific Tap td (3) 54................. G Jogoo (a1) 2 12.10pm HERIOT HOTEL & SEPTIC TANK CLEANERS MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 2YO&UP, 1200m 1 0x3. Red Major h (14) 58.5 ..........T Moseley 2 3x7x7 Roc Leone (1) 58.5 .................... J Lowry (a) 3 8595x Drumstorm (8) 58.5...................... R Cuneen 4 Heberite (6) 57 .............................. C Barnes 5 Johnny Come Lately (11) 57 ....D Bothamley 6 Qashqai (10) 57 ................. C Campbell (a3) 7 80x23 Verify (16) 56.5........................ G Jogoo (a1) 8 x4467 Night Lady h (12) 56.5 ................K Kwo (a3) 9 785x9 Go Apache h (5) 56.5..............K Kalychurun 10 Impossible 55 ............................... Scratched 11 La Rosa Brook 55 ........................ Scratched 12 Ygritte (9) 55 ...........................T Jonker (a3) 13 Mrs Gee Eye (2) 56.5..................L Callaway

14 Mutunga Tap (7) 55 ..................... C Johnson 15 0x Dreaming Easy (4) 55 16 0x0. Lets Go Lily (3) 55 17 996x9 Itz My One h (13) 58.5 18 Kindergarten Cop (15) 58.5 Emergencies: Mrs Gee Eye, Mutunga Tap, Dreaming Easy, Lets Go Lily, Itz My One, Kindergarten Cop 3 12.45 BB SPRAYING & ADVANCE AGRICULTURE MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1335m 1 00x20 Nomen Ludi h (1) 58.5 ................K Kwo (a3) 2 x86x4 Drumroyal (4) 58.5 ....................... R Cuneen 3 750 The Publican (15) 58.5.................T Moseley 4 00x Bet Ya Wood (10) 58.5 .............D Bothamley 5 Kindergarten Cop (6) 58.5 .... S Toolooa (a4) 6 0 Our Boy Baz (13) 58.5 ............K Kalychurun 7 967x Park Lane (3) 58.5 .......................... J Morris 8 Chowder (9) 57 .......................... J Lowry (a) 9 x4504 Strategus (14) 56.5 ................. G Jogoo (a1) 10 38x60 Lil Miss Swiss (7) 56.5 ................L Callaway 11 x70x0 Jandles (2) 56.5 .......................... C Johnson 12 0 Stephanie (5) 56.5 ..................T Jonker (a3) 13 80x Wholelotarosie (11) 56.5 ............... C Barnes 14 Sitarist (12) 55.....................R Beeharry (a4) 15 8x89x Flag Duty (8) 58.5 Emergency: Flag Duty 4 1.20 ROAD TRANSPORT LOGISTICS & TAPANUI 4 SQUARE R65 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1335m 1 99x02 Sally Getcha Gun td (11) 59 ........... J Morris 2 7x085 Flavouring m (8) 58.5 ..................L Callaway

3 0x762 He’s Mi Brother 58.5 .................... Scratched 4 800x9 Our Charlie 58.5........................... Scratched 5 246x0 The Czar b (5) 58.5 ............ C Campbell (a3) 6 010x Chica Rapida m (7) 57.5 .........K Kalychurun 7 D3310 Dream Rich (10) 57.5 ..T Jonker (a3) 8 06109 Double Choice th (2) 57 ............. J Lowry (a) 9 25596 Knutquacker h (6) 57................... C Johnson 10 0177x Shirley Maude td (4) 57............D Bothamley 11 x880x Red Ace (9) 57 .............................T Moseley 12 000x0 All Things Nice h (3) 56.5 .... R Firdhaus (a2) 13 874x8 Velvet Rose m (12) 56................... C Barnes 14 47965 Yodelay (1) 56 .............................K Kwo (a3) 15 870x7 Alottatow 56.5 .............................. Scratched 16 x090x Pacific Tap 56.5 ............................ Scratched Emergencies: Alottatow, Pacific Tap 5 1.55pm AON INSURANCE BROKERS R85 HANDICAP $12,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1335m 1 7715x News Flash tm (7) 60 ......... C Campbell (a3) 2 x6660 Magic Epic t (8) 58 ................ S Toolooa (a4) 3 23x55 Tomm Jones (4) 58 .............R Beeharry (a4) 4 75565 Belle Boy tm (6) 57.5...............K Kalychurun 5 54545 Secret Power tdm (9) 57.5 ..........K Kwo (a3) 6 974x6 Shaara td (1) 57.5 ................... G Jogoo (a1) 7 43559 Thought That th (3) 54.5 ............. C Johnson 8 86x07 Flying Sardine td (5) 54...........T Jonker (a3) 9 870x7 Alottatow th (2) 54 ........................T Moseley 6 2.30pm MLT DODDS MEMORIAL MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 2000m 1 0x925 Mac Murdoch (12) 58.5 .........K Mudhoo (a1)

2 x3340 Maks Legend (13) 58.5 ................. C Barnes 3 7x554 Dad’s Brother (3) 58.5 ..............D Bothamley 4 539x0 Satin Flag 58.5 ............................. Scratched 5 5x466 Beam Me Up Scotty (2) 58.5........ R Cuneen 6 9x677 Al Be Civics (11) 58.5 .................K Kwo (a3) 7 5x709 Coatncollar 58.5 ........................... Scratched 8 90. Fly Without Wings (15) 58.5 ........L Callaway 9 46403 Dezzies Delight (4) 56.5..... C Campbell (a3) 10 x6383 The Style (9) 56.5 ....................... C Johnson 11 77274 Vino Tinto (5) 56.5........................T Moseley 12 9x893 Portumna Lass (10) 56.5 ........ G Jogoo (a1) 13 0 Sapphon (7) 56.5 ....................K Kalychurun 14 x0509 Turbulence (14) 55 ..................... J Lowry (a) 15 000x8 Platinum Recruit (1) 56.5 ................ J Morris 16 0x89 The Flagon (8) 58.5 17 x5800 Tap Dis (6) 56.5 Emergencies: Platinum Recruit, The Flagon, Tap Dis 7 3.05 DYNES TRANSPORT TAPANUI CUP $20,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2000m 1 41262 Shantav tdm (9) 59.5 ................. J Lowry (a) 2 51598 Shakti m (6) 59......................K Mudhoo (a1) 3 53111 He Ain’t Heavy tdm (10) 58.5 ......L Callaway 4 7x096 Taniwha (8) 57 ................................ J Morris 5 128x4 Satin Guru m (2) 56 ........... C Campbell (a3) 6 15x75 Tilly Dunnage m (1) 55.5.........K Kalychurun 7 8x241 Can You Hear Me (4) 55..............K Kwo (a3) 8 10x35 Consolidate tdbh (5) 54.5............ C Johnson 9 86026 Lin d (3) 54.5 ........................... G Jogoo (a1) 10 82810 Madam De Soir (7) 54................... C Barnes

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3.37 REBECCA BLACK MEMORIAL R65 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 1x880 The Believer t (4) 59................T Jonker (a3) 2 52759 Centavada tdm (8) 57.5 ............... R Cuneen 3 53607 Gazza The Guru m (7) 57.5 ....... J Lowry (a) 4 54x03 Franconi (3) 57 .........................D Bothamley 5 x3008 Smokem Up tdh (6) 57 ................ C Johnson 6 04300 Sir Ed (10) 56.5 ...........................K Kwo (a3) 7 00x30 Blue Flag (11) 56 .........................T Moseley 8 60175 Keep The Lot d (13) 56 ........... G Jogoo (a1) 9 x9L98 Limousine m (2) 56 ....K Mudhoo (a1) 10 66800 The Energizer tdm (9) 55.5 .....K Kalychurun 11 x9627 Higher Authority (14) 54.5 ............. C Barnes 12 8x830 Polly’s Sister t (1) 54 ........... R Firdhaus (a2) 13 7x678 Lady Lindauer m (12) 54 .... C Campbell (a3) 14 x4706 Tapilize (5) 54 .................................. J Morris Blinkers on: Mia Mamma (R1), The Publican, Lil Miss Swiss (R3), The Flagon (R6) Blinkers off: Shirley Maude, Red Ace (R4) Winkers off: The Publican (R3) SELECTIONS

Race 1: Nightcap, Irish Express, Accidental Offside, Our Charlie Race 2: Johnny Come Lately, Roc Leone, Verify, Night Lady Race 3: Sitarist, Lil Miss Swiss, Strategus, Nomen Ludi Race 4: Sally Getcha Gun, The Czar, Dream Rich, Knutquacker Race 5: Shaara, Tomm Jones, Flying Sardine, Belle Boy Race 6: Dad’s Brother, Dezzies Delight, Portumna Lass, Vino Tinto Race 7: Shantav, Taniwha, Tilly Dunnage, Can You Hear Me Race 8: Franconi, Higher Authority, Centavada, Gazza The Guru

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Saturday, December 23, 2017

In brief

■ ASHBURTON

Claimer ‘worth a crack’

By Matt MarkhaM

ber features. In the field for the Aged Series Pace at Kaikoura, he was scratched after developing a slight cold.

“It was nothing real serious, but we didn’t want to trek him all the way up to Kaikoura if he wasn’t 100 per cent right.

“He’s working up good and we’ll head to Methven this weekend and see where we at from there.”

Hay has a lot of time for the gelding.

“I think he’s pretty smart.

“Everything we’ve asked of him so far he’s handled really well.”

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John Hay is under no illusions that his latest stable acquisition is in any way just going to rock up and win his hometown Cup at Ashburton tomorrow.

Hay will line up, for the first time, the former Cran Dalgetytrained pacer Art Union in the feature pace of the day after he was the lucky winner of a ballot of claims when he last raced as a claimer at Addington earlier in the month.

“We had talked about it at home and how for $5000 he was probably worth a crack,” Hay said.

“One of our friends was heading up to put a claim in on him so we said they might as well put one in for us and we got lucky on the night.”

A winner of 17 of his 41 career starts, Art Union is no slouch but that isn’t enough to have his new trainer confident of a big showing.

In fact, Hay will just be happy if he’s making ground at the finish.

“As long as he’s running on, we’ll be happy.

“His work at home has been good and he had a nice hit-out up at Methven last weekend where they ran a pretty slick last quarter.

“But the speed of that last quarter is what we will run the whole way this weekend so he’ll have to be good.”

Hay has taken on the owner-

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John Hay, pictured with Mighty Santana, has an interesting runner in the Robbies Bar & Bistro Ashburton Cup tomorrow.

ship of the entire himself and although he intends on seeing what he can get out of the son of Art Major, he’s also got one eye on Australia too.

“He gets in quite well in the grade over there, so I think in time we will probably send him over there to race.

“He can pick up a bit of money along the way and we can have some fun with him.”

Sunday’s task won’t be simple with a small, but very select field

of pacers lining up for the Christmas Eve feature.

Methven Green Mile runnerup James Dean is out to try and end his sequence of seconds for Leo O’Reilly, while there will also be plenty of eyes on Raukapuka Ruler as he looks to recapture some form in his four-year-old season.

