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New Community Driver Mentor Programme regional co-ordinator Heather Daly is on the lookout for volunteer driving mentors.

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Driver skills that are life-changing

By Susan Sandys

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Thanks to $2 million from Provincial Growth Funding (PGF), Ashburton and other South Island towns are getting a community driver mentor programme.

In its first year in Ashburton alone, 90 clients of welfare and well-being agencies, and those with financial difficulties, will be helped towards getting their restricted or full licences.

Ashburton mum and former primary school teacher Heather Daly has been employed as the regional co-ordinator, and she is on the hunt for up to 25 vol-

unteer mentors.

She is also looking for office space and the programme provides two cars.

Mentors will train clients on a oneon-one basis in one of the cars, while Daly will use the second car to train mentors. Daly is undergoing training to become a qualified driving instructor, while mentors will focus on helping clients learn what is required to pass restricted and full driving tests.

“I’m looking forward to being able to support people with their wellbeing,” Daly said.

Part of her job will be networking

with local businesses to find employment for the clients once they have their licences.

The Community Driver Mentor Programme is run by the Salvation Army and was initiated in 2014 in Christchurch. Inexperienced drivers in the programme have often come from families with criminal histories, poverty, cultural disparities and self-confidence difficulties.

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Drones a growing airport problem People operating drones in the Ashburton District are being reminded to observe Civil Aviation Authority rules when they take to the skies, after reports of drones flying too close to the Ashburton Airport, with local flyers reporting multiple near-misses a week across the district.

Civil Aviation Authority rules state that drones must stay four kilometres away from all designated airports and helipads unless the person has the required CAA authorisation and clearance from the aerodrome operator.

A Mid Canterbury Aero Club spokesman, who asked not to be named, said drones were becoming a big concern for local flyers.

“There is a lot of legal operators out there, who operate correctly and have the correct licences, but there are a large number of people who see what they do and copy them, thinking it is okay,” he said.

“It is a major issue with the speedway, there is a guy who does get permission and lets us know when he will be flying but there are others who see him and operate theirs as well and it is right where we approach to land.”

The spokesman said near misses were becoming an issue all over

Pilots flying at Ashburton Airport are having to keep an eye out for a growing problem – drones.

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the district, not just around the airport.

“This week there have been two near misses in the hills and there were near misses last week as well,” he said.

“They are operating in amongst

the hills with people trying to get photographs and then the aircraft come through.

“They are very difficult to see, they are small and very fast and you only see it one or two seconds before it would be hitting you.”

Despite their small sizes, the spokesman said should a plane hit a drone, it would have the potential to break through the plane’s windscreen or damage a wing and bring a plane down.

“They whisk right past you like a

Mt Somers water issues remain a mystery

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

Ashburton District Council staff have been left scratching their heads as to why consumption on the Mt Somers water supply has jumped so rapidly, requiring the council to impose its highest level of water restrictions and to tanker in water to keep the supply from running dry.

The council issued an emergency level five water restriction for those on the Mt Somers water supply on Tuesday, a day after issuing a level four water restriction notice.

A level five restriction means people on the supply are ad-

vised to only use water for cooking, cleaning, drinking and hygiene purposes.

Ashburton District Council service delivery group manager Neil McCann had been working hard to determine the cause of the water supply dropping.

“We can’t determine yet what the problem is and we are investigating, looking for any leaks that may be causing the issue,” he said.

“It has gotten very dry and we are doing what we can to ensure there is still a water supply there which means we have had to tanker water in to keep the water flowing.”

McCann said he was unsure just how low the water levels had got, but that the need to tanker in multiple loads of water indicated that the supply had gone very close to running dry.

“We are really concerned and we, of course, have to keep water going through the supply so we may have to keep tankering in water or supply it some way but that is obviously a last resort option, as it is very expensive to tanker water in,” he said.

The water for Mount Somers is sourced from an infiltration gallery near the south branch of the Ashburton River.

The infiltration gallery col-

lects water through the holes in the pipe into a collection well from where it then flows downhill by gravity to the treatment plant.

Water from the infiltration gallery travels under farmland by pipeline and then goes through the treatment plant on Ashburton Gorge Road and is then stored in three tanks.

Around 8.4km of pipes make up the Mt Somers water supply, servicing more than 95 connections to people’s properties.

In 2015 similar restrictions were put in place for the Mt Somers supply after consumption jumped significantly over the New Year period.

bird and it is a real shock,” he said.

Council chief executive officer Hamish Riach says drones are a great way to capture aerial footage and explore the district, however they come with some important responsibilities, to ensure people’s safety and privacy.

“We don’t want to discourage people from using these tools, but we just ask that users be aware of where they are and aren’t allowed to fly their drone,” he said.

“Airports are obviously busy air-space areas and it can be very dangerous to have drones flying where planes and other aircraft are operating.”

The Ashburton Airport is located just over five kilometres outside Ashburton on Seafield Road and is owned by the council.

People seeking to fly within the airport’s four kilometre radius must contact the council for permission.

Drone users are also encouraged to check the council’s open spaces bylaw for rules around flying over parks and reserves.

Areas drones are prohibited include – over cemeteries, camping grounds, sports fields being used by others, and within 50 metres of any playground or paddling pool.

Driver skills that change lives From P1 For many, their individual journey with their volunteer mentor to gain independence through being able to drive, has proved life changing.

Now, with the $2 million assistance from the Provincial Growth Fund, there is a three-year contract to extend the programme into Ashburton, as well as Timaru, Rangiora, Westport, Greymouth and Hokitika.

The programme will begin in Ashburton in March and there will be up to four courses held throughout the year.

If you think you have what it takes to be a volunteer driving mentor, contact Daly on 021 927-370 or heather.daly@salvationarmy.org.nz

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Three new trustees join multicultural team

By Susan Sandys

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The Ashburton Multicultural Trust has three new trustees.

Mirian Flórez, Tumanu Paiaaua and Ximena Puig, of Ashburton, have replaced two retiring trustees, Earl Magtibay and Howard Mahere. And they have joined current trustees, chairwoman Thelma Bell, treasurer Selwyn Price and Rohini Fukul and Marion Bartlett.

The trust holds Multi Cultural Bite each year and that attracts up to 14,000 foodies on Waitangi Day at Baring Square East.

This year’s event will see local residents originally from the Philippines, Singapore, Brazil, Nigeria, Egypt, India, Nepal, Poland, Argentina, South Africa, Tonga, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka and Samoa dish up samples of their native cuisine.

Flórez is originally from Colombia, South America, where her profession was animal scientist in the agricultural sector. She and her husband moved to New Zealand about 12 years ago and she has since trained as a primary school teacher.

Paiaaua is of Samoan descent and was born and raised in Wellington. She has held many professional and community roles and she and her husband are heavily involved in their local community and church, coaching youth leaders and mentoring young future leaders.

Puig was born in Uruguay, and holds French citizenship. She attained a degree in architecture in 2018 and moved to Ashburton after a two-year long-distance relationship with her Uruguayan partner, who is a New Zealand resident.

The Ashburton Multicultural Trust has three new trustees (from left) Mirian Flórez, Tumanu Paiaaua and Ximena Puig.

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Be informed when it’s time to vote

By Heather Mackenzie

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At General Election 2020 voters will be asked a binding referendum question about the proposed Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill.

The official wording of the referendum question as released in 2019 by Minister of Justice Andrew Little’s office requires a yes or no answer.

Do you support the proposed Cannabis Legalisation and Con-

trol Bill? Yes, I support the proposed Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill or No, I do not support the proposed Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill.

Two small words – yes or no – yet they could have lasting repercussions for New Zealand.

A no vote would mean recreational use of cannabis will remain illegal. Medicinal cannabis will not be affected by a no vote and will remain allowed if prescribed by a health practitioner.

NZ has overinvested in roads and motorways for decades.

- Phil Twyford, Minister of Transport.

A yes vote would see the parties making up the Government honouring the binding referendum and 12 months later the act legalising recreational cannabis would come into force.

Chris Clark, Ashburton Community Alcohol and Drugs Service (Acads) chief executive officer hopes the public look into it thoroughly before agreeing or disagreeing with the referendum question.

“It is my hope that people gath-

of the Draft Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill and a summary of current policy positions as well as other relevant documents.

It has been promised that further information will be added to the website early this year.

“Experience from overseas tells us that provision of factual, explanatory information is vital for the public to be informed and for an outcome that can be accepted by voters even if the result is not what they voted for,” Little said.

Tell the Government to fund a four lane highway from Christchurch to Ashburton Not long after the last election the Government cut more than $5 billion from the state highway network to instead spend on rail and cycle projects in Auckland. It’s left less money available for important upgrades to our local highways. Now the Government have announced plans to borrow $19 billion, with $6.8 billion earmarked for rail and road projects. It represents an opportunity to send a message to the Government that the road to Christchurch, the second most dangerous stretch of highway in New Zealand for fatalities and serious crashes, needs upgrading to four lanes to make it safer.

To send a message to Phil Twyford head to:

Source: Phil Twyford, Transport and Infrastructure Committee, 20 June 2019.

er information and facts before going to the polls,” Clark said.

Ideally, she said, the Government would make information readily available in the lead-up to the election, “so the public can make an informed choice”.

Information around the bill is being provided by the government. Their official referendum www.referendum.govt. website nz/cannabis was launched in December last year and contains a break-down of the core elements

fourlanes.co.nz Authorised by Andrew Falloon, MP for Rangitata, Parliament Buildings, Wellington.

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New campaign for SH1 Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon has launched a new campaign continuing his fight to make State Highway 1 between Ashburton and Christchurch four lanes.

Falloon has launched a website at www.fourlanes.co.nz which allows people to fill in a form and email minister of transport Phil Twyford directly with an auto-generated message that can be edited laying out why the road should be changed to four lanes.

“The road between Ashburton and Christchurch is the second most dangerous stretch of highway in the country for fatalities and serious injuries and is in serious need up upgrading to four lanes,” he said.

“In December 2017 the Transport Minister Phil Twyford was describing the project as ‘under consideration’.

“But then came the Government’s decision to cut more than $5 billion from the state highway budget to instead spend on Auckland rail and cycle projects.

Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon has launched a new campaign to pressure transport minister Phil Twyford in to four-laning State Highway 1 between Ashburton and Christchurch.

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“It means over the last two years there’s been less money available for important roading upgrades in areas outside Auckland.

“Now, in election year, the

Government have announced plans to borrow $19 billion, with $6.8 billion earmarked for rail and road projects.”

Falloon says despite Twyford saying New Zealand has

‘over-invested’ in roads and motorways for decades, he hopes that a strong message from locals might be able to convince him to upgrade the road to modern standards.

“A second bridge over the Rakaia River is an important part of the project, but by itself it isn’t enough. 2010 to 2018 data shows that of around 40 fatal crashes between Ashburton and Christchurch, three have been on or near the bridge,” he said.

“A recent release of transport statistics showed that there have been zero fatalities in more than two years on the Tauranga Eastern Link and the Cambridge section of the Waikato Expressway, four-lane highways constructed by the previous Government.

Both are highly engineered roads with speed limits of 110km/h.

“With construction of the Rolleston to Christchurch four lane section drawing to a conclusion it’s important there’s some certainty about continuing on with the project south.”

Council speed limit consultation to open Several roads around the Ashburton District may be set to receive a new speed limit as part of the council’s speed limit review, and residents are invited to have their say on the proposals when consultation opens on Monday.

The council says it is seeking to reduce injuries on its roading network and ensure there is a consistent district-wide approach to managing speed, and is proposing to alter some speed limits.

The last time the council conducted a speed limit review was in 2012, and Ashburton District Mayor Neil Brown says since that time, the district has seen significant growth and expansion, particularly on the outskirts of many urban communities.

“The council is constantly assessing the physical aspects of our expansive roading network to ensure it is safe for all users.

Sometimes, this means road improvements that help improve safety under the current speed limit, but in some instances it means lowering the speed limit to ensure that the roads have safe travel speeds,” he said.

“We want to make sure that everyone who uses our roads gets to their destination safely.

Help us determine if we’ve got the speed proposals right by having your say when consultation opens. We are welcoming feedback from everyone.”

In addition to growing urban areas, the council has also received several speed limit suggestions from residents in the last eight years, and these ideas have helped to formulate the proposals being put forward.

Brown said although speed changes are not proposed for all Ashburton District roads, residents are welcome to include

their suggestions for any roads around the district.

The consultation will be open from January 27 until March 8.

Information about the proposals and how to provide feedback will be available on the council website from January 27 at www. ashburtondc.govt.nz/haveyoursay Racecourse, Farm, Allens and Carters roads are tipped to change from their current 70km/h limit to either 50 or 60km/h with the new 60km/h limit extending down Racecourse Road into the open road speed area, for 52 metres beyond Farm Road.

Speed changes will impact heavily on motorists in Ashburton’s north east with reductions planned for most 70km/h roads, some to 60km/h but most to 50km/h.

Open road speed limits may be removed from Morris, Mur-

dochs, Works and part of Company roads as well as JB Cullen Drive and Fairfield Road West.

These will become 60km/h zones but JB Cullen Drive will have a speed limit of 50km/h.

A number of Ashburton’s residential streets are likely to see traffic slowed to just 30km/h, mostly in the Braebrook and Lochlea subdivisions as well as several streets in the Whiteoak subdivision in Tinwald.

Speed reductions are planned in Tinwald on Carters Terrace, Wilkins, Tarbottons, Hollands, Fords and Frasers roads.

Lake Hood will see some significant changes in motoring habits, with Huntingdon Avenue, the original entrance to the residential area, to drop from 100km/h to 50km/h. Most residential streets in the settlement will be designated 30km/h zones.