Meanwhile, Hay’s other promising pacer, Mighty Santana will head to the workouts this weekend after missing the Novem-

Race 1: Lilac Star, To Ri Elsie, Preston Pans, Direct Control Race 2: To Ri Caitlin, Art Collector, Like Ya More, Homebush Lad Race 3: Lightning Strike, Shamrock Bromac, Rollova, Ragnaar Race 4: Peggy Nova, Mystical Star, Regal Aspirant, Aldebaran Bonny Race 5: Some Legend, Belle Of Brooklyn, Kotare Elite, Sails Race 6: James Dean, Mongolian Hero, Raukapuka Ruler, Mickey Gee Race 7: Cole Porter, Christopher Banner, Mac Almighty, Cable Beach Race 8: Bonnie Highlander, The Dominator, No Fears, Time For Diamonds Race 9: Delishka, Nek Time, Lovetodream, Kiwi On Show Race 10: Vinny Gambini, Motu Hot Topic, Franco Lamar, Summer Wealth Best Bet: Vinny Gambini Value: To Ri Caitlin

Clarify eyes Manawatu A change of tack has Awapuni the immediate focus for the in-form stayer Clarify. Matamata trainer Peter McKay had originally targeted Ellerslie as the Savabeel gelding’s next port of call until the focus switched to Saturday’s Hotel Coachman Manawatu Cup (2100m). “His work has been exceptional and we were going straight to the Dunstan Feeds Final on New Year’s Day, but I said to Joe Smithies that we’d have a crack at this race,” McKay said.

“He’s down in the weights and the field isn’t that strong.”

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Veteran still going Group One winner El Soldado continues to keep time at bay with the veteran on target for a return to top level competition. “He’s coming up well again, he doesn’t know he’s an 11-year-old,” Cambridge trainer and part-owner Phillip Devcich said. “He’s still the same and it would be great to get him to the Auckland Cup again.” El Soldado caused a massive upset when he returned a winning divided of $125 in the 2016 edition of the Group One feature.

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New partnership scores The Tim Butt and Jonny Cox training partnership scored win number one at Forbury Park on Thursday night. The victory came via a bold front-running display from maidener Frankie D with Cox in the sulky.

The training partners will not have to go far to discuss the pacer’s future racing plans. In fact, those could be discussed over morning smoko. The horse is raced by stable employee and Tim Butt’s niece, Kimberly Butt, who is also Cox’s partner. She races the horse with her mother, Karen Prendergast.

Waikato gallops Today at Te Rapa Raceway

Waikato RC Venue: Te Rapa Meeting Date: 23 Dec 2017 3 30248 Waipipi Lad tdm (4) 57.5 ................. S Spratt NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 4 22319 Wildflower dm (2) 56 ................... D Johnson 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 5 907x6 Seventeen Seventy d (3) 56 ..............L Innes 1 12.32 THEBESTLITTLEBOOKSTORE.CO.NZ 3YO 6 36336 Tomelilla tdm (1) 54....................M Cameron 7 18065 Red Tsunami tm (7) 54 ...............T Thornton MAIDEN 1400 $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 4x33 Jimmy Rocket (11) 57.5 .................V Colgan 3 1.42pm DUNSTAN FEEDS CHAMPIONSHIP QUALI2 46030 De Koning (3) 57.5 ..................... L Satherley FIER 2100 HCP $40,000, OPN HCP, 2100m 1 01x09 El Soldado td (4) 60 ...........................M Hills 3 Georgian Ease (1) 57.5...................M Vance 2 64748 Francis Drake tdb (2) 59.5.............O Bosson 4 Roc Wheeler (12) 57.5 ...............M Cameron 3 52344 Camino Rocoso (3) 56 ....................S Collett 5 Happy As (13) 57.5 ........................... V Gatu 4 13195 Highlad tdm (1) 55 .....................M Cameron 6 Lewis Road (6) 57.5 ........................S Collett 5 17x07 Victory Drive td (5) 54 ................. D Johnson 7 Seven Falls (7) 57.5 ........................ S Spratt 8 2 Glendalough (2) 55.5 ................ M D Plessis 4 2.17 FOSTER CONSTRUCTION 2100 R65 $27,500, 9 3 Elle Eye Are (9) 55.5 ................... D Johnson Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 10 3 Nellie Bly (4) 55.5........................T Thornton 1 4x638 Four Degrees d (4) 60 11 8803 Swiss Maid (10) 55.5 .................R Elliot (a1) 2 0x081 Kirkenes (2) 60............................ D Johnson 12 4607 La Mia Stella (8) 55.5 ........................L Innes 3 00690 Arite Guru m (9) 59.5 ..................T Thornton 13 Gold Spice (5) 55.5 ....................D Prastiyou 4 x4221 Epae Road (11) 58.5.....................O Bosson 2 1.07pm LODGE CITY RENTALS 1600 OPEN HANDI- 5 80843 Red Rascal m (5) 57.5 .......................M Hills CAP $35,000, OPN HCP, 1600m 6 66108 Tama Akarana d (7) 57.5 .........J Nason (a2) 1 528x4 Matimba td (5) 60 ...................J Fawcett (a3) 7 x3051 Korakonui (1) 57 ..............................S Collett 2 87x45 Gravano dm (6) 58 .................... M D Plessis 8 73413 Princess Dillon (8) 56.5 ..............M Cameron

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9 x0079 Black Lace d (3) 56 ...................T Wenn (a3) 10 03569 Zapali d (6) 55.5 ........................ M D Plessis 11 00406 Wilijonmcbride t (10) 55 .............R Elliot (a1) 5 2.52 PRINT HOUSE MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN 1 7. Startling Reminder (5) 58.5 ...........O Bosson 2 287x7 Palermitano 58.5 .......................... Scratched 3 3 Starrybeel (6) 57 ......................... D Johnson 4 7x45 Sir Linwood b (1) 57 ..................B Hutton (a) 5 6 Overknight (8) 57 ...........................V Colgan 6 3x353 Spree (7) 56.5 .................................S Collett 7 068x0 Monica Belle (11) 56.5 ............... L Satherley 8 690x8 Princess El Jay (3) 56.5 ....................L Innes 9 2 Glendalough (4) 55 ................... M D Plessis 10 502 The Heiress (12) 55 11 63 Marcellina b (2) 55 .....................M Cameron 12 Chiara (9) 55 ..............................R Elliot (a1) 13 9 Misstumut (10) 55 .................H Marzuki (a3) 6 3.30pm RED CABS 2100 R75 $30,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m 1 5x306 Comin’through d (4) 59 .....................L Innes 2 23113 Peso dm (5) 59............................T Thornton 3 x6661 Te Waewae Bay d (7) 58.5 .........R Elliot (a1)

4 91918 Nothing Trivial td (8) 57.5 ...................M Hills 5 x0384 Excalibur td (9) 57 ........................... S Spratt 6 12621 Kachhi t (2) 56............................. D Johnson 7 4x638 Four Degrees d (6) 56 ................M Cameron 8 x5417 She’s Prismatic d (1) 55 ............ M D Plessis 9 24303 Model Aye d (3) 54.5 .......................S Collett 7 4.04 NATIONWIDE LIVESTOCK 1200 R65 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 1x540 Griffin d (4) 59 ...............................O Bosson 2 34x62 High Distinction (1) 59........................M Hills 3 92170 Impulsive Habit m (3) 59 .................M Vance 4 1x0x8 Crux d (11) 58 ................................V Colgan 5 75533 Bombard (9) 57.5 ............................ S Spratt 6 35084 Winmotion d (2) 57.5.......................S Collett 7 15x Anacapri d (12) 57 .....................D Prastiyou 8 22551 Santa Monica (8) 57....................T Thornton 9 24x55 Simply Classic d (7) 57 ..........J Fawcett (a3) 10 21x50 Almarie (5) 56.5 .........................R Elliot (a1) 11 6x906 Scarlet’s Secret d (6) 56.5......... M D Plessis 12 x8079 Fast And Furious d (13) 56 ......... D Johnson 13 0890x Scusa dm (10) 55.....................J Nason (a2)

8 4.39pm X-SITE GROUP 1500 R75 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1500m 1 x9005 Prince Mambo t (6) 60 ....................S Collett 2 4x773 Nicoletta (1) 57.5........................M Cameron 3 0x725 Santiago (7) 57.5 ...................... M D Plessis 4 x2124 Legramor t (2) 55 ..............................L Innes 5 89x00 Heart Beat t (8) 55 ......................T Thornton 6 630x2 Saffron Lady (5) 54.5 7 2x686 Thatsforsure h (4) 54.5.................... S Spratt 8 x4481 Repeat tm (3) 54 ......................... D Johnson Blinkers on: La Mia Stella (R1), Wildflower (R2), Marcellina (R5), Nicoletta (R8) Blinkers off: Griffin (R7) Winkers off: Misstumut (R5) SELECTIONS

7 20065 Woodsman td (5) 58........................ A Jones 8 0x026 Alinko Prince dm (9) 57.................. J Parkes 9 23674 Dr Watson dm (11) 57 ...................M McNab 10 91621 All In Vogue d (7) 56..........................L Hemi 11 73251 Clarify d (1) 54 ..........................S McKay (a) 12 63842 Leading Role h (10) 53 ...............C Lammas 7 4.20pm KAMADA PARK MANAWATU CHALLENGE STAKES $100,000, WFA, 1400m 1 34331 Kawi 59 ........................................ Scratched 2 x2126 Scapolo dm (4) 59....................... C Johnson 3 54324 Amarula 59................................... Scratched 4 x8332 Splurge dm (2) 59 .........................M McNab 5 x0730 Ringo tdh (1) 59 .................S Weatherley (a) 6 56374 Salamanca tdmh (3) 59...................R Myers 7 63515 Slimline tdmh (5) 57 8 5x453 La Fille En Jeu d (6) 57 .....................L Hemi 9 x4135 Hard Merchandize tdmh (7) 54 ...C Lammas 8 4.55pm HIREPOOL LTD PREMIER R65 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 37353 Go To Man (5) 59.5 2 85241 Cornerstone h (3) 59 .........................L Hemi 3 02737 Hank Moody h (13) 59 ..................M McNab 4 25315 Percy’s Gem (15) 59 ............ T Johnson (a2)

5 9x094 Shared Secrets dh (6) 58 ..............M Tanaka 6 4x507 Constant Barrage tm (8) 58 ........... J Parkes 7 8x095 Figurable (1) 57 ....................S O’Malley (a4) 8 14204 El Jodi (10) 56.5 ................................ T Allan 9 94213 Hollypop (14) 56.5....................... C Johnson 10 10036 Nadiasstar mh (12) 56.5 .................D Turner 11 0x206 Alarmist tm (11) 55 12 4x820 Battle Kat (4) 55 ..............................R Myers 13 73770 Cape Du Jeu mh (9) 54...............C Lammas 14 100x0 Fistfulofdollars (7) 54 .........S Weatherley (a) 15 96558 How Perfect h (2) 54 Blinkers on: Foxy Wolf, Bushfire (R1), Florence Jean (R2), Captain Lincoln (R5), Hank Moody, Shared Secrets, Constant Barrage (R8) SELECTIONS

Race 1: Glendalough, Elle Eye Are, Nellie Bly, Georgian Ease Race 2: Wildflower, Matimba, Waipipi Lad, Gravano, Tomelilla Race 3: Francis Drake, Camino Rocoso, Victory Drive, El Soldado Race 4: Kirkenes, Korakonui, Epae Road, Princess Dillon Race 5: Glendalough, Spree, Marcellina, Starrybeel, Overknight Race 6: Excalibur, Peso, Comin’through, She’s Prismatic Race 7: High Distinction, Santa Monica, Anacapri, Winmotion Race 8: Legramor, Thatsforsure, Saffron Lady, Prince Mambo

Manawatu gallops Today at Awapuni Raceway

Manawatu RC Venue: Awapuni Meeting Date: 23 Dec 2017 4 12x Blanco Belle dm (4) 55.5....S Weatherley (a) NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 5 21256 Nuclear Fusion tdm (3) 55.5 .......... J Parkes 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 3 2.00pm NZ BAKELS 2YO PREMIER $20,000, 2YO 1 12.50pm TOTALLY VETS PREMIER R65 $22,500, SW+P, 1100m Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 4 Boy Next Door (1) 57 ......................R Myers 1 x960x Ollie’s Note dm (2) 60 .......................L Hemi 2 44. Cassius Clay (7) 57 ...................S McKay (a) 2 02540 Abbey Road dh (7) 59.5 ..................D Turner 3 Star Tsar 57 ................................. Scratched 3 52219 Outstanding t (5) 58.5 ...................M McNab 4 Atenartin h (2) 57 ...................... D Hirini (a1) 4 849x1 Savatag (8) 58.5............................. J Parkes 5 Derecho h (4) 57 ...............................L Hemi 5 8x335 Awatane (13) 58 ..............................R Myers 6 Sword Of Osman (5) 57 ................M McNab 6 71275 Exhibit th (9) 57.5 7 Higher Power h (6) 55 ................. C Johnson 7 06x08 Foxy Wolf (4) 57.5 ........................... R Jones 8 Platinum Mam’selle h (8) 55..........M Tanaka 8 55002 Stumblin In m (10) 57.5 ........ S MacNab (a2) 9 Sheezanicegirl (3) 55 .........S Weatherley (a) 9 2772x Cuzzie Charlie tm (6) 57.5 ........S McKay (a) 4 2.33 PROPERTY BROKERS PREMIER R75 $25,000, 10 74x13 Koko Belle (12) 57.........................M Tanaka Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 11 05270 Bushfire th (11) 57 ...................M Singh (a3) 1 1014x On The Hill (9) 60.5 .......................D Bradley 12 49453 Margot (3) 56.5 ........................... C Johnson 2 498x8 Thien Ly dh (1) 59 ...........................R Myers 13 03509 Swiss Elle h (1) 54 .......................... A Jones 3 00122 Straight Sets dm (2) 58.5 ............ C Johnson 2 1.25pm MILLS REEF 3YO PREMIER $25,000, 3YO 4 x5396 Yemanya dh (4) 57.5 ..........S Weatherley (a) SW+P, 1200m 5 5x471 Bruegel d (3) 57 ................... S MacNab (a2) 1 x4135 Hard Merchandize tdmh (5) 60.5 C Lammas 6 6x555 Fibonacci dh (6) 57 .......................M McNab 2 0x101 Gift Of Power m (1) 58.5 ............. C Johnson 7 37633 Justlikeyasister tdmh (5) 56.5T Johnson (a2) 3 x1226 Florence Jean (2) 56.5 ....................R Myers 8 x450x Barcelo (10) 56.5 ......................S McKay (a)

9 44x13 Tellyawhat (7) 56 ............................ J Parkes 10 680x5 Mels Evie d (8) 55.5 .................M Singh (a3) 5 3.10 THE PAVEMASTERS PREMIER R75 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1550m 1 82279 Staccato m (6) 60..........................J Waddell 2 30x00 Captain Lincoln tmh (3) 58 ................L Hemi 3 341x1 Eagle Bay (10) 56.5 ........................R Myers 4 13441 The Rippa tdh (5) 56.5 ..................M Tanaka 5 69802 Dramatist (9) 55 .......................... C Johnson 6 7x222 Handfull (7) 55 ................................D Turner 7 51906 Ophelia Lee m (4) 54.5 .................M McNab 8 1x346 Tinkalicious tm (11) 54.5 ...... T Johnson (a2) 9 42x37 Hoist b (1) 54.5 .............................. J Parkes 10 x4663 Flamingo (2) 54 ..................S Weatherley (a) 11 258x9 Kolee td (8) 54...................... S MacNab (a2) 6 3.45 HOTEL COACHMAN MANAWATU CUP $100,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 2100m 1 30523 Blathwayt tdm (12) 60 ...................J Waddell 2 83542 Sampson tdm (6) 59.5 .................... R Jones 3 21542 Itsallbelt tdm (2) 59 .......................D Bradley 4 23234 Princess Brook (4) 58.5 .............. C Johnson 5 x4331 Boxachocolates th (8) 58.5 S Weatherley (a) 6 85813 Balham d (3) 58 ..............................R Myers

Race 1: Koko Belle, Outstanding, Abbey Road, Margot, Exhibit Race 2: Gift Of Power, Hard Merchandize, Nuclear Fusion Race 3: Sheezanicegirl, Sword Of Osman, Derecho Race 4: Straight Sets, Thien Ly, Bruegel, Fibonacci, Barcelo Race 5: Eagle Bay, Hoist, Handfull, Flamingo, Tinkalicious Race 6: Balham, All In Vogue, Boxachocolates, Itsallbelt Race 7: Hard Merchandize, Scapolo, Splurge Race 8: Go To Man, Shared Secrets, Cape Du Jeu, Constant Barrage

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Saturday, December 22, 2017

In brief

■ CRICKET

Stokes has ‘huge impact’

By RoB FoRsaith Sorely missed by England in the Ashes series, Ben Stokes’ competitive streak, leadership and cricket nous is proving a boon in Christchurch.

Stokes’ arrival at Canterbury three weeks ago was met with feverish interest and plenty of condemnation.

Many questioned the merits of hastily signing the allrounder, who continues to sweat on a verdict from UK prosecutors regarding his role in a Bristol brawl in which another man suffered a fractured eye socket.

Canterbury coach Gary Stead, who remains unsure how much longer Stokes will be based in his country of birth, has been impressed with the conduct and cricket skills of England’s vicecaptain but also the impact he has had on young team-mates.

“He’s brought that knowledge and experience of being in important matches and just been a bit of a calming influence out in the middle,” Stead said yesterday.

“You can tell he loves being in a battle on the field ... that competitive approach will hopefully rub off on some of our players.

“He doesn’t over-speak or anything but when he talks, people listen.

“He’s not shy of chiming in when we’re discussing tactics ... he’s got a very good cricket brain.

“He’s started to develop some friendships with some of our guys as well.

“It’s been really positive.”

Uncertainty surrounds Stokes’ potential return date for England.

The 26-year-old was provisionally named in the tourists’ ODI squad for the series that follows the Ashes, starting January 14 in Melbourne.

However, England’s cricket

You get the impression Todd Astle will already have marked out his run-up for today’s ODI against the West Indies. He’s clearly itching for more after what he called “a dream come true” debut on Wednesday.

Canterbury cricket’s legspinning allrounder turned in a quality performance with the ball, taking three for 33, then chipping in with an unbeaten 15. It’s been a while coming for the 31-year-old, who has played two tests – five years apart – and a couple of T20s against Pakistan early last year.

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Stoneman new star In the five years since England last had a productive opening pair, it always used to be a question of finding the right partner for Alastair Cook. More and more it looks as though England will have to find a partner for Mark Stoneman, who, aside from the glory tour of 2010-11, has been England’s most successful opening batsman in Australia since Michael Vaughan in 2002-03. Confronting Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, Stoneman has scored more runs than anyone bar Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow. Even if his average is only 32, it is higher than that of Cook in three of his four Ashes series in Australia.

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Bird ready to fire

Ben Stokes has been a massive acquisition for Canterbury, no matter how long his stay.

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board won’t settle on Stokes’ punishment until UK prosecutors decide whether to charge him.

“We still don’t know a date when he will leave,” Stead said.

“I’m sure he was looking at it [the Ashes].

“I know he’ll be disappointed for England.”

Stead has handed Stokes ex-

tra responsibility, asking him to open the bowling and bat at No4.

The game-breaking allrounder, who was sold for $2.8 million in last year’s Indian Premier League auction, struggled early on in his New Zealand stint but struck form with a match-winning 93 in the T20 contest during last week.

“He’s had five matches for us now ... it looks like he’s getting

better and better,” Stead said.

“He’s batting a little bit higher than he normally would, but we can grow his experiences and that’s good for him in the long run.

“Batting, bowling, fielding – and even at training – he’s going full tilt.

“He’s not holding back at all.”

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Rance gets the seal of approval from Hesson Seth Rance may get a chance to show off his “clever” bowling in the second cricket one-day international against the West Indies today.

Black Caps coach Mike Hesson said yesterday Neil Broom and Matt Henry will be straight swaps for Kane Williamson and Tim Southee, who are being rested for games two and three.

The second game is in Christchurch today.

Rance is in for Adam Milne as injury cover and deserves his inclusion in the squad after excellent domestic performances, according to Hesson.

“It’s a shame for Adam but his ankle gave way and it could be a two-to-four week injury,” he said.

“Seth is an experienced player.

“He’s good at the death, swings the new ball and he’s a clever

Astle taking chances

Tom Latham is filling in for Kane Williamson as skipper. bowler with a lot of tricks.”

Stand-in skipper Tom Latham couldn’t wait to get out on Hagley Oval, where family and friends will be watching from the bank.

“It’s an exciting opportunity

I’ve been given and at home, on a lovely ground, it’s extra special.”

He expected the West Indies to be extra-keen to square the series after a comprehensive loss in game one in Whangarei.

“They are a proud team and a proud nation and will bounce back hard,” he said. “They have a lot of match-winners and we can’t afford to be complacent.

“We need to go out and do what we did the other day.”

Hesson said he and Latham will have another look at the Hagley Oval pitch before naming the team today.

“It is browner than it’s been in recent times so we will have to make a decision whether it’s a two-spinner wicket,” he said.

He was also asked about the injuries to key players Martin Guptill and Corey Anderson.

“Martin trained in Whangarei and he might play for Auckland on the 24th.

“Hopefully he’ll be available for the T20s [against the West Indies],” he said.

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Five years after making his test debut at the MCG because Mitchell Starc had been rested, Jackson Bird is ready to step up if Australia’s spearhead is forced to sit out the fourth Ashes test.

Starc remains an unlikely starter for the Boxing Day test because of a minor foot injury, with national selector Mark Waugh confirming the hosts will err on the side of caution.

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Top gong for Kiwi For the second year in a row, a New Zealand player has taken out the ICC Women’s ODI Player of the Year award. Amy Satterthwaite has been recognised for her outstanding 2016-17 season by winning the top one-day prize, a year after captain Suzie Bates claimed the award. The 31-year-old also became just the second player ever to score four consecutive ODI centuries, joining the illustrious company of Sri Lankan great, Kumar Sangakkara.