In brief Westerfield grass fire Firefighters were called to a vegetation fire at around 6.30pm on Tuesday night in the Westerfield area. Mayfield Rural Voluntary Fire Force Chief Fire Officer Ian Fielder said it appeared some sparks had dropped from a transformer, igniting some grass below. The fire had spread through a 20 to 30 metre long section of grass and had fortunately stopped short of spreading into nearby trees.

Water restrictions The Ashburton District Council has upgraded the Methven and Chertsey water schemes to a level three restriction, and these will be in place until further notice.

Methven had been on a level two restriction and Chertsey on a level one restriction since December 20, however excessive water consumption in both areas at peak times is beginning to affect the service to households, and council is introducing the tighter restrictions to control the high usage. A level three restriction permits residents to use a handheld hose between the hours of 6pm and midnight on alternate days. The restriction does not allow sprinklers, automatic irrigation systems or micro sprays to be used. Residents in Methven with an even street address can hose on even dates, while residents with an odd street number can hose on odd dates.

For Chertsey, residents who live on the southeast side of Maldon Street can hose on even dates, and those north-west of Maldon Street on odd dates. Ashburton, Lake Hood, Fairton, Hakatere, Hinds, Mayfield and Rakaia are on a level one restriction.

Driver charged A 32-year-old man has been charged with careless driving causing injury after a horror bus crash near Queenstown on Tuesday. The crash left 20 Chinese tourists with injuries including two who lost limbs. Those two remain in a serious but stable condition.

The accused is expected to appear in the Queenstown District Court on January 27. The Otago Daily Times reported a girl lost both hands in the crash and a woman lost one hand.

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Teenage tour guide says ‘thank you’ NZME

Vodafone employees have been given extra incentive to finish at 2pm on Fridays.

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Early finish initiative to have big impact on morale RNZ Telecommunications company Vodafone is letting some of its employees clock off early on a Friday afternoon, and it’s a winwin situation, says an organisational psychologist.

More than 2000 workers have been given an extra incentive to finish the summer weeks early, at 2pm on Fridays.

Vodafone acting HR director Katie Williams said it’s about making sure employees have the best work-home balance.

Organisational psychologist John Eatwell said employees value time, and work flexibility is one of the highest valued rewards a workplace can offer.

“Extra time, particularly during summer, is a great reward and will have a big impact on morale.”

But continuing to be paid for 40 hours is the key, Eatwell said.

Research shows a lot of roles really need a break every hour and at 36 hours you lose productivity significantly, he said.

“There’s a lot of research around to suggest that probably the optimal working week is around 36 hours so the last 2 or 3 hours of a Friday is probably not going to be very productive.”

It’s a win-win situation, Eatwell said.

He expects the initiative to flow on to other businesses.

“The fact that we have more knowledge-workers now, less people involved in physical tasks, so the more we want people to be creative, innovative, strategic, the more we need to think about how refreshed and focused they are when they’re working.”

Vodafone said if people still have work to do when Friday 2pm rolls around employees would be able to take another day off work at another time.

The teenage tour guide who almost died in the Whakaari/White Island eruption has written a heart-felt message from his hospital bed, thanking the nation for their “kindness”.

The Bay of Plenty tourist attraction erupted underneath Jake Milbank and members of the tour he was helping lead on the volcanic island on December 9, his 19th birthday.

The tragedy killed 20 people – including fellow tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman and teenage Australian tourist Winona Langord, whose bodies have not yet been located.

Milbank is one of 24 people who remain in hospitals on both sides of the Tasman. Four patients remain in a critical condition in New Zealand hospitals.

The 19-year-old suffered burns to 80 per cent of his body and is being cared for at Middlemore Hospital. Two days after the tragedy, a Givealittle page was set up to help his family financially, with donations now topping $139,000.

In a message written by Milbank and uploaded to the page, he wrote: “To everybody who has been supporting me I would like to say a big Thank You. “We are grateful for the kind donations received through the Givealittle page and I am enjoying reading the awesome messages and comments that have come, they’ve really helped me.

“A few days ago I moved out of ICU and into the National Burns Centre. This is a big step in my road to recovery.

“So far I have had 14 visits to theatre – sometimes the surgeons

Jake Milbank are grafting parts of my body and other times they are changing my dressings and checking out the progress of the work they have done.”

Milbank wrote that his fingers were no longer bandaged, meaning he was now “able to use my iPad to catch up with my friends”.

“Thank you so much for your kindness – it means a lot to me.”

Milbank was working for White Island Tours as a guide when the tragedy happened.

Earlier this month his parents, Steve and Janet broke their silence to thank those who had saved his life both in the immediate aftermath of the eruption, and in the weeks since in hospital.

They also spoke of how grateful they were for well wishes the family were receiving, and donations to the fundraiser.

“Any delays in getting [Jake] off the island . . . that would have been it,” Steve Milbank said.

“So we are just so thankful to everybody involved . . . the ambos, the Coastguard, doctors, everybody. Getting everybody prepped

and sent all over the country – there were helicopters flying solidly all night that night shifting people around the country. The whole combined effort was just incredible.”

Steve Milbank said he wanted to give a “big thank you” to everyone involved in getting Jake, and others injured in the tragedy, off White Island as quickly as they did.

“It pretty much saved their lives,” he said.

Jake was initially taken off White Island on a White Island Tours boat, which was skippered by Paul Kingi.

Kingi’s boat had departed White Island before the sudden eruption, but he bravely returned to help the gravely injured.

Janet Milbank added the contents of the messages the family had received had also helped her greatly.

“They certainly helped me in those first few days.

“We have had good support around us with friends and family and they have really helped us get through it as well.”

Couple arrive at Parliament with coffin and petition NZME A couple’s 1300-kilometre bicycle journey to lay a coffin on Parliament’s steps has been stopped 20 metres short after an emotional exchange with security.

Dunedin parents Julian and Camilla Cox have this month cycled across the South Island, towing a coffin behind their tandem bike, in a protest calling for Government drug-buying agency Pharmac’s $1-billion-a-year budget to be doubled.

Yesterday, they finished the last leg of their three-week trip, ferrying across the Cook Strait to Wellington and carrying the box onto Parliament’s lawn with the help of fellow protesters.

The Cox’s 19-year-old daughter Rachael is one of 550 New Zealanders who suffer from the lung disease cystic fibrosis. They say Pharmac’s current funding means she and others don’t have access to life-prolonging drugs available

in other countries.

But as the coffin was carried towards the Parliament building yesterday, security guards halted the mock funeral procession of about 30 to tell them they didn’t have permission to take the final few steps.

After a tense exchange about what exactly had been cleared by the office of Parliament’s Speaker, Trevor Mallard, the campaigners eventually set the box down about 20 metres across the forecourt.

It left Camilla Cox outraged.

“We have cycled 1300 miles to make change for our child and all the people we have met on our long journey. To arrive here and have people bickering about 50 metres. How pathetic,” she said.

“Our families are dying, are being torn apart and we have small-minded people bickering about 50 metres on public save.

You ask how we feel? I am furious and I’m disgusted and I’m disappointed with our politicians.”

The couple have also used the trip to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pleading for the drug-buying agency to be better funded and reformed to allow for faster decision-making.

“Jacinda, you are our elected leader and you have led the world at showing compassion at times of crises,” the letter reads.

“Now we have another crisis that is costing lives on a daily basis; it’s called Pharmac and we need you to show both your world-famous empathy and leadership by giving the agency the money it needs.”

Children at the front of yesterday’s protest carried signs that read: “Dear Jacinda, they were us too”.

They’ve also been collecting signatures for the petition from lobby group Patient Voice Aotearoa calling for Pharmac’s $1-billion-ayear budget to be doubled immediately and tripled in two years.

It has collected 22,000 signatures and is aiming for 250,000.

The couple say they’ve been overwhelmed by the support they’ve received while travelling through South Island settlements, towns and cities.

It was support they’ve needed as they battled headwinds and unusually cold weather along the way.

“We’ve been humbled by people’s kindness and generosity, with offers of free camping and beds for the night, free coffee and meals, with dozens more sharing personal stories about their own health struggles in having to go without medication,” Julian Cox said.

“But it shouldn’t be necessary for the parents of a chronically ill child to take this sort of action to make the government sit up and listen.

“For both [Camilla] and me, what we were most looking forward to was getting home and seeing our three daughters,” he said.

Julian said they had been unable

to get a meeting with Health Minister David Clark, also their local MP. The protests follows a series of high-profile campaigns in recent years that have called for more funding for Pharmac, the agency’s processes to be changed or funding for specific drugs.

In a statement, Clark said he acknowledged their determination.

Clark said the Government had increased Pharmac’s budget from $871 million in 2017 to $1.015 billion.

“At this time, Pharmac and its decisions are being scrutinised in great detail by the media, patient advocates and other interested parties. This is as it should be,” he said.

In recent months three new cancer medicines have been funded, as well as a new treatment for multiple sclerosis, more meningococcal vaccines and widened access to long-acting reversible contraception.

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Migrants being bused back AP Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centres or returned to Honduras, officials said.

An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north.

The latest migrant caravan provided a public platform for Mexico to show the US government and migrants thinking of making the trip that it has refined its strategy and produced its desired result: This caravan will not advance past its southern border.

What remained unclear was the treatment of the migrants who already find themselves on their way back to the countries they fled last week.

The caravan of thousands had set out from Honduras in hopes Mexico would grant them passage, posing a fresh test of US President Donald Trump’s effort to reduce the flow of migrants arriving at the US border by pressuring other governments to stop them.

Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said 2400 migrants entered Mexico legally over the weekend. About 1000 of them requested Mexico’s help in returning to their countries. The rest were being held in immigration centres while they start legal processes that would allow them to seek refuge in Mexico or obtain temporary work permits that would confine them to southern Mexico.

Honduran officials said more than 600 of its citizens were ex-

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A Honduran migrant who has agreed to be returned back home, gives a thumbs up as he sits in a bus provided by the Guatemalan government.

PHOTO AP pected to arrive in that country by plane and bus and more would follow in the coming days.

Of an additional 1000 who tried to enter Mexico illegally by wading across the Suchiate river, most were either forced back or detained later by immigration agents, according to Mexican officials.

Most of the hundreds stranded in the no-man’s land on the Mexican side of the river Monday night returned to Guatemala in search of water, food and a place to sleep.

Mexican authorities distributed no water or food to those who entered illegally, in what appeared to be an attempt by the government to wear out the migrants.

Mexican President Andrés

Manuel López Obrador said that the government was trying to protect the migrants from harm by preventing them from travelling illegally through the country. He said they need to respect Mexican laws.

Mexican Interior Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero commended the National Guard for its restraint.

But Honduras’ ambassador to Mexico said there had been instances of excessive force on the part of the National Guard.

Mexico announced last June that it was deploying the newly formed National Guard to assist in immigration enforcement to avoid tariffs that Trump threatened on Mexican imports.

Darlin René Romero and his wife were among the few who spent the night pinned be-

tween the river and Mexican authorities.

Rumours had circulated through the night that “anything could happen, that being there was very dangerous,” Romero said.

But the couple, from Copan, Honduras, spread a blanket on the ground and passed the night just metres from a line of National Guard troops forming a wall with their riot shields.

They remained confident that Mexico would allow them to pass through and were trying to make it to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, where his sister lives.

They said a return home to impoverished and gangplagued Honduras, where most of the migrants are from, was unthinkable.

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Court keeps abusive Dutch father in custody AP A Dutch court has detained for three more months a Dutch father accused of shutting his children off from the outside world for years and of physically abusing them.

Prosecutors’ opening comments at the preliminary court hearing in the northern city of Assen painted a picture of a deeply religious man who saw his family as “chosen by God” and did everything in his power – including physical beatings and other punishments – to keep them from succumbing to what he considered malign outside influences.

Judges ordered both the father and a suspected accomplice to remain in custody while investigations into the case continue.

The case drew global attention last October when police discovered the father with six of his children in a secluded farmhouse in the eastern Nether-

lands, 130 kilometres northeast of Amsterdam, after one of the sons raised the alarm.

Prosecutors described the children as young adults.

The 67-year-old father, identified only as Gerrit Jan van D., was not in court for the hearing.

He is reportedly in a jail hospital and can no longer speak after suffering a stroke several years ago.

Despite this disability, prosecutors say he was able to keep his children isolated from the outside world.

He also is accused of assaulting them – two of them sexually.

Prosecutors said statements by the children and a diary kept by the father back up those allegations.

In a statement, prosecutors said the father’s “words and deeds” prevented his children from leaving. The children’s mother died years ago.

Moving through a series of Dutch towns, the father kept his six youngest children isolated

from the outside world starting at birth and never registered them with local authorities, as required by Dutch law.

“Effectively, they didn’t exist,” the prosecution statement said.

The oldest three of the nine children were allowed to attend school – although they were banned from going on school excursions or to parties.

They later left the family’s isolated existence.

Prosecutors said the father told the children that outside influences would make them “unclean” and threaten their status as “God’s chosen ones”.

“If you’re told this from a young age, without having a chance to get to know the outside world in freedom and discover what you believe, then you don’t have to be actually locked up to prevent you leaving,” the prosecution statement said.

“Everything that you are repeatedly told and what you experience acts as a figurative lock.”

Prosecutors said the father abused the children “by hitting them, stamping on them, kicking them, depriving them of food and drink and preventing them getting necessary medical or mental care”.

Prosecutors also accuse the father of sexually abusing two of the three children who eventually left the family home from 2002-2008.

An Austrian man, identified as Josef B., who rented the farmhouse in the village of Ruinerwold to the father, brought the family food and helped tend the farm’s vegetable patch, did appear in court Tuesday.