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Bravo facing demons Five-wicket BBL hero Dwayne Bravo admits he’ll have some mental demons to slay when the Melbourne Renegades host Brendon McCullum’s Brisbane Heat at Etihad Stadium. Tonight, Bravo will be making his competitive return to the venue where he suffered a career-threatening hamstring injury almost a year ago. The star allrounder ripped his left hamstring off the bone chasing a ground ball near the boundary in the Renegades’ third match of BBL06 and spent the next eight months recovering from surgery. “I still have a long way to go but I have no niggles (physically), which is important, it’s just a matter of mentally getting over that hurdle,” Bravo told reporters yesterday.

- AAP

Trades & Services To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

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ELECTRICAL ELECTRICAL

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Rural Commercial Industrial Residential Sound Heating

Contact us 0800 287 423 or 03 307 1544 www.auricelectrical.co.nz

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE ALL YEAR ROUND

PAINTER & DECORATOR Farms, factories, commercial buildings, private homes, club rooms, sheds, etc.

Phone 03 307 4200 022 698 7358 No obligation free quotes

Services include but not limited to:

• Minor repairs • Roof painting • Spouting cleaning • Water blasting • Mould and moss treatment • Airless spraying

Glass Fences Custom made for it

HEAT PUMPS Free measure and quote

electriCOOL Ltd

PHONE 308 2966 51 Robinson Street, Ashburton www.lysaghtltd.co.nz

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274 362 362 or 308 4573.

New Pure Water System Enjoy spot and streak free windows!

Book your high windows in today

“we clean to a standard, not a price”

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

• All staff are police vetted •Able to travel out of town

03 307 2656 | www.ashburtoncleaning.co.nz

Locally owned and operated for 25 years

Don’t delay call AJ today Fully qualified & registered Pest Control Technician

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36 Keeping your property protected with a security camera system from Masterguard Protect your biggest asset with a home security camera package from Masterguard Call me today for a free, no obligation quote

Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301 57 Dobson Street, Ashburton.

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MOBILE MOWER SERVICING • Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

• regular full house cleans • one off spring cleans • farm houses • builders cleans • floor buffing

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Spider proofing Fly control Wasp nests White tail treatment Residential and commercial

Call AJ 308 8147 or 0274 325 447

Property Services 2010 Ltd Let the team at Insideout take care of all your painting and property maintenance • Painting • Carpentry • Maintenance & repairs • Handyman services

• Airless spraying • Waterblasting • Renovations • Project management

Phone Shane today on 307-7071

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Lifestyle

CONNECTIONS

New models just arrived in-store! $89.90

was $149.90

NOW $89.90

was $149.90

NOW $99.90

East Street, Ashburton - Phone 308 5771 - www.sparrows.co.nz

was $159.90

NOW $99.90 Open Mon - Thu 9am - 5.30pm Fri 9am - 6pm Sat 10am - 2pm, Sun 11am - 2pm

Giftware – Crafts & Hobby Supplies – Collectables & Revamped Furniture 128 Victoria Street, Ashburton | 03 308 2295 | victoria128@xtra.co.nz

To advertise here contact Carmen on 021 836 543 or 03 307 7963

House of Hearing

Carmen Cole

To advertise here contact Carmen on 021 836 543 or 03 307 7963

Daily Events Saturday 9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, hot and cold food

Sunday 8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST BARING SQUARE CHURCH. Morning worship, all welcome. Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square East.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture

Monday, Christmas Day 9am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. (Note - starting time). ChristmasDay service led by Rev John Coutts, all

Tuesday - Boxing Day 9.45am WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. (9.45am draw), (1.15pm draw). Morning

December 23, 24, 25 & 26, 2017

and drinks. North End West Street car park, Ashburton.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Local crafts, new stalls welcome. West Street Car park.

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

Main Street, Methven.

Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship at St James Tinwald, no service at St Paul’s today, all welcome at 127 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Lessons and Carols , Holy Communion,Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street.

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

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

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

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. (draw to be done) Golf croquet casual doubles for all ages.

The domain, Philip Street.

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Children’s Christmas Twilight Service.

Park Street.

9pm ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Christmas Eucharist, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

11pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Christmas Eve service, “A Christmas Journey” Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

11.15pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Midnight Christmas Eucharist, Park St.

welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Christmas Day service, letters at Christ-

mas, Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Christmas Eucharist, Park Street.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven. - CLOSED TODAY

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road. CLOSED TODAY

singles Golf croquet, afternoon handicap singles Golf Croquet. The Domain, Philip Street. - NO PLAY TODAY

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter. Main Street, Methven.- CLOSED

TODAY 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

the past to the future, Seafield Road. CLOSED TODAY

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This is a management position responsible for 10 trucks working locally and throughout the South Island.

To qualify for this position the applicant must have the following attributes: • A ‘can-do’ attitude and the ability to lead an experienced team • The ability to delegate incoming work to the appropriate vehicles • Preferably have a sound knowledge of the local area and clients within it • Have the ability to use a modern computer dispatch software (training will be provided) • A desire and passion to be the best we can be in a competitive industry This position would suit someone who has been involved in Transport & Logistics and has a desire to ‘step up’ in to a management role.

If this sounds like you apply in confidence to:

Jim Crouchley General Manager Rural Transport Ltd jim@ruraltransport.co.nz (03) 308 4079 or 027 555 4364

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Fertiliser Spreader Driver Required Taylor Groundspreading is locally owned and operated, based in Hinds.

We are currently seeking an operator to drive one of our 5 spreader trucks.

Applicants must have a class 2-5 licence, be honest, reliable and enthusiastic, with good references.

Please apply to:

James

This role involves work in many areas of the store including, Checkout, Lotto, Post, NZ Transport Agency, Grocery, Produce, Dairy and Freezers.

This role would suit a person who has excellent customer service skills, and is a team player who is able to work unsupervised. While a General Manager’s Certificate would be of benefit, full training will be provided to a successful applicant.

The applicant must be at least 20 years of age for this position due to legal requirements. This is a permanent, fulltime position. Days of work will be Monday to Friday which will include 3 late nights.

An application form and job description can be picked up from: Tinwald SuperValue, 113 Archibald Street, Tinwald.

Applications close Friday, January 19, 2018.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected organisation to help benefit the animals of Ashburton. Help us to help them!

Responsibilities: • Providing for the care and health of animals in the SPCA facility • Maintaining accurate documentation and records.

• Managing interactions with clients and public • Weekend work required Qualifications and experience in animal care and customer service preferred.

To register your interest please send a cover letter and CV to:

sarah@spcacanterbury.org.nz

Jamie Reith jamie@taylorgroundspreading.nz or 0274 915 256

SITUATIONS VACANT

An opportunity has opened in our busy supermarket for a Full-time Liquor Duty Manager Position.

Permanent Part-time SPCA Ashburton

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Liquor Duty Manager or Trainee Liquor Duty Manager

Animal Attendant

Groundspreading

Ashburton Guardian

by 5.00pm Sunday, January 14, 2018.

For a detailed job description visit www.spcacanterbury.org.nz/get-involved/careers

Concrete Pump Operator (Trainee) If you have a full car licence, have an interest in machinery, trucks, hydraulics, heavy equipment, concrete and not afraid of hard work this could be the job for you.

Phone Chris 027 933 1872

Class 5 Harvest Drivers Required Hilton Haulage Limited is a well-established and recognisable brand throughout the South Island providing a range of transport and logistics services with a focus on service excellence.

The 2018 harvest season is approaching and we need to dig up some new talent to help us tackle the paddocks. This season we will have V-Bin truck and trailer units and drivers based at both Pendarves (northeast of Ashburton) and Timaru. If your application is successful you will find yourself carting potatoes to McCain’s and storage sheds or onions to a local packaging shed.

Up for offer are multiple fixed-term positions. These will run for approximately 8 to 10 weeks starting mid-February. You will be rostered on for 12 hour shifts and will be required to be flexible with day and night shifts. An agricultural background and knowledge of the Mid and South Canterbury areas will be advantageous.

Our ideal applicant will be a Class 5 driver who wants to join a respected and professional company. Applications also invited from less experienced Class 5 drivers or those who hold a Class 5L who wish to be supported to gain their 5F. To apply now, please visit our website www.hiltonhaulage.co.nz or call the Head Office on 03 687 4020 and ask to speak to our friendly HR team.

SITUATIONS WANTED

FARM WORK or farm sitting.

Very fit, semi-retired man seeks above work. Reliable and experienced with most farm related activities and stock work. Good mechanical knowledge. Has heavy traffic licence. Phone 027 619 7515 or 03 308 3324.

Today’s construction is tomorrow’s legacy  Housing  Commercial  Farm  Renovations

Guardian Classifieds

CJs MAKEConcrete SMALLBONE HOLDEN YOUR NEXT STOP & GETLtd THE SERVICE YOU DESERVE Pumping

307 7900

SERVICE ALL MAKES

AIRCON - ELECTRICAL

REPAIRS

LEVEL OF SERVICE

MAKE SMALLBONE HOLDENGENUINE YOUR NEXT STOP HOLDEN PARTS WOF CHECKS CHOOSE YOUR FULL MECHANICAL & GET THE SERVICE YOUYOU DESERVE Bookings essential Main South Road, Tinwald, Ashburton 03 307 9028 www.smallbones.co.nz

Contact Des anytime for an obligation free quote on 03 308 9936 or 027 432 3258

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Holiday Weekend Services MEDICAL SERVICES

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for

and all public holidsays. From 5pm - 7pm all four evenings.

Ashburton Rest Homes

FREE 24hr Health Advice.

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

DUTY DOCTORS

For all urgent medical calls phone 0800 700 155 at any time. IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Sealy Street Medical Practice, will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Clinics will be held from 10am until 1pm and from 2pm until 5pm. Please phone 308 1212 for an appointment from 9.30am onwards Saturday morning.

Tinwald Medical Centre, will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary.

Surgery phone 308 6565.

Allenton Medical Centre now Three Rivers Health, Allens Road, will be the duty practice for Christmas Day and Boxing Day (December 25 and 26) until 8am Wednesday.

Consultations will be held from 10am until 12.30pm and from 2pm until 5pm. Please phone 0800 700 155 for an appointment.

Emergency Dentist

Methven & Rakaia Area

Alcohol Drug Help Line

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.

HELPLINE SERVICES Alcoholics Anonymous

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information.

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

COMMUNITY SERVICES RESOURCE RECOVERY PARKS

The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks will be closed on: Monday, December 25, 2017 and Monday, January 1, 2018

Art Gallery

ANIMAL SERVICES Dog, Stock & Noise Control

Ashburton Museum

Mid Canterbury Spca

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - 308 4432.

Ashburton Public Library

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter - Contact -

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm.

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Safe Care - 24 hr Rape and Sexual

Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

Victims Support Group

Mail Closing Times

For weekend and emergency services please phone 302 Call us free on (0800 787 797).

8105 for details on how to access the after hours service Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days. each weekend.

Lifeline - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353.

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

Pharmacies

Information Centres

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm - Wednesday: 10am – 7pm

20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm outside of these hours leave a message.

Bus Departures

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24h/sce.

President 021 1356 969.

Veterinarians

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Seafield Rd, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am 12 noon. Weekend and Christmas 24-hour emergencies.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend and Christmas emergencies: Steve Williams.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend and Christmas.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon.

Weekend and Christmas 24-hour emergencies.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-hours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone Methven - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until your vet as usual.

3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com

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CHURCH SERVICES

Christmas Church Services

St David’s in Allenton

Lagmhor Community Church Sunday December 24 Christmas Eve 7pm

67 Cass Street Phone 3085409

www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

9.30AM CHRISTMAS SERVICE

Lagmhor Church Jacksons Road All welcome

CHILDREN’S TWILIGHT CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE 7pm at St Stephen’s Church, 64 Park Street

CHRISTMAS EVE

CHRISTMAS EVE

CHRISTMAS EUCHARIST at 9pm

Carols By Candlelight 11pm

MIDNIGHT EUCHARIST at 11.15pm

9.30am

At St Stephen’s, 64 Park Street

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Services Ph: 308 8042 email: standrew@ashburton.co.nz

Birthday Greetings Tanner Wow! Happy 1st birthday to our wee man. Enjoy you party. Lots of love, Mum, Dad, Xahleiquin and Keiana. xxx Tanner Happy 1 Birthday Tanner.

Lots of love, Granny, Grandad, Aunty Stacey, Uncle Cody and Niall. xxx Riley Tasker Happy 5th birthday!

Love from mum, dad and Jack.

At St Stephen’s, 64 Park Street

CHRISTMAS EUCHARIST at 10am

10am at St Stephen’s, 64 Park Street 10am at St Andrew’s, 151 Thomson Street

8pm

Greenstreet Christmas Eve Service St David’s Candlelight Service

Christmas Day 9.30am

Sunday 24 December 10am Lagmhor Carol Service - 7pm Christmas Day - 9am combined at St Pauls 127 Thompson Street

All welcome

◊ DAY TRIP Geraldine - Timaru Caroline Bay December 29 departing 9.30am ◊ CHRISTCHURCH REBUILD Sumner - New Brighton January 3 departing 9.30am ◊ GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS For bookings phone 308 7646

Text 021 271 3399 Phone 0800 274 287 Email circulation@ theguardian.co.nz

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NOW

Doaky’s Plumbing Ltd 150 Smithfield Rd, Ashburton doakys@xtra.co.nz 03 308 1248

Lindsay 027 555 5575

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

RURAL TRADING POST

AMSOIL SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, antifreeze, car polish, V and L cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust bust, rain clear, engine cleaner and more. Call local distributor: Veehof phone 302 2911.

TRADES, SERVICES

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

Phone 027 220 9997.

HOME handyman available.

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

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

Cnr Cass & Cameron Streets.

Ph 308 7610

Mid Canterbury Catholic Churches

St James Presbyterian Church

Ph 03 308 7501

Beckley Coachlines Programme

All welcome

St David’s Union Church 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

Ph 308 5174

WEDNESDAY COMMUNION SERVICES

TRAVEL

Christmas Day Service 9.00am

11.15pm

During January, 10am at St Stephen’s, 64 Park St Parish Office: Phone 308 5438 Email: stephash@xtra.co.nz

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

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

Ready when you are

CHRISTMAS DAY

SUNDAY SERVICES - January Holy Communion

in the Sinclair Centre

Family Christmas Service

ALL VERY WELCOME

At St Andrew’s, 151 Thomson Street

CHRISTMAS DAY

Celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with us.

6pm

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison

ASHBURTON ANGLICAN PARISH

to be held in the Sinclair Centre, Park Street

Christmas Eve

Everyone Welcome

Ph 302 5842

Celebrate Christmas with Us!

warmly welcome you to celebrate Christmas and the birth of Jesus with us.

PUBLIC NOTICES

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Wakanui School Board of Trustees’ Election Declaration of Parent Election Results Parent Representative Votes: Emma Bishop Simon Cook Nigel Douglas

45 38 20

I hereby declare the following duly elected – Emma Bishop Simon Cook Signed: Lois Birchler-Stockdill Returning Officer

MOTORING

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.

Guardian Motoring 307 7900

Ashburton, Methven, Rakaia, Tinwald Sunday, December 24 6pm – Ashburton 6pm – Rakaia 9pm – Methven 9pm – Ashburton

Monday, December 25 8.30am – Tinwald 10am – Ashburton

We welcome you HOLIDAY

NEW potatoes, Nadine, ACCOMMODATION $2.50kg, 81 Elizabeth Street.

Now taking Christmas orders.

Phone 308 3195 or 0275 319 AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 103. bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod Southberry cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or Open 7 days 308-6180.

9am - 6pm Raspberries Ranui Tay Berrries Blackberries Red and Black Currants Freshly picked and PYO No Eftpos 56 Tinwald Westerfield Mayfield Road Phone 3081338

RAFFLES Lions Club of Ashburton Playhouse Christmas Raffle Drawn under police supervision 1 3318 Susan and Andrew Peattie 2 4385 Liz Small 3 3688 Kaye Miles Winners have been notified.

Ashburton Lions would like to thank all purchasers of the tickets.

All proceeds to the Ashburton Toy Library.

- Family Mass - Carols from 5.45pm - Carols from 5.30pm - Carols from 8.30pm - Carols from 8.30pm

LIVESTOCK, PETS

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL FOR RENT - Sunny warm three bedroom house. West side. Fenced backyard. No pets. $350 per week. Phone 027 551 3924.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

ASIAN pretty, hot honey.

Sexy. Nice figure. Busty BUYER of unwanted 38DD. Playful. Relaxing animals. Cattle, bobby calves, massage. Phone 022 541 horse and all farm animals. 9041.

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

Christmas is coming, No texting. Enquiries welcome.

LET OR LEASE Phone 021 044 0698.

STORAGE units within town boundary in monitored FOR SALE compound. 24hr surveillance SCOOTER’S - new and cameras. Phone 0274 491 secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and 871. wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

HEALTH & BEAUTY SHELLY – health massage.

Open 10am - 10pm. Chinese girl. Ashburton. Phone 022 684 1692.

Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

307 7900

HIRE GENERAL hire.

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

All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire.

588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8.30am 3.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

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6am Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Global Radar 0 7:30 Infomercials 8:30 Life TV With Paul De Jong 8:55 Neighbourhood 0 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 10am Couples Come Dine With Me PGR 11am The Inspectors PGR 0 11:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 1:55 The New Zealand Home 3 0 2:55 F Unreal Estate 3 0 3:50 F The Food Detectives 30 4:55 Posh Pawn At Christmas From helicopters to Lamborghinis, mini-submarines and Hermes handbags, Posh Pawn reveals the world of high-end pawnbroking. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm The X Factor UK 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 The X Factor UK 0 8:30 N The Toy Box Inventors present their ideas for new toys to a panel of mentors, then a panel of children, hoping to get their product to market. 0 9:25 Coronation Street 0 10:25 F Call The Midwife PGR 0

6am Art Attack 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Peppa Pig 0 6:45 The Furchester Hotel 3 0 6:55 F Future-Worm! 3 0 7:20 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 3 0 7:45 F Nexo Knights 3 8:10 Star Wars Rebels 3 0 8:35 Beyblade Burst 3 9am Hulk And The Agents Of Smash 3 0 9:25 Regular Show 3 0 9:35 Gamer’s Guide To Pretty Much Everything 10am The Muppets 0 10:30 Greatest Hits 0 11:20 Take Me Out PGR 0 12:30 M Gremlins 2 – The New Batch PGR 1990 Fantasy Comedy. 0 2:35 The Real O’Neals 3 0 3:05 Dr Ken PGR 3 0 4:05 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 4:35 Movie Juice 0 5:10 M Arthur Christmas PGR 2011 Animated Comedy. 0 7pm M A Christmas Carol PGR 2010 Animated. 0 8:50 M The Pursuit Of Happyness AO 2006 Drama.

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he is poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavour.

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Pukana Rangatahi show with music, send-ups, education, and practical life skills. 2 7:25 Infomercials 9:30 Married At First Sight USA PGR 3 The couples meet at their wedding ceremony in front of their family and friends.

10:30 Survivor – Worlds Apart 3 11:30 The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 12:30 Ice Road Truckers 3 0 1:25 Lip Sync Battle PGR 3 0 1:55 Wedding Town 3 2:25 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 2:55 The Goldbergs PGR 3 0 3:25 Getaway 3:55 Survivor – Heroes v Healers v Hustlers 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Dr Seuss’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas 3 2000 Fantasy. The Who family of Whoville love Christmas, but the cave-dwelling Grinch is determined to put an end to their festivities. 0 8:55 M Twins PGR 3 1988 Comedy. 0 10:55 M Vanilla Sky AO 3 2001 Romantic Thriller. 0

6am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 6:25 Ben 10 6:50 Codename – Kids Next Door 7:15 Kung Fu Dino Posse 3 7:40 Duck Dodgers 8:05 Johnny Test 3 8:30 Henry Danger 3 8:55 The Thundermans 10am Robot Wars PGR 11am The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 1:30 Football – English Premier League (HLS) 2:30 Storage Hunters PGR 3pm James May’s Cars Of The People PGR 3 0 4pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Actors Hermione Norris and John Thomson join antiques experts Mark Stacey and Catherine Southon on a trip around Cornwall in a classic car.

5pm Fishing Classics 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Flog It! 7pm Container Wars PGR 7:30 MasterChef Junior USA PGR 0 8:30 Agatha Raisin PGR 0 9:30 Father Brown PGR 0 10:30 Grantchester PGR 3 0

6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Team Umizoomi 3 7am Huhu 7:10 He Rourou 7:20 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 7:30 Huritua 3 7:40 Paia 3 7:50 Cube 3 8am Te Mana Kuratahi Kapa Haka 2017 Omnibus 11:45 Te Kaea 3 2 Noon Kapa Haka Whanau 3 12:30 Road To The Nats 3 1pm Basketball – Secondary Schools Championships 2pm Touch Rugby – E Tu Whanau National Championships 3 3pm Basketball – National League 3 4:30 Te Po Mekemeke 3 5pm Waiata 3 5:30 Aotearoa 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Kaea 2 7pm M Annie 1982 Musical. A red-haired girl dreams of a life outside her dingy orphanage.

Based on the Little Orphan Annie comic books.

9:20 M Born To Dance AO 2015 Drama Music. Comingof-age story told through the eyes of an ambitious young man from Auckland who dreams of being a professional hip-hop dancer.

6am American Pickers 7am American Restoration 8am Buying Hawaii 8:30 Love Nature – Polar Bear Town 9:30 Aussie Barbecue Heroes 10:30 Selling Houses With Amanda Lamb 11:30 American Pickers 12:30 Gardeners’ World 1:15 Better Homes And Gardens 2:30 Watt’s World 3pm DIY SOS – The Big Build 4pm Junk Gypsies Sisters Amie Sikes and Jolie Sikes-Smith dust off dressers and reimagine relics at the flea market.