He is accused of complicity in keeping the family isolated and depriving the six youngest siblings of their liberty.

“Without suspect B. this situation could not have happened,” prosecutors said.

The six youngest in the family are being kept at an undisclosed location.

Netflix is holding its ground in the streaming wars, passing its first big test since Apple and Disney launched rival services. The company added 8.8 million worldwide subscribers during its fourth quarter, surpassing expectations at a time when it faces heated competition.

Netflix had said it expected to add 7.6 million subscribers, and analysts thought the service would fare even better. The increase pales slightly next to the 8.9 million subscribers the service added in the fourth quarter of 2018. The stock dropped about 2.5 per cent immediately in after-hours trading.

Undercover Will Smith Four Florida passengers were in for a shock when actor Will Smith answered their Lyft call and gave them a ride around town. The actor was in Miami promoting his new movie, Bad Boys for Life. He picked up four riders in a 2020 Porsche Taycan, occasionally getting into the attitude of his movie character detective Mike Lowry and encouraging passengers to do their best Bad Boys imitation as his partner in crime. Smith made one of his passengers FaceTime with his girlfriend during the trip after the man said his girlfriend watched the original movie weekly. Smith had another passenger practice her scariest “Freeze.

Police.” voice.

Pamela Anderson marries Pamela Anderson has married movie mogul Jon Peters. The pair – who first dated over 30 years ago – romantically reunited a few months ago and tied the knot in a secret ceremony in Malibu January 20, which was attended by her adult sons, Brandon and Dylan, and Jon’s ex-wife producer Christine Forsyth-Peters and their daughters Caleigh and Skye.

Jon – who was a producer on Bradley Cooper’s 2019 Oscar-winning movie A Star Is Born – has confirmed that he and Pamela have wed, confessing that he has wanted the former Baywatch star as his wife since he met her over three decades ago.

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It’s not how we’re working, but when we are I

f you’re jealous about news that staff from Vodafone stores around the country are having every Friday afternoon from 2pm off through until the end of February, don’t worry, you won’t be alone.

More and more businesses and employers are taking the less is better approach when it comes to the working week and studies show that productivity among the workplace is exponentially better in such environments.

By shortening the week, but expecting the same amount of work to still be completed, it’s a subtle way of pushing for better and faster outcomes in business and with the wee added carrot of getting to start the weekend a lot earlier than normal, you’d be

shocked if the working atmosphere within the Vodafone business was anything but buzzing for the next six weeks.

Some businesses have found through a trial that encouraged staff to get more work done in less hours than normal, that productivity levels rose by as much as 20 per cent, despite many shifting to a four-day working week.

It’s a thought process that cor-

relates well with the idea of more people beginning to work from home as technological advancements make it more possible for various businesses across the globe to do so.

For a huge number of organisations it now only takes a laptop or home computer, a strong internet connection and the ability to tap into the workplace network and you’re away and laughing and as long as things are getting done and results are being achieved, everyone seems quite happy.

If you’ve ever been lucky enough to have the opportunity to work from home, you’ll know that for some strange reason – despite the distractions around you – productivity levels seem to

be remarkably enhanced during such opportunities.

Perhaps it’s the thought process that getting things done in a timely fashion might allow more time for other activities during the day, or the peaceful serenity of your own space is some form of motivator to get more done – who knows?

The traditional days of nine to five seem numbered really when you sit down and think about it.

While it might have been par for the course for decades and decades, things have changed in the working world and everything is being looked at a little differently than what it used to be.

It’s more profitable for a business, and better for an employ-

ee’s mental health, to structure a working week that suits both the business and the individual’s needs and the positive outcomes that are being seen as more and more trial, and eventually adopt, such measures are making it even more of an exciting prospect.

Expect to see more announcements in the coming months, and years, from businesses who are taking a new-look approach to the, up until now, normal working week. As more and more success stories become public there will be more and more who consider it.

Who knows, three-day weekends might be a permanent thing before we know it.

Wishful thinking, perhaps?

Most likely.

three other people. (Kasi was executed in November 2002.)

In 2002, John Walker Lindh, a US-born Taliban fighter, was returned to the United States to face criminal charges that he’d conspired to kill fellow Americans. (Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing support for the Taliban; he was released in May, 2019, after serving more than 17 years.)

Ten years ago: Abby Sunderland, 16, left Marina del Rey, California, on her first attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. (The voyage

ended a week and a-half later because the boat experienced power problems; Sunderland then made a second attempt, but that, too, fell short.)

Five years ago: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 90, the powerful US ally who’d fought against alQaida and sought to modernise the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, died in Riyadh.

One year ago: After a week-long showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Donald Trump said he was postponing his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown was over. Police in

Phoenix announced the arrest of a licensed practical nurse accused of sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who had given birth in December at a long-term health care facility.

(Nathan Sutherland is awaiting trial.)

Today’s birthdays: Actress Chita Rivera is 87. Actor-director Lou Antonio is 86. Jazz musician Gary Burton is 77. Actor Gil Gerard is 77. Singer Anita Pointer is 72.

Actor Richard Dean Anderson is 70. Rock musician Bill Cunningham is 70. Rock singer Robin Zander Princess Caroline of Monaco is 63. Singer Anita

Baker is 62. Reggae musician Earl Falconer is 61. Actor Peter Mackenzie is 59. Actor Boris McGiver is 58. Actress Gail O’Grady is 57. Actress Mariska Hargitay is 56. Rhythm-andblues singer Marc Nelson is 49.

Actress Tiffani Thiessen is 46.

Rock musician Nick Harmer is 45. Actress Lindsey Kraft is 40.

Christian rock musician Nick DePartee is 35. Singer-actress Rachel Crow is 22.

Thought for today: “It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.” — Oscar Levant, pianist-composer-actor (1906-1972).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, January 23, the 23rd day of 2020.

There are 343 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On January 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to endorse it.

On this date: In 1368, China’s Ming dynasty, which lasted nearly three centuries, began as Zhu Yuanzhang was formally acclaimed emperor following the collapse of the Yuan dynasty.

In 1855, a massive earthquake hit the southern North Island.

The magnitude 8.2 earthquake had a profound impact on the development of Wellington city.

In 1950, the Israeli Knesset approved a resolution affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. in 1951, twenty yachts left Wellington for Lyttelton in a race to celebrate Canterbury’s centenary. The fleet ran into a severe southerly storm and only one yacht officially finished the race. Two others were lost, along with their 10 crew members.

In 1968, North Korea seized the US Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, commanded by Lloyd “Pete” Bucher, charging its crew with being on a spying mission; one sailor was killed and 82 were taken prisoner. (Cmdr. Bucher and his crew were released the following December after enduring 11 months of brutal captivity at the hands of the North Koreans.)

In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War, and would be formally signed four days later in Paris.

In 1989, surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in his native Figueres, Spain, at age 84.

In 1998, a judge in Fairfax, Virginia, sentenced Aimal Khan Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded

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he Duke and Duchess of Sussex make a break for freedom.

Queen holds line but is “not amused”.

Prince P utters unprintable comment.

Princes Charles and William both “spitting tacks”, (but not, necessarily, simultaneously).

Prince William regrets he will no longer be able to put his arm round his brother.

Consternation amongst courtiers.

Canadians say the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – aka Harry and Meghan – are welcome there but on only temporary visas.

Harry and Meghan promise to earn their own livings and not be dependent on the British Exchequer. No longer HRHs but sponsor/branding opportunities available.

Monarchists world-wide stunned. Do not know in which direction to turn.

Meghan being compared with Wallis Simpson, the last American divorcee to make waves in the House of Windsor, though she might have become queen, as the object of her desire (and she his) was Edward VIII, heir to the throne in 1937. (She did, indeed, marry Edward, but not until he had abdicated – given up the throne – “for the woman I love”!).

Harry now throwing future to the winds for the woman HE loves.

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vorcee a better bet than his great Uncle Edward’s.

As a mere sixth in line to the throne it would take a catastrophic event of astonishing proportions to see Harry ever become king, but the fluttering in the dovecotes of the royal residences has been intense.

Sandringham, in particular, seems to have been the hot point of royal concern over the Sussexes’ wayward and much-resented decision to “stand down” from senior royal commitments.

That they want to make a life for themselves, out of the sort of publicity glare that ultimately killed Harry’s mother, might be thought to be entirely understandable.

Unfortunately for H and M, that is not how life at Buckingham Palace, and elsewhere, works.

Harry is a grandson of the reigning monarch, thus expected to do his bit for the nation and shoulder many royal duties himself.

Therefore, until the day he met Meghan, his path in life seemed well laid out and he happy to follow it, while showing a good

deal of flair of his own, not to mention an impressive military career already behind him. (His only fall from grace during his wilder years being to attend a swept-up charity ball in London’s Mayfair, dressed as a Nazi officer.)

Enter, stage left, femme fatale . . . Meghan Markle, established and acclaimed American actress, especially as the paralegal, Rachel Zane, in the American drama Suits.

From that moment, Harry’s eyes might be said to have opened rather wider than in his past and the attraction of Meghan overwhelmed, or get the better of him, depending on your point of view of this significant meeting.

Meghan soon showed herself to be of a feisty disposition prepared to take few, if any prisoners, yet showed Harry her soft side, which ultimately won him over.

By that, I don’t imply scheming of any sort, just a warmth of friendship that was likely to have only one outcome.

And so it did, fairy tale wedding and, in due course, son Archie.

The nations of the Commonwealth cheered, including New Zealand, and the new family, apparently, set out to live happily ever after.

However, it soon became obvious Meghan’s view of life ahead with Harry and Archie differed significantly from her husband’s

and his father’s.

And that seems where the matter now rests.

Tacks are still being spat and the 98-year-old, cadaverous features of the Duke of Edinburgh, contorted into a terrifying grimace, which would bring to heel any recalcitrant grandson, except, possibly, Harry, but only with Meghan whispering sweet nothings into his royal left ear and Archie sobbing plaintively in his Victorian cot in the background.

It is really a scene from an emotion-gripping, nineteenth century melodrama.

What, these days, we call a soap opera.

I know Kiwis would probably say “stuff tradition” and let them have a life of their own choice rather than one mapped out for them.

And it looks as if that may happen especially if the Queen comes to the party, as we would put it.

So, eyes down, keep watching, The Crown is about to have a new lease of life!

Be sure to watch this space as the story develops. (Or, conceivably, watch it unravel).

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Beef farms to be tested for M. bovis About 2500 beef farms will have their herds tested for mycoplasma bovis in coming months to confirm the cattle disease is not widespread.

As at January 15, 118 beef properties had tested positive for M. bovis, about half the total cases.

Almost all confirmed beef cases have involved movements or contact with dairy cattle, rather than traditional beef breeds, beef breeding herds or stud animals.

Beef + Lamb NZ is working alongside DairyNZ and the Ministry for Primary Industries in the M. bovis eradication programme.

While the three partners in the eradication programme were confident that M. bovis was not widespread in beef breeding or stud herds in New Zealand, they said it was important that the programme carried out a beef survey to make sure this was the case.

“This will also help provide confidence in the future that we are free from the disease.”

To do this, the M. bovis programme will sample beef cattle throughout the country as part of a national beef survey. This was the next logical phase in the programme and was highlighted in the latest report from the independent Technical Advisory Group in October 2019.

Testing of herds from about 2500 farms which have had no connection to the M. bovis outbreak started this month. Testing

Left – Beef farms will have their herds tested for mycoplasma bovis in coming months.

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of these herds, which have no known risk of infection, was necessary to determine that the disease was not present outside of the high-risk farms.

While dairy farms were tested for M. bovis on a regular basis as part of the nationwide bulk tank milk surveillance programme,

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no nationwide screening of beef farms had yet been carried out.

To minimise disruption to farming operations, samples will be taken from beef cattle at the same time as they are screened for tuberculosis (TB). This was the most efficient and cost effective way of gathering the informa-

tion as farmers won’t be required to muster animals for separate testing.

Those farmers with cattle being tested for M. bovis as part of their TB testing will be told in advance of their TB testing taking place.

When cattle are presented for testing, between 50 and 220 ani-

mals will be sampled.

Testing will be carried out at AsureQuality laboratories and farmers should expect to be contacted within three weeks if results indicate that there is possible infection and more on-farm testing was required to determine the farm’s status.

Negative results, which were expected for almost all farms tested, will be supplied to farmers initially by the programme’s liaison team, with a view to providing results through NAIT in the future.

“We also want to take this opportunity to remind farmers there is still a risk of bringing infection on to your farms and all farmers need to be taking the right steps to protect their herds,” the partners said.

NAIT compliance was a vital part of helping to achieve eradication and farmers were reminded to tag every animal, register it into the system and record every movement between NAIT locations.

“We thank farmers for their co-operation during the survey.

We know that this disease and the eradication process has a major impact on the lives of farmers, their families and communities.”

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Two Hawke’s Bay deer farmers have set a new record price in the velvet industry.

Jeremy Dearden and Grant Charteris paid $102,000 for a velvet breeding stag.

Charteris said the high price needed to be kept in context and he and Dearden had considered the purchase carefully before making the winning bid.

“It’s not as if we turned up on the day and this was an impulse buy,” he said.

“We knew there was a hefty reserve on it and we did a lot of planning on how we would make it work effectively if we were the lucky purchasers.”

Charteris, from Tikokino in central Hawke’s Bay, said it was a competitive auc-

tion, and it always would have been that way with a stag of that character.

He said the pair would allow natural mating by the stag as well as semen extraction for an extensive programme of artificial breeding.

“If we do it well we might get up to 150 offspring each, per year.”

This would make make the huge outlay on the stag profitable, according to the farmers’ calculations.