4:30 Baggage Battles 5pm Buy It, Fix It, Sell It 5:30 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy 6:30 The Big Catch

12:30 Of Kings And Prophets AO 0 1:20 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:25 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

11:05 M National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation AO 1989 Comedy. 0 12:45 Grey’s Anatomy AO 3 0 2:20 Wentworth AO 3 0 4:05 Regular Show 3 4:20 Undateable PGR 3 0 4:45 Young And Hungry PGR3 5:05 Uncle Buck PGR 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

1:25 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v West Indies.

The second ODI from Hagley Oval in Christchurch.

Midnight Closedown

11:05 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:35 Closedown

11pm Australia – The Time Traveller’s Guide Midnight Buying Hawaii 12:30 Junk Gypsies 1am Watt’s World 1:30 M Ironclad AO 2011 Action. Paul Giamatti, Jason Flemyng.

4am The Big Catch 5am American Pickers

The Toy Box

8:30pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 10am Catfish 3 10:50 Four Weddings USA 3 11:45 Four Weddings USA 3 12:40 Hoarders 3 1:35 Catfish 3 2:30 Botched By Nature PGR 3 3:30 Masters Of Flip 3 4:30 Masters Of Flip 3 5:30 Masters Of Flip 3 6:30 Tabatha Takes Over 3 7:30 Relationshep Shep is searching the Lone Star State for someone to date, but bites off more than he can chew when he begins with an unusual double date.

8:30 N My Crazy Love PGR When an attractive man approaches her at the bar, Tina is overwhelmed and pretends to be deaf; Adrienne must face her fear of heights when she falls for a daredevil.

9pm My Crazy Love AO 9:30 Shahs Of Sunset AO 10:30 60 Days In... 3 11:30 Four Weddings USA 3

SUNDAY

12:20 Infomercials 3 5am Hoarders 3

Arthur Christmas 5:10pm on TVNZ 2

THE BOX 6am Pawn Stars PG 6:25 Pawn Stars PG 6:50 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away? MVL 7:35 Siberia MV 8:25 Outsiders 16VLSC 9:25 Haunted Collector M 10:15 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 1:15 Pawn Stars PG 1:40 Pawn Stars PG 2:05 Siberia MV 2:55 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!

MVL 3:40 Limitless MV 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 Modern Family PG 8pm Last Man Standing PG 8:30 Million Dollar Car Hunters PG 9:30 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! MVL 10:25 Pawn Stars PG 10:55 Pawn Stars PG 11:25 Outsiders 16VLSC SUNDAY 12:20 Modern Family PG 12:50 Last Man Standing PG 1:20 Million Dollar Car Hunters PG 2:10 Siberia MV 3am Last Man Standing PG 3:25 Outsiders 16VLSC 4:20 MacGyver M 5:05 Deep Undercover MVLC 5:35 Modern Family PG

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

7:05 Gods Of Egypt MV 2016 Action Adventure.

Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler. 9:10 Before I Fall ML 2017 Drama.

Zoey Deutch, Kian Lawley.

10:50 Bridget Jones’s Baby MLS 2016 Comedy.

Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth.

12:50 Miss Sloane MLS 2016 Drama. Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. 3pm Café Society MVSC 2016 Comedy. Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart. 4:35 10 Cent Pistol 16VLSC 2014 Crime. Damon Alexander, JT Alexander. 6:05 A Cure For Wellness 16VLSC 2017 Thriller. Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs. 8:30 Bravetown MLSC 2015 Drama. On the brink of success, a New York DJ is sentenced to live with his estranged father in a remote North Dakota town, after an accidental drug overdose.

Josh Duhamel, Lucas Till.

10:25 Kill Your Friends 18VLSC 2015 Comedy Thriller. Nicholas Hoult, Thomas Conroy, James Corden.

SUNDAY 12:05 10 Year Reunion MVC 2016 Thriller.

Kacey Clarke, Kayla Ewell.

1:35 Café Society MVSC 2016 Comedy. 3:10 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 3:25 Kill Your Friends 18VLSC 2015 Comedy Thriller. 5:05 Bravetown MLSC 2015 Drama.

6am Valkyrie MVL 2008 Drama. Tom Cruise, Kenneth Brannagh.

8am Burn After Reading 16VLS 2008 Crime Comedy. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt.

9:35 Bachelorette 16LS 2012 Romantic Comedy.

Rebel Wilson, Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher. 11am The Hunger Games MV 2012 Sci-fi Adventure. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth.

1:20 Valkyrie MVL 2008 Drama. Tom Cruise, Kenneth Brannagh.

3:20 Finding Neverland PGC 2004 Drama. Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman.

5pm Horrible Bosses 16LS 2011 Comedy.

Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Anniston. 6:35 Gran Torino 16VL 2009 Crime.

Clint Eastwood. 8:30 Magic In The Moonlight PG 2014 Comedy. A celebrated magician travels to the Cote d’Azur to expose a clairvoyant who has a rich American family in her clutches.

10:10 Into The Blue MVL 2005 Action.

SUNDAY Midnight The Switch MS 2010 Comedy.

1:40 Close Up – Richard Gere PG 2:10 Finding Neverland PGC 2004 Drama.

3:50 Gran Torino 16VL 2008 Crime. 5:45 Horrible Bosses 16LS 2011 Comedy.

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Golf Fix 7am School Of Golf With Martin Hall. 9am Cricket – Big Bash Strikers v Thunder.

9:30 Cricket – International India v Sri Lanka – Second T20.

10am Cricket – International Blackcaps v West Indies – First ODI. 10:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v West Indies – Second ODI. 2:35 The Cricket Show 3:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v West Indies – Second ODI. 7pm Cricket – International India v Sri Lanka – Second T20. 7:30 Rugby – Aviva Premiership Worcester Warriors v London Irish.

9:30 Fox Sports News 10pm Rugby – Women’s World Cup Black Ferns v Wales. 10:30 Rugby – Women’s World Cup Black Ferns v Hong Kong. 11pm Rugby – Women’s World Cup Canada v Black Ferns.

11:30 Rugby – Women’s World Cup SUNDAY Midnight Rugby – Women’s World Cup 12:30 Golf – Presidents Cup Official Film 1:30 Golf – Playoffs Official Film 2:30 Golf – PGA Tour Year In Review 3:30 Golf – PGA Tour Champions Year In Review 4:30 Rugby – Women’s World Cup 5am Netball – ANZ Premiership 5:30 Netball – ANZ Premiership

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

7:30 American Pickers 8:30 M Ironclad AO 2011 Action. In 13th-century England, a small group of Knights Templars fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.

Paul Giamatti, Jason Flemyng.

SKY SPORT 2 6am Football – A-League (RPL) Newcastle Jets Western v Sydney Wanderers FC. From McDonald Jones Stadium.

8am The World Rugby Show 8:30 Basketball – NBL (HLS) Sydney v Breakers.

9am Fox Sports News 9:30 The Cricket Show 10am ICC Cricket 360 10:45 Cricket – Big Bash (RPL) Adelaide Strikers v Sydney Thunder.

2:15 L Cricket – Women’s Big Bash League Sydney Sixers v Hobart Hurricanes.

6:05 L Cricket – Big Bash Sydney Sixers v Perth Scorchers.

From the Sydney Cricket Ground.

9:40 L Cricket – Big Bash Melbourne Renegades v Brisbane Heat.

From Etihad Stadium.

SUNDAY

1:10 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Strikers v Thunder.

1:40 Cricket – International (HLS) India v Sri Lanka – Second T20.

2:10 Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v West Indies – Second ODI. 2:40 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Sixers v Scorchers.

3:10 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Renegades v Heat.

3:55 L Rugby – Aviva Premiership Sharks v Bath.

23Dec17

DISCOVERY 6:35 MythBusters PG Crash and Burn. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Mighty Cruise Ships PG 9:10 Gold Rush PG Wagers and Wars. 10:50 American Monster M The Craigslist Killer. 11:40 The 1980s – The Deadliest Decade M 12:30 Diesel Brothers PG Hell Camino. 1:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Back to the 1980’s in a 1968 Coronet. 2:10 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 3pm Homestead Rescue PG Trapped.

3:50 Alaskan Bush People M 4:45 Moonshiners M Making Spirits Bright.

5:40 Gold Rush PG Wagers and Wars.

7:30 Treehouse Masters PG Appalachian Christmas Treehouse.

8:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Rockin’ it in Rocket City.

9:25 River Monsters M Return of the Killer Catfish.

10:15 Auction Hunters PG 10:40 In Inner Mongolia PG Mobile Warriors.

11:30 Naked And Afraid PG Bloody Secret of the Lost City.

SUNDAY 12:20 Gold Rush PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Treehouse Masters PG 4:05 Moonshiners M 4:55 MythBusters PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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6am The Fishing Show 0 6:45 Going, Going, Gone 3 0 7:10 A Taste Of Home 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Whanau Living 10am Homemade PGR 3 0 10:35 Waka Huia 11:05 Mastermind 3 In the third semi-final, Auckland’s Naomi Austin has chosen The TV Series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2015. 0 11:40 Life Flight 0 12:05 Coronation Street 3 0 1:05 M Goddess PGR 2013 Comedy Romance.

Ronan Keating, Laura Michelle Kelly.

3:15 M Dolly Parton’s Coat Of Many Colours PGR 2015 Family Drama. Alyvia Alyn Lind, Jennifer Nettles, Ricky Schroder. 0 4:55 The Chase Christmas Special 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm F Country Calendar 0 7:30 F Blue Planet II 0 8:40 M The Notebook PGR 2004 Drama. An old man reads to a woman with Alzheimers from a faded notebook, recalling their earlier romance. James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Ryan Gosling.

6am Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Peppa Pig 0 6:45 Masha And The Bear 3 0 6:55 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 7am Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:10 Elena Of Avalor 0 7:35 Be Cool Scooby-Doo! 3 0 8am M The Pirate Fairy 2014 Animated Adventure. 0 9:15 Kickin’ It 3 0 10:05 M Million Dollar Arm PGR 2014 Drama. 0 12:05 M The Flight Before Christmas PGR 2015 Romantic Comedy. 0 1:45 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 2:10 Black-Ish 3 0 3:05 The Regular Show 3:15 Home And Away Omnibus 0 5:10 M The Polar Express PGR 2004 Family.

7pm M The Santa Clause 1994 Comedy. When a man inadvertently kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place. 0 8:45 M Four Holidays AO 2008 Comedy. 0 10:25 M Eight Crazy Nights AO 2002 Animated Comedy.

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Living Church Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am M Christmas Mix PGR 2015 Romantic Comedy.

Haylie Duff, Maureen McCormick, Tilky Jones. 0 10:30 M A Mission For Christmas PGR 2015 Drama Fantasy. Lindsey Gort, Derek Theler. 0 Noon M My One Christmas Wish PGR 3 2015 Musical Drama. 0 2pm Bob’s Burgers PGR 3 2:25 American Dad PGR 3 2:55 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 3 3:25 The Goldbergs 3 0 3:55 New Girl 3 4:25 Moe’s Christmas When Gilbert’s plan to get his name off Santa’s naughty list backfires, it is up to Moe to save Christmas. 0 4:55 Life 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm House Rules PGR It is time for the judges’ reveal. What will Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen think of the rooms? 0 8:30 M Die Hard AO 3 1988 Action. A lone detective takes on a group of terrorists who have barricaded hostages in a Los Angeles high-rise.

Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia. 0

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box Noon War News PGR 3 12:55 Top Gear PGR 3 2pm Mad About You PGR 2:30 University Challenge 3 0 3pm Trawlermen Tales PGR 3 0 4pm American Restoration 3 0 4:30 Antiques Road Trip 3 Christina Trevanion and Philip Serrell embark on their penultimate leg.

From Manchester, they drive towards the auction in Melbourne, near York.

5:30 Prime News 6pm Rick Stein’s Long Weekends Rick Stein goes on a series of culinary long weekends in search of food excellence, visiting markets, restaurants, wineries, cafés, and bars, beginning in Bordeaux. 0

11pm M Hope Springs 2012 Comedy Romance.

0 12:50 M Darling Companion PGR 2012 Comedy Drama. 0 2:30 M Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close AO 2011 Adventure. 0 4:35 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0

11:55 M The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 Animated.

1:15 M A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas AO 2011 Comedy.

0 2:45 Melissa And Joey PGR 3 0 3:40 Christmas Makes You Laugh Out Loud PGR 3 0 4:25 M Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever PGR 2014 Adventure Comedy.

11:10 NCIS AO 3 0 12:05 NCIS – LA AO 3 12:50 Hawaii Five-0 AO 3 1:35 M An En Vogue Christmas PGR 2014 Drama.

3:05 M Guess Who’s Coming To Christmas PGR 3 2013 Romantic Comedy. 4:35 M All I Want For Christmas PGR 3 2007 Family Romance. 0

11pm 60 Minutes PGR In his first interview, an FBI undercover operative shares how he infiltrated al Qaeda and stopped potential terror attacks. Then, how one Californian prison is reforming solitary confinement.

Midnight Football – English Premier League 2am Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE 7am 10 Cent Pistol 16VLSC 2014 Crime. Damon Alexander, JT Alexander. 8:30 A Cure For Wellness 16VLSC 2017 Thriller. Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs. 10:55 10 Year Reunion MVC 2016 Thriller.

Kacey Clarke, Kayla Ewell.

Moe’s Christmas The Nightmare Before Christmas, 11:55pm on TVNZ 2 12:25 Café Society MVSC 2016 4:25pm on Three Comedy. Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart.

BRAVO THE BOX 2pm Bravetown MLSC 2015 6am Catfish 3 6:40 Catfish 6am Million Dollar Car Drama. Josh Duhamel, 3 7:25 Hoarders Hunters PG 6:50 The Force Lucas Till. 3:55 See You In 3 8:10 Hoarders Valhalla 16VLC 2015 Comedy MC 7:40 The Simpsons 3 8:55 Hoarders Drama. Sarah Hyland, Super Sunday PG 3 9:40 Catfish 3 Bret Harrison. 5:15 Dixieland A marathon of Simpson’s 10:25 Relationshep 3 16VLSC 2016 Drama. Chris Zylka, episodes. 10:15 Face 11:10 Tabatha Takes Riley Keough. 6:55 Bad Off M 11:10 The Force Over 3 11:55 60 Days In Neighbours 2 – Sorority MC 12:05 MacGyver 12:50 Four Weddings USA Rising 16VLSC 2016 Comedy.

3 1:45 Four Weddings USA M 1pm Helicopter Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, ER M 2pm Raw MV 3 2:45 Four Weddings Zac Efron. 8:30 The Great 4:45 Smackdown MV USA 3 3:40 Catfish Wall MV 2017 Action.

6:30 Main Event MV 3 4:35 Masters Of Flip When a mercenary is 7:30 MacGyver M 3 5:35 Masters Of Flip imprisoned within the Great Mac and Jack help Mac’s close Wall, he joins an army of 3 6:35 M A Christmas Melody 2015 Romance Music. friend from MIT after she fakes elite warriors to confront Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, her own death to prevent a seemingly unstoppable Kathy Najimy. 8:30 Dance force of marauding beasts. someone from killing her to Moms suppress her scientific research. Matt Damon, Jing Tian.

9:30 Tabatha Takes Over PGR 8:30 Texas Rising 18VLSC 10:15 Keeping Up With The 10:25 Ladies Of London AO Joneses MVLS 2016 Comedy.

9:30 Bosch MVL 11:25 Four Weddings USA Gal Gadot, Jon Hamm.

10:30 Helicopter ER M 3 CHRISTMAS DAY CHRISTMAS DAY 11:30 Main Event MV 12:15 Four Weddings USA Midnight Race PGVLS 2016 CHRISTMAS DAY 3 1:05 Four Weddings Biography. 2:15 See You 12:30 Helicopter ER M USA 3 1:55 Masters Of In Valhalla 16VLC 2015 Flip 3 2:45 Masters Of Flip 1:20 Deep Undercover Comedy Drama. 3:35 Bad MVLC 1:45 The Force MC 3 3:35 Masters Of Flip Neighbours 2 – Sorority 2:35 Face Off M 3:25 Texas Rising 16VLSC 2016 Comedy.

3 4:25 M A Christmas Rising 18VLSC 4:15 Bosch MVL 5:05 Dixieland 16VLSC 2016 To Remember PGR 3 2016 Drama.

5:05 Main Event MV Romance.

CHOICE

10am Whanau Kai 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 11am Waiata 3 11:30 Survive Aotearoa PGR 12:30 Code PGR 3 1pm Matau 3 1:30 Get Your Fish On 3 2pm Finding Aroha PGR 3 2:30 Basketball – Secondary Schools Championships 3:30 Pete And Pio 3 4pm Hoiho 3 Urewera.

4:30 Hip-Hop – New Zealand Nationals 3 Highlights from this year’s competition.

5pm Haka Nation 3 5:30 Matangi Rau 3 6:30 Te Kaea 2

7pm M Bran Nue Dae PGR 7pm Storage Wars PGR 2009 Musical Drama. The 8pm Top Gear – East Coast Road coming-of-age story of Trip PGR 3 an Australian Aboriginal 9pm Midsomer Murders PGR 3 teenager on a road trip in the Barnaby and Nelson late 1960s. investigate when a wealthy 8:35 M Cinema Paradiso PGR landowner’s body goes 1988 Drama. missing on the night of his 10:45 Te Kaea 3 2 death, and a web of secrets and lies is exposed in the village of Little Malton. 0

MOVIES GREATS 7:20 Nothing But Trailers 7:35 Magic In The Moonlight PG 2014 Comedy. Colin Firth, Emma Stone. 9:10 Into The Blue MVL 2005 Action.

Jessica Alba, Paul Walker.

11am The Switch MS 2010 Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman. 12:40 Gran Torino 16VL 2009 Crime.

Clint Eastwood. 2:35 To Rome With Love MLS 2012 Romantic Comedy.

Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg. 4:25 Friends With Benefits 16LS 2011 Comedy. Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis. 6:15 Flight 16LS 2012 Thriller.

Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle.

8:30 Dodgeball – A True Underdog Story MS 2004 Comedy. The owner of a rundown gym sets out to save his business from a takeover by pinning everything on a dodgeball challenge.

Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn.

10:05 Friday The 13th 16VLS 2009 Horror. Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker.

11:40 PS I Love You MS 2007 Drama. CHRISTMAS DAY 1:45 To Rome With Love MLS 2012 Romantic Comedy. 3:35 Friends With Benefits 16LS 2011 Comedy.

5:25 Flight 16LS 2012 Thriller.

11:15 Aotearoa 3 Tainui Stephens narrates a documentary series showcasing Aotearoa from above.

11:45 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am Netball – International Silver Ferns v Australian Diamonds. 6:30 Basketball – NBL Brisbane Bullets v Sydney Kings. 8:30 Basketball – NBL Illawarra Hawks v Perth Wildcats. 10:30 Basketball – NBL Sydney Kings v NZ Breakers. 11am Athletics – IAAF Season Review Noon Football – A-League Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC. 2pm The Cricket Show 2:30 Cricket – International Blackcaps v West Indies – Second ODI. 3pm L Cricket – Super Smash Auckland Aces v Wellington Firebirds.

6:30 Cricket – International Blackcaps v West Indies – Second ODI. 7pm Cricket – Big Bash Sixers v Scorchers.

7:30 Cricket – Big Bash Renegades v Heat. 8pm Darts – World Championship Day 10. 8:30 Cricket – Super Smash Aces v Firebirds.

9pm Football – A-League Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC. 9:30 Basketball – NBL Adelaide 36ers v Cairns Taipans. 11:30 Basketball – NBL CHRISTMAS DAY Midnight Cricket – Super Smash 12:30 Cricket – Big Bash 1am Cricket – Big Bash 1:50 Cricket – International 2:20 L Cricket – International India v Sri Lanka – Third T20.

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

6am Wild Australia With Ray Mears 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Christ Embassy 7:30 Buying Alaska 8am Hunters Of The South Seas 9am Australia – The Time Traveller’s Guide 10am DIY SOS – The Big Build 11am The Big Catch Noon Wild Australia With Ray Mears 12:30 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy 1:30 Baggage Battles 2pm Buy It, Fix It, Sell It 2:30 American Pickers 3:30 Masters Of The Pacific 4:30 Nigel Slater Eating Together Nigel sees how custard brings out the child people, touring the flavours of modern Britain from Christmas trifle to home-baked Portuguese custard tarts.

5pm Heston’s Fantastical Food 6pm Tiny House Nation 7pm M Astro Boy PGR 2009 Family Animated.

8:30 M Morning Glory AO 2010 Comedy. An old-school anchorman, who quit his evening newscast because of its new, gossipy ways, is recruited by a producer looking to revive a failing morning show.

10:30 The Auction House 11:30 Buying Alaska Midnight Hunters Of The South Seas 1am Heston’s Fantastical Food 2am M Morning Glory AO 2010 Comedy. Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford.

4am The Auction House 5am Tiny House Nation

SKY SPORT 2 6am Cricket – International Blackcaps v West Indies – Second ODI. 6:30 The Cricket Show 7am Cricket – Big Bash Sydney Sixers v Perth Scorchers. 10:30 Cricket – Big Bash Melbourne Renegades v Brisbane Heat.

2pm Cricket – Women’s Big Bash Sydney Sixers v Hobart Hurricanes.

5pm L Basketball – NBL Adelaide 36ers v Cairns Taipans. 7pm Darts – World Championship Day 10. 7:30 Rugby League – NRL Qualifying Final Two – Roosters v Broncos.

8pm Rugby League – NRL Qualifying Final One – Storm v Eels. 8:30 Rugby League – NRL Elimination Final Two – Sea Eagles v Panthers. 9pm Rugby League – NRL Elimination Final One – Sharks v Cowboys.

9:30 Rugby League – NRL Semi-final One – Broncos v Panthers. 10pm Rugby League – NRL Semi-final Two – Eels v Cowboys.

10:30 Rugby League – NRL 11pm Rugby League – NRL 11:30 Rugby League – NRL CHRISTMAS DAY Midnight Rugby League – State Of Origin 12:30 Rugby League – State Of Origin 1am Rugby League – State Of Origin 1:30 Ice Hockey – NHL 3:30 Football – A-League 5:30 Basketball – NBL 24Dec17

DISCOVERY 6:35 MythBusters PG MiniMyth Mayhem. 7:30 In Inner Mongolia PG Mobile Warriors.