There are about 1500 deer farms in New Zealand and about 800 tonnes of velvet are exported from the country each year. China took two thirds of that, with most of the rest going to South Korea.

The value of the exports in 2018 was $64 million according to Statistics NZ.

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Be aware of the fire risk

By David Clark The New Year is upon us and racing on by.

I hope you had a chance for some rest and relaxation with your special people.

Mine (New Year’s) seem to be spent babysitting a couple of irrigators that had developed a very bad attitude!

With not so much as a drop of rain in much of Canterbury for five weeks, I guess we should be grateful that temperatures have not been too high, giving irrigators a chance to keep up.

As we head into February, we will see if this is heading for an autumn drought.

The arable team is hoping so and team dairy not so much. With drought looking imminent in the North Island, the dynamics of the feed market may well change quickly, but New Zealand’s ability to move feed to where it is needed is a strength of our agricultural system.

With dry weather here, so is the fire risk and we are now in a restricted season. If this dry keeps up, a prohibited declaration is likely.

We can do our bit to hold that off, if we behave ourselves. Please have your permits in place for stubble burning and adhere to the conditions of that permit, make sure your firebreaks comply and that you have given regard to weather conditions and forecasts.

Burning stubble is a privilege, not a right, and the volunteer firefighters are exactly that, volunteers who give up their own time, so please don’t waste it.

Here last week, a passing motorist tossed a cigarette butt out the window resulting in the roadside catching alight.

Luckily, we have mown our roadsides, it was not a nor’west day and we saw the developing fire. We have an old trailer with two 1000L cubes and a Honda pump on it which allowed us to quickly extinguish the fire. Otherwise it would have rapidly de-

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers’ president David Clark checking out a carrot seed crop. veloped to needing several of the aforementioned volunteers in their red trucks with flashing lights on the roof.

We were lucky, not clever. Our fire cart is very basic, simple and cheap, but over the years it has been used more times than I would like to admit. It follows us around the farm as we harvest as well. I reckon that every farm should have one.

The new year will see the regulatory bulldozer back at work.

It is expected that the decisions on submissions for the Freshwater Bill will be made public in the next couple of months. As far as we know, no submitters have been given the opportunity to present their concerns in person to the Government decisionmakers and no economic impact analysis has been completed, or

Dairy prices gain more ground Dairy prices rose by 1.7 per cent at yesterday morning’s Global Dairy Trade auction, building on the stronger prices gained at the first sale for 2020.

At the last auction on January 8, prices rose by 2.8 per cent.

Whole milk powder prices – which have the greatest bearing on Fonterra’s farmgate milk price – rose by 2.4 per cent to $US3233 a tonne at yesterday’s sale.

Among the other reference products, skim milk powder (SKM) prices gained 0.7 per cent to US$3036 a tonne.

Butter prices firmed by 5.5 per cent to $US4250/tonne.

Against the trend, anhydrous milk fat prices fell by 2.6 per cent to $US4821 a tonne.

Fonterra’s farmgate milk price forecast for the current season is for $7.00 to $7.60/ kg, with a mid point of $7.30/kg – comfort-

ably ahead of DairyNZ’s estimate of break even of $5.95/kg.

For Fonterra, milk prices are its greatest input cost, so an even higher price would create an extra headwind for the company as it seeks a return it to profitability after last year’s record loss.

Fonterra’s milk price hit a record high of $8.40/kg in 2013/14, before slumping to $4.40/kg in 2014/15, and to $3.90/kg in 2015/16.

Unlike previous peaks in the commodities cycle, the New Zealand dollar has remained relatively low at around US66c, giving exporters an extra boost.

At last December’s update, Fonterra said that a $7.30/kg milk price – if it comes to pass – would be the fourth highest milk price in its near two-decade history, representing a $11.2 billion cash injection for the economy.

at least not made public and/or consulted on.

My view is unchanged, this process has been irresponsible and reckless lawmaking. The Action for Healthy Waterways proposals contained bottom lines that Environment Canterbury has previously reported modelling that concluded that similar bottom lines would require land use change in the Selwyn Te Waihora

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catchment to revert to dryland sheep farming and forestry.

To propose such environmental targets without any economic or social impact analysis as part of the public consultation is, in my opinion, reckless and irresponsible and Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers will both locally and in support of the national board, continue to lobby against these proposals as currently written.

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Trade Me sells LifeDirect

By Paul McBeth NZME

Trade Me has sold its LifeDirect business back to the financial adviser it bought it from, saying the insurance comparison website doesn’t fit its portfolio anymore.

Lower Hutt-based financial adviser Mark Solomon has agreed to buy back the business for an undisclosed sum, with settlement expected on April 1.

Trade Me bought LifeDirect in late 2013 for $7.5 million, including earn-outs. While the business remained profitable, chief executive Anders Skoe said it didn’t fit with the online marketplace’s strategy under new ownership.

“We don’t think Trade Me is the best long-term owner for LifeDirect. It’s a profitable business with great growth potential but we only have so many resources and we can’t prioritise LifeDirect over the many other opportunities we have,” Skoe said in a statement.

Trade Me was taken private

by Apax Partners last year, which hired Skoe to transition the company from renting out space for firms to list their clas-

sified ads to building products that can take a listing and expose it to a user.

When Trade Me went public in late 2011, it was treated as a mature software company that paid reliable dividends. However, its private equity ownership is focused on pursuing growth opportunities and Skoe has been working through those options since joining the company last year.

The value of the business hasn’t been impaired, but Trade Me declined to comment on whether it would book a gain or loss on the sale.

Solomon said in a statement that he was delighted to re-engage with LifeDirect, but wasn’t immediately available for further comment.

Trade Me said Solomon will offer 15 of the 18 LifeDirect staff new roles, and that it hoped to redeploy the three remaining staff.

The company declined to comment on who made the first approach.

When Trade Me bought LifeDirect in 2013, it was generating annual revenue of about $3.8 million.

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Plans for deepwater salmon farming in Cook Strait have run into early opposition, surprising New Zealand King Salmon, which believes its proposals will improve environmental outcomes.

However, King Salmon chief executive Grant Rosewarne still believes that resource consent hearings set down from April 28 to May 1 in Blenheim will go ahead as planned.

“We were surprised,” Rosewarne said of submissions from the Department of Conservation, the McGuinness Institute and the Environmental Defence Society. All claimed the proposal for salmon farming between five and 12 kilometres north of Cape Lambert, which is on an outer tip of the Marlborough Sounds, had too little information about a range of potential environmental impacts.

“We thought we should be able to provide less information when the proposal is for a better environmental outcome,” Rosewarne said, referring to the environmental impacts of the company’s operations at nine existing sites in the Marlborough Sounds, where many years of local opposition have stifled its growth plans.

Its sites have more recently suffered because of a growing pattern of high summer seawater temperatures, which has led to higher rates of fish deaths. This has reduced total production and forced the company to change the way it farms salmon, particularly at sites where there are limited tidal flows and temperatures tend to be higher.

The so-called ‘Blue Endeavour’ plan has attracted a slew of positive submissions from the seafood industry, the Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce, export customers and a range of individuals who support the proposal, which seeks to use techniques pioneered in Norway, which has a far larger industry that produces Atlantic salmon. King Salmon’s high-margin Pacific ‘chinook’ variety is more sought-after

and valuable and the company is unable to meet total potential demand.

The Environmental Defence Society, which took King Salmon to court and won a landmark case regarding the impact of salmon farms on ‘outstanding natural landscapes’, says in its submission that it wants to support offshore salmon farming.

“This is the first time anyone has proposed a fin-fish farm of this scale in New Zealand and perhaps in the world. It is in one sense a welcome change from continuing to pile pressure on inshore sites but also raises important questions about the environmental effects on seabirds, marine mammals, the benthic environment and possibly landscape,” said EDS executive director Gary Taylor.

“We expect delays in reaching a hearing stage as further information will be needed to satisfy decision-makers. While we have serious questions about the proposal, we nonetheless respect the ambition and innovation shown by King Salmon. In the best-case scenario, if adverse effects can be properly avoided or mitigated, this could see salmon farming moving out of the conflict-ridden Marlborough Sounds.”

However, the society believes there is “significant uncertainty as to whether these issues can be adequately addressed under the current proposal” and says the proposed site still overlaps with areas of outstanding natural character in a proposed Marlborough Environment Plan.

Department of Conservation director-general Lou Sanson’s submission says the consent application would provide King Salmon with “considerable flexibility to modify and expand the activity beyond the scope of what has been evaluated in the assessment of environmental effects”.

The application “does not adequately model or address the adverse effects” and DOC says that

adaptive management proposals to manage adverse effects are “inadequate”.

The McGuinness Institute, an independent environmental thinktank, goes further, saying the proposal contains “extremely inadequate assessment of increased bio-security risk” and suggests land-based fish farms are a better option.

The large-scale application of a fish-farming method not previously tried in New Zealand should not be allowed to take an “adaptive management” approach but instead apply a precautionary approach, says the institute’s chief executive, Wendy McGuinness, who has long championed efforts to curtail King Salmon’s Marlborough Sounds operations.

The institute argues the application is “nationally significant” because it is likely to be “the first of a number of applications that will facilitate the transition from inshore to offshore farming”.

However, documents on the Marlborough District Council website also show that on December 12 Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage declined an application by King Salmon to have the Blue Endeavour resource consent application ‘called in’ for a special fast-track consenting process by the Environmental Protection Authority rather than local government.

“I consider this proposed activity is not significant on a national scale” and was therefore “not, or is not part of, a proposal of national significance,” Sage wrote in her decision.

Seafood New Zealand notes in its submission that a transition from inshore to offshore fish-farming will be vital if the government’s new target of $3 billion annual turnover for the aquaculture industry – currently around $600 million a year – is to be achieved.

Offshore fish-farming represented “a challenging but necessary future for the New Zealand aquaculture industry”.

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■■SAILING

Team NZ launch new test boat NZME Emirates Team New Zealand has revealed their new custom-designed test boat Te Kahu The Hawk yesterday in Auckland.

Te Kahu was rolled out of the shed yesterday afternoon for the first time before being christened

by Ngati Whatua Orakei.

Te Kahu, which fits within the 36th America’s Cup Protocol, will be used by the team to continue design development for a large proportion of 2020 while their AC75 Te Aihe is being shipped and raced in Europe.

Team New Zealand appear late to the party, however, considering other challengers’ test boats started hitting the water as early as September 2018.

Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton said it was all part of their plan.

“It might seem like the launch of our test boat is a bit overdue, but early in any campaign decisions have to be made that ultimately will only be judged at the end,” he said.

“As a team, we decided that a test boat was indeed a really key necessity but believed it needed to have as much design input as our first AC75 to give it meaningful ongoing

development possibilities.

“There is no doubt, looking back, that the challengers all learnt some valuable lessons and got a bit of a jump on us with their developments. But it was a conscious decision of ours to suck that up and play the long game, knowing that points don’t start to count until the first race of the America’s Cup, which obviously is in March 2021.”

While Te Aihe is being shipped 60 days either way to and from Europe, by launching Te Kahu now, Team New Zealand plan to continue their on-water development programme uninterrupted.

“We know from experience that the development and gains that take place in the year before the America’s Cup are vitally important,” explained Head of Design, Dan Bernasconi. “We couldn’t afford to only be sailing on the water for the handful of weeks we will get on Te Aihe around the ACWS events, between now and its return to New Zealand.”

Team New Zealand are now in the process of packing up and preparing Te Aihe for shipping to Cagliari, Italy, in preparation for the first America’s Cup World Series event there in April.

It will be the first time it lines up to race against the other AC75s.

Emirates Team New Zealand launch their test boat in Auckland.

Ashburton Golf Club The 2020 season was opened on a beautiful day last Saturday. Club Patron Bill Hetrick wished everyone well for the new season with a lovely, well received speech and declared the season open.

It was great to see Bill looking so well and having a game again after a very tough couple of months. The man is a Brandon legend.

The opening day mixed AC Browne Cup was picked up by a massive half shot,

by Barbara Williams and Peter Wright with nett 65 just pipping Wendy and Eric Parr.

In the men’s pairing the Smith salver was a young guns’ slug fest, with Jordy Bird and James MacFarlane edging out Sam Clarke and Tom Blacklow.

It was wonderful to see such a big field taking part and hopefully it is a good pointer for the rest of the season.

This Saturday we have the men’s opening day playing best ball pairs for the Jim McKenzie trophy.

Then on Sunday we have the final of the, world famous, Property Brokers Shootout. All the racers are going through their final week build-up of good diet, abstinence and plenty of rest.

The auction was a massive success with

Hamish not taking “no that wasn’t a bid” for an answer.

Previous champs Brent, Bruce and Gaby went for top money as did the Stoddart boys and Pauly G. It really is a very tight field, anyone’s call really. I can honestly see anyone of the 19 finalists holding the trophy aloft. Ok, ok any one of 18.

The Property Brokers Shootout final is always a big day. Teeing off from 10am, finalists report no later than 9.40am please.

It usually takes around half an hour to clear the first tee, we then lose one player per hole and around 4pm we have two players battling down the 18th.

Come along and watch the spectacle, a sunny day has been organised and we will have a drinks buggy following the game.

Don’t forget, coming up soon on February 1 we have the Hydraulink 36 hole Open. On February 22 and 23 we have the Harvey Norman Classic then on February 27 we are holding the annual 9 hole tournament.

Entries for all these are now being taken, just check the website or contact the club.

It’s going to be a massive February.

Good golfing.

CLUB NEWS TERMS Murray Anderson in action at the Sub Centre Pairs.

Ashburton Bowling Club At Ashburton Bowling Club this week, our members continued to play and compete in good weather, starting on Tuesday morning the 14th, a glorious one indeed, for the Ashburton Ladies’ Handicapped Singles.

The standard was high all round, and the worthy winner was Heather Gray, the runner-up was Alison Gibbs. Well done, ladies!

In the Friday Triples on the 18th at Allenton, Peter Collins, as part of a composite team, came 3rd and Gavin Eder, Margaret Eder and Winston Lee came 5th.

On Saturday 18, at the Rollover Triples, 1st were J Ryk, C Cross, C Rooke with 2 wins, 9 ends, 14 points and 2nd were T Watson, A Gibbs, O Gray with 2 wins, 9 ends, 12 points.

Also on Saturday 18th, Murray Anderson and partner were 4th in the Sub Section pairs at Allenton and has therefore qualified for the post section play at Ashburton on January 25, starting at 9am.

In the Doug Hood Open Fours at Methven on Sunday 19th, Brent Mayson, as part of composite team, came 2nd.

At 5.30pm on Monday the 20th the

Murray Grey Plate was played at Ashburton in glorious sunshine.

Third place was Jo Ryk, J Mills, M Campbell with 2 wins, 11 ends, 25 points, 2nd place was G Eder, Judie Ryk, W Herriott with 2 wins, 11 ends, 26 points and the winners with 2 wins, 12 ends, 30 points were R Herriott, R Diamond, Relda Prendergast.

Coming up on Wednesday 20th at Ashburton will be the Terrace View Retirement Village Open 2 Bowl Triples, starting at 12.30pm. It should be a good afternoon’s bowling.

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Locals to fore in Doug Hood

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The locals had the most to say in the Doug Hood Open Fours at the Methven Bowling Club on Sunday, filling three of the top four placings on the day.

The annual tournament, held underneath the mountain, saw a full green step out to compete for the day of play and those with a little bit of local knowledge really stepped up and produced the results.

Rob Fensom’s side of himself, Jeff Nowell, Wayne McCarthy and Lyn Fensom emerged victorious at the end of the day’s play, ahead of another Methven quartet of

Brent Mayson, Bruce Redmond, Bruce Harper and Millie Foggo.

Breaking the locals run, and finishing third were Len Luke, Raylene Heads, Faye McKnight and Pat McElwain while Greg Turnbull, Eric Maw, Graeme Booker and Alan Smith finished fourth.

Country bowls heads to the other side of the district this weekend to the Hinds Bowling Club for the annual Maddison Trophy Open Fours tournament on Sunday.

It follows the post section play of the Sub Centre Pairs on Saturday at the Ashburton Bowling Club.

Bruce Harper looks for the familiar lines of the Methven Bowling Club on Sunday.

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Sharapova faces up to questions on her future NZME Her Grand Slam losing streak now up to four matches, Maria Sharapova surely was aware questions about her future would be coming.

She wasn’t able to provide answers.

Might this have been her last trip to the Australian Open, a tournament she won in 2008 as part of a career Grand Slam?

“I don’t know,” Sharapova said, her head shaking and eyes looking down. “I don’t know. ... It’s tough for me to tell what’s going to happen in 12 months’ time.”

Might she enter low-level tournaments to try to raise a WTA ranking that once was No. 1, all those years ago, already was only 145th entering play at Melbourne Park and now will tumble outside of the top 350 following a 6-3, 6-4 loss to Donna Vekic on Tuesday?

“I just don’t know,” Sharapova said. “I haven’t thought of my schedule moving forward from here yet.”

Joining Sharapova on the way out were three-time major semi-finalist Johanna Konta, 2019 French Open semi-finalist Amanda Anisimova and the 20th-seeded man, Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Seeded winners included two-time major champion Simona Halep and No. 1 Rafael Nadal, who began his bid to equal Roger Federer’s record of 20 Grand Slam singles titles with a 6-2, 6-3, 6-0 victory over Hugo Dellien.

The man Nadal beat in last year’s US Open final, No. 4 Daniil Medvedev, eliminated 2019 Australian Open quarter-finalist Frances Tiafoe of the US in four sets. Also advancing: three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka, two-time French Open runner-up Dominic Thiem, No. 12 Fabio Fognini, No. 16 Karen Khachanov and No. 23 Nick Kyrgios, an Australian who spurred tennis players to contribute funds for wildfire relief efforts – and inspired TV analyst John McEnroe to pony up $1000 per set Kyrgios wins the rest of the way in the tournament.

This is the only time in Sharapova’s long career that the 32-year-old Russian has lost in the first round at three consecutive major tournaments.

Indeed, there only was one other instance of Sharapova dropping opening matches at Slams twice in a row: All the way back in 2003, when she was a teen and made immediate exits at the very first two major appearances of her career.

Hampered by right shoulder problems that have been an off-and-on issue for more than a decade, Sharapova is no longer the player she once was. One difficulty is simply that shoulder itself; another is the lack of match play because of her health. And since serving a 15-month ban after failing a drug test at the 2016 Australian Open, Sharapova has only reached one major quarter-final.

She played a total of 15 matches last season, going 8-7. After a promising run to the fourth round in Melbourne a year ago, including a victory over reigning champion Caroline Wozniacki that was her most recent win against a top-20 opponent, Sharapova went 5-6 the rest of 2019.

“It’s tough to say I’m on the right track right now, 45 minutes after the match,” she said Tuesday. “But, I mean, there is no way to get out of it except to keep believing in yourself, because if you do do all the right things and you don’t believe in yourself, then that’s probably a bad formula.”

Against the 19th-seeded Vekic, who’s never been past the second round at the Australian Open, Sharapova appeared to be righting herself at the outset of the second set, grabbing a 4-1 lead, before ceding the final five games.

“She’s still hitting it as hard as I can remember,” Vekic said.

Perhaps. But Sharapova was not putting the ball where she wanted, especially on her forehand side, which produced 18 miscues alone – more than Vekic’s full unforced error total of 17.

“She had some amazing results in her career. You know, her work ethic is pretty amazing. I saw her training in the offseason and she’s really working hard,” said Vekic, who practised with Sharapova before the start of the season. “So I think her results will come.”

Maybe they will.

Maybe not.

No one can know, of course. That includes Sharapova herself.

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In brief Dhawan ruled out Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of India’s tour of New Zealand with a shoulder injury. Dhawan, a regular opening batsman for India’s limited overs teams, hurt his left shoulder while diving on the field in the series-clinching one-day international win over Australia in Bengaluru on Sunday.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson has been named the replacement for the Twenty20 internationals against New Zealand, while Prithvi Shaw has earned his maiden ODI call-up.

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Diving into Canty challenge A strong contingent of local swimmers were Dunedin-bound yesterday as they prepared to do battle over the coming days in the Canterbury Championships.The nine-strong squad will begin competing from today, right through until Sunday in the annual championships. The event caters for those in the 13 years and over age group. Two hundred and twenty-two swimmers will be in action at the meet, competing in heats in the morning with those successful progressing through to the top eight finals in the evening. Heading south, from the Ashburton Swim Team, for the championships are back (from left) Logan Scammell, Mitchell Veix, Bede Giera, Ruby Giera. Front (from left), Bailey Tait, Hannah-Mae Joyce, Lucy Reece and Hannah King.

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2020: A year of hope and possibility

By Gregor Paul NZME

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here’s something in the Kiwi disposition that seems to induce nothing but pessimism at the start of a rugby season.

Perhaps it’s the Celtic influence or a misplaced notion that being relentlessly negative is a requirement of being humble which causes this need to forecast only bad times ahead.

Perhaps it’s just habit, or a protective measure to avoid an emotional tumble should things indeed go wrong, but whatever the cause, it is more tedious than sad that no one in New Zealand contemplates the prospect of a new season being better than the last.

The portents of gloom are hanging particularly heavily over 2020. Some of this is because post-World Cup years promote a little extra anxiety due to the volume of personnel change.

But really it’s because the All Blacks’ failure to secure a third World Cup and the manner of their defeat in the semi-final has led mostly everyone to believe New Zealand’s rugby empire is on the brink of collapse.

The gloom has been compounded by the appointment of Ian Foster as All Blacks coach – a man almost no one wants to believe has the capacity to surprise and the departure of a handful

of senior players who, again, are apparently being viewed as next to impossible to replace.

No one, or few it seems, are willing to use history as a guide and see that New Zealand has supposedly been in real trouble for the last decade or so and yet has never come remotely close to collapsing.

Previous post World Cup years have defied all expectation and been among the best New Zealand rugby has known.

And yet this fact is being readily ignored in the scramble to say that Foster will be sacked before the end of his two-year contract as the game here plunges into mediocrity.

The 2008 season kicked off with more than half the country angry that Graham Henry and his coaching panel had been re-appointed and firm predictions that New Zealand Rugby’s regret would be intense for making such a rash decision.

The All Blacks won 13 of their 15 tests that year, retained the Bledisloe Cup, won the Tri Nations and picked up a Grand Slam.

Brad Thorn, Jerome Kaino, Cory Jane and Richard Kahui emerged as quality test players, Ma’a Nonu and Conrad Smith began their world record midfield partnership and senior players Ali Williams, Richie McCaw, Daniel Carter and Mils Muliaina

took their respective games to the next level.

That was after the Crusaders blew everyone away in Super Rugby – a competition which also saw the Hurricanes make the last four.

In 2012 the prevailing view was that having won a World Cup, there would be no motivation for the country’s best players, most of whom were 30 or older.

The All Blacks finished the year with just one defeat having played brilliant rugby which saw headlines appear proclaiming them as the most dominant team in history.

And then again in 2016, when the Golden Generation had shuffled off, leaving a younger, less experienced group behind, the collapse was supposedly unavoidable.

The All Blacks averaged 44 points and 5.5 tries per test that year, unearthed Beauden Barrett as a freakish talent at No. 10 and saw the likes of Dane Coles, Sam Cane, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Kieran Read and Ben Smith fill the leadership void.

All those forecasts of doom and yet the All Blacks went to the next level, dropped just one test and picked up a maximum 30 points in the Rugby Championship.

The weight of evidence suggests that excitement should be the prevailing emotion on the eve of Super Rugby kicking off

in 2020. It should be a time of optimism, wondering whether Will Jordan and Braydon Ennor of the Crusaders will be the next superstars as they hinted they would be last year.

It should be a time to wonder whether Pari Pari Parkinson of the Highlanders just needs prolonged game time to be the new Brodie Retallick and whether Tom Robinson of the Blues can stay injury free and become the abrasive, mobile force the country needs at No. 6.

There’s also reason to believe that captaincy will see Scott Barrett mature into the imposing figure he’s been threatening to become; that Cane will suddenly look every inch a world class No. 7 and the destructive force that will mark him as a colossus of the world game.

Jack Goodhue and Anton Lienert-Brown are ready to be the new Nonu and Smith and Damian McKenzie and Rieko Ioane are going to be strongly motivated to show all of their vast skills.

With Warren Gatland installed at the Chiefs, Scott Robertson eager to prove himself yet again at the Crusaders and the Blues presumably sick of underperforming, the predictions about the end of an era for New Zealand rugby are hard to fathom.

2020 is a year of hope and possibility.

Wanaka freeskier Luca Harrington has clocked up some massive airtime in the Lausanne 2020 halfpipe to claim a bronze medal at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.The 15-year-old placed first in the halfpipe qualification round and came out swinging in the finals, posting a best score of 80.66 to secure the bronze medal.

Andrew Longino from Canada placed first with a score of 94.00, while Hunter Carey from the USA took silver with a score of 86.00.

New Zealand also took out fourth place with Max McDonald scoring 76.00.

Bennett leads Irish champion Sam Bennett won the opening stage of Cycling’s Tour Down Under, a 150km ride near Adelaide. Bennett, who won three stages of the Giro d’Italia and two on the Vuelta a Espana last year, won the sprint finish. Of the New Zealanders taking part, George Bennett was 21st, Jack Bauer 53rd and Shane Archbold 108th.

de Kock captain Quinton de Kock has been named as the new captain of the South Africa One-Day International cricket side, taking over from Faf du Plessis, who is dropped altogether for the three-match series against England next month. Du Plessis led South Africa in their disastrous 2019 World Cup campaign and has hinted at international retirement from all formats following the Twenty20 global finals in Australia later this year. De Kock leads a 15-man squad with five uncapped players in seamers Lutho Sipamla and Sisanda Magala, spinning allrounder Bjorn Fortuin, opening batsman Janneman Malan and wicketkeeper-batsman Kyle Verreynne. Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada will be rested for the series, while allrounders Chris Morris and Dwaine Pretorius have also not been able to force their way in.

Borthwick appointed England assistant coach Steve Borthwick will take over as Leicester head coach at the end of the international season. Geordan Murphy will take on a new role as director of rugby at the Tigers. The Rugby Football Union announced yesterday that Borthwick would be leaving his position, with Melbourne Storm coach Jason Ryles set to join Eddie Jones’ backroom staff in November.

Borthwick, 40, is changing roles from forwards coach to skills coach for England’s Six Nations campaign starting against France on February 2.

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Dual training programme a hit A last minute decision to introduce a combined football and cricket school holiday programme in Ashburton has been hailed a success by organisers.

Canterbury Cricket and Mainland Football combined their creative minds to come up with the programme and, despite only having 10 days in which to gather some children to take part the event held at the Ashburton Domain Oval on Monday and Tuesday of this week, it was well attended, given the timeframe.

The programme, which ran for six hours a day, saw those involved get to try their hand at fun, skill-based games for both football and cricket.

Aimed at those aged between seven to 12-years old, the two-day course set the perfect blueprint in place for future programmes which could be held here.

Canterbury Cricket marketing and communications co-ordinator Dan Sharples said it had been pleasing to see that the kids were either experienced in both sports, or played one of the sports and was giving another a try.