8:20 Gold Rush PG Wagers and Wars. 10am Naked And Afraid M Stone Cold.

10:50 Moonshiners M Making Spirits Bright.

11:40 Homestead Rescue PG Trapped. 12:30 River Monsters M Return of the Killer Catfish. 1:20 Shark Tank PG 2:10 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Growing Pains.

3pm Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Welcome to the Jungle. 3:50 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Living Under the Sea. 4:45 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Waterpark Wonderland.

5:40 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Fiesta de Laguna.

6:35 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Rockin’ it in Rocket City. 7:30 Mighty Cruise Ships PG 8:30 Mighty Cruise Ships PG 9:25 Railroad Australia PG 10:15 Diesel Brothers PG Hell Camino. 10:40 In Inner Mongolia PG Mobile Warriors.

11:05 Gold Rush PG Wagers and Wars. CHRISTMAS DAY 12:45 Moonshiners M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am Auction Hunters PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Moonshiners M 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 MythBusters PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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6am A Very Special Christmas 0 7:30 Praise Be 8:30 Mucking In 0 8:55 The Secret Life Of Children At Christmas 0 9:40 Royal Variety Performance PGR 0 11:45 The Chase 0 12:30 M The Horse Whisperer PGR 1998 Drama. Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas. 0 3:15 Tipping Point Christmas Special 4:05 Te Karere 2 4:35 M Dolly Parton’s Christmas Of Many Colours – Circle Of Love 2016 Family Drama.

Dolly Parton’s father must raise enough money to buy his wife a wedding ring; a blizzard poses a threat to the family. Dolly Parton, Gerald McRaney, Kelli Berglund. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 6:50 The Queen’s Christmas Message 0 7pm M Salmon Fishing In The Yemen PGR 2011 Comedy Drama. 0 8:40 M The Lady In The Van PGR 2015 Biography Drama. 0 10:30 The Queen’s Christmas Message 3 0 10:40 M Something’s Gotta Give AO 2003 Comedy.

6am Peppa Pig 0 6:10 M The Swan Princess Christmas PGR 2012 Animation Adventure. 0 7:30 SpongeBob SquarePants 3 0 7:55 The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue! 3 0 8:05 Be Cool ScoobyDoo! 3 0 8:25 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 0 8:50 Henry Hugglemonster 3 0 9:10 M Tinkerbell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast 2014 Family Adventure. 0 10:25 M We’re Going On A Bear Hunt 2016 0 10:50 M Jack Frost PGR 1998 Family. 12:30 Coca Cola Christmas In The Park 0 1:15 M A Royal Christmas 2014 Romantic Comedy. 0 2:45 M A Christmas Wedding Tail PGR 2011 Comedy. 0 4:10 Black-Ish 3 0 4:35 Friends 3 0 5pm The Middle 3 0 5:25 M The Lego Movie PGR 2014 Animated Adventure. 0 7pm M Hunt For The Wilderpeople PGR 2016 Adventure. A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious boy and his foster uncle who go missing in the New Zealand bush. 0 8:35 M The Longest Yard AO 2005 Comedy.

10:25 M Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion AO 1997 Comedy. 0

6am Moe’s Christmas 3 0 6:25 Lucy Lewis Can’t Lose 0 7am Sticky TV Christmas Special 7:55 M Santa’s Secret PGR 3 2014 Family.

Alicia Witt, Wallace Shawn.

0 9:20 M Hats Off To Christmas PGR 3 2013 Romantic Comedy. Haylie Duff, Antonio Cupo, Jay Brazeau. 0 10:45 M A Perfect Christmas PGR 2012 Romantic Comedy. Claire Coffee, Ryan McPartlin. 0 12:10 M My Santa PGR 2013 Family Drama. Samaire Armstrong, Matthew Lawrence. 0 1:40 M Holiday Wishes PGR 2006 Family. Amber Benson, Britt McKillip. 0 3:10 M The Sound Of Music PGR 3 1965 Musical Drama. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm Modern Family PGR 0 7:20 Jono And Ben’s Christmas Special PGR 8:15 The Graham Norton Show PGR 0 9:05 Live At The Apollo AO 3 0 9:55 Michael McIntyre’s Big Christmas Show PGR 0

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11pm M Another Christmas Kiss PGR 3 2014 Romance.

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Jonathan Bennett, Lola Glaudini, Maurice Hall. 0 12:30 Infomercials 5:30 City Impact Church

11pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

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11:15 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:45 Closedown

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The Lady in the Van 8:40pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 6am M The Christmas Note 3 Romantic Comedy.

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10:25 M Christmas In Conway PGR 3 2013 Romantic Drama. 12:05 M A Christmas To Remember PGR 3 2016 Romance.

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6pm M Christmas In Conway PGR 3 2013 Romantic Drama. 7:40 M The Christmas Secret 2014 Romantic Drama.

9:15 M A Heavenly Christmas PGR 2016 Drama.

10:50 M Coming To America AO 3 1988 Comedy.

12:45 Infomercials 3

Hunt for the Wilderpeople 7pm on TVNZ 2

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Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron. 3:15 Skiptrace MVC 2016 Comedy.

Jackie Chan, Johnny Knoxville.

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6:45 Sing Street ML 2016 Drama. Ferdia WalshPeelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy.

8:30 The Legend Of Tarzan MV 2016 Action. Unaware he is being used as a pawn for greed and revenge, Tarzan returns to the Congo, leading to a battle between industry and nature. Alexander Skarsgård, Rory J Saper, Christian Stevens.

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Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow. 12:50 To Rome With Love MLS 2012 Romantic Comedy.

Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg. 2:40 The Butler MVL 2013 Drama Biography. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack.

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Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn.

6:25 Star Trek MV 2009 Sci-fi Action. Chris Pine. 8:30 Red MVL 2010 Action. When his peaceful life is threatened by an assassin, a former agent reassembles his old team to survive and uncover his assailants. Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman.

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Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth.

11:55 The Butler MVL 2013 Drama Biography.

Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack. TUESDAY 2:05 The Banger Sisters MLS 2001 Comedy Drama.

Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn.

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Christopher Plummer, Heath Ledger.

9:35 The Jonathan Ross Show PGR A festive edition of the show.

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8:30 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Road to Barrett Jackson I. 9:25 Diesel Brothers PG Truck v Train.

10:15 Moonshiners M Making Spirits Bright.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M Redemption Road.

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DOWNWARD, Lilian – Please note all late death Passed away peacefully on notices or notices sent December 22, 2017, at outside ordinary office hours Ashburton. Aged 96 years. must be emailed to: Loved wife and friend of the deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz late George. Loved mother to ensure publication. and mother in law of Anne To place a notice during and Tom McCoy (USA), George and Mel, Peter and office hours please contact us on 03 307 7900 Trish, Brian and Gail, and for more information Stephen and Dianne. Special ouma and granny to her 12 Any queries grandchildren, 6 great please contact grandchildren and 2 great0800 great grandchildren.

ASHBURTON Messages to the Downward (0800-274-287) family, c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A special thank you to the staff of DEATHS Cameron Courts for their loving care of Lilian. At Lilian’s request a private cremation has been held.

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VEAR, Dennis John (John) – On December 21, 2017, peacefully at Christchurch Hospital, after a short illness, aged 79 years. Dearly loved husband of Helen and dearly loved father and father-in-law of Ginny and Chris, and Poppy and Shaun. Much loved grandad of Ashton, and loved “Daddy” of Duddles.

Messages to the Vear family, C/PO Box 26112, Christchurch 8148. A private memorial will be held.

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HALL, Arthur Albert – 12-4-1927 – 23-12-2012. Five years have passed.

Though absent you are always near.

Still loved, still missed, still very dear Dearly loved and remembered husband, dad, grandad and great grandad of Edna, Bev, Sandra, Robin, Lynette and families.

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Cloudy with some early drizzle south of the Rakaia river, clearing to fine in the morning.

However, isolated afternoon and evening showers, some possibly heavy.

Wind at 1000m: Light. NW 30 km/h developing in the evening.

Wind at 2000m: Light. NW 30 km/h developing in the evening.

TOMORROW

FZL: Above 3000m

Mainly fine, but some morning cloud.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to gale 65 km/h in the afternoon.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to gale 65 km/h in the afternoon, 75 km/h in the evening.

MONDAY

Cloud increasing and rain developing in the west in the morning with heavy falls and thunderstorms possible, then elsewhere in the evening. Gale or severe gale NW in exposed places.

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mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers

Fine spells. Southerlies dying out.

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WILLIAMSON, Chrissy Jane – Suddenly at Christchurch on December 19, aged 59 years.

Loved daughter of Murray (Doc) and Edna (both deceased), and loved sister of Doc (Paul) and John.

Messages for the family may be sent to PO Box 149, Ashburton 7740. A private cremation for Chrissy has been held.

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SCLATER, Beverley – December 24, 2015.

Softly the leaves of memory fall, Gently we gather and treasure them all.

Unseen, unheard, she is always near, Still loved, still missed and very dear.

Love Jack, Deborah, Kathryn, Joanne and families.

KELK, Mary – The family of Mary Kelk wish to acknowledge their appreciation for the many expressions of love, care and support. Thank you.

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WordWheel Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There is at least one fiveletter word.

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Just because you can read the signs doesn’t mean you’ll follow them. They seem geared toward guiding you down the conventional route. You’ll be in the mood to explore and find your own way.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The struggle is between you and you today. If you’re too strict with yourself, you’ll rebel and do nothing. So be gentle. Praise and encourage yourself. You’re doing so much that’s right.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The people around you may heartily agree, but it’s time to take your idea wider, keeping in mind that there are those in the world at large who believe much, much differently from the way you do.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Clear the air in these last days of the year so you can go into 2018 without baggage. Ultimately it’s negotiation and a fair compromise that will serve you best.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Regarding a rocky relationship: There’s so much that’s possible here, so don’t give up unless you’re truly unwilling to do things differently. Change can still happen.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’re disarming, and you’ll be in the perfect company to exercise your charms. There are those who really need to drop their defences! They’ll be much better for knowing you today.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Today, if you were a bird, you’d be a peacock. You have some colourful stuff to strut! And since birds of a feather flock together, you may be a part of a truly impressive show and tell.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You’ll have to call up powers of diplomacy to deal deftly with the group today. These guys aren’t going to get along unless there’s someone in the middle to buffer the conversation. That person is you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Look on the bright side – not directly into the sun though, or you’ll damage your eyesight. The bright side is a light filtered through the clouds, trees, buildings and people in the real world.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You have something on your mind, but you’re not “consumed” by this. Yours is a strong intention. This is better for you as it leaves room to work with what others want. Oblivious ambition is dangerous.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Some say you should master your thoughts to master your actions, but this isn’t always the order that works.

Your thoughts can be feral and powerful as wild horses, but do things differently and your thoughts will calm down.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Circumstances don’t define you. Circumstances are opportunities. What defines you is always your reaction to these opportunities. Really good things can come out of less than ideal situations.

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