Borne from a discussion between the bosses of both Canterbury Cricket and Mainland Football, Sharples said prior to the event that a real desire to do more out in the regions was a main contributor to bringing the idea to Ashburton for an inaugural session.

“One aspect we both realised we can do a lot better is support our regions as we have neglected them with our holiday programmes,” he said.

Sharples said the initial reaction to the programme was really positive and it was hoped that they would be able to run programmes like it in Ashburton every school holiday break as well as taking them to other locations around Canterbury, like Timaru and even Methven.

Some of those who took part in a combined cricket and football training programme held in Ashburton this week.

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Savea’s goggle experiment to continue

By Patrick McKendry NZME

Ardie Savea’s goggles are staying.

Unfortunately for Hurricanes supporters and fans of Savea’s all-action style, the loose forward won’t make a Super Rugby appearance until well into the second half of the season but confirmed on Tuesday he was committed to the space age eyewear which caused a storm at last year’s World Cup. The confirmation will add even more interest to the 26-year-old’s eventual return, not least from new All Blacks coach Ian Foster.

Announced with great fanfare by the All Blacks at the start of a tournament in Japan marked by extreme heat and humidity, the goggles trial was not without its issues and in the end was put on hold.

Savea decided to wear the goggles as protection as he has deteriorating vision in one eye.

But he often took them off during matches – he first wore them

Ardie Savea will continue his use of the protective googles in Super Rugby when he returns.

PHOTO SUPPLIED against Canada at a hot and steamy Oita – as the reinforced plastic became fogged up, and there were suggestions they caused a distraction more than anything else.

“It was probably the worst place to trial it because of the humidity and the heat,” Savea told the Herald at the Super Rugby launch in Auckland’s Mission Bay on Tuesday.

“But I will keep wearing them.”

Savea said he would probably wear headgear in order to keep the goggles’ strap secure. Wellington’s breezy stadium, which isn’t often bothered by humidity, may also be more conducive to better results.

He has always seen eye protection as a work in progress and during the World Cup said he was comfortable being an inspiration for others to try them.

“It has been good to see the hype about it. I initially didn’t think about that when I decided to wear the goggles but seeing the youngsters actually being inspired to wear them now and try out the game of rugby is pretty awesome,” he said after the game against Namibia during which he didn’t wear them.

Similarly challenging has been Savea’s return from surgery after he injured a knee during the All Blacks’ shock semi-final defeat to England.

“Before I got the injury, I thought I’d be okay if I got a mas-

sive injury because I’ve got a lot of things going on off the field,” Savea said. “But I actually really struggled. I love to be active, I love to go out for walks, and not being able to do that for four or five weeks was quite tough mentally. Once I was able to walk, I found I was feeling better.”

Savea, who has played 44 tests and was one of the game’s standouts last year, was due to see his surgeon yesterday but has few expectations around when he will return to the playing field.

He had surgery before Christmas and has now returned to the gym, where he can do upper body weights, biking and boxing.

“Hopefully he’ll say I can put a bit more weight on the knee. I’m not expecting much, I just know it’s feeling better each day, so that’s a positive.

“I’m just taking my time. The advice is you have to look after your knee or it can come back and bite you on the bum. I just have to do everything I can to get it right – fully right.”

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

North Otago trotter set for Australian showdown Oamaru trotter Majestic Man is set to find himself in the middle of Australasia’s trotting showdown of the season.

The four-year-old booked his ticket to the Group One Great Southern Star after pleasing trainer Phil Williamson with his progress after a huge six weeks of racing in the North Island.

Majestic Man has freshened up well after travelling back to Oamaru following his gallant second behind Winterfell in the Group One National Trot at Alexandra Park earlier this month.

With a fit, healthy and happy horse on his hands, Williamson had no hesitation to book his and Majestic Man’s tickets to Melbourne.

“I have only really confirmed that he is going in the last 10 days,” the trainer said.

“I just wanted to see how he had come through all of the racing he has had.

“I am pretty pleased with him, so there is no option but to go, really.

“There is no sense in staying here and standing in his box – being a gelding.”

Majestic Man had six starts in group races on his northern campaign and finished in a top-three placing in each one.

Those results included his second behind Winterfell in the Interdominion trotting final.

Majestic Man will not only have to clash with Winterfell in the Great Southern Star in Melbourne next week, but he is set to face

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Majestic Man is Australian bound.

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Oscar Bonavena, Temporale, Massive Metro and McLovin will clash in the Group One Dullard Trotters Cup at Melton on Saturday night.

Majestic Man will have his first Australian start at Melton in the Great Southern Star.

His trainer does not think Australian racing should pose any problems.

“I don’t have any worries about him racing over there. But, he will need the right run.”

Driver Brad Williamson is set to be faced with a tough decision before next week’s Victorian feature. His stable star, Cracker Hill, will race at Geraldine on the same day as the Great Southern Star.

New Zealand’s brilliant trotting team is complemented by a star

pacing line-up that has already notched a trifecta in the Ballarat Cup. Thefixer, Mach Shard and Triple Eight will have the first starts of their Australian campaigns in the Group Two Casey Classic at Melton on Saturday night.

The trio are set to join A G’s White Socks and Chase Auckland in next week’s Hunter Cup.

16 0 Drumcastle (7) 57.5.............R Beeharry (a3) Emergencies: Just Henri, Drumcastle 6 3.27pm WINGATUI FUNCTION CENTRE 1200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 55709 Final Savings td (2) 59................. C Johnson 2 280x9 Vasiliki d (12) 58.5.........................T Moseley 3 01576 Where Angels Walk td (8) 58.5 4 4x639 Plutonium tdh (14) 58.5.................K Mudhoo 5 71854 Tickets On Her td (10) 58...... R Mudhoo (a2) 6 38469 Ricky Baker db (9) 57.5...................J Laking 7 02600 Campo td (11) 57.................R Beeharry (a3) 8 67x0x Blue Eyed Susie h (3) 56.5...............J Lowry 9 8100x Danzi Creek th (7) 56.5....... C Campbell (a1) 10 20510 Fire Katyusha t (6) 56.5..........T Comignaghi 11 03443 Wynmoore 56.5............................. Scratched 12 00561 Ginny h (5) 55.5...................... B Murray (a2) 13 09004 Lady Davone d (4) 54.5................K Kwo (a3) 14 9005x Car Pie d (13) 54............................ C Barnes 15 09009 Titanium Jack d (1) 55.5.......... K Asano (a2) Emergency: Titanium Jack 7 4.07pm SPEIGHT’S MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 546x3 Lord Zacford (11) 58.5......................J Lowry 2 08207 Aristotle (5) 58.5....................... K Asano (a2) 3 8x445 Mustard h (10) 58.5..........................J Laking 4 893 Ifithappensagain (13) 57...............K Williams 5 0 Carnaby Street (3) 57.............T Comignaghi 6 90 Country Boy h (1) 57.....................K Mudhoo 7 87206 Chitter Chat (6) 56.5............R Beeharry (a3) 8 06 G’day Gorgeous (12) 56.5............K Kwo (a3) 9 30779 Show Cloud (15) 56.5............. B Murray (a2) 10 325 Direct Flight h (8) 55...................... C Barnes 11 4 Asathought (2) 55........................ C Johnson 12 86004 Touchabeel (9) 55.........................T Moseley 13 0057 Bella Eve (7) 55.................... R Mudhoo (a2) 14 0 Perceive h (4) 55................. C Campbell (a1) 15 70x7 Opal Fire h (14) 56.5 Emergency: Opal Fire 8 4.42pm SOUTHERN WIDE REALTY MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 76x5 Flickitova h (1) 58.5...........................J Lowry 2 09657 Picture This h (7) 58.5......................J Laking 3 x9050 Saboteur (6) 58.5..........................K Mudhoo 4 80x76 Dough Boy h (8) 58.5............ R Mudhoo (a2)

5 8x068 Jiminy Cricket (3) 58.5..................K Williams 6 6860 Rorgus h (15) 58.5......................D Prastiyou 7 004 Kristofferson (2) 57...................... C Johnson 8 x6028 Succoso Segreto (9) 56.5....... B Murray (a2) 9 78568 Wondering (4) 56.5.......................T Moseley 10 9x6 Joemar h (12) 56.5......................... C Barnes 11 7x756 Trip In Time (10) 56.5..............T Comignaghi 12 760 Magical Mystery (13) 56.5...............A Balloo 13 96454 Nymphadora Tonks b (5) 55..... K Asano (a2) 14 405 Verdigris h (14) 55............... C Campbell (a1) 15 70x7 Opal Fire h (11) 56.5 Emergency: Opal Fire 9 5.17pm SEE YA CHAMPIONS DAY 1ST FEB 1600 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 x6930 Tony Two Chips th (13) 59.5.C Campbell (a1) 2 75x73 Prince Of Brooks h (10) 58...............J Lowry 3 67176 Ray’s In Command tdh (17) 58.B Murray (a2) 4 03074 Sweet Oak (7) 57.5 5 x5783 Rainman d (12) 57.5.................... C Johnson 6 55x1 Transcendent (4) 57......................T Moseley 7 73263 Drumstorm m (3) 57......................K Mudhoo 8 05400 Nazare tdmh (1) 57............... R Mudhoo (a2) 9 x0367 Field Of Fire bh (5) 56.5...................J Laking 10 19753 Fine Bouquet mh (14) 56.............K Kwo (a3) 11 34295 Gloss td (9) 56......................... K Asano (a2) 12 00723 Gemstone Jewels (16) 55.............. C Barnes 13 00640 Sure Is d (15) 55.....................T Comignaghi 14 74x45 Cocee th (6) 54.5........................D Prastiyou 15 507x8 Raff d (11) 56.5 16 93477 Admiral Rous (8) 55.5 17 9x009 El Campeador d (2) 55.5 18 70380 Fazioli d (18) 55 19 95391 Garment m (19) 57 Emergencies: Raff, Admiral Rous, El Campeador, Fazioli, Garment Blinkers on : Retaliate (R2), Pablo Picasso (R3), Producer, Chookie’s Girl (R4), Aristotle (R7), Wondering (R8), Nazare (R9) Blinkers off : Rockin Robin (R2), Carnaby Street (R7) Winkers on : Exchange (R2), Carnaby Street, Direct Flight (R7) Winkers off : Chookie’s Girl (R4), Wondering (R8), Nazare (R9) Pacifiers on : Nightcap (R1), Mr Fahrenheit (R3), Shaz

The Bank (R4) LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances

every other star trotter in Australasia in the race.

Majestic Man is part of a star-studded New Zealand contingent alongside Oscar Bonavena, Temporale and Massive Metro.

The quartet are likely to clash with the star Australian trotters Tornado Valley, McLovin, Tough Monarch and Dance Craze.

Otago gallops Today atWingatui

Otago Racing Club Venue: Wingatui Meeting Date: 23 January 2020 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.31pm (NZT) KB CONTRACTING 1500 $11,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1500m 1 x8445 King Pin t (5) 59.5.................... K Asano (a2) 2 55x49 Showpin tm (7) 59.........................K Williams 3 03778 Zabay th (3) 54.................... C Campbell (a1) 4 20724 Bluey’s Chance tm (4) 54.................A Balloo 5 0x999 Nightcap t (1) 54...........................T Moseley 6 70806 Francis Drake (2) 54............. R Mudhoo (a2) 7 95391 Garment dm (6) 54................ S Toolooa (a3) 2 1.07pm WHITE ROBE LODGE MAIDEN 820 $10,000, MDN, 820m 1 x3843 Sligo (12) 58.5.........................B Morgenrood 2 4 I’m A Tiger h (5) 58.5.............. B Murray (a2) 3 9558 Up My Sleeve (9) 58.5................... C Barnes 4 Battle Code (7) 58.5.........................A Balloo 5 5 Exchange h (15) 57...........................J Lowry 6 0 Retaliate (8) 57.............................K Mudhoo 7 99x24 The Selection b (11) 56.5.................J Laking 8 5056x Llovizna (1) 56.5................. C Campbell (a1) 9 00432 Bright Flash (4) 55.......................K Kwo (a3) 10 580x3 Where’s The Gold b (2) 55....... K Asano (a2) 11 Ripa Ruby (13) 55...................T Comignaghi 12 0 Ginga (6) 55..................................K Williams 13 x500x Miss Atomic Bomb (14) 56.5.........T Moseley 14 5x600 Rockin Robin (10) 55................... C Johnson 15 x0078 Warning Bird (3) 56.5 Emergencies: Miss Atomic Bomb, Rockin Robin, Warning Bird 3 1.42pm HARCOURTS MAIDEN 2200 $10,000, MDN, 2200m 1 32952 Five Princes (3) 58.5............. R Mudhoo (a2) 2 55832 Port Stephens (6) 58.5............. K Asano (a2) 3 x2554 Power Punch (10) 58.5.................. C Barnes 4 47462 My Cashier (2) 58.5....................D Prastiyou 5 3305 Ophir Gold (20) 58.5............... B Murray (a2) 6 x8445 Mr Fahrenheit (11) 58.5................T Moseley 7 05632 Scandalous h (8) 56.5......................J Laking 8 5x073 Jandles h (19) 56.5...................... C Johnson 9 30x43 Jingo (1) 56.5......................... S Toolooa (a3) 10 98443 Mistress Quickly (17) 56.5............K Mudhoo

11 x5526 Raise Ya Cards h (18) 56.5...............J Lowry 12 35357 Secretaria (12) 56.5......................K Williams 13 0x367 Barzellar (15) 56.5...........................A Balloo 14 00484 Walk With Kings (13) 56.5....R Beeharry (a3) 15 00379 Senor Moss (5) 58.5 16 x0075 Reliably Perky (9) 56.5 17 050 Pablo Picasso (16) 58.5 18 48068 Last Letter (4) 56.5 19 00007 Artic Warrior (14) 58.5 20 80x76 Dough Boy h (7) 58.5 Emergencies: Senor Moss, Reliably Perky, Pablo Picasso, Last Letter, Artic Warrior, Dough Boy 4 2.17pm OTAGO FARM MACHINERY 2200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2200m 1 26x00 Larrikin td (11) 60.............................J Laking 2 68216 Metasequoia tdb (12) 57.5........... C Johnson 3 00295 Colour Me Red m (13) 57.............K Williams 4 x0846 Producer (1) 56.5.............................A Balloo 5 58x00 Countess Ruby tmh (2) 56...... B Murray (a2) 6 00873 Scooby m (4) 56......................T Comignaghi 7 85025 Stellacanto m (3) 55.5........... R Mudhoo (a2) 8 69x87 Larippa th (9) 55.................. C Campbell (a1) 9 90077 Run Forrest Run (6) 55........R Beeharry (a3) 10 0x897 Chookie’s Girl tdmh (5) 54.5.........T Moseley 11 160x0 Ruakiwi Blaze (10) 54.................D Prastiyou 12 67x86 Shaz The Bank (7) 54............ S Toolooa (a3) 13 00 Crikey It’s George (8) 54................ C Barnes 5 2.52pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE $10,000, MDN F&M, 1200m 1 82434 Exclaim b (2) 57.5.........................K Williams 2 4x933 Ophelia Rose (12) 57.5......... R Mudhoo (a2) 3 53x92 Index 57.5..................................... Scratched 4 565x6 Shock And Awe (3) 57.5..................A Balloo 5 x4930 Qwerty (14) 57.5...........................K Mudhoo 6 985x5 Athene (1) 57.5.............................T Moseley 7 9x Sunny Lady (13) 57.5..................D Prastiyou 8 Co Pilot h (4) 57.5...................T Comignaghi 9 x0032 Easy On The Eye (10) 56......... K Asano (a2) 10 562 Phyllite h (8) 56................... C Campbell (a1) 11 597x3 Just A Girl (6) 56.......................... C Johnson 12 083 Mint Julep h (15) 56................ B Murray (a2) 13 Madam Sequoia (5) 56 14 6 Uphold h (9) 56.............................. C Barnes 15 9x Just Henri (11) 56........................K Kwo (a3)

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Bluey’s Chance, Garment, King Pin, Showpin, Zabay Race 2: Sligo, I’m A Tiger, Bright Flash, Where’s The Gold, The Selection Race 3: Five Princes, Port Stephens, Scandalous, Jandles, My Cashier Race 4: Metasequoia, Scooby, Producer, Stellacanto, Chookie’s Girl Race 5: Exclaim, Ophelia Rose, Athene, Easy On The Eye, Phyllite Race 6: Tickets On Her, Plutonium, Ricky Baker, Final Savings, Where Angels Walk Race 7: Direct Flight, Asathought, Touchabeel, Ifithappensagain, Lord Zacford Race 8: Kristofferson, Succoso Segreto, Nymphadora Tonks, Verdigris, Flickitova Race 9: Prince Of Brooks, Sweet Oak, Tony Two Chips, Gloss, Fine Bouquet

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

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Strong Australian bench for Karaka NZME New Zealand Bloodstock boss Andrew Seabrook came home from the Gold Coast two weeks ago a happier man than when he left.

No, that is not an advert for Tourism Queensland. More an indication the thoroughbred industry here should be in for a good yearling sales next week.

Seabrook went to the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast and was more than happy to see his rivals doing well, with plenty of $1 million-plus lots and a high clearance rate.

That is usually a good indicator for Karaka sales week but what really buoyed Seabrook’s outlook for next week was the interest from Australian buyers looking ahead from one sale to the next.

“I had a lot of trainers and agents telling me they are coming to Karaka,” says the NZB managing director.

“And our bookings have confirmed that. I think we could have 80 Australian trainers and agents here, and that is not counting the owners who come with them or privately.

M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 23 January 2020 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 4.20pm (NZT) TAB BONUS BACK PROMO ON RACES 1 & 2 STAKES C0, 520m 1 47585 Cancun nwtd...............................N Wanhalla 2 53562 Jinja Toni nwtd...................................A Joyce 3 7x721 Our Pat 30.69...................................R Wales 4 8664F Opawa Rod nwtd.............................R Wales 5 74423 Stylish Stepper nwtd........................ M Grant 6 7488x Princess Romaine nwtd................S Hindson 7 8 Opawa Nova nwtd............................R Wales 8 43345 Ohoka Megan nwtd....................... L Waretini 9 76771 Bugsy Brown 30.79..........................R Wales 10 787 Carlos nwtd......................................R Wales 2 4.38pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR STAKES C0, 520m 1 2 Miss Malia nwtd...............................R Wales 2 32333 Haze Adams nwtd J M..................... McCook 3 236 Making News nwtd............................ B Dann 4 875 Duke Of Argyll nwtd....................H Anderton 5 64757 Chelsea Smile nwtd......................C Roberts 6 4 Opawa Travis nwtd...........................R Wales 7 87 My Bentley nwtd...............................R Wales 8 54564 Opawa Nash nwtd............................R Wales 9 888 Opawa Jaws nwtd............................R Wales 10 787 Carlos nwtd......................................R Wales 3 4.55pm MURRAY & HANNAH @ RAY WHITE CASHMERE DASH C0, 295m 1 75534 Yes Yes No nwtd...................................A Lee 2 7 Horse Range Opal nwtd................... M Grant 3 23637 Blushing Pete nwtd..........................R Wales

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 23 January 2020 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.05pm (NZT) COOKIES KITCHEN SPRINT C1, 375m 1 42572 El Narco 21.57.................................P Green 2 5x12 Softy Burgess nwtd.............................L Cole 3 43141 Thrilling Hudson 21.13..................... K Walsh 4 36563 Grey Way 21.72.......................... G Pomeroy 5 48671 Fall Gracefully nwtd..................... M Prangley 6 7x31 Night Ace nwtd............................ G Pomeroy 7 76773 Bigtime Kate nwtd G &............ S Fredrickson 8 57187 Paddy Fast nwtd M &........................ J Smith 9 11666 Go Falcon 21.39 W &.......................T Steele 10 54474 Hi Ho Tonto nwtd..............................P Green 2 12.22pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES STAKES C2/3, 457m 1 41231 Big Time Jackson 25.54......................L Cole 2 85525 Big Time Rhino nwtd...........................L Cole 3 21318 Bigtime Diesel nwtd G &......... S Fredrickson 4 78576 Zipping Monty nwtd.........................C Henley 5 54542 Jinja Murphy nwtd W &....................T Steele 6 28311 Silenci 25.65...............................P Ferguson 7 25442 Smoochie 25.85......................... A Lawrence 8 51866 Big Time Benny nwtd..........................L Cole 9 51578 Don Morocco 25.70........................P Cleaver 10 88778 Big League Diva nwtd G &...... S Fredrickson 3 12.40pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK SMITH C2,

($120,000 yearling) in the VRC Oaks has meant a super-strong spring for Karaka graduates.

“That obviously really helps, horses we sold going on and doing such a big job in Australia,” says Seabrook.

“And it also helps to have horses trained here going over there and able to win, or in the case of Te Akau Shark place, in the best

“So we expect the Australian interest to be really strong, especially after the results we have had there this spring and summer.”

Results like Kolding ($170,000 yearling purchase) beating Te Akau Shark in the Epsom, the latter’s performance in the Cox Plate, Melody Belle and to a lesser extent Probabeel’s form and classic victories like that of Miami Bound

races. So the Australians have had plenty of reminders of how good our horses are and there will be real interest from there.”

Seabrook says the strong array of first-season sires will also add new interest, with plenty of good reports about the stock of Vadamos, Preferment, Belardo and the three new Ts: Tivaci, Turn Me Loose and Tarzino to mention a few of those with their first Karaka reps.

Seabrook and his closest bloodstock lieutenants still expect the greatest interest from overseas buyers to be for the classic type horses, the 1600m to 2000m or even extending out to 2400m that New Zealand has become known for.

While Australia specialises in raw speed and Europeans fill plenty of orders for older staying horses, the Guineas, Derby and Oaks have still been fertile ground for New Zealand horses.

“But you might be surprised,” says NZB bloodstock sales manager Danny Rolston, who spends much of his working life looking at young horses.

“Those Guineas to Derby type horses might be what many of the

Australian buyers predominantly come here for but plenty end up buying others as well, maybe something that might go early and even make a Karaka Million type.”

Rolston has been taken by the stock of the first-season sires and says this year’s yearlings benefited from the mild winter.

“We saw that right from mid-winter last year when we first get to see these horses.

“There were a lot of well grown, well put together horses and that not only makes for good yearlings but horses who can race on later in life and stay sound.”

What is harder to predict next week is the Asian buying bench, with Singapore racing facing its challenges while Hong Kong interest was slightly down on the Gold Coast, so whether the political troubles there impact on next week’s sale at all is going to be interesting.

But with champion stallion Savabeel, the unchallenged King of Karaka, certain to hold up his end of the sale and plenty of other positive factors in play the Book 1 sale which starts on Sunday should see plenty of good returns to the industry.

5 28463 Joe Bonanza 30.39....................J McInerney 6 42382 Orina Allen 30.44..........................C Roberts 7 66423 Goldstar Alaska 31.07 S &...............B Evans 8 88754 Viktoria Vikkers 30.19...................C Roberts 9 53556 Haidee Bale 30.44........................D Roberts 10 F5324 Shermo Bale 30.57.......................C Roberts 10 6.56pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH HEAT 4 C2q, 295m 1 51588 Mitcham Becky 17.34.......................C Steele 2 43464 Broken Penniless 17.40..................G Cleeve 3 78738 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 4 15232 Dyna Trevor 17.42.......................H Anderton 5 68253 Goldstar Jay Jay 17.24 S &..............B Evans 6 6437x Don’t Cry Joni 17.62............................A Lee 7 31277 Gracie Lee 17.30.......................J McInerney 8 64656 Black Eye Bill 17.47................... M Dempsey 11 7.14pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH HEAT 5 C2q, 295m 1 74312 Goldstar Wynter 17.34 S &..............B Evans 2 23458 High Violet 17.40........................R Blackburn 3 76x53 Opawa Waihemo 17.33....................R Wales 4 88538 Cosmic Marty 17.65...................J McInerney 5 x4535 Smash Rebel 17.46......................... M Grant 6 75564 Cash A Roo 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 7 11636 Oakmont 17.47..................................D Lane 8 26451 Prince Zulu 17.31.......................... L Waretini 12 7.31pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH HEAT 6 C2q, 295m 1 21421 Tricky 17.20........................................D Lane 2 76561 Right On Time 17.51...................H Anderton 3 36573 Mitcham Reado 17.24................J McInerney 4 73x57 Lucky Scar 17.44.............................R Wales 5 58376 Jinja Cream Fizz 17.27.....................A Joyce

6 81664 Goldstar Galaxie 17.40 S &.............B Evans 7 65131 M’Lady Sadie 17.34...................A Bradshaw 8 74777 Know Cause 17.29..........................G Cleeve LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

1 53322 Captain Kev 21.09 W &....................T Steele 2 17115 Suspicious Minds 20.89.....................B Craik 3 22252 Kiwi Gal 21.27 U &.............................Cottam 4 31336 He’s All Shine nwtd...........................S Lozell 5 56346 Call Me Leo 21.11............................ T Green 6 12823 Kelly’s Girl 21.30......................... G Pomeroy 7 31278 Dynamite Danger nwtd G &.... S Fredrickson 8 32631 Athenais 21.19...................................S Ross 9 3366x Zipping Buddy 21.30..........................B Craik 10 81857 Raging Demon 20.99 R &....................L Udy 9 2.24pm FARMLANDS VIRKON STAKES C4, 457m 1 22513 Bigtime Annie 25.47............................L Cole 2 11762 Keysile 25.56...............................P Ferguson 3 52733 Bigtime Archie nwtd............................L Cole 4 x5144 Thrilling Winter 25.61....................... K Walsh 5 35714 Djay Dynamix nwtd.............................L Cole 6 65463 Robson 25.51..............................P Ferguson 7 324x7 Claretown Beau nwtd R &............N O’Regan 8 24138 Zoro 25.81.................................. A Lawrence 9 21877 Thrilling Vice 25.48.......................... K Walsh 10 2.41pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 21416 Thrilling Talk 25.42........................... K Walsh 2 13641 Sakichi 25.38..............................P Ferguson 3 46215 Bigtime Levi 25.87..............................L Cole 4 24232 Funky Facts nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 5 23261 Stefano 25.57............................. A Lawrence 6 23444 Thrilling Amigo 24.96....................... K Walsh 7 54125 Cheeseball 25.91................................L Cole

8 22826 Bigtime Shadow nwtd.........................L Cole 9 33366 Ask King Jeff 26.02.............................L Cole 10 21877 Thrilling Vice 25.48.......................... K Walsh LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 4 37575 King Theoden nwtd..........................C Steele 5 68778 Mulberry Tip nwtd......................... K Cassidy 6 34777 Impressive Gift nwtd..................J McInerney 7 875x2 Homebush Fonzie nwtd.............J McInerney 8 38F Sea Spray Bert nwtd....................B Freeman 9 36588 Goldstar Smithie nwtd S &...............B Evans 10 68786 Opawa Pauline nwtd........................R Wales 4 5.12pm AMBER CLEANING SERVICES SPRINT C0, 295m 1 8x844 Go Kiki nwtd.....................................R Wales 2 35525 White Roxy nwtd........................ M Dempsey 3 6x71 Homebush Fairy 17.85...............J McInerney 4 688 Know Angel nwtd............................G Cleeve 5 25 Mitcham Toddy nwtd..................A Bradshaw 6 54856 Nykara nwtd J M.............................. McCook 7 6542 Sea Spray Ash nwtd....................B Freeman 8 284x1 Pontiac Pat 17.40.......................J McInerney 9 36588 Goldstar Smithie nwtd S &...............B Evans 10 68786 Opawa Pauline nwtd........................R Wales 5 5.28pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C0, 295m 1 F Final Affair nwtd.................................J Dunn 2 83 Homebush Jozie nwtd................J McInerney 3 6 Knocka Know How nwtd.................G Cleeve 4 84783 Impressive Mood nwtd...............J McInerney 5 44754 Ginger Cracker nwtd.................. M Dempsey 6 22251 Homebush Barclay nwtd............J McInerney 7 25543 Goldstar Beau nwtd S &...................B Evans 8 88836 Yappy Yap nwtd................................R Wales 9 36588 Goldstar Smithie nwtd S &...............B Evans 10 68786 Opawa Pauline nwtd........................R Wales 6 5.46pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH HEAT 1 C2q, 295m 1 472x5 Would My Friend 17.42........................A Lee

2 31326 Raquel Allen 17.47........................C Roberts 3 63455 Ohoka Lacey 17.47....................... L Waretini 4 21411 Goldstar Tawny 17.29 S &................B Evans 5 75234 Know Logic 17.21...........................G Cleeve 6 61387 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37........................A Joyce 7 42877 Sozin’s Blue 17.26.....................J McInerney 8 38377 Shaw Winner 17.52 J M................... McCook 7 6.04pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH HEAT 2 C2q, 295m 1 55327 Vasterbottenost 17.34..........................A Lee 2 36885 Smash Damage 17.17..................... M Grant 3 41681 Goldstar Flora 17.44 S &.................B Evans 4 28888 Sierra Delta 17.34 S &.....................B Evans 5 66316 Memphis Jewel 17.40...................C Roberts 6 11214 Homebush Comet 17.44............J McInerney 7 31572 Mitcham Pru 17.44.....................A Bradshaw 8 12F84 Special Affair 17.30....................R Blackburn 8 6.21pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH DASH HEAT 3 C2q, 295m 1 53164 Tonkawa 17.62 M &.............................. Smith 2 25441 Jinja Liv 17.52 J M........................... McCook 3 51133 Ezra Blueblood 17.31.................J McInerney 4 28365 Jetstream Marley 17.32................A Williams 5 31424 Cisco Reign 17.21.........................D Roberts 6 62868 Justin Ryan 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 7 43781 Our Anna nwtd.................................R Wales 8 48568 Goldstar Avalon 17.31 S &...............B Evans 9 6.39pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C2, 520m 1 17541 Hustle Ace 30.54.........................N Wanhalla 2 34677 Bashful Buffy 30.55....................J McInerney 3 F7751 Ophelia Allen 30.09.......................D Roberts 4 21122 Queena Bale 30.20.......................C Roberts

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Our Pat, Bugsy Brown, Stylish Stepper, Jinja Toni, Ohoka Megan Race 2: Miss Malia, Haze Adams, Making News, Opawa Travis, Opawa Jaws Race 3: Homebush Fonzie, Yes Yes No, King Theoden, Impressive Gift, Goldstar Smithie Race 4: Pontiac Pat, Sea Spray Ash, Mitcham Toddy, Homebush Fairy, Go Kiki Race 5: Knocka Know How, Homebush Barclay, Final Affair, Goldstar Beau, Homebush Jozie Race 6: Goldstar Tawny, Raquel Allen, Would My Friend, Know Logic, Ohoka Lacey Race 7: Smash Damage, Vasterbottenost, Homebush Comet, Mitcham Pru, Special Affair Race 8: Our Anna, Cisco Reign, Ezra Blueblood, Jetstream Marley, Jinja Liv Race 9: Ophelia Allen, Queena Bale, Hustle Ace, Viktoria Vikkers, Orina Allen Race 10: Dyna Trevor, Mitcham Becky, Don’t Cry Joni, Broken Penniless, Goldstar Jay Jay Race 11: Goldstar Wynter, Oakmont, Prince Zulu, Opawa Waihemo, High Violet Race 12: Tricky, M’Lady Sadie, Mitcham Reado, Lucky Scar, Right On Time

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 375m 1 75416 Thrilling Arnold 21.48.......................S Codlin 2 34572 Mad Jack 21.42................................ T Green 3 34851 Botany Thommo nwtd......................P Green 4 55768 Stay Rich 21.46 M &......................... J Smith 5 57634 Over Indulgence 21.66....................P Henley 6 87551 Snoopy’s Hero 21.44........................... D Ray 7 76185 Talkabout Sophie 21.54....................M Black 8 36838 Seven Sharp 21.56..................... W Toomath 9 11677 Flying Huey nwtd..............................M Black 10 41487 Sheyna 21.17....................................S Lozell 4 12.57pm YVETTE BODIAM PHOTOGRAPHY STAKES C1, 457m 1 46343 Baileys Nice 25.94..................... A Lawrence 2 2x131 Thrilling Rosa 25.29......................... K Walsh 3 12654 Looby’s Story 26.21................... A Lawrence 4 75632 Double That nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 5 38777 In Focus nwtd.................................P Cleaver 6 421 Cointreau Time 26.09................. A Lawrence 7 6x222 Thrilling Morris nwtd......................... K Walsh 8 24311 Little Teegs 25.83....................... A Lawrence 5 1.16pm MAYHOUNDS RACING RETIREMENT PROJECT SERIES FINAL C1f, 375m 1 45544 Agbeze nwtd.....................................M Black 2 13111 Thrilling Brax 21.19.......................... K Walsh 3 35646 Smash Burton nwtd R &......................L Udy 4 62131 Rod’s Girl nwtd U &............................Cottam 5 87235 Just Maddie 21.72.............................M Black 6 F4736 Jinja Lad 21.72..............................R McPhee

7 67x5x Firefly Laffey nwtd............................S Codlin 8 83788 Stellar Babe 22.10.........................P Cleaver 9 38777 In Focus 21.66...............................P Cleaver 10 74887 Mr Felix nwtd.....................................M Black 6 1.33pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SPRINT C3, 375m 1 168x8 Lennox Heads 21.46 W &................T Steele 2 37288 Luke Skywalker nwtd...................... L A Hunt 3 41166 Ford Man nwtd R &..............................L Udy 4 64338 C’est L’Amour 21.44...........................B Craik 5 2174F Jinja Bailey nwtd U &.........................Cottam 6 13328 Botany Wayne 21.22........................P Green 7 81342 Frosty Blaze 21.31........................... T Green 8 122F4 Our Hemi nwtd U &............................Cottam 9 16567 Podium Phobia nwtd..........................B Craik 10 13475 Sovereign Pride 21.37.......................S Ross 7 1.51pm VETORA CAMBRIDGE SPRINT C4, 375m 1 57124 Waiterimu Ripper 21.28 R &................L Udy 2 52613 Thrilling Bruce 21.10........................ K Walsh 3 17166 Sefton Stan nwtd...............................S Lozell 4 81414 Big Time Clare 21.38..........................L Cole 5 15782 Noah Who 21.03......................... M Prangley 6 78633 Too The Nail 20.89...........................P Green 7 73724 Sophia Noir 21.18...................... A Lawrence 8 65425 Busy Flash nwtd W &.......................T Steele 9 81857 Raging Demon 20.99 R &....................L Udy 10 76566 Native Scout 21.34...........................P Green 8 2.08pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C4/5, 375m

SELECTIONS:

Race 1: Thrilling Hudson, El Narco, Night Ace, Softy Burgess, Grey Way Race 2: Big Time Jackson, Silenci, Jinja Murphy, Smoochie, Big Time Benny Race 3: Mad Jack, Stay Rich, Thrilling Arnold, Over Indulgence, Botany Thommo Race 4: Thrilling Rosa, Thrilling Morris, Little Teegs, Double That, Baileys Nice Race 5: Thrilling Brax, Rod’s Girl, Agbeze, Jinja Lad, Just Maddie Race 6: C’est L’Amour, Jinja Bailey, Botany Wayne, Luke Skywalker, Lennox Heads Race 7: Thrilling Bruce, Too The Nail, Waiterimu Ripper, Big Time Clare, Sophia Noir Race 8: Suspicious Minds, Captain Kev, Kiwi Gal, Athenais, Kelly’s Girl Race 9: Bigtime Annie, Keysile, Djay Dynamix, Robson, Thrilling Winter Race 10: Sakichi, Thrilling Talk, Thrilling Amigo, Stefano, Bigtime Levi

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January 23 & 24, 2020 NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON MUSEUM. The Topp Twins interactive exhibition celebrating NZ’s comedy duo. West Street Ashburton.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities to help with balance. $3 per session. MSA Social hall (excludes school holidays).

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

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1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIORNET. Annual General Meeting, all welcome, ideas for this year’s question and answer forums welcome. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON MUSEUM. The Topp Twins interactive exhibition celebrating NZ’s comedy duo. West Street Ashburton.

10.30am ST STEPHEN’S PARISH CENTRE. Seniors’ coffee club, all welcome. Park Street.

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TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Good people don’t need other people to say they’re good in order to embody the label. It’s self-given, self-upheld and self-defined. Stand-up people often stand alone.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): There are many ways to capture the life inside of life – admiring a vase of flowers, a book that pulls you into a different world, the intoxication of dancing, a highway drive to nowhere in particular, etc.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You’re a fountain of solutions, for yourself, your loved ones and the world.

Focus on the solutions that are for you. Of course, those are the only ones you have the full power to apply.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The habit of collecting your thoughts isn’t just for moments of anger or passion or for times when you’re going to be in the spotlight. You’re at your best after you’ve checked in with your thoughts, so do it often.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You like the way it feels to scheme, dream, plot and plan, but it’s nothing like the elation that comes from getting into action and seeing what works and what doesn’t.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You could use more excitement.

The simple act of buying tickets to an event that’s weeks away will give you a boost that lasts until the date arrives.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): If you don’t have one, this is the day to establish one (and only one) spot for your keys, wallet and phone. Firm rules for yourself will have you winning over the cosmic inclinations of the day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You’re not afraid of hard work. Historically, the mental buildup is typically worse than the reality. Besides, you like what happens after the hard work – satisfaction, respect and sometimes glory!

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You wouldn’t help a person training for a marathon by giving them a ride to the end of the run. The best assistance is accountability and encouragement, not a free pass.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): People lie when they are afraid. Think about what could be frightening to them. What are the possible reasons here?

If you can address and reduce the fear, you just may get to the truth.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): It’s a new day. Feelings change. Maybe you’ll be negotiating or renegotiating the rules. And maybe you’ll be tearing up the rulebook and relying on something beyond social conditioning and yesterday’s ideas about fairness.

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Waitaki Kurow at 2:04 pm, yesterday

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Golden time at Colgate Games

Members of the Ashburton Athletics Club produced some outstanding results at the annual Colgate Games last weekend.

By Matt Markham

in the 100 metres while Lucas Dickson claimed silver in the shot put. Dickson, Ross, Minson and Ellie Eketone combined to claim the bronze in the eight-year-old girls’ four by 100 metres relay.

Co-team manager, Sally Ross said she was very proud of the results the team produced.

“We had some amazing results picking up so many medals and pennants,” she said.

“There were also some amazing results from some of our first timers in a competition too with so many personal bests achieved.”

Ross said a highlight for competitors was the chance to mix and mingle with Olympian Eliza McCartney who was at the event.

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A group of young Ashburton athletes came home from the Colgate Games at the weekend with their heads held high following some outstanding results across the course of the three-day competition.

Seventeen aspiring athletes from the Ashburton District took part in the event which sees more than 1200 of their contemporaries from all across New Zealand also travelling to compete.

Held at the new look Nga Puna Wai Sports Hub in Christchurch this year, the games can be called a successful one for the local competitors with three gold medals in

the senior events for 10 to 14-yearolds and a further four gold pennants in the seven to nine-yearold division.

Toby Grant had a weekend to remember in the senior events, grabbing two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze for his efforts.

In the Grade 11 shot put, Grant finished with a best throw of 8.59 metres, 22cm clear of his closest rival to take out the event. In the high jump, Grant cleared 1.45 metres to go through untroubled and win while he finished second in the 100 metre sprint, the long jump and picked up a third in the discus.

Ollie Jackways grabbed the oth-

er gold medal for the weekend in the senior division with a dominant performance to win the Grade 10 1500 metres by almost a full minute.

Jackways also grabbed silver in the 400 metres along with a bronze in the 800 metres and in the high jump as well. Bill Quigley picked up bronze medals in both the discus and the shot put while also making the finals in the long jump and 100 metres.

Others to make finals included; Richaan Kumar (100 and 200 metres), Angel Spooner (800 metres, long jump, 1500 metres, discus and shot put), Tessa McDonald (800 metres) and Zoe Bland (800 and 1500 metres).

Jackways, Grant, Richaan, McDonald and Eleanor Ross all combined to finish fifth in the 11-yearold medley relay.

In the pennants action, Amelia Young was in great form.

She won the 200 metre sprint and finished second in both the 60 metres and 100 metres events as well as the long jump. Gretchen Ross picked up a gold in the 100 metres, silvers in the 200 metres and discus and was third in the shot put.

Ollie Grant claimed two gold medals, in both the discus and the shot put as well as silver in the 60 metres and bronze in the long jump. Grace Minson picked up a silver in the long jump and bronze

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